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SL-II MC-1200/I

Time: 04:48 CDT, 26:09:48 GMT


_ 6/19/73
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 48 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. That's the end of the tape. And
we're about a minute to acquisition at Ascension. We'll stand
by for acquisition there.
CC And_ Skylab, we've got you over Ascension
here for almost i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, we've got you over Ascension here
for about 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Joe, you might want to switch your - your
TV selector there to TV before you use the VTR. And, in fact,
you ccould go ahead and rewind back to the beginning there to
give us the full tape if you want it - or make the full tape
available to yourself.
MCC And, Skylab, we've got about 30 seconds to
LOS here at Ascension, and we'll be picking up Carnarvon at
10:22.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours Green-
wich mean time. Ascension has had loss of signal. Carnarvon
will acquire in about 22 minutes. The extravehicular activity
officer here in the Mission Control Center estimates that the
crew, based on present preparations, could start the EVA about 1
hour early. That is by no means firm, but the estimate is
that the EVA could start approximately i hour early. At i0
-- hours i minute Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1201/I
Time: 05:20 CDT, 26:10:20 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 20 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Carnarvon,
Australia station. The crew in preparations for the extra-
vehicular activity. Over the last station they were well
ahead of the timeline, and the estimate was that they could
begin the EVA as much as an hour early. We'll stand by for
the Carnarvon pass.
CC Skylab, Houston over Carnarvon for about
10-1/2 minutes. And we're seeing data on the PCUs.
SPT Roger, Houston. EV-I and 2 are in the -
LS or in PCU checkout and I'm about to con-
figure CSM count.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. PCU is the pres-
sure control unit for the astronaut life support assembly.
PLT Now.
CDR Okay, you ready for the rest of this?
PLT Yeah.
CDR All right. We went to both. We verified
02 flow, reg i low flow light is OFF.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Low vent flow light is OFF.
PLT OFF.
CDR And lower SEVA protective visor - we can
check that.
PLT Okay.
CDR That's your outboard one.
PLT All right.
CDR Okay. PCU checkout. No tough gauge accuracy.
Plus/minus 0.15 PSIG MAG nominal plus/minus 0.04. Reg 1 low flow
and low vent flow light's at 5 seconds away. Go to REG SELECT
- REG SELECT to REG 2.
PLT Okay. REG 2.
CDR All right. You should get a REG i low flow
and a possible low vent flow.
PLT Okay, I got a REG I low flow.
CDR I did too. No vent flow yet.
PLT Right.
CDR Okay, now - mode select Delta-G.
PLT If I can get it in here now (garble). Okay.
PLT I'm going to get back in the foot restraint
(garble). You can read your checklist from there, right?
CDR Yeah.
PLT Does the light go out?
CDR Huh?
CDR No, the REG i shouldn't, we're on REG 2.
PLT Yeah, but I'm looking for when this light
_-'_ goes out.
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Time: 05:20 CDT, 26:10:20 GMT
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PLT 831.
CDR Yeah. Out to (garble). I'm sure glad you can
modulate this valve. There, mine was out at 3.
CDR Okay, mine's over at 34, and mine is out
and I'm stable 34. Okay?
PLT Yeah, I'm stable at a little over 34.
CDR Okay, verify (garble) 3235. Now, press
selector PEG i and REG i low flow light should go off.
PLT Okay, REG i. I got a (garble), I just
lost - there it comes.
CDR Yeah, I got all vent flow and a SUS PRESS
light and I - now it's all off.
PLT Okay, I have a clean board.
CDR I loss a lot of pressure (garble).
PLT So did I.
CDR Yeah.
PLT I was cycling. It's doing that hunting now.
CDR Yeah.
PLT Whee, that'll do something to your ear.
CDR Yeah.
CC Talking about doing things to your ears,
we got you here on VOX.
CDR Roger. Okay, we're - we're on REG i, Rusty.
Off STABLE now 38.
PLT Off STABLE at 37.
CDR Okay, now, press select. Both verify
no change in cuff gage at this point.
PLT That's - -

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SL-II MC-1202/I
Time: 05:28 CDT, 26:10:28 GMT
6/19/73

PLT Transfer - -
CDR Okay. I'm at 38, I've got no change here.
EMU integrity check. You ready for that.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay. Next sequence terminates 02 flow to PGA.
(garble) i will flow, and LOW VENT FLOW lights will light. On our
cuff gage for max decay of 0.8 PSIG., Your doo-dads are check.
You're the only one that hasn't, on account of that valve in your
helmet. So are you - Now let me read it through once for
you, and then we can get going. Hey, Joe are you on the line?
CDR Joe.
SPT Still here.
CDR Okay. What we need is I need you to
time one minute for me when I tell you.
SPT Yes.
CDR Okay. Now the first thing we're
going to do, Paul, is FLOW SELECT OFF and then immediately
go P RE-SELECT OFF for one minute. And you'd want to check
the decay. Okay?
PLT Yep.
CDR All right. First, FULL SELECT OFF.
PLT You doing it now?
CDR Yes.
PLT Joe ready?
CDR Yes. All right.
SPT All right.
CDR Okay. MARK, 1 minute.
SC Some reason I wound up in 39 by the time
I got shut off.
PLT Mine came up a 10th also - to 38.
CDR I think that's from closing the (garble).
PLT (Garble)
CDR Yeah.
PLT (Whistle) I can whistle all right at
8-1/2 PSI.
CDR Uh-huh.
PLT (Whistle)
CDR Easy.
PLT Looks like I've got a fairly tight suit.
I've lost about a 10th.
SPT I've lost less than a 10th. Now I've
lost 0.08, I guess.
CC MARK. Your minute is up.
CDR Okay. PRE_SELECT to both.
SC Okay.
CDR And then FLOW to IVA.
PLT Oh, that feels good.
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Time: 05:28 CDT, 26:10:28 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Okay. We passed that check. Cuff gage


stable, 36 to 39, all lights off.
PLT Yep. I'm back at 37. All lights are
off.
CDR Okay. You can go back to - -
PLT ABSOLUTE
CDR ABSOLUTE and you're going to get a (garble)
suit press at 31 to 28.
PLT Okay. I'm going to modulate this one
also.
CDR Okay.
CDR Good.
PLT Mine are super.
PLT What I was telling Pete earlier, Joe
I'm sure glad we got - you can modulate this mode switch.
CDR You can thank the sky prince down there
on the ground for that.
PLT Yeah, thanks.
CC (garble) again.
PLT Your books say - -
SC Didn't work so good going to ABSOLUTE. (Chuckle)
CDR Okay. I've got a SUIT PRESS light.
PLT So do I.
CDR I had a REG i LOW FLOW and it went off
and a LOW VENT FLOW and it went off. Okay. Now notify
EV-3 that the EMU integrity check is complete. Be so
notified, EV-3.
SPT (Inaudible)
CDR No. The EV-3 will read all procedures
from here to ALFA deactivation following EVA temporary stow. EV-I
and 2 post cue cards. And we're ready Hey, let me ask you a
question first, Joe. Have you put the VC-3 in?
SPT No, I (Inaudible).
CDR Oh. I thought it was the VS. Okay.
Very good. Okay.
SPT (Inaudible)
PLT Looks like we missed the DAC.
CDR I'ii get it. I'm just looking at it.
I'ii go get it right now.
PLT All right.
CDR It's on.
CDR It's off.
PLT One verified.
SPT (Inaudible)
CDR No, (garble). You're not really. Paul.
PLT Because I'm coming, and you ain't there.
CDR Paul. Now watch - when you get up there,
it's very important - I'ii keep
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Time: 05:28 CDT, 26:10:28 GMT
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PLT Yeah. Go on to your umbilical.


CDR Umbilical, right.
PLT Okay.
CDR You're clear.
PLT Back down, then.
CDR That's mine you're stuffing away.
PLT Yeah.
CDR You know that.
PLT Okay. The wrong one.
CDR No. EV-I. That's me, EV-I comes up.
CDR No, no, it's nine, or six.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're going to lose you
here at Carnarvon. We'll be picking you up in about 3 minutes
at Guam.
CDR Okay. Bye.
PLT I'm EV-I, Joe.
CDR It's in. Yeah. Oh, I may have done
that inadvertently.
SPT (Inaudible)
CDR No you - -

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SL-II MC-1203/I
Time: 05:33 CDT 26:10:33 GMT
6119173

CDR (garble) they had done that inadvertently.


PLT Okay. All right, I see where you stand.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours
33 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has had loss
of signal, and Guam will aquire in about 2 minutes. Pete
Conrad and Paul Weitz are on the voice operated microphone
mode while they are going through the checkout of their
life support system. Paul Weitz tried a little whistling,
after which Flight Director Milt Windier instructed the
corollary experiments officer that he could log that whistle
as an unscheduled experiment. We'll continue to stay up
through this short LOS until we have acquisition at Guam.
PAO This is Skylab Control.
CDR All right. Now wait a minute. I don't
want to do that.
SPT There ain't no way you're going to get
around it.
CDR Why?
SPT How else are you going to switch the
whole thing?
CDR Well, you just - Oh, no, you're right.
Yeah, never mind, never mind. Yeah because - I forgot, we
got to turn off electrical power and everything else.
SPT Yeah.
CDR Okay. Let's go the way we were. 1'11
I'ii just - -
SPT Here, let me just stow these umbilicals.
CDR All right. Even - -
SPT Here, I'ii hold it. Give it to me. Tearing
up my checklist.
CDR All right, hold it.
CDR On the back can I get the -
SPT What?
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got you for about
9 minutes over Guam. And when you get done with what you're
doing there, we'd like to know what it was, so that we can
track who we've got on what we've done here.
SPT We didn't do anything.
CC Okay, so understand you're going to be
running on the - out of different spheres.
SPT Yeah, that's right.
CC Okay.
CDR Now wait. Too many people are talking
again. Let me Just talk to - Wait a minute. Let me talk
to Rusty a minute. Rusty, yesterday I hooked up the umbili-
cal that I used the other day, so we are in fact backward.
Okay?
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Time: 05:33 CDT 26:10:33 GMT
6/19/73

CC Okay. So you're coming out of the EVI


sphere, and Paul is coming out of the EV2 sphere. Is that
correct?
CDR We talked about the hatch and there
is no problem there.
CC Okay, we dropped out there unfortunately,
Pete. We understand that you are running on the EVI umbilical
and the PLT is running on the EV2 umbilical. Is that correct?
CDR Yes, that's correct.
CC Okay.
CDR Everybody understand who is on first now?
CC Rog.
CDR Okay. Now go ahead, Joe.
CDR The hatch handle is in open. Now the
other handle, the release handle, is in lock.
PLT Yes, it always goes to lock.
CDR Okay. Now I'm going to unhook it from
the wall. Next. Now I'm coming. Next. Next, I'm to unlock the
release handle. Right, Paul?
PLT Yes.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, equalize pressure. Now wait. What
did you say about unlock the handle? Okay. Now close. Good,
yeah, to lock. It is?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Did it kind of ratchet when you closed
it, Paul?
PLT I don't remember.
CDR Okay.
PLT All right.
CC And, PLT; Houston. If you've got a second
there, it's no big deal, but we're not getting very good
biomed. If you can sort of press on your sensors through your
suit, we'd appreciate it.
PLT How's that?
CC That sounded great. I'ii tell you what
it looked like.
SC Hey, (garble)
CDR Okay. Just around your neck (garble).
Okay, that's good.
PLT Are you getting TV, Houston?
CC Say again.
PLT Are you getting TV?
CDR That's right there.
CC We saw while you were pressing on them,
but it then dropped out. So if you want to hold yourself
all through the EVA, you can. But we'll give you a choice
of letting go.
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PLT We asked if you were getting TV - television.


CDR They're not over the states.
PLT I was just telling them what Joe asked.
CDR Yeah, I know.
PLT Rog.
CDR Okay.
CC And for Joe's information, we pick up
real time at Goldstone at 11:02. So that's about another
20 minutes away.
SPT Okay, we ought to be - -
PLT I'm sorry. I was wondering why I turned
around in here. Now I know. No.
CDR You've got to hold it until we get the
hatch closed.
PLT Well, my concern was whether I could reach
down here with it on.
CDR Rusty, are you there?

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SL-II MC1204/I
Time: 05:42 CDT, 26:10:42 GMT
6/19/73

SPT Well, my concern is whether I can reach


down here with it or not.
CDR Rusty, are you there?
CDR Houston, you there?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I checked that S054, it's okay.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR All right, now let me just stop one second.
I got the brush, I got the hammer, I got a VC3, and I got a
VS3, and I got a EVI and a EV2 and a lock. Is that right?
Now if it's good come on in with it.
CDR You better take that cue card off the door
first, Joe.
SPT No, it stayed on your side.
SC Excuse me.
CDR No, the other way.
SPT This end, this end. That's it.
CDR Now be careful you're not knocking my paint
brush off the handles, are you? You're banging the VS3, okay?
SPT Yes, I hope not.
CDR Now wait let's see. Yeah, he's got it up
over the roller. Right?
SPT I'm not sure which it is. Yeah, that's right.
Okay.
SC (garble)
SC It's (garble).
SPT REG i. Okay.
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay, going to Delta-P.
CDR How the old ears are doing? Good?
SPT Good.
CDR Okay.
SPT Come off the peg. Two (garble) out at 3.0.
SPT (garble) it'll open up once the egress starts.
CDR Yeah.
SPT Okay, EVI has a good pressure; just a
tad under 37, and on 38.
CC Okay, Houston, we're going over the hill
here at Guam and we'll be seeing you at Goldstone at ll:01.
CDR Roger, ii:01. Bye.
CC Bye to you.
SPT Roger. Houston, do you read EV3?
CC Yes, sir, I do.
SPT Okay, just to check. Thank you.
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Time: 05:42 CDT, 26:10:42 GMT
6/19/73

CC And be informed, we are GO for hatch opening.


CDR Okay. Thank you.
PLT EVI's in GO.
CDR All right.
SC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control, at i0 hours 46 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal. Goldstone will
acquire in about 15 minutes. Skylab was given a GO for
hatch opening for the extravehicular activity just before
we lost contact at Guam. The hatch was not open when we lost
data. Crew still conducting pressure integrity checks on
their suits. Paul Weitz will be EV-I, Pete Conrad EV-2_
and Joe Kerwin, EV-3. Ker - Conrad and Weitz will perform
the EVA - emerge from the airlock. Joe Kerwln will remain inside
the multiple docking adaptor, monitoring systems, perhaps operating
the TV camera through one of the windows. The actual film
retrieval will be performed by Pete Conrad, with Paul Weltz
assisting. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition at
Goldstone. Goldstone due to acquire in about 13 minutes now.
At i0 hours 48 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1205/I
Time: 05:58 CDT 26:10:58 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 58 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab just about within range
of the Goldstone antennas now. Skylab will cross the coast
of the United States in the Seattle, Washington area, and
should be visible to the residents of that area at this
hour of the day. The clock being used to time the extra
vehicular activity has started. It now reads 6 hours and,
I beg your pardon, 6 minutes 42 seconds. That is a guess
however. We do not know what time the hatch opened or in
fact whether it is opened yet. However, this is an estimate
based on where the crew was in the procedures when we had
loss of signal at Guam. We are configured to bring in any
television that might be forthcoming on this pass over the
United States. And management officials are beginning to
assemble in the Control Center. Dr. George Lowe, the Deputy
Administrator here, Dr. Christopher Craft, the Director of
the Johnson Space Center, Mr Leland Belew, the Skylab Progrma
Manager at the Marshal Space Flight Center, Dr. Bill Schneider,
Skylab Program Director from NASA headquarters, and Deke Slayton,
Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations at JSC.
We should be aquiring right now. We'll stand by.
PLT - - hanging on the -
CDR You're sitting on the boom. You've got
to go underneath them slightly.
PLT Well.
CDR There you go. You're clear slightly.
PLT Yeah.
CDR There you go, you're clear. No.
PLT Okay.
CDR All right.
PLT I want that one just like that.
CDR Okay, coming at you. Great. Got it?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Now hold on to it.
PLT All right.
CDR Now, the (garble)
CC Skylab, we've got you over the states now
for about 16 minutes.
CDR Let me get it off.
PLT Wait, wait, let me.
CDR Huh?
PLT Let me put it on, and then I'll check it.
CDR Well, tell me what to set it - do you
want it yellow or red? No, yellow or red.
PLT That's - doesn't it give a different color.
Okay, fine.
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CDR Fine.
CDR Man, when they said EVA, they weren't kidding.
PLT (Laughtr)
CDR (Laughter)
PLT That's beautiful. It goes on F6, Joe,
right?
PLT Now I see it. Walk toward EVI, that's
my film.
CDR Okay. Red is to red, right? All right,
now what speed? 1500.
PLT You're going to have to set this again
I'm sure.
CDR I mean you want it at infinity? Yeah,
you got that and a one (garble) 6/5, ready for the camera.
PLT Yeah.
CDR All right. They done hung up.
PLT Huh?
CDR l've got to get down. Le_ me get down.
(garble)hanging out there.
PLT You're out of there, great.
CDR I don't want to that way. There we go.
PLT Okay.
PLT The (garble) goes which way?

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SL-II MC1206/I
Time: 06:04 CDT, 26:11:04 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Okay.
PLT The trigger goes which way?
PLT Oh. That does help.
CDR Yes, you're going to put it on the outside
rail there. That's it. Can you see where the silver tape
is, right below the clip?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Those line clips, that's where it goes.
Okay, my boy.
CDR Look at that, man. Are we sliding down
the terminator.
PLT Well, wait a minute.
CDR Lincoln said I'ii see you later, as we
slipped along the terminator. How's that? (laughter)
CDR Where are you going there?
PLT I'm trying to get this thing on.
CDR (laughter) That's the one thing I always
said in training was going to cause us more trouble more
than anything else.
CDR Side down, backwards, hanging out and
that a boy. Yea, yea. Now you better - after that smashing
around you better check red to red.
PLT Okay. I can't see the other one. Those
are red to red.
CDR Yeah.
PLT All the settings are on the bottom.
CDR Yeah.
PLT That's clever.
PLT (garble) up ii and 1/500.
CDR And 6 fifths.
PLT Six fifths.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, hold it until I get back in.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, here I come.
SC (garble)
PLT Don't fall. That's a long way.
CDR Now tie it. That worked pretty slick.
CDR Boy, it looks like a long way down to the
Earth. Hi, there.
PLT You know why?
CDR Why?
PLT It is a long way down.
CDR I guess you're right. All right I'ii keep
on going.
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Time: 06:04 CDT, 26:11:04 GMT
6/19/73

PLT Look at the Sun hitting the tops of those


clouds; just the tippy top handle.
PLT Where are we, Rusty? What part of the
ground are we over?
CC Oh, try something like Montana.
PLT That's what I figured. I think I can see
some of those big lakes up in Canada around Winnepeg.
CDR Ohp boy, is this translation super slick.
The big water tank in the sky (laughter) (garble) is almost
to become a water tank in (garble). Whee.
PLT Okay, I'ii hook your umbilical.
CDR Wait, I want to look at the CBRM 15.
CDR Okay, wait.
CDR Okay, it's - Joe you better get the drawing
out. Let's see, there's three CBRM's here and it looks to
me like it's the furtherest to my right and the closest to
the Sun end.
CC That's correct.
CDR All right, that's correct. And Rusty, you
want me to hit it at the bottom of the leg that has all the
screws sticking out. Is that right?
CC Stand by, let me get my little picture here.
CDR Get your little picture. It's not exactly
the way I pictured it.
CC Okay, the upper - If you were standing in
front of it, it's the upper lefthand portion of it that's
raised. Is that correct?
CDR Yeah.
CC Okay, if you start at the screws on the upper
right hand corner of that upper portion - -
CDR Uh, huh.
CC Okay, you come down three screws and you
hit the corner and you turn to your left and you go one screw
and that one's the one you pound on.
CDR Hold it, you just lost me.
CDR The - the upper right is away from the Sun
end.
CC That's correct, and you come toward the
Sun end three screws. That takes you down that first short
leg.
CDR On it.
PLT Yeah. (garble) one Screw to the left. See?
CC Right.
CDR I see. I got it. All right, now.
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CC And that's the one you pound on.


CDR Yeah. Okay, I'ii do that last. What's
next? Let's go on the checklist. I got to clamp my LSU.
PLT Yeah.
PLT No, not yet. I thought you said you wanted
to do that last.
CDR Yeah, I want - -
PLT Yeah, I know.
CDR Okay, go ahead and pass me the hammer. I
can't clamp my LSU then because I'm going to have to go around
it.
PLT All right.
CDR Okay.
PLT Let me clamp your LSU up here.
CDR Okay.
CDR Oh, look at that neat SAS panel. Oh, and
there is the - -

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SL-II MC-1207/1
Time: 06:09 CDT 26:11:09 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Oh, look at that neat SAS panel. Oh,


and there is the orange sail. Oh, I see what's the matter
ith that sail. That's why we got the hot spot on the wall.
Joe, you're absolutely right. The one rod didn't, the aft
rod didn't extend fully. Yeah. I'ii tell you we could - -
CC We got you, go.
PLT Are you ready for the hammer, Pete?
CDR Yes.
CC Go ahead, Joe.
SPT Okay, Rusty. I'm on the step where I
turn the reg on and then I go charge around and verify the
batteries are charging, and immediately turn the reg off.
It's not discharging, it's at zero, essentially zero.
CC Okay, Joe, we got the checklist here.
And we dropped out just a second there. Understand you
got the REG ON, and the charger switch ON, and it did not
discharge when you turned the charger switch on.
SPT Okay since then, it reads a hair below
zero just like normal.
CC Okay, and then you went charger OFF.
SPT Well, the first time I went charger ON,
and it dropped to minus 5 amps momentarily, and then to zero,
and I hit charger OFF. Now I have REG and charger on I
have the charger in BAT - status lights in zero on the amps.
CC Okay, stand by. "
SPT I just went through the cycle again. Go
ahead.
CC Okay, if you turned the REG off after you
saw the discharge there, that's just right, and we're ready
for Pete to dash on.
SPT Okay. No, wait a minute because I've
got it again, Rusty. Should I just go through it, go through
the steps again. Ignore the responses, and will that get
us to a ready configuration?
CC Okay, as long as you turn the REG on,
the CHARGER ON, and then the REG OFF, then we're ready.
SPT Okay.
CDR I've got to get to it first. Just a
minute. Okay Paul, tell me that I'm staying clear of - -
PLT Yeah, I will.
CDR (garble) when the Sun is great.
PLT I will, I'ii tell you.
PLT Hey, Pete, if you're going to go further,
I've got to give you more umbilical.
CDR I can almost reach it. All right. Okay.
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PLT I'ii tell you when he hits it, Joe.


PLT There it goes. Yeah. Boy is he hitting
it. Holy cats.
CDR All right, did anything happen?
SPT Houston, EV3. He hit it with the hammer.
I had no (garble) I turned the charger on, and I'm getting
a lot of amps plus on the battery. Do you want to have
a look at it?
CC Okay, that's good. It worked, thank
you very much gentlemen, you've doue it again.
PLT How about that.
CDR I can't believe it.
PLT I can't either.
CC How hard did you hit it?
CDR Pretty hard.
PLT Yeah_ he hit it pretty hard.
CC That's what it takes. The old Army
technique wins once again.
PLT It's still hanging on, the ATM is still
whipping around, but it will settle down soon.
SPT Rusty, EV3
CC Go ahead.
SPT I got a REG light on that CBI_M now showing.
Command the REG ON or are you happy with the present configu-
ration?
CC Stand by just i, I'ii check with EGIL.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Let me get rid of the hammer for you,
Pete.
CDR Yeah, just a second, let me get locked
back in here again. Okay.
CC Okay, we'd like to leave it the way it
is, EV3. Just leave it with the REG off.
SPT Okay, just keep us posted on your desires,
and we'll press on.
CC Okay.
PLT Watch the boom.
CDR Okay, stand by, stop.
PLT Got it.
CDR Yeah.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, EVI is at 365, no light.
CDR Okay. EV2 is at 370, and while I was
just finishing pounding why - I had a flow dropout and
back on again, but I think that was - -
PLT I'm getting that too as I move around
up here, Pete.
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CDR Okay.
PLT You ready?
CDR Yeah_ retract it.
SPT All right_ let me read you the next step
while you're retracting- -

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Time: 06:14 CDT, 26:11:14 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Okay. You ready? I can't retract it.


PLT All right. Let me read you the next
step while you're retracting it, which is center boom, extend
i foot, deploy the boom hook and verify that the boom hook
is unlocked. That may already be done.
CDR Yep. It will be.
PLT All right. Just a minute and I'ii
catch up with you when you get there. Okay.
CDR Knocked a little paint off the CBRM, but
I guess it was worth it.
CC Hold on, I'ii check with EGIL.
CDR Okay. We're 50 percent done now. If I
can find a l-millimeter speck on D-I, we've got it made, huh?
PLT Why don't you clamp your umbilical, Pete?
CDR Okay. Yeah. Let me do that.
CDR How's that?
PLT Okay. (Garble).
CDR (Garble). Wait. I didn't give myself
enough. Ahh, come on.
PLT Yeah. They work like they always have.
CDR Yep. But I'ii tell you. The big water
tank in the sky is the way to do it. Hey, Rusty,
while he's doing that, let me tell you something about this
sail.
CC Okay. We're listening.
CDR It needs to be rotated. We'd get a little
better cooling on the upper part if we rotated it (Chuckle)
How am I going to tell you?
PLT Looking from the inside out.
CDR Looking from the inside out, we want to
rotate it - it looks to me like counterclockwise, approximately
15 degrees. And that would cover the top end of the goal that's
exposed. And it would also pull more of it over the
bottom end, where it's not fully deployed. And I really
recommend that we do that.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR That's why that water tank ring is hot,
then cold underneath, and then hot again, Paul.
PLT Yeah. Do you want it to go - If you look
down there, it's more on your right side.
CDR As I look down there, it's more It's
looking at me?
PLT Yeah.
CDR As I look that way, which is minus X - -
PLT Yeah.
CDR It should rotate this way, which means
it's low on the right hand side.
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Time: 06:14 CDT, 26:11:14 GMT
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PLT Okay.
CDR Yeah. Should go counterclockwise about
15 degrees.
PLT Okay.
CDR That would really do the trick.
PLT All right, Joe. I'm ready the VC - what
do we put on there first?
CDR What am I flying over, Rusty?
CC You're flying over the chain of islands
Just north of the Dominican Republic, now.
CDR Oh, yeah. I recognize it.
SPT You getting TV, Rusty?
CC Yes, I do. And EV-3, for your information,
we're going to be going LOS here in about a minute from now.
So if you do not want the TV on the VTR, you can turn it off.
SPT Roger, roger. You ready, if I read, to
send it down? Yeah°
CC EV-3, in fact, we have stopped the tape
recorder. You have 14 minutes left on it, so you can turn
it on when you decide you've got something worth looking at.
SPT Okay. (Garble).
CDR Well, it's off about 4 inches, but that's
good enough, we'll go with that.
SC Very nice.
PLT Okay. (garble) Let us get it stopped Joe.
SC Rusty, this boom is really working the
switch.
CC That's probably because of the improved
water conditions up there.
CDR Okay. Stop.
CDR No, wait a minute. Paul, back it up
a little. I'm going to have to go back in there. Yeah.
Okay. Stop, that's good enough.
SC (garble) we supposed to (Garble).
CDR (garble) clock, release, pull.
SC Yeah. Okay. Stand by.
CDR Okay to (garble) - boy, the canister
rolls these - these rocks easily.
PLT Does it?
CDR Yeah. All right, go ahead.
CC Okay. We're going to pick you up again
at Carnarvon at 12 on the min - on the hour.
SC Twelve? We've got to stop for lunch, then.
CDR Do what?
CC That's the people at Greenwich that do
that not you guys. Press on.
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Time: 06:14 CDT, 26:11:14 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 19 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has had loss of signal. Next
station to acquire is Carnarvon in 41-1/2 minutes. EVA
going very successfully so far. Pete Conrad was successful
in konking that charger battery regulator module number 15
with the hammer. That battery is now charging. That'll
provide about 240 more watts to the power reservoir. The
next task is to retrieve the film from the six Apollo
telescope mount experiments, S054, the X-ray spectrographic
telescope, S056, the X-ray telescope S052, the white-light
coronagraph, the _-alpha experiment, which does not have a number;
and S082A, the X-ray ultraviolet coronal spectro heliograph;
and SO82B, the ultraviolet spectrograph. Pete Conrad will
also use a lens brush. You may have heard him refer to his
paint brush awhile ago. He was wondering where it was. -

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SL-II MC-1209/I
z_
Time: 06:21 CDT 26:11:21 GMT
6/19/73

PAO You may have heard him refer to his


paint brush a while ago, he was wondering where it was.
That's the lens brush that he will use to clean the occulting
disk of the S052 experiment. He is scheduled to do this
just before retrieving the $082 experiment. There appears
to be a piece of contamination about 1 millimeter in diameter
on that disk. It causes a bright spot at the 4:00 position.
And it's believed that brushing it with the lens brush will
disloge the contamination and clear the disk. He will also
velcro a piece of material from the standup EVA sail, which
was not used, an 18 inch square piece of material to one
of the ATM struts. This material is the same as that in
the parasol. And it will be used as a test piece of material
to check on deterioration of the material, not by this crew
but will probably be retreived by the Skylab III crew. This
crew cut this piece of material from the sail and then, using
a needle and thread available in their pressure garment main-
tainence kit, sewed some velcro to it. Following that, they
will begin the ingress back into the airlock module. We'll
have to stand by for another 37 minutes to find out how
things have gone. fete Conrad believes he has discovered
what is causing the hot spot. He reported that it looked
to him like the aft rod on the parasol was not fully extended.
He recommends rotating the parasol counterclockwise, as you're
looking at it from the inside out, as he put it, about
50 degrees and he thinks that will fix the situation. And
he recommends that they do that. We'll come back up just
prior to acquisition at Carnarvon. At ii hours 24 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
/_k SL-II MC-1210/I
Time: 06:33 CDT, 12:11:33 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


33 minutes Greenwich mean time. The flight surgeon measured
metabolic workloads during that pass over the United
States as 1200 British thermal units for Pete Conrad,
1500 for Paul Weitz. Conrad's high heart rate was 130.
He averaged about 120 during that EVA. Although, when rest-
ing, it would drop as low as 80 according to the flight
surgeon. Flight surgeon estimates that the high of 130 came
when he was pounding on the CBRM housing with the hammer.
No heart rate information was received on the pilot, Paul
Weitz. Apparently the EKG sensor is loose and the biomedical
console is not receiving heart rate information on Paul Weitz.
The EVA clock shows 42 minutes 26 seconds since the start of this
EVA. Start timing is an estimate. We have no way of verify-
ing the time the exact time of hatch opening. Hatch
opening did occur, but out of contact with the ground
station. Occurred between Guam LOS and Goldstone acquisition.
So we will have to estimate hatch opening at i0 hours
53 minutes Greenwich mean time, or 5:53 a.m. central day-
light time. Skylab is still 25 minutes away from acquisition
at Carnarvon. We'll come back up then. At ii hours 36 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
I.... SL-II MCI211/I
Time: 06:58 CDT, 26:11:58 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is SKylab Control at ii hours


58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up shortly
within acquisition range at Carnarvon. The television on
the monitors in the News Center is a replay of the television
sent down earlier during the last pass over the United States.
Have a correction on the number of degrees that Conrad recommends
the parasol be rotated counterclockwise. It should be 15 degrees,
not 50. 15 degrees rotated counterclockwise as you look from
the inside out. We'll find out here at Carnarvon how far
along in the EVA the crew is. The smallest of the canisters
that Conrad has to remove, that of the SO52 experiment, is
7 by i0 by 9 inches. The largest is the SO82 experiment, 18 by
9 by 21 inches. SO56 is the lightest weight film canister,
18 pounds, and SO82B the heaviest at 60 pounds. We're informed
that at the end of the manned portion of this mission, there
will have been 30,242 frames of Apollo telescope mount film
exposed; S0,242 frames. Of that, 13,000 frames is from the
H-Alpha experiment. That's the most from any one experiment.
The least from any one experiment is the 82A - 194 frames.
CDR Have to turn - yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
PLT _ello, Houston.
CC Hi there. We're reading you fine and clear,
and we got you over Carnarvon for about the next 7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Pete is just finishing up at the
Sun end. He thinks he saw and identified the speck on the
SO52. We did not look at it, of course. That is, we didn't
look at the display. And we've been going from experiment
pointing back to solar inertial where he works down there, because
that whole canister really moves when he's in the XP.
CC Yes, sir. You should definitely be in
- in solar inertial when he works on it. In fact, the procedure
calls that out, Joe.
SPT Well, I don't think it does, Rusty, but
(garble)
CDR All right. All right, now it's all done.
The inside S2B handle is down. The outside 82B door is locked.
They'reboth in the thing. What's next?
CDR Okay.
CDR And two things, Rusty: As he started
rotating the canister around - you know all these things we've
been seeing on the white light coronagraph?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
CDR Well, I believe they're coming from inside
the ATM. Would you go for that? Because as he started rotating
the canister with the door open, I actually saw one little
piece of - it looked to me like silver insulation, Mylar
SL-II MC1211/2
Time: 06:58 CDT, 26:11:58 GMT
6/19/73

type or whatever, come floating out of the S052. Okay. Now


when I got the SO52 around to me, I'd look down in there,
and of course I stand right over it; so that took care of
any sunshine that'd back out at me - And in the position that
you described, it looked, as best I can tell, like a piece of
white thread, if that makes sense. And I guess it does. There
is a lot of white cloth around in here. And I believe I got
it off. The disc on the outside anyhow is as clean as I
can see it right now. And just to make sure, I brushed from
inside out 360 degrees around very gently. There was no
tendency for any hairs to hang up on it. And as best as I
could tell, there were no hairs on it. The brush worked fine,
and it remained soft. So I think everythings in good shape,
and you can get a look at it later.
CC Okay, fine. Thanks very much. Would you
guess what most of those particles are? I understood that
at least one you saw looked like illuminumized Mylar, or
something like that.
CDR I I'ii - -

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Time: 07:03 CDT, 26:12:03 GMT
6/19/73

CC Okay. Fine. Thanks very much. Would


you guess what most of those particles are? I understood
that at least one you saw looked like aluminized mylar,
or something like that.
CDR I only saw one piece come out. But I'm
thinking that - Look, another thing - when I pulled
SO52 film container out, there was a little washer floating
in there. It was on the container - next to the container.
And I picked that up. We have continually run across cutout
(garble) rivets floating around inside the spacecraft. And
low and behold, I've seen at least one out here floating
around. It came floating out of the ATM. So I still think
this thing is belching itself of whatever wasn't kept
out of it when it was on the ground. It's Just slowly All
these things are working their way out. Let me tell you
another thing. I believe it was A-quad that I'm looking
down at from the VC-3 Station, and the silver insulation, looking
plus X to the left side, which is in the Sun, is quite blistered
all over the whole side of the service module. You can very
definitely tell it's been in the Sunshine.for a long time.
The quad, itself, looks pretty good, although there is paint
blistered around it. But not any more so than on the other
quad that I can see. There's white paint blisters pretty
well all over the service module, to the point where some
of it flaked off.
CC Okay. We got you.
PLT Okay. Pete verified the g2-A, 82-B and
the (garble) doors are closed. Rusty, I think it was in the
checklist to go back to SI. It was on the second page of
that particular change. Sorry.
CDR Okay. All doors are closed except
S054.
SPT Okay.
SC Okay. What?
PLT Wait a minute, I ain't got the DAC on
yet.
CDR Our biggest problem so far, Rusty, has
been that DAC.

CC Yeah. I guess we'd have guessed that, too.


SPT Houston. We got an - an (garble) MALF, probably
CMG (garble). We're momentum dumping now.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can give you some
word.

SPT Thank you.


PLT Okay. What do yon want me to do, Joe?
SPT (Inaudible)
CDR I'm on my way. Here come my (garble).
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Time: 07:03 CDT, 26:12:03 GMT
6/19/73

CDR There we go into night too, huh?


PLT Yeah.
PLT Itm going to need some new settings for
this DAC in a minute, Joe, when the sun sets.
PLT Just hold it right there, Pete, until
I change them, will you?
CDR Yeah. I'm in the I'm in the foot
restraint.
PLT Okay. I'm perfectly comfy.
PLT That enough umbilical?
CDR Wheee, yeah. Is that a pretty sunset.
Upside down. Wheee.
PLT We ought to end the film light on this
thing, we're only 75 percent gone.
PLT I'ii try it. Give me some settings.
CDR It's probably jammed.
CDR Happened the last time.
CDR Last time we had one of those end of
film lights - Think I better raise my EV visor, that's one
of the reasons I can't see anything.
CDR Oh, that's pretty.
PLT Okay. F-I.8.
CDR Hey. You're not going to get any more
pictures. I can tell you that.
CC Okay. Joe, be advised; we're reselecting
2 and 3 into Z axis, for your information, on the rate-gyros.
SPT Thank you. I just figured out what
was wrong.
CDR Oh, boy, can I see the lightening on the
ground. Where are
we, anyhow?
CC Okay. You're coming up over Indonesia
at the present time.
CDR Ah, it's a thunderstorm. I see three
very bright fires. I wonder if they're oil well fires.
PLT Yes, sir. Yeah.
SC All righty.
SC Okay.
PLT Hey, that lighting is good out here, isn't it?
CDR Yeah.
PLT Why don't you see if you can get ah -
CDR Hold it. That's good. Right there.
PLT Yeah.
CC Okay. We're about to get LOS here at
Carnarvon. We'll be picking you up at Guam in about
5 or 6 minutes.
CDR Okay. You can go ahead and retract it
now, Paul.
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Time: 07:03 CDT, 26:12:03 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 homrs


9 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have loss of signal at
Carnarvon. We'll acquire at Guam in about 6 minutes. Pete
Conrad has finished up his tasks at the Sun end of the Apollo
telescope mount - -

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SL-II MC-1213/I
Time: 07:09 CDT 26:12:09 GMT
6/19/73

PAO All of the film retreived from the


experiments and film resupplied to those experiments. He
has cleaned the lens of the S052, the white light coronagraph.
He thinks he saw the contamination, said it looked like
a little white thread. Reported he also saw other items
floating out of that area when he opened the experiment
what appeared to be little specks of mylar. He reported
that the silver insulation on the service module ap-
pears to be pretty well blistered all over. Some of the
paint has flaked off. He reported that the situation around
Quad A reaction control system, Quad A did not appear to
be much different than the other quads. The paint around
that area was blistered, but no worse than the other quads.
Temperatures have been running about 20 degrees higher on
that quad that we expected them to. The DAC that Paul
Weitz referred to that was giving them a lot of trouble
is the data acquisition camera. He's recording the EVA
activities with this camera. Shortly before LOS, Conrad
reported he saw 3 very bright fires. It was over Indonesia
at the time. He wondered whether they might be oil well
fires. Guam will aquire in about 3-1/2 minutes. We'll
keep the line up and await acquisition there.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1214/I
Time: 07:13 CDT 26:12:13 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Ah, hell, ah darn it


PLT Here's my foot.
CDR This is an impossible task. As usual,
it's going to be the toughest one of them all.
PLT Get back on top, I'ii grab' you on either
side with my feet.
CDR I can't get back up on top. I'm rotated
around now. There, how's that? Gosh darn stuff is
hard to handle out here. It doesn't want to do what I want
it to do at all. Real simple idea. All it wants to
do is stay straight.
CC And Skylab Houston, we've got you for
about the next 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR I wish I knew who kept inventing these
neat little things like putting sails around. It's the
toughest task in EVA. I got it. I got it, I got it all
done.
PLT Don't touch it, don't touch it.
CDH It's like the thermal fan, but it's
(garble). Now, okay, I'm getting out of here.
PLT Let me get back in.
CDR All right. Hold on there.
PLT No, wait.
CDR Wait.
PLT Let me get back up there to the hand
rail.
CDR There we go. Okay. That's the most
work of the whole EVA.
CC Rog.
CDR 3.7, okay, it's on there.
PLT What am I hung up on?
CDR Where - wait.
PLT There, okay, you're in, whatever it was.
Okay.
CDR All right. We've got got i light blinking.
Well, I gues that's the - must be the running light, not
an EVA light. Hey, Joe. Can you turn on the docking lights?
Not the docking lights but the - damn lights were on but
no the, you know what I'm talking about, the running lights.
PLT No, I don't think we can. Can we?
Joe, they are on the upper right hand side of the panel
there.
CDR I guess they're tracking and docking I
think. Docking is what I want. See, that's the white light
right next to DO24 (garble) no, forget it. No, that's the
flasher, turn that off.
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Time: 07:13 CDT 26:12:13 GMT
6/19/73

PLT Tracking light.


CDR Now, okay, never mind.
SPT Are you ready for DO24? Let me get your
umbilical out of the way.
CDR Yeah.
CC Troops, if you want the docking lights
on, we can command them on from the ground if you llke.
CDR Okay. Yeah, well, I guess I can read
DO24. There's a nice white light mounted on it right?
CC Should be.
CDR Yeah. Well, that's all right, I can
read it. A and B mine llke in (garble) Wait a minute,
let me get down there. Okay. Here I go.
PLT Hey, Rusty, post that, remind me to talk
to you about the scorch patterns on the outside of the ve-
hicle here, will you please?
CC Yes sir, we will.
CDR Okay, now what do you want me to do?
Just a second.
PLT Don't I move this back before ingress,
Joe?
CDR Okay, I can move the container, and it's
not stuck. Okay. F7
PLT Yeah, I'd chance that - looks (garble)
CDR All right. It's it open. Okay. My
altitude is a little off there. Okay, I have it in my hand,
samples (garble) Okay. No, not yet.
CC And just for information, it appears
Pete, you may be running a little low on your diverter
there as far as which half is taking out the cooling. And
we've got about 40 seconds to LOS here at Guam. We'll be
seeing you over the states at Goldstone at 12:38.
CDR Okay. It's stowed. Yeah, okay.

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-- Time: 07:21 CDT, 26:12:21 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Whee.
SC Hey, that's one of them.
CDR Okay, now you want the pip pins back in.
Ri ght ?
SC (garble)
CDR Get two of them first. Just one of these
deals where you got no foot restraints, you're going one handed,
you know. This thing is (garble). All you had to have done
is put a set of foot restraints there and you'd have had it made.
PLT Well, (static)
PLT You don't need the container?
CDR No, l'm not there yet. Wait a minute.
CDR Just have to diddle around, tries to take you
forever.
PLT Yeah, I know. I've done it.
SC (static)
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 12 hours
22 minutes. Guam has had loss of signal. Goldstone will
acquire in 16 minutes. As we came into acquisition at Guam,
it was apparent that Pete Conrad was having considerable
difficulty attaching that test patch of sail cloth to the
Apollo telescope mount strut. He finally succeeded and then
called it the most work of the EVA. The flight surgeon confirmed
that, said Conrad's heart rate reached 150 during that period.
We appear to be nearing the end of this EVA. Pete Conrad
talked about retrieving the D024. That's the thermal control
coatings experiment. He will bring in one of the two panels
that is out there. The other panel will be left for an
EVA on a future manned mission. With the retrieval of D024
that would wind up the tasks on the EVA other than stowing
the equipment they have retrieved back into the airlock
module and getting themselves and the umbilicals and other
equipment back in. We'll come back up just prior to Goldstone.
At 12 hours 24 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
sl-II MC-1216/I
Time: 07:36 CDT, 26:12:36 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


36 minutes. Skylab coming up now on the Goldstone acquisition.
We'll stand by for this pass.
PLT You want to take this tree?
CDR Hey, Paul.
PLT What?
CDR The same thing applies here, right?
The OWS is higher than we are, right?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Why don't I just go to open?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay. Whenever it equalizes it'll
open.
PLT Yep. I can hear it coming down.
CDR Yeah. I can feel it on my ears.
CC And Skylab, we've got you over Goldstone,
in the stateside pass, here for about i0 minutes.
CDR Roger. We're in up, complete.
CC Okay. We'd like to know if you're through
using the VTR. We're set up for real-time. And ENCO can
dump the tape recorder.
PLT Yes. We're done with it.
CC Okay. And Joe, depending upon what
your time-scale looks like, if we can power up for some VT -
for some S052 white-light to take a look at it, we'd appreciate
that. But that depends on your timeline and we've got a
procedure standing by, if you'd like us to read it to you.
PLT Okay. He's doing post EVA, Rusty. He'll
get back to you when he can.
CC Rog. No sweat.
PLT Okay. They've got a month to look at it.
CC Negative. We don't get the downlink.
CDR Yeah. That's right. We want to verify
that we got that thing off.
PLT You' re right.
CDR Yeah. Not at all. The OWS hasn't equalized
yet, anyhow.
SPT Okay, Houston. (Garble), go ahead.
CC Okay, Joe. You can just do it as we're
calling it out, if you want.
PLT Right. Go ahead. I'ii relay for him.
CC Okay. We want the fine sun sensor door to
open, and verify that's open and then go into experiment
pointing mode.
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Time: 07:36 CDT, 26:12:36 GMT
6/19/73

CC And following that, we want to - -


SC Wait. Wait a minute.
PLT Are we still dumping?
CC I think that's - Stand by on that. It
looks as though we're about 6 degrees out of attitude,
presently. Hold on - Why don't you just press on and we'll
get back with you?
PLT All right. So the fine sun sensor door's
open.
CDR Paul.
PLT What?
CDR Let me give you the hammer.
SPT Rusty, just as we came up on Sunrise on
this pass, I was looking out the window, and I noticed ATM
go into an attitude maneuver. At the time, I assumed it
was the 3rd dump maneuver, but maybe it overdid itself.
CC Okay. We're looking at it right now.
CDR Where do we go? The suit donning
stations?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay.
SC Uh-oh. Go ahead.
CDR Yeah. That's down here. Now, wait a minute.
Do we turn the DAC on? I think so. Yeah, for MI51. Well, I'm
half way there. I'm going to rocket over there and turn it on.
Ha-ha. There's some film left anyhow. They want that.
PLT Well, I'm not going to be down there
for awhile.
CDR You aren't?
PLT Nope.
CDR Well, I'ii hold it (garble) -
SC I'ii get it, when I get done.
CDR Matter of fact, it's only 15 percent left.
PLT Are you done, Joe?
PLT Well, how about - No, no, no, with
this S052 thing?
SPT Well, how about staying on my umbilical
then, and I'ii go below. Can you put that some place?
PLT Where is the strap it was on? There.
CDR Well, it does say push button on. There's
not going to be much film, but go ahead, when you come down.
PLT All right.
CDR Okay. Rusty, are you there?
CC Yes we are.
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Time: 07:36 CDT, 26:12:36 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Okay. My appraisal of looking at the


orange on the sail, is that other than slightly flat, it
has not lost its original color at all.
CC Okay. Understand. It's just like the
seheen has gone off it, but about the same color.
CDR That's my appraisal, yeah.
SC Yep.
CDR Yeah. PRESS SELECT to OFF and doff the
gloves.
PLT Okay. Are you supposed to go press select
off, first?

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1217/I
Time: 07:43 CDT, 26:12:43 GMT
6/19/73

SC (garble)
CDR What?
SC (inaudible)
CDR (garble) here with Rusty (garble) we used
a hammer and a feather out there today and did some good with
both of them.
PLT (garble) 2.
CC Okay, Joe, we can proceed on now. We're
back in solar inertial. We - what we did was a CMG reset there
right at the last maneuver. We ended up in the CMG reset
maneuver.
SPT Guess that I can get off.
CDR Yes.
CDR Why is this thing being so stubborn?
(garble)
PLT Okay, to a - Wait a minute. I got Sun, and
I'ii go to EXP and I'm there and press on.
CC Okay, Just go ahead and point to sun center
and we want to turn the 52 main power ON and the door OPEN.
PLT (garble)
CC Okay, Joe, then after you get the door open,
we want to go the mirror position to TV, the SYNC generator
to PRIME, and the WLC TV power ON.
CC And, of course, we'll need you to select
whichever monitor you bring it up on on the video switch
for us.
PLT I'ii select MON 1 cause it's already on.
CDR Well, that wasn't too bad for a couple
of amateur EV-I and 2s, seeing that's not our regular role.
Now i plus 36 sounds (garble).
CC Roger. 1 plus 36 sounds very good to me.
SPT I thought I was especially good in my
new bit part in EV-3.
CDR Plus we had to keep uring him on though.
CDR EV-3. What are you up to?
SPT (inaudible)
CC And, EV-3, we can reset that ACS ALERT light,
if you'd like us to.
SPT That's a CMG malf and no sweat.
CDR Are your switches and doors (garble) Did you
set the DOOR OPEN?
CC Okay, Joe. and we - -
SPT Let's see, you've given us the DOOR OPEN two
times now, and it's - it's going white and then going back to barber
pole. I suspect we may be more 5 are minutes off, although
the fine Sun sensor doesn't think we are.
SL-II MC1217/2
Time: 07:43 CDT, 26:12:43 GMT
6/19/73

CC Okay, Joe. Did you reenable power to


the door? I guess that's about the only thing I can think
of right off the bat. And how long does it stay white before
it goes back to barber pole?
SPT Not too long - 4 or 5 seconds. I did enable
the prime to reenable the primer and motor per the procedure,
and indeed I have a barber pole talk back, which tends to
verify that. Auto doors, normal. Main power is on. I've
gone from fast scan to standard mode.
CC Okay, and do you have a mirror to - to
TV WLC power on? Remember it has a 90-second warmup there, so we
may not see anything right away.
SPT Yeah, but that's got nothing to do with
the door not - not coming open. The door ought to come open. l'm
going to command it closed just to - and it, you know, immediately
goes barber pole again.
PLT Why?
SPT No, I'm going to command it open again.
CDR We'll hold at our present configuration.
SPT (garble) in it's stayed white and it's
still white in the (garble) (garble)
PLT (inaudible)
SPT It went back to barber polethen, Rusty.
CC Okay. Stand by on it, Joe. Why don't you
press on, Joe. Let us take a look at it here, and we'll get back
to you.
SPT Wait, wait, Paul - Paul, hold it. (garble)
strung out. (laughter)
SC (laughter)
CDR That's funny. (laughter)
CDR I was waiting for you to let go and whistle
(garble). (laughter)
CDR Hey, Rusty, you there?
CC Yes, sir, go ahead.
CDR We'll hold right here in our (garble) until
you get that S052 door open. I hear another (garble) coming.
Don't get too far (garble).
CDR Oh, (garble) serious. Can you get the door?
SeT (garble)
CC I hope that we can disregard that on you.
SPT Hey, Rusty.
CC Yes, sir, we've got you on TV real time right
now down there in the OWS. Go ahead, Joe.
SPT I - I've opened the H-Alpha 2, and we are
far from being sun centered. So let me manually zero the
fine sun sensors, which is what our problem was all along during
(garble)
SL-II MC1217/3
Time: 07:43 CDT, 26:12:43 GMT
6/19/73

CDR The wedges get off scale?


SC (inaudible)
CDR Yeah.
CDR I'Ii tell you - when in Sl I get (garble).
When I moved hanging on to that canister.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1218/I
Time: 07:51 CDT 26:12:51 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Canister.
SPT Yeah_ the up-down fine Sun sensor is
gone stick - sticking on me here_ Houston. I'm going to
have to drive it way off.
CC Okay, understand you tried to rezero
those - the wedges there. We concur with that. Looking at
the (garble) Sun sensors they both indicate that you are in fact
Sun centered. So, let's try rezeroing, and hopes that works.
SPT Okay. The up-down wedge had that peculiar
problem in it where you have to drive it clean off the Sun
then back on. And it's coming.
CC All right. There is some suspicion
you may be on the back side of the wedge.
SPT I know, but it was stuck before.
CC Okay.
CDR Yeah, we'll get it.
SPT I think we are on the front side now
Houston. Now try to open that door again.
SPT Okay, the door is open_ I've got a ready
light. I'm centering up. And let me select white light
eoronagraph. And go to TV position.
CC Okay, we've got it right now. And it
looks like it's gone. It looks like a very good Job guys.
SPT Of course.
CC There is a little bit of trash floating
around out there, but other than that_ it looks great.
Isn't that something?
CDR Okay, I think there's trash floating
around there, because even in SI_ when I was out
there hanging on that canister, the railing that's on
that canister, I moved that canister. And if there is any-
thing loose inside there again - like, I think, when we first saw
all those things after docking and everything, we just
whatever was floating around in there we just knocked
loose. And I think I should include - -
CC Okay, by the way, Joe, you can go ahead
and close it up now and you can take it right back to the
configuration it was in, that is SI with all the doors
closed, the sink generator off and the WLC power off.
And we're about to get LOS here over the states, and we'll
be picking you up over Vanguard at 13:03.
CDR Fine.
CC Bye, bye. Good job guys.
CDR Thank you. Pleasant thought. Okay. (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
SL-II MC-1218/2
Time: 07:51 CDT 26:12:51 GMT
6/19/73

54 minutes Greenwich mean time. Mila station has loss of


signal. Vanguard will aquire in about 9 minutes. The
alrlock was being repressurized as we first acquired through
Goldstone. Pressure was up to about 4 pounds at that time.
The EVA clock here is stopped, it shows total duration for
the EVA of 1 hour 36 minutes. That's the duration that
was passed down from the crew during this stateside pass.
We do not have a hatch closing time. The hatch was closed
prior to acquisition, but based on crew comments, the duration
of the EVA was 1 hour 36 minutes. Also during this pass
Pete Conrad gave his appraisal of the parasol. He said that
the sheen was gone from the material, but it had not lost
any of its original color. We'll come back up prior to the
Vanguard pass. At 12 hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1219/I
Time: 08:02 CDT, 26:13:02 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the
Vanguard, now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab. We've got you at the Vanguard,
gateway to South Atlantic anomaly, for the next 6 minutes
or so.
SC Roger, Rusty. For your information, the
OWS temperature rose to about 80.5, almost 81. Is that
(garble) ?
CC Okay. We think that's probably because
the aft heat exchangers were off. Thank you.
CC And at your leisure, we're sending up a
message here to the teleprinter regarding doing an S183
run later today. And you can breeze over that sometime
within the next hour_ and we'll get a pad up to you if you
want to do it. That's up to you.
SC Roger, Rusty. Is that for me to do?
CC I'm not sure who is scheduled - yeah,
it is scheduled for CDR. And it's your decision on it, Pete.
Right now, the message that you're going to get says something
about 17:45. But we think we can probably do it earlier
than that, if you'd like.
CDR Okay. Well, I'd like to give it a try,
if it's running that magazine, because I never did figure out
whether I goofed up by shuting the power off in the middle
of the (garble). I don't think I did, but never did figure out
what happened.
CC Okay. Fine. We'll be ready.
SC (Garble).
CDR That must also be called T027.
CC Okay.
SC Is that correct?
CC Yes, that is correct.
CDR Okay. No - no strain.
CDR We're trying to run it at 23:00.
CDR Got a question for you, Rusty, real
quick, if you've got the photo people there. We used up
the magazine transporter 05 on suit doning. And we've
got to the part where we're just getting ready to do our zippers,
to take our suit off, and I want to know if you want the
rest of that? If so, I think you can use transporter 07
or either the i in A2 or A3. And I know that they're
scheduled for something but if you've got some film
for me real quick, let me knew before we start, and I'ii put
it on.
CC Okay. We'll get right back to you on it.
_ SL-II MC-1219/2
Time: 08:02 CDT, 26:13:02 GMT
6/19/73

CC Okay. And for your information, we've


got the REG ON in the CBRM 15, and it's looking real good.
CDR Very good.
CC And, EV-3, we're going to go ahead and
set your ACS ALERTER light here. We've got another one
on from a reset routine.
CC Okay, Pete. We've been looking around
and we can't find any film that's going to be appropriate
for you to use. So Just go ahead and get out of the suits.
We'll Just miss that. And be advised that during the next
dump we expect, because of the momentum situation as it is
now, that we may see another reset routine coming in. So
you can be prepared for that one.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab. We've got LOS here at
the Vanguard in about another 15 seconds. And we'll be
picking you up next at - -
CC Okay. Goldstone at 14:16.
CDR Rog. And when's the next EVA?
CC The next one's going to be when you
jump into the water, or at least out onto the carrier. Don't
break your neck.
CC Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1220/I
Time: 08:14 CDT, 26:13:14 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has loss of signal.
There will be a long LOS prior to acquisition at Goldstone.
One hour and 2 minutes before Skylab is back within range
of a tracking station. The crew has completed a very successful
extravehicular activity, which lasted I hour 36 minutes.
The battery is fixed, CBRM 15, providing an additional 240 watts
of power. The brushing of the S052 occulting disc appears to
have been successful. We operated that experiment real time.
Took a look at it through television. The contamination is
gone, no longer visible as a bright spot at the 4 o'clock
position. The ATM experiment film canisters have been retrieved.
A very successful i hour and 36 minutes. We'll come back
up just prior to Goldstone. At 13 hours 15 minutes , this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1221/I
Time: 09:13 CDT 26:14:13 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming within
range of the Goldstone station. We'll stand by for acqui-
sition there.
CDR Sorry, Houston, are you there?
CC Rog. (garble). We're here for Ii minutes
over Goldstone.
CDR Okay, I got a lot I want to tell you
about on S054 today.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. The S054 door lock, film door
lock, would not lock. So it's only held by the magnetic lock.
So I unlocked it, and it would no way move after that. And
I tried and tried, and you'll hear it on the late tape.
And I couldn't get it, but I wanted to make sure that I
knew what I was doing. So I was checking the rest of the
doors, and they all work fine. And for some reason it just
decided to bind up in the pins retracting position on that
door so the magnets are the only things that are holding
it. But, they are very strong magnets, so I wouldn't worry
about that door. I don't believe that it is ever going
to open until it's pulled open.
CC Roger.
CC And, CDR, Houston, while we're talking
here - We're currently working on a message which involves
some changes to your day 27 transfers. So in case you were going
to try to get into any of that stuff early, be advised that
that will be coming up.
CDR I couldn't imagine that the day 27 transfers
would go the way they were written.
CC I figured you were thinking like that.
As a reminder to the PLT - he's mentioned something about scorching
on the outside, and he said he wanted us to remind him of
it so he could talk about it later.
PLT Yeah, Crip, the MDA and the thermal cur-
tains, which were formally white, are both very yellow now.
They are very yellow. Not only that, but you can see every-
thing that's between the surfaces and the Sun, because there
is a perfect outline of it. So it must have all happened
in the 28 days we've been here. I tried to get some pictures
of the MDA with the DAC while I was out there. I don't know
if they will come out or not. But - I mean that it is almost
brown it has changed color so much - the MDA, especially around
the STS. And as you go forward to aft on the MDA, the discolor-
ing gets darker.
CC Okay, very good, Paul. We copy that.
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Time: 19:13 CDT 26:14:13 GMT
6/19/73

CDR It looks very similar to what the white


paint did on the Surveyers we brought back from the moon.
CC Ah so.
CC We have no idea of where you are at
right now on your procedures. But I - for the ATM ¢loseout
we have a canister roll that we'd like to give you. I
don't know who is going to do that today - whether Joe is
or Paul. But what we are going to do is we want to put the
canister roll to zero. That's left blank in the checklist
right now. And the checklist called for experiment roll and
we don't have that available to you. But we want the canister
roll at zero.
PLT Okay, copy that. You have a page in the
checklist for that.
CC Yeah, I do. It's - stand by one. It's
on page 510 of the ATM experiment checklist. And it might
be a little bit confusing, because the way that goes through,
it has you looking at experiment (garble)
PLT Okay, zero canister roll, huh?
CC Rog.
CC SPT, Houston. Are you in the vicinity
of the ATM panel?
CDR What do you want, Crip? I'ii do it.
CC Okay. We'd like yon to cycle the star
tracker acquisition switch to AUTO FOR us, please.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you very much.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1222/2
Time: 09:24 CDT, 26:14:24 GMT
6/19/73

in the ultraviolet region. It's the experiment from the


National Center of Scientific Research in Marseille, France.
That experiment is deployed through the antisolar scientific
airlock, and Pete Conrad would remove the T027, the Apollo
telescope mount contamination measurement instrument that
is in that airlock now. That would be removed and be replaced
with the S183 experiment. Skylab is still 10-1/2 minutes
away from acquisition at Vanguard. We'll come back up
at that time. At 14 hours 31 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1222/I
Time: 09:24 CDT, 26:14:24 GMT
6/19/73

CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment to


talk about this F183 message?
PLT (garble) before you do let me verify
that you want the - the RAD flow PRI and SEC breakers open on
panel 200?
CC Checking that.
CDR Okay, what do you want?
CC Regarding the circuit breakers on the RAD
flow, they are supposed to be open and go ahead, CDR.
CDR (garble)
CC Roger. Unfortunately we're getting pretty
close to LOS here. Don't believe we got a chance to talk
about this 183, but weVll see you again at Vanguard at 14:42.
Basically all we wanted to know is if you've looked at the
message and have an estimate as to whether you think you
can do it. We think that you could probably get into it
earlier today than we talked about in the message, so some
of the things about deleteing some stuff and when you complete
some stuff may not be applicable. However, about 17:00
is about the first dark side pass that we think you might
be able to get to it. And would like you to think about those
items and talk about it at Vanguard.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 14 hours
28 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Texas station has loss
of signal. Vanguard will acquire in about 13-1/2 minutes.
During this pass Fete Conrad reported that the S054, that's
the x-ray spectographic telescope, the film door on that
experiment would not lock. He reported that the magnets in
the door holding it strongly, however, and that he didn't
think there was any need to worry about the fact that the
lock would not work. Paul Weitz reported on the effect of
the Sun on the multiple docking adapter coatings. Said that
they had turned from white to yellow, and in some places
were almost brown. Said it was very easy to see which areas
had been in the Sun by the outlines. And Pete Conrad likened
the colors to the Surveyor, a portion of which he brought
back from the Moon on his Apollo 12 mission. It's expected
that the S183 ultraviolet panorama experiment will be run
later today, no time schedule on that yet. The earliest
opportunity would be at about 17:00 Greenwich mean time,
noon Central daylight time. However, that time will depend
on how the crew's post EVA operations go. It is believed
that that experiment will be performed today. S183 is the
experiment that obtains wild - whide view of - whide field
of view photographs of individual stars and extended star fields
SL-II MC-1223/I
Time: 09:39 CDT, 26:14:39 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion at Vanguard now. We'll stand by for first call.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard 8 minutes.
SC Okay, Crip. ATM configuration for stowage
is complete if you all want to take a look at it.
CC Okay, Paul Appreciate it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're in the process
of trying to get you a message up before we leave Vanguard
here. It concerns some items that you can add to your
shopping list. Today you guys were so efficient and did
such a good job in such a rapid pace that we figure you're
going to run out of things to do today. We have sent these
up. They are to be done, more or less at your leisure, if
you can get them in. And that's the priority you should
put on them. There - What this one message alludes to a
couple of other messages that you don't have onboard. One
of them is about updating the day-27 transfers. That's
pretty lengthy and we're still working on it. Another one
talks about some EREP things for deactivation. Those are
not to be done, of course, until we finish up the other EREP
stuff that Paul has for today. So those would be later on
today.
SC Okay. (garble) $83 experiment (garble)
get to it in just a second.
CC Okay. Fine. Pete, there is one item
that you might need that isn't on there and we would normally
send up on the pad. And that is the magazine to use.
I can give you that number now, if you want to copy it down
for a future reference.
SC (garble) 183 magazine i-i.
CC That's the carousel. The magazine is
Uniform ALPHA-03, India 15.
SC That's the same one as before, right?
CC That is correct.
CC You probably noted that that is a
different carousel than the one you used last time.
SC That's the original one.
CC That'a affirmative.
CDR I think we got to bring both carousels
back, is that correct?
CC That is affirmative.
CC And we did get that message up on the
shopping list. So that's in your teleprinter. Also, there's
one dealing with a little malfunction procedure. We'd llke
CDR to run on S009 later, today.
CDR Okay. I don't know when I'm going to
jf get to your command module MALF, you sent up last night.
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Time: 09:39 CDT, 26:14:39 GMT
6/19/73

CC Whenever you're ready for it, you call


us and we can get to it.
CDR Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. The configuration on the
ATM looks good.
CDR You say something, Crip?
CC Rog. I was Just telling Paul that the config-
uration on his ATH looks good to us. He remarked about it
after close-out.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1224/I
Time: 09:48 CDT 26:14:48 GMT
6/19/73

CC Slylab Houston, I minute to LOS, Hawaii


at 15:50, 15:50. And we'll be doing a data recorder dump
over Hawaii.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 51 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is beyond range of the
Vanguard antennas now. Next station to aquire will be Hawaii
in about 59 minutes. The crew has not yet been given a GO
to rotate the parasol the 15 degrees as suggested by Pete
Conrad. The decision on that is expected to be made today.
As of now, there has been no decision on that. We've just
received a weather report in the landing recovery area, that
we'll read to you. The space flight meteorology group of
the National Weather Service said this morning that weather
conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing
and recovery of the Skylab astronauts Friday morning. The
landing area located about 800 miles southwest of San Diego,
California will have partly cloudy skies, northeasterly winds
at 15 knots, wave heights of 5 feet, and a temperature of
near 67 degrees. We'll come back up prior to Hawaii acqui-
sition. At 14 hours 52 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1225/I
Time: 10:48 CDT, 26:15:48 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 48 minutes


and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just received
the AOS call here in Mission Control. We have acquisition
of signal at Hawaii, and will remain live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for
about 6-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger.
SC Roger, Houston. The PLT's a little
confused about the message reference in the shopping list
item on EREP deactivation number 2711, which appears to be
one of tomorrow's, that we haven't got yet.
CC That's right, Paul. We're probably
going to send that up at our next station passage at Vanguard.
PLT Oh, okay. Well don't get the impression
that I'm standing here waiting for it. I just wondered what
the story was. Thank you.
CC Yeah. That's also true of the - They're
talking about day-27 stowage message and that's going to be
coming up later, too.
PLT Okay.
CC If you guys could, we'd kind of like to
get an idea where you're at in the timeline, today.
SC If you say please.
CC Pretty please.
CDR CDR is stowing SI S082A and B. I've
completed the rest of the stowage.
PLT SPT is finishing out the suit configura-
tion on all three suits. And the PLT - I left my checklist
down there, but - What'd I just do, I just did something.
CC I'ii take your word for it, Paul.
PLT Well I just dumped the LPGs for one
thing. So I'm a little beyond that.
CC Okay. Very good.
CC CDR, Houston. It doesn't sound like
you're going to be getting there. We are uplinking a pad
for that 183 pass, in case you wanted to get this night bit
around 17:00. You can tell us at Vanguard whether that doesn't
look like a GO, and we'll make you up another pad for
later on.

CDR Well go ahead and uplink it for later on,


and if I get there, I get there, if I don't, I don't.
CC CDR, correction on my last. We did send
you the pad. However the C&Gs are doing something a little
bit weird on us. They don't appear to he dumping to the
correct momentum state. So we don't want to go and inhibit
momentum dump currently. So do not execute that 183 pad.
CDR Okay.
J
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Time: 10:48 CDT, 26:15:48 GMT
6/19/73

CDR Houston, SPT. PCU numbers 13 and i0


were used. I'm saying that because you're dumping my tape
recorder. And that tells you where I am in the checklist.
CC Rog. PCU 13 and i0.
PLT And the PLT just turned the page in his
EVA checklist to find out that he's done.
CC How about that.
CDR Hey, Crip.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I don't think I'm that far behind, because
I've eaten lunch.
CC Oh, we don - we don't think you're behind.
You' re way ahead.
CDR Okay. Well, I'ii, like, keep pressing on
here.
CC Okay. No, I - Don't get the idea we're
trying to rush you or anything. You guys are way ahead of
where we had anticipated. We're just trying to find out
roughly where you're at. By the way, we need somebody to
lock the star tracker on for us, if you would please.
SC Okay. I'm going back up to stow this
checklist, I'ii get it.
CC Okey-doke.
SC Star tracker shows locked on up here, Bob.
CC Rog. Apparently it's on a particle or
something else. What we'd like you to do is to go to gimbal
angles of outer of plus 1550, and inner of plus 0394.
SC Oh, okay. That's inner of 394 plus and
outer of plus 1550.
CC That's affirm.
SC When I recover from my power-down
situation, here, I'ii do it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll have you again over Vanguard at 16:18 - i, 6, i, 8.
An item of interest over Hawaii there, we do have an active
volcano on the big island.
CDR All right. Are we over it right now?
CC Oh, yeah. You're a little bit to
the east of it now, I think.
SC How about next pass?
CC Next pass is a good one to look at it.
I'Ii remind you of it then, and we have got that EREP pad
up for Paul.
SC Give us an overhead sign of the volcano
at Vanguard, if you can. And we'll see if we can't get a
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Time: 10:48 CDT, 26:15:48 GMT
6/19/73

300 millimeter on it.


CC Okay.
SC Which one is it Crip.
SC Hey, have we got a star?
CC Rog. You've got a star.
SC Which volcano, Bob? Do you know?
CC Kilauea. And it's going to be at
around 17 - probably around 17:30.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 57 minutes
and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Hawaiian Tracking Station, and expect to acquire next
in 20 minutes and 21 seconds at Vanguard. During this last
pass, we got a status report from the crew on how far along
they were in completing the stowage of the equipment and
configuring the suits and LCGs after the EVA, this morning.
They indicated they are quite well along in their procedures.
They were also told about an active volcano Kilauea, on the
Hawaiian Islands - in the Hawaiian Island chain. They were to
the north - to the northeast of the Hawaiian chain in this pass.
At their nearest point they were directly east of Hawaii and several
hundred miles away. They will be considerably closer during the
next pass as they go to the southwest of the Hawaiian Island -
Hawaiian Island chain. And they will get an exact time. The esti-
mate now is about 17:30 or about 12:30 p.m. central day-
light time. They should be close enough. They indicated
they may use the 300 millimeter lens on their Nikon camera.
Nikon 35 millimeter camera to photograph that active volcano.
This is Skylab control at 19 minutes and 9 seconds before
our next acquisition of signal.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:16 CDT, 26:16:16 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 16 minutes and


34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are i minute and 25
seconds from acquisition of signal by our clock in Mission
Control, at Vanguard Tracking Ship. And we will stay live
for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for about i0 minutes.
SC Roger, Crip.
CC Rog. And I guess the situation on that
momentum that you're interested is that we think perhaps
that we got a bad Nz in the dump because of the star tracker
being blocked on a particle or something. And - So we're
going to take a look at it on this next dump cycle, before
we decide when we're going to do the 183 thing.
SC Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT I'm stumped. What do we ultimately do
with our EV gloves. I don't think we bring them home, do we?
CC We'll check it out for you, Joe.
SPT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. I'm informed that you can
consider your EV gloves trash. And dispose of them accordingly
through the trash airlock.
SPT Okay.
CC Wouldn't hurt to wait a couple of days
on that, though.
SPT Thank you, sir.
SC You still there, Houston?
CC Affirmative. We've got about 2-1/2 more
minutes.
SC Oh, okay. Can you have someone, quickly,
confirm or deny on my EREP tape recorder photo unit, it
says use the Nikon with a 95 millimeter lens. Now, before
I start looking all over for that 35 millimeter lens, would
you confirm that in fact is the lens they want me to use?
CC Okay. We'll check it out for you, PJ.
PLT And if it is, (Garble) how about seeing
if anybody knows where it is.
CC I'ii do that also.
CC Paul. Regarding your question. Yes
that is the lens they want you to use. It should be located
in one of the dome lockers, 416. It's a close-up lens.
PLT Yeah, I just found it in the stowage book, Bob.
I Just wanted to make sure I understood you before you went
over the hill.
CC Rog, yeah. And incidentally, another
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subject, Paul. I was informed, today, that all of the


voice from Channel B was lost during your M509 checkout
yesterday, so we didn't get any words that you put on there.
We did understand you to say the whole thing was okay. But
if there were any other significant comments, if you get a
chance today, you might might put them back on B-Channel.
PLT No, I gave that to Rusty last night or
this morning. There wasn't any on B channel because E
didn't say anything.
CC Ah hah, okay. Well,that's good, yeah.
We did get your summary on air to ground, so fine.
PLT Okay, good enough. Yeah, I just sent
a checklist mode that says to be recorded when I got back.
I turned it off last night.
CC Okay. Fine and dandy. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 17:25,
17:25. We'll be doing a data recorder dump at Hawaii. And
incidently, that's the pass where you might get a look at
that volcano if it's visible.
PLT What time?
CC 17:25 is when I get you on AOS. You'll
probably be overhead at around 17:30.
PLT Check.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 28 minutes
and 26 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking station, and will not aquire again
until Hawaii in 56 minutes and 26 seconds. During the morning,
the EVA being completed well in advance of the expected time,
a number of pads or preadvisory data sheets were sent up
to the crew on the teleprinter suggesting things that they
might do today with the extra time that they will have
available. One of those pads was for S183 requesting a
4th run on that S183, or ultraviolet panorama experiment.
That was sent up following the EVA this morning. S183 is
the ultraviolet panorama experiment conducted for a French
researcher from the laboratory of space astronomy in Marseille.
The UV experiment studies hot stars distributed throughout
the Milky Way by obtaining color indexes of more than a
thousand stars in our galaxy. Using photographs and 2 spectalo
bands, detailed classification of stars can be provided for
comparison with existing thoretical novels. The experiment
uses the small airlock on the side of the orbital workshop
opposite the Sun. To place the S183 spectrographic camera
equipment in the end of the antisolar scientific airlock, the crew
must first remove the sample array from TO27_ that's the
ATM contamination measurement experiment_ which measures
the effect of contamination on optical surfaces like those
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used on the solar telescope. That T027 contamination


experiment with its more that 200 samples has been in the
antisolar scientific airlock for 2 days. S183 has been
run 3 times before. The crew brought new film in the com-
mand module to replace that aboard the space station. Ground
personnel felt that the high temperatures aboard the
workshop before the parasol was deployed might have damaged
the very sensitive ultraviolet film. The new film including
film slides and 16 millimeter film - Our new film is believed
to have caused the carousel portion of the camera to malfunc-
tion on its second of its 3 runs. During the third run
only the 16 millimeter data acquisition camera was used. The
ultraviolet panoramic experiment has both a still - slide
type camera and a data acquisition 16 millimeter camera.
Today's run will be made using the old film which has pre-
cision-machined carousel slides rather than the hand-machine
slides that were carried up as new film. It is believed
that those new machine - hand machine slides may have caused
the malfunction in the camera. They will run it today
even though they don't believe that the old film will be
useful for gathering data. They do believe that it will
tell them whether or not the malfunction was caused by the
slides that were taken up the hand-machine slides that
were taken up. In the coming pass 53 minutes and a half
from nowp over Hawaii we expect the crew to attempt to try -
attempt photography of Kilauea volcano using their 300 millimeter
telephoto lens and Nikon 35 millimeter camera. They expect to
be at their nearest point to Hawaii at approximately 12:30 p.m.
central daylight time, at 17:30 Greenwich mean time. Hawaii
is northeast of the ground track on 520th revolution, and
they will attempt to do some hand-held photography, at least that's
the opinion here on the ground now. Meanwhile our flight
controllers are very busy working on additional things that
can be sent up on what is called the shopping
list. These are optional experiments that can be conducted
today. Due to the fact that they have several hours in
addition to the time that they expected to have because
of the EVA being both shorter than expected and being com-
pleted much earlier. It began approximately an hour before
they expected it to begin. This is Skylah Control. Our
next acquisition of signal in 52-1/2 minutes. Skylab
Control at 32 minutes and 39 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1227/I
Time: 12:23 CDT, 26:17:23 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 23 minutes


and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are 1 minute and
55 seconds from acquisition of signal at Hawaii and we will
stay live for air-to-ground there. We're expecting the crew
to possibly do some hand held photography of Kilauea volcano
in Hawaii. This volcano is presently active, and they indicated
they may use their 300 millimeter telephoto lens to take some
photographs of that with the 35-millimeter camera. They will
also be doing some trouble shooting here of a short circuit
in the radiator heaters of the command module. We'll discuss
that following the pass. There is a short circuit in one of -
in the radiator heaters and they will be throwing a couple
of circuit breakers to test where that short circuit is occurring.
This is Skylab Control remaining live for air-to-ground at
Hawaii.
CDR Roger.
CC You talking about an unattended OPS (garble).
CC Can I just hold up on that then and - Or - -
PAO Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. S183 is installed; TO27
is out. Be advised that when I pulled it out, it collected
quite a bit of moisture on the SAL end of that. And I put the
plate on, and I'ii gopull a vaccum on it. The - the SAL is
decreping right now with 83 in it.
CC Roger, Pete. Should be able to - you think
you'd be able to do that 183 OP this next sunset then?
CDR No, I've got this D009. Is that the next
one? You mean it's - - What are we doing - coming into daylight
or going into darkness? I don't know where we are.
CC You're Just now coming into sunup here. We
would like to replace that DO08 you had with 183 if we could.
CDR Okay, is this pad that I have good?
CC Okay, fine. Did you get that last pad,
the one that we were unable to do on the 183? I was Just going to
read you some times on it, because we're going to be unable
to send you a new pad.
CDR Well, it was 1630. You mean inhibit
momentum dump or you want to do that later, of course?
CC Yeah, - -
CDR And the - -
CC If you've got the pad handy, I've got some
new times that I'd just like to read those to you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, momentum inhibit at 18:07. And you
can - the 183 OP time would be 18:17. Start exposures
at 18:22. Enable momentum dump 18:46. And sunrise will be
18:41 for stopping.
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CDR Okay, and then the rotation of 308.5 and the


tilt 072 for starfield 155 plate 05 is good. Right?
CC Roger. We may end up having to change
that rotation due to a Nz update, depending on what our
momentum dumps, but the other numbers are good.
CDR Okay, you want me to drop DO08. We'll
catch that later on today in the anomaly?
CC Negative on that.
CDR All right, let me tell you something else
about T027. The - the thing was apparently very cold up in
the front end, and when I torqued the inner knob all the
way down it did not close the little door over the front of
the (garble) completely because it kind of ground to a halt.
I said, you know, up and down sort of tight and I did,
but that didn't close the little door all the way. So it
got some moisture inside, I suspect, also. But my question
is, I've got to pull a vaccum on that end. Would you like me to
back it off just a tad to open the little door inside a little
bit so that the vaccum gets all tha way in there? Or does
it just get all the way in there anyhow?
CC I'ii check on that, Pete.
CDR Okay.
CC While we're checking if apparently we've
lost the star again. Guess we got a lot of trash floating
around outside, and we're - we're wandering off. So if somebody
could get that for us, we'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay, we'll get it in a minute. We're
looking for Hawaii. Are the numbers still good?
CC Roger, 31 is the time of closest approach,
which is going to be about 3 mln - 2 minutes from now. Also - -

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SL-II MC-1228/I
Time: 12:28 CDT, 26:I7:28GMT
6/19/73

CC - - 31 is time of closest approach, which


is going to be about, oh, 3 minutes - 2 minutes from now.
Also was wondering, y'all had that message on the CSM coolant
valve that we'd like to run. We've got another 6 minutes
here if - But we would like to get that run either here or
Vanguard, which is our next pass. Vanguard's probably more
appropriate since we're getting close. We're going to be
at Vanguard at about 57. Do you think we might be able to
do it then?
CDR Yeah. I can do it now. Let me see if
I got it in my book, I think. I'm on my way to the command
module.
SC Hey, Crip. I need some clearification
on these tape recorder photos, too.
CC Rog. We'll try to get that clarified.
Can I give somebody some gimbals for star tracker?
SC In a couple of minutes, Bob.
CC Okay. Why don't you go ahead and tell
me your question on the tape recorder?
SC I don't understand what the keyed area
of the black clamping ring is.
CC Okay. I'ii see if I can get some
experts to tell us.
CDR Okay. I'm on the secondary coolant loop,
on the ECM indicaters and such, cm tad heaters stuck with
swtiches off and ECM RAD heater PRI switch is off.
(garble) ECS coolant loop heater control MAIN A- (garble) has
been open.
CC Okay. We copy. We'll sit there for a
moment.
CDR Well, it's always open. It's open per
the checklist.
CC We just wanted you to verify, that's
all, Pete.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We can go on step 2 there for
that ECS pri RAD control MAIN A.
CDR Rog. It's OPEN.
CC Okay. Now we're going to monitor the
temp valve.
SC Go with gimbals, Crlp.
CC Rog. Inner is plus 0400, outer is plus
1200.
SC 1200, wow.
SC (garble).
CC Okay, Pete. If you'd go ahead and close
that breaker and open up B. MAIN B.
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CDR (Garble) MAIN-B is open.


CC Thank yon. We'll look at it.
CC Okay, CDR. You can go ahead and close
that one also. And that didn't solve our problem. Thank
you.
CDR Okay.
SC Crip, I think I can get this Z008 done,
why don't I press on with it?
CC Rog, Pete. You option. The only
thing we were indicating was the 183 had priority over it. And
for your information, that method revising your day-27 stowage
transfers is in the teleprinter.
CDR Okay. How long is it?
CC Three of our pages. About 150 lines.
CDR Oh, Heavens.
CC Okay, Skylab. We'll have LOS in about
i minute. We'll have Vanguard at 17:57 - i, 7, 5, 7. And
Paul, we havent got a clarification on that message yet.
And we'll try to get that for you over Vanguard.
PLT Okay. Good enough. I just don't know
what it is, Crip. And if anybody explains it to you, I
suggest you try to get hold of a picture of it.
CC Okay. Apparently nobody here does either.
CDR Hey, Crip, you going to send up more
183 pads. You want more of them done today?
CC We're going to try and get a clarifica-
tion on that. We're talking about doing one. But it would
be in your presleep activities. And there's some question
as to whether we can do it unattended or as requires - re-
quires somebody there. But we do not want to remove it.
Definitely do not want to unstow. We'll probably unstow it
tomorrow morning.
CDR Okay. I don't mind running it tonight,
if you want.
CC Okay. Appreciate it.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 35 minutes
and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Hawaiian Islands Tracking Station, and do not expect
to acquire again until Vanguard, 21 minutes. During this
Hawaii pass, Commander Conrad reported to space communicator,
Robert Crippen, that S183, the ultraviolet panorama photo-
graphic equipment had been successfully placed in the anti-
solar scientific airlock. And T027, the ATM contamination
sample collection, had been removed. Meanwhile, Dr. Joseph
Kerwin closed and opened circuit breakers for systems that
might have been responsible for a short circuit in the sys-
tem controlling the radiator heaters for the command module's
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secondary coolant loop. The report here on the ground after


opening and closing two circuit breakers was that they had
no joy, that there was no success in finding the short cir-
cuit there. The reason they noted there is a short circuit
in the system is that the temperature indicator on that - in
that radiator heater loop is giving them a reading about 70 de-
grees. That's no concern. Temperature is quite satisfactory.
But it does indicate that the system is operating. It should
not be operating, the heater switch has been thrown off, and
that temperature transducer should read, off-scale low. Off-
scale low is the reading that they get when they do not have
it operating. Now, while the temperature remains at 70 de-
grees or in the upper ranges_ there is no concern at all
about the operation of that system. That area is in the
Sun and the radiators are considerably warmer than would
cause any problem. When the radiators become very cold -
or that temperature transducer becomes very cold, then it's
necessary to turn on - then the heaters become - turn on
automatically. So if the temperature on the radiator should
become very cold, and that temperature transducer should
go below the desired level, the radiator heaters would come
- on. However, the coolant loop is not operating now. And
for that reason, the heaters would heat up coolant only in
the immediate vicinity, and it there's concern that should
that happen, there would be a break in the coolant line. It
would overheat and it would boil and would pop the coolant
llne at that point. Secondary coolant loop is not an essential
part of the system. It's not in operation now and would not
be used again. However, during the return to earth and
during the reentry period, the secondary coolant loop might
become - the radiators might become too cold. The heaters
might turn on, and should that happen we might have a blow-
out on that secondary coolant loop. For this reason, the
ground support people are investigating possibilities for
avoiding that. One of those possibilities is to bypass the
radiator. This is a difficult procedure because it requires
a crewman to get out of his seat in the command module after
they undock and to move down below the seat to switch the
switch it to bypass radiator. That's a difficult procedure
that requires extra time and effort, and it's believe they
won't use that. The other possibility is to leave the
coolant loop operating and - in which case as soon as they
separate - as soon as they have separation, all of the cool-
ant will flow overboard. That causes no problem. It's a
possibility that's most seriously being considered now, in
the event that they are not able to find the short circuit
in the system. So during this last pass, they did attempt
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to discover where the short circuit - why the short circuit


was occurring, by switching a couple of circuit breakers and
adjacent electrical systems. They found no benefit from that.
They still are getting readings on the temperature trans-
ducer. There is no immediate emergency due to this. But
they will be looking into it and they may have to consider
dumping coolant overboard at the time of separation. They
have now prepared a Flight Plan for this afternoon. And it
indicates that S183 operations are to begin approximately now.
And they indicated that they would allow Captain Conrad -
Commander Conrad to operate on DO08, if he wanted to pre -
If he preferred to do that. That was scheduled for later
today, but he had begun the procedure. They indicated that
S183 operations were considered to he very important. And
those were to begin as soon as possible. At the same they
are doing closeout. The pilot will be doing closeout of
the EREP equipment, and should have approximately completed
that at this time. There is an ETC, Earth terrain camera
inspection scheduled a little later this afternoon, by the
science pilot. That should begin shortly. And S183, after
its operations are completed, will he stowed later in the
afternoon before the presleep activity begins. Other than
that, a relatively little left to be done today. The crew
has completed a very busy day, doing much more than originally
was expected. In fact_ an unusual occurance, they had to
revise the Flight Plan and present a revised Flight Plan
after the EVA was completed at approximately 12:37 Greenwich
mean time or 17:37 this morning, well in advance of the
original schedule. This is Skylab Control at 40 minutes
and 48 second after the hour. Our next acquisition of
signal in 15 minutes and 48 seconds.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1229/I
Time: 12:54 CDT 26:17:54 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 54 minutes


44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship, and
expect to aquire signal there in approximately i minute
and 46 seconds. We will remain live for air to ground from
Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard
for about 7 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. The (garble) dosimeter
has been changed. What was wrong with it?
CC Apparently the power supply on it they think -
with it failed from down here.
CC And if - for Pete's question regarding
the T027, we want to go ahead and do it per procedures. The
only thing - you might try Just tightening that knob in case
there was a little ice on it or something, so that it might go
ahead and tighten up now. Close up the cap.
CDR I got it tight after I came in. See
I tightened it down per the procedure while I was in the air-
lock, and I thought I had it snug tight. And that's because
it was real cold. Well, then as soon as I pulled it in,
frost froze on everything. And I took a look down at the
front end as soon as I got it in, and I could see that it
wasn't all the way in. So I went and really bent my arm
into it and by golly by really putting my arm into it I
got the door all the way closed. So that's the way it turned
out, but unfortunately I think it has warm moist air all over
it.
CC Okay. Well, that's fine. You can go
ahead and evacuate it. We don't need you to open it back
up to do that.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. And for PJ I think I can try to
explain what the people wanted on that tape recorder photograph.
And while I'm waiting for Paul to get there_ we're going to
inhibit orbital plane error update, because we've been having
(garble) problem with the star tracker. So if you would stay off
the DAS for a minute, we'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and that's been done. So the DAS is
yours again. And PJ, are you in a position to listen to
me describe this thing on the tape recorder?
PLT Okay, I'm looking at the tape recorder.
CC Okay. Was your question in that first
paragraph about the keyed area, the black clamping ring?
PLT Precisely. I don't know what
that is.
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CC Okay. The lower reel carrier, that


bottom black portion where the reel goes on.
PLT Yes.
CC Okay. The keyed area is just those
metal pins sticking out of it - the chrome colored pins.
PLT Is it two that stick brightly up and
mate it with the reel hub or the three that go out on the
side to engage the reel?
CC Three on the side to engage the reel.
PLT Okay.
CC All they really want you to do is - if
you just get a photograph of that area from head on, I think
that would just about get what they wanted.
PLT Oh, that's why I couldn't figure it out.
Because they want it at this area which, with three pins
equally spaced around it, you can't get it all in one shot.
And in the next shot they want was one vertically down. I'ii
do my best.
CC Okay. Yeah, but you see where that
split is in the ring, chrome ring, just above it?
PLT Yeah, but that's split, Bob. That ring
floats on it. I can put that split anywhere I want it.
No, you're right, you're right. That split winds up with
another locating pin in there. Okay, now I'm (garble). Now
I (garble)
CC Okay. If you just get it from there, I
believe you can get it.
PLT Yeah, all right.
CC Basically that number 2 is the same one
of the top ring.
PLT Okay, now do they want them tight, or
loose, or does it matter?
CC It does not matter.
PLT Okay.
CC And CDR, if you can copy for 183 because
of Nz, we need to add plus 8 degrees to your rotation.
CDR Plus 8.
CC That's affirm.

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Time: 13:02 CDT, 26:18:02 GMT
6/19/73

CC East via rotation.


CDR (garble)
CC That's affirm.
CDR 315.5, right?
CC That is correct. CDR, also, in reviewing
your recommendation regarding rotating the parasol; you have
a GO to do that. It's a simple procedure I'm sure you're
familiar with. It's Just a matter of taking the lock off
and rotating it. We would recommend that yon mark it such
that we could return to the original position if there is
any question about it.
CDR Okay, we will.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS; be a long LOS. We'll see you again at the Vanguard
at 19:35;1935.
PAO Skylab Control, at 18 hours 4 minutes
and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have loss signal
at the Vanguard tracking ship and will not reacquire signal
for nearly an hour and a half when we will again be acquired
by Vanguard. This is another pass that skirts the edge of
our Ascension tracking station and goes between Guam and
Hawaii, thus missing all of the stations with the exception
of the tracking ship stationed in the South Atlantic off
the Coast of South America. This is Skylab Control at
5 minutes and 16 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1231/I
Time: 14:32 CDT, 26:19:32 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9


PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 32 minutes
45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just heard the
warbler signaling acquisition of signal to come at
Vanguard in approximately i minute and 30 seconds. We will
remain live for air-to-ground. There is a press conference
tenltlvely scheduled for 2:45 a - 2:45 p.m. Central daylight
time with flight director Milt Windier and Rusty Schweickart
the spacecraft communicator for this mornings EVA. There may
be a third member at that press conference. We don't have
any information on the third - possible third attendee. This
is Skylab Control remaining live for alr-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Hi there, I hear you guys have been having
fun today.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient to
anybody we need momentum dump enabled. If it's not convenient,
you just let us know and we'll command it.
PLT It will be done.
CC Roger. And - -
CDR (garble)
CC Okay. Thank you, much. And Paul, I've
got a question for you and it has to do on your - on the
shopping list we sent up to you about the S073 film stowage.
Have you already done that?
PLT Pete already did it. He's on the bike
right now. Can he call you back when he's done?
CC Yeah, no problem. If he's already done
it no problem anyway.
PLT Okay.
CDR I'm finished, Dick. (garble) you want to
talk?
CC Sorry, there was a loud squeal and I didn't
catch that one. Say again, please.
CC Skylab, Houston. Somebody said they thought
you had said on the last one that I didn't copy. What - was
anything wrong with the S073 stow? The answer is negative.
What I was going to say was is if you hadn't done it, the
very last step in the procedure is you put the photometer
back in the switch container and that piece of equipment is
also used on S149 which we'll be using tomorrow. So it might
have saved you some time not to put it back in there but
either way we're all set I guess.
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Time: 14:32 CDT, 26:19:32 GMT
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CDR (garble) the S073 also. I took the


shortest (garble) and stowed it and hooked up the regular
cable. Is that the way you want to run tomorrow?
CC Roger. Let me check that one.
CDR Say again.
CC Roger. I'ii get back to you on that one.
Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR, that's
affirmative. That's okay to go ahead and use the regular
cable.
CDR Okay.
CDR Hey, Dick. Also we rotated the sail about
12 to 15 degrees. (garble) those testers up around the water
tank that were looking hot.
CC Real good, Pete. Thank you very much and
that'll probably help us out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 3 more
minutes here at the Vanguard and then after this pass we're
going to have a pass at Ascension for about 9 minutes. And
sometime in these two passes we'd sure appreciate it if you'd
let us know what items on the shopping list you have gotten
done and what you think you will have done this evening so
we can crank into our - for our tomorrow's plan as soon as
possible. But either one of these two passes would be just fine.
We got 3 minutes left, standing by.
CDR (garble) the CDR got the 183 DAC in the
airloek closed vacuum, ready to go again. And the SO73 (garble)
no (garble) and that (garble) S009 is still in the command
module.
CC Roger. Thank you, CDR.
SPT And the SPT on - Whatever they were, I did
them all, Dick. (laughter) I did the ETC photograph and
the stowage lift changes and whatever else you gave me.
CC Okay, Paul, for you I had an IMSS i, a VABD,
replacement and stowage bookup date. I'm sorry, that was
for Joe, but I think that's who was talking to me anyway.
SPT Ah, yeah, that's who was talking to you.
What was an IMSS i? I didn't see that.
CC Stand by just a second.
CC Joe, the IMSS i is environmental sampling
of the vehicle.
SPT Oh, okay, we'll accomplish that.
CC Okay.

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CC sampling on the vehicle.


CDR Oh. Okay, we'll accomplish that.
CC Okay.
PLT PLT will have everything done before
retiring for the (garble)
CC Roger, Paul. Thank you very much. And
the only question we had from that was for Pete, who is
furiously riding the bike and who we keep asking
questions of. On the S009, you said you stowed it. Did
you do the malfunction procedure? Or if you didn't, do
you figure you'll get to do that this evening?
CDR I can't find it. I took it out, folded it
up, and stowed it.
CC Okay, Pete, we'll chase it down. And
if the piece of paper got lost, we'll be glad to send it
back up to you if necessary.
CDR Okay, but it doesn't have anything to do
with - something rocking the motor - not the S009 case (garble)
CC That's affirmative, Pete. The mal
was on the motor. We've got about 30 seconds left here at
Vanguard. And we're going to see you at Ascension at 19:48.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 45 minutes
and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking station, and expect to aquire again
in 2 minutes and 25 seconds at Ascension. At this time
the spacecraft is in its 522nd revolution about the Earth,
taking a period of approximately i hour 33 minutes and
15.7 seconds. Its maximum altitude is 242.6 nautical miles,
with a minimum altitude of 228.9 nautical miles. Mission
Control's retrofire officer has now completed detailed cal-
culations on maneuvers for Friday morning's return of the CSM
and Skylab's first three crew members. The command module is
scheduled to undock at exactly 3:45 a.m. central daylight
time with the space station over the north Pacific about
1200 miles north of Hawaii. Separation, using the small
reaction control system jets for 23 seconds beginning at
4:40 a.m. exactly central daylight time, follows. The
separation burn will slow the command module 5 feet per
second or about 3 miles per hour, moving it behind the
space station after it has completed its fly around of the
Skylab orbital workshop and associated areas. As the CSM
slows, it will move into a lower orbit and pass beneath the
Skylab cluster. The separation takes place over the Indian
Ocean some 2000 miles due south of the Malagasy Republic or
the Island of Matagascar. Following separation at 5:05:30 a.m.
Friday, that's central daylight time, the main engine or
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service propulsion system will be fired for i0 seconds


to soar the spacecraft an additional 264 feet per second,
or about 180 miles per hour, putting it in an orbit 233.6
nautical miles or approximately 269 statute miles at its
high point and 90.7 nautical miles or 104 statute miles
at its low point. This orbit-shaping maneuver will be
conducted over the Philippine Sea 600 miles east of
the Philippine Island of Mindanao. The final burn, requiring a
7-second retrofire of the main engine, slowing the command module
another 190 feet per second or about 130 miles per hour, will
be made at 8:10:43 a.m. over the northern most area of
Thailand near the Burma border. We are now within range
of the Ascension tracking station, and will remain live for
air to ground from Ascension.

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SL-II MC-1233/I
Time: 14:48 CDT, 26:19:48 GMT
6/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension


for the next 8 minutes. Be advised we're going to command
the vehicle then to experiment pointing mode. And the ATM
officer's going to take over unattended operation of the ATM.
when we get to Guam. And I guess the next manned one, will
be when Beano and the guys get there in SL-III.
SC Okay.
PLT Next time the star tracker locks call
Beano.
CC Roger. (Laughter).
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Is somebody
available to go to the STS Panel, we have data. We'd kind
of like to do the REG POT adjust that we'd planned to do for
the mission. And the request is, REG BUS i, adjust 15
degrees i, 5 degrees clockwise.
CC And this should cause the PCG-I to increase
about 5 amps.
PAO Skylab Control. This is a clip.
SC Good, now what (garble) - -?
SC (Garble 53).
CC Thank you and we're looking at the data
now.

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SL-II MC-1234/I
Time: 15:12 CDT, 26:20:12 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 12 minutes


and 39 seconds Greenwich mean time. During the last pass
over Ascension we interrupted the air-to-ground in the
middle of the pass and started to bring you a press conference
being conducted in Building I. And we have recorded that
the remainder of that pass over Ascension, and will now
play back the air-to-ground. Here is the air to ground
from Ascension.
CDR I rode my bike up here (garble)
Now what did you want (garble) REG BUS 1 15 degrees, right?
Clockwise.
CC That's right. REG BUS i, 15 degrees
clockwise, and no adjustment required on REG BUS 2.
CDR Okay, there's 15 degrees.
CC Thank you, and we're looking at the data now.
CC Skylab Houston. For the CDR we have
uplinked again the S009 malfunction message. That is in the
teleprinter now. And I have a message here that I would
like to read to all three of you guys, if you are in a
listening mood. It reads: To the crew of the Skylab space
station, Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, Paul Weitz. We
sincerely congradulate the courageous crew of the Skylab
astronauts on your acheivments in conquering outer space.
Wishing you successful completion of your program and
safe return to our beautiful blue planet Earth. On behalf
of the team of Soviet astronauts, signed Vladimir Shattilov.
CDR That was very nice, we appreciate it
very much.
CC Roger Pete. Thank you much, we'll pass
it on.
CC Skylab Houston. On the REG adjustment -
the EGIL says I guess on the number of degrees was slightly
too much. We'd like you to go about 5 degrees counterclock-
wise on REG BUS i please.
CDR Okay. Have yon got it - you still have
out of the teleprinter?
CC Stand by.
CDR I tried to slew it and it wouldn't slew
(garble).
CC Roger. The INCO says the teleprinter is
yours.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Guam at 20:32, and we're
going to dump the data recorder at Guam.
CDR Okay Richard. I'Ii run this S009 malf tonight
sometime. And I think another S183 pad, and I'ii run that
tonight. Thank you.
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CC Hey, very good. And the EGIL is very


happy with that REG adjust. Thank yon very much.
CDR Okay. And how does the CRBM (sic) 15 look?
CC He is super happy about that one.
CDR That's good. So am I.
CC One question we did have as we go over
the hill, we're assuming that all your power system alert
lights are off now.
CDR We'll take a look at it.
CC Okay, if we miss you we'll get you
at Guam. How many times did you have to rap with that
hammer?
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours and 16 minutes
Greenwich mean time. That concludes the air to ground re-
corded over Ascension including the message from cosmonaut
Vladimir Shattilov delivered by Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly during the Ascension pass. We'd like to repeat
for those of you interested in them the exact times of
docking, separation, shape and retrofire for the Friday
morning splashdown. Undocking will oecurr at 8:45 Greenwich
mean time or 3:45 a.m. central daylight time exactly. Sep-
aration at 9:40 GMT, or 4:40 a.m. central daylight time
exactly. The shape burn will occur - this is an orbital
shape burn - will occur at 10:05:30 Greenwich mean time, or
5:05:30 a.m. central daylight time. And the retrofire
burn will occur at 13:10:43 Greenwich mean time, or 8:10:43
a.m. central daylight time. Following retrofire burn
23 minutes later approximately the spacecraft will reach
the - command module will reach 400,000 feet. And landing
is scheduled to occur at 13:49:57 Greenwich mean time.
The spacecraft will take more than 23 minutes to reach the
400,000 foot level. Splashdown at 8:49:57 a.m. central
daylight time will occur approximately 830 statute miles
southwest of San Diego California. That's 830 statute miles
southwest of San Diego California. The predicted impact
point is 24 degrees 46 minutes north lattitude, 127 degrees
4 minutes west longitude. To repeat, the predicted impact
point for an 8:49:57 a.m. central daylight time splashdown
on Friday morning is 24 degrees 46 minutes north latitude
127 degrees 4 minutes west longitude. That splashdown
point is 830 statute miles southwest of San Diego California.
An odd station there is the USS Ticonderoga, which is presently
conducting exercises of practicing for that Friday morning
splashdown. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition
of signal 13 minutes and 33 seconds from now at the Guam
tracking station. Skylab Control at 18 minutes and 37 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1235/I
Time: 15:30 CDT, 26:20:30 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 30 minutes and


14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now i minute and 45
seconds from acquisition of signal at the Guam Tracking
Station. And we will remain live for air-to-ground and a
call from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly. This is
Skylab Control remaining live for air-to-ground.
PAO Skylab Control. We have acquisition of
signal at Guam, and are live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Guam for 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Dick. Say, I noticed on that
27-day stowage update, we're only bringing back 19 rolls of
film, and I would llke to strike for the crew to have a
400-footer for their own. That - We've got some things
that we'd llke to do with it and bring it back, if nobody
objects.
CC Roger, Pete. Let us check on that one,
and confirm that that's okay. Stand by.
SC Yeah, and if they're really generous we
could use two.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR. In
answer to your question. Affirmative. You guys can have
two 400-foot rolls and do good work with them and bring
them home if you see fit.
SC Okay. Thanks very much.
CC Roger, Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston. A couple of items.
One, we'd like to have the MPC inhibited please. And the
second one, back on the two 400-foot cassetes for your use,
we do request that you get two of them out of drawer Bravo.
And just tell us on Channel B, or air-to-ground, whenever you
decide - preferably air-to-ground, which two you pick, so
that we can do our own cassette planning. Thank you.
SC Roger.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 21:11, and
that Vanguard pass is scheduled as the evening status report.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 42 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the Guam Tracking
Station and expect to acquire signal again at the Vanguard
Tracking Ship, in South Atlantic, in 29 minutes and 13 seconds.
This is Skylab Control at 42 minutes and 15 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-II MC1236/I
Time: 15:59 CDT, 26:20:59 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 20 hours 59 minutes


and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're still 12 minutes from acquisition of signal at Vanguard,
but we have received some early information on the effect of that
parasol rotation that was performed sometime before 2:40 p.m.
central daylight time - sometime before 19:40 Greenwich mean
time, a little over an hour ago. At that time, acting on
the advice of Commander Conrad, who had been outside and had
viewed the sail, he indicated that one of the rear poles that's
used to hold the sail up - it has four extendable poles - one
of those poles was not fully deployed, and that was the reason
for a hot spot on the orbital workshop. This is a rather
minor problem, but it had created some temperature in that
area, during the entire mission, that's nearer one of the orbital
workshop water tanks. Because he had noticed that, he indicated
that a rotation in the counterclockwise direction from inside
the workshop should move the sail over the hot spot and cover
it up. And the rotation that he advised at that time was a
15 degree rotation. After some consideration by people here
on the ground, that was approved. And before 2:40 p.m. central
daylight time today, they did that maneuver. It was reported
done at 19:40 GMT at Vanguard during our last revolution. After
that event took place, the electrical general instrumentation
and llfe support systems engineer, the EGIL, here in Mission
Control, and his support team both here at Johnson Space Center
and at Marshall Space Flight Center, which has a computer linkup
to Johnson and also communications linkups, have been reviewing
the data on various temperature sensors on the orbital work-
shop. And they have not yet arrived at a decision as to the
effect of it. The preliminary indication is that they have
had some temperature increase rather than decrease, but there're
very complex figures involved because of the movement of
the spacecraft and the high Sun angles which allow the
spacecraft to be in the Sun for long periods of time. Ittll
be necessary for them to go back and review individual temperature
changes, day by day and revolution by revolution, to see exactly
what the effect of - of that parasol movement might have been.
That first indication was an increasing temperature at Vanguard
over the previous location, but as I said, because of the move-
ment of daylight and night periods and because of the high
angle of the Sun right now, the spacecraft is in the Sun more
than it has been in previous parts of the mission. It's very
difficult to determine whether or not the temperature increase
was one that would be naturally expected at this time in the
mission, because of the high Sun angle, or whether it was due
to the rotation of the parasol. They are at this time looking
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into the problem, and they're considering the possibility of


moving that parasol either part of the way back to its original
position or all the way back. It's necessary for them during
this time to look at individual locations of those trans -
transducers and attempt to figure out exactly what may have
happened when they moved the parasol and what - how far the
parasol has been moved and what its original location was.
So when they have some inquiry at Vanguard regarding that,
there may be some visual inspection again of the parasol.
All these things are just contemplated now, but there is some
immediate concern, because the only temperature indication
they had was an increase, and they are not yet certain whether
that is a normal increase and has been happening in the
past or whether it was an unexpected one and one which indicates
that the parasol movement was not a desirable thing. Because
temperatures increase quite quickly when an area is exposed
to the Sun, and it takes a long time for them to cool down.
When on the inside of the workshop, they're concerned that this
be done rather quickly. And certainly it will be completed
before the crew goes to bed tonight. This is Skylab Control.
This is an advisory information only. We do not have a definite
idea of what the temperatures are_ and we expect to hear
something on that, though, in the next hour or so. This is
Skylab Control at 3 minutes and 26 seconds after the hour.
Next acquisition of signal a little less than 8 minutes from
now at Vanguard. Skylab Control at 3:33 after the hour.

END OF TAPE
sL-II MC-1237/I
Time: 16:10 CDT, 26:21:10 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours i0 minutes


and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just heard the
warbler announcing acquisition of signal to come at Vanguard
Tracking Ship, in approximately 1 minute and ii seconds. At
that time, we should hear some discussion, possibly, of the
parasol movement and we may have some indication of what the
crew will be asked to do about that. This is Skylab Control,
we will remain live for a call from Dick Truly, the spacecraft
communicator, at Vanguard. Skylab Control, remaining live
for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, Vanguard for
ii minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston. CDR, with the evening
status report.
CC Roger, Pete. Standing by. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything, including
his asparagus, for the last time. We all had this, this is
terrible. And two butter cookie cans. The SPT ate every-
thing except one coffee with sugar. And the PLT ate every-
thing except item 75, bread. And he had a DELTA-H20 of 0.5.
And he had 9 optional salt. And the photo status for today
170 as it follows: MISI EVA donning, Charlie India 1600,
Charlie India 14; EVA Charlie India 15, 55, Charlie India 12,
with the remark that transporter 02 had end of film light
on because 85 percent remaining outside and it did
continue to count down, so we assume it's good. M2016, EVA
film removal, Charlie India 09, two balls, Mike Tango 03;
Mike 487 4 Echo, Charlie India 1332, Charlie India I0;
Mike 4874 Foxtrot, Charlie India 06, 00, Charlie India 03;
The 35 millimeter status is Charlie India 31, Terrain count 41,
Charlie India 32, 19; 70 millimeters, Charlie X-ray 06, 103.
There was no ETC EREP and the drawer A configuration is as follows:
A-I 02 Charlie India 15, 55, Charlie India 12; A203 Charlie
India 06, 00, Charlie India 03; A3 06 Charlie India 13, 32,
Charlie India i0; A405 Charlie India 16, 00, Charlie India
14; and floating is 07 Charlie India 09, two balls, Mike
Tango 03. And you have all the additions to the Flight
Plan that were completed. The deletion was the 008-I.
And that's about it. Over, to you.
CC Roger. We got all of that. Thank
goodness to the miracle of tape recorders. And thank you
very much, Pete. We've got a couple of other things I'll
be coming up with for you in just a second.
CDR Okay. We rotated the sail back a little
bit, because the PLT and the SPT found that their bedroom
walls (laughter) were beginning to get hot, so we probably over
turned it a little and we step - backed her off to what we think
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is the right amount now, and we'll check the walls in a


little while.
CC Okay. Real fine. Thank you.
CDR Yeah, well, we went back up and looked at
what we done. It looked like we rotated at about 25 degrees
instead of about 15, so we backed off i0, and we may back
off a little bit more.
CC Okay. Just let us know, Pete.
CDR Well, I think it's about 15 right now,
but it's by eyeball and we can feel it on the wall very
easily where the line is, and we'll get her ironed out to
where - and I also think it is getting cooler up by the
water ring on the other side of the vehicle.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got a momentum
situation that's unfortunately going to make us change our
flight plan that we had talked to you tonight about S183.
We're building up momentum in X and Y and we don't want to
get into a situation where we spend the TACS, so unfortunately,
regrettably, we would like to scrub the 183 pass for the
next night cycle, and right now we would like you to go
up and enable the momentum dump so that we can get a good
dump this night pass. And if there are any other requests
we have for you tonight about 183 I'ii be getting back

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6/19/73

CC so that we can get a good dump


this night pass. And if there are any other requests we
have for you tonight about 183 I'Ii be getting back to you
in just a minute or so.
CC And we have just about a minute or
so before the momentum dump starts, and so we need the
momentum enable as you get it please.
PLT It's enabled.
CC Thank you much.
CDR I don't mind staying up 15 - 20 minutes or
so. And I've got it all cranked up and all ready to go,
so why don't you crank out a pass for the next night pass.
How about the star tracker, is it good?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR Houston. Star tracker is good now.
We're not sure it still will be after we do these dumps,
but we'll be getting any changes back up to you when we
have to.
CDR Okay, this pad I've got here is just
until 23:00, and inner gimbal 394, outer gimbal 1717. You
want to update that?
CC Stand by, Pete, I'ii get right back to
you.
CDR Right now, I'm reading 407 and 1419.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Roger SPT. Before you say anything, Joe,
we're not going to read you a new star tracker gimbal angles
at this pass. We may have one for you coming up later though.
Go ahead, Joe.
SPT Roger that. IMSS-I's completed.
Is there any objection to my doing IMSS-2 this evening?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab Houston. We're checking on IMSS-2,
we'll get back right away with you. And we think we can
make some minor changes to the S183 that we uplinked - the
S183 pad that we uplinked a while ago. And we're going to
have a long Ascensionp Canary, Madrid pass after this Vanguard
LOS. And we should be able to get you those changes, if
you're willing to stay up and do it next night cycle.
CDR Yeah, I am. And also be advised that
I do show a Bat pole barber pole while I'm on CBRM 15.
CC Roger.
CDR Then I show reg volts on 17.
CC Say again on 17, Pete.
CDR Reg volts, but I think that's been with
us since that funny regulator.
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CC Roger, concur.
CDR But the bat charger light's out and
that (garbled) it just shows the bat volts barber poled on 15
and reg volts barber poled on 17.
CC Okay, Pete. Thank you very much. We're
about 45 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension
at 21:29. And for the SPT, we are GO on IMSS-2 tonight
if you'd like to do that.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 22 minutes
and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
Vanguard tracking station. We expect to have a signal again
at Ascension at about 5 minutes and 30 seconds. During the
Vanguard pass, we did hear a call from the crew. They indi-
cated that they had noticed the problem of temperatures
rising on the spacecraft, particularly in the sleeping com-
partment and that essentially confirms what was believed
by people in the Huntsville Operations Support Center and
those in the Johnson Space Center. We were reviewing the
material. Apparently, there are several sensors which have
showed a substantial increase in temperature. Temperatures
inside do not increase very much because of the relatively
quick action of the crew in moving the sail to a new position.
Hut there were increases in the sleeping compartment and the
experimental compartment ceiling temperatures of about 2 to
3 degrees. The temperature reading now in the sleep compart-
ment is about 80.8 degrees, as of the Vanguard pass; in the
experimental compartment, there are readings of 82.7 and
83.3 degrees. Now those, of course, do not reflect atmos-
pheric temperatures in the entire workshop, but it does indi-
cate that there were some temperature increases in those
transducers of the ceiling and wall. Those were generally
the highest reading temperatures inside the workshop in
previous periods during the heat - high heat periods. The
problem apparently occurred because of the movement of the
parasol to approximately 25 degrees counterclockwise rotation.
And the crew indicated that they thought they had overshot
the mark. Originally, they had intended to go approximately
12 to 15 degrees. They thought that probably turned out to
be 25 degrees and they did move it back clockwise i0 degrees
in order to reduce those temperatures in the sleeping compart-
ment walls. And they said that they would use their own
judgment as to whether or not that was satisfactory and they
will feel - feel the walls again to see if they are continuing
to heat up. We're about 3-1/2 minutes from acquisition of
signal at Ascension. During the coming pass, the long pass
from Ascension continuous through Canary Islands and Madrid.
At Madrid, we have scheduled a product medical conference
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PAO the daily medical conference to report


the physical condition of the crew. And during that period
we will hear no signal over Madrid. We do expect that as
in past times we will get some period of that - sometime
before the Madrid pass is completed, we may get that back
for live air-to-ground from Mission Control. We have now
approximately 3 minutes to acquisition of signal at Ascension
and to the beginning of that very long pass from Ascension
through Madrid and we will remain live from now until acqui-
sition of signal at Ascension in approximately 2 minutes and
50 seconds. This is Skylab Control at 25 minutes and 47 sec-
onds after the hour, remaining live for air-to-ground at
Ascension.

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SL-II MC1239/I
Time: 16:25 CDT, 26:21:25 GMT
6/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension,


Canary and Madrid for the next 13 minutes. Be advised, the
first several minutes of this pad that we'll pass we'll have
air-to-ground, and then when we get Madrid AOS - when we hand
over to Madrid, we're going to conduct the med conference. And
then if you get through talking, we'll turn it back over to
me for the remainder of that pad, and I should be then have
some 183 pad changes for Pete. If we do miss - miss it, though,
at Madrid, we still have a Guam pass that's prior to sunset
and enough time to read the time changes on that pad.
CDR Okay.
CDR Say, Dick; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We're back to our old VOX again. You guys
are going to have to tell us what UCTA you want us to use on
day 29, because I Just checked; they're not in A-6. We put
6 up in the locker, and all 6 of them have WLC on them, which
I guess means with lithium chloride. So if there were any in
there that didn't have any lithium chloride in it, they must
have gotten used by us on launch day; the second set that we
used or something.
CC Okay, Pete. Let me check with our stowage
folks and make sure they understand your question, and either
way we'll get back to you and advise you what we want you
to do.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute or so,
we're going to be handing over to Madrid, and at that point
we'll - you'll be getting a call from the surgion. And when
you get through, we'll talk to you again in Madrid, probably.
CC And also, Skylab, the EGIL says that he's
happy with the present configuration on the CBRM 15, and be-
fore we do anything else to figure out about that barber pole,
if we ever do, we'd like to think about it some more. So
we're happy.
CDR We're happy too, Houston.
CC Roger.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 38


minutes and i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've just
had handover to the Madrid tracking station, and the private
medical conference is now underway. We do expect that the
doctor will return control of the air-to-ground to Mission
Control Center, and that should happen sometime during this
Madrid pass. For that reason, we will remain live for air-
to-ground for Madrid at the completion of this private
medical conference.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS here
at Madrid. We're going to see you at Guam at 22:19. Cor-
rection, 22:09. We're going to dump the data recorder
at Guam; and, Pete, we're going to have a brand new S183
pad to up-link to you at Guam.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 44
minutes and 36 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost
signal now at the Madrid tracking station. Our next ac-
quisition of signal in 24 minutes and 48 seconds will be
at Guam. And that will he a 7 minute and 24 second pass
at Guam. This is Skylab Control at 44 minutes and 57 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1241/I
Time: 17:07 CDT, 26:22:07 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 7 minutes and


43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are 1 minute and 47 sec-
onds from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station.
The spacecraft is passing to the southeast and it will be to
the southwest of the Guam Islands. This is Skylab Control.
We'll remain live for air-to-ground and a call from spacecraft
communicator Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS at Guam for 7 minutes.
PLT Oh, if you're at Guam we must he at Guam,
too.
CC I sure hope so. I got an answer for the
CDR on this question about UCTAs. The proper UCTAs to use
are ones that do have lithium chloride in them. And we think
that they can be found per an earlier conversation that we
had many days ago in D426. And if they aren't there, they
probably are still in the CDR's sleep compartment, but we
think they're in D426.
PLT You' re right.
CC How about that.
CDR Okay, Dick. I got another one for the
stowage people I have put on B channel, but just to make sure
you get it - the broken TV camera, I understand is stowed
in D6, which I assume is the old S015 experiment compartment
- in the command module. That's number i. Number 2 I've
taken the lens and found the old lens bag which I have
stowed and the lens covers, and I have stowed the lens in
F521, but also, I have stowed the monitor and the power cable
and the monitor cable that came off that camera unless they
want me to do something else with it.
CC Roger. I understand the monitor and the
power cable and the monitor cable also are in the F521. Is
that right?
CDR That's right. Now, later on in the day,
I see that and I take the other TV camera off with me and -
go ahead and mount it in the command module and I will
probably find some way here what to do with the power cable
off of it. If not, it will be in 521 also.
CC Okay, Pete.
CDR And you are sending me an S183 teleprinter
message, right?
CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We just
uplinked a brand new message and it had a whole bunch of
times and stuff changed in it, so we figured we'd just give
you a fresh copy.
CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR. About the only thing on that
pad that requires kind of fast action is we - is the momentum
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inhibit that's to be done - like right away.


CDR Okay.
CC And, the only reason on that we kind of
wanted to see that over this Guam pass.
CDR Okay, Dick. I got momentum INHIBITED.
Right?
CC Roger, we confirm. That's right. You're
in the right configuration.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. The EGIL reports
that he can already see the change from your second adjust-
ment on the parasol. On some of his temps - the water tank
1 temps, of course, will take a lot longer to show any change
in.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS
here at Guam. We're going to see you at Honeysuckle at 22:23.
And the controllers here are wondering how many of their
backup - you're - of their baekroom (garble) that you have
because apparently you have both ASCOs and EGILs because
in the last hour or so you've anticipated something we were
getting ready to call up in a couple of cases. And you sure
could save me some air-to-ground calls if you'd just let me
know.
CDR Ho, Ho, and what's that? Like the star
tracker just now?
CC Yes, the star tracker and you also were
just ahead of the EGIL guys when you moved the parasol a while
ago , too.
CC And it was in the direction that his back-
room guys was going to ask for.
CDR Yeah, well when I eyeballed it I realized
that I'd moved it about 25 degrees, because P.J. went to his
bedroom and he says "My bedroom's getting hot." And we went
over into Paul's - to Joe's which is really in the corner and
that was really hot, but we said well, we over-smoked that
one. We'll have to back off.
CC Roger, that. Gotta keep those guys happy.
CDR Right. But I think I've got about 15 degrees
now if my eyeball's angle here is the same as my eyeball angle
was outside. We ought to just cover to the meteoroid shield
point on that side.
CC Okay, good. Well we'll keep - we'll still
be keeping a good eye on it and we're going LOS and we'll see
you at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
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PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 17 minutes and


44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Guam tracking station and we'll next acquire a signal at
Honeysuckle in 5 minutes and 17 seconds. During this last
pass we had some additional data on that change in tempera-
tures on the orbital workshop. They had gone up because
the - -

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SL-II MC-1242/I
Time: 17:17 CDT 26:22:17 GMT
6/19/73

PAO next acquire signal at Honeysuckle in


5 minutes and 17 seconds. During this last pass we had
some additional data on that change in temperatures on the or-
bital workshop. They had gone up because of an overshooting
in rotating the parasol. Captain Conrad had indicated that
he wanted to rotate the parasol about 15 degrees. He found
out after rotating it that the sleep compartments had be-
come rather warm. They were reaching temperatures of about
81 degrees inside - gl to 83 degrees inside, and because of
that, they took another look at it and decided they had
rotated it about 25 degrees rather than 15. They moved
it back, and the temperatures now are coming back down. On
some of those temperature transducers, the change in temp-
eratures these are mostly external temperatures or sensors up
against the wall of the spacecraft - On most of those
sensors, they had increases of temperature on several of them
of approximately four or five of about 40 or 50 sensors that we
have on our table here. Four or five of those went up sub-
stantially in temperature over about an hour and half period,
between the time they moved the parasol, sometime before
19:40 G.m.t. and 21:12, when they reported that they had re-
turned it to it's position. In some cases the temperature
increases were small - 15 or 16 degrees. In some cases they
were as high as 50 degrees, and these are, of course, only
on temperature transducers on outside parts of the work-
shop, rather than internal. Those did indicate that the
Sun was reaching the spacecraft, and after the sail was
rotated back, we have seen drops in temperatures of the
largest drop being about 20 degrees over the last hour.
Several of the others have dropped 16 degrees, and that
does indicate that temperatures are coming back down in the
proper direction. During the medical conference at Madrid,
which is held private, the crew reported themselves to be
again in excellent health. Here is the surgeon's report,
signed by Dr. Buchanan; "Dr. Joe Kerwin, the Skylab 2 Science
Pilot, reports the crew physical condition is still good,
and they are operationally in fine condition." That's
signed by Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins, the flight
surgeon. At this time we are approximately 2 minutes and
46 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle
station in Australia, and we will remain live for air-to-
ground from Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honey-
suckle for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised the cat's
already out and the rest of us in work.
CC Roger that, and there's not a whole lot of
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news this evening, Pete, but there's one article here that
I'd like to pass up to you.
CDR Go.
CC Okay. The Smithsonian Institution
researchers conducting an investigation several hundred feet
below the surface off Key West, became snagged in the wreckage
of a World War II destroyer Sunday. Rescuers slowly de-
compressed a chamber of this midget submarine trapped underwater
for 31 hours, but could see no signs of life of the two men
inside. The other two men in the forward compartment were
pulled safely from the civilian research sub Sealink as soon
as it surfaced on Monday. And it's now reported that the
two scientists in the forward compartment are in excellent
condition after the sub was pulled from the water yesterday.
And one other note on this news item. The destroyer that
the midget submarine was taking a look at on the bottom was
the USS Fred T. Barry, which was scuttled a couple of years
ago to form an artificial barrier reef. And the USS Fred T.
Barry was - had another noteworthy experience earlier in it's
career, when Midshipman Richard Truly took his first mid-
shipman cruise aboard that ship, but I haven't heard yet
whether there's any correlation between that fact and the
fact it was chosen to be scuttled. Over.
.... MS Yea.
SPT You got off. just in time.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, in answer to your teleprinter
message that you sent up. I have one here that I received
and - do you have a minute to get it.
CC Roger, we got about 45 seconds left in
this pass. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. It's to Captain Charles Conrad,Jr.
from NASA. First paragraph reads: "On or about 22 June, 1973,
you and your crew will (garble) Skylab l,leavlng it in all
respects ready for the arrival of the Skylab 3 crew on or
about 27 July, 1973." Paragraph 2: "At that time you and
your crew will proceed by space and air to the USS Ticonderoga
without delay, and report immediately to the SMLS for duty."
CC Roger. We copy that and we're looking
forward to those orders being - going into effect. We're
going LOS here at Honeysuckle. We're going to see you at the
Vanguard at 22:51.
CDR Okay. Pass those to Captain Bean.
CC I sure will.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 27 minutes
and 26 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Honeysuckle tracking station, and expect to acquire
in 23 minutes and 20 seconds the Vanguard tracking ship.
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During this last pass, Richard Truly, the spacecraft com-


munitor read up a report on the submarine that was trapped in
the wreckage of a World War II destroyer, a destroyer that
had been scuttled. Spacecraft communicator Truly indicated that
he had been a midshipman aboard that craft, and the reply from
the astronauts was, "You got off Just in time." And fol-
lowing that, the astronauts read back a set of orders that
they had concocted for AI Bean for the July 27th launch,
Skylab 3, the next manned mission of Skylab. This is Sky-
lab Control. Our next acquisition of signal in 22 minutes
and 26 seconds at Vanguard tracking ship.

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SL-II MC-1243/I
Time: 17:49 CDT, 26:22:49 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours and 49 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We've just heard the warbler announcing
that we are approaching acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
This is a low elevation pass lasting 4 minutes and 24 seconds
approximately. And it will begin approximately i minute and
35 seconds from now. We'll stay alive for air-to-ground and
what may be the final call of the day from spacecraft com-
municator, Dick Truly. We're alive for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for 4 minutes.
SPT Hello.
CDR Hey, Richard. The reason I work so hard
to stay in front of you guys is to keep from the surprises.
In the F-27 day transfer I smelled a rat on the - finding
the food - and sure enough, most of the lockers all had
launch bolts in them. I have gotten the food that is
requested to be returned. And on B channel I just put it on
there as whose food I robbed when I couldn't get it from
overage. Okay?
CC Roger. Got it. And we'll look on B chan-
nel and get that information.
CDR There you go.
CC And actually_ that was just a plot from
Bean to get you to take out the launch bolts.
CDR That's what I figured. The other thing
is, in anticipation of the (garble), I think we will change the
teleprinter paper tonight. It hung up several times, and
be (garble) it, as you remember one time I asked you, and it
was coming off the roll a little crooked and getting over
to the left now, and it looks fairly low and I think we'd
be better off if we changed the roll.
CC Roger. And we concur with that. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Besides that_ we haven't even gotten
into the middle of Tube 1 yet and there's 87 tubes of that
stuff up here.
CC Oh, it seemed to me like we must have
used about i0 of those tubes the way we've been putting out
the paper. I've got an answer for you on the TV cameras, Pete.
The - for the broken television camera - the way you described
the stowages is exactly the way that we would like it. And
on the working one, the camera lens monitor - monitor cable
are to come home, of course. And the - use the existing
command module TV power cable for that. And leave the SWS
TV power cable in - where you said, in - I think it was F521.
CDR Yes, I'ii either put it there, or where
it came from, which is in another one of those lockers right
by there 526, or something like that.
CC Roger. Why don't you just - -
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CDR But I'ii put it on B channel.


CC Okay, fine.
CC Also, this evening we're going to up-llnk -
we made a couple of minor changes to your Flight Plan for
tomorrow. They were based on the fact that Joe reported he
was going to already have done IMSS-2. And also based on your
photo report, it looked like one of the cassettes had some
extra film that was left over for the EVA. And we're going
to ask you to photograph MII0 in the morning, which we never
have done. And we're about a minute and a half from LOS here
at Vanguard, and this is the last pass of the evening. We
do have a - it's - I know you're going to be up. We do have
a Canary-Madrid pass at 23:09, if you'd like to give us a call,
but I won't call you. Also, there's two or three guys on this
team that are going to see you again at entry, but for most
of the guys on Chuck Lewis' bronze team, this is the last
shift that we'll get to work with you guys on Skylab 2, and it's
really been our pleasure, and I can guarantee you that the guys
both out here in the front room and in all the SSRs have really
been - done a super job. And they might even be willing to
buy you guys a sarsaparilla or something when you get home.
CDR We appreciate that. We appreciate every-
thing that (garble) runs. A great job.
CC Roger that. See you in the morning.
SPT Goodnight Capcom. Goodnight FAO,
INCO, EGIL, G&C, ATM, and all you guys.
CC Goodnight, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 55 minutes and
27 seconds. We have lost signal at the Vanguard tracking
station, and we have an opportunity to acquire in 14 minutes
at the Canary Island station, but spacecraft communicator,
Dick Truly, has given his last goodnight. He and Chuck Lewis'
bronze team of flight controllers will not be on duty again
during the Skylab 2 mission when the crew is awake and up. And
that may be the last time they will have conversation. They
did indicate that since we're a little more than 13 minutes
now from acquisition at Canary, that the crew may desire to
call us back. The crew did give goodnights though, and we
will be up live at Canary Island in the event that they do
give a call, although we do not expect one. This is Skylab Control
at 22 hours and 56 minutes Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1244/I
Time: 18:09 CDT 26:23:09 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 9 minutes


and 7 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just received
a signal that we are acquiring signal now at Canary Islands
and we'll remain live in case there's air to ground from
the crew.
CDR Go, Houston, Skylab. S183 is off and
running.
CC Okay, Pete. Thank you very much.
CDR How are those guys gonna make out with
this Moon?
CC Sorry, I didn't copy that. How are
they gonna make out with what?
CDR Well, the Moon is up and I thought that
that kinda put the fritz on the S183 and S019, so I won-
dered how they thought they were gonna make out, seeing
the Moon is still about two thirds of the way up.
CC Roger. Well, whatever corollaries says
next, I'ii pass on to you.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'm advised that
premission we did intend to operate not, you know, with the bright
Moon up and for this pass this evening all but about two
of the targets are pointed fairly much away from it and
since we did have the opportunity here on the SL2 to get
in the S183 passes, it Just looked like a good bet to get
some more data and so we decided to do it this way. And
we're gonna take a look at the data and I guess we'll know
after you come home.
CDR (garble) It's running just fine.
CC Roger.
CC Incidently, we got about i0 minutes
left in this pass.
SPT Everybody's gone to bed up here except
the CDR and the PLT.
CC Roger.
CDR Don't let him fool you. Dr. Vampire is
laying out his blood sucking instruments right now.
CC Roger. Incidently, I don't know how
the weather is in Europe tonight, but you're going to be
crossing the coast of Spain here in just about 3 or 4 min-
utes and looking at our big map up there, it looks to me
like you're going to be going just north of Madrid and
south of Paris and then continue on over the Alps.
CDR Yeah, it's a goodlooking pass, Dick,
but unfortunately we got spacecraft sunrise in 6-1/2
minutes and that really wipes out the ground.
CC Roger.
CDR Went smack over Paris last night,
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just as it was really heaving into view, the Sun hit it.
CC Reg.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS at Madrid. See you in the morning.
CDR Nighty-night.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 24 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the Madrid
tracking station after a Canary Island and Madrid com-
bination pass, and we will not hear from the crew again
this evening. That was the final good-night given by
spacecraft communicator Dick Truly, who is serving his
final term as spacecraft communicator during the first
Skylab manned mission. Temperatures in the sleep compart-
ment and the experimental compartment ceiling transducers have
began coming down again. They had increased several degrees when
the parasol was rotated about 25 degrees earlier in the day.
Commander Conrad had planned on a 15 degree rotation and
moved the parasol about i0 degrees back to correct that
mistaken estimate on the rotation angle. On a few of the
external wall sensors outside the orbital workshop living
area, not where the crew is located, but outside that area,
the temperatures rose from i0 to 50 degrees due to both
the increasingly long time the spacecraft now remains in
the Sun and due to the changed position of the sunshade.
Inside the workshop, only a very small change was observed.
Room temperatures remained in the high seventies. The
sleep compartment ceiling and the ceiling of the experimental
compartment rose several degrees from - reaching levels of
about 81 to 83 degrees. These have now moved down about
l degree each over the past 2 hours and are expected to
continue receding. The purpose of the slight parasol ro-
tation was to cover a small hot spot near the orbital work-
shop's water storage tanks, because many hours are required
for changes in internal temperature. The success of the
change, suggested by Conrad after this morning's EVA to
retrieve film, won't be certain until some time tomorrow.
Today's extravehicular activity began about an hour earlier
than expected and required only about half of the 3 hours
set aside for the removal and replacement of film and
camera assemblies for several of the telescopes and photo-
graphic facilities used to study the Sun. Commander Conrad
also succeeded in reactivating charger battery regulator
module number 15, one of two batteries in the ATM solar
array system that had gone off. CBRM number 15 had been
out of operation since before the manned launch, but by
tapping on the battery screw only once, Commander Conrad
succeeded in closing an open relay and again the battery is
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now successfully generating power. This added approximately


150 to 250 watts in power to the system, and it is now
reading fully charged. All 18 of the ATM batteries are,
in fact, fully charged now, although number 3 is still has a
regulator out, and for that reason is not functional. During
this last pass just before daylight, the commander of the
spacecraft was told that he might take a look at the ground
track and be able to observe the Alps and Paris. He said
that - the reply from the astronauts was that they did not
have much luck in seeing things at dawn period, which tended
to wipe out the ground. They also reported that S093 is
now operating. S093 operations were scheduled twice today
when they discovered they had considerable time left over
after that very successful and very quickly done EVA this
morning. S093 is the ultra violet panoramic experiment
being operated for a French government agency in Marseilles,
France and its purpose is to study hot stars in the galaxy of
which our Sun is a part. They did indicate that the Moon
is about two thirds up at this time and they were curious
as to whether or not that would give them valid data. The
report here from our corollary science officer was that
we are testing our constraints, in other words, trying to
discover whether or not the cameras used in that UV experi-
ment can successfully gather data when the Moon is up. One
of the other purposes of running that UV camera today is
to test whether or not the film in the carousel part of the
camera will operate properly using old film. During the
second use of that camera, using the new film that was
carried up when the old film was believed to have deteriorated
too much because of heat, the camera Jammed and they felt
that it may be due to the fact that hand machine slides were
used rather than the precision machine slides used in the
original film. So that was a test of that using old film
which may in fact be of much value to them anyway. They
did indicate that several of the hot stars being studied
were targets that were away from the area of the Moon and
for that reason the data, if it is useful data may not have been
interfered with by the Moon anyway. The report also was
that this last pass that everybody is asleep except the
CDR and Pilot, that is to say that Science Pilot Joseph
Kerwin is believed now to be asleep. The indication from
his M133 sleep monitor is invalid which indicates that
it may not be hooked up properly or we may have some prob-
lem in the telemetry. But normally the sleep monitor that
he wears as a cap, does indicate the present state of sleep,
whether he's in light sleep, deep sleep or awake. But, we
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got no reading of that over the Madrid station. It's


been a very successful day on Skylab. The crew is now
believed to be ready for sleep and we do not expect to
hear form them again until two a. m. in the morning when
a wakeup call goes up from the on duty spacecraft communi-
cator. This is Skylab Control signing off until tomorrow
morning at approximately 2 a. m.

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SL-II MC-1245/I
Time: 20:07 CDT, 27:01:07 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is the news center at 01:07 G.m.t


on mission day 27. We've had one additional unexpected com-
munication with the crew. One of the crewmen called just
to assure that they had left the teleprinter properly con-
figured to receive messages. It was properly configured.
Here is a replay of that tape.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see a 10000 DO
NOT ENTER on the DAS. Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see a 2000 do not
enter in the DAS, and we're AOS Bermuda. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, Richard. We noticed a little bit
ago that we had cut you out of the teleprinter by leaving
it ON instead of in COMMAND. You guys know that? Do you
know which messages got up?
CC Roger. Stand by i.
PLT Okay. Let me tell you. The last one that
we're pretty sure we received was either to put out the
(garble) dates or the 183 pad. Whichever of those two was
last.
CC Stand by.
MCC Skylab, Houston. We would prefer the
switch in COMMAND. It turns out we do have a way to get
around that by commanding. However, we had not got to the
point where we needed it, and you do have all the messages
onboard we've up-linked.
PLT Okay. Good enough. It's back in COMMAND -
it's back in COMMAND now, Dick. See you in the morning.
CC Okay. See you.
PAO This is the Skylab News Center at 01:09
G.m.t. on mission day 27. Out.

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Time: 02:00 CDT, 27:07:00 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours Green-


wich mean time on the 27th day of the first manned mission
of the Skylab program. Skylab is nearly within range of the
Goldstone station, at which time Cap Com, Dr. Bill Thornton,
will put in a wake-up call. The Flight Director on this
shift is Don Puddy. We'll stand by for the crew wake-up call.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Flight Surgeon has informed the
Flight Director that he believes the crew is still sleeping
soundly, so Flight Director Don Puddy has decided to allow
the crew to continue sleeping through this stateside pass
and put in a wake-up eall just prior to loss of signal at
Bermuda. We'll continue to leave the llne up should one of
the crewmen awaken and give us a call.

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SL-II MC-1247/I
Time: 02:16 CDT 27:07:16 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda 3 minutes.


PLT Good morning.
CC Morning, Paul.
CDR Just be a nice guy and let me sleep in
a little.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 21
minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal.
However, Canary Island station will pick up the spacecraft
very shortly with overlapping ceverage threugh Ascension.
We'll continue to stay up for that pass.

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SL-II MC-1248/I
Time: 02:31 CDT, 27:07:31 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC During the dump maneuver there was a large
change in rate gyro Y-2. We're going to command ON Y-I and
Y-3.
CDR Roger.
CC LOS i minute, Honeysuckle 08:07.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 39 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has had loss of signal
with Skylab. Next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in
about 26 minutes. And we'll come back up prior to that pass.
At 7 hours 39 minutes this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1249/I
Time: 03:05 CDT 27:08:05 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 5


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at Carnarvon with overlapping coverage through Honeysuckle.
We'll stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Part of the
postsleep activities today includes the taking of blood
samples from all three crewmen.
CC Skylab. AOS 7 minutes Honeysuckle.
PLT Thank you, Bill.
CC LOS 1 minute. Hawaii at 08:27.
PLT Roger, (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 15
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is beyond the range
of the Honeysuckle station now. Guam will acquire in 12
minutes. At 8 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1250/I
Time: 03:25 CDT, 27:08:25 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 25 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is almost within range of
the Hawaii station, not Guam as previously reported. We'll
stand by for conversation through this station.
CC Skylab, AOS 8 minutes Hawaii.
PLT Roger, Bill. Hey, sometime today or - how
about asking photo people how many photos are required for
the Hasselblad for the fly-around.
CC Wilco.
PLT Thank you.
CC LOS in 1 minute. Goldstone at 08:40. And,
Paul, we feel that you should leave a full Hasselblad mag for
the fly-around. It'll probably take something more than 50
pictures.
PLT Thank you.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1251/I
Time: 03:36 CDT 27:08;36 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 37


minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has loss of signal.
Goldstone will acquire in slightly under 3 minutes. We'll
continue to stay up through this short LOS. Paul Weitz has
been advised to reserve a full magazine of film for the
Hasselblad camera for photography during the flyaround of
the Saturn workshop after undocking on Friday.
PAO A news conference with the crew is
scheduled for the stateside pass following this upcoming
one. That news conference scheduled at a Greenwich mean
time of i0 hours 18 minutes to about i0 hours 35 minutes.
That's 5:18 to 5:35 a. m. central daylight time. CAP COMM
will read up questions that have been prepared by the news
men covering the mission at the Johnson Space Center. And
it will be televised in real time. We should have acquisition
at Goldstone now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab. AOS for 5 minutes.
CDR Say, Bill; CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Okay, that Hasselblad - it doesn't
sound like you're aware that's a 170-picture magazine. We
have about 60 pictures left on one magazine and 170 on
another, and we would like to use as much as possible for
Earth terrain photography, and if 50 or 60 is good enough,
we'll probably shoot up what's in this magazine and work our
way into the other magazine until we got about 60 or 70 left.
CC We copy that and agree, CDR.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Did you get the S009 mal done last
night?
CDR Yes. It's on B channel.
CC Copy.
CC We'll be LOS in approximately 30 seconds.
AOS Bermuda at 08:49.
PLT Roger.
CC And be advised that getting things off
channel B is fairly slow down here, so if there's any-
thing that you feel that is in any way urgent between now
and undocking, you might give us a direct call on it.
PLT Wilco.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours
49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson is preparing to relieve Flight Director Don
Puddy. The new CAP COMM will be Astronaut Henry Hartsfield.
And the backup pilot for this mission, Bruce McCandless, is
also on the CAP COMM console. Flight Director Puddy estimates
his change of shift news conference for 4:30 a. m. central
daylight time, 4:30 a. m. central daylight time.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1252/I
Time: 03:50 CHT, 27:08:50 GMT
6/20/73

PAO 4:30 a.m. central daylight time for the


Change-of-shift conference in the Johnson Space Center News
Center.
PLT Roger.
PAO And Skylab is in acquisition at Bermuda.
CDR Bill, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Sometime today, would they work up approxi-
mately how far we're going to shift our watches tomorrow to get
on the deactivation time line. And just give me a little
rundown on that today, so I know what to expect are we going
to set our watches ahead or behind, and when do they want to
come up with the clock time, do we get a wake-up to it, do
we want to - you know, how do we want to work that little deal?
CC Wilco, Pete.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Roger. I'd like to have some words on
why we're doing MI71 in mode i this morning. It's something
we have never used in training, has no baseline data on it,
and I understood it wasn't supposed to work very well.
CC Roger all that. Stand by half.
CC Joe, in essence, this is a troubleshooting
procedure. They're trying to get some information operating
in this mode that can be applied in its normal operation.
What you just said is all essentially correct.
SPT Okay, we'll talk about it afterwards.
CC This came up for quite a bit of discussion
here.
CDR It came up for quite a bit up here, too.
CC We copy.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR On these contamination photos, I assume
they want to use the 35-millimeter camera that is to he devel-
oped for color interior rather than color exterior.
CC It is the 35-millimeter, and stand by half
on the film.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT On reading my message 2712 about drug
stowage does that mean that I'm not to bring ED-31 home?
CC Stand by half.
CC We're going LOS here in about 30 seconds.
We'll have you Canary in approximately 14 minutes. Correction
on that we have you at Ascension at 09:06, and we'll have
the answers for those questions at that time if we don't get
them before.
CDR Okay.

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SL-II MC-1253/I
Time: 04:00 CDT, 27:09:00 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours i min-


ute Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has had loss of signal
and Ascension will acquire in about 4 minutes. We'll stay
up and wait for - -
PAO This is Skylab Control. While we're
waiting for Ascension, we'll repeat the announcement on the
Change of Shift News Conference with Flight Director Don Puddy,
the off-going Flight Director, scheduled for 4:30 a.m. central
daylight time in the JSC News Center; 4:30 a.m. central day-
light time, for a Change of Shift News Conference in the News
Center, the Johnson Space Center. We're about 2 minutes away
from acquisition at Ascension. We'll stand by.
(garble)
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
I0 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Henry.
CC Hello, there. Well, you guys did it again.
Another outstanding job with the hammer.
PLT Yes. Give us a hammer and a place to
stand and we'll fix anything.
SPT You're a little late this morning, Hank.
You got to sleep in, huh?
CC Well, it depends on how you look at it.
SPT Right.
CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question
about how we do the watches. What we're thinking about now
is just setting all the wristwatches ahead about 4 hours
tomorrow morning and that will put us on a time line. We're
going to get a little message up to yon later on today with
all the details.
CDR Okay. We just do that when we wake up,
jump from 07:00 to about ii:00.
CC Roger. That's what we're thinking about.
CDR That sounds real good.
CC Skylab, for the CDR. In answer to your
question on the film, you can use the numbers on the pad, or if
you want to use the spotmeter, use a ASA of 160.
CDR That doesn't really answer my question,
Henry. My question was, we have two 35-millimeter cameras
in here. One we've been exclusively shooting out the window
with it - they both have color interior in them - one we've
been exclusively shooting out the window; the other one we've
been exclusively using with the flash. Now I assume the one
with the flash is going to get exposed at 500 ASA, cause
that's what it says on the can. _That may not be true, seeing
they're all flash pictures. And the other one is that the
other one is going to get exposed - developed at ASA 160.
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CDR Now which camera do you want me to use.


The one that we've been shooting out the window, or the one
that we've been using inside with the flashgun? That's my
question.
CC We'd llke you to use the one that's been
using out the window. And we believe that's 03.
CDR Okay. I already did, now. And that's
going to be ASA 160 development and if I use the spotmeter,
I'ii set it for ASA 160. Okay. Thank you.
CC That's correct, Pete.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1254/I
Time: 04:14 CDT 27:09:14 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston, -foT the SPT. In


answer to your question earlier, do you want 8031? It is
our plan to bring it back, but there's some confusion here
as to when and where and how we're going to do it, as you
can see from the message, and we're about 40 seconds from
LOS. Carnarvon will be coming up at 39.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'ii work it out and let
you guys know what we're going to do.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 17
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range from
Ascension now. The next station to acquire will be Carnarvon,
Australia in 21-1/2 minutes. At 9 hours 18 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1255/I
Time: 0425 CDT 27:09:25 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours


25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Don Puddy
is en route to the News Center for the Change of Shift
Briefing. That news briefing should begin within the next
few minutes. Should we acquire at Carnarvon during the
news conference, we'll tape and play back any conversation
at the earliest opportunity. To repeat_ the Change of Shift
News Conference with Flight Director Don Puddy will begin
within the next few minutes. At 9 hours 26 minutes_ this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1256/I
Time: 04:43 CDT, 27:09:43 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 44 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're back live now on air-to-
ground. We've got approximately i minute of tape. We'll
play that at the earliest opportunity. We'll stay up live
now through Carnarvon.
CC SPT, Houston. Not to belabor the point
but just give you a few more words on this ED-31. The
message we sent up last night should have been a little
more - should have been a little better explanation there.
It shouldn't have said, "disregard," it should have said
that we're going to do this later. We made a goof
I guess in that we modified the experiments checklist to
indicate the stowage of ED-31, whereas we should have been
including it in the deactivation checklist. And thatts
the - the message this morning should have explained that
a little more, instead of leading you to believe that we
weren't going to bring it home. We'll - the deactivation
information we'll send up will have this the
content of that page i-i0 that we told you disregard -
it'll be there. And also, some more words on how to tie
it in the command module.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. About i minute from
LOS. Guam at 53 and for info - I don't know whether it was
(garble) up enough this morning but we're on gyros Y-I and Y-3.
We had another integral failure on Y-2 last night.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 50 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at
Carnarvon. We have about a minute and 20 seconds in tape
during the news conference. We'll play that and then go on
into the Guam acquisition live. Let's play the tape now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
i0 minutes. And for information, we'll be commanding the
drift update to Y-2 gyro.
SPT Okay, Houston. This is the SPT and I've
got a choice for the medical people on returning the stuff
that needs to be chilled. I can put everything in one large
overcan with no heat sink, or I can use two large overcans
and have a heat sink in each. I'd like to know which one
they want. That's all I need to know.
CC Okay. I'Ii get an answer.
SPT Very good.
CC SPT, Houston. What we want is everything
in two cans with a heat sink in each. And regarding ED-31
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6/20/73

CC there is a stow message onboard that you


got several days ago 2329 it looks like - 2325 Bravo. And
we'll also be sending up some stuff tonight on deactivation
checklist. So we'll have some more words on ED-31.
SPT Okay. Well, I hope don't think I need any.
The confusing thing was that this morning's pad they ignored
that ED 13 - ED-31 stuff that you got before. But I'ii
just go ahead and put everything in two cans.
CC Roger. That message was confusing and
we apologize.
SPT Okay. Just don't send me any more now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That is the end
of the tape. We'll stand by live now for acquisition at
Guam in about i minute.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1257/I
Time: 04:52 CDT 27:09:52 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9


minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We sent you up a
message on day 27 transfers. I got one small change for
that whenever it's convenient.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Under W-748, where it says "med
kit bag, place drugs, and etc.," we want to delete the
reference to the drugs in the IMS checklist. It should
read, "reed kit bag, place anti-fog ampules, etc."
SPT Roger.
CDR Hey Hank, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Take a note to talk to me when I get
back about locker A-8 and all the cushions in it, where
they're supposed to go, and for the back part of A-8 H Alpha
i, SO 56,52 and (garble) 54 and all that business. It's kinda
goofed up.
CC Okay, will do, Pete.
CDR (Garble) the lockers and the straps
don't match is what I'm trying to say. And I've been puzzling
over it for a long time, and I think I'm right.
CDR Hey Hank, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I faded out. They put the SO56 cushion
where the H Alpha i cushion should have been and vice versa.
Now once I got that sorted out, it all makes sense.
CC Okay, copy.
CDR The reason that happened is both
cushions look to me like they're almost identical. And they
have three black alinement marks to line up with three white
alinement marks in each place, and they're interchangeable.
And somebody just got them in backwards.
CC Okay. You think it's gonna work all
right once you got it reconfigured there?
CDR Now that I got the cushions sorted out, it
all matches up with the drawings on 3-5, and everything is
super.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Goldstone will be coming up at 19, and we've got your
press conference there. And we'll be using a procedure like
we used before. We got a list of questions. As soon as
we give the AOS, they'll probably start out on the questions.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 3
minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal with
Skylab. We're 15 minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone.
During this next pass over the United States the crew will
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6/20/73

participate in a news conference, which will be televised


live and in real time. CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield will be
reading up questions prepared by newsmen covering the
mission. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition at
Goldstone. At 10 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1258/I _
Time: 05:15 CDT, 27:10:15 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 15


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about 3 minutes away
from acquisition at Goldstone. A message was sent up to
the crew late yesterday by teleprinter with procedures for
leaving the orbital workshop and for entering the command
module. Under the title: "Goin' Home", Goin' Home, this is
the message procedure for leaving OWS. One, sweep out OWS;
two, turn refrigerator on low; three_ turn out lights; four
terminate paper delivery - teleprinter paper, that is; five,
set air conditioning thermostat; six, inform any nearby
neighbors that you'll be gone at least a month; seven, put
garbage out, and pray for a pickup; eight, pack carefully -
be sure to include clean pair of socks; nine, put the eat
out. Procedure for entering the CSM: one, clean feet before
entering CSM; two, sit down and fasten seat bel_s; three,
adjust rear-view mirror; four, release emergency brake; five,
exercise particular care in backing up; and slx_ drive care-
fully and go straight home. We'll stand by now for acquisition
at Goldstone and the start of the in-space news conference.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1259/I
Time: 05:17 CDT, 27:10:17 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston stateside for about 19


minutes, and we've got a picture.
PLT (Garble)
PLT (garble) on the line (garble)
PLT Houston, Skylab. Do you read?
CC Roger. Read you loud and clear.
PLT Okay, that's the (garble) we can do.
CC That was a little bit weak.
PLT Well, I'ii get my (garble) away from it.
How's that?
CC Okay, that's a little better.
PLT How's that, Hank?
CC Hey, that's a lot better.
PLT Ah ha.
PLT Oh, you've made a great breakthrough
in lightweight headset technology. It took us 27 days
to figure out you're supposed to talk into the spongy part.
CC Yon fellows ready to answer a few questions
this morning?
PLT Yes.
CC Okay, the first one is for Dr. Joe Kerwin,
the first medical doctor in space. As far as you can tell
now, what affects have you noticed from weightlessness? Does
there appear to be a levellng off effect as far as zero-g
changes are concerned?
SPT Well, right now the score is man 3, space
nothing, but it's a little early in the game. There appears
to be a leveling off. In fact, there appears to be little
or no change in some of our experiments, and there appears
to be some change in the others - possibly still continuing.
I guess let's wait until we get down and look at the data
before we make any rash decisions, but I'm very encouraged.
CC Joe, you're sliding in and out of view.
There you are.
SPT I'm also done answering that question.
You can go to the next one.
CC Okay, for Commander Conrad: Please give
us your assessment of the mission and what you feel have
been your most significant accomplishments, especially
from a scientific view point.
CDR I guess our most significant accomplishment,
from the point of view of where we started this mission on
May the 15th, was that we have now, I would say, a 90 percent
up-operating space station to turn over to the SL-III crew.
And probably even more significant in my mind and also to go
along with what the Doctor said but I'ii have to wait until
the people on the ground look at our - our physical data.
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6/20/73

I believe that man has once again proved that he can operate
efficiently, well, and happily in space in the operation of
a space station. Now I think that also contributes to
the scientific end of the thing. I have no idea what they're
going to find on our data. We did get a flare, we've operated
the ATM, we've operated all the experiments to the best of
our ability - all of those we didn't do perfectly, but everybody
has a learning (garble). And I think we've proved the timeline
and only time will tell the exact scientific returns from the
experiments that we've performed.
CC Roger. Would all three of you comment
briefly on how you like the Skylab food?
SPT I like it. It's quite palatable. It's
been easier to eat than I anticipated it would, and I've been
eating more that I thought I would.
CDR There were three items that I didn't like
on the ground, and I still don't like them up here, although
I managed to get them down. I think one or two other items that
I thought that I would like, I Just don't really care for up
here, and some that I didn't care for too much on the ground
came in pretty strong up here. But I managed to get it all
down. Plus I've found that I've had to eat more, and that
puts me a position of eating my own words about the food right
now because I never thought we'd eat this much. And frankly,
I could probably eat a little bit more of the food, and it's
good food.
PLT That last statement was made by the butter
cookie king of Skylab. (laughter) There are some complaints that
I have about the food, and that in itself is very encouraging,
because it means the living up here is not so rough that you
don't have time to bitch about something.
CC For Commander Conrad: Do you notice any
difference in your physical condition compared with the end
of your previous missions?
CDR Well, again the doctors may make me eat
my words, but I have the feeling at the end of 28 days
that I'm going to be in better physical shape than when I came
back from any one of my three previous flights, except maybe
Gemini ii, which was too short duration.

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SL-II MC-1260/1
Time: 05:24 CDT, 27:10:24 GMT
6/20/73

CDR Well, a team of doctors may make me


eat my words, but I have a feeling at the end of 28 days
that I'm going to be in better physical shape than when I
came back from any one of my previous flights, except maybe
Gemeni ii, which was too short a duration. I'm certainly,
right now, feeling one heck of a lot better than I did at
the end of 8 days of Gemini 5 just say before retro-
firing Gemini 5, because that was complete confinement. And
I now have a 28-1/2 inch waist, and I started out with about
a 30. And I've lost a little around the legs, and I don't
believe I've lost any in my arms. I think with the
bike up here, which I've found that I absolutely have to ride
every day and want to ride to get exercise, I think I'm in
as good a shape right now almost as when I left on May 15.
CC That May 25th?
CC Okay, for any one. What is the biggest
problem you think that Captain Bean and his crew will face
on their 56-day flight?
CDR We've been trying to kick it around,
and I can't put my finger, I on't think any of us can put our
finger on anything. I think the fact that Captain Bean
and his crew are three individuals different than the three
of us, perhaps what we like they won't like, and perhaps what
we didn't they will like. And I would hesitate to make any guesses,
for Captain Beano, what he's going to like or dislike up
here, or his crew.
CC You were coming in pretty weak that
time, Pete. We've got a related question for all three
of you. Please tell us of any particular suggestions you
plan to make to the follow-on crews as a result of your
experiences.
PLT Well, that's a pretty tough one to an-
swer here, Hank. I don't think I have any general sug-
gestions. We're going to go down and we're going to debrief
them. I plan to take Jack by the hand and sit down with
him and talk to him as long as he wants. And walk through
the trainers, and just kind of jog my memory, and just
tell him the things that I found out and the way we did
things. And that's all there is going to be, a report to
him, and it's going to be up to him to accept them or dis-
regard them as he sees fit.
CDR I generally think that is
true. By walking through with them, we will at least get
them over the learning curve that we had. And as I said,
before we even flew this flight, the idea for us
was to get this thing going, find out how long it took to
do the various experiments, and come down and give those
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Time: 05:24 CDT, 27:10:24 GMT
6/20/73

guys a super-good timeline so that they will be more efficient


than we were, and they should be. I think that right now,
the last couple of days, we were pretty well at our peak of
getting things done, and we get around this spacecraft pretty
darned well now.
SPT Right. One of the things we're going
to tell them is don't worry about this, don't worry about
that. One of the things that - - it is to the job training.
I think I' ll be able to go back and tell the guys that if
you can run the ATM in training, you can run it up here.
If you can do the medical experiments in training, you
can do them up here. You get used to the differences - to
the different body English that you need. The hardware, by
and large, is in (garble) shape. The procedures, by and large
are in great shape. We've been debriefing day by day during
the flight. And I think the most important thing we
have to say to them is to give them a pat on the back, and
say good luck.
PLT I want to add one thing to that, Hank.
I can't say too much for the fidelity (garble)By having the
fidelity of the trainers that we have - (garble) tell the
difference and it really paid off. The things that are easy to
do in the trainer are easy to do here like 80 percent of
the time. And the things that are difficult to do in the
trainer are likewise here.
CC Okay, we have a little comm problem
now. I'ii get the next couple of questions here in
a minute.

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SL-II MC-1261/I
Time: 05:29 CDT, 27:10:29 GMT
6/20/73

CC Okay. It looks like we've got a comm


problem licked. For Paul Weitz, do you feel that Skylab systems
are in good enough shape to support the two 56-day missions
for their full duration?
PLT You betcha.
CC Okay. The last question for each one
of you; what has been the most fun for you in living in
Skylab and did you get any surprises from living in
weightlessness?
CDR Well if you want to get technical, perhaps
disorientation and after a few moments in here it all went away.
And you can get youself disoriented a little bit, but it's only
because of zigging around in zero g. And, of course, that to me
is fun (garble).
CC You're dropping out on us.
SPT We're just dropouts. I'ii bet after
this Skylab experience, you couldn't (garble) Apollo space-
craft for 2 weeks. The size of this thing and the fact
that, every time you have to go from here to there it's a
little adventure. It's just been terrific. That and looking out
the window are endless sources of delight that I - I don't think
we could ever exhaust. I thing they'll sustain AI Bean, and
Jerry Carr and their troops throughout their 56-day (garble).
SC There have been many surprises and I
guess the main ones have been (garble) what Pete said.
SC (Garble).
CC Roger. That was the last question. We've
got about 4 minutes left here. Have you got any last comments
you want to make?
CDR Yeah. I'd like to say publicly how
much we appreciated the support from the ground. Especially with
all the last-minute things that were done to put this spacecraft
back in shape, all the EVA work. And although we laughed
and kidded about banging CBRMs with hammers and so forth,
it all worked. The support from the ground has been fantas-
tic.
SPT Second and shortly, what I was going
to say was, medically and subjectively, what has been such a
pleasant big surprise to me is how nice we feel. We're able
to get up in the morning, eat breakfast and do a day's work.
I'm tremendously encouraged about the future of long-duration
flights for that particular reason. Guess that's it.
CDR See you on the ground.
CC Okay. And thanks for the nice words.
We've got about 3 minutes left here before LOS.

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SL-II MC-1262/I
Time: 05:35 CDT, 27:10:35 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston; one minute to LOS,


Carnarvon at 17.
SC Rog. Say, Hank. (garble) Last night I bet
you that one of (garble) cleaned up in the stowage was where to
put the TV power cable on the operative-good TV when we stowed
it. Be advised that the place that we use it the most is the
642 panel, and I'm going to leave it plugged into the 642 panel,
neatly wrapped up. Okay?
CC Roger. Copy.
SC Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours
38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is beyond Bermuda's
Range now. The next station to acquire will be Carnarvon
in about 38-1/2 minutes. Communications during the latter
part of that news conference were bad due to the look angles
on the antennas at Bermuda. We'll come back up just prior
to acquisition at Carnarvon. At i0 hours 38 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1263/I
Time: 06:15 CDT, 27:11:15 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


15 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Carnarvon Station. We'll stand by for conversa-
tion there.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon
7 minutes.
CC And Skylab, we'll be having a data
recorder dump this site.
SC Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Pete Conrad
should be in the process of stowing the S183 ultraviolet
panorama experiment at this time. That experiment has been
in the antisolar scientific airlock. He'll take it out of
the airlock and stow it.
PAO Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz are involved
in the MO92 and the MI71 medical experiments, the lower body negative
pressure and the metabolic activity, with Weitz as the subject and
Kerwin as the observer.
PAO Later today in about 4 hours, Weitz,
assisted by Kerwin, will install the S149 particle collection
experiment in the antisolar scientific airloek. And that
experiment will be run throughout the remainder of the day.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
to LOS. Guam will be coming up at 31.
SC Okay, Houston. We're (garble) the last M092.
CC Roger. Copy.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1264/I
Time: 06:24 CDT, 27:11:24 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 25


minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has had loss of
signal. Guam will acquire in about 5-1/2 minutes, and
we'll come back up then. At ii hours 25 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1265/I
Time: 06:29 CDT 27:11:29 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


29 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up on
Guam acquisition now, we'll stand by.
CC Skylab Houston, through Guam, 6 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC CDR Houston. You're going to be headed
up to look at something here about 11:45, a dump. And I've
got several things I'd like to get you to do at the ATM
console if it's convenient.
CDR All right, hold it just a second.
CDR Okay Hank, I'm there right now. Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we'd llke you to do Pete,
is bring up the panel and change the canister roll to
plus 60 arc minutes. The reason we're doing this is if
it's right exactly at zero, there's a remote possibility
that the ATMDC will misinterpret the exact zero as being
180 and try to move the canister. Of course the next time
it will pick it up, but we're just trying to avoid that
possibility.
CDR Okay, what do you want me to do?
CC We want to roll the canister to 60 arc
minutes.
CDR Plus 60, okay.
CC And the other 2 items while you're there,
we'd like you to bring up the star tracker, the pad is still
good. And we also want to look at the BAT 15 talkback, and
see what it's doing now.
CDR Hey, there's plus 60.
CC Thank you sir.
CDR Yes, I saw the BAT VOLT talkback.
CC Say again, Pete.
CDR CBRM 15 I saw the BAT VOLT talk-
back.
CC Roger, copy. And the other thing is
bring up the star tracker.
CDR In work.
CC CDR Houston. Stand by on the star tracker.
We're in a dump now, you're not going to be able to get it.
CDR Okay.
CC Sorry about that.
CDR Well I mag catch this dump when it
comes out. It is at the right angle now.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything else?
CDR Anything else you want done?
CC No, that ought to do it, Pete. Thank you
very much.
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Time: 06:29 CDT 27:11:29 GMT
6/20/73

CDR Okay. I'ii try to catch it when we come


out in
the sunlight (garble)
CC Okay. And we're about a minute from
LOS. Goldstone will be coming up at 55. And I guess you
and Joe got this dump to coordinate here shortly. Or the 92 vent,
that is.
CDR Yeah, say, it's not clear to me where
you want that. General message said look out the CM 5 window,
but photos are out with that 243 in the wardroom window.
Is that correct?
CC Let me check that one.
CDR Yeah, I need - it slipped my mind, I
meant to ask you about that.
CC Okay, I guess those different observa-
tions. We don't want any photos here_ we just want you
to look.
CDR Oh, hold it. I've got a photo pad for
1142, I think.
CC That pad, I think, is for the contamina-
tion photos.
CDR Oh, okay. Well, I'ii just hold up on
this one. I've got it, I see. Thank you. Yes it says
observe (garble) and contamination photos, and I put them
all together into one big thing. Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1266/I
Time: 06:38 CDT, 27:11:38 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal.
Skylab will next be acquired by Goldstone in 16 minutes.
The vent observation being discussed between Conrad and the
CAP COM has to do with the venting of the MO92, the lower
body negative pressure device. The desire there is for
Conrad to observe that venting on the outside of the vehicle.
We'll come back up just prior to Goldstone. At ii hours
40 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1267/I
Time: 06:53 CDT, 27:11:53 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming within
range of the Goldstone station now. We'll stand by for that
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank. On the vent I couldn't see
anything.
CC Roger, copy. And where are you now? Any-
where close to the STS?
CDR Yeah, what do you want?
CC Okay. Panel 200 - we'd like to check the
MDA PORT HEATERS. Primary and secondary CLOSED, and that's
the top left center row.
CDR Okay, MDA PORT HEATERS: both of them are
OPEN; they're both CLOSED, PRIMARY and SECONDARY.
CC Okay, after those are closed, we'd like
to, on panel 203, verify the or if they're not off, open the
MDA HEATERS PORT CSM switch to OFF and the spare switch to
OFF.
CDR They're both off, and they were off.
CC Roger, Copy. Thank you very much. And
I got one other thing here. If you finished closing out the
S183, is there (garble) one?
CDR Yes, I have.
CC Okay, I guess we're about to lock in on
a decision to bring back that damaged film plate, the one
that you took off of there on day 154. And when you get
a chance, what we'd like to do is wrap it in a towel or
(garble) cloth bag and use the gray tape to tape it to the flat
surface on the outside of the 183 film carrousel, 1-2.
CDR Okay. What are you going to do with i-i?
Bring it back, too?
CC i-i is coming back also.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. In order for the
CDR and SPT to get in your PT, you're clear to delay the
med deactivation as necessary.
SC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, now that
we got those port heater circuit breakers closed, we're going
to run a command check on them. We'll just turn them on
and back off again.
CDR Okay, Hank. The contamination photos are
complete.
CC Roger, copy.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you @till have a message
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Time: 06:53 CDT, 27:11:53 GMT
6/20/73

we sent up on day 23 regarding the service module quad A


procedure to vent it to the PSM?
CDR Surprisingly enough, now that you mentioned
it, yes.
CC Okay, we see this quad A is continuing to
warm up. My tank pressure oxidizes now to 204 psi, and at your
convenience and with pad and coverage, we'd llke to go up
and run through that and leave Quad A° We got about 4-1/2
minutes left on this pass. You think you got time to get
it done?
SC I'm looking at it.
SC The service module RCS Quad PROPELLANT A OPEN;
talkbacks - two of them gray. That is true. And then I'm
going to go ahead and open the TSM. I have done that.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1268/I
Time: 07:06 CDT, 27:12:06 GMT
6/20/73

SC It looks like it already did the job.


CC Roger. It looks like it to us, too.
CC Okay. It looks good to us. So you can
go ahead now and complete the procedure.
SC ATSM quad A (Garble) is closed,
and the talkback is barber poled. And I'm going back to (garble)
(loud whistle).
CC Okay. Good show. Thank you a lot, Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS,
Vanguard at 21.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
I0 minutes Greenwich mean time. And Merritt Island Station
has loss of signal. The Vanguard Tracking Ship will next
acquire Skylab in about i0 minutes. Quad A is that service
module reaction control system quad on which the temperatures
have been running above what had been expected. Along
toward the latter part of this pass, Pete Conrad was asked
to go up into the command module, open a couple of valves, and
relieve the pressure that was building up in that quad.
Also during this pass we advised the crew that they can
delay the medical deactivation until after Conrad and Kerwin
have gotten in their exercise today on the bicycle ergometer.
Included in the medical deactivation is the stowage of the
restraints on the ergometer, and the crew would not be able
to ride the bicycle after deactivation takes place. Paul
Weitz has already gotten his exercise this morning, when
he did the MI71 medical experiment - the last run of that
experiment, which is performed on the bicycle ergometer.
We'll come back up just prior to Vanguard acquisition. At
12 hours 12 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1269/I
Time: 07:18 CDT 27:I2:ISGMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


19 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition at the Vanguard. Skylab will be through there
acquisition duration about 8-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston, through Vanguard 8 min-
utes.
PLT Well, it must be coming right over the top, huh?
CC Well, not really, just sort of a grazing blow
there.
PLT Oh.
CC Skylab Houston. That star should be
available now for star tracker.
CC Skylab Houston, for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Hey, Joe, sorry to hit you with this
right at the end here but, on page 318 of your checklist
there at the end of the MI70 run - 1 run - I guess there is some
concern here about getting the MS chamber there all evacuated
out. So we'd like for you to perform the MS sample (garble)
valve close, and use a 5/32-inch Allen bit, torque
handle 40-inch pound. And we want to close it up now, and
then the iron pump will continue to run for another hour
or so, and really pump her down. This is to preclude some
sort of a lockout on SL III.
CC And Skylab, i minute to LOS. We'll be
coming up on Goldstone at 32 with a data recorder dump.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
29 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of range
of Vanguard tracking ship. The next station to acquire
will be Goldstone in i hour 2-1/2 minutes. We've had some
requests to replay the audio portion of the crew's inflight
news conference this morning. That conference started
about 5:18 a.m. central daylight time. The tape of that
conference is ready now, and we'll replay that on this line.
(Refer to tapes 1259, 1260, and 1261.)

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1270/I
Time: 08:30, CDT, 27:13:30 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Goldstone Station now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylah, Houston; stateside for 7-1/2 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The crew's
still in their lunch period now. Following lunch, transfers
will begin of equipment to be brought back, transferring
them from the orbital workshop to the command module.
CC We've been having a little trouble
tracking down the answers to the EREP questions. And A1
has got an interest for his crew, and answers to a couple
of them. Would it be convenient to get a couple of answers
here, real-time?
SC Yeah. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I guess the ones he's concerned
with are, should the SL-III and IV crews continue the T38
aircraft flights over the S191 site?
SC Affirmative.
CC Okay. And would you recommend that these -
this type of trend be practiced on all the sites or just
only on the more difficult ones?
PLT I recommend that if they have the time
to pratice it on all of them.
CC Okay. And would you recommend using
the T38 with a VTS simulator in it or just a T38 looking
through the canopy?
SC Both.
CC Okay. Is there anything else you'd
like to add that might help in their training. They're -
got about 2 weeks before they go into quarantine, and
they're trying to get all that set up.
SC Well, I appreciate that and I elaborated
quite a bit on the damn tape I don't know what's happening to
those things.
PLT Yeah. Tell Jack or AI that you don't
have time - Once you start looking for the site of track
you don't have time to look at your photographs and all
that key stuff, and back and forth. You've got to know
the sites. And for that reason, the more looks they can get at
it, and I can't emphasize too much how well how much going out
and looking at them from the airplane helps in flight acquisition
and recognition. Now there's a - Looking at them through
the canopy is, in order of magnitude, better than not looking at
them at all. And looking at them through the VTS is twice as good
as that. So just getting out of any airplane and looking at
them, there's ah sure helps. It'll pay off in the end.
CC Roger. Copy.
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Time: 08:30 CDT, 27:13:30 GMT
6/20/73

PLT But the big thing to do, on that, Hank,


is to be familiar with the sites. And all you're going to
use the book for is kind of refreshen your memory and
jogging you on some checkpoints that you have things to
look for. But you don't have time. You stick your face in
that telescope and that's where you stay from then on.
CC Okay. Thank you, Paul.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1271/I
Time: 08:38 CDT, 27:13:38 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute


to LOS. Vanguard will be coming up at 58, and sometime
within the next i0 minutes we'd like to get the star tracker
up. If you don't, we'd like to get the MPC to inhibit so
we can command the wedges over Vanguard.
CDR Okay, the star tracker in work.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours
45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Texas station has loss of
signal. The Vanguard will acquire in 16-1/2 minutes. During
this pass, CAP COM Hank Hartsfield passed up some EREP questions
from the Skylab-lll crew, commanded by AI Bean, asking the
crew's evaluation of EREP training in aircraft_ T38 aircraft,
over the sites. Paul Weitz responded that flights over the
sites were certainly a big help, and he recommends that the
crew do this kind of a training prior to their mission. In
the Pacific at this time the U.S.S. Ticonderoga is conducting
a recovery simulation. We'll come back up just prior to
acquisition at Vanguard. At 13 hours 47 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1272/I
Time: 08:56 CDT 27:13:56 GMT
6_20_73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to be
aqulred by the Vanguard. We'll stand by for this pass.
CC Skylab Houston, through Vanguard for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston. For info we're going
to clear the ACS ALERT light.
CC Skylab, Houston. About i minute from
LOS, next contact is Hawaii, a little over an hour from
now at 07.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours
7 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab now out of range
of the Vanguard tracking ship. Next station to aqulre
will be Hawaii in 58-1/2 minutes. At 14 hours 8 minutes
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1273/I
Time: 09:11 CDT, 27:14:11 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


12 minutes Greenwich mean time. A news briefing on recovery
operations and medical aspects of recovery will be held in
the Johnson Space Center news briefing room at 10:30 a.m.
central daylight time today. To repeat, a news briefing
on recovery and the medical aspects of recovery will be held
in the News Center briefing room at JSC at 10:30 a.m.
central daylight time. This is Sklay Control; out.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1274/I
Time: 10:02 CDT, 27:15:02 GMT
6/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 15 hours


2 minutes. Skylab will soon be within range of the Hawaii
station for about a 6 minute pass there. The Commander,
Pete Conrad busy at this time transferring equipment into
the command module from the orbital workshop, equipment and
experiment data that will be brought back. Scienct Pilot
Joe Kewin equally busy with deactivation of the sleep monitoring
experiment and other medical experiments. And within the
next few minutes Pilot Paul Weitz should be deploying the
particle collection experiment through the antisolar scientific
alrlock. That experiment will be operated unattended through-
out the rest of the day. The ultraviolet panorama experiment
which has been in that airlock was retracted and stowed several
hours ago. Crew was allowed to sleep about 15 minutes late
this morning as Skylab came within range of Goldstone. At
wakeup time the surgeon reported they were sleeping soundly.
Flight Director decided not to send the wakeup call until Just
before Bermuda loss of signal. About 5:18 a.m. Central
daylight time this morning the crew did participate in a
news conference which was televised. They answered a series
of questions read up to them by the CAP COM. Questions had
been prepared by newsmen covering the mission. Paul Weitz
and Joe Kerwin also completed the last runs today on the
lower body negative pressure and metabolic activity medical
experiments. Following the deactivation of the medical
experiments and the deployment of the particle collections
experiment, the other crewmen will assist Conrad in the transfer.
That will be followed la - - Here's AOS now.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I think the star tracker
latched onto a - some kind of a particle outside. Would you bring
it upat your convenience? Reacquire?
SC Yes sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Vanguard at 34 and we'd like to get a current
assessment of the wardroom window. We're trying to make our
plans for deactivation.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 15 hours
13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has had loss of signal.
The next station will be Vanguard in 21 minutes. Following
the equipment transfer which is scheduled to continue to
up until about i:00 p.m. Central daylight time today, 18 hours
GMT, the crew will inventory the items they have transferred
into the command module, double check they haven't forgotten
anything. And that activity will continue up into their
presleep activity. We'll come back up just prior to Well,
scrub that. The news conference will have started by the
time we have Vanguard acquisition. We'll tape through Vanguard
and play that tape back after the briefing on recovery operations
on the medical aspects of recovery. At 15 hours 14 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1275/I
Time: 11:37 CDT, 27:16:37 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 37 minutes


23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have a - the Vanguard pass
during the last revolution has now been recorded, and we
will play that back to you at that time. This is air to
ground from Vanguard during the last pass.
CC Skylab Houston, through Vanguard i0 min-
utes.
CDR Okay, the SPT is headed for the star
tracker to salvage the situation. And PLT will talk to you
about the OWS windows.
CC Okay, ready to copy.
PLT Hey, wait until you talk to Joe about
the star tracker, Hank.
MCC Assistance, corollary.
CC SPT Houston. Are you in trouble with
the star tracker?
SPT Too soon to tell. (garble)
CC Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder
at this site.
SPT Okay, I've got a star.
CC Okay, good show. Paul, what can you
tell us about the window? How does the fogging look now?
PLT Wait a minute, let me get a picture
of you, from it - for you. It's a good right angle,
let me get it, and I'll be with you in a minute.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, the foggy is all gone. Now it's -
the foggy only occurred because I turned the heaters off.
Now what we have right now is a spot of ice. It's egg
shaped just about as big as (garble) cross section. It is
a relatively clear ice that has a lot of it's a crazed
pattern like ice that has been cracked. And in one corner
of it the outer edge is a raised spot which is the nucleus
fo the whole thing. That's the part that was there when
we first took the cover off. That's - I estimate 1/16 to
1/8 - that's hard to tell - 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch thick, and
almost, but not quite, 1/2 inch in diameter.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT That's it. There is something else
that we've also got on here. I don't know if we mentioned it
to you before or not. It should show up in these pictures.
Where the vent hole comes in between the panes there, at
certain times, especially after a night pass, it is more
noticeable than after you have been in the light a while,
there is just a little faint fog pattern like as though air
had been coming in and out through that vent port although we've
had it closed except for that couple of days that we left
it open.
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Time: 11:37 CDT 27:16:37 GMT
6/20/73

CC Roger.
PLT It's like an exhaust shake, like an
exhaust piume that - it starts right at the edge of the window
and gradually gets wider until it just kind of peters
out here in the middle of the window.
CC Paul, where is this high spot located
relative to the window? Is it right in the middle?
PLT Yes sir. Without measuring it I can't tell
you that. It's out in the middle. For all practical pur-
poses, it's right in the middle. Standing on the wardroom
floor, looking at the ice spot then the rest of this ice
pattern and the ice spot is in the lower right-hand part
of this egg shape (garble) that I described to you.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Skylab Houston, i minute to LOS, Hawaii
at 42.
CC Houston through Hawaii for i0 minutes.
PLT Hello.
CC We have AOS at Hawaii.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1276/I
Time: 11:42 CDT, 27:16:42 GMT
6120173

CC Skylab, Houston. We see that the star


tracker's broke lock again. The reason we're trying to
keep this thing locked up is we're trying to get some drift
rate on the gyro Y2, and we got G gyro. And we're so far
between stations we're not getting very good information.
So rather than sit there and keep messing with it then, we'd '
like for you to close the shutter and power it down in the SEVA.
And Just before you go to bed, when we got a little more frequent
station contacts, we'll try to bring it up again.
SC Okay, we'll power it down.
CC PLT, Houston. How did the 149 setup go?
PLT It went okay.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS.
Vanugard coming up at 13 with a data recorder dump.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 53 minutes
and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Hawaiian tracking station after the playback of the
Vanguard and we're live for Hawaii. And completing that
we have 19 minutes and 15 seconds before our next acquisition
of signal again at Vanguard, and we will be back up at that
time. This is Skylab Control at 53 minutes 56 seconds after
the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1277/I
Time: 12:11 CDT, 27:17:11 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours, ii minutes


and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now about a minute
and 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard
Tracking Ship. During this last pass there was some discussion
of the star tracker, which has been giving us a little bit of
a problem during the past day or so. And we may hear something
about that after the Vanguard pass. This is Skylab Control
remaining live for acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Vanguard 8-1/2
minutes.
SC We're really here, Houston.
CC Say again.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going
to command S149 power ON to get some temp measurements.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Been having a little
problem here with the COMM. I'm just making a COMM check now
and disregard.
CC Skylab, Houston. About 40 seconds to LOS
Hawaii at 23.
CC That's about an hour from now.
SC See you then.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 22 minutes and
9 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost acquisition of
signal at Vanguard. We will not pick up another signal for
over an hour from now. And that will be at the Hawaiian
Tracking Station, a very low elevation pass, 2.4 degrees
above the horizon, very nearly on the horizon during its
entire pass, as it travels to the southwest of Hawaii. Because
that is a low elevation pass, the total time of communications
at Hawaii will be about 2 minutes and 13 seconds. Normally
we do not acquire signals that are below 3 degrees, which is
so close to the horizon that it is difficult, sometimes, to
get communications, but there is a rule that instructs us to
get at least 2 communications passes per revolution. This
will be our second one in the 535th revolution about the
Earth. The star tracker on the spacecraft, which is used
in attitude control_ has been powered down during a previous
revolution. The star tracker's field of view normally is
the southern hemisphere when the space station is in solar
inertial attitude or when it's pointed toward the sun to
receive power. There are three stars in the southern
hemisphere used for observing. Canopus, Achernar, and Alfa
Crux are the stars normally selected. And the star
tracker is used to provide a night time reference for determining
the attitude of the spacecraft when we are in solar inertial
attitude and in the daylight, which is a good part of each
revolution. We receive our data on attitude from the sun
(garble) of the ATM, the Apollo telescope mount.
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Time: 12:11 CDT, 27:17:11 GMT
6/20/73

But in the night time we use the start tracker for the
same purpose. The astronauts aim in the general vicinity
of the star using the control and display panel, and then
they instruct the startracker to, by a computer, to begin
an automatic scan of the sky, until it locates the desired
target. When the star tracker detects light reflected from
the earth or radiated by the Sun, a shutter closes to protect
the star tracker's lens and it waits until the spacecraft
returns to darkness to reopen that shutter. The star tracker
was powered down during an earlier revolution. And has not,
in fact, been used since late last night. The reason for
that is, that the star tracker has been picking up particles
in the vicinity of the spacecraft and following those rather
than the star that it is designated to follow. For this reason,
it is not dependable as an attitude control device. Makes
very little difference at this time. The star tracker is
not necessary for attitude control. It's used as an attitude
reference system for very, very fine tuning of attitude. It
is important during Earth resources experiment passes and
will be used during the next manned Skylab mission. It's
expected now, that the star tracker will not be used again
until that manned mission, because it's not essential that
it be used. It's only used for a very fine attitude control
when we are, for example, in an Earth resources orientation,
which requires a movement of the spacecraft and a very precise
pointing towards targets on the Earth. So that star tracker has
been powered down and won't be used again during the mission.
At least that's the present expectation here, in Mission
Control. During this last pass we turned on the S149, or
particle collection experiment equipment, just to gather some
temperature readings on the instrument - get some indication
of whether or not it was working properly. That was turned
off from the ground just before we lost signal at Vanguard.
Purpose of the particle collection experiment is to determine
the distribution of very tiny particles or micrometeorites
traveling in a vicinity of the spacecraft. The reason for
doing this is to determine the surface erosion of the
spacecraft - to determine how much actual damage is done by
these small particles, how much of the material that the
spacecraft is made of is eroded away by the striking of
micrometeoroids on its surface. This will be used in
designing future spacecraft and determine what thickness
of metal should be used and what kind of surfaces would
be desirable. Also, will increase our knowledge of space
biology, because we will bring back the contaminates on the
cassette in this particle collection instrument. And we should
get some idea of what the makeup of those mierometeorite
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particles are and whether or not there are any amino


acid precursors. That is very, very primitive forms from which
amino acids, one of the basic substances of life, are formed.
And that will be another secondary purpose of gathering data
on particles in the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft.
It's being done for a principle investigator at Dudley
Observatory in Albany, New York. This is Skylab Control.
We are now nearly 56 minutes from acquisition of signal
at Hawaii, and we will come up again at that time. 27 minutes
and 12 seconds after the hour, Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC1278/I
Time: 13:20 CDT, 27:18:20 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 18 hours 20 minutes


and 4 seconds. We have just had acquisition of signal at
the Hawaiian tracking station and will remain live for
air-to-ground from Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. Vanguard at 51 with a data recorder dump.
PAO Skylab Control, at 18 hours 25 minutes
and 59 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now loss signal
at the Hawaiian tracking station and will acquire again at
Vanguard in little less then 25 minutes. Beginning about
9 a.m. this morning, Skylab Commander Charles (Pete) Conrad
began moving dozens of items from the space station to the
command module including nearly i0,000 feet of 16 millimeter
film that's used to record experimental data. Film cassettes
from the earth observation cameras that are used to photograph
eleven - have been used to photograph ii separate ground
tracks across the United States, and across several other
countries of the western hemisphere. In addition, Commander
Conrad, with some assistance in the last hour and a half from
Paul Weitz, moved samples, canisters, and magnetic tape reels
from several space experiments. Also included in the list of
items to be stored are small pieces of equipment that have
not been performing properly, including a water dispenser valve.
Today's stowage activity is preparatory for undocking very early
Friday morning and for a splashdown to occur just before
8:50 a.m. Central daylight time, approximately 830 miles -
statute miles southwest of San Diego, California. During
the coming pass over Vanguard we expect the S149 particle
collection experiment to be test operated. The S149 is to
gather data on the size and shape of tiny particles or
micrometeorites in the vicinity of the spacecraft. During
the previous Vanguard pass, the revolution Just completing,
we did take the instrument and extend it on the boom outside
of the antisolar scientific airlock, outside a small airloek
in the side of the orbital workshop that's opposite the Sun.
And that boom was tested earlier today for a mal - possible
malfunction. It had malfunctioned the last time it was
withdrawn. It is also used for the T027 and S073 experiment.
It's an 18-foot-long boom that's used to extend this apparatus
outside the workshop. The apparatus will be now tested. They
did put it out for - to get temperature data over Vanguard,
found that it was reading minus 31 degrees, which is well
within the motor's operating range. And during the next pass
over Vanguard they expect they will command that. It takes
approximately 7 minutes to run one test on it. The device
is opened up - has a series of four cassette panels, and
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those open up at the command of the motor. Takes about


3 minutes for them to pop open and about 3 minutes to close
them up again. The only purpose of this is to make sure
that the expermental hardware's in operating condition. The
S149 will not be used until after the men have left the
spacecraft. It's to acquire particle data and will begin
acquiring that data approximately 12 hours after the space-
craft has left. They don't want to use it at this time because
it would be contaminated by fuel from the engines and other
residues that are left by the crew and command module when
it departs. After - 12 hours after the undoeking they expect
to open up that instrument, which will still be out 18 feet
from the spacecraft on a long boom. It'll be opened by a
telemetry command from the ground and will remain open until
approximately 12 hours before the rendezvous of the next
Skylab mission - the second manned mission or Skylab III as
it is called. So we expect that to occur over Vanguard
provided they have sufficient time to do the commanding
and get it back into a closed position at Vanguard, just to
test the engines - test the motors that operate the experimental
hardware. This is Skylab Control, at 29 minutes and 42 seconds
after the hour. Our next acquisition at Vanguard in a little
over 21 minutes.

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Time: 13:39 CDT, 27:18:39 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 39 minutes


and 44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are still ii minutes
and 15 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station and we'd like to make an announcement on
our change of shift. We expect a change of shift briefing
to begin at 2:15 p.m. Central daylight time today; that's
2:15 p.m. Central daylight time. That's earlier than our
change of shift briefings have been running. The reason
for that being that today there is no flight management team
meeting, that's something we didntt know earlier. So,
approximately 2:15 we expect offgoing flight director,
Nell Hutehlngson to be available for a briefing. The second
flight director also on shift at this time, Phil Shaffer,
may or may not be at that meeting. It depends on whether or
not he gets out of the meeting he's in now. But we do expect
flight director Nell Hutchinson to be available for a change
of shift briefing at 2:15 p.m. Central daylight time today
in the Building 1 small briefing room. We're still 10 minutes
from acquisition of signal at Vanguard and we'll come up
shortly before that. This is Skylah Control, at 40 minutes
and 44 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 13:49 CDT 27:18:49 GMT
6/2O/73

PAO Skylab Control, 18 hours 49 minutes


and 51 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are i minute from
acquisition of signal at Vanguard and will remain live
for that acquisition. This is Skylab Control remaining live
for air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for i0 min-
utes.
SPT Roger.
CC And we are doing a data recorder dump at
Vanguard this time.
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute until LOS,
Ascension at 19:04, 04.
PLT 04.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours i minute and
39 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at the
Vanguard tracking ship, and expect to acquire a signal again
at Ascension in about 2 minutes and 53 seconds. At that
time we should hear a call from the new on-duty flight
controller. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson has indicated
that he is approximately ready to depart for that briefing,
which we expect to begin in about i0 to 12 minutes, at
15 minutes after 2:00 p.m. The new on-duty spacecraft com-
municator will be Robert L. Crippen, astronaut. He is
coming on with the maroon team of flight controllers headed
by Flight Director Milton Windler. During the briefing
to begin at 2:15 p.m. central daylight time, we will have
off-going Flight Director Nell Hutchinson, who has been on
during the deactivation part of today's stowage list. That's
stowing of objects from the orbital workshop and multiple docking
adaptor into the command module. And he'll be qualified
to talk about tomorrow's activities. The Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson will be the only person attending that
briefing. The other off-going Flight Director, Phil Schaffer,
will not be available today for the briefing. This is Skylab
Control, we'll remain live for air to ground from Ascension
in about a minute and a half.

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Time: 14:03 CDT, 27:19:03 GMT
6/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston; Ascension for i0 minutes.


CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in i minute. See
you again at Guam at 19:51, 51.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 15 minutes and
21 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
Ascension and will not reacquire the spacecraft until 35 minutes
and ii seconds from now. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson has
left Mission Control and is going down for a taxi that is
waiting for him outside the building. He's expected to
appear at building i in approximately 3 to 5 minutes. This
is Skylab Control, there will be a briefing in 3 to 5 minutes
with Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson, in the building i
auditorium. Skylab Control at 15 minutes and 50 seconds after
the hour.

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Time: 14:49 CDT 27:19:49 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 49 minutes


and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition
of signal at the Guam tracking station, and we'll remain live
for air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam 7 minutes.
CDR Hi there.
CC Hello. How are you, CDR?
CDR Good after having been carried in the
command module all day.
CC Where you guys have been? Y'all were so
quiet, I thought you were hiding from us.
CDR No, we were just trying to stay on the
time line.
CC I thought you were preparing the vehicle
for Captain Bean and his crew.
CDR Well, we are. We're also packing our
own bags. Say Crip, there are a few things on B channel today
that the stowage people ought to look at.
CC Okay, and they appreciate all the infor-
mation you've been giving them regarding stowage also.
CDR Okay. One thing that I want to have verified
is: I have put the extra S183 into A4, and I wanted to know
if that is all right., rather than in a BGA bag and tied
down on top of the (garble)
CC Okay, we'll get clearance on that.
CDR Hey, you guys are being pretty quiet
down there too. You're cooking up all the changes for
tomorrow and the next day.
CC Well, Hank is still around here working
on that sort of thing right now. Actually, I'm just sitting
here loafing. Regarding your question on 183, if you man-
aged to get that thing in A4, that's fine and dandy.
CDR I got it done; it only took a little crow
bar, but I got it in.
CC Okay.
CDR (garble)
CDR The other thing, Crip, is I have two valves
to dump command module water into the OWS system. And I also
have this valve that is designed to put humidity into the
workshop atmosphere. No where do I find anything to do
that. Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to trash it, in
the trash basket.
CC Stand by on that, Pete.
CDR I think it's residing in A9 all this
time.
CC Roger. It's the ones you keep in A9?
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CDR No, that's where they wound up. I


forget. I think they came from A3 originally, but
I don't really remember now.
CC Okay.
CC In the service module water - -
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll see you again over Vanguard at 20:28, and
we'll try to have an answer for you regarding those valves
and that atomizer. Our initial inclination is we'll probably
want to put them back in the workshop some place and save
them for the next mission in case we require them_ but
we'll do a storage location for you.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 58 minutes
and 24 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal
at the Guam tracking station and will next acquire in
29 minutes and 27 seconds at Vanguard. We will return
at that time. This is Skylab Contro_ at 58 minutes
and 39 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC1283/I
Time: 15:26 CDT 27:20:26 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 20 hours 27 minutes


and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are 50 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Vanguard Tracking Ship, and we
expect to have a live air-to-ground and a call from spacecraft
communicator, Bob Crippen. This is Skylab Control, staying
live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for ii
minutes.
CDR Hey, Crip; CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR I been going through that locker in the
bottom of my room that has the (garble) six crew members (garble)
and also the supply resupply module that has tooth brushes
and the hand cream and the tooth paste and so forth.
CC Roger.
CDR And the - All the hand cream let go in there.
It got too hot. We told you that before, but we really haven't
had a chance to clean it up until now and - so I just went
ahead and closed it over and all the toothpaste had let
go too. And so I have thrown away all the toothpaste
resupply, and I've thrown away all the increased resupply
that was in the resupply kit. And I'm just about to go into
the individual guy's kits, because every hand cream in their
individual kits let go, and I've got to check the toothpaste
also. And more than likely it may or may not have let go in the
individual kits, and if so, I'ii let you know. But those
are two items that - they're completely wiped out up here.
I don't think the other guys need to (garble).
CC Okay, appreciate that. And for your
information regarding those items that you were talking about
in A9, what we think you're talking about is this the
atomizer device. That we'd like yon to stow in 440, D440
for us. And there were two QD devices: one was the waste water
transfer QD and the condensate QD adaptor. Those should
be stowed in MI51 if we could.
CDR Okay, MI51 for those and D440 for the
atomizers humidifiers. Roger.
CC Roger. And Pete, while I got you here,
we've been having a little problem with those spots on the
TV, and we'd like to try to get them cleaned up if we could.
And I guess the question really is: Do you think you got
time this evening to get the optics brush out of 524 and
dust off the lens of both the external portion, and if you
could remove it and get the internal portion too, we'd appreciate
it.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you.
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CDR Say Crip, you still there?


CC Affirm.
CDR Say, the other thing I haven't checked
there is that none of them broke opens but our shaving cream
was awfully hard. And I have a suspicion that that was due
to heat also. I get the feeling that shaving cream - there
is no toothpaste in the individual kits; so I've thrown away
all the toothpaste. They are going to have to bring more of
that. I've got the feeling that shaving cream_ toothpaste,
and hand cream have all gone had too.
CC Okay, it's on note.
CDR Yeah s I won't throw away the shaving cream
because it's not broken open, but I get the suspicion of
something sneaky.
CC Copy.
SC Hey, Hank raised the vent up in the
head. It was the only place I could open it up with
just a (garble) sand collector to collect all the (garble)
particles.
CC Okay. Some of the cream got out in the
individual kits. It's felt that - you want to just throw them
all away and resupply the whole kits do you?
SC Well, we can do that because inside every-
body's kit - yeah, it's broke open inside everybody's kit.
I was just pulling the (garble) in the thing. If you
think he can reach the (garble) kits, I just as soon get
rid of them, because they're all dirty inside and so is
the resupply module. It's filthy.
CC Okay. Why don't we take that under advisement
down here and probably make some recommendation before you
leave.
SC Okay, well, until you do, I'm going to
stop throwing stuff away. I got other things I can do.
CC Okay.
SC I've already thrown away everything in
the resupply kit, and I just finished AI Bean's and Joe Pogue's
kits. And I'ii stop right there.
CC Okay.

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SL-II MC-1284/I
Time: 15:35 CDT, 27:20:35 GMT
6/20/73

CC Hey Crip, you still there


CC Say again, please.
CDR I said are you still there? Question.
I have the TV lens, and it looks clean as a whistle inside,
and outside I think, and how about if I change it out with
the last that I stowed to leave on board on the (garble)
camera.
CC Let us cheek that out please.
CDR Well, let me tell you this. I can see
where the dirt is, and I'm not going to be able to get at
it. It's on the next lens in from the front lens that's
causing the spot.
CC Roger. Understand it's the dirt
on one of the lenses that you haven't got access to.
CDR That's right. And let me make a suggestion
that I bring both lenses home - use the good one and bring
this one home, you clean them up and send them back.
CC Rog. I think they intended to bring
bring both lenses back down anyhow.
CDR That's not my instructions, but if you
say so and I haven't gotten into it yet. l've already stowed
the other lens.
CC Okay, we'll look into that Pete. I
guess right now we understand that the intent is to bring
both TV cameras home. And those day 27 transfers should
have said that. We'll check back into it for you.
CDR No, you've got it wrong, l'm bringing
both cameras back, but it didn't say a thing about the
other lens.
CC Ah so. Okay.
CDR Ah so.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll have you again at Ascension at 20:42. And we'll have
a clarification of what to do with the lens at that point.
CDR All right.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 39 minutes
and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking ship and expect to aquire Ascension
in a little over 2 minutes. We have some additional temp-
erature data now on a change made yesterday in the position
of the parasol. Although some temperatures on outer walls
of the space station are still 5 to i0 degrees above yes-
terdays level, one more night of study will be necessary
to determine the effect of a slight rotation of the parasol
to cover a hot spot in the orbital workshop. Temperatures
in the orbital workshop living area of the spacecraft con-
tinue in the high 70s. Following yesterday's space walk
to replace film and camera assemblies on Skylab's solar
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telescope mount, astronaut Pete Conrad suggested that the


parasol be rotated to shade a hot spot on the workshop
where a water tank is lo_ated inside the workshop. The
parasol is used to cool off the workshop by protecting it
from direct sunshine, which struck the surface of the or-
bital workshop when the aluminum meteoroid shield was
ripped off shortly after the launch of the space station.
Conrad reported yesterday morning that one of the two rods
used to spread the parasol's rear section had not fully
extended and therefore the parasol was missing a small
area outside the water tank. After receiving an okay
from mission control, Conrad rotated the parasol trying
to estimate 15 degrees, the amount he had suggested during
the EVA. About an hour later, the crew discovered that
the outer walls of the sleep compartment were becoming
hot. Mean while ground flight controllers had observed
some sharp temperature increases on the external walls out-
side the habitation area. Before orders could be given
from the ground, the crew reported that they had moved the
parasol that part way. Commander Conrad said he had over
shot by about i0 degrees, and he'd try to move it back to
the proper 15 degree rotation. While very little effect
was noticed in the room temperature over night, the sensors
attached to structural points along outer walls of the
space station have gone up on the side of the orbital
workshop opposite that which the crew sought to cover.
Unfortunately there are no structural sensors near the
water tank hot spot, and internal temperatures in that
area require long periods of time to reflect changes. In
addition, the EVA activity yesterday raised temperatures
about i degree in the workshop because of shutdown of coolant
loops inside during the EVA activity. That happened during
previous EVAs as well and is a common thing. We are now
within range of signal at Ascension and we'll remain live
for air-to-ground from there.

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SL-II- MC-1285/I
Time: 15:42 CDT, 27:20:42 GMT
6_20_73

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension, 6 minutes.


SC Rog.
CC Okay. And I guess this is the word on
the lens. We would appreciate if you'd taken that one that
you stowed and try it out, observe the TV monitor with each
lens and select the best one, and use that one for the fly-
around. You can stow the extra lens in B-6 - Bravo-6.
CDR Okay. You want to bring both lenses
home and ah - The other one I have I examined it carefully in the
Sunlight. It is obvious that - I don't know how this lens got
by inspection, because all those big blobs, which I can
see quite plainly, are on an inner lens.
CC Okay. Fine.
SC (garble) get the other lens, I don't know.
CDR You still there, Crip?
CC Affirmative. We're still over Ascension.
Actually, we'll probably get a pretty long pass here. We'll
probably have a small dropout between Ascension and Canary.
CDR Okay. The other lenses, (Garble) just
visibly, to the naked eye, are a lot better. (Garble).
CC Okay. Fine. Then that'll be the one
you'll use. Regarding those personal kits, we - Just forget
about cleaning them out and just leave them like they are.
We'll have them candidates for resupply, and if they don't
get a resupply, well the guys can clean out their own kits.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll probably have to
drop you out for about a minute, between Ascension and Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've picked you up
again once more, over Canary, for about 8-i/2 minutes and
we will be doing a data recorder dump over Canary.
PLT You still there, Houston?
CC That's affirmative, for about another
2 minutes.
SC Okay, Crip. We just decided -

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Time: 15:58 CDT, 27:20:58 GMT
6/20/73

SC Still there, Houston?


CC That's affirmative, for about another
2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Crip. We just decided that, unless
you guys have any big objection, we're going to get a leg
up on this early bed, early get up stuff and we're going to
go to bed an hour early, tonight, and get up an hour early
tomorrow.
CC Sounds good from us.
SPT Okay. Don't call after i0, we'll call
you.
CC Okay. I've got to check my time schedule
to figure out when is what.
CC Okay. That's an hour from now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll have you again over Guam, at 21:26 and that's
where we're scheduled for the evening status report and
we'll see what we can do about the other items for this
evening.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're going to set up
so you will have the medical conference over Guam.
SPT Good night.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 1 minute and
8 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now at
our Madrid Tracking Station after a long pass from Ascension
through Canary and Madrid, and do not expect to acquire
signal again for 24 minutes and 35 seconds. At that time we
will acquire at Guam and during this last pass, we've got
an indication from our flight director, through the spacecraft
communicator, Bob Crippen, that that will he reserved for
a medical conference. Originally, that medical conference
had been scheduled for approximately i hour later at
the Vanguard Station at 22:06, originally. And they decided
to move that up, because of a request of the crew, that they
be allowed to go to sleep i hour early tonight. That would
make them in bed and asleep by approximately, 5:00 o'clock
central daylight time. Apparently, the ground team is trying
now, to determine whether that will affect any of their
other things. They do have to get a status report in before
they allow them to go to sleep, or they do expect to. And
that's still under consideration. Normally, the medical
conferences have been very short, so it's quite possible we
may get back to the crew for some live air-to-ground at
Guam. And we would be up for that. So we do expect some
change in their sleep schedule tonight, going to bed about
5:00 p.m.. And we expect them to get up 1 hour early tomorrow
morning, which means they'd be up at i:00 a.m. tomorrow.
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That's an hour earlier than they have been getting up for


the past week. During the past approximately, the past
week, since last Saturday, the crew has had a work schedule
of 2:00 a.m. in the morning until 6:00 p.m. at night central
daylight time. And this was done to prepare the crew and
to adjust their sleep cycle for an early morning
splashdown on Friday. That work schedule is to undergo
adjustment again tomorrow. The crew is expected to
go to sleep tomorrow about 2:30 p.m. central
daylight time, after about an ll-hour work day. I'm sorry,
after about - with this adjusted time, after about a 13-hour work-
day. If they go to bed tomorrow at 2:30, as it is expected,
they will be required to wake up 5 hours later, at 7:30
p.m. on Thursday evening, central daylight time and then
they will begin preparations for their return trip aboard
the command module. That splashdown on Friday is scheduled
for, approximately, 8:50 in the morning central daylight
time and its location is 830 miles southwest of San Diego
in the Pacific Ocean. It's roughly west of Baja, California,
roughly west of LaPaz. The most recent weather report
we have on that landing area from the space flight meteorology
group from the national weather service, division of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they
said this morning that weather conditions are expected to
be satisfactory for the landing and recovery of the Skylab
astronauts, Friday morning. The landing area located about
830 miles southwest of San Diego California, will have
partly cloudy skies, northeasterly winds at 15 knots,
wave heights of 5 feet, and a temperature near 67 degrees.
To repeat that, partly cloudy skies predicted for Friday
morning's landing area 830 miles southwest of San Diego,
northeasterly winds at 15 knots, wave heights of 5 feet,
and a temperature near 67 degrees. Temperatures so far
on the workshop have changed very little, still remain
in the high 70s. The shift of the parasol made yesterday,
with a slight correction, that was intended to shift it
15 degrees, Captain Conrad found after the shifting that
he had, in fact, shifted too far, and there was some over-
heating in the sleep compartment walls, and as a result
of that they shifted it back. He said later, that he had
estimated, he wanted to shift it 15 degrees, had in fact,
shifted it about 25 degrees, so he attempted to move it
back i0 degrees to get it to the 15-degree shift that he
wanted it. That was a 15-degree counterclockwise rotation
of the parasol that was done from inside that scientific
airlock on the Sun side of the workshop. So, it presently
remains at that 15-degree counterclockwise rotated position.
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And the readings that we have so far indicate no improvement


so far, but on the other hand they are not certain that
there has been any degradation. They'd like to give one more
night, so that sometime tomorrow morning, we should have
sufficient information for a thermal management specialist
here at Johnson Space Center's Mission Control, and
also at Marshall Space Flight Center's Huntsville Operations
Support Center, that's a supporting unit that is connected
by computer and communications systems to Mission Control,
here in Houston. And the Huntsville, Alabama Center is looking
at the thermal problem, and looking at the data. So far
there's been no determination of whether that rotation has
had any benefit, or not. It's believed that there's been
no adverse affects, but because of a number of complicating
factors, including the high, long periods in the Sun, and
due to the EVA, yesterday, which requires a reduction in
coolant in the workshop, it's very difficult at this time
to make any determination of whether that has been a
successful rotation or unsuccessful one. So, no doubt
we will get some data on that overnight and final decision
will he made promptly tomorrow, as to whether or not the
parasol should be returned to its original position, or some
sort of modification of its position. This is Skylab
Control, our next acquisition of signal, about 19-1/2 minutes
from now, is for a private medical conference, the
daily private medical conference to determine the present
state of the crew's health, generally it's been a very, very
brief one. Just sufficient to tell Dr. Buchanan, who's been
getting the reports, that crew health has been excellent,
there have been no problems thus far. And we expect a similar
thing may take place today. In fact, Flight Director Milton
Windier of the Maroon team indicated a short while ago that
he requested the medical people - asked them whether they would
require a medical conference at all today, in view of the
fact there are very few passes left before the crew has asked
to go to sleep. So the crew will be going to sleep, it looks
like an hour early at 5:00 p.m. central daylight time. Next
pass 18 minutes-i/2 from now at Guam, a private medical
conference. We will come up live for air-to-ground in the
event that that medical conference is a brief one as it has
been in the past days. This is Skylab Control at 7 minutes
and 28 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC1287/I
Time: 16:24 CDT, 27:21:24 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 24 minutes


and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station. This
Guam pass is reserved for a private medical conference
conducted with the crew from a private room near the
Mission Control Center, inside the Mission Control Center
but seperate from the operations room. And we do expect
that the medical conference will be fairly brief and that
we should have communications following that medical
conference today. The crew is expected to go to sleep
at 5 p.m. central daylight time today. That's 1 hour
earlier than was originally planned, and we do expect them
to get up an hour early tomorrow morning, which means
they'll be up at i a.m. central daylight time on Thursday.
Tomorrow they're expected to go to sleep again at 2:30 p.m.
central daylight time after a short workday, and will wake
up 5 hours later to start preparations for that Friday
morning splashdown. The retrofire officer here at Mission Control
yesterday arrived at final calculations on those maneuvers
necessary for Friday morning's return of the first Skylab
crew. The command module is scheduled to undoek at exactly
3:45 a.m. central daylight time with the space station over
the North Pacific about 1200 miles north of Hawaii. Separation,
which uses the small reaction control system Jets for 23 seconds
beginning at 4:40 a.m. central daylight time, follows. The
separation burn will slow the command module 5 feet per
second or about 3 miles per hour, moving it behind the space
station after it has completed its flyaround. That fly-
around is expected to be televised during the period between
3:45 and the 4:40 separation. After it has completed the
flyaround, the CSM slows down, moves into a lower orbit, and
then passes beneath the Skylab cluster because of it's
shorter travel distance in a lower orbit. The separation
takes place over the Indian Ocean some 2,000 miles due
south of the Malagasy Republic on the Island of Madagascar.
Following separation at 5:05:30 a.m. central daylight time
Friday, the main engine, or service propulsion system, will
be fired for i0 seconds to slow the spacecraft an additional
264 feet per second, or about 180 miles per hour slower, putting
it in an orbit 233.6 nautical miles, or about 269 statute miles
at it's high point, and 90.7 nautical miles, or 104 statute
miles at its low point. This elliptical orbit is necessary
to bring the spacecraft close enough for the reentry maneuver.
The orbit-shaping maneuver is conducted over the Philippine Sea about
600 miles east of the main Philippine Island of Mindanat.
The final burn requiring a 7 second retrofire of the main
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engine, slows the command module another 190 feet per second,
or about 130 miles per hour. That will be made at 8:10:43
a.m. - 8:10:43 a.m. central daylight time over the northern-
most area of Thailand near the Burma border. The spacecraft
will take more than 23 minutes to reach 400,000 feet, and
will reach that level at 8:33:47 a.m. central daylight
time. And splashdown is set for 8:49:57 a.m. central daylight
time, approximately 830 statute miles southwest of San Diego,
California. The predicted impact point is 24 degrees 46 minutes
north latitude and 127 degrees 4 minutes west longitude. That's
830 miles southwest of San Diego, California; predicted
impact at 24 degrees 46 minutes north latitude and 127
degrees 4 minutes west longitude. That is a point - -
CC We got you for about 7-1/2 more minutes.
We've got a long message for your deactivation changes sitting
in the teleprinter for you, hopefully. They're coming up - -
CDR Thanks a let. You waited until we were
going to go to bed.
CC Roger. No reason for you to go to bed.
There's nobody down here can answer any questions about
them.
CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything tonight
plus two cans of butter cookies. The SPT ate everything
and the PLT ate everything plus one can of butter cookies
extra and 1.5 DELTA H20 plus well, wait until I find it -
oh, okay, I've got his (garble) hiding behind the bungee
that he had his card behind. He didn't eat his corn.
And I have a photo log for you.
CC Roger.
CDR The CDR had three optional salts.
CC Okay.
CC We're standing by for your photo.
CDR I have my ice cream in one hand, my spoon
in the other, two cans of butter cookies empty between my
legs because I was on my way to the trash locker, and I
can't read it. Just a minute.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Photo log for day 171. 16-millimeters
in S183: Echo Alfa 03, 80; and MII0 with the Charlie
India 15, 00; Charlie India 12. M487: 3 Bravo in Charlie;
Charlie India 13, 18, Charlie India i0. M151-S149 PR-3:
Charlie India 17, 20, Charlie India 06. Shoot it up, Charlie
India 17, nothing, Charlie India 06. 35-millimeter: Charlie
India 31 is all gone, Charlie India 33 is new loaded, 01 on
the frame count, Charlie India 32 is in the other camera,
27; we took CX06 out of the N_s_elblad with approximately
103 exposures on it, and we then loaded Charlie X-ray 23
for the flyaround and so forth and the frame count right
now is 004. There was no EREP, of course, and the drawer A
configuration was

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Time: 16:30 CDT, 27:21:30 GMT
6/20/73

CDR - - is now loaded, 01 on the frame


count. Charlie India 32 is in the other camera, 27. We
took CX06 out of the Hasselblad with approximately 103 ex-
posures on it, and we have loaded Charlie X-ray 23 for the
flyaround and so forth and the frame count right now is
004. There was no EREP, of course, and the drawer A con-
figuration was A-l, is now 02, Charlie India i, 900 percent,
Charlie India 15; 03 is Charlie India 20, i00 percent, Charlie
India 17, and those are the two we plan to shoot up on our
own. Alfa 3 is 06, Charlie India 13, 18 Charlie India i0,
and we'll shoot that up and A-4 is 05, nothing, takeups Charlie
India 16 and I suspect tomorrow night it will be 02, 03, 06
with takeups of Charlie India 19, Charlie India 20, Charlie
India 13, and Charlie India 16 with no supply. Okay?
CC Okay. I hope our people in the back room
managed to get all that. Also, Pete, we have requested on
your details, if we could, to get a rundown on the consumables
inventory page 5-1 and 5-2 of the stowage list. Is that
available, or did you put that on channel B?
CDR I got it. Just a second.
CDR Okay. Urine disposal bag - wait, let
me get the PLT down here to - -
PLT It's on channel B.
CDR Oh, I'm sorry. He says he put it all
on channel B. Okay?
CC Okay. That'll be fine, if you have it
on channel B for us.
CDR I hope the guys on the ground can deci-
pher it, because I can't understand it up here, but the PLT
knows all.
CC Very good. (garbled).
CDR Actually, he's sitting here nodding,
looking like a Buddah telling me.
CDR We'll go ahead and digest the checklist
changes, so we won't bug you until tomorrow.
CC Okay. That'll be fine. The deactivation
guys have secured, and they'll be available to you in the
morning and can answer any questions you may have on it.
CDR Okay.
CDR We've already got day 28 anyhow, so it
doesn't make any difference. We just didn't want to tell
them.
CC I suspected that also. You guys just
want to loaf tomorrow.
CDR Yes, the PLT thinks that if we can figure
out our (garbled), we'll be ready to retro about 1 tomorrow
afternoon.
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6/20/73

CC You guys really are anxious.


CDR We're just trying to stay out of the
changes.
CC You've been doing pretty fair so far.
We're about to go over the hill. Got about 1 minute. If
you do want to call us, we'll be over Vanguard at about
22:07, that's 07, and I'ii probably be talking to you again
after splashdown. Good luck, guys.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Crip. Where are we
right now?
CC Oh, just about over Bornio right now.
CDR Oh, yes. There it is, Bornio.
I couldn't recognize what it was. Yes. Thank you.
CC I couldn't either if Rusty hadn't told
me.

PLT See you, Crip.


CC Take care.
PLT Thanks to your whole team.
CC Yes, thank you guys. You did an out-
standing job.
CC And we've just completed sending the last
of allthose messages. That should do it for this evening.
CDR Okay. We turned off the teleprinter
anyhow. We didn't want to do them.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 36 minutes
and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost our signal
from the Guam tracking station as the spacecraft was travelling
over Bornio headed to the southeast. We've gone over the
horizon at Guam. We do come very low on the horizon from
the Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia, but it's a
very low elevation pass, 2.3 degrees above the horizon,
barely above the horizon, and because we have had two passes
on this revolution, we do not expect to have any acquisition
of signal, and in addition to that spacecraft communicator
Bob Crippen indicated that that was a goodnight call and
they would not be calling them again. The next good oppor-
tunity for communication would not be until Vanguard, and
Vanguard is about 30 minutes away from now, and because of
this 30 minutes away, it would be after the time the crew
indicated that they would like to go to sleep. We do expect
the crew to be going to sleep about 5 p.m. central daylight
time. That's about 23 minutes from now, and we do not expect
to hear another call to or from them. We will remain on
station for possible calls at either Honeysuckle or Vanguard
and we will get a private - a short report out of that pri-
vate medical conference held at Guam at the beginning of that
pass. We have the latest weather report; it's a confirma-
tion of that one given earlier at 21:00 Greenwich mean time
about 37 minutes ago. (garbled) Meteorology Group's National
SL-II MC-1288/3
"_ Time: 16:30 CDT, 27:21:30 GMT
6/20/73

Weather Service, division of the National Oceanic and At-


mospheric Administration, said this afternoon that weather
conditions are expected to be satisfactory for the landing and
recovery of the Skylab astronauts early Friday morning.
The landing area, located about 830 miles southwest of San
Diego, California, will have partly cloudy skies, northeasterly
winds at 15 knots, wave heights of 5 feet, and a temperature
near 67 degrees. Predicted impact point of that splashdown,
24 degrees 46 minutes north latitude, 127 degrees 4 minutes
west longitude. That is the point at which the main chutes
open and as close a prediction as we can give at this time
of the impact point for that splashdown of the first manned
mission from Skylab. This is Skylab Control. We will remain
live for any possible air-to-ground at Honeysuckle, but it
is not expected that we'll have another acquisition until
Vanguard at approximately 27 minutes. This is Skylab Control
at 38 minutes remaining live for any air-to-ground possible
at Honeysuckle.

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Time: 16:39 CDT, 27:21:39 GMT
6/20/73

PAO Skylab Control. We have lost any possi-


bility now of getting signal from our Honeysuckle tracking
station. Our next acquisition signal 22 minutes and 50
seconds from now at Vanguard. We do not expect to hear
from the crew again tonight. They indicated earlier that
they would like to go to bed early and get an early start
tomorrow for their deactivation of the orbital workshop,
preparatory to their return Friday morning. We have a report
from the surgeon, based on that private medical conference
held at Guam during the last pass a few minutes ago. The
surgeon report signed by Dr. Buchanan is as follows: "The
SL-2 Commander, Captain Conrad, reports the crewmen are
"all super". We can find no hint of inflight health problems
as the crew prepares for an early beginning of their sleep
period. They have expressed a wish to turn in early and get
a headstart on the deactivation schedule tomorrow." Signed
Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins, Flight Surgeon. That concludes
the medical report. We do not expect to hear another message
from the crew of the first manned mission of Skylab. They
have gone to bed early. Expect to get them to sleep by about
5 p.m. tonight central daylight time and they should not he
up again until 1 a.m. tomorrow when they awake to go through
a completion of that deactivation procedure on the orbital
workshop and associated parts of the Skylab space station.
Completing that deactivation before 2:30 when they are set
to retire again tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. central daylight time,
a short workday. They go to bed at 2:30 and 5 hours later
at 7:30 p.m. central daylight time, they are awakened and
then we'll begin preparations for undocking and the return
to Earth. The scheduled time for splashdown just a little
before 8:50 a.m. central daylight time on Friday morning.
This is Skylab Control. We do not expect to hear again from
the crew and this will be the last report for the evening.
The next report at 1 a.m. central daylight time tomorrow
morning when the crew awakens again. This is Skylab Control
at 45 minutes and 37 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1290/I
_ Time: 01:05 CDT 28:06:05 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control


at 6 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time on the 28th day
of the first manned Skylab mission. Skylab is coming up
within range of the Hawaii tracking station now, and CAP
COMM Dr. Bill Thornton will be putting in a wakeup call to
the crew. This will be a busy day. The entire day will
be devoted to deactivation of the Saturn workshop.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Houston.
CDR Did anybody ever answer you this morning,
Bill?
CDH Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
CDR We just wondered if anybody answered
you this morning.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay. We were having a big discussion,
and you came in, and when the discussion was over, we said,
"Did we ever answer that?"
CC Pete, they've even got a little song
for you down here this morning.
CDR They do? Well, play it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That boatswain's
"f pipe call
SPT Skylab.
CC Go, Skylab.
SPT Okay, the medical status report asks
for me to voice record on some OGI data on the PLT. I've
done that twice. And the data no longer exists up here
because we erased our cue cards. I think they ought to
search channel B again.
CC We copy, Joe.
CC And, Joe, we appreciate your patience on
this channel 5 stuff.
SPT Okay.
(Music)
CDR Yon should have started doing that on
about day 2.
CC For some reason they thought that that might
be appropriate for you, Pete. I don't know who thought it
up.
PAO The title of that number is "The Lonely
Bull." And the boatswain's pipe call that was sent up earlier
is Paul Hand's.
CC And, Skylab; we'll be LOS in i minute.
Goldstone at 06:18.
SPT Okay.
SL-II MC-1290/2
Time: 01:05 CDT 28:06:05 GMT
6/21/73

CC And the crew down here couldn't find


a song for three bulls, it was only one.
CDR Here's a little old song, love.
(Music)
PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours 16
minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has loss of signal;
Goldstone will acquire in just under 2 minutes. That last
song coming down from Skylab was out of Pete Conrad's repertoire
of country-western music he has aboard. We'll continue
to stand by for acquisition at Goldstone.

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SL-II MC-1291/I
Time: 01:16 CDT, 28:06:16 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 6 minutes.


CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. Bermuda at 29.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours 26 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has loss of signal. And
there'll be about a 2-1/2 minute gap before Bermuda acquires.
Skylab now at it's northernmost ground track, 50 degrees
north latitude. We'll continue to stand by for Bermuda
acquisition.

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SL-II MC-1292/I
Time: 01:25 CDT, 28:06:25 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes. We'll


have a 1 minute keyhole about 2 minutes into this pass.
PLT Roger.
PLT Are you still there, Bill?
CC Say again, Skylab.
CDR Roger, do we just set our clocks ahead
exactly 4 hours of clock time? Is that right?
CC (Garble)
CC Pete, if you set your clock ahead 4 hours
at this time we would show you day 38, 10:31. That's day
28.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Hello, Houston. You still there?
CC We're still here. Go ahead, Paul.
PLT Okay, I'm just wondering. I don't remember
starting up S149 and deactivation before. Did you do that
in the deactivation flight plan, or are y'all going to send
up a message to initiate its (garble)?
CC Stand by half, Paul.
PLT Okay.
CC Paul, you don't need a pad for that. That'll
be commanded from the ground.
PLT Oh, okay. So leave it just as it is
.... POWER OFF and the whole works, huh?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT (Garble)
CC LOS in i minute. Canary at 10:38. And,
Paul, we hate to ask you, but did you do the TO27, SO73 MALF?
CDR Well, he did that, but by the time he got
it up S149 was already out in the airlock and you know -
activated.
CC We copy.
CDR As a matter of fact we had a little dis-
cussion about it. We really don't have too much sympathy over that
one because the malf has been in that thing for 8 9 days
and it's been cooled and sealed sitting over on a box. You
know - we could have done it anytime.
CC We copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of range of Bermuda now,
but will be coming up on Canary Islands in about a minute.
There's also overlapping coverage at Madrid and Ascension
Island on this pass. We'll continue to stay up.

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SL-II MC-1293/I
Time: 01:36 CDT, 28:06:36 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 9 minutes.


CDR Roger, Houston.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Yes, Houston.
CC The pad that we sent up for the time
change yesterday of 4 hours was based on your getting up
at 7:00 o'clock instead of 6:00 o'clock. Is this adequate
for you? There is actually an hour difference.
SPT Right. Let's keep the 4 hours and we're
Just an hour ahead of the tlmeline. We will - we won't press
on too fast ahead because we don't want to wind up, as the
PLT pointed out, at launch with no water in the wardroom.
CC We copy that.
CC LOS in i minute. Honeysuckle 11:23.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours 50 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We have LOS on Skylab. The next
station to acquire will be Honeysuckle, Australia in about
33 minutes. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition
there. At 6 hours - -

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SL-II MC-1294/I
Time: 02:20 CDT 28:07:20 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 21


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acqui-
sition through the Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 8 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. We'd like to stop and
have coffee with you, but the CDR says we're going on a
trip tomorrow, and we have to pack.
CC Press on. Sounds as if the CDR may be
getting a bit travel-proud.
SPT What was that Carolina expression, Bill?
CC Oh, that's an old country expression,
getting ready to go to town, travel-proud.
SPT That's what we're doing.
CC Skylab, for information only, we're
putting the final patches into the secondary computer. No
need to acknowledge.
CC LOS in i minute. Hawaii 11:44.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 32
minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has loss of
signal, and Hawaii will acquire Skylab in about 12 minutes.
At 7 hours 32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1295/I
Time: 02:41 CDT 28:07:41 GMT
J.... 6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 42


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be within range
of the Hawaii station very shortly. We'll stand by for
conversation then.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go CDR.
CDR Your evening status report minus Delta
is on B channel.
CC We copy.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go CDR.
CDR The SPT is the only one that's bringing
back his crew log. The CDR and the PLT did not use them.
We will stow them here so the people have extra paper if
they want them.
CC We copy that.
CC LOS in one minute. Goldstone 11:56.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 53
minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has loss of signal.
Goldstone will pick up in slightly more than 2 minutes.
We'll continue to stand by for acquisition later.

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Time: 02:54 CDT 28:07:54 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, AOS 6 minutes, Goldstone.


CC Skylab. LOS in 1 minute, Bermuda 12:06.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 3
minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has loss of signal.
Skylab is too far north to be acquired by the Texas and
Merritt Island stations, however it will be within range of
the Bermuda tracking station in about 3 minutes. We'll
continue to stand by for acquisition at Bermuda.

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SL-II MC-1297/I
_- Time: 03:05 CDT, 28:08:05 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.


SPT Roger, Bill.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. Ascension at
12:23.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 17 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda does have loss of signal.
Ascension will acquire the spacecraft in about 6 minutes.
At 8 hours 17 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1298/I
Time: 03:21 CDT 28:08:21 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 21


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for ac-
quisition throuth the Ascension Island station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, LOS i minute. Carnarvon
12:56.
SPT Okay. See you then.
SPT And, Bill, would you find out for me if
the biomedical checklist gets used on the next mission.
CC Joe, a new checklist will be brought
up on 3.
SPT Okay, thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 34
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is beyond range of
Ascension now. Next station to acquire will be Carnarvon,
Australia in 22 minutes. At 8 hours 34 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1299/I
Time: 03:54 CDT, 28:08:54 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 54


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
now at the Carnarvon, Australia station. Here in the control
center, a Change-of-shift will take place very shortly.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson relieving Flight Director
Don Puddy. And the CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield relieving
Dr. Bill Thornton. We're estimating the Change-of-shift
news conference with Flight Director Don Puddy for 4:30 a.m.
central daylight time in the JSC news center. 4:30 a.m. cen-
tral daylight time for the Change-of-shift news conference.
We'll stand by for conversation at Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. I got a question for you.
I want to know if - how long I gotta keep venting 02.
CC Stand by a half, Pete.
CDR Houston, CDH.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR We'd also like to test the command module
TV. Do we have permission to do that?
CC Stand by half on that one. And for the
oxygen, they want to leave the polychoke hooked up and re-
move it tomorrow at the checklist time, Pete.
CDR Okay.
CC Pete, we're having some data problems with
this pass and they would like for you to do it over the
States where they can observe the TV.
CDR Okay. Well, it may not be convenient then
but give us a holler.
CDR Hi there, world.
CC We're having a little comm problem. Go
ahead, Pete.
CDR (Garble)
CC You're in and out. Say again.
CDR Okay, on panel 5 experiments power Charlie
circuit breaker is not mentioned in our book. It's OPEN, and
we'd like to know if that's where it's supposed to be.
CC Stand by half, Pete. And be advised we're
having some data problems here. We may have drop-outs, both
on this station of the comm, and we may have comm problems
over Guam.
CDR I can see that on my S-band.
CC Pete, we're supposed to have 4 more min-
utes here, but in case we lose you, why this is the last time
13 will be up. And everybody has certainly enjoyed it. And - -
CDR We enjoyed it. We appreciate all your
help.
CC As for myself, it's been pretty wonderful
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/'_ Time: 03:54 CDT, 28:08:54 GMT
6/21/73

watching what's going on - the next best thing to being there,


and we'll be looking for you when you get back here, with
sugar cookies in both hands.
CDR Okay, Bill. Well, I'ii tell you, you were
such a nice guy to us and your team that we went ahead this
morning and took the mug shots for you.
CC That is well beyond the call of duty.
Thank you, Pete.
CDR You're welcome.

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SL-II MC-1300/I
Time: 04:03 CDT 28:09;03 GMT
6/21/73

CC We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll have


you at Guam at 12:11 and we're working the circuit breaker.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 6
minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has loss of signal.
Guam will acquire in about 4 to 4-1/2 minutes. Dr. Bill
Thornton describes the "mug shots" that he and Skylab Com-
mander Pete Conrad discussed a moment ago as some interior
shots of the workshop that he had asked the crew to get if
they had a chance. We'll stay up for Guam acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Guam for 7-1/2
minutes.
CDR Hi there. How do you read now, Hank?
CC Okay, reading you loud and clear.
CDR Okay, you were a little wobbly there.
We were watching you wobble on our S-band max meter.
CC Roger. In answer to your question,
Pete, on the circuit breaker, experiment Charlie on Panel
5, the only thing that was attached to that thing is S015,
which, as you recall, was a late casualty.
CDR Yeah_ we couldn't find anything in this
quie we're doing this quiescent switch configuration
and we couldn't find any mention of it, and we didn't know
j whether it was supposed to be out or in when we came across
it. We'll leave it out.
CC 0kayp and it looks like you're pretty
far ahead of schedule here. What are the other two fellows
doing now, or do you know?
CDR We're having a poker game in the
command module right now. All three of us.
CC Roger.
CDR And so by the way, we're all suited,
and we're ready to go, if you got a pad.
CC You're going to have to hold off, we
only got a 4-foot trench down there now.
CDR You got a 4-foot what?
CC Trench.
CDR Okay.
CDR Let me pass one thing along for you,
Henry. There is no doubt in my mind that we got things
pretty well handled here, and therefore with your permission
all the triangled items in my checklist for day 29 which
signify that I can bring up on day 28 I intend to do
after dinner. Which is, I believe, power up the G&N.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Yes, sir. Let me read themto you, Henry.

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SL-II MC-1300/2
Time: 04:03 CDT 28:09:03 GMT
6/21/73

G&N SCS power up, SPS/RCS quiescent termination, E memory


dump, CSF caution and warning check, ECS prep, EMS entry
check, and I will complete those tonight after dinner.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Hey, Henry. Are you there?
CC Roger. You got about 3-1/2 minutes,
Pete.
CC Okay, how about looking at the batt relay
bus? We show it reading low here. We show 3.0, and the numbers
say 3.4 to something higher.
CC Okay, we'll check it.
CDR Thank you.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1301/1
Time: 04:16 CDT 28:09:16 GMT
6/21/73

CC Pete, our telemetry is showing 26.4 on


that bus. It looks good to us.
CDR Okay, our meter must be reading low.
SPT And the nominal says 30 to 37.
CDR The PLT says he understands and he's
going to explain it to us dnmmys.
CDR Okay, we understand it now, why we
are reading low.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute til LOS,
Goldstone at 35.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 20
minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal.
Goldstone will acquire in about 15 minutes. The crew is
running well ahead of schedule on deactivation. They appear
to be 2 to 2-1/2 hours ahead of the flight plan schedule.
However they may have skipped over some tasks that they will
return to. We intend to query them in a little more detail
at Goldstone as to precisely where they are, but it's
obvious that they're about 2 hours ahead, or as Pete Conrad
put it, "we're all suited and ready to go, if someone can
send us a pad." Their reference to the 4 foot trench is
not all of the flight controllers required for reentry are
in here at present time, so we're not ready even though
the crew might be, is what the CAP COMM was telling him.
Flight Director Don Puddy has left the Control Cenzer, in
route to the News Center, for his news conference scheduled
for 4:30 a. m. central daylight time. If that conference
is still underway when we have acquisition at Goldstone,
we'll tape and play that tape back at the earliest opportunity.
At 9 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

EMD OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1302/I
Time: 04:41 CDT, 28:09:41 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 41 min-


utes Greenwich mean time and we're back live on air to ground.
SPT Hank, you still there.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We just had a handover. Did you
transmit right then?
SPT Oh. okay. You read all right now?
CC Roger.
SPT Hey, if you'll pass - I know something
that always came up in the timelining people and if you'll
pass to AI Bean and - I start at the forward end of the MDA,
went at a rate of travel that's typical of moving with a
fairly massive objective such as a drawer full of S190 maga-
zines and from the (garble) to the MDA down to the big hole
in the workshop grid took me right at i minute. I turned
around and came back at - by myself in what has come to be
I think a moderately fast but also typical rate of movement
of a unhindered man and the same distance in about 20 seconds.
CC Okay. Understand from forward MDA to
the experiment compartment? Is that where you went to?
SPT Well, the forward - the grid of the ex-
periment compartment - the big hexagonal hole in the grid
floor.
CC Okay. That took you about a minute with
a load; coming back, about 20 seconds.
SPT Yes, sir.
CDR Has anybody seen my rubber ducky?
CDR No, I found it.
CDR Still there, Houston?
CC That - That's affirmative.
CDR Don't let that out about the SPT will
you? We've been trying to keep that quiet for the last
28 days.
CC He really took one with him, huh?
CDR You bet you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
to LOS. Ascension at 03.
(Music)
CDR You know, it's just like the day before
Christmas up here, Hank. We're having our farewell party
with all the office staff and everything before we leave.
CC It sounds like a ball. You know, you've
got to realize it's only 5 in the morning down here.
CDR (Laughter) Well, we're getting ready
to eat lunch here in a minute.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 54 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal. Ascension
SL-II MC-1302/2
Time: 04:41 CDT, 28:09:41 GMT
6/21/73

PAO will acquire in about 8-1/2 minutes.


The crew indeed is two hours - slightly over two hours ahead
on the time line -

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1303/I
Time: 04:54 CDT, 28:09:54 GMT
6/21/73

PAO - the crew indeed is 2 hours slightly


over 2 hours ahead on the timeline. They are getting ready
to have lunch. The command module television was checked
out over the Goldstone station. That transmission was re-
corded at Goldstone and will be sent back here later. We
don't have a time yet for the return of that television.
We have about 3 minutes worth of tape we accumulated during
the Change-of-shift briefing. We'll play that for you now.
CC We're stateside for about 20 minutes.
CDR Okay, we'd like to check out the CSM TV.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay. We've got it at CSM TV DOORS and
on S-BAND and TV and nothing's running. Do we go to
COMMAND RESET?
GDR You guys did it. Okay, thanks.
CDR Okay. Henry, are you going to get a picture
down there?

CC We'll be recordingit at Goldstone, Pete.


CDR Okay. Well let us know if it's I cleaned
this lens up. We had a lot of complaint about that other lens
and I found it had internal dirt in it which I could see.
And I have replaced the lens with the other lens and want to
know if we got a good lens.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Since you were in the
class at 6:10, may we assume that you've accomplished every-
thing prior to that?
CDR You can bet your sweet hippy baby.
CC You guys are really moving ahead.
CDR We got up early this morning.
CC Okay. We're getting the video signal
at Goldstone now and we're recording it.
CDR We're redoing re-entry procedures and I
assume from the entry-minus-6-day check pads that I have that
I can go through there and change all my gimbal trims and
everything to what you had on those pads because they ought
to be fairly close. An example in the book was pitch was
plus 1.44 and plus 0.33, and the pad I had the other
day was plus 0.057 and minus 0.ii and I assume those are correct.
CC Okay, those trims are probably not good,
Pete. We'll be uplinking you some new headings tonight on
the preliminary pads.
CDR Yeah, but they can't be too far off, though.
CDR Six days, all we've done is throw away
a little oxygen - couple other (Garble)
CC Okay, the stowage is not reflected in those
trims.
SL-I1 MC-1303/2
Time: 04:54 CDT, 28:09:54 GMT
6/21/73

CDR Oh, the minus 6 day summary stuff reads


just like there are minus 6 days, huh?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Oh, sneaky.
CDR I knew I couldn't get ahead - that there
was no way.
CDR Well, we're done with the TV, and if you
guys want to command it OFF, go ahead.
CC Okay, we'll turn the downlink OFF and
you can get the camera.
CDR Okay.
PLT Hank, I gotta go to COMMAND RESET to turn
that OFF to enable that switch. Do they really want me to
do that?
CC Stand by i.
CC COMMAND RESET's okay, Paul.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 58 min-
utes. That's the end of the tape recorded during Change-of-
shift briefing. The rubber-ducky routine Just before Bermuda
LOS was courtesy of Science Pilot, Dr. Joe Kerwin. We're
3 minutes away from acquisition at Ascension. We'll continue
to stay up live until we acquire at Ascension.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1304/I
Time: 05:00 CDT 28:10:00 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Through Ascension


5 minutes.
CDR Gosh, Hank, you got a EREP slider update
for us?
CC Okay, see if I can get you one. Are
you in the wardroom now?
CDR Yes, sir.
CC I wonder if we could get one of you to
slip over to panel 617 there and get experiment 1 and 2
recorders to Charlie on the rotary switch.
CDR Okay.
CDR You want them ON or just on Charlie?
CC We just want the two rotary switches on
Charlie so we can look at some data from the - from the
experiment there in the SAL.
CDR Okay.
CDR When do you activate 149? While we're
here, or after we leave?
CC Okay. We're going to do a checkout on
it today, and then we'll turn it on just before you leave to-
morrow.
CDR Are you actually going to open the
doors?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Let me know cause I can watch it. I
can see it from the window.
CC Okay.
CDR We've got some time, you know. If you
got a problem with that thing, we can probably pull it in
for you and troubleshoot it, if you want to cheek it out
real early.
CC Okay, we'll let you know what happens.
CC CDR, Houston. Carlos says that the
previous team has already checked out the doors. What
we're going to do is put the power on it and see if we
got the same problem that we had with T027. What we are
going to do is look at the shaft and trunnion.
CDR Okay. You gonna drive it up and down?
CC Well, it shouldn't drive, we hope.
We want to - if we got that same sticking relay kind of
thing, it might drive and, that's what we're afraid of.
We want to take a look at it and see what it does.
CDR (garble)
CC Okay. We're gonna probably do that at
Carnarvon then, Pete. We're about 1 minute to LOS and
Carnarvon will be coming up at 34.
(music)
SL-II MC-1304/2
Time: 05:00 CDT 28:10:00 GMT
6/21/73

CC Pete, I can hear you keying, but I


can't read you.
CDR I said, "Are we going to be in the
dark in Carnarvon, and also what's our Beta angle today?"
CC Okay. Our Beta's up to 69 degrees, and
we're only down to about a couple of minutes of daylight,
in fact, on about 3 revs - a couple of minutes of night -
about 3 revs from now, we'll be all daylight.
CDR (garble) crazy.
CC Yon can probably tell the berth's get-
ting a little warmer too.
CDR Oh, that's gonna go with us (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 9
minutes Greenwich mean time. The television from the
Command service module camera checkout is coming in now from
the Goldstone station. Skylab has had loss of signal through
Ascension. Next station to acquire is Carnarvon, Australia
in 24 minutes. The crew is having lunch, running about 2
hours or a little over 2 hours ahead of the Flight Plan.
The 149 that was being discussed by CAP COM_ Hank Hartsfield
and Skylab Commander Pete Conrad is the S149 particle col-
lection experiment. That's the experiment to determine the
mass distribution, composition, and morphology of micromet-
eorites in near Earth space. That experiment is deployed through
the anti solar scientific airlock. It will be left there
through the unmanned portion of the mission. Can be operated
from the ground. We'll come back up just prior to Carnarvon.
At i0 hours i0 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1305/I
Time: 05:31 CDT, 28:10:31 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours


31 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Carnarvon station, and we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Carnarvon 8-1/2
minutes.
CC Skylab Houston, how do you read?
PLT You're loud and clear, Houston.
CC Roger.
CDR Go ahead, Houston. Do you want to run this
140 on.
CC Okay, we'll be ready for that in just
a minute, Pete. I'd like to chat with you a second about
your plan for the early CSM checks.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, the way we see it is fine to do the
SPS RCS quiescent termination. In our opinion the G&N and
the STS power up doesn't really gain us a lot. For one thing
we don't have our rest mat ready in time, and we've got
to get the clock synced up for you and get the time squared
away. The alignment sequence tomorrow would be changed
to do a P52 option 3 first, and then a P52 option i and
so on - the time line. The caution and warnings checks,
we wouldn't want to do today because of the SPS pressurization
which we've got scheduled to do first thing tomorrow morning.
And the ECS prep wouldn't be desirable because of the sec-
ondary coolant loop and cryo changes. And if you do the EMS
check, we still want you to do it again tomorrow. And it's
kind of a bad picture all the way around. The crews that
are supporting this - we've got to turn them right around to sup-
port the entry tomorrow, and it really puts us in a bind. Plus
we got a site coverage problem this afternoon. We' get
into that - Vanguard, Hawaii, back and forth deal with the long
LOSs.
CDR What the hell did anybody ever put them
in thebook and do it early for anyhow then?
CC Well, you see the reason we're in this
bind, Pete, is that we're in sort of a non nominal situation. We
had the it would have worked normally. However, we're in
a situation such that we've got some cryo and coolant loop
problems and the STS pressurization, which are not nominal.
And they affect some of the checks that you want to do.
CDR Could be a typical jet flight take off
and invert with EV, but when you get to the end, look out.
Okay. We'll sit up here and twiddle our thumbs and wait
for you.
CDR l've got lots of music to keep me happy.
SL-II MC-1305/2
Time: 05:31 CDT, 28:10:31 GMT
6/21/73

PLT How about give him something to do, Houston.


Will you please.
CC I've got one question. Can you stomp
your foot up there in zero g as easy as you can in i g?
CDR You bet your sweet bippy, and you can
also go Ah haa.
PLT You can only stomp it once.
CC Roger.
CDR (garble)
CDR Say Hankp would you do me a favor?
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR Would you ask old Roddy (garble)
to pass to Bill Bailey my thanks and ask him to pass on to
G. D. Pruitt, Loretta Lynn, and Danny Davis, Tom T. Hall,
Conway Twitty, Nat Stuekey, and Bill Andrerson my thanks
for all the personal tapes and nice little messages they
sent because it's you laugh at my country music, but I really
enjoyed it for the 28 days. And I appreciate the extra
effort those people did on my behalf.
CC Roger. Will do.
CDR Thank you, sir.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1306/I
Time: 05:41 CDT, 28:10:41 GMT
6/21/73

CC CDR, Houston. Corollary has all ready turned


the power on to S149 and checked it out. We didn't see
any movement in the shaft and trunnion, so I guess all the
indications are normal. He'd rather not open the doors
at this time, so it appears to be in normal condition.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Guam will be coming up at 47.
PLT Roger. Houston, may we power a couple
of fecal dryers today?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at i0 hours
44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon's had loss of
signal. Guam will acquire in just under 3 minutes, we'll
continue to stand by. During this pass over Carnarvon, Pete
Conrad passed down his appreciation to a number of country
and western music stars who have provided the music for
him during the Skylah mission. Also, from what he said they
apparently had some personal messages to him on the tapes
that he had with him.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1307/I
Time: 05:46 CDT, 28:10:46 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston; through Guam for


9 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
to LOS; Goldstone at 1-2. And we just sent you a message
up, should be in the teleprinter now, and you can accomplish,
as convenient.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours
57 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range now,
at Guam. Goldstone will acquire the spacecraft in about
14 minutes. The crew well ahead of their deactivation
timeline. At i0 hours 58 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1308/I
Time: 06:10 CDT, 28:11:10 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


i0 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for about
16 minutes and we'll be dumping the recorder over Mila
at about 20.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. I wonder if it would
be convenient to give us an update on where you are in the
checklist here in the next couple of minutes?
PLT Well, we're all in a hold awaiting lunch.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1309/I
Time: 6:24 CDT, 28:11:24 GMT
6/21/73

CDR And we don't want to close down waste


management and wardroom until on time. (garble) hold them
until lunch.
CC Roger.
CC Have you picked up some of the items that
are scheduled after lunch?
CDR No, not really. You've got me convinced
that we're wasting our time getting ahead.
CC Well, we didn't really mean to do that.
We were - thought you were shooting to get to bed early tonight
to get a few more winks.
CDR We'll make that, Hank.
PLT Hey, Henry, the PLT is holding for lunch
except I have all ready replaced the solids trap and
the charcoal canisters.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT And I'm not planning on starting to
shut down the water system until after the evening meal.
CC Roger, understand.
PLT Henry, have you got a minute.
CC Roger, goahead.
PLT If you will look at the deactivation
checklist, and look at the flight plan on page Charlie, please.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, in my column is a time-critical
function to turn on the wardroom dump heater, but I can't
find out why I'm turning it on.
CC Okay, that's for - in preparation for
the wardroom water system deactivation, which comes after
dinner. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming
up on - we'll be coming up on Vanguard at 38.
PLT Well, that's what I figured, but I didn't
see any reason to turn it on that early, so I moved it on
down to an appropriate time lhad t hem dumping any water.
CC Okay, that's all right.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours
30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range of the
Merritt Island, Florida, station. The tracking ship Vanguard
will aquire Skylab in about 8 minutes. At 11 hours 30 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1310/I
Time: 06:36 CDT, 28:11:36 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the
Vanguard Tracking Ship, now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylah, Houston; through Vanguard
6-1/2 minutes.

SC Roger. Houston, what's GMT at splashdown


tomorrow?
CC Rog. I think it's 13:56 but I'll check
it out.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. Splash is at 13:50.
SC Sounds like we missed 28 days by i0 minutes,
huh?
CC That's about it.
CC Maybe you could hold at i0 000 on the
way down.
SC Okay.
CC We just got some interesting data in here,
now. The recovery ship's crew have been practicing out there.
And they simulated a splash 4-1/2 miles from the carrier.
And the time from splash to hatch opening on the deck was
33 minutes.
SC Yay:
SC Fantastic. And we hope beat 4-1/2 miles.
CDR Hey, Hank, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Roger. Let me pass you (garble) status
report Delta for the CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR 2/25/3300/05/0300. That's the last one.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, if it's convenient for one of you,
we'd sure love to get the star tracker up.
CDR Well, it's not convenient, but we've
ordered Joe to go do it.
CC Roger. (Chuckle)
CC And while you're up there, Joe, would
you get us a readout on the SO52 frame counter?
SPT SO52 FRAMES REMAINING at 7871.
CC Roger. Copy. 7-8-7-1.
CC And, Skylab, we're about i minute from
LOS. Goldstone will be coming up in a little over an hour
at 49.

SC Roger. And you've got the star.


CC All right, thank you.
SL-II MC-1310/2
Time: 06:36 CDT, 28:11:36 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


46 minutes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has loss of signal
on Skylab. It'll be a long LOS here, now. No more stations
until we get to Goldstone on this ground track. That's
1 hour and 2 minutes from now. At Ii hours 46 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI311/I
Time: 07:46 CDT, 28:12:46 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


46 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Goldstone, California station. We'll stand
by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 12-1/2
minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And Skylab, the first time it's convenient
we need to get the MCC inhibit. In fact, I guess we need it
pretty quick because we're trying to get a load up.
CDR Okay, Houston. We got some bad news for
you. We were jettisoning the charcoal canisters through
the airlock for the procedures and it has hung itself in
the trash airlock and in going back and looking at another
one I have the sneaking suspicion that the lip on the charcoal
canister, the little flat 1-beam type thing that's welded on the
side of it has slipped over the lip below the tradk guards, and,
man it's really hung in there. We're working the problem
but I doubt it'll be pure luck if we bounce it off that
lip and get it out of there.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I guess I should have looked at that thing
closer but I think it was poor headwork for us to ever assume
that we should put that thing through the airlock.
CC CDR, Houston. Wonder if you could give
us a exact description of the configuration. Was it - was
the canister in a bag, trash bag,? Or just give us a description
of what happened, how'd you put it in. Story here wants to go
over to the IG trainer and see if we can come up with something
that might help you out.
CDR Okay, it was the canister charcoal canister
for - from mol sieve in a bag with four EV gloves. The two gloves
were on either side with the fingers down so that the red
pring was up above the canister and two more lay crossways
on top of the canister.
CC Okay, understand you had four EV gloves and
- was - two of them with their fingers down beside the canister
the ring over the top, and then the other two gloves laying on
top of the canister all in a bag. Is that correct?
CDR That's right. All in a disposal bag.
CC Disposal bag, roger.
CDR And it went just about halfway I'd estimate.
You still there, Hank?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, when you lift up the eject lever, the
handle that the - handle you p_ll on is about 3 inches above
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Time: 07:46 CDT, 28:12:46 GMT
6/21/73

the lid.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And on the ejection stroke it moved very
smoothly until it just all of a sudden aSruptly stopped.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1312/I
Time: 07:56 CDT, 28:12:56 GMT
6/21173

CC Skylab, Houston. Have you done anything


in waste mal number 3 yet?
PLT Negative.
CC Okay, that seems to be the one that is
appropriate. In the meantime Story is on his way over to
the trainer to try to duplicate what you did, and see what
he can find out.
CDR Okay. Well, there is an iron lip, steel
lip welded on the side of that thing, a break. And I've
got the feeling that when it got to the very bottom of the
trash airlock inner skirt, it popped through and it's resting on
the ledge that the outer seal goes on.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. Vanguard
will be coming up at 15 with a recorder dump.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 4 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has completed this pass
over the United States and is now out of range of the Texas
tracking station. The Vanguard tracking ship will acquire
in about i0 minutes. Another problem has cropped up here.
The charcoal canister, from the workshop's filtering system
was changed out during the deactivation sequence. The canister
appears to be - not only appears to be, it is hung up in the
trash airlock outer hatch. The crew is working trying to
free it. And here on the ground_ back up Science Pilot, Story
Musgrave, who was in the control center here on the Capcom
console when the word came down on this problem is preparing
to go over to the trainer, the workshop trainer, in the sim-
ulated area here at the Johnson Space Center duplicate the
problem and see if he can work out a system here on the ground
to aid the crew. In the meantime, the crew will continue
trying to free the canister which is in a regular disposal
bag along with 4 EVA gloves. We'll come back up just prior
to Vanguard acquisition. At 13 hours 6 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1313/I
Time: 08:12 CDT, 28:13:12 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at the Vanguard. We'll perhaps get some more information on
the airlock problem, trash airlock problem. One of the
charcoal canisters is hung up in the outer hatch of the
trash airlock, blocking the airlock. The implications of
this problem are being studied here on the ground. And as
soon as we have information concerning what the implications
might be, we'll pass them on. We'll stand by for acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Vanguard
7-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. On that waste valve 3.
CC Roger. I don't think was much help, was
it?
SC Well, we went from block 1 to block 2,
to block 6.
CC Roger. That's the way we looked at it
after we got it out. That didn't seem to be much help.
SC Yeah. That's right. So having wound up
there and ah - we started working on it a little more.
And wherever it jammed, it must have been forcibly in the
lip on the side, and the (garble) And by judicious
application of muscle, we did manage to get it up and free,
so the trash airlock is operative one more time.
CC Boy, is that ever good news. You can
hear the sighs of relief down here.
SC They were nothing compared to the sighs
here, man. I'ii tell you what we did on the next one, and
what we recommend for the other troops isthose charcoal
canisters, there's really no need to put them in a bag, we
see. We just took the canister, laid a - smoothed in all the
sharp protrusions of great length, and gently injected
into the trash airlock by itself with its great big bag.
There's no bag.
CC Roger. That sounded like a good plan.
CC There's nothing else with it, either.
That's the best plan, to just put it through by itself.
SC Hey, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
SC In the process of getting this thing
lose, since there are rather angular corners all over these canisters,
we did put a few nicks and gouges both on the bottom of
the ejecter plate, that's the elephant part there. And
also in the sides in the wall. And there just - you know,
it's kind of ragged. I don't think it's going to present
any problem operationally. But if the next group wanted to
dress it up a little bit, they would have to bring some
coarse emery cloth or a file of the right shape or something
up to better just dress up some of that gouged metal.
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CC Roger. We copy.
CDR - - photographs of it, Hank, and bring
it back, and you can make up your mind.
CC Okay. That's a good show.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're having the same
problem with the star tracker today we had yesterday. We can't
keep it locked up. So at your convenience, we'd just like to
go ahead and close the shutter on it, and then we'll bring
her up again tonight, when we've got more station coverage.
CDR What are you going to do when you don't
have us to run that thing for you?
CC I guess we'll just turn it off.
CDR Why don't we do that now?
CC What we're really after, Pete, is
trying to get a good hack on the Z-gyros before you leave.
That's the reason we've been working with it.
SC Okay. It's closed.
CC Thank you, sir.
SC I was just pulling your leg.
SC (Garble)- -

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SL-II MC-1314/I
Time: 08:20 CDT, 28:13:20 GMT
6/21/73

CDR Command module is rapidly beginning to


look like what it looked like when we left, crowded.
CC Roger. We copy. EGIL sees the waste
tank pressure coming up. Are you doing a water purge or dump
now?
CDR I think they were doing the squeezer
bag.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT That's complete now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii at 23.
PLT See you.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 23 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has loss of signal. We have
another long LOS. Skylab will contact no ground stations
until it reaches Hawaii i hour from now. As you heard
during this pass, the crew which stated, "We can fix anything,"
has lived up to its proclamation again. They succeeded in
freeing the trash airlock hatch while Skylab was between
the Texas station and Vanguard. That airlock is now free,
and can continue to be used. The crew recommended that in
future disposals of the charcoal canisters that they be dis-
posed of without being bagged. We'll come back up again
prior to recovery, prior to acquisition at Hawaii. At
13 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1315/I
Time: 09:21 CDT, 28:14:21 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Hawaii
now. We'll just barely slice through the acquisition ring
of the Hawaii station. Low elevation, and it'll be a short
pass about 3 minutes. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess I don't have
to tell you, but I'd take a close look at those urine separators
when you put those in the trash airlock.
SC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control, 14 hours
29 minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has had loss of
signal. The Vanguard will not acquire for 21 minutes. Due
to a configuration problem on the console, that Hawaii pass
did not get on the PAO release line. It was taped however,
just about 1 minute's worth of conversation. We'll play
that tape for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Hawaii for 2 minutes.
CDR Two minutes? It's hardly worth it.
CC Roger. We got a low pass here. We uplinked
a catchall message to you at Vanguard, should be in your
teleprinter now.
CDR Is that the one with the entry changes
that about the activation change?
CC Roger. We hope that's the last of them;
there's a couple of things we omitted last night.
CDR Okay, I got them. They're already
programed.
CC And Skylab, for info we had another
RM failure in the Y-axis. We're reconfiguring 1 and 3.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 51.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the
end of the tape of the Hawaii pass. We'll come back up
just prior to Vanguard acquisition. At 14 hours 31 minutes,
this is Skylah Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1316/I
Time: 09:48 CDT, 28:14:48 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is just about
within range of the tracking ship Vanguard. We'll stand
by for conversation through that station.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess we would
recommend that you hold up this evening on dumping those
urine separators through the airlock until we look at it
a little more closely. Story is on his way to the trainer
now, he's going to be looking at how he might get that thing
through safely, and also he is going to try to duplicate
the problem you had with the charcoal canister.
PLT Roger Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'd like to make a
general comment on the messages we sent up last night con-
cerning circuit breaker configurations. We uplinked you
some asterisks, and some of those might not be correct. I
guess the main (garble) to the mesage should be that the circuit
breaker positions as called for in the diagram and with the changes
that we uplinked and what you want to do regardless of where
the asterisks are. We have (garble) around one place where we
know we are in error. We called for the four heater switches
on panel 200 to have asterisks, and I guess at this time we
noted only one of those is open, so there should be only
one asterisk. And that's on the OWS (garble) heater i and 5.
PLT Okay. I'm going to take a checklist
and go up there right now and look at it and make sure I
understand it.
SPT Still there, Houston?

END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-1317/1
Time: 09:57, 12:14:57 GMT
6/21/73

SC You still there, Houston?


CC That's affirmative.
SC Okay. My only question on these, Hank,
then, is on 202. If you'll turn (garble) to SAL control
breakers.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay. It's my understanding that when
we leave, you want SAL control breaker i OPEN and 2 CLOSED.
Is that right?
CC That's right, Paul. That's so we can
control the 149. It should be in that configuration, now.
CC Well it's not. They're both closed
right now.
CC Okay. I stand corrected. You will
be opening number i. There's an asterisk that's been added
there. You will be opening that one.
SC The only thing I didn't figure out how
to do was, on SAL control 2, was (static) and delete the
asterisk.
CC Takes a good eraser.
SC Yeah.
CC The main thing, I guess, Paul, is that
in all cases, I think, that the bars indicate the correct posi-
tion with the changes that we uplink to you.
SC I understand them all now. Thank you.
CC And if it's possible, Skylab, we'd like
to get an update from each of you as to where you are on
the checklist, now.
PLT Okay. The PLT is holding on the Flight
Plan at the bottom of page Charlie, at urine collection.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR The CDR is at about 19:00 on the time-
line. I've done miscellaneous acts, (garble), fecal bundle
transfer, and I have just thrown into the trashbag my urine
separator. And I'm cleaning all that stuff out, right now.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR And the SPT is in the same place.
CC Roger. We copy. And we're about i minute
to LOS. Vanguard will be coming up at - or Hawaii will
be coming up at 59. And shortly, here, in about 35 minutes,
at 36:53, you'll have your last sunset for this flight.
SC 36:53, last sunset. Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours
i minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range of
Vanguard, now. Next station will be Hawaii in 57 minutes.
Crew still well ahead of the tlmeline in the - e - deactivation
sequence. At 15 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1318/I
Time: 10:57 CDT, 28:15:57 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 57 minutes


and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. The warbler has now
sounded in Mission Control, indicating that we are approaching
an acquisition of signal at the Hawaiian tracking station.
The spacecraft is now to the northwest of Hawaii, just about
to cross the horizon above Hawaii. We expect to get some
additional information on how far the crew is along and completing
that deactivation. Earlier the commander indicated that he
was running several hours in advance of the time line and
might very well complete and get to bed a bit early today.
This is Skylab Control, we'll remain live for air-to-ground
from Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston; to Hawaii, 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised all three
of us are up to dinner time. Actually, we're running a little
ahead of that. We - we're changing out the - closing out the lab
urine drawer right now.
CC Roger. Copy, and just to fill you in,
Story went over and configured the disposal bag with the
configuration you had and it jammed everytime he tried it. And
he also is taking a good look at the urine separators and
he definitely does not recommend that you try to put those
separators down through the trash airlock. We're looking at
several things. He's looking to how he might configure them
to get them through there. We're also looking at a possibility
of, at least for now, stowing the urine separators in the
T027 sampler (garble) container.
CDR Okay, you mean the small one and pull a
vacuum on it?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, be advised that it won't hold the
vacuum. I pulled the vacuum on it when I stowed the box
the other day and when I went back to open it up and put
the dump port on it, why it didn't have any vacuum at all. Either
that or the plus-Z airlock vacuum hose is not working. Now, that
could be too. I haven't tried to verify that, but I can
if you want me to.
CC Hold up on it for right now, Pete.
we'll come up with a plan somehow.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Vanguard
at 30 and there'll be a data recorder dump there.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours
9 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Hawaiian Island tracking station and do not expect to
acquire for another 20 minutes and 26 seconds when we will
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acquire at Vanguard tracking ship. Appears that the crew


is still operating ahead of their original time line. Originally
it called for them to go to bed about 2:30 p.m. Central
daylight time today. It now appears that they may be an
hour or so ahead of that. That would allow them a longer
sleep period than they'd been scheduled for. Originally they
were scheduled for a 5-hour sleep period running up until
7:30 p.m. tonight. It now appears that they may be able
to get to bed earlier than that. During this last pass
they were advised by the ground of the problem that occurred
here in the Johnson Space Center training equipment. Story
Musgrave, one of the backup crew, was working with the
urine separator trying to dispose of it and discovered that
it would not fit through the trash airlock. And they are
now working on a solution as to what can be done with that
piece of equipment. Suggestion now is that they may use
the TO27 box, that's the box that's used in the ATM contamination
experiment. They're now evaluating that and seeing whether
that can be done. Appears that it would fit in there, and
that might be the place it will be disposed of. There will
be a briefing this afternoon at about 3 p.m. by three
representatives of industry talking about immediate uses to
which the Skylab electronics equipment has is being put.
These are commercial applications already developed of
Skylab's electronics. The three specific areas to be discussed
are: television, television camera equipment, the Ampex
tape recorder, and SCI Incorporated pipeline control system
used in energy production. So, representatives from Westing-
house on television, Ampex on the tape recorder, and SCI
on pipeline control systems will be available at 3 p.m.
Central daylight time for a briefing in the small briefing
room at Johnson Space Center's Building i. That'll be carried
over the release lines following the change of shift briefing.
We don't have a definite time yet for change of shift. Original
schedule called for a i o'clock break. It now appears
Nell Hutchinson's team of flight controllers will not be
off until something closer to 2, partly because of this
difficulty with disposing of the urine separator and because
of some paperwork that they have to clear up here. So we're
expecting that change of shift may take place in the neighborhood
of 2 o'clock. We'll give you more exact time perhaps an hour
or so from now. Next acquisitiDn of signal, a little less
than 18 minutes from now at Vanguard tracking ship, and we
will come up live again then. This is Skylab Control at
ii minutes and 47 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1319/I
Time: 11:27 CDT, 28:16:27 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 27 minutes a_d


49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are just about to acquire
signal at the Vanguard tracking ship, and will remain live
for air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Vanguard
8-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard 8 minutes.
SC Roger.
CDR Hey, Hank. I think that we could wrap
those urine separators in a manner so that they can't turn
sideways, which seems to be the bad feature, and get them
through the airlock, if you want to try that. If not, we're open
to whatever you guys want to do.
CC Okay, Pete. Storey's over at the trainer
right now, trying to come up with a scheme to get them down
and we'd like for you to hold off until we get the results
from that.
CDR Okay.
CDR Tell him that my suggestion is, to put
two towels and tape them on either side of the flat - on
either flat side, so that they can't turn sideways in there.
And, just individually one at a time, because the more bundles
you get, the worse things get (garble).
CC Roger. That's exactly what we're looking
at, is trying to tape the towels to it and see how we can
package it up so it won't hang up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're approaching LOS.
Hawaii will be coming up at 37, an hour from now.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 39 min-
utes and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking ship, as the spacecraft passed over
the eastern horizon in the south Atlantic Ocean. At the present
time we're 57-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signalat Hawaii. That's
nearly an hour from now. And at that time, we should get
some additional information up to the crew on the status of
our urine separator dump procedure. It was discovered this
morning, in the trainer at Johnson Space Center, that it's
not possible to put the urine separator directly through
the trash airlock. This apparently, was not discovered earlier.
And they're now considering other ways of getting it through
that area. The problem is, that the urine separator which
was never dumped during the training periods does not fit
directly through it. It tends to turn in the trash airlock and
for that reason catches, and they can't dump it. So, they
are now looking at ways of keeping it from making that turn.
Suggestion came down from the crew to wrap it in towel - tape
towels to it. Another possibility is using some sort of a
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Time: 11:27 CDT, 28:16:27 GMT
6/21/73

box to put it in. We have the weather forcast for the


landing of the space station, tomorrow morning, at just
before 8:50 a.m. central daylight time. That weather
forecast, prepared by the space flight meteorology group of
the National Weather Service, said this morning that weather
conditions for the landing and recovery of the Skylab
Astronauts on Friday will be satisfactory. Although skies
are typically cloudy in the landing area, located approximately
830 miles southwest of San Diego, California, the clouds will have
little vertical extent, and so even though television coverage
of the descending spacecraft may be interrupted, the clouds
will present no danger to the crew. Winds are expected to
be from the northeast at about 12 knots, seas at about
4 feet, and the temperature near 67 degrees. That report
from the space flight meteorology group of the National
Weather Service, a branch of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. After further temperature -
analysis of temperature data, thermal engineers at Johnson
Space Center's Mission Control Center, with assistance from
the Huntsville Operations Support Center, at Marshall Space Flight
Center, have decided not to move the parasol, which was rotated
about 15 degrees after Tuesday morning's EVA. While it's not
possible to determine what benefit the counterclockwise
rotation made by Commander Conrad, from inside the workshop,
had, Flight Controllers are confident that the changes had
no adverse effect. Temperatures in the orbital workshop
living area are now slightly above 80 degrees, with one of the
sensors reading as high as 84 degrees. This increase, amounting
to several degrees over the past few days, is due to a change
in the period of time the spacecraft spends in sunlight.
Beginning today, June 21, the first day of summer in the
northern hemisphere, the spacecraft will spend about 4 full
days in sunlight. The last brief period in darkness entered
into just before 11:00 a.m. central daylight time this morn-
ing. Because the movement of the Earth's axis, which now
points the north pole closer to the Sun than any day in
this past year - and this is of course a regular, not June 21st,
the longest day in the northern hemisphere the Skylab
space station is able to remain in sunlight for a maximum
time. This opportunity is repeated at December 21, the
longest day and the beginning of summer in the southern
hemisphere. But in addition, a slight variation in the
circularity of the space station's orbit This is a vari-
ation that is inevitable and occurs with every spacecraft,
no matter how slight the variation - that slight variation
now approximately 12 to 14 miles from the high point in the
orbit to the low point in the orbit causes the spacecraft
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to have an orbit that is constantly changing. The orbit


low point acts as a brake as the spacecraft comes down
closer to the atmosphere where there is a slightly larger
amount of material. It does break the orbit and changes
its angle so that the orbit is constant. Although it is at
a regular 50 degrees inclination from the equator, it does
tend to move around the Earth with a 50 degree high point
occurring at a different point each time it goes around
the Earth. Because of this precession of the spacecraft
orbit, there are high and low points within that band of
the Earth's changing orbit. Very complex series of figures
but at this time we've passed the i00 degree, 100 percent
sunlight time. This is the only time during the orbit of
the spacecraft in the next year that the spacecraft will
be at this condition. This is for the reason that right now
the spacecraft orbit and the Earth's orbit are both at such
angles that we have i00 degrees sunlight, 100 percher sun-
light. Now that does have a temperature effect that is quite
observable on the spacecraft. In addition to that, because -
long periods of sunlight, there are some temperature increase.
So far it's been several degrees noticeable in the atmosphere
of the spacecraft. After 4 days, we go back into a period
where the orbital plane has now moved around again, and
the spacecraft is no longer in 100 percent sunlight. The
low point in the sunlight period is approximately 61 to 62
percent, and that will appear several times during the mis-
sion. What this means of course is we have considerably
more electrical power available than we normally do. But,
at this point, since experimental work is pretty much completed,
there is no use for that electrical power. We will again
reach very high points later in the mission, 90 to 91 percent,
but nothing as high as the i00 percent we'll be experiencing
for the next 3 or 4 days. Temperature increases are not
serious increases but they will make it a bit warmer than
it has been in the past. And they do considerably interfere
with determining the effect of that parasol rotation. The rota-
tion was made to cover a hot spot in the orbital workshop
near the water tank. So the rotation will stand as it is
at approximately 15 degrees counterclockwise rotation. We
don't believe there was any adverse effect, we're not confident
that there was any positive effect. And for that reason
they won't make any change to that now. It looks like a
successful move, it certainly hasn't had any bad effects on
the mission. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition
of signal 51 minutes and 15 seconds from now. It is now
45 minutes and 55 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1320/I
Time: 12:34 CDT, 28:17:34 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 34 minutes


and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. The present time we're
3 minutes from acquisition of signal at the Hawaiian Island
tracking station. And we have some additional information
now on the urine separator problem that we had a few moments
ago that was reported earlier in the pass and we now have
some a report here from Mission Control. Story Musgrave,
one of Skylab's backup team of astronauts, has completed
his work in the trainers here at Johnson Space Center on
the problem of dumping those three urine separators. Musgrave
said that wrapping the separators with the towels, which
was suggested by the crew over Vanguard about an hour ago,
would infact aggrivate the problem of putting them through
the trash airlock. He found that the urine separators which
separate drops of urine from the air in the space station's
three urine containers would be no less likely to be caught
in the trash airlock if wrapped in towels and would be more
difficult to free once they became caught. Musgrave said that
two plasticized pieces of paper could be taped to cover the
protruding edges of the urine separator, which is a metal
disc about i foot in diameter, and three or four inches thick.
The urine separator however, has several irregularly shaped
edges and pieces of metal attached to it. After a review
of the suggested procedure in which Musgrave said that no one
could have designed a piece of metal more likely to hang up
in the airlock, Flight Director Nell Hutchinson consulted
with life scientists on the safety of an alternative procedure.
Hutchinson, with agreement from the flight operations management
room - and we have acquisition of signal at Hawaii, and we'll
stay live for air-to-ground and complete this afterwards.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Hawaii for 6-1/2
minutes.
SC Hello.
CDR Say, Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR One thing that we couldn't find was the
sample return bags for the OWS water and we have put a sample in
a in-suit drinking device, which will be in L3 vice the
sample bag. And it is so marked - you want to tell the
collection people that on the ship?
CC Okay, wilco. And - we looked at this
urine separator problem and - and it looks like that's a
pretty dangerous thing to do is to try to dump it. Not
dangerous, but it could jam the airlock very easily. So what
we're going to recommend is that you take the three separators
and put them in the TO27 sample array box. Make sure the
lid's on plenty tight and vent down and then we'll forget about it.
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It should take about 15 minutes probably to pull it down.


CDR Okay, I told you it didn't hold the
vacuum and I just checked that and pulled another vacuum on
it. I'm going to see whether it holds it or not. It did
not hold it the other day when I put T027 back in.
CC Okay, we're not really concerned about
that. If we vent it down one time, then the in-flow of the
air is into the thing, and I guess we don't worry about that.
CDR Okay, that's where we'll put them.
CC And one other thing, Pete. We been watching
this Quad A. The temperature is still sneaking up on it,
and we're running about 3 or 4 degrees below the trip point.
So rather than having that thing wake you up tonight, we'd
like to have you inhibit the 5 Bravo there on panel 201 (garble)
CDR Okay, 5 Bravo.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient,
could you tell us where you are on the checklist?
CDR Well, the SPT is complete for tonight
because the urine separators are all changed out, and I'm
helping the other guys who helped me catch up.
CDR Yeah, we're closing out the wardroom,
we're just getting ready to shutdown the water system.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR I'm actually on page 1-44, step 3. What's
our next station, Hank?
CC What was your question again, Pete?
CDR Next station.
CC Okay, the next station will be Vanguard
again at at 08, and we got a recorder dump there. And
we're about a minute from LOS.
CDR Okay, well I'ii have the food for you.
CC Okay.
CDR Also, you sent us a message about transferring
some film, and there was one film number that was wrong on
there. CI19 is one of the films that we were going to shoot
up. So the film that we transfered from drawer A to
drawer F, as I remember, was 21 - C121 through C124.
CC Roger. Copy.

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SL-II MC-1321/I
Time: 12:44 CDT, 28:17:44 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 44 minutes


and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at Hawaii, and will next aquire in 23 minutes and 14 seconds
at Vanguard. During this last pass the procedure to be used
by the crew in disposing of those urine separators was sent
up by spacecraft communicator Henry Hartsfield. As I was
saying earlier, there was a procedure suggested to them
for disposing of the urine separator, which it is felt
might have hung up rather easily in the trash airlock. That
procedure that was suggested by Story Musgrave is to wrap
them in plasticized sheets of paper. These are papers that
might for example contain subsequent instructions that no
longer are to be used by the crew. Those plasicized sheets
of paper would be wrapped around the urine separator and
then it would go through rather easily. Surprisingly enough
the urine separator doesn't look like it would hang up in
the trash airlock at all. It is quite a bit smaller than the
airlock, but it does have those sharp protruding edges, and
those edges can catch very easily on parts of the airlock.
And that is the danger. After a review of that suggested
procedure, flight director Hutchinson consulted with llfe
scientists on the safety of an alternate procedure. Hutch-
inson with agreement from flight operations management room
and Marshall Space Flight Center engineers said that the
3 separators should be placed in the T027 sample array con-
tainer. The sample array container is no longer necessary
for the ATM contamination experiment T027. This procedure,
despite a slight leak in the strong vacuum that that container
box has, is considered a far safer method of disposing of
the separators. The box has room for about 6 separators,
which is enough for this and the next Skylab manned mission. For
the third mission, final Skylah mission. Of course it
would not be necessary to dispose of the urine separators
since the spacecraft will no longer be in use. While the
separators are completely safe and out of the way in the
T027 box, mission controllers felt that a slight chance
that one of the separators might become wedged in the trash
airlock was an unecessary risk to future missions.
The trash airlock is a very important part of the operations
of the workshop. And for a 56 day mission, it would be
virtually essential that they keep that opening clear. It
would present some real problems if it were closed up. It
would he possible to depressurize the workshop and to open
it up and do a intravehicular activity, an IVA, to solve the
problem if it should become jammed, but that was considered
an unnecessary risk, the T027 box will be used instead. Late
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in this pass over Hawaii, the crew informed mission Control


that the film transfer from drawer A to drawer F had to be
modified slightly because they had been instructed to trans-
fer a piece of film, this is unexposed film that they had
intended to use. The film transfer from drawer A to drawer F
is in order to offer better protection from radiation. There
was some concern that because of the radiation in space that
that film might become exposed in drawer A than in drawer F.
Both of them are considered safe, but drawer F is the safer
of the two. So they did make that film transfer. They are
now considering a possibility of maybe doing further wrapping
of the T027 the urine separators before they go into T027.
While Story Musgrave was in Mission Control, he also brought
over the MOL SIEVE canister that nearly caused this jam
up in trash airlock earlier today. The reason that happened
as we discovered here in Mission Control is that with the
canister and several towels and the large EVA gloves, that
bag was very very nearly as full as it could be. And because
of that it was surprising really that it went through. It
was an overpacked bag, and apparently that is something will
be given consideration between now and the next Skylab mission.
The bag should probably not have had as nearly as much mat-
erial in it as it did, and I'm sure that the EVA gloves
at least will be left out in the future times. The canister
is a very large object, about a foot and a half long and
something over a foot in diameter. But, the trash
airlock problem now is essentially solved. They did finally
succeed in getting that bag through earlier today and the
urine separators are now to be placed in the T027 container
which is a vacuum chamber. And whether or not there is a
vacuum really has very little to do with the safety of the
box. It is a sealed container and it is unlikely that any
leakage would occur out of the box. There, of course, would
be no danger from that any way. There was some concern on
the part of the flight director that there might be some
microbiological problem but the medical officer informed us
that there was no danger at all. That urine is sterile
and that for that reason there is very little risk in fact
no risk at all in his opinion. So that problem has now been
solved and the crew is doing their best to get along towards
bed. They indicate that the Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin
had completed all of his activities for the day. And they
expect within probably something earlier than they had originally
scheduled - they were originally scheduled to go to bed some-
thing over an hour and a half from now at 2:30 p.m. central
daylight time. It now appears that they may get to bed
something earlier than that, although we don't have an exact
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time yet. The crew will wake up tonight at 7:30 p.m. and
begin preparations for the splashdown to occur tomorrow
morning at 8:50 p.m. central daylight time, 830 miles
southwest of San Diego, California. This is Skylab Control
at 50 minutes and 13 minutes after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1322/I
Time: 13:05 CDT, 28:18:05 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 5 minutes and


45 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're
about a minute and 50 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Vanguard. And we should hear from the crew again, to find
out what's happened now with the urine separators that they
were to dispose of in the TO27 canister - T027 Container.
The flight director indicates that he will be available for
a press conference shortly after this pass. We're sorry
for the short announcement; that means approximately 15 min-
utes from now. He would like to try and get in for a press
conference, since he has to be back on duty again in about
6 hours, he's requested that we make that press conference
as short as possible. This is Skylab Control. We'll remain
live for air-to-ground from Vanguard. And a reminder; that
press conference should begin in approximately 15 minutes
in the building i small briefing room, with off-going
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson. We're alive for air-to-
ground.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Vanguard
9-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger.
SC Give you the evening status report now.
SC Are you ready for the day-172 close
out numbers?
CC I think we've got everybody up now, Pete.
Go ahead.
CDR Okay. The Alpha for the CDR was, 045,
the SPT was 040, for the PLT was 030. Bravo was 4478 for
the CDR. The SPT was 7315, and the PLT was 5459. I believe
we reported Charlie this morning. We've reported Delta,
also, to you today and Echo. And let me get over to the
food. Okay. The PLT, who didn't have any Delta reported, had
2/15/2000. And the food was as follows: CDR ate everything
plus 2 butter cookies. And at lunch time today we made
the substitution that we told you we were going to make on
B-Channel on day 22. I hope everybody was aware of that
one. We never heard anything. So we went ahead and did it.
I had i0 optional salts. And the SPT - he ate everything,
and he also did not - He did make the substitution that I
just mentioned for lunch. And he did not have any coffee,
was sugar for snacks, and he had 7 optional salts. The
PLT ate all his breakfast. He ate all his lunch with the
substitution, as mentioned, no corn, no bread, and no coffee
with sugar. He had 1.5 extra water and 5.0 optional salt.
And he wants to talk to you.
PLT On this wardroom water drain, I notice
our waste tank pressure's getting kind of high, I'm suppose
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to switch to the chiller now. Do you want me to go ahead and


switch? Because there's a caution under procedures; it
infers you don't want any of it to flow, once it starts.
CC Stand by, one.
CC Okay. That's correct, Paul. Press
ahead. Don't interrupt the flow.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay. The CDR is going to have 2 cans
of butter cookies tonight.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Did you get those scheduled photos (garble)
the way I left them with Mr. Truly? And that's it.

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SL-II MC-1323/I
Time: 13:12 CDT 28:18:12 GMT
6/21/73

CDR Hey, Hank, are you there?


CC Roger, we've got a couple of minutes
left.
CDR Hey, look, these T027 cans, I hate to
belabor the point, but I've had the vacuum hose on it for
a half an hour, and I went up, pulled the hose off, and
opened the lid. That's how poor the vacuum is. Now, the
valve is going to stay open, the (garble) valve is going to
stay open. Do you want me to leave the vacuum hose connected
to T027 for good? They can unconnect it when they get up
here and maybe they will have some way to throw those things
through the trash (garble) airlock and then give it up.
CC That's negative. We don't want to leave
the hose connected.
CDR It ain't doing any good to stow
it in there, I can tell you that, because that thing has
got no vacuum whatsoever. I mean I can't even pull the
vecuum long enough to hold the lid shut. I'd rather (garble)
around with the (garble) and put them out the trash alrlock
I believe we could do it. Think it over and tell me at the
next station.
CC Okay. Can you tell if you are getting
any flow at all out through the hose while you've got it hooked
up?
CDR You bet your sweet blppy. I put the
hose just to check that too. I put the hose on the lid with
it open, and I can - it's just sucking away merrily right
through the vacuum port where it is supposed to. It's called
a vacuum, but I don't know why the lid doesn't - for some
reason it doesn't hold. (garble) It had the vacuum in it when we
came up here.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Ascension
is coming up at 23, and that will be your med conference.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 17 minutes
and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking ship. And as we cross the south
Atlantic towards Ascension, there are plans underway to begin
the private medical conference. That's the daily private
medical conference to report the status of the crew health.
And we expect that will be taking place at Ascension. That
had been scheduled earlier for Vanguard, but they did make
a modification because they wanted to clear out the status
of crew activities this morning. So there will be a private
medical conference at Ascension. We will come up about a
minute before and announce that we're live at Ascension,
but we do not expect any sort of discussion until later in
that pass. It is a 7-1/2 minute pass, and we should have
some time returned to us from the medical officer for llve
air to ground from here. This is Skylab Control at 18 min-
utes and 49 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC1324/I
Time: 13:22 CDT, 28:18:22 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 21 minutes


and 51 seconds Greenwich mean time. The present time the
spacecraft is 1 minute and 20 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Ascension. The Ascension pass is reserved for
a private medical conference held daily with the crew to
discuss the present state of their health. We do expect that
when the doctor has completed his private conference we will
have a live air-to-ground from Ascension. Just a few moments
ago we were informed by the crew that they were having
difficulty drawing a vacuum on that - that they had been
having difficulty drawing a vacuum on the TO27 box that will
be used to store the urine separators they took out of
the urine containers earlier today. After a review of that
and a discussion with Surgeon John Zeiglschmid Dr. Zeiglschmid
indicated that there was no danger from contamination or
from bacteria in that area and for that reason whether
or not they have a vacuum makes no difference. They'll be
informed of that no doubt, at the end of the Ascension pass
provided there is time. Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson,
now off duty, is on his way to the building i briefing room
for a short press conference. Because the flight director
does have to be back tonight at 8 o'clock. He goes on shift
at 9 tonight and will be on for a 12 hour overnight shift
until after splashdown in the morning. We would like to
ask that that press conference be as brief as possible. This
is Skylab Control. We'll remain live in the event that
the private medical conference is brief for any air-to-ground
from Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about another
5-1/2 minutes through Ascension.
CDR Roger.
SC Okay, you might pass on I assume that the
deactivation of the water system for SL-III is pretty
much the same as ours. These numbers aren't working out
too well. I'm sure you guys saw there what the waste tank pres-
sures got up to. Plus I been waiting at least 3 minutes for the
dump pressure to get down and right now it's reading just
a tad over i. I'm still waiting for it to get below 0.7.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC CDR, Houston. In regard to the TO27
container, we're not concerned about the fact that it won't
hold the vacuum. We want you to put the separators in there
and batten down the hatch and forget about it.
SC All right.
SC It's Al's worry, not mine, Hank.
CC PLT, Houston. EGIL says we ought to
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press ahead, we can go on the time. Just go 6 minutes and


let that do it.
PLT I didn't get that, Hank.
CC Roger, we'll follow the times in the
checklist going to 6 minutes. That's for the PLT.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We are much
prepared to have - begin a briefing in the Building i small
briefing room and we have taken down the line and will record
the remainder of the Ascension pass. This is Skylab Control
at 28 minutes and 50 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 13:46 CDT, 28:18:46 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 46 minutes


and 28 seconds Greenwich mean time. We will now play the
conclusion of that Ascension pass that we recorded because
of the briefing going on in building I. This is the final
air-to-ground from Ascenclon. Our next acquisition of
signal, about 20 minutes away. Here's the replay of that
air-to-ground from Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS, Guam at 07.
PLT Roger, Houston. And the CDR has managed
to get some vacuum in TO27.
CC Roger.
CDR Got the same old problem, Hank. Loose
nut on the stick, the CDR,
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT You should see the other set of clamps
on the head side.
CC (Laughter). Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 47 minutes
and 32 seconds. That concludes the air-to-ground from
Ascension. During that last brief interchange they indicated
that they had successfully gotten some vacuum on that TO27
can - T027 canister, the container being used to hold the
urine separators from the - the urine separators was found
out It was found out earlier, that the urine separators
were not going to go through the trash airlock as easily as
they had previously anticipated and for that reason, they
decided to put them in the TO27 canister. They do now, have
a successful vacuum on that. And that's a good report,
although, there wasn't any emergency - there was no danger
of any problem, because of no - Because of the lack of
vacuum, they are pleased to know that they do have a vacuum
on that, as an additional precaution. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition 18 minutes and 43 seconds from now.
It is now 48 minutes and 24 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II HC1326/1
Time: 14:05 CDT, 28:19:05 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 5 minutes


and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching
acquisition of signal at the Hawaiian Islands I'm sorry
at the Guam tracking station. We should have acquisition
there at - in i minute and 38 seconds. This is Skylab Control.
We'll remain live for air-to-ground from Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston on the last AOS
of the day, standing by for 6 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston. What time is it down
there anyway?
CC The local time is 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
SPT Goodness gracious. Well, we're going
to bed.
CC Sounds like a fine idea.
SPT I shouldn't have asked, the PLT was getting
sleepy and now he's wide awake again.
CC Sorry about that.
SPT So I'm going to play him some soothing
music. Neither country and western, nor classical nor Up
With People, something everybody can get along with.
CC Beautiful. Beautiful.
SC (Music: "My Country tis of Thee")
CDR Hey Carl, where are we?
CC Skylab, Flight sends his compliments about
your selection of music and we're currently over Guam.
CDR Over Guam, okay.
CC And Skylab, a couple of small matters;
first of all, we'd like confirmation that you've proceeded
the rest of the way through the waste - the waste management
water procedure. Also like to confirm that you took the
TO27 rods out of the box before you put the urine separators
in.
CDR No, nobody said to take the rod out.
Want the rod out? I'ii take the rod out.
CC Okay, that's no big deal. We'll take it
as itis, just a point of information.
CDR Okay.
PLT Yes, the water system deactivation is
complete.
CC Roger, and thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have 40 seconds to
LOS and we'll see yon early tomorrow morning on splashdown
day.
CDR Okay, Houston, and be advised that I'm
going to take transporter 03, which has supply CI18 and
take up CI17 and stow it in the back of Fdrawer. It's one of
the (garble) we were going to use. We don't have anything to
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use it on and it's fully loaded and I'm just going to put
it away in F drawer for him.
CC Roger, Pete. We copy.
CC Roger. And Skylab, a question is coming
through here. Just for reference, can you tell us where you
put the bag with the S019 film canister?
MCC Yes, sir the CAP COM has it.
CDR Which S019? The good one or the bad one?
CC It's the bad one.
CDR The bad one's in a plenum bag.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And it's tied under TO27 on the forward
experiments compartment area by the sunny SAL.
CC Roger. We copy, and thank you.
CDR Going to use it for something?
CC Say again.
CDR Going to use it for something?
CC There's a possibility that there might
be spare parts in the battery that could be useful later.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 14 minutes and
25 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at Guam.
This will be the last pass of the workday for the crew. They
indicated that they are ready to go to sleep. They will be
getting up early tomorrow morning by their definition, but
7:30 p.m. Central daylight time, about a little over 5 hours
from now. A very short sleep period for the crew. And they
have to get up that early - -

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Time: 14:14 CDT, 28:19:14 GMT
6/21/73

PAO - - central daylight time, about a


little over 5 hours from now, a very short sleep period
for the crew. They have to get up that early to begin the
closeout of the orbital workshop area. And then they pass
through the hatch of the MPA, lock that, go to the command
module and begin their return home. That schedule of events
ah - all ready been released. There haven't been any changes
so far from our details on retrofirer and other events. We
do expect the splashdown to occur approximately 8:50 a.m.
central daylight time tomorrow, 835 miles southwest of San
Diego, California. And the USS Ticonderoga Aircraft Carrier
is on station there now, preparing for that splashdown.
So beginning at 7:30 this evening, when the crew awakens,
we'll have the procedure for closeout. The time for splash-
down, 8:50 tomorrow morning. This is Skylab Control, 15 minutes
and 44 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1328/I
Time: 14:47 CDT, 28:19:47 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 46 minutes


and 51 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now acquired
signal over Vanguard Tracking Station. We do not expect
to hear from the crew during this pass, and we are recording
the air to ground. In the event that anything does happen
at Vanguard, we will bring that up later. We have received
a daily medical report from Dr. Willard Hawkins. He reports
that at 13:20 hours local, that's during the Ascension pass
something over an hour ago, the crew were ready to bed
down. Their health is good, they have no medical problems
that concern us regarding entry tomorrow morning. They will
be wearing the counter measure garments unpressurized during
entry as programed. That's signed by Dr. Willard Hawkins,
the Flight Surgeon. To repeat that message_ the health of
the crew is good. They have no medical problems that concern
us regarding entry tomorrow morning. They will be wearing
the counter measure garments unpressurized during entry as
programed. After awakening the crew has now gone to sleep.
Our last pass over Guam they reported that they were on their
way to bed. And we do expect them to be sleeping now. They
went to bed about 2:15 p.m. central daylight time today. After
awakening at 7:30 p.m. central daylight time this evening,
the crew will begin activating the command module, a procedure
that requires nearly 3 hours, and is to be completed shortly
before midnight tonight Houston time. In the following hour,
the crew will don their suits and complete the closeout
activities in the space station, before 2:00 a.m. By 2:00 a.m.
the crew begins final preparations for disconnecting the
command module from the Skylab cluster. Final calculations
now underway for the command module maneuvers required for
tomorrow morning's splashdown, indicate that no change will
be made in the times for those events. The command module
is scheduled to undock at exactly 3:45 a.m. central daylight
time with the space station over the north Pacific about
1200 miles north of Hawaii. Separation from the workshop
cluster using the small reaction control system jets for
23 seconds begining at 4:40 a.m. central daylight time follows.
The separation burn will slow the command module 5 feet per
second or about 3 miles per hour moving it behind the space
station. After it has completed its fly around. As the
command module slows, it will move into a lower orbit and
pass beneath the Skylab cluster. The separation takes place
over the Indian Ocean some 2,000 miles due south of the
Island of Madagascar. Following separation at 5:05:30 a.m.
CDT, Friday the main engine or service propulsion system
will he fired for 10 seconds to slow the spacecraft an additional
264 feet per second or about 180 miles per hour, putting it
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in an orbit 233.6 nautical miles at its high point and


90.7 nautical miles at its low point. That is to say the
high point in the altitude of the command module's orbit
will be about 269 statute miles, and its low point 104
statute miles. This orbit-shaping maneuver will be conducted
over the Philippine Sea, 600 miles east of the island of
Mindanao. The final burn or retrofire which requires a
7 second burn of the main engine slows the command module
another 190 feet per second or 130 miles per hour. That
will be made at 8:10:43 a.m. central daylight time over the
northernmost area of Thailand. The spacecraft will take
more than 23 minutes to reach the 400,000 foot mark, and
that occurs just minutes before splashdown. Splashdown
is scheduled to occur 830 miles southwest of San Diego.
It will occur near the USS Ticonderoga, an aircraft carrier
that is presently stationed there. Splashdown is at
8:49 and 57 seconds a.m. central daylight time, 830 miles
southwest of San Diego. This is Skylab Control with a
final message until, after 7:30 this evening. We do want
to report that there will be a briefing that will be held
on our release lines - An AIAA briefing held on the practical
uses of Skylab's electronics technology. These are practical
commercial applications already underway that have been made
from technology developed for the Skylab program. That will
begin at 3:00 p.m. central daylight time, and will be carried
on the release lines. It is in the small briefing room at
NASA Johnson Space Center. This is Skylab Control at 51 min-
utes and 53 seconds after the hour signing off until 7:30.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1329/I
Time: 19:47 CDT 20:00:47 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 46 minutes and 55


seconds ofter 0 hour Greenwich mean time. At the present
time we are a minute and 50 seconds from acquisition of
signal at our Mila tracking station at Merritt Island,
Florida, and we expect the crew to be wide awake already.
They are believed to have set their alarm clocks for 7:30
p. m. central daylight time wakeup, but there will be a callup
from Spacecraft Communicator Karl Henize and the maroon
team of flight controllers. This is Skylab Control. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground from Merritt Island, Florida.
PAO Skylab Control, we have acquisition of
signal at Merritt Island.
CC Good morning, gentlemen. Welcome to
mission day 29, the last day of a very successful Skylab
2.
CDR Good morning, Karl. Everybody's up and
at 'em. We're (garble)
CC Very good. We'll be with you for 12
minutes through Mila and Bermuda.
SPT It's wonderful of you to pretend it's
morning just for us.
CC Down here in Mission Control, it's hard
to tell the difference. Imagination does everything. In-
cidently, be assured that we have scoured all of Houston
for an appropriate wakeup song. We wanted it to be Rubber
Duckie, and weren't able to find it. Sorry about that.
CDR (Laughter)
CC And, Skylab, you have four burn pads on
board. 2901, 02, 03, and 04. We'd like for you to confirm
that they're on board and okay.
SPT We got them and preliminary glances - it
looks like they came through good, Karl.
CC Very good; thank you.
CDR You really mean three burns and an
entry pad, don't you?
CC Okay, I'ii Roger that.
CDR You can tell that big man I heard say
"Yes" in the background hello.
MCC He said Roger that.
CC He says thanks and hello back.
CDR Say, Houston; CDR. Would you pass to me
one more time the approximate time you wanted to move the
RCS hot fire? Do you want to get it in Guam, or do you want
to get it in Carnarvon instead of Guam, or something? I
got it in my book, but I just want to stick it in my mind.
CC Stand by.
PAO Skylab Control; we have a temporary
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7/21/73

interruption in communications from our site at Merritt


Island.
CC Roger, Pete. We'd like to do that
over Carnarvon instead of Guam.
CDR Yes, what was the approximate time?
CC Roger, Pete. The time we have down
here is 15:05. 15:05 PET.
CDR Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to confirm
that you have the undocking procedures on board. And we're
referring to two messages. One is 2317, and this in turn
refers you to message 0105. Are both of those available
to you?
CDR Wait i. I think you're referring to
the one - the first one you're referring to, I put in the
checklist, in the fourth section, if I'm not mistaken. Let
me look for the other one.
CDR Okay. Here's the number on the - I
got a 0620A and 0315, and that was the real old one. And
then I put one in the procedures book - the CSM
procedures book. That's the only three I know about.
CC Roger. Is the one in the procedures
book - it said to put it on the back of page 5-11. Could you
confirm that?
CDR That I can confirm.
CC That's in the Systems Checklist. You
do have that one on board?
CDR That's Charlie. It's in the command
module right now.
CC Okay, Pete, and the other message was
the undocking message that went up on day i and is still
important. We think that that was placed in the command
module. Do you have any reference to it? That's 0105.
CDR 0105, no I - pass my memory on that
one. Would it have been a message that we put in the systems
book?
CC Okay. It sounds like that. We'll put
that on the teleprinter for you.
CDR Very good.

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6/21/73

CDR Would it have been a message that we put


it in the Systems Book?
CC Okay. It sounds like that, we'll put
that on the teleprinter for you.
CDR Very good.
CC And we have i minute to LOS; we'll see
you at Madrid in about 3 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab, Control at i hour and 20 seconds
Greenwich Mean Time. We have lost signal over our Bermuda
station after a pass through Merritt Island and Bermuda.
And we'll acquire signal again at Madrid in approximately
3 minutes. The crew awakened about 7:30 P.M. Central
Daylight Time tonight, just about an half an hour ago. And
they were told by Spacecraft Communicator Karl Henize
that we'd looked all over Houston for a song to play up to them -
an appropriate wakeup song. He said they were looking
for Rubber Ducky, that was a reference to yesterday morning,
when Kerwin, the Science Pilot, called down and said he
was all ready to go, but he couldn't find his rubber ducky
anywhere, and then shortly after that we heard the sound
of a rubber duck - the kind of squeal that's made by the
rubber duck and Kerwin said "Oh, here it is. I'm ready
to go now." So, we looked for Rubber Ducky to wake them
up, but didn't have any luck on that. We had - a medical
status report was sent up to the crew at Honeysuckle
tonight, on the teleprinter. That medical status report
indicates that the winner of the Butter Cookie Derby is
Pete Conrad. Pete Conrad has eaten 40 cans of bntter
cookies in 28 days. That sets a new record for that
period of time. Joe Kerwin was second with 32 cans of
butter cookies, and it nearly surpassed the record set by
Astronaut Bill Thornton 49 cans in 56 days. Twice as long
a period of time so it indicated that the Thornton record
will carry a asterisk like that carried by Roger Marris in the
home run hitting area and there also on the message is a
comment that 20 cans of cookies will be waiting on the TICO, the
U.S.S. Ticonderoga. This is Skylab Control. We're about 2 minutes
from acquisition of signal at Madrid. Crew had a busy day
yesterday. They were awakened at about i:00 A.M. Houston
time, Thursday. They had a busy day going through various
deactivation procedures, mostly storing parts away and getting
rid of rubbish in the area. They were given instructions
earlier to - on the going home instructions sent up on the
teleprinter, they were told to sweep out the Skylab workshop,
turn the refrigerator on low, turn out the lights, terminate
the paper delivery, set the thermostat, inform their
neighbors that they'll be gone at least a month, put the
garbage out, and pray for a pickup, and also to put the
cat out. This is Skylab Control. We're i minute from
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6/21/73

acquisition of signal at Madrid. And we'll remain live


for air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Madrid.
SC Roger.
CC We'll be with you for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have
40 seconds to LOS; we'll see you again over Carnarvon at
36.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at i hour, 12 minutes,
and ii seconds Greenwich Mean Time. We have lost signal
at the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition
a little under 25 minutes from now will be at Carnarvon,
Australia. We have indicated times now for the television
fly-around, this evening, that follows the undocking
procedure, and precedes separation. TV fly around over
the United States should have acquisition of signal
at about 3:52 AM Central Daylight Time and the pass lasts
15 minutes and 52 seconds according to predicted
site acquisition tables and that would mean it would
run from 3:52 AM Central Daylight Time to 4:07:52 AM
Central Daylight Time. That's the pass that goes through
Goldstone and ends over Merritt Island Florida. This is
Skylah, Control. Our next acquisition of signal in
24 minutes and 12 seconds. Now 13 minutes and 5 seconds
after the hours.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1331/I
Time: 20:35 CDT, 29:01:35 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 35 minutes and


19 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
acquisition of signal at our Carnarvon tracking station in
Australia. We expect to acquire signal there in 1 minute
and 45 seconds. This is Skylab Control. We'll remain live
for air-to-ground from Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
i0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PLT Good morning, Henry. Hey, I Just wanted
you to know - wait until I find the other speaker.
PLT Okay, Hank. In proceeding through the
close-out, I'm not closing out turning off the heat exchanger
fans yet. And I got a question. The instrumentation selectors
- you want them left on Charlie Charlie - is I heard you
say something yesterday. Is that where you want them left?
CC We'd like to close them out per checklist.
PLT Okay.
CDR I've got some numbers for you. Ready to
copy?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, this is the morning-evening status
report for day 29. There is no Alfa for you. There is no
Bravo. Charlie the Chair 27003 27004 27003. The CDR, 6073,
6074, 6076. The SPT 6625, 6634, 6625. The PLT 6738, 6738, 6738.
There is no Delta. There is no Echo. Last night, you'll
have to add to our last night's food. The Commander, i cherry
drink; the SPT, i cherry drink; the PLT, i0 ounces of H20.
This morning the Commander had i cherry juice vice his
coffee with sugar, 'cause who wants cold coffee with sugar.
Yuk. The SPT had an orange vice his cold coffee. And
the PLT had i cherry.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And the PLT had no coffee either.
CDR Have to add a - SPT didn't have his grape-
fruit drink with breakfast for the TT as listed - Two T's,
because I think there's snacks or something.
CC Roger.
CDR Here comes the computer.
CC PLT, Houston. Just a reminder there, you
can go ahead and configure panel 617 and heat exchanger panels
to stay on until you reconfigure panel 390 because we're
running them in manual.
PLT Okay. Good. I'd forgotten that, Hank.
Thank you.
CDR (Garble) checklist all right.
CC Roger. We concur.
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CC CDR, Houston. We can take an E-mod now


if you're ready, or (garble) 74.
CDR Okay, is it all right to send you that
while it's doing an (garble) there, or should I wait until
the computer gets the - the IMUs up?
CC Stand by.
CC Okay, CDR. After the turn-on sequence is
complete we'll be ready. That takes about 90 seconds.
CDR Okay.
CC We've only got about 2 minutes left here.
Why don't we hold that - Honeysuckle. We might get a crop-out
in data here between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, here. It
looks like about 20 seconds or so.
CDR Okay. We'll hold her.

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SL-II MC-1332/I
Time: 20:47 GMT 20:01:47 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, we're back up again through


Honeysuckle for about 4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Here comes your (garble)
CC Okay. We're ready.
CDR Got it.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we have re-
transmitted to yon message 105; that's the message we sent up
way early in the mission for mating the probe and drogue
and we retransmitted the contingency undock procedure just
to make sure yon have both of those on board. They should
be in the teleprinter.
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour and 54 minutes
and ii seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Honeysuckle tracking station, and we have 27 minutes
and 52 seconds until acquisition of signal at Texas. The
crew should now be ready to begin activating the power
systems of the command module, which has been low powered
using about 800 to 1,000 watts of electricity from the
solar powered electrical systems of the Skylab cluster. Be-
ginning the next few hours, we will change over to power
within the command module rather than using that electrical
power generated by the space station itself. While Commander
Conrad brings up the command module power, Chief Scientist
Joseph Kerwin will shut down the waste processing equipment,
and close out the computer control and display panel that
is used for conducting solar experiments on the Apollo
telescope mount. Pilot Paul Weitz will assist in both the
command module power-up and in the final steps of deactivating
the space station for the coming month of unmanned operation.
That command module activation begins about now, and it should
take them approximately 2 hours 40 minutes to complete
activation. Following the activation of the command module
and the other activities required to power down the orbital
workshop and other areas of the Skylab cluster, the crew
will don their suits beginning at about 4:40 Greenwich mean
time. That's about 20 minutes before midnight tonight, and
that should take them about an hour and i0 minutes. Suit
donning will be completed then, and closeout of the space
station takes place between 05:50 and 07:00 Greenwich mean
time, before 2:00 a. m. central daylight time, and then
preparations are made to undock the orbital - undock the
command module from the space station. This is Skylab
Control. We're 23 minutes and 7 seconds from acquisition
of signal at the Corpus Christi, Texas antenna, and we will
return before that time. It's now 56 minutes and 20 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1333/I
Time: 21:18 CDT, 29:02:18 GMT
6/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours


18 minutes and 45 seconds Greenwich Mean Time, we're
now about a minute and a half from acquisition of signal
at our Texas station. We - we'll stay alive for alr-to-
ground from Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for
16-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. You want (garble) accept.
CC That's affirmative, Sir. We're ready
with your uplinks and we're also stand by to monitor your SPS
repress on page 2-12.
CDR Okay that's coming up right now and
you got (garble)
CC Now wait a minute, Pete. We don't
have any data yet.
CDR Oh, okay.
CC Okay, CDR. Data looks good now, you
can go ahead.
CDR Okay.
CDR (garble) zero pressurizing
(garble) degrees, (garble) it must be on the ground.
CC Say again, Pete. We had a poor comm
here.
CDR I said, it's barely coming it into the
green now, how does it look to you on the ground.
CC Okay. We're having data problems again,
soon as we get it squared away, we'll take a look at her.
CDR That's nothing new.
CC CDR, Houston. We're seeing the pressures
now and they both look good to us.
CDR I indicate that it's still slowly
crawling up. I ask whether you want me go to Delta, you
want me to go and come back to auto now.
CC Okay, CDR. You can go back to AUTO.
CDR Roger.
CC And CDR, for info we retransmitted the
message on hooking the probe and drogue together and the contingency
undock procedures and both of those should be in the teleprinter.
CDR Looks to me like now we got the one
message, which is the one we already have.
CC You - are you saying you don't have message
0105 onboard?
CDR That's right, you sent me the other one.
That I already had.
CC Okay. We'll check that out Pete. We
haven't - if we find we haven't sent 0105, we'll resend it.
That's the one thats hook photo - the probe and drogue together.
CDR The message you transmitted was
2317BI which I already got.
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CC Okay, the reason we sent that one,


we just wanted to make sure you had it. I know you said
you had it_ but we did it just as a precautionary
measure and we will ensure that you get the other message.
We'll send it again.
CDR You guys don't trust me or something?

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SL-II MC-1334/I
Time: 21:28 CDT, 29:02:28 GMT
6/21/73

CT Texas comm tech, Houston, comm teehs net i.


CT Texas comm tech.
CT Read you loud and clear.
CDR Hi, Houston. Are you there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CC CDR, Houston. Go ahead.
CC CDR, Houston. We had a handover then.
We're standing by.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Were you calling just a moment ago?
We had a handover there, and you were cut out.
CDR Yes, what is the undocking time?
CC Roger. It should be on the pad we sent
up.
CDR Okay. We'll use that one.
CC Okay. It's still good. 15:34:13 and I
also have your P52 stars for you that goes on page 2-32, 730.
CC I guess that's really about 740 in the
Flight Plan now.
CDR What's the page?
CC Page 2-32.
CC That'll be stars 37 and 42.
CDR Roger. Stars 37 and 42. The undock time's
15:34:13. Right?
CC That's affirmative. And your up-llnks are
complete.
CDR Yea, coming back tomorrow.
CC Skylab, Houston. Whenever it's convenient,
we'd like to get an update from the SPT and the PLT.
PLT Okay, the SPT has the urine lockers stowed
in the command module; is presently stowing A-7.
CC Roger; copy.
PLT The PLT is in a short hold, waiting for the
time to come up. We're going to do the command module's
power transferred internal.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC CDR, Houston. That message 105 ought to
be on board now.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
Madrid's coming up at 41 with a recorder dump.
PLT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 37 minutes and
40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal over
our - our Bermuda tracking station and expect to acquire again
in a little over 3 minutes at Madrid. Should take nearly
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Time: 21:28 CDT, 29:02:28 GMT
6/21/73

3 hours for the crew to complete the procedures required to


activate the command module, and to also complete the major
closeout procedures on America's first space station. During
this last pass Commander Conrad was powering up the SPS - that's
the main engine, the service propulsion system engine of the
command module, pressurizing those tanks - fuel and oxygen
tanks on the SPS. And - that's done manually up there and
then put back in automatic once the pressure reaches the pro-
per level. So, that was completed during this last pass as
part of the activation of the command module. At the same
time, the other two crew members are working on deactivation
of the orbital workshop and other areas of the spacecraft.
Shortly before midnight tonight, Houston time, the crew
members are scheduled to begin getting into their suits. One
of the crew members, however, will remain unsuited until after
the tunnel is closed up. We expect that MDA hatch closing to
take place about 1:10 a.m. Previous to that, the one of
the crew members will be asked to participate in the probe
and - probe and drogue activities. That was the teleprinter
pad mentioned during this last pass that - that had not been
sent up in time for the crew, and that was sent up over the
United States, so they'll be taking a look at that very shortly.
That teleprinter pad gives interim docking procedures that,
assuming the probe cannot locked and drogued normally, the
summary it requires shortly - it requires the crewmen with the
longest reach to remain unsuited until after the tunnel close-
ont. That's the probe and drogue installation. The concept
is to mate the probe and drogue in the multiple docking
adapter, pull it into the tunnel as the last crewman enters
the command module, and close the multiple docking adapter
hatch with the lanyard before installing the probe and
drogue. Lanyard is to be used to close that hatch. The hatch
is locked by reaching around the edge of the drogue. We don't
know at this time which of the crewmen will do that job, but
that'll be the one with the longest reach, and we're not cer-
tain which one will be given that responsibility, but he will
remain unsuited, unlike the other two. This is Skylab Control.
We'll remain live for air-to-ground from Madrid. We're approach-
ing AOS.

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SL-II MC-1335/I
Time: 21:40 CDT 29:02:40 GMT
6/21/73

PAO - possibility that he will remain un-


suited, unlike the other two. This is Skylab Control. We'll
remain live for air to ground from Madrid. We're approaching
AOS there now. Skylab Control at 40 minutes after, remain-
ing live for air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Madrid for
7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Six minutes through
Madrid.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon is coming up at 19. You're looking
good going over the hill.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 49 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Madrid tracking station. Expect to acquire Carnarvon
in approximately 38 minutes. Too clarify anything that
was misunderstood on that last pass. The teleprinter pad
sent up to the crew is an optional procedure not likely
to be used unless there is difficulty. These are interim
undocking procedures. Assuming the probe cannot be locked in
drogue normally. A summary again of that is, in the event
that the probe and drogue do not connect properly as was
the case during some difficulty we had in the original
docking with the workshop following the fly-around, when
the crew first arrived at the space station. Assuming that
probe and drogue do not interlock properly, this is a point for
fitting into an opening in the drogue. If that probe does
not lock normally in the drogue, it will require the crew-
man with the longest reach, presumably Joe Kerwin, to
remain unsuited until after the tunnel closeout, that is
the closeout of the tunnel between the MDA and the command
module. At that point, his job will be to mate the probe
and the drogue in the MDA, to take the hardware back into
the MDA, and to do it by hand, rather than automatically.
And then pull it into the tunnel between the MDA and the
command module. This is a procedure that was just sent
up over the United States during this last pass. The pro-
cedure is one that's probably not going to be likely. They
have tried the probe and drogue operation inside the space
station after that difficulty with undocking and believe
they have got it operating properly. Ten times they tried
it and it succeeded each time, but it is a possibilty that
it will again cause them some difficulty. This is a pro-
cedure sent up to take care of that difficulty. In that
event, the last crewman would enter the command module,
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Time: 21:40 CDT 29:02:40 GMT
6/21/73

close the MDA hatch using a I0 foot long rope, and install
the probe and drogue by hand and lock the hatch by reaching
around the edge of the drogue in that command module tunnel.
So this is a interim undoeking procedure sent up in the
event that they do have some difficulty with the probe and
drogue interlock as they did have at the time of the beginning
of the Skylab mission. This is Skylab Control. Our next
acquisition of signal 36 minutes from now at Carnarvon
station. This is Skylab Control, 51 minutes 45 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1336/I
Time: 22:16 CDT, 29:03:16 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours, 17 minutes,


and i0 seconds Greenwich Mean Time. We are now approaching
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon - Carnarvon in Australia
and expect to have that acquisition in about a minute and
45 seconds. We will remain live for air-to-ground from
Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a low elevation
pass, a couple of minutes through Carnarvon.
CDR Okay, Hank. I did the P52 a little
early. Let me give you the data.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay. Star 40 and star 45, 5 balls;
plus 00015, minus 00031, minus 00063 and the GMT, I guess,
off - now 65 was 03, 02, 0000, which I guess is 0702.
It's phoney time.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT And Houston, SPT. Now that we've
finished with the star tracker, may I configure the ATM
for quiescent.
CC I'ii see SPT.
SPT Okay. You guys check up on me.
SPT Where's your next RAD, Hank?
CC Say again.
SPT Where's the next main contact.
CC Okay. We'll drop out here for just a
minute or so. We'll come up on Honeysuckle at 28 for a
couple of minutes.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours, 22 minutes,
and 22 seconds Greenwich Mean Time. We have now lost
signal at Carnarvon and don't expect to acquire again for
another 4 minutes when we will be acquired by our other
Australian tracking station at Honeysuckle. This is
Skylab Control at 22 minutes and 40 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1337/I
Time: 22:24 CDT 29:03:24 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours 24 minutes


and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
the Honeysuckle tracking station's area of coverage and we
will stay live for air-to-ground from Honeysuckle. We are
approximately i minute and a half before we expect ac-
quisition at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
about a minute and a half.
CC Skylab, Houston. About i minute until
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 57.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours 29 minutes
and 51 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost
signal at Honeysuckle and expect to acquire again in 26
minutes and 53 seconds at Goldstone in California. That
will be our next acquisition of signal 26 minutes and 45
seconds from now, It's now 30 minutes after the hour. This
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1338/I
Time: 22:54 CDT, 29:03:54 GMT
6/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours 54 minutes and


54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now i minute and 54
seconds from acquisition of signal at Goldstone tracking
station in California. This is an extended United States
pass, tracking across all three of the continental antennas,
one at Goldstone, one at Corpus Christi_ Texas and the other
at Merritt Island, Florida. And we will remain live for
air-to-ground from the United States tracking stations.
CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for about 16
minutes.
CDR Roger. Do you want POO .and ACCEPT?
CC Roger. You can go ahead and give it to us.
It'll be about 4 more minutes over Texas when we uplink the
clock sinc.
CDR Okay, that's going to be PET, right?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Hooray, I got it right.
CDR You've got PO0 and ACCEPT now.
CC Okay, sir. And for info, the electrical
system looked real good going over the hill there at Honey-
suckle, and we've checked out the E-mod and it's okay.
CDR And I'ii tell you we're on page $5-8 in
that command module systems checklist doing the pre-docking
switch first look at the panels checks.
CC Roger, and can we get an update on the
SPT and PLT?
PLT Yes, the PLT has just configured - just
finished configuring the SPS circuit breaker and how about
if you guys verify your command capability?
CC Wilco.
CDR And the SPT is helping me, because he's
up to where he should be.
PLT And did you verify ATM command capability,
Houston?
CC Negative, sir. Now that you are through,
we're going to give it a go.
PLT Okay.
PLT And Henry, what I have not done yet, but
I have had it at the appropriate places on back out at the
workshop is the heat exchanger fan, OWS heat exchanger fans
are still running. I've added the switches to my checklist
further down, and I've added the circuit breakers to my
checklist further down. 1
CC Roger. Copy.
CC CDR, Houston. We noticed you got a C&W
there. Was that - did you enable 5 Bravo?
CDR Yes, if you remember, both of them are bad.
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Time: 22:54 CDT, 29:03:54 GMT
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Alfa and Bravo are bad. I think quad A and quad B are bad.
Quad B OFF/SCALE HIGH 300 and we got both of those shut off.
CC Roger, copy.
CC CDR, the PT's in, the computer's yours.
CDR Thank you, sir.
CDR All right, Houston, are you still there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR I think in this one on page $5-I0 panel
377 - I think you want the GLYCOL to RAD SEC valve
to FLOW instead of BYPASS per the new procedure, right?
CC Stand by i on that, Pete.
PLT Houston, how about either turning the TV
on or let us hit COMMAND RECESS, please.

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SC-II MC-1339/I
Time: 23:04 CDT, 29:04:04 GMT
6/21/73

CC Go ahead and hit command reset.


CC CDR, Houston. I think that in page
2-42 there of the checklist, we don't do page 5-10 in the
CSM Systems Checklist at this time. We catch that a
little later down the line, and there we'll configure that
system properly.
CDR That's not what it says in my book -
wait, hold it.
CDR It says - in my book on page 2-42, it
says "F5-7, 8, 9, and ll, except panels 4, 230, 201, 98, 12,
and 351." You don't want to do page I0, is that what you're
telling me?
CC Roger. Page i0 wasn't in that list.
On page 2- - 2-38 your copy
CDR - - it says "Start on F5-1 and configure
all panels on F5, 7, 8, 9, and ii except panels 4, 230, 201,
98, 12, and 351 which are on those pages. (garbled) you should
do.
CC I've got affirmative and the
steps that on 510 were accomplished on page 2-38, and we did have
a change in there where we went to normal.
CDR That's right. I've already done it.
Just wanted to confirm it.
CC You're correct.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've been watching
the primary refrigeration loop here pretty closely, and
it doesn't seem to be performing properly. In fact, the
whole loop seems to be slowly warming up. I wonder if
somebody could run down and check panel 611 and check that
all the circuit breakers are closed.
SPT I did that twice; I'ii do it again.
CDR Hey, Houston. I'm getting ready to
terminate the 02 purge here a little while, okay?
CC Roger.
CDR Thank you.
SPT Houston, all the circuit breakers on 611
are closed.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And, SPT, for you info, all the ATM
command checks were good.
SPT Roger. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
to LOS. Madrid at 18, with a recorder dump, and CDR, you
can go to block.
PAO Skylab Control at 4 hours, 14 minutes,
and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
Bermuda tracking station, and expect to acquire again in
about 4 minutes at Madrid. During this last pass_ the
crew was informed that we had discovered a problem with
primary coolant loop in the orbital workshop; this is
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Time: 23:04 CDR, 29:04:04, GMT
6/21/73

not the same cooling system that operates the airlock


module and the telemetry equipment. Both the coolant loops
and the airlock module had given us some trouble with
sticking temperature control valves earlier. This is a
separate system - system that feeds the food freezers,
wardroom freezers, water and urine chillers in the
orbital workshop. At this time, it appears the temperature
on that orbital workshop primary refrigeration loop or
coolant loop had moved up several degrees. Food freezers
are still well within the safe range, but should those
temperatures continue to come up as they have been,
approximately 5 degrees, moving up from about temperatures
ranging around 7 or 8 degrees below zero Fahrenheit to
0 to 5 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. If those temperature
do continue to come up, the secondary coolant loop in
the orbital workshop will come on line, and the primary
one will be shut down automatically by a computer system
that does handle that problem. But there is some
concern here that there may be a problem; that the crew may
have by accident made a mistake in the configuration
of controls for the the coolant loop. So that was the
reason that they requested a member of the crew go back
down to make a check of that and find out for certain
that all control are set the way they were instructed to
set them. That's a very - very small problem, but it's
one they would like to remedy before they crew departs.
Indication from Commander Conrad was that they are moving
along very well, approximately half an hour ahead of the
time line at the beginning of this pass. All three of the
crew members were in the command module during the pass,
and one of them was instructed to go back to the orbital
workshop at the other end of the space station to check
out that refrigeration loop. This is Skylab Control; we will
remain live for air-to-ground from Madrid in approximately
1 minute and 45 seconds. This is Skylab Control remaining
live for air-to-ground.

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SL-II MC-1340/I
Time: 23:16 CDT 29:04:16 GMT
6/21/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid 9 minutes.


CDR Roger, Hank. We checked all the freezer
doors and that. Everything's latched up secure. The only
thing that's different is the SPT has taken out all that
frozen urine, and he put some warm hardware in there. But
it was Just the empty drains and that (garble) wasn't much.
CC Roger. That doesn't seem to be the
problem. We're a little puzzeled about the thing. Our
telemetry seems normal. The valves and everything
in the right plaeesp however the loop seems to be warming
up.
PLT Okay, I also got a question for you on
the configuration of the breakers on panel 613. Regarding
the SAL power. All the SAL outlet breakers are open
except plus Z outlet i. Is that really what we want?
CC Okay. That was one of the changes we
uplinked Paul, the configuration there should be all
those experiment circuit breakers open except BUS 2_ SAL
OUTLET 2 minus Z.
PLT Okay, we didn't get it. It didn't
show up in the book. I'ii change it. You want the one
S149 plugged into, right?
CC Say again.
PLT I figured you want the one that S149
is plugged into.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Hey, Houston, you still there?
CC Roger, for about 3 more minutes.
CDR Well, when we got the television in the
rendezvous window, and you can command it on anytime you want
to get a check on it. See if you like that new lens. We
changed lens.
CC Roger. Our telemetry looked good and
for the PLT, we've got your reg adjust settings for you.
PLT What reg adjust settings? I was just
marveling at how EGIL figured it all out so it came out
exactly right when we unhooked the CSM.
CC I think this is - he's got a failure
here and he wants you to adjust BUS 2 clockwise to increase
the PCG total 2 by 5 amps.
PLT Okay.
PLT How's that look?
CC Okay. It looks good to us.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, about 30 seconds from LOS,
Honeysuckle at 04.
PAO Skylab Control at 4 hours 28 minutes
and 26 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
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Time: 23:16 CDT 29:04:16 GMT
6/21/73

at the Madrid tracking station, and are now out of range


of signal for 35 minutes and 43 seconds. During the last
pass we did have some problem with the refrigeration pri-
mary coolant loop and they are still looking into that
here at Mission Control. Flight Controllers believe that
it may still be a switch problem rather than anything act-
ually wrong with the line. Temperatures remain very -
very well within a safe range, most of the food freezers
still around zero degrees, the lowest of them being about
5 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The refrigeration system
is set for a freezer range no higher than minus i0 - I'm sorry,
no higher than plus i0 degrees Fahrenheit for long term
food storage. That means that they still have a range of
about i0 degrees higher to go and should the temperature
continue a trend up towards that i0 degree upper limit for
temperature on the freezers, the secondary coolant loop
would be automatically activated by the control panel of the
refrigeration system. This is Skylab Control at 29 minutes
and 36 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 00:02 CDT, 29:05:02 GMT
6/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 5 hours 2 minutes and


18 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we are
i minute and 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the
Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia. We expect to hear
some additional discussion of the problem on their refrigerant
loop and we're waiting for telemetry data from Honeysuckle
to determine whether there has been any change in that. It's
now believed that that problem is even less serious than
considered earlier, but we should hear some additional informa-
tion here at Honeysuckle. We'll remain llve for air-to-ground
from Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
5-1/2 minutes.
CDR I think you guys better figure out what
happened to that freezer loop, quick. It's up to 6 degrees,
and it's switched to secondary.
CC Roger. We see that it's switched over,
and we're talking about it right now, Pete.
CDR It ain't doin any good, though. The
temperature's jumped from 4 degrees up to 6 degrees in the urine
everything's shut, everything looks normal here. It must
be - maybe some circuit breaker or something on the 200 panel.
CC Skylab, Houston. What we talked about
during LOS there was - we kind of narrowed in thinking that
perhaps the - either the bypass valve hung up or the release
valve that goes around it opened up on it. And we had planned
to switch over to the secondary loop by COMMAND, but the
system beat us to it. Now, we would llke to look at this
secondary loop for awhile. We think that the system has - all
the freezer's compartment temperatures were up and we think
the system had enough heat in it that we haven't seen - had
time enough to see the secondary loop do its thing. But we'd
like to watch it a while. And perhaps later on, when you do
the final close-out down there, we may want you to switch
a pump for us.
PLT Okay, that's coming up pretty quick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
to LOS. We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 25. We'd llke to
remain on the secondary loop through Hawaii and perhaps even
the stateside with - we're thinking we may want to go back
to the primary loop annd if we do that we'll - the only switch
action we'll require from you is to do a pump switch for us
on the primary loop.
SPT Roger, Houston. We copy.
SPT I was looking at a PPC-02 HIGH CAUTION
we just got, Houston, you might take a glance at.
PLT Probably normal.
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CC Okay, we see it.


CC Okay. I guess that PPC02 might be ex-
pected with the sieve flow down. I guess we're not con-
cerned about it at this point.
PAO Skylab Control at 5 hours ii minutes and
12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at the Honeysuckle tracking station. As was indicated during
that pass, the secondary loop did come up as the temperatures
rose too high on the primary loop. Those freezer compartments
temperature indications now are about 1 to 3 degrees, on most
of them. One of the wardroom freezers is a bit higher than
that and one of urine freezers has reached 8 degrees. The
maximum is i0 degrees, but the secondary coolant loop has
now come on end we do expect temperatures to come down a bit.
Primary temperatures did come up quite a bit during that pass
and there is some concern about that here, but they expect
to study it and make certain that there's not just something
warm that had been put into the freezers during the stowage
period today. Also, CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield told the crew,
after they reported a PPC02 caution and warning light, that's
a caution and warning light that indicates the total amount
of carbon dioxide in the air. When that warning light came
on they said they thought it might be common, and Hartsfield
did confirm that. The molecular sieves which are used to
eliminate carbon dioxide from the air are not in their normal
operating mode now and for that reason those caution and
warning lights will come on, although it doesn't reflect any
high level of carbon dioxide. It merely reflects the con-
figuration of the molecular sieve that's used to remove car-
bon dioxide. So, we expect to continue looking at that pri-
mary refrigeration loop in the orbital workshop, the loop
that's used to feed wardroom freezers, urine freezers, and
food freezers, and also the water chiller. It does stay - it
is still well within the safe range of plus i0 degrees
Fahrenheit as the maximum limit. There are none of the
devices that are at that level and the secondary coolant
loop is now in operation to try to bring those temperatures
back down. One interesting sidelight, although it doesn't
appear to have any effect on this particular problem, is that
the spacecraft is now constantly in sunlight. During the
previous part of this mission up until about ii a.m. central
daylight time, Thursday, the spacecraft did go through ex-
tended periods of darkness, roughly a third of the orbit,
and many of the days were spent in darkness. At the present
time, because of what is called a high Beta angle, reflecting
the - both the period of the year - this is - course just
the beginning of summer and the longest day period in the
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northern hemisphere, are reflecting both that and the unusual


angle of the spacecraft to the Sun. This Beta angle does
present us with sunlight all the way around the Earth,
because we are properly configured for that. That that
beta angle means that we'll be in sunlight for about 4 days
without any passage through darkness. So, temperatures in
the orbital workshop, for that reason, have risen some. Temp-
eratures earlier today were reading in the approximately
81 to 82 degree range, and they do remain in the low 80's in
the orbital workshop because of that high Sun angle. If
activitation of the command module and deactivation of the
Skylab cluster now underway, are completed on schedule, as
they should have been by now. The crew will begin donning
their pressure garments and their medical sensor harness,
which reports heartbeat and respiration from the command
module during the re-entry period. This will be done during
the next - next hour or so. The multiple docking adapter
hatch close-out is expected to be completed by Pilot Paul
Weitz about i:i0 a.m. central daylight time, after he has
taken the final steps in closing out the orbital workshop,
airlock module, and multiple docking adapter areas of the
space station. Preparations for undocking, following tunnel
close-out, and the donning of helmet and gloves will begin
at 2:00 a.m. central daylight time. Following hatch instal-
lation and integrity check, the helmets and gloves are removed.
Between 2:00 a.m. and 3:45 a.m° central daylight time, the
crew checks engine and attitude control systems in preparation
for undocking. The command module is scheduled to undock
at exactly 3:45 a.m. central daylight time. As the orbiting
space station crosses the north Pacific, about 1200 miles
north of Hawaii, for a period of 30 to 35 - 30 to 45 minutes,
the command module will be maneuvered slowly around the space-
station, as the crew photographs various portions of the
Skylab cluster. This photography, which will no doubt focus
on both the parasol sunshade and the orbital workshop solar array
wing which was deployed during the space-walk two weeks ago, was
scheduled - the fly-around was scheduled in the original
flight plan, prepared sometime before the launch of both
the space station, and later, the crew. Part of that fly-
around will be televised live to mission controllers. As
the two vehicles pass over the United States and its ground
tracking antennas. The TV period is expected to last about
16 minutes, beginning at about 3:52 a.m. central daylight
time, and concluding as the command module passes out of
range at 4:07:52 a.m. central daylight time. Following the
fly-around, the command module - -

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PAO The TV period is expected to last about


16 minutes, beginning at about 03:52 a.m. central daylight time.
And concluding as the command module passing out of range at
04:07:52 a.m. central daylight time. Following the flyaround,
the command module will fire its small reaction control
system engines for 23 seconds at 04:40 a.m. central daylight
time, and begin moving slowly away from the space station.
The astronauts will slow their craft 5 feet per second or
about 3 miles per hour, dropping behind the Skylab cluster
as they fall into a lower orbit. The maneuver, called
separation, begins over the Indian Ocean 2,000 miles south
of Madigascar at the nearest point to the Antarctic Continent.
The lower orbit will also be a shorter orbit, so the
slower-movlng command module will pass beneath the space
station and move ahead of it. Following separation at
5:05:30 a.m. central daylight time, Friday morning, the
main engine, or service propulsion system, will be fired for
i0 seconds as the command module flies backward. The
brelf firing of the powerful SPS engine slows the spacecraft
another 264 feet per second, or about 180 miles per hour,
driving it out of it's nearly circular orbit and into an orbit
about 269 miles at its high point, and 104 statute miles at
the low point. The orbit shaping maneuver is conducted
over the Philippine Sea 600 miles east of Mindanao. The
final burn, a 7-second firing of the main engine,
slows the command module another 190 feet per second, or
130 miles per hour. This retrofire maneuver is conducted
at approximately 8:10:43 a.m. central daylight time over
Southeast Asia. The retrofire maneuver guides the
phase elapsed time clock, or the PET clock, which is now
used to conduct these final activites. Because retrofire
calculations change constantly, the PET clock, called the
phoney clock by an astronaut earlier tonight, is set and reset
to conduct - to conduct retrofire at exactly 20 hours on the PET
clock. With other events - in the sequence time to both the
phase elapsed time clock and the Greenwich mean time clock used
during most of the Skylab mission. The spacecraft - spacecraft
begins dropping in towards the atmosphere following retro-
fire, and reaches 400,000 feet altitude at about 34 minutes after
8:00 a.m. central daylight time. Splashdown is scheduled
for 8:50 a.m. central daylight time this morning some
830 miles southwest of San Diego, California. The predicted
impact point is 24 degrees 46 minutes north latitude, and
127 degrees 4 minutes west longitude. This is Skylab
Control at 19 minutes and 5 seconds after the hour. Our
next acquisition of signal 5-1/2 minutes from now at Hawaii.
This is Skylab Control at 19 minutes after the hour.

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6/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 5 hours 22 minutes


and 59 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are approaching
acquisition of signal at Hawaii in approximately i minute
and 50 seconds. During this pass we should get some addi-
tional data on the temperature changes on the secondary
coolant loop, which did not appear to be having a part-
icularly beneficial effect at Honeysuckle. They are going
to take a look at that and see whether or _ot they want to
go back to the primary loop during this pass. So we'll
stay live for air-to-ground from the Hawain Islands track-
ing station. This is Skylab Control at 25 minutes 29
seconds after the hour staying live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
7 minutes. And we have switched hack to the primary loop
on the refrigeration system.
PLT Roger. How does it look?
CC It doesn't look good to us right
now. We're still smoking it over.
CDR Secondary loop look good?
CC Negative. It didn't look good either.
SC Holy Christmas.
SPT Was it something we did during closeout
that's not obvious?
CC Not that we can tell. We're thinking
of the possibility now that we may have a radiator frozen
up.
CC We're in this high Beta now. We're in
a situation where the radiators are meeting their coldest
temperatures. They're pointed away from the Sun all the
time and no albedo from the Earth on them.
CDR Hank, we have (garble)
CC Roger. Copy.
CC And for the PLT, the command checks
all turned out good, the AM command checks, and for the
CDR, stars 37 and 42 are still good.
PLT Hank, the PLT is holding at the top
of page 67.
CC Reg. Copy.
CC PLT, are you down in the experiment
area?
PLT No sir. I'm out of the workshop and
all lights are out and I'm in the MDA. I can go back down
if you want.
PLT What do you need, Hank?
CC Okay, we're just discussing here now,
Paul, we decided - we were going to have you switch over to
pump 2 on primary loop, but we decided we're going to leave
it on pump i.
PLT Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.


Goldstone at 33.
CDR Okay, well, we're going off the comm here
for a minute. We're pulling the umbilical.
PAO Skylab Control at 5 hours 32 minutes
and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have temporarily
lost signal as we pass out of the range of the Hawaiian
Islands tracking station, but expect to acquire
again at Goldstone in California in approximately 23
seconds. We will remain live for air-to-ground and a
call from the spacecraft communicator, Henry Hartsfield.

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Time: 00:31 CDT 29:00:31 GMT
6/22/73

three Skylab astronauts were now in the command module,


after completing a closeout of the space station and
the locking of the multipule docking adaptor hatch at
about i:i0 a. m. central daylight time today. Those three
astronauts are now in the command module with a great deal
of hardware surrounding them in the tunnel area. And be-
cause they have so much hardware, Commander Conrad said
about a half hour ago that he did not feel he would be
able to do any sort of maneuvering right now. It would
probably take another half an hour before he would have
enough room in the command module to conduct maneuver
operations. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, having heard
that over the air-to-ground, informed spacecraft communicator
Henry Hartsfield that that was understandable and certainly
within the acceptable range. They do indicate now though
that they would like to do that attitude control maneuver
as soon as possible. So it's quite possible to use the
command modules engines rather than the TACS gas that
normally would be used to move the 100 ton spacecraft
around in it's orbit. We expect to hear something more
about that as soon as we reach the next signal at Honeysuckle
in Australia, and right now the temperatures as of the last
pass reading about 5 to 7 degrees in those food freezers
still well below the safe level, the maximum level indicated
for the freezers and normal operation is plus i0 degrees,
although frequently they do operate at approximately minus
5 degrees. Maximum level - acceptable level normally would
be plus i0 degrees. No danger to the food in the freezers,
even at temperatures above that level, but they would like
to act as soon as possible to free up whatever is blocking
the flow of that coolant all through the loops. At the
present time there are no other options have been
mentioned by the EGIL here in Mission Control. We do expect
that maneuver to be attempted in the hope that that will
free up the radiator if that is, in fact the cause of the
freeze-up. If that is, in fact blocking the flow of the
coolanol. This is Skylab Control. We're about 3 minutes
and 20 seconds from acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle,
and we'll remain live for air-to-ground from Honeysuckle.

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SL-II MC-1344/I
Time: 00:32 CDT, 29:05:32 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for


9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston; about i minute to LOS.
Bermuda at 46.
CDR Roger, Houston. We're just about
running 20 minutes ahead, just nice and comfortable.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC CDR, Houston. Just want to fill you
on what we're thinking about - we're considering a 45-degree
pitch maneuver for the SWS to put the radiator in the Sun
a liitle bit, and we haven't made our mind whether we want to
do with the SWS or the CSM.
CDR We'd just as soon let you guys have the
SWS.
CC Roger. Copy, and we're about LOS.
PAO Skylab Control at 5 hours 42 minutes
and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
for about 3 minutes as we pass out of range near the
Goldstone tracking station and expect to acquire again
at Bermuda. Just as we ended that pass, spacecraft
communicator Henry Hartsfield gave a callup and indicated
that we may be doing an attitude change, a manuever - a
pitch manuever of 45 degrees to attempt to point that
radiator on the end of the workshop toward - more toward
the Sun to get a little sunlight on it. There is some
belief over here that the radiator may have frozen up and that
may be the cause for temperature increases. Those temperatures
now as of Goldstone were ranging at about the 4- to 6-degree
area on the freezers. One of the urine freezers is
bit higher at i0 degrees, and that's at the upper limit of the
long-term storage levels. It's desired to keep them below
i0 degrees. Most of those now are reading about 4 to 6
degrees. No indication one way or the other whether this
is going to continue or stop. One of the outlet temperatures
has, in fact, come down a bit, and that may be a sign that
it's changing. Inside the orbital workshop, the temperatures
have gone up because of the high Beta angles we mentioned
earlier. It's believed that those Beta angles may, in fact,
have had some effect on the temperature of the radiator because
of the angle of the radiator to the albedo of the earth. That
is to say, the reflected light from the earth may not be shining
as directly on the radiator and for that reason, the radiator
may be colder than usual and may in fact have frozen up some of
the coolant. At least to this point, it appears quite clear
that that's not a serious problem and not likely to have any
effect on the undocking this morning at 3:45 a.m. central
daylight time. Most of the maneuvers can be performed
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from down here. We do expect that probably at the


Canary Islands station or possibly shortly thereafter,
we may do an maneuver - 45-degree pitch maneuver, using
either the orbital workshop's - the Skylab workshop's TACs
gas, thats thruster attitude control system gas, or using -
possibly using the command module's engines. Right now,
that hasn't been decided and that's still being considered
here at Mission Control; they are doing a plan for that
attitude control maneuver. It will take some time to get
exact data for the maneuver. This is Skylab Control. We
will remain live for air-to-ground from Bermuda in
approximately i minute.

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6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for


6 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're having a little
trouble selecting antennas from the ground. Could you give
us command reset?
CDR Want it left there or you want it
back in normal?
CC Roger. We'd like to go back to normal.
CDR We'll do that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're still having
trouble with the antennas. Could you tell us the position
of your two S-band antenna switches?
CDR Okay. They're in op EC and (garble)
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I'm still in the process; I just finished
reconfiguring the comm. That may have been part of your
problem. S-BAND POWER AMP PHASE MODULATOR X-PONDER 2 FLIGHT
BUS breaker was open for awhile. I just closed it again.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Canaries
at 45.
PAO Skylab Control at 5 hours 53 minutes
and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at our Bermuda tracking station. About to pick up signal
again in 2 minutes at our Canary Island tracking station.
We will remain live for air-to-ground at Canary Islands.
They're still considering the attitude maneuver. They have
checked with the medical people to determine the effect
on the food in the freezers at higher temperatures. The
medical people indicated that a 10-degree temperature for
a 24 hour period would have no adverse effect on the foods.
And for that reason they may decide to postpone this
attitude maneuver until after the command module has de-
parted from the orbital workshop. That attitude maneuver can, of
course, be performed from here at Mission Control. So we
still are indefinite about whether the attitude maneuver
will or will not be performed. Flight Director Neil
Hutchinson indicated that he would prefer not using the
command module to perform the maneuver, but of course, it
could still be performed by the command module. We are
i minute from acquisition of signal at Canary Islands, and
we will stay live for air-to-ground from Canary.

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Time: 00:54 CDT, 29:05:54 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Canary for


9-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're pretty much
convinced now that we're going to have to do a maneuver to
put that radiator in the Sun and we're still looking at
the possibility of doing it with a CSM. The reason we -
we can't get a handle on the TACS ussage and of course you
know the TACS is critical for us and well, we're still debating
whether to do it with a SWS or the CSM and we should have
a decision on that by Carnarvon.
SC Well, don't ask me to do it in the next
little bit, man, we got tunnel, drogue, probe, suits, junk. I
can't even move in here right now. You can forget us for at
least an hour 'til we get this command modulestraightened
out. For us to maneuver, you couldn't ask for a worse time.
CC Roger. We're taking that into account,
Pete, and we'll be switching over to PET now, all times
are being PET and Honeysuckle will be coming up at 30 PET.
I'ii be handing over to Richard now. Keep it in the groove,
and we'll see you in Houston in a couple of days.
CDR Roger.
CC So long.
CDR Thank you for everything, Hank.
CC Okay. See you guys later.

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Time: 01:05 CDT, 29:06:06 GMT
6/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, I have 6 hours, 6


minutes Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now over
the Canary Islands tracking station. Do not expect to
acquire again for 34 minutes and 13 seconds at which time
we'll acquire at Honeysuckle, Australia. Long period of
LOS as the spacecraft travels to the southeast across
Africa. During this last few moments of Canary Island
pass, spacecraft communicator Henry Hartfield talking to commander
of the Skylah Mission Charles Pete Conrad indicated that
we are now still considering that attitude control system,
do believe it will be a attitude control maneuver. We do
believe that it will be necessary to do some sort of a
maneuver to put the radiator end of the orbital workshop in
the Sun, or at least shine some light on it for some period
of time probably for 1/2 to 1 revolution above the
Earth or approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour and a half. At
this time, it's not been determined whether that should be done
before or after undoeking and also it's not be determined whether
it will he done by the command module engines or by the
TACS gas equipment, that's the thruster attitude control system
gas thats used on the Skylah workshop for maneuvering. One
of the concerns here, is consumption of TACS gas, thruster
attitude control system gas was used quite heavily in the
earlier parts of the mission because thermal control
problem. We still do have a more than sufficient supply,
approximately half again of what will be required for the
completion of the Skylab missions but because we began with
roughly double what was required for the Skylah missions,
there is some concern that we're using too much TACS and we
would llke to conserve as much as possible in case of
future difficulties. Because of that, it may be that
Commander Conrad will be asked to do the maneuver using the
command module engines. A maneuver under consideration
right now is a 45 degree pitch down, which is to say the
nose of the spacecraft - forward end of the spacecraft will
be pitched down maneuvering that rear end of spacecraft
up into the Sun a little more. Spacecraft remains in
sunlight now, all the time, because of what are called high
beta angles, that is to say, the angle of the orbit of the
spacecraft is such that the Sun is always in line of sight
of the spacecraft and it never passes beneath - behind the
Earth and out of sight of the Sun. That began at ii:00 a.m.
central daylight time on Thursday and continue for about
4 days. Has the advantage of providing electrical launchers
electrical energy to the spacecraft, higher levels than we
normally would experience. Normally we spend approximately
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70 percent of the period of revolution in the Sun, and


about 30 percent in darkness, that varies because of the
precession of both the Earth's axis and precession of the
orbit of the spacecraft. So there is - they are not
considering the possibility of doing that command module
maneuver, to maneuver the entire i00 ton spacecraft in
order to point those radiators at the Sun in event the
eoolanol in the radiator is frozen at one point. That's
of course, nothing we know for certain at this point. All
we do know is the temperature have moved up over
the past several hours and the food freezer area and on
the primary coolant loop of the orbital workshop. This is
to remind you again, this is a distinct coolant loop from the
coolant loop in the airlock modules, those coolant loops
are used primarily for telementry systems and for the ATM
control and display panel had given us a good deal of
trouble earlier primarily because of the stuck valve, stuck
temperature control valve in both the primary and the
secondary loop. Those airlock module loops are working
fairly close to properly, primary loop is now working at
proper temperature in the airlock module, the secondary loop
is still reading about 1 degree cooler than it is desired.
There is some concern that that is not working as desired
it should work, it's reading 1 degree lower and appears that
the temperature control valve may be stuck i degree lower level
than desired. Certainly no problem or concern. This OWS
primary refrigeration loop the primary refrigeration loop
in the workshop which serves the wardroom freezer, urine
freezer and food freezer as well as the water chiller and
a number of urine chillers, is reading higher temperatures
then we normally had experienced. Only I of them has reached
the upper limit for long term duration mission; that is the
urine freezer which is now reading 10.5 degrees. That's
well above the desired limit - desired limit and this is a
correction - desired limit on the urine freezer is plus 2
degrees rather than plus i0 degrees. Plus 2 degrees is the
urine freezers maximum normal temperature reading. The freezer
are allowed to read as high as plus i0 degrees. Only the
urine freezer has gone up above this desired level. The others
are reading in the 5 to 7 degree range, so they are still in the
safe levels and not posing any great problems. Medical personnel
in the food and nutritional areas were asked what effect
the long period of time at i0 degrees might have on the
on the food in those freezers and they did indicate that
they would have no effect on the quality of the food at all,
that they could go on at a temperature several degrees higher
than they are now reading without any difficulty. _owever,
the plus i0 temperature - well, the plus i0 temperature in
the freezers would have no adverse effect on the quality of frozen
foods, even over extended periods of time. Two experiments -
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the data from two medical experiments, M071 and M073, which
require very precise measurement of gains and losses in
water, calcium_ nitrogen, and other biochemical constituents
during space flights, might be slightly degraded by above
normal temperatures and the indication is that plus i0
temperature in the freezer for period of 24 hours might
degrade the data from - those two experiments about i percent,
which means there would be slightly greater error in the
data for two of the medical experiments. Very, very slight
change even if it should go for 24 hours it now appears
that in the next few hours we'll do a maneuver to attempt
to warm up those radiators. That again_ to repeat, it
would not have any effect, even if the temperature was
several degrees higher for a long period of time, it would
have no effect on the quality of the food in the frozen
food freezer in the orbital workshop. This is Skylab
Control; our next acquisition of signal 27 minutes and
46 seconds from now. This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes
and 40 seconds after the hour.

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6/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 6 hours 32 minutes


and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time, or 13 hours 21 minutes
and 21 seconds phase elapsed time. We are now still 8 minutes
from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking
station in Australia. Here is some update information on
the problem on that orbital workshop refrigeration system.
The urine freezer, which is now reading about 8 degrees
higher, as of the last telemetry data, reading about 8
degrees higher that its planned maximum of plus 2 degrees
Fahrenheit, is not in use at this time and will not
be required until the beginning of the next manned mission
more than a month from now. It was used to store urine
for experimental purposes during the mission, but that
urine has now been transferred to the command module area
and where it's kept in an insulated box. Only one temp-
erature sensor is located in the radiator area of the
orbital workshop, where it's believed that there may be a
blockage in the flow of coolant to the refrigeration system
that serves the food freezers, wardroom freezers, urine
freezers, urine chillers, and water chillers in the orbital
workshop living area. There is only a single temperature
sensor there. That sensor indicates a temperature about
65 degrees above what is called the poor point of coolanol.
Coolanol is not a crystalline substance. Doesn't freeze in
the same way that water freezes to ice_ but it does become
a very heavy slushy liquid at about 160 degrees below
zero Fahrenheit. That's minus 160 Fahrenheit. The sensor
now reads a minus 195 as of the last station, which is still
well above the poor point, but would have an effect on reducing
the flow of the coolanol. For this reason they are pre-
sently here in Mission Control - Flight Director Neil
Hutchinson and his team of flight controllers are con-
sidering maneuver possibilities to adjust the attitude of
the spacecraft, pitching it down 45 degrees to point the
radiator toward the Sun and warm the temperature up a bit
there. Flight Director Hutchinson indicated that he would
prefer to do the maneuver with the orbital workshop's, or
with the space station's own TACS system, that's the thruster
attitude control system, but at this time, it would be
very difficult to generate the amount of data needed on
the present attitude control system, the control
moment gyros and the associated hardware to make an exact
calculation of the thruster attitude control system gas
required for that maneuver. Because of this, and because
of the desire to control TACS gas, it is quite possible
that they may ask Commander Conrad to do the maneuver
using the command module engines. At the last pass the
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle


for 9 minutes.
CDR Hi, there. We'll all pressurized doing
out suit integrity checks.
CC Roger. Understand, Pete. And we're
prepared down here to - we're going to have a quick look
at these refrigeration temperatures. We're prepared to com-
mand the maneuver here at Honeysuckle - to maneuver the SWS
to an attitude about 45 degrees to the Sun. And our big
plan is, Pete, is - depending on the temperature response
we get when we get to this attitude, we're going to stay
here about - at least half a rev. And depending on the temp-
erature response after that half rev, we're going to decide
whether to maneuver back, and then have you conduct the plan-
ned flyaround. Or, if it's not responding, or we need to
stay there for a full rev, we may go ahead and stay in this
odd-ball attitude for the full rev and modify the flyaround
as necessary to save the refrigeration loop.
CDR Okay.
CC And the maneuver will be - I have the
angles on the ball that you'll see at the end of this maneuver.
And it's going to be about a 10-minute maneuver time, and I'ii
let you know when we command it.
CDR Okay, well, nobody can write anything down
right at the moment.
CC Okay, no problem. When - if you want them,
and when you do, I've got them.
CDR And the good SPT wants you to be reminded
that he put undocked gains in the ATM DC.
CC Roger. We know that. Thank you much for
the reminder.
CDR Okay. Just trying to keep you honest like
you keep us honest.
CC Yes sir, and thank you.
PLT Say, Richard, you got time for a stowage
change?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, on close-out, I was supposed to put
the closeout camera - the Nikon in MISI, I think. Wasn't
really room for it in there. It is now stowed in M158.
CC Okay, I got that. Thank you, Paul.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised with the
maneuvers in work, and we've commanded it to start.
CDR Okay. Why don't you tell me the gimbal
angles?
CC Okay. Roll 276, pitch 312, yaw 311. And
there may be a very slight variation in that due to a slight
undertainty in use of Z.
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CDR Okay. And we're releasing docking latches


at the
time.
CC Roger.
CC And also, Skylab; Houston. We've still
got 5 minutes here at Honeysuckle. A_ytime you get a chance
here at Honeysuckle, or at Hawaii we're - I'm ready to copy
the P52 data.
CDR Coming at you. 37 44 4 balls i plus 00120
minus 00218 minus 00101. The time 13:13 35:00 Peter, Echo,
Tango time.
CC Roger. Got it, Pete. Thank you much.

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SL-II MC-1350/I
Time: 01:47 CDT, 29:06:47 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute


from LOS. We're going to see you at Hawaii at about 13:50.
The maneuver's about halfway complete, and we can begin to
see the temps coming up on the radiator. And I'ii let you
know, when we get to Hawaii again, how we're doing there.
CDR Okay, you see any improvement in the
refrigeration loop?
CC Pete, we don't expect to see any in the
loop itself until we can throw out whatever blockage is in
the radiator, so the first thing to do is make sure that those
temps are coming up, and they are.
CDR Okay. Good enough.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 6 hours 50 minutes and
20 seconds Greenwich mean time; 13:39:35 phase elapsed time.
At the present time we're about i hour and 54 minutes from
the undocking procedure, beginning the undocking at 3:45 a.m. cen-
tral daylight time. That is expected to go off on schedule.
There is no question in the mind of the present Flight
Director, Nell Hutchinson, that that should go on. Flight Director
Phil Shaffer, who is on with his team as well, to conduct
command module operations, is expected to continue those
procedures as scheduled, despite the problem with the primary
refrigerant loop in the orbital workshop. The flight directors
are confident they can handle that problem without the use
of the crew there, and they will be departing on schedule,
as least as it looks now. During this last pass over Honey-
suckle, the crew indicated that they were - had pressurized
and were doing suit integrity checks. That shows that they're
moving right along on the time line and certainly are not
falling behind. During this maneuver, beginning at 06:43:20
during this last pass at 06:43:20, or 02:43:20 central
daylight time - I'm sorry, at 01:43:20 central daylight time,
the spacecraft attitude change was begun using TACS gas. The
decision here was that the command module occupants were
too occupied with their - with their work to take time to
maneuver the spacecraft using the command modules' jets.
TACS usage is still a matter of concern, but because there
is a - more than sufficient supply, most of the total TACS
supply was used before the manned mission began. At the
beginning of the manned mission 44.4 percent remained; as
of this morning, about 43.3 percent remaining. We've only
used about i.i percent of the total supply in the past month.
A lot of that was used because of the problems with docking
at the beginning of this manned mission. So it's concern -
no concern right now that we are getting close to the redline
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on thruster attitude control system gas. For that reason


they did do that maneuver using the TACS system. The immediate
effect of that maneuver is quite clear from the displays here
in Mission Control. The orbital workshop primary refrigerant
- refrigerant tabulation shows that a - increase in temperature
so far of about 12 degrees - 12-1/2 degrees, has occurred in
that radiator surface temperature. And I'd like to make
a correction on something given out earlier. That sensor
now reads 57 degrees. It was reading approximately 69 at its -
at its coldest point, and it - and that is approximately 95
degrees - I'm sorry, that's approximately 90 degrees lower
than its than its poor point, or its period of maximum
slushiness. The information given out earlier was a reversible
of those figures, indicating a temperature of 65 - a minus
65 degrees, and a - a 95 degrees difference. So, to correct
that, the present temperature of that coolant fluid is about
57 degrees. It came down from 69 minus it's now minus 57
degrees. That's a rise in temperature from the minus 69
degrees that we had seen at the beginning of Honeysuckle.
So the coolant is warming up - warmed up about 12 degrees
during that - beginning at that attitude maneuver, which
would be completed after the Honeysuckle pass was over. It
is now approximately i00 degrees above the temperature at
which the coolanol does not pour well. The maneuver again
began at 06:43:20 Greenwich mean time. And that maneuver
is to pitch the spacecraft 45 degrees, nose down, to bring
the radiator area of the orbital workshop into the Sun for
a short period of time, probably lasting from 45 minutes to
an hour and a half. At the beginning of this Hawaii pass
we should have an idea of the immediate effect of that. It
has had an effect - not a necessarily a desirable one, a short-
term immediate effect in the area of the wardroom freezers,
and in the food freezers. Those temperatures did move up,
they were moving up, however, before that. They are now
reading in the neighborhood of 7 to i0 degrees. Several of
them reading 8 and - one of them reading 8, one of them read-
ing 9 degrees. On one of the wardroom freezers not a matter
of concern - not presently in use, is reading above the i0
degree limit which is set for normal operations. As was in-
dicated earlier, a temperature at I0 degrees can be sustained
for 24 hours with no adverse effects whatsoever to the food.
It would have a degrading effect on one of the - on two on
a pair of experimental datas data that's from M073 and M071,
two medical experiments, to determine precise constituents
of the body. If - if those food is - food in the freezer
should remain at a 10-degree temperature for a 24-hour period,
it would have a slight - about 1 percent degradation of the
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data for those two experiments. Certainly no concern in terms


of a long-term Skylab mission, although a very slight change
would occur in the data available from two medical experiments.
So we expect at Honey at Hawaii we should get some additional
information on the effect of that attitude maneuver attempting
to warm up the coolant in the radiator, which is used to release
heat from the spacecraft into space. This is Skylab Control.
We're presently 4 minutes and 45 seconds from acquisition of
signal at Hawaii. We'll remain live for air-to-ground from
Hawaii.

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SC-II MC-1351/I
Time: 01:56 CDT, 29:06:56 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 9 minutes.


CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised that all
12 docking latches are undone, tunnel hatch is installed,
and we have a DELTA B at 2.6 at 6 minutes and it's still
going down.
CC Roger, CDR. Copy.
CDR And on the DSKY and the present
angle for the vehicle, it looks like you know where it
is preety good, I'm showing 27662, 31380, 31061.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Be advised we've
had a couple of minutes here to look at the refrigeration
system data. The radiator temperatures are coming up as
we expected, apparently that old problem isn't solved yet,
because we still have a (garble) DELTA P that's not where it
should be, but the basic purpose of the maneuver is being,
as we expected, is to get the radiator temps up first and that's
happening and 1'11 keep you posted.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. Since we uplinked
the teleprinter pads - are the pads to you on the teleprinter
earlier today and we did on each of those pads had double numbers
on them, it's your choice as to whether you'd like to read them
back for - to make sure that you got them correctly. If you
would like to, we still got 5 minutes here at Hawaii and
we got a stateside pass coming up so just let us know.
CDR No, they're - they're all good. I copied
them in the book, I understand all of them.
CC Okay, Pete. I've also copied them into
my book and FIDO has checked them again and as of now there GO.
CDR All right. I haven't configured the
DAP yet, but I will.
CC Roger.
CC And CDR, Houston. We don't think there's
any particular hurry for you to reeonfigure the DAP, as a
matter of fact, until we kind of find out where we are,
with respect to this refrigeration system problem.
CDR I understand and we'll be happy to
maneuver for you if we have a free moment.
CC Okay.
CDR Right now, we're pretty busy.
CC Okay.

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SL-II MC-1352/I
Time: 02:07 CDT 29:07:07 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds


from LOS. We'll see you at Goldstone at 14:01.
CDR Roger. 14:01.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 6
minutes. Request ACCEPT. We're going to up-link that
state vector gyro compensations and a PIPA bias for you here.
CDR Okay, you got it.
CC Thank you.
CDR You still there, Houston?
CC That's affirmative, Pete. We got about a
minute left before LOS here at Goldstone. Go ahead.
CDR No, I was just watching the up-link, and
it didn't look like much was going on, and I wondered whether
you got it all in.
CC Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. Negative. We're not
through up-linking. We're still doing the PIPA bias update.
For your information, we think we probably will be coming
out of this SWS maneuver attitude probably at
Bermuda, which is coming up AOS at 14:12. We'll look at
the data there before making a final decision, and the
maneuver time that we think that we'll be using is 15
minutes.
CDR Okay. I just completed the EMS checks.
Entry checks are okay. The null bias is now plus 1 foot
per second for i minute and 40 seconds.
CC Roger. Copy.

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SC-II MC-1353/I
Time: 02:19 CDT, 29:07:19 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston AOS Bermuda 9 minutes.


CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised we have
a good tunnel and it's vented.
CC Real good, Pete. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. Everything is loaded
up there, you can go back to block, thank you.
CDR I still show an uplink activity light
on and a bunch of stuff in the DSKY.
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good catch, we were
hand loading all those commands which was one reason
they were going so slow and we made one error on the ground,
thank you much. You can go back to block now.
CDR That is a good load I got in there,
210102741456.
CC That's affirmative, Pete. That's a
good load.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about
5 minutes in the pass here at Bermuda, be advised we made
the decision that we're going to remain in this attitude
until the Ascension pass and we're going to come out of the
maneuver and back to the fly-around attitude at Ascension.
We'll use a 15-minute maneuver time and this will put
you in an attitude in time to undock and do the fly-around
as planned.
CDR Very good. Has that salvaged your
refrigeration system?
CC Well, I tell you Pete, the numbers tell
us that it's - we hope it's heading in the proper direction, but
we won't know for sure until we get back in solar inertial.
So we really aren't sure yet, but it looks encouraging.
CDR Okay. I hope so.
CC Me too.
CDR Houston, are you there?
CC Affirmative, go ahead.
CDR You want us to hold the P52 until 15:03 or
do you want us to go ahead with it now?
CC Well, we were just talking about
that, hang on a second.
CC CDR, Houston. We think it is okay, if
you want to, to go ahead and do the P52 now. The stars that
you ought to use are stars i and 2 in this attitude but be
advised you should delay the GDC align naturally until we
get back into the fly-around attitude.
CDR Yes, I understand.
CC Roger.
CDR Hey, Houston are you there?
CC Affirmative, we've got 1 minute left,
go ahead.

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SL-II MC-1354/I
Time: 02:31 CDT 29:07:31 GMT
6/22/73

CDR Hey, Houston. Are you there?


CC Affirmative. We got 1 minute left.
Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Now you had me scratch out this RC8
thrusting prep, hut you are going to have an RCS hot fire.
I guess I'm not exactly sure of what we're doing I guess we're
doing an RCS hot fire on the quads rather than on the PSM,
is that what it is?
CC That's affirm, Pete. That is what we're
doing.
CDR Okay.
CDR And where did you want to do the RCS
hot fire?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. We plan to watch the
hot fire at - hot fire at Carnarvon at 15:02. (Laughter)
CDR Carnarvon at 15:02. All right. We'll
have a (garble) fire for you.
CC Rog.
PAO This is Skylah Control at 7 hours 33
minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has LOS. Canaries
will pick up in about a minute. There's overlapping cov-
erage at Ascension. We'll start the maneuver back to solar
inertial at Ascension. Temperatures on the radiator have
come up considerably while the spacecraft has been in this
pitched attitude_ come up about 65 degrees, and we're down
about minus 85 degrees at Carnarvon, the last pass. Bermuda
they were down to about minus 20 degrees. Astronaut Dick
Truly is the CAP COMM now. And it appears we will start
the maneuver at the Canaries now. And we have acquisition
of signal through Canaries. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and
Ascension for 15 minutes and be advised waive started the
maneuver back to solar inertial.
CDR All righty. And let me give you our
P-52. Star 01, Star 02, 5 balls plus 00037, minus 00064,
minus 00040, the time 14230000. And then Dick, let me
verify a few things with you. I'll read you some pads, just
a second.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, lets verify the sep pad. I have
SEP 01629 1300 minus 0050 all zips, all zips, now 22 181
011359, N/A 0023, N/A, N/A,N/A, 2A151 plus 01, excuse me,
plus 077, minus 003 and- it's a plus 003.
CC Roger. With that plus that's a good
readback, Pete on the sep pad.
CDR Okay, let's try shaping. 016 54 4300
255 minus 2558 plus 0000 plus 0653 359 198 000 2492 0010
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3030 144 2815 plus 077 plus 003 and that's it for that.
CC And that's a good read-back on the
shape pad.
CDR AN retro 09 59 5978 minus 184.5 plus
all balls plus 0455 000180 000 1750 0007 0400 14 4 27420
plus 078 minus 009 CMRCS (garble) are HP is equal to 44
nautical miles.
CC And that's a good read-back on the
retrofire pad.
CDR And let's try entry. Area 5615 Golf
041 plus 2477 minus 12707 11659 25980 2526 2600 minus 03064
roll right 55 55 3040 2547 2926 3333. One target north
of ground track, 2- lift vector up, 3- pitch for (garble)
61 degrees.
CC Roger, Pete. Good read-back on all the
pads.

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SC-II MC-1355/1
Time: 02:38 CDT, 29:07:38 GMT
6/22/73

CC Roger, Pete. Good reading back on all


the pads.
CC Skylab, Houston. We don't see the
VHF on yet, and we think it probably should have been
configured on - on page 2-81 of the Deactivation Checklist,
which would have led you to page 5-5, I think of the
Systems Checklist, CSM Systems Checklist.
CDR That's a sneaky way to get there.
CC Skylab, Houston. On this maneuver back
to solar inertial attitude, we are spending a little TACS,
and it is conceivable that we might get the CMG auto reset,
just to let you - be advised no action required and no
particular concern.
CDR Okay. How soon are we going to be back in
attitude?
CC Stand by i.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got 1 minute
left in the maneuver. Pete? (garble)
CC And, Skylab, as we go over the hill, we'll
see you at Carnarvon at 15:02.
CDR Okay, and all you want to do is fire
the jets that are turned on presently, that right? I can't
really decipher much out of this thing.
CC Well, CDR, if we can't let you know
here, but I'ii have a good description of it when we come
AOS at Carnarvon.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours,
51 minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has had loss
of signal just as the maneuver back to solar inertial attitude
was being completed by the orbital assembly. We'll take a
look at that refrigerant loop over the next station or two
and see how well that maneuver helped the problem. Next
station to acquire will be Carnarvon in about 21-1/2 minutes.
Crew is using phase elapsed time or PET for their entry
activities; 20 hours of PET equals retrofire. This is a
time system that can be updated and adjusted without affecting
the Greenwich mean time we're at 14 hours, 41 minutes phase elapsed
time at the present time. Undocking scheduled in about
52-1/2 minutes. That will take place out of contact with
ground station. Undocking scheduled between Guam and
Goldstone on this revolution. Undocking time still scheduled
for 8 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time, or 3:45 a.m. central
daylight time. We'll come back up prior to acquisition
at Carnarvon. At 7 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SC-II MC-1356/I
Time: 03:10 CDT, 29:08:10 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours


ii minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Carnarvon station very shortly. We'll tand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for
8 minutes.
CDR Hi there, Carnarvon. How are you?
CC Just fine, sir, and you?
CDR Okay. I think I got this thing figured
out, if you guys are happy.
CC Roger, Pete. We are, we want to look
at the SWS attitude control system real carefully before we
do the hot fire check and also want to make sure we got our
backroom recorders all turned up to (garble) before we give
you a GO to do the check.
CDR Yes, all you're going to see is 4 thrusters,
right; 2 pitch, and 2 yaws, right?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR And it's going to mid-impulse, right?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Yea. I figured it out by myself.
CC And, CDR; Houston. We're not going to
start the heart - hot fire check here right now; we're going
to work with the SWS and make sure the attitude control
system is squared away.
CDR Okay, what do you want to do? Do it
at Guam?
CC No we - no we haven't given up doing
it here in Carvarvonm but we're just standing by at the
moment.
CDR Okay. Can I go VERB 46 and get all
primmed and ready that so when you want it, I can give it to you?
CC That's affirmative, Pete. Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're not
going to be able to do the hot fire check here at Carnarvon.
We're going to do a nominal age gage to improve our momentum
position so we can stop using the TACS and we will try to pick
it up at Guam.
CDR Okay. Now are my - I've aligned by GDC
to the undock attitude. Is that good or not?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. The GDC should be aligned to
213.510 and zero for a pen and ink on page 2-85.
CDR That's right. I want to know if that's
good attitude right now; I'd like to realign it again.
CC That's affirmative, Pete. That is good
attitude.
CDR Thank you. Okay, you guys interested in
my 4 hours 52 minutes GDC drift check?
CC Of course we are Pete, go ahead.
CDR Okay, I started on a Greenwich mean time
of 03:07, at least I assume that's what you had in the
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computer for awhile. As best as I can decipher it, I stop it at


07:59, which comes out to 4 hours and 52 minutes. And
now 20 - was 286 22 32223 35205, and the thumbwheels wound up at
2755, 3518, and 3586, which isn't too bad.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy.
CDR And in sec, coolant loop pump is on
AC2.
CC Roger. And, CDR; Houston. Nominal
H cage has been commanded.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the electrical
power system, we would appreciate if you would configure
descent battery 2 on Main A. The reason is descent batt
i is getting a little warm and we're trying to
manage the temperatures a little bit. We do want to leave -
we do want to leave batt i still on Main A also.
CDR How's that?
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Guam at 15:17, and
be advised that total attitude excursion of this maneuver about
40 degrees, 40 degrees.

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SL-II MC-1357/I
Time: 03:21 CDT 29:08:21 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 23


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range of the
Carnarvon station now. Guam will pick up Skylab in about
4-1/2 minutes. The hot fire check of the service module
reaction control system has been delayed to allow the
Saturn workshop to settle down in a stable attitude. An-
ticipate now that that check of the RCS will take place
over the Guam station. The flight director was informed
a few minutes ago that it still was too early to tell
about the refrigerant loops. It could be several hours
yet before enough information is available to determine
how effective the pitch maneuver was to put the radiators
in the Sun. The workshop now back in solar inertial
attitude, but not yet quite settled down after maneuvering
back from that pitch maneuver. Undocking scheduled to take
place after a loss of signal at Guam and before Goldstone
acquires. The command module flyaround will take place
immediately after undocking, and when we acquire at Goldstone
in about 26-1/2 minutes from this time, we should get
live television during the flyaround. We're about 2
minutes away from acquisition at Guam. We'll continue to
stay up live.

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SL-II MC-1358/I
Time: 03:26 CDT, 29:08:26 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam 5 minutes.


CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And, Pete, we're still looking at attitude
control system to see if we can get it squared away in time
to get the check done. In the event that we can't get it
squared away in time, we'll just skip hot fire check.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're going
to scrub the hot fire check. We're having some problems
with the rate gyros in the SWS, so we're just not going to
do it this pass.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're going to be at Goldstone at 15:41. We are
unable to give you a GO for undocking because we have not
gotten the SWS into ATT HOLD CMG due to (garble) rate gyro
failures. And, we're getting - trying to get configured -
we will get configured at AOS Goldstone as soon as possible
and give you a GO for undocking there.
CDR You do not want us to undock at 34. Is
that what you're telling me?
CC That's affirmative, Pete.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 35 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Crew has a NO GO for undocking
at the nominal time. The Saturn workshop not yet settled down
into proper attitude. Anticipate undocking over the United
States now, after acquisition at Goldstone. Here on the
ground the controllers want to take another look at the
attitudes prior to giving a GO for undocking. We're 15-1/2
minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone. We'll come back
up just prior to that pass. At 8 hours 36 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1359/I
Time: 03:47 CDT 29:08:47 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 48


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is a few minutes
away from acquisition at Goldstone, where another GO/NO GO
status check will be taken for undocking. Undocking has
been delayed because the Saturn workshop attitude has not
yet settled down. Several hours ago it became apparent
the refrigerant loop radiators on the workshop were getting
too cold, were approaching a temperature at which they
could freeze. It's believed, but not fully known at this
time that the high Beta angle has something to do with
this problem. The space station is in I00 percent sunlight,
however the Sun is so high that it does not shine on the
radiators as it normally does at lower Beta angles. So
the assembly was pitched 45 degrees down to put the radiators
into the Sun and then over Canaries on this revolution the
space station was maneuvered back to the solar inertial
attitude; however at loss of signal at Guam, the orbital
assmebly had not yet stabilized and a decision was made not
to undock at the regular time. We should be acquiring at
Goldstone within about the next minute. We'll stand by
for conversation there.
PAO Television coming in now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone.
Be advised we've got three commands to get into the burn:
Y-2 drift update, get Y-2 into the control loop,
and then command into ATT HOLD CMG, and then you'll get a
a GO for undocking.
CDR Roger. We're standing by.
CC Roger, and we got good television, Pete.
CDR Okay.
CC Incidently, Pete, in our estimation, we
think probably if we can't get you off here at Goldstone
or very shortly, that probably you will have time to get
around on a complete flyaround, if you concur.
CDR Roger. Wilco.
CC Roger.
CDR We haven't done anything by the flight
plan yet, so we'll go by ear again.
CC Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're in ATT HOLD
CMG. You're GO for undocking.
CDR Okay. Stand by.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, we're free. We got 4/10 of a
foot per second, Houston.
CC Roger.
CDR Bye-bye, Skylab.

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SL-II MC-1360/I
Time: 03:55 CDT, 29:08:55 GMT
6/22/73

PLT Houston, that TV just isn't working well


on peak.
CC Roger. Suggest you try average. We're
about 40 seconds away from about a 1-minute dropout between
Goldstone and Texas and that television did look a little
bit better when you changed it.
PAO Skylab Control. We've had loss of signal
at Goldstone. Texas will pick up very shortly. Command and
service module now undocked - undocking at 8 hours 55 minutes
Greenwich mean time. And we're at Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS again at Texas
and we got you for the next 12 minutes and we got a picture.
CC Skylab, Houston. We believe we'd like
to try peak again on the TV and take a look at that.
PLT I'm ahead of you again.
CC I know. You got our loop up there again.
This is quite a sight to all us guys on the ground who
haven't seen it yet.
CC And, PLT, Houston. I guess peak is just
too much. Like to return to average.
PLT Yes, that's peak at f/16°
PAO This is Skylab Control. Those landing
gear-like extensions are the dipole antennas.

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SL-II MC-1361/I
Time: 04:04 CDT, 29:09:04 GMT
6/22/73

CC PLT, Houston. Another suggestion is go


back to peak on television and open up the f-stop wide open.
And if that doesn't work we'll come back to where we are.
PLT Yeah, it's in now, Dick.
CC Roger. I understand the f-stop's wide
open now. Is that right?
PLT That's right.
CC Roger, Paul. I guess we'll go back to
where we were. Still can't get a heck of a lot of detail.
PLT Okay.
PLT Did y'all turn the TV off?
CC Skylab, Houston, affirmative. We had
LOS at Mila. So, just a reminder, you can go ahead
to S-band AUX TV to OFF and f-stop to fully closed.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're still in
acquisition through Bermuda. However, no television capability
through that station. About another minute and a half,
acquisition at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 45 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you a Ascension at 16:09.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours ii
minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal.
When we lost the television picture at the Merritt Island
station, command and service module was about a quarter of
the way through its flyaround. It moved above and over the
Saturn workshop. Undocking was about 13 minutes late
and we estimate that Pete Conrad has picked up about 3 min-
utes on the flyaround time line since undocking, however.
The separation maneuver still scheduled at the normal time,
Greenwich mean time of 9 hours 40 minutes, or 4:40 a.m. central
daylight time. That is just over 27 minutes from now. Canary
Island station - no - no, the next acquisition will be
Ascension in about 6-1/2 minutes. At 9 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1362/I
Time: 04:17 CDT 29:09:17 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 17


minutes Greenwich mean time. Coming up on acquisition
through Ascension now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for 5
minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The command
and service module flight controllers are taking a good
look at the systems on that vehicle. The GO/NO GO decision
for separation will be made here at the Ascension station.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Carnarvon at 16:39.
The controllers have looked at the CSM, and it looks real
good. You're GO for a separation. And in the event you
guys are getting warm, when you get a reasonable distance
away from the SWS, it's okay to activate the evaporators.
CDR Roger, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 25
minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal.
Carnarvon will pick up the spacecraft in about 24 minutes.
A GO has been given for the separation maneuver. That's
scheduled to take place 13 minutes 40 seconds from this
time, while the spacecraft is over the Indian Ocean. That's
a 5 feet per second maneuver using the service module re-
action control system. The duration of the burn 23 seconds.
Greenwich mean time of that maneuver is 9 hours 40 minutes.
This maneuver will put the command and service module in a
slightly lower orbit than the space station, and the CSM
will gradually move ahead of the Saturn workshop. We'll
come back up just prior to Carnarvon. At 9 hours 27 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1363/I
Time: 04:48 CDT, 29:09:48 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 48 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Spacecraft's coming up on acquisi-
tion at Carnarvon very shortly. Separation maneuver should
have been performed. And we're about 17 minutes away from
the shaping maneuver, the first of two burns on the big
service propulsion system engine. This shaping maneuver will
take place while we have acquisition through Guam, shortly
after AOS at Guam. We'll stand by for the Carnarvon pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for ii
minutes, and standing by for your sep burn status.
CDR Burn on time, 5 feet per second. Nega-
tive.
CC Roger.
PAO That report by Pete Conrad says the separa-
tion burn went exactly as planned.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about i0 minutes
here at this pass. I'm not sure how busy you guys are. I
have one little checklist change to make on page 5-4, about
descent batt 2, that I'd just as soon get out of the way while -
and get ahead, anytime you guys get a chance.
PLT Which book, Dick?
CC Entry, Paul.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Entry book page 5-4 - right after the last
line it says "abort system propellant RCS command verify." Just
add, take descent batt number 2 off main A, and this is the
one we just had you put on, and the reason is to give it a
few minutes to be conditioned prior to separation.
PLT Understand.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the bird.
It looks real good to us. You're GO for the SPS-I shaping
burn, and a reminder, after the shaping burn, we'll be watching
it at Guam, and when it's complete, we'll be configured to
watch you do to logic sequence check.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. See you
at Guam at 16:53.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 1 minute
Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has had loss of signal. Guam
will acquire in about 2 minutes. And we're 4 minutes i0 seconds
away from the shaping maneuver. This is the one entry maneuver
that will be performed over tracking station. Shaping maneuver
is designed to take the spacecraft out of a near-circular orbit
into an elliptical orbit approximately 90 by 236 nautical
miles. That's about 104 by 269 statute miles. We should be
acquiring at Guam shortly, and we'll stand by for that shaping
maneuver.

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SL-II MC-1364/I
Time: 05:02 CDT 29:10:02 GMT
6/22/73

PAO Greenwich mean time, the maneuver is


i0 hours 5 minutes 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by at Guam
for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We're in the final
count for the burn. Everything looks good.
CC Roger, Pete. We're looking at the
data, looks good to us too.
CDR (garble) all the horizon checks. Every-
thing looks fine.
CC Roger.
PAO This will be a 10-second burn of the
service propulsion system. Delta V or change in velocity
of 264 feet per second.
PAO We see ignition.
PAO The burn looked good here. We'll stand
by for a crew report.
CC Skylab, Houston. We watched the burn
on the data and we got everything but the Delta V counter.
CDR I had 14.1.
CC Thank you, Pete.
CC And CDR, Houston. Be advised we're
configuring on the ground to look at the logic sequence
checks whenever you get secured from the burn. We still
got about 5 minutes left here at Guam.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, we're ready to give you the
logic sequence, SEQ logic.
CC Roger.
CC Roger, Pete. We're ready on the ground
for your cleared SEQ logic 2, l'm on UP.
CDR There they are. On UP.
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. It looks good. You're
GO for power alarm.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Goldstone at 17:20.
CDR See you then.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours
14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal.
Next station to acquire will be Goldstone in about 16
minutes. The command and service module shaping maneuver
was performed right at the start of this Guam pass. It
was a successful maneuver, a good burn. That's the first
step in the deorbit procedure. One more maneuver remaining
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the retrofire burn of the big service propulsion system


engine. We're 2 hours and 55 minutes away from that
maneuver. We'll come back up prior to the Goldstone ac-
quisition. At i0 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1365/I
Time: 05:20 CDT, 29:10:20 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 10 hours 21


minutes Greenwich mean time. In the control center there
is a shift handover taking place for the Saturn workshop
flight controller teams. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson and
his team being relieved by Flight Director Milt Windler and
his team. Neil Hutchinson will have a change-of-shift news
conference in the Johnson Space Center news briefing room,
approximately 5:30 a.m. central daylight time. Change-of-
shift news conference with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
at approximately 5:30 a.m. central daylight time in the
Johnson Space Center news briefing room. Flight Director
Bill Shaffer will continue here as the command and service
module flight director with a separate team of flight control-
lers. CAP COMM is Astronaut Dick Truly. At i0 hours 22 min-
utes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1366/I
Time: 05:44 CDT, 29:10:44 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at I0 hours


44 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
at the Merritt Island Station. Skylab will not be acquired
again until it reaches Goldstone acquisition, an hour and
18 minutes from now. There was a very little conversation
during this last stateside pass. The crew inquired about
the status of the refrigeration loop on the orbital workshop.
Were informed that we still do not understand the situation
there yet. We accumulated 2 minutes and 20 seconds worth
of tape during that pass. We'll play that now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for
12 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
SC Roger. How does our refrigeration
system look?
CC Roger. Let me get you an update on
that and 1'11 get back to you in just a second.
SC Okay. We're doffing suits. We're
going to have a little lunch.
CC Okay. Good.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information,
we still do not understand the refrigeration system problem
in the SWS. The temperatures in the coolant loop, itself,
are still slowly on the increase. So, I really can't spell
out much more of a detailed briefing for you now. We did
discover the first indication of a problem, occurred about
20 minutes or so before any action that you guys took during the
deactivation. So, although, in the end when we took the
frozen urine out of the freezer, there may have been some
effect of that thermal spike on the system of the - The
problem was strictly coincidental and it occured prior to
you guys getting to that point in the checklist. Over.
SC Okay, Richard. Thanks a lot.
CC Roger. And we've still got several
minutes left in this pass, and I'm standing by.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS in Mila. We're going to see you - I'ii give you
a call on VHF. We've got a real low elevation pass at
Carnarvon at 18:17. And going over the hill, the bird
looks real good.
SC Okay. We'll see you then.
CC See you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end
of the tape. We're an hour and 16 minutes away from the
next tracking station. To recap a bit, the command and
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service module undocked from the Saturn workshop about 13 min-


utes late. Undocking was at 8 hours 55 minutes Greenwich
mean time over Goldstone. We had live television at undoeking
and for the early portion of the flyaround of the Saturn
workshop. The separation maneuver, the 5-foot-per-second
reaction control system burn was performed on time, and was
a good burn. And on Guam - over Guam, on the last revolution,
we performed the first step in the deorbit procedure, a
service propulsion system burn, shaping burn, which elipticized
the orbit, looking for a perigee of 90 miles - 90 nautical
miles with that burn. That again, was an ontime burn and
looked good. The next and the last maneuver in this deorbit
sequence, is retrofire. That will take place approximately
2 hours and 21 minutes from new. It will not take place
within site of the tracking station. Everything going
well aboard the command and service module. And as we passed
up to the crew, we still do not understand the refrigerant
loop problem. That's still being worked here on the ground
and looked at very carefully. At 10 hours 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1367/I
Time: 06:25 CDT, 29:11:25 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


26 minutes Greenwich mean time. We are going to try to
contact the crew for a VHF, or very high frequency radio
check at Carnarvon. The spacecraft will be out of range
for S-band. But a VHF radio check will be tried very briefly
at Carnarvon. We're within a few minutes of that cheek,
about a minute and a half. We'll stand by for that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
through VHF for 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon,
VHF, for a couple of minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CC Roger. Read you loud and clear. And
I have a little bit of good news for you. The FIDO made
his run so well prior to your undoeking that there are no
updates required for the retrofire pad or the entry pad.
How about that?
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to see you at Goldstone
at 18:53. And we're wondering if you accomplished P52?
PLT Not since the burn, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC We'll see you at Goldstone at 18:53.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours
30 minutes Greenwich mean time. That VHF radio check through
Carnarvon was successful. And we passed up to the crew the
information that no updates will be required for the retro-
fire or the entry pads. Retrofire scheduled for i hour
39-1/2 minutes from this time, at a Greenwich mean time of
13 hours i0 minutes 46.8 seconds. The command service module
is still 32 minutes from acquisition at Goldstone. The
fact that no updates are required for the entry pad make
all of those numbers previously released still good. We'll
review them here now. The separation of the command service
module is scheduled for 13 hours 15 minutes 50 seconds Green-
wich mean time. Command module enters the atmosphere at
400,000 feet, at 13 hours 33 minutes 47 seconds, or 23 minutes
4 seconds after retrofire. Blackout begins at 13 hours
36 minutes 32 seconds, that's 25 minutes 49 seconds after
retrofire. Blackout ends at 13 hours 40 minutes 12 seconds,
29 minutes 29 seconds after retrofire. The maximum G load
is reached at 13 hours 41 minutes 23 seconds, or 30 minutes
40 seconds after retrofire. And that G load on the crew will
be 3.6. Drogue shoot deployment at 13 hours 44 minutes 19 seconds.
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That's 33 minutes 36 seconds after retrofire. The main


parachute deployment at 13 hours 45 minutes 5 seconds,
or 34 minutes 32 seconds after retrofire. And landing at
13 hours 49 minutes 57 seconds or 39 minutes 14 seconds
after retrofire. The coordinates of the landing point are
a lattitude of 24 degrees 46 minutes north longitude 127 degrees
4 minutes west. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition
at Goldstone. At ii hours 34 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1368/I
Time: 07:00 CDT, 29:12:00 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


Greenwich mean time. Goldstone will have acquisition with-
in the next couple of minutes. This will be the crew's
last look at the United States from orbit. The space flight
meteorology group of the National Weather Service,
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration,
said weather conditions this morning will be satisfactory
for landing and recovery of the crew. The landing area in
the eastern Pacific about 800 miles southwest of San Diego
will have typically cloudy skies consisting of a thin layer
of stratus at about 2000 feet, north-northeast winds of
i0 to 12 knots, wind waves of 1 to 2 feet, long swells of
5 to 6 feet, and temperature near 67 degrees. We'll stand
by for acquisition through Goldstone.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS stateside for 9 min-
utes.
CDR Hello there. You want P20 in ACCEPT?
CC Yes sir, we sure do, and we'll give you
some state vectors and P30 targets. And we're standing by
for your P52 results. And when we confirm we have data,
we want yon to activate the command module RCS.
CDR Okay sir. The stars were 35 and 43.
The SPT did an outstanding job with 5 balls plus 00128,
plus 00044, minus 00101, the time 18:32:00:00.
CC Roger, got it.
CDR Okay. What would you like us to do,
pressurize the RCS?
CC Roger. Stand by just a second please.
CC CDR, Houston. Affirmative. We're looking
at the data and we're ready for you to proceed.
CDR We go to turn on the logic.
CC That's affirmative, Pete. You're clear.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO for power
alarm.
CDR Okay, they're ARMED.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, looks like we got both of them.
CC Roger. We concur, Pete. They look good
on the ground too.
CC And Skylab, Houston. When we get through
with this RCS activation to your safisfactlo_, we've seen kind
of a funny in the optics I'd like to talk about for a second
and get you to run through a little procedure for us. And
we'll find out if it is onboard or on the ground.
CDR Okay. We see a little funny in the optic,
too. It doesn't point right the first time. Go ahead with
your procedure.
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CC Okay, what we'd like you to do is leave


the mode switch where it is and call up NOUN 91. And
we'll look at it on the ground, and you can compare it to
your (garble). And we've seen funny readings in our tele-
metered trunion reading. And this ought to confirm - help us
confirm where the problem is, if any.
CDR Yeah, well I think we have a problem,
Dick. Joe has had to - we had to redo this last P52 here.
I'ii let him tell you.
CC Roger.
SPT On two P52's Dick, the first time I let
the auto optics take me to a star, the NOUN 92s were okay, but
the trunnion didn't go there. It went to (garble) instead. And
in most cases the problem was solved by (garble)
CC Roger. Copied everything except in most
cases the problem was solved by what?
SPT By zeroing the (garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for a
second, just for a second, stand by please.
CC And Skylab, we'll be unable to do this
procedure that I mentioned until we get through with uplinks.
SPT Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1369/I
Time: 07:09 CDT, 29:12:09 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. The Texas station


has an antenna problem, they're working to try to correct
it now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got all the uplinks
in and you can go back to block. And if you have the time,
if you'll call up NOUN 91 and compare it to (garble), we'd
appreciate it.
CDR Okay, Dick. You probably see NOUN 91, and
it does in this case agree with the (garble).
CC Roger. And when we saw the problem before,
Joe the optics was in the zero mode. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 19:16.
CDR (garble)
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 13
minutes Greenwich mean time. Texas does have loss of signal.
The Vanguard will acquire in about 14 minutes. Vanguard is
the last of the regular tracking stations that will be in
contact with the crew on this mission. There will be an
Aria on station that we hope to pick up communications through
right after blackout ends. Ignition on the retrofire maneuver
is 56 minutes 36 seconds from this time. That maneuver will
be performed out of sight of any tracking station. We'll
come back up just prior to acquisition at Vanguard. At 12 hours
14 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC1370/I
Time: 07:25 CDT, 29:12:25 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Command and service module
coming up within range of the Vanguard tracking ship now
beginning its last revolution. We'll reenter during this
revolution. We'll stand by for conversation at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
6 minutes.
CDR Roger, 6 minutes. Houston, any particular
time or I was going to - -
SC - - burn attitude. About 19:30 start the
maneuver, if that's all right.
CC Stand by i.
CC Roger, CDR. That time will be real good.
CDR Okay.
CC And if you guys would like to hear about
the weather at the recovery area, I'ii give it to you here.
CDR Okay.
CC It's real pretty out there. It's a 2,000 foot
broken, i0 miles visibility. There's about a 12 knot breeze
blowing. The wave heights are four feet. Aair temperature
is 67 degrees. There'll be two helos in the area (garble) recovery
and swim. And you're being awaited by the U.S.S. Ticonderoga.
And we're waiting to see you back here in Houston, too.
CDR Alrighty. You can relay to the Tico, we've
got their fox corpen and our hook is down.
CC Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. Everybody around here
has looked at the bird, and it looks real good. You're GO
for SPS-2 deorbit and entry. There's an Aria out there that
will be talking to you after the blackout, so we'll see you
there. Have fun.
CDR Roger, roger.
CC We still got about 2 more minutes left
here at Vanguard and l'm standing by.
CDR We're worried about this 90 miles perigee
we're at right now or close, it. It looks like we're going to
run into the ground it looks so low.
CC Roger.
CDR We had a lovely tour down the Andes Mountains
there.
SC You know on launch day Pete wouldn't let
us look out the window, so this is our first look down this
low.
CC Roger. I know you guys have been in sunlight
for a long time and you're going to miss darkness by just
about i0 minutes, because Fido tells me you're never going to
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get into it but you're going to - the place your landing


spot in the Pacific is going to be just after dawn when
you splashdown.
SC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control, 12 hours 34 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has loss of signal. 36-i/2 minutes
away from retrofire. That burn taking place at 13 hours
i0 minutes 46 seconds Greenwich mean time, or 8:10:43 Central
daylight time. About 5 minutes later at 13:15:50 the crew
will separate the service module from the command module.
The command module will enter the atmosphere 23 minutes after
retrofire, land in the Pacific about 39 minutes after
retrofire. There are no more tracking stations between here
and the landing point. On this revolution the command module
will miss the stations in Australia, Guam, Hawaii. There
will ba an ARIA, an Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft, on
station in the area of where the command module will come
out of the blackout period during reentry. We'll try to.
get communications through the ARIA at that time. At 12 hours
36 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1371/I
Time: 08:25 CDT, 29:13:25 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Retrofire should have
occurred 14 minutes ago. And the command module should
reach 400,000 feet altitude in about 9 minutes. The spacecraft
should be within range of the ARIA aircraft, tracking aircraft
in about 13-1/2 minutes. We conducted a communications check
with that aircraft a short time ago. And voice communications
were good at that time. We also heard from the recovery
ship, the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga. Ticonderoga
reports her helicopters are on station. And she is down-
wind of the target point. The landing area for this reentry
is an elipse, 4 by 7 miles. And Ticonderoga can be anywhere
downwind of the splash point on a crossing track at the time
of splash. This crew will be recovered in the spacecraft.
Will net be hoisted aboard helicopters as in the past.
This being done because for several reasons. The doctors
want the crew to be as inactive as possible between the time
they land and the time they start their medical exams. This
is part of the medical experiments of this flight. Also,
a desire not to open the hatch of the command module while
its on the water, so as to provide more protection to the
experiment data that is aboard. The last crew to come aboard
the recovery ship in a spacecraft was Tom Stafford and Gene
Cernan on Gemini 9, in 1966. That was Stafford's second
trip aboard the spacecraft to the deck of the carrier. He
and Wally Schirra also came aboard in that fashion on Gemini 6,
in 1965. The helicopters on station are identified as
Recovery. This is the helicopter that will drop the swimmers,
will attach the flotation collar around the spacecraft. The
backup helicopter to Recovery is identified as Swim. Two other heli-
copters in the area will be ELS or Earth Landing Systems. This heli-
coptor will drop swimmers in an attempt to recover the
parachutes. We'd like to recover all three parachutes. And
a photo-helicopter will be in the area also. The last simu-
lation by Ticonderoga, a couple of days ago, had the space-
craft aboard the ship in about 33 to 34 minutes after splash.
The ship will be hoisted to the hanger deck with a crane and
about a 10-minute medical conference will ensue between
Joe Kerwin, the science pilot aboard, who is a physician, and
Dr. Charles Ross of the Johnson Space Center, who heads up the
medical team on Ticonderoga. Dr. Kerwin will check his
blood pressure while he's still in a supine position lying
in the couch. He'll then set up in a vertical position and
check it again. We have seen in past missions a cooling of
the blood in the lower extremities. And we're not quite
sure what we're going to see after 28 days with this crew.
As a precaution, the crew is wearing a pressure garment on
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6/22/73

the lower part of their body, similar to a G-suit worn


by jet pilots, that can be inflated if they begin to have
symptoms of blacking out. Dr. Kerwin will check himself and
the other crew members and confer with Dr. Ross prior to
hatch opening on the hanger deck of the Ticonderoga. And
this medical conference expected to take about i0 minutes.

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SL-II MC-1372/I
Time: 08:30 CDT 29:13:30 GMT
6/22/73

PAO We have the crew members on the prime


helecopters in the area. We'll give those to you. The
crew of Recovery: Pilot Commander Arnold Filser, Peru, Illi-
nois; Co-Pilot Leutenent Jr. Grade Doug Yesensky of Idaho
Falls, Idaho; and the three crewmen are Aviation Machinist
Mate, First Class, John Edel of Depew, New York; Aviation
Electrician Mate, Second Class, Luther Pinston of Melrose,
New Mexico; Aviation Structural Mechanic, Third Class.
Arthur Goltz of St. Louis, Missouri. The seimmers aboard
that helicopter who will attach the flotation collar are:
Lieutenent Jr. Grade, Timothy R. E. Keeney of Sommersville,
Connecticut; Chief Radio Man John J. Garcio of Spokane,
Washington; Radioman Second Class Donald A. Thompson of
Oak Harbor, Washington; and Seamna Alain R. Bianco, Mr. Laurel,
New Jersey. the crew of the ELS helecopter: Pilot, Lieutenant
Commander Mike Dohson of Raytown, Missouri, Co-Pilot Jr.
Grade Larry Denton of San Antonio Texas. The crewmen are
Aviation Structural Mechanic First Class, Daniel Miotke,
Troy, Michigan, and Aviation Machinist Mate, Third Class,
Davis Blommer, Greenfield, Missouri. The swimmers aboard
that helo who will attempt to recover the chutes are:
Lieutenant Jr. Grade John L. Graham of the San Mateo,
California; Engine man, Third Class, Riki J. Aike, Gardena
California; Quartermaster, Third Clalss, Joseph J. Martinez,
Makees Rocks, Pennsylvania; Hull Technician, Third Class,
Howard B. Dennehy, West Cornwall, Connecticut; Quartermaster
Third Class, Michael M. Davis, Salt Lake City, Utah; and
Hull Technician, Third Class, Terry L. Thompson of Los Gatos,
California. The crew aboard the photo helicopter: Pilot
Lieutenant Mo Kindel of Arcadia, California; Co-Pilot Lieuten-
ant John Bowin, Coronado, California; Aviation Structural
Mechanic, Second Class, Dennis Conrad od Cleveland, Ohio;
and Aviational Electrician's Mate, Seaman Larry Blair of
Livingston, Alabama. We're getting - - We're about 5 minutes
away from ARIA acquisition. We'll continue to stay up live
from this point on, and hope we can get some good communi-
cations through ARIA. The command module should have passed
through 400,000 feet about 26 seconds ago. Blackout schedule
to begin at 13 hours 36 minutes Greenwich mean time. About
a minute and a half - -

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SL-II MC1373/I
Time: 08:35 CDT, 29:13:35 GMT
6/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 13 hours 36 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The command module should be in blackout
now. Due to end blackout 13:40:12, 8:40:12 Central daylight
time, and we're due tolacquire ARIA 1 second after that
blackout ends. We'll continue to stand by.
PAO There is a report that the Ticonderoga
has a radar contact.
PAO Range 188 miles on Ticonderoga's radar.
137 miles on Ticonderoga's radar now. Spacecraft should be
out of blackout. We'll stand by Tico reports range 95 miles.
7 - 8 miles.

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SL-II MC1374/I
Time: 08:42 CDT, 29:13:42 GMT
6/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston through the ARIA. How


do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston, through ARIA i.
How do you read?
PAO Ticonderoga standing by.
CC - - Houston through ARIA i. How do you read?
PAO Ticonderoga standing by for sonic boom now.
CC Skylab, Houston, through ARIA i. How do
you read?
SC Roger. We read you loud and clear, Houston.
Everything's okay, we're out of 40,000.
CC Very good_ Pete. You're in the groove.
SC And it's reading 2477 minus 2707.
CC Roger.
PAO Guidance reports the computer's reading
right on for landing.
PAO Should be getting main chutes within the next
few seconds.
PAO Should be on main chutes now.
SC Hello, Recovery. Hello, Recovery, Skylab.
On the"mains", and everythingts okay.
PAO The recovery Helo spots mains also.
SC On yuur 0552, (garble).
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Recovery. How
you been doing up there? Over.
SC Skylab reads you loud and clear. We'll
see you (garble) Everthing's fine.
RECOVERY Skylab, Skylab, this is Recovery. How
you doing up there? Over.
SC Recovery, Recovery, Skylab. How do you read?
RECOVERY This is Recovery, loud and clear. How you
doing?
SC Roger, we're in good shape (garble).
RECOVERY Roger. You're looking good from here. We're
about 3 miles to the Northland here at this time.
SC Okay, we're out of 4500 feet and everything's
good.
RECOVERY (garble) the Ticonderoga (garble).
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston. Do your readout. Over.
SC Skylab, say again.
CC Roger. Do you have a computer readout?
Over.
SC Yes, sir, 040.78, 127.06.
CC Ticonderoga. (garble). Out.
CC (garble)
CC What'd your (garble) think?

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SL-II MC-1375/I
Time: 08:48 CDT, 29:13:48 GMT
6/22/73

RECOVERY And this is Recovery. We have a visual


below the overcast, about i00 at 050 6000, Ticonderoga.
SC Thank you.
SPEAKER This is (garble) stand by for (garble).
SPEAKER Talk to you later, stand by.
SPEAKER At my MARK (garble) 6-1/2 miles.
SPEAKER (Garble).
RECOVERY Recovery, splashdown and it looks like
stable i,
SPEAKER (Garble) Roger. Out.
SPEAKER (Garble) swimmer is deployed.
SPEAKER Stand by for (garble) in the water.
Rolling approximately 5 to i0 degrees.
PAO Splash time 13:49:48 Greenwich mean time.
SPEAKER ELS helo is moving in.
SPEAKER First ELS swim team is deployed.
CM-CDR Hello, Recovery. Skylab, do you read?
RECOVERY Hi, this is Recovery. Read you loud
and clear. How's it going?
CM-CDR Okay. Everybody's in super shape.
RECOVERY Well, that's great. Welcome back.
CM-CDR Thank you.
RECOVERY Second ELS swim team is deployed. Ticonderoga,
do you read Skylab? Over.
TICONDEROGA Recovery, Ticonderoga. Request that you
repeat. Over.
RECOVERY Roger. Skylab reports everyone's in
super shape - super shape. Over.
TICONDEROGA (Garble) Ticonderoga. Roger. Out.
RECOVERY Third ELS swim team's deployed.
PAO Seven swimmers in the water now, one at
the command module and six attempting to recover the chutes.
The simmer at the command module is attaching a sea anchor.
RECOVERY Swimmer signaling for the flotation collar.
PAO Recovery preparing to drop three more
swimmers and the flotation collar.
RECOVERY Swimmers are deployed with the flotation
collar.
RECOVERY Flotation collar is at the command module.
RECOVERY LS seven-man life-raft is deployed.
RECOVERY (Garble)
RECOVERY (garble)
RECOVERY (garble) Seven-man life raft is deployed
(garble) ELS.
RECOVERY (Garble) starting to attach collar. Over.
PAO Flotation collar being installed now.
And seven-man life rafts have been dropped near the chutes.
Swimmers will attach the chutes to the life rafts.
SL-II MC-1375/2
Time: 08:48 CDT, 29:13:48 GMT
6/22/73

RECOVERY (Garble) is at three-quarters position.


RECOVERY Third ELS team has the 7-man liferaft.
RECOVERY (garble)
RECOVERY Flotation collar is in position.
RECOVERY First ELS swim team has the 7-man liferaft
inflated.
RECOVERY Second EL - has its 7 -man liferaft
inflated.
RECOVERY ELS swim team has the 7-man liferaft
inflated. Inflation of the flotation collar has begun.
PAO Ticonderoga reports that the command
module landed 6-1/2 miles from the ship. And that the ship
was at 6-1/2 miles from the target point.
RECOVERY Have completed - completed inflation of
the flotation collar. Three swimmers up on the flotation
collar, installing the bolt straps.
RECOVERY (Garble) bolt straps being installed.
RECOVERY (Garble) for the recovery raft.
RECOVERY Every raft is deployed.
CM-CDR Hello, Recovery, Skylab.
RECOVERY Hi, this is Recovery. Go ahead.
CM-CDR You're not going to pick us up with
the ship?
RECOVERY We sure are. The ship's presently
about 3-1/2 miles from you. They'll be here shortly.
CM-CDR Okay. Very good.
TICONDEROGA Recovery, Ticonderoga copied. Over,
out .
RECOVERY Skylab, this is Recovery. We're putting
on the recovery raft just so the swim people can have some place
to work on. Over.
CM-SPT Okay. Thank you.

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SL-II MC-1376/I
Time: 08:58 CDT 29:13:58 GMT
6/22/73

HELO - -place to look on (garble)?


HELO Okay, thank you.
HELO Recovery rafts inflated?
HELO Roger.
HELO Recovery rafts are fully inflated, being posi-
tioned. (garble) now has it. Parachute approximately halfway into
the raft. Turn to your left. The swim team has it. The parachutes
approximately halfway into the raft.
PAO Ticonderoga now 3 miles from the command
module.
CM-CDR Recovery, Skylab.
RECOVERY Go, Skylab.
CM-CDR Hey, you guys want us to inflate the
(garble) ?
TICO Skylab, this is Ticonderoga. That is
affirmative, I repeat, that is affirmative. Over.
CM-CDR Would you tell the swimmers they'll be
starting; their i0 minutes is up.
TICO Roger Skylab.
HELO The recovery raft is now connected to
the flotation collar.
ELS ELS (garble) the full cargos of ELS swimmers
aboard.
HELO ELS - Roger. All three ELS teams are
presently throwing in their parachutes up to the rafts. The
(garble) tossed the (garble) line of the (garble) the third one.
That's all three should tell me where the line above went
approximately 60 to 85 yards. ELS (garble) out.
HELO It appears that all three ELS swim teams
are still pulling in their parachutes.
HELO ARIA i, ARIA (garble). Separation hags are
in waiting.
HELO Why don't you get out a quick-look report
while you're orbiting. We can get all the US (garble) out, and
then when you release (garble) get the rest.
HELO Request that you send ELS swimmers to get
into position and request you report when ELS swimmers have
parachutes in the raft. Over.
ELS ELS wilco.
PAO As a precautionary measure, Pete Conrad
has inflated the uprighting bags on the command module. It
appears that all three chutes will be recovered.
HELO (garble)
PAO Ticonderoga now 1.3 miles from the
command module.
PAO Ticonderoga reports being 2400 yards
from the command module, 2400 yards.
HELO (garble) all four ELS rafts are together
at this time at approximately i0 yards - -

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SL-II MC1377/I
Time: 09:09 CDT, 29:14:09 GMT
6_22/73

RECOVERY (garble) All four ELS rafts are together at


this time. They're approximately I0 yards to the Starboard of the
windline. (garble)
TICO (garble) Ticonderoga. Roger. Out.
PAO Ticonderoga about ii00 yards away now.
Moving into position for pickup. Meanwhile the Skylab
workshop has just started its 562nd revolution. Full team
of flight controlers here still monitoring the workshop.
Another full team involved with the recovery of the crew - -
SPEAKER (garble) down at this time to approximately
1,000 yards.
SPEAKER U.S.S. Ticonderoga (garble) request that
ELS swim team start off to the target. Over.
SPEAKER (garble)
PAO Ticonderoga slowing down now, almost
to a stop. Landing occured 22 minutes ago.
SPEAKER Photo (garble) ELS raft (garble) Over
the starboard of the windline at this time, approximately 15 yards.
All ELS swimmers are together.
PAO Range now 840 yards.
SPEAKER ELS. (garble)
SPEAKER (garble) The U.S.S. Ticonderoga is (garble)
(garble).
PAO Ticonderoga now about 500 yards away. There's
report the APEX cover of the command module has also been
recovered.
SPEAKER (garble) Ticonderoga is possibly 400 yards
from the command module.
PAO Ticonderoga moving slowly into position
now. Wood chips have been thrown into the water from the
bridge to assist the Skipper in determining the drift rate
as he guides the ship up to the command module.
PAO This is a very delicate operationj requiring
a high degree of seamanship. The Ticonderoga is 912 feet long,
coming up along side the command module.
PAO Linehandlers on the ship are standing by.
Spacecraft even with the bow now. Standing back with a
shotline, which will be fired to the swimmers - -
PAO Swimmers going after the shotline at this time.
Landed just a little short of the command module. Swimmer
has it and is heading back toward the command module. This
is a light line fired from a gun. Be used to pull in the
heavier line that will be attached to the command module.
PAO The inhaul line now being attached to the
command module.
SL-II MC1377/2
Time: 09:09 CDT, 29:14:09 GMT
6/22/73

PAO Line handlers on the ship will now pull


the command module to a position underneath the crane.
PAO This inhaul line spins through a pulley.
About 25 sailors are hauling in the command module.
PAO About 100 feet to go now to be in position
under the crane, moving slowly along the starboard side of
the ship.
SPEAKER Skylab, Ticonderoga. Ready to (garble)
SPEAKER Skylab, this is the Ticonderoga go ahead.
SPEAKER Roger, Skylab. I'ii keep you informed as it
(garble) hoisting aboard. Over.
CM-CDR Roger, roger. He's ready to go. We all
got our seat belts fastened - (garble) - pleasure to ride up.
SPEAKER Roger, Skylab. You're just about below
that below the crane at this time.
SPEAKER Roger, we can see it. Thank you.

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SL-II MC-1378/I
Time: 09:23 CDT, 29:14:23 GMT
6/22/73

TICONDEROGA Skylab, this is Ticonderoga, (garble)


The recovery (garble) is in tact. They'll be hoisting you
aboard in about a minute.
CDR Roger, roger, Ticonderoga. Thank you.
TICONDEROGA Skylab, this is Ticonderoga. You're
being hoisted out of the water at this time.
PAO Command module clear of the water now.
Being hoisted aboard Ticonderoga's number 3 elevator.
TICONDEROGA (garble) Ticonderoga, what do you say?
PAO The flotation collar will be removed
before the command module is placed onto a dolly.
PAO Recovery dolly being moved under the
command module now.
PAO The clock here showed the command
module on the dolly 38-1/2 minutes after splash.
PAO The command module reaction control
system thrusters have been checked for leaks and none found.
As a precaution, however, plugs will be placed in those
thrusters.
PAO The steps are now in place at the command
module hatch, and the red carpet is being rolled out.
PAO The command module reaction control
system being plugged now. After this is done, the - Dr. Ross
and Dr. Kerwin will have their conference before the hatch
is opened.
PAO Joe Kerwin should now he checking his
blood pressure and the blood pressure of the other crewmen,
preparatory to his conference with Dr. Ross. And here in
the Control Center, a ladder has been placed in position,
preparing to hang the first (garble) plaque in the Skylab
Program in the Mission Operations Control Room.
PAO NASA Recovery Team Leader, Mel Richmond,
now opening the hatch. They're going to climb out.
NEWSMAN - - perfect condition (Music). And
what we thought was going to be a 15 or 20 minute interlude,
isn't going to be at all. Mel Richmond opens the command
module hatch, and out comes Pete Conrad, Commander of the
Skylab crew, back from a successful 28 days in space. And
the band of Ticonderoga strikes up "Anchors Away", saluting
these three American Astronauts, all Naval Officers. They
begin their walk. Dr. Kerwln appearing a bit unsteady there.
Twenty-elght days of weightlessness, back into Earth's
gravity under an hour. A bit shakey, .but walking under his
own power to the Skylab mobile laboratories set up in the - -

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SL-II MC-1379/1
Time: 09:25 CDT, 29:14:25 GMT
f 6/22/73

SPEAKER - - the band of the Ticonderoga strikes up


"Anchors Away," saluting these three American astronauts, all Naval
Officers. They begin their walk. Dr. Kerwin was appearing a bit
unsteady there after 28 days of weightlessness and back into Earth's
gravity under an hour. A bit shakey but walking under his own
power to the Skylab Mobil Labortory set up in the hanger
bay of the Ticonderoga, where they will immediately begin
what will be 6 hours of medical tests and evaluations for this
first day back on Earth, and the beginning of several days of
extensive medical evaluations.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Here in the
Mission Control Center cigars are being lit, a lot of hands
being shaken, backs being patted. On the big forward screen
a replica of the Skylab crew patch and these words, "Skylab
I/II mission accomplished." A tribute to the combined
abilities of NASA and all support contractors, who surmounted
problems to begin a new era of scientific achievement. The
manned - first manned portion of this mission is over. How-
ever, this mission continues. We still have the unmanned
Skylab workshop in orbit. And flight controller teams will
work around the clock here in the Control Center until the
next - Between now and the next manned launch, now targeted
for July 27. A news conference is scheduled in the main
_- auditorium of the Johnson Space Center in approximately
one half hour. NASA management news conference. Participants
will be Dr. James Fletcher, the NASA Administrator, Dr. George
Low, NASA Deputy Administrator, Dale Meyers, the Associate
Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr. Christopher Kraft
Jr. Director of the Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rocco Petrone
Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Dr. Kurt Debus,
Director of the Kennedy Space Center. And immediately following
that news conference there will be a second conference with
William Schneider, the Skylab Program Director, Kenneth
Kleinknecht, the Skylab Program Manager from the Johnson
Space Center, Leland Belew, the Skylab Program Manager from
the Marshall Space Flight Center, Dr. Royce Hawkins Deputy
Director for Medical Operations at the Johnson Space Center,
Major General Kenneth R. Chapman, the DOD Manager for Manned
Space Flight Support Operations, Donald K. Slayton, Director
of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center,
the command module Flight Director, Phil Shaffer, Dr. Robert
Parker, a Scientist Astronaut and Skylab Program Scientist.
That second news conference beginning immediately after the
management press conference. _nd the management press con-
ference is estimated to begln in approximately 30 minutes
in the main auditorium at the Johnson Space Center.

END OF TAPE

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