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Time: 05:01 CDT 09:10:01 GMT
7/28/73
LCC This is Skylab launch control. T minus

i hour 7 minutes and counting toward lift off in the second
manned mission in Skylab. At this time checks are underway on
the radar beacon aboard the space vehicle. There are two
of these beacons actually located in the instrument unit of
the Saturn IB. They're used in conjunction with ground
radars to track the velocity positio n and the acceleration
of the vehicle during the power phase of flight. Up at the
320 foot level at the pad launch complex 39, the close out
crew are making their final preparations. They are taking
down some connector panels which connect the white room to
the space craft and sealing off the boost protective cover
hatch, which has now been pulled closed. We're continuing to
aim for a lift off time of 7:10:50, that is i0 minutes
50 seconds after 7:00 a.m. eastern daylight time this
morning. Now T minus i hour 6 minutes and counting, this
is Kennedy Launch Control.
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SL-[II MC-2/1
Time: 05:10 CDT 09:10:11 CMT
7/28/73
LCC 'rhts I_ Skylal> I,aunch C..trol. T minus

56 minutes 58 scCotlds and _:ountlng. Just completed
was a very critical power transfer test. During this test
the power is transferred from the ground source, which has
been being used up to this point to conserve on the flight
batteries. Transfer to those flight batteries to ensure that
all systems are operating during and after that transfer.
Transfer was made, the various elements of the launch team
reported in that systems continued operating correctly. We
switch back then to the ground source and we'll stay on that
ground source down to a T minus 50 second mark in the
countdown at which time we'll switch finally to the flight
batteries and stay on the flight batteries from that point on.
Coming up in the countdown are checks of the digital rain
safety receivers aboard the space vehicle. These receivers
are part of what's called the secure arrange safety systems
aboard the Skylab. A range safety officer could send a destruct
signal to the rockets if it became erratic or straight off
course. He would do this by initiating the emergency cut off,
and if necessary, the propellant dispersion command. The
systems are located on each stage of the Saturn IB. The
two receivers in each stage and they receive the signal from
the range safety officer, and then send them through the
proper channels to perform the propellant dispersion. These
actions of course will be taken only if the vehicle were so
erratic that it endangered land areas, and also only after
the crew has been advised and has used one of the escape
options that is open to them. Countdown proceeding smoothly
now in the final hour. T minus 55 minutes 23 seconds and
counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
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Time: 05:23 CDT 09:10:23 GMT
7/28/73
LCC This is Skylab Launch Control, T-minus 45

minutes and counting. Chief Staff Supervisor, Bill Schlck
advises that the swing arm, swing arm number 9, with the
environmental chamber will be coming back, it's coming back
now to the 12 degree or park position. Schick advises also
this and other aspects of the count continue to go well.
All on time or actually running somewhat ahead of schedule.
The environmental chamber at the end of swing arm 9_ will
i remain at the park position here. This is about i0 to 12
feet from the spacecraft. It could be quickly moved back
to the spacecraft in an emergency. Swing arm number 9 is
somewhat of a misnomer, the facilities here at complex 39
were designed for the larger Saturn V vehicle_ 365-foot
tall. Specially designed 127-foot pedestal adapts the
smaller Saturn IB so that it does use the same upper swing
arm. Actually this is the fifth of the five swing arms used
for the Saturn IB, but it does continue to carry that
swing arm 9 designator, which it gained back in the Saturn V
program. Once the swingarm is moved back, launch escape
system is armed. That's the small rocket tower that can
be seen perched on top of the command module. That system
could he used by the astronauts in an emergency to pull the
command module free of the space vehicle. It would lift
it up in an arcing path, high enough so that the parachutes
could deploy and it could come down for a normal landing.
That launch escape system, interestingly enough, develops
a 147,000 pounds of thrust, that's about twice that
developed by the Mercury Redstone rocket, which launched
our first two astronauts into suborbital space. However
that's a rather short duration burn of 3.2 minutes for the
launch escape system. The escape system itself is 33 feet
long, weighs about 8,000 pounds. Now, T minus 42 minutes
57 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
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SL-III MC-4/1
Time: 05:00 CDT 9:10:00 GMT
7/28/73
LCC This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus

34 minutes 59 seconds and counting. The closeout crew, which
left the pad area just a short time ago, has now cleared that
area. And the test supervisor, Chuck Henchel has announced
that the KSC area is now cleared for launch. Range safety
command receiver checks now have been completed and also the
replenishing of the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen is
continuing. Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, the cryogenic
fuels for the Saturn IB, were loaded earlier this morning.
Actually completed loading at about the T minus 4 hour mark
in the countdown. These are continuing to be replenished
down through the countdown until we get into the terminal
sequencer; the replenishing is then stopped. It is necessary
to replenish these because there is some boll off that takes
place. T minus 34 minutes ii seconds and counting, this is
Kennedy Launch Control.
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SL-III MC 5/1
Time: 05:45 CDT, 09:10:45 GET
7/28/73
LCC This is Skylab Launch Control, we are

T minus 23 minutes 48 seconds and counting toward the lift off
of the second manned mission in the Skylab program. Count
continuing to go smoothly here at Launch Complex 39. Preflight
command checks with the Mission Control Center in Houston
have Just been completed. These are the checks of the systems
which are used to remotely command various functions in the
vehicle. Checkout of radar beacon number i has been
completed. Checkout of radar beacon number 2 underway as
all continues to go well. Science pilot Owen Garriott at
this time is completing some checks of the service module
reaction control system. He's armed that system which in
a sense means that he has opened valves allowing the hypergolic
fuels to flow down to the engine area. Hypergolic fuels are
ones that ignite on contact. In this case, for the service
module reaction control systemp these fuels are monomethyl
hydrazine and nitrogen tetrocide. The system has been
pressurized, Garriott is now reading off the different
temperatures and pressures and the fuel quantities. Hypergolic
fuels are actually loaded aboard the service module well
before the countdown began. Service module reaction control
system provides staballzation and control of the spacecraft
during Earth orbit and docking. It can also be used for minor
course changes or the backup system for deorbiting the
spacecraft. We're continuing to look for 7:10 lift-off.
Actually to be more accurate 07:10:50, 50 seconds after
07:10. We have a window which extends to 07:19:27, that's
a.m. eastern daylight time. Weather continues to look good.
The sun is about to come here at Kennedy Space Center, it's
coming up through some cloud cover, we expect some of that
to blow off and at llft-off time, approximately 22 minutes
from now, we'll be looking for some scattered clouds, surface
winds at 6 knots, temperature is approximately 76 degrees
farenheit, and a visibility of about 8 miles. There is a
possibility of some ground fog but 8 miles visibility should
be good in most areas. T minus 21 minutes 44 seconds and
counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
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SL-III MC 6/1
Time: 05_53 CDT 09:10:53 GMT
7/28/73
MCC This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus

15 minutes and we're in a planned brief hold at this time.
This is actually a clock adjustment hold. It's to insured
that we are lifting off at the proper time to get us in the
best trajectory toward the orbiting laboratory. We'll resume
our countdown at 6:55:50 seconds. That's 6:55 am and 50
seconds. Chief Test Supervisor Bill Schick Just reported to us
before going into the hold that all systems are in good shapem the
countdown has been running very smoothly. As we llft off at
7:50 this morning the orbiting Skylab will be some 300 nautical
miles South of Newfoundland. Predicted lift-off time 7:10:50
at this time. The orbiting lab of course was launched back on
May 14. Flight controllers out at Houston report that all
systems aboard there are in good shape and ready for the
second crew to move in and set up housekeeping. That crew
aboard the command service module this morning eager to get
there. When the count resumes at the T minus 15 minutes mark the
?Launch operations manager Paul Donnelley here in the firing room
he has the abort advisory responsibility up to the point when
the space vehicle clears the tower. He'll make some communi-
cation checks with the astronauts on the special astro launch
circuit. This is a circuit on which the spacecraft test
conductor, the astronaut communicator Bob Crippen here in the
firing room and Donnelly use with the astronauts during the final
4 minutes of launch. This is essentially to isolate them from
any other discussions which might be going on in the operational
intercom system here in the firing room which link together
the various members of the launch team. Also as the count resumes
spacecraft will be going to full internal power. Up to this
point it has been powered by the fuel cells aboard the space-
craft but also it has had a ground source fed to it as a backup.
We' re about to resume the count.
MARK. T minus 15 minutes and counting now. Preparations under
way at this time now to chill the systems in the second stage which
will be receiving the very cold liquid hydrogen after first
stage burnout and as the second stage ignites. T minus 14 minutes
45 seconds and counting. This is Kenneday Launch Control.
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Time: 06:01 CDT 01:ii:01 GMT
7/28/73

8 minutes 59 seconds and counting. Bean,r Garriott and Lousma
are now flnishin 8 up their checks inside the spacecraft.
Final launch vehicle checks also being made now before goin E
on the automatic sequencer. There is not an ignition switch
or button for the Saturn launches either the Saturn 5 or the
Saturn IB. An automatic sequencer takes over the count at
T minus 3 minutes and 7 seconds. And that sequencer then
initiates all action from that time, including the ignition.
There are some 91 cameras out at the pad that will cover the
action at ignition detailing the sequence of events for engineers
to study after the launch. A number of $isitors here at
Kennedy Space Center have Jammed the entire space center.
35000 guests have taken all available space on the space
center and this does not include thousands of people who are
linln E the highways nearby. T minus 8 minutes 8 seconds and
counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control.
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SL-III MC-8/I
Time: 06:04 CDT 01:ii:04 GHT
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LCC This is Skylab Launch Control passing

the 6 minute mark in the countdown. T minus 5 minutes 57 sec-
onds and counting. At this time various elements of the
Skylab team reporting in to the test supervisor with their
go or no go status. This team includes the mission controllers
in Houston. The Program Director who is watching from
here at Kennedy Space Center for this launch. The Air Force
Eastern test range who will perform tracking during the powered
phase of the flight, and of course the launch team here in
the firing room, all reporting in at this time. Houston
flight Just reported in that they are go for the start of
the automatic sequencer. The Program Director William Schneider
also reports we're go for launch. Swing arm number 9, that's
the access arm that reaches across the launch tower to the
spacecraft, will be swinging back to the full retract position
Just a few moments from now. Up to this point it's been in
a park position for about the last 40 minutes in a stand by
park position about i0 to 15 feet from the spacecraft. T minus
5 minutes. And swing arm number 9 coming back now. It will swing
back 180 degrees, and a fully park position beside the launch
tower and it will remain there now through launch. Safety and
test support now reporting to the test supervisor Chuck Henschel
that we are go for launch. The range also says we are go for
launch. Launch Operations Manager, Paul Donnelly has given his go
and Walter Kapryan, Director of Launch Operations gives us a go
for launch. T minus 4 minutes 32 seconds and counting, this
is Kennedy Launch Control.
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SL-III MC 9/1
Time: 06:06 CDT 01:11:06 GMT
7/28/73

3 yes, 3 minutes 30 seconds and continuing to count. Launch
Vehicle Test Conductor Norm Carlson has reported to the
Test Supervisor that the launch vehicle is cleared for launch.
Essentially what he is saying is the launch vehicle is ready
to go on the automatic sequencer. The automatic sequencer
comes into play at T minus 3 minutes 7 seconds in the count-
down. Launch sequence has started now we passed the three
minutes 7 seconds mark and wetre on the automatic sequencer.
Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen have been being replenished
up to this point. That replenish now will be terminated, the
vents will be closed and the fuel tanks will be pressurized.
This replenish has been necessary since these are cryogenic
or extremely cold fuels which do boil off. They were fueled.
Fueling was completely about 5 hours before launch and it's
necessary to continue to replenish them on down through the
final portion of the countdown. Various elements of the
launch team now reporting in. All coming in on a go condition.
T minus 2 minutes 20 seconds and continuing to count. Here
in the firing room we are having what's called operational
silence. The men have reported in that they're go. There
will be no further reporting in now except when they see a
problem. If they saw a problem they could report in. Could
request an override to this automatic sequencer and stop
the count. Bob Crippen the Astronaut Communicator here in the
firing room is reporting the countdown clock times to the
crew. Chuck Henschel the test supervisor reporting - -
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SL-III MC-10/I
Time: 06:08 CST 09:1.1:08 GMT
7/28/73
LCC - - supervisor reporting the countdown

clock times here to the firing room team. Paul Downey, the
Launch Operations Manager Just called up to the crew, said
the launch team wishes you good luck, and Godspeed. T
minus 1 minute 36 seconds and counting. A large status
board here in the firing room shows the status of the various
systems and also shows the action being taken by the automatic
sequencer. The instrument unit ready light now is on. The
emergency dectectlon system ready light is on. Launch sequence
start light of course came on at the T minus 3 minute 7 second
mark in the countdown. Pressurization of the tanks now showing
up now on our status board. SIVB LOX tank now pressurized.
SIB fuel tank pressurized as we approach the I minute mark
in the countdown. MARK. T minus 1 minute, T minus 1 minute
and counting. In the spacecraft, Garriot and Lousma have
essentially completed their check out, and their - astronauts
Bean, Garriot and Lousma, they are ready to become the second
manned crew to man the orbiting Skylaboratory. T minus
42 seconds. Spacecraft commander now has made the final
guidance alignment. That's the final action to he taken
by the crew onboard the spacecraft until after the launch.
T minus 30 seconds. T minus 30 seconds and counting. The eight
first stage engines will ignite at 3.1 seconds in our count-
down. They will be held down while thrust is built up until
the zero mark at which time we'll get llftoff. We'll be
looking for liftoff right at the T zero mark. We passed
the 15 second mark in the count. T minus i0, 9, 8, 7, 6,
5, 4, 3_ 2. We have ignition sequence start. All ignitions
all ignitions are running, all engines running. We have a
llftoff. And the second manned crew has cleared the tower.
CDR Roll and pitch program, Houston.
CC Roger, roll and pitch, Skylab. And thrust
looks good on all engines.
PAO A1 Bean reports. A1 Bean reports the
automatic maneuver that puts Skylab on the proper course.
Altitude 0.7 of a mile. Velocity 1432 feet per second.
36 seconds.
CDR It's got a pretty noise to it right now.
CC Roger that. You're looking real good.
PAO Fifty seconds. 2-1/2 miles high.
1700 feet per second.
CDR Comm down.
CC Roger. Stand by for Mode 1 Bravo.
CDR Roll arc (garble).
CC Mode 1 Bravo.
CC Roger.
CDR Propellant DUMP is RCS command.
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CC Roger.
PLT I get a great feeling of motion up here,
Dick. I really feel llke it's moving out.
CC Roger, PLT. And Skylab, Houston_ you're
feet wet.
CDR Understand.
PAO One minute 30 seconds, i0 miles high now,
5 miles down range. Velocity 3280 feet per second. Thrust
still looklng good. Trajectory looking good.
CDR EDB engine out and LV rates off.
CC Stand by for Mode 1 Charlie capability.
MARK. 1 Charlle.
CDR Underst and.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go for staging.
CDR Roger. GO here.
PAO Twenty-two miles high, 19 miles down range.
Velocity 5800 _eet per second. Standing by for staging.
CDR Inhoards. Outboards. Staging.
CC Roger.
PAO Good staging. Ignition on the gIVE stage.
CC Roger. We're watching the thrust come up now.
Skylab, Houston. Thrust looks good on SIVB.
CDR That's good news.
PAO Two minutes 45 seconds. Altitude 41-1/2
miles. Veloclty 7695 feet per second. Down range 60 miles
now.
CC Roger. Tower Jettison, you're mode 2.

CDR Guidance initiate.
CC Roger. Everything is looklng real good,
you're GO in 3 minutes.
CDR It's nice and bright up here in the Sun.
CC Roger.
PAO Three minutes 15 seconds. Altitude 55 miles,
down range 90 miles, velocity 8889 feet per second. Thrust
still good on the second stage.
PLT Okay, Dick, the cabin pressure is locked up
real good here. You should have seen that tower go.
CC Roger. Understand.
CDR And we're GO at 4 minutes.
CC Roger, Skylab. We concur, you're GO
in 4.
PAO Everything is still looking good. Skylab
now 142 miles down range. Altitude 70 miles, velocity
9135 feet per second.
PLT Hey, we'd llke to try that lift-off again.
That was great there Dick.
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CC My turn next.
PAO That's a report there from Jack Lousma.
Four minutes 40 seconds down range now, 197 nautical miles
altitude 80 miles, velocity 10027 feet per second. Skylab
has achieved 34 percent of the velocity needed for orbit.
CC There you GO at 5 A looking real great.
PAO Five minutes 35 seconds. Down range
283 nautical mlles now, 88 miles high, 11687 feet per second.
PLT Go at 6.
CC Roger, CDR. Go at 6.
PAO Skylab has 47 percent of the veloclty needed
for orbit now. 12796 feet per second. Down range 354 nautical
miles. Altitude 91-1/2.
PLT We're right on time.
CC Roger. Omnl Charlle. Thank you, sir.
PLT I want to keep old Ed down there happy.
CC He's happy.
CDR Okay, we Just put on the glmbal motors,
Houston.
CC Roger, CDR.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see 4 good gimbal
motors, good trims. You're go at 7 minutes, looking real good.
CDR Roger.
PAO Seven minutes i0 seconds now. Down range
473 nautical miles, velocity 15380 feet per second, altitude
92 nautical miles. Seven minutes 40 seconds. Skylab now
has 65 percent of the velocity needed for orbit.
CDR PU shift, Houston. We're go at 8.
CC Roger, PD shift. And we concur, you're go
at 8 minutes.
PAO Propellant utilization shift. The mixture
ratio for the propellant has changed now to provide a better
propellant feed at altltude. Eight minutes 16 seconds.
Skylab now 648 nautlcal miles down range. Altltude 89 nautlcal
miles. Veloclty 19172 feet per second. 75 percent of the
velocity needed for orbit now achieved.
CDR We're go at 9, Houston.
CC Roger, CDR, go at 9 minutes.
PAO Flight Director Phil Shaffer taking a
status for the Eurasian gate.
CDR in the CMF.
CC Roger.
PAO He advises the range safety officer that
Skylab is go at the gate. Passing that gate will permit Skylab
to fly over portions of the land masses of Europe and Asia.
CC CDR, Houston. We're predicting a guidance
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Time: 06:08 CDT 09:11:08 GMT
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CC cutoff at 9 plus 53.

CDR Roger, 9 plus 53.
CC Stand by for mode 3 Alfa capabillty.
MARK. Mode 3 Alfa.
CDR Roger, 3 Alfa.
CC Stand by for mode 4 capability. MARK.
mode 4.
CDR Roger, mode 4.
PAO Skylab could now get into orbit if it
had to abort, using the service propulsion system. At 9 min-
utes 50 seconds.
CDR 125, 709. 122.2 by 83.2, we look good.
CC Sounds real great.
PLT You sure know it when it quits.
CC Roger.
PAO That was an onboard readout of the orbit,
122.2 nautical miles by 82.2 anutical miles. We'll confirm
the orbit with tracking in a little bit.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've confirmed your orbit
and you're GO for orbit. Looks good.
CDR Okay, tell the guys at KSC thanks. It
was a nice, nice job.
CC Roger, AI.
PAO And the heaviest command and service module
ever to be launched is now in orbit, 13410 pounds.
CC Hold separation sequence. We're about 45 sec-
onds from LOS in Bermuda. We're going to drop out for about a
minute and a half, and I'll give you a call at ARIA.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 06:22 CST, 09:11:22 GET
7/28/73
PAO The first Skylab command and service

module held a weight record before this, that weight was
13,383 pounds. We're standing b,y for communications through
a tracking aircraft.
CC Skylab, llouston, through ARIA. How
do you read?
CDR Read you pretty good_ Dick. Everything's
going along all right.
CC Roger. I hear a little bit of static
on the llne but I heard fairly reasonably. We're standing by.
CDR Okay.
CDR And we're standing by for (garble), Houston.
CC Roger.
SPEAKER Out stretchers are too long. As we move by
rapldly_ it looks almost llke we're above some strated layer at
5000 feet or something like that. They are really moving
i out°
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab control at 16 minutes
ground elapsed time. Communication is very bad through the
aircraft. Skylab will be acquired by the Madrid tracking
station in about 3-1/2 minutes.
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SL III MC-12/I
Time: 06:28 CDT 09:11:28 GMT
7/28/73
SC (Garble) we sep, Houston.

CC Roger. CDR.
PAO A1 Bean reports separation from the
second stage.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS ARIA. We'll drop out about 30 seconds and I'ii
call you at Madrid.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston, if you're still
there we'd like a GO from you so we could do our SIVB
maneuver.
CDR Okay, we're not (garble) it yet. We'll
give you a GO as soon as we see it.
CC Okay_ real fine.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for
three minutes.
CDR Okay, we got this baby right in front
and it is beautiful. All four petals are open. We can see
the dome of the hydrogen tank and it looks real nice and clean
inside. It's floating along behind us.
CC Roger, CDR, and are we GO to maneuver.
CDR You bet. GO.
CC Okay, thank you. We will on time.
CDR It's sure pretty up here in the sunlight
with the petals out. Looks like it's venting something also from
the back, although we can't see the engine.
SC There are a couple of wide angle plumes Between
ii o'clock and 2 o'clock, and another one between 5 and 8 o'clock
down there.
CC Roger and Skylab, Houston. I got two
or three things for you here at Madrid. One is we'd llke
to delete the waste water dump that's in your timellne at
i plus i0, that's Just a reminder. I've got a couple of
pads for you. The first one is a backup GDC align pad, page
i alfa.
CDR Okay. Hold on a minute and we'll get
it.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. The booster
maneuver will start in about 20 seconds.
CDR Well, we see her maneuvering now, Dick,
looks like she's pitching up from where we see it.
CC Roger.
CDR Go ahead on that pad, Dick.
CC Roger. Backup GDC align. 33 37 1610
0463 3461. Go ahead.
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TIME: 06:28 CDT 09:11:28 CMT
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CDR Roger. Stars 33 and 37, 1610 0463 3461.

CC Roger. Turn to page 5-alfa. I've got
a launch rendezvous realign pad, and while you're turning
there, we're about 30 seconds from LOS Madrid. Your MC-I
and T-align pads are GO. We'll see you at ARIA at 52.
CDR Okay, I don't think I'ii have time for
that pad on 5-alfa.
CC Okay, it's also - it's in your launch
checklist, page 212.
CDR Okay. Stand by.
CDR Okay, I've got 212. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger. Roll is 4 balls, 2552 3579.
CDR Four balls, 2552 3579.
CC Roger. Good readback. See you at ARIA.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ground elapsed
time of 24 minutes. Madrid has had loss of signal. The
next tracking station to acquire Skylab will be the Texas
station in about an hour and seven minutes, however, we will
have an ARIA, an Apollo instrumented aircraft, on station
through which we will attempt to acquire the spacecraft in
approximately 30 minutes. We'll come back up at that time.
At a ground elapse time of 25 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL III MC/13-I
TIME; 07:00 CDT 01:12:00 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 50 minutes

ground elapsed time. We're standing by for communications
through a tracking aircraft in about a minute. We now
have crew heart rates at llft-off. For the Commander, AI
Bean, 150; for the Science Pilot Owen Garrlot, 138; and
for the Pilot Jack Lousma, 126. The last orbital figures
we had were 122.2 by 82.2 nautical miles. Those will have
changed Just slightly due to the three foot per second
separation burn. We'll have to get more tracking on the
spacecraft before we can refine the orbital parameters
any further. We'll stand by now for acquisition through
ARIA.
CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We hear you very, very
weak.
CC Roger, AI. I hear you clear, but also
very weak. How now?
CDR (Garble) 3 foot per second
(garble) burn. Everything else is going correct. We did
the EMS Delta-V this pass. (Garble) and started at minus i00,
ended up at minus 99.6 one time and minus 9.7 the other time.
CC CDR, Houston. You'll have to say again
those two numbers. The first one you started at minus I00
and then ended up with what? Read me the second one.
CDR 99.6 and 99.7.
CC Roger. 99.6 and 99.7. Thank you very
much. And, CDR, anytime during this pass, if you get any
information on the two P52s, I'ii be glad to copy them.
I have a couple of notes here for you to let you know about.
Your CMC VECTOR during the boost, developed about a 30 foot per
second out of plane, and we intend on updating the CMC VECTOR at
Madrid. And also we - our initial look at the X and Y
PIPAs makes us think they probably will need a compensation
and we're going to take another look at them over the States.
Over.
PLT Understand. And, Dick, when we put the
radiators on the llne, we get a couple of intermittent glycol
full hold lights and the (garble) is reading 35 percent now.
We're going to put a little more in her when we get around
to it.
CC Roger, PLT.
CC (Garble) Skylab, Houston. If you're calling
me, you're too far down in the noise. Unable to read you.
Over.
CDR No, we weren't calling you, but it is
fairly noisy. We're at work on the P52. We'll
give you a call in a few moments.
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CC Roger, AI. I'm standing by. And be

advised the weather conditions today for ARIA are pretty
poor, so I t we do have COMM trouble through ARIA, it's not
your onboard systems. And I'm standing by. We're AOS for
the next 4 minutes.
CDR We ought to make it by then.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, the NOUN on 5 is all zeros.
CC Roger.
CDR Not bad for a(garble) this time. Okay the
NOUN 93's are plus all zips, plus 021, plus 113. I'ii say it
again, all zips, plus 021, and plus 113, Row do you hear?
CC We got them loud and clear, CDR. I copy
them and go ahead and tell me the torque time.
CDR 00:56:17.
CC Roger. 00:56:17. Thank you.
CDR Okay. We're going to go for the OPTION 2
now.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, the time we're using is 7 01 38 00.
CC 7 01 38 00.
CDR Roger. That's the T-allEn time w e are
using.
CC Roge r.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Texas in 1 plus 02.
CDR Okay, we'll be there.
CC Okay.
PLT When you fire the thrusters up here_ it
looks llke llghtenlng going by the window.
CC Roger. And that AOS time I read to you
wrong. It's about 1 plus 32.
CDR I wondered.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 07:10 CDT 01:12:10 GMT
7128173
PAO This iH Skylab Control at 1 i_our

elapsed time. The ARIA has loss of signal now. Texas will
acquire the spacecraft in about 32 minutes. We'll go now
to the Kennedy Space Center for the post launch news con-
ference with Launch Director Walter Kapryan.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 15/1
Time: 07:42 CDT 01:12:42 GMT
7/28/73
PAO Thls is Skylab Control at one hour

thirty-one minutes ground elasped time. Skylab coming up
now with an acquistion at the Texas tracking station and the
crew will soon be on its first pass over the United States.
Current orbital parameters reported by the flight dynamics
officer, 127 by 84 nautical miles. This number does reflect
the separation maneuver. 127 by 84 nautlcal miles. We'll
stand by for acquistion through Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston at Texas for 5 minutes.
CDR The second P52 stars 33 and 37 NOUN 9 5 all
zero's we did it again. NOUN 93 plus 230 plus 332 minus 129
and time of torque was 01:03:49:00.
CC Roger, CDR. I've got and I've got an
NC1 preliminary pad for you page i-5.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Starting with Noun 95 002180500
plus 2138 plus 4 balls plus 4 balls. 179 074 002 1995 0010.
Weight: 31219. Trim: plus 137 plus 051. Go ahead.
CDR Okay 002180500 plus 2138 plus all zip
plus all zip. 179 074 002 1995 0010. 31219 plus 137 plus 051.
CC Roger CDR and on the burn attitude
check right below that itts star 25 shaft 2503 trunnion 376.
Go ahead.
CDR Roger 25, 2503, 376.
CC Roger. And I got a couple of notes. This
MC i burn will be the deal bank burn of the day and you'll
be happy to know that no plane change is required.
CDR Thatrs great. And when we went through
our P31 we got a Noun 81 of 222.7.
CC Roger, Alan.
CC CDR, Houston. For your information we've
Just looked at your RE FSMMAT and I do not have a star acquisition
pad for you right now but as soon as the guidance officer gets
one ginned up we'll have one for you.
CDR Okay.
CDR And if your finished with P52 Houston
I'll go on and do P20.
CC Roger, we are happy with the P52 and you
can have it, AI.
from LOS and I'll give you a call at Madrid at i plus 51.
CDR Okey doke.
CC This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 38 minutes
ground elapsed time. Texas has loss of signal. The next
station to acquire will be Madrid in about 13 minutes. During
this pass CAP COMM Dick Truly read up to the crew information
for the NCI maneuver the first phasing maneuver in the
rendezvous sequence. That manuever to be performed at
ground elapsed time of 2 hours 18 minutes 5 seconds. Using the
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big service propulsion system engine with a Delta V or

change of velocity of 213.8 feet per second. Duration of
burn_ 10 seconds. And the resulting orbit is expected to be
206.2 by 125.7 nautical miles. We'll come back up Just
prior to acqulstion at Madrid at 1 hour 39 minutes ground
elapsed time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-16/I
Time: 08:01 CDT 01:13:01 GMT
7/28/73 L
PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 50 min-

utes ground elapsed time standing by for acquisition through
Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston in Madrid for 5 minutes.
We'd like ACCEPT so we can get your vectors up to you.
PLT Okay, Dick, and we'll give it to you.
CC Roger. And I've got several pad updates
for you. The first one is final MCI pad on page 1-5.
PLT Okay, stand by one.
PLT Okay, Dick, IIm looking at page 5. Go
ahead.
CC Roger. Starting with - there is Just
3 or 4 changes but I'm going to read the whole pad, and I
think it will be easier, starting with NOUN 95. 002, 18, 06,00,
plus 2148, plus 4 zips plus 4 zips. 179, 075, 002; 2005,
0010, gO ahead.
PLT Okay, I've got 002, 18, 0600 plus 2148
plus all balls, plus all balls; 179, 075, 002; 2005, 0010.
CC Roger that's correct. And I'd like to
change the shaft and trunnion down under the burn attitude check
Just below that, Jack. I'd like to change the two numbers.
Shaft should read 2494, trunnion should read 379. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. New shaft and trunnion are 2494
and 379.
CC Roger. How about flipping up to page
1-Alfa. And this will be an update to the backup GDC align
pad.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger. Same stars, 3337, 1611, 0481,
3462. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, 33 and 37, 1611, 0481, 3462.
CC Understand. And also next, PLT, on that
blank on the left you might can write out, we'd like
you to do a PIPA bias update for us. If you'll take down
the numbers, this will be a VERB 21, NOUN 01. Over. And Skylab,
Houston, you can go back to block. We've got the vectors up.
PLT Okay, we'll go back to block and go
ahead with the VERB 21 and NOUN 01.
CC Roger, It's all three axis. Address
1452, data 00665, address 1454, Data 76647, address 1456, Data
03570. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, I've got the address 1452 is 00665,
address 1454 is 76647, address 1456 is 03570.
CC Roger, good read back. And if you have
the results of your B mag 2 comparison check on page 1-4,
we'd llke to have that. And we've looked at the burn, and
you're go for the NC1 burn.
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PLT Roger, go for the burn. Thank you.

And say again the page.
CC It's on page 1-4 kind of at the top, Jack,
on the right hand column BMAG 2 comparison. While you're
looking for that. Flight wants to know how you guys all llke
zero g today?
PLT We're doing great. We got two suits
off. We don't have any B mag comparisons for you yet.
CC Okay_ good. We're coming close to LOS
here at Madrid and we'll see you down at the ARIA at about
2 plus 25. You're go for NCI. See you.
PLT Okay then. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour 57 min-
utes elapsed time Madrid has loss of signal. During this pass
Capcom Dick Truly updated the information for the first phasing
maneuver. Ignition time has changed by I second. Ignition
now at 2 hours 18 minutes 6 seconds elapsed time. The total
velocity change has changed by i foot per second. It is now
214.8 feet per second. The duration of the burn remains at
i0 seconds. The expected resulting orbit has changed by a
few tenths. We now expect resulting orbit of 206.7 by 125.5
nautical miles. This maneuver will be performed while the
spacecraft is out of range of a tracking station. We would
hope to get a burn report through a tracking plane, an ARIA
aircraft. We hope to acquire the spacecraft through ARIA in
27 minutes. At i hour 58 minutes ground elapsed time, this
is Skylab Control
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-17/I
TIME: 08:35 CDT 01:13:35 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 24

minutes. We're trying to contact Skylab through ARIA now.
CC Skylab, Houston through ARIA for 8 minutes.
CDR Houston, Skylab. We hear you inter-
mittently. Not too clearly, though.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a lot of static.
I can barely hear you. We are interested in knowing how
the NCI burn went, though. Go ahead.
CDR It came off correctly. On time. We
didn't copy the Delta DC. We were in attitude and the
NOUN 85's were minus 001, plus 005 plus 008. The star-
check that you gave us, star 25 was correct. However, using
the horizon check, which - as sort of a backup, the horizon
was not anywhere near the 12 degrees window mark at burn time.
It was up around 35.
CC Roger, CDR. I copied all of that. And
one more question. We wanted to verify that you got the
PIPA biases in prior to the NCI burn.
CDR We got them in.
CDR We got tem in fast this (garble).
CC CDR, Houston. Sorry, I didn't catch
that last - Say again, please.
CDR Roger. We got the PIPA biases in prior
to burn.
CC Roger, CDR. I understand you did get
them in. Be advised that I do have a star ACT pad for you,
but I'll give it to you later when we have better COMM, and
if you get the P52 option 3 information, I'm standing by
for it. We've still got about 6 minutes left here at ARIA.
CDR Roger, we're wondering which P52 option
3 you're talking about. The very first one?
PLT No, the one that's supposed to be going on
now.
CC Negative. CDR, negative. I got that

other option 3 and we're a little bit ahead of you. We
Just thought prior to this ARIA pass you might possibly get the
one that's coming up right now. If not, no problem. We'll get
it at the states.
CDR Okay, we weren't planning to do that for i0
more minutes, but we'll get on it right now. We've hatched a
little problem with the manual drive, on the optics and in direct.
When we drive to an angle it doesn't want to stop there. It
Just keeps going. We're having a little trouble setting the
proper angle so we could (garble) look out at a star. It's
(garble) rather rapidly. And we haven't had any trouble
with auto optics, however. It points very well. We don't
have any trouble marking on it, so it's really when we try
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to go to a design shaft and trunnion then it's almost impossible

to do. So it's really really better to take it easy on it.
CC Roger_ CDR. I copied that and no
particular hurry on the P52. We'll take it when you've
got it. We're standing by for 4 more minutes.
CDR Starting on the P52 right now. All systems
are check and (garble) look good.
CC CDR, Houston. CDR, Houston. You're
Just about unreadable. Sorryp I understand you're reading
me some P52 informatlon_ but I have not gotten any of it.
CDR Houston, we did our GDC allen and got a
(garble). We'll give you that information at the next station
because we have difficulty hearing you.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS at ARIA. We'll see you at Goldstone at 03:01_ and
Z'II have a star act pad for you up there. You've been
Just about unreadable for the last 3 minutes of the pass
and so I didn't get any of the information during that time.
CDR Okay, I'll read it again to you if you can
take it. 37 45 (garble) 01. NOUN 83's plus 009, minus 017, plus
023_ minus 902. 32 56 00.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I 8/I
Time: 08:45 CDT 01:13:45 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 34 min-

utes elapsed time. The ARIA aircraft down off Australia has
loss of signal. Generally very unsatisfactory communications
through that airplane. Weather conditions in the area are
not conducive to good communications. A1 Bean did report that
the first phasing burn was performed on time. He also reported
that they are having a problem with the manual drive on the
spacecraft optics. The optics don't want to stop, keep going
in manual. However_ the auto drive is giving them no trouble.
Trouble with the manual drivep but not with the auto drive.
The Goldstone tracking station will acquire Skylab in about
26 minutes. At 2 hours 35 minutes elapsed tlme_ this is
Skyl ab Control.
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TIME: 09:00 CDT 01:14:00 GMT
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minutes elapsed time. When the spacecraft reaches the
Goldstone tracking station in about ii mlnutesj CAP COM
Dick Truly, will check with the crew to determine what
drive rate the optics are in. If they are in high rate
we would expect an over-shoot on the manual drive. That
would be normal for that manual drive. In any event this
situation is not a serious problem. Flight Director
Phll Shaffer places it in the nuisance category, but not
a problem. The crew reported during the ARIA pass that they
were overshooting with the optics in manual drive, but they
had no trouble with the automatic drive. We'll get more
information on this when the spacecraft reaches the
Goldstone station. We'll come back up Just prior to
acquisition at Goldstone. At 2 hours 52 minutes elapsed
time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-20/I
TIME: 09:10 CDT 01:14:19 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours

elapsed time. We're standing by for acquisition through
Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, we got some news for you. We
worked on that optics -
CC Go ahead.
CDR We kinda got the feeling that maybe we
hadn't zeroed it well enough_ although we'd done it a couple
of times, because we went back and zeroed it again and
drove it manually both in resolve and direct and it worked
perfectly. So, scratch that up as a mystery at the moment.
CC Roger. The one question we had on that,
AI, was, did you see this phenomena both driving it in high
and low rates?
CDR We saw it in all rates. And it looked
llke it was driving in high in all ratesp but things are
working well at the moment.
CC Okay, let me continue down my list then.
We're a little bit puzzled about the horizon check. We're
still thinking about that one. There was some thought that
it might be possible that you had seen the terminator
because of the conditions you were in at the time, however,
we really Just don't know. We're tracking you here at
Goldstone, but we'll have to run the information and by
Madrid we'll have a good look at the way the NC-2, correction,
the NC-I burn went. And there's one number on your P52
option 3p which is the now 93Z that l'd llke for you to
give me again.
CDR Okay. That's plus 024. And now that
you mention this business about the terminator, I wouldn't
be surprised if you're right.
CC Well, the terminator was quite a bit
below you there and we' re checking angles. That might have
been right, but we're a llttle bit puzzled as to how the
star check could have been so good and the horizon check not.
But, at any rate, we're thinking about it. And 1 never
got BMAG 2 results, page 1-4. Did you get them?
CDR I sure did. Let me give them to you
right now. NOUN 20, 178 74, 15509, 35982. Now the ASLP thumb wheels
were 1776 1581 3594, and that was a Delta T of 46. Now
we have a BMAG 1 comparison going at this time and we've
been 25 minutes into it. So, next time we talk with you,
we'll give you some information on BMAG I, also.
CC Good show. I've got an NC2 preliminary
pad for you, page 1-9.
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PLT And, while you're thinking about that,

I completed the fuel cell purge and I notice on fuel cell
1 the hydrogen flow dldntt quite come back to where it was
to begin with. Itls right at about - it appears to me about
.01 pounds per hour higher than the - than straight across
from the 0 pointer.
CC 2 Roger PLT, and for whoever is going to
copy the NC2 pad_ I am going to have a Delta VY for you.
It's printed in there in zeros, but I have one. The reason
is you have a slight out of plane and we think we're a little
bit better off getting it out of the way here at NC2 instead
of saving it for - by doing it here we should reduce what
we have to get out in NCC and NSR.
CDR Sounds llke a good idea. We're ready
to copy.
CC Okay, starting with NOUN 28, 004 33 5700
plus 1535. Okay, here's your Delta VY, minus 014.0. Okay,
starting again with Delta VZ, plus 4 balls, 180 256 356
1397 0007. Weight 30557, trims plus 138 plus 041. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. 004 335700 plus 1535 140 that's
a minus, plus all zips 180 256 356 1397 0007 30557 plus 138
plus 041.
CC Okay, and we'd llke to give you a burn
star check for these burns since we have a couple of
funnies. For this one it'll be star 13 and that should
give you a shaft of plus 318.4 and a trunnion of plus 07.7.
Two remarks. This will be a single bank burn, bank alia,
which is nominal and the other one was that Delta VY was
due to a slight out of plane. I already told you about
that one.
CDR Okay, understand that. Star 13 is
plus 3184 and plus 077 and bank Alia.
CC Roger and stand by please, Just a
second.
CDR The more I think about this terminator
business_ the more I think you're right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see a decrease
in helium and propellants in QUAD Bravo and we' d llke to
secure that QUAD.
CDR Nell, I tell you. We were Just getting
ready to tell you that we got some sort of sparklers going
by the right hand window, over by Jack, but we don't have
any going by the left. And it's quite a bit. We just did
that purge and we thought maybe that was it, but maybe
we've got something spraying out that side. I don't know.
CC Roger, we'll secure QUAD Bravo here
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and continue to look at it.

PLT It looks llke you're driving through
a snowstorm real fast. It's going from minus x to plus x,
Dick •
CC Roger. Have you secured QUAD Bravo?
PLT Affirm.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CDR Did you want both the helium and the
propellant secured?
CC That's affirmative, CDR.
CDR Okay i we did both of them. And we've
still got the snowstorm out the right side there.
CC Roger.
SC I'm wondering if it's got something
to do with that H2 on fuel cell i. Of course we can't
tell whet fuel cell 3 is doing on H2 because the meter isntt
working.
CC Roger , we're continuing to look at it.
CC Skylab, Houston. While we're continuing
to look at this. I got a couple of other notes. One is
that the coolant problem, Jack, that you saw Just after
launch was almost identical to the indications that Pete
and his guys got on SL-II, and we think that was due to
a situation in - out in the radiators. The thermal con-
traction in the radiators and was a nominal situation, no
problem. I have a star acquisition pad on page l-Alfa, if
we have a chance to copy it.
CDR Can I go ahead and get my H2 purge line
heater off in spite of what's going on. Looks like -
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PLT Can I go ahead and get my H2 purge llne

heater off in spite of what's going on. It looks llke it
stopped for a minute and started back up again. It's looking
kind of intermittent now, Dick. Snow storm that is.
CC Roger. Stand by a second.
PLT Some of the particles are bigger than
others. Some of them look llke pieces of frost and others
look like a very, very fine rain, and then there is a bunch
of them that streak by with sizes in between.
CC PLT, Houston. On fuel cell i, the EECOM
would llke you to cycle the H2 purge llne heater, please.
PLT Roger.
CC I'm sorry. Excuse me. H2 purge line valve.
EECOM would like you to cycle that. Be advised that we're about
20 seconds from LOS here at Goldstone. And we'll pick you
up at Canary at 03:25.
CDR Okay. And we'll be standing by for that
star acq pad.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, I cycled it and it went back to about
the same place. Do you want me to leave my H2 purge llne heater
on I take it. Is that right?
CC Negative, PLT, if you hear me, you
can turn it off.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours Ii minutes
elapsed time. We do have loss of signal. The next station
to acquire will be Canary Islands in about 14 minutes. We've
asked the crew to secure the reaction control system quad B,
service module reaction control system quad B. We noticed
that both the helium and propellant quantities were decreasing
in that quad. A1 Bean reported sparklers as he called them
going by the right-hand window. The Pilot Jack Lousma referred
to it as a snow storm. As we lost communication there, he
referred to it as intermittent. We are continuing to look at
this situation to try to understand it. Both fuel cells look
normal. There appears to be no problem there. A1 Bean reported
that the optics work well now in both modes, both manual and
auto. He chalks it up as a mystery as to why he was getting
the overshoot. He remarked that maybe they hadn't zeroed
the optics well enough. But he would chalk it up as a mystery.
During this stateside pass, the flight dynamics officer was
tracking for data to confirm the first phasing burn. We
won't have a good handle on that until the spacecraft reaches
the Madrid station. At that time we should be able to confirm
the results of the first phasing maneuver. And we pass up a
preliminary maneuver pad for the second phasing maneuver.
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That could change some based on the results of the tracking

data. But the preliminary pad calls for the second phasing
maneuver ignition time of 4 hours 33 minutes 57 seconds
elapsed time. A Delta V of 153.5 feet per second. Duration
of the burn 7 seconds. And the expected orbit 216.3 by 202
nautical miles. We'll come back up Just prior to Canary
in about i0 minutes. At 3 hours 14 minutes elapsed time,
this is Skylab Control.
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SI-III MC 22/1
Time: 09:34 CDT 01:14:34 GMT 3:23 GET
7/28/73
MCC This is Skylab Control at 3 hours 23 minutes

elapsed time. We' re standing by for acquisition at Canaries and
have overlapping coverage at Madrid. Tracking at the Goldstone
station confirms that the first phasing manuever was performed
correctly. We'll stand by for communications here. Itts
about a 7 minute pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Canary for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger. Loud and clear, Houston.
CC Roger. I wasn't sure you got my last
transmission. It was to Jack that it's okay to turn the
purge llne heater off, and I've got some quad B reconfiguratlon
things to read up to you that we suggest.
PLT Okay. Let me tell you what I've done and
then it may save you some reading.
CC Okay.
SC I set the DAP at 11002_ 11011. I turned
off all quad B for roll BD roll and Ifve turned off quad
B in yaw auto switches. And I got A and B roll on.
CC Roger. Thank you, you're right with us.
That's exactly what I was going to suggest.
PLT Okey doke. We've been looking at this
mall procedure and, of course, we cant, go very far because right
now the pressure doesn't appear to be decreasing. I will
say that the sparklers that we were having out the righthand
window are gone. But that of course could be because of the
hydrogen dump.
CC Roger. Okay. I've got a couple of other
things to tell you. We tracked you at Goldstone, and it looks like
you got off a real good execution on the HCf burn. So we're
still thinking about that funny horizon check, but the burn
went well. We do not have any vectors if we need to up-llnk to
you at this time. The SWS tracking lights in the VHF have
been turned on, and they appear to be working okay. And
I have a star ACQ pad on page 1-Alpha.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. On 1-Alpha the only thing that l-
that changes on it, AI, are the shaft and trunnlons for the first
and second stars. So the first star shaft angle is 2518173 -
correction - shaft is 2518; trunnion, 0372. For the second
star shaft 0466, trunnion 0347.
PLT Okay. 2518, 372, 0466, and 347.
CC That's correct. You got it.
CC And CDR, Houston. On the optics problem
you had a while ago, one possible explanation could - might be
some contamination in that switch that caused you
momentarily to be hung in a high rate - which might explain
it. And so to be conservative, we'd recommend that
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you - when you - that you put it in low rate and leave it
there.
CDR Excellent suggestlon, we'll put it back
right now.
CC Roger.
CDR Exactly where's the vent for the hydrogen
p urge ?
CC Stand by.
CC While we're looking that up for you, CDR,
be advised we did see quad Bravo decreasing before we did the
H2 purge, so it might have been that. It was well - I'ii
take it back - running a little bit lower in quantity before
we did the H2 purge. And we're look - -
CDR Okay, let me give you-
CC Go ahead.
CDR - - I had nothing important. I was Just
give you the results of the BMAG i align if you wanted it.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR Okay. 17987, 20630, 35871. ASCP thumb wheels
are 1807 2076 3574 Delta T 38. Now at do we owe you any
other information?
CC CDR, negative. I'm happy I've got - I've
gotten it all.
CDR Ok ay.
from LOS. Honeysuckle at 4:07.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. That purge is close to
window number 5 on the rlght-hand side.
CDR Okay. That makes sense then.
CC Roger.
MCC This is Skylab Control at 3 hours 32 minutes
elapsed time. Canaries has had loss of signal and the
next station to acquire will be Honeysuckle, Australia in
about 34-1/2 minutes. The flight controllers here are continuing
to look at the quad B situation. Don't have answers for that
yet. The crew has reconflgured for attitude control without
using quad B. The pressures are holding on that quad right
now. And we advised the crew during this pass to stay in
low rate on their optics, speculating that possibly some
contamination in the rate switch. Wetll come back up Just
prior to acquisition at Honeysuckle. At 3 hours 33 minutes
elapsed time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II_ MC-23/I
Time: 10:17 CDT 01:15:17 GMT
7/28/73

6 minutes elapsed time. Skylab coming within range of the
tracking range at Honeysuckle Australia for a 7-1/2 minute
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle
for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're Just trying to get a lock
onto the workshop VHF.
CC Roger. And I've got 3 pads to read you.
The first one is NC2 final page 1-9.
CDR Okay, we've got a lock on. And it looks
a little bit erratic probably because we're over range. It
shows about 60 miles. So we add that to the cycle thing and
we've got not bad distance. Okay, ready to copy.
CC Roger, Starting with NOUN 28, 004, 33, 5500
plus 1554; the Delta VY is minus 015.0. Starting again with
Delta VZ, plus 4 balls, 180, 256, 335, excuse me, correct
that. The yaw for NOUN 22 should be 355. Delta VC 1427, 0007.
Go ahead.
CDR Okay, 004, 33, 5500 plus 1554 minus 0150
all zips 180, 355, 335, 1427, 0007.
CC Roger. I'd like to correct on NOUN 22 AI.
The pitch is 256, the yaw is 355. Go ahead.
CC CDR, Houston. If you read those back,
you dropped out. Say again please.
CDR Okay. 180, 256, 355.
CC Roger. That's correct. And on that
star check for star 13, I'd like to correct the shaft and
trunnion. The shaft should read plus 314.8, trunnion plus
08.1.
CDR Okay. Plus 314.8 and plus 08.1.
CC Roger. And next pad is NCC preliminary
pad, page 1-11.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. 005, 20, 0000 plus 0370 minus
0002_ plus 0009, 180, 074, 001, 0236, 0002. Go ahead.
CDR 005, 20, 0000 plus0370 minus 0002 plus
0009; 180, 074, 001, 0236, 0002.
CC That's right. And the weight is 30,
085, trims plus 139, plus 034. And a star check for this
burn. Star 25 shaft plus 246.7, trunnion plus 38.0. Go
ahead.
CDR Roger. 25, and then plus 246.7, and
plus 38.0.
CC Roger. And the next one is NSR prelimi-
nary pad on next page.
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CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Plus 0174 plus 0082 plus 0019, 183
285, 026. Skip Delta VC, I'ii get that for you later. Burn
time 0001, weight 29972, trims plus 139, plus 032. Go ahead.
CC Break_ break, CDR. Stand by one before
you read back. Skylab, Houston. If you can continue to get
marks here_ we'd appreciate it. We're not sure why you've
stopped here.
CDR Okay, we'll take a look for the tracking
light again. When it went into the dark we could no longer
see it, so we stopped taking marks. We'll look out there
again.
CC Okay D and I'm standing by to copy your
re ad back.
CDR Okay, we've got the tracking light and
we'll start taking some. Thanks for getting on us.
CC Roger.
CDR Okayj read back, plus 174 plus 0082
plus 0019, 183, 285, 026, Delta VC will come up later, and
then 0001, 29972, plus 139 plus 032.
CC Roger. That's a good read back. We're
about 1 minute from LOS here at Honeysuckle. WeVll be at
Hawaii at 4:26. Be advised we are talking about here a
troubleshooting procedure on quad Bravo. And I'Ii be
talking about that to you probably at Hawaii.
CDR Okay. And we noticed at least as far as
cockpit gauges are concerned that the pressure has not
changed either in the manlfold or the helium tanks since we
shut them both off.
CC Okay, Roger. We confirm those readings
on the ground.
CDR Okay.
utes elapsed time. Honeysuckle has loss of slgnal, and
Hawaii will acquire in about 10-1/2 minutes. Capcom Dick
Truly advised crew that trouble shooting procedures for service
module reaction control system quad B are in work here in
the control center. He expects to pass those up to the crew
at Hawaii. A1 Bean reported that there has been no further
decrease in helium or propellant pressures in that
quad since they shut them down. We confirm that on the ground.
We passed up a flnal maneuver pad for the second phasing man-
uever. Ignition time 4 hours 33 minutes 55 seconds elapsed
time. That burn will take place before loss of signal at
Hawaii. The total Delta V of that maneuver 156.1 feet per
second. A burn time of 7 seconds. We'll be in SPS maneuver
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a service propullslon maneuver. Resulting orbit 216.7 by

202.3 nautlcal miles. Present orbit is 206.8 by 125.3 nautl-
ca1 miles. We also passed up preliminary information on the
NCC maneuver, the corrective combination burn. Ignition
time of 5 hours 20 minutes elapsed time, no seconds on that
ignition time, 5 hours 20 minutes even. A change of velocity
of 37 feet per secondp a burn time of 2 seconds. And we would
expect the orbit to change as a result of that maneuver to
230.1 by 212.5 nautical miles. And the prellmlnary, pad was
read up for the NSR maneuver, that's the coelliptlc maneuver.
The maneuver that will place the CSM in a coelliptlc orbit
10 nautical miles below the orbit of the Saturn workshop.
Ignition time for NSR, 5 hours 57 minutes even. A Delta V
of 19 feet per second. A burn time of 1 second. Resulting
orbit 230 by 222.4 nautlcal miles. We're 7-1/2 minutes away
from acquisition at Hawaii. Wetll come back up Just prior to
ithat pass. At 4 hours 18 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL llI MC-24/I
TIME: 10:36 CDT 01:15:36 GMT
7128/73

minutes elapsed time. We're standing by for acquisition
through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger. We're Just standing by ready
to do the burn.
CC Roger, AI. I have procedure here that
we're going to be doing after the burn up at Goldstone on
the QUAD. If you got a couple of minutes, I thought I'd
like to describe what we're going to do while we watch it
on the ground. If you're too close to the burn and would
llke to put that off, I'll be glad to. But I thi_k I can
eplain to you generally what we plan to do to try and
check it out.
CDH I'd prefer you waited til Goldstone.
CC Okay, we'll be prepared right at
Goldstone AOS and right after we - I guess - We should watch
you do the burn here and we' ii get a burn status right
after the burn and then right at Goldstone AOS we'll set up
a particular configuration and step right to it.
CDR Sounds good.
CC And CDR, Houston. Be advised we are
going to be commanding the spectrometer ON here at Hawaii.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Controllers have
looked at the burn. You look real good and you're GO
for NC-2.
CDR Roger.
PLT Dick, I notice when we go darkness the
heaters come on. I guess, the main bus is getting down to
around 25-1/2, 26 volts and the fuel cells really put out.
I'm sort of standing by to put a BAT number 2 on if necessary.
I notice that the battery, entry batteries are taking quite
a load right now.
CC Roger, Jack. Copy.
PLT And we Just got an 02 flow high, Houston,
it seems to be staying up around 0.9 right now.
CC Roger, Jack. And EECOM's happy with the
electrical power system right now, so your procedure of
Just stand by watching it is a good one and 02 off llne
he thinks is due to the enrichment procedures we're
going through.
PLT Yeah, probably. We're getting down
around 5 psi or maybe a little less now.
CC Roger.
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CDR Another problem we've had, now that

we're staying in low rate, it's next to impossible to get
the starcheck done, because it takes so long to get to the
shaft and trunnion angles of the stars.
CC Roger, CDR. We had thought about that,
and we were hoping generally, it would be possible to get
close to those angles a little bit earlier, but I guess we'll
Just have to live with that one.
CDR Roger. There's no real way to track,
you know_ up to 12 minutes and then get there. We Just aren't
able to do it with the authority we have in those shafts and
trunnions_ in low settings.
CDR We'll make sure we keep this GDC closely
aligned and we'll also every night period take a look for
and make sure that the IMU is centered in, so I don't
think we'll have any problem.
MCC We see the burns.
CDR There's the residual, Houston. 0 plus
410 and plus 610.
CC Roger. We see them AI.
PLT That thing gives you a nice kick.
CC Roger. We're going LOS here at Hawaii.
We'll see you at Goldstone at 437.
CDR Okay.
35 minutes elapsed time. Hawaii has loss of signal.
Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about 2 minutes. We'll
stay up live for the Goldstone acquisition. The guidance
and control officer Just reported to the flight director that
that was a very Rood burn. The second phasing maneuver
burn described as very good.
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Time: 10:47 CDT 01:15:47 GMT 4:36 GET
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone

for 7 minutes. We don't need any more information on the
NC2 burn, it looked real good to us on the ground. I've
got a quad Bravo checkout I'd llke to get started on and one
note for Jack. You might expect the 02 flow high light about every
10 minutes or so. It seems to be a combination of enrichment
procedure and also the cumulator cycle which is about every
10 minutes. Over.
CDR Right, okay. We'll watch for that Dick,
we understand the i0 minute thing and expect to get a little
02 high on the enrichment and we're ready to copy the RCS
procedure.
CC Okay, I think rather than copy it down
let me explain briefly what we're going to do and then when

we get started we'll need one guy to help us out here. First
we're going to set up a configuration where we can check
out the thrusters in quad Bravo one at a time and see
if it's some kind of a electrical problem in opening the
oxidizer side and letting it go through a thruster. In case
that doesn't work after we look at that then we'll look at a
problem possibly in the direct coils. So what we'd like you
to do first is on panel i check rotation control of power 1
and 2 2 switches to off.
CDR They're off.
CC And on panel 8 auto RCS Jet selects for
quad Bravo off, verify.
CDR Okay. BI, B2, B3, and B4 are off.
CC Roger, thank you. Now on panel 2 service
module RCS, quad primary propellent Bravo to open. And we're
going to monitor manifold pressure here on the ground for a decay
and I'ii let you know when to proceed.
CDR It's open and we can see some things
coming out right now. The same spray we talked about before
is coming out right now.
CC Roger, stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead and close that
now.
CDR Okay, it took a few minutes last time for
it to diminish and it's being true to form; it's slowly
decreasing but quite a number of particles are coming out.
CC Roger, AI. Why don't we stop right there
and let us think about it from here.
CDR Sounds good.
CC While - while it looks like we've got a
couple of minutes that I didn't plan on though I do have the
numbers that I didn't have for you a while a go on the NSR
preliminary pad if you'd llke to copy them down.
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CDR Go ahead.
CC ()kay, Delta VC Is 0064, delta VC at
ignition 2.0, delta VC at tailoff minus 13.0.
CDR Roger. 0064 20 and 130.
CC Roger. That's correct.
CDR Boy, San Fransico looks pretty right out
the window. I guess that's what it is.
CC Roger. Should be.
CDR You know, Dick, those green circular
fields that are - that they use those round irrigation things on
are pretty visible from up here even.
CC Roger.
CDR Little bit smaller but very - very clear.
CC Roger, easy to see, huh?
CDR This would be a heck of a good day for a
EREP pass across this part of the country.
CC Roger that.
CDR The spray on our right hand window has
lessened even more but hasn't quit completely.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CDE I guess it probably - I wonder if you can
tell from looking at the fuel usage in the other quad which
which way that thing's venting.
CC Skylab_ Houston we believe the vent where-
ever it is, is causing you to have a plus yaw because of the
reaction we can see on the minus yaw activity.
CDR Roger.
PLT The particles are all different sizes,
Dick. They're - some of them come out looking llke kinds clots.
CC Roger.
from LOS Bermuda at 4:50 - 4:50.
SC Okay, we'll be waiting for you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We probably will have
a short procedure to continue this quad one more step at
Bermuda. I'll have that procedure for you when we get there.
CDR We'll be ready.
CC Okay.
45 minutes elapsed time. Goldstone has had loss of signal.
Bermuda will acquire in about 4 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for

4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for
3 minutes.
CDR Okay (garble)
CC Roger, CDR. That comm is a little bit scratchy
here. We were a little bit late locking up on the QUAD.
We've had some second thoughts and at the moment we're
completely GO for rendezvous. We still have all our deorbit
capabilities and so we elect now not to troubleshoot it
any more, to avoid a possible hard start. And this is - we
since the procedure we were thinking about involved flight
couple of the thrusters. How do you read?
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda station
is having trouble locklng up its antenna with the command
module. We'll continue to stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Bermuda
station has a ground problem. They are correcting it now,
but the spacecraft is out of range of Bermuda now. Canary
will acquire in less than 2 minutes. WeIll continue to
stand by.
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SL-ZZI He-27/I
Time,' ii:08 CDT 01.16'08 GMT
7_28_73
PAO The Canary station should acquire momen-

tarily. We have overlapping coverage with Ascension on this
pass,
CC Skylab, Houston, Canary for 8 minutes.
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Roger, A1. Sorry for the sound problems
back there in Bermuda. What I was trying to tell you therej
in case you didn't hear, is we don't intend to do any more
troubleshooting right now on quad Bravo. It looks llke we're
completely go for the rendezvous. We've still got our deorbit
capabilities. And we'd llke to think about that one for a
while.
CDR Okay.
CC And while I'm waiting to see if we have some
final pads to read up to you here, on the optics. We think
the IMU looks so great, and you' re getting checks during
the tracking anyway, that we'll probably star checks are not
required for the next burn. In event that you would like to
make them, in order to save time, one thing you might con-
sider is dropping out of Menkent and then going into
P52 and letting auto optics take you to a star and then
reenter Menkent after that. But we really don't think that's
required.
CDR Okay. One thing we've had up here that's
a little unusual, we've had a glycol flow caution/warning two times
so far. It was on momentary, and we could only tell that
it was that particular caution and warning by pushing reset.
Each time we checked the pressures and everything, we found
them to be satisfactory, within limits.
CC Okay, we'll take a close look.
PLT You may notice we put a
little bit in the aeummulator too, way back after insertion, Dick.
CC Roger, PLT.
CC And Skylab, Houston. On that glycol
flow light, are those two caution and warnings youtve men-
tioned that you had momentarily, were they recently? Or were
they the same ones that were reported earlier?
CDR We've had a total of 3 and we had the
most recent one approximately 15 minutes ago.
CC Okay_ thank you.
PLT Something quite interesting just drifted
by the right window. I wish we could have got a picture
of it. It was a piece of frost the shape of a cone,
the same size as the thruster nozzle.
CC Roger that.
PLT It must have been about 4 to 6 inches
along the long edges of the cone.
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CC Roger, copy.
CDR And Houston, are those NCC NSR pads going
to be the final ones, or have you got a couple in your hip
pocket down there?
CC Roger. Negative. We will have new pads
to read to you here at Canary and Ascension, and they are
in work now. We've still got about ii or 12 minutes between
these two sites, so there shouldn't be any problem.
CDR Okay. Well, we've got to go to final
comm here in about 5, and that's why I wondered.
CC Roger. We're hustling.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a final pad
for NCC here.
CDR Okay, ready to copy.
CC Roger. NOUN ll, 005, 20, 0341 plus 0364
plus 3 balls 5 minus 0045, 180, 082, 002; 0232, 0002. Go
ahead.
CDR 005, 20, 0341 plus 0364, plus 0005 minus
0045, 180, 082, 002, 0232, 0002.
CC Roger. Good readback. I'd like t_ also update
the trims. Pitch is plus 14.7, yaw is plus 029, and I've got
an NSR pad for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. NOUN 81, plus 0186, plus 0094, minus
0032, 176, 301 028, 0076, 0001, 32, 135. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, back on those trims. Plus 01.47, plus
029. NOUN 81 is 029 now 981 plus 0186, plus 0094, minus 0032,
176, 301, 028, 0076, 0001, 32 and 135.
CC That's affirmative, and the trims are the same
for both burns. And we'd llke to switch quad Charlie to the
PSM.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger, and that's all I've got for you
here. We'll still standing by for about an 8 more minutes
at Ascension.
CDR Quad Charlie is on PSM.
CC Roger.
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SL III MC-28/I
TIME: ii:17 CDT 01:16:17 GMT
7/28/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Realize you're real

busy. We've still got about 6 minutes left at Ascension.
We never did get the P52 option 3 data on page 1-8. If
anybody has a chance, you might read it to us at your
convenience.
CDR We got it right here.
SPT Okay, it's a - Star 34 is the first
star. Star 41 is the second star our NOUNs 5 have zip for error.
NOUN 93 is plus 00020 minus 00037 and minus 00003. Time of
torquing was 3 hours 53 minutes 54.00. Over.
CC Roger. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. You're looking real
good. You're GO for NCC.
SPT Okay. GO here.
CDR And it looks llke the CMC came up with
a solution that satisfied our comp, Houston.
CC Roger. We certainly concur, CDR, looks
real good.
CDR Okay, those are the ones we'll burn.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.
Carnarvon at 05:40.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skyla5 Control at 5 hours
15 minutes elapsed time. Skylab is out of range at
Ascension now. Carnarvon will acquire in 25 minutes. During
this long pass over the Canaries and Ascension the decision
was made to do no more troubleshooting on the service module.
reaction control system QUAD B at this time. The experts
here on the ground want to think about the situation some
more. The crew had just started the troubleshooting pro-
cedure when they reported the snowstorm starting up again.
And a decrease in the pressures in that QUAD. We advised
them to shut it down again, and we'll do some more thinking
about it here on the ground. The reaction control system
is GO for rendezvous and still retains all of its deorhlt
capability. The backup deorhit to the service propulsion
system is performed by the reaction control system. And
none of that capability has been lost. Wetll come back up
Just prior to Carnarvon. At 5 hours 16 minutes, this is
Skyla6 Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 29/1
Time: 11:48 CDT 01:16:48 GMT 5:37 GET
7/28/73

38 minutes elapsed time. Spacecraft coming within range of
Carnarvon now. We'll he getting a burn status report from the
corrective combination maneuver which was performed between
Ascension and Carnarvon. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 4 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Roger. Standing by for NCC burn status.
CDR Okay. Burn came off on time delta VC
minus 137 at attitude NOUN 85 minus 0.2 minus 0.I and minus 0.2.
And I applied the CHC solution as you know.
CC Roger AI, we got that. I got a couple of
other notes for you. One of them is is you might of supposed
that the PIPA bias update that we put in a while ago could
possibly have been from that venting that we had not expected
but that is not true. We do have a PIPA bias on board that is
good. And I have one correction in your checklist at about
6 plus 40.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. There where you see the - the
VERB 48 entered for the DAP we'd llke to delete the part that
says load 4 Jet. We'd like to leave the DAP configuration as
it is. And Just a reminder for you since we're doing that
and we've lost this quad your braking authority and Z-translation
authority during the final maneuvers is going to he cut in half.
CDR Well, near as we can figure out, okay.
CC Roger AI. And we will be handing over
from Carnarvon to Honeysuckle here in a few minutes but we've
got about a total of about 5 or 6 minutes left in this pass. I'm
standing by.
CDR Okay. (Garble) .
CDR We've been doing some daydreaming here
Just to make sure we understand it completely. If we ended up
using the SCS we wouldn't have any Z translation at all, as
long as we stay on the CFP we will have half authority. Do
you concur with that one?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. That's affirmative you're
correct.
CDR OKay.
CDR Okay, Houston. That looks like the
solution we're going to burn. We used the 18.6 for X and
0.6 from the first recycle and a 9.7 from this final (garble).
CC Roger, AI. We're looking at it with you.
CDR Everybody happy?
CC Stand by i, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston. We were not AOS and
did not see the post NCC solution and we Just wanted to verify
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that that's what this is - these numbers are coming from.

CDR Right. The post one was plus 18.6 plus
9.7 and plus 0.6 so we put the X in Z for that one and Y for the
final ¢omp and we're going to pro now.
CC Roger and we're happy.
CC Skylab, Houston. You're looking real
good and you' re go for NSR.
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SL III MC-30/I
TIME: 11:59 CDT 01:16:59 GMT
7/28/73
CC Skylab, Houston. You' re looking real

good and you' re GO for NSR.
PLT Okay, GO here.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS,
Hawaii in 602.
PLT Just for the record, Dick, I got an
unmatched solution for NSR on the charts. Not quite as
good as yours, but they're in the ball park. I got plus 18.6
in X and plus 5.8 in Z, which is the one that was a little
bit off.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
minutes elapsed time. Honeysuckle has had loss of signal.
Hawaii will acquire in about 13 minutes. The crew has
been given a go for the NSR maneuver. The maneuver that
will put the spacecraft in a coelllptic orbit i0 nautical
miles below the Saturn workshop. That burn will take
place between Honeysuckle and Hawaii at an elapsed time
of 5 hours 57 minutes 3 seconds. And we'll get a report
on that at Hawaii. Here's a review of the problem on
QUAD B, one of the four reaction control system sets of
engines on the service module. The reaction control system
used for attitude control or small maneuvers made
by the command and service module is located on the service
module. It consists of four separate units called QUADS,
each unit or QUAD contains four rocket engines. The four
QUADS are located at equidistant points around the perimeter
of the service module. One at the top, one at the bottom,
and one each to the right and left. QUAD B is located on
the plus Y or the plus yaw side of the service module.
The QUADS are used in pairs. Any two adjacent QUADS for
rotating the command and service module. And any two
opposite QUADS A and C or B and D for motion up and down,
forward and back or right and left. Although there are
four QUADS on the service module, any three can be used
for complete control. One QUAD can be shut down completely,
without substantially affecting the ability to perform necessary
maneuvers. The duration of the maneuvers is increased
when only 3 quads are being used. For instance, breaking
power will be reduced by one half as you heard Al Bean
remark during this pass over Honeysuckle. The problem
on quad B is occurring in one of its four engines arranged
to point up and down, forward and backward. This engine is
a very simple device, consisting of a combustion chamber,
into which fuel and oxidizer are released from separate
lines. And the engine is leaking oxidizer. The problem
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was first noticed as a decrease in pressure from the

system, which indicated a leak somewhere. Two lines lead
from the oxidizer and fuel tanks to each engine. Valves
near the engine are opened and closed by the stick or the
hand control in the command module. Automatic Pilot may
also be used for maneuvering. The location of the leak
appears to be the oxidizer valve to the plus Y engine. It
is believed that a small leak has led to some buildup of
frozen oxidizer around the valve seat, thus causing a
continuing leak. No fuel is entering the engine combustion
chamber. By itself the oxidizer can move the spacecraft
slightly and this has been happening when the quad was
operational. To prevent the leak_ a main valve from the
bladders that hold oxidizing fuel is shut down. This stops
all pressure from the lines to each of the four quad B
engines. The main valve was open during the last pass over
the United States, and again sparkling snowflakes of
frozen oxidizer were seen from the command module windows.
Flight Director Phil Shaffer has ordered the main valve
closed and this isolation valve will be kept closed through
docking. During the next several days a thorough analysis
of the malfunction will be made by personnel here on the
ground. The valve will remain closed after docking to
prevent contamination of the atmosphere and hardware around
the Skylab space station. We're about 8 minutes away from
Hawaii. We'll come back up just priQr to to acquisition
there. At 5 hours 55 minutes elapsed time, this is
$kylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-31/I
Time: 12:13 CDT 01:17:13 GMT
7/28/73

utes elapsed time. Skylab is coming within range of the Hawaii
station. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, llouston AOS Hawaii 5 minutes.
CDR Roger. Read you sort of scratchy, Houston.
CC Roger. Same here, AI. I'm standing by
for your NSR burn status.
CDR Okay. The burn came off on time. Delta VC
was minus - - were all zips, minus Ii0 and minus ii0. And
we burned the NOUN 81s that we discussed, namely the CMC.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Dick, you've got a whole lot of
noise in the transmission. I wonder if you could ask the
comm guys to see if they can work on them.
CC Roger. How do you read now, Jack?
PLT I read you, but it sounds like you' re
standing underneath a water fall.
CC Roger.
CDR Actually I think that may be VHF from
the workshop. I've noticed that before we picked up the tone
we would get this sort of back ground noise from their transponder
just a steady scratch. Then when I try VHF range and reset it
would work.
PLT I just turned off my VHF, Dick, and that's
what it is, VHF.
CC Roger, okay. I do have 2 or 3 notes for
you guys that I wanted to tell you here in Hawaii. We did
some talking about the breaking gates with this reduced
authority due to the quad that's out. And just to remind
you, the breaking gates are set up so that as long as you
stay ahead of them and particularly hit the first one just
about on schedule, you shouldn't have any problem following
those printed gates right on in. Another item is - you'd be
interested to know that the SIVB deorbit was successful a few
minutes ago. And Eecnm asked me to tell you that if you are being
bugged by the caution and warning due to this 02 enrichment, it's
okay on panel 252 to put the waste stowage vent valve to close
which should stop the caution and warnings. But I'm not sure
what your present stowage configuartion is at this moment,
so that night be inconvenient for you to do.
CDR Okay, thanks Dick. We really don't mind
it coming on. And we don't want to upset the stowage at the
moment, so we'll just go as configured.
CC Okay, fine. And one more thing, we'd
llke to transfer quad Alfa to the PSM.
PLT Okay, here it comes.
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CC Roger.
PLT You got it.
CC Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. Back to the problems with
the stowage and getting to that vent valve. Another thing
is it would be okay :If you waited until after docking to
close that if that would be more convenient to you at your
call.
PLT Yeah, I think it would. The only other
time we get in there is for a waste water dump. And it looks
like we've only got 40 percent. So, I think we'll just leave
it like you say. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
from LOS at Hawaii. We'll see you at Goldstone at 6:15.
CDR Okay, the first recycle showed the time
at 7:16 4025, and there are the NOUN 91's is right there.
CC Roger, thank you, AI.
CDR Tell Duane Mosel and Mason Mines they've
got a pretty nice checklist here.
CC Roger. He's sitting right here, I sure will.
PAO This is Skylah Control at 6 hours ii min-
utes elapsed time. Hawaii has loss of signal, and Goldstone
will acquire in about 4 minutes. The crew reported a good
coelliptic burn and they saw her burn during this pass. And
the Capcom passed up the information that the SIVB second
stage of the booster deorbit was successful. That
stage reentered the atmosphere at an elapsed time of about
5 hours 56 minutes near the vicinity of the Marshall Islands
in the Pacific Ocean. We're about 3 minutes away from Gold-
stone. We'll continue to stay up live.
END OF TAPE
SL iii HC-32/1
TIME: 12:23 CDT 01:17:]3 CMT
7/28/73
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for

5 minutes.
CDR Okay, loud and clear.
CC Roger.
CDR We can resolve the ATM solar system
real well. We haven't been able to see the workshop, I
mean, the workshop body or its wing 2, but we can see the
other.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR And we got VHF lock up, Houston -
27 miles.
CC Roger, CDR.
CDR That's not true. Looks like a funny
lockup- 276. We think it will Jump here. We'll try
another lock on it.
CC CDR, Houston. We've still got about
3 minutes here at Goldstone. A couple of things for
you. One is when we get to Bermuda, if we could we'd llke
to get ahead of the tlmeline Just a little bit and do our
logic sequence checks. And, also, we figured out a way, we
think, that if you had to go to SCS control in the Z axis
you could get Z translation, but it is a little bit
inefficient, if you'd like to listen to that real quickly.
CDR I would love to.
CC Okay, if you are in SCS, and you want to
translate in Z axis, we'd recommend the following. AUTO RCS
SELECT switch is A/C ROLL, all of them to MAIN A, which
they are now. And then Delta i and Delta 2 to
MAIN BRAVO. In this configuration, you can get both
plus or minus-Z translation. However, the efficiency could
be improved for a single translation to turn DI OFF, for a
plus-Z translation, or D2 OFF for minus-Z translation. Over.
CDR Okay. I understood all but the very
first sentence, Dick, about putting all - Did you say
putting all A/C ones on MAIN A?
CC That's affirmative. All the AC ROLL
JETS to MAIN ALFA.
CDR Okay, understand it. I'ii keep it in
mind.
CC Roger, CDR.
CDR Okay.
CC Why don't you think about that a little
bit? And if we need to talk about it, we can. We're about
a minute from LOS at Goldstone, and we're going to have about
a 3 or 4 minute dropout. And I'ii call you again when we
get to Mila.
CDR Okay.
SL 1[1 MC-32/2
TIMF,: 12:23 CDT 01:17:13 CMT
7/28/73

21 minutes elapsed time. Goldstone has loss of signal.
The station at Merritt Island, Florida will acquire in
about 2 minutes. We'll continue to stand by. We're
showing a range of about 72 miles between the command and
service module and the Saturn workshop at this time.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 33/1
Time: 12:33 CDT 01:17:33 GMT 6:22 GET
7/28/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila and

Bermuda for the - ii minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We're ready to go on that
test when you are.
CC Roger. We were waiting for our data to
lock up real solid before we give you a go.
CC Skylab we're going to drop out into a
keyhole here and we'll call you when we're back up into the 15.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole
now. We're AOS Bermuda for the next 9 minutes. Our data is
locked up real fine and you' re clear to do the SEtS logic check
down through SEtS logic 2 of them on up anytime.
ODR Okay.
CDR Okay, we've got the SEtS logic up and on - 2 of
them.
CC Roger. Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. The system looks real
good you' re go for pyro arm as required.
CDR I understand.
CDR Been doing a little thinking about this
procedure, Dick on SCS. Which way do we move the translational
controller for plus Z using this scheme?
CC ODR, Houston. It's - plus Z is a down
movement of the THC just like normal.
CDR Okay.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston I've got a preliminary TPI
pad page 1-15. Anytime somebody gets a chance to copy we've
still got about 6 minutes left in this pass.
SC Okay. And I'm still a little puzzled
why we bothered to put AC roll on Main A unless we're going
to pull some circuit breakers or something. But I' ,m still a
little puzzled about -
CC CDR, CDR we'll have to give you a gotcha
on that one. It really doesn't matter. Main A or B as long
as AC roll is completely configured onto one - to the proper
bus .
CDR Okay. Makes sense.
CC So your - -
CDR Go ahead.
CC - so your configuration is okay with
addition of those two delta thruster switches.
CDR Gotcha, okay ready to go.
CC Okay, 937 007 12 20 28 plus 189 plus 3 balls
minus 066 plus 19896 plus 00101 plus 02726 skip delta VC.
I'll get it later for you. Burn time 0001 3 balls 020 359
and I'll get the other 2 delta VCs in a minute. The weight is
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29 905 trims plus 147 plus 029. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. 007122028 plus 189 plus all zip
minus 066 plus 19896 plus 00101 plus 02726 0001 all zips
020 359 29905 plus 147 and plus 029.
CC Roger. And one remark, this burn is 20 seconds
2 quad ullage and live got a docking attitude pad for you that's
a couple of pages over. I think it's 1-17.
CDR Okay. Ready to copy.
CC 191 354 003 go ahead.
CDR 191 354 003,
CC Roger. Thank you much.
CC And incidently CDR on the TPI pad the
NOUN 59 the delta Vs that I read you do take into account
your present configuration of thrusters.
CDR Okayp thanks.
CC The burn times do. Yeah.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II[ MC-34/I
Time: 12:44 CDT 01:17:44 GMT
7/28/73
CO Skylab Houston. I have the Delta VCs I

can fill in for you on a preliminary TPI pad.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Delta VC 006.7; down at the bottom
Delta VC at ignition 2.3, tail off 13.3. Go ahead.
PLT 0067, 23, and 133.
CC Roger, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS, Ascension at 6:42.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours 35 minutes
elapsed time. Bermuda has loss of signal. Ascension will
acquire in about 6-1/2 minutes. We've passed up the final
pad for the terminal phase initiation of this rendezvous.
Ignition time 7 hours 12 minutes 20 seconds. The change
of velocity of 20 feet per second, a burn time of i second.
This is the maneuver that will start the command service
module closing from the coelliptic orbit and bring it within
station keeping of the Saturn workshop. Wet11 come back
up in about 5-1/2 minutes just prior to acquisition at Ascen-
sion. At 6 hours 36 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-35/I
TIME: 12:51 CDT 01:17:51 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylah Control at 6 hours

41 minutes. Ascension is about to acquire Skylab on its
fifth revolution of the Earth. The Saturn workshop now in
its revolution 1,084. We'll stand by for acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. Ascension for 9
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Ascension for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for
7 minutes.
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Roger and I've got a TPI final pad,
page 115, when you can copy.
CDR Houston, whenever you get back in COMM
I'ii be ready to copy.
CC Okay. How do you read me now, AI.
CDR Read you real good.
CC Roger. Why dontt I go ahead and start.
If I have to reread any of it, I'ii be glad to. Starting
with NOUN 37. 007 164057 plus 182 minus 007 minus 087
plus 20298 minus 00804 plus 00504 0067 60001 001 010 357
23135. Go ahead
CDR 007, 16, 4057 plus 182 minus 007 minus 087
puls 20298 minus 00804 plus 00504 0067 0001 001 010 357
23125.
CC Roger, CDR. Good readback.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at all
TM. You' re looking real good. You' re GO for TPI.
CDR Okay. The solutions look pretty good
up here too. Thanks.
CC Roger.
CDR I noticed that you came to our time,
which is okay.
CC Roger that.
from LOS. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 07:14.
CDR Okay.
minutes elapsed time. Ascension has loss of signal.
Carnarvon will acquire the spacecraft in about 22 minutes.
During this pass we gave the crew a GO for terminal phase
maneuver in this rendezvous sequence. Updated the time
for the maneuver to 7 hours 16 minutes 40 second_ and as
you heard A1 Bean remark, that comes quite close to the
solution the crew had arrived at on board. Total change
in velocity on _h_s update Js 20.2 feet per second. The
burn time remains the same as the preliminary pad. One
second. It's a service propulsion system maneuver. And
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7/28/73
it should take place while the spacecraft is within range

of the Carnarvon station. At 6 hours 53 minutes elapsed
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-36/I
Time: 13:23 CDT 01:18:23 GMT
7128173

utes. We're
standing by for acquisition through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're at Carnarvon for
10 minutes. We've got good data, we'll watch you do the
burn. And after you get squared away after the burn, l've
got a couple of things to talk about. We're standing by.
CDR Okay.
CDR We can see it as a nice little blinking light
right out in front of us.
CC Roger, AI.
PAO The burn has been completed.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you called, I didn't
get it from you.
CDR We didn't call, but TPI went off okay,
and we're on the way.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, where are the TV pass times, please?
CC Roger, got them right here, if you'd like
to copy, Jack.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Goldstone AOS is 7 hours 53 minutes
and 30 seconds, 7:53:30, and Mila LOS is 8:00:09.
PLT I've got them, Dick, thank you.
CC And PLT, Houston. One correction on the -
that Mila time I gave you was an AOS not a LOS. I'd llke to
correct that. The correct number for LOS is 8:10:13, 8:10:13.
PLT Okay, Dick, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. I think you' re through
with your first short data point. If you are, we've still
got about 3 minutes left in this pass. And some time I've
got a couple of notes I'd like to read to you about -
we'd llke to clean up the rest of the rendezvous book with
respect to this quad checklist changes. And also a dock
DAP thing I'd like to give you.
CDR Okay, Just a second.
CC Roger. Any time.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Houston.
CC Roger. First of all, on the configuration
for the dock DAP, we'd like for you to load, at your next, best
opportunity, the VERB 44, inner register i, Ii011; register 2,
00346; and register 3, 4 balls 3. Over.
CDR Roger. ii011, 00346, 00003.
CC Roger, AI. And I have two small checklist
changes. The first one is on page 1-16 in the rendezvous book.
On the prebreaking switch llst, delete the reference to your
auto RCS select switches. We've already talked about the
conflguaration that we'll have there. And the second one
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is over on page 117.

CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. On 117, down there in the bottom
right hand corner in the section called after hard dock,
on the right-hand side about 2/3 of the way down, there is
a list of auto RCS selects to be turned off. I'd llke to
delete thrusters Alfa i and Delta 2 from that llst to be
turned off.
CDR Okay, then that leaves Alfa 3_ Charlie 4,
Bravo 3, and Delta 4.
CC That's affirmative, and be advised over the
evening and next couple of days, we're going to go through all of
the checklists from here for the misslon. And I'ii get you a
message up as to what corrections we'd like for the trim burns
and so forth, but this ought to take care of us for tonight.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger.
from LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out about 3 min-
utes, and I'ii call you at Guam.
CDR Roger.
utes elapsed time. Carnarvon has loss of signal. The space-
craft will be within range of the Guam station in about
2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue to stand by.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-37/I
TIME: 13:36 CDT 01:18:36 GMT
7/28/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by Guam for

10 minutes.
CDR Ro ge r.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR In order to get this UP DOWN thrust,
I've got to put D roll ON. And I assume you want me to
put D1 and D2 in MAIN B. Is that correct?
CC Roger. Stand by and let me look back
and make sure that's where we wantit.
CDR Yeah, because see, I've had them OFF,
the DB rolls OFF all the time.
CC CDR, affirmative. DI and D2 to MAIN BRAVO.
CDR Okay, I think we're configured properly
now. Thank you.
CC Okay.
CDR And we can see the - Did you just
turn off the tracking light, Houston?
CC Stand by, AI, I'ii check.
CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We did
just turn off the tracking lights.
CDR Okay, _hings are looking good.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, we Just loaded your dock DAP load,
Houston.
CC Roger. Thank you, AI.
FLT And Dick, just for the record, TPI
charts give us X plus 16.1 and a Z of minus 7.3.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
from LOS here at Guam. Goldstone at 7:53. Be advised that
while you're on your way up to the SWS today, we did have
a rate gyro redundancy management failure in the Y axis of
the SWS. We're presently configured in Y 1 only in the Y axis.
We will be in that configuration at docking. Well that's the
only difference from the nominal as far as docking goes. We
will be in that mode when you get there.
CDR Okay. Sounds good, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Incidentally, the
reason that call is coming up to you a little bit late is
because it just happened within the last 20 or 30 minutes.
CDR No strain.
CC Roger. See you at Goldstone.
CDR Got an awful hlg told-course.
CC Roger.
I'AO Thls I..+ Skylab ('*+,t rol ut 7 hour,i "+4
minute,_ elapsed timc,. Cuum hall had loss of ++lgnill.
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Goldstone will acquire in about 13-1/2 minutes. CAPCOM

Just advised the crew that only one Y rate gyro in the
Saturn workshop will he operative at docking time. Vehicle
will be in an attitude hold. We should get television for
the first time on this mission at acquisition at Goldstone,
and continue that television transmission through loss of
signal at the Merritt Island station. This television will
be sent while the vehicle is station keeping with the
Saturn workshop. We'll come back up just prior to
acquisition at Goldstone. At 7 hours 40 minutes elapsed
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 38/1
Time: 14:03 CDT 01:19:03 GMT 7:52 GET
7/28/73

52 minutes elapsed time. Skylab coming up within range of
Goldstone now. That Y-rate gyro that was lost a few
minutes ago has not failed completely Flight Director
Don Puddy says it can be updated but not within the time
availble before station keeping begins. We're standing by
for television at Goldstone. Picture coming in now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone.
CDR Okay. Should have some TV down there,
Dick.
CC Roger. We can see you trying to lock up
but it's not - don't have a picture yet.
PLT All right we're looking at the underside
of it Dick, which is the S149 out the antl-solar airlock and
we can also see the parasol flapping in the breeze.
CC Roger. We have a good picture and we're
looking at it.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're zoomed all the way out
now,
CC Roger,
PLT Looking right in the wardroom window.
Nobody's home.
CC Roger. But you will be.
PLT Dick, is there anything I can do to that
picture to touch it up? We don't have the Earth in the
background yet but aside from that does it look like it needs
any focus or anything?
CC Roger. The pieutre looks pretty good.
We are - just about the bottom half of the picture seems to
be blocked out by the bottom half I guess it is of the window
structure, but the picture itself looks pretty goo.d. Maybe
it is the zoom setting you have.
PLT Yeh, I noticed that all the way in. I
haven't been able to get rid of it.
CC Okay. Well the picture we do have
which is about the top 60 percent of the screen is pretty good.
CC And Skylab, Houston request you switch
quad Delta to the PSM.
PLT Roger.
PLT I don't know the reason for the - deal on
the bottom there, Dick. Can't seem to get that out of there.
CC PLT, Houston. INCO suggests that the
color wheel might be stuck. You might take the camera and
just shake it, Don't knock it around hard but just kinda
jostle it on the bracket and possibly that'd get rid of it
but we do have a good picture in the portion that we see.
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Time: 14:03 CDT 01:19:03 GMT 7:52 GET
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PLT We got TEMP HIGH on RCS A Houston.

CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. GNC reminds us that
the same thing happened on II that during this phase we
did get hot quads and it was on A. So just keep an eye on
it and so will we.
CDR Re ger.
PLT Dick, I'm going to take the camera loose
try to hand hold, see if we can do better in orbit (garble)
CDR Which flight are we on?
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT Okay, Dick that half moon in the bottom of
the picture is function of something besides the window.
CC Roger. We just came to the same conclusion,
Jack and Inco suggests cycling the power TV - camera power
switch off and then back on again.
PLT You mean S-band aux TV?
CC That's affirmative. Excuse me.
PLT Here's our home in the sky, Dick.
CC Roger, we're (garble) over at the moment
and we'll get /TV back in a second.
PAO There's a 90-second wait while the power
amp cycles back on. Getting another picture now. Correction
we're not getting a picture yet. The lower - about 40 ppercent
of the screen still blacked out,
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a picture back
now we can see the Earth in the background and apparently the
cycling the switch didn't help so we'll probably llve with
what we have.
PLT Funny old parasol, Dick, is really blowing
in the breeze. Looks llke about a i0 or 15 knot gale every
time the thrusters fire in just a very gentle flyaround here.
CC Roger. We were watching that very thing
then.
PLT AI £hinks he'll probably knock off the
flyaround at this point to avoid blowing that parasol away.
CC I think that's certainly your call and
looks like we concur.
PLT You can tell that the jets forced the
parasol up against the side the shiny surface of the
workshop as we fly around and then it's the recoil from the springs
the fishing rods that spring it back out.
CC Roger, Owen. We certainly concur. We
think that'd be a prudent thing to de.
CDR You can see it flopping there in the
breeze. In fact we've blown it a little bit more than
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we'd like to to tell you the truth. We'll try to drift off
to the side a little bit and then maybe we can prevent hitting it.
CC Roger, CDR. We concur with that.
CDR As you can probably also tell it appears
to be rotated by about the 5 to i0 degrees as expected.
CC Roger.
PAO There's a good look now at the sunny end of
the Apollo telescope mount.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-39/i
Time: 14:14 CDT 01:19:15 GMT
7/28/73
PAO There is a good look now at the Sun end

of the Apollo telescope mount.
CDR The problem is we're trying to slide around
to the front of it, and every time we fire aft thrusters,
which move us that direction, it tends to get under the
front edge of the sun shade. We'll try to Just drift a little
bit longer.
CC Roger, CDR.
CDR We're drifting the - way - the best we can.
I'd like to turn a little bit to the left and show it to you
better, but every time I start to turn that way, it gives the
parasol a flip up at the front.
CC Roger CDR. Do what yon think is best
to avoid as much as bowing of the parasol a6 you can. We'll
do without the picture.
PLT Have you got any more suggestions on how
to get the half moon out of the picture, Dick?
CC PLT, the only other suggestion we had
is, you might try taking the lens off the camera and try
to turn the color wheel with your finger, but that's about
our last choice here.
CDR The focus and the lighting looks pretty
good up here. How's it look down there?
CC It's been looking real good, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT How much daylight have we got left, Dick?
CC Skylab, you've got about 23-1/2 minutes
of daylight, and sunset time for you if you'd like to Jot it
down is 8 plus 30.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've taken a look at
both the CSM and the SWS and they both look good. You're go
for docking. We're about 2 minutes from LOS at Bermuda. We
expect to be at Carnarvon at about 8:52, so we'll see you
there. Probably at the Carnarvon pass or Guam following that,
I do have some changes for you in the no coma section of the
checklist. So after you get docked and squared away, it's in
locker RI. You might get that out, and I'll get that out of
the way. You're GO for docking. We're about a minute and
• a half from LOS.
PLT Roger.
CC And CDR, Houston. Suggest you go ahead
and go to POO.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours i0 min-
utes elapsed time. We've had loss of signal. A half moon
blacked out the lower about 40 percent of the screen of his
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television transmission. The best guess at this time is that

the color wheel in his camera is stuck. As you heard Capcom
Dick Truly pass up the suggestion that they might try taking
the lens off and removing the color wheel to see if that would
help the situation. Shaking the camera didn't help. The
crew has a GO for docking. The docking schedule in the Flight
Plan for 8 hours 30 minutes elapsed time. However, it will be
crew option as to the exact time they want to dock.
When they get in position, they've got to go to dock. The
next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in 40 minutes.
At 8 hours 12 minutes elapsed time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-40/I
TIME: 15:02 CDT 01:20:02 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 8 hours 51

minutes ground elapsed time in the mission of Skylab III.
Acquisition at Carnarvon in about a minute. Carnarvon,
Australia tracking station, at which point we should have
confirmation of a successful docking of the Skylab III
command service module with the Skylab space station, which
appeared to be in pretty good shape during the stateside
TV transmission of the fly around. We're standing by for
word from the crew as we acquire at Carnarvon. Docking by
the Flight Plan should have occurred several hundred miles
at sea, southwest of Capetown, Union of South Africa.
Approximately 16 seconds showing on the acquisition time
clock. Standing by now for Carnarvon. We'll stay up through
brief gap across between Carnarvon and Guam. Skylab Control
standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon. How do
you read?
PAO No reply yet from the Skylab III crew. How
ever the spacecraft and space station engineers on the
ground believe from telemetry that the CSM is indeed docked
with the space station. Up llve for a reply as the spacecraft
communicator attempts to raise the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon. How do
you read?
CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon for 4-1/2
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston at Carnarvon for 4
minutes.
CDR Roger. How do you hear now, Dick?
CC Roger. Loud and clear now.
CDR Okay. We're docked. That went real
well. The internal pressure integrity check worked fine.
We have not removed the hatch yet and we're having a snack,
and then we're going to get after it.
CC Roger, CDR, and we'd llke ACCEPT on the
computer. We've got some CMG servicing to do.
CDR Okay.
CC And also, some commanding to the SWS
attitude control system, loading some dock gains and so
forth. And I have two checklists or changes in Stand by
i.
CC Skylab, Houston. Request ACCEPT and
I'm sorry, I see that you do have it. And I've got changes -
one change in the Activation Checklist and a couple of changes
in the Entry Checklist if you happen to have that book out,
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and that's all the checklist changes I have in front of me now.
CDR Okay, go ahead on the activation. I've
got one of those in front of me.
CC Okay, AI. If you'll turn to page 1-3.
CDR Okay, We' re there.
CC Okay. Down there in the - under CSM/RCS pro
pellant reconfiguration in the lower right-hand column, you
want to - that quad bravo entry should read quad Bravo CLOSE.
Talkhacks, two of them to barberpole, Verify.
CDR Okay. Okay. dust a second. We have
the entry book now, Houston.
CC Okay, in the Entry Checklist, first on
page ii-i, if you'll turn back to there.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Roger. That block data pad that's
written in there on ii-i, the one for day 210, you should
just delete that whole pad. It turns out that it covers a
period that's about 5 or 6 hours from now. We won't need it,
plus there's some very bad weather in that area, a possible
hurricane brewing, so we'd Just like to delete that, and the
next change is on page Eli-10.
CDR Okay, we made the change and we're standing by
on Ii-i0.
CC Okay. The next to the bottom entry. De
lete the words in there that say, "Load NOUN 47 and NOI/N 48
from the deorbit burn path. Incidentally these Entry Checklist
changes, AI, should have been - they're in the no comm section
and they should have been made prefight. We missed them and I
just - we just wanted to get them updated when we could. We're
about
CDR Okay.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS here at
Carnarvon. Guam is coming up at 09:07 and I'Ii get the last
two changes in the entry book there.
CDR Okay, could you give us GMT time hack roughly
right now.
CC Roger. The CMG is on GMT and the time
right now is 20 hours i0 minutes and 35 seconds.
CDR Thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 9 hours i minute
ground elapsed time, however, this will probably be the final
reference in this mission to ground elapsed time in as much as
the command module computer timing system has been changed
by the ground frum ground elapsed time to Gr(_enwlch mean time,
or ZuItl. Tile cr,'w report_',l, wlloo tl.ally ('on,acted over
Carnarvon. ,liar th(_ duck tl_ was sut'ct._sful. Arid riley did not give
tile time of docking, so t It*lie to be asstlmt'd that It was
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on time by the Flight Plan, which would have been approximately

8 hours 30 minutes ground elapsed time, just prior to
entering darkness, or right at the spacecraft sunset. The
crew mentioned that they' re in the process of having a
snack, which according to the menu consists of peanut butter,
biscuits, peaches, vanilla wafers, and orange drink. Some 4
minutes out from acquisition at Guam. Guam Island tracking
station. The space station, Skylab, is now over the Indonesian
Republic. The many islands in that group of islands
south of the Philippines. Back again in 3 minutes and 50 seconds
for another Guam pass at 20:13 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-41/I
Time: 15:16 CDT 01:20:17 GMT
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 20:16 Greenwich

mean time, 40 seconds away from acquisition through the Guam
Island tracking station. A brief addendum to the snack menu
mentioned earlier. The peanut butter and biscuit diet is that
of A1 Bean, the spacecraft commander. The other two crew
mates, Garriot, for example, is eating tuna, butterscotch pudding,
bread, apricots, dried beef, and cocoa, while Jack Lousma is eating
essentially, well not quite - He's having tuna also, but
he is also eating pork and potatoes, apple sauce, and tea
instead of cocoa or orange drink.
CC Guam for 6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Houston. We've got the bat A charge going
and the secondary water blower dried out. We turned off the
primary - well before we docked, just like in the checklist,
but it is hard to tell What it's doing.
CC Roger, PLT. Real good. If you still have
the entry book out, I'd like to clean that up. I've got
two minor corrections, both on page ii-Ii.
PLT Stand by I, Dick.
CC You ought to be able to dump about 4 min-
utes., Gary. So that the next dump should be in SR data, right?
CDR Say the page again, Dick and we'll go
there.
CC Roger. ii-ii.
CC And Skylab, Houston, while you're looking
up page ii-ii, one thing we would llke to do when we can is
get that waste stowage vent valve closed. I think it's panel
252 in right hand equipment bay.
CDR Okay, we'll do that next. Go ahead on
II-ii.
CC Okay. About two-thirds of the way down the page
at a time of about 47 minutes to the right where it says go
to SPS burn entry cue card, right next to, underneath that
delete what is written there at P40 SCS, and write in burn
SCS.
CDR Okay, got that.
CC Okay, and just to the right of that same
entry there write down pitch gimbal trim equals plus 1.4.
And yaw glmbal trim equals plus 0.3.
CDR Okay, that would be 1.4 for pitch and
0. 3 for yaw.
CC Roger; that's affirm. You can put the entry
book up and be assured that the no coma section is fixed up and
i sorry we had to bug you about it at this point.
CDR No sweat, now we'll turn off the wades.
CC Okay, and l'm standing by here and we've
got about 3 minutes left here at Guam.
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CDR That machine was hard to break. It kept

wanting - the workshop kept wanting to go down on me, and I
kept thrusting down quite a bit and breaking, but it took all
we had to stay there.
CC Roger.
PLT Say Dick, was any of that TV usable?
CC Yes sir, sure was. The bottom portion
of it - we never could seem to get that back. But what we
had was very clear, and we got several good shots of it and
we saw the parasol Jumping around there. And when we put it
all together we ended up seeing Just about the whole burn.
PLT Will they be able to somehow cut the
whole bottom part out and make a full picture of what we
got?
CC I guess we're just not sure yet, Jack.
CDR It looks llke the parasol is back about
where it was now as we stand here and look over the edge.
I suspect what occurs is those poles are not fully extended,
and as a result there is slack in the parasol itself, and
so when we give it a little burst you can just kick it around.
And once you give it one burst, you' re close enough to where
it's hard to get away without giving it another 15 or 20 bursts.
CC Roger, I understand.
CDR Yeah_ I can see it there. It kind of tips
up to the Sun. It's conceivable that we may have to get in
there and shake the pole a little hlt and get it to come lle
down a little bit better.
CC Roger, CDR. Be advised we're about 1 min-
ute from LOS at Guam. We're going to see you at Goldstone
at 9:30 GET. That's Just a short break from now. We've
looked at the burn and you' re go for HDA entry when yotl get
to it.
CDR Okay_ thanks.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're going to be
continuing to load EMPSI into the CMC, so Just leave the CHC
in ACCEPT, and we'll let you know when we're through.
CDR It's all yours.
CC Roger that.
PLT Waste stowage vents off, Houston.
CC Roger, thank you much.
CC Skylab, Houston. On panel 225, we'd
like you to check the DSE flight - Disregard, Skylab; excuse
me .
PAO This is Skylab Control, 20:25 Greenwich

mean time, in the Skylab III Hisslon. The next station will
be Goldetone and the string of stations across the States
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with the ground track on the end of the sixth, and beginning
of the fifth - beg your pardon, seventh revolution, entering the
coast north of San Francisco, crossing the Gulf coast between
Corpus Christi and Brownsville, Texas; crossing Central
America and down the South American continent. During
this pass over the Guam Island station the Skylab III crew
was given a go for entering the multiple docking adaptor, which
entails removing the command module tunnel hatch, the probe and
drogue assemblies, and stowing them before going on into
the docking adaptor, and working their way down through the
various hatches, turning on systems, getting the circulation
of air started within the workshop. Thirteen minutes and
48 seconds until acquisition at Goldstone. At 20:27 Green-
wich mean time, Skylab Control.
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Time: 15:39 CDT 0120:40 GMT 9:29 GET
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 20:39 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition in less than a minute at Goldstone
for a stateside pass after final LOS at Mila. At the conclusion
of this stateside pass, we're estimating a change-of-shlft
briefing in the building 1 briefing room, Houston News Center,
at approximately 4:00 pm central daylight time. Participants
will be Flight Directors Don Puddy and Phll Shaffer. Skylab
work station presently in orbit measuring 232.5 by 240.1
nautical miles wiht an orbital period of 1 hour 33 minutes and
18 seconds.
CC - - ton through Goldstone at - -
PLT Hello, Bruce.
CC Roger; Roger.
PLT Hey, according to us, the time is up on the
secondary evaporator dryout. Shall we go ahead and secure it?
CC We'll have an answer for you in a minute
on that, Jack, and for your information, we're getting ready to
power up the primary airlock module coolant loop by ground
command per our tlmellne down here. No action required on
your part but just info.
PLT Okay, thank you. We're pretty much on
the timeline; kind of shuffling things around in the cabin here,
and like to notify you we had a (garble) when I put the
secondary glycol pump on the line, although I reset back to
27 volts and no problem.
CC Okay, understand that was Just a momentary.
PLT That's affirm.
PLT And the BAT A charge is proceeding along.
Seems llke the entry battery is - batteries got down a
little further than I expected they might.
CC Roger. out.
PLT Hey, Bruce, it's too had that you can't
record the motion that you get in that llft-off on tape, because,
boy, that was really something. Flt like a old Model T starting up.
CC Sounds like it was quite a ride. It was
the view was pretty hazy from down here. We could hardly make
you out in the fog and the mist until the engine (garble). and it's
okay for you to secure the secondary water boiler dryout at this
time.
PLT Okay. Boy, that thing really shook,
rattled, and rolled getting off the pad there. You say it wasn't
too good a day for spectatoing, eh?
CC No, indeed.
PLT flow was the ceiling, Bruce?
CC Oh, thu celll,£ was hlgh t:nough; It
was just that w,_ were work|ng in :_ort of a i111sL or a a haze
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there, and the Sun was over behind you, and it was Just a matter
of there being very little contrast as you looked out toward the
pad.
PLT You looked good when you went past us,
Bruce.
CC Roger; out.
CC And, Jack, this is Houston. Can you give
us an estimate of the PET at which this undervolt occurred?
Over.
PLT Just a minute. I'll look it over.
Yeah, Bruce. our
GET was up at the time; it was 8:40.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT Okay, Bruce, we've secured the (garble)
on the secondary evaporator.
CC Roger, and for your information, we have
approximately i0 minutes remaining in this series of
stateside passes. Over.
PLT By golly, you are down there, aren't you?
I had to look out this other window to find you, but you look
good.
CC Well, we show you over, I guess, Arizona,
Utah, that area.
PLT I fooled around a little more with the
TV inside the cabin here and never was able to get that
half moon off of there.
CC Okay, Jack. We're working up a procedure
which we'll pass up to you probably in a couple of days to
see if we can figure it out any further. What all did you do
this time?
PLT Well, I just pointed it into the cabin
a little bit and then changed the focus and so forth to get
a good picture of the cabin and - -
CC Okay, I'll (garble) back to (garble).
PLT didn't seem to matter how I pointed
it. I took the lens off and looked inside, but I didn't
fool around with the - the color wheel.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead, Skylab. Over.
PLT Okay, we got the hatch out right now, and
we're just (garble) it over on the CDR's couch.
CC Roger - out.
Skylab, this is Houston. The computer
is yours; you can go back to Block. EMP 51 has been loaded
and verified and her - Jack, if you've got a minute, we have a change
to the Activation Checklist on page 1-50A. Over.
p. _7
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CDR Okay, we'll go back to Block, and Jack's

off the (garble) Just for a moment. Can you wait tll I'm at the
checklist change.
CC Yeah, it's nothing earth-shaklng.
CDR Okay.
PLT What can I do for you, Bruce?
CC Okay, Jack. On the Activation Checklist,
page 1-50A, we' re adding in step 9a note to exchange the
defective TV camera for the good one which is located in
command module locker Bravo i. If you want to open up to
1-50, I'ii read it over again.
PLT Okay, I'm there, step 9.
CC Step 9. Add following after line 4.
Exchange defective TV camera for the good one which is located
in CM- command module locker BI.
PLT Okay, I got it. Thank you.
CC Roger;out.
CC Okay, we've got about 30 seconds to
LOS in the stateside pass here. Next contact is Vanguard
at 21:06 in about i0 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through the Merritt Island Tracking Station, aAs the space-
station crosses the Isthmus of Panama. Some 9 minutes to
acquisition at the Vanguard tracking Ship. We're estimating a
4:00 pm- approximately 4:00 pm central daylight change - of -
shift briefing with two flight directors - Don Puddy
and Phll Shaffer. There will be 2-way question and answer
llne tied in with the News Center at Cape Kennedy. The
upcomming pass over the Vanguard will be taped for delayed
playback at the conclusion of the change- of - shift press
conference. And at this moment the two flight directors, Puddy
and Shaffer are putting on their jackets and leaving the
control room enroute for building i. Skylab III crew
presently engaged in removing the tunnel hatch and going into
the workshop for 59 days of extensive scientific and engineering
investigations. And at 20:58 Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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CDR Okay, we'll go back to Block, and Jack's

off the (garble) Just for a moment. Can you wait tll I'm at the
checklist change.
CC Yeah, it's nothing earth-shaklng.
CDR Okay.
PLT What can I do for you, Bruce?
CC Okay, Jack. On the Activation Checklist,
page 1-50A, we' re adding in step 9a note to exchange the
defective TV camera for the good one which is located in
command module locker Bravo i. If you want to open up to
1-50, I'Ii read it over again.
PLT Okay, I'm there, step 9.
CC Step 9. Add following after line 4.
Exchange defective TV camera for the good one which is located
in CM- command module locker BI.
PLT Okay, I got it. Thank you.
CC Roger;out.
CC Okay, we've got about 30 seconds to
LOS in the stateside pass here. Next contact is Vanguard
at 21:06 in about i0 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
through the Merrltt Island Tracking Station, aAs the space-
station crosses the Isthmus of Panama. Some 9 minutes to
acquisition at the Vanguard tracking Ship. We're estimating a
4:00 pm - approximately 4:00 pm central daylight change - of
shift briefing with two flight directors - Don Puddy
and Phll Shaffer. There will be 2-way question and answer
line tied in with the News Center at Cape Kennedy. The
upcommlng pass over the Vanguard will be taped for delayed
playback at the conclusion of the change- of shift press
conference. And at this moment the two flight directors, Puddy
and Shaffer are putting on their jackets and leaving the
control room enroute for building i. Skylab III crew
presently engaged in removing the tunnel hatch and going into
the workshop for 59 days of extensive scientific and engineering
investigations. And at 20:58 Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC 43/1
Time: 1529 CDT, 01:21:29 GMT, 10:18 GET
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 21:29 Greenwich

mean time in the Skylab III Mission. Skylab space station
presently over the western segment of the Indian Ocean, south
of the Island of Madagascar. And getting on the back side of
the orbit, so to speak. It is missing a lot of the ground
stations as it - as the orbit precesses westward - some
48 minutes until next acquisition, at station at Goldstone.
Toward the end of this orbit, the stations in Australia and
the Guam Island station will be missed all together, and the
Goldstone Texas pass will be rather short. Skylab 3 crew
presently following the on board checklist for activating
the workshop, going into the multiple docking adapter, opening
the various hatches enroute to the workshop itself. Getting
the air stirred up to make it more comfortable and liveable.
And it is assumed that they will sleep aboard the space station,
in the sleep compartment, on their first night in space. During
the Just concluded change-of-shift press conference there was
approximately 2 minutes and 50 seconds of alr-to-ground
conversation taped over the Vanguard tracking ship pass.
At this time, we will play back that delayed tape.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for
8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR We got the passageway opened up to the MDA,
and we are st_wlng the probe and drogue right now.
CC Roger, out.
CC Skylab, Houston On the docking latches, could
you give us an indication of their status, i.c., all 12 and - they
look okay? And when you have it we are standing.by for the
read out of the Tunnel panal angle. (over.
CDR Okay Houston, all 12 latches are made
and we are going to give you a more accurate reading on the
docking tunnel ring in Just a little bit.
CC Roger, out.
CDR We are trying to clear a few things
out of the command module and give ourselves a little working
room and then we will get that little micrometer out and give
you a more accurate reading; it's pretty close, anyway.
PLT And, Houston, this is the PLT and I'm at
2104 in the checklist, configuring the RCS.
CC Roger, Jack.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1-1/2 minutes until
LOS, next contact over Goldstone at 22:18, in an hour and 4
minutes. Over.
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CDR Roger, 22:18. We ought to be making a
little headway by then, we'll give you a call over - around
Goldstone.
CC you know where we' ii be.
CDR (Chuckle) Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control , that completes
play back of the air-to-ground recorded over the Vanguard tracking
ship. The crew reported that all 12 docking latches had
tripped, properly, after the ontime docking. Next
acquisition at the Goldstone tracking station in 44 minutes.
Many of the flight controllers here in the Mission Control
are taking advantage of the long loss-of-signal period, to
take a break, streatch their legs. And at 21:34 Greenwich
mean time back again in 43 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC44/1
Time: 17:17 CDT, 01:22:17 GMT, 11:07 GET
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PAO This is Skylab Control; 22:17 GMT in the

flight of Skylab III. Some 26 seconds away from acquisition
through the Goldstone, California, tracking station, fFor the
final stateside pass of today. The spacecraft communicator,
Bruce McCandless, will pass up to the crew a time at which, if
they look down below them in the Eastern Pacific, they will
be able to see the Pacific Hurricane Florencej about i0 minutes
from now.
CC Through Goldstone, and Texas for
CC approximately ii minutes. Over.
CDR Roger; hear you loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Okay, I got a couple of items for you, Alan.
P2 stars and a few miscellaneous stuff. Let me know when you're
ready. Over.
CDR Okay, ready right now.
CC Okay, for your P52 option 3 at 22:50 Greenwich,
the following stars and they are not available until 22:50.
Star 2 is the first one; shaft 328.6; trunnion 13.4. Second
one is star 4; shaft 236.8; trunnion 38.2. Over.
CDR Roger. Youre at 22:50, star 2, 3286, 134
and 4, 3268, and 382.
CC Okay, the last comm pass for the
day, which will be through Vanguard commencing at 01:59 Zulu,
will be your private medical comm hookup with the medics today.
CC And we're getting a little noise on the
loop here right now, I'm going to hold on a second for the
rest of the stuff.
CDR Houston, are you there now?
CC Yes, we are Alan. We had a short data dropout there.
Did you copy about the private medical hookup at 01:59 through
Vanguard?
CC Okay, let's try it again, Alan. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Did you copy the message about the private
medical hookup at 01:59 over Vanguar? Over
CC No, I did not, but I did that time.
CC Okay, that will be the last eomm pass of
the day. It's set up with the medics, if you get through early and
have anything else for us, why they can revert back to normal
hookup, I'm sure, but we don't anticipate anything of that sort.
On the command module or the CSM, RCS service module, did you
inhibit any of the quad temperature inputs to the caution
and warning system? Over.
SC No, I did not.
CC Okay, very good. Then our message to get
you to re-enable them is not applicable. For your general
information, we're resuming unattended ATM operations, commenc-
ing with this pass over Goldstone. aAnd also for your information
there is a tropical storm, Florence by name, wind 75 knots, gusting
to ii0, that you will be passing just to the southwest of
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at about 22:27 to 22:28. It's south of BaJa California, if you

want to take a look out of the window. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll give that a try. Thanks, Bruce.
CC I think that about wraps it up.
CDR Okay, the docking tunnel angle using
the little plxiglass vernier or plastic vernier was a minus
1.4 degrees.
CC Okay, I copy; minus 1.4 degrees with the
vernier on the tunnel.
CDR Roger. What's our general RCS condition
as far as remaining 59 days and the like?
CC Okay, qualitativeSy, you're in good shape.
If you want some specific numbers_ we can get them now, or
I think we plan on sending them up tomorrow.
CDR No, just kinda wanted a feel for it.
I knew we lost this quad, used quite of bit to do the fly around,
and I just wondered what the general situation was.
CC We're about 5-1/2 or 6 percent greater than
the service module RCS (garble) red line at the present time, Alan.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC How are you all coming in progressing
through the checklist?
CDR We're coming along real well. Owen's
over there connecting up the comm between the vehicles.
Jack I don't know where he is. He's down there in the
workshop doing something. I guess activating the electrical
system, but I don't know because I see all the lights are on donw
there, and I'm up here. I'm down as far as page 1-24, doing
the CM02 system config, and I'm at about the middle of that.
CC Okay, mighty fine, Thank you.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. W_ have about
i minute until we lose comm with you through Goldstone. We'll
pick you up marginalsy from Texas, but the next good solid contact
you better plan on is Vanguard at 22:44. Over.
SC Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal through the Texas station. In 14 minutes the space station
will be acquired again with the by the Vanguard tracking
Ship. Skylab III Commander AI Bean, running through the command
module checklist and more or less putting the command
module to sleep for the next two months, reported that Science
Pilot Owen Garr_ott was connecting the communications equip-
ment and umbilicals in the airlock module, which would allow
the speaker boxes in the workshop and other locations through-
out the space station to be used by the crewmen and that
he assumed that Jack Lousma, the pilot, was down in the work-
shop itself, because he could see the lights on down in the
workshop area down through the tunnel from the command module
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and multiple docking adapter and airlock module on into the

workshop, and no comment or verification that the crew of
Skylab had been able to spot the tropical storm, Florence.
A time for spotting had been given at 22:28, approximately
3 minutes ago; however, as we come up over Vanguard, perhaps
they will have comments on the size of the storm, if indeed
they had time in all of the activation work they're doing
to look out the window at the tropical storm. Back again
in 12 minutes. At 22:32 GMT this is Skylab Control.
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mean time, about a minute and 20 seconds now to ac - -
CC - for the next 8-1/2 minutes. If the
PLT is within earshot we've got a couple of messages for him.
PLT Wellj here I am Bruce, and I've a couple
for you. Go ahead.
CC Okay, me first. During this station
pass we're going to command the airlock module 02 fill and
AM fill valves to the CLOSE position. We used them for
bringing up the atmosphere and they're actually being regulated
by pressure switches. Down on molecular sieve B, we show
that the fan has not been enables. The checklist calls for
it to go to SECONDARY position on mol sieve B fan. And in
your Activation Ahecklist on page 1-47, we have a step for
you to relocate the LCG that's in D424, which is suit drying
locker to D422. I can read that one over again when you
find the place. Over.
PLT Okay, I'm at the bottom of page 1-47.
CC Okay. Add a new step, 3-A. And it
says relocate LCG in D, as in Delta 424 to Delta 422. Over.
PLT Okay. You want me to relocate the LCG
that's in 424 over to 422. Is that right?
CC Roger; Charlie.
PLT Okay, now about that mol sieve B secon
dary fan. I closed the circuit breaker on that beauty and
it popped open, and so then I - I turned the switch off and
closed the circuit breaker, then turned the switch back on
and the circuit breaker popped open again, so something's
wrong with tool sieve B secondary fan.
CC Okay. I understand that as long as the
switch was off the circuit breaker stayed in and then as
soon as you tried to re-energize it, it popped.
PLT That's right.
CC Okay, why don't you let us think about
that one for a little while.
PLT Okay, I'd have mentioned it sooner, but
I was busy down there in the workshop. I'm a little bit
ahead here. I got the workshop all powered up.
CC Okay. Where would you say you are in
the checklist?
PLT Well, I'm on page 1-43, Bruce, down to
where it says water system gas bleed, so I'm going to cool
it for awhile and get that after while.
CC Roger, out.
CC How are your compadres doing?
PLT Oh, they're up to their usual tricks.
Everything's going along smoothly. And one other note, the
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vent valve and the dome of the workshop does have a fair
amount of debris in them.
CC Okay, we copy that.
PLT That's in answer to your question back
here in workshop entry. Page 1-39.
CC Roger. Do you have any descriptive
words about it? I mean does it look like it's still debris
that's working its way out from manufacturing, or does it
look llke it's, you know, people - generated stuff from
use of the workshop?
PLT Well, it's hard to tell. There's a little
bit of each in there, Bruce, and 1 guess we'll know better
when we yank it out and put a new one in r or something if that's
what you want to do sometime.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Hello, Houston. This is the SPT from
over in the MDA on the squawk box. How do you read these
things now?
CC Roger, SPT in the MDA on the squawk box,
this is Houston through Vanguard, loud and clear.
SPT Okay. I'm over on about page 1-39 here,
ready to do that C&W check anytime the CDR can break free.
And then we'll finish up with the fire sensor check. And
everything else seems to be going very smoothly.
CC Okay. Thank you for the update.
PLT I made a couple of notes on the N2 and
02 regs. The N2 reg is reading 180 instead of 150, and the
02 reg is reading 138 instead of 120.
CC Okay. We interpret that as trapped gas
in the nitrogen line downstream, and we're watching it to
make sure that it doesn't get any higher and no problem.
PLT Okay, I figured it has something to do
with your pressurization of the workshop there.
SPT Find out, Bruce, real quick that you don't
need much energy to move across this workshop in a big hurry.
CC Okay. We'll accept that as a data point.
PLT Say, Bruce, what's the mission day down
there anyway, 212 or 14 - something like that isn't it?
CC Well, the day of the year is 209. I
think this is mission day I.
SPT I think
PLT I t_ing I'ii take the 209. Thanks.
CC Roger.
SPT We forgot to update him on the mission day.
CC Okay, and -
SPT We were sleepy this morning.
CC We are 75 days since the launch
of Skylabl if that was your question.
PLT No, I just wanted to update the - the
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day of the timers down there.

CC Roger.
CDR And if you've got data, you can see that
I just did the alignment. NOUN 05 was all zips, and you can
see the NOUN 93.
CC Okay, AI, we've got them. You're cleared
to torque the platform.
SPT Hey Bruce, I was just wondering - why
don't you ask one of the surgeons over there where Joe left
his blood pressure cuff and stethoscope. He moved it out of
the normal position and left it somewhere and I can't
reme aerobe r where.
CC Okay, we will see where it is.
SOT Man, it never works.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have about i minute
until LOS. Next station contact will be Hawaii at 23:52, or
Just about exactly 1 hour from now. We believe the blood
pressure cuff and stethoscope are in E-610, but we're still
in the process of confirming that. Over.
SPT Okay, fine, I'ii check there. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through the Vanguard tracking station - tracking ship. And
next station will be Hawaii in 58 minutes. As a matter of
fact, for the next two revolutions, the only two stations
that the space station will pass over will be Hawaii
and tracking ship Vanguard. As the space station moves off
the range orbit continually precessing westward as the Earth
rotates under it. There was a discussion during the Vanguard
pass of the - an ability of the pilot, Jack Lousma, to get
the mol sieve or molecular sieve fan B turned on, and remain
on. The circuit breaker kept popping. The flight controllers
here in the control center are now troubleshooting that pro
blem, and there's a discussion of unstowing a backup or
spare fan that is aboard the space station and installing it.
Hawaii in 57 minutes. As the crew continues activitating the
Skylab space station, Pilot, Jack Lousma is way ahead of the
timeline on the activitation of the workshop. And it appears
that the science pilot was way ahead of the timeline and ad
vising that he was ready for the checks with the CSM or
helping the Commander in the CSM with the Caution and Warning
Checklist. As advised earlier by the CAP COMM, Bruce
McCandless, the evening medical conference will be over the
Vanguard at 01:55 Greenwich mean time. The final communications
of the evening before an 8-hour sleep period begins at
approximately 03:00, or i0:00 p.m. central daylight. Back
again in 57 minutes for Hawaii. At 22:56, this is Skylab
Con tro i.
END OF TAPE
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CC Okay, sounds like y'll are flashing

right along. Are your plans to turn in for sleep perthe
checklist this evening or are you looking for some more items
to do? Over.
SPT Roger. Let me check with my compatriots,
see what they think.
CC Okay.
SPT I suspect we won't need any, we have a ton of
little things here that we could spend hours doing. We got
all sorts of things to move down to the workshop and get out
of the command module so when we go to sleep and so we can
put up our sleep restraints and sleep down there. So we got
a lot of things that we can do that'll get us ahead tomorrow
without having you list them.
CC Okay, you might be ahead of the game. Just
comply with the checklist for today and then sort of arrange
things things to suit yourself so you can have at it tomorrow.
SPT Okay, before we launched, I didn't know
we had quiet so much stowage. We got a lot of things we got
to stack somewhere.
CC Okay, there will be a data voice dump on the
tape recorder this site.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. They sneaked up on
us that time with the air-to-ground in as much as the clocks
here in the control center are off somewhat, on the acquisition
of signal predicted times. We will continue to stand by for
this Hawaii pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, approximately
1 minute until LOS, next contact through Vanguard at 00:20
in approximately 22 minutes. From telemetry, all of your systems
are looking good.
CDR Okay, Bruce, thank you.
CC Roger, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of signal
through the Hawaii station. Another 21 minutes until acquisition
at the tracking ship Vanguard. Coming up shortly the crew
of Skyla5 3 will be having their dinner, a menu for which is:
on the commander, AI Bean is chicken and rice, green beens_
vanilla wafers, butterscotch pudding and lemonade. Scientist
Pilot Owen Garriott is having chicken and gravy, mash potatoes,
green beans, bread, peaches and orange drink. Pilot Jack Lousma
has some what different taste, his choice is saloman, spaghetti,
mash potatoes, green beans, strawberries, butterscotch pudding,
orange drink. Back again for the Vanguard tracking ship pass
in approximately 20 minutes, give or take i or 2depending
on how accurate that AOS clock is and at 00:00 Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
"o
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7/28/73
PAO Th[s ix Skylab Control, 00:17 Greenwich

mean time. About a minute away from acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard. Crew ending the - nearing the end of their
first day in space and approaching the evening status report
and the medical conference, which will be one rev from now,
Again over the Vanguard. And at 0300 Greenwich mean time or
i0 p.m. central saylight, they will begin the eight hour sleep
period. We will stand by for the AOS call from the spacecraft
communicator, Bruce McCandless. Standing hy, this is Skylab
Control.
CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by through
Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by through
Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. You are now receiving the
first teleprinter messages of your mission. The first one is
a sort of a mtsterious one we don't quiet understand; it says
something about a quick brown fox and a lazy dog, but you can
take that at contact. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylah, this is Houston. We are approximately
i minute to LOS. Next contact is Hawaii at 01:27 in a little
less than an hour, and did you all just do a command reset on hoard
in the command module? Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; approaching LOS.
We've gotten all our teleprinter messages on hoard, and did you
just preform a command reset in the command module? Over.
PLT Negative, we did not.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 00:30 Greenwich mean
time. Loss of signal from the Vanguard Tracking Ship, in which
the crew had less than i0 words to say, total. Apparently still
quite involved in the stowage of equipment being transferred from
the command module into the workshop and in activating various
workshop systems. In 56 minutes, the space station will be
acquired for the final pass of the evening over Hawaii. And
we will have their evening status report, to be relayed down to
the ground. Shortly thereafter, the final communications of the
evening will take place with the - between the crew and the
flight surgeon, in the medical conference. And at 00:32 Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 48/1
Time: 20:26 CST, 02:01:26 14:15 GET
7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:26 GMT, and about

a minute to acquistion at the Hawaii tracking station final
pass over Hawaii for this evening and also the final air-ground
conversation between CAP COM and the crew, before the crew
sacks out for the night. Following the Hawaii pass there will
be medical conference between the Flight surgeon and the crew
on the daily routine medical status. Standing by now for
acquisition at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston got you through Hawaii
for I0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. We're stand by here.
CC And I got some questions about the optics
for somebody.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Did you have trouble positioning in both
shaft and trunnion?
PLT Well, there was only this one occasion
rather early in the flight where I just dropped P52 or
something like that and was going to be gone. I left it
in manual drive for a few minutes and I noticed that they -
even in low position, low speed, the - both shaft and trunnion,
as I recall, would run very rapidly. And I'd get it started say
increasing one direction and it would be almost impossible
to stop, and would run at a very high - high rate of speed by
going to the high speed, I could stop it. Although, of course,
then it would stop and run which ever direction I pushed it.
Now, soon after that A1 suggested that perhaps they
should be rezeroe.d And after rezeroing it we had no further
trouble, we did leave the speed in low after that but all of
the optics drive was normal in low speed all the manual drives
were normal but, as I recall, it was both shaft and trunnion.
Ore r.
CC Okay, and was that direct or resolved?
CC That was direct wasn't it?
PLT I was in direct at that time because I
was trying to put the shaft and trunnion in a certain location.
CC Okay, and you observed that in both
our sextant and telescope or the T-PAC?
PLT I believe that is correct.
CC All three?
PLT Excuse me, I thought you said - the sextant and
shaft and trunnion, that is correct. Now what was the other
question?
CC _ Was the problem observed in the sextant or
the telescope or theTPACs?
PLT Oh, I was only looking through the telescope
at the time, I assume it was present in the sextant.
CC And, have you all seen the teleprinter messages
coming up? What kind of shape are they in?
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PLT Answer's good.

CC Okay.
CC One other question on the optics was there
any trouble encountered while manually positioning the optics
during your P52?
PLT Negative
CC Okay, adn to preclude redundancy management
on Y-2, waking you up during the night, we'd like you to go on
panel 207, ACS malf, the RATE GYRO switch to INHIBIT.
PLT Okay, tell usagain now.
PLT Negative, we got it.
CC Okay, that's the RATE GYRO switch only to
inhibit.
CDR Okay_ we've got it.
CC And now for the night we'll going to leave
the mal sieve B stands off, we won't need them tonight and we']l
get together with you on that tomorrow.
CDR Okay, we got a little ahead and we've actually
started making out mol sieve A right - already, we're a
little ahead of the game.
CC Roger.
CDR I've got a nightly status report. If that's
what l'm suppose to give now, or is that a later pass?
CC No, that's this pass. The next pass will be
your reed conference. And we're ready.
CDR Okay. The - as far as the food is concerned:
Bean will have eaten everything but the green beans, which
were not planned to be eaten prior to flight. Jerry will have
eaten everything except the dried beef. And Jack, I don't think
is going to be able to eat his evening meal; he ate his meal A
and meal B, but it doesn't look like he is going to be eating
meal C at all.
CC Okay.
CDR Now for extra drinking water we've had -
Bean has had - the CDR has had four extra shots from the gun,
and SPT has had four, and the PLT has had none. As far as
medication used: CDR has had two aspirins, SPT none, and
PLT one seop/Dex. The photo log: the HDC indicates 88
frames at the moment and the DAC indicates 50 per cent. The
two things that we've noticed that are inoperable, one is the
circuit breaker that we discussed earlier. The other is after
we opened the hatch and went in and observed more closely
the docking latches from the MDA side, we noticed that two
of them, numbers and i0 and i, although the bungee appeared to
he flush and the blue handle was flat the actual latch itself was
not pressing on hard on the connector on the MDA. You could
take your finger and slide it back and forth. Although to
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outward appearances It was completely locked. When you observed

the top of the small spring bungee you found out that these two they
were depressed approximately three-elghts of an inch each.
Where as the others varied between an eighth of an inch and a
quarter of an inch. We did not take any corrective measures
in they remain that way at the moment.
CC Okay.
CDR To give you a feel where we are at the
moment, we're beginning to eat our meal right now, and it
looks like we'll be - probably be working around for another hour
or so. We've had to move extremely slowly to keep from causing any
vestibular problems with ourselves by that I think Owen and I had
a little bit of stomach awareness, so we tend to be fairly carefully
of how we move. And since we are moving rather slowly, then
it's taking a little bit longer than we'd planned.
CC Okay, copy all of that. The latch observations
are familiar with us we'll work on that and give you a read up
tomorrow.
CDR Okay, and I want to make sure that
it's okay that we started mol sieve A bakeout early.
CC That's fine, AI. Okay.
SC And for informatlon_ the waste management
compartment has been activated early tonight, also.
CC Okay.
CC And all of your pads for tomorrow are presently
on board except for the reading pad.
PLT Okay, Story thank you.
CC Skylab, you're i minute to LOS. You'll
be coming up over Vanguard at 01:59, at that time you'll have the
medical conference. Following that if you're still up the next
pass we will not call you, we'll also be over Vanguard at
3 hours 36 minutes.
PLT Okay_ I expect we'll be in bed by that
second pass, Story.
CC Good idea.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we've had loss of
signal through the Hawaii tracking statlon_ the final - effectively
the final pass of the day at which air - ground will be on the
release circuit. The actual final pass will be the next Vanguard
tracking ship pass where the medical conference crew gave
their status report at that time. The food, water and medication
Bean commented - Commander Alan Bean commented that he and Owen
Garriott were moving rather slowly in handling equipment and
moving around the workshop because of inner ear or vestibular
reactions to zero g on their first day in space. And that they
had what was described as stomach awareness which from passed
experience should disappear in the succeeding days in space.
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Spacecrafter Communicator starting with his pass Story

Musgrave, Flight Director currently is Milton Windier, and
at 01:40 GMT this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC49/I
Time: 2109 CDT, 02:02:09 GDT, 1458 GMT
7/28/73

mean time, loss of signal through the Vanguard in which
time the medical conference was held between the flight surgeon
and crew of Skylab-3. Surgeon turned the loop back over
to Cap Comm Just at the very tail end of the pass and some
30 seconds of the tape was accumulated, which we will roll
back now.
CC Skylab Houston, we have got you for about
another minute. We would like you to start charging battery B
per Flight Plan.
CDR Okay that will be done now, Storey, thank
you.
CC And we will like for you - to offer you a
wake up call at about ii:i0 GMT.
CDT Okay, we will accept that.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That concludes the
brief exchange of conversation as the loop was turned back
to the spacecraft communicator, Storey Musgrave at the
Vanguard tracking ship, final conversation of the evening.
Wake up call will be around ii GMT, which a - ii:i0 GMT
over Carnarvon, which is about 6 a.m. 6:10 a.m. CDT. At
2:10 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC_50/I
Time: 21:40 CDT, 02:02:40 GMT
7/28/73

moan time. The Skylab-[][ crew of AJlen Bean, Owen Garrlott,
and Jack Lousma, has completed tile first day of work
aboard the Skylab space station. Most of tomorrow's work
will be a continuation of activating the orbital workshop.
Among the chores are the transfer of the MO74, specimen mass
measurement device electronics package, to replace the one
in the waste management compartment that failed during
Skylab-ll. Additionally, the crew will bring aboard equip-
ment for three student experiments, ED32 in vitro immunology,
ED52, web formation, with the Cross spider arabella that
fight the frustration of spinning a web in weightlessness,
and ED63, an experiment of the cytoplasmic streaming in
plant llfe in zero g. The Flight Surgeon, Paul Buchanan,
said after speaking to the crew in the nightly medical con-
ference, that the Skylab crew is preparing to spend the
night in the workshop. The Pilot, Jack Lousma, is having
slight nausea, with rapid or frequent movements, and has
taken one capsule for nausea. Bean and Garriott are well
and do not sound excessively tired considering the length of
the day's activities which began shortly before 1 a.m.,
Houston time today. One hour from acquisition at the Van-
guard tracking ship. No communications expected at that
time. The crew likely will be in the process of going to
sleep, if not indeed already asleep. This circuit will be
taken down at this time to come back again shortly before
crew awakening at 6 a.m. central daylight tomorrow. And
at 02:37 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 51/1
Time: 06:05 CDT 02:11:05 GMT 23:54 GET
7/29/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at elapsed time of

23 hours 54 minutes in this mission. Greenwich mean time of
ii hours 5 minutes on the second day of the mission. Skylah
is nearing acquisition range at the Canarvon, Australia station,
should acquire there in about a minute and a half. We expect
to send a wake-up call to the crew at that time. This will
be an activation day for the crew, spending the entire day
activating the Skylab workshop and transferring a few experiments
into the workshop area from the command module. We'll stand
by for the call-up to the crew.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We got you through
Canarvon for 6 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Houston.
CC And, AI, I got something for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Did you get the CSM water chlorination
done last night?
CDR We did not.
CC You did get the chlorination done?
CDR Did not.
CC Okay.
CDR And just where we were - we all thought
it was probably prudent to go rest and recover and get started
again this morning with a fresh start. So I'ii bring you up
later today on where we are.
CC Okay, that's fine. Now we would like, on
command module 352, the portable tank inlet valve to OPEN as
soon as possible at your convenience.
CDR Okay, I'Ii go do that right now.
CC The reason for that is the fuel cells
have been putting out some water, and we have filled the waste
tank up to 103 percent and the portable tank is steady at
48 percent.
CDR Okay, I tried to daydream up, and looked
through that list, anything that could possibly - if we skip
would get us in trouble - that's what I meant. I'ii go do it
right now.
CC Okay, and other than that the vehicle
stayed in excellent shape during the sleep period, and we saw
no anomalies during your night time.
CDR Okay, things here are nice, too. It's cool and
real clean, and I'ii go get that tank right now.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Astronaut Story
Musgrave is the CAP COMM. Flight director is Milton Windler.
Crew did sleep in the workshop last night and as you heard
Dr. Musgrave report there were no problems during the night
with the vehicle. Skylab's current orbital parameter's
240 by 233 nautical miles. 240 by 233 nautical miles.
END OF TAPE
SL-[1MC-52/1
Time: h:] I CDT 1:00:01 GMT
7129/73
CC Skylab, we're Rolng LOS In about 30 sec-

onds. We'll pick you up over Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
CDR I'm sorry, I just opened the portable
in tank. Did you want me to do anything with the waste tank
in it or just leave it like it is?
CC Just leave it like it is, AI.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
had loss of signal. The Honeysuckle, Australia station will
pick up Skylab in about 3 minutes, 3-1/2 minutes. We'll
continue to stay up for the Honeysuckle pass. The crew
is awake. The first hour and a half of the day is devoted
to post sleep activities and breakfast. The crewmen will
start to work about 7:30 a.m. central daylight time today
on the activation chores. Owen Garriott will activate the
Apollo telescope mount console starting at that time, and
later today he will replace a defective part in one of the
specimen mass measurement devices, and also transfer several
of the student experiments from the command module to the
workshop area. Those are ED52, the spiders for the web
spinning experiment, ED32 in-vitro immunology and ED63 cytoplasmic
streaming. The other two crewmen, the Commander
AI Bean, and Pilot Jack Lousma will be busy the rest of the
day activating other areas of the workshop. Skylab is coming
up within range of Honeysuckle now, we'll stand by.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 06:17 CDT 02:11:17
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CC Skylab, We've got you through Honeysuckle for a

minute.
CDR Rog.
CC We've got another 20 seconds. We'll see
you over Texas at 11:48.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has loss of
signal. The Texas tracking station will next pick up Skylab
in 28 minutes. At ii hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-54/I
TIME: 06:47 CDT 02:11:47 GMT
7/29/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at Ii hours

47 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition of Skylab through the Texas station.
CC Skylab, llouston. We've got you stateside
for 17 minutes.
SPT Okay, and Story, we're spreading the dosimeters
around - those personal (garble) dosimeters. I can't remember
which goes where. Have you got a quick base list for me, or
can you remind me where the three of them go?
CC Stand by one. We'll get that.
CC And Owen, we've got three things for you.
SPT I don't have a pencil right now. Can I
get one while you're giving me the word on the dosimeter?
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Go ahead with those three items, Story.
CC Okay, on the ATM console activation - on
the activation checklist, page 2-9. The EPU RATE GYRO
switch position on page 2-12, the UP/DOWN switch should be
in SECONDARY.
SPT Okay, was that on page 2-9 or 2-12.
CC It's on page 2-12, but you want to get
that configured before powering up the panel. And the note
on that is on page 2-9.
SPT Okay. I understand. I've got that.
CC And on the ACS CAUTION/WARNING, the
RATE GYRO, now that you're up you can ENABLE that.
SPT Okay, I got that.
CC And if you wish to ride the ergometer
prior to the hiomed activation, you can do half of the
biomed activation by completing pages 12-1 and 12-2 of the
biomed checklist, and that will get power to the
exercise mode ergometer switch.
SPT Okay, I got that. Where do the PRDs
go?
CC We're working on that.
CC We're ready on the PRDs.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, Now we're supposed to wear them
on our person for the first three days and since you got an
EVA coming up on the fourth day_ suggest you Just wear them
until the EVA and then wear them on the EVA.
SPT Okay, got that. Thank you, Story.
CC And do you want the locations where you'll
store them after the EVA now or later?
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CDR Well, we think it's the red one up by the

plus-g SAL, the white one in the experiment compartment and
the blue one in my compartment.
CC Okay, I don't have the colors here, but
it's the CDR's in the experiment, the SPT in the mlnus-E SAL,
and the PLT in the center sleep compartment.
CDR Okay, say it once more.
CC That's the red in the experiment com-
partment over the blood centrifuge, the white at the minus-Z
SAL, and the blue in the center sleep compartment.
CDR Thank you.
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Time: 06:57 CDT 02:11:57 GMT
7/29/73
CDR Houston, are you still there?

CC Yes, sir. We've got another 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. We've been keeping the STS
windows number 244 an4 242, we think, it's the ones on 65
mol sieve B, which is Well, it's the one half way between
plus Z and plus Y, and the one halfway between plus Z and
minus Y. And we think the numbers are 244 and 242 open all
the time. And we wanted to make sure that was okay. Those
are the two that seem to look down at the Earth most of the time.
CC We're working on that.
CDR It might also be nice to keep 241 open.
If you don't open a few of those windows, it's almost llke
it's night time in here all the time.
CC We're working on it, AI.
CC You can leave them open, AI.
CDR Okay, thank you, story.
CC And we' re going to be dumping the tape
recorders here.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
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CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS we'll

pick you up over Madrid in 5 minutes.
5 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab beyond the range of
the Bermuda station. We'll come back up Just prior to
acquistion at the Madrid station in 4 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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acquisition through Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. Got you over Madrid for
9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And, Owen, I've got a star tracker pad
for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC It's Canopus, that's a 52012 and a 50001.
It's available at any time during the day, any part of the
orbit. The inner gimbal is minus 0789, outer glmbal, plus 0540.
SPT Okay, fine. 0789 minus, and plus 0540.
CC That's correct.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We'd llke you to terminate the BAT B
charge and reinltlate the BAT A charge as per page 2-4 of the
activation checklist, anytime at your convenience - but prior to
12:45 Zulu.
CDR Okay, I'ii stop what I'm doing and do it
right now.
CC And, I've got a - some P52 stars for you.
You can copy those down on 2-8.
CDR Just a second.
CDR Go ahead.
CC It's star 2, shaft 319.8, trunnion 12.3.
Star 4, shaft 234.1, trunnion 39.9.
CDR Okay, I got that, Story. Thanks.
CC And we're going LOS in about 20 seconds.
We'll pick you up over Honeysuckle at 12:56.
CDR Roger.
19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Madrid has loss of signal.
The next station to acquire Skylab will be Honeysuckle in
36-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours 20 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 07:55 CDT 02:12:55 CMT
7/29/73
PAO This is Sky|ab Control at 12 hours

55 minutes Greenwich mean t_me. Skylab comlng up within
range of the Honeysuckle, Australla station. We'll stand
by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for approximately the next minute and a half. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And for Jack, when he's free for a minute
we've got a small mode changing around the fans on the mol
sieve that effects this checklist on page 2-31.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Capeom now
is astronaut Bruce McCandless, the Flight Director is
Nell Hutchinson.
SPT This is SPT.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT Let me update our dinner from last night.
The dinner that I consumed was chicken and gravy, and an orange
drink, and 4 ounces of water. The dinner that Jack consumed
was a butterscotch pudding, an orange drink, and the instant
breakfast. The rest on our schedule llst still remains.
Over.
CC And this was a short pass. We're approxi-
mately 30 seconds to LOS. Next contact is a stateside pass
over Goldstone at 13:24, which is about 26 minutes from now.
CDR I'Ii give you some PRD readings if we
get them over here, Bruce. CDR -
CC Hang on a minute.
CDR - - 45004, SPT 19003, PLT 07006 on the
PRDs. Over.
CC Okay, 45004, 19003, 07006.
CDR Roger.
utes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle does have loss of
signal, and Goldstone will acquire Skylab in 26 minutes.
At 12 hours 59 minutes GMT, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 08:23 CDT 02:13:23 GMT
7/29/73
PAO ThIs ls Skylab Control at I'1 Ilours

23 mlnutes Creenwleh mean tlme. We're standing by for
acquisition through Goldstone as Skylab starts a pass over
the United States.
CC Hello, hello.
CDR Just a second. Go ahead, Bert.
CC Yeah, we heard you beep on the intercom
up there. We're here through Goldstone for a fairly long
stateside pass, more or less continuous coverage for 10-1/2
minutes, tanding by with two small items for the PLT.
CDR Okay, let me bring you up to date on a
couple of things. First of all, from yesterday, we're still
having to move around fairly slowly up here, so we're not
although we're moving around getting things done, we're not
rapidly as we'd llke to. From last evening, the only thing
that we didn't complete was the - was the portable water
chlorination and some of the stowage transfers. We're going
to do the portable water chlorination Just as soon as we've all
had some good drinks, and we've got the water compartment
down here activated, which Jack is working on right now. Now
this morning we're running a little bit behind. We got the
P52 off. Let me give you the results of that. The star is
42. NOUN 05 was all balls. NOUN 93 was plus 138, minus 195,
plus 030. And the torquing time we used was 12:48:00 GMT,
but the time in the CMC was 36:48:00.
CC Okay, we copy that. On - in other words,
the CMC time was 24 hours in advance of the GMT time, cor-
rected for date. Over.
CDR That's affirmative, and I'm getting ready to
go up and start doing the H2 SEP plate wetting prep. Owen is
eating right now, and when he finishes that, he's going to go
up and activate the ATM console. And when he does that, we're
going to go through the alignments there. We'll keep you
informed how we going, but my opinion would be that we're
going be moving along more slowly than we planned, and will
probably have to jump by some of the stowage transfer items
and then try to find a place for doing those later on.
CC Okay. We copy, AI, and just take your
time and get accustomed to things up there. In the Flight
Plan for tomorrow, we do have some time in for regroup. About
the only thing I can think of on the stowage transfer is, if
you get significantly out of phase with where we think you
are, you might bring us up to date on the major areas, so
that if you call down looking for something, why, we'll
know where to direct you. Over.
CDR Okay, well we haven't - everytime we've
moved something, we've moved it where it's supposed to go, so
we haven't Just stashed things too many places. We
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think we know where they are. What we may do - what we really

need, of course, is regroup time right now, but we don't have it.
But what we're going to do is sort of have to make it as
we go along here.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 60/I
Time: 08:31 CDT 02:13:31 GMT i:02:20 GET
7/29/73
C_ Skylab, this is Houston again. We've

been talking over the Flight Plan schedule constraints on
you for today. And our recommendation is that you try to get
the ATM C&D panel star tracker up on schedule to the point
where you can run the P50, 51, 52 sequences and do the
alignment on schedule so that we can press on with our
unattended ops. And, other than that, you just take as much
time as you need here to catch up on the stowage and other
things and feel comfortable. And just press on in sequence,
and keep us posted on how you' re doing. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll work on that, Bruce.
SPT We're just about to finish up some breakfast
here, Bruce. I'ii be up at the panel probably inside of (aarble).
CC Roger, understand. I wasn't trying to push
you, and I've got one small checklist change for the PLT when
he's available.
CDR He's not near a comm box, but he says he's
listening, Bruce; go ahead.
CC Okay, in his activation checklist on
page 2-31, where you're bringing the sol sieve fans back on
after wetting the water separater plates. What we want to do
is change the callout to read: MOL SIEVE A FANg to SECONDARY,
and B FANS to PRIMARY. So that we get around that mol sieve
B, secondary, circuit breaker problem. Over.
CDR A on SECONDARY, and B on PRIMARY( _ Is that
correct, Bruce?
CC That's the configuration we want to get
to, and for your information, we'll be dumping the data and
voice tape recorders over Canary, which is our next station
at about 13:48. Over.
CC CDR, Houston through the sunny island of
Bermuda here. We still got about 4 minutes in this ]ong pass.
We'd like to maybe clarify our last message with regard to
the time line and say that, guess what we're really saying is
that we'd like you to just take a chunk of about 2 hours and
stick it in here right now, if that'll fit your plans. Over.
CDR Okay, that sounds real good. Bruce. That's
what we'll do. Two hours.
CC Roger. Good night, Owen.
PLT Hey, Bruce, are you still there?
CC Yes indeed.
PLT Okay, I'm on S PLT on page 2-7, and
I'm down to step 3, trying to verify that the water dump pressure
in the - in the waste management area is less than 0.7 and it's
stayed to high, above 2.0.
CC Okay, stand by a second, Jack. Wetre kicking
that one around.
CC PLT, Houston. We've got a minute and
20 seconds left in this pass. Next contact will be Canary at
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13:48 where we're going to dump the data and voice tape
recorder. We'd like for you to hold up in the water system
activation at this point until we psyche it out. And could
you also tell us what you did with the WMC water system
yesterday? Over.
PLT All right, we Just went according to
checklist yesterday, Bruce. Whatever is in there is what
we did. And, also, water tank i0 checked out to be above 6.0
in its iodine content.
CC Okay, copy. Tank i0 at 6.0 on the iodine.
43 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has lost its signal.
Canaries will acquire Skylab in about 4 and a half minutes.
During this pass over the United States, Commander AI Bean
reported that they were still moving around rather slowly -
were a little bit behind on the activation schedule on the
timeline on the Flight Plan for today. They had reported
some stomach awareness last night getting adjusted to the
zero gravity of space. They all three sound good but prefer
to take it kind of easy and move slowly for a while until
they get better adjusted. The ground has advised them to
take their time, there's no greater hurry to - to stay right
on the timeline today. We've told them they could take as
much as 2 hours at this time if they would like to regroup, get
adjusted and get better organized for the activation sequence.
Canaries will he picking up Skylab within the next couple of
minutes. We'll continue to stand by and monitor the Canaries
pass for further discussions.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 08:45 CDT 02:[3:45 (;lTr
7/29/73
CC Skylab, tills is Houston through Canary

for 8 minutes for the PLT, over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay Jack. We'd like you to verify or
check the position of the panel 831 water dump valve. That's
the one in the compartment underneath the washrag squeezer
and all that down on the left-hand side. At the present time,
it should be open. If it turns out that it is still closed,
give us a call and we'll probably ask you to go back through
the heater configuration on 143 and come on up through 1-45
again. Over.
PLT Yeah, I just checked that a while ago
and the valve is open. And the water dumper press heater has
been on since last night, with a green light.
CC Okay, we copy. Stand by please.
CC Skylab, Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, Jack. We've got three items here
that we'd like for you to run down to try to psych out this
problem here on the dump. The first is, would you verify that
you removed the purge fitting from the WMC dump line flex
hose up there in connection with the steps when you hook
it up to the water heater. Secondly try cycling the panel 831
dump valve open and closed and then - or closed and open and then
back tp open againj and see if that affects the reading. And
as a third step, if neither of those do any good, check the
WMC urine flush line dump fitting over there where you evacuate
the urine bags prior to putting them in the collector. Over.
That should be capped on the end of it to prevent leakage.
Over.
PLT Okay. The number i, one about the purge
fitting, that's off of there in the WMC 2 line is hooked
up to water tank 8 and the valve is closed. Now in step 2
on page 2-7, and I'ii cycle the dump valve and look at the
flush sys£em.
CC You know the purge fitting that we're
talking about is the purge fitting which is up there in the
water heater compartment behind a mirror, as I recall it,
above the washrag squeezer.
CC Belay my last You're right on that. It's
the one on the hose in the forward compartment.
CC Okay, Jack. One thing we noticed
here in the checklist, the reference to water tank 8 is to the
WMC 2 hose qd location. We want the hose actually hooked up
to the water outlet qd of water tank 7. Over.
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Time: 08:45 CDT 02:13:45 (;M'l'
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PLT Yeah (garble) I already hooked it up this

time to water tank 7. And I checked the_ cycled the dump valve
this tank to open and that doesn't seem to do any good. And I
looked at the compartment 822 and the qd is on. The urine
(garble) dump there. I noticed the urine dump valve is closed
over on panel 818, Does that make a difference?
CC That doesn't make any difference. Jack.
And we've got about 15 seconds to LOS. Next contact is over
Honeysuckle in 36 minutes, at 14:32 Greenwich. Over.
PLT Okay. It looks like I got it tangled behind
that port heater, Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll have some more info for you
then, and just hold where you are on that.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 62/1
Time: 08:57 CDT 02:13:57
7/29/73

58 minutes Creenwich mean time. Canaries has loss of
signal. Honeysuckle will acquire space - Skylab in about
34 minutes. We've asked pilot Jack Lousma to hold up on
the water system activation while we take a look at this
situation. He has been unable to verify on board that
a line to the waste tank has been evacuated. This is
necessary to evacuate this line prior to purging the tank
as part of the activation sequence. The experts here on the
ground will continue to take a look at it and see whether
we can verify that that llne has been evacuated before we
proceed with the purge of the tank. We'll come back up just
prior to acquisition at Honeysuckle. At 13 hours 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-63/I
TIME: 09:00 CDT 02:14:00 GMT
7/29/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ]4 hours

i minute Greenwich mean time. change of shift news
briefing with Flight Director Milton Windler will begin
at 9:30 a. m. central daylight time in the News Center
briefing room. Change of shift briefing at 9:30 a.m.
central daylight time in the News Center briefing room,
with Flight Director Milton Wlndler.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:31 CDT 02:14:31 GMT
7/29/73

acquisition through Honeysuckle.
for the next 8-1/2 minutes. Standing by for the PLT, over.
PLT Okay, here I am, Bruce. I've proceeded
to start on the wardroom water activation, but go ahead with
whatever you have on the waste management.
CC Okay, Jack. First a question. Did you
put the water sampling procedures on televison on the video
tape recorder per checklist page 2-5? Over.
PLT Bruce, that's a negative. Due to the
fact that we had (garble) forward or get behind, we've not
done any TV or DAC work. And we probably won't until we
get another opportune tlme. Over.
CC Okay, that's fine by us. We just wanted
to know if we should go through the motions of dumping the
VTR to see if there was anything on it.
PLT Yeah, I'm sorry, I meant to tell
you that before, but we don't have anything on the VTR at
all.
CC Okay. Back on your WMC troubleshooting here,
what we'd llke you to do is disconnect the WMC dump llne
from the water heater dump port and put the cap on the dump
llne qd and then check panel 800 to see if the dump pressure
starts decreasing. Over.
PLT Okay. That's disconnect the dump llne
and capped off and then watch the pressure, right?
CC Right. And then depending on whether
it decreases or does not decrease we branch off into two
different parts of the procedure here, I thought I'd Just let
you go ahead and do it, and I'd read it depending on what
the result was.
PLT Okay, I'ii go over and do that.
CC Okay, give us a call from the WMC. We
want to be sure and get the cap on the end of that dump
line to make sure we don't have any leakage tp the qd
itself.
SPT This is the SPT. I have essentially
completed the ATM console activation_ and there are a couple
of things I want to talk over with you. And we'll be completing
our DAS checkouts together. Over.
CC Okay, we're ready for the DAS checks,
Owen. And ready to talk to you sandwiched in between
conversations with Jack.
SPT Okay, I'll go ahead and complete the
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Time: 09:3| CDT O2:14:31 CMI'
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DAS interface check first or the last part of that. l'm on

page 2-11, and half way down cn the right hand side. It's
cocrdinatlng DAS checklist 8. And I will go through the entry
cf all of those eight commands, and just wait for the verify
from you, and then proceed with the next one.
CC Mighty fine. Owen we want you to enter
them one at a time, and then stand by for a GO after each
cne .
SPT Yeah, that's what I was doing, after
each command. I've Just entered in my i0000 entered.
And I'm waiting on a go from that before my next command. Over.
CC Okay, and you are GO on it.
PLT Okay Bruce, I've disconnected the WHC
dump llne from the water heater, nd there isn't any plug
that goes in the dump llne, but I put it back on its stowage
lccatlon so that ought to do the Job. And the water dump
pressure at this time is still pegged hggh bit we can watch
it.
CC Okay Owen, you're go on number 2,
CC Go on number 3, Owen.
PLT Copy that last?
CC Yes I did, Jack. Stand by here, we'll
have word to you here in Just a second. We still have almost
4 minutes left here in the pass. Break break. Owen, you're
GO on number 4.
CC Okay, we're GO cn the next test, Owen.
And Jack, what we'd llke you to do is reconnect the dump line
to the water heater dump port and install the WMC purge
Fitting on the end of the WMC-2 hose, and attempt to verlfy,
either audibly or by bctlng airflow, the fact that you have
flow thrcugh the purge fitting. And break, break, Owen.
You're GO on that one.
PLT Okay Bruce.
CC GO on the third one, Owen.
CC Okay, Owen. You're GO on number 4. The
test is complete.
SPT Okay. Now there are a couple of more
things I want to talk to you about, but there is one in
particular I want to get in now over on page 2-12. It -
left-hand column shows computer talkback secondary, computer
switch auto, verify.
SPT Okay, that's where I am right now, that's
Just where it ought to be. So if there is no further requests
on that, I just wanted tc make sure. And we'll give you my
status word for verification, although I think you probably
can read out my status word without me dclng that. They all
look reasonable. I checked them all out on page 2-12.
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CC Okay, that's a Roger on the computer

talkback and switch position.
SPT Okay, now on the power system, there
are 3 CBRMs that are giving off nominal readings, all of
which I'm sure you know about, but I want to check each of
those. In the REG position, CBRM number 3 is showing REG
VOLT and BAT CHARGE barber pole. CBRM number 15 shows BAT
VOLTS barber pole, which I didn't expect. And number
17 is showing REG VOLTs barber pole. Now on page 2-10, we
have a write in for a preflight change. And it shows the
power monitor switch reg. And looking at CBRM number 3.
When I do that I am already showing REG AMPS. I'm going to
go back and check that again right now in CBRM number 3.
CC We copy that and we have 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact is Hawaii at 14 plus 52 GMT,
about ii minutes from now.
SPT You'll notice at the moment, I'm already
showing about 4 amps on REG number 3. And therefore I
have not performed this reg switch cycling off and on
5 times or the CBRMs all off. And I want to talk to you
about that on the next pass, before I do any more cycling on
reg 3 (garble). Over.
CC Okay, we copy. And we'll talk to you
over Hawaii.
SPT What' s the time for Hawaii.
CC Eleven minutes from now, at 14:52.
SPT Hog.
signal. The News Briefing with Flight Director Milton
Windler and Dr. Paul Buchanan will start immediately in
the News Center briefing room. News briefing with Flight
Director Milton Windler, and Dr. Buchanan will start immedi-
ately in the News Center briefing room.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-65/I
TIME: 10:02 CDT 01:15:02 GMT
7/29/73

2 minutes Greenwich mean time. We taped the Hawaii pass
during the news conference. We'll play that back at the
earliest opportunity. During that pass, continuing trouble-
shooting on the waste management compartment water system
indicates that there is no problem with the system. It
appears to be a broken gage. Pressure gage on that system,
and the system itself is functioning properly, and actlva-
tlon on that system will proceed. We' re about 45 seconds
away from acquisition at Goldstone. We'll go live through
the stateside pass, even though a couple of stations ago
Flight Director Neil L1utchinson suggested to the crew they
take a couple of hours off to regroup if they wanted to.
So far the crew has been proceeding with activation. The
Apollo Telescope Mount console is approximately two thirds
activated at this time, Owen Garriott doing that activity.
The other two crewmen are proceeding with activation, although
still proceeding slowly. Flight Director Hutchinson is not
concerned with staying on the time line for activation.
He says that is of no concern. We've acquired at Goldstone
now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
6 minutes. Out.
PLT Rog. I just finished the potable water
chlorination, and when I tried to get the water back into the
buffer, it leaked quite badly. But I've been cleaning it up,
so everything's copehetlc.
CC Roger. Think you can handle it.
PLT Yeah. What happened, apparently, is that
little plastic cap that's supposed to back up as you let
the water in, didn't back up and it just leaked the water
right past it. It didn't get cock-eyed in there like I've
heard it could do. It's still perpendicular, it's just that
the water went right by the edges of it, and then when I took
off the cap, the cap was full of water.
CC Okay. We copy that and we'll work at the
hardware down here to see if there's anything we can do on
future missions.
SPT Well, then I presume you're ready for us
to go ahead and enable star tracker control with Canopus as
the selected star.
CC Roger, Owen.
CC Skylah, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact is through Bermuda in 5 minutes at
the time of 15:15. Over.
SPT Okay, and we're working on the P50 now,
Bruce.
CC Roger, Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-6b/1
Time: i0:ii CDT 02:15:11 GMT
7/29/73

utes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has had loss of signal.
There is about a 3-1/2 minute gap prior to acquiring at Bermuda.
We'll continue to stay up and go into the Bermuda pass when
we acquire there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylah is about
a minute away now from acquisition at Bermuda. A reminder that
the television transmission scheduled for this morning have
been canceled. The crew did not tape the water activation
because of the slowness in which they are becoming acclimated
to the space environment. Pilot Jack Lousma did not tape
the water activation sequence so there will be no television
this morning. Bermuda should be acquiring very shortly now.
We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for about
7-1/2 minutes. For the SPT, we'd like to reconfirm your
star tracker pad angle. Inner gimbal is minus 0789, and
the outer gimbal, say again, outer gimbal is plus 0540. Over.
SPT I thought you were probably watching
those down there. Very good. I just checked the ATM DC
reference data book. And I'd reversed them. I'd normally
expect to get the outer gimbal first, and I wrote it down
that way. So I'ii Just go on over and reverse the gimbals.
Glad you caught it.
PAO This is Skylab Control.
CC Houston. We're coming up on a 45-second
voice comm dropout. I' ii give you a call on the other side.
No reply necessary. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson believes Owen Garriott will be able to complete
the activation of the of the Apollo telescope mount during
this current daylight cycle. Skylab still has 35 minutes
of daylight remaining in this cycle, and it is believed that
the Apollo telescope mount activation will be completed prior to
the end of daylight.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you again
for about 4 minutes now, still through Bermuda. Be advised
that your next station, which is Canary, we'll be dumping the
voice and data tape recorder. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact is a combined Canary-Ascension
pass with AOS Canary at 15:24 in about 2 minutes. Out.
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal. Can-
ary will pick up the spacecraft in i minute, and Ascension
has overlapping coverage with Canary. We'll continue to
stand by.
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Time: 10:23 CDT 02:15:23 GHT
7/29/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary

and Ascension for 15 minutes. And for the Commander, we
copied your torquing angles.
CDR Okay. In other words, you don't need
anything.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, this is Houston. If you can verify
that you are through with the ATM C&D panel, we need to load
a drift update on the Y-2 rate gyro. Over.
SPT Roger. I'm through. I'ii be off the DAS.
CC Okay. And again for the Commander_ no
reply necessary, we'll be configured to receive your E-
memory dump whenever you' re ready.
CDR Hey, Houston, CDR. I still have a few
more stowage items; I'm going to work those. And then I'm
going to come back and power down the SCS G&N.
CC Okay, Alan, we copy that. But before you leave
the command module or get engrossed in the stowage, we'd like
to get the B-memory dump, high bit rate, and VERB 74 ENTER.
CDR Okay, I guess I didn't give you high bit
rate; I'll go give you that. And I gave you the 74; I'ii give
that agaln.
CDR How does that look to you?
CC That looks great to us_ AI. Thank you.
CC SPT, from Houston. For your informatlon_
we're through commanding on the DAS. And we've also inhibited
the star tracker outer gimbal update to the computer by ground
command for SO PHI, having gotten the star tracker data in.
Out •
END OF TAPE
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Time: 10:33 CDT 02:15:33 GMT 1:04:22 GET
7/29/73
CC Skylah, Houston through Ascension. 1 minute

to LOS. Next station is Honeysuckle in half an hour at 16:09.
Out.
Greenwich mean time. Ascension has lost of signal. The next
station to acquire will be Canarvon in 26 minutes. The
Skylab crew is continuing activation of the workshop although
they are dellberatly working at a slower pace than anticipated
pre-fllght. None of the crewmen have become fully acclimated
to the weightless environment and report some stomach awareness
as they attempt to move around rapidly. Flight director Nell
Hutchinson has informed the crewmen that they can take as
much as 2 hours off to regroup if they like. However, all
three have proceeded with activation. All three sound in good
spirist. The ATM, the Apollo telescope mount, is excepted
to be fully activated very shortly. There is no concern
because activation is proceeding slower than planned. It is
not erltical that the crew stay on the time llne for this
operation. Dr. Paul Buchanan is in the News Center at this
time, and the news conference with Dr. Buchanan will begin
immediately. At 15 hours 42 minutes Greenwich mean time
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 69/1
Time: 10:49 CDT 02:15:49 GMT 1:04:38 GET
7/29/73

50 minutes Greenwich meam time. Skylab is 17 minutes away
from acquisition at Honeysuckle. We have 7 minutes 50 seconds
worth of tape that was acquired during the Hawaii pass on the
last revolution during the flight director news conference.
We'll play that tape for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
9-1/2 minutes. And, for the commander, we'd like to ask a
question or two.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We're wondering where you are
right now on the checklist, specifically. Have you completed
the IMSS transfer? And how are you doing on the water separator
plate wetting? Over.
CDR Completed the transfer, - still in the
midst of stowage transfer; have not begun the water sep plate
wetting yet.
CC Okay. And you may perform the P50, P52
sequence without doing another P52, option 3 before it - as long
as you get done in this next daylight cycle. If you wait
until a subsequent one we're going to have to do a P52 option 3
again. Over.
CDR Understand. Thanks.
CC And for the SPT, on our telemetery we're
showing essentially zero current from CBRH3 output and you're
cleared to go ahead and do the 5 times circling. We'd like to get
you to do it over a pass, as for example, this one if convenient
and we'll watch the current on telemetery. We'd also llke
you to call up reg amps on a couple of other CBHMs and read
them out to us in real time so we can compare that with our
telemetery. Over.
SPT Okay, I'm essentially there right now. On
the CBRM number 3, I'm reading a reg voltage of 22.5 volts plus
3.5 amps. In the bat position the voltage is off-scale low,
and it's reading a minus i amp. Now those two don't match up,
of course, so it does look like there's some sort of a scaling
error. Now Just stand by and I'ii give you a reading on reg 2.
CC And for the PLT wharfs the status on your
WMC vent troubleshooting? Over.
SPT All the other regs are providing 5 to
6 amperes to the bus, and reg 3 still shows plus 3-1/2. All
those - I don't believe it as you say.
CC Okay. How about Just picking one and
giving us a reading.
PLT Okay. CBRM number 2 is 6 amperes.
CC Okay. 6 even, thank you.
CC And we're ready for the cycling on CBRM3
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whenever you are.

PLT Okay, Bruce, I put the pur@e fitting on the
WMC hose number 2 and verified that there was some suction
through there and then I put the WMC 2 hose back on the
water tank 7 and down here in the waste compartment
my gage dump gage it still reads above 2.0.
CC Okay, Jack. We copy that. Our suspicion
now is that we have a bad gage or transducer associated with
it. I understand that you're back in the dump configuration
now with the hose hooked back up to water tank 7. We'd like
you to leave the 831 dump valve open for approximately i hour
and then assume that the pressure is down and press on with the
WMC water activation. Over.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, Bruce as your front troops there
could probably tell, there was no change in that CBRM
current and I wonder if you want me to go ahead and give
is that CBRM all on at this time.
CC Understand you tried it 5 times Owen and
if so then go ahead with the CBRM all on.
SPT Okay, it's done.
CC And for Jack working back in our extensive
troubleshooting and repair procedure files, we find a recommendation
that maybe you bang on the meter a couple of time in the WMC and
see if that could be part of the problem.
SPT I still get no current on CBRM 3, so I'll
turn charger regulator switches to off if your ground telemetery
con curs •
CC Roger, we concur Owen.
SPT Okay, now I have Just turned them off and
I now have 3 status lights. That was the other point I
wanted to bring up. Up to this point I had no status
lights on on the panel at all and I thought that was apparently
because you'd already turned them off on the ground and therefore
the lights didn't show up. Maybe that assumption was incorrect
because I do have 3 status lights now, all the way across on CBRM
number 3. What I had before, I had a completely clean panel.
Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Your indication on CBRM3
both prior to your operation and at the present time are correct
because we did not turn the CBRM off. Everything's okay and we
know about the talkbacks on CBRM 15 and 17, Over.
SPT Okay, that's fine. I presume number 15
is the one responsible for the bat charge alert light which
is now disappeared. I had a batcharge alert light until Just
sunrise here a few minutes ago. It's disappeared now.
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CC Negative, Owen. We show that the alert light

was associated with CBRM number 3 and it's gone out because
you've killed the CBRM.
SPT Okay, thank you very much.
SPT I guess I didn't ever complete telling
you what I did have barber poles on. I obviously had, on
CBRM number 3, reg volts and the bat charge barber poles. On
number 15, I had a bat volt barber pole; and on number 17, I
had a reg volt barber pole.
CC Yeh, we copied that last pass. We do not
have an explanation for the barber pole indication on CBRMI5
bat volt. It's a known Skylab-2 anomaly and we're Just
accepting it as one of those things for right now.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC Okay, we're coming up on 1 minute to
LOS. Next station will be Goldstone in about 2 minutes. This
is a short break here and we have a rather long stateside
pass with a couple of interuptions. Again for the SPT, the
situation on CBRM 17 is that we believe that we have a short
circuit in the forward cells associated with CBRMI7 giving
reduced output from that unit leading to a reg volt low, a
valid reg volt low indication during the daylight portions of
the pass. Over.
SPT Okay, I understand, Bruce. Thank you, and
Just to verify, I do have my(garble) EPC rate gyro switch in
up/down in SECONDARY and left/right in PRIMARY.
CC Roger, we copy.
58 minutes Greenwich mean time. That's the end of the
tape of the last Hawaii pass. Skylab will he within range
of the Canarvon station in about 9 minutes overlapping coverage
with Honeysuckle on this revolutlon. We'll come back up
Just prior to acquisition there. At 15 hours 58 minutes this
is Skylab Control.
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6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylsb coming up within
range of the Carnarvon and Honeysuckle stations. We'll
stand by.
for the next 5-i12 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger.
CC And for your information, Skylab, we have
resumed the unattended operations of the ATM and are currently
the experiment pointing mode. And when Jack has a moment, we'd
llke to inquire as to whether his tapping on the meter
did any good on the WMC dump l£ne. We're considering
other possibilities for getting the system back in operation.
And sometime before LOS here, we'd llke to get an update
from the three of you as to where you are in the activation
checklist. Over.
PLT Bruce, it didn't go any good to tap on
the meter.
CC Roger.
SPT I'm still up in the WMC right now,
Houston, working on the UCTA sampling. And the water dump
pressure on the meter right here is still pegged too high.
CC Okay, thank you, Owen.
PLT And the PLT is in the middle of
the water system activation in the wardroom. We're
doing the sterilization this time. We're putting the
high concentration iodine in the system and waiting.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack.
CDR Sorry to ask this question so many times,
but would you verify that this is day 210.
CC Roger. This is day 2.
CDR Oh, no, no, no. 210, day of year.
CC Okay, it's 210. I thought you said
2 again.
CDR Thank you very much, Bruce.
CDR And Houston, CDR is still working on
stowage.
CC Roger, CDR.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station is Hawaii at 16:30 or 13 minutes from
now. Out.
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utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of the range
of the Honeysuckle station now. Hawaii will acquire in
12 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-72/I
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acquisition through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for approximately 9 minutes. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Sir.
CDR Just a second, let me see if we can
stop the there we stopped the squawks. It's becoming
obvious to us as it probably is to you that we're Just
not as spry up here right now as we'd like to be. We - None of
us has been able to eat all our breakfast and it's dinner
time now, and we're really not too keen on eating too much
of that, either. We feel okay, except in the stomach, if
you know what I mean. And our thinking is that we're not
going to be able to work much faster than we are right
now for the rest of the day, if that fast. There's a
desire to maybe take a break for an hour or two and get
in the bunk and just stay still for a while. Although, we
could keep moving around at a slow pace and work at the
level we're working at, which isn't near fast enough, but
that's the best we can do. Now, with this in mind it kind
of appears to us that maybe you ought to think about some-
how exchanging our day off from about 5 days or 6 days
from now until tomorrow. That would let us sort of regroup,
get our water level up, rest a little bit more, and sort
of get our stomachs settled down. We all feel good in the
head, it's merely a matter of if we move around too much,
we feel llke we better not move around any more for awhile,
and of course that slows us down.
CC Okay, AI, we copy all of that. The rate
at which you're working is quite satisfactory to us. We're
sort of planning around it. If you all want to take an
hour or so and get in the sack or do something to stabilize,
why go right ahead. When you have a moment, keep us posted
on where you are and what you're doing, so that we can
keep track down here and go into a dynamic - well, we are in a
planning mode, and we've got your comment about switching the
days off around and we'll evaluate that internally here and be
back to you on that later. Over.
CDR Roger. It would be my sort of subjective
opinion right now that a couple of days from now, we'd
have a hard time going EVA. That'd be my guess just from
the rate of adaptation we're having at the moment.
CC Okay, we have likewise factored that
one into the system, and when you all are through with
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lunch and back on the job, I've got a location and descrfption
for Jack perhaps to hang on the transducer that feeds
the WMC dump pressure gage. Over.
CDR Okay, why don't you give me that, and
I'll copy it down
CC Okay, when you open up the door under-
neath the water squeezer, I think it's 829, the WMC vent
valve, panel 831, is right there on your left as you're
standing up in I-G, and directly in behind it is the
transducer and looking at the photograph, it looks like
it's about 2 inches by 2 inches by 4 inches, a little
apparently solid metal box with a quarter-inch stainless
steel line going in the top of it and a electrical
connector coming out the bottom. You can either do - do
it at your convenience. And we suggest that he tap or bang
on it with his fingertips or some small object and see if that
effects the pressure reading. Over.
CDR Okay, We're going to have to call you
back on that. We were blocked out for a little while
there with a master alarm from the command module. We're
going to work that problem and then we'll call you Just as
soon as we can.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT I heard all that, Bruce. I'ii remember
it.
CC Okay, it's pretty obvious, Jack. It's
the only instrumentation looking box back there behind the
dump valve.
PLT Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Roger, we've had about three master
alarms from the command module this morning. And each
time when we've gone there, we found that no light was
on. We called the recall and couldn't get a light. And
we Just, of course, Just had one a few moments ago and the
same thing occurred.
CC Okay, Allen, we're showing the same
thing down here. About all I can say is that we will
keep a close eye on it. As you may realize, not all of
the command module parameters are available to the memory
in the command module. There's only about half of them
that are hooked up to that. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC This is Houston. 30 seconds to LOS at
Hawaii. Next station is Goldstone in 3-1/2 minutes. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-73/I
Time: 11:39 CDT 02:16:39 GMT
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utes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has loss of signal. Gold-
stone will pick up Skylab in less than 3 minutes. A1 Bean
reported during this pass that they have had 3 master alarms
in the command module, but when they get up there, they can
find nothing. Controllers here in the Mission Control Center
see nothing in the data they are looking at from telemetry
which would cause a master alarm. No problems_ no anomolles
in the data they see. The crew Commander, A1 Bean also
reports that the - none of the crewmen had eaten all of their
breakfast and they don't feel like eating a very large lunch.
He said he thought they might like to get in their bunks for
an hour or so. Didn't seem to feel like they were working
as fast as they should. Flight Director Hutchinson says
they are working plenty fast, and sees no need for them
to work any faster. He definitely agrees that if the crew
wants to take some time off, they should. He's asked the
activation officer to look for a good point to end the
activation for today and let the crew get plenty of rest.
We would llke to get the workshop water system activated
today. Other than that, no great hurry on the other systems.
There was also a suggestion from A1 Bean that we take a look
at changing their day off, which is now scheduled for next
Saturday to tomorrow to give them a chance to become more
adapted to the weightless condition and we'll look at that
here on the ground. A1 Bean mentioned that he believed they
would have a hard time doing the extravehicular activity
scheduled for Tuesday if they feel then the same way they
do now. All the problem is in their stomach. Their heads
feel fine, they feel fine other wise, but their stomaches
are queezy when they try to move too fast. Golds,one will
acquire in about i0 seconds. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Golds,one
for almost 6 minutes, out.
CDR Houston, do you know where the two spare
tape recorders are stowed?
CC We'll have an answer for you on that in
Just a second.
CC (garble)
CDR Monitor back.
CC They are in A9, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab Commander, this is Houston, over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, AI. Wetve got a minute to LOS at
Golds,one. Four minutes from now, I'll pick you up at Mila
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We're going to have a briefing discussion with you coming

up on Ascension at 17:08, regarding what we feel we need to
get finished up today. But for the time being, we would recommend
that you take your own advice and go into the local horlzonal
mode or something like that and Just rest for a while. And
I guess one of the things that apparently doesn't need to
be accomplished today is the airlock module tape recorder
replacement, so you can Just hold off on that and relax
for a while, over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea.
CC Okay, we'll glve you a call over Mila in
a few minutes, excuse me, over Bermuda in a few minutes. No
response required.
utes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone does have loss of signal.
Bermuda will acquire the spacecraft in about 3 minutes. Coming
up on the lunch hour for the crew, they have already indicated
that they didn't feel like eating too much. Since they do have
an hour set aside for lunch, Flight Director Nell Hutchinson
has instructed the Capcom, Bruce McCandless to tell the crew
that he thinks they should take a little extra time, they
can take 2 or 3 hours if they want to and get some rest.
He plans to talk to the crew over the Ascension station during
this next revolution about the activation plan which obviously
is going to be shortened today. There ere a few items that
they would like to get completed, that they would plan on doing
after this rest period, but there aren't many things that
have to be done today. We're coming up close to Bermuda now,
we'll stand by.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda

for 8-1/2 minutes. No reply required, out.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay A1, I was Just telling you that we were
here in contact. Coming up on Ascension which is
still about 15 minutes away, we'd like you to have the
yellow pages portion of your activation checklist, that is
the flight plan section open, and we'll read off to you those
blocks that we feel need to be accomplished today. And you
can Just check them off or circle them, or do something like
that. I think we can handle the whole thing that wayj over.
CDR Sounds like a good way. We'll be ready.
CC Roger, out.
CC Skylab, Houston, 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
pick you up through Ascension in 6-1/2 minutes, out.
END OF TAPE
.o
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utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal. Canary
station, no we missed the Canary station this revolution.
Ascension will acquire the spacecraft in about 5-i/2 minutes.
We'll come back up Just prior to that. At 17 hours 3 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-76/I
Time: 12:07 CDT 02:17:07 GMT
7/29/73

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition
through Ascension.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
We've got you for about i0 minutes here. And if the Commander
has his checklist out, we're ready to run through the things
that we feel probably ought to be accomplished today, over.
SPT While you're waiting there, Bruce, I Just
finished all the UCTA sampling. And I'm looking for that little
map that shows where each of the samples are supposed to be
placed in the freezer. I thought it was in our activation
checklist, maybe it's not. If you would show me where that
map is, IWd appreciate it, and when I'm through with this other,
why you can tell me.
CC Okay, we'll locate the map for you, Owen
in Just a second here.
CDR Okay Bruce, ready to go on the other.
CC Okay AI. On page small g for Golf, at
about 13:50 in your column, CSM G&S/SCS power down for page
2-20, we want to accomplish. And over in Jackts column
wardroom water system activation for page 2-15, over.
CDR Okay, got both of those.
CC Next page little h for Hotel. SPT UCTA sampling
which Owen reports to me he has Just completed is all that
we require out of him. In the PLT column opposite about
15:20, the i00 parts per million drain and flush operation on
page 2-35, the water system flush on page 2-39, and the ward-
room water system bleed down at the bottom on page 2-45,over.
CDR Okay, I've got those.
CC Next page, little i for India. The PLT
at approximately 17:20 indicated we want to do the bed 2
bake out termination for page 2-55, over.
CDR Okay.
CC And the MOL SIEVE A activation per
2-63.
CDR Okay.
CC In your column, about equal to the MOL
SIEVE A activation we'd like to write in a bat A charge ter-
mination, which should occur around 18:40 Zulu. Although
the timing is not real critical at all on this, what we'd
like to do is get the bat A charge terminated prior to
doing the following steps for you, over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay_ next page, page J for Juliett,
the items that I'm calling out here are pretty much a part
of the quiescent panel configuration, but all that we really
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want to do is do the single inverter operation configuration

per page systems 4-7, which is reference if you go to the
quiescent panel configuration 2-76 in the activation
checklist. And configure panels 275 and panel 250. Those
are the two electrical panels, one for the inverter control
and the bus tie type thing, and the other for the batteries
per quiescent panel configuration. And one write-ln is we
need to get a waste water dump from the command module for
the workshop, while you're up there at the same time. This
is per page systems checklist 4-16, that's command module
systems checklist 4-16. And for your information, we expect
that probably two more water dumps will be required. So
we recommend, although it's your option, that you omit the
two steps which cause you to take the plumbing apart, and
Just leave the system hooked up to save time on the future
ones, over.
CDR Sounds llke a good idea.
CC Okay, for the SPT, the stowage map for
urine is on page 9-9 of the blamed experiment checklist and
log. What it says basically is all 6 half urine samples
from UCTA go in slot number i of the urine tray, over.
SPT Okay, understand. Thank you Bruce.
CC Okay. And for the Commander, we're
requesting that when you all avail yourself of the sack out
time that you each take a scope/Dex tablet. And next time
somebody happens to be up in the CSM over a site, we'd llke
you to get the tape recorder forward rewind switch put
to the off position, and maybe we can get the DSE operating
again, over.
CDR Okay, you want the tape recorder
forward off. We'll do that right now.
CC Okay, if you feel like it.
CDR Tape recorder forward off.
CC Okay, thank you AI.
PLT For your information, we're having a
hard time getting the portable water tank drained because
the waste processor exhaust pressure keeps going up above .08.
So I'll start with the dump valve from off to on, and probably
after a while all the water tank will be drained. You can
concur with that?
CC Okay Jack. We concur with that. I know
it takes a little while, but that's the way we'd like to get
It done.
CC And for the CDR, this is Houston. On your
way by panel 207 in the STS prior to sacking out, we'd llke
you to inhibit the ACS malf rate gyro switch from the ATM
iigaill so tli_it yt, u dart' t get a clliit Ion and warning I f we have
a redundancy m;lilagement, over.
.q
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CDR Okay, Bruce.

CC And 22 seconds to LOS. Next station
is Carnarvon in 22 minutes. And we'll give you a call there,
over.
CDR Okay. Hey, how's your channel B doing
down there, Bruce?
CC We're checking that Owen. I don't know
that we've positive a feedback yet on anything from channel B.
SPT Okay. I'm going to put a little bit
of stuff on there right in the next few minutes.
CC Okay.
19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal.
Carnarvon will acquire in 22 minutes. During this pass over
Ascension we passed up the items that should be completed
today, the activation items. The total of these items should
require less than an hour's work for each of the crewmen by
the flight director's estimate. However, prior to completing
these activation duties the crew will take a rest period
of several hours. And we've requested that each crewman
take a scop/Dex tablet, a motion sickness medication prior to
sacking out for this rest period. And in Skylab, sacking
out is a literal term. We'll come back up Just prior to
Carnarvon acquisition. At 17 hours 21 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 77/1
Time: 12:40 CDT 02:17:40 GMT
7/29/73

41 minutes Greenwich mean time. We' re standing by for acquisi-
tion through Canarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canarvon
for the next 8 and a half minutes. We have a couple of
items associated with the command module waste water
dump when the commander's availableD and we wonder if
you're feeling any better since you took the Scop/Dex/
Ove r.
SC Roger. I don't think anybody's gone to
bed yet, Houston. So I don't think anybody's taken the
scop/Dex. And I'm standing by for that and note on - waste
water dump.
CC Okay, it's a 2 small notes. The first
is to verify that the condensate holding tank inlet hose
is connected to panel 393 and to the condensate inlet
port. And the second item is that in step ii of the
command module waste water dump to OWS procedure, page $4-17:
We want you to delete the last operation, which says:
airlock module 230 and 232 heat exchanger A condensate
isolation valve 2, open. since we haven't poeered up the
condensate system yet. Over.
CDR Understand. l've gone through the
condensate system prep. I mean the H20 plate wetting prep
but I don't think we've done the rest.
CC That's correct - -
CDR I got those 2 notes.
CC Right, you have not done the rest.
Now, our plan here is that, following LOS at Canarvon, we're
not going to give you any more calls on the radio for
probably 3 or 4 hours. If you want to contact us go ahead
and put i0000 on the ATM dash but do not enter and we'll
call you the next time we see it over a station. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And, AI, to correct a possible mis-
impression on my last transmission, regarding the scop/Dex,
we'd like you to go ahead and take it at the present time
so it'll have a little chance to act. Over.
CDR Okay, will do.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with about
45 seconds to LOS from Canarvon. This is will be our last
call until - oh about dinner time - 3 or 4 hours from now.
For the PLT, our recommendation would be Just to stop the
wardroom water system activation wherever is convenient
for you and to go ahead and hit the sack with the rest of
the guys. Over.
SL-III MC 77/2
Time: 12:40 CDT 02:17:40 GMT
7/29/73

52 minutes Greenwich mean time. Canarvon has had loss
of signal. We do not intend to talk to the crew again
until about 23 hours GMT a little over 5 hours from
this time. This will give the crew a chance to sleep -
to rest in the hopes that it will help settle their stomachs.
Give them a little more time to adapt to the weightless
environment before proceeding with activation - workshop
activation chores. We will continue to monitor systems
on the workshop over tracking stations., However, there will
be no voice communications. We will not call the crew
for the next 5 hours. If the crew desires for us to call
them or wants to talk to us, they will put a signal in the
computer that will be noted on the ground here, and we'll give
them a call. During this rest period we will come up
hourly reports of spacecraft status, workshop status,
and if there should be air-ground communication we will
come up live and give that to you. At 17 hours 54 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-78/I
TIME: 13:40 CDT 02:17:40 GMT
7/29/73

40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has Just gone out
of range of the Bermuda station. Right at LOS there was
a brief conversation between CAP COM Bruce McCandless and
the Skylab commander, A1 Bean. Wefll play that for you
now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda.
We'd like you to terminate BAT A charge in the command
module at this time. Acknowledge. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll do it right now.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That was the
extent of the conversation. The next station to acquire
will be Carnarvon in 38 minutes. We do not anticipate at
this time there will be air to ground communications over
that station. If there is we will come up and bring it to
you. At 18 hours 41 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC 79/1
Time: 13:59 CDT 02:18:59 GMT
7/29/73

59 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is over the
South Atlantic Ocean about 20 minutes away from acquisition
at the Carnarvon, Australia station. Last time we looked
at the Skylab over the Bermuda station all systems were
operating normally, with no change. Crew is in a rest
period, has been for about the last hour. We've talked to
the crew very briefly - at least to AI Bean very briefly
Just before loss of signal at Bermuda. That's been the
only conversation since the Carnarvon pass on the last
revolution. We do not intend to call the crew again
until at least 5 pm Central daylight time, allowing the
crew to rest in hopes that that will help settle their
stomachs. They're having some problem adapting to the
weightless environment in space. Each of the crewmen
have - has been requested to take a motion sickness tablet
prior to this rest period. We'll continue to come up
with hourly reports and if there is any air-to-ground
at tracking stations around the world well we'll come up
and bring you that conversation. At 19 hours i minute
END OF TAPE
SL III MG-80/I
TIME: 14:22 CDT 02:19:22 CDT
7_29/73

22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is in acquisition
at Carnarvon, and there has been some conversation. We'll
start that conversation for you from the beginning.
CC Through Carnarvon for 7-1/2 minutes. We
see i0,000 on the DAS. Over.
PLT Yeah, Bruce. We were down there
resting and got a MASTER ALRAM. Turned out to be a MAIN A
UNDERVOLT. And came up here and looked at it in the command
module, and noticed that the MAIN A was down around 25 volts
for a little while, and the fuel cell was putting out a lot of
current. Then it went down and went back to normal. And then
it made a couple of more spikes, very intermittently, a couple
of times. And I'm kinda suspecting the heaters, although
I don't know for sure. I put all the heaters in the
opposite position to see if we can get a main B the next time -
isolated them to the heater system. But looked like it was putting
a lot of load on the fuel cell. The only other thing we can
think of is there's a lot of water in the waste tank. Of
course, there's planty hot with the potable tank; that won't be
a problem. Well, the only other thing we got running around here
is the glycol pump and the fuel cell pumps, but we didn't get any
AC indication at all.
CC Okay. I think we're probably going to
want to ask you a few more questions on this subject, Jack.
You said the fuel cell was putting out a lot of current.
Was this fuel cell I? And if you got the buses tied to-
gether, what kind of current are you talking about?
PLT Okay, we had - we normally run between
20 and 25 asps on both busses, and for a little while we
had the main A light, the main A, the service module source
one was putting out fuel cell one was putting out 40 asps.
CC Okay. Did you check to see what fuel
cell number 3 was doing at that time? Over.
PLT Yeah. It was only putting out 20 amps.
CC Okay. We copy that. Thank you.
PLT And the buses are not tied together yet.
CC Roger. That was my error.
CC Hey, Jack, you still there?
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC You don't sound like Jack, but I guess
you'll do. Looking at the Main A undervolt, it appears to
us that it was due to a stacking up of the heater loads all at
once. And what we'd like to do is to have you turn the heaters
and fans ill hydrogen tank number 1 off and the heater
tor oxyge, I _i1_k number I off, and then complete tile
I,_lnt, I vonl I_,,_tt._ll Io._ for p_.lvl 250 lind p_Jnvl 226 pt, r _4ystem_
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checklist, page 3-8. Over.

CDR Okay, we'll go - go through that quiescent panel.
We were to there anyway, and we were just getting ready to
settle down. We'll go back and put that thing in quiescent
and do the things that you said, Bruce.
CC I don't think you have to -
CDR We may have to put the original heaters
back on.
CC Okay. I don't think you have to go
through the whole quiescent checklist. It's Just what we want
to get here is the configuration of some of these heaters.
SC (Garble)
CC Okay.
CC We've got about 40 seconds here to LOS
here at Carnarvon. The next station coming up is Guam in
about 7 minutes and if you like we can give you a call
there or we can just be standing by and if you want some-
thing, you can give us a call. That's at 19:33. Over.
CDR Go ahead and give us a call.
CC We'll do it.
28 minutes Greenwich time. We're still in acquisition at
Carnarvon for a few more seconds. We'll stand by for any
other conversation.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The acquisition
we still have at Carnarvon is C-band and not S-hand, so
there will be no more voice communications through that
station. Guam will acquire in 4-1/2 minutes. We'll come
back up and stand by llve for the Guam pass at that time.
At 19 hours 28 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
,!
SL-III MC 81/1
Time: 14:32 CDT 02:19:32 GMT
7/29/73

32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range
of the Guam station within the next few seconds. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for a little over 8 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger. We Just went over to single
inverter operation and we're now configuring panel 5 and
we're going to press on from there.
CC Okay. Do I interpret what your saying
is you're going to do the whole quiescent configuration in
the command module at this time, Over.
CDR Roger. It won't take us that long and
then we' ii have it done right.
CC Beautlful. We concur.
SC Give us a recap on the 02 and H2
heaters and fan switches that you'd llke, we want to make
sure we're right.
CC Okay. Stand by Just a second.
CDR And also any comments about the fuel
cell pumps or anything else.
CC Okay, Skylab. What we want is R2 tank
number i, heaters off. H2 tank 2 heaters to auto. H2 tank
1 fan off. R2 tank 2 fan auto. Oxygen tank 1, heaters
off, Oxygen tank 2, heaters to auto. And the nominal
configuration on the fuel cell pumps - fuel cell 1 ACI.
Fuel cell 3AC2, but you'll be powering both AC bus 1 and 2
off of the one inverter so it really doesn't make any difference
on that point. Over.
CDR And we got it that way and we' re going
to put - as we mentioned we're going to put the heaters
back as they were before this problem.
CC All right. This is the cryo heaters
you' re talking about. Over.
CDR We're talking about RCS heaters, package
heaters, et cetera.
CC Okay. And you Just put that all back to the
preconfiguratlon. Do you need any more information from
us on those.
CDR No, not to put them back unless you have
any other suggestions.
CC Skylab, Houston. While we're talking
to you on the subject of quiescent configurations did
you receive our teleprinter message last night which was
change number 1 to CSM systems checklist general message
202 Charlie with the cryo configuration in it. Over.
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CDR We did and we also got the one about

the RCS switches and we've set them correctly.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Thanks for checking though.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're noticing that
we're not getting any data back on the circadian rhythm data
system. We're wondering if you could check the position but
not change on panel 5 experiment bus Main A and Main B circuit
breakers and experiment power B experiment. Over.
CDR Tell us exactly what you want. We don't
think we did but we could have. If it Just recently went
off it's probable because we've been working on that panel.
CC Okay. We have 15 seconds to LOS, we
want to find out what the position of the experiment bus
main A and main B circuit breakers and experiment -
SC They're out per the quiescent checklist.
A's open, B's closed.
CC - - okay, A open, B closed. How about
experiment power, B experiment that's the middle one over to
the right.
SC It's in.
CC Okay. Thank you. We've got 15 minutes
to AOS at Goldstone I think we'll probably give you a call
at Goldstone also.
SC Okay, we'll try to work that problem too.
PAO This is Skylab Control loss of signal
through the Guam Island tracking station. Back again for
Goldstone assuming that the so called rest period continues
to have air-to-ground conversation. 13 minutes until Gold-
stone acquisition. At 19:43 GMT Skylab Control.
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7/29/73

mean time. Less than a minute away from acquisition of
Skylab 3 space station by the Goldstone, California tracking
station. As the space station crosses the longitude of
Cape Kennedy on this revolution, they will begin the ii00
revolution around the Earth.
CC and stateside stations for 15 minutes.
We've got some questions for you regarding the configuration
of the S071/72 experiments when you have a minute.
CDR We've got it right now. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, over on MDC panel 5, if you'll look
down there in the lower right hand corner there is a group
of five circuit breakers having to do with the experiments.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We got bat A is open, and
the other four are closed.
CC Okay, what we're looking for, reading from
left to right, is experiment bus main A closed, main B closed,
experiment power A open, B closed, and C closed, over.
PLT Okay, and the middle one is open.
CC Middle one is open and the other four
are closed.
PLT That's the way we've got it right now.
CC Okay.
PLT How about 227 now? Did you say to do
something on there, panel 227 on the FCI instrumentation?
CC No, we did not. But on panel 277, we'd
like you to confirm the S071 power switch to on, and the
S072 switch to power, over.
PLT That's verified.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT We're just (garble) making land ... now,
Bruce. What part of the coastline are we crossing?
CC I'm sorry, Owen, I didn't copy. Can you say
again please.
SPT I was just making land now. I was wondering
what part of the coast we were crossing?
CC Okay, just looking at the chart here in
mission control, looks like you're up above Washington State.
We can get you a little better hack than that in a second.
SPT That's close enough. Got a info on
the w - wardroom here whenever you' re not too busy on the
power stuff.
CDR Okay, I've got a couple of comments
for you, Bruce.
CC Okay Alan, go ahead.
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CDR Okay, we left the potable water heater

on until we finish with the water heater. And in one other
switch
CC Go ahead, you dropped out.
CDR Okay, on - just a second. We noticed
that it's got the panel 352 pressure release valve to off.
And we presently don't have that in off. And I'm was Just
wondering if in order to keep getting water from the command
module for drinking purposes, should we go ahead and put it
off or leave it right where it is?
CC Stand by just a second.
CDR It's in release.
CC Okay, on 352, Alan, go ahead and leave
the valve in the release position.
CDR Okay, now when we finish using water up
here after we get the wardroom water activated, should we
then put that to off per the checklist?
CDR Okay, if you'll keep track of those
two for us, we'd appreciate it - that the pressure release valve is
in off I mean, is not in off and the potable water heater is on.
And then when we finally get the rest of it done, give us a
reminder. We'll probably remember, but this way two of us will
be working on it.
CC Will do.
PLT How is the instrumentation of the
nats and rats (?) now Bruce?
CC It's still no go, Jack. There must be
something else that we haven't figured out.
PLT I'm kind of wondering if maybe the spikes
we had on main A were - that thing shorting out.
CC Well, we've been discussing that possibil-
ity down here, but at the present time we don't have any
definite opinion on that.
PLT Okay. Well, those spikes that we had
weren't typical heater on spikes. It wasn't really a spike.
It went up there and stayed for a while, and then came down
and then spiked up a couple of times.
CC Can you give us any estimate of how long
it was at that higher level? I know it took you a while to
get up there and look.
PLT Both AI and I saw it stay up there for a couple
of seconds - two different times at least.
CC About what mission time was this? We
can go back and reconstruct when we get AOS with you. But
we don't know just exactly how far before that it happened.
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PLT About 10 minutes before we called.

CC Okay. Thank you.
PLT And we've been getting caution and warnings
all morning. You know this intermittance, and we get up there
and we can't find out what it is, but that wouldn't have been
main A, because it locks up.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT So I think that was the first - -
CC Okay Jack, your last comment got cut
out there on a handover within the stateside group.
CC PLT, Houston. Your last comment was
cut out by the ground station handover. Over.
PLT How do you hear me Bruce? It sounds like
we've got (garble) up-link but no down-link.
CC Yeah, we're reading you now, Jack. I
was saying your last previous comment was cut out because
we were having our handover here from Goldstone to Texas.
PLT Okay, I'ii repeat. We got the quiescent
setup about complete. We've got both busses tied
together, and in total they're pulling between 30 and 40 amps
off the - -
CC Say again about the current.
PLT The total amperage is between 30 and
40 amps, it's varylng.
CC Okay, we've got it.
CDR And we finished the quiescent check in
the command module, Houston.
CC Okay, Alan, we copy. And we'd like
to get you to cycle the two power switches. The one for
S071, one for S072, on panel 277 if you would please.
CDR/PLT Okay.
CDR When I first went up to the command
module for this below condition, Bruce, the fuel cell I was
jumping almost to max flow and it was Jumping up to max and then
about three-quarters of the way down, and then up to max and
then about halfway down and then up to max. And it didn't
act like any heater that I've ever seen come on ulness
the heater itself was somehow shorting out because it was
taking a big load. The fuel cells were going as rapidly as
possible to match it, but they could not. And this occurred
about four or five times. I called Jack, he came up. He saw it
a couple of times, and it's been normal since then. And
it became normal before we switched the heaters. Of cousre we
came into the sunlight some time around then, we're not
sure because we've got all our window covers up. But it
just didn't act like heaters to me. It acted more like some sort
of short on the bus that may have burned away.
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PLT I concur with that. That was llke no

heater I've ever seen before. And I tackles your seitches
277.
CC Okay, we copy the input, and the fact that
you cycled the switches, thank you.
SPT There's Houston, 12 o'clock low, Brice.
CC Okay, I guess we say there is Skylab at
12 o'clock high. Thank you Owen.
SPT You know, we can almost at the NASA Manned
Spacecraft Center- Johnson Center right down there.
CC Is there anybody up on Pete Conrad's
roof?
SPT That I can't make out without binoculars.
PLT Comment on that wardroom window, if you're
through with that systems stuff for the day.
PLT The wardroom window when I discovered
it here, it has a pane of frost about i0 centimeters or about
2-1/2 about 4 inches or i0 centimeters in diameter, and
right in the center of that frost there is a little round
bubble of either water or ice -
CC Break, break.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We need to talk to CSL again here for
a second.
PLT Right.
CC Can you all get at the S015 control panel,
Allan?
CDR Sure can.
CC Okay, we'd llke you to cycle the 40X.
Hold it on the 40X switch on S015, and observe the frame rate
on the camera. Hold it in the test position. And it's sup-
posed to be about one flash about every 12 seconds or so.
CDR We'll do it, 40X.
CC We've got a handover here in about
I0 seconds. I'ii call you when we're on the other side.
CC Okay, we're back in business there AI.
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Time: 15:08 CDT 02:20:08 GMT
7/29/73
CC Back in business there, AI.

CC Skylab, Houston. Back to you through
Mila at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston. Back to you through
Mila with a little over 2 minutes tll LOS.
CDR (garble) stay on as long as I remain in
test.
CC I only heard the last part of your
transmission, AI. Something about remaining in test. Over.
CDR As long as I remain in test. It's on
for 5, off for 7,
on for 5, and off for 7.
CC Okay, we copy that and back over here on
panel 8, with respect to these experiment circuit breakers,
we'd like to establish whether that one on the left band
side of (garble) experiment bus main A, popped out or whether
you all pulled that out in configuring the panel. Over.
CDR Well, you know, Bruce. One of those
breakers was out. And I thought that's the one that it was.
And it may not have been, although I don't know.
CC Okay, but when you guys went through the
quiescent panel checks in that area, it looked to you llke
it was already in configuration. Is that correct?
CDR I don't think we're sure, Bruce. We took
a look at the circuit breakers, and then we went to quiescent
panel configuration immediately thereafter, and we've done
every circuit breaker in the spacecraft and I'm afraid we Just
can't remember that particular one.
CC Okay, we'll believe that.
CC And we've got about 40 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact is Vanguard in ll minutes and we'll
give you a call through there and my apologies to the SPT
for not being able to listen to his comments on the wardroom
window at this time. We'll try and pick him up over
Van guard.
SPT Perfectly understood, Bruce. I didn't
want to work it in unless you bad time to put it down, but
I spotted you all the way across the whole bay of Mexico there
- Gulf of Mexico.
CC Beaut iful.
through the Mila or Merrltt Island launch area tracking
station as the Skylab space station crosses the Isthmus of
Panama on the start of the ll00th revolution of the Earth,
for the space station, that is. Some i0 minutes away from
acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard. In all the troubleshooting
ou the experiment electrical system, gettfng the telemetry
sortied out where tile exp_,rlments caa he mon|tored on the
_'r,*uLid, we i_ad a h|t of H[ght--s_'_'iil}_ mel|t |op.ed there by
ih¢' I'I |of. , .),rick l,¢)tlt4ill,*i t wh() l,.,kili_. _HL Ill** wJiLrdroum window
SL III MC-83/2
Time: 15:08 CDT 02:20:08 GMT
7/29/73
noted that the entire Gulf of Mexico could be seen from his
vantage point. Back in 9 minutes for the Vanguard tracking
ship pass. At 20:13 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 84/1
Time: 15:22 CDT 02:20:22
7/29/73

mean time. Skylab space station over central South America-
central portion of South America approaching the tracking
ship Vanguard. And there'll be a space of over an hour after
loss of signal through Vanguard before the next station
which again will be Goldstone, California for the final
stateside pass of the day. At 4 p.m. Central daylight time
in the Johnson Space Center news room, Dr. Royce Hawkins
will hold a medical status briefing. To repeat that's 4 p.m.
Houston news room with Dr. Royce Hawkins. Standing by for
the initial call through Vanguard. Skylab Control standing
by.
PLT We're here if you're there.
CC Okay, Jack, we're reading you weakly
but the signal strength is coming up rapidly now through
Vanguard for approximately 7 minutes. W What we'd like you
to do in connection with S071-72 is take the experiment power
Bravo experiment circuit breaker on panel 5 which is the
fourth one over to the right, that is over toward the
STS haeter side and cycle that out and hack in and then
cycle the S071-72 power systems again please. Over.
PLT Okay, that's the Bravo circuit breaker
now that's the fifth one from the right is Bravo the one
you want?
CC It's the one in between the experiment
power Alfa and Charlie circuit breakers.
PLT Well it looks a lot llke Bravo then.
CC Right.
PLT Okay, you want me Open, close, and then
recycle, right?
CC Yes. Then recycle the switches on 272.
PLT Okay, just recycle the circuit breaker
and I'ii get the switches.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, everything's back up.
CC Okay, Jack, while we're standing by here
we've got some more developments we' re trying to track
down here. Maybe we can get a report from Owen on his
wardroom window problem.
SPT Why don't you go ahead and finish that one
up and then I'ii talk to you about it.
PLT He's not too worried about talking about
it for a while, Bruce.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, better get her closed, let her bleed
down to fair amount. You got 9 minutes?
CC Skylab, Houston.
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7/29/73
PLT Thirteen. Go ahead, I was talking to the wrong

guy there, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack, for your information it
turns out that the power for S071-S072 experiments is drawn
directly off of service module BUS Alfa through 115 amp
fuse for each experiment and that the power that comes through
the circuit breaker and the switches up in the command module is
logic and control power. At the present time our suspicion
is that we may have blown one or more of these fuses, however,
we've got a few data systems commands that can be sent so
what we'd like to do is leave the command module under the
properly configured for the time being but not put any more
crew time into troubleshooting at the present time. Over.
PLT Okay, just tell me how you want it and
I'Ii put it there. Do you like it the way it is?
CC Yea, we like it the way it is with the
experimentBUS breakers in, and experiment power AC in, and the
switches on.
PLT Okay, meanwhile we're moving along slowly
here. We got the wardroom water full of iodine, we're
flushing that out now. The problem is that you can't dump
it for 30 minutes straight you've got to cycle on and off. That's
taking a little extra time to do that.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jack. And I got my tongue
tied on this last one. The circuit breaker configuration that
you've got up there we think is correct. The experiment
power breakers we won't enter the B and C breakers. We copy
your comments on the wardroom water system. Basically that
our philosophy has been that you guys should slow down and
take it easy and anything that you can get done and work along
in sequence in the checklist is fine, but we're more interested
in getting you guys acclimatized to the environment right now
than anything else. Over.
PLT (Garble)
CC I'm sorry, I missed that last one. We got
some nnoise, we're coming through Vanguard and they're anchored
in the harbor there.
PLT Yes, our sentiments are pretty much the
same. I terminated the - the BET bakeout pretty much on time, _
about 17:40 I guess it was. And I couldn't go ahead and get mol
sieve A up, of course, because we don't have the - the certain
watering water condensate plates serviced yet.
CC Okay, Jack, we don't need them up. Go ahead
and activate the mol sieve. We'll worry about the condensing
heat exchange and the condensate plates later on. A little
bit of water that the sieve collectwill probably be okay until
we get to it. Over.
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7/29/73
PLT Oh, all right_ I thought maybe that it'll

collect more water that we ought to get in the BETs but if
you say it's all right to go ahead. It looks like the due
point's around 57 last I checked so that means I crank up
sieve A then.
CC Yes sir, just leave the coolant valve
to the condenstae plates closed off. We got I0 seconds to
LOS at Vanguard. Our next station contact is Goldstone in
an hour and 3 minutes, and for Owen we've dumped the data
tape recorder. We believe your still recording on channel
A though at this point in the configuration since we found
nothing on B.
CDR Well, I didn't record anything on A.
I did put a comment to the biomed people on channel
B a couple of hours ago. That's all.
CC Right, that would have been lost.
CDR I'Ii do it again.
CC On A, please.
CDR Okay.
through tracking ship Vanguard. And an hour and 2 minutes
now until the next station which will be Goldstone. What
began as a 2 hour break for the Skylab crew to wait for
queasy feelings to go away ended up as a troubleshooting
period. Heater cycling on in the fuel cell electrical
power generating system in the command service module
caused high readings which briefly were puzzling to the
crew and to the ground controllers. Also, data from several
experiments were not being telemetered to the ground as
desired. And the crew went through a troubleshooting
session to sort out this problem. The main thrust,
however, of today's activity is to get the crew acalimated
to their new space home. At 20:33 reenwich mean time
back in lhour for the final stateside pass through
Goldstone and Texas, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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7/28/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. A reminder on

the medical status briefing in the Houston News Room at
4:00 p. m. central daylight time, Dr. Royce Hawkins.
There will be two-way question and answer capability, with
the Kennedy Space Center News Room. That is 4:00 p. m.
central time, 5:00 p.m. eastern daylight time, Medical
status briefing, Dr. Royce Hawkins. Skylab Control. Back
again in 58 minutes, assuming the press is completed by
then. Likely it will not be, so any conversation through
Goldstone and Texas will be taped for a delayed playback
after the medical status briefing. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 86/1
Time: 16:02 CST, 02:21:02 1:09:51 GET
7/29/73
PAO This is Skylab Control with the final call

for the medical status briefing to begin in less than 5 minutes
in the Johnson Space Center newsroom with Dr. Royce Hawkins.
Repeat, beginning momentarily, Dr. Royce Hawkins with the
medical status briefing in the JSC newsroom with two-way
Q and A possible with the Cape News Center. Skylab Control
out •
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC87/I
Time: 16:49 CST, 02:21:49 01:10:38 GET
7/29/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 21:49 Greenwich mean

time, Just completed a stateside pass that begin while the
medical status briefing was underway. During this pass the
Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless, passed up to the
crew some suggestions that perhaps will hasten the adapatatlon
of the Skylab crew to the vestibular problems they're
encountering in their first 2 days of flight. First off,
they are to immediately take -each one is to immediately take
another scopolamlne/Dexidlene tablet, wait I hour, and then
the procedure is to yaw their head from left to right rapidly
30 to 40 times a minute with the body stationary and if no
symptoms occur after a short period of that, then move on to more
complex head movements similar to those that are used in the
vestibular function medical experiment and then proceed
slowly with their activation task. Bean came back and said
that they'd done this kind of conditioning preflight on the
chair using this medication but he doesn't think it's going
to work but he's going to try it. I have some 9 minutes of
that tape racked up for playback and this should bridge
across to acquisition at Vanguard at which time wlll come up
live. Let's play back the Goldstone - Texas tape now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
and Texas for the next 12 minutes, over.
PLT Hello, Bruce, well we're still up there in
the command module at least I am and this time I was up here
for a fuel cell 3 light.
CC Boy, it sounds like you found a home up
there in the command module. Go ahead, though.
PLT Yea, I thought (garble) wrong when I
got here. The condensor set - the condensor exhaust was down a
little low and it may have been below 150 but and got back up before
I got here, so don't know exactly why we got that but the
condensor exhaust is rising a little bit; it is almost in the
green now. And, I haven't got around to checking my fuel cell
RAD, OUT temp, but I guess you can probably see that down here.
The skin temp hasn't changed appreciably.
CC Okay, Jack, we concur that it was the condensate
exhaust that caused the MASTER ALARM there and it's going back
up. Got a little bit of information for you, regarding your
previous main A problem. We played packed the tapes down here
on the ground and looked at them closely and we concur that
it was indeed a short circuit on main A. We show spikes on
- excuse me on bus A we show spikes as high as 70 amperes
fluctuating and voltages down as low as 25 volts, supporting
you contentions that it was not on a normal (garble) cycling
situation. In very close time correlation to these
current spikes, we lost the circadian rhythm data system and
our present belief is that it was a short in this data system
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(CONT'D) that caused your problems and it finally failed in the open
position, so this probably implies that you won't have any more problems
on main A and that the data system is lost however, we want
to leave the command module switches and circuit breakers
in their present configuration for the time being, over.
SC Okay, I copy all that Probably one of
those mice is sitting on an open terminal down there. He'll get
off it after a while.
CC I thought maybe he got hungry and decided
he liked Teflon insulation or something to eat.
CC And for the SPT, or whoever is at the
ATM-DC we'd llke to get the i0,000 cleared off the DAS. And then, Jack
we have one more request for you if you feel up to it. We'd
like to go ahead and get the water condensate system activated
by going through the water separator flight servicing procedures
on page 2-27 Activation Checklist and then the condensate system
activation right after on 2-35, if you could and our feeling is that
this probably ought to take priority over finishing up the water system
activation; if you feel like you can do it and work it in otherwise
you can probably split the task up with AI on it. Over.
PLT Okay. We'll look it over and see if we
can hack that and we almost got the wardroom water thing
taken care of, I believe.
CC Okay, sounds might fine. Break, break for
the commander. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, AI we request that all three of you
take another scop/Dex. Acknowledge. Over.
CDR Okay, right now, you mean.
CC Yes indeed. And I got some instructions
for you that we believe will hasten your vestibular adapatatlon.
CDR We're sure listening for that.
CC Okay, I'm informed that ground base studies
and slow rotation rooms have shown that adapatation and
loss of motion sickness with head movements while protected
with medication occurs within hours or a day at most and
the following procedures are based on these and aimed at helping
you adapt. As I've indicated, you should take a scop/Dex capsule
and then wait for the pill to take maximum effect which
is approximately I hour after injection. With your body
Stationary, perform rightleft head movements of the yawing
type i.e., yaw right, yaw left at a rate of approximately 30
per minute for a 10-minute period for accumulated durations of
30 or 40 minutes. I guess this comes out to 900 to 1200 yawing
movements but don't allow any major symptoms to occur during this
period of head movements. If these simple right-left head movements
can be tolerated they'd like for you to attempt complex head movements
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(CONT'D) in the four planes as defined in the MI31 experiment.

The more of these movements that can be done, the more rapid will
be the adapatation but we're not implying that you use the
MI31 hardware. The primary factor underlying these procedures
is that vestibular adapatation will not occur without head
movement. The anti-motion sickness pill should prevent symptoms
and allow head movements to be made and we also feel probably
that if you all can Just keep going on slowly on some of the
tasks as you feel up to it you would indeed benefit from the
movements just normal adjuncts to these tasks also helping
you to adapt while you've got the scop/Dex, in effect. Over.
CDR Okay, we understand. In fact what we've
been thinking about, as you know we all three went through
this conditioning thing with the scop/dex on the rotating chair
and one of the things that's been crossing my mind is
maybe that sort of set us up cause Jack was very good on the
chair, did all of the movements and the whole business and
he hasn't adapted - yet. Neither has Owen or myself and we
went through that whole protocal. We'll take them and do the
head movements but that's what we did the week before the
flight. So it seems to me that -
CC Okay, we're coming up on a handover here.
CDR - - have to work on the three of us for some
reason but we'll work on it.
CC Okay, AI, we got a handover in progress
right now. I'ii get back to you in a second.
CC Okay, (garble) that handover complete. And
we copied your response.
PLT Hey, Bruce, you think we ought to do
anything to keep this condensor exhaust from coming out
every time we go into darkness? got a hunch the thing cools
off and then warms up again tn the sunshine.
CC Standby a second on that Jack, we're
discussing that right now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston we've got a minute
and a half to LOS here at Texas we're going to be dumping voice
and data recorder next pass Vanguard which comes up in 14 min-
utes at 22:00 and final comment regarding these vestibular
motions procedures. We are aware of the preflight protocol
that you all went through and certainly been discussing that
a good bit. But I think that in the present state the procedures
tahat we just read up to you are our best effort at determining
something that'll hasten your adapatation. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce and check channel A when you
get down it on tape.
CC Okay, Owen we'll check channel A.
CC Skylab, PLT this is Houston. For right now
we'd llke to go 4-A to INHIBIT on the caution and warning
which Is fuel cell 3, condensor exhaust temperature, we're _oing
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(CONT'D) to be varying the loads on the systems by ground command

most like -
END OF TAPE
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CC This is Houston. or right now we would

like to go 4-A to INHIBIT on the caution and warning, which
is fuel cell 3, condensor exhaust temperature. We are going
to varying the loads on the system by ground command most
likely bring the load up a little and compensate
for a loss of the circadian rhythm data system, which we
think will keep it within limits, but this way it would
get rid of a nuisance trip. Over.
SC (garble)
CC Roger, out. See you at Vanguard.
CDR Okay, thank you, we are in one one inverter
by the way.
CC Roger, we copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control; that completes
playback of the stateside-pass tape, we are AOS now at Vanguard
tracking ship. And we will stand by for that pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard
for 6-1/2 minutes. We have done a little switching in the
command module. Basically what we have turned on to
take up the circadian rhythm data system, power drop is
the two power amplifiers(garble)the primary and secondary
power amps are both on HIGH. Strictly to use up a little
power and keep the environmental temperatures in the command
module up to were they ought to be. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, thank you.
CC And - I guess when you have a free moment
or some time here, either this pass or the next station or
something we could use a few comments from you on what your
druthers (sic) are, with respect to plans for this evening and -
when you feel like eating supper and this sort of thing. Over.
CDR Now, why don't you let us talk about it
in here for awhile, see what everybody thinks.
CC Yes, sure. I wasn't intending to - get
the answer now, I was really - throwing the question in a
hopper (sic) so to speak. We can actually - you know, we are
in no rush, we can get the results from you over Hawaii, next
time, which is about an hour from now. Over.
CDR Okay, what - what were you really
looking for, Bruce?
CC Well, nothing in particular. We Just sort
of operating here with nothing planned and your 3 -
to 4 - hour rest period got interrupted by the caution and
warnings, and from talking to you all, it seems llke youre slowly
pressing on, getting some of the activations tasks accomplished.
And we were Just trying to start making our plans for tomorrow
and see what you're going to be doing this evening and where
we stood.
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CDR Okay, I think you got it right. We are

just sort of pressing along• And trying to get these things
rolling, I'm working on the water step plate. We dumped the
command module water and Owen and Jack are working on their
things, l'm hoping that - that we - we plan pretty slack
tomorrow because - we're - we're always in - I think
that is what we need is a little slack time here to get some
free time to not move so fast.
CC Roger. We concur.
CDR We have got quite a number of things
that we are going to have to ... on as far as the -
• .. water . .. our total diet is much less than what were operating
on preflight, but that is really all we can take at the moment.
And we - we seem to be getting - improving a little bit. But
we are trying not to over - over commit (?) right now.
CC Okay, we copied, the beginning and the
end of that AI, but you went right over the top of the Vanguard
and they had to slew their antenna around, so we missed your
middle couple of words.
CDR At the risk of repeating myself, the a -
we have been moving along slowly just as you indicated. We kind
of think we'd like to have a big block of free
time, the rest of the day as we try to get this done, without
trying to meet some schedule, and the same thing with tomorrow.
But my suggestion would be for planning tomorrow, to
plan on just letting us keep going on this activation
as the best we can, we are Just working it, in sequential
order, like you suggested earlier• And we'll know a lot
more, when we wake up tomorrow morning, too. Right? We
thought we would be feeling better this morning, but - and we
were for awhile.
CC Okay. We'll do that• And I guess we will
just try to - work you some sort of a real skeleton-type thing
on get up, post-sleep, this type of thing and you all work
along and keep us posted on what you are doing and how you
are progressing and what sort of support you need from us,
if any. Over.
CDR Okay, we're going to be working on the
activation, so we got a full plan there that we could move
out on as rapidly as we could do it. We've got no shortage
of work, I'II tell you that.
CC Okay, we realize that, thank you.
CDR It might be interesting to know, - is we're
working on this - heat exchanger plate, wetting the a -
I've only got one of them so far, but it's - it's very wet,
I'm going to wet it some more with the procedure but - it
looks through and through wet at the moment.
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CC Okay, I understand that the one you removed,

the plate from the mol seive to commence the procedure, it
already looked wet?
CDR Sure did, very wet and I'm going to wet
it some more, but it might be a data point by this time.
CC Okay, AI, thank you for the data point
on that. We suspect that with the dew point where it is,
it just went ahead and wetted itself and maybe we can work
something out for the next mission based on this. We are
30 seconds to LOS. Next station is Hawaii, in i hour and
2 minutes from now, and we will give you a call over there.
CD R Ro g e r.
through the Vanguard tracking ship of the coast of Argentina.
59 minutes to next station, Hawaii. And at 22:09 Greenwich
END OF TAPE
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mean time; 50 seconds away from acquisition at Hawaii for
the first pass across that tracking station of the evening.
On the workshop or space station revolution number ii01.
We'll stand by for the call to the crew and hopefully, some
- a progress report from the crew on how the adaptation
procedure for the vestibular disturbances they're exper-
iencing is coming along. We'll stand by for this fairly
short pass of only 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 4-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Houston. I read you loud and
clear. The separator (garble) in heat exchanger A in both mol
sieve A and B, and it looked to me like during the whole
procedure I never saw the gage on the little metal adapter
move at all, which I think means that it's already completely
water-soaked. So it appears to me that those two - four plates could
have - you could have Just turned it on and gone with that.
What -do you concur or not?
CC Okay, AI, we concur with your analysis
of the situation, and we had a little bit of noise right
at the beginning, but I understand that you have completed
the water-separator flight servicing for both mol sieves
and they are installed. Over.
CDR That's right. I did the heat exchanger
A on both mol sieves. I didn't think we ought to use B so
I didn't do those.
CDR I could sure do them if you wanted to
but they'd probably dry out before we ever use them.
CC AI, we're happy with the configuration
the way you got it. When somebody has a chance, perhaps
this pass, we'd like to get a reading on the waste precessor
exhaust pressures down there in panel 800 in the WMC so we
can compare our telemetry with your onboard readouts for
that quantity. Over.
SPT Okay. Waste processor exhaust pressure
is sitting on .061.
CC Just for your information on telemetry,
we're showing a comparable reading of .013. We'd like to,
over a period of I guess a couple of hours or so as the
mission progresses, get some additional data points, and
we'll be back to you with an analysis of the problem. Over.
SPT Okay, now - we were having to cycle that
dump valve very frequently to avoid exceeding the max ex-
haust pressure listed in the checklist which is .08, and
we have cycled it to dump for 2, 3, or 4 minutes and then
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have to go back to CLOSE in order not to exceed that pres-

sure, suggesting perhaps that our meter on hoard was reading
too high. Does that make sense?
CC Roger, Owen. That's why we asked you
for a comparative readout. That's our suspicion right now,
but we don't feel strongly enough about it at the present
time to tell you to go ahead and disregard the meter, so
stick with the checklist as printed for the time being.
SPT Well, we're already doing that pro-
cedure anyway, and we have managed to dump for a full 30
minutes integrated total. That pressure is less than .08,
and that's been on our meter and we're proceeding on with
the water activation nearly complete.
CC Roger. Beautiful.
CC We' re about 30 seconds from LOS at the
present time. Next station is Vanguard in 22 minutes at
23:36 and we'll be dumping the tape recorder there. We
did get some voice from somebody, recorded on the tape
recorder the last dump. We're still trying to track down
what it was you said, but don't tell us and spoil the
suspense. Over.
SPT What was the subject?
SPT You've got us in suspense.
mean time. We've had loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
station will be the Vanguard tracking ship in 21 minutes.
The team of flight controllers charged with activating the
Skylab space station, headed up by Neil Hutchinson, is
staying in the control center for an additional period of
time. Inasmuch as the activation is several hours behind
the nominal tlmeline. And for that reason, the Flight
Director, Nell Hutchinson estimates that his change-of-shift
press conference may be as late as i0 p.m. central daylight
time. Part of Phll Shaffer's purple team of flight con-
trollers is in the control center. However, they' re primarily
observing their counterparts and getting up to speed on
what is still to he done. Hutchinson has said that he
wants to stay with the activation since that is his prime
responsibility at this portion of the mission, until that he's
certain that all of today's activation work has been com-
pleted and he knows where we stand for starting tomorrow's
flight activities. Repeat again, an early estimate on the
change-of-shlft press conference with Nell Hutchinson could
be as late as 10 p.m. central daylight time. Ninetet.. .,l_lutu_
to tracking ship Vanguar, and at 23:17, tills Is Sky]ab
Con tro I.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 18:35 CDT; 02:23:35 CMT
7/29/73
PAO This Is Skylab Control at 23:35 Green-

wich mean time. Acquisition coming up in 50 seconds over
the tracking ship Vanguard, nearing the end of Skylab space
station revolution number 1101. Between Vanguard and the
next station which is Hawaii, there is a gap of about an
hour.
for 9 minutes. Over.
CDR Loud and clear, Houston.
CC Okay. We see a- -
CDR We have to activate - are you still there?
CC Yes. We see your CAUTION and WARNING and
it looks like it ought to he the gas flow on mol sieve A.
Over.
CDR Roger. We're kind of thinking about it.
We Just got the mol sieve A activitated. It's Just, went
15 minutes and shifted. BET 2 is on ADSORB, BET 1
is on DESORB, and the minute it shifted it gave us a
CAUTION and WARNING and it's given us about three intermit-
tent ones since then. Then when we get over there the
light's out.
CDR Everything else looks exactly right.
CDR And perhaps this is the place I can
give you a status report on how we're doing. You'd indicated
you might llke one sent.
CC Okay, AI. This sieve flow problem
that you're having is the same thing that we saw on activa-
tion of the first Skylab mission and Just seems to take
a little while for things to settle down after you first
activate the sieve at the beginning of the mission. We
recommend you inhibit the sieve flow of input to caution
and warning system and we'll keep an eye on that one from
down here. Over.
CDR Okay, just did. Now, can I bring - have
you got a few moments for me to bring you up to date?
CC Yes, fire away.
CDR Okay, if you've got your little yellow
Flight Plan out, I can tell you the things that we have not
done. And I think that would probably be the best way.
CC Okay. Go.
CDR Let's look on G- page G.
CC Go.
CC Go ahead, A1.
CDR Okay. We have not done the waste manage-
ment compartment water activation, but we will complete
that very shortly. So that's one that you don't have to
worry about, but we haven't done it yet. The wardroom
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water activation is essentially complete. We're Just

checking it out and taking a sample.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Next page.
CC Go.
CDR AM tape recorder replacement has not
been done.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. The BBCO depression - BB02 sensor
replacement has not been done, CO2 filter replacement
not done; SOP/SOMA reconflg not done; CO samples - not
done. Next page.
CC Okay, we copy - -
CDR The LSU transfer not done. We've
not done the returned water container film and transfer, the
CM stowage transfer on I.
CC Okay.
CC Back on page H we copied that you had
completed the - -
CDR MMD transfer in CAL. We've not done
the film transfer of the wave food residue. And we haven't
done anything after that point.
CC Okay, and did we copy back on page H
that you did the condensate blankeet and the
suit drying second suit up at the top of the page?
CDR That's affirmative. We did that.
CC Very good.
CDR We're going to keep working here at
best we can. And I noticed that with the two panels and
moving around quite a bit that we're feeling a little bit
better. But we'll Just have to keep workin E at a nominal
pace. None of us feel like eating very much. We usually
Just - maybe take one thing, end when we' re feeling best
eat it and then press on from there. So we really haven't sat
down to any big meals. We Just haven't been able to take
it.
CC Okay. We copy, and that's pretty much
the way we'd llke you keep on operating and it sounds good.
CDR Okay, and we will, of course, brine
the food people up to date when we finally get squared away.
We felt that it's probably - they probably - the information
that we can furnish them tomorrow will probably be as good
as today. I don't think anybody wants to try and pop down
any pills right now either.
CC No indeed. Just for your plannin E
purposes, we have you scheduled on the timeline for an
evening status report next station pass which is Hawaii at
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00:44 Zulu. And the one following that is a Vanguard private

medical conference_ scheduled to begin at 01:15 Zulu. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll take part in those when
they come.
CC And when you have a chance, if some-
bodyts up in the command moduleD we'd llke to go ahead
and shut down the S071-72 experiments - over a site and - -
CDR Throw the switches off or what?
CC Right. It's the two switches, S071
to OFF and S072 power to OFF, and we'd like to do that in
station contact if we can. Over.
CDR We'll do it right now.
CC Okay, we'll be watching, and if someone
is now headed for the command module , I'd like to get to
cycle the circuit breaker down on panel 613 and then check
the panel 800 water dump pressure so we can see if the
meter is functioning properly.
SPT Okay, Just a minute, Bruce. I was
Just opening the water dump valve and trying to get this
water dump pressure down below 2 psi down toward .7 where
it indicates on page 2-51. And even though I had the water
dump open I couldn't get the pressure to drop further down,
so what did you want cycled over on the electrical panel?
CC Okay, Owen. Panel 613, the circuit
breaker displays, display power recorder control BUS 1
circuit breaker, we'd like you to open. and then come back
and read the water dump pressure mettle - meter on panel
800. Over.
CDR Stand by.
CDR Okay, and we've turned off both those
switches, Houston.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
SPT Was that BUS 1 or BUS 2 you wanted,
Bruce?
CC That was bus i, Owen. And break
break for AI. When you turned those switches off we were
watching the current up there in the command module and
had the equipment been functioning we would have seen a
drop of approximately 5 amps. We saw nothing indicating
that the gear had already failed. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I turned off BUS 1 and
the water dump pressure is now reading FULL/SCALE LOW.
CC Okay, we copy, Owen. And you can go
ahead and reclose that circuit breaker and we'll continue
to work on the problem.
SFT Okay, it looks llke I'm not going to
be able to get this dump press down below 2 psi.
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CC Roger. We feel that there's a problem

either in the meter or in the transducer_ and wetve got
30 seconds until LOS. So,your next contact as noted earlier,
is Hawaii in about 58 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC Okay, Owen, on that dump pressure on the
squeezer bag, Just go ahead and do it by the seat of your
pants or by feel. We're not too terribly worried about
the actual pressure. Over.
SPT Okay, I understand, and I've reclosed
the circuit breaker.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Hey there, Bruce the (garble) concentration
on the wardroom water is 7.0. Just to sample it.
CC Understand. 7.0 right on the wardroom
water. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control space station
Skylab has gone over the eastern horizon from the tracking
ship Vanguard. Fifty-six minutes until Hawaii, which will
be almost directly overhead, 85 degree maximum elevation
over that tracking station in the Hawalln Island chain.
Some comments there by A1 Bean about how the crew was feeling
at this time, pressing on with activation. And generally
he indicated they were feeling somewhat better than earlier.
At 23:48, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Fifty seconds from acquisition at Hawaii. A rather
long pass of i0 minutes, directly over the Hawaii tracking
station. During this long pass, is scheduled is the ev -
Evening Status Report in which the crew will report on their
food, water consumption and the medication taken. The pass
following at Vanguard will be devoted to the medical conference
with the Flight Surgeon.
CC AOS Hawaii, for i0 minutes.
SPT Roger, just a second.
CC Roger, standing by.
SPT We noticed S055 doing a little
bar (?) on the failure of the Sun there and S052 looks llke
they're Just cranked up for a - their standard or a - probably
a standard code, is that right?
CC That's - that's affirmative, Owen. And
be advised, we are doing some other commanding here at this
pass. We are going to update one of the rate gyros and also
update NUZ. And this is the pass for the Evening
Status Report. And after that - I have a couple of other
things we would like for you to do in the command module
before bedtime. And then I would like to talk to the CDR
a little bit about Flight Plan before the pass is over, and
we still got about 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, this is CDR. Let me give you the
Evening Status Report.
CDR Let me go and get one of the squawk boxes;
it's squawking.
CC Roger.
SPT While he's gone, do you want to tell me
what you want in the command module?
CC Roger, Owen, why don't I read them to you
and let's get ahead real quick. One thing we would like to
do is in the Systems Checklist, page S/4-8, dual inverter
reinitiate is the name of the procedure. We want to go
back to dual inverter operation to get our loads better
squared away for the evening. And then we want to do some
reconfiguration on the 02 systems. We want the MAIN 02 REGs
to CLOSE, then we want the CABIN REPRESS valve, to OPEN, which
is clockwise. Then we would like the POTABLE H20 HEATER toOFF.
And finally on panel 352 the PRESSURE RELIEF valve to
OFF.
CDR Okay, I've got that Houston.
CC Roger. And one thing also, we wanted to
add, that I'd forgot on my list was a fuel cell purge.
CDR Will do.
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CDR Okay, here's the night report. Urine
we sampled it today, but there is no way to measure it and so
it will come home with ... in it, so that's not applicable.
Drinking water gun reading, we Just got it activated, let
me give you the initial reading, 4490, 7330, 5475.
CC Roger, I got those, AI.
CDR Okay, body mass: 6.250, 6.274, 6.278;
now the SPT, 6.035, 6.035, 6.035; the pilot's, 6.958, 7.025,
7.000. Okay the CDR weight was a short contensll and we don't know
how to give you a tally of this, but they will tell you tomorrow.
CC Roger, I'm not sure I copied on the PLT's
the first BMMD reading for PLT.
CDR 6.958.
CC Okay, AI, I've got all of that so far.
CDR Okay, no exercise. Medication, CDR,
two scop/Dex, SPT two seop/Dex, and PLT, two scop/Dex.
CO Roger.
_ood loss, because a - it is so different from what we did.
Let me tell you what we did.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay - CDR - Just a second I've got to get
the log.
CDR Okay, the CDR had corn flakesp vanilla
wafers, orange drink, chicken and rice, butterscotch pudding
and he's probably going to have some other things before bed but
I don't know what they are. And - I'ii give you a recap on
all of this food tomorrow.
CC Okay, and I've copied that so far on the
CDR.
CDR Okay, the SPT had one piece of bread,
namely one half of a can, he had a orange drink, a chocolate
Instant Breakfast, eight - and he wlll report his meals to
you tomorrow.
CC Okay.
PLT Jack had an applesause, and he is going
to have some more for dinner and he had 7-1/2 ounces of
command module water plus 20 squirts of command module water.
CC Roger, I got that.
CC Roger, I got that.
CDR Also the SPT had eight squirts from the
command module, H20 gun. CDR had 27 squirts from the com-
mand module gun.
CC Okay.
CDR Equipment relocation, let me talk about that.
We took some scop/Dex from the large can in 706 and the small
container moved to a - move to the rack in W707. And we
moved 10 trash bags from 569 to 568. And I want to give you
a run down on the work we are doing. Right now I'm in the
process of transferlng the flight data file in the ...
CC Roger.
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CDR Can you think of anything you know I've
missed.
CC Yes that's all you have, I do have a couple
of other things. I Just want to make sure that you were through.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, first of all, I'm not sure I said
right, what we wanted done in the command module a while ago.
It's an 02 fuel cell purge that we want done, in addition
to that other list of things. And we do have a question
as to what you got done yesturday, did you on around page
1-50 of the checklist, the rate gyro 6-pack assembly and
the command module stowage, did that get accomplished?
CDR No it didn't. It's partially done in
that they' re out and in the neighborhood of where they should
be, but they are not bolted down and attached correctly.
There's not but about 2-1/2 man hours of work left.
CC Roger, AI. That's perfectly okay with
us, but we just wanted to keep our record straight about
how much, you know we had gotten done. I would like to shoot
the breeze with you a little bit about some flight planning
for the next 3 or 4 days. We have some ideas, and
I would llke to pass them on to you and see what you think
to you about before LOS.
CDR Sounds good, go ahead.
CC Okay. Essentially what we thought we'd do
is tomorrow just have you get up and continue to press on as
you see fit, right on through to complete the Activation
Checklist. Initially we think we would like to slip the EVA
to day 5, ... day 4 and that in turn will allow us to put
the activation regrouped time and the EVA prepep - prepreped
on day 4. And we Just want you to make sure that we know
that we're happy with this kind of schedule and we want to
be sure that you are before we continued our planning.
CDR Roger, we couldn't ask for better than
that, the only other thing propose pose that you Just don't wake
us up tomorrow morning, and when we get up, we will Just
start working.
CC Okay, why don't we just wait for you to
put a i0,000 do not enter in the DAS and we will call you
when we see it.
CDR Okay.
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SC (garble)
CC Okays why don't we just wait for you to
put a 10s000 DO NOT ENTER in the DAS and we'll call you when
we see it.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, one more thing AI. You know yesterday
we had some problems driving the optics in the command
module. And in case we go LOS here we're about 1 minute away
and your next pass is at Vanguard at 01:15 and that's reed
conference. On the optics we think it was strictly
coincidence and there's nothing wrong with the optics. What
we think happened was when you (probe) on - in on the VERB 50,
NOUN 25204 display in P40 gimbal check it turns out that this
disconnects the computer - to - optics interface and increases the
sensitivity of the servo optics - servo (garble) to the hand
controller. And then when you exit P40 it reconnects this
interface. And it turns out by looking at the data that it
appears that it Just was a coincidence that this was the time that
we feel llke some of the problems had occurred. And this is
normal operations for the optics and the way to avoid the
problem obviously would be to, if it ever happened again, would
Just be to complete the star check and zero the optics
prior to (garble) on the 204 display for the glmbal check.
Over.
CDR Okay, that's good news.
CC Okay, we're going LOS and we'll see you
at - The next pass is the reed conference at Vanguard and then I'll
pick you up at Ascension.
CDR Okay, good.
CC And CDR, if you're there, I said that wrong
The next pass will be another Vanguard pass and I' ii call you
there.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss of
signal through the Hawaii station, i0 minute pass across that
station with the crew status report on how much water they'd
drunk and their food consumed so far and a report that each
of them has taken two scopolamlne/Dexedrlne tablets to
alleviate their queasiness and a general report on how they
stand in the Activation Checklist. They discussed briefly
with Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly, the outlook
for carrying over some of today's activation chores to
tomorrow and it ends up that it'll be a case of "Don't call us_
we'll call you." on wake-up tomorrow. Next station, tracking ship
Vanguard for the medical conference and beyond that we
are an hour and 28 minutes away from next Hawali-station
pass. And at 00:56 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:23 Green-

wich mean time. We have a fairly firm fix now on when the
change-of-shlft Plight Director press conference will be
held and Nell Hutchinson has given an estimate now of 08:45
central daylight time, some 26 minutes from now. In the
Houston newsroom -briefing room. Stand by. In addition
fo Plight Director, Nell Hutchinson, he has Just informed
me that he plans to bring a flight surgeon with him, pro-
bably Dr. Paul Buchanan. Again, to repeat that change-of-
shift press conference, 08:45 p.m., Houston newsroom, with a
two-way communications question and answer to the Kennedy
Space Center newsroom.
SC ...
CC Roger.
SC In the (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control again. That was
the tall end of the Vanguard tracking ship pass. Apparently
the surgeon completed the medical conference and handed the
loop back over and there were Just a few seconds of con-
versation there before LOS. This will be turned over to
transcript. To repeat again: Flight Director, Nell
Hutchinson plus Flight Surgeon, 08:45 p.m. central daylight,
in the Houstnn newsroom. At 01:26 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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Time: 21:39 CDT, 03:U2:39 GMT
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mean time. Skylab space station now over the south central
Pacific; 14 minutes away from the final tracklng-statlon pass
of the evening before beginning their sleep period. Fllght
Surgeon Royce Hawkins issued a medlcal bulletln after the medlcal
conference over the last Vanguard Tracking Ship pass. The
bulletln reads as follows: The crew continued to have varying
degrees of nausea throughout the early part of the day.
The pilot vomited twice following breakfast. He then felt
considerably better. Each crewman has taken two scopolamine/
Dexldrene capsules today with improvement of their symptoms.
The commander and the science pilot have been working
steadily to carry out the task of activation. The pilot has
been able to continue working but at a slower rate because of
some resldual stomach awareness. Based on Apollo experience
continued improvement is expected in all three crewmen as
they adapt to weightlessness. Baring the Just concluded change-
of-shlft briefing some 4 minutes of air to ground was
accumulated and taped for delayed playback from the Hawaii
station. We will listen to this Hawaii pass at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
2 and a half minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we got the command module stuff
done. Was there
anything else you wanted done there?
CC Well, as a matter of fact I did have a
couple of other things for you. One is - it's on panel 202.
We noticed that the ILCA INVERTER TEMP has gone up a little
bit. On the panel 202 we'd llke somebody to pull ILCA
HEATERS 1 circuit breaker to OPEN and we're going to watch it
in between here at Hawaii and Vanguard which is your last
pass prior to going to bed. And when we get to Vanguard we're
either going to get you to pull the HEATERS 2 circuit
breaker OEEN or not, depending on how the temps go in
between here and there.
PLT Do you want Just one of them open?
CC Yeah, Just one. ILCA HEATERS i circuit
breaker OPEN and we're going to watch the temps.
PLT Okay.
CC And while I'm talking to you also we wanted
to confirm that your RATE GYHO INHIBIT switch to the CAUTION
AND WARNING is still - verify that it's still inhibited prior
to going to bed because we are still getting some funnies off
of - gyro Y 2 and at the LOS at the last pass you were telling
us about putting something in the chiller and I copied down
you - ED52 and we're pretty sure you meant ED32 in the chiller.
And then I thought somebody else gave me some status on some-
thing after that but that got cut off by the LOS .
SC Garble.
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PLT Yeah, I think I ought to tell the MDA man that

we got everything done [n the command module, Dick.
CC Okay, good and the only other thing I have
here is you're not going to be needing any of that block data
in the entry checklist but Just in case you did, the day 213 data
is also no good due to bad weather Just llke the date 210 data
was that I read up to you yesterday afternoon.
SPY You're right. I'm sorry I called 52; it
should have been ED32.
CC Roger, Owen.
CC That's right. We didn't want to chill
down the spiders.
SC (laughter)
CC And, Skylab; Houston. This is a very elevation
pass that we're going to be coming up on LOS shortly. We'll
see you at Vanguard at 02:53.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CDR Okay, Dick the ILCA number one - the
ILCA HEATERS number 1 is OPEN.
CC Roger. Thank you very much and we still
show 2 minutes on the clock here but it is lowelvatlon.
But I'm standing by; if you need to call, try.
CDR Hey, Dick one thing has been bothering me
all day. You still there?
CC Yes sir go ahead.
CDR I still can't believe that those two
tape recorders that we brought up here were in AT; I haven't
been able to find those things. Now maybe I took them out
last night and set them somewhere hut I bet I've looked in
every box in this spacecraft.
CC I'm told a9, A9.
CDR Okay_ that saves a lot of problem. I've
wasted little time hunting them then
CC Roger_ A1 - I think they're in A9
and Gary Dorey's showing me - leading me to page 1-50A in the
Activation Checklist about halfway down the left side.
CDR Copy says one- A9 huh?
CC Yeah, or it might be written such that you
couldn't read it or maybe you read it as an A7. It does say A9er.
CDR Yeah, maybe it's the speed. I Just
couldn't read it.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That concludes
playback of the Hawaii pass, this revolution. 8 minutes away
from acquisition at Vanguard Tracking Ship for the final air
to ground of the evening at which the crew begins a sleep
period of undetermined length. And at 02:44 Greenwich mean
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Time: 21:52 CDT, 03:02:',2 (:MT
7/29/73
PAO This ts Skylab Control; 02:52 Greenwich

mean time and 50 seconds from acquisition at the tracking
ship Vanguard. For the final pass of the evening, with
the crew scheduled to begin the sleep period at this time.
We will stand by as the antennas on the tracking ship, off
shore of the coast of Argentina, lock up with the spacecraft.
CC Skylab Houston, we are AOS, Vanguard for
10 minutes.
SPY Okay. We can either talk or you can listen
to music, take your choice.
CC (laughter) Well, let me talk for Just a second
here. One thing we have noticed that we have a slow decrease
in condensete DELTA-P of about 0.2 to 0.3 psi per hour and
EGIL says if this keeps on in linear fashion, that you might trip
a caution and warning at about a little over 8 ho_rs from now.
So to make sure you guys get a good night sleep, we suggest
inhibiting that input to the caution/warning, whlch is condesnate
tank DELTA-P, that's panel 207. We will take a real close
look at it tonight and we won't let it get down, so it
gives you any problems, and we can talk about troubleshooting
it tomorrow.
SPT Okay, Dick, we'll inhibit that, and do
you want any one of heat exchangers turned off, so we can
see which one might be leaking a little bit.
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab Houston, in answer toquestion
negative, we just aswatchlng, it we are not real sure that
we really have a decent leak right. So we would like to
stay in this present configuration for tonight and talk about
that troubleshooting, if required, in the morning and we have
looked at that inverter on ILCA an d we would like to pull ILCA
circuit breaker heaters, 2. to OPEN.
SPT Okay, we'll do that, Dick and another
comment or two here. I think that the flight surgeon mentioned
that you'd read - your temperatures which I was going to report
to him in the morning, but we have already taken them, so I'll
go ahead and give you the numbers dwon now. I incidentally
took them on two thermometers, just to double check, (music) since
we probably haven't had them calibrated for awhile. And the
PLT on the two thermometers in order were 96.6 and 96.2. The
SPT was 97.2 and 97.2 and the CDR was 97.0 and I never got
around to catching him with the second thermometer. And we
have all finished, or Just about finished our supper for the
evening, and are all feeling much more comfortable, at this
point, Over.
CC Hey, that sounds real good.
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CC And Skylab Houston, we have also noticed

the BEDs in the mol sieve A don't seem to be cycling properly,
or cycling at all. And we would like for you to select
mol sieve A TIMER switch to SECONDARY.
CDR Okay.
CC And if you would, if somebody'll do that
now while we can watch it, we still got about 7 minutes here
at Vanguard, and I'm standing by.
PLT Okay, we are on our way to do that.
CC Okay.
CDR Tell them that the kid is coming back.
CC Roge r.
(Music)
CC Roger, that's - (laughter)
(music)
CC Sounds like a party going on up there.
CDR Say Dick, I Just took a look at them, mol sieve
A is - I meant BED i is in DESORB, BED 2 is in ADSORB, and I selected
the secondary timers, do you want me to do anything else
with that now?
CC Standby Just a second AI, I'ii get right
back to you.
CDR I think maybe we have Just found out what
was wrong, I looked at the nitrogen supply and it was not completely
open.
CC Roger. Stand by Just a second, I'ii get
right back to you when I get that new input.
CDR Before we loose contact here, you may want
me to Just switch them around, so we won't bother that one
BED, that's been in ADSORB so long.
CC Roger, EGIL is looking, and incidentally the
MAL in case we do go LOS here, stand by i. l'm Just
about to get a procedure for you.
CDR Okay.
CDR Suspicious (?) is the nitrogen pressure.
CC And CDR, Houston, we will llke for you
to take the MOL SIEVE TIMER switch and cycle it again back to
PRIMARY and then back to SECONDARY.
CDR I did'nt have - the SECONDARY has just shifted
it over, I saw it go.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, but I'ii go back into PRIMARY now.
CDR I can hear them. Okay, they have shifted
over, do you want me to go back to PRIMARY now?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston, would you verify for us, is
the switch in primary or secondary now?
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CDR It is in SECONDARY, and as instructed.

CC ...
CDR But, I think the problem was the nitrogen.
CC Okay, A1. We would llke to leave the
switch in SECONDARY.
CDR Okay, consider it done. Yes, yputre
right, I was looking at the DELTA-D, it's down too low.
About 2-1/2 indicated on our small tank here.
CC Roger.
CC We are real happy now. Looks like the
BEDs are cycling normally and we'll keep a good watch during
the evening.
CDR Okay.
SPT Say, Dick, would you ask the a - the
BMMD people down there, to turn those numbers we sent down in
the Evening Status Report and the pounds and send them up on
the teleprinter tomorrow morning.
CC Roger. We'll - We'll get them up to you,
Owen. We are about i minute from LOS here at Vanguard and
FLIGHT's been around the room and we have looked at the bird,
it looks real good for the night, so you guys sleep tight and
give us, put the entry in on the desk, when you want to be
called in the morning and we will talk to you then.
SPT Okay. Good night Dick.
from Vanguard for the final conversation of the evening as the
crew goes into the sleep period. Skylab crewmen Alan Bean,
Owen Garrlott, and Jack Lousma have begun their second night's
sleep in space, after a day of getting their space station hom_
ready for occupancy during the next 2 months. The crew has
been plagued by feelings of queasiness as they adapt to welghtlessnes
Flight Surgeon Royce Hawkins had the following to say, following
tonights medical conferance with the crew. The Commander A1 Bean
and the Science Pilot Owen Garrlott have been working steadily
to carry out the task of activation. The Pilot Jack Lousma
has been able to continue working but at a slower rate because
of some residual stomach awareness. Eased on Apollo experience
continued improvement is expected in all three crewmen_ as they
adapt to weightlessness. At 03:04 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control. Out. Signing off.
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SL-III MC-96/I
Time: 06:02 CDT 03:11:02 GMT
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 2 min-

utes Greenwich time on day 3 of the Skylab mission. Skylab
is coming up on the Texas tracking station. We'll be in
acquisition about 2 minutes. Under an agreement with the
crew reached yesterday, the ground will not send a wakeup
call to the crew today. When the crew wants to be called
one of the crewmen will place the number i0000 in the Apollo
telescope mount computer, and that will signal the Capcom
to place a call. A small leak somewhere in the orbital
assembly was detected by flight controllers early today.
Flight Director, Don Puddy who is presently on duty believes
it can be located after the crew awakens. Several vents and
dump valves will be checked. The leak rate is I/I0 of a
pound per square inch per hour. And there is no problem
maintaining proper cabin pressure. At bedtime last night
medical officers reported the crew had substantial relief of
the motion sickness symptoms following medication. The crew-
men were plagued throughout the day yesterday with queasy
stomachs which caused a slowdown in Skylab activation. All
of today will be devoted to activation with the crew picking
up where they stopped yesterday. The extravehicular activity
is now scheduled for Wednesday instead of tomorrow. We're
about 15 seconds away from acquisition at Texas. We'll stand
by to see whether the number i0000 comes up, or whether the
crew places a call to us.
PAO The Capcom is astronaut Bob Crippen.
We see i0000. We'll be placing a call soon.
SPT Hello Houston.
CC Good morning, Owen. We've got you for
about 16 minutes.
CC Good morning Skylab. We've got you for
about 16 minutes. How do you read, Owen?
CC Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the States
for about 15 minutes. How do you read now?
PLT Roger, coming in good.
CC Rog, Jack. We're AOS for about 15 minutes.
Do you read okay?
PLT Hello, Houston. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear. How me?
PLT Okay. We got up a little early. We heard
some gas (garble) into the workshop, towards the STS areas. And
we came up here and we Just looked at it. And we get a rapid
(garble) of gas and sometimes off and on, and it sounds like the
Junction on the cabin regs built the workshop ducts and
we seem to be unable to do much about it. We don't
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know if this is a normal operation or - we haven't heard it

before. And if it's not, we haven't been able to isolate it
to a particular cabin reg or anything llke that.
CC Okay Jack. I'm having a little difficulty
reading you, maybe if you would get a little bit closer to
the mike. The problem on that is we got the 02 and N2 fill
valves open because we were losing cabin pressure last night
and we never were able to locate why we got it down to about 4.7,
and we decided to go ahead and open it up and start filling
it rather than wake you guys up.
PLT Okay. I guess we didn't hear it until Just
a little while ago then, and we haven't been able to psych out
the problem there, and we (garble) these regs?
CC Jack, I'm having still a pretty bad time
trying to read you. We would like to know if perhaps some
one got up around 05:00 GMT and did anything that might have
caused this to start losing cabin pressure.
CDR No, the first time any body got up was
when we heard this gas coming in. It was coming in inter-
mittently is the thing that puzzles us a little bit. Also we
tried a couple of troubleshooting procedures, but I think
he explained we turned off the 120 psi reg. And we notice that
the pressure still continues to go down (garble) We also turned
off the cabin pressure reg, and it continued to go down.
PLT Houston, do you want us to go around and
close some of the pressure release valves?
CC Okay, stand by just one moment, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess we didn't quite
get everything you said you were doing there regarding the
cabin pressure, but we would llke you to go back to a nominal
configuration on the 02N2 panel there.
PLT Okay, we're in nominal configuration.
We noticed that whenever we turn off the main reg the pressure
kept on coming down, so apparently you want to keep dumping into
the cabin.
CC Jack, I'm really having a difficult time
reading you. I was receiving A1 okay a while ago. I don't
know if it is the box you're using or what, but you're
coming in very scratchy and garbled.
PLT How de you read me now, Dick?
CC Skylab Houston, if somebody is in the
vicinity of the DAS, if you could go ahead and clear that
I0000 code for us we'd appreciate it.
PLT How do you read me now, Dick.
PLT Crlp, are you reading me any better now?
CC Yes, Jack. That's somewhat better now.
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PLT Okay, what we've been hearing is cycling

on and off of gas emission. We hear it most distinctly right
where the Sieves dump into duct that Joins into the workshop
or to the MDA. And we have (garble) for the cabln reg both
(garble) into the system. And they are cycling on intermittently.
CC Okay, Jack. We copy that. And we can
attribute that to the way we're doing the fill on these
02N2 valves now.
PLT Okay. I asked you a little while ago
if you wanted us to go around and close some cabin release
valves.
CC Skylab, Houston. What we would recommend
is that you would get your rapid delta P cue card and go to the
part that has you go around and look for possible leaks.
PLT (garble)
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30
CC Skylab, Houston. We recommend that you
get your rapid Delta P cue card and go through the portions
of it that has you looking for various leaks.
CDR Okay, we're working on it.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Are you still there, Houston?
CC That's affirmative, AI. We've still
got you for about 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. We've closed the forward AM hatch
per procedure and closed the forward hatch on the MDA.
That's the forward hatch on the lock and the forward hatch
on the MDA. It's quit taking up oxygen at the moment. We
can feel a flow of air from the OWS to us, but Okay, Just
a second, lets check it.
CC Okay, AI. Really what we were interested
in was the leak isolation area of the cue card, if you go
around and check the various places there might he leaks.
CDR Roger. We went through the first part
to see if we could maybe isolate as to which compartment,
then we could work in that compartment.
CC Roger.
CDR Houston, when you said 05:00, did you
mean the GMT?
CC That's affirmative, A1. Should have
been a couple of hours after you went to bed. One of the
items we suspected maybe was, that somebody went to the
waste management compartment, and some item in there might
have caused some leaks.
CDR We can check it out. I'll tell you what
we did do, we dumped the trash airlock a couple of times
too, at about 05:00.
CC Okay. You might check to make sure that
handle is in the full detent on the press, press position.
CDR That's a good idea. We'll give it a
turn.
CDR Our indications as we played with the
hatches here indicate that it is down in the OWS. My guess
is that that's exactly what it is. We're going to go down
and look at it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute
from LOS. We'll have you again over Madrid at 11:27, 11:27.
CDR Okay, we took a look at the trash
airlock. Indeed the handle wasn't positioned properly, and
we also hear a slight hissing noise out of the trash airlock.
CC Okay. Hope we've found it then.
CDR Okay. We'll fool with it a little bit
CC Okeydoke, thank you.
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7/30/73

22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal
Madrid will acquire in about 3-1/2 minutes. It appears
that the leak in the orbital assembly has been located. It
would appear from that last transmission that indeed the
trash airlock is the culprit. That the hatch was not fully
sealed. This cabin pressure leak was detected early this
morning, about 1:00 a. m. central daylight time. A leak
rate of 1/10th of a pound per square inch per hour. It
was not deemed serious enough to awaken the crew. Controllers
from the ground could maintain Skylab cabin pressure
without any problem. The crew put in a call to us at the
Texas station about 6:00 a.m. , start of this state-
side pass. Did some troubleshooting for the leak, and then
A1 Bean recalled that they had used the trash airlock a
couple of times about the time the leak was first detected.
Went down to that area and reported Just before loss of
signal that that apparently is the problem. We'll stand
by for Madrid acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you AOS over
Madrid for the next 7 minutes.
CDR Roger. I went back and looked at that
handle again and the handle was half way between - I'm not
down there to read the label, it's either vent are closed,
and I must assume that after we finished last night, I
either left it there or when I was floating back and forth
between the head, the sleep compartment, and the wardroom,
I gave it a nudge with my foot, and put it mid way between
them.
PLT Yeah, it was half way between close
vent and press, Crip.
CC Rog. We copy, thank you.
CDR Roger, also, when I got down there I
could put my ear to it, and hear it leak. In fact, if I
Just take the handle now and move it mid way, you can hear it
as it puts pressure into the trash alrlock, but I assume
that it doesn't hold it. It also vents it when it's half
way between. It's got to be one or the other, position and it
doesn't look llke that vent position has a - has a detent.
CC Okay. We copy that. I'm informed that
that happened a couple of times last mission, also. We
assume that that was the leak then, and we're going to back
out of this fill that we were doing with the alrlock fill
valve, and go back to normal configuration on your pressuri-
zation.
CDR Okay, but how about explaining to me
before you go, how they can fill and not Just keep it going. Do
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they somehow have a regulator they can work through?

CC Those are Just pressure switches, AI,
and they were Just (garble) with the pressure.
CDR Okay. So when they go to fill, it cycles at a
certain pressure to let 02 and N2 or Just 02.
CC It's to let both in.
PLT Were you filling in the airlock fill, or
in the workshop fill, Crip.
CC It was the airlock fill, Jack.
PLT Okay. Now that apparently comes in at
the same place where the cabin regs dump in, is that right?
CC That's affirmative, Jack. That's were
it dumps in. Through the ECS ducts.
PLT Okay, so that was the intermlttant con-
dition that we were hearing.
CC That's affirmative. And we suspected
that you might be able to hear it, but I guess we were
given that option or sitting here and letting a caution and
warning go off on you.
PLT Does that come downstream of the cabin
regs.
CC l'm sorry, would you say that again?
PLT Does that come in downstream of the
cabin regs.
CC We'll check that.
CC Jack, that is downstream of the cabin
regs. Stand by i.
PLT Jack, that's really a parallel flow of
to the regs and the fill valves. So it's not really serious
at all.
PLT Okay, well I was wondering why I couldntt
shut off the condition of gas by turning off the cabin regs.
I turned them off and it Just kept coming in.
CC That's affirmative. You could turn
them off and that wouldn't affect the fill valves.
PLT Okay. That explains it now, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute ill
LOS. We'll have you again at Honeysuckle at 12:13., 12:13.
Sorry you were so rudely awakened. I hope everybody's
feeling good this morning.
SPT I think so, Bob.
CC Very good, Owen.
SPT We're going back to bed for awhile now.
CC Okay. Do you want me to give you a call
at Honeysuckle or not?
SPT I think not, Bob. As you can tell, we
were up a little late. We did stay up until midnight
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Houston time. 05 Zulu with that trash alrlock and that was
doing some (garble) stuff. So we really only had about 6 hours
or so in the pad, so I think we'll probably get a couple more.
CC Okay, that sounds good. If you'll Just give
us another 10,000 when you'd llke us to start talking to you.
That'd be fine.
PLT Wilco.
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Time: 06:33 CDT 03:11:33 GMT
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utes Greenwich mean time. And Madrid has loss of signal.
Next station to acquire will be Houneysuckle in about 39 min-
utes. However, as Owen Garriott reported at Madrid LOS, the
crew is going back to bed. We won't put in a call at Honey-
suckle. We'll wait until we see another signal on the Apollo
telescope mount computer before calling the crew. Garriott
reported they were up fairly late last night, and want to get
a little bit more rest before starting today's activities.
That's agreeable with the people here on the ground. We'll
come back up at Honeysuckle on the off chance that we may
get a call from the crew and to see whether we see the signal in
the computer. The leak has been stopped. It was the trash
airlock hatch not fully sealed. At ii hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II[ MC-IO0/I
Time: 07:11 CDT 03:12:ii GMT
7/30/73

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition
through Honeysuckle. The duration of this pass is only a
minute and a half. We don't expect to communicate with the
crew at Honeysuckle. The crew has returned to bed for a little
more rest, after getting up about 6:00 a.m. central daylight
time and resealing the trash airloek hatch to fix a small
cabin pressure leak. We'll stand by.
utes Greenwich mean time. No communications during that
short acquisition at Honeysuckle. The next station to
acquire will be Goldstone in 26-112 minutes. Our agreement
with the crew is we will not call them until we see the i0000
signal in the Apollo telescope mount computer. We'll come
back up at Goidstone acquisition and stand by there for any
conversation. At 12 hours 15 minutes_ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 07:40 CDT 03:12:40 GMT
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PAO This tH Skyleb Control at 12 hours

40 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for a
Skylab pass over the United States starting at the Goldstone
station to see whether the crew gives us a call or puts the
signal in the computer for us to give them a call. it is
possible we could go through this stateside pass without
communications. The crew has returned to bed for additional
rest. We'll stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours Green
wlch mean time. Bermuda has had loss of signal. Skylab
going across the United States on this passj without communi-
cations. Madrid will acquire Skylab in 3-1/2 minutes. We'll
keep the llne up and continue to monitor through Madrid.
END OF TAPE
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08:03 CDT - 03:13:03 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control, at 13 hours

7 minutes Greenwich mean tlme, about 5-i/2 minutes
remalnln E in the Madrid pass. No conversation to this
point. The flIsht director now ls Ne!l Hutchinson and
the Cap Comm is astronaut Bruce McCandless. Wlll continue
to stand by throuEh Madrid.
PAO Thls Skylab Control, at 13 hours
end 13 minutes Greenwich mean time. $kylmb is out of
range of Madrid now. The next station will be Honeysuckle
in 35 minutes, we'll come back up then. At 13 hours 14
minutes, thls ls Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-103/I
TIME: 08:28 CDT 03:13:28 GMT
7/30/73

28 minutea Greenwich mean tlme. Skylab stlll 20 mlnutes
away from acquisition at Honeysuckle. weere estimating
the time for the change of shift briefing with Flight
Director Don Puddy at 9_30 a.m. central daylight time.
The briefing will be in the Johnson Space Center News
Center briefing room. 9:30 a.m. briefing with
Flight Director Don Puddys the off-golng Flight Director,
in the News Center briefing room. We'll come back up Just
prior to Honeysuckle. At 13 hours 29 minutes Greenwich
mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL Ill MC-104/I
TIME: 08:47 CDT 03:13:47 (;HT
7/30/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. kylab coming up on the
Honeysuckle station now. We'll stand by.
signal. The next station to acquire will be Hawaii in
14 minutes. At 13 hours 56 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-105/I
Time: 09:09 CDT 03:14:09 GMT
7/30/73

9 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acqui-
sition through Hawaii.
utes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has loss of signal. Gold-
stone will pick up Skylab in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll
continue to stand by for the stateside pass.
PAO This is $kylah Control at 14 hours
20 minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone is acquiring
now. The crew apparently is still asleep. We haventt seen
the signal in the Apollo telescope mount computer that tells
us to give them a call yet. Our agreement is that we won't
call them until we see that slgnal_ the number i0000 in the
computer read out. It's crew option of course if they want
to give us a call. We' ii continue to stand by.
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09:27 CDT - 03:14:27 GMT
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29 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has lost
the signal, Bermuda will pick up the spacecraft in about
2-1/2 minutes. We'll contlune to stand-by, and Flight
Director Don Puddy is leaving the Mission Control
Center, at this time, en-route to the JSC News Center for
a change of shift briefing. That briefing should get
under way within the next 7 or 8 minutes.
32 minutes, Bermuda has acquisition now.
39 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of
signal. Don Puddy, the Flight Director on the shift,
Just ended, he is in the News Center at this time, and
the change of shift News Conference will begin immediately.
We'll tape any conversation we might have with the crew
during the news conference. At 14 hours 39 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-107/I
I0:15 CDT - 03:15:15
7/30/?3
PAO This Skylab Control, at 15 hours,

15 minutes, Greenwich mean time. There was no communication
with the crew durin E the news conference. Skylah went
through the Canary Islands pass and is now about 9-1/2
minutes away from Honeysuckle. The crew apparently still
sleeping. We'll come back Just prior to Honeysuckle at
15 hours 16 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL IIl MC-108/I
TIME: i0:25 CDT 03:15_25 GMT
7/30/73

25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has acquisition
and we see i0,000 on the computer, we'll call the crew
during this pass.
for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Good morning. Over.
PLT Good morning Bruce. How are you doing?
CC Hello, we're doing real fine down here.
How are you all doing?
PLT We're getting our blood drawn.
CC You're evading the issue.
PLT What's new on the ground?
CC Not a great deal, Jack. We've just
been sitting around here monitoring systems and waiting
for you all to get a good nightts rest after the
things this morning and when you all feel like getting to
work and all that, why we're ready to go to work with you.
PLT Well, wetve been up since about 8:00
working. We're going through the postsleep stuff and
getting some of the other things done that we got behind
on .
CC Okay_ when you have a break or get a

chance you might tell us the things that youVve accomplished
and we can check them off down here on our Flight Plan and
we'll know more about where you are.
PLT Well, we got the blood drawn and we're
about to put in on the centrifuge. We have some stuff we'll
tell you about later, but don't hold your breath.
CC I'm not in the habit of holding my
breath.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead CDR.
CDR When I was putting the checklist changes
is the SWS system handbook today, I noticed that I only had
one set, whereas there's two of those on board. Did you
plan Just to keep one of them updated or what?
CDR Also I noticed we got two solar activity
pads. Maybe somehow we got two of those instead of two of
the other.
CC We're discussing that now, AI. And in
the meantime, wetll Just give you a couple of quick ones.
When someone goes by the ATM next time, we'd like to get
the i0,000 cleared out of the DAS. It's no problem this
sited but we may be doing some commanding over Hawaii the
next one and a little later on this mornlng_ we're going
to be asking you to do a modified malfunction procedure on
the condensate system, since you've lost condensate tank
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TIME z 10:25 CDT 03:15_25 GMT
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Delta P and the dewpolnt is creeping up there. Over.

CDR Okay, I klnda suspected you would. I -
I'll be ready to do that. Weirs Just finishing breakfast
here and I've got my post sleep stuff done. I'll be ready
to start on that whenever you are. And then I can do my
other things afterwards, before or any way you want to
work it.
CC Skylab, Houston. WeVre showing 1
minute to LOS and the next station contact is over Hawaii
at 15:46 in about 13 minutes. We're working the problem
of number of messages we sent up here. Right now it looks
llke we only sent up one set. I wonder if you could check in
a minute and see if you have two copies of message 0311
Charlle on board. Over.
CDR I'm looking at the SAP right now
and it's number 0311 Charlle and I got two of those.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR That'11 be all.
signal. The crew is up again now. Over acquisition at
Honeysuckle on this pass about 10:25 a.m. central daylight
time, we saw the number i0,000 on the Apollo telescope
mount computer. That's the signal that the crew is up and
wants a call from the ground. CAP COM Bruce McCandless
placed a call and Jack Lousma, the Pilot of this crew
sounding falrly Jaunty after a good rest, reported that the
crew had been up since about 8:00, getting some of the
post sleep activities out of the way including the drawing
of blood from all three crewmen for some of the medical
experiments. We will probably be asking the crew, either
over Hawaii or during the next stateside pass, to do a
little troubleshooting on the orbital workshop condensate
system. The system that removes moisture from the cabin
air. We've lost Delta pressure on that system and it is
not removing the moisture at the present time in the
manner that it should, so we'll troubleshoot that sometime
soon. Hawaii will be the next station to acquire at - in
about 9-1/2 minutes from now. We'll come back up then. At
15 hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-109/I
10:45 CDT, 03:15:45 GMT
7/30/73
45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Hawaii station now. We'll stand by for this
pass.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Let me give you a report
on the ii0 that was done, stock numbers and so forth. The
ASPs used were the following in the order of CDR_ SPT, and
PLT. CDR 159, and 135. The BSVs in the samde order,
CDT 022, SPT 023, PLT 024. Those are the stock numbers on
the three. ASPS are being centrifuged right now. And the
BSV are taped in the chiller compartment. Now I (garble)
ASP and syringe from the SL-2 kit and thought perhaps I
could get the BSV out of there. But apparently there were
just barely enough BSV to go around, because there were no
extra BSVs in the SL-2 box, and I had to open up (garble) box
to get these 3 BSVs out. Now there was one other problem when
I got inside of our blood drawing kit there. The first BSV
that I pulled out, and some how or other, had it's seal broken
because and of the liquid inside the little vlal has come
out and then has apparently solidified on the inside of the
cellophane package. Now this may not be familiar to you
unless you are familiar with what this BSV looks like_ but
the biomed people should understand all these comments. So
the impact of this is we have one fewer BSVs in the $L-3 kit
than we had planned and there were apparently no spares in the
SL-2 kit, so the next time I have to use them at the end of
the mission, if there aren't any extras in there, which I
didn't see, I'ii have to go to SL-4 to get it. That straight
so far? Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Copy your comments on the
BSVs and I'm familiar with the configuration on them. Let me
read back these ASP and BSV numbers to you. CDR, SPT, and
PLT the ASPs were 159, 155, and 135, the BSVs were 020, 023,
and 024, over.
SPT Yes, that's right. And they are also of
course coated with a little colored dot, so I guess that's
just back-up. But, anyway, we figure the (garble) with the
ii0 and the centrifuge will turn off on time.
CC Okay, we copy. And we are talking to you
through Hawaii with about 6 minutes left in this pass.
SPT Okay, nothing else from me here. Sort of
a late start, I'm Just now getting to my breakfast.
CC Okay, no rush. We can here some music
going in the background, so it sounds llke that things are
looking up.
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SPT I think so.
PAO This is Skylab Control, the reference
there was to BSV.
SPT (Garble) Ruined BSV, unless there is
some reason somebody wants it brought back home. All it
amounts to is apparently the fluid has leaked out and then
it's a yellow deposit all on the inside of the telephone bag.
I don't imagine it's of any use to anybody. I'll throw it
away unless told otherwise.
CC Okay, Owen. We concur on that.
SPT You might be able to verify also, each
of these kits only has the six BSVs in it and no more. Did
you - is that correct?
CC I believe that is correct, we will
verify it , Owen.
SPT Thank you.
PAO The reference is BSV Bravo Sugar Victor.
That's blood sampling vials.
CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute till LOS
Hawaii. Next site is Goldstone at 15 plus 58 and approximately
3-1/2 minutes, out.
SPT Okay, Burce. See you there.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-II0/I
Time: 10:55 CDT 03:15:55 GMT
7/30/73

55 minutes Greenwich moan time. Hawaii has loss of signal.
Guldstone will acquire in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll try
to recap the information on the two corollary experiments
that have been, that have failed in the service module. They
are designed to stud Circadam rhytum and consist of
pocket mice and vinegar gnats . They have failed due to
a short circuit in the experiment package. Because of this
power problem which was limited to these two experiments
S071 and S072, the ground has received no data. Principal
investigator for the pocket mouse experiment S071 is Robert
G. Lindberg of Northrop Research and Technology Center.
He d hoped to determine if space flight imposes biorhythm
re ictions on animals. It had been planned to monitor
body temperature and activity level of the 6 pocket mice
during the first 28 days of the mission. Monitoring of
the vinegar gnats pupae was also limited to the first 28 days.
The principal investigator of this experiment S072, is
Dr. Collin S. Pittendrigh of Stanford Unlverslty3 who was
trying to determine if the emerging cycle of the gnat is
altered during space flight. These experiments were initiated
automatically from the ground and at Ii:00 p.m. the first
day in this manned flight. The power supply for this exper-
iment also provides power to the experiment environmental
control system. And for all intents and purposes these
experiments have failed totally. We're coming up on Goldstone
now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for approximately 6-1/2 minutes, out.
CDR Houston, why don't I give you the PRD
readings for this morning?
CC Well, why don't you?
CDR Okay. 45012, 19005, 07012.
CC Okay. 45012, 19005, and 07012. While
we're talking with you, AI, I guess we've got a philosophical
question here. There are some checklists such as the SWS
systems checklist for which you have multiple copies on board,
and I guess our feeling is that we should either update all
copies or should discard the extra ones and just stick with
the number you need to operate with. We're prepared to send
you up multiple copies of the changes, if you would like
to go that way. What is your feeling, over?
CDR I guess the SWS systems checklist is
the only one we really have that way isn't it. Or are there
some others?
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Time: 10:55 CDT 03:15:55 GMT
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CC We're tracking that down now, AI. I'ii

have an answer for you. The SWS systems is the most obvious one.
CDR I'ii tell you, what we probably ought to start
doing both of them, and if it turns out that it is a big time
consumer then fall back and just do one and we'll take
the other book and put it away some where where we won't
get it.
CC Okay, we copy. And your multiple changes
will be on the way. In this particular case we have a change
to the change, so we're going to be sending you two more
copies of what was change number 2, and is now change number
2 Alfa to the SWS systems checklist. And an additional copy
for one change. Over.
CDR Sounds good. And 1'11 stick those in
and then we'll see how it goes, see what level of traffic
we have on that checklist. Itm hoping that, you know several
of them this morning were things we had discussed and
never got in, and so maybe that will stop, maybe we won't
have near the traffic on them any more.
CC Okay. And while we're getting status
squared away, has anybody taken medication this morning, over?
CC Jack took a scop/Dex, I did not. Let
me ask Owen. And Owen did not.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR I know you're wondering. Subjectively
it looks like that I'd say Owen is about the same as he
was yesterday morning. He improved through the day until
yesterday evening he was quite frisky. I'm not quite as
frisky as I was late yesterday hut I feel good, and I was
able to get down all breakfast. So at least we got a fighting
start there. Jack is nob feeling too good still. He was
feeling better yesterday late, then getting up this morning
he is a little bit slow. So essentially I think that he is not
going to be working as fast as we'd like him. And I don't
think Owen and I are going to be working as fast as we'd
like ourselves to either.
CC Okay, we copy all of that, AI. We've
got about 40 seconds to LOS here. The next station will
be Bermuda in 4 minutes.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
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SL III MC-III/I
TIME: 11:04 CDT 03:16:04 GMT
7/30/73

5 minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has loss of
signal. Bermuda will pick up the spacecraft in about 3
minutes. During this pass Skylab Commander Alan Bean
gave a little rundown on how the crew is feeling. He
reported that the Pilot Jack Lousma did take one of the
motion sickness pills today. Bean and the Science Pilot
Owen Garrlott have not. Lousma apparently does not feel
as good as the other two crewmen. And all three still
show some symptoms apparently, although Bean did report
that he did eat breakfast. Bermuda should acquire within
the next minute and we'll stand by for further conversation
there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 9 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
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SL-III MC-112/I
Time: 11_11 CDT 03_16_ii GMT
7/30/73
CC Skylab, this is Houston with about

5 minutes to LOS. When someone is free, we have a malfunction
procedure with a modification that we would like to read
up to you for the condensate Delta P problem. Over.
CDR Okay, 8o ahead.
CC Okay, A1. Basically we would like you
to perform EC$ mall number 30 with mods to block 3 and 7.
Let me read them through and if you want to get your
book out then I can read them over again. In block 3, we
want to add, "report position of the bladder in the airlock
module condensate tank." And in block 7, we want to change
it to read on the first bullet to, "perform airlock module
condensate tank dump to waste tank per SWS systems checklist
page 9-6 instead of the holding tank dump as it shows in
the mall procedure. Over.
CDR Say the last two sentences again, please.
CC Okay. Change block 7 in the ECS mall 30
to read, "perform AM condensate tank dump waste tank in accord-
ance with SWS systems checklist, page 9-6 instead of the
holding tank dump as it's called out in the malfunction
procedure right now." Over.
CC And in the SWS systems checklist, you can
disregard the caution to keep the waste processor exhaust
pressure below .08 psia for this dump. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylabj Houston. One minute to LOS at
ermuda. Next station will be Ascension at 16 plus 25 in
approximately 7-1/2 minutes.
18 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda does have loss
of signal. There is a very short pass at Canary. A possibil-
ity of about a minute's worth of acquisition there. But the
Capcomm, Bruce McCandless indicates we won't try through
that station, we'll wait to Ascension which will acquire
in 6-1}2 minutes. At 16 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean
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SL III MC-II3/I
TIME: 11:24 CDT- 03:16:24 GMT
7/30/73

24 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We are standing by for
Skylab communications through the Ascension Island
tracking station.
CC Skylab, this Houston, through
Ascension for i0 minutes. We have a few comments for
you when you have a chance, over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, go ahead. What are your
comments ?
CC Okay, Owen, for your information,
the S055 door hung up on unattended OPS last night
on opening 5 times when the sunrise signal was issued.
Each time it opened after the primary drive motor was
cycled OFF and then back ON. Then the door OPEN command reissued
We up-dated the X-2 rate gyro conpensatlon by a small
amount and we' ii Just keep you posted whenever we do this.
If we do have a CMG SAT condition, we want to rectify it
with TACS control until our QUAD B problem is completely
analyzed and procedures resolved, and if one of you have
a moment to able us to continue our inverter LCA
temperature trouble shooting, procedures up on panel 202.
We'd llke to get the ILCA heaters number 2 only circuit
breaker closed, over.
SPT ILCA number 2 circuit breaker, standby.
CC Okay, thank you -
SPT A1 is on his way up right now.
CC Thank you.
SPT How is the Y-2 looking?
CC Well, there is not much I can say on
Y-2, Owen, other than the fact that it's sort of performing
llke it has been llke for the past couple of days. Wetre
concerned over the fact that we have to continually update it
and continuing to examine our options down here, over.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, the circuit breakers on, Bruce.
CC Okay, A1 and you probably have some
teleprinter messages_ including the checklist changes,
in the process of coming up right now, we hope to have them
all up by the end of this pass at Ascension. Over.
CDR Okay, I will wait a few minutes before
I pick them up there.
CC Okay.
SC Do you want a report on the bladder in
the condensate tank - it is completely at the empty end.
CC Okay, thank you, A1.
CDr Carry on.
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CDR Bruce, I'm Just getting out the SWS

malfunction procedures, and I'm wondering I haven't
had a chance to upthis book with any changes, that
we might have brought up. Are there any? Or should I Just
go ahead and use the procedures that have been up here
all along?
CC Okay, AI, I don't show any in the book
we got here. We show the date of 7 March. We are checking
with the back room on that though.
CC Okay, AI, that is the latest page for
that procedure. Of course, other pages in the book have
been up-dated.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. With 1 minute
until LOS, next station contact is Carnarvon at 16 plus 58 in
23 minutes from now, out.
CDR Okay_ Bruce.
PAO This Skylab Control, at 16 hours
36 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Ascension has lost its
signal. Next station for Skylab is Carnarvon in 22 minutes.
At 16 hours, 36 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-114/i
Time: 11:57 CDT 03:16:57 GMT
7/30/73

57 minutes Greenwich mean time. Wetre standing by for
acquisition through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact will be Guam at 17:13 in
approximately 7 minutes. For your information, the ILCA
temperature is down to 43 degrees now. And it looks llke
it's okay. We're going to leave the circuit breaker in and
continue to monitor on telemetry. Over Guam, we'd llke
to get an update from you all on your status with regard to
progress through the activation task for each crewman. And
if the the Commander is listening, the items that we found
on the flight data file with multiple copies are the EREP
checklist 2 copies, SWS systems 2, and deactivation 3. Over.
CDR Okay, I guess we're going to have to have
changes to all of them for deactivation, but we can probably
do - yeah, that would be the thing to do for that. For
the EREP we use the cards, so we'll change the cards and only
a single item appears on the card. We use the cards
as opposed to the checklist anyway.
CC Roger, out.
CDR As far as getting anything done, as far
as activation, we did our post sleep checklist, Bruce, and
then since that time we've been troubleshooting.
CC Okay, I copy, AI.
CDR And so when we start working on that
other, I'll let you know.
CC Roger, out.
utes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has loss of signal.
Skylab will he within the range of the Guam tracking station
in 4-1/2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-II5/I
Time: 12:12 CDT 03:17:12 GMT
7/30/73

12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for a
7-1/2 minute pass through Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for 7-1/2 minutes. For your information, we'll be dumping
the data and voice tape recorder next pass at Goldstone.
Out.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. On telemetry,
welre watching youl condensate tank Delta P and show it at
about 1.6. We're wondering if youtd care to give us a status on
where you are in the mall, and if there's any way we can
assist you. Over.
CDR Okay. I got to the mall to the point where
it said step 7. Where you said go dump the AM condensate
tank dump. Now, as I reported to you, the bladder was in
that end of the tank anyway. In other words, the empty
end. So Itm presently dumped it per your instructions. And
it's going to be completely empty in a second.
CC Roger. We understood your call on the
position and Roger your actions.
CDR Okay, now. The thing that puzzles me
a little_ it says, "Observe bladder during dump and
(garble) bottoming out before next operation." Well,
see, the bladder was already bottomed out.
CC Roger. We copy. Our feeling is that
we probably got ambient cabin pressure both in the con-
densate holdlng tank down in the workshop and on the back-
side of the bladder at this stage of the game, with the
gas from the backside of the bladder leaking in through that
vented cap and through the pressurization valve, so itls
probably two problems. Wetd llke to go ahead and go through the
malfunction procedure.
CDR Okay. How long do you want me to wait
before l assume that the bladder is near empty, and go to
condensate tank pressure valve to vacuum.
CC You can go ahead and do that now_ AI.
CDR Okay_ I'll do it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We saw your condensate
tank Delta P go up to about 2-1/2 and then it dropped back
pretty rapidly to 0.6 and is now 0.9. Is their any problem? Over.
CDR Just following the procedure. It builds
up to this 2-1/2 when we began and the condensate tank
H20 valve was in dump and it was configured llke all
the procedure on page 9-6. Okay_ then I went up. The bladder
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was near empty. In fact, it was against the bottom, as I

mentioned, and I put the condensate tank pressure valve to
vacuum and that's when it dropped the pressure.
CC Going to vacuum dropped the preesuEe on
you?
CDR It dropped the Delta P, yes. It had the
2-1/2 when the condensate tank pressure valve was in press.
CC Roger. Out. We have about 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact is Goldstone at 17:37 in
16 minutes.
CDR Okay, and you'll notice it's building
up slowly now.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Okay.
CC And we think the system is acting as
designed.
CDR Concur. Hope we don't overstress
the bladder.
CC No comment.
CDR It's your feeling then2 that it's not
the water separator plates that are not - that are letting
the area, huh?
CC We don't know enough Just yet, Aip to make a
Judgement on that. You go on through the malf. That
should become obvious later on.
CDR Okay.
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab out of range of the
Guam station now. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in 15
minutes. At 17 hours 22 minutes_ this is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 12:36 CDT - 03:17:36 GMT
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36 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab in acquisition
through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Goldstone_ for 6 minutes, out.
CDR Okay, still working on the procedures.
PLT Hey, Bruce, is this page 211?
CC Uh, yes it is Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Okay, here's what occurred. I went
through step 12 and then I assumed that the dewpoint was
left in the heat exchanger out temperature. I went over to
block 13. Now we've established the DELTA-P and then I turned
off both heat exchanger A ondensate isolation valve, and I
am taking a look at the arrangement now and the DELTA-P is
3-1/2 which is the highest it's been all day.
CDR It says, DELTA-P decreasing? The
answer is no, because actually the DELTA-P is increasing.
CC Okay, stand by.
CDR Roger .... a little.
CC Skylab, Houston. Your assumption that
the dew point was less than the heat exchanger output
temperature was not a currect one. In fact the dew point is a
fair amount higher. It's up about 53 degrees, over.
CDR Okay, I noticed that we were getting
a lot of bubbles and water in the condensate tank now. It
seems to pulse. Now the pressure drops 2-1/2 and it has been
a little bit higher.
CC Okay, we're showing about 3 on telemetry
at the present time, and the dew poin= is 53 degrees.
CDR Okay, and it Just went up to 3-1/2.
Something was wrong, so I'm going to go back to block 12
and go to block 14.
CC Roger.
CDR It's really picking up the DELTA-P, now.
CC Okay, and we're dumping your data and
voice tape recorder this pass, in case you're wondering about
that.
CDR I just opened both heat exchanger A valve
to the DELTA-P, now. It's about 3-1/2.
CC Okay, understand you opened both heat
exchanger A valves, over.
CDR That's affirmative, backing up.
CC One minute to LOS, Skylab, next station
contact, will be through Texas at 17:43 a handover.
CDR Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston, now coming to you

through Mila for the next 11 minutes and be advised that
we were unable to dump the data voice tape recorder over
Goldstone we're going to do it at the present time.
CDR Why is it that we never get a DELTA-P
higher than about 2-1/27
CC You didn't work.
CC Whatever it is your doing right now,
AI, we're up to about 3-1/2, 3.6 on telemetry.
CDR Yes, that's looking good.
CDR What I did was turn off sieve B - I mean
check it for Bleakage. I turned off A - block 14.
CC Okay. I understand you turned off
the heat exchanger A in sieve B per block 14, over.
CDR That's right. The MOL SIEVE B, HEAT
EXCHANGER A CONDENSATE ISOLATION valve, CLOSED. That's what
we did.
CC Yes, we're going to get to the guy that
gave you an A and B condensate sytem in A and B sieves one
of these days.
CDR He must be related to the fellow that named
all these oxygen and condensate hoses. Every single one of
them sounds the same.
SPT Houston, SPT is going to be starting
172, and it will be a while before I actually get to the
calibration portion. I suppose you were planning to do an
GD dump on the next night pass?
CC That, was our plan and have you all
eaten lunch yet or what's the status on that with regards
with the food trays?
SPT No, we haven't eaten lunch, and since
we finished breakfast late, I was hoping that I would be
able to get the food trays up before lunch.
CC Okay, very good. Do you think that
(cough) you will be in the calibration maneuver next night
pass or you think it will take yon that long to get
set up, so we should go ahead and do our dumps?
SPT I sorta think I will be started on it
before the end of the night pass. I was going to ask, how
badly you really want that dump, whether I should wait
on it, if necessary?
CC Okay, Owen, we'd be happy to go
ahead and inhibit momentum dump next pass, if it'll help you
out, and we got about 30 seconds to a station handover
with momentary dropout, over.
SPT Okay, I'ii go ahead and get started
on it and do that - momentum dump will be handled.
CC Right, we will inhibit.
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CDR Houston, how long do you think I should

stay in Step 14 before I go to the next one?
CC We'll be right back in a minute, AI?
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you still holding in
block 14, we Just noticed the bottom fall out from under the
condensate tank DELTA-P.
CDR I noticed that too, and that's firm.
I'm holding at 14.
CC Okay.
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CC CDR, Houston. We'd like you to take

the press valve on the condensate module and go to vacuum.
We suspect that what may be happening is that cabin gas is
leaking back in thorugh the press valve to the back side of the
bladder causing this particular drop in Delta P. Over.
CDR Rog.
CDR Didn't seem to help much, did it.
CC No, it didn't.
CC CDR, Houston. How are you reestablishing
the Delta P in your system when you are doing it. And just
looking at things here we wonder if the overboard vent or
if a vacuum vent is open to provide vacuum to that press
valve.
CDR That's affirm. We've left it open
(garble) procedures and it worked several times. And the
way I established vacuum was exactly how they did it on
page 96, and then they went over to 97 and it says for Delta P
stabilize, go to filter closed, and that's what I did.
Essentially I did the procedure on page 96 and 7 each time
we lost pressure.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR I'ii go check that valve myself again,
and I'ii also look at the pressure in the tank.
CC Okay, we're coming up with a little over
i minute to LOS at Bermuda here. The next station contact will
be Ascension at 18:05 in approximately i0 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. And one other thing, I had
a whole lot of trouble finding the little (garble) plug in the
big condensate tank with the (garle) finder. Is there any magic
formula to that. It worked real good on the water tank, but
I can't seem to get it on the condensate tank.
CC Okay, Jack. We understand that the metal
strip inside does not cover 360 degrees of the diaphragm. And
we'll have to check and get the particular angular segment
that is covered for you, and get it to you over Ascension.
PLT Well, I've got two black lines lined up
on the flanges and it's supposed to be alone that line some-
where or (garble) can find it.
CC Okay. In that case, we don't have any
further intelligence for you right now, but we'll work on it.
PLT But there's one in there, right?
CC Right.
56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal
Ascension will acquire in 8 minutes. At 17 hours 57 minutes,
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TIME: 13:04 CDT 03:18:04 GMT
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4 minutes Greenwich mean time. We' re standing by through
As censlon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 5 minutes. Over.
CDR That condensate step 14, the pressure
just goes up and it'll get up maybe 3-1/2 and then it'll
drop to 2, and then itVll go up to 3-1/2 and go to some-
where else. Real strange.
CC Okay, Alan, what we'd llke you to do is
to close off both heat exchanger A condensate isolation
valves, that is, put you [n a configuration where all four
of the condensate isolation valves are closed. Then re-
establish the Delta P, using the procedures that you have
been using and wait and see if it holds pressure. If it
does hold pressure, then open one heat exchanger condensate
valve and check and see if we're getting a breakthrough on
that one and then we can go ahead and close that and open
the other heat exchanger A when we think we may be getting
a breakthrough on both heat exchanger A sets of plates.
Ove r.
CDR That's kinda what I'd guess too. It
builds up til it gets a good Delta P and then it finally
lets the air through.
CC Yes, so if we shut all four of these
valves off and see if we can build up to 4-1/2 or 5 and
see if it holds, then we got a pretty good hack on what's
happening. Over.
CDR Okay. They' re both closed now.
CC Roger.
CDR The way this 96 has been (garble) it goes
to the H20 valve to dump, and the other, vacuum, so that's
where I'm going to go.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Bruce, do you want us to go ahead
and do the S149 stow-i on page 3-3.
CC Stand by.
CC Jack, when did you do the retract on
that. Over.
PLT We didn't do a retract. The thing was
sticking out all along. You notice that during docking
the other day it was out there, but the wings were shut - or
the doors were shut on it.
CC Jack, this is Houston. Prior to doing
the S149 stow, we need to do a 149 retract. In the
activation checklist, it's called out on page 2-89 and
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that references you to 3-9 of the Sal experiments check-

llst and then there's a wait period prior to doing the
stow.
PLT Okay, we overlooked that yesterday, and
I'ii do the retract and if you want me to do that, Just
wait on the stow.
CC Ro E. That'll be fine with us and we're
running out of station contact time here at Ascension.
45 seconds left. We'll see you over Carnarvon in about
25 minutes at time of 18:35. Over.
i0 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of
range at Ascension. Carnarvon will acquire the spacecraft
in 24 minutes. Skylab Commander A1 Bean still goln E through
the malfunction procedures for the condensate system. The
system which removes the water in the atmosphere in the
workshop cabin. At 18 hours 11 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-III MC-II9/I
Time: 13:34 CDT 03:18:34 GMT
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34 minutes. Carnarvon is about to acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 10 minutes. Standing by for the CDR. Over.
CC Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay_ Alan. What have you done while
we were out of station contact on the condensate system.
Over.
CDR I have all the heat exchanger A off in both
mol sieves. I attempted to get a large Delta P, the maximum
I could get is what you see at the momentj 2-1/2. Which
I guess means and this is what has been puzzling me all along.
I guess it means the llmb is not in - leak is not in the water
plate, itts somewhere else, cause we got the water plates cut off.
CC Okay. That's certainly what we're thinking
also if you've got all 4 water plates cut off. What we'd like
you to do is establish as high a vacuum as you can and then
disconnect the QD from the dump port on the side of the condensate
module that is in use. I'm informed that there is a label that
says dump right next to the QD that is involved. And then
we'll watch the system and see what happens to the pressure.
We're suspecting gas leakage in the plumbing of the condensate
module. Over.
CDR Okay. Now one other question.
You're happy wlth the position in a half E2 valve vent? It's
per the ehecklist_ but I sort of wondered about it. The H20
is in DUMP_ and the CONDENSATE TANK is in VACUUM.
CC Roger. We are happy.
CDR Okay. I'm going to leave it Just llke
that and remove that dump line. Is that correct?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're trying to estab-
lish a higher Delta P prior to disconnecting. So we'd llke
to turn on the alrlock module primary vent heaters panel 216.
And then open up the primary alrlock module vent valve again
on 216. Over.
CDR Okay. 'Do you want me to delay any time
between that those two operations?
CC Negative. We feel you'll be venting only
gas overboard.
CDR Good suggestion. Tere it goes.
CC Say again.
CDR I said the Delta V is moving up, good
suggestion.
CC Rog.
CDR When it reaches 5 I'ii remove the dump port.
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CC Stand by, AI. We may want to reconflgure

a valve or 2 before you pop that QD loose.
CDR Okay.
CDR Looks like 4.3 is all we're going to get
for a while.
CC Okay, AI. We're copying that, and we
shot about 4.34 down here. What we'd llke you to do is to go
ahead and close the vent valve first on panel 216 and then as
close to simultaneously as you can pop the QD loose. Over.
CDR Okay, that's complete. And the heater
is still on.
CC Roger, we concur. And we're watching
the pressure now.
CC Okay AI, we can probably see the pressure
change faster than you can with our resolution here. It's
slowly deteriorating, and we'll have some words for you in
a minute.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, we'd llke the water valve to fill,
AI.
CDR Okay.
CDR (garble) a nice bubble into the tank.
CC Bubble of air., over.
CDR I can't tell. I guess that black bladder
whether it's a bubble of water or a bubble of air.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Okay AI, we've got i minute to LOS here.
Next station contact is Guam in about 4-1/2 minutes. We're
still showing a jump in pressure. We'd llke you to pull
the fill QD loose from the condensate module thereby completely
isolating the condensate module from the plumbing, but leaving
it hooked up electrically, and it should hold pressure for
about 15 minutes. SO don't do anything between now and
Guam, and we can both take a look at it over Guam. Over.
CDR Okay, I just pulled it.
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SI. [[I MC-120/I
13:45 CDT- 03:18:45 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control, at 18 hours,

47 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Guam station, now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're with
you through Guam for a little over 7-1/2 minutes, for the
Commander, over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, Alan. We think we have
a leak in the plumbing internal to the condensate tank itself.
We need to discuss matters a little more down here before
we make any decision on what to do with respect to that
tank, so in the mean time we'd llke you to sort of leave that
part of the system as it is. I think we can more profitably
have you go ahead and run through a condensate holding
tank dump operation which is housekeeping 60 Bravo found on page
9-3, that's 9-3 of the SWS sytem checklist. Since this has to
be done anyway. We think that using the stud finder you'll
be able to locate your little (garble) reference approximately
180 degrees out from the mrrks that were installed on the
tank. We believe that the SL-2 crew located this
position and put some pencil marks on the outside of the
tanks, so you might take a look for those. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll give it a go.
CC Okay, and I guess for Owen and Jack,
we would appreciate a comment as to how you're coming on
the 172 CAL and 149 retraction, when they have a minute.
CDR I think I can answer, we Just got the
equipment out of the command module to mount the batteries,
et cetera on the 172, so Owen's in the process of doing that.
Jack, as far as I know, at the moment, not doing anything
about 149, he's backed up in his checklist to the first
day and we're proceeding through there systematically to
make sure we don't skip anything and get out of phase. So that's
where he is at the moment.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Also, that's what I'm doing between
the time of this troubleshooting, what little there is,
between time.
CC Okay, AI, we copy your update, we
just came into sunrise here, and we had inhibit momentum
dump during the night pass, to facilitate the M172 CAL,
because we thought he was about ready to run it. At the
present time we can not guarantee a momentum inhibit next
night pass, so be sure and keep us posted on how he
rpogresses, over.
CDR Will do. We run into a continual
problem in that when we go to hunt something, the plate that
it was up until about 3 or 4 days ago, in the command module
it ain't there no more.
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CDR And so we have been doing a little

searching, but wetll find out.
CC Roger_ we copy, and if you have any
questions or problems on specific_ locations although
we understand that the configuration, the problem
you're faclng, if you give us a call down here_ we may
still be able to uuggest some locations where they could
be, over.
CDR We'll do that, Bruce. (garble) you want
me to turn off the AM heaters, donW t you_ or Just leave it
on?
CC That's affirmative, AI, you can go ahead
and shut it OFF now.
CDR Complete.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, I minute until
LOS, next station will be Goldstone at 19:14p or 16 minutes
from now for a string of stateside contacts, out.
CC And we have reenabled the momentum
dump.
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Time: 13:59 CDT, 03:18:59 GMT
7/30/73

utes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of siEnal with
Skylab. Goldstone will acquire in about 15 minutes. The
malfunction procedures on the condensate system that have
been performed by A1 Bean seem to indicate that the leak is
within the condensate tank itself. He has delayed any further
work in that area at the request of the ground while the
experts down here study the situation some more. That tank
can be replaced in fllght. No decision has been made to do
that_ but it is possible to replace it if necessary. Wetll
come back up Just prior to Goldstone. At 19 hours_ Greenwich
mean tlme_ this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III Mc-122/1
Time: 14:13 CDT, 03:19:13 GMT
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 19 hours 13 minutes

(;roenwlch mean time. Skylab coming up on the Goldstone station
for a pass over the United States. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab. This is Houston, through Goldstone
and the states for about 16 minutes. Over.
CDR Hello.
CC Hello. What we want to do AI, is wind up
dumping the condensate holding tank as per request, last
station pass. And then hook the condensate holding tank
back up to the system and use that for pulling the vacuum
on the system, leave the condensate modules and the alrlock
module disconnected and open up the condencing heating exchanger
A valves in mol sieve A and B and see if we got a system
operating. Periodically, we will request that you hook the
condensate module fill QD up with the water valve, in the fill
position and give us a reading on DELTA-P, since by leaving
the tanks disconnected from the plumbing, we have lost both
the on board and the telemetry indications of condensate tank
DELTA-P. Over.
CDR Okay, I understand that, Bruce. I have had
one problem as I have hunted for some of this hardware, l've
got almost all of it done except one thing. Let me see if I
can find it here.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, right at the bottom of page 9-3,
it says insert condensate press fitting into holding tank pressure
valve force. I got the last part, I - I don't know where
to find the condensate press fitting.
CC Okay. Stand by a second here.
CC We understand that it should be on the tank,
mounted on the tank in a QD a - a dummy receptacle of some sort.
CDR Well, I looked around and I saw one called
depress fitting. Let me go up and look again.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, AI, it looks like a - any fitting
that will let air in on the back side of that bellow, so that
you can in fact use cabin pressure coming in through the press
valve on the condensate tank, to force the liquid out through
the dump lines down into the waste tank will do the Job.
And we're checking on the nomenclature on that thing. We
so it on our diagram as the condensate press fitting.
CDR Well, I think we can clear it up.
Do you have anything on your diagram called the condensate
depress fitting.
CC Yes, sir, AI, we have one of those, showing
down in a WMC, but that's not the right thing. We don't
thi1_k |t w_ ] ] fi_ _ Ow_r.
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CDR Okay, let's - well this one was mounted

on the tank and at the major (garble) label, let me see if it
will fit.
CC Why don't you llft the valve - the press
valve close, and see if that fitting will fit.
CC Okay, AI, we're getting the input here, the
condensate press fitting should be mounted on one of the feet
underneath the tank, as it is in position up there on the
dome. Over.
CDR Okay, that's that's were I got this thing.
And if there isn't a depress fitting that's suppose to mounted,
this is it. I'm - I'm still back over there at the tanks.
I won't call you back for a few minutes.
CC Rogers out.
CDR Okay, I found it Bruce, the clue was that it
was down by the feet, thanks.
CC It was down by the what, please?
CDR It was down by the mounting feet of the a -
tank. All the rest of the valves are up on the top. And
I went around there and saw it, thanks.
CC Roger.
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TIME: 14:23 CDT- 03:19:23 GMT
7/30/73
CDR Okay, Houston, l've initiated the

holding tank dump.
CC Okay, we're handing over right now. I'ii
call you in a few seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back in business.
CC And, Alan, were you successful in
locating the bellow position, using your stud finder? Over.
CDR The reason we couldn't locate it earlier
was because it was too near the end. Now that it is being moved
back across, l_m going to take the stud finder and see if I
can locate it m I pretty sure I can, I see the marks
on there, that Pete left, and don't see any reason why
we can't find it.
CC Okay, out best guess is that it is
going to take at least an hour to complete this dump_ so you
better plan of leaving any configuration and Just checking it
periodically. I don't imagine it hurts anything, if it goes for
longer than the required amount of time.
CDR Okay, I felt the fitting, you know,
that the air is suppose to come in when you apply a vacuum to
the condensate side and it didn't appear that it was sucking
excessively. You can feel that there is a vacuum being
pulled, but it's not very much. It is going to take quite
a while.
CC Okay, Roger.
CC Okay, Skylab, Houston, I might
change my last there, what we would like to do is
dump for about an hour even and then even though the tank may
not be completely empty at that point, go ahead and
reconflgure and start getting some water removal_ because
our dew point is up to 53.7 and we are concerned that we
may be taking too much out with the molecular sieves. Over.
PLT AI says to tell you yes.
CC Okay, you can tell AI, Roger, for me.
CC Skylab, Houston, I minute till LOS
through Mila, we'll see you over Vanguard in I0 minutes_
at the time of 19:40 for about 5-minute pass, over.
SPT How much time we got 'til sunset_ Bruce?
CC Till sunset? You have 21 minutes, sir.
SPT Okay, I'm Just putting on my last tray
now and so I should have the BMMD complete by sunset.
CC Go man, go.
CDR Okay, I found the stud- I used the stud
finder, and found the bellows and I'm watching it move across
now, I'm going to mark it as it moves so the next time we play
the game we can find it faster.
CC Roger, AI.
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TIME; 14:23 CDT- 03:19:23 GMT
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Controlp at 19 hours,

31 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We have had loss of signal
at Merrltt Island tracking station. Vanguard will pick up
Sklyab In about 9 mlnutes D still working on the problem
with the condensate system_ the system that removes
mofsture from the atmospherc of the orbital workshop cabin.
The experts here on the ground want to continue studying the
situation a little bit more. That tank can be changed out by
the crew and the spare tank installed. Howeverj no decision has
been made yet to do that, and we want to contiue taking a look
at the current tank. We'll come back up, Just prior to Vanguard
at 19 hours, 32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC 124/1
Time: 14:39 CST, 03:19:39 GET
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 19:39 Greenwich mean

time, about 50 seconds away from a 6 I/2 minute pass over
tracking ship Vanguard. After which there will be about an
hour and 6 minutes loss of signal period before the next
stateside pass with Skylab space station missing Carnarvon and
Guam and all of the western pacific stations on this particular
rev number 1114.
on a 6 minute pass. A note for the SPT.. Momentum dump will
commence at 195137 or in i0 minutes and ii seconds from now.
I can give you a mark if you llke. Over.
SPT No, I don't need it that's good enough, Bruce.
Now I've completed all of the mass measurements and I'm
unstowing the chair again_ now. There is a final mass
measurement to be done with everything unstowed again would
you Just repeat the very first one; but that's such low
mags and therefore such short period that I can't image the
GG dump would have affected it or even really for that matter
any of the rest and it is a repeat of the first one made so I think
it's perfectly all right if you just go ahead do this one even if
the GG dump has come in, myself. Over.
CDR While you're thinking about that the land
we Just came over had hundreds and hundreds of small fires in it.
Must be burning out the crops or something.
CC Okay, well we got you over Vanguard now.
So looks like you're coming over Western Brazil and maybe
northern Argentina.
SPT Looks llke my suggestions didn't meet with
immediate enthusiasm.
CC No, it didn't really meet with immediate
enthusiasm. What we'd llke you to do since it is with all the
masses off, is Just go ahead and come back and do that one
run at next sunrise after one (garble) has been
accomplished they say that's it's a very sensitive measurement
over.
SPT Okay_ that makes sense. I'ii do it then.
After the next sunrise I'ii go do it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, with 2 minutes
unltl LOS at Vanguard. Your next station contact will be
Goldstone at 20:51 or an hour and 5 minutes from now. At that
time we'd llke to discuss with you our plans and your desires
for flight planning the mission day tomorrow and also to get
update from you on any major task in activation that you may have
completed by that time. Over.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, space station
Skylab passed over the horizon from tracking ship Vanguard
an hour and 2 minutes away from ,ext stateside pa_ throuRb
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the Goldstone and Texas stations skimming down along the

west coast of the United States and BaJa, Callfornlal Mexico
Getting in the period of long LOS times. At 19:48 Greenwlch
mean time Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control 20:0g Greenwich

mean time 42 minutes away from acquisition through the
Gt_Idstone, Cal[fornla tracking station for the final state-
side pass of the day. The team of flight surgeons in the
Control Center have drafted up a series of medical questions
for a sort of public medical conference which will take
over the States on this upcoming pass about the crews
current state of health, how well they're fairing on the
stomach awareness and queasiness that theytve experienced
over the last 3 days. 41 minutes now to stateside and
at 20:09 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Twenty minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone
and the upcoming medical conference between flight surgeons
and the crew on the queasiness problems that the crew of
Skylab have had for the past 2 or 3 days. We have a brief
summary of the condensate tank problem prepared by Bob Gordon
which reads as follows: The condensate tank malfunctlon which
has been the prime topic of conversation between Skylab III
Commander A1 Bean and CAP COMb Bruce McCandless_ for the
past 2 hours have revolved around the tank's lack of
maintaining pressure. The tank is a transparent cylinder
i foot in diameter and about 2 feet in length. It has the
capability of holding 16 pounds of water and can be dumped
to the vacuum of space. The tank is hooked to both Molecular
Sieve A and Molecular Sieve B systems which remove carbon
dioxide and water from the Skylab atmosphere. The condensate
tank which weighs about 16 pounds can be replaced by one
astronaut. It is possible to reroute the excess water from
the Molecular Sieve operation to the 600-pound condensate
tank located in forward dome of the orbital workshop. If
and when the replacement is made the Molecular Sieve water
can be handled by the workshop 600-pound condensate tank.
The condensate tank is made of transparent epoxy polyurethane
copolymer material. A flexible vyton diaphragm divides the
tank into a water chamber and a gas chamber. A selector
valve provides the capability for exposing the chamber to
vacuum. A sensor is installed to indicate pressure
differential between the water chamber and the cabin. Another
switch provides a signal to the caution and warning system
when the water tank requires dumping. Seventeen minutes out now
from Goldstone and the medical conference. The medical
questions to the crew have been teleprinted up on the
teleprinter for the crew to review and think before the upcoming
stateside pass, 17 minutes from now. And at 20:33 Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
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mean timep about 50 seconds away from acquisition at Goldstone.
The questions to be teleprlnted up to the crew on this particular
pass across the States will not go up until we have acquisition
at Goldstone. It a - As a matter of fact, still in the control
center here and has not been sent out to the site for up-linklng
on the teleprinter but basically the questions are as follows:
Now many and when have soop-Dex been taken today? Any
vomiting today? If so, how much did it weigh? How much food
and liquid consumed today and at what time? How many voids and
volume for today? Has any physical training or ergometer
exercise been performed? Take and report by volee_ heart
rate, body temp, and blood pressures. Last question provides
subjective comments on your current status and ability to carry
out a full day tomorrow.
CC - - and we got a couple quick ones
here. And then I would llke to discuss your status. First
on the S055 door, we have operated that in every conceivable
configuration_ both PRIMARY and SECONDARY motors alone and
with computer and ground commands and it's intermittently hanging
up. Consequently, on this pass, we are going to select two
motor operations and see if that clears up the problem. And
then I have a quick change to general message 0337-A which
was your Flight Plan message for today. You ready to copy?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. You were directed - in presleep
to powerdown the ATM C and D panel per the unattended operations
cue card. And what we would llke to do is have you powerdown
the C and D per the ATM presleep configuration, page 2-91 of
the SWS Activation Checklist. That is Just llke you were
finishing up day 2 and what that does is - Just turns off the
displays_ the lighting in the DAS, and it leaves you in the proper
configuration for doing the ATM checkout later on. Over.
CDR Okay, makes sense. I got it, 2-91 on page
use 2-91.
CC Roger.
CC Now, if you could take a minute_ we would
like to get an update on you statuses as you progress through
the Activation Checklist. Over.
CDR Okay, let me a - instead of giving you
the exact details, let me Just talk about it for a few minutes.
And maybe that can it solve things better.
CC Okay, maybe I can ask you some blocks
CDR First of all, today, Jack has had a
scop/Dex and Owen has had a scop/Dex. So everyone
isn't still isn't as telmy as he would like to be. Next -
We seemed to end up with about as many chores to do new_ as
we do, chores to do old. And so it tends to keep us from really
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CDR progressing on the activation. The condensate

work is taking quite a bit of time. Owen went in to use his urine
separator and it decided it wouldn't separate. So he is now
in the he Just told me he got it fixed. He has spend about
an hour working on it, trying to get it to work. We had those
problems last evening with the ... valve and with the con-
densate tank yesterday, also. The whole point of the thing
is, we're - we're having difficulty progressing because we a -
we're a - we're doing other work. What we were hoping would
hap - What we ware hoping would happen today was we'd end up
with sort of not much to do, where we could get caught up on
day 2 and then we would have then a Day 3 tomorrow. And I think even
with this, we might make - we might finish the activation
for day 2, but we will not be able to finish for day 3. There
is Just no way we can do it.
CC Roger, AI. We concur with that. What
we are trying to do is to make our own plans down here as far
as scheduling shifts to support activation and getting people
lined up and planning ahead towards the EVA day and that's the reason
for our inquiring as to - your progress on these task. Over.
CDR Okay, let me get out my flight plan, I've
got it right in front of me and I think I can tell you. The
additional items that we have picked up.
CC Okay, mighty fine.
CDR I've been working this morning when time was
available doing the CM stowage reconfiguration. I got the
rate gyros out and got them nearly complete. And most all
the rest of the items are finished. But whatever comes after
the rate gyros is not. I don't have my list in front of me,
but that needs to be completed.
CC Okay.
CDR Jack finished doing the items that were
in his Day-i presleep checklist, Just a few moments ago.
CC Roger.
CDR Of course, we got all of the water system
activated in both the wardroom and the wash room.
We dried all three of the suits. Let me tell you a few things
we haven't done, and then if I dontt say anything about it, then
you'll know we have done it. We still haven't done the PP02 sensor
replacement, the C02 filter replacement, the SOP/SOMA reconfig,
the CO2 sampling and the AM tape recorder replacement.
Now my guess is that we will get that done today.
CC Okay, thatls a good input.
CDR Okay, I'm not completely finished transferring
the flight data file, I've transferred all of the items. But I
haven't found the change sheetj I've got the change sheet. I Just
haven't taken them around and put them in each book. So there is
probably a couple of hours there. I don't know whether I will be
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CDR able to flnlsh that, - today.

CDR Jack finished the return water container
fill-up and he is now working on the command module stowage
transfer. We have not done the PCU/LSU transfer. SMMD transfer
ca1 as you know we did the other one_ per the flight plan
today.
CC Oh_ we had a handover there AI. You
cut out at the beginning of your transmission. Over.
CDR We have not done the SMND transfer ca1
but we wlll get to it today. CSM quiescent panel config is,
of course, complete. We are going to work on the fllm
transfer today if we can. We've weighed all our food residue
and tonight I will glve you e report that will include accurately
all the food and water for the 3 days we have been here
so that the food people can know exactly where we stand.
CC Mightly fine, I'm sure they will appreciate
getting that.
CDR Okay we have done the entry bat isolation.
The 02 fuel cell purge, we have got all the suits done. S149
retract we have not done, but wlllj if we can get to it.
We have not done ED52TV and we probably will not get
to it. We have not done anything on page P which is day 3.
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CDR We have not done anything on HP which is

day 3; eventually what we wanted to do today was try to use
this day to get done with day 2. But I think it's going to
be marginal now. Also, looking at the general state of
equilibrium. My guess is we probably - in thinking about the fact
that before we take this two pole sunshade outside, we're
going to have to take a look at in here_ assemble it and put
the rings on it and really go over it real closely to make
sure that it is ship shape. And 149 and the rest of it that
I don't think we ought to try pulling off an EVA prep at all
tomorrow. It seems to me that tomorrow if it could be lighter
than today we can concievably get this place ship shape. Ut
Just takes a long time to get where you can llve in it.
Everytlme you go to do something llke get your dock kit out
and shave you find that there's no heads there and you have
to go hunt the heads that are in the command module somewhere.
So it Just takes a little bit longer to get in - get going
in a used spacecraft so to speak and it does when everything
is right in it's proper place.
cc Okay, AI, we concur on that on your march
about a light schedule and we're going to slant our flight
plan for tomorrow in that direction very strongly. Over.
CDR Roger. I think tomorrow so we'll have a
better handle on how everybody feeling. It seems to me that
we - there's Just no way I can think of that we can pull off an
EVA day after tomorrow but the day after that is possible.
So I think we just got to have time to get these things ship
shape and once we do then we can go from there.
CC Okay, A1 we're copying all of that. One
question that we got for you is that, did you get the ED
experiment transfer and preparation completed. Over.
SPT No, it's not complete. I did transfer ED
32 as I reported yesterday, but I'Ii have to finish that up by
today.
CC Okay, you think you will get that done
today, Owen.
SPT I think so, now as I recall there's nothing
time critical in there except the - and we don't want to
wait to many days on the spiders, but outside that there's no
hurry is there?
CC Okay, we're checking on that right now.
I think your asessment is correct. We have sent you up a
message on the teleprinter and - correction, we are sending you
a message on the teleprinter and contrary to the heades
there's no time criticality as to reporting that we can get
the info on the evening status report since Al's update and
asessment of your progress and condition has been quite
adequate for making our flight planning decisions. Over.
CDR Okay, one other thing. We - I ran an hour
putting the vacuum on the hldlng tank. I now got the -
correction dumping the holding tank. That's - let it go
J
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about three quarters - bellows go about three quarters of

the way and I marked very carefully where it went. I presently
got the vacuum being applied to the bellows. It said to do
it for 18 minutes and right now we are in about the 16th minute
of it. When that's finished, as soon as I can get a bit to eat
here so I don't flip to far behind on that, I'll go up and
connect it to the mol sieve and we'll have some good suction
I hope we do.
CC Okay, A1 mighty fine. Now we've got about
30 seconds until LOS. Next station contact is over Vanguard in
13 minutes and I think we can get that condensate collection
system going why we'll be a little happier - breathe easier
down here. Over.
CDR Okay, we're with you.
through the Texas tracking station on the final stateside pass
of the day. 12 minutes away from Vanguard. A1 Bean answered
partlcally some of the questions that he hadn't even seen yet
by volunteering the - some degree of status on how - subjective
status on how the crew feeling - how many -- and motion sickness
pills they have taken and perhaps over Vanguard the crew will
have had time to look at the teleprinter message with the
seven or eight questions on it and discuss it further over
that site; ii minutes from Vanguard and at 2104 this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 16:15 CDT, 03:21:15 GMT
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mean time and about 43 seconds away from acquisition at the
tracking ship Vanguard. Perhaps there will be a resumption of
conversations regarding the eight questions which were to have been
teleprinted up to the crew over the States but for some
technical reason didn't get up-linked through the Texas station
or Goldstone. Standing by now at Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Vanguard
for the next 6-1/2 minutes. Now do you read? Over.
CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Okay, Alan we got a few items for you with
respect to the Flight Plan for tomorrow. Our plan is to
schedule general activatilon for tomorrow morning up through
noon and to leave tomorrow afternoon open for regroup
operation. This is desired by you all on board. EVA will be no
earlier than day 6. Over.
PLT Okay, I understand and A1 heard all that also.
CDR That's good news.
CC And in connection with that and to give
us maximum flexibilty in your operations and our planning
down here, we'd like to try to get you all back on a normal
cycle of turning in on time and getting up in the morning.
So we don't get your circadian rhythms changed around and
then I got a few little systems notes if somebody's ready.
Over.
CDR We agree with you i00 percent on
that. As you can see we are out of phase here several hours by
trying to get something done just one last-mlnute thing before
you eat. Okay go ahead with those notes.
CC Okay, panel 207 when you get a chance
we'd like to ENABLE the SIEVE A CAUTION and WARNING parameter
since we believe it to be operating properly now and we' re
going to reset the battery volt talkback and light with respect
to CBRM 15 down here on the ground so that after that's
completed you can extinguish the alert light by selecting
CBRM 17. Over.
CDR Sounds good.
CC And that about wraps up the prepared traffic
we have down here; do you have any comments or anything for us.
CDR Not a thing we'll Just keep going.
CC Okay. Interestingly enough, in looking at
the optics problem that you had during rendezvous we found
from telemetry - Belay that. I understand it's already been
read up.
CDR That's right. One thing I'm still puzzling
about maybe you can find out and pass it up sometime. I'm
still wondering how we ended up with an g-foot per second
mldcourse two? I got to thinking last night; I was
wondering if somehow we had - some sort of optics problem there.
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CC Okay, AI we don't think that was an optics

problem but we' re still working on the real answer to your
question.
PLT Hey, Bruce I got one for you.
CC Fire away Jack.
PLT Now, I'm getting all the film and stuff
out of the command module and I'm leaving that Hasselblad in here,
but taking the magazine downstairs and sure would like to have
a cover for the back glass of this Hasselblad. You know where
there is one?
CC Let me check on that, Jack.
CC Hey, Jack the word that we get here is
that you do not have a back cover on board for that . ..
I think you can arrange to stow it in such a location
that there's nothing up against the glass that's about the
best we can do right now. And then we have a question for
you. You have not yet accomplished the S149 stow i operation
have you?
PLT No, Bruce what we've done is log on back
to the beginning and work from that direction and I figure that
since S149 has been out there so long another day won't hurt
it; what do you think?
CC No it won't hurt it we were Just going
to send you up a film pad so that we can get some movies or
some pictures of this stowage and retract when the time does
come so we'll go ahead and pump it on up to you in the normal
sequence of events.
PLT Yes, go ahead I don't think I'm going
to get to it right away.
CC It will be tomorrow or sometime.
PLT I'm feeling mch better with those
scop/Dex now. It's permitting me to have something to eat without
losing it and haven't felt like tossing up all day and
feel very good now.
CC Yea, I'ii bet you'll eat all of the food
for SL-3 -and -4 if you getting back to feeling like your old
self.
PLT Yea, I got some behind from yesterday and
day before I got to eat yet.
PLT I think my problem before with the scop/dex
was that I didn't lay around long enough and let it take
hold before I got up and moved about and that upset me.
CC Okay. We copy. We got about I minute
left in this Vanguard pass next contact is llawali in a
little over i hour.
CC And that Hawaii AOS time is 2226.
PLT And I put that Hasselblad back in U-I
and it looks like it stows pretty good there without
scratching up the results.
CC Roger Jack, I think the big thing to
avoid is any actual scratches in that - if something touches
it it probably wouldn't do much harm we can always brush it
off later.
PLT Ah, it's in good shape now I think _t's

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supposed to be left in U-I according to my book here.

CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2125 ground
e]apsed Greenwich mean time, that is. Loss of signal through
the Vanguard. Still some technical problems in getting the
medical questions up we think part of them are aboard but
perhaps not the last two or three on teleprinter. 59 minutes
now from the next llawali'pass and very brief station pass of
about 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Starting revolution number
1115 for the space station and number 35 for the command
service module. Back in 59 minutes for brief Hawaii pass at
21:26, Skylab Control.
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mean time. At 4:45 central daylight time, in the Johnson
Space Center News Room, Dr. Royce Hawkins, one of the flight
surgeons will hold a medlcal status briefing for newsmen.
There will be two-way audio for Q&A to the Kennedy Center
News Room, during this briefing. That is about 15 minutes
from now, at 4:45 Central and 5:45 Eastern. Skylab Space station
presently in about a - in meridian of Greenwich_ England,
zero meredlan. Starting ascending node across the Indian Ocean
on revolution 1115j 54 minutes out of Hawaii. If the medical
conference is still underway, during the Hawaii pass_ it will
be played back on a delayed basis. At 21:30_ Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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PAO This is Skylab Control. The medical

status briefing with Dr. Royce Hawkins will begin momentarily
in the Houston newsroom. There will be two-way question and
answer audio capability with the Kennedy Space Center newsroom.
That briefing should begin in a few moments. This is Skylab
Con trol.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition for an extremely
short pass at Hawaii. Maximum elevation only 3.6 degrees above
the horizon, yielding a total pass time of little over
2-1/2 minutes. Next station after Hawaii will be Vanguard
again, some 25 minutes later.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're at Hawaii for
3 minutes.
SPT Hello there, Dick. How's everything in
Hawaii.
CC Hey, I bet it's great. I wish I was over
there looking up at you. Things Things are going great
in Houston though. Hey, the last pass we had we got trapped
by an LOS and I'm not sure we got all of that evening questions
pad up and in the interim we modified it very slightly and we are
retransmltting that message here in Hawaii so when you get
around to answering that later on this evening, answer the
one that is coming up on the teleprinter on this pass and forget
that other one.
SPT Okay, and one little piece of information
for you, on page 2-78 of the activation checklist, the PRD
in the command module would read 32016.
CC Roger, I got that. And if you guys don't
have anything else for me, I've got a little procedure on the
condensate holding tank that would llke to - at least talk
about this pass and partially set up and if we don't get it
done here we would like to get it accomplished down at
Vanguard.
SPT One thing I got for you, Dick, I put a long
message on channel A, relative to the M172 calibration
results. And I Just like word back from you when you get it
dumped and if it all came through okay.
CC Okay, we will sure do that.
CDR Go ahead on the condensate thing, Dick.
CC Okay, what we would llke to end up doing
is putting the condensate tank back in the system long enough
to compare a meter reading on my panal 216 to our ground readings
so that we kind of a get a baseline for some long term operations.
So what we would like for you to do to set up for this is
the following, first of all, install the dry separator plate
on the heat exchanger plate servicing adaptor; secondly, connect
the heat exchanger plate servicing hose to the separator plate
and to M303, and thirdly to monitor the pressure on the heat
exchanger plate servicing the adaptor. And after you
get that set up and then when we're over state insldej we want
to connect the FILL QD to the condensate tank and then we will
get you to report the separator meter readings and also the
panal 216 meter readings to us and we will look at our TM data.
Ove r.
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CDR Okay, I will tell you what I have done.
I've taken the condensate tank and pumped it out - emptied
it, then I put a vacuum on itp now a little - a funny thing
happened I put a vacuum on it - I didn't understand it exactly.
As dumped, the bellows went from the end it was end to the
opposite end while I was watching it, with the SUS finder.
Then when I put a vacuum on the same place - you put a vacuum
in the same place that the air comes in the first time.
I thought, maybe that - that bellows would travel back maybe
a third of the way or some small distance_ but it didn't. It
traveled all the way back to the same end it was at, eventually,
before we started the dump. I check the inlets to the tank,
by pushing in on the QB and found it did have a vacuum inside.
(Garble)
CC We're going to break_ CDR. We're going
LOS, we will see you at Haw - Vanguard at 22:53.
through Hawaii on a fairly brief run across the northeast segment
of that tracking station's range - circle range. Vanguard in
23 minutes. Bean, A1 Bean during that pass described some
of the efforts he had been making and troubleshooting the
condensiate tank problem. And was still talking about it
when the spacecraft went over the hill, not realizing apparently
that it was such a short pass. Next Hawaii pass will be much
higher elevation angle, almost i0 minutes long. But at this
time of the day as the orbit moves out into the Pacific and across
Asia on the desending and ascending notes. The tracking station
are few and far between, primarily Hawaii and Vanguard and
later on Guam and Ascension. Before beginning to drift back
over Canary, Madrid, and the state side stations. At 22:30 -
back in 22 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 22:40 Green-

wich mean time_ 12 minutes away from tracking ship Vanguard.
The initial estimate on change of shift press briefing
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is nine o'clock p.m.
central daylight time. This may change plus or minus over
the next three hours and we'll keep newsmen posted on the
latest estimate for this briefing. One of the numerous
experiments aboard Skylab III which requires little astro-
naut participation and is presently operating is S015, which
has the title of Zero Gravity Single Human Cells. This bio-
logical experiment which is located in the command module
hopefully will provide answers to the questions, "Will
zero gravity affect aging?", "Will the lack of gravity alter
man's genetic makeup?" Human lung cells are being used in
this experiment which has been dubbed "Woodlawn Wanderer
Nine" by its experimenters at Dallas Woodlawn Hospital. The
experiment is designed by Drs. P. O'Brien Montgomery, Joseph
Paul, and Jim Cook of Dallas and Dr. Leonard Hayflick of
Stanford University. As the human lung cells grow and divide
they will be monitored by automated 20 power and 40 power
microscope, 16-millimeter cameras. That's a combination of
microscope and motion picture camera. Each microscope is
focused on its own specimen chamber and automatically will
record the growth process of the cells. Dr, Montgomery had
described this experiment as one of the most sophisticated
biological experiments ever flown for an extended space
flight. Similar cells will be monitored in ground based
laboratories. The zero gravity experiment and the onboard
film will be returned to scientific investigators. Ten
minutes from acquistion now at tracking ship Vanguard as the
Skylab Space Station nears the end of the lllSth orbit around
the Earth. At 22:43 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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mean time. 50 seconds from acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. Ten-minute pass over that station. And
further discussion of the water condensate problem involving
the system that scrubs the air, the atmosphere in the workshop,
will take place, no doubt. We should have acquisition
momentarily. Beyond Vanguard, the next pass will he Hawaii
about an hour later.
CC Skylab Houston, Vanguard for 10 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick, I got a dry step plate and
I got the adaptors and I connected of the 303 and got
2.75 Delta.
CC Say again the reading, please, AI.
CDR 2.75, now what you may want me to do,
I don't know if you heard me, Just as you went LOS, last
time, hut I had already connected the holding tank to tool - tool
sieve heat exchangers A.
CC Roger -
CDR You may want me to disconnect them, or
turn them off for the check.
CC Negative. We would like to leave them
connected and as a matter of fact, I think that was about the only
part of your transmission that we did not get, as we got cut
off on LOS. o - so if you are connected up to that point,
we're a - sounds llke we're ready to go ahead and connect
the FIL QD to the little condessate to the condensate tank
and report the separated adaptor meter readings and also the
panel 216 meter reading after you do that. And we will be
watching you on data.
CDR Okay, give me a second.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, they are now connected, but you may
want selectors on the condensate tank in some different positions.
Which ones - where would you llke them?
CC Stand by 1 on that AI.
CDR I disconnected for a minute because I didn't
want to take a chance on losing my vacuum.
CC Roger, AI, the WATER valve on the tank -
We want it to the FILL position, and a - the press valve does
not really matter. But we want the WATER valve to FILL.
CDR Okay that's where it is now.
CC Roger.
CDR Our DELTA-P gage at the moment reads zero.
CC Roger.
CC And be advised, our TM is also reading
zero there and we're continuing to look at it, so Just stand by
a second please.
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CDR Okay, now let me explain (garble) I've

got one end of the hose connected to 303 and that is connected
to the dry heat exchanger plate, then the gage is on the top,
and the hose from the back of the gage is connected to the
condensate module. - to the fill part of the condensate module,
to the fill connector.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston, I'm not sure we are in the
proper configuration. Why don't you let me read to you again
the note I got have from EGIL on the configuration you want
and you confirm whether or not we are there or not.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Step i was to install the dry separator
plate on the heat exchanger plate servicing adaptor.
CDR Okay, I have done that.
CC Okay, next was to connect the heat exchanger
plate servicing hose to the separator plate and to M303.
CDR Okay_ that's done.
CC Okay, and then the next thing was Just to
monitor the pressure on the heat exchanger plate servicing adaptor
and then overstating, which we are, connect the FIL QD to the
condensate tank.
CDR I got you. I see what you are trying to do.
CDR Okay, I thought you wanted the other end
of the hose that was attached to the separator plate attached
to the FIL, but it is not now and I see that both of these
gage readings are the same.
CC Roger. And then, after the FIL QD is connected
to the condensate tank, AI, we want a reading on the separator
adaptor meter reading and also the panel 216 meterac - meter
reading.
CDR They both read 2.5 at the moment but when
I checked it out a few moments ago, Just with the separator plate
connected to 303, finally crept up 2.75.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston, we are satisfied with the look
we have had now, both on board and TM and we would like to
disconnect the FIL QD to the condensate tank.
CDR Okay, that's done.
CC CDR, Houston, now what we would llke to do
is just remain in the present configuration, do not connect the
condensate tank up any more and you can use the gage on the
heat exchanger plate servicing adaptor as DELTA-P gage now and
we will collect water. And we will continue to watch it here
on the ground.
CDR Okay, was that as big a DELTA-P as they expected,
or did you expect somethln_ up around 5? And if it wasn't 5, I wonder
why?
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CC Stand by on that one.

CC CDR, Houston, I was under the impression
that you had already disconnected the FIL QD to the condensate
tank, is that correct?
CDR Roger, I Just did, when you told me to.
CC Roger. Okay. Now leave it disconnected
we will stay in this configuration. And I think - I think on
these numbers we - we don't think that we got as hard a vacuum
on the water side because we only left it open for an hour.
As compared to the gas side that's down there in the holding
tanks. So right now, we are satisfied with the pressure -
the pressure readings we have now.
CDR Okay, would you also ask EGIL, why that
a - if he's satisfied with the fact that - that bellow seems
to travel from - from one end of the tank to the other, when
you dump. And then it travels back to its original end when you
put a vacuum on it.
CC Roger, AI. We have been thinking about
that one since you told us last pass and I'Ii be getting back
to you on the answer with that one.
CDR Yes. It doesn't act like - I think
bellows ought to react.
CC Roger that, AI. We are about a minute
from LOS. We are going to see you at Hawaii in 00:01 and
be advised when we get to Hawaii we're going to be dumping
the airlock module data tape recorder.
CDR Okay.
through the Vanguard tracking ship. Next station Hawaii in
57 minutes, to repeat again an earlier advisory, estimate
for chang- of-Shlft briefing with Flight Director Heal Hutchinson
for approximately for 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight, plus or minus
some unknown length of time. Back in 57 minutes for Hawaii,
23:04 Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control 0000 Greenwich

mean time. In other words midnight. 40 seconds to
acquisition at Hawaii for a i0 minute pass over that station
nearing the end of revolution 1116 .
CC AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR Dick, what time is the conference to talk
about those items that were sent up on the teleprinter?
CC AI, it's scheduled for the evening status
and it's at - it's the next Hawaii pass one rev from now and
the time is 01:39.
CDR Thank you.
CC And I'm not sure what you guys are up to
now, but I've got a couple little things to chatter about;
one was the procedure the changes we sent up to you earlier
on ECS malf 20 block 3 and 7 were as of now one time only
changes for today and if we decide to permanently change
that malf, we're fire you up a message that has a checklist
change for that page and we Just want to make sure that you
didn't permenantly change that malf in your book.
CDR Okay.
CC And another thing was, we wondering if you
were successful in resetting the alert light on the CBRM 15
awhile ago.
CDR We didn't try, Dick.
CC Roger, what we'd like to do sometime this
evening is verify that the talkback is grey and see if you can
reset that alert light and to do that you need to select
CBRM 17 and we think that will reset the light. Another thing
that I had on my list was we think a while ago we cut off
{)wen and in a middle of a conversation trying to tell us
something about the wardroom window and we want to give him a
chance to tell us that sometimes this evening, if he wants to,
or anybody.
SPT Okay, just a moment I'll see if there's
anything up there A1 wants to get across first, Dick.
CC Okay, Owen standing by. We got lots of
time about 7 minutes left.
SPT Okay, as I recall this is the comment I
was making along about 24 hours ago but it wasn't a very high
priority item and I'm not so sure but one may have been commented
by the mission two crew also, hut there is a spot of condensation
right in the middle of the wardroom window and as we come out
at sunrise it is about 4 inches or i0 centimeter across and
then during the daylight pass when the Earth essentially
fills the wardroom window, its size will diminish to about half
of that - from i0 centimeter to - say about 5 centimeters.
Rather interesting thing right in the center of that is a little
lens that neither water or ice, and I assume that it is ice, that it
is so perfectly formed that it makes a demagnifying glass
and when you look through that lens in the center of this
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condensation, anything you see on the ground is reduced in

size by about a factor of one-tenth and the photo lengths
is about oh 12 inches or so, when you hold your head back
about 12 inches from the window the terrain beneath you
comes into a very sharp focus. Not a fuxzy one, but a very sharp
focus and reduced in size to about one-tenth. It's possible from
that that somebody can calculate just how much moisture is
inside on that window if they wanted to. We also see,
occasionally_ a streak out towards 9 o'clock. Let's see, I don't
know whether that would be nearer the sunrise or sunset terminator
but I'd have to check. Just thinking back I remembered as we
stand tall - erect in front of the wardroom window with our
feet on the grid, it's out toward 9 o'clock as if there
was a little drift of moisture out in that direction. I can't
image the window is really as if breathing in and out but it
sort of looks as if that little trail leading off toward
9 o'clock had suggested that, and this little condensation
has been with us ever since we opened the wardroom window
over 24 hours ago. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. Copied all of that and I
remember talking to the guys several times about this and I
don't remember any conversation with SLII crew about the little
demagnifying piece of ice and water iu the center and as far
as the 9 o' clock goes, that is over towards the - towards
those ports, but we'll certainly think about that one, thank
you much. Sorry we cut you out earlier. I also wanted to
pass up to you that we are satisfied with the Delta-P that
we got that I was talking to A1 about while ago and we think
that the bellows operations that he witnessed was - is normal
and it's caused by the fact that when we dump the - we dump
the water side of that tank for about 1 hour and so it did
have some water pressure - vapor pressure in it. So when
the gas side at a vacuum it goes full to one end and then
the gas side during dump is to 5 psi it goes full to the other
so we're pretty happy with that one.
SPT Fantastic view of the Hawaiian islands
just passing beneath ush ere, Dick. Look right down all the
way from Kauai over to the big island. See the big volcanos
there. Right into -
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SPT Near the Hawaiian Island Just passing

beneath us here, Dick. Look right down all the way from
Kauai over to the big island - see the big volcanos there - right
into Honolulu harbor and all up the sides of the volcaneos. It's
a really a beautiful side of the whole Archipelago.
CC Rogerj thank you much.
CC And Skylab, Houston; wetd llke to get a
MOL SIEVE Bravo FAN PRIMARY to ON, please.
CDR Coming on,
CC Thank you.
CDR And I tried that setting it on 17 and it
worked perfectly, Dick.
CC Hey good, thank you very much.
CDR Thank you.
SPT And Dick, I've completed the exchange
of the SMMD here in the wardroom and Just getting (garble) cali-
brated now and we going to try to work up a television shot of that
and put it on the VTR. I don't know whether or not there are any
more direct TV passes tonight but if not we'll try to get
some of it on VTR.
CC Okay. Fine thanks for letting us know.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about i minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at the Vanguard at 00:31 and
Owen, for your information - Owen for your information I checked
with ENCO and the VTR has - used at the started of tape and
so you can use it tonight as desired.
PAO This is Skylab Control. ii minutes, 00:ii
minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab has gone
over the southeastern horizon from the Hawaii tracking station.
Skylab crew commented on the features of the Hawaiian islands
they were able to see from 270 miles in space Pearl Harbor
and many volcanos in the islands chain. And Dr. Owen Garriott,
the Science Pilot went into a lengthly discussion of the little
ice crystal that forms on the wardroom window that in effect
becomes a minifier or negative magnifying glass, if there
is such a thing. As the spacecraft comes up into sunrise the
ice tends to receed but forms a perfect lens which tends to
make objects seen through the ice somewhat smaller. 19 minutes
to the next station which will be Vanguard again - tracking
ship Vanguard at 00:12 Greenwich mean timej Skylab Control.
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mean time. Fifty secoods to tracking ship Vanguard. Sky-
lab Space Station now nearing the end of revolution num-
ber 1116. Spacecraft communicator Dick Truly should be
putting in a call momentarily to the spacecraft as soon as
we do have a good signal strength with the communications
gear aboard Skylab Space Station.
CC Skylsb, Houston. We're at Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Ro_er, Dick.
CDR Got a funny problem here, Dick.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR I'm replacing the 02 sensors and as you
know you have to insert them and - where it's R and rotate
them to L. Numbers 1 and 3 do it real well and no
trouble, quite smooth and I've tried several different
ones of them and they work well. The number 2, I can get
any sensor in there but I can't get it to rotate and I've tried
pushing in hard and rotating, pulling out a little bit and
rotating. I haven't applied particularly much force to it
because I didn't want to take any chances of shorting any-
thing out in there. So, as it presently stands I've got a
sensor in 1 and 3 and in 2I can put one in but I
can - it Just won't rotate.
CC Okay, AI, I copied that one and while
EGIL is thinking about that one Itve got a couple of other
notes for you. One is, you've got a new decal onboard that
you carried up to - for change out of the EREP tape recorder
and you were to take off the old decal and put the new one
on. We've having some second thoughts about the procedure
that's on that new decal and it involves the - the power
configuration that it puts the tape recorder in. So, what
we'd appreciate is - is that you do not install that new
decal for change out of the EREP tape recorder. We'll con-
tinue to think about it and when we figure out which of the
two decals we want on there we'll get back to you.
CDR Sounds good to me. I'm Just going to
leave the 02 sensors like they are. I'll leave number 2
with the sensor in there hut not rotated and them I'll put
it on control on 1 and monitor on 3. Just leave 2 out of
the loop at the moment.
CC Roger, AI. We concur with that. That's
a good configuration. And Skylah, Houston; we would appre-
ciate sometime during this Vanguard pass if somebody would
have the time to give us another readout on the condensate
system and have the DELTA-Ps holding up.
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CDR Okay. I'll check right now.

CC Thank you.
CDR 2. I.
CC 2.1, thank you.
CDR And, in position i is serial number 59
and position 3 is serial number 31.
CC Roger. Thank you, AI.
CDR And IIm going to put 50 in the num-
ber 2 unrotated.
CC Roger. Understand. Serial number 50 is
the one in number 2. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about
4-1/2 minutes here at Vanguard. We're seeing some funnies
on the star tracker and we'd like somebody to go up to the
panel if possible and tell us the configuration of star
tracker shutter. We are in dump maneuver and we con-
tinued to - we isue4 a commanded and continued to track
the star for awhile. We Just lost our presence and we would
like to know whether the shutter is open or closed.
SPT The star tracker shows a barber pole,
but with the door open.
CO Thank you.
SPT The acquistion is barber pole and the
shutter open.
CC Okay. And I want to thank you very
much.
SPT Do you want me to put it somewhere for
you?
CC Stand by Just a second. Yes, G&S would
like it to CLOSED, please.
SPT I Just tried to close it with the
switch and it wouldn't close.
CC Owen. We're going to ask you to go to
manual and park the star tracker in some angles and I'm
getting angles now, so I'll have them up to you in Just a
second.
SPT Okay. I'ii go to manual and wait.
CC Roger,
SPT You still there, Houston?
CC That's affirmative, Owen. We are.
SPT Okay. I've got it set on outer. I
don't have it set, it's sitting on outer plus 876 and
inner minus 781.
CC Roger. Thank you. We got about a
minute and a half left, and I'll get right back to you.
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SPT Would you llke for me to try another

manual closure now that I'm in - at manual.
CC Roger. Why don't you? That won't hurt.
SPT Nope. All it did was change my star
acq flag from manual to barber pole and so I went back to
manual and the
CC Roger.
SPT - door's still open.
CC Roger. And SPT, here are your angles.
We'd llke it parked at an inner gimbal of minus 1800 and an
outer glmbal of plus 4200.
SPT Roger.
CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. The next pass is at Hawaii at 01:39 and I'ii be standing
by there to copy your evening status report.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Space Station
Skylab has passed over the hill from tracking ship Vanguard.
Evening status report coming up on the next Hawaii pass
some 57 minutes from now. Food, water, medication report
the routine things that are passed down by the crew once
a day. At 00:42 Greenwich mean time, Skylah Control.
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SL-III MC 138/1
Time: 20:38 ST, 04:01:38 GET
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylah Control 138 Greenwich

mean time evening status report coming up on this Hawaii pass
50 seconds away from acquisition at awail final pass over
that station of the evening. We start picking up Ascension
Island station this pass or this rev and dropping Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston we're AOS Hawaii for about
7 minutes. Before you start giving me your evening status
report I've got a procedure that I'd llke to read up to you
that we'd llke to sometime between now and the time you go to
bed we'd llke - you to configure the condensate system for us
for the evening. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. We'd like somebody to give us
a DELTA-P reading now from the condensing heat exchanger
plate service device. While somebody is looking for that;
on panel 230 we'd like HEAT EXCHANGER A WATER ISLLATION valve
to CLOSE which is clockwise. Next, on panel 233 we'd like
CONDENSATE HEAT EXCHANGER AIR FLOW valve to Bravo. Then,
thirdly, on panel 232 HEAT EXCHANGER A H20 ISOLATION valve
to OPEN. Verify that's the one that we closed was mol sieve A
This one that's open is mol sieve B. Then we'd like to
disconnect this cluge that we have which is disconnect the
condensing heat exchanger plate servicing device and we'd like
you to inspect the gas to water separator SUS loop to
insure that that connection is not leaking. What we'-re seeing is a slow
decrease in DELTA-P in the big tank. We're not exactly
sure whether or not we have a leak somewhere or whether or
not we Just need to reservlce the plates, either of which we
plan to chase in the morning.
CDR Okay.
CDR Hey, Dick I checked that gage a few
moments ago and it was setting at 1.9.
CC Roger. Looks like it still going down. Also
we'd like some help star tracker again. We need to repocket
Those numbers again were outer gimbal plus 4200, inner gimbal
minus 1800, and then close the star tracker door.
CDR Okay, on the way.
CC And - -
CDR Are you ready for the evening status re-
port?
CC Roger. We got about 4-1/2 minutes left
in this pass so I'ii give you an LOS call your next pass is
a medical conference at Vanguard which 020 - correction - 02:10.
After that we have one more Ascension pass before you go to
bed and we'll make sure the condensate system is squared
away there so go ahead with the evening status.
CDR Okay, do you want me to go through these
seven items lin the teleprinter pad first or save those for
the medical report?
CC AI, why don't you save that for the next
pass and won't be any problem there then we will be sure and
get this other evening status stuff here.
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CDR Okay here we go: Starting with volume

the re.
CC Go ahead.
CDR 090,080,080. day drinking water gun reading:
4507; 7360; 5481. BMMD: 6.269, 6.270, 6.275; SPT, 5.993, 5.994, 5.994
PLT, 6.876, 6970, 6.900. No exercise. Medication: CDR, none; SPT
two scop/Dex; PLT, 3 scop/Dex. Sleep: CDR 5 fair; SPT 7 fair to
good; PLT 7 fair.
CC Okay I got all of that go ahead.
CDR Okay, about the food log. Here's the
deviation; first of all CDR, no salt used. Deviation, peanut butter
two; biscuit 2, make that 3, strawberry drink, butterscotch
pudding; also crewman one on his Jelly didn't eat it all and
here is the SMMD food reading: 207782, 207784, 207793. Okay
next comes the SPT; no salt, and he ate 0nly cornflakes,
orange drink, both of those for breakfast; PLT; he did not eat
first of all no salt. And deviation, sausage, chicken and gravy,
pineapple, turkey and gravy, 2 corn, biscuits, butterscotch
podding; lemon pudding and chocolate instant breakfast.
CC Okay keep going.
CC While you're hesitating there AI, we got
about 1 minute to LOS. Your next pass at the doctor at
Vanguard at 02:10. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, Itll skip the photo log. 1'11 go
down to inoperable equipment. The only one I - you aware of
both of them the condensate system and of course this 02
sensor number 2 which we talked about -
CC Break, break
CDR A couple of things we are going to have to
do tomorrow in addition to trying to get finished cleaning up and
getting this place livable - -
CC Break, break. Skylab, Houston. We'd like to
check the star tracker outer gimbal angle should be plus 4200;
we see 4800. Sorry to bust in on you there.
CDR Okay, we'll get it 4200.
CC Thank you.
CC And A1, we're about 20 seconds from LOS here
at Hawaii why don't we go ahead and secure getting the rest
of this information and we'll get it at Ascension which is
the pass after the medical conference. I got all you've read so
far.
CDR Okay, we'll be waiting.
CC And after you reset the star tracker be
sure and hit the shutter switch to close for us. Thank you much.
SPT I tried that, Hick, and it wouldn't close.
CC Roger. Understand - Roger. We want it bit
there for gimbal hold so we would like you to hit the
switch anyway, Owen.
SPT Yea, I know that's what you wanted.
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Incidentally, when I was up here before it was flipping between

open and star now, it seems to be locked on in star position
but I'ii got to 4200. Sorry I missed that and try to close
it manually again.
CC Okay_ thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control loss of signal for
the final pass over Hawaii - the Hawaii station for this
evening. 22 minutes from the tracking ship Vanguard with the
medical conference - daily routine medical conference and
apparently at Ascension - first evening pass over the Ascension
Island tracking station will he the final call - final
conversation with the crew before they go to bed. Our estimate
is still around 9 o'clock for the change of shift Flight
Director briefing with Nell Hutchinson. 9 o'clock Houston time.
At 01:47 Greenwich mean time Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-139/I
Time: 21:12 CDT, 04:02:12 GMT
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 2:12 Greenwich

mean time. Medical Conference underway at this time, through
the tracking ship Vanguard. We'll bring up the air-ground
circuit to pick up any residual time that is given over to
the Cap Com for the remainder of this pass when the flight
surgeon has has completed his conference with the crew.
Standing by at Vanguard, Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston, I understand that you all
are through talking to the doctor, we've got about a minute
and 40 seconds here left at Vanguard. And we notice that
the star tracker shutter is closed and we're planning on
taking power off of it. We do need the MPC inhibited and we
were wondering what you - what action you had taken to get
the star track shutter closed.
SPT I left the - left up there about 15 minutes
ago. I tried to close it manually and there was no change in
(garlle) It still stayed to open and fluctuating between
open and stars so it must of a have done it on it's own.
CC Roger. Okay, we'll - we'll take care
of the rest of the work with star tracking tonight by command.
And I'm still - standing by to copy the remainder of
the Evening Status Report and also some of the questions on
that evening questions pad - so go ahead, we have about a minute
left.
CDR Okay, let me hit the photo pad, it
occurred day 211 and it was a rendezvous docking and the supply
CX07; percent remaining was 50 percent and I reported that
I believe. 70 millimeters CXI0090.
CC Roger, and A1 we are getting close to LOS
here. I'll give you a call at Ascension. What we will need
there is the remainder of Evening Status, the answers to the
evening questions of which I already have the answers, I think, to
numbers 2, 4, 6, and that will probably just about get it.
CDR Okay, we have - on Owens food today too.
CC That's right, I need that. And I also
if we had time we were going to ask Owen to tell us the
problems he had with the urine separator also. I'll see
you at Ascension.
PAO This is Skylab Control, spacecraft communi-
cator Dick Truly got the loop back about 2 minutes before
LOS after the flight surgeon completed the medical conference
with the crew. He will pick up again with the remainder of
the Evening Status Report and answers to the eight questions
that had been telemeter - teleprinter up to the space station.
He had mentioned he had answers to questions number 2, 4, and
6. Number 2 was how many and when if scop/Dex pills been
taken today and, of course, in the food and water and medical
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PAO summary it was reported the Science Pilot

has taken 2p the Pilot 3 and the Commander none. Also question
number 4 related to food and liquid consumed during the day
and that was reported back over Hawaii. Question 6 had to
do with physical training or ergometer exercise being performed
and - and 3 minutes we will be back up for the Ascension
Island pass at 2:21 GMT, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 21:23 CDT, 04:02:23 GNT
7/30/73
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS at Ascension

for 7-1/2 minutes and if possible we would like to start by
getting the answers to Evening Question Pad #340D.
SPT Okay, Dick, A1 is on his way down, Just
a moment.
CC Okay, real fine. And like I said before
I think I already have the answers to 2, 4j and 6 and so it
is other ones we need filled in.
CDR I've go my barber poles on the star tracker
now I don't know how they got there.
CC Roger.
CDR To number 1 when you asked if teleprinter
message GM8 - 03388 was received and followed the answer is yes.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR And 2, you know the answer to, and they
were taken on 4-hour intervals.
CC Roger, got that.
CDR Three. Any vomiting today? No. So the
rest of it's not applicable.
CC Okay, and 4 1 think I have or at least I will
when you finish with the Evening Status Report. How about 5?
CDR Okay, 5 we didn't go in there and measure
it again because we will be measuring it tomorrow morning.
But roughly the CDR has about 4, SPT has had about 3, and the
PLT has had about 2. Do you're wondering the total volume.
we are going to throw a guess at it and we will see how close
we were tomorrow morning. I'd say mine is about 700, SPT
is about 600 maybe, and the PLT, he says a medium amount.
PLT Millimeter.
CC Okay, fine and I think the answer per your
last thing number 6 is no and how about 7?
CDR 7, we got the answers to those. CDR:
pulse, 76; temperature, 96.3; blood pressure, ii0 over 70. SPT,
130 over 75 for blood pressure; 80, pulse; 98.0 degrees for
temp. Pilot 132 over 78, 48 beats per minute -
CC Okay, go ahead.
PLT 96.8
CC Roge r.
PLT 96.8, temp -
CDR (garble) temperature was 96.8.
CC Okay, I think that satisfies me for all
those answers, AI, and now I would llke to finish up getting
the Evening Status Report stuff.
CDR Okay, and on this 6. Was there any PG or
ERG exercises been performed? We wanted to but we Just never could
get time to do it today. And we're hoping that there's time
available tomorrow, so we can do it.
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Time: 21:23 CDT, 04:02:23 GMT
7/30/73
CC Roger, we sure hope so, too. And Just a

reminder, we need the MPC to INHIBIT. Go ahead with Evening
Status.
CDR Let me give you some more information
on the SPT's food, I mentioned he ate corn flakes, orange drink.
Okay here is the other things he ate, potato soup, biscuit
butterscotch pudding, grape drink. And he said he probably eat
some more before bedtime.
CC Roger.
CDR Generally - generally speaking, everybody
feels pretty good until it comes to meal time and then it gets
a little tough right then and if you can get through the mealtime
then you feel pretty good the rest of the time until the next
one. Now I assume this is probably true with other forms
of motion sickness although I never spent 2 or 3 days doing it.
So - that's kind of the way we psych it out. If we could just kind
of take it easy for a day or so, I think we could completely
recover here and be ready to go full steam but the a - the a -
like I said everybody today worked all day long, worked all
day long. There wasn't a moment's hesitation from the time we
got up until right now in fact everybody's still working.
CC Roger. Understand, AI; go ahead.
SPT Star tracker flag opened back up again.
CC Thank you, Owen.
SPT Already done them the MPC, AI, I'm talking
about a flag.
CDR And - -
CC Roger, we Just commanded power OFF. We
Just commanded star tracker power OFF so that explains that
one and that should put it to bed for the night, so go ahead.
CDR And I think, Dick, I probably finished the
the a - report. The things that I mentioned we wanted to try
to get the mixing screen cleaned tomorrow. The screens hooked
to the fans going into the CSM needs cleaning. We just need
to put the place in livable condition which it is not in
at the moment and we need to get some exercise and we also
need to get some rest so all those things mount up to quite a -
quite a big order especially when you are thinking about conden-
sate tank troubleshooting and things of that nature.
CC Roger. We concur and we are going to be looking
at the condensate tank tonight and we should have our trouble-
shooting stuff if we have to do any lined up when you get up
in the morning. We still got about 4 minutes here. Is there
anything else you want to tell us tonight about what else you
got done between the last time you gave us and update on the
Activation Checklist.
CDR Roger, we got all of the film in the
film vault, we got the rate gyro package up and connected and
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Time: 21:23 CDT, 04:02:23 GMT
7/30/73
CDR everything else we should have done. We

finished the stowage there and we inverted two out of three of the
02 sensors.
CC Roger.
CDR We've got the clothing and water over in
the command modules we - I haven't - I haven't bothered to
set down and take a close look. We've Just been working as long
as we could.
CC Okay j A1.
SPT I've got the SMMD calibrated in the wardroom
not yet in the head and I'll not read down the numbers; they are
very lengthy on channel A until I get verification that
channel A with the BMMD has been taken off. And I would
also llke an repeat on any update you had about firing up the
ergometer. Maybe you could do it on the teleprinter or
something if there was any difference in the procedure I
think we know how to do it nominally. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. We'll take a look at that and
if there is anything we need to tell you about that we'll get
up to you tonight.
CC Skylab, Houston, we still got about 2 minutes
left here at Ascension. One of the things if Owen could-
encapsulate real quick some of the problems he had on his
urine separator. Qe were wondering about that.
SPT I sure can do it quickly. It was a procedural
error on my part. It turns out that no suction is available when
that a - when the drawer is even cracked open and I should have
known that and didn't. Over/
CC Okay, real fine, I'm sure it'll be
working fine for you then.
SPT It is.
SPT Can you verify that that information on the
BMMD has taken off of channel A?
CC Negative, Owen, we have not verified that,
so why don't you sit on that other data and we will verify
it in the morning and you can put the other data on there.
SPT Roger.
CC And Skylab Houston, we are about 1 minute
from LOS. We would like for you guys to go ahead then sack out
when you can so get a good night sleep and we'll see you in
the morning.
CC And Skylab Houston, I'm assuming we are
going to give you a wake up call at the normal time in the
morning, is that okay with you, AI, or do you want to call
us?
PLT Yes, that's okay, call us at the normal
time which is, what, about ii:00 G?
.4
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Time: 21:23 CDT, 04:02:23 GMT
7/30/73
CC That's affirm, Jack, it will be the first

pass after Ii:00 G.
PLT Okay, we are going to bed now and we don't
expect to hear from you until morning, we hope the caution
and warning stays off tonight.
CC Us too.
CC And Skylab Houston. One thing
you might check is make sure that the rate gyro input
to the caution/warning is inhibited and that will give
us a lot more chance on that particular item.
CDR I'll do it now.
CC Good show.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That likely will
be the final conversation of the evening with the crew of
Skylab. Wake up time 6 a.m. central daylight tomorrow or the
next tracking station after 6 a.m. During that final pass
over the Ascension Island tracking station the questions
that were teleprinted up earlier in the day were answered by
the crew. Question number 1 was teleprinter message number
0338A received and followed. A answer to that was yes. And
that particular teleprinter message read as follows: To the CDR,
to aid you with stomach awareness problem you are advised to comply
with the following procedures. And crewman having symptoms this
morning and requiring a scop/Dex capsule should take additional
scop/Dex every 4 hours for the balance of today. This will
prevent normal activation activities and accelerate adaptation
without encountering symptoms. Question number 2 was how many
and when have scop/Dex been taken today? The answer: Commander
took none; Science Pilot, 2; and Pilot, 3, at 4-hour intervals.Number
3, any vomiting today? If so, when, how much did it weigh?
No vomiting was the answer. Question 4, how much food and liquld
consumed today and at what time? That was given in the Evening
Status Report over Hawaii at the mid point in the last revolution.
Question 5, how many voids and volume for today? Is was not
measured, only estimated. And the commander said that would
be tallied and measured tomorrow and sent down. Question
number 6, has any physical training or ergometer exercise been
performed? And the answer was no. Number 7, take and voice
down reports of heart rate, body temperatures and blood pressures.
The data on that was on the commander: heart rate, 76, temperature,
96.3; blood pressure ii0 over 70. Science Pilot, heart rate, 80;
temperature, 98; blood pressure, 130 over 75. Pilot, heart rate,
48; temperature, 96.8; blood pressure, 132 over 78. Next station
in 32 minutes will be Guam, however that will be the checkout of
systems from the ground. There's no further communications
likely with the crew until 6 a.m. Houston time. As soon as we
can get the fllght director broken loose, Nell Hutchinson for
his change of shift briefing, he will appear in the Bldg. 1
News Center for that change of shift briefing and at 02:37 signing
off, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IZI MC-141/I
Time: 22:08 CDT, 04:03:08 GMT
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Change of

Shift Press Conference with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson
and the Plight Surgeon Paul Buchanan, Dr. Paul Buchanan
will begin momentarily in the Johnson Space Center News Room
with two-way question and answer capability with the Cape
News Center.
END OF TAPE
SL-III PC 142/1
Time: 23:07 CST, 04106 GET
7/30/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 406 Greenwich

Meal Time. Skylab space station presently over the Ascension
Island tracking station. Flight Controllers here in Mission
Control during this pass at Ascension and the ones Just
proceeding over Vanguard report that the space station systems
are all operating nominally no problems whatsoever. Other
than the DELTA-P reading on the water tank the - condensate
water tank which is an ongoing problem that will continue
to be looked at tomorrow. The medical conference held with
the Flight Surgeon and the crew during the last revolution
Just prior to going to sleep. Has resulted in the following
brief medical bulletin issued by Dr. Paul Buchanan which
reads as follows: the Skylab III crew is generally improved
in their overall condition. There has been no vomiting today
and the food and fluid intake is up considerably. All three
crewmen worked all day at only a slightly reduced rate. The
outlook is very optimistic. At 407 signing off until 6 a.m.
Central Daylight prior to crew wake up tomorrow morning this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-143/I
Time: 06:20 CDT 04:11:20 GMT
7/31/73

20 minutes Greenwich mean time on the 4th day of the Skylab
mission. Skylab coming up within range now of the Carnarvon/
Honeysuckle stations, and we'll be putting in the first call
of the day to the crew during this pass. We'll stand by.
CC Good morning, Skyla5. We're AOS over
Carnarvon for about 2 minutes.
PLT Good morning down there space fans.
CC Morning, Jack. You sound mighty chipper
this morning.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll have LOS in
1 minute. We'll see you asain at Goldstone at 11:59, 11:59.
PLT Okay Bob.
PAO This is Skyla5 Control at ii hours
23 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal.
Goldstone will he the next station to acquire in 35 minutes.
Today's flight plan calls for activation to continue for
the next 5 to 6 hours, then a lunch period. And followin E
lunch the afternoon will be free for the crew to do as they
llke. It's designated regroup on the flight plan. They
can get the space station cleaned up, finish stowing items
that have been brought up from the command module, hut no
scheduled activities this afternoon on the flight plan.
The fllght plan 7-day forecast shows that the crew day off
has been changed to Friday with Saturday as the extravehicular
activity day. We'll come back up Just prior to Goldstone.
At ii hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-144/I
TIME: 06:57 CDT 04:11:57 GMT
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57 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up beginning
a pass over the United States with acquisition at Goldstone
overlapping coverage through the Bermuda station. We'll
stand by for the first call at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the States set
for the next 17 minutes, 17 minutes.
PLT Okay Bob, Just for verification, did
you happen to dump the VTR last night and find we put about
i0 minutes of the SMMD CAL with some voice comments on the -
from channel A onto the voice track of the VTR. Could you
verify that was dumped.
CC We got all but about 2 or 3 minutes,
and we observed it down here and it looked good. Appreciate
the demonstration.
PLT Okay. Just wanted to make sure that we
had all the switches and things right, since we - it's the
first time we tried to light it off.
CC Worked good.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. I don't know if you've picked
up your messages yet, but there's one in there that deals
with the checklist change in the stowage book for the day 3
transfers. You'll need to make that change prior to going
to day 3 transfers today.
CDR Okay. Thank you. I got the message.
CDR How did the mol sieve heat exchangers
look this morning?
CC Well, we're still scratching our head
over the problem. We're trying to come up with a way to
attract - attack the whole condensate leak and we'll probably be
asking you to perform that tomorrow.
CDR Okay.
CC For your information, the small con-
densate tank, the pressure in it has been holding good since
you left it. And since we have no telemetry, we don't know
exactly what's been happening with the condensate holding
tank.
CC Skylab, Houston. or your information
Y-2 has been holding pretty steady all night, however, Just
when we came up over the States here, we had had a dis-
compare between the two, so we're currently resetting that
caution and warning condition and we're going back to the
Y-I/Y-2 configuration.
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TLME: 06:57 CDT 04:11:57 GMT
7/31173
PAO This is Skylab Control. That last

discussion between CAP COM Bob Crippen - Well, it wasn't
a discussion. That last status report from Astronaut
Bob Crippen to the crew concerned the Y rate gyro status.
PAO The flight director is Don Puddy. He
will be relieved in about an hour by Flight Director Milton
Windler.
SPT Hello, Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT We've got a little company up here on
board, don't know whether you believe that or not.
CC Well, I'ii believe anything.
SPT We've got a couple of little minnows
at the moment that are just swimming all over the place.
We Just opened up the IMSS Kit with these minnows in it,
and both these fellows are really swimming full speed.
And, as a matter of fact, they seem to be completely
disoriented except for the fact, for the first couple of
minutes here, and they're still doing it, more or less,
they're all swimming pitch down in small circles. They
apparently think they're climbing or something, due to
the zero g, and are pitching down in order to overcome that,
and they're swimming in very tight circles. Their length of
these minnows is on the order of 1 to 1-1/2 centimeters,
and it's almost as if they were pivoting about a point
somewhere near their tail or even a little closer to their
center of gravity. So it's a very tight outside loop that
they're swimming in and I've brought them over closer to the
window now, and it's not clear whether or not they're going
to sort of take an orientation from the light or not. But
at least their initial - their response when we pulled them
out of the can was to swim -
CT Com Tech. Go ahead.
SPT Hello Houston. Are you still there?
CC Affirm, Owen. We got most of your
description. It's very good. I missed - we got dropped out
Just about the time you said you took them over to the
window and you didn't know whether the light was going to
affect it.
CT Houston Com Tech, Texas Com Teeh.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-145/I
Time: 07:08 CDT 04:12:08 GMT
7/31/73
CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?

CT Texas comm tech, go ahead.
CT Roger.
CT Texas Comm Tech, Houston Comm Tech net i
for voice check.
CT Loud and clear.
CT Same here.
CT Air ground remote. Air ground local.
SPT Loud and clear now, Bob. I guess we
dropped out there momentarily.
CC Yeah, we had some kind of a problem. I'm
not sure what it was. A very good description on the
minnows. We've got everything up to the point where you
said you took them over to the window and you didn't know
whether the light was going to affect them or not.
SPT I Just thought they might try to orient
towards the light, but they don't seem to be doing that yet.
And particularly the little minnow is still continuing in - -
SPT - - belly toward the wall of the container,
and back into outside loops again. They are still confused,
both of them going in outside loops. There are a number of
bubbles in the container, and they'll bounce off the bubbles
and Just continue swimming around in sort of a random fashion
in outside loops.
CC The poor little fellows sound
confused. For your information, our comm bounced out again,
briefly there and I had you very, very faintly. And we're
not sure what the problem is but we're looking at it.
SPT Okay, fair enough. And of course it's too
early to see any development on the eggsp but there is
clearly a number of these that are coming along. You can see the
embryo inside a number of them Just by eye without putting a
magnifying glass on them. So, we'll get this stashed away
where we can then check it from day to day and see how our
friends are coming along.
CC Okay, very good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Madrid at 12:20, 12:20. And
also we will be doing a data recorder dump over Madrid. For
your information, the VTR is all cleaned off and rewound
if you have any reason to want to use it today.
SPT Thank you, Bob.
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal. Madrid
will pick up Skylab in about 4 minutes. During this pass,
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Time: 07:08 CDT 04:12:08 GMT
7/31/73
Science Pilot Owed Garriott described the fish experiment

that he has taken aboard, a small aquarium eontaininE some
minnows which he has taken aboard to see whether - how the
fish adapt to the weightless environment of space. He reported
that as he first opened the container they were swimmin E
pitch down and in tight circles. In other words it means
tight outside loops as he called it, and appeared disoriented
and confused. We'll stay up for Madrid acquisition, which
should occur in about 2-122 minutes. We'll stand by for further
conversation through that station.
CT Madrid Comm Tech, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-14611
Time: 07:18 CDT, 04:12:18 GMT
7/31/73
CC Comm tech, Houston, comm tech, one for

for voice check.
CT Madrid comm tech, I read you loud and
clear.
CC Read you loud and clear, also, thank you.
CT Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over Madrid for
9 minutes and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Robert.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR On these urine bags, we're suppose to record
the serial number and each bag has two. It's got a red one and
a black one, both located on the little metal fitting that
attaches to the sample bag.
CC Okay, AI. We're checking that out.
You're talking about the serial number on the sample bags,
right?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC CDR, Houston. The number in red is
the one we want recorded, please.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Honeysuckle at 13:07_ i, 3, 0, 7.
30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Madrid has loss of signal
and Honeysuckle will acquire Skylab in 36 minutes. Here's
a few more details on the aquarium that Owen Garrlott has aboard
Skylah. Itts a six by six inch polyurethane bag, containing
compartments filled with synthetic sea water. Inside are
the two minnows, they're brackish water minnows, sometimes called
mlmmichog mlnnows_ that are found along the Atlantic and
Gulf coast of this country. These particular minnows were
caught off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina. Also,
in the aquarium are 50 minnow eggs. Dr. Garrlott reported
he could see the embryos in some of the eggs without
the use of the microscope as he was holding up the aquarium.
The eggs are expected to hatch during the second week of
this flight. The aquarium was sealed inside a can for
launch and transfer -
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SL-III MC-147/I
TIME: 07:32 CDT 04:12:32 GMT
7/31/73
PAO - Skylab space station. And Dr.

Garrlott's observations came as he removed the aquarium
from the can. We can expect to see the space show on
television some time during the course of this mission.
This is an experiment that was added to the flight fairly
late, at the request of Dr. Garrlott. Wetll come back up
Just prior to the Honeysuckle pass. It 12 hours 32 minutes,
Greenwich mean tlme_ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-148/I
Time: 08:04 CDT 4:13:04 GMT
7/31/73

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by at Honeysuckle.
for 5-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Hello, Bruce.
CC Good morning, Jack. How are you doing
up there?
PLT Oh, we're moving around now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Capcomm
now is astronaut Bruce McCandless, and the Flight Director
is Milton Windler.
PAO The off-golng Flight Director, Don Puddy,
estimates he will begin his change-of-shift briefing in the
News Center Briefing Room at JSC at 9:45 a.m. central daylight
time, 9:45 a.m. central daylight time for the change-of-shift
briefing.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to
LOS. Next station is Hawaii at 13:26 in approximately 15 min-
utes. Out.
12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of range
of the Honeysuckle station. Hawaii will pick up Skylab in
about 14 minutes. At 13 hours 13 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-149/I
Time: 08:00 CDT, 04:13:00 GMT
7/31/73

communications through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through
Hawaii for 7 minutes.
SPT Very good Story, let me ask you a question,
here.
CC Go_ Owen.
SPT I've got the ergometer lld off and it
operates as advertised. We can set in the amount of work,
and (garble) our rate. But one thing about the simple procedure
that you sent up, it does not provide for any displays. We
can for example not read out our total work in one minute
on the 624-A, nor can we set in at our event time or anything
llke that upon the main 623 panel. The first one was felt
to be the most important. We'd llke to have the readout of
total work available, so that we could start (garble) Z, 3, 4000,
whatever we wanted to do. I wonder if you would check, if
you not familiar with what modification, or if there is a simple
one to the procedure you sent up so as to provide us with
the display readout. Over.
CC Okayp Owen. Is the power supply circuit
breaker closed?
PLT Well_ we have several - we have several
power supply circuit breakers I think they're all closed.
CC All the system A circuit breakers are
closed, on up?
PLT Oh, no. Not all of them. I have ESS
and - I guess Just the ESS circuit breaker in the power
panel is on, System A select, of course.
CC Okay, the ESS. and you'll need the PS on
up to get the watt meter display.
PLT Okay. Good enough. I'll Just add that
to the other llst, then.
PLT Hey, Story. This is Jack. I'm in the
process of changing the tape recorder. I'm going to recon-
figure some of your switches for onboard control for a short
time. Is that okay to do that now?
CC Stand by one, Jack. You're GO on that,
Jack.
PLT Okay.
SPT (Garble) back up the displays very nicely,
Story. We'll be doing a little blt of exercising, today_ I'm
sure and we'll report on it.
CC Okay. Owen. Good.
PAO Astronaut, Dr. Story Muskgrave is on the
Capcom console now, with Bruce McCandless.
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Time: 08:00 CDT, 04:13z00 GMT
7/31/73
CC Jack, Houston.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in one minute.
We'll pick you up over Goldstone at 13:35. And PLTt we'd
llke to know the serial number of the tape recorder. Could
you verify that serial number 32?
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-150/I
TIME: 08:33 CDT 04:13:33 GMT
7/30/73
PLT That's a negative, Story, the seal

number is number 22 and the way I found which one
it was, was to find a little number i on the connector plate.
CC Okay, wetre going LOS here. We'll pick
you up in 1 minute and discuss it then.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab. We've got you through Goldstone
for 9 minutes.
CC And PLT, it's tape recorder number 32
that we wish to install.
PLT Okay_ Story. I thought you had asked
the number of the one that's coming out. We're taking
number 22 out and we'll get number 32 in there.
CC That's right, Jack. And we need a
switch thrown up on main display console number 3 in the
command module. That's fuel cell i end fuel cell 3 to
emergency bypass.
PLT All right. That's on the radiators,
right.
PLT Okay Story, let me reconfirm. Do you
want both fuel cells put in emergency bypass.
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Don't you - before you need to do that,
close the RAD BAT relay circuit breakers?
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay Jack. On panel 226, fuel cell 1
and fuel cell 3, RAD BAT relay, we need that open - closed.
PLT Roger. You want the circuit breakers
closed before the switch will work. Right?
PLT Okay. You want me to reopen the CBs?
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay. I went to emergency bypass
on both fuel cells. How does it look?
CC We'll be looking at it during the day.
It's a slow response, Jack.
PLT Okay. I guess the only way you can tell is
by temperatures. I'll go ahead and open the circuit breakers
again assuming that the valves opened, okay. All right?
CC That's fine, Jack.
CC No need to reply, Jack, but we had to
do the same thing on Skylab II.
PLT Right.
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SL-III MC-151/I
Time: 08:42 CDT 04:13:42 GMT
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CDR Story, are you still there?

CC Yeah, be here for another minute.
CDR Okay, the problem, is when I stashed
that tape recorder tbere_ I stashed it there by the number
on the bag. And the number on the bag is correct, I Just
checked it. The only two tape recorders we brought up I
think are 34 and 37.
CC We think you brought up 32 and 34.
CC We're going LOS in 20 seconds. Wetll
be wlth you over Bermuda in 4 minutes.
PAO Thls is Skylab Control at 13 hours
44 minutes. There is a break In communications between
Goldstone and Bermuda. Wetll continue to stay up and Bermuda
wlll acquire In about 3 minutes now.
CC Skylabj we're back with you over Bermuda
for 6 minutes.
CDR We figured it out, Story. There is a big
serial number on the cold plate part of the tape recorder,
and it's 34. But the tape recorder placard has the correct
number on it, 32.
CC Okay, that's what we were looking for.
Feel a lot better now, thank you.
CDR Okay, it was in the right bag also.
CC Roger.
PLT (garble)
CC Say that agaln_ Jack. We didn't get
that.
PLT I had the tape recorder hooked up and
I decided to command and see how you llke it.
CC Okay, good.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-152/1
Time: 08:53 CDT 04z13:53 GMT
7/31/73
CC Skylab_ we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

be picking you up over Canaries in 3 minutes. And the tape
recorder you put in is running.
57 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Canary station is about
to acquire Skylab now.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Canary
for 9 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-153/I
TIME: 09:04 CDT 04:14"04 GMT
7/31/73
CC Skylab_ Houston. Wetll be golng LOS

in 1 minute. Be picking you up over Honeysuckle at 14:42.
And we'll be dumping the tape recorders at that time over
Honeysuckle. Some time this morning, if possible, we'd
llke to get a Delta P reading on the condensate holding
tank •
CDR 2.2 •
CC Okay. Thank you.
$C ( Garb le )
PAO Thls ls Skylab Control at 14 hours
6 mlnutes_ Greenwich mean time. Canaries has loss of
signal. Skylab will be in contact through the Honeyeuckle_
Australia station in 35 minutes. At 14 hours 7 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-154/I
Time: 09:41 CDT, 04:14:41 GMT
7/31/_3

41 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by through
Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay, Story. I Just got the 171 protocol.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes.
CC You're too far down the mon to
read you Owen.
SPT Okay. I was just now reporting that I Just
went through the 171 protocol on the bicycle ergometer and I'ii
put the information over on Channel A.
CC Go it. Okay. Good. Thanks a lot.
SPT Okay, Story. I finished doing the
(garble) reconfiguration. Let me read you the pressures
on them.
CC Okay. I'm not sure I understood you.
We're working on the comm problem, Owen. The pressure we
were looking for was the DELTA-P, on the holding, the
condensate holding tank.
SPT Read your next one.
CC It (garble) on 303.
SPT Okay, Houston. (Garble) to connect up.
SPT It'll take Just a second for the pressure
gage to start reading correctly. (Garble) 171 connected to
panel 303 - clreults being connected to 303.
SPT Okay. Let's give it a few minutes then.
While we're waiting let me read you the (Garble) pressures.
Sleep compartment wall 013 at 6000, wardroom wall 016 at 6200,
(garble) 554 010 at 6000, MDA, 010 at 6000, command module
015 at 6000.
CC (Garble).
SPT So far the Delta-P is indicating 0. It
may be that the holding tank doesn't have pressure in it -
vacuum in it any more.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director
Don Puddy is on his way to the news center and the change
of shift news briefing will begin immediately following this
Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Could you give us a
short count, please?
CDR Okay. The short count follows: i, 2,
3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, i. Over.
CC Okay. You're loud and clear at this
time. Those numbers you read to us prevlouslyj we were
unable to copy them. Could we get them again, what they were?
SPT Okay. Just a second.
SPT (Garble) all the way to Delta.
CC We're going LOS in about 30 seconds. You
probably better wait until the next station. It'll be Hawaii
at 15:02, and we'll be dumping the voice recorders over Hawaii.
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SPT Okay. By the way. The Delta P on 303

shows O, so we may have lost vacuum in the holding tank.
CC Okay. And we'll work at the (garble) and
understanding zero.
SPT That's affirmative.
signal. The change of shift news conference, with Flight
Director Don Puddy will begin very soon in the news center
briefing room. We'll turn this llne over to that news
conference. If the conference is still continuin 8 at the
time Hawaii acquires, we'll tape that pass. At 14 hours
52 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-155/I
Time: 10:17 CDT 04:15:17 GMT
7/31/73

17 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about half way
through the Goldstone pass. We are up llve, and we'll
continue through this pass. And at the earliest opportunity
we will play the tape from the Hawaii pass and the first
half of the Goldstone pass. Over Hawaii, the crew did
give us a report on how they are feeling. Owen Garriott
says he feels fine, he's going full speed. He ate breakfast,
thinks he ate all of his breakfast, there may have been one item
he didn't eat, he said, but he ate a good breakfast. He
feels 95 percent of his ground level, is the way he put it.
A1 Bean reported he felt the same way as Garriott. Bean
reported that none of the crew has taken any motion sickness
medication today.
SPT Story.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I understand we had a nice M-7 flare the
other day. I'm wondering if S054 happened to be taking any
exposures about that time, and if there is any geomagnetic
effects expected in it. If so, about how many more hours?
CC I'ii get you a report on that, Owen.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Jack Lousma's
report was that he feels better today. That he is moving
at about the same speed he did yesterday, but with no adverse
reaction. And that he ate most of his breakfast.
SPT I forgot the active region that flare came
from but I was wondering if that wasn't old active region 58
on the preceedlng rotation.
CC Okay, I'ii get that information for you
too. We did not record any data on that flare. We're working
on any geomagnetic information, and I'll get you what active
region it was. We're going LOS here in about 30 seconds,
and we'll pick you up over Bermuda in 2 minutes.
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has less of signal.
Skylab will he within the range of Bermuda in about 3 minutes.
We'll stay up for that pass, Briefly recapped the crew
report over Hawaii, the Commander A1 Bean and the Science
Pilot Owen Garriott say they feel fine. Jack Lousma reports
he feels better. He's able to move, still fairly slowly,
but with no adverse reaction and he ate most of his breakfast.
We'll play that tape for you at the earliest opportunity.
We do not have time to play it between Goldstone and
Bermuda. Probably the first opportunity will be after the
Ascension pass, about 25 minutes or so from this time.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-156/I
Time: 10:23 CDT 04:15:23 GMT
7/31/73
PAO We'll stand by for Bermuda.

CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda
for 9 minutes. And Owen, that is affirmative, that was
active region 58 on the previous rev. That flare did produce
a geomagnetic storm which is ending at this time.
SPT Okay. Then you never can tell, we might
keep an eye out for an Aurora. I'm not quite sure, you might
check to see when - what GMT the most likely opportunity would
be for us to see an Aurora if one exists.
CC Okay, wetll do it.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds.
See you over Canaries in 2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-157/I
Time: 10:34 CDT, 04:15:34 GMT
7/31/73
PAO Canaries will be acquiring Skylab in

about 30 seconds. There's overlapping coverage with the
Ascension Island station. We'll stand by.
CC And we're back with you through Canaries
and Ascension for 16 minutes.
SPT That's a nice long pass, Story. I can't
remember for sure, but as I seem to recall, you're able to
carry a reasonable tune aren't you? Just a simple melody2
CC Not I, Owen.
SPT Well, maybe you can find another
more adepth Capeom there. Here's my problem. Today happens
to be my father's birthday. And, I wonder if you could give
him a call collect, up in Enid, Oklahoma. His name is
Owen Garriott, also. And just give him a call collect and
wish him a happy birthday from me from Skylab. Singing
telegram type.
CC I'ii certainly do it, Owen.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR I'm putting in the change E to EREP book and
I noticed that I've got a change sheet for (garble) target, corec-
tion, site 615B, for EREP site 2. And we think that's an EREP i,
(garble) i site. But we want to make sure we don't stick it
in the wrong book. Could you check on that? 615B.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, I estimate about i0 more minutes
on the SMMD cal. That may give you time to complete it and
still get a dump in.
CC That's right, Owen. Looks like we've
got about 23 minutes more a (garble).
SPT Okay. That'll do it for sure.
43 minutes. Ascension has acquisiton now. During that
Canaries pass, even though Capcom Story Muskgrave disclaimed
being able to carry a tune, he did promise that he would
telephone Dr. Garriott's father, also named Owen Garriott,
in Enid, Oklahoma, wish him a happy birthday. A key word
in Dr. Garriott's message, one that should strike a cord
with fathers everywhere, was collect. Call collect.
We'll stand by through Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-158/I
Time: 10:45 CDT 04:15:45 GMT
7/31/73
CC Skylab, Houston going LOS in 30 seconds.

See you over Carnarvon at 16:15.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-159/I
TIME: 10:52 CDT 04:15:52 GMT
7/31/73

52 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab is out of
range at Ascension now. We have 5-1/2 minutes of tape
from the Hawaii pass and the first half of the Goldstone
pass. The Hawaii tape contains the crew's report on how
they're feeling today. We'll play that for you now.
Hawaii for i0 minutes.
CDR Ri gh t.
CC And for Owen, we'd like for him to know
that we have his BMMD cal data.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you Story. It did
come up on the teleprinter, also. And now I'ii be putting
the SMMD data on channel A, too, and I finished the one here in
the head.
CC Okay, and we'd like to swing over there
to channel B as per after the completion of activation.
Owen, we can do that by going to panel 204, instrumentation
systems, recorder audio switch to Bravo, B.
SPT You want to do that now, I guess? Al's
on his way up to the MDA to do it.
CC Okay. That would be fine.
SPT We knew it was a little further down
in the activation checklist. We just hadn't got to that
step yet, but we'll do it now.
CC Okay. And we'd like to find out how
you all are feeling today.
SPT 1'11 go ahead and answer for myself
here. I'm feeling very fine, Story. Essentially going
full speed and ate - I think I ate everything on my break-
fast menu. There might have been one or two items one item
or some thing that I didn't finish yet_ but I'm feeling 95
percent of ground level.
CDR Okay. This is the CDR. I'm pretty
much the same. Nobody's had any scop/Dex today. Every-
body's having the opportunity to move a little hit slower
today. So, I think we're probably going to be in pretty
good shape by the end of the day. I'ii let Jack say what
he's got on his mind.
CC Okay
PLT I'm feeling - this is Jack, I'm feeling
better today. I haven't taken any seop/Dex and I'm moving
around about the same as I did yesterday, with no adverse
feelings. I didn't eat all of my breakfast, but I ate most
of it and I feel pretty good right now.
SL _II MC-159/2
TIME: 10:52 CDT 04:15;52 GMT
7/31/73
CC Okay. That's about all we need now.

But we would like some BMMD readings on you, Jack.
SPT Okay. They're recording and Jack will
read them in a second. I think the test is going to come
about lunch and dinner, if we can all eat all our food,
Story. As long as you can get through the meal, you're
great between them. It's the meal time that gets a little
tough.
CC Roger.
SPT Here, let him read you down the urine
volumes, and also the counters on the water gun. That may
give you some feeling, also, for how we did yesterday.
CC Thank you.
SPT And by the way, I just ran the CO test
and the initial color was about equivalent to 20 parts per
million or the 20 on the gauge. After the test it was still
the same color. Now I looked at all the little sample stems,
and most of them were that color also. So none of them
were really at the zero. I assume that during the heat or
during Just the time it sat up here somehow they dis-
colored slightly.
CC Okay.
SPT Here are the BMMD (garble) measurements,
made this morning for each person. CDR 6.240 6.246 6.246
SPT is 5.988 5.987 5.991 PLT is 7.015 7.048 6.946. Over.
CC We got them. Thank you.
PLT And Story, here comes the morning urine
volumes readings and of drinking water gun readings. In the
same order for the three, 720 750 700. Water gun 4534
7408 5524. Over.
CC We got them.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in
30 seconds. We'll see you over Goldstone in 2 minutes.
SPT Story, I'm going to be starting that
SMMD cal. You might think about whether you want to inhibit
dump on the next night or not. I'm not sure I'ii be through
by then.
CC We'll work it, Owen.
CC Skylab. We've got you over Goldstone
for 7 minutes. And Jack, sometime in the next 6 minutes, I'd
like to talk to you about S149 retract.
PLT Okay, Story. Here I am.
CC Jack, you only need 30 minutes between
the S149 retract and repressurizing the SAL. The cue card
will not give you any information and the SAL checklist, page
3-11 will say that there's an hour and 42 minutes required,
but you only need 30 minutes between retracting S149 and
repressurizing the AL.
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Time: 10:52 CDT 04:15:52 GMT
7/31/73
PLT Okay. copy that, number 149, we

need 30 minutes between the retract and the repressurization
of the SAL. Is that affirm?
CC That's it, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the
end of the tape. Arabella, one of two lady spiders aboard
Skylab, may get a chance to start spinning her web today,
230 nautical miles above the Earth. If Science Pilot
Owen Garriott has time, he will transfer Arabella from a
vlal to a plexiglass cage, which is located in the
forward dome area of the orbital workshop. This is one of
the several student experiments aboard Skylab. Arabella
will have i0 days to spin her web. Her back up, Anita,
will have her day before the cameras if Arabella fails
to spin a web in zero gravity. The ability to spin a web
and the quality of the spider's web is a clue to the state
of its neurological system. For example, spiders under
the influence of caffeine construct an irregular and hap-
hazard web indicating hyperactivity of its neurological
system. The results of this investigation may be used to
determine if the spider can use its sense of touch to
compensate for the loss of balance caused by the lack of
gravity. Still and motion picture photography, as well as
television will record rabella or Anita's attempts at
weaving a web. The principal investigator for this experi-
ment identified as ED-52 is seventeen year-old Judith Miles
of Lexington, Massachusettes. Skylab is about 15 minutes
away from acquisition through Carnarvon. We'll be back
up at that time. At 16 hours Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-160/i
Time: 11:14 GDT 04:16:14 GMT
7/31/73

14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on
acquisition at Carnarvon. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you through
Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Rog.
CC And AI, there is no need to acknowledge.
And we're sorry to take so long, but site 615 belongs to
both the CDR and the PLT.
CDR Okay. We went ahead and put it in book 2
and that's where it should be. Thanks.
SPT Story, I Just got through putting all
of the data on the two SMMD calibrations on channel B. So
you might give me a report when that stuff, whether or not
it all came out all right.
GG We'll do it, Owen.
CC And Skylab, we're 15 seconds to
a slight keyhole here.
PLT Hello, Story. Are you there?
CC Yep.
PLT Okay, this is Jack. I've got two ques-
tions. I've gone through the film transporter loading
pad, and we have one thing we' re going to have to change
(garble) little bit, I guess. Transporter 3 is already loaded.
The supply is CII8 and has 86 percent remaining. The takeup
is CII7. Ask them if they want me to leave it that way
or run all that film through or cut itj or Just what do they
want me to do?
CC Okay Jack.
PLT And I've got one more question on
the 5 millimeter lenses. I know that we have some more on board
to replace the ones that are up here. What do you want me to
do with the ones that are up here?
CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-161/l
Time: 11:23 CDT, 04:16z23 GMT
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CC Skylab. We're going LOS. We'll see

you over Guam in 6 minutes. And in answer to your question
on the 5 millimeter lenses; put red tape on them and restow
them in F-527.
SC 527.
24 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of range of
Honeysuckle now. Guam will pick up the space station in
5-1/2 minutes. We'll come back up then. At 16 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-162/I
Time: ii:29 CDT, 11:37 GMT
7/31/73

29 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for a
6 minute pass through Guam.
CC Skylabs Houston. We have you over
Guam for 6 minutes.
CDR Storyp CDR. I was Just finishing up
the flight data file change-out. And I had some changes-pages
for the ATM log. And I can't find the ATM log book. It's
out anywhere. Maybe you can give me a clue where it started
out_ where we're suppose to move to, or whatever else, Just
can't seem to locate it anywhere.
CC That's the ATM log?
CDR That's affirm.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, Story. I notice my activation
checklist, it says it was in W742_ but I Just canWt seem
to find it there, or at the ATM panel.
CC Okay. Thanks, AI. We're working it.
CC Skylab0 we're 30 seconds to LOS. See
you over Hawaii in 7 minutes.
36 minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal.
Skylab will have a very short pass at the Hawaii station,
in six minutes; duration of that pass only a minute and a half.
We'll come back up for Hawaii. At 16 hours 37 mlnutes_
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-163/I
Time: 11:42 CDT 04:16:42 GMT
7/31/73

42 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up within
range of the Hawaii tracking station. We'll stand by.
CC And AI, concerning the ATM log. We
assume you did check M126. Looking at our records here, we
think you transferred the ATM log from W742 to M126.
SPT Okay Story, he's riding the bicycle
right now and he can't answer you. But he has looked in
126, and apparently it's not there. But he'll check it.
CC Okay, we'll pursue it further.
CC And Skylab, we're going LOS in 20 seconds.
See you over Goldstone at 16:53.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has
loss of signal. Goldstone will acquire Skylab in 8-1/2 minutes.
We'll come back up then. At 16 hours 45 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-164/I
Time: 11:52 CDT, 04:16:52 GMT
7/31/73

52 minutes Creenwlch mean time. Skylab is in acquisltlon
at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, we've got you over Goldstone
for 6 minutes.
CDR Okay_ Story. I just put about 3 minutes
on the VTR. The (garble) loops out here. Just
(garble) thought that I - you coming over Goldstone I could
have sent it out to you direct. But there's Just a little short
segment on there. On the fish, I don't have the close up
lens on the camera again, so it's not as good a picture as
we'll be able to provide a little later. But we'll do the
Job properly, a little bit later. Thought you might want a
glimpse of what it looks llke now.
CC Okay. And, for Owen. The best time for
looking at the aurora will be from 17:46 to 17:53. The
wardroom will not be a good window. Now, we recommend one
of the STS windows, probably window 243 will be the best.
SPT Okay. 17:46 to 17:53, and STS window
243.
CC And, Jack. We'd like a clarification
on your questions regarding supply CI18 and takeup CI17.
PLT I didn't hear what you said, Story.
Say it again.
CC We'd like a clarification on your
question regarding supply CI18 and takeup CI17.
PLT You say you have an answer?
CC No. We need a clarification on the
question.
PLT Yeah. What do you want me to do with
it? I unloaded from the last flight, and the photo pad that
you sent up, you told me to load them with something else.
And that transporter's still got 86 percent film on it. So
it seems like it'd be a waste of film to run it off there, if
it's any good.
CC Okay. We understand the question.
We'll work it.
CC And Skylab. If it's okay with you,
we'll be rewinding the VTR and dumping it over Mila in
about 5 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab. No need to acknowledge. We're
30 seconds to LOS. We'll be seeing you over Texas in
1 minute. And there's an EREP checklist pad in the teleprinter
for you.
SL-III MC-164/2
Time: 11:52 CDT, 04:16:52 GMT
7/31173
CC Skylab, we're back with you for

12 minutes, over Texas. And we'll be dumping the tape
recorders over Mila.
CDR Okay. And Story, I Just got finished
with a 171 run protocol on the bike. 1 to 171 wasntt
instrumented. I ran the protocol and rate 1 heart was 117,
rate 2 136, rate 3 170. And the total (garble) was 1425.
CC Okay. Thanks, A1. That's good data.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-165/1
TIME: 12:00 CDT 04:17|00 GMT
7/31/73
CDR Roger. We're going to try to run some

more (garble) today.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, the VTR is yours again.
CDR Roger.
CC And on our dump, we did not notice
any modulation on the VTR. Did you put any voice on it
this time?
CDR I know, I did not put any voice with it.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, you available?
CDR No, he's floating around in the middle
of the workshop right now. What - he can hear you.
CC Okay. No need to acknowledge. You can
use transporter 03. And supply C118 for doing your M151
with the S149. And then on the evening status report we'll
get the report on what you did.
CDR Rog.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-166/I
Time: 12:10 CDT 4:17:10 GMT
7/31/73

See you over Ascension at 17:21.
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of Bermuda's range
now. Ascension will pick up the space station in about 8 min-
utes. At 17 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-167/I
Time: 12:20 CDT 04:17:20 GMT
7/31/73

Ascension.
CC Skylab, we have you over Ascension for
6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. I have ED63 prep complete.
The vials with the leaves are stowed in their proper spot
up by the light in the wardroom. And the foot-lamberts luminesce'
at that point is 18, 18 foot-lambert as measured with the spot
meter. I hope that is somewhere in the vacinity of what
you were looking for or what the investigators were looking
for. I do note that out the window it's much brighter (garble)
foot-lamberts in case that's not enough illumination.
Those vials could be temporarily placed over by the wardroom
for a period or the wardroom window if 18 foot-lamberts is
insufficient.
CC Okay, Owen. We'll let you know on this.
And Owen, while I've got you, using the VTR for recording
the spider, could you put some voice on the VTR so we can
check that out at that time.
SPT I sure can. I assume that we're - the
VTR is still connected to channel A voice I assume, whereas
our nominal recording otherwise is on channel B now. I presume
that to be your understanding.
CC It's on channel B, Owen.
SPT Okay. I Just got the word from A1 also,
my mistake. So channel B for voice on the VTR also.
CC Roger. When we come over Mila at 18:37
we'll be able to accept about i0 minutes of real time TV.
If it's convenient for you to put anything on TV, that's your
option.
SPT Okay, fine. That's about an hour.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you over Carnarvon at 17:51. And for the CDR, the next
location we'd llke you to look for the ATM log would he 743,
and if it's not there, check 744. And if you still don't
find it, use the SL 4 book which you'll find in 745 and let
us know what you've done.
CDR Okay, we've checked the first two and
I guess we'll use the SL 4 when the log shows up.
CC Okay A1.
CDR Which locker was theirs in?
CC W745.
CDR Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Carnarvon will acquire in 24 minutes. At
17 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC 168/1
TIME: 12_50 CDT 04:17:50 GMT
7/31/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours and

Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, we have you through Carnarvon
for 9 minutes.
SC (garble)
CC You were too far down for us to read
you Skylab.
SC (garble)
CC I guess we bettor stand by until we can
read you, Skylab.
CT Got a voice, Houston Com Tech. (garble)
Voice check. How do you copy?
CT Hear loud and clear.
CT Roger. Read you the same.
CT Carnarvon Com Tech. Houston Com Tech.
NET 1 voice check. How do you copy?
CT Loud and clear.
CT Roger, Carnarvon.
CC Let's try it now, Skylab.
SPT I was Just reporting (garble) aurora (garble).
CC Okay, you're still too far down. I'll
stand by and we'll work on the Com.
CDR Storyp CDR.
CC We can hear you talking, but we can't
distinguish what you're saying.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The problem is
at the station in Carnarvon. We'll continue to stand by
while they work to correct that problem.
CC Skylab, we should be able to read you
loud and clear now.
CDR Okay, how's that.
CC That's good.
SPT I was Just going to say. Good luck on
the Aurora, and secondly on that fish downlink you ought to
let Dr. Dick Simmonds over in Building 37 know about that. Hats
the one that supplied the fish and can provide you with
any other pertinent comments in the absence of any down-link voice.
So you might give him a call. I think A1 has something for
you here too.
CC We'll do that, Owen.
CDR Say, Story, if it's okay with you, we'll
omit that TV until later. We're still trying to get finished
up with the activation and that (garble) one man hour
out of doing it.
CC Okay. That'll be fine, AI.
CDR Okay. Soon as we get all this work
done and get it all put together as a good place to live in,
we'll give you lots of TV.
CC Roger.
SL III MC-168/2
TIME: 12:50 CDT 04:17:50 GMT
7/31/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Dr. Dick

Simmonds is the veterinarian in charge of the animal and
fish laboratoryj and the Life Sciences Director here at
the Johnson Space Center.
CC Skylab, 30 seconds to LOS. WeIll see
you over Guam in 3 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range at Carnarvon now. We'll stand by a short gap of
about 2-1/2 minutes now before Guam acquires.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC- [69/I
Time: 13:0t CDT, 04_18:01 CM'r
1/31173
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're also

standing by for television of the ah - swimming fish, which
was dumped from the spacecraft to the Merritt Island, Florida
Station on the last pass. We'll be having lines up between
here and Merritt Island soon and we're standing by for
that television. Wetre about a minute away from acquisition
at Guam.
CC Skylab. We have you through Guam for
i0 minutes. And, Owen, the ED63 on the 18 foot-lambert is
satisfactory.
SPT Okay.
CC And, Skylab. No need to reply, but
we're looking at the acrobatic fish.
SPT It's pretty fascinating, isn't it, Dick?
It seems like when you stir the bag up a little bit, well
then they'll swim in the outside loops for 5 or i0 seconds.
And then they'll apparently decide that's not getting them
anywhere, so they'll quiet down. One of the things, that Dr.
Simmons has suggested, was that they might would (garble) against
the wall. I sort of assumed that the wall was the down direction.
And it did seem sort of as if there were a tendendancy to do
that after they'd been undisturbed for a while, they would
usually float with their belly toward the wall. And then after
doing that a little while, then they'd swim in outside loops
again. So, apparently they can't make up their mind which
way is up and down, either.
CC Yes, sir. Good observation.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Unfortunately
Dr. Simmons did not get to see that demonstration of his
fish. He's at NASA's Ames Research Laboratory in California
today.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-170/I
Time: 13:11 CDT 04:18:11 GMT
7131/73
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See

you over Goldstone at 18:30.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has
loss of signal. Next station to acquire Skylab will be
Goldstone in 15 minutes. At 18 hours 15 minutes Greenwich
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29 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for Gold-
stone acquisition with Skylab.
CC Skylab, we've got you over the states
for 17 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CC And we'll be dumping the recorders over
Mila at 18:37.
CC Skylab, we've got another 6 minutes to LOS
and we were real interested in how you're coming along.
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CDR Owents doing ED-52 setup and he's done

everything before that. Jack is in his transfers and he's
done everything - command module stowage transfers and he's
done everything before that. And I'm in day-3 transfer
and l've done everything before that.
CC Okay. Thanks.
CC Has Jack ridden the bikes today?
CDR Nos he's going to try it this afternoon.
And we'll all try to get our electric chair.
CC Okay. Great.
CDR We've found the only tough part is_ like
I mentioned earlier, everybody feels pretty good between
meals. Then the mealtime comes, and we're caught in a - kind
of in the squeeze. We're trying to decide whether we ought to
try to eat all that we have, to, you know_ keep our stomach
full and keep our strength up, or eat about what we want to,
which isn't very much. So, usually meal time is kind of
tough. And then for about an hour afterwards you don't
feel so grand, and then you start feeling better until the
next meal rolls around. So, I don't know how we're going to
handle that exactly. Maybe the medical group has some advice
on what do to about that specific points because it seems to
bother all three of us.
CC Okay. Thanks, AI. We copy that.
CDR Yeah, because if I - If it was the same
case and I were on Earth, and s you know, felt the same way_
I wouldn't eat very much. ISd eat some tea_ and some soup,
and some other things. But, I know that we're not there.
CC Okay.
CDR Let me give a little thought to planning,
too, so it (garble) your thinking, at least to what ours is
up here. We're getting better, no doubt about it. Nobody's
had any scop/Dex today. And if we'll Just be careful, every-
thing's copesetic. But, we certainly don't feel good. And
- nobody does. And, I suspicion that, there's no way
we could pull off an EVA in the next couple of days. I think
the thing we're going to have to do, is plan to work some
medical experiments, and any other experiments where we stay
inside and work them at a relatively slow pace, until we
get back to feeling good. And I don't know when that's going to
be, but my guess is, it isn't going to be in the next 2 days,
Just Judging from the rapidity with which we've developed so far.
As, I say, nobody's been sick today, but nobody's felt good
either and I don't think we want to take any undue effort
like an EVA until everybody starts feeling good. Then we
can give it a go.
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CC Okay. Thanks, AI. At the present we're

looking at day-8 for your EVA. But, we'll see how you do on
days 5, 6_ and 7.
CDR I'ii tell youD that appeals to us a lot
more. It takes the pressure off. I think a lot of it has
been, we know we're running behind, so we've got kind of a
pressure to get well, so everybody stuffs his food down_ trying
to get well. And I'm not sure, that isn't self defeating.
And, we'll just have to press on. We're getting better_ it's
Just taking a little bit longer than we thought.
CC Okay. Day 8 is the earliest, we're
looking at for the EVA.
CDR That's good news. Also, we're doing -
This whole activation operation is awfully time consuming.
Even when you're working as fast as you can. There's an
incredible amount of work to be done to get all this stuff
moved over. And when you get ready to put it somewhere,
usually there's quite a number of things that you have to do
to the boxes, or the place you're going to put it, before you
can stow it. So, it's - None of us have been resting at all
today, we've been on the go trying to get these things done.
And I Just hope, by the end of the day, we will have finished.
But_ I don't know.
CC Yes sir.
CC Okay. We're not going to affirm on any
EVA day until we've checked with you, AI.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; see
you over Vanguard at 18:58.
48 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal.
Vanguard tracking ship welll acquire in about i0 minutes.
During this pass, we had quite a lengthy report from the
crew commander, A1 Bean. He said none of the three crewmen
have been sick today, but they're not feeling too well, either.
Hep agaln_ as he did earlier this morning, talk about how
hard it is to try to eat all the food. They Just don't feel
like eating too much at meal time. We informed him that the
earliest we would do the extravehicular activity is Saturday.
That is not flrm_ but it will not be done before Saturday.
He agreed with that position. And we told him that we wouldn't
firm up an EVA without discussing it with the crew. It appears
that all three crewmen will try to start exercising today,
though, using the bicycle ergometer. The lighting information
that the science pilot, Owen Garrlott_ had requested a short
time ago, is in connection with the student experiment ED-63.
That's the experiment designed to observe the effect of
weightlessness on the elodea, an aquarium plant. The
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experimenter is Cheryl Peltz, a 10th grader from Llttleton,

Colorado. And she hopes to determine the energy distribution
and other cellular activity of the elodea plant in zero gravity.
She hopes this experiment may provide some basic insight into
cellular function. It is planned that three vials containing
sprigs of the elodea will be deployed and then photographically
recorded using the onboard microscope and the 16-millimeter
motion picture camera. Prlor to opening the vials, Garriott
will examine the contents and then place the most viable
elodea leaf on the microscope slide, which he will photograph.
Dr. Charles Walkinshaw of Johnson Space Center, and Charles
Cothran, of the Marshall Space Flight Center, are the science
advisors of this experiment, which is one of the 25 student
experiments selected by NAS_ for use in the Skylab program.
More than 3400 experiments were submitted to the National
Science Teachers Association, which in turn submitted a
list of 300 to NASA for final selection. We're 7 minutes
away from Vanguard. We'll come back up at that time. At
18 hours 51 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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acquisition through the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Vanguard
for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
pick you up over Carnarvon at 19:32.
SPT Roger.
utes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has loss of signal. The
next station to acquire will be Goldstone. The Carnarvon
pass is a C band pass, and we'll not be able to get S band
voice communications through Carnarvon. So we'll next talk
to the crew at Goldstone in 1 hour 3-1/2 minutes. At 19 hours
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mean time. Skylab space station nearing the end of the
1129th Earth orbit and some 38 seconds away from acquisition
for the next and the final state side pass of the day through
Goldstone and Texas stations. Rather relaxed Flight Plan
today catching up on activation items that have somewhat fallen
behind and as - with the illness of the crew. Five seconds
now to acquisition, we'll stand by for the first call.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside
for 14 minutes.
CDR Got a few questions for you. First, where
are the utility gloves? Second, we were supposed to transfer
two drug can to 706 hut 706 is completely full. We stuck it in
732 temporarily waiting your recommendation. And we need to
know where the utility power cables are stowed?
CC Okay, we'll be right with you.
SPT And one more. Those power cables I'm going
to use on page 2-5 of the two-project checklist to hook up the
light to the ED52 experiment. Similarlly_ on the preceding
page 2-4 it calls for a pad update for the DAC thatts
supposed to be used for the photography of that experiment.
And apparently we have not received any pads for the use of
the DAC and you could - you might run down that for me so
that I could complete something else by ED52.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT And oe more while we're on the subject
of not enough things that we can find, I dontt have the
Biomed Checklist out with me right now, but when Z finished
calibrations of the BMMD M172 yesterday the clips and springs
were to be taken off and stowed at a location which apparently has
no label and is no locker. I suspected it's location on the
floor or something like that_ and my question is where do these
springs and clips go that were used for M172 calibration?
CC Okay.
SPT Boy, its an amazing view of the San
Francisco Bay area. And looking out the window while I came
over and talked to you here_ Dick_ perfectly clear you can see
the whole breadth of the place.
CC Okay.
CDR We all decided to take a look. It's
fantastic. You can see San Francisco and Los Angles all in the
same view.
CC Roger.
SPT You might say there's still a little bit of
tourist left in him.
CDR You can see Vegas out to the side too.
CC Roger. Wish we were at some of those places
looking up at you.
Fa
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SC I know what you mean. I can even see three

of my EREP sites from here. Four, five, see about eight of them
from here.
CC Owen?
SPT Say, Dick.
CC Owen, the photo pads for ED52 went up on
day 2, and if you don't have it convenient there to you I can
read it to you.
SPT I was afraid you were going to tell me
something like that, I guess you better read it to me.
CC You ready?
SPT Go.
CC ED52 prep, i00 percent required; B412;
DAC, 06; A-2 transporter, 03; DAC 06 is in F527.
SPT Okay, I've got it Dick, I was afraid it came
up earlier and we must have misplaced it or I didn't put it
where I was suppose to. Thank you very much.
CC And Owen if you need the thread pad part
of that l've got that also?
SPT I'm sorry, I missed that Dick.
CC I've got the film thread pad for DAC 06 if
you need it.
SPT You were cut out apparently a handover.
CC Okay, I've got the film thread pad for
DAC 06 if you need it.
SPT I'ii need it.
CC Okay.
SPT No maybe we don't need it, Dick. I guess
I already threaded it.
CC Okay.
PLT Excuse me, Story. You haven't told us
about the utility gloves yet, have you?
CC We're working.
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CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We had an interruption when we sent you
up the general message concerning med status and legband usage,
that's 0431 Alfa. Count the lines on that to be sure you
didn't loose anything in the interrupt.
CDR Roger.
CC Answer to the SPT, we suggest you restrain
the clips and springs to the CAL mass adaptor in any way you'd
llke or strap it to the grid besides the BMMD.
SPT I have, that's the only thing I could figure
I could do with it. I think the location that was given on
the Biomed Checklist was a non-exlstent locker.
CC Roger.
PLT Hey, Story, if you're still waiting for the
location of those utility gloves, I could call a S149.
CC Yes, we're still working now. We've
got about 30 seconds to LOS. We will see you over Vanguard
in i0 minutes and we should have the answers then.
SPT Thank you.
CC And as we go over the hill, I'ii leave
the drug cans in 732, that's fine for now.
SPT Okay.
through the Texas tracking station nearing the end of revolution
1128 and the start of 1129. Nine minutes from the next station
at tracking ship Vanguard at 20:22 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard in about
50 seconds. From Vanguard to the next station is about an
hour and 5 minutes. Goldstone for the flnal stateside station
of the day. Playback underway of the two television sequences
on the mass measuring device and the fish underway at the
present time. We are beginning to get slgnal now through
tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard. We've
got you for 9 minutes.
CC And no need to acknowledge. The utility
gloves are located in your clothing module. The utility
power cables, of which there are total of 8, may be found
in D435, D440, or possibly in use at D407, that's above the
ring lockers.
PLT Okay, thank you Story. We got this
S149 retracted until we got the SAL door closed, but we
can't get the rod pulled through the panel all the way so
that we could get the latch latch to meet. We think maybe
it's Just cold and we're going to let it warm up for awhile
so we could pull in a little further. It lacks about an
inch of - of coming in far enough. And we noticed as we
were pulling that in that it really wanted to go off by
itself. You really got to hold on to that thing and make
sure you get the door closed.
CC Okay, copy that.
CC Jack, we need some clarification on your
S149 operations.
PLT Okay, Storey. In looking at the check-
list for S149 retract; and one little interesting thing we
noted was that as soon as we started fooling around it wanted
to go off by itself very readily. If we hadn't have had
somebody on the end of it it would have gone right on out.
So we're going to be very careful of that. That's Just
a note. Okay now, we can't get the rod - the last
rod - a rod 80, pulled back far enough so that when you un-
screw it, the little latch will catch - the stuff that's
holding the S149. And, so we think maybe if we let them
warm up a little bit we'll be able to pull it in another
inch or so. And then when we unscrew rod 80 the latch
will come up and meet with the stub so that it won't go
out any further.
CC Okay, understand.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Just a minutej we're getting the ice
cream out.
CC Say again.
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PLT I said Just a minute, we're getting the

the ice cream out. First things first.
PLT Okay, go ahead, Storey.
CC Verify that the SAL door is closed.
PLT Verified.
CC Okay. We agree with your action to
sit and let the experiment warm up. And as for the two
drug cans that you temporarily put in 732, you might look
for a slot in 707, 708, or 709, the IMSS lockers if possible.
PLT Okay.
PLT The problem is that the drugs from
SL-II are in those lockers. I guess I'ii have to take them
out and put them somewhere, huh?
CC Skylab, Houston. In the blind, we're
going LOS at this time. We'll see you over Goldstone at
21:47.
PLT Okay.
from tracking ship Vanguard. Skylab space station at the
start of revolution 1129. Next station, Goldstene, an hour
and 4 minutes from now. We're estimating a change-of-shift
briefing with the off-golng Flight Director, Hilt Windier,
for about 4:15, plus or minus a few minutes, depending on
when he leaves the control room. t 20:43 Greenwich mean
time, Skylab Control.
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mean time. We are estimating Change of Shift briefing to begin
about 4:05 central daylight time in the Houston News Room.
Flight Director Milt Windier and Flight Surgeon Doctor Geroge
Armstrong are leaving the control room at this time enroute
to the News Center. Meanwhile back at the space station it's
some 48 minutes to the next tracking station at Goldstone.
Now in the southern southwestern segment of the Indian Ocean
due south of the island of Madagascar on revolution 1129.
To repeat, Change of Shift Briefing with Flight Director
Milt Windler, Flight Surgeon Doctor George Armstrong at about
4:05 central daylight, Houston News Room and at 20:59 Greenwich
END OF TAPE
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7/31/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2146 Greenwich

mean time. Although the AOS clock says 50 seconds until
AOS it sounds like we do have acquisition at this time through
Goldstone for 3 minute 50 second pass. The final one of the state
side stations for this afternoon nearing the end of revolution
1129.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Goldstone for 40 min-
utes.
SPT Hello, Dick, how are you?
CC Doing real fine. How are guys doing
today ?
SPT Doing pretty well. I Just finished the
ED52 setup and want to Just check it out to make sure that
the light and everything and sensitivities were Just right. And
sound off at (garble) ...turned the lights (garble) about
to pick up essentially the malfunction procedure but they Just
refer you over to ED52 adjust, page 2-13 which resets all
of the gains and adjust it for sensivity so I wonder if we could
hang up right now and let somebody there have an objection?
CC Owen I didn't copy some of that
as to exactly what your problems were because it was a lot of static
on the line, and before I get back to you I have two or three
things I'd like to get up to you and a couple of them I'd
like to get ahead of this ED52. The first one is - has to do
with our friend the condensate holding tank. We have some time
scheduled in tomorrow's flight plan for some troubleshooting
In order to get ahead on that troubleshooting this evening
we'd like to get the holding tank dumped and I have some
short procedures that I'd like to read up to you that we'd
like to have done by this evening and let it sit there for
2 or 3 hours and get dumped and secure it if you would.
SPT Go ahead with procedures.
CC Okay, what we'd like for you to do on
First is panel 393 to disconnect the holding tank QD and then
of course then down on panel 800 turn the dump heater - dump
heaters water switch to 2 and make sure that the H20 light
that's for theat dump heater is on. And then in the SWS Systems
Checklist perform housekeeping 60 Bravo, 60 Bravo. Station
9er- 3. And the steps that we'd llke performed out of there
are steps 3, 4, 5, and 6. Then after this is completed on
panel 393 we'd like for you to reconnect the holding tank
QD long enough to reconnect the cludge at Delta P meter and
report to us at Delta P and then finally to disconnect the
holding tank QD again on panel 393 and we' re going to let it
sit that way all night. This way it will get us ahead on the
troubleshooting tomorrow and it will also get - let us get
a overnight check on that part of the system as far - as to
see if it's holding the Delta P. The next thing that I had
if you got that one was a couple of notes for Jack on the
S]49.
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PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, what we well the further I get
the configuration is still as it was before, Jack, that you
described we think you're following the correct procedure
so we'd llke for you to let it sit there for awhile and try
it again. If you're still unsuccessful we'd llke for you to
pressurize the scientific air lock and this ought to let
the experiment warm up still further and let it sit there for
about another hour and try it again. If finally, this evening,
we are still unsuccessful we'd just like to leave rod A attached
and just remove that from the SAL and we'll let it sit in-
doors and let us continue to think about that one. We probably
will - we can go ahead and use that with rod A as sticking
in there although it may herd us on the storage. One
reminder on that is that you need to unscrew rod A a little
bit slightly in order to let that latch engage. We're getting
fairly close to LOS and we're - we'll see you in Vanguard
in a few minutes. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, we'll do like you say on 149.
CC Okay, real fine, and I'ii give you AOS
call at Vanguard.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab space
station gone over the hill from tracking station at Goldstone,
California in the Mohave Desert. Now 16 minutes away from
the next station which is tracking ship Vanguard. Lengthly
discussion there during that brief pass of 3-1/2 minutes
about rearranging some of the troubleshooting procedures that
are under way along with activation. And Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly, are referred to as our old friend the condensate
water tank difficulty and had some advice on how the crew
could further troubleshoot this pesky problem. And in all
likelihood we'll have further words on troubleshooting procedures
over the Vanguard 15 minutes from now and at 2153 Greenwich mean
time Skylab Control.
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mean time, 50 seconds away from nominal acquisition at
tracking ship Vanguard. However, we've had early acquisitions
at tile past several stations. That is, the actual lockon
precedes the clock-predicted time. So to play it safe, we'll
open the" circuit ,ow for initial contact across Vanguard -
a lO-minutc aLld 23-second pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
CC Skylab , Houston
SPT I hear you, Dick. Okay, Dick. Now let me tell
you where I am in the Student Project Experiments Checklist. A
problem turned up with ED-52. Over.
CC Rog, Owen. Why don't you take just a
minute. We did relisten to the tape and there was a lot
of static and I was gonna tell you that you were go to go
ahead and do that MAL (?) but it probably wouldn't hurt for
us to listen to it again real quickly.
SPT Well, I'm beyond that now anyway. I've
already performed that MAL (?), and it's not working and that's
what I wanted to tell you about.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I went to the ED-52 adjust on page 2-13,
I turned both pods counterclockwise just as it said, and
then down on step 7 it says " Lights come on, stay on for
several seconds, go off and then come back on." As a matter
of fact it doesn't happen that way. The lights come on of
course when you put S-I on, they stay on for about i to 2
seconds; they go off and then they stay off. They do not
come back on. And when you put your ear down close to the
electronic assembly, you can hear the relay which turns the
lights off, and about a second or so later, you can hear
another fainter relay click, but it does not turn the lights
back on, as one might assume that second relay click was
supposed to do. So something in the internal circuitry is
not permitting the trigger to turn the lights and the camera,
if it were connected, back on again. And I don't know
whether there's anything that can be done to fix that or not,
but I'ii leave it in your hands and the designers' hands
to think about it for awhile. Over.
CC Okay. I think we certainly understand,
from that description, what it is and we will think about it,
Owen. I've got another couple of things to ask you guys.
One is on channel B recording. We dumped about a - and
incidentally [ forgot to warn you, I think we are dumping
the airlock data recorder this site. But we dumped about two
hours ago and we did not find any modulation on channel
Bravo. And as long as you guys did not record anything on
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channel B during that period, we're happy with that, but we

Just wanted to make sure that we were in a proper configura-
tion for channel B recording. And while we're on that sub-
Ject, we've also noticed that we are recording your intercom
conversations on the command module DSE. And on that one,
we think probably the reason that we are is that your panel
6 intercom switch is in TR vice OFF, and if you want a
reference in the checklist, that's systems checklist, page
3-3. We have not been dumping that recorded voice and so
it hasn't been getting out, but I thought you ought be aware
of that and reconfigure if you desire.
SPT Okay. We were talking about that at
lunch time and sort of had come to the same conclusion that
that's probably how we were configured. And I don't know
whether Al's hearing this or not. He probably will want to talk
to you about it. On the channel B recording, I'm not sure
I'm too happy about that, because I spent probably 15 minutes
putting all the SMMD calibrations, both wardroom and head
on there. I don't know whether those got dumped on the
preceding rev or preceding dump, or whether it was this
last time. Do you - can you verify that all of the SMMD
cals were taken off?
CC Stand by just a second.
CC SPT, Houston. I'm unable to verify yes
or no right now, but as soon as I can we'll certainly get
back to you on SMMD CAL, but don't put the information back
on there until I get back to you.
SPT Okay, and I'll just coast it by and
mention the fact that he had reconfigured the command module
intercom OFF 2 or 3 hours ago. So it shouldn't be inter-
com shouldn't be on the tape up in the command module any
longer. Over.
CC Okay. Real fine. Let me ask you a
couple of other questions from the activation checklist
folk. There are 2 or 3 items that you haven't reported,
and we'd llke to know whether or not you've completed them.
And then after we get these answers, since we've had to
skip around in the timellne and activation has been extended
a little bit, they'd sure appreciate it if you guys would
take a little bit of time in that checklist when you think
you are through with it and turn the pages and just make
sure that we haven't skipped anything.
SPT Okay. What do you want to ask us about?
CC Okay. First, is the command module
stowage transferred which is page 2-70 and 2-71.
SPT Okay. I want to get A1 to answer that.
He's been looking after most of that. Is there anything over in
my columns since you were looking?
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CC Okay. Well, I'm not real sure that - I

have two other items, Owen. And I'm not looking at the
checklist at the moment. The other two items are plenum
bag stowage, and the third item was the day 3 miscellaneous
transfers that we sent up on the message this morning, and it's
located actually in the stowage book.
PLT Dick, page 270 and 271 1 took care of. And
the plenum bag stowage isn't going to happen until tomorrow
because we're still putting a little stuff in it. And other
than that I guess the only thing left to do is the water
sampling TV and the 149 stow.
CDR And the day 3 transfers are complete.
Would you do one thing for me, Dick? Are the three good
lenses - I want to verify that we got them correct, 5, 6,
and 7, the 5 millimeter?
CC That is correct, AI. And I think that
gives us the answers on all the things, and we think we're pretty
happy with knowing exactly where the whole activation
checklist is. But if you would take 5 or i0 minutes between
you and Just take a look and make sure you can't find any-
thing that you remember skipping we'd sure appreciate it.
CDR Okay, we had that sort of on our minds
and we'll go through that thing when we get a moment here.
So we think we've finished that except for those two items
that Jack mentioned, and we got a couple of plenum bags
completely full now. That kind of gives you a feeling for
the amount of filler we've had.
CC Rog. I understand.
CC And we got about 3 minutes left here
at Vanguard and l'm standing by.
CDR We've got that dump ready to go. I'm
Just waiting til the heater gets hot. As soon as it gets
hot I'ii turn it on. It's all connected up.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR It's a lot easier once you've found all
the parts up here, believe me.
CC Skylab, Houston. One thing that we
were a little bit confused on as to what you said about the
activation checklist. We think we copied yon said that you
were going to set up the TV in order to record the water
sampling. We thought you'd already done the water sampling.
If you have already completed the water sampling, we sure
don't want to ask you to repeat it in order Just to get
it on television.
CDR I understand.
CC Okay.
PLT The water sampling is complete.
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00 Okay. We're happy.

CC And Skylab, Houston. In order to make
sure for channel Bravo recording, you might - somebody next
time they float by panel 204 they might check and make sure
it's configured there properly.
CC And we'll go - -
CDR I just checked it. It was on B.
Whenever you mentioned it wasn't there anything I went up and
looked and it's switched to B.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you much.
LOS. We'll see you at Hawaii at 23:18. We are going to
dump the data recorder again there. And we were wondering,
when you did do the water sampling, did you use the decal
that I had you look at the iodine concentration after it
was in the chiller for 15 minutes?
PLT That's a negative because we had done
the water sampling prior to that message.
CC I see. Okay, thank you much. That's
all right.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station
Skylab over the South Atlantic, Just having gone loss of
signal from the tracking ship Vanguard. And in the first
segment of revolution 1130 around the Earth. Next station
Hawaii in 57 minutes. At 22:20 Greenwich mean time_ this
is Skylab Control.
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mean time 50 seconds away from acquisition at Hawaii. Nearing
the end of revolution 1130 of the Skylab space station. The
crew Evening Status Report will given at the next Hawaii
pass, one revolution from now in about an hour and a half.
CC At Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Say, Dick; CDR.
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
CDR Say we ended up with our 2 lithium
hydroxide canisters - the ones we have used in the command
module down in the workshop - we cantt seem to find a note
anywhere exactly what we are suppose to do with them. Are
we suppose to Jettison them out the trash airlock.
CC Okay, what a - we'll get an answer
to you as soon as we can on that. Theytre talking - They'll
talk about that in the back room. And I got two or three
things to talk to you about if you don't have anything else.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all the last time we looked
into the tape recorder business and the last time that we got
any modulation on the dumps to the site was a Bermuda pass
at 17:00 Zulu and as far as we can search we sometime during
that period must have been when Owen put the SMMD stuff on
because we don't have that. And we would llke for you
sometime in between now and the upcoming Vanguard pass which
is in the next 30 minutes to make at least a 30-second test
recording on channel B because we would like to dump it and
get right on top of this problem in case we have any hardware
problems.
CDR Okay, we will do that right now.
CC Okay, next thing is - and CDR, Houston
we are dumping the tape recorder here at Hawaii so why don't
you wait until after LOS to do that test recording for us.
CDR Understand.
CC Okay, next thing. The other day you mentioned
about prior to the EVA looking at all of the hardware and getting
ahead on things for the EVA. One thing we be sure and don't
want you to do is to actually pull the sail out of the bag
because we think it would really be curtains for getting it
back installed in the bag. For your information we are going
to pull a sail that has been stowed in the bag over at Marshall,
the day prior to the EVA and check it's condition. The next
item that I have AI, is a our G and C is watching the oxidizer
tank pressure for the SPS engine up in the command module and
the pressure is decreasing due to a helium ingestion in the
oxidizer. We do not have a leak but it is getting kind of
close to the caution and warning limit and in order to make sure
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CC you don't get waked up in the middle of the

night or startled by it we'd recommend you INHIBIT Charlle 7.
CDR Okay, that's done.
CC Okay, I got a couple of more items and
these are on your Flight Plan for tomorrow that was up-linked
a while ago. Two items on that. You've got the PLT and SPT or
the PLT is the subject. He has got a MI31 Just before lunch
and there is some extra time that is stuck in there_ we think
about 30 minutes for both of those guys and that does not include
the extra 15 minutes that we put in there because it is the
first time you ran. ThereforeD we think that he can get some extra
pt time right following that M131 and on the Flight Plan it looks
like he got shortchanged but we think he can change that
30 minutes probably almost to an hour. Also if possible we
would llke during that same period to get Owen to set up
TV-3 Alfa in the TV OPS Book, because we would to accomplish
TV-3 Alfa during the lunch meal tomorrow.
CDH Okay.
CC Okay, that will be an addition to Owen's
detail pad and I figure the pt_ you can Just play that by ear,
you know, as you get it. And the only other thing I have on
here is wondering if there is any more further status on
$149.
CDR Sure is, we let it warm up_ we pulled it
out and it's now setting over in the corner with the cover on
the end and everything is compothetic and tidy.
CC Roger_ understand you did make the latch
and got rod A out of there.
CDR When it warmed up a little bit everything was
okay.
CC Hey, real fine, good.
CC And Skylab Houston, we have an answer for
you on the lithium hydroxide. It should go down the trash airlock.
CC And that's the end of my llst thatts written
down here, we still got 4 minutes here at Hawaii and so I'm
standing by.
SPT Dick, I pulled off the teleprinter stuff here
about 15 minutes ago and at that time it only had the CDR and
PLT details for tomorrow, Just the last minute or so SPT details
have come up and it is only seven llnes long_ followed by a general
Flight Plan that's 58 lines long. I guess that must be what you
want though, seven lines of SPT details.
CC That's right, SPT - I'm looking at it Owen
and the SPT details is seven 7 lines long. And the thing to do is
Jot down in there TV-3 Alfa you know and I'ii give you a time
off the summary right now.
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SPT Good enough.

CC Okay.
PAO This 18 Skylab Control. We have lost of
signal through the tracking station at Hawaii. Comin E up
next in 19 minutes trackin E ship VanEuard. And apparently
the particle collection experlment S149 has been retracted
back into the scientific alrlock and secured after a brief
troubleshootin E session. Back aEaln in 18 minutes for Vanguard
pass and at 23:29 Greenwich mean time, Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time; 50 seconds away from acquisition by the tracking
ship Vanguard off shore from the east coast of Argentina
nearing the end of revolution 1130 and the start of 1131.
Standing by for resumption for communications across Vanguard
9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab Houstoi_ we're AOS at Vanguard for
9 minutes and we're going to be dumping the data tape
recorder here.
CDR Okay, I tell you what we did, Dick. We put
some information on it, channel B, both from the console and
headset that Owen used to put his data on, and also down from
in the wardroom. I'm just playing the squawk box, so there
ought to be two sets of data on there Just talking about it.
CC Okay, I understand yon used the wardroom
speaker box. Where was the other speaker box on in between these
two sides that you did use?
CDR The one up there by the ATM console and
Owen used a headset and mike with it.
CC Okay, AI, thank you. I only had one question
this pass and that is for Owen and we're back to trying to
understand completely this ED52 thing. And what we're not sure
that we copied because of the garble and we'd llke to clarify
is on page 2-6 of the checklist step 30. We'd llke to
know exactly what it says - move hand around and verify the
light and the camera come on and stay on for i0 seconds. And
it's at that point that we'd llke to understand what happened
that caused him to go over to page 213 and start the ED52 adjust
procedure.
SPT Okay, stand by. I'ii have to get the
checklist out and see what page and item you' re talking about
it will be one moment.
CC Okay, Owen, I think that will be a good
idea and then we'll get squared away and get the problem
solved.
CDR Okay, Dick, I've had a vacuum on that tank
for quite sometime I mean not a vacuum but dump going into the
tank pulling out the water. I checked the slug a few moments
ago and it moved down to the far end of the tank indicating
that it was empty. I was going to leave it llke that for a
few more minutes, perhaps 30, I don't know. What do you
recommend?
CC Stand by i.
CDR It has a maximum pull of about 1 inch from the
flange. That may be as far as it travels so it still may
travel some more, that was why I was wondering.
CC Okay, stand by.
SPT Get ready to talk about this page 2-6 of
you- if you're prepared there, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston; that transmission was
kind of garbled. I didn't get it, say again, please.
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SPT Okay, I'm ready to talk about page 2-6.

are you ready there?
CC Yea. Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, yes it was Just where you said
on step 30 we should be able to retrigger that automatic
circuitry by moving our hands around inside the cage. And
I did that and snapped fingers and even tapped the walls
and did everything I could to get another trigger of the
lights and camera and there was no way for me to trigger an
automatic sequence lO seconds to sequence of exposures after
I first turned it on. And the note that is at the bottom of
step 30 then says to refer to 52 adjustment required, and so
I then went over to 52 adjust and followed down through let
me see step 7, 8, and then step 9. Just a moment, no
I'm not that far. Step 7 - It's supposed to be that at step 7
the light will come on, stay On, go off, and then come back on.
But that one did not happen in step 7 on H2-13. They'll come on
and stay for a second or two and then go off and never come back
on again. Over.
CC Okay, thanks for the info, Owen. And
we're not real sure whether or not we got a checklist problem
or hardware problem and we're talking about that and wet11
get - be getting back to you as soon as we can on a straight
answer.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC Roger.
CC And, CDR, Houston. The EGIL recommends
that we get about another 15 minutes worth of dumping on the
holding tank and then you can continue on with the procedure
that I read up a while ago.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised on that dump
here at Vanguard at the site, we did see voice modulation on
the sub frame as we dumped it. We are going to bring back in
here to Houston and liste n to the tapes and make sure that
we got a modulation from either i, 2, or 3 of those sources
that you mentioned. So we'll get back to you later when we
understand it.
SPT Okay, if you don't have it from all
three sources, that's box 131 with the lightweight headset and
on the speaker box as well as down here at 702 directly from the
box.
CC Okay, and we'll let you know when we
getit back here in Houston and listen to it.
CC Skylab, Houston. One note that I had here
and I'm quite frankly I can't remember whether I passed it
up to you or not and that was the drug location when Story
was Just going off duty there. What we want to end up with
is the SL-2 drug cans in W732 and the SL-3 drug cans in W706.
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SPT We copy, Dick.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS
at Vanguard. We're going to see you at Hawaii in 00:55_ and
we'll be standing by there, Als to copy the evening status
report.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylah Control; loss of signal
through the Vanguard tracking station tracking ship.
Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly went back over some of the
difficullties that the Science Pilot Owen Garriott has had
in activating the ED52 Web Formation Student Experiment.
It seems that the automated motion picture camera and
lighting system for the spider cage came on on the initial
activation as it should have, but the llght cycled off and did
not come on again, failed to come back on. So at this timep they
are sorting that out. It is not certain whether the cross
spider arabella has heen actually placed in the cage. It is
thought that she is still in the stowage vile that - which she
traveled up from earth into orbit aboard the Skylab III
command module. This ED52 is one of seven student experiments
being flown on Skylab IIl. Next tracking station in 55 minutes
will be Hawaii at which time the crew status report will be
passed down on food, water, medication. And the succeeding
pass over Vanguard again will be the evening medical conference
with the flight surgeon. And at 2359 Greenwich mean time
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mean time. Evening Status Report from the Skylab crew coming
up next on the Hawaii pass in some 40 seconds or less, as
we get acquisition of the spacecraft communications. The
space station now about 3/4 of the way through revolution
1131.
CC Skylab Houston, we are AOS Hawaii for
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick, I'm ready for that nightly
Status Report.
CC Roger, me too, AI, and I believe I have already
have the urine volume, the drinking water gun reading and
BMMD masses from this morning that you read down earlier.
CDR Okay, go to exercise.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, CDR, 2/15/1425; SPT 2/15/2000; PLT,
2/15/3026.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, under medication the CDR and SPT
both used some nasal emollient. CDR would like to think about
using Seconal tonight. Okay, sleep, CDR_ 5 good 2 fair;
SPT, 6 good; PLT_ 7 good. Okay now Itll read you the food
log. CDR deleted chili, biscuits - two vanilla wafers - two;
SPT, deleted - By the way, CDR had two salts. SPT deleted Jam,
chicken and gravy, lemon puddlngm asparagus, butterscotch pudding
apricots, strawberry drink, 1/3 of a can of bacon wafers.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR PLT ate the following: corn flakes,
grapefruit drink, coCOas pea soups tea_ polk llon, applesauce
and lemonade.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR No photo today. Flight plan deviation -
we looked over the flight plans they looked good to us, we
were a little bit worried about the MI31 hut we'll Just be careful.
Our concern was the fact was that everybody is a little unsettled
yet and so they were afraid if they got into a ...
they might not be able to recover very fast like you can on
Earth because it unsettles you there, as you well know. And
since your settling ability is Just not that good at the moment.
CC Roger, I understand, AI. And we realize
that, so we will Just leave it up to your Judgment as to
how to proceed and let us know.
CDR Okay, we knew you did and been thinking
about it, we're going to give it a go and Just be careful.
Shopping llst, the only thing we did we interchanged the SAL
tripods while we had S073 out of there and they both fit now.
Inoperable equipment, you know about that. And unscheduled
stowage item changes, we've reported those already also.
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CC Okay, I got all of that is there anything

else on that status report you would llke to add?
CDR No, did you - you wanted a previous status
report or a previous food report and we werenlt sure which
day •
CC I'ii tell you what, I'm - it was day 210,
AI, which I believe was mission day 2, I think.
CDR OkayD let me read those, please.
CC Stand by i.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger, CDR, go ahead. It was mission day 2.
Go ahead.
CDR Okay, CDR, delete biscuits - two, orange drink,
chili_ peanut butter. SPT, he ate the following: Instant
Breakfast, 1/2 bread, orange drlnkj chicken and rice ambrosia,
vanilla wafers. PLT ate the following: applesauce, cocoa,
peaches, teat and in addition to that the CDR had 27 squirts
of command module water, and the PLT had 7-1/2 ounces of command
moduel water plus 20 squirts.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR I didn't have down the SPTIs water and he
doesntt recall it. That completes the food there_ I believe.
CC Okay_ AI, thank you very much. I've got
a couple of things here. First of all on the ED52 we are
afraid we do have a - some sort of a hardware malfunction
but we're so we're going to think about that one, and the
only thing we would like to ask you guys to do tonight is on
the ED52 equipment turn the sierra 1 switch to OFF.
CDR Owen reports that he has done that already.
CC Okay. Next thing, we listened to that
channel B dump and we got a - nothing but a bunch of loud
noise and no intelligible conversation. It turns out at the
same time we did have the experiment 2 recorder running
and so we're dumping that here at Hawaii and we're going to
listen to that recorder and see if it is a recorder problem
or something else. And I do have_ we've noticed in the command
module that - that we're reading a about 70 or 71 percent
reading in the waste water tank and we - so we are not to sure
that's accuraye and I have a - couple of things I would llke
you to check in the command module. However, I see that I'm about
45 seconds from LOS. Your next pass is at Vanguard at 01:26 and
it's the medical conference and I'ii catch you again at Ascension
and I' ii have this stuff squared away and I can tell you what
we would like at Ascension.
CDR Okayp what do you want me to dot go read
the waste water and tell you?
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CC Yes, we want you to read the - put the main

REGs, two of them to OPEN. Then read the waste water. If it is
greater than 60 percent perform the service module water tank
activation which is on page S/416, if it is less than 60 percent,
close the main regs and open the cabin repress valve.
CDR Underst and.
CC Okay, good.
CDR But, do you want me to dump the water if it's ...
CC Negative and I forgot to say prior to
starting this procedure, CABIN REPRESS valve to CLOSE.
CDR Okay, I understand that. So, in other
words, if it is greater Just turn those things on and leave
them there and don't dump the water.
CC That's affirm, and we also want to get
another holding tank - no.
CC Delay that last, AI, I'ii get you at
Ascension.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station
Skylab has gone over the southern horizon from the Hawaii tracking
station for the final pass of the day over that station.
22 minutes now to Vanguard and the medical conference with
the flight surgeon. Pick up again after Vanguard with the
Ascension Island tracking station about 6 minutes after Vanguard.
And at 01:04 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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mean time coming up now in 50 seconds over the tracking
station in the South Atlantic on a lonely island called
Ascension outset of revolution 1152. Starting to hear the
scratchy noise now as the antennas on the island lock up on
the spacecraft communications system.
CC Ascension for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick_ let me tell yon what we got.
CC Go ahead.
CDR We went through the first part of the
procedures in the command module, checked the water is 75
percent. We didn't - we knew how to follow the rest of the
procedure but we just wanted to make sure that you wanted us
to do that one because when we were going out of site it
sounded like you had a little something else on your mind.
CC Well, as a matter fact what we had on
our minds would - didn't have anything to do with that. So the
procedure that I did read you ought to follow for the part
which is to perform that water tank activation, page 4-16.
So that one was okay. What I was trying to get up to you,
AI, was at the time that - we assume by now you've secured
the condensate holding tank and I wanted to get a Delta P
reading on that tank that you took, I think, right after you
secured it.
CDR Okay, hold on, I'ii give it to you and
then I'll disconnect at that panel 930 or 390 or whatever
it's called.
CC Roger.
CDR It'll take about 2 minutes or about
30 seconds.
CC Okay. While you're going up there if
somebody's listening, one thing that we do need is for as
evening status report is that your drawer A - drawer ALPHA
configuration in the film vault sometime this evening in
either this pass or the next one so that we can do our photo
pads properly for tomorrow and our planning. And also be
advised we will be up-linking a pad tonight for your tomorrow's
menu.
CDR It's 4.25, 4.25.
CC Okay, AI, thank you much and -
CDR Now I'm going to go back and disconnect
it and put a cap on the end of that line.
CC Okay, Alp and is Owen listening?
CDR He sure is.
CC Hey, Owen I Just wanted you to know
that I Just called up and talked to your Dad and had a very
pleasant conversation with him and wished him a Happy
Birthday and he said to pass on the best luck from everybody
in Enid to you and they've been real concerned about how
you guys were feeling and getting along and I assured them
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that as each day went by you were feeling a lot better and
really having a lot of fun. I sure enjoyed talking to him.
SPT Very good, thanks a lot, Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, disconnect complete.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I don't know if you
checked the tape recorder a while ago, we did send up a S192
alignment pad. And after we got it up there we had some second
thoughts about some minor things on it, and we have just up-
linked another S192 alignment pad that should replace the one you
got earlier. And the good one is message number 0529, you
can throw the other one away.
CDR Okay, Dick; understand.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still got about 2-1/2
minutes to LOS. And let me tell you real briefly about one
minor problem that we're taking a looking at and still talking
about it because I might have to talk to you again about it
at our last pass of the evening which is at Guam. The
temperatures - the dew point in the spacecraft has risen to
a point where we're afraid that we may start collecting -
Where the temeperature and the heat control is lower than
the dew point. So we're thinking about possibly, tonight, turning
off the heat exchangers and, of course, the bad part of that
is that during the evening the temperature in spacecraft will
rise in an estimate in somewhere like 3 degrees or so.
I Just wanted to alert you to that before we got to Guam
we'll be talking about in between here and there. Over.
CDR Understand, Dick. Thank you.
CC And, of course, the other side of the coin
other than letting the temps going up tonight is if we
should - If this trend continues, of course, we might deposit
some water in the heat exchangers and the fans. It might
take us 2 or 3 days to dry them out so - so I guess it's
some good news and some bad news there. And we will let you
know at Guam. We're about a minute from LOS here at Ascension
and at Guam AOS is 02:26.
CDR Roger. There's no way that we could
for example hook up that condensate tank and then Just continue
to pull a vacuum on the back side of it through the SAL
ai rlock ?
CC I guess we hadn't really thought about
that one, AI, but the condensate holding tank we're satisfied
is - We'd llke for it to sit all night if that's what you're
asking about and check the pressure in the morning.
CDR I didn't know whether- since you were
worried about the humidity you might not want to pull the
water out tonight if you could, and then make the test
tomorrow day or tomorrow night. It doesn't make any difference
to us, we can stand the 3 degrees. ! just didn't know what
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you wanted to do. We'll see you next site.

CC Okay_ AI.
PLT Hey, Dick the film is Just as they
asked me to load it on the pad this morning I got all
of the numbers if you want it but that's the way it is.
CC Okay, AI, check in between sites_ Jack,
and if I need them I'ii get them in Guam.
PLT Yes, we didn't use any of it at all.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're satisfied with
that on the film so I will not need anymore information from
you when we get there.
PAO This i8 Skylab Control, loss of signal
from the Ascension Island tracking station; 36 minutes to the
final pass of the evening for the crew before they enter
their sleep period. The Guam Island station rather short pass
in 3 minutes and 47 seconds. Spacecraft Communicator, Dick
Truly during the Ascension pass told Owen Garriott that he had
talked with Garriott's father in Enid, Okalahoma and wished
him a Happy Birthday as Garriott had requested earlier in
the day. As a matter of fact, he told - in fact, he told the
CAP COM to call him collect. Final communications with the
crew Skylab for today in 35 minutes over Guam. Spacecraft
Just crossing the African coast on revolution 1132 on a
ground track they will cross the northern end of the Red
Sea, southern end of the Caspian Sea over central Asia
coming out cross the Sea of Japan and the main island of
Honshu and down across the Pacific again. At 01:50 Greenwich
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mean time. Final conversation with the crew coming up in
about 40 seconds over the Guam Island tracking station.
Barely enough tracking time at this very low elevation angle,
totalling 3 minutes 47 seconds. Barely enough time to make
contact and say good-nlght Last night they borrowed a llne
from Laugh-In and said "Good night, Dick" to CAP COMM Dick
Truly.
CDR Just one question. We gotta start using
the OWS through tomorrow, only I noticed you didn't do - had
me doing housekeeping 60E until after lunch. What shall
we do for breakfast and dinner - Or breakfast and lunch?
CC Roger, AI. I'ii get you a question - I'ii
get you an answer back on that this pass. On the problem
with the heat exchangers what we've decided to do is turn
the fans off in the OWS an_| airlock heat exchangers. And
let me tell you which switches they are. I think you already
know, but then I'ii give you the rationale and our thoughts
on the subject. What we w;_nt on panel 390 is the OWS HEAT
EXCHANGER FANs, four switches, OFF. And also on panel 293,
AM FAN CIRC, three switches to OFF. Essentially what we've -
we think this is the best approach, AI, because we're -
we're trading a short-term problem tonight which may - which
- in which we think the temp in the spacecraft if going to
go up approximately 3 degrees, versus a very long-time term
problem, in the event that we did get the heat exchangers
wet tonight. As a matter of fact, we don't know how many
days it would take us to recover from that - and during that
time the temp would keep going up. So, our decision is to
turn the fans off tonight. If the temp has gone up more
than 3 degrees tonight we'[[l certainly get the fans on first
thing in the morning. Ove:._.
CDR Okay. Circ fan 3 and and then the heat
exchanger fan 4. We'll get them.
CC Okay. One more thing. We had no Joy
on the channel B that we dumped on the experiment tape
recorder, so I got two things I want you to do there now.
One is, right away while w(: still got you. WeVve still got
about 2 minutes. We'd like somebody to make an intercom
check on channel B and report to us how that comes out. We
want to see if we have a generic problem in the channel B
itself. And secondly, after we go LOS, we'd llke you to go
to panel 204 and go back to recording on channel A. And
we'd llke you to make us a 30-second test as you did before
on channel A. And we'll dump that later in the evening, and
we'll be researching this problem during the night. Over.
CDR Okay. ][ can give you a hint already.
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Time: 21:25 CDT; 05:02:25 GMT
7/31/73
We tried B whenever we were making a check and we found it

okay. But let me switch over and talk to Owen and I'll fill
you right now.
CC Ro ge r.
CDR Say, Dick, we just tried it and the only
thing we noticed is the volume isn't quite as high on B as
£t is on A. It's possibly two-thlrds as high.
CC Okay. Thank you, AI. Stand by, please.
PLT ... gets six to i0 dB difference.
CC Ro ge r.
CC CDR, Houston. On the question on the
menus we're working up a pad for you this evening on the
menus and it will be made up of food that you can get to
readily in time for breakfast. We are about 30 seconds from
LOS here at Guam. This is the last pass of the evening, so
you guys get a real good night's sleep and we'll see you in
the morning.
CDR Okay, and the SUS fans are off already.
CC Okay.
CDR And everything else is okay. We tried
B, I'm going to A right now. On record.
CC Roger that.
CDR We'll _ecord a message on A when we get
a chance.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That was the
final conversation of the evening with the crew of Skylab
lIE over the Guam Island station. Next station to acquire
in 31 minutes will be Vanguard again, tracking ship Vanguard.
Flight Surgeon, Dr. Paul Buchanan, after talking to the crew
during the last Vanguard pass in the medical conference, had
the following brief bulletin, which reads as follows: All
three crewmen of Skylab Ill are much improved today. They
have taken no medication today and have eaten much more of
their prescribed menus. All three crewmen exercised on the
ergometer. Captain Bean has started jogging around the locker
ring. Their spirits are high. Skylab space station on
revolution I132, 30 minutes out of tracking ship Vanguard,
however, conversation with the crew has ceased for the night.
And at 02:32 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control
signing off until 6 a.m. central daylight tomorrow.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-185/I
Time: 06:14 CDT, 05:11:14 GMT
8/1/73

14 minutes Greenwich mean time on the 5th day of the mission.
Skylab coming up nearly within range of the Texas Tracking
Station now. Capcom, Hank Bartsfield, will be sending up
a call at Texas. Flight Director on this shift is Chuck
Lewis. Today's Flight Plan calls for the crew to perform
the first medical experiments since the mission has started
the M131 Human Vestibular Function will be performed twice
this morning with Jack Lousma as the subject, and Owen
Garriott as the observer. And then in the afternoon they
will change places. Garrlott will be the subject, Lousma
the observer. This Ml31 experiment today will not involve
rotating the chair. This is the human vestibular function experi-
ment. The subject will sit in the chair and move his head, but the
chair itself will not be rotated today. Also, scheduled
this afternoon in the medical area, the M092 lower body
negative pressure. We have acquisition at Texas. We'll
stand by for the call.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. We're
with you for about 15 minutes stateside.
PLT Good morning, Houston.
CDR Howdy, howdy.
CC Hello, there. How you all doing this
morning?
CDR (Garble)
PLT Too early to know.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The lower
body negative pressure experiment, MO92, and the metabolic
activity experiment, MI71, using the bicycle ergometer. Both
of those medical experiments will be conducted this afternoon
with Owen Garriott as the subject and AI Bean as the observer.
The Earth Resources Experiment Package will be checked out
today, also, in preparation for the 26 EREP passes that are
planned for this mission. And a couple of hours have been set
aside for -
CC We've got 2 things for you during the
postsleep this morning. Whenever it's convenient, one is
a change to CDR Flight Plan. And the other is a little
procedure we want to run through to see if we can track
down the problem with the channel B record. Whenever it's
convenient, just give us a call.
CDR How about right now?
CC Okay. The Flight Plan change for the
CDR, is at 13:00, on the Flight Plan. We'd like for you to
perform the housekeeping 60 Echo, instead of the S190 film
stow. And then at 18:00, we'll do the film stow. And anything -
the time that's left over there will be the - be for open
housekeeping.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-186/I
Time: 06:23 CDT, 05:11:23 GMT
8/1/73
CDR That's good because I can sure use that.

CC And AI, I think there's a little procedure
on the AM voice record. Whenever it's convenient for somebody
to work that, Just give a call.
CDR Right now.
CC Okay, AI. Like to get someone to look
at panel 200. The audio system buffer amplifier 2 circuit
breaker. We'd llke to check that one.
CDR Buffer ampllfler-2 audio system is
closed.
CC It is closed? Okay. What we'd llke
for you to do, is cycle that circuit breaker off and
on three tlmes, then. And then leave it in the closed position.
CDR Complete.
CC Okay. And if you would, what we'd llke
for you to do now, is compose a little test message and
record it on comm channel A. You have to put your
instrumentation system, recorder audio, on panel 204 to channel B,
and record on that channel. And then we want you to record
the same message on channel A. And what we're goln E to do,
thens is dump both of those and compare them.
CDR Okay. I'ii start doing that right now.
Now for B first, as requested.
CC Skylab, Houston. - -
CDR Okays we put them on A and B.
CC Okay. Real good. I guess we should
have started with As since that's the way you're configured.
We'd llke you to leave it configured to record on
Channel A. And we'd also llke to know if you've noticed any
difference on the intercom, on the audio level, between
channels A and B.
CDR Okay, Houston. Yesterday we noticed
that on B Channel it was lower than on A. And we Just took
another check, and it seems to be the same way this morning.
Although, the difference isn't quite so pronounced. Owen
is the expert, and says it's about 3 dB lower on B than
it is on A.
CC Roger, copy. And we are configured
now for recording on channel As is that correct?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay. Let us get the tapes down and
take a look at it, then. And you'll probably also notice
when you empty the teleprinter this morning, there was a -
some checklist changes for the systems - CSM systems checklist
and deact checklist, in regard to the quad-B failure. For
the next few days, we'll probably be dribhllng those procedure
changes up to them - up to you, as we sort them out down here
SL-III HC-186/2
Time: 06:23 CDT, 05:11:23 GMT
8/1/73
on the ground to try to take into account that quad-B loss.

CDR Okay. One that I'm hoping they'll work on
is the cue card that we got in the CSH for attitude control
takeover, in the event of some funny with the CHGs. Been
thinking about that the last couple of days. I suspect our
technique there for restoring the command module Just with the
SCS may not work. But I don't know. That probably ought
to be one of the higher priority items.
CC Okay. That is in work, AI.
CDR Okay. Let me help you with some of this
condensate loop troubleshooting. Last night, as you know,
I gave you the Delta-P, as the result of putting the cluge
pressure gage on the loop at servicing panel 303. Now
when I got finished doing that, I disconnected back in -
I think it's called 393, I never remember the number, but
it's the connector at the aft end of the lock compartment,
or the yeah, that's not the aft end of the lock, it's the aft
compartment back there. When I did, I noticed, when I looked at
the heat exchanger plate cluge pressure gage again, that it
had immediately gone to zero, giving me a feeling that either
quick disconnect didn't work, or that that line in the lock
compartment was leaking. What I've done this morning,
since we started talking, was connect the holding tank up
again. And I'm going to give you a pressure gage reading.
And that'll give you a view of what the holding tank did
last night. And I'm also going to disconnect it again so
it won't leak down. And then look at it again and tell
you what happened between 303 and that 393. So, Just a second.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. The holding tank, Just in a few
minutes here, has gone to 4.2, which is as I recall, roughly
the same as it was last night. If it wasn't, it's pretty
doggone close. But it gives you a feeling that the holding
tank and the line up to it are doing okay. Let me now go
back and disconnect the disconnect. Hold on.
CDR I disconnected the disconnect, and I
noticed that it's holding at 4.3 now. Let me watch it for
the next couple of minutes to see if it leaks down or stays
the same.
CC Okay, AI. And I guess overnight we
worked up a troubleshooting procedure for that condensate
system, and it should be in the teleprinter now. In fact, all the
messages should be up now.
CDR Okay, Jack picked them up. I haven't
looked at them. I just noticed this last night, and I
thought it may aid you in your thinking while we just -
we don't troubleshoot it until a little while later.
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811173
CC Okay. We'll be mulling that over.

And we're about 1 minute from LOS now. And we'll be coming
up on Madrid at 37.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, to help your thinking, the Delta-P
on that cluge meter right now is down to 2. So it's lost
2 PSI _ust in the time we've been talklngj which gives me
a feeling the heaters in that connector 303, which I've got
something connected to, are incidentally, service - heat exchanger,
that little line there, that's running to the cluge, or it's in the
hard llne that runs through the lock compartment. Or, I guess,
that when you run through the lock compartment, it also
fans around and goes down to the mol sieve and things. So, at
least, we can say - at least my guess would be, (garble) is it
isn't in the holding tank in the llne up to there, it's from that
point onward.
CC Roger. We'll talk about it a little
more at Madrid.
CDR (garble) It could be mol sieve heat exchanger
A, since it's open.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-187/i
TIME: 06:## CDT 05:11:33 GMT
7131173

33 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has had loss of
signal. Madrid will pick up in about 3-1/2 minutes. As
we lost signal at Bermuda AI Bean was going through some
more troubleshooting on the condensate system that removes
the moisture from the cabin air. As you heard CAP COM
Hartsfield tell him overnight a troubleshooting procedure
for that system has been worked out on the ground, and
teleprlnted to the crew. And 2 hours are set aside this
morning, starting around 15 hours GMT, i0:00 a.m. central
daylight time, to troubleshoot that system. We also ran a
test on the channel B record system aboard the spacecraft.
Channel is normally the channel the crew uses to record
experiment observations between tracking stations and then
that information is dumped to the ground over the tracking
stations and brought back to Houston. The level on that
system appears to be a little bit lower than on the channel A
system. We'll continue to stay up for Madrid acquisition.
About a minute and a half away from Madrid right now.
PAO Madrid is acquiring now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for
9 minutes, and we'll be dumping the recorder at this site.
SPT Okay, Houston, another thing, we found
the SL-3 ATM log yesterday and we went ahead and wrote 4 on it,
and stuck it down in the 4 place, because we'd taken theirs,
as you know and written 3 on it and stuck it up - and made some
changes to it and stuck it in the 3 place.
CC I copy.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC188/I
Time: 06:44 CST, 05:11:44 GET
8/1/73
CDR Houston, one problem here; this morning

chow that you've given us, you called our CSM chow. Is that
the day-57 chow that's presently in the CSM, or some other
chow?
CC Stand by one.
CDR Say again.
CC Stand by, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about i minute
from LOS. Those meals should be from the first couple of
days' food. You shouldn't have to touch day 57 or any of that.
And we'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 23.
CDR Okay, we'll search around.
CC Those are meals A, B, C, and D. From
what you read down, those things should be remaining.
CDR Okay, I gather then that some of them
may be in somebody else's booth. For example, I think you
got me down for cornflakes, and I've eaten all my cornflakes,
I now.
CC That's affirmative, AI.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at ll hours
47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Madrid has loss of signal.
The next station will he Honeysuckle in 35-1/2 minutes. At
ii hours 47 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL llI MC-i89/I
TIME: 07:22 CDT 05:12:22 GMT
811173

22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the
Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle
5 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're eating breakfast.
CC Roger.
CC Go ahead.
SPT How much time we got left?
CC About 3 minutes 20 seconds.
SPT Okay, Hank. Reference to general
message 0431 Alfa, several questions that need to he
answered this morning if you're ready to copy those.
CC Roger. Go Ahead.
SPT Okay. On the question one, we're all
feeling in very good shape this morning. There's been no
scop/Dex taken by anyone since day before yesterday, as
reported on the evening status report. And the BMMD
readings are as follows: For the CDR, 6.250, 6.244, 6.251.
SPT, 5.985, 5.994, 5.990. PLT, 6.938, 6.934, 6.947.
And I think biomeds will be more happy with the smaller (garble)
about all these numbers. They asked for day 210 food update,
which was covered on last night's status report. I think
they may really have wanted the report on day 211, which I
had promised on channel B. I did have a can of apricots
that night before going to sleep. I'm not sure that ever
got reported on the evening of that day 211. And I believe
those are the only other comments on general message
0431 Alfa that have not been answered or require an answer.
Over.
CC Roger. We Copy. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. About 30 seconds to
LOS. We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 44.
signal. Science Pilot Owen Garriott reporting over this
station that the crew is in good shape today. Hawaii will
pick up Skylab in 15 minutes. At 12 hours 29 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 190/1
Time: 07:43 CST, o5:12:43 GET
B/i/73

43 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range
of the Hawaii station now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston, SPT. I'm going to voice
down some PRD readings until they get straightened out on which
of our tape recorder channels is working well. And (garble)
I am also not going to put that SMMD data back on tape recorder
channel until it's verified. If there's a 1000 or
so numbers involved, I don't llke to repeat them any more
than I have to. So here's our three PRDs for the morning.
CDR is 45021, SPT 19012, PLT 07024. Over, Hank.
CC RoGer , we copy.
SC Hank, we also transferred our PRD to their
more permanent location. The PLT's down in the sleep compartment,
the SPT's above the centrifuge, and the CDR's over by
the minus Z airlock. We'd llke to get confirmation that
that's satisfactory for us to leave them there from now on.
CC Okay. We'll work on that and also we
have a procedure we'd llke for you to run through to reconflgure
the comm. I guess we decided that channel A is the best one
to record on, so we'd llke to go over - switch over to use
channel B for alr-to-ground and channel A for record if you
want to copy this procedure down.
SPT Okay. Stand by a minute please, Hank.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, it's - the procedure we want you to
follow is in the CSM systems checklist page 4-12, paragraph F
OA alternate. And in addition to that we want to make sure
you connect up the VTR audio cable to SIA 116, switch that
over to channel A, and put the channel A switch to PTT and
switch channel B off. And also, we'd llke for you to verify
that you do have the record switch on panel 204 in A.
PLT Okay. We'll get all that done.
CC And of course, in all your checklists
from now on you'll have to reverse the A and B when it's
referred to. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Goldstone at 52.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Skylab, before we loose comm here,
also when you do put something on channel A for the first
time we'd like for you to notify us so we can get a verification
on how it's working out.
PLT Okay, we'll put another test message on
it just to make sure and the first time we dump any VTR on channel A
you might give us a confirmation on all those things.
$L-III MC 190/2
Time: 07:43 CST, 05:12:43 GET
8/1/73
CC Okay, will do.

PAO This is Skylab Control, We've had loss
of signal at Hawaii. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about
2 minutes. We'll continue to stand by. The PRD is being
discussed over Hawaii or the Personal Radiation Dosimeters,
the device that measures radiation. For the first few days
each crewman wore one of the dosimeters. They have now
removed those from their person and placed them in various
parts of the spacecraft to record radiation levels. We'll
stand by for Goldetone acquisition.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-191/I
Time: 07:50 CDT, 05:12:50 GMT
8/1/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone

9-1/2 minutes.
PAO Goldstone has acquisition now.

CC Skylab, Houston. Were you calling?
CDR Negative.
CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS,
Bermuda at 04.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-192/I
Time: 08:00 CDT, 05:13:00 GHT
8/1/73
PAO This is Skylah Control. Goldstone has

loss of signal. There is a short gap between Goldstone
and Bermuda. Skylah is at too high a latitude now, up close
to 50 degrees north, and misses the upper reaches of the
Mila station, Merrltt Island station. Bermuda will have
the spacecraft in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue to
keep this line up for this short gap between Goldstone and
Bermuda.
PAO The Flight Director now is Milton
Windler. And the Capcom is Astronaut Story Muskgrave.
CC Skylab, Houston, We have you over
Bermuda for 6 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
CDR Story, CDR. Let me get you to put
something on the schedule tomorrow, if you can. We're out
of urine bags and so we'll need some time to resupply those,
whatever housekeeping item that is. And then if you could
throw in for the CDR some time tomorrow, about 2 extra hours
of general housekeeping, I think we could really finish
this thing up in good shape.
CC Okay, we'll do it AI.
CDR We've got to make it tomorrow on Zhe
general, maybe the day after is okay, but we need that urine
beg supply tomorrow.
CC Okay.
CC And, AI, could you give us the status
on any drugs that you used yesterday, or today?
CDR CDR took one seconal last night, and
that's it.
CC Thank you.
CDR Also - Those were good breakfast menus today,
they weren't so big. This is the first morning we've
been up here - first time we've been up here that after a
meal everybody felt good. So, maybe we eat all these
little meals today, we'll really start getting in good shape.
Everybody feels real good right now. Best since we've been
here.
CC Okay. Good.
CC Skylab, LOS in 30 seconds. See you
over Canaries in 4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Skylab
space station has passed out of Bermuda's range now. However,
the Canary's Island Station will pick up Skylab in about
3 minutes. We'll continue to keep the line up for the pass
over the Canary Island Station.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-193/I
TIMEL 08:11 CDT 05:13:11 GMT
8/1/73

13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Canaries has acquisition
for 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, AOS through Canary for 9 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Okay, we're getting ready to change
the transmission to the ground to B, and the record to A.
So I guess when we come over the next site, we'll be up on
B.
CC Okay.
CDR (garble)
CDR It may even be in the middle of this
site. We're working on it now. Jack is.
CC Okay. 6 minutes to LOS.
CC Skylab, Houston. Are you there? For 30
more seconds.
PLT Roger. What part of paragraph F did
you want me to do? There's several subparagraphs. You
want me to do them all, or a specific one?
CC Just OA alternate.
PLT OA alternate. Thank you.
CC And we're going LOS in about i0 seconds.
See you over Honeysuckle at 13:58. And we'll be dumping
the tape recorders at that time.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Canary Island
station has loss of signal. Skylab over the continent of
Africa now. Honeysuckle, Australia will pick up Skylab in
about 34-1/2 minutes. Due to the problem in recording
onboard using channel B - communications channel B a switch
had been made. We'll use channel A for the recording, and
channel B will now be used for the air-to-ground over stations.
At 13 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-194/I
TIME: 08:45 CDT 05:13:45 GMT
8/1/73

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. The change of shi£t news
conference with Plight Director Chuck Lewis will begin at
9:00 a.m. in the Briefing Room at the JSC news center.
The change of shift conference inltlally had been estimated
to begin at 9:30, however, it will begin at 9:00 a.m. central
daylight time in the Briefing Room at the News Center. This
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 195/1
Time: 08:54 CDT, 05:13:54 GMT
8/1/73

54 minutes Greenwich mean time. A reminder that the change
of shift news conference with flight director Chuck Lewis
which had been estimated for 9:30 a.m. Central daylight
time is now seceduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. Central daylight
time. The news conference will begin at 9:00 a.m. about
five minutes from now in the news center briefing room at
the Johnson Space Center. During the last pass over the
United States following breakfast crew commander A1 Bean
reported that was the first time that the crew has felt good
after a meal. Instead of eating three large meals today,
the crew is on a schedule which gives them up to six light
meals which flight surgeons feel provide adequate nutrition
in caloric requirements. Today's menu which started with
cornflakes and pears for the commander and includes filet mignon
for his fourth meal of the day and a snack of biscuits and jam
throughout the day for Bean. Doctors report that the crew
should be able to return to the regular menus scheduled
tomorrow. Yesterday the crew had reported they felt they
could not eat all their meals and asked the doctors to
recommend a modified menu. Today's light snacks are adequate
for crew health and stamina the doctors here at Mission
Control Center report. In the menus which were sent up in
a teleprinter load show that Bean will have five meals
today. Science Pilot Owen Garriot will have four, and the
Pilot Jack Lousma will have six. We're coming up on acquisition
at Honeysuckle. We'll stand hy with the line up live for
that pass with the change of shift news conference to follow
immediately after the Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for
i0 minutes.
CDR Loud and clear, Houston.
CDR How do you hear us channel - How do you
hear us channel B?
CC Loud and clear.
CDR Okay. We have to put the volume controls
on our VOX up about 80 degrees to get the equivalent volume
that we were getting on channel A. So channel A, I mean
B is apparently degraded in some way_
CC Okay, well my sample of one is I'm reading
you a lot clearer than I was on the other channel.
CDR Well good. Volume control has to be
up around 11:30, where previously it only had to be around
9 o'clock.
CC Okay, and understand you do have the VTR
switched over on SIA 116.
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Time: 08:54 CST, O5:13:54 GET
8/1/73
PLT You bet.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Story, Just to make sure, my work-
llst today shows my first half gear is blomed activation
and the checklist calls it mid activation. There is no
biomed in the correlation table so l'm working on mid activation.
CC That's the same thing Owen. And if you
recorded anything on channel A we're commencing a dump right
now we'd like to look at it.
SPT Uh, yes, hold up Just a minute, Story - -
CDR (garble) hold, put some on right now.
CC We've started the dump, hold on.
SPT Now if you could hold it up for Just a
minute Story, _tm sorry we didn't get it on.
CC The dump's already commenced. We'll
catch it next time.
SPT Roger.
SPT Okay. If you can't hold it up why we'll Just
put some on channel A after this LOS. Is that your start
procedure?
CC That'll be fine, sir.
SPT Okay.
See you over at Hawaii in i0 minutes.
signal. We'll turn this line over to the change of shift
news conference with fllght director Chuck Lewis. Hawaii
acquires in about i0 minutes. We'll tape communications
through that station if the news conference is still in
process. At 14 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL IIl MC-196/1
TIME: 09:17 CDT 05:14:17 GMT
811173

17 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on
Hawaii acquisition. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab. AOS through Hawaii for i0
minutes.
SPT Say, Story, one thing that might be of
interest to your biomed people. In the checkout of the MA
here, over on page 12-3, When I turned the main power on,
it only took about 3 seconds for the ION pump press light to
go out, although we could have had up to a minute. And
when you turn the ION pump power on, it takes only about
3 seconds for the MA inhibit status light to go out. And after
turning the electronic power on, I never even saw the
MS inhibit status light on. It was out almost immediately.
It looks as if there had been a very good vacuum kept in the
spectrometer - mass spectrometer during the interval
here since mission i, And we've now completed on down through
where we've got the MS loop running closed. Over.
CC Okay, sounds real good, Owen. Thank you.
SPT The CO adjusts were a little bit high,
but not far. It didn't take very much touching up to bring
the CO adjusts back in cal.
CC Copy, Owen.
you over Goldstone in 2 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii had
loss of signal. Goldstone will acquire the spacecraft in
about a minute and a half. We'll keep the line up and
continue to stand by.
END OF TAPE
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SL III MC-197/I
TIME: 09:28 CDT 05:14:28 GMT
8/1/73
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone

for 8 minutes.
CC And no need to acknowledge. We're
happy with the PRD locations.
SPT Say, Story. We put another test
message on channel A.
CC Okay thanks. We'll be dumping over
Bermuda at 14:41.
SPT I wonder if we ought to go put a test
message on the VTR and get a couple of minutes of that, Just
to make sure we get some audio on that, too?
SPT Did you get my last question, Story?
CC Yes slr. We've Just been working it
over, I we would appreciate, at your option, some VTR and
some voice on the VTR.
SPT Okay, we won't have any VTR running,
that'll take a little too long riBht now, but I can run
up there and turn it on and then just put a llttle bit of
audio from -
CC Okay.
SPT A llttle bit of audio on channel A, so you
can check to make sure you got the audio channel working, even
though there's no video.
CC Okay. That'll be fine, Owen.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 20
seconds. We'll see you over Bermuda in 4 minutes and we
will be dumping the tape recorders over Bermuda.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone has
loss of signal. Bermuda will pick up Skylab in about 3-1/2
minutes. Skylab too far north on this revolution to be
acquired by the Texas and Merrltt Island stations. We'll
continue to keep the llne up through this short gap between
Goldstone and Bermuda and stand by for communications when
we reach Bermuda.
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CC Skylab, we're AOS over Bermuda for

8 minutes.
CC And Owen, to check out the voice recording
on the VTR, we do need a video input.
SPT Okay, we°ll do it later - when we do
our TV seE.
CC And if you're pressed for time now_ we
can pick it up at about 17:00.
SPT Too fast. With only an hour to put out
the food, it's going to take me 2-I/2_ probably. We got
all this overage we got to reposition.
CC Okay. And one other question on the
comm. Is the handheld mike plugged into any SIA?
SPT No.
CC And has not been?
SPT No.
CC Thank you.
CDR Are you there, Houston?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, Story_ Itm not sure about the
tape recorders_ I'm Just going to put this strictly to you.
S149_ the orientation is as follows: I retracted it, side
Bravo was at 12 o'clock. There was only one way to install that
thing, so I assume that they already have that information on
the ground.
CC Okay_ copy.
CC Skylabm we're going LOS in 30 seconds.
See you over Canaries in 2 minutes.
CDR We'll be looking for you.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Canaries will pick up Skylab in about a
minute and then there's overlapping coverage with Ascension
Island tracking station. We'll continue to stand by.
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Time: 09:51 CDT, 05:14:51 GMT
8/1/73
CC Skylab, we've got you AOS through

Canaries and Ascension for 17 minutes. Wetll be dumping
the recorders over Ascension at 14:59.
CC Skylab, after this pass, we'll be
coming up with a 30-mlnute LOS. We're looking ahead to
the day's activities. We'd llke a how goes it report from
you.
CDR Say again, Houston.
CC We'd llke a status report on your
morning activities.
CDR Owen's Just about finished with the
med activation, l_m still in the midst of the food transfer.
One other thing that I think would be good_ about 2 or 3 days
from now, whenever they quit sending up special menus, then we'll
need a couple of hours to stow all this overage food
somewhere and label it and the llke. We've got a lot of it
all over the place in back.
CC Wet11 get you that.
PLT Okay. Sorry to hear the answer the
question the EREP guys gave on the malf procedure Alfa. The
number of (garble) from the thermal focus tee to the focus (garble)
is 15 lens and 16 (garble).
CC Copied that, Jack.
CC Skylab, we're coming up on a 1 minute
keyhole.
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CC And we're back with you, Skylab.

CDR Okay, Story. Got a question for the
food people.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I put - finished putting out the food
in the big cans and the little cans and I started to put out
the beverages and I've looked for red beverage can i is missing.
I've got red beverage can 2 et cetera. All the little slots
are filled in the food storage, it's Just doesn't seem to
be there. Also in two, it starts with day 7, as apposed
to day 5.
CC We'll work it, AI.
CDR Okay, Story, we found it. It's listed
under beverage 3. Day 5 is in beverage 3, no strain now.
CC Okay, you're all straight. Understand
there's no more questions on that?
CDR No, they didn't mislabel the can. No
trouble.
CC Okay.
you over Carnarvon at 15:34.
loss of signal. Carnarvon will pick up Skylab in 23 minutes.
During this pass A1 Bean reported that the Science Pilot
Owen Garriott was Just about finished with the biomedical
activation. Following that will be the first run of the
M131 experiment with pilot Jack Lousma as the subject and
Garrlott as the observer. The MI31 is the human vestibular
function, and for this run today the chair will not be
rotated. The subject will sit in the chair and move his
head but the chair will not be spun around as in the normal
131 run. Later today in the afternoon Garrlott will be
the subject for the vestibular experiment and Lousma will be the
observer. And again it will be only the head movements,
not the rotation. The present time Jack Lousma is conducting
some malfunction procedures on the S1 - on the S192 experiment
that - that's the multlspectral scanner, part of the EREP
Earth Resources experiment package. With this procedure
he's attemping to reeallbrate about three of the channels
on that scanner, there are a number of channels, three of
which appear to be somewhat out of calibration. We
experienced this during the last manned Skylab mission
also. A - a checkout of the entire Earth Resources
experiment package is scheduled for later this afternoon
with the first EREP pass of this mission expected to come
later this week. Crew reports they feel good as they become
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better adapted to their environment and less susceptible to

motion sickness. Instead of their three regular large meals
today they are eating up to six lighter meals. And later
this afternoon some additional medical experiments will
be conducted, the M092 lower body negative pressure, and
the M171 metabolic activity. For those runs Garriott will
be the subject and Bean will be the observer. Skylab's
about 21-i/2 minutes away from acquisition at Carnarvon.
We'll be back up Just prior to that pass. At 15 hours
12 minutes Greenwlcb mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-201/I
TIME: 10:32 CDT 05:15:32 GMT
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32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon about to acquire
the spacecraft. We have overlapplng coverage through
Honeysuckle. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab. We're AOS through Carnarvon
for 6 minutes. We'll be coming up on a keyhole in i minute.
CDR Okay, and I've finished putting the
food out and I'm working on the condensate dump malf
procedures at the moment. And I'm on step S, waiting for the
condensate Delta P gage to build up.
CC Okay, thanks, AI.
CDR Jack's nearly finished with that EREP
check and I think he found something to question. I'ii let him
tell you about it in a few minutes. He's almost finished.
CC Okay.
CDR He might want to talk with one of them, so you
may have them listening in.
PLT Hello Story. You got some EREP guys
listening?
CC Go Jack.
PLT Okay, I went through (garble) procedures
requested, and I - we failed step ii. When you look at the
core detector as it's positioned in the one g trainer, it
turns out that the two screws holding the detector down
on the right side are both all the way down to their
shoulders. And I have turned the feeler gage in and the
detector is held down more tightly at the top bolt than it
is at the bottom. It turns out that you can get 3/1000
of an inch starting at 1 inch from the top. And as you
go downward, the gap gets bigger. At the lowest extremity
I was able to insert the 3/1000-inch feeler gage plus my
sleep cue card that I carry around in by little blue book.
And (garble) the lower part as reviewed in the one g
trainer, the lower part being the section that has the
electronics and the switching package in them.
CC Can you remember the number on the
screw. Was that number 4 on page A-3?
PLT Okay. The side where screws number
2 and 3 are located are both tight. Now, screws number
i and 4 are the ones that are all the way bottomed out.
If you go about 1 inch and you look at the drawing in figure ]
on page A-3 in the malfunction procedures, if you go 1 inch
to the left from screw 4, you start picking up 3/1000 of
an inch gap. If you continue further left past screw i and
all the way past the hold-down plate, right up against the
curved part of the preamplifier electronics, that's where you're
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able to sllp in the 3/1000 inch feeler gage plus the sleep
checklist cue card that I carry around in my little
blue book. You copy all of that? You understand it?
CC Yes, Sir. Copy it and understand it.
PLT Okay. I'm going to put the lld back
on and (garble) you guys regroup.
CC How about step 4? Is the D wire loose?
Is the Doer loose, Jack?
PLT Negative. The only step we failed
was number ii. I checked 4 and that's tight.
CC Thanks a lot.
CDR The Delta P in the holding tank is 4.25.
CC Okay, we got it and press right on
with step 4, AI.
CDR Okey-doke.
PAO This is Skylab Control. A1 Bean is
troubleshooting the condensate system. The system that
removes moisture from the cabin air, and that's the
system we've had problems with the last several days. A
new series of procedures, troubleshooting procedures were
transmitted to the crew on the teleprinter during the
night. He's going through those now. About a 2 hour
period on the Flight Plan set aside for troubleshooting
that system. Jack Lousma -
CC We're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over
Guam in 6 minutes.
CDR Okay. till waiting for the heater
to warm up so we can dump the condensate tank.
CC Okay.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle

has loss of signal. We'll pick up Guam in 6 minutes. Jack
Lousma is continuing to troubleshoot the S192 multispectral
seanner_ trying to realign_ recallbrate several of the
channels in that experiment. That would put Lousma a little
behind the flight plan timeline at this time. Flight Plan
shows that the MI31 experlmentj a human vestibular function,
should have started about 15 hours GMT_ which is some
40 minutes behind on the timeline for that experiment. However,
about 2 hours was allowed for that experiment_ includes a
little pad time. He and the science pilot, Owen Garrlottp
should be getting to the vestibular function experiment
shortly. We'll come back up at Guam. At 15 hours 44 minutes
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47 minutes Greenwich mean time, standing by for communications
through Guam.
SPT Hello, Story; l'm over working on the
MA cal number 1 procedures right now. I think that that's
really a part of mid activation . Although I've finished that
section on mid activation, I have not finished the section
on MA cal number i, and I'm still working away on that.
CC Thanks, Owen,
you over Hawaii in 8 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of Guam's range now. Hawaii will pick up the Spacecraft in
7 minutes. Owen Garrlott still busy activating the biomedical
experiments aboard Skylab at this time. We'll come back up
Just prior to the Hawaii pass. At 15 hours 51 minutes,
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56 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by at
Hawaii for a 4-1/2 minute pass.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii
for 4 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, Houston. Over on page 9-8 of
SWS systems checklist. When the blatter was empty, I
put the condensate tank pressure valve to vacuum, thought
I'd made a mistake, so I put it back to DUMP but still
I hadn't, so I put it back to vacuum. And the Delta-P now
is stabilized. Let me tell you where. Well, maybe it's not.
It's at 4.1 now, and slowly climbing. I'ii wait a few minutes.
CC Okay. That's a good idea, AI. And
we're looking at that on the ground.
CDR ok ay.
CDR It's 4.4 now, and slowly climbing.
CC Copy.
CDR Now, in your note, you indicated that
I'm supposed to leave the condensate tank press valve in vacuum.
How about the other valve on - in paragraph three there, on
page 9-8. Do you want me to configure them Just as it shows,
all the way down the llne, or stop right where I am at the
moment?
CC Leave that one in the vacuum position,
AI, and the others in the checklist position.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. t's been steady at 4.4 for
quite a little while. I'm going to go ahead and finish
that paragraph.
CC Okay. Press on.
CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS. See you
over Goldstone at 16:09.
CDR Okay.
CDR Well, one thing puzzles me. You want
me to leave that in vacuum, yet you want me to close
the vent valve. I'm going to leave the vent valve open
until I see you next time.
CDR Affirmative in that you want me to Just
hold - leave the vent valve open?
CC Shut the vent valve, AI.
CDR Okeydoke.
of signal at Hawaii. Goldstone will acquire spacecraft in
6 minutes. At 16 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC205/I
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PA0 This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

7 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be within range
of the Goldstone station shortly. We'll stand by for
communications there.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Goldstone for
7 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to help you work this
malf, AI. Could you verify that the press valve is in vacuum and
the water valve is in fill.
CDR You're Eoing to have to wait a few
minutes, you're cutting in and out.
CDR Have we got a good lockup now?
CC I'm reading you loud and clear. How are
you reading me?
CDR Hello, Houston. How do you read now?
CC Reading you loud and clear A1.
CDR Okay, we have a (garble). What did you
say again?
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay, l'm reading you loud and clear now,
AI.
CDR Okay, you asked me a question which I
could not hear because we weren't locked up good.
CC Okay, looks llke we got good comm now.
We're working this condensate problem with you down here.
We'd like a verification that the press valve is in vacuum
and the water valve is in fill.
CDR You got it. That's what it is, and the
dump line is disconnected.
CC Okay, and the fill line disconnected
too?
CDR That's affirm. It has not been connected
today.
CC And what's the position of the bladder,
AI?
CDR I was Just going to say it's full empty,
and since the last 7 minutes, the Delta P in the tank is gone
and let me tell you from where - which was 4.4, now it's about
3.95. Let me check.
CC And we're looking at it and concur, AI.
CDR Okay, now I'm not sure, maybe it has lost
a little bit of it as I disconnected the quick disconnect
for the dump llne, but I don't think so.
CDR Seems to be holding pretty steady at
3.95. It's conceivable and when I disconnected that disconnect,
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it somehow dropped those 3 or 4 tenths.

CC Okay, that's possible, AI. We'd like
to just sit here and watch it through the rest of this
Goldstone pass.
CDR Okay, I'Ii keep an eye on it with you.
SPT Story, SPT. I'd like to give you some
information about a problem I've had on the med activation.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT I've finished now the tad activation
and going on to MA cal number i, and went through the first
procedures on the MA cal number i, have the pump hooked up
to the hose and then to the inspiration spirometer inlet. And
it went through the first calibration wherever the eal pumps set
at 1-1/2 meters pumping 5 times and I have some numbers
which I don't like particularly well. And then the volume
was 26.7 on the first loop. However, then I tried the cycle
reset and (garble) the cl pump again ten times into the
cycle reset but somehow or other there is now a pressure
building up inside the cal pump and into the inspiration
spirometer. And I can only press that handle down about
2 times and that pressure is not released somehow inside the
exspirometer. And so I've be unable to proceed them beyond
that point. I'ii give you my readings on the first eal
there. 02 (garble) was 4.037, ratio, 0.231, (garble) minute
volume, 26.7, MA C02 was 0.9. I'm not toe pleased at those
readings on the first cal, and I was unable to do the second eal
because of this pressure buildup. Perhaps you could give me some
advice as to - what's wrong particularly, or how to get around it.
Over.
CC Okay, we'll work on that. We're going
LOS at this point. We'll pick you up in i minute over Texas.
of signal at Goldstone. Texas will be picking up here in
the next few seconds. We'll continue to stand by.
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CC And Skylab, we're back with you for

9 minutes.
CC And CDR, we'd like a verification from
you that the heat exchanger isolation valve A and B are
both closed.
CC That's on both mol sieves.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We'd like a verification both mol
sieves, the heat exchanger A and B isolation valves are
closed.
CDR They are both - all four that is -
closed.
CC Roger. And proceed to step 9 now, AI.
CDR Okay. Going to 9.
CDR It's been holding at 395 for
quite a while now, hadn't it?
CC That's verified.
CDR I guess it did decrease when I did
the - redisconnect. Golng to step 9.
CDR Okay. It's connected.
CC Roger.
CDR Well, it dropped down to 1 so far.
CC We're looking at it.
CDR And it's continuing to decrease,
unfortunately. Course maybe it's Just taking up some water
in the llne already.
CC Okay. We're looking at that, AI, and
we've got a regroup here for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Could you look at the bladder position
for us.
CDR You bet. The bladder position has a big
bubble in it and you cannot tell, against the black bladder
whether it's water or air. But it's about the same type
bubble that I reported day 2 when we were trying to
perform this the first time. It may he the same (garble).
I take that back it;s a little bit bigger than it was then.
CC Okay. I've got four steps here for
you, AI.
CC You ready to - -
CDR Go ahead, I'ii copy.
CC One, Disconnect the fill QD. Go back
and do steps 4 and 5 again. Then disconnect the gas
separator and then repeat step 9.
CDR I'm not sure I know where the gas
separator is.
CC It's behind panel 217.
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CDR Okay. Going to work on it right now.

CC RoE.
CC And AI, no need to acknowledge_ but it's
Just the one connector in the middle of the separator.
CDR Oh yeah. I knnw which one you're think-
ing about, now. Okay. (garble) AOS end, Story?
CC We're going LOS in about 4 minutes and
we'll be picking you up over Ascension at 16:58.
CDR Thank you.
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CDR Let's wait a few more minutes [or the

heaters.
CC Okay.
CDR I can disconnect the gas separator before
I do steps 4 and 5, can't I?
CC That's affirm, AI.
CDR Okay. Center connector removed.
CC Roger.
have you over Ascension in 9 minutes. And, Owen, we'll
have some answers for you at that time.
CDR Okay. We're starting to dump now.
CC Roger.
CDR Dump looking complete.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab beyond
the range of Bermuda. Ascension will acquire the spacecraft
in about 8 minutes. At 16 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean
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8/i/73

Ascension.
Ascension for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay. And I'm in the middle of step 9, and
you can see the prep. By the way, when I made that disconnect,
it did drop a couple of tenths. So we'll see what happens. After
connectlon, I mean.
CC Okay. Just stand by on that for
a second, AI. And we're working on tomorrow and the next
day's Flight Plan. We've got a couple of things we'd llke
to discuss with you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC There those 2 hours of general
housekeeping you wanted, tomorrow or the next day. Is it
all right if we schedule the PLT for that tomorrow?
CC Or did you need that time for yourself?
CDR No, I think you can do with the PLT,
and we'll just make up a llst tonight. That's okay, we've
got a lot of things to do.
CC Okay. We'll give him 2 hours for that
tomorrow. And we're still planning for the EVA for day 8.
How's that sound with you?
CDR Perfect.
CC Okay.
CDR But, now, you've got to give us some
good time, day 7 to get these poles and things out. I know
we're not going to fool with the bags. But I'd llke to
get these poles and things out, assemble them, look at them,
and look at all the rest of the gear, and put it in the lock
compartment, and make sure it all fits - because some of
it's been up here a while. And some of it we Just unpacked,
and I wouldn't he surprised if, somehow, we haven't got a few
pieces in places we don't think they are. We'd also llke
to check the grommet, and I guess that's going to take 3-1/2 hours
or so to do. That's in addition to the regular prep. That's
just a - call it a preconfiguratlon insurance.
CC Okay. And we were looking at about
3 hours for EVA prep on day 7, AI. And onboard now is the
teleprinter pad concerning day 7.
CDR Okay. I'ii go look at it. And that's
in addition - What ever prep we were planning, anyhow,
I'd like to have before that, to get that done. If we come
up with extra time, if we get finished with that early, we'll
stick it into general housekeeping and things. But we want
to make sure that those all those pieces of hardware are
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ready to go. And we know where they are.

CC Okay.
CC And did you put a cap on 303, where
you put the gaging? Have you capped that disconnect, AI?
CDR I started to do it, and decided since
if wasn't on the procedure, I would not. But I'd be glad
to do it now.
CC Yeah, let's do that, AI. And SPT,
Houston.
CDR He's listening, go.
CC Okay. I've got about 3 steps I need
him to copy here before we go over the hill.
SPT Go ahead.
CC On our - On checking out the expir - spriometer
on the HA, the things we want to verify are, that we do
have nitrogen pressure going to those valves, and that
the electronics are all right. In order to check the nitro-
gen pressure, we'd like to see that the following valves are
open. That's on panel 225, check that that valve is open.
And on panel 500, that's the ESS panel 171 valve between
the water tanks, check that that one is open. And also,
check on panel 620 and 622.
SPT Water valve is eomingj hat 303 valve
capped now.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay. 620 is open, I'ii also check
622.
CC And, after you've done that, connect
the hose to the inspiration spirometer, and the other end
of the hose to the inspiration part of the valve. And then
pump five times to see if the inspiration spirometer responds
correctly.
SPT Okay. Disconnect the expiration and
connect it to the inspiration, and pump 5 times to see if
that valve works, right?
CC That's correct. And then put the hose,
of course, on the inspiration part of the valve. So you'll
be sucking air with the pump from the inspiration spirometer.
SPT Put it to the blue inspiration
spirometer outlet, is that what you're saying?
CC That's correct.
SPT Okay. We'll get on with that. llm
over with Jack on the OGI right now. So I'ii probably finish
OGI 131 before I pick up on this.
CC That's excellent, Owen.
SC One of the things that's plagued us
from day 1 here, Story. And I guess it comes along with
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starting out with some equipment thatls been setting around

awhile, is that on every other thing that we do doesn't
exactly work llke it's suppose to. And you have to go into
a mode of trying to figure it out. Either the thing isn't
exactly where you thought, or when you get ready to check it,
it doesn't exactly checkout. So, usually that's Just what's
been adding quite a bit of time. This spirometer is no - no
bad example of it either.
CC We copy that, AI.
SPT Okay, Story. On the N2, panel 620 is
verified OPEN both knobs there. And the gas supply
is open on panel 622, which I presume is the N2 you're
talking about. I'ii have to go up and check 225 and the
water tank, and that sort of stuff later.
CC Okay. And a quick check to verify that
you do have nitrogen pressure, Owen, is to cycle the electronics
valve. And, hear, if you can listen and hear some nitrogen as
the pressure is released.
SPT Which Okay, the electronics switch all off?
CC Yes. And as long as you have the gas
supply valve on, you will, of course, be venting nitrogen
into the cabin when you have the electronics off. Just
cycle that once and see if you hear a hiss.
SPT Okay, I heard it hiss the first time.
Itll have to give it a fairly lltt]e time to build up pressure.
CC Roger. And, A1, we need you to pull the
fill line QD.
SPT Okay. I've not gotten the second hiss
out of those valves. I don't know how long it takes for
them to build pressure back up again.
CC Pull the fill line QD and leave it on
until Carnarvon. We're going LOS at this time. We'll see
you at Carnarvon at 17:08. And we'll be dumping the tape
recorders at that time.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension does
have loss Of signal. Very busy pass, as the spacecraft
communicator, Story Muskgrave, calling up procedures up to
both A1 Bean, who's working on the condensate system problem,
and Owen Garriott, who is involved in troubleshooting the
metabolic analyzer, part of the MI71 medlcal experiment.
Carnarvon will acquire Skylab in 20 minutes. We'll come
back up then. t 16 hours 47 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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5 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
Carnarvon soon. Today's activity on the HI31 human
vestibular experiment is described in the Flight Plan as
a mock rotation and it's designed not to apply too much
stress to the crewmen. This is standard medical protocol
for this first run. And it is identical to the procedures
used on Skylab II. This first run on this experiment calls
for the crewman to sit in the chair and move his head from
side to side until he has onset of symptoms, such as cold
sweat, dizziness and stomach awareness. The chair is not
rotated during this first exercise. Flight Surgeons de-
scribe this initial activity as a conservative approach,
one which is standard protocol for this experiment. Science
Pilot Owne Garriott and Pilot Jack Lousma are scheduled to
perform this experiment today. We're coming up on Carnarvon
now. We'll stand by for communications through that station.
Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger. How do you like the condensate
loop at the moment?
CC Okay. The words around we don't llke
it at all.
CDR Yeah. I agree with you. Looks llke
some of those heart lines.
CC Okay. At present, AI, We're thinking
the leak is in the line going to the mol sieve and we've
got a reqroup procedure here, but at present we'd like you
to do steps 4, 5, and 6 again.
CDR 4, 5, and 6 again, okay. And by the
way, how do you know it isn't the line that runs from the
fitting back there at the 393 panel up towards the front end
of the lock compartment and then over to the condensate tank?
CC We meant all the plumbing, AI, and that
llne is a possibility.
CDR Okay. And now you want 3, 4, 5, which
are on page 9, 7, and 8. Will do.
CC Steps 4, 5, and 6, AI, on the message.
CDR Oh, okay,
CDR We were talking about it last night, and
that's we were afraid, too. We ran a couple of little checks
the day before on our own, by disconnecting at several
points along these lines and we klnda of felt that's exactly
where it was. But we weren't sure because we don't know
where these lines go. They go behind panels and you don't
know which way they come out. So we felt it wasn't either
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of the tanks that it wasn't either of the heat exchangers,

because we had those cut off, so we figured it had to be
the lines.
CC Okay. AI.
CDR The only fix for that is to use this
putty we've got and go around and fill them or is there
some other way to do it?
CC We're afraid that's probably the next
step, if indeed we isolate it where we think it is.
CDR Okay. The thing that worries me, just a
little bit is like I say is there's a lot of fittings
around where you can see them, and it looks to me like
there's a bunch of fittings where you can't see them. ou
can't get to them.
CDR Okay, dump complete. I'ii finish it up.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, I'd like to talk to my wife on
the private comm sometime tonight, if you can set it up.
Whichever pass you think is a good one. If we got one
coming across the states where I'm not going to be tied
up, I'd sure like to do it then, if you could get her and
make sure she's home.
CC Okay, AI.
CDR Thank you.
CDR You'll also have to send us up a small
procedure on how to work that VHF correctly. We think we
know, but a little checklist would help. Maybe we can post
it there.
CC We'll get you one.
CDR Also, we noticed when we switched over to
using B down-llnk, and went to the procedures in the CSM
checklist it left the intercom switch on in the command
module. We thought that shouldn't have been correct so we
turned it off. Is that okay? Seems to be working okay.
CC Was that panel 6 or 9, AI?
CDR CDR's panel.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. It looks llke we got the maximum
Delta P here. I'ii continue.
CC Okay. We'd llke a verification that
the fill QD is disconnected and that the dump line QD is
disconnected.
CDR It's not. The dump llne is on. I'ii
take it off right now, if you llke.
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CC And on these QDs, AI, when you disconnect

them be sure to verify that the poppet is flush.
CDR Now this time through, do you want me to
put the pressure valve to CLOSE or leave it in VENT as you
have before?
CC Leave it in vent now.
CDR Ok ay.
CC And I've got about 4 or 5 -
CDR We won't be using the heater anymore. I going
to turn it off.
CC That's fine, AI. nd the vent valves
closed too, isn't it?
CC And when you're ready I've got one more
thing for you to do, and then about four verifiers.
CDR Okay, now let me tell you where all
these things are. We got the vent valve off and the heater
off. We got both disconnects disconnected, and the poppets
are flush. We got the H20 valve in FILL and the pressure
valve is in VACUUM.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. And standing by.
CC Okay, would you cap on 393; the condensate
dump port.
CDR Verified ON.
CC Okay, and on 316, that the vacuum source
is closed. Verify.
CC And we're going LOS here in about i0
seconds. We'll see you over at Guam in 2 minutes.
19 minutes Greenwich mean time. We'll continue to stay up
during this brief gap in coverage between Carnarvon and Guam.
Guam will acquire in Just a little over a minute.
CC And Skylab we've got you over Guam for
i0 minutes.
CDR Roger. The answer to 316 is, it's off
and they - or closed_ I can't remember which it says; and
it's capped.
CC Goodj and I got three other verifys
we may have hit before.
CDR Go ahead.
CC One's a cap on 303.
CDR It's on.
CC Verify the gas separator hose QD is disconnected
and the - -
CDR Is disconnected. Let me check the poppet.
CC Okay.
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CDR Looks okay to me, but you know those are

hard to tell. They could have a small leak and you'd never
know it.
CC And I'm sure this is true, but verify
the water isolation valves on the heat exchangers mol sieves
are closed.
CDR Right. They're closed tight as can
get them. Four of them.
CC Okay, AI. Now connect the fill QD and
do it as rapidly as possible so as not to let air into
the system.
CDR Okay.
CC And if you can, give us a mark.
CDR MARK. 2 seconds ago.
CC Could you make and remake it, AI?
CDR I Just pushed in on it, and it didn't
lock and then I pushed in again. Now I don't know whether
it actually opened the poppet or not.
CC Okay, just hang on where you are, AI.
CDR I' ii be right here.
CDR One thing I noticed, I got today an item
called SlO0 film stow, and I look in the book and it's got
a mark near by it in the index. And I'm looking at the EREP
checklist, and then I go over to page 6-1 where it's supposed
to be - oh, it is there it is. I found it. My eyes aren't
too good today.
CC Okay,
CC AI, we'd like to leave the condensate
system in the present configuration and watch it a while.
So you're free to press on with lunch or whatever you'd llke.
CDR Okay, good.
CDR If you want it, before I go, I could
bring up the Delta P on that thing for you.
CC It's not necessary, AI.
CDR Okay.
CDR We're going to be eating lunch a little
late today because of this 131 is still in process, and then
after that, we'll eat it, and put it on put this TV on VTR.
CC Okay, if you're still near the STS, we
might run a comm check to try to Bet you some more volumes
in the SIAs.
CDR Sounds good, go ahead,
CC Okay, on panel 200, instrumentation sys
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CC And panel 200 instrumentation system,

the audio systems, buffer amp i circuit breaker open.
CDR Hold on.
CC Let me know when it's open and I'll give
you a long count.
CDR Okay. It's opened.
CC Okay. Here we go. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, i0.
CDR (garble) new. It's Just llke it was with
it closed.
CC Okay. Close that circuit breaker and
then on panel 200 right next to it open up the buffer amp 2
circuit breaker.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Roger. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, i0.
CDR Nothing changed.
CC Okay, thank you and then close that
circuit breaker, the buffer amp 2 circuit breaker.
CDR Both closed. All intercom boxes now
taped to about ii:00 position, I've noticed.
CC Roger.
CDR Give us a long count now, Story.
CC i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, I0.
CDR On 131, at least it's still up at 11:00.
CC Okay.
SC (garble) I'm (garble) down in the experiment
compartment (garble).
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC You've probably moved away from that area. If
possible, we'd like you to remate the condensate dump llne
QD.
CDR I'll go remate the dump line QD, and by
the way, it has improved the volume down here on 702.
It's Just getting up by the ATM. I don't understand
why, but things are better down in the workshop now. I'm
going to go mate the dump QD.
CC Rog.
CDR Dump QD is mated.
CC Okay, thanks AI. We're going to be
going LOS here in i0 seconds. See you over Goldstone at 17:47.
CDR Okay.
SPT Story, we still haven't verified that
we've got a channel A record capability, have we?
CC That's affirmative, e have verified
that Owen.
SPT Oh Okay. We got a bunch of stuff we can

put on there if it's up and working well.
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CC Okay, put it on.

32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal.
We are getting television at the present time, from the
Texas station. Television that was recorded at Texas over
the last pass. I believe this is as a result of a request
we made earlier today to the crew to check out their audio
channel with the video. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in
about 14 minutes. Crew Commander AI Bean working through
most of this Guam pass, still on the troubleshooting
procedure for the condensate system. The ground has asked
him to hold up on that for the time being. Told him to go
and have lunch if he'd like. The experts here would like
to study the situation some more. Bean indicated that the
other two crewmen, Jack Lousma and Owen Garrlott are now
performing the MI31 experiment. The human vestibular
function. On this first run, Jack Lousma is the subject,
Owen Garrlott is the observer. On a later run today they're
scheduled to switch roles. We have not yet had another
report from Owen Garriott who prioz to the beginning of the
131 experiment was troubleshooting the metabolic analyser,
part of the MITI metabolic activity experiment. The crew
feeling better today on a menu of several, up to six, lighter
meals instead of the three regular large meals. Later this
afternoon the first checkout of the Earth Resources
experiment package scheduled. We'll come back up at
Goldstone. At 17 hours 36 minutes Greenwich mean time
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Go idst one.
CC Skylab, we have you stateside for
16 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston. Which station coverage
are we coming through now?
CC Say again, Skylab.
SPT What ground station are we over now?
CC Goldstone.
SPT Roger. I didn't hear your call there.
We were Just putting our TV-3A on the VTR. We started about
5 or I0 minutes ago. If you'd like 1'11 go turn the VTR off
and see if you can get it direct.
CC Okay. We're picking it up direct in
2 minutes, Owen.
SPT Okay. If I turn the VTR off, I don't
know whether you can get it in parallel with the VTR or if
the VTR swicth has to be off for you to get it.
CC We can get it in real time, while you're
recording, Owen.
SPT Okay. Well I'll just go ahead and turn
VTR off right now, because you'll be picking it up direct
in just a moment. And we do have a handheld mike, also,
plugged in down here. So, we'll be giving you a little voice
with it. I'ii go up and turn the VTR off now.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll be picking
up this live television through the Texas station. We do
have lines up with that station, bringing it into Houston.
PAO Just a few seconds away from acquisition.
CC And, Skylab. We're looking at you
eating in the wardroom.
CC Skylab. We are receiving real time TV.
CDR (garble) TV.
CC Yes, sir, we are.
CDR Okay. Did you hear voice, even though
we're talking on A on the TV when ah - real time?
CDR Of course, right now we're on B so you
hear that. I was just wondering since we recorded on
the VTR on A, what happens there.
CC Now, we can't hear the voices on the VTR,
AI, but we are getting you real time.
CDR Okay. Well, what do you want us to do, stay
with our voices on VTR, or switch over and talk to you on B?
CC We'll take you real time here.
CDR I'm not sure what you meant. Stay just
like we are?
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CC That's affirmative. And could you verify

that after our comm check you did close both buffer amp circuit
breakers?
CDR Sure did.
CC Okay.
CC And, Owen, how did you make out with
the MA?
SPT Okay, Story. I haven't had a chance
to check out the MA any further. But, there was a N2 valve
closed up on panel 225. And after opening that valve, then
the exspiration valve did cycle down on the MA. So, I've
not completed that MA checkout, but I' much more confident,
now that things will work right.
CC Okay. That ought to be the problem.
SPT Okay. I've got a handheld mike here,
also, plugged into channel A. llm wondering if that's going
on to the VTR, or on to our down-link video?
CC We'll start the VTR running now on, and
that'll give us a check of the audio.
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8/1/73
CC Owen, there's no need to acknowledge,

but we'd like to put off the MA cal to another day. And
I'ii just have you press on with the Flight Plan, including
MO92 (garble) 171.
SPT Understand, but I've nearly got us
halfway through that final MA cal procedure; and if it's
not too much of a problem, I'd like to sort of finish it
up instead of leaving it halfway in limbo. I'ii still
try to get the other Job done, too.
CC Okay, we concur with that, Owen.
CC Owen, we'd like to verify that on the
MA, that you are not in one of the cal gas modes.
SPT I'ii go check that again, but I'm confident
that I turned the bottle off.
CC Okay. We'd like to be sitting in cabin
air when you are away from the MA for any length of time.
CC We're noticing down here that nothing
stops Jack from eating.
PLT You can talk all you want to, but first
things first. Food taste a lot better today.
CDR Okay, Houston, How do you read here?
CC About 4 by 5.
SPT Okay, we are using a handheld micro-
phone now. We were trying to rig us up a device, rig it
up in such a way that we could Just have an open micro-
phone, without a lot of feedback. But it turns out, the
way we got it rigged now, even though we got a hand-
held mike, we have to hold our hand on the key up here, also.
We cannot get that off. I suppose I can Just hold it in my
hand and bring it down here. This will do it. Okay, we
now have a portable microphone that we can use and as you
can see, we're just about to finish up our lunch here. I'm
a little behind, I think. AI, for some reason, thinks that
eating upside down was a more convenient location today.
And just to make our meal more pleasan,t we've selected some
special music, especially for keeping the CDR happy and in
a good frame of mind. (Garble) up here too. (Music)
I'm not sure you appreciate that as much as Jack and I
might. That's the music he used to dance to, back when
he was a kid, back there in the old days. See, they're
older than me.
CC Skylab, can you read-
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CC Skylab, can you read me with that mike

keyed?
PLT What did you say?
CC Can you read me with your mike keyed?
PLT Yes, sir.
CC Okay. We've handed over to Bermuda and
we've loss the TV but we appreciated it.
CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS in about
i0 seconds. We'll pick you up over Carnarvon at 18:47.
PLT Okay, Houston.
4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal.
We had 1lye televislon all the way through the Texas pass,
losing the picture as passed out of the Texas range and into
the Bermuda acquisition. Watched the crew eat lunch. They
ate rather heartily with crew commander Bean even demonstrating
his proficiency in eating while hanging upside down. They
obvlously feel much better today. From the remarks of
Owen Garriott he seems to feel that the metabolic analyzer
will function properly and after lunch he will press ahead
with finishing up the calibration of the medical experiments.
And then this afternoon a run on the metabolic experiment and
the lower body negative pressure is scheduled with Garrlott as
the subject and Bean as the observer. One run of the M131,
the human vestibular function, has been completed Just
prior to lunch with Jack Lousma as the subject on that
experiment. Here on the ground, the experts are continuing
to look at the condensate system problem and will decide
what to do next later on today. They will not have A1 Bean
continue troubleshooting that situation at this time. The
next station to pick up Skylab will be Carnarvon in 40 minutes.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-I[I MC-215/1
Time: 13:45 CDT, 05:18:45 GMT
8/1/73
pAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be in contact
through the Carnarvon Station shortly. Wetll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon.
WeVve got you for 6 minutes.
CC And, AI, we've got some information
concerning your SO73 prep.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, AI. When youVve got the photometer
extended for the DAC film installed, do a visual preflight
of the photometer for any obvious damage. Including taking
a look at the antlsolar sunshleld, be sure their rigid
and not dented. And look down into the sunshleld.
CDR Okay.
CDR Anything else?
CC No, thatWs all for SO73. And if you
see anything significant, let us know.
CDR Sure will. And on this film low - film
stow, which I'm doing now. I Just put them on the reel, I
don't load them, do I? I have to take off the tape to get
them on the reel, and then I Just extended the film dqwn in
there an inch or two and just leave it, is that correct?
CDR EREP film.
CC Stand by 1.
CC We concur with that, AI.
CDR Okay. I1m golng back up and work on it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The SO73 experi-
ment is the Gegenscheln/zodiacle light experiment that is
conducted through the scientific airlock. And the biomed
officer reports that his data shows that Jack Lousma and
Owen Garriott are in the midst of another run of the MI31
experiment, the human vestibular function. So they've
caught up pretty well on the Flight Plan. In this run,
Garriott is the subject and Lousma is the observer. This
is Skylab Control. The blomed officer just corrected his
earlier report to the flight director. After studying the
data some more, he believes that what he's watching is
the
CC And, Houston, welre going LOS in i0 seconds.
Wet11 pick you up over Guam in 8 minutes.
loss of signal. Guam will pick up Skylab in about 8 minutes.
The blomed officer now believes that what he was watching
was the end of the first MI31 run. He believes that they
had not finished that first run before lunch and went back
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and finished after lunch. After studying his data some more,
the subject appears to be the pilot, Jack Lousma. So that
would put them behind on the timeline again, instead of
essentially caught up. There is time in the Flight Plan for
today for exercise for each of the three crewmen. Following
their 28-day mission_ the first Skylab crew recommended that
this crew exercise more. And they also suggested some muscle
exercises to augment the blcycle ergometer, which was the only
exercise device that the first Skylab crew had aboard.
Skylab II commender, Pete Conrad, said the bicycle exercises
were good for the cardlovascular system, but he felt his
muscles didn't receive adequate exercise. As a result of
those recommendations, two additional exercising devices have
been placed aboard Skyleb. These devices identified as Mark I
and Mark II, provide the crew with the capability of exercising
the muscles of their arms, chest and torso. The devices
were modified at the Johnson Space Center, by the equipment
engineering branch of the technical services division. The
Mark I device is a rope friction device used mainly for back
and torso exercises. And the Mark II consists of multiple
removable strings with handles. And it provides for the chest
and arm exercises. Each of the crew members will be allotted
approximately 45 minutes a day for exercising, that is
in addition to the exercise that they will get on some days
_doing the M171 ergometer exercising. We're about 5 minutes
away from Guam. We'll come up then. At 18 hours 56 minutes_
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59 minutes Creenwich mean time. We're standing by for
contact through Guam.
CC Skylab, we have you through Guam for
5 minutes.
SPT Well, Story I Just went up through
... 12-10 on the MA cal again and once again I can't
pump the pump handle. It's building up pressure
in the exporation llne.
CC Okay, Owen. How did it work on the
insporation (?) side?
SPT I didn't do that since I thought we'd
probably found the problem. I went back and Just redid it on
the exporation end thinking that we'd found the difficulty. Let
me turn the electronic power off again and see if it
continues to cycle that valve.
CC Okay. And understand you do have
nitrogen pressure. You hear the hiss when you cycle that
switch.
SPT That's what I'm just going to check
again right now.
SPT Yeah. It was a steady hiss for about
5 to 8 seconds and then cut off.
CC Okay.
SPT Is that what it's supposed to do?
SPT It just did it again. Same thing when
I go to electronic power off.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC We've got a revision to your EREP
checkout, Jack.
PLT Okay. This is the time for it, cause
I'm working on it.
CC Okay .... do the mal A complete,
do that at about 2000 or start with that now. Do the
alignment check after doing the mal A.
SPT Story, I just went to cycle inhibit on
the MA panel. I think that will close off the cal bottle,
and I'ii just leave it in this configuration until we come
up with another idea or I have a chance to go try the
insporation side.
CC Okay.
PLT Well Story, I already did part of
mal A. You know I did that part this morning. Now, at
2000 it says do an alignment check instead of an alignment.
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CC Okay. Do the EREP checkout following

the mal A complete.
CC Reverse those two blocks. And during
the alignment check on page 2-18 through 2-20, if you get
no readings use the preflight numbers on page i0-i0 for the
thermal and the numbers on page 10-3 for the visible. And
during the checkout the C&D meters may be out of tolerance
for the checkout and that's on page 1-8, but continue even if
they are out of tolerance. And we're going LOS in i0 seconds.
We'll pick you up over Goldstone at 19:24.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has
loss of signal. Goldstone will acquire in about 17 minutes.
The television on the monitors in the Houston News Center
now was recorded at Goldstone during Skylab's last pass
over the United States. Just prior to the live television
we got through the Texas station. We are now receiving
this picture from Goldstone and it is displayed on the
monitors in the News Center. We'll come back up just
prior to the Goldstone pass. At 19 hours 7 minutes
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SL-III MC217/1
Time: 14:22 CDT, 05:19:22 GMT
8/1/73

mean time and a minute and 50 seconds away from acquisition of
the Skylab space station through the Golds,one tracking station
if the AOS clock is to be believed. Next to the last stateside
pass of the day, nearing the end of revolution 1142 and
the start of 1143.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you stateside for
14 minutes.
PLT Okay, Houston, this is the PLT. I need you
to be a little more specific on that EREP checkout it looks
like to me if I go right ahead with the detector aligner -
the detector check, then I'm not going to have enough (garble) to
do the Job. Would you be more specific and outline the
procedure, please?
CC Okay, Jack, I was not all clear the first
time around. What we'd llke is the 2230 block in the update
message pad to be done first and after that do the 2000 block -
the EREP checkout.
SPT Okay Storey, Jack and I are over trying
to run 131-1 on me now, however, before we came over I did
check the pump handle or the pump over on the inspiration
side and it will also build up pressure in there without the
valves opening; then went back and did reverlfy that we did
have M2 at panel 500 open and M2 valves on 620 and 622 were
all open so I'm still puzzled.
CC Okay, in both - both barometers are un-
locked, aren't they?
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Storey, I'm looking at my pad. And my
checklist looks like what you want me to do is to do the 2230
stuff. Verify the switches works through the malfunction proce-
dures and then go back to 2000 and perform the EREP checkout and
per checklist starting on page i-i, is that right?
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Okay, then when it comes to the alignment
check, do you still want me to do that as part of the EREP check-
out, right?
CC That's affirmative, alignment check.
PLT Okay, I understand, then. Thank you.
CC That's the check instead of the procedure.
PLT Right.
CDR Say, Story, you didn't ask me to do
anything else with the condensate system after we left that
panel up there a while ago, did you?
CC I didn't then, but I'm about to now.
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CDR Oh, ho. Okay, I thought maybe there was

something while we were eating and I'd forgotten it. Go
ahead.
CC That's a little more of that ESP. On panel
393 connect the inlet hose to the condensate dump port for
about 5 to 10 seconds; then disconnect and cap.
CDR Okay. Okay I'll go to do it right now.
CC And no need to reply but the reason we're
doing this is the DELTA-P is holding at this time.
CDR Okay that's done.
CC Okay, AI. And A1 we have your conversation
with your family set up over Hawaii at 00:ii with a 9-mlnute
pass and we'll remind you about that on the pass prior to
that.
CDR That's good and you'll send up some
procedures?
CC Yes sir.
CDR Thank you.
CC And sometime along here we'd like you to
review the pad we sent up regarding the mission day 7
activities. That's your day-off activities and give us a
feeling on that.
CDR Okay, we'll be doing some thinking about
it.
CC Roger.
CDR The only thing that I'm wondering about - this
20 to 23:00 z time that is the preprep plan that we had pre-
mission for that time. Is that correct?
CC Yea, premission we had 2 hours and we
put one more hour on there.
CDR Okay, I'ii get out the EVA checklist
in a few minutes and see what's in there and try and guess how
much other time it's going to take and then that will allow us to
do some thinking. Okay thanks. How soon do you have to know,
Story?
CC Oh, about in the next hour s hour and a
half, AI.
CDR Okay, I'ii Just let S073 go in the hole for
a few minutes and figure this out.
CC Don't do that AI, that's about the only
time-critical thing we have today.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we don't like to keep bugging you,
but we'd like to put this condensate mall to bed today if
possible. We'd llke you to again connect the inlet holes
to the condensate dump port, leave it connected until we
give you a "MARK" and then disconnect it and we will be doing
that about 30 seconds after you connect it.
CDR Okay, now we got to make sure we get the
words right. You want the inlet hose from the holding tank
connected at 393?
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CC That's affirmative and we'd llke to do

this over station passage here so we can watch it. Wetve got
about 4 minutes until LOS.
CDR I'm going to connect the one on - this
is the same one I did for i0 seconds, correct?
CDR Okay, I'm going to do it nowp and when I
hear you say turn if off, I'll pull it on.
CC Roger.
PLT He got it connected, Storey.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, AI you can disconnect it and cap
the side on the condensate tank.
CDR Okay. I gather SO73 doesn't become time
critical until 23:00, is that correct?
CC ThatVs affirmative.
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CDR become time-critical to 23:00, is

that correct?
CDR Also, Story, on that 73 mal, I gather
the real that you want me to go through is just the one you
read up and not anything else?
CC Stand by I.
CDR I didn't see anything else in the
checklist.
CC AI, there's one other thing to do on
that. And that's in our SWS cue card. That's the TO27,
SO73-S009 repair.
CDR Okay. That's what they want done.
Will do. I was looking at the Flight Plan correlation
matrix and couldn't find anything there, that's what
threw me. Okay.
CC Roger.
CC And have you got the cap on the 393 QD, AI?
CDR It's disconnected and capped. Is that
what you wanted?
CC Yes sir.
CDR Okay. It's done.
CC We're going LOS in about i0 seconds and
we'll pick you up over Vanguard at 19:49.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ LOS from next
to the last stateside pass, through the Texas station. An
onset of revolution 1143 for the Skylab space station coming
up in a minute or so, as the spacecraft passes through
80 west longitude, longitude of Kennedy Space Center. Next
station, tracking ship, Vanguard in 8 minutes. At 19:40 GMT
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC21911
Time: 1447 CDT, 05:19:47 GMT
8/1/73

mean time. About a minute and 30 seconds now from acquisition
at tracking ship Vanguard, the Skylab space station over the
central portion of the South American continent. Coming over
the hill to the Vanguard tracking ship standing offshore from
the east coast of Argentina. Nine and a half minutes this
pass over Vanguard.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Apparently
some technical difficulties aboard the tracking ship Vanguard
iIn which wetre not able to use the ship's S-band antenna.
An attempt will be made through the VHF antennas aboard the
Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard. AOS
for 4 minutes on VHF simplex Alfa.
CC Skylab, we have a site problem at Vanguard.
We have an antenna that's hard over. And d not reconfigure your
comm for VHF.
CC Skylab, Houston in the blind. We have
one more procedure p that's the condensate malfunction procedure.
Ones open up both mol sieve covers. Disconnect condensate
heat exchanger, A, QDs from the vent plugs. Okay_ stand
by on those procedures will have to wait until we get com-
munications with you. We're going LOS in i0 seconds. Pick
you up over Goldstone at 21:04. And SPT, if you can make
the metabolic analyzer work_ run M171 with it. If you can
not bring it up, run M171 without the metabolic analyser.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had
loss of signal through the tracking ship Vanguard. Ap-
parently the S-band antenna aboard ship is locked in one
position and will not track the spacecraft. And spacecraft
communicator talked to them on a one-way conversations a mono-
logue through the VHF antennas. We're an hour and 4 minutes away
from the next station at Goldstone, the final Goldstone stateside
pass of the evening. And at 21:00 Greenwich mean timer this
is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control,,20:41 Greenwlch

mean time. Skylab space station presently erossln E the
Korean penninsula on revolution 1143. Next station will be
the final Goldstone tracking station pass also the final
stateside - so-called stateside pass of the day. Skylab
crewmen A1 Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma today are on
a modified menu of high potassium and high caloric food items
and actually will eat 6 snacks rather than 3 full meals. The
crew also is performing several runs of the M131 human ves-
tibular function within the so-called mock rotation mode to
acclimate the crewman to this particular experiment. During
the last revolution, the unified S-band antenna aboard the
tracking ship Vanguard was on the bllnk. And hopefully by
the next revolution, it will be back up again and communica-
tions will be possible through that station. One of
Jack Lousma's chores today is to prepare the Earth Resources
Experiment Package equipment for Earth Resources passes that
will be scheduled later in the week. Twenty-one minutes now
to acquistion at Goldstone. At 20:43 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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mean time. Acquisition due in about a minute and a half or
less through the Goldstone tracking station. We're starting
to get the scratchiness as the large antenna out in the Mohave
Desert locks on the spacecraft several hundred miles over
the Pacific to the west of the California shoreline.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you through Goldstone
for 4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. Have you verified that we're
getting stuff off of channel A tape recorder?
SPT Got a couple more questions too, if
you're going to work on that one.
CC We think we are getting a good voice
on channel A and we're going to check it out again as soon
as posslble.
SPT Okay, Story. And the next question is
we're sitting up to run 92171 and I'm wondering if you think
there's anyway we could use a metabolic analyzer. Apparently
we Just have to leave that part of it out if we run 171,
you agree?
SPT Okay, now A1 is making one more check
of the calibration to see if we could get it properly
calibrated before this run, otherwise, we'll go ahead and run
it without it. We can for example - we Just pumped it with
the hand pump again and the valves appear to cycle. That's
the way they did the first time I tried it this morning but
after the first through then they would stick and wouldn't
cycle anymore. So we'll give it one more try and then run
92171 with or without it.
CC Okay, that's a good plan, Owen. Is the
CDR available?
CDR I can hear you.
CC Okay, CDR, I need you to copy a condensate
procedure.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the airlock module panel 232,
mol sieve B heat exchanger A; condensation isolate valve
open.
CDR Good.
CC Then remove mol sieve B cover. In panel 232
disconnect mol sieve B heat exchanger B; water separator
plate QD's, two of them from the launch stowage QDs.
CC Are you with me?
CDR Okay, let me read it back.
CC No, l've got some more for you.
C])]{ C| VU nit' H,_llZt' moru , new t]lun [ ' ] 1 rc, ad I I I,._.k .
CC Reinstall reel sieve B cover and remove
mol sieve A cover. And on alrlock module panel 230, disconnect
the mol sieve A heat exchanger B; water separator plate QDs,
two from the launch stowage QDs.
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CC And then reinstall mol sieve B cover.

CDR Okay.
CC And lastly on panel 393 connect condensate
dump port to the inlet holes.
CDR I get the impression what we're doing is
disconnecting the mol sieve - -
CC We're be going LOS in i0 seconds, A1.
CDR We're disconnecting mol sieve A and B
heat exchanger B connectors and then connecting all the rest
back up, is that correct?
CC Just one of them, AI.
CC We're going LOS and we'll pick yon up over
Vanguard at 21:26.
CDR Yes. You're disconnecting B - heat exchanger
B and A heat exchanger B is that correct?
CC Okay, we're going to miss Vanguard their
S-band antenna is out. We'll plck you up over Hawaii at
22:34.
of signal on the final stateside pass through Goldstone end
of revolution 1143 as the Spacecraft Communicator advised the
crew. They're Just at LOS; the next contact will not be for
another hour and 25 minutes again at Hawaii one full revolution
from now. And as much as the tracking ship Vanguard still has
difficulties with the unified S-hand antenna on that ship,
therefore, there will he a long quiet spell here as far as
Skylab communications are concerned. Normal acquisition with
the Vanguard would come in 15 minutes. At 21:11 this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE.
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mean time. Acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard coming up
here in a little over a minute. However, the unified S-band
antenna aboard that ship is on the fritz. There likely will
be some calls made in the blind by spacecraft communicator,
Story Musgrave, on VHF, or very high frequency, up-link. We'll
bring up the broadcast line for this pass Just in case the
antenna gets repaired in time, or the spacecraft crew switches
over to VHF for replying to these calls from the ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard.
CDR It's amazing. Loud and clear.
CC Okay. We got you for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. We got that MA cal perfect. Jack
found a couple of problems with EREP he'll tell you about.
We're not able to get either 151 because we've got about
18 thousand things to do as you know from all these updates.
I'm getting ready to work _n the the condensate system right
now and then go back and put Owen i - in the 92/151.
CC Okay, AI, and we're showing NO POWER on
the S073 down here. Could you turn the power on on that?
CDR Sure can. I didn't realize you wanted me
to leave it on. It's stowed - I mean it's in position
extended and everything and I'ii - I'ii put the power on it
right now.
CC That's for thermal reasons. And we're
running short on the tape. When you run the MO92/MI71, could
you tape off between the two experiments?
CDR You bet.
CC That's to save tape.
PLT Hello, Story. The EREP guys
available?
CC Yes sir.
PLT Okay, I'm looking at page A-2 of the
malfunction procedures where you loosen the detector cooler here
on the . . . and tighten her down again. And I got it all tightened
down again. And the . . . shoulders of the grooves don' t touch the
... And there's no place around this where I can get the three
valves and . .. guage in, so I'm confident that it's fastened tightly
now. And I had to modify the tightening down procedure a little
bit because I noticed that number 3 - numbers - when I had numbers
i, 2, and 4 tightened down, there's still a little bit of clearance
on number 3, so I had to put the clamp on that and tighten her down
separately. I think maybe the bench was just a smidgen warped.
But I had it tightened down so that it's good and fine now.
CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
CDR It needs a little bit of clarification
on these condensate procedures. I gather from what you said
what you want me to do is both mol sieves. That's mol sieve A
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and B. I put heat exchanger A, on, and then take the B con-
nectors OFF. Is that correct?
CC There's only mol sieve B, AI.
CDR Okay, ]et me say it again then. I said
it wrong. Mol sieve B. I take tile connecter off and turn
on A. Mol sieve A, I take the connector off heat exchanger
B, but ]eave tool - I mean heat exchanger A closed. Is that
correct now?
CC Hey, AI?
CC I think we got 6 minutes - -
CDR Go ahead.
CC I got 6 minutes
CDR Say again.
CC I got 6 minutes to LOS. I'd like to read
the message to you again.
CDR Okay. Read it slow.
CC AM, panel 232. Mol sieve B: heat exchanger
A, condensate isolation valve OPEN.
CDR That's complete.
CC That's the only isolation valve we're going
to open. Remove mol sieve B cover. On panel 232: discon-
nect mol sieve B, heat exchanger B, water separator plates,
QDs - two from the launch _towage - -
CDR Okay. Got that; I'ii do it.
CC Say again?
CDR Okay, go to the next step.
CC Re-install mol sieve B cover.
CDR Okay, go to the next step.
CC Remove tool sieve A cover.
CDR Keep going.
CC Panel 230: disconnect mol sieve A, heat
exchanger B - water separator plate QDs from the launch stow-
age , QDs .
CDR Okay. I understand that completely. I' ii
have it done in about 5 minutes.
CC Okay. Put the cover back, and then on
panel 393: connect condensate dump port to inlet hose.
CDR I understand and I will do it.
CDR Okay. Let me answer the question that
you sent up today about what we ought to do on day 7.
CC Go.
CDR Okay. We'd like to do that EREP pass.
That's first. And that happens to he the first EREP pass
we ever do. We'd like to start 1 hour earlier on the prep
than normal. And if it turns out we're going to do EREP
before then, the same thing applies to whatever we do then.
The thing that we've noticed is, just when we start it takes
longer the first time, and we just - we just tend to fall
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behind because it just takes us longer.

CDR Okay. After that, right after the pass,
then after the post proeedures_ then we'd llke you to set
aside for all three of us, 2 hours called EVA twin pole
sunshade inspection.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay. And we are going to have the normal
EVA prep like you've got it - And it seems to me the thing you
might want to do then is in the blank spaces between, send us up ...
and keep us all three working with ATM and S019. And then we'll
work the EVA and the EREP real hard. And any spare time we've
got, we'll run thos others.
CC Skylab, Houston. Okay, the last couple
of minutes, Skylab, you've been breaking up very badly. We're
going to pick you up over Hawaii at 22:34.
PLT Are you still there, Story?
CC Yeah, we just came back in. We've lost
comm with you for about the last 2 minutes.
PLT Okay, on the EREP malfunction procedures,
then, I've completed through step 20 and was done through
there. Step 21 was unnecessary and step 22 was accomplished
on both attitudes and we'll start on EREP checkout now.
CC Okay.
CC If you didn't get my LOS call, we're
going LOS in about i minute. Hawaii at 22:34.
SC (Garble)
through Vanguard. Flight Director, Milton Windler asked the
network controller to pass his regards to the people down
on the Vanguard for Jury-rigglng the pass, inasmuch the
prime equipment for the unified S-band is not fully opera-
tional, but with bailing wire and chewing gm they were able
to do it. Next station, Hawaii in 57 minutes. Revolution
1144 just beginning. And at21:37 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC22311
Time: 16:39 CDT, 05:21:39 GMT
8/1/73
PAO This - this is Skylab Control with a

rather short notice of change-of-shlft flight direc&or
briefing in the Houston newsroom in about the next i0
minutes with Flight Director Milt Windler and Flight Surgeon
Dr. Paul Buchanan. Should take place at about i0 minutes
to 5 central daylight time in the Houston newsroom. If the
press conference continues past the next Hawaii tracking
station pass, it will be taped for delayed playback.
Repeat again, change-of-shlft briefing. Flight Director
Milt Windler and Flight Surgeon, Dr. Paul Buchanan at
about 4:50 central daylight time, Houston newsroom. This is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 1716 CDT, 05:22:16 GMT
8/1/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Surgeon

Dr. Paul Buchanan has left the Control Center enroute to the
Houston newsroom for medical change-of-shift briefing. Being
relieved in the mean time by Dr. George Armstrong. He should
be in the newsroom within the next 3 or 4 minutes. Meanwhile,
the spacestation now over central mainland China, coming up
on Hawaii in 17 minutes. That pass will be recorded for
delayed playback after the flight surgeon's press conference.
22:17 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC225/I
TTime: 1733 CDT, 05:22:33 GMT
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mean time. Minute and a half now from acquisition through
the Hawaii tracking station, earing the end of revolution 1144.
Plight Director Phil Shaffer taking over the flight director's
seat in the control center here and is going around the room
for questions for the Evening Status Report to be passed up
to the crew.
CC We're AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston. This is CDR.
CC Roger go ahead.
CDR Okay, I got all these things done on the
condensate dump that you asked for. Namely, I've got both
B-sets of heat exchangers disconnected from their launch
stowage position. On mol sieve B, I think heat exchanger A is
OPEN and on A it's CLOSED. And I've connected up to the
dump tanks. I believe that's Just what you wanted.
CC Rog. We concur. AI, have you got anything
else for me and I got two o_ three things and a couple of
questions for you.
CDR Well, I got a question for you. We were
just running this M092/171 with SPT and on the second level,
the 40, he had a presync (garble) feeling. His heart rate
had gone up to around 85. It started decreasing and then
his systolic and diastolic started to converge. I have the
numbers but of coursep they're on the tape. And so, we aborted
the run right there and finished the runs Just an ambient
in pressure. We discussed the matter of doing the 171 after-
wards and did not know of any ground reel that prevented
doing a 171 after the 92. And we realize that the 92 was
largely a blood cooling experiment whereas 171 was cardiovas-
cular conditioning and so we've rigged up to do the 171, but
we have not performed it yet. And we'd like to have a GO
from you on that.
CC Roger. Why don't you give us a couple
of minutes AI, and be thinking about that one if you got
anything else.
CDR That's it. Go ahead with yours.
CC Okay, AI. First of all, the eomm when
we left Vanguard the last time was - got real ratty the last
couple of minutes, And back to your answers to our day 7
questions. I have a couple of questions for you Just so that
we can clarify. You want 2 hours of inspection on the EVA gear.
And then a normal EVA prep and the first question I have is
is on the EVA prep. We - did you want 2 hours on that which
was premission nominal or 3 hours which was what we had planned
on giving you. So, the real question is, do yon want 4 or
5 hours total dealing with EVA on mission day 7?
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CDR We want 5. We want 2 of them right after

the EREP pass is over and then the other 3 when you got them
in there. Since we got this twin pole sunshade in
149. 149. We want to make sure that all that hardware is in
order and in place. We're going to take it in there and stow
it in the lock and everything so that we know that everything is
shipshape. As far as the film transport part, we could easily
do that in 2 hours but we Just want to have everything rigged out.
That's why I'm hoping that for that period, you will send up,
you know the pads and things. If we get finished early, then
we'll start working ATM and S019. If we don't, or run late,
then we'll Just omit them until we can get going. And that way,
we'll have some ...
CC Okay, that sounds good. This other part
that's cut out and you, I think that you Just filled in for us
was the mention of SOl9. As we understand it, we're going to
be prepared for you to do an EREP. We're going to have some
S019 and ATM work for you if you have time in the 5 hours of
EVA and we concur with all of that.
CDR Okay, we're hoping you'll send the pads
up to begin with and we want you on the EVA to give us an extra -
to get us started on the prep an hour before the normal time.
Because, this is the first time out, and we'd llke to make sure
we make it out on time Just right.
CC Rog, CDR, we'll certainly do that.
Here's a couple of more things for you. We're up-llnklng this
pass a checklist change to cue cards, l'm not sure you're
aware that this one is in, but in your command module cue card kit,
you have a cue card that's called "Private Comm." Which sets
up the communications for your VHF phone calls and so forth.
We are up-linklng this pass a checklist change that completely
replaces that cue card and when you take a look at the switches
you'll see what it gives you. Real briefly, it lets you -
it gives you two configurations. Either you can do it on
a headset or on the command module speaker box and in the third
section of it is the reconfiguratlon. And I think if you'll
glance it over you'll see it meets your needs there.
CDR Okay, sounds good. We'd asked for that
card, but I didn't know when it made it. We'll go find it and
post it.
CC Okay, two more command module things for
you. With the problems we've been having with our update llnk
and the DSE running, we would llke to ask you to do no more
command resets until - unless we advise you differently. Nominally
we don't expect any, but we thought we ought to let you know
not do command resets cause it can get us into some mlsconflg-
uratlon problems. The second thing is, as you noticed this morning,
we started uplinklng a whole raft of command module, primarlly
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command module and deactivation checklist changes due to the

loss of quad Bravo and when you go up to the command module
this evening, we have one switch we'd like you to throw to
put the command module in a configuration consistent with
all those checklist procedures changes. And that switch is
on panel 2, service module RCS quad secondary fuel pressure
Bravo, to OPEN. Over.
CDR Okay. That's the quad secondary fuel
pressure Bravo, OPEN. I'ii go do that right now and rest
assured we won't do any command resets.
CC Okay. You guys had an earlier question today
about that you wanted to be advised when we confirm that we
did get channel A recording for the M31 this morning. And
he advised that we - we did get that information on the first
run and we're confident that we will on the second although
we aren't that far into the data yet.
PLT Okay. I'ii send you all a the SMMD stuff
and other material, then, Dick.
PLT Hello, D_ck, this is Jack.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger, there any more reasonable opportunities
for a call home after dinner tonight besides the one that Al's
going to be using? Maybe Owen and I could go on or I could use
it?
CC Let us look for - look at the station
passes, Jack. And we'll get back to you. Incidentally, on
the one that A1, we set it up at 00:ii at Hawaii as you've
already been advised. That'8 also the station that we had
originally planned the Evening Status Report and I'm just assuming
that either Jack or Owen is going to read us down that Evening
Status at that tlme.
PLT Okay, but you don't have any stateside
passes tonight, that right?
CO Negative, we do not. But let us see what
we can do, later on some of the others - other passes tonight.
I'ii get back to you probably down at Vanguard.
PLT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston, you are GO to con-
tinue and accomplish for M171 with your normal precautions
and the protocol.
CDR Sounds good. That's what we thought; we
thought we'd check with you. Thanks.
from LOS. We'll see you Vanguard at 23:04. And one more
thing as we go over the hill, just for Al's information,
that Hawaii pass= is about 9-1/2 minutes long that we set up
the phone call.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab space

station has passed over the horizon from the Hawaii tracking
station and we've had loss of signal. Next Hawaii station,
one revolution from now we'll have the Evening Status Report
by Lousma and Garriott while AI Bean is on another frequency
VHF frequency, the phone patched to his family. Nineteen
minutes till - until the next station, tracking ship Vanguard.
We've had no late word on the Vanguard status. At 22:44
Greenwich mean time, back in 19 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time. The warbler warning tone has gone off in the
control center here, indicating less than 2 minutes to
acquisition at the next station which, in this case, is the
tracking ship Vanguard. Up at Vanguard for almost 10 minutes
this pass. And hopefully, all of the unified S-band antennae
equipment aboard the ship has been repaired, or at least is
serviceable to support this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes.
PLT Hello, Dick. We're running MI71.
CC Okay, real fine.
CDR Dick, we Just started SO73 on time. Got
a couple of questions on the pad thought maybe the gentleman
that made it up can explain.
CC Okay_ hang on a second. Let me get it
out so I can look at it while you talk to me. Hang on.
CC All right. Go ahead, CDR. We're looklng
at the pad.
CDR Okay. By the way, I put the secondary
quad fuel propellant valve to ON. Of course both barber poles
still remain. Thatls the command module.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. Now, therets Just a little - some
funnies here that are different from our card, and the way
we understand it j we need to get it straight so we won't
foul it up. They gave us a 23:00 operate start time, with
a window of 23:03 to 23:08, and we've had on our checkllst
card, and understood from our trainer, that that was a nominal
lO-mlnute task. So, you would think that maybe the op time
would have been something like 22:53, or something llke that.
Because if it did take i0 minutes we would have missed the
window.
CC Stand by at 1 second, please.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. You're exactly right. The
optimum start time is 23:03, so the required time for the
setup should have been earlier. It was a flight planning
problem that we did talk about last night and decided not
to change, but the ops time on the pad should have been an
earlier time to meet an optimum start - program start time
of 23:03.
CDR Okay, because welre teeing off bad and
we don't always know what these are and if we show up up there
we're going to muff the time. The next one was a little blt
funny_ too. They called for a 4-A program. I checked my
4-A program and it says the shaft and trunnion are as indicated
here. But - correction says, the shaft is as indicated there.
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But it says the trunnion, instead of being 074 to 004, as on

the pad, it's 024 to 2. Now, there - I need to understand
then, whether - what the story is there, I guess. And next,
the book says this - or the checklist says to start with the
shaft and trunnion, shaft in 0, trunnion, 2. Now, if I had
done shaft 0, trunnion 2, but had to trunnion limit 074 in
4, it wouldn't have worked. Because I understand that the
shaft in trunnion limits, but - I mean where it starts must
be within the limit. Soy apparently there's also something
a little different there than the way we've been trained.
CC Okay, CDR. Stand by.
CC CDR_ Houston. In answer to your question,
we did have some conversation with the PI. Due to the parti-
cular pointing of this, we did send you a correct pad, and
we failed to alert you to the fact that there was an incon-
sistency with what's on page 6-35 of your checklist. So,
you should use the trunnion angle that's in the pad, and also
the upper and lower limits that's in the pad.
CDR Okay, now, is this correct pad did it
just come up, or am I operating on an old pad here?
CC You ought to be looking at pad 0520 Bravo.
CDR That's the one I'm looking at.
CC Okay. That pad is the one I'm looking
at also, AI, and that's a good pad.
CDR Well, see it's still the problem. You
not only need the upper and lower lim, oh, I got you - I
see what yeu mean.
CDR i understand now, and wetll make sure
we do it right the next time, but we ended up doing it right
anyway. I just wanted to make sure I could read the pad.
Understand. Thank you.
CC Okay, AI. Then, I think it's a good thing,
when we do send up things on these pads that are confusing
at all, we might as well talk them out and straighten them
out, too. And we'll do some little - some talking after
LOS, and understand our sieves exactly how we made this
mistake in this and try not to happen again.
CDR Okay, I think maybe a good thing to do
would just be put down in remarks say feel the - you
know, trunnion difference from nominal checklist procedures,
or something, and then I'ii be aware that something's new,
and play it by - by the numbers you gave me. So, it it's
working right, or should be. I haven't checked it lately.
I'Ii go ch_:_ck it in a minute.
CC Okay, real fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS. We_l] see you at Hawaii at 00:ii. And I'ii be
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standing by for an evening status report there. And AI, you

can be standing by in the command module for your phone call.
The COM TECH will call you first and set it up. We have also
set up a call for Jack Lousma at 02:20, and another call for
Owen at 02:33. That's 02:20 and 02:33. And both of those
are about 9 or i0 minutes long.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And as you go over the hill, could you
let us know how you're progressing _ EREP checkout?
SPT Yeah, it's going pretty slow. I just got
the tape recorder unloaded.
CC Okay, real fine. We can hear more about
that in the remarks from _he evening status, so we'll see you
at the next pass, which i_ Hawaii at 00:11.
CDR Okay, that's about an hour from now. We'll
sure give you a call. Or you can give us a call.
CDR And SO73 seems to be running - -
through the tracking ship Vanguard, with that tracking ship
apparently working pretty well now after some earlier diffi-
culty with the unified S-band antenna. Fifty-slx minutes to
Hawaii - at the final pass through Hawaii this evening. And
while the science pilot and pilot are giving the evening
status report, the commander, A1 Bean, will be on VHF, talk-
ing to his family. The other two crewmen will have conver-
sations with their home telephone and families, later in the
evening. Fifty-five minutes to Hawaii; 23:15 Greenwich mean
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mean time 9 minutes after midnight GMT and a minute and a
half away from nominal acquisition for the final Hawaii pass
in which Science Pilot, Garriott and Pilot Jack Lousma will
read down the evening status report of the crew food, and
water_ medication and so on, while Commander A1 Bean is on
a private phone call with his family. One revolution later
over Vanguard, Lousma will have his family call and the
following station after that at Ascension, Garriott will have
his. The medlcal conference with the Flight Surgeon will
be this upcoming Vanguard pass after Hawaii at 42 minutes
GMT.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston Skylah SPT, here. Do you
want the evening status report, now?
CC I_m standing by, I didn't quite understand
you I'm standing by for the evening status report, Owen and
I already have the BMMD hod? masses, but nothing else. I
think.
SPT Okay, that was going to be my first
question. See how much you had so lid know what to omit.
Urine volume: 780, 900, 970. Drinking water gun readings
are 4579, 7477, 5551. BMMDts you've got. Exercise: CDR, none,
SPT has 2/15/1875; PLT has 3 Mark 1/20 Alfas. That's two zero
Alfas, that's the amount of the type with the Mark 1 work.
Is that okay so far, Dick?
CC It's affirmative. Go ahead.
SPT Medication, CDR, 1 seconal; SPT and PLT
none. Sleep: 7/good; 7/very good; 7/good.
CDR Hey, Owen, Just a minute.
CC Okay, 8o ahead.
SPT Just a moment, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Dick, this is Jack. Al's trying to
call the COMM TECH. We hear the COMM TECH; he does not hear us.
CC Okay, stand by a second let me see if I
can help you.
PLT We're using the right VHF antenna.
CC And Skylab Houston the right VHF antenna
should be the best one and I've passed that word on to COMM TECH.
SPT Okay, they've got it hooked up now; that's
doing fine. Now, the food status is as follows: CDR
ate all on his menu for the day. That menu is on the message
0532 Charlie. The SPT ate the 0532 Charlle message except
omit one jam, one prime rib, and one chicken and gravy, one
lemonade and one grapefruit drink. The PLT ate all on 0532 Char]Is
except; bread and mashed pot_loes he added on_ npplo drink ,,,,_
lo,.o_a,l= a.,I _.l= t=a wtth lel,,..n and sugar now 1 mlght me_t[l_il
that that Is the really we have not all eaten that yet
because we still haven't had £1me for supper. This is our
present intent and if there's any deviation from that we'll
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mention it in the morning, but this is what we expect to

have eaten by the time we get to bed tonight and as I
mentioned we still haven't had our supper tonight. Okay.
Back to photo log; no change from yesterday, we have had no
time for pictures we did miss a 151 this afternoon because
we didn't have time to work that in. Flight plan deviations:
AI reports that the food transfer should take one - one and
a half hours instead of the one hours - one hour llated.
Inoperable equipment: the only thing listed under there is
that fact that we have a lot of food overage stashed around
the wardroom here. It's our intent to leave that food overage
more less conveniently placed as long as we're on a flexible
diet and at the time we get back to a more permanent ...
menu then we'll talk with you again about where the overage
food should be placed and how to lock it log it. Unscheduled
stow - stowage items: we've removed from dome 418 towels 3 red,
2 white, and 6 blue. We've in the area food taken one corn-
flakes from 555, one egg from 550, one tea with lemon and
sugar from the top of 556, one apple drink from the top of
556, one hard candy from the top of 556, one grapefruit
drink 560, one pineapple frc_m 559 - can 33 i salmon salad
from 550. And I think =hat tuns all the information from
the evening status report, Dick. Over.
CC Okay, Owen give me Just a second and let
me gather my thoughts here and I'Ii be right back to you with
some questions.
SPT Roger.
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Time: 19:15 CDT, 06:00:15 GMT
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SPT - - Status Report, Dick over.

CC Okay, Owen give me Just a second and let
me gather my thoughts here and I'ii be right back to you
with some questions.
SPT Roger.
CC One thing Owen, we made a cockpit error
here on the ground in the teleprinter when we up-llnked your
Flight Plan for tomorrow not your details they're okay but
your Flight Plan. We up-linked page i of Flight Plan twice
and then page 2 so we don't think we have to do that again
and if you'll just look carefully down there you'll find where to
cut the top of it off and you'll have a good Flight Plan. If
it did get get garbled though, just let us know and we'll up-link a
new one during the evening but I think when you look at it
it'll probably be okay. And we wanted you to check to make sure
that the experiment i and 2 tape recorders' settings on
the panel in the experiment compartment are set to Charlle
Charlie for SO73.
SPT Okay, we had them I believe they were on
either one Bravo or one Easy. I've forgotten which it was for
the 171 run and as soon as we were through with
171, then should have switched them over to Charlie. Now
that may very well mean that we did not get first part of
that S073 data onto the tape recorders cause we were running
171 and 73 simultaneously there for awhile, over.
CC Roger. That's about the way we had
psyched it out and we're satisfied with that but - please make
sure that they are - were put in Charlle Charlle. And finally
I'd like to get status on the PLT on the EREP checkout and
we realize that you guys are running behind does - or has
does he expect to finish tonight and if he does not expect to
finish tonight let us know where in the checklist he is and
we might have a couple of suggestions to save him a little
time.
SPT Roger, I don't know if he can hear this or
not. Jack if you are on the llne will you answer please?
SPT Sounds llke I'm going to have to relay
the question to him. I'ii have to answer at the next pass,
Dick.
SC (Garble)
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Did you hear the question, Jack?
PLT Okay, I'm right on the VTS alignment
at the moment everything has gone smoothly so far the only thing
I got a question about is (garble). You look at them and they
all look bluish, pinkish, white. I broke out one that hadn't been
used before and it looked the same color so we only got 4
that are not out of the bag so unless you say otherwise Just
going to leave them in like they are.
CC Okay, Jack. Stand by on that one.
SPT And I've just verified that both tape
recorders are in one Charlie.
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CC Okay_ thank you Owen. Jack, the question

I asked also while we're thinking about the dessleants is
do you expect to finish the checkout tonight?
PLT Gee whiz, I don't know. Why, I would llke
to leave the 192 threading until tomorrow I haven't done that
yet . I got to look and see ]low far I got to go yet. I'm
Just moving along as fast as I can.
CC Okay, Jack let me - let us propose a
couple of changes to you for your work tonight might save
you some time. First of all, on page page 1-8 on the
S192 check we suggest that just skip that and pick it up
tomorrow either in housekeeping or in your scheduled 192
alignment activity. And also, Just stop tonight on the
bottom of page 1-9 and accomplish page 1-10 tomorrow.
And Skylab Houston we're one minute from LOS we'll see you
at - well you'll be at Vanguard at 0042 and you'll have - be
set up for the medical conference at Vanguard 0042.
CDR Okay, fine, Dick, thank you.
CC Okay.
for the final Hawaii pass of the evening during the end
of revolution 1145. 21 minutes to acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard for the medical conference - the evening
medical conference with the Flight Surgeon however, we will
bring up the circuit at that time to - on the off chance that
the alr-to-ground will be handed back to the CAP COMM before the
spacecraft passes over the horizon from the tracking ship.
At 0022 GMT this Js Skylab Control.
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Time: 19:40 CDT; 06:00:40 GMT
8/1/73

mean time. Acquisition upcoming for tracking ship Vanguard
and the medical conference. But on the off-chance that the
fllght surgeon completes his discussion with the crew prior
to loss of signal at the Vanguard, and the loop is handed
back to CAP COMM, we'll bring up the circuit and leave it
open during the entire pass so as not to miss any of the open
conversation. Standing by at 00:41_ Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. I understand you're
through with your med conference and _'ve got you back for
a couple of minutes. How do you read?
SPT Loud and clear, Dick. And how does SO73
look to you down there now?
CC We've - the corollary officer Just said
that he was looking at the data and it looks real good.
CC I do have one question from the last pass.
We never got a Roger from Jack that he heard my suggestions
on how to cut short the EREP checkout if he desires tonight.
I wonder if he heard that and if he did - if he intends to
cut it short.
PLT Here's what I'm doing, Dick. I went through
the ECS alignment checkout. It worked out real good. And _ _ust
went through the S192 alignment check, and it says to twlzzle
the dials in here, but I don't think I will. I Just took the
readings and I'll record them down if you want, or read them
down to you right now. And I have two of them - they don't
want me to do anything with those JOP lists tonight.
CC Roger, we're pretty close to LOS. We'll
get you at Ascension, so why don't you be prepared to read
those readings down also. One more question as we go over
the hill, on the evening status report. We would llke a
drawer A configuration. We need that in order to continue to
give you - good film thread pads and so sometime tonight we'd
sure appreciate it if one of you guys on the photo log would
be prepared to read us down a drawer Alfa configuration in
the film vault.
SPT Wilco. My fault for not having it.
CC No problem there. We'll see you at Ascension
at 00:58.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ loss of signal at
Vanguard. Seven minutes to Ascension Island tracking station.
The spacecraft Just barely peeks over the horizon at that
station - Just 2 degrees above the southeastern horizon from
the island, for a total of 4 minutes. Acquisition possible.
At 00:51, back again in 7 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC230/I
Time: 19:56 CDT, 06:00:56 GMT
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mean time. scension Island tracking station coming up next.
Very brief pass in as much as the elevation angle only reaches
2 degrees. After the Ascension Island pass, there will only
2 more tracking stations passes in the evening before the
crew goes to bed. Vanguard again next rev and Ascension
ground track misses Guam and Hawaii and therets almost a
full revolution before another station appears.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for 3 minutes.
SPT Here's your drawer A configuration if you
want it.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Alfa 1 and transport 02, CI24, i00 percent,
CII9; A-2, 07, CI40, i00 percent, CI09, A-3, 06, CI39,
i00 percent, CI13, A-4 is 05, CI41, 100 percent, C116.
And this is exactly the same as on that last photo pad
I believe. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for that
and does Jack have those 192 align numbers?
PLT Yes, I got them, Dick.
CC Roger. Before you read them down, I'll
get them right after this, Jack. We I've got some rationale
as to where we stand on the condensate the troubleshooting.
Although this is a fairly short pass, I thought I'd save
that until later. We are trying to isolate a potential con-
tribution to the leak, so I have one valve that I'd like to
make sure I get up and you throw this pass. It's on panel 3.
Correction. Panel 232, mol sieve Bravo heat exchanger Alfa
condensate isolation valve to CLOSE. And one of the upcoming
passes, I'll tell you where we think we are in the system and
we'll look at look at the llnk in the system for the next
hour or so and see what effect this has. We've still got
a minute and 40 seconds in this pass. So go ahead with the
192 align numbers.
PLT Okay. After (garble) it and looking at the
numbers now. The visible channel read 20 percent left and
50 percent right. And I just prematurely fiddled around
with the dials and I got it up to 75 percent left and 30 percent
right. And I backed it up per instructions to 72 left and
23 percent right. I did not fool around with the focus.
Now the thermal read 13 percent on the right meter. The X-adjustment
was 527. The Z was 5176. And I didn't fool around with the
thermal alignment because I think it's going to take a longer
time than I've got to stay there tonight.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much. We
got those ,umbers and and ] want to confirm you got the
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mean time. scenslon Island tracking station coming up next.
Very brief pass in as much as the elevation angle only reaches
2 degrees. After the Ascension Island pass, there will only
2 more tracking stations passes in the evening before the
crew goes to bed. Vanguard again next rev and Ascension
ground track misses Guam and Hawaii and there's almost a
full revolution before another station appears.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for 3 minutes.
SPT Here's your drawer A configuration if you
want it.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Alfa 1 and transport 02, CI24, i00 percent,
CII9; A-2, 07, CI40, 100 percent, CI09, A-3, 06, C139,
100 percent, CI13, A-4 is 05, CI41, i00 percent, CIl6.
And this is exactly the same as on that last photo pad
I belleve. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for that
and does Jack have those 192 align numbers?
PLT Yes, I got them, Dick.
CC Roger. Before you read them down, fill
get them right after this, Jack. We - I've got some rationale
as to where we stand on the condensate the troubleshooting.
Although this is a fairly short pass, I thought I'd save
that until later. We are trying to isolate a potential con-
tribution to the leak, so I have one valve that I'd llke to
make sure I get up and you throw this pass. It's on panel 3.
Correction. Panel 232, mol _leve Bravo heat exchanger Alfa
condensate isolation valve to CLOSE. And one of the upcoming
passes, I'll tell you where we think we are in the system and
we'll look at - look at the link in the system for the next
hour or so and see what effert this has. We've still got
a minute and 40 seconds in this pass. So go ahead with the
192 align numbers.
PLT Okay. After (garble) it and looklng at the
numbers now. The visible channel read 20 percent left and
50 percent right. And I just prematurely fiddled around
with the dials and I got it up to 75 percent left and 30 percent
right. And I backed it up per instructions to 72 left and
23 percent right. I did not fool around with the focus.
Now the thermal read 13 percent on the right meter. The X-adjustment
was 527. The Z was 5176. And I dldntt fool around with the
thermal allgnment because I think it's going to take a longer
time than I've got to stay there tonight.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much. We
got those numbers and - and ! want to confirm you got the
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information about the panels 232 valve.

CDR Mol sieve B heat exchanger A valve is
CLOSED. Now that means every valve we got's closed. Right?
CC That's affirm, AI. And we're going to leave
it that way for the next hour, hour and a half and check the
the way the Delta Ps going down. And when we get to the
next pass, I'ii tell you exactly what I rationale is and
where we are in our troubleshooting.
CDR Okay. Say, if you got any friends among
the flight planners down there, they keep telling us they're
going to give us some little spare time to do this job. It never
seems to happen. We've been working from sunrise to right
now, and we're still not finished. We haven't even started
the day 5 transfers and we hustled the time. Tell
them to give us a little more pass if they possibly can.
Because, I've looked out teat window 5 minutes in 5 days.
The rest of the time, we've been hustling.
CC Understand, AI. And they hear you. We'll - -
CDR They hea¢ you, but they don't change
the operation.
CC Roger, CDR. Copy. We're be at Vanguard
at AOS at 22:20.
PAO This is _kylab Control. Loss of signal
through Ascension Island tracking station. Somewhat testy
A1 Bean there, griping about how the flight planners don't
give them enough time to peer out the window. And it's a
matter of working from sunup until sundown. Figuratively
speaking, and as much as the? have a sunup and a sundown
every hour and a half. Next acquisition, an hour and 14 minutes
from now. Tracking ship Vanguard again. Jack Lousma will
make a family phone call during that pass on VHF. At 01:05
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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8/1/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 218 Greenwich

mean time coming up now on tracking ship Vanguard in a minute
and 40 seconds next to the last tracking station pass of the
evening before the sleep period begins. During the trip across
the Vanguard the Pilot, Jack Lousma will make a family phone
call while the other two crewmen talk to Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly in the Control Center about tomorrow's flight
plan and wrapping up other loose ends of the day and the
succeeding Ascension Island pass will be the final pass of
the evening before the sleep period begins. Science Pilot,
Owen Garriott, at that time will be over on VHF making his
family call.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston we can hear the COMM TACH on
the VHF calling up but he apparently can not hear the PLT.
Can you give us any help on making that connection?
CC Stand by just a second let hi - let me
let him know; hang on a second.
CC Owen, Houston we're checking the configura-
tion and we'll try and help you out as soon as we can.
SC Roger, anything else for us.
CC Yes, I do have a couple of things first
of all I have I want to secure this condensate tank business
for the evening and then I have a few words here I'd
like to try and describe to you guys what we - what the
configurations we've been through and where you think the
leak is and generally what we're doing about it. But first,
l'd like to tell you what the valves and switches and so forth
are that we'd like to do and this will be it for tonight.
SPT Okay, AI Just looked by here. I expect
he'll want to hear this. Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all we'd like to open the
valve he closed a while ago which is on panel 232 MOL SIEVE B
HEAT EXCHANGER A CONDENSATE ISOLATION valve to OPEN. We'd like
to do that now and also for the evening and we're assuming you
want to do this we'd like to turn on the four OWS heat exchangers
fans on panel 390 and also we'd like to turn back on the
airlock module circ fans there's three of them to high on panel
203. And stand by let me talk to COMM TECR for a second.
PLT Okay, while you're talking to COMM TECH, AI
has performed all of those requested operations.
CC Roger, stand by Just I second.
CC Skylab, Houston Vanguard reports that
we are not receiving any down-llnk on VHF and would like
to make sure that Jack is configured properly up there on
the center panel VHF to TR. If he has that message we up-linked
awhile ago we'd like to make sure that he's configured per
that message.
CDR Okay, we'll check it. We thought we were but
we're checking it against the message right now. And
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apparently the up-link is okay but we're checking the switches.

CC Roger.
CC And, Owen while he's doing that
incidentally, I have this configuration in front of me if
he has any questions about it so - break in if he does. Let
me tell yon a little bit about the condensate troubleshooting.
SPT Okay, (garble) we got an up-llnk but no down-
link no dialing on VHF and say again your last request, Dick.
CC Nothing Owen, I have this explanation
on some of the condensate but I guess we'd llke tn get this
comm squared away, so I'll hold off if you don't want to
listen right now.
CC Skylab, Houston, one thing that might
help me if I know whether or not Jack is trying to cnnflgure
per the headset or the speaker box CSM portion of that
cue card.
SPT Headset.
CC Okay, he ought to check VHF AM Bravo to
duplex VHF antenna to right, and S-band and the intercom-
on panel i0 S-band and intercom, off, and VHF AM to TR,
and connect the headset suit power to on and make sure he's
keying when he's trying to talk we're not getting any
down-llnk.
SPT Okay, he's got the message in hand (chuckle)
checking it all over he's (garble) right now.
CC Roger.
SPT Nope, still one way.
SPT Sounds like exactly the same problem we
had a couple of hours ago with AI.
CC Roger, Owen we are checking with Vanguard
they do have two VHF receivers on and tey haven't received
any down-link but we're hustling as hard as we can to try and
see if it's a ground problem.
SPT (Garble) you.
SPT While we're waiting here Just a minute
Dick, I have still not been able to do the M133 tape trans-
fer and I think that it might be advisable for me to delay the
(garble) part of the experiment for another night. Would you
concur with that?
CC Roger, stand by on that Owen. You
might pass along to AI, incidentally, since our last pass
we've taken a look at the - tomorrow's fllght plan as a
starter to giving y'all some more time and we have a number of
deletions from tomorrow's flight plan that we are considering
based on the various experiment priorities and we are going
to have a decision during the evening and we'll get them hack
to you first thing in the morning the - -
CDR That'd be great, Dick.
CC Okay, the things that we are considering
are the 131 runs, one of the S073 and a prep for the S019.
We really haven't ironed it out all yet; but during your
postsleep checklist in the morning we'll have all the information
for yon and we'll try to give you some more time.
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CDR Okay, I think after a few days of getting it

going here - we Just been working full steam for two we'll be
able to get you to add them all back in there. We'll get
all the time back for you, it's Just we can't make it now,
we had to miss those two 151's we're still not finished to-
night, we're doing five transfers a couple of other items we
didn't finish.
SPT Dick, Jack says he checked configuration on
the VHF both with the headset and with intercom box and it doesn't
work either way.
CC Roger, Owen we'll - I'm sure sorry about that.
We got about 2 minutes left in this pass and if we miss this
whole pass we'll - we can set the same thing up and do it
right we're still gonna try to be set up also at Ascension and
we're checking on it.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
and a half from LOS we're gonna to see you at Ascension at 0233
be advised at Vanguard we - we ended up trying four different
receivers and we never got a down-link so you might - we
really don't know what to suggest about configuration cause
after we squared the problem with A1 before, we had a good
a good reception. The only thing that I have left here on
my list of things for this Ascension pass for the other guys
is my little explanation of where we are on the condensate
system if you'd like to hear it tonight; it can wait until
in the morning if you like. And I did have some news that
you haven't heard any at all from - on the whole mission and
if you're in a listening mood I can - I can read that up
to you. So we're agout 45 seconds from Vanguard and LOS and
we'll see you at Ascension.
CDR Okay, give us the information on the
Condensate if you can, Dick, and then whatever time's left give
us the news. You're right we've sure been out of it here for 5.
CC Okay, and I'ii call Graeia here in
just a second and talk to her about this pass and we'll set -
set that back up at your request.
CC And Skylab, Houston, as we go over the
hill we can delay that 133 tape transfer that I want to ask
about past tonight.
through Vanguard tracking ship very brief gap between Vanguard
LOS and Ascension AOS down to a minute and 40 seconds now to
Vanguard - I mean to Ascension AOS fairly long pass of almost
ii minutes. There was no joy in establishing the VHF tele-
phone patch with Jack Lousma's family over Vanguard and it
will be attempted again over Ascension. Standing by now for
Ascension ascquisition.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 21:32 CDT, 06:02:32 GMT
8/1/73
CC Skylab, llouston. We're AOS Ascension

for I0 and a half minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for i0
minutes.
CDR Houston, how do you read Skylab?
CC Skylab, Houston. Loud and clear. How me?
CDR Read you the same as we been reading you.
Standing by for whatever you want to say, Dick.
CC Roger. First of all, on the condensate
troubleshooting, AI, I know that we've been bugging you for
a long time, but we've been working our hearts out trying to
get the leaks stopped in the condensate system. And essentially,
what we have done, in the various configurations that we've
gone to - is that we've determined the hard llne plumbing
that connects between the condensate heat - the heat exchangers
water removal plates and eventually ends up at that panel 393
connection that - that you'd connect the holding tank to, has
a leak in that hard line somewhere. What we did during the
last hour when we had you close, and then reopen after the
heater exchanger was Just to try to determine that that
heat exchanger was contributing to that leak that we know
was there in the hard line. We're looking at a several options
in order to achieve water removal in the spacecraft. And I'ii
tell you what we're thinking about, but they're not necessarily
in an order of priority and I'ii Just try to let you know
what we're thinking about. One is, we're considering activa-
ting mol sieve Bravo which would put both mol sieves on align.
Another one is, which is obviously an optional one, but not
a very desirable one, and that is using the system as it is on
a periodic basis which puts a burden on you and also really
doesn't solve the problem of the leak. We're looking - we're
looking at hoses and connecters that we may have to install
some sort of a cludge to hook the heat exchanger plates directly
to the condensate tank, holding tank. And by passing this
leaking hard line. Of course we're considering activating
the command module suit loop. However, this doesn't help us
much because there's not enough percentage of the air that
flows over it. And finally, of course, we're trying to think
how we could find and repair the leak, however, we did take a
trip over to the trainer while ago and looked at that hard
line and the number of B-nuts on it, and that doesn't seem
to be - that's seems to be horrendous Job and in checking those.
So, that's essentially what we're doing and we'll be getting back
to you as soon as we've sorted out how we want to further
pursue the problem.
CDR Only one thing I don't understand, Dick.
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How is putting mol sieve B on align help? Do you think it's

only a leak in the A side hard lines or what?
CC Negative, CDR. What happens is the BETs
themselves, in the mol sieve absorb some water. So by putting
the mol sieves on align, we would improve the situation a little
bit. That's not to say we're going to do that, but that was the
thinking behind that option.
CDR Okay, understand now.
CC Okay, one other thing. We're apparently
receiving this phone call here at Ascension is going okay and we're
wondering if you did anything on board in the way of configur-
ation. You don't really have to answer that now if you have
to disturb Owen up there. But we would like an answer sooner
or later. Another question before I get to the
news. We kind of need to know where Jack got to an EREP
checkout so we can do tomorrow's planning. Go ahead.
PLT This is Jack right here. Now, Owen got the
comm set up the same way as I had it. He Just took over
the headsets. Nothing different.
CC Okay.
PLT And as far as EREP goes, I still didn't
get the 190 threading done although I got through the part -
through the checkout, except for the threading.
CC PLT, did you stop the - stand by i.
CDR Say Dick, I just checked with Owen, and
he said he switched to the other antenna. It worked, and now he's
back to the one Jack was on.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much.
CC PLT, Houston. One more question on the
EREP thing. Did you do pages 18 and ii0. That's the 192
check and then the 190 filters and the tape recorder head
cleaning?
PLT Roger, Dick. I got through page i-i0, in
the EREP checklist, except for the 192 threading.
CC Okay, thank you very much. We've still
got about 4 minutes here. Time's kind of short. So I'ii
read you a couple of things been handed me by the news folks.
One of the most powerful Communist leaders in the world died
today. Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany, had survived
Perge at the - after Perge in the Communist portion of Germany.
And he was 80 years old. Today in Russia, Soviet President
was presented with a sample of lunar soil collected by US astronauts.
The soil which will be on display in the Moscow Mineral - I'ii
skip that word - Museam, in Moscow, was picked up by the
Apollo 17 guys. And the sample was presented to the Soviet people
by President Nixon. Locally here in Houston, Lou Cunnlngham,
wife of former astronaut Walter Cunningham is expected to file
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soon for a slot on the Houston City Council and all day today
we were appelted by heavy rains and with the flood warnings
being posted in many areas. In Boston yesterday, there was a
crash of a DC-9 airliner. One of 89 persons survived the crash -
crash and the airplane was trying to land in - against fog.
And for Jack there, he was not flooded. (Laughter).
PLT Thank you. I was about to ask you.
CC On the sports scene Welskopf won the Canadian
open for the $35,000 first prize and he won over $200,000 playing
this year. And last Saturday in the pro-football Hall of Fame,
the San Francisco 49ers beat the Patriots 20 to 7.
SPT How did Palmer do?
CC Don't know, I'll find out for you. It
doesn't that was all it had on here.
CDR Say, Dick, also nobody's more interested
than we are in getting the condensate loop fixed., so yu're not
bugging us a bit. The only problem is the one I mentioned earlier.
We - it takes time to get that tight Plight Plan and there's no
way to get all those things done.
CC Roger. I guess our only concern AI, is
it's seems llke the that we were thinking that you might
think we were very haphazard in the number of things we tried
and so forth. And there has been some method to out madness
trying to look at various configurations for periods of time.
And some of the calls that have been, you know, put up with
that much rationale, we Just want to make sure that you knew
that we think we understand a little bit more about where the
leak is and we Just got to get this system working right so
we can stop working on it and get on with other business.
CDR Right. We understand that. There's one
thing I've known since I've been here. The MDA shutter doesn't
do anything irrational.
CC Roger that.
PLT Hey, Dick. Tell my wife I'm sorry I
missed the call. I could hear her talking at the other end,
she couldn't hear me. And I Just came back down here to finish
my steak and ice cream.
CC Hey Jack, we got about a minute left.
We've got a Guam pass that's about 03:17. It's the next
time around. That's about 10:17 here in Houston. If you'd
llke, I'm sure that we'd llke to try again, if you'd like
to set us up and for that pass.
PLT Okay, I'll try it again. Right about
a half an hour right before bedtime. That's all right. I'll
take it.
CC Okay, l'll tell you what. We'll try to
set that up at Guam at 03:17 Zulu. I will not give you a
an FM call over alr-to-ground. But if you want to talk to
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us on S-band, please feel free to do so.

PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Roger.
from the tracking station on Ascension Island, revolution 1147,
Space station crossing the coast of central Africa. Next
station at Guam, an attempt will be made at Guam to complete
the family call for Jack Lousma. The call was successful
through Ascension for Science Pilot, Owen Garriott. But it
had failed at Vanguard even though several VHF receivers were
used aboard the tracking ship. There will likely be no S-band
communications or open-loop communications through Guam in
as much of this is the final scheduled pass for communications
tonight. The one just completed at Ascension. The Flight
Surgeon Paul Buchanan has issued the Flight Surgeon's bulliten
following the medical conference, the routine nightly medical
conference held about a revolution ago over Vanguard. The
bulletin reads as follows: "The Skylab III crew reports that
this is their best day yet."
END OF TAPE
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Time: 21:46 CDT; 06:02:46 GMT
8/1/73
PAO - - about a revolution ago over Vanguard.

The bulletln reads as follows: "The kylab-lll crew reports
that this is their best day yet. That they feel normal and
well, and that this is the first time they have enjoyed food.
The MO92 was terminated by the science pilot on hlmself_ due
to a slight falnty feeling, or presyncope. This is probably
due to the moderately accelerated dehydration due to decreased
intake of fluids during the past three days. We do not
think this as either a threat to Dr. Garriott, or to the
mission." That completes the flight surgeon's summary.
Thirty minutes to Guam_ and Jack Lousma's family call.
Should there be any S-band communications over Guam, it will
go to the transcript. And at 02:47 Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control signing off until tomorrow morning
at 6 a.m. central daylight.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC234/I
Time: 05:46 CDT, 06:10:46 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at l0 hours

46 minutes Greenwich mean time. On the mission day number 6
we're at the end of the Bermuda pass. We've seen a down
link from the spacecraft indicating the crew may be putting
in a call to us soon. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you called?
CDR That's affirmative, Houston. How you
doing?
CC Okay. Did you get a master alarm onboard
then?
CDR Sure did. We got one for the command
module RCS. It looks like quad D temp is below 80 degrees.
We didn't switch heaters or anything, we thought we'd talk
with you and see what you thought we should do.
CC Roger. we saw that and we verify that was
what it's for and we're I think we're going to turn some
heaters on. Let you know in asec.
CDR All right, sounds good.
CDR And on the VTR I saw the little green
light on, didn't think we were over a site and turned it
off, so you may have to reeommand the VTR on if you want
it to dump or whatever y'all were doing with it.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS.
We'll be coming up on Madrid in about 4 minutes.
loss of signal. Madrid will acquire in about 4 minutes.
The CAP COM is astronaut Hank Hartsfield, flight director
Chuck Lewis. We had planned our first call to the crew
about 2 minutes before Madrid loss of slgnal which would
have been about six. However, near the end of Bermuda LOS
we did see the down-link enabled from Skylab. And CAP COM
put in a call to them to see whether they wanted to
talk to us. We had seen the master alarm on the ground
just prior to that at Bermuda. Suspect that is what aroused
the crew. It's nothing serious. The one of the RCS quad
temperatures getting down to the point where the heaters
need to be turned on for that quad. We're about 2 minutes
away from Madrid. We'll keep the line up and monitor through
Madrid.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC235/I
Time: 05:51 CDT, 06:10:51 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Another fairly

busy flight plan today. There's a couple of runs on the
lower body negative pressure and metabolic activity experi-
ments; about three runs with the S073, the gegenschein
experiment. Owen Garriott will power up the ATM briefly
this afternoon, and Jack Lousma will in the afternoon continue
to align the S192 experiment. Also, several periods of
house keeping and exercise. Madrid should have acquisition
in about 5 seconds. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Madrid 9 minutes.
CDR Morning, Hank.
CC How are we doing this morning?
CDR We're doing good. Let me ask you for
a couple of favors.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Think you could get me a list this
morning of the items that are stowed inside checklists at
various places? I know we got decals and feeler gages and things,
and I don't know exactly where the list is that - that
points out those. I want to go collect those things before
we use the books too much and lose them. But I don't know
which books to go look in, and where.
CC Okay, we'll work that one. And you up in the
command module now?
CDR No, but I'm headed up that. Say so I'd
be glad to drop through and do something for you.
CC Okay, I guess we'd llke to switch heaters
on that quad delta, on panel 5, RCS heaters, engine package Delta,
we'd like to go to position 2.
CDR Okay, we'll sure do that. Next one is,
I noticed that after we'd unloaded the command module there's
still several items in there, and it's probable that we just -
as we unloaded them with our checklist, we forgot that one
of them is an SO19 package. But I believe we have two aboard_
one of which I moved to the film vault. The other one, I
noticed, is in the command module. And I'm wondering if you
could check and see if it's supposed to stay there for a
while? Are we supposed to move it to the film vault somewhere?
And tell me where, and we'll go do it.
CC Roger.
CDR Another item is, you asked the other
day whether or not we had completely finished the activation. We
all looked over our checklist closely yesterday, and we think
it's complete except for the fire rapid Delta V drill. And
so maybe if ya'll could put that on the schedule in the next
couple of days, that would be a good thing.
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CC Roger, we copy.
CDR One of the questions that has been
bothering me a little bit, I gather we donot ever do the
fuel cell purge unless you call up and tell us. So even
though it's on - might be on a presleep check-list for me,
generally it means I got to hear from yon to do it. Would
you verify that?
CC Okay, I'ii work that one, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston_ for anyone. During the
night we noticed that the SO73 run 2 refs and stopped, and
what we'd like to get right away, if it's convenient for
someone, to check the programmer and give us the refs readout.
See if it is 02 or 12.
CDR It's on 02.
CC Roger. In that case, what we'd like for
you to do is set filter wheel A to 3. And, if we could, at
11:33 GMT we'd like to get you to start it. And that will
give us a couple of refs on it before we have to shut it
down because of the recorder conflict with MO92.
CDR Okay, filter wheel going to 3, and at 11:33
we'll start it off again.
CC Okay, thank you a lot.
CDR What do you want on the refs now?
CC Just leave it on 2 and that'll give us
2 refs just right for - prior to the MO92.
CDR Okay.
CC And, A1, in answer to your question about
the fuel cell purge, that will be a scheduled item and we'll
put it in your detail pads when you're scheduled to do it.
CDR Okay. On that pad that came up, was
that supposed to be a ref 12, and I set it at 2? Is that
what occurred?
CDR Okay.
CC Those - on the SO73 those refs would
have been in a checklist under the particular program.
CDR Okay, it wasn't on the pad itself?
CC That's affirmative. That's in the
checklist under the program you're running.
CDR Let me take a look.
from LOS. All your pads are onboard. We'll be coming up
on Honeysuckle at 40, and we'll have a few flight plan
deletions for you there, and a few little odds and ends we'd
like to pick up.
CDR Sounds good, and I just checked the
check-list and it does say 12. I missed that one.
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8/2/73
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
moved out of range of Madrid. Honeysuckle will pick up
Skylab in 37 minutes. At ii hours 3 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-236/I
Time: 06:38 CDT 06:11:38 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hour 38 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
2 minutes with flight plan change for the CDR.
SPT Okay Houston, this is SPT here. We're
Just observing a very interesting (garble) display out the
wardroom window here, I'd like to describe when you've got an
extra minute.
CC How about letting me give you your flight
plan changes then?
CDR Okay, we're right here, go ahead.
CC Okay, for the CDR at 14:00 we'd like to
delete the TB-21 setup. And a little after 17:00, delete the
MI31. A little after 20:00 delete S073 2 Alfa, at 22:00 following
the S073 retract, we would like for you to do MISI. Now
we didn't have that scheduled originally because you were
only going to pull it in 2 rods under our original plan. But
now we're going to retract all 7 rods and we'd like to get
the MI51. And you'll do that with the same set up that you
were using for the S073 extend 151. I can give you a pad
for that if yon like, but it's the same set up. And it may
cause you to run out of film during the S073 stow, but that's
no problem. Do you want a pad for that?
CDR No. Did the pad for the setup come
today?
CDR No. That will he okay then, that's good.
CC Okay. And we also delete the S019 prep.
And on your details, the only deletions there are 20:15,
your S073 2 Alfa, and at 22:45 the remarks regarding S019.
And we're just about to LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone
at 08.
CDR Okay, let me give you the dosimeter
readings for the last few seconds here. Starting red,
white, and blue 45030, 19015, 0703.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And 07034, excuse me.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal after a very short pass. Goldstone will
acquire Skylab in 25 minutes. At ii hours 43 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL II] MC-237/1
Time: 07:06 CDT, 06:12:06 GMT
8/2/73

6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin a
pass over the United States with first acquisition at
Goldstone in less than a minute. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab Houston; through Goldstone
8-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Our first order of priority here,
first order of priority, AI. We'd like to get you to isolate
Quad Delta. That's on El-17 of the CSM Systems checklist.
We notice that the - looks llke the helium tank pressure's
come down on that Quad of about 20 PSI. And the packet temp has
dropped rather remarkably. So we'd like to isolate here as
SOOn as we can.
CDR You mean, you think that previous isola-
tion has somehow gotten loose?
CC That was Quad Bravo. We want to work on
Delta now.
CDR Oh, okay. That's a good deal. Okay.
We'll go do it right now. Say that page again?
CC 1-17 in the CSM systems.
CDR Did you say - say it again, we're
breaking up.
CC Roger. The CSM systems checklist E-I-17.
CDR Okay. E-I-17. Will do.
CDR Houston, do you read the CDR?
CC Roger, CDR. Go ahead.
CDR Do you want us to fire the i jet in
effective quad, or just close the helium valves?
CC Roger. We'd llke for you to go ahead
and fire I jet in the Quad and clear the lines out, AI.
CDR Okay. I'Ii do that.
CC CDR, Houston. If you haven't fired
those Jets yet, how about holding up on that.
CDR And, Houston. We think we ran through
the procedure correctly, with exception of firing the
jet. And the thing that we're kind of puzzled over, is
step i, which says, service module RCS Helium 1 and 2. We
only have one service module RCS Helium switch, as far as
we know.
CC Okay. I have the guys working on
that before AOS here, AI. And we think there may be an error in
the checklist there. I think, what they're talking about
is 2 isol valves there. We've got one switch that does
them both. I think the checklist probably refers back to
something we had before.
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CDR Could be. So we've secured the helium

in the quad. And I don't know whether you want me to open
the secondaries on that one, or not. 1'11 go turn off the
RCS.
CC Okay. And I guess you copied we do
not want to fire the jets.
CDR Understand.
CDR That's sort of interesting. When we were
looking out the wardroom window this morning, we noticed
there were lots of sparklers in the air. We thought that
was unusual, but we've just dumped - used the vacuum line
in the workshop here, to get ready for Mll0, you know, and
vacuate the aft. So, we thought perhaps, there'd been
a little bit of water in the line. We notice now, there's
still sparklers out there. And I don't know whether they're
from that quad or whether not it's from - in the line. But
we'll probably know in a little while. One of the things
that we did do, was go up and look out the command module
windows. We didn't see too many out there. We looked out
the AM window, and didn't see too many. So, it looked like
there was more of them around the workshop, so we sort of
suspected it was from there. But, we're still doing the llO.
So, we can't tell. After a few orbits we can see what's going
on, probably.
CC Okay. We're looking at that quad very
carefully down here, too. And we don't know what the full
story is yet, the packet (garble) really came down there and
it did it in a hurry, less than an hour some 56 degrees, and
we're not sure why.
CDR Okay.
CDR And, Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Let me have a recap now, on where you
want each of the valves. You want (garble) Bravo and Delta.
You want the Helium off on Bravo and Delta -
CC We had a hand over there, AI. Would you
say again?
CC CDR, Houston. We had a keyhole there
at Texas. Would you say again your question regarding the
quad switches?
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SI,-III MC23_I|
Time: f) 7:]8 CD'I', 06:12:18 GMT
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CDR Apparently we're reading intermittently
at the moment. Still standing by for the positions you want
on the secondary valve.
CC Okay, we're working that and the helium
and pop axle valves both should be closed on Bravo and Delta.
CDR Okay, they are. I just didn't know
what to do with the secondary.
CC Okay, the secondaries should be already
closed. Is that correct?
CDR They closed down when you punch the
primary close, but I didn't know whether you wanted them
opened up again.
CC Negative. We'll leave those closed.
CDR Okay, now, all six valves are closed
then.
CC Skylab, liouston. We're out of the
key hole now. We'd like to get someone to check SO73. We're
getting funny looking telemetry here. Like to get someone
to verify that the power is on, and that the experiment
select is set up for S073.
CDR Okay, here's the problem with 73. We
turned the experiment power - well, it turned itself off.
We went back up there and started it, and it stayed on for
about 3 seconds and then turned off. And we did that several
times, changing the gain and also insuring that the shutters
the others were closed. We attempted to change the filters
during the brief 2 or 3 second interval that it was on and
were unable to do that. And so, presently, we just let it
shut itself down and then we turned off the tape recorders.
And we're just standing by to get some opinion from ya'll
on what you'd like to do.
OC Okay, we'll smoke that one over, and we've
got about a minute left here. I'd like to get the SPT's flight
plan changes up, if I could. His is rather simple. He scrubs
the TV21 and both of the Ml31's.
CDR Okay, good.
PLT Hey, Hank, I'm supposed to make a urine
bag resupply. You have some preferred location from which
to take those, or do I just pick some?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to SO73
we would llke to leave the power on to keep the thing warmed
up and the programmer off.
PLT POWER ON, PROGRAMMER OFF.
ODR The trouble is the power won't stay on.
It trips itself off. The light never did go out.
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CC OkBy, we copy.
CC And we're about LOS now. Be coming
up on Canary at 31.
CDR Okay, I turned the power on again, it
kicked itself off, but I left the power switch itself on.
CC Roger, copy.
had loss of signal. The Canary Islands station will acquire
Skylab in about 3 minutes. During this pass over the
United States, while in acquisition at Goldstone, ground
controllers noticed a drop in pressure, both helium and
oxydizer on reaction control system quad D of the service
module. Also, a - a rapid decrease in the package temperature
of that quad. Crew has isolated quad D. The helium and
oxidizer pressures are holding now. They dropped about
20 pounds per square inch. Package temperature came down
around 90 degrees. It is now stabulized in the high 40's.
The pressures are holding about 171 pounds per square inch
at the moment. The most suspect item here is a leak, an
oxidizer leak somewhere. The crew did report seeing
sparklers again. This is the second reaction control
quad on the service module that has been isolated during
this mission. Quad B was isolated earlier in the mission.
B and D are opposite quads. Canaries will have acquisition
shortly, we'll stand by.
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Time: 07:29 CDT 06:12:29 GMT
8/2/73
CC Skylal), }louston through Canaries for

9 minutes. A;Id wlth an ailswer to CDR, the S019 film pack
should go in drawer D in the film vault.
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Roger. Tile urine bags should come from
Delta 402. And I have a couple of flight plan changes I'd
like to talk over with you.
PLT Stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Experts on the
ground are evaluating the quad D situation, and as soon as
anything new is known, we'll bring you that information.
PLT Okay, go ahead with the flight plan change.
CC Okay. I'd like to ask you a question
first, Jack. Have you started the arm and back exercises
yet?
PLT No, I haven't had time. I've been too
darned busy doing other things.
CC Okay. Well, what we were going to ask
you to do was TV 61 at 18:00. In other words move your
PT and personal hygiene up to 18:00 and do TV 61, which is
of that. Now it's your option, if you don't think you can
do a good job of that, we can forget it. In any event, during
housekeeping there, at 18:00 or 20:00, we'd like to do the
S190 film thread, getting ready for the EREP.
PLT Okay. The other housekeeping will include
the film thread, and you want some TV61 at about 18:00 with, using
a Mach i, 1 guess, huh?
CC That's at your option, Jack. If you want
to do it.
PLT Okay, I'ii give it a whirl. I've got a
little work on that thing yesterday, but I didn't have time
to finish up.
CC Okay, and of course we're scrubbing your
MI31 there at 21:00.
PLT Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston.
PLT He's listening.
PLT Go ahead, Hank. He's listening.
CC Oh, okay. I don't know whether he heard
my answer to the question or not. The S019 is still in the
command module. We'd like to get that stored in a drawer D
of the film vault. And also we unlinked two checklist changes
to the EREP checklist, number 2 and 3. And he needs to get
those incorporated today, especially number 3, because he'll
be using some of that stuff today with the S192, or it will
be used with the S192.
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PLT He'll get it.

CC And also for the CDR, he's got a message
regarding turning the, installing the EREP downlink VOX.
And we want him to do all of that procedure that's in the checklist
except the last two steps where you turn the TV on. We want
to install it, but we do not want to turn the TV on.
PLT Okay.
CC And as a general question, where do we
stand now on the checklist changes that we sent up in the
past couple of days? IIave you had a chance to get those
incorperated in the checklist?
CDR We've haven't got the changes put in that
you sent up in the last 2 days. No, we got all the rest of
them in before that. But we haven't had any time to do it
since then.
CC Roger, AI, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Our telemetry shows
in regard to S073 that the shutter and cap are open. And we
really need to get those closed. We'd llke you, at your first
opportunity, to check those and close them if you can.
CDR They show closed here. We'll turn it
on and cycle them a couple of times, if we can get it on
long enough.
CC Okay, if they are showing closed to you,
AI, that's what we want.
CDR Right. They are all showing closed.
We thought of that at first, and maybe it was tripping it off.
But they all show closed.
CC And, AI, just to let you be thinking about
it, we put together a couple of flight plans here for day 7,
one with EREP and one without. And it turns out to be a
pretty full day. If you do the EREP, it amounts to the fact
there is no way to work in your showers, you'll have to go
about an hour and a half into your presleep activities to
do your pre EVA preps. We don't get in any corollaries or ATM.
There is a good bit of housekeeping, we could probably back
off on that. Getting that tag up, as normally scheduled for
that day, is going to be a little difficult. Now the no EREP
day turns out to be almost as bad. We'll have no ATM or
corollary, and we have to cut you short 30 minutes on the
extra hour you requested for the pre EVA prep. There is still
a good bit of housekeeping, and we get a schedule conflict
between your showers and your PT. In other words you'll wind
up with one guy has PT after his shower. In that, we managed
to get a little time off, like changes from 20 minutes
for i crew member, to an hour and a half for the other. They
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are both pretty tight time lines. And I just wanted to make
you aware of these and see if you had any comments on them.
CDR We don't mind missing the shower. We've
been taking sort of sponge baths up here, and they work pretty
good. Everybody looks clean and feels clean. So we can stand
that. I'd say try to go with the EREP if we could and cut
out some of the housekeeping that could be delayed, but not
put it on the shopping list. But just put it in as a scheduled
item until later ot_, the ones that can be delayed past 7.
CC Okay. And for your information now_ AI,
the weather thing Ylow is pretty much "blah-do" for the EREP. It
doesn't look too good. However, we're going to take another
check on it later on this afternoon. And we can priortlrize
the housekeeping so that we should be able to push some of
that back a little bit if we have to.
CDR That's a good idea. Just be sure we get
that EREP prep that we asked for, and if you can prioritize, that's
good. If we finish our EREP - correction, our EVA prep early,
then we'll go ahead and work on the housekeeping.
CC Okay, and we're about LOS now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Canary Islands
has loss of signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in
35 minutes. We're continuing to evaluate the quad Delta
reaction control system on the service module at this time.
When we know some more about this situation, when ever any
decisions are made concerning that, we'll give you that
information. At 12 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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Time: 08:14 CDT, 06:13:14 GMT
8/2/73

14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at Honeysuckle. The flight director now is Milton Windler,
the CAP COM Story Musgrave. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, llouston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes.
CDR Okay, loud and clear.
SPT Houston, SPT with a question for biomed.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT Okay, Story, completed the ii0 and
centrifuging, and I'm about ready to stow it in the freezer.
However, there was one problem I had with the PLT sample.
I didn't shake the blood well enough in the syringe to mix
it thoroughly with the anticoagulant, and as a result, when I
centrifuged it, I did not get a plasma cartridge full, only a
little bit of plasma flowed into it. Now I do have the full
half, still, and it has been centrifuged, and reasonably
well separates. I can even do it again. But I'm wondering
if this half-filled, without the plasma cartridge filled
is adequate, or if they'd like to have me take another sample
on the PLT and do the job over. Over.
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer, Owen.
CDR Okay, also Story I'm going through some
of the changes. One of them happens to be: change number 3
to the SWS systems checklist, RS flush number 80 is house-
keeping number 84M. Now as [ I received one copy of it
and as I look in one of our books here, which there's two, I
notice that I already have a housekeeping 84M, change number 2.
Does this replace that or what? Yeah, I believe it says
it does. I guess then I need another copy so that I can
put it in the other checklist.
CC Okay.
CC Owen, we're working on an answer on the
MII0 for you. We'd like anybody to set up the TV at some
station and turn it on, and we'll manage it from there. And
probably you'd want to use TV 61 since you'll need that
in the afternoon.
CC Skylab, we had a comm dropout there for
about a minute. And did you get my call on setting up the TV
up at any station, and probably the most convenient for you
the TV 61 station?
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, if you get tight on the
flight plan today - if you get behind,the S073 and ATM should
be the first to go.
CDR Okay.
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CC And, AI, we're working on a cue card for

you for OA takeover with the CSM. Werve got to update
what we had because of the problems of quad Delta.
CDR Ue been kind of waiting for it.
CC Okay.
CC And EGIL would like to know the status
of the power system alert light. Is it on or off?
CDR We'll check it right now. It's been
on quite a bit lately; we'll go up there and look.
CC Okay.
CC And Owen, the MIIO people would like
another sample from the PLT if possible. And if necessary
you can use the Skylab 4S.
SPT Okay.
CC And Owen, no need to acknowledge. We're
sending up a startracker checkout pad for you. I'll run
that at your convenience but we will need it for the EREP.
SPT Roger. And the power system's light is
off. I have not yet gone through the (garble) postsleep
configuration checkhowever, on page 3-1. I'm just about to
do that right now but at the moment there's no alert light.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay_ still talking about this SWS
systems change, Story, the RS flush i; change 3 - Is it
change 3?
CC That's affirmative. That's change 3.
CDR I had in my book also, a change 3 that
was called SUS heater fill. Did I misnumber that?
CC Stand by i, AI.
CC And while we're on that subject, we
sent you up a permanent general message_ number 2, and
you still don't have a number i onboard. We'll send you
number I later.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll pick
you up over Hawaii at 13:35.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is
out of range at Honeysuckle now. Hawaii will pick up
the space station in about 9-1/2 minutes. Here on the
ground the experts are continuing to evaluate the service
module reaction control system quad Delta situation. As
soon as they have some answers we'll give those to you.
That quad has been isolated and since isolation of the
quad the pressures have stabilized and the temperatures
are going back up toward the normal range. We'll give you
some more information as soon as we have it. We' ii come
back up at Hawaii in about 8-1/2 minutes. And at 13 hours
26 minutes Greenwich mean time, This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 08:33 CDT, 06/13:33 GMT
8/2/73

the Hawaii Tracking Station.
CC Skylab, we've got you over Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Story. I'm now looking at this change
number 2 to the CSM Systems Checklist.
CC Okay.
CDR And I'm over on page 63. And it says
at 6-3, change service module RCS quad propellant et cetera.
I notice the llne above that is the service module RCS
quad helium. And I suspicion they wanted to have a change
there to make the helium 3 also, and in quad B-barberpole. But ot
isn't on this list, but you might check.
CC Okay.
CC Do you need further clarification on
your SWS systems checklist change 3?
CDR I sure do.
CC Okay. Change number i, was the sus heater
message 0329, two was the refrigeration system, that was
number two, and three was a reprint to that. And that's 0535.
CDR Okay. I was puzzling over that. Would
you do me a favor? I talked out my message number 1.
Could you look at the one that came up, and see what number's
on that thing?
(Line noise unaudlble)
CC The sus heater 1, change pages 9-55 and
9-56.
CDR Okay. I kind of wondered when I wrote
those in the book, orlginally, about 2 or 3 days ago, why
they were 2 and 3. But, now I understand. Thanks.
CC Okay.
CDR But, you do plan to send me a second
number three, don't you?
CDR Okay. Thanks.
CDR I notice that throughout this change
they're not putting - changing the helium B to off. So maybe
they don't want to put the helium B off, Just the propellants.
I'm not sure.
CC We'll get your answer.
you over Goldstone in 2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-242/I
Time: 08:44 CDT 06:13:44 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. IIawaii has loss

oi slgnal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about a minute
and a half. We'll continue to keep the llne up and stand
by for thls next pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone
for 8 minutes.
CDR Rog.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll see you
over Bermuda in 4 minutes. And AI, we would like the quad
Bravo helium open.
CDR Okay. We'll put it open right now.
CDR Do you want Bravo helium or Delta helium?
CC Stand by i, AI, to the next station.
CDR Okay, we'll stand by. We thought you
said Bravo, but we're not sure you meant it.
lost signal with the spacecraft, which is too far north to
be acquired by either Texas or the Merritt Island, Forida
station on this revolution. Bermuda will be the next station
to pick up Skylab in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue
to keep the line up and monitor through Bermuda.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 08:55 CDT 06:13:55 GMT
8/2/73

Bermuda for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. Is that Bravo?
CC Stand by one, AI.
SPT Houston, SPT. Would you like the star
tracker put on to Canopus at this time?
CC I'm getting an answer. And while I've
got you Owen, we believe that the response to the M092 that
we saw yesterday is probably due to low hydration. And if
possible, we would like all crewmen to take as much salt
as they can within the constraints of the diet.
SPT Roger Houston. Good point. We haven°t
been supplementing our food with much salt with much of any-
thing because of the inconvenience to get over there and get
it out of the locker and put on our food, And we'll take
special note of that.
CC Okay, and we sent you up a message
yesterday on the use of the leg bands and that was step 8. Do
you have a little - did you cut that out so you could put it
near the leg bands for which ones to use?
SPT I've got that note on my checklist now,
and I did Just what you asked. I've got that note over there.
You will of course note if you have read channel A that I
did use one of those bands that you requested I not use on
my M092 yesterday. But we will break out new bands and sub-
stitute it on the 92 runs today.
CC Okay, good Owen.
SPT It looks like the data we got yesterday
with the leg bands used was satisfactory though. Is that
not correct?
CC Say again.
SPT It looks llke the leg bands we used yesterday
were still satisfactory, however. I didn't see any indication
that there was not adequate range in their value.
CC Okay, I'ii check.
SPT Owen, the leg band stayed within range
yesterday.
SPT Okay, fine thank you. I Just put the
MII0 data on channel A, and I'm going to go put all that old
SMMD data on channel A at this time. There is an awful lot of
numbers.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Story, I've got the TV hooked up in the
TV-61 location. You want me Just to leave it on and you're
going to run it when you get a chance, is that right?
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CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Regarding the helium quads the message
the references on page 63 is correct. If we do a soft undock-
ing, we've opened up all 4 quad helium valves in case you need
that quad for emergency purposes.
CDR Okay, I noticed that they have done that
all the way through, and it really makes sense. Okay.
PLT Story, I'm going to (garble) a little while
until we get the use of this on exercise on TV, modify
the pointing a little bit so it takes M092, and 171 if that's
all right with you.
CC Yeah, that's great, Jack.
PLT I thought you guys have got the tape
recorder running right now.
CC Affirmative.
CC Okay, Owen don't lock the star tracker
on now. We're uplinking the star tracker pad 2 to you at this time.
SPT Okay, I did get a star tracker pad for Canopus
a little earlier. I'ii wait and as soon as I get this new pad
I'ii lock on a new star and I presume you fellas will take
care of enabling and do the update and so forth as you like.
I'ii just put it on and leave it in auto.
CC Affirmative.
SPT And for your information, I do have a
power systems alert light now.
CC Thank you.
CDR And Story, clarify again the helium valve
that you wanted open now, in the CSM.
CC We don't want any of them open now, AI.
CDR Oh, you changed. Okay, understand.
CDR You might pass this through de activation
checklist troops, Story. Since we're starting to get
some changes to that checklist, and I suspect a lot more as
a result of these quads we've got in addition to probably
other things, I've taken the three books and called one
of them CDR, one of them SPT, and one of them PLT. So if
they will call out which one of those three books the change
applies to we'll Just put it in that book.
CC Okay. That's a good idea, AI.
CDR Okay, we've finished the checklist
update to the deact books and the SWS systems books, yeah,
SWS systems book one of them anyway not the other yet, be-
cause we haven't got the messages. It's probably there and
we haven't seen it. And I'm going to go do the EREP checklist
now and then do it. And then later on Itll try to get the
G&N one next time.
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CC Okay. Going LOS in 15 seconds. See

you over Canaries in 1 minute.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The best estimate
on a time for a change of shift briefing now is 9:30 a.m.
central daylight time in the briefing room at the News Center
at JSC. Estimating 9:30 a.m. central daylight time for
a change of shift briefing. Tracking shows Skylab's current
orbit is 239 by 234 nautical miles. We'll continue to stay
up for acquisition at Canaries which should occurr in
about i0 seconds. And Ascension has overlapping coverage
with Canary.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC244/I
Time: 09:07 CDT, 06/14:07 GMT
8/2/73
CC Skylab, we're back with you over Canaries

and Ascension for 16 mlnutes. And Owen your startracker
pad is onboard, no need to acknowledge.
CC No need to acknowledge, Skylab. We'll
be losing you for 1 minute in the keyhole here.
CC And we're back with you Skylab.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We're concerned about the SO73 thermal
and we may have a power supply problem in that experiment.
We got a couple of thing we'd llke to do over this station
passage.
CDR Okay. Do you want me to stop doing
this EREP VOX now and go work on 73?
CC That's affirmative if possible, AI.
CDR Okay, sure possible. What I'ii head
down by 73 and I'Ii give you a call.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I'm right next to 73.
CC Cycle the power switch off then on.
And once you've done that, plage shaft to decrease.
CDR Okay now when I turn it on it only takes
3 seconds for it to kick off. And it doesn't look llke
there's any way that I can decrease the shaft during that
period. I'ii - I'ii give it a try a couple of times if
they don't mind me turning it off and on several times.
CC That's correct; do that, AI.
CDR It won't stay on long enough to move
and it's at 375 at the moment. It just won't stay on. It's
only on about 2 or 3 seconds and nothing moves. Incidentally
when I ran that malf procedure the other day I found this
black connector that they asked me to cheek first. Look
like it had backed off about 20 degrees, so I closed it
completely and it seemed to run okay then. And that's all
the malf procedure that was needed to go through.
CC Roger,,
CC AI, in some way we'd llke to get the
shaft to 040, and trunnion, 000. The previous crew had
success using the shorting plug.
CDR Okay, we'll get out the check-llst. We
got the shorting plug in our hand and we'll get out the
check-llst and start working on it.
CC Okay, A1 we got an update for you. Just
hold on that, go back to the EREP and then take up SO73 as
per the flight plan.
CDR All right, we're just going to Just
leave SO73 turned off; we're going right back to EREP.
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CC Thank you, sir; and we're going AOS in

10 seconds. We'll plck you up over Carnarvon at 14:50.
CDR Okay, in the event that when I plck up
with 73 do you want me to use a shorting plug and do
what you said?
CDR Okay.
loss of signal. Skylab's next station is Carnarvon in
25 minutes. We have a power problem with the S073 experiment,
the gegenschein zodiacal light experiment, can't maintain
power to it. And trouble shooting on - on that will be
held up until the regular SO73 operation time in the flight
plan. We'll come back up Just prior to acquisition at
Carnarvon. We've had no further word on the change of
shift briefing . It's becoming obvious that the flight
director, Chuck Lewis is probably not going to make 9:30.
He's in the daily meely - meeting and we don't have a good
estimate on when that meeting will break. Soon as we get
a better time we'll come up and give it to you. At 14 hours
26 minutes Greenwich mean time, th_s is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-245/1
Time: 09:45 CDT, 06/14:45 GMT
8/2/73

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Apollo Spacecraft Program
Manager, here at the Johnson Space Center, Glynn Lunney is
on his way to the news center at this time, for a briefing
on the service module reaction control system quad situation.
We have isolated two of the four quads on the service module.
That briefing will start very shortly in the news center
briefing room. Flight Director, Chuck Lewis, is still in
a meeting. He will either Join the Lunney briefing or a
separate change of shift will be held with Chuck Lewis,
following the Lunney briefing, depending on when Lewls's meeting
breaks. To repeat, a news conference concerning the reaction
control system situation on the service module will begin
within the next few minutes in the Johnson Space Center news
briefing room. We will tape any Skylab passes through trackin_
stations and play those back at the earliest opportunity.
At 14 hours 47 minuees Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-246/I
Time: 10:17 CDT, 06/15:17 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 15 hours

17 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're up llve at Hawaii,
about halfway through that pass. There has been no conversa-
tion yet at the Hawaii station. We taped about 4 minutes
worth of communication at Honeysuckle. We'll play that as
early as possible. It probably will be after this series
of stateside passes. Over Honeysuckle, the M192 and the
M171 experiments, lower body negative pressure and the
bicycle ergometer metabolic function experiments were being
performed with Jack Lousma as the subject, and Garrlott as
the observer. Chuck Lewis has returned to the Control Center
from the meeting. We'll give you notice when he leaves here
for the news center. We'll stand by llve through the rest
of this Hawaii pass.
CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to a 1-mlnute
keyhole.
CC We're back with you, Skylab. And, CDR,
we've got some answers to your questions on decals and EREP
feeler gages.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Now, we launched 7 decals and 1 S192
(garble) and one S192 feeler gage, plus one EREP (garble).
CC All of them are located in the transfer
data card kit, that was in NR3. It should now be in W742. The
EREP (garble) can be located inside the pages of the cover of
the EREP malfunction procedure. That's located at MIIO.
CDR Okay. Good. We knew where those were
and we thought maybe there were some others, but if that's
it, we've got them all. Thanks,
CC Okay. And one other thing here_ AI. On
the S073, leave that switch on. Even if the displays go
blank, you still have 28 volt heater power. So, when
you pass by the experlment_ if you haven't, leave the switch
on.
CDR I'ii go check it and put it on right now.

CC Thank you, sir.
CC We're going LOS here. We'll pick you up
over Goldstone in 4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has loss
of slgnal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about 3 minutes.
We'll keep this line up and monitor on into Goldstone. Chuck
Lewis is still in the Control Center. We'll pass the word
to you as soon as he is able to go to the news center.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-247/I
Time: 10:23 CDT 06/15:23 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about

30 seconds away from acquisition at Goldstone. Flight Direc-
tor, Chuck Lewis estimates he will be in the News Center
and ready to begin his briefing at Goldstone loss of signal,
about 5-1/2, 6 minutes from now. To repeat, the news confer-
ence with Flight Director Chuck Lewis will begin at Goldstone
LOS about 5-1/2 to 6 minutes from now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you through
Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. You ought to have real time TV
if you want me to look at it.
CC Say again, please.
PLT We should be sending down TV at this time.
CC Okay, we're looking for it.
PLT Okay. We're going to run the LBNP, and
A1 is going to be working on the bicylce for a little exercise.
CC Roger.
CDR Story, is the general feeling down there
that both of these quads now are isolated, we're not losing
either propellant or helium out of them?
CDR Is also the general feeling that if we
had to use them some time from now, that we could turn them
on and use them?
CC We're looking at that very hard right now,
AI, especially how much time we could get out of quad Delta.
CDR What do you mean, how much time out of
quad Delta?
CC How much burn time and how many duty
cycles we could get out of it.
CDR You mean from the point of view of turning
on the propellant and the helium, and then making the burn
and then turning off the propellant and the helium?
CDR Okay. What's the opinion down there
generally, that one of those valves is stuck open each of those
quads somewhere, either putting out oxidizer or propellant?
CC Alan, on quad Bravo, we think it is
an oxidizer valve partially open. On Delta it could be a
valve or the connection to the quad.
CC But we are still working that real hard.
We're going LOS here. We'll see you over Mila in 3 minutes.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out of
range of Goldstone now. And we will turn this release line
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over to the News Center for use during the news conference
with Flight Director Chuck Lewis. We'll tape through the
Mila Island and any succeeding passes that occur during the
news conference and at the earliest opportunity probably Ascension
loss of signal, we'll play back the tape of the Honeysuckle
pass and any passes that occur during the Lewis news confer-
ence. That news conference will start within the next few
minutes at the briefing room in the News Center. Flight
Director Lewis is on his way to the News Center at this t1_e.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-248/I
Time: 10:58 CDT, 06/15:58
8/2/73

58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab in contact at
Ascension now. We are back up llve. bout 4 more minutes
left in this Ascension pass. t loss of signal at Ascension,
we will play back tape that was accumulated during the
Honeysuckle pass, and at Merritt Island, Bermuda, and Ascension,
during the news conferences. About 8 minutes in tape total
for those stations. Just prior to losing contact at Bermuda
on this revolution, the crew was informed that the extra
vehicular activity had been cancelled for Saturday. They
were also informed that a private operational management
conference would be held with them over Goldstone at either
18 hours 40 minutes or 20 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean
time. That would be 1:40 or 3:18 Central Daylight time.
The earlier time is preferable to the crew and it will be
held at that time if all the data on the quad situation is
available for the ground to talk to them about_ if it's not it
will be held at the later time. A summary of that conference
will he released publicly as soon as possible after the
conference. We're about 2 minutes away from LOS at Ascension.
We'll stand by live for the rest of this pass.
see you over Carnarvon at 16:24.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-249/I
Time: 11:02 CDT 06/16:02 GMT
8/z/73

2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah beyond the range
at Ascension now. The tape of the communications held during
the news conference is ready now, and we'll play that.
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger. Jack and Owen are doing 92, 171,
and I'm busily changing the G&N checklist. I've connected
up to the EREP box hut didn't turn on the TV power because
I didn't think you wanted it on. Everything is connected
though, ready for when ever you need it.
CC Okay.
CDR And 73 is Just sitting up there.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I've got an awful lot of data on channel
A now MII0 data and both M1 correction, SMMD cals for both the
wardroom and the head. So when that stuff gets dumped, I'd
appreciate a verification that it all got (garble) down
satisfactorily.
CC Wetll get it to you, Owen.
CC And CDR, no need to reply, hut the SWS
systems checklist change number 3 Is on board.
PLT Hello Story. I've got a question on
leg hands for the LBNP.
PLT Hello, Houston.
PLT Hello Houston.
CC Skylab flight, do you read?
PLT Flight Skylah. [ read you. Is the
Capcomm out for coffee?
CC Negative. }|e's having a headset problem
apparently.
PLT Very good. Glad to talk to you for a
change. I have a short question fo_ yon here. It's on
the leg bands for the LBNP, the ones that are down there in
our drawer have several which are the do not use list. I
have in my left hand four which we brought up with us, hut
none of these are on the llst that we should use. So I'm
a little perplexed as to what we're expected to use as the
ones we've got and don't use and if we don't have the ones that
we're supposed to use unless they're somewhere where I don't
know about it. So if they are over in the spare locker, I'ii
take another look in the spare locker and see if that's where
they are located.
CC That sounds llke a reasonable question
We'll have to get the answer.
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Time: 11:02 CDT 06/16:02 GMT
8/2/73
SPT Thank you very much.

CDR Is that you, Milt?
CC That's affirm.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT You have a (garble) this time?
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Boy, it's Just barely readable with a
voice like that. We were reading that other fella a lot
better.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Now we're showing the bat charger is
connected to bat bus A, and it should be off, and we're
wondering how it got that way.
CDR We'll sure check it.
CDR We'll check it. Probably got that
way this morning in dark when we were trying to get the
caution and warnings looked at and look at quad D.
CC Okay AI.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS in
20 seconds. See you over Hawaii at 15:13. And for the SPT,
use any leg bands available today.
SPT Okay, and I did find some of those on
the okay list over in the other spare locker, Story. Thank
you.
CC Great, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 8 min-
utes.
CC Skylab, we've gct you through Mila and
Bermuda for I0 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
over Bermuda at 15:35.
CC Skylab, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Can all three crewmen hear me?
SPT Well, just barely. Jack is in the LBNP,
just starting that run. AI is on the ergometer pedaling, and
I'm the observer of course at the squawk box. So we're
all here in one group but we're all sort of working. Mayb_ _
we can hear you all right. I'ii turn the volume up a littJ_ _
bit.
CC Okay. Now we're working these quad Bravo
and quad Delta problems real hard down here. Because of
those problems, we'd like to cancel the EVA that is presently
scheduled forday B. And we'd like to have a management oper-
ational discussion with you all over Goldstone at 18:40, or
possibly over Goldstone at 20:18.
SPT Stand by and I'll check those times.
CDR 18:40 is probably good, isn't it?
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Time: 11:02 CDT 06/16:02 GMT
8/2/73
CC Yes sir.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready.
CC If we can't pull all the data together
by then, it will he at 20:18.
CDR Okay, give us about 30 minutes notice,
would you?
CC We'll do that. And one other thing we
don't like disturbing you on the bike. Did you turn the
$073 power switch on? We're getting good telemetry now.
CDR I turned it on but the lights went on
and then kicked off again Just as they have been doing.
CC Okay, we Just wanted to verify that you
did throw the switch,
CDR Okay, I might try moving the shaft and
trunnion when I get off here even though the lights are off.
Perhaps that would work. I don't know.
CC We'll take care of that when we get to
the scheduled time for S073. We're going LOS here in about
40 seconds. We'll see you over Ascension 15:52. And as we
go over the hill, turn the TV camera off at your convenience.
CC Skylahj we have you through Ascension
for i0 minutes.
PAn This is Skylab Control. That is the
end of the tape. We'll come hack up prior to acquisition
at Carnarvon which will be in 14-1/2 minutes. At 16 hours
i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC250/I
Time: 11:23 CDT, 06/16:23 GMT
8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hourH

the Carnarvon station.
Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
CC AI, you working S073 now?
CDR I'm - I'm over here by the 73 and it
and it just won't do. It won't - it comes on and clicks off.
I can't point it to the pad numbers. I tried putting the
programmer in the (garble) configuration, that didn't help
either. You turn on the power switch, 2 seconds later
it kicks off. New I might be able to just - well there's
nothing I can do as far as I can tell. I'ii get out the
mall procedures and start working on that if you rec:ommend it.
CC Okay, we've got some stuff here for you.
I configure that
CDR Okay.
CC Configure the tape recorder select switch
so that we can have telemetry. Check that you've got that
and then try mode 6.
CDR Try Mode 6, okay just a second.
CDR I tried Mode 6. It came on for about
3 seconds then kicked off again.
CC Okay AI, install the shorting plug, the
AI0, and try to drive the photometer to shaft 340 and trunnion
000. The normal is 040 and 000, bu= 340 on the shaft ought to
do it.
CDR Okay, we'll try.
CDR I installed the shorting plug, tried to
move it and I moved it 3 or 4 steps before it kicked off. It
looks llke if I do that repeatedly I can get t:_e numbers you
want maybe.
CC AI, we see it moving. Keep getting all
you can to get to a retrac= position. And remind the MO92/
MI71 people _ewnstalrs that when they get ready to run that
they've got priority in the tape recorders and set them
back to the MI71 position.
CDR Okay now it doesn't show it running here.
It moved that few times when I called you, but now it seems
to be stuck on 375 004.
CC AI, take the shaft switch to off and then
to decrease.
CDR Okay, I've done that a couple of times.
I can move the trunnion, it's the shaft I can't move. Doesn't
seem to want to go either direction.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:32 CDT, 06/16:32
812173
CDR Hasn't moved in the last couple of

minutes. And the shaft is in decrease.
CC Okay, AI. Put the trunnion to 000, do
what you can with the shaft, and then install the Jumper
cable via the cue card.
CDR Okay. In work.
CDR Okay, I'm going to do - make that Jumper
cable changeout, and to do it, I'm going to disconnect the
telemetry here, and disconnect the power.
CC Okay, AI. And that jumper cable procedure
is at your convenience any time. It's not time critical. Just
be sure to leave the power switch on.
CDR Okay. Well, I'm going to disconnect it
for a minute here, so I can take that cable off.
CC Good idea. We're 10 seconds to LOS
here. We'll be picking you up over Guam in 3 minutes.
loss of signal. A1 Bean continuing to troubleshoot the
power problem with the SO73 Gegenschein/Zodiacal Light
experiment during this pass. Skylab will be within range
of the Guam station in 2 minutes. We'll continue standing by
and keep the line up.
CC Skylab, we've got you over Guam for
i0 minutes.
CDR Okay. Story, I've replaced the jumper
cable, and ensured that both ends of the connector are tight.
And I've attempted to move the shaft, but no luck.
CC The trunnion switch has got to be in the
center position for the shaft to work, AI.
CDR It's in the center-off position and I
put the trunnion in zero.
CC Roger.
CC AI, I think it's lunch time now.
CDR Okay. I'ii Just leave the power on and
I do not have the programmer hooked up at the moment. I have
a shorting plug in. Is that the way you want it?
CC Yes, that's affirmative. And remind
the boys downstairs to reconfigure tape recorders for MITI.
CDR Will do.
CDR It's strange that the shaft went out to
375, because the limit was 374.
CC Copy that.
CDR Is this where it stuck on SL-2?
CC That's similar, AI.
END OF TAPE
u
SL-III MC252/I
Time: 11:42 CDT, 06/16:42 GMT
8/2/73
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC If you've completed the isolation check
on the electrodes, could you be sure the isolation switch is
in the off position?
SPT Very good, you caught that very promptly.
We're getting a dead short on the isolation. I guess we
well, we think we've loosened the blood pressure cuff and I'm
confident that the short is in that blood pressure cuff, to
ground. It's a normal occurence. We're pressing on, even though
it does show a dead short on ISOLATION. Over.
CC That's - that's fine Owen. We got about
30 seconds to LOS here. We'll see you over at Goldstone at
17:04.
SPT Glad you mentioned that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Goldstone
station in 15 minutes. At 16 hours 48 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-253/I
Time: 12:03 CDT, 06/17:03
8/2/73

3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab at Goldstone now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you state-
side for 15 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. We're about 15 minutes
into the 171 now.
CC Okay.
CC No need to acknowledge, Owen, but the
data looks good.
SPT You'll notice those blood pressure
measurements are a bit erratic. Now that last one was a good
one, 202, because he held his left arm off the bicycle. But
it's difficult to do that when that's your only means of
restraint. The preceding, which is higher, I'm sure was
erroneous.
CC Yeah. We caught that, Owen. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to a 1-minute
keyhole.
CC Now we're back with you.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-254/I
Time: 12:14 CDT, 06/17:14 GMT
8/2/73
CDR lloust on, CDR.

CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Okay. I'm running through this house-
keeping CM-7 check right now. And I was looking at the CM
RCS injector valve temp. And they're supposed to be greater
than 1.5, and I noticed a couple of them are not. B9 is
about 1.4, at least on this gage.
CC Copy.
CDR And B6 is 1.4.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
loss of signal. Skylab will next be acquired by the Carnarvon
station in 41 minutes. At 17 hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean
time this is Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-255/I
Time: 12:59 CDT 06/17:59 GMT
8_2/73
PAn This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 59 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylah will be within range of
the Carnarvon station within a few minutes. The service
module reaction control system situation has not changed.
We have quads Bravo and Delta isolated. Quad Bravo since
day I of the mission shortly after launch, quad Delta since
this morning. Apparently oxidizer leaks in both of those
quads. Here on the ground, systems experts and management
officials are taking a look at all of the options available
to them. This situation does not call for an immediate
curtailment of the mission. The people here on the ground
would like to take a look and understand perfectly Just what
capabilities remain in the reaction control system, what
configurations are possible with the two remaining quads.
Among the options they are looking at is the possibility of
a rescue mission. And launch teams at the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida have been requested to take a look at the possibility
of such a mission, using command module number 118, the vehicle
scheduled for the next manned Skylab launch, Skylab-4. A
decision to launch such a rescue mission has not been made.
Meanwhile Skylab crew members A1 Bean, Owen Garrlott, and
Jack Lousma are continuing orihital activities. There will
be some change in the flight plan for the next several days.
For instance, the EVA extra vehicular activity scheduled
Saturday has been postponed, so there will be some revision
of the flight plan for the next few days. We anticipate e
status report on the reaction control system situation later
today from management officials. We're within about 45 seconds
of acquisition at Carnarvon. We'll stand by for that pass.
CC 8kylab, we have you through Carnarvon
for 7 minutes.
CDR Here we are.
CC And what's everybody doing now?
PLT Well, we're getting our cameras out, and
we're getting a little chow. We've been running behind as
usual.
CC Okay. Today that's fine. Now your man-
agement conference is still on over Golds,one at 18:40.
SPT Okay.
CC And for that reason itts probably best
that you slip the beginning of M092 and MITI until right after
that conference.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. We Just brought
S019 film load down. And unfortunately, the ETC magazine and
the other S019 are in the D locker. And have you got any
other suggestions?
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Time: 12:59 CDT 06/17:59 GMT
8/2/73
CC Would you explain that again, AI.

CDR Okay. We've got two S019 film canisters
aboard. And this morning I wondered where to put the second
one. You indicated - Houston indicated that it was the B locker,
I think they did, maybe it was a different one. And I went
down there and looked and there is already one in there. That's
was the first one I brought up, plus the ETC magazine. So
there is no room for this second one in there, that I can see.
CC Okay. You'd llke an answer on where
to put the second one.
CDR Rog. I've got it in a bag down here.
I'm Just waiting slip it in somewhere. It won't fit in a
normal film drawer, it's Just a little too blg, a little
too high.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, Story, SPT. I'm a little late getting
you your BMMD readings. Do you want to get those down now
this morning?
CC That's affirmative, Owen.
SPT Okay. Everyone's top shape. No medication,
and the BMMD readings, three for each of us in turn, 6.234m
6.230, 6.235; 5.995, 6.003, 5.995; 6.955, 6.954, 6.949. And
lot less scattered.
CC Got it.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC256/1
Time: 13:07 CDT, 06/18:07 GMT
8/2/73
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, did you get the fuel cell purge
done last night?
CDR I did not. I made a - I asked if you
wanted one and I didn't see one to do. Was there one on
the plan and I missed it?
CC That's housekeeping, command module
4, and you could do that today when you finish up command
module 7.
CDR Okay, I think I asked about that. I
was - earlier yesterday whether you wanted me to do it or
wait for a message from the ground. But I guess the house-
keeping 4, that was enough. I'ii go do it Just as soon
as we finish this. lets - presently ECS is running and
when I turn it off I'ii do the fuel cell check.
CC Okay, and there's no hurry on this. And
for the rest of the day there are no time critical events.
The VTR presently is inoperative. I'ii leave it in it's
present status because we want to do some trouble shooting.
And so, from now on any TV we get will have to be real time.
CDR Okay.
CC The quad temps you report earlier, we
considered okay. If necessary, if we need to use the quads_
we use the heaters. And considering your film stowage,
I take the ETC mat out of D and put it in J, and then your
second S019 mat, put that in D. And we're going LOS here at
this time. Wetll see you over at Guam in 7 minutes.
loss of siena1. During this pass we informed the crew
that the video tape recorder appears to be inoperative and
that we'll want to trouble shoot that sometime later. In
the mean time the TV that we do get will have to be live and
in real time. No capability to tape it and store it aboard.
Guam will acquire Skylab in 6 minutes. We'll come back
up Just prior to that. At 18 hours Ii minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-257/I
Time: 13:00 CDT, 06/18:00 GMT
8/2/73

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now, within range
of Guam. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab. We have you through Guam for
6 minutes.
SPT Okays Story.
CC And who's closest to the ATM panel this
time?
SPT A1 says he's on his way. What do you
want?
CC Okay. We would prefer to back up the
CMGs with the TACs instead of the CSM, because of quad
problems. Sos we'd like to enable CMG reset, and enable
the 6 TACs switches.
SPT Okay. We'll take care of it.
CC And you need to get the TAC switches but
we can get the CMG reset from the ground, if you prefer, or
I can give you a DAS command.
SPT No, we'll check the DAS command on
the little pad, right there, and put it in and Just put
on the TAC switches.
CC Okay. Thanks.
SPT Okayj Story. You ought to see it on
the ground, now. The auto reset enable to the TAC switches
are (garble). You may not see those but they are all on.
CC We're seeing them, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston, i0 seconds to LOS.
We'll be picking you up over Goldstone at 18:40. And could
you turn experiment 1 tape recorder off, please. We'd
like to make a dump.
CDR It looked off to us, Story.
CC Say again.
CDR It looked llke it was off.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out
of range now to Guam station. Goldstone will acquire
Skylab in 16 minutes. We do have lines up between Houston
and Goldstone in case there's any llve television during
this next pass. Wetll come back up Just prior to acquisition.
At 18 hours 25 minutes G_eenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-258/I
Time: 13:39 CDT, 06/18:39 GMT
8/2/73

39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah coming up within
range of the Goldstone station. Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.,
the Director of the Johnson Space Center will be the capcom
during this pass. A management meeting has Just been
concluded, and Dr. Kraft will brief the crew on the reaction
control system situation. We'll stand by live for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you state-
side for 16 minutes.
CDR RoE.
KRAFT Hey_ AI. This is Chris Kraft.
CDR Go ahead, Chris.
KRAFT We Just had a meeting to summarize the
status of where we think we stand, and I'd like to give you
a run down on that, if you're ready.
CDR We're ready.
KRAFT As far as the RCS system is concerned
we really can't determine at this particular moment whether
we have a generic problem, or whether we have some - two
unique problems with these quads. Now what I mean by thac is_
that welre chasing down the possibilities of any contamination
in the propellant, and particularly the oxidizer. Off hand
we don't see any, but we're running that down. We're also
checking any problems we might ha_e had at the Cape, and the
instrumentation on the system, or anything else that looks
llke we may have something that connects the ground test
with what we're seeing in flight. But, off hand, we dontt
see any generic problems. Secondly, we feel falrly confi-
dent that welve got 2 quads, for attitude control, should we have
a problem with anything that would result in immediate
reentry. We have the command module attitude system as a
backup to that. And we feel, indeed, if we needed to backup,
for the SPS, that we could use the RCS for a backup reentry.
So, we feel fairly confident in that system. Now_ Just to
be prudent, however, we have started the preparation of the
vehicle at the Cape, on an accelerated basis, so that we would
have a rescue vehicle available to us, should that become
necessary. By the way, I'm talking on the open loop, here,
AI.
CDR Understand.
KRAFT Now, let me talk a little bit about the
EVA. We think there, it would be prudent to probably delay
that, and we aren't prepared to say how long, whether that's 24,
48 hours, or what. But, we feel that wetd be prudent to
delay that EVA to allow us some additional procedural develop-
ment here on the ground for both, reentry under the condi-
tions we now have, that is 2 quads, and to assure a proper
OWS performance during the EVA; what I'm talking about there,
SL-III MC-258/2
Time: 13:39 CDT, 06/18:39 GMT
8/2/73
is the problems we've had with the condensate loop and

so forth. We'd Just like to make sure that.'re got that
all squared away, so that if we had some problems during the
EVA, that we'd know precisely how to handle them. Therefore, on
that basis, we think we ought to take a little more time in
developing those procedures, not that we're not satisfied
with the ones you have on board, we Just think it'd be a
good idea to take that extra time.
CDR Understand.
KRAFT Okay. Now, I guess in concluding,
I'd llke to say, further, that wetre proceeding here with
as if we're going to have a nominal mission. And as far
as your work is concerned, and the flight plannlng is
concerned, with the exception of sending you up some possible
modifications, to procedures for emergency situations under
the 2-quad case, that we're going to plan your work days and
your off days, and the use of the onboard equipment as if
it were a perfectly nominal mission. And we feel that's
the proper way to go also. Now, I'ii conclude my input here,
and say that - that's our input to you. And if you feel
like you need any further discussion on this thing, please
feel free to call us in any way in which you want to.
CDR Fine. You Juat said the right words.
WeVve been hoping you'd say that all day, ever since we
found out that that was e true problem that we had with
our quads this morning. We've been sort of concerned. And,
I think, that I speak for Jack and Owen, and I know for myself
when I say, we're pretty happy with the way things are going,
at the moment. And we agree with everything you've said
about the capabilities that exist right now in the space-
craft, and the capability that would exist even if we had
some further problems. We don't plan on any. But, even if
we did we still have plenty of capability to return home
safely. And we agree i00 percent with what you Just
announced.
KRAFT Okay. So be it.
CC Okay, Skylab. Capcom's back with you.
CDR Great. Everybody's happy up here.
CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC259/I
Time: 13:46 CDT, 06/18:46 GMT
8/2/73
CDR Hello, Story, you there?

CC Yes, sir, for another 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT You'd better be there for another
56 days.
CC I will.
PLT Okay, here's a message I want to get
across. That EREP checklist you sent me to change this
mornin E. And I made the change, number 003, but you only
teleprinted up one thermal (garble) surge pattern, page i0-Ii,
to stick in the checklist and I got two books. Are you planning
on sending another one?
CC Stand by 1 Jack.
CC Jack, we can send you another change.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
We'll pick you up in Vanguard in i0 minutes. And the TV
we got with the CDR doing PT was great, and we'd llke to
cancel the rest of the TV for the day.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab passing
out of range at the Merritt Island tracking station now. The
Vanguard tracking ship will pick up Skylab in about 9-i/2
minutes. During this pass over United States, Dr. Christopher
C. Kraft Jr., Director of the Johnson Space Center, briefed
the crew on the results of a management meeting which
concluded Just a minute or two prior to acquisition at
Goldstone. He told them that we were confident of the two
remaining reaction control system quads, that deorbit
capability remained in that reaction control system. However,
the management felt it was prudent to began preparing the
rescue vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He
said we planned to delay the EVA, for he didn't know how
long, to allow additional procedures to be developed
concerning the orbital workshop condensate system and other
items. He advised the crew that we wanted to proceed with
the nominal mission. Crew commande* A1 Bean responded that
those were the words that the crew had been hoping to hear,
that they agreed in every respect with the assessment here
on the ground and that they were happy. We'll come beck
up Just prior to Vanguard acquisition in about 7-1/2 minutes.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-260/I
Time: 14:05 CDT 06/19:05 GMT
8/2/73

5 minutes Greenwich mean tlme_ coming up on acquisition
at the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll stand by.
CC Skylah, we have you through Vanguard
for 7 minutes.
PLT Hello, Story. We've completed housekeeping
PM7 and we've got the fuel cells all purged and purge 1 heaters
off.
CC Okay, copy that. And while I have you,
concerning all the checklist changes we sent up this morning,
delete those CSM changes.
CDR Oh, we already got the CSM changes incorporated
thank you. I think we've got them all incorporated.
CC Okay, we copy that. We're going to send
you up the incorporate clause Bravo and Delta changes.
CC Skylah, we*re going LOS in 1 minute. See
you over Goldstone at 20:18.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has loss
of signal. There is a long LOS now. Skylah not coming in
contact with any tracking stations until Goldstone 1 hour
2-1/2 minutes from now. At 19 hours 15 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC26] /i
Time: 1517 CDT, 06/20:17 GMT
8/2/73

mean time. Fifty seconds away from acquisition through Goldstone
tracking station for the final stateside pass for the day.
Nearing the end of revolution 1157, we'll stand by for acqui-
slton and conversation during this pass.
CC Skylah, Houston. We've got you through
Goldstone a1_d Texas for ii minutes. We'll have a keyhole
about a minL1_e from now. And we're coming up on the keyhole
now.
PLT He%lo_ Story. EREP guys listening?

CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. I started to load this film but
I got a couple of questions. It isn't going to take me long
once I get into it. But l've started loading the first one
and the leader didn't look much like the picture in the book.
l_m referring to page 12-4 of the EREP checklist. And I'ii
tell you what the picture looks like and you can tell me what
to do. I got a hunch what I'm supposed to do hut I Just
want to verify with you.
CC Okay.
PLT Now those ... numbers, representing
the stage station number and the film load are about
3 inches from the end. And then there's two holes that
overlap each other; they're only 13 inches from the end in-
stead of - instead of 2 feet. And then the first hole
that - is Just before the sensitometry (?) is 5 feet away from
those two punch holes that are 13 inches from the end of
_he leader _d they're supposed to he, according to the picture,
only a dis_}ce of 12 inches there. So, I want you to tell
me what you want me to put iln the - how you want me to load
the film.
CC Stand by i, Jack. And Jack, we have
sent a message, 0631 Charlie. Have you got that?
FLT I haven't looked yet, but it's probably
there. So in summary, I want to say this. The two punch
holes overlap each other and they're 13 inches from the
end. The single hole is 5 feet after the double punched
hole. So I want you to tell me what cue or how to use to load
the film.
CC We're working on it.
PLT And also, I noticed that the dull side
of the film is outward. I presume that's the emulsion but
the shiny side is in and the dull side is out.
CC Copy. And Jack, we're going to he
running some stuff up on the teleprinter right nowj so don't
touch it. J_ed the dew point is such here that we're
approaching the point where we're going to flood the fans. We're
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going to need to dump the condensate holding tank and until

we can get to that, l'd like to give a procedure for shutting
down the fans.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC That's on panel 390 OWS HEAT EXCHANGER
PANS, 1 through 4, 4 OFF.
PLT Okay.
CC And on panel 203. AM FANS SLANT CIRCU-
LATION 1 through 3, 3 OFF.
P LT Ok ay.
CC And when the CDR gets through with MI71j
we'll have him do a condensate holding tank dump.
PLT Okay. But youVd llke to turn the fans
off now. Is that right?
CC That's correct. Get them off now. For
the SPT, and no need to acknowledge the SMMD data. It was
loud, but slightly garbled, but we did get it.
PLT You don't need any repeats. Is that right?
CC That's right for the SPT on the channel A
data was good.
PLT Oh, fine. I thought you were talking
about the SMMD data.
CC That's what I was talking about and it's
good.
PLT Okay, fine. Thank you. And you ought to
be getting some real-time data on the CDR bicycle now.
CC Okay. And for the CDR, and please do not
acknowledge. We got another S073 procedure, so don't do
anything with it until we call it up.
We're see you over Vanguard in 15 minutes. That's at 20:44
and we'll be dumping the tape recorders over Vanguard.
mean time. Apparently we've had loss of signal. The space-
craft communicator signed off with no reply from the crew as
the space station passed over the horizon from the Texas
tracking sation llne of sight. Thirteen minutes to tracking
ship Vanguard at which time we'll return 20:30 reenwich mean
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CC And CDR when available I've got about

three messages for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Since you're doing housekeeping command
module 7, today. You don't need to do command module 2 it's
scheduled at 02:30 on your detail pad.
CDR That's scheduled, we've fiished 7 already.
CC And we've got another S073 procedure for
you. We are interested in getting the experiment out so we
can use the ETC on a EREP pass and I've got another procedure
for you.
CDR Okay, let me get a piece of paper.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Story, go ahead.
CC That's dry trunnion and increase until you
get about 010 auto and then try shaft decrease. And if no
luck on that, try shaft increase a few times. Remembering
there are six electrical stops and you will need to cycle the
switch to get through them. And if no luck on that, reconnect
the automatic programmer and try mode 6 again.
CDR Okay, copied all of those.
CC That's the S073 and after that we've got
a message up to you that 0640A that's the condensate holding
tank dump.
CDR Okay. You mean that's the message on the
teleprinter.
CC Roger, that's up on the teleprinter.
CDR Okay, we'll go check and get it out. Any
thing else?
CC Stand by i. And on the S073, AI configure
the tape recorder selecter so that we can see your good work.
CDR Okay, I'll go work on that right now,
matter of fact.
SPT I have a question for you, Story, at
21:15, 21:30 on my flight plan and ATM block, my MBPT details
give me an ATM pass, special power, power down procedures for
general message 0625 and 626. Did those recently come up or when
was I suppose to get those general messages?
CC Could you clarify that for us, Owen?
SPT Yes, on my Flight Plan I have an ATM block
scheduled at 21:30, and if I get these details, 2113, it that
ATM pad, use special power power down procedures for general
message ATM power 0625 and power down 0626 and I'm trying to
find those just general messages which presumably came up on
the teleprinter. I wonder if they have come recently or is
it something I suppose to supposely had sometime ago.
Over.
CC We sent those up last night, Owen.
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SPT Okay, we haven't found them yet, I'ii

go and see if I can track them down.
CC Stand by Just i.
CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go.
CC That ATM pass was for TV and since
the VPR is broken and we bad a sparsity of TV passes and
we are going to send you some good ATM tomorrow, we suggest
you delete the ATM today.
SPT Okay, I'Ii delete that and how about that
startracker procedure that you - that we talked about earlier
this morning. Do you want to get that startracker moved around
and locked on to (garble) _s we can?
CC Yes, sir. We would like that.
SPT All right, if it's a convenient time, I'ii
run up there and go through that startracker procedure for
you.
CC That's correct, we'll showing down here,
4 minutes of day remaining.
SPT Okay, I understand I'm suppose to wait
until nighttime so I'ii wait 4 more minutes.
CC Roger.
CC And PLT we hope to have a procedure for
you in about i more minute, we're 3 minutes to LOS.
CDR Okay, Story, I've tried all three of those
S073 procedures, I was able to run the trunnion to 010 as you
suggested but was not able to accomplish any of the other
things you suggested.
CC Okay, copy.
CDR Do you want me to leave the recorders -
two experiment recorders on or turn them off?
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay, there is a threading procedure to help
you out, Jack on page 8-3, follow this procedure which implies
that there is enough film for two holes on the platen. It is
possible to have holes overlap because they're manually punched.
Llavlng the dull side out is correct and if you have any further
questions check to see that the supply cassette is properly
configured.
PLT Okay, I understand the procedure, I read
all that stuff in 8-3 and 1'31 assume that the two holes that
overlap 13 inches from the end are the ones that are supposed
to be 2 feet from the end. Thenp I'ii position them in the
middle of the frame.
CC That's right, Jack.
CC Okay, that's what I thought you would say,
but I wanted to make sure.
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CC Yes, sir.
PLT Thanks very much.
CC Okay, and we're i0 seconds to LOS, be
picking you up over Hawaii, at 21:52 and we will be dumping
the tape recorders then. And as we go over the hill here,
we have an S073 operations for you, that's mode 1 Bravo, trunnion
002, gain 8, field of view I, rod 15, start at 21:02.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we have loss of
signal from tracking ship Vanguard next station Hawaii in
58 minutes. At 4 p.m. central daylight time in the Houston
News Center there will be e Skylab III Status Briefing by
program director Bill Schneider. Any air-to-ground taking place
during that briefing will be taped for delayed playback. To
repeat, 4 p.m. central daylight, Skylab Program Director Bill
Schneider will hold a briefing in the Houston newsroom, at 20:54
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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PAO This is Skylab Control. We're AOS at

Hawaii.
CC - - AOS Hawaii for 6 minutes and we'll
be doing a data recorder dump.
CDR Sounds good, Crip. Good to hear your
voice and we Just started the bat charge, and it's charging
away on BAT 6.
CC Very good. Nice to hear you guys again.
CDR Yeah, say, when Story went over the hill
he gave us a fast call for an SO73, which nobody had a pencil
near, so we didn't do it. But not only that, SO73 doesn't
do anything and I'm just kind of wondering what our next
move is.
CC Okay. Story was afraid that y'all didn't
get that. And all they were trying to do was to take ad-
vantage of why it was out there and see if we could get some
operations on it. We got corollary trying to come up with
a plan of action for you and we'll get some word to you right
quick.
CDR Boy, if we get - whenever we get that
thing in again we ought to operate it inside in all modes
and make sure the thing works before we stick it out the
door again.
CC It seems llke we've seen this problem
before.
CDR You said it.
SPT Robert, the SPT. Let me talk to you about
star tracker for a moment.
CC Okay, Owen. Go ahead.
SPT What's this the procedure on O639-Alfa
message? And the first time down through I Just tried- but
I got the star tracker shutter talktack. It was in OPEN.
That - that was the way I found the panel. So, I tried to
close it by a manual closure, and it would not close. It
remained open. So I then turned the star tracker power off,
and when I turned the power back on again, then the shutter
went barber pole. And then I went to MANUAL and I went ahead
and went to the appropriate inner and outer glmbal angles
for Canopus. I did not find a star there, but I think
it may have been because the ... dump had already come in.
And then went to manual to - or rather to close - to close
the door and then leave the gimbals where they were. So,
let me Just check to see if to see if - I'm still there right
now.
CC Okay. Copy that, Owen. Then the door

did close when you closed it that last time?
SPT Yes. The door did close then and the door's
still barber pole now, and the gimbals are still where I
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left them about 30 or 40 minutes ago. And so, it looks llke

it ought to be ready to go again any time Canopus is available.
I have not tried to see - I Just noticed on the status board
that Canopus is a selected star, but I've not updated any
information. Y'all are still handling the orbit plane updates
and so on. So I'm a little curious as to the sort
of the behavior of the star tracker at this point. Could you
give me a clue as to what degree it has been malfunctioning and
whether or not you think it's working okay? Over.
CC Okay, let me see if I can get you a story
on that.
CDR Uh, one question on the photo lo - prep.

CC I'm sorry. Say that again, AI.
CDR I got a question for the photo troup. I
was looking on our card here. The interior and exterior
photos it mentions that the Nikon camera CX film has a speed
of 64. Yet when I took the film out of the locker - and the
little gray tape on the side said a speed of 500. I thought
that CI film.
CC Okay. Let us check that, please.
CDR And Crlp, we'd like to make another re-
quest if we can.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Our chillers have gotten mostly IMSS hard-
ware in there. Namely, the cooler we brought up in the command
module. Owen had talked to several people before we left
about removing the cooler and just [eavlng the contents
in there. And then several days prior to the time we come
home, put the cooler back in. That way we could have the
chiller open. Now we can't hardly get anything in it because
of those items. Could you ask them to come up with where we -
they we should put the two parts of the chiller in the
interim and make sure it's okay to do it?
PLT Want me to explain that, AI?
CDR Say again?
CDR Go ahead.
PLT Yes, Bob. I talked to Dr. Cal Ferguson
over at building 37 is the man who packed all this, and the
IMSS, and we did have the procedure worked out to where it
could be removed, the contents left in the chiller and then
strapped to the floor. But since we did not have a formal
procedure on that we thought we ought to check with y'all
to make sure you were aware of what we were doing and that
no one else had any complaints about it.
CC Okay. I understand. You Just want bles-
sing on doing that and also recommendations for where to
put the container?
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PLT That's affirm, ithough the only recom-

mendation we had at launch was just to strap it to the floor
up in the top half of the ward.
CC Okay. We'll start somebody working on
it. I thought that had already been cleared through, myself.
But we'll check it.
CDR Okay, l_ve got an answer to something that
you sent up about the ILCA.
CC Okay. Go ahead, A1.
CDR Okay. Question one. I won't read the
question, but - but I'ii Just say the answer, that is ...
Question 2: we don't know, hut we do not think we used it
after the (garble). And what's the present configuration
of the numeric? It's in dim and interval light switch is
interval switch is off.
CC Okey doke.
CDR And by the Way, that isntt true in this
instance, but that been the generally true during all this
period.
CC Okey doke.
CDR And Owen can give you where they are now.
I'm pretty sure that numeric is on and bright, the same with
interval. But generally speaking, during this period it
was otherwise.
SPT At the moment all the lighting switches
are in variable. And I has another queetion for somebody
down there, Bob, that's been puzzling me here a little bit.
And that is that I'm not sure if you have some internal power
turned off in the C&D panel at this point or not, but we
only get displays in bus 2 position. None in the bus 1 position.
And I'm wondering if there is any further power up that we need
to be aware of before we get (garble) panel into proper
configuration.
CC Okay. We'll check that out for you. And
we got about 30 seconds to LOS. We're going to have you
again at Vanguard at 22:20; 22:20. And meanwhile, on SO73,
AI, if you could_ we'd llke you to pcsltion the TRUNNION
switch to OFF and the SHAFT to DECREASE. And we suspect that
maybe the heater on the shaft has failed. And this'll give
us - give us a hint at it.
CDR Okay. I'll do that. By the way, the
condensate's holding plank is being dumped and looks like
it's almost done.
CC Okay. We'll look at that over Vanguard
then. And I'ii try to have some answers to these other
questions for you.
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SPT Bob, I don't know it's more work or too

much work for y'all, but answers on the teleprinter are fine.
CC It's probably easiez to do it by voice
if you want them quick.
SPT Uh- okay.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Loss of signal
through Hawaii tracking station, nearing the en4 of revolution
1158. Flight Director on this shift is Don Fuddy. The off-
going flight director, Milton Windler, is in the process of
handing over. And his change-of-shlft briefing in the Houston
newsroom will be on an extremely short-notlce basis. He has
no estimate on when he can break away and go over to the
news center. Present spacecraft communicator relieving Story
Mnsgrave is CAP COMM, Bob Crlppen. Next station, tracking
ship Vanguard. 22:00 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. Two minutes away according to the clock from
acquisition of tracking ship Vanguard. Space station
Skylab nearing the end of revolutlon 1158. Stand by for
resumption of communications between Spacecraft Communicator
Bob Crippen and the crew Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard
for about 8 minutes and if you don't move through the
experiment 1 recorder, we want to dump it.
SPT Experiment 1 is Just on at your request
and I have that S073 stuff, Bob.
CC Okay. Stand by 1 on that. Owen_ if
possible. We would llke you to go ahead and try to reacqulre
a star with the star tracker now. We think that problem
that you experienced probably was just sticky talkback.
SPT Well, I gave it a couple of taps and it
wouldn't shake loose. Are the Canopus glmbal angles still
good at this time?
CC That's affirmative. And CDR, Houston.
Regarding your question from the film awhile ago_ if we
understood you correctly, you were saying that on a CX
magazlne_ it said the speed was 64. If that is what you sald 3
then that is correct. That is exterior film and that is the
correct speed for exterior. CI, which is interior film, has
a speed of 500.
CDR That was the problem. It said CX was
the speed of 500.
CC Okay. Sounds like it's mislahled.
CDR Could be. I let me tell you where I
got it and you can tell me which it really is.
CC Okay. If it says CX 500, that's incorrect.
CDR Okay, Just a second. I'll tell you which
one it was.
CC The CX. if it says CX, that's it. Thetis
affirm.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We are doing a
data recorder dump.
CDR Okay, I got that out of H-II.
CC Understand out of A-f1 and - -
CDR That's negative H.
CC - - H-11. Okay.
CDR Channel ii.
CC Roger, copied. And you can assume the
CX is correct. The correct speed is 64. The 500 is incorrect.
CDR Okay. I'ii tell you what. I checked the
tank a minute ago on the dump. Looks like it was completely
empty but I've been letting it dump since then also.
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CC Okay. Copied that and I've got some

more S073 stuff, if you can copy.
SPT I've Just got a manual lock on Canopus.
Switched to AUTO, Robert.
CC Okay, very good, Owen.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. We'd like you to turn the shaft
to OFF. Position the trunnion to AUTO 120. 120. Turn the
shaft off and trunnion ofi:. Okay, when you get the switches
like that, we would llke you to don the utility gloves and
retrack S073 until the photometer head contacts the vehicle.
And we want you to torque the extension rods lightly, both
clockwise and counterclockwise. After doing that, we would
llke you to extend it back out, pull two rods, put the shaft
to decrease. Copy that?
CDR Roger. Let me read it back again.
Shaft off. Trunnion to 120. Then off also. Donn the glove
for track 73 until it bunks into the side of the vehicle.
Then torque right, left just a little bit. Try to loosen
things up I gather. Then eKtend it two rods and try to get
the shaft to decrease.
CC That's a_firmative. And if that doesn't
work, we would like you to tap lightly on the aft end on the
left as your facing the unit, to see if we can free up a relay
that might be sticking in there.
CDR Okay. TLe aft - aft end left. Is that
as I'm standing at the control panel?
CC No, it's as if you're standing at the
end with the rods go in it.
CDR Okay. I'm standing at the ends with
the rods, looking towards minus Z, and I go over to the left
side there and bang on it?
CC That's affirmative and of course you
need to be cautious on such pretty good (garble).
CDR Easy on force, okay.
CC And, Owen, for your information, we
copied that the computer did close the star tracker shutter
normally due to accultation. So that looks like it works proper
then.
SPT Ah, very good. So you don't think
there's any problem at all now?
CC That's affirm and if A1 is still there,
the shaft does not drive after the tapping, we would llke
you to put the shaft off again. And we'll want to pull the
shorting plugs - excuse me - put the shorting plug on and
then put the shaft to decrease and leave all night.
CDP Okay, understand.
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(CONT'D) LOS. We've got a nice long one. We will be again

at Hawaii at 23:27. 23:27.
at the start of revolution 1159. Space station Skylab over
the horizon from tracking ship Vanguard. Hawaii comin E up
56 minutes and apparently the star tracker shutter door
closed normally_ finally. After much troubleshooting on
the part of the people on the ground and by the crew Skylab.
Still no estimate of actual time for the Flight Director
change-of-shift briefing with Milt Windier. We will give
as much notice as possible and at 22:31, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. Herels that short notice wetve been promising,
Flight Director Milt Windler is enroute hopefully to the
News Center for a change-of-shift briefing estimated to take
place at 6 p.m. central daylight time in the Houston neweroom.
Space station Skylab cruising along the east coast of Africa
on revolution 1159 next station in 34 minutes will be Hawaii.
Final Hawaii pass of the day, should the Hawaii pass take place
during the change-of-shlft briefing, it will be taped for delayed
playback, at 22:53, this is 8kylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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8/2/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, less than a minute

now out from tracking staion at Hawaii, revolution 1159.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Hawaii for i0 minutes.
CC And Skylab for the SPT I have an answer
regarding your IMSS container out of the chiller if you would
like it.
SPT Hey, Crip, here's a little news for EREP
world, I'm in the last 192 alignment, I Just finished the
thermal ... visible and I'm working on the thermal but a - the
visible gave me left meter 82 percent, right meter 66 percent.
CC Roger, left 82, right 66.
SPT Right.
CC Sounds pretty good.
SPT It's better than the numbers I got before.
CC Yeah. We'd like a - like y'all to stay
off of the DAS,we are going to do a Nu z update if anybody
is in that area.
SPT Okay, I'm ready for the news on the IMSS.
CC Okay, you have our go to go ahead and
remove the container Just to put the items themselves back into
the chiller. Our recommendation for stowage and it's Just
that - a recommendation is to go ahead and put the two halves
of the container together and to stow it at the foot of the
LBMPD in the area between the bulkhead and the ESS there,
Just take a long strap and tie it down.
SPT Okay, sounds like a good idea, we'll a
keep you advised and I was wondering about our spiders up here
you know that malfunction we had about 2 days ago, I suspect
they have been working on and thinking about it over there
see if there isn't some way to make that box get in automatic
trigger away it's suppose to. I haven't heard anything about
it since them, but as a minimum of course we can go ahead and
release those spiders into the cage and then take still
photographs of any activity that might he produced and if
they can spin a web, if she spins a web and I'm wondering if
you've have any thoughts about that in the last 48 hours or so.
CC Okay, I'ii see if we can get some words
to you on that, Owen. A - Also -
SPT ... Shut the door and leave it in the vial too
long.
CC Right, you are absolutely correct. Reguardlng
your comment earlier on the unable to get displays except on
bus 2 off the ATM C&D, I guess we would like for you to check
the circuit breakers for the inverter lighting control assembly
number i and AC-1 on the ATM at your convenience.
SPT Now that you mention it, I believe number
i is over; I'll go check it, yeah.
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CC Okay, and CDR when you get a chance

if you could give us an update on the condensate holding tank
dump, we would appreciate it.
CDR Roger, Crlp, dump complete, I am now putting
a vacuum on the tank.
CDR Crip, we Just had our dinner and I'm getting
to start working on S073. And the other day we started talking
about the fact that the utility gloves were in our clothing mod-
ule. I Just spend about I0 minutes completely taking everything out
of my clothing module and I can't find any utility gloves in
there, although I agree with you they are suppose to be in there.
Wonder where they might be.
CC O-o-o-o Okay, we'll see if we can get our
stowage people to come up with an answer on that. They should
have been in the module, right, I can't give you a good one
right now, we'll - we'll think about it. Is that where you
stand on S073 right now, you were ready to pull it in and you
can't find the gloves?
CDR That's affirm I have not done a single bit
of the procedure you gave me, we Just got finished eating dinner.
CC Oh, okeydoke.
CDR But I was trying to round those up. The
other day Jack had the ... there and he couldn't find his
either, but we Just didn't have time to hunt for them. So I thought
I'd Just go ahead and get at least find mine so I could tell him
where. Maybe they are in one of the pants pocket or something
like that in one of the modules but I could never locate them.
CC Okay, I was under the impression that they
were stowed on that little flap Just as soon as you opened it up
they should have been right there.
SPT Sounds good on paper, let me look in some of
the other clothing modules.
CC Okay.
SPT And, Bob, the mains are inverter LCA 1 and 2
circuit breakers are both closed.
CC Okay, and the AC-I is also closed. Is that
affirmative.
SPT Inverter to AC-I and 2 is closed. Or are
CC Okay.
CC If somebody's got a pencil handy, I've got
about 3 questions we'd like - we like for you to answer for us
on the evening questions or Evening Status Report tonight.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, the first one is - first two of them
are for the PLT regarding some comments he made during film
threading. The first is was film threading complete for Drawer K
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CC and L today? Number 2 is during the film

threading, you estimated exposing some film, can you give us
the number of feet estimated exposed and which cassette was
involved in the exposure?
SPT Go.
CC Okay and question number 3, we would like
to know which functions are inhibited on panel 207 caution and
warning panel?
SPT Okay, just a moment, I'ii tell you that.
CC Okay, no big hurry on that Owen, if you
could Just give it to us in the status report tonight it'll
he fine.
SPT It is easier right now.
CC Okay.
SPT Rate gyro, condensate tank DELTA-P, sieve B,
PPC CO2 - PPCO2, sieve B gas flow, sieve A PPCO2, and sieve A
gas flow. And rate gyro. Those are the ones, Bob.
CC Okey doke.
PLT Crip, on the EREP film, I loaded the cassettes
in drawer K, and I've got yet to do them in drawer L. The first
cassette in drawer K, I exposed film about i foot past the -
the first dot in the reading the sensitometry.
CC Okay.
PLT The rest of the cassettes were not exposed
at all.
CC Okay, you don't happen to know that -
the number of that cassette offhand, do you? I can probably
verify it from here.
PLT I think it was S-I.
CC Okay, understand you have completed drawer K
and you have not quite got to L yet and cassette S-I it exposed
about i foot of it.
PLT Right, i foot past the dot which leads the
sensltometry. That's about 6 feet of film. And a - I've got
a question in all of the empty cassettes I'm finding a little -
spool clamp, should I go ahead and use that to wind the tape on
the spool or should I Just use tape or can I use both?
CC See if I can get an answer on that.
I'ii probably have to get to you that answer and give it to you
over Vanguard. We're about i minute from LOS currently and we'll
see you at Vanguard at 23:59 and we will also be doing the
data recorder dump there.
CDR Roger.
CC And a - Owen regarding your displays, our
recommendation would be to cycle the circuit breaker for inverter
lighting control assembly number I, pull it out, put it back in.
Check to see if that give you, gives you back bus plus i displays.
SPT Roger.
CC And you can do that at your convenience.
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SPT Thank you.

CC Before we go over the hill, Jack, throw
the clamp away and use tape only. Correction - clip, rather.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is 8kylab Control, loss of signal through
Hawaii, final pass over Hawaii for the evening. During the
Hawaii pass the crew reported that they had completed their
evening meal. Pilot Jack Lousma was in the process of completing
the alignment of the S192, multlspectral scanner. Bean all -
Commander Alan Bean reported that the condensate tank dump
was complete and he was at that time pulling a vacuum on the
tank. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott in the course of that
Hawaii pass inquired about the status of troubleshooting procedures
for the ED-52 web formatlo_t otherwise known as the spider experiment
on the subject of spiders, Arabella one of two lady spiders
aboard Skylab 3 is still waiting in the darkened wings of the
workshop for her debut. Arabella is still contained snuggly
in a vlal awaiting transfe_ to a Plexlglas cage where it is
hoped she will spin her web. The camera and light system which
is to record her efforts at weightless weaving have experienced
an apparent timing problem. The problem has been traced to
a camera actuator. Apparently a du - detuned oscillator was -
which was simulated at the Marshall Space Flight Center and a
malfunction procedure was developed. This procedure will be
passed up to the crew on the teleprinter for troubleshooting
tomorrow. This spider experiment ED-52 is one of several student
experiments aboard Skylab. Next station in 18 minutes will he
tracking ship Vanguard. And at 23:40 Greenwich mean time,
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,lean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. Stand by now for acquisition as the antennas
aboard ship lock on to the spacecraft.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over Vanguard for
the next 7 minutes.
CC And we need you to stay off the DAS so we
can go back to solar inertial.
SPT Okay, I'll stay clear of it, Bob. And
I'm of the opinion that we've lost AP-I in the C&D panel to
confuse you there. I've recycled both the inverter LPA-I and
the AP-1 circuit breakers. They're both staying closed. But
we have done the display functions on BUS i only on BUS 2. And
checked the integral lining on variable which is fed from
BUS i. We have it on (garble) it on BUS 2, but not on BUS i.
So, I thought perhaps you'd had another command or something that
you could have secured power. We have no readout on board of
course. I thought you'd - ?ou do have telemetry for verifying
the voltage on BB-I and the BB-2 distribution. Over.
CC We'll recheck that, but I'm pretty - no
unfortunately we don't have any telemetry on that at all.
But we copy what you say and understand it's in op. I've
got an answer for you on that ED52. We sent up a general
message - a permanent general message earlier today. It
was permanent general message number 2 which dealt with the
procedure for ED52. And our intent was for you to run that
as a shopping list item. Do you know the message I'm talking
about?
SPT No, I'm afraid I don't, Bob. I'ii go
look it up, though.
CC Okay. The permanent general message
number 2 and the message number on it was 0635 if that'll
help. And if there's a problem with it - if it's lost or
anything, well, we can always retransmit it. And -
SPT Roger. I check it. Thank you.
CC Okeydoke. And if somebody could turn
off experiment i and 2 tape recorders for us we would ap-
preciate it.
SPT I'll go do it.
CC Also, for the CDR. I've got a question
on your gloves. And we were all fouled up.
SPT Stand by.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. AI, all of the gloves are in D416.
They are in the contingency clothing module up there.
CDR D416. I'll go find them. Thanks.
CC Yes sir.
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CC Also, you gentlemen I think, had a question

earlier regarding the M131 tally cards as to whether you
could erase them or not? We would prefer for you not. We've
had a - somewhat of a data problem here that we're trying to
sit through and we may require you to read some of that
data for us later.
SPT I thought certain we'd done it all Bob,
but I don't know if we've still got it.
CC I'm sorry, that transmission was unreadable
due to the feedback.
SPT Roger. I'm sorry. I'm going to go turn the
(garble) off.
CDR Yeah, I'm Just reporting that we won't
erase anything we've got, but I'm not certain we still have
that in it's completeness.
CC Okay. I understand.
CC And for your information, we are going
to be trying to get your Flight Plan up as soon as we can.
It'll probably be like another rev here.
SPT What'd you say?
PLT I don't have it either.
SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go.
SPT I don't think we've got general message
number 2. At least everybody around here denies knowledge
of it.
CC Okay. Wetll send you another one. WeIll
try to get it up tonight.
SPT There must be somebody else up here walk-
ing off with those things.
CC Right. I'ii tell you what. As much paper
as we've flown through there it -
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We won't have you again until we can pass Vanguard
once more at 01:37. We'll be looking forward to your
status report at that particular time. And also, I guess
the EGIL was wondering what was going on with the condensate
tank getting all the lights.
CDR I was unconnecting it right now.
CC Okeydoke. Thank you.
from the tracking ship Vanguard, space station, Skylab, start-
ing revolution number 1160. And we'll miss all other stations
until Vanguard again, I revolution from now. About an hour
and 28 minutes to acquisition at Vanguard. Scheduled at
that Vanguard pass will be the evening status report of
_'rew meals, food eaten and not eaten; water consumption and
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medication and so forth. And the next station beyond that,

Ascension, will be the medical conference with the flight
surgeon. An hour and 28 minutes to next conversation with
the erewp, Skylab. And at 00:08 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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mean time. Evening Status Report from the crew coming up
next on the tracking station ship Vanguard pass. Acquisition
nominally in about 40 seconds. Succeeding pass over the
Ascension Island tracking station will be the medical
conference with the Flight Surgeon. Not too many questions
for the crew here and we're starting to get acquisition.
Standing by on air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for
I0 minutes. Standing by for your status report. And Skylab,
we'll need you off the DAS while we select experiment pointing
mode.
CDR Roger. Okay Houston. Status report
follows. Urine volume, 80, 90, 118. Drinking water
gun, 4625, 7550, 5596. BMMD, 6234, 6230, 6235.
we had all that 5995, 6003, 5995, 6955, 6954, 6949. Exercise:
1/20/1685. Also for the CDR, (garble) plus the 171 run. SPT,
none. PLT, i. Correction. He had a 171 run which was the
1/15/308. Medication, none, none, none. Sleep, 6 good,
5-1/2 good, 6 good. A food log follows. CDR, 7 salt packs
deleted chicken and rice, biscuits, and waffers, two, and
lemonade. He drank an additional I0 ounces of water. SPT,
3 salt packs, he ate all meal i, all 2, and 4. Plus, lemonade,
peanuts, grapefruit drink, pork loin, which remaining amount
measured in FMMD as 2.160. PLT, 6 salt packs, ate all except
beef hash and mashed potatoes. Okay, on the photo log.
16 millimeter, M092-171, CI-24, 50 percent, CI-19. The
35 millimeter, 70 millimeter, et cetera, no change. EREP,
of course, no change. Gyro configuration, A-102, CI-24, 50 per-
cent, CI-19. A2, A3, A4 position are no change since the morning
draft pass. So just read the draft pad, and you got it.
CC Okay, Skylab. We copied all of that.
For your information, we shollld be sending you up your
flight plans for tomorrow on this pass, we will not have
the SPT's details. We'll try to Set that a little bit later.
CDR Okay. What was the last part of the
transmission that I said that you read?
CC On this last on the status reports,
copied down through seeing that the A2, 3, and 4 film drawers
were as per - from that pad. Still logged with that pad.
CDR Okay. Let me give you the shopping list
accomplished.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR We made the bicycle mod. We - we modified
the camera for ATM TV. We took all the multiple clothes out
of the command module and stowed them somewhere. We configured
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(CONT'D) all the cameras now. We incorporated all the

checklist changes. We think wetre update. There's one
problem. Several general messages apparently were there.
The only general message that I have onboard and I put it,
stuck it with scotch tape inthe Flight Plan was general
message i. As far as I know, we have not received any other
general messages. So if there are anymore, please send us
another copy. We cleaned up all the fan screens in the
spacecraft. Let me mention some stowage changes. D402 in
the waste management compartment_ we moved one urine supply
module. We had to put in urine supply module. We ran out
of bags. We moved one strawberry to the top of the food
locker. S019, to film locker D and the Earth terrain camera
then moved up to B, per your suggestion. The off-duty
calculator, removed from $930 to W718. We got a number
of items, if you got a few moments that we'd llke to call
out the names of. We don't know exactly where they should
go and maybe you could tell us tomorrow on a pad, if you
would.
CC Press on. We got about 4 more minutes
on this pass and we'll be glad to copy it for you.
CDR Okay. One of them is the replacement
water valve to the - to thai: one in the waste management compart-
ment. We brought up two, I found one here. And it told us where
to put the other ones, but I couldn't find the lock. I don't
recall the number now, but it must be on top of another locker.
or something, because I couldn't find a locker by that name.
But maybe you could give me a little bit more information on
that. Next is the - window vent_ that's the one thatts been,
the one that's going to clear the water out of the wardroom
window. The little packet of - I believe it's either nylon
that we're going to put out on EVA for the day - for
the patch that was put on last time. I don't know where to
stow that. The S009 motor we have and we don't exactly you
want you want us to put that. And the other, I think is the -
I think is the ATM water separator. That's what it looks llke.
In a filter with a plug on both ends. And it goes through
the AM, but I'm not exactly sure what the name of it is right
now.
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8/2/73
CDR I'm fixing the ATM water separator.

It doesn't quite look like it. It's a filter with a plug
on both ends. And it goes in the AM, but I'm not exactly
sure what the name of it is right now.
CC Okay. Is that the complete list?
CDR That's the list. We've probably gotten
several others. We've moved everything over to the workshop
and tried to put it somewhere so we could get the command
module cleaned out and have it nice and tidy. And it is
right now. That's another thing we did today. So, there'll
be several items over the next few days we'll probably call
down and say: where is it, or - we got one and we need to
know where to put it officially. So, there'll be some of
those.
CC Okay. Very fine and we copied all of
that.
CDR Now one of the items that we can't locate
and we'd like to find is the timer for S054. We're pretty
sure we opened and unstowed it and put it in its proper place,
but we don't know where that is and can't seem to find it
in the stowage list.
CC Okay, I'Ii see _f I can get you an answer
for that one.
CDR We're just - we're wondering if it ever
came up for sure. We can't find it anyhow.
CC Fairly certain it was on board. We'll
we'll try to get you a specific answer on that.
CDR I wouldn't be surprised if there are
three of four items that are stashed somewhere right now
where we can't exactly put our fingers on them, of all the
hundreds we moved in here.
CC Yeah, that's a pretty big place to keep
track of it all. We're about 1 minute from - -
CDR Yeah, I'm gonna open a clothing store
when I leave the program. We've got enough clothes up here
to run one, I'ii tell you.
CC Sounds like it. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS now, AI. And, next pass is at Ascension - Ascension
at 01:50. And we'll be doing a data recorder dump at
Ascension and also that'll be your medical conference.
CDR Okay. By the way, I tried everything that
you mentioned on SO73. Every single thing, none of it was
workable. I put it (garble) in the shorty plug and put It
into DECREASE and that's where it is right now.
CC Roger.
CDR I banged it a lot on the sides. It
could change the trunnion, but never the shaft.
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CC Okay doke. That timer was in A-9, by the

way. And the next pass is going to be, after Ascension, is
Guam at 02:35, and I've got some news for you there if you'd
like it.
PLT Sounds good. I'm not sure we won't be
PLT Okay. We'll be waiting to hear from you.
CDR What's our wake-up time tomorrow morning?
CC Scheduled for ii:00 GMT.
CDR Okay. And what time does EREP (garble)
CC In the blind. It should be on your pad coming
up to you.
through the tracking ship Vanguard. Just a brief gap across
open water in the South Atlantic from LOS at Vanguard to
AOS at Ascension Island, about a minute and 40 seconds there.
llowever, the early part of this pass, and perhaps all of it
will be the medical conference. But in case the loop is handed
back to the spacecraft communicator, Bob Crippen, from the
flight surgeon, we'll leave the line open so as not to miss
any of the conversation.
PAO This is Skylab Control. By way of re-
capitulation of today's activities while the medical confer-
ence is underway. The sixth day of Skylah-lll raised another
problem for flight controllers. This latest in a series of
anomalies caused a flurry of actlvlty at the mission control
center which was climaxed by a conversation between Johnson
Space Center Director, Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, with the
crew. Dr. Kraft assured Commander Bean that planning is
continuing for a nominal mission. He advised the crew that
it is prudent to put off the EVA for a day or so to allow
more time to work out procedures for troubleshooting the
reaction control system problem, and the condensate tank,
which has been bothering ground controllers for the past
several days. Skylab-III Commander Bean said the crew was
happy the way things are going, and are pleased with Dr. Kraft's
evaluation of the situation. There continues to he no change
in the reaction control system quad situation, which has
resulted in the postponment of Saturday's VA. And an evalua-
tion of the problem toward determining the effect of this
latest problem may have on the 59-day mission of Skylab-III.
Launch teams at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, have already
been instructed to prepare, under accelerated pace, a Skylab
rescue, with the command and - command module and launch
vehicle scheduled for the Skylab-IV mission. NASA management
is evaluating the current situation, and words on decisions
affecting the mission will be passed along as soon as they
are available. Generally, this is a recap of the problem.
Early this morning pressure and temperatures showed a sudden
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drop in quad D of the Reaction Control System, probably due

to a lack - to a leak in the oxidizer. For example, quad
D package went from 140 - 34 degrees Fahrenheit in a single
revolution. During this same period a master alarm from
the command module awakened the crew. The quad at this
time was passive. The helium propellant - the helium and
propellant were isolated through the valves, and the heaters
were on. The quad was isolated and presently there is no
further leakage from the oxidizer tanks. In effect, Skylab-lll
now has two quads, which present no problems. Although
quad D is not totally unusable, it's current condition is
questionable. Flight planners continue to schedule medical
and scientific experiments for the crew of Skylab-lll.
Standing by for the 6 minutes remaining of the Ascension
Island pass should the flight surgeon complete his conference
with the crew and hand the loop back over to the CAP COMM.
At 01:53 and standing by, Skylab Control.
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Time: 20:54 CDT, 07/01:54 GMT
8/2/73
CC Hello Skylab, I've got you for about i minute

here, as I said we are going to have next pass at Guam at
2:35, I would llke to get some fans back on_ if somebody could
copy the figure.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, on panal 390, if we could put the
OWS heat exchanger fan 1 through 4 all OWS and on panal 203,
the airlock module circulation fan 1 through 3 all to high.
CDR They will be there in a few moments.
CC Thank you very much.
CC Okay, and we are about 30 seconds from LOS and
we will see you again at Guam on that 2:35.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS Ascension. Next
station Guam in 33 minutesu Skylab space station crossing over
nother central Africa on this particular ground track cross central
Asia and Korea and Japan on the Pacific coast again. Guam in
32 minutes and at 2:01 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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8/2/73

mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition at Guam for
the final conversation of the evening with the crew of
Skylab 3. Aside from, from some general systems management
messages to be passed up by CAP COMM Bob Crlppen. Time permitting,
CAP COMM will read the news summary to the crew during this
final pass before signing off for the evening.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger,loud and clear. We were just admiring
Japan and the world over.
CC Very good. I'm sure it's a pretty sight.
I've got a few items I need to run over with you. AI, one
of them was the - something on the evening report. Specifi-
cally, transporter A-3, we'd llke to find out whether that's
mounted on the spider cage or is it in the drawer?
CDR Everything's in the drawer - we only
mounted it momentarily on the spider cage and when the
equipment didn't work, we took it off and took it off and
put it back in the - the vault.
CC Okay. We copied that. And we'd like
to find out for sure whether or not Jack got to the drawer L
configuration for S190.
CDR You bet. He never misses. Mister EREP
strikes again. How'd you like that alignment he did?
CC That's beautiful. I appreciated that
optical. Can you tell us the results of the thermal?
PLT I put all that stuff on channel A but
Just to review I got the thermal magnified at 45 percent.
Which is 5 percent greater than the book number.
CC Okay. That's real good, Jack. Appreciate
it.
SPT We He's hard to llve with. He's feeling

awful cocky up here tonight.
CC Oh my. Marines are like that.
SPT Aren't they.
CC Regarding S073, we'd like to insure that
the configuration we've got it down for this evening is with
the shorting plug installed and the _haft in decrease.
CDR You got it right.
CC Okay, very good. Also, I'm not sure
whether this item has been discussed with you or not,
but our recommendation is to leave the TACS enabled and CMC
AUTO RESET ENABLED for tonight, considering our CSM
posture.
CDR That's affirm. We don't plan to touch
it anymore until you tell us to do something.
CC Okeydoke.
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CC Okay. We'd also like to find out if you've

got 133 activated for tonight.
PLT I'm sorry Bob. I have not got it acti-
vated and I did find the general message number 2 in that
ATM pad. There was a logistics problem up here. But I've got
them in hand now, of course, it's too late to do it.
CC Okay. Understand we won't have any M133
tonight and that you did get that general message number 2. You'll
probably note later that we got that scheduled for - for tomorrow.
CDR We found - Okay. We - we got some
of those messages. We've got - we had them stashed in a
place we didn't think we were stashing them, but we think we
got organized and we won't miss them anymore.
CC Okay. Very good. Regarding the questions
earlier on the S054 timer, according to our information, that
should're been launched at A-9. It was an A-9 at launch and
it was listed down here on your day 5 transfers to be transferred
over to the ATM C and D. And thatfs the best poop we've got
available on it right now.
CDR Could you check and see what it was packed
in. If it was packed in a soft, loose, or what. We can't
locate it. We may go up around the ATM and it may be
in with some other experiment or scmethlng.
CC Okay, we'll if we can get a good answer
for you on that. That's really all the specific items I've
got for you. I could read you some evening news if you'd
llke, or have you got anything for _s?
CDR No, read us some news. What are they saying
about Skylab these days?
CC AI, there's something weird in there
about the command module having a q_ad problem.
CDR What does it say?
CC Unfortunately, I really don't - haven't
had an evening newspaper AI. And I really don't have anything
that they said about that. I'ii see if I can find out for you
if we can't find out this evening, we'll tell yon in manana.
CDR Yeah, I'd like to know.
CC 0keydoke. I can give you some other items.
If you're interested in them. Would you like me to read some
other stuff?
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okeydoke. Treasury Secretary George Schultz,
today challenged the growing idea that the economy will drop
into a recession. He said, I don't think there's much chance
for that. And he said his testimony before a Joint economic
committee today. Also they have -
PLT What do you think?
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CC (laughter) I refuse to comment. They

have torrential rains struck the northeast part of the
United States today. Flooding and stalling traffic and
interrupting telephone service, about 2-1/2 inches in the
New York metropolitan area. That was almost as much as
we had here yesterday, I believe. The Senate Commerce
committee approved today a bill that would require every
state to adopt a no-fault insurance plan, assuring all
auto accident victims broad payments regardless of who was to
blame. The broad outline has been framed by the United States
and Hanoi negotiators on economic aid for North Viet Nam.
But American officials denied a formal agreement has been
reached.
CDR Hey Crip?
CC Yeah.
CDR Talking about that no-fault insurance,
we were just talking yesterday - Owen mentioned that he was
thinking about getting - putting a call into his insurance company
and have them cut his rates because he can't drown up here.
And also, he can't have an auto accident.
CC Yeah, but there some other things you
could have. I think you reckon we could get the Skylab insured?
CDR I don't know, but it sounds to us that
what happens to most people, so we ought to be able to get
some sort of cut.
CC I think you're 21ght. Might be interested
to know that the back of the Trans-Alaska pipelines scored a
victory when the House rejected a move to permit environmental
law suits against the project. And if you'd read before launch
on J. Paul Getty's grandson kldnappers are demanding a
17 milllon dollar ransom for him. And I'm sure everybody's
glad to know that the bill of raising the minimum wage to
$2.20 has been extending it's prediction passed the Senate today.
Also, the Senate has voted an end te the meat price freeze
immediately and the House passed a a similar bill. The stock
market today - 30 industrials dropped nearly 2 points and
it's the fourth straight day of losses. And hurray, hurray,
the Astros won a game. The meet the Dodgers last night,
five nothing. And they're playing the same - the Dodgers
tonight in the Astrodome. I haven't heard the results of
that. And tomorrow, the Oilers are out against New York Jets.
And you might remember that the Jets were the only team we
managed to beat last year. That's about all the really
exciting news we have here. And I don't guess I'm going to
be able to get a piece of paper here that says what, the
news was saying regarding the Skyla5. But we'll try to get
you something on that in the morning, for breakfast.
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CDR Good idea. As you know, the three of us

probably - that's the part of the paper we read the most
everyday when we're on Earth. So, that's kind of what we're
most interested up here in, too. Any sort of space news or
airplane news or anything like that is what we think about
all the time. So, that's the kind of news we'd like to hear.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can round some of
that for you.
PLT Where's the weekly golf tournament being
played this week?
CC Westchester, I'm informed.
PLT Let me know how they're doing tomorrow.
CC Okay, we'll try to do that. Jack, can
you tell us when you completed that thermal alignment were
the indications up against the stops, were the focus rings.
PLT No, on the thermal alignment, the - the
focus ring was exactly two turns from the bicrometer end.
CC I understand two turns from the micrometer
end.
PLT Know on that S054 package, we had one
stowage list up here which called for being transferred to M920,
Bob. I don't know where I got my dope on that. I don't find
it around ATM panel anywhere.
CC Okay. We've got one minute until LOS and
we'll be saying goodnlght. I guess about the best I can do
for you is on the day 5 transfer list, and on page 2-32 of
the stowage list, is where it calls for transfer for A-9 to 130
according to the thing we have here_
APT Okay, I remember when we were looking
for it yesterday. We never found it in A-9 at that time and
thought perhaps we had transferred it out earlier. But we'll
find it.
CC Okay. We'll - I'm being informed it was
launched in a sack-like affair. And we'll try to get you
some better details in the morning. Correction my last, that
was a sock. S-o-c-k.
CDR Hey, Crip, have the doctor add one
more orange juice to my menu today, would you please? l
just am . .. down right now.
CC Say, what were you eating Jack?
PLT I'm having an extra orange Juice.
CC Orange Juice. Rog.
for the final air-to-ground pass of the evening through
Guam station. Next station in 28 minutes, tracking ship
Vanguard. We have here the bulletin from the Flight Surgeon's
conference during the last Vanguard tracking station pass.
earlier in this revolution. Skylab III crew continues to
increase their food - fluid intake and of - -
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7/2/73
PAO - - earlier in this revolution. Skylab 3

crew continues to increase there food and fluid intake and to
feel well. They have taken no medication in the past 24 hours
and say they have all made the adjustment. The real-tlme data
seen on the MI71 runs_ on the Commander and Pilot was all nominal
us was the M092 seen on the pilot. Next station, tracking ship
Vanguard in 27 minutes and returning at 6 a.m. central daylight
time tomorrow this is Skylab Control signing off.
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utes Greenwich mean time on mission day number 7. Skylab will
be within range of the Goldstone tracking station within a
couple of minutes. And we'll put in our first call to the
crew for the day. The crew's first earth resources experiment
pass scheduled for today, beginning at 12:54 p.m. central
daylight time. That will be proceeded by some four hours of
preparation for this experiment. This first EREP pass will be
over ground track number 34, beginning off the coast of Oregon,
continuing in a southeasterly direction crossing Utah, New
Mexico, the Houston area, out over the Gulf of Mexico and
terminating off the coast of South America. Today's investi-
gations include geology, land use, in the Houston area,
continental resources, forestry and agricultural studies.
Weather conditions range from cloudy to partly cloudy to clear
over the 2700 nautical mile long ground track. The earth
terrain camera will not be used in today's EREP pass. The
S073 experiment, gegenscheln/zodiacal light is installed in
the scientific airlock. There has been some difficulty in
retracting it. That camera, the earth terrain camera, goes
through the same airloek, so only 5 of the 6 EREP sensor
systems will be used today. The earth terrain camera will
not be used. We're within a few seconds of acquisition at
Goldstone. We'll stand by.
CC Good morning, good morning, Skylab.
CDR Good morning.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over the
states for the next 18 minutes.
CDR Morning, Crip.
CDR You gave us a little extra sleep this
morning didn't you?
CC Didn't get much.
CDR No, I said you gave us a little extra.
CC Oh, well no, this is actually the first
pass we've had.
CDR I thought I heard the S-band lock up just
about Ii:00 Zulu back there, but I guess that was something
else.
CC Well, it was about 2 minutes time, and
we didn't consider that a fair one.
PAO The Capcom is astronaut Bob Crlppen.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised, I don't
know whether you've managed to get your teleprinter messages
yet or not, but we are going to have some Flight Plan changes
that we're going to have to feed up to you a little bit
later. We'll give you a chance to get up and get stirring
about.
CDR Roger.
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PLT Hello Crlp, are you there?

CC Say again, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston, you called.
PLT Yeah, I just wanted you to know that the
teleprinter message this morning was longer than the fireman's
pole.
CC I thought we set some kind of new record.
And we've still got a couple more going for you.
CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know whether
you copied my last or not, but we still have got a couple of
more teleprinter messages that we're sending up that deal
with the master (garble). And also be advised we've got an
indication that the teleprinter paper is getting low, so after
we finish that sometime, we're going to get the paper changed.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get one
quick question in while you're scurrying around there this
morning and help the guys out that are working over the procedures.
Have you brought any of your CSM cue cards up to date as a
result of the checklist changes we have sent you?
PLT Only the cue cards you told us to modify.
We haven't modified any others.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT Hey Hank, what do I do with all these
flight plans? They are all different.
CC You should have one for EREP and one for
no EREP.
PLT Okay, it sure would be nice if you would
label them so we could tell what they were.
CC The one that has got EREP on it is the
EREP one.
PLT Yeah, I can figure that out. But it
would be nice if you would put the heading on so you won't
have to read down the whole thing to find out what it is.
CC The first one is always the prime with
the EREP, and the last one does say if no EREP.
CC PLT, Houston what's going to be funny
about that, that does come out all one big string there, and
I guess it is a little difficult to separate them out.
Although they are - normally you get the prime and then the
alternate, which is the no EREP thing. I guess it is difficult
to sort it out. We're about 30 seconds from a little drop
out for about 40 seconds. We'll be right back with you in
Bermuda.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 47. And if it's
convenient at Madrid, we'd llke to get started on a few of the
flight plan updates.
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PLT Okay.
of range of Bermuda, but will be acquired by the Canary Island
station in about 2 minutes as overlapping coverage with
Madrid. We'll continue to stand by and keep the line up for
Canary/Madrid coverage.
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CC Skylab, Houston; through Madrid for

8-1/2 minutes. And, for information, we're going to be
upllnklng a NAV update and a single memory load to give
us a monitor capability on one of the ATMDC parameters.
So if you'll remain free of the DAS.
CDR Okay, will do.
CC And Skylab, Houston; llke to go through
- get started on the flight plan things if we could now, for
which ever one's available first.
CDR Okay, CDR, I'm available.
CC Okay, baaed on the things you told us
last night you'd already accomplished, at about 13:34 - 45 there
we'd llke to delete the EREP meg and substitute SO73 OPS.
And down around, Just prior to 19:00, we want to add in SO73
OPS. And at 22:45, roughly scratch out the S019 FS. And if
you'll look over your details there, we'll add in two items
there that - right at the top we'll add 13:40, SO73 OPS, and
you got a pad for that. And at 1857 SO73 OPS and you have
a pad for that.
CDR Okay, understand then. The one you cut out
there on mag was - was that holding the mags, or what?
CC You did that -
CDR Okay, good.
CC You did that yesterday, AI; that's what we
understood.
CDR Yeah, We - Jack got them loaded, everything
is tidy. I Just wanted to make sure.
CC Okay, SPT do you have your flight pad
available?
SPT Not yet, but I'll go right down and get
it.
CC While we're waiting here, AI, I might point
out that we got resolution on the EREP tape recorder change
over during a pass. We would llke the - if the occasion
comes up that you have to do that, you're clear to go ahead
and do it and use the same B cal that SL-II crew used, the
one that's on the panel there now.
CDR It's already been changed out, Hank.
We got the new one on.
CC Oh, you've already put your new one on?
CDR We had one in our decal package to put
on and it's already been put on.
SPT SPT has his flight plan in hand.
CC Okay, SPT, at 14:00, a little after that,
we delete the star tracker checkout because you've already
done it. And the same for 15:00 star tracker checkout. And
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delete all activities between 16:30 and 19:00 that relates to

the TV 23 and all the ETC activities.
SPT Complete.
CDR And on your details delete everything
but the M133 at 0248. And during your free time there
SPT, first order of priority sometime today we hope, is to
get the M133 activated because tomorrow we're going to -
our flight plan is going to call for that.
SPT Okay, I'll be sure to get M133 activated.
If I I didn't get that last item about 02 something. Would
you - my flight plan kept talking about 23:30. Would you
tell me again?
CC Okay, this was on your details. SPT
details? We wanted to delete all the items there except
the M133, which is at 02:48. That's why I want to get the
thing activated sometime during the day.
SPT Okay, I've got you now. But all those
details can go except 133?
CC Right, because all those details do
pertain to the startrackers and ETC which we're not doing
today.
SPT Yeah, now I see. I've got that complete,
thank you.
CC And, PLT, are you ready to go over yours?
PLT Okay, Hank. Yean, I'm getting it out
n OW.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, at 13:30 roughly, delete the photo
ACT, since you've already done that. And at around
20:00, in place of the S019 prep_ we want you to do SO73 MALF,
and we haven't upllnked that yet. It'll be coming up in
time for you to do the malfunction procedure at that time.
And at about 22:00 there, Just prior to where we got the SO19
OPS, we're going to do an SO73 Jett, if it turns out that's
required. In any event we're going to do an S073 stow I
after we've just done our trouble sheoting on it. And if
you'll look over to your detail pad, we want to delete the
13:20 item relating to the photo ACT. And I'II give you
a Jett time in case it's required and we don't have contact.
The Jet time will be 21:44:28, and that's SO73 Jett, if required.
And that'll be followed by S073 stow i.
PLT Okay, I'm not going to Jett unless
I hear from you again to definitely Jeff.
CC Roger. We'll be talking about it after
you run the malf. I Just wanted to give you that time so
you'd have it there.
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PLT Okay.
PLT And when do we get the word whether or
not to go into the EREP day or a non-EREP day?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're GO for EREP at
this time. And one quick question, when you put that decal
on did you Just tape it - tape it right over the other one?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC You think it would be possible to pull
it off of there and go back to the SL2?
PLT Well, I'ii give it a try. What's wrong
with it ?
CC Well, after a lot of study of the procedure
we decided the SL2 procedure was the better way to go.
PLT Okay, I'ii give it a whirl then, Hank.
CC You see that the new procedure calls for
bringing down BUS 1 and that has some serious implications
for S192. And we're about i0 seconds from LOS now. We'll
be coming up on Honeysuckle at 32 and we'll have a recorder
dump there.
PLT Okay. Why don't you just have them find
out what to cross off the old - the new decals, that might
work too.
CC Okay, it looks pretty complicated at first
cut but we'll be looking at that during LOS.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid does have
loss of signal. The next station to pick up Skylab will be
Honeysuckle in 35 minutes. Crew has a GO for - for the EREP
flight plan for today. And the trouble shooting will continue
on the S073 experiment, the gegensehein/zodiacal light experi-
ment. During the day also, later in the afternoon today, the
crew commander AI Bean will check out the astronaut maneuvering
unit, the M509 experiment. He will not fly it today, this
will be merely a checkout of the systems. And science pilot
Owen Garriott is scheduled to conduct T003, the inflight
aerosol analysis experiment. The object of this experiment
is to measure the sizes, concentration and composition of particles
in the atmosphere inside Skylab, as a function of time and location.
Also included in the very long telepzinter pad that was sent
up to Skylab, the one that Jack Lousma referred to as longer
than the fireman's pole in Skylah. Also included in that is
the - another procedure for attempting to clear up the malfunction
in ED52. That's the spider web experiment, one of the student
experiments. The electronics subassembly in that experiment
has malfunctioned, that's the electronics that controls the
camera, 16 millimeter camera, and the and the lights. This
procedure will attempt to adjust the cen- -
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PAO That's the sensitivity of that assembly.

As an alternate to be able to fix that, the experiment
will be photographed with 35-millimeter still photography.
We'll come back up Just prior to acquisition at Honeysuckle,
which is 32 minutes from now. At 12 hours Greenwich mean
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SL-III MC-277/I
Time: 07:31 CDT 07/12:31 GMT
8/3/73

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at Honeysuckle. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes. We'll have a data recorder dump.
SPT Hank_ I want to make sure that ETC load
was still included in my schedule even toCugh ECT ops has
been deleted. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, Owen. And we're just
getting ready for tomorrow. And I've got a couple of more
items for you, if it's convenient now.
SPT Okay, let me pull my flight plan out
again. Just a minute.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We had a couple of items that we had
in our summary flight plan and failed to get up on the uplink;
we goofed, so we'd llke to add them back in. TO03-5 before
and after you eat, and a T003-7 before and after doffing
clothes in prep for the shower.
SPT Okay, 3-5 and 3-7 before and after eat,
before and after clothes for shower. I didn't notice the
shower on our llst today. Oh yeah, housekeeping 7-A. Okay,
thank you.
CC And in regard to that shower, we do have
a go for the showers. We are however considering the possibility
nothing final yet, on maybe bringlnB the other heat chamber
up to reduce the humidity some what
SPT Roger.
CC And we have one other request for you,
Owen. Since the VTR is broke and the TV that we had scheduled
for today real time was the ETC activities, we were wondering
if at about 16:20 over Goldstone, Texas, and Mila you could
take the TV and Just sort of pan ove_ the CDR and PLT while
they are running the EREP pass.
SPT I think we can manage that and 1'11 put
it on my flight plan to give you som_ real tlme TV at 16:20.
CC Okay, good show.
CDR Say Hank, CDR. There are a couple of
us that feel pretty clean. We might not take that shower,
but don't fill in the time though. Give us some
more chance to give this stuff - this place squared away.
CC Roger, we didn't hear that. And for Jack,
we goofed again. The Jet time we gave you was for mission
day. We will get you another Jet time if it is required
prior to the time it is required.
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CDR By the way last night we got the foot

restraints on, the new foot restraints on in the head. And
they work pretty good. We haven't had a chance to really
evaluate them yet. Today some time we'll try to get the
ones on in the wardroom plus some other things like that.
CC Roger, we copy. Another item we need
to get to some time at the earliest convenient time is to
get a paper change on the teleprinter.
SPT Roger, understand. And also this T003-5
before and after eat, is that any particular meal? We've
obviously missed before breakfast.
CC That's the noon meal, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. We thought that unless you
wanted to continue that we would discontinue the menu pad.
CDR Good idea.
CDR Hank, could you put on the factor in the
flight planning two days from now for the CDR to have 2 hours
to stow overage food, label itp and also out of that same place
send up where they would like it put. We've got quite a lot
of it up here. We'll stink it all in cans and put it some
where, wherever (garble) friends would llke it.
CC Roger, copy. You'd like 2 hours for over-
age food storage.
CDR That's right, plus instructions.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 52.
range of the Honeysuckle station. Hawaii will acquire in
i0 minutes. During the Honeysuckle pass we informed the crew
that we would be in position to receive live television over
Goldstone, Texas, and Merritt Island stations beginning at 11:20 a.m.
central daylight time. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott responded
that he believed the crew would be able to send television at
that time. So we do expect live television at 11:20 a.m. today.
We'll come back up Just prior to Hawaii. At 12 hours 42 minutes
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Time: 07:50 CDT, 07/12:50 GMT
8/3/73

Hawaii. he Capcom is Astronaut Hank Hartsfield. The
Flight Director is Milton Windler.
Hawaii for I0 minutes.
PAO And that Capeom is Astronaut Story
Musgrave, who is on the console with Hartsfield.
SPT Okay, Story. Just finished our breakfast.
And I'm going to go up and change that teleprinter paper so
I guess you won't be sending up any messages for a little
bit, will you?
SPT Hello, Story.
CC l'm getting an answer now, Owen.
CC Okay. Press on, Owen. We won't send
any messages up.
SPT Okay.
CDR And there's a message - -
CC Yes, AI?
CG Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Goldstone in 2 minutes.
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SL-III MC279/I
Time: 08:01 CDT, 07/13:01 GMT
8/3/73

loss of signal. About a 2 minute interruption in communications
until Skylab gets within range of the Goldstone station, and
the LOS at Goldstone and reacquisition at Bermuda. We'll
continue to stay up llve for Goldstone.
CC Skylab, we have you through Goldstone
for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're just finishing up breakfast
and getting to work.
CC Roger.
CDR Story, we were checking our flight plan
trying to understand something. We knew that the day off
that we gave up was going to be Friday, which is today, but
we look at our flight plan, preflight, and it was going to
be tomorrow. What- what's now the plan?
CC Stand by one.
SPT And the teleprinter paper is changed. You
might give it a try and make sure it's all working right for
ground.
CC Okay, I copy that, Owen. And did you all
find the S054 timer that was wrapped up in a sock in A-97
CDR Not yet.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, at present we got a standard on-orblt
day for you, including probably an EREP pass, an M092/171, a
131 and a couple of corollaries.
CDR That's tomorrow?
CC Yes, sir. And also about 4 ATM orbits.
CDR Okay, that's good. ust trying to get
things straightened out up here in our mind so we know
where we are and what we're doing. Good.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, no need to reply but we're
looking at day i0 or ii for your EVA and we're fluctuating
between those two because of apotential EREP pass over
the United States and Africa on day ten.
CDR That's great, we'll be ready.
CC Okay.
CC And Owen, we'd like a verification that
on panel 209, the teleprinter is in the command position.
SPT Stand by, I left it so, and it'll
be a command in Just a moment.
CC Okay.
SPT There you go.
CC Okay, we'll give it a whirl. We're going
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8/3/73
LOS here in about 30 seconds. We'll plck you up over Bermuda

in 4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Skylah out of
range at Goldstone now. Its flight path too far north to
he acquired by antennas at the Texas and Merritt Island stations.
Just skimming the northern fringes of acquisition of those
stations just out of range. Next station to acquire Skylab
will he Bermuda in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue
to keep this llne up and go on into the Bermuda pass.
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PAO Over Goldstone, Capcom Story Musgrave

informed the crew that flight planners are looking at mission
day i0 or ii, and that would be Monday or Tuesday of next
week, as the extravehicular day. No decision on which day
yet. They are also looking at the possibility of doing an
Earth Resources pass over Africa on Monday. Obvlously we
would not do EREP and EVA on the same day. And an Earth
Resources pass tentatively scheduled for tomorrow. The first
one of the missions is scheduled today. We're coming within
range of Bermuda now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Bermuda for
7 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're coming up on a i minute
key hole.
CC We're back with you, Skylab.
CC And is anybody near the STS?
CDR No, but we can be in a second.
CC Okay. At your convenience, we'd like,
on panel 230, tool sieve A heat exchanger A open.
CDR Mol sieve A heat exchanger A open. Okay,
just a second.
CC Affi rmatlye.
CDR Mol sieve A, heat exchanger A open.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in i minute.
We'll see you over Canaries in 2 minutes. And we'd llke to
know from the PLT if he was able to change out those EREP
decals?
CDR He hasn't gotten to it yet, but he's
going to go work on it Just as soon as he finishes cleaning up.
CC Okay, if you can't, we'd like to know
as early as possible so we can get a teleprinter pad up to you.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Canary Islands will pick up the spacecraft in
about a minute. We'll continue to stand by before acquisition
at Canary. There is overlapping coverage with Ascension on
this revolution.
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CC Skylab, we're back with you over Canary

for 7 mlnutes.
PLT Okay, Story. It was a rip off. I Just
ripped off the new decal, and the old one's okay.
CC Okay. Understand it's okay. Thanks_ Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've handed over to
Ascension. We've got you for 5 more minutes. And_ who's
nearest the mol s_eve?
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PLT AI's closer to the mol sieve and I got

to talk to you about the desiccants. They all look like they're
a very pale purple.
CC Copy.
PLT And the ones that are in the M190, the
ones that are in the stowage box. Also I can't find that
disposable bag with 12 decissants in it that's supposed to
be in MI30. It's not there.
CC We'll work on that, Jack.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we'd like to flow some air ever
condensing heat exchanger Alpha on mol sieve A, panel 233,
condensing heat exchanger air flow, we'd like that valve
to go to A.
CDR Okay, it's moved to A now.
CC Thank you.
CDR Ya'll are getting all sorts of confidence
down there.
PLT Hey Story, l'm starting to find the (garble)
fecal bags with the desiccants and I've found six ef them so far.
I'll look around for some more.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Are we understanding correct that the
desiccants both in the S190 and those in the stowage box are
all pale purple?
PLT They all look the same color to me and
I - we call it pale purple.
CC Okay, in that event we don't want you
to replace any of the same color.
PLT Okay, if that's the color you like, I
like it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS in
i minute. We'll see you over Carnarvon at 14:07. And for
the PLT, if you have any desiccants that are white or red, we'd
llke you to bake those out per the procedure. And Owen, no
need to reply but we do have your new Z update accomplished
and we're back in Inhibit again.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
passed out of range of the Ascension station. Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle will be the next stations to acquire, over-
lapping coverage there. Carnarvon coming up in 26 minutes.
Control.
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Time: 09:04 CDT 07/14:04 GMT
8/3/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 2-1/2 minutes away from
acquisition at Carnarvon. The change of shift news conference
with Flight Director Chuck Lewis will begin at 9:20 a.m.
central daylight time in the news briefing room at JSC,
9:20 a.m. about 15 minutes from nwo for the Change of Shift
Briefing with Flight Director Chuck Lewis. We'll stay up
for Honeysuckle and Carnarvon acquisition.
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for i0 minutes.
PLT Hold it, Hank. Let me put the S190 guys at ease
on the desiccants. There's a - the - The desiccants that my good
friend and colleague, Paul Weltz bagged out for me in the con-
tingency bags, where there was 6 of them. And they were all
a very nice blue color. Therefore, I decided that all other
desiccants, both those in the S190 and those in N130, were
inferior. I put the 6 blue desiccants in the S190, I took
12 of the other desiccants and put them in the fecal dryers.
I'ii put 12 more in some other time, but what I need to know
is how long I've got to cook them.
CC Copy that, Jack, and I'ii get you an answer.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Story, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Wait, let me get another VOX. This
is squawking.
CC Okay.
CDR Yeah, this is better. Could you tell me
onboard where there might be either our own personal ear pieces
for these lightweight headsets, or some of these pink plastic
ones that universal for everybody, but of various
CC You broke off about 20 seconds ago, AI.
CDR Roger. Did you get my call about the
ear plugs?
CC No. We lost about the last 30 seconds
during the handover to Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay. Just wondering, maybe you can ask
the stowage fellas, where the personal ear pieces for the light
weight headsets might be. I'd llke to find mine, and if there's
none onboard, I know there's some in the 509 ear protection
kit, but I'm not sure those are the kind you hook up to
the lightweight headsets. Those may Just be solid. But
anyhow there may be another set aboard, if not where are
those universal pink ones so I can go find a pink one that
is the right size? And I don't want to take mine out of
the command module. It's presently in there, probably ought
to stay.
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CC Okay, and we'll find those for you. And

we're coming up on a key hole for a minute.
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CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, the universal ear pieces are in the
left arm pocket of the coveralls in U-2.
CC And also, AI. We're showing on S073 that
the filter wheel is in position A. We'd llke it to be in
A-B.
CDR Let me check it.
CC And, we're i minute to LOS. We'll be
picking you up over Hawaii in 12 minutes. We'll be dumping
the tape recorders over Hawaii. And for the PLT, the desiccants
will probably have to be dried about 48 to 72 hours. But
in any event, dry them until they're dark blue.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR And, Story. It is in A-B. It's in auto
and A-B.
CC Copy.
CDR It always was. Let me cycle it.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, is that ah - -
CDR Now, it's in -
CDR Now it's in B.
CC Okay.
CDR Now it's in A-B, again.
CC Roger.
CDR I noticed when I ran the first part of
the test that you do on page 6-11, I reported it on than A,
that it never cycled anything but filter wheel A. And I
reported it as a malf, and said I'd run it again after this
and see what would happen. But the thing is in A-B.
CC Roger. Go ahead, PLT.
PLT Ah - hat thing about the desiccants, is
that with the heater on or with the heater off.
CC We'll get you over Hawaii.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Hawaii will acquire in about 11-1/2 minutes.
The desiccants that have been discussed during this pass are
small bags containing a moisture absorbing material. These
bags are placed in the S190 camera and also inside the crew's
pressure suits, while they're stowed to absorb any moisture.
The color indicates the amount of moisture present. And
every so often, it's necessary to take these small desiccant
bags and bake them out, or heat them to the point where they
are dried out for reuse. We'll come back up. Well we're at
the time now for the news conference with Flight Director
Chuck Lewis, which will begin in the next couple of minutes
in the news briefing room at the Johnson Space Center. If
that conference is still in progress at Hawaii, we'll tape
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the Hawaii pass and replay that later. The news conference
with Flight Director Chuck Lewis is now about to begin. We'll
turn this llne over for that news conference. At 14 hours
19 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about a minute and a
half away from acquisition at Goldstone. We taped the Hawaii
pass during the News Conference, and we'll replay that at
the earliest opportunity. The extravehicular activity is
now scheduled for Monday, August 6, that's mission day number
I0. Very shortly the crew will begin preparations for the
first Earth Resources pass of this mission. The actual data
take pass is scheduled to begin at 12:54 p.m. central dayli_|it
time at a point about i00 nautical miles northwest of Portland,
Oregon. The track will come down through Oregon, Idaho, Nevada,
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and
across South America ending in the South Atlantic. The track
is almost 8000 nautical miles long. The duration of the pass
will be 33 minutes. Information will he gathered on a number
of areas including geology, land use, water resources, forestry,
agriculture, and the atmosphere. We're at Goldstone now.
We'll stand by.
Goldstone for 6 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, on board there is an S073 pad for
you. We do realize that you are not the prime crewman for
S073, but in the event that we have to eject that experiment
later on today or tomorrow, we'd like to get as much
data as possible with it. So we have scheduled you for some-
thing in the 16:00 to 17:00 time period.
SPT Roger. How does this match the EREP time
frame? I'm going to he doing rate gyro pack prep at the moment,
and then I thought I was going to be doing rate gyro check out
during that interval and also handheld TV.
CC Okay Owen, we'd like the photography,
and the rate gyro checkout to have priority. If possible
set these experiments up prior to the data take, and if
possible I'ii get them started.
SPT Okay, I'm doing rate gyro prep right now,
and then I'ii do the S093 (sic) next. And it looks to me like
your real time TV will have to go down the drain.
CC Owen, we would like to have the TV. It
also has priority over the S073. And take a look at the pad
and Just give us what you can.
SPT I'ii give her a look, Story.
CC Okay.
CC We're coming up on LOS at thls time. We'].]
pick you up over Bermuda in 4 minutes.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. oldstone does

have loss of signal. Bermuda will pick up Skylab in about
2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue to keep the llne up, and stand
by for Bermuda acquisition.
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PAO We taped about 3-1/2 minutes of conver-

sation at the Hawaii station during the news conference.
We'll play that between Bermuda and Ascension.
CC Skylab, we're back with you over Bermuda
for I0 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Because of
the SO73 experiment problem, the inability to retract the
gegenscheln zodiacal light experiment. The Earth terrain
camera portion of the EREP pass will not be performed. The
SO73 is extended through the scientific airlock, the same
airlock that the Earth terrain camera must be placed through
for operation. So it will not be possible to perform the
Earth terrain camera photography while S073 is in the airlock.
If the several troubleshooting procedures on S073 are not
successful, the plan is to eject that experiment, possibly
later today, and free the airlock for other experiments.
We'll continue to stand by at Bermuda. Still about 7 minutes
of pass time left here.
CC Skylab, Houston_ We're 30 seconds to
LOS. We'll see you over Ascension in i0 minutes.
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range at Bermuda. Ascension acquires in about 6 minutes.
We'll play the tape from the Hawaii pass now.
Hawaii for i0 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And no need to acknowlege. PLT, we are
going to use the heaters on the desiccant bakeout.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT Okay, here's the morning report. Everybody
is in excellent shape. And no medication, BHMD readings
are as follows: 6.223, 6.222, 6.225; 5.992, 5.996, 5.995;
6.940, 6.942, 6.936. Over.
CC I got them.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Let me read you which filters are on
the cameras in EREP and make sure we got it right.
CC Okay.
CDR I'ii read them in order. CC, DD, EE,
FF, BB, AA. And you might tell EREP troops that everything
is nice and clean with the optics. Up on the side where the
film slides past, I can see some slight scratch marks on the
platen, but other than that, it's perfect. I dusted them off with
the camel hair brush and there Just wasn't enough dust on
there to worry about. There's not anything on there that
that it looks to me like you could improve by further cleaning.
CC Okay. We'll have an answer for you shortly
on the filters. Other than the universal ear pieces, the
only other ones we have are the personal ear pieces that are
in the command module on the lightweight headsets.
CDR Okay, I found mine actually in the right
hand coat pocket, as you said. And we're leaving our
light - other one in the command module all the time.
CC Okay, and while we' re talking about comm,
a slight message for you. On the handheld mike, hold it at
least 3 inches away from the mouth, and optimally, 3 to 6 inches
away from the mouth.
CDR Okay.
pick you up over Goldstone in about 40 seconds. No need to
acknowlege. We'll be dumping the VTR over Goldstone. There
should be a teleprinter test message up.
CC And AI, those filters on the EREP are
correct.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end

of the tape. Skylab about 2 minutes away from acquisition
at the Ascension Island station. We'll continue to keep the
line up and stand by for communications through Ascension.
CC Skylab, we have you through Aseenslon
for i0 minutes.
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CC Skylab, we show the S073 still running.

We'd like to turn it off by cycling the power switch from
off to on.
CDR Okay. That's consistent with what I
mentioned about that earlier test. I think the problem is
it never switches to B, so it just keeps cycling forever.
I' ii go turn it off. I can select B manual for you, and run
the B part, if you want. But I'ii just turn it off now, and
await your instructions.
CC Okay, AI.
CC Right now, AI, and no need to reply. Just
cycling the power switch will be fine. Off and then to on.
CDR Hank, do you want me to turn off the
experiment light? Experiment recorders, that is i and 2.
CC Yeah, you can turn those off now.
CDR Hey, Houston, CDR. I'm going to try to
run that calibration, again, and see if it' ii work this time
on SO73.
CC AI, at the present time, we're getting a
light leak from the Sun into the shutter, and we'd like to
power the experiment down for a couple of orbits.
CDR Okay. I'ii Just omit that, and let it
set where it is. And I had noticed that, although it didn't
kick out, the intensity was, during the previous calibration
was up in the 5, generally.
CC Okay.
CDR Do you still want the - it's the rod at 15:507
I'Ii set that up right now, and Owen will Just have to turn
it on.
CC AI, we saw you go to medium gain. You
can leave it powered up. We're oka_j, now.
CDR Okay. I'ii turn the power back on and
let it cal again.
CC And that'll be gTeat to set that up for
Owen's run, AI.
CDR Okay. I'm going to let it run on cal, here
a while. As soon as it finishes, if it ever does, which I
suspect it won't, I'ii come back and check it in 3 or 4 minutes.
If it doesn't I'ii just turn it off and set it up for Owen's
run. And all he'll have to do is hit program start.
CC That'll be fine, AI.
SPT Now we've got the Y and the X number
5 and number 6 rate gyros spinning up right now. And it
looks like there may be only a few tenths of a volt noise on
Y-6. We'll of course get a calibrate of firm while we're doing
the Z-LV maneuver.
CC Okay, Owen.
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loss of signal, arnarvon will acquire the spacecraft in
22 minutes. At 15 hours 19 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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Skylab at the Carnarvon station.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon
for I0 minutes.
CDR Okay Houston, got a question. We've
on yesterday's flight plan or day before, I can't remember
for sure which, we hooked up the EREP box to the TV the
diagnostic test to the television power, 133 panel. Now,
we don't think we can run that at the same time we run
tile other TV, but maybe you're not planning to run that
and just leave that off. So, we're kind of wondering about
that.
CDR Story, did you copy our question on the
TV and EREP (garble) box?
CC Yeah, we're discussing it now, AI.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, you could plug the TV into the air-
lock module TV input station and turn the MDA TV input
station off.
CDR Okay, we can do that, but then you won't
get the data - I gather you're not planning to use the EREP
checkout box data then. We knew you couldn't get them both
at once.
CC That's affirmatJvep AI. We're not planning
on using it.
CDR Okay, we'll - now, we can Just disconnect
that from that TV input station if you want and leave
the box connected into the llne. Is that correct? That'd
be a lot easier.
CC Okay, that'll be fine, AI.
CDR Okay, we're going to leave the box in
the line, put both ends of its connectors connected as it
is now. We'll disconnect the llne that runs to the TV
cable power station and that's where we'll drive the TV from.
CDR Okay.
CDR It seems like we're beating a dead horse,
but let me verify one thing now. It's okay for the box to
stay in the line there as long as it's in the off position
and both ends both of the connectors out of the box are con-
nected to their proper EREP connectors. Is that okay?
CC That's fine, AI.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
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CC We've got an S073 malfunction procedure

for you AI to get the filter wheels in sync.
CDR Just a moment, I'm - How long is this task?
CC Oh, it shouldn't take more than about
2 minutes.
CC Now we're coming upon 40 seconds to LOS
here. We'd probably better get this over Guam, and we'll
be there in about 4 minutes.
CDR That's a lot better. Good.
loss of signal. Guam acquisition in about 2-1/2 minutes.
We'll keep the llne up.
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PAO We'll keep the llne up.

CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam for
9 minutes.
PLT Okay Story, what's the cloud coverage
in the Houston area.
CC Stand by one, Jack.
CDR I'm standing by to copy procedure on
i (garble)
CC Okay, AI. Cycle power off, then on,
manually step filter wheel A switch. When second zero appears,
power off immediately. Release filter wheel switch, power
back on, and go to normal pad ops.
CDR Okay.
CC Jack, the weather expected in Houston
on your pass, will be clear, with the exception of cumulus
buildups, possibly up to a coverage of 0.4 to 0.7. The front
is south of Galveston, out toward the Palacios area.
PLT Okay_ thank you, Story.
CDR Okay, I performed that S073 procedure.
The filter wheel A and B are now sitting at zero.
CC It looks good from down here, Al.
CDR I'm leaving power on and pressing hack to EREP.
CC Okay, and you're clear to start it.
CDR You want me to etart S073?
CC Yes. Now is the time, AI. And turn the
tape recorders on for S073.
CDR Okay, program start.
CG Thank you.
CDR No, wheel A is starting with a i. We've
got to go back to EREP in it.
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of signal. Goldstone acquisition in 15 minutes. And we
do expect live television from Skylab at that time, subject
being, preparations for the Earth Resources ass. At 16 hours
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acquisition at the Goldstone tracking station is less than
a minute. We expect llve television at that time. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you stateside
for 19 minutes.
CC Skylab, in case you missed my call,
we're stateside for 18 minutes. No need to acknowledge.
SPT Okay, Story. We're right here. We did
miss your call, it just came through. And you ought to be
getting downlink TV.
CC Okay. We're looking for it.
CC And we have - -
PLT Okay. Hit it.
SPT As you can tell, Jack and AI are just makin_
preparations for our first Earth - Earth Resources Pass, which
is just about an hour ahead of us at this point. See the
control and display panel all set up - and the tracking
equipment, in order to track specific targets on the ground.
CC Copy.
SPT That is the site map that ack has in
his left hand. Over in his right hand now, is a map of the
United States. And he was just reporting that one of his
targets for today is the Bonneville Salt Flats. You're
pointing out right now, aren't you, Jack?
SPT (Garble) across the U.S. there, it looks
like we approach over the northwest coast, right down across
the middle of the US, down over the Gulf of Mexico. Portland,
Oregon, up through Salt Lake City (garble) Colorado, Texas and
out into the Gulf. I guess I should have - make that more
clear, east of Texas and right across the Gulf.
CC Copy.
SPT This is the backside view of the commander,
Captain Alan Bean. He's working on the control displays panel
for Earth Resources experiment, t will initiate the operation
of a wide variety of sensors, which are used to measure
temperatures, make various photographs of various central
wavelengths. Just above him, there around the dome is our
tunnel into the command module. They have an air duct going
through it to circulate air from the MDA, where the three of us
are now located, up through the command module to keep the venti-
lation going.
SPT Here are the things that we'll be doing
on this first Earth Resources pass; checking out a new package
of rate-gyros that we brought up with us in our command
module. As most of you may know, we have had some problems
with rate-gyros, which measure the changing of attitude of
the spacecraft. And as a result, we've brought along a couple
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of replacement packages, two packages, (garble) of the three

were (garble) gyros on the last mission. We have those
mounted inside the MDA, here. And I plan to move the
camera around to one side and show you where those
are mounted on the wall of the MDA. We also have a little
meter connected up to them so we can see whether or not
they're outputs are we - are as we would expect them to be. And
I'ii switch the camera over there in Just a moment to show
you our rate-gyro package, efore I get to that, however,
Captain Bean just pointed out here one of things we can do is
open the window, which is the port through window, which Earth
resources cameras will look. fill bring the camera over there
and take a look. It's apt to be too bright, so you may have to
walt a moment while I stop down the camera. Then we'll see if
we can see out.
SPT That's the Hawaii Reservoir. Again, we
think it's in North Dakota, we dontt have our charts out
at the moment. But you can see it's a nlce bright day up
here, and just a few scattered clouds. You can probably
get a glimpse of the river down there. Normally when EREP
pass takes place, we'll have 6 multlspeetral cameras looking
down through that wlndow and taking data that can be used
in the future for crop information, for agriculture, for
water surveys, (garble) surveys, multiple other things that I'm
sure you're very familiar with. The cameras are loaded now.
They're sort of up in a cocked position. As we get closer
to EREP pass time, we'll put them down. We'll check them
out to make sure that they all are operating properly, and
at the right time we'll turn them on, and they'll take
sequential photos across the EREP in 6 different spectral
ranges. As all of you were well aware, some things appear
different in different spectral ranges; for example, crop
disease appears in infrared much better than it does in
the visual light range. And the same thing is true of others.
Welre getting ready to pass over Chicago, and so now thls
ought to be a good picture of Chicago.
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SPT As you can see we move there at a fairly fast

clip. One of the things that's been hardest to get used to up
here is just how fast you cover the world. Once around in 93 min-
utes and across the United States in almost the blink of an eye.
Flying on a 235-nautical-mile orbit, and from our altitude the
other day we happened to look out and we could see San Francisco,
Las Vegas, all the way down to San Diego and all in one sweep of the
eye. The weather was clear and it was a fantastic sight.
We're passing over Cincinnati, Ohio right now although it
doesn't appear to have too much contrast - contrast with the
surrounding terrain. As you can see a manned space station
would have a great application for weather - - And we're
approaching Virginia and North Carolina. In about 1 minute,
you'll see us cross the coastline. We're in South Carolina,
so that ought to he a spectacular sight as far as contrast
is concerned. We hope it is showing up well on the
TV. When we have completed this pass and gone out over to the
ocean, we'll remove the camera, and we'll get our EREP camera
in place, and continue checking out the EREP and gettln£
ready for our pass across the central United States which
will take place about 93 minutes from now. As you can see much
more cloudy in this area. Difficult to see the ground.
Looks like we're going to cross the coast about 50 miles
north of Wilmington. We are crossing the coastline right now.
The clouds are in there somewhat, but I think if you look out
now, you'll be able to see we're moving into the ocean. Progress
a man took 6 months to travel from coast to coast by covered wagon
or horse. I''ii take a moment to reset my camera and try to give
you another inside shot of our rate gyro.
CC Okay.
SPT You get one great view looking back towards
the workshop there, hut it was just a black hole at that point
because I had all the lights turned off while changing film
in some cameras down in the workshop area. So after this
pass is complete I'ii (garble) the f_im transfer and then get
the lights back on.
CC Copy, Owen. And you've got 4 minutes to
LOS.
SPT Rog.
SPT As you see when it's necessary to restraln
yourselves, we find these shoes with triangle cletes convenient.
There is one little grid that A1 has Just moved out of there with
his shoes that he uses to hold himself in position when
working at the C&D panel. He is locked in as you can see. Jack
at the moment is not using anything for foot restraints. He
is floating around freely. A little later in the day, we
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plan t take down the fireman's pole in the workshop, and

try it for a while without a pole, and try it with a strap
back and forth just to see which aid is the most convenient
for getting back and forth. It's a relatively simple matter
just to fly back and forth with nothing to hold on to at al].
But sometimes it's a convenient thing to use if you want
to stop at midway and bend over to one side or something
like that. We'll give it a try later today.
CC Okay, Skylab. We've lost the TV. We
enjoyed every second of it. Thank you.
SPT Sure enough, Story.
CC And we're coming up on a minute to LOS.
The next station will be Carnarvon about 40 minutes from now
at 17:19. We have firmed up the EVA. It's looking llke mission
day 10. And we hope to get any revision of the procedures
to you tomorrow night.
SPT Rog. Day 10, sounds good.
CDR We'd like to get a little ATM film into
those machines out there so we can start taking some Sun pictures.
CC Yes sir.
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loss of signal. During this pass we had good quality tele-
vision all the way from Ooldstone through loss of signal
at the Merritt Island, Florida Station, about 15-1/2 minutes
of television - inside the multiple docking adapter, showing
crew Commander AI Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma preparing
for the up-coming Earth Resources pass. Camera man was
Science Pilot Owen Garriott. For a large part of the tele-
vision, he held the camera out the window that's normally used
for the EREP cameras. Through the window, not out the
window. Starting about North Dakota - and we saw Chicago,
Cincinnattl, down across the coast llne in North Carolina.
The Earth Resources pass is scheduled to begin at 12:54 p.m.,
central daylight time, just over an hour from this time.
That pass begins about a hundred nautical miles northwest of
Portland, Oregon, comes down across the United States on
ground track 34, crosses the Texas coast out over the Gulf of
Mexico, through South America and ends in the South Atlantic
just off the coast of South America. This EREP pass will
be the first of 26 that have been scheduled for this mission.
Data will be taken for approximately a 3 minutes, covering
almost 8000 nautical miles. More than 20 separate TACS
sites are scheduled during this 33-minute pass. These
investigations includes studies fo* the U.S. Corp of Engineers
and the Department of Interior, as well as for scientists in
the field of Geology, atmospheric studies, regional planning
and development, and technique development in microwave areas.
Five of the six EREP sensors will be used for this first
pass. These include the S190, the multispectral camera, S191,
infrared spectrometer, S192 the 13-channel multispectral
scanner, and S193, the K-band microwave radiometer scattero-
meter - the S194, passive microwave radiometer. The Earth
terrain camera, which is part of EREP, will not be used.
Its position is normally through the scientific airlock and
that airlock is occupied by another experiment at this
time. Three NASA aircraft, staging out of Ellington Air
Force Base, near the Johnson Space Center, will support
this EREP pass, flying along portions of the ground track.
They include an RB57, a C130 and a modified Lockheed electra.
Much of today's investigation includes atmospheric studies
of cumulus clouds over the central United States, trade
wind cumulus clouds, cloud cover over the northern part of
South America, where the circulation of air from the Northern
Hemisphere and Southern Hemispheres converge. Cumulus clouds
over South America is also included in today's pass. Depart-
ment of interior investigators are looking for information
on the coastline along the Pacific northwest_ the Columbia
River in Washington, and areas in Idaho and regon, the
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Great Salt Lake in Idaho, and the watershed of the Colorado

and Rio Grande rivers. Among the investigators, Dr. Kenyon Lee
of the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colorado is hoping
to gain information on the snow cover in Western Colorado
as well as information to map geological features in Colorado.
In Agricultural and Forestry, Dr. C. E. Polton of the
Earth Satellite Corporation hopes to gain information for
mapping material resources on a global basis. Five separate
investigations are being conducted in the area of remote
sensing techniques development. These investigations include
work for NASA as well as outsite scientists. Mission planners
are assessing weather patterns to possibly schedule another
EREP pass for tomorrow. This pass would be on ground track
48, somewhat similar to today's pass. Planners are also
looking at a double EREP pass for Sunday, along track 61 and
62, which includes the Oceanic gamefish project, a program
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The
EREP program includes scientific investigations for more
than 140 scientists in the United States and 21 foreign
countries. We're about 32-1/2 minutes away from Skylab
acquisition at the next tracking station which is Carnarvon.
We'll come back up Just prior to acquisition there. At
16 hours 46 minutes, this is Skylah Control.
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utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Carnarvon
station for about a 10 minute pass. We'll stand by.
Carnarvon for I0 minutes.
PLT Okay Story. How about Just for the heck
of it have one of the EREP guys maybe Ron Weitenhagen or who
ever dream up a 45 degree time on Lake Summerville.
CC Okay. They copied you, and they are
going to do it. Jack, the weather in Houston is a lot better
than we expected. And it might be good to run a Houston multiple
site acquisition program. Thatts entirely at your option.
PLT Okay, it looks llke to me that the time
will be about 5:43 or something llke that. I can't remember
now, but i_ looks like I would have to substitute it now
for that one (garble) swath.
CC And we've got - included in this multiple
site acquisition program is Lake Summerville.
PLT Ro E . That's the one Ieed the gimbal
angles on.
CC Okay. Would you llke a pad on that?
CDR He's been wishing you'd ask him. Yes,
he wants it.
CC Okay. Here we _o. Descending, sites 410,
420, 415, 425. Let me know
PLT I know the track, Just give me the times
and angles.
CC Okay. Curtail the first special 01 at
0400. Site 410, acquisition at 05:12, 45 degrees, left 3.6.
PLT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, we've got a cable connected to the
rate gyro package which has hot pins on it. We'd like to get
that cable off the rate gyro package.
SPT Okay. The one going to the multlmeter,
is that the one you're talking about?
CC That's the one that has got the rate gyro
outputs. And if you are ready to copy, l've got a procedure
for you.
SPT Okay, stand by. Go ahead, I'll copy it
here, go ahead.
CC Rate gyros 5 and 6 circuit breakers 6 off,
that's on panel 141.
SPT Go ahead.
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CC Disconnect signal cable assembly from panel

141, that's JS2 and restrain the cable.
SPT Okay.
CC And after you've got the cable off and
restrained rate gyro 5 and 6 circuit breaker 6 all on.
SPT It's back on.
CC And leave the cable disconnected until
we pass it up to yon to reconnect it.
SPT Okay, I want to make sure what signal
cable yon' re talking about. Are you talking about the signal
multlmeter temp cable or another signal cable?
CC It's the IVA signal cable, that's on
panel 141.
SPT Okay, I understand, thank you.
CC Okay.
SPT The JS-2 is disconnected and the gyros
are back on again.
CC Okay Owen. And we will not remate that
cable unless we need to use the rate gyros.
SPT Rog, understand.
CC And Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll
pick you up over Guam in 5 minutes. And if possible we have
an S073 call for you_ Owen. It has not started, ither
stop the tape recorders experiment 1 and 2 or start S073
and change the RETs from 16 to 50.
SPT Okay, Just give me a call whichever you
want.
CC We'd prefer you to start it if possible.
SPT Do you want me to do it now, or do you
want to make a decision as to which alternative you want?
CC Right now would he fine to start it. And
use the pad. Except change the RETS from 16 to 50.
SPT Roger.
CC Thank you.
loss of slgnal. Guam will acquire Skylab in about 4 minutes.
CDR Sorry to bother you again, but did you
say the tape recorders off?
PAO Well, now we have loss of signal. We got
a bit more communication there after the map and the clocks
here showed LOS. In fact, the network controller inquired
where did he come from, when he came back up. But, we do have
loss of slgnal now about 3-1/2 minutes away from Guam. We'll
continue to keep the llne up.
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PAO Jack Lousma inquired about siting angles

for Lake Summerville. That is a lake near Brenham, Texas,
not too far from Houston. No one here in the Control
Center knows what Lousma's special interest is in that lake.
The numbers that were passed up to him were associated with
the Houston area test site part of the Earth Resources
experiment. We'll continue to keep the llne up and stand
by for acquisition through Guam.
Guam for 8 minutes.
SC Roger.
CDR Okay, I'm pushing to talk.
CDR Turn on A over there and see if you
hear me, Owen. But then turn it off.
SPT Got it.
CDR Turn on A. How do you do? Okay?
Ah Jack - -
SC (Garble)
SPT Houston, Skylab. We've started out
Z-LV maneuver.
CC Okay. We're looking at it, Owen.
CDR Now you can help me with mine.
PLT How's it doing, big O?
SPT I like the way you've got that up there,
Jack. That's a winner.
CC And, Al,w_re reading you down here
and the maneuver looks good.
CDR Perfect.
PLT How you reading me, Story?
CC Loud and clear.
CDR I'm set up on A, which is where we
should be.
CDR Am I voiced for ground all the time now
on EREP, Story?
CC Yes, you are. You're hot mike.
CDR I'm trying to figure out why T-3 has
been verified voice re- -
CC You broke off about 30 seconds ago.
CDR Back up and look.
SPT How do you read me, Story?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT (garble) Okay. Good.
CDR 5 minutes, okay.
SPT Houston, your EGILs might be interested
to know that our Y-knob from the ATM panel is reading about
0.67, correction, 0.067, 0.068 degrees per second. And
the (garble) volt meters, all but Y-6, is reading about 30.2 volts,
which is Just about exactly right according to my calibration curve.
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CC Copy, Owen,
CDR How's the comm, now, Story? We changed the
VOX sensitivity slightly.
CC Loud and clear, AI.
CDR Okay. He thinks it's loud and clear.
Okay. We're coming up on 12 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. I changed the VOX, does
that ah - any improvement?
CC That's fine, Jack.
PLT Okay.
SPT When we ran the check on the cameras,
they all cycled 40 times, as they should have and everything.
And it checked out okay, so far.
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CDR Ready to go?

CDR Five minutes. You got 5 more minutes
to go. I don't know why they always wait untll the end.
And I put the door open on 192 at 5 minutes. So everything's
5 minutes and we got the door open already on 190. Check
it. Looks nice.
CC All right, I waited too long to go to
startracker auto. I don't think you got a startracker
lock on before we started the maneuver. I'd like to do it
over and get set up for the startracker on the complete
maneuver.
SPT What time do you suppose to pass through

that point that you can pick it up?
CC That's fine, Owen.
SPT There's another one with one time only.
CDR Okay, that's the one you got to hit.
You got 13 minutes, but you got to hit it right at that
time.
SPT I know, it - it's Just sometimes - -
CDR Okay. You got to hit it on that time or
it'll (garble) s you know. Okay, we're pass i0 minutes, record
switch to RECORD, momentarily. Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, we're coming up on 20 seconds
to LOS. See you at stateside in 15 minutes at 16:20.
CDR Okeydoke; see you then, Story.
SPT Check them. check all readings on monitor
decal (garble).
PLT How's maneuver, Owen?
CDR Okay, I'm checking all readings. One
shows 46 percent, two shows 60 percent, three 86 percent,
four 71 percent, five 65 percent, six 0714. No, no need
to do that, those were all A's. Now come the D's,
D142, D252 (static) - -
of range at Guam. Goldstone will acquire in 15 minutes
and Skylab will be in the Earth Resources pass about that
time. The crew preparing final preparations now for that
Earth Resources experiment. The Skylab space station has
maneuvered and is now in the Z local vertical attitude, the
Earth looking attitude for the EREP experiments. We'll
come back up Just prior to acquisition at Goldstone. At
Con trol.
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utes Greenwich mean time. Skylah coming up on atquisltlon
at Golds,one. And the crew should be in the early part of
the EREP run at acquisition.
CDR Owen, switch over to At and see if you
can hear me down there.
CDR Can you hear me now. Okay.
SPT It sure is cloudy.
PLT Turn the light off.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're reading you loud
and clear. We have you stateside for 15 minutes. We show
your attitude is good and you've fired one mlb.
CDK Okay. That sounds good to us. Everything
is followlng along okay. And scene 1 looked good. It looks llke
we got a good nadir llne.
CC Roger.
PLT A few mlbs among friends doesn't amount
to much, does it Story?
CC l_m not sure Jerry would agree with that.
CDR Did we fire some mlbs?
PLT No_ we're coming out of the clouds.
MS (garble)
SPT Inner glmbal angle minus 986. That was
at 53 plus 15.
PLT (garble) 1, 5812. (garble) are, standby.
CDR I don't believe the star trackers of
any more (garble).
SPT Well, not quite. I could get it to go back
to manual and stop the - hold the glmbal angles where they are.
CC That's correct, Owen. Either reacqulre
or close the shutter.
SPT Okay, I have closed the shutter at this
point. Now the talkbacks again are not behaving quite right. A
while ago when we were locked on star from the time I gave
you I went to close, and I'll have to explain it to you a
little later.
CDR 59, 10.
FLT That's a nice reflection on water.
CDR Okay, coming up on 5910. We've got a (garble)
on POL 1 on 93. 5910, we're getting good scans. Okay,
59, polarization i. 1840, we go to S stand by.
SPT Story, we have the (garble) on and don't know
if we have got downlink capability here or not.
CC Owen, we can record it at the site. We
will not have real time in Houston.
SPT Rog.
PLT Finish out, Houston there's the Salt Flats.
PLT There are a little clouds over the Salt Flats,
but not bad. (garble)
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PLT Okay, we're taking data, Houston VTS.

CC Roger.
PLT Pick another placel Houston with the VTS.
All (garble) area this time (garble) Okay, we're
picking a third point, Houston, with the 191 we're tracking
it. - -
CDR (garble) and something strange on that one.
PLT We got three different areas in the Salt
Flats, we're taking data on Houston with S191. And we're Just
running out of gimbal angles. We're up to zero. Okayl we've
got a 00, Houston. All fine. BET magnification zero. Go
down to 232. The passes are ready. (garble) There's no
clouds down there.
CDR (garble) lights.
PLT I'ii keep this up til 4 minutes. Okay,
there is a few clouds coming up in that area, but not many
though. Looks llke some of that weather moved out. There
is a little bit of clouds over the Salt Flats, Houston on the
north side. So I think all my sites will be in the south
end of the Salt Flats, and I'ii pick three different lines.
Two light ones and a little darker one. Copy?
CC We copy, Jack.
PLT Okay. (garble) because there aren't very
many clouds.
CC Okay.
PLT And coming up at 45 and 3.6 west
in a minute. Okay, there's 4 minutes. 5 and 3.6 left.
There you go 45 and 3.6. Stand by for 512. We're all set for
Lake Summerville, Houston. A little hazy down there. Uh oh.
Coming in with about 5/10 coverage. Coming in about 6/10
I certainly don't see any Lake Summerville. MARK. 512. Delay
my last_ Houston, see a Lake Summerville.
PLT Okay, we're taking data on Lake Summerville.
CC Copy.
PLT Until 25 gimbal. I see the (garble) very
clearly in Lake Summerville. (garble) is working nice.
PLT I can't seem to find Eagle Lake. Going
up to the coast. (garble) into the clouds too. Okay, we couldn't
get the other three (garble) through the clouds.
CC Copy, Jack.
PLT Okay, stand by for 1132. Lake Summerville is
the only one I can see due to clouds and haze down there, Story.
CC We got that, Jack.
PLT (garble) I guess.
SPT I saw where San Bernard basin was but there
was too many clouds over it to take any good data on the ground.
It would have been good data on the clouds above it. All I could
see was the coast llne.
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8/3/73
CDR The (garble) still on. I think we better

watch it; I'm not sure why.
CDR (garble)
CDR Link 21.
CDR All off.
CDR Okay, the VTS is coming on here.
CDR MARK. Camera on.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds
to LOS. We'll see you over the Vanguard at 18:23. And,
AI, you're coming in real weak and you dropped out altogether
from about 01:30 on up to about 09:00.
CDR Okay, how do you hear now?
CC Loud and clear.
CDR I Just been talking to myself, low. Okay?
CC Thank you.
CDR Thank you.
CDR R OFF. 93 A, range 66. 12:22, A on.
CC Loud and clear now.
CDR Okay, I was Just mumbling. That's my
fault. Forgot I was recording.
SC (static)
of signal through the Merritt Island, Florida tracking station.
Skylab in the Earth Resources experiment pass. Pass will
continue down through South Amerlc_. We'll pick up the
Vanguard in about 9-1/2 minutes. 5ome fairly heavy cloud
cover and haze in some locations along the ground track over
the United States, including portions of the Houston area.
Goldstone did receive television during this pass, taped at the
tracking station there, and will be sending to Houston later.
We do not have times yet when lines will be up to Houston
from Goldstone. Later today, Commander A1 Bean will continue
trouble shooting the SO73 experiment which cannot be retracted
into the workshop through the scientific airlock. Repeated
power turnoffs has been experienced in that experiment and
the photometer head cannot be positioned for retraction
through the alrlock. SO73 utilises the photometer equipment
from the T027 contamination experiment and is designed to
measure the surface brightness and poloarlzation of gegenscheln
and zodiacal light over a large part of the celestial sphere
invisible light. The gegenschein is a round or elongated
spot of faint nebulus light, always directly opposite the Sun
above the Earth's atmosphere. It is seen only at night in
the absence of moonlight, and is thought to be a reflection
of sunlight from cosmic dust moving beyond the Earth's orbit.
The TO27 photometer system which is used for the S073 exper
iment, consist of a canister, a photoelectric photometer, a
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16-millimeter motion picture camera system and associated

hardware. The experiment photometer and camera is extended
through the airlock into space. Experiment is designed
to rotate automatically outside the workshop scanning the
sky. Light readings from the photometer are recorded on
magnetic tape and telemetered to the ground. The
16-millimeter motion picture camera, which is attached to
the system outside the vehicle, records the field of view
being scanned by the photometer, e ground estimates the
problem was caused during one of the scanning periods.
Apparently the mechanism is stuck in such a position that
it cannot be retracted into the spacecraft. The system has
an ejection mechanism which can Jettison the experiment
hardware into space. The ejection rod is a one-inch diameter
20-inch long aluminum rack which is attached to a spring
loaded mechanism which can be initiated by the astronauts.
If the package is Jettisoned, we, of course, will not be able
to conduct anymore SO73 experiments on this mission. Data
already collected by the photometer has been telemetered
to the ground; so that data has not been lost. The scientific
alrlock, this is the antl-solar scientific alrlock, is
utilized for the EREP Earth terrain camera, as well as
for scientific experiments S019 and SO63. The solar
scientific airlock has been unusable since the early part
of the Skylab-II mission when the Skylab-II crew deployed
the parasol Sun shield through that airlock. Dr. Jerry Welnberg
of The Dudley Observatory at Albany, New York is the
principal investigator for SO73. Forty-flve program per-
formances had been scheduled for S073 during this Skylab-III
mission. We should know later today whether it - it will
be necessary to Jettison the experiment or whether the
trouble shooting will clear it up. We're about 4-1/2
minutes away from acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard. We'll
come back up Just prior to that time. At 18 hours 18 minutes
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22 minutes Greenwich mean time. This - The anguard
tracking ship is acquiring now.
PAO We've lost all our circuits to the
Vanguard. We'll stand by and see if we can get those
restored before Skylab passes out of range.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The news
conference on Skylab status will be held by Skylab Program
Director William Schneider in the news briefing room at
the Johnson Space Center, at 3:00 p.m. central daylight time
today. That's a news conference on Skylab status at 3:00 p.m.,
central daylight time, by William Schneider, the Skylab
Program Director. Still 6 minutes left in this Vanguard
pass. We still have not restored the circuits to that
tracking ship. We'll stand by.
CT Vanguard corn tech, Houston corn tech,
off net one, voice check.
CT Houston tom tech, this is Vanguard com
tech, hear you loud and clear. There have been no down-
links from the spacecraft, yet °
CT Roger, Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston_ We've got you through
Vanguard for about 2-1/2 minutes. We had a complete data
and voice dropout for the first 5 minutes over Vanguard.
CDR Okay. We noticed that our tape recorder
is in stop at the moment, tape recorder i.
CC Okay.
CDR We're in the midst of our maneuver back
to solar inertial and we're working on rate gyros here.
CC Okay, AI. And, if possible, can you remember
what meter readings A-I, D-I and C-l, you accepted for nadir
align?
CDR Ahh - I can think about it a mlnute_ but
I recorded them. You're saying that it didn't get on the
recorder?
CC We're not sure that it did. And we'd
really llke them. And if we go LOS here without getting
them, it's possible you could write down the best you can
recall.
CDR Okay. I'ii do that. But we're working
the rate gyros. I'ii get them for you. Do the best I can.
CDR 55, 45, and 86, as Jack and I best remember
on it. But it should be on the tape.
CC 55, 45, and 86. Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've seen a shift in
the drift of Y-2. We would llke you to use Y-I rate gyros.
And inhibit redundancy management.
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SPT Inhibit redundancy, and what's the other?

CC Use rate gyro Y-I.
SPT Okay. It'll take us a moment to do
that.
CC You don't need to do it unless there's
a failure.
CDR Okay. We'll Just cool it and watch then.
CC We're going LOS here, we'll see you over
Goldstone at 19:34.
of signal through Vanguard. We'll have a long LOS now.
The next station to acquire Skylab, will he Golds,one in
1 hour 2 minutes. At 18 hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean
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mean time. Fifty seconds away from acquisition for the
final stateside pass of the day. Sweeping down along the
California and BaJa, California coast. Goldstone and Texas
stations will track the spacecraft on this tail end of
revolution of 1172 - 1171, that is.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and
Texas in 13 minutes.
PAO It hss been reported here in the Control
room that the Skylab space station is back to the solar inertial
attitude with no gyro problems.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT (garble)
CC Okay, we see a back in SI and we see a
low drift rate on Y2. Looks good.
SPT Right. We monitored, nothing ever went
wrong. We got all the right gyros coming out. So, that was
okay. e'll give you the data later. I guess you've noticed
that our tape recorder's ground to a halt. I guess it was the
end of the tape or something. IIm not sure at what point in

the EREP pass that occurred.
CC Okay. That's okay. Now we should have
all the voice on experimen! 1 tape recorder.
SPT Okay. Let me give you some information
from some of those numbers that we read - goes to voice record.
CDR D-7, 31 percent. A-7, 81 percent. A-8,
84 percent. C-8, 54 that was varying between 51 percent and
42 percent, nominally. The tape distance from the end of the
reel is 1-1/16 inches. The reason that number's so small is,
that I accidentally left the tape recorder, - not the tape
recorder - 192 running from minus 5 minutes through the first
sight pass.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, I've got another S073 procedure
for you.
CDR Okay. Now on this, we were running a
few minutes ago for this mall procedure that you were going to
send up. Did you send that up or is this going to be it?
CC It's going up on this pass.
CDR Okay. And that's the one you're talking
about or do you have a verbal one also.
CC Got a verbal one also. And that is that
we are unable to observe rotation about shaft, so we'd like
one of you to rotate the experimented shaft. While the other
crewman looks out the wardroom window to try to verify that we
have no rotation in shaft. You may have to rotate in trunnion
to make the experiment visible.
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CDR Okay. We'll give that try. Now we

haven't had shaft rotation in days. I don't understand what
you mean. You think _t's rotating now?
CC Both you and- and we on the ground
are sharing the same telemetry point and we would just like
to verify for certain, that it is not rotating in shaft.
CDR Oh, okay. We'll sure do that. Now, one
of the things Owen noticed when we were up there the other
day working with it, is that when I would drive it trunnion,
he held on to the pole, then he would feel it drive.
In fact, he'd say, "It's driving now," and I'd say
yeah, I'm driving trunnion. What - when I tried to drive it
in shaft, he never said anything. So, subjectively, Just
holding on to the pole, you can tell it drive trunnion -
you can't do it in shaft. Now, whether that's true, I don't
know or not. We'll try to look out this window and see if
we haven't had much luck seeing so far. _ Cause it's only out
on two poles, but we'll give it a go.
CC Okay, that's an excellent point, AI. And
you may not be able to se_ it. And we're going to enable the
AM tlme-rate coolant loop here. You will get a low flow on
CAUTION and WARNING just punched off the master alarm.
CDR Okay. Let me pass some other piece of
data on this S083 rejector-- 73, we Just ran them. (cough)
I got a dry throat. Just ran a few moments ago.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I did two cals on that before the program,
one was gain high and field of view i, because that's
what was on the pad for the program. And then I did one
with gain 0 field of view - correction, gain medium field of
view 0. And that's what normally done in the CAL. And then
I ran the experiments. I don't know if it's still running
up there. I haven't been up in the last few minutes.
CC Okay. And is the SPT available?
CDR Okay. I'ii go reset my (garble).
CC Roger.
SPT Okay, SPT here.
CC Okay, the S073 pad is up AI. And Owen,
could you verify that the ETC is loaded with high resolution
color film?
SPT I loaded it with the film that was on
the pad. I thought you wanted high revolutions color or not.
1 think it was the no I'ii check here, see something.
CC Okay. That's okay, Owen. If it's on
the pad, it's what we want.
SPT And a couple of other things here I want to
give you now. The information on the gyro pack that we obtained
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while returning to solar inertial. And also a little bit

more information that was obtained extra while we were in
ZLV attitudes. Are you ready to copy that?
CC I've got an awful lot of stuff to get up
to you in the next 6 mlnutes_ Owen. And we're real interested
in that, but I'd llke to delay it, to be sure I get these
other things up to you.
SPT Go right ahead. Don't worry on mine.
CC Dr. Frost would llke to come down here
and monitor the M133 tonight. Are you going to actlvlate
that this afternoon?
SPT That'_ affirm.
CC Okay, thank you. And you do have an
off-duty period this afternoon and this is up to your options.
But we're looking at the Flight Plans for tomorrow. We were
wondering if you were interested in doing the ATM C and D
power up and activation. We kind of need to know this now
because if it's not done today, we need to schedule it
tomorrow. And because the Flight Plan constraints will have
A1 do it. The other reason we were interested in is if
we can get that done today, we can get some time tomorrow
for the S073 jettison, if necessary. If I confused you, I
was Just wondering if you were going to do the ATM power up
and checkout today.
CDR What happened to you, Story? Did the
comm go down?
CC Yep, still here. I was waiting for you
all. Did - did Owen read my message about powerup for the
ATM C and D panel?
CDR Rog. Thought maybe something like that
had happened. He wants to do that. He says he'll have to not
do the solar inertial rate gyro things today. Because
he's got also exercise and 133. And if he if that's all
right with you, that he'd be - he'd love to do the panel -
power up. Did you copy me, or did we have another comm
drop out?
CC We're working on that, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. That's - that's a real good plan.
That'll allow us to get one more chance at rectify the S073
and also get some data on that during the night, if we have
the jettisoning tomorrow. And theytve got another thing
today, concerning today's flight plan. We will have a VTR
troubleshooting session over a pass, we'll need to do
that or change it out prior to the EVA. And Owen, I'm
ready to start copying the data on the rate gyro package.
SPT Okay. Coming out of solar inertial first,
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Story, how much time do we have?

CC We got about a minute and 50 seconds and
after that, we'll be coming up at Vanguard in 13 minutes.
SPT Okay, plenty of time. Coming back to
solar inertial of ZLV, there was some more of that constant
rate displayed on the ATM panels. So, the values are for
V dot X, 1.004, 3 per second. V dot Y, minus .068. Z plus
0015. The corresponding rates gyros were reading rate gyro 5
for X, minus 1.8 volts. Y minus 3.8 volts. And the Z, plus
0.7 volts. Rate gyro 6 was reading minus 1.6 volts, minus
3.7 volts, plus 0.5 volts. And rate gyro 6 appeared to have
somewhat more noise on it than did rate gyro number 5. Those
readings all looked pretty good. There is a minus 7-C on the
X component, but since the panel display of X was so small, I
think it's probably all right. Now there's also a lot of infor-
mation accumulated during the time we were in ZLV. I monitored
voltages for several minutes of duration, looklng at Y-6.
During the time we were in ZLV attitude. The panel display of ZY
dots were approximately .064, plus or minus, .0015 degrees per
second during the ZLV maneuver. The volt meter was reading
plus 28.8, plus or minus .01 volt during the ZLV maneuver. And
I think that gives an indication of the relative magnetism noise
as well. It looks like our package is inside probably have
oh, three or four times less noise on them than does the rate
gyro to where on the C and D panel. Over.
CC Okay, thanks. We got all of that on.
We're going LOS at this time. See you over Vanguard in 13
minutes and 20:00.
from the Texas station as space station Skylab continues across
the southeastern Pacific, approaching the coast of South America.
And in ii minutes, will be tracked by the tracking ship Vanguard.
However, at the same time we have AOS at Vanguard, Skylab
program Director Bill Schneider will be holding a briefing in
the Houston newsroom. Therefore, the Vanguard pass will be
taped for delayed playback. That's at 3 p.m. Central Daylight
Time, Bill Schneider in the Houston newsroom and at 19:49
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 20:37

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station directly south
of the tip of Indian subcontinent and some 31 minutes away
from the next acquisition through the Hawaii station during
the Just concluded press conference with Skylab Program Director
Bill Schneider, we accumulated about 4-1/2 minutes of air-
to-ground tape over the tracking ship Vanguard. We'll play
back this tape at this time.
the Vanguard for 8 minutes.
PLT I hope you don't want Owen. He got
loose in the middle of the dome and he can't reach on to
anything.
CC Okay. I'ii catch him there and talk to him
and he can't talk back to me.
CDR Yeah, it looks like he's getting to the
gravity gradient stabilizing it looks llke.
CC Okay and I've got something for you A1.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC On the S073 pad that we sent up to you,
that's line 9 left at 21:57, the 2-B is complete in the pad.
You don't have to refer to the checklist there.
CDR Just s_y those both again. Would you,
would you Story?
CC On your S073 pad, be running 21:57. The
pad is complete concerning 2-B.
CDR Roger. How about the information about
llne 9 left?
CC That's the same thing AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay and that's for the PLT. Sorry AI.
CDR Okay.
CC And Owen, we're 3 minutes to LOS. We'd
llke to speak with you prior to LOS.
SPT Okay, go ahead Story.
CC Okay Owen. Concerning your ATM C and D
checkout, be sure to refer to ATM experiment checklist
change number 002, that we sent up you. And also on the
ATM schedule pad, ignore the time 20:51 but follow the rest
of that pad.
SPT Okay, I'll make sure I've got change
002 and ignore 20:51and retain the rest.
CC Okay. And concerning the voltages, you
sent us on the rate gyros, they all had the wrong signs.
In other words, the polarity was reversed. We're wondered if
you had the banana plug upside down.
SPT I have the banana plug with the right
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(CONT'D) terminal to the red terminal to the right and the

right terminal to the left. That's left to the right, and
ground to the left, which I have thought was properly standard.
CC We copied that, Owen.
SPT I do see now that the multimeter itself
has in black underneath that, reversed polarity, so you can
invert the signs on all of those voltages.
CC Okay. Thank you. And Skylab, for anyone,
we would llke to get the experiment tape recorders off. And
we're 30 seconds until LOS. We'll see you over Hawaii at 21:08.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
the 4-1/2 minute tape recorded over tracking ship Vanguard.
Returning in 26 minutes for the Hawaii pass. This is
Skylab Control at 20:42 Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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]'AO This is Skylab Control; 21:07 Greenwich

mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition for the first
Hawaii pass of the evening. Revolution 1172, 5-1/2 minute
pass at a fairly low elevation angle, next Hawaii pass - revolution
later is almost directly overhead at that station
CC Skylab, Houston, we have you through
Hawaii for 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston, we are going to get a picture
of the sun at this point and have getting started through the
ATM power up.
CC Copy Owen.
SPT A con_ment for S052 people, the latch here
we put our little cross player on up plus 8, and right plus 16
and use that for the alignment of the vertical/horizonal cross
pointers, it turns out that's so close to the (garble) second
discriminator as the READY light keeps popping in and out and
I think we might want to modify that a little bit so we will
be sure and stay in a ready condition and and interrupt the expo-
sures. I've got it setting at plus 8, plus 16 right now and it
right where they could monitor it way they could see that their
READY light pops in and out at that point. Also there was one
other thing that I had to change and that is we still apparently
do not have AD-I and I'm _nable to get power to the experiment
in the experiment bus i (garble) lighting plus position, I had to
go to experiment bus 2, A1) bus 2 in order to get power to
S052 and I've not gone through the rest of the experiments yet
but I would like to get your concurrence that that is a satisfactory
procedure to put the experiment power switches to there down
position experiment bus 2, AD bus 2 in order to power up
the experiments. Over.
CC Copy that Owen. We'll let you know right
away.
CC Okay, Owen, your go on running those experiments
on bus 2.
SPT Roger, and do you have some way that you
mentioned yesterday about observing whether or not we have
voltage on C and D panel AD-I.
CC We'll look at it.
CC PLT, llouston.
SPT He can hear you.
CC Okay, I need a response here on how he's doing
on SO 73.
PLT S073 is setting there waiting for me, and
my first pad is 21:32 - correct.
CC Copy.
-. .k
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CDR If you were talking about that procedure

oJ_ looking out the window and a- looking and see if it moving
shaft and trunnion. I performed that about 30 seconds ago
and I'm looking at it right now, in fact you can see it rather
easily if you ever looked up in that direction, I guess and it
works great in trunnion but it just doesn't move at all in shaft.
CC Okay, copy AI, and there's another last
(garble) effort in the teleprinter, for Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay, Story, did you want me to go through
that malf before I do the ops or something was the other
way around.
CC The a - that's message number 744-alfa,
go with that first Jack. And we are going LOS here and this
time and will pick you up over Vanguard at 21:36 and we will
be dumping the tape recorders over Vanguard.
PLT Roger, (garble)
CC Okay.
PAO This i_ Skylab Control, loss of signal
on the first afternoon pass over the Hawaii tracking station
next station Vanguard in 21 minutes. Still having difficulty
with the S073 experiment, it will rotate in one axes but not
in the other, there by preventing retraction hack into the
scientific airlock. Additional procedures are being teleprinter
up to the crew if not indeed they have already. And further
attempts will be made to salvage this experiment without having
to go to the extreme of jettisoning it, Jettisoning that
experiment. 20 minutes to Vanguard and at 21:16 Greenwich
mena time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time, 8 minutes away from tracking ship Vanguard. First
call for a change-of-shlft briefing estimated to begin
around 4:45, perhaps somewhat later. With the off-going
flight director, Milt Windler, and EREP man here in the
control center, John Llewellyn. This is estimated to
begin around 4:45, perhaps 5:00 o'clock. That's pretty
loose time right now. In the small briefing room in building
I in Houston news center. Back again in ? minutes for
the Vanguard tracking ship pass. At 21:28 Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
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mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. And immediately after this pass Flight Director,
Milt Windier will leave the control room en route to the
IIouston news center for his change-of-shift briefing. Will
be accompanied by the EREP controller, John Llewellyn. Es-
timated time around 4:45 or 4:50 central daylight. Some
discussion will take place here over Vanguard with the S073
malfunction procedures the crew is undergoing in trying to
repair this particular experiment.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello, Captain Bean. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for about i0 minutes here.
CDR I'ii tell you what we've been doing.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR We went through the malf procedure on
73 and it didn't work. So we extended the 73 out to full
7 rod and took some looks at it. Then we went to FULL
TRUNNION and then MIN TRUNNION, and at these points we
moved the shaft with our hands backwards and forwards be-
cause we noticed there was a lot of give in the extendable
boom of course, in hopes that the momentum of the camera
itself at max trunnion might free the gear, but it did not.
And we tried it min and max and every way we could think of.
SPT Bill, we looked it over - -
CDR We looked it over. All the wires are
in the right place. It doesn't look like any wires are
caught in gear tapes or anything like that. Now what we
could do if you like we could get the TV camera and take
a TV picture of it. And we don't have a recorder anymore
so we'd have to do it live, but we could give you a TV pic-
ture of it and show you moving in trunnion and not in shaft,
and maybe your experts down there could look at it and get
some better ideas.
CC Okay, AI. We copied all that. Stand by
i please.
CDR Okay. It looks nice and tidy out there,
it just won't move in shaft. It works great and looks great.
In trunnion.
CDR We hate to see it go.
CC CDR, Houston. I guess right now we can't
see that we're really going to learn anything by looking
at it on TV. We did have one more procedure which sounds
somewhat similar t o what you just did but let me read it
to you and see whether it's worthwhile to go through it or
not. All right we - -
CDR Okay.
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CC Okay. It was we wanted to go ahead

when we were thinking it was the two rods to extend it out
to three rods and set the trunnion at 100. And then as soon
as you can get to it, take the shaft switch and go from
DECREASE - wait 2 seconds and then go to INCREASE and keep
repeating that at 2-second intervals.
CDR Well, we didn't try that and we'll sure
give it a go.
CC Yeah i - -
CDR We're getting ready to run a program right
now that you wanted us to so whenever that's complete we'll
try your procedure. Unless you want us to do that first.
CC I think we'd prefer for you to go ahead
and do that first. Our troubleshooting procedure we were
going to give priority ow_r the program.
CDR Okay, we're going to do that right now
then. We'll put it out on three rods_ we'll move the trunnion
to I00, and then we'll try the 2-second cycle.
SPT Hello, Crip. few comments for the
backroom ATM people.
CC Roger, Owen. Stand by i if you would
please.
SPT I'm in no hurry.
CC CDR_ Houston. I guess I said that switch
cycling wrong. What we'd like to do is to go shaft to
DECREASE for 2 seconds, then shaft to INCREASE momentarily,
and then back to DECREASE for 2 seconds. And we'd keep
repeating it llke that.
CDR Okay, I understand. We'll cycle it a
few times that way.
CC Okay, and also, guess this is about our
last b_tch. We - we really can't come up with anything other
than this. The only other suggestion we might have is to
tap it against the side again. That's - that's what worked
on Skylab-ll. I know you did it last night and it still
didn't work, but tomorrow I guess we're planning on shoving
it overboard.
CDR Okay. We'll tell you what we'll do. We'll
try that and did you have a recommended trunnion for tapping
it on the side, by the way?
CC I'ii see if I can get one for you break
break - Owen, Go ahead, and I could comment, Owen, and
regarding those voltages on AC-I. We have no read-out
capability of that here.
SPT Roger. Someplace I had in mind that you'd
said to us that there was a way to - send some commands in
order then but I guess I was just dreaming last night. The other
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comment that I had was that for the backroom ATM people. That
we got a pretty nice picture of the corona at this point.
Not remarkably high resolution, but I think about like
it was before. The XUV MON picture without integration is
just barely visible, but with integration it stands - the
XUV picture stands out very nicely. There are a number of
bright points visible all across the disk of the Sun.
And with our camera I think we may be in - may be able to
identify a number of bri_ht - bright points to use in talk-
ing to you a little later on. H-alpha looks good and H-alpha
i has a little bit of gitter in it as it did on SL-II. H-alpha
2 looks real good.
CC Okeydoke. Copy that. Appreciate the
words.
CDR The cy,_ling's not doing a thing Crip.
We've done it about 25 tin,es.
CC Okay - -
CDR I think we'll bring it in and bang it on
tile side. We were wondering last time we did it just how
]lard we could bang it on the side in - in complete safety.
CC Okay. You I guess you can use your
discretion on that and our recommended trunnion setting for
it is 120, 120.
PLT Okay, Crip. And I got a couple of operate
pads here. What do you want me to do with them?
CC I guess l'd hold up on them until we see
what your tapping - it does. If that doesn't seem to do any-
thing well you can go ahead with your program if you got
still got time.
CDR Okay. We're going to go rap it some more.
And I'ii be off the eomma minute.
CC SPT, Houston, if you got a moment.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Owen. Regarding your AC-I problem,
l guess - apparently we're concluding that you just haven't
got an AC-I. And one of the things that you can do to sort
of help out your panel configuration is that you can select
6 on integral if you so desire integal, and numeric lighting
and that will allow you to go back to plus-I positions on all
the other switches.
SPT Oh, that's good news. I've - I've already
selected that 6th on the integral, but I will select 6th on
tile numeric, and then go back to bus i. Now that'll be
convenient.
CC Yeah. That - that just might primarily
for panel configuration. Actually what that's doing is - is
feeding bus 1 the numeric bus, through AC-2, so you're
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actually using AC-2.

SPT I see. So we're still only have a single
bus capability.
CC That's affirm.
SPT Any clues as to what might have caused
AC-I to disappear?
CC That's negative, Owen. We're trying to
come up with something that could troubleshoot it for you
but we haven't gotten it all together yet.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Say, Crip, this may be a crazy thing, but
you know these cables we keep taking apart and putting in
the shorting cable and all that business? Is there one pin
on there that provides drive power to the shaft motor? We
get a multimeter up here this time. We could go look at
that pin and see if any power's coming through the box out
there and if it isn't then maybe we could just open the box
by unscrewing it and reach in - you know, go in there and
find what's wrong. Maybe we could just so-call hot-fire
in here in a little while. We could unplug it you know where
it'd bee nice and safe, find the pin and make a couple of con-
nections and manually drive it over there.
CC Okay, we copied that. And we'll scratch
our heads on it. We're going to go LOS in about 30 seconds.
And we'll not see you again until 22:44, 22:44.
CDR Okay. e got all sorts of gear up here.
We ought to be able to do something.
CC Owen, just a reminder. You wll need to
close your doors manually.
SPT Okay s thank you.
CDR Crip, we tried to (garble)
through the tracking ship Vanguard. Next station in 56 minutes
will be the Hawaiian Island tracking station. And Flight
Director, Milt Windier is now leaving the control center
en route for the news center in building I for a change-of-
shift briefing. We'll be accompanied at that briefing by
EREP Controller, John Llewellyn. Should the change-of-shift
briefing still be underway during the IIawaii pass, that pass
will be taped for delayed playback, t 21:48 Greenwich mean
END OF TAP]:
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mean time, Skylab space station nearing the end of revolution
1173, coming right down the middle of the Hawaii tracking
station, maximum elevatlon 87 degrees just 3 degrees off
directly over head, clock says 30 seconds to acqulsition_
however, we're hearing the scratchiness associated with the
first lock on by the station with the communication gear aboard
the Skylab space station.
CC Skylab, Houstonp wetre AOS over Hawaii
for I0 minutes.
SPT But it is AOS. Do you want to go ahead and
complete these steps on S054 powerup.
CC Hello Owen, I'm sorry, we dropped out there
right after acquisition I missed your question, say again
regarding S054 powerup.
SPT Okay, I'm on page 1917 and it wants me
to wait before powering up the image disector till we're AOS
so you can watch that from the ground at the same time. So
I'm on page 1917 now waiting there until you are ready for
me to go for those three steps.
CC You've got a go on that Owen.
SPT Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, if you got a moment I need
to talk to you about the condensate holding tank.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Rog, we're going to need to get that thing
dumped some time pretty soon and also I'd like for you - since this
is going to be a daily operation, I guess we can start scheduling
it and I've llke for you to give some thought as to the kind
of time you might like for us to schedule it daily.
CDR Okay, let me think about that a little
bit and I'ii go up there and start dumping it in a few minutes,
I'm on the bike right now.
CC Okay, no big rush.
CDR I've got the vacuum hose hooked up to
the wardroom window and 're been trying to get the water out
of there right now.
CC Okay, we copy that, nice to get that one
out of the road.
CDR Did you get any answer on those 5 or 6 items
that I've past along the other night, we didn't know exactly
where they went but we had them at hand.
CC Your a good straight man, yes, I was standing
by to ask you some questions on that. I believe I can give
you the answers on the S054 timer, the best information that
we had on that was, that it was stowed and wrapped up in sock
in locker A-9, at launch, I'm not sure since that was a -
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(CONT'D) Owen was up for that now and I'm not sure
whether he's found it our not.
S}'T Negative.
CC Okay, has anybody had a chance to re-look
[n A-9.
CDR We've looked all over the command module.
We've got 2 things we can't find, right of all that stuff
we've moved in. Just a second. Something's ringing.
CC Okay, if somebody could make a note S009
motor should be stowed in M157.
CDR Okay, l've got that, the other thing that
we can't find is that rejuvination kit for the 133. Those
two items we can't find and we think we have everything else
found. Go ahead on those others.
CC Okay, on the ATM C&D water filter we've like
to leave that stowed in A-5 and the reason is that is were
your procedures call for you to get it.
CDR Okay, we'll go put it back.
CC Okay, on the parasol fabric again for
tile same reason we'll like for that stowed back in A-9.
CDR Okay.
CC And on the waste measurement compartment
water dispenser valve, those should be in D4-38 which is the
water equipment container.
CDR Did you say E4-38 or D?
CC D as in dog.
CDR Okay, I got that.
CC And the wardroom window cuppling I guess
is academic now if you have already started it.
CDR I've started it and wetve found the other
washroom valve also.
CC I guess that - you saying the other WMC
water dispenser valve?
CDR Yeah, we only found one the other day, now
we got them, we found them both. We think we only have 2 missing
items.
CC Okay, I understand now, you got both of
them that we launched and a -
CDR That's affirmed, the reason we off loaded
everything from the command module was that there is still
a lot of gear up there that - that is padding and widden -
,,ot widden - towels and tissues and all sort of things and when
we started hunting for these items we just all looking along
we say we get everything out of the command module and get
it down here, except command module things, and then we would
only have to look around here. Still didn't help for those
two items.
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CC Roger, AI, I guess a - go along with that

except tilat a - [t's going to foul you up on some of our
proc,.dures a ]itt]e blt later on that's why we were asking
rot you to put those particular items that I called out back
back up In the command module.
CDR That's _ot a bit of trouble and I would
go put those back and if there was something and it didn't
have a place we - we called you about, everthlng else got
into the right spot.
CC Got any Bood words on 73. Did you have any
luck with that.
CDR Well, we tried everything we can think of,
we brought it in, and we torqued it and we put t out torqued
it and thought of everything we can think of, we could not get
a budge out of the shaft. ] took off the new jumper plug that
I'd installed and installed the old one again hoping that
maybe banging it after that would work, that didn't seem to work
either. Unless you can come with some sort of pin or something
that we could just apply power to which looks like ought to
he possible, the we're out o = ideas up here.
CC Okay, we haven't managed to psyche that one
out, whether - if there is anything worth while of doing that
particular area, regarding your question on the restoration
kit for M133, it should of a have been in 88. That was sent
up _n the command module at launch.
CDR Roger, we went up there to hunt it, and
couldn't find it. It's up somewhere, but we haven't found
it.
CDR Like moving into a new house. You saw
it yesterday, but you can't remember where.
CC You've got a few things to keep track of
up there.
PLT Hey, Crip, I need some clarification on
a procedure.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, on this system checklist page 16-8
wilieh photographs down lens experiment. I
notice in there
some of the fittings tell you to take the photograph at F-8
and 7 feet and then take a half a stop off the meter. So the half
a stop off the meter and the F-8 conflict. And I don't really
know what you really want.
CC I' ll get some of our photographic people
to clarify that.
PLT Thank you. And a take a look down at the
experiment, it appears to have a more comtamination on it
now than I remember seeing on the photograph, it showed a
it a - looks all colors of the spectrum - on the - side which
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PLT is facing the window more than a - it

seems that I remember in the photograph. The only thing that
doesn't look too discolored is the left mode strip, as my head
faces, my head points to the sun, the left ost strip about
2-I/2 to 3 inches wide appears to be more silver on both of tile
_:ol [t.ctors from the rest cf the area, on both collectors.
CC Okay, Don's sitting here all ears, and
appreciates a] I of the com_,_ents.
PLT Will you ask Don to ask me more questions
to refresh my memory as to other observations I ould make
from the window on his experiment.
CC Now just bring in the collectors when you
are suppose to.
PLT Okay, anti by the way I want to slap my
good backup pilot on the back there and also (garble) some
of the others for working out the good procedures on the
192 alarm and they work swell and those guys did a lot
of work on them and appreciate a lot of effort and a - getting
more malfunction procedures cranked up.
CC Okay, I appreciate those words, we're about
a 1 minute from LOS and we will have you again at Vanguard
at 23:15.
CC Okay, and Owen we need the EVA auto door
switch to enable and apparently you skipped over the X-REA
t:urn on on pa_,e 1-8 of your checklist.
SPT Negative, I did the X-REA ower on, I've
got the power on switch on right now, I didn't see the switch
position to put EVA door able however, if that's in the check-
list here, I did miss that one. The X-REA power is on right
n OW •
CC Okay, maybe we've got (garble)

SPT And also might point out for S055 (garble)
to interlock l've stopped it now while finishing up S054 and
I'Ii go back (garble) in a few minutes.
CC Roger. That was kind of garbled. Think
we got most of it,
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS Hawaii.
Vanguard in 20 minutes and 22:54 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
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mean time. Acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard
coming up in 50 seconds nearing the end of revolution 1173
and the start of 1174. he next station after Vanguard will
be a very short pass over Hawaii again.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Vanguard for 8 minutes
and we will be doing a data recorder dump.
CDR Okay and in that case, I Just - I just
completed a charge on BAT 6 of the M509. Has begun to charge
on BAT 7.
CC Roger. Copy that and Owen, are you still
at the ATM panel or have you departed there?
SPT Stand by a minute. I'm still here. I'ii
give you a call in about a minute here Bob.
CC Go. And Jack, if you got a moment, I
think I can explain that camera setting problem to you.
PLT Go ahead Bob.
CC Roger. What they want you to do is to
go ahead and take your meter reading add a f/8 stop and
after you've got that, then back off a half a from f/8 to
half way between f/8, f/5.6.
PLT Okay, thank you. (Music)
SPT Okay Bob. I was Just completing that
last grading auto scan and no innerlocks there. And I completed
about 3-1/2 rating auto scans with no inner locks. Before
reaching the point - the kilometer point. And I was just
completing the fourth one at the time you called a moment ago.
There are about two unusual things I noted so far. The
first is on - have you got time to hear this for a minute?
CC Go ahead.
SPT First I'll relate to $052. I old you on
an earlier round that it looked llke the plus 8 plus 16 align
parting was too close to the 20 yard second dlscriminator_ It
was causing the ready operate light to kick off and on. The
ready light just - use to turn off and on. And it turns out,
even when I go back to a llne pointing zero, the ready light will
intermittently go off and on. So it's not the 20 yard
second discrimator, but something else. When it was on
momentarily, I didn't start the sequence and then the operating
lights came on normally 9 seconds later and completed the
full 12 exposure and then came back to ready with the
ready light operating intermittently again. So in order to
see whether or not it was really ready even though the light
was out, I didn't joi n another standard mode when the ready light
was off. And again, it didn't start normally. So it appears
that there is some sort of an intermittent in the ready light
to the panel, which causes the ready light to disappear, although
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(CONT'D) in fact, the instrument maybe fully ready to operate

because if the instrument did again, to take the next sequence
of pictures, when I started it even though the ready
light was momentarily out at that time. And the next unusual
thing relating to the S054 experiments, after going through
that sequence of switches, the image detector switched to
ENABLE, X-ray image ENABLE, and photomultiplier ENABLE, I
should have an electronic sweep of the X-ray image. The
photomultiplier count is showing and the image intensity count
is reading in the vicinity or as in the vicinity of a 5 or i0
count. But the X-ray image display itself, showed no
trace - even when I turn the brightness up to full max. And
so, for some reason, the CRT is apparently inoperative. I
don't know whether there's any power switching that could be
down to remedy that or not. But at least at the moment, the
X-ray image display is inoperative and I think everything
else checked out normally. Over.
CC Okay. opied all that Owen. Just before
just went over the hill, previously, when I asked about XREA
power, really what we wanted to make sure was that the aluminum
and beryllium high voltage power then turn on per page 1-8 and
we're not indicating that's all. Also on that EVA auto
door switch, that one's picked up normally on your checklist
on page 1-23. It was a bad call on our part of getting it up
early.
SPT Okay. I didn't think I had missed it and I
have the - gone to EVA auto door enable now. I thought I'd see
if it closed door near sunset and it looks llke it's - looks
]_ke it closed all the doors for me. Now on page 1-8 - -
CC Okay. why don't you - -
SPT - I believe, it's my impression that
we wanted to wait until after EVA to turn the high voltage power
on beryllium and aluminum. But let me go back and double check
that again.
CC Okay. That was confusion on the way the
checklist was marked up for you. But we did want you to go
ahead and - and do that at this time. And I'd like to mention
to CDR, if he's got a mment before we go LOS here, about S073.
And/or the PLT.
CDR Okay. CDR, here and he's listening.
CC Okay. Now we really weren't able to come
up with anything reasonable regarding, you know, shorting
plugs or jumping a cross cable or anything like that. So
what we'd like to do, is go ahead and get one more night's opera-
tion out of the thing and there is an ops pad on board that I'd
like to modify slightly for a pass tonight. And I'm not sure
who has that, whether you or Jack has it.
CDR Jack's got it and he's listening. He can
take down the message.
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":' 8/3/73
Z
"/. CC Okay. Program start time we'd like to

change to 23:48. And we'd llke to modify the rep to II by 12.
And that's on the last S073 you have and the start time 23:48
by 22:15. And the rest - -
SPT Okay, I got that Crip.
CC Okay, and the rep should be ii.
SPT Okay thank you. Ah, two quick comments, Crip.
First of all on page 1-7, you did send up a note "do not
power up the beryllium or aluminum till 24 hours after the EVA."
And the second thing is, I'd like to find out if you want to
do M133 even though I do not have the cap injected with that
new fluid. Do you want me to use the old cap the way it is,
and run it tonight?
CC Okay. We'll try to get an answer to
you Owen. And we're about ] minute from LOS and we'll have
you again at Hawaii at 00:25. I take it, you said you
couldn't find that stuff that was suppose to be an A-8
move to $909
SPT 909 or 913. Anyway, it's neither location
at the moment.
CC Roger. You should've been in an IMMS can.
SPT Oh, with the syringe?
CC It's packaged llke an IMMS equipment
and labled-
CDR Okay. We've probably got then. We'll
find it.
SPT Yeah, I know where that is now. Thank you.
CDR We hadn't lost it after all. Okay,
that's only one item to hunt.
CC Hunting for the timerj tog.
CDR That's it. It's got to be somewhere.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS tracking
ship Vanguard next station, Hawaii in i hour. Mission
planners are reviewing weather forecasts for tomorrow's Earth Re-
sources Experiment Package pass number 2. As presently planned,
Skylab III will fly a 37 minute data take along track number 48
running from the northwest coast of the United States and
ending deep in the heart of Central Brazil. This data pass using
6 EREP sensors, will cover a track of approximately 8,800 nautical
miles. Three NASA aircraft and one sensor equipped helicopter
are scheduled to support this EREP pass. As presently planned,
one RB-57, a high altitude aircraft, is scheduled to support
the pass over the Louisiana coastal plains. A second
aircraft wi]l fly over the Gulf of Mexico and for cloud
studies in west Texas. And another aircraft is scheduled
for flights over the Gulf and the Sabine National Forest
in east Texas. The helicopter is also scheduled for the
Sabine Forest pass. Final task sight for Saturday's Earth
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Time: 1814 CDT, 07/23:14 GMT
8_3_73
(CONT'D) Resources pass are being worked up at this time. And

, will be available later this evening. Mission planners are
still assessing the plans for a back to back, for back to
back EREP passes along track 61 and 62, on Sunday. Next
station in 58 minutes, final Hawaii pass for the evening.
As the ordinate moves westard, we start picking up Guam,
still with Vanguard and pick up Ascension Island, and eventually
come back into Canar - Honeysuckle Creek Australia tracking
station. Even later in the evening, the Evening Status Report
will be at 01:04 Greenwich mean time over Ascension. And the
Flight Surgeon's medical conference with the crew at 01:50
over the tracking station at Guam. At 23:27 Greenwich mean
time, 57 minutes from the Hawaii station, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:23 CDT_ 08/00:23 GMT
8/3/73
PAO This is Skylab Control - -

CC AOS with about 1 minute pass over Hawaii.
CDR Okay, Roger.
CC And for the SPT on his question reguardlng
M133, if he did not find the reconstltutlon kit, we would
llke you to check in D-412 for some caps and to look
at the electrodes before using them, make sure they are moist.
SPT Yeah, we found them immediately, as soon
as you mentioned that IMSS scan slmularlty we knew exactly where
It was, and I've got them at hand, thank you, Bob.
CC Okay, very good, Owen.
SPT We've been hunting in the SOC, while
now that you mention it_ I think it did come inside of the
SOC with the can, was the thing that reminded us.
CC Okay_ very good. We're going to go
LOS in about 30 seconds, and we will have you again at
Vanguard at 00:53. I'm sorry about that. You've got about
2 more minutes.
CC And SPT, we had a little bit of confusion
on that S056 just as we went over the hill previously, the
intent of the note that we had sent up for you was to delete
the note that said not to turn it on until EVA and we did
want to go ahead and turn on both the aluminum and beryllium
high voltage.
SPT Okay, I'll have to do that tomorrow, now
I have already configured it for unattended ops for tonight,
I won't be able to get back to it this evening and then if
you llke I'ii pick that up and turn that on tomorrow for the
next time I'm at the panel and also have to give S055 about
three more of those (garble) interlock scans if they want them for
calibration purposes. Also, let's see I think it's probably
be better for us to avoid leavlng integral and (garble) llght-
ing ing 6 for that will leave them on bright all day and if that's
_o, why we can go back to varlble on those two controls and
just switch to display and experiments in the plus 2 position.
You might think about that over night_ which one will be
the better and then let us know what the alternatives are.
And I guess you got the 2 (garble) malfunctions on S052 and
S054 that I called out didntt you.
CC That's afflrmltlve, and we're looking
into those, we'll also have a recommendation for you on the
lighting.
SPT That's good, thank you.
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Time: 19:23 CDT, 08/00:23 GMT
813173
CC And Skylab, you have a medical status

teleprinter message in your teleprinter and the Doctor would
appreciate it if you would take a look at that prior to your
med conference tonight so you can talk about it then. We
are about 30 seconds from LOS this time, I hope and we'll again
see you at Vanguard at 00:53.
CDR Roger, Bob.
mean time we have loss of signal through the awaii station.
Next station tracking ship Vanguard in 24 minutes. This
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:52 CDT; 08/00:52 GMT
8/3/73

mean time. Acquisition in about 50 seconds through the
tracking ship Vanguard, nearing the end of revolution 1174
and start of 1175. Pass following this over Guam in about
an hour. I beg your pardon. The pass after the Ascension
Island tracking station. The pass which will be Guam in
about an hour, will be the medical conference with the
flight surgeon. We're starting - -
CC - - AOS at Vanguard for 10 minutes.
CDR Loud and clear, Crlp. We ran out of
wipes in the washroom. Is there any special place that
the stowage folks would llke us to (garble) the next flight?
CC I'll get an answer for you to that in
a moment. AI, have you had a chance to get your summary
flight plan out of the teleprinter yet?
CDR Sure did.
CC Okay, that was a little bit garbled. If
you did I've got some modifications on your line.
CDR Roger. We were getting feedback and I
was just trying to stop it. Let me get mine out.
CC Okey doke.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. At the period from around - under
the CDR - from around 13:45 down to about 14:30 it has ATM
checkout. We're going to eliminate that and add JETTISON
S073 and STOW S073. And then following that we have a VTR
troubleshooting procedure that we'll run with you and we'll
be doing that over a station where we can do it in real time.
CDR Okay.
CC And that was all the (garble)
CDR Okay and I've been dumping the holding
tank and I'm getting ready to pull the vacuum out in a few
minutes.
CC Okay. Very good.
CDR And I've thought about it and I think
the best time to do that is night time.
CC Okay. Would you like us to in any way
put that in the - on the flight plan?
CDR I guess I can put it on my pre-sleep
checklist and I won't forget. Now one question - the
same question I had several days ago and am still a little
confused on. You sent me up housekeeping - I think 3K or
something like that. (Garble) No, no, that's dumb. I - I'm
trying - it's hard for me to tell exactly when you mean
for me to purge the CSM fuel cells.
CC Okay. I understand it's not clear as
to when you're supposed to do it in that procedure?
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Time: 19:52 CDT; 08/00:52 GMT
8/3/73
CDR Just a second.

CC We'll - we'll try to get you a good
straight story on that purging of the fuel cell.
CDR Okay. My little presleep says - -
CDR - Housekeeping 3-A and fuel cell purge as
required.
CC Okay. That's on your pre-sleep checklist
right ?
CDR That's right, and I see no other - I see
no other comments about purge at all anywhere so I suspicion I
d on ' t .
CC Okay, we copied that AI, and this - we'll
try to get you a straight story on it. I think that we
actually end up putting down on your schedule the times
that you're supposed to do _t when we want you to do it,
and that's just the appropriate time.
CDR Okay. The other day - I was asking the
(garble) if I did one and I said no, I didn't do one. And I
got to thinking today, I'm not really sure from reading this
whether I am. Housekeeping three-key - I better look that
up. Okay.
CC Okay, ver,t good and would you like us
to do a regular checklist ki_,d of change for you and add
that dumping the condensate lank to your pre-sleep checklist?
CDR That's a good idea. I'll do it, but that
way it will all be written down. That's a good idea, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR And any special ones - other ones that -
where it would fit in.
CDR One other comment. I noticed in the book
they tell me to pull a vacuum on that tank for 18 minutes.
Is that critical or is that just a number from somewhere?
The minimum time you can do it or can you go ahead and
pull it longer or is that 18 minutes a critical time?
CC I'ii check that.
SPT (garble) Crip. I didn't the M133 tape
recorder changed out and all set up for the electrode prep.
CC Rog. I understand you got it all ready
to go, Owen, for the medics. Appreciate that.
CC And CDR, Houston. Regarding that 18 min-
utes - that's - we consider that sort of a minimum time.
It's okay to go longer.
CDR Okay, good.
CC CDR, Houston. Regarding the wipes for
the waste management compartment. You can get those out
of locker 723.
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8/3/73
CDR Okay, thanks.

CC CDR, Houston. Regarding the fuel cell
purge. It's put in your pre-sleep checklist as written
down, but we alway schedule it. So, we'll put it down on
your flight plan when you're supposed to do it.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. In other words
you'll say 02 fuel cell purge, 02 H2 purge to fuel cell
purge, huh?
CC We'll schedule it as CM-2 or 4, which is
what your - your system checklist calls for.
CDR Okeydokey.
LOS. We'll have you again at Ascension at 01:07. And at
that time we'll be doing a data recorder dump and we'll
also be standing by for the evening status report. And
incidentally, we'll have a couple of questions regarding
the S192 alignment at that time.
CDR Okay. We'll be ready.
PLT And one other question came up here today,
Crip, is - we got exchange number two to panel experiment
checklist, but we never did change number one.
CC Okay, I'ii research that one for you, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
through Vanguard - a brief gap of about 3 minutes until
acquisition at scension Island tracking station. There
was some conversation at the Vanguard and earlier at Hawaii
about getting the M133 refurbishment kit located and installed.
Science Pilot, Owen Garrlott is scheduled to don the
instrumented sleep cap tonight, that is the M133, for the
first time in the mission. This is part of the two neuro-
physiology experiments, MI31 human vestibular function and
M133, sleep monitoring experiments, being conducted on
Skylab-lll. Dr. Garrlott is the only crewman who will
perform the experiment during the 59-day mission. Dr. Joseph
Kerwin, Science Pilot on Skylab-ll, had his sleep monitored
during the first manned Skylab mission. The M133 experiment
will be used to evaluate objectively the quantity and quality
of infllght sleep by means of an analysis of electroencephalo-
graphic, EEG, and electroocculographlc, EOG, activity. The
experiment hardware consists of a cap, fitted with EEG and
EOG electrodes, and an accelerometer that measures head
movement. Sleep patterns are recorded on magnetic tape
and returned with the crew. Dr. Garriott is scheduled to
don the sleep cap approximately 20 nights during the mission.
Seven discreet states will be recorded: awake - -
END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:05 CDT, 08/10:05 GMT
8/3/73
PAO - - accelerometer that measures head movement.

Sleep patterns are recorded on magnetic tape and returned
with the crew. Doctor Garriott is scheduled to don the sleep
cap, approximately 20 nights during the mission. Seven
discreet states will be recorded, awake, 4 states of sleep
depth, rapid eye movement which is indicative of dreaming
and head movements. Dr. James Frost, Jr. of Eaylor University
College of Medicine Is the principle investigator for M133.
He's expected to be in the mission control center to monitor
tile initial preformance of the experiment tonight. Coming
up on acquisition at tracking station Ascension Island, standing
by at 01:06 Greenwich, Skylab Control.
CC Skylab Houston, we are AOS through Ascension
for 9 minutes, and we are standing by for Evening Status Report.
CC And while you are getting that ready, Jack
I can answer your question leguarding the SAL checklist, we
sent that message up with a in error it was suppose to changed
1 for theSAL checklist and that's all there has been, one
ch an ge.
PLT Okay good, thank you Crip.
CC And we are going to do a data recorder
dump this pass.
CDR Okay, let me give you the report. Urine
volume: 76/ 105/190. Drinking water gun: 4642; 7606; 5606
You have the BMMD things from this morning; exercise,
CDR 2/25/2752; 3/15 mark i, SPT does not have any yet but he
plans to get some later, PLT 1/05/0500; 2/10/2000. That
completed the first night and I'ii continue on with the PLT.
3 mark i; 50_, 20D's, 20D's and 20 back exercises, total of 20 minutes.
Medication: none for any body. Sleep: CDR 7 good; SPT 7 good;
PLT 7 good. Okay here comes the food log: CDR i0 salts,
plus a strawberry drink, minm_ part of some strawberries and
here's the weight, SMMD weight: 2075;35, 207536, 207535.
SPT has not finished his eating and he would like to give you
that information on the last half of the evening. PLT 6 salts
packs, he added one grape drink plus 2 apple drinks, so a total
of 3 extra drinks. Okay here comes the photo log: 35 millimeter
C199, 16. Now we will talk about EREP set S1 - okay 7835
second one 0029, 7551, 6935, 8705,7607, and the 16 millimeter
camera in drawer A no change from yesterday. Okay, Flight
Plan Deviation, task time constraint, okay next days flight
plan, no comment there everything went well.
CC Okay, CDR, we've copied all of that and
we've got a f _w questions if we could ask them please.
CDR Please do.
CC Okay, can you tell us what went on with
ED52 today.
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Time: 20:05 CDT, 08/01_05 GMT
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CDR Not a thing. _en got it on his mind,

to do right after his supper.
CC Okay, very good and what about T003, we
had a couple of those items were crew option. Can you give
us a satus report on that?
CDR We got them all.
CC Got them all, very good. How does the
window look now?
CDR Oops, let me - we - I can't open it now,
because 73 is there but I put the vacuum on it for awhile,
I wasn't able of course, to then put dry air through the
dryer because we can't close the hatch because that's the
one 73 is in. But I'm using the vacuum hose now to dump the
waste tank and a - put a vacuum on the waste tank and so
tomorrow, I'ii put the vacuum hose back on the window for
awhile and then after we Jettison 73 1'11 close the airlock
and put some dry-air into the window and ceil it off. So we
have got it about half done. And it looked like it pulled
off everything except a small ring in the center, which looked
dry, like dry contaminate matter as opposed to any moisture
hut that my go away with somemore vacuum time.
CC Okay, that's very good. And I have some
question regarding 192 align_nent if perhaps if Jack's available
for it .
CDR Okay, one question before he does that.
When is S073 going to cut off so we can turn off the two tape
recorders?
CC I'ii get a time for you on that. Okay,
CDR, S073 is going to running all night long and we will give
you a call in the morning when you can turn it off, or turn
off the recorders.
PLT Go ahead on 192.
CC Okay, Jack. A - the first one on the
alignment was the system very elastic, that is how long after
hands off the alignment controls before the meter readings
came back?
PLT Immedicate ly.
CC Came back immediately, very good. Okay
how many times did the PL - did you try to reseat the thermal
focus control after peeking X and Y?
CC Yeah. Just how many (garble) did you
pc) through on it?
PLT I changed that in the 112 increment, as
outlined in the checklist and then I had to go back 1/24 of a
turn, so I turned all up - all in all I turned it 25, 24 turns
from where it was.
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8/3/73
CC Okay, Jack, I guess we're still not clear

on that - how many - how many cycles you set it up once and
then you - after you twigged X and Y, yon went back and you
turned the knob once more, is that correct?
PLT No, I changed the focus then I changed
X and Y and then I changed the focus and then I changed X and
Y and I did that at least must have been 12 or 13 times.
CC Okay, that - -
PLT It took me 2 or 3 hours to do it.
CC Okay, that would be the answer we were
looking for about 12 or 13 times. We are about 30 seconds
from LOS, next station pass is Guam at 01:53 and that will
be your medical conference, following that we will have Vanguard
at 02:30 and we will be talking about anomalies or the anomaly
list that that time.
PLT Say, crip, I made a notation of all of the
turns and all of the dlal twizzling that I did on S192 both
visible and thermal and I wrote it down on my checklist. I
can bring it home if you want.
CC Okay, sounds good.
through Ascension Island tracking station with the Evening
Status Report. All three crew men reported 7 hours solid
good sleep last night and their food report is beginning to
show more addition than deletions. However, Science Pilot
Garriott was not finished with his evening meal and will
delay his food report for a later station pass. No medication
was taken by any of the three crewmen today. And also the
Science Pilot is not completed his - his planned exercise.
Medical Conference with the flight surgeon over the Guam station
34 minutes from now, will bring up the circuit for that pass
in case portion of it is handed back to the spacecraft
communicator by the surgeon. And at 01:18_ this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 2151 CDT, 08/01:51 GMT
8/3/73

mean time. Acquisition at tracking station Guam in 50 seconds.
This is the scheduled routine evening medical conference over
thls statlon. However, the medical conferences is usually run
rather short, and the loop is handed back to the spacecraft
communicator before LOS. Therefore, we' ii leave the circuit
open so as not to miss any of the air-to-ground communications.
Standing by for alr-ground, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Apparently we
have had loss of signal from the Guam Island tracking station.
without the air-ground loop being handed back to CAP COMM.
27 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard and the final three station
passes of the night. Vanguard, Ascension, and - four stations
that is. Vanguard, Ascenslon, Canary, and Madrid. Before
final sign off for the crew, and the start of an 8-hour sleep
period at 02:02 Greenwich mean time, this is Skyla5 Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC312/I
Time: 2228 CDT, 08/02:28 GMT
8/3/73

mean time. Acquisition momentarily through the Vanguard
tracking ship, end of revolution 1175. Start of 1176.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the
Vanguard for ii minutes.
SPT Okay Crip.
CC And Skylsb, we are copying the experiment
2 recorder is off and we need it on for $073 this evening.
SPT Okay. We're on our way to turn it on.
And I'd llke to give you an update on my food intake for today.
I didn't get time to include it in my - the nightly status
report.
CC Okay Owen. At your convenience.
SPT Okay. Ate all of meal I. Of meal 2, I
eliminated asparagus. Meal ], I eliminated apricots, butter-
scotch pudding. Meal 5, I eliminated green beans. I added
jelly and I added shrimp. And that's it.
CC Okay Owen. While I've got you here, I
think I can clear up your S054 CRT problem, if you'd llke to
hear it.
SPT Good, what's the word?
CC Okay. What we passed up earlier, the
data about going to 6 on numeric and integral solving all your
AC problems. That was true with 1 exception. And that was
the S054 at CRT - -
SPT Yeah, I figured something like that.
CC Yeah. You're going to have to go your
console distribution panels and put for $054 select bus 2.
SPT Okay. Well, it maybe that we wanted actually
to rdn all the experiments and displays on bus 2, the way I mentioned
before. Now [' ii wait to hear from you tomorrow.
CC Okay. Actually, that really doesn't help
us out much since you haven't got any variable available to
you and you're just going to have to turn those things on and
off at - anyhow, to keep them from burning bright.
SPT Well, I see your point. Okay. Well,
maybe let's do it the way you first suggested it and switch
the lighting down to a fixed.
CC Okay. It's really a - whatever seems
easier for you guys.
SPT Is there any problem on that numeric with
switching it back and forth between off and fixed?
CC Look, I've got -
SPT Or the integral. There was some concern
I had about switching it instead of using the pot. And I
just wanted to make sure that there was no problem as long as
we were using the main ILCA - LCA. There should be no problem
of using the switch and not the pot.
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813/73
CC There should be no conetraitn at all.

SPT Okay. We'll Just go down to do our fix.
Hey Crlp, we tried to reset the recorder. Went off by itself
and we can't get it back in. It's probably - stopped yp there.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CDR Is this the pass where we have our discussion
Crlp?
CC I'm sorry. Would you say again your last,
please?
CDR CDR. Is the pass where we were going to
have a discussion of next week's activities?
CC That's affirmative. We've got it set
aside to discuss status. Really, I guess we have been intending
to discuss that anomaly less we could if you'd llke. Let me
check to see if wet re prepared to discuss next week.
SPT Okay. I just saw it on the schedule and
you' re wrong.
CC Yeah, it was set aside as a status session.
SPT Yeah. The only question I had on the
anomaly left was on this - I gather you feel if we hadn't -
turned. I'd like to see a procedure come up that's that
if we did - if it's okay to use quad D. I know it's all on
the procedures that are of habit of not using it. So, l'm
Just wondering what the strategy is.
CC CDR, Houston. We plan on - plan on up-llnklng
you tonight in series of changes that deal with the quad D
and C problem. And we'll set aside at a couple of passes tomorrow
evening to discuss them in detail with you.
CDR Roger. I think that would be a good idea
for us to be here together. Also to discuss at this time,
a little bit about techniques somebody might have for no eommentry
and the best way to go to attitudes and that sort of thing.
CC We'll be glad to go over that with you
in detail and Vance and the guys have been looking at it.
CDR Yeah, I figured he was probably down there
watching the store. That's great. So that's fine. I'd llke to
undrrstand best what all the options are exactly from a technique
point of view. Which would we use first and if that didn't
work too well, what would you use next. All the way down
through the option so that I could understand the total number
and which is the best and right on down. And I assume that I
had to have some information on the teleprinter to understand
it in addition to talking about it.
CC Okay. I believe we got a pretty good
story lined up for you on that. I can say right now that
quad B is available for emergency use as long as B-3 is isolated
electronically.
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CDR Did you say B-3?

CC That's affirmative. B-3 is isolated
electrically.
CDR Okay. Now here's another question. No,
I guess I answered it myself. Go ahead.
CC Skylab, we suspect that experiment 2 re-
corder went off because it's full. And we're dumping it.
And as soon as we get it dumped, we'll let you know so you
can try to turn it back on again.
CDR Okay. And Bob, with the holding tanks
back on, pull the condensate out I hope.
CC Okay. Looks good here.
SPT Hey Bob? One quick word. I did not get
the ED52 and would appreciate it if it could be rescheduled
for me tomorrow?
CC Okay Owen. We copy.
CDR Okay. Now, let's talk about that master
anomaly list a few moments. I got it and started putting it
in the books with scotch tape. And it turned out that after
an hour of scattering those _tround in different places, in
addition of other changes, I decided what I'd better do was
to the master anomaly list, Js look at the anomalies as
that come up. And it picked the ones that we wanted
to hae the information on board of and the ones that are
closed, or really don't apply to us too much, then just dis-
charge. So my master anomaly list on board is going to be
a little different ffrom yours in order to save man hours. I
I've been spending at least 1--1/2 man hours per day - checklist
changes and general message printing and permanent message
sticking and that sort of thing. It's no trouble other than
it takes man hours and I don't really think we're going to
want to use it for that sort of thing. Although we got to
to a certain degree. So I'ii try to look over each one of them
real closely and of course all the checklists changes and every-
thing we have to make and we'll make and have been making. In
fact, we got them all in right now. But it sounds like your
getting ready to send a couple more man hours to do it.
CC Roger. CDR, Houston. We appreciate the
problem of - to keep us or to enable us to cross reference so
that we'll know what we're talking about between. We recommend
if you can, to save the number on the items that you can -
CDR Okay. That'll be a good idea. I tell you -
maybe the way you do it is when we go over them, 'Ii just
glance in the book and show you and tell you which ones I
kept. And in that way, sort of have a general status. And I
can do that anytime you want.
CC Okay. That sounds llke a good idea.
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CC Skylab, we have about, oh, a minute and

a half left on this pass. I've got some evening news I'Ii
be glad to send up for over Ascension, which we are going to
get in a few minutes. I know you guys are getting ready to
go to bed too. So, it's your call. If youVd like to hear
it, we're going to have Ascension at
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8/3/73
CC - - in which we're going to get in a

few minutes. I know you guys are getting ready to go to
bed too, so it's your call. If you'd like to hear it, we're
going to have Ascension at 02:44.
CDR Love to hear it, Crip.
CC Okay, we'll - we'll give it at that time.
And we got about a minute until LOS on this pass.
CDR Okay, great.
in the brief gap between Vanguard tracking ship Vanguard
and the Ascension Island station, at which CAP COMM, Bob
Crippen will read up a newscast to the crew. Flight Surgeon,
Dr. Paul Buchanan has issued the brief bulletin on the
medical status after the medical conference back at the
Guam station. The bulletin reads: "The Skylab-lll crew
reports no medical problems. They have begun regular plan-
ned menus and food supplements. There were no medical
experiment runs today." End of bulletin. A minute and
20 seconds to nominal acquisition at Ascension for what will
probably be the final pass before the crew begins its sleep
period. We'll stand by for acquisition and the crew news-
cast.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension
and we got about a 7-minute pass. And if you'd like, I can
give you the evening news.
CDR We're listening, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. To pick off this morning's
paper. I can give you the headlines, if you're interested
in a little bit of Skylab news. It says rescue craft ready
but space crew is calm. As engineers on the ground began
their around-the-clock program to ready a rescue ship, the
second Skylab crew proceeded Thursday as though an emergency
that could imperil their mission did not happen. Captain
Allen L. Bean, Major Jack R. Lousma, and Dr. Owen K. Garrlott
continue routine operations to get the nation's first space
station ready for normal 59-day stay after being told of
the possibility of a rescue mission. As the crew slept
early Thursday, the problem, leaking oxidizer from a second
set of faulty thrusters crept silently aboard the docked
Apollo that is supposed to ferry the astronauts to and from
the space station. After the problem was brainstormed and
the options to combat it were thrashed out for about 7 hours,
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Director of the Johnson Space
Center, was able to tell the Bean crew, "We're proceeding
as if we are going to have a normal mission." And it's -
basically goes on in the same vein. A little other news:
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The meat shortage continues to get a little bit worse here.

The Senate has voted to end the price freeze, but it appears
it will stay on until mid-Decem - mld-September. By then,
it's been reported the Skylab crew may be the only Americans
eating meat regularly.
CDR That could be true. (Laughter)
CC You didn't know how lucky _u guys were,
did you? Boy Scouts from 50 states and 20 foreign countries
are spending a week at two national Jamborees going on
presently. The national Jamboree is being held near Butler,
Pennsylvania. The jamboree west is near Coeur 'D alene,
Idaho. A little DOD information, the Senate Armed Services
Committee has cut the Air Force B-I Bomber budget by one-
hundred million. Today the committee restored a 50 percent
cut in the Navy's Trident submarine program. Meanwhile,
the Defense Department says there will be more military
bases closing around the country if _e DOD budget cut pro-
posals are upheld. And to show you that the Navy's always
the first in line, it say_ that that airline talks about the
wings of man may have to add a P.S. to its motto. Eastern
Airlines just graduated its first woman pilot. She's
23-year old Barbara Barrett. She has flown cargo for a
Detroit firm for i0 months before joining the airlines.
And for Jack, the big item is the $250,000 Westchester Golf
Classls. And unfortunately plays scheduled to start yes-
terday was delayed due to rain. Tom Weiskopf is the favorite
coming off his big win last week in the Canadian Open. Top
money is going to be $50,000. Pro-football news. Tonight
the New York Jets are, of course, playing in the Astrodome
against the Oilers. Also tonight, the Detrlot Lions are
at Washington to play the Redskins. And Dallas is at Los
Angeles. The balance of the teams are going to be playing
on Saturday and Sunday. I don't know if we've got any
tennis fans up there, but Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
have signed to play their best of five tennis matches at
the Astrodome on September the 20th. And it's a winner take
all, $i00,000 purse. And that ought to be rather interest-
ing. Last night at the Astrodome the Astros lost to the
Dodgers at ii innings by a score of 4 to 2, and Houston re-
mains 12 games off the pace. And that's really about - about
all for the evening news. And I guess you guys are coming
up for beddy-bye time. Anything else you've got of slgnifi-
eanee you'd like us to do for you this evening?
CDR No, Crip. Thanks. That was more interest-
ing news than we normally have and if you can keep it up
like that every night, we'd sure appreciate it.
CC Okay. We're working on it. And by the
way, in the third quarter of the Jets are leading i0 to 3.
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CDR Uh oh.
SPT Thanks a lot, Crlp.
CDR Night. See you tomorrow.
CC Okay. Good night.
SPT Don't forget the recorders.
CC We're looking after it. And hope you
won't be quite as flooded by paper tomorrow morning.
SPT Yeah, it must have been a record, one fireman's
pole. We'll see
how it is tomorrow.
CC Okay, no more records.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The crew signed
off during mld-pass over the Ascension Island tracking station
and there was no further conversation up to LOS. Crew
entering an 8-hour sleep period at this time, scheduled to
pick up tomorrow mornlng at 6:00 a.m. central daylight with
the day's work including the second Earth Resources survey
pass. Space station being tracked now by Canary Island and
then a few moments later will be picked up by Madrid for
systems monitoring. However, there is no further conversa-
tion planned with the crew tonight. And at 02:53 Greenwich
mean time, signing off until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, central
daylight, this is Skylah Control.
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Time: 22:47 CDT, 03:50 GMT
8_3_73

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approximately an hour into
the crew rest period at roughly 10:25 central daylight time,
a caution and warning master alarm in the command module
went off. The crew was awakened by the alarm, investigated
closely as AI Bean said and found _ anomalies. We have the
tape conversation of that pass and will play that at this
time.
CC Skylab Houston, you have a problem?
CDR Well we have a return one Crip, we got
a master alarm in the command module and we went up there
and looked at our - looked at things pretty closely, couldn't
see anything unusually but a - the 02 press, seemed a little
low in number i tank. And never - the recalled it survey
function and a - we don't know exactly what happen to the -
call you and let you know and ask you to _ok it over real
close.
CC Okay, we are in process in doing so.
CDR We've also been kind of wondering why
the hydrogen quantity is low in tank i and not in 2.
Is that Just the way they feed?
CC That's the current cyro plan, that's
a - - can't talk. Yes that's the one tank we've got
on right now.
CDR Another thing we got to talking about
Crip, might be a good ideal to send up tomorrow when you are
sending the information about - answering and the alike. We -
we don't know if we have the latest information on board
on how we do the backup attitude hold for the workshop in
the event we have the rate gyro problems.
CC Okay, I'm informed that will be
coming up tonight.
PLT That's good.
CC And Skylab, we're doing a double check on
everything, but right now everything looks normal to us.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, can you give us the approx-
imate time that caution and warning went off on you?
CDR Roger, I would say between 7 and i0 minutes
ago or it could be between 5 and i0.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab Houston, we've given the vehicle
a good going over, everything looks good to us, I guess our
recommendation is to go ahead and try to go back to sleep
and sorry you got the rude awakening and we will keep a sharp
eye on it all night long for you.
CDR Thank you, Crip.
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PAO Before the Skylab moved beyond range of

the Guam tracking station, Flight Director Don Puddy pulled
the flight controllers and he got an okay from all of them on
station and concluded with the statement that the bird looks
clean at this time. At 3 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean
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SL-III MC-315/I
Time: 06:00 CDT, 08/11:00 GMT
8/4/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 2-1/2 minutes away from
Madrid acquisition. We intend to place our first call of
the day at Madrid. Capcom Hank Hartsfield. Flight
Director is Chuck Lewis. Another Earth Resources experi-
ment pass scheduled for today, about noon. Also some runs
scheduled today on the MI31, the human vestibular function
experiment, using the rotating litter chair. And some MO92
runs, lower body negative pressure; MI71 medical runs, the
metabolic function experiment. And this evenlng_ Science
Pilot Owen Carriott is scheduled for the first manned opera-
tion of the Apollo telescope mount. He'll check out the ATM
this morning, with the first manned run scheduled this
evening. We'll stand by for the first call at Madrid.
CC Skylab, l_ouston through Madrid for
8 minutes. Good morning.
CDR Good morning, Hank. You sure it's morning?
CC Well, it sure seems llke it. How is it
up there?
CDR Middle of the night. Dark.
CC Better raise up your shades there; it ought
to be daylight.
SPT 73 quit running.
CC Say again.
CDR His S073 quit. We've had to have them
closed most of yesterday to protect it.
CC Stand by.
CC It appears that they're working normally
tonight, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston. While you're getting
started up here this morning, I'd like to brief you on what
has occurred during the evening. You recall you had that MASTER
ALARM last night. Well, we've been pouring over the data and
we've picked up some funnies during the evening, and we've
about traced it down, we think._Apparently, we had a
pretty big short in the ATM power transfer distributor.
They were somewhere around 350 amps, the best we can guess,
between ATM, BUS 2 and TV, BUS 2. And it lasted for about
3 seconds and quit. And the indication is we probably
lost the TV, BUS 2. And this is probably what caused your
CSM and MASTER ALARM. And we also showed a record of an
AM warning; you didn't mention that last night. And we've
lost the fine Sun sensor wedge position indicators. And
the short seems to be cleared up now. And we also suspect,
though, that we may have popped the REG BUS TIES circuit
breakers. So, when it's congenient we'd like to get
somebody up in that end of the hird, and we want to take
a look at those REG BUS TIES, and also take a look at
what your readout is on the wedge positions. And we've got a
couple of other switches we want you to get get the high
voltage off , because at about the time this occurred, we
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noticed the canister pressure went up.

CDR Okay. I'm right by the ATM, Just tell
me what you need.
CC Okay. On the X-RAY SPEC, we need to get
the IMAGE DISSECTOR switch off and the PHOTOMULTIPLIEP off.
CDR Okay, they're off. And it did not pop
the BUS TIE circuit breakers.
CC Okay. That's good.
CDR We also did not see a AM cautionwarning
that I - that I recalled. And Owen agrees; he stayed here and
looked. Okay, we're ready for the next one.
CC Okay. Those are the only 2 there we
wanted to get. And can you give us a readout on the wedge
position?
CDR Owen's wDrking on it.
CC We did see that warning on the telemetry.
It may not have activated on the bird.
SPT Okay. Updown is minus 60, and left/right
is minus 25 ARC seconds.
CC Minus 60 and minus 25.
CDR One thin_ we have been noticing that we
wanted to ask you about, though, is the fact that the vehicle
seems to be warming up in here. I noticed it being a little
bit warmer last night than the other nights. And I'm wondering
if it's because that SO73's on all the time, and that puts
out a lot of heat. Or Js something else occurring that you
know about that we haven't heard?
CC I don't know of anything, AI, but we'll
sure look into it.
SPT It's curieus, Hank, that we've lost indication
of wedge positions. Do you think that the 2 numbers that
I just read out here are not necessarily accurate? Or is it
only the ground downlink that been lost on the fine sun sensor
position? Over.
CC Stand by, and let me search that. Ne
did lose our downlink indication of the wedge position. Let
me check and see what the onboard will be.
CC Hey, Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
to LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 49. And on the
ATM console, we'd like to verify that you have, under the power
system, your selector switch in REG or BAT and CBRM 17, SELECT;
that way, well you shouldn't have a POWER ALERT light.
CDR Okay. I did not have it that way. I
will put it that way right now and make sure that the power
system light disappears.
CDR I'm been sitting in either in BAT or REG
with 18 select, as a matter of faer, and I didn't check the
buzzer. Now I (garble systems light to get this light out,
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probably elliminated it by throwing up that alert display.

And that's how it remains on CBRM 17, the way you suggested.
CC Okay.
CDR (Static)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. The next station to acquire Skylab will be
Honeysuckle in 35 minutes. During this initial conversation
today, Capcom Hank Bartsfield talked to the crew about a
MASTER ALARM that they had onboard during the night last
night. Said that a look at the data here on the ground from
telemetry showed it was apparently a short circuit in the
Apollo telescope mount, power transfer distributer, lasted
3 seconds and then quit. The ground suspects that one of
the ATM television circuits may have been lost and they're
checking to see whether the fine sun sensor wedge position
indicator was affected by the short circuit. Crew Commander
A1 Bean reported he seemed to be a little warmer last night
than on previous nights. However, EGIL, the flight controller
here in mission control, that monitors temperatures reported
to the flight director that the average temperature is not
up. He said it may he a localized condition in the space-
craft. But his data shows that the average temperature is
stl]l remaining right around 80 degrees and high 70s. We'll
come back up just prior to Honeysuckle. At Ii hours
15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.
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TIME: 06:47 CDT 08:11:47 GMT
8/4/73

Honeysuckle for a 6 minute pass. Should have acquisition
in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle,
6 minutes.
PLT Okay, we had another funny with the ATM
and we'll let the SPT talk about it.
CC Go ahead.
CC We're seeing two regs off, SPT, could
you give us a rundown?
SPT Yeah, I can now. You were asking me
about being in the REG BAT position with the CBRM 17
selected. I think we went over the hill as I was doing
that. I had my select switch in the 1-12 position and not
the 13-18, so when I did go back and put it on BAT in select
17, then the ALERT light dissapeared. But at the same time
it kicked the reg off. And so then I selected the CBRM
number 16 by just rotating one position, and that kicked
the number 16 reg off. So I rotated no further and have
not yet attempted to reset the regs, although I have no
reason to think it will not reset. I wanted to let you
know about it and see if you were ready for a reg reset on
16 and 17. Over.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to leave
that switch where it is and we're going to think about it and
we're considering the possibility of trying commanding the
regs back on through the uplink.
SPT Okay. I, of course, am still in the
16 position. So I could go REG ON in 16 right here without
changing that rotary any further.
CC We'd like to stay right where we are now,
Owen and Just think about it a little bit before we do any-
thing, since we've been having all these electrical funnies.
SPT I see, you Just set 16 right there. It's
back off. The reg is off. The light is off.
CC Copy.
SPT And now you've reset 17. It's back on.
CC SPT, Houston. Just so you can be thinking
about it, we told you before we had the funny with the
fine Sun sensor wedges. We think there's a possibility we
may have lost the feedback loop in the fine Sun sensor
circuitry number I. So part of your ATM pass today is
going to be some troubleshooting and we'll do that real time.
SPT Okay. I understand.
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CC And SPT, Houston. The reason you were

reading the numbers you were on the wedges and not zero
like we were is due to the biases there. You have the fine
Sun sensor bias there and that's the bias numbers that we have
in tHR_. Okay. Fine. I think we probably left
the canister somewhere near zero when I shut it down for
unattended ops last night. I don't know what you may have
done with it, of course, over the nighttime.
CC Rog. I think it's still Sun centered.
CC And we're about i minute from LOS, Skylab,
and we'll be coming up on Hawaii at i0 and there I'd like
to get in a couple of small Flight Plan changes.
SPT Okay. I think I've figured what you
got in that electrode rejuvenation kit. I think it must
have been glue. 133 experiment.
CC (Laughter_. Roger.
CC And befor_ we go over the hill, if it's
convenient sometime in the next 5 or i0 minutes, we'd llke
to get somebody to go to medium gain on the SO73.
CDR Is that fest enough for you?
CC Outstanding. That's pretty quick.
CDR We start slow.
PAO This is Skylab "Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the
Hawaii station in about 14-i/2 minutes. Two of the charger
battery regulator modules, number 16 and 17, went offline
during that pass, however, they were successfully commanded
back on from the ground and are now back in operation
again. We're continuing to take information from the SO73
experiment, the Cegenscheln/Zodlacal light experiment that
is extended through the scientific alrlock. Repeated
troubleshooting has been unsuccessful in an attempt to
retract that experiment. The experiment itself functions
but we are unable to retract it back into the spacecraft.
So because that alrlock is needed for other experiments
we do plan to jettison the S073 experiment in about an
hour or two. Probably while the Skylab is over the United
States during the next revolution, is the best estimate at
the present time. We'll come back up Just prior to Hawaii.
At II hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-III MC-317/I
Time: 07:09 CDT 08/12:09 GMT
8/4/73

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Hawaii
station now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 7 minutes.
CDR Houston, Skylab. We're all taking half
urine samples today as indicated on our Flight Plan. But
the way we count them up this is actually a day early from
our normal Flight Plan. Do you agree with that or do you
agree that this is the normal day that we should have been
taking half samples? Over.
CC We'll get you an answer on that. I'd
llke to talk a little about day 9's Flight Plan real quick so
we can start hauling out the problems for tomorrow if it's
okay.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, what we've done, AI, we've built the
Flight Plan that's essentially in a nutshell, it's EREP in
the morning and EVA prep in the afternoon. Now in order to
get the EREP in and get a little bit, or get the ETC work
done it takes up the entire morning. We've also thrown in
a few minutes early out of the postsleep for the SPT just
to get a little XUV MON TV downllnk. That doesn't take but
about 5 minutes out of his postsleep. But in doing this,
we were unable to work in any PT or the food stowage transfer
that you wanted, at least we couldn't get it scheduled in
the morning. And that is back-to-back track 61, 62 in the
morning. But we have from roughly 18:15 on to bedtime - is
essentially all yours to do the twin pole sun shade inspection and
your pre EVA preps. We have one ATM pass that we've thrown
in, in the postsleep, a presleep, and it's optional.
But we figured that leaving the whole afternoon up to you that you
could probably find a place to work in your PT, and the food
stowage. And if not, we can schedule the food stowage another
day. How does that sound to you?
CDR Well, I'ii tell you how these things
sound to me. I've found out there is no way to work - you
know, when you've got the day scheduled, there is no way to
work in the other stuff I've found out, because it just won't
fit. You've got 4 hours scheduled and 4 hours available and
you can't stick in an extra hour's worth of something else.
I think it's okay, but I think the doctor has got to be aware
that there ain't not going to be any PT tomorrow because there
is just not going to be any way to get it in.
CC Okay we'll - -
CDR There's only 8 hours We've got no
complaint_ but it's just that you can't, - you know_ there's
no way to make i0 hours out of an 8-hour day. We've found out
up here. That's what hurt us the first 2 or 3 days. We kept
trying to fit in and there is no way to fit in.
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CC Okay, we copy. I guess we thought there

was a little fat in the EVA prep thing since we had an extra
hour on the prep and then 2 hours for the sun shade inspection.
CDR Well, there may be, but we don't think
so and if it turns out to be then we'll do the PT. But I
think everybody should have on their minds it doesn't appear
to be that way now, because in addition to that, you know,
there are a lot of these other things that come up that fill
those little blank spaces, real time troubleshooting,
checklist changes, general message, this and that. So it
is always filled with other things too.
CC Okay. I guess the only option is
then, AI, is drop one of the tracks on the EREP. So we'll
sort of - that will give you a morning PT.
CDR Well, I think maybe - let me compromise
somehow and think this over with you. Let's go ahead and
back-to-back EREP, but let's don't have anything else along
with it, and then maybe we can get some of the exercise earlier
in the morning. Owen can exercise during the time that we're
doing EREP, and he's doing (garble) of the ETC, because it doesn't
take him quite as long to prep as it does for us. And then
that will mean that only Jack and I have to exercise. And
maybe we can have Owen working with the twin poles and the
sun shade while we exercise. So don't give us anything else
except the two EREPs and the EVA prep. And if we get finished early
we'll call you and get the pads and go to work on something
else.
CC What we have now is basically that, AI,

for the CDR and PLT. It's nothing but EREP and EVA prep.
And the SPT has a S019 stow and a little bit of housekeeping
most of which is mandatory.
CDR Okay, just send it on up and we'll give
it a go because we don't want to miss those EREP passes. I
know you don't either. And we'll give it a go and we'll just
stay up late if we have to. The thing that has not worked
out llke we thought it would is the extra time. There just
never is any. We are going to crowd some things in there
and we just haven't found it yet. But we're getting better
organized, and maybe we'll find it by then. We're much faster
this morning. We'll do it.
CC Okay. We understand, AI. We're trying
to do our best here and we'll see what we can do with it.
You probably noticed on the message regarding the GMC check-
list changes, there was a 7-1ine gap in it. I meant
to tell you that on the first pass, don't get alarmed, that
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gap was an accident.

CDR Okay, one thing puzzled us on last night's
pad. 1 was the VTS operator and notlced also that the sites
that we are going to run, I guess, are the ones that l'm going
to run, and yet this morning I have shows it the other way.
Wh|ch way do you plan for us to do it?
CC Stand by one.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS now. We'll
be coming up on stateside here_ Goldstone at 20, and we'll
try to get an answer for you.
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8/4/73

loss of signal. Goldstone will pick up the spacecraft in
about 2 minutes. We'll continue to keep the llne up for
Goldst one acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone for
7 minutes. And CDR, Houston, we checked that out and our
pads are in error. CDR should be doing the VTS.
CDR Okay.
CC There is one little correction to the
Flight Plan itself. We had designated the SPT as the number
2 crewman for presllp- presleep, it should be the other
way around. SPT and the PLT should swap because the PLT
is - the number 3 goes with the guy doing the ATM pass.
CC And, Skylab, we do have a go for doing
EREP at this time and so we probably won't be doing the
alternate Flight Plan. And in that case we sent up two
messages, 827 and 825. They pertain to PT 02 sensor and
CBRM 17; we'd like for you t,> hang on to those - and so that
we can schedule those activities.
CC Skylab, Houston; for in£o, only we've
had a SO55 door hang up; we had one last night. We're going
to go ahead and run a malf procedure and get the door closed.
No action required on your part.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, on your maneuver pad for the Z-LV
on your EREP, in the remarks there we said that the maneuver
to ZLV starts at a 114 degrees before orbit noon and should
read after orbit noon.
PLT Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR. A couple of other quick
questions.
CC Go ahead.
CDR You know these rate gyros that we brought
up to fix? We presently have them running. We've had them
running since yesterday and we wondered if you wanted us -
wanted us to keep them running. And we were also kind of
wondering if that's what maybe is making the vehicle hotter.
But that doesn't make sense either because I don't think they
have that big of heaters in them, but that's question one.
And question two, the other day as we finished up the EREP,
y'all made some comments about - you didn't, Crip did, he
said - maybe it wasn't Crlp; I'm trying to remember. I think it
was Story. Just as we went out - LOS, he said, "If you have some
rate gyro dlscompare problems, do the following." And he told
us what to do. We went over and looked up the numbers and
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had them ready. You suppose that you could start sendin E
us on a daily basis a - since we do have these rate gyros that
are a little erratic, on a daily basis or every time it changes
what gryo is being - you feel, is the prime area in each axis
particularly the Y-axls, so that in the event we do have a
discompare or something we know which Y-axis, particularly
but others too, to select as the primary one. And then when
you - if you change your mind on that sort of thing you
maybe send us a new one. And if you could send a pad such
that it says sort of this way, In the event of a Y-axls
discompare - and if this is true and - and manual selection has
to be made, do the following, and then give the actual
code numbers, and then say, "This will do such and such to
the Y-axls." Do you understand what I'm shooting for?
CC Roger, we understand and we' ii work on
it.
CDR Right, we'll put that up there by the
rate gyros and then we'll ha_e it onboard sort of as immediate
procedure and you can Just say, go to the rate gyro information
of the day if you have a pro|,lem, and then we can go there
and we'll have the commands _nd everything, and time won't be
wasted looking up command, and that way we might save some mlbs
or something.
CC Roger, we agree. And we're about i0
seconds from LOS now. Bermuda at 31.
loss of signal. Skylab too far north to be acquired by
Texas or Merritt Island. Bermuda will pick up the spacecraft
in about 3 minutes. We'll keep the llne up for acquisition
at Bermuda.
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SL III MC-319/I
TIME: 07:28 CDT 08/12:28 GMT
8/4/73
PAO Skylab crossing 80 degrees west longitude

now, beginning it's revolution number 1,182 for the workshop.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
6 minutes.
CC And CDR Houston, answer to a question
about the RATE GYRO pack, we would like to leave those
powered up.
CDR Okay, you've got it.
CC And in regard to the half urine
samples, today was a scheduled half urine sample day,
and after day 18, we're going to start revising the
schedule to take care of the extended mission. However,
per preflight agreement you will do those as we put them
on the Flight Plan and that's the best way to keep up
with them.
CDR Okay, that's what I was afraid you were
thinking about here on these samples. Now we've been labeling
our samples as following, and putting them in the appropriate
slot. Today is day 8 of course, hut we sampled day 7 volume,
and we have been planning to put them in the day 7 slot.
In the day i slot and (garble) we actually only had five
UCDAs, but that filled up slot i. Then in day 2, we had
three bags, which we sampled on day 3, and put them in day
2, and so you see each day we're filling up the slots for
the preceding day and that's the thing that throws it out
of schedule with all our - one day off with every-
thing in our data pack, and it's the reason for my believin_
that we were really wanting to fill up day 7 slots on day 8,
so we'll put these into slot number 8 and that'll leave slot
number 7 vacant for the moment til we get these numbering
systems sorted out. Over.
CC Roger. We copy.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC320/I
Time: 07:40 CDT, 08/12:40 GMT
8/4/73
I'AO This is Skylab Control. Skylab in

aequJsltlon through the Canary Island station.
CC - - and we're going to do nav update
here If you could give us the DAS a little while.
CDR You got it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Itouston, you still there?
CC Go ahead.
CDR I'm looking over the CSM, the OA
emergency cue card change number i. Do you happen to have
that (garble) down there?
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, I _otleed one of my dots along my
line was missing. Is the first llne down to delete RHC
power direct to main A and main B?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, I've got a skip in several spaces
and then it says delete SMRCS CSMI helium open. Was that the
next thing, or should there have been a line in between?
CC That's th_ next thing.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC SPT, Houston. We researched this urine
thing again and we did make an error in the Flight Plan. We
did intend for day 8 to he the half sample which you
would have done on day 9 and we made an error and put it
in day 8's Flight Plan. So, what we_d llke you to do is
move day 7 samples, the one you just did, the half sample,
along with the spacers over into the day 7 slot.
CDR Okay, that's the only way yon can figure
it out, we'll do that.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're through uplinking.
We got the nay updates in - and we're about a minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 26.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Canaries has
loss of signal. Skylab will he within range of the Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle station. Just Honeysuckle this time,
Carnarvon is C-band. Honeysuckle in 34 minutes. At 12 hours
5i minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skyla5 Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-321/I
Time: 08_24 CDT 08/13:24 GMT
8/4/73
PAO Thls is Skylab Control at 13 hours

24 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standln E by through
Honeysuckle for communications with Skylab.
CC Skylab, we have you through Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. We're working on checklist
changes.
CC Roger.
CDR And we're ready to go with that check
60K or whatever it is. We're ready.
CC Okay, A]. We're ready to send the slgnal.
And Just a reminder of course. We did do a flip flop on the
comm channel. We're running on B.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, we've got it, Houston.
CC Roger.
PLT Story, ] think you wanted to keep that
tone going while I give a test comm, don't you?
CC Affirmative.
PLT SPT Okay, how about giving us a call back.
CC And when you're ready, we're ready to
send crew alert too.
PLT Okay Story, here is a test count, I, 2,
3, 4, 5. How about giving me a call back?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear. 1,
2, 3, 4, 5.
PLT Okay. We're getting the tone superimposed
on caution and warning.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, Story, we're ready to repeat the
test for your signal 2 coalert.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, we got it. I, 2, 3, 4, 5. How
about giving me a short countoff?
CC Reading you loud and clear, i, 2, 3, 4, 5.
PLT Okay, your voice is coming through well
on top of the tone.
PLT Okay, Story. That test is complete and
everything checks out well.
CC Okay, thanks Jack.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go.
CC Hey AI, we'd like a verification in on
S073 when you were making contact with the side of the vehicle
that you were trying to retract the experiment over contact
with the vehicle.
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8/4/73
CDR I don't understand the last sentence. Say

that again _ now.
CC Have you tried to retract the experiment
even though it's making contact with the vehicle.
CDR Yes, we have. I tried to pull it in and
we tried to rotate it as we pulled it in and all that sort of
thing. We haven't had any luck with it. We could try it again
today if you like. It doesn't take that long.
CC Okay. That's enough, AI. And I guess
we ought to press on with the Jettison procedure. And I've
got an update to that procedure for you.
CDR Okay, ready to copy.
CC Okay, to square away the CG, we'd like
to drive the TRUNNION to ze]o. We'd like to drive it from
90 to O. While it is driving try to stop it by placing the
SHAFT to DECREASE. And tell us what the results of those are.
Does the trunnion stop drlvi_Ig? And that's the engineering
data. It does not affect the outcome of the ejection.
CDR Okay. Let me see if it's running now.
I got it right now for you.
CC I've got a couple of other things for
you on the ejection procedure.
CDR Okay. I won't try it now, go ahead.
CC Disconnect power to the experiment before
beginning the ejection procedures. Have the (garble) available.
And after ejection, close the SAL door and repressurize
prior to the S073 stowage.
CDR Hey, that last one is not a bad idea.
CC Well, it's rather intuitive if you follow
the SAL decal.
CDR I'm not sure you can get it off there
if you don't. Okey dokey.
CC And I'm sure you found the procedure,
AI, but it's on page 6-14 of the experiment malfunction book.
CDR Okay.
CC We're i0 seconds to LOS. We'll pick you
up in 12 minutes over Hawaii. And we'll be dumping the tape
recorders over Hawaii.
loss if signal. Skylab will be within range of the Hawaii
station in 12 minutes. During this pass we had several tests
of the crew alert system. Also passed up some procedures for
the jettison of the $073 experiment. That experiment will
be ejected from the scientific alrloek over Goldstone on this
revolution. We'll come back up just prior to Hawaii. At 13 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-[II MC322/i
Time: 08:45 CDT, 08/13:45 GMT
8/4/73
PAO Hawaii is about to acquire Skylab. We'll

stand by there.
CC Skylab, we have you through Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story, we're getting ready to jettison
this thing. We found we could not do it with two rods because
one part of the procedure requires releasing the latch on
rod C. If you only have two rods in, it wants to extend, and
so if you release the latch you'd lose the rod that's in there.
So we had to put on another rod. So we now have three rods
on there we're going to jettison. Make sure that's okay.
The procedure does not say how many to use. Doesn't look
like it's possible with two but possible with any number after
that.
CC That's fine, AI.
CC And are the other two in the middle of
MI31, AI?
CDR Negative, Story. We haven't got that
far.
CC Okay, Owen. On a noninterference basis
only we'd like to try getting some TV of the ejection out the
wardroom window.
CDR I know yo:l're speaking about noninterference,
but we're probably running a little bit behind right now. I can
go break the PL -
SPT I was just on the TV 13A setup right now. I'm
going to get started on that. Now, I can knock that off and get
the TV over here.
CC Forget it, Owen. And if possible also
on a noninterference basis, instead of TV if a crewman could
look out the wardroom window during the ejection procedure,
that might be helpful.
CDR Roger, we'll try that at the minimum and
maybe get a still photo. How would that be?
CC That's your option, sir.
CDR You know, at this point we've only got
one camera that's working properly, so we've got to move that
one around. The other camera we've not had any malfunction
work on yet.
CC Unde rstand.
SPT I think we're going to have TV for you.
I've unstowed and going to be using the faulty TV.
CC Say again.
SPT We're trying to set up the V for the
jettison, but it's going to be the faulty TV.
CC Okay, and I've got some S-stops and the
like for you.
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Time: 08:45 CDT, 08/13:45 GMT
8/4/73
CDR Go ahead with them right now.

CC S-stop 4, linear and peak.
CDR I got it .
CC And we suggest maybe a zoom on 75.
CC You may have to adjust that zoom real
time though.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, if you have not set up for TV 13A,
don't do it. Until we find out about that short in the ATM
we' re not going to power up the ATM.
SPT Okay_ understand. I'ii just leave it
clipped here. In fact, I may take this good TV down and try
to get it out the window fol you.
CC That'll be excellent, Owen.
PLT Hey Story, looks like this mall procedure
worked on the TV; we got a full picture now. We spun the
color wheel seems to work okly,
CC Great, Jack.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-323/I
TIME: 08:55 CDT 08/13:55 GMT
8/4/73
CC And Jack, no need to acknowledge, if you

have set up the previously faulty TV, that's okay. We'd
like to take a look at it. We're going LOS here in about
i0 seconds. We'll pick you up over Goldstone in a couple
of minutes.
PAO This is kylab Control. Hawaii has LOS,

loss of signal. Goldstone will acquire Skylab in 2 minutes.
The SO73 Gegenschein/Zodlacal light experiment will be
ejected at Goldstone. The crew will attempt to record
the ejection on television. That television signal will
be recorded at Goldstone and brought back to Houston later
this morning when we have lines up between here and
Goldstone. The crew reports that the faulty TV camera,
the one they used early in the mission_ that appeared to
have a stuck color wheel, which blacked out about 40 percent
of the bottom of the picture appears to be working now
after they went through a malfunction procedure of taking
the lens off, moving the color wheel with their finger to
see whether it was hung up. That's the camera they will
use to take a look at the S073 ejection. It will also allow
us to see how that camera is operating now. Because of
the short circuit that was e_perieneed in the ATM Apollo
Telescope Mount last night, we've informed the crew not
to activate the Apollo Telescope experiments today until
after we've had a chance to look some more at the data.
We'll let them know when we want them to bring that system
up. That was a short in the power transfer distributor. We've
acquired at Goldstone. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Goldstone
for 7 minutes.
CDR And Houston, you might want us to wait

on the Jettison just a few more minutes because the Sun is
up, but it's not quite illuminating the 73 yet.
CC Copy, AI.
CDR We can go right on time, but you won't
have any TV. My recommendation would be to wait 3 or 4
minutes and then do it.
CC We're working it.
CC Okay, AI, we get a report from the site,
your TVs coming down. We don't have it yet and the most
we can delay here is about 3 minutes.
CDR Okay. We'll delay 2. How's that?
CC Sounds fine.
CDR Okay. That ought to be a good picture
for you. As you can see, the wiring (garble) looks okay out
there and in the right position.
CC Okay, AI, we're not getting real time
TV in Houston yet.
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TIME: 08:55 CDT 08/13:55 G_IT
8/4/73
CDE Okay, we're going to Jettison in

30 seconds.
CC Now is an excellent time, AI.
PLT Did you Ret TV yet?
CC We don't have the lines between the
site and Houston. The site reports excellent TV.
PLT Okay, we're going to infinity on the
lens and -
CDR There we go.
PLT There she goes.
PLT She's drifting out of the picture. 1'11
zoom her in a little bit.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, We're going LOS here in about
i0 seconds. We'll pick you up over Bermuda in about
4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone had
loss of signal. Bermuda will acquire Skylab in about 3-1/2
minutes. The SO73 experiment, Gegenschein/Zodiacal light
experiment has been ejected. That ejection coming at
14 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time while Skylab was in
contact with Goldstone. It was recorded on television.
Goldstone reported receiving excellent quality television.
We'll have that television sent hack to Houston later this
morning. We don't have a time yet. We'll keep the llne up
for acquisition at Bermuda, about 2 minutes away now.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-324/I
Time: 09:06 CDT 08/14:06 GMT
8/4/73
CC Skylab, we have you over Bermuda for

I0 minutes.
CC Bean, I've got a couple of questions
while they are still fresh in your mind. Which TV camera did
you use?
PLT We used number 2, the old one. The one
in tile command module that hadn't worked since the (garble)
on launch day.
CC Roger.
CDR We went through the procedure that you
sent up, namely, to spin the eolorwheel by hand manually.
When I went in there and did that, I noticed that the color-
wheel didn't appear to be stuck at all. It didn't appear
to have any dirt or anything in it. However, it did work
correctly this morning.
CC Got you ]. And could you tell us when
you tried to drive the trunnion to O, could you stop it by
placing the shaft to DECREASE?
fiDR No, still the same problem. We tried to
retract it again and did all those little techniques that
we could think of and still no luck. So we Jett it.
CC Copy. And AI, we hit you with an awful
lot of teleprinter pads and checklist changes today. We know
there is a lot of work involved there and we're looking in
the Flight Plan when we can give you some time to do it, and
it will probably be about day 12.
CDR Okay. We got on it real fast this morning.
We're getting a little bit faster up here. We've got the
spacecraft in better shape than we had it before so we don't
have to spend so much time finding things and you know, setting
up housekeeping. So we're about two thirds through with those
changes now. I guess we will probably get them today. It
looks to me llke the tough day is Roing to be tomorrow. We'll
make those changes. And in a couple of days from now we'll
let you know if we need any more housekeeping time.
CC Very good. We Just understand down here
what we've hit you with.
CDR Okay, because those things do take a
lot of time we're finding out. But last night as we mentioned
to Crip, we're going to have to look through some of those
changes, not the checklist changes - we'll put all those in -
but some of them to the anomaly llst and see if they
are really critical to us. If they are we'll put them in.
If they're not, we won't. And then periodically, we'll give you
an update whenever you want on which ones we' re keeping
and which ones we' re throwing away. Because a lot of those
i
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T|me: 09:06 CDT 08/14:06 GMT
814173
that came up, regards to anomaly llst really don' t affect

our operation. They are important, but they don't make us
do something different. And those are the ones we want to
s ave.
CC Roger.
CDR The one thing that we have not found here
is just extra time. There hasn't been a night that we haven't
you know, that we didn't get to bed after ll:00 Houston time.
Although some of the guys have been asking about sights out
the window, I'ii bet our total out-the-window viewing time
has been, - all three of us put together, - has been something
less than 2 hours, maybe even less than an hour.
CC Copy. And we hope to improve upon a little
in the future.
CDR Well, we thing we' re improving too, so
no strain. But I ust wanted to let you know what we' re
doing all day long is we're hustling.
CC Okay.
CDR Houston, I notice you've got me up for
a 73 stow I, and I'm wondering why you don't want me to do
a stow 2?
CC Working that AI.
CC You're right, AI. That's a stow 2 we'd
like.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC325/I
Time: 09:15 CDT, 08/14:15 GMT
8/4/73
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT I reached over and flipped the switch
there. What'd he say?
CC Is that the SPT?
SPT Right.
CC Okay Owen, we have cancelled all ATM
for the day, in order to get your ETC prep done. There
is nothing time critical about housekeeping all the 70 series
here so you can slide that as much as you want. We do have
a VTR malf that we'll be doing with you over Goldstone at
15:37. The procedures will come up real time. All you need
to do is get in the vicinity of the VTR at that pass and
we'll remind you about that, the pass prior to Goldstone.
SPT Roger, Story. Thank you.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll pick you
up over Ascension.
PA0 This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Bermuda station. Ascension - Canaries will
pick up the spacecraft, a very short pass, in about two minutes.
It's a very low elevation angle, we may not get communications
but we will stay up and see. CAP COM Story Musgrave informed
the Science Pilot, Owen Garrlott on this pass that next
acquisition at Goldstone we will troubleshoot the video
tape recorder which malfunctioned a couple of days ago. Since
that time we've been restricted to the use of llve television.
We have not been able to vide,) tape on board and then dump
that tape. So, over Goldstone on this revolution we will
attempt to fix that video tape recorder. Crew Commander,
A1 Bean reporting over Bermuda that the crew is able to
work faster now than they have been, as they become better
adapted to their environment. Up to this point they haven't
had too much time to look out the window, he says. They've been
behind on the time lines in the flight plan and have been
kept pretty well busy. Canaries should acquire in - in a
- less than 30 seconds. We'll stand by and see if there's
any communication there.
CC Skylab, we have you AOS over Canary for
2 minutes.
CDR How's the weather out in Colorado for
those EREP sites today?
CC We'll get it for you.
CDR (garble) Hate to say that but we got a
sticker on board, a decal which nobody is really sure of what it
goes to. Let me read it a little bit to you and maybe somebody
can figure it out.
". o
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Time: 09:15 CDT, 08/14:15 GMT
8141_3
CC We're going LOS right here, i. See

you in two minutes at Ascension.
CDR Okeydoke.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have acquisition
at Ascension now.
CC $kylab, we've got you hack again over
Ascension for i0 minutes and 8o ahead on the decal,Al.
CDR Okay, it's got exposure protocol on the
front, and then it's got one pass FR-I - We suspicion it
mlght be SO20 or To25 that we're not doing.
CC Yeah, we had a comm dropout there about
the last minute. I think you'll have to repeat from
exposure protocol on, AI.
CDR Okay, it's got two big headings, one
called one day pass, and the other day called two day pass.
And it says FRI, 30 minutes, FR2 i0 minutes, FEB 3 minutes,
FR4 1 minute and et cetera. No we suspicion that it might
be for TO25 or S020, that we're not doing.
CC It sounds llke 020 but we'll verify
that and then confirm it, AI.
CDR Okay, and then that way we'll take it
up and stow it with the SO20 things.
CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-326/I
TIME: 09:26 CDT 08/14_26 GMT
8/4/73
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Due to our reconfiguration on the ATM
Flight Plan, we've got 3 switches for you to throw at the
ATM C&D, AI.
CDR I'll be up there in I0 seconds.
CC Okay.
CDR Let's go.
CC XUV MON power OFF. And the syne gener-
ator OFF. And the MON 1 power OFF.
CDR Complete.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're about 15 seconds from LOS.
We'll see yon over Carnarvon at about 14:58.
range of Ascension. The ne_t station to acquire will be
Carnarvon in 22 minutes. Flight Director Chuck Lewis has
not yet left the Mission Control Room. We expect that he
may be able to start the change of shift news conference
in about i0 minutes. We'll try to verify that. Stand by
please. Flight Director Lewis reports that he will be able
to make a 9:45 change of shift news conference in the JSC News
Briefing Room about 8 minutes from now. Change of news
conference in the JSC news briefing room with Flight Director Chuck
Lewis at 9:45 a.m. central daylight time. Wetll come hack up at
Honeysuckle - at Carnarvon, rather_ if that conference is over.
If not, we'll tape any communications there and play that for you
after the conference. At 14 hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
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SL III MC-327/1
TIME: 09:48 CDT 08/14:48 GMT
8/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. The television

on the monitors in the News Center now is being brought
back from Goldstone at this time. This is a picture of
the ejection of the SO73 Gegenschein/Zodiacal llght
experiment. Also to be brought back will be television
that was dumped at Goldstone yesterday during the Earth
Resources pass. That televlslon will follow this S073
ejection.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-328/I
TIME: 10:25 CDT 08/15:25 GMT
8/4/73

25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is 12 minutes away
from acquisition at Goldstone. During the news conference
Skylab was in contact Carnarvon and the Guam stations. We_ve
accumulated 6 minutes 20 seconds in taped conversation.
We'll play that for you now.
CC Skylab. We have you through Carnarvon
for 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story.
CC Yes Sir, AI.
CDR Good newe from 509 battery cap. Lee
Ramon will llke this. Let Be read you the battery information
on BAT 6.
CC Okay. BAT 6.
CDR Okay. BAT 6, day 216, time 14:55. 1'11
Just start down reading them through 23 and then the BAT.
1.327, 1.331, 1.3241 1329, 1326, 1325, 1329, 1329, 1328,
1326, 1325, 1327, 1326, 1325, 1329, 1327, 1330, 1329, 1326,
1328, 1327, 1328, 1323. And the battery was 30.5, so it
passed all the way.
CC Copy all of that, AI.
CDR And I'm going to stow the gear.
CC Roger.
CC No need to acknowledge, we got the
playback of the S073 ejection. It was beautiful.
CDR Were the experimenters satisfied with
the way the wiring looked as it jettisoned. I'm talking
about the ones out on the photometer head. We figured we
rigged it correctly. It looked correctly to us, but we
wondered what their opinion was.
CC We couldn't see anything wrong with it
at all, AI.
CDR Yeah, we should have never put that
thing out. We should have run that whole thing inside a
couple of times to be sure it worked before we stuck it
out the window. Maybe they can bring up the insides on -
with Jerry Cart and Bill in the head.
CC We'll think about it, AI. There's no
doubt you all did the best you could. There's no need to
acknowledge AI; we're playing back your EREP pass here in
the MOCR. And every time we have an EREP pass we're going to
play it back. It was a classic example of a perfect pass.
CDR We wasted some tape, but I think every-
thing else was okay.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, We're going LOS in 30 seconds.
We'll see you over Guam in 6 minutes.
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TIME: 10:25 CDT 08/15:25 MT
8/4/73
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we have you AOS through Guam for
7 minutes.
CDR Tape transfer complete.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, for our VTR check over Goldstone
at 15:37, we need a TV camera on at any station and we'd
llke to verify here over Guam that you've got the TV on.
Could you turn any TV on?
SPT You mean just the station on without any
TV camera plugged in?
CC No, we need the TV camera plugged in.
Possibly that one down in the STS would he a good one to
turn on.
SPT Okay, we'll get one of them turned on in
in Just a moment. You don't need the one at the ATM panel,
apparently.
CC That's your option, Owen. We'll need it
on in the next 3 minutes if possible.
SPT Okay, and I've tried to find the setup for
that ETC prep, the DAC is apparently not located on F9, we're having to
get the DAC from some other locatlon. And I'ii get the
TV turned on.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay Story_ The TV's on.
CC Thanks.
SPT Got a recommended setting for viewing
the ATM panel?
CC Stand by io
CC Is that the TV 13 settings you wanted?
SPT Yeah, that will be okay. I'm Just trying
to put it somewhere so you can see. I notice the monitor
has a lot of interference on it at the moment.
CC Okay. You can point that at anything
you'd llke, AI° All we need is any picture at all. And
we're going LOS here in 30 seconds. We'll see you over
Goldstone at 15:37 and if Owen's got his ETC prep done at
that time, we will need him at the VTR panel at about 15:37.
SPT Okay. I'll not have the VTR prep done,
but I'll he at the panel.
CC And as we go over the hill here, if you
need a DAC, you can use DAC 7, 8, or 9, located in F527.
31 minutes Greenwich mean time. That's the end of the tape.
Goldstone will acquire Skylab in 5 minutes. We'll come back
up then. At 15 hours 32 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-329/1
Time: 10:36 CDT 08/15:36 GMT
814173

36 minutes Greenwich mean time. Wetre standing by for acqui-
sition at Goldstone. The television coming in will be llve.
They have a camera up in conjunction with troubleshooting of
the video tape recorder.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you stateside
for about 19 minutes with a 1-mlnute dropout between
Goldstone and Texas.
SPT Okay, Story. You've got a lot of noise
on your signal.
CC How about: now?
CDR Still getting an awful lot of static, l
can read you. What do you want on the panel?
CC Okay, we don't want to have this interfere
with your ETC ops or your PT, Owen.
SPT I was going to knock out the PT
for now, I'ii just have to catch it later. I'll get the ETC
ops, so go ahead.
CC Okay. Could you listen to the tape
transporter module. And what you're listening for is llke
a "klunk" when the tape pressure shoe pulls in.
SPT When the tape what pulls in?
CC The tape pressure shoe pulls in, you'll
hear a klunk.
SPT Okay, give me 15 seconds and then give
it a try.
CC MARK.
SPT That's affirm. I heard sort of a "tap,
klunk" just the way you described it. And both of - a sort of
a double beat was audible on your mark. Over.
CC Okay, good, Owen. And how about the recorder
light status?
SPT We have the video motor green light on,
however, it was on before your mark as well. Over.
CC Okay, that's good.
SPT What else can I do for you.
CC Stand by one, we're working it.
CC Okay, Owen, weld llke you to go to VTR
COMMAND NORMAL, BACKUP SWITCH to BACKUP.

SPT And it's in BACKUP.
CC Okay Owen, listen to the tape transporter
module, and listen for that same klunk again.
SPT Okay, give me i0 seconds.
CC Did you hear the klunk then, Owen?
SPT Yes, I heard the klunk. And the green
light was a slight flicker Just as the relays were closing
in there.
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Time: i0:36 CDT 08/15:36 GMT
8/4/73
CC Okay, is the record light status on?

SPT Negative, Just that head wheel drive
green light is all.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Owen. We've got an interrupt in
our VTR troubleshooting. A star is available now. Could
you lock up the star tracker for us?
SPT Yes, I could. That might have been the
status light you were talking about. There is no light labeled
status so that head drive green light may he the thing you
were talking about.
CC That's the record light we were querying
about , Owen.
SPT Okay, and what glmbal angles do you want
me to use?
CC The pad angles, Owen.
CC If they are not handy, we'll read them up.
SPT I've got them.
CC Okay.
CC And no need to acknowlege now, Owen, but
we're ready for the next VTR step. When you have the star tracker
locked on, give us a ring.
SPT Okay, the star tracker is locked up at
outer glmbal plus 1526, inner glmbal minus 756, and ready
for the VTR.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, the VTR COMMAND BACUP swich back to
NORMAL.
SPT Comp let e.
CC We're handing over here, Owen for a minute.
SPT Are you still there?
CC Yeah, we're handing over.
SPT Okay, you were cutting out there, Story.
Say again.
CC We Just handed over to Texas, Owen.
What's the VTR record light status now?
SPT (garble) only.
CC Okay.
CC Owen, we think we ought to he seeing
both the head wheel and the record light now. flare you go 2 lights?
SPT Negative. Only the one lefthand green light
by the head motor drive switch.
CC Copy.
SC Okay, stand by.
CDR Hey Story we were just remov - -
SPT Just came on.
CC What's the record light status now, Owen?
t
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Time: I0:36 CDT 0B/15:36 GMT
8/4/73
SPT It Just came on, Just about 5 seconds

ago.
CC Roger.
CDR Story, I was Just reviewing the manuever
pad for EREP and noticed that maneuver time is 35 minutes.
Is that correct?
CC We'll let you know.
CC Okay, Owen. You can listen for that klunk
again. That's affirmative_ AI. Maneuver time is 35 minutes.
CC Did you hear the klunk, Owen?
SPT Still listening.
SPT It sounded more like Jut the first of the
two klunks I had heard before. And the record light is now
out. But I heard the first relay, it may not have been quite
exactly the same sound as the earlier one.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC330/I
Time: i0:47 CDT, 08/15:47 GMT
8/4/73
CC _ Okay Owen, we're going to be cleaning

the heads here for 6 minutes and we'll need you back in
about 6 minutes.
PAO This is Skylah Control. About 6 minutes
left before loss of signal at Bermuda. The picture on the
monitors is the Apollo telescope mount console. We'll lose
the picture prior to LOS at Bermuda. We'll lose the television
at the - when we go out of range of the Merrltt Island station.
CT Bermuda corn tec_ Houston comm tec, dump
1 for voice check.
CT You're loud and clear.
CT Roger, loud and clear.
CC Did you call Skylab?
SPT Story, I've misplaced that pad here a minute
ago. Would you give me the DAC settings for the 151 of the
of the 190B loading procedures? Itts Just the camera settings
is what I've misplaced.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Owen thatts F9.
SPT (garble)
CC Stand by l, Owen.
CC We're getting them_ Owen.
CC Okay Owen, we got a VTR procedure for you.
We'll be getting you the DAC settings.
SPT Go ahead.
CC VTR tape head clean switch to clean position
momentarily. And verify the head clean light is on.
SPT That's verified.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey Story, this is Jack. The results of
Owen's M131-2 is on channel A.
CC Thanks.
CC We're going LOS here Skylab. We'll pick
you up over Ascension in 8 minutes and I'ii have the DAC
settings for you then.
PAO Bermuda has had loss of signal. Skylab
will be within range at Ascension in 8 minutes. At 15 hours
56 minutes Greenwich mean time, This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-331/I
TIME: ii:03 CDT 08/16:03 GMT
814173

3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Ascension
now. We're an hour away from today's Earth Resources pass.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Would you ask the EREP fellows to start
putting their - on VTS VTF pads, T D zero time. Today I
think it's about 17:00, because everything is keyed to that
time, yet it's not on the VTS pad, it's on the other one.
CC Okay. I'ii have them do it. And we're
AOS Ascension for about 4 minutes.
CDR And the place where they got start Z-LV
maneuver, like today they got start Z-LV maneuver 16:27:00,
and they could say T zero time and then put that in right
there, nd that gives the VTS operator all he needs to
know.
CC Okay. We'll do it.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Which photo prep did you want. Was that
camera settings or the SPT photos, Owen?
SPT It was on my cue card. That's the
reason I couldn't find the pad for it. I've already got it,
thank you.
CC That was on page 5-1 of the checklist.
SPT Okay, it's on my cue card and I've got it
set now, thank you.
CC The VTR procedures are complete. Thank
you. You can leave the TV camera on til the next station.
We'll give you a call on that. And we're interested in which
camera you used.
CDR Okay. We're just going to call up a
numbering system. Now, we're going to call this" one number
i, it came from locker B-I, and it's the one that's been
good all along. That's the one that we've got turned on
now. It's up here in the STS. Number 2 camera is the one
that originally had that stuck color wheel. We have it down
in the wardroom area now.
CC Okay. We copy. The number system, and
we need the tape head switch to CLEAN momentarily.
CDR Rog.
CC And that's all on the VTR for you, Owen.
CC Okay. No need to acknowledge. Just
verify that you get the clean light on.
CDR We did.
CC Reg.
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TIME: 11:03 CDT 08/16:03 GMT
8/4/73
CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab beyond
Ascension's range now. Carnarvon will pick up Skylab in
24 minutes. We don't yet have the results of the trouble-
shooting on the video tape recorder. DonVt know yet whether
that was successful. Skylab will be beginning the Earth
Resources pass in less than an hour now_ at 12:04 p.m.
central daylight time while it's still several thousand
miles out over the Pacific, between Guam and Goldstone. The
weather over the Pacific in that area is cloudy. There are
some clouds along the Washington coast, also a weak frontal
system in that area. The Salt Lake City Wyoming area is
partly cloudy. The report is that Colorado was clear with
visibility good, 50 to 60 miles. Oklahoma is fairly clear
in most places. A few clouds down in the southeast. Heavy
clouds in northeast Texas, clearing some as the track comes
intosouth eastern exas and then clouds along the Texas,
Louisiana coast, a stationary front out in the Gulf. And
South America is fairly heavily cloud covered, according to
the weather man. We'll come back up prior to Carnarvon. At
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC332/I
Time: ii:34 CDT, 08/16:34 GMT
8/4/73

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the
Carnarvon station now.
CC Skylab_ Houston; we have you AOS through
Carnarvon for i0 minutes. No need to acknowledge, we see
you in Z-LV and it looks good.
PAO Skylab is in Z-local vertical attitude,
the proper attitude for the Earth Resources instruments
to look at the Earth.
CDR If you're not using the VTR TV anymore
Houston, we'll turn it off.
CC Leave it on, we're using it, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC But you could turn the TV camera off
for us in about i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, cal_ whenever you need us.
CC Fine.
PAO We want to accumulate some tape on the
video tape recorder so that we can dump it at a stateside
station later to check and see whether the trouble shooting
procedures cleared up the problem with that tape recorder.
PAO AI Bean and Jack Lousma are busy with
preparation for this Earth esources pass. And the Science Pilot,
Owen Garriott shortly should be preparing the Earth terrain
camera, putting that camera through the scientific airlock
for use during this EREP pass This will be the first time
on this mission that camera has been used. Could not be used
during yesterday's pass becau_e the S073 was in the airlock.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-333/I
TIME: 11:44 CDT 08/16:44 GMT
8_4_73
CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over Guam in 4 minutes.
CC And as we go over the hill, could you
turn off the TV camera?
loss of signal. A brief interruption in communications
before acquisition at Guam at about 3 minutes from now.
We'll continue to keep the line up. Today's Earth Resources
pass will be along ground track 48. That pass will begin
in the Pacific approximately 4,000 statute miles off the
Washington coast. The ground track goes through the states
of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma,
Texas and Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico_ crosses the western
tip of Cuba, and across Colombia and Brazil into the South
Atlantic. Statute mile distance of the pass is approximately
ii,000 and the pass duration is 39 minutes. There are 37
sites along the track, the scientists want to investigate,
with cloud cover in some of the areas, welre not certain
how many of these 37 we'll get data from.
PAO Guam is acquiring now.
CC Skylab. I_OS Guam, i0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Story, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR How about passing a message to Roger
Coodrum and Rod Weitenhagen our VTS fellows with EREP_ Tell
them that the alignment trough in this VTS up here appears
at ii degrees left instead of 12 degrees left llke the
trainer and all the checklists show 12 and we practiced at
12 and they can shift it over there. It's really Ii.
CC Thanks, AI.
CDR You bet.
SPT You sure you fellows want the record left
on?
CC Stand by i.
SPT I wasn't calling the ground. I was trying
to call - Oh, I see, you've got it tied together. My record
light's on now; I'm going to turn it off.
PLT Owen, did you shut me off record?
CC Skylab, we're working with the VTR. Dis-
regard any lights you see on it.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-334/i
Time: 11:57 CDT 08/16:57 GMT
8/4/73

see you over Goldstone in 15 minutes D at 17:13.
of signal. The next station to acquire will be Goldstone
[n 15 mlnotes. Skylab begins the Earth Resources pass in
5 minutes, in the viewing room here at the present time,
F.ugene Kranz, the Chief of the Flight Control Division
here at Johnson Space Center, is explaining Mission Control
Center operations to the Soviet Ambassador to the United
States, Anatoly Dobrynin and Mrs. Dobrynin. They are accom-
panied by the NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher and
Mrs. Fletcher and NASA's Assistant Administrator for Inter-
national Affairs, Arnold Frutkin and Mrs. Frutkin. Areas
of investigation in today's EREP pass include geology, ocean-
ography, cartography, regional planning and developement,
atmospheric studies, agriculture, rangeland, and forestry
studies, remote sensing data techniques, and ecology. We'll
come back up prior to Goldstone. At 1700 hours Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-335/i
Time: 12:13 CDT 08/17:13 GMT
8/4/73

13 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on Goldstone
we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you stateside
for 15 minutes. You're looklng good in LV and you've used
no mlbs.
CDR We're not reading you on A. And under-
stand. We've got the star locked up for you.
CC Great.
SPT Hey, Story, I don't know why wetre not able
to read you, but (garble) operate.
CC Okay. You're breaking up pretty bad
then. We have not been listening to your operate pad.
PLT Can you hear us all right on the operate
pad?
CC Itm hearing you now.
PLT Well, I had to go to channel B. Apparently
you're not hearing us on channel A.
CC That's correct, we're not hearing you
run down the pad.
PLT Go VOX on the air; (garble) PTT.
PLT How do you read me, Story?
CC Reading you loud and clear. It's the first
we've heard in about 5 minutes.
PLT Yeah, okay, at 21:36, SCAT STANDBY, PAD,
STANDBY. 2140 next. RAD, OFF. 2154 next, A on. 54,
PLT MARK. A on. 193, angle to zero. Angle set
to zero, 22:56 next. Standing by on the S192. S192 had a
good vlslvle thermal this morning. It's up to about 80 and
65 for the vlslble and 46 for the thermal. Do a llttle (garble)
check on that. 22:56_ STANDBY.
PLT MARK, Mode to ready, 24 12 is next. Uhoh.
Al;;here you'll want that. Let me get it for you.
PLT Darn near lost Toledo Bend in the command
module. That's a bad place for Toledo Bend. Hey, there's haze
here over Toledo Bend.
PLT Tape recorder is hanging in there.
PLT Malf light is off. Tape motion is on
and we're in ready. Charlie 8 meter hangs in there real
steady when we got 60 up going. It's hanging in there at
27 percent at the moment. Otherwise, it oscillates plus or
minus 5 percent. 24:12, we're going to CHECK.
PLT MARK. Mode to CHECK. 25 (garble) is next.
PLT Hello, Story. (Garb le)
CC We're reading you loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okayj thank you. I was saying that this
tape recorder meter Charlle 8, it oscillates plus or minus 7 per-
cent when you're in the low speed. When you go to high speed,
why it's in there real _olid.
END OF TAPE
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814173
PLT - (garble) when you're in the low speed,

when you go to high speed, why it is in there real solid.
Just a little information. Okay. A & R to stand by on
the hour - the minute. A& R to stand by. ark on the
minute. SCAT - -
CDR Okay. I was probably off the top
for awhile there, Story. I went back and changed. I had
the panel for the command mcdule (garble) the to the 6. I
changed it got back and I think we got both targets. So we
got comm on both targets and everything else. It got a little
hazy right overhead, but as long as we were looking at it from
an angle, it looked pretty good. I tried the haze filter
and it didn't seem to work too well. I put the haze filter out
then. I'd drifted off the target. I went back on the
target and took some more.
CC Okay copy AI. Great. And that was
supposed to be hazy down there in Louisiana.
PLT 2548. 2558. (garble) Probably dldn't
hear. I don't know if you heard the first part. We got
both targets, by the way. Both alignments were Just
perfect. The one coming into Colorado was right on. I
moved in and we were Just a little bit south of the field,
so I moved up and that was it.
CC Copy.
PLT Stand by for polar 1 in half a minute.
PLT Mark polar 1 on the minute. Standby
for 27:20. 27:06 at the time. We got a go at 30:12. Gee,
I guess they'd want camera for this one. It doesn't say
no camera. Okay. Give them a view if that's what they want.
Okay.
PLT Are there liners (garble) out. Stand by
F43-282. (garble) interval 10. 190 set and ready to go.
I got a long way tll 32 moves here.
PLT What ground tracks are we going to have
tomorrow Story? Do you know?
CDR 2816, we got them back to back from what
I should start tomorrow.
PLT What ones are they, I wonder.
CDR I don't know.
CC Ground tracks for tomorrow are 61 and
62.
PLT Thank you. 61 and 62 the doctor says.
CDR Okay, 2 833.
PLT Oh, stand by here for 32 minutes is a
long ways off. 3 minutes off.
PLT Looks like we're going to have 20 or about
25 percent left on this tape recorder, Story. Too bad we
got to run it off.
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TIME: 12:25 CDT 08/17:25 GMT
8/4/73
CC Roger.
PLT Did anybody want me to go mode to ready a
llttle bit on 192.
CDR 3012 and on the camera.
PLT and lay some extra data on there.
CC We'd llke you to fly Just the pad, Jack•
PLT That's what I figured.
CDR 3012 coming up. Everything looks good
here. Don't have any clouds this time, although itts very
hazy• Here come some clouds• Camera ON.
CC We're 30 seconds to LOS_ Skylab, we'll
see you in 12 minutes at anguard. That's at 17:40.
PLT Roger. Wetll still be running•
PLT We're going to say hello to South America
with EREP today, I guess.
range of the Merrltt Island Florida tracking station. The
Vanguard tracking ship will be the next station to acquire
Skylab in 9 minutes. Skylab will be nearing the end of
the Earth Resources pass at that time. The crew in the
midst of that pass had loss cf signal at Mile. They indicate
that they are picking up a number of their targets. We*ll
come back up just prior to Vanguard acquisition. At
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC337/I
Time: 12:40 CDT, 08/17:40 GMT
8_4_73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 17 hours 39 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're coming into acquisition at the
Vanguard tracking ship.
PLT 2 to READY. Standing by (garble) attention
there, Story.
PLT MODE to READY. 190 to AUTO (garble).
Mark, 190 to AUTO. SCAT to stand by. It's 50. MARK, STAND BY
on the SCAT. 41 SCAT and. PAD ON on the minute.
CC Jack, we're reading you loud and clear.
We've got you over Vanguard for 6 minutes.,
PLT SCAT and RAD ON. Okay, hello there,
Story.
CDR Okay, we Just started our move - maneuver back
to SI.
CC Roger, we're looking at it.
SPT Our pad shows we're still taking 190B
pictures. Didn't we take a few of those Just coming back?
CC Okay Owen and while we've got you there,
what camera did yon use in V9?
PLT Ready on 190. 192 MODE to STANDBY.
You're right AI, it's fine. Okay. 192 MODE to STANDBY.
190 is in STANDBY. SCAT and RAD are at STANDBY.
SPT Say again your question, Story.
CC Which camera did you use at V9?
SPT Oh, I'll have to go check that.
LLT End of tape. We have end of tape. How about
that? We got end of tape with a 21 percent left on the - on the
meter Charlle Is that where that tape is supposed to be down
there Story? Charlle 8 is reading 21 percent. We got END OF TAPE
and RECORDER MALF lights. Is that consistent?
CC That's about to be expected, Jack. It's
about right.
PLT Okay, real good. You guys worked it
out perfectly. We Just got 192 off and the end of tape
came on shortly thereafter. I might as well turn the
rest of these things off. SCAT's OFF. RAD's off. EREP to
STOP. That's it.
CC There was a lot of laughter down here
when you said weworked it out perfectly.
PLT You did. What did you expect? You knew you were
going to do that. So did I. No sense bringing home
any blank tape. Our friend Owen is turning on all the
alarms. Okay, lets see of this thing turned off.
CC Skylab, you're in the South Atlantic
anomaly.
PLT Can't feel a thing, Story. Everything's
going to be all right.
SL-lll MC337/2
Time 12:40 CDT, 08/17:40 GMT
8/4/73
PLT Oh, you must be talklng about the lare

alarm. Owen's got the fire bell going. You guys got any
questions down there on any meter readings or anything on the
EREP pass before I put all my data away?
CC Stand by i, Jack.
CC No, we don't need anything, Jack.
PLT Did you get all the channel A business
- the tape record?
CC We' ii let you know.
PLT Okay. And as long as yon' re listening
let me just tell you that Bravo 7 is reading 30 percent instead
of putting it on the recorder. You got that?
CC Bravo 7, 30 percent.
PLT Roger.
CDR Okay Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Okay, we had a funny there. We had a
fire alarm go off down in the wardroom that was 633-2 and
when lot down here Owen said that just before that we
had had a complete power interruption down here on the
camera, the ETC camera, thenimmedlately after that we got
the trip of the fire alarm. We reset it and then about i0
seconds later we got it again. Now we're down here looking
around, there's no fire obviously, but we're a little
bit puzzled. And you're right, it may be the South Atlantic
anomaly in some way. The wardroom _indow is open so it's
conceivable that we got a little UV in here on the
way back and triggered the light because that light is
the one that sort of looks through the wardroom window.
It's the one that's over by the entertainment center, it's sort
of looking this way. So it's conceivable that it got a
zap out of UV some way. Everythlng'_3 okay though.
CC Okay, copy that, _i.
CDR Also, we Just got another power inter-
rupt on the ETC, it Just stopped. Doesn't seem to affect
any of the electrlcs down here other than that. No lights
blinked or anything, and the ETC just grouned to a halt.
It may have finished the sequence. I don't know.
PLT AI, do you have an auto cal monitor
required in your pad? Do you have an auto eal monitor
required on your pad?
SPT I can describe a little bit more about
this ETC camera. There, it just came back on. You might
have heard it. It's been sitting in STANDBY all this
time with the power connected (garble)
SL-III MC337/3
Time: 12:40 CDT, 08/17:40 GMT
8/4/73
CC Okay, Skylab we're going LOS here in

about i0 seconds. We're going to pick you up over Goldstone
in 18:50. All the systems that we can look at down here
are looking good. We would llke some data on the nadir
line at the next pass.
CDR Sounds good.
CC As we go over the hill Owen, you can
leave the camera that's at f/9 you can leave it in that
position.
SPT Okay Story, thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. There'll be a long loss of signal now before
Goldstone acquires Skylab. The space station will miss
the Australian stations Guam and Hawaii on this revolution.
We'll not be in contact again for an hour and 2 minutes.
Along toward the end of this pass the fire alarm aboard
Skylab could be heard very clearly over the air-ground.
AI Bean and Owen Garriott reported that the alarm started
about the same time that Garriott had a power interruption
on the Earth terrain camera. It was reset and started again.
They checked throughout the area and can find no fires or
any other reasons for the alarm. A1 Bean among other
speculations said perhaps the South Atlantic anomaly did
cause it, that's an area of higher radiation. He also
reported that the wardroom window shade was - was off. A
lot of sunlight coming through that window and thought
perhaps the alarm was zapped by the ultraviolet from the Sun.
However, there's no - no answer at this time what caused that
alarm All systems aboard Skylab looked good. Here on the ground
we have telemetry. We'll come back up prior to acquisition
at Golestone. At 17 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-III MC-338/I
Time: 3:49 CDT 08/18:49 GMT
8/4/73

acquisition of the Goldstone station after being out of
contact for more than an hour. We'll stand by for Goldstone.
CC Skylab, we have you through Goldstone
and Texas for 13 minutes.
PLT Hello there, Story.
CC Hello.
PLT Do you want the nadir align meter?
CC Yes sir, if you've got it handy.
PLT Okay, Alfa i, 55 per cent Bravo I, 45 per cent,
Charlie i, 83 per cent. Is that all you want?
CC Yeah. Say the third one again.
PLT Charlie i is 83 per cent.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, looking at your systems from
down here they all look good. And I assume you have had
no further problems with the fire alarm.
PLT That's correct, Story.
CC And pursuing that ETC interupt, we'd
like to know which power outlet the ETC was hooked to and
which power outlet the S073 was hooked to, i or 2?
SPT Yeah, the ETC was hooked to the minus Z
power outlet number i, that's the left connector. And on
the S073 I'd have to check with AI or Jack. Stand by.
CDR The answer is the same one.
CC Okay, both of them were to one.
SPT Yours should be correct.
CDR Okay Story, I just finished housekeeping
7C, correction 7D. And I reported on the recort loop that
behind panel 202 (garble) water reservoir was completely full,
at least it looks that way. And then behind panel 223 and 224
it looks like those are nearly full if not completely full.
It's difficult to tell. They are both hard to access and
it is difficult to tell because when they are completely
full the full areas are secured by the bladder. So they all
look real nice.
CC We got that AI.
CC And CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We're looking at your Flight Plan for
tomorrow, AI. It was two back to back EREP passes and the
5 hours prep for the EVA. It was impossible to work in the
PT for each of you which we think is very important. So on
the schedule we scheduled you for two back to back EREP
passes, 4 hours of EVA prep, and i hour each of PT. If you
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need that 5th hour of EVA prep_ we can get that prior to going
to sleep, you'll go to sleep an hour late and we'll let you
sleep in an extra hour EVA day.
CDR That's a good approach. Thanks.
CC Okay, good. And plans for the EVA
are to deploy the twin-fold sunshade, then do the nominal
EVA I film replacement, remove a door stop on S055. At the
end of the film replacement deploy S149, and then perform
the $230 task. And also during the EVA, now you may want
to take a look at CSM quads Bravo and Delta.
CDR You are going to send us a lot of details
on some of those I guess.
CC Roger. We've got EVA procedures updates
for you. And hopefully, we'll get those up tonight.
CDR We've been kind of wondering on 55 if you
meant a pin or a stop.
CC That is a door stop. We think -
CDR Okay. We've got our Jack Lousma
here that is going to handle that job.
CC Did the other crewmen read me on that?
CDR Yes, everybody is read.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We need a star tracker lock on so we can
get our Nu Z updated for S019 ops. And we'd like it done
in the next I0 or 15 minutes.
SPT Okay, 1'11 be up there to do it in about
5 minutes if you are in no big hurry.
CC And before I let you get away, I've got
some other things for you here. Do you remember which eamer
that was, which DAC you had on (garble)?
SPT If it's still there, I'ii go check it
for you.
CC And in your Flight Plan today, Owen,
delete the ATM pass at 00:40, and perform housekeeping
60 Echo, that's ambient food transfers.
SPT Good decision.
CDR Where are we right now, over around BaJa
California?
CC That looks good, looking at the chart
up there.
CDR Thank you. Say is it conceivable that
we could have powered everything else through that connector
and not have it for the shaft motor?
CC Are you talking about S073?
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CDR You bet.

CC We don't think so.
CDR I don't think so either. And l'm not sure
I didn't swap that thing around a couple of times Just for
fun during all the troubleshooting we did. But we sure are
thinking about it.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, could you refresh my memory on
where the, where the EREP tapes goes when I take it into
the command module? Is that A-B?
CC Stand by i.
CC That's Alfa 9, Jack.
SPT Thank you. That's DAC 04, transporter 02
that we used up there on 151.
CC Got it Owen.
CC And Jack, for your S019, it's mag 005
you want to use.
PLT 005.
PAO This is Skylab Control. S019 is the
ultraviolet stellar astronomy experiment. Jack Lousma will
be operating that experiment in about 2 hours.
be picking you up over the Vanguard at 19:16. And no need
to reply, but you can use both TV cameras.
PAO This is Skylab ontrol. Texas does have
loss of signal. The tracking ship Vanguard will pick up
Skylab in 13 minutes. At 19 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean
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15 minutes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has acquisition
of Skylab. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, we have you through Vanguard
for 7 minutes.
CC PLT, ouston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Jack, we show down here that we still
don't have a star tracker lock on.
SPT That was my fault, Story; I was running
the DAS.
CC Okay, I was thinking maybe you were
getting started on the M092 and I'd have Jack do it.
That's your option.
SPT I'm still waiting that hour.
CC Okay. Fine.
SPT I thought maybe you may have got the
idea that it must have been goofed up.
CC I wouldn't think something llke that.
SPT I know. I'm trying to keep my sense of
humor.
SPT Looks like we're locked on some star
there, hut it's not Canopus. I'ii go over there and get
Can op us.
CC We can verify it's not the proper star.
SPT How do you llke that one?
CC That's better.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in a minute.
We'll see you in
I hour over awaii at 20:25.
CC And I guess I had low signal strength
on that transmission. We're going lOS in about a minute.
See you ever Hawaii in 1 hour at 20:25.
PAO This is Skylab Colltrol. Skylab passed
beyond the range of the Vanguard tra,_.king ship. Another
long LOS. One hour from now, Skylab will be acquired by
the Hawaii tracking station. At 19 hours 24 minutes
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PAO This is Skylab Control: 20:24 Greenwich

mean time. Coming up on the first Hawaii pass of the day.
Midway through revolution 1186, this will be a very brief pass
of about 2-1/2 minutes or so. Standing by for acquisition
at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, we have you through Hawaii for

3 minutes.
SPT Story, I Just wanted to verify you guys

are going to inhibit momentum dump for me on the S019 night
pass.
CC That's accomplished already.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we are at 30 seconds to LOS, we'll
see you over the Vanguard at 20:52 and we will be dumping the
tape recorders then.
PAO This is Skylab Control, very little said
over the Hawaii pass, next station Vanguard in 24 minutes, a
I0 minute pass over the tracking ship. And from there it will
be around an hour and 8 minutes to the next station, Hawaii
again. Tracking stations are few and far between at this time
in the orbit, the orbital ground track, at 20:29 Greenwich
mean tlme, Skylab Control.
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mean time_ a minute and a half away from nominal acquisition at
the tracking ship Vanguard as Space station Skylab completes
revolution at 1186 Flight Director Milt Windler will hold
a change of shift press conference at around 4:15, plus or
minus a few minutes in the Houston News Center. He will bring
with him an Apollo telescope mount systems engineer to
cover the electrical problem that occurred earlier in the day or
actually last night and which has been in a troubleshooting
mode here in the Control Center during the day. Standing by
for the Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab, we have you over the Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, we' re running the MPT on LBMP we
up to 40 he's been there for about 2-1/2 minutes everything
looks real nice.
CC We're looking at it down here, AI, looks
good.
CDR Yes, he even looks good. And another nice
thing that occurred was we found the S052 - S054 box. Yes, we
found it, it was in A9. So everything - we got them all now.
CC Yes, that was inside of sock, wasn't it?
CDR The box was inside of a sock and the
electrical cord which was coming out of the sock and it ran for
umpteen feet. I kept looking in there for it could never
find it cause I thought it was bringing a sock with a cord
on it and Jack was in there today stowing the EREP film
and he was wondering what this is and there it was.
CC Okay.
SPT Got the EREP savf.ng the ATM again.
CC Copy.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR He's busy, go ahead and I'ii relate to
him.
CC Okay, if he has not extended S019 we
llke for him to wait to 3 or 4 minutes it'll take until you're
through (garble) him on M092 and then continue with the pass.
CDR We'll sure tell h_m.
CC Thanks, AI.
PLT Okay, Story_ I got the word Just in time
I was about ready to let her fly.
CC Good.
see you over Hawaii at 22:00 even.
CDR Roger. We made it with flying colors.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control we've had loss
of signal from the tracking ship Vanguard next station will
be the Hawaiian tracking station in 57 minutes. Medicine
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and astronomy are the main goals of the remainder of today's

Skylah flight plan. Skylab Ill Commander, Alan Bean and
Science Pilot Owen Garriott are in the midst of measurements
of how well the human vascular system adapt to the space flight
and how affeetlve man's ability to do useful work in space
is. Garrlott is a subject and Bean the observer. Pilot,
Jack Lousma later today will poke the SO19 Steller Astronomy
Experiment through the Scientific air lock to measure the
quality and type of light from different stars. Another medlca]
experiment human vascular function will be run later today
to measure the effect of zero g on the human gyro system in
the inner ear. Lousma will be the subject and Garrlott the
observer. Just before bedtime, Garrlott will attempt to
trouble shoot the camera lighting problem in space spider,
Arabella's cage. Hawaii in 56 minutes at 21:04 Greenwich
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mean time, 16 minutes out of Hawaii tracking station. The
off-going flight director, Milt Windler, and his Apollo
Telescope Mount Controller, ATM Controller, Gary Renick,
spelled Renick, are en route from the control center to
the Houston news center for a change-of-shift briefing.
ETA in about 5 minutes. We'll tape for a delayed playback,
the Hawaii pass if the press conference lasts that long.
At 21:44, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time, during the Just completed change-of-shlft press conference
the Hawaii pass was taped for about almost 5 minutes total
time. We'll roll back that tape and go live into the Vanguard
pass. Roll Hawaii tape.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Hawaii i0 minutes.
PLT Hello there Crip.
CC How are yon doing, ack?
PLT Say, I've got some word for our friends
Carl Henize, S019, is he hanging around there?
CC No, but I'm sure we can get it to him.
PLT I already put it on the recorder but a
it might be awhile for you take it out and I think he will
want to work on it now.
CC Go ahead.
PLT I ran his pad off and everything went
smoothly except there is a - one a - discrepancy between the
little timer on top of the AMS and real time. When you set
his timer to 270 seconds, it times off 200 seconds
instead, I made two runs on it, 200 seconds and 202 seconds.
When you set his little timer on 90 seconds, the two runs
I got were 72 seconds and 69 seconds and finally when you set
his little lever at 30 seconds, the two runs I made on it,
they timed out at 26 and 26.5. Anther question is this, does
he want us to use his little timer on top of the AMS which is
not really a - a real time and Just get his exposures that way,
or does he want us to time it on the watch? And that's the
270 second exposure is precisely 270 and 90 is a 90 and a 30
is a 30.
CC Okay, we got your question and we will get

an answer for you_ ack.
PLT Thank you Crip.
CC Jack, also at somebodys convenience could
we get the MPC inhibited, it was left enabled after the last
requiring the star?
PLT I'ii do that.
CC And Skylab, we're currently going to be
selecting solar inertial so please nobody use the DAS.
PLT Say Crip, is that really a fact that I'm
suppose to do another MI31 OGI in motion sensitivity, Just did
one a couple of days ago.
CC Jack, that's affirmitlve, they do went to
do another run on you and in answer to your question on S019, I
was wrong about Carl, he was hiding in the back room and they
were aware of that timer problem, they've taken that into
account in the pads, they want you to go ahead and continue
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(CONT'D) using the timer on the AMS and Just - only

thing to emphasize is really needing is a - for you to give marks
for him when you start and end the exposure.
PLT Okay, we'll use the timer on the AMS and
I have given marks on and off.
CC Okeydoke, very good.
PLT And on that last one, we got seven exposures
completed, we did not have time for the last 90 seconds and two
700, - 270 second exposures. A - the first a - five exposures
I did on his timer and exposure numbers 6 and 7 1 did on my
timer, which were each 4-i/2 minutes, were not exactly
the way he wants them, number 6 and 7_ for here on out we
will do them on the basis of the timer that's on the AMS.
CC Okeydoke, Jack. And Jack a - we a -
that exposure 6 and 7 are no problem Just so you gave us the
marks, that's really what we need.
PLT Yeah, you got the marks shutter open and
a - shutter close on all them and the only difference is
that 6 and 7 were a- 4-i/2 minutes each. And like I said
before the only two we didn't get were 90 second in one of
field 620 and 270 second one on field side 76. The whole
operation went quite smoothly we had to start a little bit
late because of the LBMP dump.
CC Okay, very good, PI thought that you were
rather alert to catch his timer being off like that.
CC Skylab Houston, we're i minute from LOS
we'll see you again over the Vanguard at 22:32 and Jack for
your information the reason we do want to stick with the AMS
timer is that is what controls the widening mechanism and
therefore we're really stuck with the fact that that timer
is running fast.
PLT Yep, that's right, thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control that completes the
playback of the Hawaii pass earlier this revolution, coming
up on acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard and we're standing
by live for that pass.
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CC Skylab, Houston, AOS over the Vanguard

for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston, I know you're busy exercising
but sometime this evening I'd like to talk to you a little
bit about philosophy of when we're going over some of the
checklist changes that we're feeding up to you and some things
that we got yet to go llke on the EVA.
CDR Start talking.
CC Okay, last night we se_t up a considerable
amount of command module checklist changes and we said that
we could go over those with you this evening. We still have
the changes that go in your deactivation checklist to GO
and we're planning on up-linklng those this evening. We are
perpared to go over with you either in philosophy or in
detail this evening any of those changes kind of your option
we could also try t work it in tomorrow probably late in the
day we really haven't gotten any time specifically scheduled
for it though. If we c_a' t get it in before the EVA we're
probably going to schedule it on day ii some specific time
to go over them. Also on the EVA checklist changes we're going
to be sending those up tonight and would recommend that the
best time to go over them would be sometime between 13:00 and
21:00 tomorrow when the EVA execute team is on.
CDR That's probably a real good idea. I
think maybe tonight is a good time to go over just the
philosophy of the changes we've been looking over - them
over and have gotten half or them or more in already and we
are going to try to get the rest tonight. I guess probably
we Just need to talk i0 (garble) in philosophy in the
specific changes usually are pretty straight forward once
you understand what you're trying to do. We think we know
what you're trying to do but we'd like to hear it all.
CC Okay, then I guess we need to look at
a specific pass on it let me see if I can come up with it
a recommendation for you.
CDR Somebody's done a lot of work on those
things they're - they had a lot of - kind of interesting little
off shoots that we hadn't thought of like this MAIN A and
not to activate that we hadn't really thought about that
directly that is.
CC Yes, we've had quite a few guys going over
those rather extensively.
CDR I bet you have. I gather when we do
re-enter we're going to do a single bird, huh?
CC I'm sorry AI, I missed your last comment.
CDR I gather when we do enter at the end
of 59 days we're going to do a single bird entry.
CC That's what we understand right now.
CDR Yes, that makes it - the only thing I
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want to make sure that we ended up doing since there's going

to be a little flying technique involved and I will not have
flown for a couple of months. Although that's not one of the
tougher things to do, I suspect that we want to make sure
that we got plenty of time in that dedeactivation checklist
between the time we get in the command module and the time
we undock. I'm talking like 3 or 4 hours and we got a lot
of everything but RCS, so we can get in there and that gives
us plenty of time to get arranged and undock with plenty of
pads too, so that I get the attitude and lefts say stay in
attitude another 20 or 30 minutes so we make sure that we
got the attitude right on, we're not hustling to get somewhere
and don't have to worry about dropping the platform or any-
thing like that. So put some pad in there for getting
deactivated in the command module (garble) and also that
we don't get in a problem where our tunnel won't seal or
something it would really throw us behind; and we don't want
to be hustling.
CC Okay, we've got your comment. Unfortunately
I'm not that familiar or this team isn't that familiar with all
of the changes that they have made to your deactivation checklist,
but we will pass that on to Gary and the people that are working
at it.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston; in reviewing the passes we
got coming up tonight, about the best is following your report,
is going to be about 2:10 this evening, 02:10; oh, you'll have
a little over i0 minutes through anary and Madrid that we
can review those with you and we'll get the appropriate
people in here to talk about it ; also yon can do the
condensate holding tank dump at your - at your direction
whenever you're ready for it and we are we are still going
to send you a checklist change to put that in your pre-sleep
checklist.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you again at Hawaii at 23:39 and we'll be doing
a data dump at that time and also we probably going to have
a pretty good size momentum dump coming up as a result of
the LBMPD (garble) and you'll probably - Or could end up
loosing you startracker lock on.
CDR Thanks for the information, Crip.
through tracking ship Vanguard. 57 minutes to next Hawaii pass.
the final Hawail pass. And as the orbit continues to move west
ward we pick up Guam and Ascension and eventually Canary
and Madrid. Back in 57 minutes for the Hawaii pass at 22:41
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mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition at Hawaii, final
pass through that station today, nearing the end of revolution
1188. We'll stand by as the antennas at that island station
lock onto the spacecraft and track it for a total of 6 minutes
and 40 seconds.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS over Hawaii for
6 minutes and we_ll be doing a data recorder dump.
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC And is the CDR available for a moment.
PLT Yeah, hers here somewhere, hetll be right
with you.
SPT I think he stepped out for a bite of lunch.
CC (Laughter) Roger, I hope he didn't step too
far out.
CDR Go ahead Crlp.
CC Roger, AI we a - Just discovered we had a
little configuration problem with this condensate a - dump,
have you started that yet.
CDR No I have not.
CC Okay, that's good. Our problem is that
when you get ready to pull a vacuum back on the condensate
holding tank you have to do it through the minus Z alrlock
and we've got the S019 in there and that's not compatible.
So I guess right now our options are we either have to pull
S019 out of this SAL tonight and do the holding tank dump,
or data shows we have got about 9 hours on it and we can gamble
on it and try to do it in the mo;_ning. We do have some time
in the morning scheduled to pull S019 out. Our option - I guess
our preference would be if you guys think you could work it
in to try to go ahead and do it tonight.
CDR We'll get it out tonight, no sweat, Crlp.
CC Okay.
CDR Get it out and park it some where.
CC Okay and we're currently revlewlng the
problem of how we're going to handle this in the future because
we're golng to have to dump it every night and normally we
leave things in the airlock.
CDR I sure wish that hose would reach over to
the other side, that would make it nice.
CC We - We're investigating that, investigating
moving the tank and a few other things.
CDR That's not a bad idea either.
CDR Okay, I'm in the command module now, I'm heading
back the other direction.
CC Hiding from the guys, huh?
CDR No, I went up there to get the Entry Checklist.
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CC Roger.
CDR No where to hide, I thought of one time
of getting down in that a - T027 box and stay in there for
Just a little while, (garble).
CC Understand, with the urine separators, that's
where we got all of those at. (laugh) You could try the plenum
area.
CDR Okay.
CDR Two questions, Crip, have you figured out
why we thought it was hot yesterday and last night in here
and it doesn't seem that way today, other than psychological?
And second, have you'll looked into the possibility that S073
having a problem with the power plug?
CC Okay, we have looked into the S073 power
plug and we can find no correlation at all and I guess the answer
to your temperature question was no we can't find any any
reason to think that it was warm.
CC And for Jack or Owen, we're not really
sure where you are on the 131 run, but if your in the run we do
need the experiment i recorder on.
CDR They were between runs there, they had two
parts and they stopped and got out and fixed their dinner
and they are getting back on right now so they haven't started
taking data yet, and I'ii sure remind them.
CC Okay, thank you very much, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC And a - CDR, Houston, we apparently have
a little small problem with the star tracker, it looks like it's
locked onto the solar wing, we elther need you to reaquire
the star for us or to Just shut the shutter, and we're i minute
from LOS have you again at Vanguard at 00:i0.
CUR We'll Just shut the shutter, you have
got your update for day don't your - three of them for today.
CC We've got it.
CDR Okay, I'ii Just shut the shutter.
through the final - from the final Hawaii pass of the evening.
Next station in 23 minutes will be the tracking ship Vanguard,
and on this upcoming rev - we've begin to pick up the Ascension
Island tracking station and Guam Island station, so there will
be three stations per rev for the next two or three revolutions.
Vanguard in 22 minutes at 23:46 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
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mean time and 50 seconds away from acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard. From Vanguard across to Ascension Island about
a 5 minute gap. Standing by for spacecraft communicator
Bob Crippen's call to the crew through Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS over Vanguard for
lO minutes, for i0 minutes.
CDR Good to hear your voice Crip, we got the
S019 out of it, Itm busily putting _e vacuum on it, as soon
as that is finished, we'll dump the condensate and lay a
vacuum on it.
CC Sounds good, AI.
CDR Okay, weWve got to keep our little home
up here free of water, if we possibly can. By the way how is
the a - are the heat exchangers doing these days?
CC If I can get a good report for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay - -
SPT All the biomed da_a should be on experiment
1 tape recorder. After, a matter of fact, I started it a little
bit late but there is still plenty data on there because Jack
went 150 head movements at 20 rpm.
CC Okay, sounds llke he's doing good. For
AI, I guess the heat exchangers look _ke they are working
good right now.
CDR Okay, good news, good news.
CDR What did you ever find out from your test
of the VTR today?
CC Standby i. I guess our investigation
today looks llke the thing is _oke probably in the electronics
and we're planning on changing it out but it's going to be
after the EVA.
SPT Once you set the procedures or maybe we
all ready have them, we've tried it once - once or twice. We'll
try to get it done for you somehow.
CC Oh - okay, wetve - we've got - we're going
to schedule it for you no sweat and you should have a procedure
on board, I believe we got a slighE MOD for you that a it
changes from channel A to B or something llke that, we'll be
sending it up.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab Houstonj mr your information we're
getting ready to send a command to $052 to close the door for
some unexplained reason here, our indication are that it's not
closed_ so we're going to try to close it.
SPT Okay, do you want us to go close it manually
or - watch it for you or anything? If you stand by for a minute
I'll go up and see what our flag shows.
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CC It's your option, Owen if you would like

too.
SPT Okay, I'm _ee for a minute, just stand by.
Yeah, that flag shows up that 1-8 door open up here also, Bob.
CC Okay, we're going to go LOS here in about
30 seconds, I'ii have you again at 00:25.
SPT Why don't you command it from the ground,
and I'ii see if it closes or not.
CC Okay, we're going to issue it.
CC We've sent the command.
SPT Okay, it's still shows gray wouldn't you like for
me to back it up on the panel?
CC Af flrmative.
SPT Still shows gray. I could give it some
DAS and double door a - double motor commands if you would like.
CC Will catch them_xt site. Just stand by
NOW .
through Vanguard tracking ship, about a 4 minute gap between
Vanguard and Ascension. We'll Just leave the circuit open.
And wait for Ascension Island.
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CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS to Ascension

for 6 minutes.
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, we're trying to get a course of
action for you here, (>wen.
CDR And we're now dumping the water tank -
holding tank that is.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
CC SPT, we're getting ready to send a ground
command to TURN ON the main power to 52 to give us a better
telemetry indications to what's going on.
SPT Roger.
SPT Okay, I've got a ready light.
CC Okay, we copied that. And it looks Just
like the door is OPEN.
SPT I surely haven't forgotten about it but
I can't put the mirror down so that it reflexes the images of
the TV camera of course now there's still refraction and
sunrise to worry about.
CC Okay, standby or. that one Owen, I don't
think we want to do that right now. And Owen, that's a negative
we don't want to go and use the TV because we still don't
understand that electrical problem we had last night.
SPT Understand.
CC And SPT, Houston we're going - currently
going through our MALD procedure for the doors and we're taking
the primary motor OFF and putting the secondary ON.
SPT Okay, the door flag Just went white.
CC Yes_ that was when we removed the power.
CC Okay we Just put the SECONDARY motor ON.
SPT And I've got a barber pole now.
CC Roger. And that's the false indications
you get when you renable the motor. Okay, we're now commanding
it CLOSED.
SPT Okay. My barber pold took a flicker there.
As if it had already been CLOSED.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We won't have you again until Guam at 01:09 and we're
going to command 52 door OPEN and then try to re-CLOSE it
again and verify that we did have it CLOSED.
SPT Roger. It went wh%te and then grey and
I got a READY LIGHT.
CC We' re now CLOSING it.
SPT Doing properly up here, Bob.
CC Okay, looks CLOSED from here, looks Eood.
SPT Hell, we can view the next sunrise with a
bit more helpers now.
CC Okay, we need you to put the power back
to STANDY-BY.
SPT Okay. Might switch it to STAND-BY now.
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through the Ascension island station. Guam coming up next,
another island tracking station in the Western Pacific.
Early in the revolution number 1189 Just crossing the western
coast of Africa at about the equator. 35 minutes to Guam and
33 minutes past midnight Greenwich mean time. This is
Sky lab Control.
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8/4/73

mean time, about a minute away from aquisltlon at trackinF
station on Guam Island in the western Pacific, midway through
1189 after Guam will be the evening status report at the
tracking ship Vanguard, followed by the medical conference
at Ascension, we'll stand by for air-ground at - at the Guam
station, only 6 minute pass over Guam.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Guam, 5 minutes.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC And for your information as best as we
can determine that switch was a - S052 door occurred just about
the time that we selected solar inertial and we're taking a
better look at it so we can pin it down exactly.
CC And Skylab, we are inhibiting the secondary
motor now so we won't have any motor on it, just to insure
that we won't get another clictch llke that.
CDR Okay, Crip, sounds good.
CC Skylab Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS, we'll see you again over the Vanguard at 01:47,
that 01:47 and we will be standing by at that time for the
evening status report. Also CDR if you would like we could get
an update on which master anomally that you did keep on board.
If we got time.
CDR Okay, if we've got time, we'll sure do it, Crlp.
CC Okay, think you AI.
at tracking station Guam Island, 31 minutes to tracking ship
Vanguard and the evening status report from the crew on
food, water, medication and all that sort of stuff, followed
immediately thereafter by the medical conference with the
flight surgeon over Ascension. Back in 30 minutes and at
01:16 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO 01:45 Greenwich mean time about a minute

away from acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard at this
station is scheduled the nightly status report from the crew
and with a brief gap over to the Ascension Island station
where the flight surgeon will talk to the crew on the nightly
routine medical conference if the loop is handed back to
the operations people we'll stand by for that pass we have
AOS at this time.
CC Skylab Houston AOS over the Vanguard for
ii minutes and we're standil_g by for your evening status
report.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC Go ahead whenever you're ready.
CDR Okay, lets go with the urine volume first.
89;125;175; drinking water gun 4671;7679;5628, you have the BMMD.
CDR is presently exercising !'ii report his the last half of
the night. SPT 2/25/3000. MARK 150 rap A. MARK
220 rep B. Okay, I'm sorry about that, the second one should
not have been MARK 220 rep but MARK 120 rap B. And
here's some additional ones from yest - wait I'ii give you
that later. PLT: 2/1/02500; 320and add MARK i he got 50 A's
20 B's, 20 D's, 20 back bends Okay medlcatiom none.
Sleep: CDR: 6-F, SPT 5-I/2-F; PLT 6-G. Food log 1'11 read
that. Okay, CDR: four salt packs and no deviations; SPT: eight
salt packs and he ate one extra coffee cake. PLT: 6 salt packs
plus 2 apple drinks. Give you the food log in a minute,
Jack's up there getting it together.
CC Okay.
CDR Flight Plan deviations constraints
et cetera everything went along okay. Shopping list items
accomplished we finished water - I mean the window water removal
got _t completely dry and put some dry air back in it and it
looks okay except for a small dot about 1/2 inch in
diameter and it's very thin and I assume it must be the dirt
that collected in there on the drop of the water and when it
evaporated it deposited as dirt, it doesn't look like it's
going to go anyway. Let me give you Owen's excerise from
yesterday, actually his condition from yesterday: 2/20/3000;15
A 220 rap; 210 A 150 rep. Inoperable equipment I think
we discussed everything there nothing new and unscheduled
storage item location since we finished with that little
valve for the window we were wondering where you wanted it
put. We're in the process now of moving the food down to the
wardroom per your Flight Plan change.
CC D440 was where the valve for the window
should be stowed.
CDR Here comes the photo pads: 35 millimeter;
C199,17, 70 millimeter: CXII,03,8. Okay EREP set S, 7946; 0139;
7662; 7045; 8815; 7717. Drawer A configuration; 02 C124, 35,
CI190. A-2 is 03, CI18, 85, CI17. A- 3 06, C139, 25, CI13.
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A- 4 05, Cl4i, 99, CII6. (garble) 07, C140, 90, CI09. I think
that does it.
CC Roger, A1 and in answer to your question
on that valve on the window we'd like it stowed in D440.
CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR we need the 16-millimeter and
the ETCM inf_ also for the photo stuff.
CDR Okay will do. I was trying to - okay
here we go. VTS track 48D, PL01 75 percent; MO92/171 prep (garble)
M151; PI39, 70. CII3 on the other side of it I won't read
those a second time. MI31-1, CI39, 25; ETC prep CI24,40.
CC Roger, AI, we broke up a little bit
could I get you to go back I copied your 16-millimeter stuff
through MO92-171-151 and could you repeat after that.
CDR Okay, then we had MI31-1; CI39; then 25.
ETC prep after that CI24,40 .Just a second on the ETC Owen's
getting it. Okay we'll give you the E - -
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CDR Okay. We'll give you the ETC when it

hit the final pass also.
CDR Do you want me now to go over the status
llst?
CC Say that last again please.
CDR Do you want me to go to - over the anomaly
llst now?
CC I'd llke to hold up on that. We had
a couple of questions here. One deals with mission day 7
on housekeeping 7 Bravo-3 and 7 Bravo-4 which was bicycling in
the towel holders and the urine receiver cover areas.
There was some question here as to whether that got done
or not.
CDR The answer: It did get done,
CC Okay, I understand it was done. Also
CDR That's affirm. Hey that reminds me of
one thing. We had a 003-6 scheduled yesterday and we actually
did it today.
CDR Correctly on the sheet.
CC Okay, we copied that. Can you give us
the status on ED 52? How's the spider vent mal work?
SPT I have yet to have a chance to work on
that ED 52, Bob. I would like to do it instead of ED 63,
cytoplasmic streaming tonight. And I think we ought to let
the spiders out into the cage, even if the mal does not work.
Do you concur?
CC Okay, we concur with that.
SPT Okay. And on the ETC. I should have
got that in the log here a minute ago. he number is reset
on the camera. I called it down on chnnel B and my re-
collection is that it's 116. But I'd appreciate it if you
could catch that on channel B to verify that that number is
correct.
CC Okay, we'll do that. No problem. We're
about i minute from LOS and the next pass is Ascension at
01 - correction - 02:00. And that's going to be your
mad status pass. We'll get those - that anomaly thing at
some other - some later time, A1,
CDR Okay. I don't think there's any strain
on it anyway. We're in good shape.
CC Roger. We concur.
CDR (Garble)
CC Okeydoke.
from tracking ship - tracking ship Vanguard. Coming up
next on Ascension Island in about a minute and a half. How-
ever this will be the medical conference. Most of the pass
will be used by the crew's surgeon for the evening medical
"Z
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conference. But, in some cases it's handed back to the

control room before OS. We'll leave the line up for the
entire duration of that pass, lapping on over into anary
Island and Madrid.
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8/4/73
CC Skylab Houston, I've got you hack here

for about a minute and a half, CDR got a housekeeping task
I'd to see if we could get perforned,if you available, or
PLT or anybody.
SPT Ah - what do you need, he's up in the dome
right now.
CC Okay, Owen, because of that electrical
problem we had last night, we'd like to get housekeeping
70 Bravo run which is on page 2-16 of the SWS Systems Book
and basically what that does is go around and verify the
position of all of the a - of all of the circuit breakers.
And we do know there have been - -
SPT Okay, 70 Bravo.
CC Roger. There has been a couple of a -
purposeful changes to that thing but we'd llke you to just record
all changes that are not in _he book. Okay we are about
30 seconds from LOS nd we'll drop out for about a minute,
and have you again over Canary and at that time Vance will come
up and ya' ii can go over som_ of these command module changes.
CDR Sounds like a good idea and I guess the
only thing we like tonight really is that besides my exercising
and putting up this food and getting getting in 70 Bravo is
to do the fuel cell purge on the command module.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab Houston, we are AOS through Canary
for about 7-i/2 minutes and here's Vance and you guys can talk
about the command module.
BRAND Hey, AI, are you up?
CDR You must have been working hard for the
last week or so.
BRAND Oh, we've been working a way at it but - -
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MCC Hey, AI, are you up?

CDR You must have been working hard for the
last week or so.
MCC Oh, we've been working a way at it but
not working as }lard as you guys are.
CDR I don't know we are having pretty much
ru. tip here, w_s kind uf rocky for 3 days but after that every-
things heen on tile up swln_, we got everything down today and
real ly haul ing around. We' re on tlle move I think.
MCC Hey, that's super. Hay AI, 1 know that
you have gotten alot of chalges, as there has been little time -
well there has been little i tation at this time to have things
explained so it's a - your rickel we'll try to answer some
of the philosophy, etc.
CDR Okay, what kind of time were you - are
you thinking about having b_tween getting into the command module
and you know, closing the hatch, putting in the probe and drogue
and all that business and undocking?
MCC Okay, it'_ nominal and if anything it'll
be a little more time than what you are use to, I believe.
CDR Yeah, a lot more, I hope.
MCC It will be alot more_ as a matter of fact
the other night we were discussing that maybe there would be
too much time for you in suits.
CDR No I don't think so, the suits aren't bad
to wear up here, I've noticed And so we have plenty of time
then we will be in our suits and we can get that tunnel closed
out and everything and I notited your - your changes had us -
once we did that we took our _uits off and that would be a good
idea too. That way, when we undock and flew it, we wouldn't
have our suit:s on.
MCC Okay, that's great, since it's a single
implnse type thing, we were thinking that there would be enough
time for you to doss suits after undocking and before the set
burns, but if you would like to do it, before undocking, great,
the only thing we could see is if you have any kind of tunnel
problem, it would be messy after you took your suits off.
CDR Well, I guess, what we could do is a -
is a - get the get the suits a - you know get the tunnel
checked out, make sure it's not leaking and everything like that
and then get our suits off.
MCC Okay.
CDR And a - double check the probe and make
sure it's in there, electrically connected and everything and
it's all redundant and we shouldn't have any problems, if we
do I guess we aren't going to be able to undock that time,
because there's no way to put the suits back on and get up there
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CDR and troubleshoot, but the chance of habit

there are small too. We have never seen a undocking problem,
I don't think.
MCC Okay, AI, that's the way we will work it.
CDR Ah, another one. I've been doing a lot
of thinking about this QUAD B and a - I gather that you feel
it's okay to turn it on for short periods and then we really
won't get a lot of a- impluse out of- out of the leak or
the material Itself won't _iffect the a - the firing of the
other trusters.
MCC Did you say BRAVO r DELTA?
CDR Bravo, ] think.
MCC Okay, a- yeah, here's the word on BRAVO.
We would like to have the structure we feel leaks that
is leaking, B-3 off all of the time but we feel that it's a -
safe to use the other three thrusters on that QUAD for certain
thinks. For example, for rste control, emergency OA rate
control, we also feel that it's a - okay in a completion burn
to use D-4 and let's see thst was one of them, all yeah, CM -
CMSM separation, we feel it's okay to have both B and Delta
on.
CDR You cut o_t there Vance, say again.
MCC Yeah for, CMSM sep, we think it's okay
to have both Bravo and Delta on tO get a good sep.
CDR Yeah, I notice that, I gather the one that
leaks well okeydoke another question, I notice
when we did the SEP, we are did the a - RCS we went to the
excel command, instead of mid-impulse, I wasn't able to figure
that out, exactly.
MCC Okay, mainly because history has shown
that a - with the ground has R hard time to see it with mid-
impluse and a - this will make them a - surely able to see it.
CDR Okay, ah - I guess that and making sure
we have got, by the way, have you - have you tried this in
simulator by using the translational controller to control
yaw, have you notice that you built up much cross range
air or it begins to average out so you kind a gander along
on your same orbital path that you were on in the begin with.
MCC It's a - as we can tell in insignifaeant, AI.
We haven't had much problem at all and incidently we've done
a let of flying on that control mode lately and it works good.
For even working on a - an attitude hold capability, using
the docked DAP, we haven't told you anything about that yet.
CDR That'll he nice. That would be a good
idea.
MCC We tried it in the simulator today and it
works super good, you can even do verb 49 maneuvers with it.
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CDR Now that would really be slick, we been -

that would ((;ARBLE) the change from a - the normal operations
wou]dn't it? You would make the burn that way sure as you
would go at that attitude, once you are there change the dap
and make the burn.
MCC Yeah, I might add that a- for the future
we have also looked at three QUADs out, we have a good control
MODE with i SM QUAD plus a - three thrusters off the CMRCS and that
works good too.
CDR Great scott (laugh) You guys are okay,
you'll have really been putting in the hours. Let me ask
one other question, hasn't got anything to do with entry
problems it's been hrotheri_g me a lot. Why do you think
we've got the 8 foot per second mid course direction?
MCC Let us get back to you on that one, A1,
everybody is unprepared for that at the moment a - we just
have the wrong guys off.
CDR Okay, well - I'd like to have some action
items, because I'd like to k_nda understand what happened there.
MCC Okay and 2 kind - if you got - have time
I would like to talk to you cn the next pass and give you
some more information of a general nature - kind of talk
rapidly.
CDR That's a @reat idea, we'll he right here.
CC Okay, AI, we're about 1 minute from LOS
now and the next pass is at Guam at 02:44.
CDR Okay and thanks.
CC Okay, and so I'ii keep talking until we
run out of time, if you have a - had a 2 QIJAD SM RCS deorbit, AI,
and you had B-4 thruster on, we feel that you could make the
deerhit and be a hundred and _ne pounds above the red line.
If you again did the same thing but did not turn B QUAD on
at all we feel that you could make a hybrid and you would
have a hundred and sixty pounds above the red line.
CDR Okay, you would have 160 above the red
line, counting the 80 foot per second out the hybrid or
something like that?
CC Correct.
CDR I guess, don't always understand what
B ks doing for you in a 2 a - 2 jet burn Just tending to
hold attitude?
CC That's right, it holds attitude and you
don' t have to use yaw.
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through the Canary Island and Madrid stations. Next station
(;uam were there would be probably be one additional bit of
¢_ozlw_rsation with the crew of Skylab III, before final sign
el f. Back up crewman Vance Brand discussed as - some of the
entry procedures with the crew, after having run through a
lot of the procedures with two two thrusters out or two
QUADs thrusters out, in the command module simulator at
Johnson Space Center. ack again in 23 minutes as for the
Guam pass, that ' ii be a lO minute pass across the Guam
Island station, Skylab spac.e station in revolution llgO,now
over the Aegean Sea and will cross over the Black Sea and
central Asia in this pass, [n this orbit. 02:20 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
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PAO This ts Skylab Control 02:43 Greenwich

m('an t|me acquislt_on in 50 seconds at tracking station on
Guam Is]and meanwhile during the last Ascension pass the
mlssion surgeon Dr. Paul Buchanan discussed the crew health
with the crew and his nightly bulletin reads: the Skylab 3
crew reports they are all in good health they're appetites
continue to increase and they're in good spirits. And that
is the sum total of the medical bulletin for tonight. Coming
up on acquisition at Guam Island for the final pass of the
evening before the crew goes to bed.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS over Guam for i0 min-
utes.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay, and just so that we don't get
confused we are sending you up an ATM schedule pad as well as
the SEP but ATM operations are still no go until be get a
better hand on the funnies that have been occurring.
CDR Understand Crip.
CC Also, AI, we need you to record for us
your PT readings tonight on voice and on the BMMD readings
we can't find them anyplace so if you'd record those also
we'd appreciate it.
CDR You mean Owen's BMMD oh mine?
CC Everybody's. And - -
CDR Okay, we' re record them and give them
to you now which ever you like.
CC Why don't you just record them we'd like
to save this air-to-ground to talk about the command module
also we've got some confusion as when we' re suppose to get
them. Do you plan on giving those in the morning on recording
or in the morning on air-to-ground or in the evening status
report?
CDR We'd had planned to do it in the evening
status report but we had some request several days ago to do it
in the morning so rather than just repeat the same numbers
we've been saying well we gave them to you in the morning;
but we'd be glad to hold them for the after - until the
evening that's what our plans were pre-mission.
CC Okay, that was a special request earlier
and we just as soon get them in the evening live on air-to-
ground.
CDR We're with you. We'll do it.
CC Okay, and here's Vance you've got it.
MCC Hello again, A1, out of that last pass
we had first of all are there any things you'd like cleared
up?
CDR No, just keep going sounds like y'all are
doing kinda - some amazing type of work besides Just hard work.
MCC Okay, then let me go down through the llst.
First thing; you have a change in your Quiescent Checklist
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we hope that you'll after we get through here tonight go to

that configuration the new Quiescent configurations tonight.
CDR Wonder when it came up we last - did it
come up yesterday or this morning?
MCC Well, what it deals with AI, is mainly
our RCS reconfiguratlons and it came up last night.
CDR Okay, we'll get it in the hook we've got
half put in - we got all the entry stuff put in the entry cue
cards well ° that must have come up for the systems book.
MCC That's correct.
CDR Okay, we'll get it in and get At in there
tonight.
MCC Okay, the next point the ground says
they'11 fix up your DAP in the CM computer tomorrow.
CDR You mean fix it up to this new quiescent
configuration DAP.
MCC That's correct.
CDR Well then maybe I ought to wait until
tomorrow to go to quiescent (garble).
MCC No, negative you know your emergency
procedures are SCS so it doesn't matter that much.
CDR Okay, understand I'ii do that today.
MCC Okay, next point let me explain the de-
orbit a little bit to you. e've got a single impulse deorhit
planned for a couple of reasons; main reason it minimizes RCS
propellant expenditure and wear and tear and it seems just
generally good to make a minimum times deorbit. The next
thing you're going to activate the CMRCS before undocking
that's just because it would he nice to verify that it will
activate earlier in the game. Next point.
CDR Okay.
MCC You're not going to have a set manuever
your SEP will be about 4 tenths of a foot per second from the
spring force when you undock. No fly around and you will
all i! two jet for your deorhit burn you've got a good
a_ H contro] capability even in yaw when youtre using the
PHC to hold additive.
CDR Roger, do you have to watch it much to
keep the PHC to keep the yaw in pretty close or does it
tend to stay down on it own in the simulator.
MCC Well, in the simulator it's good to have
20 seconds because that gives you time to let it make a little
excursion in yaw and then control it back to what it should
be you have to - it's moderately sensitive you dontt have to
be two concerned about it but it's not bad. And if you can be
that you won't have to worry about that control at all if we
come up with this procedure I just told you about earlier later the
dock DAP type attitude hold procedure. Okay, nominally there
will be no usuage of B or D quads however there are special-
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a,d that's during a nominal deorbit there are some emergency

ca_e_ when you would use them that - you would use B or off
nominal that I'ii explain later. Okay, your slash point will
be near the nominal point off the California coast I was going
to explain the rationale of changing our RCS configuration
for quiescent but I think I'ii let you read it first then we can
answer that tomorrow. Basically just ahead of time we're
putting PSM on the line rather than quads in the quiescant -
quad RCS in the quiescent c_nfiguration for several reasons.
Okay the auto RCS switches are optimized for your emergency
rate control procedures and your emergency undocking procedures
that's how your 16 RCS are set up and why. Okay do not use B
and D QUADS unless and here are the cases: for SM jet you will use
D and that' s the only time.
CDR You mean Dor B or both?
MCC Delta.
CC Both.
MCC Actually ior SM jet you will use DELTA
and BRAVO but that's the only -
CDR Okay.
MCC TDat's the only place you use DELTA
CDR Unde rst and.
MCC Now you use BRAVO in other cases for example
emergency OA ra=e control you would use B-I and B-2 the
procedures reflex that. And in a completion burn you would
use BRAVO 4. Okay the dock DAP is good for CSM control of
the cluster in solar inertial Z local vertical hand et cetera.
But we don't want you to use it mainly because of contamination
and we don' want you to use anymore of your RCS than you have
now. There wi/l be no CSM, B SAT manuevers or trim manuevers with -
using the SM-F_CS. And one big reason is that A jet can't
contaminate pretty badly. We are working on 6 packs installation
procedures as you know and they're in good shape but we have
massaged around ow we hold attitude just like to know - let you
know that we'll probably have the SWS hold its own attitude and
the mechanism will be for the acquisition Sun sensors outputs
_:o be dlfferent[ated to give a rate while you have the rate
gyros off the line. That's not certain it's being worked on.
CDR Roger.
MCC Okay, AI, one thing that I wanted to
make sure that you understand - stood from the last station
you have SM-RCS deorbit capability that is if you had no
SPS engines natorally that's not a problem but it's just a
nice thing to know.
CDR Roger. Sounds like we got DAC, we got in the
hybrid and of course then we got actually service module
so we got at least three ways to do it.
MCC That's right. And you've got 1 minute
to LOS and let's wee shat else we've got. Oh, yes let me
hit these since we have titre the RCS rationale we're putting the
PSM in the quiescent configuration on your AC quads and we're
leaving the QUAD propellant isolated and there are a couple of
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rt_asons for this we have PSM has a lot more propellant for
one thing and it gives us the advantage of isolating BMD
quads both electrically and propellant wise. Also we have
lower electrical redundances if we open and close the PSH
using the manifolds isolations valves.
CC Vanguard AOS we're going to be at 03:24
we'll not call unless you want us to.
CDR Yeah, give a call, Crip.
CC Okay. Wlll do.
MCC Sleep tight see you later.
CDR Thank yon, Vance. Hang in there.
MCC Hight on.
of signal through the tracking station in Guam Island and
apparently there is still some more discussions with
Vance B.and regarding the entry procedures using the two
quads and what possible assistance from the two - other
dl_abled quads. Brand having worked out the procedures in the
command module simulator in detail procedures are will be
teleprlnted up to the crew put Brand have discussed them
A1 Bean so that he fully understands them. We'll come up
again for this Vanguard pass *hich likely will be the final
discussion of the evening and start of the crews sleep period
a little bit later than the normal schedule of I0 p.m. Central
daylight. Back in 28 minutes at 02:56 this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 22:23 CDT; 09/03:23 GMT
814173

mean time, about a minute away from acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard. End of revolution 1190; start of revolution
1191. The Guam pass earlier in this revolution was to have
been the flnal pass of the evening before the crew went to
bed, but there are some leftover details that will be
covered on the air-to-ground with the crew. They're 23
minutes into their scheduled sleep period. Standing by for
acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for 9er minutes, past your bedtime.
CDR Okay just a second Crip. Let me ask you
a question.
CC Go.
CDR The other day I charged BAT 6 for 509
and we checked it and it checked out okay. Did we start
charging BAT 7?
CC That's affirmative. We were supposed to.
CDR Okay, I JuSt found out when I went by
there and looked it wasn't being charged and Jack Just told
me - he was the one that completed the charge. Everything's
okay. I knew I'd started it but I couldn't figure out what
happened to it. Thought maybe I'd Just forgotten.
CC Okay, very good. If somebody had an
opportunity to run that housekeeping 70 Bravo, we would be
interested in getting the - the details over air-to-ground
if you got them. And we're going - -
PLT Okay, Crip, I Just put that on channel
A, but I'ii give it to you in just a second.
CC Okay, Jack. We'd appreciate it.
PLT It turns out that all the circuit breakers are
configured but 70 Bravo except the ones that everybody knows
they're open anyway.
CC Okay, Jack. That sounds good.
PLT To be more specific about it, if anybody's
looking at page 2-16. I found out that the - all the circuit
breakers that were supposed to be closed are closed and
those that are supposed to opened are open in the airlock
module panels. Except for on panel 200, the mol sieve B
fan secondary breaker is open and we knew about that. The
ILCA number 1 heater breaker's open and we _ew about that.
And same story on the workshop panels except that panel 611,
the primary radiator bypass valves circuit breaker is open,
and we knew about that.
CC Okay. We copied all that. Sounds good.
We're just trying to tie together all these funnies that
have been occuring in the ATM, including Re problems you
have with us, setting the CMRMs today and the 52 door opening
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and the sLuPf that we had last night. And so _ just wanted
to make sure we knew what the current onboard status was.
CDR We're glad you're watching. Let me give
you some tnore data here, Crip. Okay, the BMMD here they
go: 6232, 6232, 6238; 5985, 5995, 5991; 6954, 6961, 6957.
CC Okay
CDR Here's some for CDRs exercise: 2/29/3502,
3 ii 40 A's, i0 B's, i0 C's, 20 D's, 30 E's and that was a
total of 20 minutes. Let's go to MARK I.
CC Okay, we copied all that.
CDR Okay, I think we've done everything except
purge the fuel cells, l've got the heaters _ right now
and I'm going to go up and do housekeeping4, whatever it is.
After you've given the news or whatever you've got.
CC Okay.
CDR Nothing happened in the world, hull?
CC Well, not \cry much. I sort of- I did
have some news, which I hsven?t really had a chance to scan
myself, but - mainly because we had - we,re so busy on
air-to-ground tonight. I could run through a couple of items
if you're interested in listening to them.
CDR All right, unless you had something else,
we sure would.
CC Okay. Hey, we'd also be interested in
finding out whether Owen got around to that working on the
spiders tonight at all.
PLT Just about J minute ago and he took it
up there and he's going to release it from captivity.
CC Okeydoke. Very good. Do you know how
the mal went or - -
CDR Negative is the answer.
CC Okay. First item I have here says the
Skylab EREP pass over the Gulf of Mexico _morrow, with over
130 fishing boats in the pass area is drawing a lot of atten-
tion in the news today. A wire service estimates that there
will be at least 500 fishermen aboard the 130 boats. Spot
tile good areas for us, will you?
CDR Okay. We'll sure get them tomorrow.
CC Okay. It says the planet Venus, previously
thought to be smooth is said to be pock-marked with craters.
]'hat word came from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena,
California. The radar mapping data was a complete surprise
to the JPL scientists who said that craters as large as
i00 miles wide were found. American B-52 bombers are still
supporting Cambodian troups. Communist forces have continued
to advance towards Nam i0 despite the U.S. air support.
The Italian government has declared war on pollution. The
program disguised described as the toughest in Europe,
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Time: 22:23 CDT; 09/03_23 GMT
8/4/73
would recruit young people to reforest rapidly deteriorating

woods. Cities will be required to build waste treatment
p[ants and factories will stay shutdown if they pollute the
environment. The first Soviet tanker to dock in U.S. waters
In more tha, 20 years arrived in Delaware - city Delaware.
The tanker carrled some 320,000 barrels of European crude
oil. The biggest problem on the mind of the American con-
sumer is meat, or more properly, the growing lack of meat.
One shopper in New York said the buying habits of the house-
wives reminds her of how her mother bought sugar at the start
of World War II. Former Astronaut Colonel Dave Scott has
been named Deputy Director of the NASA Flight Research Center
at Edwards Air Force Base. He'll take over his new post in
late August. I just learned that myself. In pro-football
last night the Oilers put up a good fight but lost 16 to 13
to the New York Jets. O_er 45,000 fans attended the charity
game in the Astrodome. lhe Dallas Cowboys were tough last
night. They whipped the Los Angeles Rams by a score of
24 to 7. The Redskins were upset by the Lions. The Lions
belted the Skins 17 to 13 And Tom Weiskopf, in theWest-
chester classic held a one-stroke lead after the second
round. The course was hit_ by hard rains Thursday which we
talked about is now being played under weather under
conditions. And Weiskopf has a 36-hole score of 133. Dewitt
Weaver is in second place _nd Dan Sikes is in third. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS now, and we'll wish you goodnight
and see you manana.
CDR You bet. And how about sending our
congratulations to Dave. That's real great.
CC Yeah, sounds good.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That was loss
of signal at an unscheduled conversation pass, somewhat
past the normal crew sleep period start. Next station in
9 minutes will be Canary Islands, but there will be no
further conversation other than a if another caution and
warning sets off during the night. Signing _f at 03:34,
returning at 6 a.m. tomorrow, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-355/i
Time: 06:03 CDT 09/11:03 GMT
815173
PAO This is Skylab Control on mission day

number 9 at 11 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab
is a couple of minutes away from acquisition through Honeysuckle.
Capcomm Hank llartsfield will place the first call of the day
to the crew at Honeysuckle. They will be discussing the
f]ight plan, and also discussing what appears to be a small
leak that has been detected during the night. It was first
net i cad as a small torque to the vehicle by the guidance
oll leer, and then continued watching showed about a tenth
el a pound per square inch pressure drop in the cabin. It's
a w. ry sma]] leak, somewhere around the antisolar scientific
airlock ift addition to the airlock in that area - is where
the condensate tank is dumped. So there are a couple of
suspects, and we'll have the crew take a look at that. Two
Earth Resources passes today on successive revolutions, ground
tracks 61 and 62. The first pass is a rather short one,
scheduled from 9:55 to 10:09 central daylight time. The second
is at 11:31 a.m. to 12:01 p.m. central daylight time. It
will involve resources surveys over the United States,
tile Gulf of Mexico, and South America as in the past two passes.
Then the entire afternoon wi]i be devoted to inspecting the
twin pole San shade that wilt be erected during the extra-
vehicular activity tomorrow - and preparations for that extra-
vehicular activity. The Earth terrain camera will be used
again today in the EREP passes. We are coming up on Honey-
suckle now. We'll stand by for the first call.
CC Skylab, IIouston through Honeysuckle for
5 minutes. Cood morning.
,ql'T Hello there, flank.
CC flow are ya'll doing this morning.
EPT So far fine, just great, just waking up.
SPT How does the EREP weather look?
CC Stand by.
CC It's not too bad this morning. Quite
a bit of 4 to 7 tenths with some zero to 3 tenths.
SPT Good show, Jack will get them.
SPT What did Dr. Ross think of the sleep data the
last two nights?
CC Stand by, let me get an answer for that
one. He's says the data looks real good, Owen.
SPT Should be able to get the summary on the pad of
the hours accumulated for various stages on the teleprinter.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. During the evening we've
noticed a slight torque in the vehicle, we picked it up in
our momentum samples, something in the neighborhood of .35 foot
pounds. And it correlates out to match up with perhaps a
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815173
SAL leaking a little bit. And sometime here this morning

we'd llke for you to verify that the SAL was closed out properly
after the condensate tank dump last nlght.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Going along with that we did notice a
drop in the cabin pressure of .1 psi which does indicate that
we are - half! possibility of leaking out some where.
CDR ilank, you were right. It was not closed
it was left ii_ VENT, PRESSURIZE.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 26.
CC AI, when _ou say it was in the vent, was
the door cracked open also?
CDR That was it. I had the door open and venting
the tank and then when I finished venting the tank, I went to
press but I did not close the door. The door was in vent, so
it was venting out the little vent port there.
CC Roger, copy.
loss of signal. Hawaii will pick up Skylab in 14 minutes.
And we appear to have located the small pressure leak flight
controllers detected overnight. They'll take a look here on
the ground for a while to verify that that is indeed the area,
but it appears to have been the scientific airlock, the anti-
solar scientific airlock on minus Z side of the vehicle which
was ]eft, the door was left in the vent position. It was not
closed out creating that very small leak observed over-
night. We'] L come back up prior to Hawaii. At ii hours 13 min-
utes Greenwi_l: mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-356/I
Time: 06:25 CDT 09/11:25 GMT
8/_,/73
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylah about to he acquired at
the Hawaii station. Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston. We're still looking
at that last problem we had on the vent. If it - was the desiccant
inlet valve open, if it was that would have given us a path
all the way out which would account for the thing.
CDR The answer is yes. When I finished venting
and I repressed the little area behind the, there isn't any
experiment in there today, but there was yesterday for the
first time, and when I repressed it I didn't close the door.
I had the door partially trapped as it is for venting and
the press valve and the open valve are there so it not only
put air in there, but it put air out through the side of the
lock. That was it, no doubt about it.
CC Okay. That explains it then, AI. Thank
you very much. And we would like to get one other thing.
Another thing we've noticed during the night AI, is we've had
several indications of reservoir low on the primary A/M coolant
loop occurring just prior to sunrise as the reservoir cools
off outside. And I was wondering if you could verify at your
convenience on panel 203 whether you have the little peanut
like indicating reservoir low0 We show it's indicating low
now on our telemetry.
CDR We'll go take a look,
CDR The primary coolant loop reservoir low.
CC Roger, copy. The light is on.
CDR You bet.
CDR Do you all think it is low or think the lights -
the transitor down there has had a failure?
CC No, it's going on and off_ AI. We
think we are definitely getting the reservoir bottoming out.
But we're not quite sure whether we're really low on fluid or
whether it's just the system is cooling down in the n_ght pass.
We're at a real low Beta now, and it could be getting cold enough
on the outside there that just normal contraction of the fluid is
causing the reservoir to bottom out.
CDR Okey doke.
CC We'd like to watch it a little while
longer.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you picked up your
teleprinter messages yet this morning?
CDR Sure have, Hank. We were just reading them.
CC Okay. Well we neglected to get our last
slew in here this morning, hut if you have already picked
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Time: 06:25 CDT 09/11:25 CMT
8/5/73
them up, I'm sure that you got anything that might have been
tucked under the cover there. And I'd also like to tell you
that message 914 of the EREP C and D prep has a 7 llne space
in it. We got a paper advance in there inadvertently when
we got a reject, and that accounts for that.
CC And CDR, while you are looking at that
C and D pad for EREP number 3, you might note that we are
calling out for some switch throwing on the EREP downlink box
which is entered into the pad there as BWN.
CDR I'm glad you pointed that one out. That
would have thrown us.
CC And Skylab, we're about 45 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Coldstone at 35.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has had
loss of signal. Coldstone will pick up Skylab in less than
a mlnute. We'll continue tc stand by for Goldstone acquisition.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-357/I
TIME: 06:34 CDT 09/11:34 GMT
8/5/73
PAO We're now satisfied that the leak was

through tile scientific atrlock. That has now been corrected.
CC Skylab, l{ouston through Goldstone for
8 minutes.
CC And Skylab, for info, if you'll give us
the DAS a little bit,we're going to put in a NAV update.
Correction on that, a Y-2 drift update.
CDR Okay. You've got it. We (garble) this
morning.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Just so we can
elosethis possibility out. Yesterday morning or the day
before, or whatever it was, we had the little power glitch,
it was past your bedtime. But, just to make sure,
was anybody at the C&D console?
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there
for a minute. Was wondering, Just so we can close it out
in our troubleshooting of the power glitch, was anybody active
at the C&D console when the inadvertent or anomalous caution
and warning occurred on the CSM.
CDR You talking about yesterday?
CC That's right.
CDR No, we were all getting ready for bed
back here.
CC Okay, thatts what we thought, we just
wanted to make sure in case that came up.
CC SPT, Houston. We've got an answer on
your ETC shutdown yesterday. The power loss on that EREP
pass 2 was due to overheating of the magazine or shutter
drive motors, and it caused the thermal breakers to open.
Which was normal under the temperatures that you were
experiencing there. The operating time before those
breakers opened is somewhat reduced now because of the high
SAL temperatures. The camera power is going to be turned
off at the pad now between frequencies and that should
cure that problem.
SPT Oh, very good. You know, it's just
lucky that the first i_terruption occurred just less than a
minute, I think, after the termination of the last pass.
So, it turned out to not lose any data there.
CC Yeah, that was pretty good.
CC CDR, Houston. As yon noticed per your
request yesterday, we have sent you up a message concerning
the RATE GYROS and what to do if you have a failure. We
would, however, still like to caution you that if you do
have a failure outside of station contact that we would
like for you to go ahead and run the mal, and make sure it
isn't the one that we think is best that has failed.
$1, [ I [ MC-357/2
TIME: 06:34 CDT 09/11:34 GMT
8-5-73
CDR Okay now, if I run the mal_ you got a

specific one in mind? Generally our procedure is to
observe the - redundancy management work itself, through
the computer.
CC I'ii get that real number for you from
G&S right now, AI.
CDR Okeydoke. Generally we don't interfere.
We find that it works real well on its own and if
something goes wrong after that, our procedure is then to
somehow know which to select. Usually it's inside you
can't really tell during any sort of maneuver which one is
perfect unless the other one just goes off (garble) stop.
SPT Hello Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Our little friend Arabella remained in
her vlal all last night. (gsrble) couldn't get her to
come out. She is alive, I saw her moving around a little
bit in there but she remained in there overnight. And
what I thought I'd do this morning was to actually shake
her out of her vial to get her to come on out into the
cage. Would you agree with that procedure down there.
CC We concur on that Owen. Might as well
get the little gal out.
SPT Fair enough.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about I minute
from LOS. We'll be coming back up at Bermuda at 4B.
CC CDR, Houston. In about the 20 seconds
we got left, I might say that what you described doing is
exactly what we want you to do, However we're looking now
to see if there is a mal that covers that. We don't think
there is.
CC I guess I'm wrong there. We do have
APCS malf, 2 Bravo and 4 Alfa that apply.
CDR Okay.
CDR Also, for previous messages, (garble)
we understand that in the event of a discompare, we continue
wJ th the EREP maneuver.
END OF TAPE
SL-I I 1 MC358/I
Time: 06:34 CDT, 09/]1:43 CMT
8/_/73
SPT llello Hank, Arabella looks a little
cross right now. Tossed the (garble) out of the vial with
all eight legs flailing sort of wildly she bounced back and
forth between the back of tlte box and the front glass over
a half a dozen times until finally she bounced over to the
screen and latched onto the screenj where she's firmly
emplanted at the moment. Sc she's alive and kicking this
morning.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now
beyond tile range of Goldstone and too far north to be
acquired by either tile Texas or Merritt Island stations.
So Bermuda wi] I be the next station to pick up Skylab in
about 2-i/2 minutes. Just at loss of signal Science Pilot
Owen Carrlott reported he has removed Arabella, tile lady
spider, from the vial in which she traveled from the Earth
to Skylab and has placed her in the plexiglass cage in which
it is hoped that she will spin a web, that's one of the
student experiments aboard. He reported Arabella is alive
and kicking. We'll continue to stand by, keep the line
up for acquisition at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston_ through Bermuda for
6 minutes .
CDR Roger.
CDR You don't know either, huh?
CC Say again.
CDR Wondered where we were over the ground.
CC Oh, I didn't copy that. You're up over
the northeastern section of Canada coming up on Newvoundland.
CE Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to
LOS. We'll be coming up on Canary at 57.
had loss of signal. Skylah will be within range of the
Canary island station in about 2 minutes. We'll continue
to stand by for acquisition through Canary.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-359/I
Time: 06:55 CDT 09/11:55 GMT
8/5/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary for 8 min-

utes .
CDR There is sure a lot of unpolluted water
on this planet, I'ii tell you.
CC Did you say - -
CDR Been looking at it for, what, g days now.
Every once in a while we see a little polluted plot, but most
of it is completely unpolluted, at least from this altitude.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got a couple of
configuration changes for the CSM sometime today. There is
no rush on these, so sometime during the day when you head
up that way if you will give us a call, we'll pass them up
to you.
CDR Okay. And by the way, we went into that
new configuration of the quiescent mode with the RCS. And
one thing that we noticed a little bit different from what we'd
imagined was when we put the two quads in PSM and then turned off
all the other quads we then turned off both the PSM propellant
valve and the, of course the helium valve was already off.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. I just wanted to make sure you
would concur. So essentially in the RCS we have two valves
open now, which are the quad A and C PSM.
CC Roger. That's correct, Alan. The chanBes
we wanted made up there were in regard to this quiescent
configuration. We wanted to give to you service module RCS
quads secondary fuel pressure, all four of them up momentarily
to make sure they are open. And on panel 5 we want to get
the service module RCS heater quad Delta to primary. And that
ought to get us right up to the nominal quiescent configuration.
CDR Okay, I'ii go do that right now. You
want quad Delta heater to primary, and then you want us to
take the secondary of the quads and put them up. We'll do it.
CDR Okay, we've got quad B heater to primary.
Do you want engine package B to primary, is that correct?
CC Negative, that was SM RCS quad heater
Delta, but if it is already there, then that's good.
CDR Yeah it is. The only one that is not
in primary is engine package D.
CC Okay, we do want that one in primary
also, AI.
CDR Okay. And quad sec fuel pressure valves
all four of them are now pushed up because they remain
barber pole. They are open though.
CC Okay, very good. That does it for that.
Thank you very much.
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Time: 06:55 CDT 09/11:55 GMT
8/5/73
CDR Hank, you might want to send up a change

to the checklist, systems checklist, pointing out that we
ought to keep those secondaries in open because it doesn't
say, I was looking through here and it doesn't say which way they
should be. And we certainly need to put that in there.
CC Roger, we copy. And we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 42 with a
data recorder dump.
range at tile Canary Island station now. Honeysuckle will
be the next station to pick up Skylab in 35-1/2 minutes.
Over this last station the crew Commander AI Bean remarked
that they have seen a lot of unpolluted water on this planet
in their travels around it in the last few days. He remarked
that every once in a while they did see some polluted water,
but most of it looks unpollu_ed from their altitude. At
12 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control
END OF TAPE

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LCC This is Skylab launch control. T minus

LCC 'rhts I_ Skylal> I,aunch C..trol. T minus

LCC This is Skylab Launch Control, T-minus 45

LCC This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus

LCC This is Skylab Launch Control, we are

MCC This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus

LCC This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus

LCC This is Skylab Launch Control passing

LCC This is Skylab Launch Control. T minus

LCC - - supervisor reporting the countdown

CC Roger. Tower Jettison, you're mode 2.

CC cutoff at 9 plus 53.

PAO The first Skylab command and service

SC (Garble) we sep, Houston.

CDR Roger. Stars 33 and 37, 1610 0463 3461.

PAO This is Skylab Control 50 minutes

CC Roger, AI. I'm standing by. And be

PAO This iH Skylab Control at 1 i_our

PAO Thls is Skylab Control at one hour

big service propulsion system engine with a Delta V or

PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 50 min-

PLT Roger, go for the burn. Thank you.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 24

CC Negative. CDR, negative. I got that

to go to a design shaft and trunnion then it's almost impossible

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 34 min-

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 50

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours

PLT And, while you're thinking about that,

and continue to look at it.

PLT Can I go ahead and get my H2 purge llne

That could change some based on the results of the tracking

MCC This is Skylab Control at 3 hours 23 minutes

PAO This is Skylab Control at 4 hours

a service propullslon maneuver. Resulting orbit 216.7 by

PAO This is Skylab Control at 4 hours 25

CDR Another problem we've had, now that

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone

let me explain briefly what we're going to do and then when

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for

PAO The Canary station should acquire momen-

CC Skylab, Houston. Realize you're real

PAO This is Skylab Control at 5 hours

that that's what this is - these numbers are coming from.

CC Skylab, Houston. You' re looking real

was first noticed as a decrease in pressure from the

PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours 2 min-

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for

PAO This is Skylab Control at 6 hours

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila and

29 905 trims plus 147 plus 029. Go ahead.

CO Skylab Houston. I have the Delta VCs I

PAO This is Skylah Control at 6 hours

it should take place while the spacecraft is within range

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 13 min-

is over on page 117.

CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by Guam for

Goldstone will acquire in about 13-1/2 minutes. CAPCOM

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours

PLT We got TEMP HIGH on RCS A Houston.

PAO There is a good look now at the Sun end

television transmission. The best guess at this time is that