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261 00 47 28 CDR ...
PLT That's what we 're doing.
CDR Terrible. They're going to have a tough time

getting this one.
261 00 i%746 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm with you at Texas for

9 minutes.
PLT Hello there again, Dick. Dumping down the Pike,

here.
CDR It was snow-covered - or cloud-covered over Japan,

Dick. qhe northern tip was clear, - no - well,
broken to clear, but the rest was socked in. No
Tokyo Bay, no Mount Fuji.
r CC Roger,
AI.
PLT 0hayo gazaimasu to all our friends in the Land

of the Rising Sun, anyway, Dick.
CDR 48:29 I'm supposed to - -
261 00 48 21 PLT MARK. MODE, SINGLE.
CDR - - ... 3 degrees up. 48:29 - like about right

now.
CDR Let it stay there. 229. E229. They sure got a

bad horizon on this one, Dick. It - We must be
going into dark, but it just wasn't distinct at
all. I hope this comes out to their satisfaction.
PLT How's Big Red down there today, Dick?
CDR 48:29.
CC He's really having fun tonight.
CDR What's he doing?
j
f-" PLT Let's hear it for the flight director. Everybody
give him a holler.
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CDR Hey!
PLT Hey!
CC Yea!
PLT I bet he's almost as good a guy as Hutch is.
CDR Ask him what we're going to do with that 6 hours

between tunnel closeout and undocking.
PLT I wonder if Big Phil's going to buy the whole -

all the flight controllers dinner like Hutch is.
261 00 49 33 CDR He is. There's no doubt in my mind.
PLT Yes, a good guy like him.
CC (Chuckle)
PLT Wealthy bachelor.
CC (Chuckle)
CDR Big pocketbook.
PLT Yes.
PLT Well-paid flight director.
CDR That's right. They get extra - They get flight

pay for this? (Chuckle) I wouldn't be surprised.
PLT I wonder if they could get per diem for being in

the MOCR.
CDR (Chuckle) Probably. They get to sleep there.
PLT (Chuckle) It's Government quarters first, though.
CDR 50:01, and boy, this is a tough one.
PLT This one is really stirring up the old pump, Dick.
CC Well, it sounds like fun to me.
PLT (
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CDR It is. A great site to be ...
PLT Never lose your sense of humor. (Chuckle)
CC I'm trying.
CC/CDR/ (Laughter)
PLT
CDR It's only a matter of time, Richard.
PLT They're saying what Bruce was saying this morning.
CDR What're they saying? What'd they say?
PLT Wish these guys would shut up.
CDR/PLT (Laughter)
PLT Here they come again. (Laughter) Oh.
- CDR Oh,gosh.
PLT 52:29. Boy, it seems like a long time off. It

seems like _Imost 2 minutes.
CDR Seems like we've been up here for 2 months. Okay,

47:39. That's the wrong time. I'm going to 52:29.
They're getting a lot of movies of black space for
some reason. I don't know why, but they want to -
No, they'll let me turn it off, they said.
PLT That'll make them jump up and down if you do that.
CDR And now they want me to keep it on. It's going to

be interesting footage.
PLT I betcha Phil could take everybody out to dinner

on all the money he's got off that lousy coin
t rick.
CDR He should do it.
CC Everybody on the team concurs with you.
261 00 51 26 CDR (Laughter) Little - little - Chinese food. He'll

I-- probablytake you down to the - what's the
Chinese ...
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PLT (Laughter)
CDR 52:29. Oh, this is good ... - This is good. I

can't wait to see this footage when I get back.
They're going to think we didn't expose it. Solid
black.
PLT That's what they want.
CDR It's not bad.
PLT Shows them how dark a picture they can take.
CDR That's right.
261 00 52 22 PLT Okay, we're going to get a MODE, SINGLE here pretty
quick.
CDR Okay, at 52:29 this camera's coming off.
261 00 52 29 CDR MARK. Camera OFF.
261 00 52 30 PLT MARK. MODE, SINGLE. EREP to STOP.
261 00 52 34 PLT MARK. Okay, what's this post operate thing? Here's
something that Dick wants to know, right here. I
guess he's gone.
CC No, I'm not gone. I'm eavesdropping.
PLT Good. Okay. You want to know what Bravo 7 is.

And so I'm going to tell you. It's 31 percent.
CC 31, okay.
PLT And when we were in CHECK, Alfa 2 was doing some

squirrely things. It was moving up and down
between - This was before we started the Earth
limb pass. It was oscillating between 37 and,
say, 40 - 45 or 50. It's going real slow and
without any apparent direction to its motion.
Since you want to know Alfa 2 and Charlie 4, I
though that might're be an I - a little in-
interesting piece of data. Okay, 192 DOOR CLOSED.
Close and latched the window. Okay. One little
piece of dote [sic] data you might want to have
there, Dick, is concerning the M518. It reads -
Oh, it's out of SOC, now. It was in a S0C
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temperature_ I'ii give that to you later. I -

I haven't got it written down. But the guys seem
to want to know that.
CC Okay. And, Jack, one thing. This next Vanguard

pass is the last pass of the evening, and we're
hoping to have that set up for your private comm.
And I did have a question for you about one of
the things you did earlier today. It had to do
with the photography of the S183 stow. We were -
You reported down a transporter 02 where we had _
transporter 03 scheduled. And we think probably
that - that the film on transporter 03 was used
up earlier, but we weren't sure what - which. We
understand the configurations of the transporters,
but we were interested to know how - what happened
on the 183 photography.
PLT I got the prep and I got the stow. I Just did it
on different transporters on account of the 07,
I guess, was less than the required amount. And
I was ableto get all the stow in on the - the one
that I did. So the rest, I guess, is on the film
log. But I did get a photograph of the prep and
the stow.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Yes, sir.
PLT Okay, A1, I'll get that for you in just a second
here. Open vent, AUTO *** Before you got here.
No, it was open. I just did it right now.
(Chuckle) (Laugh) Scared you, and you're fear-
less, I know.
CDR Scared me, and I'm not fearless.
261 00 55 48 PLT Okay, the READY light is out. The EREP goes to
STOP. The MODE goes to STANDBY. And I'll take
the power OFF for you. And you can have those
pictures. I've waited more than 2 seconds now.
There we go. TAPE RECORDER, POWER, OFF. No time
for S191.
261 00 56 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

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261 00 56 ii PLT MARK.
CC Vanguard is coming up at 01:07; and, Jack, your

comm will be set up - set up there. We're -
You ought to start on the LEFT antenna. And
incidentally, be advised that the problem down
at Guam was a hardware failure. We had a - We
- They found a switch failure in the black box
down there and - and that was the cause of that.
PLT Okay. Well, l'm glad they were able to psych it

out. And I hope we can make it at Vanguard. Thank
you for passing the word and working it all out ;
appreciate it much.
CC Okay. And we're all leaving to have Chinese dinner.
261 00 56 44 PLT (Laughter) Ah_ so. Good old Phil. I knew he'd
come through. DOOR CLOSED light is on. Okay.
I get 190 POWER, OFF, 192 POWER can go OFF, now.
191 we'll leave ON. SCAT and RAD and ALTIMETER,
OFF; 194 POWER, OFF. Standing by for 191 at
58:36. Use the steel tape to do the measuring,
tOO.
261 01 07 29 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard for ll minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick, and let me update a couple of numbers

for you on the evening status report.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, on the SPT's exercise, it's as follows:

2/31/5100, 3/25/Mark I; 90 A's, 60 B's, 60 Deltas.
And on the food additions, add another biscuit
to - to previous additions. And that's all I've
got. Let's see, I think the frames on the ETC
was 30 for the EREP officer.
CC Okay, Owen. And, incidentally, on that T - ATM

monitor, you were exactly correct about MON 1
staying ON and being required when we do TV down-
link. We originally asked you to turn it off
because we didn't have any TV scheduled for this
evening. However, on second thought, we've had
some funnies on that MON l, and - and we've had
to warm it up for some time. So in order to get
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data first thing in the morning, we would like

to get it back on this evening before you go to
bed so it can be nice and warm when morning comes.
SPT Okay. And instead of MON l, wouldn't MON 2 do just

as good? The original concern about leaving MON 1
on, I believe, was due to the irregularities in
the sweep pattern that we'd observed a couple of
times. And my guess is that M0N 2 would serve
just as well. You might check on that.
CC Roger. We'll talk about it real quick.
CDR And one other thing, Dick. I forgot to do the

Nu Z update before the EREP.
CC Okay, A1. Thanks for letting us know. And back

to Owen on the monitors. We're not sure - And
I guess we could take a little while and check,
but it'd probably e - simpler to tell you twice if
you've already heard it. But we're not sure that
we ever got back to you and tell - and told you
that we - we think that one of the problems that
we saw the other day with the MONITOR l, where we
had the dark streaks across it, was the fact that
we had allowed it to cool down over a - an EREP
pass period, and so tonight we would like to get
MONITOR 1 back on because we'd like to keep it
W alum.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. I'll check and make sure it's
turned back on right now.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm headed up there. And also let me give you the
EREP numbers, for EREP officers on the film:
set W, 90_0, 1233, 8759, 8138, 9908, 8812. You
want me to give you a Nu Z update now?
CC Stand by.
261 01 112 05 CC CDR, Houston. Negative. We don't - we - We don't

need one now.
CC CDR, Houston. One thing on the EREP pass that we

"-_ didn't get when we went L - LOS, and I think you
gt_s were just doing it, and that was the tape
measurement.
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261 01 12 _3 CDR Just a second. I'll have to check with Jack.

Hold on.
CC Okay.
SPT Thirty was correct on the ETC. And that'll show

up on tomorrow night's film log.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We'd like - We'd just as

soon go ahead and inhibit TACS both hardware and
software now. We're looking on good shape on
momentum.
CDR Okay, we'll do that. And it's 1 inch.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR And it's inhibited now.
CC Roger. We see the hardware and software inhibited.

Thank you very much.
CDR And does A_ like it? I just turned on the MON 1

for them.
CC Roger; we copy. Thank you for that, also.
CDR We're going to wait 6 hours in the command module

from closing the hatch to undocking. We may want
to think about getting up 2 hours late or some-
thing. I don't know.
CC Roger. I'm not sure we could stand another change

in our plan for getting up and going to bed, but -
we'll - we'll take another look.
CDR No, there wouldn't be any circadian change. It

would be - For example, we're getting to bed
about an hour late tonight; it won't bother us.
And that's going to be a long day. I'm not pushing
it, but we prob - Maybe we ought to think about
it.
CC Roger. Understand.
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CDR We might have a better feel of - feel for it,

matter of fact, the day before we do it, though.
We'll see how much we've got done and how much
we lack. We got a lot of stuff to put in there,
and a lot of things to close out, and it's hard
to get visibility from this minute until that
point.
CC Roger, A1. Phil point - makes a good point; and

that is, with a single impulse reentry, all our
PAD is built completely into that time there and,
you know, it's not really so much a - a matter
of - of - when you got up and the length your
day is - is just that those contingencies that
might come up, and we'd like to keep all the
pad we've - we can get in - in there.
CDR I agree with that. There's - there's some limits.

Maybe we haven't exceeded it; I don't know. I
just threw it out for a thought.
- CC Roger.
CDR Well, you figure -Let's see for 6 hours there,

and then 1 an [sic] hour and three-quarters - Yes,
in orbit before we enter - There's the 7-3/4 hours,
and then another hour or so for recovery - Make
that an hour and half for recovery; that's 9,
l0 hours. I don't know; we - we ought to look at
it.
261 01 16 40 CC Roger.
261 01 17 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS. And - and in the morning, we've got a choice
of waking you up. Probably the best time would
be in order to ge - to let you get that A_4, there's
a Guam pass - I could wake you up at LOS at 08:46.
The next choice is Vanguard at 09:16.
CDR Why don't we go for 08:_6.
CC Okay, I think that'd be a good deal, because that'

get Jack up in time to make sure he gets that first
early morning EREP. So you guys get a good night's
sleep and we'll see you in the morning.
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CDR You bet; see you all. Enjoy your dinner.
CC Okay, we really will.
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261 08 43 30 CC (Music) Good morning, Skylab. This is the

voice of the crimson team coming to you from
high atop building 30 at JSC overlooking the
trench and our 8 by 15 orbital map. It's time
for the CDR to start thinking in terms of
solar physics and to watch a very quiet non-
flaring Sun.
PLT Good. The rest of us will stay in bed.
CC I would too.
261 08 45 30 CC Sorry about that. I wanted to put - put A1

awake ... of Jack. Jack, you better get up and
go to work. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 09:16.
That's about 30 m_uutes away.
261 09 16 14 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard,

lO minutes.
PLT You there, Crip?
CC That's affirmative. Would you rather I go

away?
PLT No, sir. But, it looks like we've got a new

active region com/ng around the - that's the
east limb, and it right at 270. It's
facing the bright spot, let me say that.
261 09 22 48 CC Okay. Copy. We'll look at it.
261 09 25 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again over the Canary in ll minutes at 09:36.
PLT See you at the Canary.
261 09 25 45 CC Jack, that's returning region 02 we think, and

we'll give another number for it probably when
it gets around.
PLT Thank you, Bob. We got a good XUV signature, on

it, also.
CC Copy.
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261 09 37 16 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Canary, 13 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob. And I Just want to verify that you

want those M151 photos of the S183 prep and
stowage and I did them yesterday.
CC Let me check that for you.
PLT Thank you.
CC Jack. Yes we do want to get those 151's of

the 183.
PLT Say again, please.
CC We do want to get that - the photos with M151

of 183.
PLT Okay. We 'ii get them. Thank you.
PLT Bob, I'd like the gents down there to sort of

keep their eye on S056 and if they see it
hanging up, let me know immediately so that I
can go msnual on it, please.
CC Okay. We're keeping an eye on it.
PLT Thank you.
PLT And one other little piece of information.

M560 was in it's SOC temperature or SOC period
last night at 22:40. I don't know what time it
went there but I made the reading at 22:40 and
it was batching out at 652 degrees.
CC Copy that, Jack.
CC Jack, you might want to designate on your SAP

that that new active region we're going to
number 31, 31.
PLT Okay, Bob, number 31. Thank you.
CC I'm sorry, Jack. I couldn't understand your

last.
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PLT Okay. I copy your active region BI. Thank

you.
CC Roger.
261 09 49 BB CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Honeysuckle in 36 minutes.
That's at 10:26, 10:26.
261 09 50 ll PLT Okay, Bob. And let me real quickly give you
some rate gyro temperatures. X-5, 91.7;
X-6, 91.5; Yankee 5, 92.1; Yankee 6, 90.2_
Zulu 5, 93.6; and Zulu 6 is 90.3
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261 i0 27 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Honeysuckle.

And we got you for about 2-1/2 more minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob. You probably didn't get the rate gyro
temperatures that I read down to you, so I'll give
them to you again if you want.
CC We copied them earlier, Jack. Can you tell us how

MON 1 looked this morning, please?
PLT Well, it looked normal, just like it has every other

day, except for 1 day.
CC Okay. That's what we thought. We wanted to Just

verify it. Thank you.
PLT You bet.
PLT Oh, Bob, one other deletion to my food menu 2 days

ago. I didn't notice until last night, but it's
for - not yesterday, but the day before yesterday.
I neglected to eat two salt packs and one salt pill
that I reported that I had. And I found them
yester ni - yesterday evening.
CC Copy that.
CC And is CDR available for a question, please, sir?
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. Yesterday he mentioned, following his M171

and exercise run, that he had recorded something
for biomed about 171, and we were - have been unable
to find anything about that on the tapes. Appre-
ciate it if he could repeat it again on channel A.
CDR Wasn't any word, Bob. I just gave them an extra

25 minutes of data.
CC Oh. Misunderstanding what you said then. Okay.

Very good.
CDR Sorry.
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261 l0 30 22 CC Okay. We're getting ready to go over the hill.

We'll have you again at MLA at 12:42.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC Correction on that. Canary at ll:14.
261 ll 15 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for

12-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR, we need to get
into the DAS for a minute to inhibit momentum
dump. Over.
CDR You've got it.
CC And while we've got you on the horn, Alan, the

current plan is to schedule 3 hours for EVA prep
on the evening of mission day 56. The EVA that's
being planned for you is basically the nominal one,
with only the addition of knocking the dust particle
off S052, if it's in the right place. And, of
course, the change to gas cooling instead of liquid
cooling. And we're wondering if this 3 hours allo-
cation is sufficient, in your estimation. Over.
CDR Definitely. And be interested to know what we're

going to do about umbilicals. And we can - Within
the next couple of days, we can remove the ones we
have and dump them, or whatever else, and put in
the other one. So you might get that message up
sometime. And we'll take care of that before the
3 hours, and we won't have any trouble meeting the
others.
CC Roger. That's being worked right now.
261 ll 16 41 CC And we're through with the DAS. You've got it

back, A1.
261 ll 19 40 CDR And, Bruce, would you do me a large favor?
CC Well, try me and see.
CDR Okay. Today's my wife's birthday. How about call-

ing that florist down in League City and have them
send out about a dozen yellow roses.
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CC Roger. Will do it.
CDR And may - maybe you could put some message on the
card there, or something, if you would, too, or
have them do it.
CC Okay. You want us to just bill it to the house,

or something like that?
CDR That's a good idea.
CC And we're coming up on handover to Madrid. We'll

be dumping the data voice tape recorder at Madrid.
261 ll 26 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 mon- minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 11:55. Out.
261 ll 27 15 CDR Hey, Bruce. I just finished doing the housekeeping

in the CSM. Let me read you thruster temps. We've
probably got enough time for that.
CC Give it a whirl, fast.
CDR Okay. 4-B: 1.7, 2.0, 1.6, 2.2, 2.1, I
CC We got them. Thank you.
CDR You bet.
CDR Everything else looked good with no leaks. Apparl

ently, we were leaking when we cycled it during the
command module check. So that - now that we haven't
chi - cycled the coolant anymore, we've got no leak.
CC Roger. Sounds good, and we'll talk to you over

Carnarvon.
261 ll 27 55 CDR All right.
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261 ii 54 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 14 minutes. Out.
261 ll 55 19 PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC And we have a momentum dump enable to do. I don't

see anybody at the ATM right now, but if there is,
you'd stay off the DAS for a minute, we'll get it
in.
PLT Okay, we're off it.
261 ll 56 23 CC The DAS is back to you.
261 ].207 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS.

Next station contact in 34 minutes through Merritt
Island at 12:42. Out.
261 ].2 42 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes. Out.
261 :.2 51 19 SPT Hello, Bruce. Are you still with us?
CC Yes, indeed.
SPT Could you tell me how much time is left on the

VTR at this point, please?
CC Okay. You've got about 5.9 minutes left on it

available. Over.
SPT Okay, 6 minutes. Thank you.
261 :L252 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute in until LOS.

Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through
Madrid where we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at 12:57. And did you copy that all
right on the VTR, Owen?
SPT I copied 6 minutes. Is that what you said?
CC Roger.
SPT Bruce, you seem to be overmodulating down there.

I didn't know whether you are about to swallow the
mike or whether or not one of the amplifiers is
set too high.
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CC No. We'll check on it. That's why I asked. The

site reported that my co_nents were coming through
garbled, but we'll check it out.
261 12 53 07 SPT Okay. It still was that way up here. It hasn't

improved a bit by transmission.
261 12 57 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

8 minutes. How do you read me now, Owen?
SPT Sounds pretty good now, Bruce.
CC Okay, we just moved the world a little to bring

a new site into view of the spacecraft to fix the
problem.
261 12 57 21 SPT Yes, either that or the ionosphere is a little

thicker up here and got all those garbles filtered
out.
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261 13 04 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS.

Next station contact in 25 minutes through
Carnarvon at 13:30. Out.
261 13 30 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

about 9 minutes. And we're going to have to
take the VTR away from you to start rewinding it
so that we can dump on the coming stateside pass.
Over.
CDH Okay. We're finished.
CC Okeydoke. In accordance with SOP, we'll contact

you when you can have it back again and it's
clean. Out.
CDR Thank you.
261 13 44 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 30 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 14:14. Out.
261 14 14 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes.
We'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder over
Bermuda. Out.
261 14 29 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston; now coming to you through

Merritt Island. Out.
261 14 24 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston; now coming to you through

Bermuda. Dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Out.
261 l_ 29 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
14:35. Out.
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7-1/2 minutes. Out.
261 14 41 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 40 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 15:21. Out.
261 14 42 08 CC SPT, acknowledge. Over.
SPT Okay. See you in about 40 minutes, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
261 15 21 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle. We're

one minute to LOS. Next station contact in
29 minutes_at Goldstone, 15:51. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce. How do you like the maneuver load?
CC Roger. We like it. We like it, both TACS and

maneuver load. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. And, also, I wanted to compliment the

EREP officer for getting all the important infor-
mation put down on my ETC pad today.
CC Stand by, and we'll check that out.
SPT Okay.
CC Roger. We need a NuZ update at 15:34. And for

the commander, his mission has been accomplished.
And with respect to the ETC pad, Roger; we copy
you. We'll see if we can't get Mississippi and
Montana in there, too.
SPT Okay. Those outlined outposts that should certainly

be covered whenever possible.
261 15 22 29 CDR Thanks, Bruce.
CC Roger.
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PLT The only thing you didn't do, Bruce, is tell them
how far away the closest approach is.
CC See, 4367 miles, it says here.
PLT That's what I was telling them.
SPT When you told the CDR his mission was accomplished,
I thought you were about to tell him to reenter
tomorrow or sQmething like that.
CC No, no. You know and he knows what I mean.
261 15 22 58 SPT Okay.
261 15 51 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston in stateside pass A0S for

15 minutes and _0 seconds. We like the new maneuver
t ime. Out.
CDR Thank you, Houston. We didn't do the Nu z update

again. That thing ought to be on the EREP pad,
and I'll tell you why. Once you've shut that ATM
down and start thinking EREP, you don't think
about ATM much anymore, until after the EREP's
over. And it ought to be sequenced in there on
this pad and it should be done for the C&D. And
it ought to be right at the top of this maneuver
pad at the time you want it. Because that's what
he's got out and looking at and thinking about,
the VTS operator.
CC Okay, A1. We copy that. And that was one of the

reasons we voiced it up over Honeysuckle to you,
also.
261 15 52 16 CDR We goofed. Everybody gets his mind on making the

maneuver on time and getting all this equil_nent
powered up, and you - We should have written it
down on our pads or something because you really
get - get in the EREP loop and you're not in the
ATM loop, and that - that's what got us. During
the EREP subroutine, if you can't get a - whatever
they call it - computers that send you over to the
other one. Some sort of rut, ATM rut.
CC Okay, we - we copy. We sympathize, and we try to

schedule it over a site so we can watch and help
you out, but the star wasn't available at that
time. Ore r.
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CDR We goofed. We goofed it. There's - We've got to

excuse. Just wanted to tell you how it - we thought
we could - prevent it.
261 15 53 01 CDR Okay, EREP Just went to START.
CC Okay, EREP's START. And, actually, the Nu z time -
the Nu z looks good, you've got onboard.
CDR Those rate gyros. They sure do it, don't they?

Big rate gyros.
261 15 53 22 CDR VTS, AUTO CAL right there. And I'm going record
for you, A-2 and C-4. A-2 is 50 percent. C-k is
71 percent.
261 15 53 40 CDR Now A-2 is decreased to 44 percent, and it's still

71 on C-4. So nothing's new there. Still moves
around, llke it always does.
CDR 538. How you doing, Jack?
f CC And for the unofficial EREPERS, here, the weather

over Enid is 50 to 75 percent obscurred, broken,
going to clear. And the weather over Lansing,
Michigan, is clear.
CDR Okay, thank you.
SPT Well, we'll let you know a little more accurately,

I guess, here in about 3 minutes. Hope for the
best.
261 15 5_ 30 CDR 55:38, MODE to AUTO on 190.
261 15 55 33 PLT How do you hear me, Bruce?
CC Loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Attaboy. How's the weather over Oak City?
261 15 55 39 CDR 38, MODE to AUTO at 190.
CC Pretty good up over Michigan.
PLT Okay. How's it at Oak City?

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CC About three quarters obscured, that is broken,

going to clear.
PLT Oh, boy, not much. 56:05, I figure I'll be there.
261 15 56 00 CDR READY on 190, and going to 7; that's READY on 191.

Looking for a 56:20, when 192 goes to READY. Then
we'll give you A-2 and C-4 again. Come on,
machine.
261 15 56 21 CDR Okay, 192 Just went READY. Record A-2. By the
way, TAPE MOTION is on. A-2, 40 percent; C-4,
71 percent.
PLT I agree with you that it's overcast in Oak City.

It's too bad, too, because I was going to pick you
off about five of those sites.
CC Okay, Jack. If you're planning on tracking the

sites around Oklahoma City, go ahead and use the
DAC with it. We got enough film.
PLT Okay. I'm sorry, Bruce, it's Just overcast there,

like you said. I - I got the time figured out
and everything, but - it's overcast, no question
about it. Too bad, too, because the overcast ends
about, oh, 100 miles north of there, I guess.
Okay, I'm going to Michigan.
261 15 57 16 CDR Okay, FRAME INTERVAL 10.
PLT Right at 2.9.
CDR Michigan's your alternate, huh?
PLT Michigan is my nimber 1.
CDR 30. Oh it is, is it? The other one is yours

alternate.
PLT Lake Michigan is - Lake Michigan is the alternate.

I'm going to get a Lansing right on the snoot.
My old stomping grounds. Okay, I'm waiting for
59 and 43.
CDR Okay, at 30, we're going intervalometer 20, if

you don' t mind.
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PLT Too bad about Oak City, Bruce. I was going right
over it. I could have gotten you some goodies.
I guess we're not officially tagged with those
sites, but could have got them, anyway. Have
an apricot, Jack? Don't mind if I do. Thanks.
261 15 58 32 CDR Intervalometer, 20.
PLT There's Chicago. There's Lake Michigan. Lake

Michigan is clear, in case I need it. Get a peek
there at Lansing. Lansing's going to have broken
clouds.
261 15 58 52 CDR MODE to CHECK on 1192.
PLT Shoot.
261 15 59 25 CDR 190 is at i0.
261 15 59 26 PLT We've got to get lucky.
CDR Volemeter, i0.
261 15 59 33 PLT 59:43. We might make it. Hurry.
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261 15 59 42 PLT MARK.
CDR Got it.
PLT There's a town that looks reminiscent of Lansing.
CDR MODE, READY on 192.
PLT For some reason, that's not it.
261 16 00 32 PLT Put me on a town that ain't it, I think. B-9 is - -
261 16 00 40 CDR In the valometer, 20.
CDB Stand by.
261 16 01 00 CDR REF, 2.
PLT It's under broken clouds, Bruce. I Just can't

find it.
CC Okay, Copy. You can't get your primary site.

Can you get the alternate? Use a ...
PLT Trying to fire me.
CDR You got a maneuver in about 30 seconds.
PLT Okay.
261 16 01 27 CDR Okay, 190 is out, going to MODE, STANDBY.
PLT There's a town with lots of roads going into

it .... - -
CDR Got 30 seconds.
PLT Reminds me a lot of Flint.
CDR GOt 20 seconds.
CDR Your time's loaded.
PLT Right.
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PLT Here we go.
261 16 02 00 PLT MARK. Well, the correction to solar inertial,

no mibs.
261 16 02 ii CDR MARK. AUTO CAL.
SPT 31 frames on the E_C, Bruce.
CC Roger, Owen.
PLT Think you shot me a little long that time. And

Lansing, itself, was back underneath the clouds.
Looked to me like we were homed in right between
Lansing and Flint. And I could see Flint.
CC Roger, Jack; we copy.
PLT There's a ano - there's a little town between

Lansing and Flint.
PLT Not sure what is was; might have been Owosso; I

don't know.
261 16 03 Ol CDR MODE, MANUAL.
PLT In Lansing, had to back up. We got under broken

clouds, although Just east of there, it was clear.
The town I did see, it was clear.
CC Okay, that townlis the one that's essentially on

track and about two-thirds of the way from Lansing
towards Flint in your site book?
PLT See if I can pick it out.
PLT I can't make it out on my map. Just found the -

or my photo on the map, but - -
CC I was looking at 535A, the 1 to 2,000,000 map.
261 16 04 l0 PLT Get that one out; I got the 528A put which is
probably the same. Looks like a little town
southwest of Flint.
261 16 04 23 CC Yes.
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PLT I could see the highways, same of the . I could

Just get little glimpses of some of the highways
going into Lansing, but I couldn't ma_e any -
any pictures (?) becuase of the clouds.
261 16 O_ 50 CDR EREP to STOP. I'll do a quick tape measurement

before we go out of comm distance, and then you'll
know the answer.
PLT You there, Bruce?
CC Still here.
PLT He's there. Hey, I bet you it was that town

that 's - -
CDR Half an inch - -
PLT - - that's between lansing and Flint, but closest

to Flint.
261 16 05 12 CC _ Yes, about two-thirds of the way from Lansing to

Flint in a11mnst a straight line.
PLT Yes, sir. That's the one you were talking about.
Right on track, yes.
CDR Half an inch.
CC Yeah, Okay.
CDR Half an inch of tape -
PLT I'd say that I was moved in halfway between that

town and Lansing, and that that town was in the
clear. And then a little bit - Just a few miles
southwest of it, we had the broken cloud layers.
261 16 05 35 CDR B-7, 31 percent. 92 door coming closed.
CC Okay, we copy the CDR. Half an inch of space

from the edge of the reel into the tape, and B-7,
31 percent. And we got a little over a minute
to LOS here. Next station contact in 6 minutes
through Madrid at 16:12 and we'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder there. Over.
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261 16 05 59 CDR Okay.
PLT Ah, too bad. Doggone it.
CDR Clouds are there - they're there - -
PLT Same way with Oak City. A little bit past it,
it was clear. Too bad.
PLT Fortunately, we got some data on that site before.
261 16 06 31 CDR Struggle against the inevitable. Okay, the

door's closed. RECORD switch to OFF. And take
off the headset, unplug, and - -
261 16 ll 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Madrid for

9minutes. Out.
CC We'll be dumping your data voice tape recorder

here.
261 16 20 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. And

next station contact is Honeysuckle in 38 minutes
at 16:58. Out.
261 16 58 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute and 15 seconds

to LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through
Hawaii at 17:18. And prior to your starting the
ATM operations; that is, at about 17:08, we'd
like to get a Nu z update, please.
Over.
CDR We'll try to remember this time.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Got one for you right now.
CC CDR, Houston; Nuz update looks fine. Thank you.
261 17 04 14 CC And close the STAR TRACKER SHUTTER if you would,

please.
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261 17 19 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

5 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Roger. Out.
261 17 21 ll SPT Say, A1, would you _ABLE TACS, please at this
time.
CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. We confirm TACS

inhibited, both hardware and software. Out.
CDR A]] right. And I'll be standing by for down-link

when you get through the ... Just give me a call.
CC Roger. I understand. That'll be over Goldstone.
CDR Okay.
261 17 23 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute until LOS.

Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes, through
Goldstone at 17:26-1/2, where we'll be getting
yourTV down-link. Out.
261 17 27 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone

8-1/2 minutes, and we're standing by for your TV
down-link. Out.
CDR Let me know whether they're locked up, and we'll

do some integration for them.
CC Okay, we're receiving at this time. Let's go with

the integration.
CDR Okay, I gave you some integration. HereVs a

little H-alpha 2 they might like.
261 17 28 54 CC Okay, we're not receiving it live in the control

center, but your commentary, of course, is going
along with the video for a later debriefing.
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261 17 35 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute until LOS.

Bermuda at 17:40. Out.
CDR Looks like I 'm going to have a little spare time

today, if you got anything you want done up here.
CC Okay, let's look into it. Right now, we're busily

engaged in preparing pads for your deact checklist
and we'll see what we can come up with. Over.
261 17 35 50 CDR Okay, sounds like a good idea. Anything to prep

for EVA or deact or anything else you need
checked, probes or anything, let me know.
261 17 39 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

5-1/2 minutes. For the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger, AI. We see from telemetry that the COOL

light is ON on the M518 package. If you can talk
Jack into letting you do it, M560 could be terminated
and M565 started up per the pad you have on board.
Over.
CDR Okay, I'll check with him. He's down there observing
131. I'll check.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Thanks for coming up with some extras there, Bruce.

We could use some more, too.
CC Roger. We'll work on it.
261 17 44 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Canary
Islands at 17:49. OUt.
261 17 49 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for

9 minutes. Out.
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261 17 57 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute until LOS.

Honeysuckle in 36 minutes at 18:33. And we will
be dITmp_ingthe data voice tape recorder over
Honeysuckle. Out.

6-1/2 minutes, with a message for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, A1. We've been putting together Just a few

remarks on some of the _hanges that you may expect
to see in the deactivation checklist and deacti-
vation activities coming up later in the week.
Of course, this stuff will all be coming up in
checklist form on the teleprinter, but I'd like
to Just comment on a couple of the major ones, if
you've got a minute.
CDR Sure do, and appreciate it. So we can be thinking

about them.
CC Okay, n,_mber 1 is that, in order to keep the

rate gyro package cool, we'll be maintaining a
atmosphere in the 1,nm-uned portion of 5 psi,
mostly nitrogen. And in conjunction with this,
your checklist will be revised to leave MDA fan
number 2 on and also to install a portable fan
in the MDA, both blowing on the rate gyro six
pack package. Over.
CDR I never thought of it. It makes sense.
CC And also, we'll be asking you to close off the

condensate isolation v_lves on heat exchangers A
on both mol sieves in order to prevent breakthrough
if the plates dry out between missions. The current
plan is to go as far as possible in Skylab 4
without breaking any of the condensate llne QDs.
Over.
CDR I think I can understand that one. Okay.
261 18 38 21 CC Also, no dump at the end of the mission. We're

keeping our fingers crossed, and we think it'll
hold vacuum for well into SL-h.
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CDR I'll be darned.
CC Uh - -
261 18 38 39 CDR Because I don't think when you dump you break any
of the lines you all are worried about.
CC Roger. That's correct. We don't see the need

to dump, anyway, though.
CDR Okay, sounds good.
CC Another item is that you'll be setting up the TV

camera in the MDA on universal bracket on the
handrail of the ATM, and leaving it connected,
but, of course, not activated. This is to allow
the SL-h crew to get into a TV down-link mode
very near the start of their activation and to
make a record of their initial activities inside
the MDA as they start out getting set up. Over.
CDR Okay.
261 18 39 32 CC Also, we're going to have a rather large change

in the EPS configuration. It - and the basic
reason for this is to allow us flexibility in
managing the parasitic loads and the loads in the
workshop itself, in the event that the remaining
airlock module coolant loop decides to turn belly-up
on us in the interim. The basic features of
this reconfiguration are going to be a large
reduction in the REG BUS 1 and REG BUS 2 voltage
adjust box, thereby bringing the BUS voltage
down; opening the BATTERY CONTROL circuit
breakers, eight of them; and by ground co_m_nd.
But while you're still in the bicinity of the
cluster, opening the BEG to TRANSFER BUS TIE
switches. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC The refrigeration system. We plan to have you,

on day 58, do the J-5 connector disconnect.
This will allow us complete flexibility in
operating REFRIGERATION SYSTEM l, 2, or both
simutaneously. Over.
CDR Okay. Why wait?

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CC The only thing we're waiting on, really, is getting

the procedure completely finalized and up to you.
In fact, when you called down earlier today for
something to do, we kicked that around the control
center, but it's not quite ready to be executed.
Over.
CDR Right, because there's all sorts of advantages to

do - getting this all whipped up early, and not
for us, but ma_es sure it works okay. As you -
I know you're more concerned of it than we are.
CC Okay, we copy that, Alan. And we'll see if we

can't move it up some.
CDR Okay. No - I - I Just mentioned that - Enough,

okay. No strain. Either way.
261 18 41 28 CC Yes. And that pretty well Sl_,,,arizesthe major

deltas as we see them at this time. We've got
some small ones, such, as bringing the location
of the additional blood sample vials that 'll be
brought back, and rehydrating some of your food for
mission day 60 after supper on mission day 59; and
taking care of the failed equipment that has to
have the circuit breakers reconfigured differently
from what's in your printed checklist. But I think
most of these will be pretty self-explanatory as
you work through and enter them. Over.
261 18 42 05 CDR Okay. Well, thanks. We've sort of been kicking

around, particularly, that food one. Some of.
these others we hadn't thought of that really
makes sense. You all have been busy bees down
there.
CC Yes, we have, indeed. And we've got about a

minute to LOS here. Next station contact in
ll minutes through Hawaii, 18 :54 ; and we can
continue it there, if you have any further questions.
CDR Okay. I don't have any questions right now.
261 18 42 35 CC Roger. Out.

9-1/2 minutes. Out
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PLT Okay, Bruce.
PLT And I take it what they want to do is run the

MIRROR, LINE SCAN at slit center for - for -
6 or 8 minutes, then step her down to line 25
with pointed - pointing at quite region l, is
that right?
CC Let us check that out, Jack.
261 18 5_ 52 CC Skylab, Houston. For the PLT, could you repeat,

please?
261 18 54 59 PLT Yes, I take it that, from the ATM schedule, what
they would like to do is run MIRROR, LINE SCAN
at slit center for about 6 or 8 minutes and then
Jump around down to line 25, run out the rest
of the rev there. The other option is to run it
all at line 25, and I think they must want to
m_e some distinction between line 8 and line 25.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to be on LINE 9 for the

duration of the S055 run.
PLT All right. That's where I've got it now. And

it's kind of confusing in that they -it looks like
they want me to do the same thing, only they
specify two different building blocks. So the
only thing that was different was that at one
time they wanted it at line 9, the other I/ - the
other time at line 25. At the moment, line 9 is
pointed 80 arc seconds above Sun center. So it
Just happens that line 25 would be right on Sun
center, so I thought maybe they wanted me to do
that. But until I hear different I'm going to
leave it on line 9. Right?
CC Roger, Jack. That's the thing to do, and there

was an error in the pad.
PLT Okay, that straightens it up, then. Thanks a lot,

Bruce. I'll run it at 80 arc seconds above Sun
center for the rest of the rev.
CC Roger. Out.
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261 18 57 25 CDR Now that this discussion is going on, I'm trying
to figure out if I should have run it at line 9
or 25. I ran it at 9.
CC Roger. 9 is the line on which it should have been

run, so everybodY is correct so far.
CDR Okay. Building block 18 has it on 25, that's

why I wondered. I thought maybe this was to
repair my mistake or something.
CC Negative.
CDR Okay. Because yesterday when we did it, they

called out line 25 in the pad, Just said line 25.
We did it there. Okay.
PLT I guess, in other words, they don't want us to

run a building block 18; they Just want us to
run a MIRROR, LINE SCAN at line 9 for the whole
rev.
261 18 59 07 PLT And, Bruce, I put M565 on the cooker at 18:07,

COLD 1 temp at start was 23 degrees and the -
PRESSURE was 0.25 - no, Just a minus 3 right on the
gage.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
261 18 59 32 PLT And there's something I noticed about these ...

bus sensors that you can shake them, and some of
them you can feel something rattling inside, some
of them you can't. And I presmlm_ that's the way
they were made. But if that's pertinent data,
I've got which ones of them do shake and which
of them - ones of them don't. And I thought if
there are not any of them supposed to shake, why,
maybe the PI would want to recognize that they
were loose when we got them.
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261 19 00 3h CC Jack, the word we're getting here is that that's

a condition to be expected after they're run.
But it probably shouldn't shake or rattle
beforehand. Over.
PLT Well, I found, so far, that the same ones that

shake after the run are the ones that shook or
rattled before the run, so they're - some of
them are - They're not changing during the run
as far as shaking and rattling is concerned.
The ones that go in loose, come out loose. And,
I guess, when he gets them on the ground, he'll
know that. But they're either made that way or
they got loosened up on launch, I don't know
which; but they're all coming out the same as
they went in.
CC Okay, Roger that. And we'll work on it.
PLT Okay. Thankyou.
261 19 02 17 PLT And, BruCe, I'm still a little puzzled about this
line 9 versus line 25, and in view of the fact
that they called out a building block i0 for
9minutes, starting at 51, exceeded bya building
block 18 at 42, it still m_es me think that
somebody wanted something different in there
and that everything in line 9 and - I'd like
to make sure that they're giving us the right
word on line 9.
261 19 03 03 CC PLT, Houston. We got 20 seconds until LOS here.

Just consider that the pad read to run S055A
and MIRROR, LINE SCAN at line 9 for the entire
pass along with H-alpha and everything else
shut off. Over.
PLT Okay, well H-alpha is running as usual at 1 frame

a minute. I will shut it off, however, if you wish.
CC Roger. The configuration is H-alpha and S055.

Copy?
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PLT Okay; copy. Thank you, Bruce, for clearing

that up.
CC And we'll see you in about a minute and a half

through Goldstone.
261 19 03 41 PLT Okay.
261 19 05 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

7 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay, Brad, Bruce, you won't believe it, but

I got one more question on that pad for that
pointing on active region - correction, quiet region
number 1. We got 4 zeros for a ROLL but we only
got 3 numbers for the UP and for the LEFT. Now
there's a zero missing in each one of them,
and I hope it goes on the left side because
we're pointed UP 80 and LEFT is a m_nus 5.
And I hope it's not suppose to be UP 800 and
minus 50.
261 19 06 O_ CC Okay, let us check that.
PLT Okay.
261 19 06 18 CC Okay, on the pad copy that we've got down here,
it shows, for quiet region l, UP, plus 080 and
LEFT, minus 005, so I believe you're correct.
Didn't it print out on the teleprinter up there?
PLT Yes, that's what we got on our pad, too. And

it did print on the teleprinter except that
our counter's got four digits not three, and
so we kind of wondered where the extra zero's
supposed to really go.
CC Okay; copy.
PLT So it's suppose to be plus 0080 then, I guess,

and likewise for the LEFT.
CC Roger; we concur 0080 and minus 0005.
PLT Okay, tB_nk you, Bruce.

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261 19 08 28 CC PLT, Houston.
261 19 08 43 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Did you call, Bruce?
CC Yes, with respect to your question on the

coordinates on ATM, the radius of the Sun,
from Sun center out to the limb, is about
960 arc seconds, and we believe that what
we've been giving you, fairly consistently,
is three digits for UP/DOWN, three digits
for LEFT/RIGHT and then four digits, of course,
for a ROLL. Over.
PLT Yes, I guess that's right. I understand that

it's that distance about the Sun. I Just thought
that there might be some effort to have the same
number of digits on the pad as on - as on -
the counters, but I understand the - the differ-
ence, in this case.
CC Okay.
261 19 09 55 CC And we're standing down here, now, wathing the

TV in the control center of A1 doing a no-arm
pushup with both of you on his back. You proba-
bly recall the situation.
PLT I be doggone. I wonder where he got that.
261 19 l0 58 CC And, Jack, this is Houston. We've dug a little

more deeply, so to speak, into the M518 situa-
tion. And we find that some of the ampules
did, indeed, rattle beforehand. We speculate
that perhaps they rattled a little bit more after-
wards, but that was norm_l. Over.
PLT Okay, I suspected that was the case and I'm Just
glad to hear it confirmed. And those are
running real good, apparently, then. And I
noticed that each time I take three of them out,
they all have the same heating markings on
them and so, apparently, each one is being
heated uniformly like each other.
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261 19 ll 3_ CC Roger.
261 19 ll 39 CC One minute until LOS. Next station contact in

5minutes through Bermuda at 19:17. Out.

8-1/2 minutes. And when you have an oppor-
tunity, we'd like to have the TACS enabled,
hardware and software, Jack. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
261 19 17 07 CC This, of course, is a backup for the M092 double

operation here. And starting tomorrow, t_s
call-out will be on the detail pad of the M092
observer. Out.
261 19 19 36 PLT Look all right to you, Bruce?
261 19 19 57 CC Roger, Jack. The TACS is enabled properly.

Thank you.
261 19 25 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 40 seconds until LOS.

Next station contact in l-l/2 minutes through
Canary at 19:27. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. See you then.
261 19 27 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and Ascension

for 16 minutes.
PLT Welcome aboard, Dick.
261 19 28 03 CC Glad to be here.
261 19 42 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minutes until LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 20:09.
261 19 42 39 CDR Okay, Dick.
261 20 08 00 CDR Are you there, Dick?
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.

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CDR I'm running this special test number 2 on M092

on Owen right now. And what it might wanted
us to do is what we did because it wanted us
to do it. It says remove adapter and reattach
right legband to right leg. Now with Owen,
that adapter is 1B - 14 adapter. His right leg
is something like 12 and a quarter inch in cir-
cumfrance, so it fits, in my opinion, too loose,
but that's the way we're running it. Now we
can run it again with a different legband. And
if so, would they recommend a legband? Or is"
this what they want? I can't imagine this is
giving them whay they want, but we - They know
what sizes all these things are so I guess, maybe,
this is the way they want it.
261 20 09 05 CC Okay, A1. Let us talk about it a second and get

back to you.
261 20 lO 55 MCC EREP, Blood, and ATOM, and hiomed -
MCC Okay, hey - I'm going to give -
261 20 15 53 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, our intent on

that special test was for Owen to end up with
the legband for that part of the test that was
a 12 to lb. And _ we un -understand that there's
supposed to be one, Charlie Papa, that's stowed
over there in one of the drawers, a backup leg-
band. At any rate, that was our intent for this
test.

LOS. Goldstone_s coming up at 20:45.
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261 20 45 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for about

5 minutes. And we see you in the vent cycle on
M092, and our assumption is that you're probably
rernnn_ng that test. You might clear that up for
US.
CDR That's a good assn-T.tion. We Just finished it up.
CC Okay, AI. Sorry about that checklist problem in

the legband size. Looks like that was JUSt kind
of built in for - at least for Owen, there, and
was an oversight on our part.
261 20 46 24 CC Skylab, HoUSton;for your information, your

tomorrow's Flight Plans are on board and in the
teleprinter. And also, an oversight on today's
detail pads - We did not list anywhere the stations
and times for the evening statUS report and the
med conference, so I thought I'd pass those up
here. The evening status report will be at Ascen-
sion on - later on on this rev at 21:13. We had
originally plagued for the PLT to catch both of
these for us. That's Ascension at 21:13 for
evening statUS. And the med conference will be
the following Carnarvon pass also on this rev at
21:43. Out.
CDR Okay, we finished that, Dick. It came off okay.

And Owen says he's really ready for Earth, now,
he's been in this can so long. How about setting
up a call again for my wife tonight? It happens
to be her birthday.
CC Roger, A1. I'll get on it.
261 20 48 ll CC And, Skylab, Houston. On the calls, A1, I will

get on this one as soon as I can, One thing that -
As you know, we've been working down here.to try
to make these calls come off a lot better. And
one thing that probablywould help - if we could
get as much warning as possible when we - when
you would have one, probably the night before or
in the morning if you could. At any rate, I'll
___ get right on this one. And we'll see if we can
get it set up.
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261 20 49 26 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 45 seconds from LOS.

MLA's coming up in about 3 minutes, and we're going
to @1_p the data tape recorder at MIA.
261 20 52 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS MLA at - for about

12 minutes.
CDR Hey, I'm sorry, Dick. I didn't think about giving

you enough notice. Sue works until about _ in the
afternoon. And I Just thought I'd wait until she
got home, and that way it would be easier for you
to get hold of here. But I should have mentioned
it earlier because there's lot more problems than
that. Will do.
261 20 53 43 CC CDR, Houston. I'm learning how to work my ket set

here. I Just gave you a message on the Flight
Director loop and Phil would like for me to tell
you again. At any rate, on your comment about the -
the calls, it does help us a little bit to get an
early warning because we like to get the network
messages out and do a site configuration check
with COMM TECHs. So, the earlier the better and
that will give us the best chance. And I Just
called over there and the line was busy, but I'll
call up and we'll get it set up this evening. No
problem.
CDR Okay, Dick.
261 21 00 35 CC Skylah, Houston. If you'll let us have the DAS

for a minute or so, we'd like to force a contin-
gency momentum sa-T_le to take care of that last
M092 vent that was a little bit outside our window.
So if you'll let us have the DAS, we'll take care
of that.
PLT You've got it, Dick.
CC Okay.
261 21 02 31 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
CC Roger.
261 21 03 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Ascension

comes up at 21:13, and I - I'd like to get the
evening status report at Ascension if I could.
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CDR We've got it ready for you.
CC Okay.
CDR We noticed on tomorrow's Flight Plan something

that's called girth 0 and girth S. Is there going
to be a pad up that tells us what that means?
261 21 03 59 CC Stand by a second.
261 21 13 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for 5 minutes.

I'm standing by for the EVA - correction, the
evening status report. And, A1, in answer to
your question about the girth measurements, we
understood that this was something that you all
had taken up at the start and didn't need any
support. We want you to do the same thing on the
girth measurements tomorrow that you did a couple
of weeks ago. If you do need the - the assist Of
a message to support that, we can resurrect one
we had planned to send up earlier and never did.
CDR No trouble. Just wanted to make sure. We weren't

-_ exactly sure what it meant. We thought that's what
it meant, but wanted to check.
CC Yes, that's right. And I'm standing by for the

evening status report.
CDR Coming at you then. 132, 143, 160.
CC 0kay.
CDR Hold on Just a second.
CC Okay.
261 21 14 42 CDR 0k_, let me start ag-alm. 132, 143, 160; 6195,
0165, 6667; 6.234, 6.234, 6.234; 5.942, 5.940,
5.940; 6.939, 6.940, 6.942; 2/35/5041, 3/15/Mark I,
3/10/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III. SPT has not exercised
yet, and we'll report as soon as he does. 1/05/0603,
2/35/8664. PL - also PLT, is 3/20/Mark I, 50 A;
20 B; 20 D; and 20 backbends. No medication.
Sleep: 6 G, 6 F, and 5-1/2 G. Food log - -
CC 0k_. i
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CDR CDR: three salt packs, plus five salt pills, one
lemonade; SPT: five salt packs, plus strawberries
and ice cream from yesterday that ha did not eat;
PLT: four salt packs, plus one tea with lemon and
sugar, and he substituted a pork and potatoes
and applesauce for tuna and bread.
CC Roger.
261 21 16 27 CDR Here comes the photo plan: VTS, track 35: CX08,
80; S183: UA02, 84; VTS, track 58A: CL04, 34;
M151 of S183: CI52, 60, CI61; 35-millimeter:
CII05_ 46, CXB41, 46. 70-millimater: CX27, 079.
ETC: CT09, 61. EREP, set W: 9,076; 1,268;
8, 795; 8,173; 9,943; 8,847.
CC Okay.
CDR Hold on Just one second, again. What?
CC Okay, AI.
CDR Do you hear a little noise in the comm? A little

kind of squeak?
CC Yes, I have been hearing it and I've -wasn't

sure which of the loops I was - I was hearing it
on. I've got several punched up, A1.
261 21 17 49 CDR Let me go check everything. Hold on.
CC Okay. Incidentally, we're about 45 seconds to LOS.

I can pick up the rest of the evening status, in
case we miss it, at a later site. The next site,
Carnarvon, at 21:43, is scheduled for the reed
conference.
CDR Okay, let me give you drawer A configuration.

The only change is A-2, which is 05, C162, 60, C161.
CC Roger, AI. I got that.
PLT Well, we don't have it now, Dick. But a little

while ago whau that - _e had that squeal, _hat
I had been doing was, I turned the STS panel and
STA aft light rheostat to their variable position
and they made that squeal.
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261 21 19 09 CDR They're leaking. Okay.- strange - I don't mean

electron. Flight Plan Deviation: nothing new.
Shopping list accomplishment: nothing new.
l_operahle equipment: the blood presaure cuff
number 5 needs a new string. And it's put back
in the IMSS kit - not IMSS, but back over there
in metabolic analyzer. Flashlight: wore another
one out. We discarded it, so we got a flashlight
from 625 to use. And that's it.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much. I think we just

squeezed it in under the LOS.
261 21 19 42 CC We're going there now, and the doctor will see
you at Carnarvon.
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261 21 57 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Guam for l0 minutes.

I guess A1 got the word on the phone call on very
short notice. And if he's set up for - on config-
uration, COMMTECH will give you a call and y'all
can get going there.
SPT Okay, he's in there now.
CC Okay.
261 21 58 54 CC SPT, Houston. Now sure what you're up to at the

moment. There is - We made one mistake on your -
on your snmmary Flight Plan for tomorrow, which is
for you. We show an S063 deactivation at 19:15 for
you to do. We do not want to do that tomorrow be-
cause it turns out that camera will be used for
photos on a later day. And I was thinking you might
get ahead tonight, and on some of the things, and
_- you might go ahead and do that. So we'd like you
to delete that, please.
SPT Okay, I've still got some exercise and some eating
to do after this ATM pass, so I don't expect I'll
be doing much extra tonight. And I'm trying to
find a star at this time. I wonder if either - I'm
not sure who's looking at it down there. ASCO,
perhaps, can give me a clue as to any better gimbal
angles.
CC Okay. The outer gimbal, and I had it, I'm sorry,

I should have passed it up earlier, was - is sug-
gested as minus 2h60.
261 22 00 32 SPT Okay, that got it. Thank you.
CC Roger, Owen. We were watching. Looks like a good

lockup. Thank you.
CC And I'll - I'll assume that you've deleted that

entry on S063 deact off your Flight Plan for
tomorrow.
SPT I haven't taken a look at it yet, Dick. I'll check

that later and remember that.
261 22 00 _5 CC Okay. Fine.

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261 22 02 25 CC SPT, Houston. One comment on this ATM daylight

cycle pass. We show you're putting some TV on the
VTR, and we think we'll be money ahead if you'd
Just delete that entry and wait a couple of minutes
until we get A0S stateside. And then I'll let you
know and we can put it on the down-link. We'll get
it a little faster here, and not have to use up the
VTR tape.
SPT Wilco.
CC Okay. Thank you.
261 22 06 15 CC Skylah, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. Gold-

stone comes up at 22:23. That's about 15 or
16 minutes fr_n now. I'll give you a call. One
note for Jack. We got a whole raft of teleprinter
messages that we'd - on deactivation and entry,
that we'd like to get up tonight and we think the
teleprinter may be getting a little low on paper.
We'd sure appreciate it if he could change the tele-
printer paper for us this evening. Also, when we
get squared away with the comm on the stateside
passes, I did have a few things to visit with you
guys about. I know Bruce talked to you about the
Deactivation Checklist changes and I wanted to men-
tion some s_m_lar items about what's - you - had -
what is in store for - for you when you look at the
pads tonight on the entry books. So I'll see you
at Goldstone.
261 22 22 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick, let me know when you got the TV ready,
and I'll send you down some ATM television. And
are you getting it real time or is it going to be
recorded on the ground.9
CC We're going to get it real time. Well, stand by i.

No, I'm sorry about that, Owen; I was wrong. We're
going to record it on the ground, and stand by and
I'll give you a GO.
CC SPT, Houston. We're GO for the ATM TV down-link.

And I've got two or three evening questions, and I
also wanted to visit with the Commander about some
entry checklist items. Over.
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CDR He 's right here, available for visiting. Public

visiting hours at the moment.
CC (Chuckle) Okay. And I hope the call went okay, A1.
261 22 23 22 CDR Tell the COMM TECHS that was a perfect call, no
background noise. They - as soon as they locked
on, everything Just went smooth. One of the best.
CC Okay, good show. What - I made a call awhile ago,

and I didn't get a Roger. And we would like to
mRke sure that after this LOS or sometime this
evening before you go to bed, we'd like - appreciate
it if somebody would change the paper in the tele-
printer. We want to make sure that we can get up
all the pads we have to tonight. And, A1, on the
subject of the entry checklist changes, let me de-
scribe to you what - what you will find in the tele-
printer in the morning. And I think that we're
essentially going to send up four general items.
The first one is very swift. I'm looking at a copy
of it now. And it - what it is is an entry time
- line. It shows - it's - it's all written in PET;
it shows the day/hight cycles ; it shows all the AOS.
And, as it goes down, it shows each of the checks
and - and checklist correlation as to page n_ber
and so forth. And it takes you from 13:00 PET on
one piece of paper, which is - starts at the hatch
integrity check, and walks you right on down to
splashdown. So I think, more than anything else,
this time line will probably help you a lot.
CDR Okay, that sounds good. By the way, I changed the

teleprinter paper about 5 minutes ago.
261 22 2_ 45 CC Oh, okay; thank you. The second - the second general
subject of - of the type of things, and there're not
too many of these, is some cleanup to the nominal -
your ncminal deorbit procedures and - and primarily,
there, Pete and Vance ran in the simulator, I think
it was yesterday morning. And there were a couple
of places there that we had made so many pen and
inks; I think one of them was in RCS - one of the
RCS checks, and a couple of other places, but the
number of pen and inks confused them. And so these
checklists - some of these changes are not really
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changes to what you already have in your books,

but they're Just typed on one clean sheet of paper
that you can tape over the existing. And you can
take a look at those and - and if you have any
questions, get back to us.
261 22 25 30 CDR Now that's a real good idea. Because when I was
going over it a couple of days ago myself in the
command module, I realized it was going to take
some reading and O. and I have been t-lking about
how we were going to go through it before flight.
But that would be a good improvement in sc_e of
these areas, some of these checks.
CC Okay. The - The last two categories of things,

A1, that you're going to get on entry have to do
with the 3 and 4-quad failure cases. The first
one is a study guide that is somewhat similar to
the study guide that you already got on the nominal,
and Just like it did, it Just leads you in words
through the - our philosophy in making up the pro-
cedures. And then, finally, behind that is going
to be a procedure that is essentially a stand-alone
procedure for - for either 3 and/or 4-quad failure
cases. I - I say stand alone, it rea - it naturally
does refer you back to the entry checklist for those
checks that are -that don't change. But it stands
alone in that once you can enter it anytime until -
frc_ undocking right down to splash, and it tells
you at what per - at what times to go do which
checks. So tomorrow morning when you get that, you
might look over all this stuff and soak it in a
little bit and ask us any questions you feel like
after that.
261 22 26 54 CDR Okay, I've got about seven or eight questions out-
lined in that entry checklist, already. I'll put
these changes in, look it over. And I don't know
if I have any time tomorrow, but if I do, I will as
soon as I can. And then I'll come back with these
questions and maybe - The entry minus 5-day ques-
tioning exam and all that business is day after
tomorrow, isn't it?
CC That's affirm and that's when we'd like to entertain

the questions because we'll have all the right
people here.
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CDR Okay, we got another pass tonight. I might pass

on a few to you now - later on today so that we
can clean those up. And then that'll open things
up for new and better questions.
261 22 27 33 CC Roger, AI. We still have about 12 minutes in this

pass. And this is the last pass of the evening
that we have scheduled since we're - this is one
of the days we're knocking off early. And we have
a real long, like an hour and 20 minute LOS after
this one. I do have a couple of evening questions
that we haven't had time to pass up to you and I -
I thought I'd cover them now.
CDR Okay. Cover those now, and then if you start talk-
ing to somebody else, I'ii go get the book and see
if I can pick them out real quick.
261 22 28 05 CC Okay. The first one there I have addressed to the

PLT. We listened to the dump tape, and he reported
that the S019 AMS display, numbers 2 and part of 3
have cc_e off; and in preparation for fixing this
for Jerry's flight, we'd like to confirm that he
was referring to the tilt display numbers.
261 22 28 28 PLT That's correct, Dick. If there is some thing with

the rotation, I - AI went down the rotation numbers,
as a matter of fact. The little l,-,inescent stuff
had come out of the - the place it was fixed in,
and I don't consider it a big deal really. Long as
they don't all come out, you're okay.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack. Second question that I have

here is, it has to do with S055 ramp latch that you
removed on the EVA-I and then photographed later
and stuck in a plenum bag. It turns out, as you
might guess, that we've decided that we'd like to
bring this home if possible. So the question is,
if you can figure out where it is and retrieve it,
we'd like to stow it in A-9 and bring it home.
SPT I think I can figure that out pretty easily.
PLT Okay, we have - we have plenty of those in a plenum

bag; we've saved them all.
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CC Aha' Okay. Good show. You were thinking ahead.

Another question is, we'd like to know the stowage
location of the TV camera, which is serial
number 3002, which we - which was busted on mission
day 28. This is the one that overheated on the EVA
day. We're - we're going to bring this one - home,
also, aud we'd like to know the stowage location.
PLT We've got it hanging on the blue ring underneath

the water tank.
261 22 29 _7 CC Okay. I had one more note from you, and this goes
back to - this is passed to us from the deactivation
team which, incidentally, they're still here working
on the - some of the checklist changes. Way back
several weeks ago, A1, you suggested that we send
up the deactivation checklist changes in three sepa-
rate - separate increments, one for the three books
that belong to each of you guys. And the team has
decided that, for several reasons, they think that
would be kind of an unwise thing to do. And so
they've - so we are send - sending up a - a set of
the changes - a full set of the changes for each of
the books. And the reason that we'd like to do it
is they did try to take this approach, but it turned
out that in many cases, it was Just so difficult
to - to get the coordinations straight, and there
were so m_y kinds of items that would be - that
would make the time line - that would be switchable
between crewmen, that we'd like to try to get those
changes fully in all three books and that would let
the deactivation go a little bit smoother. So your
deactivation changes will be coming up in that
fashion in the morning.
261 22 30 59 CDR Okay.
CC And that's the end of all of the things that I have

sitting in front of me to talk to y'all tonight.
We still have about 9 minutes left in this pass,
and this is the last - last pass of the evening.
So I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, here's a couple. I've got open my Entry

Checklist, right now. And let me glance through
and I put a few marks here. It's probably simple;
no need to answer them now, but maybe - maybe later.
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CC 0kay.
CDR Okay. On page 12-1, I notice it's got - Item 2

is unstow and don Mae West. I kind of felt they -
that you were thinking about us unstowing and don-
ning Mae West after the write-in item 8 over on
page 12-2.
CC Okay, we've got the question.
261 22 31 42 CDR Okay, now I'm still a little puzzled, from locking
at my checklist, when and where we activate the
command module RCS and when and where, or if, we
activate the primary water evaporator and the
secondary water evap. Because I'll find places in
here that say do it. And then I'll realize that
when I went over to do it, I'll notice it's got an
X through it, so I'm a little bit puzzled there.
For example, on page 12-3, we've crossed out the
sec water evap activation.
CC Okay, A1. We got the question. I - I think this

is one of the cases where this time line will help
you. I think in the morning when you look at this,
you won't have any question at ,11 about where any
of the checks are.
CDR Okay, that sounds like a good idea. Now one of

the - couple of questions up in the air, and we
talked to them on the medical tonight. One of them
is from my point of view the most important, as a
result of what Paul and Jack - Paul and Joe said
about the SPS burn and Sad their visibility dur-
ing this time. We kind of were thinking about
pumping up our hypertensive garments for that burn,
in an attempt to keep our visibility better than
theirs, perhaps. But you know about that, and we're
waiting to find out what comes off on that item.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, now I still don't - Let me go over now to

page 12-4.
CC 0kay.
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261 22 33 06 CDR There was a - there was a write-in there down at -

at - at - let me - let me read you some things
here. It says perform CM RCS check, page E12-5.
Okay, then it says, after that, do spacecraft con-
trol CMC At_O. Does that mean after that whole
check? Or do you do that and then perform the
check? So that's Just a little confusing thing to
me, but it's - l'm pretty sure you do it after the
check, but I Just want to verify it.
261 22 33 33 CC Okay, AI. I got the question. I'm - my - my im-

pression when I entered it into my book was exactly
like yours is, that that was an entry that was to
be done after that check. But at any rate, we'll
get you a straight answer.
CDR Okay, and then there is a couple right in that area

talking about the perform primary and secondary
water evap, and secondary's crossed out, and then
up earlier it said scmething about - I had a write-
in that tells - told me to perform them both, but
I may have written it in wrong or something. But
I won't say any more about that. I still don't
understand why we don't do a VERB 46 earlier than
59 minutes for the entry burn. But that's Just a
question; I'm sure that's a technique that the guys
have worked out. Because I can't imagine you going
anywhere during the last few seconds, but maybe you
do, and that's - that's why you don't.
CC We'll get you an answer.
CC We'll get you an answer on that.
261 22 3h 26 CDR Okay. And the next page on 12-5, it starts talking
about maybe we ought to do the command module RCS
check in ACCEL COW,WAND or MIN IMPULSE. And I ass_ne
that our time line is going to tell which. And then
I can scratch whatever I've got here out, and I'll
end up with Just one of them.
CDR Okay. In the bottom of that box, by the way, the

CM RCS check box there on page 12-5, I asst_ne that
the bottom thing should read, spacecraft control
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CMC AUTO, per what we Just discussed a moment ago.

One philosophy I don't understand at all, is
exactly what we do with the BMAG switches when
we're in the different control modes, with the CMC
backing up the burns. Whether we put yaw into
ATT l, RATE 2, or that's the one we leave out and
Just put the other two in. And I guess I need sort
of a paragraph or samething that kind of tells the
strategy there, the logic and then I can probably
go from there. But that was one unclear thing
through here, exactly the time that I put them all
three ATT l, RATE 2, and when I Just put two of
them ATT l, RATE 2.
CC Okay.
CDR And that extends mostly from not understanding

exactly what it buys you either way.
CC Okay, A1. Understand.
p.
CDR Let me go to a different section.
261 22 35 56 CC Okay, we still got about 3 minutes and h5 seconds.

Incidentally, A1, it says CM RCS check, if I remem-
ber right, I'm not looking at message right now,
on page 12-5, with all those pen and inks and
arrows, and et cetera that we're completely replac-
ing with a clean, typed block.
261 22 36 l0 CDR Okay, that'll be good because it looks fairly messy.
CC And - -
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We Just up-linked some tele-

printer stuff. You might have somebody glance at
it and make sure it's printed out okay with the new
roll in there.
CDR Good idea; we'll do it. Old Owen will do it.
CC Okay, we still got 3 minutes. Go ahead.

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CDR Okay. On page E5-3, I had a write-in that says

RCS SELECT 12, MAIN A and B. I'd prefer that
y'all - if you would go ahead and define which is
which. What I'm trying to avoid is getting in a
situation where I do it like I always did it because
I think that's the way and there is some new strat-
egy available that I'm not aware of.
CC Okay; understand.
SPT Dick, the left B0 percent of your test message did

not thread, but the message which follows that on
the film load all came through in good shape.
261 22 37 16 CC Okay. We up-linked a photo pad, Owen, and a film

thread pad and - and a test message. That's what
you ought to have.
SPT Okay, the test message is missing the left 30 per-

cent. The film thread came through fine and I
haven't read the low side yet.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR Probably the glue, or something like that on there.
CC AI, we still got a couple of minutes, if you'd like

to continue.
CDR Okay, I'm - I'm still looking, Dick.
CC Okay.
CDR One of the fundamental questions I had was knowing

that if we don't get a SPS burn, we come around
again and retarget. I don't understand exactly
what the retargeting would do. Do we then make a
burn at the next place that would put us - do -
Do we make the burn the next rev? I don't under-
stand the whole sequence there in the event the
SPS does not come off. What do we do next? Where
do we land? What's our recovery time generally?
And that sort of strategy. I don't - I don't have
any feel for that at all.
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261 22 38 4h CC Skylab, Houston. Roger. We're about I minute from

LOS. We'll give you a call in the morning. And,
A1, very briefly and - and we will put together a -
more for you on this. You end up splashing down
about three revs later and it's 2 - 2 impulse RCS
the deorbit procedures and it's out by Johnson
Island.
CDR Okay. I guess you'll give us some more information.

I might mention when you're sending up pieces of
paper to paste in, to simplify things, you might
went to think about doing that per page ET-h, which
is the RCS completion for yaw/quads B and D fail.
They've got a lot of write-ins there and you might
want to think about scratching those out and past-
ing in something.
CC Okay. We got about 5 or l0 seconds on the clock

now, A1. We'll see you in the morning. These -
Just one more thing, the order in which these check-
list changes are coming up will be the time line
first, then the nominal clean up, then the study
guide for 3 and h quad fail, and finally the 3 and
4 quad fail procedures.
CDR Thatsoundsgood....
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CC (Music : The Marines ' Hymn)
262 07 01 ii PLT Stand at attention, you people.
CC The MOCR's at attention, Jack.
262 07 01 50 PLT It's going to be a good day; I can tell.
CC I figured that'd put you in the mood for a good

day's work, Jack. That's horrible to wake up
early by, though.
262 07 02 14 CC Skylab, we have you for about 3-1/2 more minutes

through Vanguard.
262 07 04 55 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. See you in

3 minutes over Ascension at 07:08.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CDR Just wondering if you wanted to change our Flight

Plan. Looks like a good time to me for us to
get back in the back, close our eyes, and try
to count those light flashes.
262 07 05 14 CC I figured that. Nothing like a circadian shift.
262 07 05 35 PLT We saw that on the Sun the other day. It mmde
part of the limb go dark in H-Alpha.
CC One of those circadians, huh?
262 07 05 47 PLT Yes, it took it out of the filter when it shifted.

I don't know. It's one of those funny things.
262 07 l0 17 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S through Ascension for

8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC 0keydoke. You know, every once in a while on

these snmm_ry shifts, I think I see some of
those light flashes that A1 was talking about
while ago. One item - a couple of items I probably
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ought to tell you about. We ended up leaving the

TACS ENABLED throughout the night, and we want
to keep it enabled for the venting on this up-
coming M092 run today. So we can Just leave that
as is.
PLT Okay, Bob. Got new record on the length of the

tape - the teleprinter message today.
CC How long is it? Did we - did we go - Would you

believe that we're still - INCO is still busy
down here trying to get it all up. He hasn't got
it all yet.
PLT Well, this one, we intercepted it by the time it

got the length of - from the trash airlock to the
EVA hatch.
262 07 ll 17 CC You'll notice we had a few Entry Checklist changes

that - that are still coming in. We had about
20 pages worth of that, plus the deact stuff.
CC We're - -
262 07 ll 31 PLT We may notice that in a couple of hours when we

get through it.
CC (Laughter) We've scheduled some time for you,

tomorrow, to try to get some of those Checklist
changes entered. One item we'd appreciate you
looking at and giving us a report on is, we've
been having a little problem with our airlock
module TIME REFERENCE SYSTEM. It's reset and seems
to be cycling; it's done that several times during
the night. And if you could look at your GMT
clocks and give us a report on whether they look
like they're working normally or intermittent
or erratic or what, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Well, they're working, but they're not on time.

I got - I think it's day 265, 00:00:30 seconds,
something like that.
CC Well, that agrees with telemetry, over if it

doesn't agree with what - It's day 262, and it's
about 07:12:26.
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262 07 12 29 PLT Somebody's Just getting in a hurry, I guess.
CC You gays are working so fast up there.
CC And, Jack, somewhere down the middle part of that

message, you'll notice that you've got a couple
of EREP 39 C&D pads. The first one messed up.
The second one's okay.
262 07 12 55 PLT Okay.
262 07 17 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you over Guam in 35 minutes at 07:52. We've
switched over to the PRIMARY TIME REFERENCE SYSTEM
because of the - the loop we ran on the SECONDARY,
and we'd appreciate another readout as to what
your timers are doing.
PLT Okay, day 265 - It's an eye test from here -

05:56:50 -
262 07 18 12 PLT MARK.
CC Okay. Thank you, Jack.
262 07 53 06 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 9 minutes.
CDR Hello down there.
CC Hello, hello. We finally got back with you.
SPT Say, Bob, l've got a few questions here for ATOM,
I think, a couple of problems. First problem is
H-alpha. I cannot get to take any frames either
MANUAT.T.Y or in H-alpha-1 AUTO. It - HEADY
light is on, but I cannot get it to cooperate.
And the next thing is, I cannot get any DAS ORB
PHASE displays or EVENT TIMER displays or ACS
COUNTER displays in BUS 1. I had to go to BUS 2
in order to see them. And I don't know whether
I've got a switch out of configuration or there's
some other problem. I'd appreciate a little advice
or assistance. Over.
CC Okay, we'll look into the H-alpha problem. Have

you tried cycling the INVERTER 1 circuit breaker?
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262 07 54 26 BPT No, I'm going to try that next.
SPT As my CDR Just reminded me, in cycling that

circuit breaker, which doesn't seem to reset,
does the trick, which it Just did again this
morning.
CC Okay. Very good. That seems to be rather sensitive

kicking off sometimes, and we haven't really
explained - explained why. And for all of your
information, when we get even on the hour here,
INCO is going to reset your - your timers so
that they'll be 00:00:00. And that'll mean you'll
be right. As far as minutes and seconds is
concerned, it's coming up on 08:00. So you will
be 8 hours behind as far as your clocks are
concerned, and you can reset the day to day 262.
It's not EVA day yet.
SPT Okay, understand. And I notice on the next orbit,

I've got a lot of work to be done on bright spot
n1_mber 1. These coordinates, I believe - Stand
by. These coordinates are suggest - suggested
to be ll0/.5. Now I'm looking at my XUV M0N -
picture, and I have two bright spots at ll0. Near
as can estimate, one of them's about 0.3 and the
other's about 0.7. I think, probably, what they
want is the 0.7, which has some sort of loop
structure associated with it on the XUV MON. But
I would like a little clarification whether or not
they're talking about the one at about 0.3 or
about 0.5, if they're interested in all this bright
spot 1 work on. Over.
262 07 56 05 CC We'll check that one out for you, Owen.
CC And if you're interested, I got a - can read you

the SAP update.
262 07 56 13 SPT I sure am interested.
CC Okeydoke. There have been no flares. Prominence 81

has been intermittently active. A minor surge
region observed near 29/1.0. It may be associated
with old active region 03, which is due to return
about now but not expected to be very active.
Active region 13, also, due late today near 27/1.0.
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And it, apparently, produced the X-I limb event

from behind the west limb on mission day 41 at
about 09:10 zulu.
SPT Okay, say again that last comment about the old
active region returning.
CC Okay, stand by. I want to verify the time there.
262 07 57 22 CC Okay. Owen, on the bright spots, they leave that

up to you, and you can select the one that you
think is most interesting.
SPT Okay. Sound s fine.
CC Okay, Owen, that last note for the SAP was that
active region 13 is due back late today near 27/1.0,
and it, apparently, produced the X-1 limb event
from behind the west limb on mission day &l at
09:10 Zulu. The time doesn't make much difference
to you.
SPT Okay, understand. We've got a lot of brightness

over on the east limb now, and that's probably the
active region returning right there.
CC Okay. And you copied my co_nent about picking out

the bright spot that you think looks most interesting?
SPT Yes, sure did. Will do that.
CC 0wen, if you got a moment, I can tell you a little

bit about JOP 13, which we're planning on tomorrow.
SPT Do we have another nearby pass? I've got a little

work to do here in the last 5 minutes this orbit.
CC Yes. I'll - I'll get it for you later.
262 07 58 55 CC CDR, Houston. A1, if you got a moment, I wanted

to make a comment about a - a checklist - not
a checklist, a Flight Plan - a deletion.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your comment.
CC Roger. We had scheduled a housekeeping 14 Bravo

today, which was biociding the MA hose. And we
"_ need it yet, so we're going to save that for day 58.
So if you'd Just scrub that off, we'd appreciate it.
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CDR Scrub the hose biociding. Will do.
262 07 59 23 CC Roger. Another item, we sent you up on the film

prediction thing for your - on your day off, an
estimate of Hasselblad stuff so that you'd
basically, Just go ahead and shoot it up. We
recommend you save about 20 frames from Hasselblad
CL3, which is the co_nd module one, and save
that for - to be used during reentry. Might use
it - -
262 07 59 52 CDR Understand.
CC You might use it for some shots when you're - when

you,re backing out from it or something of that
nature.
CDR That's what we thought until we found we undocked

at midnight.
CC Yes, but it's still, hopefully it should be

visible from you by the time you hit sunrise.
CDR That's true. Okay.
262 08 00 17 SPT Bob, I'm still unable to take any H-alpha pictures.
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262 08 O0 50 CC Okay, Owen. Our recommendation on H-alpha,

right now, is - we had a problem previously where
we had ended up cycling switches. We'd like you
to cycle the H-alpha - Alpha CAMERA POWER to OFF
and back to ON, and then try going with the
operate - off - AUTO switch to AUTO and then
back down to MANUAL, and verify that you do hold
it at least a quarter of a second at MANUAL.
SPT Okay. I've done the last part several times,

cycling between AUTO and MANUAL. I Juat turned
CAMERA POWER, OFF, and now CAMERA POWER is
coming back ON again.
CC Okay. We're 1 m_uute from LOS. We'll have you

again over the Vanguard in 31 minutes. And that's
at 08:32, which I guess will be on 00:32 on your
clock.
SPT Okay, and I did recycle H-alpha AUTO/MANUAL and

it still just remains in READY.
CC Copy. We'll try to look at it.
SPT Just for information, SCAN SPECT DETECTOR

number 5 has stayed on for about - oh, 20 or
30 minutes here without - - Just now popped off -
first time.
CC Is that some kind of new record?
SPT New record for the last couple -well, last

2 or 3 weeks.
262 08 02 ll CC Roger.
262 08 32 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard

for lO-1/2 minutes.
262 08 33 40 CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody has a moment, I'd

like to talk "a little bit about the M092 special
tests 1 and 2.
262 08 34 44 CC Skylab, Houston - -

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262 08 34 50 CC Skylab, Houston. In the blind; understand that

the - they're copying you out at the site, but
we're not here. We'll stand by until we get the
problem cleared up.
SPT Roger. We're reading you all right. It's Just

the down-link.
CC Okay. We're back_-lth you once more.
SPT Okay. I'd asked if there are any news or have

any comments about H-alpha. And I think Jack and
A1 could hear you on the 92 special tests.
CC Okay, Owen. First on the H-alpha, the only thing

that we came up withwas that we copied that you
were in NORMAL and not OVERRIDE on the NIGHT IN-
TERLOCK. And you should have gotten to the panel
after daylight. And, if you had stayed in NORMAL,
you would not be able to get it to operate. So,
if that was the case, then it should operate
properly on this upcoming pass.
262 08 35 39 SPT That should be correct, Bob. I should have thought

of that, too. Thank you. And here's A1 and Jack
can hear you.
CC Okay. If A1 and Jack are copying, regarding the

M092 special test that we've got coming up today,
we'd like to run over procedurally a couple of
problems that apparently we've had.
PLT We're listenting, I'll tell you.
CC Okaydoke. Wish to report that we've got excellent

data from the M092 test 1. And we've had a little
problem with the _est 2, which is the one where you -
you p1111 the - you use the muscle to try to
squeeze the blood up into a part of your body.
And it's primarily assoeiated with the CAL coming
at the wrong time and trying to tell whether the -
the muscle tension was correct.
262 08 36 28 CC And the it_ma we'd like to emphasize is that the

leg - legband should be fully calibrated, both
NULL and GAIN, per the M092 OBS cue card. And I
think on the first test, it looked like it was
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done a little bit late and - on the - on the be-

ginning. And on the last part, it looked like it
was done too - too soon. The AUTO CAL should be
initiated before going to NEGATIVE DELTA-P, of
course. And both legs should be - you should con-
tract them maximally without movement. And I
guess they sort of emphasize - you know,
you don't want to grunt or - and that you
should be breathing normal. And the contraction
should not last over about 2 seconds. Following
the return to zero DELTA-P, you should wait
about 2 minutes before performing the AUTO CAL.
And then if you would record any pertinent data
regarding both the tests, we would appreciate it.
262 08 37 25 CDR Okay, I'll record some data for you at the moment.
I thought that we performed the CAL correctly the
other day. We gave them an AUTO CAL and another
CAL. The thing that kind of mystified us about
the whole test is when you're laying in the can on
M092, sometimes you twiddled your toes accidental ly,
anyhow. So, we kind of said, interesting: they're
performing a test that we perform every day, anyway,
and they haven't even known a11 along we've been
performing the test. So good luck in trying to
find out the results of this test. So we'll keep
doing it, but it looks to me like the data is not
going to show much more than Just regular data,
because on regular data, you know, in 15 minutes,
every once in a while, you tense your toes or you
wiggle around or something like that. And it doesn't
show up much on the data.
CC Okay, A1. We - we copied that and we'll pass the

word along. And, A1, one item regarding the Deac
Checklist change, the one that's a mile long, and
I been spending most of the night here trying to
enter in my - my book. I got one little item that
might be somewhat confusing, and if you've got that
handy, I can point it out to you.
262 08 38 58 CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the very first page of the message, it

makes a reference to page 1-39.
CDR Let me find that. Is that the bottom or the top?

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CC It's at the top.
CC Talking about making a change in the note.
CDR Okay. I got it. It says under note and on last

line change.
CC Okay. That would be clearer if it read "in note"

and "on last line."
CDR Okay. Got it.
CC Okay. That's all it was ; thank you.
CDR Okay. Now I've got these change 1 and 2 to the

friendly little test. Tell me exactly what to write
in where.
CC Okay. You talking about the M092 tests, Al?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay. I'll tell you what. The one thing that

you should write in is at the end, that the cal
should follow 2 minutes after returning to - to
zero DELTA-P. And I haven't got the test in my
hand right here, but I can pull it out for you.
CDR Okay. Why don't you pull them both out and tell
me exactly where to write in.
CC Okay.
CDR For example, we think that the MAIN VACUUM valve

should go CLOSED before you go to 000 millimeters
HG, so we changed the around without asking, but
we're siill standing by on that one.
CC Okay, A1, if you'll allow me, what I'll do is

I'll pull out the change and give you the exact
procedures over - over our next site, Canary, and
that's going to be in about, oh, 52 after the hour.
CDR That would be perfect. The exact write-in

procedures for both would - would allow us to
do it more accurately.
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CC Okay. We'll do that for you. And if Owen's

still copying, I can run down quickly with him
the JOP 1B planned activities.
CDR He' s listening.
CC Okeydoke. We were planning a JOP 1B for tomorrow - -
SPT Hey, Bob.
CC Yes. Go ahead.
SPT Why don't you wait a minute. I've got to get

this JOP set up here to begin - at the beginning
of the orbit, and I'd like to think about what
you're saying more - without so much diversion.
Over.
262 08 41 B1 CC Okay. We'll hold off on it. We'll also give you
that over the next site. And we're about a minute
from LOS. We'll see you a_ain over - over Canary
at 52, and that's about, oh, 8-i/2 minutes - Cor-
rection, l0 m_uutes from now. Also, we'll be doing
a data voice recorder dump over Canary.
' 262 08 52 35 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary, 13-1/2 minutes. And

we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
CDR Say, Bob, on that entry time line, are you recom-
mending that we take that and scotch tape it in the
entry book where the time line sits at the moment,
called the nominal time line, or single burn
deorbit time line, or something like that?
CC Actually, A1, we pretty much put that in there

for your druthers. The intent of it Just give
you a feeling of how - how the time line was
supposed to flow, since it was a little bit er-
ratic and you had to jump around quite a bit.
So, I guess right now, we Just say to leave that
one up to you, what you'd like to do with it.
CDR Well, can you have somebody mA_e a recommendation

as a result of what Pete and Vance did or something?
Did they put it on a card, stick it to the panel
and then use that, or what' d they do with it?
f_ We'll - we'll - We can figure out something, but
they may have a better idea.
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CC Okay. They did not use that time line at all. They
did not have it available to him.
CDR Okay. We'd might take it and stick it on a card

or something, and then we could use the card and
the book. And then we won't have to keep flipping
back and forth in pages in the book. We can check
the card, and then go to the page.
CC Roger. The - the pages are the specific items you

should be using for the procedures and, again,
that is just basically a time line flow, and put-
ting it on a card sounds like a good idea. If you've
still got that M092 test 2 handy, I can tell you
the specific recommendations that we would make
to it.
CDR We got it. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Really, there are only a couple. Previously,

you - you've been voiced up a CALIBRATE AUTO to
occur right after turning recorder experiment 1 on.
Is that correct?
CDR That's right. CAL to_JT0. But we've been doing a

MANUAL for them.
CC Okay. MANUAL is fine. I think they Just put down

an AUTO because they thought that might be a little
bit shorter. But MANUAL's what you're used to and
should be no problem at all with that. What you
said while ago about putting the main vacuum VALVE
to CLOSE: that's the way you're used to going to
zero DELTA-P and - and that's fine, also. The -
Specifically, right after - right before they cali-
brate AUTO, if you would put in a wait 2 minutes
there, we would appreciate it. That's the latter
one, after you've gone back to zero DELTA-P.
262 08 55 15 CDR Okay. That's written in.
CC Okay. And, really, that's all the procedural changes

that - that we had for you. The other one was talking
about how to contract the - the leg isometrically,
and it's kind of difficult to describe how to do that,
but they were Just trying to give you a verbal idea
what they were talk_ug about. And I - I agree with
what your - your comments about wiggling your toes
and so forth almost gives you the same effect.
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CDR Okay. Tell us how to isometrically do it, again,

so we'll do it right.
SPT Bob, the other day, they described it as tensing

the muscles - Is that a - Story called it that -
Is that a fair description?
CC That's a fair description. That's basically all

you're trying to do is to tense up the calf muscles.
I got Story here and I'll let him give you the
words again, if he's got some good ones.
MCC I'm not sure I got any good ones at this time in
the morning, but what I suggest is - is Just plain
tensing the legs without moving your ankle Jan -
ankle joint or the toes. Just - Just tense the
leg.
SPT Speak of the devil.
CC That Story gets around. And, Owen, anytime it's

convenient, I can run over a couple of these items
with JOP 13. I really haven't got any great amount
of details; I just want - kind of want to let you
know how it was going.
SPT Okay. Now's a good, convenient time. So please

go ahead. I was just about to ask you.
CC Okay. As I mentioned before, we've got it scheduled

for tomorrow morning: it's one of your - one of
your first activities. And, currently, of course,
you're going for Sco-X l, and it's going to cost
in TACS 210 pound-seconds. And the slight proce-
dural change that will be required is that after
you get in correct attitude, we're going to have
to do a nominal H-cage with some biases in that
the ground will have entered for you. Also, the
ground will be going ahead and doing your momentum
inhibits. We have established that after you get
back to solar inertial attitude, that we're - The
momentum profile should turn - return to nominal
in about B revs.
CDR Okay. And what two stars are used?

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262 08 57 39 CC I'll see if ASCO can give me that answer on it.

It's Achernar and Canopus we'll be using.
SPT Okay. Well, that sounds good. So what - Do we

start the maneuver a little before sunset? In
other words, are we going to infringe on normal
solar viewing here a little bit in order to get
this done? We can check that out on the pad
though, Bob, you needn't give me those details now,
rea]ly. And sounds like you've done a lot of good
work to get this possible, and even the price of
a little TACS here is, of course - makes it extra
important that we get it done right. So we'll
be doing it Just the way she calls for with plenty
of care taken.
CC Okay. The guys have done a lot of work. I'm told

that we'll be initiating the maneuver about noon.
I'm afraid I don't have ver - very many more de-
tails for you now, but they will be giving you
that on the pad. Also, one item that, of course,
was a pushing factor for this was to establish
what it would be llke to - to point at Khoutek.
So, that was one of our objectives, as - as well
as to get the JOP 13 thing.
r
SPT Okay. And Just a note for S056. I've tried both
a PATROL, NORMAL and a PATROL, LONG and we've
hung up on frame 1 each time.
CC Copy that.
SPT Oh, let me take it back. We've Just switched

to frame 2 here in the PATROL, LONG, so it may
be that we'll get this one done right.
262 08 59 0O CC Okay. Got our fingers crossed. And we've got a

handover coming up here in about 30 seconds, so
I may drop out.
CC And we're back with you again after the handover

into Madrid. And all of your teleprinter messages
are on board, we hope.
262 09 05 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you over Guam in about 26 minutes, at 09: 31.
CC I'll say good night to you and see you in the morning.
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PLT Time to go to bed again, huh?
CDR Bye, bye.
CC Roger. Or is it good morn_? l'm not sure which

it is. My circadian's all fouled up. l'm going
to go - go look for those light streaks AI was
talking about.
PLT Could be that you'll see as many on the ground as

we see up here.
CC I don't know about that.
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262 09 31 30 CC Skylab, A0S Guam 6 minutes.
262 09 36 58 CC And we're a minute from LOS and about 5 minutes

from Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay, Story. Have you taken a look at that

test 1 data on the M0927
CC I'll get you a report on that.
SPT No, I was Just asking you personally if you'd

seen it, because it looks like there's a very
rapid response. As soon as you pump up to
30 millimeters, why, the leg volume increases
2 percent just right off, and I assume that's
the response that biomed's looking for down
there. And it's a very _mmediate one.
CC Okay, Owen. That's very consistent with our

F ground-basedstudiesthat have been done.
SPT Okay.
CC And it's that slope they were looking at to

get a flow measurement.
SPT Did you say slope or flow or both?
CC It's the slope of that curve. It's the - it's

the slope of the - the DELTA-V there, the
change in volume we're looking at to get a
flow into the calf.
SPT Okay. Well, that's going to be a pretty steep

slope then, because Just by eye the change in
leg volume is pretty rapid. I suppose there
might be 5 seconds or so -maybe 10. So, m -
you ought to get a pretty good D-V/D-T out of
that, I guess.
CC Okay. Both at - bot at 2 percent and that -

that time sounds like reasonable data.
SPT Okay.
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262 09 42 41 CC Skylab, we're back through Honeysuckle for

4 minutes.
262 09 46 09 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see

you over Canaries in 45 minutes at about 10:30.
We show you rlmning behind on hitting the M092
vent window. That's no problem. We can force
a contingency sample over Madrid. So press on.
262 09 48 03 CC Skylab, in the blind, we don't see - show the

BPMS working.
262 l0 30 47 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid, 13 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And going over the hill, we didn't see the

BPMS working on M092. Did y'all get that
running?
CDR Just what I was going to call you about. The

answer is no. You want us to run that test
again? It came off good except for that.
CC Okay. Was that - The switch didn't get thrown? i
CDR That's exactly right and every - We're in the

midst of test number l; now. We completed
test 2. And we can pump Jack down in about
8 or 9 minutes from now.
CC Stand by 1.
CC A1, we're taking a look at the mometum situation

with the second vent and EREP and we'll get
right back with you.
CC A1, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC About how far are you from finishing test

number i with the M0927
CDR Two minutes.
CC Okay - -
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CDR I take that - I take that back. We're

supposed to do Jack's arm also, so we're - Got
to do that. If we weren't going to run this
again, though, I'd prefer to run him in the
can now, because he's all in and configured.
CC Okay. We concur with that. Go ahead and

finish test number 1 on the leg. Delete test
number 1 on the arm and recycle as rapidly as
you can into a standard M092. And confirm
that you didn't take any m_ml_a_ or automatic
blood pressures.
CDR That's confirmed. When we realized wh_t had

gone on, we took them during the test number 2.
But, of course, that doesn't go all the way up
to 50 millimeters.
CC Okay. We de - do need those blood pressure meas-

urements on the standard M092. So run that when
you get done with the leg test.
CC And, Owen, we need the DAS to force a contingency

sample here.
SPT It's allyours.
262 i0 38 08 CC Roger.
CC DAS is yours, 0wen.
SPT Okay.
262 i0 h3 43 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS and about 2T m_uutes

to Carnarvon at 3_1:10.
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62 ii i0 52 CC Skylab, A0S Carnarvon and Honeysuckle 14 minutes.
CC And we assume you had no problem getting the

•blood pressure on M092.
CDR I found a switch up on the upper right-hand corner

of the panel that made it work.
CC Okay; good.
CC And, Owen, if you're still at the A_M, we've got a

note for you on S056.
SPT Go ahead.
CC You can leave the S056 CAMERA POWER, ON at all

times, except when you're _m_ing timed exposures
during the building block and JOP operations.
This will avoid cycling the relays.
SPT Okay. Good point. I was thinking we had a call

to turn it off, but apparently my memory slipped
on that point and we'll be leaving the CAMERA
POWER, ON now. Thank you.
CC Okay. And that does not contribute to heating

of the film advance drive motor.
SPT Okay; very good.
262 ll 23 55 CC A1, we're seeing you about ready to begin

M093 run and we're seeing only one tape recorder
running. And you'll need two for M093.
SPT Okay, Story. He heard you and he mentioned that

he appreciates that, but he's working on some-
thing else.
262 ii 24 59 CC Okay; understand. And we're 30 seconds from LOS

and 35 minutes to Bermuda at 11:59.
262 12 00 _5 CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda 9 minutes.

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CDR Okay, Story. _e final ly got all the things done

with Jack, so everything cnme out all right, al-
though we had an extra pump down and everything.
CC Okay. Maybe done him good.
CDR We're Just trying to get him in shape for one g.
CC Roger. We tho_izbt that's what you had in mind.
CDR It's the subtle touch.
CC Okay.
PLT I figure I'm all done with M092 now. That was an
extra one.
CC No need to acknowledge, Jack, but you got one more

M092 _ days fr_n now.
PLT Well, what's one more M092. I Just thought I had

it.
CC There's no doubt you've had it. But you've still

got another M092.
i
CDR We 're waiting for the next time Owen 's go it,
because once he's trapped in that can at 50 milli-
meters, we're going to cut his hair.
CDR Ask the ATM backroom what they did yesterday when
we ran our line scans in line 9 instead 25, if
they called the observatories and had them run
their information at line 9 instead of 25 at the
same place on the Sun. Ask them what they did.
CC Okay; I will do that. And you've only got 26 minutes

of VTR to your TV-21.
SPT I think that'd be a big plenty, Story.
CC Okay. And have you noted any erratic operation

of your timer there running on PRIMARY?
SPT I haven't looked at it myself. I'll have to check.

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CDR The answer - I've looked at it a couple of times

dur - a while ago and it looked like it was running
okay.
CC Okay.
262 12 00 51 CDR Say, Story, another suggestion that the backroom

might want to think about, the ATM backroom, that
is, is they've started putting operational notes
over on the SAP that had to do exactly with how
to operate. My thoughts would be that they might
want to put that right at the front of the parti-
cular orbit that it applies to. Because, other-
wise now, we got information on operational tech-
niques, instead of Just information on how the
Sun's doing, in two different places. And so, if
you don't read that SAP carefully and you go to
run your operate pad, you're liable to make a
mistake because s_ne of the information is over
there.
CC Okay. That 's an excellent point, A1, and we 'll

dothat.
CDR One of the chief probl_m_ I think we've had here,

but it's getting slowly ironed out by changing
around, is having information on an event in several
places. For example, EREP, you got a start time
in your details, and then there's another co_ent
about it in - on the general pad, and the EREP pad
has one of them on it, so when you get ready to
run EREP, previously, you had to look all three
places to try to remember which one of them wa -
came first. Now they're - they're putting all of
it on the EREP pad, so if EREP's cnmlng up, you
Just get out the EREP pad and start reading it.
And maybe we can make it the same way here as far
as operating the equipment on the ATM. It was
that way at first, but there's been a little -
Since we've been having so many changes in A_
ops, now they've begun kind of sticking them over
there. And I think the reason is that then they
don't have to write it two or three times. But it
seems to me it would be worth the two or three times
to make sure we got it right, or had the best
chance of getting it right.
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CC Okay. We'll do that.
CDR We don't always make it, but we're working at it.
CC Neither do we, and we're working at it, too.
CDR Yes. We know. We know.
262 12 08 51 CDR One thing strange about that test n_nber 1 that
we ran on Jack's arm. I still hadn't figured it
out, but we had to change cuffs so that we could
get one to fit, which was a 12 to 13. And it Just
barely was small enough. Had to do it on his
right arm, because it was bigger than his left
and his left was too small. I think maybe it was
still too large because both tests, after the test
was over, the null [?] was zer - Instead of being
zero, was one. And it was off-scale high on the
low cal. Yet, every - you know - yet, the same
sort of thing on your leg, it returns to zero and
the cal may be off, but it's not off too far. So,
I don't know what happened. Maybe it - maybe it
expanded his arm a little bit, and then when his
arm contracted since the - the cuff wasn't that
tight, it just didn't come back down. I'm not
sure, but it looked to me like the data really
didn't come out like we wanted it, although we
ran the test, I think, the best we could with a
12/13 cuff, which is the smallest we have.
262 i0 09 55 CC That's a good point, AI. We were worried about

that, too. LOS here; Madrid in 4 minutes.
262 12 13 19 CC Skylab, AOS through Madrid for 8 minutes. And,

A1, you may want to take a look at the weather
passing over central Europe here, to get a feel
for the weather you'll have on your EREP pass
the next orbit.
CDR Okay. I'll do that.
CDR One of the recommendations we're going to make

when we get back is to have some sort of different
scheme for this EREP than we've had as far as
trying to not shoot film during weather. And. I
don't know you'd do it - how you'd get - whether
you - They're going to get Bill Pogue or Ed Gibson
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down at the window and he calls them or what, but

somehow we need to improve the - our ability to -
to operate with last-minute weather to conserve
the resources we have on board, because they're
going to ha - I assume you're going have less
resources than we do.
CC Roger.
262 12 16 55 CDR They've got a nice, countercockwise [sic] flow

pattern of clouds right over the center of Europe.
England's socked in.
CC Okay.
SPT If this had been in the Caribbean, you'd think

that was a hurricane with the - from the flew
pattern, it looks like.
CC Roger.
SPT It's really one of the prettiest counterclockwise

- spiralswe've seen. It must be some 5 - 600 miles
across, and the whole thing is Just a sequence of
spiral arms all focused on about the center of
Britain.
CC Okay.
CDR Does look a bit better, though, over in the area

where we're going to be on the next orbit. We're
going to be crossing part of this area, but same
of them - but it's a little bit better further to
the west.
CC Okay. Your next track will be a course southwest

of where you are right now.
262 12 19 20 CDR Yes. It looks like it's better down towards Spain
and around in there. This track takes us - France,
Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Albania, the Aegean Sea.
Looks a little - little better that way; not that
great, though.
262 12 20 h7 CC We're a minute from LOS and about 25 minutes Go

Carnarvon at 12:46. Be dumping the data voice
recorders at Carnarvon.
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CC And, A1, on that change request on the - the lines

there, the observatories that we called to get
information on that were socked in due to weather.
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262 12 46 15 CC Skylab, A0S Carnarvon and Honeysuckle 15 minutes.
262 12 49 15 CC Jack, we've been dumping the data voice recorders

here the last 3minutes. Just wanted to make sure
you didn't put any one - any parts of your M131-2
on - on the voice.
SPT Okay. He heard you, Story.
CC Thanks.
262 13 01 21 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds from LOS. Pick you up

over at Texas in 30 minutes at 13:31. We're still
showing you've only used about 3-1/2 minutes on
the VTR. Could you tell us how long you used that
on TV-21?
PLT We Just started it, Story.
f CC Okay. And we see it running.
262 13 32 27 CC Skylab, AOS stateside 14 minutes. Lool_ing at a

good Nu z update and the maneuver time is verified.
PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.
SPT SPT on channel A with a note for the ETC folks.

Wanted to mention the last time we ran yesterday,
I inserted the magazine and everything normally
right up to the power turn on time. When I turned
on the power on switch, why, no power to the camera.
Checked everything; fi-nlly went to malfunction
pro - procedures which re - required me to take
the magazine out and put it back in again and that
fixed it. So it did look as if I was running on
prime mag that time. There mightbe a little bit
of dust or something in there. That's the only
time I've had that problem for the whole mission.
But I thought you ought to be aware of it so that
if it comes up again, that'll be the first thing
to suspect. And you'd - ought to also mention it
to Ed Gibson in his training that that's the'first
thing to suspect if you don't get power on. End
of note to the ETC folks from the SPT.
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CC Okay, 0wen, and we copied that real time, too.
SPT (Laughter) Forgot about that. I didn't know they

had the A - A and B parallel together yet. So I
was supposedly putting that on channel A. Glad
you got it, Story.
CC Skylab, we_d like a verification - you're through

with the VTR. If you are, we'll start dumping it.
PLT Yes, we finished the TV on the M131, at any rate.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, I've got a question for the EREP guys. The -
On ETS pad, the second special 02 makes it look
like they sure would like me to get sites 863 to
865 to fill the bill for special 02 . Is that the
intent, or is there something more subtle than that
that I ought to be picking up?
CC Okay. Got it, Jack.
CC Jack, in answer to your question, the - the program

sites are too far off the groundtrack, so we're
Just having you pick your own to satisfy the
requirement s.
262 13 38 05 PLT Thank you, Story. It looked like to me they'd be

about 70 miles off track which was within the capa-
bility of the VTS, but perhaps it's not a straight
enough angle now.
CC Jack, if you can get to them, go ahead and take

them.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
PLT Okay. I got the SI maneuver time loaded, Story.
CC Looks good.
PLT Thank you.
262 13 42 23 CDR How about a lemon drop? Okay. They're good for
EREP. Okay. We got a little information for EREP
and it's known as RECORD switch to RECORD and then
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it says check all readings. I'm going to do that.

Two, it's talking of A first: A-2, 60 percent,
GO; A-3, 86 percent, GO; A-h, 71 percent, GO;
A-5, 66 percent, GO; A-6 to zero, GO. Actually
it's lower than zero. Okay. Now we're cnm_ng to
B-2, 56 percent, GO; B-3, 76 percent, G0; B-h,
71 percent, GO; B-5, 74 percent, GO; B-6, 50 percent,
GO; B-T, 31 percent, GO; B-8 about l, a GO; B-9,
it's about 1 and it's not GO. But B-9, if I read
it to you, is an EVA bias on 193. We know that
isn't working, so we don't worry about it. Okay.
C-2, 45 percent, GO; C-3, 89 percent - That's GO;
C-4 is 71 percent, GO; C-5, 82 percent, GO; C-6,
46 percent, G0; C-7, 51 percent, GO. And that
ought to do it. D-2, 86 percent, GO; D-3, 85 percent,
GO; D-h, 72 percent, GO; D-5, 1B percent, G0; D-6,
47 percent, GO; D-7 is l0 and that's GO. Put that
back to 2. Let's take a look at the ones that you
like special; I always read them twice. B-T, 31;
B-8, l; C-7 is 51; and D-6 is 56. So everything
looks real good. I'm going to MODE, READY, and
I'm going to DOOR, OPEN. Now on this pad, let's
see if they want me to read out anything. A-2 and
C-4, I'll Just set those right now. Be able to read
them at the time that they want them.
CDR We've checked a]] the lights. They're working.
262 13 45 50 CDR 192 READY light, ON, meaning DOOR is OPEN. Going
to CHECK. That's it. Let's go to the preop con-
figure pad. TAPE RECORDER, ON; READY, ON. 92, ON;
READY, out; MODE, CHECK; DOOR is OPEN. 91, ON;
READY, ON; COOLER, ON; DOOR is OPEN. 90, ON;
READY 's out ; STANDBY ; DOOR is OPEN. Can see the
light. R, OFF; S, OFF; A's OFF. Don't worry about
the READYs. 93A, correction, 94 is ON with READY,
ON. So we're ready to run.
262 13 46 41 CC Reading you loud and clear, A1. Ten seconds to

LOS. Madrid in 4 minutes.
262 13 51 06 CDR Must have, Jack.
PLT Yes.
CDE You maneuver right in the middle of it.

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PLT Five.
CDH Yes. I'll watch it for you.
PLT Yes. I wish you would. Wait about 15 seconds.
CDE Not for you, but with you.
262 13 51 30 CC Skylab, with you through Madrid for 7 minutes.

Jack, we're showing those sites about 120 miles
off. And so you probably ought to go with the pad
and at least keep the cross-track angle on 191
within 5 degrees.
PLT Okay, thank you very much. The map that I've got
to use for measuring that is the - the whole world
map. It doesn't get quite as accurately as our
little U.S. map does.
CC Okay.
PLT I figure on this VTS, should you pick up anything

outside of 18 degrees CROSS-TRACK, about 18 degrees -
15 to 18, at h5 degrees, you're not going to be
able to track it through nadir. Just for a rough
gauge, and that 's about a hundred miles, I think.
It turns out.
CC Yes. We'd - we'd like it within 5 for the data.
PLT Okay. I'll forget those sites, then, and pick up

something else. I had a hunch that might be true.
It's too bad. We're darned close to those sites.
262 13 53 00 CDR EREP, START.
PLT Attaboy!
CDR I've got to give you an AUTO CAL in 5 seconds.
PLT Shoot it to her.
CDR Okay. You Just got it.
PLT Thank you.

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CDR Open MANUAL. Here comes the A-2 anA C-4 for you.
A-2 is 44 percent; C-h is 71. S_e old numbers.
Nothing's new there.
PLT A-2 's a little low.
CDR A-2 climbs up and down. It'll be up - -
PLT I know.
CDR - - in a minute.
PLT It Just oscillates. 56:44.
CDR Where are we ?
PLT Okay, space fans. Our path today brings us over

the Atlantic Ocean and down - We hit the coast of
France Just above Brest. We go a little slightly
south of Paris, over Bern, Milan, down over the
Adriatic Sea, over Greece, Just hit the edge of
Turkey and almost directly over Jerusalem, and
down across the Saudi Arabian Desert, leaving the
coast there of the Arabian Sea Just east of the
Gulf of Aden.
262 13 54 27 CDR Not a bad trip.
PLT Right now we're over the Atlantic. Hold your hat
and don't stand up.
CDR At 5:50, I'm going to REFERENCE 6 when the READY

light comes ON. About a minute away.
PLT Well, we're traveling over France's real estate

and - almost.
CDR Good. 55 minutes is the time. I've got a 55:50

rendezvous.
262 iB 55 24 SPT All clouds today.
CDR Did you say all clouds or no clouds?
SPT All clouds is all I can see here. There's Just a

couple of streaks of broken areas.
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CDR We'll get those. We don't turn on our cameras for

another 7 minutes, so we got time to get in some
good weather.
SPT Okay. I'm running down here. I guess - now I'm

not sure what they wanted, but they're getting lots
of clouds.
PLT Going to be cloudy over the Alps today, space fans.
262 13 55 5B CDR Space fans! Okay, I Just went REFERENCE 6, 55:50.

The READY light's ON. Next event is 14:02.
PLT Oh, there's that lit±le lake down there by Zurich.

Just barely see it. I can see the Alps if I look
ahead.
PLT Have to say hello to my good friend, Dr. Varvra (?)

Professor at the Naval post-graduate school, a
native of Switzerland, and recovering from an
injury - or an operation.
262 13 56 44 PLT MARK. CAMERA, ON. In his homeland of Switzerland.

Wish him a speedy recovery and hope he gets back on
the ski slopes pretty soon. Sorry I can't put the
data pushbutton down on this but it's clouds; it's
not snow. That's it. That's the pass over the
Alps. It's very cloudy, gang.
PLT Okay, we'll go for that desert site.
262 13 57 41 PLT 38.
262 13 58 O0 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. See you over

Carnarvon; 30 minutes at about 14:26.
PLT Okay, Story.
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262 14 26 06 CC Skylab, A0S Carnarvon 5 minutes.
CC And we show you in the middle of a -_neuver going

back to SI. Your momentum looks good.
CDR Say again, Story.
CC We see you going back to SI in the maneuver and

your momentum looks good.
CDR If you look more closely you'd see us eating

lunch.
CDR I thought I'd pedal the bike Just a little before

lunch.
CC Okay. That's always a good idea.
SPT And, Story, there were 58 frames used on the ETC.
b CC Could you say agaim on that? The - the squeal cut

you out. !
spT 58.
I
262 14 30 16 co 58.
262 lh 30 47 CC We're 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you over

Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
262 14 37 51 CC Skylab, A0S Honeysuckle for i minute.
CC And we'd like a verification that you did leave

the EREP COOLANT in BYPASS as opposed to FLOW.
CDR We did.
CC Okay. And you can leave it right there.
CDR Take that back, you did say it right, we left it

in FLOW instead of BYPASS, per the pad.
CC Okay; that's fine, A1.
262 14 38 51 CDR Just checked it again; it's in FLOW.

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262 14 38 57 CC Okay, fine. And we'll see you over Texas in

30 minutes at 15:07 and be dumping the tape re-
corders there.
262 15 07 51 CC Skylab, AOS stateside 15 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. I noticed that the M518 is timed

out. Would I be clear to put the new experiment
in any time?
CC I'll get you an answer.
CDR And let me know when you got TV down-link and

I'll do this PSS - Correction, PES/FSS cal.
CC Okay. And we're GO for you, A1.
CC And, Jack, if you can work it in at around 15:12,

that's about 3 minutes from now, we've got an
up-data link [sic] test to check out the DSE in
the comms_d module, if you can work it in.
CDR I noticed this calibration doesn't worry about

whether or not your - what your roll is, so I'm
going to Just continue to work at this minus
4200 roll.
CC That's fine, A1. And, Jack, that test in the

comm_nd module will take about a minute and a
half; and you can changeout the 518. I
PLT Okay; when did you want to do that test?
CC Oh, in about 3 minutes. Just go to the command

module and I'll call the procedures off to you.
PLT Okay; could we wait about 5?
CC Five will be fine.
PLT Okay, see you there. Thank you.
CC And, A1, we're not getting the real-time TV in

Houston. So let us know when you're through with
the down-link and we'll start dumping the VTR_
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CDR Oh, okay. And according to our schedule, it wasn't

the VTR; it's the TV down-link. Oh - oh, you want
me - You don't want me to put this on the VTR, do
you?
CC No, no. Just let us know when you - when you're

through.
CDR Okay, so I'll not use the VTR, but somebody's

recording it on the ground?
CC That's true; we Just haven't called up the line

to get it here in Houston.
CDR That sounds good. I'm presently in LE_T, 28;

UP, 28.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm now at RIGHT, 28; UP, 28.
_ CC Gotit.
262 15 Ii 57 CDR I'm at RIGHT, 28; DOWN, 28.
CC Got it.
262 15 12 32 CDR l'm now at LEFT, 28; DOWN, 28.
CC Okay.
262 15 12 50 CDR l'm now at 00. In other words, the - the

cross-pointers are centered on the face of the
dial, not at the little red X that we normally
use •
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. I've now manipulated it to get the best

whi - Let me try something else.
CDR Okay. I've now manipulated it to get the best I

possibly could. I'll read you the nnmhers.
CC Go.
CDR UP,18.5
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CDR RIGHT, 88. Now it's a little bit difficult to

discern because we got this artifact at 2 o'clock.
I believe if that were gone, we could do a better
JOP setting, but when it's there, you're constantly
in a quandary to decide where it's centered be-
cause that apparently picks up the Stun earlier
when it's - begins to offset the disk somewhat to
minimize the total light.
CC Okay. I didn't get the RIGHT, A1.
CDR RIGHT was 88, 88.
CC Okay.
CDR I think we ought tc do this after we dust off

52's occulting disk during the EVA, and then give
them some new numbers.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay; test complete.
CC Okay, thanks. And, Jack, when you're ready, we're

ready for the UDL test.
PLT Okay, Story. I'm on my way.
CC And now need to acknowledge, but you'll be working

on panel 3.
262 15 18 _6 CC And Skylab, you're not scheduled to use the VTR.

We'll - But we will be dumping it the next couple
of revs.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, all on panel 3. Verifiy TAPE RECORDER

FORWARD switch to FORWARD.
262 15 20 30 PLT Okay, TAPE RECORDER to FORWARD.
CC And TAPE RECORDER RECORD to RECORD.
PLT That's verified. It's been in RECORD.
CC Stand by for our cue for a reset.

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PLT Okay. When are you going to want it reset?
CC Right now. Up TEL_EIq_Y CO_M/VD reset and then

to NORMAL.
262 15 20 49 PLT • Okay. COMMAND reset, NORMAL.
CC And stand by for our cue for RECORD FORWARD to

STOP.
PLT Okay.
CC TAPE RECORDER FORWARD to STOP. Center.
PLT FORWARD to STOP, center, verified - switched.
CC And stand by for our cue for a TAPE RECORDER

FORWARD to FORWARD.
PLT Okay.
CC TAPE RECORDER FORWARD to FORWARD.
262 15 21 28 PLT MARK. FORWARD.
CC Okay, the test is complete. We Just wanted to

check out that we did have our co.w_nd of the
tape recorders for your reentry.
PLT Okay; very good. And I'ii leave it in FORWARD then.
CC Roger.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC Thank you.
PLT Who 's your INCO?
262 15 21 59 CC Stand by 1.
262 15 22 41 CC We're 1 minute from LOS and 5 minutes from Madrid.
262 15 22 48 CDR And you might mention to the ATM backroom, they
mentioned shopping list item 13, 56, filamen% 3,
exposure 16. What I think I'll do is go b_ck up
and redo J0P 2F, step 2. I wasn't satisfied with
the stepping that I did up there in - on active
region 27, if it's okay with them.
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CC I'll get you an answer.
CC We're GO on that, A1.
262 15 28 36 CC Skylab, we're A0S Madrid, for 8 minutes. And,

A1, we're wondering if you ran a STANDARD MODE
on S052 on that building block you're running.
CDE It looks to me like it's still running. I Just

started it. I started it about 4-1/2 minutes
ago, is my guess. It ought to be over in a mo-
ment. How does it look to you?
CC Stand by 1.
CC A1, we're showing down here that you're not

pointed close enough to Sun center to get within
the 20 arc-second discriminator cutoff.
CDR I see what the problem is. I've got this thing
down in l0 instead of 1. You didn't tell me to
return to i. Okay; right.
CC That ought to do it.
262 15 B0 03 CDR Now, I'll give it a go.
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262 15 30 40 CC And it's looking good down here, A1.
CDR Thanks for catching it. I thought it was

working. I had barber pole and - and the
needles were crossed..
CC Something like a no-signal ILS, huh?
CDR That or picking up the one of the - one of

the other ... is probably a better is a good
way.
262 15 36 30 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 40 minutes

to Honeysuckle at 16:14.
SPT Story, I understand I'm supposed to delete

S063 dsacts from my Flight Plan. Is that correct?
CC That 's affirmative, Owen.
SPT Any other changes?
CC Not that we have right now.
SPT ThAn_ you.
262 16 14 53 CC Skylab, A0S Honeysuckle, 2 minutes.
262 16 16 39 CC Skylab, got a short pass here; about 20 seconds

to LOS. See you over Goldstone, 25 m_nutes;
16:42.
SPT Okay, there, Story.
262 16 43 15 CC Skylab, A0S Goldstone and Texas for l0 minutes.
CC And, 0wen, we need the DAS for dump inhibit.
SPT You have it.
CC Okay.
CC DAS is yours, Owen.

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SPT Okay, Story. And I've taken a bit of extra

time here to make sure I've got really the edge
of this coronal hole. I've had to go to the
magnesium l0 line and do a lot of sweeping back
and forth across the disk to make sure I'm on
the proper boundary. One thing I noticed on the
ATM schedule, is that it apparently - it does
not change the 82B auto that normally is sched-
uled in chip _?] 36 Alfa. I would like to get
confirmation from the backroom that they did
intend to do that AUTO on 82B.
CC Okay.
262 16 _6 0h CC Owen, we see you've got a good NuZ update and

we do plan to do an 82B AUTO.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Story, for the backroom information, 82 Alfa is

now counted down to one frame remaining for the
first time. So according to the note they sent
up on the teleprinter, apparently we have two
more frames left in 82 Alfa.
CC Copy, Owen. And we concur.
262 16 53 00 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 2 minutes to

Bermuda.
262 16 56 05 CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda, 5 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story. I can't find an S183 ops pad

anywhere about.
CC Okay, AI.
CDR We got the one for no EREP, but we don't have

one for the ops coming up soon.
CC Would you like me to read it to you, AI?
CC Would you like me to read it to you, AI?
CDR Excuse me; I was upstairs. Could you send it

up on the teleprinter?
CC We don't have enough time; the ops is at 17:19.

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CDR Just a second.
SPT Story, we began the operation of M - M558 at 16:hl.

The temperature was 23 degrees centigrade; the
pressure was minus 0.02 times l0 to the minus 3.
Copy?
CC Okay.
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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
262 16 59 39 CDR Okay, go ahead and read.
CC Okay, prep: mag UA02, (that's in IA3); DAC 02,

(in E-2); NUz, plus 4.0; available 17:26 to 17:44.
Field, M-57; rotation, 331.0; tilt, 13.2; exposures:
three zips, three zips, and 0620.
CDR I got it.
262 17 00 37 CC Okay, I'm 40 seconds from LOS. I got a little

more for you. Available 17:38 to 17:55. Field,
M-42; rotation, 128.9; tilt, 30.8; exposures:
three zips, three zips, 0940. Rem-rks: Operate
without film carrousel, after sunset; and before
first exposure, operate DAC for 2 seconds. At -
CDR 24 frames a second.
_ 262 17 01 26 CC That's correct. And prep for the second exposure

at 17:37. And we're going LOS here. And if you
got any questions on that, we'll pick you up over
Canaries in 4 minutes.
CDR Looks pretty straightforward to me; thanks.

i
! CC Okay.
262 17 05 41 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Canary for 9 minutes.
SPT Good afternoon to your team there, Dick.
CC Well, good afternoon to you guys. Are you having

fun today?
SPT Oh, I think we would say that that's right. All

sorts of things going on: medical, ATM, EREP, and
all sorts of good and interesting activities.
262 17 06 12 CC Roger. We - we're looking forward to the upcoming

EREP pass later on ourselves.
262 17 13 09 CC Skylab, Houston; no response required. For your

information, all the Flight Plans are in the
teleprinter.
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262 17 13 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. I'll give

you a call at Honeysuckle at 17:50.
262 17 50 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for the

next 9 minutes.
PLT 0kay, Dick.
CC And, SPT, Houston. The only note that I have this

pass is for you. We've got a proposal for something
extra for you to work in during the EREP this after-
noon. And any time you have a couple of minutes,
I'll describe it to you.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. Turns out that the EREP track 39 that's

coming up after a while is going to pass Just, oh,
to the north of the Goddard Space Center. And the
Center is operating a laser, which is going to be
tracking the Skylab workshop as it passes overhead
to the north. And what we'd like to do - the
intensity of the of the laser is low enough so that
there's no danger to the eye, and the weather's
right now is fairly clear. I'm looking at a satel-
lite photograph over Goddard, and we think you
might have time to whiz down form your ETC operations
and look for the laser. And it should appear as a
very bright spot of light like a star on the ground.
And I have a little bit of information for you to
help you locate Goddard.
SPT Is it a ruby laser - a red light? And I know right

where Goddard is. As a matter of fact, I was photo-
graphing it just the other day.
CC Okay, if - Then I won't give you any road directions.

If - The track w_ll pass to the north, Owen. The
time of closest approach is 20:ll and 58 seconds,
which - -
SPT Wait Just a minute, please.
CC Okay. You - One suggestion, Owen; you might Jot

this down on your ETC 39 pad because you're _oing
to have to fit this in between two steps on there.
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SPT Okay, that's Just what I was getting. And I have

it in hand now. The time again, please, 20:ll
what ?
CC Okay, it's 20:11:58; should fit in between the

frames to 9.5 and the standby at 13 minutes. And
it's going to be about 50 degrees to the south of
the groundtrack when you're - when you pass at
your closest approach. And the distance to it
will be about 275 nautical miles. That's - excuse
me, that's a ground range from your nadir point to
Goddard. And one other piece of infor-_tion; the
Sun angle at that time is going to be about 33 degrees.
262 17 53 09 SPT Okay; understand. And I'll - The way I normally

look for Goddard is Just to find downtown Washing-
ton - downtown Balt_-_n_e, and more or less on a -
align between them, which is what I 're used before.
tion rate? Is it a pulse - I presume it's a pulse
laser; and any - any other things about the color
and so on?
CC Owen, it's going to appear to you as if it were

a continuous, steady beam of light.
SPT Okay, what color?
CC Owen, the - We have a - had a photograph here and

it - it - We think it's going to appear to be kind
of white or possibly with a blue tinge to it. It's
an argon laser.
SPT Okay, I'ii certainly be looking, Dick. Thank you

very much.
CC Okay. Incidentally, one thing; I'm not sure whether

Baltimore or Washington will be more visible.
Goddard is almost due north of - of Andrew's Air
Force Base, and Just - Just to the east of the
intersection between the beltway that goes - that
loops around Washington and the Washington Baltm- -
Baltmore - Baltimore Parkway.
SPT Roger.
CC Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll let us have the DAS,

we'll enable momentum dump.
PLT You got it, Dick.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. Thank you. The DAS is yours.
PLT Okay; thank you, Dick.
262 17 59 41 CC Skylab, Houston; we're going L - LOS Honeysuckle;

Hawaii at 18:10.
262 18 lO 23 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, Hawaii for 9 minutes.
262 18 18 B4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. I'll

give you a call at Goldstone in 3 minutes.
262 18 21 45 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Goldstone for 7 minutes.
SPT Dick, are you recording down-link TV?
CC That's affirmative, Owen; we are.
PLT Say, Dick, I got tape recorder number 2 hooked up

and checked out, verifying that it runs and so
forth, for EREP. However, I've got the down-link
box connected up to tape recorder 2 and the number
next to the blue dot connector is J-2, not J-4, so
might have somebody verify that.
CC Okay, we'll sure check it.
PLT We wanted tape recorder number i at J-4, but it

turned into a J-2 on tape recorder 2 in our space-
craft and might be a good - I think - a good idea
to look it over.
CC That is a good idea, and we'll check it.
CC PLT, Houston. You're exactly right; the tape

recorder 2 does - is - J-2 is the correct one. And
EREP officer says he owes you a Coke.
PLT I hope he's not counting up Cokes for everyone I

owe him, because I'm way behind.
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CC Hey, incidentally, Phil showed me that coin trick

last night and I thought it was pretty easy. I'll
teach you how to - how to do it when you get home.
PLT Okay, I hope you beat him, you know, if anybody

beat him it'd be great. How - how was the Chinese
dinner, by the way, he bought you?
CC Well, my noodle was great. He says he really is

going to buy us a - a Chinese dinner pretty soon,
though.
PLT Okay, we got that on tape.
262 18 25 27 CC Me too.
262 18 28 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS at Gold-

stone. I'll call you at Bermuda in 5 minutes.
PLT Okay. Just for the record, we can see Great Slave
Lake from our present point of view and that's up -
way up in Canada at 62 north.
CC Roger; thank you. Is - is it pretty?
PLT Yes. It's about at the edge of where you can

distinguish shorelines and that kind of thing. It's
about as far as you'd want to look to - to get a
good visual observation.
262 18 28 52 PLT And I don't think we're quite at the 50-degree

latitude yet either. We're almnst there, but not
quite. So we'll probably see up to - clearly
distinguish things up to about 63 to 65 north or
south latitude.
CC Roger.
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262 118 33 16 CC Skylab, Houston_ Bermuda for 8 minutes.
262 118 40 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a mlmute from LOS.

We're going to drop out Just for _ minute so,
I'ii give you another call at Canary Islands.
262 18 44 04 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Canary Islands and

Ascension for 15 minutes.
262 18 51 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to b_nd over to

Ascension here in Just a few seconds. And we're
going to be dumping the data tape recorder at
Ascension.
CC SPT, Houston. Just for information for you, the

region that you're pointed at now - We saw on
the ground, at one of the sites, an active surge
and Just thought you might like to know that.
SPT 0kay_ I was Just taking data on a - what appears

to be either a large prominence or what's left
over from the surge there. No, I didn't mean
prominence. A large spicule or what may be the
remainder of a little bit of a surge there. So
I have some data on probably the same location.
CC 0kay.
262 18 55 04 SPT Dick, I've got quite a bit of extra done in this
observing period here. I'll put it all on
channel A.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Dick, that _00-foot DAC that we've been

using for VTS on EREP has lied to us like most
of them do. And they ran out this morning. And
so I went and got this other one we've been using
out of India 8, and I got it in my pocket. And
I'm going to load it unless you tell me otherwise.
It's CX08_ but I think we need some new shutter
speed settings for it. And maybe you can either
recommend a differeht -_gazine or shutter speed
settings for it, please.
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CC Okay, Jack. We'll take a look at that.
PLT 0keydoke. Thank you.
262 18 58 22 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS; Carnarvon

at 19:25.
262 19 26 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for the next 9 minutes. In answer
to Jack's question, the CX08 mag is okay with
us. And a shutter speed of 1/60 is what we'd
suggest. We see the maneuver time and it's
loaded okay. And I've got an outer gimbal to
suggest for O_en so that he can get the N Z up-
date properly after the momentum dump is com-
pleted. And that outer gimbal is minus 1780 for
the N z update.
SPT When is that NZ update due, Dick?
CC It's on the schedule, 0wen, for 19:34, about 7

or 8 minutes from now.
SPT Okay, I'll go up and get it. That was - Tell me

again the gimbal, 17 what?
CC It was minus 1780, and I don't think you can do -

can get it now. You're going to have to wait
until a little closer to that time.
SPT Okay, 1780.
CC That's affirm.
262 19 32 25 PLT You there, Dick?
CC That's affirmative, for 2 minutes. Go ahead.
PLT I got this message from the retro officer, he

asked me to pass it along to the EREP officer.
(Music: "Make the World GoAway")
CC Believe me, he got the message.
PLT I thought this might be an appropriate time for

that.
CC It - It certainly is. And it's _ I - I copy,

Flight. (Chuckle )
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262 19 33 19 PLT (Laughter) Okay.
262 19 33 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS; Hawaii

at 19:49.
SPT 70
262 19 49 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for

5-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're about ready to go here.
CC Very good.
PLT I Just finished the vacuum cleaning and don't

call me boy.
CC Roger. (Laughter)
262 19 52 19 PLT How do you read me, Dick?
f CC Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, we're on VOX now. And we'll Just take a

look at our monitors at this time. Go through
the T minus l0 check. Okay. Alfa 2 is 60 per-
cent, okay; Alfa 3, 86 percent, okay; Alfa 4,
70 percent, okay; Alfa 5, 65 percent, okay;
Alfa 6, zero percent, okay; Bravo 2, 56 percent,
okay; Bravo B, 76 percent, okay; Bravo 4, 71 per-
cent, okay; Bravo 5, 74 percent, okay; Bravo 6,
52 percent, okay; Bravo 7, 31 percent, okay;
Bravo 8, 1 percent, okay; Bravo 9, off scale low,
and that 193 readout was expected. Charlie 2,
45 percent, okay; Charlie 3, 88 percent, okay;
Charlie 4, 71 percent, okay; Charlie 5, 82 per-
cent, okay; Charlie 6 is 47 percent, okay; Charlie
7, 54 percent, okay; Delta 2, 86 percent, okay;
Delta 3 is 85 percent, okay; Delta h is 72 percent,
okay; Delta 5 is lh percent, okay; Delta 6 is
57 percent, okay. Than I give you a few here
that are all together. Bravo 7 - -
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 15 seconds from LOS. I'll

call you at Goldstone "at 6 minutes from now.
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PLT Okay, I'll Just keep talking here. Old motor

mouth is on the panel again.
CC Roger.
PLT Bravo 7. Everybody agree with that, huh?
CC Phil sure does.
262 19 54 47 PLT (Laughter) I was afraid of that. He's bigger

than me, too. I ought to shut up, I guess. B0
percent for Bravo 7; Bravo 8, 1 percent, okay;
Charlie 7, 55 percent which is less than 80 per-
cent, so we'll leave the cooler on, and Delta 6
again is 57 percent. Standing by for T minus
5. It's at 56. In the meantime, we'll go
through the ready verification again. 192 is
HIGH, LOW, HIGH. 191, calibrate 9 to REFERENCE
2. 190 is SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM; FRAME 07,
INTERVAL's 10. 19B is POLAR 1. And 194 is AUTO
B. Okay, there's T minus 5. Go to MODE, READY.
Go to DOOR, OPEN on 192. In the meantime, we
check the S190 HEATER switch light, OFF. Delta
temperature overtemp, press to test light; it
works. Stand by for the door to come open on
192.
262 19 57 12 PLT Okay, we got a READY light on 192 so the DOOR

is OPEN. And we go to - - (static)
262 19 59 57 CDR 1/60 of the second set on there for timing; as

you well know.
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262 20 O0 07 CDR Special, too.
PLT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there. We're standing by at Goldstone for

about 5 - 6 minutes.
CDR Okay.
PLT Yes, sir; I noticed the VTR has a green light on,
so you must be dumping it.
CC Must be.
PLT Okay. I was wondering if it's going to be in good

shape to go ahead and do this TV-12 that comes
after the EREP pass.
CC That's affirm; it sure is.
PLT Okay, thank you.
PLT Stand by for a START. Okay.
262 20 01 00 PLT MARK. EREP to START. RECORDER MALF light, on,

and then off. TAPE MOTION light is on. 194 to
MANUAL.
262 20 01 06 PLT MARK. Okay.
CDR See how far they can watch it at Goldstone. Stone

can get us until we're over - -
PLT Tape recorder 2 is hooked up.
CDR - - South - North Dakota - -
PLT Checked out.
CDR - - Winnipeg - -
PLT Watched it turn over a few times. Got the COQLANT

w
.... CDR - - Bermuda.

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PLT - - VALVE over to number 2.
CDR Okay.
PLT Got that down-link box hooked up to number 2. It

is off. And I verified that the TV SELECTOR switch
and the TV POWER switch are both ON - while ago.
I'll check them again. Yes, they're both on and
in the right position.
262 20 02 08 CDR Little AUTO CAL, huh?
PLT Yes. I was late on the AUTO CAL here, Houston.
CC Say again, Jack.
PLT I was late on the AUTO CAL on - on the VTS. Alpha 2

and Charlie 4.
CDR Going to be a long time before I got a site, anyway.
PLT Right.
CDR Like about 8 minutes or so.
PLT Alfa 2 and Charlie 4 are reading. Alfa 2 is

39 percent, and Charlie 4 is 71 percent. Now
Alfa 2 is down to 37. Kind of oscillating in
there a little bit.
262 20 02 43 CDR Taking l0 minutes to cross the U.S. What's the

delay?
262 20 02 58 CDR Bunches of clouds, right now. Vancouver Island

should be here, but I don't see it.
CDR Oh, we did? Okay. Thank you, 0.
262 20 03 42 CDR Bunches of clouds, Jack. Hope you're not running

any photos.
PLT We will be after while.
CDR Okay.
CDR Bending tracks. We're liable to get Atlanta before

it's over; I don't know. Maybe, I don't know.
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CDH Multiple Canadian lakes.
CDR For the time, 10:42.
262 20 0h _6 PLT There's the 191 READY light. And we'll go to REF 6.
That's where we are now.
262 20 05 Ol CDH And, Dick, what are they looking for today? It
didn't say. A uniform wooded site - a green uniform
area, is that what, generally, we're looking for?
262 20 05 23 CC CDR, Houston. It's uniform area, and we're check-

ing to see if they'd prefer wooded area or not.
CDR Okay. Act1,_lly, we can't tell whether it's wooded

or grass. We can only tell if it's green or brown
or blue, or something like that. Well, I assume
that must be it.
PLT Okay, we're standing by to get 192 to READY here,

pretty soon. Say, Dick, were you on today when
we're saying how far north we could see?
CC Yes, I sure was. I - -
PLT Boy, it's - Go ahead.
CC Well, I - after you passed, I - I got out the map

and looked at that lake you pointed out. It is
way up there.
PLT Yes. Boy, you can really see up there and - same
way in the south. We could see Alaska if it wasn't
cloudy up there all the time.
CC Roger.
PLT Saw several of the Aleutian Islands, and we

photographed them.
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston. We're going to be losing

you from Goldstone, here, for about 3 minutes - -
262 20 06 30 PLT MARK. MODE, READY.
CC - - and 1'11 call you at Be - -
PLT Okay.
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CDR We'll be waiting.
262 20 06 36 PLT MARK. MODE, AUTO on 190. Okay, we're in READY

and AUTO. And Alfa 2 is now 55 percent. Charlie 4
is now 71 percent.
CDR Up there is Lake Superior. And that's Lake Michigan,

m_yb e.
262 20 09 37 CDR ... film shot on these clouds, unless you plan it,
is ridiculous. Have to do something about this when
we get back.
CC Skylab, Houston; Bermuda for l0 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR Like we're just finishing up with Lake Ontario.

Looking for 10:42. 10:42, h5, UP; 0, LEFt/RIGHT.
10:37, right there.
262 20 10 37 CDR CAMEHA, ON. 10:_2. Okay. We got green ones and
brown ones. We'll pick a green one for a while.
CC Okay, that sounds good.
CDR Okay, we're taking data on a green - something. And

it says track it until minus l0 degrees, which I
will do. It's now a plus 33.
262 20 ll 08 SPT Hello, Dick. I've got the laser loud and clear.
It's a blue - green light, very steady.
CC Hey, good show, Owen.
SPT You see it? You can see it easily.
CDR Take a picture.
SPT You bet you.
CDR Eyes like an eagle.
PLT Not bad for a mature set of eyes. Right, Al?
CDR (Chuckle) I wouldn't say that's true.
SPT I wish they'd turn it back on.

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CDR Well, we were wrong, O. They Just won't last as

long. Good for short periods, but they wear out.
CDR May have burned out a rod or a ... there. Jerry - -
SPT I think your pointing's off a little bit, if you

ask me .... get it back.
PLT What did you say, 0.?
SPT I think, perhaps, our pointing is off a little bit

now. We had it loud and clear Just a minute ago.
CDR Minus l0 degrees, right there. Let's move up ahead.
PLT Okay.
CDR There's - someplace. There's Block Island. Has

anybody ever heard of that?
PLT I never heard of it, A1.
CDR Let's zap them in Block Island. That's one of

their favorite haunts.
PLT Atta boy.
CDR Okay, we're giving you your alternate site. It's

plus 7, so we won't have any sweat. We'll get some
good data.
PLT Good old Block Island! I think I'll visit there

someday.
262 20 12 45 CDR Minus 10, right now. We're getting data we haven't
even thought about getting.
262 20 12 50 PLT MARK. 190 READY light, out, and we go to STANDBY.

Gee whiz, we're coming to the end of this already.
262 20 1B O1 CDR I don't maneuver until 29, I believe.
CDR Data, a bunch, 6 o'clock.
PLT 21.
CDR That was it.
PLT Maneuver at 21, A1.
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CDR 21, it is, okay.
PLT Plenty of time, huh?
CDR Bye-bye, Block.
PLT Stand by for 13:30.
CDR We 've got them.
PLT Nice going.
262 20 13 31 PLT MARK. REF 2. He doesn't miss.
CDR Nobody misses Block Island. That's like missing

Lake Superior.
CDR 20:21 maneuver time, Jack. In case you're

thinking -- i
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR - - about it, I know you are.
PLT Plenty of time. You can look at all that water

down there, if you want.
CDR Okay. That's a good idea.
PLT Well, what's Charlie 8 doing? Well, it's become

awfully big. Last roll of tape, I think. In
fact, I know it is.
262 20 14 30 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL on 191. READY light went out.
CC Skylab, Houston. You might be interested to know

that just passed the end of your data take, at a
closest approach of 20 plus 18 plus B0, tropical
storm Ellen is giong to be just to the south of
your ground track. It's still a tropical storm,
but the winds are up to about 70 miles per hour.
And you might want to look out the window and
take a look. We do not require any photography
of it.
PLT Three more minutes, huh? Okay. Thank you, Dick.
SPT ...
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PLT Didn't know there was another one out there.
SPT And, Dick, the - apparently, the laser couldn't

track us right to its closest approach, but about
the time we got to New York, why, they were back
on again and tracked us again for a couple of
minutes. And I do have some handheld photographs.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
262 20 15 5B SPT Story, the storm is very clear up here ahead of

us now, with the typical counterclockwise pattern
and the - -
262 20 16 00 CDR MARK.
SPT - - ... top over the whole thing this time. It's
not quite like some of the others we've seen, but
I think there's ...
CC Roger, 0wen. Thank you.
F 262 20 16 22 PLT And the VTR is ready to go, you said. Right?
CC That's affirm, Jack. Sure is.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
262 20 17 01 PLT Standing by for READY light to come on. Then

we're going to STOP.
262 20 17 l0 PLT MARK. It's on. And we're STOP.
262 20 17 12 PLT MARK. Okay, that's it. How many more minutes we
got there, Dick?
CC We still got you for - in AOS for about B more

minutes.
PLT Okay, I'll Just read you down the - tape recorder
measurement, here, in a minute, if I get that far.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, you folks want me to voice record Bravo 7",

and I will. Bravo 7 says S1 percent. Door
closed. Close and latch the window.
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CC And, Skylab, we see the maneuver time, and it

looks good to us.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick. That takes care of 190.

And we'll go off RECORD. This is the end of
EREP pass number 39. We thank you for listening.
PLT Okay, we're going to rip off four frames on 190.
262 20 18 32 PLT To AUTO; READY light is on. Zero and 4.

INTERVAL's now to 2; EREP to START.
PLT Okay, it's taking the frames. Hear it running?

READY light goes out just before the last frame
gets pulled by in the transporters.
262 20 19 02 PLT EREP to STOP; to STANDBY.
• 262 20 19 09 PLT TAPE RECORDER POWER, OFF. Okay, we're going to

go - AUTO CAL on 191 for 02:26.
262 20 19 20 PLT MARK. At 19:20. 19:20 - and 02:26, I'Ii write

down there. At 21:46, it goes off.
CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. Ascension comes

up at 20:27.
PLT Okay, Dick.
262 20 20 13 PLT Okay, Dick, on the takeup reel, we have

2-9/16 inches empty.
CC Okay.
PLT And on the supply reel, we've got - oh, that's

pretty close to 7/8 inches empty.
CC Okay, got that, too.
PLT Thank you.
262 20 20 40 PLT Okay. 192 DOOR is CLOSED.
262 20 27 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for

9 minutes.
262 20 27 59 CC And, Skylab, Houston. I've got a correction to

the maneuver pad, number 39, that was addressed
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to the CDR, but whoever has it, we've - l'd like

to change the TACS inhibit time on it.
PLT Go ahead, Dick, I'll write it down.
CC Okay, the TACS inhibit time should be a GMT of

22 hours, 40 minutes, and zero seconds. And it
was an oversight on our part. The reason is we'd
llke to keep the TACS inabled throughout the
post-EREP momentum dump.
PLT Okay, 22:40. Thank you.
262 20 28 47 CC Roger.
262 20 35 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS:

Carnarvon at 20:59. And we're going to dump the
data recorder at Carnarvon.
262 20 59 32 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for ll minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR How about a little evening status report?
CC Roger. Would you stand by just a second, A1, on

that? We're talking about something here.
262 21 00 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're still in SOLAR INERTIAL

MODE, and we'd suggest that we - somebody select
EXPERIMENT POINTING prior to sunrise, which is
going to occur in a couple minutes, so that we
won't have to - so that we'll get an automatic
opening of the fine Sun sensor doors. And CDR,
Houston; affirmative. I'm ready to copy the
evening status report, if you'd like to get a
little bit ahead on that.
CDR We going to go do it, but we don't think it's

necessary. Mainly because you don't need the fine
Sun sensor unless you're in EXPERIMENT POINTING.
Here we go! 09B, 125, 160; 6223, 0210, 6712;
6.243, 6.242, 6.239; 5.954, 5.950, 5.954;6.953,
6.954, 6.954. Exercise: CDR, 2/35/5041; 3/15/
Mark I; B/10/Mark II; 3/05/M_rk III; SPT will re-
port later. Also, at the end of this report, I'll
give you his exercise for yesterday, which he wasn't
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able to report until later. PLT, 2/35/8675; 1/05/

0621; 3/20/Mark I; 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20
backbends. Medication: CDR, one Seconal; SPT,
one Seconal; PLT, one chloral hydrate. Sleep:
CDR, 7/G; SPT, 7/G; PLT, 7/G. Food log follows:
CDR, seven salt packs, plus three salt pills,
plus one lemonade; SPT, no salt, add butter
cookies, peanut butter, and grape drink; PLT,
four salt, add one lemon drop, one tea and - with
lemon and sugar, one butter cookie.
CC Roger.
CDR Here comes the photo: Sunset, CI60, 00, CI52;

S183, UA02, 82. VTS, track - I got a 1D, but the
fig - 1D, okay, CL04, 00; S183, PR1 for an M151,
C163, 70, CI20.
CC Okay.
CDR S183, ST1, MI51, CI63, 42, CI20.
CC Roger.
262 21 03 58 CDR VTS, track 4, CX08, 75. 35-millimeter: CIl0,

566; CX34, ii. 70-millimeter: CX27, 101; ETC:
CT09, 070; IR02, 058; EREP set, W, 9121; 1313;
8841; 8218; 9988; 8892. Drawer A configuration:
no change, A-l, A-2, or the back. A-3 is 06, CI60,
00, CI52; A-4, 03, CI63, 42, CI20.
262 21 05 13 CC Okay, A1. We got that.
CDR Now comes the Flight Plan deviation; I'd like to

read Owen's yesterday's exercise. It is 2/30/4900;
3/20/Mark I; 60 A; 30 B; 30 D.
CC Okay.
262 21 05 55 CDR The only other item is an unscheduled stowage

change. Spaghetti, from 559 to wardroom for the
SPT. That's it.
CC Okay, A1. Thank you very much. I've got a couple

of evening questions that I was going to ask later,
but I might as well pass on up to you now, if
you're amenable.
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CDR Whatever that means, we're in.
CC (Chuckle) Okay. First of all, Pete Conrad and

those guys built some little flapper valves out
of tape and Mosite and installed them on the OWS
hatch check relief valve. And we'd appreciate it
if somebody would go inspect those little fabri-
cated flapper valves. And we'd like to know if
they're still functioning - functional as a check
valve, and do they provide a good seal, and are
they free to move?
262 21 06 5B CDR Tell us where this is. We haven't seen it.
CC Well, that was part of the question, is - if they

are still there. They were originally put on the
OWS hatch check valves. You know, those - those
two check relief valves on the OWS hatch?
262 21 07 ll CDR We're f_m_liar with them, but we've never noticed.
Hold on. We doubt they're there, but hold on.
CC Okay.
262 21 07 57 CDR There's one on us. They're on the backside of the

door and we never look at the backside of the door.
They're both there, and they look Just - probably
like they did the day - the day they were installed.
CC Okay. _m-zing what you find out when you look on

the backside of the doors. Right?
CDR You said it; never did it.
CC Okay, the EGIL was interested as to whether or not

you think that they would still be functional as
a check valve. In other words, would they - are
they free to move and would they provide a good
seal?
CDR They're free to move, and they'll do whatever they

did before, as Jack points out. Whether or not
something of that material provides a good seal
or not under pressure of 5 psi, I wouldn't know.
They - they could easily establish that by havi_g
Pete build something on the ground like that and
f- stick it in the chamber or something. My opinion
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would be it would probably work, but I 'm not that

familiar with check valves, you know, the materials
and the like. Looks like it would work. Probably
have some leak rate, if it leak - I mean if that
were the only item with the air - preventing the
air from escaping, but it would close it off pretty
well.
CC Okay, A1; that satisfies us. We're about a minute

from LOS, and we're going to drop out for about
4 minutes, and I'll give you a call at Guam. I
got another question here; it has to do with EREP.
And the question is: Was the S192 internal scan-
ner cover ever left off during any EREP pass, par-
ticularly those when the C&D meters Alfa 2 and
Charlie 4 were reading out of tolerant high?
262 21 09 39 CDR We both think that they were always on. We've
had them off during warmups, whenever we thought
we were going to read them. You know, whenever
you'd send up one that says 192 cal, or whatever
the words are. Then we'd read them, and we'd
always stick the tops back on.
262 21 09 54 CC Okay, A1; thank you very much. I'll give you a
call at Guam.
CDR A lot of times we wouldn't screw them down com-

pletely, but they'd be on.
CC Okay; thank you. And, Skylab, as we go AOS, I

have one more evening question that I want to
ask Owen, and I'll get up - I'll get that to
him over Guam.
SPT Go ahead with the question while we're still

listening to you.
CC Okay. What circl_mqtances required the large

pointing changes between the building blocks ll's
of JOP 15 Alfa? This occurred about 17:00 Zulu.
We're sorry the question's coming up so late.
We had anticipated only 5 to I0 arc seconds point-
ingacross the coronal hole boundary.
SPT Yes i I understand the question. I debriefed it

on _hannel A, but I would like to give you the
inf_ on the next down-link.
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262 21 i0 46 CC Okay, real fine. I'ii give you a call at Guam,

Owen.
262 21 1B B8 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
SPT There's a fairly lengthy explsJ_ation for that,

Dick, which is on channel A. But to s,,-m_rize
the thing, the XUV MON photograph, which I ob-
tained right at the beginning of that orbit, did
not show the coronal hole distinctly at all. In
order to find out Just where the boundary was, I
had to put the grating to magnesium 10, that's
1941 grating, and scan around, more or less,
manually, looking at the detector-3 nnm]_ers in
order to define the cir - the - the outline of
the coronal hole. Then I tried, as best I could,
from the XUV MON to get the 82B slit parallel to
that. Now, after doing the - I forgot whether it
was the building block lO or ll, on the boundary
itself, I also -well, even before that, found
that the gradient across the boundary was not as
sharp as it is on most coronal holes or at least
some coronal holes. And inasmuch as I did not
believe the 82B slit, at that time, was really
parallel to the boundary, I had to move further
than 5 arc seconds in order to get any sort of
different data on the 82B slit than I had at the
boundary itself.
262 21 14 52 SPT And so I purposely moved further than 5 arc seconds

and actually scanned around trying to - better to
find the boundary in order to clearly get the 82B
slit out of the coronal hole and into the coronal
hole for the final two pointings. Over.
262 21 15 17 SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger, Owen. We copied that, and we're soaking

it up. And then we were trying to decide if we
had any other questions to ask you. Stand by Just
a second, please.
SPT Okay. I don't know what's on the pad for tomorrow,

but if there is any observing time, I think it
would be very well worth letting the operator up
here try to find his own best - defined coronal
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hole, and then, repeat three pointings, both on

the boundary, and try to find one that has a fairly
sharp gradient across the boundary at magnesium 10.
And then, at that point, step inside and outside
by 5 arc seconds or so, approximately.
CC Okay, Owen; thanks for the suggestion. And we

don't have any other questions about that subject
now. I do have one clarification on the evening
status report on the photo log for - that the CDR
gave us, that I'd like to ask about.
262 21 16 1B PLT Go ahead, Dick; we're listening.
262 21 16 3B CC Skylab, Houston. I didn't copy if the CDR was

ready to listen to me. I do - I do have another
question though. Our TV VTR dump plan included a
VTR dump to be done at this upcoming states pass
that occurs in about 22 minutes, and we had a
question as to whether or not TV-12 would be a -
accomplished by that time.
CDR We think it will. Jack's on the way to do it now,

but go ahead with your question.
CC Okay, A1. In the photo log report, the first

activity you reported on had to do - and it was
associated with the CI60. We got the information i
about the magazines and so forth, but we didn't
catch what activity that was associated with.
CDR There was a small amount of film left on that

cassette - and so it's of sunset. It's a -
out-the-window sunset.
CC Okay, A1. Thank you very much. And that was all
I had. We still got about 6 minutes left in this
pass. I 'm standing by.
CDR Okay, Jack's headed up there now. And don't dump

it until he gets finished, but it's going to be
kind of a close - He ate - he ate before he went
because, otherwise, he's going to be eating Just
as he goes to bed.
CC Roger.
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262 21 18 32 CDR Going to read us any news tonight?
CC Well, I Just walked up to the back row and asked

him to get us some. I don't have any right here
in front of me, A1. I'm planning on it before
the night's over, though.
CDR Excellent. I th_nk one of the things that happens

up here is that you really lose touch with what's
going on in the world. And you all try, but I
guess there's no way that you could ever duplicate -
scan a whole newspaper and look at a couple of
periodicals, like you seem to do every week, you
know. So, even though you get the - the primary
news, you don't get - it's hard to retain it - a
lot of it because there's not much detail there.
But we don't have the time to do it, either. But
it's - it's Just one of the observations we've made.
CC Roger, A1. I'm sure when you come back, you -

you're going to - probably are going to hear about
a lot of things that you'd wonder why we didn't
tell you. It seems to me that about the only
time I catch up with what's going on is when I
read it up to you.
CDR We're both in trouble then (laughter).
CC A heap of trouble.
262 21 19 47 CDR Put in the changes to my Entry Checklist today,

and had a chance to look over the time line and
study guide. Both are - all of them are real
good and real straight-forward. I particularly
like the time line. I mounted it on a couple of
old food cards, put some rings in it, and we're
going to have that up there. And then we can - have
two separate books. That one that leads us from
the - you know, gives us the time line, and then
we move from there to the page in the entry book
that's applicable. So, we think, it'll - might be
a real useful way to go.
262 21 20 18 CC Roger, A1. We thought you'd like that timeline.

You - old Robert Crippen pushed real hard to @et
that on a piece of paper for you and get it up
there. So you can thank him for that one.
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CDR Okay. Well, I will. Because that's really going

to make it nice as far as looking ahead, and see-
ing what's next, and what you've got to do and
where it is. It's really laid out nice, and I
think I tend to agree with - with Phil that - that
amount of time is not going to be - it's going to
go fairly slow, but it also gives you some flex-
ibility to get back in and readjust the fans on the
rate gyros or some of these other things that are
liable to happen at the last minute. We've got
the time there to take the hatch back out and go
fix something, in case it comes up.
CC Roger, A1. We sure concur.
262 21 21 09 CDR I guess i_nediately - it didn't mention - I guess

immediately after we close out, we vent down the
area between the two tunnels so we will be able
to establish, right then, the leak - if we got a
good seal. One thing I've been wondering. These
seals have been open up here for a long time,
particularly, the co_m_nd module ones. And I'm
wondering. I noticed a procedure, somewhere,
that talked about if you had problems with your
seals to take them out and put some of the lubricant
from the comnand module suit kit in there. Well,
we've got a lot of that lubricant up here in our -
our - EVA kit. And I'm Just wondering if it would
be wise to - within the next day or so, get out
that lubricant, same sort of thing we put on our
seals and everything before we go EVA, and - and,
essentially, lubricate those two seals, the one
there in the MDA and the one on the co_,nand
module hatch?
CC Roger, CDR. We'll sure think about that one.
CDR I've kept an eye on them. They're nice and clean,

but they're also pretty dry. Now maybe - maybe
they're just as good dry; I don't know.
262 21 22 25 CC Roger, A1. We're about a minute from LOS.

Goldstone is going to be coming up at 21:39. And
the biomed officer points out, A1, that the PT,
the exercise that you read down on tonight's status
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report is identical, down to the last number, of

what you read down yesterday. And we Just wanted
to make sure that that - that actually was today's
and you hadn't possibly read us the wrong n11mbers.
262 21 23 O1 CC And no answer required now, A1. We're about

lO seconds from LOS. And I'll call you at
Goldst one.
CDR Okay. Now, Jack's is different_ Owen's, we didn't

give you, and mine's been the same for days. I
always do that same amount. I really end up doing,
instead of 5041, I usually hit 50_5 or something,
but I keep shooting for 5041.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you.
CDR l'm 41 years old, so I figure I ought to do _i

watt minutes, and then I thow Csic, throws in the
extra 5000 for the heck of it.
262 21 23 B5 CC Roger.
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262 21 38 57 CC Skylab, Houston, hello. Stateside for 17 minutes.
SPT Jack says he's not ready, quite, to dump yet.
CC Okay, we'll standby and - and when you - when we

are able to dump, if you'll Just let us know,
we'll start _mmediately.
SPT Okay.
CC Also, while we're waiting, I do have a few news

items if you'd like me to pass them up now. Or
if you're busy, I'll do it later.
CDR Now's the time.

i
262 21 39 38 CC Okay. At the United Nations the General Assembly

admitted the two Germanys, both East and West, to
U - UnitedNationmembershipyesterdayin a cer-
emony. The United Auto Workers and Chrysler
reached agreement on a new contract to cover 10,500
white collar workers, bringing all 127,500 UAW win
- work - members at Chrysler under tenative new
agreements. And they're expected to re-open the
1974 car production lines at Chrysler possibly by
early next week. The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee yesterday approved the nomination of
Hen - Henry A. Kissinger as Secretary of State.
In Skylab news, most stories today centered around
your overnight teleprinter load which had spit out
50 feet of paper with instructions from us here in
Mission Control, most of them aimed at bringing
you back to Earth next Tuesday.
262 2] 40 39 CC And Jack's quotes - or Jack was quoted when he

said that it stretches from the trash airlock all
the way to the EVA hatch. You may not know that
this Thursday night in the Thursday night in the
Astrodome is scheduled the battle has also become
known as the battle of the v - vitamins. Mrs. King
is reported.ly taking vitamin E to build up her
strength and Riggs is said to be taking enough'
vita - vitamin C to equal that of 2,000 oranges a
_ day. Also, on the sport scene,last night,the
Cincinnati Reds nudged the Astros 1 to nothing to
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trim the Big Red Machine's magic number for the

National League west title down to 6. And up in
Dallas, retired linebacker Chuck Howley was invited
to rejoin the Dallas Cowboys by Coach Tom Landry.
And he announced Tuesday that he'll resume workouts
with the team 3 days a week. Over. Out.
262 21 41 56 CDR Nice recovery.
CC You made everybody in here laugh at me.
CC Skylab, Houston. Also, sometime this evening

we'd sure appreciate, when it's convenient, for -
for us to get a readout of the FRAMES REMAINING
on the ATM, so we can help you keep up with
everything.
SPT Here it comes: 2661, 279, i, 24, 602, 578.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you very much.
262 21 46 19 SPT Dick, are you with us?
CC That's affirm; go ahead.
SPT And Jack here said you can dum - dump the tape
recorder now. And does that mean that you do not
want this TV down-link that's on the ATM schedule?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. Yes, we would like the ATM TV

down-link while we're rewinding the VTR so we can
start the dump.
SPT Okay, I'll give it to you now.
262 21 46 57 CC Thank you.
262 21 49 42 CDR That long Deact Checklist change you sent -

Forget it, Dick, I got it out here.
CC Okay.
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PLT Hey, Dick, gave you a little extra on that TV

down-link - VTR on the tape recorder. I reloaded
the tape recorder also, instead of Just unloading
it. But tell the EREP officer not to worry be-
cause I've took the tape off and put it in the
command module.
CC Okay, Jack; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

at stateside here.
262 21 54 17 CC You'll be talked to by the doctor at Carnarvon

at 22:38, and then we have one more pass before
bedtime at G_ after that.
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262 22 41 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Understand you're through with

the medical conference, and we still got about
3 minutes left here at Carnarvon; I'm standing
by.
PLT Did Big Phil write those Jokes for Jerry?
CC Say again, please.
PLT The doctor just told us a couple of good Jokes;

guess maybe you didn't hear them. I thought
maybe Phil was writing them.
CC No, but we'll make him tell us - tell them to

us when he gets back down here.
CC Hey, Jack; one more input for you, though.

Phil Just won a quarter off Don Lind on the
lousycointrick.
PLT I don't doubt it. Don should have used Phil's

money.
262 22 h_ 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS.

Guam comes up at 22:52, and that's the last
pass of the evening.
262 22 52 _i CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR When's the next pass after this, Dick?
CC A1, the next pass is Goldstone, and it comes

up at 23:15. That's about - well, we're
22 minutes from AOS Goldstone.
CDR Okay, call us there, too; would you?
262 22 53 29 CC Okay, sure will.
262 22 56 h5 CO Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS. l'll

give you a Gold - a call at Goldstone at 23:15.
And we're going to dump the data recorderat
Goldstone.
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CDR Sounds good. Let me make a correction to our

photo pad. On 16-millimeter, we shot some
more film: crew activity, CI63, zero zero,
CI20. And go down to A-h, it should read
03, C163, 00, CI20.
262 22 57 21 CC Okay, A1, thank you; I got that.
262 23 15 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for

15 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CDR We thought 0wen would be finished with his

exercise now, but it doesn't look like he's
going to make it, Dick.
CC Okay, well, this is a pretty long pass, so if

he does get through by that time, just give us
a holler.
CDR Just ground to a halt. I don't know whether

he's finished or wore out; he was pumping
225 watts. Well, Okay. What is it, about a
15-minute pass?
CC Yes, sir; that's right.
CDR Okay, Dick, we'll - we'll be working - working

out.
CC Okay.
262 23 18 53 PLT Say, Dick. I ought to report that I changed

the desiccants in the S190 today and, also, I
was curious to know how the EREP tape load TV
came out.
CC Roger, Jack. We haven't seen that TV yet.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, Dick, here's the update on a couple of

things on the Flight Plan, status report for me.
CC Okay.
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SPT On the exercise, 212515000, 3125/Mark I,

90 A's, 60 B's, and 60 D's, Delta's. And on
salt packages, add two tablets. Over
CC Okay, Owen, I copied that.
262 23 19 45 SPT Thank you.
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SKYLAB-AIR-T0 GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
262 23 30 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. You guys

have a good night's sleep. You'll get a call -
wakeup call in the morning at Guam at 07:08 Zulu.
One suggestion to Owen. You might set your timer
a little bit early, since that JOP 13 iS going to
be about - start about half an hour. And we will
have a pad sitting there in the teleprinter about
JOP 13 when you wake up in the morning.
PLT Okay, Dick. We'll make sure he gets the word, And
thanks a lot for your good work today. How long
will you fellows be on tonight?
CC Roger, guys. And see you all in the morning.
262 23 30 39 PLT Okeydoke. Goodnight.
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263 07 09 06 CC (Music: "Moonlight Becomes You") Good morning,

Skylab. We're AOS over Guam for 8 minutes.
SPT Good morning there, Robert. How are you today?

And I hate to mention business quite so early in
the morning, but I was just up taking a look at the
teleprinter paper and didn't see any m_neuber pad
for JOP 13. Have they been sent up?
CC No, we were playing around with it here this even-

ing and we are Just now up-linking it. So it should
be coming through, we hope. It's going to be in
a little bit different form than what you're used
to seeing, Owen_ because we were going to ask you
to do a CMG reset in the middle of it and a few
other things. So we sort of did it as a fill-in-
the blank kind of thing on your JOP sheet. If
you'd go up and take a look at it now, and see if
_- you have any questions about it, we'd appreciate it.
263 07 i0 34 SPT Okay, that sounds fine. And when is the next pass
after Guam? I'll let you know there if there is
any question.
CC Okay. The next pass is going to be over V-ng11_rd

at 07:48.
SPT Okay. I'll mention any question there.
CC Okay. Fine and dandy.
CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute.
263 07 17 16 CC See you over the V_Rrd in 31 minutes at 07:48.
263 07 48 16 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over the Vanguard, ll minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob; and the pad - all looks fine. I presume
that we're opening doors at nominal momentum cage
because we're certain that that's a time that ended
in the night. And everything else looks pretty
straightforward, including that, really.
CC Okay. That's affirm and then that is the reason.

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CC Owen, one other additional item which we didn't

really call for out on the pad is - but it's the
way we've been handling entering maneuver time from
these EREP pad so that everybody gets a chance to
take a look at it before you initiate it. The
maneuver times that you use to come out of the
thing after you've done it - if you have a chance
to put that in - in early, it would be appreciated.
263 07 _9 15 SPT Okay. I'll plan to do that. In fact, I think the

s1_rmary sheet sort of worked out that way, isn't
it? But I guess maybe it doesn't call out the
tlmlng, but I - I see your points and I'd certainly
plan to do it Just like that.
CC Okay. Th_nk you. And, Owen, while I'm talking to

you on the - the SAP, there's been no significant
activity over the last 12 hours. A few small plages
at 28_1.0 had some minor surges.
SPT Okay.
CC Good morning, CDR. A1, do you have a moment to

talk with me, please, sir?
CDR At least.
26B 07 50 B5 CC Okay; very good. We had a little question we'd

like to get your opinion on. We're consider -
considering another M509 run for day 57 right after
the EVA, with you being the pilot. And the primary
objective of this test is to evaluate the effects
of the LSU 02 hose on the M509 stabilized modes,
with and without a lighweight CCU attached. The
umbilical effects can be evaluated in the shirt-
sleeve mode, but we would like your opinion about
donning the suit after lunch and making the run
suited. Of course, I guess, the con - the consid-
eration here is primarily you've Just gotten out of
the suit. The PI would, of course, like a suited
run since we could make some of the maneuvers we
couldn't do because of the LSU on M509-B. It looks
as if only about 2 hours will be available for you
to do the run. So if we do it suited, there will
be less time available to the act - to do the actual
m_neu_ering. And we' d like to get your opinion on
doing the additional run. And, considering the time
availabe, what do you think about doing that suited
versus shirt-sleeve?
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CC We'd like whatever your - whatever your honest

opinion is about it, A1.
263 07 52 05 CDR Let me think about it a minute.
CC Okay. No - Certainly no big - big hurry for an

answer.
SPT Just a comment for you, Bob. Might note the

STATUS LIGHTING BACKUP circuit breaker was popping
in this morning. I had to reset it.
CC Oh, the INVERTER/LCA breaker was popped? Is that

what you said?
SPT Yes, that' s correct.
CC Okay. We have not seen it out before. That's -

That's different, I think. We have been cycling
it, but I don't believe we've ever seen it pop
before.
SPT Wait a minute. I think that was the LCA STATUS

LIGHTING BACKUP, 1. Just a second. Maybe it wasn't,
either. Excuse me. Stand by; let me check this.
CC Okay. BACKUP, 1 should be out.
SPT Yes, that's right. My - My mistake, Bob. It did

not need to be reset. And I saw the STATUS LIGHTING
BACKUP circuit breaker popped, and I thought that
was the one that was giving us trouble yesterday.
But it's all set normally.
CC Okay. Very good. Make us feel better.
263 07 53 53 CDR I can think of two factors on this 50 run - 9 run

as I said here. One is 2 hours is not enough time
to suit out, get in it, strap in , do the maneuvers,
and get finished. You can't do it in 2 hours.
There's just - there's too much prep time. Just
getting in the suit isn't that hard, but doing all
the rest of it is a long time-consiJm_ng Job as you've
seen from the other runs. And, too, I'm not sure
what extra you get out of doing it with the suit.
However, it doesn't take that much longer to do it
with the suit. The thing that concerns me mostly is
I don't think we can pull off anything worthwhile in
2 hours. Maybe there's more time in there that could
be made available.
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CC Well, what - what is your opinion on doing the run

at all - thinking about it in the shirt-sleeve mode,
with probably still only having 2 hours available?
Our basic problem is time, right now, it looks like.
263 07 55 13 CDR Well, our problem is you Just can't do all that in
2 hours, Bob. You've got - you've got to rig out
the vehicle, and then you got to get in it, and then
you got to get all the cameras set up, and you got
to get the cnmm set up, and then you got to get those
special straps on. And although it sounds easy,
that takes a long time to do it right. There's a
lot of parts to it. I think we could do it either
suited or unsuited. But I'm not sure we can do
either of them worth - worth anything in 2 hours.
We've got to get another hour. Maybe there's an
hour earlier that we could rig it all up and then
come back after the EVA and do it, or something like
that. Or else cut something else out. I think we
could do it in 3 hours either way. As far as suited
or unsuited - as long as we got the suits out, we
can sure do it that way. I don't know if there's
going to be a lot of differences. You see the
umbilical effects more without the suit because
you're lighter. But we did not investigate all the
suited probl_m_, so my feeling would be that we
probably ought to do it suited. But we ain't got
a prayer at doing it in 2 hours.
263 07 56 32 CC Okay. What is your opinion then, if we can get the

additional hour that you think you might need, of
doing the run at all? Do you think we should try
to do it?
CDR I think we might learn something. I think just what

we're going to learn, we're going to do - As far
as doing all their maueuvers again, I'm not sure
that's the most worthwhile thing in the world, be-
cause we've done many, many maneuvers in that thing;
and certainly enought to demonstrate and give them
data that determines the numbers they want to know.
There's always - It's always good to do other runs
and other maneuvers. In fact, I'm not sure we hadn't
done every single thing that they thought of plus
a few extra we hadn't thought of. But, that's a
good experiment. And compared to something like, I
won't name any others but, compared to some other
things that are possible to do, it's sure more,
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more - more worthwhile. My opinion would be, it

depends on some - any other things you might have
down there that you feel are higher priority.
263 07 57 55 CDR Now let me mention another thing. We got up our -

We're going to have to take the umbilicals out
again and put in the - no, we won't, we can leave
them in. But get out our new 02 umbilical, which
we got stowed up there in the food lockers, which
will be easy enough. We'll have to get out and
rig a new comm capability. We'll have to - We've -
we've already put the 509 to bed in that we've
taken all the straps off and put them away neatly,
and got it all folded up as we have T20 for stowage,
but that doesn't take but another 15 minutes to put
it all back together. It's certainly a good ex-
periment, and it's certainly worth the - the time
it takes to do it, if it doesn't knock out some-
thing like - that's more important. I would cer-
tainly think it was a better thing to do with our
time than - than some other things I could think of.
263 07 58 57 CC Okay, A1, we're going to go LOS here in about

30 seconds. And I'll have you again over Ascension
in 6 minutes at 08:05, And I thing - I think I get
i the gist of what you're saying and we'll - we'll
sit down and take a look at it and see whether we
can come up with that additional time and weight
it against the other experiments we do have.
CDR That's right. I think it's strictly a priority

sort of a thing. The additional evaluation ...
necessary, I don't think. The evaluation with
the 02 umbilical
i
plug ...
263 07 59 3_ CC We're over the hill, A1.
263 08 05 31 CC Skylab Houston. AOS through Ascension for

14-1/2 minutes.
CDR What's the possibilities of doing 509 tomorrow?
CC We're Just look - -
CDR Maybe slipping something tomorrow to the next day.

_ That might be more appropriate. We're going to
have to rig up that 02 and CCU. We're going to
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have to tape them together in tow or three spots,

I suspect, Just to keep - It'll minimize the torque,
but it will also keep them form being all over the
workshop. .
263 08 06 40 CC AI, in the initial look - see at that, we've got

out normal ATMwork, an EREP pass, bed run tomorrow,
and 3 hours of EVA preprep which we anticipate that
you wanted. And it Just doesn't look reasonable
right now on an initial look/see to try to put a -
509 run in there. Could I ask you another couple
of questions here, Just to give us some idea of what
the status is? On the 509 bottles, is - We'd like
to know if bottle 4 is charged and topped off?
CDR The answer is yes. They're all charged and topped

off.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR I think the big factor is whether or not we've got

time to - to alow about 3 hours to do the job.
CC Roger. We copy that and we're taking a look at that

right now and just seeing whether that maybe
possible. Not for tomorrow, but for later.
J
263 08 07 58 CDR The thing that we can't afford to get knocked out of
there, EVA day, is our exercise, because that EVA
Just doesn't give you that much exercise. And we
got to keep our exercise up during the last
4ofSaays.
CC Copy that, and we'll make sure you have it.
263 08 lO 33 CC Owen, we're getting ready to inhibit the momentum

dtnnp for you for this JOP 13, also to load the
momentum biases that we talked about in the message
and discussed yesterday evening, so if we can have
the DAS, please, sir.
SPT You have the DAS.
CC Owen, have you had a chance to do your Nu - Nuz

update, yet, this morning?
SPT That's affirmative.

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CC Okay. We just wanted to verify that this NuZ was

correct so the attitude was. And apparently, it
looks like it's good. And - -
SPT It 's only changed by about O.2 degrees.
263 08 l_ 22 CC That's good. And the DAS belongs to you once more.
CDR You still there, Bob?
CC That's affirm. We've got you a couple more minutes.
CDR Okay. I was still thinking of 509 in time. Also

we'll have to take the two other suits plus their
head, you know, headpieces and all that other busi-
ness and take it up and stach it in the MA - I mean
the - -
PLT MDA.
F CDR - - MDA for a little while in order to get the

volume down there and not be spraying their suits
all the time.
CC Okay. Copy that it would require transferring the

suits.
263 08 18 35 CDR It's not - It's not a big deal. We just have to
get them up there and then do the Job, and then,
when we finish, bring them back. And it's Just
time, that's what I meant there. When you think
about it a little bit, there's Just some time in-
volved. If we've got the time, we can do it. It's
that simple.
CC Okay. We're taking a look at thatright now to

see if we can come up tith the time for you to do
it. It's kind of hard to find - find 3 hours right
now, but we're - got the FAO scratching after it.
We're about 1 minute from LOS. We're going to see
you over G1_am at 08:46. That's about 28 minutes
from now. We'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump and looking forward to seeing Owen doing his
JOP 13.
SPT Okay. How does all the DAS entrieslook?

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CC Stand b_(.
263 08 19 25 CC Everything looks good right now, Owen.
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263 08 46 35 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Guam. And we'll be doing a

data voice recorder dump. We got you for about
7 minutes.
SPT Okay. You might check the times and so forth to

make sure you still llke those, Bob. And I've
got the gimbal - the star tracker gimbal set for
the star track - for the star number 1 position.
And I did notice, up until Just a couple of minutes
ago when I went MANUAL on the STAR TRACKER, the
door would not open. And then here about i, -
2 minutes ago, it would start opening. Now that
may be normal, I'm not sure whether the computer
has control of when that door opens or not. But,
we appear to be all set up now. Over.
CC That should're opened when you hit MAN_JAL, _mmedi-

at ely, Owen.
SPT Well, that's sort of what I thought, and I tried

it about 3 or 4 times and recycled through MANUAL
and CLOSED and back to MANUAL, and it wouldn't
open for an interval of about l0 minutes there.
We did point the star tracker at the Sun, and that
might have helped. And Just about 2 minutes ago
now, why it opened again.
SPT I should clarify that, I guess; not at the Sun,

but where the Sun could fall on the star tracker.
263 08 47 57 CC You made everybody's eyeballs open up wide.
SPT Yes, th_nk you. A1 was looking out the window and
sort of GPAing (?) my gimbal position and Just
steered it so that the Sun could fall on the star
tracker.
CC Okay.
263 08 51 01 SPT As you can see, that nominal momenttEa cage is

perturbing our attitude substantially.
CC We're looking at it.

r
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SPT And, of course, we've been firing some TACS. I

hope that was about the amount you were expecting.
263 08 52 56 CC We calculated 42 and you're up to 45 right now.
263 08 53 04 CC We're getting ready to go LOS. We'll have you

over Honeysuckle at 08:59, and that's about
6-1/2 minutes away.
263 09 00 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle, 3 minutes. See

you' re at SOLAR I_IAL.
263 09 02 13 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS. Vanguard

in 25 minutes, at 09:27.
263 09 27 39 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. We're on the way back, as I guess

you can see by now.
CC Yes, sir.
SPT Just for backroom information, we got a 12-3/h-minute

exposure on S056. We got about 2-1/2 rasters on
S055, and we got two complete sequences for S054.
And the inner glmbal angle star hung right at
plus 1000, Just about 2 arc-minutes away from the
pad value for essentially the whole data-taking
interval. So the whole thing looked real good.
And, gee, I must congratulate ASC0 and all your
fellows down there who did the calculations for
this maneuver. It was certainly precise, and every-
thing went exactly like the plan.
CC Okay. Very good; and thank you, Owen.
263 09 28 59 SPT Incidentally, one other bit of information. While

monitoring the DETECTOR number 3, for the most part,
during the scanning operation, there were fairly
frequent intervals in which the first digit wouldn't
flicker, indicating some small count was registering
in the 40 milliseconds or so that each position is
being scanned. And I couldn't get a pattern to it,
but it does look as if there may be some information
recorded on the S055 telemetry. And I would appre-
ciate any feedback that they might have after
scanning the data.
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CC Okay. That's real interesting, Owen.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Yes, Sir.
CC You've got a terminate of M518 and pickup of

M556 ops at about 18:00 on your Flight Plan, but
we 're looking ahead to your EVA prep. We 'd like
to get everything done way short of that if we can,
so if you can pick that up earlier, it'll be fine.
263 09 3(I45 PLT That's a good idea; and I will, Story, as soon as
the first COOL light comes on. Thank you for
reminding me.
CC Okay.
263 09 3] 20 SPT Another - Another question for the ATM room. I'd
like to know if 4906 GRATING position does put
zero order on DETECTOR number 3, or what's - where -
where does it put it over?
CC Get it for you, Owen.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll

pick you up over Canaries in 15 minutes. And we
concur, Owen, that 4906 on the GRATING will put
the zero order on DETECTOR 3, and we're wondering
what you got on S052.
SPT S052 did get three exposures, spaced 5 minutes

apart. Sets of exposures at about 3 percent.
263 09 32 52 CC Okay; outstanding. And for Jack, check that the

COOLDOWN light is on, prior to pressing on.
263 09 h7 09 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid, 13 minutes. We

see you've completed the maneuver. Your moment_
is looking good. We'd like the DAS here to put
back in the momentum bias.
SPT Okay, Story. You've got the DAS, and I have not
inhibit - not inhibited TACS yet, either switches
or software. Of course, we're waiting until ll:30
on that. And I don't know whether the backroom's
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interested in the frame count of the frames where

the Sco-X i photographs are taken or not, or whether
that information would Just come out normally. If
they'd like those nnmbers, I'll give them to them.
CC We'd like the numbers, Owen, as usual.
SPT Okay. On S056, frames 276 to 274. Only one of

those is good, of course, and it's one of those
three. S05_, after the two sequences, the frame
counter was 531, so we slewed 16 frames above that.
S052, the final frame count was 5_7, so it's the
frames that's Just above that. And, incidentally,
on the Nu Z update, the orbital plane error was
plus 4.3 before starting JOP 13. And after the
Nu Z update, there was no change, still 4.3.
CC Thank you.
263 09 50 15 PLT Say, Story, I'm trying to set up for this demon-
stration 5530 Bravo l, and I'm trying to find some
lengths of 2-inch grey tape. Can you tell me where
the 2-inch grey tape is? I'm thinking maybe either
you mean the 2-inch neutral or silver-back tape or the
1-inch grey tape that we fix everything with.
CC Okay. We'll get that for you, Jack. And, Owen,

the DAS is yours. We got the biases in and dump
enabled.
263 09 52 39 CC Jack, on the tape, you can use any tape which has
a light background. And the neutral tape will be
fine. And we agree with you, there's probably not
2-inch grey tape on board.
263 09 59 27 CC Skylab, 1 minute to LOS. About a half an hour to

Carnarvon at i0:27.
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263 i0 28 03 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon, 5 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC Was that Owen?
SPT That 's him.
CC Okay. In the next i0 hours sometime, I got a

change to your ETC pad.
SPT Okay. Let me see here. Just a minute. Maybe

now is as good a time as any. Give me about
1 minute and I'll get it out.
CC Okay. No hurry.
263 i0 29 ii PLT Story, I put M556 on to cook at i0:03, and the

COLD I TEM_ was 23 degrees centigrade and the
-3
PRESSURE was 0.2 x i0 torr.
CC Thanks, Jack.
SPT Okay, Story, I've got the pad out. Go ahead.
CC Okay. At 21:07, change STANDBY to RUN TO DEPLE-

TION. We're estimating you only have 5 frames
left, anyway, at that time.
SPT 0kay. I 've got it.
CC 0kay.
263 l0 33 00 CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out here for about

30 seconds, handing over to Honeysuckle. Be
dumping the tape recorders over Honeysuckle.
263 lO 3h 29 CC We're back with you for 7 minutes, Skylab.
SPT Story, about ii: 30, you might give the ATM opera-
tor a reminder on that TACS INHIBIT.
263 i0 35 Ol CC Will do.

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263 i0 38 26 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, on running your entry minus 5 CSM checks,

subtract 2 hours from the time line you got
there. Your time line is going to be 2 hours
ahead of ours. Just subtract 2 hours.
CDR Okay, I Just spent about 30 minutes looking it

over. We're ready to go.
CC 0kay.
CC And, AI, no need to acknowledge, but we're not

going to be ready for CMS loads and that kind
of thing for about 37 minutes until we get to
Bermuda at 11:17.
CDR Okay, do you mind if I bring up the CMC on time

and get a good platform, so that when you give
me the - well you can't. I need to do an option
i. So that means I can bring up the platform
and Just do an option 3 - Just a P-51, then we'd
know where we were. And then when you give me
load, we can do an option I.
CC Stand by i.
CDR What I ,m trying to do is avoid you sending up

the load and then saying take an alignment and
we're in the middle of the night.
CC Yes, we're working that.
263 i0 41 29 CDR Also, I noticed the last alignment is an optic,

so I'm going to need stars and gimbal angles for
that.
CC Okay.
CDR The computer should do it, but I'd like to do

it manually.
CC Okay.
CC A1, we'll need to get your clocks synced and

some other things, so I think you'll have to
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stand by on that to Bermuda. And Bermuda will

be coming up in 35 minutes, at ii:17. And we're
about 30 seconds from LOS.
263 l0 41 19 CDR Okay. Understand, Story; thanks.
263 ll 18 06 CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda, 8 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1, we'd like an E-MOD. That's a VERB 74 ENTER.
CDR Want BIT RATE HIGH or LOW. Let me check what

it is now.
CC It'll be BIT RATE HIGH. And we're already there.
CDR And it's on the way.
CC And, AI, we'd like to know if you've completed

self check and what were the results?
CDR I have not. I waited to start so that you could

see it. And I'm Just finishing up STS powerup.
And then I'll do the self check where you can
watch it.
CDR Did you copy my last?
263 ll 19 44 CC Roger. And you can go ahead with the self check,
and after that we'd like ACCEPT for a clock sync,
and a REFSMMAT update.
CDR Self test is working.
CC A1, could you tell us what the source of the

C&Ws that we're seeing down here are?
CDR Okay. The first one was caused when I put on

CAUTION & WARNING 8A through D, then A and B.
I didn't like the way the lights il1_-,_nated, so
I went to the CM Just to make sure that the
lights and the BUSES were turning out, working
properly, and they are. I pushed RECAT.T.and
got no RECALL, so apparently it was Just a little
quickie there, whenever we activated the ones per
the checklist.
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CC 0kayA1, we need ACCEPT now for clock sync and

REFSMMAT update.
CDR You got it.
CC Okay.
263 ll 25 ll CC A1, we got your Tephem in. We'll complete clock

sync over Madrid. We're about 20 seconds to LOS.
Over Madrid, we'll be doing an entry VHF check,
and on page 3-2, you'll find the reconfiguration
to VHF.
CDR Okay. I was Just staring at it. I'ii get re-

configured right now and you can call me on VHF
if you want.
263 ll 25 36 CC No, sir. We'll get the logic checks first.
CDR All right. Then I'll cool it and wait for that.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm in a hold right now. Did you get the time
in there?
263 ll 25 50 CC We only got part of it in, and I'll have some

time changes for you on pages 3-3 and 3-4, when
we get to Madrid.
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263 ii XX XX CC Skylab, back through Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger. Okay. I'm down to the point where I

can CLOSE the SEQS ARM whenever you're ready.
That's the circuit breaker.
CC Okay, A1. Press on.
CDR Okay. I'm ready to coordinate the next three

steps with STDN and we're standing by for
SEQS LOGIC; two of them, ON.
CC Go.
CDR Okay. They're both ON. Standing by.
CC And, for Jack, we're seeing the TACS INHIBITED.
PLT Okay.
CC A1, you got a good check. We're GO for POWER,

ON.
CDR That's good news. I'ii turn OFF the SEQS LOGIC,
put it back like it was.
CC And when you're ready, A1, configure for VHF.

That'll be on panel 6 on the right side of
page 3-2. And during those comm checks, I can
pass up some times to you on page 3-3 and 3-4.
CDR Okay. I'm going to be off S-band for a few

minutes.
263 ii XX XX CC Okay. I'll come up on VHF.
263 ii 32 25 CDR How do you hear me on the headset? Okay. It's

Just the old speaker box. It doesn't have a
lot of zing to it. All right. Anything
new? Go ahead. I think we can hack it. Go
ahead. I'm ready to copy.
263 ll 33 31 CDR 01255. All zips. Got it. Okay. If you're

satisfied with the VHF, I'll go off it. Okay.
Here we are in S-BAND.
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263 ii 34 12 CC Okay.
CC A1, could you tell us on the - the C and W's -

was that the QUAD Bravo package T_PERATURE or
the SPS oxidizer PRESSURE_
CDR There was no way to tell. When I punched

RECALL, I did not get a recall.
CC Okay.
CDR Two caution and warnings that I have at the

moment are BMAGs 1 and 2. So maybe that was It.
CC Okay.
CDR I could turn them off and turn them back on,
and we could probably get a cl_eck that way,
if - if you're interested.
CC A1, we're about l0 seconds from LOS here. See

you over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 12:02.
You can go to BLOCK now and press on with the
test.
CDR Okay. I'm working away on the needles test and

they're passing.
263 II 37 42 CC Okay.
263 12 02 15 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvom and Honeysuckle for

15 minutes.
CDR Okay. We've run into a little problem we're

probably going to have on entry day. The star's
not available until Just a few minutes before
it goes into momentum dump. So there's not
very much time in there to get the 51, 52. But
we're working on it at the moment.
CC Okay, A1. We're looking at it.
263 12 03 38 CC And the dump Just started, A1.
CDR All right. Well, look, we're going to have tq

hold this 51 until the next sunrise. There's
nothing we can do about it. We went to - we
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can Just leave right now, and we'll probably

have a fairly close alignment. But it probably
won't check the things you want to check. But
we're going to have to look at this for entry
day, because it's liable to even be worse. The
star might not even be available, period.
CC Okay, AI.
CC AI, did you get the P-51 completed? We show

that you have coarse align to platform.
CDR What we di_ was did a P-51 complete. And then

we did a P-52 as far as coarsing align to plat-
form option one. And now we're going to leave
there, and so that's going to give us a pretty
close alignment to what you wanted anyway.
But it will not be trimmed up by the P-52.
263 12 05 h6 MCC Yes. Phil, he - he trims it out afterwards.
CDR Sounds like Vance Brand's voice.
CDR What I 'm looking in my little book for right

now is, I want to exit right now, leaving this
platform aligned as it is.
i CC Okay, A1. We show a good, good coarse align-

ment now. And we show stars 2, h, and 6 avail-
able. And you can probably complete the P-52
now, even in the middle of the dump.
CDR Okay. This might be an interesting task. We'll

get Jack up there and see if he can do it. He
got - I'm not sure he knows how to acquire the
stars unless you want me to use the CSM optics,
which I can do. I'll do that. You think
tars - stars 2, 4, and 6 are available, huh?
CC 2, 4, and 6; and use the CSM optics.
263 12 07 24 CDR Okay. That's what we're going to do.
SPT Story, are you there?
CC Yes, sir, another 9 minutes.

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SPT Just wanted to make sure that we were in a

position to record on the VTR. I'm about to do
that TV-45.
CC Okay, you're GO, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Looks like star 2 is not available. Looks like

it may be occulted by space to craft. We'll
try something else.
CDR No. Take that back, there it sits. I got her

in sight.
263 12 09 41 CC Okay.
CC Okay, A1, we're seeing a good P-52. We've

already got your torque time and your NOUN 9Bs.
CDR And the check star's right in the middle of

the sextant, so I'll get out of this program.
CC Okay. Looking good.
CDR Will those same three be available on entry

day, do you suppose?
263 12 13 25 CC Stand by 1. Okay. We expect 2, 4, and 6 will

be available on entry day.
CDR Excellent. And if this other thing comes up,

we'll be able to - to maybe get in the 51 and
if we have to go to 52, we can go it this way.
Should be - Are you still there?
CC Yes, sir. Another 4 minutes.
263 12 13 51 CDR Sounded like you dropped out. I did the DELTA-V
test and it worked well. Ended up with a
minus 217, which is acceptable. Did the null
bias check and found out we have a drift of
plus 0.6. By that, I mean I started minus 100;
1 minute 40 seconds later, we're indicating
99.4. I ran it twice; once it was 99.4, once
it was 99.3.
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CC Okay.
• CDR ...minus.
263 12 14 32 CDR And I guess I'ii bring on the old BMAGs.
CC You're go for that, AI.
CC And before we lose you here, how'd your error-

needles test go?
CDR Went perfect. Everything looks good on the

needle.
CC Okay.
263 12 15 48 CDR Okay. Let's bring on the old FDAI/GPI power

now.
CDR Okay. We'll start the drift check in a minute.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see

you here over Texas in about half an hour at
12:48.
CDR Okay. We Just began our drift check.
263 12 17 56 CC Okay.
263 12 48 55 CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 14 minutes. Be

dumping the tape recorders over MLA at 12:49.
SPT Roger. Let me know when you're configured for

a down-linkTV, Story.
CC We're ready, Owen.
SPT Okay. You're getting XUV MON, or you will be

as soon as I move my VIDEO switch.
CC And, A1, in the next 13 minutes, got a couple

of questions.
263 12 50 21 SPT For who, was that?
CDR Well, I'm working on ... - -

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CC That 's for CDR.
CDR - - I've got 5 minutes until I'm supposed to do

this little operation here.
CC Okay. We're wondering how the AMS entry checks

went?
CDR Went good. Let me work on this other for you.
CC Okay.
CDR You can hear those gimbal motors growling back

there when you give it the MTVC. Never heard
those before.
263 12 52 ll CC Copy, A1.
CC Owen, you got a good Nu z update.
SPT Are you asking me, or letting me know how it

looks on the ground?
CC No. We're Just telling you it looks good from

down here.
SPT That 's fine. Thank you.
SPT This activity coming over the east limb is cer-

tainly producing a lot of XUV MON brightness
above the limb. There's quite a bit out there
in the corona that we can't see with H-alpha.
263 12 53 09 CC Okay.
CDR Okay. We're i:_5 from the simulated burn.
CC A1, you're too far down in the mud to read you.

Can you adjust your headset or mike or something?
CDR Okay. I just wasn't talking very loud. We're

1:30 from the simulated burn at the moment.
Both HELIUM valves are AUTO. I checked them a
moment ago.
CC Okay.
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263 12 53 49 CC And, Owen, we!d like you to close the star

tracker shutter door.
SPT My barber - my flag is barber pole.
CC We'd like the switch in the CLOSED position.
CDR EMS MODE to NORMAL. THC POWER is OFF per

instructions here. And, of course, right now
is the time, I guess, I'd give it a VERB h6.
In real llfe.
263 12 54 21 SPT It's a barber - it's a momentary switch, Story.

And it was already barber pole, I did cycle it
again. How does your telemetry show it now?
CDR DSKY blank.
CC It 's okay, Owen.
CDH Okay. We'd start ullaging about right now.

But we won't today. We've got the - both
DELTA-V _USTs OFF and we've got both PILOT
VALVES - circuit breakers pulled. So every-
thing's okay. The EMS has counted up to lO0.h.
Okay. We've still got a 9940. Okay. We've
got a 640, 97h0. We've got the engine ON light
Just like we should have. HELIUM valves are
still barber pole. Injector valves are still
closed. We've got the nitrogen pressure. A is
2050 and B is 2300.
263 12 55 51 CDR Okay. There's au ENTER. THRUST light went out

Just per plan.
CDR 99_0, we ENTER. Got a 1685 with a bunch of

residuals. We PHOed. We're through 37; we go
to PO0, now.
CDR Okay. Now this is PCM BIT RATE LOW. But I

don't think you want that, because that's
where - because it wasn't that way when we
started.
CDR Okay, Houston. GIMBAL MOTORS are OFF.

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CC Okay, A1. And you can go to LOW in BIT RATE

so you'll have the switch in the - the proper
position for your checklist.
26B 12 57 08 CDR Okay. I went LOW. BMAGs back to RATE 2. MAIN

bus ties are eomin_ OFF. Now we've got to be
careful here where we got the batteries on
the bus, okay. Because we've kind of done
something f1_nny to the bus there.
CC And everything's been looking great down here.
CDR Concur. It looks fine. Okay. _AIN bus ties

are OFF. EMS is OFF to STANDBY. I might con-
sider biasing this thing about 4/10 of a foot
per second. And it says DSE dump. That's
something you'll be doing, I guess.
26B 12 58 08 CC On that biasing of the EMS, A1, we - we'll

probably have some new numbers for you on
en - entry day.
CDR In other words, you're going to take care of

the bias, huh?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay. That's a good idea. Okay, I think that

circuit breaker panel 275 is right. Let me
doublecheck it one more time.
CDR Okay. That looks good.
26B 12 59 15 CDR Okay. The engine package and the quad HEATERS
are PRIMARY.
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263 13 02 34 CC Skylab, we're _ minute from LOS here. See you

over Madrid in 4 minutes. And, A1, you got
ahead of us a little bit on the RCS checks. How
did they go?
CDR I'm sorry, Story. I thought - thought you'd -

we' d gone AOS. They went Just exactly as planned.
I got the right n11m_ers; everything worked out.
I've got the heaters ON. I went back and did
VERB 48, and

ter, gave it put the4proper
a VERB things byin to
6. Standing theendcompu-
the
SCS drift check at 18. Everything else is com-
plete and satisfactory.
CC Okay, thanks. I got a couple of more questions

and comments we'll pick up over Madrid. And
over Madrid, we'll need to restore ENT 51 that
the self check wiped out, so we'll be asking
you to go to ACCEPT there.
263 13 03 23 CDR Okay. I'ii be ready to do it.
263 13 07 51 CC Skylab, A0S Madrid for 7 minutes, and we'd like

accept, now.
CDR Okay. You gots [sic] it.
CC And how busy are you right now?
CDR Not at all, for another 6 or so minutes,

6 or l0 minutes.
CC Okay. We'd like to know, on the end of P-50,

did you accept the NOUN 23s or did you reject
them?
CDR I noted it didn't say, so I went ahead and

accepted them. May I give them to you?
CC Yes. We're ready to copy.
CDR Okay. 14628, 18002, 00011.

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CC Okay. We're showing those are, essentially,

unchanged.
CDR Surpri se.
CC And could you make some comments on the - the

gimbal motor growls. Did - did that seem normal
to you, from your previous experience?
263 13 09 05 CDR No, it seemed much louder. And I don't recall

them ever growling near that much, although we've
heard them before. Now it may be it's because
we're being held so solid here, inertially, and
then they're moving around. So that has an
effect, although I don't know what it would have,
rather than be an undocked movement. And they
did it both in pitch and yaw, which kind of leads
you to believe that it might be normal. But I
was surprised at the growling of them. And I
think "growling" is a good word because I wasn't
sure it was the gimbal motors for a few minutes.
And then I moved the hand controller, and I said,
"Yes, that's what it is." It was a little bit
different than I recall.
CC Okay. And on your P-51s and P-52s; on the P-51s,

using the sun sensor or the star tracker, you
can't do that during a- during a dump. But
you could do the P-51 on using stars, if they're
available and, of course, you could do the P-52
using stars during the dump. We're looking at
the - the rates that are achieved during a typical
@,mp versus the passive thermal control that
you used'on Apollo, and these dumps are about a
tenth of what the rates were in the passive
thermal control, and you had no trouble doing
52s then.
263 13 lO 29 CDR I concur. AS long as we can find the stars, and

there's not a lot of things to see out the window,
I've noticed, particularly where the Earth and
the - occulting somethings - If we can, somehow, -
get the shaft to trunnion, we can very easily
do it. But what I hope to do is like we did prior
to that EVA - last EVA, where we cranked this
thing up real early, the IMU, anyway, and we get
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a 51 and 52 and Just let it set there. So we

don't have to get into a hassle about getting
a good alignment.
263 1B ll l0 CC Yes, there's no trouble in doing that, 51 early,

A1. We Just passed you a time for your own
• sequencing.
CDR Understand. I'm Just hoping that on real entry

day, we crank it up either the night before or
early in the morning before we start doing any-
thing else. And get over here and get it aligned
and then Just let it float there. Then you can
find those stars and everything else pretty
simple with y'all's help to tell us which ones
are available.
CC And, A1, it's your computer, and we'd like a

VERB 7h to check our low.
CDR Okay, you know BIT RATE LOW is LOW, now, don't
you? I can put it in HIGH, but this'll - might
be best to Just leave it LOW and take longer.
What do you think?
CC You can leave the switch in LOWs but we've

co--,-nded HIGH.
CDR Way ahead of me. It'll be interesting to - -
CC Okay. Stand by. We've lost the MC data down

here.
CDR Okay. It's going to be interesting to see how

brown part of this commnnd module is. Because
I'ii tell you, it seems to me that the workshop
is much more gold in color than it used to be
when we got here. That thing is slowly hut
surely turning sort of a light gold.
263 13 12 54 CC Okay, AI. We've got the data back. You can
give us that VERB 74. And we're thinking down
here that maybe the gimbal motors are louder
now because you've got less background noise
than you've had before. We've got a lot of motors
and fans that aren't running right now.
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CDR I suspect that's probably a good call. The

encouraging thing is that they're the same in
pitch as they are in yaw, which gives you the
feeling that maybe it's not Just one motor
acting funny or one gimbal doing something.
That's the way they always are. You're probably
right. And, of course, it's quiet up here most
of the time, and we're probably less sensitive
to noise than we were some time ago during launch
where we're, you know, around on the Earth. It's
pretty quiet up here most of the time, like
right now.
CC Roger.
CDR I guess we're crossing Italy now. I can see it

out my side window. Looks mightly pretty down
there. See Corsica and - here's Sicily.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 13:41.
And everything we could see in the gimbal motors
down here was good.
263 13 l_ 40 CDR Okay. I'm feel pretty good about them, too.
CDR And I'll be checking out the BMAGS, here. Going

over to BMAG 1 here in another 3 or _ minutes.
i
263 13 14 50 CC Okay.
263 13 h2 00 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon, 5 minutes.
PLT Hey, Story, let me give you a little word on this

diffusion experiment. I got the little tube all
set up, and the swab in the top. It got soaked
in water, of course. Then I went to put the tea
on top of it and waited about an hour and nothing
happened. The tea Just stayed right on the top
of it. And I'm guessing that, probably, nothing
will happen. And, maybe, what we ought to do
is - get a swab and soak it with tea and stick
it in the top. And - like for you folks to
think about it down there for a while and - and -
let me know what you think we ought to do.
CC Okay. Get back with you.

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263 13 43 06 CDR Story, I've got the aw - results of that that

BMAG 2 Zest, if you need them.
CC And, A1, for your P52, stars 2, 4, and 6 are

still good.
CDR Okay, I'm waiting until the proper time, unless

you want me to do it now. But I can give you the
BMAG 2 check, if you'd like it.
CC Okay. We'd like 2 and 1 test results.
CDR Okay, i is not finished, of course, yet. Here's

2: 16436, 33590, 00083. That was NOUN 20.
Same time, the ASCP thnmhwheels were 162.8,
337.8, 001.4. Start time was 18:00; stop time
was 27:05. So it amounted to 09:05, as far -
correction, 1 hour, 09:05 as far as time is
concerned.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Now I got a little information for the

food people here.
CC Go.
263 13 44 32 CDR I was looking over their meal B for entry day
in the command module to m_ke sure it was all
here. And a couple of things I noticed, and
you might pass on to them. They may want to
re - change it. They said for us to get out -
some things out of overage. For example, - Just
a minute, let me look at something.
263 13 45 27 CDR No, forget it. I found it right here. Thank

you.
263 13 45 47 CDR Well, I still can't find it. It says - Are you
still there?
CC Yes, we've got another minute here.
CC And, A1, you can go ahead with the P52.
CDR All right. I'll go ahead on that. But they

indicate that the PLT is going to eat two
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sausages - We can work that problem. Okay.

I think we can handle it. There's some veal.
All right, we got it all.
CC Okay, good. We're 30 seconds from LOS and

6 minutes from Honeysuckle.
263 13 46 35 CDR Okay. And I'm going on to 52.
263 13 53 42 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 1 minute.
CDR Okay. Could - would you be interested in the

results of that last P527
CC Yes, sir. And you need to hurry.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Stars 2 and h, all zips.

NOUN 93, plus 0.13h, minus 2, that's 002,
minus 051. And time of gyro torque was 13:49:22:00.
CC Okay. Thanks, A1. And when you get done with

your checks there, you're GO for a powerdown.
And remember to get your VERB 45, that's activate
the dock DAP, along the way, there.
CDR If it's in there, I'ii get it, I hope. I - there

it is. I'll sure do it. I'm Just standing by
until this 30-minute check runs out.
263 13 54 47 CC Okay. And for Jack, I - We want you to check

that pad between the tea and the water. Be
sure you got good contact of the fiber pad up
between the tea mud the water. And also, Jack,
the Goddard Space Flight Center laser may be
visible from 14:32 to 14:36. We're going LOS
here; we'll see you over Texas in half an hour
at 14:23.
263 14 23 04 CDR Sounds like Houston trying to lock up on us.
PLT No, Story.
CDR Hello, Houston !
CC Yes, sir. We got you stateside, 15 minutes.
PLT Hey, Story, my spotmeter readings don't agree

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CC We're breakin up pretty bad here. Stand by about

30 seconds until we get a solid lockon.
PLT Very well.
CDR Solid lock !
CC Okay. We're good now.
PLT Okay, mY ca - spotmeter's reading 1/25th at

f/16, as opposed to 1.8 like the pad suggest
it might.
263 lh 23 51 CDR S is STANDBY. R is STANDBY. Let me read you

some information.
PLT Want me to go to my reter - meter readings there,

Story?
CC What's your distance, Jack?
PLT Oh, I got it locatedabout - well, it shouldbe

about 3 feet.
CC Okay.
PLT That's what it is, 3 feet. I got f/16 at 1/25

is what I'm spotting.
CDR Okay, Story, let me read you A-9, which is zero;

actually, it's off scale low. B-0 is 1O, C-0
is 2, D-9 is 8.
SPT Story, question from the ATM backroom. I'm

doing a shopping list 19 over on the east limb
instead of the west, where there is a very large
area of brightness Just coming around, and I'd
like to know if 82B wants to participate in
thi s. Ove r.
CC Okay, Owen.
263 14 2h 53 CDR Story, why don't I read you the results of that
friendly little aligDm_nt while ago? I mean the
BMAG check.
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CC Okay, we can - we're pretty busy, here on other

things. Let's take that up over Bermuda.
263 14 25 07 CDR Okay, can't handle it, huh? Okay. Well, we

finally overloaded them down there, Jack. Knew
it would happen.
PLT Okay, the antenna's pointing forward now. Looks

like it's down to plus Z, all right, but it's
pointing forward, and I got some pictures of it.
CC Owen, we concur with your suggestions.
PLT Baja, how about that? Good old Baja.
CDR ... over the US. We've probably got 80 pictures

of that.
PLT Know we didn't get anymore here; that's for

sure (laughter). Okay.
CC Jack, use the spotmeter readings you're getting

onboard.
PLT Okay, 1/25 at f/16 is what I'm shooting.
CDR It's Just standing there, isn't it, Jack?
PLT It's not doing anything right now.
CDR Right, it's in the park position, 45 forward,

or something like that.
PLT Yes, looks like it's forward and pretty much

straight down. Now, here, it's going to be
NONCONTIGUOUS, so it's going to fly back and go
step, step, step, step and fly back to the other
side-- step, step, step.
263 14 26 21 CDR EREP at START, Jack.
PLT - - and
263 14 26 24 CDR S19 - S is ON and R is ON. We're standing by

now.
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PLT Give me a hack before you go to ALTIMETER, ON,

will you?
263 14 26 B4 CDR I most certainly will.
CDR S is ON, R is ON.
263 14 26 35 PLT There it goes .... on the right - -
CDR RAD and GIMBAL light is illuminated; it's

blinking.
PLT Swinging to the right. It looks like it might

be moving, but I can't tell. Jiggling it a
little bit - there it goes. It swung out to
the left and back to center.
263 14 26 50 CDR Got both READY lights on.
PLT Left, center, right, left. It hasn't ever got

to minus Z - or plus Z, rather. Looks like
• it's Just doing - ditheringaround at random.
It goes clear to the right stop now; it's on the
right stop. What - what you got it in now, Al?
CDR Same old thing.
PLT Okay, it went to the right stop and is hanging

up there, and every once in a while it twitches
a little. Twitches off and starts toward the
center and goes back. Now it goes to the left - -
CDR Okay, let me talk a second.
PLT But it wasn't unif - wasn't stepping; it was

Just a swing over there. It's swinging off
the right stop to the center and back to the
right, now. It's going to - -
263 14 27 32 CDR A-9 - A-9 is 5, B-0 is i0, C-0 is offscale

low, D-9 is 6. Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, it's hung up on the right stop now and

it's Just twitching a little bit. Every once in
a while it swings towards the center a little
bit, and comes back to right stop - that time it
swang back, probablyall the way to the center,
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maybe all the way to the left. Now it looks

like it's looking straight down and, it's zinging
back to the right, but it's not giving us any
def- definite step movement.
CC We got the carrier on the EDDU down-link, but

we don't have any modulations.
PLT We got both switches right.
CDR Everything's okay. It was right a few minutes

ago.
PLT Let me know when you go to another mode, A1.
CDR All right. I'm going to STANDBY in a minute.
PLT It's not doing anything uniform, Story. It's

moving off of stop and Just swinging over to the
left; then it'll hesitate for a minute, then come
back to the right stop, but it's not swinging
right, stepping back to center, swinging left
and stepping back to center like it's supposed
to. And it never has pointed straight down,
it's still pointing forward.
263 14 28 43 CDR I'm in in - TRACK NONCONTIGUOUS and it'll start

up in a minute.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR We're standing by to go IN-TRACK NONCONTIGUOUS.
PLT Okay, let me look that up. That's at 12:19.
CDR 29:30, which is about 33 seconds from now.
PLT It's supposed to swing way forward and then step

back to zero; swing forward, step back to zero.
Right now it's looking forward, toward the
command module, and it might be straight down
and it might be at the right stop; I can't tell
which.
CC Owen, Houston.
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SPT Go ahead.
CC Between 14:32 and 14:B6, if you get a chance,

look out STS 2 and see if you can see the
Goddard laser.
263 i_ 29 31 CDR S, ON, R, ON.
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CC Yesterday we ran it 20 watts; we'll be running it

2-1/2 watts today, and we're trying to calibrate
that.
263 14 29 40 SPT Okay, that's 32 to 36.
PLT Okay, now the antenna apparently wasn't all the

way forward. We're looking forward, but now it
went down in the forward stop and it - it occa-
sionally comes back to the original position and
then it goes right back to the forward stop and
bounces. Now to the forward stop and it's try-
ing to bounce off a little bit. It comes up
occasionally and then bounces against the stop,
Just kind of dumps itself out.
CC And, Owen, have you got the camera up there?
SPT I don't think so; I'ii check.
PLT It's doing the same thing. It doesn't come back

to the same - -
CC If you got an opportunity I've got the camera

settings.
PLT For what?
263 14 !3026 CDR Okay, let me give you A-9 again. A-9 is plus 3,
B-0 is plus 8, C-0 is plus 2, D-9 is plus 8.
SPT Okay, go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, it's still on a forward stop and every

once and a while it looks like somebody just
kicks it a little bit and it comes off the stop
and goes right back to it and Just bounces and
damps itself out on the stop and then it - a
little while later it'll come back off the stop
to a different location, and go right back to
stop and bounce on it a while. Its swing off the
forward stop, back to plus Z, is erratic; it
doesn't go to the same place when it comes off
f
the stop everytime. It certainly is not doing
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any kind of stepping at all. It looks like some-

thing is trying to get it off of stop, but noth-
ing - nothing mR king steps. Right now it's not
doing anything.
26B 14 31 30 CDR S, STANDBY, R, STANDBY. I'ii give you the A-9

again. A-9 is 3 percent, B-0 is 9 percent, C-0
is 2 percent, D-9 is 8 percent. Switch position
going off on the down-linkbox.
PLT Okay, now we - AI went to STANDBY. It came off

the forward stop - -
26B i_ 31 53 CDR S, off; R, off. EREP going to STOP.
PLT It came off the forward stop. Oops, now it's

doing something. It's swinging to the left.
263 14 31 59 CDR Displays OFF. BUS i, OFF; and BUS 2, OFF and
that's the end of the show.
PLT Okay, when A1 went to STANDBY, I think that's

what he said, it came off the forward looking
stop, but it did not go back all the way to zero,
I do not believe. Later on, - -
CDR Yes.
PLT - - About the time he said he went to OFF why it

swung to the left as I look at it. To the right
if you're looking through the - with your head
toward the command module. But it did not ever
swing back so that it looks like it's straight
down. It appears to be looking forward yet,
although it may possibly be in the right vertical
plane although it's difinitely not looking straight
down, it's looking more forward.
SPT What settings do you want, Story?
263 14 32 53 CC Okay, Owen, that's F/II, at 1/250, with a

55-millimeter lens.
CDR Not contiguousing. [sic]
SPT Okay, that's for the Nikon 300-millimeter now,

Story. Right?
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CC That 's a 55-millimeter.
SPT I got the 300-millimeter lens on, I'm going to have

to leave it there.
CC Let me get you some settings.
263 14 33 27 CC And, A1, if you're done with S193, we can use you
in the command module for about 5 minutes.
PLT EREP guys got any questions down there about what
I was trying to describe?
CC No, sir, we certainly needed that running commen-

tary. It doesn't look like we got any EDDU and
the running commentary, that's the data we got.
Thank you.
PLT Okay, I don't know why; it was all hooked up right.
CDR Be in the cormand module in a minute.
CC Okay.
263 14 34 42 PLT I guess in s1_mmary, Story, it looks to me like the

thing's kind of doing the same thing in both modes.
It goes to a stop and then it looks like somebody
kind of boots it but it goes off a little ways, and
it looks like the guy who's booting it, boots it
with a different strength each time. And it goes
to a random place and comes back like it had a
spring on it, hits the stop and kind of bounces a
little bit - bouncing damps out, and sits there a
while and then it looks like somebody kicks it
again.
SPT Don't see the laser, Story, but I don't - I think

they're not tracking us ... good.
PLT That's getting it.
263 14 35 14 CC Okay, Owen, shutter speed 1/500 and f/8 on the

300-millimet er.
SPT Just a minute, I think we got it in sight here.
263 lh 36 28 CC No need to acknowledge, Owen, but the laser is on.

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SPT Okay, Jack and A1 both have it visually. I didn't

see it, but Jack and A1 both have it and it looks
like we got a couple of pictures of it.
CC Okay. Super. And it's off now.
CDR It didn't look like a bright point; it looked

like three bright points lined up in a line,
parallel with the horizon. It was much more
than Just a single point.
CC Okay.
CDR And it was not a blob. If I'd seen it somewhere

else I'd have thought it was like a neon tube,
the diam - the length - the diameter was - length
was maybe 20 times longer than its apparent
diameter or width, or whatever you want to call
it.
CC Okay.
263 14 38 28 CDR I'm in the command module now, Story. We double

checked our down-linkbox and it was connected
perfectly.
263 14 38 35 CC Okay, we're a minute from LOS here, and about

5 minutes from Madrid. And I've got you - got
some things for you to hook up there so we can
verify some data.
CDR Well, I'm standing right here to do it.
CC Panel 275; circuit breaker, BAT BUS A and B. BAT

A and B, two of them closed. That's circuit
breaker BAT BUS A and B, BAT A and B, two closed.
CDR I was going to mention that the voltage is down

on those things and we may need a charge. Looks
like about 33 when I looked at it previously.
I'll look at it right now.
263 14 39 13 CC Okay, that's the next thing coming up. Read out
the BAT BUS A and B volts, and the BAT C volts.
263 lh 39 20 CDR BAT A is 33.8. BAT B, 33.3.
CC And BAT C?
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CDR 36 - wait a minute. 36.5. When we started this

mission, A and B were up there, too.
CC Okay, I'm going over the hill here now. On panel

275, you can open up those circuit breakers.
BAT BUS A and B, BAT A and B, two open.
CDR They're open.
263 14 39 58 CC Okay, and coming up over Madrid in h injures. I'll

Just have a couple more questions for you and
then that will complete the command module check.
CDR Okay, and I'll give you the BMAG goodies.
CC Yes, sir, I'll be looking at BMAG 1 and also we'd

like to know what the BMAG warm-up - after you
went to warm-up, how long the temperature - how
long did it take for the temperature light to go
out?
CDR I do not know.
263 lh 45 05 CC Skylab, AOS Madrid, 8 minutes.
CDR Story, do not know the time the lights went out,
but any other information you need?
CC How about the BMAG 1 drift results?
CDR I think I've got them.
CC Go.
263 14 45 53 CDR 164.42; 337.25; 003.08; that's NOUN 20. Here

comes the ASCP thumhwheels: 1643, 3377, 0033,
and the Delta-P was 3900.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything else?
CC No, sir. We're going to be looking over all of

this for the next couple of days to get a firm
status on the CSM. Vance will be coming on the
line here over Honeysuckle at 15:30 to give you
the topics of discussion during the procedures
review and then he'll come back at about 16:00
stateside and discuss all the entry procedures
with you.
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CDR Excellent, I thought I heard his voice a couple

of hours ago.
CC Yes, sir. He was plugged in with me, and sup-

posedly on ADF conference and we were air-ground
then.
CDR Good to hear him again. Say, did you want me to

put the PCM BIT RATE HIGH or do you want me to leave
it where it where it is in LOW?
263 14 47 15 CC You can leave the switch in LOW, A1.
CDR All right, is there any other switches that you

see out of position that you'd like me to recon-
figure?
CC One more thing, A1. On another 509 run, whether

2 hours was enough - that's only a 30-minute run
and it's unsuited. Do you still think that 2 hours
is not enough?
CDR We could stu_e try it. I mean we're game to try,

but we might run over, so position it at a place
where we can run over. It's Just hard to get all
of that gear together. That's - It's a tough one
to assemble and get on and strap in and check out.
It Just - it Just takes awhile. If - maybe we can
get a little lead time on it or something. We're
game to give it a go, I'll tell you that.
263 14 48 57 CC We'll schedule you a little more than 2 hours on

that, Al. And could you comment on the comparison
between the brightness of the laser you saw yes-
terday and the brightness of the laser you saw
today?
CDR I did not see it yesterday and I don't think Owen

saw it today, so that's a little bit tough to do.
Now the thing that puzzles Owen and I both, Owen's
convinced that maybe I didn't see the laser - or
Jack didn't, because it was not a pinpoint of
light. However, it's the only bright thing I've
seen on Earth, so I personally think it was the
laser, but I don't know why it appeared as a
horizontal line as opposed to one bright dot. It
was plenty bright to see by the eye and we saw - at
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least the thing I saw. It stood out well. It

was sort of a green color and it tracked us well
until we were perhaps 1 minute past the site.
263 lh 49 53 CC Okay, that does - does sound like the laser. I

guess we don't have a comparison and - all of the
command module switches we're looking at, they
all look good from down here.
CDR Okay, I think I'll go find my lunch.
CC And before Jack digs into his dinner, I need to

talk to him for a short while.
PLT I'm here, go ahead, Story.
263 14 50 26 CC Jack, could you confirm that - in your running

commentary on the 193 test, that when you were
using the term "righthand" that this was in the
motion towards left of track?
F PLT Yes, when I say it moves to the right, that meant

it moved toward my right and I looking aft so that
would have been to the left of track.
CC 0kay, thank you.
263 lh 51 l_ CC And Jack, did you happen to notice if the - the

fiber is in - is in contactwith the tea and the
water?
b
PLT Well, I haven't had a chance to go back and do

that again yet, but here's what happened. I put
the water in and then I put the little fiber thing
on top to make the - and then I pushed it down a
little bit and there's a little air bubble forms
under it so you got to push it down and let the
air out. Then it gets a little wet so, then I
made sure that the - the wet fiber was in contact
with the water. And then I put the tea on top of
the wet fiber and it didn't go anywhere. It Just
stood up there and filled up the rest of the tube
and it didn't go anywhere at all. So then I tried
taking all the tea out with a syringe and injected
it a little further down alongside the fiber.
Well, that didn't work very good either because
-- some of it slipped by and went on down into the
water so that's where it stands right now. And my
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suggestion is that we soak up a new fiber with

tea and stick it in there and contact with the
water and then let it do it's thing, because I
don't think the other one was going to do anything
at all. The tea would not diffuse on down into
the fiber while I was watching it, anyway.
CC Okay. You did get all the bubbles out?
PLT Yes, I got a good interface between the fiber and

the water. I could do that.
263 14 52 37 CC And how about the contact between the fiber and
the tea?
PLT Yes, that was good, too. There's a - the tea is

a little bubbly but they're just very small bub-
bles in it. There's no way to do it differently.
That's Just the way the tea mixes up and gets into
the syringe. But there's no big bubbles, just a
little bit frothy but that had good contact with
the fiber.
263 14 53 00 CC Okay, thanks. We're at 30 seconds from LOS here.

We'll give you a good &O minutes to eat. See you
over Honeysuckle at that time, at 15:30. And I
guess Vance will be talking to you then.
263 15 31 22 CC SkYlab, AOS Honeysuckle for 3 minutes. Here's

Vance.
PLT Hi, Vance.
MCC Hey, how you doing? You guys really been - -
CDR We really haven't got much to say in 3 minutes.
MCC Yes. I don't know if we'll get much done in the

3 minutes, but, A1, we're prepared to answer, first
of all, the questions you sent us the other day.
And ready to copy any more you might have or - or
discuss it in - things informally or whatever
you'd like.
CDR Okay, we're ready; go ahead.
MCC Okay. The - the point you brought up the other

day, the Mae West donning thing is out - out of
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sync with the suit doffing, and I think that that

will be corrected in a pad that we have here ready
to send up. And, the next thing was the - you
asked about when do we do the secondary and pri-
mary water evaporator activation. And I think
maybe the stuff you've received rec - recently
might have squared that away. Do you still have
a question on that?
263 13 32 34 CDR No question; understand now. Thanks, Vance.
MCC Okay. Okay, we only have 15 seconds, A1. And

probably the nmxt thing will be discussion of the
hypergarment and when you wear it. And we'll
see you next time.
CDR Thanks for the briefing. See you on the ground.
MCC Okay, see you in a few minutes.
CC Okay, we'll pick you up over Goldstone, Skylab,

at 15:59. Vance will have 15 minutes that state-
side pass.
263 15 33 04 CDR Okay, ask Vance - here's a question he might want

to think about. How would it, if we did use the
... (Static)
263 15 59 14 CC Skylab, AOS, stateside, ii minutes.
CDE Okay.
MCC Say, AI, you cut out on that last transmission,

where you were asking a question. Would you re-
peat that, please?
CDR The question was just, when you get a chance you
might discuss, if we did do an RCS burn, how we
sequence through the different tanks that we
have.
MCC Okay, like PSM quads etcetera, huh?
CDR That could be later, in other words, do you burn

out the PSM first and then shift over to the
primaries or - I mean the quads or what? But
that's of low priority; go ahead.
f
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MCC Okay, that's a good question. It's already been

discussed down here. There's a lot more gas in
the PSM. We'd like to see you use up the PSM
first and then shift - shift to the quads.
263 16 00 09 CDR Well, I gather you just keep burning until you
started to lose attitude control, is that how
you would do it? The minute you start to lose
attitude control, you'd assume that you were out
there and then switch to the quads or what?
CDR Would you watch the pressure? I'm not sure - I'm
not sure how you know exactly when to shift.
MCC Okay, there is - We'll check it down here, but

think, A1, what the answer is going to be is that
you're going to have caution and warning lights
coming on, telling you you're going down on
pressure, but stand by on that one.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your things, Vance.
MCC Okay. And let me finish off that darn Mae West
by just giving you the quick checklist change
right on the spot. Have you got page 12-1 open
there?
CDR Sure do.
263 16 01 08 MCC Okay. Where you see F-1 unstow and don Mae West,
just scratch that, move it to the next page at
the very end of - item - of pin and ink number 8,
which is after doffing.
CDR Okay, it's there. So go ahead.
MCC Okay. Next; counter pressure garments, you asked

about that. There has been a lot of discussion on
how that should be handled down here. Basically,
it's your option to inflate the counter pressure
garment to 175 millimeters of mercury, prior to
the SPS deorbit burn. You can do that if you
want or - or not. After splashdown, the garment
must be inflated to 175 and maintained at that
until you're in the SMLs.
26B 16 02 05 MCC And, I think that'll probably give you what you
want in option.
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263 16 02 i0 CDR Okay, let me make sure now. If you do do it prior

to the burn, then you do it on the water, or I
mean before you get out on the ship. If you don't
do it prior to burn, what do you do? Do you - do -
then do it on the ship?
MCC In any case, you do it after splash on the water,

and you keep it inflated until you're on the ship.
But the option applies to whether or not you inflate
it before the burn. For example, if you decided
to inflate it before the burn, you could depres-
surize it until you are on the water, or leave it
inflated until you are on the water.
CDR Okay, I think that's a good idea. I haven't liked

leaving it pressurized so long. What do Paul,
Joe, and Pete say about this SPS burn? That was
F one of my big questionstoday. You've talked with
them about it, I guess, what's their thinking?
MCC Okay. They're sort of - for it - Paul and Joe,

I've talked to, and Story. Story is right here.
He's been in the middle of this item. Why don't
I let you listen to him?
263 16 03 21 CC Both Joe and Paul had a - a slight graying out,

or narrowing of their vision during the - their
first SPS burn. And apparently that was enough
to get the reflexes going; that during the second
SPS burn, they had no symptoms at all. It's our
feeling though, AI, that this is probably an ar-
terial reflex and that the - the counter pressure
garment itself, which prevents venous pooling, it
probably isn't going to help you a lot during the
burn.
CDR It sounds like that there doesn't appear to be an

easy way get our reflexes in shape. That - that
burn is going to be sort of tunnel vision. Is
that correct? Would you assume that?
CC Joe and Paul did on the first one; they had no

symptoms on the second.
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CDR How about Pete on the first one?
CC No, Pete never did on either one.
CDR Well, we're in pretty good shape, we're liable not

to either. Go ahead then.
CC It sure won't hurt to inflate it though, but that's

your option.
263 16 04 18 CDR Okay, I plan to inflame it, by the way. Go ahead.
263 16 04 21 CC Okay, next thing, A1.
MCC You asked the question about where do you go

spacecraft control to CMC AUTO after undocking?
You wondered was it before or after the RCS check?
The answer to that, we expect you to come off,
undock, in CMC FREE, that'll give you a MIN
IMPLUSE mode on the dock DAP. Then, when you're
clear of the SWS, you will go into the CM RCS check
directly, and that'll put you into SCS FREE. Then
when you finish that, you'll end up in SCS FREE
and then switch over to CMC AUTO, if that's clear.
CDR Okay, that's clear. Would you please put these

three sentences on a pad and send them up on a
piece of paper? And then I'll look through my
checklist and make sure it's right.
MCC Okay. That brings up another point. Those three

pages, right in that - that area from about 12 -
well or more, 12-1 through ]2-5. We're curious
to know how clobbered up your book is, right in
there. You know, what we could do if we want -
wanted to send up a teleprinter message to - to
redo the left side of those pages. It's up to you.
263 16 05 46 CDR No, I think it's okay. I Just want to - and I

think we have all the changes in there. I just
want to make sure that I understand the philosophy
and that the - the words reflect it because I
don't think we'll have any trouble. I've been
working with this book plus that nice time line
you sent up, and it's been working real well.
But I Just want to make sure I understand what
the plan is.
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MCC Yes. Basically, the CM RCS check has to be done

in SCS, or we desire it to be. And, basically,
when you undock, you want to be in im- MIN IMPLUSE
so you don't spray your solar panels. And after
all of that smash is finished, then you'll want
to be in CMC AUTO so that you can get your AUTO
m_neuvers and that sort of thing with the dock
DAP control.
CDR Okay. How about - go ahead and continue. I've

got about five more questions after you're finished.
263 16 06 h0 MCC Okay. You asked Just prior to the SPS burn, why,
1 minute before the burn we do the VERB h6; why
we don't do it sooner? The answer to that is that
the - the attitude hold using dock DAP is so good,
and keeps you pointed so well, that we'd like to
stay in dock D__P until the last minute before the
burn, and then there's very little chance you'll
do any drifting before you start the ullage. But
you have to be certain that you do the VERB h6
f about a minute before the burn because your ullage
will be not good if you forget that.
263 16 07 26 CDR Okay, and it's Just a simple VERB h6 takes you out
of the dock into the undock. We previously loaded
the proper numbers in there and away you go. And
there's no check, Just do it and then, when 20 sec-
onds come, you'll find out that it worked okay.
Is that correct?
MCC That's exactly right. Of course, we mention in

one of the study guides that you might, during the
coasting phase, sometime leading up to the burn,
go into the undock DAP and maneuver just a little
bit to see how it feels. And you do that by Just
doing a VERB h6 maneuver using the RHC and THC
for yaw, and then when you're satisfied, do a
VERB h5, ENTER again.
CDR Okay, I plan to do that. They've got it under the

plan as OJT, so I'm going to do it.
MCC Okay. And I might mention that when you do that,

be real careful to notice which way you have to
control with the THC when you yaw or correct yaw
in a certain direction.
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CDR Okay, well, I figured it was fly from. Now the

question is, when you're flying it with the THC,
do you try to keep the needle centered on a fly
from thought? Or do you get your mind turned
around where you Just fly the ball?
263 16 08 47 MCC I use the needles and- and that's the only way
to go. And you'll be set up to use the needles.
If you see your error needle going off to the
left, meaning you have to correct to the left in
yaw, then, as I recall, you do a THC to the right.
So it's kind of a fly from situation, which is a
little strange. That's why you might think about
it when you do the OJT. You got that?
263 16 l0 03 MCC Okay, Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?
CC Okay, Houston - or Skylab, Houston. How do you

read now?
CDR Okay, read you well. And question was, how do

you know when to put BMAG - be all BMAG, Just
leave it in RATE, or when to put it in ATT l,
RATE 2 with the other two when you do them?
MCC Okay, A1. I don't know where we - -
CC Picking you up over Bermuda in about a minute.
MCC Okay, we'll - we'll hit that one under - over

Bermuda. Did you get all of my transmission on
the fly from bit?
263 16 ll 21 CDR Sure did, Vance, and understand that one. No -

no need to say more.
MCC Okay. Basically, it doesn't hurt much if you drag

a BMAG around, but I'll give you some words on
what the little simple rule on that will be.
263 16 _l 42 MCC Okay, here we are at Bermuda. How about that?

Okay, basically you handle the BMAGs for this
nominal entry Just like you would if you had four
quads, with one exception, if you ever get into
a control mode where - where you're using the THC
for yaw control, then put the yaw BMAG to, say,
RATE 2 so that it's caged, and you won't drag it
around. But for burns, Just go by the checklist
and in - in general Just follow the checklist.
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CDR Okay, so it's a drag - around problem as opposed

to any sort of switchover problem or things of
that nature?
MCC That's correct. Not really very much to be

concerned about.
CDR 0kay, understand.
263 16 12 37 MCC Okay, you had one question about - for the CM
RCS check. Are we in CMC MIN IMPLUSE or SCS MIN
IMPLUSE? I think our up-links have squared that
away. It's SCS MIN IMPLUSE.
CDR Okay, you're right.
MCC And that was a confusing section that we think's

all in good shape now. You asked about what do we
mean by AUTO RCS SELECT 12 to MAIN A, to MAIN B.
We didn't want to clobber your checklist too much
so we looked for a convenient notation that we
could use that was familiar. And basically, that's
F Just your ring-l, ring-2-type notation. But when
we say that let me - Why don't you copy down,
really, which jets are on MAIN A and which are
MAIN B, if you're ready to copy.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
MCC Okay, that means A/C ROLL, 4, OFF. Okay, and

RING l, 6 in parenthesis, to MAIN A, and those are :
Bravo l, Bravo 2, Charlie 3, Alfa 4, Bravo 3, and
Delta 4. And RING 2, 6, to MAIN B, and those are:
Delta l, Delta 2, Alfa 3, Charlie h, Delta 3, and
Bravo 4. Now is that clear?
CDR Okay, I've got them. You don't need to say more
there.
MCC Okay. And you asked about having a teleprinter

pad sent up for your checklist for page 7-4, the
completion, and I think you've got that. We also
sent one up for 7-3. Next thing is go-around
strategy, if you're ready.
CDR Okay, ready.

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MCC Okay, So for the case that your - in your nominal

deorbit an SPS fails to light; what do you do?
The strategy is as follows. And we can actually
send it up on a teleprinter later, because it's
a little bit long and maybe I could Just explain
it to you here.
263 16 15 31 CDR That's a good idea.
MCC 0kay. It's a - it's a two quad, two impulse, RCS

deorbit with an addition, having B-_ on quad Bravo
enabled. And it's going to be - You'll get your
first pad over Vanguard at a PET of 21:00 or
21 hours, rather, and that'll be the pad for RCS 1.
Now the nominal T. for ECS 1 would be 2h minutes
ig
after you get the pad, about 21:24. And it'd be
a DELTA-V of 185 feet per second, a burn time of
14 minutes, taking you down to a perigee of
130 miles. Next, you'd coast for two revs between
RCS 1 and RCS 2. You'd get your RCS 2 pad over
Vanguard at 2_ hours and 7 minutes, and the RCS 2
T. would be 2h hours and 25 minutes with the
ig
same DELTA-V and the same burn time as you had
for RCS 1. And it would take you down to a -
that is a DELTA burn time, lh seconds. And that'd
take you down to 37 nautical miles.
263 16 16 55 CDR Okay, I understand.
263 16 16 57 CC And we're going LOS here, A1. You can keep talking.
We'll see you over Madrid in 5 minutes. You'll
have a 10-minute pass there.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, the - the entry would be, lift down to

one g, and then it would be GEN. Entry interface
would come at 25 hours and 5 minutes, and the
splash would be about 300 nautical miles southwest
of Johnson Island at a time of 25:22. And you'd
have a fixed-wing airplane covering the splash
area dropping swimmers by parachute.
CDR Okay, understand now.

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MCC Okay. Incidentally, you'd go into chapter 8 for

your RCS burn, and that's the planned two-quad
deorbit procedure which we have ch__nged somewhat
but which - If there are any other chsmges, we'll
get up to you later. Do you still read?
CDR ...
263 16 21 47 MCC Okay, Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear, waiting to hear what you got to

say.
MCC Okay, A1, I think that covered your initial questions.

I'm standing by for more questions and have a
couple of comments, one - one of the questions
later on - -
MCC Helos is 3-1/2 hours.
MCC Okay. Oh, somebody Just said that in addition to

what I just gave you about the - the two-impulse
deorbitwould be that you'd get helos in 3 hours -
about 3 hours after splash. Now to go back, we
thought you might like to run over some of the
denser checklist pages to make sure you're right.
Specific - or that you have them all copied in
right_ specifically, pages 12 - i through 5 in
the Entry Checklist, and possibly a couple of
pages in the Deactivation Checklist, like 288 and
289. How do you feel about that?
CDR I've got some questions here I'd much rather ask
you about and then work that problem_ or they can
send up verbatim on a pad what ought to be - on
the teleprinter - what ought to be on those pages,
because I think I've got them right now. But if
they Just send up in sequence what ought to be
on there, then I can doublecheck mine against the
pad.
MCC Okay. Well, let's hold that then and why don't
you give us your questions.
CDR Okay. What's your opinion of the - Is there any

part of this time line that seems a little tight
to you when you flew it in the simulator?
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MCC No, I really can't say that there were any tight
places. You have what appears to be a lot of time
before undocking and you have a long coast period.
And if there's anything I could say, it seemed
rather nominal, procedurally. I know we don't
normally do a single-impluse deorbit, but I thought
there was plenty of time.
CDR Okay, that's sort of the way it looked to me. Now

you're going to pass some more information up on
handling the PSM and shifting to the quads and
that sort of thing, so I won't say anything more.
Give me your subjective opinion again about flying
the vehicle with the undocked DAP, with the docked,
and also with the CSM thrusters alone.
MCC Okay, very good. First of all, the most preferred

mode during coasting flights is a docked DAP;
it's - it's Just really good, super. It's ASmost
like having four quads, especially for auto ma-
neuvers and that sort of thing. We smoked it for
a long time before we decided to send it up because
we wanted to m_e sure there wasn't anything wrong
with it. The only thing that's a disadvantage is
you've got to be sure that you get that VERB _6 in
to kill it just before the burn - 1 minute before.
The - You can use a RHC and it's a superb control
Now, if you go to the undocked DAP, or SCS control
modes where you have to use the THC, it's - it's
not super, but it's - it's good. It's kind of
bothersome to have to control with the THC all
the time. You don't have an attitude-hold capa-
bility, so you_ave to watch to make sure you're
not drifting toward gimbal lock, something like
that. I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to fly on
that control mode. We thought in the beginning
that's what you'd be on all the time. And there's
a slight cross-coupling that you get when you move
the THC, that cross-couples into roll. And so if
you do a THC, you may or may not have to do a
little roll correction.
CDR But would you put it ATT i, RATE 2 on pitch and

roll and then fly the THC. Or would you just leave
them all in rate and fly manually? Preferred?
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MCC Well, I guess if - I - would leave it pitch and

roll in ATT i, RATE 2 because whenever I move the
hand controller, the RHC, it's going to cage the
BMAGs, so it's not going to drag them around, and
you'll at least get att - attitude hold on two
axes when you want it. Of course, the yaw I would
leave caged in RATE 2, then.
CDR Okay, understand. Now how about the CSM?
MCC I'm sorry; you were cut out, A1.
CDR Just the command module alone?
MCC Okay.
CDR With the service module on the back end.
MCC Right. Okay. That, once again, isn't quite as

nice a control mode. That's one step down; the
best being docked DAP. The next best being, using
F two quads Just as I Just discussed,without the
docked DAP. One step down is using CM on - only,
but it's perfectly adequate. The things that are
not so pleasant on it are a greater crosscoupling
between yaw and pitch. And the fact that the - the
pitch thrusters are fairly weak compared to the
yaw and roll.
CDR Okay, let's change the subject for a minute. I'd

like to ask them to send up tonight, if possible,
the planned SPS deorbit burn pad and the planned
entry pad, just as we normally have them in our
books up here, so that I can look at them and get
on my mind the direction of roll, the direction
we're going to go to Jettison the service module,
and all that business, so it becomes sort of
second nature instead of seeing it first on entry
day. Much the same as we have done all of training.
But now some of these questions that aren't serious
ones and we can - I'm sure that we can play it by
ear. It would Just be nicer to have it up here
and kind of get it on my mind. Just as the
fly-from technique has been on my mind and I feel
pretty confident that we can whip that off without
any trouble.
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263 16 28 19 MCC Okay, Flight says we'll send you the best we've
got, and it may get corrected at the last minute.
CDR Okay, but that'll at lea_t give me an idea which

way we're going to roll first and whether Beta's
going to be plus or minus. So if I - I see it,
I don't have to look back and try to remember which
it was. I'll - I'll know that Beta's supposed to
be positive or negative or whatever it is.
MCC Yes _ and - and let me emphasize that the CM only -

or CM RCS only control with the service module
still on, is Just more than adequate. I've flown
a whole bunch of them and it's - it's just no
sweat, if you ever got into them - that mode, which
we don't think you will.
CDR Okay. Now I - I assume that you've looked over

our entry car - cue card and SPS burn cue card -
I had Just a couple of questions. Let me glance
at them a minute. Right at the top it says attitude
DEAD BAND and RATE, MIN LOW. I assume that's
still where we go, in the undocked DAP, because -
I mean the docked DAP that we'll be in at that time.
So we handle the SPS pretty much the same as we
always have, even though we're operating in un-
docked DAP - correction, docked DAP.
MCC Yes, that's correct. For example, we'd like to

have it at MIN LOW, Just to maintain that narrow
deadband in pitch and roll if you ever switched
over to SCS.
CDR Okay, of course, there's going to be no tr_mming

except in X but that shouldn't be any problem.
Once we separate - Have you noticed any - Since
we're in the undocked DAP for the burn, then we
yaw out - I understand we yaw out with the THC.
Then the minute we separate, we're standing around
in the normal control mode. Is that correct? Just
the very second it separates, then we're standing
around CSM VERB 46, and everything Just like it
always is?
MCC Yes, after the instant of CM SM sep, you're just

back to normal procedures.
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CDR Okay, just a second, let me look at a couple of

other pages.
263 16 30 34 MCC Okay.
263 16 30 35 CC We're about l0 seconds from LOS here. See you

over Honeysuckle in hO minutes at 17:06 and be
dumping the tape recorders there.
CDR Okay, I'm not sure Vance has to stay, I - I think -

I think I understand what the plan is and how to
do it. We may be calling back for another con-
sulting session, but it's strictly up to Vance.
MCC Okay, well, we sure have the day free if you want
something later. Shall I hang on until the next
station passage?
263 16 31 08 CDR No, let us digest what you said. I think we've
got some.- I think you've answered most of our
questions, and let us ...
263 17 08 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for

8 minutes.
CDR All right, Dick, we're right here.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a note. I wanted to

talk to the PLT if he had a chance about this
diffusion demo.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Hey, Jack, we've tasked some about the - the

diffusion demo that you started earlier today,
and after some t,]k we think what we'd like to do
is, at your convenience today, to get you to re-
start it. It turns out that the diffusion is ex-
pected to be extremely slow in zero g. For example,
only about 1 inch after 36 hours. So, what we'd
like you to do, if you have the time today, is to
repeat the original procedure according to that
general message that you have. It's - The 36 - hour
period will probably go into your sleep period or
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possibly into the EVA; we don't care about that.

We do want to go ahead and get it started today.
We want you to allow the diffusion to continue
during the EVA without photography, and take the
photo series at your convenience after the EVA,
and - and then terminate the demonstration. Also,
one other thing that's a late input and was not
on the original pad, if you can provide us on
channel A or air-to-ground, of the identification
of SL-2 syringe needle and pills that were used,
we'd appreciate that. If you've already thrown
them away and - and don't have that, that's okay.
PLT Okay, the pills came out of - Was - it was a can -

the one that was marked; I think it was 1034. And
it was a scop/Dex - well, wait a minute - that
was for the ice cubes. The scop/Dex was tossed
out for the - for the ice cube cylinder. And
the syringe came out of our - our stuff. The
syringe was for the diffusion experiment. And
didn't have to dig into any medicine for it but
it cameout of our - our supplies.

CC Okay, well, the suggestion here is - is to reuse
the forceps tube syringe. And so if you still
have that you might give us the ID number, if it
has one on there; otherwise you can just forget
that. And you might let us know today about what
time you do get this thing restarted and that'll
help us help you keep up with it.
PLT Okay, that'll be good. The syringe - It's Just a

5-cc syringe. It's the only one that was in the
kit. It doesn't have a serial number on it. And
the tube was Just one that had - one of three
that had forceps in them. And I did restart the
experiment with a little different technique. I
soaked the - I soaked the - the divider with a
fiber thing in tea and stuck it in there and the
thing is proceeding now. But I'll take it apart
and do it over again; I'm getting pretty good at
that. My concern was that the tea was never going
to get through the fiber divider. And if you say
that diffusion will take place through that, why
that's good enough for me.
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263 17 15 24 CC Okay, Jack, thank you very much. We're about

30 seconds from LOS at Honeysuckle, And Hawaii
comes up at about 17:26. I'll give you a call
there.
PLT Okay, Dick. See you there. Thank you.
263 17 26 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We had a Nu z update scheduled

3 or 4 minutes ago. We don't believe it's been
accomplished. When you do get to it, the outer
gimbal is about - should be about minus 1317.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'll go get that. Now we're taking

care of our 3-day food deal, which ...
CC Roger.
f
PLT There it is, Dick. Looks real good to us, Jack.
Thank you very much.
PLT Yes, sir. Thank you for reminding us.
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263 17 34 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. I'll

give you a call at Goldstone 3 minutes from now.
PLT Okay, Dick. See you later. Thank you.
CC All righty.
263 ]7 38 h3 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
263 17 49 26 CC Skylab, Houston. Bermuda for 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. You guys are kind of quiet down

there today.
CC Well, I was thing - thinking the sEune thing

about you.
PLT I betcha that mskes old Phil happy, doesn't it?
CC He said that's very affirmative.
PLT Well, I hope we haven't caused him any trouble.

We're Just trying to keep his morale up.
CC Roger. Well, Phil says he's really going -

When he's really going to miss you is when you
guys - after you guys come down, and he won't
have anybody to keep telling him about the coin
trick.
PLT I know. When there's nobody to harass him any

more, he'll miss it.
263 17 50 34 CC Roger.
263 17 56 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Canary

comes up in about 2 minutes. I'll give you a
call there. A couple of reminders. One for -
On the maneuver pad, there's a TACS, ENABLE
scheduled at 18:00 Zulu, and that's normally
put also on the detail pad so you won't forget
it. And we overlooked that today. So we do
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want to get TACS enabled some time around

then. And also on the M092 vent window, we'd
like to make sure that we hit that window today,
because we only have one momentum dump period
prior to the E - the succeeding EREP pass. And
with those reminders I'll get off the air and
call you at Canary.
PLT Okay, thank you for the word on the dump, and
I'll get the TACS thing out in just a second,
Dick.
CC Okay.
263 17 58 48 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary and Ascension for

16 minutes, and we see the TACS enabled. Thank
you very much.
PLT Okay.
CDR Dick, I notice on my friendly little CaD pad,

it tells me to crank up BUS 1 and also 191 at
18:50. Do they mean 19:507
CC Well, let me check.
CC CDR, Houston. That was purposely put a little

early today, due to a flight planning problem
in which they thought there'd be a conflict in
your activities a little bit later. So we
didn't make a mistake. That 18:50 is okay with
US.
CDR Okay, I'll see if I can reach out of the can

all the way up there and turn it on. We'll get
Jack to do it. What conflict are they thinking
of?
CC Well -
CC I'm still - still here, A1. I haven't left you.

I'm just turning the pages and looking at my
different pads; hang on.
CC CDR, Houston. For the last couple of minutes,

I've been trying to reconstruct what our think-
ing was. The - That switch throwing is listed
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on the EREP C&D pad per our normal format.

However, it's called out for the PLT to do it
on his - his details Flight Plan - his details
pad. And if we had put it at the absolutely
nom - nominal time, it would have turned out to
be about 19:_0, which does conflict - Both times
conflict with you because of the medical runs.
So we stuck it on the PLT's pad, right at the
beginning of one of his ATM observations.
CDR Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR We didn't mind. We were afraid it was going to

get too hot. We knew that you had to have it on
a certain length of time before you put on the
cooler, and that's what I was worried about.
It might've been a misprint by an hour is what
I was kind of guessing.
CC No, it was purpose - purposefulthe way we did,

and it just took me a couple of minutes to
reconstruct what the thinking was.
263 18 l0 31 CC Skylab, Houston. To the medical - guys doing

the medical run, we see the ESS is not on yet,
and it needs to come on in the next couple or
3 minutes in order to meet the vent window.
SPT We know, Dick. We're hurrying as fast as we can.

It looks now we'll either Just barely make it,
or miss it by a couple of minutes.
CC Roger.
263 18 13 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from

LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 18:42.
263 18 _6 20 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PLT Say, Dick. What are the chances of setting up

a phone call at this time? Is it too late to
start thinking about that?
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CC Negative, Jaak. We'll give it a whirl.
PLT Okay, I'd appreciate it; Thank you.
PLT And the diffusion experiment is off and running

again. And I took a few pictures of it when I
initiated it, and'I'll take some more very shortly.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
263 18 51 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 19:04.
PLT Okay, Dick. And we did the 191 thing.
PLT We turned the power on 191.
CC Okay.
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263 19 05 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC And, SPT, Houston. If you have a chance some

time during this pass or the next one, I've
got a couple of notes that I wanted to mention
to you. One is on the - the laser, and also
another one on the now hurricane, Ellen.
SPT Okay, I'm still working with 92/93. Do you

need to tell me now, or can we wait until a
later rev?
CC Well, I need to get up the one sometime either

/_ here or Goldstone about the hurricane. There's
an opportunity that you might have a chance to
look at it. I wanted to pass that up to you -
the one about the laser any time before EREP.
SPT Okay, tell me the hurricane now.
CC Okay, it's going to be - It is now - is a hur-

ricane with gusts up to 100 knots. It's going
to be visible from the wardroom window from
19:29 to 19:3h Zulu. And it's going to be about
120 miles southwest of your ground track, if
you have time in between your monitoring the
medical run to whiz over to the wardroom window
and take a look. That's 19:29 to 19:3h.
SPT And where is it located, Dick?
CC Stand by l, and I'll get that for you.
SPT While you're getting that, Dick, why don't you

go ahead and give me the other info on the laser
now also.
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CC Okay. And for Jack, we were wondering if we

could get a readout on frames remaining for
82 Bravo. We might have a little problem there.
PLT Yes, Dick. I just finished taking a couple, and

we got 12 on the counter.
CC Roger, 12. And for Owen, it turns out the busi-

ness this morning about the laser, when you saw
the three bright spots of light, Owen, instead
of one, it - it turned out that they were in a
scan mode with the laser due to the - the late
arrival up there of an ephemeris update to them.
So - And that's the reason - You - you were
looking at the laser, and that is the reason
that it appeared to you to be more than one
spot of light. It is going to be turned on again
during this next EREP pass, and you'll be on
the ET - you'll be running the ETC. It's going
to be at a smaller power level, that is, 1 watt;
it was 20 watts yesterday. And the observation
time is 21:04 to 21:07, and the window to look
for it is the S-1 window. And we wondered if
you'd try to have a chance to do that. One note
on that; we're goin_ to use up all the film in
the ETC cassette during this run. So if you're
a minute or so late to get back to the ETC and
turn - and hit - put it to STANDBY, which occurs
right at 21: 07, that 's okay with us.
263 lO 09 38 SPT I wonder why I can't see it out the wardroom

window. Wouldn't that be adequate?
CC Owen, I haven't looked at the angles right now,

so I - I haven't checked it myself, but I'm told
that it is not available out the wardroom window,
and the STS window S-1 if the - is the best
opportunity.
SPT Okay, I'll check my groundtrack up here also.
CC Okay.
SPT I'm not sure - Might appreciate a little more

information about that scan mode you were talking
about. I'd like to know what - what it is you're
describing for us there.
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CC Okay, we'll get some more information for you.
263 19 ll 13 CC SPT, Houston. The hurricane is located at co-

ordinates 30.7 north and 54.5 west, and that is
several hundred miles - almost due east of Dermuda.
And it'll be to the south of your - or southwest
of your groundtrack.
263 19 12 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Gold-

stone comes up in 5 minutes from now. I'll give
you a call.
263 19 16 _7 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. The problem on 82 Bravo that we're

looking at is we are not getting a - on TM, a
film transport discrete. And we think that your
film counter should now read ll. Is that correct?
PLT Dick, the fiJm counter is reading 12 right now.

And it's in the middle of this 26-minute exposure.
CC Okay. Thank you, Jack.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like you to continue your

normal operations on 82B per the pad. However,
we wouldn't be surprised that when this exposure
is over that your counter does not count down.
We - There are a couple of possibilities. Possibly
the camera may be jsmmed, the film transport switch
possibly may have failed, or w - somehow the counter
may have gotten out of sync, and we actually may
be out of film. In any case, after the EVA, if
any of these turn out to be actualities, they'll
be cured by your EV - by what you replace during
the EVA. So we'll just press on now with normal
procedures and keep you advised.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick. And I'll be watching

the film counter at the end of this frame.
263 19 20 52 CC Ok - Okay.
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263 19 21 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Bermuda

comes up in about 5 minutes; I'ii give you a call.
And we're going to dump the data recorder over
Bermuda.
263 19 26 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Merritt Island and

Bermuda for the next l0 minutes. And for Jack, if
we're - if we're following you correctly, Jack, the
exposure on S082 Bravo should be complete in 3 or
4 minutes. And when you get there, if the film
counter decrements okay, press on with normal
operations. If you get no decrement on the counter,
however, we'd like you to terminate S082 Bravo
operations for the remainder of the day, and we'll
think about it because it's one of the failures
could cause us - if we continue to get multiple
exposures on that frame. And we might as well save
that one good frame, if that happens to be the case,
and we'll just think about it some more. So watch
it and let us know.
PLT Okay, I'll do that, Dick. We got about

10-1/2 minutes of this exposure yet, and I'll do
as you say. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Are you with us, Dick?
CC Skylab, if you called, say again, please.
SPT Yes, I'm Just looking at the hurricane out the

wardroom window right now, and it's a very large
counterclockwise structure. The circular pattern
is again very evident. There's no eye visible at
the moment, but it's certainly a very large hurri-
cane. And over the - All the central portion is a
very dense layer of clouds with no way to penetrate
visibly down to the water.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for the description.

Appreciate it,
SPT High cirrus at the outer extremities and then

getting more and more dense as it gets nearer the
eye.
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CC Roger.
SPT We're right at closest approach to the eye

right now, Dick. And as you say, the center
is just a little bit southwest of here.
CC Roger, Owen. But you still can't really see

down to the water in the eye from your angle, huh?
SPT No, that's correct. It's a solid deck of clouds

all the way. Perhaps 50miles from the center,
I can see one or two little patches. And also,
off to the east of the eye, the cloud layer
is less dense and somewhat less extensive. It
extends not quite out as far to the east as it
does to the north and other quadrants.
263 19 34 01 CC Okay, thanks a lot.
263 19 36 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. I'll

give you a call at Ascension in about 6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
263 19 43 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension for

i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. And at the end of the 82B exposure,

the frame counter did not decrement. Therefore,
we're terminating ops on 82B until we hear further
from you.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Be advised we did not

finish getting the data recorder dumped at
Bermuda and we are going to - We are dumping
it here at Ascension. I'Ii let you know when
we're through.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. You might be interested to

know that we have some guests in the viewing
room fr - that are from - it's a rugby club
that's here from Nairobi, Kenya. And they're
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scheduled - playing some games here in Houston

this week. They're going to be playing the
Houston Rugby Club on Saturday, and they all
said to tell you hello.
SPT Well, hello to the ruggers down there, too, Dick.

And, by golly, you could sure kick a goal up
here full length of the field.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, tell them we've flown over their country

many times, and looked down, and probably photo-
graphed it several times as well. Glad to have
them aboard in Houston. Hope they enjoy their
tour of the U.S.
CC Okay, you're taBking right to them because we

got the air-to-ground going into the viewing
rooms, and they appreciate it very much.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We've completed the dump

on the data recorder.
SPT Roger, Dick.
PLT And, Dick) in looking at our orbital map, it

appears to us that we passed over Nairobi Just a
about 3 hours ago.
CC Roger. Thank you for the reminder.

LOS. Carnarvon at 20:16.
PLT See you in Australia there, Dick.
263 20 15 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOB Carnarvon for

lO minutes.
PLT How's the weather shaping up in the Louisville

area, Dick?
CC Roger. Let me check on that whole groundtrack

and I'll get back to you.
PLT Thank you.

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CC Skylab, Houston. The weather looks kind of

grim for this pass. It's going to be overcast
from a point where you go feet dry in Ontario,
8]most halfway across the United - United States.
There are a couple of breaks where it goes down
to _ to 7/10ths cloud cover. Louisville presently
is overcast. The southeastern states, however,
it breaks out, and it's clear there or zero to
3/10ths cloud cover. We did have a report from
Goddard that they were picking up a little
bit of scattered clouds there in the last hour.
And - But that's how the weather looks. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you for researching that for us, Dick.
Appreciate it very much.
CC Okay.
MCC Yes.
CC Skylab,Houston. We got a NuZ update that's

scheduled here in about a minute at 20:25, and
we'd suggest on outer gimbal angle of minus 1815.
Thank you.
CC Roger.
263 20 25 ll AA Well it - it could be Just gas. I mean, I did

burp here after the bottle, but - -
AA Amy, call Brian. (Music)
AA She's stopped crying. Maybe she - if she doesn't

get any better - -
AA What do you think a Doctor is for?
AA I know. It's just - -
263 20 25 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS;

Guam at 20:29.
PLT Okay, Dick. l'm Just floating the maneuver load.
CC Roger.
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263 20 30 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. And how you like the maneuver load?
CC We like it a lot; looks real good.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Here's a short note to Ed Michael and John Rummel,

and Bill Thornton, in physiology and astronaunt
office, respectively. You asked us the other day,
about heart rates and things like that. I was just
pedaling the bicycle at an average load of about
171, finishing, really, about 175, for 30 minutes -
a little over 5000 watt minutes of work. And my
heart, oh, slowly leveled out at about 165. It
was really a little bit below that, but as I began
to get toward the end, why, it went on up to about
'_ 165. I expect that's consistentwith the data that
you've seen on me at the higher workloads in the
last couple of weeks. But that's the information
you were asking for, at any rate. End of message
to Ed Michael, John R11mmel, Bill Thornton from
the SPT.
CC Skylab, Houston. SPT, that was on the air-to-ground,

and we did get the message. Just thought I'd let
you know.
263 20 34 12 SPT (Chuckle) I guess so. Well, I keep forgetting that

you guys parallel the channels here, a little
earlier than I expected. Thanks, Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, this is for EREP; and CDR. It's been about
20 minutes since we turned on the 192. I'm now in
MODE, CHECK. I will now give you the read out of
B-6: B-6 indicates 57 percent, or roughly where
it always does; 57, so everything looks good. We'll
be back later.
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263 20 38 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
Give you a call at Goldstone at 20:55.
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PLT Okay, Dick. We're Just standing by to maneuver

in a couple minutes - 1 minute.
CC Okay.
263 20 54 06 PLT What's the Big O. doing?
PLT How's your door there, 0.?
CDR He's looking out a window for some reason. Here's

Houston.
PLT I hear them coming up.
CDR They're always coming up.
CC Here we come, here we come.
MS Here they are.
CDR Watch out. Okay, let me give you some news on A-2
and C-_. A-2 varied between about h0 and _9, which
is norms]; C-h was at 71 percent; in fact, it still
is, which is in normal. So they look good.
CC Okay.
CDR Anybody holding their breath can immediately release

it. 191 READY light's on; we're going REF 6.
PLT I bet big Bill's got his eyes and ears covered
right now.
CDR Bet he does.
PLT Here they come again.
CC You said it.
CDR Has he smiled today? I've wondered that.
263 20 55 01 CC Well, he was smiling this morning, but it's going

away as the day wears on. It's been a long one,
CDR Ah, we're wearing him out again. He's got to learn
to toughen up. Running the track _-ill help. I
found that it builds up your endurance. Why don't
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you take him over to the gym sometime, Dick? Okay,

20. I've got 190, AUTO, by the way, and 192 went
READY at the right time. So everything is running
along okay, at the moment.
CC Okay.
CDR Sometimes they come unglued later. Take him over

to the gym; put him on the ergometer. He ought to
do that for training, so he can understand what
we are doing up here.
PLT Well, now there's a pretty thick cloud area. I

guess we'll take that, right there. Camera ON.
Zoom in.
CDR They still have data priority meetings, or did they

disband them? Did they solve all the problems and
just go fold their tents? (Chuckle)
263 20 56 12 CC No, we'll never solve them all; we still have them.
CDR We're up here. We're one of them. Okay. MODE

to CHECK on 192, gentlemen.
PLT And there's another one.
CDR Did you get one?
PLT One cloud area.
CDR All right, good shi - good sh - good gosh.
PLT Good going; right on. Right on.
CDR Your training wasn't wasted.
PLT Right. Right on, Dick.
CDR We got - we got - we got to get that EREP simulator

to have clouds on it. Some big old thunderstorms,
then some stratus. Coastal stratus, that's what
we need.
263 20 56 44 PLT Hey, I can do this until 58:30, he says.
CDR Too had. We got to get them to put the Great Lakes
on there, because you hit those a lot.
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PLT Lake Michigan is a toughy.
CDR That 's a good one.
PLT There's a g0odie over there. Wait'll we get that

one. Whoo! Ron Weitenhagen is going to like this.
CDR Wonder how Ron and his gang are? Ernie - wonder
what he's doing these days. Probably working with
SL-4.
PLT They're probably holding their breath or their eMes

or ears Just like Phil is down there.
263 20 57 25 CDR Okay, at 57:24, we put MODE, READY on 192.
PLT What was it that got him, Dick. Was it that - that
Chinese dinner he's going to get everybody? I'ii
retract that if that's what it is. I mean l'd be
glad - -
CC No, don't - don't retract that, don't retract that. _
PLT Anything I can do to get along with big Phil, you

know, I ought to do it. I like the guy; he's a
nice fellow. Ah, let's get one more here. It's
a little off to the left, but that is a beauty,
(whistle).
CDR READY out on 190.
PLT One of the greatest set of clouds I've seen in a

long time.
263 20 58 07 CDR MODE to CHECK, gentlemen. 190 MODE to STANDBY,

frames to 24.
PLT If there was ever a thick set of clouds, that's

it. 58:30. I wonder how things are at the Oahe
Reservoir.
CDR Intervalometer, 10. I'll bet they're good.
PLT At 59:30.
CDR Standing by for - when? Fifth - 21:007

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PLT We're getting some good thick clouds here, Dick.

Just like the doctor ordered. And the Oahe Reser-
vior is about one to two shots to the left. 59:30,
the way I got it figured. I bet it's covered with
clouds. That's why they didn't give it to me.
Those guys - -
CDR You know on that one - -
CC Always thinking.
263 20 58 47 CDR On that 192 - or, correction - on MO92, I think

all three of us are having less heart rate increase
with the DELTA-V than we had on the ground.
CC Roger.
CDR We've been in that can too much. How many more
runs do we have, one more apiece?
CC Stand by.
PLT Okay, l'm taking five heavily clouded sites.
CDR Oh, you're all right, Jack. Five is one half, huh?
PLT I was being an extra good guy tonight. That fifth

one's for Phil.
CDR Must be a big bumper. Well, no it wasn't. It was -

(laughter)
PLT Well, Oahe's going to be dug in.
CDR 21:00 and 15 seconds. Whew!
263 20 59 34 PLT Little town of Mobridge down there by the 0ahe

Reservoir. They had one bridge years ago and
they built another one. They didn't want to call
it "Bridges" because that was the name of the
town drunk, so they called it Mobridge because
they had one mo' bridge.
CDR One mo' bridge. Come on.
CC That's the worst story I ever heard.

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CDR (Laughter) Bad. That's really bad.
PLT I came up with it in a hurry, though.
CDR (Laughter) He's going to have to make a recovery.
PLT I Just happened to see that on the map.
CC There's two more runs for the PLT and the SPT, and
one more run for the friendly CDR.
CDR That's the way it ought to be. I - -
PLT Okay, I'll take you some more clouds then, since
you're such a good guy.
CDR Tell the flight planners they're getting back in

my good graces with that sort of planning.
PLT Okay, I got some more clouds here.
CDE They know what they're doing.
263 21 00 25 PLT Be on the clouds until 01:10, it says.
CC A1, did you get the S192 MODE, READY at - -
CDE I got them both.
CC Okay.
CDR I wouldn't miss them. Ruins the run when you do.
PLT Doesn't use as much tape, though.
CDR I'm waiting for 02:20 now. MODE's READY and -

thanks for saying it, though, Dick. I was blabber-
ing, there, but things were okay,
PLT Okay, this will be a nadir swath.
CDR A nadir swath.
PLT I'm at zero, zero.
CDR Wish this pass would hurry up. I got a filet, some
nice butterscotch pudding, a lemonade.
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PLT Steak and ice cream at the club tonight.
CDR Whoo!
PLT I'm not going to turn the camera on because we're

over some clouds at the moment. But perhaps we'll
come out of them, in which case I'll just turn
them on and - -
CDR What a guy.
PLT - - let them run until 01:30.
CDR Standing by for 02:20 at which time we go inter-

valometer, 20. I hope I can hack it.
263 21 O1 42 PLT Got something, here, except it was too late. It's
time to go to this site up here, which is up 45
and LEFT 2.8.
CDR We sure got a lot of EREP tape around; I know that.

The commandmodule is goingto floatwith tape.
PLT 02:44 is the time.
CDR They must have just left - -
PLT A1, look at that weather down there. My favorite

sites, too. I flew this one in the 38. That was
a 2-B and I flew eight hops and forty sites.
CDR I remember that. Record A-2 and C-4; let's go

the same game. You know C-4 is 71 percent; it
still is. A-2 is a mere 54.
PLT Come on weather. Well, this next one is at 02:50,

which ain't much better.
263 21 02 42 PLT Well, mark it at 02:_ and overcast, Dick.
CDR Standing by for 4 minutes.
CC Okay.
PLT Alternate is at 02:50.
263 21 02 50 PLT MARK. It's overcast there, too. Tell you what,
I'll get you some more clouds. Some different
kind of cloud this time.
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CDR They haven't changed their mind about giving us the

extension, huh?
CC That's affirm so far.
CDR Well, we're okay up until PET of 20 hours, I guess.
PLT Everybody hanging in down there pretty well, Dick?
CC Oh, yes, we're doing fine.
263 21 03 33 CDR Did we tell you - I guess we're b±-inging back

two extra EREP tapes. Is that right?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Yes, I wanted to tell - I didn't tell EREP the

other day; we couldn't get that last one in, so
I - I had to take it off the reel and stuff it in
one of the compartments. But it's all in there.
CC No creases, huh?
CDR Just - it's Just there; he won't have any trouble.

This is two - trying to find out which end is the
one-er. Okay, just gone to 02. Standing by for
MODE to STANDBY.
PLT Well, that's all of that. No more tracking.

21:07, same time.
263 21 04 ll CDR MODE to STANDBY. VTS, AUTO CAL at 5, Jack. You

maneuver here at 07. Couple of minutes.
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR VTS.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. The - it's been reported

that the Goddard laser is turned on.
CDR It's been reported that they lost comm.
PLT There's the coast.
CC I'll answer - I'll answer Owen's question about

the laser as soon as I understand it. Not the
question; the answer.
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CDR AUTO CAL. I need to AUTO CAL, you baby. I did.
263 21 05 00 PLT Okay, you did. Thank you. Okay, 07, the time.
Our little trip over the states brought us over
Canada and over to the U.S. border at Idaho; over
Great Falls; over Sioux Falls, South Dakota;
Burlington, Iowa; Terre Haute; Lexington or
Louisville, Kentucky; and off the coast Just south
of Wilmington today. And with that, I part the
area and head for the ATM.
CDR MODE to MANUAL at 6. Late getting off 192.
PLT Tell Phil I still think he's a great guy, will

you there, Dick?
263 21 05 h9 CC I will. Everybody deserves one guy who likes him.
CDR Six minutes.
PLT Like the guy who says he's one of his greatest fans,
f and he's waitingto meet the other one.
CDR 06:25, the READY IS GOING OUT. Everything's

running along just swell, we think.
PLT There's the big O. down there, looking for that

laser. Did you tell him about that satellite we
saw?
CDR Yes, we saw a great satellite. We didn't know

if we told you about it.
PLT The closest and brightest one we've seen.
CDR Huge one.
PLT We've seen several - -
263 21 06 25 CDR 06:25 READY OUT.
PLT It was a red one.
CC No, you may have told somebody, but it wasn't this

team. I don't remember hearing about it.
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PLT I guess we didn't report it. It was reflecting

in red light. And oscillating A oh, counting its
period of brightest to its dimmest, about
l0 seconds. It led us into sunset - -
CDR SI maneuver in 15 seconds.
PLT Yes, sir. I'm standing by. That was about three
revs ago, I think. Something like that, wasn't
it, 0.?
263 21 07 O0 PLT MARK.
PLT Yes, sir. We're on our way. No mibs - -
SPT No luck on the laser, Dick.
CC Okay, Owen, thank you.
PLT No mibs in or out. You guys are doing a great -

did a great job on the maneuvers down there. Okay,
we're going to leave TACS enabled overnight, it
says, so I won't set my timer for that. Simply
come over here and secure this operation.
CDR 07:40, 07:40.
263 21 07 40 CDR Okay, IR is ON, EREP to STOP. That's it. Do tape

measurements. I think we can do that. (Whistling)
PLT I haven't seen the Flight Plan for tomorrow. We

must have some more EREPs tomorrow, huh?
CC Yes, you do, as a matter of fact.
PLT Is tomorrow the last EREP day, then, or do we have

another one after that?
CDR I wonder where the tape measure went.
CC Jack, tomorrow is EREP number 41, and that is the

last one. And I sure hate to see them end.
PLT Oh, I do, too. I really enjoy doing EREP.
CDR Jack, have you seen any tape measures?

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PLT I took the tape measure, and it's on that diffusion

experiment.
CDR On the diffusion experiment. Okay.
PLT Don't take it off; I'll get you that other one.
CDR I'll get the one off the medical experiment.
PLT Okay.
263 21 08 40 CDR Okay, let me do whatever it said to do here, which

is record B-7. B-7 is 31 per cent. 192 door
closed.
PLT How about half of a little finger? Would that be

good enough estin_te there, Dick? For the tape?
SC (Laughter)
CDR Okay, let's close and latch the window.

F
PLT I'd say it's about an inch and a quarter to an

inch and a half of empty space on the top reel.
263 21 09 15 CDR I'll go get it in Just a moment. As soon as I

latch this thing. Okay, I think that window is
latched.
PLT One more; that's a sad thing; sorry to see them

end.
CDR Okay, be back in a second.
CDR While the doors is closing.
PLT Okay, what's the kid got to do here? Perform the

maneuver; we've done that. Set the gimbals to
zero; we've done that. Turn off the DAC; we've
done that. VTS power OFF. Okay, we're going to
switch the cohen off there, Dick, back to normal
mode.
263 21 12 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds to LOS.

Carnarvon at 21:54.
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263 21 53 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon for the

next 9 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. A couple of things: Where -

when we were going LOS there, we never got the
tape measure from the EREP. I'd like to get that.
Also, the PLT's phone call is set up the next
pass at Guam at 22:07, if he can get somebody
to - no, I take it back, I see that it's Owen
that's on the ATM. Also, I've got a pile of evening
questions here that l'd kind of like to get started
and get ahead on.
CDR Okay, the answer to the tape measurement is

1-1/2 inches. Tell the EREP officer 108 and i.
I turned off 190 or put 190 in STANDBY, instead of
192. I caught it about i0 seconds later, and got
192 on - correction - to STANDBY, but I did not
put 190 back on.
CC Okay, AI. Copy that.
PLT Thank you for setting up the call - the phone call.
CDR And we're ready for questions.
263 21 55 09 CC Okay. l've got a number of them here, and I'ii

just start at the top and keep going. There's -
you'll see that there are several in here that
have to do with stowage with deactivation coming
up. You can understand that, I'm sure. One - this
first one has to do with the S192 indium shims
that were taken up in your malf book. We're
not - we're not certain as to whether or not all of
those were used. We're wondering, were they used,
and, if not, where are they, in ease we have to use
them on SL-4?
PLT The - Dick, the indium shims were not used at all.
And they are in the - I think they are in the
Experiment Malfunction Procedure or in the EREP -
EREP Malfunction Procedures book. The feeler gage
that I used to check out the 192 is taped inside
of the gold box, S192 gold box.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you much.

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CC Okay, here's another one. This has to do with

the SOP serial number 12 that was - you used on
T020. What we would like you to do is give us
the current pressure reading on it. We detected
a leak in an SOP in a test at KSC in a preparation
for SL-h. We'd like to check that SOP that you
used on T020 because we're - it might affect us,
even bringing up a new one on - on SL-h. So when
you get a chance, why don't you check that and
put it on channel A or call it down to us on the
air-to-ground.
263 21 56 h7 CDR In work at the moment.
CC Okay, the next one is - has to do with airlock tape

recorder, serial number 28. We're wondering is
this recorder stowed in B-h38, and does it have all
the screws and associated little items taped to it?
CDR Answer is yes to all questions.
_ CC Okay. Okay, earlier today - I'm skipping around

a little bit - earlier today on the S063 photos
that Jack took for us, he - he asked if he had done
what we had intended on estimating the angles and
so forth. And the answer is definitely yes. We
think we got the accurate data. Here's another
one that has - also the PLT - has to do with the
girth measurements that were read down last night.
They were read down for the CDR. Chest measurement
was inhale of 90.0 centimeters and exhale was 92.h
centimeters. And we think those were inadvertent -
vertently reversed. And we wanted to confirm that.
263 21 57 57 PLT I'll clarify that for you, Dick, in a minute. And
things have changed around in zero-g, you know.
The SOP is reading 2600 psi at the moment. It was
reading less when we cut off, but I think that's
because it was providing flow.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much.
CDR You spend a lot of time in the 92 can and that

happens to you.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Okay, here's another one. And

Owenmay be busy on the ATM, but the package of
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fish has been approved to bring home. And we're

wondering, is the can that this experiment came
in still available, can Alfa? And the spacer
from the can - and is the spacer from the can also
still available?
263 21 58 52 SPT I didn't remember that it came in a can Alfa, but

I can look around and find - see what I can find
down there. Right at the moment, I can't answer
the question.
CC Okay, Owen. When you get a chance, why don't you

do that and Just call it down or put it on channel A
for us.
SPT Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We - I'm informed by INCO that we

have up-linked your pads for the entry, the P30
and the Entry Pad. They're - they're in the tele-
printer now. One correction for the CDR's Details
Pad for tommorrow that we up-linked a while ago that
you may have in your possession by now, A1. I'm
not sure which, but it indicates there that - that
you have EREP C&D tomorrow. That's incorrect. You
have the EREP VTS. The summary pad, I think, is
okay. But the EREP VTS for you is correct.
CDR Okay, I'll change it.
263 22 00 01 PLT You might as well reverse the numbers on the chest
measurements.
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263 21 59 40 PLT You might as well reverse the numbers on the

chest measurements for Al: 92.4 inhale and
90.0 exhale, Dick. Thank you for calling that
out.
CC Okay, I think that gets me through the pile of

questions that I had. We're about a minute from
LOS and we'll be at Guam at 20:07 - correction
22:07. And, Jack, that's where the phone call
will be set up. I do have a note here on
Fred Haise. Fred's condition continues to im-
prove. But is - as in most burn cases, the
progress is very slow. He has not had any gross
complications but some minimal skin grafting is
anticipated.
PLT Any forecast on how long he'll he in the hospital,

Dick?
CC I don't know Jack. But I - from every indication

that I have, it's going to be some time.
PLT Thanks a lot, we're glad to keep getting updated

on Fred-O.
263 22 01 56 CC Roger.
263 22 08 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for 6 minutes.

And for the ATM operator; we notice that S054 is
in exposure range 54; we think it should be 256,
and we'd like to ask you to rerun filter 3.
SPT I think you're right, and I'ii do that. Thank

yOU.
CC Roger, and I'm standing by to collect the Evening

Status Report.
CDR Okay, here it comes.
CC Okay.
263 22 08 55 CDR 113, 145, 195; 6261; 0270; 6720. 6.247, 6.247,
6.241; 5.953, 5.953, 5.953; 6.945, 6.947, 6.946.
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Exercise: CDR hasn't done any yet, but will

report when he does; SPT: 2/30/5030, 3/20/Mark I,
60, A; 30, B; 30, D. PLT: 1/05/0612; 2/35/8681,
320Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; 20 backbends.
Medications: CDR, Seconal; SPT, Pilot, zero.
Sleep: CDR, 5/Good; SPT, 6/Fair; Pilot, 6-1/2/Good.
Here comes the food items.
CC Okay.
263 22 l0 l0 CDR CDR: salt, four, plus three salt pills, one
lemonade, and one pears. SPT: two salt, substitute
pork and potatoes instead of tuna, add pears,
peanuts, and grape drink. PLT: four salts, add
one tea with lemon and sugar, one butter cookies,
substitute peach ambrosia and peanuts for tuna
and bread.
CC Roger.
CDR Photo log: S193 antenna; BV07, 30; VTS track 19D,
CX08, 65. Crew activities: CI62, 00, CI61;
35-millimeter: CI106, 10; CX35, 52. 70-millimeter:
CX27, llg; CT09, 076. EREP, SET, W: 9155, 13h7,
8875, 8252, 0022, 8926. Drawer A: the only one
that was changed was A-2. Should read 05, CI62, 00,
CI61.
263 22 ii 55 CC Okay.
CDR And no remarks for the rest of the nightly report.
CC Okay, A1, thank you very much. We still got

about 2 minutes left here at Guam and I'm stand-
ing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Gold-

stone comes up at 21 - correction 22:32. That'll
be the med conference, and then after Goldstone
when we hand over to Texas, I'll get you back
for the rest of that pass.
SPT Say, Dick, I noticed on the ATM schedule it's

powerdown at 13 minutes time remaining. Was it a
little bit early there because you want to check
the panel out or something like that?
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263 22 13 57 CC Stand by, 0wen.
CC SPT, Houston. Negative we had a little

schedule conflict there, and we thought you'd
need to leave the console early. But if you
have the time, we'd like you to stay.
SPT Yes, I'ii finish the run. Thank you.
263 22 14 28 CC Okay.
263 22 13716 CC Skylab, Houston. Understand I have you back.

l've got you still stateside for 9 minutes. And
l've got a couple of things for you guys. For
0wen on the ATM: when you power down the ATM this
evening for unattended ops tonight, at the end
of this pass, we'd like you to please leave the
roll at minus 108.00 or as close to that as
possible. We've changed our minds about some of
the unattended ops, and that'll set us up a little
bit better.
F
SPT 0kay, I've got it.
263 22 37 48 CC Okay, thank you very much. And also, for the
CDR: the other day, A1, you asked about lubricating
some of the seals on the hatches, and we have
considered that. We've talked to the folks here
and at Marshall and at the contractors. The
seals are completely qualified as they are, and
so we don't think lubrication would be required.
Furthermore - and incidentally, the lubrication on
most of those seals is a dried lubricant like a
talcum. However, applying a moist lubricant to
them, we think, might enhance them picking up
little tiny pieces of grit and so forth, and so
it possibly might do more harm than good. So the
answer is negative; we would not like to lubricate
the seals.
263 22 38 57 CC Skylab, Houston. I got caught hy a handover the_e,

and I'm not sure if my entire talk got up there
about the lubricant on seals. If I was cut out
in the middle, let me know, and I'll say the
last half of it.
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C_DR No, you - you got completely through it, Dick.

And I just was interested. And sounds good,
we won't touch them. We'll just dust them off
and put them in when the time comes.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you, A1.
CC SPT, Houston. We're configured for ATM TV

down-link.
263 22 39 47 SPT Okay, that's fine. And would you ask the S055
people if they ever took a look at those two
mirror auto rasters during J0P 137 And if they
managed to see anything. There's been a little
bit of scattered noise?
CC Okay.
CC Owen, it - it happens that we just got the data

delivered here to the backroom, and we're hustling.
I think we can get an answer for you here at the
states, or if not, possibly at Vanguard.
SPT Okay, sounds fine.

LOS stateside here. I'll call you at Guam at
22:57; that's the last pass of the day.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'm still taking pictures periodi-

cally of the diffusion experiment, and right
now nothing 's happening.
CC Okay.
PLT Ought to make the comment that that tea has got
a lot of sugar in it, and it's very syrupy, very
sticky. And it may be that it's too thick to
get through that fiber thing.
263 22 46 36 CC Roger, Jack.
263 22 46 37 PLT ...
SPT Hello, Houston.

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CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
SPT Yes. How long have we got here, Dick?
CC We have got about 9 minutes.
SPT Okay. I didn't get the grating back around to

OPTICAL REFERENCE by the time the Sun went down.
Didn't quite make it in time. So I've left it
in MECHANICAL 102. Now if - stand by for a
minute, here.
CC Okay.
SPT All that's all right. We've still got plenty of

sunlight but - I see it coming in the window -
but we must have got cut off on gravity gradient.
So if the backroom or ATM would like, I'll come
back up in about 25 minutes and bring it around
to OPTICAL R_ERENCE and then really get it a
little more precisely in OPTICAL REFERENCE. And
I'm Just going ahead with the rest of the panel
powerdown now.
263 22 58 22 CC Okay, 0wen. We'll get right back to you.
SPT The other point was I could go as far as minus

10250. I could not make it to 10800 because I
hit the roll stop. So were - Beta angle just
won't permit us to quite reach the point you
were asking for.
CC Okay, 0wen. Thank you very much for that.
CDR Also, we were looking in our maps today trying

to find the islands of Elba, St. Helena where
Napoleon was exiled two different times. One of
them we think Elba, is in the Med. ; but we can't
find it. Could you give some help? And we don't
know where St. Helena is. Could you give some
help on that one?
263 22 59 i0 CC Sure will, AI.
SPT Here come the FRAMES REMAINING: 2122 on H-alpha,

231, i, 12, 419 and h45.
CC Thank you, SPT. I got them.

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CDR One other note to the flight planners, Dick.
CC Go ahead, A1.
263 23 00 h2 CDR Last couple of days, we've been eating our dinner
about an hour before we went to bed, and that's
not a good way to get to sleep, I've noticed.
And since we've got a kind of a big physical thing
coming up here in about 4 days, 5 days, I'm hoping
that the flight planners will try to schedule our
evening - our meals - timed evenly dispersed during
the day if they possibly can, particularly the last
2 or 3 days. And also make sure we've got some
good time between eating the last one and going to
bed, and that we get to bed on time because I think
one of our biggest physical pushes of all this
56 days - this 60 days is going to be on day 60.
And we want to make sure we're fully rested and -
and have eaten properly and gotten all our exercise
this last week. So whatever it takes in the way
of moving things around, I'm hoping they'll put
that almost as the primary thing to do.
265 23 Ol 44 CC Okay, AI. Very good suggestion. And we - we've

got it.
CC SPT, Houston. On ATM closeout, what we'd like -

Wait, stand by I'm getting a - . On S055, we see
that you are in line 25. If you'll Just put it in
OPTICAL REFERENCE, then you can close out the rest
per normal, and you do not have to go back up there.
We'll take care of the rest.
SPT Thank you. I can put the switch in OPTICAL REFER-

ENCE, but, of cotkrse, the counters are zeroed on
the basis of mechanical reference now, and it's in
MECHANICAL 102. So I'm sure they understand that,
and I'll put the switch back up there. It really
won't change the position of the grating.
CC That' s affirm, 0wen. We do understand that, and

that's how we want it.
SPT Okay, fine.
26B 23 03 46 CC SPT, Houston. On your question about the - the

J0P 13 you did this morning: our initial look at
the data on one of the rasters - one of the - the -
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the first one that you did; we did see a spike,

and we're not sure whether or not that's a source
or a noise spike. And so right now, we Just can't
really give you a straight answer. We don't know
whether we got it or not.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. That was sort of my impression

by keeping my eye on the intensity counter as it
was scanning. Of course, I couldn't watch it as
carefully as - anywhere near as carefully as you
could do with the data in front of you the way it
is in the backroom. The other point perhaps is
irrelevant since we mentioned on that first scan.
I do remember that detec - DETECTOR 5 kicked out;
at least, I believe it kicked out, oh, two-thirds
of the way through the first scan or something like
that. And I turned it off. Now, it's Just possible,
based on that test we ran about a week ago, that
DETECTOR 5 was providing cross-t_1_ into DETECTOR 3.
So I'm sure they'll be checking that, too. It - it
just registered in my memory that there might have
been a connection between DETECTOR 5 tripping out
and the noise spike on the other detector.
263 23 05 06 CC Okay. The - turned out it was the lower right part
of the first raster where we saw the - the spike
that we saw. And I guess it will Just take a little
more careful looking at the data.
SPT Okay, fine. I think there is a very good chance

that we got good X-ray photographs at any rate.
Based upon the way the STAR TRACk2_ INNER GIMBALS
look. I think there is every probability that we
got some good X-ray photos.
263 23 05 33 CC Roger. And, Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS Vanguard. Last pass of the night. So you
guys get a good night's sleep, and we'll call you
in the morning.
CDR What happened to the news?
CC Whoops, we slid down the hole without passing it

up, but believe me you didn't miss much tonight.
PLT Good night, Dick and ...
CC I missed that one.

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SPT I guess ATOM's looked at the panel there, Dick,

and apparently liked it all right.
CC That's affirm; they have looked at it.
CC We would like to open the S056 door, if possible.
PLT Sure is, I missed that.
263 23 06 32 CC Roger.
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265 07 05 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
PLT Good morning, Hank. How are you doing today?
CC Oh, pretty good. How are y'all feeling this

morning?
PLT Very well, thank you.
CC You're over Vanguard now and we got about

lO minutes left.
PLT Okay, Thank you.
PLT And, Hank, could you tell us what time we begin

ATM operation?
CC Okay; 07:15. Accordingto the CDR's details,

he should be on the console.
SPT Hello, Hank. Would you check with biomed to make

sure they were happy with the 133 data last night.
And, also, I noticed on my Flight Plan that I got
133 again tonight. Two nights in a row. I guess
: that's not a mistake. Could you confirm that?
CC I'll check it out, Owen.
CC Answer to the first question, the 133 data looked

good last night.
SPT Okay. And one electrode didn't want to pop in,

but I think we can get away without one electrode
as long as it's not two on the same side, I believe
is the situation.
CC And, 0wen, the answer to your second question,

this is an end-of-mission requirement. Get three
successive nights.
SPT Oh, I see. So probably got it for two more nights

in a row then.
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CC That 's affirmative.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, for the CDR. In the handover, we

got that perhaps you didn't get an acknowledgement
on the exercise report. We did get your exercise
report from yesterday.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
CDR We've made another amazing discovery in zero g.
CC What's that?
CDR We found that your eyelids have counterweights

on them, like window sashes. And in zero g, they
won't counterweight the lids. The lids keep going
closed in the morning.
264 07 14 ii CC We're having the same struggle here.
264 07 15 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Ascension at 18.
264 07 18 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Didn't take you long to get - get down there.
CC And for the CDR, a little update on the - what's

been happening with the Sun. Northing significant
in the last 8 hours. Active region 31 is growing
and a possible complexity in active region 36.
We suspect that the solar activity may increase
somewhat during the next 12 hours.
CDR Good. I'ii point 8 al - H-alpha at it.
CC And, CDR, if we could have the DAS a little bit

here, we'll command inhibit on a momentum dump;
getting ready for S019.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, DAS is yours.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 6 minutes left

on the - on our star for our Nu Z update.
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CDR They've been here for i0 billion years.
CC It has, but you're not going to be. It'll be

occulted here shortly.
CDR Okay. It's one of those things that happen every

i0 billion years. All right.
264 07 24 48 PLT Hey, Hank. I took a couple - Just a minute.
PLT Hank, I took a couple of more pictures of the

diffusion experiment, but nothing's really hap-
pened. The tea's Just sitting on top of the fiber
stopper and it doesn't seem to diffuse even through
the - into the stopper and let alone getting down
into the water below it.
264 07 25 34 CC Okay. We copy. And we're about 30 seconds frc_

a short LOS. Be picking right up again the
Canaries at 27.
F CDR How does that look to you, Hank, on the STAR

TRACKER?
CC Looks good to us, Al. You're clear to close the

shutter.
CDR If we could get Jerry to bring up a couple of

tea bags on a resupply mission.
264 07 28 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Canaries and

Madrid for another 8 minutes.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We see the STAR TRACKER shut-

ter still OPEN and we're in MANUAL mode. Maybe
you got the wrong switch there.
CDR How 's that, Hank?
CC Okay. Looks good to us now, A1.
CC Skylab, Houston. Of general interest to you,

maybe, - we - the - the quick look at our J0P 13
X-REA data indicates that the - We did get a spectrum
on the berylli_n counter, and the counting rate
was pretty much what we expected.
CDR That'll make the Big O. real happy. Great.

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SPT Yes. I'm Just, thinking about that. So you're

suggest - indicating that the beryllium counters
did indicate a higher flux when - when pointing at
the general area of Sco-X than it did when we
were pointing in sane other direction? Apparently,
that's what you're saying.
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay. That's very interesting. So - Please to

hear that. And it does suggest again that we
ought to have some good X-REA photographs when
we get those developed in a couple of weeks.
264 07 30 53 CC We - We're looking forward to getting those, too,

Owen.
"264 07 36 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS_ be at Guam at

02 with a recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Hank.
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264 08 02 18 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Say again.
CC We're with you for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR 56 hung up in filter 1 at the moment? I think

maybe it is.
CC We'll check it.
CC CDR, Houston. It appears to us that SC56 termi-

nated its sequence properly.
264 08 04 58 CDR Well, it may have, but the OPERATE light is ON,
so that makes me - it should have run out at
several minutes ago." I'll turn off the OPERATE
light by turning off the stop switch. I think
it's just the last frame; it didn't cycle far
enough.
CDR I guess if it hangs up in the middle, you all see

it; but if it hangs up at the end, which still
gives us an OPERATE light that looks okay to you
down there. We have both kinds.
CC That's - that's affirmative, A1. We - we're still

discussing this thing now, about what - what happens
when it ends up a sequence and doesn't quite catch
the signal on the last frame there.
264 08 06 21 CDR It goes back to frame l, which gives you the clue,
but the OPERATE light stays down - stays ON. I'd
say about 50 percent of the lockups are that way.
CC We copy.
CDR That also accounts for several times I've said,

"Is it hung up?" and the answer was no, and I've
left it sort of sit there for a while. I did not
realize that when it was hung up on the final
frame there, having taken it; but the OPERATE light
was ON, - that you all didn't know it.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Vanguard at 43.
PLT See you there, Hank.
263 08 l0 54 CDR And, Hank, I notice that I have a handheld photo

scheduled at about 09:15. Doesn't time with my
Madrid - Okay, I got it. Understand now.
264 08 42 51 CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank. We got a problem, possibly not a

problem, but when we found ... 019. I could not
get the film lever over to SLIDE RETRACTION ....
We're out of film in that, but it's only reading
about 122 or 123. I've mounted the other film
cassette, don't know if there's any film in it
or not ; but I thought l'd get one or two more
exposures, and let you know what - let you decide
what to do for the next pass.
CC Jack, I'm sorry. We had a drop out there, and

we lost all the first part of that.
264 08 43 46 PLT Okay. Our subject is S019, Hank. I got the first
exposure, and then I went - was going to go from
CARRIAGE to SLIDE RETRACTED on the second one,
and the llever wouldn't move into SLIDE RETRACTED.
Although, it would move in the other direction
freely. I've got a hunch maybe it's out of film,
but it's only counting at 122 or 123. I've put
in the second film cassette, and l'm going to try
to get one more exposure or whatever I can get
the rest of this rev. But you might want to decide
what to do for the next operational period.
CC Okay. We copy.
264 08 44 43 CC Skylab, meant to tell you earlier, but I forgot

it. The long awaited tennis match came off last
night. And Billy Jean King consistently outplayed
Riggs, and put him down 6, 4; 6, 3; 6, 3.
CDR Women's Lib rides high. Tell me this, what kind

of vitamins was she taking? We want to get some.
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CC I don't know. I wonder if he was taking too

many. He - he might have had them rattling
around and couldn't do much there.
CDR Dr. Garriott informs me that he was taking C and

she was taking he.
PLT I told you those vitamins are no darn good for

you.
264 08 47 41 PLT All right - Okay, Hank ...
CC Say again?
PLT I've got to get the comm refigured - configured.

Okay. I took one more exposure. We've only taken
two this rev. The first one was on cassette
serial number 5. And this last one was on cassette
number 3. I got the 270 and the 30 - second
exposure on field 512. The rest of it, of course,
I've already mentioned that the film lever locked
z up. And so I'm standingby for what you want me
to do about that.
CC Okay. We're discussing it down here now, Jack.

We'll try to get an answer to you here, shortly.
264 08 48 30 PLT Okay. At the moment, I've got number - whatever

it was, the last - number 3, I guess, is installed
and available for taking pictures. I don't know
how many frames it's got left. It's sitting on
144 now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Canaries at 02. And, Jack,
we'll try to have an answer for you there. That
will still be in time for the next pass.
PLT Okay. Thanks.
CC The one - the number - serial number 3 you put in

there appears to be working okay?
264 08 49 59 PLT Yes, sir. I don't know how much film it's got
left in it, though. It's been sitting on 144,
but - and I don't know the characteristics of
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the film slots, but I've got a hunch that may be

what happened. Because I think we must have maybe
run out of slots.
CC Okay.
PLT There was a real hard stop there at CARRIAGE

RETRACTED, and it just won't go any further.
CC Normally, I think, there are 150 in those things.
PLT That's what T thought, too. So I was a little

surprised.
264 08 50 39 PLT There's something else that I don't understand

on this melt demonstration, and that is, what -
what does step 3 mean? Obtain and photo 1/8-inch
piece of paper in the front center of the ice
cube. And then I want to know what part of the
ice cube they want to see on the film. Is it the
cylindrical side, or is it the front with the -
the front circular-lookin_ portion?
264 09 02 50 CC Skylab. AOS Canaries and Madrid, 13 minutes.

We'll be dumping the tape recorders over Madrid
at 09:06.
264 09 14 48 CC Jack, Houston.
CC Jack, on S019, field 215 is a high-priority field.

We're looking at having you run 215 at the next
opportunity. That'll be 09:52. Prior to that,
if you can, get to the malfunction procedure on
page 2-4 of the Experiment Malf Book. And we're
coming up on Honeysuckle at 09:50. At that time,
we'll pass you some rotation and tilt numbers.
PLT Okay, Story. And there's one other question I

had on this melt demonstration. I don't under-
stand step number 3 on mission day 56. Obtain and
photo 1/8-inch piece of paper in the front center of
the ice cube. That just mean a 1/8-inch strip
and stick it under the cylindrical end? And the
other question is what - what view do they want in
in the camera of the ice cube. Do they want the
cylindrical end, or do they want cylindrical side? _
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CC Stand by i.
264 09 16 03 PLT Okay.
264 09 16 27 CC Okay. we'd like a picture of the paper/ice

interface straight on. We're going LOS here.
See you in 35 minutes over Honeysuckle at 09:50.
PLT They'll have to come up with a better answer than

that. That doesn't tell me anything. Where do
they want the strip, on the end or the side?
CC Want the side view.
264 05' 16 47 PLT Okay. Thank you.
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264 09 51 00 CC Skylab, AOS, Honeysuckle for 7 minutes. And I've

got an S019 pad for Jack.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Are you ready to copy?
PLT Yes. Ready to copy, Story.
CC Okay. You'll be using cassette 003, as you know.

Now, we've got six frames remaining until we get
into the cal frames. We are going to use one of
the cal frames. So you'll be taking seven frames
in all. START: 09:56; rot - til - ROTATION, 343.9;
TILT, 18.3; field, 560; exposure, 270. START:
10:01; ROTATION, 135.7; TILT, 26.5; field, 215;
exposure, 270, 90, 30. You still with me?
_- PLT Sure. Go ahead,Story.
CC Okay. One more. START: l0 :08 ; ROTATION, 140.5 ;

TILT, 25.2; field, 211; exposure, 270, 90, 30. And
this will complete the FRAMES FJ_4AINING on
cassette 003.
PLT Okay. You might tell me what the Nu z is down here

on that pass.
CC Okay. That's 4.3.
PLT Okay. And thank you, Story. I got all that. I

got about 3 minutes, then I have to be in run. So
I'll take off and tell you about the other canister
later. Looks like film hatch is working okay to me.
It's Just that the carriage won't come out.
CC Okay. Copy. And on the ice-melting experiment,

take those photos perpendicular to the paper; look-
ing straight at the paper.
264 09 53 19 PLT Okay. And the paper I - should be lined up along

tthe cylindrical side, parallel to the long axis.
Is that right?
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CC Yes, sir. That's affirm.
PLT Okay. That's as opposed to being on the end. And

I'll take the photos perpendicular to it.
CC That's correct. Thank you.
PLT Okay. Thank you for clearing that - clarifying

that for me, Story.
SPT Story, for ATOM down there, the H-ALPHA 2 door

just did not close at sunset here. And so I've
started on that door-failed-open malfunction
procedure, unless he has some other suggestions.
Over.
CC Copy, Owen.
CC And, Owen, we've got no data down here. And we've

also got no cow,hand capability, and we' d like an
AUTO GG ENABLE.
SPT Okay, Story. You have the GG ENABLE, and I' d like
to verify that we do have the primary motor ENABLED
on H-ALPHA 2. Over.
CC Stand by 1.
SPT In other words, I just want to make sure that's

the one we've been using.
264 09 55 06 CC H-ALPHA 2 is on SECONDARY, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
264 09 56 13 CC Skylab, we're getting data now. Still do not have

command capability.
SPT Okay, Story. After step 2, I show barber poles on

both H-ALPHA 1 and H-ALPHA 2 now.
CC Copy.
CC And, Owen, from what we can see down here, you're

in good shape. When you get into sunrise, we
expect the doors to open.
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SPT Okay. I'ii terminate the malfunction procedure

at that point, after block 2.
264 09 57 30 CC Okay. That'll be fine. We're about a minute from

LOS. See you over Bermuda in 35 minutes, at 10: 33.
264 l0 34 36 CC Skylab, AOS, Bermuda, 6 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. I've rigged up that 6-pack cool a

few minutes ago. Got that rigged out. You might
want - I put a note in Jack's Deact Checklist, right
at the very end Just after the closeout, before he
closes the hatch, to verify the fan's on and that
the tiedowns are tight and that it's all aligned.
But y'all may have a better place to put that. It's
my guess it's going to get bumped around over the
next few days, particularly suited ops during the
EVA. It's right in the middle of the normal traf-
fic path.
CC Okay. Sounds like a good idea. If we got any

f changeto that,we'll get them up to you.
CDR When I opened my urine drawer this morning, I

noticed there was quite a bit of urine around. And
it looked to me like the little rubber boot that
fits over the pipe coming out of the centrifuge -
part of it was over the wide bump, the other part
was not. It looked okay, but apparently it was
not. So I cleaned that up. I've put down the
number that I read, but my guess is, the leak
was about one-half of one of those sample bags.
And I assume the sample bags are what - 120 milli-
liters or something like that?
CC That's affirm, A1, so about 60 ml, then.
CDR Okay. When I read it down tonight, I'll mention

it again, but you might alert the urine - interested
biomeds, like Mike Whittle, that it looks like this
thing's going to be in error about half of a
sample bag's worth.
CC Okay.
264 i0 37 03 CC And, A1, could you comment on your handheld photo-

-- graph of Madrid? Did you get a good picture? And
what was the weather there?
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CDR Weather was good there. I was not able to pull

it off. I got hung up in the urine problem.
CC Okay. We're interested in the weather because the

EREP pass will go over there.
CDR Okay. I looked out. And France looked good, as

did Germany.
CC Okay. And we'll reschedule that photo for later.
CDR Okay.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Stand by 1 .... like it's got to do the melt

experiment.
CDR Okay.
264 l0 39 07 CDR He'll be with you in a minute, Story. He's working

on his ice cube. It's not a cube - his ice
cylinder.
CC Okay, A1.
CDR I mentioned it to Dick, last night - Phil Shaffer's

team. We're kind of hoping that the flight planners
for the next 3 or 4 da - well, until the end of
the mission - put the eating on time and getting
to bed on time and getting the exercise a couple -
at least a couple of hours before we get to bed,
and also getting to eat at least 3 - 3 or so hours
before we get to bed - is about the highest
priority things they have.
CC Okay. They got that, A_I. And we' ll do it.
CDR Okay. And the last couple of days, we've been

eating Just as we went off to bed and also exer-
cising right at the last minute, too. And, we need
to get this thing really psyched out here for the
last 5 days.
264 l0 40 55 CC Okay. And we're going LOS here, and we'll see you
over Canaries in about 1 minute.
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CDR Okay. And we' re going to move our own eating

periods around today so that we're eating pretty
near normal. We noticed we're eating 8 hours after
we get up, lunch, so we're going to move that back.
264 i0 _i 20 CC Okay. Good idea.
264 i0 43 09 CC Back with you through Canaries and Madrid for

l0 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
recorders over Madrid at 10:45.
PLT Okay, Story. Go ahead.
CC Got a little addition to your ice melting experiment

there, Jack. You ready to copy?
PLT Okay. I want you to know the thing is up and

melting.
CC Okay.
PLT Go ahead.
CC When it gets done melting and you've got a - a

sphere of water there, take the shower soap dis-
penser and put a small amount on the edge of the
globule. And in terms of perspective, put that
at right angles to the DAC. If it - As the DAC
is looking at the globule, put the soap off to the
edge of the sphere of water and try to avoid touch-
ing the water with the tape.
PLT Try to avoid touching the water with the tape?

What's the tape got to do with it? I understand
the soap, but I don't understand the tape.
CC We Just don't want any contact between the tape

and the water.
264 i0 44 28 PLT Oh, I understand. The tape that it's hooked on

to. Okay. And I'll put a little dot of shower
soap on the outside edge of it. Right?
CC Yes. Right angles to the DAC, so we'll get the

best view of the dispersion. And run the DAC at
about two frames per second for 1 or 2 minutes to
observethe dispersion.
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PLT Okay. And right now, I - I've got it hooked to

the tape. I took a little piece of mosite to make
a standoff. And I wasn't completely sure of your
setup, but I got it set up, so I think it'll all
be in the DAC. And it's set up so that you will
be able to get all of the data you need. So far,
the diffusion experiment hasn't done anything. The
tea is Just sitting on top of the fiber stopper
like it was doing yesterday. I think the trouble
is that tea has got too much sugar in it; it's
going to go anywhere, but I'll just leave it like
it is and take pictures every once in awhile.
CC Okay. That's all fine, Jack.
264 l0 h5 36 PLT Yesterday, when I was working with another made,

I got a little bit of that tea in the water and
noticed that when it did get in the water, it
started to diffuse. But at the moment, I don't
think any of that tea is going to get in the water,
because the stopper is in the way.
CC Yes. We understand that, Jack.
265 l0 46 45 CC Owen, we'd like the DAS for a NAV update.
SPT You have it.
264 I0 50 45 CC Owen, the DAS is yours. And, Al?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Do you need any more time for updating your Check-

list? You need any more scheduled time?
PLT Not with the Checklist we've got on board, we won't

need any more. If we get a lot more, I guess we
will.
CC Okay. The rest of the stuff we've got is pretty

minor.
PLT A1 says to tell you the most important things we

can do is eat on time and get to bed on time. Out.
CC Okay. We're going to do that.
PLT Okay. That's great. We'd like to do that, too.

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26h i0 52 51 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about 25 minutes

from Carnarvon at 11:18.
PLT Okay, Stor_. See you there.
CC And, we're going to have all the EVA troops in here

about 2 or 3 hours from now. So, if you're looking
at any questions on those procedures, go ahead and
shoot them down to us around then.
264 i0 53 15 PLT Okay.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 264:11:00 to 26h:12:30
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SKYLAB AlE-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
264 ii 18 26 CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 15 minutes

with a slight dropout for the handover.
CDR Okay, Story.
264 ll 20 18 PLT Story, did you get the word that I've had some
trouble shooting of the SO19 film canister?
CC Jack, we think you've gotten on tbx'ough the m_] f,

and the film hatch mechanism's working okay.
PLT Yes. That's basically what it is. When you try

to go to SLIDE RETRACTED, the - it's a metal-to-
metal type of stop. It's very definite and - I
took it in - I took the thing in the head where
it was dark and fooled around with it, but I
found that the shutter was closed, the carriage is
retracted. It would not go in any direction. And
when you tried to open the shutter, it obviously
would not open when the carriage retracted, but
the film, however, freewheels all the way from
CARRIAGE RETRACTED over to SHUTTER, OPEN now, and
the film hatch works normally.
CC Okay.
26h ii 21 35 CC And we don't have any more procedures for you on

that right now, Jack.
PLT Did you call, Story?
264 ll 22 O1 CC Yes, sir. We don't have any more procedures for

you on the SO19 right now.
PLT Okay. I evacuated that canister. It's in the film

vault now and I'm about ready to evacuate the
other one, since I understand it's now empty.
Is that correct?
CC That's correct.
264 ii 22 26 SPT Hey, Story, H-ALPHA 2 door close - did not close
at sunset here again, so it looks like I'll have
to go throughthe same motor turnoffand back on
again.
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CC That's fine, Owen.
SPT Show barber pole now.
CC Okay.
264 ii 29 44 SPT Story, you still there?
CC Yes, sir. Honeysuckle for another 4-1/2 minutes.
SPT I wonder if you'd try to set me up a phone call

tonight to the home folks, please?
CC Okay. Who is that to, 0wen?
SPT To the wife if you can reach her this afternoon.
CC Okay. Will do.
264 ii 30 46 SPT Yes, Story. You might catch her about 8:00 o'clock
local or something like that, before everybody
gets up and around. Since we have to sort of
set it up a little early on our present schedule.
CC Okay.
CC Understand you want that this morning, in the

next, oh, hour, hour and a half, 0wen?
264 ll 31 17 SPT I just thought you might call Helen sometime

this morning. It doesn't make any difference.
At 7 to 8 o'clock, somewhere like that. That
way it will catch her before she gets off and
running around somewhere. And I guess we'll
have to have the conversation before our bedtime,
which will make it afternoon there.
CC Okay. Understand.
264 ii 34 32 CC Skylab, about 20 seconds until LOS. We'll see

you over MLA in half an hour at 12:05 and he
dumping the tape recorders there.
264 ii 34 44 SPT Okay, Story.
264 12 05 53 CC Skylah, AOS MLA and Bermuda, 14 minutes.

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SPT Okay, Story. I did the Nu Z update here about

5 minutes ago and I went to close the shutter and
it - the shutter door on the STAR TRACE_R will not
close when I try to do that. When you visually
look out the window here, you see that it is
still wide open. And I wonder if you have any
recommended proceudre for me. Over.
CC Okay.
CC 0wen, you might give it another attempt to close

it. If it doesn't work, park it and power it down.
264 12 06 37 SPT Okay. I've already tried it a couple of times

already. I'll try it once more. And where would
you like for me to park it? What are those
numbers?
CC That's inner, minus 1800, and outer, plus 4200.
SPT Okay. Thank you.

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CC And the Nu z looks good.
264 12 07 57 CC And, Owen, we'd like the DAS for dump inhibit.
SPT Go ahead.
264 12 08 13 CC Okay. And your phone call is on for MIA at

2-1:55. The antenna's right, and we'll remind
you about that later on.
CC The DAS is yours, 0wen.
SPT Okay.
264 12 18 48 CC Skylab, 1 minute to LOS, 5 minutes to Madrid.
264 12 18 52 PLT Okay, Story.
264 12 23 36 CC Skylab, A0S Madrid 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. And for the ATM room, I Just

completed the 4-minute exposure for S052. If
they want any more than Just the one exposure
now is the convenient time to get it. And also,
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since we don't really have a ready light very

often on S052, we probably ought to include an
extra step in the Checklist, to say cycle the
mirror position to camera to make sure that we're
not wasting that one frame. I did do that, but
for the next iteration, we probably ought to
include that step to make sure. I'll be at Sun
center here for another minute or so in case they
do want any other exposures.
CC Okay. I'll get back with you.

@
264 12 25 46 CC Owen, we got enough pictures on the S052 for now.
SPT Okay. Th_nk you.
CC And sometime in the next 5 minutes I've got a

couple of REG BUS adjusts for you to do.
SPT Okay. Adjust. Stand by.
CC And we got 2 minutes, Owen.
264 12 29 01 SPT Okay. Go ahead on what you wanted.
CC Okay. REG adjust, BUS 2, l0 degrees clockwise.
SPT Okay.
CC And the reasons for that are we will be discharging

the batteries pretty good during the next EREP
pass. The airlock batteries are in better shape
than the ATM batteries, so we'd like them to
carry a little more of the load.
264 12 29 56 SPT Understand.
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SIC/LAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRASNCRIPTION
264 12 130 23 CC And we're a minute from LOS. Be coming up over

Carnarvon in 25 minutes at 12:56. We'll be
dumping the tape recorders there and also will
be turning off the MDA wall heaters over Carnarvon,
for your information.
SPT Okay. The REGADJUSTS are complete.
CC Thank you.
SPT And the frame count for that h-minute exposure

on 52 was 295.
CC Got it.
264 12 !56 51 CC Skylab, A0S Carnarvon 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story. Did you redesignate another tape

r recorder, or am I going to have to wait until you
get this one dumped?
CC Say again, (>wen.
SPT I was using channel A tape recorder, and I guess

you Just started to dump it. I wonder if you
turned on an experiment recorder or whatever's
required so my chsnnel A is still recorded, or
shall I wait until you're through with the dump
and then put it back on again?
CC We're already dumping, (>wen. We'd like you to

stand by until we get done.
SPT Story, this is the third straight rev that H-alpha

number 2 door goes white instead of barber pole
at sunset.
CC Yes, we're looking at it, Owen. And do you want

to take care of it, or would you like us to take
care of it?
SPT I'ii take care of it. It Just takes me a minute.

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CC Okay. And we're showing POWER, OFF of the VTR

now. And we do need to have that powered up for
a dump over Texas.
SPT Okay. Jack says he'll get back at it in just a

minute. And it looks like the recorders - That
dump is back for us. Is that right?
CC That's affirmative, on the recorder.
CC And there's no hurry on the VTR if you're

vacuuming or something now.
CC Owen, when you're done with the door ops, we'd

like the DAS for a dump enable.
SPT Okay. I'm through with it. You can have it.
CC Okay.
264 13 03 18 CC The DAS is yours, Owen.
264 13 04 48 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you

over Honeysuckle in 5 minutes. And for your
planning purposes, we will be taking some more
data with SO19 a couple of days from now, using
the cal frames.
264 13 05 08 CDE Okay, Story.
SPT Story, I was off the line there for a couple of

minutes on channel A. Did you have anything for
me? I just heard you talking about our squawk
box some distance away. Over.
CC Negative, Owen. That only concerned SO19 ops a

couple of days from now.
SPT Thank you.
CC And your Z-LV maneuver time is verified.
264 13 09 07 CC Skylab, we're back again through Honeysuckle for

2 minutes.
264 13 i0 32 CC We're a minute from LOS; about 30 minutes to

Texas at 13:39.
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264 13 39 34 CC Skylab, A0S stateside 16 minutes.
CDR Not too good. How do you read me, Jack?
PLT Fine.
CC We're reading you, A1.
CDR Okay. We Just cleared some ... - -
264 13 40 ll PLT MARK. EREP, START.
CDR - - on the VTR.
PLT Okay. We Just started. Now we go to AUTO CAL.
264 13 40 17 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. 194 MODE to MANUAL.
264 13 40 21 PLT MARK. Okay. We're standing by for 191 READY

light to come ON.
PLT How's the coune_Imen from Friendswood today down

there, Story?
CC They're all great.
PLT Okay. Did they stop all that flooding? Stop the
rain? And -
CC There's a - there's a drought there now. We need

some rain.
PLT Oh, I see. Well, I thought they le - legislated

against floods, which is a good deal. A good way
to get reelected.
PLT Maybe he doesn't want to get reelected (chuckle).
CDR How's your door down there, Big 0.?
CDR Okay.
CC While I've got you in a break here, the - There's

three cloud decks at Goddard, and the laser's
been turned off.
PLT Okay, Story.

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PLT Hey, 0., are you sneaking over there to get a

couple of pictures of that water ball every once
in a while?
SPT I'll go do it now. I've been busy other -

otherwise, Jack, and haven't had a chance.
I got - -
PLT I know it.
SPT - - ... turned on. I'll get a couple.
PLT I know it. I kind of had to interrupt the, taking

pictures of the melt experiment here for last
l0 minutes or so, because we got busy doing EREP,
Story. But the thing's pretty well melted. Just
got a little bit of ice left in it. It's forming
a nice ball around the outside. Don't breeze over
there too fast, Owen, or it will blow off. Still
no diffusion. If they'd clear me to use another
one of those little test tubes, I'd set up a dif-
fused experiment and we could watch. Okay, stand-
ing by for the S191 READY light to come ON at 56.
What's your pass look like today, Al? Right up
the backbone of the Adirondacks? Is that it?
CDR Yes. We're headed up over Mexico and then in -

over - -
264 13 42 56 PLT MARK. READY light ON.
CDR NewOrleans
--
PLT REF 6 - -
CDR - - Alabs_a, Tennessee, Roanoke, Washington,

Baltimore, Philadelphia, Providence, Boston, and
then right over Nova Scotia, and right near Halifax.
So we're in pretty good shape; we're hitting the
nice part of the country. I hope it's cloud free,
or at least partly cloud free. We got a nadir
swath here in a minute.
264 13 43 27 PLT Another toughy. Okay. Standing - -
CDR Use the DAC. Okay.
PLT - - by for 43:53.

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CDR I'll do it.
PLT Sorry to see this pass get here, Story; this is the
last one. We've really enjoyed doing this EREP.
CC Okay. Stick it to it. And we've enjoyed listening

to you.
264 13 43 54 PLT MARK. MODE, AUTO on 190.
CDR h0 - Looking for 45 - -
PLT Well, we won't say nothing about your Flight Direc-

tor taking the team out to dinner like we did for
Hutch's team and Big Phil's.
CDR He probably did it, anyway. Probably done it al-

ready, nice guy like that. 45:04.
264 13 44 19 PLT Tape recorder's reading right around 45 percent,

somewhere. Come on 45.
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CDR We're over the Gulf. It's nice and clear.
264 13 44 29 PLT Alfa 2 is 58 percent, Charlie 4 is 71 percent_ for

those who like to know that. They didn't ask me
to read that out today; I wonder why.
CDR Never changes.
PLT Probably - probably figured out that the less that

I said, the better. Good old motor mouth and eagle
eye going today. Okay. We're going to get the
tape burner on in a minute here.
CDR/PLT 45.
CDR 04. Coming ON.
264 13 45 00 PLT MARK. MODE to READY; MALF light, ON, OFF; TAPE
MOTION light, ON.
CDR CAMERA' s ON.
PLT 192 is working good.
CDR Go to 46:04. That's _lmost 2 minutes.

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PLT A lot of - -
CDR One minute, as the case maybe.
PLT A lot of standing around on this EREP.
CDR Boy, we're getting some good pictures of the Gulf.

There's not many clouds down there. That's what
they're looking for. Gulf surface.
PLT SHUTTER SPEED going to MEDIUM on 190.
CDR Got some scattered now - -
264 13 45 30 PLT MARK. MEDIUM.
CDR - - but still plenty of surface. Still plenty of

surface.
PLT Alfa 2's hanging in there. Okay, here's another

one.
CDR Now we're back - -
264 13 45 50 PLT MARK.
CDR - - in the clear Gulf again - -
PLT INTERVAL's, i0.
CDR EREP'II be happy.
PLT Alfa 2 is 40 - 57 percent, for some reason;

Charlie 4, 71 percent. Maybe it just likes to
be over water
264 13 46 04 CDR DAC, OFF. That finished that little one, Now we
go up to 45 liP and LEFT to zero, right now. Okay,
we stand by to go on here at 47:17. It's a minute
away. We're over some - Looks like overcast cir-
rus; hard to tell. Just looks white out.
PLT Thirty five percent being read at Charlie 8 now.

It hangs in there. It's real steady when you've
got the old tape burner running.
264 13 46 32 CDR It's just haze. We're actually over the ocean,
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but hazy. It's hard to tell. If I zoomed in, I

might be able to tell more.
PLT Standing by for 47:30. Tape recorder's getting

low. Getting near 31 percent. Still got a half
a minute " -
CDR Coming up - -
PLT - - to go.
CDR - - 47:17.
PLT You got Block Island again today?
CC No. I've got the one I shot two or three times

short of that. Kind of two little inlets - two
little points of land, 47:17. Then I got Boston
after this. So Block Island isn't going to get a
treatment today. 47:17 coming up. CAMERA's ON.
264 13 47 17 PLT TAPE "MOTION light Just went out.
CDR Okay.
PLT It's oscillating and flickering.
CDR 47:17 is there.
PLT It is flickering- -
CDR And we're going to zoom in - -
PLT - - little bit.
CDR - - and see what we can get.
PLT Don't like that tape much; must be a sticky tape.

Stand by -
CDR We can track, but - -
264 13 147 30 PLT MARK.
CDR - - we can't see what it is; it's Just - -
264 13 47 32 PLT We went to CHECK.

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CDR - - too hazy. Very hazy day down there. Come on
264 13 47 38 PLT RECORDER MALF light ON steady now with the TAPE
MOTION light ON steady, l've never seen that
before. Is the - Now the MALF light went out. I
think it's that roll of tape. Story, is that roll
of tape one that was up here when we got here?
Or did we bring it up?
CDR We're tracking away, Story, 20 degrees; same old

site ....
PLT There's something different about that roll of

tape than any other roll of tape we've run through.
CDR Why, did it feel different?
PLT It's already- It's also on the tape recorder

number 2, which might make a difference, but did
not make a difference yesterday.
CC That's correct, Jack. And it's happened before.
PLT I know it's happened before. But it hasn't hap-

pened to us on tape recorder 1. Has it happened
on tape recorder 2? Is it a function of the tape
recorder or the tape?
CC That's the tape recorder.
PLT Okay.
CDR/PLT Thank youo
264 13 48 30 PLT I got it on my funny list and I was - I've been

looking for it, but I've never seen it on tape
recorder 1.
264 13 48 40 CDR Locked on .... all over the swath.
PLT Standing by for INTERVAL's to 20.
CDR Okay, we're minus 22. That's plenty enough. All

that's coming off.
CDR Coming back and going to get ready for ... 30.
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264 13 48 55 PLT MARK. INTERVAL's to 20 on S190. Boy, there's

a lot of standing around today.
CDR 50:09 and RIGHT, 4.
CDR h5. EIGHT i, 2, 3, 4. Looking for 50:09. It's

less than a minute away. Let's zoom in Just a
little hit, so we can pick it out.
PLT Tape recorder's oscillating around 25 percent,

plus or minus 7.
264 13 h9 23 CDR We're looking for 50:09, 45.1, RIGHT 40. I'm
RIGHT h0 and I'm 45.1. Little hazy down there
again. 50:09. Think that's the way of the world
up here. Okay. We're getting Long Island. We
got the target - not yet, but we're going to get
it. I can tell. Sense it!
264 13 h9 48 PLT Okay, we're going to go INTERVALs to 10, here.
CDR 50:09.
264 13 49 50 PLT MARK. INTERVALs to i0.
CDR I see it. The site is in - not in sight yet.

50:09 is what I'm looking for. Okay, it doesn't
look right down there.
PLT Did you get your VTR dumped, Story?
CC Standby 1.
CDR Hey, there's a - We didn't get a good point that

time, for some reason. We got the place, but the
point was poor.
264 13 50 26 PLT We're going MODE to READY on 192 here. Standby.
CDR Okay, we're getting - -
264 13 50 31 PLT MARK. MODE READY. 192 MALF light on, off. No
tape motion is there. And the TAPE MOTION light's
coming on, Just flickering on. It's on steady
now.
CDR - - We got the goodie. '

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PLT Standby for SHUTTER SPk_n to FAST. TAPE MOTION

light Just likes to flicker. Makes it more in-
teresting when the lights don't all work right.
26h 13 50 52 CDR We're 16 degrees; we're taking data right on!

Good weather down here; the way it ought to be.
Going far ... - -
26h 13 51 00 PLT SHUTTER SPEED to FAST. I hear them turning up,

too.
CDR When it goes back to 10, we're going to get off

this site, Zero right now.
PLT Boy, I'll tell you, if this doesn't run off that
tape, nothing will. We're at 20 percent. Get
out my little book that tells me what the cal
curve looks like for tape recorder number 2. All
written up neatly by our friends from Martin there
in the back of the EREP Checklist.
CDR Yes. That ... Zoom back out.
PLT - - right in the tech data section because this

is the last page.
CDR Let's go to zero.
PLT Yes; here we go.
CC We got the VTR dump, and it's rewound.
CDR Then we're going to go right - -
PLT Thank you.
CDR 2.3. Get back over here.
PLT Got 15 percent on the tape gage - -
CDR Wants to go ... time 51:51. That was it back there.

That's okay, we got it. Now we find Boston;
there's Boston. Now we find a place close at hand.
PLT Of course, here we got more tape left than we do

on the other tape recorder.
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264 iB 52 05 CDR Okay, we got a uniform site. Everything looks good.

We're getting Boston's uniform site. Okay, we've
unlocked.
PLT See what's next. Did you take some data on that
historic city?
CDR ... 08:22. Next to - next to the historic city.

08:22.
264 13 52 32 PLT See where the Boston Tea Party was. We're having
our own little tea party up here, but tea doesn't
work much.
CDR Wonder if they have any diffusion that goes along

with it. Huh?
PLT That's what you're taking a picture of. Okay,

we're going to go to CHECK here, and get this little
tape burner off. Stand by.
26h 13 52 50 PLT MARK. We're in CHECK. TAPE MOTION light ...

F
CDR - - Zero zero. We're standing by for the time

08:22. I got a maneuver at lh:20; that's a good
long way away.
PLT It's a long pass.
CDR Yes.
CDR We're hitting Nova Scotia. I think I'ii take a

look and see if I can see Halifax.
PLT Did you take a picture of our ice melt down there,
0.?
SPT Not right now. There's an amusing view out here,

Nova Scotia and everything.
PLT Let's get back to science down there.
SPT Well, we're doing that, Jack, after this site.
PLT (Laugh)
CDR Can't keep his mind on science.

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PLT I think that guy was sightseeing. Keeps thinking

he's in a train, alway's traveling.
PLT Okay, 191 is next.
CDR Okay. Standing by for an 08:22 operation.
PLT All kinds of time, A1.
CDR I'd say so. Makes me think my pad's wrong, it's

so much.
PLT Stand by.
263 13 54 01 PLT MARK. REF 2 on 191. We've got a little bit of

tape. My cal curve hit zero zero at the same time
here, as opposed to tape recorder number l; tape
recorder number 2 is supposed to hang in there a
little longer. I'm waiting for the 190 READY out
light. READY light out is what I should have said.
Not yet, however. What will happen if I do that?
264 13 54 40 PLT MARK. One seond early, but pretty darn close.
We're in STANDBY. FRAMES are going to 1 and 7.
INTERVALs to 20. Okay, let's doublecheck that.
l, 7, 20. Stand by. Okay. VTS - going to get
an AUTO CAL on you, A1.
CDR Why don't you do that?
264 13 55 00 PLT MARK. The AUTO CAL. EREP, STOP after the end of
this AUTO CAL.
264 13 55 09 PLT 191 READY light is out.
CDR We can put that book in storage and forget it.
PLT I'll come down and take that picture, O. I'm going
to have a minutehere.
SPT Well, if you'd take one now, I'll take one in

5 minutes.
CDR I can go take one now for you, Jack. I've got
13 minutes.
SPT I Just took a sequence; you don't need to worry

about it. -
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CDR Okay.
PLT Thank you. Thank you, Owen.
CC We're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes to Madrid. Your

SI maneuver time is verified. And it looks like
a good pass you had.
264 13 55 45 CDR We got them all. Boston was - We got Boston, but
it wasn't straight down by then. I followed the
first site until it was about 20 degrees back and
then moved up to Boston. And so Boston we started
maybe l0 degrees back. But we got it.
PLT They'll like that.
SPT It should have been excellent data, Story. About

the only thing socked in happened to be that
Washington-Baltimore area. The rest of the coast,
all the way up and down was nearly clear.
PLT Weather is clearing up now we're leaving.

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CC Okay, great.
PLT I think it was that active Sun that made all the
weather down there over the States.
CDR Could be.
264 13 56 31 CDR Nothing like an active Sun. There is nothing

nearly like it.
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264 14 00 56 CC We're back with you through Madrid for 7 minutes.
PLT Say, Story, what kind of photographic protocal did

you want when I put the shower soap on that water
drop? You want it to - to let it run continous
for 2 frames, or what?
CC That's about 1 to 2 minutes at 2 frames per second.

And I guess it will be a good idea to start the
camera Just prior to putting the soap on it.
PLT Yes, I've been doing that anyway. I've been putting
the camera on it when the thing gets secure on there
and that kind of thing. So every couple of minutes,
you say, for a couple of frames a second, huh?
CC That's affirm, Jack.

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264 14 02 49 PLT You there, Story? Not there.
CC Another 5 minutes, Jack.
PLT Okay. Now, when they ran this melting test on the
ground and they put the soap on it, how big of a
glob of soap do they want on it there? About the
same as a - a normal water drop on Earth, or is it a
bigger glob?
CC Stand by 1.
PLT Okay.
CDR Doing this nadir swath over Sicily, we noticed

that the volcano at the eastern end of Sicily, this
morning, was putting out a little smoke. It's too
bad we can't stop the 191 and put it right on the
mouth of the volcano.
264 14 0B 45 PLT _rARK. EREP to START.
264 14 0B 54 PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO.
PLT TAPE MOTION light is on. Everythingseems to be

running pretty well.
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CDR 08:22, Jack; it's roughly h minutes.
PLT Hey, after this is over with, I'm going to raise

that up, and I'm going to look through the window
while you look _through there, as the door comes
closed.
CDR You've got it right. I'll read the procedure as

we do it.
PLT Okay.
26h 14 04 38 CDR And I'm going to do a quick alignment, which, I

suspicion, hasn't moved a bit.
PLT I hope you're right.
CDR Then I'm going to change ... the seal in the water
squeezer . ..
PLT Standing by for MODE to READY.
CDR Okay.
264 lh 05 00 PLT MARK. READY light on the - READY on the 192.

MALF light ON and OFF. TAPE MOTION light is on.
Okay, we're in good shape.
CDR Let me check and see where we are.
PLT Fourty seconds' worth of data, and it must be over

a good place because we're only getting 40 seconds
on 192.
CDR That's what I'm wondering. May be over - -
PLT Reading 9 percent on Charlie 8.
26h lh 05 21 CDR No, we're right over - we're coming in over the
coast of France, it looks like. Hard to tell real
quick. No, maybe we're departing it.
PLT Well, we must be departing something.
CDR We just - we Just - I think we Just cut acros_ the

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PLT Right now, I say -
264 14 05 42 PLT MARK.
CDR - - right to the small Pyrenees.
PLT MODE to CHECK on 192.
CDR Haven't got my map set, but I think it was the

Pyrenees we Just passed.
CC Jack, that's a very small drop of soap.
PLT A very small drop of soap. Okay.
CDR Nadir swath at 08:22.
PLT Thank you, Story.
264 14 06 06 CC And while we got a break here in your EREP ops, on

your maneuver back to SI, we think you'll probably
get a CMG SAT and fire a couple of mibs on the way
r back.
CDR Okay. And we'll watch out for it.
PLT I figured we ought to take the DAC down there and

take movies of that from - of that out the window.
CDR Okay.
PLT We saw the TACS firing the other day Just at sunset.
It Just happened to fire that one near the workshop
or the wardroom window. It Just sends out a white
cloud like a flash. Sure see it.
CDR CMG SAT.
PLT It's kind of like lightening. Brightens up the

window for a moment, if the Sun's shining right on
it.
264 14 06 52 CC Okay. We're about 40 seconds fr_n LOS here. See

you over Honeysuckle in 40 minutes at 14:47.
CDR Okeydoke.
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PLT Okay, Story.
CDR Make sure I'm looking for 08:22.
PLT Standing by for 8 minutes. SHUTTER SPk?_D to M_nYdM.
CDR Looks like Gibraltar down there. I think it is.
26h 14 07 35 CDR After Sicily, Sicily.
PLT Okay. Standing by for SHUTTER SPOken to MEDIUM,

coming up on 8 minutes.
26_ lh 08 00 PLT _ . MEDIUM, on SHUTTER Spk_n. I can hear it

winding down on 190. 08:22 standing by.
26h 14 08 07 CDR Nice and clear right now over the Med.
26h lh h7 57 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for Just i minute.
CC And, Owen, I've got a message for you on download-

ing the ETC.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Are you ready to copy?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Download both prime and spare mags per the cue

card. The prime mag: stow the film in F-26,
the mag in F-S10; for the spare mag: the film
in F-27 and the mag in M-124.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine. Now that's not on my

schedule. Do you want me to do it at the end of
the the ETC stowage, I guess?
CC You can Just get that any time you can work it in,
Owen.
SPT Okay, fine.
26h lh h9 09 CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you over
Goldstone at 15:15. And you've got a press
conference coming up then. We've got about
17 questions for you, and you'll have a total of
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16 minutes, so you probably won't get to all of

them. You'll have TV for the first i0 minutes of
the press conference; that's through Goldstone and
Texas. And the last two sites will be voice only.
SPT We're setting up right now, Story.
264 14 49 45 cc Okay,good.
264 15 15 46 CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 17 minutes. We'll

have a 1-minute dropout for handover between MLA
and Bermuda.
CDR Okay, we've got our TV set up; our comm seems to be
working okay; we're ready to go.
CC Okay, this is a list of questions submitted by

newsmen who have been actively covering your
Skylab mission, A1. For each of you: Do you
anticipate any trouble when you return to a
one-gravity field next Tuesday? And, do you think
you'll be able to w_lk out of the spacecraft?
CDR Let me answer the second one first. We know we're

going to be able to walk out of the spacecraft.
And to go back to the first one: My opinion would
be that we probably are going to have some problems,
because we been up here for 2 months in a zero-g
environment, obviously. We do know that we've been
working very hard in the LBNP and that we've found
that our indications there, measurements there, have
been pretty close to baseline on Earth, which gives
us a very encouraging opinion. We've been able to
put out more work on the erger - ergometer here than
we had before we left on Earth, so that leads you to
believe that our hearts are in good shape. So I
think we'll have some small problems readjusting
tb zero-g. But I don't tb_nk we'll have any trouble
getting out of the spacecraft nor performing the
physical tests and medical tests afterwards, and I
think we'll be back in pretty good shape within a
week or so. How about you, Owen?
SPT There's really not very much I think that myself or

Jack can add to that, because you've covered the
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field pretty thoroughly. And I think you've

expressed my opinion well, in addition, A1, so I
Don't really have anything else to say about it.
264 15 17 31 PLT I have the same comment as A1; I don't think we're
going to have a problem. We've been wor - working
particularly hard on getting our legs in shape,
and we're used to putting a good load on them
because of the exercise that we have. And so I
think we'll be able to adjust quite well to walking.
And I think perhaps some of the problems are a
little bit unknown as to what's going to happen
after that, but we don't anticipate any significant
problems.
CC Okay. And we're getting an excellent picture down

here. You might try holding the mike just a little
bit closer. And for Commander Bean: Do you and
your crew feel you're getting tired or bored or
uncomfortable after your long stay in weightlessness?
26_ 15 18 16 CDR Not at all. In fact, that's - that's one of the

reasons we asked for an extension several days ago,
was because there is a multitude of things you can
do up here. There's so many things that haven't
been thought of that we could do on a daily basis.
For example, this ice cube melting experiment that
Jack's doing right now is just a small example of
some of the things that could, conceivably, result
in important discoveries, that haven't been attemp-
ted yet because we just haven't had time in space to -
to set [sic] around and - and pick up the smaller
items or think about the littler ones. Now we tried
to do some of these things: We've flown some paper
airplanes up here; we've thrown some darts; we've
made su - Owen's made some big balls of water; We've
played with some magnets. There's just many, many
things that we could do up here if we Just had more
time. I might add one other thing. I think the
thing that - that has really impressed us the most
about living up here for this 2 months is the fact
that you can put out a lot of work; you do have a
lot of energy all day long to keep going; and you
sort of like to have something to do from the time
you get up until the time you go to bed. There's
- you've got energy; you're eating well up here.
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We all feel very good. And you feel like, in this

environment, you're only going to be here a couple
of months, that there Just isn't enough time to do
all the things that you'd like to do. We keep
hoping the ground will send us up even more things
to do, particularly in the way of new science. And
so I - I really think that - that this - this time
has gone extremely fast; each day does. Today,
for example, is about - over halfway through, and
it seems like it's only been several hours or so.
Let - let me ask Owen to say some words about that;
he's - he's the more scientific-minded, and he does
a lot more thinking about the possibilities of
zero-g than - than maybe sometimes Jack and I do.
At least he has a better grip on it.
26_ 15 20 l_ SPT Well, I think I would answer it Just a little bit

differently. First of all - yes, we get tired.
I'm tired at the end of every day because I've put
in a pretty good 16 hours of work, and Jack and
A1, I know, are the same. But as far as whether or
not we're getting bored with it, the answer to that
is absolutelynot. As a matterof fact, I would
dearly love to have another 2 months in the space-
craft, with absolutely no requests from the ground,
to do Just the things that I would like to do m_self.
I'd be very happy to have no (chuckle) requests
from the ground to tell me what to do. Standing
here at the window - I know Jack and I, after work-
ing hours, have sometimes taken a half an hour over
the last of our dinner to look out the window with
cameras in hand. And you can amuse yourself - in
indefinitely, seeing things that you've never had a
chance to see before, and photograph - - per usual
work to be accomplished. And so it's certainly not
boring. We'd all love to have more time, and more
film. We could do a lot ... activities.
26_ 15 21 19 CC Okay, following that one up and back to Owen. For

Dr. Garriott: Do any of you have a feeling of
homesickness, or perhaps a psychological need to
return to gravity?
SPT I don't think so. Of course, we all miss our

families. But we're also all accustomed to being
away from our fA_lies from time to time. And this
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has only been 2 months, and, as a matter of fact,

it's going very quickly, as A1 just said. And I
expect our f_m_lies at home have found it a very
fast 2 months as well. So other than the general
sense of wanting to be with our families, which we
would all expect to experience, certainly no other
psychological requirements to get - get back into
society or back into one g. But we feel very close
to society, as a matter of fact, right up here,
talking with everybody, everyday. Got something
***?
CDR Only one thing: I've mentioned a couple of times,

to the guys, that this would be the perfect job, if
you could go home every night to your wife.
264 15 22 16 CC Okay, for Jack, and we got about another 12 questions

to go here. Do you think you could continue to work
effectively in space well beyond 59 days? And, do
you feel your mission indicates that man could live
and work comfortably in space for long term flights
like a trip to Mars?
PLT I think there's no question about the fact that we

could go farther than 59 days, as we've all steadied
out at the amount of work that we can put out, and
our health is pretty much stablized in every - every
way, as far as we know. We could go on working up
here almost indefinitely, I think. We'll be able to
know better when tests are performed on us, of course,
and after Jerry's mission. But it looks to me now,
with the data that they have, that there is no reason
that we couldn't extend beyond this. And I feel
that we could all, right now, if requested to do so.
CC Okay. And hold the mike a little bit closer for us.
For Commander Bean: The Skylab station has had a
number of problems. Do you feel it can be left un-
manned until November, and then support the next
crew for 8 weeks?
264 15 23 25 CDR Very easily; very much so. For the simple reason
that the problems that we've had, the major ones
have been solved. The only one that I can think of
right now that is a large problem at all is the fact
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that we no longer have a primary cooling loop.

But we have a verygood secondary cooling loop and
have no indication that the lifetime of that loop
would be less than - before November occurs. So
I feel that the station itself is in better shape at
the moment than it was when we got here. In fact,
the station itself seems to be getting in better
shape with each crew. I asstnne when Jerry comes
up - the SL-4 crew comes - comes up and reservices
the primary loop, we're going to end up with the
station about as good as we wanted it to be when we
launched it. I think we all know the problems we
had then. It does show that man himself can do a
great nnmber of things, if he can Just get on the
scene and have good support on the ground; you can -
you can fix many things that - that fail or are
wrong when you first get there. The station is,
in my opinion, in excellent shape.
26_ 15 2_ 36 CC Okay. And also for Commandor Bean. Do you antici-

pate any problem at s_11 with the entry, Tuesday,
using the new quad firing procedures? Plus the
fact that you haven't flown anything for 2 months?
CDR No, I've spent some time in the command module over
the last few weeks, reviewing the procedures. And
I've been very happily amazed at how it - fam_ liar
the command module, the switches, the positions
and everything are. I believe this is because we
spent several hundred, I don't know many - how
many, maybe 350 or 400 hours in the command module,
doing launches and entries mostly, before we came.
So that that sort of thing Just doesn't depart from
you in 2 - 2 months. As far as follow - the entry
procedures, they've worked - been worked out by
number of people, two of which are Vance Brand and
Pete Conrad, which I have the utmost confidence in.
I've looked them over very closely, as - as Jack
and Owen have. And we've t_Sked about them, looked
at them_ and theylook pretty straightforward. I
have also appreciated the - let's call it the wide
open time line that's in there, that will allow
us to do some thinking prior to each of the major
m_neuvers. And I don't anticipate any problem at
all with the command module or the execution Of -
of the maneuvers. It looks - we're looking very
positive. Once again, I think I feel a lot better
about entry than I have since day l, when we got here.
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264 15 26 08 CC Okay. And we're about 30 seconds here from a

1-minute dropout as we handover to Bermuda. A
question for Owen, for Dr. Garriott: People who
have been following your flight, on television
mainly, have seen the fun aspects, dart throwing,
paper airplanes, acrobatics and the like. Would
you briefly tell us what _mmediate benefits the
man on the street might reap from Skylab? And
you've got about 15 seconds here, 0wen. And then
you can complete it over Bermuda.
SPT Don't you want me to wait on that until the hand-

over, Story?
CC Okay. Good idea, Owen.
SPT While you're in the process of handing over, I

seem to detect two different courses in your
question. I'm not sure that the first portion had
anything to do with the ultimate question. You
were t_Jking about the fun we've had, and then what
benefits Skylab has. Now that's all one question?
264 15 27 03 CC Yes, that's one question.
264 15 27 27 CC Okay, Sky - Skylab, we' re back with you. And we

will not be getting any TV here; it will be voice
only. And the important part of that question,
Owen, is would you briefly tell us what immediate
benefits the m_u of the street might reap from
Skyl ab ?
SPT Well, the most _m_ediate things are, perhaps,

going to come from the Earth resources photography
that we've been taking. Just today, we completed
our last pass as a matter of fact, and there are
going to be literally thousands and thousands of
filma which will be developed and used to evaluate
these techniques for the study of our crops, for
the study of water resources, mineral deposits, and
that sort of thing. So in the area of Earth re-
sources, I think we do have fairly j_mediate
benefits for - for all of our country and other
countries as well. This, of course, coupled with
similar sort of work being accomplished with other
of NASA's automated satellites - ER - ERTS satel-
lites, in particular. And then that longer range
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programs, almost everything we're doing up here,

we think, will contribute to our knowledge of our-
selves and knowledge of our environment, and,
ultimately, be of benefit to all of our citizens.
But the more immediate ones, I think, my guess
would come in Earth resources and perhaps some of
the technological experiments. Over.
CC Roger. And for AI Bean: Based on your experience,

what major recommendations _-iii you make to the
next Skylab crew about working and living in space?
264 15 28 57 CDR Well, I recommend some - first of all, the three

things that we keep in mind now all of the time,
that, perhaps, we didn't have in mind the first
few days. And that's you've got to do three things
every single day, and you've got to try to do them
on time, and put them the highest priority. Those
three things are: i, you've got to get enough
sleep. You've got to get to bed and get up so that
you've got enough sleep to keep your energy up.
Next, you've got to eat pretty much on time, and
you've got to eat enough food so that your weight
stays up and you feel healthy. And, lastly, you've
got to get a lot of exercise so that - at least as
much exercise as - as you did on Earth - so that,
once again, you are healthy. This gives you your
health. This keeps you feeling good, keeps you
going hard. And then from that point on, it's
wide open. My - probably major two recommendations
would be: l, try to get a few more experiments up
here that you can run because it looks like we can
work longer days than - than we planned to work.
I think we've demonstrated that.
264 15 29 57 CDR We're able to get in more per day than we actually
thought.
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264 15 30 01 CDR So that means more experiment time. The next one
is, I think we need to work on EREP a little bit
so that we tend to, in EREP, use the man up here
to decide whether or not to take data, whether it
is too cloudy, it's too clear, it's too rainy or
whatever else. Use the man on the scene so that
we can conserve the expendables we have in EREP.
We've been able to do that in ATM and I think we've
shown up here, particularly Owen, super expert
in operating the ATM, that the msn on the scene
can do an excellent Job. Let me go back to the
previous question, and discuss that a second,
about what we're doing up here. I think we all
decided, before we came, we wanted to do three
things. One, we wanted to do whatever we did
safe and make sure we did it right. Secondly,
we wanted to do the Job that was assigned up here,
namely see what man can do in zero g. And lastly,
we wanted to have a good time doing it. And I
believe that we've done that.
264 15 31 01 CC Okay, and for Jack Lousma. How much has the ex-
tensive exercise contributed to the present good
health of the crew?
26_ 15 31 l0 PLT I think that we decided before we left that a lot

of exercise is going to be to our benefit. And I
think that we have not only maintained our physical
condition up here, I think in some cases we've
improved it. And I think that this is probably
what has kept us in as good health as we've been
in. And I certainly recommend that the following
crew do as much. I think you can get to the point
that you can do too much exercise, however, and
there is a happy medit_n in there that you want to
try to ascertain relatively early in the flight.
But the exercise has, no doubt, been of a great
benefit to us up here, and I heartily recommend it
in the future for other crews.
CC Okay. We're about a minute and 20 seconds from

LOS. Madrid in 5 minutes. Got time for one more
question for Commander Bean. Do you feel your
crew accomplished everything it set out to do
on thisflight?
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264 15 32 01 CDR I don't know if we - I don't exactly know the

answer to that. I will say this. That we put in
100 percent of what we had, and - every day. And
we probably could have worked harder, but I think
at the same time, if we had, we would have com-
promised some other things. You've got to have
relaxation. You've got to have some change of
pace. And we've done one whale of a lot more than
was planned for us to do. And I think that we've
tried each day, at the end of the day, to discuss
whether or not we'd put in the best we could that
day, and how we were going to do tomorrow. And
that's what we plan to do today and tomorrow. So
my feeling is we've done as much as our crew can
do and still m_intain the health, the attitude,
and the energy level that we've got right now,
which you can see is pretty doggone good.
264 15 32 53 CC Okay. And we don't have enough time for a com-

plete answer to any other question. So thank you
very much, $kylab.
264 15 38 57 CC Skylab, AOS Madrid, 8 minutes.
264 15 40 06 CC Skylab, we dropped out a minute there, we're back

with you through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, A1, I've got about three things for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to readjust the - the reg buses.

BUS 1 - You're at the ATM now, aren't you?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay. BUS l, 20 degrees counterclockwise; BUS 2,

25 degrees counterclockwise.
CDR Okay. Tell them to look at that. I think I did

it but I can tune it up for them, also.
264 15 40 54 CC Okay. And we're looking at some pretty large" dump

angles, the next nightside pass. It's possible
that you could get a CMG reset and, of course, a
caution and warning associated with that, but we
think the machine will do all right, even if you
do get a CMG reset.
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CDR Okay. Well, we've got, of course, the TACS acti-

vated. We did not get any CMG reset before that
you mentioned, I don't think; at least, we didn't
know it if we did.
CC No, you haven't had one, but we're thinking maybe

you'll get one during the next dump.
CDR Okay.
264 15 41 31 CC And I've got a two-step procedure here for you,

if the H-ALPHA 2 door hangs up again going into
night.
CDR All right. I'm listening.
CC Okay. Inhibit the secondary motor and enable

the primary motor.
264 15 41 49 CDR I think I can remember it. Okay. Right now, what
motor is doing what?
CC You're on the secondary alone right now.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And the reg adjust looks good.
CDR Okay.
26h 15 42 24 CC And concerning your press conference there, the

troops on the ground concur i00 percent that you've
been meeting all of the Flight Plan requirements,
and more.
264 15 42 36 CDR Okay, like I said, we - we talk about it almost

every night. And I've asked m_self over the last
few days if I thought that - that we - you know,
if I was happy about the way the mission has gone.
And adding up all of the things that we've done
or haven't done or anything else, I'm - I really
couldn't be happier myself about the way the
mission has turned out so far. It's - we've had
super Sun action, solar activity, which has really
been great. We've been able to do a lot of EREPs,
a lot more than what we thought, which has been
real nice. We've been able to work on these
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corollary experiments longer than - than I ever

imagined. The only thing that's been a real sur-
prise to me, on the negative side, is we m_e a
lot of errors and that - I never realized we made
so many, but I assume that that goes along with
doing a lot of things. That - that to me was a
surprise but the others were a surprise, too, and
they're a lot positive. So all in all, I've been
Just super happy about the way the weather and
the - the solar activity and the experiments have
held together.
CC Okay, I guess we've got somebody looking after us.
264 15 43 54 CDR Yes. I think it's you all down there. That's the
somebody.
CC Jack, Houston.
SPT He can hear you.
CC I've got a little change to your M092/M171

procedure.
264 15 44 42 SPT He will be just a minute, I think, here, Story.
CC Okay, we're going to hold on to that one, anyway.
264 15 45 16 CC Okay. We did have a change in procedure on your

M092 vent window, but we'regoing to wait on that
until we see how the next dump comes out. I do
have something for you on the diffusion experiment
here. You're the expert on that, so cancel Owen's
activity at 16:30 on that. And we'd just like you
to reinitialize that experiment, using your own
ingenuity, and - and - what you think is best to
carry that thing off. And we'll let it diffuse
on - on past the EVA and see if we can get some
data.
264 15 45 48 PLT Okay, very good. Thank you, Story. I'll work on
that a little bit. And I Just put the soap under
the big water blob that used to be ice. And _t
looked like it kind of diffused itself around or
spread itself around the outside. It's - I don't
know if you are trying to look for diffusion or
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what, but that is the status of it now, and I'Ii

take a few photos of it frc_ time to time, and
perhaps, later on, you'll want me to inject it
with some grape Juice or anything, or maybe tea,
even.
264 15 46 21 CC Okay. That's Just about what we expected it to

do. And concerning your EREP run, the tape re-
corders behaved the same way they did on SL-2,
and it's probably Just a light malfunction, and
we think you got excellent data.
PLT Okay, real good. The guys figured it real close

on the tape. I think we only had about 65 feet
left out of over - out of about a mile and a half.
264 15 48 48 CC Okay, we're about l0 seconds from LOS. See you

over Honeysuckle in about 40 minutes at 16:23.
CDR Does this mean Jack can use grape Juice instead
of tea?
264 15 47 17 CC And, A1, you may get some faulty talkbacks due to
your door work. And they will come up right as
soon as you get sunrise.
264 16 23 15 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, 6 minutes.
264 16 26 28 CDR Say, Story, I Just did housekeeping 83S, which

is squeezer bal - sell replace - seal replacement.
The seal had struck the edge of the cylinders a
bunch of times and folded back. So I replaced it.
But my suspicion that another one will not last
Jerry's mission. He ought to bring about three,
maybe.
CC Okay. Copy, A1. I guess you're riding the bike

now?
CDR No, that's Jack. I've finished mine.
CC Okay, if you got a minute, could you tell us some-

thing - describe that sighting of that active" vol-
cano? That's a space first.
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264 16 27 18 CDR Okay. What we saw - actually, Owen had seen it on

yesterday. And let me get out my little map.
CDR I can't remember now if it was the northwest tip

or the north - or the - or the - no, no, the north-
east tip or the southeast tip. Anyhow, there's a
big volcano there we've been looking at because it's
very cone-shaped, and - and it's black. Excuse me.
And it is black with salt, relative to the rest of
the terrain, so it stands out. It's got a- it's
not shield-type volcano ; it looks like a huge cinder
cone. It's kind of like a classic one. And Owen
noticed smoke was coming out of it this morning.
And we looked down and we said, yes, it looks like
clouds, but it looks like smoke, too. But when we
saw it awhile, we said it must be smoke. So then
when I made the pass on there I looked down in max
zoom. And what it looked like - it looked like
there were three vents on the top of the volcano.
And one on the direction we were going - would be
the right one. Looked like it was partly concealed
by - it looked like smoke, a white steam, as opposed
to any other color, sort of a white steam smoke.
And so we finished at the - -
264 16 29 09 CC A1, we're - we're 20 seconds from LOS, here, and

I've got to interrupt you.
CDR - - the nadir swath. In other words, we'd left

Sicily, and I quickly zipped back with the 191
and put it right on the one that was smoking, and
I took some data there, ..., exactly unlocked.
264 16 29 22 CC A1, we're going LOS here and I've got a - -
CREW A1 ?
CC A1, we're going LOS here. See you over Hawaii at

16:44. I got a couple of DAS co_m_uds for the
H-Alpha doors. Inhibit secondary with 40034, and
enable primary 40174, prior to sunrise.
CDR Will do.
264 16 43 42 CC Skylab; A0S Hawaii, 7 minutes.
CC Jack, you - -
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CDR Okay, Story, let me tell you what happened with

the door. First of all, I inhibited secondary and
enabled primary; couldn't get any action. So I
inhibited them both, and then inhi - en - enabled
primary; nothing. So I inhibited them both; and
enabled secondary and it worked great. So now the
door is open, and it's on secondary motor.
CC Did you ever give it an - an open command, Al?
264 16 _4 49 CDR Yes, I did. And I couldn't get no action; it Just

remains white. The minute I enabled the secondary
motor the thing went barber pole, then I gave it
an open and it came open. I know it's strange, but
that's the facts. I think maybe we've got two prob-
lems, we see. One, that it takes some logic to
recover frc_ a failed motor ; namely, you got to get
them both off and then one of them back on. And
the other may be Just the fact that one of these
motors is acting up. I'm not sure which one now.
Because as - we - we've talk - We've had this prob-
lem before but the minute I put secondary motor on,
it clicked close. It didn't wait to go close; the
barber pole Just went close, which indicated it had
already been closed but - just not indicating.
264 16 47 01 CDR Another thing about that water squeezer, Story; and
I don't think we're going to have time to work the
problem, is the water squuzer itself appears the
reason that that seal failed, is it fairly - it's
not very free operating. The lever does not move
the shaft and piston up and down very freely.
Probably, because the pistons - no, no, no - probably
because the shaft has grime and grit and the like
on it, preventing it. Now what occurs is, if you
try to close the little door - I mean try to close
the whole piston there, so you can squeeze the rag
without the handle fully up, it's possible to catch
the edge of the seal. Now, It seems to me, this is
probably what occurred. What would be necessary
to get it shipshape again is to take that whole head
off, disassemble the screws, take out the pistons,
and clean it out with something so that once more
you had Just metal-to-metal contact with - without
a lot of grime in there. We've freed that valve
to make sure that the handle's up before we close
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the - the plunger, but I think it needs to be re -

reworked. I just don't think we're going to have
time to do it over the next 3 or 4 days. We got
a lot of action coming up. If we do, we'll whip
it apart and fix it and put it back together.
264 16 48 31 CC Okay, we copy that, A1.
SPT Story, for the EREP officer. The ETC had used about
150 frames at the time the solar inertial return
was initiated. I continued to let it chug away,
and it went to about 175 before the film was depletsl
Over.
CC Okay; copy that, Owen. And while I've got you,

why, did you ever find the fish can?
SPT I'm sorry, I haven't looked yet. I'll do it right

now.
CC Okay. And, Jack; Houston.
26h 16 49 35 SPT He's plugging on the ergometer right now and can't
talk to you, Story.
CC Okay. A_l, on that H-alpha 2 doors, we want to take

a look at the ASAP data. And, just leave it running
on secondary. We may have to reenable it every
nighttime.
CDR Excuse me, I was doing something else. Say again,

Story.
264 16 50 09 CC On the H-alpha 2 doors, we're Just going to leave

it running on the secondary motors, and we may have
to reenable that every nighttime pass.
CDR Okay. Well, now has anybody taken a look at the

logic and see if there is a funny going on in the
logic as opposed to the motor itself. I'm sure
they have, it Just probably hasn't filtered back
up to us.
CC That's affirmative, A1. And the logic may be

causing an inconsistency in the - the talkback
indications.
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264 16 50 hO CDR That's what I think happened. I think it closes

real great and it Just won't show it and then it
won't open again. And so when you turn them both
off and turn it on, then it says, okay, now I can
do something.
CC Okay, that's about what we're thinking, too. And

while I've got you, on the decal pad that we're
sending up to you for tomorrow, we've got a AM
cabin depress window, that's when you depress the
airlock module. Now that is only an optimum time
to depress the window. And we're fully aware of
how you can't stick to a hard time line in EVA prep.
So that's Just a - an optimum time. If we hit it,
we hit it; if we don't, we don't.
264 16 51 23 CDR Okay; understand. We'll probably get out about

the same time we did for the last EVA, relative
to the time we get up. If we worked long at a
pretty steady pace, yet didn't get carried away
with being in a big hurry.
264 16 51 hO CC Yes. And we're about 15 seconds from LOS. See

you over Goldstone in h minutes.
26h 16 55 22 CC Skylab, back with you over Goldstone for 6 minutes.
aPT Okay, Story. Now I have canister A, which I had

thought Just contained medical resupplies. I had
forgotten that the fish came up in this. I have
cut - cut both ends out of the cylinder, so if
they still have the cylinder with - with neither
a top, nor a bottom. And I have quite a bit of
the black packing material that goes around the
stuff, too.
cc Okay.
SPT Did you have a question or a comment about that or
do you want to think about what I have Just
described.
26h 16 56 01 CC We'll think about it, Owen. And we had two dif-
ferent procedures to send up to you. One was if
the can was available, and the other was if it
was not.
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SPT So the answer's halfway in between. I've got a

can with neither a top nor bottom.
CC Okay. So we don't have one for that. But we'll

come up with something.
SPT Okay.
CC And while I've got you, I've got something concerning

your M092/M171 test.
SPT Go ahead.
26_ 16 56 29 CC Okay. Because of momentum changes and all due to

the _EP pass, we'd like to change that vent window
from 17:B0, between 17:B0 and 17:45.
SPT Okay. I guess that Just narrows it a bit, doesn't

it? What was it before?
CC I'm looking.
SPT It's on Jack's pad is the reason that I don't have

it at my fingertips here.
CC It was 17:30 to 17:57.
SPT Okay, that will be no problem. We're Just - just

now starting to get rigged out. So we'll m_]_e it,
probably, we'll try to make it at the beginning of
the window.
CC Okay. And after you get done the standard M092,

then go in and get as much done as you can of the
test 2 and the test l, and still making the window.
So if you run out of time, Just stop the test 2 or
test 1 and make the window.
26_ 16 57 38 SPT Well, now test 2 and test 1 come after the normal
M092° And with a 15-minute window, it's impossible
to get any of test 1 and 2 done in that window.
Right? Now when we had a 26-minute window, there
was a possibility of getting a little bit of it
done, but there is no way now.
26_ 16 58 05 CC Stand by 1.
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264 16 59 25 CC Owen, on the M092 test 2 and test i, the only

important thing is, there, we do not want to run
into your EVA prep time.
SPT Okay, well, we'll have to see then because I still

have to exercise after M092 and also eat after that.
So it's going to be a tight squeeze to get much done
i_ there.
CC Okay, 0wen, get it - get it if you can. We Just -

We don't want to infringe upon your EVA prep time.
If you - if you look pressed, there don't do it.
264 17 00 :L2 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1, on S055, the MIRROR, LINE SCAN, we'd like you

to be at line 25.
CDR Okay, thought I was. I'ii have to change it.
CC Jack, Houston.
SPT He's still ped_ling. Can I take the message for

him, Story?
264 17 00 48 CC No, I better talk to him on this one at the next

station.
264 17 01 (15 CC And we're 30 seconds from LOS. See you over Bermuda
in 4 minutes.
264 17 06 10 CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda, 7 minutes.
264 17 06 41 CC And is Jack off the bike yet?
264 17 07 55 CC Skylab, A0S Bermuda, 5 minutes.
264 17 08 25 CDR Okay, Story, go ahead with that message for Jack.
CC First of all, I've got a simple question. After

he ran the malf on S019, canister 005, when he
evacuated that, did he have the film hatch knob
open ?
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PLT No, sir, it was closed.
CC Okay, we would like to get the - the film evacuated.

So if you can open that film hatch knob and then
apply a vacuum and after you've done that, go ahead
and close the knob, that'll evacuate the f_lm.
PLT Okay, do you want me to do the same thing to seal

03? Since it's, apparently, used up, unless it's
not of course, I'd do the same thing to it, wouldn't
I?
CC Yes, we - we would like that evacuated; also. You,

of course, you will be using it for one more run
2 days frc_ now. We're going to use some of those
cal frames for one more data take. But we would
like that film evacuated, also. And if - if while
you are evacuating, the film hatch knob is closed,
the vacuum is not getting to the film.
PLT Okay.
CC And one more thing on that. On 005, if you pull

a vacuum on it with the film hatch knob closed, it
may be difficult to open. If you have any trouble
opening those, you can just depressurize the can-
ister, and that'll let you open up that film hatch
knob.
PLT Okay, we're guessing there's some leakage to that

f_lm hatch, anyway. Because in the past, when we've
taken it out of the SAL, we've Just - we've not
been required to depress it. But when we later
go to open it, why, we can't get it open. So we
think that some of that gas is leaking back in by
the f_lm and creating a vacuum in there, and we
have to let a little gas in to open it up. So I
think there's some leakage in there, anyway.
264 17 l0 34 CC Okay, and while I've got you, did you see the Sl91
door go close?
264 17 ll 58 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. Canaries in

3 minutes.
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264 17 14 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for 9 minutes.
264 17 24 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We're going to

pick you up at Carnarvon at 17:58.
264 17 24 i7 CC Skylab, it's Just about a minute's difference, but

the Carnarvon pass is going to be very low elevation.
We're not going to call it up. It'll be Honeysuckle
at 17:59.
264 18 00 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
264 18 01 58 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, we're going to be

passing over the hurricane in the Atlantic at the
next descending pass, which occurs at about 18 :45,
and we were going to ask you, if you had the time
off the ATM, to go take a look at it, and even
get some pictures of it, maybe. And I'll be giving
you some information about that coming over the
States.
CDR The answer is yes, and I'll be waiting for the

info.
CC Also, Al, Bill Lenoir and I are sitting here looking

at an atlas, and I was going to get - be getting
back to you very shortly about the island of Elba
and St. Helena.
CDR Okay, we kind of wondered if that dropped down a

hole. We didn't think it did, but I hadn't heard
all day.
CC No, sir, it didn't. I'll get back to you very

shortly.
CDR Okay.
CDR Tell William hello.
MCC Hello.
CDR Things are going along okay here, Bill. Wish you
could Join us.
MCC So do I.
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CDR I know you do.
264 18 05 01 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, I believe. One of

the things we wanted to get out of the way, and
we weren't looking for a lot of elaboration on
how the procedure went, but we wanted to insure
that the S191 door got closed after the EREP this
morning,
264 18 05 18 CDR Okay, it took roughly 3 minutes to close. It was

a little bit Jerky, but not unnecessarily so. It
completely closed. I then tried to do the align.
It, apparently, doesn't hit the locks because it
stops the microswitch, whatever it is, because I
could not get the gimbals out of zero, zero. So
we still have the old alignment taped in, which,
I hope, is still good. That's the one we've been
using for the last month and a half. And doesn't
appear to be any way to align anymore because of
the interlock. But the door's closed; everything's
put to bed. Tape recorders are clean land ready
for the next group.
264 18 06 02 CC Real fine, A1. Thank you very much for the info.
264 18 06 05 CDR Okay, and let me tell you what I did to the ATM
motors. I turned them both off. I knew the pri-
mary already - I'm t_Iking about H-alpha 2. I knew
the primary was off, but I commanded it off. And
I commanded the secondary off. Then I commanded
the secondary on and then both H-alpha l, and
H-alpha 2 indicated barber pole. So I suspect,
but I don't know, that when sunrise comes here in
a minute, that H-alpha 2 will open automatically.
But if it doesn't, I'll hit the switch. I think
it'll open then; we'll Just have to wait and see.
CC Okay, A1. Copy. Thank you.
264 18 07 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS;

Hawaii, at 18 :21.
CC Flight.
264 18 20 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 9 minut@s.
CDR 82B door open agression. H-alpha 2 door opens all

by itself.
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CC Okay, A1. Thank you for letting us know. And I've

got a couple of notes here for you. One is - about
the upcoming hurricane. And there's some camera
info, if you have the time for that, and also, this
business about Elba and so forth.
CDR Go ahead. I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay, on the hurricane, your closest approach to it

will be at a time of 18 :49 :30. You' ll actually
should be able to acquire it, we think, about
3 minutes before that. It's going to be about
30 miles northeast of your track. The sun angle
out there is about 30 degrees. And the camera
information, we suggest a Hasselblad with
100-millimeter lens, 1/250, and an aperture of f/ll.
CC Also, I forgot to tell you, it should be visible

out the wardroom window.
CDR Okay. Got it.
CC Okay, and while I'm talking, A1, a couple of things

about the hurricane: It's located about 700 miles
east northeast of Bermuda. It's moving to the
north - northeast about 17 miles per hour, and
expected to be no problem to the United States or
to Bermuda. Our morning satellite pictures indicate
that it's well organized, and it does have about
a 20 - to 30-mile eye.
CDR Okay.
264 18 22 24 CC Okay, on the subject of the two islands, AI. Here's

the coordinates of - of them. Elba is at 42.7
degrees north, and 10.3 degrees east. And St. Helena
is at 16 degrees south, and 5.5 degrees west. A
couple of notes on each of the islands; first, on
Elba. It's Just about due east of the northern
tip of the island of Corsica, and it's the only
kind of large island between the northern tip of
Corsica, going due east, to the coast of Italy.
So that should be easy to spot. Secondly, on
St. Helena, you're going to have an almost overhead
track of it on this descending pass after the
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hurricane, You're going to - It's going to be about

2 minutes before Ascension LOS is upcoming, and
that's going to be the time of about 19:08. And
it should be about northeast of the track, about
80 miles or so.
264 18 23 35 CDR Okay, give me a reminder of that, and I'll look

out the window. And we probably have seen Elba
a lot of times. We all were remarking the other
day how many islands are in the Med that we didn't
know about. It's literally speckled with little
islands.
CC Roger. I'm sure you have, A1. I - I remember when

I was flying over there a lot, seeing all of them.
And I remember this specific one in particular.
CDR Thanks for looking that up, Dick.
CC I enjoyed it, I learned - I found there's some exp -

experts here in the center, as a matter of fact, on
Napeoleon. I've learned more about him in the last
24 hours than I think I knew before.
264 18 26 17 CDR When I was over this - when I was over in Europe
this s_Jmmer, I visited Waterloo, Just outside of
Brussels, not very far. And, I guess if Wellington
hadn't done his thing there, if the Britishers
hadn't showed up, we'd all be speaking French right
now.
CC Roger. It's a good thought.
264 18 28 59 CDR One thing in regards to the EVA. When we build

that - universal mount and cardboard mat, two
patch - or rather not patch, but samples that we've
had out there for the last month, we taped that on
there pretty good. And I suspect I'm going to have
to use my scissors and cut some tape off to get that
one patch and bring it in. Now that doesn't look
like it's going to be too hard, and Owen and I
can work together. But I thought, maybe, you ought
to be aware that it looks like we're going to have
to use scissors on it to get it off in good shape.
CC Roger, A1. Thanks for the input. And, Skylab,

Houston. We're going LOS, Hawaii; I'll give you a
call in a couple of minutes at Goldstone.
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264 18 29 53 CDR So looking over the procedures, we can't see the ...
coming in.
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264 18 32 19 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Goldstone for about

6 minutes. We're set up for the ATM TV. And, A1,
after that LOS call that I gave, I heard you saying
something, but I didn't catch what it was. Say
again, please.
CDR Okay, let me get this TV started. Say, you got

H-alpha 2 now. Whenever they got a good locEup,
then I'll give them XUV MON.
CC Okay.
CDR I was saying, looking over the procedures, it

doesn't look like we're going to be taking any
ramps off any doors or doing anything mechanical,
other than bringing in that one sample. Everything
else is like $230, lh9, and all the ATM equipment.
Is that correct?
•- CC CDR, Houston; that's correct, with the minor excep-

tion of brushing off S052. One point that Flight
wanted me to mention to you that - and now is prob-
ably a good time to do it - is with this cooling
lash up that we have for tomorrow's EVA, we think
there probably is, and we 're planning on, a m_ximum
EVA time of about 4 hours. And we intend to give
a GO/N0 GO on that at about 3 hours. And that's
been hidden in the little comments in the various
paper work we've sent up to you, but we just wanted
to remind you. We certainly aren't encouraging you
to hurry, but you know, you ought to be aware that
that probably is a cooling restraint we're going
to have to live with tomorrow.
264 18 34 08 CC Okay. It should be, we should be able to do that.

Usnally, the thing that's up in the air is exactly
when we get out, because we like to work at a steady
pace and not get in a hurry. And as you know, extra
things come up. One of the extra things coming up
tomorrow is we're going to have to check out our
biomed with you before we suit up. And I sure hope
we're near a ground station when we get ready to do
that.
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264 18 3h 38 CC Roger. I think, probably, the best thing to do is

Just pass it - I'ii pass the word down the line to
the CAP CO_S, and let you be kept very aware of,
you know, where the stations are coming up as you
progress !in the prep.
CDR We might go down a little early and get that part

on so we can get it checked out and then do some
other things.
CC Roger. And, CDR; Houston, the TV downlink, we are

receiving okay.
CDR Okay, here comes the XUV MON.
CC Okay.
CDR Wait 1 on the XUV MON.
CC Roger.
CDR Now we'll do it with the door open.
264 18 36 32 CC CDR, Houston; we copy that you got the Nu Z update

and - and the SHUTTER's CLOSED, and we were Just
wondering if you had any trouble with that.
CDR No trouble, seems to work okay. My guess is that

it has to do with whether the Sun can get on it
and warm it up a little bit, and it works Just
perfectly.
CC Good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute form LOS.

I'll call you at MLA in about 4 minutes.
CDR Okay, we've given two sets of integrated data, so

that ought to do it.
264 18 37 27 CC Okay, th_uk you much.
26_ 18 43 _3 CC Skylab, _ouston. We're AOS Merritt Island and

Bermuda for about 9 minutes.
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CC CDR, Houston. Back on the star tracker, the last

thing we think we need on entry day is a star tracker
shutter that's stuck open. So we're considering
leaving the - it closed from now on, to minimize
degradation during the _mmanned phase. And a PSI
with ground-predicted angles for the sextant, we
think should be no problem. And Phil wanted me
to ask you, and see what you thought about that.
CDR It's okay with me provided we do it the night be-

fore, so we get this thing powered up and aligned.
That's the, you know, like day 60 - no, day 59.
264 18 _4 5B CC Okay, A1. I guess we're going to have to think

about that one and Phil's initial thought is, is
that he thinks there's plenty of time on the last
day to get the IMU up and get the sighting done,
but we'll think about it.
264 18 _5 06 CDR Okay. Well, I'm not that hard - although I was
hoping he was going to do that, anyway. If he
isn't, I guess we can schedule that for the very
first thing when we get up and then leave it up
all day. Because that's the problem even in the
sims, was trying to get those doggone stars be-
cause, - you know - several factors. You hadn't
got a state vector; you hadn't got a Tephe m on
the stars. Just - that 's the problem. That 's
probably the biggest hurdle we had in SIMS was
getting the star and getting all that stuff put
in there right.
CC Roger, CDR. Let - we'll give it some hard thought,

and we'll mR_e sure that there is plenty of time
to - and some backup opportunities to get the
thing squared away so there will be no problem.
We'll think about it.
CDR Okay.
CDR There may be a way to get alignment even without

the star tracker if we think about it a little
bit. We we know the inertial attitude. Probably,
we could set the inertial , set it up there, cQmm_nd
at that attitude, and then set the REFSMMAT and
then do option 3 or something like that. I - I
suspect there's some way we could do it.
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264 18 46 48 CC Roger. There sure is, A1. We can get extremely

close _th ground numbers. And another thought
that Phil had was we probably, the evening before,
can Just bring up the CMC, and leave it in ACCEPT.
And then when you do wake up on that final morning,
we'll have had plenty of time to get the vectors
in and get it - get the CMC squared away.
CDR Okay, sounds good.
CC Roger.
CDR Boy, that's a beautiful storm. This is a classic.
CC Roger.
CDR Right in the middle, right in the eye, it's concave.

Now, whether we're going to be able to see the
water through it, I don't know. But it's one of
the nicest centers we've seen on a storm. The storm's
not very big compared to some we've seen. But it
sure is_ like out, well formed. Got the counter-
clockwi§e rotation. It doesn't have too many advan-
cing clouds, or the following clouds are very small.
Yes, we_can see the water right down through the
eye. It's not a perfect eye like we've seen a couple
of times down in the Southern Hemisphere, but you
can see the water.
CC Roger, A1.
CDR It's a beauty.
cc And, CDR; Houston. ATM backroom observes that 56

is hung up, and you might restart it when you have
an opportunity.
CDR Okay. I've either got an arm stretcher or wait

Just a second.
264 18 48 51 CC Okay. No - no problem, A1.
264 18 49 _6 CDR We got it_ that was a nice one.
CC Roger.
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CDR We saw one down off South America about a month

and a half ago. It was real perfect like that,
and then it had about a 30-mile diameter core that
was Just very clean, not a single cloud in it. You
could see right down to the water. It - it was a
classic.
CC Roger.
264 18 51 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS; Ascension

comes up at 18:59.
26h 18 59 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for i0 minutes.
PLT okay, where did you say you were, Dick?
CC We're AOS Ascension Island, Jack, for about 9 minutes.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
26h 19 Ol 315 CDR Thinking about it a little bit• more, Dick, I think
it's - that's a good idea. We fly up to CMC at
night, get all that informatio_a in. And then when
we get up in the morning, we'll have on the pad the
point angles to those stars, and we'll wander in
there when we're SOLAR INERTIAL and get a good
alignment.
CC Roger, AI. And one other other note that I was

going to pass up to you this eyening that we might,
since we're talking about it and thinking about it,
I thought l'd just go ahead and pass up to you now.
We're considering a change and probably will make
it, and we'd like you not to get too firmly in your
head the yaw angle for the service module jettison
and initial roll for entry. What - essentially, what
happened was, is there's - the island of Guadalupe,
it - at our initial splashdown point was right on
the very edge of the - like 3-sigma footprint from
a - for a bank, reverse bank entry. And so to be
super triple conservative, we decided to roll, I
think it's left on your pad, to go to the side of
the footprint that's away from California. We're
- that one - we don't think that was a very smart
thing to do. What we should have done was retarget
about 15 miles shorter than that to get that 3-sigma
possibility of that island completely out of the
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footprint, and then roR in the opposite direction,

because it means about a 7- or 8-hour difference i
in - in - from splashdown to being feet-dry in
San Diego, and I figured you'd like that.
CDR Okay, Just send it up as soon as you can so we can

change our minds and get our minds thinking the other
way. Thanks for keeping me informed. I read those
two pads the other day, and we've been talking about
it down there and trying to get that down in our
mind as the standard. Now we only have to learn
deviations from that.
CC Roger, A1. And, actuary, on the pad, and I will

let you know as soon as we've - we're sure that
that's the decision that we're going to do. Act-
ually, there's Just a couple of pen and inks that -
to the pad. One is, you change the roll left to
roll right, and the other one is to change the CM
SM sep attitude from YAW right to 045, to YAW left
to B15. And I'll keep you advised.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Dick.
264 19 04 08 CC Roger. And of course there - well, I take that

back, there was - there'll be one more pen and
ink. And that is there's a remark says target
south of ground track; the target will be north of
the groundtrack.
264 19 04 21 CDR Okay.
CDR With the training Phil gave us before flight, I

think we can handle it.
CC Roger that. Incidentally, your - our closest point

of approach to St. Helena is coming up in about
3 or 4 minutes. And Just a reminder about that,
we think it's about northeast of your groundtrack
about 80 to lO0 miles.
CDR Okay, tb_n_ you. I had my little timer set, was

thinking about it.
CC Okay.
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CDR When these doors go closed tonight, do you want

me to turn off both motors and reinitiate the
secondary? Or do you want to do that by command?
In order that H-alpha 2 will open whenever you want
it to.
CC Stand by on that one, please.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like you to leave it alone,

and we'll secure it by co_maud.
CDR Okay.
264 19 06 20 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like a verification, also. Are

you counting down frames on S0527 We see an increase
in camera temperature.
CDR No, I'm not. Should I be?
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Yes, we think you should be. We 're -

we'd like to issue a stop on S052, and we think
we're probably out of fi_m here. Thank you, sir.
CDR I'm looking for that note and can't find it anywhere.
CC For what note, Al?

I
CDR The note that says look at the something.
CDR That note that tells me to count the frames on 52.
CC Roger, CDR. And we were wondering if you could

give us the frames remaining on all the instruments
there, while you are there.
CDR Okay, I'm still a little puzzled where this count

the frames on 52 came from. I can't say that I've
read it. Here it comes: H-alpha, 618; 56, 180;
82A, l; 82B, 12; 52, 227; and 54, 243.
CC Roger, A1. ThAnk you very much.
CDR Better go look out the window; be right back.
CC Okay.
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CC Skylab, iHouston. We're going LOS Ascension ; Car-

narvon Comes up at 19:_.
264 1R l0 07 CDR Did we ever figure out about that 52 count the
frames business?
264 19 l0 15 CC Roger. There's a chance, A1, that the camera is

Jammed. We're not sure if that - if it's that or
out of film. You were in an exposure there, so
you should have been counting, we think.
26_ 19 32 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CREW ...
CC And, Skylab, Houston. I've got two notes that I

need to get up to you here. We feel that we still
have S052 camera - we feel that we've had an S052
camera Jam. The temps are still increasing, and
we'd like somebody to cycle the MAIN POWER to OFF
and then back to ON again for us.
CDR Okay, Dick; here it goes. MAIN POWER is OFF.
CC Roger.
CDR MAIN POWER is ON.
CC Okay, A1. Thank you very much. If we need any

more help with it, I'll call you again later. Also,
the second note that I have, and we're a little bit
late telling you this, but we've decided that we're
not going to use TV for this EVA. Pri - primarily,
we think we've met our objectives for EVA TV in
the past. And, also, since we did lose one of the
TV cameras earlier, we Just think it's an undue
risk. And so on page 1.2-2 of the EVA Checklist,
that TV prep this afternoon, you can just completely
skip that.
CDR Will do.
26_ 19 34 32 CC Okay. And one more thing, we are presently reviewing

here a film thread pad and a photo pad to prep
the DAC. We're going to get these up to you as
soon as we can. If you are at a point where you
absolutely have to have them, I can voice them up.
But we - should be in the teleprinter very shortly.
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CDR Okay, you'll probably have plenty of time because

we 're eating dinner, and then we' re going to get
after it.
CC Okay, real fine. We'll do that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re i minute to LOS ; Guam in

6 minutes.
264 19 41 33 PLT Okay, Dick.
264 19 47 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Gleam for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We Just uplinked a film thread

pad to support the EVA prep on the DAC when you
get to it. Also, we've got a couple photo pads
that will be coming up either here at Gl_sm or over
the States, for the same purpose. One note of
caution, they do have day-57 numbers on the - in
the upper right hand corner instead of day 56. And
they Just - -
PLT Okay, Dick, we'll look at that. And we're about

ready to go up there and grab them off and get with
it.
CC Okay, Jack. And one other thing while you're close

to the phone. We have some very distinguished visi-
tors back in the viewing room, a bunch of the guys
from over at the Harris County Youth Village. And
we've got the air-to-ground turned on back there.
I think some of they guys have been in Sunday school
classes with you before. And I thought I'd let you
know that the other Sunday afternoon, on - luckily
for me, it was one of my off days. I went over there
and we dedicated a - an oak tree and also a new
workout room full of weights and so forth, and a
bunch of airplane pictures and so forth in the
memory of Stu Present.
PLT Well, I'm glad that you did that, Dick. And I know
that the boys over at the Boys' home and those
associated with the Youth Village appreciate it
much. A lot of people, not only in the Nassau Bay
area, but also from Houston, that have a lot to do
with those boys. And I've got a lot friends over
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there, and I hope they're listening now. And I

just want to say that I miss all of them, and
looking forward to getting back, and hope they're
behaving themselves in Sunday school class.
CC Got a bunch of big grins out of that, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

I'll give you a call at Goldstone at 20:ll.
PLT Okay, we'll see you there, Dick. And say so long
to those boys frc_ the Youth Village there. And
tell them we'll be seeing them in a month or so.
264 19 54 50 CC Okay, I'll sure do that, Jack.
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264 20 ll 52 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
26h 20 16 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going - In about a minute,

we're going to drop out for Just a few seconds
and I'll give you a call when we got you back at
Texas. And we'll have the remainder of this state-
side pass.
26_ 20 18 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - Got you AOS again and

we - Standing by for about 12 minutes.
26_ 20 29 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. Ascension's coming up at 20:39.
CDR Ok - You are aware that that hose that I'm taking
out of 311 and stowing, still has water in it
because it's never been drained, but that's okay.
Is that correct?
CC That's affirm, A1.
CDR And we're just going to leave it with water in it

from now on out. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, A1. We are going to leave it

with water stowed during the ,_nmanned period.
CDR Okay; thank you.
CC Roger.
264 20 39 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you at Ascension for

4 minutes.
26h 20 43 _9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 21:10 and we'd like to take
time out there to catch the evening status report.
I' ll call you.
26h 21 i0 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for about

9 minutes and standing by for Evening Status Report.
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CDR Okay, here it comes. Urine: 082, and we had

about a 60-milliliter spill so you can add 60 onto
082; that's an estimate. SPT: 130, 190; 6278;
0314; 6744. BMMD: 6.231, 6.233, 6.233; 5.672,
5.972, 5.972, not bad; 6.933; 6.934, 6.935. Exer-
cise: 2/30/5041, 1/05/0500; 3/15/Mark I;
3/05/ Mark If, 3/05/Mark III. SPT: 2/15/2500 plus
his Ml71 run. More to come, he's got written here.
PLT: 1/05/0613, 3 - now that - I didn't read that
right. Letts try that one again: 1/05/0613; okay,
that's one of them. Okay, next, 2/35/8661;
3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends.
Medications: CDR, one Seconal SPT and Pillet -
Pilot, zero. Sleep: CDR, 6/G; SPT, 5-1/2/F,
Pilot, 6/G. Food log follows: CDR, seven salt,
plus four salt pills, substituted one lemonade for
a strawberry drink because there's no strawberry
drinks available. SPT, three salt packs, and
added a pineapple; PLT, four salt packs, add one
lemon drop and one tea with lemon and sugar; and as
a note, he substituted pork and potatoes and apple-
sauce for tuna and bread, as he always does.
CC Okay.
CDR Photo log, BTS track 29/3, CX08, 55; EREP prep
and ops, CI83, 60, CI63. Diffusion and melting
experiment, CI64, 72 - CI62. 35-millimeter:
CI106, 14; CX35, 31. CX - now 70-millimeter:
CX27, 134; ETC: IR02, 175. EREP set W, they're
empty so the numbers may be meaningless, but I'll
fire them at you: 3331, 1523, 9052, 8428, 0198,
7103. Drawer A configuration: A-l, 07, CI58, 13,
C153; A-2, 05, CI64, 72, CI62; A-3, 06, CI21, 99,
CI60; A-h, 03, CI83, 60, CI63; back of the drawer,
02, none, 00, CI56.
CC Roger. Got that on the tape recorder (chuckle).
264 21 15 27 CDR The Flight Plan came off as planned. It looks good
for tomorrow. It doesn't look like there's too
much so that we won't get in bed on time. It looks
good.
CC Okay, A1, good. Go ahead then - Did you hav4 some

more?
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CDR Shopping list accomplishments: housekeeping 83-S,

spueezer bal seal replaced. And inoperable equip-
ment: the squeezer is hard to operate and needs
disassembly and cleaning. We don't plan to do it
unless we're told to, just because of time con-
straint. Unscheduled stowage item location: two
pork and potatoes from 561 to the wardroom.
CC Okay - -
CDR And that 's it.
264 21 16 20 CC Okay, A1. Thank you very mu.ch. The good tape
recorder got all of that. And I - I had a couple
of things here that I was going to say, but since
we're talking already I'll just give them to you.
Nell Hutchinson asked me to pass up that they've
identified a couple of small deactivation changes
that are in work. And we'll be coming up to you
as soon as we can get the message ready. One of
them has to do with the plenum bag stowage arrange-
ment that we talked about a coup - several days
ago. And also, for the return of the fish. And
I had one question for the evening for the PLT,
and it goes back to the S019 film hatch business
that we talked about several hours ago. We lis-
tened to the tape again and some people thought
that Jack inferred, possibly, an apparent film
hatch leakage problem on one or more of the canis-
ters. We wanted to con - confirm if that really
was the right assumption and if so, which
canisters.
264 21 17 22 PLT I think we've noticed it in both of them, although

I'm not sure. Maybe A1 knows. But we've noticed
that - that usually when we get the film canister
out of the film vault, that we have - have not,
prior to this, depressed it; because you don't
do that, except for the last time, And we notice
that we can't get the lid off. So we suspect
that what's happened is that since the thing is ed
vacuated and we got the film hatch opened and
operated it - it - we then close the film hatch
before it gets repressed. And so there's a vacuum
in behind the film hatch and we take the film
canisteroff and put the cover on and then that -
some of the air that gets between the film hatch
and the cover leaks through the film hatch and
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causes somewhat of a vacuum throughout the whole

film canister, thus making it impossible for us
to get the lid off. So what we normally do is
just bleed it like we do the AMS and the optical
canister. So that's what leads us to think that
there's a leak through the film hatch.
CC Okay, Jack, is - has this been pretty much true

for all the canisters that you've tried?
PLT Yes, Dick, there's only two, and we've noticed it

with both of them.
264 21 18 47 CC Yes. Okay, I've got one more question for you
guys. The SL-4 crew is going to use panel 500,
the QDs for the 35 psi GN 2 source. And since that
higher psi QD is there and we were never success-
ful in getting those a - a different size QD, we
wanted to make darn sure that the nomenclature on
panel 500 was still nice and clear and legible.
And sometime you might - you guys might let us -
reassure us that that's true. WeVre about
15 seconds from LOS. And I'll give you a call at
Guam in about 4 minutes.
264 21 24 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for about 8 minutes,

and we'd liketo get the TACS inhibited, both hard-
ware and software. The momentum looks real good.
SPT Okay, Dick. I'll do it.
CC Okay.
264 21 24 38 CDE Dick, when I unpacked the two umbilicals to put

in the two spheres, which I completed, I noted
that there were _,_y connectors on the end of all
of them. So, for example, both of the water con-
nectors on both umbilicals have plugs in them. I
didn't connect them up to the panel. Now is that
the way you want them, or do you want me to take
those little dl,r,_,nyconnectors out of there? There'd
be four of them. I removed the electrical ones
and removed the 02 ones, and then, of course, I

removed the one from the end that goes to th@ S -
PCU.
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CC Stand by i. A1, we'd like to leave the plugs in.
CDR Okay, and Jack wants to report panel 500 looks

brand new.
CC Roger, A1. Thank you very much.
264 21 28 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 4 minutes left here.

And the stateside pass next time, Owen is going to
have a phone call. I'll r_m_nd you again, Owen,
about that. And then after that is the med con-
ference. I do have some news, I'm not sure how
busy you guys are with the - with the EVA prep, but
if you'd like to listen here, okay. Otherwise, I'll
delay it.
CDR We're never too busy for news. Go ahead, Dick.
264 21 -?9O1 CC Okay. The big news here in Houston last night was
Billy Jean King's triumph over Bobby Riggs. KingE
defeated Riggs with ease with - as 30,472 people
watched their much bally-hooed Astrodome Battle-of-
the-Sexes tennis match. It was the largest crowd
ever to watch a tennis match anywhere. Each time
Riggs tried his famous high lob, King answered withh
a scorching slam or even better lob. She took the
set _ to 4, 6 to 3, and 6 to 3. In other sports,
University of Houston meets the South Carolina Game-
cocks for the first time tonight in the Astrodome.
And the Texas Longhorns, favored to wind their sixth
SWC championship in a row, travel to Miam_ to play
the Hurricanes tonight. On the golf scene, Jack
Nicklaus and Arnold Palm - Palmer managed only a
split for a long day's work and Tom Weiskopf lost
twice as the United States went down to a crushing
three-point deficit to Britain on the opening day
of the Ryder Cup competition.
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264 21 29 53 CC On the national scene, inflation took its biggest

bite in more than a generation last month as con-
sumer prices, led by the biggest one-month Jump
in food costs since 1933, rose 1.8 percent. Work-
men rushed final preparations for thousands of
visitors expected at dedication ceremonies tomorrow
for the new $700 million Dallas-Fort Worth Airport,
the largest in the world. The dedication weekend
was launched Thursday when the British-French super-
sonic transport, Concord, made its maiden flight
to America. On hand were local dignitaries and
some 400 newsmen. Henry Kissinger was confirmed
as Secretary of the State by the full Senate today,
and is due to be sworn in tomorrow. International
news: the Soviet Union has started preliminary talks
with General Motors in hopes of convincing the auto
maker to build a billion-dollar truck factory in
Siberia. Sources say the Soviet Union has a target
date in the early 1980's. And in the Skyl - Skylab
news today, it all centered around the news con-
ference that you held with the press this morning.
Let's see; I think there was another item here.
White House officials said today that they have
not ruled out the possibility of a trip to Europe
by President Nixon later this year, although they
repeated that the timing of such a Journey is now
uncertain. We're about a minute from LOS at Guam.
And I'll give you a call when we get to Goldstone
at 21:48.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thanks for the news.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, was my private comm not Goldstone 21:48,

but 21:55, or where?
CC Well, lets see; it's the MLA. It's when we get

AOS at MIA, Owen. It's 21:55, about; and I'll
remind you again when we're about to hand over to
them.
SPT Thank you.

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264 21 32 19 CDR What's the weather like back home now? Is it

cold, fall, s1_mmer; what's going on?
CC Well, the last few days it's been very pretty.

It's getting cooler and the days have been very
pretty. We did have a lot of heavy rain several
days during the mission, but it's Just been real
nice lately. You're coming home to a nice time.
CDR Good. Is - are we still on daylight-saving time,

or what?
CC Yes, we are. Some time in October, Phil says, early.
CDR Okay.
CC So you got another couple of weeks of that, I guess.
CDR All right.
264 21 32 54 CC The last Sunday in October, the EGIL says.
26_ 21 33 O0 CDR The EGIL knows all, says the Big Jack.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CDR We don't argue with Jack; he is pl_mb ...
264 21 33 12 CC I don't argue with Phil, either.
264 21 52 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone, and we've

got you stateside for about 13 or 14 minutes. And
I'll give you a call when we're going to hand over
to MLA.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC And, Owen, Houston. We tasked to the people up

at Goddard, and back to the business of the laser
that you all saw the other day that was not a
single point of light? Well, I'll give you the
information that we have about that pass, and,
I guess, then your guess can be as good as ours.
The first point is that the laser site did not
have the correct pointing info for tracking during
that pass.
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SPT Which pass, now, are you talking about.? The one
when we apparently saw about three bright points?
CC Yes, sir, that one. I think it was day before

yesterday. That is the one I am talking about.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. So the laser was never correctly pointed

during that pass. Since it wasn't pointing
directly at the spacecraft, it was being viewed
obliquely. And we think this may have giv -
given the long shafting appearance. The only
possible reason that we've come up with, so far,
is when you saw three rays instead of one, is
that the laser itself is composed of several
co111_us of varying intensities of light ; and, I
guess, it's possible that you may have seen more
than one of these. But that may sound a little
weak, but we really don't have a good explanation
for it.
264 21 5"3 44 CC Skylab, Houston. For Owen, we're going to be

handing over to MLA in about a minute or a minute
and a half or so.
264 21 55 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 9 minutes left in

this pass. And the following pass is Vanguard,
scheduled for a medical conference; and that's
the last one of the day. We thought we might
give you an opportunity to let us know how the
EVA prep was going.
264 22 O0 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 4 minutes prior

to LOS. We'd like to get a status, if we could,
as to how the EVA preps went tonight.
PLT A1 and I are finished, Dick. And O's - still

working up there on something. And of course,
he's doing his phone call now, but I think he's
near to being finished.
CC Okay. I--
PLT A1 and I just now got finished.

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264 22 O1 03 CC Okay, I'm assllm_ng, from the lack of problems

that you reported to us and so forth, that every-
thing went okay.
PLT So far, so good, Dick.
CC Roger.
264 22 Ol 12 PLT That was a real good Job in scouring the

checklist.
CC Roger. The EVA guys have been working very hard

the last few days, as they always do prior to
an EVA.
PLT Now they know it forwards and backwards, and if -

if it's going to be right, they're the guys that
are going to do it. They seem to it every time.
CC Roger.
264 22 02 12 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, we have decided

that we are going to do what I said about targeting
on the - on the entry. And l've got a few pen and
inks for those two, that entry pad and the P30
maneuver pad. We only have about - I - They have
been sitting here and I forgot to pass them up
to you a little bit earlier. We've got about
2 minutes left here. I could either pass them
up now, or probably, Just had it down and give
it to you in the morning, if you can't get to those
pads.
CDR Got the pads in my hand; go ahead.
CC Okay, on the entry pad, on - about i0 lines down

or 6 or 8 lines down on the "lat long," the lat-
itude is plus 30.83; longitude, minus 120.50.
About another 8 or 9 lines down, at bank angle,
you should delete the two L's for left and make
those R's for right. And down at - and below
that in the remarks, number i, target - it should
read, "Target north of ground track." And then
the P30 pad.
CDR Go ahead.
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CC Okay, in - under the remarks, the undocking time

Just changes about i0 seconds or so, 18 plus
ll plus 20. And remark number 2 should read,
"Yaw left to 315." And that's it.
CDR You don't change the burn time. Same burn time;
we Just target slightly different, huh? Just -
Just so the entry equations will fly it out, huh?
CC That's affirm, A1, We don't - we do not change

the burn time.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds

to LOS. Vanguard is going to pick you up at a
time of 2R:14. And that's the scheduled medical
conference. If we don't get you back on air-to-
ground then, you guys have a good night's sleep
and we'll see you in the morning.
PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
CC Roger.
264 22 04 21 CDR Was that longitude 120.50 or 1 - I mean 120.30?
CC Point 50.
CDR So it's Just i degree, huh?
CC Yes, that's right; 1 degree.
264 22 04 56 CDR By the way, I went over that list of changes,

latest changes that you have, and all our entry
and deact books are up-to-date.
264 22 05 06 CC Okay, A1; ths_k you for letting us know. Incident-

ally, your evening status report on photos didn't
quite Jibe and we - with what we thought, and
we're going to be sending you another photo pad
later on this evening so you can disregard the
early ones that we did send.
264 22 08 25 CC Flight, we think that up-link got up. In either -

in either event - -
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265 07 18 18 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
PLT Good morning, Hank. How are you doing today?
CC Oh, pretty good. How're you boys doing up there

today?
PLT Well, we'll know better in about 5 minutes.
CC All righty. We're - we're - you're over Guam now,

and we've got about 9-1/2 minutes left.
265 07 19 32 CC For info, Skylab; we'll be dumping the recorder

this station.
CDR Check.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 58.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC By the way, CDR, Texas opened their season with

Miami last night.
CDR And?
CDR How's they do, Hank?
CC Hurricanes got the best of them; 20 to 15.
265 07 58 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC We were going LOS while ago when I read up that

score. Did you copy that?
SPT Unfortunately it was copied.
264 07 59 04 CC That was a big shocker for everybody. Kind of

surprised us. Houston had a little better luck.
They knocked off South Carolina 27 to 19.
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r SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
265 08 01 53 SPT You have a minute or so here, Hank?
CC Roger, Owen. We got about 5-1/2 minutes left.
SPT Be enough to give you a couple of m_uor changes to

last evening's status report.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. On the SPT exercise, I'd like to add the

following: 3/25/Mark I, 90 Alfa, 60 Bravo, 60 Delta.
And you had the earlier portion last night. And,
also, on the menu deviations, add peanuts to my
list. I already had some pineapple added.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Thank you, Hank.

We'll be coming up on Canaries about 12 minutes
from now, at 18.
265 08 06 51 PLT Okay, Hank. See you there, I think.
265 08 19 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

13-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank. We're going to get a picture of that

tracking station today.
CC Okay. And we just checked the weather there and

it's l0 percent or less. So it ought to be real
great for you.
CDR Okay.
265 08 28 47 CDR Okay. We got Madrid.
CC Good show.
CDR Took all three of us to do it. It's kind of - it's

a nice clear day there, but Madrid doesn't show up
too much and it's parked against the mountains. We
had trouble finding it before, but we pretty well got
it. We shot it two or three different places.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll E

be coming up on Honeysuckle in about 35 minutes
from now at 06, and we plan to dump the recorder
there.
265 08 31 51 SPT Okay_
265 09 07 16 CC Sk_lab; AOS Honeysuckle, 7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
PLT Story, my checklist tells me to enable the TACS

switches but doesn't say anything about enabling
the the DACS - the DAS, but I - I presume you want
that done.
CC Jack, you can go ahead and do that or we can do it.

And do you need the command?
PLT No. I 've got them here. Thank you.
CC Okay. And, for your information, during the EVA,

we are going to in - inhibit all the dumps and
we'll accept the desat firings that we get.
PLT Okay.
CDR Why is that, Story?
CC Say again, A1.
CDR Why that change to the normal ops?
CC We think we can get away that way with using less

TACS than the other way. And, also related to that,
that does away with the vent window we had.
265 09 l0 03 CC And while I've got you A1, one other thing we'll
have you do out there is check the H-alpha door.
We think that it is closed and we think we've got
bad indicators, but we'll want you to take a look
at it while you're out at the Sun end.
CDH Okay. Be glad to do it.
CC And could you tell us where you are on the - the

prep checklist right now?
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CDR Yes. We're putting the coatings on the inside of

the helmets.
CC Okay.
CDR And Owen's just about ready to don, and Jack is

probably just about ready to don, also.
CC Okay.
265 09 12 41 PLT Story, do you want the S052 MAIN POWER switch,
OFF? I have a note from before to check with
you people.
CC Could you say that again, Jack?
PLT Yes. The S052 MAIN POWER switch - my checklist

calls for it to go to OFF, but I have a note that
says I ought to check with you before I do.
- CC Go ahead and turn that off, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Also, Story, the inside of the SPT's protective

visor had, not some scratches, but it's Just -
just not as clean as it ought to be. I think that's
the UV coating in there; I'm not sure. I tried to
try - I tried to smooth it out as best I could,
but couldn't do it too well. It's acceptable, but
not perfect. That's the inside of the protective
visor on the EVVA, or the SEVA.
265 09 l_ 13 CC Okay. Copy, A1. We're about 15 seconds to LOS.

See you over Bermuda in about 35 minutes at 09: 51,
and we'll be looking for your instrumentation check
at that time.
CDR How long is that from now?
CC That's about 35 minutes, at 09:51.
CDR Okay. We might make it.
CC Well, _e got Canaries and Madrid right after that,

ifyondon't.
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CC Going over the hill, AI. There's a spare visor i

over 509.
265 09 15 15 CDR ... What do you recommend?
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265 09 51 49 CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Yes, sir. We're here through Bermuda, 4 minutes.
CDR Okay, let me connect up and see what you think of

the biomed.
CC Great. And Just a reminder here, they'll be no TV

during this EVA, as you know.
CDR Okay, I'm connected up.
CC Okay. We're looking, A1.
CDR See anything at all?
CC A1, we're GO on your bio instrumentation.
CDR Okay, here comes the big O.
SPT How does that look, Story?
CC It's beautiful, O. You're GO.
SPT Okay, fine. We'll disconnect here.
CC Okay.
265 09 55 24 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 2 minutes to

Canaries.
265 09 57 58 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid 12 minutes.
265 l0 09 19 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 10:35.
SPT Okay, Story. Jack and I are in suits, and we're

just now getting A1 in the other suit. Just about
to make it.
265 l0 09 31 CC Thanks a lot; we were Just thinking about that.
265 l0 34 34 CDR Next sequence terminates 02 flow to PGA. REG 1

LOW FLOW and LOW VENT FLOW lights will light. Moni-
tor cuff gage for m_x decay of 0.8. It's a 1-minute
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test. Whenever I say FLOW, OFF, we'll go FLOW,

OFF and then time it for a minute.
265 lO 34 52 CDR Okay, FLOW, OFF.
CC We're reading you loud and clear, A1, through

Carnarvon for l0 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data voice recorders here.
SPT Okay, Story.
CDR We're doing our suit integrity check.
SPT Mine's gone up 0.1.
PLT Did you get your PRESS select, OFF? Al?
265 l0 36 03 CDR It's been a minute.
PLT Okay.
PLT PRESS select to BOTH, and then IVA.
CDR Mine leaked down about 0.3.
SPT Okay. Let's see what it says. PRESS select, BOTH,

then IVA.
CDR Okay. That's dandy. Let's see what's next.
SPT Cuff gage is stable; 3.8 and all the lights are out.
CDR Says: "If suit press decays 0.3 to 0.8 verify

helmet, wrist rings, and gas connectors locked
before proceeding." Mine decayed about 0.3.
SPT Well, we can verify it.
CDR Let me - I want to run the check again. I don't

like to - let me do the check one more time.
SPT All right.
PLT How do you read me, Story?
SPT Hello, Story. How do you read me?

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265 l0 38 07 CC Loud and clear, O.
SPT Okay. Jack was just giving you a call there. I

guess - Were you pressing to talk up there, Jack?
PLT How do you read me, Story?
CC Loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay. Thank you. Apparently you didn't copy the

first one.
SPT How was it that time?
CDR Still about 0.2 to 0.3.
SPT _mm.
CDR All my stuff is locked.
PLT Hmm.
CC AI, we're following your EMU check down here, and

if you've checked all your connectors, wrist rings,
and the like, press on.
CDR Okay. That's what we're doing. I'm Just kind of

looking at them some more. Get 0. to look at them
again. Oops. How do they look to you again, O?
SPT Okay. That lock's flush, flush.
CDR That's the way - that one does.
SPT That - it's not in the - that water connector is

not down into lock.
CDR Because there's nothing in it, see?
SPT Okay. That's right.
265 l0 39 53 CDR There's Just the plug outlet [?] in the back.
SPT The oxygen is down and locked.
SPT Wrist rings - locked. Those are locked. Helmet

ring is locked.
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CDR Okay. Let's go back to where we were. Okay?
SPT Is the cuff gage stable, 3.6 to 3.9? All lights off.
CDR Uh-Bmm.
SPT Okay. MODE SET_CT to ABSOLUTE.
CDR Okay.
265 l0 41 21 CDR Okay, Jack. We're ready for you - -
SPT Wait a minute. I'm not quite down yet in mine.
CDR Okay.
CDR O.'s coming down a little slow.
SPT Yours is a little slow clearing.
CDR All right.
CDR All right. We'll be right here.
SPT Okay, I'm at cabin pressure. And we are in ABSOLUTE.

We got the tones. Yes, sir. All integrity checks
complete.
CDR Intergrity checks complete. Jack's off the headset

and he's probably floating over to get something.
CDR Okay. Finished and waiting for you.
265 l0 43 32 SPT EVA will read all procedures from here, Jack.
CDR 2's off.
SPT l's off.
265 l0 4_ 17 CC We're a minute from LOS and 2 minutes to Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
SPT l's off; 2's off. Okay. I'm on my way.
CDR Okay.
SPT Let's see. Which way does it say? Feet first, I

think, doesn't it? Or did it say?
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CDR Head first.
SPT Head first. Okay.
265 l0 45 43 CDR I'll just float right here and wait until I hear
from you.
CDR Okay.
SPT I am in pretty good shape.
CDR Okay, I'm at the LSU hatch and I'm inspecting

the seal.
265 l0 46 30 CC Back with you through Honeysuckle for h minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. We're just crawling into the airlock.
CC Okay, and Jack's at the STS, isn't he?
SPT No, he's in the airlockwith us here, stowing our

umbili cals.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay.
CDR HATCH HANDLE, OPEN.
265 i0 47 30 SPT Okay.
CDR Pull that closed. Okay.
CDR But before RELEASE HANDLE, UNLOCK, Okay?
SPT All right. Just a second.
CDR Okay, I'm working on it, Jack. The hatch looks

closed, but the handle doesn't like to go. There,
that worked. Yes. The whole thing went. Let me -
a second, Just a second.
265 l0 48 57 CDR Now, let me do this. Let me go there and then we

unlock the handle. Now I'll go to EQUALIZE PRESSURE.
Okay, now what? RELEASE HANDLE to UNLOCK. OkKy.
HATCH HANDLE, CLOSE. Rk_.EASE, LOCK. The thing's
Just right. 0ka_y.
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SI_ Now, I'll scoot it down a little to get out of

your way.
CDR Just a minute.
265 lO h9 h2 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you

over MLA in 35 minutes about 11:24. All your systems
are looking good and you're GO for AM depress.
SPT 0kay.
CDR 0keydoke.
PLT Okay.
265 l0 50 37 CDR Okay, good; appreciate it.
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265 ll 24 06 CDR-EVA - - look good.
SPT-EVA Okay. Now let me look.
SPT-EVA Okay. Just a second.
CDR-EVA F/ll. Okay. Infinity. Just a moment. I've

got to look in the bottom for that. Six frames
it is.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear through

MLA and Bermuda for ll minutes. Your systems
are looking good.
CDR-EVA Okay. What'd you say there at last, big Jack?
SPT-EVA Okay. Just a second here. I'm switching my

tether to the other wrist.
CDR-EVA Okay.
265 ll 25 31 CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Yes, sir; go ahead.
SPT-EVA I have it, A1.
PLT Just a minute, Story.
PLT Okay.
PLT Just a minute.
CDR-EVA Okay, I wondered-
SPT-EVA Okay, we're on f/ll.
265 ll 26 08 CDR-EVA That put it at 1/60.
SPT-EVA Okay. We got 500 set. Infinity, set. Wait a

minute. It was set on 12, not 6. You want it
on 6, huh? Okay. Yes.
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CDR-EVA Looks like Hawaii down there. Wonder where we

are.
PLT Go ahead, Story. You called.
265 ll 27 07 CC Okay. You're passing over - getting close to

Bermuda now. You - you may get some TACS firing
for CMG desat. We'd like you to inhibit on
panel 207, on CAUTION & WARNING panel_ ACS MALF,
INHIBIT, CMG SAT.
CDR-EVA That A-77
PLT That 's done.
CC And we'd like your time for hatch opening, Jack.
PLT Okay. I'll give you a mark when it happened. It

was about lO minutes ago, and it's going to be
9 minutes and 45 seconds. Stand by.
265 ii 27 46 PLT MARK.
PLT Kick out of my shoes to get down there and see if

that thing's running or not. Sometimes you can
see - --
CDR-EVA ... looks nice and gold. Much better panorama

out here. Faster - -
CDR-EVA Okay. I'm waiting for the big O. to - -
SPT-EVA Okay. It 's clicking.
CDR-EVA It's clicking? Owen's going to pull out my

_nbilical, no doubt.
SPT-EVA Okay. Let me get out of your way a little bit.
265 ll 28 52 CDR-EVA Blue hatch - I mean, the blue handrails have

turned turquoise on it.
SPT-EVA They sure look turquoise.
CDR-EVA Uh-huh. Sort of- -
CDR-EVA Everything has - -

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SPT-EVA Watch out. Your - Okay. You're in the DAC with

your right leg there.
CDR-EVA How's my umbilical doing?
SPT-EVA Coming.
CDR-EVA You're outside here.
SPT-EVA You sure are.
CDR-EVA Nice view. There's the old command module.

Quads - Boy, is the side of the - ... scorched.
Back there Just below United States, all that
stuff is scorched and the foil is kind of bent up.
CDR-EVA Have you been getting some - All right. Let's do

that. Looks like a good place to visit over here.
265 ll 30 18 CDR-EVA You sure can get around here easy, compared to
that water tank. Okay. It's in work. Solar
panels look nice and clean; I can see them back
there, the ones on the side of the workshop.
265 ll 31350 CDR-EVA I don't see that cable on there anymore that the
SL-2 crew put on to pull it up. If you'll look
out the l, it looks like it may have departed.
Maybe that's what I heard the other night.
PLT I don't know what cable you're ta1_ing about.
CDR-EVA When they pulled out that SAS beam, they had - -
PLT Oh yeah.
CDR-EVA - - cable, they tied it on. It stayed out there.

It's not there any more.
CDR-EVA Feel the Sun on your gloves here.
265 ll 31 36 CDR-EVA I'm standing right close to S054. Not exactly,

but close.
PLT Yes, it 's all clamped.
SPT-EVA Al's is not clamped.

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CDR-EVA Okay.
PLT I'm holding 365 and no lights.
CDR-EVA Put a little tension on my old umbilical, would

you, 0. ?
CDR-EVA That 's it. Thank you.
SPT-EVA Okay. Incidentally, for the EVA troops down there,

I think B1 feet is a little too much. I clamped
it at B1, and we got more play than we need. It'd
be better clamped at about 29 to 30, Story.
265 ll 32 49 PLT Okay. It is deployed and it is unlatched.
PLT Okay. It works.
CDR-EVA Not exactly. I can put it there, though.
CDR-EVA Okay. POWER, PRIMARY, and SECONDARY, enabled.
CDR-EVA ROLL enabled.
PLT Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, you see me stopping.
CDR-EVA Opening the door. See me looking at S05_.
SPT-EVA Okay. I'm going to take up some of the line in

his umbilical. There's too much of it hanging
out.
CC Skylab. We're a minute and a half from LOS.

5 minutes to Madrid. And to verify telemetry,
we'd like an _U status check from the Commander.
CDR-EVA The Commander gives it a big 3.65, which is about

a half a psi less than it was while ago. And no
lights are on. EVA HIGH FLOW. Anything in
part i cular ?
CC No, sir. That's fine. Thank you.

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265 ii 34 35 SPT-EVA Hey, Story, did you get my comment about 31 feet's
too much. I pulled it back to about 29 which is
adequate for the length of umbilical out to the
center work station.
265 ll 34 46 CC We've got it, Owen.
SPT-EVA Okay. I pulled it in, and I've got the S054 on

and locked.
CDR-EVA Okay.
SPT-EVA Are you ready, Al?
CDR-EVA Are you kidding?
SPT-EVA Nope.
CDR-EVA Fire away.
CDR-EVA There you go. Sending me a present. Boy, this

whole vehicle is sure motionless up here. Fantastic.
This is really fantastic.
SPT-EVA Tell me when.
PLT Hey, Story, that canister roll of plus 4392 - -
265 ii 35 37 CDR-EVA Whew!
PLT-EVA - - really put S054 in front of AI. It's at

4750 now. You roll it around a little bit. So
you might want to m_ke that note for a future
reference.
CC Copy, Jack.
265 ll 35 53 CDR-EVA I got it in my hot hands.
265 ll 39 21 SPT-EVA Okay. I'm - I've got the 54 off and I'm ready
to extend the boom.
CC We're back _-ith you through Madrid for 8 minutes.
SPT-EVA Okay, Story. Are you ready for the boom, Al? •
CDR-EVA Not yet.

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SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA But I will be in a minute.
CDR-EVA Open the door. Look in the door. See S056 rest-
ing there happily. I'm ready for the boom.
SPT-EVA All right. Here it comes.
CDR-EVA I have S056 in my hand. Well, let's see where

Madrid is. I don't see it.
SPT-EVA Al, still coming up here.
CDR-EVA Nice place to visit up here.
SPT-EVA Even a nice place to live.
CDR-EVA Yep.
CDR-EVA Halt.
265 ll 40 38 CDR-EVA S056 is locked on your boom. I would recommend

you retract it.
$PT-EVA Okay. Put it in stowage.
SPT-EVA All right. She's on the way back.
CDR-EVA Okay. Consider it in. No new ones in this game.
CDR-EVA White flag visible ops.
CDR-EVA Okay, it 's in work. In work.
CDR-EVA There, believe it or not.
265 ll 41 36 CDR-EVA There's S052. Got corona all over it.

Fantastic. Must of - some of it must of leaked
out. Okay, big O.
$PT-EVA Just a minute - -
CDR-EVA I've been working hard up there.
SPT-EVA I'll get this rascal locked on the tree firmly.

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CDR-EVA Not a bad idea. I don't see Europe. Where is

it?
265 ii 42 06 SPT-EVA Still ahead of us.
SPT-EVA Looks like a - -
SPT-EVA Okay, you ready? What's the next step?
265 ii h? 22 0DE-EVA Okay, it's in work. I got the doors open and
looking at the corona thing.
CDR-EVA There. The motor's inside that can. No, the

motor looks like it's on top of the can.
CDR-EVA This thing's attitude is beautiful because it's

never quite level with the Earth. Ah, there 's
_hgland, I think. Hard to tell.
265 ii 43 05 SPT-EVA Okay, 52 is on and locked.
CDR-EVA Okay. You ready for it?
SPT-EVA Yes.
PLT You better believe it.
CDR-EVA Hello, Jack.
PLT You're barely there.
SPT-EVA Hello there, Story.
CC Hi, Owen.
265 ii 43 33 SPT-EVA Well, we got about 12,000 X-ray photographs re-

trieved now.
CDR-EVA Partially retrieved. Still got to handle them

once more.
SPT-EVA Yes.
CC We got all the confidence in the world.

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SPT-EVA Halt. That's it. They're out of the ATM. We've

just got to bring the tree inside. And then you
fellows have to go to work developing them.
SPT-EVA Okay, I'm going to retract that out of your way,

A1.
CDR-EVA Why don't you do that?
SPT-EVA That's really bad like that, don't you think?
CDR-EVA Yes, I do. But I think you can lick it by being

careful. A]] right. You want a new one?
SPT-EVA No, I'd like an old one.
CDR-EVA 01d used 52 can. Okay.
265 ll _4 &l SPT-EVA Extend it back so we can put it on first?
CDR-EVA Perfect.
CDR-EVA You' ve got it.
SPT-EVA Okay, here she comes.
SPT-EVA Twelve thousand photos of a solar eclipse.
CDR-EVA Hope they don't get mad. I noticed some of the

rays were bent on that. Some of the pictures we
took. (Chuckle) They weren't all straight.
265 ll 45 41 CDR-EVA Install, the white flag's visible, and it feels

firm. Not a bad idea. In work.
CDR-EVA Okay, that door's locked, and white flag's

visible, Jack.
265 ll _6 07 CDR-EVA H-alpha 1.
CDR-EVA We've been running manual part of the time and

frames a second part of the time - four frames
a minute part of the time. Okay, the door's
open and there it sits.
CDR-EVA Okay. Wait until the Big O. Sends me some boom.
SPT-EVA Okay, here it comes.

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CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and 25 minutes

from Carnarvon. All your systems are looking
good.
265 ll 46 39 CDR-EVA ThAnk you, Story. We're having a good time out
here.
SPT-EVA You prefer to leave your umbilical Just floating

like that, A1, I guess.
265 ll 47 01 CDR-EVA Let nature take its course.
CDR-EVA O?
CDR-EVA You got it, 0.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Stand by, and I will. It's locked and visible.
265 ii 47 42 CDR-EVA Okay, will do. Sure didn't stay here long.
265 12 ll 50 CDR-EVA - - that I can see. Incidentally, I looked a while

ago.
PLT-EVA Yes. Turned down, Just as mild - mildest of -
CDR-EVA Let me describe this thing to you, Jack, because

it's becoming pretty much of a rectangle. Now
let me tell you. It - It's centered on the work-
shop real nice, but as I look aft, the end nearest
me would be my right hand, which is out; and then
the opposite corner, which is back towards the
tail, it's out. In other words, if you're stand-
ing inside, the - the parasol is rotated about
l0 to 15 degrees clockwise. Out here it looks
like it's rotating counterclockwise.
265 12 :.2 51 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear through
Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR-EVA Everything's going smoothly. We just put in

the lh9. O. 's putting in the stowage plate.
SPT-EVA It 's complete.
CDR-EVA And he's going to send out a couple of cans,

which we're going to go mount and do 82A and B.
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CC Okay.
SPT-EVA 0kay. It 's in work.
CDR-EVA And I now can see that cable that the S1-2 crew
hooked up. It was close aboard enough to be
hinge lined and couldn't be seen from the center
work station, but it's seen quite easily out
here in the transfer work station.
CC Okay, Good. And you don't see any entanglement

with any important part of the structure, do you?
CDR-EVA No, I don't. And I was Just looking at the

friendly little twin-pole sunshade and it's -
looks Just like when Jack put it out. The
aceordian is come out pretty much. It's still
accordian-like, but not enough so it does not
shield the workshop. I can look and see the Sun
as impinging on the left side of the workshop and
the right side, but - No, it looks like it's so
close to the maximum diameter, you probably don't
know it inside. The place that's in the Sun -
Let me tell you the place that's in the Sun. One
side is the - is that air duct that gave way first
and caused the - the meteoroid shield to give.
That's in the Sun. That's one limit. On the
other side, in the Sun, is the - Just about a
foot earlier than when you come to the area where
the other SAS beam used to be. If the other SAS
beam were folded nov, it would be in the Sun.
CC Okay.
SPT-EVA Okay. I'm ready to extend these empty cans to

you, Ja - A1.
CDR-EVA Well, fire away, babe.
SPT-EVA All right. Here we go. Front end entend. Would

you keep an eye on the clearance here? It's a
little tight with this big box.
CDR-EVA I'll do it.
SPT-EVA Okay. Here it comes.

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CDR-EVA Nice place out here, Story.
SPT-EVA Barely slips through this.
CC Yes, sir. You're making me Jealous. And could

you verify - -
265 12 15 ll CDR-EVA I know.
CC - - that that line going to the SAS beam is intact?
CDR-EVA It's intact and Just exactly like it was. It Just

could not be seen from the center work station.
I thought it was further away from the hinge line.
It looks good; in fact, it looks like it did when
we looked at it out the window. I've also looked
at the little grommets on the twin poles. The
only one that's loose, I think, is the one we
talked about, and it's conceivable that it got
bumped by the umbilical. Stop. We're going to
have to move it a little bit more, 0., but -
SPT-EVA Out or in?
CDR-EVA Out. A little further. Stop.
SPT-EVA Okay. Consider it done, although I haven't done

it yet.
CDR-EVA Take her away, 0.
SPT-EVA 0kay.
CDR-EVA I'll tell you one thing, Story. Handling these

big boxes is sure easier here than the water tank.
You can Just use your wrist action and they all
move around like you want them to, instead of
balancing here and there.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR-EVA Okay, I've done that, Jack, and stowed happily.
PLT Okay. Owen's going to get the boom in. I notice

the boom, from I see it through the window, ha's
got some marks perpendicularto the long axis.
They look like to be in regular places every _ to
6 inches and closer in as the boom gets closer to
being retracted - about an inch long.
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PLT Okay. Okay. Go ahead.
CDR-EVA Thank you. Okay. I think I'll go for a trip.
SPT-EVA Another thing that's different, Story, I remember

from the last time, somewhat different from the
water tank. When you come back in5 you don't
need to worry about focusing your eyes. That
4/3 correction for the water tank on index of
refraction is missing out here. You get to see
right off.
CDR-EVA Where'd the Earth go?
PLT-EVA Okay, we're Just coming into night.
SPT-EVA If that's correct, it Just - -
CDR-EVA Golly! what a place to visit. Whewl
SPT-EVA Okay - -
CDR-EVA Look down and see these experiments. They really

are looking out at the Sun. I wondered - -
PLT You might want to - -
CDR-EVA - - about that.
PLT You might want to take the gold visor up.
CDR-EVA All right. Let's do that. Ev - Everything's

turning a sort of a reddish pink now, as the Sun
goes down.
265 12 17 50 SPT-EVA And some people have been interested in the looks
of the horizon. The aurora shooting from the
orange into white, at least three white bands
above the first white band as the Sun goes down.
Several white bands, as it goes into blue and then
black. I see two - two distinct bands to the
south and two or three bands to the north. And
they extend about 15 degrees either side of the
Sun, and then those white bands disappear.
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CDR-EVA Can I do anything for you, Jack, as long as I'm

here? All lights are out and my suit press is 365.
SPT-EVA Okay. Just a minute. As soon as I clamp this

umbilical, I'll recheck that.
CDR-EVA I'll tell you what. Right where - You know these
little mounts that you put your toes in on the,
you know, the foot restraints. They cast a per-
fect shadow on the sunshield here and so where
the shadow is it's still white and all the rest
is Just brownish pink. It's Just perfect focus.
I'll be darned.
265 12 19 23 CDR-EVA Yes. You can see the outline of all these ha -
these handrails. I think you should.
SPT-EVA 0kay.
CDR-EVA Moving out pretty fast. Good lighting up here.

I See stars.
SPT-EVA I hope so.
CDR-EVA Well, it's obvious we got to wait because you've

got to check it against the Sun. We may want to
do this last and do these others first. I'll
look in there and dust it off, but we'll have
to wait to check it.
SPT-EVA Sure you can see it well enough, huh?
CDR-EVA No, I don't think I can.
SPT-EVA Then I sure wouldn't try it unless you could -

really got good visibility.
CDR-EVA Yes. But it doesn't look down in any of these

holes is the problem. I see an instrument that's
looking right now.
CC A1, we'd like you to leave the S052 alone until

you get into daylight.
CDR-EVA We concur with that. Will do. I think I can

see in there now, but you can't see any - It's
so dark in there, you cannot see what's going on,
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really. I think we ought to go - Why don't you

rotate this back, Jack, to 82A and B and I'll
_ake that exchange and then when the Sun comes
up, we'll be in good shape.
PLT All right.
CDR-EVA Well, we've only got 3 hours to go, Story. I

hope we can hack it.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, could you give me a canister roll for $082?

Al rolled it down there from VC, and I want to
go back there now. We're going to transfer the
film before we do the brushing.
265 12 21 _5 CC Okay, we'll get that for you. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS here and about 2 minutes to
Honeys uckle.
CDR-EVA It's rotated; I'll tell you when you get there,
Jack.
PLT Yes, ...
CC Jack, that's a minus 4200 for 82A and B.
PLT Okay, Story, 42- minus 4200.
CDR-EVA I can look down in the mirror and see that T -

that thing that's bothering them.
PLT Could it be the disk?
CDR-EVA It made its way back there.
PLT Uh - oh. Is it not on the first disk?
CDR-EVA It looked to me like it was something way back

there on the mirror.
PLT Uh - oh. No. That should - That wouldn't do it,

A1. It's got to be something out on a - -
265 12 22 26 CDR-EVA Okay, we'll see.

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PLT - - disk near the focus.
CDR-EVA It looked to me like the washer. You got to

watch H-alpha door - 2 door move a couple times,
too, Jack. Fortunately it's about the same ...
That's close for me, you need to k - keep coming.
CDR-EVA How about right there? Now if we could go even

further, it'd be better, then it'd be like the
training; but I can hack it there. That's it,
right there. When you read to me the procedures,
I'll do it.
CDR-EVA Container door. Okay, I think I know what that

is. Okay.
265 12 213 52 CC Skylab, we' re back with you through Honeysuckle

for 4 minutes. And an update for the canister
roll. We think minus 6700 would be a better
number, Jack.
PLT Okay, Story, thank you. And we found a good

number that was a little bit more than that h2.
Thank you.
CDR-EVA Okay, I've done it. I've got the magazine in my

hand. It's complete. In the container. It is.
Complete. I'll check it. Pin in hold, everything
is Just right. All right. It's open. Okay,
closed. It's locked. I'll do that. That door
needs a little muscle.
CC Owen, to verify our telemetry, could you give us

an _U status check, please?
SPT-EVA Okay, I'm sitting on 370 and no lights.
CC Okay.
CDR-EVA Not having much luck with that door at the moment.
I think I'll take a break. Boy, I'm shaking the
whole canister up here.
PLT That the 82B you're -
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PLT Uh-huh.
CDR-EVA I'll just lift out of my foot restraints a little

bit. I think I can get in a better position.
CC And, A1, while you're taking a break, we don't

think you'll get to D02h before we get stateside,
but in case you do, we'd like you to observe the
coloration on both sides of the sample trays when
you pull them out, and also the color of the
al_m_num around the structure where the trays
are attached.
265 12 26 23 CDR-EVA Okay. I'll try to do that, Story. The door

doesn't want to come open. I got it.
265 12 26 40 CC And, Skylab, we're a minute from LOS here. See

you over Texas in about 30 minutes at 12: 55.
We'll be dumping the data voice recorders there.
And your momentt_n is building up. We're estimating
you might use a little TACS around 13 :00, that 's
about 35 minutes from now, probably not until
stateside. We Just wanted to tell you there is
a possibility.
PLT Hey, Story, what's our present location? Are

we - -
CDR-EVA Thank you, Story.
PLT Are we down near the southern extreme of the

orbit ?
CC That's affirmative. You're right about minus 50

at this time.
SPT-EVA We got a very nice aurora Just off to the left.

It's several curtains and sweeping green arcs.
They extend over about 90 degrees on the horizon.
A]] well below us, hopefully - -
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT-EVA - - and you can see some of the rays extending

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265 12 27 53 CDR-EVA 82B's in the can.
SPT-EVA ... White clouds. Some water Just - -
CDR-EVA ...
SPT-EVA I've always wanted to ...
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265 12 55 28 CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA I see their signal.
265 12 56 00 CDR-EVA 52 Just came closed.
265 12 56 35 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear. And

we're A0S stateside 16 minutes.
CDR-EVA Okay, the thing that I saw on the occulting disk

looked- at least, if this is it, I don't know.
It looked almost like a whisker on your chin that's
been there about a - about a day, and that's all
I can see on there. And I - But I've dusted
everything that - that I just dusted around in
general, got rid of that little whisker. And
we'll just have to see what happens, I guess.
CDR-EVA By the way, on H-alpha 2 door, seemed to work

smoothly. I did notice that on the top of the
ramp, there were slight scuff marks. Now 82B's
ramps also have slight scuff marks, so maybe
that's not important. And, of course, I cannot
see under the ramp, so I don't know what's going
on there. But it appeared that - that it - the
door operated smoothly.
CC Okay. And is Jack taking a look at the - the

S052 image on the TV?
CDR-EVA He's working on it right this minute.
SPT-EVA Is it nice and uniform all the way around?
PLT Yes. Yes, that's just about at standard.
SPT-EVA Good. Are - Are you keying your mike?
SPT-EVA Story, Jack just said that it looks uniform all the
way around. Of course, it's a little brighter
over towards one side where the pointing is - is
off to one side. But it's uniform all the way
around. Looks like it' s clean.
CC Okay.
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PLT Okay.
265 12 58 49 CDR-EVA I'ii tell you what, though. When I look down
inside there, Story, I can see a few little
particles kind of floating around down in there.
And they're - they're not the size of paint chips
or anything like that. They're Just like - like
I say, a bunch of little whiskers, maybe four or
five of them, floating around down in there. And
I wouldn't be surprised to see one of them, in
just a little while, land up and do the same
thing again, because there doesn't appear to be
any reason they - they wouldn't.
265 12 59 16 SPT-EVA Maybe we can wait about 5 minutes and see if they
won't drift out.
CDR-EVA Keep the door open and maybe it'll float out.
SPT-EVA Uh huh.
PLT Okay, Story, it looks nice and clean there where

the particle was before. We've got a nice, smooth
rim on the occulting disk. And like Owen said,
it's a - a little bit - Somebody's moving around
out there, I believe.
CDR-EVA That 's me.
PLT Yes, I know it was somebody.
CDR-EVA Is that bad news?
PLT Yes.
CDR-EVA I'll quit moving around.
CDR-EVA No you got to leave the door open so - Boy, I

didn't move it much, did I? All right, I'll
be - I'll be still, here.
SPT-EVA 5 arc minutes is a - less than a tenth of a degree.
PLT Okay, Story. Like O. said, on the opposite side

of where the particle was, there's a brightening
there, as there always has been. On the place
where the particle was, why, it's a little darker,
but it's not due to particle any more, it's just
due to pointing.
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CC Okay, Jack. And reference to A_l's comments, we've

seen those particles floating around in there on
previous EVAs.
265 13 00 39 CDR-EVA I'm not moving much.
265 13 01 12 CDR-EVA Do you want us to do anything about H-alpha 2?

We've got our wrench inside if you want us to
remove the ramp.
CC No, sir; leave it the way it is.
CDR-EVA Okeydoke.
CDR-EVA I guess we're finished out here, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT Story, in my checklist, the PES fine Sun sensor

cal is on page 2-19, and your pad calls for 2-20.
-- Unless I'm overlookingsomething, probably ought
to start on page 2-19 and do the first paragraph.
Is that correct?
CC Stand by 1.
SPT-EVA A1, you may remember that that - -
265 13 02 08 PLT I'm getting a lot of streaking on the screen. And

something or other just - is closing the door
again. I've opened the door twice, and it's,
apparently, closed itself.
265 13 02 19 CDR-EVA It's probably me, wiggling around a little bit.

I'll quit wiggling.
SPT-EVA Well, he's doing a lot of moving. It's just bound

to move the canister that much.
SPT-EVA Uh oh.
PLT Okay, we got something back on here that we - The

same thing we had before is back on the screen
now for some reason, Story.
_ SPT You mean that dust speck?

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PLT It's in the same - exact same location. And

before that happened, there was - the image
flashed on and off on the screen very bright and
very dark a few times, and then it went off com-
pletely. And I went back to TV and the image came
back. But now, we also have that discontinuity
there at 2 o'clock, just exactly the same as we
had before.
CC Copy, Jack.
PLT Yes.
PLT There ! It's happening again, l'm getting a lot

of fast, very bright things streaking across the
scope. Sometimes it blots out the whole picture
and - and then it comes back; and sometimes, it
closes the door.
SPT-EVA Looks like we're looking right down at Cape Kennedy.
CDR-EVA We are, huh?
PLT What it looks like is a great big washer, about

the size of the occulting disk, with a little hole
in the middle. And it moves across the screen
very slowly sometimes ; and other times, it goes
very rapidly.
CDR I'm going to go over and get the brush.
PLT Sometimes they're big and sometimes they're little.
265 13 0h 00 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR-EVA Go ahead.
PLT How about some TV down-link here, Story?
CC A1, could you brush off the occulting disk once

more?
CDR-EVA Sure, I'm on the way.
CDR-EVA You get Jack to open the thing and turn off the
motor to the door, so the door won't close while
I'm out here.
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265 13 04 25 CC That's affirmative; we were Just going to pass

that up. And we don't have TV down-link capability.
265 13 04 3h PLT I'm going to have to look back to find that com-
mand. How about giving it to me, Story?
CC Stand by i.
CDR-EVA We're going over Cherry Point in a minute, Jack.
PLT I know the area well.
265 13 0h 5i CDR-EVA Might be little parts of these paints. This

paint's kind of dried out here and a little bit
soft and crumbly.
265 13 05 47 PLT It's coming open.
CC Jack, I've got those c_mmands for you.
265 13 06 30 PLT Well, I don't - -
CDR-EVA Let me try to get some different perspective on

this thing.
CC Jack, I've got those commands for you.
PLT I've loaded h0141, and 40061. Were those the

ones, Story?
CC That's affirm. And on the - the PES and FSS cal,

we only want the top paragraph on page 2-20.
PLT Okay. I'll do that. Thank you.
CC No TV.
PLT Okay.
CDR-EVA Well, we got poles.
PLT I just - I just thought it would be good to have

some on TV to see this illusion that I see in the
screen so you could, perhaps, analyze it. That's
too bad. Let me tell you - -
CDR-EVA ... O. I don't see a thing in there. Let me see

if I can turn around a little bit. Look at it
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upside down, maybe. Looking in there as best I

can. Let me take up my visor a little.
CDR-EVA Down further down on those other disk, they look

good, too. Just a minute.
265 13 08 O0 CDR-EVA Well, I hate to say it, Jack, but I can't see
anything there. I've dustedit and looked at it,
stared at it. It may be something way back there
on the mirror that I can't see. The only thing
that I see different about the mirror is it's got
a round dot that's off center. And I think that's
part of the mirror system, though; but I don't
know what it is.
CC A1, we think you've done all you can do right now.

And- -
CDR-EVA I think so, too. There's - I can't see anything.

I've raised my visor and looked in there, and it
doesn't look like anything's on it.
CC O. --
CDR-EVA Let me get out of the way.
CC Okay. We just suggest you press on.
265 13 08 44 CDR-EVA Okay. That's the end of the ball game there.
265 13 09 03 PLT Right.
PLT Any little motion will disturb that thing.
CDR-EVA Just a second, let me get set and I won't move.

Okay, go ahead.
CDR-EVA Nova Scotia.
CDR-EVA I'll just sit quietly, here, while you finish

that Job.
265 13 09 51 CC Jack, when you get done with that top paragraph
on page 2-20, we would like some TV down-link to
Bermuda.
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PLT Okay, I'm working on it right now.
265 13 111 4_ CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 5 minutes to

Madrid.
265 13 ii 50 CDR-EVA Okay. Nice storm out here, Story..
SPT-EVA I been wondering if there was a tropical

storm that's reported Just off to the right of
our traJec - of our ground track.
265 13 12 i0 PLT Okay, Story. You should be getting the TV. I've
distributed the light around it as about best I
can. We still get a bright glow around the 8 o'clock
portion, very close in. But if I move the disk
any more, it distorts the 3 o'clock without changing
the brightness at 8 o'clock. And it looks like
we got uniform brightness all the way around from
the 9 o'clock position of the dial on through 12
around through 6 o'clock, and with a little extra
brightness between 6 and 9. And I can't seem to
get rid of that. So I've made some new coordinates
and logged them and, perhaps, you'll want to do
some changing. You copy?
CC Okay, we did. And we'll be going over the hill,

here. That's probably Hurricane Helen that you're
seeing down there.
265 13 13 O1 SPT-EVA She looks pretty. She's got a lot of clouds -
265 13 16 50 PLT This is incredible.
265 13 17 05 CC We're back with you through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CC And, Jack, if you are not too busy some time, you
can turn to page 5-10 in the ATM Experiment
Checklist.
PLT Be with you in a minute, Story.
CC. No hurry.
265 13 17 55 PLT Yes.

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265 13 18 19 PLT Okay, Story, I'm looking at page 5-10.
CC Okay, there where it says, consult STDN, put in

canister, roll, minus 1800.
PLT Okay, I've got minus 1800 on page 5-10. Thank you,
Story.
CC And you can secure the TV, too.
PLT Okay, I've powered down the S052 and turned every-
thing off and closed the doors. And we're ready
to proceed with the EVA.
CC Okay.
CDR-EVA Okay, Jack, I'll start moving around again.
SPT-EVA Okay, 370 and no lights.
CDR-EVA 365 and no lights.
CDR-EVA Say again. Yes, I am. And the transfer work

station's standing by to pass 82A and B back.
CDR-EVA Careful we don't bump this brush too much, 0.

This is sticky.
SPT-EVA Yes, I was going to ask if it's still back on the

top of the canisters?
CDR-EVA Yes.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Hey, I got them unstowed.
SPT-EVA Let's extend it then.
CDR-EVA Okay.
265 13 20 24 CDR-EVA Shoe towards lock.
CDR-EVA Shoe towards lock. All right. If that's the

way you want it, we'll do it that way.
265 13 20 52 SPT-EVA Yes, that's probably enough.

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CDR-EVA St op.
SPT-EVA Okay, now the shoe is, unfortunately, away from

the airlock.
CDR-EVA The airlock is where you are. It's facing you.

There's the shoe. Why don't you pull it back and
see how it does?
SPT-EVA Well, - -
CDR-EVA Along - -
SPT-EVA - - it's just opposite from the way I sent it out

is the reason I'm pretty sure that's the reversed.
CDR-EVA Why don't you give it a try?
265 13 21 3(I SPT-EVA Okay, but it will hit up here on this corner.
That's how we decided to do it this way.
_ CDR-EVA Don't - Don't - Don't let it hit.
265 13 21 34 SPT-EVA Well, that's the only way to do it is to turn it

around.
SPT-EVA I can't tell when it's going to hit, A1. You

have to tell from out there.
CDR-EVA I'll watch.
265 13 21 55 CC Skylab, we're at 2 minutes from LOS. And we'll

have a long LOS here of 30 minutes. Pick you up
over Carnarvon at 13:54. And Owen and Al, could
you give us a description on the air cooling?
How does it feel?
SPT-EVA I find mine satisfactory. It's not quite as cool

as the LCG, but it's not too bad.
SPT-EVA A1, it's hitting the light. Would you like to

have it back out?
CDR-EVA No, just reach up there and pull it an inch and

pull it in.
r SPT-EVA All right, I'll just pull it around.
CC Understand you' re comfortable, Owen.

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SPT-EVA I'm a little warm, but it certainly is satisfactory.
CDR-EVA And the only part I notice warm about me is my

hands. And they've been warm since the start.
And everything okay, otherwise. I think the work-
load isn't that hard out here.
SPT-EVA Now incidently, this is a much lower workload than

the other two EVAs though, Story. I think it
would have been too hot if I'd have had to put
those poles together, for example. A1, when I hand
it out - -
CDR-EVA Just pull out and I'll turn it around, if you can't
do it.
SPT-EVA That's right.
CDR-EVA Okay °
CC Okay, thanks.
265 13 23 05 SPT-EVA You have to pull the pole in a direction parallel

to this long axis and it doesn't bend that way.
CDR-EVA Okay. It didn't look like it was bending.
265 13 23 20 CDR-EVA Look at those islands; it's probably Elba down there.
265 13 23 32 CDR-EVA Okay, stop.
265 13 24 06 CDR-EVA Okay, give it a go that way, O.
SPT-EVA I don't believe it's latched.
CDR-EVA I hope it is. Is it?
SPT-EVA The lock on it; I didn't see it. Yes, it's locked.
CDR-EVA Very good.
SPT-EVA It tripped, okay.
SPT-EVA Everything 's okay.
CDR-EVA Keep checking, though.

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265 13 24 47 CDR-EVA _here's Athens down there.
265 13 53 35 CDR-EVA Okay, O.
SPT-EVA Okay. Kick out of my shoes, here, and I'ii bring

it in closer to you.
CDR-EVA l've got it.
SPT-EVA Okay, you have it.
265 13 53 h6 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for a

minute.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Hey, Story, We've got everything but the VS and

VC tree, and we're putting them in. Okay, what's
next, Jack?
CC I understand you're completed and you're putting

things back into the airlock?
CDR-EVA Yes.
CDR-EVA Hang on tight, 0.
SPT-EVA You bet you.
CDR-EVA Yes, don't hold - don't hold there.
SPT-EVA Going to turn it around to yaw for handles.
CDR-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA I've got it.
SPT-EVA You have it. Okay.
CDR-EVA What's that one -
CDR-EVA Okay, there's a good place for this one. I see

a good place to put this.
CC And we're at 20 seconds from LOS. See you over

Honeysuckle in 7 minutes.
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SPT-EVA Okay, Story.
CDR-EVA Get a couple of things out of the way. How many?
SPT-EVA Ten. Think you - Could go the other way around.
CDR-EVA I got a few things in there I want to get out of

the way. Make sure that it's locked.
SPT-EVA I don't - I thought it went in the other way -

other direction, but maybe not.
CDR-EVA That baby is in there tight.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA And it isn't going anywhere.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA One more.
265 13 55 37 SPT-EVA Ready for it, huh?
CDR-EVA If you can stand it, I can.
SPT-EVA Here we go.
CDR-EVA Don't lose them.
265 13 55 h8 SPT-EVA Wouldn't even lose a whisker on that brush.
CDR-EVA Why don't you hand it in; I'll hold those handles.
SPT-EVA I've got a handle on the back.
CDR-EVA All right. You got it?
CDR-EVA I got it.
SPT-EVA You have it.
SPT-EVA Okay, I'm looking around the area out here, Jack.
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SPT-EVA Looks to me like we do; everything's all up in

stowed. Everything's cleared out.
CDR-EVA Just a second, let me check one thing.
SPT-EVA Visor's down.
265 13 56 45 CDR-EVA Thank you. You can float out there a little bit,
and let me stand there where you are for a second.
SPT-EVA Okay.
CDR-EVA Get these umbilicals untangled here.
SPT-EVA We don't need - Well -
CDR-EVA I'll just go under this one here. That way when
we come in, we'll be like it was when we went out.
SPT-EVA Okay, we're picking up that aurora again.
CDR-EVA0kay.
265 13 57 13 CDR-EVA Okay, now the umbilicals are straight.
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SYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
265 14 03 41 CC Skylab, back with you for 1 minute through

Honeysuckle.
PLT Not quite together, yet, I don't think, A1.
CDR No.
265 lh 04 24 CC Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS. See you over

stateside in 28 minutes at 14:32. And when did
you start the repress, Jack?
PLT We probably ought to go IVA, FLOW, though.
SPT Ought to what?
PLT Go IVA, FLOW.
SPT Whatever you say.
PLT Doesn't make any difference; just cuts down the

flow.
265 14 05 02 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you at state-

side at 14:32.
PLT There she is.
265 14 32 19 CC Skylab, A0S stateside, 16 minutes.
SPT Say, Story, some time when it is convenient,

not right now, but a little later, perhaps, I
wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea if I went
up to the panel and opened up the S052 door
and took another look at the corona, and also,
put a little bit of it on the VTR for down-link.
Over.
CC Okay, that will be fine, Owen. Go ahead and

take a look at it. And we can get a down-link
over Bermuda at 14:42.
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SPT I'd Just as soon delay for a bit if it is all

right with you folks. We're still getting
cleaned up from the EVA, and I'd like to wait,
lmless it's more convenient for you to do it now.
CC Okay, that 's fine.
265 14 33 37 CC And no need to acknowlege, but the weather is

not satisfactory at Goddard for your T053,
so cancel that this pass.
CDR Okay, thanks for the info. I Just got out the
camera and was standing around. I'll go turn
my timer off. Thanks.
CC And while I've got you, A1, I've got a couple

of questions. Did you notice any contamination
or discoloration of the D02_ tray?
CDR Here is what it looked like. The strips them-

selves that were exposed to the Sun, if you look
at the metal around them, it was - they had
turned a slight Pinkish brown color, but not very,
Just the mildest amount. When you open the con-
tainer and looked inside, it was nice clean metal.
So it was - didn't appear to be affected at all
inside the can.
265 14 3_ _7 CC Okay. And did you wear the visor? The - your
own visor?
CDR Oh, good question; no. Owen wore the backup

visor. Now, I don't know - I think the one we
did not use is acceptable, but it does - it is
not an even coating any more inside that top
visor. I tried to smooth out the marks that
were in there, and you - you can't smooth things
out, as you know and that - And I would have
found it acceptable during EVA, but we went
ahead and used the backup one because we thought
it would also be good - better.
CC Okay, thanks. And we need the DAS for dump enable.
CDR You've got it. What I'm trying to say is I

wouldu't worry about Jerry trying to bring up
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another one. I think he can use what we've

got here, but I guess he could, if he wanted.
SPT Are we through Bermuda right now, Story: And

if so, for how long?
265 l_ 35 _2 CC We're Goldstone now, and we'll be coming up over

Bermuda in - at 42, that's about 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, I'll be up at the panel then and get the

S050 [sic]. In fact, I'll go up and put it in
EXPERIMENT POINTING right now. And then have
down-link ready for you atBermuda.
CDR We didn't have any trouble. We didn't have to

use the scissors to get the sample panel off
the - the board. We Just pulled it off and re-
moved the tape with our fingers and brought it
in.
CC Okay.
CDR Another thing when we did - when we were out

there, we took a close look at that one grommet
on the twin poles, now that I mention - it moved
back and allowed the nut to unscrew. We took
a close look at that and determined that the
grommet had not rolled back on its own, it had
actually broken. And the grommet then was now
a C-shaped affair. I guess that's what made it
come back. So I took the grommet and tossed it
and screwed the nut down tight and got a piece
of the tape off the sample panel and put it
around the nut, so the nuts lock - locked again;
also inspected all that I could see from both
the center work station and the Sun end. And
that was the only one whose grommet had broken
that I could view.
CC Okay, A1.
265 lh 37 30 PLT Say, Story, I've got a little message but it's
not about the EVA.
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CC Okay, let me get to (>wen first. 0wen, there

is absolutely no rush on that - that S052.
SPT That's okay. I'm up here right now and we'll

have it in Just a moment.
CC Okay. Go, Jack.
265 l_ 37 55 PLT Yes, one of my favorite little girls is 5 years

old today. And she's my little girl and I Just
wanted to wish her a happy birthday. And I think
she's probably listening to the squawk box. Her
name is Mary; I call here Punkin. So, Mary
Punkin, happy birthday, and you have a good
party and when Dad gets home, we'll celebrate
your birthday all over again. Happy birthday,
Mary Punkin.
CC Okay, Jack. I'm sure she's listening, but we'll

pass it on.
PLT Okay, thanks. Maybe you can set up a phone call,

maybe then I might could talk to her, if you would,
please.
CC Will do.
PLT Thank you.
265 14 39 23 PLT Say, Story, we're hearing a peculiar noise when

you turn the intercomm way up. It sounds kind
of llke a - a _mping sound. It sounds like an
old water pump pumping about _ cycles a second.
And I've tried to reconfigure the cow, and
haven't figured out what it is yet.
CC Okay, copy, Jack. And while we have you, could

you comment on your cooling during the EVA?
PLT Yes, it was adequate for standing around, but

you wouldn't want to have do much activity in
it. But it was adequate for the Job we had to do.
CC Okay.
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265 14 43 56 CC AI, Houston.
SPT He can hear you.
CC Okay, l've got a bunch of questions here per-

taining to the EVA that we'd like to get up to
you while it's still fresh in your mind.
CDR Okay, glad to answer them. Take off.
CC Okay, could you elaborate a little bit further

on the gas cooling? Could you have gone another
hour or 2 satisfactorily?
CDR Could've gone 8 hours; no sweat. That's not a

pun either. But the whole point is, as long as
you work at a moderate rate, you do not seem to
get warm. The only place I've noticed that it was -
had noticed the heat at all was in my hand. And
I noticed that from the very first minute I got out.
The cooling, apparently, is not too good down at
the hands. I didn't have comfortgloves on. The -
My feeling would be that you could run as long
a EVA as you wanted, you'd just have to be care-
1"uA you didn't get too hot. And, of course, that's
sort of self-regulating. The minute you start
getting hot, you - you stop. I did not notice
any difference, particularly, in heat from being
down at the center work station and being up
at the Sun end when my back was actually facing
the Sun. I was not able to feel any heat from
the Sun through my suit. If I put my hands in
the Sun, I coul_ feel it on the back of my hand.
So my feeling, generally, was that we could stay
out a lot longer than we did, None of us feel
dehy - neither of us feel dehydrated. We each drank
a little bit of water out of our drinking thing,
but that was mostly just to do it and, you know,
just kind of preventive. I think it's a good
thing to have, but I think you can even do with-
out the water for much longer than we did. It
wasn't - it didn't appear to be a cooling problem
is what I'm saying.
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265 14 45 46 CC Okay, did you have any trouble opening one of

the82doors? I
CDR Sure did. 82B doesn't want to open, and it didn't

for Jack or Owen. Apparently, the seal in there
is - swells up or something. I - I pulled and
p,_]]ed and couldn't do it so I sort of got out
of the foot restraint and got both hands on it
and my knees on the front of the ATM canister
there, not on any doors or anything, and gave it
one good hard tug and it came open.
CC Okay, and did you bring that grommet in you

were telling us about earlier?
265 14 46 22 CDR No. The grom - when I tried to remove it, it -

it slipped out and flew off. I attempted to do
it, but muffed it.
CC Okay, you can take a note when you get to it.

We'd like the serial number of the S056 camera
you brought in. That's the one that's been
hanging up on us this trip.
265 14 46 43 CDR Okay, why don't you hold up; I'll get that for you
right now.
SPT While he's checking that, Story, I don't get any

displays on our monitor. Now I've got the - both
H-alpha doors open. I've got the S053 door open
and the WLC on, and I have both the H-alpha vidicons
powered and the monitor powered. I wonder if you
can give me a clue as to what switch, if any, I've
overlooked.
CC Okay.
CDR Serial number 3.
CC Okay, A1.
265 14 47 18 CDR The EVA went, not that you gen - generally very
smooth. It Just ground along and didn't have any
problems either tethering or cooling or handling
the equipment. I think you've got to be careful,
though, with the small ones to keep your tethers
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on them when you're handling them; but other

than that, no straight [sic]. Slh9 worked well.
We had no trouble getting off the material
sample. I started to bring in the old ones
that SL 2 put out and decided that you didn't
want me to. I really didn't plan to do it,
but I wondered if you wanted me to. I was going
to ask about it and then I decided no, you prob-
ably would have said to do it. It's east to
get to though. Had no trouble getting the
24 samples; didn't touch them with our fingers.
The pin pulled easily. I don't think you really
want to pull the pin before you put the samples
in the box or it's liable to float off; I don't
know. Think of some other questions.
265 lh 48 14 CC No, that's all I've got for you, A1, except we
will need a teleprinter paper changeout in the
next couple of hours. And, Owen, we're not showing
any power to the ATM monitors.
265 14 48 30 SPT Well, I have the M0N i POWER switch ON. Is there
another circuit breaker switch preceding that?
CDR We were kind of wondering maybe the sync generator

power went off in some way.
265 14 48 56 CC We don't have anything more on that right now.

We're 20 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over
Madrid in 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story, I can light monitor 2 off. MON 1

does not want to power up right now, so you
might think about that.
CC Okay; copy, 0wen.
265 14 54 121 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid

for 9 minutes.
CDR Teleprinter paper is changed, Story.
CC Thanks, AI.
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265 14 56 17 SPT Well, Story, there's several things I don't

understand up there right now. We can't
power MONITOR 2 up. MON 1 does not want to
power up. I did have a display on the WLC,
as well as H-alpha 2 and H-alpha 1. And then
just as we were going over the hill, we got
an automatic door closing On the S052 and I lost
the H-alpha display. I did notice on the ACQ
Sun sensor that something seemed to have thrown
the attitude of the spacecraft off by a couple
of tenths of a degree. At least the ACQ Sun
sensor, about one axis that indicated - some-
where, oh, maybe up to 1/2 a degree off of the
solar inertial attitude. It then came back
to solar inertial and I still have an H-alpha 1
display, and I no longer have a H-alpha 2 nor
a WLC display.
265 14 57 07 CC Owen, you probably had an attitude problem with

the cluster. Our CMG number 1 was on the stops
at that time, and we were anticipating a possible
CMG reset, which at present we're not.
SPT Okay. That, I guess, would explain the reason

for going out of attitude momentarily. I'm
not sure what to say about my displays at this
point.
CC Owen_ we haven't got all of the answers yet.

We're showing down here that there is no power
to the H-alpha 2 camera, and also the S052 is
in the CAMERA position as opposed to the TV
position.
SPT Okay, it must have flipped back to CAMERA then,

when - when the door shut or something like that.
I'll power it up and go to TV. Thank you.
265 14 59 51 CC Owen, we don't have an answer for you on why

you're not picking up something on MONITOR I.
And what did you see on looking at S052.
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SPT Okay, I'm looking at it again right now. That

was all that was required - was appar - apparently
it's just Jumped back to CAMERA when the power -
when the door closed. But it looks real good.
Two o'clock position is perfectly clean, and I
was Just now off-centering the - Just a few min-
utes ago, I was off-centering the pointing to make
the bright ring s_r.,,etrical around the whole
disk, to Just verify that it all looked smooth
all the way round. My initial check was that
it looked very good, and I'll take about BO sec-
onds right now and reverify that.
CC Okay, good.
265 15 01 02 SPT In order to make the brightness equal all the way
around, I have DOWN 12 and RIGHT 70 arc seconds.
Now the a - oh, LEFT, excuse me; minus 12 and
minus 70. SI it's DOWN 12 and LEFT 70, in order
to make the defraction rings s_mmetrical - the
brightness of the rings. And in order to center
the pointing error sensor, we used to be at about
3 and - B and B4 arc seconds or something like
that. We are - B4 UP was it? - Yes, minus B4 and
minus 3 were our old numbers, and those have
changed a little bit now, and I'll give you those
numbers in order to center the crosshairs.
CC Okay.
265 15 02 l0 SPT A minus lO and minus 2 arc seconds, respectively

now center the crosshairs of the pointing error
sensor.
CC Okay, and during the nightside pass, during the

dump, you may get a CMG reset. We don't think you
will, but if you do, Just let the system take
care of itself.
SPT Okay. And when is the next time that it's

convenient to get some down-link TV? I presume
you'd like to get a look at this corona. So
if you would, I'll send it down to you whenever
you want it.
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CC Thanks, we'll let you know about that in the

future. And also, we're getting together a
procedure for tracking down ATM, MON 1. But
at present, Just hold on that.
SPT Okay, fine, Story. Thank you.
265 15 02 57 CC And we're 20 seconds until LOS here. See you

over Honeysuckle about 37 minutes at 15:39.
And at that time, we'd like to get from Jack,
the total elapsed time of the EVA.
PLT I put it on the tape, Story. But I think as

I remember it, it was 02:41:30.
CC Thanks.
PLT You might ought to check the down-link or the

recording on channel A on that though.
CC We'll do it.
CDR And, Story, could you check and see what we do

with these CWGs? I don't think these are the
ones we wear entry day, so we probably throw
them away.
265 15 03 53 CC We'll get it. Hang on - hang on to them, dry

them; we are going to re-ent@r with them.
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265 15 39 57 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, 6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And we're seeing you've got a CMG reset up there.
PLT Say again, please.
CC We see that you did get a CMG reset up there.
PLT We sure had a lot of TACS firing about lO minutes

ago. There must have been about 15 or 16 of them.
CC And for A1, we need to hang on to those CWGs. Dry

them at the - the suit donning station. And after
they're dry, we'll be bringing them down to the
sleep compartments. You'll be wearing them home.
SPT Just a minute, please, Story.
CDR Excuse me, Story. i couldn't hear you; go ahead.
265 15 41 18 CC A1, those CWGs; hang them up near the suit donning
station to dry. After they're dry, we'll be bring-
ing them down to the sleep compartment. You're
going to be wearing those home.
CDR Okay. I wonder what we do with those three in the

command module. I guess we just leave them up
here, huh?
CC We'll get with you.
CDR All right, l've got S149 stowed in the command

module now in its little box, in A-9. $230, I
don't know whether to put it in with the $230s
we already have, or put it in this new white
pouch.
CC A1, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
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265 15 43 36 CC On the $230, put all three collectors in one

pouch. Restow the other pouch for use on SL-4.
CDR Okay, I'll have it done in 2 minutes.
CC Down here, we're unaware that you had any CWGs

in the command module. Were those the ones you
launched in?
CDR No, we launched in some, and then when I was going

through A-9 the other day, I found three - three
of them in there. And I assumed that those three
were the ones we were wearing home because we had
never discussed moving them on all the stowage
changes. So that's what I sort of thought we
were going to wear back.
CC A1, we think those are LCGs in the command module.
265 15 44 36 CDR My eyes must be going bad on me. I'll give them
another check. I'll feel them and see if they're
wet.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, we've got all $230s in the same bag, and
it's back in the freezer for them.
CC Okay, and on those CWGs, for safety purposes we'd

like to dry just one at a time. And - and stow
the other two in D424. That's on the bottom of
page 3.1-10; that's 422.
CDR Okay, Story.
265 15 45 48 CC And we're about lO seconds from LOS; see you over
Hawaii in 15 minutes.
265 16 02 33 CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii, 5 minutes.
CC And, A1, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We think we heard you say you put S149 in A-9.'

We think both of them go in A-6.
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CDR Yes, I was just talking with Jack about that. I

was looking at the change. Okay.
CC And one other thing: were those three LCGs in

A-9?
CDR No, they were CWGs.
CC Okay.
SPT Say, Story, I Just noticed - I just noticed that

we had a CMG MALF light on the _L_RT panel up here.
And as I started to check into it, it disappeared;
it went away.
265 16 03 44 CC Okay, we were resetting it while you were looking

at it, Owen. And on panel 207, could you reenable
the - under ACS MALF, that CMG SAT?
SPT Roger.
CC And, Owen, coming up over Goldstone at about 16:08,

we've got a little TV monitor checkout procedure.
We will be receiving TV at Goldstone at that time.
SPT Okay, I'd better go to EXPERIMENT POINTING and

get S052 lit off right now, then.
CC That' s affirm.
265 16 04 34 CDR Yes, I notice that it says here, "Change COmmAnd

module location of S149 cassette return container
n11mher 3 and S149 detector cassette n1_mber 4,
from A-9 to A-6." I thought we just brought in
number I.
CC Could you say that again for us, AI?
CDR The ones I just took off and put in a box had
like l-A, l-B, l-C, and l-D; so I assumed that
was n_imher i. And then we got one other set that
we brought in initially. So I guess that's two
sets. But they're talking about sets nlTmher 3
and 4. Something's funny.

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CDR Okay. And I've got that material sample that we

brought in EVA, and I'm - somewhere it told me
to put it in A-9, I think, and I'm looking on
this change sheet again.
CC We'll get that, too.
CDR Yes, I stuck it in a fecal bag, backup fecal bag,

and closed it. That way it would be as clean
as it possibly could be.
265 16 06 49 SPT And, Story, after our last conversation, I turned

H-ALPHA 1 and 2 both OFF. This time, when I
turned H-ALPHA 2 POWER back ON, why it lights off
normally. So it looks like there might have been
an intermittence or something in the - either
switch or pulsar which - if there is one behind
the switch - on H-ALPHA 2.
CC Okay, Owen. And there is a pulsar behind the

switch.
SPT Okay.
265 16 07 26 CC And we're 15 seconds from LOS. And about 2 minutes

from Goldstone.
CDR You still there, Story?
CC We're losing you now.
265 16 08 ll CDR Because ...
265 16 09 39 PLT We got our diffusion experiment going again,

Story. I'll just take pictures of her every once
in a while.
CC Okay, thanks, Jack. And Friendswood has won the

last three.
PLT Say again.
CC Friendswood has won the last three games.
PLT Good. I'm mighty pleased to hear that. I'm

looking forward to getting back and seeing some
games myself.
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CC And your family corm is on over Texas at 22:45.

That's the ANTENNA, RIGHT; and we'll remind you
when that comes up.
PLT 22:45. And my respects to the councilmen and the

city council of Friendswood.
265 16 l0 313 CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, you ready for the TV checkout procedure?
SPT Setting it up. I'm sending it down to you right

now, and I'm ready for the procedure.
CC Okay. MONITOR 1 CIRCUIT BREAKER, verify closed.

That's under the POWER DISTRIBUTION panel.
SPT Verified.
- CC H-alpha 1 POWER switch ON. MONITOR 1 switch ON.
SPT They've both been ON.
CC MONITOR 2 switch ON.
265 16 ll ll SPT It's ON.
CC MONITOR 1 select switch, H-ALPHA 1.
SPT Okay.
CC MONITOR 2 select switch, H-ALPHA 1.
SPT Okay.
CC Video switch; TV to ATM MON 2.
SPT It is.
CC And stand by; we're going to check with Goldstone

to see if we're getting the TV picture.
CDR And did you get my call, Story, that the two
exposed ones are cassette 1 and cassette 3?
- Cassettei being just broughtin.
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265 16 ii 55 CC Okay, AI. Okay, we're getting the picture down

at Goldstone, Owen. What are you seeing on your
monitors ?
SPT On MONITOR 1 is blank; and on MONITOR 2 is a good

H-alpha 1 image.
CC Okay, now put the video switch, TV, to ATM MON 1.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, 0wen, that's the end of that procedure. We

are getting good TV on the ground, so it looks
like you've got a power supply problem in that
monitor.
265 16 13 17 SPT That's very strange, because monitor 1 was used

by Jack, during the middle of the EVA, to see how
the white light coronagraph was looking. And yet
as soon as we got inside, and powered it up, and
nary a gl_mmer. It's unfortunate, it went out
right then. Story, let me give you a little WLC
on the down-link, too, because I think you'd like
to see how that looks, if you can get it back from
Goldstone fairly soon.
CC That 'll be fine, Owen.
SPT I'm unable to see any sweep - any rastering, no -

no electronic cross-hairs, or anything like that
on MON 1 at all.
CC And we assume you have played with CONTRAST and

BRIGHTNESS, Owen.
SPT All the way up. Now, I've not recycled that cir-
cuit breaker, but it was never opened. So it
would be sort of unlikely that - that it would
have ever gone out. I could recycle it.
265 16 14 47 CC Yes, both - both monitors come off that same cir-
cuit breaker, so it's probably not that, Owen.
SPT Well, there's a MON 1 and a separate MON 2 circuit

breaker. So I suppose they each come off of sep -
separate circuit breaker.
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CC Those only change what bus we're coming off of,

Owen.
SPT Okay.
CC And, if you've got a minute, I've got a reg bus

adjust for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC That's REG ADJUST BUS 2, lO degrees counterclock-

wise.
SPT Okay, 2, l0 degrees counterclockwise.
CC Affirm.
CC A1, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
265 16 15 49 CC A1, on the S149, the cassette return container

number 3, and the detector cassettes, four in
total, all ought to be in A-6.
CDR Okay, wait a minute, now. There's four boxes up

here. Each of them has four - four little cassettes
in them, and the boxes nl_bered i, 2, B, and 4.
The ones that we've exposed are box nnmber l, box
m_ber 3.
CC Bring them both home, AI.
265 16 16 47 CDR I got you; l'm - l'm not too smart. I see what
you're saying. Cassette return container number B,
and detector cassettes, four in there. I got you
now. Okay, now you want that box in A-6, per your
change. Now the one we just brought - we just
got; do you want it in A-9 or A-6? There's a
spot for it in A-9, a tiedown point.
CC Like it in A-6, AI.
CDR All right, then we're going to end up with both

boxes, with a total of eight cassettes in A-6,"
and I - One of the ones in A-6 will have a mount-
ing; the other will not. And then the mounting
that's now in A-9, 4149, I'll take out. Is that
correct?
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CC That's fine, AI.
265 16 17 41 CDR Okay, I've stopped doing what I was doing. I'm
starting putting the change in this stowage book
so we'll - I won't have to ask you questions that
you've already answered right here.
CC Okay, and on the CWGs that you found in A-9, if

they're new and clean ones, go ahead and wear those
home. And - and trash airlock the ones you wore
today.
CDR Will do.
CC And we're l0 seconds from LOS here. See you over

Bermuda in about h minutes.
265 16 18 13 CDR Okay.
265 16 22 07 CC We're back with you through Bermuda for 6 minutes.
265 16 29 00 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you over

Canaries in 4 minutes.
265 16 31 59 CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries for

9 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, who's ever nearest the ATM panel,

we'd like to get the POWER, OFF of ATM MONITOR 1.
SPT I'm at the panel, and I've already turned it OFF,

Story.
CC Thanks, Owen.
CC And we sent a test message up to you on the tele-

printer after you changed out the paper. We'd
like to know that we got a good message there.
SPT Stand by.
SPT It all looks real good.
CC Okay.
265 13 37 45 CDR Puzzling over one thing here, Story, looking at

this day-55 transfers. Is day-55 transfers about
five pages long, here?
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CC Was that a question, A1, is it five pages?
CDR Eight, is it eight pages long, day 50, or does

it change to some other day in there somewhere?
CC We'll find out for you.
CDR It looks like we move everything over there in

day-55 transfers, then.
265 16 B9 51 CC A1, we're working on an answer to your question,

here. We're a minute from LOS. We'll see you
over Honeysuckle in B5 minutes at 17:15. We'll
be dumping the tape recorders there. And for the
Maroon team here, this is our last pass with you.
We'll be handing over. The next time we see you
will be at Ellington. We've enjoyed very much
working with you. We appreciate all you've done,
and have a good trip home.
CDR Okay. Well, we've enjoyed working with y'all as

a team. And I think we accomplished - at least,
we think we do up here - accomplished the goals
that the team had _n mind for a 60-day mission.
We really appreciate it; enjoyed working with you.
CC Yes, sir. Thank you.
265 16 40 B2 SPT I Just want to say another - Just a - an addition

to that, too, Story, because it really has been
fine working with all you fellow - fellow profes-
sionals down there. And really have had a pleasant
60 days. We'll be looking forward to shaking your
hands and exchanging greetings back home in Just
a few more days.
CC Okay, Owen. And it's probably another space

"first." It'll be the first time in the history
of space flight that the crew will come back in
better shape than the controllers.
SPT (Laughter) Well, you fellows have had longer

hours than we have; that's the main thing.
265 16 41 i_ CC The day-55 transfers are between pages 2-36

and 2-43.
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265 17 19 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, a reminder; we're dumping the data

recorder here at Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay, thank you. We're not using it. I'm Just
now down to a spot in the ATM panel reconfiguration
for storage where I'm about to turn the TV BUS 1
OFF. I presume that you've completed all the
ground checks that are desired on MONITOR l, and
that you're ready to turn TV BUS 1 OFF with the
DAS code.
CC Okay, standby Just a second, please.
265 17 20 21 CC SPT, Houston. We've still got a good bit of

phone calling between here and the HOSC over at
Marshall concerning this problem. And so we think
we - Even though we don't know any specific trouble-
shooting we're going to be doing the rest of the
afternoon, we'd Just as soon leave TB - TV BUS 1
ON now. Do everything else on the checklist, and
then when we - when we get to the point where we
figure it's wise to go ahead and turn it off, well,
we'll get you to do that for us.
SPT Okay, and there will be several other things that

need to be turned back on, like the monitors,
and vidicons, and so on. So we'll go through with
everything else but leave the TV BUS 1 ON.
CC Roger, understand. Understand we do not have

any further troubleshooting that we know about
right now, but we might as well let these phone
calls run their course.
SPT Understand.

LOS. Hawaii at 17:36.
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265 17 24 59 SPT Okay, Dick. I've gone through that powerdown

for stowage now, and there are several things
that differ from the checklist. I'll Just wait,
I guess, about l0 minutes and point those out
to you over on about pages 5-8 and 5-9 of the
Experiment Checklist and Data Book. I'll read
them up with you at the next station.
CC Okay, real fine, Owen. Thank you.
SPT None of them are of any significance, but they're

Just different from the checklist.
265 17 25 25 CC Understand.
265 17 36 29 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Hawaii for 9 nLinutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. Just a couple of items here.

Are you with me?
CC Yes, sir. I'm looking at the pages, and we've

done a little talking about it ourselves. So
go ahead.
SPT Okay, over on page 5-8, there's a step that says,

"EPC RATE GYRO UP/DOWN switch to PRIMARY." Thought,
perhaps, you'd prefer me to leave that in SECONDARY.
SPT Down a little ways, it has, STAR TRACKER POWER

switch ON, and then AUTO, STAR and close - and
close the door. Correction, that's not close
the door yet; that's the FINE SUN SENSOR. But
those three steps on star tracker, I did not
do those; I didn't know whether you're ready
for the Nu Z update or not.
CC 0wen, we'd like to leave the star tracker just like

it is. We don't want to mess with it.
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SPT Okay, that's been omitted. And down on

the RATE GYR0 MONITORs, those are now in
2/3, of course, instead of 1/2.
CC That's affirmative; we agree with that one

also, 0wen. Did you have any others?
SPT Yes, over page 5-10. Under TV, there is a

XUV M0N DOORS talkback, white. It really
shows barberpole, and that's because, I
expect that the 82B SLIT MAIN PO_U_R is ON.
CC Roger, Owen. We concur with that.
625 17 38 01 SPT And, of course, I have delayed keying in 1013h

ENTER. And I did roll to EXPERIMENT roll of
minus 1800, which I presume is the roll position
that you currently want.
CC Roger, Owen. We want CANISTER roll of - instead

of EXPERIMENT roll.
SPT Okay. For some reason , I thought that said

EXPERIMENT.
CC Roger, Owen. We've re-affirmed that what we

do want is CANISTER roll minus 1800. And - -
265 17 38 54 SPT Okay, fine. I read that two or three times I

said, gee I think they want CANISTER, but it
says EXPERIMENT. So I'll go change that roll
to CANISTER minus 1800. And I believe those
are the only changes that I noticed from the
checklist.
CC Okay, Owen. Sorry about that. I guess we'll

have to give you a "gotcha" on that one. We
just - I guess we Just failed to look ahead to
those particular pages and verify those. Because
when you were LOS, we did look at the pages and
I had - I had the same list that you Just read
down. We should have gotten to you ahead of
that.
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SPT Don't worry about it. No problem.
CC Roger.
265 17 42 41 CC Skylab, Houston; for your information, all

tomorrow's Flight Plans are in the teleprinter
now.
PLT Say, Dick. We still got a pulsating going on

our intercom. I have to turn it real high in
order to t_Ik. It oscillates about 4 cycles
per second. And checked over the configuration
after EVA, and everything seems to be set up
all right. We're kind of wondering what the
problem is.
CC Jack, the squeal was in that conversation, and

I Just couldn't hardly understand what yo u said.
Something about 4 cycles per second, but I didn't
get much else of that. Say again, please.
PLT Okay. We seem to have a - a pulsating sound

on our communications system, and we have to
turn up the volume quite a bit more in order
to hear anything. And the pulsating is about
4 cycles per second. You can't hear it unless
you turn the volume way up, but still and all,
it's there. And I've checked the comm reconfig-
uration per the post-EVA checklist. It seems
all set Ul_ okay. And we can't figure out what
the problem is. But something's different. And
wonder if you could have somebody look it over,
please.
265 17 44 58 CC We certainly will do that. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS. And Goldstone is coming up in Just
about 3 minutes. Is this true for both intercom
and air-to-ground conversations, Jack?
PLT Well, you can kind of hear it superimposed on

every conversation if you - whether it's intercom
or air-to-ground. If you Just turn up the volume
loud enough, and you can hear when there is no
conversation at all. Just turn the volume up'
and there it is.
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CC Okay, we'll certainly think about it.
PLT Okay, another point is that we have to turn up

our volume a lot louder than we did yesterday.
265 17 45 31 CC Understand.
265 17 48 2_2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.

And, Jack, one the co,,, question, the only
additional question we have at the moment is this:
also, is this true on both channels Alfa and Bravo?
PLT That's a negative, Dick; it's only on Bravo.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And, SPT, Houston.

ATM officer asked me to get you to check a
couple of switches on the ATM for him, please.
SPT What would ATOM like? What would ATOM like, Dick?
CC Oh, okay. On XUV, on page 5-7 - if you still have

the checklist; if not, I'll Just read them to
you. On page 5-7, on - under SUC SPECT and SLIT,
we see MAIN power switches both ON, and they
should be OFF. If it's - And to get them off,
if you've already done the steps at the bottom
of 5-10, which is the XUV SPECT switch and SLIT
switch to both OFF, you'll have to bring them ON
before you can get the MAIN POWERS OFF, and then g
get them all four back off again.
265 17 50 00 SPT Okay, now, in this Experiment Checklist and data

book, we've entered in changes 1 through 7.
And this is one of those changes. It was a
pen and ink write-in; it's my writing on 5-7 -
oh, I see. It's change number 6. We'll - At
the bottom of both of those two, should be
inserted MAIN POWER, ON.
CC Okay. Yes, that's correct, Owen. But if you

look down under that same sequence, still printed
under there, the next to the last line, is the -
is the MAIN POWER, OFF step. And it's - and
that's the stepT °that we think was missed.
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SPT Well, just a minute. There's a bunch of steps.

One of them - Let's see. It's about step i,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 says MAIN POWER, OFF; talk-
back goes white. Then MAIN POWER switch back
ON again, and that's the procedure that I followed.
CC Okay. I think the difference is, at least in -

in my book, 0wen; when I entered the pen and ink,
I entered the MAIN POWER switch to ON as the
first step in that whole series of things. And
we'd have to go back and check the message, and -
and we will do that.
265 17 51 ll SPT Okay. I suspect that it was my mistake. And

so, is there anything wrong with just turning
the MAIN POWER switches OFF at this time?
CC Okay, we - we would like to get them 0FF now,

0wen. But on - on the CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION
switches, we will need to get the SPECT and SLIT
switches ON. Then the MAIN POWER switches OFF,
and then SPECT and SLIT switches OFF, after that.
SPT That's been done.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And I have one more

item that we can't see on telemetry and we wanted
to verify. Under - on page 5-9, the next to the
bottom line, FILTER select switch under X-RAY
SPECT, FILTER select switch to STORAGE. We'd
just like to verify that's the switch position
there.
265 17 52 00 SPT That's affirm. It was put into FILTER 1 and after
it went gray, then placed into STORAGE.
CC Okay.
CDR And, Dick, is this the place for the stowage review?
CC That's affirm, A1. We'll certainly entertain

questions on that - on that any time here.
CDR Well, on - -
CC We still have - -
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CDR I thought you all were going to review me, but

go ahead.
CC Okay. Let me get right back with you, A1. We got

about a minute and a half until LOS, and we want
to clean up this ATM switch thing, if we could.
We will have a MLA pass coming up here in Just
about 5 minutes, and we'll get to the stowage.
CDR Okay.
SPT What's next, Dick?
265 17 53 03 CC SPT, Houston. We've dug out the original message

and it's certainly obvious how it could be inter-
preted to put that MAIN POWER switch either
immediately after the word, XUV $PECT and SLIT,
or after the entire sequence. However, we intended
to have that switch at the top of that list. We
have looked at the switch configuration that you've
r done, however, in both those areas, and we're
satisfied with them.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. Do you have any other questions

about the panel?
CC We'd like the ROLL switch to INHIBIT, please.
SPT Good.
265 17 54 ll CC Okay. We're going to continue -we'll continue

to look at it for the next rev or so, so we may
be getting back to you later. But right now, we're
satisfied. Thank you very much.
SPT Sure. Thank you, Dick.
265 17 5_ -Q& CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS in about l0 seconds

from Goldstone. Pick you up at Bermuda at - in
about 3 or 4 minutes from now.
265 17 59 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS, Bermuda for 9 minutes.

We're going to re-commence our comm_nding unattended
ops, so we'll - all the AOS passes, we will by.
using the DAS. And for A1; on this stowage pro-
cedures,A1, the other night - I think this was
put into the Flight Plan because the change to the
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stowage book to support the day-55 transfers got

to be about 2 or 3 feet long. And we thought, in
making that change into the stowage book and prior
to doing the transfers, you might have some ques-
tions on it. We do not have anything specifically
prepared, so if you run into any questions, go
ahead and pass them down, but otherwise I suggest
Just using the time to - to get ahead on the
transfers.
CDR Okay, sounds good. The only question I've got

is, I'm not sure now which ones of these pictures
in the stowage book are correct pictures. So that
when I stow things in there, I should follow the
pictures or whether - which boxes are kind of up
for grabs, and I Just keep putting things in there
and stowing them as best I can.
CC Okay, stand by on that one, please.
265 18 03 12 CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question about

the pictures; I talked to Jim Smothemon who is here
on duty as our stowage guy today. And he says that
the pictures for Alfa 6 and Alfa 9 lockers probably
are - they have been changed so extensively that
you - there will be quite a bit of difference there.
Most of the others, the changes have been minor
enough that we think you can make do pretty well.
He does have some photographs of the lockers the
way that we stowed them in the trainers, and they
are going to bring them over here to the Control
Center. They are not here right now; they will
be in a few minutes. So if you do have questions
later on then, for the rest of the afternoon while
you are making these transfers, I think we'll be a
little better able - if you have any questions'in
stuffing the things in there - to help you out and
tell - and tell you how we did it.
CDR Okay, sounds good. The - I noticed I got that now,

and then I've got a couple - couple of more sessions
of the same. It's about a 6- or 7-hour job. And
I notice I've got it broken into three parts, so
I should - we should be able to pull it off. Right
now I think I'll get on that bike and get my
5000 watt-minutes.
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CC That sounds like a winner. And one of the stowage

folks will be over here with us, you know, for the
rest of the afternoon. So if you have any ques-
tions about it, feel free to ask.
CDR Okay, my plans are to exercise, eat, and then stow

the rest, until it's time to go to bed.
265 18 0h 35 CC All righty.

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SKYLAB AIR -TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
265 18 07 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

Canary comes up at 18:lO.
265 18 1C 07 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Canary and Ascension

for 16 minutes.
CC And, CDR, Houston. You know the other day you

suggested to us that we might bring up the G&N
on the command module the day before entry. And
we've been doing a good bit of thinking about that.
The problem that we had on SL-2 was - was a sched-
uling problem with some of our people, but we
have had the time here to ar - arrange that
satisfactorily. So what we're think about doing
now is some time around no - noon, Houston time
on day 58, the day before you - the reentry, at
a time - on a noninterference basis with - when you
could go up - get up to the commandmodule, we're
going to point out the steps we'd like done in the
- in the Deactivation Checklist. And we do plan
c_ bringing up the IMU and the computer and leaving
the computer in ACCEPT, and that'll give us quite
a few hours to look at the platform and look at
the total G&N system. So I think that'll give us
a whole lot of confidence that afternoon and plenty
of time to handle any little glitches that might
come up.
CDR Sounds like a good plan. I'll be ready to assist

whenever y'all say so.
CC Okay, I imagine we'll Just pick a spot where we

got ground coverage when you're not doing a whole
lot, and Just get it done.
265 18 ll B8 CDR Okay.
265 18 25 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS;

Carnarvon at 18:49.
265 18 25 21 PLT Okay, Dick.
_ 265 18 48 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Carnarvon for

l0 minutes.
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CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for

about 9 minutes. And I've got a little procedure
that if one of you guys has time, you might do
some - a little bit of switch throwing for us,
and maybe we can chase down this 4-cycle-per-
second noise that's appeared on the audio.
265 18 50 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for

7minutes.
CC And, Skylab, if somebody has a chance, I've got

two or three switches and circuit breakers we'd
like thrown and to troubleshoot a little bit on
this h-cycle-per-second noise that's appeared on
the audio system.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, what we suggest doing is going up to

panel 200, the AUDIO SYSTEM BUFFER AMPS 1 circuit
breaker and open that one and see if the noise
persists. Then close that circuit breaker and
open the AUDIO SYST_ BUFFER AMPS 2 and make the
same check. Then after the checks are over,
close both - both circuit breakers. Over.
PLT Okay.
SPT Do you have a stowage man handy, Dick?
CC Sure do.
SPT Where can I find the M071/73 tiedown straps?
CC Okay, we'll get right back to you.
265 18 53 20 PLT Dick, how are you reading?
CC Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, when I open the number 1 circuit breaker,

the noise goes away. When I open the number 2
circuit breaker, it stays.
CC Okay, stand by Just a second, please.

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265 18 55 50 CC PLT, Houston. What we think probably we have is

a hardware problem that's associated with one of
the amplifiers on the - that is powered by that
BUFFER AMPS 1 circuit breaker. However, for now,
we'd like to leave both those circuit breakers
CLOSED. We may eventually change that configuration
and - and just operate with one of the circuit
breakers on. But for now, we would like to leave
them both CLOSED, if it's not too irritating.
PLT No, it's not irritating, Dick; and they are both
CLOSED. I do know additionally, however, that we
have to turn the volume up a little bit - -
CC Roger.
PLT - - in order to hear.
CC Understand. Okay, let's leave them both CLOSED

until we fully understand what we think the
problem is, and then we may change the configuration
later.
265 18 56 36 PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.

I'll give you a call at Guam in about 6 minutes.
And, 0wen, we think that there's six D-ring and two
PGA straps in U-4. And there are a couple of more
D-ring straps that we think you guys stowed around
some place, and we don't know where they are. But
U-4 is the suggestion as to where to look.
SPT Okay, I'll give you a call. Thank you.
265 18 57 45 CC Okay, I'll call you at Guam.
265 19 04 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Guam for 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, U-4 is empty right now, Dick. We're still-

we're trying figure out if we took those two extra
out or what. Four weeks ago, we used four of the
71/73 straps on the two 82 canisters that cAm_ back
and the two PGA straps. Now of the remaining two,
I'm pretty sure one was broken because the D-ring
didn't hold when I tried to put it around the can.
f So it stillleaves at least one, if not two, that
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are unaccountable, and we also don't know anything

about the ones that we might have stowed somewhere
else around the workshop.
CC Okay. We'll keep looking through our tracking

system and see if we can help you any more, 0wen.
265 19 04 54 SPT Thank you.
265 19 09 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds until LOS.

Goldstone at 19:28.
SPT I think we found them in another location, Dick.

Thank you.
265 19 09 42 CC Okay. Thank you for letting us know.
265 19 27 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for

5 minutes.
CC And CDR, Houston. A reminder, if you have a chance

the laser opportunity as you pass over the
Goddard Space Center is coming up at 19:37 Zulu.
You have about a 50 percent chance, due to weather
of seeing it. And due to the haze up there, we're
- there is one change to the configuration of
the laser we're making from the pad you have.
And that is we're going to go with a 2.5 watt
instead of a i watt. It should not change the
color of it, if you can see it.
CDR It'll still come off at 19:36, though?
265 19 28 20 SPT 0keydoke, we'll be watching.
265 19 29 38 CDR Say, Dick, on that sail sample, do you want us

to bring the carboard that's beneath the sail
sample back, too, or just the sail sample? Looks
to me like a better arrangement might be to put
the sail sample in a - a contingency fecal bag.
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265 19 30 00 CC Standby, A1.
CDR In fact, that's where it is right now, but I had

the cardboard, and then I can take it out of the
bag and put it back on the cardboard.
CC Okay. The - the initial input that I had, A1,

that we wanted to talk about for a second was that
we did want to bring the cardboard home because
we wanted to make sure that the sail sample did
not get folded in any way. But let me talk about
it a little bit more, please.
CDR Okay, I'll put it back on. It's - it's not folded
in a crease. It's just kind of rolled over once,
so it hasn't been hurt. I'll put it back on the
cardboard and put it in there.
CC Okay, A!. Let's go that way. Thank you.
CDR Okay.
SPT Dick, a comment on the stowage. Our cue card

shows the VS tree going on M170. I believe that's
where the rate gyro pack is mounted, and so I have
it now - the VS tree taped up to the wall, to
the bulkhead, where the NRL packages used to be
located. It's adjacent to the rate gyro pack,
and it could Just stay up there, taped. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you for letting us know.
265 19 32 C6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS at Goldstone. We're going to drop out just
a couple of minutes. I'll call you at Texas.
265 19 35 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you again stateside here

for about ll minutes. And I've got one more ATM
configuration item for Owen, or anybody that can
move it for us.
CDR He's listening.

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CC Okay, Owen. I thi - I think, as a matter of

fact, awhile ago when you - I think I h - I copied
you saying that you had changes 1 through 7 in
the ATM Experiment Checklist and Data Book. And
there was a change 8 sent up about 2 or 3 days
ago, and I think this - and - and - and you didn't
report it, and it only had one switch on it. And
what it is is the - on the white light coronagraph,
LOW FILM INHIBIT switch, we think - We do not have
TM on this switch. We think it's in NORMAL. We'd
like it - for it to be in OVERRIDE. The reason
we think it is in NORMAL is we're unable to get
a fast scan.
SPT Well, you're quite right. I remembered that we

went to OVERRIDE for our normal operation, and
the checklist did show it going back to NORMAL,
where I placed it this afternoon. And that's
because apparently I didn't have the change in
the book you. So I'll go back and put that to
OVERRIDE. You're quite right.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
CDR Nobody sees the laser. We're all at the window.
CC Roger. It's on. Sorry about that.
265 19 45 52 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Ascension

at 19:55.
SPT See you later, Dick. We're just chowing down.
CC Roger. What are they serving in the club tonight?
PLT Would you believe turkey and gravy?
CC Roger.
CDR Tomorrow night's filet and ice cream, though.
CC Okay.
PLT This must be bingo night or something.
CC Roger.
SPT Say, Dick, is that science demo term on my FLIGHT

PLAN - This diffusion experiment that Jack's been
running.
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265 19 46 25 CC Stand by, and I'ii get you an answer. If we go

LOS here, I'll have one at Ascension.
265 19 55 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ADS Ascension for 5 minutes.

And, Owen, the answer is yes, the science demo
termination in your Flight Plan is the diffusion
experiment.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
265 20 O0 18 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Carnarvon

at 20:26.
265 20 25 59 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Carnarvon for l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Hey, Jack. One thing we wanted to know is if you

were through with the EREP deactiva - deactivation
and if it went okay becausewe got a coupleof
folks that hanging around here, and could let them
go home if if went all right.
PLT Yes, sir; it did go okay. And I recorded it all

on channel A. And I think I got some good pictures.
CC Okay; good. Thank you much.
SPT Dick, do you remember the large thermal isolation

can that all of our IMSS supplies go in? Early in
the mission, we took the overcan, the thermal insu-
lation, out of the chiller and left just the con-
tents in there. And as I recall, we were supposed
to be - to put that back into the chiller or the
freezer a day - or a couple of days before return.
Could you check to see how soon and where that
thermal isolation can needs to pe put? Over.
265 20 26 51 CC Sure will.
265 20 34 34 CDR Dick, are you still there?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
CDR I now have the sail sample, and I'm going to place
it at A-9. I noticed that it doesn't request we
put it inside anything, so I guess we won't. What
do you recommend?
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CC Standby i.
265 20 35 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS. Guam

comes up in 3 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. It's okay to put the sail sample

that's on the cardboard just in A-9 and not in
any other con - you know, not enclosed in any other
separate container.
PLT Got it. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
265 20 39 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for l0 minutes.

Goldstone is coming up at 21:04.
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265 21 0_ 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for about

6 - or stateside for about 16 or 17 minutes. This
is the place that I wanted to get the evening
status report. But before I do, we wanted to talk
a little bit about the stowage transfers that are
going on. And - and a little bit about the heat
sinks.
PLT We're ready.
CC Okay. First thing on the stowage transfers today,

we've - a couple of the questions, one on Owen -
that Owen had about the heat sinks has made us
wonder as to - to make sure that we - we wanted
to mske sure that we're doing the correct por-
tions of the stowage transfers for day 55, today.
What we were to do today is, and I'm looking on
page 2-36 of the stowage book. We wanted to do,
up there at the top where it says, "CSM stowage
reconfiguration"; we did not want to do the next
section which said, "Experiment transfer to command
module." We did want to _o the miscellaneous
transfers that came up on a pad a day or so ago.
And then we also wanted to do the TV transfer.
It's on the top of page 2-37. And we'd like you
to confirm that - that that's what you guys are
doing this afternoon.
265 21 06 08 CDR We confirm that we're working on that one. This

was a question on just precooling that cooler so
that - so the - you know, it probably takes a day
to chill it down. And we just wanted to give you
some advance notice.
CC Great, A1. Let me ask you a question about your

question so we can make sure we're all together.
The heat sinks, does - and - and also on page 2-36,
and you'll be doing this tomorrow night. If
you'll look under the experiment transfer to com-
mand module, step 2, that's where you transfer the
heat sinks from the chiller down to the freezer.
Now if the heat siDk_ - so we wanted to ask if the
heat sinks themselves are in the chiller now
or ----
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265 21 06 53 SPT Dick. Yes, the heat sinks are there. What I'm
talking about is this large can, some 8 inches
in diameter into which all the IMSS supplies and
the heat sinks fitted. And you may remember we
took the inside cylinder out - correction, we
took it out, left that in the chiller; the outside
thermal insulation was what we took out just to
give us more volume in the chiller. And as A1 was
explaining, we just wanted to know how many hours
we need to prechill it before it could take the
contents back in again. Over.
CC Okay. Well, the answer to that is the requirement

on putting the heat sinks into the freezer turns
out to be 24 hours prior to assembling for return,
and that time is met by - and - and you Will be
doing that tomorrow evening. We are talking about,
however, the - putting the external can in either
the freezer or chiller for a shorter period of time
than that to sort of prechill it and - -
265 21 07 57 SPT That - that was our question, Dick, right there.
CC Okay. Now on that one, what worries us and what

we're - been talking about is is that we're - in
order to get it in the chiller at all, you going -
it seems to us that you're going to run into the
same problem that you did before, and that is, it's
probably not going to be enough room for it to fit.
So we been talking about choosing possibly one
of the forward compartment freezers to - to stick
it in for a while.
SPT That was the reason - also a part of the reason

for our question. It will fit into a cooler, into
our chiller. It's just that there's almost no room
left then for any drinks. And that's the reason
that we wanted to take it out early. But we can
get along without any drinks if necessary, or
better yet, we can put it into a chiller - into a
freezer.
265 21 08 37 CC Well, if we understand the stowage properly, I

think that one of the upstairs freezers certainly
has enough room for it. You might confirm that.
And we'll choose the proper number of hours to get
it into there, and we'll let you know.
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SPT Do you knowwe have S052 in a freezer up there?

We've got to get that to the co-._-udmodule one
of these times. And if we took that over tomorrow,
then there would certainly be room to - to put
it in.
CC Roger, Owen. We think- the mlmher that we think

there is room is F-551. At any rate, I think
we've had enough talking about this, and - and
we'll certainly have the procedures for you
tomorrow before you do the stowage transfer. There's
still about 12minutes left in this stateside pass.
And I'd like to get the evening status report,
if I could.
CDR Okay, here it comes.
CC Okay.
265 21 09 39 CDR 130, 170, 200; 6310, 0370 - I'll start that one
again, excuse me. CDR was 6310, 0370, 6760.
CC Okay.
CDR 6.219, 6.220, 6.222; 5.956, 5.956, 5.956; 6.937,

6.939, 6.938. Exercise: CDR: 2/35/50hl,
1/07/0541, 3/15/Mark I, 3/05/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III;
SPT and PLT have not exercised. And PLT is
exercising right now. We'll pass you those infor-
mations later.
CC Okay.
CDR No medication. Sleep: 6/G, 6-1/2 G, 6/G.
CC Okay.
265 21 ll 00 CDR Here's the food: CDR: zero salt, substituted

a lemonade for a strawberry drink because there
are no strawberry drinks available. An extra
6 ounces of water was consumed EVA, so that
should be added 6 ounces. SPT: add butter cookies,
and 12 ounces of water. PLT: four salt packs,
add one butter cookies, one grape drink. Omit - -
CDR Houston, you still there?

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CC We dropped out and you need to go back where you

said "omit" something, A1, and pick it up right
there.
CDR Omit Jack's tuna and bread.
CC Okay, go ahead.
265 21 ll 53 CDR All right. 16-mill - talking - talking photo

now. 16-millimeter: EVA-3, CI21, 45, CI60; the
reason we got 45 left is because of that power
pack quit working after about 50 percent. The
one last time quit working just about the time
it ran out. So that something's wrong with those
power packs; they just don't have enough pep.
M151/EVA prep and post: CI83, 29, CI63. 35-mil-
limeter: CI106, 22; CX35, 09. 70-millimeter:
CX27, 145. Let me give you drawer A configuration
in its entirety: 07, CI58, 13, CI53; 05, CI64,
60, CI62; 06, CI21, 45, CI60; 03, CI83, 29, CI63;
02, empty, 00, CI56.
CC Roger.
CDR No Flight Plan deviations. We're still working

along, little out of phase here because we want
to get our meals in and get our exercise in a
little early. Inop - no shopping list accomplish-
ments, except taping up that one nut on the pole,
one of the twin poles. Inoperable equipment: the
DAC power pack 4. Of course it's a throwaway
item anyway, but we ought to do - they're - they're
just not working. Unscheduled stowage item location
change: Nikon flash battery from F510H to the
Nikon 03. And that's the nightly status report.
Ready for any questions.
265 21 14 06 CC Okay, A1. One question I have from the INCO, on

the channel Bravo noise problem that we were
chasing earlier, and you guys have heard. Could
you tell us when you first noticed the problem?
Do you remember? And was it - at the time that
it started? Was it correlated with any other
particular event?
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CDR The answer is, the first time we noticed it was

when we turned the comm on after EVA. So we
immediately thought that the EVA comm was the
problem. We reconfigured it didn't go away.
That made us a little bit suspicious, so we went
around and looked at all the comm boxes to see
if anything was left on. We couldn't seem to
locate anything that way. My suspicion is it's
gone away now, and I'll tell you why; I haven't
heard it lately. But mostly, when you came up
about 20 minutes ago and talked to Jack, the
vol_ne all of the sudden Jumped up about 50 percent.
Along with this problem of the pulsing was a
reduced volume level, as Jack pointed out.
And now we seem to have gotten our volume level
back. And I don't hear the pulsing anymore, so
something is - has corrected it.
265 21 15 18 CC Okay, A1. Thank you for your - for the informa-
tion. The only other - other note that I have
here that I want to talk to you about now is
we m_de a mistake and - I need to change a time
on both the CDR and PLT details Flight Plan for
tomorrow.
CDR Just a second; we haven't retrieved them, yet.
CC Okay.
CDR ... retrieved momentarily.
CC Okay, there's no hurry. When you get them, just

give me a holler.
CDR Okay.
265 21 16 51 CDR Standing by to copy corrections of time.
CC Okay, it's the same on both of them. The M092/171

that's shown at 09:26, I want to change that
time to 09:10. And the reason is, is at - to
give you enough time in order to meet the vent
window.
CDR Good idea.

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CC Roger. And, AI, that's all I have right now.

I - I'ii have some news later on, but I don't
have it right now. We still got about 4 minutes
in this stateside pass, and I'm standing by.
CDR Okay. Tell the stowage folks that are standing

around down there that we haven't done a lot of
• stowage yet, but we're getting ready to crank up.
We've been eating, exercising, putting changes in
the _try Checklist, and all that sort of thing,
cleaning up, and now we're getting on the stowage.
CC Roger.
265 21 19 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard at 21:31.
And I forgot to tell you there was one more
correction on the PLT details for tomorrow. He's
listed at 21 - correction - at 12:31 as the subject
for the M092 only. That' s incorrect. The PLT,
tomorrow, is the observer and the - and the
S_mmary. Flight Plan has it correct. Owen is the
subject, and Jack is the observer.
PLT Thank you, Dick. I'll put it to him.
265 21 20 33 CC Okay.
265 21 31 47 CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Vanguard for about

4-1/2 minutes and I wanted to talk to the CDR for
a second, back to the subject of the sail sample.
CDR Go ahead.
265 21 32 47 CC A1, ever since we talked before about how to stow

the sail sample and how to protect it, we've
been having a discussion down here as to - as to
the protection of that sample. And what we finally
decided to do, after thinking of - of quite a
n_Jmber of options, is to tell you what we'd like to
protect it against and then let you choose what
you think is the best method of stowing it.
Essentially, what we'd like to do is to minimize
the scuffing on the side of the sample that was
exposed to the Sun, and also, we'd like to keep
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it as clean as possible. And we've had several

suggestions that range from taping it to an
exterior surface in the command module, putting
it in a - the PGA pocket or another bag, leaving
it on the cardboard and stowing it like that inside
a locker. And there's one more thing we don't
want to do, and that is, to put a crease in it.
So what we suggest is, is that you take these
inputs - and we - we realize that you're having
to do some - a lot of unplanned stowage, and
figure out the best way you think that - to meet
these requirements. And let us know what you did
so we figure out who wins the nickel.
CDR That sounds like a good idea; will do. Now I was
just moving the APKs and PPKs to U-4 has a cloth
Beta liner in it. Do I leave the Beta liner in it?
I think I do. And I count a total number of 7;
3, 6, 7. Is that correct?
CC Stand by.
265 21 36 26 CC Sk_lab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.

And, A1, we don't have an _mediate answer to your
question, so we're going to have to research, both
about the liner and the number of APKs and PPKs
that you have, in order to answer it for you. Your
next pass is Goldstone at 22:_1. That'll be a
medical conference. And also, Jack's phone call
will be during that pass, and it' ll be when we have
AOS at Texas. And that time is 22:h5. We will
call you at one more pass of the evening, which is
down at Van__ard at 23:05, if I don't get the
comm back up stateside.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CDR Just keep calling until we go to bed here because

others of us will probably have some questions.
256 21 37 17 CC Okay. And we're going to need a salt report on

Owen when we get you back in comm.
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265 22 46 ii CC Skylab, Houston. I understand you - I got you

back from the medical conference. We've still
got about l0 minutes here at Texas, and I did have
two or three things to tell you and then some news.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. In answer to Al's question, seems like a

long time ago now; the Beta liner in U-4 should
stay in there. Also on the subject of APKs and
PPKs, the only information we have is that the
proper number of those is listed on page 2-36 of
the stowage book. We don't have any more than
that. And one thing that we didn't get in the
evening status report, and we'd like to get, is
the salt report from the SPT.
CDR No salt, zero salt.
CC Okay. And, Al, before I get to any further ques-

tion that you have or get to the news, I'd like
to talk to you just a second about a message that
we're going to send up to you tonight. We're
putting together with - in response to the con-
versation that you and Vance had the other after-
noon on the Entry Checklist. We have put together
a message that we think will easily allow you to
make sure that your pen and ink entries into your
Entry Checklist, and also into a couple of criti-
cal pages on your entry checklist, and also a
couple of pages in the Deactivation Checklist,
were entered correctly. This is not a checklist
change, it's Just a guide to allow you to - to
go down the pages of your checklist, if you so
desire, and make sure that all the pen and inks
are in the right place and what they say. If you
run into any problems about it, rather than cor-
rect it on the spot, what we'd like you to do is
Just give us a holler, and we can talk about it.
One thing on that, though, most of the people that
- that have been supporting the command module and
the entry will be - not be on duty tomorrow,'but
they will be back on duty the first thing day after
tomorrow. So if you have any questions today -
I mean tomorrow, there may be some delay in get-
ting an answer. Over.
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265 22 48 26 CDR Okay, understand, Dick. Sounds gool.
CC Okay, and for your information, the pages that

we're talking about are pages - the last couple
of pages; I think it's 2-88 and 89 of the Deactiva-
tion Checklist and then the Entry Checklist, sec-
tion 12, pages 3, 4, and 5.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, you guys got anything else? And If not,

I've got a little bit of news here.
CDR I sure do. A couple of items. Talking about

the TV transfers. I went to 521 to put the broken
TV camera lens in; the lens is okay, but from the
broken camera. There isn't any room in there.
It's all full of bags. So I put them over in 556,
which is an exLfood locker where we've got a lot
of things in that Jerry is probably going to want
to use. I think that's a good place for them.
And then when he comes up and pulls them out, then
they're out of stowage; and they will be hanging
around on the walls or something. So my sugges-
tion would be, don't forget 521 and let's talk
556 for that equipment.
CC Okay, that's done.
CDR Okay, the next one is, I looked into 521, and it's
got all sorts of bags in there, maybe a hundred.
And I looked all around for a bag called "TV
return bag." No such thing. But we've got also
hundreds of other bags around here. So I found
another bag that fits the TV camera real well,
put the TV camera in it, and then put it in the
proper place, R-13 along with the ...
265 22 50 ll CC CDR, Houston. You still there?
CC CDR, Houston. We got in - caught in a handover;

you - are you there?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay, whatever bag you put the TV in for return,

you're satisfied with it, we certainly are.
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CDR Okay. We got - I'm telling you, everything is

in a Beta cloth bag, and they're all over the
place. And we got a good bag, and I think they'll
be happy. And it's also padded in there with med
kit and a couple other kits that are in the same
R-lB. It's jammed full.
CC Okay. Anything else?
CDR Yes, let me back up again. That ends the TV

story room for a while.
CC Okay.
CDR Get back to this APK, mine had originally APK

with 3 and then somebody crossed through the 3,
and then it said OSK 6. If you cross through
the 3, I guess that means APK l, OSK 6. So it
would be in the right number, I don't think we
misplacedany but I just thought I'd mention it.
CC Roger, understand.
265 22 51 30 CDR Okay. Now, about all I'm going to get to tonight -
Right now I'm doing the environmental samples.
Because I did them the first time, and it's nec-
essary for the same guy to do it the second time
because he's got to rub the same spot to get the
samples correct. I will finish - I had finished
the CM stowage reconfiguration. And I've finished
the TV, but that's the only stowage I've done
this evening, and I'll have to pick up, then,
tomorrow from that point.
CC Roger, A1. Thank you.
CDR Okay.
CC Anything else?
CDR No, that's it. Jack's got a little exercise to

report, he tells me. And Owen's zipping away
on the bike right now. So he'll have it lat'er.
CC Roger, I can hear somebody sawing away over there

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on lhe bicycle over the eomm. And I've got some

news, if you'd like to hear that.
PLT I thought we already had the good news and the

bad tonight.
CC (Laughter) I thought you'd see that.
CDR It's a good gag, a good one.
PLT Let me give you some exercise.
CC Okay.
265 22 52 45 PLT Okay, I had 2 for 35, 8664; 1 for 05, 0627; 3 for
20/Mark I: 50 A's, 20 B's, 20 D's backbends.
That's it.
CC Okay.
PLT Thanks.
PLT Go ahead with the news, Dick.
CC Okay. Henry Kissinger today took the oath as

Secretary of State and pledged to work for a "world
not based on strength but on justice." President
Nixon beamed his approval as Kissinger was sworn
in by Chief Justice Warren E. Berger in the East
Room of the White House. Dallas and Fort Worth
dedicated their new 700-million dollar airport
today. Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, one of the
speakers, called the airport construction "a bold
and exciting step." Also on hand was former gov-
ernor John Connally, the mayors of both cities,
and ambassadors for more than 50 nations. Hurri-
cane Ellen gathered speed as she crossed the mid-
Atlantic today, but forecasters said she was - she
had bugun losing strength and was posing no threat
to land. Chancellor Willy Brandt accepted an in-
vitation to visit President Nixon during the German
Government chief's upcoming visit to the United
States. And a Japanese Government spokesman said
today that there was a possibility that President
Nixon may visit Japan within the year. Skylab
news today centered, quite naturally, around your
EVA. Wire services reported your unprecedented
views on three of nature's most awesome sights:
_ r
f
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a sunset, an aurora and a hurricane. Some quick

sports scores: the University of Houston 27,
South Carolina 19; Miami upset Texas last night,
20 to 15; Rice goes against Montana tonight in
Rice Stadium; And Michigan beat Stanford, 47 to
10. And Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. I'll give you a call at the Vanguard
at 23:05. That probably will be our last call
of the night because the following station is
about an hour and a half down the road. And one
thing that we do have that I can get down at the
Vanguard is for the recovery people, on - on the
subject of the bag in which you put the TV, if
there is any identification on the bag that you
chose, you might give us a call or put it on
channel A so we can do our recovery plan, and
they'll know how to identify the location of that.
265 22 55 :_0 PLT And I've got a call I guess, there Vanguard, right?
CC That's affirm, Jack. We're setting it up for the

Vanguard. And that time is 23:05.
PLT And the Professor just about fell off the bike
when he heard that Stanford score.
CC Roger.
SPT I think you probably had it reversed.
CC You wish - -
PLT How many minutes we got, seconds, Dick?
CC We're going LOS. Say again.
PLT Okay, I'll check with you later.
265 22 56 00 CC Okay.
265 23 05 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for ii

minutes.
CDR Roger.
PLT Say Dick - Dick, while I'm waiting for the VHF
to come up, I've got two things. Water tank 2
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was 2 parts per million, water tank 5 was 6 parts

per million. I didn't do anything to either one
of them. Rate gyro temperatures are as follows:
X-ray 5, 90.3; X-ray 6, 90.3; Yankee 5, 93.0;
Yankee 6, 91.5; Zulu 5, 95.7; and Zulu 6, 92.2.
CC Thank you, sir; got them all.
265 23 06 57 PLT Okay, l'm going VHF, now. Thank you.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, I'll update my exercise now, Dick. You

ready?
CC Sure am. Go ahead, Owen.
SPT 2/21/3500, 3/15/Mark I: 60 A's, 20 B's, 30 Delta's.

Over.
CC I got it, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
PLT I don't hes_r nobody, Dick. Are they trying to

get me?
CC Stand by, let me see if I can help you.
265 23 07 08 CC We've tried the call, Jack, and understand you've

got no joy. We'll keep trying.
PLT Okay.
CC And suggest left antenna.
PLT Okay, on left.
CC Okay.
265 23 08 44 CC Skylab, Houston. I know that for the CDR and SPT.
I know that Jack is tied up on the phone call;
I'd like to talk to him, too, but since he isn't,
I have something for you guys.
SPT Okay, go ahead.

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CC Roger, guys. As you know, the shifts are coming

to the end of the mission, and this happens to be
the last shift - the last pass that the purple
team will get to talk to you guys during this
mission. Several of the guys on this team will
get to see you again on the entry. And I'm going
to do another shift for Crip prior to entry, so
I'll get to talk to you, but it won't be here.
So there's a lot of guys here tonight that have
been working with you, and we all feel that you
guys have really done a great job, and it's really
been a lot of fun for us to work with you. And
you're bringing back a U-Haul truck full of science,
and we really have enjoyed every minute. I know
it's real hard and impossible, as a matter of
fact, for you to know each of the guys on the
team. And I'd just like to give you my personal
I work that these guys, night after night and day
after day, have really put out for you; both in
the front room and also back in the SSRs. And
I'd like to go down the list and tell you the
names of the guys who are at least out here in
the front room on our team, so at least for this
moment you'd know. Our EREP officer is Bill
Brizzolara; Corollary is Merlin Merritt; ASCO is
George Guthrie; our Biomed is Bob White; our
EGIL is old Charlie D_m_s; the INCO is Harry
Black; our Procedures Officer is Kim Anson; Our
FA0 is Pleddie Baker; with us tonight on the
network is Fred Wrinkle; and our MCS is Bob
Grilli [?]; And, of course, last but not least,
our quarterback who looks more like a right tackle
is old Phil Shaffer. And from everyone of us,
we'd sure like to just wish you the best of luck
coming home.
265 23 ll 06 CDR Thank you, Dick. That goes" double for us. This
whole thing is a super team operation. And I
think - I know we've put out 100 percent, and
like you just you just said, y'all did. And I
' think we did what we planned to do when we come
up here. So I hope everybody has got the same
feeling down there about this flight that we do.
We're real happy to have all of these goodies.'
The Sun cooperated, the weather cooperated, and
y'all cooperated, and we cooperated. And we're
real happy. And I personally feel real good
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about everything, and I think it's a good job

for all of us. And I'mreal proud to be part of
the team.
CC So are we, A1 - -
SPT I'd like to say thanks to you purple fellows

down there too, Dick and Phil, and all of the
rest of the fellows you've just named. And we
want to be seeing you guys back on the beach there
in Just about a week. And all come over, and
we'll be talking to you personally before very
much longer.
CC Well, we're sure looking forward to it, so you

guys hurry home.

The next pass, if you want to call us, is about
00:20 at Goldstone. So you guys get a good night's
sleep. Good night, Phil.
SHAFFER Good night, Dick.
CC And good night to the Skylab from the whole

purple gang.
SPT Okay, Bill, and Charlie, and Bob and all you
purple guys. See you in about a week.
265 23 16 00 CC Okay, see you then.
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266 07 15 2_ CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
PLT Morning, Hank.
CDR Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning. We've got about 8-1/2 minutes left

through Vanguard here.
CDR Hank, I've got a little something for the Flight

Planners.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. One of the things we had wanted to do,

hut the time never seemed to roll arotmd, was get
all three of us over in the command module for
about 2 hours to go through the entry time line
and Just generally become familiar with the Entry
Book again now that it's been changed, and it's
got paste-ins here and there. And work through
the normal time line and then imagine that we have
problems and try to find them in the book and make
sure we all are kind of tuned up. And we sort of
thought it was going to happen on the entry-minus-5
checks, but that turned out to be only me over
there and Jack and Owen were doing other work.
Now it seems to me that perhaps today is the best
day to do it. BUt it's going to require some
modification here. It looks like a possible time
is around the 20:00 to 22:00 time and maybe we
could ask them what they can do to shift things
around a little bit, withoutshifting the eat
periods or sleeping, so that maybe around that
time, all three of us could go over to command
module and work through this entry business.
CC Okay. We - we'll hake a look at it, A1. Our

problem here is on all the medical stuff. We're
pretty much boxed in with the momentum mRnagement
and events. Those can't be moved at all. The
only choice there is canceling something. We-
we'll take a look at it. Day-55 transfers, if
you were to get along pretty good with those, they
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might be - generate some time there.
266 07 20 00 CDR We'll, we're going to work on that. There is -

there sure isn't anything more important.
266 07 23 B4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Canaries at 3_.
PLT Okay, Hank.
266 07 34 41 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

14 minutes. And we'll be dumping the recorder
at Madrid about 5 minutes from now.
CC And, Skylab, if we could have the DAS for a

minute or 2, we'll be up-linking the momentum bias.
PLT Okay, Hank; all yours.
CDR Hank, need some information on stowage. Exactly

how many EREP tapes go in which boxes? That way
I can stash those things in the right boxes and
then work around them.
CC Okay. I'll get you an answer.
CC CDR, Houston. A-9 should get l0 of them and A-5

get three.
CDR Okay. On that 10, how many go in the forward

part and how many go in the lower part?
CC Okay. We 'll work that.
CC And, Skylab, the DAS is yours.
CC CDR, Houston. Have you got a moment to talk about

what we might do with the Flight PLAN?
CDR You bet; go ahead.
CC Okay. A1, what we're looking at here is the

possibility of deleting tests 1 and 2 on either
the PLT or yourself, which would give us about
45 minutes, or so time for two crewmembers
to work on the day-55 transfers that are
scheduled at 20:00. And these are primarily
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film transfers which take two guys. The other

thing we're looking at is we've sent up some
messages on the S082, which is primarily remov-
ing screws out of the kick plate, hut we can de-
lay that and generate some time there in the
14 - 13:30 to 15:30 time period that you have
transfers alone, to do some more film transfers
by freeing up the PLT to help you there. And then
to get all of you then - then also the PLT could
help with some of the transfers that you would
normally be doing at 14:00 to 15:00 and cancel-
ing the removing screws at your 9 o'clock would
also give you time to work some more of that in.
And then around 19:00, we would cancel the S019
ops, move the PLT's activities up into that area,
which would leave all three of you a couple of
hours free from 20:00 to 22:00.
CDR That latter suggestion appeals to me greatly.

I can - What we can do maybe, somehow, is - is
work along - For example, myself - do this urine
and eat and the start working on 55 until it's
time to do the test. Then do the test and then
go work on 55 some more and eat - You know stay,
[sic] doing 55 and that would free me up down
there, proba - maybe, if I could get finished.
And the same sort of thing then, for Owen and Jack,
like you Just pointed out.
266 07 _4 16 CC Okay. What - it would take, I think, A1, would

be all of what I read up to you. And essentially
what it amounts to is not doing anything on re-
moving the screws from the kick plate. Then that
leaves you quite a bit of free time then, to -
to work on the - by doing a little shuffling in
his schedule there with the PLT to work on that
film transfer. And then using that screw time
also for you to work on your solo transfers.
And the PLT, of course, can help on that some
too.
CDR Okay. That sounds real good to me. And you can
send up the SO19 pad. And if we end up having
time, we can do it. If we don't because of the
predictions right now, then we won't. I thi_k
it's hard to gain - I ca - haven't gained any
insight into how long this thing's going to take.
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It may start going faster, or it may go slow. A

lot of it Just depends on where you can round up
the gear and whether somebody wants you to put
it in the bag or not, and whether the bag's really
in the place it's supposed to be.
CC Okay. And we mentioned deleting the test 1 and 2

on one of you, and I guess biomed's preference is
to delete that on yourself in the afternoon. And
that 'll give you and the SPT about 45 more minutes
in par_11el that you can work the film transfer
together.
266 07 45 49 CDR Okay. Sounds good. We'll sort of plan on doing

that right now, then.

be coming up on Honeysuckle at 08:23.
266 07 49 O0 CDR Yon still there, Hank?
CC We're just going LOS.
CDR Okay, we'll talk to you next - -
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266 08 23 54 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If one of you could break

free, I'd like to get you to mark up one of
your Flight Plans as we see it and see how it
works out.
SPT Okay, let us do it in a few minutes, Hank.
266 04 25 35 SPT Hank, are you there?
CC Roger. For another 3 minutes.
SPT A1 thought he would prefer to have his earlobe

stuck instead of his finger stuck for the hemo-
globin check this morning. Can your Flight
Surgeon down there adviseme as to the best
location on the earlobe for the painless
puncture?
CC Okay. We'll check it.
SPT Okay. Go ahead with the Flight Plan update,

too, Hank.
266 08 26 43 CC Okay. I guess the easiest thing to do is go

down each column, as we see it. On the CDR at
09:00 in place of the general message S082,
we would do day-55 transfers. And at 17:00,
delete tests 1 and 2. That will leave - free
us up about 45 minutes at the end of the M092
period there, so at about 18:00 right after
subject, we'd add in some more day-55 transfers.
For the SPT at 12:00 in place of general
message S082, we'll put in RS prep. And at 17:00
also for the SPT, we'll delete 1 and 2 and then
give him day-55 transfers around 18:00 there on
the Flight Plan. For the PLT, what we would do
is at 14:00, delete the RS prep and the GM S082
and in it's place day-55 transfers. That'll
help you with the film transfer. And at 16:00
deletethe S082 and let him pick up the - some
more of the day-55 transfers. And at 18:00 in
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place of the eat period, we're going to do PT

and PH, and slide his eat period down to 19:00,
where we'll cancel T053, the photos, and the
photo setups. And by sliding the housekeeping
• and the food drying down in - further into the
post-sleep, that should give all three of you
a couple of hours free there around 20:00 to
22:00.
266 08 28 20 CDR Perfect, Hank. Thanks. Thank the Flight Planners

for reacting fast on that thing.
266 08 28 41 CC And we're about to go LOS here. We'll be coming

up on Canaries at 09:13. And as - as an addi-
tional comment, if anybody does have any free
time in this schedule, we would like to try
some of those screws just so we can get a time
line on how long it takes to - an average to
remove those things.
CDR Okay.
CC And for the SPT, prick the bottom of the earlobe.
CDR Is that the front or the back bottom? Oh, right

on the very bottom_ huh?
266 08 29 20 CC That's affirmative.
266 09 13 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands

and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Good morning, Bruce.
CC Morning, Jack. Hey, while I'm talking to you,

when you look at your S019 pad for later on
today, you may note that since we are not getting
any more Nu z updates, you've got to do a little
work with Achernar and figure out the DELTAs to
your rotation and tilt settings before you per-
form the rest of the experiment. Over.
PLT Oh, yes. I see that. I'll be sure to get there

a little early and do that, O. - Bruce.
CC Okay. And by the way. It was Just pointed out

to me that performing S019 at all today, is your
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option, but if you're going to work it in; you

need to do that. And in voicing up the Flight
Plan changes last time, one item was omitted.
You were scheduled for PT and PH running from
approximately 15:00 to 15:45. This is moved
down to the 18:00 time frame. And the day-55
transfers, go ahead and fill in your schedule
up through 15:45. Over.
266 09 14 48 PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you. Got that.
CC And for the CDR, when he feels like talking,

I've got the picture and some words on A-9
locker stowage. Over.
CDR Now's the time.
CC Okay. No time like the present time. Basically,

since you are not bringing back the S183 film
container, and the return support, and things
like this, what they've done is added two more
EREP tape reels in the aft side of the locker.
By aft, I'm referring to the side toward the
side hatch, and parallel to the existing four
or five - parallel to the existing bundle of
six in the middle. And then after that, you've
got the M518 cartridges and things of this sort.
0ve r.
CDR Okay. Now all I've noticed in there was one

addition. How many should be in that box total?
266 09 15 59 CC There should be l0 total. What you've got is

a lump, if you will, of six of them on the
optics G&N side of the locker, and one on each
side. And then coming back from that lump of
six, we have two more. And I'm trying to see
what it is in between the lump of six and the
lump of two. It looks like the CO 2 passive fil-
ter inlet, two of them, one on each side of the
S055 door ramp. Over.
CDR Okay. By the way, I had to take out the Slh9

mounting fixture to get the EREP tapes to fit in
A-9 without touching the top of the box.
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CDR Do you have a 149 that could fit in there - a

box that could fit? Or have you got both of
them over in A-67
CC We've got both of them over in A-6, is the word

I'm getting here.
266 09 17 04 CDR That's a good word. That's a lot better word

than I'm working on at the moment. One thing,
these sweat samples that we took a week ago,
as I recall, we were told to stow them down
with the fecal samples. I can't remember for
sure. I'll have to check. But if we did,
they're presently stowed in fecal bundles some-
where, so we'll Just bring them home in the
fecal bundles. And they've got sweat sample
written on the front of them instead of fecal.
CC Okay. The word we're getting around here is

no sweat.
CC And, we have a message in the teleprinter for

you. Some - next time somebody gets by the
STS, you might pick it up.
CDR Okay. And I think I'll take out this A-7 locker
without a lock-top, and put it somewhere to
get this command module a little more freed up.
CC Roger, A1. That locker does, eventually, get

replaced with the urine retain container - the
urine return container anyway, so press on.
266 09 20 07 CDR I've got an S020 cushion in A-6. Should I pull

that out? Or does - is it removable?
CC Stand by. We'll get you an answer on that.
CC And did you copy A1, about A-7 position being

taken by the urine return container anyway?
CDR You bet.
266 09 24 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston for the CDR. We believe

the S020 cushion in A-6 snaps out. In any event,
it is removable and should be pulled out. S020
is not coming back. We've got a little over
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i minute to LOS here. Next station contact,

in 28 minutes, through Carnarvon at 09:53,
where we'll be dumping the data voice tape re-
corder. Over.
CDR Okay. I kept working on 20 - $20 cushion.

Could never get it out.
CC Okay. Do you need to get it out to put the

contents of the locker in, or does it look like
it will go without it?
CDR Well, so far it's okay. I'll Just leave it

in. It - it looks to me like it may be bonded.
You know a lot of times it's snapped, but I
couldn't get it out.
266 09 25 31 CC Okay. Well, we'll look into it again during

this LOS period. The word we got back was that
it was in there with snaps, but we'll check it.
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266 09 53 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for 13-1/2 minutes. And we're scheduled
to dump your data voice tape recorders here. Over.
CC And for the CDR, with reference to the S020 cushion

in A-6, further checking shows that that's bonded
in. We think you can leave it in place without
interfering with the return stowage. Over.
CDR Okay. We got a little information to pass on to

you about a sound we've been hearing up here lately.
CC Pass.
CDR Okay. First time we heard it was about - We think

it was the last EVA, but we're not sure.
CC Is this - -
CDR But it only happened one time and we thought it

was something else.
CC Is this Mister Hertz at 4 per second? Over.
CDR No. Different.
CC Go.
CDR You got a few minutes?
CC Twelve of them.
CDR Okay. That's a few. All right. What - Like

yesterday, we started hearing this gurgling sound.
And it sounded like high-pressure air was being
squirted out under water or a shaft on an electric
motor was squeaking. Mostly it sounded to me like
high-pressure air gurgling under water or a relief
valve relieving. So we tracked it down. And we
found that it was not in the spacecraft, but it
seemed to be outside the spacecraft. And the place
that we could hear it best, so we thought it was
probably right at that point, was out in the lock
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compartment, and let me - let me give you a good

position. Now let me look and I'll give you a
good position. It's a little bit further aft
than the relief valve, which incidentally is
CLOSED, because that was an obvious thought, that
somehow the relief valve was making the noise -
a little bit further aft than that, but still be-
fore you get to the next frame. Now, you'll hear
it - hear it gurgling. You'll come up there and
listen to it and it'll do it for maybe l0 seconds,
stop, do it for 5 seconds, stop for another 30 sec-
onds, do it for l0 seconds, aud that's it. Then
you won't hear it again for another hour or 2.
Then it goes through the same machination. Now we
heard it earlier last night. We ali listened to
it, then it kicked off about four or five times
again last night. And it's done it about twice
this morning that we've heard it.
266 09 56 42 CC We're still with you.
CDR That's all we know. It's a real stranger.
CDR And we're obviously going to hit the vent window

because I'm going to pump Jack down in about 2
minutes
CC Okay. And same sort of thing in connection with

the weird noises, if you do notice the 4-Hertz
noise again on channel B, we've got a fairly simple
procedure we'd like you to run through. I can s_n
it up as saying record it on the VTR. The steps
would be to connect the VTR voice cable to the
channel B and the SIA. Initiate VTR recording,
the camera not being required. Put some voice on
the VTR, and put 30 seconds of the _-cycle noise
on the VTR with no voice and then let us know over
the next station and we'll dump it and see what
we've got down here. Over.
CDR Will do.
CC And that, of course, is to get the thing on record,

since we can't do a record on channel B anymore
from inside the airlock on the airlock module
system.
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CC CDR, this is Houston. For your information, we're

not seeing blood pressure measuring system readings
at the present time. We're wondering if you're
getting them on board. Over.
CDR I was in the process of setting it when you called.

How does it look now?
CC Looks good now.
CDR On your miscellaneous stowage transfers, they

indicate that they want us to bring home the last
two CO 2 passive filter cartridges we used. Jack
indicates that we can tell possi - We can bring
home eight and the two will be in there somewhere,
but we don't know which two is - are the last two.
CC Okay. We copy that. We'll get you an answer in

a pass or two.
266 l0 05 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3h-1/2 minutes through Merritt
Island at 10:40. Out.
266 l0 06 28 CC And for the CDR, as we go over the hill here, with
respect to that procedure for recording the
4-Hertz signal on the VTR, we've just discovered
that in order to record the voice satisfactorily,
you need a sync signal coming from somewhere. We
recommend that you hook up the portable TV camera
and operate that in order to provide the sync sig-
nal to the VTR. Over.
266 l0 40 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for ll-1/2 minutes for the SPT. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for ll minutes for the SPT. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Owen. If we can interrupt you for a min-

ute, we've got a little test we'd like to run on
ATM TV monitor number 1. Over.
SPT Stand by Just a moment and I'll be up there.

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CC Roger.
SPT Okay. I'm at the panel, Bruce. What would you

like?
CC Okay. Over there on the left-hand side under

CONSOLE POWER DISTRIB_ION, we'd like you to cycle
the MONITOR i MAIN POWER circuit breaker to OUT
and then back IN once please. Over.
SPT Roger. It's OUT now. And it's IN ags/n now.

Test complete.
CC Okay. Give us a mark and turn the MONITOR 1 POWER

switch, ON and give it 1 minute to warm up.
SPT Roger. Stand by -
266 l0 42 25 SPT MARK. MON 1 POWER, ON.
CC And let us know if during this period of time the

raster appears on MON 1.
SPT Unfortunately not.
CC Okay. We'd like you to turn the M0N 1 POWER switch

OFF. And go back and cycle the MAIN POWER circuit
breaker several times and leave it in CLOSED and
we're - got a handover here to Bermuda in about
30 seconds.
266 l0 43 h6 SPT Okay. The POWER switch is OFF and the circuit
breaker is a MON i breaker from experiment - from
MAIN. That's right. MAIN to MON 1 and I'll cycle
it several times.
CC Roger.
266 l0 h4 19 CC Okay. We're with you now through Bermuda, (>wen.

When you've completed cycling the breaker, we'd
like to go through three cycles and we'll give
you a mark of the following: TV MONITOR 1 POWER
switch to ON for l0 seconds and then OFF for
60 seconds. If you're ready to go, why go ahead
and turn it ON.
266 i0 44 40 CC MARK.
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SPT Roger. I turned it ON on your mark.
CC Okay. OFF -
266 i0 44 49 CC MARK.
SPT Roger.
CC What we're doing here is watching on telemetry,

seeing if we can get an indication that there's
at least a transient of power, indicating that
power would be coming up to the input of the TV
MON l, maybe into an input filter or something of
that sort, that would allow us to send up a
replacement unit on SL-4 and be assured of getting
power up to the connectors.
SPT Yes. That sounds like a good idea.
SPT I thought once I heard a click on the intercomn

here when - I opened the circuit breaker, but I
didn't hear it after that.
CC Okay. Standing by to turn it ON again -
266 I0 45 49 CC MARK.
SPT Roger.
CC Standing by for OFF -
266 i0 45 59 CC MARK.
SPT Okay. And if you don't see anything positive, it

might he worth doing the same thing on MON 2 one
time, just so that you'll see the signature of
what it should look like.
CC We copy your suggestion, Owen, but since MON 2 is

working normally, we don't think that it's neces-
sary. The - the effects would be much larger,
since it's drawing - would be drawing normal power
and having shut it down, we'd Just as soon not
cycle it. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Standing by for the last ON cycle -

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266 l0 46 59 CC MARK.
CC And going back OFF again -
266 i0 47 09 CC MARK.
SPT Complete.
CC Okay. That completes the test. Thank you. We 're

sorry to have to break into your schedule like this.
SPT No problem. Does it look like that - that it told

you anything? Did you see any transient down
there on the telemetry or do you need to look at
it a little while?
CC We need to look at the high-speed data. Right now

it's just on the tubes as it shows up in the MOCR.
We didn't see anything, but we'll examine the
high-speed traces and let you know later.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CDR What'd y'all decide to do about the CO2 filters?
CC We 're still working that one, A1.
CDR Okay. Let me give you another one to work.
CC Okay. You're all heart.
266 l0 50 l0 CDR Say again.
CC You're all heart. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. I was working on collecting the food they

want brought back. Two items we don't have. One
is eggs. One is apple drink. Now, they may want
me to bring back some of SL-4's, one - one apple
drink and one egg. And if that's true, have them
send me where it's located and I'll go get it and
I'll put it in the - the bag.
266 l0 50 42 CC Okay. We'll do that. One minute to LOS. Next

station contact in _-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 10:55. Over.
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266 i0 50 59 CDR I just looked at something, and maybe I know where

I can find an eggs [sicS. Let me go work on the
eggs a minute.
CC Okay.
266 l0 55 2_ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes, for the CDR.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 7 min-

utes, for the CDR. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay. With respect to your question on the food,

looks like the scrambled eggs should be in F-550
in overage. If they are not there, you can look
in the SL-4 overage, which is in F-562, front
bundle, over can number 28. We show all the apple
drink as being stowed in location F-5h8, which is
over to the left of your frozen food lockers and
it was in the secondbundle that the SL-2 crew's
moved out of the galley on activation. Over.
CDR Okay. I've got the scramblinged [sic] eggs right

out of where you said - 562 front. And we've
drank [sic] all the apple drink. There isn't an
apple drink one in the spacecraft, unless it belongs
to Jerry's crew somewhere. Not in overage, We
got all the overage drinks.
CC The word we've got is that all the apple drink that
was on the spacecraft was in that F-548 location.
CDR That's gone long time in the M071/72.
CC Sounds like you might have eaten the data.
CDR That's it, unless they want us to bring home

applesauce. We've got some of that.
266 l0 57 h9 CC Well, the apple drink will be coming home in some

other form, but just transformed.
MCC (Laughter)
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266 ii 02 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 25-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 11:28. Out.
266 ll 28 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for 15 minutes. Checklist - or Flight
Plan change for the SPT: the T053 operation
scheduled today for about 12:20 has been cancelled
due to overcast weather at the Goddard Space Flight
Center. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, I have it.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Getting back to you the

question of the apple drink: no substitute is
required for the apple drink for return. This
beverage had been selected as being potentially
the most susceptible to change due to temperature.
However, the fact that you consumed all of them
seems to verify its acceptability for human con-
sumption; and scrambled eggs, which you obtained
out of that F-562, will be quite satisfactory.
Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce; we copy.
266 ll 37 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to handover.

Pick you up at Honeysuckle in a little over a
minute. We will be rewinding the video tape re-
corder and taking control of it per the schedule
of - at Honeysuckle. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. The VTR is yours.
266 ii 42 43 CC Skylab this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 12:12. Out.
SPT Bruce, on the 133 deactivation, there's apparently

a tape canister bag that goes around the return
canister. I've never found that bag, but I a_so
don't think that it's really necessary. I've got
tapes into the canister, and I wonder if it's Just
satisfactory to go ahead and stow the canister
itself without the bag.
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CC We copy, (>wen. We'll try and get you an answer.

We got about i0 seconds before scheduled LOS here.
SPT Understand. The next pass is fine.
266 ll 43 37 CC Roger.
266 12 14 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston thro,_gh Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for lh minutes.
Dumping data voice tape recorder over Corpus
Christi. And for the SPT: the last place that
we tracked the M133 stowage bag for return is in
S-91B, that's S-913. It may be in another bag
or with some other bags in that location. Over.
SPT Good. I'll take a look there, but it doesn't

re_11y look like it needs a bag anyway. That's
what I'd like confirmation on, also, please. I'll
- I'll check 913 again.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CC Okay, (>wen. If you can't find the provided stowage

hag, take some of the proverbial gray tape and
tape them securely together and bring them back
like that.
266 12 15 50 SPT Oh, the mag tapes are not loose. They're inside
a hard metal canister right now. And it's Just
a bag that goes around the canister that I couldn't
find. And that's the thing that I don't really
think is necessary. They've got a hard-cover
metal can - canister enclosing both the tapes.
CC Roger. We understand all that. Our uu.derstand-

ing is you're bringing back two of these tape
assemblies. We were suggesting taping the two
assemblies together to keep them from rattling
against each other.
SPT Well, they slip inside this container which holds

them firmly, so there's no way to rattle around.
CC Okay. One container total.
266 12 16 25 SPT That's right. One container containing the two

tapes.
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266 12 27 _0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5-1/2 minuter through Madrid
at 12:33. And for the SPT: did you find that bag
in $913, or are you bringing the 133 stuff back
without a bag? Over.
SPT We're bringing it back.
CC Roger. We copy. You're bringing it back.
SPT I didn't find the covers in 913, Bruce.
CC Okay. Thank you. No sweat - -
SPT Say, Bruce, I do notice that the 133 deactivation

did not say anything at all about this large can
full of electrolyte, needles, and that sort of
stuff that I brought up in order to make the caps
work. And I wonder if they Just want me to trash
airlock that stuff, or have any desire for any of
that stuff to be handled otherwise. Over.
266 12 29 24 CC We'll catch it over Madrid.
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7 minutes. Out.
CDR Say, Bruce. I forgot to mention that I looked

over that entry briefing that was sent up this
morning, for correcting - or verifying that my
checklist was correct and it was completely correct.
And everything's just right.
CC Okay. So much for the good news. Great.
266 12 40 0h CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 39 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 13:19. And for your information, there's
a pretty good aurora australis going on, that you
should be able to see Just after sunset down by
Honeysuckle. Over.
266 12 40 23 PLT Okay, Bruce; thank you. We had a little 2485.
266 13 19 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle;

1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in
30 minutes through Corpus Christi. Short pass.
And for the SPT, how are you progressing on this
refrigeration system reconfiguration with respect
to J-5? Over.
CDR We got all the screws out but six and they're
loose, and that's where we stand at the moment.
CC Okay. What we'd like to do is schedule this

disconnect for the stateside pass, the one that
starts with Corpus Christi here in about 29 minutes.
Over.
CDR He's pulling M092 right now.
CC Roger, CDE. How about you? We've got you up for

PH and - and you - you - you - you'll be winding
up an eat period then.
CDR I'm trying to stow the command module. You want

me to stop that and go work on this or what? I
can do either you want me to do.
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CC Negative. Go ahead. Maybe we can catch the PLT

then. It's 13:h9, 13:50 is Corpus Christi, and
looks like he'll just be winding up being observer
and getting ready to eat.
CDR Bruce, you better slide that thing a little ways

and let us - we haven't been working that one too
hard. We've got - we've got it in a position to
go on it, but we're Just - we got about eight
balls in the air at the moment 2
CC Okay. We'll hold it.
CDR ... number 50 ...
266 13 21 34 CC Roger. You're way down in the mud. We'll go

ahead and hold it. We'll talk to you over Corpus
Christi.
266 13 49 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi

and Bermuda for 15-1/2 minutes, with a message
for the SPT.
CC Roger. With respect to the M133 electrolyte,

the extra electrolyte, that is, we'd like to put
the vials in a fecal bag, seal the bag, and return
it to $909, where we believe you currently have
it stowed. In sealing the bag up, try and get as
much as the air - as much as the air out as pos-
sible, and then make a airtight seal on it.
You can leave the balance of the paraphernalia
associated with this kit in its present location,
$909 and in its present configuration. Over.
SPT Okay, thsn_ you.
CDR Bruce, I was unable to fit $230 and 228 into U-4,
so I stuck them in my TSB.
CC Okay, we copy that. Let us think about that

a minute.
266 13 50 lh CDR I tell you what might be appropriate to do. We

were pretty full up before we got all these extra
things. It might be appropriate to find a bag
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here of - that y' all might know about and then when
these lockers fill up, then Just put those items
in the bag and then we'll tie that bag down for
entry and we won't have - won't take quite so
long to pack them. It takes a long time to pack
each of these lockers, because if you don't get
them in exactly the right way, they Just don't
fit. And we really don't have any - We've got
pictures for some of them up here, some we don't
and I'm just - haven't really come to that problem
except on U-h. U-4 is completely full; there's
no way to get those in there. And maybe we Just
need kind of a accumulator somewhere that can
take the few items that are bound to not fit.
CC Okay, A1. We'll take that under advisement. As

I mentioned, we will work the U-& problem right
now. However, the general philosophy we'd like
to stick to is configuring the lockers per the
stowage list. If you have some problems with
configuration, why, we'll be glad to work with
you on them and do whatever we can to get the
things in, but we think that for the time being
that's probably a better plan than an accumulator
system. And with respect to your gurgling noise
from this morning, we've been looking around, and
if you were to position yourself in the airlock
facing the relief valve with you feet down towards
the workshop and your head up towards the STS, the
eight liquid accumulators for the airlock module
primary cooling system would be off to your right
about 1 to 2 feet and directly outside the skin
of the vehicle. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Jack and A1 are both fairly optimis-

tic about being - that's what - it what the
interpretation should be.
CC Okay, we're seeing, incidentally, a cyclical

pressure fluctuation with a 9B-minute period from
3 to 7 psi in the primary coolant loop as it heats
and cools. Over.
266 13 53 &0 SPT Roger.
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266 14 0000 CDR You still there, Bruce?
CC Still here.
CDR Now one of the teleprinter up-link messages - It

said bring back M092 legband number - serial
number BJ078-139 configuration.
CC Okay.
CDR I have a legband in my hand, written on it

1450BJ32. And also it's got some tape on in, that
I assume came from a previous flight. It says
malfunction something or other; I can't read the
rest of it. But, I can find in no place this
BJ078 or the minus 139 configuration.
CC Stand by, please.
CDR On the side it has assembly 8400 0032500 and then

39 and then 04236. That's the only numbers on
there.
CDR Here's another big number that gives me the clue

we may be right. It says 00000078. But we got
the BJ one place and we've got the 78 another
place. Plus a bunch of other numbers, so I
suspicion [sic] it's the right one.
CC Okay. We're working that, A1.
CC CDR, Houston. In reading then at BJ32, would you

confirm the 32 is 3.2, the cal number? Over.
CDR Yes, it is.
CC Okay. We'll have you an answer here in a second

or so. I suspect that it's going to be the right
one.
CDR Concur. Also_ it won't fit in the tissue box.

The tissue box is full.
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CC Okay. That's the correct legband. The se -

the proper identification is BJ or serial
number 00000078. And understand, you can't
get it into the tissue box?
CDR Tissue box has padding in those boards. And then

I also put in the 558, I believe it was, viewport.
I was afraid it would get broken if I just left
it floating around in A-9. I can take that out,
but it's still going to be awful tight and squshed
[sic] in there.
266 14 04 28 CC Okay, 45 seconds to LOS. Next station is in

5-1/2 minutes over Madrid at 14:10. We'll see
you there and we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder at Madrid.
266 14 i0 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 min-

utes and 45 seconds. Dumping the data voice tape
recorder with what we hope is some good news for
the CDR.
PLT We'll take any good news you got, Bruce.
CC Okay. With respect to this tissue container and

the legband and the 553 camera viewport shield,
what is to be done is open up the tissue dispenser
and on the back there's some snaps which you can
unsnap and remove all the tissues and cardboard
and anything else you find in there and put the -
legband inside that compartment and snap the back
closed again. Then on top of the front, you place
the M553 camera view - viewport shield and then you
fold the container closed so that, in effect, you've
got that layer of - of fabric between the legband
and the viewport and the whole thing is contained
in the tissue package. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I got it.
CC And with respect to the U-4 stowage, we checked

our stowage down here and we think that the
following items which we're carrying as being in
U-4 should all fit. That's the PGA maintenance
kit with strap, the official flight kit, the OFK,
APK with strap, parasol sample, one set of the
$228 trans-uranic detectors, and the $230 sample
and its return bag. Over.
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PLT Okay. There's six OFK's, not one, Bruce.
CC Yes. That's six packages making up the OFK.

Right ?
PLT Yes. Was that what you were speaking of?
CC Roger.
PLT Another reason for the difficulty we're having,

Bruce, is that the differences in sizes between
the ones we got and the ones you got may not be
the same.
CC Okay. Roger on that. Would you confirm that on

the 228 stuff, it's one - one venetian blind worth
or one set of samples that you're ts]king about.
And the one set that you retrieved from EVA on
$230. And if you still have problems with the
stowage, why, we'll come up with alternate locations
_ for 228 to 230 foryou. Over.
PLT Bruce, we've got three of the 230 - $230 samples,

rather than two.
CC Okay. Let's - let us check on that.
PLT And, Bruce, I'd like to have somebody call over to

the Harris County Youth Village and tell the boys
in the Sunday school class I'm thinking about
them this morning. And also please call my wife
and have her speak to the pastor of our church and
- and tell the people there that they're on my
mind, too.
266 14 1L 43 CC You sort of [sic] cutting out on that last one.

You want me to call over to the Harris County
Youth Village and tell them you're thinking about
the boys who were out here the other day?
PLT Yes. The boys in my Sunday school class there, and

also have my wife speak to the pastor and - and
let the people know at the church I go to that
I'm thinking about them also today.
CC Okay.
PLT Thank you.

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266 14 18 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We got i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 38 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at i_:57. And I got some more words on
U-h stowage for you. Over.
SPT We can hear you.
CC Okay. On S230, right. It consists of three items

and their return bag. On S - But that has to go
into U-h first, before the other items, in order
for it to fit. Secondly, on $228, confirm that
you are bringing back Just one panel measuring
about 7 by 8 inches by a quarter of an inch thick,
serial number 50. Over.
226 14 19 05 SPT Roger.

5 minutes with some good news and some bad news.
Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. The good news is we've solved your CO2

cartridge problem. What we want to do is to return
five of the passive inlet filter cartridges,
and that'll take care of the identification
problem. That's five out of eight of the passive
inlet cartridges. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick. Got it.
CC And the other news is that we've reviewed the

thermal constraints on the IMSS return container,
and it is developed that the seal on this container
cannot stand being in the freezer for any longer
than a period of 45 minutes in order to insure
effective operation. And this period of time in
the freezer is not long enough to get a good cold
soak on the return container. Therefore, we need
to get it put in the chiller as soon as possible
and left in the chiller until it time-lined
removal for packing and transfer to the commsnd
module. Over.
SPT Okay. Now, you're talking about the large over

can, the two half cylinders into which all the
IMSS stuff fits. Is that correct?
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CC Yes, sir. We are.
SPT It's already in the chiller.
CC Well, we copy they're already - already in the

chiller?
SPT That' s correct. That's our good news for you

today. Could you copy me?
CC Roger. We copied. It's already in the chiller

and that's great. We'll get it down to temperature,
and everybody 's happy down here.
SPT Great.
266 15 01 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at
15 :17. Out.
266 15 17 31 CC Sky_ab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

B minutes. Over.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Two quick items for you. One is that

we're working on the last set of changes, oh,
about a half a dozen real small ones, to the
Deactivation Checklist right now. We expect to
have them on board for you within about an hour.
Secondly, if you're still having trouble getting
U-4 stowed, we recommend that you take the OFK
and stow it in the PGA bags. And then when you
go ahead and add the PGAs later, you can Just
secure the whole thing in one location like that.
Over.
CDR Okay, that's what I'll do. Good idea.
CDR We got the films loaded in bags; we haven't trans-

ferred them to the command module yet. And wh@n
we're loading film we noticed that film CX - These
are 400-foot mags - CX60, 62, and 83 were not listed,
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but we have film that we've taken in them. We need

to bring them back.
CC Okay; we copy. It's CX60, 62, and 83 are used

magazines with exposed film in them and they're
not carried on the list. Is that correct?
CDR You're right.
CC Did you notice any that were listed that you had
not used.
CDR No.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR We found the bag full of bags, and we came up with

the 133 bag, so we'll go stick that in the bag.
We came up with a TV camera bag but it's too big
to go in R-13 correctly, so we'll probably continue
to use the bag we've got in there. And we also
came up with the T003 bag. So they were all
inside of other great big bags.
266 15 21 21 CC Roger. Glad you got the bag of bags. We'll check
on the film. One minute to LOS. Next station
contact is 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at
15 :25. Out.
266 15 25 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston coming to you through

the courtesy of Goldstone for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Say, Bruce. l'm going to start on this refrigera-

tion system work now. What's the ground coverage
requirement ?
CC Okay. We need coverage when you pull the connectors.

And we'll have Goldstone here for about 7 minutes
more, followed by a fairly short Bermuda pass,
about 5 minutes, followed by a - a long Canary
pass. So go ahead and press on up to that point,
and then we'll have to give you a - a status check
when you get there.
266 15 26 58 PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
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266 15 32 59 CC CDR, this is Houston; a minute and 30 seconds to

LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through
Bermuda at 15:38. We got a couple of questions
for you on the fd]m. You said, "CX60, 62 and 83."
We're thinking that perhaps you mean CI60, 62
and 63 talking in terms of the takeup reel. Over.
CDR You're right. You're right. Got a question for

you. What do we do with that second SO19 canister?
We didn't see a notice anywhere.
CC Okay. The second SO19 film canister goes in

A-5 for return, and we'll get with you on the -
the stowage of these extra 400-foot cassettes.
CDR Okay. I also get the impression there isn't a

bag for that second SO19. Is that correct?
- 266 15 34 28 CC CDR, Houston. We'll get you the word on that.

There is no bag. We may want it wrapped in
something. And youcan change the stowage to
include through CI63 on the 400-footers. The
extra one does not have a pocket in the bag. You
got 30 pockets and 31 MAGS. You might put a
piece of tape over the film gate on CI63 and work
it in. We'll talk to you over Bermuda.
266 15 38 ll CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, A1. I don't know if you copied me as we faded

out over the hill, there. On page 2-39 of your
stowage book under the day-55 transfers, the
400-foot magazine transfer list presently reads,
"CI39 through CI61"; that needs to be changed to
CI39 through CI63. Cbange the total quantity there
to 31. And, as I was trying to say as you went
over the hill, there'll be one MAG left over
without a pocket into which youplace it. If you
put a piece of gray tape across the film gate, _e
believe it can be worked into the locker configura-
- tion. Locker A-S, as it is, without any particular
concern. The SO19, there's no requirement for
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for wrapping the second film unit, but if there

is something handy that you can put around it or
in which you can insert it, why, it probably would
be a good idea. And in your Flight Plan later on
today, for the L - PLT, there's some 35-millimeter
film that's being used for photographing the SO19
stowage operations. That 35-millimeter film winds
up going into A-6. Over.
266 15 39 _9 CDR Okay. Making that noise right now again. And I
don't mean the comm; I mean the - I guess it must
be the coolant loop, primA_y.
CC Okay, we'll take a mark on it. Can you tell whether

it's coming from that area I described as the
primary loop accumulators?
CDR Seems to be.
CC Well, we'll get the EGIL to check and see if he's

getting any pressure fluctuations.
CDR When you put your head to the wall between the VS
tree and the release valve, you can hear it. That
seems to be the epicenter of the whole operation.
CC Okay, do you think you'd gain anything by using

the stethoscope out of the IMSS kit to listen?
266 15 41 08 CDR I don't think you need to.
CC Okay. That loud, eh?
CDR We can hear it down here when it goes off up

there. Woke up Jack, and that's near impossible.
CC Keep the faith.
CDR Owen thinks it sounds like a water pump on a car

that needs lubrication.
CC Okay, we'll input that. That sounds more like

you're describing something where there's
mechanical friction than it does something like
it's gurgling. Over.
SPT It does to me, Bruce; that's why I offered the

other suggestion.
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266 15 42 54 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through the
Canaries at 15:47. Out.
266 15 47 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for

9-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder next site, which is Honeysuckle.
Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Is your EGIL down there wide awake?
266 15 49 ll CC Yes, we got a Flight Director with an EGIL on

his back now.
PLT (Laughter) Okay. Well, I'm ready to break this

J5 connector. All you got to do is say the word.
I'm looking at it, and I got the wrench on it
right now.
CC Okay, Jack; break away.
PLT That was Jll, wasn't it?
CC Very f_mny, brown side out.
PLT I'm Just kidding you. It's J5; I got it. Just a
minute, it's going to come loose.
PLT That 's it ; it 's broken loose.
CC Okay. Well, everything's quiet down here, so I

guess you're clear to go ahead and tape it up and
cover it up like it says in the pad.
PLT Okay. I've got that written down. You won't have
to describe it to me, Bruce. Nothing happened up
here, just came loose. That's it. You don't see
anything else, huh?
CC Well, what that does is, it enables us to go ahead

and run either or both loops by ground command.
PLT Right. I understand it disconnects the auto

disconnect. Right?
_ CC Roger.
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266 15 50 52 PLT On I mean the auto circuitry. Okay, I'll Just

go ahead and proceed and complete the procedure •
and put everything back, except for the connector.
PLT That was about - about as easy as pulling front

teeth, Bruce.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can't set a few more of

those up for you when you get back. And, by
the way, for the CDR, if he's listening, in a
time coincidental frame with his report of the
gurgling, we noticedthe flow through the ATM
C&D coolant loop dipped to about 202 pounds per
hour from its normal 237 pounds per hour, and
then go [sic] back up. Over.
CDR ...
CC We didn't copy your last transmission.
266 15 52 00 CDR The next time we hear it, we'll try to give -
get a time, and then maybe you can track it
back again.
CC Okay, another thing you could do when you hear

it is go up and take a peak at the ATM CKD
coolant reservoir up there behind that stowage
locker it STS.
CDR Okay.
266 15 54 59 CDR There it goes again.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR We were just ... to the ATM rig.
CDR We were just looking at the ...
CC Understand you were Just looking at the ATM

C&D reservoir?
CDR Yes. Owen's going up there to look at it again.

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CC Okay. For some reason, we're getting a lot of

static on the down-link here.
SPT The ATM coolant reservoir is full and no bubbles,

no apparent change in volume.
CC Okay. Is the gurgling still going on?
CDR Affirmative.
266 15 56 02 CC Okay, 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in

36minutes through Honeysuckle at 16:32. We
show a decrease in ATM C&D flow to 230. Not
nearly as - it's going down farther now.
SPT I agree; still croaking away.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Jack is in the airlock, and he says the sound is

right next to the cabin release valve in the
airlock.
CC Roger. Right next to the cabin release valve.

Okay. ATMC&D coolant loop pumps are right
there on the right-hand side of that valve. Leave
the configuration as is unless something unfore-
seen comes up during this LOS. And we'll talk to
you over Honeysuckle further about it.
266 15 56 58 SPT Roger.

9 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Okay, what we would like to do is on panel 203,

ATM coolant pump for the C&D system, PUMP A to
OFF. We are considering removing and/or replacing
the filter in the line later on today. And
possibly, after that, checking out the system
using another pump. Over.
SPT Okay, I'll have to wait a few minutes; I'm Just

finishing the LBNP with A1. I'm not sure what
Jack is doing.
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PLT Okay, Bruce, PUMP A in the ATM coolant loop, is

OFF. That means there are no pumps running in
the ATM coolant loop.
CC Roger; we copy that. We see the flow going down

to essentially zero. And we have confirmed that
there is no requirement for cooling for the balance
of the mission with the TV MONITORS both OFF.
PLT Okay, good. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Also, for your joint information, we'll be taking

out the momentum biases that were loaded in over
Hawaii this rev after you complete the last
M092 run. Out.
266 16 33 28 PLT Okay, Bruce, and I've Just located the five inlet
passive filters that have been replaced most
recently. And I've numbered them 1 through 5.
The lower the number, the more likely it is to
have been removed most recently. And I put a note
to that effect on the package that the filter
cartidges will be in. And I forgot where you
wanted them stowed, but I guess A1 probably knows.
CC Okay, I think it's A-9, but we'll check that.
SPT Okay, thank you.
266 16 34 06 CC And we understand you're using something other

than a linear distribution of probability on
judging which ones are the most recently removed.
PLT That's right. I've used that equation that goes

off into the imaginary plane to minus infinity.
CC Just as long as we get you guys back on entry

day, that's okay.
PLT Okay, you guys can work out those probabilities

on ground. I've numbered them 1 through 5, being
a simple-minded guy like myself.
CC Roger ; we thank you.
CC And for your background information, one of the

failure modes with which we're concerned on the
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ATM C&D coolant system is a pump bearing

failure. This gets insidious because the
bearings are cooled by the circulating coolant.
And we're concerned that, unless we leave the
pump run [sic] too long, we may wind up with
deteriorated bearing particles circulating
throughout the loop. Therefore_ we want to
get it shut off now and think about it.
266 16 36 07 CC At the present time, we're dumping your data voice

tape recorder. Out.
266 16 40 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston; l minute to LOS.

Next station contact in llminutes through
Hawaii at 16:52. Out.
PLT See you there, Bruce.
CC And the final, we hope, change to the Deactivation

Checklist message is in your teleprinter.
266 16 41 19 PLT We hope so, too. Thank you, Bruce.
266 16 52 18 CC Good evening, Skylab. We're AOS over Hawaii

for 9-1/2 minutes.
PLT By golly, there's a Crip. Hello there, Crip.
CC I decided it was time to come back to work. And

we'll need the DAS for a couple of minutes to
put the momentum biases back to zero, as Bruce
told you earlier.
MCC Don't you guys forget it, either.
PLT ... here the whole day. It's yours.
CC Roger.
266 16 5_ 21 CC Skylab, the DAS belongs to you guys again.
PLT Okay.
266 16 56 25 CC (>wen, on our data down here on the ground, we

aren't seeing blood pressure yet. Are you
reading systolic/diastolic?
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SPT We haven't started the 171 portion yet, Bob.

You'll get it in a minute.
CC Okay. We've seen the cal and we thought you

should be there.
SPT I'm just getting the vital capacities right now.
CC Thank you.
266 16 59 12 SPT You should have it now, Bob.
CC That's affirm. We're copying. Thank you, Owen.
266 16 59 48 PLT Say, Bob, In terminating M - M518 yesterday,

I noticed there is no requirement to close the
filament chamber vent valve and I know it's really
not required, but I was wondering if somebody
just overlooked it or we should Just leave it
like it is? It's open now.
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Time: 266:17_00 to 266:18:30
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266 17 00 i0 CC Copy that.
CC Jack, we do want that closed; so if you'd close

it for us now, we'd appreciate it.
266 17 00 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 m÷nute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Goldstone in about 2-1/2 minutes
at 17:04. And, Jack, you copy, we do want to go
ahead and close that filament chamber vent valve.
PLT Yes, I thought you did. So I Just closed it.

Thank you.
266 17 01 19 CC Thank you, Jack.
266 17 03 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS though Goldstone, 7 minutes.
- 266 17 07 34 CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment, Jack?
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Regarding the SO19 today, if you elect to

go ahead and do that, we'd like to have you do
that photo ops that we had scheduled subsequent to
the SO19 run done during the prep.
PLT Looks to me, Bob, like we're not going to be able

to get to it today, because we're still stowing
and we've got procedural review to go through
tonight, too. And we still got a lot of stowage
to do. So it looks like SO19 isn't going to make
it today.
CC Okay, no sweat.
266 17 _I0 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again over Bermuda in 5 minutes at 17:15.
266 17 15 16 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda, 9 minutes.
266 17 23 16 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. See you over

Canary in 2 minutes at 17:25.
p.
266 17 25 33 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary, 16 minutes.

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266 17 35 18 CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment to talk, please?
PLT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger, Jack. Regarding that S019 thing that we

talked about earlier, no problem of not getting
the ops in, but it is our desire to get the photo-
graph of that mirror, if we can. Do you think you'll
be able to work that in for us?
PLT I'll sure give it a try.
CC Okay. A couple of recommendations that are not

in your message, regarding it. We recommend
lighting it along the long axis of the ellipse of
the mirror, with the light elevated, oh, l0 to
30 degrees above it, so you sort of get a grazing
incidence on it. And then shoot across the short
axis. And you can refocus your camera along the
short axis - axis to pick up the - about three
photographs.
PLT Okay, understand. Thank you.
266 17 37 42 CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to talk, sir?
CDR Just a minute.
CC Regarding our ATM C&D water pump problem, we would

like to go ahead and change out that filter if you
can squeeze it in today; that's housekeeping 81
x-ray on page 9-50 of your SWS Systems Checklist.
A new filter is available in dome locker 446, and
ye're still considering bringing that one that you
pull out, back. So we'd like you to hold onto it
until we make that final decision. And after you
make the changeout, you can go ahead on panel 203
and restart the loop after changeout on pump B,
pump Bravo, not Alfa.
CDR What housekeeping number was that?
CC Roger. 81 X-ray on page 9-50, AI.
CDR Okay, if it's all right with you, what we plan" to

do is finish up our stowage and get that complete.
And then we plan to do the entry practice, and
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we'll eat before that, and then before we go to

bed, if it's not too late, we'll get to that.
266 17 39 37 CC Okay, A1, that sounds good to us. If you get it on

kind of late, we'll Just hold up on turning on the
pump, and we'll work that tomorrow because we want
to look at it for - being on about an hour and then
turn it back off.
CDR Okay.
266 17 40 56 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. Carnarvon in

26 minutes at 18:08.
266 18 08 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canarvon, 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Got a couple of questions for you concerning storage,

Crip.
CC Shoot.
CDR Page 2-43, it talks about U-2 having a D024 return

container, kre think the D024 return container's
in A-5 because when we look in A-5, there it is.
But maybe it shouldn't be, although it had the
bracket in there for it and it seems to me I read
to put it there.
CC We 're checking it
CDR Okay, now we got a - a - a teleprinter update that

says, "transfer 9198 cassettes f_1]], from F-557
to M - M-124. Transfer 198 cassettes P-4 from
557, day 5." These are the ones that we brought
up from Pete's, down in the plenum bag, is that
right?
CC Let me check that out.
CDR Okay, Crip.
266 18 09 32 CC And, A1 while we're trying to get the answers for

you on those, this afternoon, around 22:00, you
had a housekeeping BA, and Jack, a contamination
2A to observe the waterbag dump. If y'all get
.- that in, I've got a couple of windows for you
that - that are good for observing that. And one
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may be a little bit better than the one we've got

scheduled.
PLT I would suggest we not try to make that; that we

try to stay on course, here, and get - get this
thing stowed, and get the ATM in shape, and try
to get our exercise, and get in bed. There's
no way to fit something like that in, it looks
to me l_ke, right now, Crip.
CC Okay, sounds good.
CDR That was a good thing for a month ago. By the

way, I - I may have missed it in the book sometime
ago, but I still have in the co--and module some
items that I think I'm suppose to offload. Let
me mention the names of them, and see if you
concur and where you'd like them.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, tha polychoke orifice, the hose that - that

bleed valve for the - for the 02 . One of the
cabin vent fittings that goes over - that we had
on during launch. That's about the bag full.
CC Okay, we'll get you a reading on those, also.
266 18 12 03 PLT And, Crip, those passive filters that they wanted
brought back for the CO 2 unit are in A-5.
CC Copy that, Jack; thank you.
PLT And I'd like to know what DAC loads I'm going to
use for entry photos and photos of the chutes.
And undocking, I've got to get that set up now.
CC Okay, I believe that the Entry Checklist, gives

you some photo settings for the DAC for - for
the fireball, but we'll get them all confirmed for
you.
PLT Crip, it's not the settings I need. What I really

need is what magazines. Normally, I put one on
the DAC and I have, now, one ready. And I'd like
to know what they are so I can get them out and
load them and stow them.
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CC Okay, sorry; misunderstood.
PLT I got a hunch it's CX08 and 09, but I'm not sure.
266 18 lh 24 CC Okay, Jack, you're right. CX09 and 08 are the

ones that you should use.
PLT Okay, Crip, now the - one of them's only got

55 percent remaining, and I kind of thought, maybe,
we ought to have a full one so that's why I wasn't
sure that was the right one.
CC Roger. We copy; 08 should have been used for

some EREP stuff, earlier.
PLT Okay, well 55 percent is all I need, is that

correct?
266 18 15 07 CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again at Hawaii in 17 minutes at
18:32. And, Jack, we think 09 is full; we recom-
mend you starting out with that.
266 18 ]5 25 PLT Okay, Crip; thank you.
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266 18 31 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii 4 minutes. And

for the CDR, A1, I think I can answer those stow-
age questions you had earlier.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Roger. On the polychoke, the hose, the bleed

valve, and all those 02 fittings, according to
our information, they should have been trans-
ferred in A-7 down to 518 earlier. So since
you still ahve them in the command module, you
can go ahead and put them in F-518.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Crip.
CC Okay. Regarding the 198 cassettes, you're correct.

Those are the ones you brought up from the plenum.
And you're supposed to stow all of them but one
in M-124, and we want you to bring back Papa 4
and to stow it in A-5.
CDR Okay. We've stowed on the comm, so it's already

done; thanks.
CC Very good. And I guesswe're still somewhat

confu - confused about D-024. That should be
stowed in U-2.
266 18 31308 CDR That's right. It's our mistake; I moved it over
there. It's in U-2 now.
266 18 34 51 CC Okay. Very good.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute; Goldstone in

9 minutes at 18:44, 18:44.
CC Hello, we got you for 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. Now I've completed the med deact at

this point, but we're going to still want to
do some ergometer work over the next day and a
half, and I wonder if there's any objection to
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throwing the necessary switches and circuit

breakers to supply power to the ergometer.
And then some time tomorrow afternoon, I'll
repeat or go through page 5-2 and m_e sure
that all the switches are back to their nomi-
nal storage position. Over.
CC No objection from here; sounds like a good plan.
SPT Okay. If you think about it, you might Just

verify on telemetry as best you can or give me
a reminder tomorrow afternoon to make sure 5-2
has been rechecked.
CC We'll be doing that.
CDR Also, Crip, we're about to finished with that

command module stowage, so Just as soon as we
eat, we'll get on that ATMoperation for you.
CC Okay, A1, we'd appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
266 18 47 49 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. We'll have

you over Bermuda in about - correction - over
MLA in about 3 minutes at 18:50.
266 18 50 51 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS MLA 12 minutes. And we'll

be doing a data voice recorder dump here shortly.
266 18 58 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a moment.

We're going to give you a nav update.
PLT Thank you; it's yours.
CC Skylab, the DAS belongs to you guys again.
266 19 02 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're lminute from LOS. We'll

see you over Ascension in 9 minutes at 19:ll.
266 19 02 05 PLT Okay, Bob.
266 19 12 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Ascension 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.

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266 19 15 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you over Carnarvon in 26 minutes at 19:42, 19:42.
266 19 43 46 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. Say, tell me where that filter is stowed

right now and I'll go get it and install it for
you.
CC It's stowed in dome locker 446.
CDR Okay. It's connected right now.
CC Okay. A1, if you could, on panel 203 - to go

ahead and turn ON the PUMP Bravo for the ATM
COOLANT we would appreciate it. And we 'ii run
it for a while and get a little confidence in
the system and probably have you turn it off
before you go to bed.
CDR Okay, B's ON. Incidently, if you didn't hear

that gurgling sound from the time that you
turned OFF the PUMP, ... it all.
CC Copy that.
CDR Have you decided that you want me to stick this

in A-5 or somewhere, or do you want me to put
it back where you can see the red tape on it
somewhere ?
CC If you can Just m_,rk it and hold it for us, A1,

we have to, of course, run it through the board,
find out whether we're going to bring it back.
CDR Sounds good.
CDR And it's returned to 446.
CC Copy.
266 19 51 B7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again over at Guam in B-l/2 minutes at 19:55,
19: 55.
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266 19 55 _2 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Guam l0 minutes.
266 19 57 08 CC CDR, Houston. If you got a moment, I got a

couple of things for you, sir.
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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
266 20 C4 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you over Goldstone in 16.1/2 minutes at 20:21, 20:21.
266 20 2!0 58 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone 17 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are dumping the data voice

recorder through MLA, here.
PLT Okay, Bob.
266 20 37 05 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. We'll see you

over Carnarvon in h_ minutes at 21:21.
266 21 21 21 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon, 5 minutes.
CDR Okay.
266 21 25 48 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute; Guam in

10-1/2 minutes at 21:36, 21:36.
CDR Okay.
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266 21 36 01 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, 3-1/2 minutes.
266 21 38 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Goldstone in about
19 minutes at 21:57. And during that stateside
pass, we'll be standing by for the evening
status report. And also, for that evening
status report, A1, Just - since this is the last
one we're going to be getting on the f_]m report
and to check the FAOs bookkeeping ability, we
would appreciate it if when you check drawer A,
you would end up listing for us each of the
transporter locations in the drawer and their
supply and takeup cassettes.
CDR Okay.
266 21 39 07 CC Thank you.
266 21 57 30 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone, 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Let me give you some nightly status.

We'll get the film log in a minute.
CC Very fine.
CDR 112, 165, 135; 6343, 0398, 6789; 6.214, 6.21h,

6.213; 5.937, 5.934, 5.935; 6.932, 6.933, 6.934.
Exercise: CDR only is 171; SPT: 2/30/5000;
PLT, zero. Medication: zero for everybody.
Sleep: CDR, 5-1/2/fair; SPT, 6/good;
Pilot, 5 - 5-1/2/G. Here's the food log: CDR;
six salt packs plus two salt pills; SPT: four
salt packs plus grape drink, peanuts, butter
cookies, and substitute a grape drink for lemon-
ade; PLT: four salts, add one grape drink and
pears. Delete chocolate instant breakfast,
none available; delete one orange drink, none
available. Substitute one veal and one lemonade
for 2-1/2 bread. Flight Plan deviation: We
were not able to accomplish, although you
already know it, M092 test 1 and 2 on the CDR.
F We did not do generalmessage S082, contamina-
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tion 2-A, or the cooling loop photo. Shopping

list accomplished: We did do housekeeping 81X.
Inoperable equipment: Nothing new, except
you're familiar with the ATM pump problem.
Unscheduled stowage o - kl - location changes:
one Jam from can 4 of the front of 563 to the
wardroom; 31 fecal bags from 571 to the waste
management compartment; one lemonade can,
number 15 -num - can 15 of 563, front; and
one lemonade from can ll of 563 front. Any-
thing else?
266 22 00 38 CC Believe that's got a11 that. I've got a - a

couple of evening questions I can do for you
or you can - I can wait until you get the film
log squared away.
CDR Jack's working on it now. Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the - since we did not do the S019

ops this evening, we wondered did - if you did
get that canister 003 transferred to the com-
mand module?
CDR Sure did, and it's stowed.
CC Okay. Very good. Also, did you get to

move - remove and transfer that S-228 sample?
CDR Yes, we did. We removed it. It now resides

in - still in my plenum - my TSB. As soon as
we get anything else stowed, we'll put it in
a good place. It still won't go in U-2, nor
will the S-230. But as soon as most of the
stuff is stowed, I'll find a nice, neat place
and tell you where it is.
CC Okay. Very good. Regarding that ATM C&D water

filter, we have got the decision made here
that we would like to bring it home, and we
think you could probably find a neat stowage
place quicker than we could. If you want some
help with it, we'll - we'll try to look up
something for you, though.
r_
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266 22 01 52 CDR No, I'ii Just carry it up now, I've got to go

back to work on A-9 for a few more minutes, and
I'll find a nice place and park it and tell you.
CC Okay. Very good. Also, if you noted anything

about that filter that would be of interest to
us, did it look like it had any contaminant in
it or something llke that, we would be interested
in any comments you had about it.
CDR Wlsh I could help you. It's a solid metal fil-

ter from the outside, and it Just looks like a
piece of pipe with a - a hat - a - a - another
piece of pipe perpendicular to it. It's - there's
no way from the outside to gain any insight into
! what'sgoingon inside.
CC Okay. Copy that.
CC And, A1, at your convenience, we've been taking

a look at the ATM C&D coolantloop. That looks
good and you can go ahead and secure pump
Bravo whenever - whenever you want to.
266 22 02 _6 CDR I'll do it right now. I'm on the way up there.
CC Okay. Believe that clears up most of my ques-

tions here.
CDR Do we have Flight Plans for tomorrow?
CC No, sir. Strictly running out of your Deacti-

vation Checklist.
CDR Okay. I've got mine over across the room. But
are the times there in sync with the times that
we're using now?
CC Have to - have to check that, A1. I thought

that y'all were passed up the word about changing
your watches for - to make them - put that in
sync. I don't know whether - have the details
on it, and I'll check it.
266 22 03 32 CDR Good idea. I've never heard of it, though.

F
266 22 07 18 CDR Say, Bob, the filter goes Just fine in A-5.
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CC Sounds good, A1.
PLT Say, Crip, I've got the film log. You want to
listen to it?
CC Yes, sir, Jack. Go ahead and shoot it down.
PLT Okay, 16-millimeter: we filmed the blood draw

this morning, C183, 00, C163. The diffusion
experiment is C16_, 60, CI62, MISI for M092
and 171 is C182, 50, CI83. We filmed the
preparation of the evening meal, C182, 22,
C183. Handheld photos: CX35 has o4, CII06 has
27; 70-millimeter: CX27 has 156. Drawer A
configurations as follows: Alfa i has 07,
C158, 13, C153; Alfa 2 has 05; C164, 60, C162_
Alfa 3 has 06, CI21, 45, CI60; Alfa 4 has 03,
CI82, 22, CI83. The back magazine is transpor-
ter 02, no supply and take up of CI56. We got
your pad a little too late on EVA day to
execute it. The transporters were already
loaded when we got it, so that's one of the
reasons for differing in the f_]m loading.
We have one malfunctioning magazine, and it
happened a couple of days ago, and I tried to
fix it but was umable. Magazine CI85, in F-l_,
the tab has been withdrawn into the magazine.
And that's the film log. Any questions?
266 22 09 26 CC Okay, we copied all that. Let me run it

through our backroom and see if we got amy
problems.
PLT Our plan is to shoot up the film inside our

transporters tonight and tomorrow and load
no more.
CC Copy.
CC Okay, Jack, I guess one - one question was

did you have an opportunity to photograph the
S019 mirror?
PLT Yes, sir, I did do that. Took four photos.
CC Very good, appreciate it. Regarding Al's

question earlier, our reco,_endation is to set
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your clocks ahead 4 hours for tomorrow so that you

can run with the time line that is in your Deacti-
vation Checklist. That would mean that it would
be strictly on your watches, and the time that you
have on your GMT displays would - would be in error.
We're also thinking about running a test to going
back to the secondary time reference system. And -
which could possibly put those clocks in error
otherwise, and we wonder how you feel about not
being able to use those tomorrow?
CDR I think it's okay not to have those tomorrow. We

can use our wristwatches.
266 212ll 00 CC Okay, very good. You guys did a lot of good work
today getting all the things packed away in the
command module. Sure glad to see you got your
spiders tucked away there, so the - don't have a
chanceleavingthem loose in the workshopfor
Jerry's flight. We're about 1 minute from LOS,
and your next pass is at the Vanguard, where you'll
be talking to the doctor. And that's at 22:22,
and we'll be doinga data voice recorderdump.
I'll be saying good night to you, and be talking
to you after hatch closure for entry day.
SPT Okay, Bob. Be looking forward to seeing you that

afternoon.
266 22 ll 46 CC Roger.
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267 07 00 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Good Morning.
CC Skylab, Houston. You up and stiring, yet?
CC Skylab, Houston. We see that gryos moving around.

We know somebody's up.
CDR Maybe - We - we answered you, Hank. Msybe you

Just didn't hear us. How you doing this morning?
CC Okay, pretty good. How about yourself?
CDR Everybody's ready. People started stirring around

the minute we could hear your up-link, before you
started talking, so that's a good sign.
CC Okay, and I guess we don't have any good news or

bad news for you this morning.
P CDR Means we got to give our shorts back, or what?
267 07 03 19 CC Well, I don't think we'll have - require that this

morning. By the way, we're about a minute from
LOS, and we'll be coming up on Guam at 29. Might
be interested in football score yesterday; MiRm_'s
regular season unbeaten string came to an end as
the Oakland Raiders did them in. It was George •
Blanda, 12; Mi_.m_, 7-
CDR Great scott!
SPT Hey, there's some good news right there - is the

old fellows are coming back.
CDR That's really good news for Owen; he's happy to

hear that. He's - he's been worried. Since he's
been letting his hair grow, the first few days we
thought he had gray tape on his head, but we
realized, finally, it was hair.
CC Owen, you going to let that go?
267 07 Oh 08 SPT Well, these fellows are both a little Jealous _

about that, you know, Hank; but I Just try to
humorthemalong.
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CDR He's out of control already, Hank. Watch out

today, we're going to get this thing all put to
bed.
267 07 04 23 CC Okay, good show. We'll - we'll see you at Guam.
267 07 29 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank. We're over the Philippines, looking

out.
CC I do have a couple of things that I want to get

up this morning before you start deactivation.
We've got another pass at Honeysuckle, if that's
more convenient. Just give me a call whenever
you' re ready.
CDR We're ready right now.
CC Okay. First off, I got a question. Want to know

if you've shot up all the film that's on trans-
porter 03?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay, we would like to return that CI83 with the

other 400-foot mags, and this wasn't originally
in the day-55 transfers.
CDR Okay, baby, we're not going to leave a single bit

that we shot. We hope. We got everything that
you've listed, plus the extras we reported yester-
day, and then we - we'll bring all the rest back.
267 07 31 04 CC Okay, and we do have some relocations within the

film vault we'd like you to do. And the reason
is to get some of the film over into the SL-4
location, which has better protection from
radi at i on.
CDR Go ahead. I have pencil and paper in hand.
CC Okay, we'd like to move CI84 from F-14 to C-01,

CI65 from I-ll to F-12, CI66 from 1-12 to F-13,
and CI67 from 1-13 to F-14.
CDR Consider it accomplished.

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CC Okay, and I have a - a change to the PLT's part

of the checklist - Deact Checklist. First change
is on page 1-19.
CDR He's shaving. Could you hit him later, at

Honeysuckle ?
CC Okay, I'll get him at Honeysuckle. That'll be

fine, A1.
CDR Okay.
267 07 135 lh CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS_ Honey-

suckle at 41.
267 07 40 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
PLT Okay, Henry.
CC Jack, did you want to copy those changes to your

checklist now, or do you want to wait until we're
at Canary/Madrid, about 30 minutes from now?
CDR He said he'd rather wait. He's checking 91 - or

71 right now.
CC Okay. We'll Just wait until we're over - there's

no big rush. However we do need to get it. It
comes on page 19 of his deactivation, and that'll
probably be about an hour or so from now.
CDR Okay.
CDR Wanted to mention one thing. Got some exercise

last night. Here's the n[_mbers: 2/35/50hl. That's
for the CDR.
CC Okay. We copy.
267 07 23 02 CDR Here's a little PLT exercise: 6 - no that's

wrong. (La_hter) Here it goes: 2/36/8238.
CC We copy again.
CDR Also, is Gary Doerre near there?
CC He hasn't come in yet, A1.

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CDR You might mention to him when he comes in, a

good - a possible suggestion for Jerry Carr's
deactivation is they set this time line up so
that they've got time to exercise both - both
ds_vs of deac, yesterday and today.
CC Okay. We 'll - we 'll copy that down and we 're

about a minute from LOS now. We'll be coming up
on Canaries at 29.
CDR Okay.
SPT What's your longitude of our ascending node, Hank?

You got it handy?
267 07 44 36 CC We'll have to look it up, O_en; we'll get it to

you as soon as we can.
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267 08 28 55 CC Skylab, Houston, through Canary and Madrid for

13-1/2 minutes.
CDR Film has been transferred.
CC Good show.
CC And, to answer the SPT, we have some ascending

node time 5, it's 08:20:45. The node was 55.3 west.
SPT Okay, now would you repeat it, please?
CC Okay, 08:20 and 45 seconds, 55.3 west.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
267 08 30 23 PLT And, Hank, I believe you got some additions to

my checklist.
CC Right, Jack; on page 1-19 - -
PLT Hey, you were cut off. Say again, please.
CC Roger. Page 1-19.
PLT Okay, I'm looking at it.
CC Okay. The - about the second line there it calls

for canister CI109, and that's already been used.
Canister 106, it's already on the camera, has
only got about 33 exposures left and you're going
to need about 50 for your mandatory and crew op-
tion photos. So what we want to do is change that
to CI107, and its location is H-10. And also
down at the bottom of that col_mu, change that
reference to CI107.
267 08 31 29 PLT Okay, I know right where that was - is; it's the
only one that's left in there. Thank you.
CC Okay, and on page 2-67 is the same change there,

Jack. It refers to CIl09 and it should be CIl07.
PLT Okay, thank you, Hank.

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CC And $kylab, Houston. We would certainly

appreciate today if periodically you could -
each of you could give us an update on where you
are, so we can track you.
PLT Okay, Hank; try to do that.
CDR Got two special requests, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
267 08 34 08 CDR One, I'd like to talk to my family tonight. Two

is a little more unusual; when y'all send up
teleprinter pads for a certain day do you put
them on tapes and then fire them up, is that how
it works?
CC Negative; they're generally built right in the

computer, we - in the ASP, and we bring them up
on the screen. They can be put on tape; some of
the special messages are done that way. Are you
looking for an old message?
CDR Say again; I blocked you out.
CC Okay. Are - are you looking for an old message,

Al?
CDR What I wanted to do is, I wanted to bring home a -

a 1-day set of teleprinter messages that I used,
so that I could have a complete set of 1 day,
like day 252; I didn't know how hard that was to
get.
267 08 35 B5 CC I - I'm not sure I understand you, A1. But do

you want us to up - up-link to you an old set of
messages? Is that what you want?
CDR That's affirm, if you can do it. If it's not too

big a deal; that's why I asked if you had - had
them on tapes or you just ran them off and they
printed off. I never kept any of the teleprinter
messages and I'd like to have one set to see how
we did it.
CC Okay, we'll see what we can do. We have some of

them on tape, but I,m not sure we have them all.
We'll check into it.
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267 08 36 08 CDR Okay; day 252 would be a nice one. And it would
take my details and my general and the three or
four messages you sent me and then the couple of
EREPs, if you got them, or something like that.
Whatever would have kind of a general - Day-252
is Just for example, and if you found out day-253
you have that'd be Just as good.
CDR And, Hank, what's the speed of 16-millimeter DAC

interior film if you shoot it out the window?
CC Okay, if you - if you use the whole thin_ - one whole

cassette out the window, it can be 1/60.
267 08 38 54 CDR And if you just used partial?
CC 5OO.
CDR Thauk you. We got a little bit left.
CDR Hank, did you say that was an ASA of 500?
P CC That's affirmative. That's what the interior film

is processed at if you shoot it interior. That's
why we said if you split a roll, it'll have to be
processed at 500 because of the interior shot. If
you were to shoot a whole roll out the window, then
we could process it at 1/60 and get better results.
SPT Thank you very much.
267 08 41 25 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS; Carnarvon

at 08.

Honeysuckle Creek for 14-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC Roger. We'd like to get an update on where each

of the three of you are in the activities for today,
when you get a chance, please. Over.
PLT Lousma's just concluding postsleep activity.
SPT And I'm working on WMC filter replacement, Bruce.

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CC Roger.
267 09 09 2B CDR Al's working stowage transfers.
CC And are you showing a time on board of cbout

13 :09 pseudo Zulu? Over.
SPT We could change our w_tches, Bruce. Our clocks

are still showing 09:09.
CC Okay, we recommend you set your watches. Add another

4 hours to your watches and we'll be giving you
callouts today on that GMT plus L-hour basis to
keep you synced up with the time line here. And
then this evening, you can set your watches back
2 hours when you go to bed or sometime Just before
you get up in the morning. And then you'll be
synced up with tomorrow's time line.
SPT Okay, we'll put them ahead 4 hours now.
CC Roger.
267 09 22 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 35 minutes through Bermuda at
13:58 pseudo Z. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICETRANSCRIPTION
267 l0 00 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

7-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC And for the information of the CDR, starting at

about 16:00 pseudo-Z, at his convenience, we'd
like to go ahead and bring the command module
computer and the platform and things of this sort
up and get her set up to do a 1-day drift check
and see what sort of shape we're in. Over.
267 i0 04 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're looking for a

volunteer to do some iodinization. Over.
SPT What is it you need, Bruce?
CC Okay, 0wen, water tank 2, we need iodinized. It

has approximately 37 percent water remaining in
f- the tank. From your last report,we show two parts
per million and we'd like it brought up six parts
per million in accordance with the procedures on
the decal. Over.
SPT Okay, we'll take care of it.
CC Roger, thank you.
267 l0 05 30 CDR Y'all generally tell us the amount to squirt in.
CC I believe you've got a decal with a graph on the

inside front cover of the iodine equipment locker
which has the percent remaining in the tank, the
quantity remaining in the tank, and the parts per
million in there is your entry, so - -
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC And simultaneously I get the input that the

quantity required is 15 units.
CDR Okay. That's been the traditional way of doing'

it. We'll put in 15 units.
CC Okay.
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267 i0 06 18 CDR Okay, now tell me what time this command module
thing is coming off. MY time right now is 14:06.
CC Okay. We concur with your time. We're talking

about approximately 16:00, and it's listed as the
CSM systems checklist period of time starting at
16:00 and also including quiescent panel config-
uration check. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll be ready to do it.
CC Roger. Thank you.
267 l0 07 ll CC Okay. One minute to LOS. Next station contact

in 3-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 14:ll pseudo-Z.
Out.
267 l0 ll 49 CC Skyl_b, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 min-

utes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder this site. And for the CDR - excuse me -
we'll he dumping the data voice tape recorder over
Carnarvon next site and for the CDR, I have the
details on his private comm. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. You're set up over Carnarvon at 14:4h to

14:55 pseudo-Zulu. That's about 32 minutes from
now. It'll be VHF right antenna for the first
part of the pass, and then shifting to left at the
tail end of it. Over,
CDR Hey, that's nice. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CDR Let me give you a little more information about

a stowage change we made.
CC Go.
267 lO 13 18 CDR Okay. There's essentially two of them. I attempted

to put the - all the overage food, plus the SL-2 -
all the new overage food; that's food that's been
here - that's never been in anybody's flight kit -
in one locker, namely locker 550. And it's in
there now. Then in 55h is the SL-2 overage food.
And in 555, the SL-3. So all the overage food is
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now grouped in three adjacent lockers. Now, in

order to give Jerry a little more room in his
Flight Data File here in the wardroom. It's
pretty tight with Just two. I did not put our
Flight Data File in 745. He Just doesn't use it
that _ach and this will give him three compartments
instead of two. And it'll make it a lot nicer
for him. And I put our Flight Data File in 557 in
two bags, and then I put Pete's in 557 also, so
we've got all three Flight Data Files in 557, and
then if he needs something out of anybody's old
Flight Data File, he goes there. If he needs
something out of his own, he goes to three lockers
instead of two and I think he'll like it a lot
better.
267 l0 14 29 CC Okay. Well, you got four lockers down there in

that W-742 area, don't you?
CDR Yes. 743 has some of Pete's. I did not move it.
Now, Jerry may want to take that 743 of Pete's
and put it in Pete's bag and then he'll have four,
f and that's probably even a better idea, because
it's Just nice to have more room, and then he can
put the books and find them a lot faster, but I
didn't move Pete's. I only moved ours.
CC Okay. I'm sorry. I thought I copied you saying

that you had put some of the SL-2 Flight Data
File in 557.
267 lO 15 02 CDR That's true. That's the part that was in the
bag that was behind the - behind the food stowage
area initially. We moved it out there long ago
because we were constantly going in and out of
there. So I Just left it it there and put ours
there because it looks like something that you do
frequently. Any time you need old cardboard or an
extra ring or something you go over there and
there they are.
CC Okay. And I understand that the SL-2 leftover

overage food is in F-554, SL-3 leftover overage
food is in 555, and Just plain leftover food is
in F550. Is that correct?
CDR That's true, and before I leave here tonight, I'm

going to get out a long extension cord on channel A
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and I'm going to go inventory that stuff on

channel A - what's where everywhere.
267 l0 15 54 CC Beautiful. Thank you.
267 l0 19 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.

Carnarvon at 1_:44 pseudo-Z. Out.
CDR Okay, now another thing. I noticed it's got on

page 1-8 for me to transfer the LSU/PCU below the
ATM C&D panel to the OWS. Now the SL-2 crew left
it right in the use position. I'd like to leave
it right there, also. That's a good place for it.
CC Okay, we copy you. Our first thought is that it's

okay. We'll get back to y'all over Carnarvon with
the final detail on it. It's moved to get around
the docking load constraint for SL-4 docking.
Over.
CDR One thought is it's very well packed inside a bag - -
267 l0 20 08 CC Okay, you're going down in the mud. We'll have

to take you over at Carnarvon, A1.
267 l0 20 ll CDR - - ...
267 i0 44 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Carnarvon for

CC And for your information, it's okay to leave the

PCU/LSU that is at the ATM C&D panel in its present
location. And CDR should be standing by or in
progress with his phone call.
CDR He's on the way.
CC Roger.
CC And we'll be dumping your data voice tape recorder

this station pass. Out.
267 i0 45 37 CDR And a quick update, we're all ahead of the time
line right now and we're all busily cleaning up
MDA, OWS, head, and the whole business.
l-
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CC Okay, we copy that. I guess you ought to be up

in the command module, A1.
CDR I'm reading him, Bruce, but he doesn't read me.
CC Say again, A1.
CDR I read him, but there's a tremendous amount of

noise and he does not read me.
267 l0 b7 06 CC Okay, we'll work that.
CDR Background noise is the loudest I've ever heard

it.
CDR Read you loud and clear, Houston. How me?
CC Okay, on S-band we're reading you loud and clear

down here, A1.
CC And if you still read us, we're configuring

Honeysuckle also for VHF private comm in case we
f don'tgetsetup here.
267 10 48 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Confirm right antenna

for VHF comm.
CC SPT, Houston. Next time you're near a squawk box,

you might tell us if during your conduct of the
lighting check, you were replaced any light bulbs.
Out.
SPT Okay, I'm near a squawk box and I have replaced

no lights.
267 l0 50 25 CC Roger, out.
267 lO 5b l0 MCC Roger.
267 l0 59 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 31 minutes through Texas.
Corpus Christi at 15:30 pseudo-Z. Out.
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267 ll 30 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi

and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes. For the CDR,
please.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. Wonder if you could give us an up-date on

where you are in the Deactivation Checklist? Over.
CDR Okay. We're right on time. We're in the - well,

right on time would be the answer. Everybody's
cleaning up. Jack's run into a problem with his
urine separator. It's not sucking air at the
moment, but he's working on it. Owen is fixing
his lunch. Not eating it, but Just getting it
ready. I'm over here in the co_raand module. I'm
a little bit ahead doing - getting ready to start
the quiescent configuration check. Owen Just
finished taking thepictures of the Coolanol
loop requested yesterday. If you'll shoot us up
the pad, we'll take those vent pictures you wanted
yesterday. And I've got the tools in my pocket.
Sometime in the next 3 or 4 hours, I'll pull out
some of those 82B kick plate screws and let you -
You indicated you want a time line on them. So
I'll pull out l0 and time it, and then that'll give
you a clue how long it's going to take to get the
rest.
267 ii 31 34 CC Okay. Mighty fine. And whenever you're ready,

perferably this stateside pass, within the next
13 or 14 minutes, we'd like to get the G&N power
up, page 2-4 and page 2-6 down to the bottom of
the left-hand side, and then the E-memory dump on
page 2-10. And we'll up-link you a - a clock sync,
and we'll be pretty much in business. Over.
CDR Okay. I'll do that right now.
CC Beautiful.
CDR Okay. Now, do you want me to Just give you a

VERB 74 or do you want me to do the CMC self-check,
r IMU power up, opticspower up, SCS power up, or
what?
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CC We'd like the follow it through the checklist per

pages 2-4 and down to the bottom of the left-hand
side of 2-6, including the CMC self-check and _11
that. Over.
CDR Okay. I'll do that right now. I'm powered up at

the moment.
267 ll 33 23 CC Roger. But nothing to do with powering up the

SCS and nothing with the SPS either. Over.
CDR Understand.
CDR We took sc_e extra time yesterday to make sure

we got everything shipshape, so when we went this
morning, we didn't have a lot of extra things
going on. And it's really paid off.
CC Beautiful. Sounds like you're really staying under

the time line there.
267 ll 35 40 CDR We've been ahead of it. Okay. This is - the self
check is complete. I'll can it. And IMU is
coming up now.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR IMU's up. Standing by for a VERB 74 whenever you

want.
CC Roger. We copy. Stand by.
CC Okay, A1. We're ready for the VERB 7_. Let her
rip.
267 ll 37 16 CDR There she comes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you dog-n-linked. It

will take us about an hour to complete the analy-
sis of the E-memory dump. We see an ACCEPT.
We'll go ahead and up-link Tephe m update and the

clock sync to you at this time. Over.
CDR Outstanding.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Tephem, s on board. We're

still working on the clock sync. We hope to have
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a state vector update and a REFSMMAT available

for you over Carnarvon at 16:24 pseudo-Z which
would be about 4 or 5 minutes before sunset. And
we're hoping you can get a platform alignment in
following sunset. Over.
267 ll 41 37 CDR Okay, if you tell me the star numbers and the
shaft and trunnion, I'll do it.
CC The trench and the upper trench are working away

on that.
CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR, this is Houston. If you aS1 noticed a

little clicking noice coming from the airlock
module, we've commenced up-linking your day 252
collection of pads for the record; and it will
probably take us several hours to get them up,
but they're coming. We're sending everything up
except the complete criteria update which is a
14 pager, and we'd Just as soon not resend that
one. Over.
CDR I concur a hundred percent. And I appreciate it.

I don't know who had to do all that work, but
thanks.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The clock sync is

complete. The DSKY is yours. We have 1 minute
and 30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in
5-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 15:49 pseudo-Z.
267 ii 44 03 CC And we'll have the REFSMMAT and state vector for
you over Carnarvon as promised. Out.
267 ll 49 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Bruce, I 'm looking a little ahead here, but I have

my checklist here on page 1-39 to configure that
TV camera up by the ATM panel. Are you with me?
CC I will be in Just a second. Go.

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SPT Okay, on page 1-39 there is a phase scan for a

TV configuration and the X-Y-Z coordinates there
I don't believe will work. I think they must
not have considered the ATM workboards which are
attached to that panel there. And I'll go ahead
and mount the camera at that location, but it
will not be at quite the X-Y-Z location that they
specified on the pad.
267 ii 52 B7 CC Okay, what we're trying to do is wind up with the

camera pointing at the axial tunnel so that it
covers the area where the SL-4 crew will be
ingressing and egressing for the beginning the
mission. Over.
SPT Okay, I'll po - point it toward the command

module now.
CC And if - input that I'm getting here is that we

took into account the - the boards, and the coor-
dinates were given to get the camera out of the
way of the boards on the ATM handrail.
SPT Okay, I'll check it one more time. And the f-stop
does not print on my copy of the pad here. It
says, "f comma." I don't know what f-stop they
want it set on.
267 ll 53 23 CC Okay, it's f-stop, zoom setting and focus, 4, 25

and 15, respectively; f/h, zoom 25, and focus 15.
Over.
SPT Okay, now I understand it. Thank you.
CC Hey, Owen, correct my last. The X-Y-Z settings

that we gave you were set up to move the camera
out of your way rather than to position it properly.
However, if you could aim it at the axial hatch
and still not have it getting too much in your
way during the final phase of the deactivation,
that 's what we 'd like to do. Over.
SPT Okay, I'll modify the X-Y-Z settings to try to

accomplish both of those.
CC Yes. You might even disregard them.
SPT Fair enough. I'll do that. I hated to say it.

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CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
267 ll 56 02 CC Next station contact in 28 minutes through

Carnarvon at 16:24 pseudo-Z. Out.

5 minutes. Standing by for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. I've got some stars for you. Okay. We

see you're in ACCEPT. We're coming up with the
state vectors and the REFSMMAT, and I've got some
stars for you when you're ready.
CDR Just a second.
CC Say again, please?
CDR Just 1 second.
f CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Star one is 4, Achernar; shaft, 220.3:

trunnion, 44.4. Second star is star number 6,
Acamar; shaft, 235.7; trunnion, 24.8. These are
good until 17:ll pseudo-GMT. And the shaft and
t_!nnion angles may be a little bit off, since
we have sere uncertainties in Nu z at the present
time with the star tracker out of commission.
0v_r.
267 12 26 14 CDR Okay. I've got that. Understanding you want me

to do a P-51 and then P-52, option 1.
CDR Okay. I went through the quiescent panel config-

uration. Found one anomaly. Let me tell you what
it is. Over on the EVA panel, the VENT valve is
still in, that cryo VENT valve. And of course,
then, the 02 SUPPLY valve is ON. So I suspect
you want me to remove the VENT valve and turn off
the 02 SUPPLY.
CC Is that the polychoke you're t_lk_ng about?

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CDR No. The pressure relief.
CC Okay. We copy. Stand by.
CDR And how long before darkness?
CC About 2 minutes.
CDR Okeydoke.
267 12 27 _8 CC CDR, this is Houston. We're in the process of

trying to get you a state vector and REFSMMAT
via up-link at the present time. If we could
have the DSKY, please.
CDR Okay. I'm sorry. I didn't know that interferred.

I'll - what should I do to give it back to you - -
CC PO0 and AC - -
CDR - - VERB ... - -
CC PO0 and AC - -
CDR PO0 and ACCEPT, okay.
CDR Sorry, it was a display; and I guess I can't have

displays when you're doing it.
CC Roger. Okay. One minute to LOS.
267 12 28 29 CC Next station contact in 7-1/2 minutes through

Honeysuckle Creek at 16:35 pseudo-Z.
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267 12 35 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle. One

minute and 16 seconds until LOS. Next station
contact through Corpus Christi in 29 minutes at
17:05 pseudo-Z. And we'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at that site. On panel 603,
we'd like to get the cryo vent valve removed and
stowed, and the 02 SUPPLY valve turned off. Over.
CDR Okay, for your information, there doesn't happen

to be any stars at star 2, SHAFT and TRUNNION.
CC Roger, we copy and - -
267 12 36 22 CDR Maybe we're dumping. Say again, Houston.
CC Roger; we copy, and we're in the process of getting

you a REFSMMAT at this time.
CDR Okay, are we - are we in the middle of a dump?
CC That's affirmative, AI.
F_ CDR I gather those were for a nondumping situation,

huh?
267 12 36 45 CC That's also affirmative.
CDR It's not an acceptable way for entry.
SPT Bruce, give me those cryo valves again, please.
CC The RESMMAT is in. The computer is Alan's again.

The valves are for panel 603 in the command module,
that A1 was asking about a few minutes ago. And
we're coming up on LOS here. Over.
CDR Okay, I'll get the valve out and close the thing,
and I guess I'll Just cool it on this alignment,
huh?
267 12 37 27 CC If you can find the stars while we're m_neuvering,

that's great. If not, why I guess we'll have to do
as you say.
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267 13 06 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi and

Bermuda for 15 minutes 40 seconds. Dumping the
data voice tape recorder here at Corpus Christi.
And we'd like to get an estimate from you all of
what your towel and washcloth consumption has been
over the past few days, so that we can mA_e any
required DELTAs to the SL-4 stowage list. Over.
PLT Okay, Al's been using two towels and three wash-
cloths every 2 days.
CC Okay, we copy that for the CDR.
267 13 07 19 PLT And 0wen and I have been using one towel and one
washcloth per day.
CC Roger. And we copy that.
PLT And effectively, we ain't - we haven't used any

extras the last few days, over our normal supply.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC And, CDR, this is Houston. The platform you've

got looks good to us. How did the alignment go?
CDR Takes time to find the stars. Of course, the

same stars, are going to show up tomorrow, hope-
fully, and that means it'll be a lot easier. I
think the way to go is to go this way except plan
to get them in the daytime. Because then we're
back to solar inertial, and these angles put them
within the field of view or close at hand. At
night, during dump, they could be anywhere.
267 13 08 24 CC Okay, for tomorrow, we're planning on leaving the

platform up, so you ought to be able to do auto
optics to the stars.
CDR Now there - that's great. That's - you mean leave

it up from now on through tomorrow?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR That's the way to do it. That's great. Good,

that's the best news l've heard today. Now here's
another comment; the time I got the alignment was
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12:53:00. That was the P52. And errors were zero,

and the torquing angles from the P51 were plus 163,
plus 62, plus 95. And I used stars 4 and 6.
267 13 09 12 CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you. And - -
SPT Bruce, I wonder if there's not a hurricane Just to

the north of our location up here?
CC There's one sort of to the west of your location,

maybe south. I think it's hurricane Ira. In fact,
we were just whiling away our time down here by
looking at the predicted track for that hurricane,
vis-a-vis your splash point tomorrow. And it looks
like you'll be in pretty good shape.
PLT That's encouraging because, not only from our

standpoint but Just looking out here, it's the
best developed hurricane that I think we've seen,
with a very clear eye.
267 13 09 57 CC It just came up from tropical storm to hurricane

status last night.
CDR It's a beautiful hurricane. It doesn't look very

strong, cau - I gather, because the clouds aren't
very thick, but it sure is a pretty shape.
CC Okay, tomorrow at your predicted splash time, the

eye of this particular storm will be 500 to
600 miles southeast of your splash point. The
nearest 30-knot wind velocitywill still be some
200 to 300 miles southeast of you, and the peak
winds are 75 knots at - near the center of the
storm. Over.
267 lO ll 05 PLT Roger.
267 13 19 39 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for the CDR. Over.
CDR Apparently, our comm link's not working.

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CC Okay. We were right on the edge coming out of

the keyhole there, so that probably explains it.
In the command module, we'd like to get you to
verify the ATT SET switch in the GDC position.
And we're a minute and 20 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 6 minutes through Madrid at
17:26 pseudo-Z. Out.
267 13 20 36 CDR Okay. I think it's in CMC and in GDC. I'll

check it.
CDR Roger. ATT SET is in GDC. Why? Did you see some
funny indications?
CC Yes. We're seeing slight differences in pitch

between the ISS angles and the ACDU angles and we
can talk to you about it over Madrid. We're going
LOS now.
CDR Okay. Now you know that I haven't powered up

the SCS or anything like that.
CC Yes, sir. We realize that.
267 13 21 56 CDR Okeydoke.
267 13 27 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 min-

utes. With some information for the CDR.
PLT Go ahead, we're all listening, Bruce.
CC Okay, then let me cover the SPS oxidizer manifold

pressure drop, first. About i0 to 12 hours ago,
on a measurement that we have only on telemetry,
which is the SPS oxidizer manifold inlet pressure,
we observed a fairly rapid drop of 30 psi. The
oxidizer tank pressure has remained steady, and
there should be no cause for alarm on board. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce, we'll go look at our own meter.
267 13 28 12 CC Okay. We - we're not requesting you to do that

but, for peace of mind, why there's no harm in it.
And for the Commander, we have been looking at the
deactivation closeout procedures for tomorrow and
what we would prefer to do is to send you a
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teleprinter pad to be added into the Deact

Checklist for configuring the ergometer and the
ESS panel for closeout, to be accomplished coin-
cidential with the panel 61B circuit breaker
reconfiguration at about 10:45 pseudo time.
That's your time tomorrow. This is so close to
wakeup, however, that it doesn't seem to us like
it would give you much opportunity for useful work
on the ergometer, and our recommendation would be
to - to go ahead and get your exercise in today
and then press on with deactivation, essentially
per the checklist, tomorrow. Over.
267 1B 29 09 CDR Okay, that's what we'll do, Bruce. I think that's
a good suggestion.
CC Okay, the thing that we're really concerned about

would be somehow getting out of sequence in deacti-
vation and winding up in an off-nominal configura-
tion. And back in the CMC world again, what we
think we have is a change in the calibration, or a
shift in the cal curve, of either the cosine or
the sine winding of the resolver that feeds the
IMU ball in pitch, and we're trying to determine
right now exactly what it is. We observed, in the
past few minutes, a B-degree error. On your
5-degree error. We'll keep you posted on the
situation. We believe we can up-link a load that
will - Delete that. We will just have to keep
analyzing it and let you know what the situation
is. Over.
267 1B 30 l0 CDR I'm not sure what - what that sort of an error
results in, to the operator.
CC Okay. It would give you a ball position which is

different from the true position on the IMU. That
is, I think your VERB 16, NOUN 20 angles would be
different from your ball angles.
CDR Okay, now is this sort of - 5 degrees of what? Is

this a - a bias, or is this something that's for
the drift?
CC We're working that problem now, A1, and all I CBIa

say is that we'll have to get the information back
to you in a little while.
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267 13 30 55 CDR Okay, glad you'all caught it. That's kind of

interesting.
CC Roger. Out.
267 13 34 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston, with 40 seconds until LOS.

Next station contact in 37 minutes through Honey-
suckle at 18:12 pseudo-Z. We finished the up-link
to the CMC. You can go back to BLOCK. And for
the CDR, on continuing to look at the ACDU/ISS
discrepancy, the problem can either be one in the
resolver itself or in the trans - not the trans-
ducer, but in the connection, the signal conditioner
that gives us the down-link of the ACDU readouts.
And we're not going to bring the ball up today.
We'll bring it up first thing tomorrow morning.
Our suspicion is that when we get the ball on the
line, why it'll go ahead and load the circuit down
so that we probably won't have any noticable
discrepancies. And if you have any questions on
the subject, why go ahead and talk to us. Over.
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267 ]4 13 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

1 minute and 40 seconds. Next station contact
in 27 minutes through Goldstone at 18:41, pseudo-Z.
Over.
CDR Okay, our SPS PRESSURE also shows ll5 in OXIDIZER.

Now is that the TANK or the MANIFOLD PRESSURE we
read?
CC CDR, Houston. The pressure that you're reading

on board is SPS OXIDIZER tank PRESSURE_ and under-
stand you're showing a reading of ll5. Did you
get the FUEL PRESSURE, Aiso?
267 ].414 56 CDR Yes, it's up in the green: Our tank pressure is
below the green. Jack's headed _p that way right
now; he'll catch you over the States.
_ CDR Okay.
PLT Bruce, they're reading 170 - 170, and 155, re-

spectively.
CC Which is which?
PLT FUEL, OXIDIZER.
267 14 15 32 CC Beautiful. Thank you. Are we - -
267 14 41 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Corpus Christi for 10-i/2 minutes, for the CDR.
Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay; Our review of the data shows that the SPS

OXIDIZER MANIFOLD PRESSURE drop was an instan-
taneous one with no temperature or other pressure
change correlation. This substantiates us in our
conclusion that it was a transducer problem. And
your onboard readout of 155 also goes along with
this. Over.
/ CDR Okay; thank you, Bruce. That's good news.

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267 14 41 48 CC You gave us a little bit of a start with that

ll5 reading, though, for a minute.
CDR I'm sorry. I was confused.
CC No problem. Also, in connection with the reported

glitch in the ATT SET situation, the reason we
asked you for the ATT SET switch position is that
we were checking out our ground instrumentation
of the pitch cosign telemetry readout. This
telemetry is sensitive to the switch position
but your eight ball is not. Even though the
eight ball is driven by the same signal, since
the ball logic is phase sensitive while the
telemetry is sensitive to the magnitude of the
voltage rather than the phase. Therefore, we
expect that the ACDU and the eight-ball displays
on board should both be okay. Over.
267 lh 42 40 CDR More good news; great!
CC Roger! And now for the bad news. Do you remem-

ber the cryo relief valve up there on panel 603,
cryo vent valve? That - -
CDR I remember it well.
CC That goes stowed in A-7 which is currently

located down there at T020. Over.
CDR I think I can figure it out and put it there.
CC Okay. And another one in the category of sort

of neutral is that, in the light of the ATM C&D
COOLANT LOOP PUMP A failure and the check out of
PUMP B, we'd like to turn on PUMP Charlie and
let it run for a while to verify good circulation,
and that it is a good backup pump. So at your
convenience, we'd like, on panel 203, ATM
COOLANT PUMPS Charlie to ON. And we'll give you
a call when we want it secured. Over.
267 14 43 33 CDR Sounds good.
CC And the box score, as a few minutes ago here,'was

that we have 31 pads on board and lO more of the
day-252 ones enroute to you. And when you have
a minute, we'd like to get a brief update on your
status of progress through the Deactivation Check-
list. Over.
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CDR Okay, I'm presently stowing fecal bundles in the

command module. I'll let Owen and Jack say what
they are doing. We're all stirring around.
CC Okay we show you then, at the equivalent of

about 18:45; in fact, on time to the minute here,
you might say.
267 ]4 45 47 CDR We're trying to get ahead so we can get on that

exerciser.
CC Roger; we copy.
SPT I've not got that waste dump heater on yet, but
I can turn it on right now. And then after I
finish up a little more general housekeeping,
I'll be going on to the squeezer bag.
CC All right.
PLT I'm trying to find my checklist.
267 ].446 28 CC Also ran.
CC Okay, we show you coming up on the wardroom

window installation - or plenum bag stowage.
PLT Yes, we're going to hold off on that for a while.

And I noticed in going up the film vault that
the little humidity controller sliders are already
in the position called out in the checklist.
They're in the bottom.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jack.
257 14 47 43 CC And, Jack, we show that the movement of the

hl_m_dity sliders should have been a verify. They
were put in that configuration in SL-2 and stay
there for the balance of the program. Over.

station contact is coming up in 4-1/2 minutes;
Bermuda at 18:54 pseudo-Z. And we'll be dumping
the tape recorder at the site after that: Canary
Islands. Out.
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267 lh 54 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

5 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; B0 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact over Canary in 4-1/2 minutes
at 19:03 pseudo-A. Out.
267 14 59 19 SPT Roger, Bruce.
267 15 04 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 8 min-

utes and 54 seconds. Out.
267 15 ll 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and 30 se-

conds to LOS. Next station contact through
Honeysuckle in 37 minutes at 15:48. And we have
an additional item of film that we'd like to get
transferred here. Out of drawer Charlie, posi-
tion l, we would like mag - cassette CI84, that's
Charlie India 84, which is unexposed radiation
fog testing film, to be transferred up to - and
stowed in A-8 in the command module. Over.
CDR Okay, CI84.
267 15 12 13 CC Roger. It should be in drawer Charlie, slot l,

and it goes in A-8. Out.
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9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Got some information on that 82B panel changeout.
CC Lay it on us, Alan.
CDR Okay. It's - I timed it and I got out five of

them in 22 minutes and 30 seconds.
CC Whoo boy!
CDR Now, a couple of observations. One is - you Just

can't get any of them undone with that high-torque
wrench or the high-torque ratchet wrench, either
screwed too - You know, the spin handle arrange-
ment of the ratchet. They're Just in there too
.- tight. What I used was the vise grip. Sometimes
about two out of the five, I was able to turn two
turns worth complete, and then pull it out with
the driver. The others I had to pull it completely
out with that vise grip. So if they plan to do
this Job, it semms to me they can multiply what-
ever the number of screws is by that number and
count by the number that I Just indicated, if we
divide it.
267 15 49 38 CDR But the whole point is,they either ought to bring
up a backup set of vise grips or they ought to -
what would be better - if we had a special tool,
because we take out enough of these high-torque
fasteners that we really ought to have something
that's called high-torque fastener quick-removal
tool - special.
CC Okay. Now, let me get this straight. You used

the high-torque bit in the - in the ratchet wrench
or the other wrench, did you not? And that did
not work?
CDR They're in there too tight. You Just can't t_rn

them to begin with. They'll slip out the top.
_- So you say, "Aw, brother,"so you go get the vise
grips and then Just grip the heads with the vise
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grip. And then sometimes after you turn them one

or two times, then you can use the driver. But
three out of the five, I had to use the vise grips
all the way out. And that takes a long time,
because they're in little tight spaces where you
can only swing an arc of 20 or B0 degrees.
267 15 50 36 CC Okay, I think we copy what you're saying. When

you put the torque on it, the high-torque bit or
the tool itself rides up out of the depression or
the cut part in the head of the bolt.
CDR In some cases, it does ride out of the slot. In

other cases it does not, depending on how - what
condition the slot was _hen they put it in. But
sometimes you Just can't turn it, you're not
strong enough. Those babies are really in there.
We should have used those on the co--_And module
quad and put those finger-type Jobs here.
CC Okay, we'll give you a call over the States in a

couple of revs.
PLT Bruce, I don't think those bolts are made for hand
operation. I think they're used - for use with
a machine - high-powered tool. And that's the
only way they real Iy work good.
267 15 51 B6 CC Roger; we copy. I suspect that maybe the thing

to pull them would be some sort of an _mpact
tool, but we'll take your input here. And we've
got a couple of weeks between missions to come up
with a better way to get them out. Certainly,
22 minutes for five of them is excessive.
CDR That was hustling for the five, too.
CC Roger. You think you could hustle through all

70-some of them, no?
CC Hey, Just don't misunderstand my last remark.

We were not asking you to remove any more
fasteners. What you've done is quite adequate
for our purposes. Over.
CDR Okay. We don't have enough time, anyway. That -

that's a real Job, I'm not Just kidding.
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CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
267 15 57 ii CC Next station contact in ii minutes through

Hawaii at 6 - at 20:08 pseu_o-pseudo-Zulu.

9-1/2minutes. Out.
267 16 15 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 2-1/2 minutes to LOS.

Goldstone at 20:20 pseudo-Zulu. And we'd like to
get an update from all three crewmen on your
progress through the deact checklist timeline.
Over.
CDR Okay, the CDR is deactivating his urine system.

Jack Lousma - let me check. He's on the bike at
the moment. And Owen is going to deactivate in
Just a second.
_ CC UnderstandOwen is getting ready to deactivate

the urine system. Aside from being on the
bicycle, how is the PLT doing on progressing
through his checklist?
PLT ... I Just finished the mol sieve business,

standing by for the urine replacement.
267 16 16 15 CC Okay, we copy you're through with the mol sieve

work, and standing by for the urine system
replac_nent.
CC Understand you finished the solids trap/charcoal

canister replacement up on the mol sieves, and
you're standing by for urine system. Over.
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, did you have any trouble stowing bags down

in the plenum, and how many bags, total, did you
put down there? Over.
PLT No trouble, and I put one bag down there, and

there's now nine.
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CC Okay, one down, bringing it to nine total. Thank

you. Didn't mean to interrupt your bike ride.
267 16 17 04 CC Have a pleasant exercise.
267 16 19 54 CC Skylab, this is Houston, now coming to you

through the auspices of Goldstone for
7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC CDR, Houston. In the teleprinter bin is your

mission day-252 pad. And also, one change to the
deact checklist on the tail end of that. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger ; out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
267 16 26 19 CC Next station contact in a little over 5 minutes

through Bermuda at 20:31 pseudo-Zulu.

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR When we throw out the squeezer bag out of the

wardroom, - I mean - correction - out of the
waste compartment, does the inside bag, the
Beta outside bag, and the filter go with it,
going down the trash airlock?
CC Standby. We'll get an answer for you.
CC CDR, Houston. That's affirmative. Squeezer bag

and the filter - all of the loose pieces that are
associated with the squeezer bag operation - go.
Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, th_nk you.
267 16 35 13 CC Roger.
267 16 h2 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and

Ascension for 15 minutes. And we're dumping the
data voice tape recorder here at Canary. For _che
CDR, with respect to the squeezer bag - to make
sure we're speaking the same language - what we're
talking about trashing is two separate assemblies.
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One is the squeezer filter, and the other is the

squeezer bag assembly, including the - the fabric
overbag that's an integral part of it. Over.
CDR That's what we thought, and that's what we did.

Thanks, Bruce.
CC Roger; out.
CDR And Bruce, I'm going to be using the voice re-

corder. You don't plan to dump it any t_me soon,
do you?
CC We are in the process of dumping it right now.
CDR Okay. I meant as soon as you finish with this

one.
267 16 _ 38 CC Negative. After that, the next dump will be about

2 hours and 20 minutes away.
CDR Okay, I'm going to connect up and do this inventory

of food.
CC Okay. I guess you can see when the little green

light comes on, and we can try and call you also
when we're through with the dump.
CC CDR, Houston. Data voice tape recorder dump is

complete. And, at your convenience in the near
future, we would like to get either yourself or
the SPT to drop by the command module and run a
P52 option 3 for us, and go ahead and torque the
platform according to the angles and the time,
if you would, please. Over.
CDR Will do.
CC Roger. Out.
267 16 53 13 CC Command module, Houston. Stars that should be

available for you are star 2, Diphda; 4, Achernar;
and 6, Acamar. Over.
CDR I Just tried them and it started looking at the

Earth, so I assume the Earth is in the way at the
moment. I'll wait until a little bit- until a
f_
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little bit darker and that part gets away from

the Earth.
CC Roger; we copy.
267 16 56 O0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; l-l/2 minutes to LOS.

Carnarvon at 21:24 psuedo-Zulu. And for the CDR,
have you all gotten the Deactivation Checklist
change that we sent up in the teleprinter? That's
change 7 to the deact checklist. Over.
SPT Negative. Who's the change for, Bruce? And they -

we'll go check it right now.
CC It's the ergometer closeout change. And I

believe it's for the PLT.
SPT Okay, we'll catch it.
267 16 56 47 CC And we sent it three times, so that there is a

copy for each checklist, should you desire to make
multiple entries.
SPT Roger.
CC And for the CDR, there are no stars available at

the present time, due to Earth occultation.
SPT He's recording his inventory over on channel A,

Bruce, and he probably can't hear you.
CC Okay, tell you what. Just pass to him that it's

about 12 minutes to sunset. After sunset the
stars we mentioned will be available. Over.
SPT Okay, after sunset. Thank you.
267 16 57 29 CC Roger.
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Honeysuckle for 9 minutes. Over.
SPT Here we are, Bruce.
CC Roger. If the P-52 was completed, we're standing

by for the time and the torquing angles. Over.
SPT Okay. He's still - A1 did it, and he's still

working on the inventory. It might be a few min-
utes before he gets them to you. The torquing
angles were pretty small, reasonably small. And
I'm working on the urine separator exchange right
now. Jack's finished his. I guess he's still
ahead of schedule. And A1 will give you a call
on the torquing angles when he's through on the
inventory.
F 267 17 24 54 CC Roger. No rush. We weren't meaning to bug him.

The fact that they are small is good news. And
since you're working on the urine separator stuff,
and I believe you get the Job of stowing them in
T-027, why there's some mild curiosity around here
as to what the inside of that container is going
to look like when you open the lid. Over.
SPT Okay. You say I install (chuckle) them where?
CC You stow the separators, I believe, in the T-027

sample array container, which is the small T-027
locker. And it was last opened at the end of SL-2
when that crew stowed their urine separators in
there and then evacuated the container. Over.
267 ]-725 40 SPT Okay, now I understand. I'ii - -
PLT It 's full, I think.
SPT Jack thinks it's full right now, but we'll see
how it goes; and I'll report.
CC Okay, it's supposed to have capacity to contain

six separators. We believe there are only three
f in thereat the presenttime.
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SPT Okay, we'll let you know.
CDR Okay, here is a little information. NOUN 05, 0;

NOUN 93, plus 313, minus 46, minus 94. Torquing
time, 17:10:15.
CC Okay, we've got all that, A1. Thank you very much.
CDR Tell the food people we gave them a complete

inventory. Oh, I didn't give them the frozen food.
I'm going to give a quick frozen-food inventory.
CC Roger. Out.
267 17 28 39 CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. We've got a couple

of commands to send up to you. You probably won't
notice anything, but we're going to commaud TV
BUS l, OFF in accordance with the pre-established
plan. And up in the command module, the electron-
proton spectrometer power supply has tripped off
again, and we're going to command it back on. At
your convenience, we've seen enough of the ATM C&D
coolant loop operation to be satisfied that pump
Charlie is satisfactory. So we'd like to get pump
Charlie turned off, leaving you with no pumps run-
ning in that loop. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
267 17 29 19 CC Roger. Thank you, Owen.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii
at 21:47 pseudo-Zulu. And for the SPT, we're Just
trying to keep track of where you all are. We
understand that you're down into the actual urine
separator replacement, pages 1-45 and subsequent.
Is that correct? Over.
SPT That 's correct.
CC And the PLT is involved in still getting the final

urine sample prior to actually starting the
mechanical work on his separator? Over.
SPT He's completed that now, also.
267 17 31 41 CC So he's working on the separator?

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SPT No, he 's - he 's removed the separator, and it 's

out there in the experiment area. And I'm going
to replace the separator when I get around to it
here. That's what I'm working on now.
CC Okay, thank you. We're not meaning to be bugging

you, but we haven't got any other way of looking
over your shoulder.
SPT Absolutely. I didn't mean to sound that way. I

mean - I appreciate you - anxious to keep you
updated. And, let's see, actually, Jack is in the
wardroom doing some more cleaning up stuff now
that is not on the list.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Pump Charlie is secure.
267 l'_ 32 16 CC Okay, thank you.
267 17 47 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 6 min-

F utes. And for the SPT, we have a minor checklist
correction. Over.
CC Okay, on page 1-69, in your coll_u, at the ATM

presleep configuration, instead of "NUMERIC control,
fully counterclockwise," it should read "NUMs_IC
switch, OFF." Over.
267 17 _7 38 CC And for your information and the CDR's, the gyro
drift rates that we've arrived at from a 4.S-hour
drift check are X minus 5 milli-Earth rate units,
Y plus 0.7 MERU and Z minus 1.5 MERU. These are
within the range of compensation. We've got a
compensation load built, and we'll send it up
whenever somebody swings by the command module and
puts the switch in ACCEPT for us. There's no rush
on that, though. Just at your convenience, next
time somebody's up there. Over.
SPT Okay, A1 said he's going up there now.
CC Roger ; thank you.

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267 17 48 h5 CDR You got it; nothing's too good for the CMC.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce. Where am I supposed to get these

nine Juice bags for the cat iron - cat ion cartridge
deactivation? We supposed to use - reuse some of
that we've emptied?
CC Which bags are these, please?
PLT Page l-h5 of my step l, it says, "obtain nine Juice

bag."
CC Okay, stand by.
267 17 50 39 CC PLT, Houston. Those are intended to be additional

Juice bags. Recommend you get them out of overage
food. Three per crewman, and the selection of what
Juice you take is yours. It's all free there.
Over.
PLT Oh, I see. I had the impression that they were

Just only water, but it said the kind of Juice we
want to drink. Got you. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.

station contact in 7 minutes through Goldstone at
21 :59 pseudo-Zulu.

5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this Houston. One minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 22:08 pseudo-Zulu. Over.
267 18 03 h4 SPT Okay.
267 18 08 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston, with you for 10-1/2 min-

utes through Bermuda. Out.
267 18 16 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two and 1/2 minutes to

Ascension at 22:25 pseudo-Zulu. And for the PLT,
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we've got one m nor checklist mod, and a request

for you. Over.
SPT He's on the bicycle right now, Bruce. Can I handle

it for him or could you get him later?
CC Okay, tell you what, Owen, the change we've got

is on page 1-65, at the top of the page. In his
cold-,n, it refers to disconnecting the WMC hose
from the water outlet on tank 8. And, of course,
tank 7 is the one from which it gets disconnected.
Over.
SPT Okay, Just 8 to 7. We get it. ThAnk you.
267 18 17 12 CC Roger. And the nine Juice bags that Jack got and
filled with water for your activities tomorrow,
if they came out of the food that has already been
inventoried by the CDR on tape on channel A, I
guess we need to ger a correction to that inventory
also put on the tape. Over.
SPT 0kay. We'll put it on.
CC Roger. Thank you. And a NAV update correcting

the drift rate on the gyros in the X- and Z-axes of
the co-_aud module is in. It's go - excuse me,
it's going up at Ascension. We didn't need to
correct Z. It was within the mission rule limits ;
but we figured as long as we were getting X, we
would go ahead and correct Z, also. Over.
267 18 17 57 SPT Okay, Bruce.
267 18 25 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

9-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder at your next site, which is Carnarvon.
Out.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Maybe I got my tongue

twisted on the last message regarding the nay -
update of the gyro drift compensation in the command
module. That's coming up this pass here at Ascen-
sion. And it looks llke we're back in BLOCK up
f in the command module. What we loaded in last site
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was a nay update to the ATMDC, although we did

calculate the one for the CMC. Over.
267 18 26 46 CDR Okay, now, do you want it in ACCEPT now? I can

go put it in.
CC Yes, we do. Regretfully, we needed it.
CDR I'm on the way.
CDR You've got it.
267 18 27 18 CC Roger. Th_nk you.
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267 18 30 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston. The gyro drift compen-

sation is loaded. DSKY is yours, and you can go
back to BLOCK at your convenience. Out.

Carnarvon at 22:57 pseudo-Zulu. OUt.
PLT Okay, Bruce. And I wonder if I could get a

phone call set up with mY wife tonight, Bruce.
In the afternoon or morning, whatever it is.
CC We'll give it a try, Jack, but it's only a couple

of hours until you gtkVs are supposed to hit the
sack, and we've got to see if we can find a site.
The evening status report is coming up shortly.
f-
267 18 35 09 CC We'll see what we can do.

10-1/2 minutes. For the PLT. Over.
CDR He's listening; go ahead.
CC Okay, for Jack, we've set up a phone call with

his wife through @,=m this pass. It's from
23:11 to 23:21 pseudo-Zulu. That's starting about
13minutes from now. And it should be a fairly
good pass. Start out on the left antenna and
then go to right. Over.
CDR He copied. Got something we Just noticed. We

were going over our food for tomorrow, and we've
been saving day 57 food per instructions. Then
we looked in our checklist for deact and noticed
that the 57 food doesn't rhyme with what the
Deact Checklist says 57 food is. Now, 57 break-
fast food is the same as our mission day 3,
I think -let me check. Which is correct, in
that we ate mission day 2 today. It's Just that
the checklist se_m, to be in error.
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267 18 59 42 CDR Also, meal B, that was provided and brought up

in the command module for today, does agree with
the checklist. So we'll be eating a breakfast
for mission day 3, and then we'll be eating the
COmmA ud module meal B. So I think they can Just be
aware of it; and whenever we get to the ship, they
can give us the right supper to make everything
normal. But it looks to me like there was a slight
error there.
CC Okay. We've copied everything that you've said.

It's going to take us a little while to sort it
out. You do have the changes to the mission day
57 menus, which are basically the comlnand module
menu E, as in Echo, for the three of you, with
changes prl,_rily to the PLT and SPT columns, and
mission day 57 changed to mission day 60, do you
not 9.
CDR Sure do, and so - for example, Jack's having

butterscotch pudding instead of egg. He's having
two sausages.
CC Roger. And you're saying that this corrected menu

is the one that doesn't check out with what you got.
267 19 00 52 CDR Let me give you an example. My menu says: instant"

breakfast, pears, biscuits, Jam, and apricots.
What actually exists day 57 for breakfast is:
peaches, bread, grapefruit drink, and Rice
Crispies. And we can get - we've got - we
captured from overage, the proper overage things.
Namely, the butterscotch pudding and the sausage
and the veal.
CC Okay. We copy.
267 19 01 29 CDR It's a little bit weird. We didn't notice it

because we thought we were sitting pretty because
we had all this 57 food with 57 written on the
label. Until we got ready to eat it, and then
we noticed it didn't agree with our menu. Also,
these six extra - nine extra drinks we have to
come up with - which is an excellent idea - tl_ere's
nothing in - hardly in overage anymore in the way
of drinks. But we managed to scout out nine by
pirating here and there, and I'll read you that on
the nightly report.
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CC Okay, and incidentally, the evening status report

is due the station contact after next, at
Goldstone at 23: 37. Over.
CDR Okay. We 'ii be ready.
CC And while we're talking to you here, could you

give us an update on the progress of the three
of you through the time line? Over.
CDR Okay. Nothing new. We're eating dinner right

now.
267 19 02 29 CC Okay, we show then that you were doing the urine
separator stuff out of sequence, and now you're
eating dinner. And would you say that when you
finish dinner, you'll be pretty well up to the
point where you'd be normally doing hygiene kit
reconfiguratlon, let's say?
CDR Yes. I'd say we're halfway through the recon-

figuration of the urine. And Just as soon as we
finish dinner here in a few minutes_ we're going
to close out the wardroom water. And we're going
to proceed from there. We do - according to my
calculations, we're in pretty good shape at the
moment.
CC Okay. Thank you. We agree. We're Just trying

to keep track of where you stand, here.
PLT Th-nks a lot for setting up the phone call, Bruce.

Appreciate it.
267 19 03 18 CC Roger. You were Just lucky I could find Gratla

at home, there. You know, sometimes it's a site
problem and sometimes it's the local c_--, here,
but it should be all set.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.

Guam at 23:11, with a phone call for the PLT.. Gut.
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267 19 07 53 PLT Okay, Bruce, thank you. See you there.
267 19 ii 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through G1_m, for

CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we're working on the food proble_ here.

Back in activation, we told you to take the
co-_nd module menu E, as in Echo, which would
be consumed on the last day of the mission, and
put it in L-3. Do you recall doing this at that
time? And if so, is the food that's in L-3 in
accordance with the menu for tomorrow? Over.
CDH Yes, but I believe that food is only the launch

food.
CC Okay. Let us check into it a little further,

A1. We'll get back to you.
267 19 13 i0 CDR My mind se_m_ to rem_nber somebody saying, some-

time before we launched, to ignore the menu in the
Deact Checklist, that it was wrong; whereas, the
menu as issued in the evening status report/food
log area was correct. I th_nk if you went right
to that evening status report log that's near you,
right in the front where they talk about how to
get ready for mission day 57 and see what it
says, you - you can get the answer.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact in 16-1/2 m_nutes through
Goldstone at 19 :37, at 23:37 pseudo-Zulu. And
we'll be standing by for the evening status report
at AOS. Over.
CDR Okay, and what did you find when you looked in
that book, Bruce?
267 19 21 08 CC Okay, what we're finding, so far, is agreement

between the evening status report book menu fol
mission day 57 and the mission day 57/60 menu in
the Deact Checklist. And we're working on the
problem for you.
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CDR Okay, we're - all of our cans for the breakfast

on 57 have the items I named, which is menu
day 3.
CC Right. We copy that, th_-_ you.
CC And Just before you go over the hill, A1, you're

eating menu day 2 today and h_d menu day l,
yesterday? Do you recall?
267 19 22 15 CDR ,.. the book tell us to - -
267 19 37 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Merritt Island for 16-1/2 minutes. Standing by
for the evening status report. Over.
CDR Be right there.
CC And SPT or PLT, this is Houston. What is the

status on the reconstitution of the food for your
..... breakfast tomorrow? Are you holding up, awaiting
instructions from us? Over.
CDH Negative, we've already done it. It's all

completely reconstituted.
CC What have you reconsti - I mean what menu have

you reconstituted for tomorrow?
CDR We've reconstituted the menu in can 57. So the

menu would be mission day 3.
267 19 39 05 CDR Are you ready for the nightly report?
CC CDR, this is Houston. We're still trying to figure

out the menus. We request you hold the water
system in an active status until we determine
what your menu for tomorrow should be, and where
it can be obtained. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea.
CC And I didn't mean to cut you out - you were

calling me. Over.
r CDR Just wondered if you wanted the nightly status

report.
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CC Roger. We're standing by to copy.
267 19 39 38 CDR Okay. Urine: 160, 125, and 155. That's the
morning. Here's the closeout: 068, 055, 095.
Drinking water gun, morning: 6B78, 0422, 6808.
And the closeout is - hasn't been accomplished
yet, as you know. B_R_D: 6.204, 6.204, 6.204;
5.942, 5.940, 5.943; 6.916, 6.917, 6.919.
Exercise: CDR and SPT, zero. PLT, 2/35/8667.
Medication: CDR took Seconal. SPT and PLT, zero.
Sleep: CDR, 6/good; SPT, 6/good; PLT, 6/good._
Food log: Okay, the food log - let me look and
see here. It's Just not the same typical format ;
that's what I'm looking at. CDR, four salts -
actually, two salts and one salt pill. SPT, add
butter cookies. Zero salt for the SPT. Four salts
for the PLT. Add l_mnn drops, butter cookies, grape
drink, and one salt pill. Flight Plan deviations -
No - no photo log today.
267 19 41 38 CDR Flight Plan deviations : nothing new there. Okay,

we've got some transfers here. We got one apricot
out of 556. We got one lemon pudding out of 550.
PLT Cocoa.
CDR And one cocoa out of 550. We got - out of 563

front, we got one lemon, can 18 - one - that's
one lemonade. One lemonade, can 18. One lemonade,
can 26. And two lemonades, can 27. One orange
out of can 29, and one grape out of can 32.
CC Roger.We copy.
CDR One rack of full urine sample bags from D-426 to

the WMC. Towels, five red, five white, seven
blue - make that eight red, five white, seven
blue from D-418 to the WMC. And some wipes from
W-729 to WMC.
CC Okay, we've got that, also.
CDR That's it.
267 19 43 01 CC Roger. And the deviations you read me from the

food logs were for the mission - were menu, cycle
2 menu deviations per the Deact Checklist. And
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we believe that breakfast for tomorrow should

have been obtained out of the last food bundle
that you broke into in the workshop. However,
we're still checking that. And we confirm that
you should have lunch for tomorrow, that's menu
Echo, meal B, up in the c_nd module in L-B.
Over.
CDR Okay. Now that's exactly what we thought. We

have the last menu from the workshop bundle ; got
57 written all over the can. Or the second one,
I don't remember. It says - you can see that
what we plan to do is ... --
CC We've got a handover going on here.
CDR That 's what we did.
CC Excuse me, AI. You cut - -
CDR Somewhere - Did you call?
267 19 hi_ 14 CC Yes, you out out. We were handing over to

Bermuda. Go ahead now, A1.
CDR Where did I leave off?
CC Just after "that's what we thought." You told

me that the cans were m=_ked 57 on them.
CDR Okay. I went up and looked at our nightly report

again. And there's two mutually contradictory
statements in there, it seems to me. One of them,
and the one we followed, says something on this
order, "As you can see, what the plan is is to
take ... arranged." And that 's what 's happening
tomorrow. Earlier in there, when they - -
CC CDR, Houston. You dropped out again, there. You

were Just telling us where you were looking for
the first set of reports. Over.
CDR How do you read now?
CC Loud and clear, now.

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267 19 45 07 CDR O_ay. I wandered over to the com,_And module and

got out our nightly status reports that I've
transferred to there per the closeout.
CC Roger.
CDE ... listed.
CC Roger. And you're loo_ing on page 1-6, perhaps?
CDR Yes, and there's - maybe. I don't know. Prob -

it was near the front. Anyhow, there's two
mutually prohibitive, or contradictory, statements
in there. One says, and you can probably find it,
it says "You can see the idea is to make old 56,
57, into new 59, 60. Now that's exactly what we
did. However, somewhere else, when it 's defining
the menus, it points out that mission day 57 -
mission day 60 should have CSM E for breakfast,
CSME for lunch and CSM E for supper. Now, you
can't have both of those things, it appears. And
what we have now is the former that I discussed,
and the latter is what our friendly little Deact
Checklist book has.
267 19 _6 ll CC Okay, I don't see where you're reading that

statement that says, as you can see the intent is
to do this, that, and the other. Wait a minute -
is to make your original day 5_ and 7 the extended
mission day 59 and 60. Now that is correct in
that the original mission days 56 and 57 were
supposed to be menu 2 and menu Echo. And we have
preserved menu 2 and menu Echo for days 59 and 60.
If you look at the extended mission menu ending
sequence there on page 1-6 in the evening status
report book, that is consistent with the Deact
Checklist. Over.
CDR I agree. That's what I'm saying. The second one

is consistent. The first statement, that says
it's going to make days 59 and 60 the same as days
56 and 57, is not correct.
CC Well, originally, days 56 and 57 were intended'

to be menu 2 and menu Echo ; and, apparently,
there's some conflict in the way that the day 57
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food was packaged when it was launched, or -

or something like that.
267 19 47 29 CDR Maybe that's it. It's - it's strange to me.

_ybe that's the answer. Maybe in 57 can should
have been Echo; whereas 57 cans at the moment
are menu day 3, which is the nor_=1 sequence
after day 56.
CC Roger. And that's what we're checking right now,

to see if - if that situation prevails.
CDR We're hoping that the results of the discussion

are we go ahead and eat 57 breakfast, eat E.for
lunch, and then they'dmodlfy our supper so that
it works correctly.
CC Okay, we'll hope along with you on that. But we

have to get a buy-off from biomed on it and see
if we can unsnarl the - the situation here.
267 19 52 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 43 minutes throu6h
Carnarvon at 00:36. We're unable to get you an
answer to the food question prior to LOS this
site. We'll have it for you at Carnarvon. We'd
like you to press on with the rest of the deactiva-
tion except for the water system deact.
PLT Goin_ to have the answer at Carnarvon on that,

Bruce?
CC Yes, Sir, we plan to.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston in the blind. Go ahead

with menu 3, breaEfast_ menu Echo, lunch_ and
we'll make up the deficit on the ship. Over.
CDR Out standing.
CC And they are mild. GO for water system deactiva-

tion. Press on.
• 267 19 .5416 PLT Thank you.
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8 minutes. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Skylab, we have set up a private medical

conference for you over Gnam which is the next
site, at 00:50 pseudo-Zulu, duration of approxi-
mately 6 minutes in that pass. And our under-
standing is that we'll be pressing on until 03:00
pseudo-Zulu, at which time, you can set your watches
back 2 hours to 01:00 and pick up with the sleep
activily. Over.
CDR Okay, we're not sure any of us fully understand

these cycles we're going through on the time, but
how many hours of sleep do we end up with tonight?
267 20 37 16 CC You wind up with 8 hours of sleep tonight.
CDR We're going to bed at what t_me pseudo-whatever?
CC Okay, comm_nce going to bed at 03:00 Pseudo-Zulu,

which is your present wristwatch time. You will
then set it back 2 hours so that it reads 01:00,
and then you will sleep for 8 hours until 09:00 on
the new pseudo-Zulu time, and get up and work
through the day on the time line for mission-day
60 until you get secured in the command module at
which time you go over to PET. Over.
CDR This is the first time - this is the first time -

we've understood it today. 0kaydoke, thanks.
CC So - -
267 20 38 03 SPT Okay, fine, Bruce. It will be about 2 hours and

25 minutes before we go to bed or before bedtime
anyway, and there is one little thing I wanted to
bring up. I'm Just about to finish the exchange
on the urine drawers, and I would like to desqribe
this thing to you. Over.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
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SPT Okay, there is a gas supply line that runs up from

the back side of the drawer out through a little
flange that then mates with the gas supply line
that runs out to the movable portion of the drawer
on the sliders. Now this mating section mates with
a little washer, both a rubber composition with a
metal backplate to it. The backplate on that metal
washer is bonded in some way to the fixed portion
of the drawer. However, on the SPT drawer, that
bonding has come loose. As a matter of fact, the
little washer was sticking to the movable portion
of the drawer, until Just tonight when it happened
to come loose while I have the drawer completely
out for biociding and so forth. Now we're not go-
ing to use it again, but of course, it will be
essential for the next mission that that air fitting
be tight, before any of the drawers will function
properly. And so some new bonding agent needs to
be brought along so that that little rubber-com-
position washer can be re-cemented to the fixed
portion of the drawer. Over.
267 20 38 31 CC Okay, thank you, Owen. We copy that, and we'll

put it in work down here.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'd like to get an update from you regarding

your progress through the Deact Checklist. And
you'll see from the foot work with the time that
what we've done, in effect, is give you another
2 hours here unex - unexpectedly to you but through
skill and cunning on our part. Over.
SPT Well, I'm glad to hear you say that it was unexpect-
ed to us because that's the way it hit us and we
weren't certain whether we were Just behind the
times or how it happened that we were a bit out of
phase. We weren't sure whether we were running plus
_, plus 6 or what time Zone. So I'm about 15 min-
utes from finishing up this drawer exchange. And
then all I've got, of course, is that hygiene slot
transfer. So I'll be through before - or - 30 or
h5 minutes, I expect.
267 20 h0 24 CC Okay. And you - -

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SPT Jack says he's on page 1-55.
CC Jack is on 1-557 Over.
SPT That's right, and Alan is now working on the

hygiene kit. So that sort of brings you up to
date, I think.
CC Okay. And you've not put the old urine separa-

tors in the T-027 container yet, have you?
SPT No, as a matter of fact. There is a report that

it's pretty full, and I haven't placed them up
there yet. I don't know how long that's going
to slow me down.
267 20 _i 02 CC Okay, we don't copy the report about it being too

full. We show three separators being in there,
and there are room for six. Over.
CDR We haven'tcheckedyet, we'll look.
CC And, 0wen, did we copy that that washer had come

completely loose, and if so, where are you stowing
it or would you tape it on with a piece of gray
tape in proximity to the use location? Over.
CDR That 's exactly what he 's done.
267 20 _2 41 CC Okay. It - And could you get some pictures of it

for us with the Nikon so we can be certain of the
thing you are describing?
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 m_nute to LOS. Next

station contact with us is in 31 minutes through
Goldstone at 21:14. Next station contact is pri-
vate comm at G_,am in 8 minutes at 00:51 psuedo-Zulu.
And for the SPT, we show that you all have about
30 frames available for optional photography on
the Nikon. We'd like to get some photos of the
thing you've been describing perhaps with the
Honeywell flash to get good depth of field and
things of that sort. Over.
CDR You'll have it.

f-
267 20 43 58 CC Roger. Out.

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267 20 5h 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for a minute

and a half. Over.
CDR We're reading you, Bruce.
CC Okay. Loud and clear. Next station contact is

Goldstone in 19 minutes at 13 minutes after the
hour.
PLT Say, Bruce, in dumping the water lines, I can't

get my water dump pressure to go from off-scale
high down to 0.3 like it's supposed to.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jack.
267 20 55 39 PLT Excuse me, the number is 0.7 psi or less in 3

minutes and I'm wondering, do you want me to press
on or do something else?
CC That's the one in the wardroom, isn't it, Jack?
PLT Yes, sir. And it look like I've got about to the
point where I've done about everything and might
as well Just press on and see what happens. Maybe
I ought to hold off on the ward - on the waste
manag_ent dumping - water heater.
267 20 56 31 CC Okay. We show there's still fluid flowing into

the waste tanks. So go ahead and continue dump-
ing. We'll give you a call over Goldstone.
PLT Okay. Well, there's not supposed to be any because

the 6 minutes is up and all that sort of thing.
But I'll Just let it go.
CC You might - are you sure you cut the water off.
You're on page 1-55?
PLT Yes, I'm on 1-55. The water's on the ..° the

... -- --
267 20 57 18 CC We're losing you. We'll have to talk to you over

Goldst one.
267 21 14 55 CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Goldstone, Texas,

and Merritt Island for 15 minutes. For the PLT.
Over.
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CDR Question first. We Just finished off deactivat-

ing the Nikon electric camera. Are we supposed
to take the two little batts out of the light meter?
CC We'll check on that for you. I don't believe so.

They were launched in place in this manual Nikon.
We'll get an answer though.
CDR The reason I'm wondering is it said "remove batte-

ries," and I could only find one battery, if I
didn't remove those.
PLT I'm here, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. We've got a question for you. When

you removed the - purge fittings from the wardroom
water hose, prior to looking for the indication
less than 0.7 psia on the dump, did you notice
good airflow through the fittings? Over.
f 267 21 ].515 PLT Yes, you could hear it.
CC Okay, we copy. Are you still off-scale, high on the

meter on 700?
PLT No, I'm coming down slowly. It's 1.5 now.
CC Okay, we copy 1.5 now.
PLT I assume, I ought to wait until that gets down 0.7

before I go dump the - wors - waste management
water tank.
SPT I ... - Bruce has some word on T-027 box for you
when you've got a minute.
267 21 116 02 CC Okay, (laugh) go ahead, Owen.
SPT (Laugh) Still coughing with the dust. The box

590, T-027 sample array container was already at
ambient pressure. I didn't have to pressurize it
in order to open the lid. When you open the lid,
it's got a bag in there, which presumably contains
the old three separators. But it's also got alot
of dust. And it's sort of like crystallized
f material that's floatingall around, coming out
every time you crack the lid. And it's got a very
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musty stale odor. And so my question is whether

or not you want me to proceed (laugh). If I have
to open it and pack it - these other three con-
tainers in it, then it's going to be a - oh, a
5-minute Job at least, to get all of that stuff
crammed in there. And - -
CDR ...
SPT Oh, I see. A1 thinks it Just the fact that the

screen on the - -
CDR .Waste - -
SPT - - waste management screen has never been cleaned,

and that's where _11 the dust is coming from.
Boy, is--
267 21 17 02 PLT Hey, that's wrong.
SPT No, it's not either. It's coming - -
CDR Inside the bag.
SPT Yeah, it's coming out of the bag, even thicker now.
So, ... do you have some comment or advide for us?
CC Okay. Leave it closed up for the time being, and

let us think about it for a moment.
PLT Okay. Al's comment is we can stick it in there.
267 21 18 32 CC While we're getting you answers on these, for

the CDR, we've checked our records over and we
confirmed that menu 3 breakfast was indeed packed
in place of menu Echo breakfast when Skylab 1 was
stowed. We've also determined that the same sit-
uation prevails for SL-&. And being forewarned,
we'll see if we can't rearrange their menus. Over.
CDR Say, Bruce. We took a look in this 27 more close-

ly with a vacuum cleaner and everything. And my
guess is all of these particles are crystallized
urine of some sort in here that's dried out be-
cause of the vacuum. And, I guess mu recommen-
dation would be we go find another place for these
other three. We can go in here and put them in
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here if you want, but it's going to release a lot

of particles which may - you may not want out in
the atmosphere.
267 21 20 18 CC Roger; keep her closed. We're thinking about it

and trying to come up with an alternate location
for you at the present time. Over.
CDR Originally they were going to be trash airlock

candidates, weren't they?
CC Yes, sir. But toward the end of SL-2, we deter-

m_ned that there would be a high probability of
J_mm_ng the trash airlock, if you tried to trash
it without some sort of form or something wrapped
around to smooth its contours so it didn't hang up
on the eyelid down at the bottom of the airlock.
Over.
CDR Well, we can sure do that - if that's necessary.
CC Well, don't - don't initiate anything yet on them.

The final stowage is a real short item. So we can
afford to take a little bit of time and work on it
here.
267 21 21 08 CDR Okay.
267 21 2B 40 CC PLT, this is Houston. If you could give us your

readout on that panel 700 meter again and at the
present time, you're GO to continue past it
ass,lm_ng it's less than 0.7 psia. And for the SPT;
yes, sir, we want the batteries removed from the
light meters on all three Nikons. Over.
PLT Roger.
CC PLT, Houston. We didn't copy a Roger from you.

Do you understand that you're GO to proceed with
the water system deactivation as if the pressure
were currently below 0.7 psia? But we would like
to get your meter reading as you go by.
PLT Okay. I'll press on and it's 1.45 at the moment.
z CC Okay. Thank you. And as soon as you get to it,

why you're Go on the wardroom - on the _aste
management compartment water, also.
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267 21 26 26 PLT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
CC And did Owen copy on the light meter batteries?
PLT Affirmative, Bruce.
CC Okay.
SPT Act1_lly, most of that has been done before.

Jack did the S06B activation - deactivation and
I guess he didn't get that light meter battery
but it's Just been got. Only one of the - I guess
two of the three Nikons have a light meter. The
other one has the photomic head without a light
meter but we'll get - we're getting the batt -
the batteries out of those.
CC Roger. We expect NK02 doesn't have the light

meter since it was intended for UV.
267 21 27 03 SPT That's correct.
CDR And I'm still a little puzzled. We're GO when

the pressure gets down to 0.7 or we're GO right
now on to the deac - water deac?
CC You're GO right now. You're GO right now on the

water.
CDR Okay.
CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact is

through the Vanguard in 9-1/2 minutes at 01:38
pseudo-Zulu. Out.
267 21 28 46 PLT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
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267 21 38 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; l-l/2 minutes until LOS.

Next station contact in 1 hour and 5 minutes
through Goldstone at 02:51 pseudo-Zulu. And for
the SPT, if you have not already taken the batteries
out of the light meter on the Nikon or are not
fam_ liar with the procedure involved with that,
we'd like for you to go ahead and Just leave them
in. Over.
f SPT They are already completed; that's out.
CC Okay. Understand you got the batteries out of

NK-01 and NK-03.
267 21 47 35 SPT Affirm. Actually 3 may not be complete yet;

now, l, we completed; 3 is the one with internal
CI film in it; we've not taken it out of that one
yet.
CC Okay, 0. You're f,m_liar with the procedure in

getting the head off and taking the battery out
and all of that?
SPT Right.
CC Okay. Go ahead then; proceed as we informed you

previously, taking the batteries out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, going over the hill.

We're still hunting for a satisfactory location
for the urine separators. But if you can go
• ahead and seal them up in some bags for the time
being, we'll give you a location later.
/
267 21 48 57 CC Were you able to copy that?
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267 22 51 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you A0S Goldstone for

8 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. This is the last pass of

the evening, and I've got several items that I
need to - to clear up, here, if I can. One of
the things was - is we never got the final H20
drink gun readings there on your Deactivation
Checklist, I think, page 1-2.
CDR Let me give them to you right now.
CC Okay; go ahead.
CDR Jack will give them to you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; if you read, we're - got a

keyhole coming up here at Goldstone for about
a minute and a half. I'll give you a call when
we're out of it.
PLT Okay, Dick.
267 22 53 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of the keyhole; and

go ahead with the readings.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we're out of the

keyhole, and we've got about 5 more minutes in this
pass. Go ahead with the readings.
PLT Okay, Dick, here they are at closeout: 6393,

0h38, and 6812
CC Roge@, Jack. Thank you very much. Another thing

that I wanted to mention, and this was primarily
for A1 - at the last pass, which was a long time
ago, we uplinked in the teleprinter some Entry
Checklist items that we didn't make a voice call
about. The only thing that I wanted to say about
them was that they are all a result of Vance
over the weekend going out to Downey. He flew
the mission evaluator, and, as a result of that
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run and - and t_]king to the team here, they

thought there were a few more reminders that we
ought to get up. And - And that was the rationale
behind sending you up these final changes.
267 22 55 03 CDR Glad you did. I read them and I appreciate it.
I particularly liked the one that gave me a feel
for the duty cycle on the Y-translation during
the ullages. Quite a bit more than I'd guess.
CC Roger. It was to me too, but that - that was the

way Vance - it came out on the mission evaluator.
Another item that I have here, A1, is - back to
the stowage of these urine separators. We've
looked at several - looked and talked about
several options that varied between putting them
into a freezer, possibly putting them back into
the T029 canister.
267 22 55 38 CC And it looks like, right now, what we're - sounds

_ like the best one is to Just go ahead and empty
out one of the dome lockers that has some unusable
things in it that we'll switch around. And Just
put them in the dome locker, shut them up in
there, and leave them so we never would have to
go back in the lockers. Because there apparently
is no particular problem since they've - You said
that when you opened the T027 canister they - that
one had actually been - it was at 5 psi at the
time, and so it had been breathing somewhat.
And since it didn't get out of there we - we're
• thinking along those lines. At any rate, in the
morning we'll let you know what we'd like to do.
CDR Okay. In other words, you don't want us to pick

a locker now and stick them in tonight. You want
to wait and tell us which one tomorrow?
267 22 56 21 CC That's affirmative. We think that'd be better.

We - Let another team think it over and - and
consider that, and Just let you know in the morning
what we want to do with them.
CDR Okay; sounds good to us.
/ CC Okay. Had another question from the INCO. Have

you heard the 4-cycle-per-second noise in the last
couple of days on the s_dio?
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CDR Haven't heard that. Nor have heard the ATM pump
problem since we changed the filter and haven't
been back to PUMP A. Those two anomalies after
the EVA have gone away.
CC Okay. One final reminder, A1. Coming up here

in about B or 4 minutes, we'd - is a reminder -
this is - will be the time to set your watches
to 01:00. And that way, when you go to bed
tonight and you wake up, you'll be on the PET
count down to entry.
CDR Did it about l0 minutes ago. We're ready right

now.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything else? You got any news?
267 22 57 22 CC I'll tell you, I got - I don't have any news

that's here. We're looking on the back - though
I don't think we're going to have any, A1. I
do have one other thing that I'd like to say. I'm
standing this shift here for Crip, who is going
to be back over with you tomorrow on the entry
team. And he really ought to have the privilege
of telling you good night on Skylab from Don Puddy
and the crimson team. And I kind of get that Job;
and it's one with a lot of pride on my part,
because this team has really done an outstanding
Job starting with the guys out here in the front
room and going right back into the SSRs, and - and
their support guys. It's been a real pleasure
for every one of them and it's a privilege for me
to say goodby to you gt_s. And every one of them
are looking forward to you getting home, and we'll
see you very soon.
267 22 58 20 CDR Well, we've - we've been pretty happy to be part

of the team, too. I guess part of all of these
experiments belong to us and part of them belong
to y'all. And I guess the amount that belcags
is how hard we each sweated to get them. And I
want to invite everybody out to Ellington. We're
looking forward to being there in B or 4 days Dr
whenever we get there. And we've - we've really
enjoyed it. It's been a fantastic experiment -
experience, and it's Just - it's incredible
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how - how much you can do up here if you've got

good support and people down on the grotmd that
can figure out what you ought to be doing and lay
it out for you. And then you become their hands,
so to speak, and their eyes. And they do the
thinking, and you Just - executing. And that's
exactly what happened up here, and we - we've
really enjoyed it.
267 22 59 12 CC Okay, A1, we sure appreciate your - your comments.

We're going LOS here very shortly. And we Just
wanted to confirm right at the last that you got
through your planned deactivation activities for
today.
CDR Everything is complete except the centrifuge,

as you well know. Everything else has been done.
CC Okay, real fine, A1. We'll say gooduight to you

guys. Get a good night's sleep, and we'll be
talking to you in the morning. Goodnight.
CDR Okay; watch out.
SPT Good night to you Don, and that's a fine crimson

team you have there. It's been a real pleasure
for a long period here to work with you all.
CC Thank you, Owen; appreciate it.
267 22 59 _7 PLT And gooduight gang, we've had ...
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SlC/LAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
268 06 58 28 (Music: Going Back to H0ustonby Dean Martin)
268 06 58 55 CDR Watch outs Houston, _re we come.
CC Well, hi there; good morning.
CC And, Skylab, that brings us about i0 seconds

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Van@_,-_d at 25.
CDR Good way to wake up.
CDR We haven't seen a dollar in 2 months.
268 07 01 27 CC (Chuckle) Roger.
268 07 25 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 5-1/2 minutes.
r PLT 0ka - okay, Hank we're up and at 'em.
CC Okay, and yesterday you had a question on what

you wan - what we wanted you to do with the
urine separators, and we Just now arrived at a
solution. We would like for you, when you get
to that, to wrap thamup in something, some
towels or old clothing or something and - so it
doesn't rattle around too much, and stow them in
the empty food freezer 552.
268 07 26 19 _ SPT Okay, understand 552, Hank. Another question,

unrelated to the subject. We want to make sure
that we're doing the right thing with the urine
bags. Now, the bag that we've been using yes-
terday, we assume will not be weighed. Of course,
it won't be sampled; and after this morning's
first urination, we think we're supposed to
switch to UCTA. Now, as I know, we have the one
UCTA for return. Is that correct? Over.
CC We'll check that out, Owen, and get right back

to you.
268 07 30 28 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Canaries'at 44.

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CDR Let me tell you what I was doing with the urine
separators when you called. I got an inspiration
last night how they can get in T027 box. So
I tried to put them in T027 box, and turned out
that I could really Just get two of ours plus
the three of theirs without making any excessive
dust. So presently, there's two of ours and
three of theirs in T027; and we'll put our one
in a bag in the freezer. Over.
268 07 31 22 CC Roger; we copy.
268 07 45 _2 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

13 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank. We're Just sitting around a good,

cold breakfast.
CC Roger. Copy. And in answer to the question about

the urine collection. Yesterday - I think, you
did take samples of yesterday's urine, last night,
as you closed out the WMC. And the - the bags
that are - you - I think you put on the handrails
there can be use_ right up until suit donning
later today. And at that time, when you don
the UCTA, then you can close out those bags and
get them ready to transfer. The - The urine bags
are transferred as one of the last items to go
over.
268 07 46 27 SPT Okay, Hank. Thank you. That's Just what we had
in mind. And you're correct. We did sample last
night, and those are _n the freezers, so we're
all set.
CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid's about to acquire you

now, and we'll be dumping the voice recorder there.
PLT You there, Hank?
CC That 's affirmative. Another 8 minutes.
PLT Okay. I notice from looking in the cooler that

I forgot to eat my pears and my peach ambrosia
last night. And I'm wondering if the troups
want me to go ahead and eat that this morning,
or forget it, or - if left to me, I'd probably
go ahead and eat it right now.
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CC We're - we're getting you an answer.
268 07 51 25 PLT Okay, Hank.
268 07 57 08 PLT l'm ready to eat it, Hank.
CC Say again?
PLT i'm ready to eat those pears and peach ambrosia.
CC Well, it's still under discussion, Jack. Go

ahead and eat them if you want them.
PLT Th,nk you, Hank.
CC We'll write those down as a deviation.
PLT Okay, better knock them off of last night's

schedule, then.
268 07 57 53 CC Consider it down. And we're about 40 seconds

_- from LOS. We'll be picking you up again at
Carnarvon at 26.
PLT Say, Hank, we're wondering if we ought to throw

away our spices and taobasco and stuff like that,
that 's been opened.
CC We'll get with you at Carnarvon.
268 07 58 58 PLT Okay.
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268 08 26 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 4-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, _nk.
CC CDR, Houston. I have a few comments in regard to

the CSM checks if you can listenup now.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. I think your Flight Plan calls for us to

up-link some things to the CMC and that won't be
required at this time. Also we'll be setting up
the PET at the nominal time, after your P52, that
comes at 12:l_ on your pseudo Ca_T. Your REFS_@_AT
state vectors are valid and the undocking time is
unchanged. And a couple of hours from now, when
you get to your P52, it gives you options on stars
2, h, and 6. Four is currently available, so you'll
have to use 2 and 6 there. And at the P52, P51/
P52 point, the P52 option 3 is all that's going to
be required. And your sunset will be coming there
at 12:14. The P52 that's called out Just prior to
suit donning is not required. We've already got
all the drift check data that we need on the plat-
form.
268 08 28 20 CDR Good news. Now would you tell me what times you
have at the moment that we're running on.
CC Okay. Your watches should be reading about 10:28

right now. That will keep you at the right place
in the checklist.
CDR That's where we are. Good show. And understand

the other. Thanks, Hank.
268 08 !_0 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about B0 seconds from losing

Carnarvon and we'll come right back up after a very
short LOS with Honeysuckle at B2.
268 08 32 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through Honey-

suckle for 8 minutes. And in answer to your ques-
tion regarding the spices, Just leave them as you
presently have them stored.
CC CDR, Houston. Where are you right now in respect

to the SPS repress?
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CDR With respect to what?
CC Roger; SPS repress. It's on page - -
CDR I'm not doing it right now. I'm not in the com-
mand module. Will be in the command module in l0
minutes. Is that okay?
CC Okay. We need state and coverage for that so we'll

pick up stateside.
267 08 36 42 CC Skylab, Houston. This is the last shift with you

for the bronze team. And on behalf of all the guys
on the bronze team, we'd like to salute you as an
outstanding crew. We were continually surprised
during the mission with your enthusiasm for re-
questing more work. It's been a great mission.
And thanks to you, we've accomplished much more than
we had anticipated and have collected a tremendous
amount of data. For example, we've got over 14,000
EREP photos now and over 18 miles of EREP tape.
You did a tremendous Job and it's been a real
pleasure working with you. We'll be watching your
splash here on TV and be looking forward to seeing
you again in Houston.
267 08 37 23 CDR Thank you, Hank, and thanks to the teA m_ It's
simple thing, I think we do have a heck a lot of
data up here and part of that data belongs to
every one of us and every one of you. And I guess
the percent that belongs to each has to do with how
much of what percent he had available to give, he
gave. So, nobody knows except yourself. And I
think we feel pretty good about it, and I hope
every member of this whole team feels good about it.
We're happy to have been part of it and proud to
be part of Skylab and NASA. Want to invite every-
body out to Ellington when we get back. And we're
coming home today; so watch out.
CC We'll be watching.
PLT ThanKs a lot, H_nk, to you and your team from Owen
and myself, also.

We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 16, and we'll be
standing by there to monitor the SPS repress.
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268 08 39 27 CDR We'll be ready.

SPT Okay, Bruce. And on the URC closeout, I wanted to

mention the fact that one of the cardboard inserts
could not be left inside of the URC. That's be-
cause the size of the urine container was such
that it just would not fit with - and get the lid
down close to where it's supposed to go. So one
of those thin cardboard inserts has been removed.
Also, on the IMSS, which I'm about to set up to
do, there is a slot to return those little fish
in. Now, that would, of course, have frozen the
fish. We still have some of those alive. And so,
last night, we' d already put them into canister A
which was the canister they were sent up in, and
I have that over in my TSB. And so I propose that
that'll be an alteration. I'll bring those - that
little small can containing the fish and see if we
can bring back a few of them alive, rather than
putting them inside the IMPS. Over.
268 09 18 22 CC Okay; we copy that. Let us work on it for a minute.

And we'd like to check with you on one thing, here.
The evacuation of the TO27A stowage container is
neither required nor desired. Could you confirm
for us that you did not evacuate same? Over.
CDR I'll confirm that we did. I did it this morning.

I can go repress if you'd like - -
CC Negative. Negative. We were concerned about clog-

ging up the orifices with urine crystals. And what
has been wrapped around the one urine separator
that's stowed in freezer 552?
CDR The urine bag and it's sealed.
CC Okay, you have no padding material such as a towel

or anything?
268 09 19 07 CDR It didn't look like a need for it. It floats

around there and doesn't bang anything, but we'a
be glad to go put one on if you like.
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CC Okay, what we'd like you to do is cram some stuff

in there so it's sort of held in place in the
freezer. Good suggestion might be some of your
sleep restraints when you peel them off.
CDR We'll do it. Ready for the SPS repress, I did a

P52 a while ago, but didn't torque the platform
because I didn't think you wanted to. Need to, I
can give you the results if you like.
CC Go ahead with the results of P52. And we're - -
268 09 19 42 CDR The time I did it was a CMC time of 33:12:00. The
torquing angles would have been minus 32, minus
124, plus 72.
CC Okay, I'm not sure I copied the time correctly.

33:12 :007
CDR That's affirm. CMC time, 16:65. MY watch time

was ll:15: 00.
CC Okay.
CDR And standing by to do whatever you want me to do.
CC Go ahead on the repress.
CDR I've already activated the RCS, so somebody might

want to take a look at it.
CC Okay, go ahead with the SPS repress.
268 09 21 05 CDR They seem to be stabilizing about 171 up here.
CDR Looks like they're stabilized at 171.
CC And when you get a second - we've got 2 minutes to

LOS here - we'd like a brief update as to where
you are in the Deact Checklist.
CDR Okay, and - and I put the switch back to AUTO per
the instructions.
CC Roger.
CDR Are you satisfied? Do you think that's the nu -

that - is that the number you predicted?
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CC Roger; we're happy with the SPS.
CDR Okay, I'm exactly on the time. Well, I'm actually

ahead of the t_me line. I've finished everything
up until - I think it's 10:50 - 11:55 thing. Owen
Just put in the urine box and Just put in the fecal.
And Jack - I don't know what he's doing, he'll
have to give you a call.
PLT I'm up to page 2-17, Bruce.
268 09 22 B9 CC Okay, we copy. We've got 1 minute until LOS.

Next station contact in _-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 11:27 pseudo-Zulu. Out.
CDR Okay, now one of the things it told me to do was

set the CM - set both mission timers to G_. I
don't even have the slightest idea where that is.
So I set it for the CMC time which I'll change
later. MY watch is on pseudo-Zulu.
CC Okay.
CDR And I gather you don't want a VERB 7_ and you don't
want any other - anything done to the CMC or the
IMU for a while.
CC That's correct, A1. And Zulu time is 2 hours less

than your watch time at the present time, but you
can go ahead and leave the timers as you got them.
CDR Okay, and I'm standing by on page 2-18 which is

CSM power source transfer to internal. And I'm in
a hold right there waiting.
268 09 23 _0 CC Okay, stand by on that one, please.
CDR By the way, Houston, how do you like the RCS?
CC Looks good to us, Alan. And we're with you through

Madrid for 8 minutes now.
CC SPT, this Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
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268 09 28 16 CC Roger. Reference,your m,_,-_chog

minnows or
Fundulus heteroclitus, we think they'll be all
right in the IMSS return container in the position
specified. However, it's your option. If you'd
like to bring them back in can A and some other
location in the cozm_nd module, that's okay with
us. However, please tell us where you've stowed
them so that we can advise the recovery people to
extract them in something less than a couple of
weeks from the co-_And module. And for your in-
formation, the fish did go up in the IMBS container.
Over.
SPT That's right, but it didn't have the same frozen

plugs in it, I didn't - I don't think. Is that
correct or was it at the same temperature com/ng
up as it did going back - as it would be going
back?
CC We believe it had the heat sinks in it and approx-

imately the same temperature going up.
268 09 29 09 SPT Okay, sounds fine. I'll - I'll properly retrieve

them and put them back here and I'll let you know.
CC Okay.
CC And, CDR, this is Houston. We're GO for your

pressing on with the power transfer whenever you
and the PLT are both ready. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll probably get to it in about l0 minutes,

if that's okay?
CC Okay, we won't be able to watch it then, but that

sounds good to us, and press on. Also, I have a -
another editorial change to your checklist. In
the CSM Syst_m_ Checklist, page 5-7, we want to
change the secondary coolant loop switches to re-
flect the fact that the loop is active. And I've
got the changes here if you want me to read them
off.
CDR Can you cool it? I'm down in the OWS and I'll be
back up there in about 15 minutes.
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CC Okay, no rush. I think it's something you'd pick

up anyway when you came to it. Out.
268 09 30 27 CDR Okay, I'll be up there and talk to you next pass.
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268 09 32 h2 CC PLT, this is Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. When you go up to close out the tele-

printer, you will find a message in there addressed
to Jerry, Ed, and Bill. We'd appreciate if you'd
leave it in there for the next inhabitants of the
workshop. Over.
PLT Now you'll have to say again all after ... I

did't get it.
CC I said, "Roger." We're shifting the teleprinter

traffic over to Jerry, Ed, and Bill, i.e., the
SL-4 crew. Over.
_ 268 09 33 35 PLT Okay, I didn't get any of that at all, and what
does that mean? That I shouldn't take anything
more off of there?
CC That's affirm. It's Just a short message, and

we'd Just like toleave it in the teleprinter for
them.
PLT Will do. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. That's Jerry Cart, Edward Gibson, and

Bill Pogue. Over.
PLT I think I remember at least the last name.
268 09 3_ O0 CC Okay.
SPT You there, Bruce?
CC Yes, indeed.
SPT I don't normally read other people's correspond-

ence, but in this case, you Just sent up a blank
sheet of paper to our friends Jerry, Bill, and Ed.
f CC What? Just one line and then a bleak? Over.

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SPT I _on't even see the one line. I'ii take another
look.
CC Oh, it - It - It may not be on board yet. It

will either be coming up here in a few seconds
or through Carnarvon.
SPT That's more like it.
CC And we got 45 seconds until LOS. Next station

contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon at 12:00
pseudo-Z. Out. And we'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at Carnarvon, also.
PLT They're going to like it up here, Bruce. I envy

them.
268 09 35 17 CC Likewise.
268 l0 00 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

II minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Here's a problem that I remember

we had in the training also, but I thought it got
worked out. I'm stowing the cans here in these
IMSS return containers. There are two cans K and
only one K slot in this rack. Now the first can K
is c-11ed medical supplies and microbiology
supplies. The second can K is called simply
microbiology supplies. The checklist calls for
the can K to remain in K where it was at launch.
Yet the microbiology supplies can K is the one
that was in there, not medical supplies and
microbiological supplies. So l'm assuming both
cans K are returned, but I' d like to know where
the other can K gets stowed. And I presume that
it is in slot E, since that's the only one that's
big enough to hold a can of this size. Over.
268 i0 01 21 CC Okay. We've got that. We'll get the answer for
you in Just a second.
SPT Also, the IMSS checklist c.ll_ for the six BSVs,
blood sample vials, to be taped and returned in
slot A. Yet I 'm pretty sure my original checklist
in the biomed checklist c-lls for me to put it
inside the can K labeled medical supplies and
microbiological supplies. And that's where I
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have six BSVs now located. And I'd like to leave

them inside of that cam K where they are now
presently found if that's satisfactory. And I
assume that it will be. Over.
SPT And, Bruce, we performed the power transfer, and

it looks good from here.
268 l0 02 ll CC Okay, Owen. Stand by, please.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Stand by, please.
CC 0wen, could you describe these two cans K, Kilo,

to us again, please.
SPT Certainly. The first can K is labeled medical

supplies, paren A and microbiological supplies,
paren A. The second can K is called micro-
- biological samples, paren A. Subtitles include
illness events, petri disk assembly, and so forth.
This was pointed out in training; it's exactly
the same thing we've had all along, two cans K
and one slot. Over.
CC Okay. Stand by.
268 l0 03 39 SPT Incidentally, the one of them, microbiology

supplies, paren A; that can K has never been
opened. It's the other can K, with the double
title, that has been opened and used.
SPT Further information, the one that hasn't been

opened, as I mentioned a moment ago, is the one
for illness events. Since we didn't have any,
it was never opened.
CC Okay, Owen. We're tal_ing about it right now,

and I'll confirm it for you in a minute. It
looks like we're moving towards taking that can
that's never been opened and leaving it up there
on board, since there's been no change in its
internal composition. Over.
268 l0 02 _l SPT I think that's the way it should be.

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CC And, also, the word I'm getting on the blood

sample vials is that the samples in them have
been chemically stabilized so that it's not
critical whether they get chilled or refrigerated
or not. Over.
SPT Okay. I'ii leave them right inside the can K,

which has been opened s_d which I have stowed in
location K.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CC Okay. And the can K, in which you have the BSVs,

is in position K in the IMSS rack, with fish
can A in position J on top of it. Is that correct?
268 i0 05 _0 SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay. I think we're m_ing some progress here.
CC And while we're t_1_ing to you, Owen, prior to

closeout of the ATM C_D panel, if it 's convenient,
we'd like to get a readout of the S054 and S052
fr_,es remaining, so that we can verify proper
unattended operatic_ of the system. Over.
SPT Wilco.
CC And for the CDR and PLT, this is Houston. The

c_And module power configuration looks good
following power transfer. Out.
CREW ...
268 i0 07 09 CDR We're in a HOLD mode until 12:_5, or so, for

alignment.
CC Okay. l've still got this one little change to

the Cn-,,And Module Systems Checklist outstanding.
CDR I'ii be right up to the com_nd module. Wait I.
CDR _ay, Bruce, go ahead. Systems Checklist is in

hand.
CC Okay. On panel - On page 5-7 of the Systems

Checklist, you come down, oh about eight or nine
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lines and it says, SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP EVAP,

OFF. We want to change that to SECONDARY COOLANT
LOOP EVAP to EVAP. And SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP
PUMP from OFF to AC-2. And SECONDARY EVAP WATER
FLOW from OFF to AUTO. Over.
268 l0 08 38 CDR Wish I could write that fast. Go a little slower?
CC Okay. You found the three entries for the second-

ary coolant loop. What we want is the EVAP switch
to EVAP, PUMP switch to AC-2, and EVAP WATER FLOW
to AUTO. A-U-T-0.
CDR Okay. I've got it. Thanks, Bruce.
CC And, of course, that change is called out to keep

you in compliance with having powered up the
secondary loop, as part of the Deactivation
Checklist on about page 2-85. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
268 l0 l0 17 CC SPT, Houston. I may cut out in this transmission.

We got 30 seconds to a handover, but on the IMSS,
we would like to get the blood sample vials packed
for return per the checklist, i.e., wrapped and
stowed without the can in position A. And the
empty can Kilo in position Kilo. Over.
SPT Now we have no empty can Kilo, but I'll take the
BSVs out of A and tape them to A, although I think
that is contrary to the biomed Checklist. It's
consistent with the Deac Checklist, but we have
no empty can Kilo. I'll put the one I've got
where it is in Kilo.
268 l0 ll 23 CC Okay, back with you now through Honeysuckle Creek,

Owen. It's turns out that the blood sample vials
are not that well stabilized chemically. We'd
like to get them next to the heat sink that's in
slot Bravo, to better preserve them and keep them
cooler for the return trip. And with respect to
can K, the one we're talking about is the one in
which you had the BSVs located. And our trader-
standing is that when you take the BSVs out of
that can K, it then will be empty. Over.
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CC SPT, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek.

With respect to the stowage there, we want to get
the BSVs next to the heat sink in location B. Be-
cause it turns out that the samples really aren't
that well chemically stabilized, and we think that '
it'll be a much cooler, more satisfactory environ-
ment for their return in that location. And the
can - The empty can K that I was talking about is
the one in which you said you put the BSVs. We
were putting it down in position K to serve as a
spacer to hold the fish can off the bottom. And
our understanding was that when you take the BSVs
out, it will then be empty. Over.
268 l0 12 54 SPT Okay, I've already taken the BSVs out. I've taped
them in position A, and I'm going to reinsert it
again into the IMSS, and I guess I misled you.
There's a lot of other stuff in can K, also. It
was not empty. But the other stuff still remains
in position K.
CC Okay, that's Roger. Leave the other stuff in K

and stow the thing per checklist.

Corpus Christi at 12:47 pseudo-Zulu. Out.
CC And again for the SPT. The unopened can K

containing the illnest event materials should be
left in the wardroom food chiller. Over.
SPT Okay, happy to do that, and I didn't see anything

about that in the checklist. And there's a couple
of other cans I'm leaving behind, also.
268 l0 16 22 CC Roger; you might m-ke a note of which ones they

are, and we can t,lk to you over the States or
in the postflight debriefing about it.
SPT Okay, can Delta, can Hotel, and the can K under -
about which we've been discussing are the three
left behind.
268 l0 16 46 CC Roger. Out.
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268 i0 46 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for about 18 minutes.
Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. One configuration question on panel

225. It tells me to put both nitrogen regs to
OPEN, and we were operating one open or A open
and B closed. How would you like it left?
CDR Okay, Bruce. I did the P52 stars 2 and 6.

Error noun 9B, minus 54, minus 1BS, plus 78.
Time of torquing on CMC time, B4:BT:46:00.
268 i0 _7 33 CC Roger. We got that, A1. And for the SPT,

would you verify that the three IMSS cans that
you are leaving, that is, Delta, Hotel and Kilo
illness are being left in the chiller. Over.
SPT I thought you only asked me to leave the one kilo

and I put the other two in a waste bag. I could
probably still retrieve it. And I'll put the
other two in the chiller, if you like. The IMSS
is stowed, and I'm now about to pick up on ATM
panel closeout. Over.
CC Yes, sir. We would like the other two in the

chiller, also.
268 i0 48 07 CDR Okay. The GDC align was performed at 34:40:54

CMC time. And also, I'm in the midst of the ECS
prep on page 246.
CC CDR, this is Houston. We see that you are in PO0

and ACCEPT. We will now sync your CMC clock
to PET. Over.
CDR Good show, and I'll set the clocks when you've
done it.
CC Roger.
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CDR And I'm on panel 382, getting ready to put

the EVAP H20 control to PRIMARY. I hope
they've looked over closely all that evap business.
268 i0 _8 57 CC Okay.
CC PLT, this is Houston. We want both N 2 REGS

open per checklist. Over.
PLT Okay. That's the way I put them. Thank you,

Bruce.
CC Roger. Tbsnk you for asking, though. It was

a point that perhaps needed some clarifying. Out.
SPT Okay, Houston. I'm about to give it the 52012

and the 50007 ENTER on the DAS. Are you pre-
pared for that? Over.
268 i0 50 20 CC We are. Go ahead, Owen.
CC And before you power down on the panel, we'd like

to get the frame counts on S052 and S054, please;
and the undocked gains look good to us.
SPT Okay. I'll give you all of the readings while I'm
here. The H-alpha is reading 616; X-ray Telley
is reading 180; 82A and B are off; 52 reads 59;
and 5h reads 5882. And CBRM lights number 3 and
5, I have all three status lights on per both
sets. Sets 3 and 5.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you.
CC For the CDR. You now have PET loaded in the

comm-nd module computer. Out.
268 l0 51 53 CDR Th_nk you, Bruce.
SPT And I do have a BAT VOLT and a REG VOLT barber

pole, not gray, as is in the checklist.
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CC Roger.
PLT And, Bruce, I'm configuring the circuit breaker •

panels in the STS, and I wonder if there's any-
thing you want to do before I go ahead and flip
some of them.
CC Press on, Jack. We're in good shape. We got

a handover here in about 30 seconds, so we'll
have a short dropout. Over.
CC Just let us know when you're finished, Jack, so

we can do the co_mAud verification checks. Over.
268 1O 51334 PLT Wilco.
268 l0 54 09 SPT You back with us, Bruce?
CC Stand by a second. It's a little noisy.
CC Okay. I'm back with you now, 0wen.
SPT Okay. We have the H-ALPHA CONSOLE POWER DISTRI-

BUTION switch taped into the BUS 1/NUMERIC LIGHTING
BUS position, and I presume you're ready for it to
go OFF now.
CC That's affirmative, Owen. Turn it off.
SPT Roger.
SPT Okay. If you would, verify your ATM co--,_ud ca-

pability, please.
268 l0 5!543 CC Roger. That's in work.
268 l0 59 35 CC SPT, Houston. The ATM command verification

checks have been completed satisfactorily. Over.
SPT Okay, we heard that, Bruce, and I'm now ready

for you to do the same on the STS control panel.
CC Okay, that's in work.

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268 ii 00 _3 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 13:05 pseudo-Zulu. Out.
268 ii 05 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR The ECS complete; Li0H installed.
CC Roger. Th_n_ you, A1.
CDR You still there, Bruce?
CC Yes, indeed.
CDR Okay, we were planning to bring back several

pounds of personal items. We thought we'd
bring back our EVA gloves and maybe a couple
of other things. And so where we're stowing
them is right on top Of A-5. The fecal bundles
are on A (cough) - A-2, A-B, A-9 has three of
them and A-7 - A-7 has one.
268 ll 07 34 CC Okay, I understand._ One fecal bundle on A-2,

one on A-3, three on Alfa 9 and one on A-7.
Over.
CDR That's affirm. And we've put our bag right in

the middle of A-5.
CC Roger. And miscellanenous items on top of A-5.

Do you have an estimate for the weight involvedY
CDR My guess would be about 5 pounds. It wouldn't

be more then 10. Five to l0 and I tried to put
it right on the CG,
CC Roger. That's a good ball park figure. Thank

yOU.
268 ll 09 40 CC PLT, this is Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. AM COmAnd verification is completed

satisfactorily, and I have the reg adjust settings
for closeout for you here. Over.
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PLT Just a minute.
PLT Okay, go ahead, Bru-
CC Okay, if you want to enter it in the checklist,

it's page 2-51. REG ADJUST BUS 1 pot, we want
170 degrees counterclockwise. That's 170 degrees
counterclockwise. BEG AIkTUST BUS 2, 165 degrees
counterclockwise. That's 165 degrees counterclock-
wise. Over.
268 ll l0 44 PLT You mean from the present position, you want to
go that far counterclockwise on both of them.
Right ?
CC That's correct. We're trying to relieve the

loads on the airlock module system here. Over.
PLT Okay. Number 1 will be 170 degrees counter-

_ clock, and then number 2 will be 165.
CC Roger.
CC And that is 170 degrees Delta, that is, a 170

degree change from the present position and
165 on the other. Over.
FLT Okay. Right now, number 1 is sitting at 315, so

you want it over somewhere around 915, and number 2
is sitting at about 2h0, so you want it around
8 o'clock some where.
268 ll ll 43 CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay= I understand. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 13:39 pseudo-Zulu. And for the SPT, how're
you coming on the air interchange duct and your
progress? Over.
SPT Okay. I've Just about completed the SOP over

here, except put the film away and the next
item is the A.
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268 ll 12 41 CC Okay. Thank you.
268 ll 39 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

6 minutes. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce, we got most everything done now,

up to the PGA doffing [sic] in a hold. But
I'm having a little trouble with the center seat
couch, getting it pinned back in the right spot.
We're working on that now.
CC Okay, didn't copy. You said you were - had

everything done up to what and are working on
the center couch? Over.
SPT We're about up to PGA doffing [sic] except for the

fact that we've not quite got the center seats
reconfig - center couch reconfigured yet. We're
looking on the pins at the shoulder, right now.
268 ll 39 45 CC Okay.
CDR We got it fixed, Bruce. The problem is or was

in shoulder Joint. At the spaces that come
together, butt together that m-_e up both the
right and the arm rest, there's a screw in there,
one on each side. This is 90 degrees to the pen
and along the long axis of the couch. That
screw had come unwound and then it was so far
out that obviously we couldn't close the - the
upper part of the couch with the lower part of the
couch because the screw prevented the angles from
coming together. We opened it up, closed the
screw, and then put it all back together and it's
working great now.
CC Okay, we understand that that's on the removable

part of the couch where the thing folds down
near the shoulders. Over.
268 ll _2 15 CDR Right. In other words, you would be looking at

the head of the screw perpendicularly when the
couch is fold - when the couch is in the normal
position. When you fold it, then it will come -
it folds out; and you can see it. In other words,
it would be like opening a book andthen the head of
the screw would be the same place the printing is in tk
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book, namely in - on the page. Whereas when

the book's closed, you can't see them. We could
not close the book, sb to speak, because the
screw head was too long.
CC Okay; we copy and we also copy that you've got

it installed satisfactory now. Is that correct?
CDR That is affirmative.
CC Beautiful.
268 ll 41322 CC And before you get too far into the suit donning
we'd Just like to verify with the SPT that the
two additional IMSS containers got put in the
chiller. Over.
SPT That's affirmative. All three of them are in

there.
CC Roger. Thankyou.
CC And for Jack, we haven't seen the reg bus adjust

yet. Over.
CDR He 's on the way.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay, thank you.
268 ll _5 01 CC And for the CDR, Just a reminder that the up-
coming scheduled P52 is no longer required since
we already have the gyro compensation. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Twenty seconds to LOS. Next station contact in

6-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at 13:51
pseudo-Zulu. Out.
CDR Okay, we've had our BMAGs drifting for an hour

and 4 minutes. Do you want me to give them a
check for you?
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CC That's affirmative on the BMAG check. And

we'll ta1_ to you over Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
268 ll _6 58 SPT O_y, Bruce. I s_Justed them. Let me kmow if

you get a ... chamce.
CC Okay, let us look at them for a little while here,

and we'll t_1_ to you after that.
CDR Okay, you want me to do a BMAG 1 check now?
CC Go ahead, A1.
CDR Okay, here comes the numbers; 170.6_; 48.33; 3.52,

that's noun 20, 170.9; 51.3, 3.9, that's GDC -
I mean the ATT SET thumbwheels; and that's for
an hour and 5 minutes.
CC Okay, we copy, an hour and 5 minutes. 170.64;

48.33; 3.52 on noun 20 and the GDC thumbwheels
are 170.9, 51.3, and 3.9 roll, pitch, amd y_w.
Over.
268 ll 47 55 CDR Righto.
268 ll 51 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek,

1 minute and 30 seconds until LOS. Next station
contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi at
14:21 pseudo Zulu where we will be dumping the
data voice tape recorder. And for the PLT, request
you verify that both fans in the MDA that are
supposed to be blowing on the rate gyro six pack
are in fact blowing air on it. That's MDA fan
number 2 aud the portable fan. Over.
PLT Roger. They are, and I've got that ... I've
already checked it and it's been working good.
Thank you.
268 ll 52 21 CC Okay. Thank you.
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268 12 21 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. We're getting our suits on.
CC Very good. Just for information to the PLT, we've

looked at the results of his REG BUS ADJUST
changes and both REG BUSES are looking good;
thank you. Out.
268 12 36 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're actually 2 minutes

to LOS. Next station contact in 6 minutes through
Madrid at 14:42 psuedo-Zulu, and we notice the
waste tank pressure coming up at the present
time. Are you all operating the trash airlocknow,
by any chance? Over.
PLT Yes, sir. We're making the final dump, Bruce.
CC Okay, great, Jack. And for general information

for all of you, we're still watchingthe weather
pretty Closely here. This hurricane Ira, which
is down off BaJa, California, will probably
necessitate some changes to burn Completion rules
for your Entry Checklist. We'll be in a position
to discuss them at your convenience when you get
through with suit donning and maybe the CDR could
give us a call when he feels like delving into
them. I'll put on the entry experts. Over.
268 12 37 20 PLT Okay, Bruce; fine. We'll do that.
268 12 4B 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8-1/2

minutes. Out.
268 12 4_ 08 PLT You there, Bruce?
CC Yes, indeed, through Madrid for 7-1/2 more minutes.

Over.
PLT Okay, that ought to be enough time. I noticed on

page 2-56 that it says for me to leave the - the
outer door handle of the trash airlock in CLOSED
VENT, and we're kind of thinking maybe it really
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mean PRESS where we ha_ it in the past. Could

you check that, please?
CC We will check that.
CC PLT, Houston. Per the checklist we'd llke it in

CLOSE and VENT. Two reasons are being advanced
for having it in VENT: One, it is - it inhibits
the growth of bacteria during the 1,nmAnned period
and, secondly, is that when we bleed the workshop
down to half a psi for repress, why, there'll be
no chance for a DELTA-P to build up inside the
trash airlock and tend to open the lid. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you for checking, Bruce.
268 12 45 39 CC Roger. Out.
268 12 48 1B CDR And, Houston, I Just opened the main rags;" it

sounds like it's flowing 02 to somewhere.
CC Okay; we copy.
CDR What it feels like to me is that it's leaking air

right around the _ERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE selector.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Want me to turn off the regs for a while or leave

them on?
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to leave the regs on. We

show you're flowing a little over a pound an hour
and you've got plenty of oxygen on board. Over.
268 12 50 26 CDR Sounds good to me. Tb_n_s.
CC Okay, and also for the CDR. I believe you did

the T027 stowage container vent. Can you tell
us when you did it and can you also verify that
the SAL was properly secured after the vent?
We're still showing a mo_entt_n buildup. Over.
CDR Well, we had l0 vent - There's no hose that will

reach to the plus - correction - Minus-Z SAL se
you have to vent through the Plus-Z SAL. And it's
always in VENT. It was in VENT when we came, and
it's still in VENT, as far as I know. And the
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little cap that's on the spot where you - where

you connect the vent hose.
268 12 51 28 CC Roger. We copy that. The cap is on the QD that

is - is a part of the SAL, and the hose is dis-
connected. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay. We've got about i0 seconds until LOS here.

Next station contact is Honeysuckle in 37 minutes
at 15:29 [sic]. Out.
268 12 51 47 CDH Okay.
268 12 52 _i CC CDR, this is Houston in the blind. If you're still

reading us, we'd like you to remove the cap from
the QD on the SAL and replace it, and we'll try
and stop the leak. Over.
268 13 29 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for i-i/2 minutes. Next station contact, 28 min-
utes through Goldstone, at 15:57. For the CDR,
we'd like to verify that someone has r_mnved,
checked, and replaced the vent QD cap on the
plus-Z SAL. The reason for our concern is that
we are seeing a momentum buildup that indicates
a force in the plus-Z direction.
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268 13 29 57 CC - - We are continuing to track it. We won't be

able to get you anything definitive until after
this next daylight pass, but we'd like to make
sure we're not leaking for the duration of the
unmanned period. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. Nobody has done Just

what you've said. We'll ask the PLT to do it.
And do you think it could be a vent on the other
end, for example, in the CSM, like that service
module?
CC Negative, we do not. And speaking of the command

service module, we'd like you to do the following:
panel 7, DIRECT 02 off, verify. And on panel 380,
the DEMAND REG valve, we'd like to take the DE-

MAND REGs to OFF - for 1 minute, then back to
BOTH; and monitor the 02 flow during the 1 minute
to see if flow drops. We'll be checking also, if
you get it before LOS here. We think that you
may Just be flowing to compensate for the dif-
ferential on the regulation pressure between the
comm_ud module regs and the workshop regs, but
we'd like to check this out. Over.
268 13 31 02 CDR Just put the D_24AND REGS to OFF, and also check
that the DIRECT 02 was closed, which it was.
CC Okay, we're watching. We had seen a jmmp in the

suit-to-cabin DELTA-P about the time the 02 REGS
came on.
CDR Okay, and I might mention that we've disconnected

the umbilicals between the vehicles. Owen's
presently over there reconfiguring. We've made
the single point ground; we've powered up the ECS,
and we've powered up the comm, and we're right
on schedule, looks to me like, at the moment.
CC Sounds good. And we're going down in the mud:

We'll talk to you over the States.
268 13 31 46 CDR Okay.

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CDR Okay, we got the SPT - We got the probe and

drogue in, not in the tunnel, but in the co-_,_nd
module. Jack's Just finishing up his pictures;
and when he crawls in, we'll close it out.
CC Okay. We show you had a reset during the dump.

The big mument_-, problem seems to be caused by
the Co-,,And module secondary water boiler op-
eration. However, one thing - two things - First,
we'd like to get PO0 and ACCEPT on the computer
so we can send you a state vector and a PIPA bias
updates. And we'd like to know what - what luck
you had on checking out the plus-Z SAL to see
if it was leaking through the QD. Over.
268 13 58 05 CDR We didn't check it out. We did Just exactly what

you said and replaced it with a 183 cap; so
there's a new cap on top of that connector at the
moment. We don't know of a way to check it out.
Did you copy, Bruce?
CC Yes, sir, A1. We copy. What we had intended was

to remove the cap and - and recycle the cap back
on. We're scratching our heads here for a second
on that. Over.
CDR Okay. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. I thought

you said remove the cap and replace it with another
one •
CC No problem. No problem. Let us Just consider it.

for a moment. And when you have a chance, after
the state vector and PIPA bias update are on board,
you might check your FDAI against the NOUN 20
values, and let us _now whether we really have
good agreement or not, in light of our conversation
yesterday.
CDR Okay. Understand. Will do.
269 13 59 07 CC After the state vector and PIPA bias.
CDR Okay. We're holding fast right here without

closing the hatch until we find out what you'd
llke to do with the plus-Z SAL.
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CC Roger. We show you're in BLOCK on the computer.

We still need ACCEPT even though you're in PO0.
CDR Just a second. Okay. Go ahead.
CC CDR, this is Houston. We request the following

action on the plus-Z SAL. We'd like the SPT to
go down there, remove the cap from the vale QD
on the plus-Z SAL. Using his finger, check for
flow through the fitting, and he can attempt to -
to push the - the center part of the QD if
necessary to clear it. And if there's any ques-
tion, go ahead and attach the - the vacumn vent
hose at the SAL to the QD on the SAL and have the
plug in the far end of the vent hose. Over.
268 14 00 18 CDR Understand. Is it okay if we have the PLT do it?

He's - The SPT is strapped in the command module.
CC Yes, indeed. PLT'll be fine. He can push a

little harder, perhaps - -
CDR Okay.
CC And for your information also, A1, we've seen

nothing down here that would indicate the 02 flow
in the command module is due to anything other
than the difference in the regulation deadbands
of the regulators in the co,and module and in
the workshop. It looks good to us.
CDR Okay. That 's good news.
268 14 01L 34 CC And, SPT, Houston. If you could reach over to

panel 3, we'd like to be in SIMPLkT( Alfa as the
VHF voice configuration, and B, off. Over.
SPT Okay. I've got a - I'm in the CDR's seat right

now with the probe in the middle, but I think A1
can reach it.
CC Okay. No sweat. No rush. But when he said you

were strapped in, I assumed that meant you were
strapped into your position, but I guess not. •
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CC And, CDR, whenever it's convenient with you, why,

we still have this briefing on a couple of pads
and changes from the entry CAP COMM.
CDR Okay. Is this Just a discussion, or do we -

change - need to change numbers?
268 14 03 09 MCC We were Just going to discuss it, A1, and we'll
ta1_ about changing numbers, if we have to, later
after we get another weather update.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. The reason I'm - I'm -

my books and everything are setting over at the
other side, and I've got probes and drogues and
hatches and things nearby. So go ahead and dis-
cuss it there, Crip. We're listening, Babe.
268 14 03 30 MCC Okeydoke. If you think you've got time, we'll

go ahead and hack at it now. I guess Ira hasn't
been too cooperative with us. It's been moving
up north a little bit. And it's anticipated it's
probably going to be around the - centered about
the tip of BaJa, at about splashdown. Conse-
quently, we're considering changing the burn
completion criteria and lowering the 2O0-feet
per second down to 160. The problem - we - We
can't go lower than 160 because that's where you're
suborbital, and you'd be going ahead and coming
in anyhow. And it's not really a weather problem
there. So what we're considering doing is changing
it down to 160 from 200 and also, on burn comple-
tion, if you get from 110 to 160, we're consid-
ering having you roll in the opposite direction,
which puts you south of ground track. And that'll
Just get you a little less winds if we get in that
kind of a problem.
268 14 Oh 32 CC And the DSKY's yours. We're through with the

up-link.
CDR Okay. Let me see if I can say it back. You're

thinking about reducing it to 160, because 160
is suborbital, and if we do get a burn with that
much left, we'd better finish it because we're
coming up anyhow. Is that - the first part
correct?
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MCC That 's correct •
CDR And the second part is, if we get between

160 and ll0, you're considering us having,
instead of roll right, roll left 55. You're
considering us having roll left and then roll
right? Is that what you're saying?
MCC Negative. Roll left, then come in, you know,

55 all the way, so you'll land south of the
groundtrack instead of north.
268 l_ 05 1B CDR Okay. I'll have to wr - get that and write that
down in the right place.
MCC Okay. No - -
CDR Now, how about telling us what the story is for

nominal entry.
MCC Okay. It does not affect nominal entry. Weather

is - is reasonable at - Weather is good at nominal,
so it's no sweat at all on that. And - And -
But first, you con't write any of this down right
now, A1, and we can talk about it later. We've
got plenty of passes. We're not going say to do
that until we know that - exactly what the weather's
going to be.
CDR Okay; I understand. And what kind of seas do we

have in the recovery site?
268 lh 0549 MCC Five-foot seas, right now.
CDR That's not bad.
• MCC Not bad for a Navy man. I'm sure you've seen
much worse than that.
CDR Yes, that's true. I haven't seen them in this

thing much worse than that, though. Yes, I guess
I have. On 12 we had a pretty big swell.
MCC Roger. Okay, I'll go ahead and turn you back. over
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CDR Okay, Crip. You bet. We're running a few minutes

behind at the mcaent because we're all in a hold,
waiting for Jack to work the plus-Z SAL.
268 14 06 19 CC Roger. That's a problem that had Just come up,

and we're with you. You've got plenty of pad inside
the command module, so we're not in any real rush
to - to press on. We'd like to Just do it up right
and mAKe sure we don't have a problem with the
,,n,_ued phase. And as I mentioned, you may have
heard, the DSEY is yours. You might do that
eight-ball - or maybe Owen could do the eight-ball
versus NOUN 20 comparisons.
CDR Let's Just wait.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Bruce, PLT did all the work that you
mentioned ... on the hold, looked around and - -
CC Stand - Stand by please, A1. We're having ratty

comm here. I'll get back to you.
CDR Okay.
268 14 08 38 CC Okay, 30 seconds to keyhole. Next AOS is at

Merritt Island at 7 minutes after. For the CDR,
we didn't copy all you were saying about the SAL,
but go ahead.
CDR Okay. The PLT gave it a check. He found no reason

to believe it was leaking, nor did he find any con-
t_m_uemts in it. He then put the hose on, and the
other end of the hose is capped. That's the sit-
uat_on where it stands.
CC Mighty fine; we copy. And if you can read me

through this, we're getting momentum buildup from
the secondary loop water boiler. We'd like to
secure the water boiler and burn on the radiators.
So for SPT, over there, panel 377 GLYCOL to RADIATOR
flow valve to NORMAL, that's clockwise. You'll
need tool-E, and after you get that accomplished,
the SECONDARY EVAPORATOR to RESET for 58 seconds
and then to OFF. Over.
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268 14 09 41 CDR Where we can do it neatly as you tell us to do it.
CC I don't understand your comment, CDR.
CDR Okay. Let's work the problem, then. Okay. Say

it again. You faded in and out and we're not
really sure exactly what you said. We'd like to
do it as you say it.
CC Okay. We're trying to secure the secondary water

boiler and get the secondary radiators on line
because you're perturbing this cluster moment_.
So it's on panel 377, down on the side by the
SPT's left shoulder to left hip, we want the
GLYCOL to RADIATOR flow valve, position it to
NORMAL, that's a clockwise rotation of about
90 degrees. Following that on panel 2, EVAPORATOR -
SECONDARY LOOP EVAPORATOR switch to RESET for
58 seconds on the timer and then to OFF. • Over.
268 14 i0 39 CDR Okay. We're going to put GLYCOL TO RADIATOR,

NORMAL, and then we're going to - on SECONDARY
LOOP we're going to EVAPORATOR RESET for 58 _nds
seconds and then out it OFF.
CC Roger. And we copy your input on the plus-Z SAL.

Th_nk you very much.
CDR Do you want us to hold in this configuration with

the hatch open or press on?
CC Okay. We're polling the MOCR here. We'll have

you an answer in Just a second.
CC And you are in the process of securing the evap-

orator, right?
SPT It's in NORMAL right now, Bruce.
CDR That 's affirmative.
268 14 ll 34 CDR And we - PLT wants to know if you want the

AIRLOCK EMERGENCY LIGHTS circuit breaker open.
CC Stand by.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. On the circuit breaker -

circuit breaker _ERGENCY LIGHTS, MDA, AIRLOCK
MODULE, i and 2, two of them should be open.
It's a callout on page 2-69. Also the CB
_ERGENCY LIGHT, 0WS, i and 2, two of them open.
Over.
CDR Okay. Now here's what was puzzling us a little

bit. When we take and turn on the entry lights,
no lights c_,e on. And we're puzzling over
perhaps it has to do with that switch where we
have the aft lights in the NDA disabled, you
know, it's - they're on permanently by tape be-
cause - and we're turning them off by the switch
on the lights itself because that switch has
failed. We're puzzling a little bit.
268 14 14 41 CC Okay. Now you mean the - the - switch right

next to the axial docking port, then you turn
that on, you're not getting all the lights on
in the MDA, but you are getting half of them on?
CDH You're getting zero on.
CC Okay. We copy that. Stand by.
CDR Okay. We think we probably got a circuit breaker

switch out of config and we can't figure it out.
CC Okay. We got 15 seconds to LOS here. Next

station contact is in 5-1/2 minutes through
Canary. We'll talk to you there.
268 14 15 16 CDR Okay.
268 14 17 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid and Canary

for 8-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, we're standing by for some more information

on those lights.
CC Okay. If you will glance at page 2-69, the write-

in correction that we have Just above step 12,
panel 202, circuit breaker COMPARTMENT LIGHTS,
MDA, 2, open refers to the circuit breaker
COMPARTMENT LIGHTS, MDA, number 2, one circuit r_
breaker only, open. COMP_ LIGHTS, MDA

number i, should be closed. And with that closed
when you operate the switch Just inside the axial
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hatch, you should get a total of four lights

coming on, being MDA, i and 3 AFT and MDA i and
3 FORWARD. Over. That circuit breaker on 202,
we suspect that you may have confused MDA 2, with
MDA (2). Over.
268 14 2.0 57 PLT Okay; got it.
CDR Okay; that's what we did, and we're going to

rectify it right now.
CC Okay.
CDR That made it all work.
CC Beautiful.
CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. You're GO- GO for

hatch closure and tlmuel close-out. Over.
CDR Does it look like the momentum problem's solved?
CC It's too early to tell, definitively, whether the

momentum problem has been solved or not. However,
the rate of increase seems to have dropped off
with shutdown of the secondary water boiler. We
had to force a contingency momentum sample this
pass, so we won't be able to watch that for a
while. And the question of the momentum from the
SAL vent was completely masked by the water boiler,
so, in a nutshell, we're optimistic, but we can't
say definitely yet. Over.
268 14 ;__233 CDR Sounds good to us. Okay, we're going to close
her up!
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and a half to

Honeysuckle Creek at 15:04 Zulu. And we'll get
that for you in PET here in a minute. And we
don't expect any TACS firing during the next
momentum dump which starts at 13:ll PET, but we
wouldn't be too terribly surprised if you did'get
_ a coupleof firings. Over. Okay, and PET will
be 13:26, at A0S Honeysuckle. Over.
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SPT Okay, Bruce. We got that info.
CDR Okay, we got everybody in the comm_ud module.

_e're now going to install the drogue andprobe.
268 14 28 18 CC Roger.
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268 15 05 15 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honeysuckle 9 minutes.
CDR We're performing the hatch integrity check at the

moment.
CC Copy that, A1. As soon as you get ti done, we'll

appreciate the results of it.
CDR Okay.
CDR _ How _re things going down there, Crip?
CC Great. Guess the party - party's over in time

for you guys to come home. SWS is looking real
good right now.
268 15 06 50 CDR Good. We didn't have any trouble putting the drogue
and probe and hatch in. It's Just a matter of
seeing how these seals do now.
CC Very good. Don't forget to leave the key torgue -

tucked under the doormat there for Jerry.
CDR We sure did. We tucked it right under the handle

there.
CC And, A1, when you get a chance, we did want to

verify that you do have your - your pads on board.
The deorbit burn pad and the entry pad.
268 15 07 27 CDR You bet. Wouldn't be without them today.
CC Hope not. We've got no updates for those at this

time.
CDR That's good.
CDR By the way, I had to turn the demand REGs back on

to perform the suit check.
CC Copy that.
CDR And I justleftthem on.

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CC That's affirm. We had just wanted to make about

a minute check with it; so that's good.
PLT And, Crip, I notice that entry BATs A and B are

down around B2-1/2 volts. That doesn't seem like
very much. Or at least I'm used to looking at
more, I guess.
268 15 09 O1 CC Okay. We'll check with EECOM, here.
CDR Okay, another thing, Crip. I've got NOUN 20s

called up, and I was looking at out FDAI, and it
looks like they indicate about the same thing.
CC Okay. That's good. That's what we suspected.
CDR Okay. We can check it later, too. I'll give you

a BMAG check here in a second. It's been about
a minute and 30 seconds on P_G 1. You've got -
probably reading out down there the NOUN 20 's.
I'll give you the - the GIC angles here.
CC Okay.
268 15 lO 4_ PLT Say, Crip, on page-systems Checklist, 5-7, I've

got a couple of changes in there that indicate
that I ought to - I ought to - crank up the second-
ary water boiler, and PLy_ is currently in AC2.
Is that affirm or do you want me to leave it OFF?
CC Okay, Jack. We want to leave it OFF. We changed

it, originally, to - to make it consistent with
our original configuration, and then the problem
we had with momentum caused us to turn it off
again. So we want to leave it OFF.
PLT Okay. I got EVAP, OFF. SECONDARY PUMP is at

AC2, and WATER FLOW is in AUTO, and I take it you
would want me to leave the pump on and let the
secondary run.
268 15 ll 28 CC We want to leave it just like it is. You don't

have to touch anything here.
CDR Okay, now here's the ATTITUDE SET thumb-wheel:"

174.1, 059.9, 007.6.
CC Copy that. Thank you.

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CDR By the way, it - I checked out the _ awhile ago,

and it worked Just dandy.
CC A1, would you verify that time for us again? Was

that an hour and 30 minutes or a minute and
30 seconds?
CDR One hour, 30 minutes.
CC Copy; thank you.
268 15 13 01 CC And, Jack, we agree that the entry batts there are
a little bit lower than what we're used to looking
at, but think there is no problem at all. No
sweat.
PLT Okay, we're not - not going to spend much time on

them. I figured that's the rationale.
CC 0keydoke. We're 1 minute frc_ LOS. And we'll have

- you in ll-1/2 minutes over Hawaii at 13:46 PET.
All times I give you in the future will be PET.
And, A1, if it's satisfactory with you, we'll be
planning on doing hot fire checks at Hawaii.
268 15 13 32 CDR Okay; how - how far is that away?
CC That 's ll minutes now.
CDR Okay.
CC Yes, it's a 9-minute pass. So it's about 20 minutes

total we've got.
CC And, A1, can you verify that you did EMS entry
checks?
CDR That's affirmative. Did it, and it passed with

flying colors.
268 15 14 lO CC Copy.
268 15 24 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. I'll be ready in Just a second.
CC Okay. No rush. We 're going to make sure we 're

going to get data locked up good.
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CDR Okeydoke. We're also getting ready to do that

alignment if we can get it in. And I - I've now
got on the PSM both the HELIUM and the MANIFOLD
ISOLATION, OPEN.
CC Copy that. And, A1, during these hot fire checks,

your checklist says to pause l0 seconds between
firings. We'd like you to Just hold up and we'll
give you a GO for each one.
268 15 25 25 CDR Understand.
CC A1, we're assuming the hatch integrity checks are

all okay. Is that correct'?
CDR That's affirm. It went well, and we're continuing

to depress the - the tunnel area, but it came off
just right.
CC 0keydoke.
CDR Okay. I'm rea_ to go when you are, in just a

second; as soon as we finish this alignment.
CDR Okay. Can you read the torquing angles there?
CC Okay. We've got them, AI. _hank you.
268 15 27 BB CDR And I assume you want it torqued.
CC Go ahead and torque it • A1,
CC And, A1, we're ready for the hot fire checks when
you are.
CDR Okay. Just a second.
CDR Okay. Here c_nes some VERB 46's and things. Okay,
there's a VERB _6. AB, C_, OFF. Okay. I'm going
to give you a plus pitch first.
CC Let her rip.
CDR That was it.
CC Stand by i.
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268 15 29 28 CC A1, this is the first time we've tried this hot
fire check, and we could not see anything. We're
looking at the rates and that kind of stuff, so
what we'd like to do is to go to ACEL COM_ND and
give us a 1-second blip.
CDR Here it comes. Pitch up. I thought I could hear

it.
CC Okay, A1, that looked good to us, and you can give
us minus pitch now, please, sir.
CDR Okay. In fact I can see the rate needles jump

around when I did it.
CC Okay, your hot fire's GO from here and you can go

back to RATE COMMAND.
268 15 30 26 CDR All right.
CDR And according to my thingamajig, you're going to

give us some dock gains. Have you already done
that?
CC No, we're holding up on that, AI, to verify that

we got a good momentum state with the SWS. We'll
probably be doing that over the States.
CDR Okay. And although I cantt find it in my proce-

dures, I guess you want me to go ROTATIONAL CONTROL
POWER, OFF and lock everything up like it was.
CC Stand by i on that, AI.
CDR I performed the _S DELTA-V test. It passed

satisfactorily, l'm not in the process of doing
a l-minute-and-40-second null-bias check.
268 15 32 53 CC Okay. Very good, AI. And we concur about that.

You can go ahead and secure the power and lock up
your hand controller.
CDR Okay. Complete.
CC And, Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

We'll have you again over Goldstone in about
3-1/2 minutes at 13:59, 13:59.
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CDR Okay, Houston, on the null-bias check and in a

minute and h0 seconds, I started at minus 100 feet
per second, it indicates minus 99.5.
268 15 3h 29 CC Copy; good. Over the hill.
268 15 37 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone now for

about 6-1/2 minutes, and if we can have ACCEPT
plesse, we'll go ahead and load that docked DAP.
CDR Okay. Just a second. I was loading 48.
CC Okeydoke.
CDH You got it, Houston.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Okay, A1. We've finished loading the - the gain

for docked DAP; and it's your computer again.
CDR Okay. I guess I'll check it per the checkylist

[sic] here?
CDR This one says I should PRO to 89, which I just did,
and then it says reload register i, which I'm going
to do now.
268 15 42 47 CC Okay, AI. It's looking good to us. We're i minute

from LOS. We'll see you again in 5 minutes over
Bermuda; and that's at 14:i0; 14:10.
CDR Okay. How does that look to you now, 05000?
CC Looks good here.
CDR That's the end of the Deac Checklist.
CC Roger. And Mr. Doerre's packing his gear.
CDR Yes, he does a good job. I don't think there were

many things that weren't exactly right. In fact,
I can't think of any at the moment.
268 15 43 28 CC l'm sure he appreciates those kind words.
CDR Okay. Is there anything that we owe you in the way

of what we've done that you're wondering about?
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CC Deac team is happy and thinks the workshop looks

great. Appreciates all the good work.
CDR Okay.
268 15 44 06 CC Okay. And for the command module, everything looks

good to us. We're going to have you verify some
of the switches for us on panel 1 and 226, later.
268 15 48 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda, 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you in about 2-1/2 minutes over Canary at
14:19. And for your information we've got a - a
couple of small items that we're going to ask you
to check and do for us, but we're going to wait
until you - you guys get out of your suits and
get all comfy.
268 15 54 43 CDR That's nice of you; and we're doing that right now.
Owen and Jack just got out of theirs. They have-
n't got their clothes on yet. And I'll be getting
out of mine in a few minutes.
CC Roger; thank you, sir.
CDR How long did you say before the next site? May be
back in - I've been just waiting because I need
to be on the comm.
CC Oh, about 2 minutes.
268 15 55 Ol CDR Well, I'ii wait some more.
268 15 57 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Canary for

15 minutes.
PLT Okay, Robert.
268 16 i0 21 SPT Hello, Houston; Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Just hadn't heard from you for so long

there, Robert, I thought maybe I'd gone off the
f- comm accidentally or something.
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CC Nothing to talk about. I was letting you guys

get - get all situated.
PLT Okay. We've all got our suits off and just
bagging them right now.
268 16 l0 38 CC Okeydoke.
CC Okay, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you again over Carnarvon in 28 minutes. That's
at 15:01, 15:01.
268 16 12 01 SPT Okay, 28 minutes.
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268 16 40 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Carnarvon for

l0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Robert.
CC And if you guys are all squared away, I'd like

to get you to do a little writing in some switch
text for us, please.
SPT Okay, just a minute there, Bob. We're not quite

squared away, but I think we'll have time to do
it.
CC Okay. Well, there is certainly no rush. I was -

what I was going to do is if - whoever has got
that time line - the entry time line handy, I
was going to ask you to put - Jot some things
down on that.
SPT Okay. A1 has that, and he's just getting the

headset on, so he'll be able do that. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, A1. About 16:25, on the time line, we

would like you to do a P52 option 3 for us, please.
CDR Okay, any particular reason?
CC It's been awhile since we've done one and - just

playing it nice and good. We - No problems at
all.
CDR Okay, that's what I was wondering. I'll sure do

it.
CC Okay. You got that jotted down. At around

17:20, on panel 377, we'd like to take that
GLYCOL TO RADIATORS SECONDARY valve back to
BYPASS, which is counterclockwise.
268 16 41 5h CDR Okay. At 17:20, 377 to BYPASS. Got it.

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CC Okeydoke. After undocking, on panel 2, we'd

like you to go SECONDARY EVAPORATOR WATER FLOW,
verify it's in AUTO and then SECONDARY COOLANT
LOOP to EVAP. And that's - that's - you can put
it down in that list of stuff you got about
18:20 there.
CC And I've got a handover and keyhole coming up

here. I'll -may drop out ...
CDR Okay, now you want it to go SEC. Are you still

there?
CC Yes, that's affirm.
CDR Tell me the two things you wanted done.
268 16 42 47 CC Okay. On panel 2, we want to verify that the

SECONDARY EVAP WATER FLOW is in AUTO, and then
we want to take the SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP to
EVAP.
268 16 42 59 CDR That's what I wanted to check. It is in AUTO

already.
CC Yes, that's - We just wanted to verify it was

there, and that's fine.
CDR Okay. Wanted to make sure.
CC And, A1, we want to make -make a few checks of

switches and circuit breakers here to - to find
out if we've got any parasitic drain on those
entry batteries. If you could look on panel l,
we'd like to verify that the - launch vehicle
SPS INDICATOR is in GPI.
CDR It's in GPI.
CDR We were wondering why we never charged them up,

but we felt you had reasons.
CC Okay, A1, are you still reading me?
CDR I am now. The only - last word I heard was check

to see if the LV SPS indicator were GPI. And I
checked it and said yes, and that was all that I
heard.
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CC Okay, that was - that was that I had given you.

l've got a couple more things here that I wanted
Jack to check over on his side of the cockpit, if
he 's available.
CDR Say again.
CC I said I've a couple more items here I wanted

Jack to check, if he's available.
CDR He's on the couch; I can sure check them for you.
268 16 4h 44 CC Okay, we'd like to verify on panel 226 the follow-

ing circuit breakers are OPEN: FUEL CELL 1 and 3
REACS BATTERY, two of them are OPEN, and FUEL CELL
1 and 3 RAD BATTERY RELAYS, two of them OPEN.
CDR Let me get over - let me go over there, and then

say it again.
CC 0keydoke.
268 16 45 26 CDR Okay, say them again real slow.
CC Okeydoke. The following circuit breakers:

FUEL CELL 1 and 3, REACS BATTERY RELAY, two OPEN.
CDR Okay, they're OPEN.
CC Okay.
CDR They always have been OPEN.
CC That's - that's affirm; they should be. Okay,

on - also, FUEL CELL i, 3, RAD BATTERY Fk_.&Y,
two OPEN.
268 16 46 13 CDR Okay, I've got FUEL CELL i. Let me tell you
what - what they are to make sure that we've
got them right. We've got the REACS BAT RELAY
and the RAD BAT RELAY on FUEL CELL 1 OPEN, and
they always have been. We've got the REACS BAT
RELAY and the RAD BAT RELAY on FUEL CELL 3, and
they always have been.
CC Okay, that's correct. That's the way they should

be, AI. Okay, I've got three more I'd like you to
__ check up on panel 5, if you can get in that area.
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268 16 46 39 CDR Okay, let me get there.
268 16 46 54 CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, I want you to check the FLIGHT/POST LANDING

BATTERIES A, B, and C. All three of them, OPEN.
CDR They are all OPEN.
CC Okay. That checks everything that we - we can

think of, and we just want - wanted to make sure
that we didn't have some load that wasn't supposed
to be on the batteries.
CDR Why? Do you see more current coming out of the

BATs than you'd like?
268 16 47 36 CC Stand by i, A1.
268 16 48 54 CC Okay, AI. No, we don't see any - any drain on the
batteries at all. The reason we were having you
check was that you were down about a half a volt
from what we saw on SL-2. And we Just wanted to
make sure that we didn't have any kind of a para-
sitic low we didn't anticipate. It was just a -
just a check; that's all.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Okay. Also, we're going LOS here in about

30 seconds. We're going to have you over Hawaii
in 13-1/2 minutes at 15:2&, and we'd like to do
the logic sequence checks there, if we may.
CDR We'll be ready.
268 16 49 27 CC Thank you, sir.
268 17 03 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Hawaii; 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Fine, Robert.
CC Howdy, howdy. Soon as we get our data locked up

and you guys are ready, we'll - like to do a
LOGIC SEQUENCER check.
SPT Okay, Al's, just getting on the headset, and I

think he's all ready for it.
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268 17 0B 31 CDR Okay, I'm ready for that check. I've checked that
the LOGIC is SAFE; _at the PYRO ARM is SAFE, and
the LOGIC CBs are IN; and I'm getting ready to go
from there whenever you say so.
CC Okay, A1, we're ready for SECS LOGIC 2 on up.
268 17 03 58 CDR Okay, I'm going to put in the ARM circuit breakers
first.
268 17 04 33 CDR Okay, the LOGIC is on, as is the ELS AUTO,

ELS LOGIC, and the others.
CC Okay, let us take a look at it.
CDR Okeydoke.
268 17 04 37 CC Okay, A1, all looks good to us. You're GO for

PYRO ARM, as required, and you can proceed on
out.
.... CDR Okay. LOGICcomingon.
CC And, Skylab, I guess if Jack is available or

whoever would like, I have some settings for you
for the Hasselblad that could be used to take
photographs of the SWS after sunrise after
undocking.
CDR Okay, why don't you give them to me? Jack's

stowing away. Go ahead.
CC Okay, very good; Sounds busy. It's f/ll, 1/250th,

and INFINITY. For your information, at about
sunrise, the Skylab vehicle is going to be about
600 feet away from you. And we've already called
out for you to go to a burn attitude, so you
probably won't be able to see it. It would
probably be visible if you were still in undock-
ing attitude.
CDR Okay, understand. In other words, we still happen

to be in undocking attitude doing OJT, then we
can take a picture or two.
CC That's affirm.
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CDR Okay.
268 17 06 46 CC And, A1, we've Just had a check on the - on the

weather on the hurricane, and I guess we would
like to go ahead and make these changes to the
checklist that we recommended to you earlier.
We don't have to get them in now, but whenever it
is convenient for you, I can give them to you,
and you can copy them down.
268 17 07 03 CDR This is just the right time; and if you'll tell
me the page, I'll turn to it.
CC Okay, first, if the SPS burn - entry cue card,

is handy, we've got one of them on there.
CDR It's pretty handy. I've got it in my hand.
CC Okay, if you'll look on the back, down at the

bottom, we have the criteria noted with 200 in
there, both the less than and greater than. We'd
like to change that for VG less than 160, go to
CHART_ VG greater than or equal to 160, go around.
CDR Okay, ready for the next one.
CC Okay, if you've got the Entry Checklist, go to

the back of page 12-5. You'll note, when you
get there, this is where we passed in that proce-
dure for the three or four quad fail procedure.
CDR I've got it right in front of me.
CC Okay, toward the end of that, we have in one -

step 15, the completion rules. Got the same
change to make there. VG less than 160, record
VC - VG, so forth; and VG greater than or equal
to 160, VERB 82, ENTER, PO0 and so forth.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
268 17 08 42 CC Okay, now if you'll turn on page 12-5 proper.

And what we're going to do here, as I talked
about earlier, we'll have you - if we get into
this situation for velocity, to go about ll0
to 160. We'll go ahead and have you roll in the
other direction. And that is roll left, so that
you'll land south of the groundtrack. Consequently,
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we'll have to go to a different attitude for

SM - CM/SM SEP. And what we want you to do
there is Just following that pen and ink where
you - it had you go to the correct attitude,
where it speaks of yaw left from burn attitude to
315 degrees, we want you to write in, "Exception,
if RCS completion was required with VG on the dash
line." And that's where we're talking about the
llO to 160 bit; dash line seems to be the easiest
way to convey it.
CDR Roger. I've - That makes sense. I'd have thought

about it a little bit later.
CC Okay. Change CM/SM SEP attitude to yaw right,

from burn attitude, to 045 degrees.
268 17 l0 ll CDR Got it.
CC Okay, and the other place we probably - need to put

something is on your completion charts, if you
go to page 7-3. And while I'm talking here,
we're about a minute from LOS. I think I can
get these changes in though. Goldstone is going
to be in about 4-1/2 minutes at 15:37.
268 !7 i0 32 CDR I'm on 7-3.
CC Okay. Under item 15, it talks about pad bank in

two places. We'd like you to change on the solid
line, "Roll right 55 degrees;" and then dashed
line a little bit below that, "Roll left 55."
CDR So solid line, I roll right and then left again

at RETRB.
MCC That's a negative. There is no reversal.
CC No, negative. There is no reversal at all, A1.

It's depending on where you are with VG. If you're
on that solid line, it will be to the right; if
you're on the dashed line, it will be to the left.
And we're going LOS here, but that same change is
on page E/7-4, and it's under item 18. And if
there's any clarification required, we'll talk
about it over the - over the States at Goldstone
in about 3 minutes.
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CDR Okay.
268 17 ll 52 CDR See, they used to have a reversal for - for the
solid line.
CC Okay, they used to but we - -
CDR But not - but now, we're not going to, that was
the question.
CC Okay, yes. We're not going to reverse now. That

is correct.
CDR Okay, solid line you roll right of the line,

and dotted line you roll left of the line.
268 17 12 13 CC That's affirm.
268 17 15 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone

for 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Bob, and I got those changes. Essentially,

if you're on the solid line, you roll right 55 and
hold, which is a change from the old way. If
you're on the dashed, you roll left 55 and hold.
CC Yes, A1. I - will send - -
CDR Okay. Now, we looked at quad 9B - not quad, but

CM RCS thruster 9B has an indication of 1.35,
which means it barely makes it temperaturewise.
All the rest are a little bit higher. So we do
not need CM RCS preheat, according to my check-
list. What do you think?
CC We concur, A1; and unfortunately, I gave you

the wrong word going over the hill there. You
were correct about reversing at RETRB, for the
solid line.
268 17 15 58 CDR No sweat. I'll change it.
CC Okeydoke. Thank you.
268 17 19 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again in about 5 minutes over Bermuda
at 15:46, 15:h6.
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268 17 25 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda for i0 minutes.
CDR All right.
268 17 26 06 CC And, Skylab, we might mention to you, the camera

settings that you've got coming up for the DAC
are for photographing the fireball.
CDR Okay, understand. We just tuned them in, so we

won't plan to use it on the workeyshop [sic].
But if we do, you got _any good settings?
CC Stand by.
268 irr27 19 CC And, Skylab, as a matter of information while

I'm getting those DAC settings for you, we -
our momentum state is not - still not squared
away good on - hack on the - on the workshop.
And it's quite possible that you may be - or
we're going to be experiencing a few TACs firings
to relieve it during the next orbit or so.
CDR Yes, we were noticing we were going way out in

yaw, maybe 30 degrees, for the dump last night.
So we figured something was going on. What's
your opinion as to the cause?
CC We still don't understand it, and we're still

investigating it. But it's nothing for you guys
to worry about.
CDR Cruising through my mind all the time is the

thought that we're venting propellant or oxidizer.
CC Okay, A1, no reason for you to worry about that.

We're looking at all the data down here, and
there's nothing to indicate anything like that.
And for those camera settings, if you look on
your Entry Checklist, page 4-i, we have some set-
tings in there for the DAC for the flyaround.
And those will be fine to use.
268 17 28 51 CDR Thank you.

see you again in about 7 minutes over Ascension
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at 16:03, 16:03. And if it's convenient, we'd

like to do the command module RCS activation
over Ascension. That's on page 12-4 of your
checklist.
CDR We're standing by for you.
268 17 34 20 CC Roger. Thank you.
268 17 41 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes. And as soon as we get all of
our data squared away, we'll be ready for the
logic sequence - correction - the command
module RCS DEC - activation.
CDR Okay. We're standing by, ready to go.
268 17 42 58 CC You have to hang on with us for a minute, AI. We

got a small data problem here. As soon as we get
it sq1,_red away, we'll give you a call.
CDR Okay. We're cooling it up here, having our lunch.

What time is it Houston time, by the way?
CC It is now 12:42, approximately.
CDR Great.
CC I was sitting here having my lunch.
CC We're getting our circadian rhythm back again.

These last 3 days we finally figured out what was
happening. The idea wasn't to change our circadian
rhythm. The idea was to just move things around
enough where you had no idea what your rhythm was.
CC I concur.
CDR Those time changes yesterday were mystifying.
CC I was hoping you'd understood them. I didn't.
CDR We just set the clocks where you say and press on.
Then later on, you tell us to move them, and we
got 2 extra hours or something, we change them
and take 2 extra.
CC Sounds like a trip to L.A. to me.

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CDR Uh-oh.
268 17 4h 45 CC Okay, A1, we finally got everything squared away;

and we're ready for you to press on
268 17 44 51 CDR Okay. Let me read you a few pieces of informa-

tion. It says cue STDN, SECS LOGIC, two of them on.
I'm going to put them on right now.
CC Press on.
CDR Okay, and I'm standing by.
CC Okay. You're GO for PYRO ARM.
CDR Okay. Here we go.
268 1_7 45 16 CDR Okay, it's armed. I've got two talkbacks gray.
And I think I'll pressurize the RCS. Okay, made
lots of noise and rattles and sqirts, and things
are looking good. Pressure shows here about 34:50
on both. Manifold pressure - about 285 or so.
P Tempisokay.
CC All looking good here, too, Al.
268 11746 03 CDR Okay. We're going to go PYRO ARM, two of them
safe and leave everything else armed, according to
this.
CC That is correct.
268 17 h6 15 CDR That's where we are then. We're now going to

execute the old pyro bat check.
CC Okay, A1. Also, because of our momentum problems,

the SWS may be moving around quite a bit again
during this dump. And that P52 we talked about
earlier is not absolutely mandatory, so just use
your own judgment on that.
CDR Okay, we'll give it a try. And with AUTO optics,

we ought to be able to pick up something.
268 17 47 13 CDR Okay, our PYR0 BAT check has at the end, putting
BAT C on MAIN A and BAT C on MAIN B. Is that what
you want?
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268 17 47 25 CC Stand by 1 on that, A1.
CDR 0keydoke.
268 17 47 56 CC A1, you are correct. The breakers will do that.

Also, if we could get Jack on - over on panel 5
to take a SERVICE MODULE SOURCE 2 to MAIN A, we
would appreciate it.
CC And for your information, it is quite possible

during this upcoming dump that we may go through
a reset routine.
CDR Okay.
268 17 48 44 CDR We're a little puzzled by your last request on

SERVICE MODULE SOURCE. Could you say that one
again and which panel?
CC Oh. Roger. Over on - on panel 5, just SERVICE

MODULE POWER SOURCE.
PLT Okay, we have SERVICE MODULE POWER SOURCE can

either go to BAT 1 or FUEL CELL l, BAT 3 or
FUEL CELL 3.
CC Sorry about that. Stand by.
CC I'm - I'm sorry; it's on - on panel 3. That's

where I want you to go.
PLT Okay, you want BAT 2 to MAIN A. Is that correct -

on panel 3?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay, Bob, we got it on. It's holding around

30.5 volts, and it's picking up l0 amps.
CC Roger.
268 17 50 25 CC And, Skylab, to let you know what we're thinking

about on this momentum state for the cluster, it
appears now that the problem was that the momentum
got perturbed when we were - while ago when we had
the evaporator going overboard. And since we've
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got the undocked gains in, it would appear that

it's not working very efficiently on - on handling
the - that problem with the - with the large
momentum perturbation.
268 17 50 53 CDR Okay, understand. That's good news.
CC Okay. So it doesn't look like any events are

occurring or anything like that. The DELTA and
momentum appear to be fairly constant now. We're
about 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you over
Carnarvon in 23 minutes at 16:36, 16:36.
268 17 51 16 CDR Okay.
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268 18 lh 21 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Carnarvon for about

l0 minutes. And we're Just observing that we've
got a - got a reset routine.
CDR Okay. Things are going okay up on this place.

We just took an alignment while it was maneuver-
ing. Let me give you the information.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Stars 2 and 6, 0905, was all balls, minus 66,

minus 30, minus 3; torqued at 16:24:40, and we
were maneuvering at the time we torqued.
CC Okay, copy that, A1.
CDR Okay, what is the weather report for the splash

area these days, Bob?
268 18 15 14 CC Standby 1. Let me see if I can get a last

update.
268 18 15 27 CC Okay, right now it's forecast to be 1800 scattered

visibility, l0 miles; wave height, 5 feet. And
the winds - -
CDR ... place to go.
CC Roger. And winds about 15 knots.
CDR That's good; it will keep the spacecraft cool.
268 18 17 07 CC And, CDR, if you are interested, I can give you

a little information about relative motion with
the SWS following undocking.
CDR Very much interested; go ahead.
CC Okay. The CSM will be slightly below and about

1 mile ahead of the SWS at retrofire. And it's
going to pass through the - the SWS is going to
pass through your window when you're in the burn
attitude from about T. of minus 15, which will
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be 1945, to Tig a minus 5, which will be about

1955. But it's probably not going to be visible,
as both vehicles are going to be in the dark when
this happens.
CDR How far do we miss it during the burn?
CC About 4/10 of a mile.
CC And also, for your information, we're going to

turn the docking lights on for - for the
undocking sequence, Just as a backup for your
spotlight.
CDR Okay. If we don't have it in the COAS, we'll

burn. If it's pointing at it in the COAS, I
guess we'll hold.
CC We concur. It should not be there. Have you

calibrated the COAS, Al?
268 18 18 41 CDR We calibrated during rendezvous, and it's right

on.
CC Okeydoke, very good.
268 18 18 52 CDR I asked that question about 5 days ago because I

got to thinking about it one night. It always
seems that when you undock, and you get ready
to burn, you look out and whatever it was you
left is right in front of you.
CDR I think maybe FIDO has got a plan of some sort?

He's got constraints that keep it there.
CC Roger.
CC FIDO is always planning.
CDR He hasn't missed yet.
CC Roger that. And he's not going to. That's what

the boss said.
268 18 23 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Guam in 4 minutes at
16: 50, 16: 50.
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PLT Okay, Bob. And I'm kind of wondering how come

service module SOURCE picked - 1 is picking up
25 amps, and 2 is only picking up 10. I thought
they would equalize out after while.
CC We'll get EECOM to comment on it, and I'll give

you the word over Guam.
268 ]8 24 l0 PLT Okay.
268 38 28 26 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, 9 minutes.
268 ].829 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam, 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob. How do you read?
CC Okay, we read you loud and clear, now, Jack.

And I've got an answer to you regarding SOURCE
1 and 2 and reason for the difference. And
Charlie, the EECOM, says that it's the
temperature difference. Number 1 is just hotter.
It's running about 141 degrees. Two is 74 degrees.
And as soonas 2 comesup and gets a littlebit
warmer, it's going to pick up more of it's
share of the load.
PLT Okay. Well, tell Charlie I haven't ever seen

him miss very many, so I believe him.
CC Figured you would.
PLT In fact, I can't remember one that he didn't

miss.
268 i1829 53 CC Hard to beat.
268 18 36 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Goldstone in 17 min-
utes at 17:15, 17:15.
CDR Roger.
268 18 54 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for about

18 minutes. And we see you in PO0. If you'd
give us ACCEPT, please, we'll go ahead and
update state vector and the target load.
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CDR Good idea; there it is.
CC Okay, also, A1, your deorbit pad is GO as is.

I've got a couple of small changes to the entry
pad on page 5-1, if somebody can take them.
CDR Okay, we're getting there now, just a second.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we want to change the r_nge to go for

0.05G to 11203 and the RET for 0.05G to 2813.
And t_at's the only changes we have.
CDR Okay, let me read them back. 11203 and 2813.
268 18 55 20 CC Also, A1, for your information, the momentum

state looks good following that routine we went
through. But Just to be cautious, we're going
to go to ATT HOLD, TACS for undocking, so you
can anticipate there might be some TACS fires
going on, and you can probably see that when
you back off.
CDR Okay, we'll watch for it.
268 18 57 46 CC CDR, Houston. I've got a weather update for

you, A1, I can read you, if you'd like.
268 18 57 51 CDR Go ahead. We're going 377 to BYPASS right now.
CC Roger. Okay. Weather is 1800 scattered, but

it is variable broken. The wave height is now
6 feet, and the wind is out of the northwest
at 20 knots. They're also having northerly
swells about 5 to 7 feet. The recovery people
see no problem with all that. Still looks good.
CDR Okay.
268 19 01 30 CC Computer belongs to you again, A1.
CDR Okay, we're going to BLOCK.
268 19 08 25 PLT I see you put the SWS lights on.

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CC Say again.
PLT I see you put the SWS lights on.
CC That's affirm. The better to see it with.
PLT Well, I know at least one of them is working.
CC Okay, Skylab, and we've Just went around the

MOCR here, and you guys are GO for undocking.
A1, for your information, the range and range
rate are not going to be any good in case you
were thinking about using them.
CDR No, I wasn't planning to. Thank you, though.
268 19 l0 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Carnarvon in about 41 minutes after
undocking, of course, at 18:14, 18:14.
CDR Roger. We got 18:l_ - I think 24 on our mind,

if we can find it. Yes, 18:11:24 is when we're doi
doing it. Okay?
CC That's undocking. That's correct.
268 _9 ll 28 CDR Okeydoke.
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268 19 52 14 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon, 7 minutes.
CDR We undocked on time. We're moving away. We

indicated about 3/10 of a foot per second separa-
tion velocity. We're getting ready to run the
RCS check.
CC Very good, AI. And we'll be watching them.
268 19 52 53 PLT Okay, Bob, I've got both water motors going. Looks
like they are coming in.
CC Thank you, Jack.
268 19 54 35 CDR And, Houston, do you think this B/IO is good

enough or do you want me to add a little more?
268 19 54 _4 CC That's great. We'll - we'll live with that.
CDR Okeydoke.
268 19 55 hl CC Jack, we're not seeing any 0BS data on you right
now. Would you please check your plugs.
PLT Wilco.
PLT Man's ...
CC Skylab, you cut out, and I couldn't read your

last comment.
PLT It seems like we're leaving home, Bob.
CC Say again, Jack.
CDR It's a beautiful sight at night. We left our

spotlight on. We've got the lights. They look
sort of - One of - The top one looks sort of a
yellowish-white. The right side, as we view it,
looks red. The bottom ones look gold. And the
left ones look blue. It's just like a Christmas
tree. Our spotlight is illuminated the white,
and we see the stars in the background. Super-
imposed on all of this is the COAS, which is sort
of gold cross with a number of marks surrounding
a circle. It's quite a beautiful thing.
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CC It sounds pretty.
CDR Doing a little up.
268 19 58 B8 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over G1,,m in about 7-1/2 minutes at
18:28, 18:28. You guys sound like you're sad to
be leaving. And, A1, does flying around with the
dock DAP seem okay?
CDR Right now I 'm using SCS mid impluse Just for
practice. And the dock DAP I tried for a few
seconds, and it was very smooth. I want to see
how this cross coupling looked; it played with
the translational controller a little hit.
CC Roger.
268 19 59 ll CDR I'm going to the undock DAP in Just a second.
268 20 06 03 CDR You still there, Houston?
CC That's affirm. We're with you again for about

6 minutes.
CDR What's occurred is we've cc_e out - s1_nlight is

not on the Earth, but it's on the SWS. And we
saw it slowly turn - We were seeing it in the dark
with its own lights and our spotlight. Slowly
it turned sort of pink and then orange and then
white, and, of course, that's only the Sun lit
side. The other side is completely black -
because it's got no Earth reflection. Two discone
antennas are like bright balls out there. It's
really a fantastic sight. It's, of course, against
the black background. The stars are not visible
anymore.
CC Roger. It really sounds like it. Say, did you

have a chance to get any shots of it?
CDR We've been working on it. This thing flys pretty

good in - undocked DAP is what I was working on
now •
CC Roger. That's what - Vance assured - assured us

it would.
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CDR Yes, if you can just remember which way to do the

translating. If you want to go - translate right,
I found - I had it figured out for needles.
Needles'll fly from it. If the needle goes right,
you do a left. Looking out the window's a little
di fferent.
CC Roger. I think Just about everybody - -
CDR How's our -how's our systems look?
CC We'll take a look at them.
268 20 07 36 CC Everything looks good here. I think everybody

that tried that THC, started out going the wrong
way.
CDR I wrote it down on a piece of paper up here. It

says, "To fly left, THC right."
CC Roger.
/-_ PLT Temperature's really coming down in the spacecraft

now, Bob. It's come down to about 8 degrees since
we got the motors going.
CC Very good. Hope it's been comfortable.
268 20 09 30 CDR We'll go ahead and do P30 while you can watch.
CC That sounds good to us, AI. Go ahead.
268 20 i0 58 CDR It shows we've got a perigee of minus 4.2.
CC Roger. We copy that. Good.
CDR And total DELTA-V, 450.
268 20 ii 16 CC P30 looks good to us, AI.
268 20 ii 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again at Goldstone in about 18-1/2 minutes at
18:28 - correction, 18:52, 18:52. And AI, if it's
okay with you, we would appreciate seeing you
flying it around with the THC over stateside.
CDR Say that one again.

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CC We'd appreciate when we get you AOS at stateside,

to see you fly it around a little bit with the
THC.
CDR Okay. I've been doing it, and I'll do it some

more when I get there. Didn't want to perturb
our state vector.
268 20 12 16 CC Okay. We -we really haven't seen - seen much

firing on it from here.
268 20 30 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the States for

14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, I'm presently in the undock DAP, and I've

Just been flying it around a bit. Seems to work
real great.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything in particular you wanted me to do? You

mentioned fly the translational controller.
CC We Just like to see a couple of both polarities

out of the way. One item we'd also like for you
to check for us is the SEQ LOGIC switches. Two
of them are on.
CDR We turned them on, remember, per - a check. But

then here in the book it says, "do panel 8 circuit
breaker check." And panel circuit breaker check
shows us - close - closed them again. So we
closed them per the checklist. We can put them
back on again, though.
CC Okay, we do want you to put them back on again.
268 20 31 27 CDR They're on and everything else, then, on that -

circuit breaker 8 checklist then is like it is,
like what's showing on the page. What I'll do
right now is give you a little translation; see
what 's going on.
268 20 32 30 CDR Seems to me it flys awfully good. I think - the

ground has done a good Job psyching this thing out.
CC That's good news.

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CDR Vance around there anywhere?
CC He's right here.
CDR Thought he might be. Hello, Vance.
MCC How are you doing, Al? Glad to hear it's flying
well.
CDR Flys real smooth; better than I expected, to tell

you the truth. I was kind of anxious to see how
it does when you ullage. I appreciated the message
you sent the other day about the duty cycle and
also the initial direction. What I plan to do
is - is start the ullage and watch the rate
needle. The minute it moves, come in with a
little right translation, and try to keep it
killed that way. Is that the technique you use?
268 20 "3315 MCC That's right. If you know what to expect, it's
easy. If you didn't, it might surprise you a
little bit.
268 20 "3321 CDR Just a 30 percent duty surprised me. I would -

I would have been very much surprised. I appreci-
ate that - that would and your extra effort to
go out and prove it on the simulator -hardware
evaluator, too.
MCC Thank you.
PLT Okay, Houston. We can see the storm that we've

been a little concerned about, but it looks like
the leading edge of it is along the southern tip
of Baja. And it has got a very big, wide, circular
pattern, extending way across over White Sands
and Just far west, I guess, as maybe a couple
hundred miles west of Baja. However, the center
of it is considerably further down along the
coast of Mexico. And from the point I described
on to the south, it appears that it is completely
clouded.
CC That sounds Just like - like the information we've

been getting here. Sounds good, and, you know,
don't anticipate any problem with it. We were
Just being cautious about - about the - cases
where we did have to do some RCS burning.
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PLT And between Guadelupe and San Diego is pretty

much overcast; however, west of Guadelupe appears
to be broken, a few holes, but it looks like
we're going to have broken overcast to come down
in.
CC Yes, you're - you're aiming for one of the sucker

holes, we believe.
PLT Won't be the first one we've tried (laughter).
268 20 35 23 PLT The storm has a very definite builtup area, what
appears to be the center. And you can see the
counterclockwise pattern of flow of clouds,
upper level clouds, and - as you look out from
up here. But the center has a very definite -
It looks like a mountain out in the middle of -
a relatively flat area. The center of it is very
well defined although it is not - does not have
the eye of the hurricane that we've seen to date.
It looks Just like a lot of turbulent cloud
formation in the center of it.
CC And, Jack, one other item I might mention to you.

I don't know whether you use the DAC - to try to
get some pictures when you were backing out of
the gate of the SWS, but reminder, we need to
go back to the settings that are listed on
page 12-1 for the fire ball.
PLT Yes, I've got f/ll, 507 feet, and 12.
CC Sounds good.
PLT Looks like this storm, even if it's - even in

its clouds at the outermost periphery, they're
not affecting Houston in any way. We can see
the Gulf and the Houston area very clearly from
our present advantage point over the midwest.
CC What's the weather look out there, today? I

haven't had a chance to look.
268 20 36 59 PLT (Laughter) Well, it varies from scattered to

clear.
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268 20 37 04 PLT Looks like there is a few large boomers with

their anvils extending southeasterly, perhaps,
in your direction.
268 20 37 18 CC Okay, I can give you the latest weather that

we're forcasting at your landing site, which is
not much different than what I gave you before.
It's 2000 broken; visibility, l0 miles. The
wind is 310 at 20 knots; wave heights are now
6 to 8 feet. And temperature is going to be a
nice cool 63 degrees. Call sign of your ship,
of course, is New Orleans. And the two choppers
are Recovery and Swim.
CDR New Orleans, Recovery, and Swim. Okay.
PLT I know Swim. I don't know Recovery.
CC Roger.
268 20 38 27 CDR Want us to pull off an alignment any time soon,

just for - to trim up the platform?
CC Stand by 1.
268 20 38 52 CC No requirement, A1.
CDR Okay.
CC Platform looks good. You can sit back and take

•life easy here.
CDR We're thinking about the seop/Dex now that we've

heard it's 6 to 8.
PLT Boy!
(Laughter)
CC I thought you guys might be thinking of that.
CDR We don't know whether to take 3 or 4.
CC Old sailors like you don't need that.
CDR Say again, - you got to be kidding.

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PLT We plan to grab a 3 wire, anyway. It won't take

us very long, Bob.
CC I'm sure of that. Okay, three underlined.
PLT Have they got the meatball turned on?
CC I really don't even know if the New Orleans has

got a meatball .
268 20 h0 h7 CC And, CDR, Houston. I wonder if you can verify

for us that subsequent to the command module RCS
activation that the only configuration change
you made regarding that was the taking the LOGIC
switches to OFF on panel 8?
CDR That's affirmative. That was it. I tell you

what I did. I Just did the one on page 12-3.
And you don't have us doing it until 19:10. We
Just thought we'd get ahead of the game. Now
I assume that at 19:lO, which is 8 seconds from
now, you want me to still leave these on.
CC That's affirm. We do want to leave them on.

And the problem was that we had an exception in
the checklist, and it was over on page 12-h
that referred you back to that. And it was
talking about accepting. Don't change the
breakers. We want to leave them closed.
268 20 hl h6 CDR Okay, now let's he careful. Those had to do

with the ARMS as far as I know. And you and I
are talking about the LOGIC switches at the
moment.
268 20 hl 55 CC Roger.
CDR Okay. Because see, I think you want the ARM

circuit breakers IN and the LOGIC on.
CC That is correct.
268 20 h2 05 CDR Well, you got it!
268 20 4h 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See

you over the Vanguard in about 12 minutes at
19:17, 19:17. And as you go over the hill, the
bird's looking good.
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CDR Good. How do you like the way NOUN 40 - cor-

rection, VERB 48's loaded?
CC All looks good down here.
268 20 44 32 CDR Okay, we like it, too; but we need to know your
thinking.
268 20 55 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minutes.
CDR Okay, we haven't left. All three of us are still

here.
CC Appreciate that. And for your information, Skylab,

the wind is dropping off it appears. It's down
to 17 knots, and we hope that's going to improve the
sea state a little bit.
CDR That 's good news.
268 20 56 13 PLT Was that a ncrthwest wind, Robert?
CC That' s affirmative.
PLT Okay.
268 20 56 34 CDR We were wondering if our doctors were seasick.
CC They took their scop/Dex.
CDR We were thinking we might have to have to run these

tests on each other.
CC I'm sure you've got more practice at doing that

than just about anybody.
PLT Next to you, that is.
CC Well, not quite.
268 20 57 22 CC I only tried it for 56.
268 20 58 07 CDR Seems that the thrusters have started firing more
in roll Just recently for some reason. Maybe we
just noticed them because it's getting dark and
we can see the flashes.
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CC Copy that.
268 20 59 03 CDR Boy, that roll in FREE, CMC FREE with the dock DAP,
it really moves out with that pull.
CC Pretty hot machine, huh?
CDR Well, it seems not too much different in pitch and

yaw - oh, well, not yaw, but pitch. But roll, it's
got a lot more authority. I know that the thrusters
run a 100 mill a second instead 17 or something
like that. But it's real noticeable in roll.
CC The Flight, here, gives me the word that it's only

7 times as much, so naturally it should be coming
in.
268 20 59 48 CDR We must have accidentlly been sitting on the middle

of the dead band there for about l0 or 15 minutes,
and then all of a sudden it touched the edge, and
so it's got a little limit cycle going.
268 20 59 56 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
Time: 268:21:00 to 268:22:15
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268 21 O0 lO CC Skylab, that bird looks super to us. You're GO

for deorbit and entry.
CDR Good news. We're ready to go ourselves. We'll

see you on the ground, I guess. Is this our
last com_?
CC Well, we've got an ARIA pass, hopefully, after

blackout, so we may be able to talk to you a
little bit. But in case we don't, we'll see you
back, hopefully, tomorrow night.
CDR We'll be there.
CC I'm corrected. It's going to be like Thursday.
CDR Okay. We may have to care for the doctors when

we get aboard ship, but we'll give them - give them
some aid.
CC I'm sure they will appreciate that.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're 1 minute from LOS. And the

ARIA pass should be at 20:29. And we're looking
forward to seeing you guys again. It's been great
working with you.
CDR Okay. It's been a pleasure. We'll be right down

there in a few minutes.
PLT See you fellows in Houston, Bob.
268 _2 03 47 CC Roger that.
268 22 ll 41 CC Hello, Skylab. We're AOS through the ARIA.
CC Skylab, Houston. Can you read?
268 22 12 09 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
268 22 13 47 CC Skylab, Houston through the ARIA. How do you

read?
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268 22 13 54 CC Skylab, I believe I heard you modulating there,

but you were unreadable.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 268-12/T-733
Time: 268:22:15 to 268:22:30
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SKIrLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
268 22 15 42 CT ARIA i, ARIA 2 call.
REC Roger. Do you have - do you still have S-band

signal?
REC Roger. Anything on the C-band?
REC Roger. Copy.
CDR Okay. We'll give it to you. We are at ...
REC Roger. Copy.
PHOTO Helos have a visual.
REC New Orleans has a visual. PHOTO has a visual.
268 22 16 50 CDR We just saw the apex cover go by. It's out of our
way, but we just happened to.
REC Roger.
REC This is Recovery. You look beautiful coming down

today.
REC Cap control, this is Recovery. Did you copy the

DSKY readout?
268 22 17 32 NO Roger; was given. Skylab, Recovery .... this

distance, we'll proceed to him.
NOTE: Splashdown occurred at approximately 268:22:19:5h.

No corroborative communications were recorded on -
GOSS net l, which was extremely degraded from 22:15
on.
END OF TRANSCRIPTION
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261 00 47 28 CDR ...

PLT That's what we 're doing.

CDR Terrible. They're going to have a tough time

261 00 i%746 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm with you at Texas for

PLT Hello there again, Dick. Dumping down the Pike,

CDR It was snow-covered - or cloud-covered over Japan,

PLT 0hayo gazaimasu to all our friends in the Land

CDR 48:29 I'm supposed to - -

261 00 48 21 PLT MARK. MODE, SINGLE.

CDR - - ... 3 degrees up. 48:29 - like about right

CDR Let it stay there. 229. E229. They sure got a

PLT How's Big Red down there today, Dick?

CC He's really having fun tonight.

CDR What's he doing?

PLT I bet he's almost as good a guy as Hutch is.

CDR Ask him what we're going to do with that 6 hours

PLT I wonder if Big Phil's going to buy the whole -

261 00 49 33 CDR He is. There's no doubt in my mind.

PLT Yes, a good guy like him.

PLT Wealthy bachelor.

CDR Big pocketbook.

PLT Well-paid flight director.

CDR That's right. They get extra - They get flight

PLT I wonder if they could get per diem for being in

CDR (Chuckle) Probably. They get to sleep there.

PLT (Chuckle) It's Government quarters first, though.

CDR 50:01, and boy, this is a tough one.

PLT This one is really stirring up the old pump, Dick.

CC Well, it sounds like fun to me.

CDR It is. A great site to be ...

PLT Never lose your sense of humor. (Chuckle)

CDR It's only a matter of time, Richard.

PLT They're saying what Bruce was saying this morning.

CDR What're they saying? What'd they say?

PLT Wish these guys would shut up.

PLT Here they come again. (Laughter) Oh.

PLT 52:29. Boy, it seems like a long time off. It

CDR Seems like we've been up here for 2 months. Okay,

PLT That'll make them jump up and down if you do that.

CDR And now they want me to keep it on. It's going to

PLT I betcha Phil could take everybody out to dinner

CDR He should do it.

CC Everybody on the team concurs with you.

261 00 51 26 CDR (Laughter) Little - little - Chinese food. He'll

CDR 52:29. Oh, this is good ... - This is good. I

PLT That's what they want.

CDR It's not bad.

PLT Shows them how dark a picture they can take.

CDR That's right.

CDR Okay, at 52:29 this camera's coming off.

261 00 52 29 CDR MARK. Camera OFF.

261 00 52 30 PLT MARK. MODE, SINGLE. EREP to STOP.

CC No, I'm not gone. I'm eavesdropping.

PLT Good. Okay. You want to know what Bravo 7 is.

PLT And when we were in CHECK, Alfa 2 was doing some

temperature_ I'ii give that to you later. I -

CC Okay. And, Jack, one thing. This next Vanguard

CC Okay, thank you.

PLT Yes, sir.

CDR Scared me, and I'm not fearless.

261 00 56 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

261 00 56 ii PLT MARK.