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TIME: 17:10 CDT 18/22:10 GMT
8/14/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more

over Canary, and we got you for about 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Crip, CDR. Did you copy?
CC I Just copied that message. Didn't
copy any other.
CDR Could you set up a phone call for me
with my wife tonight and Owen open for the same thing.
CC Okay. I understand. Phone calls _r
you and Owen. Thank you.
CDR You bet. Thank you.
CDR Say Crip, why don't you check with the
Flight Planners and see if they got anything else _ do.
I'm finished for the day and I sure can't go to sleep
right now.
CC Okay, AI. We'll look around for you.
CDR Okay, I was looking _er tomorrows'
schedule. I - we still have this problem and I don't know how
we're going to solve it, and I guess we got _ ask their
help in the matter. Somehow we always end up getting
finished early in the day. We get the housekeeping out of
the way and you know we - I think the problem is that it's
not taking us as long to eat as we'd planned preflight.
It's probably taking us about 30 minutes or less and we're ready
a little bit earlier in the morning to start work than
14:00. And there's the spare time on the ATM passes because
there's nothing going on at night, _ you end up sort of
being able to get way ahead, and we're ending _ trying
to think of things to do up here and there just isn't
that much on the shopping llst. The only thing we got on
there is just a couple of items, and we're trying m delay
a couple of those things. We want that _nference. We
were trying to think, there's not anything that _es out
the alrlock we could do that I know of. If there was,
send them up and we'll start doing them. We don't know
what they can send up.
CC Okay AI, we copied that and we're -
I guess we can take that into account and see if we can
shorten up some of those periods in our planning so that
we can stick things in it in the future.
CDR Yeah. I think that would be_od,
if we maybe had us start working in the morning about
13:30 instead of 14:00. We always seem _ be ahead of
the game. And then maybe let us work an hour extra in
the evening. Shorten up our postsleep and presleep
activities, because we all have got spare time and you
just can't sleep 8 hours up here, it turns out, and we
got thin_s to do that's interesting, but I think we ought
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to try to get these mission things out of the way here.

we got time to look out the window at the moment. It
wasn't this way the first week and a half. It was pan-
demonium, but now things are a little bit better.
CC Okay AI, I copied that. We can probably
talk about it some more this evening. We're _ing to go
LOS in about 30 seconds, and we'll see you over Guam in
about 25 minutes at about 22::43. 2243.
CDR Okay, and I donlt know the answer
either. I guess maybe the only way to do is add some more
and pretty soon we'll finally have to say, "That's too much."
And it will be somewhere between the too much and _ere we
are right now.
CC Copy.
PAO Wellthe ground has its charter from
the crew to find more work for the crew to _. And so
they're setting about doing it_ they being the ground. In
the meantime, we've lost signal with be spacecraft. At
22 hours 19 minutes Greenwich mean time. We will acquire
again over Guam in about 23 minutes. At 22 hours 19 minutes
17 seconds Greenwich mean time, this _ Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-773/I
Time: 17:41 CDT, 18/22:41 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours

41 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is
approaching the Guam tracking site. And on this pass
there is a scheduled exercise to photograph Typhoon Iris,
mother nature's power as a weather maker, will be observed
from the safety of about 270 miles in space by the Skylab
crewmen at about 5:50, or so, p.m. central daylight time,
today. One of the crewmen will focus a still camera on
the giant vortex of the typhoon, called Irls. This typhoon
presently is located some 500 miles south of the Japanese
Islands. It has winds gusting up to 115 miles an hour and
the eye is estimated to be 70 or so miles in diameter. For
those who like to stick pins in hurricane and typhoon maps,
Iris was located at 26.8 north lattitude and 131.i east
longitude, moving north at - and that time was about 3:00 p.m.,
today. Scientists are interested in getting orbital pic-
tures of the sea surface conditions and the cloud pattern
in and around Iris. We'll stand by for the air-to-ground.
CC And we're AOS over Guam for about
i0 minutes.
PLT Okay. We're photographing the typhoon.

CC Jack, I copied you were photographing
something, I couldn't understand what.
PLT Yeah. Owen's photographing the typhoon.
CC Okay. Very good.
CC And, if A1 or somebody's available, I've
got some items that we'd llke to give you that you might
add on to your shopping list for doing.
CDR Okay. Let me get out a piece of paper.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay, the first one, AI. Has to do
with photographing noctilueent clouds, which is in general
message number 8.
CC Permanent general message number 8.
CDR Okay. Put that on the list.
CC Okay. The other one is housekeepin E
83S, which is to replace that seal that's causing you problems
in the waste management compartment squeezer.
CDR Okay. Says I meant to mention some-
thing about that. I noticed that if I'm careful to get
the washrag completely in there, and have a good vacuum
on the bag from the previous night, that it doesn't leak
so badly. So, let me fool with it another couple of days.
It may be our technique, my technique up here and that's
what's causing it to squirt. It doesn't, I've got
this down, and I'll replace it.
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CC Okay. Very good. And, the next item

is the crewmen photograph that our good friend Bill Thornton
was wanting to get. And we're trying to get a pad up to
you on this pass that should cover those.
CDR Okay. And we'll get those crewmen
photographs. I guess Owen has got some details on that, huh?
I'ii get out the camera and we'll get them tonight.
CC Yeah. Actually, this pad will cover
all of it. We're going- If we don't get it up over this
pass, we' ii get it up the next one.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC Okay. The next item is ED-74.
SPT I've got that.
CDR Okay. Owen says he's got that. We'll
look at that.
CC Okay. And that's all I really had for
you right now. We're going to take your recommendations
under advisement and probably make some adjustments to adding
some stuff on for tomorrow.
CDR Sounds llke a good idea. And we'll Just

keep working away. I've figured I'd also do tomorrow's
housekeeping today, and that would get us a little bit ahead to
begin with. And then, when you add those items, we'll be in good
shape.
SPT Hey, Bob. We passed over the eye of
the hurricane at 43 plus 15, just a little bit earlier
than your predictions. And we should have some very good
photographs of it. It's a very large area, of course, must
be 200 or 300 miles in diameter. And a very clear counter-
clockwise circulation pattern, and alternating bands of
clouds with clear streaks in between it, with the general
area of the eye also clear. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Copied that. Appreciate
the report.
CC And, Jack. If you've got a moment, on
82B, we show you in auto, and according to our info, you
should be on a timed exposure of 45 minutes with the wave-
length short.
PLT You' re right. Thank you.
PLT Would you buy a 25-second one?
CC Couldn't copy that last one, Jack.
PLT Would you buy a 25-second one?
CC 45 minutes is really what appeals to
us. And when you finish that auto, if you'd start the
45 minutes, that' d be okay.
PLT Okay. I'm going to go out of daylight
before 45 minutes, is what I was getting at. Would you
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rather have a 25-mlnute exposure with 82B?

CC 40 minute looks good right now.
SPT His point, Bob, was there's only 28 minutes
of sunlit time remaining. So 25 is the best he can do.
PLT Stand by. Correction. Make it 33 minutes.
CC Okay. Okay. 25's fine. Whatever you
recommend on those, that you can get out of the amount of
daylight left.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. That message dealing with the portrait photos is onboard.
We'll see you again over the Vanguard in about 30 minutes from
now. And that should be at about 23:23.
PLT Okay. You might tell Paul Patterson
I'm giving him a 33-minute time exposure. And I'm sorry
about the auto deal.
CC Okay. No sweat, that's good, Jack.
Thank you.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range from Guam. Next station contact is Vanguard in
28 minutes. At 22 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-774/I
Time: 18:22 CDT; 18/23:22 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 22

minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute away
from acquisition at Vanguard on the start of the 1333 pass
of Skylab workshop. We'll stand by for communication
through Vanguard with t'he crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard and if you'll stay off the DAS for us for a minute
we' re going to update rate gyro Y-2 drift.
CDR Okay.
CC And AI, if it's satisfactory for you we
ca - have a phone call sent up on the upcoming Canary pass
at 23:43, that's about 20 minutes from now.
CDR Hey, that'd be perfect, Crip. Do you think -
are we going to do this VHF or what?
CC That's - that's our intent to do it VHF.
And I'm informed this is a good VHF pass.
CDR Hey, that's great. Which antenna should
we use?
CC Left antenna.
CDR Okay, I'ii be there. Thanks.
CC And for Owen, I'm still working on yours.
Haven't managed to make contact at your home yet.
SPT Okay, Crlp.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've completed our
update on Y-2 and the r_AS is yours once more.
CC Jack, if you - you got a minute? Can you
tell us if you truncated 82B in that auto mode awhile ago
or did you let it go ahead and continue out?
PLT No, I truncated it.
CC Okay, copied that. We're going to go LOS
in about 1 minute. We'll see you again over at Canary
at 23:43 and as I stated previously, that's where we're
going to set up for Al's phone call.
PAO We've had loss of station - loss of contact
with the spacestation. We'll acquire again in about 9
minutes at the Canary Island tracking site. At 23 hours
33 mlnutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL III MC-775/I
TIME: 18:42 CDT 18/23:42 GMT
8/14/73
PAO Skylab Control here in Houston, 23 hours

42 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 40 seconds away from
acquisition through the Canary Islands. The crew at this
particular time are engaged in what is commonly called
presleep activities. There is however a small amount of
time set aside for Sun watching at the ATM console. We'll
stand by for comments between crew and ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Canary
for 14 minutes.
PLT Okay Crip. I wanted to mention in
thinking about it. Something squirrely about that 82B that
I put on the channel A last night and it happened again, I
think. As you mentioned I truncated or thought I did that
82B AUTO MODE there, but it occurred to me that the timer
had counted down from 45 to about 36 or 37 and that's
only a 5 minute mode, so for some reason the operate light
stayed out or the mode kept working or something. I think
we got all the AUTO MODE, but for some reason the 82B didn't
shut itself off in 5 minutes llke it's supposed to.
CC Okay. Copy. Stand by on that 1 second.
PLT At least the operate light didn't go
out. It looked llke it was operating although it wasn't
counting any frames and I truncated one llke that last
night because it was obvious that it had gone too long. I
think it went about i0 minutes or so before I shut it off
and started it over again.
CC Okay Jack, stand by and IVll get you
a story.
CC Jack, if you got a minute, I think I
can explain that 82B thing to you.
PLT Sure, go ahead Bob.
CC Okay. According to our data here in
both cases, last night and tonight you were in llmb scan-
limb pointing on XUVs slit when you went into the AUTO MODE
and - -
PLT ... are both listed, Bob.
CC Okay. Did you copy that this case
occurred when you were in limb scan-limbpointing. And when
you were doing that, the instrument automatically scaled
the exposures for the decreased intensity of being off the
limb.
PLT Just a minute Bob, we didn't get the
first part of the transmission. I guess I had a drop out
there or something.
CC Okay. We'll try once more. In both
cases, last night and this evening you were- had the XUV
slit in limb scan and limb pointing. Do you concur with that?
PLT Yes, sir.
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CC Okay.. In that case, because you're

pointing off the limb, the instrument automatically in-
creases the exposure time, even in AUTO, to handle the
decreased intensity.
PLT Okay.. I remember that now and I
understand it. Thank you.
CC Okay. And llke last night the total AUTO
MODE would have run about 28 minutes and tonight it'd ran
almost 18 minutes, if we'd left it there.
PLT Okays, so I did truncate it then.
CC And so, when you are doing that, you
should go out of llmb scan-llmb pointing. Okay?
PLT Did you say I should go out of it?
CC Before initiating an AUTO MODE.
PLT Okay.
CC Jack,. to clarify my last statement, I
don't believe I said that proper. If you do want to do a
limb scan-llmb pointing then you should- that is normally
done in the TIME MODE and not in the AUTO MODE.
PLT Yeah, Owen and I were talking it over
and we think we got it sorted out. Thank you, Bob.
CC Okey-.doke.
CC And Skylab, Houston, for Captain Bean
who is up in the command module, one of you guys might
have to relay it for him. We show him over the time
limit on the fuel cell i purge, if he'd go ahead and switch over
and do fuel cell 3 now, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, we still show that you haven't
terminated that fuel cell 1 purge and we'd appreciate it
if we could go ahead and get it stopped now before it
causes some problems.
PLT On the way.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. See you again in about 35 minutes over Honeysuckle
at 00:32. 00:32.
PAO Skylab has moved out of range of
Madrid tracking station. On the just concluded pass the
Cammander A1 Bean spent time chatting with his family on
matters of a family nature. At 23 hours 58 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-776/I
Time: 19:31 CDT, 19/00:31 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 31 minutes

34 seconds Greenwich mean time, into day 227, day of year
227. We expect communication with the spacecraft momentarily,
and we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 7 minutes.
CC And, Owen, if you're within earshot,
the next pass we've got coming up over Canary, we've got
your phone call set up at ah - and that's going to be
about 01:22, about 50 minutes from now.
SPT Sounds great, Robert. I'm at the
panel here just chugging away on the ATH.
CC Okey doke. And if you and Captain Bean
can lend an ear, I've got Bill Lenoir standing by who
would like to try to brief you on the procedure we've been
trying to come up with for regaining attitude, if you've got
a problem with the SWS attitude.
PLT Hey, Bob, let me ask you a question
first.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT We did our Ml31s today and it turns out
that the system select was off for them. We're wondering if
the data will come through anyway. And if it did not, we'll
voice record it on channel A, because we've got it all
written down.
CC Jack, the data should come through
with no problem.
PLT Okay. We'll not read it down. And we're
listening for Bill.
CC Okay. Here he is.
LENOIR Okay.
PLT How's your little boy, Bill?
LENOIR Oh, he's just fine. Thank you.
PLT Glad to hear that.
LENOIR Yeah. He's doing Just fine. Basically
on the attitude control system here, the starting configura-
tion that we're talking about is the rate gyros as appropriate
for the given data we're talking about. CMG control enabled,
that's the 50,000, CMG auto reset enabled, that's the
50,002, TACS control inhibited, that's 50,001, and all
six TACS switches inhibited. The main difference there is
enabling the CMG auto zeset, which gives a sneaky way of
getting our caution and warning after we inhibited TACS
control. The procedure we're talking about now is, is for
recovery now from loss of SWS attitude. We will - Well basically
what we're trying to do is to minimize the use of TACS while
getting back to attitude and trying to prevent having to
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go to the CSM. We're in no hurry to Jump into the CSM. And

as you know, most of these mall procedures, there's really
no urgency to go racing right through them. The first step
we do for the loss of attitude is to verify our rate gyro con-
figuration. And the main thing we're concerned with, here,
is have we gone no control at any axis. We can find that
out on either work number 2, or looking at the talkback.
And it is barber pole in all three positions. And assuming
that we have not gone no control in any axls, so we have
good control in all three axes, then we would go to mode ATT HOLD
switch to TACS. We would then enable the TACS, both with
the switch and through the computer. And if, at this point,
we had been on a single rate gyro with redundancy management
enabled, it can erronously detect a failure in which case we
would have to go back and do all this again. At this point
we'll sit in TACS ATT HOLD and talk to STDN before proceeding.
And this is because STDN can give us some more insight and
help us minimize use of TACS. Most likely after talking to
STDN, we'll allow the rates to stabilize in the attitude,
and when the rates are low, we will enable CMG patrol and
select CMG ATT HOLD. Then looking at the attitude errors on
the counters, we will pick the RMS of their attitude error,
compute a maneuver time based on one minute per degree of
error up to 35 minutes,, select a maneuver time, and then
hit the mode switch to solar inertial. Tha t would give us
a nice slow maneuver back to SI, and we ought to be real
happy. Okay. Back up in the beginning. If we came up and
1 axis was in no control, then we'll do things slightly
different. The first thing we'll do, we'll call up the
displays for the rate gyros in that axis and we'll select the
best gyro that we have, with redundancy management inhibited.
We' ii try to verify this looking out the window and making
sure these rates look good. If we've got high rates, we
will procede to TACS ATT HOLD, and again contact STDN.
If the rates are low, and by that I mean less than 0.i, we'll
sit there, essentially in free drift, and contact STDN
before procedlng, trying to make sure that we don't select
a bad rate gyro. If we get what we expect out of STDN
on that one, then we're looking for a reacquire maneuver, and
basically here, again, in TACS ATT HOLD, we'll let the rates
and attitude stabillze_ when they're low, we'll select CMG
ATT HOLD. Then we' ii look out the window and use the Sun
to estimate an X and Y maneuver back to SI. Again, compute
a maneuver time and do our 52020, this time and repeat that sequence
if necessary. Then, and here's where I would llke an answer
from you as to whether you think this is reasonable. We'll
estimate the Z error, based on the ground track angle, out
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the S190 window. Again, compute the maneuver time perform

the 52020 - -
CC Got a keyhole, Bill.
LENOIR Okay. We've got a keyhole here, I
guess right now. I'Ii call you again on the other side.
CDR Okay.
LENOIR Okay, A1, and Owen, and Jack. We're
back out of the keyhole, here. Then we would perform our
maneuver initialize the strap down, set maneuver time to zero,
and select SI again.
CC Owen,. I need to break in here for a
moment. We show that you' re running 54 and that was supposed
to be omitted in this building block. So if you'd go ahead
and terminate that for us, we'd appreciate it. And, we're
just about to go LOS here in 30 seconds. We'll try to
continue this, if you'd llke on the next pass. That's going
to be Owen's phone call, and will also be evening status.
We'll have you again over Canary at 01:22, 01:22, about
43 minutes from now.
CDR Okay. We'll be waiting.
LENOIR Okay. And I'll be standing by to talk
to you some more, if you'd llke.
CDR Sure would. Why don't you take a
break though. See you in about 40 minutes, or whatever.
CC Roger.
CDR (Static)
PAO Loss of communication through Honeysuckle.
Next station contact in 41 minutes. At 40 minutes 22 seconds,
into the new day, that is the new GMT day, day of year 227,
which of course is translated into August 15, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-777/I
Time: 20:21 CDT; 19/01:21 GMT
8/14/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour 21 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is approaching Canary
Island tracking site and the Evening Status Report is ex-
pected at that time. We'll stand by for the alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Canary for 12-1/2
minutes.
CC And - CDR, if you're ready what I would
recommend is we go ahead and get your Evening Status Report
out of the road and then I' ii turn the mike back over to
Bill so he can continue with the APCS briefing.
CDR Okay, just a second, Crip.
CC Okay, we're standing by for you.
CDR I had my hands full of trash bags. Okay,
here we go. 142, 150, 192; 5013, 8268, 5733; 6.235, 6.237,
6.235; 5.960, 5.962, 5.962; 6.954, 6.960, 6.956; 2/21/5000,
3; 3/15/MK i, mark i; by the way, let me back up and read that
exercise again. 2/21/5003, 3/15/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20C, 20A;
mark 2, 5 minutes, 20A, NB, NZ, NM. SPT will do his work
later; PLT, 1/30/6451, 1/05/0515, 3/20/mark i, 50A, 20B,
20D, and 20 backbends. No medication. Sleep: 7 G, 6-1/2 G,
7 G. Here comes - Here comes the food log: CDR, 13 salts
and no deviations; SPT, no salt and added one butter cookie;
PLT, three salts and no deviations. Photo log: 16-millimeter:
ED63, C140, 76, CI09. 35-millimeter: Now this 35-milllmeter
doesn't make sense because the counters don't work. Neither
of them seem to work. They count up and down and left and
right, so we're just going to use them and try to keep up
with the numbers until they run - you know, till we feel
llke they're not working and then, you know, we've reached
the end of the roll and then we'll roll them back in. BBI3,
17; BBI3, 13; CXI2, 16; 70-millimeter, CXII, 150. No EREP.
Here's the drawer A configuration: 07, C140, 72, CI09;
no change for the rest. Shopping and Flight Plan deviations,
tasks, times, and all that, and we've already talked about
that several times. Shopping list accomplished: crew photos
taken, all housekeeping on our plan for today is done
plus housekeeping 3C, housekeeping 3D, housekeeping 7C,
housekeeping 24A, housekeeping 28A for the wall, ceilings
and floor of the wardroom and the waste management compart-
ment. Here's some unscheduled stowage item changes: seven
cherry drink from F548 to the wardroom, one box of red
washcloths, three white towels, one red towel from W736 to
the waste management compartment. That's it.
CC Roger. We've got all that recorded. On
tape somewhere, that is. Okay. And Bill is standing by
and ready to continue the discussion with the APC -
MCC Okay. Just two other comments here before
I throw it back to you. What we're doing basically is what
I described to you earlier. We're putting into the mill
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MCC right now; we'll incorporate whatever comments

and questions you have and run that through the approval mill
here and hopefully we'll have it up to you by tomorrow night.
And once that is done, then we'll be looking at all of the
APCS malf procedures to redo those with respect to your cur-
rent configuration and we'll up-llnk those as we get them.
Okay. It's your turn.
CDR Okay. I think you're right that we can look
out the minus Z and determine roughly what our orbital plane
there is and put it back to - we never really know what it's
supposed to be. But usually - lately it's been running about
minus 3 or so. So we can put it back to zero, which would
probably are plus or minus i0 degrees, but maybe that would
be better than just letting it hang out there 20 or 30 degrees.
I think that's probably the best you could do. I think we
need to get that - a copy of those procedures in words on
the teleprinter pad so we can look at them, Bill. It's kind
of hard to think it thorugh real fast as you went through
it; it just takes some time to look at them and digest it.
It sounds like you've been doing a lot of hard work on it
and my opinion would be that it's probably going to be just
what we need. We need to just get it and read it and look
at it with you.
MCC Yeah, we concur. We'll be sending these up
tomorrow like I said.
CDR Okay. And we'll be ready to read them. We
certainly need something like that. When we had the problems
the other day, it's just like the simulator; you're standing
there saying, "I wonder what component has failed." We had
the ACS light and the override light and we had four numbers
in each of the caution and warning register and the alert
register, so you're standing saying, "Which one's first,
which one caused it, what-" you know, it's just exactly like
the simulator in that the visibility into this system, if
you have more than one problem, or you're in an off-nominal
configuration it's next to zilch. If everything is perfect
and you have a failure then you can psych it out pretty well.
I chink maybe next time we build a spacecraft, we want to
make sure that we have a little control stick nearby or
switches because we could have just turned off the thrusters
and looked out the window and then using the little control
sticks put it right back where we wanted it.
MCC You bet. That sounds great to me. With
our rate gyros the way they are, as it seems, we don't have
any clean failures anymore. Everything gets intermixed.
CDR That' s a fact. And when you walk up there,
you don't know. You suspect rate gyros at first and then
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CDR of course, I'll tell you another couple of

complications we got that ought to be in the simulator.
The outer glmbal readout for CMG 1 is minus i00 percent all
the time. The outer glmbal readout for 3 is minus - -
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CDR - to check rate gryos at first and then

of course, I'Ii tell you another couple of complications we
got that ought to be in the simulator. The outer glmbal
readout for CMG i is minus i00 percent all the time. The
outer glmbal readout for 3 is minus i00 percent about 20
percent of the time, just depending on when you happen to
look, so if you get a failure, you can just turn over and
look at those and that tells you not too much.
CC Okay_ yes that does, that sounds very
misleading and what we'll do is - like I said earlier, we'll
be getting these up to you tomorrow afternoon then and if
you don't have any questions or comments here to incorporate
we'll push them into the system now.
CDR Okay. No, I just hope that as you work
these out in the simulator over there that you put the
sort of configuration we have presently there, and also
the situation we got with the - with the CMG readout. Because
that's an important factor in determining whether or not
it's a CMG problem or a rate gyro problem or in our case,
it turned out to really be a computer problem.
CC Okay, we are running the SOS in as
close to flight configuration as we can, although this
last time we did not have your gimbal problems, but we did
have all your rate gyro problems and your up-to-date con-
figuration.
CDR Okay, well, we haven't seen many
problems today cause we' re on these coarse gains and I
assume with these coarse gains, things are going to be
dandy until we get back to EREP, and then I assume when we
get our fine gains in again, we can expect some similar
problems. My guess also is, that they're probably getting
a better handle on the CMG and momentum models down there,
now, I hope, so that they never let it get into the con-
figuration it happened to get into the other day.
CC Yeah, I think we're going to be able
to preclude getting it into where it got the other day. The
only thing that frightens us is what kind of thlnEs are we
not aware of, that we just haven't discovered yet.
CDR That's a fact. Okay. Sounds good.
You're right about one nice thing though, this thing is
big and it doesn't move fast and if we got the TACS off, it
isn't going anywhere very fast, and you can certainly
stand and rotate up here for a while, because even in Z-LV,
we don't get much electricity for a rev or two, and it still
makes out, so I really don't think that we can have any
problem. I belleve if we had done a little more thinking
when we changed over to the new configuration with the TACS
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on, we would have probably suggested that that we not have

them on, and be in the configuration we are right now. I
think that was a tactical error on our part up here, not
thinking that through.
CC Okay, and we'll see you later then.
CDR Okay,. thanks for staying, Bill.
CC Okay_ AI, l've got a couple of evening
questions I'd llke to run by. Actually the first one here
is for Jack and the next one I'ii probably have to get
from Owen later. If Jack is listening, I'd like to - I
understand that last night's evening status report he gave
us 4 seconds of T002-3. However we didn't receive this data
on channel A dump and we would appreciate it if he could
give us a rough hack at: what time that was recorded.
PLT I put that on today, Crlp. Probably
around noon sometime.
CC Okay. About noon your time. Very good.
We'll be looking for it:. And I guess I've got a sort of a
question on 509 flying tomorrow. What would you think about
putting in SO19 and having it in the SAL while you were
flying 509? Do you think that would cause an interference
problem.
CDR I think definitely not, for the simple
reason you don't operate down at the level of the SAL.
You' re always up around the water ring lockers plus you' re
under such good control all the time anyhow that you don't
bump into anything. Even if you did, you're going so
doggone slow that you could catch yourself. I'd say it
would be the safest thing in the world. We got a new
perspective on that 509 and G20. They just operate so
much slower in here velocity-wlse than we do just normally
moving around that it tends to bother you. You keep want-
ing to get going faster, so there's absolutely no risk
with either of those things,
CC Okay,. we'll probably be asking you to
do that later. We're about to go LOS, probably in about
30 seconds. We'll see you again over Carnarvon at 02:01, and
that's about 27 minutes from now. We'll be also doing a
data voice recorder dump there.
CDR Okay, well, that's good news about SO20.
We've been sorta wishing we had a few more experiments to
do up here.
CC It was SO19.
CDR I'm sorry. SO19, I mlsheard you. SO19.
We'll stick it in there and be ready to go when you say.
PAO Next station acquisition at Carnarvon
in about 26 minutes. At 1 hour 35 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 ho_rs

Greenwich mean time coming up on Carnarvon. Expect to have
air-to-ground very shortly.
CC And, Jack, we're standing by for your
TV downiink.
PLT Okay. 1'11 give you the TV downlink when
. .. band, but here it comes.
CDR Hello, Houston. Do you read me?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay, just one little other thing here
we ought to get onto the record. I guess it should be
duly noted that today we probably had the first birth ever
noted in zero G enw[ronment in space.
CC Oh, congratulations.
CDR Well, I don't thing that congratulations
are due any of the three of us exactly, at least as far as
I'm aware, but do have an extra mummichog aboard. One of those
oh, 50 or so eggs hatched out, and we now have a little
fingerling or even minute fingerling swimming around in the
plastic bag along with the two larger minnows that we had when
we came into orbit. So our expectation is that we'll have several
more of these little fellows hatching in the next few days.
CC That's beautiful.
SPT If you get a chance tomorrow and there's
time for it, well, we'll try to provide a little short TV
of the fish swimming around, as a matter of fact, one thin K of
interest has already been noted. Our other two larger minnows
will still occasionally swim in these outside loops, pitching
downward very rapidly, whenever the little plastic bag is dis-
turbed; however our young minnow that just hatched out has
yet to make any sort of maneuver like that, as if he were
already adapted to zero G during the hatching process. Now
I don't know whether that's the correct interpretation or
not, but at least that's the first thing that comes to mind
when you notice it swimming around inside the little plastic
bag in a very normal manner. Over.
CC Roger. We copy that and we'll see if
we can work that TV thing in. While I got you here, Owen,
could I ask you a question about an M487 thing you did for
us?
SPT Yes. Go ahead.
CC Okay. This was several days ago. About
3 days actually. You were scheduled to do an M487 3A which
is an evaluation kind of thing, and we couldn't find the data
on channel A. And I guess we'd like to find out whether you
did that at the time, if you can recall.
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SPT Well, yes, as a matter of fact I can

recall very well. Just to clear up that little mystery,
the fact is I never got around to that item, and perhaps
you can get it rescheduled for me and I will do it. Or
even if you can't get it rescheduled, I'ii do it.
CC Okeydoke. We'll go ahead and jot it
down so we can probably bring it up tomorrow, but if you
remember to do it, why that'll be fine. Appreciate it.
SPT Right. Sorry I didn't get it accomplished
or schedule.
PLT And Crip. Are you getting some of our
real time TV the ATM monitor . .. ?
CC That's affirmative. We're copying it
down at Carnarvon. We actually can't see it here, Jack.
PLT ,Okay. I Just gave you the action of
the (garble) sequence and I didn't get anything on the
white light coronagraph yet, because it's in operation and
I don't have any information up there that tells me I'm
supposed to run one of these off, that I know of.
CC XUV monitor is all we wanted.
CC Okay, Jack, I guess - we're under the
impression here that you guys wanted us to tell you in real
time when we were supposed to get it down and not to put it
on the schedule. And I guess we need to clarify whether
that's really the case or not.
PLT Yeah, that's fine with me, It's just
that I was unaware that you were going to do it and I'm
glad that you decided to. And I'ii get it down to you.
any time you ask.
PLT I already gave you one XUV MON, I'ii
give you another. I think that's a good way to work it,
Crip.
CC Okaydoke. There was somebody up there
that suggested that, apparently.
PLT Okay, Bob. 487-1
CC ])ash 3 Alfa, which is number i.
CC And, Skylab, if anybody's available to
listen on that CBRM test that we ran earlier today, we were
only able to get 12.2 amp-hour hours out of battery number 7,
which is - and we'd hope we'd be able to do better. Right
now we're pondering possibly rescheduling this test with
another battery.
SPT What do you think the total capacity is?
CC 12.2 is where it kicked off.
SPT I understand.
CC ()wen, expanding a little bit on your
last question, battery 7, of course, was one of a total of
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seven that we apparently degraded when we were setting

up that high thermal attitude, and I guess we have to
assume that all of _them apparently are still not able to
get the full ampere hours out of them. And this, of course,
would limit any EREP passes as far as how much depth of
discharge we could go to.
SPT Right. I just thought perhaps you'd
want to also check some of the ones which had not been
overtemped, Just to see if they were up closer to the 20 amp
spec.
CC That's exactly what we were pondering
doing.
SPT Okeydoke. Thank you.
CC And, Skylah, Houston. I got a few items
• of evening news I could read up to you now while we got
about 5 more minutes of AOS, if you are interested in
listening.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a few items
of the evening news that might be of interest if anybody's
available to listen.
CDR We' re all listening, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. Big Skylab news today, of
course, was your M509 flight. We even got the network news
this evening on that:. It was a very enjoyable demonstration.
It looked real neat. The papers were quoting about how easy
you guys thought it was to fly. The economy moved from the
freeze into Phase 4_ and we've been liste_%ing to actual or
promised price increase notices from the nation's automobile
and steel industry. Houston Chronicle reports today that
the competition and confusion are keeping local prices on mer-
chandise down despite the lifting of the freeze. We also had
orders to halt the bombing of Cambodia were issued today. American
pilots and crews were instructed that the last bombs were
to be dropped before midnight tonight, ending more than a
decade of U.S. combat involvement in Southeast Asia and 160
consecutive days of the intensified campaign in Cambodia.
Here's a brave gentleman. Bob Sparks says he will try again
next summer to be the first man to fly a baloon to Europe.
Sparks said Monday that he could not get around thunderstorms
that caused him to abort off the coast of Newfoundland during
his first attmept last Thursday from Bar Harbor, Maine. He
actually bailed out of his balloon, if I remember right. On
the sports scene, Dave Roberts blanked the St. Louis Cardinals
4 to 0 on 5 hits Monday night, as the Astros extended their
winning string to 4 and the Redhirds lost their eighth in a
row. That's really all the items of interest I got. Again
you guys wanted to work more and flying around your 509 seemed
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to be the big thing on Skylab. And it said, I guess also

that it sort of setting a record on amounts of ATM flights -
correction, ATM passes that we've been able to get in.
CDR We're going to help you beat that one
in a couple of days, Crip.
CC Going to have to give up sleeping a
little bit, I think.
CDR Well, I think what we're going to do is
ask to catch that first one in the morning. We're already
awake, and everybody's kind of stumbling around down here
trying to get in the wardroom and waste compartment at the
same time, so we think maybe we'll just ask one of us each
day to go up there and do the ATM while the other two get
ready and get eating, and then he comes down and eats, in
other words, he just kind of off-shifts his breakfast and
washup by 45 minutes. It'll clear up the confusion, and it'll
get in an extra pass too.
CC Okay. We noted your comment. If you
can conclude that's what yon want us to do, well let us -
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CDR ... will clear up the confusion,

and we'll get in an extra pass, too.
CC Okay. We noted your comment, and if you
conclude that's what you want us to do, well, let us know
for sure in the future.
CDR I haven't talked it over with Owen and
Jack, yet.
CDR Here's a question we've kind of wondered
about. Whatever happened to those two divers that went
down to try to recover the stuff off the Andrea Doria? They
were going to do saturation diving.
CC Okay. They did get a few items off of
it. I heard they were trying to go into the sa - the safe,
and the last words I got, were the storms were keeping them
off of it. And they weren't able to get in.
CDR Well, did they spend their 2 weeks and
come up, is that what's occurred so far?
CDR Don't worry about it. That's getting
you awfully cold. Probably that was Tuesday week, or 2 weeks
ago. We've been up here for quite a while, and so - -
CC I guess that's - I hadn't realized
they were planning on staying down for 2 weeks. They may be -
still be in the saturat:ion condition. We'll see if we
can get you an update on that for tomorrow night.
CDR Okeydokey.
CC I'm being told by PAO, they're still
down. They just have not been able to go ahead and go on
in because of storm conditions.
CDR I like this environment a lot better.
CC I think you're right.
CC Okay. We're about i minute from LOS.
We'll see you over Mila in about 35 minutes from now. That
should be 02:49, 02:49.
SPT Okay, Crip. I'm working this (garble) 28.
There ain't much left of it.
CC Rog. Understand, it's pretty well
dissipated.
PAO Skylab space station has passed out of
range of the tracking stations that were monitoring this
conversatiou_ At 2 hours 16 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-III MC- 781/1
Time: 21:48 CDT; 19/02:48 GMT
8/14/73
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 48 minutes Green-

wich mean time. Coming up on Mila for the Evening Medical
Conference. Standing by.
PLT Yesterday I turned out 6000 watt minutes plus
a bunch of other stuff and it'll be the same tonight.
CC Hello Skylab, Houston. We've got you for
about 4 minutes I guess across Bermuda here and I've got
a couple of items that I'd llke to talk about.
PLT Let her fly.
CC Okay, we Just had a final management meetin E
today and we've got a report for you on the CSM quad pro-
blem if you'd llke me to go into it.
CDR Very much so.
CC Okay. The conclusion is that quad B fail-
ure is attributed to a particle jamming the valve. That
quad Delta is attributed to flnger-tight oxidizer side
dynatube feeding - fittings. These fittings are unique to
quad Delta and to the oxidizer fittings. As you've been
told before, today I think, SL-IV vehicle rolled out today
and they're preparing it to Eo no earlier than September
the 25th. As now we see no need for a rescue and that is
we feel your CSM is okay for your comln E home.
CDR That's good. Uh - this little particle,
do you think there's a chance when we - if we use quad D
that it'll knock the little particle out?
CC I guess - stand by 1, A1.
CDR The plan, I knowD is not to use it unless
you have to, but I just wondered if there was a plan to
maybe use it to try to knock the particle out and then we'd
have three quads.
CC No, AI. They feel that the particle initiated
the problem and that it just got progressively worse and
using it will not help.
CDR Okay, now we do know that quad B we can use
in a pinch. And particularly not - not that one thruster,
but the other three. Now the question on my mind is, if
you had to use quad Delta, what do they think would occur?
That - that's kind of what we wonder about. If you had to
use - first of all we don't plan to use B or D, but if you
had to in a pinch what would happen?
CDR You might want to think that over and tele-
printer it up.
CC Okay, I'ii tell you whatj we'll try to get
you a good answer. I don't know if we'll be able to get
it this pass, but I think they do have a feeling for that.
I'd like to also comment on that statement you made earller
today about the course gains on the rate gyros. We don't
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really feel now that that is helping us, however our test
is not complete and we're going to be leaving it in there
for awhile and continue to look at it. The reason you
probably haven't seen any rate gyro failures or redundancy
management failures is that we're Just running on a single
rate gyro on Y and Z and they've got nothing to really
compare them against. Okay, and I have a quick note here
for Jack. He asked a question about TO02 I'd llke to get
him before I tell you guys goodnlght. Is he listening?
CDR Yes he is, Crlp, and hey, that was - we
appreciate those kinds of information. We have a - a
(garble) of (garble) information that comes up and that's
- we really appreciate what you said tonight then.
CC Okay - -
PLT Goodnight, Crlp.
CC Okay, we'll try to get more of those up.
We're going to go LOS here in about 30 seconds. Madrid
pass is at 03:04. That's after your bedtime, would you
like me to continue with this there?
PLT It's all right with me, Crip, you got
something to say about TOO2?
CC Okay, I'll go ahead and try to talk it
to the LOS. It's about 5 minutes of- probably about a
minutes worth.
PLT I'm listening.
CC Okay, I'm not going to have time for it
on this pass. I'll have to get you over Madrid if that's
okay.
PLT Okay.
PAO We'll reacqulre the space station in about
2-1/2 minutes through Madrid. Standing by for the air-to-
ground through that station.
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SL-III MC-782/I
Time: 22:01 CDT, 19/03:01 GMT
8/14/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS over

Madrid, now, and we've got about 8 minutes. Okay. I'll
cover this TO02 thing and then tell you good night.
PLT Okay. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. In response to the questions
you had earlier today, the corollary people consider your
voice commentary excellent. The data on TOO2-1, three of them
are all excellent. T002-3, four are not received yet; and -6A
was not accomplished, of course due to stadimeter problems;
6 Bravo was good. However on T002-6 must be rescheduled
because 6-A and 6 Bravo must be performed together. On -4, that
was good. Suggestions they've got to offer is number i
when the horizon rotates to the ceiling, suggest you rotate
the sextant instead of the body. And number 2, they
understand the difficulty was definin_ the horizon, suggest
you select your own criteria, tell us what it is and stay
with it. And number 3, your comments on the stadimeter
were very valuable, and continue trying to find good
techniques.
PLT Okay. One thing I think I'm going to
find out, is that tlhe stadimeter works better with a
night horizon than with the day. They don't ask for it,
but I'm going to try some night stadimeter sitings.
CC Okay, Jack. If you'll continue with
that and let us know what you think's best, I guess the
feeling was that you needed a - needed illuminated horizon
to do it,
PLT Okay. And one thing on the operational
stadimeter sitings, they want to have a 15-minute interval
in between three sets of sitings, and I don't think that's
going to work very good, because the hol - the hole horizon,
the whole day pass is not just for stadimeter sitings, only
30 minutes of it is. So, I'm hoping that we can change
that 15-minute interval down to maybe 10-minute intervals.
And, thereby get better sitings on both ends of the pass.
CC Okay. We'll note that and work on it.
And, for Owen, if he will just record us his exercise,
voice record the exercise for tonight. That'll be fine.
And, for AI, we'll try to get you a teleprinter message up
tomorrow in regards to when quad Delta could be used.
SPT Okay, Bob. You can start with the
2/30/5000 and I'ii add some more.
CC Okay. Sounds like I caught you in the
middle ol it.
SPT You' re right.
CC That's all I've got for you. There's
about 5 more minutes of this pass. I' Ii go ahead and sign
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off, here and let you guys get on with it. And we'll
talk to you tomorrow, if that's okay.
CDR Good night, Crip.
CC Good night. And for Al's info, we just
sent up a message, a general message which deals with sug-
gested rehashing of times for the timeline. He might look
it over and give us some comments on it tomorrow.
CDR Okay. Good idea. I talked with the guys
about this early-morning ATM pass and it's favorable, so we
ought to start putting that one in. We'll just get up about
i0 to 15 minutes prior to that pass, and that'll give the fellow
a chance to get up there, and then the rest of us will eat,
and then he can eat afterwards.
CC Okay. It'll be day after tomorrow before
we can get that in.
CDR A:nd, that'll be pretty good. Thank you
Crip. Good night ... - -
CC Okay, guys. Good night.
PAO Skylab-lll has moved out of range of
the Madrid tracking station. And the crew has received the
good night from the ground, on this the mission day 18.
PAO will stand by, however, until we hear from the friendly
physician on the state of well being of Skylab crew for this
day. At 3 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skyl ab Control.
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25 minutes Greenwich mean time. With the daily report on
the health of the Skylab III crew. The health of the crew
of the second Skylab manned mission, that is A1 Bean, Dr.
Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma is still hi@hly satisfactory.
We are encouraging Dr. Garrlott to spend even more time
at his exercise in order to regain more of the weight lost
during the first few days of the mission. That's the
report from the friendly physician, Dr. Paul Buchanan
speaking for Dr. Royce Hawkins. As we said earlier the
Skylab Ill crew has been given a goodnight for this the
18th day of this mission. And with this announcement PAO
also, is signing off. At 3 hours 26 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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8115173
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

mean time I0 hours 58 minutes. We anticipate a wake up call
to the crew of Skylab III on this their 19th day in orbit
August 15 on this pass over Mila and Bermuda tracking
station. We'll leave the line open for the wake up call
from Cap Comm, Bruce McCandless.
CC 8kylab, Skylab, this is Houston through
Merritt Island, good morning. Over.
PLT Good morning, Bruce.
CC How you'all doing up there? We're right
on the ball down here. Ready to go to work again, over.
PLT Okay. So are we. We're just pulling
ourselves out of the ba B.
CC Okay. We're running through a stateside
pass here. I mentioned we're over Merritt Island moving on
to Bermuda. We have about ten and a half minutes till LOS.
We will be dumping the data voice tape recorders over Bermuda.
PLT Okay.
PLT You there, Bruce?
CC Right here, Jack.
PLT Okay. Today we want to give special
recognitation to Elmer Taylor, so its Elmer Taylor day.
Elmer lead our team that got the Skylab and the Command
Module through extensive checkout at the Cape. And he
did an excellent Job. He was busy all the time, he had a
lot of work to do. And he did his work very well. He
worked right up to the last minute, we had lots of stowage
changes at the end and he was the head of it and on top of
it all the way. And we Just want to give him a special
tribute today and give him a pat on the back and also a
pat on the back to the rest of the members of his team because
they spent lots of long hours and a lot of time away from home.
And we also want to give a little extra thanks and appreciation
to the families of these men for they were separated for quite a
long time preparing the Skylab for flight and seeing to
all the many details that are associated with tests at
check out world at Cape Kennedy. So today is Elmer Taylor
day and we Just wanted to specially recognize him and also
the team that works with him.
CC Okay, Jack. We'll certainly pass that
along to him.
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8115173
CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute

til LOS here at Bermuda, next station contact over Ascension
at 11:20 in approximately i0 minutes. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time Ii hours 12 minutes as Skylab III leaves acquisition
of Bermuda tracking station. Next acquisition over Ascension
in approximately ? minutes. Pilot Jack Louama referred
today as Elmer Taylor Day, that's Elmer L. Taylor of the
operation Support Branch of the Johnson Space Center Flight
Crew Operations Directorate. Taylor is part of the precheckout
team which goes to the Cape on each launch and supervises
stowage of the command module and other activities in support
of the flight crew. The crew apparently is selecting, each day, an
individual who worked closely with them in their training and in
their launch preparations. The crews 16-hour today will consist
of ATM operations, M092/MITI experiment with Pilot Lousma
serving as the subject, continued flights of the M509 with
Commander AI Bean as the test pilot. During their work day
today, the crew will circle the globe I0 times, racking up
approximately 230,400 miles during their work day. At
Greenwich mean time Ii hours 14 minutes, we will acquisition
at Ascension in 5-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
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8/15/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

ii hours i[8 minutes. We will have acquisition at Ascension
momentarily as the crew gets their 16 hour day under way.
The crew is probably preparing breakfast at this time as
the first item on the agenda for Commander Bean today, is
3 hour operation at the Apollo Telescope Mount while Pilot
Jack Lousma performs the M092 and MI71 that's the lower body
negative pressure device experiment and the metabolic analyzer
experiment. We'll hold the line open for this pass with
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless, Flight Director is Neil Hutchinson.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Ascension
for 4-1/2 minutes. ,Out.
CC And PLT, this is Houston. Sometime when you're
up in the vicinity of the ATM panel or when you go to
pick up the teleprinter pads if you'd give us a call we have a
couple of small items for you.
PLT All right.
PLT Okay, Bruce go ahead.
CC Okay, Jack one of the pads we sent up to
you last night entitled general message rate gyro drift, has
a type-o error in the thing. On llne 19 for the Y2 gyro drift
value, we have told you in the octal column that it's
an A and then we came over and gave you a value and degrees
per second minus point two balls one seven as a matter of
fact. And we want you to disregard that number that is just
delete the decimal equivalent we don't have a drift
compensation for the Y2 gyro. And we're 45 seconds until
LOS here the next station contact will be Carnarvon at
11:50 in approximately 25 minutes. Let me keep talking though.
One other item is that the S055 data during unattended
OPS indicate that the night interlock switch on S055 scan
spect was left in override. I wonder if you could verify
that and or put it back in normal for us. The point of
confusion here maybe, that we're calling for the H-ALPHA i night
interlock switch to override on the ATM schedule pad prior
to closing out for unattended ops. Over.
PLT Roger. It was there's no confusion it's just
that it was put there and left there for the last run and wasn't
changed.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And we'll talk
to you over Carnarvon.
ii hours 26 minutes, as we lose contact over the Ascension
station. Internal temperatures in Skylab 3 this morning
average temperature is 71 degrees, a comfortable 71. Next
acquisition over Carnarvon in approximately 23 minutes from
now. At Greenwich mean time II hours 26 minutes this is
Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean

time ii hours 49 minutes. We will have acquisition through
Carnarvon tracking station in approximately 40 seconds.
We'll hold the line open for this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for the next i0 minutes. Out.
PLT Say Bruce, I've been curious for the
last couple of days, as to what the plan is for the S192
thermal alignment. Going to leave it llke it is or try to do
better or did they find out it's okay the way it is or
what?
CC We're sorry you asked that, Jack. We are
still investigating the data and we hope to have a plan up
to you in the next day or so, on what we want to do and that
will still give us a lot of time to work things over and be
ready to resume the EREP passes along about mission day 37.
PLT Okay. The only thing I can think of is
that it looked llke to me that the focus was okay but maybe
we were locked on the side (garble) and needed to do a
square search or something llke that.
CC Okay. We'll certainly take your infor-
mation here and fact:or it into the overall consideration.
I know there has been some talk about changing out the
detector cooler assembly. But on the negative side of that, it's
believed that the performance of the visible channel of the
other unit is not as good as the performance of the visible
channel of the unit that is installed. So apparently there are
a lot of factors involved in making the decision.
PLT Yea, plus we got good visible alinement on
the one we got. We might goof it up and that would put a lot on
13 channels right there.
CC Yes sir, we are also aware of that. And
by the way, when we were were talking to you last pass about
this SO55 experiment, night interlock switch - to override
normal, we didn't understand exactly what you said, with
respect to the last pass of the day. What we had on the ATM
schedule pad for the last pass yesterday, was putting the
H Alpha 1 night interlock switch to NORMAL and we
don't see a reference to the SO55 to override.
PLT All right Bruce, there's no confusion between
those overrides switches. There can't be. But what I was trying
to say was that the last guy who used the ATH or used SO55, must
have ran the grading in night to get it set up and forgot to put
it back to normal.
CC Roger. Okay. We understand now what you were
saying. It sort of missed us though when you ran it by the first
time. And while I'm talking to you, Jack, in the M509 run for today,
when you change batteries about halfway through the run, we'd
like you to take the battery that you take out of the maneuvering unit
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battery number 7 - and go ahead and start charging it, right

where you swap batteries out because we are going to be
pressed for time between the run today and the run on
Friday to get a good 20 hours on each. Over.
PLT Okay, we'll do that, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Hello, Bruce. We had an interesting view out the
window at you at 11:40, here about 15, 14 minutes ago.
CC What did you have at 11:40 please?
SPT A large apparent low pressure area. It's off
to the Southeast of the Cape of Good Hope there. I don't
know whether it has been reported or not, but it is a very large,
clockwise, circulating, apparent low pressure area that looks
llke a possible typhoon getting underway. Over.
CC Okay, thank you. We'll put that into
the mill. And since we are talking to you, Owen, the solar activity
update for this morning is again fairly short. Prominence
29 has dissappeared. Active region 86 contains a slightly
active filament and filament 28 should appear as a prominence
as rotation carries it over the west llmb. Overall, the sun
is classlfled as very quiet today. Over.
SPT Roger.
CC And is the commander in a position where
he can listen for Just a second or is he tied up?
CDR No, he's listening.
CC Okay. As you may have noticed or may
be aware, we, the summary shift, make up the flight plans during
the early morning hours here. And this is our last warning
on summary shift for a couple of weeks. What we have been
trying to do in response to your request for more
activity and things to do is Just to build up the level of
activity fairly gradually. The last flight plan that we have
made up this morning will be the one that you will go through
tomorrow. You may note in looking at it, we have scheduled
over 8 hours of ATM observations. And we think this is a
record for manned space flight. And we'd appreciate your
comments on how the workload seems to be going and what
you think of the flight plan for tomorrow, when you get in
to it and get to working with it. Over.
CDR Okay. We, as you know, we got that update
this morning with some proposed items to change the
the time on, infllght time, to do. And we've been thinking
about that and talking about that this morning so we got to
do some planning on it. We agree with this more ATM
passes. I'm thinking this morning, and it's goin E to become
more true as we move toward the East in the morning, as we
are now. The first guy that gets up, on the flight plan can
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easily go up there and run that first pass. And it won't do

anything to our sleeping hours at all. Yet it will allow
us to get in one extra pass per day. So we're looking forward
to that ATM operation that way. We'll let you know about the
other too. We've been talking about 'em.
CC Okay. I guess the big thing is Just to
keep communicating to us your thoughts on how the workload
seems to be working out.
CDR Okay. I know I've - we've had a lot of
conversation about it the last four or five days and of course
we had some the first three or four days in orbit. And I guess
that's right. It's sort of an iteratlve process. It just takes a
little while. None of us up here or down there want to waste
any of this valuable time we got going here, because everybody's got
to much time invested in it. And I think it's Just going
to take iteration to get it down to where we're doing
the maximum each day without - you know, not getting our proper -
with getting our proper rest, but still getting the maximum work
outeach day. The rate - It's going to take you a little time to
get it honed down.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Okay, one thing we have noticed is the
fellow who seems to end up with time all the time is me
because I've got that, that planning time in the evening,
which really, there is no planning hardly to do that I can
figure out, it's all been done on the ground. So my schedule
itself, as opposed to Jack and Owen's, has got to come up in
that area, let's say, because there's Just nothing there. And
the second one is, the fellow who has the ATM really has
every night off and these nights are 30 minutes long. So
if you got three or four ATM passes, you got about two hours
right off the bat of time that could somehow be worked. Now
I don't know how we're gonna have to work it cause it's hard
to - to - maybe we could do things like SO19, but have S019 -
the pad not start immediately at Sunset - have it start 5
minutes after sunset. I think a guy could do the ATM very
easily, go do the S019. He would make it on time, and then he
could go back up to tlhe ATM. I don't know, but these
are possibilities I tlhlnk that's where we are going to be able
to get the most of our time, right there.
CC Okay, AI. We have in fact started
scheduling you a little more heavily in the evenings to take
advantage of that planning time that doesn't seem to be required.
And we are one minute to LOS at Carnarvon. Our next station
contact is Guam in approximately 4 minutes. Your other
comments with regard to the ATM will certainly by incor-
porated into the system. We are planning more S019 work,
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however, there is a limit to the number of S019 passes you

can do in succession since it requires an inhibit to the
momentum dump. A fruitful thing to do - we're not trying
to pass the buck back to you guys again - would be to take a
look at the shopping list and see what the individual on the
ATM feels like he could profitably work in durin s the night
passes. And we'll also look and see if we can't try scheduling
some and see how it works out. Over.
CDR Okay. We're working.
CDR We'll be working on it with you, we're
trying to do it too.
CC Okay.
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Time: 07:01 CDT, 19/12:01 GMT
81-15173
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam

for the next 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC $kylab, this is Houston 1 minute til
LOS at Guam. Next station contact is Goldstone at 12 plus
29, beginning a stateside pass. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 30 seconds
til LOS at Guam, next station contact is Goldstone at 12
plus 29, beginning a stateside pass. Out.
time 12 hours 14 minutes, loss of signal over the Guam
tracking station. Next acquisition over Goldstone in
approximately 14-1/2 minutes. During this pass over Guam,
discussions were concerning the S192 - this is the S192
multispectral scanner, a 13 spectral band instrutment used
in the earth resources program. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
became weather watcher on the last pass over the Cape of
Good Hope in South Africa. He reported a low pressure area,
a large low pressure area which he described as a start of
a possible typhoon in that area. At that point, the spacecraft
was passing within 600 nautical miles south of the Cape of
Good Hope at about 6:49 a.m. central daylight time. Next
acquisition over Goldstone in approximately 13-1/2 minutes.
This is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC789/I
Time: 07:28 CDT, 19/12:28 GMT
8/15/73

12 hours 28 minutes. Acquisition coming up over the Goldstone
tracking station as Skylab 3 concludes its 1341st revolution
of the earth since launch of the workshop on Hay 14 from
Cape Kennedy, Flordia.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Goldstone
stateside pass for 17 minutes. Out.
PAO Apparently there's a problem in the network
system tracking network. There is no uplink voice at this
time to Skylab 3 we will not have voice for about 3 minutes
when the spacecraft comes in contact with the Texas tracking
station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi
coming to you for the next 13 minutes on our stateside pass.
Out.
SPT Hello Bruce, I'm glad to hear you through
Corpus Christi that's a new one. And I'm up at the ATM panel
right now and I've gone through the power up from unattended
I've not touched any of the experiments switches since
I wasn't sure you were through with it. However, I noticed
on the pad that you do not have any unattended OPS for this
rev and if you aren't using it I'ii go ahead and run some
shopping list items on the - from the ATM panel for this
sunside pad. Over.
CC Roger, Owen, we're not using it have at it.
SPT Okay, fine I'ii take it over from here.
SPT What sort of TV capability if any do you
have through Corpus Christi?
CC Oh, we have capability here Owen. You can
send it down and we'll record it at the site we can't real time
direct in the viewing room or anything like that but go
ahead.
SPT We've also got the TV running on the action in
the forward compartment turned up the airlock and working on the
tape recorder.
CC Okay, let me Just make sure we're talking
on thewave length here. I understand the video that you're
going to be sending down to us is of the operation on the
looking at the tape recorder. It's been taken out of the
airlock module system. Is that correct?
SPT Well right now we've got it on L setting up
SOl9 in the airlock and I'm setting up to start working on
the tape recorder here, so we might be able to give you some
of that too. We are unfortunately using the serial 005 camera
because it Just happened to be handy but so be it.
CC Okay, now the only point to- that was of any
concern here is if you start using the video tape recorder for
recording video we need to work out our budget and give you
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a go or no go on that.
SPT No, it's not going on the VTR it's real time
only as you can get: it.
CC Beautiful we got it.
SPT Bruce, you still there?
CC Haven' t gone anywhere, Owen.
SPT Hello_ Houston.
CC Roger, Hou- Skylab, Skylab this is Houston
you reading okay? Over.
SPT Okay, now we got you. I was just going to
report on the appearance of the corona. Up on the west limb
the streamers are largely up around 075, sort of a multi grouping
of streamers straight out at 075 over on the - that was the
west limb. Over on the east limb there are 3 principle
streamers now, spaced about 20 degrees apart about 270 and then
plus or minus 20 degrees. The appearance of the corona is
a little different than it was as I recall from yesterday.
CC Okay ; we' re copying that.
CC And Just for your information Skylab, we are
getting some TV here in the Control Center now, showing Jack
taking some screws out of the airlock module tape recorder
package. Looks llke it's down on top of the big vent fan
solar assembly from the waste management compartment.
CC And there goes AI, across our field of view
probably to answer my transmission.
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CC And we're getting the ATM TV now with

the integrated UV picture being flashed at us.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute til
LOS and looks llke the next station contact here will be
Goldstone at 14:06 in about an hour and 20 minutes. We
got a low pass going by Vanguard at 12 plus 57 but we probably
won't acquire you there.
time 12 hours 47 minutes with loss of signal over the tracking
station of Texas. We had an unscheduled television downlink
on this pass with showing Pilot Jack Lousma working on the
airlock module tape recorder which has been scheduled for
a look at today. He was shown taking it apart in the
experiment area of the workshop. Next acquisition will be
over Carnarvon in approximately 43 minutes. There is a
pass skirting the Vanguard tracking station however CAP COM
Bruce McCandless indicated to the crew that the ground would
probably not acquire them on the next Vanguard pass. Next
acquisition Carnarvon in approximately 43 minutes. At
Greenwich mean time, 12 hours 48 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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._I,-
I I ! MC791/I
Time: 09:03 CDT, 19/14:03 GMT
_/15/73

14 hours 3 minutes we anticipate acquisition over Goldstone
in approximately 2-1/2 minutes on this stateside pass. After
this pass there will be only one more stateside pass today
this is due to the fact that the ground track of Skylab is
moving westward and getting out of range of stateside stations.
Flight planners proded by the suggestion of the Skylab 3
Commander AI Bean, have devised a plan to increase experiment
man hours by ii hours each day. This increase which represents
50 percent more time for experiment operation is being made
possibly by reducing pre and post flight - pre and post sleep
activities some housekeeping chores, mealtime, and deleting
some time in procedures in the operation of three medical
experiments. Detaiils of these reductions were teleprinted
up to the crew last night and the crew has been asked to
review these suggestions and pass their comments back to
Mission Control Center. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
4 minutes. We'll hold the llne open for this stateside pass.
CC Good morning, Skylab, Houston we got you
stateside for about 13 minutes.
PLT Well, I'ii be doggone there is a Dick Truly.
CC Yes sir back to work.
PLT You got Phil Shaffer down there with you?
CC S:itting right here.
PLT Is he pulling that coin trick on you?
PLT He worked his way through college working
that coin trick.
CC The card trick.
CC Jack, Phll says to tell you that all he can
say is that you are easy.
PLT He's right. I know. He's a pro I admit it.
CC Roger; that. (chuckle)
PLT I'm a lot easier when I using his quarters
though.
CC RoBe r.
CC And PLT, Houston if you have a chance during
this stateside pass the ENCO would like to hear how you came
out on the recorder look procedure and if you put any comments
on channel A.
PLT I haven't put any comments on channel A yet,
but I'ii give them t:o you. Turned out everything on the top
side rotated freely. On the front end there was nothing
off track. I had to tear into it and llft the whole thing
out and when I looked under the under side, turns out that
the little yellow belt that is the motor drive belt that drives
off the motor drive shaft into the transmission of the tape
recorder was busted with a clean 90 degree break. There's
a little bit of residue on each on of those rollers on the
drive shaft to the motor and into the rollers that Bo into
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the transmission and I don't know if we got anything on

board to repair it with. Looks llke she would take a little
time to get into there and repair it if had one at all.
But looks llke the motor is good the tape drive is good and
the war is being lost for the lack of a good belt.
CC Roger, Jack good description. Let me see
if there are any more questions and then we'll get back to
you.
PLT [_oes it sound like I'm shouting to you
all the time, Dick?
CC Yea, it does a little bit, Jack, high volume.
PLT Okay, well I guess we talk extra hard to
project our voice from the thinner - atmosphere here
maybe we try too hard.
CC No, we're - I'm hearing you loud and clear
but it does sound a little bit llke that.
PLT Okay, is that better.
CC Roger.
PLT Seems llke to me that -
PLT Seems llke to me that I remember there being
some extra pinch roller belts on board although I'm
not sure and but I don't ever remember them saying anything
about any extra drive belts being onboard but if there are
I sure would llke to take a whirl at fixing that.
CC Roger, Jack we'll take a look at the
stowage list and see if there is anything onboard that
you might could use and we'll get back to you after we've
looked at that.
CDR Want a llttle TV down link, Dick.
CC Roger, we're getting TV on the ground, A1.
CDR Okay, I'Ii give you a little XUV mon in
process of sklp, there for you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, two things we think we -
you should be on. In ATM 1 position on the video switch for
us to get downllnk we've lost it. Second, A1 we notice we
have a star presence indication however, the gimbal
angles on the star tracker make us think that the star
tracker is probably locked on to a part of the vehicle.
And the correct glmbal angles are outer glmbal plus 1530
and inner gimbal about minus 6 - 78 or 80 to get a good
star lock.
SPT I had a good mark at that location on the
earlier rev Dick, it must have come loose and tracked over
there.
CC Understand.
CC And Skylab, if you can get it locked on
for us we'd like to enable Nu Z updates and then we'll
- you can secure it again.
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CC Skylab, Houston, on the star tracker if you

will see if you can - if you have time to lock it on again
we would like to enable the Nu Z update and then you
can secure the star tracker for a while.
PLT Hey, Dick while you there one of the most
and I'm thinking about, one of the most fun things to do
up here is to turn yourself upside down and walk on the
ceiling and getting glued in your happy idea that that's right
side up now. And it don't - to float over to the hole in
the ceiling - the hatch in the ceiling and look down towards
it looks llke you're living in the attic then and look down
toward the command module looks llke if you step over that
hole you're going to fall clear down through clear down to the
bottom of a well and it's really a lot of fun to do everything
upside down Just for the heck of it.
CC Roger, has anybody fell down there yet.
PLT Yea, the other guys are pretty good at being
careful but I fell down it several times.
CC Roger. (Chuckle).
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PLT You sure had a lot a - sure had a lot
of wires and junk on the floor when you start doing that
though.
CC Roger.
CC And we've got a good TV downlink picture again.
CDR Wonder why you weren't able to get
it on MON-2, I had it displayed there Just switched over to
MON-2 but you never got it, huh?
CC Stand by one.
CDR The one that had all the contacts and every-
thing adjusted for you there.
CC CDR, Houston, we're having to use
monitor I only from here on in because of the TV bus 2
problem that we had. And I did not copy your last transmission
down.
CDR I was wondering, once the star tracker round
the inner and outer gimbal that we think we have it doesn't
seem to lock on. See if you can get a better thought on those
gimbal angles.
CC Roger; standby.
CDR I'Ii put some (garble) with it for a minute and
rotate the (garble).
CC CDR, Houston, it's going to take us
awhile to recompute some new star tracker gimbal angles,
so why don't you Just close the shutter and we'll get back
to you possibly at the Vanguard with some new angles.
CDR Okay, I tried the (garble) ones and all around
and it just didn't work. Apparently there's 5.5 out of Nu Z we've
got - got them off a little bit.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Okay, I'ii put the corona (garble) back
in 108 give you some more UV mon.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR Okay, here comes the little sequence
again.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, that was one sequence complete,
I'ii give them another.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS at Texas. We're going to see you at Vanguard
at 14:31 and we're going to dump the data tape recorder
down there at Vanguard. See you there.
CDR Okay, (garble) I'ii be standing
by for those new star angles.
CC Okay.
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Time: 09:14 CDT, 19/14:14 GMT
8/25/73

time 14 hours 21 minutes. As Skylab III orbiting workshop
begins the 1342 revolution. Pilot Lousma were discussing
with CAP COH Dick Truly of how good it feit to walk on the
ceiling. You turn yourselft upside down and walk on the
ceiling. He said by looking down through the hatch doors
through the airiock module, FLDA into the command module,
he said he felt like he would fall down into a big hole.
The activities past up to the crew concerning an increase
in there experiment time by reducing certain activities in
the post-sleep area, they reduce per man 50 minutes per day
and pre-sleep activity they reduce 1 hour per man, certain
houskeeping chores reduction by i hour per man. Heal B,
the lunch meal is reduced from i hour to 40 minutes, a
reduction of 20 minutes per man, 30 minutes in the HO92/H171
experiment and i0 minutes in the M092/M093 per man. This
is a 31 percent reduction in activities in this area and
thereby increasing your general experiment operations by
Ii man hours. The crew is expected to comment on this later
today and flight planners will use this as a guide in
planning future day's activities for Skylab III crew.
Skylab Control at 14 hours 23 minutes, next acquisition
at Vanguard tracking station in approximately 7 minutes.
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SL-III MC-793/I
Time: 09:29 CDT, 19,114:29 GMT
8/15/73

time, 14 hours 29 minutes. With acquisition coming up at
the Vanguard tracking station, on shift now Flight Director
Phil Shaffer head of the purple team of flight controllers
and CAP COM is Astronaut Richurd Truly. Leave the line
open for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the
Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick, everything's perking along.
CC Roger, AI. I had one note from you
from the ATM guys here at this pass and it really concerns
your next daylight cycle if you have a minute to listen
to me.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, it turns out that active region 90
has decayed significantly during the evening and you may be
it may be very difficult for you to even find. We suggest
that on the next daylight cycle when your attacking active region
90 that you point at the brightest area near the specified coor-
dinates on the SAP pad. When you're performing JOP ii and I have
1 change to that daylight cycle pad on JOP ii at a time of
46 minutes where it says omit 82 alfa, 82 bravo and 52. We
would also llke to omit S054 because the region has decline.
Over.
CDR Okay. Looks to me, I was over there
looking for that region awhile ago and sure enough you can
not find it. Also I don't think the pad points out the
coordinates for that region. So if they want me to work that
region, they'll have to give me some real coordinates. The
only thing that gives me is - you know let me tell you
what it - 12/5, that isn't good enough to find it,
it sure isn't, I looked all around for it and couldn't find
it. Maybe they would llke me to skip that whole daylight
pass, go to the next daylight pass do it and then that'll
give them a chance to come up with a brand new daylight pass
either to slap on the end of the day or put on the one after
this after the one I would do next. So in other words it
looks llke we're going to end up sort of wasting a pass there
because we can't even find the area.
CC Roger, AI. Give me a couple of minutes
and let us talk about that a second. We'll get back to you.
We still have about 8 minutes left here at Vanguard.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We would llke for you to
stay off the DAS for Just a minute so we can enable
contingency sample. We got M092 coming up and we'd also like
to enable TACs.
CDR Still haven't got you that lock on yet.
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CC Roger, CDR. We've got some machine problems

here on the ground in computing new gimbal angles for you,
so we're not going to have that here at Vanguard.
CDR I'ii go over there. I've got a few minutes
here, I'll go work on it.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Rouston. After a little bit
of consideration down here, we think that we'd perfer on the next
daylight cycle to stick with the pad we have and the suggestion
is to go ahead and point to those general coordinates even
if there is no even bright spot there and we'll take the data
on the QUAD sun in that area and the coordinates like you
read them down to me is 120 degrees at half a radall.
CDR Okay, I'ii give it a go, that's a pretty
rough way. Usually - normally they come up on any active
region we're going to work on and give us up-down, left-right
for the roll of the day which happens to be 108. I've notice
this morning, it was drifting and wondering why but I assume
it must have been all of those machine problems.
CC Roger, copied it all except the last
couple of sentences, AI.
CDR I assumed it must have been some sort
of machine problem because the ground rule is on any
active region that we work on that the up-down, left-right
will be on the pad although it doesn't seem to be there today.
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CDR Okay Dick, we got a star at outer, 1401

and inner, minus 670. Wonder if that's the right one?
CC Roger, CDR. Wetll check in. And CDR
Houston, I've got some pointing information for you, for that
active region for the next daylight cycle. It's for a canister
roll of 10 800; left, 410, up 250. Over.
CDR Hey, thank you, it worked.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. While you've got the
star we're going to enable the star tracker updates to Nu Z.
CDR Okay. You think that's a good one, huh?
CC Yes sir, sure do. Thank you. And
Skylab, Houston. Just one more thing we want to make sure
that TACS is enable before we start the 92 vent. It's coming
up in about 3 minutes heretor so.
CDR Okay, I'm going to enable it right now.
CC Okay, good.
CDR Mine shows the closed momentum is about zero. So
everything looks pretty good at the moment.
CC Roger. We think we're in good shape s A1, we're
Just covering the bets. And Skylab, Houston we're about a
minute from LOS. We're gonna see you at Goldstone at 15:46.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, you can go ahead and
close the star tracker shutter now.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR Houston, as we go over the hill, ATM
would llke to remind you to go to line 8 on S055.
CDR Okay. They mean after this? This pre
scant according to mine, should have been done at 25. So I'll
go to 8, afterwards.
SPT Houston, that's llne 9 now, in our latest cal.
CC Roger, Owen.
SPT I think that's llne 9.
CC Roger, Owen, we agree with you. You're
right.
CDR Everybody agrees. Okay, we just finished
this cal and I'ii go to line 9 now.
CC Okay. Thank you much.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
14 hours 41 minutes with loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. The crew was discussing with the ground the
ATM observation program. The crew has nine sunslde passes
during their observation period today. Looking at the sun
which is Just a mere 92 mi11ion 907 miles away.
At Greenwich mean time 14 hours, 42 minutes.
Next acqulslon at Goldstone, approximately one hour and
flve minutes from now. Richard Wilmarth Project Scientist
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of EREP program at the Johnson Space Center will hold

a press conference in the building 1 newsroom coffi_encing
at i0 AM this morning. That's Dick Wilmarth, Project Scientist
for EREP at the Johnson Space Center - will hold a
press conference on EREP commencing at 10AM in the news
room in building i. In the event that the press conference is
on during the next Goldstone pass, we will tape that pass
and play it at the close of the Press Conference. At 14
hours, 42 minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC795/I
Time: 10:43 CDT, 19/15:43 GMT
8/15/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

mean time 15 hours 43 minutes. Wlth acquisition coming up over
the Goldstone tracking station the last stateside pass for
today. During this next - presently underway is the operation
of the MO92/M171 by pilot Jack Lousma. And during this
time, in addition to - among the many pa - many
messages teleprinted up to the Skylab crew today, was a procedure
for the crew to shoot color pictures of each other. The
photos will not be the usual tourls- type mug pictures but
rather documentation stills for medical people to study after
the mission. The Skylab 2 crew of Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwln
and Paul Weitz had reported that lack of gravity made
their faces feel slack as facial muscles relaxed. Medics
are interested in having progressive pictures made of the
Skylab 3 crewmen to record any changes in facial contours,
and the apparent size of neck veins. Similar photos will be
made during runs of the lower body negative pressure experi-
ment to compare for changes caused by differences in blood
volume distribution. Color photos of each man; two front-head
and shoulders, and one of each side, will be made for each series
of the medical runs. Medics have asked that the crewmen
wear T-shlrts and be photographed either against a dark
black background or at a maximum distance from the workshop wall.
For photography huffs, the photos will be made with a Nikon-F,
with a 55-milllmeter lens, using high speed color film at 160th
of a second at stop f/4. We expect acquisition over the
Goldstone tracking station momentarily. CAP COM is Richard
Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS Goldstone
for 4 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We are perking along here
on the ATM. I went over the coordinates that you gave me for
active region 90, which were; left 410 up 250. Then I sort of
looked around to see if I could find any remnants of an
active region and I found some at left 267 up 314. So that
was off on the ... tube, but I went up there and that's
why l'm running right now JOP ii.
CC Roger, CDR. And we concur with that,
stay right where you are. Also AI, while you're listening
I - we made a bad call to you a while ago. Skylab, Houston
How do you read?
CDR Read you good.
CC Okay. We made one bad call to you a
while ago and that was on that TV tube 1 and 2 business.
There's no reason because of the short that we should not be
able to use TV monitor 1 or 2, Just normal ops. So that does
confuse us a little bit because we did lose our down link
TV signal while ago when you did switch over the first time from i
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to 2 and we don't understand that right now.

CDR Okay, I'ii be glad to give you some more
on 2 again any time you want it.
CC Roger., AI. We'll have to schedule that a
little bit later cause the lines are not up now. One other
note, getting back to this up/down and rlght/left coordinates
thing that you might, we'd like to understand. We've only
been putting the up/down and left/right coordinates on the SAP
pad for the solar features of major interest and potential
activity and that caught us today on this active region,
because we did not expect it to disappear and then when we
needed the up/down and right/left coordinates they were not on the
pad. And so we have been, the NOAA guys and our ATM folks have
been using our own judgment as to whether or not to put
those coordinates on the pad and we just as soon continue
with this procedure, however, if you would like them on for
every one of those on each pad we could do that too. So why
don't you think about that and let us know.
CDR Okay. I'Ii tell you what we thought
were the ground rules before we launched. And at that,
they would put them on for anything of importance that they felt
like but in order keep from cluttering the pad we
wouldn't put them on all of them. But in every case they
would be on there as suggested for any active region filament
or whatever else that's going - that's called out in that day's pad.
So if you got something called out you can immediately look
over there find the coordinates, go there and then if you
want to change the role or change the coordinates or something
to enhance it, that's your own business. But the whole idea was
to allow you to move from one building block to the next or one
JOP to the next with ease, instead of trying to turn around and
trying to decide which prominence is which or which active area
is which you could go right there and then you could get on with
the program. We prefer that you send up any that you llke,
but be sure to put the ones on there that we're working
today.
CC Roger. Understand AI and we'll take
care of that. We're going LOS at Goldstone and then we're
going to see you at Vanguard at 16:08.
CDR Okey dokie.
CC See you there.
CDR By the way, the remnants of that
active area I mentioned were a couple of filaments that
are slightly above llne 25. Well we have one Just above
llne 25, one is off to the left. And in a very dim plage
area and that's it. Also the shape of the cells in that
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area is disturbed. And Paul Peterson would be interested
to know that they're ...
CC Roger, AI, and we are losing you. See
you at Vanguard.
time 15 hours 51 minutes with loss of signal over Goldstone
tracking station. At this time Commander Bean is still at
the Apollo Telescope Mount, Pilot Jack Lousma should be
nearing the end of the MO92/M170 run. Bio-medical experi-
ments lower body negative pressure device and Metabolic
analyzer. This is the fourth time that Pilot Lousma has
conducted the M092 lower body negative pressure device
experiment. The flight plan calls for Lousma to run this
experiment 17 times during the 59 day mission. Next acquisition
at Vanguard is approximately 15-1/2 minutes. Skylab
Control at 15 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC796/I
Time: 11:06 CDT, ].9/16:06 GMT
8/15/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean tlme

16 hours 6 minutes. Acquisition coming up at the Vanguard
tracking station; we'll hold the line up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes. The momentum is in good shape and you can inhibit
the TACS if you want to.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Roger. And in case you didn't get the last
transmission, we're looking at the momentum state. It looks
good and we think we can go ahead and inhibit TACS now.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've brought the TV
reception up at the Vanguard and we see you on ATM TV 1
now. If you'd llke to switch over to TV 2 we'll see - what
kind of Joy we have.
CDR Okay, Dick there's a H-ALPHA 2 for you.
CC Roger, AI, we're checking out at the site
to see what kind of fidelity we have on the down llnk. We're
not bringing it in to Houston.
CC And al - -
CDR Okay, I'll give them a little H-ALPHA 1
on both scopes. That way, they can get it clear.
CC Roger, and I'll get back to you when we
have some knowledge of how the downlink went, AI.
We got about 5 or 6 minutes left in this pass. I have some
more pen and inks that we need to make to the rest of the
ATM schedule pads for today, due to the decline of active
region 90, when you can copy them.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger, the next one is in the pass that
starts at 17:09 Zulu and at time 41 same pen and ink as
before we want to also omit S054. And then after that
daylight cycle, we're going to secure your operations against
active region 90. And so for the remainder of the pads where -
in Jop 2 ALPHA, we'd llke to change the active region 90
to active region 86. And I have some pointing numbers for
you for active region 86, if you'd llke to have them.
CDR Go ahead, we'll write them down.
CC Okay, you're still for a roll of 10800,
up 180, left 850.
CDR Okay, got that.
CC Okay, the only thing that leaves on the
pal - pad, AI, that still reflects active region 90 is down
at the bottom of the pad where we're going to power down to
do unattended ops. We're still talking about how we're
doing to do the unattended this evening, so that change
will have to come later if at all.
CDR Okay, Dick.
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Time: 1[:14 CDT, 1'9/16:14 GMT
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CC CDR, Houston; be advised. We're getting

good reception on TV-2 down at the Vanguard and so we're
not sure what the anomaly was but apparently it's one time
and we've got a good system still.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. This is for the PLT
and I'm not sure whether he can a - can listen closely but
no response required. What we intend to do on the
alr-lock module tape recorder, turns out there is no belt
onboard that can be used to repair that one. However,
what we intend to do is have you preform the same recorder
look procedure that we sent up on the pad last evening and
you did on the first one. On the second failed tape recorder
we think that tape :recorder was placed in a plenum
bag and we're trying to see if we can help you find it and
I'll be coming up with you- with that later on in the
day but we'll have you to get it out of the plenum
bag and continue to do that same procedure on that recorder.
PLT You want me to put the one back together
that I got torn up :right now?
CC PLT, Houston. Just put it together with
a couple of screws just like the procedure says and we -
of course what we really hope is that we'll be able to
make one good one out of the two we have. Also Jack, there
was one thing that we did not put on the procedure that
we would like you to do. That is read us the number on elapsed
time meter that's on the case. We'd llke that number
for some engineering data to compare it to what he think
elapsed time was in that recorder.
PLT Okay, and I'll get that and do you want
any close up TV pictures of the thing. Or do you think you
got enough information?
CC Jack. We think your discriptlon describes
the problem to us adequately enough and we don't need the
TV.
PLT Okay. That's a big ice (garble)
down there. Boy there really big (garble)
CC Roger; you're Just about at 50 degrees
south latitude right now.
PLT Right.
CC PLT, Houston. Just one more note on the
belt. We may end up asking you to bring that broken belt
back home. So don't throw it away. We're about 1 minute
from LOS at Vanguard. We're going to see you at Hawaii at
17:17 and we are going to dump the data tape recorder at
Hawaii.
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Time: 11:14 CDT, 19/16:14 GMT
8/1s/73
PLT (Garble) bring the transmission home

(garble)
CDR (Garble) and take place at postion 25
so I moved it back to 9 and that's where we're doing the
mirror align scan. Also it didn't call for 82B to be omitted
so I'm doing 82B also.
CC Roger, CDR. We got copy.'
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
16 hours 19 minutes. Further conversations with Commander
A1 Bean concerning the operation of the ATM mount and the
comment by Jack Lousma he said they could see ice flows.
Referring to the ice flows north of the South Georgia Islands in
the deep South Atlantic. It is winter down in that part of
the country although it's August 15th, hot and humid in
Houston. Referring to a conversation last night of Astronaut
Owen Garriott concerning the hatching of the munnichog
minnow onboard the spacecraft, 50 munnichog minnow eggs were
carried aboard the spacecraft with two nearly fully grown
minnows. The first egg hatched yesterday and Astronaut Garriott
described the procedure, adaptor procedure, apparently of the
little munnichog. He said that the fish was swimming
in a very normal manner. Dr. Dick Simmons of the Veterinarian
at the Johnson Space Center who is in charge of the aquarium
for the Life Sciences Directorate here, explained that apparently
the vestibular apparatus of the little fish is not totally
operative at this early state in it's llfe and not fully
developed so therefore the fish is not quite even
adapted to weighless environment. He may a - may change
and become completely disoriented llke his older brothers
in the aquarium on board. At Greenwich mean time, 16 hours
20 minutes with next acqulstion over the Hawaii tracking
station in approximately 55 minutes, this is Skylab Control
at Greenwich mean time, 16 hours 21 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC798/I
Time: 12:15 CDT, 19/17:15 GMT
8/15/73

17 hours 15 minutes. With acquisition coming up over the
Hawaii tracking station. We'll hold this llne open for
communications between CAPCOM Dick Truly and Skylab 3 crew.
CC Skylab, Houston; Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CC And, PLT, Houston - who I think is at the
ATM console now, we'd llke to - reminder, wetd llke the H-Alpha i,
NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to the NORMAL position, please.
CC Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. On this activity we would llke
to omit SO54 from running against that active region where
you are now.
PLT I'm pointing at the - part of that quarter from
the pad, which is the H-ALPHA 2 or off-set pointing right on sun
center and I don't see any active region that youtre talking
about.
PLT Will omit - what experiment do you want me
to turn off?
CC It's - Jack, it's SO54 and the reason was - X
was visiting with A1 when he was up there earlier - that active
region 90 went away during the evening and so we made an
update to the ATM schedule pad to - in addition to those other
experiments for that - where it's listed there. We also wanted
to omit SO54 at time 41.
PLT I'm working some - I'm working a quiet
region; I'm not working any active area.
CC Roger, PLT, we understand that. 54, due to the
wide field of view, was looking at an active region, however,
although it's not printed there. And we do want to not run
SO54. So if you will Just terminate that we'll be in good shape.
PLT Okay, I turned it off.
CC Okay, thank - -
CDR Now tlhis is the CDR. It's my poor writing there
he couldn't read it.
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
PLT And I just did a shopping llst item 14 on
SO82B; three short exposures, and taking note of your request
to get a few more pictures on 82B.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you for letting us know.
PLT I got a question about that shopping llst
however. The time of 30 seconds I guess, and they want that
equally spaced over 30 seconds or Just as fast as you can get
them off.
CC Stand by i.
PLT It probably doesn't matter.
CC Roger, stand by Just 1 second, Jack. I'll be
right back with you.
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CC PLT, Houston. The answer is we'd like the

exposures as fast as you can get them off.
PLT Okay, that's what we did.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab_ Houston we're about 1 minute from
LOS we'll see you at the Vanguard at 17:47.
PLT Okay, Dick and where it says pointing with
55 offset_ up, 85 arc-sees I'm taking the liberty to make
that 80 arc secs due to the fact that we've only got 80 arc
seconds between our SLIT center and our offsets now as opposed
to 85, since we're working llne 9 instead of line 8.
CC Roger, Jack we concur with that. That's
the right way to go.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC799/I
Time: 12:25 CDT, 19/17:25 GMT
8/15/73

17 hours 25 minutes. With loss of signal over the Hawaii
tracking station. Pilot Jack Lousma is now at the ATM
console and a good deal of discussion concerning pointing
and use of various instruments of the scientific observations
of the Sun. Later this afternoon it will be the young - the
daring young men and their flying machines again when
Skylab 3 Commander Alan Bean will make his second flight
inside the space station with the Astronaut maneuvering unit
While the first run Monday was devoted mainly to simple
maneuvers to acquaint Bean with the Buck Rogers like device
and weightlessness. Today's flight will include more
complicated maneuvers. Commander Bean will put the maneuvering
through it's paces in the workshop under the doom. Station
keeping at various locations around the workshop to
simulate future EVAs using operational descendants _ this
flying machine. As part of today's test flight Bean will
use the hand held maneuvering unit, a pistol _ke device
connected to the back pack's nitrogen gas _opellant _nk.
The Pilot points the handheld unit in the _rectlon he
wishes to move and tractor and pusher thrusters squirt
nitrogen to impart motion. Pilot Jack Lousma will be the
observer of today's flight by Bean which will not be
televised live or recorded on video tape. Science Pilot
Owen Garriott will be manning the solar observatory console
while Bean and Lousma work with the maneuvering devices.
Pre-flight preparations for the test flight will start at
2 p.m. Central Dayliglht time. With about _ minutes of
flight scheduled for the back pack and 35 minutes on the
handheld device. Next acquisition will be at Vanguard
in approximately 19 minutes from now. Greenwich mean time
17 hours 27 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-800/I
Time: 12:45 CDT, 10/17:45 GMT
8/15173

time, 17 hours 45 minutes. We will have acquistion at the
Vanguard tracking station. We'll hold the llne open for that
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes.
PLT Hey, Dick. I wonder if you can set up a phone
call for my family this evening, please.
CC Certainly can, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
SC (Music)
CC Heavens.
PLT Say, Dick. I've noticed that something
on the sun that I don't see on the pad and that's at 210, about
6/10 of a radius and I'm wondering if that's a new filiment
developing or an old one going away. There's a few black spots
there kind of in a llne although they're not contiguous.
CC Roger, Jack. Stand by just a second and
I'll get back to you.
CC PLT, Houston. What you are seeing down
there at those coordinates you gave us is a filament; it's
number is filament 37. It is very low interest to us and
no one has seen no activity in it and it was left off the
set for that reason. We didn't know whether - how visible
it would be to you but we have identified it.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. It's very broken
up in about 3 or 4 pieces.
CC Roger, well - thanks for asking the
question and we have identified it and we're not too interested
in it today.
PLT Okay.
CDR How much more time do you have on this
pass, Dick?
CC We've got 4 minutes, AI. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, let me get it, a piece of paper
I want.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I'm referencing now general message
19-32 and it talks about changing some times. And let me
go through it and give you some opinions and then you can
go from there maybe.
CC Okay, AI. We're getting the message out
now and I'm looking at it so go ahead.
CDR Okay, in the postsleep, it says to reduce it
from 220 to 130, I think that's a good idea to try. We may
have to up it in 3 or 4 days but let's go ahead and drop it
down to 130. Presleep 345 to 245, [ think that's good too.
v
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CDR Now if they don't get in our physical

training, then they ought to jump it back up to 345 because
physical training is put in there somewhere during the day
then 2-45 is ample at least we ought to start it. As you
know we got that extra ATI_ pass this morning and so it's
quite easy for us to do and the thing that puzzles us a
little bit is the one that we've been talking about adding
was the one prior to that pass. So I don't know whether they
didn't schedule us the first pass in the morning which was
the one Owen did duck, or that's the one they thought we
wanted when we said add a pass. But somehow it seems to me
that it's usually daylight about 5 or i0 minutes after we
get up and some one of us could wander up there and do that.
We talked about that yesterday. Housekeeping open reduce
it from 130 to 30, I think that's a good idea. We got our
housekeeping done this morning before we even started work.
Okay, house - it says, housekeeping items having specific
constraints will be scheduled otherwise we will list. And that's
a good idea. Okay, meal B, it says reduce from 1 hour to
40 minutes, I think that's a good idea too. We'll try it. Okay
now lets talk about experiments. If M092/171 and M092/I -
M093, we ought to leave those at the time they are. It takes
us that long. The thing that really ups the experiment time
is MI51. Usually we can do it faster than that if we don't
have 151, but when we have MI51 with any of these things, it
almost adds 15 minutes to the time. You got to go get the
film, you got to put it in place and then you got -
Owen thinks [t's more than 15 minutes, I'm not sure he isn't
right. Let me give you the time for S019 without 151. If
they throw in 151 then they need to add another 15 minutes.
SO19 PR-I ought to be 20 minutes, PR-2 ought to be 20 minutes,
PR-3 ought to be 20 minutes. S019, STI ought to be 25 minutes,
2, i0 minutes, 3, 15 minutes and S019 FI is i0, S019FS is i0.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR And I'm not sure- -
CC CDR, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're going _o see you at - We're going to
see you at Hawaii at 18:53 and I do have all of your comments
so far and we'll see you there.
CDR Okay, well that's kind of it and there
might be some questions for us, but I think we ought to start
going on that for a while and see how it works out and then
we'll try to hold it in better from there.
CC Okay, AI. There was one number I missed
and that was the S019/PR-I, I got all of the others.
CDR PR-I, 20 minutes.
CC Okay, we got all of your inputs and we'll
be talking about them today and cranking them in.
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CDR Yeah, I think we ought to maybe think

about this S0(garble)
time, 17 hours 56 minutes. During this pass over Vanguard
tracking station, Commander Bean commented on the teleprinter
message sent up last night concernln E chanEin E of times
for various activities. Flight planners had designed these
changes to give the crew at least 50 percent more time to
spend on experiments, partlcually the ATM. Commander Bean
said the deletlon of times in the postsleep and presleep
activities was a good idea and he mentioned that the housekeepin E
which the crew - the flight planners had suggested removing
1 hour from each man's time for the day. He said this
morning they had their housekeeping done before they even
started work this morning. He took exception to times
deleted in the M092/171, MO9Z/M093 times saying that when you
do these exercises and require the MI51, it adds 15 minutes
to the preformance of these medical experiments. MI51 is
a time and motion study for which the crew sets up a
16-milllmeter DAC camera. At Greenwich mean time, 17 hours
58 minutes, next acqulstion will be over Hawaii in approximately
55 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCSOI/I
Time: 13:50 CDT, 19/18:50 GMT
8/15/73

18 hours 50 minutes with acquisition at the Hawaii tracking
station coming up at approximately 2-1/2 minutes. Commander
A1 Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma should be getting close to
their preparations for the second run of the M509 _tronaut
maneuvering unit. Commander Bean will be _e test _lot
for this run today and he'll put the meneuverlng unit through
its paces in the workshop dome. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
will be at the Apollo Telescope Mount taking part _ his
first run at the run at the console. The crew today will
spend approximately 6 hours and 50 minutes at the Apollo
Telescope Mount. There're one of the longest runs at the
ATM console for today.. We'll leave the line open _r
conversations between CAP COMM Dick Truly and the _ylab 3
crew.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston I have a little information
here. I believe I'm sitting on a bright spot right now. I
first of all took a XUV photograph and then scaled it as best
I could and went to that location scanned _ound with the
55 ... beams and then settled on this location. And detector
3 - the detector count is on the order of 1200 to 1400 where-
as just a matter of a few arc seconds away it will drop to
200 counts and yet in the background it's as low as i00 counts.
And it's an extremely small point; Just a few _c seconds
of motion will drop the count by a factor of 5 or more. Now
these coordinates in case you want to get your ground observers
looking at the same spot as indicated on your pad are as
follows; roll is minus 10800, and then -
CC Go ahead Owen, I'm with you.
SPT Just a moment I'm checking right here.
CC Okay.
SPT Right plus 400 and down,_nus _ and those
are the coordinates that I'm at and I'm doing the building
block ii now and if SO54 would llke to _n I'll go _ead and
put them into it they want to give me a filter or _st an
okay to go ahead.
CC Roger, let me read those coordinates back
to you for 10800 - roll is correction a right 400 and
down 089.
SPT That's affirmative, _ck.
CC And Owen we do not want to operate the
SO54. I do have a couple other items for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC For one thing when you are - we are going to
use those coordinates in four sites, Kitt Peak, Sacramento
Peak, Actor;pace and Bi_ Bear are going _bew_tching that
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- those same coordinates on the bright spots. Also NOAA

has reported the new active region is possibly emerging
in - at about 270 degrees at 0.5 radii we _st _ticed the
activity was first noted about 19:50 Zulu, and the precise
coordinates are up 030 and right 500 and both of _at is
for a roll of 10800 where you are now. It may be another
2-day wonder like active region 90 and what we were
going to suggest was when you get down to _P 2 Alpha
on active region 86 at a time of 21 on this daylight pass
you might go to those coordinates and if that active region
looks promising to you make your own decision and then do
the rest of the day's operations that are listed for active
region 86 on this new emerging active _gion. Over.
SPT Okay, and give me those coordinates _ce
more, please.
CC Okay, it's up 030, right 500.
SPT Roger,. I'ii do that.
CC And Owen, Houston the reason that we do not
c_loose to run S054 is strictly film limiting _oblem and -
SPT Okay, I understand.
CC Roger.
SPT Now, I have a XUV bright spot up in that
general vicinity but well I just have to see how dose it
looks it doesn't look quite like the coordinates that you
gave me but it's within 2 or 3 arc minutes _ there.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, I put H-alpha i, H-alpha 2 in XUV MON
in about a 60-second burst on the VTR, _ you can keep a
track of that if you would. And for _e science room the
signature on H-alpha of these bright spots it's just
absolutely nill. There is just nothing unusual in these
areas to be seen on H-alpha. In this particular area that
I'm pointed at now it looks from _e XUV MON integrated
photographs that there are probably four bright spots all
very small in size and located within a _uple of arc minutes
of each other.
CC Roger; understand.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:59CDT, 19:18:59GMT
8/15/73
CC Skylab_ Houston. We are one minute from
LOS. We're gonna see you at Vanguard at 19:25 and we're gonna
dump the data tape recorder there.
time 19 hours 2 minutes. Loss of signal over Hawaii as
Commander A1 Bean, Pilot Jack Lousma begin the activities
with the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit, with Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott at the Apollo Telescope Mount. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately 22 minutes
from now. At 19 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC- 803/i
Time: 14:24 CDT, 19/19:24 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control 19 hours 24 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Space station is roughly a half
a minute away from acquisition through the Vanguard tracking
site. And at this time, according to the Flight Plan, the
commander and the pilot are involved in the M509 Buck Rodgers
type of exercise, the maneuvering unit. And the Science
Pilot is at the ATM console. We'll stand by with the line
up for air-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard
for I0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for
8 minutes.
SC (Line Noise)
SPT Dick, I'm doing a building block 7 in
the coordinates you upllnked. But the H-alpha does not really
show any emerging flux region or deactlve region in that
area. And we'll just have to see if anything develops there
at this point. But, I can't see of - anything at the present
time.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got still
about another 5 minutes here at the Vanguard. And if
either the PLT or CDR has time to listen to a little ditty
I have to talk to you about, I'd appreciate it.
CDR We' re listening.
CC Okay. We're concerned about the partially
saturated SAL desiccant: that caused the fogging in the
wardroom window, and because of that we want to allow
2 to 3 hours between the last S019 operation and the film
stow in order to allow the equipment to warm up and thereby
not get any moisture on the mirror. So, on the pad that
we sent you earlier today for optional SO19 operations,
we would like to scrub the last ops period that's on there,
that's a start time of 0155. That's Just in the event
that you had time to do it anyway. And replace that
period with a film stow - SO19 film stow precedure, which
will allow about 3 hours for the gear to warm up and avoid
condensation getting on it.
CDR Okay. We'll be - We were in the first
one and we were planning to run that one, and also the middle
one. I guess the question would be, is there any way we
can take this desiccant, put the SAL in vent by the way
it's vented now, and the film's in the film vault, but the
SOl9's in the locker - I mean in the SAL in a vented mode.
You want me to open up the desiccant and let the desiccant
see the vacuum, so it'll tend to dry out?
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CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. As a matter of fact, we've been
talking about a procedure similar to that, but what we'd
rather do is wait until we get SO19 out of the SAL and then
do that procedure, maybe over night. But you're right, the
real solution to the problem is to get the moisture out of
the desiccant and we are planning on doing that, but for
today's operation, we'd just llke to scrub that last session
with SO19 and replace it with the film stuff.
CDR Sounds good. Now, one little update on
the window. I put the vacuum on the window yesterday for
about 5 or 6 hours. And it removed all the moisture, but
if you look at the window just right, you can still see that
area where the moisture was, that sort of cone shaped shadowy
appearance. I don't know exactly what it is. I don't think it's
moisture anymore, it doesn't look llke dirt. But it is
certainly some sort of contaminant on the window. We were
not able to get that out, by the way.
CC Roger, AI. Understand. I've got one
other note for you. And that is, later on on the Flight
Plan, we show a to TV 3, which is TV of the CDR eating
supper and there's a possible conflict there between your
ATM period and that TV 3, and we Just wanted to point that
out to you and just make sure that we accomplish a TV 3
while you were having supper.
CDR Okay. I thought that TV 3 was with the
pilot, but let me check.
CC Roger. I think the pilot takes the
pictures, but you're the subject.
CDR We don't think so. We going to have to check
it. They told Jack the other day, he should be i, 2, and 3.
CC Roger, AI. I'ii check that one. We're
about to go - We've got about i minute left at Vanguard
here, and then we're going to drop out for about 5 minutes
and I'ii call you at Asrension.
CDR Okay. No hurry on that either, of course.
CC Roger.
CDR (Garble) for TV 3 uses the same clothing
as TV i yesterday, and so Jack's been wearing the same clothes.
CC Roger ,,
PAO We've had loss of signal through the
Vanguard tracking ship as Skylab moves out over the south
Atlantic. However, we expect to reacquire through Ascension.
in about 4-I/2 minutes. So we' ii keep the line up for that
pass on this, which is the 1345 revolution of the Skylab
space station.
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SL-III MC804/1
Time: 14:35 CDT, 19/19:35 GMT
8/15/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Ascension for 6 minutes.

SPT Just a note for the back room. I
tried to go back and find that same bright spot I was
looking at earlier in the last rev in magnesium 10 with
grating position 1941 on detector 3. And I went back to the
same coordinates and I could see nothing in that same
general area. So, I'm all set up at grating position 1941
now to take a look at the beginning of the next orbit, but
it Just might be that itls the chromospheric instead of coronal
lines that are going to provide the highest contrast. I guess
you must have thought otherwise. You had reason to believe that
magnesium 10 would be better and it only was about a 2 minute
check at the end of this orbit but the first conclusion was
I could not see it at the same spot.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, on TV
3 the intent of that TV session was to catch both the PLT
and the CDR together although it could be run with one
crewman it would turn out a lot better we think with - with
2 of them there as shown in the TV OPS book. Also, I have
a note for the PLT if he can listen for a second about the
tape recorder.
CDR He's listening, Dick.
CC Okay, what we'd like to do on the second
tape recorder and that is one that one of you guys stowed in
plenum bag and we're not sure it was in the - during
activation but we think that it's in the plenum bag that is
at position 6 or 7 down in the plenum now. But you'd probably
know better than we are exactly where that is. What we'd
like to do is using that same recorder . .. message that we
sent up this morning and when you have a chance go dig out
that tape recorder and open it up and take a look at the
inside and we'll see if we have the same failure in
there or not. And then once we know what the tube - the
situation is with that second recorder possibly we can
cannibalize one of them and make a good one. Over.
PLT We'll get on it.
CC Roger, and again the only change we want
to make to that procedure is to give us the reading on the
elapsed time meter as I said before so we can check our data
here on the ground. But other than that that message is
good for the second one also.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, now we need some additional thoughts
if we can an opinion on this TV again. Jack took himself
doing the SMMD and taking a drink of water yesterday. Now
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do you think it'd be all right for both of us run - to run together
on this one, or should we just run Jack? It's sort of up
to y'all, we thought it was just a one man.
CC Roger, CDR. We'd prefer the two men,
in TV3 vice one man.
CDR We'll do it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. We're going to see you at Guam at 20:25. And Skylab,
Houston. I made a mistake, that Guam paas is going to be
a low pass we may not pick you up. We will expect to see
you at Vanguard at 21:02.
PAO We've now lost all communication with the
Skylab space station it having moved out of range of Ascension.
Next station contact is in about an hour and a quarter at
Vanguard tracking site. Nineteen hours 48 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 15:36 CDT 19/20:36 GMT
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36 minutes Greenwich mean time with an announcement that
there will be a change of shift briefing at 4:30 p.m.
central daylight time with the off-going Flight Director,
that's Philllp Shaffer. The briefing will be in building
number i, the News Center Briefing Room, which i8 room
135. Repeating, a change of shift briefing, 4:30 p.m.
central daylight time in approximately 25 minutes away
from acquiring the space station again. The acquisition
upcoming will be through Vanguard. At 20 hours 37 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC806/I
Time: 16:01 CDT, 19/21:01 GMT
8/15/73
PAO Thi:s is Skylab Control at 21 hours

1 minute Zulu time. We're approximately away from acquisition
through Vanguard. At this time on the flight plan as
scheduled at least, tlhe Commander is executing the M509
astronaut maneuvering experiment and the Pilot is acting
as the observer, while the Science Pilot Dr. Owen Garriott
should be at the ATM counsel involved in some type of Sun
watching experiments. About I0 seconds from acquisition.
We'll stand by for air-to-ground.
for i0 minutes.
CDR Just got finished with the first half
of the 509 run, Dick. Going real well through off the base
line maneuver in all three modes then flew a free (garble)
and try to - a type where some of us had thought would might
be a way to work maneuvering units mainly hold on and
push off toward the next destination and kind of use it for
mid course correction and catch on when you got there. I
flew the baseline maneuver using that technique. I had the
feeling at the end that I might have even used more fuel
than Just flying it normally and Just being careful. So, that's
something that's sort of a little bit different than a lot of them
we talked about before - before we came up here to fly.
CC Roger, A1. Thank you.
CDR Yeah, flying's just like the spacecraft.
And I really think that's one of the things maybe we're over
training a little bit on relative to some of these other things
that we're doing up here, and I think maybe Jerry Cart
could think about that. When he gets in it and starts to
fly it he'll be flying it the best he can probably in 3 minutes
it Just isn't that much different. It's not as much difference
as going from a T-bird to a T-38, or a T-38 to a - any other
kind of bird. It's just awful simple, you're confined into
space and you're able to maneuver at will, there's no
danger, gob. I think you could get a stuck thruster on one
side, run you all the way over to the other side you'd still
catch on, would have no strain. Not only that, the safety
observer can move so :much faster just in his clothes than
you can with that thing on your back that he could catch you
and stop you. It's a very safe vehicle, I don't think there's
any problem with leaving the experiments in the airlock.
YouWre not even down in that vicinity, youlre usually
up around the cell blockers. So all in all it's been pretty en-
lightening as far as the ease with which you can fly and the
safety of the whole - the safety aspect of it.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you for the - thank you
for the input.
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8/15/73
CDR Might mention one other thing. The -

it looks llke you really don't need a - first of all this
CMG mode is by far the easiest to fly because it just holds
you out there in space and you Just translate or rotate the
point to where you want to translate to it. However, of
course, that's weighed in batteries. Same thing with
rate gyro. I really believe what you need on one of those
things because it really is awfully simple to fly even in-
direct, much simpler than in spacecraft indirect, because
you got peripheral vision and everything, making sure that you're
upright or wherever way you want to be and the minute your
motion starts to go in any direction that you don't llke it's
obvious to you - It's intuitive then to put in a correction. My
suspicion would be that if we built one of these things for
real world outside we'd want to just have a direct mode,
make it as simple and light as possible for the direct mode
in there and get as much gas - nitrogen gas as you could on
it and make the thing light, and that would be the way to do
it. These others are okay but they're - they're way, way
unnecessary for any kind of job that - that we've talked about
doing in space on shuttle or large space stations, adjusting
telescopes or anything llke that. Those - they're super
deluxe but certainly not necessary.
CC Roger, CDR, copy.
PLT Hey, Dick, that tape recorder has 347
hours on it.
CC Roger, thank you.
CDR Another thing, Dick, you might tell
Ed Whitsett and Lou Ramon and mention it to Bruce, too, that
this whole procedure of 509 to checklist to charging - Everything
about this whole experiment as far as procedures goes is really one
of the best ones we have. I don't think we've found an
error in there, it's worked Just perfectly, it's really
efficient and I think those fellows have done a pretty
impressive job about getting it all pulled together because
it's not a simple thing yet they pulled it all together
where we can pull it off fast and we think properly. Most
of it is Just the fact that the checklist and procedures are well
organized all this cabin (garble) in time, and charging early and
everything else has really made this work out right.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you for the compliment
and I'ii pass it on to both Ed and Lou.
SPT Dick, I'm Just finishing up this run
on bright spots JOP 17A and I'ii have a fairly lengthy debriefing
on channel A that the Pls might want to pick up sometime
tonight.
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CC Roger, Owen. Thanks and they're copied

that and they'll be looking for it. We're about i minute
from LOS at Vanguard. We'll see you at Ascension at 21:15
3 minutes from now.
PAO The Ed Whitsett referred to in the
previous conversation by Commander Alan Bean, Skylab III
Commander, was Major C. E. Whitsett of the U. S. Air Force
Space and Missles Systems Organization, SAMSO out of
Los Angeles, California. Major Whitsett is the Principle
Investigator on the M509. We're about a minute away from
acquisition through the Ascension tracking site and we'll
just stay live for the air-to-ground through that tracking
station.
CC Skylab, Houston, Ascension for i0 minutes.
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SL III MC-807/I
TIME: 16:15 CDT 19/21:15 GMT
8/15/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 6

minutes here at Ascension, and we've got a reminder for you
on closing out that - excuse me - closing out the ATM on $055,
the - close out all the high voltages should be off, and
the mirror stow position now should be in llne 9.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Had a reminder on closing
out that S055, Owen, did you catch that.
SPT No, I was on channel A, trying to debrief
that last pass. I really haven't done my power down operate
in this pass, so I haven't turned the detectors off. Is
there another reminder.
CC Yeah, it was the high voltages on SO55 and
also the mirror stow position should be llne 9, but if you
haven't closed that yet, we were just a little premature.
No problem.
SPT Okay, I had a special reason for not having
it on llne 9. I'm discussing that on channel A and I will
return it to llne 9 32, column 32 now. But there was a
special reason that I had it away from that position for
the last orbit.
CC Okay. No problem.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Guam at 21 - correction
at 22:00. We are going to dump the data tape recorder at
Guam. We also plan to update NU sub Z there and be advised
your Flight Plans for tomorrow are in the teleprinter.
SPT Okay, fine, Dick. Do you need the star
tracker lockon, or anything, or is it in good shape?
CC We may need it at Guam, but we'll let you
know there at AOS.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab will be in communication with the
ground again over the Guam tracking site in about 33 minutes.
In the meantime, a reminder that we have scheduled a 4:30
p.m. change of shift briefing involving the off-going Flight
Director Phil Shaffer. At 21 hours 27 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-808/I
Time: 16:58 CDT, 19/21:58 GMT
8115173

zulu, coming up on the Guam tracking station. At this time
we have completed the handover in the Control Center here
to the Crimson team, headed by Flight Director Don Puddy
and the spacecraft communicator will be Robert Crlppen, Bob
Crlppen. We're starting to get data in through Guam. Stand
by for a call.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across
Guam for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam for i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. Glad to hear from you. And
just a note for the ATM room back there. I do have a good
time exposure of the XUV MON at the end of the last orbit.
And, the coarse there is centered right on the bright spot.
So I think we did get good data for the last orbit. And
I do have some fairly extensive comments on Channel A that
if they have a chance to look at in the next day or so, I'd
llke to have a couple of questions answered.
CC Okay. We copied that. I assume that's
the same bright spot we were looking at earlier.
SPT Well, it's the same one that we were looking
at last orbit, but the orbit preceding that there was another
bright spot that I looked at that was closer to the limb. So
on the first bright spot near the limb, I only had a very
brief chance to, I think, take one scan at. But all of
last orbit, we were working on this one bright spot, and that's
the same one I'm talking about.
CC Okay, Owen. Like you to stay off the
DAS for a few minutes. We've got a couple of operations
we're going to perform. And we'd also appreciate it if
you could acquire a star for us, so that we could get a
Nu Z update in for this SOl9 run.
SPT What star would you llke to have me
acquire?
CC The one per pad, if you've got it.
SPT Wilco.
CC Roger. Ask and open.
CC Owen, if there's any problem on that
pad, I can give you the numbers.
SPT No. I've got it here. I was Just
commenting.
CC Okay. And for your information, what
we're doing through the DAS is we're going to enable the
Nu Z update by the star tracker. And as soon as we get it
updated, we'll be inhibiting it again. And also, we're going
to be inhibiting dumps for the upcoming SO19 run.
SPT Roger. Understand. Those other two felows
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8/15/73
are still flying around the workshop there in their 509 rigs,
but I assume they'll be ready for it on the next time pass.
CC Rog. Down there having fun, huh.
SPT Really stirring up the dust.
SPT There isn't really much dust around.
But there is a few of these little paper covers that go over
your food cans, and a few extra pieces and scraps of paper
that get blown out by the breeze.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay. There's the star. It's almost 3 degrees
away from the pad position of Canopus, but I suspect that
must be it.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CC Okay, Owen. That star does look good
to us. We think that's it.
SPT You know, Bob, when the Sun came up
we had about 60 minutes on our time remaining clock. And
in our effective sunrise is currently listed, I believe,
as 54 plus 13, almost 6 minutes later. Is that correct, that
it takes 6 minutes for us to get above 400 kilometers in addi-
tion to the time that we've got reserved for various gravity
gradient operations?
CC We'll get a reverlfication of it for
you, Owen.
CC Okay, Owen. We have got our update on
our Nu Z. And we're through using the DAS. We would
appreciate it if you would close the shutter on the star
tracker for us and verify for us that it was closed.
SPT Roger. It's gone barber pole.
CC Okay. We' re 1 minute from LOS. We' 11
have you again over the Vanguard at 22:39. And, Owen, we
have reverlfied that 6 minutes approximately is correct for
the difference between end of dump and Sunrise - or effective
Sunrise for your 400 K. That looks llke a good number to
us.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you. And I probably
(garble) a little bit below 4 kilometers back there. I
waited there a long time, but didn't notice that it hadn't
quite counted down to 54 yet.
CC Copy that.
PAO At 22 hours 10 minutes Greenwich mean
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SL-III MC809/I
Time: 17:38 CDT, 19/22:38 GMT
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PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 38 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Vanguard in about 36 seconds
we should have some air-to-ground. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS over the Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip. Say, I was wondering one
thing, I've noticed this S019 pad is the one I used this
morning. At the time it: - it was the latest time I could
do the first star and still make it through, that's pretty
optimistic too, but it doesn't have the time on here when I
can start taking them. Could you find out when I can start
taking this set? The time that the latest I can start taking
them is - 22:48 but I'd llke to know the earliest I can start.
CC Stand by i minute.
CC AI, regarding your question on the time
for the starfields on soIg, that 22:48 is actually the earliest
not the latest. It is the earliest time that you can start
and it is predicated on Sunset time.
CDR Okay, Crip. I was looking on our check-
list and said S019 ops should start no later than this time.
This is the latest time to begin mirror pointing and start
exposures for this field, so as to accomplish it. Exposures
can and should start at Sunset. I Just didn't know what
official Sunset was. We can get it from the ATM and it's
before this time, I think.
CC Okay, AI. It - apparently it sounds like
we may have a checklist problem in that particular area but
the time that we're putting down here is the earliest that
you can start it.
CCR Okay, I'ii make a mock at the old check-
list so that we won't get confused.
CC And, AI, for your information Sunset is
at 22:47. Oh, I'm sorry - Okay, good.
CDR Okay. It makes sense now. Thank you.
CC Okay, it's 22:47:48 which is almost at
48.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready. Thanks.
LOS. We'll have you again over Canary in about i0 minutes,
and that's at oh, 23:00 on the dot.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CDR Looks like the man that made up the pad made
a good guess at the NU Z is - he guessed 5.8 and we measured
5.7 Just a little while ago.
CC Those were - getting a handle on our
momentum status.
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Time: 17:38 CDT, 19/22:38 GMT
8/14./73
SPT Hey, Bob, before the next orbit you

might ask the back room if filament 28 might not have
transitioned into a prominence by now. I don't see anything
on the disc and A1 will be running that, it might be a good
idea - -
CC Copy.
PAO Loss of signal through Vanguard. Next
acquisition in about 9 minutes at Canaries. At 22 hours
50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-810/I
TIME: 17:58 CDT 19/22:58 GMT
8/15/73

Zulu time. About a half a minute away from acquisition at
the Canary tracking site and then up through Madrid on
this the 1347th revolution of the space station. Standing
by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Canary
for ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you over Canary
for i0 minutes.
CC And, Owen, your comment awhile ago regarding
filament 28 is correct. That has turned into a prominance
28 and if anybody's available, we'd llke to suggest perhaps
modifying this next ATM pass that we got coming up that
Al's going to run.
SPT Okay. Stand by Just a minute.
SPT Okay. I'm ready to copy. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. Do you have the schedule pad there
that I can refer to it? If not, I'll Just read this to you.
SPT No, I don't have it here. I've got -
I'm downstairs, so go ahead.
CC Okay. On the 2327 pad at 23 minutes
time remaining, we suggest running buildlng block II, JOP
4-A, step 4, on prominance 28.
SPT Okay, what about prior to time 23?
CC We'd like to go ahead and maintain the
current pointing that we've got there. It's - It should
be no problem. Actually all we're doing is changing JOP
4 Bravo to a 4 Alfa.
SPT That's Just sort of what I thought
would be a good idea anyway, if you'd like to Just
fllp the page over there and use 4 Alfa, but prior to
time 23, is it clear what should be done? I don't have
the schedule in front of me.
CC Okay, at that time it calls for a 4 Bravo
step i.
SPT What do you recommend us to do to that
since there's no filament.
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay, we've shuffled that around a bit
down here, Owen, and what we recommend doing is, first
running a 4 Alfa, step 2. That's when he starts the
thing off, and then to run a 4 Alfa, step 4, and he will
have time to do that twice.
SPT Okay. I understand. Thatts a good idea.
CC Okay. Thank you for calling it to our
attention.
SPT Yeah, I think you cut out, but you said
4 Alfa, step 2, 4 Alfa, step 4.
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CC That's affirmative. And that step 4, we

can run twice.
SPT Thank you a lot.
CC And Skylab, Houston. If you're clear of
the DAS, we're going to ENABLE momentum dump.
CC Okay, Skylab, the DAS is yours once more.
PAO We've had loss of signal through Madrid.
Next acquisition will be in about 25 minutes through the
tracking site at Guam. At 23 hours 14 minutes Greenwich
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PAO This is Skylab Control 23 hours 38 min-

utes Greenwich mean time, about 45 seconds away from acquisi-
tion through Guam, on this the 1347th revolution. Standing
by for the alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for 4 minutes. And sorry, I missed that LOS call a while
ago.
CDR Okay, Crip. We've got building block 33A
rolling along here from JOP 4A step 2. And things are
working well. I used the gratings, that were in the teleprinter
. .. JOP summary sheet as a starter point. And that's
what we' re doing the mirror auto rasters at.
CDR And if you have any more suggestions
for the remainder, sir, I haven't gone to step B yet. But
any suggestions for the rest of this orbit let me know.
CC 0keydoke.
CDR And of course, we're not running 82A
or 54.
from LOS. We' ii see you again over Honeysuckle in about
5 or 6 minutes from now at 23:50. And for your information,
AI, you've got a message in the teleprinter and we'd llke
to say that team 3 sends their whole-hearted concurrence with
that.
CDR Okay. Will do. Let me look at it.
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PAO We'll reacquire the spacecraft through

Honeysuckle in about 3 minutes and we'll stand by for the
air-to-ground through the Honeysuckle tracking- tracking
station.
Honeysuckle for 4-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR, A1 we
anticipate that what we gave you will occupy your whole
sunslde pass. However, if you complete it you can give us
another JOP 4-A step 4 building block Ii admitting 82A and
54.
CDR Okay, understand. I'm Just getting to
the first one right now.
CC Roger.
CDR It's turned into a real nice prominence
out here. It's got a nice arch to it and, if I'm not mistaken,
I'ii have to chase it around with the - with the detector
3 in a minute when I get it set. But if I'm not mistaken
it's also got a little ops frame that's about i0 arc to
15 arc seconds away. Now it's making a kind of a double
loop there, double arch fillment of some sort.
CC Okay, copy that, AI. I'm sure the
back room will appreciate that info.
CC And, AI, if you'll stay away from the
DAS for a couple of minutes we're going to update rate gyros
Z 2, Zebra 2.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, the DAS is yours once more. Just
as a reminder you need to select TV on the panel 132 over
there before we get into the TV session this afternoon. I
believe you have a monitor selected right now.
CDR Okay, I didn't realize I was giving it
to you now. There's MOD 1 right there.
CC Negative. Sorry, AI, I meant we need
the TV position selected later for the TV operations we're
going to be running. Would you - -
CDR Oh, yeah, I know what you mean now. Okeydoke
will do. What I thought I might do is run this building
block ii, since I'm running it a couple of times at 6 different
points on the - the arch of the filament - I mean the prominence
that maybe go over and take this one area that's not the second
arch that I can't see in H-alpha, see if I can pick it up
and get one of the runs there if possible.
CC Sounds great to us. We're going to be
going LOS. We'll see you again at Canary at 00:38 that's
about 44 minutes from now.
of range of the Honeysuckle tracking site. At this time
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heading over New Zealand. During the pass through Guam and
Honeysuckle Just ended, the following message was sent
up by a teleprinter to the crew. A message of congratulations
and I quote it: To Bean, Garriott and Lousma, we've been
watching and listening as the three of you llve and work
in space. Your performance has been outstanding and the
observations you are making are of tremendous importance.
Through your efforts Skylab-III is a great mission. Keep
up the good work. And it was signed by Dr. James Fletcher
and Dr. George Lowe. We'll acquire again in about 40 minutes
at the Canary Island site. At 23 hours 57 minutes Greenwich
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SL III MC-813/I
TIME: 19:37 CDT 20/00:37 GMT
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PAO Skylab Control at 37 minutes Greenwich

mean time. That is 37 minutes into day 228. About a half
a minute away from acquisition at the Canary Islands
tracking site. And we'll stand by for communication with
the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary 13 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary for 12-1/2
minutes.
SPT That got my attention.
CDR Trying to find the box that was squawking
SPT No, I was Just looking over Arabella's
latest work a few moments ago as you called up, Bob.
CC Roger, is she still spinning away?
SPT About three nights ago I wasn't sure but
what she was sitting tight with the same web for two or
three nights running, so I took my knife out and cut down
about half of it in an effort to make sure she was spinning
a new one. That seemed to make her very discouraged, as a
matter of fact, she seemed to eat the web and then wouldn't
spin any more for about 2 or 3 nights, until I finally realized
that the problem was I hadn't been giving her anything to
drink. The water in that little sponge vlal, which is
attached to the bottom of her cage, I'm sure dried out in
this very dry atmosphere and so I replenished the water
last night and sure enough she took out again today and
spun a new web over in one corner. It's a little smaller
than some of the others, but very nicely formed with a
circular - standard circular pattern sort of covering the
three sides that make up one corner of the box. So I Just
got another photograph of that and we'll plan to bring it
back with us.
CC Okay. Very good. For a moment there, I
thought you were going to tell me you hurt her feelings.
SPT Well, they might have been hurt there. I
thought they were hurt for a couple of days, when she
wasn't spinning any webs, but I see now, it was really my
fault for not providing her any drink.
CC Roger. I appreciate the report, 0wen.
LOS. We'll see you a@iain in 27 minutes over Carnarvon at
01:18. 01:18.
CC Okay. And for your information, you have
5 more minutes left on the VTR.
CDR Okay. If I can get those fellows off of
it down there, why I'll even put a little XUV MON on
here at the last couple of minutes.
CC And still allow - that 5 minutes will still
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allow enough room for the XUV MON.

CDR You say Owen - that will allow enough room
for that, you say, Bob?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Oh, very good. Well, I think they're through
down there now, anyway, so I'll have to figure out something else
to use that for.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO Loss of signal through the Madrid station.
Next station contact is Carnarvon in 26 minutes. At 52
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO - one hour 17 minutes Greenwich mean time.

We have data from the Skylab space station at this time
through the Carnarvon tracking site and we expect to have
voice communication shortly, so we'll stand by.
Carnarvon for 13-1/2 minutes.
PLT Hey, Crip. Could you tell me what time
the call is tonight, please.
CC Roger, Jack, we got you set up for 02:06
going across Bermuda.
PLT Okay. 226, thanks a lot.
CC 206.
PLT 206, okay.
CDR I cart give you that nightly report if you
want it right now, Crlp.
CC Fantastic. Shoot.
CDR Okay. Here it comes, i01; 145; 185.
5056; 8358; 5761. 6.243, 6.244, 6.244; 5.987, 5.983,
5.983; 6.960, 6.969,6.984; 2/32/4606, 3/lO/mark i, 40A,
20B, 20C, 20D, mark 2, 20A, 10B, 10C, IOF. And ... the
mark 2, that's a - 3/10 and the mark i I just gave
you - the mark 2, I Just gave you. Okay, here comes the SPT:
2/30/4400. Mark i, A80 rev, B60 rev, D40 rev. PLT
2/35/7368, 1/05/0514. Pilot also 3/20/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D,
and 20 backbends. No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2 G, 6-F, 6-1/2 G.
Food Log: CDR, i0 salt packs, plus 7 ounces of water,
extra water. SPT, I butter cookie and did not eat his
asparagus. PLT, 5-1/2 salt and one extra - one extra cherry
drink. Here comes the photo log: Msog-2/MISI, C145, 70,
C139; M509-2, C140, 20, CI09; M509-2, also, C145, 00, C139;
35-millimeter, C199, 64, CXI2, 16. 70-milllmeter, CXII155.
No EREP, of course, drawerAconfiguration. 07, C140, 20, CI09;
05, C146, 95, C141; 06, C145, 00, C139; 03, C143; 00, CI18.
And the backup one it'E; in the back of the vault there,
C144, 90, C142; and now let me see what else. Flight
Plan deviations: that's a good Flight Plan for tomorrow,
that looks like one that will keep us busy all day, but
won't strain us too much. Shopping llst accomplishments:
We put in all new wardroom foot restraints, we did temp 1
DVO, and reported that, and we did one extra ATM pass
early in the morning. Inoperable equipment, nothing new.
Unscheduled stowage item locations: change some butter
cookies from F-548 to the wardroom. Add four of them. I
got a note on tomorrow's pad to take a look at - they
mention the command module primary glycol accumulalor has
slowly been decreasing as we talked about the other night.
Make the following valves are in a fully closed position.
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Primary accumulator fill and glycol fads inlet and outlet. I

checked all three and they're fully closed, and so that's
not the problem.
CC Roger. Understand. They are fully closed.
CDR That's affirm. Just as tight as can be.
I opened them Just a little bit to make sure that the
valve wasn't sticking or something and seated them again
and all of them are _seated properly.
CDR That's it.
CC Ok - -
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CC Okay, AI. If you've got time, I've

got one little recommendation that Pete's crew had for you
guys on reconstituting your instant breakfast.
CDR Okay,. we could sure use
something llke that. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I guess their - their recommenda-
tion is to add 3 ounces of water and knead it and shake it
well, then add the other 3 ounces of water and continue to
shake vigorously until reconstituted. I guess basically
they could - with it not being completely full they could
knead it a little bit better and get it reconstituted and
then go ahead and fill it up.
CDR Okay. We'll try that. Tell them thanks.
If they've got any other suggestions, we could - then we
could stand those, too.
CDR We found on the extra drinks like
strawberry, apple and cherry, that we got better reconsti-
tution if we put in hot water then let them set around the
room until they cooled off a little bit, then put them in
the chiller. They seem-- they seem to taste better at the
end.
CC Roger.
CDR Flew that HHMU this afternoon on
the second run. First r,n we flew Just the regular back-
pack. I'll tell you that HHHU, you could fly it.
CDR Same thing is - -
CC A1, we lost what you were saying about
the HHMU there on a handover, I think.
CDR Okay. Well, we flew the HHMU today
and I Just had the feeling, although I could fly it and
didn't bump into anything, it was always under control, it's
Just the same affect that you'd have, I think, riding
a unicycle. You can do it, but it Just isn't the sort
of thing that you want to do if you were EVA. It's - you
know those - I think the day of the HHMU is sort of passed.
It - it - it thived in Gemini when we had not much welght-carrying
capability and not much room. But now that we've got
shuttle coming up, it can carry a good payload. We got
Skylab here in command module, of course they're going out
of business soon, and then it'll be shuttle. It Just
doesn't make good sense I=o try to go outside with a thing
that, you know, it's not an intuitive device. It requires
skills that you don't normally use. I believe if you ever -
As long as you guys keep whatever you're going to in sight,
you'd be in good shape. But if you ever suddenly turned
around and were facing deep space or something, or your
visor came up and you got kind of a gllnt in your eye, you'd
be in tough trouble. Because it's Just really- It's really
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just - It's not a stunt, but it's not really a transporta-

tion machine either.
CC Okay. We copy that. Think we get your
point.
CDR Yeah. I tried to - tried to use it Just
flying around, which is what you can do, and we did. And
tried to use it by pushing off and making mldcourse correc-
tion with it also, and found that you could do that too.
But it's just - Like I think, it's llke - At least I think,
it's - it'd be like going on a trip and taking a unicycle
instead of saving a little bit of money and buying yourself a bicycle,
or motorcycle or ear. And it's kind of interesting. I think
Ed Whitsett and Lou Ramon ought to do some thinking, and Bruce
ought to do some thinking. We don't have that 501 - 9 run
tomorrow, but we've got it, probably, the next day. I don' t
think we ought to use . .. if we get an SOP to do it. I don't
know whether we will or not, but if we do, I don't think they
should use that SOP for that particular investigation, because
it does - I don't think it's going to apply to the future.
And another comment about: the run. I am a little bit concerned
about the umbilical tube because it sure does torque even the -
even the backpacks. So I know the HHMU would be sort of helpless
against that umbilical. We're going - I hope they've come
up with some good ideas on what we can do about it.
CC Okay. Understand. Your recommendation
is not to use the HHMU with the SOP. You can use it with
the umbilical but you're a little bit concerned about it.
Is that affirmed?
CDR Yeah, You can use it. I don't think
it's going to overpower the umbilical. But we can go ahead
and do it though. The main point is, I think, that the only
untethered flight we're going to have suited is with that -
with that SOP. And I don't think we want to spend any time
evaluating the HHMU from the point of view that is probably
in my guess, would ever really blossom into a real vehicle
that we would use in space. Whereas the backpack has the
capabilities that we probably will use in the future. It
ought to be investigated now.
CC And, AI. It is not our intent to use
the HHMU with the SOP.
CDR Okay. That's good. That's good. I
hadn't checked the thing for tomorrow or the next day, but
I've been ki -- it's been kind of on my mind. That was a nice note
that Dr. Fletcher and Dr.. Lowe sent up. You know one of the
nice things about - for all of us in being in this space program -
there's two of them I think. One, is you get to do things
that are positive in this world. And most people, I don't
think have that opportunity. Some do like doctors, and
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lawyers and some, but not: all. And I think we're in a

unique position, the thousands of us that are at the Manned
Spacecraft Center, in being able to do that. The second is,
you get to work with people that hard chargers, and they've
kind of got a positive outlook. And I don't know - I don't
know if you find that everywhere you work. So, I really
appreciate the words. Owen and Jack were happy to receive
it and we're really looking forward to the last 2/3rds of
the mission. And we hope we can get this Flight Plan
settled down, too, where we can really crank out the work.
Tomorrow looks like a real good day.
CC Yes, sir. Those are fine words, AI.
And I'm sure that we're headed in the right direction the Flight
Plan. I think we'll manage to keep you busy. I've got one
item here before I lose you. We would appreciate knowing
which item you have on your little go-to-bed checklist. We
understand you made one up. And we know some of the things
that were on them, but we would be interested in knowing all
of the items that are on it.
CDR ... get it ...
CC We don't need it right now, but I can
get it from you next pass, that'll be fine. We're about
a minute from LOS. We' ii see you again at Mila in about
35 minutes.
SPT Bob, I'ii be doing a shopping llst 9
in addition to the shopping llst 13, on the schedule.
CC Understand. A shopping list 9 in addition
to 13.
CC Mila time is 02:05; 02:05.
CC And for Jack. Your phone call will be
at that next station pass, and it will be left antenna on VHF.
CDR We need to figure out a way where every-
body that's working in Mission Control down there, ...
shifts, these long hours could come up here and look out this
window for about an hour.
CC We' ii buy that.
of range at Honeysuckle. Next acquisition in about 32 minutes.
At i hour 33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control 2 hours 4 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is approaching the
Bermuda tracking site, and perhaps we'll have a llttle
bit of Mile also. In 23 seconds we should have some
elf-to-ground. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Bermuda for
i0 minutes.
CC And, CDR, if you have some time we'd
appreciate being able to go through a few more questions
we didn't get a chance to ask during the evening status.
CDR Okay, Houston (garble) I'm working on
this film.
CC Okay, when you get a chance, AI.
SPT And you might ask Adam to check the panel
of configurations for the night. I had to leave the SO55
in mechanical reference 102 because I didn't get her back
to zero before the Sun went down.
CC Okay, copy that, Owen. And while you' re
there, could I ask you ask you a question about the ATM
panel closeout?
SPT Anything.
CC Roger. Last night we noted about an
excess of 200 watts on that panel above what we thought the
unattended configuration should be, and we're Just trying
to insure that you are powering down per the normal con-
figuration and things llke the intergal and numeric lights
are going off.
SPT Yes, . .. both off, but as far as
I know they were when I powered up this morning, although
I don't remember everything about the panel specifically.
CDR And, Houston, Jack is reading the VHF
... but they're unable to read him on downllnk.
CC Okay, we copy that. I'm having a little
bit of a problem on S-band too.
CDR Okay, Crip, standing by here.
CC Okay, we're - our comm is coming in and
out, so I don_ t know if we're going to get all this but I'll
make a stab at it. Firslt one is maybe more applicable for
Owen, and we'd llke to know whether you got the message where
we wanted to increase the motion on 131-1 to 30 r.p.m. Our
last run indicated it was at 25.
CDR I know. As a matter of fact I dldntt
have that manned and Jack thought the message was 25. So,
we're ready to go on up to 30. We did do a mistake on our
part, and we'll get on up to 30 the next time.
CC Okay, you got a GO on that. Okay, next
question is about TV. If you guys are in agreement, we'd
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kind of llke to get some - get some TV on your day off at

strictly your option. But we do need to inform the TV
media - the networks in advance. If you do it, we would suggest
maybe you could either pick something out on your own, or
you could do TV-28, which I believe is Dr. Garriotts' special
at the ATM panel, or TV -- TV-61 with mark 2 and hand pedaling
of the ergometer. If - we would like to know what your
decision was going to be by tomorrow, if we could, about
18:00.
CDR We been talking about that today and
the answer is yes, we'll put on something TV on our day off.
What we thought we'd like to do on our day off is run the
ATM not the first half of the morning, not ... 12 or 1,
but about 13:00. Run it the rest of the day Just as we have
been and then not do anything else except the ATM, and then
we'll do showers and all this other business, and we'll give
you good TV show.
CC Okay, and you're going to pick something
out on your own to do there. Is that correct?
CDR That's correct. If you'll give us all
the full tape recorder, then we'll get it done, and we may do
it twice or something, and then they can sit through it and
pick out the parts they like.
CC Okeydoke, sounds good. We will have to
use the tape recorders the VF - VTR, because we won't have
any llve passes for that day.
CDR Okay, and we'll sure put it on tape. We
been talking about that earlier today.
CC Okay, another item associated with TV -
We - we - the - We're planning on doing some TV of the science
kit around day 25, which is 233. And we're wanting to know
if you'd had a chance to play with any of the science kit
items yet.
SPT Just a few of them, and I think there are
a couple of things that might make an interesting demonstration.
CC Okay, Owen. If - we'd kind of like you
to run through all of them to make sure that they're all
operable. And if you give us a GO on it then we' ii go
ahead and schedule the specific items.
SPT I'll only planned to run something that has
been reviewed.
CC Okay 0 if you'll let us know what has_
then we'll go ahead and schedule it for you if that's
satis factory.
SPT It sure is.
CC Okay, also, break in here I see on 55 we
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need that - yeah, we need the - to go back to optical reference.

PLT Hey, Crip, this is Jack. I'm reading
them, they're not reading me. Lefts forget it this time
and get it on the next station. What time will that be?
CC Okay, Jack. We got another station
coming up over Carnarvon. We got a Madrid pass, the medical
pass, in about 8 minutes :from now. I guess we can try it there.
PLT Okay, let's do that.
CC Okay, we'll make a stab at it and we'll
try to get word to Gracla for you.
PLT Okay, can barely hear you on the squawk
box. Thank you.
CC Okay, our indications are that you should
have good signal. I'd appreciate it if you'd check over to
make sure your switches are in good conflg.
SPT I put the switch down to go. Is that
all you need? I don't see how that'll help you much.
CC That's the word we got from the back room.
We need the switch to optical. Thank you very much. That's
what they wanted to set up for unattended. Okay, I've got
another question on $230 and if Jack is listening he's
probably the best one to answer this one, I guess. The
samples that were retrieved were stowed in we understand
two bags, one red and one green. And can you confirm that
for us ?
PLT I haven't been to them, Bob, and I - I sort
of thought they were white. I can go check, I thought they were
white sort of beta cloth and I put them down in the lower
freezer.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm looking at them right now. I Just pulled
them out of the freezer. They're both in white beta cloth
bags, but the question may be which two did we bring in with
the switch stripes on the handle. Was that the question?
CC No, that's not the question. Okay, if
they're both in the one bag, that's fine.
CDR No, they're both not in one bag. They're
both in individual bags, but both bags are white.
CC Okay, what we'd like to do, AI, is to place
them both in one bag, if you could.
CDR You think I could?
CC Well, I guess we thought you could. If
you can't we should know about it. Okay, AI, I guess there
is some concern about you might not be able to. Why don't
you hold off, we'll check it. And we'll talk about it tomorrow
night.
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CDR I'm already doing it.

CC Okay. If you can we'd llke you to put
the extra bag in dome locker 416. And I guess it's - since -
both of them are white that's all you can tell us which one
it is.
CC And, AI, if you got a chance or either
you or Jack, we need to t:_ik about the EREP tape recorder
cleaning swab_
CDR Okay, Just a second. Now, I put them
both in one white bag. I'ii take the other white bag and
put it in which locker? 4 something.
CC 416, 416.
CDR Put it in 416. I'm looking at the handles
of the 230. Now one is j,,st - they're both sort of yellow
looking with gold looking handles. One has no marks on it,
the other has a red mark on it.
CC That's the way it should be.
CDR The a1._swer on the swabs are, we tried
every kind of swab up there. The best ones are the ones
that were launched to begin with in those beta cloth bags.
And you' ii find about 60 percent of the little beta cloth
bags you open have good moist swabs in them. The ones that
came up with Pete in his command module in the metal bags,
they're all dry. So, we have found some that are usable.
Now I don't know how that compares with what they used to
be, but they seem to clean the tapes real well.
CC I guess we need to get an estimate of
how many you've got left.
CDR Answer is you don't know, because - because
you don't know how many are going to turn out to be good. I
would suggest that Jerry Cart bring up enough to do the job.
They don't weigh that much, and that way you got some good
quality ones. And it may be just the ones that Pete's crew
brought up weren't so great. They're not too great when
they leave the Earth and it - they actually need to put
some more materials on the end of them before they launch them.
CC Okay, we copy that, AI. And sometime,
probably on our next pass over Carnarvon, which is about
37 minutes from now, if you could we'd appreciate knowing
what magazines you have in which Nikon cameras. We're a little
bit confused about that. We're about to go LOS over Madrid
at 02:20 and that's going to be for the reed conference, and
we'll try to handle the phone call there also.
CDR Okay, now, the reason they keep getting
confused on the Nikon is one of them does not count correctly
on either the electric counter or the counter on top of
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the magazine, so the numbers are screwy. But we keep

saying that and saylng we're Just going to keep using it,
but we'll go look again.
CC Which mag is in which Nikon is the problem,
not the count.
CDR The QB ... is in the ...
PAO We expect to reacquire the spacecraft
at the Madrid tracking station in about 2-i/2 minutes. We'll
keep the line up for that time, although we don't expect
much air-to-ground inasmuch as this - that's the station
where the scheduled medical conference will take place.
And in addition to that, there will be a second attempt to
put through a successful family conversation with Pilot
Jack Lousma and his family. So we'll stand by for the upcoming
pass through Madrid.
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PAO We've had loss of signal through Madrid.

Next station contact is Carnarvon in 24 minutes. At 2
hours 30 minutes, Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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52 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 30 seconds away
from acquisition at Carnarvon on what probably is the last
air-to-ground for this mission day. We will stand by for
commun ci atlons.
CC - for about I0 minutes.
CC And if Owen or AI, are you available to
talk for a moment?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Rog. Owen, we were still puzzling about
that ATM C&D in IA, it looks llke it's got more watts in
it than we expected. We would like to go ahead and turn
off monitor 1 for this evening. It's not required for TV
on down-link so if you'd turn it off for us, we would
appreciate it.
SPT Okay. I'ii go up and see if ,berets any-
thing else that might be on that you're not aware of.
CC Okay. We'd certainly appreciate that, and
before you take off, Owen, there's a couple of other Items_
I guess I should tell you about.
SPT Go.
CC Okey-dokey. On star tracker NUZ updates,
we're going to be sending a message to you tonight that
tells you how we'd llke to handle that in the future.
Basically, Just to quickly summarize it, it's any time
that we need a NUZ update, what we' re going to do is have
you lock on, get a star and then close the shutter
immediately and leave it that way. And you're going to
be required to do that every time you're doing something
like SO19 or 183 where it requires you to check the NUZ.
You're goin E to need to do that to get your NUZ current.
SPT Okey-doke.
CC Okay. That's info. If you'd spread that
around, I'd appreciate it. Also -
SPT We all heard you.
CC Okay. Very good. On the momentum inhibit,
I guess we boo-booed a little bit today on S019. We didn't
inhibit that thing for your first run and we need some way -
and what we suggest is on - when we' re handling things
like that sort of at your ad lib when you're going to do
them, if you're going to do them in a required momentum
dump inhibit, we would appreciate your letting us know,
and we will inhibit it for you.
CDR Okay, well, I guess there was a mix up
because we thought when we read the pads this morning that
we said we'd get them all. So that's how it got fouled
up. We' re sorry.
CC It really wasn't your fault, AI, it was
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ours. We should have inhibited and we did not. So basically

if you could Just let us know, you know, that you were
planning on doing the pass, and we're all aware of it, then
that'll remind us that we've got to inhibit it.
CDR Okay. MY guess is that those S019 things
now are always going to be on the schedule as a defined
item in time and we'll be doing them all, or at least
we're planning to do them all.
CC Okay. If that's the case, we won't have
any problems. If they're on the schedule - regular
scheduled items, then it'll be easy. It's the others where
we're Just going to send you pads without having them on
the schedule where we're getting into problems. Okay.
CDR Okay. And then we'll try to keep you
in fo rme d.
CC Okay. Very good. On the Nikon question
awhile ago, I don't know whether got that one clear to you
or not, but the reason we were confused was that we thought
that magazine C199 had been used up and when you switched
to CII00 and then all of a sudden we saw C199 back on the
report tonight. That's where our confusion was.
CDR That's our mistake. Jack wants to talk
with you though.
PLT Yeah, we somehow backtracked in our little
book and got a 99 there instead of 100 and here's the way
it's set up right now. Nikon 03 is the flash. That's got
CII00 frame count is 64. Nikon Ol is got the 300-millimeter
on. That is CXI2 and the frame count is 16, although there's
something a little squlrrely about that frame count, and
we're Just going to let it run down til it runs out of
pictures and change the film. Nikon 02 is the SO63 machine,
it's got Bravo Victor 13 in it. The frame count is 14.
And that takes care of the 35's.
CC Okay. That clarifies all of that for us.
We appreciate the information. And if you have time, we
would appreciate getting the items that you do have listed
on that little cue ca1:d that you wrote up for closing
down things or checking before you go to bed.
PLT One other thing, tomorrow's the film thread
pad. We'll be expecting a replacement for that Nikon
03 film magazine CII00, which is apparently full now.
CDR Okay. Here it is. It says final night
checklist I posted on the wall there as you come into the
sleeping quarters so 1:hat when the last guy goes to bed,
which usually is me, I Just read and then do it. And it
says: Lights off, I don't think this is the best order,
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but this is the way I put it up there to begin with.

Lights off, equipment off, and that includes things
like the ATM panel, and the -
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CDR - - order, but Just the way I put it up

there to begin with. l.ights off, equipment off and that in-
cludes things llke the ATM panel, and the experiment subsystem
over there. And the bike riding equipment and the metabolic
analyzer and all that. The SAL configure, that got us
into trouble a couple of times when we didn't have the SAL
configured correctly at night. The other is heaters OFF,
dumps complete, because we've got dumps going here all the
time, particularly towards nighttime. Waste tanks - I mean
the holding tanks, and also these little squeezer bags.
Item 5 is the trash alrlock handle press, the handle doesn't
have holding or a detent and press, that's where it should be.
And it turns out, if you kick it in the middle of the night, it
kind of moves uphalf way, and it'll vent, and it'll just
vent all night long. And that happened one night, because
somebody touched it in the middle of the night and moved
it up. So, what we've got now, is we've Just got a long
strap and we've got that thing strapped down. So, you can't
kick it. And I think maybe they ought to come up with some
better strap that Jerry can bring up, it's sort of llke a
bungee, where we slip :right around a little handle and then
you'd Just kind of hook it into the grid of the floor and
it would be sure to keep it springloaded in the pressed
position, then you won't have a problem. And the last
one is film and camera stowed. That's so we don't leave
some of these things o-t at night, and get the radiation
all over them.
CC Okay. That sounds like a real good
list. And we appreciate you letting us in on what items
you' re checking.
CDR Okay. The reason those came up is
because those are the things that bit us at first. And
we haven' t had any trouble, as far as I know, since the
llst came out. Well, we had trouble one night, but y'all
didn't call up. I discovered it the next morning. It's
because I didn't follow the llst.
CC Okay. Very good. Was that a small
pressure drop?
CDR Yep.
CC Okay. I believe that kind of clears
off my little list of notes here, that I was suppose to
ask you tonight. I know it's Just about your bedtime. I
did have some evening news, which I would be glad to give
to you, or I could Just wish you good night. Whatever you
wish.
CDR First let me ah- Give us the evening
news. We'd llke to hear that. But, first we were thinking,
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today, also. We were - Maybe every night these questions

aren't any trouble to us, and it gets us thinking, too. So, if
you don't have very much of a list, maybe the thing to do is
check with the ATM group and let's have a little question-
and-answer period every night. And they've probably got
some questions that Owen can answer, and maybe even Jack or
I. And if they don't, you might check with the experimenters,
if we've done their experiment that day or the previous day
or something like that. And maybe we can up the total
amount of information we're sending back better by answering
their specific questions now, before we forget, instead of
waiting until we get home. Because we've got some time here
and it's not any trouble at all.
CC Okay. We'll make a stab at doing that.
We do go out and ask Eor general evening questions, but we can
probably extend it a little bit, and we'll see if we can slip
them in. We've usually got our hands full in the evening passes,
though. But we'll try that.
CDR Okay. Standing by for the news.
CC Okay. We've got about 2 minutes and
then we're going to drop out slightly, and get you again
over Honeysuckle here. But I'ii start off on the first item.
Show you that we're all concerned about the environment, the
National Park Service announced Tuesday, that the national
Christmas tree that adorns the park near the White House,
each year, will be a live tree, not one that is transported
from some place and then discarded after the holidays. A
40-foot Colorado blue spruce is to be planted October the 15th
and will be the national Christmas tree each year. And eggs and
porks are leading the way in soaring food prices, since controls
on raw agricultural products were lifted in mid-July. Dollar-a-
dozen eggs, once the impossible nightmare, are a reality on
supermarket shelves. See, you guys didn't know you're getting
all that free food up there. The Council on Environmental
Quality said Tuesday, that energy conservation is one of
the best ways to reduce environmental impacts. The Council
said that strict controls can be put on things that harm the
atmosphere. And Americans can still get the energy they
feel that they need. The report suggested, that the way to
do it, is through conservation. Higher prices on some sources
and shifting to different fuels for some processes that use
existing fuel inefficiently. We're going to drop out here
briefly and I'ii have you at Honeysuckle in about i minute.
And I'ii continue with the news and give you a little NASA
on that.
PLT Guess I'ii have to start raising chickens
again.
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CC You're right. I thought Jack had some

of those.
CC Okay. And if you guys are ready for
my continuation of my evening news, I'ii go ahead and press
on .
CDR Crlp, just before you do, Owen wants to
talk to you about this panel. We're kind of concerned about
the 200-watt switches.
CC Okay. Press on.
SPT We've got the monitor turned off now,
and is there anything .else that still looks like a high
power load to you?
CC We' ii run around the room. We couldn't
think of anything earlier, Owen.
SPT I do have the console power distribution
switches all on to the various experiment areas. I think
you probably know about those eight switches.
CC That's affirm, that should be normal
configuration. And, the way we're doing this, is by looking
at the thermal calibration in the ATM C&D coolant loop. So
we're not looking at direct electrical outlets.
SPT I see. Well of course, we can look, at
the ameter reading I suppose, but, of course we can't read the
current to the C&D panel, I guess that's your point.
CC Yeah. Unfortunately, we don't have any
direct reading in the panel itself.
CC Okey doke. Don't sweat the problem.
We'll go ahead and take a look at it tonight and see if we
can come up with what seems to be causing the thing. We
don't really think that it's any big ditty for tonight.
NASA had awarded a grant to University of Texas at Austin
for continued research on the movements of the Earth and
the Moon. The project: is the only lunar laser observa-
tion being conducted in the world. A 107-inch telescope at
the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains is utilized
for bouncing laser beams off retro reflectors planted on the
surface of the Moon by the astronauts on Apollo ii, 14, and
15 missions. Here's a new law. A law requiring all 1974
model cars to be equipped with air bags or with devices
that keep the cars from starting unless seat belts are
fastened went into effect today. News stories today, reported
that Space Agency officials have concluded that the Skylab-2
Apollo command ship is a good vehicle and has almost ruled
out a rescue mission. Also, highlighted in news pictures,
and TV was the M509 experiment. AI Bean was quoted as
calling the unit a sweet flying machine. Stories also
quoted AI Bean as telling Mission Control that he and his
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crewmates have become so well acclimated to their space

lives that they were completing their work way ahead of
schedule and would llke their experiment load increased,
which we have been trying to do for you. One item also,
it's out of the news here, I should mention. We promised
you a teleprinter message on quad Delta and when you could
use it, and we're working on that tonight, and should have it -
get it up to you. Also, we are planning on sending up that
procedure that Bill Lenoir talked about, as far as recovering
from a loss of attitude, using the APCS. We're going to
go LOS in about 1 minute from now. And I'll go ahead and
knock off what news I have. The next pass is about 31 min-
utes from now, over Texas. And I will not give you a call
there, if you want us give us, give us a (garble).
CDR Okay. Goodnight, Crip. Goodnight
everybody down there.
CC Goodnight, guys.
PAO Unless an anomaly occurs, which
would call for an unscheduled callup, that was the final
alr-to-ground for tonight. The crew got a goodnlght from
the ground, thus ending the 19th Mission Day on August the
15th. We'll stand by for the medical report which should
be coming through momentarily. Signing off at this time,
momentarily, at 3 hours i0 minutes 29 seconds Greenwich
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Time: 22:17 CDT, 20/03:17 GMT
8/15/73

17 minutes Greenwich mean time with the daily health
status report on the crew of Skylab III_ and I quote:
The health of the Skylab Ill crew continues good. Their
appetites are good and their work and exercise output
continues to increase. At this point we have no misgivings
about continuing the flight for the full 59 days. And that
report was issued by Dr. Paul Buchanan. At 3 hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-821/I
Time: 06:04 CDT, 20/11[:04 GMT
8/16/73

time ii hours 5 minutes on the 20 day in orbit for the
Skylab III crew. Wake up time is scheduled to be i minute
and 30 seconds from now over Carnarvon tracking station.
We'll hold the line up for CAP COM Story Musgrave, Flight
Director this morning is Milt Windler.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through
Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
PLT I think it's still night Story.
CC It is.
SPT Hello there, Story.
CC Morning.
SPT Morning there. This is A1 Holt
Day on board Skylab II. I wonder if you'll give AI a call
and let him know we appreciate all of the work he's done
in getting everybody ready to make our solar observation and
our pads and things and all prepared and all of our training
program organized and if you'd give A1 a call and let him know
we appreciate all of that.
CC Okay, it looks like an appropriate day
since you got about I0 ATM passes today.
SPT Yeah, I noticed on our pad last night,
looks like we're going to have a busy day at the panel.
&C It'll be the same tomorrow.
SPT Sounds fine.
CC And Skylab, for anybody we have some
more teleprinter messages to send up and we're showing
the paper is low. We'd like you to verify that the
last message you have is 1446 A_2 and then change out
the paper.
PLT Hey, Story. If you want a little real
time TV over Goldstone, we can set it up if you're configured
for it.
CC We could us some real time TV over
Goldstone, however we will be dumping the VTR Mila.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS. See
you over Guam in 3 minutes.
PLT The last thing you got on the
teleprinter, Story, is menu card 6 or something like that it's
very difficult to read. It didn't print very well.
CC Can you see what message it was, Jack?
PLT Menu cue card 6 change number something but
I can't read it, so you'll have to send it again. The one
before that I can't read either, very well. I can't
(garble) let me look to see how many others we sent.
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PAO This is Skylab Conrol; Greenwich

mean time, ii hours 19 minutes, with wake up over Carnarvon.
The crew starting their 20th day in orbit. On this the
94th day in the life of the Skylab workshop. CAP COM
Story Musgrave waking the crew up and the comment from
Pilot Jack Lousma, said I think it's still night. Of course
it's still night where the crew was wakened up over Carnarvon.
It's still yesterday over Australia. Today's activities
include approximately 8 hours on the Apollo telescope mount.
An activity call TOI3 Vehicle disturbance test, with Pilot
Jack Lousma and Commander AI Bean. Commander Bean will be
serving as the test pilot in this operation, this morning.
Commander Bean will also proform the M092, MI71 run today.
And shortly after rising this morning, the Skylab III crew will
be drawing blood in the MII0 hematology immunology experiment
series, some 7 milliliters of blood samples will draw from
each crew man, 17 times during this 2 month Skylab mission.
The blood samples will be used determining what effects
prolonged space flight has on the human blood system such as
any changes in cellular constitutes, radiation damage to
blood cells and in chemical makeup. Science Pilot Owen
Garriott after blood samples are drawn today will run an
additional hemoglobin test on the samples, using a hemoglobo
meter carried aboard Skylab, Garriott will obtain a dirrect
reading of red cell mass changes from this instrument. The
adverage red cell mass readings on a healthy person on
earth is 14 to 16 milliliters per i00 milliliters of sample.
Garriott will place
CC - over Guam for i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, don't send anything in the teleprinter
because, it'll come out on my finger if you do.
CC Okay. -
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PLT Okay, so don't send anything on the teleprinter,

because it will come out on my finger if you do.
CC Okay.
PLT I'd like the ray of red on the paper threading
procedures, Story.
CC Say again.
PLT I'm like the ray of red on the paper threading
process.
CC Okay, l'm ready to copy.
PLT I tlhink it's a little late.
CC It'_s never too late in this business.
CC And Jack, when you get done reloading the
teleprinter we'd like to know if you could see the red stripe
on the paper, and the last readable message which you got.
CDR Story, do you concur that this is M ii0 day
for us?
CC Yes sir, seeing it down here.
PLT Story, the answer is yes. You could see the
red on the paper. Looking at the roll, there is only 7 inches
of paper left on the roll before it gets to the end. Let me
look at the last message.
PLT Story, the last - the teleprinter is loaded
again, you can go ahead and use it. The last readable message
is general message 15, number 2038 Bravo.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over
Goldstone in 16 minutes at 11:46.
PLT Okay Story. And we've got the TV set up in
the experiment area. We'll just turn it on and let you look
at it if you want.
CC Great.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
ii hours 31 minutes. Commander A1 Bean requested from Capcomm
Story Musgrave, to confirm that today is the MIIO day referring
to the fact that today is bloiod sampling day for the crew.
Blood is drawn of crew members throughout the mission. And
one of the programs today after the blood draw is for Science
Pilot, Owen Garriott to make a hemoglobin test by using a meter
on board. Garrlott will obtain a direct reading of red
cell mass changes from this instrument. The average red cell
mass readings on a healthy person on Earth is 14 to 16 milli-
liters per 100 millileters of blood sample. Garriott will
place one drop of blood from each man in this instrument
and read the resulting number into the onboard tape recorder,
the socalled A channel for the benefit of medical investigators
i
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on the ground. Skylab 2 Science Pilot, Dr. Joseph Kerwin,

ran one hemoglobin test during that mission to determine
whether it was possible to take infllght measurements of
hemoglobin levels. Blood samples for the MII0 hemotology
immunology experiment group will be taken 8 times during the
mission of Skylab 3. Today the crew has referred to today
as A1 Holt day. This is the crew's schedule of commending
certain individuals at the Johnson Space Center who were
instrumental in their training and the preparations for the
flight. A1 Holt is in the Flight Crew Procedures section of
the Johnson Space Center. And he was coordinator for the
training for the Apollo telescope mount solar observation
program for Skylab. Greenwich mean time ii hours 33 minutes.
Next acquisition over Goldstone in 13 minutes. This is Sky!ab
Control.
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Time: 06:44 CDT, 20/11:44 GMT
8/16/73

time, ii hours 45 minutes with acquisition coming up at the
Goldstone, tracking station. On this the 20th day in orbit
for Skylab III crew me_)ers Alan Bean, Dr. Owen Garriott
and Jack Lousma. We'll hold the line open for the discussions
with CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave and the Skylab III crew.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for
16 minutes and we need the video switch to TV.
SPT Are you getting the blood draw on TV,
Story?
CC Thal:'d be fine.
SPT Well, we got it all set up and running. It's
yours if you want to take it.
CC We don't have the lines called up this
morning but we will be able to get a replay from the site.
We'd like it.
SPT Okay, Just got the CDR's blood draw
then. We'll be going through the rest of them shortly.
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PLT Hey, Story, we think we got some good

TV of blood drawing and they ought to have that at the
site. Let us know when we ought to turn off the TV, okay.
CC Okay. The last we heard, the site was
getting good TV. And as you have been, we would like
you to get daily weights on the BMMD, even though we
won't be putting it on the flight plan anymore.
PLT We've got them already Story and tell
me when the TV won't any longer be any good.
CC Let me check. Jack on the TV you can
turn it off.
CDR Story, what did A1 Holt say when you
called him?
CC Well he was kind of amazed and I by
the sound of his voice, I woke him up.
CDR That's good. That's good. Okay, thanks.
PLT Tell him, he shouldn't be sleeping when
the sun is shinning.
CC Yeah, we're thinking about running you
all 3
shifts up there.
CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds til LOS.
We'll see you over Carnarvon in 54 minutes at 12:46. And on
update on your sun. The sUn has been very quiet with no
significant activity or new features.
CC Skylab, we're i0 seconds to LOS.
54 minutes to Carnarvon at 12:46. The sun has been
very quiet, no new features and we've gotten all of the messages
up on the teleprinter.
CDR Okay, thank you, Story.
time, 12 hours 4 minutes with loss of signal over Bermuda.
On this the start of the 1355 revolution of the Skylab
workshop which was launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14th.
Discussion with the crew just concluded. The crew was
advised by CAP COMM Story Musgrave that the sun looked very
quiet, no major activity. The crew is scheduled to spend
8 hours at the Apollo telescope mount cameras and telescopes
today. With this the start of their 20th day in orbit.
Greenwich mean time 12 hours 5 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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Time: 07:43 CDT 20/12:43 GMT
8/16/73

12 hours 43 minutes with acquisition coming up at the Carnarvon
tracking station. While Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is oc-
cupying most of his day at thie console of the Apollo tele-
scope mount looking at the Sun some 8 hours plus scheduled
for today, Commander A1 Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma will spend some
time gazing at the stars. Both Bean and Lousma are scheduled
to take some ultraviolet photiographs of large areas of the
Milky Way in which young hot stars are in abundance. The
experiment is called ultrastellar astronomy S019. The exper-
iment consists of a 6 inch reflecting telescope and a moveable
mirror which is extended through the scientific alrlock on
the Earth side of the orbital workshop. The manually operated
telescope is capable of recording ultraviolet radiation
down to a wave length of 1350 angstroms. Principle investigator
for this $019 experiment is fellow astronaut Dr. Carl G. Henlze,
one of the Science astronauts at the Johnson Space Center.
We anticipate acquisition at Carnarvon in approximately 1 min-
ute. We'll leave the line open for communications between
the Skylab-3 crew and Capcomm Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for
6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see
you over Guam in 8 minutes at 13:00. And Owen, we're wonderin_
if you're going to get to the urine specific gravity?
SPT Let me ckeck the schedule, Story. I'm Just
finishing up on the hemoglobin now.
CC Okay, good.
CC And it's not on the schedule, Owen. It came
up on a teleprinter message to do that along with the MII0.
But we did kind of hit you by surprise.
SPT I hadn't seen it on the schedule, so I hadn't
planned to "do it, though I'll try to get it done some time
today. Are there any requlreiments that are to be done with
the MII0 in the morning before breakfast?
CC No. The only reason for doing it alon E with
ii0 is cause you can compare the results of the hemoglobln
analysis with the specific gravity.
SPT Okay. Well, I have to read it, and do you want
to wait a day or do you want to Just catch it later in the day?
CC We'll schedule it later, and we'll see you
over Guam, Owen.
PAO Skylab Control, 12 hours 53 minutes with loss
of signal at Carnarvon. Next acquisition Guam tracking station
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in approximately 7minutes. Here at the Mission Control

Center we are in the process of a change over from Milt
Windler, the overnight Flight Director. And the on coming
Flight Director will be Phil Shaffer, head of the Purple Team.
At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 53 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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Time: 07:59 CDT, 20/12:59 GMT
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time, 12 hours 59 minutes with acquisition at Guam. Commander
AI Bean should be concluding the first sunslde pass at the
Apollo telescope mount for today, while fellow astronaut
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott, Pilot Jack Lousma are concluding
the MII0 blood sampling series for the day. We'll leave
the llne up for this short Guam pass.
CC Good morning Skylab. We're AOS at Guam
for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For Owen, per the
conversation you had with Story just a few minutes ago on
the urine sample with MII0. We pick it - We'll pick up that
sample procedure starting with the next MII0 day. And then -
SPT Roger.
CC And then each day that you have MII0 fzom
here on in.
SPT Roger.
CDR Say, Dick. One of the things that we've
noticed that's occurred over the last week or so and we've
been kind of wondering if it's been going by the experlment_s
board and everything - is, for particularly Owen, he's had a lot
of add-on Jobs that weren't normally - weren't planned prior
to the mission. They're okay for us to do them but of course
they're displacing something else. So it's sort of - we want
to make sure that this has all been cleared. For example,
he's now doing hemoglobin fairly frequently, and it looks like
urine is coming up. We're doing manual blood pressures now
for the M092/171 business. There's a couple of more that
have just kind of floated in the door here and would you
take some steps to make sure that all the experiment personnel
are aware that this is going on and that adequate time is
set aside in his schedule to do it because particularly those
hemoglobin and urine take a little bit of time. Let me see
how long. Hemoglobin takes about 45 minutes. And urine
takes about 45 minutes, 8o if they want us to do them, they
are going to have to block out that sort of time for Owen.
Because it's causing him to get behind. We'll be glad to
do it and Just give some of the work over to Jack and I.
But you're going to have to block him out because otherwise
he gets behind.
CC Roger, CDR. And be assured that those
kind of things are discussed down here. Lots of time we do
make a mistake because we do misestimate the time required
and we're glad to have your inputs on that or any changes
to the schedule that we show. But we sure do talk about that.
And wetve been working pretty hard, mainly because you guys been
working so hard and finding things like this. It supports
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CC (CONT'D) some of the experiments you know that

you can - that you can do. We're about 1 minute from LOS.
We're going to see you at Texas at 13:27.
CDR Okays no strain, we're glad to do them
and we've got time to do them. But Owen seems to be the
fellow that all - all of these extras have fallen on,
yet - yet, and they're sort of add on. So if they can schedule
him with about 45 minutes for each and then shift the ATM
and other things to us while he's doing all of that,l think
it will make it a smoother operation.
CC Roger; understand. We'll do it.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
13 hours 6 minutes. ]loss of signal at Guam, next acquisition
will be over Texas - Goldstone in approximately 16 minutes
from now. Previous discussion with Commander A1 Bean concerned
the - the additional duties that have been asked of Science
Pilot Owen Garriott, blood drawingp blood pressure taking,
during the various runs of the medical experiments. And Bean
asked CAP COMM Dick Truly to assure that all the experiment
people are in the loop and planning these activities, and that
additional time be provided to Science Pilot Garriott for
accomplishing these additlonal tasks. Greenwich mean time,
13 hours 7 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-827/I
Time: 08:21 CDT, 20/13:21 GMT
8/16/73

time, 13 hours 21 minutes. We will have aquisltlon at the
Goldstone tracking station on the conclusion of the 1356
revolution - at the start of the 1356 revolution of the
Skylab workshop. Launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS stateside for
13 minutes.
PLT Okay, Houston. Getting ready for the
TV downllnk on the ATM. We're all set up and here's copy.
CC Roger. Stand by we're checking.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are getting
down link of the coronagraph now, and we're seeing the
picture.
PLT Okay, Dick. Okay, we're gonna roll her
out to 10,800.
CC Roger. We're watching the roll now.
CC Skylab, Houston; I wanted to point out
a coupled messages among the 9 or i0 feet of teleprinter paper
you got this morning, that we would llke you to just be aware
of particularly. One is permanent general message number 13,
which has to do with the way we're gonna be operating with the
startracker starting today. We've enabled the inputs from
the startracker into the computer and so the updates will
be accomplished when you acquire the star per that pad.
There are two parts to the pad. One is the Nu Z update, and
the other is Z-gyro drift determination. And each of those
will be done either as scheduled on your daily detail pads
or as we request them, or in some cases llke in preparation for
SO19 this afternoon on the daylight pass. But anytime you
need to do a Nu -Z update you can Just stick that pad up by
the ATM and use those procedures and it will get done
properly.
CDR Okay, Dick, I did lock on the startracker
this morning during that ATM run and went to shutter close.
That's probably where it sets right now.
CC Roger, AI. Another message I wanted to
point out to you and it's for the CDR a little bit later when
he's doing housekeeping 60 alpha. It's a general message
entitled EGIL miscellaneous, and the number on it is
2025 Bravo, and it's got a couple of little steps that we
would llke performed in there when you do the 60 alpha. A
third thing that I had to mention to you is that yesterday,
on one of the S019 runs, we missed a dump inhibit and we think
we probably invited you to fall into that trap by not putting
it on the pad or something. So in the future on shopplngllst
items that do require a dump inhibit we're gonna point that out
to you on one of the pads that come up to you. Probably right
there on that shopping list pad to make sure that gets done.
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CC Skylab, Houston; if you will stay off

the DAS here, we are Eonna - we are gonna go ahead and do
that commanding required to enable the inputs from the star-
tracker into ATMDC. And from now on we can use this permanent
general message 13 as an update procedure. And I'ii let you
know when we are throuBh commanding.
CC Skylab, Houston; we are through commanding.
The DAS is yours.
CT Ho,,ston eomm tech Goldstone, comm tech, net i.
CT Roger. I read you loud and clear.
CT We - We're not remoted. We don't have
a carrier up. We handed over to Texas at 13:27.
CT Okay.
CT Taking the comm tech - taking the comm tech,
net i.
CT I :read you loud and clear. How me?
CT Loud and clear.
CT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; I'm informed our network
configuration - You heard our transmissions but I did not
copy yours for the last couple or 3 minutes.
CDR Okay. That explains a couple of things.
We thought we weren't getting down to you.
CC Roger. I heard you loud and clear, AI,
and we've still got about 8 minutes left in the pass so go
ahead.
CDR I can't find that message from EGIL.
CC Okay, its - number is 2025 Bravo and
it's entitled GM-EGIL miscellaneous. And no problem it's
fairly shor_. And if you'd like me to just tell you what it
says, I'ii be glad to read it to you.
CDR Would you do that? Because it's not presently
in view.
CC Okay. What it says AI, is immediately
after step 7 of housekeeping 60 alpha, adjust the REG ADJUST,
BUS i POT, 20 degrees counter-clockwlse and the REG ADJUST
BUS 2 POT, 130 degrees counter-clockwise. And both of those are on
panel 206.
CDR Dick, step 7 itself has REG ADJUST BUS 2
POT ADJUST BUS AMP PeG, TOTAL 2 indication equals BUS AMP
PCG, TOTAL i indication. Were you saying disregard that
and just make 2, 30 degrees counterclockwise and i, 20 degrees
coun terclockwis e.
CC Stand by.
END OF TAPE
SL-[II MC-828/I
Time: 08:31 CDT 20/13:31 GMT
8/16173
CC CDR, Houston. The intent is to go ahead

and have you accomplish step 7, don't skip it, accomplish
that. And then after you've matched them up and you have
that as a normal position, then you accomplish
this step, which says on the bus I plot 20 degrees counter
clockwise, and the bus 2 plot 30 degrees counter clockwise.
CDR Okay, we can do that. Now a question. I
notice it says that this hydrogen vent is not crltlcal. Does
this mean I can wander up there and do it now?
CC CDR, Houston. We prefer to have it after
the time that it is scheduled on your flight plan and not
do that now. I do have - there is one more item in this
general message I would like to pass up to you with regard
to housekeeping 60 Alfa. And it says, when the polychoke
assembly is installed as a part of this procedure select
position i on the poly choke, and perform MS09-F3 Alfa. And
then prior to sleep, perform MSO9-F3 Bravo. Over.
CDR Okay Dick, say again the two numbers.
CC Okay. MS09-F3 Alfa and that's to be done
this morning after you set the polychoke to position i, and
then prior to sleep, M509-F3 iBravo. And of course, those
have to do with preparations, our atmospheric management
preparations for the upcoming M509 run.
CDR Okay.
CC Rog.
CDR And to glve flight planners a feel, Owen has
just finished with the blood work and the hemoglobin and he's
Just started breakfast. He's been steady at it since he got
up.
CC Roger, understand.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from
LOS. We're going to see you down at the Vanguard at 13:48.
We do want to make sure that we did get all the teleprinter
messages up there so sometime that - the messages that went
in front of and after tlhls EGilL miscellaneous one with a SWS
cue card change which was number 2030. And the message that
immediately followed on our uipllnk , the EGIL miscellaneous
message was permanent general message 14 which has to do
with ED52. Some time this moirning you might make a check
and make sure you have those two. And then we'll be happy
that we don't have some kind iof teleprinter problem. The
SWS cue card change incldentailly Just to help you out a little
bit was the change to some menu cue cards.
CDR Okay, we got that one and we got number 29
there, 2029_
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CC Okay. I guess the other one that we're interested

in is the ED52 permanent general message 14, that was number - -
CDR We've got the one with the student experiment,
14.
CC Okay, fine. I think we're in good shape then.
CDR Jack seems to remember it, but all of our
messages are out here (garble) apparently (garble).
13 hours 38 minutes, with loss of signal over the Mila tracking
station as the Skylab-3 space station starts its 1356th
revolution cf the Earth. Conversations between Capcomm,
Richard Truly and the crew concerned housekeeping activity
60 A. This is preparation in shutting down the command
and service module fuel ceils and putting CSI_ on to orbital
workshop power. This is done approximately the 28th day
of the mission at about: the same time this was accomplished
in the Skylab-2 mission, on the 20th day. Further discussions
concerned general message number 14 from the teleprinter
message pad which went up last night. It concerned experiment
ED52, this is the web formation experiment with spider Arabella.
This message concerned the replacement of Arabella with
her back up spider Anita, and described procedures for
swapping the two spiders out, and also continuing feeding
of the spiders with lit:tle bits of filet mignon. Next acquisi-
tion will be over the Vanguard tracking station in approxi-
mately 7-1/2 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours 39 min-
utes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
',,-;L-11
] MC-829/_
Time: 08:46 CDT, 20/13:46 CMT
8116173

time, 13 hours 46 minutes with acquisition at the Vanguard
tracking ship. CAP COMM is Dr - Richard Truly. Flight
Director on this shift is Phll Shaffer. We'll hold the
llne open for alr-to-ground communications.
CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Say, Dick, I was _ust using the persistent
image scope on XUV monitor and it works pretty good. Works
quite well, matter of fact. And I also notice that it looks
like there's a couple of bright things coming around the -
coming around the west limb. So maybe we'll have something
to look at here in another day or two.
CC Real good, Jack. We'll be looking forward
to figuring out what they are.
PLT Yeah, I think it's the east llmb there, the
sun is backward, of course.
CC Roger; that. We were wondering.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS at the Vanguard. We're going to see you at Goldstone
at 15:03.
LOS, Vanguard. Goldstone at 15:03.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Roger, see you there.
PLT Say good morning to big Phil there, will you?
CC Roger, I'ii do it.
time, 13 hours 57 minutes, loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. Next acquisition will be at Goldstone
1 hour and 5 minutes from now. Previous pass, Jack Lousma
reported that something was coming - bright thing coming
around the west limb of the sun and he said possibily we might
have something interesting to look at in the next couple of
days. Today's ATM manned operation totals 8 hours which is
the longest period crew members have spent at the ATM console.
Previous high was yesterday, a total of 7 hours and 36 minutes.
There has been a total in Skylab III, a total manned hours of the
ATM console of 46 hours and 56 minutes. Approximately 205 hours
are plan for the Skylab IIl mission. At Greenwich mean time,
13 hours 58 minutes, next acquisition will be Goldstone in
1 hour and 4 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-830/1
Time: 9:32 CDT 20/14:32 GMT
8116173

14 hours 32 minutes as Skylab-3 crosses over Thailand on an
ascending pass. There will be a press conference at 10:30
in the Building 1 News Room with William C. Schneider Skylab
Program Director concerning the status of Skylab-4. To re-
peat there will be a press conference at 10:30 Building 1
News Roomp the Johnson Space Center with Mr. William C. Schneider
Skylab Program Director. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
33 mlnutes_ this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-831/I
Time: 09:59 CDT, 20/14:59 GMT
8116173

time, 14 hours 59 seconds with acquisition over Goldstone
in approximately 3 minutes. One of the experiments on tap
for today is to answer the question is the stability of the
Skylab spacecraft influenced by the normal activity of
the astronauts as they move about doing their duties. Today
in Skylab, Commander Alan Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma will
perform an experiment to determine Just that. Crew vehicle
disturbance experiment TOI3 is designed to measure the
effects of various crew motions on the dynamics of the
vehicle. Specifically the torques, forces and vehicle
motions produced by the body motions of the crew will be
measured. A function of the Skylab program and future
space stations is to serve as a platform for solar and
stellar observations. This requires that the platform be
extremely stable. While Skylab is weightless in space,
it is possible that normal movements of the crew could change
the spacecraft's mass distribution, thus affecting its
ability to maintain a precise attitude to a specific
target. The uncertainty of this will be resolved by the
crew vehicle disturbance experiment, providing system
engineers with accurate models of,crew motion disturbances.
Bean will be the subject and Lousma the observer during
this experiment. The experiment consists of an instrumented
coverall type garment, two load measuring systems, sensitive
to the amount of force applied to them, a data collection
system, and an umbilical cable to carry information from the
instrument garment to the data system. Two force measuring
units will measure the forces and movements applied to the
orbital work structure by Bean during the experiment. At
the end of the mission, the crew will return on film cartridge,
cartridges of the entire experiment. This will be correlated
with telemetry data, including information from the Apollo
telescope mount attitude control system to determine the
effects of movement on the Skylab stability. Principal
investigator for this experiment is Bruce A. Conway of
the Langley Research Center, Langley, Virginia. We expect
air-to-ground communications with CAP COMM Dick Truly and
the Skylab crew at this Goldstone pass, we'll hold the
llne open for this pass.
CC Skyla5, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone
for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, and we started that cryo vent
at 14:53.
CC 14:53, copy. And I got one request
from Owen up at the ATM, we have a command computer at
Goldstone that's down and we need a little help on our tape
recorder management. So on the ATM panel up there at the
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Time: 09:59 GDT, 20/14:59 GMT
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CC (CONT'D) top, we'd llke tape recorder 1 switch to

off and the tape recorder-2 record playback switch to
record, please. Over.
SPT Okay, how does that look?
CC Tape recorder 2 switch to record, Owen,
not playback.
CC We see it Owen and it looks good, thank
you very much.
SPT How does S052 feel about a few extra
standard modes thrown in when we're at sun center? Are they getting
a little tight on film or are they still anxious to get
a few extra standards? Over.
CC Stand by one, please. SPT, Houston,
we would - negative on the standards. We would llke to save
the film and I do have note for you from the backroom on your -
what you put on that clhannel A last evening.
SPT Go ahead, llke to hear it.
CC Well, certainly not too explanatory except
that we have listened and talked about it some and we think
the most likely explanation is due to rapid evolution of
the bright points themselves and suggest that possibly we
may schedule or you might do a program of mirror auto rasters
in a poly-i position to allow simultaneous study in both
oxygen 6 and magnesium i0. We think that this would be
profitable and we're going to be examining qulck-look
data from your building block ii from yesterday.
SPT Okay, sounds very interesting then. - -
That interpretation sounds reasonable up here also.
CC Roger. We're about a minute from LOS.
We're going to be at the Vanguard at 15:25 and we want to
be super prepared there to do the T013 task number 3, as soon as
we get our data locked up. So if you'll be prepared to
do that task when we get there, AI, we'll appreciate it.
CDR We is ready now, fella.
CC Roger. I'ii give you a call at AOS when
we're locked - you got our data locked up at Vanguard, see you
there.
time, 15 hours 8 minutes with loss of signal over the Goldstone
tracking station. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 15
minutes from now. During the operation of the T013 vehicle -
crew vehicle disturbance experiment, Astronaut Commander
AI Bean will more or less bounce back and forth from the walls
of the workshop. And this amount of force and momentum he
implies - imparts to the vehicle, will be measured by the
various instruments connected to the experiment. The major
portion of this experiment is scheduled to occur during the
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8/16/73
PAO (CONT'D) pass through the Vanguard station. This

is a i0 minute pass and flight controllers have requested
the height of the activity be conducted during that pass.
Next acquisition again Goldstone in 14 minutes and 30 seconds
from now. At Greenwich mean time, 15 hours 9 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-832/I
Time: i0:22 CDT 20/15:22 GMT
8/16/73

15 hours 22 minutes, with acquisition coming up at the Vanguard
tracking station. Commander Alan Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma
should be into the TO13 crew vehicular disturbance experiment,
while Science Pilot Owen Garriott is at the Apollo telescope
mount. Today is the longest run manned operation of the
Apollo telescope mount. The ATM officer has described today's
sun as the quietest since the launch of SL-I. And Apollo
telescope mount operations have already accumulated manned
hours have accumulated more than 42 hours of operation to this date.
We'll leave the llne open for conversations between Capcomm
Dick Truly and the crew of Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS Vanguard for
i0 minutes. And I'ii let you know when our data is locked
up solid.
CDR Roger. And we're recording on the VTR right
now.
CC Understand, Owen. And we'd llke you to let

us have the DAS for a few seconds. We're going to command
a dump enable and also turn some heaters off which is some
power management that we're doing.
SPT You have it.
CC Roger.
CC And for the guys doing TO13, we've got our
data locked up solld now, so you can proceed through T013
task number 3.
CDR Okay, we're going to start doing it right
now. Now we'll be on channel A record so it won't be on B
unless you want it
on B.
CC Roger. Channel A record is fine, AI. And
before you go over there_ one request. Before you turn the
camera off after doing task number 3, we'd llke you to repeat
step number 4 on page 30-1, which is the time correlation
sequence. Well actually, we only want this if the cameras
have been turned off since that time. But since you were
a little ahead we thought you may have gotten ahead of that.
But we want to make sure we get a time correlation on the
film for this task number 3.
CDR Will do.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've finished commanding
the DAS is yours.
SPT Houston, you should have on your telemetry the displ
of the 82B, white light llmb position, I believe. It's showing
minus 9 arc seconds at this point. And you can watch any
disturbances from there also.
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Time: i0:22 CDT 20/15:22 GMT
8/16/73
CC Roger, Oven. Thank you.

CC SPT, Houston. We found one very minor mis-
take on your ATM schedule pad, it's for a pass that you have later
on today. The pass starts at 19:42 on the pad, that number
should read 19:37, 19:37.
SPT Got it.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, I've gone back to white light display
out of pointing. And my question is does the telemetry still show
the position of the limb from their llmb scan in the white light
display position of the switch the way I am right nov? Or
is it necessary to go on down to limb scan? Over.
CC Stand by i, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out on comm
there for a second. We still have about 2 minutes left
here at Vanguard. And Owen, we did lose the team indication
of llmb offset when you go to llmb scan. Over.
SPT Okay Dick, I'll leave it where it is. I'm
not sure you're getting what: you want right now.
CC Roger. We're happy, Owen.
SPT Okay, Houston, for your information the CDR
and Pilot are both going to perform this sequence of soring.
Go ahead, are you ready, Jaelk?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Hawaii at 16:34.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For your information,
we are seeing very, very ti_y, as you might expect, motions
from the spacecraft. But we are seeing the data and we'll
be taking a closer look at it when we get it all here.
SPT Roger.
time 15 hours 35 minutes, with loss of signal at Vanguard,
as the crew was performing the T013 crew vehicle disturbance
experiment. Next acquisition will be over Hawaii in approx-
imately 58 minutes from now. There will he a briefing starting
momentarily in the Building 1 News Room at the Johnson Space
Center with William Schneider, Skylab Program Director, and
Astronaut Scientist Dr. Karl Henize. Next acquisition at
Hawaii in 57 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-833/I
Time: ii:30 CDT, 20/16:30 GMT
8/16/73

time, 16 hours 30 minutes with acquisition nearing over the
Hawaii tracking station. Commander A1 Bean and Pilot Jack
Lousma should be in the command module closing out the -
closing down the fuel cells on this the 20th day of the
mission, this is a programed event. The command module now will
draw power from the orbital workshop with the fuel cells shut
down. Science Pilot Owen Garriott is still at the Apollo
telescope mount control and display panel, operating
the instruments aimed at the sun. Little more background
from the backroom, on Kohoutek. Comet 1973F, otherwise
know as Comet Kohoutek, was discovered March 7, 1973 by astronomer
Loubos Kohoutek using the Hamburg observatory's 32 inch
Schmldt telescope. Kohoutek found the image of the comet
on a photographic plate while observing some asteroids, he'd
discovered in 1971. Comet Kohoutek is a parabolic orbit
around the sun and will pass its perihelion or closest
approach to _he sun on December 28th at a distance of
13.2 million miles from the sun. Estimates of brightness
as the comet nears the earth range from magnitude of minus I0
to a minus i). If it does indeed reach the mlnus-10 magnitude
it may be possible to view the comet in daylight with the
naked eye[ The apparent motion of Kohoutek across the
celestial sphere is roughly along the plane of the ecliptic.
After its December 28 perihelion, Kohoutek will enter the
northern hemispheres evening sky and will be Just west of
the constellation Capri,'ornus on January 3rd. On January 18th
the comet will be Just south of Aquarius and south of
Aries, on February 17th when it should still be visible to
the naked eye. Also during January Kohoutek will pass near
the planet Jupiter and the crescent moon. At Greenwich mean
time, 16 hours 32 minutes, we'll hold the line open for
conversations between CAP COMM Dick Truly and the crew
of Skylab IIi
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for 8 minutes
CDR Okay, Dick. We finished T013 and it
was a pretty straight forward experiment. As far as I
can tell, everything worked right, we went through the
procedures, we did the TV for you first, then we went back
and did the sequences i, 2, 3, i. So we think we got
all of the information on TV and on film.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you.
CDR How's the command module hydrogen
vent to you these days?
CC We are watching it vent and it looks good.
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CDR Okay, we're stowing 13 right now.

CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re about a minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at the Vanguard at 17:03
and we were wondering if you could give us an estimate as
to whether or not you'll have the housekeeping
60-alfa done prior to Vanguard, cause we want to look at
the data at the Vanguard, after the transfer is complete, if
possible.
CDR How many minutes before you get there
Dick?
CC Vanguard is 22 minutes away, AI.
CDR We'll hustle and do it. We're stowing
but we'll .just stop stowing and go do that.
CC Okay, thank you much.
PAO Th_Is is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time, 16 ho,_rs 41 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii.
Next acquisition, Vanguard, in approximately 21 minutes.
Commander - Commander A1 Bean reported that he and Pilot
Lousma had not completed stowage of the T013 equipment.
TO13 is the crew vehicle disturbance experiment which the
crew has been conducting during the last revolution of the
earth. CAP COMM Truly asked if the crew had gotten to
housekeeping 60A- this is the powering down of the command
service module fuel cells. Bean reported that they would
get to that right now and have it done by the time they
arrive at the Vanguard in approximately 20 minutes from
now. At Greenwich mean time, 16 hours 42 minutes, this
is Sky!ab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-I II MC-834/I
Time: 12:01 CDT 20/17:01 GMT
8/16/73

17 hours 1 minute, with acquisition coming up at Vanguard
as Skylab begins its 1357th revolution. We'll leave the llne
up for conversation between Capcomm Richard Truly and the
crew of Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for 10 minutes.
CDR Okay. We shut down the fuel cell, we made
the transfer, and we're busily installing the 02 vent.
CC Roger, A1. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. AI, while you're up in the
command module, we'd llke to confirm that the H2 heaters and
fan switches are all off. We see the temperature in tank 2
slightly elevated and we'd Just like to check on it before
we go for a long LOS period.
CC Roger. That's heaters and fans off on both
tanks 1 and 2.
PLT Okay, all the heater and fan switches are off.
H2 heater number switch, number 1 switch was on. I guess
that goes to tank 2, right?
CC That's affirmative. And it was on, but it
is now off. Is that correct?
PLT That's correct. And the 02 heaters are off
also.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
CC And SPT, Houston. We show that H-alpha is
not running, we think it should, And you might take a check
on your switches and help us out with that one.
SPT Thank you very much, I've got it running now.
I had to turn to manual when I was doing a 4 limb coalign,
and Just forgot to put it back. Thank you for the check.
CC Roger, Owen.
PLT Dick, how much tape do we have left on the
VTR?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. There is about 1-1/2 minutes
remaining on the VTR, and it is in the record mode. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Roger.
CC And SPT, Houston, another question from the
ATM guys. We'd like to verify that you've done the 82 Bravo
auto sequence this daylight pass, or if you haven't to be sure
and accomplish it.
SPT Okay, that was from (garble) 82 Bravo auto
sequence, and I haven't as a matter of fact. I will check my
pad again.
CC Roger.
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SPT Hey, I sure appreciate those reminders down

there, Adam. That's really followlng things closely. I
appreciate it a lot.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you. They are watching
Over your shoulder.
SPT It's a real help too, by golly. Because we've
got several times two or three other things on our mind at the
same time and can occasionally forget it Just llke I did this
one here. There were four experiments to omit and I read
82B-A, and in my memory bank, I put 82B. And glad they picked
it up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and
a half from LOS. We're going to see you in about an hour
at Hawaii at 18:10. And we've looked at the power transfer
and the command module, and it looks real good. We'll see you
in Hawaii.
17 hours 13 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Commander
A1 Bean_ and Pilot Jack Lousma concluded the shut down of
the fuel cells, command module fuel cells on this pass over
Vanguard. £GIL reported to the flight director the power
transfer looks good_ and now the command service module is
drawing power from the workshop. Since launch on July 28th
the CSM has provided its own power through use of the onboard
fuel cells. The fuel cells now are closed down_ shut down
on this the 20th day in the mission of Skylab-3. Greenwich
mean time 17 hours 14 minutes. Next acquisition in 55 minutes.
over Hawaii tracking station. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-835/I
Time: 13:07 CDT, 20/18:07 GMT
8/16/73

time 18 hours 7 minutes. Acquisition coming up over the
Hawaii tracking station. At this time Commander AI Bean will
be on the Apollo Telescope Mount and Science Pilot Owen Garriott
will be starting shortly the preparations for the S019
ultraviolet photography experiment. The experiment of
Dr. Karl Henlze, Science Astronaut here at the Johnson Space
Center. We'll hold the llne open for conversation between CAP CO_,
Richard Truley and the Skylah III crew.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Hawaii for
l0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. And I'm- got all that stuff
ready to hook up to vent and I decided to top off the storage
and repress packages in the precious free time. And when I
finish that I_ii start down.
CC Roger, CDR. Thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston; if you'll let us
have the DAS for a couple of minutes, we're gonna inhibit
the momentum dumps for the upcoming SO19 run.
CDR You got it.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're through commanding
you can have the DAS back. And Just a reminder. Sometime
during this daylight cycle we'd llke to get a Nu-Z update
with the startracker and sunset is quite a way off at
1900 Zulu so there's plenty of time to get it before the
sun goes over the horizon for you. And the later toward that sunset
is the better off you' ll be.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going LOS Hawaii
in about one minute. We'll see you at Vanguard at 18:42.
CDR I've been working on that star for you
Dick, but I can't seem to catch it.
CC Roger, A1. We were watchln E you. We
didn't have much suggestion except we did see the inner
gimbal was about i0 arc minutes off the pad. But we didn't
think that should have give you any problems. But we did
watch you try. As long as we get a Nu-Z update sometime
prior to sunset, we'll be okay for S019. And the closer
to sunset, the better. And sunset's at 1900 Zulu.
CDR Okay
time 18 hours 20 minutes with loss of signal over the
Hawaii tracking station. Science Pilot, Owen Garrlott
Pilot, Jack Lousma, should be in the middle of their after-
noon meal. While Commander A1 Bean is still watching the
Sun at the Apollo Telescope MOunt. Science Pilot Garrlott,
will begin shortly preparations for the S019 experiment
which is part of the corrolary experiments on board. The S019
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up through yesterday had been operated a total of 8 hours

and 58 minutes. Total of 26 ihours and a half have been
spent on corrolary experiments since the launch of Skylab III
on July 28. Next aqulsition will be Vanguard in approximately
20 minutes from now. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours
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SL-III MC-836/I
Time: 13:39 CDT, 20/18:39 GMT
8/16/73

time 18 hours 39 minutes with acquisition coming up over
Vanguard tracking station. This the 20th day of Skylab-3.
Commander A1 Bean after 20 days in orbit is now nearly
doubled his time accrued during his Apollo 12 flight of
1969, where he logged 244 hours in space in Apollo 12, more
than 30 hours of which was spent on the lunar surface.
Today's time will give him a i480 hours in orbit, in space with
acquisition at Vanguard, we'll hold this line open for conversa-
tion, Skylab-3 crew and CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. I finally got that lock on.
And I put the star tracker on hold now (garble) not on hold
but shutter closed.
CC Okay, good AI. I was going to ask you
about that and if you hadn't tried again we were Eolng to
ask you to search for us while we had you in contact here so
before you go over the ihill but if you have already got it,
sounds real good.
CDR Roger. Hatch looks far enough away.
Middle glm angle - inner glmhal with 660 which
is closed but the outer one was 9.56. I'll go auto now so
lock on again J_st before sunset to get a good update.
CC Roger, AI. And we think the thing that's
cause the large change in Nu-Z is the H2 puree that
we've been doing.
CDR Okay, I Just went to auto as you can
see it's locked up now.
CC Roger. We see it. And you can go ahead
and close the shutter whenever your happy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised, we're
going to reenable the MDA heaters that we turned off earlier.
At this pass.
CDR Okay.
CDR Yes, it looks llke the Nu-Z running about
minus 2.7, I'ii have to relay that information to Jack.
CC Roger, good show.
CDR Yeah, I notice my pass to later on
gives an estimated Nu-Z at minus 6.5 so that'll he a correction
there.
CC That's affirm, A1.
CDR What did they do on SL-2 about this
correction, I know they weren't making the correction, you'll
give them better NuZ's or what?
CC Well in SL-2, A1, we had the star tracker
up all of the time, so we were getting much later N_Z updates
and we could predict them better.
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CDR I'm finishing up this set of - JOP here

and I plan to do Shopping llst item number 16 which
suggests the llmb pointing about 40 arc seconds above
either an active region prominence or quiet region or something
or other. I'm going to run those and give them a very long
exposure, looks to me like I could give them maybe a 6 minute
exposure.
CC Roger, CDR. We copy and concur with
you, go ahead.
PLT Say,. Dick, I notice a NuZ on the
start of S019 pad minus 6.4 or either minus 2.7 of the
spacecraft. Think we ought to go ahead and belay the one on
the spacecraft? It's a very wide disparity.
CC Jack the NuZ we have on the spacecraft
now that we -ust got after the star tracker - star tracker
update is the correct one. And the large difference we
think was due to the H2 vent we've been doing.
PLT Okeydoke, correct thank you.
CC Okay.
CDR Just: a question for information, I've
been wondering, how do you'll know what our CO2 level is
in the spacecraft up here?
CC Standby.
CC CDR,, Houston. The way that we're making the
calculation of PPC02 is the a - we're taking a mol selve
read.ing and then periodically we're calibrating it with
the data that we're been getting from MITI. Over.
CDR Well that's what I wanted to get, the
only way we're able to tell what is 171. And I was trying
to look for a redundant way and of course our gages up
here: I'm not: going to sure that they are right we've had
so many problems with them, my guess to sure they're wrong.
And I Just wondered if you had any better information except
for ]71.
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8/16/73
PLT Dick, I Just want to check with you on this

nu Z to make sure I get it right. I calculated that the difference
between your nu Z and ours is minus 3.7. Therefore, my first
rotation should be 313.2. Do you concur?
CC Roger. Let us check that real quick, Jack.
We're getting about a minute from LOS at Vanguard. We've got a
real low pass at Ascension that is coming up at 18:58. If
we happen to miss that one we'll see you again at Vanguard
at 20:19. And we're checking the answer to that question
right now.
18 hours 51 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard with Science
Pilot Owen Garriott getting ready to relieve Commander AI
Bean at the console and display panel of the Apollo telescope
mount. Pilot Jack Lousma will begin preparations of the S019
experiment taking pictures of stars in the Milky Way. Commander
Bean's next activity will be the operation of the M092, MITI
medical experiment, M092 lower body negative pressure device,
and M171 metabolic analyzer. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours
51 minutes. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 1 hour and
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-838/I
Time: 13:56 CDT 20/18:56 GMT
8/16/73

18 hours 56 minutes. A Juggling of clocks here at the Mission
Control Center; there w:ill be a pass over Ascension, a brief
2-mlnute pass. Elevation is very low at this pass. Commander
A1 Bean will be shortly doing the M092/MI71 experiment. For
the M092, this is the fifth time that Commander Bean will be
exercising this operation, and the third time that he will
be riding the metabolic analyzer, a bicycle ergometer. At
Greenwich mean 18 hours 56 minutes. We'll have acquisition
at Vanguard in approximately 1 minute. We'll hold the llne
open for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you at Ascension
for 2 minutes.
PLT Okay, have you got an answer to that question,
Dick?
CC Yeah, and I'm sorry it took us so long. We went
LOS, Jack. On the first rotation the correct number should
be 309.5, and that represents - you subtracting minus - or taking
each rotation number that is on the pad and subtracting 3.7
from that number and you' ii get the correct one. So the
correct one for the first rotation is 3095. Over.
PLT Okay. That's the same number I've got. I
just wanted to confirm that I was doing it properly. There
is a little c onfuslon on the sign there. All we do is we take
the difference between )'ours and mine and this is usually
subtracted from that given on the pad. And I've @ot the same
numbers and I am to subtract 3. 7 from every rotation on that
pad.
CC Okay, that's good. Also the CDR, we'd llke
to confirm that we did get accomplished the M509-F3 Alfa
after the HK60 Alfa that he did earlier. And the second
thing is we've: noticed a decrease in our TM indication of
the OWS duct number 2 flow. And the next time somebody
whistles by that panel down there in the experimen t compart-
ment if you would check out what that flow meter reads, we'd
appreciate it you letting us know.
CDR Okay, the answer is we started that purge, but as
you know I haven't finished housekeeping in the command
module yet because I put oxygen into REPRESS in the surge tank.
SPT Ducts 1 and 3 are 540; ducts 2 is 500, Dick.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from
LOS at Ascension. We're going to see you at Vanguard at
20:19. And our TM indication was about 350 on that duct. So
it looks llke the one that is bad, and the flow should be good.
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8/16/73
CDR (garble) we did housekeeping the other day

that it was 555 at 5. I'ii go down there and look again on my
record.
CC Rog. Well, that corresponds very closely
with what Owen just gave us, 540 twice and 500.
CDR Okay.
19 hours 2 minutes. Loss of signal at the Ascension tracking
station. Next acquisition will be Vanguard i hour and 15 min-
utes from now. Greenwich mean time 9 hours 2 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC839/1
Time: 15:17 CDT, 20/20:17 GMT
8/16/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 20 hours 17 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Approaching the Vanguard tracking ship
approximately 40 seconds away from acquisition through
Vanguard and we'll stand by for the alr-to-ground through
the tracking ship Vanguard.
I0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We see that you're
into the vent on M092. Owen we'd like to - for you to enable
TACS just in - to guard against any problems during this vent.
Also, we'd like to haw •. the DAS if we could to reenable
momentum dump. And we'd llke to get a status from AI as
to whether or not he finished the HK60 and got the poly-
choke hooked up.
SPT Okay, I'ii turn off the TACS, you have
the DAC. And AI is currently in the LBNP so I don't know
whether he can get a message to you down there or not right
now .
CDR We got that all done, Dick.

CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC SPT, Houston. You can have the DAS
back. We've taken care of reenabllng the momentum dump.
We do not copy that the: TACS has been enabled.
SPT Ok:ly, I've turned all 6 of them on.
CC Roger, we're continuing to look at it.
SPT Doubled checked, all six switches are up.
CC Okay, we're still looking at our data,
Owen. Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. We're in good shape now.
The TACS is enabled per your switches and we had a little
data delay on our disc lights.
SPT Unclerst and.
SPT Just a note for the 82B folks
down there, Dick. This last exposure across the prominence
is going to be a little: less than 16 minutes. You can get
it off the film. And I am using llmb 40 for stability.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you much.
SPT Hey, Dick, how many tape recorder dumps
do you fellows get per day now with the orbit - this bad
orientation? Do you only get one dump per day?
CC You mean - which tape recorder, Owen?
That data one or the VTR? It was - -
SPT I meant the VTR.
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. We're still in a mode
where we only dump the tape recorder when we' re over the
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8/16/73
CONUS passe_, so naturally when we're in this phase here where

it's Guam and Vanguard and Ascension only it takes us a long
while. Right now we're waiting to swing back over to dump
tonight and sometimes it takes us as long as 3 or 4 CONUS
passes to get the whole VTR down here.
SPT Roger, that does mean that just one load
per day that you get dumped I guess.
CC That's right. One 30 minute VTR load
generally is what we been doing, I guess.
SPT Yeah, the last word I heard was that
there was still a minute and a half left on the tape recorder.
Is that right?
CC That's affirmative. That is correct and
it's in a record mode and you can use it if you need it.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in
1 minute from Vanguard. We're going to pick you up at
Ascension in about 3 or 4 more minutes. And we're going to
dump the data tape recorder at Ascension.
PAO It's our intention to keep the alr-to-
ground loop active during this pass. And until we are re-
acquired by the Ascension tracking site in the meantime pass
on this bit of information. There will be a change of shift
press conference scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. central
daylight time with the offgoing Flight Director Phillip Shaffer.
Press conference will take place in Building 1 in the news
center briefing room, that's room 135. Repeating, a 4:30
p.m. central daylight time change of shift briefing with the
offgoing Flight Director. We'll stand by for a minute or
so when we expect additional air-to-ground through the Ascension
tracking station.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:30 CDT, 20/20:30 GMT
8/16/73
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension for

I0 minutes.
SPT Hey, Dick, if Ed Gibson's somewhere
around the center today, you might see if he'd like to run
over and talk for a little bit this evening, maybe about
JOP 17 and any other ATM activities that are underway
around there. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. I'ii call over there and
see what he's _,p to. I haven't talked to Ed in a day or
SO.
SPT Okay. I'd appreciate it.

CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. The - On your next day-
light cycle, which starts about 21:13, on the S055, there's
several grating positions given there. And those
numbers are for optical reference. If you use a mechanical
reference, you need to add 102 to all of those numbers.
Ove r.
SPT Roger. I understand. I'm only in
mechanical re ference now so that I can get closer to optical zero
while I was in night here, and save the time on the
next sunrise effort. You'll remember my last grating posi-
tion was 594, or something like that. And I'ii return to
optical reference and then position it at the appropriate
spot. However, I thank you for the reminder. And while
we're still here, I wanted to make sure that the limb posi-
tion for next orbit pass is a 140 degrees at the limb. I
believe that's the indication on my activity pad here. I
just wanted to make sure that was still a good spot.
CC Okay. And we confirm that is the
right number for you, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute til
LOS at Ascension. We'll see you at Guam at 21:16.
CC And, SPT, Houston. I called over.
We're running - The SL-4 crew's running a mlni-sim this
afternoon, but I will get hold of Ed on the telephone and
talk to him a little bit later, and get back to you.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab has passed out of range of
Ascension Island tracking station. Next station contact is
the station at Guam in about a half an hour. At 20 hours
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SL-III MC-84i/1
Time: 16:15 CDT; 20/21:15 GMT
8/16/73
FAO This is Skylab Control, 21 hours 15 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're in the process here at the
Control Center of having a shift handover with the oncoming
team, the crimson team, under Flight Director Don Puddy.
The spacecraft communicator will be Bob Crlppen. We're
about 25 seconds away from acquisition at Guam. And we'll
stand by for the communication with the Skylab-lll crew.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS over
Guam for 9 minutes.
SPT I'm here, Robert. Change of shift, it sounds
llke.
CC Okay, Owen, and we're standing by for your
XUV monitor downllnk.
SPT Okay, you're ready to record it at Guam,
is that right?
SPT Okay, 1'11 give you a round of the dlsplays.
SPT Okay, now you can have it.
CC We got it. Thank you very much, Owen.
SPT Of course I haven't seen tomorrow's schedule
yet, but I was wondering if there might be a little JOP 17
activity planned?
SPT At the right spot. Right place.
CC I'm not sure of that, Owen. We'll check on
it for you.
SPT Okay, It looks like one of the things that
we ought to be able to do with the quiet Sun we've got now
until a little more activity rolls around these limbs.
CC Roger. Got a dull one, huh?
SPT Well, not really, there's still plenty to
do here on the quiet Sun really, but while it is quiet, why
you ought to pick up all the odds and ends that - not odds
and ends, but the other activities that you might have
reduced in priority when the active regions come around.
And bright spots - bright points might need a Juggling.
CC Roger.
CC Owen, we'll take your recommendation on
JOF 17 as a planning input. We don't have it currently
scheduled for tomorrow. For tomorrow we're planning on
finishing up JOP 1 Brew>, doing a JOP 5, starting JOP 9,
and I've got one orbit =o JOF 15, and also a JOP 7.
SPT Okay, it sounds llke a lot of varied activity
there, but if there is any time to work it in, why, they might
think about a llttle 17 activity.
CC Okay, I'm sure they'll be looking at it.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you again over
the Vanguard at 22 - correction, 21:56, 21:56.
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SPT Okay, Robert, see you then.

PAO We had little communication during the pass
Just ended, that is, the Guam pass. The reference to JOP
is Joint Observation Program, which is a part of the Apollo
Telescope Mount Experiments series. A reminder that we'll
have a change-of-shift briefing, 4:30 p.m. central daylight
time with Phil Shaffer, the flight director - the off-
going flight director. We'll next acquire in about 28 minutes
at Vanguard. At 21 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-842 /i
Time: 16:55 CDT, 20/21:55 GMT
8/16/73
PAO Thi=_ is Skylab Control at 21 hours

55 minutes Greenwich mean time, about 3 seconds away from
acquisition.
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there
for about 3C seconds and we're back with you.
(Music)
CC Sure sounds different from Pete's
music.
CDR For tunate ly.
CC I say that sounds different from Pete's
music.
CDR I said, fortunately.
CC Oh, okay.
CDR (More Music) Now is that better comm.
CC (Laughter). I can't even figure out
what that is.
CDR (Garble) bicycle run.
CDR Hey:, Bob. Is Phil Sehaffer on this shift?
CC Negative. No, Phil - -
CDR Maybe one of your people down there can
explain to me why it is that 400 kilometers is so asymmetrical
We have about 6 minutes of waiting time in that sunrise, and
only 3 minutes, 3.0 3 plus 09 in sunset. And it's puzzling
to me that so asymmetrical. Over.
CC I was puzzling about the same thing
last night, myself. 1'11 see if I can get an answer for
you. No, Phil was on the last shift and he's gone off.
Don Puddy's on now.
CDR I see. I don't know if Don likes
those problems or not, but I knew Phil did and that's the
reason for asking about it.
CC Phil avoided that same question yesterday,
so I don't know whether he likes it or not.
CDR (Laughter) Well that might have some-
thing to do with the reason I asked it.
CC I'm going to break out my globe and
flash light
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS.
We'll see you again Over Ascension at 22:13, and Owen we
copied that you did not go to hold on 82-B as called for
on the building block and we're trying- going to try to
figure out a way to recover from that to the next pass.
SPT Okay. You're quite right. I made
a mistake on that. And I know how to recover from it. I'ii
do the AUTO steps at the appropriate llmb position. And I'm
nearly at the end of this one step and appreciate catching
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8/16/73
that. I hadn't noticed it otherwise and I'll pick up from

there.
CC Okay.
SPT I didn't mean AUTO step, I mean AUTO MODE,
at the appropriate limb off-set position.
CC Copy.
PAO On this pass that started at Vanguard
with a very short introduction, following the change of
shift press conference, we will cut across Ascension and be
in contact with the Canary tracking station at Madrid before
we lose contact again. It's our intention to keep the line
up for about 5 minues before we - until we get the next
llve air-to-ground. So we'll Just stand by with the llne up
for the balance of this pass.
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SL-III MC-843/I
Time: 17:07 CDT; 20/22:07 GMT
8/16/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension

for about 2 minutes here, and then we'll drop out briefly
and get you again at Canary.
CC Okay, we're getting ready to drop out for
about 30 seconds and I'll give you a call when we're back
on.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS once more for

about i0 minutes across Canary and we're having a little
frequent (garble) problems. We may be dropping out periodi-
cally.
CC And SPT, if you get a chance, I'd like to
talk to you about your next pass.
SPT Go right ahead.
CC Owen, on that 82B, before you start the
manual/auto sequence we talked about on the next orbit,
we would like you to give us a 160-second time ex-
posure with a long wavelength at plus 4 arc seconds above
the limb. That's - handled the exposure we lost last time.
SPT Okay, that's the one exposure that I did
not complete at plus 4 arc seconds and I was wondering how
long it was, 160 seconds and I'ii- I'ii do that one and
then I'ii step on out to the (garble)
CC Okay - -
SPT I was fixing to do my first AUTO.
CC Very good and Dr. Shaffer walked in awhile
ago and we got an answer for you why the thing is asymmetrical.
SPT Fantastic, let's hear it.
CC Well, it so happens we're at the period of
the orbit where our dump commence is between the 40 k and
the 400 k. Consequently the sunset time you're looking at
is from 400 k to dump commence. The sunrise time difference
you're looking at is from actual sunrise to 40 k sunrise
to 400 k.
SPT Oh, makes very good sense. I knew those
computers couldn't be wrong, it's Just too - too subtle for
me. And that means we can still do JOP 7s at sunrise - at
- oh, let me get it straight. Yeah - no it still doesn't
work right at sunset either. It - ham- (Garble)
I did the atmospheric extension it looks llke.
FLT Say Crip?
CC Yeah, we're inhibiting momentum dumps for
the JOP 7 so that - there's no problem on that one.
SPT Okay.
PLT Say Crip?
CC Go ahead.
PLT It's awfully complicated. I think it's
all these (garble)
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Time: 17:07 CDT; 20/22:07 GMT
8/16/73
CC Your bicycle's too loud to make out what

you' re saying, Jack.
PLT It's too complicated. I think it's all these
rockets that are shooting up.
CC Copied it was too complicated, but I couldn't
get after that.
PLT It's all these rockets that are shooting
up.
CC Oh, it's the rockets that's going up in the
air. Yeah, that might be causing it.
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Time: 17:22 CDT, 20/22:22 GMT
8/16/73

LOS. We'll see you again over at Guam at 22:55, 2255. That's
about 26 minutes from now. We'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump there.
PAO Loss of signal at Madrid; next station
Guam. At 22 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC845/i
Time: 17:53 CDT, 20/22:53 GMT
8/16/73
PAO Tihis is Skylab Control at 22 hours

53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approaching the Guam tracking
site and we'll stand by for the communicatlon with the crew
through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over at
Guam for the next 7 minutes. And if you'll give us the DAS
we're going to inhibit momentum dump for the next upcoming
S019 run.
CDR Okay, Bob, we're off.
SPT And do the ATM room llke the way the
panel looks now, particularly 82B?
CC All looks good to us, Owen.
SPT Fine, thank you.
CC Owen, the DAS is yours once more. And
we're going to need or you're going to need a NU-Z update
for this S019 run you've got coming up if it's convenient.
And you could lock the star tracker on for us now and leave
it on through our next site which is Honeysuckle about 10
minutes away. We'll be able to give some update on our
C- Z-rate gyro scale factor. ,
SPT Okay, I'll lock it on and then put the
door open in auto.
CC Roger. I meant to say rate gyro drift.
CDR Crlp, I think I'll go do housekeeping
CF7 and so when you come over the next site it'll be in
process, fellows can take a look.
CC Okay, AI, appreciate that. Thank you.
CDR I noticed last time I ran it - the
primary loop had about 30 percent in it and I think we're
supposed to check it between 70 and 30. It's a little
bit lower than that but they want me to pump it up this
time.
CC AI, we'll try to get you an answer on
that pretty quick. We' re i minute from LOS so Honeysuckle
is 5 minutes, correction, 6 minutes away at 23:06.
CDR Okay, plenty of time. I'ii Just go
(garble) on it and just hold on that one until I hear from
you.
PAO Skylab has passed out of range of the
Guam tracking site. We' ii reacqulre in about 4 minutes
at Honeysuckle so we'll keep the llne up for that pass.
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SL-I II MC- 846/i
Time: 18:03 CDT, 20/23:03 GMT
8/16/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over

Honeysuckle for 3-1/2 minutes.
CC And, for the CDR. AI, are you listening
now?
CDR You be t.
CC Okay. Regarding the primary loop. We
are going to maintain that between 20, 20 and 40 percent for
the duration of the mission now. So you do not need to pump
it up.
CDR Okay. Thanks.
CC And, Owen. We show on 55, now, that
you only got one detector on. You should have them all on
except 5, according to us.
SPT Thank you, sir.
SPT Never get along without those fellows
in the back room.
CC Very observant gentlemen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re i minute from
LOS. See you again over the Vanguard in 26 minutes at 23:36;
23:36.
CC And, Owen, if you'd close the star
tracker shutter for us now, we'd appreciate it.
SPT Wilco.
CC Owen, correction on my last. We won' t
see you until Canary at 23:54, 23:54.
PAO Skylab-III is out of range of Honeysuckle
at this time. Next station contact, the Canary Islands in
about 42 minutes. At 23 hours ii minutes Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-847/I
Time: 18:53 CDT; 20/23:53 GMT
8/16/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 53

minutes Greenwich mean time. About a half a minute away
from acquisition at the Canary Island tracking site. We
expect to have the spacecraft for approximately 8-1/2 min-
utes at the Canaries and then on through Madrid on this
pass, the 1362 pass of the space station. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary 12-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll stay off the DAS
for us for a minute, we're going to enable dump.
PLT Okay, Crip, you got it.
CC Thank you sir. And is Owen in the vicinity?
PLT Owen's not more than 2 feet away.
CC Okay, I just wanted to tell him that I
spoke to Edward G and he recommends waiting until tomorrow
night to discuss JOP 17 and he feels he can have a much
better discussion with you. And also, he's going to poll
and get any other items from the back room that might he
applicable.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine, Bob. And it's -
let's see, it's sort of late tonight. You might give a
call out to the house and see if the family's around. If
so, I'll talk to them tonight.
CC Roger. We'll see if we can set something
up for you.
CC Okay, the DAS is yours once more. We've
got dump ENABLED.
CC Skylab, Houston, and 1 minute from LOS.
See you
again over at Carnarvon at - in 28 minutes at
00:35, 00:35.
SPT See you later, Crlp.
PAO Okay, it's goodbye Madrid on this pass.
Next pass coming up at Carnarvon. At 8 minutes 27 seconds
into the new day, Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC848/I
Time: 19:33 CDT, 21/00:33 GMT
8/16/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 34 minutes into

the new day Greenwich mean time. Standing by for communication
with the crew through the Carnarvon tracking site. At this
time the crew is involved in a SOl9 experiment identified
as ultraviolet stellar astronomy. And the Science Pilot
is at the ATM console doing some solar studies. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon
for 14 minutes.
CC And, SPT, when you get a moment got a
favor to ask of you.
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger, Owen. We're still trying to
figure out this little problem about apparently some extra
wattage on the ATM C&D or at least on that coolant loop that
we discussed last night. And wonder if you could check for
us on panel 135 to verify that the EREP coolant flow is
in bypass.
SPT Jack's up at the panel right now and
maybe he could check that.
CC Oh, okay.
PLT (Music) I think that might be the (garble)
CC Okay, we copy - -
PLT Want her in bypass. Right?
CC Okay, should be in bypass.
CC Okay, we really don't have any telemetry
to tell us. We're under the assumption that no EREP gear
is on.
PLT That's affirm but I'ii check it.
PLT I t]_ink the way that happened, Bob, was
that we decided not to completely load the tape recorder the
other day because we wanted to make sure we gave it a good
cleaning again a couple of weeks from now and you had asked
us to leave the flow valve in flow after the last EREP pass
until we changed up the tape recorder and we never really
string the tape recorder up because we want to clean it again
before we have our next pass.
CC Okay, Jack, we copy that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting ready to
do a data voice recorder dump. And if you can give us the
DAS for a couple of minutes we want to update our drifts
on rate gyros Z-I, 2, and 3.
PLT You got it, Bob.
CC Thank you.
CC PLT, Jack we'd like you to verify it for
us whether you did find any of the EREP gear on.
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CT Houston, Comm Tech. Honeysuckle, Comm Tech.

(garble)
CC Jack, we'd llke to find out whether you
had left any of the EREP gear on or not or whether you found
any of it on.
PLT Oh, no. We shut that all down the other
day. The only thing we didn't do is string up the tape
recorder. And if you look in the tape recorder procedures,
the last thing that you do is to do a check and go back
to the bypass position. And we decided not to do that
complete load because we knew we'd want to clean the tape recorder
real good again and overlook the fact that we had been requested
to leave the valve in flow and would not get it back to
bypass. So, our mistake is not completing that procedure.
We got the tape recorder with the tape in, but it's not
threaded.
CC Okay, Jack. We - -
PLT The only thing unusual about the EREP
here, Crip is that the VTS door is open.
CC Roger, we were still puzzling a little
bit about even though it was flowing through the EREP gear
as to why it was eating up that much - that much heat.
CC And now that you've gone back to bypass
we should be able to see it in a couple of hours to find
out whether that brought it back down to normal.
PLT Okay, well we shut off all the EREP
stuff after that last pass - the lunar cal or whatever it was and
I just checked it again and all the switches are off. And
nothing's running.
CC Okey doke, real fine.
CC Okay, Jack, we been talking to you and
you need to go ahead and start your next auto mode.
PLT Yeah, I know that but I can't because
I'm waiting for that, too, but SO56 has got a time out and
so does 55 and then I' ii go to the next auto mode. I got
the 82B ... sheet out in front of me and I noticed that
the last exposure is about a 17-minute exposure. So, I think
what we're going to do is go right on into the auto mode
at 20 arc seconds and just cut that last exposure a little
bit short but I want to wait until the other one's time out.
And that ought to be within the next 3 minutes. There goes
(garble) to find out now. And the auto raster is on the
line 16.
PLT As soon as the auto raster gets through this
last pass that's on the third one now, why I'ii whistle over to
20 arc seconds off the limb.
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CC Okay - -
PLT Looks like about all that'll do is help
the last exposure on 82B about in half.
CC Okay, Jack, you don't have to wait for
that exposure to time out. All you need to do is to go ahead
and start the auto mode. And you can step the 82B near out
to their appropriate position.
PLT Okay.
CC Yeah. Using the manual step switch, of course.
The DAS belongs to you guys again. We're about to go over
the hill. We'll see you again at Mila in about 35 minutes
from now. End that's at 01:23.
CDR Hey, Crip, who was it that figured out
that I lefc it in flow instead of bypass?
CC Ca:me from the EGILs back there.
CDR Wonder which one psyched it out. That's
a pretty good call, you know it.
CC Roger, concur. Looks like Bill Moon did
that.
PAO Next station contact is Mila in about
35 minutes At 50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-849/I
Time: 20:24 CDT, 21/01:24 GMT
8/16/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour 24 min-

utes Greenwich mean time, coming up on the tracking station
at Mila, with the air-to-ground up in about a half a minute.
We'll stand by for communication with the Skylab-3 crew.
Bermuda for about 8 minutes.
CDR How about a little night report.
CC Stand by.
CDR Giw_ it to you right now, if you're
ready.
CC Okay. Let us get our paper together
here.
CDR You don't copy these things down, do you, Crip?
I always read them too fast.
CC Oh, we're getting better all the time.
No, we're recording it also. But sometimes we try to copy
some of it down. We want to make sure the recorders and
everything are going. Okay. Shoot.
CDR Okay. Urine, 96, 155, 167. Now, I
screwed up the drinking water gun reading this morning, in
that I didn't get it. And I didn't notice it until later
in the day. So we tried to estimate what our drinking
water gun usage was. Now, Jack was able to estimate his exactly,
because he knew how many drinks he had today. Owen and I
just guessed. So, we can be off five squirts, probably,
either way. Here come the numbers; 5095, 8430, 5775. Okay,
BMMD; 6250, 6254, 6249, 5978, 5980, 5978, 6943, 6941, 6943.
Okay. Here's exercise; 2/36/4558, and that includes the
MITI run; 3/15/11, 60A, 20B, 20C, 20D; 3/05/12, 20A, 10B,
10C, 10F. Okay, this is the SPT; 2/30/4500, on the mark i -
excuse me. On the mark i he had 80As, 40Bs, 40Ds; Pilot,
1/05/0521, 2/57/11582, and the bike quit right at the end.
It started making noise. Now we let it cool off, he was
trying to go for an hour. He let it cool off and it seems
to be working okay. In addition to that the pilot had
3/20/mark I, 50A, 20B, 20D, and 20 backbends. No medication.
Sleep; 6-I/2G, 6-I/2G, 6-I/2G. Food log; CDR, four salt
packs, and one strawberry drink: SPT; three salt packs and
one butter cookie: PLT; twelve salt packs, one butter cookie,
and two cherry drinks. Photo Log. Here it comes. We're
going for a first tonight. We're going to try to get this
right. PLI3: C148, 82, C143: PLI3, C147, 82, C145. 35-millimeter:
CXI2, 16, CXIOI, 00; 70-millimeter: CXII, 160. Now we need a maga-
zine change there, and :if you can wait until tomorrow's pad, if
you can recommend which mag we ought to put on there.
Drawer A configuration: A-I and A-2 no change; A-3 06,
C147, i0, C145; A-4 03, C148, i0, C143. We blew it. We didn't
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get the photo pad right. Let's go back up to the top,

on 16-millimeter. PL13: CI48, 10, CI43; PL13: CI47, 10,
CI45; I don't think there's a way we can get it right,
frankly. We only missed it by 72 percent on two of them.
CC That's close.
CDR That's for the only two we've used.
It's Just impossible, I guess. Okay. Flight Plan for
tomorrow looks good. And I think everybody was working
pretty good today. Nobody was rushed. Everybody's Just
about finished. I think Jack's got one pad, and I'm finishing
up the dump, and he's emptying the garbage. And, so we've
got a few little things. Essentially, we're pretty near
finished up. Believe we've got about an hour or so. So,
we're in pretty good slhape. Shopping llst accomplished.
We've got all our housekeeping done. By the way, I Just
won't even mention it if we do all the housekeeping, because
I'm pretty sure we will. And Jack took apart the second
tape recorder, and he reported to you the results of that.
Inoperable equipment, nothing new; unscheduled stowage item,
we moved 6 blue towels from W737 to H831.
CC Okay, AI. We've got all that. And
we're about i minute from LOS, We'll pick you up again over
Madrid at 01:36. I guess we'd be interested in hearing a
few more words about the bike problem that Jack had. And
I've got a number of questions here I'ii ask you at that
time, also
CDR That's a good idea. And Jack just
wandered off, but he'll be back by the next station pass.
If you can give me a briefing, I'ii give you all - oh,
here he comes right now.
PLT He_ll be here when you get back. You
still there, Crlp?
CC Yes, sir. I hope you don't wander off
too far, Jack.
PLT (Laughter) I haven't got cabin fever yet.
A1 won't give us our liberty cards. There will be no more
liberty until morale improves.
CC Tough skipper, huh?
PLT Captain Ahab. What happened on the
bike, I decided to go for a ride, and I was going to go for a half
an hour, but you know, the scenery was good and all that, and
so was the music. And it's kind of llke eating strawberries
and ice cream, if you run out of strawberry first, you've got to
get more ice cream. I had the music going and I ran out of
bike before I ran out of music_ so I kept going. Then I
ran out of music before I ran out of bike, and so forth.
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But I got to 57 minutes and the bike started vibrating

a little bit, and then it Just started freewheeling so I had
to quit. And we let it cool off and I think it's going to work
all right now.
CC That sounds vaguely familiar.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-850/I
Time: 20:34 CDT; 21/01:34 GMT
8/16/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Madrid for

8 minutes and I've got a few questions for you if you can
- got the time to answer them.
SPT Righto, weIve got all the time in the world.
CC Gee, you're so cooperative. Okay I got
a pile of them here. We'll Just start at the top. We'd
llke to get an inventory of the batteries in the IMSS diag-
nostic kits, which is locker 709 to determine if any re-
placement batteries have been used. And if you can - also
please report on usage to date and anticipated usage of
the IMSS head mounted light. And if you could just - -
SPT Okay, we haven't used the head-mounted
light at ail_ It's got a fancy name which I wont, bother
quoting. And I can't remember it. And I haven't had a
chance to inventory the batteries yet.
CC Okay, if it's - some time you can find that
convenlent_ Just record it for us. We'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, this one is in reference to EREP 19 -
$190 desiccants. What would you like to have from us
concerning the S190 desiccants? We can track for you,
giving how many have been baked out and stowed and the
condition and so forth. We think from our SL-II experience
it might be easier for you to take care of that Just - Just
yourself.
SPT You're right. They're all baked out
and we've got 12 of them ready to go.
CC Okay, and I understand that you concur that
you'd just soon bake them out when you think they need it
and without any turning around from us.
SPT Righto, Crip.
CC We'd appreciate that. And for AI, we'd
llke to ask on the LBNPD, are you still using position number
6 on the saddle?
CDR The answer is yes, I used it today, but
I didn't make it all the way through the 50 millimeters,
I had to cut off at about a minute and 25 seconds to go
but I was using position 6.
CC Do you think you're going to stick with
6 or are you thinking about changing it, AI?
CDR I'm thinking about moving it to 5, but
I'm not - I think 6 or 5 will both be good.
CC Okay, I guess we might be interested in
hearing - if you do change it from 6.
CDR Sure will, Crip. We'll keep you informed
with that. The serial number of the cuff, blood pressure
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8/16/73
cuff, and the serial numbers of the band, and then we're going
to use those numbers that we called down the other day
until we get - and if we change it we'll sure let you know.
CC Okay, this item here you may - you may have
to break out a book if you can write it down that's - pro-
bably satisfy it. We picked you up a permanent general
message number 14 regarding the spider and we messed up
on a stowage location in there. We put down right at the
end of it an F508 and it should have been F509.
CDR Okay, we got it Crip.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, and we had some little difficulty
understanding during TOI3 today whether the DAC was on
during task 3 performance over Vanguard. The voice indicated
that you did task 3 again later for the DAC or something.
CDR That's affirm. Just what occurred. We
were running a little bit behind, so we knew we had to come
over Vanguard and give you the information so we got over
there, set the TV up, and figured that the TV would correlate
with DAC task 3. But we knew they might want sound also.
So we ran 3 again later with film. So, they've had two
3's, two l's and a 12. So we gave them essentially an
extra 3, and they've got everything, I hope, that they
needed on both tape and TV.
CC Okay. But you were doing a TV when you came
over Vanguard at the time we were - you were doing task 3,
is that correct?
CDR That is a fact. So everything we did was
correlated either with TV or with film.
CC Okey doke, very good. Next question regards
the wardroom window which you told us the other night that
you had evacuated again. We'd llke to know if you performed
that per perm - per permanent general message number i0 which
basically left the thing evacuated to vacuum.
CDR We did, and I'ii tell you what, Crip. After
we evacuated, and I evacuated for about 5 or 6 hours, this
still - this little cone-shaped thing which is on the inside
of both windows. It's on the inside pane of the window
we're closest to and the inside wing of the outside window.
You can only see it when the light is just right, llke at
night you can't see it. And the more I've looked at it the
more I've realized that probably that came in the day that
we did the window procedure. And it doesn't look like
moisture anymore. It looks like some thin white coating.
But it - it's so thin that you can't - llke I say, you can
only see it when the light's right. I don't think it'll
disturb pictures. I think it'll Just be a noticeable thing
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to someone when the lights shines Just correctly on the

window. And if - the window's presently evacuated, it's
got in it the best vacuum we could put on it.
CC Okay. I think we got all that. And
appreciate the good description of it AI.
SPT Say, Crlp?
CC Yes sir.
PLT I hope you've got some more words on this
S192 EBDU for tomorrow.
PLT I found that the first thing after I get
up when I - guess I don't the words for what that'd be.
CC Yeab, Jack. We've got a message down here
we're going to send up to you, And it's Just a special
run to check the thing out.
SPT Oh, okay, thank you. And Bob, here's your
battery info. For the microscope 3 batteries, the laryngo-
scope 2 batteries, hemoglobin meter 2 batteries, otoscope
4 batteries.
CC Okay, appreciate that, Owen. And for Jack,
we'll try to get that message up over - for you on the
next pass so you can be taking a look at it. And AI, for
you, you've stated during your 509 runs that the backpack
was slipping around when you were rolling. We'd like to
know whether the harness was actually loosening up on you
during the run or is it Just that the harness is not
adequate to provide good restraint?
CDR I think maybe it's a little of both. It
gets worse as the run progresses. The harness is not made
of very thick webbing, so when you pull it through tight
it tends to slide over into the corner of the buckle, if
you know what I mean. And so it doesn't grip too good.
But even - when you first start out doing skin rolls, if
you do a - a very much of a roll, then the backpack rolls
relative to you, and as the run progresses it's even more.
Usually when we came to an end of a baseline maneuver we
- we would readjust. So, what I think needs to be done -
we kind of looked at it - we need to come up with a - an
additional use of a short strap or a long strap llke we
did on D20 to stabilize that backpack and I think we'd
have it licked. Lou Ramon invented a procedure for
D20 that worked out real good. And we might be able to
use it on 509. I don't think you need new straps, it
just needs somehow to incorporate a few extra short straps
or long straps that we _have here to stabilize it better.
CC Okay, AI, we copied all that. We're about
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20 seconds now from LOS. We'll have you again at Carnarvon

at 02:10 and that will be your med status rep - debriefing.
And if we have time there I'II come on and talk to you
llke - about the loss of attitude cue card that we sent
up and also about deleting some items from your shopping
list. If not, I'ii get you at Texas which is at 02:55,
and that's the time we have set up for Owen's phone call
and we'll start off on the left antenna and he may have
to switch it.
CDR Okay, we'll stand - be standing by for
any questions you've got there, Crip. Thanks.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
PAO We've had loss of signal with the Skylab-lll
crew through Madrid. We'll pick them up again in about
23 minutes at Carnarvon whem they will have the evening
medical conference. One hour 46 minutes Greenwich mean
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC851/I
Time: 21:09 CDT, 21/02:09 GMT
8/16/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 9 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab Ill is approaching the Carnarvon
tracking site. Expect to be in contact with them in about
a half a minute. They have scheduled a medical confernece
so we would anticipate very little air-to-ground at least
for the first part of the -of this particular pass. They
will be in contact through Carnarvon and also through the
Honeysuckle tracking site. We'll stand by for any air-ground
that should be transmitted through the two stations.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess I've got you
here for about 4 minutes left in this Honeysuckle pass. And
I got a thing - few things I'd like to run over with you
please, AI.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, tonight in the evening report it
appeared on transporter 03 and 06 that you still had a little
bit of film left up. We need those to be shot up prior to
rethreading in the morning. And it - I guess that when you
get down to that close like I0 percent you may as well just
go ahead and shoot it up on whatever you want to.
CDR Okay, we'll try to think of something.
We'll - we'll work on it tomorrow. See if there's a way
they can work around it and we'll try to shoot them up
earlier in the morning. Everybody's trying to get ready
for bed here now.
CC Okay, roger, understand that. And, AI,
we'd llke to verify that we've had an EGIL miscellaneous
message that requested you to do M509 F3 Bravo and also
requested you to set the poly choke to position i. Can you
confirm for us that was done.
CDR That's affirm. I thought I'd done that
but yes, it's (garble) we've done. We've turned off the
fuel cell. We've gone: through that whole housekeeping
procedure. We set the poly choke on 1 and it's bleeding in
right now. And we've got the den hooked up to the hatch
for the procedure. Okay, then we came back here and started
venting out through the wardroom table. And before we go
to sleep we're supposed to stop venting. But I noticed
that the cabin pressure is fairly high. And my suspicion
is that if we stop venting tonight that the cabin pressure
is going to be excepted tomorrow for doing 509, because it
looks to me llke the poly choke puts in more than this vent
puts out.
CC A1, we're planning on shutting off the
cabin release valves tomorrow. We'll handle that problem
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but we do warLt you to go ahead and close that venting tonight.

CDR Okay, I haven't done it yet but plan to.
Right now I'm getting the film out of SOl9. Would it be okay
with you if I stowed SO19 tonight? It would be Just as
easy.
CC Roger that, that's your choice.
CDR Okay, well it's had plenty of time to
warm up. I've had it inside but evacuated since the last
SO19 pass. So, I'ii stow it all tonight. That'll give us
a few more m_nutes tomorrow morning to shoot up that film.
CC Okay, copy that. And, AI, like to find
out about - :.f you've got your shopping list handy I'ii talk
about it if you don' t. We would like to get - -
CDR Let me grab it. Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, the items that require you to
inhibit momentum dump o11 it, we plan on - we'd like to go
ahead and delete off of the shopping list because that way
it insure to us that we'll schedule them. Stand by i.
Okay, AI, we show that you've got SOl9 OPS tomorrow so we
don't think you should be stowing that tonight.
CDR I agree with you. But, I noticed you
had me stowing it first thing tomorrow morning. But I
agree a hundred percent with you.
CC Okay, that's for stowing the prism not
the SO19 itself, AI. And we're about 15 seconds from LOS.
We'll have you again over Texas at 02:55 and I got a couple
of other items I'ii run over with you and the shopping list
there also.
CCR Okay, well we'll do that stow i tonight
if you still[ want it. 'He'll do that tonight.
CC Okay - -
CDR We' ii work on the shopping list when you
call back.
CC Okay, that's fine.
PAO Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next station up is Texas in 28 minutes. At 2 hours 26 minutes
END OF TAPE
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8/16/73

Greenwich mean time, about 2 or 3 seconds away from acquisition
at the Texas tracking site. We'll stand by for communication
with the crew through Texas.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Oh, you're back there. Good. I've
got a few questions I need to run by you, sir.
CC Are you with me, AI?
CDR You bet. i00 percent.
CC Okey doke. Real good. The one we talked
about on the shopping list. Have you got that handy?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay. What we wanted to do or delete
items 22, 23, 34, 35, 36. And those are the IdMD items
that require inhibiting momentum dump and we would feel
more comfortable if we go ahead and do our runs down here to
make sure that we don't get in a TACS problem
flying like we are.
CC You with me on that one, AI?
CDR I was just marking them off. The
answer is we understand. We think the TACS are not inhibited
at the moment. Let me mention something else that's going
on, that I think you're aware of. But I want to make sure
that you are. And that's the fact, that we're venting this
holding tank through the same airlock that the S019 is in.
CC Think we might have had a little problem
there.
CDR Well[ now, it's not - We don't dump
through there_ It's just that when it comes time to put a
vacuum on the backside of the bellows, that's where we've
been doing it. Now, maybe we shouldn't and should do it
somewhere else.
CC No. That's where we told you to do it.
We've noted that AI. Let me talk about a couple of items
then - That is the problem we would llke to have - have it
out of the SAL before we vent - before we draw a vacuum on
it through there. But, if you're already in process it's
not going to help now.
CDR Okay. And we did it the other day a
couple of times, too.
CC Yealh. I guess, we didn't get the word
squared away to you. Okay. On the TACS, since you mentioned
it, do you happen to have that new cue card that we sent up
to you on loss of attitude, and how we recover?
CDR Got it right in front of me.
CC Okay. Couple of items I'd llke to
discuss with you on that. We talk over there toward the end
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about getting back in plane, looking out the S190 window.

And, actually, it low - That's only going to be available for
the low Betas at high-Beta angles, it may be a little bit
difficult. And really what we're trying to say is, use any
window you've got, STS windows, if that's necessary, 190,
if that's available.
CDR Okay. Got you.
CC Also, subsequent to that, and probably
in working with the ground, we are going to use the star
tracker and lock it on to get a good update on where we
actually are, with respect to the orbit plane. And then
correct the NuZ accordingly. And want to make sure you under-
stood that.
CDR Okay. Sure do.
CC Okay. And, if you've had a chance to
look over it and you haven't got any questions, we recommend
going into that confi_guratlon for tonight and really all we
need you to do for it:. is to secure the six TACS switches and
put them to inhibit for us and we'll handle the rest in the
commanding in the computer.
CDR Okay. And let me see if I've got it
right. Rate gyros, we know what they are cause we've got the
pad that you sent us lately. CMG control enabled: naturally
that is. CMG auto reset: That's been that way all day, or
for several days. TACS control DAS: Inhibited. Now, TACS
control, I don't know if you've inhibited yet, because you
must have enabled it earlier today.
CC That's affirm. We're flying with that
enabled in the computer right now.
CDR But, you're going to inhibit that part.
And we're going to go TACS switches inhibited. And we'll
go do that in a few miuntes.
CC Okay. That's affirmative. And, AI, on
that rate gyros, I think I better mention, when we say as
appropriate, if you ever got into the situation, we - and
you're going down trying to find the best gyro, we don't
expect you just to go to that card we sent you, you should
go through and look at: the appropriate gyros in the axis and
their outputs, and play that against any rates you see
outside. And pick the best one.
CDR Okay. We understand that part. You'd
use that to decide which of the good ones you want to pick,
or you want to bolt on?
CC Yeah. That' s correct. You know, if
we already know one is completely bad, there's no sense in
even considering it.
CDR Right. And when we look out the window
and try to relate what was going on, maybe to the indication -
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We noticed the other day that the gyros we brought up,

generally, were in close agreement.
CC Okay. And, AI, also it's probably
• .. of the panel, but on that rate gyro, drift
information that you've got, I did want to update Z-2
verbally, and have you mark it on that permanent general
message number 12, if we could.
CDR You dropped out, Crip. Say again.
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CC . .. Z-2 verbally and have you mark it on

that permanent general message number 12 if we could.
CDR You dropped out, Crip. Say again.
CC Okay, on permanent general message number
12 which i_ the rate gyro drift, the one that you're supposed
to put in a computer if we have a switch over, I've got an
update for Z-2 that I'd like to give you verbally if somebody
could copy it down.
CDR Copy right now.
CC Okay, for Z-2 it's 50, 010, 50, 015,
which is a plus .0013.
CDR Okay.
CC And stand by, AI, I want to check out
this conde_1_ate dump for you and get you a good story on that.
CDR Seems to me there ought to be some way
we could dump it through the same line we been dumping the
condensate through. But maybe we can't.
CC Okay, AI, I think we see the problem is
you have been going according to the permanent general message
number 1 which is the condensate dump that we first sent
you. Is that affirmative?
CDR Let me look.
CC We have sent you, in addition to that a
housekeeping 60 Tango, 60 Tango, which modifies the way to
do that dump.
CDR Hold on a second.
CDR Roger, I've got that one.
CC Okay, do you have the permanent general
message number i? Or is that - is that the one that you
been using?
CDR No, I've got the one that says condensate
holding tan_ only dump housekeeping 60 T.
CC Okay, that's the procedure we'd had
hoped you _ere dumping by and it doesn't require you to pull
a vacuum o[_ the tank.
CDR Well, then there's an error. I thought
that this was kind of the first half of a two-art procedure.
You notice the other procedures in here, they kind of break
it up. It's - one of them shows you how to dump and the
other shows you how to get a vacuum back on. In other words
you're saying what I need to do then is just dump it and then
leave it like it is.
CC Yes, sir. That's - that's what we wanted
you to do. And if you would you can delete that general
message number 1 which was the one that required you to go
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about the SAL.

CDR ()kay, well I been doing twice as much,
because ] thought this was, you know, just the first part
and i had to do the other part anyway. Okay, understand.
I guess the feeling is once you got a vacuum in the bellows
as long as you don't let it out, it just stays there.
CC That's - EGIL is telling me yes, that's
the way it goes.
CDR Well, I kind of wondered about that one, too
but I dec:ided you - I can see now why it was screwed up.
Okeydoke.
CC ()kay. Sorry we didn't get the word to
you to ge t that one squared away. I believe that covers
most of the items I have. I've sort of gone over here into
your bedtime. Let me check with FLIGHT.
CDR Okay, we got time.
CC ()kay, that does it. We got about a
minute and a half before we go LOS. I really didn't have
time to read you any news tonight. I might say that NASA
announced _-oday that it plans to announce launch Skylab IV,
Gerry's flight, on or about November the 9th. During the
SL-IV mission NASA tentatively plans to observe comet Kohoutek.
CDR And what's their length or are they quoting
any now?
CC I haven't heard it. Haven't heard an
update or. _hat at all[.
CDR ()kay.
CC They - they're still planning on, you
know, jus_ making sure they go - they go in to get the Kohoutek,
at least i:il that long. And go ahead and wish you guys
good night here. There is a Madrid pass coming up in about
5 minutes from now if you wanted to talk to me about anything
else. But I'm not going to give you an AOS call.
CDR Okay, good night.
CC Goodnight guys.
SPT So long, Crip.
PLT Rest well. Your Marine Corp is watching
you.
CC I feel safe.
PAO The crew got a good night from the ground
on this the 20th day of their mission. I have the surgeon's
report of their daily health status which I'ii read at this
time. Quoting: the health of the second manned Skylab mission
is still encouragingly good and presenting us with no operational
limitations. Captain Bean, Dr. Garriott and Major Lousma are
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in very fi_ spirits and eager for more work. We are making
some minor :::_anges in their exercise schedule and electrolyte
intake to _iL-ther improve their physical-muscular conditioning
and resistance to the deconditioning of effects of weight-
lessness. And that's the end of the doctor's report. It's
our intenti _,n to stay ap live for the Madrid pass in the
event that t:lere is any more air-to-ground communication with
the Skylab ' [I crew. We'll keep the line up for the next
7 or 8 mot, _inutes. Standing by.
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PAO Skylab space station has moved out of range

of Madrid, thus completing the 20th day in space for the
Skylab-III clew. This is PAO signing off on this day
August 16th. At 3 hours 23 minutes and 48 seconds, this
is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

i0 hours 51 minutes on this the 21st day of the Skylab III
mission. We had an early wakeup call over Guam at 5:46. _!e'll
play that tape back now of the wakeup call with Capcom Story
Musgrave and the Skylab III crew. The Flight Director this
morning is Milt Wiudler. We'll play that tape now.
CC Good morning Skylab, we've got you through
Guam for 2 more minutes. And the CDR is the only one who
needs to rise now. He's got an ATM pass starting in about
25 minutes.
CDR Okay, thank you, Story.
CC And no need to acknowledge, but I've got
an update for your Sun this morning. New prize crossing the east
limb. At 28/1 a bright surge on the limb was reported in this
position at 03:30 Zulu. No other activity.
CDR What's its name?
CC I'ii get it for you.
CC Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS here,
we'll see you over Goldstone in 16 minutes at 11:02.
PAO This is Skylab Control Greenwich mean
time l0 hours 53 minutes. An early wakeup call this morning
to Commander AI Bean to get up and get at it, at the Apollo
telescope mount. This is a revised plan to have the crew
have more observations of the sunside in solar observation
periods. They start their day one hour earlier now than
previous - they start their work period one hour earlier.
Their wakeup time is just a little bit earlier. Today they
have 7-1/2 hours at the Apollo telescope mount. Commander
Bean and Pilot Lousma will be performing the astronaut maneuvering
unit experiment again today, the AMU M509 for approximately
6 hours_ There'll be a medical experiment performed by
science pilot Owen Garriott, this is the MO92, lower body
negative pressure device, and the MO93, vectoreardiogram
experiment. ED26, the student experiment, the ultraviolet
study from pulsars. This is an experiment of Neal W. Shannon's,
16 year-old from Atlanta, Georgia. Young Shannon is an
eleventh grader at De Kal_ High School in Atlanta. This is
the first time his experiment has been performed in Skylab III.
We will have acquisition at Goldstone in 7 minutes and 45 sec-
onds from now. At Greenwich mean time i0 hours 54 minutes,
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PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean

time ii hours i minute. We will have acquisition at the
Goldstone _racking station in approximately 50 seconds as
Commander i' Bean is probably already at the Apollu _I_ : _ i_
mount begi;i:Ling the first sunside pass this morning with _:_
battery of cameras and telescopes. We'll leave the line _pen
for air-to ground with Capcom Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 18 minutes.
CDR Okay, everybody's up.
CC And AI, when that area gets around it's
going to b _ active region 93.
CDR Okay.
CDR There is a nice bright spot on t!Le _.a_:t
limb. It' not a spot, I meant plage, a nice bright ar_.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Hello, Story.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Yeah, today we'd like to recognize a_
individual at Marshall Space Flight Center, who's contribut_d
a lot to this program, by the name of Bob Thompson. I'm _,_re
that you knew him, and everybody does. We'd like you t_ ._.ive
him a call snd make sure he knows how much we appreciate h_s
efforts on the workshop. He had a major responsibility in
making sure that the workshop got built correctly and he had a
major responsibility cf making sure our trainers were in good
shape. We're mighty pleased with the way things turned o,to
And Bob always had a very can-do attitude about everything,
and that's the kind of attitude that's made this program and
other programs we've had in space flight successful. So we'd
like you tc make sure Bob Thompson over at Marshall Space
Flight Center knows that we appreciate all his effcrts.
CC Knowing him, he may be hearing you right
now, but I'] 1 certainly call him.
CDR Are you getting the downlink on the FV,
Story?
CC That's affirm, AI, we're looking at it.
CDR Okay, well, let me give you some goodies
here. Here's (garble) let me roll it around for you.
CDR They ought to roll a little Faster new,
CC Okay, we're seeing it.
CC And AI, we've got 3 more minutes of real
time TV.
CDR Okay, let me finish down Jn here and give
me 5 minut _s.
CDR (garble).
CC Okay, we' re getting the XUV.
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CDR Okay, I'Ii give you another sequence.

CDR Okay, there is the new sequence. Let's take a
look at H-alpha 2.
CC Okay, we got them.
CDR Okay, now I'm going to close the coronagraph
here. And then I'm going to go over and look at that new
active region for you all, going to check the data on H-alpha i.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, it's right below the reticle there.
I'ii move it up a little bit higher for a better view.
CC Okay, we can see it.
CDR Maybe we'll get a little action out of that
thing.
CC Let's hope so, it's been pretty quiet.
CDR It sure has.
CDR Let me give you a little XUV mon of the same
spot. I know you've got the whole thing, but right here.
CDR I'ii give you two more.
CC And AI, we're not picking up the TV real time
now, but it will be recorded at Mila at this time.
CDR Okay, I think that does it.
CDR We'll put that detector 3 around, and scan
that area and see what we can see for XUV.
CC Okay.
CDR Wait a few seconds on my frame, 67 66, so
detector 3 may not be getting anything.
CC AI, could you give us the frame counts on
the experiments? We've missed them the last couple of days.
CDR Okay, it's our fault. Let me give them to you,
H-alpha i 05750, 56 is 2861, 82A i00, 82B 553, 52 is 3262.
We're going to have to get with it. 54 is 3144.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT Hey Story, those were put on tape last
night. They must be somewhere in your archives there.
CC Okay, we'll look.
CC And Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll
see you over Carnarvon in 40 minutes at 12:01 and we'll be
dumping the tape recorders then.
CC In case you didn't read me Skylab, we're
30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon in 40 minutes.
We'll be dumping the tape recorders then.
ii hours 22 minutes, the 21st day of the orbit of Skylab-3.
Commander Bean reported a plage on the limb of the Sun in
his first viewing this morning. A plage is a bright hot area
on the Sun's photosphere representing strong local magnetic
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fields usually centered by a cooler dark area called a Sunspot.

This morning was recognition day for Bob Thompson, who is
head of the Manned System Integration branch of the Astronautics
Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center. This morning's
activities will be centered around another test flight of
the astronaut maneuvering unit, again with Commander AI Bean
serving as the test pilot, and Pilot Jack Lousma as the observer.
Science Pilot Owen Garriott is scheduled to take two separate
television recordings of the flying of the astronaut maneuvering
unit. Later this afternoon Science Pilot Owen Garriott is
scheduled to perform the M092 lower body negative pressure
device, and the M09S electrocardiogram experiment. This is
the fourth time Science Pilot Garrlott has performed this
experiment. The Skylab-3 mission calls for each astronaut
to perform these particular group of experiments 17 times
throughout the mission. On the next pass over the states
Pilot Lousma is sceheduled to perform a eheck out of the
multispectral scanner, S192. This is part of the EREP package
this is just a callibration test of the instrument. They
will only be recording the - it's a 13 band instrument, and
they will only be using the visible band in this pass as
it comes over the Rio Grande valley, Gulf of Mexico, and
Central America, on the workshop's iS69th revolution around
the Earth since its launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14th.
Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in approximately 36 minutes
from now. At Greenwich mean time ii hours 24 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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time e ii hours 58 minutes. Acquisition coming over the
Carnarvon txacking station in approximately 3 minutes.
Today Skylab pilot Jack Lousma will aim still cameras out
the space station's windows to record still another natural
phenomenon. Todays photo target of opportunity will be an
active volcano crater on Mr. Langila in the western portion
of New Britain and the southwest Pacific. Mt. Langila rises
almost 4,000 feet above sea level and is located about
7 miles south of Cape Gloucester and is made up of a chain of
craters arcing northeasterly. Mr. Langila's crater number
3 erupted on July 12 and within 6 days the lava flow was
i kilomete_ long by 300 meters wide and at last report was
still pourl _:g out lava amidst loud rumblings. Only 2
previous lava flows have been recorded on Mr. Langila in
the last century, both of which were relatively small. The
Smithsoniaa Institution Center for short liveed phenomena
at Cambridge Massachusetts has asked NASA to make photos
and obs Dbservations of the moutain eruption from the
Skylab space station. It is hoped that the photos and verbal
descriptioJ_ by Lousma will aid in estimating the size and
location of the lava flow, spot ash and steam belching from
the crater and detect discoloration in the sea around
New Britain,. Lousma will use a Nikon Camera with a
300 millimeter lens, loaded with high speed color film and
also a Hasselblad with a I00 millimeter lens with color film.
He will aim _is camera,s toward the volcano starting at
05:15 p.m. central "daylight time today during the space
stations 1375 revolution of the earth. Skylab will pass
approximately 120 miles to the southwest of the volcano.
With acquit; ition coming up at Carnarvan, we' ii hold the line
open for communication between CAP COMM, Dr. Story Musgrave,
and the Sk:,'iab III crew.
CC Skylab. We're AOS Carnarvon for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see
you over at _;uam in 8 minutes,
time 12 hour_; 9 minutes. Loss of signal at Carnarvon with
acquisitioF coming up at Guam in approximately 6 minutes.
On this next: stateside pass pilot Lousma will be performing
a checkout of the S192 multispectral sensing equipment. It'll
begin at about 07:45 Central Daylight Time this morning, as
the orbital workshop passes over the Texas Rio Grande Valley
and into tke Gulf of Mexico and over Central America. Lousma
will be operating equipment which will be aimed at the earth
at an obliqte angle due to the angle of the sun and attitude
of the workshop. S192 is part of the EREP, Earth Resources
Experiment } a,ckage and today' s activity is just a calibration
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of the onboard equipment and the onboard EREP tape recorder.

At Greenwich mean time, 21 hours i0 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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time 12 hours 14 minutes. We anticipate acquisition at Guam
in approximately 50 seconds. CAP COI_M is Dr. Story Musgrave,
a change over in the mission control center with offgoing
Flight Director Milt Windler, oncoming Flight Director is
Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Guam for
6 minutes. We didn't finish our tape recorder dump over
Carnarvon. We'll be dumping a couple more minutes here.
CC Skylab, we're i minute til LOS. We'll
see you over Goldstone in 18 minutes at 12:39. And CDR, the
last message is up on the teleprinter pad. It refers to changes
on your M509 EMU OP. And we're assuming on giving you that
message that you will be using the cue card rather than the
checklist.
CDR You assume right. We'll do i_.
CC Okay, and a little later on AI, we will
be talking with you about changes in the cue cards verses the
checklist. If possible, we'd llke not to have you have to
change both of those but we'll talk over that philosophy,
maybe stateside.
CDR Good idea. We've found the cue cards to
really be the thing.
CC Okay, we're glad to get that information.
time, 12 hours 23 minutes. Loss of signal over the Guam
tracking station, next acquisition will be Goldstone in approximately
15 minutes from now. At Greenwich mean time, 12 hours
23 minutes, this is Skyla_ Control.
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12 hours 38 minutes. A stateside pass coming up on the end
of revolution 1369 as we acquire Goldstone in approximately
50 seconds° Capcomm is Dr. Story Musgrave. On this the
start of the 21st day for the, in orbit, for the Skylab-3
crew. We' ] [ leave the line open for air-to-ground with
Capcomm Dr. 5tory Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone and Texas
for 15 minuzes.
PLT Okay, Story. Are you ready for the EREP
readings?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay, Alfa 2 is reading 60 percent, Alfa 3
reading 86 percent, Alfa 4 reading 71 percent, Alfa 5 reading
65 percent_ Alfa 6 reading off scale low, Bravo 2 reading
57 percents. 3ravo 3 reading 76 percent, Bravo 4 reading 71 per-
cent, Brave 5 reading 73 percent, Bravo 6 reading 51 percent.
Are you wi_:h me?
CC Yep.
PLT Okay, Charlie 2 reading 45 percent, Charlie
3 reading 81 percent, Charlie 4 reading 70 percent, Charlie 5
reading 82 percent, Charlie 6 reading 47 percent, Delta 2
reading 86 percent, Delta 3 reading 85 percent, Delta 4 reading
72 percent_ Delta 5 reading 13 percent, Delta 6 reading 57 per-
cent.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, I'm standing by for auto cal at 45.
CC Roger.
CC And Jack, we'll need the video switched to TV
for the downlink.
PLT Okay, my friend, that's easy. How are you getting
_t now?
CC Ok ay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Hello.
CC Owen, I've got a change to the ATM schedule
pad. It wiLl take you about a minute to copy if you've got
Jt.
SPT I've just got enough to start this Jop. Can
you wait a couple of minutes? How much time do we have here?
CC The nearest pass that it concerns is 17:25.
_e've got all kinds of time.
SPT We' ii wait.
PLT MARK. Auto Cal.
CC Okay.
PLT MARK. S191 power off.
CC Okay.
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SPT For the information in the backroom,

detector number 3 picked up right on the dark boundary of this
network cell as seen in H-alfa-1. So apparently the 2 was
coincidence on Detector 3 as H-alfa.
CC Ccpy, Owen.
PLT MARK. 192 mode to READY, READY light ON.
Position 5; position 7; position 9; off position. Okay do
you have everything down there EREP? Hello, Story. How do
you read?
CC Reading you loud and clear, just waiting
for an answer. We've got it all Jack.
PLT Okay, l,m going to turn her off.
SPT Okay, if you still have realtime TV,
the backroom, can see the network cell I'm pointed at.
CC Owen, we haven't got the lines called up,
but they will be recording it at the site.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, about these changes to checklists and
cue cards, and the things like Jop summary sheets, when we send
you up a change to a Jop summary sheet, to be precise, you
probably have to change the summary sheet, the teleprinter
fail sheet and the cue card and we'd like some kind of under-
standing of which ones you use and maybe you could change
just those.
CDR Okay, well, that's a good idea on this. Jop
summary sheets, the ones we're using, are not the teleprinter
fail. We don't have any cue cards except for flares. We'd
have to change the flare ones. But 0 _en's listening in, my
suggestion would be in order to make this teleprinter fail
situation work, we'd have tO put the changes in there, too but
let's ask his opinion.
CC Okay, you are not using the building block
cue cards ?
CDR No, the situation never comes up.
CC Okay, and how about other things? Where
you've got a cue card and a checklist, is it satisfactory
just to change the cue card?
CDR Yes, it's desirable to just change the
cue card.
CC Okay.
CDR The only time we've gone to the checklist
is for procedures that aren't on the cue card, and that's about
it. These cue cards are working out dandy.
CC Okay, I think in the past we've been
too precise and been changing the checklist too even though there's
a cue card to cover that procedure.
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CDR We'd sure welcome any relief on the paper

work, there is quite a lot of it. You always feel llke that
you could better be using your time up here but you know it's
important too so you end up doing it.
CC We're doing about the best we can, but
I think we'll be able to do better in the future.
CDR Okay, I agree with you.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard in i0 minutes at 13:04.
time, 12 hours 55 minutes, loss of signal oyez the Mila
tracking station. On this stateside pass, Pilot Jack Lousma
was calibrating the S192 experiment. This experiment
calibration was using the -what they call the EDDU, this is
the EREP data diagnostic unit which normally the EREP instruments
record onboard with a tape recorder, and then those tapes are
brought back. In this particular exercise, the telemetry llnks
with the EDDU, brought down calibration data from the $192
to the ground for analysls bf the instrument's preformance.
Next acquisition will be over the Vanguard tracklng station
in approximately 8 minutes from now. Greenwich mean time,
12 hours 56 minutes.
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:L-Ill MC/862-I
Time: 08:03 CDT, 21/13:03 GMT
_/17/73

time 13 hours 3 minutes. Acquisition at the Vanguard tracking
station. Oncoming Flight Director is Phll Shaffer. As we
will have acquisition at Vanguard in approximately 40 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Vanguard for
10 minutes.
CDR Sound happy this morning.
CC Yes, sir, it's - little light rain in
Houston this morning but it's - we're doing real fine, Just
coming on duty.
CDR Well I was shaving and looking out the
window at the Andes.
CC I'm sure that's a pretty sight.
CDR Those are as rough a mountain range as we've
seen whistling over the earth. They're kind of compact in a small
place but they rise up high and are continually rough all
the way down the coast.
CC Roger, AI. We remember the - Pete's come
in when he was - during his reentry phase and they were real
low over the Andes and it really impressed them also.
SPT Say, Dick. Story had some changes for
the ATM schedule there. I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay, give me a minute here, Owen, and
I'll have them right up to you.
PLT Hey, Dick. I've got some word on the
tape recorders.
CC Roger, Jack. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, the first tape recorder that we took
apart was the one we replaced, that was serial number 22,
it had 347 hours on it. It had 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch more
tape on the bottom reel than on the top reel. And the reels
rotated freely, and as you know I had a busted drive belt.
And it made a 90 degree break and ... there was some
residue on all of those wheels down in the drive area. Now, I have
found the other one down in the plenum bag after a llttle
searching around and that's the one that Pete's crew replaced
or took out and that was serial number 13. It had 1710 hours
on it. It had one inch more tape on the bottom reel than
the top reel. Everything rotated nice and freely. It had the
same failure, a busted drive belt. This time the break in
the drive belt was angular and a little bit serrated but
it also had the same kind of a residue on the wheels down at
the drive area. Most of the residue was on the powder sides
where the tape passed over the wheels but there was a little
bit underneath where the tape was trying to cross the wheels.
Over.
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CC Roger, Jack. We copied it and while

I give Owen these changes to his ATM schedule pad, if there
are any questions about what you said we'll get them
back to you up after that. Owen you ready to copy?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. The first is on the ATM schedule
pad at the pass that starts at 17:25, Owen, and it's at time
38, and it's - the information to the right of limb scan 2.
The roll should read minus 6922, up 4 balls, left minus 815.
The latitude is minus 51 degrees. The quiet region referred
to is the southwest limb, and the next change is under - right
under there under the information for line scan 3.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roll of minus 7497, top 4 balls left
minus 900. And the next change is on the pass beginning
at 18:54 under line scan 5. The roll should be minus 7718,
up 4 balls, left minus 945. And the last correction is
under the pass that starts at 20:29 and for the limb scan 4.
Okay, there the roll should be minus 7624, up 4 balls, left
minus 925. Over.
SPT Okay. I've got all that, Dick.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're one minute from
LOS. We're gonna see you at Goldstone a little over an
hour from now at 14:17 and we are gonna dump the data tape
recorder at Goldstone. Over. And Jack, we don't have any
more questions on your report about the tape recorder. We
plan, I think, to send up some replacement belts for both
those recorders on SL4, so we should have them back in
operation by then.
CDR Okay. What you will want to do is
make sure that the Job can get done. Looks like there's
lots of wire bundles and stuff in there and thatthe belts are put
c_n before the wire is soldered down. But, I think, with a
little close look at it, why, somebody can work out a way
to do it.
CC Roger. And l'm sure Jerry and Bill will -
and Ed will have time in here to get hold of a tape recorder
and we'll figure out a way.
time 13 hours 14 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone, i hour and 2 minutes from now.
Discussions on this previous pass with Dr. Owen Garriott,
Science Pilot, who is currently at the Apollo Telescope Mount
control and display panel. Dr. Garriott is scheduled to
spend approximately 6 hours at the panel today gathering
data on the - scientlfic data on the sun. The 3 Skylab crew
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members to date have logged 55 hours at the ATM console as

compared to a total of 88 hours during the Skylab II mission.
A note of interest from last night's medical report from
Dr. Paul Buchanan, Flight Crew Surgeon, reports that the pilot,
pilot Jack Lousma, had set a record yesterday with a total
of 62 minutes of excersise on the bicycle ergometer. And
he compiled a total energy output of 12103 watt minutes.
A watt minute is the measure of work production that pilot
Lousma had put on the bicycle. Next acquisition Goldstone
in one hour. This is :Skylab Control; 13 hours 15 minutes.
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Time: 09:11 CDT 21/14:11 GMT
8/17/73

14 hours ii minutes. We will have acquisition at Goldstone
in approximately 4 minutes from now. Commander A1 Bean should
be well into preparatlo:ns for the flight of the astronaut
maneuvering unit, which is scheduled to fly today for the
third time. Today's flight of the astronaut maneuvering unit
is the first evaluation of the one-man flying unit in a
suited mode. Skylab-3 Commander Alan Bean will be wearing
a pressurized suit during today's 90 minute run, and is sched-
uled to fly around inside the 22 foot long dome of the work-
shop. Pilot Jack Lousma will monitor today's test flight,
and Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is scheduled to operate the
television camera during suited up and actual fly around
phases of today's activity. Bean will actually fly around
in three separate modes. One _ith him attached to the suit
umbilical system, which provides voice, oxygen, and water,
and relays voice and medical data to the ground. Second
mode will be without the umbilical system using the secondary
oxygen pack, the SOP. And the third again using the umbilical
system and flying with the handheld maneuvering unit. Today's
flight is described by principal investigator Major Ed Whitsett
as the first evaluation in a near EVA condition. Although
the test flight is inside the vehicle, Whltsett said we
will be able to determine what effect a fully suited astro-
naut will have on the operation of the unit. The first two
test flights on Monday and Wednesday of this week showed the
two maneuvering units, the astronaut maneuvering unit back
pack and the hand held unit performed as expected. In fact
Major Whltsett and Co PI Astronaut Bruce McCandless are real
happy with the results of the initial test runs. The hardware
did all the things we expected and then some and used less
propellant than planned, Whitsett said, following a review
of the downlinked data. One feature of today's run will be
Commander Bean raising and lowering his arms and legs at
select times to determine what disturbances these movements
will have on his attitude within the workshop. In addition
Commander Bean will have real time voice capability when
he is flying the unit when attached to the umbilical
system. In the other runs his comments will relate to the
ground controllers at the close of the test flights. At
Greenwich mean time 14 hours 14 minutes, we will have acqui-
sition at Goldstone in approximately 2 minutes. Science
Pilot Owen Garriott is at the Apollo telescope mount opera-
ting the battery of cameras and telescopes, running up the time
of manned operations of the solar sensors. Through yesterday,
the three man crew of Apollo, of Skylab-3 had accumulated
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more than 55 hours of manned operation of these instruments.

We expect acquisition at Goldstone with Capcomm Dick Truly.
We'll hold the line up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for
12 minute _.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a key
hole here at Goldstone that is coming up in 15 seconds,
will last about a minute and a half. I'm not sure if we
are going to lose voice or not. I do have one question for
the PLT, but I think I'ii delay it for a couple of minutes.
The pass is about ii minutes long.
PLT Okay, let me ask you something. Page 11-2
maneuvering experiment checklist, step 2, asked me to turn on two
recorders but only gives me a select for one.
CC Roger, stand by.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC PLT, Houston. In answer to your question, the
experiment 2 recorder is going to be recording biomed data. It
doesn't matter what the selective position is for experiment 2. Any
one of the positions will be okay.
PLT Okay, that answers it, thanks a lot. They are
both running and they have got l-g and one g select.
CC Roger. Thank you much. And we confirm they
are both running. And the question that I had for you, Jack
had to do with the problems you had last evening with riding
the bicycle. What we were interested in finding out was
did you do any kind of troubleshooting at all on the bike?
Or did you just, when you found out after riding it for a
long time and it started free wheeling, how lon B did you let
it cool down? And I assume that when you got back on, the reason
you thought that it was going to work okay was just the
fact that it was - after cooling down it seemed to work okay?
Over.
PLT Yeah, after it cooled down for about an hour,
I got on it and I just turned over the pedals 5 or 6 times
and ran up to the watts that had set and it seemed like a normal
work load on the legs. And then I turned it off, and I think
later on AI got on it and it worked okay.
PLT I didn't do any more troubleshooting on it.
I didn't know anything I could do except to get into the
load module and I didn't want to do that.
CC Roger, understand. Thank you, Jack. And
another thing, did the experiment-2 recorder- get back to that
for just a second - we want it on any position except G, Golf.
PLT Okay.
CC G or H, Golf or Hotel.
PLT Okay.
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Time: 09:20 CDT, 21/14:20 GMT
8/17/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from

LOS at Texas. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 14:43.
SPT And it's GO for the ATM room. It looks like
the same network cell is not distinguishable from the H-alfa
displays. So we finished up the last couple of steps here
by pointing coordinates and I have to look awful closely at
the H-alfa photographs to find the same cell on the second
orbit.
CC Roger, Owen. We copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
14 hours 29 minutes with loss of signal over the tracking -
Texas tracking station. Commander Bean, Pilot Lousma readying
the M509 equipment. Commander Bean is currently suiting up
to fly the M509 experiment. Science Pilot Owen Garriott is
still at the ATM console, however he's scheduled to use the
on board television cameras to relay plctures of the sulting-up
portion of the M-4 - M509 preparations, And later, Science
Pilot Garriott will take TV of Bean flying around suited up
inside the 22 foot long dome of the orbital workshop.
Greewich mean time; 14 hours 30 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 09:38 CDT, 21/14:38 GMT
8/17/73

time 14 hours 38 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard as
Commander Bean continues preparations for the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit. He'll fly this around today for about
90 minutes in a suited mode. He'll be fully suited in a
pressurized suit. He will fly the astronaut maneuvering
unit backpack and also the h_ndheld maneuvering unit. We
anticipate acquisition at Vanguard in approximately
one minute. CAP COMM is astronaut Dick Truley.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Vanguard
for ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Vanguard
for ii minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston. It looks llke we've got
a little sun glare going on in active region 92 at the
moment. No apparent X-rays associated with it but I finished
up my network study and I'm doing it shopping list item 3
on this small sun glare.
CC Okay, Owen. Thanks for letting us know.
CDR Houston, we're now in the midst of the pickup
procedure on group i.
CC Roger, CDR.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute
from LOS. We're gonna drop you out for about an hour and
see you again at Hawaii at 15:51.
time 14 hours 52 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii 58 minutes from now.
Commander Bean still preparing for the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit flight today. The third flight of this flying
one-man flying-machlne backpack and hand held manueverlng
unit. Next acquisition Hawaii in 58 minutes. This is
Skylab Control, 14 hours 52 minutes.
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8/17/73

15 hours 48 minutes with acquisition nearing the Hawaii
tracking station in approximately 2 minutes. Commander Bean
should be just about ready to fly the astronaut maneuvering
unit for the third time, the M509 and the hand held maneuvering
unit. This is the first evaluation of the one man flying
unit in a suited mode. In addition to having reel time voice
Commander Bean will also be hooked up to the umbilical system
which will also relay to the ground his biomedical heart
rates, respiration et" cetera to the flight surgeons on the
ground. We anticipate comm between Capcomm Dick Truly and
the Skylab-3 vehicle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 6 min-
utes.
CC Skylab, Houston. A couple of things we'd
like to get a status some time during this pass if we could
about how A1 is coming along with 509 run. We've still got
about 4 minutes left. And also Owen, after you get through
setting up for this daylight cycle pass and have a couple
of mlnutes, I've got an answer to a couple of questions you
asked of Dr. Rommel and Ed Michael the other night.
SPT Okay. Let me mention about the
network cell. It's Just possible I may have relocated the
same original cell that I had two revs ago. It looks a little
more promising now. I am a little surprised about the changing
coordinates, it seems a little too much for solar and rotation.
I have the cell boundary now at the same roll, minus 490 down,
minus 644 left as opposed to the original coordinates I called
out before. The backroom might check to see if they think this is
reasonable from a stand point of solar rotation. And A1 is
Just suiting up, down there, in fact he's in his suit. Maybe
Jack has a later update. And I'm ready to copy those answers.
CC Okay. We're taking a look at the numbers
you read down to us, Owen. On the questions you asked, the
first one had to do with any changes in resting 02 consumption.
And the answer we get from the guys here is that the resting
02 consumption rates on all the crewmen ere within the range
of your preflight base line values. And this same was also
true for the SL-2 crew. The second question that you asked
had to do with your mechanical efficiency in pedaling the
bicycle. And the same answer applies. The mechanical effe-
clencles observed are essentially the same as you had during
preflight baseline. Over.
SPT Roger.
PLT Hey Dick, we've got A1 mounted on the ASMU,
and we' re getting ready to put his hat on. And I noticed that
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one camera position does seem to work out in here, and that's
the camera in the dome. And I'm going to have to modify
those settings. And I want to know generally in what direc-
tion they want that dome camera pointed.
CC Okay, Jack. Stand by, please.
CC PLT, IIouston. On the camera, we just as soon
have it Just pointed right along minus X Just straight down into
the forward compartment from the dome. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS at Vanguard. We're going to see you, correction at
Hawaii, and we're going to see you at the Vanguard at 16:19.
CC SPT, Houston. We're pretty close to going
over the hill. I don't think we will get an answer to you
on what we think about the pointing for that network cell,
So just stand by for next ACQ.
15 hours 58 minutes_ loss of signal overt Hawaii. Commander
Bean apparently not quite ready to fly the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit. Pilot Lousma reporting he was ready to
put Commander Bean's helmet on_ and adjust the cameras prior
to the start of this the third run of the M509 experiment.
At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 58 minutes, next acquisition
at Vanguard in approximately 20 minutes. Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 15 hours 59 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:[6 CDT, 21/16:16 GMT
8/17/73

time, 16 hours 16 minutes, acquisition coming over the Vanguard
tracking station. Apparently Commander Bean and Pilot Lousma
are falling behind slightly in the preparations for the use
of the astronaut maneuvering unit, experiment M509. In this
run today, one of the tests is to determine how AMU will react
with a fully suited astronaut in a pressurized spacesuit
flying the machine. How it would react under these - under
this situation. And one of the maneuver _ that Commander Bean
will put it through is he will, at one time raise one arm, and
raise it up and down 3 times. Then he'll raise both arms up
and down 3 times, raise one leg up three times, and then raise both
of his legs up and down 3 times. With acquisition at Vanguard
we'll leave the llne up for air-to-ground communications
between CAP COMM Dick Truly and the crew of Skylab-3.
CDR And we're starting to you, let's see how it
works. I'm getting a roll left, I'ii correct it. I'm also
headed down, I think it's the umbilical that's doing that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the Vanguard
for the next i0 minutes, and I need to get a word in for the
509 guys if they can listen.
CDR We're listening, go ahead.
CC Okay, AI. We're a little bit behind on -
We're a little bit behind on our recorder number 2 dumping,
we'd like for you to just hold off on the run. We'd like
to dump the recorder 2 here at the Vanguard for the next
4 or 5 minutes and we' ii get back to you. We're going to
start dump and we'll get back to you as soon as the dump is
complete to - so that you can continue your run. Over.
CDR Okay, I'ii Just go into a float mode here,
around the middle of the workshop. The tether as you can
imagine is pretty strong. I made - attempted a left turn,
left yaw and it yawed about 90 degrees and stopped and now
it's headed back the other way and it's also pushing me down
towards the bottom. My suspicion is that the gas is not
going to last too long.
CC Roger, AI, we're sorry to interrupt and
why don't you and Jack Just figure out the best way to get
stablized there and wait a few minutes and then I'ii let
you know as soon as we can continue.
CDR Okay, the tether is floating me over
in the corner, so I guess that'll be good enough.
What luck do you think you can have operating the umbilical
Jack? See what you can do with it.
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CDR I don't know, I noticed when you touch

it, it's almost like you've got a rigid pole. So I suspect
anything that you do to it is going to - I could not fire a
thruster and you could fly me around the maneuver, Just
maneuvering the umbilical.
PLT Okay. Beam's natural, okay.
CDR Maybe you can occupy that position with
the umbilical all the time.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Jack if you have
a time, we still got about 7 minutes here at Vanguard. We
were wondering if you could let us know how far along A1 is
in the run or, AI, if you could.
CDR We Just got started a few moments ago.
CC Understand.
CDR These suited operations take a little time
to get rigged out. Have you been able to find a place, Jack,
yet where you could sort of keep the umbilical?
PLT Uh huh. I know it, sir.
PLT Uh huh.
CC And Skylab, Houston, if I can break in
real quickly. One note for the SPT, we didn't get back
to you as we were going LOS there. We saw about an 18 arc
second change in your pointing in that one rev on that cell and we
expect only about 6 to 7 arc seconds, so apparently you were
pointed at a different cell and we are sorry we didn't get
the answer to you as we were going AOS - LOS at Hawaii.
SPT Okay, now after that was a two-rev
change, because this_ is the third rev I've done it. So 6 or 7
doubled is nearly the change that we saw. So it looks to me
llke it might have actually been the same cell.
CC Roger, Owen. The way we arrived at that
number - we had looked at the telemetry from one REV pass. So we
think that the number that we calculated was a i REV difference
and not two.
SPT Okay, here's the reason. The second REV
I couldn't find the cell with much certainty. Sso I used the
same numbers that I had on the original REV. And so it means
that the second REV I may have been mlspolnted a bit, but the
first and third REV's are differed by the 18 arc seconds and
so that's the reason I said two REVs and I think it's a reasonably
close number.
CC Okay, good. We're going to go back and
look that REV also and we'll check it out.
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since this Dick - since this umbilical isn't particularly large

relative to any you might have to have EVA, in fact
it's our EVA one. Kind of makes you wonder if you had a
maneuvering unit whether you wouldn't have to include in it
the cooling and 02 requirements. EiZher that or one whale of a
lot of gas because if you got the umbilical out very far its
gonna really have an idea of its own of where it wants to go.
CDR It not only wants - has an idea when you get
it going it wants to keep going too. When you stop then it's
off your CG and it keeps going so it torques you and then
you're back expends gas. You could over power it, we've
got enough authority to do it. It's Just that you fire a lot
of burst.
CC Roger, AI.
SPT Coming from the back room there, the -
assuming that I have got the correct shell which I believe I have,
it would have been impossible to locate him without the time exposure
photograph of H-alfa 1 which I took at the beginning of REV 1
and only on that photograph could you come back and find it
in the .. _ that we see now.
CC Roger, Owen. And AI, we've completed the
recorder 2 dump and it's running again and you can continue
with H509.
CDR Okay, we're off and flying.
CC Okay.
CDR Get the cameras going and get the
old umbilical. Whenever you're ready well I'ii attempt this
turn agaln.
CC Okay. Let me know when you're ready to
go.
from LOS at Vanguard. We'll see you at Hawaii at 17:26 and
we've cleaned off that recorder. We will not have to dump
it again until 509 is over. So you're in good shape.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.
CC See you there.
CDR Get back up where we were.
CDR Trying to come up to operating sight
here. We usually operate on it here and I want to start
so that the data and everything is correct. I'm gonna do
a left yaw in a minote.
time 16 hours 29 minutes. Loss of signal over Vanguard as
Commander Bean flew around the dome with his one man flying
machine. Commander Bean had to float for approxlmately
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4 minutes during this pass while ground controllers switched

tape recorders on board to permit full dumping of the M509
experiment onto one tape recorder. When this was completed
Commander Bean again fired the Jets on the 14 thrusters in
the manueverlng unit and you could hear the firing in the
background. The propellent for the maneuvering unit is
pressurized nitrogen gas which are fired from 14 fixed thrusters
which are controlled by hand controllers almost
identical to those used to control the attitude of the
Apollo Command Module. Since Commander Bean started this
exercise just prior to acquisition at Vanguard he has
approximately another hour and 15 to 20 minutes of flying
the astronaut maneuvering unit as the spacecraft Skylab
circles the earth. At Greenwich mean time, 16 hours 30 minutes.
Next acquisition at Hawaii in 55 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.
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Time: 12:23 CDT 21/17:23 GMT
8/17/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 17 hours 23 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Acquisition coming up shortly over
the Hawaii tracking station. Commander A1 Bean should be
approximately half way through or nearly completed the oper-
ation of the M509, astronaut maneuvering unit in an exercise
today to test the EVA capability of this device being flown
inside the 22 foot length orbital workshop dome. Bean started
flying the maneuvering unit as the Skylab-3 passed over the
Vanguard tracking station on the previous revolution. He
was scheduled to fly the one man flying machine for approx-
imately 90 minutes. With acquisition coming up at Hawaii,
we'll hold the line open for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for i0 min-
utes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC SPT, Houston. During the LOS period we did
go back and check some of these numbers on the pointing for
the network cell that I thought you would be interested in.
If you have a moment to listen, I'll pass them up to you.
SPT All right. Just a moment, please.
CC Sure thing. We've got about 8-1/2 minutes
left and no hurry.
SPT Okay, I'm ready now, Dick, go ahead.
CC Roger, Owen. On the first rev, you were - we
looked at the pointing for the first rev, the second rev, and then
the last time that we talked about it, maybe we've already
talked about it enough. But the difference in pointing taken
off telemetry between the first and second rev was about
20 arc seconds. And between the second and third rev was
about 19 arc seconds. And both of those were larger than
the difference expected in one rev of about 7-1/2. Also
the difference between the first rev and the third rev itself
was in excess of 30 arc seconds. It was about 34 there and
we expected much less. And we did get your comment Just at
LOS about the H-alpha photographs, although there was some
static. But we played it back and listened to that too. But
in essence we still are not sure that we were pointed at
the same network cell. So the next time you do this you
might take this into consideration and put it into your
thinking hat about - you know - some techniques to use next time.
SPT Okay. I'm still a little confused about that
then, because on the second rev I went back to the exact
same pointing coordinates for the boundary. But then of course
the particular step I was on required me to be displaced
from the boundary. But the second rev I intended to put the
boundary at exactly the same spot as I had it on the first rev
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with the fine Sun sensor. So I don't believe there was any
difference in the coordinates of the boundary position itself.
And then on the third rev, since I thought I had refound the
correct cell, then of course I placed the boundary in what
I thought was some 20 arc seconds away. And then I had to
step even further away to complete the step that I was on.
So I think there is some confusion about the actual location
of the pointing and the location of the boundary of that cell.
And as I was trying to explain on the other earlier pass, I
assumed that the boundary on the second rev was right where
it was on the first rev, because I couldn't identify it
clearly. And on the third rev I had to displace about 20 arc
seconds. See if that makes sense to the back room down there
please.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. To put the subject to bed here
for just a few minutes, the only thing we can figure is possibly
since we were only looking so far at the real time data that we
got over the Vanguard. And we are in the process now of
pulling out the MDRS data so we can look at that whole rev.
Possibly the point at which we picked the numbers, you were
not pointed at the cell there, At any rate, we'll pull out
the MDRS data and chase down and make sure that we do not
having a pointing problem. And we're convinced that we don' t.
SPT Okay, I think that's the answer right there
because you wouldn't know exactly where I put the boundary
because for all of my later steps I was off set from that
from 5 to 25 arc seconds. And so the data that's on the telemetry
is not the position of the boundary, but displaced from the
boundary the appropriate number of arc seconds for the step
I was on. And I think 1_.hat is the reason that the numbers
Just appear quite reasonable at first.
CC Roger, Owen. That makes sense. And be
advised there is some teleprinter messages in the printer
you might take a look at.
SPT Okay, I'll do it when I get a chance here.
CC Okay.
SPT Is that for me? Or who, in particular, Dick?
CC Nobody in particular, you Just might take
a look.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. And this is for the PLT if
he is listening. Later on today, Jack you are going to be
scheduled to take some pictures of a volcano down in
New Guinea. And you have onboard, that you carried up - -
SPT Hey, Dick.
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CC Go ahead.
SPT He's sort of tied up right now and says he
can't talk to you for a minute.
CC Okay, fine, no hurry. We've got - I was just
going to try to tell him that some time in the next couple
of hours I wanted him to get out a map and I could point out
exactly where that volcano is. I knew he couldn't do it right
now.
SPT Okay, he's tied up on 509 with A1 and working
on instructions.
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SPT Yeah. Well Jack I'm just setting up for

an ATM thing right now Itts gonna throw the thing out of kilter
if I do. Oh yeah, l'In in the middle of a limb scan thing.
from LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard at 17:58 and the last
two transmissions, Owen, were on air-to-ground.
SPT Okay, fine. Do you know whether or not
we're supposed to knock off ATM ops so I can get some VTR of
this 509 at this interval?
CC Stand by.
SPT Okay, Jack. We'll try to get it anyway
(garble)
CC SPT, Houston. That's affirmative, that's
the TV 36 Bravo that's listed on your pad - on your details
pad, and that was for you to support.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Tihis is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 17 ho_,rs 36 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii.
Next acquisition will be over the Vanguard tracking station in
21 minutes. CAP COMM, Dick Truly's reference to the volcano
is the Mr. Langila volcano which is located on the island of
New Britain in the southwest Pacific. The island has
erupted - the volcano has erupted since July 12 and within
the last 6 days the lava flow has been approximately 1
kilometer in length, and 300 meters in width and at the last
reports it was still pouring out lava amidst loud rumblings.
This island has only recorded two other lava flows the last
century. Pilot Lousma has been asked to attempt to photo-
graph this volcano later this afternoon with onboard hand
held cameras. The 35 millimeter camera and a 70 millimeter
camera. Commander Bean and Jack Lousma - Pilot Jack Lousma
are concluding the run of the M509 experiment. Science Pilot,
Owen Garrlott is scheduled to take TV of this activity. And
the next acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately
19 minutes from now. Greenwich mean time 17 hours 38 minutes
END OF TAPE
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Time: 12:55 CDT, 21/17:55 GMT
8/17/73

time, 17 hours 55 minutes. Acquisition coming up at the
Vanguard tracking station. Science Pilot Owen Garriott is
a - active at the Apollo telescope mount, Commander Allan
Bean possibly still flying the M509, astronaut maneuvering
unit with Pilot Jack Lousma serving as observer on this
activity. The next item on the Skylab-3 schedule today is
lunch about 1 hour from now. Followed by operation of the
S019 experiment in support of education experiment 26, that
experiment of Neal Shannon, 16 year old, Atlanta, Georgia
high school student. 'We'll leave the line open for air-to-
ground.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, let's take the HHM]J off, Jack.
PLT Okeydoke.
CDR All right. We've got about I000 pounds.
Maybe we canmake a rate gyro once around_ I'm not sure.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS at Vanguard
for the next 8 minutes and we'd like to get a status as to
where you are in the run. The cabin pressure we're reading
is toggling between 5.5 and 5.6.
CDR Dick, did you read Jack?
CC CDR, negative, I did not.
CDR Okay, here's essentially what we have done.
We used up the first bottle flying the maneuvers in the middle
of the workshop. Not the baseline maneuvers but the attitude
maneuvers and the limb motions. We then came back, put in the
second bottle and new battery, put on the SOP, took off the
umbilical and flew a baseline maneuver in direct, that was
the second maneuver. The first one we flew at CMG and then
direct. Then we came back got the HIIMU and flew the first leg
of the baseline maneuver and then the SOP ran out of oxygen.
So we came back put the umbilical back on, that's where we
are at the moment, put the third bottle on and we're down
to i000 pounds in the third bottle. I flew some - a baseline
maneuver with the HHMU and the umbilical although it wasn't
very tidy. We did make it around. Now we're going to -
we got this last i000 pounds, I'm going to attempt to do
a baseline maneuver with the umbilical in rate gyro but
the amount of fuel it uses in rate gyro is fantastic, and my
guess is it will never make it around.
CC Roger; A1. Understand.
CDR Without the umbilical on, it flies very
well. The a - SOP down at the bottom on the legs doesn't
seem to bother it, the thrusters don't appear to impinge
particularl F on the suit or the equipment I'm wearing so that
you get rather pure rotations, translations and the like, are
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CDR <CONT'D) at least as pure as we did without the

suit. Now I notice with the HHMU such is not the case. The
HHMU is very - is much more - unstablizing in the suit than
out of it because the - exhaust from the hand-held maneuvering
unit strikes you at different places or your backpack in
different places, depending on where your hand is and it up -
upsets your applecart a bit. So the HHMU is even more
difficult to fly than unsuited and not only because of, you know,
the cumbersome suit but the fact the thrusters impinge all
over the place on it. It's much different.
CC Roger, CDR.
CDR Uh, let me think, what else. The P -
the SOP lasted, we had a full 6000 pounds in it, and my guess
is it lasted right around 19 to 20 minutes. And the way it
runs out, l've often wondered, is it keeps flowing but it
just lowers the suit pressure until finally you have no suit
pressure, but you can still hear the flow. So there is
plenty of time to - to get your helmet and gloves off, we
were concerned about that, it Just suddenly run out and you
would be standing there with no oxygen but such is not the
case. And so there is plenty of time to get your helmet
and gloves off and go back and regroup.
CC Ro ge r.
CDR I think one interesting thing is you
seem to si__ a little bit further away from the backback
in zero-g than you did before and I find that the arm - the
hand controller, the rotational and translational - is
a little bit to close for me, it never was in training or
checkout. I don't - I've trying to figure it out. I assume
it's Just the way the backpack sits in zero-g the way the
suit fits, or the way I'm floating forward in the suit or
something like that, that isn't true at - at zero - at
l-g.
CC Roger; AI.
PLT How do you read me now, Dick?
CC Loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay, when are we going to get the
tape recorder back.
CC Just be about i more minute.
CDR We're Just sitting here, disconnecting
the HHMU anyway.
CC Roger, standby a second, please.
PLT Okay, we did that last EHMU run in
ID number [, which were it needs to be and we're going to
do this umbilical rate gyro baseline maneuver in ID2.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, on the 509 stuff since
you're so alose to the end of the run, leave that carefully taking
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CC (CONT'D) a look at cabin pressure. Wwe think it will

be okay, so just go ahead and finish it as you've described and
we're about a minute and a half or two from the LOS at the
Vanguard. Wwe're going to go around one more rev and see you
again at Vanguard at 19:35.
CDR Okay, how do we look on our time line,
Dick?
CC SItan d by.
CDR Yeah, that's what I was wondering, I haven't got
a watch on but I'm suspicious we're quite a ways behind and
we'll catch up eventually during the day but I'm Just hoping
it doesn't affect this S019 pad that I have on board.
CC Okay, AI. The - on your time llne you
guys, you and Owen are scheduled to eat on the time line
at about 19:00 which is one hour from now and then the S019 follows
that at about the last half of oh 19:40 or something like,
Just looking at it re_ll quick.
CDR Okay, we'll make that, no trouble.
CC Yes, I think you will.
CDR Okay, good.
CC Skylab, Houston. The tape recorder is
yours.
PLT Okay, thank you Dick. We're ready to
go again then.
PLT Uh huh.
CDR Ready to go.
PLT Okay.
CDR Jack, can you tell any reason that I'm
sitting so far forward?
END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:06 CDT, 21/18:06 GMT
8/17173
CDR Can you move this out, Jack? Thank you. Oops.
CC Skylab, Houston; a you go over the
hill we heard the question about you sitting far forward.
It might be that the - You might make sure the back spacer
is OUt.
time 18 hours 7 minutes. Loss of signal over Vanguard.
A detailed description by Commander AI Bean of operating the
astronaut maneuvering unit and 509 experiment, along with
the handheid maneuvering unit. Today's exercise was designed
to test out the flying qualities and piloting capability
of the AMU in a simulated EVA activity within the confines
of a 22 foot long dome within the orbital workshop. One
more flight of the AMU 509 experiment is scheduled later
on in the mission and this last flight estimated to take
probably 1 hour in length. Today's activity had Commander Bean
wearing the Apollo-type pressure suit, using the llfe support
umbilical, a 60 foot length umbilical cord which has electrical
water, oxygen, medical lines and voice capability included
in the umbilical llne. Next activity for Commander Bean is
the use of the S019 hardware or the ED26 experiment. One
of the 25 student experiments assigned to the Skylab program.
Next acquisition will. be at Vanguard in 1 hour 25 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 9 minutes, this is
Skyl ab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 2:34 CDT, 21/19:34 GMT
8117173

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station is approaching
Vanguard tracking site for a pass which will last approxi-
mately I0 minutes. We' II stand by for the alr-to-ground.
for the next I0 minutes
for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CDR Hey, you've got it made. I0 minutes
every hour and a half.
CC Man, I planned it this way. One
reminder we wanted to make sure that Jack, sometime before
this - the sunset got a Nu-Z update with the star tracker in
preparation for the SOl9 run that's coming up with AI.
PLT Okay. Are you ready for TV.
CC Stand by one.
PLT You going to pick it up at the site, huh?
CC Stand by one, please. That's affirma-
tive, Jack. The Vanguard is standing by to get your TV down-
link.
PLT Okay. Here it comes.
CC And, Skylab. I had one little caution
note that EGIL wanted me to pass up to you and that is since
the cabin pressure is high we'd like to make sure that you
don't open the cabin pressure relief valves in the alrlock
module on panels 300, 313, and 391, because if you do put
them to their normal, they're presently closed, (drop out)
put them to their normal position now, they would relieve,
so we'll be watching cabin pressure for you. And then when
we ask you to, we'll ask you to change position on those
valves.
CC Skylab, Houston. awhile ago, when I
J tried to get to Jack, to - during the 509 run and didn't
get to talk to him, what I wanted to mention and now may
have to ask for some help from either AI or Owen, down in
the wardroom, but later on in a couple of hours, Jack is
going to be taking pictures of a volcano. It's down in
New Guinea, and I think it's going to be kind of hard to find and
I think we could ease up on that situation, if you all could
dig out your book that you flew up and I think it's in
the wardroom. It's called General World Maps. And right
toward the end of it, - right toward the end of it in my
book, at least, there's a picture of - that has about the
eastern half of Australia and New Guinea, and if you could
turn to that page, I could direct somebody to exactly where
this volcano is and show you where the ground track is
going to be, and it might be a little easier for Jack to
find later.
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CC Incidentally, also, there's no particularly

big rush on this, as long as we can talk about it prior to
the photography opportunity, and that occurs at 22:19 this
afternoon.
PLT Hey, Dick. I'm looking at all the
numbers that I've got fQr you on the inner and outer gimbals; I
can't find the star. You got any more good numbers.
CC Stand by one.
CC Jack, I'm advised to let you know to
Just go farther without a glmbal. We were watching and
we just don't think you went far enough with it. Should - -
PLT I went both ways. Which way do you
want me to go?
CC An outer gimbal of at least i000 arc
minutes, Jack.
PLT Okay. I went all the was from a 1000
to 1250 or so and didn't see it.
CC Okay. We still don't think that's
enough. At least a 1000 on one side and 1400 on other
(garble) to the 5th.
SPT Okay. Dick I'm looking at Australia
and New Guinea, what do you want to tell me about?
CC Okay, Owen. If you'll look up there at the
top you'll notice that the Island of New Britain is - the
coordinates we're looking for are about 148.4 degrees east, and
about 5.5 degrees south. And that is on the very western
tip of the Island of New Britain.
SPT Stand by.
CC Okay.
PLT No luck, Dick. I went between 1900
and 1600 and got nothing.
CC Understand, Jack. Stand by please. We'll
try to help you.
PLT Actually, that was 900 and 1600.
And the inner is around minus 650 or in that neighborhood,
right.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'm advised the star
may be anywhere on the outer gimbal between 200 arc minutes
and 2600 arc minutes. Over.
PLT Okay. I got one now at (garble) by 900.
CC Roger. Understand. Thank you much.
SPT You want me to hit the (garble) lock up
and close the door, right?
CC That:' s affirm.
PLT Okay. It's a minus 650 inner and plus
Z92 outer.
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8/17/73
CC Okay, check. And we've had a good Nu-Z

update and you're GO to close the door.
PLT Okay. I got to minus 6.9 on Nu-Z. You
llke that?
CC Roger. And back to Owen. Owen, the
New Guinea is the very large island Just to the north of
the eastern end of Australia and the Island of New Britain
is to the right of that, and Just under that are the words
Bismark Archipelago.
SPT I know right where it is. I'm looking
at Cape Lawster on Bismark - on New Britain right now. Is
it on the western tip of New Britian, near Cape Glouscester.
CC That's right, Owen. You see where the
word - the C in Cape Glouscester, and Just below that on the
Island of New Britain, is a mountain peak indicate - -
SPT (Garble).
CC That's right. Now that's at 600- -
SPT (garble) 600.
CC That's right. Now that's where the
volcano is, right there. And your ground track that Jack
will be going on will be Just to the south of there and
will actually Just cross over the island of New Guinea, so
you'll be fairly close to it.
SPT (garble) on the western tip of
New Britain there, is close enough and I don't think
we can miss it. Jack (garble)
CC Okay. Real fine. We're about a minute
from LOS at the Vanguard. We're going to drop out for about
4 minutes. And I'ii call you again at Ascension.
PAO The Ascension Island tracking site is
the next station to acquire Skylab-3. And that'll be in
about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the line up and stand by
for the communication _ith the crew through Ascension.
Standing by.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 2:46 CDT, 21/19.'46 GMT
8/17/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello again at Ascension,

we got you for l0 minutes.
CDR Hello, agaln.
PLT How'd the ATM guys llke the panel, Dick?
CC Roger, check. Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We're completely satisfied
with the configuration. Looks good.
PLT Thank the unanimous.
CC Roger.
CC PLT, Houston. You Just put 82 Bravo
into hold, we'd like you to go back to normal and then stop,
please.
PLT Okay, normal, stop.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Dick. The tape recorderts in the
S. I'll give you a quick debrief on the last ATM run. Every-
thing came off as advertised. Any questions?
CC (laughter) That was quick. Stand by
and I'll see. Jack, the back room says that was a very
clear debriefing. They don't have any questions.
PLT Okay, see you about an half an hour. Thanks.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre about 30 seconds
from LOS at Ascension. We're going to see you at Guam at
20:33.
PAO We've lost C-band and S-band information
from the Ascension tracking stop - tracking site indicating
that Skylab has moved out of range of Ascension. We'll
next acquire at Guam in approximately 33 minutes. At 19 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-875/I
Time: 3:32 CDT; 21/20:'32 GMT
8/17/73
PAO This is Skylah Control at 20 hours 32 minutes

Greenwich mean time, about a half a minute away from acquisi-
tion at the Guam tracking site. According to flight plan,
the crew of Skylab-III are involved in an S019 experiment
in housekeeping activities. And the pilot is scheduled to
be eating at this time. They have a medical experiment
coming up in roughly half an hour. We're about ready to
acquire. We'll stand by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS at Guam for 9
minutes and Jack, if you will let us have the DAS we're
going to command enable the momentum dump.
PLT You've got it.
CC Roger.
SPT Say, Dick, do we have anything left on the
VTR?
CC Say again, please, I didn't copy that last
question.
SPT Rog. I Just asked if we have anything left
on the VTR?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, you've got about 6-1/2 minutes on
the VTR. It is - you can use that and the tape recorder is in
the RECORD mode - RECORD cyc - we're into RECORD cycle.
SPT Okay', fine. Thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR And, Dick, we've just begun the charge on
Bat 6 and 509.
CC Thank you, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston we're through commanding,
the DAS is yours.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we're a minute from LOS.
We're going to see you at Vanguard at 21:12.
PLT Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We got two of your
tomorrow flight plans up. They're in the teleprinter.
We'll have the other one uplinked at Vanguard.
SPT Okay.
CDR That's fast. Good.
CC Sorry. Didn't copy that one.
CDR I said that's fast. Good.
CDR We're just putting the SPT in the LBNP.
CC Roger.
PAO We've lost data through the Guam tracking
site as Skylab moves over the western Pacific. A reminder,
there will be a change-of-shift briefing, 4:30 p.m. today.
That's central daylight time, in building number 1 in the
news center briefing room. That's room 135. The off-golng
flight director pa.rticipating is Phll Shaffer and he'll have
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with him, Merlin Merritt, who is the Corollary Officer.

Change-of-shift briefing 4:30 p.m. today, central daylight
time, news center briefing room, building 1 with Phil Shaffer
and Merlin Merritt. At 20 hours 43 minutes Greenwich mean
tlme, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-876/1
Time: 4:1] CDT, 21/2].:11 GMT
8/17/73

ii minutes Greenwich mean time. We've Just had a hand-
over here at the Mission Control Center. Repeating, we
have had a hand-over at the Mission Control Center, with
Don Puddy's team coming on, and the spacecraft communicator
will be Bob Crippen. We're starting revolution 1375. It's
a long pass through Vanguard, Ascension, Canary Island
tracking site and Madrid. Again, planned for this pass
is for us to go live air-to-ground - -
CC - - for the next 11 minutes.
CDR Hey, Crlp, CDR. Do you suppose you
could set up a phone call for me tonight?
CC Yes, sir. Be glad to.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. We're a little bit con-
fused about what you're doing at the panel, there right
now. We show that you did not go into building block 6.
Can you update us a little bit, please?
PLT Yeah. I'll give you the word on that,
Crlp. That's correct, I did not go into building block
six, because I would not have time to complete it. There-
fore, I went down to the last rev and picked up that shop-
ping list item which I'm doing now. And in it's place I'll
be substituting the building block 6A, that I didn't have
time to complete at this time.
CC Okay.
PLT Did you copy?
CC Yeah, Jack. We copied that, and that
sounds good. We thank you very much.
PLT Okeydokey.
PLT And for Jim Milligan, there in SO56,
there'll be about a 9-minute exposure at Sun center with
filter 3 off.
CC Okeydoke, Jack. We got that. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Ascension in about 6-1/2 min-
utes at 21:29. And, ;lack, I got a small update I want
to make to your Jop sheets, if you're still at the panel at
that pass, I'ii give them to you then. If not, I'ii get
them later.
PL T Ok ay.
PLT I'm still here.
CC I haven't got time to give it to you
now. I'ii catch you about 6 minutes from now.
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Time: 4:11 CDT, 21/21:11 GMT
8/17/73
PAO The last communication with the Skylab-3

crew was with the spacecraft communicator, who is a member
of the Crimson Team, that's on at this time. As we were
saying earlier, the game plan here is to take the llne down
at this time so that we can prepare for the change-of-shlft
briefing, which is scheduled to start at 4:00 p.m. in build-
ing i, room 135. We will tape record the pass over Ascension
and subsequent pass over Canary and Madrid. At 21 hours
24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Contol.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 4:50 CDT, 21/21:50 GMT
8/17/73
CC This is Skylab Control at 21 hours

51 minutes Greenwich mean time. During the change of shift
briefing we tape recorded the information that was sent to
the crew and to the ground through Ascension, Canaries and
the Madrid tracking station. It comes to a little over
5 minutes of air-to-ground. We'll play that information
to you now
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Ascension for about 4-1/2 minutes. And, Jack, have you
departed the ATM C&D yet?
CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment to talk
to us?
PLT Sure do, Crip.
CC Okay, Jack. To understand what you were
talking about a while ago when you said you were going to go
back and - and pick up that building block 6, were you going
to go ahead and fill it in at the last rev of the day after
0111, or when were you planning on picking it up?
PLT Yeah, that's what I planned here. The
problem was that it wasn't time left after I got done with
the presheet building block to complete the 6A. So, I didn't
want to get it started and not finish it. So, I decided
that there would be time at the end of the day in the last
rev coming up tonight if I were to pick up that shopping llst
item there. And so I did that, it worked out good, and looks like
I'm going to have plenty of time to work in 6A tonight.
CC Okay, that sounds good. The- the one
thing that we Just wanted to make sure that we weren't going
to break into our JOP 9's that we had going on. And that
sounds all squared away now. Have you - -
PLT I didn't plan to cut into anything. I
just put them head to tail fit them in wherever they will if
it's not too late to do it two revs later why, thatts what I plan
to do.
CC Your plan sounds great. We're going to
drop out here in about 45 seconds and I'ii have you again
in a couple of minutes. And copy you've already departed
the ATMC&D.
PLT Yes, sir. Is there anything I can do
for you?
CC Okeydoke, thank you.
PLT That's all set up for unattended.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more
through Canary for about 8 minutes. And, Jack, I know you're
busy shuffling food around restocking your pantry, but we
copy on S052 when you closed out that you left the mirror
position in TV. And we'd appreciate it if you get a chance
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8/17/73
that you'd switch it to camera 4 so that when we do our

unattended OPt; we won't lose a flame.
PLT Okay,, I'ii do it right now.
CC And if yout re going up to the C&D panel
I could sure appreciate it if I could get you to change
one JOP C for me.
PLT This is your friendly ATM operator.
CC Okeydokey. If you've - go ahead and put
that mirror back to the ramera, and if you could get a chance
to pull out your JOP 9 sheet for me, I've got a small fllp
I need - small change I need to make.
PLT I see it here before me.
CC Okay,, if you'd look in building block 2
in S054, it calls out first for a filter 3 and then a filter i.
We - -
PLT Sure does.
CC Okay,. we need to fllp those around. The
first one sh_uid be a fliter i and the second one should
be a filter 3.
PLT Sounds more reasonable that way too doesn't
it?
CC Yeah. All of the other building blocks
on the variou_ JOP sheets of building block 2 are correct. That
one was an error. If you could correct it on both the - the
regular Jop 9 and on the - no teleprinter Jop 9 we'd appreciate
it.
PLT I'ii do it right now. Thank you, Crip.
CC Thank you, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. See you
again at Guam at 22:10.
PLT Okay.
PAO That concludes the tape recorders information
which we accumulated while we had the change of shift briefing.
We'll reacquire Guam in about 13-1/2 minutes. And at 21 hours
56 minutes G_eenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 5:09 CDT, 21/22:09 GMT
8/17/73

9 minutes G_eenwich mean time. About a half a minute away
from acquisition at Guam. On this pass we expect the pilot
to attempt to get some photos of the active volcano Langila
on New Guinea, weather permitting, that is. We'll stand by
for the air-to-ground through the Guam tracking site.
CC Sky].ab, Houston; AOS over Guam 7 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For anybody, I've
got one message I'd llke to relayj please.
PLT Go, ahead, Crlp.
CC Okay. Due to the problem you ran into
last night, 3ack, on the ergometer, until we can investigate
the problem a little bit: further, we would llke to limit
ergometer time to 30 minutes, usage and then with a 15-minute
break, it may be used again.
PLT Okay. You say use 30 break 15, use 30
break 15. Okay. Understand.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Thank you, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.
Honeysuckle at 22:24, about 8 minutes from now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Welre going LOS.
We'll see you at Honeysuckle at 22:24.
PAO We've lost data from the Guam tracking
site, indicating that the spacecraft has moved out of range.
The Honeysuckle pass co-llng up in about 4 minutes is a low
elevation pass, indicating that spacecraft will be Just skipping
across the edge - the outer edge of the station. We'll
keep the llne up, but we expect to reacqulre some kind of
data in a matter of 4 minutes through Honeysuckle. So we'll
stand by.
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8/17/73
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honeysuckle

2-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Crip. I just took some volcano
pictures. I located the area; however, the western tip
of that island was mostly covered with clouds. Part of the
island was clear however, such that I could determine that
I had found the right place. I took a couple of Hasselblads
and a couple of 300s anyway with the thought that perhaps
some of the clouds were due to the volcano. I could not
see any discoloration in the water, primarily because of the
clouds and probably because - perhaps because it wasn't
there, anyway. But, located the area, although the volcano
may have been covered.
CC Okay, Jack. That was good spotting it
anyhow, with all the cloud cover there.
SPT Well, it showed up right on time, right
in the right window, too. So you gave me some good figures
for that.
CC Okay. Those EREP people are plotting
you right. We're about 1 minute from LOS, now. We'll
see you over the Vanguard at 22:51. And, that's about
PAO We've had loss of signal through
Honeysuckle. We'll reacquire again in about 22-1/2 minutes,
through the Vanguard tracking station. At 22 hours 28 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC880/I
Time: 5:50 CDT, 21/22:50 GMT
8/17/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 22 hours 50 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab III is nearing the Vanguard
tracking station. We'll have communication through Vanguard
for about 4-1/2 minutes. We'll stand by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard
for 6 minutes.
CDR Say, Crip, I was looking over this
procedure that was sent up by the teleprinter a few moments
ago about this service module RCS quad A.
CC Roger.
CDR Want to do that now, or when?
CC Stand by one moment.
CC Okay, AI. Our only constraint is that
we'd llke to have site coverage on it. We've got a Canary/
Madrid pass coming up here in about 15 minutes. If itts
satisfactory we'd be glad to do it then, otherwise we can
put it off. We've got another one around 01:00.
CDR Let's do it in 15 minutes. I got it in
my hands and I'll
Just wander on up there in a few minutes.
CC Okay, sounds good.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 30
seconds. We'll see you again over Canary at 23:10. And
AI, we'll be standing by to do that command module switch
there.
CDR Okay, and they're looking for feelings
about how long some of these housekeeping items take. I
notice they had down housekeeping 3D which is vacuum cleaner
bag replacing is 20 minutes. I'd say that's about 5 to i0
minutes.
CC Copy.
PAO SpacE: station has moved out of range
at Vanguard. Next acquisition at - is at the Canary Island
tracking site in about ii minutes. At 22 hours 58 minutes
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SL-III MC-881/I
Time: 6:09 CDT, 21/23:09 GMT
8/17/73
PAO This _s Skylab Control at 23 hours

9 minutes Greenwich mean time, about a half a minute away
from acquisition at the Canary Island tracking site. We'll
stand by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary for 14 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip. I'm over in the command
module.
CC Okay, A1. And we're ready and you can
press on.
CDR Okay. I'll call them out as I do them.
It'll make them simpler.
CC Forget it.
CDR Okay. RCS indicator service module A.
That's where it is. RCS indicator switch tank pressure
quantity. That's where it is. Verify service module RCS
PSM for propellant A open, talkback grey. That's a fact.
And I just cycled it again, open. Service module RCS PSM
propellant C closed; talkback barber pole. Okay. I'ii do
that. It's presently open. Okay. And C is now closed, talk-
back barber pole. Service module RCS quad propellant A, open;
talkback to grey. Okay. I'm coming over to quad pro-
pellant, it is barber pole, now. So I'm going to open it.
Two of them go grey. Next: Service module PSM i manifold
isolation open; talkback grey. Says, monitor quad A fuel
tank press, decrease to 176. What we've got now, by the
way, is about 198. So, I'ii let it go to 176 and then it
says PSM i manifold isolation closed. So, I'Ii open it and
close it at 176, or thereabouts.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR What do you think?
CC Precede on.
CDR In other words, you want me to leave
it right here in 180?
CC That looks like it's stabilized there.
CDR Okay. All right now. So we've only - didn't
decrease it to 176, gone to 180. I just closed the mani-
fold isolation, and 1'11 precede from there.
CC Okay.
CDR Next, is service module RCS quad pro-
pellant closed, talkback, barber pole. Just a moment.
Okay. Closed and 2 barber poles. Wait 30 seconds. Okay?
CC Okay, AI. You don't have to wait any-
more. You can press on.
CDR Okay. It says service module RCS
propellant C open. That's CSM propellant, okay? Okay.
C's open. Talkback is gray. RCS indicator switch mani-
fold pressure and RCS indicator select SMD. It is.
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Now, let me tell you where the - all the switches are, so
we'll know. PSM i Helium and manifold isolation are barber
pole. Quad helium, all of them are barber pole; Quad
primary propellants are all barber pole; Quad secondary
propellants are all barber pole, but I suspicion that they
are open. Because, for example there, I didn't close that
one. Okay. Let's go over to the PSM propellant. A's gray,
B's barber pole, C's grey, D's barber pole. The (garble)
command module RCS propellant are both grey. And that's
where they all sit right now.
CC Okay, AI. That switch set and talkback
concurs with the way it should be.
CDR Okay. I'ii shut down the comm here, Crip.
Thanks.
CC AI, could I - One more item, I guess,
before you rush off. It seems that a phone call tonight is
going to interfer with a little shopping trip, I guess, get-
ting ready fcr the trip. I wonder if you'd mind putting it
off until tomorrow night..
CDR Not a bit. That's a good idea.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Thank you.
LOS. We' ii se:e you again over Honeysuckle at 23:58, 23:58.
CDR 35 minutes.
CC That"s affirm.
PAO We'w •
. lost signal through the Madrid
tracking star, ion. Next acquisition is Honeysuckle in
33 minutes. At 23 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-862/I
Time: 6:56 CDT; 21/23:56 GMT
8/17/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 56 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Approaching the Honeysuckle tracking
site where we will have, acquisition in about 30 seconds
for about 8 minutes. Standing by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Honeysuckle 8 minutes.
CC And Owen, if you'll stay off the DAS for
us, we're going to inhibit the momentum dump for this -
coming S019. Also we are going to update TACS thrust to
39 pounds at pulse width to i00 milliseconds.
SPT Roger, Bob. I'ii stay off the DAS and the
backroom might be interested to look at the contrast on
detector three between inside and the coronal hole and
outside - beyond the boundary. I'm - just - done the
one reading inside the auto scan inside the coronal hole
and I'm about to move on the outside right now, but pretty
good contrast.
CC Roger.
CC And Owen, correction on my last statement
about SO19. That was incorrect, we're doing it for JOP 7
I understand - with dump inhibit.
SPT Roger. Are you going to take care of the
inhibit?
CC That's affirm.
CC Owen, no need to acknowledge. Today you
had a question about whether you were on the correct network
throughout the three cycles. They made a thorough evaluation
of all the data regarding that work study and it reveals -
the only thing we could look at was the - was the third
cycle. And we verified that you had correctly - corrected
properly for the solar rotation and we're confident that
you had the same cell for all three cycles. I guess the
lltt]e question that we had earlier was the fact that you
were so far ahead of us that we didn't really catch on to
where you were. But you were right on.
SPT Okay, fine. Thanks Bob, and I did put
some more information about that on channel A which I
expect will get dumped and transcript over to y'all some-
time about it also. But I was reasonably confident also
because that the numbers checked out so well. And Just
for information on this - coronal hole search that I'm
doing right now. It is possible to do it as I've been
doing it and the magnesium tint is a very good llne for
that. At the present coordlnance, 591, the magnesium
(garble) level was about 40 counts. Only 50-arc seconds
away, but up plus 641. The magnesium kit count dropped
to about four to five counts, a factor of i0 there,
and I've been using a precipitate image scope along with
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the magnesium in detect:or three sensor and put together

I think you can do a pretty good Job of pointing in and
out of the coronal hole. Jack had a real good idea on
aligning the electronlc crosshalrs with the crosshalrs of the
XUV monitor. And we have the electronic crosshalrs on
monitor two approximately aligned with the (garble) of
the XUV mon right now. And I think that'll be a considerable
assist to us and such things as pointing inside the coronal
hole but even better doing such things as pointing at a
bright spot in the coronal hole. And we've got it aligned
- it was Jack's idea yesterday and it's working out real
nicely.
CC Okay, we copied that, Owen. And we'll
pass it on to Ed, also. And the DAS is yours once
more.
CC And by the way, we are anticipating Ed would

be over here a little bit later to talk to you
tonight.
SPT Okay, fine. Thanks Bob.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Bermuda in 36 minutes at 00:41.
SPT Roger.
PAO Next station contact Bermuda in 34 minutes.
At 6 minutes Greenwich mean time in day of the year 230,
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SL-III MC883/I
Time: 7:40 CDT, 22/00:40 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 40 minutes

29 seconds Greenwich mean time. Thlrty-seven seconds away
from acquisition through Bermuda on this the 1377th revolution
of the space station. Standing by for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Bermuda
for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, there, Crip.
CC Howdy, howdy. I've got a little sack of
questions for you guys. If any - if you're handy I could
go ahead and start into them now, if not we can hold them
up until later.
PLT You got any for me?
CC Stand by, Jack.
PLT Just putting away a hamburger and milk
shake.
CC Roger, bet you wish you had one.
CC Yeah, I got one. When you examined the
tape recorders, you talked about some residue. Can you tell
us if it was a solid kind of residue and what color was it?
PLT Yeah, it was a solid residue. It was
sort of a very pale yellow, and you Just scrape it off with
a screwdriver.
CC Okay, do you associate it with the - the
belt?
PLT Well, I don't know, Crip. The belt
looks llke they're kind of a hard clear plastic type of thing
and I'm not sure that would come off the belt. Looks like
it must have come from somewhere else. The belts didn't
appear to have stuff scraped off of them.
CC Okay, copy that.
CDR Got anymore questions?
CC Jack, let me clarify that on those belts.
Those belts were supposed to be sort of amber looking. Did
you say they're clear?
PLT Yeah, they're amber but they're translucent
is what I mean. You can see through them.
CC Roger.
CDR Crip, it didn't look like stuff from
the belt, it looked waxy or not oily but something that you
could - it was of an oil base; or dirt. It didn't have -
you know, those belts are clear plastic, it'd be llke rubbing
plexlglass and expecting to get oil stains or something. It
Just didn't look like it came from the belts. The belts
looked pretty good.
CC Okay, copy that.
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CC And, AI, I got a few for you if you

got some time.
CDR Sure do.
CC Back on 509 today you mentioned that you
felt you were located very far forward in the unit and -
could you verify for us that the arms were fully extended and
the backspacer was removed?
CDR I can verify half of it. The warm arms
were fully extended. The backspacer was not removed when
Truly mentioned it. Truly mentioned it we said that's it
and so we removed it's foot for a few seconds and found that
everything said okay and it flew exactly the same.
CC Okay, I guess that last bit of information
got dropped out someplace. And I believe that Jack mentioned
about the problems with the dome camera that prompted you
to ask about the pointing. We were a little bit confused
as to why you asked about it. And there seems to be - I
think you're aware that this big decal up there by the hand
rail is wrong and the correct ones are in your checklist.
Can you ex - tell us a little more about that?
CDR The answer to that one is, we've been
using the ones in our checklist and it just doesn't come
out to point in the right direction. We suspect that either
the trainers different, but that is not a good suspicion,
or something's different. And we've just been pointing it
in the right direction which doesn't use the same angle. I'm
sure we're getting the film in the right point, but we just -
but the angles don't match.
CC Okay, copy that. And the other day on
your unsuited runs, run number 2 rather, you made four HHMU
baseline runs. You made a nominal, a grab on, a push
and go, but on the fourth one Jack told us that you stopped
halfway through but you gave no description of the operating
techniques. Could you elaborate on them a little bit for
us?
CDR Okay, now, I'm having a tough time
remembering. One of the runs I tried to do and I think that
was thls one. I tried to see if I could Just push off in
a certain direction and make midcourses and Jet to the right
place. And that was one of the things that we thought might
be useful with the HHMU because it's so hard to fly
otherwise. And it didn't work out too well. If you get
very much of a push off you can't overpower with that HHM_,
it Just doesn't have the zing. And I think that's what
occurred. We did - I did 2 or 3 of those and decided that
it just wasn't a - a useful way. It Just wasn't - didn't
work out like we thought.
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CC Okay, we copied that.

CDR You might tell Ed and Lou that, although
I don't remember specificly if that - you know, that many
runs back. When we get home and look at the movies I don't
think we' II have any trouble figuring it out.
SPT Bob, I have a comment if you' re through
with that.
CC Okays. go ahead, Owen.
SPT I wanted to let the ATM room know that
I elected not to attempt Jop 7 there at the end of that orbit
because I was uncertain :about the timing switch. Is that
SRSS switch supposed to be lef_ in CMD by the for the times
on the pad or placed down to Sun.
CC Owen, we don't want to place that switch
down to Sun when we're operating on one gyro in the Y-axis.
That's in the funny book.
SPT Okay, I was not aware of that, although
I didn't see how to flex the computer out. And in as much
as this should remain in CMD, it's not clear to me how this -
the times on the pad are going to get 82B down to the
(garble) region. I guess I should've started it in 6 minutes
and stopped it at 20 seconds. Is that the way I should have
interpreted the ATM activity pad?
CC Owen, I'm not sure we're going to be able
to get a quick answer for you. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS right now and we' ii have you again over for Canary-Madrld
pass at 00:51.
SPT Okay, fine, that's good. I just didn't
want to attempt that and potentially weight the 82B film.
So, let's try to reschedule it the next day or so.
CC Okay, we'll make sure that we got it
clear as to how we're supposed to operate it.
SPT Roger, thank you.
CC And, we're going to- - And, Owen, we'll
put Ed on for this next pass in about a couple of minutes
from now.
SPT Fine, thank you.
CC You can have the JOP summarizes sheets out
if you like.
SPT Okay.
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8/17/73
PAO The Ed referred to in the last conversa-

tion is Edward Gibson, who is the prime pilot on the next
mission. Spacecraft communicator is Crippen, Robert Crippen.
We' ii keep the line up for - keep the llne up for the pass
through the Canaries.
SPT Hello, there, EGG.
CC Hello, Owen, and troops. We've got
some good word on ATM. You got the JOP su*,_,ary sheet they're
on?
SPT Yes I do. Go ahead.
CC Okay. One general comment, is that
we'd llke you to continue to use the shopping llst as you
have in the past. It worked out real well. AI, you made
a comment about at some points wanting a detailed description
of the operation. For this, you can go ahead and use the
JOP summary sheet and the steps from the teleprinter fall
case. And just use the steps of your choice, but omit
52 and 54, until after the EVA and only use 82A for very
special events. In other words, you've got those JOP
summary sheets available to you, teleprinter fail, as a
shopping list, just leaving out those three experiments.
CDR Okay. Understand.
CC Okay, and one general question. How
about your schedule versus free time in the nominal ATM
passes. Would you like more scheduled or more free time?
SPT I personally think that it's working
out just about right. Most of the blocks are pretty
full. But, then occassionally there's a little 5-mlnute
interval or so that shows up allowing you to squeeze in a
shopping list item that you may have been wanting to do. So
personally, I wouldn't like to see much change. I don't know
how A1 and Jack feel about it.
CDR I think it's Just perfect right now.
CC Okay. Real good. In you' re prep for
unattended, you've received a note about pointing so that
the 52 cross hairs are ,-.entered. The two other ways, of
course, you _:an do this, are with the bias out, Just
go up 25 and right 25. That'll get you to the right point.
Or you can fly to the values that you've previously established
with the biases in.
SPT Is that all? I think you just hit a
keyhole, then.
CC Okay.
SPT Hello, Ed.
SPT Okay, Owen the (garble) --
SPT Hello, Ed. I think you Just hit a
keyhole. We missed your last.
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CC Rog. We'll pick it up again. The

comet was on a 52 pointing for unattended, where at the
end of the orbit you extended the crosshairs. Alternate
ways of doin_ that, if you don't want to open up the 52 door,
if you just go up 25, and right 25 with the bias out, or
just fly to the values you've already found with the biases
in.
SPT Okay. That's a good polnt. We' ii
make a note cf it and (garble) around here on our sheet somewhere.
CC JOP 15, and the location of coronal hole
boundaries. The 55 intensity data has worked out real well,
and we'd like you to continue to use what you've established
before and explore new ways of pointing. The coronal hold
boundaries show up exceptionally well in magnesium tin
that you can get on detector 3 at a grading of 1941 or
detector i at 3366
SPT Now, we just did that about 20 minutes
ago , Ed.
CC Very good. It gives a real sharp
contrast. One reason
SPT Were you (Garble) hear any of the comments
about that?
CC I (lid not hear them, no, Owen.
SPT I see. Well, I could describe them just
in a couple of seconds, but we used - First of all I took
an XUV MON t_me exposure at the beginning of the orbit. So
I had a general idea of what it looked like. Then I used the
set the (garble) scope on the XUV MON, while I was actually
hunting areund through the hole. And that put magnesium dead on
the 55-detector enabling you to fly the boundary remarkably
well. I wa_ surprised. _ And also, surprised at how sharp
the boundary was in magnesium i0, just as you said. So
I think we did what was required on the last orbit, just
what we're _:alking about here, with relatively little
di f fi cul ty
CC Hey, that's real good to hear. One
reason they' d like to study the coronal hold is that it
turns out that the chromospheric network appears depressed
in a holes in both helium 1 and helium 2, that's in the
high chromosphere and transition regions. And this is not
easily explained and they'd like to explore it quite a bit
further.
SPT You mean across the boundary, or within
the hole?
CC Within the hole. The whole chromospheric
network as seen in helium 1 and helium 2 is depressed.
SPT No. It's easy enough to get into the
middle of the hole, because they're so large you can hardly miss.
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CC Very good. In JOP 4-A, prominences

where you're trying to peak up the detector to find the
various points in the prominences, apparently you've had
some difficulty in that, using dectector 3 at the grating of
zero. What you're looking at there is oxygen 6. The
problem is that oxygen 6 has a lot of limb-breaking, but
it's not very bright in emission as seen with the prominence.
We suggest yc.u try to use limon-beta It does have very strong
limb breaking_ but it also has strong emission in the prominence.
So, you ought to be able to pick out the brighter points.
You can do that by going to detector 3 in the grating posi-
tion of 28.
SPT Okay. That's a good point. You probably
ought to put that on a pad, so that we can list it up here
on the board someplace. Either that or change the JOP
summary sheet. Because the JOP summary sheet is written in such
a way to make a person think that there might be a
peak, whereas in reality the radial gradlant is so large
that it really (garble) ,out any little peak in brightness that
the prominence may provide, such as you were describing with
the limb brightening. And so, if you really wanted to try
limon-beta as a routine, instead of oxygen 6, might put it
on the teleprinter pad.
CC Okay. We can put it on a pad. We'd
like you to give it a try and see how well it works. If it
doesn't work out, no need to change the JOP su,_._.arysheets.
We'll just go right back to using H-alpha.
SPT Okay. That's a real good idea. Much
rather try it a time or two first. And so I'ii try llmon-
beta at grating 28.
CC JOP 17. You had some questions on
bright point location. And so far you've gotten some real
good information for us. You've already partially answered
this. But in terms of bright points, can you use the XUV MON
with the camera and the scope?
SPT Well, I think we could use it to get to
the general vicinity. And that's the way I did do it on
the one bright spot, two perhaps that we looked at the
other day. I think it was yesterday. And get within, say,
i0 or 20 arc seconds of it like that. And then the thing
that I did was to use detector 3 and Just step manually -
Well first of all I hunted around, up, down, left, right,
until I thought I had it peaked. And then after that, I
left it at that spot and searched manually by moving that
55 mirror, left/rlght, up/down, one step at a time, until I
managed to get the peak of it. And, so if you get within
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20 or 3 - I'd say 20 arc seconds, from the XUV MON, which

I think you can, then you can fine tune it
by manually stepping the 55 mirror.
CC Okay. Very good. Understand. Some
information about the bright points. Some of them they've
seen down here are double peaks, that is they might be one,
to two, three, four, maybe five arc second separations between
the peaks. Some develop very rapidly, they've become extremely
bright rapidly. We hate to use the word flare, but they
have those characteristics. They occur all over the disk even
at very high lattitudes. You're going to find exceptionally
good contrast for observation in coronal hole.
SPT As a matter of fact, Ed, I did notice
that double peak yesterday, when I was searching. I noticed
it go up, down, and then go up again. So there certainly was
a double peak near the one I was looking for. Now, we had
a couple of good bright points near the polar regions
yesterday. I noticed you pad said within 5/10 solar
radii, and [ assumed tlhat was because you didn't want too much
altitude difference between magnesium tin and the chromospheric
llne. Was there some other reason for wanting the bright
point within half a radius?
CC Roger. That's the reason, Owen.
You might want to also get the grating auto scan at both of
those peaks when you're doing a shopping llst.
SPT Okay.
CC Continue to use both the oxygen 6 and
the magnesium i0 in looking for bright points.
SPT Okay.
CC General impression from looking at the
grading auto scans or mirror auto scans, you find a bright
in the corona you usually find a bright below, but is not
necessarily true when reversed. That is when you're looking
at a low line, that is not necessarily true of both. So
just continue to explore, keep your eyes open and don't
hold me on in just one particular way.
SPT Okay. Sounds fine. And we're anxious to
try a little of the newer exploratory techniques llke this
bright spot and corona low, and boundaries and so on. So
when you can work them into schedule, we'd like to see them.
CC Okay. We've got about a minute and a
half here. And I'ii try to give you one last item here.
On JOP 13, which we've changed, some clarifying comments
for 56. We're using filters 3, 4, and 5. That's in the
order of increasing hardness of the X-rays, which are allowed
to pass. And they're also in the order of decreasing priori-
ties. In other words, I'd like you to use filter 3, 4, and 5
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with that priority. Obtain exposures greater than 5 minutes

possibly longer--
SPT Hey, Ed.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Did you say JOP 13, or did you mean
item 13 on this shopping list?
CC I :meant item 13 on the shopping llst.
SPT Okay. Understand. Now I've got it.
CC Very good. Looking for- What they're
trying to do is to look for nonthermal processes on the
quiet Sun, so you have to look for what might be relatively hard
X-ray. Another thing, when you're out close to the limb
they'd llke you to try to use 2 filters, that is get 2 expo-
sures, preferrably 3, if you can. This will give them a
temperature ratio or ratio of the mission. They can get
temperatures and them correlate this with the 52 data for
(garble) .
SPT Say, Ed. That relates particularly to
SO56 that you're talking about on item 13. Would you mind
putting that on a teleprinter pad, because l'd llke to have
an estimate of the time in each of those three filters that
are most desirable. And I'd appreciate those comments on
the teleprinter, so I wouldn't forget it.
CC We'll get those to you, Owen. We're
going LOS. Have you again at Carnarvon at 01:26, and we'll
be standing by for the evening status report. The DAS
belongs to Fou guys again.
SPT Okay. And thanks a lot, Bob and Ed.
I appreciate all the information.
PAO That clear and concise explanation of
joint observation programs of the Apollo telescope mount
experiments, was conducted between Owen Garriott, the science
pilot of Skylab-3, and Edward Gibson - Astronaut Edward
Gibson, the science pilot of Skylab-4. Next acquisition is
in about 23 minutes over the Carnarvon tracking site at which
time we'll have the evening status report. At I hour 3 minutes
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PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour 25 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Carnarvon where we will
have the Evening Status Report. And we'll stand by for
a half minut_e or so when we expect to get air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS through Carnarvon
for about 16 minutes. And AI, we're standing by for the
Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay, Crlp. Any tlme.
CDR Okay, (garble) start right at the top.
142, 210, 145; 5143; 8517; 5802; 6.259, 6.256, 6.257; 5.970,
5.970, 5.971; 6.945, 6.'950, 6.950; 2/35/4300, 3/15/mark i;
50A, 20B, 20C, 20D; mark 2, i0, 20A, 10B, 10C, 10F; SPT
now, 2/30/4300, mark I; 60A's, 40B's 40D's; PLT, 2/30/6060,
1/05/054; PLT, 3/20/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, 20 backbends.
No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2 G, 6-1/2 G, 6-1/2 G. Food
log follows CDR, 15 salt packs, no deviations; SPT, add
peanuts, jam, and cherry drink; PLT, add two cherry drinks
and one butter cookie. Here comes the photo log.
CC One more time.
CDR Okay. What did you say, Crip?
CC I was Just going to try the photo log once
more.
CDR We're going to make it tonight. I made
it out myself. Let's see if it works. Cam 509: C149, 40;
C147; Cam 509: MI51; C146, 75; C141. Now, we've got three
things missing from the 16-milllmeter.
SPT Uh oh.
CDR We' ve got the two 487's which we haven't
taken yet because we haven't dumped the trash, so one of
them will be taken later. We did not have three people
at a meal, so we decided to wait until tomorrow and take
the other 487. We have not transferred the food and plan
to do that tomorrow because we still have food in our
drawers and if we tried to transfer food when there's still
some in there we find that we don't have enough space.
Jack in particularly, fills up his shelf there. So we'll
get those three tomorrow, even though they're not assigned
we'll get them tomorrow. Okay, 35-millimeter: CII01, 16;
BBI3, 14; CXI2, 14; CX25, 08; no EREP; drawer A: 07, C140,
20; CI09, 05: C146, 75; C141, 06; C149, 40; C147, 03; C148,
12; C143; and our spare magazine I'm Just going to quit
reporting it until we use some of it and then I'ii let you
know because it's at the back of the drawer and it's always
there. Okay, let's go on to the next. Flight Plan devia-
tions, it looks good tomorrow. We plan to take some showers
tomorrow, although we think we're getting awfully clean
here using washrags and soap and then washing off. The
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hand squeezer - or the washrag squeezer works pretty well

in there. It'd be nice if it were a little hit bigger
where you could put towels in there but it's not, and -
but it's still acceptable. So, we'll be working tomorrow.
We' ii try and catch all the ATM passes. And it - we're
going to get housekeeping done in advance and we'll
also see what else comes off. We may give you a call for
some SO19 or something, we don't know. Okay. Shopping
list: accomplished. We accomplished all of our shopping
list today except that moving food and I told you why and
we'll - I'1] tell you what and it'll probably Just save
you time if you don't even bother putting that down. And
we'll see when we get down to zero food, and we'll move
it and tell you about it.
CC Sounds good.
CDR Okay. Inoperable equipment: now comm
box 540 - it s the one by the minus-Z SAL, the toggle switch
- it goes either INTERCOMM or TRANSMIT, the one I'm holding
now, right now it's sitting on a different panel and chip -
broken. It doesn't appear to have any con - spring force
in either direction and it's hot mike anytime you have it
on COMM CHANNEL SELECTED. So we suspect we'll probably
want to change that coma box tomorrow with a spare but
we' ii wait to hear from you. Unscheduled stowage item
location changes: 6 peanuts for overage, which is 548 to
700; and that's for Owen; 12 butter cookies from F550 to
waste management, and that's for Owen also; and two broken
AM tape recorders, we put in D422. You know one of them
we had standing around and one we got out of the plenum
bag. So, everything's looking cozy up here and we're looking
forward to a day off tomorrow and getting a lot of things
done and get ready for next week.
CC Okay, AI. We got all that and I copied
from one of your comments there that that washcloth squeezer
is working okay and not leaking on you anymore.
CDR Well, it- once I learned to put things
in there right, it started doing better. But it's still
not perfect. I was debating last night on whether or not
to change, but I've decided not to ehan@e and Just go a
few more days. If it squirts out too much more, I'Ii change
that - teflon washer, is what it looks llke. It doesn't
look like a big job, I was Just trying to see if we could
make it work without it:. What are we over right now, Crlp?
We don't have our chart out?
CC Ri?ht over Australia.
CDR Well, we're over a different part then
we recall, it looks populated in most - we've been
over the bad lands and the waste lands - I guess if - of
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Australia when we were looking out. We see cultivated

fields down there in the city. I'ii be darned. Different.
CC Yeah, you should be pretty close to Perth
right now. You' re right over the - the western edge of the -
island - or the continent rather.
CDR Yeah, we must not have looked out during
those other periods because we - I asked Owen Just where
we were and he looked out and he didn't know either.
CC Okay. Hey, Ed didn't get quite few - few,
through awhile ago. And if Owen's still standing around
I'Ii give the mike back: to him. Good idea. Tell Ed I'm
going to give him an autographed Sun picture when I get
home.
CC Okay.
CDR To point out some of the features he may
be looking for when he comes up.
GIBSON I'm really waiting, AI. Owen, have you
got the shopping list up?
SPT No,. as a matter of fact, I have the Hassel-
blad camera in my hands right now.
GIBSON Okay, we can either try to get it now.
We've got about 7 minutes left, or would you prefer to
try to do it a little bit later?
SPT Okay, I've - I can go to the ATM and I'm
all set. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, on shopping list items 15: this is
primarily for 82B, where you primarily use it to study
bright - dark bands close to, rather than coronal holes.
If you take a look at your XUV monitor pictures and you
look at the south pole, you'll find that you've got, first
of all, a polar-coronal hole, then yon get a bright band,
and then another dark band - this is all running east-west.
This dark band could be a filament channel and then -
and then another brigh|- band. This has shown up consistently
close to the south pole. We'd like you to try to explore
this using shopping list item 15. You can try to do the
pointing as you point it
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MCC .... band. This has shown up consistently

close to the South Pole. We'd like you to try to explore
this using shopping list item 15. You can try to do the
pointing as you point it out from the pictures. And then
also, use magnesium I0 to get yourself fine tuned.
SPT Okay, now, you're looking at a recent
XUV MON picture. Is that right?
MCC That's the one we're looking at today.
That's affirm.
SPT Okay, let me take 30 seconds and I want
to go up and grab the picture upstairs. Just a minute.
MCC Hey, here's a general comment. We been
following how you folks have been working the ATM in general
and I think you made a beck of a lot of progress from what
we've started out with - in our knowledge of how to operate
this machinery. And we're getting some real good data and
you're teaching us al'L how to use it for a tremendous Job.
CDR Thank you, Ed. Owen really does a lot
of - spending a lot of time up there and he's also doing
a lot of thinking about it even down here when we're eating
and doing something else he'll come up with a good idea.
Although he's not the only one, Jack came up with that idea
the other day about using those reticals with the XUV MON,
and that's helped quir.e a bit. I don't know why nobody
thought of it before but we had - I think Owen's up there
now and ready to check with you somemore.
SPT Now, Ed, you were just talking about the
coronal hole that lies Just north of that first bright band
near the South Pole. It's over around the latitude of
70 degrees and running between the east limb and the central
meridian.
MCC Yeah. Now, if you want to look at it
in general you could say that coronal hole has got a
bright ridge on either side of it and then there's a coronal
hole at the very self. So if you looked at it over a
number of days you could picture that they'd average out to
be a band_ A bright band, dark band, bright, and dark.
An d - -
SPT That' s right.
MCC Okay, they'd like you to explore this
further using shopping list item 15. Use magnesium i0
to tweak it up. I'ii let you think on that one a little
bit. And if you have anymore comments or questions why
don't you put them back down and I'ii give you a couple of
more comments here.
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SPT Okay, you did have a keyhole there

and you did say shopping list 15, didn't you?
CC That's right. Okay, do you have any
questions or_ that particular item which we just talked about?
SPT No, I don't think so. I think it looks like
82B is interested in getting average - an average exposure
over both it;side and outside the coronal (garble) and we can
do that.
MCC Okay, very good. Shopping llst item
16, the following one; they'd like you to use disks to look for
the rotational of velocities in the corona. In other words, you
go to a roll of zero, go 8 arc seconds above the limb and then
take an expcsure on the east limb and then on the west limb.
And by comparising - comparing the Doppler shift they can
get a feel ior what the rotational velocities are at that
altitude. And we' re looking for 8 - -
SPT Okay.
MCC We're looking for 8 arc seconds above
the limb and they recommend exposures of 10, 40, 160, and
640. That is, you start with 10, multiply it by 4, get up
to 40 then 160 and 640.
SPT Okay, I'd like that up on a pad if I
could, please Ed.
MCC Okay. And also on shopping list item 16,
sure they'd like you tc study the limb above the band by
the south pole. And here you go again, 8 arc seconds above
the limb, right above the south pole. Above the coronal
hole's bright band, above the filiment channel, and then above
the second bright band. And your exposures would be about the
same as - as the above one. We can send those up to you
also on a pad if you like.
SPT Yes, I would appreciate it because
I can't remember all the numbers and I don't have them- have
them all on paper yet.
MCC Okay, and one note of clarification.
When we talked about 56 we'll also send you up some of that
information on a pad. But, the exposure times they were
talking about were greater than 5 minutes. It turns out in
one of their - most - some of their modes where you go long
exposure you do get approximately 5 minutes. They'd like
to get 5 minutes preferably quite a bit longer than that,
5-10 minutes in a single frame. And they'd like you to do
that if you can as many days as possible. They think that' Ii
give us some pretty good data.
SPT Okay, we can - we've given them a couple
10-15 minute exposures, so we' ii get some more if time permits.
F
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MCC Okay, Owen, that's all I got for now.

Do you have any other comments.
SPT One other thing I told. I think it might
have been on channel A, a comment that I didn't think there
was much difference as near as I could tell between the
H-alpha view at sunrise and sunset as in response to
your question the last time we talked. Now, having had a
close look at the network configuration this morning and
having had some difficulty finding the same networks at
sunset as at sunrise. It leads to the possibility again that
there really may be a little difference. And I think
probably you can tell 1__hat better on the ground by looking
at some of the H-alpha 1 photographs that were returned on
SL-II and see if you can tell any difference there on the
exposures early and late from the same camera and everything.
MCC Okay, Owen, we'll do that.
SPT No, I think that takes care of it for
this evening, Ed. And appreciate collecting all this information
and having a chance to talk to you about it.
MCC Very good, Owen. You folks are doing
a great Job and press on.
SPT Well, we're trying to get things com-
fortable for you up here Ed. And leave things in good working
shape for you to continue and expand on it in a couple of
months.
CC My only comment is don't wear out the Sun.
SPT It ls just warming up.
CC I don't think you' re going to wear it
out, Owen. We're about i minute from LOS. Next pass is at
Mila at 02:13 and that's going to be your reed confernece.
Owen, I got one question but I don't think I've got a chance
to get it in. If following the reed conference we got some
time I got a few other evening questions I'd llke to get
in for you
SPT Okay, I'm still working on that filet,
so I'ii be down there at the table.
CC Okeydoke. Sorry we interrupted it.
CC And, Skylab. The VTR is not available
for your use. We have it rewound now for dump.
SPT Okay, I never did get that stuff on there
I wanted, but I'll try tomorrow.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR I was Just going to ask you, Crip, we're
going to have a completely empty one, I understand tomorrow
morning . Can we put anything we want on it?
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CC That's the intent. Yes, sir.

PAO Skylab III has Bone over the hill, so
to speak, out of range at the Honeysuckle station. Next
acquisition is about a half an hour from now at Texas at
which time we expect we'll have the medical conference; the
daily medical conference. So, at 1 hour 43 minutes Greenwich
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SL-III MC-887/I
Time: 9:12 CDT, 22/02:12 GMT
8/17/73

12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station Is about
30 seconds away from acquisition at Texas on a pass that' ii
take it up across the continent of the U.S. through Texas,
Mila, and then on over Bermuda, Madrid and out of range.
At this particular time, we're expecting that the crew will
have its daily medical conference, however, we will stand
by for subsequent alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you for
about 4-1/2 minutes. And I've got a few more evening
questions I'd like to run by you, if possible.
CDR Okay. (Garble) Story Musgrave (garble)
on the bicycle, it looks great.
SPT Can you read that, Robert?
CC Understood, you used Story's advice on
the blcyle.
SPT No. AI is on the bicycle right now.
And he just said that he was _slng Story's (garble), the
one that he contributed to the design. And it's working
fine. There was some q uestlon on SL-2 about it being
satisfactory, and A1 was just reporting it's working great.
CC Oh, okay.
SPT Now were the questions for AI or for
the other two of us?
CC Oh, I think, they've got one or two
for AI, here. But they sort of go across the board.
SPT Okay. He's on the bicycle but go ahead.
CC Okay. On the CBRM select switch, we'd
llke to tell you that you are free to use that from now on.
I don't guess - well, I think we made that clear. And we
can' t find any reason for continuing to restrict your use
after the test we ran the other day. So, you've got that
one again, and we're going to change that general message
that restricts its use.
SPT Okay. Do you have any idea, why on
that one occasion, a couple of weeks ago it dld kick the
regulator off when I rotated it?
CC Unfortunately, no.
SPT Okay. I think we ought to keep our
eyes open then, to make: sure it doesn't happen again.
CC That' s affirmative. Okay. Unfortunately
on the evening report on the phot - I guess we have one
more problem. We'd llke to know on 509, dld you use both
DACs today. The evening report indicated only the dome
camera was used. The camera location at FI0 used only
20 percent, and that was for Mlbl. You should have used
approximately 83 percent more for $509, that location at FI0.
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CDR Okay. We used them both, let me check.

CC Didn't mean to break you off the bike, AI.
CDR That's okay. I think the log's right. We'll
check.
SPT The CDR made out the report. I'm
pretty sure there's no mistakes.
CC Never happen.
SPT Never happen.
CC And, Owen, while Al's looking for that,
I guess you kind of attracted the whole worlds's attention
with your spider there. And during the next eD52 llth
photography, if you possibly would, we'd llke you to count
the number of radials in the web, and the number of spirals,
external to the central hub. And voice record those for
us, please.
SPT Okay. Number of radials and spirals.
I'ii go up and count them before I go to bed tonight.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
SPT That's what I was going to put on TV
tonight along with the fish, but we never had a chance to
get at it.
CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll have you again over Madrid in about 4 minutes
from now at 02:30.
PAO We're in between tracking sites. Having
passed out of range of Bermuda. And coming up to Madrid
in about 2 minutes and a half. We'll keep the line up
for the pass through Madrid.
CC (Dropped out).
Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay. Let me give it to you right,
maybe. We' Ii try for tomorrow night. I gave you the first
two correct on 16-millimeter. Let me read you some others.
M509, C144, 19, C142; Crew activities: C147, 00, C145;
The only dope I gave you in addition to that was, the one
at the back of the locker, we used, 02, C147, 00, C145.
So we used all the 509 that we should have.
CC Okay, AI, we copied that and pertaining
to Owen's last remark, if he'd llke, since we've dumped
some of the VTR we can rewind it for him and give him the
first 7 minutes available to him, if he'd like it.
CDR I'ii bet he would. Can you do that?
CC It's in work.
CDR Okay. Good. Thanks, Crlp.
SPT Okay, Bob.
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CC AI, if I could I'd like to answer a

couple of questions you had about S019 and the pads.
CDR Okay.
CC We talked about this the other night,
but the earliest time for starting an S019 exposure is the
first start time on the pad. And this is generally less than
60 seconds after Sunset.
CDR Okay. We've been using that lately, and
I think it'_ been coming out pretty good.
CC Okay. In planning, we allow 60 seconds
to set up between fields and 30 seconds between exposures on
the same field. Like you not to forget that a 270 second
widening - windened exposure is about 210 seconds and a 90 is
approximately 72, and a 30 is approximately 24, due to that
time difference.
CDR Okay, understand. I had no trouble
getting in all of them today.
CC And, if you ever get behind, the time-
llne, don't chink anything of leaving off the last exposure
or terminating the exposure early, but just let us know about
it at the next opportunity.
CDR Okay. (Garble) an extra this time.
CC Okay. And the most critlcle time on
the pad is the first start time and the Sunrise time. You
should not get into trouble as long as you shoot the fields
in sequence, and you do not have to wait for the exact
start time of each field, which I think you know.
CDR Okay. I think we're getting the hang
of it pretty good. And it looks llke we got a lot of
frames to go, so I think we can get some pretty good data
from (garble).
CC Okay. And one other comment, is once
the shutter is closed the widening mechanism may be rewound
immediately, even thou.gh it is still turning.
CDR Okay. I understand. That cuts down
the time.
CC That
SPT Bob.
CC Yeah. Go ahead.
SPT Arabella has 12 to 15 radials and 3 of
them are forked, so it starts 12 and ends up 15, and
circular webs are 15 on one side increasing to 25 on the
other. And they are not all continuous all the way around.
And it's about 8 inche:s - no - yeah, about 8 inches in diameter
and spans at 3 corners of her box, where the three sides meet.
And that's the general description. Over.
CC Okay. Appreciate that information.
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And, I've got one other question for you. Were any of the
SL-4 return water bags from F507 A-9 used to package the
leaky ED72, and if so, how many? And, which of the 3 parts
of ED72 was leaking?
PLT Boy, you've got me cold. I don' t
know anything about that.
CC Nor do I.
CDR You've got us all cold.
CC Let me go back to my FAO on it.
z CDR Okay.
CC We copy that you haven't had a leak
and that you haven't used any bags. Is that correct?
CDR True to my knowledge. What- We're
still missing the polnt.
CC We had understood that you had had a
leak on the ED52. Way early in the mission.
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SC (garble)
CC We had understood that you had had a leak
on the ED-52. That was way early in the mission.
MS (garble)
CC 72, 72 I said 52 on the last time.
CDR 172 .
CC That's that fluid mechanics thing.
SPT I don't think there's any leak in there,
if there is I didn't know about it. I did see that little
shaker in there the other day and until - as far as I know
it looked all right.
CC Well, it looks llke we got our information
turned around here. Thank you.
SPT Okay, well you've really got us fooled on
that one.
CC Okay, and Owen, you have 7 minutes of time
available on the VTR.
CC Owen, one other item and I guess this should
be for all c_f you. I mentioned that bit on the Sun timing
should not be selected on the ATM C&D and that's in refer-
ence to the fact that we're operating on one rate gyro in
the Y-axis and if we did have a - you know, a small Delta
time era when we came over Aus - looking at the Sun, the
computer would intepret that as the Sun wasn't present when
it was supposed to and it would flunk redundancy management
on that axis.
SPT Oh,, I see, I didn't appreciate it at that
point and I had seen all the implications so I do remember
it now and 1 wasn't aware of it also, and I think probably
Jack. So, we'll make sure we stay in CMD. I am still a
little bit puzzled about how 82B exposures could get down
below the region of - 1:he (garble) of the maybe going
down to 20 seconds wou]Ld have been adequate. So I was Just
a little unclear about that pad and I didn't want to take
up that many exposures until I was sure I had it right.
CC Okay, we're trying to get that clarified
for you as to - on that JOP 7 and we'll - we'll get that
information to you tomorrow. We're about a minute from
LOS. This is really - should be our last pass of the night.
We're - will have Crow Carnarvon at 03:05 and I can give
you a call there if you want, otherwise I'm going to leave
you alone.
SPT Okay we'll take some news at Carnarvon.
CC Roger. Want some news at Carnarvon. We'll
give it to you.
PAO Next acquisition through Carnarvon in
25 minutes. At 2 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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Greenwich mean time. We have the report of the doctors
on the health status of the crew for today and I'll read
it. Quoting Dr. Paul Buchanan: "The crew and mission
surgeons continue to be pleased with the overall state
of health of the Skylab-III crew. Captain Bean, Dr. Garriott,
and Major Lousma are maintaining a highly satisfactory
state of nutritional and fluid balance and through their
exercise program, have shown thus far, a good level of
resistance to weightless deconditionlng." The end of the
medical statement for this night. We're about 40 seconds
away from acquisition through the Carnarvon tracking site.
We expect to have some alr-to-ground with the spacecraft
communicator reading up the evening news. We'll stand
by for the air- to-ground through the Carnarvon site.
CC Skylah, Houston we're AOS over Carnarvon
for 6 minutes.
CDR We're working on tomorrow night's film
report but go ahead anyway.
CC Well, the first item of news is we don't
understand tonight's film report. Even with the corrections.
I guess if you could read us drawer A-3 and what's in the
back drawe:r maybe we can get it squared away. It sounded
like we had one transporter in both - in two spots was
the problem.
CDR You still don't understand tonight's, huh?
CC No sir. (laughter)
CDR ()kay, we'll go get it again.
CC While we're working on that I can - first
item of rlews really was something I kind of mentioned to
you last night that -- big Skylab news was the announcement
of Skylab launch - Skylab-IV launch, which was November the
9th. And National TV News tonight showed your TO13 experi-
ment which we had a - have to watch here briefly.
CDR ()kay, now we Just went up and checked
drawer A and we think we have it right. But the thing
that may have been confusing, when we used up a film - we
used up the camera today - the CI47, 00, 45 - CI45? We
used that up and that's setting at the back of the drawer.
CC ()kay, that's in the back of the drawer.
What' s in A-37
CDR 06: C149, 40; CI47.
CC That' s the same one.
CDR No, the one in the back is 02: C147, 00;
CI45.
CC Yeah, are there two CI47s?
CDR '_es. Today's three is 06; CI49, 40; CI47.
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Well, 47 wasn't - it was in supply and now it's in takeup.

Wait a minute. That's not right. That can't be possible.
Hold on.
SPT Gosh we ought to make us an acceptable
photo log a GO/NO GO for reentry.
CC Meanwhile I'll continue on with the news.
Hank Aaron hit home run No. 702 today - correct - today is
no, today is Friday, that was Thursday. Hit it with two
men on base to cap a ninth run - eighth - nine run eight
innings for the Braves and help propel them to a I0 - 2
victory over the Cubs. AI, your film report's about llke
my newscast. And the Astros went down tonight playing
Phillie. The score was 8 - 3.
CDR Let me try the back one again.
CC Okey doke.
CDR 02; CI- 02; C144, 00; C142. Now how's
that one go?
CC We buy that. That sounds good. And I might -
CDR And I may just read this one tomorrow night.
CC Right. We've got about a minute and a half
left. I guess I was just informed - I haven't got it writ-
ten down anyplace, that- that it looks like the divers
on the Andrea Doria have given up due to too much turbulence
right now. And I don't - see if I can get an update on
that one for you tomorrow.
SPT Okay, Crip. I got two things.
CC Go.
PLT I didn't turn my salt in on time for the
report. That's 13 packs for today. And one other thing
I noticed was that the procedure I did on EREP yesterday
had the - the FULL valve was in the wrong position again
and did you want to keep it there or did you want me to change
it back to BYPASS.
CC It should have had BYPASS on the bottom
of it Jack. We're a little bit confused by that.
PLT Okay, I'ii put in BYPASS.
CC Okay, that may explain, we were still seeing
some watts on that thing - or wha_ - apparently wattage
and that may explain it. We've got about 30 seconds from
LOS. And I guess I can go ahead and wish you goodnight
here.
CC And we copy. We've got about 3 minutes
of Arabella. The crimson team's going to go off for awhile,
so we'll wish you goodnight for a couple of days. See you
again in about - -
PLT Say, Bob, don't - so far that's the
fish, Arabella's still coming up.
CC Oh, okay.
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Time: 10:03 CDT; 22/03:03 GMT
8/17/73
PLT YouVre right, Crlp. It was on the EREP

pass.
CC ()kay, very good. Thank you, Jack.
CDR Crimson teamts going to take a couple of
days off, huh?
CC Right.
CDR ()kay, good. See you in a couple. What
time - what shift are you coming back on?
CC Coming back on summary. Bleah ]
CDR Yeah, that's a tully. Okay.
CC We' 11 wake you up.
CDR Okey doke. Have fun.
CC Night guys.
PAO The crew was given a good-nlght through
the Carnarvon tracking station. They're about 3 minutes
away from reacquirlng at Honeysuckle. We'll stay - we'll
stay up llve through the Honeysuckle pass in the event that
is any more - any additional air-to-ground communications
at this time. So we'll stand by.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC890/I
Time: 10:14 CDT, 22/0.3:14 GMT
8/17/73
PAO On a note of relative silence through

the Honeysuckle tracking station, mission day 21 comes to
an end with the crew displaying relatively good health,
the spacecraft systems are working well, and a day off
coming up tomorrow for Skylab III. At 3 hours 20 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is PAO signing off.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-891/I
Time: 06:54 CDT, 22/11:54 GMT
8/18/73

time, ii hours 54 minutes on this the 22nd day in orbit for
the crew of Skylab-3. We will have a scheduled wake-up on
this stateside pass with CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave. This
is the 96th day in orbit for the orbiting workshop; 22nd
day, start of the 22nd day for the Skylab-3 crew. We'll
leave the line open for a wake-up call on this stateside pass.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you
stateside for 15 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Story. (garble) around the ATM.
CC Okay, you fooled me.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we've got a tropical depression
developing about I00 miles southwest of Cuba. It's heading
into the Gulf and the best photo time for it will start at
12:10:17.
CDR I got it.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and you can use a Hassellblad
Ol if you would like, shutter speed 1/250 and F-stop 5.6.
And we recommend STS window number I and AOSwill be 12:10:17 to
LOS 12:14:58.
CDR We'll get them to you.
CC Great.
CDR Story, we're going to get that pegged
and Owen and I are going to go back sleep in our bunks a
little while. We'll get everything done through the day
later. We're going to sleep in this morning.
CC Okay, we will not call you.
CDR That's good, unless you have something like
that. We'll get it and then we'll go back.
CC Okay.
CDR Say, Story, what do you think of giving
you some TV of it? And maybe you could either take it -
CC AI, we were just handing over to Texas;
say again.
CDR Didn't hear you.
CC We just handed over to Texas, could you
say again about the TV?
CDR What do you think of us taking TV of that
storm? Because it might be of interest to folks in US because
their - You know, ti might - I gather it's one that could hit
the coast.
CC Stand by i. AI, you've got an empty VTR.
You can use the VTR but we prefer that the photographic data
come first.
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Time: 06:54 CDT, 22/11:54 GMT
8/18/73
CDR Okeydoke.
CDR Tell me again where this is located Story
relative to - to - the states.
CC It's about i00 miles southwest of Cuba.
Between Cuba and and Yucatan Penninsula.
CDR Okay, well we'll take it with both because
I think maybe the - you know, one of the advantages of manned
space flight is to give a quick look at something that's happening.
Where as these photographs get back in another month and they don't
do any good; by then the hurricane will have disappeared from the
face of the Earth. Maybe the thing to do is to get them both,
and because it's likely (garble) may want to take a look at
this. It might be easy to get them both.
CC Okay, that'll be fine, we appreciate that
and you will be able to down-llnk real time to Mila.
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SL-III MC-892/I
Time: 07:04 CDT, 22/12:04 GMT
8/18/73
CDR Story, how about giving us a good setting

for the TV 2? We can do it ourselves, but it will give
us a good starting point.
CC Okay, we'll get it.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Is Al listening, Jack?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay, for the TV settings linear, average
S-22 and the rest it up to him.
CC And you only have about 30 seconds of
AOS while you're looking at the target so you'd better start
the VTR and we can be recording on the VRT and getting real
time at Mila.
CDR Okay, we're set up right now, and we
looked out the window. We don't see it yet but everything looks
good. We' [i check the TV first and get the pictures.
CC Okay, you ought to be getting it in about
a minute and 15 seconds.
CDR And you still think window i is the best, huh?
CC STS- i still.
CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to LOS and also
about i0 seconds to acquisition of the target and we will not call
you and until we see I0,000 on the DAS or until you call us.
time 12 hours 13 minutes with a wake-up call at 6:56 this
morning as the crew began their 22nd day in space. CAP COM
Story Musgrave passed up information for Commander Bean to
take photographs of tlne tropical depression located in the
Gulf of- southwest of Cuba. Commander Bean suggested using the
onboard television to provide pictures of the hurricane.
These pictures may be downlinked later on the next stateside
pass. Bean said that at the close of this activity that he and
Science Pilot Garriot will go back to their bunk and get some
more sleep. And CAP COMM Musgrave reported that they would
not call the crew unless they get a i0,000 on the DAS, The
DAS is the digitial address system and the computer which a
i0,000 number means tlhe crew would like to talk to the ground.
So as of now we - the crew will be back in their bunks when
they hit Vanguard so we may have a lon_ LOS with the crew this
morning. At Greenwich mean tlme 12 hours 14 minutes this
is Skylab Control.
END OF I'At'E
SL-III MC- 893/i
Time: 07:20 CDT 22/12:20 GMT
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12 hours 20 minutes. We may have acquisition here at Vanguard
with the crew. Commander Bean had reported that he and Science
Pilot Owen Garriott would get back in their bunks after this
stateside pass. We'll leave the llne open in the event there
is conversation between Capcomm Story Musgrave.
12 hours 30 minutes with loss of signal at Vanguard, no con-
versation with the crew of Skylab-3. Apparently Commander
Bean and Science Pilot Garriott have returned to their bunks
for a little more shut-eye. Pilot Lousma, when the call
went up at 6:56 this morning, was at the Apollo telescope
mount. _ Next pass will be at Goldstone 1 hour and i minute
from now. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 31 minutes, this
is Skyiab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC- 894/i _
Time: 08:31 CDT, 22/].3:31 GMT
8/18/73
This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 13 hours

31 minutes. This is ;-he 22nd day in the flight of Skylab-3.
CAP COMM is. Astronaut Dick Truly; new Flight Director, Phil
Shaffer. We will have+ acquisition over the Goldstone tracking
station momentarily; however, the crew may still be asleep.
On the last pass over the states at 7 a.m. this morning
the crew was awake. However, Commander Bean said that they
plan to go back into their bunks and get somemore shuteye.
We'll hold the line open in the event that there is conversation
between CA}' COMM Dick Truly and the crew of Skylab-3.
SPT He. llo, Houston; Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?
SPT Yeah, Dick. I'm up here at the ATM panel
now and just noticed you'll be ready for some TV. Is that
going to be real time or do you want it recorded at a remote
station? Over.
CC Owen, that will be real time. We're presently

AOS Goldstone. I'd like to give you a GO on that after we
handover and get AOS at Texas. Over.
SPT Okay, that' ii be fine.
CC All righty.
CC SPT, Houston. If you'll stay off the DAS
we're goin_ to inhibit momenum dump.
SPT Okay, and Dick, I noticed on the ATM schedule
it indicates that'll increase the time remaining a bit. How much
does it jump?
CC Stand by. Between 4 and 5 minutes, Owen.
And I'm assuming you're configured so the guys downstairs are
not hearing I me. If so, I can give you a solar update this
morning .
SPT Why don't you hold off on the solar update
a minute? I think they've got their speaker boxes turned off
but I'm not sure.
CC Okay, I'll keep chatter down.
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Time: 08:137 CDT, 22/13:37 GMT
8/18/73
PLT To the right.

PLT Gonna get the TV first.
CDR Probably - -
CDR ()kay, you got the VTR on Jack?
CDR Okay, Houston, we think we got the
CC (garble)
CDR Okay, we think we've got the depression,
Houston, and it looks like it's just becoming- just being
born out here in the Gulf. It's quite large as you can see and
you can see the circular structured pattern of a embryonic
tropical storm in this hemisphere - correction in these latitudes.
As you know they circle one way in the north latitudes and the
other way Ln the southern. We see them both ways on this
trip. And right now it's obvious that you can see the structure
and the size of the hurricane. We'll try to keep an eye
on it for you on a day-by-day basis and not only where it is
but how it's developing as far as size and intensity is concerned.
SPT ...were'nt very many of them. (garble) just
1/5, but ::hen I see reverse in sign.
CC Roger that' s affirmative.
CC ()wen, we're ready for ATM TV and I think
we have it now and the next two corrections : first is in the
pass starting at 19:48 and it's the same - should be at minus
9700 and that's at 2 plus 50 time remaining. And the next
correction is the pass that starts at 00:28, and at 7 plus 40
time remaining should be minus 9600.
SC (Garble).
SPT Yesterday I was puzzled on the timing
arrangements for this Jop 7 coming up here and I hadn't realized
that the time had jumped when we inhibited momentum dump.
That clears it up for me right there seeing that time increase
the way it does makes it clear how we're getting to lowwer
attitudes and that was the thing that puzzled me yesterday.
I think it:_s a help to have it on the ATM schedule the way
it is today. I don' _ remember that it was there yesterday and
it does make it a little more clear.
CC Okay.
SPT When I give you the chronagram in just
about 45 so.conds here when this standard mode finishes.
CC ()kay, we still got about 2 minutes of AOS
ti me.
SPT ()kay we'll see the corona as part of the roll
and- before the end of the pass.
CC ()wen, 1 minute until LOS, Vanguard at
13:59. _:ould you like a call or you want to call me?
SPT Give us a call, (garble).
CC ()kay.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-896/I
Time: 08:46 CDT 22/13:46 GMT
8118173

13 hours 51 minutes. Another quiet stateside pass with the
crew still asleep. We have some air-to-ground which was
taped during the previous stateside pass during the TV portion -
the attempt of catching TV of the disturbance off the coast
of Cuba. We'll play that brief tape now.
PLT Okay Dick, let me know any time you're con-
figured for TV.
CC We are receiving live TV now. Stand by, neg-
ative, we're not. Stand by.
SPT Okay.
CC Owen, it's about a minute and a half. The
DAS is yours. And I've got one correction to this task that
you are on on the ATM. It's down at 2 minutes and 45 remaining.
We've got a sign wrong.
SPT Okay.
CC It should read minus 9860 and roll instead
of plus.
SPT Okay, I've got the sight corrected and I did
notice that the pad - our SAP for today indicates a roll
of 0000 for the appropriate roll to give the coordinates of the
active reg£ons and so on, yet we still can't quite reach
roll 000. They are really - 10800 is what we're going to have
to use for roll today. And that will meet all those coordinates
and get reversed in sign. There is not very many of them, it's
just one set, but they'll have to be reversed in sign.
CC Roger, that's affirm. I do have two more
correction_ that are later in the day where we've got a sign
wrong.
PAO TiNis is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
13 hours 53 minutes. We will have acquisition at the Vanguard
tracking station in approximately 3 minutes. However, we may
not have any conversation with the crew at this pass. Greenwich
mean time [3 hours 54 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TA})E
SL-III MC-897/I
Time: 08:54 CDT 22/13:54 GMT
8/18/73
CC Owen, we're at Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CC SPT, Houston. We've still got you at Vanguard
for 5 minu_es.
SPT Okay Dick. the first of your call was cut
out there I just got in on the end of it, but I don't have
anything else for you, I don't think.
CC Okay. Before we go LOS for this hour period,
there are a couple of things I'd like to pass up to you about
today's flight plan, a couple of little items.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, there is a message, for you, called -
it's number 2236 Alfa, which is the star tracker magnitude test
that you might accomplish today. I think you asked for it
prior to flight. Also during the evening, there were two
messages that - we had a dropout during an up-link -,and we
up-linked a second copy. So if you find duplicates, use the
second copy, we think those are the good ones. And for the
CDR this morning, he does not have to do HKI0 Alfa, but we do
want him -- because it has already been done. We do want him to
accomplish command module accumulator check, which is on a message
that's in the teleprinter, which is 2231 Alfa. And finally - and
I guess this is really the first order of business - we also would
like to get M509-F3 Alfa accomplished this morning. _nd we
need to get on with that some time in the early part of
the day's atmospheric management.
SPT Okay, we'll take a look at that thing first
then. We _ Ii look at them all.
CC Thank you.
CC And Owen, one other comment. That 2231 Alfa
is one of chose redundant pads that I was mentioning.
SPT Say again your last, Dick.
CC Rog. The command module accumulator message
is one of the messages that we had to send up twice, and so
you need to be sure and use the second copy of that one.
SPT Okay, 2231 Alfa, second copy.
PLT Ace you there, Dick.
CC Tihat's affirm for about 1 more minute. I
was just _etting ready to call you; Hawaii at 15:07. Go
ahead.
PLT Okay, yesterday we had M509 F1 Alfa which turns
both of the relief valves off. And I know that - I think they were
to open them back up again, and they didn't. And maybe some of the
other guys didn't either. So what do we do about that?
CC Stand by.
CC We'd like to leave them just like they are,
Jack. We do not want to restore the relief valves to
normal yet.
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8/18/73
PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you.

CC Roger.
14 hours 8 minutes on the 22nd day of orbit of the Skylab-3
crew. The crew apparently is awake. The Science Pilot Owen
Garriott had a brief discussion with Capcomm Dick Truly,
and also Pilot Jack Lousma. Next acquisition will be Hawaii
in 58 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 9 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-898/I
Time: I0:02 CDT, 22/15:02 GMT
8/18/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Day 22 in the

flight of Skylab-3. We have a brief synopsis of the previous
week's activity. The crew now in it's 22nd day in orbit,
has spent with the exception of experiment time, 1123 hours
performing operational tasks aboard their Skylab-3 space ship.
In the experiment area, the crew has spent 88 on medical
experiments in the last 3 weeks and during the past week
the 3 crewmen have spent a total of 32 hours in performing
and taking data on eight medical experiments. This includes runs
on the M092, lower body negative pressure device; M093, vector-
cardiogram experiment; MII0, blood sampling; MI31, human vestibular
experiment; Ml71,Metabolic analyser; M174, body mass measurement
device; the MII0, sleep monitoring experiment; and M070, nutritional
studies experiments. A big chunk of experiment crew time since
launch has gone to the solar observation program with a total of
62 hours of crew time being spent at the console and display
panel of the Apollo Telescope Mount. 46 of these hours were
accumulated during the past 7 days. The crew has spent 6 hours
of their time during the past week on student experiments and
another 48 of experiment time on 7 corollary experiments. The
major portion of this time Ii hours in preparation and flying
_f M509 astronaut maneuvering unit. NO EREP passes are scheduled
during the coming week the previous run was last Sunday and the
next planned Earth Resources pass is in 2 weeks from today. The
next 7 days in the flight of Skylab-3 in addition to the daily
medical experiments call for the crew to preform the astronaut
maneuvering unit and a checkout of the coolant loop system on
Sunday, additional ATM operations and natural pheonomena
photography on Monday, the 4th flight of the M509 and additional
out-the-wlndow photography of geographic features on Tuesday,
more hand-held photography of Earth features on Wednesday,
EVA preparations on Thursday and EVA to retrieve and replace ATM
film on Friday. Since launch from Cape Kennedy Space Center
on July 28th, the crew has orbited the earth 305 times and has
traveled a distance of more than 7,300,000 miles. We anticipate
acquisition at the Goldstone tracking station in approximately
2 minutes from now with CAP CO M_I Dick Truly. Flight Director
is Phll Shaffer. We'll hold the line open for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. I got one thing of interest
to the ATM room, I think.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT 1 introduced you to the plan stuff on the
last orbit. I managed to get in some extra work on what I
believed to an emerging flux region. Brand new, at least I think
that it's new near the center of the sun. They could probably
see it on today's XUV MON pictures and the coordinates I had were
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Time: 10:02 CDT, 22/15:02 GMT
8/18/73
SPT (CONT'D) minus 54.01 in roll; up-down was 134,

left-right is plus 107. And I did a - a shopping list item 2,
and - plus a - both a GAS and a MAR on S055. It's got a very
small signature in H-alpha, just a few bright spots are beginning
to show up but the XUV signature is very clear. I picked
it up on the 55 detectors and then went ahead with Item number 2.
And might want to keep an eye on that and see whether or not it's
worth scheduling at some later passes either today or tomorrow
perhaps. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Thanks for the words. Incidentally
I've got a solar activity update that is very brief but I
didn't read you before and I Can pass up to you know.
SPT Okay, why don't you, pleased to hear it now.
CC Okay. The sun continues to be very quiet
as you've probably already have observed. Active region
93 remains simple, possible surge activity on the limb, just
south of active region 93. We have a new active region 94
and 310 degrees at 0.4 radii. Stand by. And break, break, we
need the DAS, we would to enable momentum dump. And I'ii continue
here. The new active region 94 is about 310 degrees at 0.4 radi
It has reversed polarity but is not expected to develop. And
prominance 31 has shown some signs of activity. Over.
SPT Okay, I'm down in the wardroom now, but
those coordinates of active region 94 sounds sort of similar
to the position the graph specified for work on the coronal hole
on this upcoming orbit. Could they check to make sure that's
not going to be too close to the coordinates for that coronal
hole that was specified? Over.
CC Yes, sir. We' II sure check. And Skylab
I've got a couple of three other notes I'd like to read up
to you guy:s. I assuming everybody is up.
CDR Everybody is up, wandering around one place
or the other, I think they can hear you.
CC Okay. The DAS is yours and we'd like to
know if yo_ have started M509 F-3 Alpha yet?
SPT Af firma rive.
CC Okay, super, thank you very much. One
voice update I've got for the CDR, after you - or in I think it's
the SPT I'm not sure, but at rate, we'd like to shoot up any
film remaining in the Nikon zero-i after the volcano and the
sea mountain photography this afternoon. That camera will need
to be empty for mission date 23 and so we'd like to go ahead
and you can shoot up that film remaining that camera at will.
CDR Okay. Dick.
CC Okay. The next thing is we'd like for you
something today if you get a chance to go ahead and replace
that broken speaker intercom assembly and that's
SL-III MC898/3
Time: 10:02 CDT, 22/15:02 GMT
8/18/73
CC <CONT'D) !housekeeping 80 Foxtrot. And finally

the last note I have for Jack is we intend to bring home one
of the tape recorders and also the 2 little yellow belts
that broke and we Just wanted to - W e were wondering where
those little yellow belts were and you might put them in
a place that later we can stow them in the command module
and bring them home.
PLT Okay, I've got them in my sleep compartment
taped to the wall, so why don't you tell me where you
want them right now and I'ii put them there.
CC Okay, we don't know right now where we're
going to want them, Jack. So I'd say they're in a Bood
spot right now.
PLT I'ii take them in the command module
and stick them on the wall or inside a locker or some place
and make sure we don't leave them behind.
CC Okay. I'ii - I'ii have words for you where
to put them shortly here today. We're about to go LOS here
at Hawaii. We'll see you at Vanguard at 15:35 and that will
be a site that we'll dump the alrlock module tape recorder.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC899/I
Time: 10:13 CDT, 22/15:13 GMT
8/18/73

time 15 hours 13 minutes with loss of signal over Hawaii, not
Goldstone, as previously reported. Next acquisition will be
at Vanguard in approximately 21 minutes from now. At
Greenwich mean time 15 hours 14 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-900/I
Time: 10:32 CDT 22/15:32 GMT
8118173

15 hours 32 minutes with acquisition coming up at Vanguard
tracking station. Today, the 22nd day for the Skylab-3 crew,
is the day off. Interspersed between off-duty portions of the day,
the crew is scheduled to spend approximately 7 hours and
45 minutes in data takes at the Apollo telescope mount. Sched-
uled later in the day, is the crew's first shower, using the
onboard hot water shower system. Capcomm is Dick Truly,
Flight Director is Phil Shaffer. We will have acquisition
at Vanguard in approximately 1 minute. We'll hold the line
open for this pass.
10 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We're running along on Jop 15A.
I went to the pointing coordinates on the pad, looked through
the persistent image scope and found that wasn't the darkest
part of coronal hole. So I repointed to some coordinates
and I'll teil you what: they are. First of all you can't to
zero roll yet, so we had to go to 108.
CC Roger.
CDR And it is minus 119, which is down; and right -
correction -+ left, 475.
CC Okay, AI. I copied that. And in answer to
Owen's question that I didn't get to answer just prior to
that last LOS. We did the check and there is over 300 second
separation between the coronal hole and that new active region.
And there is no problem there.
CDR Okay, fine. Thank you. And that is plus 475,
not minus 475.
CC Roger, plus 475. Thank you.
CDR Down and right at 108 roll.
CC Okay. The next item I have was - is go back
to Jack on the tape recorders, what we'd like for him to do
is take the two little yellow belts and tape them to tape
recorder, serial number 13. And we believe that tape recorder
is in D422. And to just leave those belts taped to that tape
recorder In D422, and then at the end of the mission it'll
will be easy to bring them home that way.
SPT Dick, I have one question and one comment.
First question is I wonder if the TV last night was any good
on the fish and the spider? And while somebody is thinking
up an answer to that+ the comment was_ we stayed up a little
late last _ight and I had a good chance to see an Aurora
at 04:05 Zu]u just to the ]eft of our track, which ought to
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8118173
put it up over Goose Bay, Labrador. There was a very nice Aurora
visible. I did get a few photos with the 70-millimeter. I'm not
sure they are going to turn out right because of uncertain exposure
length. The Nikon, which I wanted to have ready, I had already
taken the visible lens off and didn't get it out in time.
Now I'II get that remedied so so it will be stowed properly
for any more. My question is, what is the probability of
another Aurora at the northern latitudes when they get up in
that region late tonight? Over.
CC Okay, we'll sure find out, Owen, and get back
to you.
SPT And the TV question.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. On the TV, it was being played
in here a little bit earlier, but I didn't have a chance to
look at it myself. But the guys who did look at it said
that both the TV on the fish and the spider was very clear
and very good.
SPT Okay, that's the first. Thank you.
CC And we could see the web that the spider has
spun, very clearly.
SPT Oh, that's fine.
CC I've got two more notes. One has to do with
when you plan to accomplish the accumulator check that is
on message 2231 Alfa. We'd like to do that durirLg a stayed-in
coverage, Ai. And any time you have a chance to is okay with
us. And the next item I have also is for AI, primarily.
We plan to start the statusing sessions with the Canary pass
this afternoon at about 22:26. That ought to give you some
time to read over the science message we sent up this morning
and talk about it. So if you have anything that you want
us to research - and in preparation for those series of passes
before that, if you think of anything just let us know and we'll
be glad to try to look up the answers for you.
CDR Okay. Thanks Dick.
CC Yes , sir.
CDR I meant to mention, when I was getting up
this morning, I heard some conversation about bleeding the
cabin down. Nobody sent that message up the other day, and
we kind of wondered why they didn't, but assumed they had
a reason .
CC Stand by i.
PLT And Dick, I understand that serial number 13
tape recorder that you want us to brine back, (garble) 22.
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Okay, I'ii take care of that right now.
SL-III MC-900/3
Time: 10:32 CDT 22/15:32 GMT
8/18/73
CC And CDR, Houston. A reminder, I'd like you

to, on S05L, filter 3, to get a 64-second exposure. I think
it' s on the pad.
CDR We'll do it.
END OF TAFE
SL-III _[C-901/I
Time: i():40 CDT, 22/15:40
8/18/73
cDR It's going to turn out that more than

15 minute_ are available so I may be be able to give them a
couple of exposures at different lengths. I can give them
3 and 5 at any length they want really.
CC Stand by on that, please.
CDR I didn't mean 54, I meant 56.
CC CDR, Houston, backroom says just the
filter thcee exposures is what they'd like.
CDR Okay, they want one 64 second exposure?
CDR Okay, that'll give me about _ extra min-
utes to do some other things.
CC Okay.
CDR Ask them if they've got any thoughts on the
last 15 1_[nutes. If not I'ii play it by ear.
CC Roger, A1, I'm listening in the backroom.
Stand by _lease.
CC CDR, Houston, we'd suggest the shopping list
13 for your time if you - if something doesn't come up that you
think would be more valuable.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS
at Vanguacd. We're going to see you at Hawaii _ 16:42. That's
about an hour from now; and AI, the requirement for that X509
F-3 Alpha, came up fairly late yesterday afternoon at a
time that the - your detail pass had already been approved and
we just chose to make it a voice uplink this morning.
CDR Good, I got the impression _om somebody
that that they voiced it yesterday afternoon but we didn't
remember it.
CC I don't think we did. I - certainly didn't
on this _;hift anyway.
CDR Okay, we're in the midst of fllat 64 second
filter til_ee we'll go back - we're 3 quarters of the way through.
CC Roger, AI.
15 hours 45 minutes w_th loss of signal at _nl_uard. Dis_:ussi.,_s
by Scien<_,_ l'ilot Owen Garriott said they stayed up Lltc last
night pa_!_L their bedtime and took photographs o[ an Auror, uv_r
Goose Bay Labador; further questions from the crew concernin!
the downl[nk televison from yesterday of spider Arabella, _Jnd
her weightless web and also the min - Mummy Chug minnows on
board. Ground told the crew that the TV was _od; Arabella
the famed web- weightless spider_ she is _t the _rst spider
to accompany man on a long voyage, Joshua Sloakman aboard a
35 foot catch spray in a 3 year solor voyage around the world
just before the turn of the century had a stow away Boston
spider aboard the vessel who kept him company in the long weeks
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Time: i0:40 CDT, 22/15:40 GMT
8/18/73
between ],orts of call. A Scots lady in CapeT own suggested

to Sloakum that he name his shipmate Bruce and Bruce the
spider became. During the voyage Bruce took a wife and
soon Sloakum had a colony of spiders aboard the spray. When
Sloakman took firewood at a stop in a South_merican port,
Bruce mace short work of a spider that sneaked aboard the catch
under the :)ark of a log by chewing off the creature's legs.
perhaps Arabella and her mate - her female companion Anita
aboard t[_e space - Skylab space station will not be driven to
cannibal_sm as long as her shipmates provide themwith steak.
An item of photographic interest later today is Tonga, a
submarine volcano in the South Pacific 430 miles southeast of
the Fiji ]slands in the Pacific Ocean. The Smithsonian
Institution Center for short lived phenomena has reported
the sitin$ of a 13 by 16 kilometer area of whitish grey pumice
floating on or slightly below the surface of the water. This
indicate_; the presence of a very active submarine volcano but
the locat_on of the volcano is unknown. Due to the remote
location of this event, ground-based observations are nearly
impossib]e to obtain. The Tonga Island area is located at
15 degrees 56 minute.=; south, 175 degrees and 52 minutes west,
about 430 nautical miles from Fiji. In addition to taking
photogra[:[s at about 3:06 p.m. central daylight time, with a
35-millin:eter and 17-millimeter hand-held camera, _le crew
will be asked to describe what they are able to see out the
window. This is one of two Earth features the crew has been
asked to review today. Another is an underwater mountain in
the area of 7laria Teresa Reef in the Pacific Ocean approximately
1800 miles east of New Zealand. The peak of the sea mount is
50 feet h{Jow the surface of the ocean and anorth to south
current is expected to leave a visible wake in the ocean.
objective of this activity is to detect weight characteristics
and induc_ turbulance. Photographs of file sea mount wi ] I made
tonight _> Commander Bean just before the start of his sleep
period. "_xt acquisition will be Hawaii in 53 minutes from now.
At dreenwiLh mean time 15 hours 48 minutes this _s :_kylab (](,ntro[.
END OF TL_ ]i
SL-III MC-902/I
Time: 11:41 CDT, 22/16:41 GMT
8/18/73
PAO This is Skylab Control: Greenwich mean

time, 16 hours 41 minutes. Acquisition coming up at the
Hawaii tracking station. Science Pilot Owen Garriott is
now in a block of 2 hour offduty time, while Commander
Allan Bean is concluding a run at the ATM. I'ii leave this
line open for conversation between CAP COMM Dick Truly and
the Skylab-3 crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for I0 minutes.
CDR Aloha, Dick.
CC A]oha.
CDR Say Dick, I have a couple of comments.
You said we're going to have a statusing session lately and I've
got a couple here that might be worth thinking about.
CC Okay, and a - before you get started
we like you to stay off the DAS please, we're doing to
update a mission timer, we've got an error of about
2-1/2 seconds and go ahead.
CDR Okay, one a couple of things first,
that have nothing to do with status session. We're not
really sure on this startracker exactly what the ground rules.
We got a message the other day that told us how to work it
and we understand that. But does that mean we should never
lock it on except at those two times, namely when we are
pressing for NU z updates and when we're pressing for
a gyro drift?
CC Stand by.
CDR I locked it on about 30 minutes ago and
got an update for 7.7 or minus 7.7 to minus 7.9. With outer-
inter significantly different than what we've been having but I
think it's the right star. Inner is pretty close, outer
off like it usually is. And I got to thinking about it
afterwards.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, AI.
CC AI the - what we're trying to do is
minimize the door cycles on the startracker so I guess the
ground rule is is we'd like not to - to do that procedure
unless we do need a NU z update, however that is not
to say - that does not preclude you from deciding that you
think it would help whatever operation you're in. If you
think that you need a NU z update go ahead and do it. But we
don't want to indiscriminately cycle the startracker door.
Over.
CDR Okay, I think we understand that. The
next one is on these general messages I think it's 7B or
whatever whre you stend up the - South Atlantic anomally in
the horn .
CC Roger.
SL-III MC-902/2
Time: 11:41 CDT, 22/-[6:41 GMT
8/18/73
CDR You know that we did alot of talking about

that before flight. Thought we needed it we really don't think
we need it anymore. So you can just cease sending them
up until it looks like we do need them. The reason, one of
the reason_ being that we're just not in an area - time of -
intense solar activity at the moment and we just don't use
them. I assume if we had a lot of activity, we'd watch them,
but right now we don't. So that'll save you some work.
CC Roger, I'm sure there'll be a couple
of typist 1_hat are - be glad to hear that and if you do need
them later just let us know. And we'll see.
CDR Okay, now let me go down this general
message on science and talk about some of the things that -
and we' 11 see - what we can think about it.
CC Okay, let me get mine out here, AI before
you start.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, we're glad to see that this ATM is
up because we're working hard on it. And we think by using this
pace, we're hoping that we can make this 230 hours goal. That's
only i0 over how they see we're doing now and I'm sure -
I assume that the way they are planning now that
we're not going to run it on our day off. And we're always planning
to run it on our day off, which should soar it way pass 230
but what else we're hoping occurs is that we don't skip any
during the day. Somehow we get every pass during each day
and we - if the thing that's being interferred with - the thing
that we noticed on the schedule is we got lots of small tasks.
Most of those small tasks we find we can do in the middle of other
tasks or later in the day. So we're hoping that we don't miss any
ATM passes for days o:a end here and we're hoping that in addition
to getting the 230 or more, we're not so hung up on that as
we are making sure that when the EREP time comes around again
that we are able to get as many double EREP passes in that
are available. So, we hope we get ahead somehow in ATM before
EREP comes up and then when EREP comes up we're able to work
on EREP real hard.
CDR Okay, and another thing thought along on
those lines maybe and these are Just thoughts we have and may
not be right, you know, may not fit into the big picture
that you see down there. I've been kind of worried although
Owen isn' t, I've been worrried about 54 having a bunch of
film here at the end of day 27 because I understand we're going
out day 28 and change the film again.
END OF TAP
SL-III MC903/I
Time: 11:48 CDT, 22/16:48 GMT
8/18/73
CDR Okay, and another thing thought along

those lines maybe. And these are just thoughts we have; they
may not be right. You know, they may not fit into the big picture
that you see down there. I been kind of worried, although
Owen isn' t, I've been worried about 54 - having a bunch of film
here at the end of day 27, because I understand we're going out
day 28 and change the film again. I guess we shouldn't
be concerned about it, but - they seem to be happy. We just sort
of wondered about it. Okay, one of the discussions here is
medical; it should be down about 25 hours from pre-mission
plan. We think that the plan you got of, you know, laying off
the first half because we've already done it with the good
one, and going down to the more normal way for the second half
because that unexplored area is a good one too. We'll be,
able to carry that out. The thing that I think we' re doing
additional, in the medical area that needs to be put down
as experiment hours, because that's what they are, is this
work that Owen's doing on hemotology and also urinalysis -
specific volume and things. He probably - everytime he does it,
it takes him about an hour apiece, at least. And my guess is
we'll be doing it much more than 25 times the rest of the
mission, which ought to be medical eval - you know - part of
the medical, because that's exactly why we're doing it.
CDR I susupect that's somehow fallen over just
to houskeeping, but really isn't; it's strictly a medical
exp erimen t.
CC We'll check and see how we're counting
those things and let you know.
CC You got anything else, AI?
CDR Yeah, talking about this visual observation,
they want hear if we have any comment. I have one big comment.
I don't think we're using this TV out the window enough on
current events that might be of interest to people around the
world. We're taking pictures which we won't even brin K back
here for another 6 weeks or something. They won't be developed
for another 2 or 3, whereas, if any of these thin_s we' re
doing, llke volcanos or hurricanes or sea mountains or anything
else, are of current interest to people, we ought to be figuring
out how we can use this TV on them. Now maybe somebody is
figuring it out already, and decides we can't. But it seems to me
it would be worth more than a try. We seem to be working
it all with cameras and not much with TV when we're missing
one of the best things of man is space, namely currency, being
able to give people on the ground a view of something that
is happening today or yesterday instead of last month.
SL-III MC-90 3/2
Time: 11:_8 CDT 22/16:48 GHT
8118/73
CC Roger. .I think that is a good input, AI.

And we' I_ think about that. AI, we're about a minute and
20 seconds from LOS at Hawaii. We're going to be down at the
Vanguard at 17:14. We're going to dump the data tape recorder
there. And we can probably pick up, finish our conversation
when we get down there. Two things before we go over the
hill. We wanted to know, if possible, when to expect to do
this command module accumulater test that was on message
2231 Alfa_ That was l-he one - we want to do it during stayed-
in coverage, AI. And we can pick any pass you like,
including the next one at the Vanguard if you want to; it
doesn' t ma_ner to us.
CDR How about the next one at the Vanguard?
CC Okay, we'll pick it up there. And also
since we were talking about those undersea mountains and the
two photography opportunities today, I just talked to the
EREP offi. "___r for a li_:tle while. And there is really not
much we can help you in the way of locating them because
they are, you know, out in the middle of the ocean. But the
one on the undersea mountains is almost a nadir path and the
one with ti_e undersea volcano the location of the pumice that's
floating on the water is just to the north of the ground track.
You can look - and neither of these are in your book that has the
large photographs. :But they are on the map, of course, where
the earth slider is. And so you might take a look at them prior
to the opportunity.
CDR Okay, I think we saw that one with the
pumice the other day; I really do.
CC Roger. It's been sited, I'm advised, by
an airline pilot and also by a ship down there. But it is in
a very remote area and they thought, you know, it's be a good
thing for _ou guys to get.
CDR Okay, well we'll wander up there, and we'll
even take the TV, and if there's anything big enough, we'll
give it a go.
CC Roger.
time 16 h:)urs 62 minutes, loss of signal at the Ha _aii tracking
station. Conversation between CAM COMM Dick Truly and Commander
AI Bean co_icerning the use of more television out the window
to relay to the ground significant activities, natural
phenomenon, that the crew pass over in their work day. Some
of the activities they plan to shoot today is a volcano in
the Tonga Island area south of Fiji and an underwater mountain
in the So_ith Pacific Ocean, 1600 miles east of New Zealand.
Acquisition at Vanguard in approximately 20 minutes, this is
Skylab Control 16 hours 53 minutes.
END OF TAi'E
SL-III MC-904/I
Time: 12:12 CDT 22/17:12 GMT
8/18/73

17 hours 12 minutes. We expect acquisition at Vanguard on
this the ]386th revolution of the Skylab workshop.
for 9 minutes. We have good data on the ground. So AI,
any time you want to do this accumulator check in the command
module, we'll be happy to watch you.
PLT He's on his way up. Look fast.
CC Okay.
PLT You notice that even though there is not much
of an up oz down here, we still stick with the same old names
for up there or down here.
CC Roge r.
CDR Okay, how do you hear, Dick?
CC Loud and clear.
CDR Okay, my present indicated primary ecumulator
quantity is about 31 percent, Dick.
CC Okay , I've got it .
CDR Okay, on my mark I'm going to open the reservoir.
CC O_:ay.
CDR At: the inlet.
CC Roger.
CDR MARK.
CC Roger.
CDR Now let me tell you what it did for thinking
purposes. When I opened it, it immediately indicated zero,
gave us a caution and warning. So I closed it. When I closed
it, it now indicates 25. So there is a little funny there.
If you like I'll open it again and kind of cycle it until it
gets down t o 15.
CC Stand by just a second please, AI.
CDR Yeah, and it didn't just kind of go down to
zero. It _as almost ]ike, you know, an instantaneous zero.
It wasn't arty delay. Couldn't have come out that fast.
CC Roger. Stand by just a second.
CDR It' s now sitting at about 25 percent .
SPT Incidentally, there is a very nice low pressure
center just right outside our wardroom window at the moment.
Not more than 300 miles from our present ground track. It
might he of interest to the people in the southern tip of
South America. Got very nice cyclonic wind flow.
CC Roger ()wen. Thank you much. And for A[,
yes. We'd like for you to open the valve once more again. Don't
cycle it and let us watch the data please, and then close it.
CDR Okay. Well I'm not going to let - it says
don't go below 15. I have no way to know if it goes below 15.
SL-III MC-904/2
Time: 12:[2 CDT 22/17:12 GMT
8/18173
CC Stand by.
CC AI, I said that wronB I guess. Open it. If it
goes to zero then close it again. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. It went to zero. And now I have closed
it and it is right at 15 percent, or 14 percent it looks like
at the moment.
CC Roger. That's what we see on the ground here
also AI and you can go ahead now and do the accumulator fill.
CDR Okay, sure will.
END OF TAPE
SL-I II MC905/I
Time: 12:1_ CDT, 22/17:18 GMT
8/18/73
CDR Okay - I - Okay - what - let me tell

you what cccurred then. I put it in FILL; it went up, and
when it indicated 45, I turned it off, which dropped it back to
about 31. So I'm going to fill it a little bit more.
CC 0kay, we concur.
CDR Okay, I filled to an indicated 57, and then
closed it, and it dropped down to about 51. So it didn't drop
as far that time.
CC Okay, we -
CDR The setting is 51 percent.
CC Okay, AI, and we're satisfied where
we are :righ|_ now and thank you very much.
CC Stand by i.
CC Yes, go ahead and finish the procedure,
but we' re satisfied wjlth that percentage reading.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, both main regs are closed and
cabin repress valve is open, so everything is just like it
was.
CC Okay, AI, thank you very much. We'll take
a look at this data and probably by the next pass maybe I can
brief you on what we think is going on - the - we got about a minute
and a half to LOS; we're going to see you at Hawaii at 18:23.
And I'ii have some words also - stand by i.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going to be LOS
in about a minute and it sounds like the comm is getting kind
of poor here. I do have some words on S054 film usage that
I can give to you when we get to Hawaii. And one word for AI,
we have set up a phone call and it's this evening Canary -
along Canary, Madrid pass starting at 00:06. We'll see you
at Hawaii
CDR Okay, what'd you say? Is that a private
comm? I :Jidn' t hear, Dick.
CC Yes sir, that's your phone call.
CDR Hey, that's good. Thanks, Dick.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Dick, I'd like you, to have you
set one up for me also, please.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you.
PAO Greenwich mean time 17 hours 23 minutes
loss of signal at Vanguard. CAP COMI_ Richard Truly and Commander
A1 Bean discussing a procedure. Bean was going through and
checking out the coolant loop in the command service module,
the primary coolant loop. The ground will look at the data
that was dumped- that came down during this pass, on a check
out of the primary coolant system in the command service module.
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 23 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III M6906/I
Time: 13:2] CDT, 22/1.8:21 GMT
8/18173
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for

3 minutes.
CDR Not very long.
CC Roger. I got a couple of three notes
to talk tc you all about if you don't have anything.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all on the S054 question
that you asked, I have some numbers here that you might be
interested in. First of all we have about 26018 frames
remaining and when we - we're going to leave about 200 frames
on the end for safety buffer and we're keeping in reserve -
flare reserve of 360 frames which we will reserve right up
until the EVA in case we get a flare. So the remainder of
that is going to be sc'.heduled essentially as follows: Jop-9
is going tc get about 900 frames, JOP-6 about 320, Jop-12 about
i00 and all of the rest about 740 - the numbers are
not so important as the fact that just be assured that we - we
do intend to use up the frames remaining for that experiment
prior to EVA considering the reserves that we have budgeted. Over.
CDR Okay. We can - We knew they did but we just
kind of wordered how they were going to do it, that's -
that's good information. Thanks, Dick.
CC Okay. And if - If any of those numbers
I read toc_ fast and you would like to have I'll be glad to
pass them up to you. The next thing that I had is the answer to
Owen's question about the aurora. We talked to Noah and it
turns out that there is a quad aurora that's always visible
in the northern latitude. And there was no unusual event
last evening other than this ever present aurora. The best
time for viewing the aurora today is between 04:00 and 05:00
above 40 degrees north latitude and between Alaska and
Hudson Bay. And the aurora should get - the brighter portion
of it is towards Hudson Bay, Over.
SPT Okay, that's about where we saw it, as
I mentioned before about over Goose Bay Labrador was about
where we saw it last night. We might stay up for it tonight.
CC Yeah, I guess your specific question was
on the probability of seeing one and we don't think there
is any di_tJ_erent probability tonight than there was last night.
SPT Okay, that's fine and l had not been
aware tlha_: an Aurora 1:hat extensive was a more or less
ever-pres_nt seen on the Northern sky up there so that' s F,ood
to know and we'll try it.
CC Okay. Next note I have here is on the
command module coolant loop check that we just performed.
And that _:heck indicar.es to us that the primary loop accumulator
decay is due to a very slight leak in the loop as opposed
to a leak through a w_ive back in the - into the reservior.
The leak _'oJld be anywhere in the loop, it amounts to only
SL-III MC-906/2
Time: 13121 CDT, 22/18:21 GMT
8118173
CC (CONT'D) about i percent of indicated quantity

per day. At the current leak rate this poses no problem with
our nominal mission d,ration. We probably will have to
refill the accumulator a couple more times before the end of
the mission. And this includes one that we do on entry day
at - in our present capacity is the capability to- for greater
than i0 refills. So you can see that we got plenty of fiuld.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
from LOS at Hawaii. We're going to see you at Vanguard at
18 :52.
18 hours 27 minutes with lost of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately 23-1/2 minutes.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-907/I
Time: 13:49 CDT, 22/1.8:49 GMT
8118173

time 18 hours 49 minutes, with acquisition coming up at
Vanguard in approximately 2 minutes. CAP COMI_ is Richard
Truly, Flight Director Phil Shaffer is beginning a turnover
of his shift to oncoming Flight Director Chuck Lewis. At
Greenwich mean time 18 hours 49 minutes; we'll hold the line
open for this Vanguard. pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston and we found the bright
spot very clearly on the XUV mon with persistent image scope
and very near the coordinate you'd selected it in the back.
I'm into the 36A portion to the exact coordinate that I am right
now. But originally they were minus 12 down and right plus 462
with a roll of minus I0 796. So that's pretty close to the ground
coordinates and I think we should have set of building blocks.
CC Okay, good.
CC And Skylab, Houston we"ve still got about
7-1/2 minutes left in this pass. I got 3 items sometimes
that I would - none of which are time critical but would
like to pass up to you. One is a request that to do some
reg adjust for us in order to increase our power cabability
a little bit and then I'd like to talk to you a little bit
about star tracker operation and then again some slight
differences that we are going to be sending up to you on
the detail pads concerning M092 vents. Over.
SPT Go ahead with the reg adjust I'm right
here right now, Dick.
CC Okay, panel 206 reg adjust bus 2 about
i0 degrees clockwise then reg adjust control fine adjust 6
about i0 degrees counterclockwise and reg control fine adjust
7 i0 degrees clockwise.
CC And Jack, I had a note here to mark the
position of the pots prior to your resetting I'm probably
too late to catch you on that but if you can do that do it.
CT Vanguard contact Houston contact now one.
CT Vanguard contact go ahead.
CT Roger, read you loud and clear. How me?
CT Read you loud and clear also.
CT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we lost a couple of net-
work circuits down to the Vanguard there for a couple of
minutes and I dropped out I think, I haven't heard anything
since I read up the numbers to Jack on the re E adjust pot.
SPT He just reported that he had a mark to
adjust it and about that point you dropped out.
CC Okay, real fine I understand that the
SL-III MC-907/2
Time: 13:49 CDT, 22/18:19 GMT
8/18/73
reg adjust is finished. Thank you very much, we still got

about 3-1/2 minutes left, Owen and if you can listen I'ii
talk to you in just a second about the star tracker and
MO92.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, one first on the star tracker I
know we've had some difficulity in the last couple of days
in getting a lock on and I'm not sure if you are aware of
what the - what our ciriteria are for changing the star
tracker pad but what it is is when the inner gimbal changes
more than 30 arc minutes we send you a new star tracker pad
this results in a pad getting 3 or 4 days old onboard and
it allows the outer gimbal to change from the pads (garble)
quite a bit up to a 1,000 arc seconds or so. Just thought
if you were aware of that you know - you would - wouldn't
get surprised if you have to really search on outer gimbal
quite a ways.
SPT Okay, I personally had not been aware
of your criteria there, but I wonder if you want to
reconsider about arc seconds if the outer gimbal is that
far. Really ends up taking a fair amount of time and
makes us less certain about whether or not we got the
right star, and since it's just a little 3 inch sheet of paper
anyway maybe you want to send them up a little more frequently.
CC Roger, Owen I
CDR Eey, Dick -.
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR This is the CDR, couldn't agree with
that more now maybe what you want to do is send up a
piece of paper like you said but everyday just give us a
voice on_ and in the morning we can cross out the old
numbers on the piece of paper and put in the new one. That
take a iong time.
CDR And it's a waste of time too.
CC I tell you A1, I think we'd be just
about well off just to send you a pad everyday I - it
isn't vet} much paper and it's not that much trouble to
US.
CDR Okay, how about doing it this way;

you know at - down at the bottom on the solor activity pad
where you put BETA angle and all that business why don't
you just put it on to that one and that way we won't have to
cut out s piece of paper and won't be loose it would be
right dow_ at the solar activity pad and everyday just
write the _tar and the two angles and that'll be it.
CC Roger, another suggestion here from -
is to just: to put those two pads back to back each day and
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that way f_u can just have the whole information for star
tracker immediately following the sap and cut them out at
one time.
CDR Well, good.
CC Roger, we're about a minute until LOS
at the Vanguard. We're going to have you in just about
another 5 minutes at Ascension we're going to dump these
data tape recorders at Ascension and when we get there I'll
talk to you about this MO92 vent.
CC And also, AI we uplinked two of tomorrow's
flight plans here at the Vanguard and your next one will
be coming up at Ascension. See you then.
time 19 hours 2 minutes. We've had loss of signal at Vanguard
next acquisition will be Ascension in approximately 3 minutes.
We'll leave the line up for that Ascension pass.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 14:32 CDT 22/19:02 GMT
8/18/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension

for 9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. And I'll have some information
on channel A about the evolution of the bright spot for
the back room there. I won't bother real timing it, and I'ii
put it on channel A at the end of the pass.
CC Roger, Owen. And while I'm talking to you and
we're talking about the ATM. We sent up a message, oh, yesterday
I think it was that a change of time on several of the building
blocks and JOPS from 320 to 520 on the exposure time. And
on this pass, we noticed that on JOP, 17 A building block 36,
an exposure time of 320 was used, although we have seen some
520s also. So the suggestion is we might have missed one
pen and ink. In any case JOP 17A, building block, 36 that
change should have been made.
SPT Okay, I didn't have it on here. Maybe - I
don't remember entering them. But I will make this one into
520 and we' ii check some more.
CC Okay. That message number for that change -
it was change 6 to the JOP Summary Sheet book, and the message
number was 2132 Delta I believe it was.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you will stay off the
DAS for a few minutes we're going to update the Y-2 gyro drift
c ommen tati on.
SPT Say, you might ask Adam there if the next orbit
you've still got a list of the target as bright spot i. l've
completed the (garble) building blocks on this bright spot. I
wonder if we wouldn't want to select another bright spot in
this coronal hole. Was it the intent to keep it the same one or
is a second target satisfactory?
CC Stand by) I'll ask.
CC Owen, the back room suggests that they would
like to stay on the bright spot- on the same one all the way.
SPT Okay. That has to do with the evolution
that I wa_ just mentioning a moment ago. This bright spot had a
very significant decay over just the last 30 minutes. On
detector 3 decayed from a peak of about 1500 down to about 3 or
400. And [ double checked that a couple of times. In also
decayed to a point where it was no longer visible on the XUV
MON with integration. Now I can still find it on detector 3;
4 or 500 count is still way above the background. But _t [s
much weaker than it was just 45 minutes ago. And that was
another reason for suggesting that another bright spot might
be better. So you might think about it and inside the next
30 minutes let me know if you still feel that way.
CC Roger, CDR. And did you copy my request to
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stay off the DAS, please? C&S would like to uplink a drift
compensation to Y-2 gyro.
CDR Go ahead, we' re clear.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 4 min-
utes here at Ascension. And I'd like to tell you about this
M092 slight change that we're making. It's going to show
up tomorrow first on SPTs detail flight plan, if you have a
chance to listen.
CDR Go ahead, Dick. We' re listening.
CC Okay, AI. I guess the situation that we're
in is since we lost the meteoroid shield and this makes this
M092 vent much more pronounced. And this coupled with our
recent TACS and gyro problems makes us gooesy about the
momentum state, and we want to make sure we do everything we
can to protect it. So what we're going to do is uplink
to the observer of each M092 run a window in which we would
like the M092 vents start to fall within. For example, I'm
looking at the detail pad for the SPT tomorrow, and it says
M092 vent start window, and give two times. What we're tryin_
to avoid here is having the M092 vent fall on top of any of
the momentum samples, any of the four momentum samples, and
there is one just prior to sunset and one just after sunrise.
And so the instructions to you are if possible go ahead and
start the vent any time within this window. In any case do
not start it early because there is nothing we can do to
counteract that problem. However, if you are unavoidably
late and you have to bus the last time, as soon as you come
over the _lill if you will just let us know then we can get a
contingency momentum sample. And we can make sure this way
that the momentum dumps are calculated correctly. Over.
SPT Okay, I think we understand all that Dick.
And we'll cooperate and get them in on those windows.
CC Okay. And for your information, the times are
fairly broad. For instance tomorrow's window is 26 minutes
long. Ae:i if the vent starts anywhere in there it's perfectly
okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. Thank
you very :much. We're about i minute from LOS at Ascension.
We're going to see you at Guam at 19:51.
SPT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean tim_. 19 h_,ur_
]5 minute_. Loss of signal at Ascension. N_xt aC(lUi_i t i_n
will be G_am in 35 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 19 ht_urs
16 minute_ , this is Skylab Control.
END OF TA?E
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43 seconds. We have had acquisition of signal at Guam.
SPT _[ello, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Wonder what the back room had to say
about the bright point. Looks to me like the one that I
used on the last orbit is still not visible on the XUV MON,
although I could find[ it using detector 3. Over.
CC _[oger. And Skylab, Houston, before I answer
this one, request you stay off the DAS so we can inhibit
momentum dump.
SPT Wilco.
CC Okay. The note that I had here was to give
you when _e came AOS on this cycle was to request that you
run steps ] and 5 JOP 17 Alpha, which is building blocks
ii and i0 as scheduled to complete the evolution of that
bright spct number l, and then suggest you repeat building
block ii and building i0 on a second bright point. Over.
SPT Sounds like a good idea.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For Jack, his phone con-
versation we set up for Carnarvon pass at 00:42 and we'll
be reminding you again later on about those.
PLT Thank you Dick.
CC Yes , sir.
SPT _'ill you let me know when you are ready
configured for TV?
CC We' re ready now, Owen.
SPT Okay. l'm not quite through with this first
chip. If you're still configured to be in that chip, I'ii
give you a XUV MON - or a WLT ROLL, also.
CC Roger.
SPT There's no cue card. I'Ii do it for you.
CC Roger, SPT, and we're going to keep the TV
downlink cc_nfigured for the rest of this AOS, so don't
worry about that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re 30 seconds from LOS
We'll see you at Vanguard at 20:29.

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 59 minutes.
We have lost signal at the Guam tracking station. Our next
acquisition of signal will be at 20 minutes 28 seconds at
Vanguard. During this period of loss of signal, we expect
the Skylab crew may attempt to get some photography of the
Tonga submarine volcano. That's a volcano that was reported
both by an Eastern Airlines pilot and by a ship's log. They
believe that there's an area covered by a floating accumulus
of a whitish grey color approximately 13 kilometers or 8
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miles by L_: kilometers or 10 miles. This is identified by

both by an Eastern Airlines pilot and by a ship's crew. That
area is in such a remote part of the world that it's almost
impossible-- that any photography of the activity. Fortunately
the Skylab crew will he passing almost directly over the
area that it's believed to be located in. That area is north
of New Zealand in the Tonga Islands which is very close to
Samoa. W_: also have gotten a weather advisory from the
National :_iceanographic and Atmospheric Administration National
Hurricane Center on the storm that was photographed earlier
today using the television camera out of the STS windows of the
spacecraft. That tropical storm, which has now become a tropical
storm, wa-_-_originally just a tropical depression, is now been
named Brenca and at i: 30 p.m. central daylight time, it was
located at: _ i.I north longtitude and 86.6 west latitude.
Approximately i00 miles east of Cozumil (?) Island. It is
moving west:-northwest at 13 miles per hour with sustained
winds up t:o 45 miles per hour according to the National
Hurricane Center. It is believed that tomorrow morning the
crew will have an additional opportunity to photograph the
hurricane as it passes along track 48. The hurricane is
expected t_ continue growing to a - the tropical storm is
expected to continue to grow to hurricane strength in the
next 18 to 24 hours and is believed to be continuing along
the west-_:_orthwest course for at least that 24-hour period.
The next advisory from the Hurricane Center is scheduled
for 5:00 p m. central daylight time. This is Skylab Control
at 1 minute and 17 seconds after 20 hours Greenwich mean
time.
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Time: 15:26 CDT, 22/02:26 GMT
8/18/73
PAO :_kylab Control at 20 hours 26 minut_

and 49 s.: :onds Greenwich mean time. At the present t i rrl_.t F_,
spacecra L is approaching, the ran_.e of the Vanguard t r;,,l_ i,_,
ship and we expect to receive acquisLtion ol sign:Jl th,_re Ir_ ;_b,_t,t
a minute and 35 seconds. During this last period of silence
after the Guam tracking station, we expect the crew may have
taken an opportunity to do some photography of the Tonga
submarine or volcano or pumus area, which is located near
the Samoan islands near the southwest, it's believed. This
was spotted by both the ship's captain, who reported it
was approximately 12 to 18 inches thick and presumably solid
enough to walk on. The data may reveal whether or not this
a possible island built up in that area. They are not exactly
certain of the location, because there's been only a very
hazy information about it available. They will use both
Hasselblad and Nikon cameras, the Nikon with a 300-millimeter
telephoto lens, and the hassleblad with the standard 100-milli-
meter lens. And they do expect that they'll be able to get
some data. Jack Lousma is the one who is given the responsibility
for that. We may get a report on that at Vanguard, where
the crew will also be reminded of their 30 minutes of video
tape recording time. We'll stay live for air-to-ground from
the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS at the
Vanguard for ii minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And, I have a couple of quick notes for
you. The reg adjust, you did last pass, for us looks real
good. We re satisfie_d with that. The ENCO asked me to
remind you that the VTR still has 30 minutes of tape on it
and it's all yours, available if you desire. And one more
note. The tropical depression that you flew over this
morning, south of Cuba, is - has been named tropical depres-
sion Brenda. And you're going to have the last opportunity,
for a few days, in over flying it just after you wake up in
the morning and we we_re thinking about sending you a photo
pad and possibly getting some photo and some TV as you fly
over it. It' Ii be w._ry shortly after you wake up.
CDR Sounds like a good idea.
CC Roger. We'll plan on it and _,et the
stuff awl !able to you and let you know later about that.
CDR ()kay. We're working on the TV.
CC ()kay.
CDR 'Fakes three of us to do i t. ,qc) it turn._
out that wd_ have to do [t at night between ATM pa_ses. Wu're
getting r_ady to do _:he first one here as soon as night comes.
CC Roger. We just can' t hardly wait to see
it.
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CDR We' re trying to come up with three

little things so that maybe they're useful. We might shoot -
We' re goiri_; to shoot ]0 minutes of each. And we may repeat
ourselves some during the i0 minutes, so maybe it could be
cut and be better than one shop.
CC Okay, AI. Sounds good.
SPT And, I'm working on the second bright
spot now.
CC Roger, Owen. We thank you.
PLT Dick I was just noticing I do not have
a change 6 to the Jop entered in on the (garble). If I
don't find :Lt I may have to ask you to send it up again.
CC Okay. We'll make preparations to be able to
get it up I:o you, if you need it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from
LOS at the Vanguard. We'll see you at Ascension at 20:42.
CDR Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. There's a message
in the teleprinter that are some answers to the SPT' s
question regarding ATM shopping list in the teleprinter now.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
and ii seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at
the Vanguacd tracking ship. But we expect to acquire in
about 2 minutes at Ascension Island. Skylab Crew has been
very busy today, working both on the Apollo telescope
mount solam experiments, and doing their crew day-off
activities, houskeeping, and taking showers. Commander is
scheduled to have his shower underway now, and should be
completing it very shortly. We may get a report on that.
We did not hear on pilot Jack Lousma's attempt to take
pictures o f the floating mass of pumus near the Samoan
Islands. We may hear on that a little bit from now.
At this time the pilot is expected to be engaged in physical
training, trying to keep in the physical condition that's
necessary for the crew, while they're in space. We'll
stay live for air-to-ground through the Ascension Island
tracking station. That's the beginning of a three-station
pass, Ascension, Canary Islands, and Madrid.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:41 CDT, 22/20:41 GMT
8/18/7"_

Ascension, Canary, and Madrid for several minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension,
Canary, and Madrid for the next 18 minutes. And we were
wondering if the PLT had any luck in getting his handheld
photos of the evidence of the underground volcano in the
Pacific'..
PLT Okay, Dick. I went over there and looked
for it and I found the islands in the area. The weather was
scattered as shown on the pad. I was unable to find the
pumice flow, and I took a few pictures in the area where
it was reported to be. However, I was not unable to see it.
I think that it probably had about the same appearence as -
in- coloration-wise, as many of the clouds in the area.
CC Skylab, Houston. We know that you're
off suncenter and in building block 15. And we thought
that was to be suncentered. Over.
CC Skylab, Houston. We notice that you' re
in building block 15 and not suncentered. And weren't sure
you got our last call, and were'nt - and were not sure the
the reason why, and didn't quite understand the pointing.
CDR I'm not sure what he's doing, Dick,
but he's using both hands up there so he may be getting
some special data.
SPT No, here I am now. I couldn't take
time to talk to you, Dick. The schedule sheet show the
roll of 9700, and I see it does say suncentered now. But,
52 is omitted and when 52 is omitted our normal procedure
is to go to right plage and do the - in order to increase
the number of counts on the 55 detectors. Now, I don' t
think that's going to make any difference in the data.
In fact I don't really see why you'd specify suncentered
since 52 is not operating. Over.
CC Roger. Stand by. Owen, we're satisfied
with the situation as it is and you're doing okay. So
don't worry about the data, it will be fine.
SPT Actually I think it'll be better this
way.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll stay off
the DAS fc_ a couple of minutes we're going to enable
momentum dump.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through commanding.
The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay.
END FO TAPE
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Time: 15:52 CDT, 22/:20:52
8/18/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We see the - the VTR

is selected to the AT:M and just wanted to make sure that
was intent [onal.
CDR Sure glad you reminded us.
CC Ro ge r.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the ATM console
we'd like Lhe manual pointing control switched to inhibit
instead of enable. It's no particular problem except that
warms up one of our torque amplifies and we'd like to get it
to inhibi t, please.
CDR What else do you want, Dick?
CC Roll switch to inhibit.
CDR Okay, we got it. Anything else?
CC One more thing. On the S055, detector
i to OFF.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re 1 minute from
LOS at Madrid. We'll see you at Guam at 21:26. We're _oin_
to dump the data tape recorder when we get to Guam. And also
we are shipping the JOP summary sheet change 6 out there
to the Site. So, if you can tell us at AOS Guam whether
or not you need another copy onboard we'll be happy to
uplink it there if required.
SPT Dick, I doubt if I have time to try
track it down between now and then. We'll just have to
wait a litLle longer.
CC Roger. We're not trying to make you
hurry to make the corrections, Owen. But at any rate the
message will be available for uplink anytime you need it.
SPT Okay, fine. Thank you a lot. I was
just down _ere working with AI and Jack and I'm not going
to have a =hance to get up there after that. Thank you.
CC Roger, understand. No problem.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours and 32
seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we've ]oss
our signal from the Madrid tracking station. Our next
acquisition of signal is expected to take place in about
25 minutes and 20 seconds at Guam. The spacecraft communicator
during th[_ last pass was Richard Truely. And astronaut
Hank Hartsfield is now on the control center and preparing
to take over. A change of shift is scheduled to take place
at approximately this time. This is Skylab Control at
21 hours I minute Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAP[_
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Time: 16:02 CDT, 22/21:02 GMT
8/18/73

and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Phil
Shaffer now going off shift, has informed us he'll be
available for a change-of-shift briefing at 4:30 p.m. central
daylight time, approximately 30 minutes from now. The
oncoming flight director is Charles Lewis. This is
Skylab Control at 3 minutes 6 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-914/I
Time: 16:49 CDT, 22/21:49 GMT
8/18/73

Greenwich mean time. We have recorded the pass over Guam
and we'll play that back for you at this time. There's
only a short period of time of commentary between spacecraft
communicator, Hank Hartsfield, and the crew. Here is the
pass over Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam 9-1/2 minutes
and as a reminder, we'll be dumping the data voice recorder
here.
CDR That you, Hank?
CC Yes, sir. How are y'all doing today?
CDR By, golly there is a Hank Hartsfield.
I thought he'd left the country. Welcome back.
CC Thank ya. Glad to be back.
from LOS. Vanguard at: 07.
CC Skylab, Houston 20 to LOS, Vanguard
at 07.
PAO That's all of the recording from the
Guam tracking station. Our next acquisition will be in a
little over 16 minutes at Vanguard. Later this evening,
at 9:44 p.m., central daylight time, Commander Alan Bean will
attempt to photograph a subsurface mountain near the Maria
Teresa Reef, at 37.5 degrees south, 151.3 degrees west, some
1500 miles east of East Cape, New Zealand. This is in the
south pacific at 37.5 south, 151.3 west. The space station
will cross this area on track 43 as it moves toward Mexico
City about a 6000 miles to the northeast. Using haze filters
on both the Hasselblad 70-millimeter camera and the Nikon
35-millimeter camera, equipped with a 300-milllmeter tele-
photo lens. Bean is expected to record the visible water
turbulance, formed by an Ocean current flowing south across
the peak which is submerged 50 feet beneath the ocean surface.
Tomorrow morning Just before 6:30, a.m. central daylight time,
As the space station follows 48 across the Gulf of Mexico, one
of the three crew members is expected to aim the tele- both
television and still cameras at Brenda, a tropical storm
reportedly building toward hurricane strength as it moves
across the tip of Mexico's Yucatan pennisula. The crew
will have a side-angle view of Brenda again tomorrow. They did
photograph it earlier today. They will pass about 300 and
400 - 300 to 400 miles east of the storm, which was moving
Yucatan channel between Mexico, and Cuba earlier this
afternoon. We' ii expect to hear more from the National
Weather Service on the status of Brenda, but it is expected
that we will do some photography of that tomorrow morning
about 6:30 a.m. central daylight time. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal in 14 minutes and 45 seconds.
It is now 52 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 5 minutes and

43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're just about a minute
from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship.
We'll remain llve for air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 8 minutes.
CC And Skylab, for info, we're going to go
ahead and up link that change number 6, the JOP summary sheet
so if you don't find yours you'll have it on board.
SPT Okay, Hank, was that in both Building block
33A and 36A. just change everything from 3 20 to a 520 .
CC Let me check it.
CC Skylab, Houston. That comment was correct
and Building blocks 3, 6, 33 and 36, the time should read
520 instead 320.
SPT Okay. That's 3, 6, 33, and 36.
CC That's right and that was part of the change
number 6 to the summary sheet.
SPT Thank you.
PLT (garble) Hank, 1 didn't copy down the time
of my phone call and I believe it's over Carnarvon. Would
you have the time right handy now, please?
CC Okay. That's 00:42.
PLT Okay. 42, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. The
Canaries at 26.
We have lost: signal at: the Vanguard trackinK. Our next
acquisition of signal in i0 minutes at the Canary Islands,
where we have a double pass through the Canary Island and
Madrid. This is Skylab Control at 16 minutes and 19 seconds
after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 17:24 CDT, 22/22:24 GMT
8/18/73

and 24 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've just heard
the warbler announcing approaching acquisition of si_nal
at the Canary Island. And we'll remain live for air-to-
ground from Canary Islands and then Madrid. NOAA's National
Hurricane Center has reported at the 5 p.m. central daylight
time reports that tropical storm Brenda continues to move
west-northwest at about 12 miles per hour_ slightly slower
than earlier today. Winds have increased to 65 miles per
hour. And Noah further reports that satellite and aircraft
data indicate Brenda will reach hurricane strength later
tonight as it moves into the southwest Gulf of Mexico. Itrs
not expected to reach land until late Tuesday according
to the National Hurricane Center Advisory. We are expecting
at 6:30 - just before 6:30 a.m. central daylight time tomorrow
that the Skylab crew will attempt to transmit further
llve television pictures of the storm for weather researchers
at Noah. We're remaining live for air-to-ground from
Canary Is land.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and
Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime this evening
when it's convenient we' re recommending that on panel 207
you take the PP_IMARY COOL PUMP B CAUTION AND WARNING to
INHIBIT. Now we've got secondary loop up and running and
we got AUTO switch over ENABLE, so there's actually no
requirement for that CAUTION AND WARNING. The AUTO switch
over will turn the PRIMARY PUMP B off. If it does, there's
the Delta P because the fluid loss does come on down.
So, what we were doing is preventing a caution and warning
from waking you up in the middle of the night.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy?
SPT _e copy. Say the switch again, please.
CC Okay, panel 207, Pri cool, PUMP B.
CAUTION AND WARNING, just take it to INHIBIT. We don't
think the primary loops - we think it's good for another
8 to 12 days but we're not sure and we'll just go ahead
and inhibit that cau1:ion and warning. We don't need it.
SPT PRI COOL, PUMP B.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We' Ii be roming up on Honeysuckle at 14 with
a voice dana recorder dump.
CDR Okay, and we been putting, in addition
to doing zhis TV today, we been recording it on the chan A
voice. _:_o,you'll probably find a lot of that on there.
We've go_ one more TV thing to do and then we can dump _t.
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CC Roger, we copy.
CDR How much is left on the TV right now?
CC You have about 8 minutes left.
CDR Okay, perfect.
Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at the Madrid
tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal 33 minutes
and 20 seconds from now will be at Honeysuckle in Australia.
Present time the space station has traveled a total of
35.5 million miles as it rolls about the Earth. This is
the 1390 revolution about the Earth. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition 33 minutes from now. It's 41 minutes
and 28 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 18:12 CDT 22/23:12 GMT
8118173

44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching acquisition
of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia.
We'll stay llve for alr-to-ground-from Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 8
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 7-1/2
minutes, and as a reminder, we'll be dumping the data
recorder here.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from
LOS. Bermuda at 58.
from LOS. Bermuda at 58.
PAO Skylab Control at 2S hours 23 minutes and
7 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition, a very
brief one, a low elevation pass at Bermuda will be in 35
minutes and 3 seconds. This is Skylab Control at 23 minutes
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and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Bermuda, a low elevation
pass that's expected to last just a few minutes. This is
Skylab Control, we will remain live for air-to-ground from
Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank.
SPT I'm going to be starting some of these
star checks, Hank.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Spt, Houston. We'd like to inhibit
the NUZ update there, so when you do get a lock on it,
it doesn't give us some bad data.
SPT Rog. I though it probably already was,
I'Ii stay off the DAS.
CC That's on your pad, there, Owen.
SPT Oln. Thank you very much. I should
have done __hat.
from LOS. Canaries at 06. And a reminder to the CDR that
your phone call and we think that the right antenna will be
good for tlne whole pass.
SPT Okay, Hank. That's fine. That's all the
star checks I'm going to have a chance to make and how about
reenabling it to the - You want me to do that and do you want
me to go get- find A star?
CC When you're through Owen, we'd like you
to reenable.
SPT Okay. And I' ii go try to find the
(garble) at just the right spot.
CC: Okay, sir.
CDR And is that phone call just 2 minutes,
then.
CC Roger. About 2 minutes for the CDR and
the VHF right antenna.
CDR I'ii get it.
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Time: 19:05 CDT, 23/00:05 GMT
8/18/73
PAO Skylab Control. We have acquisition of

signal at Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Canary and
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got 10-1/2 minutes
left on this pass through Canaries and Madrid.
SPT Star tracker update's reenabled and in
regard to the pad coordinates, for the star, we'll have
to wait and see how close they come next time we're around.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. I guess the reason we
had the trouble there with that thing it slipped our
minds, too, is that we were in the middle of a dump there. So
it would have been difficult for you to do very much with
that star check.
SPT Okay. I should have thought of that,
also. And - Before time for the star to set. So it wasn't
a very good cheek. Now the pad that you've given me really
expired about I hour ago, and I suppose tomorrow I'Ii have
to have another pad. I don't - Unless you think the numbers
will still be close enough.
CC Okay. I suppose we'll have to build
you another pad, Owen. However, the next night
pass momentum dump will be inhibited for JOP 7, if you
want to try it again.
SPT Okay. I'Ii just stay at the panel a
little late. I'ii be running this thing fast, I think, and
so I'II just stay at the panel a little late and try it.
A numberof stars can pick it right up after sunset.
CC Roger.
SPT Hank, are we getting - do you need an
update during - on the star tracker during the stateside here?
CC Stand by one.
CC SPT, Houston. We'll take an update.
SPT I was thinking of it the other way
around. I was going to inhibit it again and try to get
most of these stars on the dayside, if you didn't need a
NUZ update.
CC Okay, Owen. I guess we don't really
need it that bad. We Just thought maybe you could give it
to us. Why don't you go ahead and do that then.
SPT Okay, then if I finish or don't find
time or something, well I'II try to get you a Canopus also.
CC Okay. Good show.
SPT Hank, are you still there?
CC Roger.
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SPT I wanted to make sure that 82 B really

didn't want a 10-second exposure, every 15 seconds between
7 minutes, 40 seconds remaining, and Sunset. That's the
last item on the nex1_ orbit.
CC Okay. We'll check it.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 42. And a reminder for
the PLT, that's his phone call. And we think the right
antenna will also be good for him.
CC And, SPT, Houston. Go with the pad.
SPT Okay. I think that means what I said
is a correct interpretation of the pad. So, I'll go
with what I told you.
PAO Skylah, Control at 18 minutes and
24 seconds after 0 for Greenwich mean time. We have lost
signal at the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition
of signal is expected to be at Carnarvon in approximately
24 minutes and ii seconds. This is Skyla5 Control at
18 minutes and 40 seconds after the hour.
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_;I, I I I MC-920/I
TIME: 10:42 CDT 23/00:42 GMT
811FI173
PAO _C;kylab Control at 0 hours 42 mlnuLeB and

13 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab space station is approaching acquisition of signal
at Carnarvon. We expect to hear from them very shortly.
This is Skylab Control remaining live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for i0
minutes, and if you can give us the DAS, we want to INHIBIT
MOMENTUM Z!UMP.
SPT All right. You can have it.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. And as
a reminder, your video switch is in TV.
SPT Okay. Are you ready for the downlink now?
CC Okay. This will be recorded at the site
and they' re ready.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay. That completes the circuit of the
displays for the downlink TV. And just for your planners
back there, your region on the east limb is getting very
bright on the XUV.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Is there someone free who
can help us get the atmospheric Management started for the
M509 and TO20?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay. And AI, we got a few switches for
you on panel 225 then.
CDR Okay. Let me go up there.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. The AM fill primary. We want to
OPEN. And the 02 fill primary, primary i OPEN. That's
primary OPEN.
CDR Okay. We did and we have oxygen entering the
spacecraft.
CC Okay. And what we want to do, AI, is
leave those open until the PP02 is 4.0 psi or the cabin
pressure gets up to 5.7, which ever occurs first. And
we're going to help you watch that. It should take about
an hour and a half to do that and when it does - one of
those levels is reached 4 psi on the PPO2 or 5.7 total on
the cabin, we want to take those two switches to COMMAND.
CDR Okay. Understand that. You' re aware, of
course, that we're still bleeding out through the water
dump.
CC Roger. We understand.
CDR Okeydoke. Keep an eye on it.
CDR After we finish the TO20 tomorrow, what' s
the cabin pressure going to be?
CC We'll get an answer for you here in a sec.
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TIME: 19 _2 CDT 23/00:42 GMT
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CDR Okay. Give me another answer too. What' s our

velocity up here in s_tatute miles per hour?
CC CDR, Houston. We expect to start TO20
at 5. 3 and wind up at about 5.6.
CDR Okay. That's not bad. I didn't realize
how it was going to get down. Do you think that this
bleed will get down that low in the night, huh?
CC That' s affirmative.
from a sh(_::t LOS. We'll be picking up at Honeysuckle at
53. And aL that point I'd like to give you a few number
corrections on the master alarm- anomalies we sent up.
We had some poor numbering and I'd like to correct those
if I could
CC Those corrections will be on page Z-l, E-2,
and E-7 i_l the Flight Plan part under the master anomaly
list.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you at
Honeysuckie for 4-1/2 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you,

Honeysuckle, 4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your corrections
Hank. l'm standing here with the book.
CC Okay. On page E-l, there, you probably
noticed there, we sent an item A-5 up there the other day,
and that should have item A-4.
CC That's under ATH, there.
CDR Uh, oh. I'm under (garble) let me find it.
CC Okay. Page E-I under max anomaly
under S054.
CDR Okay. I - We knew them by subsystem
like ATM and number something. Okay. Go ahead and tell
me the number again, I'ii find it.
CC Okay. Page E-I. That's ATM SO54, and
we sent up an additional item there. We had it numbered
number 5 and it should be numbered number 4. There are
only three there that went up with you.
CDR We got them. We kind of suspected as
much. Go ahead. We got that.
CC Okay. And the same thing occurred on
the page E-2 on the ATM SO55, we sent up item 4, and there's
only one ahead of it, so it should be item 2.
CDR Okay. Got that one. What's next?
CC On page E-7, we sent up an item number 9.
That was back on day 222, and it should have been item num-
ber B-II. We've corrected item number 8, and number I0 on
(garble), so that number 9 we sent up should B-If. Number ii.
CDR Okay. Well I0 of them came up on
day 230. I Just go it. You want me to go back and take
the one that came up earlier and call it ii, is that it?
CC That's affirmative. The i0 that came
up - just came up corrected the previous one.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. Ready for the next.
CC That's all of the corrections on that, AI.
CDR Okay. We got it.
CC PLT, you able to copy some numbers?
CDR He's (garble) right now.
SPT Yeah. Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. Tomorrow morning, the TV of
Brenda will come during your postsleep, and I have your
acquisition time for you. It'll be at 11:24:52.
PLT (Garble), Hank?
CC Okay. Tomorrow morning during postsleep,
we're going to try to get some TV of the tropical storm,
Brenda, again. And your A0S time for Brenda is about 11:24:52.
And you should be able to see it on up through about 11:29:30,
with closest approach at 11:28.
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PLT Okay. I got that. You want TV and

photos, right?
CC That's affirmative. And we're about
20 seconds from LOS now. And we'll be coming up on Mile at
1:30. And we will do our evening status there, I Just
started on it. And we also have a voice data recorder
dump scheduled there.
PAO Skylab Control at 0 hours, 59 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Honeysuckle tracking station and don't expect to acquire
for another 30 minute_ and 47 seconds, at which time we
will acquire the tracking station through Merritt Island.
During this last pass, we heard discussion between the
crew and spacecraft communicator, Hank Hartsfield indicating
that tomorrow morning at 11:24:52 acquisition of view of
the tropical storm Brenda. They will be expected to begin
doing some television then. And they will also be doing
some photography. The closest approach which will be
at 11:28 Greenwich mean time, or 6:28 a.m. central daylight
time. They will be doing some photography of Brenda which
is now off the coast of Yucatan. This is $kylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal will be in 30 minutes. It is
now i hour and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:29 CDT; 23/01:29 GMT
.8/18/73
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 29 minutes and

28 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 50 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Merritt Island tracking station.
We'll stay live for air-to-ground from Merritt Island.
CC Skylab,i Houston through Merritt Island, 13
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston we have a couple of things
to get up and regarding some photo studies, one in regard
to the noctilucent cloud general message and one for the C-mount
photos. And we're also scheduled for the Evening Status Report
this site.
SPT Okay, i'd like for you to take a look at
the star tracker gimbal angles. They're quite a bit off
the (garble)
CC SPT, Houston we Just keyholed. Could you
say that again?
SPT I did have it on - a lock on a star that
might be Canopus, so I didn't want to enable Nu Z updates
so you could verify that it was a good lock-on.
CC Okay, we'll check it.
CDR And CDR standing by to read night report when-
ever you're ready.
CC We're ready.
CDR ()kay. 188, 220, 163; 5186; 8571; 5843;
6.255, 6.253, 6.255; 5.958, 5.960, 5.959; 9.967, 9.965,
9.966; the exercise: CDR's not yet; SPT, 2/30/4300, mark 1,
AS0, B30, D30; Pilot, no exercise yet. Medication: none.
Sleep: CDR, 7 G, 1/2 F; SPT, 6-1/2 G; Pilot, 7 G. Here
comes the food log: CDR, one salt pack, did not eat straw-
berries; SPT, no salt, add one cherry drink, one butter
cookie and one peanut; PLT, seven salts, two butter cookies,
one grape drink. Here comes the photo log: M487-4 F:
C148, 00, C143; M487, food transfer: CI49, 05, CI47; M487-4 A:
C140, 00, CI09, 35-millimeter: C11017, (garble); CX1200,
that was empty; BBI314; CX250 22; here's the drawer A:
07, C140, 00, CI09, 05, C146, 75, C141; 06, C149, 05, CI47;
03, C148, 00, C143; 02, C144, 19, C142. On that last one,
last night we reported that the 02 transporter had one - correction,
00 remaining, and that's what it looked llke last night,
and we looked at it this morning and it looked llke 19. All
I could guess was the little BB Jumped to a different place.
It must have rattled off zero or something. Anyhow, it looks
llke it's 19 at the moment. Next one, Plight Plan deviations:
everything's okay; shopping list accomplishment: 487-4A;
487-4P; housekeeping 60E, and all the others that were on
the Plight Plan and down in the little area that we could
accomplish. Inoperable equipment: well, we got a problem,
our rope broke - Owen, broke the rope on the mark i, and
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the little Allen screw that you unscrew to replace the rope
in the handle looks ]Like it's a - it's a size we do not
have. Now I don't remember what size we've have. I think we've
got 8 and i0 and it's a 9. (Garble) missing i0 or
something_ so we need some assistance - thought down here
on how we might release this Allen screw without the proper
Allen wrench. Or maybe we've got the proper one somewhere
and we Just don't know it. That's it.
SPT ][ need some better star tracker coordintes
it looks 2 ike.
CC We' re working it Owen.
CC SPT, Houston. Would you try an inner gimbal
of minus 636. That should be more gac - or more exact. It
looks like you're in the right place.
CC And, SPT, Houston if you give us the DAS we'll
ENABLE DUMP.
SPT _ou can have it.
CC Did you copy the gimbal angle?
CC ()kay, CDR, Houston. We've got a correction
to your C--mount photos pad.
CDR ()kay, go ahead.
CC ()kay, we gave you some bad settings for the
Nikon. We want you to use a shutter speed of 12/50, and
an aperture of f/4.5.
CDR ! can do it.
CC And we also had an error in permanent gen-
eral message number 8-A that we sent up regarding SO63. The
- there was a statement in there regarding the filter on
llne seven. It said that - use the filter single visible;
that line should be deleted. That reference to the filter,
there shouldn't be any filter used when taking photography
of the no_:tilucent clouds.
CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CDR In other words you want me to cut the part
that says filter singular visible?
CC Roger. In the message there is says filter
single visible, that should be deleted. There should be
no filter for the photos of the noctilucent clouds.
CDR ()kay, we've looked for these a couple of
times and we don't see those noetilucent clouds, I'm afraid
right now. We'll have to improve our eyeballs.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT Hey, Hank, we're still a little bit open.
CC ()kay, SPT, I think the star is probably set
by now. Just quit trying on it.
CC And, CDR, your speed is 17,112.8 miles per hour.
CDR ()kay. Thank you.
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CC Skylab, Houston. Are you about through

with the VTR for the evening?
CDR We are finished, thanks for reminding
me. Please just dump it. We've got all the TV on it now.
CC Okay. Could you give us a brief su*._ary
of what you have on there to help us in getting the stuff
squared away?
CDR Okay. We put three different events on
there. We, - I got a haircut from Owen, so we got that on
there for about i0 minutes. Next, we did some tumbling and
acrobatics up in the dome area and that's on there for about
12 minut6s. And then we gave Jack a shower and that's on
there for about 8 minutes. We repeated some of the steps
and we blocked it out, so that it might be applicable to
editing and cutting up and be useful through the networks
as opposed to just being a single straight run up here. We
tried to give them something that they might be able to
piece together to a good little couple of minutes ah - blurp.
CC Okay. Good show. We'd like to get
started on a few questions here, if we could. Did the SPT
perform the M487 3-Bravo, yesterday?
SPT I tried to get it done yesterday, but
had to do it later this morning. It's all ready been on the
channel A.
CC Okay. That is accomplished. Thank
you, sir.
CC And I guess you've all ready answered
the question. You haven't seen any noctilucent clouds.
We'd like to know if it's possible that a white line might
have been present in the twilight airglow band, which might
have been an noctilucent cloud.
SPT If you're talking about that little
white band tP.at Larry has some photographs of. I've
seen those p._.otographs and I have not seen that white band
in that altitude anytime since we've been up here, although
I've made a special point of looking. There is some banded
structure, however, in the atmosphere, as it strayed from a
blue into a sort of a white, and then the blackness of space.
And those bands do appear to be different from time to time.
But, I've seen nothing that I would interpret as being
noctilucent clouds and - Nor have I seen that white band.
I ah - in the ah - sort: of a faint blue layer that Larry
in particular has photographs of and has described to us
on several occasions. I've been looking for cloud suctions
that are 80-millimeters high. I presume that's the sort of
altitude yoLk're talking about.
CC That's correct. We're about to LOS,
then will[ he coming up on Madrid 47.
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21 seconds Greenwlch mean time. At the present time we're
out of range of the Bermuda tracking station. Our next
acquisition of signal will be at Madrid approximately 2 min-
utes and 40 seconds from now. At the present time, Mission
Flight Controllers are completing an enrichment of the
space station's atmospheric oxygen supply by releasing
additional o×ygen gas. The partial pressure of oxygen, will
be increased to about 4 pounds per square inch, with the
total spacecraft atmospheric pressure being raised to about
5. 7 pounds per square inch. Standard pressure on the
spacecraft i;_ 5.0. At the present the partial pressure of
oxygen is 3. 7 PSI and cabin pressure is 5.5. The oxygen
enrichment tonight, is necar- is a necessary prelude to
the use of T320, the foot control maneuvering unit scheduled
for first use tomorrow by Commander Alan Bean. Jack Lousma
will capture the experimental flight on the television
video tape recorder. TO20 like the other maneuvering units
aboard Skylab, uses nitrogen gas for propulsion. In order
to maintain a proper percentage of oxygen gas in the space
station atmosphere, controllers must first increase the
oxygen content before using the maneuvering equipment. Then
after some i0 to 18 pounds of nitrogen are released in the
test flight, the excess oxygen and nitrogen will be allowed
to escape into the wast,.
= tank. By increasing oxygen tonight
before releasing the nitrogen from the foot control maneuvering
unit tomorrow, the necessary balance of nitrogen and oxygen
is maintained. Oxygen levels are usually kept between 66
percent and 78 percent of the space station atmosphere. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground from Madrid approximately 1 minute
from now. This is Skylab Control remaining live.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. On your M509 run
number 3 or OAC 3, whicln feet position was used?
SPT Stand by a minute here Hank. Still checking.
CC Okay. While they' re checking there,
SPT, on mission day 20, you gave a report saying you gave
Arabella some water, did you also give water to Anita?
SPT Affirmative. Would be nice if I had
a sponge, I could give iher some water with, but all I could
do was to sort of blow a few drops of water down into the
container.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT (Garble) position Delta. And AI' s got
a couple of words for you.
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CC ()kay.
CDR And, don't dump that VTR recorder yet.
We'll let y_,J dump it ill _:nother - in a little while. Is
that okay?
CC ()kay. We had planned to dump it on
the next C_)_NUS pass. That' s about an hour from now.
CDR Okay. We'll be - we'll be in good shape
by then.
CDR How much time's left on there now, by
the way ?
CC And ah - Skylab be advised the video
switch is i_ the monitor position. If you recorded some-
thing recently, it might not have gotten on.
CDR That's what we think. And we want to
record something over the last couple of minutes. How many
minutes are left?
CC Okay. There are 3-1/2 minutes left and
the previou_ 2 minutes was on the TV on the ATM monitor.
CDR Okay. We'll put it on the last three.
Thank you.
CC Okay. We'd like to run through some
comments anG questions from - Bob had here, in the couple
of minutes we have left here. Would the CDR be willing to
have a Ml31-1 scheduled on himself. We're just interested
in your comNents concerning the OGI. And also we've got
some basel[_et data, that we could use.
CDR You bet. Be glad to do it.
CC Okay. We copy. And we'd like to know
if anybody_ _ had any problems with taking a shower, since
there's %o_, _ot water pressure.
CDR Jack's the only one that's had a shower,
we' ii ask _ J _o
PLT Yeah. It worked great, Hank. Got a
clean Mari_ _
CC Okay. Sounds good. Now a little bit
on the hemoglobin and urine specific gravity. Hopefully
the hemogl,Dbin determinations from the finger stick or
ear-lobe sti(k blood will prove to be more accurate and
more easilT_ to accomplish. The specific gravity of urine
is also vet> important when done in conjunction with the
hemoglobin _e terminaticn, since both reflect the body
first stat__. The urire specific gravity procedure in
permanent _T_essage number 15, that we sent up was an attempt
to simplif 7. Do you think this is going to help it a little
bit?
SPT We're familiar with the message and I
think it w[ I_ simplify and J t'll be no problem.
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CC Okay. We are evaluating, still, both

the hemoglobin and specific gravity procedures to shorten
them as much as possible.
SPT Okay. I don't thing there's any short-
cut on hemoglobin. And we Just know - know how do to it,
and we just take it so long. We'll have to do a finger
stick of course, due to the unreliability of venous blood, but
aside from that, we'll just procede on whenever scheduled.
CC Okay. May - - maybe having the refractometer
for urine more accessible will cut down the time required to do
this. And we _ii - -
CDR Think you' re right. We' ii have it
staged conveniently.
CDR Looks like we're going to reach the
5.7 cabin pressure before we reach 4.0 CO 2.
CC Roger. We copy. And, Owen, we prefer -
the surgeon prefers the ear-lobe stick.
CDR Send him up. We' ii stick his ear-lobe.
CC Surgeon says thanks. (Laughter). And, AI,
we concur that the 2 hours really puts this into the experi-
ment status. And we'd like to cut this time to avoid the
change of status if we ,'_an.
CC Subject, exercise: Do you feel a physical
need for exercise? If :3o, has it increased with time in orbit?
Please comment on the desirability of a method that would
allow prolo_,_ed walking or running with near l-g Nody-weight
loads.
SPT You want to comment on that real time or
on channel B That might take a couple of minutes. What do
you want, Hank?
CC Oka_y. How about putting it on channel A,
please.
CDR Okay. You wanted a comment about whether
or not we fe Lt a - You were cut out in the middle of your
question. Why don't you repeat it quickly?
CC Okay. We would like to know if you feel
a physical need for exercise, and if so has it increased with
time in orbit? And then also comment on the desirability of a
method that would allow prolonged walking or running with
near l-g bod]_ weight loads.
CDR Okay. Understand. We'll comment on
channel A.
CC Okay. On MO92: We'd like to know if
you are currently using blood pressure cuff serial num-
ber 0.011, and you can put that on channel A also, if you
don't know the number right off.
SPT I know. The answer is yes. We have the
other one s_nding by, in case of a double run, so we could get
one that is _ot too sweaty. But we've been using 011.
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CC Okay. And we'd also like the number of

the one you' _e been using before.
CC You can put that on the recorder.
CDR Okay. I don't remember the other number.
CC And we would like to know if the saddle
settings are still 6, 7, and 8, for the CDR, SPT, and PLT?
CDR The last run on the SPT made it 6.
So that'll be 6, 6, and 8 from now on.
CC Roger. We copy 6, 6, and 8. And we're
about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station contact will be
Carnarvon, at 02:21. And that' s our reed conference.
CC And we - We still have a few more things
we'd like to discuss with you, maybe pick them up on the
Honeysuckle part of that pass.
PAO Skylab Control at I hour 56 minutes and
19 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition in 24 min-
utes and 25 seconds will be at Carnarvon. At Carnarvon,
we have some medical - some medical conference, which will
he private, if there is time left over at the end of that
medical conference, they may be expected to hand it over
again to Mission Control. Immediately following the Carnarvon
pass, we do have a pass at Honeysuckle and expect discussion
there. This is Skylab Control at 56 minutes and 47 seconds
after the hour.
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TIME: 21:20 CDT 23102:20 GHT
8/18/73

Greenwich mean time. At the present time we are approaching
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon. We expect this will be
a private medical conference and we do not expect to hear
from them until late in the pass. This is Skylab Control
remaining live for air-to-ground from Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get you to
terminate the AM fill now. That's taking the - on panel
225, the AM PRI fill and the 02 PRI fill to COMMAND.
SPT He was on his way in to do it. Just then,
Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you Sir, and we also need to
get the S056 door open.
SPT That's a good idea.
CC And also we'd like to know if you're through
with the VTR, if you are, we're going to rewind her.
SPT That's affirm. Completely finished this
time, so it's all yours.
CC Thank you Sir.
CC And Skylab, we're about 20 seconds from
LOS, a short one, we'll picking you up at Honeysuckle at
about 32.
SPT What time are you going to give me a wake
up call tomorrow so I can get that hurricane, Dick?
CC Okay. I guess we can use a normal wakeup
time. You acquire the thing at approximately 11:25 Z, and
we suggest that you go ahead and set up the TV camera this
evening in STS window i, so it'll be ready for you in the
morning.
CDR Okay. Well, what time will that be?
CC That's 11:25. We gave you an acquisition
time a while ago.
CDR Yeah, I mean, but what time for get up?
CC ii:00 on the wakeup.
PAO Skylab Control. We have lost signal temp-
orily and we'll pick it up shortly at Honeysuckle.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you

through Honeysuckle for about 3-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. And, Hank, we terminated the 02.
CC Roger. Thank you, sir. And in answer to Jack's
question, we don't have our P set run-out yet, but it
looks like from the CAL COMP that we will wake you up at
Guam in the morning. That's Just a little prior to ii:00.
CDR Okay. That sounds good, Hank.
CC And one quick question on the photo report.
We got a squiggle on our tape here about the time you were
telling us the frame count on the mag Charlie India I01,
the 35 millimeter. Could you tell us what that frame count
is?
CDR I think it's 27.
CC Copy. 27.
CC Okay. I'd like to continue here with a few
more questions from the surgeon, regarding the MO92. We'd
llke to know for the CDR, did you notice any discomfort in
the saddle and also for the SPT was discomfort your reason
for changing your setting?
CDR This is the CDR. My reason for changing was
I was way too far down in it, and the rubber growmet was
squeezing on my stomach and I think it was acting like a
blood pressure cuff and preventing blood from floating back
to my leg. I moved it out higher so it squeezed down towards
my hip, like it's done on the Earth prior to the flight,
and it was a lot better. I'm thinking about moving it one
further out like it was before.
SPT Essentially the same answer applies to the
SPT. In zero g, you Just float further down (garble) keep my
body in approximately the same position relative to the iris,
that it is in one g.
CC Roger. We copy. And have you noticed any
change in head fullness doing the M092?
SPT SPT's noticed none.
CDR CDR none.
PLT I've been empty-headed for a long time, Dick.
CC Roger. I wonder if there's any more awareness
of head fullness in doing the mark 1 exercises?
CDR This is CDR. Just the normal amount that
comes when you strain hard, drop down hard.
SPT As far as the SPT is concerned, any heavy
exercise always seems to clear my head up. It does that in
one g and it does in zero g, Just the same.
PLT Hank, I haven't been noticing any head fullness,
regardless of what I'm doing up here, since the first day.
CC Roger. We copy. We're about 30 seconds
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from LOS now and we do have a few more items we'd like to
discuss with you. If it's okay with you, we'd llke to
continue stateside. It's 3 minutes into your bedtime.
That' s up to you.
CDR You bet.
CC Okay, then we'll see you over Texas at 03.
CDR We're already to take the C-mount picture
if we can see it.
CC Okay.
48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now
at the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition
of signal will be at Texas. And that will be 3 minutes
after the hour, 27 minutes and 43 seconds from now. The
crew was instructed just a short time ago during the
Honeysuckle pass that they would be awakened early in the
morning. The wakeup time is expected to be between 5:47
and 5:57, as they're within range of the Guam tracking
station. This is Skylab Control at 36 minutes and
23 seconds after the hour.
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SL III MC-926/I
TIME: 22:02 CDT 23/03:02 GMT
8/18/73

34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now i minute and
5 seconds from acquisition of signal at Texas, and we'll
remain llve for air-to-ground from Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 16-i/2
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 16 minutes
left this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside 15-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank was there anything else?
CC Okay. Let's wind this up so you guys can
get to bed. Owen, we got a lot of static and (garble)
apparently when you were talking about your comments on
the MO92 saddle. We would llke to get you to repeat those
comments if you would, please.
SPT Oh, as far as when I put it in six is
essentially for the same reason AI mentioned namely, was to
position my body in the same position relative to the iris
was in one g. In zero g, you simply float further down into
the can and you have to raise the saddle up to keep you -
the iris essentially at the same spot above your hip bone.
CC Roger. We copy and we'd like to know if
you noticed any nodding of the head in association with
the heartbeat. The SL II crew reported this occasionly,
even though it was very subtle.
SPT Oh yes, you can tell that. When you lay
very quitely, as a matter of fact, Jack just mentioned it
to me, I thi_nk, day before yesterday on last run with Jack.
When you lay there very quietly, your heart beating will
cause a sligi_t oscillation in the upper torso.
CC That's pretty interesting. Let me ask a
couple of questions about the food now. What permanent
menu changes are you now following?
SPT Let's see, as far as permanent changes, I
have no changes, although one of them might as well become -
excuse me - [ do have one. Pork loin is removed from one
of my days menus and spaghetti is inserted. I've also been
omitting aspargus when it rolls around, because somebody
apparently doesn't know the difference between a stalk and
a tip, but anyway, asparagus is normally omitted, but those
are the only two things that I have normally or routinely
done. I've _upI_lemented my diet as you can tell from the
daily report. As far as any changes the others may have,
they'll ha_e to speak for themselves.
SPT AI mentioned sometimes he substituted -
peaches for _[rawberries.
PLT Jack eats everything that's on the menu
except for _,,ead and tuna fish when they appear together.
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PLT Plus a few extra drinks and stuff that gets

reported.
CC Roger, we copy. On what days did you not
take vitamins and also in what locker is the third bottle
of vitamins.
SPT We've been taking vitamins regularly. There
were a few days at the beginning of the mission, approximately
the first week, when we were not on the regular diet that we
were not taking supplements. And when we didn't take the supplements,
we omitted the vitamins, but the one vitamin bottle that we first
had has been depleted, and we've opened up the two - the one
can that came up with us in the command module, which has three
vitamin bottles in it and we're Just working our way through those
three. We're working on the first of those three bottles right now.
SPT We take them every day.
CC Roger. We copy. Have you water cleaned
the waste processor exterior recently?
SPT Yes.
SPT Anything else, Hank?
CC Out of curioUsity, I guess, we'd like to
know what stars that you think you tracked while ago, then
we can look at our data to see if we agree.
SPT Okay, Just a minute. I'ii have to get
that pad out. I was saving it until a convenient time to
talk to you about it. I'ii see about it. Just a minute, I'ii
get it.
CC We can hold on that Owen, if you'd rather
not do it now, we can hold on that.
SPT Go ahead with your question.
CC Okay. That finishes up all of our questions
for this evening. I got a little bit of news here if you're
interested in that, if not, we can say goodnight.
SPT Go ahead with the news then. I may be
looking up that pad while you're at it.
CC Okay. Cambodia's top military man says
Saturday he would ask the U.S. to resume air strikes if the
Communists ignore the Indochina peace agreement. The
bombing of Cambodia, as you know, stopped on August 15.
The Sunday paper reports that in Houston prices for at
least 25 standard super market items increased almost
i0 percent during the past 4 weeks. James Webb, the ex
NASA administrator will discuss the future of the U.S.
space program at an August 27th dinner honoring Mrs.
Lyndon Johnson. The dinner -
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Time: 22:10 CDT, 23/03:10 GMT
8/18/73
CC James Webb, the ex NASA Administrator,

will discuss the future of the U.S. Space Program at an
August 27th dinner honoring Mrs. Lyndon Johnson. The dinner
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, will follow the formal dedica-
tion of the Johnson Space Center. Dedication ceremonies
will coincide with the late President's birthday. Here's
a bit of Navy news. For the next 6 months the population
of Brimington, Washington, Bremerton, Washington will be
i0 percent greater. The big E is docked Zhere for repair
and maintenance, and there are 3000 Navy men and their families are
in port there. From the Sports World. Hank Aaron hit number 703,
yesterday. That's number 30 for the season. And we've got
a couple of scores here for the season. The Astros are
leading the Philies 3 to 2, somewhere pass the 6th inning,
I'm not sure And at halftime the Packers are beating
the Oilers 20 to 14.
CDR Okay, Hank that's fine. It looks like
I'ii have to talk to you about stars tomorrow.
CC Okay. Get a good nights rest, and we'll
see you in _:he morning.
SPT Okay. We've got a few more things to
do around here before we hit the pad but we'll see you in
the morning, early.
CC Okay.
21 minutes and ii seconds Greenwich mean time. We have
lost signal from our Bermuda tracking station. The next
acquisition in 3 minutes and 23 seconds at Madrid. We do
not expect to hear any further from the crew tonight.
We will be recording the. pass at Madrid. During the remainder
of the evening today, we have had a number of things going
on here in Mission Control, mostly planning for tomorrow's
activities. The Skylab Control Flight Director Charles Lewis
is looking over tomorrow's plans and has indicated an approval
for several separate plans. One include - One of the plans
included is the investigation of the coolanol system. Pilot
Jack Lousma will check the leaks in the coolant system
tomorrow, used - this is a coolant system used by telemetry
electronics and environmental control systems on the space
station. Lousma will look for coolanol a colorless liquid
that smells like alcohol and feels llke light-weight machine
oil. The co¢lanol may show up on fiberglass tape that's
used to wrap coolant lines. To get at the lines Lousma
will remove access pane] doors from the airlock module tape-
recorder and the the cover from molecular sieve A. An
hour and a half beginning at 7:30 p.m. central daylight time,
has been set aside for the inspection. A1 Bean will operate
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TO20, the foot control maneuvering unit tomorrow afternoon,

with Jack Lousma observing and acting as TV cameraman for
the test flight of the jet shoes. Several special activities
set aside fcr photography tomorrow have been indicated. One
of those is the photography of the Antipodes, that is set
for 156:02 ¢reenwich mean time. It will include voice
description and Hasselblad and Nikon telephoto photography out
of the STS window. Also indicated for special photography
tomorrow are Straits of' Magellan, an area Of the southern
tip of South America, and the Curacao Reef. We have the medical
report from the surgeon, and I'Ii read that to you momentarily.
PAO Dr. Buchanan reports this was a day-off
for the Skylab crew. They have rested showered, and reported
feeling refreshed and ready to go. We have every reason
to think that their health is good to excellent at this
point in the mission. That's Dr. Buchanan's statement
for Dr. Hawkins.
PAO Scheduled for activity again tomorrow
will be an attempt to photograph the Tonga Island area. This
region is believed to contain a floating mass of pumice of
a whitish-grey color, and area expected to cover about
200 square kilometers, or 80 square miles. That area in the
Tongas was attempt - was attempted earlier today by Jack
Lousma, who said he could not spot the floating mass of
pumice, believed to have come from a volcano to the north
of the mass. They will make an attempt tomorrow to take
photography of that region. They have concluded this
evening, tile pressurization using oxygen of the space
station. Pressure levels in the space station actually, did
reach to about 5.8 or 5.9 pounds per square inch. The
reason for the pressurization is to balance the nitrogen
used in the TO20 experiment tomorrow, and then following that
use of TO20, they will depressurize by dumping oxygen and
nitrogen into the waste tanks. This is Skylab Control.
We do have _cquisition of signal at Madrid. We'll stay
llve through that pass at Madrid, and then we'll close out
for the evening. We do not expect to hear from the crew
at Madrid.
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SL III MC-928/I
TIME: 22:25 CDT 23/03:110 GMT
8118173
SPT Hello, Houston. Are you there?

CC Roger. Go ahead.
SPT Hello Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?
SPT Yeah, Hank. I guess we're - maybe Just
about to go LOS. I was going to give you that star tracker
information How much 1:ime do we have?
CC About 25 seconds.
SPT Well, I guess we better let it go with
doing nothing more than saying that I got ahold of Hadar
and Rigel. I missed Atria and Avior. I didn't have a
chance to look at Acamar. Do you agree with that?
CC Roger. We agree.
SPT Okay. It looks like the magnitude is
somewhere around zero capability. Mainly you get down
to plus i, we didn't have any stars right in that magnitude.
But why don' _: you take a look at it and see whether or
not it matches spec and whether or not you think a few
more checks would be worth while. Over.
CC Okay, we'll do that, Owen.
SPT See you tomorrow.
CC Good night.
SPT He was trying to photograph the old Auroa
above Laboraeor and Greenland-
43 seconds Creenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Madrid tracking station as you heard Owen Garriott did
make a final (:all down to report on the use of the scar
tracker. That's the instrument that' s used for attitude
control when they're out; of sight of the Sun. At present
time the spacecraft is passing into daylight for a little
over an hour. Tomorrow's schedule for target of opportunity
photography includes several sites. One is beginning
early in the morning is hurricane Brenda. The crew will
be waking up early so they can get prepared for that
photography. The crew wakeup is expected to take place between
5:47 and 5:57 a.m. central daylight time, and they will
be awakened over the Guam tracking station. That hurricane
photography should be between 6:25 and 6:30 a.m. central
daylight time. Hurrican Brenda is Just north of Yucatan
peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. They will use both
live television photogrsphy and color photography of the
hurricane. Later in the morning at about 11:25 to 11:35,
they will photograph the Straits of Magellan, again using
the Hasselblad 70 millimeter camera and the Nikon 35
millimeter camera with a 300 millimeter telephoto lens.
In addition tc the color pictures of the Straits of
Magellan and areas in Argentina and Chili, in the after
noon they have scheduled photography of the Curacao reef,
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Tonga Island area. That's again a repeat of today's attempt

to photogra1_n a large mass of whlteish gray pumice that's
believed to aave come from a volcano beneath the surface
of the ocean. The location is at 15.9 degrees south, 175.9
degrees west:. This southeast of the Samoan Islands was
viewed today by Jack Lousma, who reported that he was not
able to spe _- the pumice, which is floating from an under-
water volcano just to t[he northeast. Information about
the pumice flow was reported by an eastern airlines
pilot and i_._ expected to cover about 200 square kilometers
or 80 square miles, was transmitted to NASA Earth Resources
scientists by the Smithsonian Institution Center for
short lived l)nenomena in Massachusettes. They have been
reporting th [ough the mission on activities around the
world that _,_[ght be of interest to the Skylab crew and
would be va[ _able to attract photography on. Because of
the remote i _cation of this volcanic eruption, very little
information has been gathered. A ship's captain did report
that the pumLce is apparently 12 to 18 inches thick and
appears strong enough to walk on. And there is some
interest among scientists who believe that it may be a formation
of a small island. Later in the day at approximately
8:15 to 8:25 _.m., the Laecaclive Islands off the coast of
India will be photographed. The Laccaclive Islands are
expected to _how a certain pattern in the water there,
both in the shoal areas, where the water will appear
light blue and the deeper areas showing some currents -
ocean currents as they :flow by these small islands off
the coast of India. At approximately 8:45 to 8:55 p.m.
the crew wiii be asked r_o attempt to get photography of
Antipodes I_;iands, and l_.hat will complete their day of
target of opportunity photography. Also scheduled for
tomorrow are: use of the TO20, foot control maneuvering
unit or jet ._;hoes and that will be the first use of that.
And also an inspection to attempt to find the leak in the
coolant loop r_hat has been - that was at one time in fact
the reason for concern. It is no longer a major concern,
although it will be necessary to reserviee those coolant
loops. The_ re going to try and find the leak in the
coolant ioo_ tomorrow evening. Jack Lousma will be doing
that activity Also on schedule for tomorrow are MO92,
MO93 runs with Pilot Jack Lousma as the subject and the
Science Pilo|: Owen Garrlott as the observer. The crew
has said goodnight for a final time at Madrid. We do not
expect to hear from them again until we awaken them at
Guam tomorrow' morning just before 6:00 a.m. This is
Skylab Contrt, i at 36 minutes and 45 seconds after the hour.
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SL-III MC-929/I
Time: 05:45 CDT 23/10:45 GMT
8/19/73

i0 hours 45 minutes. We will have wake up over the Guam
tracking station for the Skylab-3 crew to begin their 23rd
day in orbit. Today's activities include a series of photo-
graphs of natural phenemena, geographic features in the Pacific,
South America, and attempts to catch the hurricane Brenda
in the Gulf cf Mexico by television and cameras. Today also
the crew will fly the TO20 foot maneuvering unit. This is
a device to evaluate a foot control maneuvering unit, and
the crew will ride the unit much like sitting on a bar stool.
This is an e_periment of Donald Hughes of the Langley Research
Center of Hampton, VirBinia. At Greenwich mean time i0 hours
46 minutes, we'll leave the line open for a wake up call over
Guam with Capcomm Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you for
2 minutes through Guam.
SPT Okay Story, just a couple of quick items
get underway here. First of all I'd like to make sure
I've got S063 pad up here, I didn't see one last night. And
the second item is, I'd like to let Ted Bura8 know that this
is his day up here in Skylab. If you'd call Ted and let him know
we sure appreciate all the work he did putting out fires, tracking
down problems, and making sure things were going to be working
just right, we're convinced (garble) important factor in making
sure the ATM and other areas were all working well. If you'd
call Ted for us we'd appreciate it.
CC Okay, I'Ii sure do it. And you've got an
ATM pass coming up here pretty soon. And Jack's photography
meeting with Brenda will be in about half an hour.
PLT I guess that's my first date with a lady since
being up here, huh.
CC Well, I don't know. You'll have to tell me
about that.
CC We're a minute from LOS here. We'll see you
over Goldstone in 17 minutes at 11:12. And Jack, I'ii have
some TV camera settings for you at that time. And we've got
the lines up for real time TV.
PLT Okay, thank you, Story.
CC And Owen, there is an S063 pad onboard.
SPT Okay, I hope it came up during the night because
I didn't have one at bed time last night.
CC That's affirm.
PAO Greenwich mean time i0 hours 58 minutes with
loss of signal at Hawaii. At Guam the crew is starting their
23rd day in _pace. Their first activity on the calendar is to
attempt to _)hotograph hurricane Brenda presently off the coast
of Yucatan i_ the Gulf of Mexico. Later on today they wi]]
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spend 8-1/2 hours on the Apollo telescope mount gathering

information on the ever changing Sun, fly the TO20 foot man-
euvering unit. Pilot Jack Lousma will perform the M092, M093
medical experiment this morning. This is the lower body neg-
ative pressure device and the vectocardiogram. Later this
afternoon Pilot Lousma will make an inspection of the cooling
loop system aboard the spacecraft in an attempt to determine
if in fact there is a leak in the system. He will remove some
panels on the spacecraft to see if he can find a leak in
the coolant loop system. Greenwich mean time I0 hours 59 min-
utes, with acquisition at Goldstone in 12 minutes 45 seconds.
This is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-930/I
Time: 06:11 CDT 23/11:11 GMT
8/19/73

ii hours Ii minutes with acquisition at Goldstone as Skylab-3
makes its first pass over the states this morning. During
this pass, the crew will attempt to photograph and possibly
take live television pictures of the hurricane Brenda presently
located off the coast of Yucaitan in the Gulf of Mexico. We'll
leave the line up for conversation between Capcomm Dr. Story
Musgrave and the crew of Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And Owen, your solar update this morning,
the Sun has remained quiet. Active region 93 contains a small
spot, and is moderately intense in XUV. Active region 96, at
70 degrees point 3, is a new emerging feature. Slightly active
prominences are present on the east limb at 240 and 260. And
Owen, some time in the next 15 minutes, I'd like to get a
frame count on the ATM.
SPT Okay. I forgot to call it down to you last
night. 2797, 2129, 74, 211, 2763, 2738.
CC Say just the H-alpha again.
SPT 2797.
CC Okay. And if possible we'd llke to get these
during the evening status report. As we come down the final
stretch here towards the EVA, we're looking very closely at
the frames remaining and scheduling the ATM accordingly.
SPT Okay, you'd like that in the evening status
report?
CC If possible that would be fine.
SPT How about just calling it down to you on one
of the last: passes during the evening? That way it saves us
transferring to a hook that is downstairs, and a lot of book
work up here. And it's real easy for the guy on the panel
to take i0 seconds to do it.
CC Okay, beautiful.
CC And PLT, at your convenience, I've got your
TV camera settings for Brenda and an update.
SPT You need a star tracker there - lock-on
this morning?
CC I'll see.
SPT Say again.
CC I'll find out shortly, Owen.
CC Yeah, that would be fine at your convenience,
0wen. And _he pad you've got should be good.
CDR Hey, Story, I've got a couple of additions
to last night's nightly report on exercise. Can I give them to
you now?
CC Go ahead.
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CDR Okay, CDR 233, 5003, 3 mark 5, 40 A, 20 B,

20 C, 20 D, 20 sit ups; 2, i0, mark 2, 20 A) i0 B, i0 C,
i0 F. And then let me give you the PLT also; 2, 30, 6710,
05, 0534; 3, 20, mark i, 50 A, 20B, 20 D, 20 back bends.
CC Okay.
CDR And we also replaced the SIA that we had fail.
I forget the number of the housekeeping pass, but that's just
coming.
CC Okay.
CDR That's just after in about 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. How do you read?
PLT I came up here - getting the window clean,
and got any new times? Or are the ones I had last night good?
CC Those times ought to be good. Now we do have
a position t:_at's a little different than what you got last
night. It' _ on the northernmost part of the Yucatan peninsula.
It's right on the seashore edge. And I've got some TV settings
here for you when you're ready to copy.
CC If you were calling, Jack, we just handed over
to Texas.
PLT Okay, go ahead with the setting, Story.
CC Linear and average, F-stop 16, focus infinity
zoom 25 or a_ desired.
CC And there is a lot of people down here
been looking at your TV pictures from yesterday.
PLT How did they come out?
CC They came out fine, and they have been on all
the networked.
PLT Already, you mean? The day-off pictures are on
the network _
CC Those are your TV pictures of Brenda.
PLT Oh, okay.
CC The day-off pictures, during the long hours
of the night here last night, we all enjoyed looking at them very
much.
PLT There is no business like show business.
CC Boy, that's right, and it was done well.
PLT Story, is STS-I still our best window?
CC Yes , sir.
CDR We keep wondering, STS looks parallel to us
to the EREP window. And you never call out the EREP window,
and yet that looks like that might be even better.
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CC I'm working on an answer for you.

SPT Story, what's the status of this storm?
Is it a hurricane or tropical storm?
CC It's a tropical storm now, about 55 knots.
CC And from down here we're still thinking
that STS i is the best.
SPT What's the general movement of the storm,
Story.
CC It's moving at about heading 285.
SPT At what speed?
CC Ten knots.
CC Jack, we got a good picture down here.
PLT Okay, I'm showing you a picture out of
number 4 w_ndow this time. You can see one of the straps
there that's been tightened up to hold the sail the - one
of the reefing lines and there's the edge of one of the solar
panel right there.
PLT I enjoy looking out the STS windows more
than the wardroom window almost because you get the feeling that
you're really driving a big machine otherwise, you kind of Just
looking out of the porthole llke looklng into an acquarlum
or a - out the window of an airplane when you're looking out
the wardroom window although you can see more.
CC Okay, it's a good picture and you ought
to have acquisition of Brenda at this time.
PLT Okay, let me whistle over to the
other window here.
PLT Okay, we're just coming up on the Sunrise
of the Skylab, over here you can see it's still dark.
CC The sun angle be between zero and one.
PLT Okay, I've got the point of closest approach
will be at 11:28 which should be just in a few seconds. Is that
time still good Story.
CC It's the best we've got Jack.
CC See if you can see Yucatan it's right
on the northern most edge.
PLT Okay, space fans we're taking a look
up here in Skylab this morning at the tropical storm
Brenda. She's a relatively small storm winds up to 55 knots,
moving at a west, north westernly direction at this time
at about i0 knots. She's out in the Gulf of Mexico near the
Yucatan Peninsula. Name is Brenda, if you know anybody named
Brenda now's your chance to tease them about their temperament.
CC Okay, Skylab thanks for the weather report.
We're i0 seconds until LOS see you over the Vanguard in
9 minutes and we've started the VTR. And you can stop it
when you get done, Jack.
PLT Okay, and are you getting real time down
there now.
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rl'il._: 06:21 (:DT, 23/11:21 CMt
8/19/73
CC We are at this time now we'll be going

LOS in about: I0 seconds here.
PLT Okay, now one of these days before you
know it the - the (garble).
time ii hours 30 minutes with loss of signal over the
Mila tracking station as Pilot Jack Lousma aimed the TV
camera out Lne STS number i window, in an attempt to catch
photographs of the tropical storm Brenda currently located
off the coast of Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico. Next
acquisition at Vanguard in approximately 8 minutes from now.
At Greenwich mean time ii hours 30 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPF.
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Time: 06:37 CDT, 23_ii:37 GMT
8-19-73
I'AO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

time', ]] h_ur_ "37 minutes, with acquisition coming up with
Vanguard in :ipproximately I minute. We'll leave the line
open for air-to-ground communication between CAP COMM
Dr. Story Musgrave and the three Skylab crew members.
CC Skylab, we' re AOS over the Vanguard for
6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. And how's the TV coming
down? Okay_
CC The realtime came down just fine, Jack.
PLT Okay, looks like the storm is dissipating
and that it doesn't have its cyclonic structure that it had
yesterday. It's very difficult to - to find a well defined
area where _ne storm center was located.
CC Roger; that was kind of expected. It -
along the coast there, but we're expecting it to pick up again
when it mow_ out into the warm moist air of the Gulf.
PLT I see, well I was hopinB maybe that would
be good news for everybody that it was headed downhill.
CC Roger.
CC And Owen, we're showing H-alfa still in
the night interlock override, we'd like that in normal.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute til LOS, we'll
see you ove_: ;oldstone in a little more than an hour at
]2:49. We' i [ be dumping the tape recorders over Goldstone.
And, Owen, we're showing H-alfa in night interlock override,
we'd like that in normal[.
SPT I believe it has already been changed,
you might check again, I appreciate the reminder.
CC Okay.
time, ii ihou_:s 46 minutes with loss of signal at Vanguard.
Next acquis-_ion 1 hour and 2 minutes from now, over the
Goldstone tracking station. On the start of the 23rd day
in orbit for r_he crew of Skylab-3o Later today, will be
performances of the M092, M093 medical experiments,hand
held photog, aphy of South America, island south of
New Zealand, and another attempt to photograph a subterranean
volcano, a submarine vo.Lcano in the South Pacific on the
Tonga Islands. Also on tap for today is photographs of
some islands off the west coast of India, approximately
300 miles southeast of Bombay, India in the Arabian Sea.
Also scheduled for this afternoon is the first flight of
the T020, fc_(', maneuvering unit. This will be the third
flying machice tested inside the dome of the orbital
workshop. L_:st week, Commander Bean flew the M509 astronaut
maneuvering t r_it and the hand held maneuvering unit on
separate oc_ ._>ions. And the TO20 unit is a chair-like dev[, _
',-;[.- I I I H('-')32 'L _
'l'im<:: 06:37 <;J'l, 23/11:37 CHT
PAO (CONT'D) which Commander Bean will sit in. And

controls will ue made by moving his feet which will then
fire thruster:_ which will change his direction, up and down,
sideways, eta:. Next acquisition Goldstone in 1 hour from
now, this is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time, ii hours
48 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-9 _°5-_II'
Time: 07:46 CDT 23/12:46 GMT
8/19/73

12 hours 46 =inutes, acquisition coming up at Goldstone.
Commander Bean should be in the midst of what is referred to
as day 23 transfers. These transfers are within the command
module. Transfers from compartment to compartment of various
pieces of: hardware and equipment, and later there are certain
transfers between the workshop. Approximately 30 items are
transferred within the command module and another I0 to 15
:in the workshop. On tap for this morning is S063 ultra-
violet airglow horizon photography. And one of the events
to be photographed this morning is noctilueent clouds. These
are clouds that are about 55 miles, 55 nautical miles in
altitude and occur 45 degrees north latitude in the summer
hemisphere. When it is winter time here in this hemisphere
these cloud_ are not visible at this altitude. This is part
of the S063 ultraviolet horizon photography, an experiment
which has been used on Skylab-3 and will also be scheduled for
Skylab-4. [de' ii leave the line open for air-to-ground with
Capeomm Dick Truly, and the crew of Skylab-3.
CC Good morning, Skylab, Houston. We've got
you for 12 minutes.
PLT Hello Dick. How are you this morning?
CC Just fine, sir, and you?
PLT Doing great.
SPT Hello there, Dick. I just noticed a while
ago on the solar activity pad a comment about the emerging flux
regions just to the west of the center of the Sun. They show
up about 060 and 0.2 or 0.3. These are the same two little
bright spots now showing at H-alpha. They are the same ones
we tracked yesterday perhaps the day before when they were
only visible on the XUV mon, and had no H-alpha signature.
We did have a little background history on them in the way of
shopping lis_: items, and I'm wondering if the backroom thinks they
might be an :_
uteresting target to study more or less of evolution
and birth of _hese active regions that they think they are going
to develop. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. Stand by and I'ii listen to
them for a second.
CC Owen, Houston. Backroom concurs and sounds
like a good _dea if you get the opportunity today.
SPT Okay, we'll keep it in mind and we'll do a
couple of shcpping list items which relate to merging flux
regions. An¢ if they have any other sugBestions about ways
to work in other building blocks, well please let us know
on the voice link.
CC Okay, Owen. Sure will.
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Time: 07:46 (:DT 23/12:46 GMT
8119173
PLT Are you getting ATM now, Dick?

CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We won't have the television
until we get Texas AOS, and that is going to be about 3 to
5 minutes fr<,m now. And I'll let you know when we have the
downlink.
PLT Okay.
PLT It appears to me that we have that prominence
at 050 is a _(:ry pronounced vertical structure to it that is radial
from the lim_b. It's very, very faint, but it looks to me
about 60 arc e econds long on H-alpha i.
CC Roger.
CC SKylab, Houston. Our reccomendation with regard
to shopping ]_st items on the bright spots if you have time today
is shoppinp ]ist items 8 and 5. Over.
PLT Roger, 8 and 5.
PLT We got a bat charge light up there, Dick.
CC I didn't copy that PLT. Say again.
PLT We've got a bat charge light on. What do
you see down there?
CC Stand by.
CC Jack, we don't see anything here in the power
system out of the ordinary. And we're happy with it.
PLT Okay.
CC And PLT, Houston. We're dumping some of the
VTR TV you took of the storm earlier this morning. We're
looking at that right now, and after we get through looking
at that we' Ii get the AEl4 downlink.
PLT That's mostly real time.
CC And PLT, Houston. I wonder if you could let
us know which battery the bat charge light was associated
with?
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT. We're ready

for the ATM '[_ downlink now.
PLT Okay, go ahead, you _ot it.
CC Roger. And could you tell us which battery
the bat charge light was associated with?
PLT The air pressure (garble) but I can't see the
minus.
END OF TAPE
SL-[] I MC-9_4/1
Time: 07:5? CDT, 23/121:57 GMT
8119173
CC PLT, Houston we've got about 3-1/2 min-

utes of rea] time left on the TV if you want to cycle
through your switches.
PLT Okay, you'll notice right now on the
ATM monitor ]. I've got: the crosshairs at the base of the
prominence at 050. And I don't know if you can pick it up or not,
it's a very, very faint: up here, but it's very whispy prominence
extending irregularly out into the corona and it appears here
to be about 60 arc-seconds long. However, it's extremely faint,
I don't know if you carl pick it up or not.
CC We can't see it on - with the resolution that
we have on this TV that's - we're looking at here in real
time, Jack. But we do see where you're pointed on the limb.
PLT Okay; I'll give you some other TV, then.
CC Okay.
PI,T Here comes the XUV on mon i.
CC Ro ge r.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 1 minute
from LOS at Texas. We'll see you at Vanguard at 13:15.
PLT You all seeing TV down there Dick?
CC We just - it just dropped out, Jack, but we
got everything you got, right up to the - Just before you said
that.
PLT Did you get the coronas?
CC Just a few seconds of it but we
probably dicn' t get all of that downlink.
CC Roger.
time 13 hours 2 minutes, loss of signal at Texas. Next
acquisition u,ill be Vanguard in approximately i0 minutes.
Commander Conrad - Commander Bean, excuse me Commander A1 Bean
working out transfers within the command module and also the
workshop, r_ ferred to as day-23 transfers. This includes transfers
within the (ommand module of certain pieces of equipment
and hardwar_ from one locker to another. A_d the same within
the worksh,>F , transferring pieces of gear from one locker to
another. S¢ ience Pilot Garriott should be in the midst of
preparations of the SO63 photography experiment this morning.
This is designed to photograph noctilucent clouds which normally
are at an altitude of approximately 55 nautical miles at
latitude 45 degrees north. Pilot Jack Lousma is currently
at the Apollo Telescope Mount. Approximately 8 hours, 8-1/2 hours,
are scheduled for the three crewmen today, to run the Apollo
Telescope Meunt cameras and telescopes. Next acquisition
Vanguard in approximately 9 minutes. This is Skylab Control
Greenwich mean time 13 hours 4 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SJ,-III Mc-935/i
Time: 08:]2 CDT, 23/13:12 GMT
8/19/73

time, 13 hours 12 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard
in approximately 50 seconds, we'll hold the llne open for
air-to-ground between Astronaut CAP COMM Dick Truly and
the Skylab-3 space station.
CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard for ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Vanguard for
I0 minutes.
CC And PLT, Houston. Sometime during this
pass, I'd like to talk to you just a second about that
BAT charge light.
PLT Working on that right now, Dick.
CC Okay, when you get through with what
you' re doing, why don't you let us know what that is? And
then we can talk about it.
PLT Okay, Dick, I got AUTO running now.
The first time when I looked at the BAT charge thing, I had the
ta]kback barberpole and was unable to get it to do anything.
Later on it went gray and I selected every battery and wasn't
ahle to get Lt to go barber pole although I noticed that
that - BATs 3 and 17 had zero amps and the volts of temperature
were off scale low. BAT 3 we know (garble)
CC Roger.
PLT You there, Dick?
CC Yes, sir. I am and I missed the first
part of that. But understand no joy in figuring out
which of the batteries that it was. And we got the numbers
on BATs 3 and 17. What I was going to pass up to you was
is if at the last sunset you had an incomplete on one of the
batteries, of course that would cause the light to come on,
and then it would probably go out at sunrise. And it seemed
to us that ii: was just about sunrise when - when it
did go out al_d we weren't sure about that. And so you're
going to haw_ sunset and then sunrise again before we have
AOS liawaii. So be sure, if you do get a BAT charge light,
to go ahead and figure which one it is and so we - so you can
llelp us out because by the time we get to Hawaii it will
be gone again.
PLT Okay, well, the BAT charge light has been
on all of thee time and I've been unable to extinguish it.
But I would like the proper CBRM. And of course we know that
number 3 is down, but number 17, the volts of temperature are
reading off scale low. I guess you got that but the point is that
I'm not able to get the top bat to go barber pole by selecting
all of the positions.
CC Okay, I understand, we did not - I did
not understat.d that before but do now.
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Time: 08:12 CDT, 23/13:12 GMT
8/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston. You're doing the day-23

stowage transfers this morning,or may already be just about
complete on those. But at any rate we wanted to remind you that we
do not want to stow all the spider and his associated equipment.
And that is listed in the day-23 transfers and we're sure
you wouldn't do it but just wanted to remind you.
PLT Okay.
CC And PLT, Houston, we show completes on
all of the batteries as of now.
PLT Okay, well I haven't been able to figure
out yet what the BAT charge light want go off.
CC Okay, Jack, and we'll continue look for
you. I had a couple of other things that I wanted to pass
on to you. The a - This after - We sent up a coolant loop
procedure during the evening. And the first time it was
uplinked, there was some garble in it, so we transmitted it again.
So the second time that it appeared on your stream of paper
there, that's the message to use.
PLT Okay, we got them separated in two now,
and I don't know which one it is. One of them has got
2325 Bravo at the bottom of it - Bravo-2. In other words,
they both start out with a 2325 Charlie-l, but one of them's got
2325 Bravo-2 at the bottom of it.
CC Okay, you should have a message, Jack,
that goes all the way through 3 pages and actually the end
of it should be 2325 Bravo-3. The 2325 Bravo-2 is the
header that's in the - the middle of the message and actually
identifies the start of the second page of it. Over.
PLT Maybe it's in the teleprinter, I'Ii look.
CC Okay, we've got plenty of time and if a -
if that message got cut up or if you have any problems with
it we can probably get it retransmitted to you.
PLT Yeah, both of them end up with over -
OWS heat exchanger fan switch, four of them. Then there's
a blank, not telling me what to do, but they're both like
that.
CC Okay, that was the first page, as
a matter of fact, that was a correction that - on the message,
and it should have read the position at that step should be
OWS. However there are two more pages of that message that
should be on board and if they're not, we're certainly going
to have to upllnk the rest of that procedure to you.
PLT We'll look them up then, thank you.
CC Okay, it sounded like what may have happened,
Jack, is that the message got cut off there because it appeared
that a new message was starting because of the second page
identifier. The rest of that message, you may just be able to
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Time: 08:12 CDT, 23/13:12 GMT
8/19/73
CC ({:Oil' 'D) tap,_ it back on there if you can figure it

ou t.
from LOS. We'll see you at Hawaii at 14:24.
CDR Say, Dick, .I under - I noZiced that
both cabins iu valves in the command module in boost entry
per your instructions the other day. Do you want to leave
them there?
CC That's affirmative, AI, and good morning.
CDR How are you doing? Yeah, we've done the
transfers, we worked - well, haven't finished, still working on
them.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean tlme,
13 hours 25 _Jnutes with loss of signal at Vanguard. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 58 minutes. During this pass
pass over Vanguard, CAP COMM Dick Truly reminded Commander
Bean not to stow the sp_der cage, which Arabella, in which
Arabella has spun her web during the last several days.
The plan is that tomorrow, the web cage will be cleaned out,
and Arabella will remain in the cage. And then for the next
several days the crew will observe to see if Arabella will
weave another web. On day 27, 4 days from now, mission day
27, the two spiders Arabella and her backup, Anita, will again
be fed a meal of filet mignon. And then on mission day 29, it
is planned that Arabella will be removed from the cage, placed in
a vlal, the cage cleaned out and then Anita will be deployed in
the cage to see whether or not she in fact, can spin her web
like Arabella. At Greenwich mean time, 13 hours 26 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-936/I
Time: 09:19 CDT 23/14:19 GMT
8/19/73
PAO This is Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time

14 hours 19 _ninutes witlh acquisition at Hawaii in approximately
4 minutes on a brief pass as the spacecraft Skylab concludes
its 1399th revolution of the Earth since launch on May 14th.
Next item on the agenda today for Pilot Lousma is performance
of the M092, M093 experiment. This is the fifth time that
Lousma will _erform these experiments. He has 12 more times
to do these _air of medical experiments during the remainder
of Skylab-3 mission. Later today the foot controlled maneuvering
unit, which will be flight tested, is the third flying machine
to be operated within the orbiting Skylab workshop. The flight
hardware consists of a frame which resembles a large armless
stool on which the astronaut will sit. He guides his movements
by use of foot controllers while his hands are free to perform
other tasks The experiment, T020 foot maneuvering unit,
consists of _he foot control maneuvering unit, a restraint
harness, two shoe plates, a mounting fixture, a propulsion
gas supply unit or back pack, and a remote control cllp.
The experiment hardware weighs approximately 73 pounds in
one g. Commander Bean will straddle the maneuvering unit
as if he was riding a horse, and strap on the hack pack which
contains the propellant supply subsystem. The propellant
utilizes one of the nitrogen tanks of the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit. His feet will be locked into the foot
plates much Like putting on a pair of roller skates. By moving
his right foot, he mechanically operates the thrusters,
which are a_ ached below the plates and correspondingly the
left foot pedal operates the valves to the left thrusters.
Two thrust <:ontrol valves are operated by each foot pedal,
and each thruster manifold consists of 4 nozzles positioned
90 degrees apart. By movement of each foot individually,
or by moving _he left and right foot in the same or opposite
directions Commander Bean will be able to control his pitch
up or down, translate head first or feet first, yaw left or
right, or roLl to the left or to the right. For example,
if he moves his right foot up and left foot down he will roll
left and by reversing this foot movements he can roll to his
right. Movement of the toes also results in maneuvers. Right
and left toes up results in a pitch up or head back movement.
Four of the thrusters provide i pound of thrust and four provide
1/2 pound of _hrust. Approximately I hour and 55 minutes
have been sel; aside for preparations of the experiment. And
approximately 60 minutes will be devoted to simple maneuvers
within the workshop dome. Today's test flight is the first
of two flight, s planned during Skylab-3. Today Commander Bean
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Time: 09:19 CDT 23/14:19 GMT
8/19/73
will be in _ shirt sleeve mode, and later in the mission

he will don the pressure suit as he did with the 509 and fly
around with the aid of the foot maneuvering unit. Donald
E. Hewes of the Langley Research Center, Hampton, _irginia
is the principal investigator of this experiment. The purpose
of which is to evaluate this mode of maneuvers for potential
use during EVA, space vehicle inspection, or maintenance,
personnel or cargo transport, and space structure assembly.
We anticipauf_ acquisition at Hawaii. We'll hold the line open
for this pa_s .
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 2 min-
utes.
PLT Hello there, Dick. And the bat charge light
went out an_i it' s no longer on.
CC Roger, Jack. Would you please stay off the
DAS? We'd li _e to uplink star tracker enable to the ATM DC, please.
PLT My hand's off all the way.
CC Okay, I've got a - and Jack, if you've got the
time, I've l_t a couple of questions on this bat charge light we'd
like to pie< e together and try to put together some things that we
don' t quite a_derstand. Over.
PLT Okay. One additional thln_ you ought to
know right now is that 82A door, at sunset the talkback
went white, a_.Id never did go barber pole. I tried to close
the door, but it didn't do any good. When we came around to
sunrise the :_oor did not open apparently. The talkback is
still white I attempted to open it, cycle close and them
open it agai!], but nothing happened.
CC Roger Jack; understand.
PLT Well, I should have said when we came around
the sunrise _ tried to open it manually as I would normally, and
it would no_: open.
CC Roge r.
CC And Skylab, Houston. This is a very short
pass. We've got about 30 seconds to LOS. We're going to have
Goldstone ir_ about 3 or 4 minutes. That also is going to
be a 2 minute pass. And Jack the questions I had for you,
if we don't get them here we might pick the answers up there.
The first tine you reported the bat charge light on you were
in Sunlight. And did you notice it then? Or had you noticed
it before? _le were wondering if it had come on at Sunrise,
at Sunset, cr it just happened to come on in the middle of
the Sunlight_ And also we'd llke to get another read out
of the volt_, temps and amps on bats 3 and 17. And finally
on bats 3 a_d 17, we want to make sure that we understand
that you fouled those at zero or off scale low during your trouble-
shooting thl_ morning. Over.
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Time: 09:19 CDT 23/14:19 GMT
8/19/73
PLT I don't know when the bat charge light came

on and when was looking at the volts and amps I noticed
3 and ]7 to l_: off scale low. It was the temperature and
the vo] tage. The amperage was 0.
CC Roger; understand. And could we get a read
out of 3 and [7 now?
PLT No change.
CC Okay Jack, thank you very much. And I'll give
you a call at Goldstone.
PLT Okay, (static) on bat 17 right now. But we are
off scale lew on (static temp.
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SI,-III MC-937/I
Time: 09:27 CDT, 23/14:27 GMT
8/19/73
CC Skylah Houston, we're AOS Goldstone

for next couple of minutes and Jack I did not - after I
made my last call there you said something about bat 17 and
we didn't get that.
PLT Okay, when I called you bat 17 was reading
8 amps plus and the temperature and voltage were off scale low.
Now I look back at it again still got the 8 amps but the
temperature and voltage are in the normal range.
CC Okay, Jack copy that and one more
question. You reported at AOS Vanguard a minute ago
that the bat charge light was now out. When did it go out
and what were the circumstances on it - surrounded that?
PLT I didn't notice when it when out Dick.
it went out _ometime during the last sun lit pass I don't know I
was so busy running the experiment to notice when the thing
went out.
PLT And battery 3 at this time is reading
0 amps but t_e volts and the temperature are off scale low.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS at Goldstone. We going to pick you up at Vanguard
at 14:51. We're going to dump the data tape recorder at the
Vanguard and we - I have one question for Owen, anytime he
has the chance, possibly we can get the answer down at the
Vanguard. We reported from NOAA that during the time that he
was accomplishing the SO63 experiment work at about 13:50
just about 40 minutes ago it Was a good chance that NOAA
thought that he might see some aurora and we were wondering if
that was a fact.
SPT No aurora was visible.
CC Roger, thank you Owen.
SPT Saw some last night about 03:00 up over
Goose Bay Laboratory again but apparently that's the one you
reported last: night as a more or less permanent feature of that
particular location.
PLT One other piece of data, Dick. Battery
7 is doing about the same thing. It's reading i0 amps but the
the volts and the temp are off scale low.
CC Understand; bat seven, volts and amps
off scale io_.
PLT Right, we still got 82A door in an
unknown position.
PLT That's 82A.
CC Roger; and Skylab, Houston requests
S050 to restart and standard mode.
SC (garble)
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Time: 09:27 CDT, 23/14:27 GMT
8/19/73

14 hours 33 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard as the Skylab orbital workshop
begins it's 1,400 revolution of the earth. Skylab-3 crew
today preforming approximately 8-1/2 hours of Apollo
Telescope Mount experiments later today the first flight
of the TO20 foot maneuvering unit will be flight tested by
Commander A1 Bean in the dome of the workshop. Pilot Lousma
conducting the MO2, M093 lower body negative pressure,
vectorcardiogram experiment the fifth time Lousma has conducted
this pair of medical experiments. Later today, crew option
photographs over the Straits of Magellan over the Tonga
volcano in the South Pacific and late this after - late this
evening photography of Islands off the India Coast and Sea
Of Arabia, Arabian Sea and again photographs in the deep
part of the South Atlantic near New Zealand, of a row of islands
at the 50th degree the Antipode Islands, South of New Zealand.
At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 34 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
S[,-I _r MC-93_/I
Time: 09:50 (IDT, 23/14:50 GMT
8/19/73

time, 14 hours 50 minutes acquisition coming up at Vanguard
tracking station in approximately 15 minutes. Continue
conversation with Astronaut CAP COM_ Richard Truly and the
crew of Skyla_-3.
for I0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a suggestion
for ATM door MAL that we would like to get you to do anything
before the next - start of the next daylight cycle but not to
interfere with your experiment ops on the ATM. Over.
SPT Okay, why don't you tell me right now
and we can do it - just a second 1'11 mention one other thing.
I presume that JOP-9 step i has priority on this orbit because
of the study ef solar wind, therefore I'm going to have to shorten
limb i shall he item 16 that we are doing right now. And
I propose to take about 3 minutes off of each, this
one and the next shopping list 16. Alternatively I could
eliminate a - JOP-9 step i, but I don't think you want me to do
that and so if you concur with knocking about 3 minutes
off of each o5 these 2 SL 16's, I'ii do that and why don't you
go ahead with that malfunction on 82A door.
CC Roger, Owen. And we do concur with a -
We do concur with your a- suggestion and the MAL we would
like to send you to is door MAL-2 on page 14-6, we would like
for you to start through it and if you get - and you can go
ahead through block 13. If you get that far, Owen, instead of
continuing as the MAL says, what we would like for you to do at
that point is to then inhibit both door motors, then enable
both door motors and try to close the door again. Over.
SPT Okay. It's going to be awhile before I
get around to that then.
CC That's okay. Just to reiterate you're
right, JOP-9 does have the priority and what you suggested about
shortening the shopping list items is fine with us.
CC Skylab, Houston. Two short items for you.
We're continuing to think about the battery problem that we're
having and then the interim since we have had some problems with
that CBRM rotary switch, we would like you to use it only
as required. And the second is since this is the first
day that we're observing this M092 vent start window that
on the SPT detail pad, Just a reminder about that.
SPT Okay, that's why we started switching the
panel here. l'm taken the rest of this over, while Jack is
down there getting suited up for 92 and I think we can make
the window all right.
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CC Okay, no problem. Thank you.

LOS Hawaii a_ 15:59 and for your information on that 82 MAL
it will not hurt the other experiment to do that MAL during
the daylight pass if you have - if it's more convenient and
if you have the time, so don't worry about that.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CDR Say, Dick. We wondered one thing, as
far as we krow we have not topped off the 509 bottle, for
TO20 and we wondered if you wanted us to do that, maybe we
missed it or, a previous pad or something.
CC Roger, CDR, that' s affirmative. Those
bottles shou.d be topped off and we thought that was on the
schedule yee:l_rday, but at any rate they should be topped off.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
15 hours i mJr,ute with loss of signal at Vanguard. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 57-1/2 minutes. Discussions with
the crew concerning the CBRM switches, the ground feels that
the switch CBRM number 17 possibly the rotary switch is
contaminated and it has been suggested to the crew to not use
that switch for awhile. CBRM 17 has not been supplying any
power to the ATM bus system during the daytime and approximately
only 10 minutes into each night pass. The theory is that the CBRM 17
has shorted to the structure and the magnitude of this short
is a function of the solar array panels temperatures. The CBRM
has been a problem for going back into Skylab-2 mission.
This a - This problem- This current situation will be continued
to be evaluated on the ground with the data that was just dumped
on this last pass. At Greenwich mean time, 15 hours 3 minutes,
next acquisition at Hawaii in 56 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 10:57 CDT 23/15:57 GMT
8/19/73

15 hours 57 minutes, acquisition coming up at Hawaii. On
this pass across the Pacific as the spacecraft crosses South
America the crew will be asked to take photographs of the
Straits of Magellan and southern Chili and Argentina includln g
land mass, including the Lake Argentina and the Santa Cruz River.
The crew will be asked to describe the north south depression
east of the Andes Mountains, and describe the west east canyons
along the Santa Cruz River. This area in South America is
referred to as the Patagonia Desert. The crew will be using
two cameras, the 70 millimeter Hasselblad with a I00 millimeter
lens and a 35 millimeter Nikon using the 300 millimeter lens.
We'll wait for air-to-ground communication here over Hawaii
with Capcomm Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for about
i0 minutes. And interested in any door mal results on 82.
CDR Dick, I went through the first two steps.
I disabled both motors and abled primary work rate, So that
is what we're doing right now on primary.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And let me give
you another note about the ATM, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, since an S052 standard mode was terminated
early we'd llke while a mode is not in progress we'd like
to cycle the main power off and back on to reset the polaroid
wheel. Over.
CDR Okay, that's on 52. Now there's a mode in
operation. Now when this mode standard stops, then I'll do it.
Okay?
CC Okay. Real fine. Thank you.
CC And also Skylab, we have that coolant pad,
that coolant message pad that Jack is going to do this afternoon
sitting out a_ Hawaii. And we're wondering if you got that
message squared away or would you like for us to uplink it
here?
CDR Just a second. Jack is looking.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay_ Jack says he has 3 pages and he may have
throw away the first page. It looked like he had to throw away the
first page.
CDR Dick, why don't you just send us the whole mes-
sage again?
CC Roger. I think we uplinked the first page
twice and we think the better part of valor is to uplink you
a brand new message here, so that's what we're going to do.
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SPT Okay, Dick. The LBNP vent is now closed so

the venting is complete. And Just for the flight planners,
we managed to get this vent sitarted Just about 2 minutes
before the end of your window. And there would have been
no way to manage this and we !had Juggled our flight planning
schedule here for me to release Jack up there. It was Just
too tight to have ever worked.
CDR Dick, I sitarted this building block before
expected Sunrise, I just noticed that. So you might ask the
backroom whether they want me to run it again or just con-
tinue on?
CC Okay, stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. We're satisfied and we do not
want you to rerun anything. You're doing okay, so just press
on Just llke you are.
CDR Okay, sorry I got ahead of the game.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We still have about
6-1/2 minutes left in this pass. I have some nontime critical
items to mention to both A1 and Jack. If you have time this
pass Just let me know and 1'11 talk to you.
CDR How about right now.
CC Okay, AI. We Just want to verify that you
got the 509 bottle topped off numbers 2 and 3. And also that
the bat 7 charge was started today.
CDR The bottles are being topped off at the moment.
And they will be topped off in time to fly it. The bat 6 is still
being charged. And I think Jack has got an item a little
bit later, although I havenft checked the flight plan to
stop that one and start 7, we'll do it.
CC Okay. Thank you very much on that. And I've
got one other thing for you, AI. We're changing the pass that
we're going to do the medical conference on this evening, and
the Capcomm will Just let youknow when it is. We're Just
delaying it one pass for some network problems. And the other
things that I had to talk about were to Jack.
CDR Okay, now 52 is finished. I'm going to turn
the main power off, and then back on again.
CC Rog. Thank you much, that's correct.
SPT Okay, Jack is listening. He's still in the
can so he can hear what you have to say.
CC Okay. I have two things. One is going back
several days to the last EREP pass that we did when we did
the last S192 and EDDU business. It turned out that that message
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we realized after it was all over that it did not have a S192
door close call out at the end of the message. And we want
to verify whether or not the door was closed. If you can't
rememberp we'd llke to verify that the S192 door switch on
the C&D panel is in the closed position. And if it is in the
open position, I've got a procedure for you. Over. And this
is not time critical, but that is the question that I have.
SPT Okay, he'll have to worry about it a little
later.
CDR I'ii worry about it for you right now. The
switch is in the open position.
CC Okay, then I have several steps that I'd llke
to read up to somebody any time that they can copy. And the
other thing that I wanted to pass on to Jack was, or anybody
actually, is the procedure that you are goin 8 to do this
afternoon to look for any coolanol leaks does not require
that you pull a certain panel off but the procedure that you
are going to do tomorrow to continue on does require that
this particular panel be pulled off. It's got about 50 screws
in it, but I thought I would just let you know, describe which
panel it was so that any time today if you had a chance to get
ahead on getting some of those screws out, I could tell you
where it is.
CDR Good idea. Tell me step by step the procedure
on 92
and I'ii do it while you tell it to me.
CC Okay. EREP power bus I on.
CDR Keep going.
CC Okay. The next step is panel power display
on. And then CB control to closed, verify. S192 power on.
S192 door to close.
CDR Okay.
CC Now wait for the door close light to come
on and then S192 power off.
CDR Okay, when I turned it on even though the
switch was in open the door close light came on. And then
it turned off and as if it was headed to open. And it may
be that the thing closes when you turn the power off, I don't
know. But it's in the process of being closed now. And I'ii
give you a call, it takes 60 seconds, whenever it closes.
CC Okay, real fine.
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CC Okay, real fine.

CDR Okay, it's on, I'ii shut it down now.
CC That's right, S192 power off, panel
power disp2ay off and EREP power to BUS i off. And that
ends it.
CDR You fellows have a good memory.
CC (Chuckle_ we check ourselves, too.
CC Roger, and reminder, A1 you'll have to
re-open the 52 door in order to continue operations there.
And let me, real quickly, describe to you the panel that we're
talking about; about taking the screws out of.
CDR Go.
CC Okay, the - it's in the airlock where the
- there's a ealfax panel that covers - that has screens in it,
that covers the heat exchanger fans. And the panel I'm talking
about is toward - is outboard from that little door with the
calfaxes on it, and it's a panel that's just outboard of the hinge
llne of the panel, that opens easily to get to the fans. And
there's a whole bunch of screws in it. And you'll be going
into there tomorrow to take a look at, for some coolanol
leaks, and even if we find the leak prior to that, this is
also the place that Jerry Carr will be doing some reserviclng.
So getting those screws out will not be wasted motion in
any case.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS. We'll
see you at the Vangauard at 16:30.
CDR Okay, now is this in the lock aft compart-
ment?
CC AI, we'll check on this I'm looking at
a picture of it but I'Ii let you know for sure at the
Vanguard.
CDR Okay, well, we put heat exchanger fans on,
but I go back there and I don't (static).
16 hours 9 Minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition at Vanguard in 20 minutes. Discussion between
CAP COMM Dick Truly and Commander AI Bean concerning the
work to be performed in checking the coolant loop, and the
condensate problem will be checked tomorrow. The coolant
loop will be checked later this evening. Discussing a panel
which Commander Bean will have to remove. The pan - this
particular panel in the STS section of the airlock module,
the structural transition section of the airlock module,
contains approximately 50 screws that have to he removed to
get inside the panel. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours
i0 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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time, 16 hours 28 minutes. On this the conclusion of
1400 revolution of the Skylab workshop since launch from
Cape Kennedy on May 14th. This is the 23rd day in orbit
for the Skylab-3 crew. Proforming 8-1/2 of solar observations.
Scheduled later today is the first flight for the TO20
foot control maneuvering unit,i which Commander Bean will fly.
We have acq - We will have acquisition at Vanguard with
CAP COMM Dick Truly, we'll hold this line open for this
Vanguard pass
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Vanguard for
8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And I think I can do a better Job
of describing that panel to you if you're listening.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, it's in the STS section, AI. And
it's the airlock module - heat exchanger module and the
AM circulation fans are underneath - the a panel that's got
some Calfaxes on it and the three screens that let the
air be sucked down to the fans. The panel I'm talking about
is a - is a hinge line, first of all there's a hinge llne for
that panel with the screens on it, it's outboard of the
screens. And then the panel that's outboard of that hinge
line is the panel I'm talking about. And furthermore
there is another fairing panel outboard of that one, but
that is not, that does not have all that many screws in it,
but the one I'm referring to you is outboard of the hinge
line which in turn is outboard of the screens over the
AM circulation fans. Over.
CDR Okay, the only one we have to take off
is the one, by the way it's got a little fire port on it that
says AM heat exchanger extinguisher port, I guess.
CDR Okay, if we dontt have to take off the
fairing Just that one with the multiple screws, there.
CC No, that's not correct. We are going
to end up wanting to take off both the flat panel that you
referred to and the fairing just outboard of that and that's -
that's it.
CDR What I'm trying to understand is am I
going to have to remove the screws that are common to both
the fairing and the panel, or can I Just go around the fairing
and around the panel and pull them off as a unit?
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CC AI, we'll have to get an answer and I

didn't personally do this, one of the other guys did. But
I think the answer is the easiest way for you to get those
two panels off would be fine with us. I don't know for sure
we'll have to check.
CDR Okay, it's only 13 extra screws but it'll
take a little time. We can Just pull all of the ones
around the edge or both of them and take them off of the
unit, that's obviously be the best way.
CC Okay. And AI, go ahead.
CDR I'm waiting to hear from you.
CC Okay, and A1 I got one more question
and it has to do with the report you made about the
exerciser las_ night. We're wondering if the rope broke on
the exerciser at a point where that same rope is still usable
or are you going to end up having to replace the entire rope
with a spare?
CDR We need to replace the entire rope.
What we have got is - it broke about 8 inches from the handle
end. We just tied it in a knot and we're using it that way
now. But we'd really llke to remove it from the handle and
remove it from the machine itself and put in the spare rope.
Because we got lots of spares up here. All that beta - not beta
but whatever that rope is, we got a lot of it, so we'd llke
to Jazz it up.
CC Okay, well what we found so far, AI,
and we're continuing to look though. We don't think you have
an Allen bit wrench that's the correct size to get that handle off
the way it was designed. And we were also wondering if the
rope was fraying very badly which might be corrected a little bit
by putting some gray tape on £he - that medal opening that the rope
comes out of. But as I understand what you say, it least the rope
now as usable until we can come up with a better fix.
CDR You bet. But we need a better fix fast,
it's - it's wearing out. I don't think we [rayed it so
much on the metals (garble) cause we considered taking that off.
I'm not sure it Just isn't wear and tear on that point. As
you know that kind of goes slack and then the revolving parts
that are down in there, not on the white drum sometimes
interface with that rope right there and it tends to braid it
somewhat.
CC Okay, I understand. And CDR, Houston,
unfortunately, I'm advised that all of the screws that you
referred to awhile go are going- you'll find that all of
them are going to have to come out in order to get the two
panels that I referred to off.
CDR I knew it. Okay.
CC It always turns out that way, doesn't it.
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CDR Yeah, I guess they'd have made it in one

piece, if there wasn't a reason. It's probably screwed into a
bean right there we just can' t see It, or another frame or
something.
CC Roger.
PLT Dick, I had a pretty good view of
the Straits of Magellan and have some photographs of it.
Who should the messsage which l'm going to put on channel A
be addressed to? Is that visual observation groups or what?
CC Should be addressed to the EREP Officer.
He's the one that's been coord_natlng all these handheld
photos that have been coming up to you in the last few days.
CDR Okay, that's Just what I needed to know
he has been a busy man.
CC Sure has.
SPT Is that Dr. Llewellyn?
CC It is on one of shifts. The EREP
Officer on this shift for your information, Owen, is Brlzzolara.
But John is on team i, I think. That's Milt's team.
SPT Okay, fine, we'll send the word down
to these fellows.
CC All righty.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re i minute from
LOS. We'll see you in Hawaii at 17:37. That's one hour
from now.
time, 16 hours 39 minutes, loss of signal at Vanguard.
Next acquisition will be on Hawaii in approximately
57 minutes from now. On this previous pass, discussions
between Dick Truly CAP COMM and Commander AI Bean concerning
the work to be preformed on removing a panel to look for
coolanol leak in the STS section of the airlock module.
Further discussions concerning modifications to the - one
of the onboard exercise divises the Mach - Mach-2, the
Mach i devise which is a rope friction used mainly for
back and torso exercises by the crew, they also have the
bicyle ergometer which they can ride for exercise. The
crew is normally scheduled one hour of exercise period a day
normally broken up into two 30 minute periods. They have
one hour a day on those days they do not ride the blcyle
ergometer for the metabolic analyzer for the vectorcardiogram
experiment. Next acquisition at Hawaii in 56 minutes, this
is Skylab Control, at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 40 minutes.
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SL- III MC-942/I
Time: 12:33 CDT 23/17:33 GMT
8/19/73

17 hours 32 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii in
approximately 3-1/2 minutes. Pilot Jack Lousma is scheduled
to perform troubleshooting procedures later today in an
effort to locate an apparent leak in the alrlock module coolant
loop system. This system provides cooling through electronic
systems and environmental control system aboard the spacecraft.
A leak in the primary and secondary coolant loop was detected
on the ninth day of the Skylab-3 mission, on August 5th. The
leaks are p_obably outside the habitable area since the volume
of leakage would probably have been noticed by the crew inside
the vehicle. Two and a half hours have been set aside for
Lousma to perform this checkout, beginning at about 5:30 this
afternoon, the coolant used in this system is a colorless
liquid, has an odor of alcohol, and feels like lightweight
machine oil or antifreeze. As an aid in locating the leak,
flight controllers have told Lousma, by teleprinted message
last night, that a blue tape which wraps the coolant lines
and connecting B nuts would darken in color if wettened by
the leaking coolanol. Lousma has been instructed to remove
access panels on the orbital workshop heat exchanger fans which
are located in the alrlock module structural transition section,
and inspect this area for possible leaks. This same procedure
has been suggested for the access panel to the airlock module
tape recorder. In addition, similar inspections will he make
on the mol sieve A, by removing the cover and inspect for
evidence of coolanol leaks. If these procedures do not uncover
a leak, addiEional inspection steps will be provided to the
crew at a later time. We anticipate acquisition at Hawaii
in approximately 2 minutes. We'll hold this line open for
thaE pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. I might pass on to you
guys that everybody on this team this morning really enjoyed
watching the downllnk TV that you guys put together on your day
off. And it really turned out real well, and it sure does
look like fun.
CDR Thank you, Dick. It is a ball up here. I
wish we coulc iet everybody come up and take about 1 day's
worth. It is really fantastic.
CC Well,, it sure looks llke it and that TV work
is real good. And you guys are really doing a good job in
that department like all the others.
CDR Well, we're getting a lot of pretty sharp
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support from downstairs, to say the least. Everything is

working well. You are keeping us out of trouble. We've
been talking this over, over the last week or two and one
thing I've noticed about the Job is it's fantastically frustr-
ating up here because you tend to make mistakes all day long.
But fortunately you guys are catching them, and keeping us
from gettln8 into any sort of trouble, having any sort of
big problems. You get up in the morning, and you say, okay,
I'm going to have an error-free day and then it's about an
hour before you say, well I made that mistake, what's next.
And it really is nice to have somebody watching.
CC Well Phil told me to tell you that we're going
to really watch you more when we get some stateside coverage
instead of all this Hawaii to Vanguard, but he's Just kidding.
We don't have many to catch, but we are really admiring the work,
so keep it up.
CDR Thank you. I'm hoping he's figuring out how
we're going to get some of these double EREP passes along
toward the end of the mission, because we hope we're going to
get a lot of this ATM out of the way here.
PLT Hey Dick, we don't plan to quit on 15 passes.
What are your plans?
CC Okay, we copy that.
CC EREP is smiling from ear to ear.
PLT I've got a request for EREP.
CC Go ahead.
PLT On this thing I'm looking for this afternoon
the pumice flow, whatever, at Fiji? I think it would be quite
helpful if someone down there would be able to tell me precisely
how long the northeast island in FiJl is. It looks to me to
be about i00 miles. And then what I'd llke you to do is
figure out how far away from the northeast tip of that island
in Fiji that this pumice flow should be, so that I can take about
3 or 4 of those islands and put an end to end out to sea
and look in the right place. Because there is a lot of ocean to
look at if you don't know exactly where you are looking. And I
that would help a whole lot to locate this pumice flow. The
name of that island on my map here is (garble). Do you
think you could work that out?
CC We'll sure try, Jack.
PLT If it turns out that one of the Samoan Island
is more likely to be in my field of view, it would be help-
ful to know what length of that is and how far it is from
there. It all depends on what the - (garble) ways to look at
it. (garble) .
CC Roger. Understand, Jack. And I think you
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hit the nail on the head yesterday though, because before you
took that photography, he and I did some talking about exactly
where that flow was. And the problem is, we Just not exactly
sure ourselves, And I think with the cloud cover and probably
with the color of that on the water was the problem. But we'll
take a look at what you asked and get it up to you.
CDR Okay, thanks, Dick. I don't mean to be shouting
at you. I have a hard time keeping my voice down up here.
CC No problem.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from
LOS here at Hawaii. We'll see you at the Vanguard at 18:09.
CC And Skylab, we've upllnked one of tomorrow's
flight plans that is in the teleprinter now. And the others
will be up ._t the next site.
17 hours 44 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition Vanguard. Pilot Lousma's discussion with Capcomm
Dick Truly concerning scheduled photography of the Tonga vol-
cano in the _outh Pacific below Fijl, he requested better
island identification before he begins hls photography later
this afternoon. This is one of four separate hand held out
the window photographic sessions the crew will have had today,
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 45 minutes, next acquisition
Vanguard in 22 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC9_3/I
Time: 13:22 CDT, 23/18:22 GMT
8/19/73
time 18 hours 6 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard in
approximately i minute, as Skylab-3 begins its 1,401st
revolution of the earth of this the 23rd day of orbit of the
Skylab-3 crew. Hold the line open of this pass over the
Vanguard tracking station.
9 minutes and we're set up to receive down-llnk TV.
CDR Okay, Dick. We got it set up on mon 2
and I'ii give you some integration here on XUV MON. You'll
notice that the roll is minus 5400 I'm doing a mirror
auto raster between the two bright plages in 93 hoping
to spllt them out in the UV, and so I took that roll instead the
10800 which I had earlier so I'ii give you some integration.
CC Roger. ?
CDR Y'all got a lock up you say?
CC Roger, we are locked up AI, and be
advised we're not bringing the TV into Houston here we are
recording it at the Vanguard we'll bring it in later.
SPT The (garble) 2 days ago if I was going to
be ready for some science demonstrations on day 25, and you
wanted 48 hours notice looks llke I'd better sllp those a
few days I haven't had time to really go through that kit
yet. So I'ii give you a call when it does look llke I'm going
to have something to show you.
CC Okay, 0wen thanks for the input.
CC And Skylab, Houston; we had some guys
go over tc the one-gtralner awhile ago and we did have
some luck with the exerciser if you can listen to that
for a second, anybody.
CDR We're listening.
CC Okay, what we did AI was get a 1/8
Allen bit out of Drawer i BRAVO and a ratchet handle and
by inserting the 1/8 Allen bit into there and then cocking
it a lltt]e bit we were able to get quite a bit of torque on it
without endangering you know breaking the tool or anything.
And the guys that watched the handle being assembled said
that it was not torqued in there so we think that probably
if you would Just try that and that ought not take but a
second you know when one of you have a chance you may can
get it right out there even though the tool is wrong it
worked fox- us.
CDR ()kay, thanks we'll give it a go.
SPT Actually Dick, I'd already tried that but
I didn't put to much torque on it because I didn't want to
break the tool but I can try it again with a little bit
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more torque.
CC Okay, well Just use your own Judgement
about that: and if it: works maybe we'll be home free and if
not either way Just let us know.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, I've given them about 3 or 4
sequences of UV MON. I'm now giving a little H-ALPHA 2
and then ]'Ii give them H-ALPHA 1 and that's about all we got.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR Okay, there's H-ALPHA I.
CC Roger.
CDR And I'm way ahead on this JOP and it's
timed so just a second I'll move over to Sun center and give
them a little 52 and roll both directions.
CC Roger.
CDR We're still a little puzzled about one thing
Dick. This says TV downllnk, 9 minutes XUV MON at convlence.
Do you want us to give you all 9 minutes or Just what we're
giving you now?
CC Stand by Just a second, AI.
CDR I don't know whether that - those words
mean, there's 9 minutes in there to get that in or maybe
you want all 9 minutes. I don't know what you'd do with
all nine minutes of it.
CC CDR, Houston, the 9 minutes I think is
just the window it's generally the pass link of - or the
TV window link there and so when you get through stepping
you know give us each of the required items we're happy then.
CDR Okay, I'm going to go over to the center
and give you some things from there and then press on.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, here's a little XUV MON from the
center.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS
we're going to pick you up at Ascension at 18:23 and we're
going to dump the data tape recorder at Ascension.
SPT Hey, Dick I Just wanted to mention that
in addition to the whole team doing a great Job your team of
CAP COMMs is doing a super Job too in getting the information
up in a timely manner and I know there's a lot that goes on
behind the scenes when you're not manning the console to get
things squared away too, so we appreciate all of those good
work the whole CAP COMI4 team-
CC Thank you Jack.
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Yime: i3:22 CDT, 23/18:22 GMT
8/19/73
CDR We're feeling so good up here today we

even like Flight Directors.
CC Wow.
PLT Especlally when they are better than
you are.
CC (Chuckle) roger.
SPT You even including Phil Shaffer, AI?
CC Say again.
SPT You don't mean I pressed transmit instead
of intercom when I asked if he included Phil Shaffers?
time 18 hours 18 minutes loss of signal at Vanguard next
acquisition will be at Ascension in approximately 5 minutes.
Science Pilot Garrlott's mention of plannin E a science
demonstration is 1 of 8 different science demonstrations
onboard which are scheduled for television to the ground
the plan is to perform these experiments throughout the
remainder of the mission. It is hoped that this information
will beneflclal to Science teachers and pupils alike and
these include such things as a paper airplane which has
been farb[cated and will be flown to illustrate the aero-
dynamic forces acting on it in the absence of gravity.
Another science demonstration which has already been televlsed
to the ground are the munnlchog minnows which were taken up
in the command module the - one of the munnlchlg fish eggs
have already hatched and now they are onboard 3 munnichog minnows
swimming around in a plastic aquarium in the
workshop. Next acquisiion at Ascension in approximately
3 minutes. We'll come back up for that pass. this is
Skylab Control 18 hours 19 minutes.
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Time: 13:22 CDT, 23/18:22 GMT
8/19/73
PA0 This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

time, 18 hours 22 minutes. We will have acquisition at
Ascension in approximately 50 seconds. We'll hold the line
open for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for 7 minutes.
CDTi One thing about that shower last night
that wa_ Kind of interesting, Dick, is that water tends to
get in r lle crevices and in your hair and in, under your arm
pits or ,say place where there is an acute angle. And when
you get [Lnished washing off - first of all when you get
the soap on there and spray a little water on - the soap
doesn't wash off, it sort of just hangs there in a glob,
so when you open your eyes, you're looking right through
soapy water, or you open your mouth to breath, your breathing
taste th LS soapy water, which is a little bit unusual. Also
when - J f your not careful you can get a big bubble in your
mouth and nose there and when you breath in through either
you - you start taking a lot of water down. And you shake the water
doesn't appear to come off too easy, you have to sort of
brush it off. When get finally rinsed and you want a - want
to dry cff, you got this water all over you now. There must
be a quarn of it kind of hanging on you, so you shake a bit
and some of it flies off and some of it Just sort of
distends a little bit. And you know it doesn't have a level
surface anymore but then when you stop shaking well it
sort of comes back in contours around you again. So you
end up having to sort of brush it off or put your hand around
your arm you know, and kind of swish it off, try to get
it over on the walls where you can vacuum it. But it
makes you feel real good and clean at the end but
it's almost like bathing in kind of a warm jello, it's not
that rigid as jello hut when it gets on you, it doesn't want
to get off. And it takes a couple of towels to get the
water off finally because there is so much sort of standing
on you.
CC Roger_ AI. And I need to get one piece
of information to you, we still got about 10 minutes of
daylight left. We notice that we missed an S054 sequence
in building block 7 and we would like to if possible to work
in a 64 second sequence in filter 2 if time permits and
sun center pointing is okay.
CDR Okay, will do.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, it's started right now.
CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. I got a couple words

to that [ might could pass on to Jack about the location
of that <_umice we think.
PLI Just a minute, Dick, I'ii get my book.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, ready to copy.
CC Okay the a - our best guess as to its
location and first of all, your guess on the length of the
northeast island of the Fiji of the two large large islands
in the F[ jis was very good. We measured it and it was very
close tc being exactly i00 miles. If you draw a straight line
from that island over to the Samoan Islands, the pumice
flow we think is just south about halfway between those
2 island chains and about i00 miles south of that straight
line that would connect them. So 2 or 3 hints for you, one
is that Lf you - if you mea - Just take a look at the northeast
Fiji Islaad that's i00 miles long and come out about -
towards you about 4 island lengths and then to the south
about i or 2 island lengths. It's somewhere in that general
area that we think the pumice is.
PLT Okay, those are the kind of words I
was look[ng for, thank you.
CC Okay, I guess the only thing we're a
little b:it hestitant about is that - even atlas that we're
looking at and our knowledge of it, we're just not very
confident. So you probably are going to have
to do a good bit of looking around.
PLT I'Ii do it.
CC Okay, we're about i minute from LOS at
Ascension_ We're going to see you at Guam at 19:07.
time, 18 _ours 31 minutes. Loss of the signal at Ascension
CAP COMM Dick Truly passed up some better identification to
Pilot Lou_ma for photographing the Tonga submarine volcano.
Located _outh of the Fiji Islands in the southwest Pacific.
Lousma i_ scheduled to take photography of this submarine
volcano at approximately 19:15 Greenwich mean time today,
approximately 45 minutes from now. At Greenwich mean time
18 hours 32 minutes, this is Skylab Control. Next acquisition
will be :_am in 35 minutes.
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Time: 14:06 CDT 23:19:06 GMT
8/19/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

19 hours 6 minutes. Acquisition coming up over the Guam
tracking station. Capcom is Richard Truly. On this pass over
the south Pacific, pilot Lousma is scheduled to attempt to
take another photo of! the submarine volcano in the Tonga
Island chain south of: the FiJls. This is one of four natural
phenomena events that the crew has been asked to photograph
today. Earlier in the day they took photographs of hurricane
Brenda in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a sub - subterranlan
volcano, which has created pumice floating on the surface of
the water and the crew has been asked to photograph this on
the current pass over the south Pacific. We'll leave the
line open for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for
6 minutes.
PLT Hey, Dick, maybe you can tell the camera guys
to worry no more about the 300. We worked them out it
works all right and we got it set up with a new roll of film.
CC Hey real good, thank you for letting us know.
CC That was the Nikon malf you were talking
about, right Jack.
PLT Right.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT And if we work on it real hard and start
early we might get the right film load on the photo log tonight.
CC Good.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS we're
going to see you at the Vanguard at 19:43 and one note that
we did want to pass up to you is we've pulled out all of the
MDRS data during the period this morning that we were having
our indication funnies on the batteries and whatever they
are they're not in the electrical power system itself. We're
satisified that it's working completely nomally and we're
continuing to try to chase down exactly what the problem is in the -
in your onboard indications and we'll continue to look at
that and let you know if we've learned anything else there
but it's not in the power system. Over.
PLT ()kay, Dick we do still have the back charge
alert light on.
CDR ()kay, Dick also we repaired the MARK 1
exercise_. Your technique worked well.
CC Hey, real good. Thanks for letting us know,
AI.
19 hours ]4 minutes with loss of signal at Guam. Next acquisition
at Vanguard in 30 minutes from now. Commander Alan Bean and
Pilot Jack Lousma should be in a preparation stage of the
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TL20 foot maneuvering unit experiment which Commander Bean will

fly for approximately 1 hour this afternoon. This is a foot
control manueverln E unit which will be flown inside the
dome of the orbiting workshop. At Greenwich mean time
19 hours 15 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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'rime: 1,_:',4 CDT; 23/L9:44 CMT
_11917"_
I'Ao :qkylab Control. at 19 hours 44 mlnute,q and

13 secon,t_ Greenwich mean time. We're approaching acquisition
of slgnal at the Vanguard tracking station and we'll stay
] Ive for alr-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Vanguard for Ii minutes.
SPT Just for information in the backroom, during
this observation period I got in a couple of shopping list
dates on the new merging region over about 0. - correction_
070.4, and that plus a extra mirror auto raster. And I
expect we ought to have a name for that tomorrow.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you much. And one thing
that I wanted to say to the guys that are working up in the
ATM area. We'd - on the bat charger light, obviously it is
coming on and off at various intervals and we don't want you
spend a lot of time watching the thing, but if you happen
to notice if it does illuminate or go off and particularly
around suEside - sunrise and sunset, if you will remember
any other events that were associated with that and could
let us know, maybe it'll give us a clue as to what's wrong.
SPT Sounds like a good idea. We'll watch - pay
a little n_ore attention.
CC Okay.
SPT It's been on ever since I've been up here
at panel which was about 5 minutes before sunrise.
CC Roger, underst.and, Owen.
CC And, Owen, be advised we have named that a
new emerg - merging region, it's active region 96 and that'll
start showing up on your pads tomorrow.
SPT It's not as catchy as Brenda, but It'll
serve to identify it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS.
We're going to pick you up at Ascension in about 3 more
minutes and I' ii give you a call there.
34 seconds. We've lost signal at the Vanguard tracking ship
but we expect to reacquire signal at Ascension in about 1
minute and 45 seconds. During the _/anguard pass, Owen
Garriott, who has been working at the control and display
for the solar instruments, noted the emergence of a new
active region on the Sun. Spacecraft communicator, Dick
Truly, relayed the information that the team o£ solar
scientists here on the ground had identified the emerging
area as active region number 96. Meanwhile, Alan Bean is
preparing to test the foot control maneuvering unit. Nearly
4 hours were set aside by flight planners for the first
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flight of the nitrogen-powered Jet shoes. Jack Lousma will

observe Bean and make a television record of his flight.
Owen Garriott will continue working at the solar telescope
most of the afternoon. A total of 8 hours and 30 minutes
of actual data take is expected today. That's the most so
far in this Skylab flight. We'll remain live for air-to-ground
from Ascension.
END OF TAPE
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;ime: 1_. : %7 CDT, 23/19:57 {;HT
_/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension,

Canary, eT_d Madrid and Ascension for about I0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute
we're going to drop out for another minute or so until we
pick you back up at Canary. I'ii give you a call there.
CDN Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're locked up at
Canary fcl the next 7 minutes.
END OF IAPE
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TIME: 15:11CDT 23/20:11 GMT
8/19/73

LOS in Madrid. We're going to see you at Guam at 20:43 and
we're going to dump the data recorder at Guam.
and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
from the Madrid tracking station after a long pass through
Ascension, Canary Islands and Madrid. Our next acquisition
of signal is 24 minutes and 45 seconds from now and that
will be at the Guam tracking station. During this last
pass there was very little conversation from the crew which
is busily engaged in separate activities. Alan Bean prepar-
ing to test the foot control maneuvering unit, TO20. Owen
Garriott is working at the solar telescope as he has been
and will continue to do most of the afternoon. And Jack
Lousma is assisting Alan Bean in his operation of the TO20.
Lousma will also do television camera work for the activity.
The Skylab solar experiments which have a top science
priority for this second astronaut team, have been allotted
more than i08 hours of time so far, and better than 70
hours of data have already been accumulated. The solar
investigations are now running ahead of the premission plan,
thanks to an increased work load requested by the three man
crew last week. As of 9 days ago the crew was more than
30 hours behind the planned level for solar investigations.
Today they will run about 7 to i0 hours above that level. As
you may know, the Skylab Science Pilot_ Owen Garriott, was
a Stanford University professor specializing in the effect
of the Sun's energy and on the Earth's upper atmosphere
before he became an astronaut. Dr. Garrlott as Science
Pilot has been very active working in these solar investi-
gations. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of
signal in 23 minutes and 16 seconds at Guam. It is 19
minutes and 18 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC949/I
Time: 15:40 CDT, 23/20:40 GMT
8119173

and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching
acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station. Flight
Director Phll Shaffer, who is going off at 4 o'clock has
indicated that there will be a change of shift press conference
at 4:15 in Building I. This is Skylab Control. We'll
stay llve for alr-to-ground from Guam.
CC Skylab, we're at Guam for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still got about
7-1/2 minutes here at Guam. And we'd appreciate knowing
from CDR and PLT how the T020 status is going if you have
the time.
SPT I'm not sure they can talk to you now
or can even hear you, Dick. Al's floating out the middle
dome area right now. Looks llke hers getting all strapped
into the unit and I think they're getting some of this on
tape right now, Just a moment.
CC Okay , - -
SPT No, he's got it cut off on the tape right now,
but they've been taping parts and they're - looks llke
they're getting just about ready to fly.
CC Understand, Owen, and it's certainly
not our intention to slow that up. So, no problem.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out on the
S-band lock at Guam for 30 seconds or so. Back on the air
now.
SPT Okay, I guess you got my report on how

they were doing?
CC Yes, I did.
PLT Hello, Dick, you there?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, I got the backpack on A1 and he's in
the TO20 and we're Just getting ready to make our first
run. And I grabbed ahold of the solenoid valve on the
backpack, and it's almost too hot to touch, and I'm wondering
if that's normal.
CC Okay, stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We - In the present
configuration we have had electrical current on that
solenoid holding it closed. And we would not be surprised
if it's very warm. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you very much, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT And apparently you're through with the
recorder now. Right?
CC I'm sorry, if that was for me, Jack
I dldn' t get it.
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PLT ()kay. Looks llke you're through with

the recorder.
CC Roger, we are dumping it. We will be
through here Just a few seconds and I'ii let you know when
you can have it back.
PLT ()kay.
CC PLT, we're through dumping the data
recorder, and it's yours.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds
from Guam LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at
21:23. Arid be advised, the purple team is going off duty
for a couple of days,, and _e've enjoyed working these
day shift_; with you guys. We'll see you on the detail
shift a couple of days from now.
PLT Same here, Dick. We've enjoyed it,
and we' 11 see you back about EVA time.
and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have loss signal
at the Guam tracking station. Our next acquisition about
29 minutes from now will be at Vanguard. During this last
pass the spacecraft communicator Dick Truly asked for a
report on the process of setting up the TO20, the foot
control maneuvering unit. He was informed that participants
in that, Jack Lousma and Alan Bean could not really talk
because they were busy set=ing it up. Bean was reported
to be in the middle of the dome area of the orbital workshop
preparing to make the first test flights. They did indicate
Lousma indicated that they were having trouble with the
solenoid valve. They thought on the backpack it had become
hot. The ground reported that that was normal for that
solenoid valve, that it is heated up because it is kept
closed using electrical energy. There was also a goodbye
from the spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly who indicated
that the purple team of flight controllers under Phil Shaffer
will be off duty for the next couple of days and then will
be on a different shift during the day following that. So,
that was happening - what happened at the last passage. That
indicates the TO20 is moving along nicely and that they
are well on schedule for that. They're set up to do some
television camera. They did a data dump there and have now freed
their recorder for doing a television of the TO20. We've
have not yet had a report on the attempted photography
at the Tonga Island area. That's a photography of an
80 square mile area of pumice that's been reported to be
floating in that vicinity. They were two of them made an
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attempt at that photography at approximately 2:15 this

afternoon central daylight time. But, they've not yet
given us a report on whether or not they were able to
get handheld photographs using the Nikon and Hasselblad
cameras of that area. They were successful earlier today
in obtaining photographs of the Straight of Magellan,
which is between Tierra deil Fuego and the continent of South America
at the very tip of South America. That was successfully
photographed along with a number of areas in the Argentina
and along the Andes Mountains. Also, successful earlier
today was photography of hurricane - tropical storm
Brenda which has been brewing in the Gulf of Mexico near
Yucatan that's now moving to the - in an easterly direction
according to the National Weather Service. And at last
report had knots - 55-knot winds. This is Skylab Control.
Our next communication with the spacecraft, about 26-i/2
minutes from now at Vangua!rd. We'll come llve again for
that. Skylab Control at 56 minutes and 15 seconds after
the hour_
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SL-III HC-950/I
Time: )0:03 CDT; 23/21:03 GMT
8/19173
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 3 minutes :ind

50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 18 minutes and
50 seconds from acquisition of signal at Vanguard. Flight
Director, Phil Shaffer of the purple team of flight con-
trollers has left Mission Control and is believed to be
en route to building i for a press conference scheduled to
begin at 4:15. We do expect that that conference may run
over the Vanguard pass end we'll be expecting to make a
recording of the Vanguard pass for playing after it. This
is Skylab Control at 4 minutes and 19 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-951/I
Time: 16:34 CDT; 23/21:34 GMT
8/19/73

41 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 7 minutes and
53 seconds from acquisition of signal at Canary Islands.
We'll have a pass through Canary Islands and Madrid in about
7 minutes and 46 seconds from now. We recorded the pass over
Vanguard because the press conference was in progress. We'll
play back the recording of the Vanguard pass now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 min-
utes.
SPT Hello there, Hank, how are you today?
CC Oh, pretty good. How are y'all doing?
SPT Just fine up here. So you kicked those
purple guys out of the MOCR?
CC Yeah, we flnally goE rid of them.
SPT And, for the minute, Crlp, just a couple
of notes on the studies of these - two studies of the coronal
hole near the pole. I've thrown in a couple of extra partial
mirror auto rasters in magnesium i0 which I think will he
useful to you there, so look for them in the DAS.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS;
the Canaries at 04:02.
PAO That concludes the recording of the Vanguard
pass. During that pass Owen Garriott made the remark that
he had thrown in a couple of mirror auto rasters in magnesium
i0, a reference to the Apollo telescope mount equipment that
he'd been working on. Magnesium i0 is one of the bands
that's looked at using the SO55 instrument. That was a very
short pass - short period of discussion over Vanguard. We
do expect to have acquisition of signal at Canary Island in
about 6 minutes. And we'll be - we'll come back for any
discussion between the ground and the crew at that time.
This is Skylah Control at B6 minutes 30 seconds after the
hour.
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TIME: 16:41 CDT 23/21:41 GMT
8/19/73

and 44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now Just 51
seconds from acquisition of signal at Canary Island. The
pass will be through Canary Island and Madrid stations,
which are adjacent to each other, and we do expect to have
some conversation here at Canary Island between spacecraft
communicator Hank Hartsfield and the crew. This is Skylab
Control at 42 minutes remaining llve for alr-to-ground
from Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary to Madrid
for 14 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Honeysuckle at 31.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 _ours 57 minutes
and 18 seconds. We have lost slgnal at the Madrid tracking
station. No conversation during that last pass and we will
not acquire again for 33 minutes and 57 Ieconds at which
time we expect to hear from the crew at the Guam, at a very
low pass at the Guam station, and then immediately following
that there should be a clearer pass at Honeysuckle. This
is Skylab Control. ]it's 57 minutes and 44 seconds after
the hour.
END OF TA}'E
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Time: 17:]0 CDT, 23/122:30 GMT
8/19/73

and 33 se<:onds Greenwich mean time. We are now Just
48 seconds from acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle.
We'll stay live for air-to-ground from there.
CC Skylah, Houston through Honeysuckle
7 mlnutes _
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle

7 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank.
SPT Are you still with me, Hank?
CC Roger; about 2 minutes more.
SPT Okay, Just a quick comment for the
ATM science room. That is the steepness of the gradient
across this coronal boundary in magnesium I0, seems
to have diminished be_tween this orbit and the last. It
was a - it seemed to he a sharper boundary on the earlier
rev. Now, I've given you a number of mirror llne scans
back and forth across the boundary both on the preceding
rev and at the start of this rev and so you can check to
see whether or not that is true. But I think it would
be worth checking to see whether or not the boundaries
are sharp as it was for the two halves of the observations.
CC Roger, We copy, Owen.
CC And, Skylab, we're coming up on a
keyhole. ][ don't know whether we'll have contact when we
come out of it or not=. but if we don't we'll be coming up
on Canaries at 22.
and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at
the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal is L2 minutes and 19 seconds according to the clock.
It will be at Canary Island. During this last pass Owen
Garrlott, the Science Pilot, again passed along information
for scientists here in the Apollo telescope mount science
report room, indicating that he had seen some change in
an active region on the Sun. No acquisition of signal for
another 42 minutes, at that time we'll receive from Canary
Island. There is a very low elevation pass at Bermuda which
we do not expect to acquire. That would take place a little
before then_ in about 37 minutes, but we do not expect to
be close enough to get: good communlcatlons with the space-
craft at that time. It's now 39 minutes - 40 minutes after
the hour. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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TTMI:,: I N:?() CDT .' |/) I: ,'(1 (_'HT
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PAt) Skylab Control at 23 hours 20 u_inul_

and 17 seconds. We have acquisition of signal at Canary
Islands and we'll stand by for a call from the ground.
Madrid, 12 minutes.
SPT Hello Hank, do you read me?
CC Roger, and for info, we're going to he
dumping the voice recorder at Madrid, that's about 4 minutes
from now.
SPT Okay. I've got two things I wanted to
relay. Tt_e first one goes to the ATM science room and the
next one to ASCO. The first thing here, I think we may have
underway a new sort of transient event. Just in the last
couple of minutes on the last orbit I noticed on the XUV
monitor that active region 96 has changed it's configuration
considerably. There's now a large loop extending from
active region 96 down to the south about i arc minute
into another bright point down there. And the loop extends out
toward the west limb. Now, in the last 2 minutes, I did
not see any signature on H-alpha, I had to use H-alpha 2
at this point. No H-alpha signature, but very clearly this
loop has formed in XUV within the last 30 minutes, because
I have looked at the scope earlier in the preceding rev
and it was not there. And I got this onboard photograph
which I'm looking at right now which very clearly shows
this large loop extending from one point to another and
extending out toward the west limb. And so at the very
minimum ! plan to do an extra building block i0 first
thing on _he beginning of next orbit at this particular
location. And fortunately there is about 15 minutes of
extra time worked into the next orbit and if you have any
other suggestions as to what might be usefully done, other
than this or in addition to this building block I0, perhaps
the science room could let me know about it. And then the
second thing is a puzzle that I expect ASCO can clear up
for me. That has to do with roll. Now starting the last
orbit I should have been sitting on minus 5400 arc minutes.
I'm reasonably certain I checked cause that's where I'd
been the preceding orbit and I'm confident that I checked
at the beginning of the orbit. Some 5 minutes or so into
the orbit I locked o11 Canopus and left it there for i0 or
15 seconds and close,] the door. Now about 20 minutes into the
orbit I noticed that my experiment roll, instead of reading 5400
was now reading minus 4818. That's about a change of
about 600 arc minutes or I0 degrees. My question is as
follows. Was our knowledge of spacecraft roll that far off?
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And secondly did our NUZ and orbital plane error get updated.
I noticed orbital plane error was about 8.5 degrees, both
at the beginning of the orbit and after locking onto the
star. So the orbital plane error on our display did not
seem to change much. And the last question is did this
effect my ATM pointing, because I was relying on that minus
5400 arc minutes to be same as it had been the preceeding
orbit, in order to re turn to the same spot on the Sun for
this last sequence of photographs. So if ASCO can clear
that up for me, I'd appreciate it. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. We copy and we'll try to
get your a_swer here.
CDR Hank, if you got a few minutes, I'ii
talk about T20.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Well, we flew it. We only used one
bottle. It doesn't take a lot gas, I've noticed to do the
job that iE can do. Essentially we found out one we knew
and one wa_ brand new. The one that was brand new is that - this
vehicle when you strap it on real tight, besides hurting
you when you strap it on tight because in order to get it
tight, you got to pull it up tight against you and we
worried al_out this in one g and we kept hoping that when
we got to zero g it would be steady enough so that it
wouldn't have to strap it on so tight. It isn't true. You
have to sn._ap it on even tighter and even when you do, the
rigidity between you and the foot-controlled maneuvering unit
and you and that back pack, particularly between the back
pack and the foot-controlled maneuvering it is a lot less than I
think anyb_>dy had imagined. It turns out that when you're
flying it _;ith the straps as tight as you can be happy
with them and you fire a few thrusters, it isn't very long
before all of a sudden you're sort of half sidesaddle on it
and you're really quite loose on it. And then as time progresses
and you doll t stop and check it, you get the feeling you're
like in a eep and it's going over rough ground and you
don't have a safety belt. It's maneuvering around and
you're kind of hanging on. And of course that upsets the
cg position That upsets your ... rolls and pitches
and yaws and trans - you know, moves them over to another
axis. Now, we got to come up with some sort of improved strapping
arrangement _ I believe, prior to the next run. I notice
that we on]y have this one and then the suited run, and I think
maybe this - Hold on a second. Lou Ramon and Don Hughes
might want to think of and telemeter - teleprinter up
some improved strap arrangement. Preferably one that goes
across the thighs and hooks to that hook down there between
your legs and foot. I think what they're going to want
to do for --
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CDR ... arrangement. Preferably one that goes

across the thighs and hooks to that hook down there between your
legs and foot. I think what they're going to want to do
for Gerry's flight, by the way, I think they're going to
want another unpressurized run so that we can get to see
how well we can do with just straps. But for - prior to
SL-IV I think what they're going to want to do is get some
metal rods or something and somehow rlgidlze this vehicle
to seat back to the - the - backpack with some nuts and
bolts and whatever else to make that one rigid flying
unit and then come on with some straps that really hold
you into it. Because I believe that if we could rigidize
the vehicle - one which isn't - and then rigidize the man to
it, we'd have a fighting chance of flyln 8 it in here quite a bit
better. At least we ought to look at that, because the
other one _:hat's the big disadvantage which I don't think
they can fix is the fact that it only translates, you know,
up or down. It won't translate left or right, or forward
or aft, whizh means if you translate for a certain point - if
you happen to be headed precisely at it with no translations
in the other two directions, you got it made. Unfortunately
that doesn't happen often as you know from from flying
airplanes or driving cars. So, immediately you got a - let's
say wire translation. You can't get it out. And you just
hope you get to the target before your translation builds
up enough so that you miss it. Now, we knew that before
we came, so we wanted to work on the principle of the
thing. So it seems to me that we can still work on the
principle, namely controlling the maneuvering unit with
your feet. If we can get this thing rigidlzad and somehow
padded dow_ in the seat area, we can do that here with
some mosite and thlnge_ we have. So that it's a rigid body
that you're flying. It's almost llke flying a - one of
these inflatable alrplanes that's got 3/4 of the air out,
it Just moves around too much. And I think you'll probably
be able to see that a little bit on TV, although the TV
we ran -- we tightened the straps up as good as we could
and then T_ didn't last too long. The straps did not have
a chance to loosen as they do.
CC We copy, AI, and we'll soon get ahold
of Don Hewes and see what we can work out.
CDR Okay, I think, I think we've
got the necessary things on board to somehow get
some better straps. So, if they can come up with some
ideas we'll be working on them too and then we can try that.
There may be be something on board here we can use to rigidize
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the backpack to the - the maneuvering unit itself, and that's

what we really need to do. If we can figure out what we
got on board that we can somehow do that Job, that'll go a long
way to eliminating at least the first of the two problems.
The vehicle's fun to fly; it's difficult to fly. It's
easier to move around in attitude than the HMMU, but it's
a lot - tire HHMU has advantages as far as flying - translating
direction_ because at least with the HHMU you can correct
your translational direction which you cannot here very
simply. But, as far as attitude is concerned it's quite
easy. It's quite interesting to be setting on top of it
and have it maneuvering you. It also has the great advantage
of it leaves your hands free. And seems to me if we had
some sort of foot-maneuvering device that could translate
in all directions but did maneuver with your toes or
something like that you'd have a pretty nice device, because
then you r_ould work and maneuver around. But in it's
present cow,figuration with not those capabilities it's
difficult
CC Roger, we copy.
CC SPT, Houston. We've got a answer here
from ASCO on your questions. It appears to us that the
experiment was off approximately 600 arc minutes prior to
your update there. And the update does look good to us,
and - so that would make it so that your pointing was off
prior to the update, ]but it should be okay now.
SPT Okay, but did the pointing of the
instrument change at the time of that update? Apparently -
presumably it would not. And for - my last building block
I did roll to 5400 arc minutes for the S052 experiment.
That does mean that t]heir pictures will have some readjustment
required ()f up to i0 degrees between the beginning and the
end of the orbit.
CC Roger, we copy that and we'll try
to get an answer to the other part of your question there.
We're almoner LOS now. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at
01.
SPT Okay, 25 minutes.
at the Madrid tracking station. Good deal of discussion
during this pass over Canary Islands and Madrid. Among
the things mentioned, Owen Garriott indicated that the
XUV monitor had shown a substantial change in active region
number 96. He said that he saw a loop extending south i arc
minute toward the wesi: limb of the Sun, and that he expected
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he's going to take another look at that at the next opportunity.

Right now the spacecraft is traveling over the eastern
portion of Europe and they're in nighttime period. They'll
be back in daylight in about 3-1/2 minutes. Also during
this last pass AI Bean was indicating some of his unhappiness
with the operation of the foot-controlled maneuvering unit.
He said that it was difficult to remain in position on the
device which is a little bit llke a bicycle with Jet shoes
attached. He said that part of the time the straps became
loose and you had to ride half sidesaddle on it. And he
suggested that Donald Hewes, who is the Principle Investigator
on the foot control maneuvering unit, Donald Hewes is of
NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton Virginia, that
Donald Hewes take a look at the foot-controlled maneuvering
device to see if there isn't a way that they can fasten
the astronaut more tightly to it so there will be less
difficulty in translational control, that is in moving
from one place to another with the device. He did say that
the foot-controlled maneuvering unit is excellent for attitude
control, very easy to operate for moving about in the same
position, but not particularly good for moving from one
position to another. He said that he did like the handheld
maneuvering unit, a device that had been tested earlier
much better. So there will be some investigation of
new strapping methods for that device before it's used
again. He also indicated he'd like to put some padding
around the seat because it became rather uncomfortable.
Good deal of activity here at this pass on both the solar
experiments and on that TO20 experiment run earlier today.
This is Skylab Control. Next acquisition of signal
24 minutes from now. The time now is 37 minutes and 6 seconds
after the inour.
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PAO S kylab Control at 00:00 hours Greenwich mean

time. We are Just now approaching acquisition of signal
at Carnarvon and we'll remain llve for alr-to-ground through
this Carnarvon/Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 14
minutes.
CC $kylab, Houston. We've got a question re-
garding the exercise report if it's convenient for one
of you to answer now.
SPT Okay, Hank. What's the info?
CC Okay. On the tapes we get on the e_ercise
report we've been getting two separate numbers before the
mark I, 2, and 3, exercises and we assume that one of those
is the time. But we're not sure what the other number is.
SPT Okay, it's directly off the pad. If you'll
check the pad sheet. But the first number is the timed
exercise, for example, number one is upper body, number two
is lower body. The second two-digit number is the time,
and the third four-dlglt number is the - three or four-digit
number is the watt minute.
CC Roger, and this morning we copied that the
CDR reported mark 5 exercises and we assumed that that was
mark i. Is there any way to verify that?
SPT Just a minute, I'ii have to check with him.
SPT He says he did a mark I and a mark 2. That's
the - you know those two exercises.
CC Okay, I- the numbers that we're talking
about Owen are in regard to the mark I and 2 and 3 and we're
not sure what the two numbers are. The pad is talking about
the ergometer I think.
SPT Ti_at's right, I thought that's what you
were asking. Now after mark i, it's a question of how it's
been read down Since that's not exactly on the pad anywhere.
So Al's Just coming on the telephone now. He'll talk to
yOU.
CDR Okay, here's the way we've been doing it.
As you'll 1_otlce, it's says exercise, type i, 2, and 3.
Upper body ergometer is i, lower body ergometer is 2, and
3 is other with ex - it says other hyphen explain. So,
what we've been doing for mark l's and 2's, mark l's being
the thing you pull up and down with the rope, mark 2 being
those spring things. And what we've been doing is giving
you the type which - let me give you mine for yesterday.
I'ii skip the part that's - that's the normal 33 minutes and
5003 watts. I did 3, mark i, 40A, 20C, 20B, 20D, and
20 situpe. Today's a - those aren't measured
watt minutes, they're just something else, but we've got a
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little card up here that them broken out into A's, B's, C's
and D's and all that. And then I said, 2, which I shouldu' t
have said, I should have said 3, 3/10/_ark 2, 20A, IOB, IOc,
and 1OF. Does that make sense now, Hank?
CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Okay. We're - we're discussing that now,
AI.
CDR I thought you fell asleep down there. That
exercise makes youtired.
CC Makes me tired just to hear about it.
CDR In fact, I'm up there right now working on
the mark i, getting ready to transition to the mark 2.
CC Okay, let's run through that last one again.
A 3 - itf s - the first number 3 means it's other, and then
you next: number you used was i0. Can you tell us what that
is?
CDR That's the time.
CC Okay, that's the time.
CDR Okay, so it was number 3 of some other kind
of exercises, for I0 minutes and then I said mark 2 - or
mark I depending on which it was. That gives you the kind,
and then I told you ihow many revs of each type, and on the
ground there is a card that shows the type, and I assume
that if -- the only reason we're passing that down is in case
the - the biomed people are interested in somehow quantifying
the exerclse that we're doing on these other devices. We
can quit doing that if you want.
CC No, that's real good, AI. We understand it
now and we - we like the way you're doing it.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you accomplish all of
building ])lock i0 and if not, how much did you get in?
SPT I accomplished more than the building block
lO, so l_m also putting the XUV mon on the VTR right now
so you can get a look at it the next time you dump it.
CC Roger, we copy. And I guess we've discussed
the pointing problem a little more during the LOS. And the
- the pointing was in error prior to the updates and the
computer doesn't change the pointing at all after the update
you would have to crank that around. However, after the
update your readouts are correct.
SPT Roger. I'm Just looking at this XUV mon
right now and the loops between these two magnetic poles
are continuing to develop. They still don't much of an
H-alpha signature, but it might be better than - to go take
a look at that on this latter - this middle part of this
pass than _t would be to pick up on that coronal hole. If
you have any comment about that, why, why don't you let me
know here promptly.
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CC Okay, we'll get you an answer.

SPT I got in an extra grating auto scan in
addition to the building block i0, and a couple of extra
photographs for S056.
CC Roger, we copy. And we would like for you
to stick with the pad and we're coming up on a keyhole. We'll
drop out about a minute, here.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of the a keyhole

now; we got about 5 minutes left.
CC SPT, Houston. Do you have any more
questions on that pointing and UV update?
SPT Not right now. I've got - got to get busy
over here.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We're seeing four frames a
minute on H-alpha. Was that intentional?
SPT Yes, that was intentional. I wanted to
do that while I was over there looking at that active region 96
and I Just now put it back to one. Thanks for the reminder.
CC Okay. We copy.
from LOS. Be coming up on _erritt Island at 48.
and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal now
at Honeysuckle. Our next acquisition in 32 minutes. We'll
be over the United States at Goldstone. Commander Alan Bean
will be interrupting ihls postsleep - his presleep activity
twice this evening. Once at about 8:30 p.m. central daylight
time and then again at about 8:56 p.m. central daylight time.
At 8:30 the space station will pass over India's Laccadive
Islands, a great many small islands several hunderd miles
west of Bombay in the Arabian Sea. Further along ground
track 57 at 8:56 p.m. cdt, ias the space station reaches it's
southernmost point and A1 Bean will attempt to photograph
the Antipodes Islands southeast of New Zealand. These
small volcanic islands are at the edge of the Antarctic
current which flows around Antarctica from west to east. For
both groups of islands the photography using the Hasselblad
70 millimeter camera and the Nikon 35 millimeter camera
with a 300 millimeter telephoto lens will provide color
pictures of the wakes and shoals around the remote areas.
These islands are among a number of remote areas that will
be photographed for scientific investigators in the coming
weeks. Earlier today the crew was successful in obtaining
photographs of the Straits of Magellan_ which is located
between Tierra del Fuego and the southern tip of the continent
of South America. This is Skylab Control. We did not
receive a report there and we werent t necessarily expecting
one of the investigation of the coolant loop system that
was being conducted by Pilot Jack Lousma. An hour and a
half from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. central daylight time was set
aside for coolant loop inspection, but there was no report
at that time. The environmental general instrumentation and life
support systems engineer did indicate that the molecular
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sieve fan had been turned on, which would indicate that that
has proceeded normally and is now ready there _ow back in
operation. We did not receive a report from Jack Lousma,
we may receive one during the United States pass coming up.
This is Dennis Williams, Skylab Control, 18 minutes after
the hour Our next acquisition in 30 minutes.
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8119173
PAO Skylab Control at 47 minutes and 28 seconds

after 00:00 hour Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition
of signal at Merritt Island for a U.S. pass and we'll remain
live for air-to-ground from there.
CC Skylab, Houston through Mila for 11-1/2
minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston, Just a comment on that last
orbit. The active region 96 has continued to evolve and
now shows loops extending both out to the east and out to
the west. And I do have a couple of segments - brief in-
tervals of this on the VTR and I think it'd be of considerable
interest to the backroom, ATM science room, if they'd take
a look at that when the tape gets back home.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT About the only opportunity in the next
orbit to get another look at 96 without messing up JOP 9
would be during this interval of - let's see, I guess -
there's the JOP 2-B, step 5 on 93 that could be substituted
for a 96. That looks to be about the only alteration.
They might consider whether or not they want to substitute
that in the next orbit.
CC Okay, we'll check that out, Owen.
SPT That'd probably also be good in that
10-minute XUV mon downlink interval. Probably want to
have an XUV mon called up anyway during that interval,
and you might Just as well be doing the work on active
region 96 during that interval.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at that.
CC SPT, Houston. On the next rev, here, we'd
llke you to work the JOP 6 building block I and omit the
TVD - or TV downlink that's called out at 39 minutes re-
maining. And on the - 24 minutes remaining on the 2-Bravo,
step 5, we would like to change the target from active
region 93 to 96. And somewhere during that building block
I0, give us 5 minutes of data on the VTR. We have 6-1/2
minutes remaining on the VTR.
SPT ()kay, 6-1/2 on there, you want 5 on the VTR,
and if we omit the TV downlink at 39 I guess that really gives
about - about 20 minutes to do work on the - on active region
96, and so, we'll do that building block i0 and probably
another active region study in there to take advantage of
the full length of time available.
CC ()wen, I think the - the TV there at 39
minutes remaining was during the building block I of the
JOP 6 there. So, - you won't have that extra time.
You'll be running that building block. We Just want to
omit the downlink while you were running it. (garble)
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SPT Oh, I see, and you're right, you're right.

So as soon as we're t_rough with JOP 6, step I, then we'll
go right oll to 96 as you say. Fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. I wonder if the PLT has
some words on the coolanol inspection?
PLT Okay, Hank. Here you go. I Just completed
the procedure that you uplinked. And I didn't come up with
anything very positive. I did notice in the tape recorder
compartment that the - those two lines that run next to tape
recorder number one. On one of them there was a - some dis-
coloration of the fiberglass insulation. It's a little
darker brown than any of the rest. If you were sitting in
the MDS area looking at the tape recorder module with your
right shoulder up against the hatch, you would be aligned
at - ran vertically parallel to the hatch and near
the right side of the module. And it would be the - the
one of two lines that's the furthest end of the compartment,
or the furthest away from him. And I looked at it a long
time and tried to get some moisture off and all that I thought
that if I rubbed it real hard and imagined a lot, I could
fancy that there was something sort of oily on it. It -
there's a line that has two right angles in it and it rubs around
the tape recorder, and from the top right angle to the bot-
tom right angle I noticed it - I would - from my Judgement,
say that it was enough to cause a significant leak however.
I also, as you know, looked at the mol sieve area. I didn't
find anything I considered to be a significant there, although
I did notice that that on one of the lines way back in the
- on the wall of the STS, the llne that was in mol sieve A
closest to the vent - the mol sieve vent, back on the wall,
that there was some moisture on it. However, I determined
that it was water. The lines were not discolored. The
moisture on it was beaded. Perhaps - Just - you know, Just
a few drops, not solid, but they were Just beaded. They
didn't have any odor or taste and they were - it was not
oily. And so, I determined that it was water. So, it was
my Judgement that everything's pretty negative in searching
for leaks so far.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC And Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 03.
SPT Say, and Just a comment about this bat charge
light, Hank. At the end of the last orbit, that's an hour
and a half ago, the bat charge light went out in that vicinity
and it came on again Just before sunrise. And I see it's
now gone out again after sunset's this orbit. So, it -
somehow or other didn't pay to the orbital period. So maybe
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that's so_e help to you.

CC Roger, we copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have lost signal
now at oul Bermuda tracking station. It's I hour Greenwich
mean time. We do expect to acquire signal in another 2
minutes ar,ci 35 seconds. During this pass, Pilot Jack Lousma
was asked about his eoolanol inspection. He did an inspection
to determlrLe whether or not there were any signs of leakage
in the coc]anol system. They had identified earlier a loss
of - of Ccolanol, which is a fluid that's used to cool the
telemetry system in the workshop. It also cools other parts
of the workshop, including the environmental control system.
He said a_ter looking at that coolanol lines behind the
- near the airlock module tape recorder and near the molecular
sieves which are used for cleaning the air, that two lines
next to tape recorder number one, one of those two was a
little dar_:er blue than the other, a sign of discoloration.
And he saio_ there was something sort of oily on it running
from the tcp right angle to the bottom right angle as the
line moves around the tape recorder. He did day that he
did not believe that this was a significant leak and probably
not the cause of the leak that had been indicated earlier
in the mission. That: leak was identified on August 5th,
both the Frimary and secondary cooling loops are running
now, and they are functioning properly. We do expect the
primary loc_p will have to be shut down in a probably another
eight to 10 days. There's no exact estimate on when the
level wil] reach such a low mark that they do have to shut
it down tc. preserve the pumps. Both of those loops will
be refilled with Coo]_anol at the beginning of the next
mission. }{e also noticed molecular siev line A had some
moisture _hich he found was water on it and there was no
sign of ary leakage of Coolanol. So that would be an in-
dication that the search was not very successful. But they
did belie_,e earlier that the leak was in any case, external
to the vehicle rather than internal, which means that they
would not be able to discover it. Removing these plates
was necess_ary, however, for the refilling of the coolanol
loops at the beginning of the next mission. We'll remain
live for _ir-to-ground now from the Madrid tracking station.
The pass over Madrid will last about 8-1/2 minutes. And
we're now about 30 sc:conds away from acquisition of signal
there.
END OF TAP[:
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PAO We have acquisition of signal at Madrid.

CC ... know if you have any comments or
whether ycu had to do anything differeut than in your training
exercises.
CDR ][ had to fly to - we fly to two different
places. One time some of the maneuvers we fly to the SAL,
some of the maneuvers we fly to FMU2. And I just flew
all of them to FM_J2 which was no different than half the
things we were doing.. So I don't believe it had any effect
whatsoever on the training at all.
CC We copy. And do you recall what the
pressure was on the bottle after your run?
CDR Let me ask Jack.
CDR 400 pounds.
CC Roger, we copy. 400.
CC We've got another question here in
regard to the checkout procedure on the CBRM select switch
that you did back on day 222, about 10 days ago. And we're
wonderln E if you could remember whether you noted any
occurrences slmular 1:o those which have happened today?
In other words, reference to the meter readouts on bats
3, 7 and 17, they're both temp and current.
CDR ]_ did part of that and no, everything
was copesetlc. And ]1 reported every single thing that
was a little bit different of which there wasn't much.
CC We copy. And I got a couple here
for the SPT. We wish to configure the H-alpha 1 camera
for unattended operation per the power down to unattended
operations cue card. And delete the unattended configuration
of H-alpha 1 is - that's in your schedule pad.
SPT All right. I think the significance
of that is you don't want H-alpha to run all night. Is
that correct?
SPT ()kay, we'll do that.
CC And, we got one more thing for you
regarding what we're golng to tomorrow. In our plan-
ning, we're going to run four orbits of JOP 15 Bravo operations.
And this is in conformative with Ed Gibson's comment
to you on the band structures near the south limb seen
in the S082A data and on the XUV mon. Four positions are
chosen above the bright and dark band structures. In order
to get long enough integrated - integrating above the
limb the grating auto scan has been changed to grading
3 scan into building block 36. And the extra time required
is allowed for in the pad schedules. The SO55 mirror
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auto rasters on nearby disc structures are scheduled as

fillers in order to best study the bands on the disc.
SPT Okay, I think I uuderstand all that,
Hank. If there's a problem after looking at the schedule
I'ii give you a call back about it.
CC All rlghty.
CDR And, thinking about the T20 again with
you, Hank. Jack and I talked about the items in the SAL
before we started, and of course, we couldn't take the one
out in the plus-Z. And the minus-Z we could're but decided
against it because the ground said it didn't really make
any difference, we could fly either above it or could fly
these other two points which were directly opposite the
workshop and were - as a good target for the two we chose
previously.
CC Roger, we copy.
LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 37 with our evening
status.
CDR Hank, at the same time I'm supposed
to give that evening status - Well, maybe I could make it.
I'm taking this Laccadlve picture and finishes up at 32
and 1'11 be down there by 37 I hope. Okay. It's already made
out.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 12 minutes
and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal
at Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition 24 minutes
from now will be at Carnarvon in Australia. This evenings
flight director Charles LeWiS has been reviewing plans
for tomorrow's activity aboard Skylab. Three teleprinter
messages on special opportunities for photographing remote
areas of the Earth will be sent up to the crew later tonight.
Early tomorrow morning Commander Alan Bean is scheduled
to photograph the Plains of Nazca and the Peruvian Andes
some 300 miles southeast of Lima. The plains which are
marked by a crlscsross pattern have been called the airfield
of the ancient astronauts. Plains of Nazca will be
crossed tomorrow morning between 7:28 and 7:33 a.m. central
daylight time as Skylab travels southeast along the Andes
Mountains on ground track 64. Pilot Jack Lousma will be
given an opportunity to photograph the Great Barrier Reef
along the northeast coast of Australia. Color pictures
should show the growth of the reef which is made of
living and dead coral and the water currents and sediment
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along the Australian Coast. The space station passes along

the reef on ground track 69 from 447 to 453 p.m. central
daylight time. Lousma will also have the option of
photographing the volcanic terrain near Wellington, New Zealand,
and the water conditions near the Cooks Straits which
seperates the northern and southern islands of New Zealand.
This will be on the same pass a few moments later. At
6:24 p.m. central daylight time again at his choice Commander
Alan Bean will take Skylab's two handheld cameras to the
structural transition section windows where he will
photograph the region about Alice Springs in central Australia.
Here the photography will be used for mapping rangeland
vegetation, describing regional geoglogy, and and analyzing
drainage patterns. Those three teleprinter messages which
have been okayed now by Charles Lewis will be transmitted
to the crew later this evening. To repeat, they will be
to photograph the Plains of Nazca 300 miles southeast
of Lima, Peru, plains known as the Airfield of the Ancient
Astronauts, between 7:28 and 7:33 a.m. central daylight
time shortly after the crew awakens at 6 a.m. on ground
track 64. And two optional opportunities, one Pilot
Jack Lousma at 4:47 to 4:53 photographing the Great Barrier
Reef off the Coast of Australia and immediately following
that the area around Wellington, New Zealand where there's
a volcanic: terrain arid some active volcanos. And then at
6:24 again an option,. Commander Alan Bean will have
the opportunity of taking pictures of Alice Springs, Australia
for mapping rangeland vegetation, describing regional
geoglogy and analyzing drainage patterns. With the three
of the activities tomorrow, tomorrow's activity includes
a very heavy day of Apollo telescope mount activity with
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott again sitting at the console.
He was occupied today with looking at active region 96
which he said was a unusually active one have now thrown
off two separate loops of energized material. And he
thought that the crew of scientists here in the backroom
would be indicate - would be interested in looking at
the television. Also scheduled for tomorrow is a thorough
check of the condensate system, the system that's used
for taking moisture from the air, a dehumidifying system
essentially on the Skylab spacecraft which has had a small
leak in it. And that'll be Commander Alan Bean's Job
beginning at about 7::30 tomorrow morning. He will work on
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that until approximately 1:30 in the afternoon. That's

a long period of time set aside for the cheek of the
condensate system. Again tomorrow evening a coolant loop
inspection will be run by Pilot Jack Lousma, who had
no success tonight in looking at the coolant loop. During
this last pass over Madrid the ground asked for a reading
on pressure of the TO20 bottles, that's the bottles used
this afternoon, and a test of the foot-contzolled maneuvering
system. The reason for that request was to determine how
much nitrogen had been released into the atmosphere of
the spacecraft. Last night they pumped up the total amount
of oxygen to maintain a balance of oxygen and nitrogen in
the spacecraft and they were now attempting to decide how
much of that nltrogem would have to be purged from the
spacecraft. And of course,i that purge involves both
nitrogen and oxygen dumped into the waste tank of the
spacecraft. The present time the pressure in the spacecraft
is reading about 5.5 pounds per square inch. The normal
reading is about 5 pounds per square Inch but they are
allowed to run quite a blt hlgher than that. And the
partial pressure of oxygen 3.6 pounds per square inch
which indicates that they are right at the level that is
desired for oxygen. Our next acquisition of signal 19
minutes from now at 17 minutes and 34 seconds after the
hour.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-960/I
TIME: 20:36 CDT 24/01:36 GMT
8/19/73
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 36 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're approaching acquisition of signal at
Carnarvon and we'll have a pass through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle. We'll remain llve for air-to-ground from
Carnarvon.
CC qkylab, Houston through Carnarvon 9
minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank, anything important?
CDR Are you ready for the night report?
CC Everybody's ready. Go ahead.
CDR ()kay, That completes the report, Hank.
What do ycu think?
CC That was pretty fast. I guess it went
right by _le.
CDR Must have been a co_m dropout. I'ii
do it again for you.
CDR llere it comes. 168, 155, 270. How's
that for a record. 5227, 8621, 5906; 6.260, 6.260, 6.264;
5.964, 5.958, 5.960; 6.956, 6.956, 6.957; 2/35/5014, 3/lO/mark i,
50A, 20B, 20C, 20D, 3, i0, mark 2, 20A, lOB, IOC, 10F; 2/30/4300,
3, 30, 70A, 60B, 60D Now for the PLT. 1/05/0545,
3/20/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, and 20 backbends. He'll
probably give you some more tonight. I don't think he's
finished. No medication. Sleep: 6G, 6-I/2G, 6G. Here
comes the food log: CDR, 12 salt packs, no deviations.
SPT, 5 salt packs, i butter cookie added. Pilot, zero salt
packs added, 1 grape drink and i butter cookie. Here comes
the photo log. TO20, FBMU, C168, 00; TO20, C146, 55, C141;
35 millimeter, CII0, 137, CXI3, 59; EVI3, 00, that's Nikon 02
through SO63. 70 millimeter: CX25, 029. No EREP. Drawer
A configuration: A-l, no change; A-2, 05, C146, 55, Cl41;
A-3, 4 in the back, no change. Flight Plan deviations:
haven't had a chance to look at the Fli@ht Plan for to-
morrow yet. One thing we wanted to see if you could get
in with the next 3 or 4 days is to try to put in a little
spare time so that we can work on this science demonstration.
We haven't got much spare time left and that's the way
we like it, but in this case we need a couple of hours,
I guess sometime. S!_opping llst accomplished: We did
day 23 transfers, we also did day 25 transfers while we
were there. We did the normal housekeeping. We repaired
the Mark [. Unscheduled stowage locations: one box of
wipes from D448 to the MDA, two boxes of wash- two boxes
of wash cloths from 736 to the head and about eight towels
from 737 to the head. And that's it.
CC Roger AI, we copy.
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TIME: 20:36 CDT 24/01:36 GMT
8/19/73
CDR ()kay. On this photo I Just took of the

Laccadive i[slands, iC was overcast except for the very first
one. And it was a little attoll and I shot it and after that
no islands came. It was completely overcast, as was the
west coast: of India, so that didn't turn out too well.
Maybe we can try it again next time. We'll try to get the
Antipodes here in another 20 minutes or I0 minutes or
something.
CC ]Roger. We copy.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-961/I
TIME: 20_43 CDT 24/01:43 GMT
8/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We got 4 more minutes

through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have about 3-1/2
minutes here through Honeysuckle. How would you like to
hear some news?
CDR We'd love to.
CC Todays Houston Post carried a front
page story headlined "Skylab Helps Spot Growing Gulf Storm"
The story stated that, Weathermen aided by Skylah astronauts
watched tropical storm Brenda blossom 800 miles southeast
of Houston in the Gulf of Mexico. The story further reported
that as the Skylah television cameras recorded the swirling
cloud mass, Astronaut Alan Bean said, "We'll try to keep an
eye on it for you on a day to day basis. Not only where it
is, but how it's developing as far as 81ze and intensity is
concerned." The story also mentioned ATM operations and a
newly hatched minnow. The first recorded birth in space
flight history. Another story in the post today talked
about the Skylab astronauts losing pounds and gave their
weights as Alan Bean, 145 pounds; Owen Garriott, 129 pounds,
and called Jack Lousma the space station heavyweight at a
189 pounds. The story was a feature on the Mass Measuring
Device developed by Dr. Bill Thornton, and pointed out the
importance of being able to weigh things in space including
the space traveler himself. Another news item firefighters
from i0 states have flown in to Join those already battling
flames sweeping across timberland in Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Washington and California. The Forest Service in Montana
said a call for help went out to every forest service region
in the country Friday. Nearly 9000 men were reported battling
the flames today. On the sports scene, placekicker Chester
Marcol booted four field goals and added three extra points
as the Packers defeated the Oilers 33 to 14. The Astros
traded outfielder Tommy Agee to the St. Louis Cardinals
Saturday, obtaining infielder and outfielder Dave Campbell,
and a player to be named later. The Astros defeated the
Phillies 3-2 last night by a two-run homer by Lee May, how-
ever in today's game the Phillies won 5 to 3. Also yesterday
Hank Aaron hit number 704 and in hitting that home run, he
also established a new major league record for extra base
hits as the Braves defeated the Montreal Expos 3 to I. The
homer was the 2378 extra base hit for Aaron and moved him ahead
of Stan Musial on the all time list. And the following
story Just came in. Headline, Space Center Houston. Dr.
Owen Garriott doubled in brass as a barber on his fellow
Skylab astronaut Alan Bean. A filmed video tape by the
astronauts on Saturday and beamed back to Earth on Sunday,
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8/19/73
showed Garriott carefully cutting Bean's hair and vacuuming

it away to, prevent it: from floating around in the weightless-
ness of the cabin. The astronauts got up early Sunday to
look at tropical storm Brenda, which was moving across the
Yucatan Peninsula. My first date with a lady since being
up here Joked the third astronaut, Jack Lousma. And that's
about it for the evening. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Texas at 20 and we plan to dump the
voice data recorder.
CDR Okay. Thank you Hank.
CC And also for the SPT, when you get
through with the VTR here on this pass, we'd appreciate
your hitting your rewind switch and then we'll be ready to
dump stateside.
S PT ()kay.
CC That's for the PLT. Sorry.
PAO Skylab Control at I hour 52 minutes and
25 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal now at
the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition in
27 minutes and 53 sec-onds will be at the continental U.S.
stations, Texas and Merritt Island and then Bermuda. During
this last pass Commander Alan Bean indicated that he had
very little luck with the photography of the Laccadive
Island. Those are the islands southwest of India, southwest
of Bombay, a group of very small islands. He said he did
see one small attoll and did photograph that, but the
remainder of the Lacc-adive Islands were overcast. The crew
had been told to expect 4/10 to 7/10 cloud cover, which is
about half cloud cover in that area. They did say though
that it was completely overcast as was the Indian Coast.
In the next minute or two the crew will be photographing
the Antipodes Islands if cloud cover permits there. They
will photograph those at 8:56 p.m. central daylight time.
At the very lowest point in their orbit at 50 degrees
south latitude and they're given about 1-1/2 minutes to
photograph the Antipodes, which lie in the Anartic current.
Next acquisition of signal 26-1/2 minutes from now at the
United States. This is Skylab Control at 53 minutes and
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC962/I
Time: 12:19 CDT, 24/02:19 GMT
8/19/73

acquisition of signal from the Texas ground station. We
do have scheduled a medical conference at Merrltt Island
which will come up shortly. We have received our first
notice of acquisition of signal at Texas. We'll remain
llve for alr-to-ground from Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Texas and
Bermuda for 16 minutes. And as a reminder we'll be dumping
the data recorder here at Texas and also at Bermuda. At
about 27 will be your ned conference.
CDR We're looking forward to it.
CDR Hey, was the photo report okay? Was it
right tonight, Hank?
SPT If we got the photo report right tonight
we got one in a row now.
CC Okay. We were Just talking about it.
We think it's okay. And we understand from the pad that
you didn't get the film thread this morning. Is that correct?
CDR Didn't understand what you say. Say again.
CC Roger, we - we think the pad looks real
good to us and your call data on the photos. And we understand
from the photo report that you did not do the film thread
this morning. Is that correct?
SPT No, that negative. We did the film
thread as s no change means. It was no change on the pad
you sent up.
CC Oh, okay. We copy that now.
SPT (garble) to work on it.
CDR Hey, Hank. Are ya'll going to send
up procedure on the teleprinter for not doing this condensate
check tomorrow?
CC That's affirmative. And we're in the
process of reviewing that now, AI.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready.
CC It's going to be a real long procedure
and we hesitated about it a little bit and we decided we might
as well get the thing from stem to stern once and for all
and Just nall down every leak that's in the system.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Basically what we're
planning on doing is rigging up the water umbilical and -
through the nitrogen system and putting 35 PSI pressure
in the lines and start traelng all the lines that are
easily accessable. And use the stethoscope if necessary
and listen for audible leaks. At 35 PSI we ought to be able
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Time: 21:19 CDT, 24/'02:19 GMT
8/19/73
to hear them. Then go back into the sol sieve area and
then like panel 393 or 316 and 390 where we have lines that
are hidden_ remove some of those panels with the high
torques and get in there lister to those. And after we've
done all that go back and do some bubble checks with soap
to see i£ there's any little seeping leaks that we've missed.
CDR ()kay, we'll rebuild the spacecraft for
yOU.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient
we'd like to get the things remaining off the ATM.
SPT We'll give it to you in a little bit.
Next two _ass or so_ Hank.
CC ()kay.
SPT Woops. AI says he's on the way.
CDR ()kay, H-Alpha 2081, 56 1701, 82A 47,
82B 134, _2 2478, 54 2327. How's that?
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
from handc, ver to Bermuda and that'll be your reed conference.
If we don' L pick you up the last part of that pass, the
next contact will be Madrid at 41.
CDR Okay.
and 28 seconds Greenwich mean time. We got an indication
of a handcver to Bermuda and we do not empect to hear from
the crew ur_til the very end of this Bermuda pass. This
is scheduled for a private medical conference, the regular
private medical conference held with the flight surgeon.
But we will stay live incase air-to-ground is brough up
again for the remainder of this Bermuda pass.
END OF TAPL
SL-III MC-963/1
Time: 21:29 CDT; 24/02:29 GMT
8119173
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you for

about 3 minutes through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS, Madrid
at 41.
34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at our Bermuda tracking station. We'll acquire _adrid in
about 3 hours and 26 - 3 minutes and 26 seconds. This is
Skylab Mission Control. The crew had a busy day today, the
23rd day of the second Skylab mission. Some 8-1/2 hours
of photography and electronic scanning of the Sun. Set a
record for the most solar data accumulated in a single day
aboard Skylab. The crew spent more than 13 hours at the
control panel for the solar instruments with all of the
three astronauts taking a turn. Jack Lousma inspected part
of the dual cooling system that has been leaking slowly
most of the time the space station has been in orbit. But
he found no signs of a significant leak. The cooling system
will re - be refilled by the next crew to enter Skylab in
November. Alan Bean flew the foot-controlled maneuvering
unit this afternoon, but Bean asked principle investigator,
Donald Hewes, of NASA's Langley Research Center, in Hampton,
Virginia, to work on a new means of strapping the device
to the astronaut's body. The Commander said the seat he
had to straddle kept sliding from between his legs as the
straps loosened. Tomorrow Bean will inspect for another
tiny leak somewhere in the dehumidifying system for the
space station, an activity that will take about 6 hours
beginning early tomorrow morning. In addition to a very
active day of solar investigation, tomorrow the crew may
attempt to photograph three remote areas of the Earth. The
Great Barrior Reef near Australia's northeast coast, the
Plains of Nazca, 300 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, an area
sometimes called the airfield of the ancient astronauts,
and Alice Springs in Central Australia. We are now approach-
ing acquisition of signal at Madrid and we'll remain live
for air-to-ground from Madrid.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-964/I
TIME: 21:39 CDT 24/02:39 GMT
8/19/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid 7-1/2

minutes.
PLT Okay Hank. I wonder if you could have
a little late exercise for the kid here?
CC Would you say again. What did you say
about late exercise?
PLT I didn't have all my exercise finished
when the evening status report came in, but I got it all
done now. (garble)
CC Okay. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. 232(garble)50.
CC We copy.
PLT Thank you Hank.
from LOS. We' ii say goodnlght to you now and see you in
the morning.
SPT Okay Hank. Sleep tight and thanks a lot
for all your good work today.
CC Rogo, thank you.
at Madrid tracking station and we did have a goodnight from
spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfleld to the crew of
Skylab IIl. We do not expect to hear again from the crew
at the next pass which is 37 minutes from now. They have
been instructed to go to bed. They will be getting up
tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. and we will have a report at
that time. This is Skylab Control signing off for the
evening at 2 hours 49 minutes and 50 seconds Greenwich
mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC965/I
Time: 21:58 CDT, 24/02:58 GMT
8/19/73

and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have Just received
a mission surgeons' report on crew health for today and
we'll read that at this time. The crew surgeon and life
scientist director at Johnson Space Center are well pleased
with the state of the health of the crew on Skylab III.
A lower bcdy negative pressure test was performed on the
Pilot Major Jack Lousma today. Data received here at Mission
Control Center this evening is well within acceptable limits.
And this is signed by Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins. Dr. Buchanan
informs us that this is based both on the private medical
conference held a short time ago at the Bermuda tracking
station, and on the medical reports received through
instrumentation here at Mission Control during the day. This
is Skylab Control at 2 hours 59 minutes and 10 seconds
Greenwich mean time signing off for the evening.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-966/I
Time: 05:50 CDT, 241'10:50 GMT
8/20/73

I0 hours 50 minutes. August 20th, 24th day in orbit for the
Skylab-3 crew. Wake-up call was early at 5:45. We'll play that
tape back approximately 1 minute right now.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you for one
more minute through Mils. And we're sorry to wake you up
15 minutes early but the next call won't be for an hour and
20 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're awake, thanks.
CC And A1, I got Just one thing for you here.
I'm closing down the ATM panel for unattended ops. We think
we see high voltage detector number 1 left on. It's enable
and we can't tell the difference between the switch being
enabled oz relay failure, so you might just check the position
that switch when you go to the ATM.
CC And we're 10 seconds until LOS. We'll see you
over Goldstone in about an hour and 20 minutes, at 12:05.
CDR Okay that switch was on.
CC Okay, thanks.
CDR What's that storm llke this morning, Story.
CC It's up to about 90 knots now, picking up
and still moving about 285.
CDR ()kay, - -.
PAO At Skylab Control; Greewlch mean time I0 hours
52 minutes with loss of signal in Texas. Next aqcuisitlon
will be Hawaii in approximately one hour from now. Today
the 24th day in orbit the crew will have 9 hours and 37 minutes
at the ATM console. This is the longest period of manned
operation, manned viewing time of the ATM in the Skylab
program. Today Commander Bean will perform the M092, 93
medical experiments. This is the 5th time since the launch
on July 28th that Commander Bean has performed this pair of
medical experiments. Today is another day of troubleshooting
checking cut the condensate system. Approximately 6 hours
has been set aside this morning for that troubleshooting with
Commander Bean performing the work; also later today another
attempt wl]l be made by Pilot Jack Lousma to inspect the
coolant icop system in order to detect the possible leak. He spent
2 hours yesterday performing this exercise, however, it did not
uncover a leak by removing panels in the STS structural
transition section of the airlock module. Next acquisition will
be Goldstone in approximately 1 hour. At Greenwich mean time
i0 hours 53 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAP_
SL-III HC-967/I
Time: 07:02 CDT 24/12:02 GHT
8/20/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean tlme

12 hours i minute. We will have acquisition over Goldstone
on thls the 1413th revolution of the Skylab workshop since
launch on May 14th. Skylab-3 crew began their day at 5:45
this morning as Skylab passed over the Florida peninsula.
Today's activities include 9 hours and 30 minutes on the ATM
console manned operations. All told the Skylab-3 crew has run
up 88 hours on the ATM console, equal to that accumulation
of time of the Skylab--2 mission. Six hours have been set aside
today for Commander Bean to troubleshoot the condensate system
part of the environmental control system aboard the Skylab
workshop. The condensate system removes the excess water
from the ECS system. Later thls afternoon Pilot Lousma has
a 2-1/2 hour schedule to check out the coolant loop again.
He dld this last night by removing some panels in the STS
structural transition section. However, did not find any
leaks in the coolant system there. On this current pass which
will carry the spacecraft down through the heart of South
America, Commander Bean is scheduled to take some photographs
of the plains of Nazca, which lie in the Peruvian Andes.
There are criss cross patterns, a dominant feature in thls
37 by i mile plain called the airfield. This is believed -
has the nickname ancient astronauts - believed that
the ancient Peruvians built these stralght-llne features
centuries ago. The objective of this photograph is to identify
the plains and describe the geometric patterns and also the
general appearance of the plains and geographic relation
to adjacent features. This is one of three crew option photo-
graphic schedules today. Others are taking pictures of the
Great Barrier Reef paralleling the northeastern coast of
Australia, and also taking photographs in the southern tip
of the north island of New Zealand to take volcanic terrain,
observe active volcanoes, observe the major depression in the
central portion of the island. Commander Bean Is sceheduled
to perform the M092, M093 experiment today. This is the fifth
tlme he has performed this pair of experiments. Also on schedule
today Is ED23, a student experiment. We expect acquisition
at Goldstone in approximately 40 seconds. We'll leave the
line up for air-to-ground communications between Capcomm
Dr. Story Musgrave and the Skylab-3 crew.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Goldstone and Texas for
14 minutes
SPT Okay, fine Story. And do you have any real-tlme
TV downlink or what are your plans this orbit?
CC We'll take real tlme on that, Owen.
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8/20/73
SPT ()kay. Looks llke it will be a couple of

minutes before I've got any ATM pictures for you.
CC ()kay. And CDR, Houston.
CDR Hey Story, did I mention to you the other
day that i[ tried your harness on the ergometer?
CC It was passed on to me, AI.
CDR Yeah, it worked okay. Apparently somewhere
in the manufacture they doubled up the strap that goes through
that little elongated loop at the front, and it doesn't fit
in there too well, st) I don't think the SL-2 group could fit
it in there just right. I removed it from there, and put it
on and it worked real well. Stabilized you, sure you don't
wobble from side to aide, you don't have to hold yourself down,
worked real[ good. I'm not sure that now that we've
got these super handle bars that reach all the way around you
really need it that much. But it sure does do the Job for
what it was designed. You don't have to strain, Just stand
there and pedal and use your legs.
CC Okay, thanks. I put enough parabolas on that
thing. In about 2 minutes, you'll be passing close to about
a 6000 aci_e forest fire in Oregon, and 2 minutes beyond that
there is a 26000 acre forest fire in California. You might
be looking out STS window number i.
PLT Do we pass over the storm on this rev, Story?
CC Yeah, that one will be at about 12:16. And
you'll be i_retty far west of it.
CDR Tell us the exact time on that forest
fire. We Ll see if we can catch that on TV.
CC It's about a minute and a half in STS window
i. And 1ihe LOS at the California fire and no need to
acknowledge, will be about 4 minutes from now.
CC We recommend just visually looking for the fires.
The ATM ha_ priority on the TV downlink.
SPT How much time do we have on the TV downllnk,
Story?
CC Stand by i. You've got all the way until
12:20 on _he TV downlink.
SPT ,0kay, thank you.
CC ,End Owen, for the S019, we'll need a star
tracker [ozked on, and we'll also need star tracker control
enabled and that's 52011, 50004. And we passed up a pad last
night thai ought to ]me good.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC 968/1
Time: 07 [0 CDT, 24/12:10 GMT
8/20/73
CC And Owen, an update on your solar activity.

It's been minimal. No flares reported, region 93 shows a
little growth, minor surges at 260 on the limb. And UV data
indicates that old region 77 is rotating into the east limb.
SPT ()kay. Maybe you could Just see if you were
watching. I don't know whether you've got this real time or not yet,
that active region 96 still shows that loop structure that has
developed last evening and we got another spot coming over
the east i[[mb, LEM, it looks like.
CC ()kay. We just got through reviewing
those film_ about an hour ago.
SPT Did you see active region 96 develop?
CC We saw the loop, the U-shaped horn, Owen.
SPT Okay. That's fine. It's now developed a
double loop. It developed it, oh, about 02:00 Zulu last night and
still show_ that double, multi-looped configuration on the XUV mon
this morn :h_g.
CC Okay. After we put you all to bed, we
noticed s _neone up there integrating on the panel.
SPT That happened to be me. I wanted to get another
picture about 03:30 :Zulu and I came up and took a picture and
closed the door again.
CC Okay.
CDR I think that computer had a breakdown.
We couldn c even see the Earth out of window i.
CC (9kay. Use any window you'd llke. And it's
still dark up - where you're looking down now, AI. You'll be coming
up on the "-ermlnator in about another 5 or 6 minutes.
SPT (garble) is not situated exactly right for
these windows at the moment. So I - And in addition to that,
of course, llke you said, is still dark here.
CC ()kay. We thought maybe the fires
would lo_,,k a little brighter during the nighttime.
SPT We must have Just had some bright transient go by
the fron,:: of the S05P. aperture because we got an automatic
door close, re. I'ii reopen it in just a moment.
CC We saw it Owen.
SPT AI says he saw it go by the window out here.
Are we clo:_e to the _ropical storm now, Story?
CC About a minute and a half away from it.
SPT Jack thinks he has it in site.
PLT Are we going to have a better view of it
on the ne_: rev, Story?
CC No, you'll be out in the Pacific on the
next rev It's about 55 knots now and forecasted to build a little
more. It' _,_still moving west.
PLT Okay, Story. We got it on TV now. It's
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Time: 07:10 CDT, 24/12:10 GMT
8120173
PLT (CONT'D) a good picture. It's somewhat at a distance

but it's quite well-defined from this distance moreso than it was
yesterday.
CC Okay. We're looking at it.
PLT I think you can see the (garble) structure
of it better today than you could from a close up yesterday.
CC That's a great picture, Jack. And when
you get a chance, you might tell us what window you're using.
PLT We used window number 3 on that Story.
CC Okay.
CC And Jack, when you get a chance to copy,
I got three changes to your Flight Plan.
PLT Okay. Just a minute. I got to go get it.
CDR And the reason for that door closure here, a
couple of minutes ago, Story, is something I don't understand. I
was just rolling from minus 54000 around a 10800 when this
transient developed and when I tried to reopen the doors, they
would open and close again immediately. I looked at H-alpha 2,
and for some reason, the pointing had changed by about i0 arc-
minutes. We'd slid off to the left by about i0 arc-mlnutes
from the center of the Sun. So I had to repoint and open the
doora normally. Now what caused the pointing to change by that
i0 arc=mlnutes is something that I can't explain.
CC The MPC was not unabled, was it?
CDR As I recall, it was inhibited but I was not
on the MPC at the time. Andso, I don't know what might have done
it.
PLT Go ahead with the changes to the Flight Plan.
CC Okay. We noticed you on TV using bottle number
4 on the TO20 yesterday. We'd like you to top off bottle number 4,
flight number 2, which is on the Flight Plan. And you're S019
at 13:00 should be canister 3 instead of canister 4.
PLT Okay. Now 14:05 says bottles 2 and 3. You
want 2 and 4?
CC Yeah, that's an error. Top off bottle 4.
PLT Is it 4 only?
CC Yes, sir. And one other thing, we'd like
a digital thermometer reading of the S019 film canister while
it's still in the film vault, before the morning installation.
PLT Okay.
CC And you can use the thermometer that's located
W749 Alpha.
PLT Okay. We've got it. I'ii take it to the
wardroom just so we can make a temperature (garble) take it up there.
CC Okay, copy.
PLT It measures temperature in the wardroom of
68.4. How does that concur with the brief you guys are getting?
CC Stand by i. Was that an air temperature of 68?
PLT Yeah, that's the air temperature in the
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Time: 07 LO CDT, 24/i2:[0 GMT
8/20/73
PLT _:CONT'D) wardroom, degrees fahrenheit.

CC ()kay. We'll get you an answer. We're
about I0 _econds to LOS here. We'll see you over the Vanguard
in i0 mintages.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-969/I
Time: 07:20 CDT, 24/12:20 GMT
8/20/73

12 hours 2C minutes loss of signal over the Texas tracking
station as - for the 3rd day in a row Skylab-3 has
provided the ground with llve television of tropical storm
Brenda, currently in the Gulf of Mexico. During this rev
Commander Bean is scheduled to aim handheld cameras out the
window of the Skylab to photograph large geological and
geometric features in Peru. Some of these features are
I00 feet in length and size and historically they offer a
big question as to their origins. On the next rev Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott is scheduled to perform the ED23 experiment.
This is the experiment of sixteen year old John C. Hamilton
an llth grader, in Aiea, Hawaii. His experiment ultraviolet
from Quasars utilizes the SO19 experiment designed to obtain
ultraviolet specter to augment existing data in radio and
visible light ranges of target areas in which quasars have
been identified. Selected photographs will be obtained by
the S019 experiment. Commander Bean is scheduled to begin
shortly troubleshooting with the condensate system for the
environmental control system aboard Skylab, approximately
6 hours has been set aside for Commander Bean to perform this
activity today. Another troubleshooting program is scheduled
for Pilot lousma, 2-1/2 hours later today and continued
search for suspected leak in the coolant loop system.
Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 7 minutes at Greenwich
mean time 12 hours 22 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-970/I
Time: 07:29 CDT, 24112:29 GMT
8120173

12 hours 29 minutes with acquisition comin B up at Vanguard.
We'll hold the llne open for air to ground between CAP COMM
Story Musgrave and Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, we're AOS over the Vanguard for i0 min-
utes.
SPT ()kay, Story I have the star tracker locked
on, I closed the door again and no it's still locked on the star
now l've the command you gave me were to re-enable star
tracker ccntrol not a update, I guess that's what you wanted
I've not entered it in yet. Is that correct?
CC Yes sir that's flne.
SPT When do you want to give it a star
tracker update?
CC That's already enabled, Owen.
SPT Okay, and the other thing is I do have
a bat charge alert light on now and I have a reg volt flag
on the power system yet as I rotate my CBRM select around
the barber pole on reg volts never disappears and I never
do get a barber pole until the bat volts flag - in order to
tell me what battery, apparently has the bat charge low,
so it's a ]ittle puzzling again this mornln E.
CC We copy that, Owen.
CC Owen, we're not getting any AM or ATM
data yet, ss soon as we do we'll look it over.
CC And Owen, we did not flight plan your
collecting the spider web today, if you get it done it will
be fine otherwise we'll schedule it for mission day 25
tomorrow.
PLT Hey, Story I take the meaning from the
flight plan that you don't want bed number 2 baked out. Is
that ocrrect?
CC Stand by i, Jack.
CC Jack, that we don't want bed 2 baked out.
PLT Thank you.
CC And on those PSS bottles charge up anyones
that you' ve used.
PLT Okay, we've got them all recharged, we
don't have them all topped off. Understand you want them
all topped off.
CC That' s afflrmatlve, Jack.
CDR Hey, Story Just fixing to photograph the plains
Nazca and I couldn't see the - for sure the area that
was described or called the air field of the ancient astronaut
but I did photograph the entire area there.
CC Okay.
SL-III MC-970/2
Time: 07:29 CDT, 24/12:29 GMT
8/20/73
CDR (Garble) .
CDR It was scattered clouds in most areas
and some places it was clear where I could see the ground
in that vicinity I did photograph. And maybe some of
these will come out.
CC Okay.
CDR I know we need to be thinking about
a new approach to this picture taking business. For the
simple reason in almost all the sites that we've taken
pictures of or couldn't take picutres of because of the
clouds we've seen previously and really fantastic weather
and if we'd have Just known that those were the sites that
eventually we're going to want taken we could have very
simply taken them because for example the Tiffany Isles
we saw 3 or 4 days ago or maybe longer ago beautiful weather
we could have taken some magnificent shots. Yesterday when
we tried it: was all socked in and couldn't even find the islands.
Same with this area Peru we passed over it for 3 weeks now
and 50 percent of the time it's been Just clear as a bell.
Maybe there's someway to get a llst of these pads up here
and get them all listed and we'll put them on a file or some-
where and we can look through them and then you can send
up then and say we're thinking that it's about time to
get some plains of Nazca and we can say well we got it
2 weeks ago because the weather was Just perfect then.
CC Okay. We'll do it.
CDR Yea, because we're ending up trying to
shoot pictures of things we've seen and then when we try
to shoot them we can't: see them Just because the weather is
socked in about 50 percent of the time of some percent
and we can kind of work it both ways you can schedule them
at the same time and we can try and get them in advance.
We've noticed what part of the world seems to be clear
we can look on our llst and if they were somehow sent up
in geographical groups and then we can say well lets take
the - looks llke South America the whole west coast is clear
today and then kind of - next time we pass that way look
and see if we've got anything in that vicinty and try to
take it.
CDR That's not the complete answer hut there
must - somehow there's a better combination than we're
working at the moment.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-9_ I/i
Time: 07:38 CDT 24/12.:38 GMT
8/20/73
CC A1, do you think if we send you coordinates

you can use the slider map to find the locations?
CDR Yeah, we can do that. But this description
of what you're looking for I think is real good. I guess
what we need is almost: everything that is on here with the
exception of - we wouldn't need the camera settings because
we can usually figure those out. And we wouldn't need the
window. We'd need the geographical location and the name of
the place so that we could look at it on the map, and then
maybe the top of it would give us a general hint as to the
area, like northwest coast of South America. And all the
northwest coast of South America type sites would be together.
And then southern tip of South America sites, and then
they would be together. So we could see if things were nice
down there, and then if they were, we could kind of glance
at the file_ find the coordinates and look at the map and
then shoot the picture.
CC Okay.
CDR Just leaving them up to us completely won't
do the Job either because we don't always have time to look
out. But, we need a better way. I don't know what it is
exactly, we probably ought to try another one - or another one
or two.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to LOS. We'll see
you in a little over an hour at Goldstone at 13:45. And we
never did get systems data through the Vanguard.
SPT Okay. And have you inhibited momentum
dump for me on the SO19 pad, Story?
CC That's affirm.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 12 hours
41 mlnutes, loss of signal at the Vanguard tracking station
as Commander A1 Bean discussed with Capcomm Story Musgrave
the attempt to take photographs of the plains of Nazca, Peru
near the Andes Mountains about 300 miles southeast of Lima.
He said it was overcast, cloudy. He doesn't think he was
able to get the features that the EREP officer was looking
for on this pass. He has suggested passing up a llst of
targets of opportunity in advance so when they do pass over
those parts of the world and it's clear, they can take those
pictures _ f they have time. Greenwich mean time 12 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC972/I
Time: 08:42 CDT, 24/13:42 GMT
8/20/73

time 13 hours, 41 minutes with acquisition coming up at Goldstone
in approximately 3-1/2 minutes. During the morning, Commander Bean
will become a plumber's helper today, when he attempts to track,
an apparent leak in the condensate system of Skylab's environmental
control system. He is scheduled to spend some 6 hours today
troubleshooting the system, which removes excess water from the
environmental control system. Trouble developed in the ECS
condensate system on the third day of this mission, July 30,
and on mission day 12_, an attempt to locate a leak was made.
During today's activity, Commander Bean will remove panels
listen - listen for leaks with the aid of a stethoscope, make
visual checks of the condensate lines. He will also make
bubble leak checks by liberally applying a soapy lather to
B-nuts, well Joints, flex hoses, valve connections, and quick
disconnects_ Nitrogen gas at a pressure of 35 psi, will be
pumped through the condensate lines as a means of detecting the
possible leaks. The troubleshooting procedures have been
alloted a total 6 hour block of time in today's Flight Plan.
Bean will be using several sizes of crescent wrenches, the
stethoscope, a bar of soap, and when and if he detects a leak,
he will mark the leak with red tape. In addition to checking
the lines, Bean will make a check of the molecular sieve heat
exchangers and if during this procedure, the mol sieve fan is
too - noise is too great, Flight controllers have advised Bean
he may shut the fans off. At times during today's activity,
Bean may be required to check over as many as 9 to 20 B-nut
connections in order to perform the audible leak checks. At
Greenwich mean time, 13 hours, 44 minutes, we will have
acquisition at Goldstone in approximately i minute. Cap Comm
on shift now is Astronaut Bruce McCandless, Flight Director
is Nell Hutchinson.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for the next 4 minutes. Over.
CDR Morning Bruce.
CC Morning Alan. If you all could stay off
the DAS for a few seconds, we're going to enable the momentum
dumps that were inhibited to permit you to make the S019 pass
this morning. And also, due to our communications - data
communication problem through Vanguard, we're going to have
to dump the data voice recorder this pass here at Golds,one.
Over.
CDR Okay. We understand. We had mol sieve A
sieve flow light come on several times. Maybe I0 times over
the last 30 minutes. We went through the mal procedure, first step
it says is the shift fans, which we did, went to primary. It
still activated the sieve light. The answer to this goes
SL-III MC972/2
Time: 08:42 CDT, 24/13:42 GMT
8/20/73
CC (CONT'D) on to block 18. It says, sensor failure.

If it happened right out of the blue, we'd kind of agree with it.
So, we just finished making out bed i and we noticed that it
only occurs when bed i is in ADSORB, but that one is in
DESORB, then it seems to flow okay. The paths feel good. Both
of them are running when we select them. One is running
when we .,_elect it, when we select the other it runs. So, we're
presentl_ sort of in a hold mode to get some advice from you.
CC ,Okay we copy all that, AI and all's to say
that we' iL work on it and get back to you.
CDR Okay. We're Just going to leave it alone.
We've got sieve A flow disabled. And we're going to enable it
because i__ Just shifted to DESORB in bed i. We'll see how it
lasts this 15 minutes.
PLT Hey Bruce, I got a question on S019. When-
ever Carl asked for unwind exposure, of course, we can' t use
this little timing knob. So, we're one out of - we ought to time,
full 90-seconds on our watch or we ought to time some reduced time
which is equaled to his timer. For example, his 90-second
timer times out something less than 90. And if he wants those
times in unwind exposures to match the ones which are wide - he ought
to shoot u_ up the 3 Delta, Delta's or differences of time
to the 30°°90, two 70 second exposures.
CC Okay. You've got a real valid point there, Jack.
We'll get an answer Eor you. How did you do it this morning?
PLT This morning I did it full 90 seconds on the
watch and [ believe that's the way we've taken the few
unwind exposures tha't we have taken in the past. Owen knows
I've got a couple coming up on the next pass, so I'd like to
know exac1_Ly how he wants them so we can do it precisely the way
he wants
CC Okay. We'll get it to you. Got i minute
to LOS at: Goldstone. Next station contact is Vanguard in
approximately 18 minutes. And back to AI again, we'd like
you to go ahead and Just leave the sieve A flow disabled on
the - or :nhibited on the caution and warning. And press on
with the condensate system checkout and we'll be back with
an answer ro you. This is the same sort of problem that we
saw in S]- ! too.
CDR Oh, okay. you think it had something
to do with bed baked out or it Just happened at the same time by
chance?
CC ()kay. This is associated with bed bakeout
and we found out that everytime after you do a bake out and put it
back on the line, it seems to take about 6 hours to stabilize
and everythings hunkydory. Over.
CDR ()kay. Well, then we'll quit worrying
about it. We've inhibited sieve A flow, caution and warning
on 207,
CC In case you didn't understand that last hunkydorey

it's the same as peekaboo. Over.
CDR (garble)
END OF TA_'E
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SL-[II MC-973/I
Time: 08:59 CDT, 24/13:50 GMT
8/20/73

time 13 h,_rs 50 minutes. Loss of signal on a brief pass
over the Goldstone tracking station. Next acquisition will
be Vanguard in 16 minutes and - from now. Discussion
concerning the mol sieve flow fan, gas flows through the
molecular _ys - gas through the molecular sieve system is
provided ])_ red - two redundant fans in each system and
flow sensors in the system initiate the caution and warning
system if the flow fans are not operating properly. Bruce
McCandless explained this same problem occurred during
Skylab-2, and it's attributed to - after a bake out of a
mol sieve it takes the sieve about 6 hours to return to
normal. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours 51 minutes, next
acquisition Vanguard in 15 minutes, this is Skylab Control•
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-974/I
Time: 09:'35 CDT 24:14:05 GHT
8120173

14 hours 15 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard. Cap-
comm is Bruce McCandless, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson.
We'll hold the line up for this Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for
10-1/2 minutes. A couple of quick items for you if you are
ready.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, for the PLT and CDR as S019 opera-
tors, we want to use the (garble) coronagraph for all unwidened
exposures, that is all U exposures. And use the widener
knob as your time reference on all widened exposures. This
should clear up the misunderstanding on the pad this morning.
Over.
SPT Okay, that's clear now, thank you.
CC And - -
CDR That's what we've been doing all along, so
everythin_ is okay.
CC Okay. And we'd like - -
CDR I've got a question on this procedure• I'm
working trying to fix this one. And I'm over here at M168.
It says open cabinet, remove the vent cap and flare saver from
the M4 heat exchanger plate service hold stowage gimbal. I
don't know what a vent cap and a flare saver are.
CDR If that's the thing that the heat exchanger
plate sort of mounts on for stowage - is sort of a stowage
point and use a crescent wrench or the like to get it off, I could
sure do that.
CC Okay, if you take a look at that QD, which
is the stowage location, on the inside of it it has a little
fitting oE it that has a screen in it thereby making the
fitting arid everything hooked to it vented assembly. That's
the vent cap that we're talking about. And I believe the flare
saver is a little ring or circular fitting that gets assem-
bled inside the cap on the B nut or inside the vent cap there.
CC ()kay,it'ii be - -
CDR if I could see I could take off that little
screened arrangement that you were talking about that is the vent
cap. Now will I have to - what I'm trying to figure out is will
I have to remove that whole leg to get the parts I want or
when I pu_ i off the little vent cap will the flare saver
come with Lt?
CC Yeah Alan, the flare saver should be inside
the vent cap and concealed from your view at the present time.
Over.
CDR ()kay, understand. Thank you.
CC And for the SPT, if he _s up by the ATM, we'd
like to get the startracker shutter closed please.
SL-1II MC-9 74/2
Time: 09:05 CDT 24/14:05 GMT
8/20/73
SPT For the S064 group, the last building block

required is MS03-64. And when I actuated that it actually took
a double sequence for unexplained reasons. I Just happened to
be watching the frames and it took the normal sequence, then
immediately picked up and did another sequence which I termin-
ated about - probably during the last one or two exposures.
CC We copy that, Owen. We've seen it before
and that was logged as an idiosyncrasy on the instrument. Thank
you.
CDR Okay, I've taken off the vent cap. I gather
the flare saver is the sort of cone, truncated cone up there
that seems to be in there.
CC Yes sir.
CC And Owen, some time today when you get a chance
I've got a few questions here with regard to the NK-02, the
Nikon that you use on S063. I don't knows you might want to
give us a call when you are ready to talk about it, and maybe
have the camera on hand or somethln E llke that. Over.
SPT Okay.
END OF TAPF
_[.-I[l MC-9 75/I
Time: 09:12 CDT, 24/14:12 GMT
8/20/73
SPT Bruce, again for the back room ATM science

room there, I've slightly modified the procedure on
steps 3 and 4 here, cause there was another bright spot to
the left of the one I'm looking at so on step 3 1 went to
the right 5 arc seconds for the 82B exposure to give them
better contrast and then on step 4 l'm going to move to the
left 5 arc seconds just reversing that where I do not
give them an 82B, and I think that will make the data some-
what more meaningful for 82B.
CC We copy.
CDR Okay, still talking about flare savers
I took off the vent cap as I mentioned. As I lifted the vent
cap off I noticed this truncated cone up there which I was
looking at the small end. Then it said remove the outside
nipple which I did. Now, when I removed the outside nipple
along with it came this truncated cone and a nut and two
washers. The one I have now in one hand is a little thin
cap what I have in the other is this nipple with about a
one inch long, 3/8 inch diameter threaded operation with a
truncated cone on the end which I thought was the thread -
was the flare saver but it looks llke it's part of the
nipple really.
CC Okay, when you took the vent cap off the
flare saver should have come loose with it. Maybe it's
up inside the vent cap. And that should be two separate
pieces that you can place in the disposal bag. And then
you should have in your hand the QD nipple with the two loose
washers and I believe a large nut. Over.
CDR Okay, well I looked up inside and was
careful that nothing floated free and inside this thing as I
looked up in here there's the outside nut, then there sort of
inside (garble) with a screen at the front end. If I turn
the screen and look in the back end I can see that the inside
is turning, (garble). That little filter thing seems to be
Just of one piece - two pieces but it's joined together.
CC Okay, so what you're trying to tell
us it that it doesn't seem to be a flare saver up inside
that nut.
CDR No, there's doesn't
CDR There seems to be a total- a nipple
that's attached to this long- one inch lon E thin E with a
truncated cone on the end. There's two washers, there's
a nut and there's the (garble) that I took off the vent cap.
inside is nothing but - there's nothing in there. Now, I
could look at the out board one and see what's inside it.
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SL-III MC- 975/2

Time: 09:12 CDT, 24/14:12 GMT
8/20/73
CDR Which I' ii do.

CC ()kay, the flare saver hasn't become
pressed onto the end of the nipple in such a fashion that it
looks like it's part of the nipple, has it?
PLT lie' s checking it.
CC IIere we got 30 seconds to LOS through
Vanguard here, next station contact is Hawaii in 58 minutes.
I understand that go ahead and press on if you can't find
the flare saver I think we'll get another one later on.
CC ()kay, you don't need the first flare saver,
really y¢,u can use the one you come up with later in step 5.
CDR I took a look in one of the ones earlier
and it's 1:he same way.
time 14 hours 18 minutes with loss of signal at Vanguard.
Commander Bean discussing with CAP COI_M Bruce McCandless
the activities concerning the checkout of the condensate
system. Six hours are scheduled for this activity today
where Commander Bean will be removing panels, checking for
leaks in _:he condens:mte system using a stethoscope and
soap bubbles. The condensate water lines have been - will be
pressurized with nitrogen gas in an aid to detect possible
leaks in the system. He is presently working on one area
opening a cabinet panel. This is the first of a more than 20
steps that Commander Bean is scheduled to perform today in
checking out the condensate system. With loss of signal
at Vanguard, next acquisition in 56 minutes will be Hawaii
tracking station. At: Greenwich mean time 14 hours 20 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC976/I
Time: 10:13 CDT, 24/15:13 GMT
8/20/73

time 15 hours, 15 minutes. Acquisition coming over Hawaii in
approximately 2 minutes. Commander AI Bean should be well
into the checking of the coindensate system. He started this work
in a panel - opening panel M168, in the multiple docking adapter.
The next station he'll be working at is in the forward dome
area and then move on into the water - waste management control
compartment in the orbital workshop. Six hours have been set
aside for Commander Bean to troubleshoot the condensate system,
looking for leaks in the condensate system, which is part of
the environmental control system and removes excess water from
the ECS system. And acqulstlon over Hawaii, Cap Comm will be
Bruce McCandless. We'll leave the llne open for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
8 minutes and 45 seconds. Due to our continuing problem with
data command through Vanguard, we'll be doing a data voice
tape recorder dump this site. Over.
CDR Okay. Understand. Say, Bruce, I figured
out after looking at another QD, there Just weren't any favors
in those two that we checked. Apparently, they don't need
them on cause there's no other cone shaped fitting that that
cone shaped fitting is mating with and secondly, since it's
not passing anything but Just spinning air, I guess they
figured they could not have to get a good tight seal - because
I saw one of them later on. They're llke cone-shaped washers.
CC Okay Alan. We copy and in the mean time,
we've gone back and checked the documentation and has confirmed
that in the flight vehicle, there was no flare saver installed in
the location called out in step 3 in your procedure. Over.
CDR Okay. I've Just finished pressurizing the
system to 35 psi with nitrogen and I'm getting out my
little stethoscope and go listen here and there.
CC Okay. Let's seep copied and you're -
all right, we'll find it.
SPT Hey Bruce, something I noticed on the ATM
pass today is that unless we have for example, the Jop 9 is
suppose to start in 57 minutes. And we don't get ESR till
54:43. So, it looks llke they're starting it a little early.
And I plan to wait until EaR.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For PLT, if you'll
stay off the DAS for a minute, we will inhibit momentum dump
in preparation for S019 ops and this should give you a few
extra minutes on your time remalnlng clock. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. You got the DAS and when
I see the (garble) go barberpole, I'll start.
CC Okay.
SL-III MC976/2
Time: 10:13 CDT, 24/15:13 GMT
8/20/73
CC Okay, Jack. Dump has been inhibited it's

your DAS and we think we added about 7 minutes to your time
remaining clock.
PLT Right. You sure did. Now I can't start
for 7 more - yes - 7 more minutes. Correction, 4 minutes.
CC Okay. We'll just keep you honest there.
PLT The one we wind up doing - wind up giving
me more time this orbit or less?
CC We wind up giving you more time this
orbit. We're trying to figure right now, what the effective
sunset time will be now that we have no dump involved.
PLT All right. That is what I was wondering
about because as it was, I was about a minute away from begin-
ning.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Bruce. I got a PO - PAO request today.
CC Go ahead Jack.
PLT Today is the birthday of a special person
in my life. It's my dad and I was hoping that somebody could
give a call and wish him happy birthday for me. He lives in
Jackson, Michigan and he's always - he always provided a good
homelife for us and took plenty of time with me and got me
off to a good start and I'm mighty thankful to him for it.
And I'd just like somebody to call him and tell him and tell him
I'm mighty proud of him. Happy birthday.
CC Okay. How's the telephone listed? Do
you know the number?
PLT Just give my wife a Jingle and she'd
probably be able to give him a call.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
PLT Say, Bruce, if there's a way to set it
up, I'd appreciate having the opportunity to talk to him
personally on the phone if there's a way to work it out.
CC Okay. Let us work on it.
PLT Okay. And one other thing. Today is
Ron Whittenhagen day. Another special day for people we want to
recognize. Ron is the guy who collected together all the maps and
charts and organized the whole S191 operations with looking for
sites on the ground, through the tracking systems. And he was instru-
mental in getting all the sites together and he was always
very cooperative in getting us what we needed at the time.
And I'm sure he's busy down there now working on the same
thing and we Just want to recognize him for his extra effort
and thank him for all he's done to get the S190 thing going
well.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
SI.-II I_ MC976/3
"lime: 10:13 CDT, 24/15:13 GMT
8/20/73
CC (CONT'D) LOS Hawaii. Next station contact is Vanguard

at 15:45 in a approximately 21 minutes and based on your onboard
charts, it looks llke effective sunset will be at 7-1/2 minutes
on your time remaining clock. Taking into account, the fact,
momentum dump has been inhibited. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you. I'ii work on 7:30.
CC Roger. And I think- I think actually
Jop 7 is an extinction set up to take you on right
down to zero there. So, you might keep an eye on that.
PLT Roger.
15 hours, 25 minutes. Loss of signal over Hawaii. Commander
Bean in the condensate system checkout. He said he's ready
to get out his steth - stethoscope and check for audible hissing
sounds which might indicate a leak in the condensate plumbing
aboard the spacecraft. The condensate system has been pressurized
with nitrogen at 35 psi and it's planned that this pressurization
will indicate where a leak is if in fact a leak does exist. There
are I0 different locations throughout the workshop that Commander
Bean will be checking, audibly. Later after this, an attempt will
be made to put a soapy lather at various spots throughout the
piping to - to learn if a leak could be visibly checked.
Pilot Lousma passed down happy birthday to his father, Jacob Lousma
of Jackson, Michigan. He said, "Wish my Father happy birthday."
He said his father has provided him a good llfe and got us off
to a good start. He said he's very proud of him. He requested
posslbly setting up a phone conversation with his father later
today. Lousma also said today is Ron Whittenhagen day. This
is the gentleman that helped the crew in preparation of the
EREP program. Ron, specifically was involved in the S191 map
preparation for the EREP site. At loss of signal over Hawaii,
next acquisJtlon at Vanguard in 6 minutes, Greenwich mean
time, 15 hours, 27 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-[[I MC-977/I
Time: 10:L3 CDT 24/15:43 GMT
8/20/73

15 hours 43 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard.
During this pass Commander Bean should be listening for any
leaks in the condensate system using e stethoscope. He'll
be checking leaks in I0 different locations in the vehicle
examining B nuts, lit'tings, piping and such. This is the first
part of a two step operation after listening for leaks he
will apply a liberal amount of soap lather to various fittings
to see if they will bubble up and possibly indicate a leak
in the system. Vanguard coming up in i minute, Capcomm Bruce
McCandless.
the next 9 minutes. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. We're standin 8 by down here. I guess
we're curious as to how A1 is coming along with the condensate system
leak check. Other than that, no traffic.
PLT He's been playing with that medical stethoscope
which he took. It looks like he's making progress.
CC Roger.
PLT How does the M509 data look, Bruce?
CC In general it's looking real good, Jack. And
we certainly appreciate your voice commentary. It's been
outstanding, we're able to follow things very clearly
as they go along.
PLT Well, we hope so. How about the data on the
tape. Were you able to correlate it all okay?
CC Yeah, we seem to have. All that we've actually
gotten out of the system has been a quick look data which gives us
a sample every i0 seconds, and we're processing that. We may have
a change to the plan for tomorrow coming up so that we can get some
better excellerometer data, but that one's still in the mill. And
if we process it through, why you'll get it on the teleprinter
tonight. Over.
PLT Good, that's great. We'll help out all we
can to make it a good spot.
CC Okay, much obliged. And we're were just
watching the play back of the television recorders on TO20
yesterday here in the: Control Room. And it looks like you
got really good coverage om that too.
PLT Yeah we did. We were able to work the pro-
cedures without a hitch. The procedures were very clear,
well-written, and that sure made a difference.
PLT I didn't mean to imply that they weren't for
509 also. They were very well written for 509 as well.
• .t
SL-III MC-977/2
Time: 10:43 CDT 24/15:43 GMT
8/20/73
CC Okay. Well, as you undoubtedly know Lou Ramon

was working the procedures for T013, T20, and 509 and all in
the same shop there.
PLT Right. They were very good too. Oh, by the
way, we started the bat charge and the bat fix on time. And
we also topped off that other bottle.
CC Okay, we copy. And I guess you got the bottle
that you used yesterday on 220 to top off.
PLT Yes sir.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute remaining
until LOS at Vanguard. Next station contact in 58 minutes.
It is Hawaii at 16:52. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. (garble) thank you.
55 minutes. Loss of signal at the Vanguard tracking station.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 56 minutes from now. Dis-
cussion between Pilot Jack Lousma concerning 14509 data relates
to the three times last week that Commander Bean and Jack
Lousma flew the M509 experiment in discussions with Bruce
McCandless, Capcomm Bruce McCandless who is also co-investigator
for the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit. As Colander Bean
continues with the condensate system check out, if he does
find a loose fitting, a B nut, a leak in the system any where,
he will naturally tighten up the B nuts to correct the situation.
He is about at step 14 in a plan which has 20 separate activities
for him to perform in this 6 hour checkout of the condensate
system aboard Skylab. At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 57 min-
utes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SI.-I I I. MC978/I
Time: 11:50 CDT, 24/16:50 GMT
8/20/73

time 16 hours, 50 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii
in approximately i minute. Commander Bean should be still
in the process of troubleshooting the condensate system which
removes excess water from the environmental control system
aboard Skylab. He began this activity about 8:30 this morning
and he is scheduled to follow it up for another several hours.
There are approximately 55 separate fittings. B Joint - B-nut
connections that the Commander will be checking out today.
The condensate system has been flooded with nitrogen to force
out any leaks that may be aboard, aboard the system. He is
using a stethoscope to listen for hissing sounds indicative
of a leak within the system. He will later apply a soapy
lather to the Joints to make visual inspection of these fix-
ures. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours, 51 minutes, we'll
hold the llne open for conversations with the Skylab-3 crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7 minutes and 40 seconds. Out. And we will be dumping
the data - the data voice _ape recorder this pass.
CDR Hey Bruce, so far in the procedure I have
checked all the lines accessible, found no leaks I'm busily
taking off the covers to the mol sieve A and B heat exchangers
i and 2. I got tool sieve A heat exchanger, B looked at. I
couldn' t find a leak in that. I'm working on heat exchanger A
and I'm going to go over to tool sieve B and work on it. My
guess is that we can't possibly finish this thing even near
to the scheduled time. These fasteners up here - it's pretty
doggone tight. Plus, they've all been painted 2 or 3
times to make them look nice and so the little cam- you know,
the high torque fastener doesn't want to unfasten them. It
doesn't want to get down in the groove. So that takes a
little fooling around with. My guess is we're going to have to
power the - the water system up so we can have lunch and could you
give me a qui - the quickest procedure to do that up and down
so that once it's is up, then we can eat, and then I'll bring it
back down again and continue to work on them. Except for M092.
CC Okay. Stand by. We'll get it to you.
CDR And I don't believe I'll be making that
S019 ops at all.
CC Say again, please AI.
CC We got it.
CDR I don't think I'll be getting to that
S019 because I'll still be working here, I'm pretty sure.
CC Roger. We got that.
CC CDR, Houston. We don't believe there's
anything that you have to do to bring the wardroom water system
back up. You have tank I0 still hooked up and there should
be sufficient ullage pressure in the tank to supply you for
lunch. Over.
SL-J II MC978/2
Time: 11:5C ' CDT, 24/16:50 GMT
8120173
CDR Okay. I was wondering about that. That's

good. Okay.
SPT (garble) That's good, now and I think we all
got the wo_.
CC Say again Owen.
SPT We got the word.
CC Roger. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. We show that momentum dump
has already been enabled here even though it was our plan to
do so. Did you enable it? Over.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
SPT Hello, how do you read me now, Bruce?
CC Loud and clear now, Owen. Did you to copy our
question about momentum enable.
SPT Yes I did. In fact s that's the first
thing I told you when I came up but I didn't get out also
because of a switch, I had the switch in the wrong position up
here. But I - when you first came up, I triad to tell you
that I did do that by switch because I wanted to be sure and
get ESR right and I couldn't get the correct ESR until
I enabled it - my switch. Is that a satisfactory procedure when
I know you' re going to do it anyway? And I come around sunrise
and go ahead and fllp it up here. Over
CC Let us work that. I certainly agree with
your 1ogle. But we'll have a plan for you.
SPT Okay. And we got the word on the ullage
pressure for lunch.
CC Roger.
PLT Hay Bruce, we got a S019 problem for you
to worry about.
CC Okay. Let us have it.
PLT Okay. It worked normally the first pass today
and it went on normally on thls pass, but I can't get it back in
and I made sure everything was set at 00, of course, to bring
it back in and I tried offsetting both the rotation and the tilt
individually, plus or minus i0 degrees from zero and 2 degree
increments. It still won't come in. And when I first
started working on it, it would come in 2 turns and then quit.
And now, it's somewhere between there and out and it won't
turn at all, although the rotation and the tilt are free to rotate
in the present position. A_d I'm kind of wondering if that
drive train that brings the thing in has got cold or something.
CC Okay, Jack. We copy all that. Do you
get the normal amount of force or resistance on rotation and
tilt mounts when you turn them? Or does it feel like maybe
they're free wheeling?
PLT No, feels llke they're doing about the thing
they're suppose to do.
SI.-I I[ MC978/3
Time: 11:50 CDT, 24/16:50 GMT
8/20/73
CC Okay, Jack. We've got 30 seconds till

LOS here. Next station contact is the Vanguard at 17:24. We
will try to work the problem in the back room. If you so
desire, you can continue working it - up there. And we'll be
back to you at Vanguard. Over.
PLT Okay. I noticed the whole cage feels
pretty cold and the tilt rotation Just rotates as freely as can
be, Just llke the mirrors all the way out there and It went out
very easily and up until this point_ has been working very smoothly.
CC Roger. We copy and sounds llke a real
good description of the problem.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-979/i
Time: 12:03 CDT, 24/17:03 GMT
8120173

time 17 hours 2 minutes with loss of signal over the Hawaii
tracking station. Commander Bean said that he's still
working on the condensate system checkout. He's completed
checking all the line_s. Now he's working on the tool sieve,
mol sieve A. He has completed now he's going to mol sieve B.
This work shall continue for the next couple of hours in
Skylab. Skylab cameras today will be directed towards
three geographic features in the Australla-New Zealand
region in the Southwest Pacific. Using hand held still
cameras aimed through small windows in the space station
dtocklng adapter, Sky!ab Commander Alan Bean and Pilot Jack
Lousma weather permitting, will photograph rains lands in
central Australia's outback the reef paralleling the
Eastern Coastline and volcanos over New Zealand's north
island. Lousma will frame portions of the scuba divers
paradise the great Barrier Reef in his viewfinder starting
at 4:47 p_m. Central Daylight time. He will click off
pictures showing growth patterns of the reef and describe
changes in color - of the sea around the reef which give
a hint to water depth. Also it is hoped that his pictures
and oral descriptions will aid in detecting current flow
along the reef and sediment plumes from rivers emptying into
the huge lagoon behind the reef. The great Barrier Reef
stretches for some 2,000 miles along the eastern Australian
coast, about 160 miles off shore. The reef is the graveyard
of ships ranging from the earllest days of exploration and
colonization of Austraila continent up to vessels of modern
times. Some 9 minutes after sweeping across the great
barrier reef Lousma will focus his camera upon the volcano
region of New Zealand's north island; in addition to observing,
photographing, and describing active volcanos of interest
to geologists, Lousma will also direct his lens and eyes
towards a major depression in the central portion of the
island. And toward sediment plumes and water color variations in
the current wakes along the coast. Cloud cover at the reef
and over New Zealand is predicted to be six tenths. :On the
next revolution as space station sweeps from northwest to
southeast across Australia Bean will photograph and describe
the Alice Springs region near the Macdonnell mountain ranges
and Central Australia,. Bean's photographs will he used in
preparing maps of range lands around Alice Springs and for
analysis of the local drainage basin. Cloud cover is
predicted to be about one-tenth over Alice Springs as
Bean's photo targets rome into view at 6:24 Central
Dayllght time. Bean and Lousma will use Hasselblad and Nikon
F cameras for today's photo assignment. Next acquistlon at
Vanguard in 18 minutes and 15 seconds. This is Skylab Control
at Greenwich mean time 17 hours 6 minutes.
END OF TAPE
l
SL-III MC- 980/i

Time: 12:23 CDT 24/17:23 GMT
8/20/73

17 hours 2 2 minutes with acquistlon at Vanguard in approximately
1 minute. Commander Bean is still working on the condensate
system che.:k. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is at the Apollo
telescope :mount, while Pilot Lousma is currently in his physical
training for today. A time period of 1 hour is allotted each
day for each crew member in two half hour segments to perform
exercises except on days when they use the bicycle ergometer
as part of the medical experiment. Then they are suggested to
use the exercisers only 30 minutes each day. AOS in approximately
40 seconds. We'll leave the line open for this pass.
9 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce, we've got you. And one word for
82B experimenters in the backroom. Going through with building
block 36A here, I'm doing in auto. I also used the PRS to
accurately hold my position i0 arc seconds off the Sun. So
at the time I overlooked the fact that's when you scale up the
lengths of all these exposures. So you're going to get some long
exposures off the llmb there, and for that reason, I'm omitting
that one short time exposure. And I'ii plan to stop this sequence
in another minute or so at the end of this mirror auto raster.
So it's a slight modification. I overlooked the fact that the
exposure is going to be scaled up when I used the PRS.
CC Roger, we copy. And for your information,
we will continue to manage the momentum dump enable and inhibit.
We understand your concern regarding the uncertainty when
Sunrise is but the way the pad was set up we had scheduled t o
enable momentum dump right at 16:55 which was during our station
pass over Hawaii within our capability. And I guess we had
intended that we would enable it at 55 and then get your
clock counting down properly and you'd have a couple of min-
utes of 54 remaining to get all set up and get going. Over.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. I'll be not quite so
impatient next time. And Just for my own information though
is there anything wrong with me Just using the switch ahead
of you and giving you a call about it?
CC Hello Owen, the pad and the ground commands
are integrated and there may be an occasion arising where
the enable momentum dump is down very - part way through the
pass. And we had Just as soon stick with doing it by ground
command if it's feasible although there is certainly no harm
done to the mechanical part of the system or anything |Ike that.
Over.
SL-III MC-980/2
Time: 12_23 CDT 24/1'7:23 GMT
8/20/73
SPT Okay, that's the answer my question.

CC And for the PLT, we're still working the prob-
lem of the SO19 auxiliary mirror system. However, the best that
we can suggest at this time is that you are nearing orbital
noon right about now and we suggest that maybe the warming
effect of the Earth's albedo will help if there is something frozen
up. And if you get a chance, llke to try it again gently and
see what the status is. Over.
PLT Yeah Bruce, I Just tried that about a minute
ago, and it won't come in. And I'm able to look through
the optics, and the mirror works okay until rotation. And
just for your thinking purpose, when it's at 00 and the bottom
of the field of view I can just barely see the little rod
that goes along the edge of one of the discone antennas.
That's Just barely in the bottom of the field of view. So
you will be able to know if it's pointing at 00 by working
out the geometry on that. It's a rod that is parallel to
the axis of the discone antenna boom. Just before you get
to the boom it makes a right angle break and goes up around the
outside of the antenna. You'll be able to see it in a
picture. But I can Just barely see that rod in the bottom
of the field of view at 00.
CC Okay, thank you. That was a good input. And
we' Ii start working on it there. I gather it feels to you
as though [t's hitting some sort of a very hard definite stop
as you try to retract it, as opposed to something soft and mushy.
PLT When it was working it came to a fairly rapid
halt, although it wasn't a hard clankin E halt. It was
like it was pushing into a piece of stiff moslte or something
like that.
CC Okay. And understand that now on the retract
knob it is not moving either way, but the knob - the knob itself
I think has a clutch in it.
PLT That's right, it's not moving either way right
now. And it's out so as it's far enough you can rotate it around.
CC Okay. We should have enough to keep us busy
here for a couple of passes. We've got about 4 minutes left
in this pass. When we get a chance we'd like to know how
AI is coming on his condensate system troubleshooting.
CDR I Just finished getting one side of
mol sieve B, the A side, and no leaks in there. And so I'm
now, I'm now taking lunch, but I'm - then goin E to go work on
the B side. When that is finished, I'Ii start workin E on the
panels back through lock. When that is finished then I'ii come get
some soapy water and do tha whole thin E with soap.
SL-III MC-980/3
Time: 12:33 CDT 24/1]':23 GMT
8120173
CC Roger, we copy. Thank you, AI.

CDR I'm getting concerned that this leak is some
sort of O-ring seal or something where pressure inside the
line won't let the air out, the nitrogen out, but if you pulled
a vacuum on it something is unseeding and then letting air in
from the other direction.
CC Roger, sort of a check valve effect. We'll
take that into consideration. And we hope that you come up
with something that is not a feature of that sort of thing.
SPT Still with us, Bruce.
CC Yeah, still here for another 2-1/2 minutes,
Owen.
SPT Okay, Just a word about the pointing on these
limb i and quiet region i for the ATM backroom. And the
limb i position it turns out and I presume this is where you
intended, it was just: south of the dark east west band in
XUV. The dark band (garble) and I presume the old filament channel,
this is just south of that where there is a bit of limb brightening,
and it's well below the dark band portion. Now on the quiet
region i we're just to the north, sort of on the boundary
between the normal chromospheric network and that dark east-
west band. I expect that part of the 55 auto raster will
encompass both. The normal background and a portion of the
dark east-west band. Over.
CC Roger. Out.
CC CDR, this is Houston with a minute and 18 seconds
left through Vanguard. Next station contact is Ascension at
17 plus 39 in 7 minutes. Based on your progress we're concerned
as to whether you think you' ii be able to finish up the condensate
system check this afternoon or not bearing in mind that you have a
M092, 93, PT, and ATH tasks to get in this evening. If not or if
you have some feelings about a break point on it, we'll start
trying to jimmy the flight plan around. Over.
CDR I don't think I'ii be able to finish it before
92, 93. Of course I've got all these panels off now and the
screws out, and haven"t done the soap, and it's just taking
a long time to get those things out. The other is fairly
straight forward. I don't - If I meet the rest of the schedule
today, which sounds like it is a high priority, but I don't
know, then we'll just have to pick up on this again tomorrow
somewhere.
CC Okay. We're coming riBht up on LOS here.
Our feelings are that we'd like to get the condensate system
finished up today, but let us talk to you again over Ascension
in about 5 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-981/I
Time: 12:3& CDT, 24/].7:34 GMT
8/20/73

time 17 hours 34 minutes with loss of signal at Vanguard.
Next acquisition will be a brief pass over the Ascension
tracking station. Commander Bean still performing the
checkout of the condensate system aboard the Skylab. Se
reported to the ground that he is working on the tool sieve
area in the airlock module. This involves checking over
approximately 20 B nuts and each of the tool sieves testing
them for possible leaks of the nitrogen filled lines. The
condensate lines have been filled with 35 psi nitrogen in
order to detect possible leaks in the system. The ground
is going to look at a possibllty of calling this work to a
halt for today and letting Commander Bean get back to his
scheduled activities of the S019 experiment| the ultraviolet
photography and performance also of a pair of medical
experiments MO92, M093 lower body pressure device and
vectorcardiogram. At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 36 minutes
next acquisition will be Ascension in 3 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-I II MC--982/1
Time : 12 )8 CDT, 24,117:38 (;MT
8/20/73

time 17 hours 38 minutes coming up for a brief pass over
the Ascension tracking station in approximately 45 seconds. We'll
leave the llne up for conversation between CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless and Skylab-3 crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Ascension
for 5-1/2 minutes. For the PLT, we can't tell which discone
it is that: you're looking at since they both look the same
in the photos however, if it's the one that's sticking out
on the workshop plus Y side then we confirm that you are
indeed very near the O0 position on the SO19 mirror.
Ove r.
PLT ()kay, I can also see the earth when I
see that one.
PLT At the horizon about midway through the
view finder about i0 minutes ago.
CC ()kay, we'll check it out.
CDR And Bruce, I thought the thing to do
was once I get this |:hing sort of out in the open, get all the
covers off and everything, we'll get Owen and Jack to listen in and
look to and see if any of us can find these leaks.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, for the PLT,
we're working that input you gave us on being able to
see the earth's horizon and the mirror about I0 minutes from
your call If you're interested in trying it. If you use a
tilt of zero and rotation of 265 degrees if the system is
still in calibration you should be able to then see the
opposite discone antenna. Over.
PLT ()kay, that's tilt of zero and rotation
of 265.
CC Roger. And for the Commander, we'd
llke you to keep working on the condensate systems check
right straight through until it's time for you to pick up
on the MO92 93 run this afternoon. We copy that you're either
eating now or you've completed eating. Over.
SPT He's completed eating and he's working
aw ay.
CC Roger. And that implies a scrub of the
SO19 OPS although we understand that the mirror system would
probably still be operative for data taking.
CC And we've got 43 seconds until LOS here
at Ascension. Next station contact in 39 minutes at Guam
at 18:24 it's going to be a real low evaluation pass. It'll
be a short contact too, about 2 to 3 minutes so it maybe pretty
noisy but we'll call you.
SL-III MC-982/2
Time: 12:3_ CDT, 24/17:38 GMT
8/20/73
PL T Ro ge r.
time 17 hours 46 minutes loss of signal at Ascension. Next
pass will be over Guam will be very brief pass as CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless reported to the crew it would be a
noisy pass. That pasE_ to the spacecraft pass is on the outer
fringes of the tracking station at Guam. At Greenwich mean
time 17 hours 47 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAP_
SL-I II MC983/I
Time: ]3:23 CDT, 24/]8:23 GMT
_/2o/73

time: 18 hours, 23 minutes with anticipated acquisition over
Guam. This is a low elevation pass and if there is contact,
it'll be very noisy. We'll hold the llne open and then - in
the event of air-to-ground with Cap Comm Bruce McCandless
and Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
2 minutes. How do you read? Over.
CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Okay and for the SPT, since we are not inhibiting
momentum dump, due to the cancellation of S019 ops this afternoon,
add five minutes to the values indicated for your clock start
times for the last half of the ATM pass following the ground
inhibit momentum dump call out in your pad. Over.
CDR (Laughter) Add 5 minutes to a bunch of
other stuff. Okay. I'ii - I'm not at the panel right now
Bruce. I']i add 5 minutes to those times when I get up there.
Does that add 5 to 16 and 5 to 4 minutes, I take it. Right?
CC That's right and we got - we'll be back
to you. Okay. We got: 30 seconds to LOS here at Guam. Next
station contact will be good old Vanguard again in 34 minutes
at 19:01 and we'll have some more words for you on the ATM
schedule pad, because it appears that the last Jop there is Jop 7
atmosphere extinction. Over.
CDR Okay.
time 18 hours, 28 minutes. With loss of signal at Guam. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in 32 minutes. Continued dis-
cussions concerning operation of the ATM. The crew is spending
9 hours and 37 minutes of data taking today with the ATM.
This is the largest time spent in data reception for the
Apollo Telescope Mount: in the Skylab program. With 9 hours
today, the grand total for Skylab-3 will be more than 88 hours.
Skylab-2 accumulated 88 hours during it's 28-day mission.
At Greenwich mean time 18 hours, 29 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-984/I
Time: 14:00 CDT 24/19:00 GMT
8/20/73

19 hours with acquisition coming up at Vanguard. Commander
Bean should still be continuing the troubleshooting with the
condensate system, an activity which he's been performing since
8:30 this morning. We'll hold the llne open for communication
between Skylab-3 crew and Capcomm Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard with
a i0 minute 50 second pass for the SPT. Over.
CC Skylab SPT, this is Houston. Over.
CC Hey, Owen.
CC Belay that. Skylab Pilot, this is Houston.
Over.
SPT Hello, Bruce. How do you read me on this box?
CC Okay, loud and clear. You may disregard all
of our previous transmissions regarding momentum dump enable
inhibit for this ATM pass. This is actually addressed to Jack,
we will inhibit momentum dump from the ground here at 19:03
which is like 20 seconds. We're commanding right now, so you
can stay off the DAS for a second. Vanguard is back up. They
apparently had a short circuit in one of the cables that drives
the least of their antennae drive motor, but they have got that
repaired. And we're back in normal operations all the way
around. Over.
PLT Okay, real good. I'll stay off the DAS, and
I'm a started into JOP 9.
CC Rog. And you'll wind up with JOP 7 as scheduled,
and everything should work out beautifully. If the Commander
is around, we've got a question for him.
SPT How do you read this squawk box now?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT Okay. You might have had a downlink problem
there for a few minutes. This is the same box I called you
three times on and you couldn't hear lt.
CC Okay, we'll check it out.
SPT Okay Bruce, AI can read you. Why don't you
go ahead with your message.
CC Okay Owen. We understand that the comm tech
aboard the Vanguard was able to read you on those transmissions.
So apparently the problem was somewhere between the Vanguard
itself and Houston, maybe going through Goddard. And for the
CDR, evening before last we inquired about your willingness
to run a MI31-1. And our intent at the time was to determine
whether you wculd go ahead and run the OGI and the motion
sensitivity part of it. Although we only specifically addressed
OGI, but we are looking at building up a flight plan now with
that scheduled in and we wondered what your feelings are on the
subject?
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CDR Okay, either one or both, or what ever you

all would like to do down there is sure okay with me.
CC Okay. We'll plan on putting in the 131-i which
is both OGI and the MSI on the tail end of it.
CDR Say, who ran through this whole procedure before
I'm running through it up here?
CC On the condensate system?
CDR You bet.
CC Hank went up to St. Louis and ran through it
on the back up flight article up there. However, he tells me
they are not able to put a simulated leak into the back up
flight hardware and they wouldn't let him actually put the
soap film or anything on the fittings. But he did as thorough a
job as he could under the circumstances. Over.
CDR Okay. I was just looking for a little advice
on cutting away this bearing with the wire cutter, or metal cutters.
The bearing is a fiber - fiberglass sort of stuff, not fiber
but some sort of rod build up. And I got the one away in
the fiber compartment, but you have to be very careful of
these hatch dogs. They are right in the spot where you want
to cut. And I just thought he had a sneaky technique of doing
it. I'm still working on it. I've only got one to go and
that's this aft bearing to cut it away, and then that's it.
And Jack Lousma has been listening to all the places and he hasn't
heard anything either. So we're going to try soap in a little
while.
CC Okay, Hank was here up until just a few seconds
ago because he's coming on at 4:00 to relieve me. I ask him
specifically about this, and what he recommends is starting
at one of the hatch door locations if you can and cutting
that piece about 2 inches wide out working your way toward
the condensate llne to gain access there. Over.
CDR Okay, that's essentially what I'm doing. The
gaps in the bearing are just not wide or barely wide enough
to support both the hatch dog and the tool. That's the problem.
CC Okay, I copy. Is that a problem from the
rounded points on the metal cutter, that is, would it be better
if the points were still sharp?
CDR Yeah, that's the problem there. What I really
need is a chissel. If I hit that thing a few licks with a
chissel I could get it started. It's rather fragile stuff
anyway. And then go from there, I may go down and get a
screw driver and try to get it started. It's right at the
start place where you don't want to touch those hatch dogs
that hold tight. Once you get through there then you're okay.
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CC Okay, we copy.
CC And PLT, we believe that you are probably
through rolling the canister, and if you could we'd llke to
get the MBC tell to inhibit please to avoid overheating the
actuator.
CC And CDR, we'd like to get the four or the OWS
heat exchanger fans turned off since we show the dew point in the
cluster now up above 57 degrees Fahrenheit due to the condensate
system being shut down. Over.
SI'T Bruce, say again what you want to turn off.
CC Roger. The OWS heat exchanger fans. ] [' s
back there i. the F lock compartment.
SC (garble)
SPT One of them just went off.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Okay' Bruce, now what time do you want me to
start the extension deal, 9 minutes and go to ESS?
CC Do It exactly as it is carried on the ATM
schedule pad, since we have inhibited momentum dump. And
that will be at 4 minutes time remaining on your clock.
And we'd like you to inhibit the MPC roll when you get a
chance because we think you're through rolling.
PLT Okay.
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Time; 14:II CDT, 24/19:11 GMT
_120173
CC We're I minute till LOS at Vanguard. Next

station contact in 3 minutes, Ascension at 19:14. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for the next I0 minutes. Out.
for the next 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, Houston. 3-1/2 minutes till LOS.
Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute till
LOS at Ascension. Next station contact in 34 minutes, Guam
at 19 plus 58. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce. We'll see you at Guam.
Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Ascension at Greenwich mean time 19 hours, 27 minutes.
Next acquisition will be 31 minutes at Guam. At Greenwich
mean time 19 hours, 27 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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and 42 sec-onds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching
acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground from Guam.
CC Skylab. This is Houston through Guam
for the next I0 minutes. And for the ATM operator, we'll
be enabling momentum dump here in about 3 minutes.
SPT Okay. I was Just waiting for it. What's
the delay?
CC Make that about a minute.
SPT Okey-doke.
CC And for the CDR. Sometime during this
station pass here at Guam, we'd like to get a status report
from you on your troubleshooting of the condensate loop
procedure so that we can plan out the rest of the day's
activities. Over.
SPT Okay. He heard that Bruce, and could you
get confirmation from the ATM room for me that building
block 36 Alpha, they do not want the pointing reference
system operative even though it was two orbits ago when I
ran that similar building block 36A instead. But on this
one I'ii leave it inoperative unless there is a request
otherwise.
CC That is correct, Owen. The pointing
reference system should be inoperative, this is, not operative.
Over.
CDR Bruce, we've got the cleanest vacuum
system in spaceflight history at the moment.
CC Okay, Owen, it's your DAS. Momentum dump is
enabled and we're standing by for your tale of cleanliness
and virtue, Alan.
CDR Okay. l'm only talking about the first
part because it's a bad system at the moment. We have
listened - Jack and I listened to all the different places
that were in the pad. No sound. I put soap suds on all but
the one interior in the mol sieves, which I'm working on at
the moment. And those suds stay there for minutes or hours
almost, Just hanging around and no bubbles. What worries
me is the suspicion we either can't get to it, wherever the
leak is or it's some O-ring somewhere that seals up nice
when you put pressure on it, But you put a little vacuum on
it and it pulls away from it's seat, and then that's it.
CC Okay. We copy. Do you have any feel
for the amount of additional time it will take you to properly
treat the joints inside the tool sieve?
CDR I think I can got to all of them within
the next 30 minutes to an hour. And then putting it all back
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together is going to take another 2 to 3 hours would

be my guess. These little screws don't go in too easy.
CC Okay. We copy that. We're still look-
ing at having you do the M092/93 on time.
CDR Okay. We'll make that window, and then
when it's over come back and work on this some more.
CC Mighty fine.
CC Skylab. This is Houston. Two items
for you here. One is tlhat we'd like to terminate the
atmospheric purge through the wardroom dump setting. We've
got the atmosphere down to the point to where we want it
for the 509 run tomorrow. And secondly, we are cancelling
the coolant loop inspection which was scheduled for the
PLT later on this afternoon at around 22:16 or 22:10, and
we're making this block of time available for the PLT to
assist with the condensate system. Reassembly and reconfig-
uration. And we will reschedule the coolant inspection on
a later date. Over. So, save your confederate coolant
loop procedures boys; tlhe subject will come up again.
CDR Okay, Burce. The dump's stopped now.
CC Okay. And we'll let you know if there's
anything additional that needs to be done along those lines.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Looking over your shoulder on
SO54 operations, we saw that you did the - you started out
with the M30S 64 and we thought maybe you were just reversing
the order but we do not see an initiate yet on the first
sequence which was MIOS 256. Over.
SPT I appreciate the reminder. I thought
I had it on the first one instead of the second one. I'ii
just turn them around. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT I had my little timer set on the 256-
second exposure timer and it hadn't turned yellow, if fact,
it Just turned yellow about the time you called, and I
hadn't noticed that I was really on 64 on the panel.
CC Okay, Owen. And we have 42 seconds to
LOS here at Guam. Next station contact in 30 minutes at
Vanguard at 20:38. Out.
the Guam tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal
not for another 29 minutes at which time we will acquire
the Vanguard tracking ship. During this last pass, the crew
indicated that they will drop the coolant loop inspection
that had been scheduled for this evening. Jack Lousma had
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2-1/2 hours set aside from 5:10 to 7:40 p.m. central daylight
time to do an inspection of the coolant loop, a continuation
of a procedure set aside - started last night. That will
now be cancelled and postponed to a later date. Instead
Jack Lousma will assist Alan Bean in reassembling the
condensate system. This is mainly consists of putting
back panels and work of that sort. The reason for that is
that the system check wlhich was scheduled to take 6 hours
today has in fact taken a good deal longer than that. We
earlier had to cancel the operation of SO19, the ultraviolet
experiment and that was scheduled for Alan Bean earlier
today. And now we are also cancelllng our coolant loop
inspection in order to reassemble that condensate system.
There was no luck in finding the leak in the condensate
system. No sign of leak anywhere along the lines that were
checked by astronaut Bean this morning. Also during this
pass the crew was asked to suspend the dump of oxygen and
nitrogen overboard. They were reducing the pressure in
the workshop after running the nitrogen-powered jet shoe
experiment yesterday. That experiment does increase the
total amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere and to bring
that level back down into the desired range, they do dump
nitrogen and oxygen overboard. The reason for the suspension
of that dump was that the oxygen partial pressure levels
reached the minimum acceptable level. That's 3.3 to 3.4
pounds per square inch of oxygen. They will later resume
that dump after they have repressurized some oxygen in the
atmosphere. We also expect that they will increase the
pressure tonight in the workshop in preparation for an
operation of M509, that's the astronaut maneuvering unit,
tomorrow. Pressurization, depressurization necessary to
maintain a balance of oxygen and nitroBen in the atmosphere.
This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition 26-I/2 minutes
from now. It's now 12 minutes and 25 seconds after the
hour.
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We'll remain llve for air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard
for the next 9 minutes and 50 seconds. For your information,
the momentum state is about i0 percent higher than what we
anticipated and we would llke to have you enable the TACS
6 switches on the ATM panel and also to enable TACS in the
computer at this time. Over.
CC Okay. And we do expect about one or
two mal impulse bit firing during the dump - during M092.
SPT Okay. I've got the six switches and
are you looking for a 52010 plus a 50001.
CC 52011 for enable, Owen. I thought you
spoke octal.
SPT We need another data word and I think
it's 50001 after the dumping command.
CC Roger. That is correct. But 52011 is
the first.
SPT Roger. I was just checking to make sure
that we agreed on the data word that went with it, Bruce.
PLT Say, Bruce, I got a little more word
on S019. It's still hung up, but in looking around for
those two antennas I found the other one by giving myself
4 degrees of tilt at about 268 rotation and that's the one
that's got black background. And so it looks llke I'm
pointing it Jn about the right place. Do you concur?
CC Roger, Jack. We do. And have you -
when you were trying to retract, were you looking through
the optics arid could you tell if the thing was coming in
at all? Over.
PLT No. At the time I tried to retract I
was not loo_ing through the optics. I've been looking through
the optics since, but the thing won't retract or extend either
one.
CC Okay. We're still working on the problem
in the back room.
PLT Okay. But it looked like to me that
we've now verified that the rotation and tilt have not slipped
out of position. Is that right?
CC Roger. That's correct.
CC PLT, Houston. One more question. When
you have a moment, we're wondering if you've tried tilt to
determine whether you have a full 30 degrees of tilt capabillty.
If you haven't already done it and you decide to do so, why
be gentle with it. We think that if it's not completely
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CC extended, you may have something on the

order of i0 degrees of tilt capability and then the back side
of the mirror would come up against the inside of the tele-
scoping canister. Over.
PLT Okay. After I get an opportunity to do
that, why I'ii try it out and let you know how it works.
CC Roger. It's NTC as we say in the space
program.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS here at Vanguard. Next station contact is through
the Canaries at 20:59 in about ii minutes. And for the PLT,
we're working on setting up your private family conversation
for this evening, tentatively planning on Bermuda at 01:44
for a 9 minute pass and we'll let you know when things are
firmed up and when we've contacted the other party to confirm
it. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
the Vanguard tracking ship and our next acquisition is
13 minutes and 15 seconds from now at Canary Island. During
this last pass, you may be interested in knowing that NTC
on the S019 inspection, that is "not time critical." That
is to say that NTC that was mentioned by Story Musgrave,
the spacecraft communicator, is "not time critical," which
means that they can do it at their leisure. This is Skylab
Control. Our next acquisition 9 minutes from now. It is
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Time: 15:52 CDT; 24/20:52 GMT
8/20/73
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 52 minutes Green-

wich mean time. We have a correction on that last state-
ment, the spacecraft communicator is Bruce McCandless rather
than Story Musgrave. That is spacecraft communicator is
Bruce McCandless now, Flight Director is Neil Hutchinson.
We'll be back up in 6 minutesland 50 seconds from now at
acquisition at Canary Islands, This is Skylah Control at
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Time: 15:58 CDT; 24/20:58 GMT
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17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now 47 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Canary Islands. We'll be re-
malnlng llve for air-to-ground from Canary Island and Madrid
Joint pass this time. Fllght Director, Nell Hutchinson has
indicated he'11 be available for a change-of-shlft briefing
at 4:30 in building i. The oncoming flight director is
Charles Lewis. We will have Nell Hutchinson at a change-of-
shift briefing at 4:30. Thatts 30 minutes from now. We're
remaining live for alr-to-ground from Canary Islands and
Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and
Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, HOUStOn now coming to you through
Madrid. We will be dumping the data voice tape recorder
this pass.
CC Sky]ab, Houston; 4 minutes to LOS. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS
here at Madrid. Next station contact in 27 minutes over
at Guam at 21:39. Out.
40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal
25 minutes and 13 seconds from now will be at Guam. We are
plannlng a change-of-shift briefing for 15 minutes from now
with Nell Hutchinson, the offEolng flight director. Oncoming
fllght director is Charles Lewis. This is Skylab Control
at 14 minutes after the hour.
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and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now 10-1/2
minutes from acquisition of signal at Guam. We plan to
record the Guam pass because a press conference should be
in progress at that time. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson
has left Mission Control and is enroute to building 1 for
a press conference to begin there shortly. This is Skylab
Control at 28 minutes and 43 seconds after the hour.
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Honeysuckle and we do have a recording of that pass. We'll
play back the recording for you at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 4-1/2
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. 40 seconds to LOS.
Honeysuckle at 48.
SPT Okay, Hank. Glad to see you're back on
the Job.
CC Oh, I've been listening all day while
they run through that 4:ondensate thing. I guess we had no
luck with it.
SPT Well, not yet anyway. But we haven't
put it back together yet. Understand you went through it all
up in St. Louis.
CC Well, I went through the mechanical
part of it+ I wasn't allowed to really check the leaks or
cut anything.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
4-1/2 minutes.
Canaries at 37.
PAO That concludes the recording of our
pass over Guam and Honeysuckle. Our next acquisition of
signal 38 minutes and 6 seconds from now. This is Skylab
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acquisition of signal al- Canary Islands. This is a pass
through both Canary Islands and Madrid tracking station.
We'll remain llve for air-to-ground from those stations.
CC Skylab, HOuston through Canaries and
CC And Skylab, Houston. We would llke
someone to, if it's convenient to get up to the ATM console
and inhibit the TACS first in the software and then
with the switches.
CDR Owen's on the way.
CC And while you're there, we'd llke to
get the manual pointing control roll to inhibit.
CDR He'll do that too.
SPT And Just for accounting purposes, we're
down to 82 frames at this point on 82B.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do we still have
somebody up in the MDA?
PLT Nearby.
CC Okay. What we want to do is reinitlate
the cabin purge per maneuver checklist M509 Foxtrot 3 Alfa
and I thought while you're up at the I_DA to go ahead and get
the AM fill primary and 02 fill primary valves open and as
before, we'll leave those open until we either get 4 psi
partial pressure 02 or 5.7 psi cabin, whichever comes first
and then at that time, 'we'll turn both of those switches
to command.
SPT Okay. Say again the switches, Hank.
CC Okay. On panel 255 there, the AM FILL
PRIMARY, OPEN, and the 02 FILL PRIMARY we'd llke to have
OPEN.
PLT Okay. I think we got them.
CC Okay. And then when it' s ever convenient
we'd like you to pick up in the maneuver experiment checklist
there the cabin purge per Foxtrot 3 Alfa. I think that's
on page ]8-3.
SPT Stand by, Hank. I don't have that book
up here. Maybe A1 has it down in the wardroom.
CC Okay. Whenever it's convenient and all
we need from you is a time or a mark whenever you do turn
the valve to dump and start the purge.
SPT Roger. Jack's got it.
CDR I just turned on the heater.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Okay. We finished the bubble check,
Hank, and n¢ bubbles nowhere, and so we're now breaking down
the system.
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CC All right; we copy. And I guess we are

a little disappointed we didn't find anything.
CDR Not half as disappointed as we are, I'ii
tell you.
CC I know that was a lot of work, but we
really appreciate you trying.
SPT Hank, just a brief comment for the stowage
people we talked about a couple of times before. We don't
seem to have enough of these large paper clips up here.
They're about 2 inches wide and they have a spring that
clamps them together and then a snap on the - one of the
levers - pushbuttons on the back; it will allow you to clip
it onto any of the checklists we have placed around the
spacecraft And we need them here on the ATM panel, we
need them down in the wardroom and we've only got about
half a dozen onboard. We could probably use three times
that many and they might want to bring them up on the next
flight. Over.
CC RoBer ; we copy, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 20 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up On Carnarvon at 18.
and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal now
at the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal not for another 26 minutes. During the coming week
aboard Skylab, in addition to continuing medical and solar
experiments, Comman_der Alan Bean will assist Science Pilot
Owen Garriott as Garriott goes outside to replace camera
and film assemblies on seven solar instruments. The film
used so far by the solar telescope cameras will be returned
in the command module on September 25th at the end of the
scheduled 59-day mission. The spacewalk is scheduled for
Friday morning. No final Flight Plan has been prepared yet
and a decision on the installation of a new set of gyroscopes
carried up by the second Skylab crew is still pending.
Tomorrow a fourth flight of the M509 astronaut maneuvering
unit will be scheduled for about 3 hours in the afternoon.
The maneuvering unit consists of a backpack that allows the
astronauts to make controlled flights propelled by nitrogen
gas. Saturday morning, at about 40 seconds after 7 a.m.
central daylight time, as the space station travels north-
east across the Arabian Sea toward the coast of India on
ground track number 8, the crew of Skylab III will establish
a new record for the longest duration space mission. The
existing record, set by the crew of the first Skylab mission
is 28 days 49 minutes and 49 seconds. The record will be set
on the 1499 revolution of the Skylab space statlon which will
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PAO have traveled by that time more than

40 million miles. Sunday, August 26, is scheduled as the
crew day off. This past Saturday the crew chose to work
most of their day off on solar investigation and they also
photographed the growing tropical storm, now named Brenda and
officially a hurricane, in the Yucatan channel. Sunday's
day off lists only a blood sample to be drawn and evaluated
by Science Pilot Owen -- Owen Garriott. No Earth Resources
experiment operations are planned for the coming week,
although several remote areas of the Earth may be photographed
as targets of opportunity by the Skylab crew using hand-held
Hasselblad 70-millimeter and Nikon 35-millimeter cameras.
Medical experiments scheduled for regular integrals throughout
the Skylab flight will also continue this week. The crew's
sensitivity to motion, their ability to maintain their sense
of balance, and the general state of the heart and blood
vessels will be monitored through a series of experiments
conducted during the week. A complete evaluation of the
crew's health is expected on Friday. At that time, approval
for the remainder of the mission will be given by medical
officials if the state of the health is as expected and good -
if the crew is in good condition as the doctors do expect.
This is Skyiab Control. Our next acquisition of signal
23 minutes and ii seconds from now. It's now 54 minutes
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and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
acquisition of signal at our Australian tracking stations
We'll remain live for a long pass through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle and we're llve for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 14 minutes and we'll be dumping the data
voice recorder here at Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you have the time
for us, approximately when you started the purge?
SPT A1 reports that it's not started yet,
that he's working on the condensate, but he will he starting
it in a few minutes.
CC Okay, no problem. We Just - It looks
like on telemetry down here you may have already started it.
No problem.
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT or CDR. Did
the CDR get the full protocol on the M0927
PLT Affirmative.
CC Thank you Sir.
CDR Okay, Hank, I've Just started the purge
for 509.
CC Roger. Thank you, AI.
CDR And I'm also going to start dumping the
condensate waste tank now.
CC Roger. We copy.
PAO Skylah Control at 23 hours 32 minutes
now at our Australian tracking station. The next acquisition
of signal 32 minutes from now will be at Merrltt Island.
Four widely separated features on the Earth will be
photographed from space tomorrow by the Skylab space station
crew. Hand held still cameras will be aimed toward volcanic
and geological points of interest in Bolivia, the Okavango
Swamp in Botswana, the Patagonia Desert in southern Chile,
and southern Argentina, and again as yesterday - again as
today Australia's great barrier reef. Science Pilot Owen
Garriott will take on the first photo assignment in the
early morning by shooting pictures of salt lakes and active
volcanos, fault lines and other geological features in
Bolivia. One of the sites indicated for photography is
Lake Titicaca. These features will appear in Garriott's
viewfinder between 6:45 and 6:48 a.m. central daylight time.
Garriott is also drawn the job of photographing at 10:06 a.m.
central daylight time a region of Argentina called Patagonia.
This region is a sparsely populated terrain of broad plateaus
the spectaetular South Andes mountains with glaciers, moralns,
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and deep ,:aryons. Photos from Skylab will be used in

detecting _ological features such as active and passive
volcanos, rift zones, glaciers, and mountain lakes and
perhaps wi]] also hint at the reason for the unusual weather
in the area_ which is said to be one of the stormiest in
the world. Some 23 minutes later as Skylab sweeps diagonally
across the_ _outheast portion of the African Continent,
Garriott will point his cameras toward the Okavango Swamp
in northwe_;I_ Botswana. The swamp is a 4000 square mile
depressio[: _nfected with malaria and it is formed by the
inflow of _:he Okavango River. Photography of the huge
swamp is di_¢ected towards surveying the wetlands as a total
(garble) s_T_tem, and perhaps will be useful in detecting
any effects; of manmade encroachments. Additionally the
photos wi] i aid in analysis of what land acreage, land and
water lin_ and vegetation differences. At 4:04 p.m.
central daT_[ight time, Garriott again will unstow the still
cameras to _hoot pictures of the Great Barrier Reef that
parallels Aastralia's northeast shoreline. Garriott was
scheduled _o shoot pictures of the reef this afternoon.
The Great 3arrier Reef is the longest of modern living
reef in the world and it is hoped that the Skylab photography
will aid i_ determining the physical characteristics of
water on both sides of the reef including giving some
indicatio_ of the salenty and turbidity of the water. Also
the pictuc_s may help to determine the effects of sediment
carried toward the reef by northeastern Australian rivers
by recording current patterns, water colorations and
location :_f surface and subsurface features. Garriott
will use _ 70 millimeter Hasselblad and a 35 millimeter
Nikon F loaded with color film for tomorrow's Earth feature
photograpay. Our next acquisition of signal 29 minutes
and 9 seconds from now. This is Skylab Control at
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Time: 19:0_# CDT; 25/00:04 GMT
8/20/73
PAO Sk:?lah Control at 0 hours 4 minutes and

12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
our tracking station at Merrltt Island and we'll be within
range of its antennas in about 44 seconds. This is Skylab
Control remaining llve for air-to-ground. We do have acquisi-
tion of signal from Merritt Island.
CC Skylab, Houston through Mila for 15 minutes.
CC Correction. Make that ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the PLT if it's con-
venient, did you ever do the full tilt tests on the
S0197
CC Skylab, Houston. For the PLT, did you do
the full tilt tests on the S019?
PLT I did a partial one, I didn't do a full one.
I'll do it right now.
PLT We just got done with - - We Just got done
with the condensate system.
CC And Skylab, Houston, PLT. While you're up
there, we have a question on the post-ops on $019. If you
did not do those we need to set the film advance lever counter-
clockwise te STOWAGE and close the film hatch.
PLT Oh, I did all that Hank, and I just did the
full tilt test and I get a 32.7 out of it.
CC PLT, Roger; we copy.
CC SPT, HouSton, we have a few questions on S063.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, first, what was the exposure setting
on the Nikon, NK02 when the film ran through?
SPT Okay, I was just turning it out of STOP, up
to either one or two seconds. And as I rotated the timer
out of STOP was when the - the sequencing began and ran on
through for about nine or 10 frames. Is that the exposure
setting you're talking about or are you talking of the one
on top of the camera?
CC We wanted to know the one on the camera and
also the exposure setting on the timer.
SPT Okay, well, I was just rotating the timer
settings out of - out of OFF. Now there are two settings
on the camera. The one on the back normally sets at T,
and it might have been slightly out of T by just a few
degrees, you know, 5 or i0 degrees. It was not over in C
or whatever the third letter is. It was very near T, but
it might have been slightly out of that detent. And the
exposure setting on top should have been in T, as I recall
that it was also. I - I don't remember making an extra
check on it after the - the - the ... moved through
but as I recall it was also in T.
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8/20/73
CC Roger, we copy. What did the frame down-

counter read before connecting the counter? The pad - the
downcounter _s on the electric drive.
SPT Ten. i0.
CC Okay, and do you recall what the frame up-
counter read at that time?
SPT It was reading 30, I believe, either 30 or
32. It was _eading correctly because I think there were
42 exposures and there were i0 remaining so the frames up -
checked with that at 32.
CC Okay, and one last question. What was the
position of the camera lens when the film ran through?
SPT l'm not quite sure what the - what you're
asking me, Hank. Position of the lens in what way?
SPT The lens was intact, is that what you mean?
CC I'm thinking we want an F-stop here, Owen.
SPT Okay, the F-stop was - must have been in
min at that time. I forgot what the min setting on the 35 -
on the 55-_i] limeter is but I think that it's about 4.
CC Okay, what we're trying to do here, Owen,
is determine if this BEtI5 film can be used again.
SPT Oh, okay, fair enough. I had assumed that
it could not and I assumed that the reason that the film
cycled through was because I might have had that knob on
the back slightly out of T. Is that the general consensus
down there, that that was the problem?
CC We suspect that may be the - the problem, Owen,
we're not s_re. I know from my experiences with that camera,
I know it' _ pretty touchy there.
SPT Okay.
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Time: 19:13 CDT, 25/00:13 GMT
8/20/73
CDR Say, Hank, when we finished putting

those pane]s_ back on with several screws, we decided to put
all the screws in gray tape and put them in locker 620 in
the screw crawer we got there. We were afraid they might
get loose town there in the heat exchangers and things and
cause a problem. So they're all down there in 620 in case
anybody eve_: wants to put them back.
CC Roger; we copy. We concur in that.
CC CDR, Houston. Have we've got the tool
sieves up and running. I guess what we'd like to do is
verify tha_ the mol sieve A timer's in primary.
CDR We' re checking, Hank.
CDR Okay. It is now, Hank. Let me ask you
position (garble) you want to verify. Where do you want the auto
disconnect switches and where do you really want the fill
QD on 216 connected?
CC Say again your question regarding the
auto disconnect.
CDR On the auto disconnect ... fans,
should they be in auto or off. They've been in off up to
now. I'm not sure if you want them to stay there. And
about the fill disconnect on 216.
CC Roger. We'll check it and we'll have
a short LOS here for about 3 minutes and we'll be back up
over Madrid at 19.
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 17 minutes
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of range
of the Bermuda tracking station, just a little over 2 minutes
before we receive acquisition of signal at Madrid. Tomorrow's
fourth run of the astronaut maneuvering unit, M509, that'll
be conducted by Commander Alan Bean as test pilot. Bean
will repeat many of the tests run on the first two M509
flights, both of which were unsuited, as is tomorrow's run.
Three hours has been set aside for the run in the afternoon.
Beginning the hour-long preparation and checkout at 1 p.m.
central daylight time, Bean will first try out the controls
and then the test pilot will make a series of arm and leg
movements, first in the direct control mode, in which he
must correct for motion changes with his hand controller.
After the direct mode test, Bean will repeat the limb motion
using both the rate gyroscopes and the control moment gyros
to maintair stable attitude and correct automatically for
his limb movements. After the limb motion test, Bean will
complete the 5-point test course under correct control.
Bean will maneuver along the 5-point course from the donning
station t ¢. the banjo-shaped electrical cable tray near
the top _,t the workshop dome down to the TO1] plate up to
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PAO tlhe locker, halfway around the circular

workshop locker ring, and back down to the donning station. Then
the control moment gyros to provide attitude control, he will
finally complete the course assisted - I'm sorry - then he
will repeat the movements with the control moment gyros pro-
viding attitude control and then finally will complete the
course again assisted by rate gyros for attitude control.
One new wrinkle in tomorrow's test, after resupplying power
for the unit, Bean will fly the 5-point course in reverse
with the rate gyros operating. About i0 minutes are required
for each of the four test flights. At the conclusion of the
run, several minutes are set aside for Bean to use the astro-
naut maneuvering unit in tests of his own. We are now Just about
to receive asqulsition of signal at Madrid. We'll remain
live for air-to-ground from Madrid.
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TIME: 19:19 CDT 25/00:19 GMT
8/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8

minutes.
CC And CDR, Houston. In regard to your
questions on the condensate module for step 19 there, we
want to connect the fill llne that has been dangling all
during the test back up to the fuel QD on the condensate
module and then disconnect your water surge umbilical
from the dump line in QD and hook that line back up to the
dump QD on the condensate module.
CDR Okay. That's what we needed and it's
setting there right now. We Just didn't know if you wanted
it that way cr not.
CC Right. We're putting the small condensate
tank back _ the loop as it was when we started.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We're still working on
that stand d_sconnect switch. We think it should be in AUTO,
but we're net sure yet. We're going to give you an answer.
You say you found it in OFF?
CDR I can't remember Hank, I have to
go and get my on board data, but I don't remember. It's
certainly ir OFF. Another question. We want to make sure
that we don't - As soon as you all decide what we're going
to do about the condensate system and if we're not going to
do anymore, l'd llke to get that hose and things put back
into a configuration we use them in because what I'm afraid is
we might forget it and then we get down to deactivation or
something and get in a time critical sequence and suddenly
discover thae hose is configured sort of funny, llke it is
right now.
CC Roger. We copy and we'll stay on top
of that, All
CC CDR, Houston. We've checked and the
fan dlsconnezt switch should be in AUTO.
from LOS. W_'II be coming up on Carnarvon at 53, and I'd
like to versify that the CDR copied my switch position. Fan
disconnect AgTO.
SPT Righto Hank. And it's there.
CC Thank you very much, Sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, our telemetry
shows 4 psi on the PPO2.
PAO Skylab Control at 28 minutes and 58
seconds after zero hour Greenwich mean time. We have now
gone out of range of the tracking station at Madrid and we
will have no acquisition of signal for the next 24 minutes.
At which time we will be acquired again in Australia. During
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8/20/73
that last pass the spacecraft communicator, Hank Hartsfield

passed up the message that the partial pressure of oxygen
had reached 4 pounds per square inch, which is the maximum
level for that partial pressure of oxygen, and that's back
up to a very desirable area. They are lifting the level
of oxygen th_s evening in preparation for the run of the
M509 astronaut maneuvering unit tomorrow. The astronaut
maneuvering unit uses nitrogen and increases the total
amount of nitrogen in the air. They do have to increase
the oxygen the preceeding night to maintain the balance of
the atmosphere that's desired. Earlier today they had to
cease a dump of the spacecraft, a reduction of the total
pressure in the spacecraft in order to bring that total amount
of nitrogen down. At that time they reached a partial
pressure of about 3.3 pounds per square inch of oxygen.
That's the mimlnum level that they're allowed to use and
for that reason they did have to repressurlze using oxygen.
This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal
23 minutes from now at Australia. It is now 30 minutes
after the hour.
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SL III MC-9_7/I
TIME: 19:52 CDT 25/00::52 GMT
8/20/73
PAO Skylab Control at 52 minutes after

zero hour Greenwich mean time. We're just about to acquire
signal in ar_other 45 seconds at our Carnarvon station in
Australia. At the present time the Skylah space station is
in its 1420th revolution about the Earth. A period of
orbit, i hour 33 minutes and 20 seconds. The present
velocity about 17,100 miles per hour. 25,090.5 feet per
second. The maximum elevation above the Earth, 238.5
nautical miles. Minimum elevation, 233.4 nautical miles.
That's an average of about 270 statute miles above the
surface of the Earth. We' ii remain live for air-to-ground
through our two Australian tracking stations.
CDR Ok.ly.
CC And Skylab, we've been looking at this
housekeeping 60 Charlie you're doing here - bed bakeout. And
we notice an oversight during the checklist that the tool
sieve A fan disconnect switch should be in the OFt _ position
for this bed bakeout, and it's not called out there on
page 9-8, and we're in the process of working on the check-
list change for you, however we'd like to get it OFF, and
it should go back to the AUTO position in housekeeping 60
Charlie 4.
CDR Okay. We just turned it OFF.
CDR And Hank, just cranked up the tape
recorder. Going to record a little UV MOD.
CC I think you must have read Adam's mind.
He was just: going to talk about that.
CDR We won' t forget him.
CDR Okay. He's got several big ones in, with
a few extra thrown in.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I don't know what we did, but I noticed
that the co_-densate Delta-P is higher than it's been since
we've been ,_ here. It's up at 5.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR That thing has never been above 4.2
since we'w_ _een here. Maybe we - maybe the soap got in the
crack.
CDR If it gets any higher, we're going to get
worried.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR We Just figured it out. We got 5.7 in
the cab in.
CC Okay. EGIL has Just come to that same
conclnslon .
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8/20/73
CDR Yeah, he's raining on our parade again.

Hey, I'Ii tell you. Are you aware that aft light 4 and
aft light 2 in the MDA are not working and they're not burned
out bulbs. Apparently Just had some sort of a switch failure.
CC I understand. Aft 4 and aft 2 are not
working.
CDR That's affirmative. That's switch
doesn't seem to turn them off and on. I changed the bulbs
because I thought it was - perhaps they Just burned out, but no
luck. I checked the circuit breakers, too, and they're
closed.
CC Let us study that one a bit.
CDR Okay.
CDR What's the latest thoughts down there
on S019 ?
CC CDR, Houston. We're going to plan on
a normal ops here tomorrow with it, since it seems to be
free in the tilt and r.he roll, however, we still don't have
an answer on the retraction problem.
CDR Okay. I guess we can just leave it
there and use all the film up. Maybe by then we would have
solved it somehow.
CC That's what we're hoping for and I think
in general -hat's our plan, A1.
CDR That's a good one.
CC Skylab, We're about to hand over to
Honeysuckle. There'll be a short drop -
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TIME: 20:03 CDT 25/01:03 GMT
8/20/73
CC Skylab, we're about to hand over to

Honeysuckle. There will be a short dropout here.
through Honeysuckle. We have about 4-1/2 minutes left.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Telemetry shows that
the AM Fan dump switch is still OFF and it should be in HIGH.
CDR Just a second, Jack was Just configuring
this thing fcr bakeout. Now which is it.
CC That's the AM fans duct. That was one of
the fans that was turned off for the condensate tank. Panel 203.
CDR Okay. Thank you. You were right.
They were off. We got them now.
CC Thank you Sir.
Texas at 39.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour and 9 minutes
and i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at our Honeysuckle tracking station. The next acquisition
of signal on revolution 1420 will be at the Texas station
at Corpus Christi. This is Skylab Control. Thirty minutes
to the next acquisition of signal. It is now 9 minutes
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SL-III MC-999/I
Time: 20:36 CDT; 25/0].:38 GMT
8/20/73
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 38 minutes and 9

seconds Greer_wich mean time. We're approaching acquisition
of signal at the Texas tracking station in Corpus Christi.
We'll stay live for air-to-ground from that station.
CC Skylab, Houston we're stateside for 14-1/2
minutes.
PLT What time is my phone call, Hank?
CC Ro_,er, Jack, it's set up now for 01:43 which
is about 4 minutes from now over Bermuda. However, we have
been unable to contact your father.
PLT Hey, Hank, how about the wife? Is she home
tonight? Give her a call and if she's home, why, I'll talk to her.
CC PLT, Houston. We've been trying to get in
touch with her to see if we had another phone number for
your dad. _e'd llke to) keep trying and perhaps we can re-
schedule u_ to as late as the next stateside.
PLT Okay, that's fine with me, Hank. That'll
he - I'll iust stand by. I think maybe the next stateside's
going to be _ little late, though, isn't it?
CC Roger, that's in your sleep period. We
might be able to work something out, though, on one of the
other sites Frior to that.
PLT Okay, well I'm going to make sure I hit
the sack by _ O'clock, so if it's after that, why, we'll
do it a different time. Otherwise, it'd be nice if you'd
keep trying to get something before that time.
CC Okay, we'll keep trying.
PLT Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. We show from our calculations
that the spacecraft is going to pass within about 125 nautical
miles of Enic, tonight. About 03:20 will he your first
acquisition _nd you should be able to see that out of STS
window three. And the town is planning to turn on all their
lights for ycu, including the National Guard's search lights
and all the football field lights and everything, at about
03:20 Zulu.
SPT Amazing. Okay, I'ii he watching at 03:20

and - -
$C (Garble)
SPT I don't know whether they have any link to
the MOCR to hear any comments or not, but I'll be looking
out the window at that time and I'll be talking to you -
let you know what I see.
CC Okay, we' ii have the comm up over that
pass. It's a little past your bedtime, hut this looks like
the best ti_e to work it in.
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8/20/73
SPT Okay, fine. Thank you very much, Hank.

CC And CDR, Houston. If it's convenient, could
you give us the frames remaining on the ATM this pass?
SPT Yeah, I'll give it to you in just a minute,
Hank. You said STS window which?
CC Number three appears to be the best. And we
were wondering if the wardroom window was somewhat aligned
in that direction. We're not sure. We can't seem to get
ahold of a Rood model here.
SPT The wardroom window is, at the moment, look-
ing out course flight A, somewhat to the right side of our
track if you face in a forward direction, because of the
high Beta angle. But I'll try it out of STS three.
CC Roger. The - Enid will be off the left side
of your ground track, about 125 miles northwest of your ground-
track.
CDR Did you want a nightly report?
CC Roger, we're standing by for the status re-
port.
CDR Well hang on, here it comes. 139, 135, 172;
5280; 8716; 5951; 6.238, 6.238, 6.241; 5.980, 5.978, 5.979;
6.975, 6.971, 6.973; exercise: CDR, none; SPT, 2/30/4300,
1/20/ - and it's mark 1 with 60A's, 60B's, and 40D's; Pilot,
1/05/0554, 2/30/6760, 3/05/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, and 20
backbends. No medications. Sleep: 7 G; 7 G; 6-1/2 G. Here
comes the food log: CDR, 13 salt, no deviations; SPT, four
salt, one butter cookie, and one Jam added; PLT, 2-1/2 salt,
one orange drink, and one butter cookie added. Photo log:
no 16-millimeter; 35-millimeter follows: CXI3, 52; CLIO1,
37; CX25, 039; no change in drawer A configuration. Flight
Plan looks good tomorrow; shopping list accomplished, done;
inoperable equipment: MDA lights 2 and 4 S019 retract;
unscheduled stowage item location change: screws from the
heat exchanger and assorted work there is in E-620; all water
equipment fittings and the hoses and things that came out a
little bit extra, because it hasn't been put back into con-
figuration, is in D444. That's it.
CC Roger, we copied that, Skylab, and we are
wondering on day 23 the PLT was scheduled for an M487 3 Bravo,
and we didn't get a dump tape on that and we expected he
picked that up today and wonder if he did?
PLT That's affirm. I did, Hank.
CC Okay, good show.
CC Skylab, Houston the other day we voiced up
a little task on the shopping list for removing the 53 high
torques, or most of them the cabin heat exchanger. We wondered,
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Just for o_r planning here, did you get any of that accomp-
lished?
CDR No, we've only got- I got- I pulled out
about seven or eight the other day and that was about it.
CC Okay, we copy.
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CDR No. We've only got- I got - I pulled

out about 7 or 8 the other day and that was about it.
CC Okay; we copy.
PLT Hank, I wouldn't be surprised but what
my Father is over at my sister's house. Name there is
Marvin Gertz - G-E-R-T-Z, Jackson, Michigan.
CC Okay. We' ii check it.
PLT Thank you.
from LOS. We' ii be coming up on Madrid at 57. That was
originally scheduled for your med conference. We're going
to move that to Carnarvon and Jack we have your father on
the line and we' ii be all set up for Madrid at 57.
PLT Okay. Thanks a lot.
CC We don't have the best antenna for you
here. We' ii - you may have to figit with that a little.
PLT Okay. I'll find it, Hank. Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. If you read still, we
suggest the right antenna.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank.
PA0 Skylab Control at 1 hour 54 minutes
at the United States stations and we're now out over the
Atlantic Ocean. Our next acquisition at Madrid in Spain.
During this last pass there was some discussion of a private
conversation that had been requested by Jack Lousma to speak
with his father, Jacob Lousma in Michigan; it's his father's
birthday today and that has now been cleared. They apparently
didn't have any luck reaching Mr. Lousma at his home, but
they did - now have had success reaching him at I believe
it's in Jacksonj Michigan, at Jack Lousma's sister's house.
So they will be patching a phone - private phone conversation
through Madrid to Houston and to Michigan for this next
Madrid pass and Jack Lousma will be speaking with his father
during that pass. They had a private medical conference
originally scheduled for the Madrid pass; that will now be
delayed until the Australian stations come in view and that's
about 20 m_'_utes later. This is Skylab Control. We're about
2 minutes _ _.d 22 seconds from acquisition of signal at Madrid.
We'll remain llve for alr-to-ground from Madrid.
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Time: 20:56 CDT 25/011?56 GMT
8/20/73
PAO Skylab Control. That background talk

you hear now is making arrangements for a private conference
between Jat__k Lousma and Jacob Lousma in Michigan. This
will take place through the Madrid station. We're Just
about to recieve acquisition of signal at Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for
7 minutes
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
Over.
SPT Loud and clear, Hank.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. We' re still
standing b7 for those frame counts from the - at the end
of the las _ pass.
SPT Stand by.
SPT Okay Hank. H-alpha is 1424, 56 reads
1263, 82A :ceads 25, 82B reads 69, 52 reads 2104, and 54
reads 1950. Over.
CC Roger. We copy. And just to pass up
some info _hat - so you can be thinking about it, the installation
of the rate gyro six-pack is under consideration now for
the EVA on Friday. T_he final decision probably won't be
made for a couple of days yet, but tonight we're going to
be uplinking a message in which we will run a temperature
test on the rate gyros and that must be accomplished prior
to the EVA so we gotta do it so that if they do
make a decision to do that Friday, we'll be ready for it.
And what this procedure does in simple terms is to compare
the temperature outputs of the - through the test connector
there with measurements that we'll make with this digital
thermomete:c there and see if we can use a digital thermometer
during flight to monitor the temperatures of the case and
get an idea of what the gyro is doing inside. And we'll
be uplinking that procedure now and we'll probably give
you a Flight Plan Delta tomorrow for the SPT in which we
will start [¢ou on that rearranging or deleting some of
items. Probably delete the science demo, but ED52 we'll
_iove around and let you start on the housekeeping on 14:30
around the ATM pass.
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8_20_73
SPT Okay. Sounds fine. We'll be looking

for it.
CC We have a few news items here, if you'd
be interested in listening here. We got about 3-1/2 minutes
left here In Madrid.
SPT Let' s hear them.
CC Okay. The former Commander of the Laotizn
Air Force was killed in a plane crash today leading an aborted
plot against the 13 year old government of Prince Souvanna Phouma
who said that his forces smashed the coup 7 hours after
it started. Houston public schools opened today and all the
school teachers were on strike for higher wages and other
benefits. The Houston Teachers Association represents most
of the sch¢ol districts 9000 teachers. All Mexican Gulf
ports were closed today because of Brenda. The National
Hurricane Center at Miami said the storm was moving slightly
south of due west, having reached hurricane force. The
greatest threat appears to be the coastal sections of Mexico
between Vera Cruz and Tampico on Tuesday. However, fore-
casters say the storm could strike anywhere along the 800
miles between Corpus Christi and the southern portion of
Mexico. The i0 fires that we talked about the other day
are still out of control on more than iI0_000 acres of range
and forest Lands in the west today, and fire fighting
efforts focused on northern California near Yoslmlte National
Park. The blazes in four states are being fought by 6500
trained forest fire fighters and 2000 support personnel.
The United States and six European countries have signed a
new agreement for Joint space research. The program calls
for, among other projects cooperative construction of a
space laboratory to be launched under our space shuttle
program i_ joint European development of French designed
L35 rocket. A windup document covering the agreement is to
be signed by NASA and Israel in Washington on September 24th.
The Sky lab news today focused on your TV coverage of Brenda,
the TO20 flight yesterday, today's checks for leaks and
your television varle:_y show, which got good coverage on
the networ_.s last night. In sports, Bill Robinson, the
Philadelph:.a Phillles 30 year old outfielder was having his
first really solid year in the major leagues knocked all 5
runs yestel:day as the Phils beat the Astros 5 to 3. He got
4 of them with a grand slam homer in the third inning.
Today's papers report that George Forman is expected to
defend his heavyweight: boxing championship against Joe
Frazer in the astrodome this November. One final note, the
public affairs newsroom here reports that they received
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8/20/73
guite a few zal]s these days from people all over the
country who lave seen Skylab, and who would like their best
wishes to be relayed to you.
SPT Well, we want to acknowledge all those
good wishes Hank, and relay our interest in all the folks
down there and our appreciation for having us in mind.
CC Thank you, Owen, and we're about 40
seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 33
and that will be your reed conference.
CC And Skylab, in the event that we don't
get to talk to you past Carnarvon, Honeysuckle is a very
short pass and the next pass would be at stateside after
'your bedtime, so we'll say goodnight now, but we'll be
standing by. Have the comm up in case you have any comments
on looking at Enid The forecast there is clear.
SPT That sounds good Hank, I'll be on the
comm up here in the ATM area.
CC Okay.
5 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of range of
the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal 27 minutes and 19 seconds from now will be at
Carnarvon, Australia. That is scheduled for a private
medical conference, and we do expect we will not have much
time for contact there. The Carnarvon pass is about a
6 minute pass. There may be 1 or 2 minutes available for
discussion during that pass, but it may be entirely reserved
for a private medical conference. There is a Honeysuckle
pass immediately after that. During this last pass Owen
Garriott indicated that he will be awake and listening
and talking here to the ground when he passes over Enid,
Oklahoma, his home town. People in Enid, Oklahoma indicated
that they will have their lights all on at 10:20 when he
passes overhead. So we will be staying up a little bit
late tonight for communications with the spacecraft, at
least sometime after 10:20. This is Skylab Control. It
is 7 minutes after the hour.
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SL-III MC-]032/I
Time: 21:33 CDT, 25/02:33 GMT
8/20/73
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours and 33 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're approaching acquisition of signal
at Carnarvon. That is scheduled for a private medical con-
ference thi_ afternoon and we will not - not be hearing from
the crew until the very end of the Carnarvon pass, possibly
not till Honeysuckle, which follows immediately thereafter.
This is Sky[ab Control remaining llve for any possible air-
to-ground from Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
PAO Skylab Control 2 hours 41 minutes Green-
wich mean time. We've had a dropout between Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle stations in Australia and we're now out of range
of both the tracking antennas but we will be back within
range in a little under 3 minutes and we'll remain live
for air-to-ground from Honeysuckle. That medical - private
medical conference at Carnarvon did not allow us any elf-to-
ground. We do expect to hear from the crew at Honeysuckle.
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Time: 21:41 CDT; 25/02:41 GMT
8/20/73
CC Skylab, Houston we're through Honeysuckle.

We've got ahc_ut a minute here.
CC Skylab, Houston we have about a minute through
Honeysuckle.
CC And Skylab_ Houston we'd llke to verify
that you did get the cabin purge started?
SPT The answer is yes, Hank, and it was - AI
reported it earlier.
CC Okay, very good. And, Owen, the channel
5 in Enid It going to be carrying llve any comments you
may have. And we got a late score in here. The Astros
beat the Pirates I0 to 2 and J. R. Richard is now five and
one.
SPT Okay, that's fine. And I'ii be on the end
of this thir_g in about a half an hour.
CC Okay, and we're about i0 seconds from LOS.
We'll say gcodnight anci we'll be listening up over the
stateside.
SPT Goodnight, Hank.
PLT Hey, Hank, thanks again for setting up
that phone call. My dad was amazed and very pleased.
CC Okay, glad to do it. The guys down here
really - really did good work getting switched over to Madrid
in time.
14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of range
of the Honeysuckle tracking station. That was a very low
elevation pass very near the 50-degree south mark which is
as far sout_ as the Skylab spacecraft does move. As a result
that was a very short pass, about i minute. Our next acquisi-
tion of signal over the United States will be in approximately
27 minutes, when we'll have acquisition at the Goldstone
and Texas stations. During this pass we would not normally
have conversation, the crew being expected that they would
be in bed. But Owen Garriott indicated earlier he will be
up in the ATM area of the spacecraft and will be communica-
ting with the ground at that time. Spacecraft communicator,
Hank Hartsf_eld passed along the message that Channel 5,
in Oklahoma, will be carrying llve the comments of Owen
Garriott as he passes over and tries to look at Enldj Okla-
home, his he,me town, where his parents llve. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Owen Garrlott of Enid. This is Skylab
Control. We will come up again during the United States
pass to carry any comments Owen Garrlott may have as he
passes over Enid. That would normally be a sleeptime pass
but we will be live for that. This is Skylah Control at
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SL-Ill MC-1304/1
Time: 22:113 CDT, 25/03:13 GMT
8/20/73

and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab spacecraft is
now approaching the Goldstone and Texas tracking stations
and we should hear some commentary during this pass over the
United States. Normally the crew would be in bed now; it's
after i0 o' clock, the normal crew sleep time, but Science
Pilot Owen Garriott indicated that he will be awake and
looking out the window to see if he can get a look at Enid,
Oklahoma, as he passes over. Enid is his home town and
the home of his parents. This is Skylab Control. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground from the spacecraft during
this U.S. pass.
PAO Skylab Control. We do have acquisition
of signal ncw over the United States. The spacecraft passing
across La Paz, Mexico, in a short time and will be entering
the United _.tates across Mexico and Texas and passing just
south of Oklahoma City. We'll remain live for commentary
from Owen 6arriott aboard the spacecraft.
SPT Hello, Houston; Skylab.
CC Hello there.
SPT Say again there, Houston.
CC Roger. We copy, Owen and read you loud
and clear.
SPT Okay. Fine, Hank. I don't think anybody's
asleep yet down below. They Just went down to get the pad
a couple c.f minutes ago and we're just now across BaJa,
California. I Just see the first few lights on the land
as we come across and about 30 seconds ago we Just had sun-
set in the spacecraft coming over the western Pacific -
eastern Pacific, I guess.
CC Okay. And I think that window's going
to be all right for you. We ran it through the computer
and Enid should be as I said about 125 miles north of your
ground t ra,=k.
SPT Yeah, it looks real good. It looks to
me like ouL this window I can almost - I can look straight
down essentially, on the pass over Oklahoma City about
directly over - directly beneath me and Enid will be off
a little bLt to my left, which I can see quite well.
I can see we're already over Mexico about this time and
coming up _orth toward the border. I meant to mention, too,
Hank, about 15 minutes ago I collected Arabella's web. She
wasn't too happy about the whole idea and have it filed away
in the container for return back when we come back in about
5 weeks.
CC Roger; we copy.
SPT Okay. We ought to be just about ready
to cross [ile Mexico/U. S. border about this time and it does
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SPT look nice and clear down there. I can

see several large cities. We should be passing a little
bit to the east of E1 Paso, according to our ground track
up here. _o these cities are probably still in southern
Mexico. How about northern Mexico?
SPT Okay. Now that looks like Dallas-Ft.
Worth down there slightly to my right all lit up very clearly.
And Alan Bean says to have - tell the friends down in
Ft. Worth for him and Dallas as well hello from him.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay. Now that must be Ardmore and up
ahead of us a little ways, Oklahoma City. And I see Enid
just coming in at the top part of the window now. Stands
out very clearly. Boy, it's a beautiful clear night. I
can see a few thunderstorms way off toward the northwest
towards Colorado, but not a thing in the Texas/Oklahoma
area. And there's Tulsa over to the east. Okay. We've
just passed over Oklahoma City, I believe, and we see
Enid quite clearly off to the northwest. It's a beautiful
night out, as I mentioned and it's certainly the best oppor-
tunity we've had to see this part of the country in the
evening. Gne of our first evening passes over the southwest
U.S. We dig have a few passes in the afternoon intervals
a couple of weeks ago. Now we're quite a ways up to the
north. Locks like we can see up into Illinois.
CC Okay. The folks in Enid should have
all the lights up for you.
SPT Okay. We've just passed over St. Louis.
We covered _t so quickly and we can see up clear up to Chicago,
Illinois, row, Lake Michigan up here. So we really have
to talk fast and cover a lot of Eround. It was only about
I0 minutes ago that we saw - sped over the Pacific and we
can see - Chicago all the way around the southern tip of
Lake Michigan. So it only takes a brief minute to pass by.
And we did have a good look all the way across the U.S.
southwest and we wanted to say hello and best wishes to all
of our good friends down there in the southwest, especially
in Enid a[_([ down in Texas where Alan's from as well. So
we appreeiar_e very much you folks going to all the extra
trouble tc get your lights down on and so brightly that
we couldn't: miss it and we'll be lookln S down at your direc-
tion many o_her times during the daytime when we won't have
to use lights to see. So best wishes to you all.
CC Thank you much, Owen, and on - before
you leave _:he MDA there, we'd llke for you to get the S056
door open That - got: to clean up the panel there.
SPT Okay. We'll open that door for you
and certainly appreciate having a chance to stay up a little
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Time: 22:13 CDT, 25/03:13 GMT
8/20/73
SPT late and see all these sites. It was

a beautiful night, Hank. It's the prettiest night over the
U.S. since we've been up here.
CC Okay. Sandy said it was supposed to
be good weather there tonight.
CC We'll say goodnight now. We'll close
down our comm.
SPT Okay. Just a minute here. Let me get
the doors open for you up here.
CC We just needed that one door, S056.
SPT It's a - it's a gray right now, so you
ought to have it opened.
CC Roger; we see it.
END OF TAPF+
SL III MC-i005/I
TIME: 22:25 CDT 25/03:25 (;MT
8120173
PAO Skylab Control. We do have some

communications with the, spacecraft, although Owen Garriott
is not expected to carry on much more conversation. They
did open the door to SO56 which is the dual X-Ray telescope
on the sola_ telescope mount. We'll remain live for any
further air-to-ground during the remainder of this pass
over the United States and Bermuda tracking stations.
and 37 seco_c[s Greenwich mean time. We are now losing signal
with the spec:ecraft as it passes away from Bermuda out over
the North Atlantic. During this last pass Owen Garriott
did stay up to take a look down at the United States as he
passed over going from the southwest to the northeast along
ground track one. That's the same ground as the spacecraft
followed immediately following it's launch on July 28th. During
this pass he: did say that he could see Enid, Oklahoma, his home
town, where the lights were turned on especially for him.
This is Skylab Control. We do have a mission surgeons
daily health status report, which is as follows. Our
evaluation of the crew's activities during the day and their
comments in the evening medical conference indicates that
the Skylab Iii crew continues to enjoy a highly satisfactory
state of health. Signed by Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins.
That concludes our transmission for the day. We do not
expect to have an acquisition of signal or commentary from
the crew during a pass over Madrid which is to begin in
about 3 minutes. That pass will be recorded in the event
that there is anything on it, we will bring it back up
immediately following the pass. This is Skylab Control.
Our next report tomorrow Just before 6:00 a.m. wakeup. It
is now 34 minutes and 54 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-Ill MC-1006/I
Time: 05:58 CDT 25:10:58 GMT
8121173

i0 hours 58 minutes on the start of day 25 for the crew of
Skylab 3. A wakeup call will go up shortly over the Guam
tracking station with Capcom Bob Crlppen.
Music
CC Good morning, Skylab. The crimson team is
back watching over you.
CDR Sounds great. We thought we must have just
been passing over Rio there, Robert.
CC We]L1 you did, you Just passed over Ipanema
Beach about 30 minutes ago.
CDR Thought that might have been the cause of a
local radio station.
CC Yeah, they got extended coverage.
CDR On the last Apollo flight I understood they
got a little extra music. It was local from Spain and this
time I guess we pick it up from Brazil.
CC Right.
CC Skylab, we'll have LOS in about 1 minute.
We'll see yos again over the states at 11:22, about 18 minutes
from now.
PLT Okay, Crlp, good morning.
CC Good morning, sir.
PLT What was that music you were playing, Crlp?
CC I think your skipper there could remind you.
CC We'll get one for you, Jack.
CC The first one was the "Girl from Ipanema".
You guys just passed over Rio on this last trip.
PLT How's that storm doing this morning, Bob?
CC She's a hurricane now.
CC She's a hurricane now, Jack.
PLT Are we going to make it over this time?
CC Pretty close to it, yes.
ii hours 6 minutes. Loss of signal over Guam. A brisk wakeup
call to the crew this morning started with the music "Girl
from Ipanema" and followed by "Anchors Away". Capcom Bob
Crippen, capsule communicator on the crimson team, crimson
team headed by Flight Director Don Puddy. Crippen reminded
the crew on this pass they'll pass over Rio where the famed
Ipanema Beach is located. The crew has a busy day today.
Will be the fourth run of the M509 experiment, the astronaut
maneuverln_ unit. Again, test pilot will be Commander A1
Bean. About 8 hours and 50 minutes of data gathering with
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the Apollo telescope mount experiments is on tap. A pair of

medical experiments to be performed today by science pilot
Owen Garrlott, MO92, lower body negative pressure device, MI71,
vectocardl -- MI71 is the metabolic analyzer experiment. This
morning the crew asked about the tropical storm Brenda, presently
located off the coast of Yucatan in the Gulf. The crew asked
if they would pass over it this morning. They will pass right
over that area, however, it may still be dark at that time.
We don't anticipate any TV pictures this morning of Brenda.
Next acquisition, Goldstone, approximately 14 minutes; Greenwich
mean time II hours 7 minutes, this Is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-1007/I
Time: 06:18 CDT 25:11:18 GMT
8/21/73

ii hours 18 minutes. We will have acquisition at Goldstone
on this stateside pass. The final - the next to the last pass
over the states today. The crew awoke over Guam 18 minutes
ago. Wakeup call was placed by Capcom Bob Crippen, who himself
has spent 56 days in a Skylab medical test this time last year.
At this time last year he was 28 days - 26 days into a scheduled
56-day mission in a 20 foot altitude chamber here at the Johnson
Space Center. Today's activity includes M509, the fourth
test flight of this flying unit. In addition, several house-
keeping chores, medical experiment performed by Science Pilot
Owen Garriott, M092 and MI71. In addition, four widely separated
features on Earth will be photographed from space by the Skylab
crew today. Handheld still cameras will be aimed toward
volcanic and geologic points of interest in Bolivia, the Okovanggo
Swamp in Botswana, the Patagonia Desert in southern Chili and
Argentina. And again as yesterday, Australia's Great Barrier
Reef. Science Pilot Owen Garriott will take on the post - first
photo assignment in the early morning by shooting pictures of
an inactive volcano's fault lines and other geological features
in Bolivia. These features will appear in Garriott's viewfinder
at about 6:49 a.m. this morning. Garrlott has also drawn the
job of photographing at 10:06 a.m. a region of southern Argentina
and Chili, called the Patagonia. This region is a sparsely
populated terrain of broad plateaus, the spectacular south
Andes Mountains with glaciers and deep canyons. Photos from
Skylab will be used to detect geological features such as
active and passive volcanos, rift zones, glaciers, mountain
lakes, and perhaps a hint toward how the rugged terrain affects
the weather in the area, said to be one of the stormiest in
the world. Also on tap today is the cleaning out of Arabella's
cage. Plans call for the web to be removed from the cage and
the spiders will be fed two days from now, be given another
piece of filet mignon steak and Arabella will be observed to
see if she will weave another web. We anticipate acquisition
at Goldstone in approximately 1 minute. We'll hold the llne
open for air-to-ground between the crew of Skylab 3 and mission
control center.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the states for
14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip. We wish you'd give Gary Hanlsch
a call this morning and tell him we're thinking about him up
here. And we decided to call this one Gary Hanlsch day up
in Skylab. As you know he was our training coordinator and
we probably worked more closely with him than anybody that we
worked with during our 2-1/2 year training period. We think
he went way out of his way to try to get us all the training
that we could think of, that he could think of. But - whatever
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8/21/73
it took to get us ready to go on this mission in the best way

possible. Sometimes I'd get up in the morning and he'd be over
there at the trailor collecting film or leaving off some
pictures or something, and when I'd go to bed at night in the
trailor, he'd be over there picking up something else or leaving
somethlng_ So, he put in some long hard ho_rs and did a
fantastic job in a rather difficult and changeable atmosphere.
And we really appreciate it, so if you'd give him a call and
thank him and tell him we're dedicating this day to him, we'd
appreciate it.
CC Okay, we'll put that in work and in answer
to Jack's last question, you are guys - you guys are coming
over hurrlzane Brenda probably around 11:34, 35, something
llke that on this pass.
PLT Okay, he's up there with his little TV camera
and I'm golng up to the ATM.
CC Okeydoke. Also, we're going to need to get
Jack to change out the teleprinter paper for us, please.
And we've got one more pad to come up when that's done.
PLT He's way ahead of you, he's already done it.
Send it up.
CC Very good. And when you get a chance, AI,
I've got a couple of mods I need to make to your flight plan
for today.
CDR I know, you want me to do that condensate
system over again.
CC I heard you had fun with that yesterday. No,
we're going to let you rest from that one for a while. No, really
what we want to do is put in this rate gyro 6-pack temperature
measurement calibration that I think was mentioned to you
yesterday evening.
CDR Okay, Crlp. Call it up.
CC Okay, on the general flight plan for - under
the SPT at 15:03, we need to delete all from desert crew science
demo study. And to insert the rate gyro temperature cue card
procedures that was upllnked to you this morning.
CDR Okay, got that.
CC Okay, and under your column now, for - you
have SO19, film installation, scheduled at 13:45. Of course,
that won't be necessary because of our problem with S019.
We want to substitute the water servicing umbilical reconflgu-
ration, which we have Just sent up a message also on what to
do, because that's going to be necessary for Jack to perform
his housekeeping 84 that's coming up.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC And also, AI, you've got a SO19 film stowage
called out at 2400 and assuming that we don't solve our SO19
problem, you can - that'll be scratched also.
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CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and if Owen's detail pads are available,
he can delete his 1503 and 1520 entries Just to coincide with
that rate gyro temp thing that we talked about.
CC Okay, we have rewound the VTR and it belongs
to you guys again. And for your information we will not be
updating the SAP today.
PLT What's going to be the best window for looklng
at the hurricane, Crlp?
CC I'll see if I can glve you one.
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SL-III MCI008/I
Time: 06:28 CDT, 25/11:28 GMT
821/73
PL_ (garble)
CC Sorry, Jack. I couldn't copy that.
CC PLT, Houston. We were - we lost you in the
handover there. Would you say again, please?
CDR Jack's got the TV on the sunrise. Not
the (garbie) part, but near it.
CC PLT, Houston. you're going to be coming
up pretty close to the - the Yucatan area where Brenda's
located and still haven't got a correct window for you. Should
be probably i or 4 in the FTS.
PLT Hey Crlp, have you guys - are you guys
getting any TV of the sunrise?
CC Stand by. I think we're having to record
that.
PLT Okay. Well, maybe we better get the
VTR on then if you're not going to get it real time, we'll -
CC No. We were getting it at the site I understand
but we were recording at the site. We Just want to bring (garble)
in here.
PLT Oh, I see. Okay.
CC And you should be Just about over Brenda
at this - at this time. And window 1 is the best one. Jack,
correction cn my last - you need to put that on the VTR.
PLT Okay. We may not get it today, Crlp,
cause it's still dark down there.
CC Yes, we were afraid of that.
PLT Hey, yes Crlp, it's still dark down there.
CC Skylab, Houston. All of the messages we
got for you this morning, are onboard now.
CDR Okay. Thanks. I'ii give the site a llttle
UV mon, Houston.
CC Okay, AI. We'll appreciate that and we're
about 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard
at 11:47. ]1:47 and that's about a little over 10-1/2 minutes.
time 37 - ii hours, 37 minutes with loss of signal. A stateside
pass. Next acquisition will be Vanguard at approximately
8 minutes. During this pass, the crew was advised to delete
2 of the 4 scheduled target of opportunity photo sessions
that were en tap for today. The two eliminated were the Oka -
Okavoanggo Swamp and Botswana in central South Africa and also
deleted was the photographs of the Patagonia Desert in
Southern Chile and Argentina. However, on this pass, Science
Pilot Owen Garriott is scheduled to take photos in the Bolivia
area. Shooting pictures of inactive volcanoes, fault lines,
and other geological features in Bolivia in South America.
He's scheduled to begin this photo session at 6:49 this mornin E.
Next acquisition, Vanguard in approximately 7 minutes, 30 seconds
from now. At Greenwich mean time, ii hours, 39 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-[009/I
Time: 06:44 CDT, 25/11:44 GMT
8/21/73

time ii hours 44 minutes Vanguard acquisition coming up
shortly. On this pass Science Owen Garrlott should have taken
photographs as the spacecraft passed over Bolivia. Later this
afternoon photographs will be made of the great Barrier
Reef off the coast of Australia. Two other photo assignments
for today, one in Central South Africa and one in Southern
Chile and Argentina has been scrubbed for today due to the
workload put on the crew. Additional work is being performed
today on the onboard rate gyro 6-pack. Temperature
calibrations have been scheduled for this piece of hardware
and they will come at a time when out the window photography
was scheduled; so these two events in South Africa and
Argentina have been scrubbed from the flight plan for today.
And in its place have put - been placed checkout of the
onboard gyro 6-pack.
for i0 minutes.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We'll be doing a
data voice recorder dump while you're over Vanguard.
SPT Say, Bob my mineral supplements did not
come through very clearly on the pad here. I think it's 00012
would you check that for me please.
CC Stand by, Owen.
CC Owen, that's correct it's three zeros
one tWO.
SC (Music).
CC I knew you guys had some good music up
there somewhere.
CDR Say again, Crip.
CC I said I knew you had some good music
tucked back there somewhere.
CDR You bet.
CDR Makes you get up and dance.
SC (Music).
CC Sure going to miss that but we're going
over the hill in about 30 seconds. See you again at Goldstone
in an hour and 5 minutes from now at 13:02, 13:02.
SC (Music).
SC (Music).
ii hours 57 minutes loss of signal over Vanguard as the
crew played several Country-Western songs for the Flight
Controllers here at the Mission Control Center. One of the
songs, Jerry Lewis's A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On brought
a comment from CAP COMM Bob Crippen we're sure going to miss
that as we go over the hill. CAP COMM Crippen is a Texas boy
from Beaumont, and one of the - he was the Commander of the
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Time: 06:4& CDT, 25/1.1:44 GMT
8/21/73
Skylab Medlcal experiment altitude test in which he and

Astronauts Karol Bobko and Dr. Bill Thornton spent 56 days
in an altitude chamber here at the Johnson Space Center last
summer. At Greenwich mean time at ii hours 58 minutes this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPEI
SL-III MC-1010/I
Time: 08:[,0 CDT 25/13:00 GMT
8/21/73

13 hours w1 th acquisition coming up at Goldstone in approximately
1 minute. Pilot Lousma should be performing the T002 experiment.
This is the navigation, it's experiment TO02 manual navigation
sitlngs is being conducted today by Pilot Lousma. He is
scheduled t:o measure included angles between navigation stars
or between single stars and the edge of the moon in this exer-
cise today. This is l-he same basic principles of spherical
trigonometry are used to compute spacecraft position that
have been used by mariners since the sextant's ancestor the
astrolobe was invented some 4 centuries ago. Science Pilot Owen
Garrlott is spending his first chore at the Apollo telescope mount
today. While Commander A1 Bean is concluding his post sleep activi-
ties. We will have acquisition at Goldstone, we'll hold the line
open for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
5 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
4 minutes. Out.
CDR Good morning Bruce.
CC Good morning you all.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to LOS
here at Go_tdstone. Next station contact in 15 minutes at
Vanguard 13 plus 23. And we' ii be dumpln E the data voice
tape recorder at Vanguard. Over.
13 hours 8 minutes. Loss of signal at Goldstone. Very little
conversation on this ])ass between Capcomm Bruce McCandless and
the crew of Skylab-3. One of the activities scheduled today
is a check out temperature calibration of the rate gyro package,
the six pack which was carried up at launch with the Skylab-3
crew. This activity will be done later today by the crew members
to callbra_e the temperatures within the rate gyro six pack
which was -- There are three rate gyro in each axis at
present. The rate gyro package which consists of 6 are mounted
together in a single unit called a rate gyro augmentation
package and has associated tables. Deployment of this rate
gyro package is still being considered for the EVA which is
scheduled for Friday, however no decision at this time has
been made whether or not this RGP will be deployed. The re-
placement procedure should it be called into play, calls for
the astronauts to mount the new rate gyro augmentation package
on the inside of the spacecraft on the bulk heads in the
multiple docking adaptor. A cable would lead from the package
through an existing conduit in the wall of the space station
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to the outside. On the outside cable connections must be made

in order to send the rate gyro package output signals to the
computer interface located on the ATM. It would be a relatively
easy operation, one that requires only approximately 20 minutes,
one that required only 20 minutes in the underwater simulation
by astronauts at the Marshall Space Flight Center in the under-
water facility there. The whole package weighs approximately
145 pounds, and it was prepared by the Marshall Space Flight
Center. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately
12 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours ii minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPIE
SI,- [II Mr: ,)ll/I
Tlmel 0821 CDT, 25/13:21 GMT
8/21/73

time 13 hours, 21 minutes access - acquisition coming up at
Vanguard. As the crew has started their 25th day in orbit,
since the [aunch of gkylab-3 on July 28. Cap Co,._,,is Bruce
McCandless, Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson.
CC 8kylab, this is Houston through Vanguard
for 9 minutes and 45 seconds. We will be dumpin 8 the data
voice tape recorder this pass. Over.
CDR Bruce, measured the iodine in water tanks 2,
8, and 9 last night and there's 5 part per million in 2, 3 parts
per million in 8, and in tank 9, I saw no evidence of iodine
remaining o
CC Okay. Copy tanks 2, 8, and 9 with con-
centration_ of (garble) of three and nothing detectable.
CDR You' re right.
SPT Hey Bruce? How long you going to be using
the tape recorder?
CC Just as long as it takes to dump it.
Probably about 2 or 3 minutes.
SPT Okay. Well, I'm needing to put something
on it when you're finished with it. So if you'll let me know,
I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to get these operational
(garble) sitings in.
CC Okay. I get an update that it's 4 minutes,
but if you want to Just go ahead send them down over air-to-ground,
why, we got recorders going down here. We don't have a great
deal of
SPT Stand by.
CC traffic for you this pass. And for the SPT,
we're getting ready to do a momentum dump inhibit. So if you'd
stay off the DAS for a few seconds, we'll put it in.
PLT Okay. Okay Bruce, there's a part for
(garble) 4. 029.
CC And for Owen, we're through with the DAS.
Momentum dump is inhibited.
SPT Okay. Confirmed onboard.
PLT And, Bruce. there's another mark for (garble)
4.071.
CC Okay. We got it,
PLT Did you get the one before that?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Okay. Hope they got a time tag on them too.
CC Yes, we get - everything coming down here is
time annotated.
SPT Hey Bruce, can Adam confirm that we're
Just about through with the 60 rev study of solar wind?
PLT There's another marks for (garble) 4.056.
CC Okay. We got the HARK and Adam is counting
to 60, Says we're Just abaut there.
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SPT Good. We were just about run out o_ fingers

and toes up here.
CC Yes, I guess three guys, i0 fin_ers and
I0 toes each, we're really pushing you to the limit.
SPT That' s right.
PLT And Bruce, you guys are get the
third mark on (garble)?
CC Say again, Jack.
PLT Did you get the third mark that I made there?
CC Yes, we did. And data voice recorder dump
is complete. You can have the recorder back, Jack. Break -
break for the CDR. We're performing the preparations for the
SUS coolant loop sneakup procedure per general at 2532 Bravo.
I - disabling secondary AM coolant loop auto switch over
and turning on the second pump.
CDR Okay.
CC And -
CDR (garble) the PLT is going to be running that
procedure later.
CC lhat's affirm. However, we've got part
of it split up between the PLT and you. I think you wind up
turning the pumps off when you're all through. And you will
get a caution and warning alarm when we do this procedure on
the pumps.
CC The CDR, Houston. We have a (garble) - we
have some tilt and rotation settings for S019 that we'd like
to set it up when you're through with the pass that commences
at 14:00. These are to maximize the heating of the instru-
ment if it: still will not retract. Over.
PLT ()kay Bruce. We're getting secondary
coolant flow warning, (garble) lights and it's pump C.
CC Roger. We expected that when we put on
pump C, the inverter momentarily stalled out, so you went
down to zero pumps and we're bringing them back up now. So,
that'll go away in a minute.
PLT Okay. We've got two of them.
CDR Okay. Standing by to copy those values, Bruce.
SPT Make it three of them.
CC Three what? Three in succession or 3
llghts on at once?
SPT No, 3 in succession.
CC Okay.
CDR Standing by to copy.
CC Okay AI. That's 020 on tilt and 034 on
rotation and we can't get the pumps back on. The secondary
loop will be back to you in a second,
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8/21/73
CC Jack, Houston. Would you check circuit

breakers on - I was tryl_g to look here. I think it's on
panel 200 or 201. We think we've got one popped on the coolant
loop. Coolant pump and (garble) primary number 2, Make that
secondary number 2. I think it's on 202. Make that panel 200.
PLT Yes, number 2 is popped (_arble) close it.
CC Okay. I understand you got, it reset. We're
coming up on LOS here. Next station contact, Hawaii in I hour.
MS (garble)
CC Okay. We got pump B turned on, I believe
and we'll talk to you over Hawaii.
CC Skylab, this is Houston in the blind.
Request you delay initiating housekeepping 10-alpha, if you read.
Delay in initiating housekeepping 10-alpha. Houston, out.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 08:35 CDT, 25/13:35 GMT
8/21/73
PAO Skyla5 Control; Greenwich mean time

13 hours 35 minutes loss of signal at Vanguard as the crew
began checking out the SUS loop the suit umbilical system
which is used in the EVA activities this is a preliminary
check of the system prior to the scheduled EVA for Friday.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 56 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 15 hours 36 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAP}:
SL-III MC-iOI3/I
Time: 09:29 CDT 25/14:29 GMT
8/21/73

14 hours 2'3 minutes. Acquisition at Hawaii in appToximately
3-1/2 minutes. Further discussions are a_tieipated duEing
this pass on the tool ant loop, secondary coolant loop test
of the SUS, the suit umbilical system being performed this morn-
ing. On the last pass, the crew was in the besinning of this test
when one of the pumps went off line, the circuit breaker popped.
The ground is currently looking at this data, and i8 assessln E
the situation. And further conversation between Capcomm Bruce
McCandless and the crew is expected. Another operation which
will be performed later today is a test of the rate gyro package
temperature check. This is a duel thrust means of verifying
performance and confidence in the six pack rate gyro package,
which was carried up by the Skylab-3 crew. Tests are underway
on the ground and in the space today aboard the Skylab space station.
Skylab Science Pilot Owen Garriott today will measure the
performance of the gyro six pack heaters using a digital temper-
ature sensor. After Garriott has powered up the six pack,
and each gyro has reved up to speed and stabilized he will make
the temperature measurements. The onboard measurements are
aimed toward verifying that the six pack heaters are working properly.
A duplicate of the rate gyro package has undergone tests in
a thermal vacuum chamber at the Marshal Space Flight Center
to determine whether the package will function properly assuming
it is installed before the end of Skylab-3, if the gyro heaters
fail. The tests duplicate the environment of the multiple
docking adaptor during unmanned operations between Skylab-3
and 4. We will have acquisition in approximately i minute
at Hawaii. We'll hold the line open for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Hawaii for
7-1/2 minutes, for the Commander. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger, Allan. We are still looking at the data
here on the results of our attempted coolant loop reconfiguration
over Vanguard. Based on that, we would like to postpone the
housekeeping i0 Alfa until further notice, And we'll get hack
to you on a resehedu]e on that. Over.
CDR Roger. What new data did you see that makes
you want to do that?
CC Nothing.
CC Our problem - -
CDR That's fairly cryptic. Those numbers you gave
me to repcsition S019, I gather they are to the nearest whole
degree?
CC That is correct.
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CC 020,0 diegrees tilt and 034.0 inner rotation.

We're sorry if there is conlfusion on that. And we age enabling
momentum dump at this time. To amplify a little bit on the
coolant system, when we selected the second pump, that is
pump Charlie on the secondary loop we apparently caused the
inverter to blow the clrcuilt breaker supplylng power to the
inverter. And wetre reviewing the transactions earlier in
the mission, that is on SL-II, 2. And we'd llke to make sure that
we completely understand the reason for popping that breaker
before we try to reconfigure the system again. And we feel
that we have still plenty of time before Friday to give this
a real thorough working oveir. So we'd Just llke to postpone
i0 Alfa at the present time.
CDR Okay, slounds good to us.
CC And for the SPT, I have some solar information
for you.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. A feature located at 330 degrees, 1.3
solar radii is designated as prominence 47, that's P-47, and
is lifting off. We would llke you to go ahead and run JOP 9
as scheduled at 14:42 except that we would like S052 to
operate in the standard mode. And then if you are ready to
copy, I have a request for a procedure to follow the JOP 9
operation to look at this prominence. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, .!H Alfa 1 to the prominence, that's
P-47 S055 mirror auto raster, 0000, and all detectors;
S082B, short wave length, llmb pointing mode, time
5 minutes exposure; S056, patrol normal, and the approximate
pointing coordinates of the feature are roll minus 5400 up
967 right 500. Over.
SPT Okay, have all that and we'll do it right now.
CC No, we iwant you to do it after the JOP 9.
SPT Understand.
CC And then in order to squeeze everything into
this pass, when you flnlsh with that go ahead into JOP i Delta
and Just drop off or truncate the building block ii when you
have to do the Sunset. Over.
SpT Roger.
CC And Owen, we are starting to get some C1 flare
activity associated with that prominence.
SPT Hello Bruce, we don't see a very pronounced
or very clear prominence at 330. There is one at 270. Would
you check those coordinates again?
CC Okay, we will do it. It's already 3/10 of
a solar radii above the surface. That's st 1.3 R solar. Over.
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8/21/73
SI'T Yeah, understand. I expected to see some

feed of It dow, o,1 the disk however, and we'll proceed.
CC ()kay Owen, we've conflrmed our cootdlnates.
They are c_,rrect.
SPT Thank you.
CC Okay Owen, we're comin 8 up 40 seconds to LOS
here at Hawaii. Next station contact in 22 minutes at Vanguard
at 15:02. With regard to P47, the word is that there is not
a great deal of optical substance to it, but it is none the
less there_ And we'd llke for you to run through the p_ocedures.
SPT Okay, and we're on our way to do them as you have
described Thank you.
CC Roge r.
14 hours 41 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii. Next acquisition
at Vanguard. The crew was advised to call a halt to the house-
keeping 10A, i0 Alfa. This is the operation concerning the
coolant loop, the SUS 2, secondary coolant loop for use in
EVA. Preparations had begun to test this system out today
using two pumps in tlhe coolant system. However, during the
Vanguard pass on the last revolution a circuit breaker popped
when two pumps were put on llne causing one pump to turn off.
The ground is assessing the data received during the Vanguard
pass. And Capcomm Bruce McCandless advised the crew to stop that
work now and we'll advise them later when we can reschedule it. He
did say that we had plenty of time before Friday to get a handle
on this and fully understand it before the scheduled EVA this
coming Friday. Next acquslition at Vanguard in approximately
19 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 42 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL- [II MC-lOt6/t
Time: i0:00 COT, 25/_5:00 GMT
8/ZI/73
PAO This is Sky!ab Control_ Greenwich mean

time 15 hours. We will _have acqUisition at Vanguard in
approximately one minute. CAP COMM Is Bruce HcCaRdless s
we' Ii leave the llne open for air to ground over the Vanguard
t rackin 8 ship.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Vanguard
for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay, took a look on the white light
coonograph and you call see a big bubble out there in the
corona right around the spot that you pointed out. We took
some white light coronograph data and then we were over there
now pointing at it and the bubble was about three quarters
the size of the Sun. It's really a nice discontinuity out
of the corona. We're running 56 on an active one long
because that's what JOP 8 said to do and we're also
running 54 on a M30 f/256 aind if they want anything else
other than that let us know. But looks like we got a nice
little thing going out there.
CC We copy, AI.
CDR And we'll give 56 a patrol short and a
patrol normal also if they'd like it.
CC That's affirmative AI, we'll take the
patrol short and the patrol normal. Our intent had been Just
to do those things that we voiced up to Owen howevers we'll
press on with what you're doing there.
CDR Okay, well we'll give you that and then
we'll move on because it's an awfully nice transience.
One of the nicer we've seen.
CC Roger; sounds beautiful.
CDR Like a big bubble setting on the edge
of the disc.
CC Roger.
CC ()kay, AI and we're going to update your
ATM schedule pad for the next daylight pass to continue
observation of this. We'll have that update for you over
Hawaii at 16;08 which is just before the start of the pass.
CDR Okay, now we've got an addlt_onal 20 -
9 m£nutes right now. Do yo_ want me to stay here and work this
problem using jop 8, although that's a bis user of film or do
you want me to do like we ,aid So hack and pi¢k up on the
pad per the discussion about 30 minutes ago.
CC We'd l_ke you to go back and pick up
on the pad jop 1 DELTA and then go on through cuttin E off as
many of the building block ii as are required by sun rise -
by sunset. Over.
CDR Okay. And we gave you a little white
llght coronagraph on the VTR so it's on there a couple of minutes
worth.
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CC {]k.y, as l recall the VTR waq c_mpl,.t,'ly

empty s_, tl*._t's good _nd we'll dump it when we ca..
cDR okay,
PLT Hey Bruce I've done the hoOsekeepln_
84 November, and we're standing off on the I0 ALPHA,
but I was kind of Wondering why there was a const_slnt on
doing 84 November before i0 ALPHA?
CC There was no real constraint on that
Jack. We lust felt more comfortable having the heaters
shut up sc that if we had any problems with the theremal control
valve we could put the heater in the loop and recover right
away.
PLT ()kay, I understand, I got the line and heater
filled.
CC Roger.
CDR And I put a little UV men on 246,
second integration so whenever you're finished with that we're
going to press on to - only gave a active one short I didn't
give an a_:tlve I normal we'll go ahead and pick up on the
building block.
CC ()kay.
CDR I didn't mean an active one short I
meant a patrol short.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab this is Houston one minute until
LOS here at the Vanguard next station contact in 58 minutes
over HawaiL at 16:08 and we will be dumping the data voice
tape recorder over Hawaii.
15 hours iL2 minutes with loss of signal at Vanguard. Alan
Bean commenting on a transient event on the Sun and saying we
have a nice little thing going here. He did put 2 minutes
of that a:tivity on the video tape recorder which will be
passed down later. Further discussions concerning the
secondary coolant loop - SUS loop, the suit umbilical system
which is ased during EVA, this is the mystem of which the
astronauts hook their umbilical lines up to. This system
provides coolant water for EVA. Lousma also mentioned that
he had the hoses out for the SUS loop heater, the SUS loop
heater assembly is a special piece of hardware taken up by Skylab-3
consists of a heater, two hoses and an electrical control
box. The heater which weighs about 6-1/2 pounds is 9 inches
by ii by 4-1/2 inches in size. Therets two flex hoses about
18 inches long 1-1/2 inches in diameter and each weighs
about 1-1/2 pounds. And there's a control box with the unit
which measures 6 by 8 by 10 inches. Electrical power for
this heater unit will be drawn from the plus Z scientific
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_irlock power box about 250 watts are required to operate
the heater. The control box will be mounted on a rack below
the water tanks in tha workshop dome area a_d three cables
from the control box will run to the scientific airlock power
unit. This heat exchanger will be used only as a c0ntlnuancy
and only if the temperature control valve B on the primary
or secondary coolant loop hangs up as it did in Skylab-2
- Skylab-i which followed the EVA temperature control valve
stuck in a cold position c_using a problem following the EVA
on - in Skylab-1. Lousma had serviced this assembly as part
of the procedures today to check out the SUS - su- suit
umbilical system, secondary loop for preparations of the
EVA this coming Friday. Work on this activity has been halted
following a circuit breaker problem when two pumps of the
secondary coolant system were put on llne one popped off and
the ground is assessing that situations which occurred on
the last pass over Vanguard. Further procedures will be
passed up to the crew as soon as this situation is fully
understood on the ground. At Greenwich mean time 15 hours
15 minutes next acquisition will be Hawaii in 53 minutes.
Greenwich mean time 15 hours 15 minutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCIDI5/I
Time= 1044 CDT, 25/15:44 GMT
8/21/73

time 15 hours_ 44 minutes. The solar vent witnessed by
Commander Alan Bean during the last rev, has been described
by NOAA officials here at the Johnson Space Center as one of the
most interesting end most important dynamic events yet viewed
by the Skyla5 erewmembers. Today's event, which is also viewed
by NOAA's Canary sunwatchin!g station, Canary Island sunwstchlng
station, tentatively is believed caused by a - caused by or
associated with a flare occurring on the back side of the
Moon - side of the Sun, excuse me. Bean described the event
as a bubble in the corona. George Fulls, of NOAA, said,
"We didn't really expect an event this big at this time. We
had a hunch something might happen, but not of this dynamic."
Bean was excited in describing the transient event which was
observed on the east llmb of the Sun, the edge of the Sun,
Just north of the Sun's equator. NOAA's Canary Island watching
station also described today's event as one of the most
interesting llmb events seen in quite a while. This is
described as the most significant solar event by NOAA since
the launch of Skylab-3. A 4-normal flare, which occurred on
July 29, went unobserved by the Skylab-3 crew because the
three astronauts had not yet begun manned operation of the
Apollo Telescope Mount. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in
22 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 15 hours, 46 minutes,
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SL-III MC-IOI6/I
Time: 11:07 CDT 25/16:07 GMT
8/21/73

16 hours _ minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii. Pilot
Jack Lousma should be at the ATM at this time with Commander
Bean performing his allotted physical exercise for the day.
Earlier Commander Bean reported seeing an interesting event,
a transient event on the limb of the moon, of the Sun, slightly
north o[ the east limb, north of the equatorial zone of the
Sun. NOAA officials here described that event as the most inter-
esting and most dynamic event yet seen during the Skylab-3
mission. This event was also witnessed by the Canary NOA_
Sun-watching station which descrlbed this event as the most
interesting event to be viewed by the Skylab-3 crew to date.
We anticipate acquisition at Hawaii. We'll hold the line open
for air-to-ground between Capcomm Bruce McCandless and the
Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii.
How do you read? Over.
SPT Loud and clear, Bruce. Do you want anything
different on the ATM this rev?
CC Skylab, Skylab, that's affirmative, Jack.
We have a change to your ATM schedule pad. Are you ready to
copy? Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston at 16:15. We
want to do a building block 2 sun center, roll minus 9000,
that's roll minus 9000. And on the building block 2 for
S082A it's short wavelength, and exposure 40 seconds, that's
S082A wavelength short, 40 second exposure; S055 mirror auto
raster, grading 00, detector all. And we will also do another
building block 2 with the same data at the end of the pass.
Now your timing 16:].5 is the beginning of the first building
block 2. Time remaining 44 for Jop 4B, time remaining of
19 for Jop 12D, time! remaining of 9 minutes for the second
building block 2 with the same info as before. And we want
to delete the entire shopping list item 13, which appears at
26 minutes remaining. Over.
PLT Okay, I've got it all, Bruce.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger, out.
SPT Hello Bruce, I'm about I0 minutes into the
rate gyro temp test. And the pad indicates that there is
something llke 95 volts is the expected voltage out of J3.
I'm only reading 2.8 volts off that temperature sensor, and
the digital thermometer has begun a slow increase. It
started at about 69 and it's up to about 71 degrees. And I'm
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wondering if these temperatures of 2.8 volts is a reasonable

number to expect off of J3 on the rate gyro pack. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Stand by
Owen, we're checking on that. Out.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston for the SPT.
In step 7 of your RGP temp cue card thing, it should read
steady stage gyro temp (voltage) should read 2.95, that's
2.95 volts record time of measurement. We believe that the
2.8 that you are reading is reasonable. Over.
SPT Okay, the 2 did not print on our copy. It
looked like it was a blank space on our pad. So that should
read 2.95L Is that what you said?
CC Skylab, Skylab, Houston. Roger. 2.95, that
is just less than 3 volts. Over.
SPT Okay, I'ii update on my pad and make that
more clear. Thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR. On that temp test we have not
had our rate gyros on all this time. They have been just sitting
there dormant, so we just turned them off this morning to start
the test. So it's conceivable that they would come up to
that temp°
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger AI.
We understand that. We are getting the base line data and
we'll power them up and track the temperature as it increases.
And I believe the thing runs for 36 hours. Over.
CDR Okay. We Were kind of concerned that maybe you
thought that they had been on for the last 3 weeks which they
have not been.
CC And Skylab, we are dumping the data voice
tape recorder, but we're almost through with it.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS here at
Hawaii. Ne_t station contact in 23 minutes over the Vanguard
at 16:40. Out.
PLT See you in South America, Senor.
CC Si senor.
16 hours 19 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii. Next acqui-
sition will be Vanguard in 21 minutes. Capeom_ Bruce McCandless
passed up to the crew new information for further investigations
of the limb event witnessed by Commander Bean on the last pass.
This solar event has been described by NOAA officials here
at the Johnson Space Center as one of the most interesting and
more important dynamic events yet viewed by the Skylab-3 crew.
This limb event has been described by NOAA's as Canary Island
Sun-watching station as the most interesting limb event yet
witnessed in Skylab. George Fuller of NOAA said here today,
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"We didn't really expect an event this big at this time. We

had a hunch something might happen, but not this dynamic."
This event today has been described as the most significant
solar event in the Skylab-3 mission. A 4-normal flare which
occurred en July 29 was not observed by the Skylab-3 crew
because the astronauts had not yet begun manned operation of
the Apollo _:elescope mount. Currently Pilot Jack Lousma is
manning the Apollo telescope mount. Later this afternoon
Pilot Jack Lousma will serve as observer while Commander A1
Bean makes his fourth flight in the M509 astronaut maneuvering
unit. This will be an unsuited mode of operation this after-
noon, the fourth flight of the M509. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 21 minutes, Ithis is Skylab Control. Next acquisition
Vanguard in 19 minutes.
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SL-III MCI017/I
Time: 1139 CDT, 25/16:39 GMT
8/21/73

time 16 hours, 39 minutes. Acquisition coming at the Vanguard
tracking station as Skylab concludes it's 1429th revolution
of the Earth. Pilot Jack Lousma is currently at the Apollo
Telescope Mount following up new instructions passed to the
crew at Hawaii concerning a transient event witnessed by
Commander Bean earlier this morning. This event on the east
limb of the Sun, north of the equator, has been described by
NOAA officials here at the Johnson Space Center as very
interesting and most dynamic.
PAO If I talk now, I'ii interrupt air-to-gro_*nd
which is just startln8 right now.
SPT Bruce, another thing that didn't print
clearly on my teleprinter message on the rate gyro temps, is
the last: time in this first set of sequences here. After
45 minutes, I assume the next time is 60 minutes. But it's
not printed clearly. Would you confirm that please?
CC That's affirmative, Owen. It is 60.
SPT Thank you.
CC And for the CDR, we've been looking at
our telemetry data on the airlock module secondary coolant
loop. We've been unable to find any current spikes. However,
the bilevel data indlcates that the pump - both pumps kicked
off within about a tenth of a second after the second pump -
pump Charlle was started. The sample rate may have been
such that we didn't catch a current spike. What we're
proposing to do now, is to check out the system by using
inverter 3 and pump Charlle and we're tentatively scheduling
this for the Vanguard-Ascension pass next rev. That is
Vanguard at about 18:].8 Zulu, followed by Ascension. This
should only take a minute or so. What we really need is the
PLT to stand by to reconfigure the system in case it's required
and we'll probably Just ask him to break out of the M509 preps
for a minute or so. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce. We'll be waiting for your call.
CC Okay.
CC And also for the CDR, on the message we
sent up regarding the M509 checklist, the improved restraint,
we left off the last step, Step Lima, which reads
"include evaluation of this restraint system on the debriefing."
So, I don't think you need to write that in, but if you would
comment on whether it's an improvement or not if you use the
system, we' d appreciate it. Over.
CDR Okay. We're going to try to use it, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Bruce, are you still there?
CC Yes, we are_ AI.
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CDR Would you set up a phone call with my

wife this evening?
CC We'll do that.
CDR Okay.
SPT Same for me, Bruce. Owen here.
CC You guys don't want a party line, do you?
SPT Affirm.
CDR Looking out the window down here, we must
be down south somewhere. Cause I can see some huge ice flows
and a bunch of little ice bergs broken off. That are
floating up I assume they're floating towards the north.
Where are we right now?
CC Okay. You're about 15 degrees east of
the southern tip of South America. Actually, you're up about
5 degrees from the Straits of Magellan and you - maybe down
by the Falklands.
CDR Some of the biggest I've seen. They're -
what are the_ big ones, growlers or something? I can' t remember
the name of them.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, if
you have time, we have some new tilt and rotation values to
luther optimize the heating of the S019 mirror, based on our
updated value of Nu Z and new computer program down here.
Basically, i:.'s tilt 0 degrees and rotation 055 degrees.
These are whole degrees. Over.
CDR Zero and on tilt and 055 on rotation. I'ii go
put it there right now.
CC Roger. Thank you. A minute and a half
to LOS at Vanguard. Next station contact in 9 minutes at
Ascension. It's a real low pass - 2 minutes duration, and
that's at 16:57. Out.
time 16 hours, 49 mlnur.es with loss of signal at Vanguard.
Next aequlsi_-ion is Ascension in approximately 8 minutes.
Skylab Control, 16 hours, 49 minutes, Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPF
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Time: ].1:56/ CDT, 25/16:56 GMT
8/21/73

time 16 houis 56 minutes with a brief pass over the Ascension
tracking station. We'll leave the line up for conversation
between CAP COM_ Bruce McCandless and the Skylab-3 crew.
how do you read, over.
CDR Reading you fine, Bruce.
CC Okay, we're getting you about a minute
early here, so well about a 3 minute pass and if you got any
traffic foz us let us know.
CC Skylab this is Houston i minute to LOS
at Ascensicn, next station contact in I hour and 18 minutes
at the Vanguard 18:17 Zulu over.
PLT Okay, Bruce we're getting the final
building block 2 at this pass at the most.
CC Roger, thank you for the update Jack.
17 hours I minute. Loss of signal at Ascension. Next asquisition
will be Guam, 1 hour and 16 minutes from now. Today's flight
test for the M509 will be the fourth time the device has been
flown. Commander Bean will fly unsuited while Pilot Jack
Lousma observes the operation in the dome of the orbital
workshop. Bean will fly the maneuvering unit for two periods
the first for 38 minutes, and the second for 27 minutes with
a battery and nitrogen tank change between tests. After undocking
from the clamps holding the unit to the wall, Bean will go
through a routine checkout lasting about 2-1/2 minutes. He
next will test the effects of leg and arm movements upon the
stability ¢ f the maneuvering unit in all three control modes
direct rate gyro and control moment gyro. The leg and arm
motion test will last about 8 minutes. A so called baseline
flight will follow next in the direct control mode. The baseline
maneuver ir_volves flying the machine to four locations in the
workshop and station keeping at each point to simulate
repair tasks in a future generation - a future generation space
station. Bean then will repeat the baseline maneuver in
the control moment gyro mode. Before changing the battery
and nitrogen propellant tank midway through the test, Bean
will fly the baseline maneuvers in a touch and go mode.
That is instead of station keeping at each point in the base-
line route Bean will slow down and touch at each point and
then move on to the next point. Another baseline maneuver will
be flown in the rate gyro mode in the second half of today's
flight. This third baseline maneuver will be followed by the
same sequence flown in reverse order; in other words starting
at point four and ending at point one. For Bean all unit
maneuvers will be backwards to those he is accustomed to
flying in standard baseline maneuvers. A new maneuver
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sequence has been added to today's flight of the maneuvering

unit called the systems calibration maneuver. Bean will fire
one second bursts in all axes following the unit to coast for
5 seconds before reversing or stopping his motion. The
systems calibration maneuver is aimed towards gathering
information for better interpretating telemtry from the
maneuvering unit which is recorded on board the space station.
For today's flight Bean will shift the maneuvering unit
seat downward about 2 inches to compensate for what appears
to be a slight offset of the pilot machine's center of gravity
experienced in earlier flights. Also Bean will rig some
additional straps diagonally across his chest to help keep
him from sliding sideways during side to side maneuvers
in - with the back pack. Bean had reported that he tended
to slide against the unit during roll and sideways maneuvers
in the three previous flights of the M509. The hand held
maneuvering unit will not be used in today's flight.
Next acquisition will be Guam i hour and 13 minutes at
Greenwich mean time 17 hours 4 minutes this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-1019/I
Time: 13_15 CDT 25/18:15 GMT
8/21/73

18 hours ]li minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard in
approximately 2 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garriott currently
at the Apollo telescope mount while Commander AI Bean and
Pilot Jack Lousma are in the preparations of the fourth flight
of the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit. The solar activity
observed by Commander Bean earlier today at about 10:04 has
now been described by NOAA scientists here at the Johnson
Space Center as the largest limb event observed this year.
We'll hold the line open for air-to-ground between CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless and Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard
for 10-1/2 minutes, for the PLT. Over.
PLT Here I am with my trusty little velometer
What can i do for you?
CC Well, you can put down your trusty little
velometer For a minute and istand by up by the airlock module
coolant pump switches and circuit breakers for us if you would
please, and I'ii tell you what we're going to do. Over.
PLT Okay, why don't you blow into the microphone
and I'ii measure your breath velocity.
PLT Twenty feet per minute.
PLT Never lose your sense of humor. Here I
am Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay, the configuration that we're in right
now on the secondary loop is that we have inverter number 2
commanded on and pump Bravo operating off of it. We're going
to send a series of real time commands here. If we wind up
in a situation where we can't command or you are going over
the hill with the system off, we'd like for you to manually
select inverter 3 and pump Charlie. What we're going to do
is command inverter 2 off and then inverter 3 on with pump
Charlie. If that works all right we will then command inverter
3 off pump Charlie to inverter 2 and bring inverter 2 on with
both Bravo and Charlie operating off of it to get to the
2 pump configuration for EVA. Over.
PLT Okay, go ahead. As we go over the hill
I have a valve that's in manual 3 Charlie, secondary loop.
CC Okay, the secondary loop is off. You'll pro-
bably get a caution and warning when we power back up.
CC Okay, pump Charlie is on.
PLT Okay, no light. I had one but it went out.
CC Roger.
CC Okay, we're pressing on with the reconfiguration
to bring Charlie on to loop 2 or on to inverter 2 and then power
it up. Your loop is powered down again now.
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8/21/73
PLT Okay. Did we just cross the coast of South

America?
PLT Okay, with the front angle and beta angle the
way it is it looks out the STS window with the solar
panel out there, it looks like we just making nice smooth left
turn over like an airplane over the coast.
CC Roger. We show you Just about due south of
the Vanguard. Okay - -
PLT We still have momentary secondary site
just about now.
CC Roger. We show both pumps Bravo and Charlle
running at this time.
PLT Okay, what's next?
CC Okay, what's next, Jack, is whereever you
put your valometer when I told you to put it some place, you
can pick it up again and resume operations.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC Right. Thank you very much for monitoring
for us.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 3 minutes over Ascension at 18:31
where we will be dumping the data voice tape recorder. And
if you think you can work it in with the M509 preparations
we'd llke to get the PLT to do a housekeeping task, that is
to start up the SUS (garble) procedure over Ascension for us.
This may take from 5 to 7 m_nutes of his time. Over.
PLT Okay, Houston. Just give me a call when
we're there, Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll give you a call.
18 hours 29 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. We will
have acquisition at Ascension in approximately 1 minute.
We'll leave the line open for that pass over Ascension.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 1329 CDT, 25/18:29 GMT
8121173

CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT,
we're ready to start the housekeeping i0 Alfa procedure, if
you are. It's page 17-2 of the SWS Systems Checklist.
Except that we want to do it on the SUS 2 pump switch on
panel 323. _our general messlage, 2532 Bravo (garble).
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT,
we'd like to go ahead and start the housekeeping i0 Alfa
per page 17-2 of the SWS systems checklist. Except that
we're doing it on SUS 2. Over.
PLT Okay. We'll do it like the checklist
says. I hope we have this teleprinter pad. But you prefer
the checklist, right?
CC Okay. NGw 2532-B teleprinter pad,
merely it tells you to do it, but to do it using SUS 2 in the
secondary loop and it also gives you a configuration to
go to if a low temp caution and warning occurs out of station
contact. That is manually to inverter 2, pump B, which is
what we want you to do if that occurs. Over.
PLT Okay. Pump 2 inverter - inverter 2, pump
B if we have to go manually.
CC Right per the teleprinter message.
PLT Okay. That's different than you told me
a while ago if we had a problem there, which was 3 Charlie.
CC That's correct and that was for the test
on the inverter 3 and pump Charlie.
PLT Understand.
CC PLT, Houston. We're watching telemetry
here and we haven't seen any change in SUS 2 configuration.
Are you cycling the SUS 2 pump switch at the present time?
We'd certainly like to see it before we go LOS. Over.
PLT No, I'm not yet, but will. How long you
got?
CC We got 3 minutes and 52 seconds. _
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes over Guam at
19:15 and a review of the voice dump tapes connected with
the TO20 experiment revealed that you all were interested
in operating the M509 unit with one or both the hand
controller arms the down position. We'd llke to request
you not to fire the thrusters with the arms down, as we're
concerned that the gas from the thrusters impinging on
the under side of the arm, may work its way back up and possibly
damage one of the wire bundles inside. Over.
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8/21/73
PLT Bruce, do you want me to go through the

full SUS pump cycling leaving leading pump i on for 45 minutes
and then do the same thing to pump 2 secondary pump?
CC Negative. We're Just concerned with SUS 2
pump.
PLT Okay. But you do want the 45-minute on time,
right?
PLT Okay.
CC We want to exercise both pumps in SUS 2. Over.
PLT Right. You want the primary on for 45 minutes
and turn that one off and do the same thing to the secondary
sync up on _t for 45 minutes, on for that too, right?
CC Roger. And
PLT ... Okay,
CC - - the full sneak up procedure, however,
the multipl_ cycle sneaking up to it. Over.
PLT Right. I'ii do it just like the checklist
says. Sieves i through 3.
CDR I don't understand why you have to sneak
up on it with the other pumps.
CC You don't with the other. Once you get
snuck up to and operating on primary, you can switch right over
to secondary and run for 45 minutes. Over.
PLT That's how we'll do it.
CDR Okay.
time 18 hours 43 minutes with loss of signal at Ascension.
Next acquisition will be Guam in 32 minutes. Commander Bean
in preparations to fly for the fourth time, the M509, astro-
naut maneuvering unit with Jack Lousma serving as observer
during this two separate maneuvers of the AITU. The first
flight will be for 38 minutes and the second one for 27 minutes.
During this last pass, Pilot Lousma was asked to run up to-
from the workshop dome to the airlock module to flip some
switches of the suit umbilicle system SUS loop to check out
the preparations of the system for the scheduled EVA on Friday.
Earlier, they were discussing the M487 over the Vanguard pass.
The M487 is the habitability studies aboard the spacecraft,
which Lousma was performing at the time of the Vanguard pass.
Next acquisition will be Guam in 31 minutes at Greenwich mean
time 18 hours, 44 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-1021/I
Time: 14:14 CDT, 25/19:14 GMT
8/21/73

acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station. We' ii
remain live for air to ground from Guam.
9 minutes and 45 seconds. O_er.
PLT Okay, Bruce, we got primary (garble) burn
on the SUS 2 loop, and you can look at it, and in the meantime
we're starting another episode of the Orville and Wilbur
show.
CC Are you Orville or Wilbur? And we're
watching the telemetry; it looks good.
PLT I'm Wilbur; he's Orville.
CC Just as long as you're both Wright.
(Chuckle) .
PLT Say again, (chuckle).
CC I said Just as long as you're both Wright.
PLT That's pretty good. Pretty good.
PLT How does the EVA water loop look, Bruce?
CC It's looking good, Jack.
PLT Good. I'ii leave that pump on for
i0 more minutes, and then I'm going to turn on the secondary.
CC Roger. We concur with that.
SPT We _ust had our cup of coffee there and
now we' re ready to go, Bruce.
CC You just had what and ready to go?
SPT We Just had our cup of coffee there
in preparation for flying 509, and now we're ready to go.
CC You got the wrong experiment, but go ahead.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until
LOS; next station contact in 31 minutes over the Vanguard at
19:55. Out.
our Guam tracking station. The next acquisition of signal
28 minutes and 49 seconds from now will be at Vanguard ship
located just off of Buenos Aires in the South Atlantic.
This is Skylab Control at 26 minutes and 35 seconds after
the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC--I022/I
TIME: 14:54 CDT 25/19:54 GET
8/21173

ans 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching
acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab. This is Houston through
Vanguard fo_ i0 minutes. Out.
SPT Hello Houston. Is Vanguard configured
to record down-link TV.
CC That's affirmative, Owen, go ahead.
SPT Okay, they should be getting the XUV MON
down now. And I wonder if the back room has reported or
had any reports of any transient on the northwest limb, up
around 030040?
CC W6'II check on that, Owen.
SPT And I'd like to know how much time I
have remair_Jng on the VTR.
SPT The reason for asking, Bruce, I can see
on my XUV MON now in the northwest quandrant a large arch
extending i foot. It looks like it perhaps starts at about
060 and e_tends on out from the limb of the Sun, out beyond
the two solar radii, and then more or less somewhat in the
center of that arch I can only see the one half of the arch.
Somewhat in the center is another brighter blob or area
about three-quarters of a solar radius from the limb, and
it's also reasonably bright in the XUV. I do not detect
any movemer_t yet, but I put a couple of short segments of
this on the VTR so that you can see it when you dump the
tape. And it looks like it might well have been associated
with another transient: that I cannot see. Over.
CC Okay. This is 30 degrees on the opposite
side of nornh from T47. Is that correct?
SPT That's correct. Over on the northwest
quadran t.
CC Sounds like you have a lot of activity
up there today.
SPT Very suprisingly for a quiet Sun.
CC Okay Owen. We show that 5.4 minutes of the
VTR have been used up, so you got 25 minutes left. We just
point out to you that TV 28, your SPT highlights are scheduled
for the VTR, so as long as you can work that in,
we're all set. NOAA doesn't see anything on the northwest
limb. Over.
SPr Okay. That's fine. I did have TV 28
in mind, and I've obw[ously not done it yet, and I'll get
to it later this afternoon or evening. Probably have to do
it after M092. And I will put a little bit more few segments
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TIME: ].4:54 CDT 25/19:54 GMT
8/21/73
of this XUV MON, because it's an arch on into the corona

like we haven't seen since we've been up here. So I'd
appreciate knowing whether or not it's been recorded before,
as a matter of fact. If they have any other TV data that
looks like this. And I'ii have several segments on it,
so they can - you folks can look at it tonight.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the SPT,
scientists in our back room report that we have no record
of having seen a similar phenomenon in X-UV previously. This
may be a unique case and we'll certainly look over the images
on the VTR very carefully when they come down and get back
to you at some sort of positive feedback. Over.
SPT Okay. Sounds interesting. I wasn't
really but what it was a reflection in the tube some-
where to begin with, but it brightened and really stands
out when I release the integrate switch, so it is clearly
XUV. And then when I saw the arch, why, that confirmed it in
my view, so I think it should be interesting to look at tonight.
CC Yes indeed. We have a minute and a
half to LOS here at the Vanguard. Next station contact in
8 minutes over Ascension at 20:12.
Vanguard. We are making a bridge now. About 6 minutes
to our next tracking station. We do have a pass over
Ascension lasting about 7-1/2 minutes. During this last
pass, Science Pilot Owen Garriott indicated that he had
identified a substantial arch extending more than two
solar radii away from the northwest limb of the Sun. The
northwest limb is the upper right-hand corner on the Sun
as you view it.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I023/I
Time: 15:_06 CDT, 25/20:06 GMT
8/21/73
PAO - - away from the northwest limb of the

Sun. The northwest limb is the upper right-hand corner of
the Sun as you view it. This is the transient event on the
Sun. He indicated that he could see it in the XUV monitor,
the extreme u]traviolet monitor. That extreme ultraviolet is
not visible here on the Earth, although there usually are
associated events that are visible on the Earth. The ground did
not report any event in that area. And scientists here in the
back room indicated that the 2 solar radii loop would have
been something new to them. They had not seen anything of
that sort before, or anything to that degree before. And
that will be reviewed a=_ soon as the television that Owen
Garriott shot of the - using the XUV monitor is relayed to
Earth later today. He also indicated there is a bright blob
about 3/4 o5 a solar radius from the - from- And that
solar radius is approximately 400 thousand miles. So that
would mean that the outer edges of the loop were approximately
800 thousand miles from the surface of the Sun. This is
something I am sure will interest the scientists in the back
room. They did earlier today have large eruptive phenomena
and hot cloud of solar material ejected into space, and there
will be someone available for a briefing on that sub-
ject on our change of shift briefing, tentatively scheduled
some time after 4:15 today. We'll get a more exact time on
that a little bit later, This is Skylab Control our next
acquisition of signal 4 minutes and 24 seconds from now at
As cension.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Ascension
for 2-i/2 minutes out.
CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS at
Ascension. Next station contact in one minute at Canary.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through
Canary Islands and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. When you leave the ATM
panel and before you get wrapped up in your photography we
have a suit loop reconfiguration you'd like to do for us,
give us a call when you _'re free please.
SPT Bruce, I was over on Channel A for a
minute and didn't hear _the first of your transmission and
l'm not sure the other two fellows down there on the MO509
did or not. Would you repeat it?
CC Yeah. When you get ready to leave the
ATM panel, would you give us a call, please. We'd like you
to reconfigure a suit loop for us.
SPT Oh, okay. Just a minute.
CC PLT, Houston. Are you at a convenient
point in the run where we could interrupt you for about
4 minutes and dump the experiment one tape recorder so we
have an empty one for starting up M092 later? Over.
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PLT Yeah. We just made the changeout for

. .. recorder. We're ready to go when you are, but this
will be a good time to dump it.
CC Okay. We're going to dump. We'll give
you the word when we're clear.
PLT Okay.
PLT This will also be a convenient time to
turn off that secondary pump. It's about i0 minutes early,
but if you thing the system's running okay, I'd just as soon
go up and do it.
CC Okay, Jack. We'd llke that very much.
Panel 323, SUS 2 to OFF.
PLT Okay.
SPT Now, was that what you were going to ask me
to do, Bruce?
CC That's affirmative, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'ii go get it if Jack doesn't
get it here.
CC That's all right with us.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC.-I024/i
Time: 15:21 CDT; 25/20:21 GMT
8/21/73
CC Sky3. ab, Houston. We' re through with the ex-

periment I tape recorder dump. The recorder is yours and
you can press on with the run. Over.
CC And, for your information, Skylab, at the
present time we're commanding the secondary coolant loop
back to the _iormal configuration which is, inverter 2, pump
Bravo. Out.
SPT Bruce, a question for the back - ATM back-
room. The pointing on _.he next orbit at time remaining 35
is not entirely clear to me. I'd like to know at 35 how
many arc seconds above the limb, the lower- or the edge
of the 82B slit is intended to be left. I'm not sure whether
it's a total of 5 or a total of 8 arc seconds off the limb.
CC Okay, we're working that, Owen. And what was
the time remaining again?
SPT Time remaining 35 this next orbit.
CC Roger.
SPT And guess I should make that 6 or 9. I'm not
sure whether it's 6 or ,9.
CC Roger. Is that the experiment duration you're
talking abou t, is 6 or 9?
SPT No, it's the end of the 82B slit, is intended
to be pointed off the limb of the Sun, either 6 or 9 arc
seconds and [ wasn't sure which because I - it repeats step
5 twice there, and that's sort of an unusual way to specify
it on that schedule. And I wasn't certain whether on the
second specification of step 5, they intended for me to
point another 3 arc seconds off the limb.
CC Skylab, Houston, point it another 3 seconds
off the limb the second time you do it. And we're 15 seconds
to LOS here at Madrid. Next station contact in 25 minutes
over Guam at 20:53.
SPT Thanks, Bruce.
38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at our
Madrid tracking station after a pass through Ascension,
Canary Islands, and Madrid. Our next acquisition of signal
24 minutes from now will be at the Guam - at the Guam track-
ing station. This is Skylab Control at 29 miminutes and 55
seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I025/I
Time: ].5:46 CDT, 25/20:46 GMT
8/21/73
FAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 46 minutes

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now about
7 minutes from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking
station. We have an annoncement from Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson, who indicates that he will be available for a
change-of-shift briefing at 4:15 p.m. central daylight time,
sharp. That is he will have a meeting at 4:30 and has indicated
that he would like to begin promptly at 4:15 p.m. Also,
available at that change-of-shift briefing with Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson will be Dr. Robert MacQueen the
principle investigator on S052. That's the white light
coronagraph that was used this morning in spotting a solar
flare. That press conference is scheduled to begin at
4:15 p.m. central daylight times sharp. And we do expect
it to begin on time. This is Skylab Control. Our next
acquisition of signal 6-1/2 minutes from now. It's 47
minutes and 23 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I026/I
Time: 15:53 CDT; 25/20:53 GHT
8/21/73

8 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now about 35 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Guam, and we'll remain live
for air-to-ground through the Guam tracking station for
approximately 7 minutes.
6-1/2 minutes. Over.
CC Okay, who was that hitting the switch?
SPT SPT.
CC Okay, Owen, we'd like to get a readout on
the data that was gathered on the rate gyro six-pack temp-
erature test to date. Putting it on the Eve=ing Status
Report would probably be a good time to do it. Over.
SPT It's already on channel A if you can get it
off of there. I read it down about 3 - 2 hours ago.
CC We shall do that. And, with respect to the
M092 run coming up here, the ground data's been showing ran-
dom VCG variations on all three crewmen_ indicative of poor
electrode contact. We'd like you to use extra care - tender
loving care, in electrode applications for today's run,
especially for that neck electrode. If this doesn't resolve
the problem, why, further instructions will be sent up after
analysis of the data for today.
SPT I understand they have the record of the
impedances, and to the impedance boys it looks good, especially
on Jack and myself. And that seems to be about the best indication
we've got:, but we'll tell the PLT that you recommended it.
CC Okay.
SPT I don't know what PLT can give us beyond
impedance below about 25 K and ours always have been.
CC Okay, and for the CDR, if he's listening.
CC Are you- -
SPT Go ahead, Bruce. We're all listening. We
just got the 509. Nice run.
CC Okay. Prior to the M092, MI71 vent. In
order to minimize the contamination to the auxiliary mirror
system on the S019, we'd like to change the rotation to
270 degrees, that's rotation 270, and leave the tilt at 0.
If you can fit it in, you might try again on the retraction,
and of course for retraction it's tilt and rotation,
and both equal to zero. Over.
CC And with respect to M509, before you tear
down the 16-millimeter DACs off the universal mounts, we'd
like to get readouts on what you have set the cameras so
that we can correlate this with the checklist for next run
or for SL-I¥. Over.
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8/21/73
CC And for the PLT, I need to get you an ATM

schedule change here, when you're available.
CDR Okay, Bruce, I'ii give you the angles on the
dome. And the ones - the ones at f/10 and the other spot
are Just right. Now let me tell you what we've been using
here. Just a second.
PLT Okay, go ahead with your change, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. We're changing the sunslde
pass that starts here at about 21:00. First thing we'd
like you to do, as soon as possible, is a building block 2.
SPT Say, break, break.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Bruce, I'm already doing that run, right
now. I'm up here at the panel for him. And I've already done
a fast scan for 43 seconds on S052 to give him three pictures,
and now I've picked up the other - limb scan that's - that's
already os the schedule, so if there's an alteration fro,,
that maybe you better let me know about it now. I'm already
into it.
CC Okay, we didn't see you starting that until
21:07. Let us regroup here a second.
CC Go ahead with the camera readouts, AI.
CC And for your information, Owen, we've double
checked and we do want an additional 3 arc seconds each time
you repeat: the JOP I-E, step 5, so you go 3, 6, 9, 12, and
so on.
SPT Okay, I understand the 3, 6, and 9. After
that it says don't change if anymore, but might check - the ATM
schedule specifically says don't go beyond that 9, but
whatever you say.
CDR Bruce, the - angles are 314, 264, and
228. 314, 22 - 2 - 314, 264, and 228, X, Y, Z. And the
mount is on the dome handrail right next to the sign about
D-l, and the trigger's facing toward the dome, and the camera's
obviously facing towards the center of the workshop.
CC Okay, we got that, AI.
CDR The run went real well on 509 today. That
new restraint you dreamed up is a real goer. It's a little
hard to get on, but that's okay. When you've got it on,
you're restralned to the Z-angle real well, (garble) - -
CC Break, break. Hey, Owen, we want you to
do that building block ?. after you get finished with the
first JOP l-E, step 5, and the data for that - our - S is
roll minus 2400, S082A, wavelength short exposure 2 plus 40,
that's 2 minutes, 40 seconds, S055, mirror auto raster,
grating 0, detectors OFF. That's roll minus 24:00, building
block 2, Sun __entered, S082A, wavelength short exposure,
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2 plus 40_ SO55 mirror auto raster, grating O, detector OFF.

Next station contact is Honeysuckle in about 4 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. We understand it.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Okay, the - anyway that strap made all the
difference in the world because now you (garble)
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8/21/73
CDR Okay, the - Anyway, that strap made all

the difference in the world, because now you're fairly rigid ...
and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're out of range of
the Guam tracking station. We're now approaching the
Honeysuckle tracking station about 4 minutes from now we'll
receive acquisition there. The Honeysuckle pass is a very
short pass. A low elevation one about 3 minutes and 48
seconds there. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is now
handing to on-coming Flight Director Charles Lewisj and
they are presently going through those closeout procedures
before the handover. Nell Hutchinson will be available
for a change of shift briefing to begin promptly at 4:15 in
building 1 of the Johnson Splace Center. We do expect they
will begin at 4:15 and Robert MacQueen from the S052 experi-
ment will be available at that time. This is Skylab Control.
We'll remain llve for the air-to-ground pass through
Honeysuckle to begin in about 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Honeysuckle for 3-1/2 minutes. For the SPT, you are right
on the pointing there. We want to go 3, 6, 9 arc seconds and
then stick with 9 arc seconds. Now since you started early,
you may be able to get that buildlng block 2 in addition to
everything else that's already scheduled. If you don't, we
want to drop off the last run of building block 27, that is the
one that appears opposite the ll-mlnutes time remaining. Over.
SPT Got you, Bruce.
CC And for the C - -
CDR Hey, Bruce, got -
CC For the CDR, we didn't mean to cut you
off there. Tried to get the ATM stuff in. We only
copied the pointing coordinates on the camera mounted up
near D-I. We'd like to get the F-10 coordinates if you
still have them, and go ahead with your comments about the
restraints.
CDR Okay. The upper DAC is as per the
checklist.
CC Roger.
SPT ... the dome.
CDR Okay. I got good news. I just got
S019 in.
CC Very good. That is good news.
CDR I'ii tell you how I did it. I was
fooling with it out there. I moved it in and out and you
know, it would move in and out about an inch, and then it
would - and then quit doing that. So I just tried to retract
it fairly hard because it didn't feel like it was bumping
against anything, it felt sort of spongy. And so I pulled
it in a little bit and then I pushed it out and then I
kind of moved it in and out about two times and all of a sudden
it freed up and it just came in real easy. So it's in now
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with the door closed anci we'll be able to get it off and
maybe see what happened. I had the feeling that something
was out of sync in the drive train and rocklng it back and
forth it must have accidentally got in synchronization because
then it wheeled right in as easy as it always does. It didn't
act llke it was cold. It acted more like something was
Just not quite on the drive, you know, sort of like a screw
thread was not exactly threading right and once it gets on
its grooves, then it's okay.
CC Okay, AI, we copy. That's really good
news. What we'd like you to do is let it sit there with
the SAL door closed but not pressurized, warm up for a
couple of hours and we'll have a procedure up to you a
little bit la_er. You may assume that SO19 o½erations
scheduled for 23:30 this evening are cancelled. We may want
to give you something else to do in that time period. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll need something to do in
that time period. And that's exactly where it's in now.
Door closed, still in vent, and we'll let it warm up. Now
I won't go into anymore 509, cause you're about running
out of time, also. I'I:L put it on A.
CC Okay, we got 30 seconds to LOS here at
Honeysuckle. Next station contact in 25 minutes over the
Vanguard st 2_:35 Zulu. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, and at that time, I'd
appreciate it if you'd wind the VTR back about I0 minutes
of real time for me. I've had it running the last i0
minutes when i didn't want it running. If you could do
that, I'd appreciate it. That'd give us more or less the
reasonable amount of time for TV 28. Over.
CC Okay, we'll give you a i0 minute wind
back. You' ii erase over whatever you had on there when
you go to record again. Your phone calls are set up. SPT
Bermuda at 00:59. CDR, Madrid 02:51. We can send that up
again to you,
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And if you still hear me, next site
will be Canary at 21:53 instead of the Vanguard. Out.
PAO Sky.lab Control at 21 hours Ii minutes
Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal at the
Honeysuckle tracking station. At the very end of that
pass the spacecraft communicator did indicate that there
will not be an acquisition of signal at Vanguard. The
next acquisition at Canary Islands 42 minutes from now.
There was some good news from the crew on this last pass.
They did indicate that they had success in bringing back
the SO19 which has been stuck in the solar airlock. The
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The scientific airlock on the antisolar side of the work-

shop. They did have luck in bringing that back inside the
craft. It had been stuck out there in a - Jammed in a
position. Apparently there was some difficulty about
bringing it in earlier and they had been using it and had
planned to use it for this evening since it had been stuck
in the alrlock and it was not available for anything else.
They did get that back in and they may do a malfunction
procedure or test to find out why it was Jammed and whether
or not there was some sort of a flaw in the drive mechanism
that brings it back in. That was very good news for
Dr. Carl Henlze, one of the astronauts who is the principal
investigator on that experiment. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal is not for 40 minutes from
now. Nell Hutchinson has not yet left the Mission Control
Center, so that 4:15 p.m. time that he indicated that he
wanted to make exactly may be sllghtly delayed. We will
give you an announcement as soon as he does leave the
Mission Control Center. This is Skylab Control at 12 minutes
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Time: 16:20 CDT, 25/21:20 GMT
8/21/73
PAO SkyZab Control 21 hours 20 minutes and

17 seconds Greenwich mean time. Neil Hutchinson has left
the Mission Control Center and is enroute to building i.
The press conference should be able to begin in the next
2 minutes. This is Skylab Control s our - the next voice
you hear will be that from building 1 and the press conference
with Plight Director Neil Hutchinson and Dr. Robert MacQueen,
Principle Investigator on SO52.
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Time: 17:15 CDT, 25/22:15 GMT
8/21/73

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We had the press
conference underway during the Canary Island and Madrid
pass, completed just a few minutes ago. We made a recording
of those passes, and we'll play back that recording at this
time.
SPT I hear you knocking on my teleprinter,
Houston.
CC Roger. That' s affirmatlve.
PLT Hello there, Hank. Say, we want to
know, does SO82A want to take any extra frames of this
apparent XUV loop, that's emanating from the northwest llmb?
We can see it with the perslstant image scope on the XUV
monitor.
CC Okay. Stand by.
PLT Can't do it right now, anyway. They've got
27 minutes and 20 seconds tO think about it.
CC A1righty. And Skylab - -
CDR We're calling it Garrlott waves up here.
CC (Chuckle) Roger. Garrlott waves. Okay.
For info, here, we're going to be commanding the auto switch
over enable that, for the AM coolant loops. And we're
also going to command the dump inhibit so we can do a JOP 7,
even though we're not doing SO19. And for the VTR request
awhile ago, we were too close to LOS to do the rewind, and we're
going to do the rewind in just - Stand by.
CC Okay. ENCO said he's pretty quick. He
Just go= it rewound, so you do have i0 more minutes of VTR
left.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank. Is there enough
coolant in the primary loop to handle a switchover, if one
occurs?
CC What we have there, Jack, is we've got both
loops running now. And the only reason we have the switch
over enabled is that if the primary loop does do its thing
and dies on us, the switchover will turn the pumps off.
PLT Oh. Okay. I thought maybe it was all
washed up, because I've been looking at this reservoir low
llne for over three weeks now. So, I thought maybe it was
done in. Glad to hear it's still working.
CC Skylab, Houston. A little more on that
pump. The pump (garble) pressure is 18.5 psi, and the
Delta-P's still holding good, up - better than 50. Switchover
will occur with a Delta-P drop to somewhere around 18 psi.
The whole issue is the (garble) pressure's dropping very
very slowly, and we're, still not sure when it'll happen.
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8/21/73
PLT Okay. That sounds good. Thank you, Hank.

CC And, Skylab. To further clarify the
tape recorder thing there. We've rewound it for i0 minutes,
per your request and that leaves a total of 20 minutes re-
maining on the VTR.
CDR How does the SPT's VTGs look? We've
got good low impedance. This ought to be a good burn.
CC They look real good to us, AI.
CDR Okay. We had had a call earlier that
they were somewhat erratic. _he only erratic one we can think
of was the other day Owen ran and his neck electrode fell off.
And we put it back on a couple of times. So we're a little
mystified here. Our beats hav e all been down low.
CC Roger. We copy. And Skylab, Houston.
A few more words on that inhibit. I said we would do a
dump inhibit for the JOP 7. h
T at's on the next rev, not this rev
It'll be at the time the SOl9 was originally scheduled.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR Go, Houston.
CC Roger. For the PLT.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay. He had a question in regard to
the loop that's seen on the X_V. In the next daylight
cycle, in the crew's observing time that occurs at 17 minutes
of daylight remaining, we would like to take one 82A expo-
sure shortwave length, a minute and 20 seconds. And we
want the pointing at the llmb near the loop, with a roll
of minus 24:00.
PLT Okay. That's wave short, a minute 20,
roll minus 24:00 and point H-alpha one near the limb
somewhere.
CC Roger. We want it at the llmb near the
loop that you see there on the XUV.
PLT Say, again, please.
CC Roger. The pointing should be at the
limb near the loop, there where you saw the loop.
PLT Rog. And it's not just a loop there,
Hank. That' s a Garriott loop.
CC Sorry. The Garriott loop. Roger.
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 34. And a
quick answer to the CDR's queistion about the CCG electrodes.
We were just seeing some variations during the run, due to
normal impedance changes, I guess, during the run. And
you wouldn't be able to observe those there.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
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8/21/73
CDR We haven't been able to observe too

much. Everybody's been awfully healthy up here.
CC Roger. That's good isn't it?
PAO Skylab, Control. That concludes the
recording we made of the Canary Island and Madrid pass that was
completed about 15 minutes ago. That is all the recording.
A couple of things discussed during that pass. One, the
airlock module primary coolant loop switchover enable, which is
to say the crew was asked to turn the switchover device on so that
if the primary coolant loop should fail, the pumps will be
automaticalRy shut down. Primary coolant loop has been
leaking during the launch of the workshop. And pressure
has been holding up, although it is leaking slowly. They
do expect it may last another week. They indicated though,
that it wil_ continue to decline slowly and then there will
be a short drop-off. And at that time, they do want the
pumps to be shut down immediately to keep from burning
them out. That switchover device will allow that to
happen. There was also a discussion of taking some
additional photography of the loop that was identified on
the extreme ultraviolet monitor. They will take a shot
using the 82A. which is the extreme ultraviolet coronal
spectroheliograph. That's an experiment- about 10-foot
long device that's used for photographing coronal images of the
Sun in the extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. This is
Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal I0 minutes
and 50 seconds from now. It is now 23 minutes and 17 seconds
after the hour.
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TIME: 17:33 CDT 25/22:33 GMT
8/21/73

and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approximately
50 seconds from acquisitlon of signal at our Australian
tracking stations at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, so we'll
pass through both stations on revolution 1433 of the orbital
workshop. We'll remain llve for alr-to-ground through the
Australian tracking stations.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 13 minu£es and we'll be dumping the
data voice recorder at Honeysuckle at 41.
CC And Skylab, for info, we will be
inhibiting momentum dump on thls pass.
CC Skylab, we're through Honeysuckle now,
we'll be dumping the recorder.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes Sir, go ahead.
CC Okay, in addition to the 82A exposure,
we requested that Garriott loop in this daylight cycle, we'd
like also t, cancel the JOP 7 that's scheduled later down
the line, and substitute from the teleprinter FAO JOP sheet
a JOP 6 step 2, building block 2 with the 82A omitted.
PLT Okay, Hank, instead of the atmospheric
extinction there, you want JOP 6, step 2, building block 2,
omit 82A. Right?
PLT Thank you.
LOS. We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 25.
PLT Okay, Hank, see you at Bermuda.
CC Okay.
Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal at the
Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition 35
minutes and 30 seconds from now will be at the Merritt
Island station in Florida. During this last pass, the
ground passed along the message to the crew that they should
substitute ATM JOP 6 for JOP 7. That's Joint observation
program number 6, which is a synoptic observation of the
Sun. A regular twice a day observation that's made of a
specific: location on the Sun that has been agreed upon by
all of the observers. That replaces Joint observation
program number 7, which is atmospheric extinction. A study
that is more specialized. This is Skylab Control. Our
next acquisition a little over 34 minutes from now. It's
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Time: 18:22 CDT; 25/23:22 GMT
8/21/73

of signal at the Bermuda tracking station. This is a pass through
Bermuda. We do have a very short acquisition at Mild, but
that will not be used for voice. And the pass is expected
to last about 9-1/2 minutes. During this pass it's expected
that we will be linking up a teleprinter pad. This is a
message to instruct the commander_ Alan Bean to make an
inspection of that SO19 mirror, inspecting it for moisture
and foreign objects. He will then either mop or dry the
areas that are malfunctioning with instructions to be care-
ful not to [ouch or wipe the mirror, and then he will take
photographs for future contamination evaluation. And then
he will also make a run of the mirror in and out to make
sure it's operating smoothly before reassemblying it. We
now have acquisition of signal at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 7-1/2
minutes.
SPT Hello there, Hank.
SPT Hey, Hank, somebody's using the recorder,
so how about if I just tell you what this ATM pass was like?
We went down through it just as advertised and we got down
to taking the picture of the XUV phenomena and now we're
also doing a shopping list item 13 with the same pointings
for S056, so it'll be about an 8-minute exposure. The roll
is minus 240,3 and I'm pointed out on the limb,
0958. And we're getting that shopping llst item 13 taken care
of and - in _ilter 3. And I'm also getting the mirror raster
all detectors all balls and a grating out there. Other-
wise the pass is pretty much as you advertised it.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC And Skylab, Houston we've just up-linked a
message for inspecting $019 in place of the ops that's coming
up right now. And it's on board.
SPT Okay, I got it. Thank you, Hank.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston the surgeon would like
to know if the full protocol on MO92 was run on the SPT.
SPT That's affirmative.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston as soon as someone is avail-
able, we are ready to terminate the cabin purge for the
maneuvering experiments checklist, M509, Foxtrot 3 Bravo,
page 18-3.
CDR Okay, it'll be terminated in less than i0
seconds.
CC Can't ask for it any quicker than that, can
you?
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8/21/73
CC And Skylab, Houston we're about 1 minute

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 03:06.
CDR Okey doke°
CDR How's life treating you down there_ Hank?
CC Well, it couldn't be much better.
CDR Well, that's good, that's kind of the way
it is up here. Owen just went through an MO92/171 and he
looked just about like he did on Earth.
CC I won' t touch that one.
CDR Yeah, he's - looks good. Everybody feels
healthy and hungry.
CC Then the commander can authorize a special
ration of sugar cookies this evening.
CDR That's not a bad idea. I had a strawberry
drink for the celebration a few moments ago. I'm getting
SO19 in.
CC Yeah, we're all happy about that one.
CDR Yeah, it felt just like it had been mis-
threaded or something and all of a sudden it got threaded
right and it's easier (garble)
i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal over
our Bermuda tracking station, about 2-1/2 minutes before
we are acquLred by Madrid. During this last pass, the SO19
inspection procedures were sent up on the teleprinter pad
to the crew. That will be scheduled now in place of SO19
operations - the operations of the ultraviolet stellar
cameras. They were scheduled for later this evening. They
will now he replaced by this inspection procedure. And that
will be done by Commander Alan Bean. They also terminated
the cabin purge which was begun after the operation of
the MO - M509 which is the astronaut maneuvering unit. That
does build up a total nitrogen in the cabin and they do
purge the cabin for a period of time to reduce that. Cabin
pressure is still is relatively high compared to the normal.
It's now reading approximately 5.5 pounds per square inch,
about i0 per_ent higher than is normal for the spacecraft.
Reported tha__ Owen Garriott, during this last pass there
was reported that Owen Garriott is in - looks just about
as he did on Earth in l-he MO92 and MITI runs. That's the
cardiovascular system checks that are on the lower body
negative pressure devi_-e and on the vectorcardiogram. Both
of those operating well and he is apparently in the same
kind of health he was on Earth. He appears in excellent
condition. There will be a medical review made later this
week. This is Skylab Control. We'll remain li_e for
air-to-grou[d through Madrid.
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TIME: 18:34 CDT 25/23:q4 GMT
8121173
cC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you

through Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. And if we can have the
DAS, we're going to ENABLE MOMENTUM DUMP.
CDR You got it.
CC Skylab, HOuston. The DAS is yours.
CDR Are you still there, Hank.
CC Roger. We're here for another 5-1/2
minutes.
CDR Okay. Let me tell you of a housekeeping task
we probably ought to get scheduled about twice a week. And
I don't know the number, but it's the one where you biocide
clean, make it once a week, biocide clean the metabolic
analyzer hose.
CC Roger. Understand. You want to
schedule biocide the metabolic analyzer hose.
CDR Yeah, make that about once a week. And we
got several other biociding, like that fecal collector seat
that really ought to be done no more than once a week. I
don't know hcw often it comes around, but it seems to come
around frequently. This place is cleaner than a hospital
up here.
CC Roger. We copy that.
LOS. Carnarvon at 09.
and 59 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just lost
signal at our Madrid tracking station. The next acquisition
of signal will be approximately 24 minutes from now at
the Carnarvcr station at: Australia. Charles Lewis is the
Flight Director at the present time. Right now Hank
Hartsfield on as spacecraft communicator. They are working
over tomorrow's plans for photography and other events,
working up the teleprinter messages to be linked to the
crew tonight _ One of those messages is to attempt to
attempt photcgraphy- handheld photography of Lagoa
Fritas, which is a lagoon on the Atlantic Coast of South
America just a short distance south of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, where more than two dozen major fish kills have been
reported since 1953. The goals in photographing this, and the
job will be given to Science Pilot Owen Garriott, are to observe
and describe the lagoon, to photograph the color of the
ocean and lagoon water, look for evidence of mixing of
the ocean wat:er and the lagoon water, try to detect some
evidence of currents in the lagoon, and also identify any
streams that may be flowing into the lagoon from any
adjacent lane. The actual location is 22.6 degrees
south, 42.2 degrees west. That is almost exactly
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8/21/73
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The photography will be done out

of the structural transition section window number 1 and
it's scheduled for 19:19:44. That's the earliest possible
moment for photography and that is approximately 02:19
central daylight time tomorrow afternoon. The closest
approach is at 02:21, and they will lose the site about
30 seconds after that. Owen Garrlott will be doing the
photography. That is of course a crew option, as most of
this photography has been. Depends entirely on the cloud
cover, which is expected to be about 50 percent in that
area. Owen Garrlott will record a description of the
lagoon site and also will use the Nikon F camera with a
300-millimeter telephoto lens to take the picture. This
is Skylab Control. The next acquisition of signal 21 minutes
from now will be at the Carnarvon, Australia station. It
is now 47 minutes and 29 seconds after the hour.
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SL-III MC-I033/I
Time: ].9:08 CDT, 26/00:08 GMT
8/21/73

and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approaching
acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon Station in Australia.
This will be a pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. We
will remain live for air-to-ground through the Australian
tracking stations.
SPT Say, Hank. What time do you have my
call set: up?
CC Roger, SPT. You're call is set up for
00:59 at Bermuda.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Okay.
SPT Say, Hank. You may remember, last
night I told you I took down Arabella's web and put it
around the little end of a swab so we could bring it back
home and have it for ground analysis later on. Well, last
night, she really did herself in. She spun the prettiest
web she's ever come up with. It would do grace to any sort
of spider's den back on Earth.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Fills the full little cage, from corner
to corner, all the way across with 9 circles and radials and
everything the way you would expect one to spin it in 1 g.
Now, how she did it is another question. None of us were -
have ever been around to watch her work. But she managed
to get them all done, just as if there were gravity around
to help her.
PLT Hey, Hank. Are you configured for
TV downlink?
CC That's affirmative. And we're ready.
PLT Okay. Here's - -
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Time: 19:19 CDT; 26/00:19 GMT
8/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, active region

96 produced a subnormal flare at 23:27.
SPT What active region did you say, Hank?
CC Roger. That was active region 96.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for a minute
there at handover to Honeysuckle.
CDR Say, Hank, is it okay if I execute this mes-
sage 25:36A?
CC That's affirmative. We'd like you to go
through that at the - well, the ones you started last - a little
while ago here, the time (garble) scheduled S019 ops.
CDR Okay. Well, I'm going to go work on it right
this minute.
CC Okay.
after 00:00 hour Greenwich mean time. We have gone out of
range of the tracking station at Honeysuckle. Our next
acquisition of signal 29 minutes from now, will be over the
United States at the Texas station in Corpus Christi. This
is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition, not for nearly
half an hour. It's now 26 minutes and 17 seconds after the
hour.
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SL-III MC-I035/I
Time: 19:54 CDT, 26/00:54 GMT
812117S

and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now received
acquisition of signal call here in Mission Control for the
space station. We will remain live for alr-to-ground for the
United States pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 15 minutes.
SPT (Muslc) Okay, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. I have an update for
your ATM pass coming up.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. Due to the extra frames we
expended on the coronal - coronal transient today, we'd
llke to omit the S052, in chip A of building block i. That's
in your JOP 6 there. And we'd also like to truncate the
continuous mode on SO52, in chip B after approximately
5 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC And, I have one quick question for
the SPT. We got his time hacks down on the dump tapes.
But we didn't get when he turned the - the GMT that he
turned the rate gyro pack on. I wonder if he has that data.
CC PLT, Houston. Just a little reminder.
Your private comm is - or SPT your private comm is coming up
in 2 minutes.
PLT He's ready.
CDR Say, Hank. I (garble) took out S019
and took a 3ook at it. There's nothing obviously, wrong
with it. What I think occurred after looking in both ends,
is there's a chain drive in there that synchronizes all four
of the screws that move out the mirror. And that thing has got
a little more slack in it, than I would guess it ought to
have in it. And there's an idler gear there, that takes
up the slack. And my impression would be we probably ought
to take up some of the slack on the chain and then be very
careful that we do not take and put any loads on the chain
either going in or out. Because, my guess, now from looking
at it and the way it felt, I bet it slipped a cog there
somehow and that's why it wouldn't move. And then all of a
sudden it freed itself up. It just finally grooved back in
on the teeth.
CC Roger, AI. We copy.
CDR I won't make that adjustment until I
hear from you.
CC Okay. We'll study that one.
CDR I'm ready to give you the night report
if you want it.
CC Skylab, Houston. Everybody's go. Go
ahead.
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CDR Okay Here it comes: 105, 135, 210;

5314; 8783; 5970; 6.254, 6.253, 6.256; 5.973, 5.976, 5.978;
6.955, 6.949, 6.950; Exercise now: 2/38/5005, 3/15/mark I,
50A, 20B, 20C. 20D; 2/10/mark 2, 20A, 20B, 10C, 10G;
SPT, 3/15/20, mark I, - correction - 3/15/mark i, 60A
30B, 30D; 2/20/2900 plus his MI71; Pilot: 2/30/6768,
1/05/0547; 3/20, mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, 20 backbends.
No medication Sleep 6-1/2 G; 6-1/2 F, and 6-1/2 G. Here's
the food log: CDR, i0 salt drinks plus one strawberry drink;
I didn't say that right. Ten salt packs plus one strawberry
drink; SPT, five salt packs plus one jam, and a bit of
asparagus; PLIF, five and a half salt packs, add one orange
drink, and one butter cookie; Here's the movie log. M509,
C150, 60, C140; M509, C146, 22, C141; MO92/151, (M171)
C150, 32, C140; 35-millimeter, CII01, 44, CX1350, CX25 045.
Drawer A: 07, C150, 30, C140; better make that 32, that's
07, C150, 32. C140; 05, C146, 22, C141; 06, C149, 05, C147;
03, C151, 99 C148; the back is 02 with C144, 19, C142. (Garble).
Flight Plan deviation: 'We did not do M487-4E today, l'd
already cleaned the screens, and Jack had already changed
the teleprinter before we looked at our pads. So the next
time we do it I'ii get it. I'ii clean the screens again
tomorrow, and get that sent back to you. Shopping list
accomplishment: I did MS09-D on both bottles today, and
I noticed you had them scheduled for tomorrow. Inoperable
equipment: S019 at the moment
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8/21/73
CDR -accomplishment. I did Fb09-D on both

bottles today and I noticed you had it scheduled tomorrow.
Inoperable equipment: SO19 at the moment. And unscheduled
stowage items location changes: Nothing new. That's it.
CC Okay, I think we have it, AI. Thank
you.
CDR And also, Hank, I'd like to leave SOl9
out of the lock. There's still some condensation on the
mirror, because it's still cool when I removed it. And it might
be best if I left it out and let it evaporate here, rather
than stick it back outside. What do you think?
CDR I'm afraid it might freeze. Although
the - in the inside of the metal part and on the drive chain
it's dry, nothing in there. Just the mirror itself, which
I guess is _ good cold thing.
CC Okay. I'ii get an answer on that shortly.
PLT Say, Hank, since there's condensation
drops on the mirror, what would be the least likely way of
leaving spots on the mirror? To let it evaporate off inside
or to stick it outside and let it freeze and let it sublimate?
I know you _ot that kind of information in your hip pocket.
CC Well, I don't personally have, but I hope
somebody has. We're discussing that very argument right now.
CC CDR, Houston. In regard to the SO19,
do you think that you have the equipment and accessibility
to make an adjustment on that idlering arm so we could get
optimum on the chain?
CDR It looks to me, we're not getting down
in there and it's not hard to get to, but it takes an Allen
wrench, and I have not attempted to see if we have the right
size, but it looks like it's simply loosening an Allen screw and
moving the idler over and re tightening it and then working
the chain a few times to see if that's about the right
amount of slack. And of course Jack and I and Owen could
all look at it and try to get the best opinion of the three of
us.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT Would that thing work if we only put it
on 12-1/'2 turns instead of 13?
CC I have to get an answer on that one.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS now. We'll be coming up on
Madrid at 14 and I'ii try to have an answer for you there.
PAC, Skylab Control. We're presently out of
range of the American and Bermuda tracking stations. We're
about to reacquire signal in about 2-i/2 minutes at Madrid.
We'll keep the line up live for air-to-ground from Madrid.
That pass should take approximately 8 minutes. This is
Skylab Control. We're live for air-to-ground.
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8/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes.

SPT Okay.
CC And we've discussed this thing, we would like
for you to go out the full 13 turns when you do it. And if
you think you can do it, CDR, we'd like you to go ahead and
adjust the idler on the SO19 and then go ahead and finish
the pad we sent up.
PLT Okay, the pictures have already been taken
and we'll focl around out with the idler.
CC Okay, and then we'll put it outside and vent it
let the moisture sublime. And I got a - -
PLT Do you want it put out tonight?
CC I think the pad calls for that doesn't it?
PLT I don't know, but you want to get it outdoors
and let it: sublimate as opposed to evaporating in here, right?
CC Okay, the - the pad calls for you just open-
ing the SAL door, depressurizing the SAL, actually when it's
in the SAL and letting that do the trick.
PLT Okay, we'll do it your way.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I've got a few words
on the EVA thinking that: I'd like to talk over with you now,
if it's convenient.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, the general EVA outline is as follows :
with the first thing we'll do is the rate gyro 6-pack in-
sulation and that's constrained to commence at any sunrise.
We will then _ut out the - the JSC sail samples. We didn't
get the data we wanted on the first set that were put out in
SL-II. We're going to do the ATM film changeout, and then
we' re going to remove the ramp latch, the ramp latches on
S082A and S0_6. And we think that the total EVA time will
be conservatively somewhere around 4 hours.
CDR Sounds good to us.
CC Okay, the final procedure updates are in work,
and should be on board no later than - no later than your
wake-up on Thursday. And we're planning right now that we
will - the ground STDN will do the powerdown management.
Now the reason we're going to do this is to be in the best
posture for an out-of-attitude time that - at the time we' re
doing the 6-pack insulation. We've got a couple of questions
I guess. First, do you feel that - that you'll have to re-
move panel ]30's kick plate to gain access to the J21 plug?
CDR No, we took a look at it. It looks like it's
possible to do without doing that, but you know, only trying
it will tell
CC Okay, I guess the message is if you think
you're goin_ _o have to do that, you can be playing around
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getting a few screws out. Now on the last two - the first
EVA, you used a procedure on the SO55 door there, to remove
the latch. Do we need to up-link you that procedure again
for the other two doors?
CDR You sure do.
CC Okay, we'll do that then.
CDR Whar_'s going to be the attitude hold
method here when we're changing out the 6-pack?
CDR EVA?
CC Okay, we're going to be a nominal H-cage
which should llelp, but essentially at drift and we'll have
the command module conflgurated- configured, just in case
we have to use it.
SPT Okay, so this concept of using the (garble)
Sun sensor et cetera, we decided not to use that, huh?
CC That' s affirmatlve.
CDR Okay, another thought. You said it will
begin at a sunrise. Say a few more words about any time -
I need to know a couple of things we were talking about
at- the last couple of days. One: how late in the game
do you make that plug change und - with the kick plate
under the ATM panel - or how early would be the question,
how early can you do that, and next - I get the impres-
sion you want to have this thing put in in one daylight
pass. Is that correct?
CC Roger, we'd like to try to get that in in
one pass.
CDR Okay, well maybe our plans ought to be to
- to plan and get out in the night and be standing there
out with all the equipment ready and then when the Sun comes
up and we cau see, then we can press on out and start work-
ing. That' i [ give us a full daylight pass.
CC CDR, Rusty has been working on this and he's
really the expert. But he's run this whole procedure change-
out thing in 20 minutes.
PAO Skylab - -
49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now
at the Madrid tracking _station. Our next acquisition
of signal 26 minutes from now will be at the Carnarvon/Aus-
tralia station. During this last pass there was some dis-
cussion of [he upcoming extravehicular activity, the space
walk scheduled for Friday morning. No final plan for that
spacewalk. Details for that will be worked out during the
next 24 hour_. They did indicate that there will be an
installation of the rate gyro 6-pack that will commence at any
of the sunrises during the EVA, which will be expected to
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take several hours. They will also install the JSC, Johnson
Space Center, sail samples. These are samples of the thermal
material that are used for shielding of the workshop. They
did not have very good luck wlth the samples that had been in-
stalled before. They will be installing a new piece of sample
material to find out what the long-term effects are on this
nylon stop - rlpstop nylon with a Mylar base. Also scheduled
for that are the removal of ramp latches on the doors to two
of the ATM experiments. A similar activity was performed on
the first EVA on the SO55 ramp latches. These are devices
that are used to hold the doors in position during launch
and after that serve no purpose, and they have been thought
to interfere, somewhat, with the operation of those doors.
They will be removing those ramp latches and a procedure
for that will be sent up to the crew. They did indicate
that they did not recall well enough what was done on the
S055 doors, so they will have the instructions again for this
mission, They will also be replacing film on the ATM cameras
- a sequence of cameras which are now very low on film. They
have used up most of the film during a very busy ATM activity,
more than 90 hours of ATM activity already in this mission.
The estimate given by the ground was about 20 minutes for
the installation of the rate gyro 6-pack. Rusty Schweickart,
a backup astronaut, has worked on that installation and it
did take him about 20 minutes in the neutral bouyancy simulator.
They will be expected to complete that in one daylight pass.
A daylight pass will last more than an hour. This is Skylab
Control 23 minutes and 41 seconds now to our acquisition
of signal in Australia. We'll come back at that time. It's
now 25 minutes and 15 seconds after the hour.
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SL-III MC-I038/I
Time: 20:59 CDT, 26/01:49 GMT
8121173
PAO Skylab Control at I hour, 48 minutes

and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 38 seconds
from acquisition of signal. And we Just have had an acquisi-
tion of signal call here in Mission Control. We'll remain
live for air-to-ground through our Australian tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon
for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT. I asked
a question awhile ago and I'd still llke to get an answer to it
if I could, if he remembers what GMT he turned the rate
gyro six-pack power on. We have all the marks, but we didn't
get the power-on time.
SPT Oh, okay. I hadn't heard the question.
Let's see, the temperature started at 16:00 and that was
T equals zero.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I have a couple
of questions regarding the bubble you saw on P47, prom-
inence 47, on daylight cycle beginning at 14:40. We'd like
to know how fast the bubble moved out on the WLC-TV?
CDR Just a minute, Hank.
CDR You could not see the bubble in motion,
Hank, because it was about seven-eighths as large as the Sun
when we first viewed it. And we only observed it for about
i0 minutes. And then we moved on to a different JOP. Now
here's what my guess is. We talked about it later. And
I had a pass earlier in the day, and I took some data, and
then we had a night pass, and then the next day, which is when
we saw the bubble, and my guess is, we probably had part of
the bubble the pass previous to that. Because I couldn't
see how it could expand that fast, otherwise. So we're
probably going to have some coverage over several orbits of
that discontinuity. Although, you couldn't see it move.
You could- It was imperceptible from the times we looked at
it, except when we come around next orbit and look at it,
it would be different.
CC Okay. So you did observe it on the
following orbits, and it did appear to move between orbits?
CDR It appeared to expand, yes, and go off
the scope. So it was in motion.
CC And, for the PLT, if he can answer
during building block 2, at 23:07, did he see anything on
the white light coronagraph TV in the area of Garriott loop?
SPT Okay, Hank. I'ii answer for him. He's
all the way up to the tunnel end. And he said he could see
nothing on the white light conoragraph, although it was still
visible on the XUV MON. And any sort of aim llke that, l'm not
sure is applicable, unless I'm the only fellow who can see it.
That was the thing that was worrying me for a little while,
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SPT but it's since been confirmed. So is

that the answer to your question?
CC Okay. Good. Thank you.
from LOS. We'll be picking up Honeysuckle on the hour.
and 46 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost our signal
at the Carnarvon tracking station in Australia. We're
now about 3 minutes and 40 seconds from an acquisition at
Honeysuckle on the other Australian coast. We'll remain
live for air-to-ground from Honeysuckle, which is only
about 3-1/2 minutes from now. It's now 57 minutes and
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SL III MC-I039/I
TIME: 20:58 CDT 26/0_.:58 GMT
8/21/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about a minute

here through Honeysuckle and then our next contact will be
Texas at 30
SPT By the way, Hank, what magnitude is
Alpha Leo. Probably somebody in the corollary room knows
that.
CC Okay. We'll try to get that.
SPT 11 certainly shows up brightly on the
white light coronagraph. It looks like a very bright star.
With the f_ ne sensitivity of the 52 instrument.
CC Roger. We copy. And just a quick
question here. Did you work on SO19?
SPT A1 will answer that if we can get him.
CC We're about to go LOS now, we'll
get it sta_:eside.
SPT Okay. The answer is yes, but AI can
explain it :o you.
and 38 sec'onds Greenwich mean time. We've now lost signal
at the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition
26 minutes and 25 seconds from now will be at a continental
U.S. station. The three astronauts having a very good day
today. They have completed almost 9 hours of experiments
on the ATM by the time they go to slep tonight. And they
did complete a run of the MO92/MITI, a complete run on
Owen Garriott with observer Alan Bean reporting that Dr.
Garriott was in excellent condition. Appears to be in as
good health as he was before the launch. They also com-
pleted a run of the M509 with Commander Alan Bean working
as the test pilot. Alan Bean has indicated that he is
quite sati_;fied with _the performance of the M509, the
astronaut maneuvering unit. He was not completely happy with
the foot control maneuvering unit, the jet shoes that
were tested a few days ago. Later this evening we do
expect tha_: the SO19 experiment, the ultraviolet stellar
astronomy E_xperiment hardware will be put back into the
scientific: airlock. Commander Alan Bean indicated that
he thought __hat there was some problem with the linkage in
that mechanism the device used for maneuvering the mirrors.
He thought he could repair that using an Allen wrench and
will apparently attempt to do that this evening before
putting it back out. He asked whether or not moisture on
the mirror should be allowed to dissipate inside the
workshop. The ground reported that they would just as
soon have : r put in the scientific airlock and allow
the dissipation to occur after it became - and would normally
dissipate i_ito the vacuum of space. That's good news that
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8/21173
the SO19 was removed from the scientific airlock earlier

today. It had been stuck in a position which would not
permit it's removal. That was removed by Alan Bean earlier
today. S019 operations which were scheduled for between
23 and 24:00 Greenwich mean time this past evening were
suspended in favor of a malfunction procedure on an
investigation of whether or not there were serious problems
in the operation of that device. This is Skylab Control.
Next acquisition of signal 24 minutes and 19 seconds from
now at the United States tracking stations. It is now
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SL-III MC-1040/i
Time: 21:29 CDT, 26/[)2:29 GMT
8/21/73

from acquisition of signal at the Texas station. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground through Texas and Mila, also
Bermuda, and then there will he a short gap until
Madrid. We have acquisition of signal at Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for
16-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC If it's convenient we'd like to get
the ATM frames remaining.
SPT Going to be a short count tonight.
H-alpha reads 798, 56 is 849, 82A is 7, 82B is 28, 28, 42 is
1868, and 54 reads 1487. Over.
CC Roger. We copy. And we have also got
a couple of questions regarding the MDA light failure reported
yesterday, the aft lights 2 and 4. We've got 2 questions.
First, did _he lights fail while switching, and secondly,
were the forward 2 and 4 lights on at the time?
CDR Hank, we adjusted the tension on both
the chains in there. We tightened one chain, that was the
middle chain, and then the chain that leads from the drive
handle ligh_ through the main fore shaft, we losened it
a bit. So we think we've got them both adjusted to optimum
tens ion.
CC Roger. We copy. And CDR, did you copy
the quest±on regarding the MDA light?
CDR No, I sure didn't.
CC Okay. We would llke to know if the
lights failed, you know the aft 2 and 4 failed, while you
were switching, and also were the forward 2 and 4 lights on
at the time ?
CDR No. We noticed that they were both out.
Actually, I noticed one was out day before yesterday. And
I went over and checked it and noticed that it wouldn't turn
on. I said, "Well, I guess I better change the bulb, I'ii
get to it :omorrow." Tomorrow came and I looked at them and
they were both out. And I said, "That's strange, they both
went out." I checked the switch, and they still wouldn't come on.
So I replaced both bulbs and they still wouldn't come on.
So my feeli_g is now, that either the switches failed, or
somehow the circuit failed serially. I know it doens't
exactly jive with normal electrical failures, but it seems
to me that' s what occurred.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We didn't get some
of our data down on the last rev, frame 2. We'd like to
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check on pane] 617 that the mode select experiment i switches

in A through E one of those positions.
CDR It would not. It was in G
Now it's in (garble) A, I just put it there for you. Do
you have any other place you'd llke it?
CC That:'ll be fine. Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. How would you llke to
hear a little news?
CDR Real well.
CC Okay. I'ii read off a few of them here.
Authorities today are seeking a man accused of threatening
President Nixon's life and who fired three shots at Secret
Service agents trying to arrest him in a New Mexico commune.
Striking Houston teachers returned to classrooms and the
bargaining table today ending a one-day work stoppage by a
minority of the district's 9,000 teachers. Teachers called
off their strike late Monday in the face of possible loss
of their jobs _ fringe benefits and state certification.
Hurricane Brenda's gusting winds, exceeding i00 m.p.h, and
drenching rain that threatened flooding, today raked the
Gulf coast of Mexico 600 miles southeast of Brownsville.
Dangerous flood conditions along the coast and northern
slopes of interior mountains will prevail through Wednesday,
the Miami Hurricane center said. General of the Army Omar
Bradley continues to show improvement after undergoing surgery
to prevent blood clots from entering his lungs. Terrorists,
today - Terrorists planted 17 fire bombs and letter bombs
in London department stores and offices today, increasing
official :fears that the Irish Republican Army is extending
its guerrilla campaign to Britain. A financial note, stock
market prices fell again today amid what brokers describe
as an atmosphere of caution and uncertainty among investors.
News about Skylab today covered your efforts to find the leak
in the coolant loop, the lights being turned on last night
in Enid, Oklahoma for Owen Garriott, the checks of the
gyro six-pack, and the sighting of the eruptive prominence
on the sun. We're going to have a handover here, so I'll
continue after that.
CC Okay. We're back with you again.
Stories gave a running account of Owen Garriott's commentary
as he sighted the different cities on the pass across the
U.S. last night. The stories began with "The lights shone
bright in Enid, Oklahoma, Monday night, as a greeting to a
hometown boy, Dr. Owen K. Garriott, orbiting 270 miles
overhead. Most interes= on Skylab today seemed to be centered
on the possible installation of the gyro six-pack and the
sighting of ehe eruptive prominence on the sun. The prominence
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was the main topic at today's change-of-shift briefing to

the press. Hank Aaron, who has hit homers in three con-
secutive games for a lifetime total of 704 in his effort to
catch Babe Ruth's record 714, was named the National League
player of the week last year. Cynthia Potter of Houston
has captured her 18th national diving title. The sandy-
haired Miss Potter, won the one-meter championship as the
1973 National AAU swimming and diving meet opened in
Louisville, Ky.. She now owns i0 indoor and outdoor
first-place awards in the one-meter - -
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8/21/73
CC - - swi,,i,,,ingand diving meet open in Louisville,

Kentucky. He now owns 10 indoor and outdoor first place
awards in the 1-meter went. The big interest around here
tonight since the weather is clear is that your re going to pass al-
most directly overhead at 9:20 and all the watchers are getting
out to look. I guess that £1me should be about 9:30. And
we' re about 30 seconds from handover to Bermuda and that will
be your reed conference.
SPT It looks like we passed overhead about I0
or 15 minutes ago then, Hank.
CC Roger. Everybody was out.
SPT No wonder we didn't raise you on a loop.
CC (Laughter)
CC One quickie for the ATM on the S052. We'd
like the mirror switched to camera.
41 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now transferred our
communications to the Bermuda tracking station. This pass
at Bermuda is scheduled for a private medical conference.
We may hear from the crew following the private medical
conference. The Bermuda pass should last approximately 6
minutes_ This is Skylab Control. We'll keep the lines up
in case there is air-to-ground from Bermuda on the open line.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you back for
about 45 seconds. Madrid will be comin E up at 51.
CC And as a reminder, that's CDR's private comm.
SPT . .. right now, Hank?
CC Roger, we've got about 20 seconds.
SC (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control. We have now lost signal at
the Bermuda tracking station. There was a private medical
conference for most of! that Bermuda pass. A little bit of
conversation right at the very end of the pass, as we did
have the live line brought up again. The next acquisition
of signal _s now 3 minutes and 25 seconds away. That will
be at our Madrid, Spain tracking station. We will keep the
line up llve for air-to-ground from Madrid. This is Skylab
Control at 47 minutes and 55 seconds after the hour. We
have the lines up for Madrid in 3 minutes.
END OF 'rAP}:
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TIME: 21:48 CDT 26/02:48 GMT
8/21/73
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours 01 minute

and 08 seconds Greenwich mean time. We completed that
Madrid pass _ithout any discussion here on the ground from
spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfield. He was alerted
to the fact that we were at the end of a pass right at the
end of Madrid and did not give a goodnight call to the crew.
The next pass is not until 36 minutes from now, and we
would expect that there will be no call up at that time.
We will have the line ready in case there is a callup.
That was just an oversight on the part of the ground
apparently, hut they did go through that Madrid pass. There
was no conversation between the ground and the crew during
the pass. IE,is is Skylab Control at I minute and 47
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SL-III MC-I043/I
Time: 22:1C _ CDT; 26/03:10 GMT
8/21/73
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours i0 minutes and

8 seconds Greenwich mean time. Spacecraft is now on revolu-
tion 1436 about the Earth, traveling in a southeasterly
direction across the coast of Africa. We have the medical
report for the evenlng_ mission surgeon's daily report on
crew health status, is as follows: "Vigorous good health
and a high state of morale continue to be our assessment of
the crew of Skylab-III." That concludes the entire mission
surgeon's daily report for the day. Crew health is continuing
to be excellent as the surgeon reports. We do not expect
to have a call-up. Hank Hartsfleld, the spacecraft com-
municator, has indicated there will not be a call-up. There
was no goodnight given at the Madrid pass, due to the fact
that spacecraft communicator got involved in a discussion
with a flight director considering one of tomorrow's tele-
printer messages and just missed the pass. We will have an
acquisition of signal about 26 minutes from now. We do not
expect to hear anything from the crew at that time, so we'll
be signing cff until just before 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Crew wake-up time scheduled for 6:00 a.m. central daylight
time. This is Skylab Control at ii minutes and 15 seconds
after the hour.
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Time: 23:24 CDT, 26/04:22 GMT
8/21/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 3 hours excuse

me 4 hours 23 minutes, shortly after PAO signing off a few
minutes ago, we had another conversation coming from the
crew over the Honeysuckle station, we'll play that for you
now .
PLT Hello, Hank, let me send you a message

here in the blind, I presume your listening down there because
(garble) hear the teleprinter chugging away and I can see a
couple of! the experiments operating. When you dump the VTR
you're going to find a lot of blank tape there until I finally
wised up and put the video switch from mon - AT_mon back to
TV, mistake which you know that I've made before and then
after that was finally done correctly, I recorded more
information to time relate to the down-link TV on
channel A. So get the PAO people to take a look at the
channel A tape that can also so be related to the stuff I have
on the VTR. Over.
CC We copy.
PAO That conversation was over the Honeysuckle
station, at approximately 3:48 Greenwich mean time. We have
heard nothing else from the crew so we assume they have retired
for the evening. This is Skylab Control, at 4 hours 25 minutes
signing off _or the second time tonight.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-1045/1
Time: 06:00 CDT, 26/11:00 GMT
8/22/73
PAO August 22nd, the start of day 26 in orbit,

for the crew of Skylab-3 wake up call will go up approximately
3 minutes with acquisition at Vanguard, wake up call will be
past up by Astronaut Bob Crippen. As the crew begins their
26th day in orbit, Skylab workshop is beginning it's i00 day
in orbit since launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14th. On
schedule today is 7 hours and 30 minutes of manned obervations
of the ATM console. The fourth exercise for Pilot Lousma of the
MO92/MI71 medical experiment, lower body negative pressure
device, medibolic analyzer. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
and Lousma will later this afternoon perform the M131, the human
vestibular function experiment. Handheld photography is scheduled
today at targets of opportunity. One of which is a lagoon
off the coast of Rio de Janelro, in Brazil, where
26 major fish kills have been reported since 1953. The crew
will be asked to describe and photograph the color and ocean -
color of the ocean and lagoon and any evidence of water
exchange mixing between the lagoon and the ocean and evidence
of currents or water circulation in the lagoon. The crew
will make periodic checks throughout the day on the rate gyro
package, the exercise started yesterday with making temperature
measurements of the 6-pack the rate gyro system and later
this afternoon Commander Bean will continue another checkout
of the coolant loop to determine if he can find a leak in the
system. Wake up call in approximately 50 seconds from now.
We'll leave the line open for CAP COMM Bob Crlppen.
CC (Music) Good morning, Skylab, you can
rub the sleep out of your eyes and it's time to go to work.
PLT Who's the vocalist, Bob?
CC I figured you'd llke Julie London's voice
better than mine this morning.
PLT Today is Julle London day.
CC Shall I give her a call? (laugh)
CC We're now over Vanguard and we've got you
for about 5 more minutes.
PLT Can you play that back in Spanish then?
CC We'll work on it. Since you're so talkative
this morning, Jack. I'ii tell you before you go get your
teleprinter messages, there is a bum star tracker pad,
setting right after the SAP and then right below that there's
a good one, the machine burped on us this morning.
PLT Okay, I'ii pick it up, Bob. Thank you.
CC And also, Jack, for your information,
I guess we could say that song might have been dedicated to
the prlma_y coolant loop, the a - it looks like it's going
to get ready to go he:re any minute pressure inlet, pressure
on the pump was down below i0 and we're going to turn it
off when Jt get's to be 5.
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PLT Okay. Will that give us a caution and

warning or will that shut itloff before we get it?
CC I understand that you'll inhibited that
caution and warning perimeter yesterday.
PLT Okay.
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SL-III MC- L046/i
Time: 06:09 CDT, 26/i[1:09 GMT
8/22/73
SPT Hello, Robert.

CC Yes.
SPT Since you can't make that phone call through
to Julie, why don't you make this Gene Cagle Day. You know, Gene is
over at Marshall and he's a hard man to catch early in the
morning. I know you spend a lot of time working with him
as all of us have. He's done such a fine job making that
ATM work right and getting it designed properly and put together
right, that we'd like to call this Gene Cagle Day and
appreciate it if you give him a call and let him know how
much his work has contributed towards making the ATM and
Skylab joint effort a success up here. Over.
CC Okay, Owen, I'm sure he would appreciate
those fine words and I'ii give him a call.
SPT Thank you.
CC Still llke to give Julie a call.
SPT Well I think Gene might not mind waiting
a day if you can get through to her_
CC I'ii try them both.
CC And Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Goldstone in a little over an hour
at 12:16, 12:16 and we'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump there. Also I'll have a few messages for you concerning
flight plan updates and so forth.
ii hours 14 minutes, wake up call over the Vanguard tracking
station, for the Skylab-3 crew to begin their 26th day in
orbit. Wake up call was the music of Julle London singing
"the Party's Over." Pilot Lousma remarked this is Julle
London Day. This is the standard practice of the crew to
call attention to people who have helped the mission. However,
this was changed later by Science Pilot Owen Garriott, referring
to Gene Cagle of the Marshall Space Flight Center who is -
works in the ATM, worked on the ATM for the Skylab program.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone, 1 hour and 1 minute
from now. Greenwich mean time, ii hours 15 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-III HCI047/I
Time: 0714 CDT, 26/12:14 GMT
8/22/73
PAO T!nis is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

12 hours i4 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone on
this 1441 revolution of the Skylab workshop since launch on
May 14. We will have acquisition at Goldstone in approximately
i minute. We'll hold the line up for Cap CoT_m Bob Crippen
with the Skylab-3 crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for ii minutes
and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump. Also, in
about a minute, we're going to have a keyhole.
SPT Bob, has anybody looked at the VTR from last
night yet?
CC We have started looklnB at it and we didn't -
haven't gotten all the way into it yet, Owen.
SPT Okay. There was a blank segment on there.
Probably i0 minutes long or so when I made my usual forgetful
mistake of switching the video select switch and then I put
TV 28 on again after that. Now I wanted to check with
Fred Koons or one of the other people associated with some of
that downlink TV stuff to see if there was an adequate amount put
on the end along with the voice commentary. Or whether or
not there was any segment that needed to be repeated and the
next question was, I wonder about the rewind speed on that
VTR. Is there any way- and we say no- that we've (garble)
up the last i0 minutes that we onboard can rewind I0 minutes
of real time and X seconds of rewind time and then stop it
at that point? Over.
CC Stand by for a keyhole and I'll try to answer
you shortly.
CC Okay Skylab. We're out of the keyhole
and we've still got you for about 8 minutes. And Owen, in
answer to your question, we're researching to see if that
TV 28 was adequate and also about rewind speed. It's 4 to i.
SPT Okay. And we can rewind it at 4 to I and then
stop it at that point and - just as well as you're doing
on the ground I guess.
CC That's affirmative, Owen. And probably should
comment to you that, as you probably are aware that any
comments tPat you make on channel A while the VTR - VTR is
going, will be recorded on the VTR. We got some comments
that you had been making to the doctors, I guess, on the VTR
recording one evening.
SPT Okay. We understand that. That's no problem.
The way that happened, I suppose, was Just that I had some
comments I was recording on channel AA and recorder and at
the same time somebody else was running the VTR and it just
gets put cr both recorders that way.
CC Okay Owen and Just also had another comment
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Time: 0714 CDT, 26/12:14 GMT
8/22/73
about 55. The last couple of nights, 55 mirror has been

rastering continuously during the night orbit as well as
during the day. And we suspicioned that experiment
night interlock switch might be an override, cause
that's the only thing that we can think of that would give that
condition and we'd appreciate if maybe when AI or somebody
goes up tc check that would - somebody verify it one way or
the other for us.
CDR Okay it is. I'm looklng at it right now.
CC Okay. There's really no reason why that
one should be an override. It's - could you elaborate on it
or (garble) - -
SPT Yes. I could elaborate, Bob. I don't know
exactly how it happened either time, but my guess is as follows:
There was during one of the night portions, we wanted to set
the grading in preparation for the next day's orbit. And after
studying it, then it simply was not returned back to the normal
position. And it's not in our checklist to check that any-
where. So, Jack Just: suggested - he thought it was a good idea,
that we'll include as part of our powerdown procedure that
we check to make sure that the night interlock is put back to
normal.
CC Okay. That was what we were going to rec-
commend that you might put it on the unattended cue card.
Would you ilke us to go ahead and offically do that through
the paper mill?
SPT ] f it's real short.
CDR You bet. We got another problem with the
ATM up here, Crip. Looking at the DAS display. And the
top half of all the numbers is blank. The lower half - or
dark I should say - the lower half - are real dim and
they're all zero. Or the bottom half is zeros.
CC ()kay AI. Is the DAS switch in
BUS 1 ?
CDR ]in BUS 1 and integral and numeric numberlcs are
in 6 and all the displays are on in BUS i. So it's kind of a
strange one. I was thinking maybe somehow y'all had it locked up
down there.
CC Negative. We shouldn't get that kind of
effect. We'll - we'll take a look at it.
CDR I've never seen this one.
CC There's a way you can get into that,
but it normally recquires being in BUS 2. So - And
AI, while - while I'm looking in - we can - researching your
orbit phase timer problem. I've got a small Flight Plan
change I'd llke to make, if you've got your's handy.
CDR Go ahead.
. -
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Time: 0714 CDT, 26/12:14 GMT
8/22/73
CC Okay. Since you were nice enough to pressurize

the 509 bottles earlier, we would like you to add at your 17:08
time slot an S019 film installation.
CDR Okay.
CC And, if Jack's handy I've got a similar one
for him.
PLT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. You've gotta 14:00 time which was origi_
nally scheduled to pressurize 509 bottle. You would - could add
in there a T003-2, 3, and 4 for us.
PLT I got it.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Okay. I need to get some questions that maybe -
sent up - answered some way. Maybe sent up on a pad or
something regarding the EVA, Crip.
CC Okay AI. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. We need to know what our plans are
with $149. We kind of suspicion, we're going to have to
bring it in. Because it's open and right near the station,
although we did't hear. We don't have any procedures onboard for
the swatch removal and new one installation. That's the plan.
So we'll have to get that. We'd like you to send us another
complete slx-pack procedures. Now we've got ours installed
on our card already. But l'd like to have 2 copies onboard.
And then there's another couple of questions and those are
requests. Here come the question.
CC Okay. Stand by. Okay AI. On that S149,
we've got procedures in work for you and the intent will be -
you're going to have to move it to get out to - to the Sun
end there and then you'll be putting it back out. So you' re
not going to be bringing it all the way in.
CDR Okay. We'll be standing by for those procedures.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Okay. Here comes the questions. Is there
a plan within the next few days, prior to the EVA, to go to
the same control system we're going to use during the actual
changeout at the same period in the obit, mainly just after
sunrise or I0 minutes after sunrise, or whatever you feel is the
nominal. And then watch it and see what happens. In other words,
I'm thinking about the advisability of trying that for the first
time when we've got two guys outside and one guy inside. Seems to
me it might be interesting to try it a couple of days early with
all three of us in here - sort of in a much more controlled
condition just to see what happens then - -
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SL-III MC-1048/1
Time: 07:27 CDT, 26/12:27 GMT
8/22/73
CDR (Garble) thing to try it a couple of days

early with all three of us in here sort of in a much controlled
condition just to see what happens and then we'll be alert
what actually would happen on EVA day.
CC Okay, I assume you're talking about where
we essentially go to a free and stand by mode with the CMG
still in the cage. Is that rig_
CDR That's affirm, nominal cage and let
it stay Just as long as it's going to do it on EVA day and
then see what happens here.
CC Okay, we'll look into that and try to
get you some feedback on it.
CDR Okay, need to know how early we can
disconnect J-21 under the ATM panel, relative to EVA and also
cross connect the six-pack signal cable and what effect that
actually has when we do it. What capabilities do we move if
any from the minute we do that until we get the final conection.
CC Okay, we'!ll working that one for you, AI,
should have answer for you tomorrow morning. You'll probably
be able to do it the night before. We're going LOS and we'll
see you again over Vanguard at 12:42, 12:42.
CDR Okay, the last one is the actual period
of standby and no control only from the time that we make -
break the connection B1 out there in the J3 box (garble).
We make the new connection, so it could be as short as 3 or 4
minutes or as long as 10 or 15.
CC The answer to that is affrlmatlve.
CDR Okay, sounds good.
CDR And we've been working the problem up
we'll talk about it a llttle blt more.
12 hours 29 minutes, loss of signal at the Texas tracking
station. This will be the last pass of the day of the - over
the states while the crew Is awake that is. Commander Bean
discussed with the CAP COMM Bob Crlppen plans for the scheduled
EVA which is now set for Friday. He asked for procedures
that the crew will use in the control system. What mode the
crew - the vehicle will operate while EVA is being performed
he suggested that they have a dry run with all three crewmembers
on that system prior to EVA. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson,
the oncoming Flight Director said that would be a good idea.
And these procedures would - will be worked out prior to EVA
so the crew can go through them and see how the vehicle
does perform during the upcoming EVA. At Greenwich mean time
12 hours 30 minutes this is Skylab Control. Next acquisition
will be Vanguard in 9 hours 30 seconds - 9 minutes and 30
seconds from now. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-I049/I
Time: 07:37 CDT, 26/12:37 GMT
8/22/73;

time, 12 hours 37 minutes acquisition coming up at Vanguard
in approximately 1 minute, CAP COI_M is Bob Crippen. Oncoming
Flight Director is Neil Hutchinson. On this pass Pilot Lousma
should be performing the T002 experiment, this is the manual
navigation sighting experiment. Purpose of this is to investigate
the effects the spacecraft environment, long mission time, and
confinement has on a navigator's ability to obtain space
navigation measurements through a spacecraft window using
a hand held instrument. A second purpose of this experiment
is to demonstrate the operational feasibility of a manual
navigation system consisting of a handheld sextant. This
is the third time this experiment has been performed on Skylab-3.
With acquisition coming up at Vanguard, we'll hold the line
open for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over the Vanguard
for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, and we're running the ATM now. And
the way I got 'era back, by the way (static).
CC Okay, AI, we've got you back once more.
We dropped out just as soon as you started to tell me something.
CDR Okay, I got the displays back for a dead
timer, the counter, and the DAS, by putting my displays switch from
4 - BUS i to BUS 2, those 4 switches. And it's working
properly ncw in BUS 2. BUS i, if you put them over there, it doesn't
work; it works like I mentioned.
CC Okay, understand that they were all
inoperative on BUS-I and you had to go to BUS-2 on all of them.
CDR That's a fact.
CC Okay, we copied that and did you get
my transmission before we went LOS, previously, regarding
your question on no control?
CDR Yes.
CC And PLT, have you got some time to get
some chan_es for today, please?
CC CDR, I should also alert you to the fact
that your CRT is - is not going to operative unless you got
the x-ray spec switch in BUS-2 under the console power
distribution panel.
CDR Okay, that's where we put it. Thanks.
CC And AI, can you verify for us the status
of the circuit breakers on the C and D.
CDR They're all in with the exception of
status light backup I and 2 which are always out.
CC Okay, copy.
PLT (:rip, wereyou calling me a while ago?
CC Yes, Jack, if you've got some time, I
have a couple of things I need to run over with you.
o-
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Time: 07:37 CDT, 26/12:37 GMT
8/22/73
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Do you - you have one S019 pad
message number 2625 today.
PLT Yes, sir. Got it right before me.
CC Okay, on field number 457, the tilt on that
should be 6.4.
PLT Okay, tilt 6.4, the first field, 66.7.
CC That's - That's affirmative. Also regarding
T002 6 Bravo, we understand from some of the transcripts that
10 MARKS on each star is pressing you. You can relax the
MARKS count on each star to 6 to 8 MARKS, also use the stars
given in your details which are the same today as yesterday
and that (garble).
PLT Okay. It's really not the number of
MARKS that's pressing me. Once you get the star in the sextant
you can ripe off a whole bunch of MARKs in a hurry. The problem
is in going from one star to another, trying to reacquire the
star. The time consuming thing is finding the star in the
sextant.
CC Okay.
PLT So I was wondering if I can't get two sets
of MARKs on the both stars individually if one set of MARKs
on each star is acceptable.
CC Okay, we'll check that.
PLT I know what they want me to do is to take
i0 on one star and the_ jump to another and then Jump back to the
first star and then Jump back to the second star. The time
consuming part is to reaquiire those stars those four different
times. And if I were able to just do two times why that'd be
better. Or if I could make 20 MARKs in a row on one star instead
of breaking it up into four separate sets why that would
be more acceptable, or less time consuming anyway, more likely
to get the Job done.
CC Okay, we copy that and we'll try to get
an answer back to you.
PLT Okay, if they could work on that and give
me the answer in another 2_ minutes when it's going to get dark,
why it would help me because I'm at the window working on this
experiment now.
CC Okay, I got about 3-1/2 more minutes and
we'll see if we can get an answer for you. Also while you're -
see if we can talk you inta something else for tilt corollary;
you've got a pretty crowded evening in your pre-sleep and this
is up to you, but we would llke to know if you would consider
doing an additional S019 run for us in that period. It would be a -
PLT I'll do it.
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Time: 07:137 CDT, 26/12:37 GMT
8/22/73
CC Okay, it would be around 01:58, we've got

a pad for _jou and we' Ii - we'll send it up to yon.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Wonder if you could cycle the main inverter
LCA breaker number i for us, pull it out, put it back in and
then try BUS-I again.
CDR Okay, that's called inverter LCA-I, top
row left, second from the right.
CC That' s affirmatlve.
CDR Made it work. I'ii Just stay on BUS-I.
CC Okay, you can put them all back to 1 and
that BUS can trip - that inverter can trip off like that.
CDR Okay, and I really psyched it out, but good
job .
CC And CDR, I guess when you get an
opportunity we would appreciate getting a nu Z update.
CDR Okay. I got started a little late here
and soon as I get it going, I'ii get the stuff for you.
CDR Can you tell us the number indicated
on my panel for grating position 200 optical.
CC Understand that you want us to verify that
for you, AI?
CDR That's affirm, I want to make sure it isn't
200 mechanical.
CC Okay, that's affirmative, it is 200 optical.
We' re going - -
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Time: 07:5C CDT, 26/12:50 GMT
8/22/73
CC Okay, that affirmative, it is 200 optical.

We're going LOS in about 30 seconds; we'll see you again over
Hawaii in about an hour from now.
SPT Hey, Crlp, one more thing that I noticed
on the pads that came up last night. Where it says at the bottom
the varlou_ times to (:ross the equator - the ascending note - the
times are wrong; they all got two zeros in front of them, and there's
three of them spaced within i0 minutes apart.
CC Break, break, Jack if we still got the
(static) 2002 as per checklist.
PAO We've had loss of signal at Vanguard
at Greenwich mean time 12 hours 51 minutes. In approximately
i0 minutes Commander A1 Bean will be performin E the MI31
human vestibular function test. This is the first of two runs that
Commander Bean will perform today on this experiment. This
morning's run is limited to the spatial localization portion
of the experiment. This is the spatial localization, is to
measure the accuracy and varlabablity and the Judgement of
spatial coordinates, based on typical gravity receptor cues and
inadequate visual cues. The Commander will sit in the
rotating litter chair. However, it will be asta - stable mode;
he will not be rotated in the chair this morning. In the
run this afternoon, however, he will be rotated in the chair.
This portion of the MI31 spatial localization is performed
three times throughout the mission. Once early in the mission
between day 3 and 6, and once between day 25 and 30, and once
again late in the mission between day 50 and 56. The other
two crewmen are also scheduled to perform the MI31 today.
In addition, Pilot Jack Lousma will perform the M092/
171 run, at about i hour from now. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 53 minutes, this is Skylab Control; next acquisition
will be Hawaii in 57 minutes.
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SL-III MC-1051/I
Time: 08:48 CDT, 26/13:48 GMT
8/22/73

time, 13 hours 48 minutes, anticipated acquisition at Hawaii
in approximately 90 seconds. Commander Bean should be about
concluding the spatial localization run of the MI31, human
vestibular function test, this is a test where he sits in
a litter chair, rotating litter chair, but the chair does not
rotate, on this exercise. He'll have a second run on the
MI31 later today as will Science Pilot Owen Garrlott and
Pilot Jack Lousma. This morning beglnnin_ in about 15 minutes,
Pilot Lousma will perform the M092/MI71 medical experiment.
5 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC Now when you have a minute on your
hand, I have some corrections to EREP slider map ascending
node time, they're fairly minor ones, if you want to take them
or not. Over.
SPT Okay, Jack is on channel A, recording, and
A1 and I are doing 131 right now, Bruce. So why don't we wait
a while.
CC Will do.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute til LOS
over Hawaii. Next station contact in 22 minutes at the
Vanguard at 14:18 and we will be dumping a data voice tape
recorder at the Vanguard. Out.
13 hours 58 minutes, loss of signal at Hawaii, next acquisition
will be Vanguard in approximately 19 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time, 13 hours 58 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MCI052/I
Time: 09:i7 CDT, 26/14:17 GMT
8/22/73
PAO Sky].ab Control. Greenwich mean time 14 hours,

17 minutes with acquisition at Vanguard. Cap Comm is Bruce
_IcCandless.
for 9 minutes. Out. And for your information, we will be
dumping the data voice tape recorder this pass.
CC CDR, Houston. We show schedule ATM operations
this pass. Do you have any changes it to the Flight Plan or de-
viations? Over.
CDR No, I been up here for several minutes trying
to find a good network cell to work on. Network cells just aren't
that hot today (garble) the Sun. And I think I finally found one.
But we started working it, itts been tough to find a good network
cell that we thought we could follow. I'm not sure I can even
follow this one. Cells aren't that defined today for some reason.
CC Mighty fine. I sympathize with your problem
there.
CDR Some days are real good up here. This is
just one day when there - very bottled and not one for (garble)
side, the contrast was low on them and it's just tough to find
a good one. I think I've got one now _ough.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS
over the V_nguard. Next station contact in 58 minutes at
Hawaii a_ 15:25. Out.
CDR Why, we dontt see you all too often these
days, do we?
CC There seems to be some problem about the
Earth being turned around the wrong way here.
CDR I know there's a problem wlth _oud _heduling.
So far, those have interferred a little bit.
CC Well, we're planning _ resuming EREP OPS on
about day 37, I believe. So presumably _en, we'll start
having you daytime over the States again.
CDR Yes, I guess you'll be (garble) those the rest
of the ti_e.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich_an time 14 hours,
28 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next _quisitlon
will be in Hawaii in approximately 56 minutes. Dr. Robert
MacQueen of the High Altitude Observatory of _ulder, Colorado,
Principal Investigator for the white light eoronagraph, S052
experiment of the Apollo Telescope Mount, _ scheduled to
have a briefing amd review of yesterday's solar prominence
at i0 a.m. this morning in the building i newsroom. There
will be a replay of the television of that _ent, of the
solar erruptlve event yesterday. At i0 a.m., in building 1
newsroom, Dr. Robert MacQueen, PI of S052, white _ght corona-
graph experiment. Next acquisition will be Hawaii _ 56 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time, 14 hours, 29 _nutes, this _ Skylab
Control.
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8L-III MCI053/I
Time: 10:22 CDT, 26/15:22 GMT
8/22/73

time, 15 hours 23 minutes with acquisition coming up at
Hawaii. Cc.mmander A1 Bean should be half way through a
3 hour ATM session this morning, Pilot Lousma should be midway
through performing of the M092/171 lower body negative pressure
device and metabolic analyzer experiment. These are to measure
the deeonditioning of the cardiovascular system and assess
a man's work capability in the zero-G environment. Up to today
crewmen have spent about 43 hours performing this medical
experiments, a total of 170 - 107 hours has been allocated
for this pair of experiments throughout the mission• Later today
the MI31 motion sensitivity portion of the vestibular function
test will be run by the crew members. 22 hours have already
been spent on this experiment, 45 hours are planned for the
entire mission. The motion sensitivity and spatial orientation
portions of the MI31 are each scheduled to be conducted by
the crew members 12 times throughout the mission of Skylab-3.
Acquisition coming up at Hawaii, CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
9-1/2 minu_es and we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder next station, Vanguard. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce, we just completed the run on
Jack's M092, we're transferring over to the MITI now.
CC Okay, if Jack's listening, in case he
missed our tall up earlier with respect to the T002 runs,
we'd like him to stay with the experiment protocol per the
checklist I - if he gets short on time, relax the MARKs
count on each star but stick with the stars. And for you
Owen, in about 4 hours you got some hand held photography
of a lagoon south of Rio de Janiero. I have some additional
verbal description on how to locate it, that I could pass up
to you over Vanguard just before that site, if you would
like it. Over.
SPT Okay, now we' ii get it ready.
CDR Say, Bruce, let me do some discussion with
you for a few minutes about this EVA.
CC Fire away, AI.
CDR I think what we'll plan to do is to do
it this way. Jack and Owen will be the two fellows that go
out, I'll stay in here. Jack will go out in part of a daylight
pass and reconnoiter both of the areas, make sure that he
can get to both of the areas and if the connectors in fact
look like we've trained on. Then that'll end that day pass,
he'll come back, we'll get the rest of the gear out that night
and then when the day starts, he'll go out and attach the -
both ends of the rate gyro EVA cables. Then when that's
finished, he'll come back into the SAS and switch positions
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Time: 10:_2 CDT, 26/1.5:22 GMT
8/22/73

time, 15 hours 23 minutes with acquisition coming up at
Hawaii. Commander AI Bean should be half way through a
3 hour ATM session this morning, Pilot Lousma should be midway
through performing of the M092/171 lower body negative pressure
device and metabolic analyzer experiment. These are to measure
the deconditioning of the cardiovascular system and assess
a man's work capability in the zero-G environment. Up to today
crewmen have spent about 43 hours performing this medical
experiments, a total of 170 - 107 hours has been allocated
for this pair of experiments throughout the mission. Later today
the MI31 motion sensitivity portion of the vestibular function
test will be run by the crew members. 22 hours have already
been spent on this experiment, 45 hours are planned for the
entire mission. The motion sensitivity and spatial orientation
portions of the MI31 are each scheduled to be conducted by
the crew members 12 times throughout the mission of Skylab-3.
Acquisition coming up at Hawaii, CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
9-1/2 minutes and we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder next station, Vanguard. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce, we just completed the run on
Jack' s M092, we' re transferring over to the MITI now.
CC Okay, if Jack's listening, in case he
missed our call up earlier with respect to the T002 runs,
we'd like i_im to stay with the experiment protocol per the
checklist_ I - if he gets short on time, relax the MARKs
count on each star but stick with the stars. And for you
Owen, in alaout 4 hours you got some hand held photography
of a lagoon south of Rio de Janiero. I have some additional
verbal description on how to locate it, that I could pass up
to you over Vanguard just before that site, if you would
like it. Dyer.
SPT Okay, now we'll get it ready.
CDR Say, Bruce, let me do some discussion with
you for a few minutes about this EVA.
CC Fire away, AI.
CDR I think what we'll plan to do is to do
it this way. Jack and Owen will be the two fellows that go
out, I'ii stay in here. Jack will go out in part of a daylight
pass and reconnoiter both of the areas, make sure that he
can get to both of the areas and if the connectors in fact
look like we've trained on. Then that'll end that day pass,
he'll come back, we'll get the rest of the gear out that night
and then when the day starts, he'll go out and attach the -
both ends of the rate gyro EVA cables. Then when that's
finished, he'll come back into the SAS and switch positions
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Time: 110:22 CDT, 26/].5:22 CGMT
8/22/73
CDR (CONT'D) then Owen will go out and do the 149,

the film change, the swatch put up and bring in the other one
if they want it brought in and release - release the bolts
on the - and take off the ramps on the two experiments. That's
kind of my thinking on the personnel that might do the
Job and the sequence. Now the sequence during the time
Owen's out: there might end up being a little bit different
than that, but essentially, he'll do those tasks.
CC Okay, AI, that sounds great to us.
CDR It's amazing, I found the network cell
again. Not a very good cell but it's got some good landmarks
around it, some clump,_ around it, some other things, we're
on the righ_ place so we'll Just keep working there.
CC Sorry, AI. I didn't copy of the beginning
of that.
CDR I said I found the network cell I was working
on. It isn't a very classic cell, in terms of what we've
trained to Look for because I just couldn't find any of those,
but it looks like there's enough clumps around so that we
might be able to track it and get the data we need.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to
LOS here at Hawaii, next station contact in 22 minutes at
the Vanguard at 15:56. Out.
PAO Skylab, Control; Greenwich mean time,
15 hours 35 minutes, next acquisition at Vanguard in 21 minutes,
on this pass Commander Bean relate to CAP COM14 Bruce McCandless
his plans for the scheduled EVA on Friday that would call
for Jack Lousma and Science Pilot Owen Garriott during the
EVA outside the vehicle while Commander Bean remains in the
airlock module monitoring the activities. This is a change
according to the preliminary fllght plan which had Commander
Bean and Science Pilot Garriott doing the work outside the
vehicle. Outlined by Commander Bean, Lousma will go out and
check, reconnoiter the area where the rate gyro 6-packs will be
attached and Owen Garriott would make the film transfer and
return the S149 experiment _hich was deployed earlier in the
mission, and also remove the door latch on the S056 experiment
the ultraviolet spectrometer experiment - the ramp has been
given troubles with opening the door. At Greenwich mean time,
15 hours 37 minutes, :next acquisition at Vanguard in
END OF TAPE
SL-II MCIO54/I
Time: 10:55 CDT, 26/15:55 GMT
8/22/73

15 hours, 55 minutes. Access coming up at Vanguard on this -
this the conclusion of the 1443 revolution of the Skylab
space station since launch on May 14. We'll leave the line
up live for Cap Comm Bruce McCandless and discussions with
the crew of Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, this is Houston over the Straits
of Magellan through Vanguard for 8 plus 48. Out.
CC And we will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder this pass through Vanguard.
CDR Say Bruce, could you give me the best guess
right now of what the star tracker should have to get Canopus.
CC I believe Canopus is excluded right now and
Alpha Cruces is your star. I can read you the pad or we can get
you an update if - if you're having troubles with the pad
valves.
CDR I spent i0 minutes trying to get it in
minus 637 and plus 1319 all around. But I haven't had alot
of luck.
CC Okay. We'll get you Achernar and we'll have
the gimbal angles for you in just a second.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We recommend use
of Achernar with the star tracker. Inner gimbal, plus 1800,
outer gimbal zero. If that doesn't work, close the star tracker
shutter and we'll give you an outer gimbal backup real quick
like here. Achernar was available until ii minutes of daylight
remaining. Over.
CC Okay. And Skylab, we've received word that
an aurora is in progress. Although the spacecraft is not in
the best pcsition to observe the aurora. You may be able to
see it out the S-4 window, STS, just before sunrise at about
16:40 Z. Ee'll give you later advisories if the aurora is
still active. And they're viewing the aurora and observing
it in Alaska at the present time. 45 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 1 hour and 29 minutes back over the Vanguard
at 7 - 17:34. Did you copy the star tracker information, AI?
In the blind. Star tracker information again. Achernar star,
outer gimbal, 0 and inner gimbal, plus 1800. If you don't
get it, close the shutter. We'll give you an outer gimbal
backup next Vanguard. It's available until ii minutes of
daylight remaining. Acknowledge. Over.
CDR You were blocked out by some sort of other
talking, Eruce and we haven't heard you since you mentioned
the word "aurora."
CC Okay. Did you copy about Achernar?
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 15 hours,
SL-III MCI054/2
Time: 10:55 CDT, 26/15:55 GMT
8/22/73
PAO (CONT'D) 6 minutes with a pass over Vanguard. This

little LOS will be a Vanguard to Vanguard pass. Next acquisi-
tion over Vanguard in i hour and 27 minutes from now. As
the spacecraft Skylab passes over South America on it's next
pass, the stormy Straits of Magellan, the desolate Patagonia
Desert and a land locked Brazilian lagoon, where numerous fish
kills have been reported, will be the object of Earth photos
taken from Skylab. Pilot 3ack Lousma, at 12:35 Central Daylight
Time, will direct his still cameras towards the Straits of
Magellan at the southern tip of South America. In addition
to the straits and the Island of Tierra Del Fuego, Lousma
will photograph an elongated depression running north-south
along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains and man-made
features such as a railroad parallelling the Rio
Gallegos and an oilfield to the south of that river. As
Skylab spacestation sweeps the north - northward, Lousma will
click off pictures of a region of southern Argentina and Chile
called Patagonia. This region is a sparcely populated terrain
of broad plateaus bordered by the spectacular south Andes
Mountains laced with glaciers and deep canyons. Photos from
Skylab will be used for detecting geological features such as
active and passive volcanoes, drift zones, glaciers, and mountain
lakes - and perhaps a hint on how the rugged Patagonian terrain
affects local weather, said to be among the stormiest in the
world. One revolution later, as Skylab again passes over
South America, Science Pilot Owen Garriott will squint through
still camera viewfinders tO photograph a lagoon called Lagoa
Rodrigo de Freitas, a kidney-shaped body of water just south
of Rio de Janeiro. Some 26 fish kills have been spotted in
the land lake lagoons since 195 - 53. In the last fish kill,
in mid June, several tons of dead fish were removed. Sewage
flowing into the lagoon has increasingly polluted Lagoa De Freitas
during the past century. There is a minimum of seawater
exchange in the lagoon and deep bottom sludge supports - supports
an arrebic bacteria and produces hid - hydrogen sulfide, which
is thought to be the fish killer rather than oxygen depletion.
In addition to shooting color photos of the lagoon, Garrlott will
observe and describe the color of the water, compared to the
sea, any evidence of circulation as shown by current patterns
and any apparent inflow from adjacent streams. Attention was
called to the crew also on this pass of an aurora, an aurora
borealis being viewed presently in Alaska. It was reported
to the crew that this would be visible to them at about 16:40
Greenwich mean time. Next acquisition will be Vanguard, 1 hour
and 24 minutes at Greenwich mean time 16 hours, i0 minutes. This
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-1055/I
Time: 12:30 CDT, 26/17:30 GMT
8/22/73

time 17 hours 30 minutes with access at Vanguard in approximately
3-1/2 minutes. The decision by Commander Alan Bean to have
Pilot Jack Leusma and Science Pilot Owen Garrlott perform
the EVA on Friday and for Bean to operate from within the
alrlock module has met with unanimous agreement with Flight
Controllers at the Mission Control Center here today. In
fact Flight Director Neil Hutchinson after Bean revealed
this change _n the flight plan said it's something we should
have thought of. Prel_mlnary plans had called for Bean and
Garrlott to perform the EVA and Lousma operate from within
the airlock module. Friday's EVA calls for an attachment of
30 foot extension cables of the rate gyro package to the
Apollo Telescope Mount. Loumsa is by far the strongest of
the Skylab-3 crewmen and apparently Bean has decided Lousma is
the best man to perform this activity which will require a
great deal of hand and arm motions in unfastening and fastening
these connections. If this was a nominal EVA, Flight Director
Hutchinson thinks Bean would take part in work outside the
vehicle. During the rate gyro installation there will be
significant reconfiguration to the APCS, Skylab's attitude
pointing and control system since Bean will be soft suited
inside the alrlock module, he will be able to take steps if
something occurs to the vehicle attitude during this
critical phase of the EVA. The backup system for the attitude
control of the vehicle is the command and service module
through the CSM computers and RCS systems. Bean is more
familiar with the command module under these circumstances.
Another analogy offered by CAP COMM Bruce McCandless, is that
Captain Bean is the Captain of his ship and he feels more
confident operating from the bridge of his ship than he would
outside. At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 32 minutes with
acquisition at Vanguard. We'll hold this llne open for air
to ground.
CC Skylab, $kylab, this is Houston through
Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, and looks like we need a little
information on star tracker here so we can get an update
there. We're pretty badly out of alignment now.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Okay
for the SPT, new star tracker pad star Achernar, which is
a DAS code of 50,000 inner gimbal plus 1764; outer glmbal
minus 14.50 and that's available from 6 minutes of night to
13 minutes of day remaining. Over.
SPT Okay, it looks llke we can pick it up right
now so I'll go try to find Achernar at this point.
CC Skylab, Skylab, roger. Go ahead and
• - °"
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Time: 12:30 CDT, 26/17:30 GMT
8/22/73
work on Achernar stand by on that we're going to inhibit

momentum dump for you. We'll give you go when we're through
with that and you can get on the DAS. If the CDR is listening
I have some comments for hlm on SO19. Over.
CDR I'm listening.
CC Skylab, Skylab, to the CDR, the adjustments
you made to the AMS chain drive affect the phasing of 8 ball
screw drives in the auxiliary mirror system. This adjustment
is very critical an attempt to adjust the chain drive of
the training unit has caused it to lock up. What we'd llke
you to do time permitting is to remove the auxiliary mirror
system from the SAL and by the way the dump is inhibited
the SPT is cleared to go ahead with the star tracker acquisition.
Remove the auxiliary mirror system from the SAL and extend
and retract the mirror 6 times while you've got the mirror fully
extended on a couple of these you might move the tilt and
rotation off of the zero position and then bring them back
to zero for the retraction and if you find no change in
loading of the extension kno_ during extension and retraction
or any indication of roughneiss you're then clear to go ahead
and reinstall the whole workis in the SAL and proceed with the
SO19 operation as scheduled. We understand that you did
extend and retract a couple of times last evening, approximately
how many times did you do this after adjusting the chain? Over.
CDR My guess is about 3 or 4. Some were full
extension, some were partial extension but it won't take
me very long to take the mirror system and check it out again.
CC Skylab, Skylab, roger AI. Did you notice
any variations in the loadln!g on the extend retrack knob
at that time? Over.
CDR Yea, it got easier to work. Also note
the chain drive mechanism is the synchronization mechanism
for all four of those drives. And it appeared to me that the
slack that I took up or didn't take up as long as it was
moderate which it was didn't flip any chain links or anything
like that and so the little screws couldn't get out of phase
if you see what I mean. In other words, anytime one llnk
goes a llnk - any time one sprocket goes a length all the
rest have got to go. I don't understand the problem actually
but I'Ii go up there and che!ck it out.
CC Skylab, Skylab, roger AI, we asked you
about the loads we weren't asking about the difference between
the load when it was installed in the SAL when you were extending
it we're concerned about the uniformity of loading as the
mirror is extended and retracted. Over.
CDR I think it was uniform. But let me go
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Time: 12:30 CDT, 26/1[?:30 GMT
8/22/73
- it felt good all the way in and out and operated well
and we watched the screw drive they all looked good. The
mirror reached the end of the travel that was perpendicular
to the screw drive as it should be. Let me pull it back out
and give it a check I'll run it in and out and tilt it
maximum directions and things and probably we'll have a better
feel from the problem then. Also it will be cool now and that
will be a more true test it was warmed up by the time we
checked it out.
CC Skylab, Skylab roger AI, we'll stand by
to hear the results from you on that one. For the SPT, we
expected to get rate gyro slx-pack temperature readouts
yesterday, at approximately 2000 and 2300. Also today
at 02:00Z and we were looking for these on channel A.
We didn't - haven't found them yet; did you put them
on and if so at approximately what time. Could you tell
us ? Ore r.
SPT Yes, we did not put those measurements

on channel A, I'm perpared to give them to you now.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I056/I
Time: 12:40 CDT, 26/17:40 GMT
8/22/73
SPT I did not put those measurements on

channel A, I'm prepared to give them to you now. I put on
the ones in the first 30 minute interval where the rapid
transient was. I'ii give you the readings that we've got. We
were not able to get all the readings that were requested
every 3 hours but I'ii tell you what we have got and -Just a
moment just as soon as I get this other building block going.
CC Skylab, Skylab, roger. And for your
information - -
SPT And as it is, it looks like we've got a
good star now if you're happy I'ii close the shutter door.
CC Skylab,i Skylab, this is Houston. We're
looking at the star and we'ire happy you can go ahead and close
the star tracker door. For your information we're having
difficulties with the data circuits through Ascension, so it
will probably be voice only, we may dump the data voice tape
recorder at Ascension, if we get our command circuits back up,
but I'ii keep you posted on that one. Over.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, Bruce, here comes some temperatures.
Do we have a couple of minutes left?
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger Owen
we've got 2 minutes and 50 seconds left, go ahead.
SPT Okay, on X-5 I only got the following
measurement at 20:45 last night, 87.0 degrees 2.98 volt.
Next will be three secquences and I'ii give the voltage, and then
X56, Y56, Z56 in that order: 82.33 at 22:30; minus 2.98 volt,
91.5, 90.2, 92.5, 90.1, 92.6, 89.7. On day 234 at 13:00;
2.98 volts, 92.3, 91.0, 92,0, 91.2, 92.6, 89.6. On day 234
at 16:30; 2.89 volts, 91.9, 91.3, 92.6, 91.6, 93.4, 89.6.
You'll note the last reading on Z-6, zebra-6 is a little lower
in temperature than the others, I think this is probably due
to the fact that there is an air blower blowing air almost
on this base plate and it probably accounts for a couple
of degrees difference in temperature there. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger;
Owen. We copied the data, thank you, we're a little over a
minute from LOS, next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes over
Ascension at 17:47. Over.
17 hours 45 minutes with loss of signal at Vanguard. During
this pass new coordinates Were past up to the crew for star
Achernar for use for the star tracker, that's the onboard
device which provides the star reference to the ATM attitude
pointing control system, while Skylab is on the night side
of its orbit. Science Pilot Owen Garriott also relayed tempera-
tures of the rate gyro package, which was started yesterday.
SL-III MC-I056/2
Time: 12 A0 CDT, 26/'17:40 GMT
8/22/73
PAO CONT'D) Purpose is to - measurements are aimed

toward verifying that: the 6-pack heaters are working properly.
After the temperatures were read down to the flight
controllers, Flight Director Nell Hutchinson, remarked, he
said they looked nice and stable. Greenwich mean time,
17 hours 46 minutes, we'll hold the line open for next
Ascension pass in approximately 1 minute.
CC Go ahead.
END OF TAFE
SL-III MCI057/I
Time: 12:46 CDT, 26/17:46 GMT
8/22/73
CC Go ahead.
MC Got i00 percent key in here.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston though Ascension
for the next 9-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.
for 9-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.
SPT We're reading you loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Okay, Owen. We will not be dumping the data
voice tape recorder, as we're down to 1 data circuit and
1 voice cirzuit here through Ascension. On your subsequent
rate gyro six-pack temperature readings_ we'd like you to
send them down to us in real time or near real time on the
air-to-ground loop as we're coordinating the final details
of the rate gyro procedure. We'd like to check it out as
we go along. Over.
SPT Okay. It looks like they're pretty well
stabilized _rom the measurement, just looking at the numbers
I sent down.
CC Roger. We concur.
SPT And would you ask the ATM science room please,
if they had a chance to look at those XU_ transients we saw
off the northwest llmb of the Sun yesterday afternoon and
what their interpretation of them is.
CC Ye;g, indeed. They've already done that, Owen.
In fact, they've got some traffic backed up here for you.
The down-link was looked at by the S082 personnel on the
SAR and by NOAA. The XUV mort shows some brazing on the northwest
limb, but an arch was not visible. No, I cannot confirm
the arch by ground data and the consensus is that the
phenomena was instrument scattered light caused by offset
pointing. Over.
SPT Okay. If it was instrument scattered, I see
scattered into the XUV mon so the display here would're
shown it. Now if that were so, I would're noticed it shown up
on the - shown up on the TV also, since the same thing I'm seeing
should have been on the tape recorder. I'm a little puzzled
why they couldn't see it when we could, unless it's a question
of sensitiwity.
CC You make a very convincing case.
SPT We tried a number of things to verify that
it was not instrumental. For example, we rotated our viewing
hood up here, to make sure there was no light leaking into
the instruments. The brightness only appeared with the
integrate switch. So it did disappear and become brighter
when the integrate switch was released, as did all of the other
XUV features. We also rotated the ATM canisters, during the
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Time: 12:46 CDT, 26/17:46 GMT
8/22/73
SPT (CONT'D) time we were viewing it to make sure that

the features did rotate with the rotation of the canisters.
Which it dic. So it seemed that every check we could make did
verify it was a legitimate feature and we're still a little
puzzled by Jt .
CC Okay. Needless to say, Owen, we'll go back
and have anc ther look at that. Couple of other items here is
that your IV 28 yesterday, did not work out well enough for
release. We got only about i minute of color pictures and
the voice was not good enough for broadcast. We tried the
channel A voice tape, but the lightweight headset appeared
too far from your llps. We've considered rescheduling, but
we'd llke your input. If you want to, we'll reschedule it.
If you don' t_ we have plenty of other television to do. If
you want to try it again, and you desire, we can send you a
little checklist with cue cards for the switches and voice
procedures. Over.
SPT (Laughter) No requirement for the checklist
and voice procedures and let's reschedule it after the EVA.
CC Okay. We' ii do that and when you have some
time up there, you or Jack, we have a PCG number 7 regulator
fine adjustment, but this is not time critical at all.
CDR Okay Bruce. We took out the canister and
ran it in arid out 5 times. Rotated it to limit, tilt and
shaft, everything works Just great.
SPT Bruce, did you copy? Over.
CC Okay Owen. You got us convinced- you're
GO for the S019 operations per the Flight Plan.
SPT Okeydoke. We think our best bet is to keep
everything teat and clean and to not run it - to run it out
12 turns and in just regular speed and then the last turn,
run it very slowly so it doesn't bump up against these stops
or have any problem with maybe jumping the chain off a
sprocket tube and then work it from there. We'll get it full
out, but ease it out - same coming back in.
CC All right. Sounds llke a good way to do it
to us.
CDR Houston, do you concur with this minus 12.2
nu Z that we read up here?
CC Stand by. That's affirmative, AI. We show
a nu Z of minus 12.2 degrees.
CDR Okeydoke. I'ii change the S019 and make the
runs.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I058/I
Time: 12:55 CDT, 26/17:55 GMT
8/22/73
CC Where you calling us, Skylab?

SPT Negative (garble)
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds til
LOS, next station contact in 35 minutes over Guam at 18:32.
We will be dumping the data voice tape recorder over Guam.
Out.
PAO Tihis is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time, 17 hours 59 minutes, next acquisition over Guam in
32 minutes. This is Skylab Control, 17 hours 59 minutes,
Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I059/I
Time: 13:30 CDT, 26/113:30 GMT
8/22/73

time 18 hours 30 minutes, acquisition coming up at Vag -
Guam tracking station. Com_nder AI Bean should be com -
partly through or concluded the S019 operations for this
pass. SOl9 is the ultraviolet stellar astronomy experiment.
Principle invesigator for this is experiment is fellow
astronaut, Dr. Carl Henize, at the Johnston Space Center.
On tape later this afternoon is further manned operations
of the Apollo Telescope Hounit, and operations for all three
crew members of the MI31 human vestibular function experiment.
Acquisition expected at Guam in approximately 45 seconds.
We'll keep the line up live for air-to-ground between
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless and the Skylab-3 crew.
CC Skylab, !this is Houston through Guam
for the next 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC We will be doing a data voice tape
recorder this pass. Damp that is.
SPT Bruce, did you have some information
for me about the hand held photo update?
CC Yes, indieed, Owen. With reference to the
photography at about 19:19 on Lagoa Freitas, we've got an atlas
down here, and if you look at it - Stand by. We're enabling
momentum dump in 30 seconds for the PLT, if you can stay
off the DAS for a minute. You'll actually be in
contact with us througlh the Vanguard at the time you come
up on the site here, but I can give you a little bit of
a briefing. If you locate Rio de Janeiro, it's on the
Baia de Guanabara Bay which is fairly large and at the south-
western edge of that bay is ithe famous mountain Sugar Loaf
and Just to the southwest ofi Sugar Loaf is the Laguna
or Lagoa Freitas that's your objective in the photo pass.
Over.
PLT Good enough. You can swim there.
CC Right. Sort of behind the beach is
Copacabana.
PLT Right.
CC Actually, it's Copacabana on one side
and Ipa Nema on the otlher.
PLT That's right, I've been there a
couple of times.
CC Okay, thien you ought to have no trouble
picking it out.
CDR Just finished SO19 ops. It worked like
a charm and retracted like a charm too. Everything seems okay.
CC Beautiful, AI, that's music to our
ears.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 13:30 CDT, 26/18:30 GMT
8/22/73
CC For the PLT.

PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yea, I see you have time. We'd llke on
PCG number 7 regulator flne iadJustment, to rotate that
clockwise by i0 degrees from itls present position, that is
1/3 of one division on the panel. PCG 7 fine adjust clockwise
i0 degrees. Over.
PLT Okay.
PLT How do you like PCG 7, Bruce?
CC Stand by a second.
CC Okay, Jack we can't give you definitive
answer right now, we'll have to watch it as it charges and
discharges over an orbit or two. We_ll get back to you.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute until
LOS at Guam. Next station contact in 31 minutes over the Vanguard
at 19:11. Over.
PLT See you over the Vanguard, Bruce.
time 18 hours 42 minutes. Discussion with Science Pilot
Owen Garriott concerning the upcoming pass over South America
where he is scheduled to take photographs of a kidney shaped
lagoon just south of Rio de Jnerlo referred to as Ferdu is the
Lagoa Roderiguez de Freltas Lagoon where some 26 fish tails have
been reported in this land _ocked lagoon since 1953. Further
mention of a PCG this is po_er conditioning unit. There are 8
power conditionin E units in !the orbital workshop solar panel
array which condition the v_itage from the solar panel on the
workshop. The PCU converts the higher solar array or battery
voltage inputs to the lower !28 volt required in the Skylab
electrical system. Greenwich mean time 18 hours 43 minutes.
Next acquisition at 28 minutes at the Vanguard tracking
station. At 18 hours 43 miniutes this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MCI060/I
Time: 14:10 CDT, 26/19:10 GMT
8/22/73
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours, i0 minutes and

43 seconds, Greenwich mean time. We're now 49 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll
stay live for air-to-ground ithrough Vanguard.
for 10 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.
PLT Going to fire a little TV down-llnk down,
now Bruce.
CC Okay. You want to send it down llve, you

say, or put it in the VTR?
PLT Well, the pad says to shoot a little down.
I just thought we'd - I thought that meant that we would be
setup live.
CC Okay. Let her rip, Jack. We're configured.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Okay Bruce. How do you read me?
CC Loud and clear, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'm over at the window on a headset.
We're just coming up the coast of South America at this time.
And weather looks pretty good from here. - -
CC Okay. And did you confirm the MDA video switch
is in the portable posltlon?!
SPT It's in the mon 2 position.
CC Okay. We got it now. That's correct.
Go ahead Owen.
SPT I was just going to point out that the EREP
. . . - map apparently it or _he cable of longitude versus time
was apparently in error this morning. I thought perhaps you
could send us up an update if it's convenient and give us the
right longitude. All the tiimes were about the same even
though they were distinctly different longitudes on our
pad.
CC Okay. The time for 01.3 west should be
17:56:46. Over.
SPT Okay. I didn't have a pencil out, Bruce.

Just let it go for now and I'll get it ... here.
CC Okay. This is the one that we told you
earlier that we had on hand when you had a minute to update.
SPT Sorry.
CC Just disregard the leading zeros and it's
accurate to the nearest minute.
SPT Oh, that's good. That's all we need to
know.
SPT Looks like an excellent view of Rio de la
Plata today . .. Uruguay.
CC Understand you got a view going over Rio
de la Plata. We've got a dropout here.
p_ jr
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8/22/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We[re hack with you. We

had a dropout just about the time you mentioned Rio de la
Plata, Owen. I suspect we went right o_zerhead the Vanguard.
SPT Okay, very likely so. It was clear all
the way up to Uruguay, and no_ crossing into southern Brazil,
we picked up clouds here, so as far as I can see at the moment,
we've got clouds ahead of us. We might see whether or not
Sao Paulo and Rio are in the clear.
CC Okay, and on that slider (?) map update the
middle time needs to have 2 hours added on to it, making it
17:56.
CDR Say, Bruce, have they dedicated the
Johnson Spacecraft Center yet.
CC Negatlve, AI. That' s coming up on Monday
afternoon.
CDR What time is that going to be?
CC 21:00 Z.
CDR 21:00 Z on Monday. That's about the -
That would be the 31st, huh?
CC Right.
CDR Or maybe the 27th.
CC Right.
CDR August 27th?
CC Right. Mission day 31 at 21:00 Zulu.
CDR Thank you.
SPT How does this microphone sound to you
Bruce?
CC It sounds pretty weak, Owen.
PLT Okay. We've still got cloud cover, it
looks like. Not quite yet at - up to Rio, but we're
probably passing Sao Paulo.
CC Okay. We were expecting 0.5 cloud cover.
Show you 30 seconds from closest point of approach.
SPT Okay. I can see the edge of the front
on up ahead of us here, to the northeast and by the time we
get to Rio, we might be out of that cloud cover.
CC Beautiful.
SPT Unfortunately, it's solid overcast beneath
us right here so it looks like we' ii probably not get out
from under this front until we're already north of Rio.
CC Roger, we copy, Owen. Good try.
CC One minute to LOS over the Vanguard. Next
station contact in 7 minutes Over Ascension an 19 plus 28.
SPT Okay. No luck on Rio. We did get a
couple of gocd shots at Rio de la Plata and Montevideo and
northern Argentina.
CC Roger. Don't forget to log them.
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TIME: 14:10 CDT 26/19:]_0 GMT
8/22/73
SPT Okay, Bruce. I take it back . ..

Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at the Vanguard
tracking ship. Our next: acquisition of signal 5 minutes
and 24 seconds from now will be at Ascension. During this
last pass, 0wen Garriott was attempting to get photographs
of a lagoon just on the ourskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There
were - The lagoon is named Lagao Rodrigo Defreitas. It's
located about 3 kilometers south of Rio do Janeiro. It's
a small lagoon and a kidney-shaped lagoon but cloud cover
was rather heavy in that: area, Yesterday's weather forecast
called for 0.5 cloud cover, which is partly cloudy and
there was hope that they woul_ be able to get through and
take pictures of that area. Lagao Rodrigo Defreitas
has had 26 fish kills in the last 20 years and the last fish
kill in mid June, several tons of dead fish were removed.
Sewage flowing into the lagoon has increasingly polluted it
during the last century. There's also a minimum sea water
exchange in the lagoon and deep bottom sludge supports
arobic anarobic bacteria and produces hydrogen sulfide,
which is thought to be the fish killer. No doubt that viii
be rescheduled for another day. They will make a pass
over the same area about: 5 days from now. That may be
under consideration. They do make passes frequently in
that vicinity. This is Skylab Control. It's 4 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal at Ascension. We'll
keep the line up for that acquisition in 4 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 14:24 CDT, 26/19:24 GMT
8/22/73
CC Sky,Lab, this is Houston through Ascension

for 4 minutes, we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
over the Canaries at the next station. Out.
SPT Hello, Bruce, just to keep your weatherman
happy Just after you went LOS at Vanguard, we did get a
visual on Rio_ And did get a couple of pictures of the hay on
Rio is located although it was a little too hazy to pick out
that small lagoon that was the specific target. But it was
reasonably clear over Rio ...
CC Okay, Owen, I copied after you lost
us through the Vanguard you did get a couple of pictures
looking back at the lagoon there. I'm having extreme difficulty
reading you through noise on the down-link. Over.
SPT That's about the size of it, Bruce. It was
un - not possible to get any visual identification of
that lagoon but we do have a couple of photographs of the
Rio Bay.
CC Okay, I copy you got pictures of the
Baia de Guanabara there at Rio.
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay, we're back with you with 2 minutes
until LOS through the Canaries. We had a brief data drop-
out. Next station contact is in 2-1/2 minutes at the
Canaries.
CC PLT,. Houston. We show you in the
program mode on SO54. We'd llke you to stop the operation
select single and reinitiate. Over.
PLT I just did it. Thank you very much.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab. This is Houston, back with
you through the Canaries and Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. We
will be dumping the voice data tape recorder this pass. Out.
CC Okay, Skylab. We've finished dumping
your data voice tape recorder, Out.
to LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through Guam
at 20:09. Out.
and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost
signal at the Madrid tracking station after a pass through
Ascension, Canary Islands and Madrid. Our next acquisition
of signal 24 minutes and 23 seconds from now. There has
been some additional discussien today for the preparations
of the EVA schedule Friday morning. Skylab, Commander
Alan Bean has his own ideas about crew assignments for
Friday's venture outside the space station by two of the
crew members. As planning for the space walk takes shape
in Mission Control, flight controllers have no quarrel with
Bean's decision to send Science Pilot, Owen Garriott and
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Time: 14:2_ CDT, 26/19:24 GMT
8/22/73 !
Pilot, Jack Lousma outside the space station to send film

can - to change film cannisters and to install a substitute
stabilizing system. Bean will remain in the multiple docking
adaptor as an observer. The original Flight Plan had called
for Bean to assist Owen Garriott in that EVA. On the first
trip out through the EVA hatch, Jack Lousma will scout the
panel on the Apollo telescope mount where he must connect
the 30-foot long cable for the rate gyro package that was
carried up _n this mission. Lousma's scouting will determine
whether he will have any difficulty in breaking the old
connection. He then, will return to the hatch where Garriott
will pass tlne cable and some tools including a pin-straightener
out to him. Lousma will have to disconnect the original
cables in two places and reconnect the new jumper cable into
position to bypass the circuitry going from the original rate
attitude gyros on the telescope mount to electronic black boxes
in the multiple docking adaptor, where the new gyro back
package is mounted. After the gyro package cables have been
installed, 0wen Garriott will trade places with Lousma to
retrieve the S149 particle collection experiment and to
perform routine changeout of solar observatory camera film
canisters that have been planned for the midpoint of Skylab
III. Garriott will also remove launch restraints or ramps
on the SO54, X-ray Spectrographic Telescope, and SO82A the
extreme ultraviolet corona_ spectraheliograph. These launch
restraints on the experiment doors will be removed during
that EVA. The launch restraint on S055, the ultraviolet
scanning spectroheliometer was removed during the last EVA
at the beginning of the mission. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal is 22 minutes and 7 seconds
from now. It is now 47 minutes and 24 seconds after the
hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI062/ [
Time: 15:08 CDT, 26/20:08 GMT
8/22/73

and 38 second_ Greenwich mean time. We're approaching
acquisition oE signal at the Guam tracking station. We'll
keep the line up live for air-to-ground from Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for the next 7 minutes. For the CDR.
CDR Go alhead.
CC Okay, AI, we'd like to get a readout on
the H-alpha [ frame counter so that we can assess our film
budget. And wnen you have a moment handy I have an update
to your general message 2425 Alpha regarding the coolant
loop procedures for this afternoon. Over.
CDR Okay, give me a few seconds, and I'ii be
ready to cop_.
PLT And one thing we noticed, Bruce, is that
we can' t get the H-alpha to run. We put the - put the switch
in AUTO and the light won't come on; no OPERATE light or
READY light ,either one. And no manual pictures. Are you sure
you're maybe not out of film (garble)?
CC Okay, the preliminary word I'm getting,
Jack, is that's a possibility. We'd like to get your frame
counter reading and we'll assess the situation.
PLT Okay, we'll have that for you in a jiffy.
PLT And at leisure moments our friend Professor
Owen Garriott will have some rate gyro (garble) temperatures
for you.
CC Go ahead Dr. Garriott.
PLT He's busy in the chair right now,
and I won't let him out but when he's finished with that he
can give them to you.
CC Okay.
CDR Readout on H-alpha 595.
CC Understand, 595, 595? Over.
SPT You' re right.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Okay, Bruce go ahead, I'm in update.
CC Okay, this is change to the coolant loop
procedure. If you look through it, let's see, about half to
two-thirds of the way through, you come down to panel 230.
It says to remove primary and secondary coolant heat exchanger
B valve knobs. Then it goes down a little further and inspect
B nuts. Then you get down to replace Coolant Heat exchanger
valve knobs paren 2, paren, paren, 38 standard socket, rachet
and handle, psren. Hove you found that place?
CDR That number 3, paren 3?
CC Say again.
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CDR Is that numbered paragraph 3 - paragraph 3?

CC No, it's down in paragraph 5, almost to
paragraph 6.
CDR Yeah, it's the same place. It looks
like a little sub 3. No, driver bit 3, ratchet handle -
okay, I'm there.
CC No, I don't see a driver bit - Oh, okay,
yeah, right. Driver bit 3, ratchet handle, replace coolant
heat exchanger valve knobs 2, and so on and so on. After that
statement insert verify valves are closed. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC The next statement says replace two
condensate isolation valve handles quarter standard socket
ratchet handle paren. We want to add vezlfy condensing
heat exchanger A water valves open, condensing heat exchanger
B water valves closed. Over.
CDR Okay, we want to verify condensing heat
exchanger A valves open and B close. In other words, just
like it is now.
CC That's affirmative. These are verified.
CDR Okay, got that written down. Is that it?
CC That's it, AI. And if you want the updated
times for the EREP flighter map notes, we still got them here,
but they're of minimal value to you now.
CDR No, late in the day is about the only time
we really get to use them. Go ahead and I'ii copy them down.
CC Okay, the time for the 01.3 west ascending
node should be 17:56:46. That's 17:56:46. The time for the
72.3 west ascending node is 22:36:13. That's 22:36:13. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And we're 33 seconds to LOS here at Guam.
Next station contact in 7 minutes at Honeysuckle. And the
time at Honeysuckle will be 20:23. Out.
CDR Can I give you a report now on some batteries
that (garble) earlier in the day?
CC We've only got a couple of seconds to LOS.
You probably don't have time, but start it.
CDR Okay, well, just call me at the next one
and I'ii give it to you.
CC Willco.
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SL-III MC-I063/I
Time: 15:18 CDT, 26/20:18 GMT
8/22/73

and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 4 minutes
and 20 seconds from our next acquisition of signal. We
have lost range at the Guam tracking station. We're out
of range for that antenna. And we will be picking up another
acquisition in 4 minutes at Honeysuckle. The Honeysuckle
pass is a very low elevation pass about 4 degrees above
the horizon at its maximum point. And it will be expected
to last only about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the line
up for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle to begin little
less than 4 minutes from now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 2 minutes. So we'd llke to get a momentum dump inhibit
if you'd stay off the DAS, please. Go ahead with your
message, Commander.
CDR Okay. I think they're still working
on this. I'ii try to get it in on maybe the next station.
CC Okay. This is a real short one.
Next station contact is over the Vanguard in 25 minutes, so
we can catch you there.
CC Okay. Dump inhibit is complete. You're
back on you own on the DAS.
PLT Say, Bruce, this is Jack. I wonder if
you could set up a call to my family this evening, please.
CC Understand you'd llke a call to your
wife? Over.
PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay. We'll work on it.
CC And, Skylab. We're 37 seconds from
LOS at Honeysuckle. Next station contact in 24 minutes
over the Vanguard at 20:50. Out.
CC And for your information, it's I00 days
since the launch of the workshop today.
CDR Working pretty doggone nice, isn't it?
For being a hundred days old?
CC Yeah. Have a 100-day party on us.
CDR Okay.
CC Have a 100-day party on us. Over.
CDR All right.
the Honeysuckle tracking station. We will next acquire the
spacecraft over Vanguard, that pass beginning in about
22-1/2 minutes. The Vanguard pass, another low elevation
pass, lasts only 4-1/2 minutes. During this last pass
Jack Lousma indicated he would like to speak to his wife
tonight on a private phone conversation. And the ground
-. 4"
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8/22/73
will be taking that under consideratio,_ and will certainly

be working on it during the rest of the evening. Spacecraft
communicator also announced that the Skylab has now been in
orbit for i00 days. This is Skylab Control at 28 minutes
and 22 seconds after the hour. Our next acquisition of
signal a little less than 22 minutes from now.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 15:41 CDT 26/20:41 GMT
8/22/73

and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson, who is now just abDut to break shift has given
us the time of 4:30 for a change of shift press conference
to be held in buildlng 1. Repeat, that's a 4:30 change of
shift press conference with of_-going Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson. This is Skylab Control at 41 minutes and 28
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I065/I
Time: 15:49 CDT, 26/20:49 GMT
8/22/73

and 44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approaching
the acquisition of signal through the Vanguard tracking ship.
And we expect to have acquisitlon there in about 30 seconds.
We have had an announcement thiat there ar - there is some
data coming in from telemetry. So we will stay live for
alr-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 2 minutes. Over.
CC For the CD_. We're going to be working
the questions of the EVA timellne, the APCS control modes,
and your question regarding whlether we can put the - make
the J21 connection the night biefore and check it out. And
what we'd like to plan on doin!g is getting back to you during
a series of passes, starting over Texas at 12 minutes after
midnight Zulu. That's in your first clock of presleep
activities, right after the end of the first half of the
coolant loop troubleshooting procedure and we expect to be
able to discuss these items in detail with you at that time.
Over.
CDR Okay. Sounds good, Bruce. Another
procedure that we don't have oln board, I guess you're going
to be sending up a new rate gyro procedure, although we have
one on our card, I'd llke to hiave two aboard. We don't have
a procedure that you might call a backout procedure. In event
we connect this up and power it up for the card, and it
doesn't work exactly like anybody thinks, we'd probably like
to back out of it and put it back llke it was. At least
for an hour or two. And it's probable we won't be over a sta-
tion during this time, since iit's got to be done in the
daylight. And in the daylight, we're a lot of times not
with you. We probably ought to have that procedure on board,
although we'd probably never civet use it.
CC Roger. We'll work on that item, AI, and
see what we can come up with. It's 20 seconds to LOS
Vanguard. Next station contact in 12 minutes over Canary
at 21:09. And for the SPT, if he's listening, we under-
stand you were instrumental in the early development work
on this white light pointing teiescope. If you have time this
afternoon or evening, we'd llketo get your comments put on
channel A on the tape recorder, which we can dump the CCB
(garble) tomorrow. Over.
SPT Okay. I'ii put the co--ants on channel A
and let you know when so you can dump it.
CC Okay. Thank you. You have a general
message on board pertaining to it. Out.
SPT I saw one earlier this morning. Is that
what you mean?
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8/22/73
CC Right. (garble) we're looking for your

comments.
SPT Okay.
and 42 seconds. We have lost signal at the Vanguard track-
ing ship. Our next acquisition ii minutes and 39 seconds
from now. We'll be at Canary Islands. During this last pass,
Commander Alan Bean requested the ground to repair a backout
procedure for the gyroscope package that will be installed by
Jack Lousma on Friday morning. That procedure is expected
to work successfully, but Commander Bean did indicate that
if there were some problem wllth the operations of those new
rate gyros, they would like to have a procedure for
going back to the old ones, which are operating successfully
now. Preliminary Flight Plan for that morning calls for
the EVA to begin at i0:i0 a.m. central daylight time and to
last approximately 3 hours and 25 minutes. There may be
some revisions made in that Flight Plan, but as it stands
now, it will involve Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott with
the Commander staying inside. The original plan did call
for Owen Garriott to be assisted by Commander Alan Bean. Bean
indicated that he would prefer to stay inside. Jack Lousma is
the tallest and strongest ofi the three, and he will be
working on the rate gyro pacikage. They consider the amount
of work to be done will take a great deal of effort. They
would like to balance it out between two men, rather than
having one outside doing all of the work. This is Skylab
Control, i0 minutes and 16 seconds til our next acquisition
of signal. It's now 59 minutes and 13 seconds after the
hour.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-I066/I
TIME: 16:08 CDT 26/21:08 GMT
8/22/73

40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 45 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Canary Islands. This
pass will carry us through both the Canary Islands and
Madrid as we are on revolution number 1447. We will keep
the line live now for air-to-ground through Canary Islands
and Madrid, a pass that will last more than i0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PLT Hank, a question on SO19, our NUZ is
reading minus 7.2 up here, and the one on the pad is minus 9.1.
I'm wondering if everybody down there thinks we ought
to go with the onboard one or not?
CC Would you say the question again? I didn't
quite understand it.
CDR All right. I'm looking at the NUZ for S019
pad. I'm wondering if the one we got on board is considered to be
any good? We're reading minus 7.2 on board, and the one on
the pad is minus 9.1. I'm wonder if everybody thinks the
one on board is good enough to go ahead and use it to make
the correction?
CC Okay. Stand by i.
SPT Hank, here comes some rate gyro temps, if
you are ready to copy.
CC Roger, go ahead, SPT.
SPT Okay. These were made at 19:40 Zulu today.
The voltage is reading 2.98. X-56, Y-56, Z-56, in the
following order. 94.1, 93.7, 93.4, 92.1, 93.7, 90.2. And
that Z-6, as I mentioned before is in sort of in front of a
blower, makes it probably a little cooler. Over.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC PLT, Houston - -
CDR I can read you some information that you
y'all asked for this morning about battery status up here.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. I'm referring to message number 2629.
A, the answer is 6 (garble) B, the answer is 25, which
are all of them. They're still there. C, the answer is
18, all of them. E, the answer is 4, whlch is all of them.
F, the answer is 12, which is all of them. Question two
then asks: What's the quanity of polaroid film used to date.
We've used two packages, but we expect to use it all up
before we return.
CC Roger. We copied it all except Delta, and
you dropped out.
SPT Delta, the answer is 15, which is all of
them except the three we put in there.
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8/22/73
CC Roger. We copy. And for the PLT, the

NUZ he should use is the one on board. The minus 7.2.
PLT Thank you.
CDR He was trying to find out if
you wanted me to make another lock on and update it.
CC Stand by i.
CC ASCO advises a star is not available now,
and the minus 7.2 looks pretty good.
CDR Okay.
CDR You might mention this to the ATM back
room there, that it looks llke that S056 has hung up a
couple of times today, and patroled short. It made - The operate
light stayed on. It stayed in filter i, but it Just stayed there
llke that, never- the light never went out.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR The latest one was the one about 3 minutes
ago •
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Jack's going to be using channel A during
this night pass. I'm supposed to go down and run 131 here
with AI. So it's going to be a little while before I can get
these comments on that portable telescope down there at
Gibson. Now what I'll try to do is to get them on channel A
as soon as I can. You know, this afternoon or evening. And
I don't know how soon they can be transferred off the tape
and over to Ed and others who are interested in it. But,
I'ii get them on there, probably within the next couple of
hours. Do you think that will be useful?
CC Okay. I think we can hack it from there,
Owen.
SPT Okay.
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SL-III MCI067/I
Time: 16:18 CDT, 26/21:18 GMT
8/22/73
CC Skylab, Houston i minute to LOS; Honeysuckle

at 57 with a voice data recorder dump.
the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition 33 minutes
from now will be at Carnarvon, Australia. Sometime during
the next few minutes Flight Director Neil Hutchinson should
be prepared to leave mission control center. That change-
of-shift briefing scheduled for 4:30 p.m. should begin
just approximately on time. This is Skylab Control at
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SL III MC-I068/I
TIME: 17:19 CDT 26/22:19 GMT
8/22/73

28 seconds Greenwich mean time. We recorded our pass over
the Australian Honeysuckle tracking station. Carnarvon
pass was too low for any acquisition of signal. The
Honeysuckle pass was recorded. We'll play back that record-
ing for you at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
7-1/2 mlnutes _
PLT Okay, Hank. I'm back up on the ATM.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for
a few minutes for a dump enable.
PLT She_s all yours, Hank.
CC PLT, Houston. Your panel looks good,
and if it's convenient we'd llke to ask a couple of questions
about the H-alpha funnies.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. What is frames remaining readout
now?
PLT 595 Hank.
CC Okay, and does the READY LIGHT remain ON
when the prerequisites are met. In other words, door open,
heater on, camera power on, and any frame rate selected on
the H-alpha frames per minute,
PLT We've got all of those prerequisites met
and the READY LIGHT and the OPERATE LIGHT have both remained
out.
CC Understand. Both out.
PLT That's affirmative.
PLT The light has not burned out. It's working.
CC PLT, Houston. We suspect we' re out of
film.
PLT We're sort of guessin@ the same thing.
What does your frame count show down there?
CC PLT, Houston. We keep up with that
manually down here, and our count last night was 798. We
haven't brought it up to date yet.
CC And Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
PLT Thank you, Hank.
PLT Say, Hank, does (garble) mob think that S056
is hung up in active i long?
CC Stand by i.
CC PLT, Houston. It looks like to us that
we just finished active i long.
PLT Okay, I've got the OPERATE light stuck ON,
and nothing happening. I'm back in filter i, so I'ii give
it a stop and restart it.
CC We copy.
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TIME: 17:19 CDT 26/22:19 GMT
8/22/73
PAO Skylab Comtrol 22_hours 22 minutes and

25 seconds Greenwich mean time. That concludes the
recording of the pass over Honeysuckle made during the
press conference. Our next acquisition of signal 18 minutes
from now will be at Bermuda. This is Skylab Control at
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8/22/73

and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about a minute
and 50 seconds from acquisition of signal at Bermuda. The
Bermuda pass will last about 8 minutes. During that last pass
over Honeysuckle about half an hour ago, the ground indicated
that they now believe that the H-alpha telescope equipment
is out of film. That does not completely correspond with
information relayed from the spacecraft, because it indicates
that there i_; some film left in there. Because of this
disagreement they are considering now doing another run of
H-alpha. But, that does call attention for the need of
replacing film in those cameras, ATM being used very actively
during this nission, already in the 26th day of the mission,
we have completed more ATM than the entire first mission of
Skylab. So, that H-alpha camera does appear to be very low
on film, it used approximately 10 000 frames already. That
will be refilled by Owen Garriott during the EVA on Friday morning.
This is Skylab Control, we're now about 50 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Bermuda. We'll remain llve for
acquisition there.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
6-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Some comments on the
aurora. The probability of an aurora is high for the next
couple of days. In fact, one was observed in Alaska earlier
today. The spacecraft will be in position to see the aurora
this evening between approximately sunset and on to midnight.
The two best times will be 00:24 to 00:35. And 01:57 to 02:08.
And the best window is STS number 4.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to know if
you've had any trouble with the MI31 chair, we saw it shut
down at HoneTsuckle in the OGI mode.
SPT Hank, there was no problem with the run
on the chair. We Just threw an arm or leg out a little bit,
and it caused the chair to fault. And we just reset it and
completed a 150 head movements with no symptoms. And, I'm just
now putting on channel A, the information for Ed Gibson and
AI Holt for your next tape dump. Over.
CC Okay. Good show, Owen. Did you copy
the message on the aurora?
SPT I ti_ink we got it all right. Just a
high probability tonight. And, Jack or AI, I think has the
rest.
CC Okay. Good show. Thank you.
LOS, be coming up on Madrid at 00:52.
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PAO Skylab Control. We have gone out of

range now oi! the Bermuda tracking station_ as the space-
craft passes over the Atlantic Ocean. We will soon have an
acquisition again, that acquisition to be at Canary Islands
in about a minute. And that will follow - will be followed
immediately by Madrid acquisition. The pass through Madrid
lasting an additional 9 minutes. This is Skylah Control
we will remain live for alr-to-ground through Canary Islands
and Madrid, about 40 seconds from now.
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TIME: 17:49 CDT 26/22:49 GMT
8/22/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid

for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT, reference your
request for private phone comm tonight. Your wife is not
available in the earlier part of the evening and we've got
the comm coming up on the EVA and the evening status report and
your SOl9 ops. That Just sort of precluded being done this
evening. We'll have to try again tomorrow I suppose.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
SPT Hello Hank, are you there?
CC Roger, Skylab. 9 minutes.
SPT Great. Looks llke Jack just made some
more temperature measurements over here. I'Ii read them
down to you, if you'd like.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
SPT Okay. The measurements were made at 22:40
Zulu. And voltage is 2.96 volts. And we have it connected
to the (garble) minus, but that doesn't really make any
difference. And in the same order, X-56, Y-56, Z-56. 94.4
92.5, 94.0, 90.6, 95.3, 89.3. Over.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead. Hank, he can hear you.
CC Okay. On this next daylight cycle. Any-
time after the start of day, we'd like to acquire the - to
bring up the star according to the pad, with the one exception
that we think the outer gimbal would be better at minus 1690. It -
that angle is changing rather rapidly now, and we'd like to
bring it up and get some data for a Z-axis rate gyro drift
check, and we want the shutter closed at no later than 23:42.
PLT Okay, Hank. I'Ii do that. And what is the
star again, Achernar? I don't have the pad in front of me,
but I guess it's on the pad.
CC Roger. It's Achernar.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're about 20 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up cn Carnarvon at 25.
CC PLT, if you can still read me. We want to
get at least 20 minutes of drift data done.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours i minute and
34 seconds Greenwich mean time. That last message from
spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfleld apparently did not
get through tc the spacecraft, which was just then going
over the hill at Madrid. Our next acquisition of signal
23 minutes and 47 seconds from now will be at Carnarvon in
Australia. This is Skylab Control at i minute and 56 seconds
after the hour.
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8/22/73

and 50 seconds Greenwich meantime. We're now 43 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia,
tracking station. We have the llne up for live alr-to-ground
through Carnarvon and we do have an acquisition of signal
there now. We will remain llve for alr-to-ground from the
spacecraft through Carnarvon and through the Honeysuckle
tracking station.
CC PLT, Houston. Would you bring up the
star tracker for us, please?
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Would you bring up the star tracker
for us, please?
PLT Okay.
CDR Hey, Hank, I'm workin E this coolant
problem and there's Just some of these screws that don't
want to come out. They - they were put in here pretty hard.
I don't know whether it was with impact or what. And they've
been painted a couple of times and, man, they just don't come
out.
CC Roger. I suspected some of those would
be difficult. I guess if we can't get them out we're really
stuck.
CDR The only thing we got left is Jack Lousma,
he can give them a go. We'll pick out the hard ones and
let's see how he does. And if he doesn't do it, we can forget
it. I had a (garble) punch on one, and it Just doesn't want to
budge.
CC Okay, if Lousma can't do it, I don't
think it's humanly possible. And then we'll let you tell us
which ones you couldn't get out and we'll kind of figure
it from there what we're going to do.
PLT Okay, I measured gimbal angles , Hank
but I don't see any star there.
CC PLT, Houston. ASCO says you had the
star at minus 1538 on the outer glmbal.
PLT I'm afraid she's locked up, Hank.
CC Okay, we see that. Thank you, Jack.
PLT Want me to close her now or do you want
to leave it open for a while?
CC Negative, we want to leave it open
until 23:42 to get some data.
PLT Okay, and I thought you wanted it closed
a lot later then. You want me to leave it and get it precisely
at 23:42. Is that right?
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CC That's affirmative. I - I misread that

to you a while ago, Jack.
PLT Okay, so close it not earlier than 23:42.
Is that correct?
PLT Okay, thank you, Hank.
for one of you to answer, when you're taking the temperature
measurements on the rate gyros, how long on the average does
it take for the temperature reading to stabilize on that
(garble)?
PLT (garble) on there about a minute,
Hank. Owen's down there, he'll probably answer too.
CC Okay, I guess - I guess what we wondered
is if the te=_peratures are stabilized out real well at the
end of a minute. Is it still!changing a little bit, or does it
seem to be pretty steady at the end of a minute?
PLT Seems to be pretty steady in (garble)
plus or minus . 2 or 3.
CC Roger, we copy.
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CC PLT, Houston. Just a little reminder,

there. Since we did bring the star tracker up and got a
NuZ update, your roll readout probably changed. So for
the rest of the pass, we wanit you to use whatever's on the
counter now. Don't roll back to the pads angle. Stay
where you are.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for
a minute there, during hando!ver. Did the PLT copy what I
said about the roll?
PLT Yeah. Hank. I remember distinctly put-
ting that at i0 800. I looked up there after the star
tracker and rolled back to tihe experiment position. And I
couldn't figure out what hapipened. I thought I was losing
my mind, but I'm glad to hear there's an ezplanation for it and
I copied, you want me to leave it there for the rest of the
rev, or for the rest of the coronal hold JOP (garble), is
that right?
CC That's affirmative. In other words, when
we get a NU-Z update it changes your roll counter. But we
want your pointing to stay right where you are right now.
In other words, don't try to go to the pad value, again.
PLT Okay. You want me to stay there for the
s_ep 2 of !5 Alfa_ building block 33A, right?
:CC - - That's affirmative.
PLT Okay. I won't move it. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Texas at 12. And as a reminder,
over that stateside pass, we plan to discuss the EVA with
you.
PLT Okay, Hank. And with the little roll
misalignment I've got put in there, it looks llke we're still
pointed at the coronal hold, according to XUV monitor.
CC Roger. We copy. The canister should
not have moved at all, Jack. It's just when Gamma R changed
that changed your readout there.
PLT What is my experiment roll now, then?
Is it i0 615, or i0 800?
CC i0 615. Whatever you're reading on your
counter, is your roll, now.
PLT Okay. What I'm saying is, it looks like
even a i0 615, instead of i0 800 that we're still in coronal
hold.
CC Roger. That's affirmative. We are
satisfied with your pointing.
and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at the Honeysuckle tracking station after a pass through
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Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. Our next acquisition about

30 minutes from now, will be at the Merritt Island station.
That will be a lO-minute pass through Merritt Island.
During this last pass, AI Bean, indicated that he was having
some trouble removing screws that hold panels on in front
of the coolant loops, that he is suppose to inspect during
the evening. He is scheduled to be inspecting those from
5:30 p.m. central daylight time, to about half an hour
before he goes to bed, with some interruption of that. He
did say he was having difficulty getting the screws off be-
cause they have been either tightened too tight, or because
they had been painted over. And the ground indicated they may
ask Jack Lousma, or Jack Lousma may have to work on some of
the harder ones. Jack is the biggest member of the crew
and the strongest. But, whether or not it's going to be
possible to take those off, we don't know at this time. That
would interfere, of course, with the continued inspection for
the leak in the coolant system. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition 29 minutes, 20 seconds from now. It's
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TIME: 19:11 CDT 21:00:11 GMT
8/22/73
PAO Skylab Control at 0 hours ii minutes and

48 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we are
47 seconds from acquisition o_ signal over the United States.
This pass through Merrltt Island and Bermuda will last
approximately 15 minutes. We will remain live for alr-to-
ground through the U.S. and Bermuda stations.
CC Sky]Lab, Houston over the States for the
next 14 minutes.
CDR Hello, Rusty.
CC Hello. You guys ready to talk EVA?
CDR You bet. Start talking.
CC Okay. First, in answer to a couple of
questions you came down with. We do not want to do the J21
connection out of sequence. That is tomorrow, rather than
during the EVA prep, because there are crossed wires in
that J-21 Y connector down there which would preclude us
from getting a lot of signals into the ATM C&D. We would
prefer not to do that_ but rather stick with the sequence
as it is listed right now. In case, for whatever reason,
you run into problems during the EVA prep in performing that,
we can simpl_7 slip the hatch opening for you.
CDR Okay, in other words - see, we have not
seen an integrated procedure up here as far as what time
each of these comes off. We got most of the parts, we got
all of, for example, that particular procedure, but when we
do that relative to when we put on suits is not so clear,
for example.
CC Okay. We've been going like a bunch of
beavers down here and we expe_t to get you the procedure up
there tonight. Let me go on to answer to your second
question here. We would prefer not to do the simulation of
the APCS thing tomorrow, that is, the control mode thing.
We have done it down here on about four different simulators.
All of them look very good. We have, essentially no question
about that procedure and the technique. We feel what we
need to do for you is give you a good understanding of what
it is we' re asking you to do, and we intend to do that both
tonight within the next few minutes and then following the
procedures which as I said were coming up tonight, we hope
tomorrow night at about this same time to go into any more
detail that you'd llke and answer any questions that you've
come up with after you've had a chance to go over them.
CDR Okay. That sounds good.
CC Okay then. Unless you've got some other
questions, I'll go ahead and start into the EVA and give
you what we would consider an overview on what that will
look like.
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CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We agree with your suggestion about
having Jack reconnoiter the connectors out there for the
rate gyro replacement. We plan at this time to have hatch
opening durin_ the daylight, during a daylight pass, with
about 20 minutes of day remaining. That should give Jack
plenty of time to go ahead out and take a look at the
connectors and compare them with what he's got in his
memory locat[cns from the photographs as to what they were
supposed to i¢ok like. We propose that at that time, going
into night, ycu can press on with the remainder of the EVA
work or any part of it that you feel that you'd like to do
along the EVA trail at night. That is, you can put out the
sail samples or start the center work station activity if
you feel comfortable with the time. Our only constraint
is that prior to the next sunrise, you be in a position
where you're ready to start the rate gyro pack activities.
The plan -- Go ahead, A1.
CDR I was going to say, we - from my experience
up here, the chance of hitting the hatch opening 20 minutes prior
to sunset a_e small. I mean sunrise or after sunrise or
whatever. Because just the amount of variables that are
taking place serially there, anyone of which can throw
you off schedule. So, it seems to me that what we'll do
is sort of work toward it, with the idea in mind that whatever
daylight pass we get out on, then we'll use that one.
Whatever amount of time there is to do.
CC As far as we're concerned, AI, you guys
seem to enjoy EVA and we don't have very many constraints
down here on Tzhe time. You can take whatever time you
want to get a comfortab].e feeling that you know what
you're going izo be doing out there. As I say, right now,
the hatch opening is scheduled with 20 minutes of day
remaining. E you beat that, fine, you can do whatever
part of the EVA you want. The only thing that we want to do is
to start the actual rate gyro cable installation at sunrise.
CDR We're with you, and we'll do that.
CC Yeah, at any sunrise, you know, after you get
out, but preferably the first sunrise after you get out. That's
your choice r_hough, depending on how you feel. Okay,
going into that pass, then, we will have, during the EVA
prep, configured the CSM in a stand by condition for take-
over in case of loss of attitude control and I'll say a
few more words later about the rules we've got here or
the guidelines we'd like to suggest for takeover. In any
case you'll be just a couple of DAS entries and a couple
of circuit breakers in throwing the CMC to AUTO away from
attitude control with tlhe command module.
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CDR Roger. That's the procedure that seems to

already be on the checklist that we have pasted in at the
momen t.
CC That's correct and the only change to that ,
one which you're going to notice on this stuff we're send-
ing up to you tonight is that we want you to be in solar
inertial when you throw the switch to get II_ power on.
That is, we want to have the IMU 000 in solar inertial.
That's our only change. Okay, the activities then, at
sunrise, we want EV I and 2 to press on with the cable
installation outside up to but not including the J-3 WCIU
work. That is, we would want the trunnion plug plate activities
completed and you can be out there and in position to
break the WCIU connector and at that point, we would have
to hold for these other internal activities. Okay,
independent of what EV I and 2 are doing, AI, as EV 3 inside,
you have one task to do there which is to switch the
control mode to a TACS only solar inertial mode at a minimum
HT condition. Now, that: will -
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8/22/73
MCC - - which is to switch the control

mode to a TACS only solar inertial mode, at a minimum HT
condition. Now that'll occur 45 degrees before local noon on
your orbit phase clock,, that'll be 42 minutes of day remaining.
At that time, you're Just going to inhibit CMG control and
do a nominal H-cage.
CDR At 42 minutes, or whenever Jack's
ready?
MCC Negative. At 42 minutes. We want you
to do that control mode switching at a minimum HT. Now minimum
HT should occur at 42 talnutes of day remaining. So, what
we're saying is Just at 42 minutes of day remaining on your orbit
phase clock, you'll he doing that, and you'll see that in
this checklist that's coming up.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay. The only reason that we're doing
that on minimum HT, is to save TACS. It's not really critical but
we would like to save as much TACS as we can for obvious
reasons. ()kay. About 5 minutes after you've been in that
control mode, we figure that you're over - you're stable, that
the TACS rates are down, that you're essentially firing one
(garble) on rare occasion, Just bouncing off the edge of
the dead bands. If Jack is ready, at that point, you'll go
ahead and switch back to CMG control, you'll then go into
standby and - Look there's no sense in copying this stuff
down, it'll _e in the checklist. But I'm Just giving you
the briefing here. You'll switch to the standby mode, you'll
inhibit CMG again, and you'll do a nominal H-cage. Now this
puts you into a standby mode with the CMGs driving to nominal
H. In other words, you're - We're open loops, commanding the
spacecraft attitude. The CMGs will be tracking nominal H and
you should have a very very slow attitude drift, if any, with
the vehicle off solar inertial attitude.
CDR Okay. Looking at the procedure, my only
question was, when you do that nominal H-cage right then, it
looks like it's going to give you some rate, at that moment.
And then any drift will be superimposed upon those rates.
MCC When you switch back into nominal H-cage,
there, you will get a slight attitude excursion and back in
again, the rates should essentially go back to the zero. You
may have a slight bump in your attitude, but that's all.
The rates should be essentiallyzero, after you do that
nominal H-cage.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay. Jack will then go ahead with his
J-3 WCIU connection outside. After he gets that complete,
then you will hook the J-2 connector into the control distribu-
tor on the six-pack. That doesn't get connected until after
the external connections are made. And you'll hit the circuit
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breakers off momentarily, hook up J-2, and then turn the

circuit breakers right back on again on the six-pack.
CDR Okay. Understand that.
MCC Okay. At that point, you'll bring the
rate gyros back on, on the rack, do some other DAS commands,
which you'll find on the checklist, and then will switch back
into solar inertial mode.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay. We'll save any more details on that
until tomorrow night. [Let me hit a couple of other things
here.
CDR Let me ask you a question.
MCC Go ahead.
CDR How long - Could this thing drift two
orbits and still be satisfactory?
MCC We would expect that we can't go that
long, AI. We see that the only time you're in standby mode,
here, is while you're breaking and remaking the J-3 connector
outside, and then plugging J-2 in on inside. That's the
only time you have to be in standby. We think that that's
about a 5- to 10-mlnute pass. We should have no trouble in
doing that, with the daylight remaining, if we get started
at Sunrise. However, we can keep on going if we run into
any kind of a problem, we can always bring up the CS_4. There's
no problem with bringing it up. And I' ii talk to you about that
in a minute
CDR Okay. I was trying to get a feel for
the time available as opposed to the time required. Well, I
think we've got a feel for the time required.
MCC Okay. The time available, we see you've
got until next Sunrise. We would llke to be somewhere near
solar inertial attitude for power considerations at the
following Sunrise. Now, if -At the J-3 connector in WCIU,
we think that you have enough light there that you can go
ahead and work that, even after Sunset. But we expect you'll
get it done during daytime.
CDR Okay. We do too. But, just trying to
understand iv_. Okay. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, AI. It looks to us if we work
out the numbers, you've got 37 minutes of daylight plus about
30 minutes of night. So it looks llke you've got about
an hour and lO minutes that you can take to do this, before
we get Sunrise. Okay. Let me press on here. We've got
about a minute and 50 seconds left in this pass. The night
before the EVA, that is tomorTow night, there are a couple
of things we' re going to be doing here on the ground in
order to prepare for this rate-gyro swltehover. We're going
to be taking the course patch out and going back to fine
control on the rate gyros. We're also going to be setting all
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the scale factors to unity in anticipation of getting the

six-pack in. And we're also going to set up the drift -
the drift compensation in the ATM DC again anticipating the
six-pack hookup. All of those things will be done tomorrow
night, commanded from the ground. Okay. Let me say just
a word here about the CSM takeover recommendations. As
far as attitude constraints are concerned, during this free
mode, or during this so-called drift mode, or while you're
on standby, the only attitude constraint we see, is that
we'd like to make sure that you stay out of command module
gimbal lock, so we have a viable CSM takeover capability.
There are no other attitude constraints during it, except that
the following Sunrise, we do want to get into solar inertial
to get the power up. On the rate takeover, that is take
over for unusual rates or anything of that kind, we're saying
we want you to use your judgement on that. If it looks as
though you're not going to get control of the rates and
they're disturbing you, go ahead and feel to take over with
the command module. We've got 15 seconds left in the pass.
If you activate the CSM for control, there's no constraint
as far as the impingement of the RCS thrusters, on the crew's
concern. We're about to LOS here. We've got Madrid coming
up at 30::16.
CDR See you at Madrid. Ask the Flight
Planners to take a look at this Flight Plan for tomorrow, and
see if they can figure out a way to give us an addi-
tional hour and a half or two hours for EVA preprep, so
that we can make sure that we understand it. We'll walk
through it oLrselves. We'll have (static) - -
and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. During that last pass
final words _rom Alan Bean were a request that Flight Planners
reconsider tc,morrow's Flight Plan, and make changes to allow
them an additional hour to hour and a half for EVA pre-
preparation. As it's scheduled now, they have approximately
2 hours for the Science Pilot to work on EVA preprep, an
hour to an hour and a half for the two other members of
the crew. Be:an said he would like additional time to consider
"that. During this last pass, Rusty Schweickart, who has
been workin_ on some of these procedures discussed the EVA
with the crew. That may be expected to continue to some
degree during this Madrid pass upcoming in a minute and
50 seconds from now. Good deal of discussion during that
pass about tomorrow's EVA - about Friday's EVA. They indicated
there would Le no simulation of the APCS for tomorrow. That
is to say, there will not be a test of the procedures used
to control t_is attitude of the spacecraft. The reason for
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that is, that they do not know the torques that will be
given on the - put on the spacecraft by the movement of
crewmen during the EVA. Andithey don't feel a simulation
in space would be of much assistance to them at this point.
Indication was, that the crew should attempt to make a
hatch opening about 20 minutes before nightfall. That
would allow Lou - Jack Lousma a time to look around and see
how the parts do fit together. Commander Bean indicated
that he thought there were so many variables in getting out
of the hatch that it was very difficult to work for an
exact time, 20 minutes before nightfall. But that will he
their goal. They should start the rate gyro installation at
the following sunrise, after they do get out. So, Jack may
be expected to get out and take a look at the sltuatlon_ go
through a nightfall period, in which he does some additional
work and then be ready for that rate gyro installation
immediately following the next Sunrise. They did indicate
they wanted to save TACS gas iby maintaining attitude control
very carefully. Rusty said for obvious reasons, the obvious
reasons being that the TACS thruster attitude control system
gas is relatively low after a great deal of it was use - -
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PAO Rusty said for obvious reasons, the

obvious reasons being that the TACs thruster attitude
control system gas is relatively low after a great deal
of it was used during the first manned mission of Skylab,
particularly during a docking procedure. We're now 15 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Madrid. We'll remain llve
for elf-to-ground through Madrid.
MCC Skylab, Houston at Madrid.
CDR Hello, there, Rusty, we're listening.
MCC Okay, we - you cut out on us there as
we were going over the hill. We got your request for
some extra time for the EVA preprep. And be advised, we're
taking a look at that. We've got a CBRM test scheduled
tomorrow which we consider high priority that'll take somebody
during the night passes• Bur we are looking at trying to
give you as much time as we can. We do have quite a bit
scheduled for you as you'll see in the flight plan. Let
me say one more word, A1 to give you a little bit of feel
for this attitude control on how much time you've got. If
we needed at any time we can bring up the CSM and get
ourselves back into solar inertial at a relatively low
cost. If we wanted to go CSM control it'd cost us about
8 to 10 pounds per rev to maintain solar inertial using
CSM active• We obviously would prefer not to do that but
there's no problem at all inl doing that to get ourselves
back into solar inertial. And we could do that coming up
to second sunrise and then simply inhibit the CSM control
again during the next daylight pass. So we got a lot of
flexibility there and we want to make sure you understand that•
CDR Okay, the way I understand it is, we'd
prefer to do it with the auto mode. But talking about
extensive rates or anything which we don't except - don't
expect but let's say it didn't skip the gyro, I mean the
platform, we still would have SPS, would we not?
MCC That's c!orrect.
CDR Okay, I iunderstand. I Just want to
make sure• Okay•
CDR Go ahead _, we're not hearing you right now.
MCC Stand by. That's because I ain't talking
right now. Be right back with you.
CDR Think maiybe we could - We think maybe
we could come up with some elxtra time tomorrow if we did
some of the synoptic ATM earily in the morning and then
dropped out a few of tlhe ATM passes during the day along
with the things like t[he BMMD sub, and TV25, and a couple
of others, that would break ilt open where we could - all
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three of get together and work the problem.

MCC Okay, I'!ii tell you what. We copy that
and we'll be looking at it, AI. Okay, just a couple of
other words on -on our plans here. We intend, AI, to have
the batteries up to a hundred percent state of charge within
about 20 to 25 minutes into the daylight pass on - on the
revs. You're going to be doing this rate gyro pack thing.
That is, we - we expect to have a hundred percent state of
charge in the batteries before we go into the standby mode.
Now one of the things that we planned to do is to reduce
the total workshop load, electrical load _ that is, during the
EVA prep. A primary means of doing thisi is going to be by
utilizing ground commanded loads such aslMDA wall heaters,
and the like. However, we do anticipate!some likelihood of
asking you to turn off the OWS lights an_ OWS fans prior to
egressing the OWS. This will improve our situation as far
as any demand on the batteries is concerned.
CDR Sounds reasonable.
MCC Okay, aside from that, we have no particular
other thinss to add. And if you got any questions why don't
you fire away?
CDR Okay, give me a little synopsis of the
sequence of events. For example, before we suit up do we
go power up the command module then we go install the plug
under the ATM kickplate, then we go down and put on our suits,
and then we go down kind of nominal from there? I think I under-
stand it from that point on, It's the sequence before that.
MCC Okay, the efforts of the first part is
that - we do the configuration on the command module prior to
suiting up. Stand by Just a second, and I'Ii tell you where
we stand on the others.
MCC Okay, the answer is that you also do the
J21 before >ou suit up. So all of the rate gyro prep is
done prior to the suit-up. In fact - -
CDR Okay, that sounds real good, because
then if we ran into problems, which we don't expect to, we
could - would be in a good Clothing condition to fix them.
MCC Right. And - and that is the case. In
fact, it's essentially the first thing you do during the
EVA prep is to go ahead with the rate gyros prep cue card.
And we are going to be sending you up a complete rate gyro
cue card this evening with all of the changes in it that'll
replace the one you got on board.
CDR Okay, send me two then if you would.
MCC We copy.
CDR Hank, in this prep I noticed the prep
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that I have now doesn't go into the details of exactly how

the tether, the EVA table, the tools, and the light. Now,
does this new prep have the technique or should- that's
why I'm kind of concerned about having enough time tomorrow
to work it out.
MCC The - the one we're sending up tonight
does not go into any detail. We felt that you're in a better
position up there to figure out how you'd llke the details
on that tether ring. Then - all we did was ask you to go
ahead and - and do that.
CDR Okay, that's good. That's why we need
the time to - to walk it through and get them all laid out
and make sure everybody understands his role. And so that's
the reason for the time right there. Understand.
MCC Okay. By the way, we've got about 40 seconds
left here at Madrid.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Carnarvon, by the way, will be at
01:04, and we'll be expecting the evening status report there.
MCC Okay, now on this - when we do make J21
or whatever it is under the ATM panel, whatever the official
name is, what capability have we lost? Like we up here, can
we still - we still hold attitude, we still see what the
gyro's doing and everything else? Is that correct?
MCC Yes, sir. You have done nothing with the
APCS at that point. The only you've done is interrupt some
TV signals flowing in and out of the ATMBC - in and out of
the ATM C&D, and some of your alert condition lights.
CDR Okay.
MCC Sayonara.
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. We lost signal at the
Madrid tracking station there at the end of that conversation
between Rusty Schweickart, who was filling the roll as space-
craft communicator there temporarily, and Alan Bean, the
Commander of the spacecraft. Additional discussion during
this pass of the planned extravehicular activity scheduled
for about: i0 a.m. on Friday morning. Just before we lost
signal at the Bermuda tracking station before this Madrid
pass, Commander Bean indicated that he would llke an additional
1 to 1-1/2 hours for EVA prepreparation tomorrow evening. They
will make some steps - will take some steps to correct that.
One of the problems that's involved in making that additional
time available is that there is time set aside now for house-
keeping 70Y. Housekeeping 70Y in the flight plan is - is
a call for investigation of a CBRM, a test of one of the charger
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batter regulator modules that's scheduled for several of

the nighttime passes tomorrow that'll be Pilot, Jack Lousma's
duty. They will however, try to work around that and make
more time available for prepireparation for that extravehicular
activity on Friday. Our next acquisition of signal 24 minutes
from now. This is Skylab Cointrol at 40 minutes and 25 seconds
after the hour.
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30 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we
are 50 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon
station in Australia. We'll keep the line up for live
air-to-ground through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 6
minutes.
PLT Hello Hank. Is this evening status time.
CC That's affirmative. We're ready to go.
PLT Okay. Urine volume: 168, 200, 165.
Water gun: 5371, 8836, 6009. Are you with me?
CC Stand by i, we're copying here, but we'd
like to get someone to bring up Achernar on the star tracker
prior to these S019 ops here. Just for a few seconds.
The outer gimbal should be minus 1700.
PLT Okay. I think Owen will get that. You want
me to go on?
CC Roger. And if we could get the DAS for
a minute, we'll do a dump inhibit, and you may proceed.
PLT Okay. Okay. BMMD: Commander, 6.257, 6.259,
6.266. SPY, 5.967, 5.966, 5.963. PLT, 6.952, 6.949, 6.951.
Exercise. Commander, 2/35/5002, 3/15/mark I. Stand by.
Okay. Continuing with the Commander. He had - that
3/15/mark i was 50A, 20B, 20C, 20D, and 20E. In addition,
he had number 3/10/mark 2. 40A, 20B, 20C, 10B, and i0 of
the other thing, whatever it is.
CC On that star tracker your inner gimbal
should be plus 1765.
PLT SPT: 2/30/4350, 2/10/mark i. PLT:
2/33/7229, 1/05/0567, 3/20/mark I. 50A, 20B, 20 Dogs,
20 backbends. Sleep: Commander, 6 good, all 6 good.
Flight Plan deviations: The PLT did not do his hand held
photos of South America due to conflict of other activities.
Unscheduled stowage item location changes: towels, 5 blue
and 3 white from 737 to the waste management compartment.
Towels, 3 red from 738 to waste management compartment.
Salt packs: The Commander used 4, the SPT used 4. Deviations
for the SPY: add one peanuts and three ounces of water.
I don't know if he had that with the peanuts or not. PLT,
12-1/2 salt packs, add i apple drink, i butter cookie. Any
question on the evening report? If not, I'ii go on to the
photo log. You there?
CC Roger. No questions. We can close the
star tracker and go on with the photo log.
PLT Okay. Day 234, 16 millimeter activity
was: M151, that was for S092/171. Supplied C150, percent
21, takeup C140. Number 2: M487-4 Echo, C144, 16 percent
remaining, C142. 35 millimeter: CI101 has 55, CXI3 had 46.
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70 millimeter: CX25 has 045. Drawer A: Alfa i, transporter

07, C150, 21 percent, C140. No change - correction. No change
of A-2, A-3, or A-4. And at the back we got transporter 0-2,
supplied C144, 16 percent; C142. That's it.
CC Roger. We copy, Jack. And we're just
about LOS. We're comi_ng up on Honeysuckle at 16.
SPT Say, Hank. I'd like to do a little bit
of VTR recording here, and the knob has come off our video
selector switch. Can you tell me at the moment, whether
or not it is in monitor i or TV, monitor 2 or whatever it's
in?
CC It's in monitor 2.
SPT Thank you.
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PAO Skylab Control we went out of range

of the Carnarvon tracking station for a short period of time.
We are back to - Coming in contact with the Honeysuckle
tracking station in the next minute and a half. And we
will stay live for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through
Honeysuckle for about a minute. And for the SPT, you're
clear to close the star tracker shutter.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'd like to get you, if you would,
whoever's u:_ing the VTR to do us a rewind so we'll be ready
to dump at __::eStates w:hen you're through with it.
SPT Okay. That's about 5 minutes on
there now. So, I'ii stop it and rewind it now.
CC Okay. And real quick. In a few seconds
we've got left here, with your concurrence we're going to
give you a :Little more time for the EVA prep tomorrow start
working on t:_e ... What it amounts to is for the CDR,
deleting the BMMD subs, the TV 25 and reducing the last ATM
pass to synoptic only. For the SPT, deleting an ATM pass on
TV 25, and deleting an ATM pass for the PLT.
CDR Okay, Hank. That sounds good. We'll
work on that, wfth that in mind. And we'll expect the
new pads that are that 'way, I guess.
CC Roger. We'll work on those, then we'll
b.e getting ahem up to you.
CC And, Skylab. We're about LOS. We'll
be coming up on Texas at 46 for your reed conference.
and 7 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range
of the Honeysuckle tracking station, a very short pass through
that station. Our next acquisition of signal 27 minutes and
18 seconds from now, will be at Texas. During this Texas
pass, the doctors have scheduled a private medical conference,
the regular daily health status report from the crew. And
we do not expect to hear from the crew immediately at the
beginning of the Texas pass, because this is a long pass
through Texas, about 10.-1/2 minutes. Almost certainly part
of that time will be returned to us for direct live air-to-
ground from Mission Control. 26 minutes and 50 seconds to
that acquisition of signal at Texas. This pass over Texas
is also going to be a pass almost directly overhead here in
Houston. That's expected to be visible beginning at approxi-
mately 49 mi-_utes after 8:00 o'clock, central daylight time,
this evening. And it will be visible for about 6 minutes.
The pass will be 80 degrees elevation maximum. That's
almost directly overhead. Traveling from the southwest to
the northeast beginning at 8:49 p.m. This is Skylab Mission
Control. It's now 20 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at i hour 46 minutes and

4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approximately
28 seconds from acquisition at Texas. And during this Texas
pass we have a medical conference scheduled. This is a
private medical conference scheduled every day for reports
on the health of the crew. We don't expect to hear from the
crew over Texas during the first few minutes of this pass.
No doubt it is a i0 minute pass and we will get some commentary
between flight controllers here in mission control and the
crew aboard Skylab space station. Revisions to tomorrow's
flight plan have been made. Those revisions include a deletion
of television 25, that's the TV tour that was scheduled for
tomorrow afternoon. That has now been deleted from the plan.
Also deleted from the plan are two ATM runs one by the
Science Pilot from approximately 2100 to 2200 hours Greenwich
mean time. Another deletion is the Pilot's ATM run from
approximately 19:29 Greenwich mean time to 20:36 Greenwich
mean time. That means one of the ATM passes for the Pilot,
one ATM pass for the Science Pilot will be deleted. An ATM
pass scheduled for tomorrow evening by Commander A1 Bean is
also going to be deleted - is also going to be shortened.
That will now be from 24 - from 0:21 Greenwich mean time
to 1:01 Greenwich mean time, originally scheduled for 0:21
to 1:18 Greenwich mean time. That will now be shortened.
The ATM run will only be a run of the joint observation
programs called the Synoptic Observation. That is a
regularly scheduled twice a day run. It will be a shorter
run. There will not be time for individual investigations
during that pass. The reason for these deletions - another
one of the deletions is also a deletion of the run of the
Friday mass measuring device, that has also been deleted for
tomorrow. This will give additional time for EVA prepreparations
scheduled for tomorrow evening. We're are now live over
the Texas station. The private medical conference is underway.
We do expect in the next 15 minutes we'll have some conversation
between the ground and the Skylab crew. This is Skylab Control
14 minutes and 50 seconds left in this pass over the United
States stations.

for 12-1/2 minutes.
we'd like to get the frames remaining on the ATM.
SPT Okay, I'ii read numbers out. H-alpha
reads 595, which may be out of film, 56 is 537, 82A is 2,
82B is 15, 52 is 1775, 34 is 1120.
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CC Roger, we copy. Thank you, sir.

CDR Let me give you a status on the coolanol
check.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Jack made a breakthrough in
removing these nuts, these little screws, by using the vise grips
instead of our screwdriver. And we still haven't got that
panel off but while he was working on the last ten nuts there,
I checked both tool sieves per the procedures and they're
clean as a whistle. So we' re knocking off this - after right now
so we can get ready to go to bed, get in bed on time. And
then when you reschedule it again or when we get some spare
time we'll pick up again on it and finish it. We'll keep
it in our pockets ready to go.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. While Jack was holding
on to the - the screw, did it take both of you to turn it?
CDR No,. the main problem is these things
are put in, we think, by some automatic tool that if certain
parts jump out of it's slot. And sometimes the tool like
an impact wrench maybe, gets it in a little tight and some-
times it bothers -- it gets the top of it andso you get
your screwdriver in there and it won't stay in. It's - you
know it's like it's got a smoothed off top. I know you're
familiar with it from other screws. Also, these things
have been painted a couple of times so you have to chip all
the paint off first. And sometimes after you do it'll work,
sometimes it won't. We had - I got 40 of them out and there
was - -
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CDR - - have to chip all the paint out first.

And sometimes after you do it'll work, sometimes it won't.
I got forty of them out and there were ten that wouldn't.
And Jack got the inspiration to use that vice grips and they
worked well.
CC Roger. !That's a good thing to keep in the
back of our minds about the vice grips. I assume that all
those lines in the cabin heat exchanger looked okay.
CDR Well, we haven't got in there, yet.
CC Oh, that's the one you haven't finished
up. That' s the step two.
CDR The ones we've done are the MOL SIEVE,
both MOL SIEVE.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC SPT, or whoever's at the ATM, we'd llke to
get the SO52 mirror position switch to camera.
CC Thank you.
CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up over Madrid at 07. And we're scheduled for data
recorder dump there.
i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of range at
the Bermuda tracking station. That pass through Texas, Merrltt
Island and Bermuda. Our next acquisition of signal at
Madrid in approximately 3 miinutes and 15 seconds. During
this last pass over the United States station and Bermuda,
Owen Garriott indicated that the - in giving his report on
the status of the film and H-alpha, indicated that it may
well be out of film. That's a confirmation of information we
had earlier today. Apparently, that H-alpha camera, H-alpha
one, the only camera that records hydrogen alpha from the
Sun has used up it's full compliment of film. There may be
enough left for additional run. There is not entire certainty
here. They may plan one more run of H-alpha. They also
indicated that Alan Bean, whlo had difficulty removing
screws to get at the cabin beat excahanger, which is part of
the cooling system, has a leak in it. Alan Bean got assistance
from Jack Lousma, using vice grips removing some of the screws
in that cabin heat exchanger - exchanger panel. And that
check of the coolant loop is proceding apparently no findings
in looking in the molecular sieve, which we use for removing
carbon dioxide and moisture from the air. During Friday
morning's spacewalk, nine gyroscopes that are used to
calculate the space station's movement away from it's pre-
scribed attitude, will be disconnected for a period of time.
That will last at least five to ten minutes, and possibly
much longer. During this period of time which could include
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part of the orbit in which Skylab's view of the Sun is

blocked by the Earth, The guidance and navigations system
officer in Mission Control, will command Skylab's attitude
control system computer into standby. Computer's kept
out of operation because without the 9 gyroscopes it
cannot judge the attitude drift in the spacecraft. During
this time, the control moment gyroscopes, those three
400-pound wheels that are used to hold the space
station in a stable orbit, will be wh - in a position called
H-cage. Nominal H-cage is a term used to describe the
operation of the control moment gyroscope. When there are
no forces acting to change the spacecraft's momentum, signi-
fied by the letter H. While nominal momentum cage is not
a perfect description of the conditions affecting this atti-
tude during the EVA, for example it cannot reflect the
movements of the space station caused by the crew. In the
absence of rate gyroscopes, nominal H-cage is expected to
hold the attitude relatively close to solar inertial, in
which the spacecraft's solar panels are fully exposed to
the Sun. When the spacecraft returns into the Sunlight,
its sun sensors will bring it back to solar inertial if as
expected, is not drifted more than 9 degrees from the solar
pointed attittde. Should the spacecraft drift more than
9 degrees_ while the rate gyros are disconnected, Commander
Alan Bean will correct the drift and bring the space station
back into the proper attitude for charging the solar batteries
by using the command module reaction control system thrusters.
Once those rste gyros are reconnected, the computer will
be recommandec into operation by Commander Bean, or by the
ground throu_i the digital address system. We are now live
for air-to-ground through our Madrid tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Madrid for
7 minutes. And if we could have the DAS, we'll enable
momentum dump.
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CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes,

and if we could have the DAS, we'll ENABLE MOMENTIFM DUMP.
PLT Hey Hank, could you let us know when you'll
be finished _Jth the recorder? We're right in the middle
of SO19.
CC Wilco.
CC Skylab, Houston. You miBht be interested
in the fact that we just: passed day i00 for the workshop.
It lifted off on day 134.
SPT The older she gets, the better she does, huh.
CC Roger, and is the DAS ours for a minute?
CDR Yeah. I got off all those heat exchanger
covers and it _s nice and clean in there. No smell. No
discoloratiors, no swellings, no nothing. Everything' s
just dandy hack there.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab. The DAS i8 yours. And if it's
convenient, can you answer a couple of questions here that
has impact cn SL IV training. During SL II debriefing, it
was stated that when rolling about sun center with the MPC
enabled that the WLC align indicators drifted such that you
had to use tile MPCto keep centered up. And we were won-
dering, what: is the procedure that you have been using for
roll during S052, in bu.ilding block i?
CDR We haven't noticed that phenomena. If fact
we've noticed it being very, very accurate when you roll
about Sun cen_er.
CC I think that just killed my second question.
It was how bad did the thing drift?
SPT Hank, can you give me a couple of minutes
to finish thi:3 temperature and I'll be right back with you.
CC Wilco.
PLT While Owen's doing that Hank, I found that
it drifts when you roll about a point. But I've never
found it to never found it to drift to the point where
it closed the 52 door. It's always stayed on the cross hair
somewhere.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT But that's about a point now. That's not
about Sun center. When you roll around Sun center like
they say it' :_ very good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need the SO54 exposure
range switched to 256.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to clarify your
request on l:he housekeeping 7 Bravo-2. The fecal collector
cleaning. We had the request to change it to every 4
days, and ti_en one to 7. Which is your preference?
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SPT Let's use 7, Hank. And here comes the

last of the temperature measurements taken right now at
02:10. 2.99 volts. X-56, Y-56, Z-56, in order are: 93.7,
93.2, 95.0, 91.6, 95.1, and 91.5. And maybe those question
that you asked about the ATM have all been answered now.
CC Roger. I think that's - they've been
answered okay. Satisfactorily, Owen.
SPT Okay. That's all the temperature we've
got now. And I hope those are adequate for whatever engineering
purposes they were intended.
CC We're about a minute and a half to LOS.
Here one quickie for you is we were wondering if the SO54
sequence timer today that you took up was an adequate
substitute fcr the ready operate light system.
SPT Well, it's a big improvement over having
nothing. It is not as good as having one on the experiment
itself. In the 256 position, it actually runs about i0 to
12 seconds short. So it will turn to ready before the
experiment has actually exposed it's last frame, so when you
see it go yellow or orange, you have to wait awhile before
the last exposure, like i0 seconds before the last exposure
is complete. The other positions seem to be timed accurately.
Now, it is certainly a big advantage over having to count
frames. I consider it an adequate substitute and would not
recommend bringing up another. Do you agree, AI? Yeah, A1
agrees. I tP_ink we've found it to be an adequate substitute.
Although obviously not as good as the one built in.
CC Roger. We copy. And we're about 20 seconds
from LOS. _e' Ii be coming up on Honeysuckle with a real
low pass at 54 and as a reminder on the coolanol thing, when
you finish up there to be sure to get your mol sieve fans
back on.
23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have gone out of range
of the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal, 37 ,linutes and 41 seconds from now, probably the last
pass of the right, will be over the Honeysuckle tracking
station. That's a low elevation pass, approximately 2 minutes.
During this last pass, there was some additional discussion
of the operations of the cameras on the Apollo Telescope Mount.
The coolant loop procedure being run by Commander Alan Bean is
still underway. That was scheduled to run for another 15
minutes, but it looks like that may run even a little bit
later than that. We have the mission surgeon's daily Skylab
health status report. Earlier today, it was announced that
the crew has been approved for continuation of their mission.
A medical cenference set for the middle of the mission did give
that approval. Here's the mission surgeon's daily Skylab health
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status report. Following that private medical conference

at Texas. Captain Bean, Dr. Garriott, and Major Lousma
continue to enjoy good health. The Life Sciences Director
is satisfied with their fluid and food intake, and work
output. We remain optimistic in our outlook for the
mission. Signed Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins. This is
Skylab Control. 36 minutes and 29 seconds to our next
acquisition of signal. It's now 17 minutes and 48 seconds
after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control 2 hours 53 minutes and

23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approximately
45 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle
tracking station. This would be expected to be our last
pass of the evening. It's a very short pass about - approx-
imately i minute and 48 seconds from acquisition to loss of
signal over Honeysuckle. As we pass very far south of the
Australian continent. This is Skylab Control we'll remain
live for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle for presumably
a goodnight for this evening.
CC Skylab, Houston. We"re through Honeysuckle
for a minute and a half. And I've got an item I need to get
up to you..
CDR We' re listening.
CC Okay. Sorry to hit you with it this late
in the day, but we just caught it. For preconditioning of
the urine trays, which we're going to ha_e to do on day 30. We
need to get trays number 5 and 6 out of F518. And take them to
the W756 wardroom freezer number 2. Then get them to chill
them down.
CDR Tell me the numbers again, and I'll go
do it right now.
CC Okay. That's what we'd like for you to
do, AI. Urine trays number 5 and number 6. They're in
F518, that's the urine return container. We need to put them
in W756, wardroom freezer number 2. And that'll start those
precondition. We need 72 hours of chill down on those before
we put them Jn the urine chiller on day 30.
CDR Okay. In work.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Okay. Let me mention another thing for
the flight Fianners. We got a copy of the EVA checklist
change, and t:hey're pretty long. And we also got - haven't
received yet a copy of the rate gyro changes and a couple
of other things that are probably going to come up in the
night. See J f they can find about an hour and a half for
me very early in the day. And that's when I'd like to put
all of this _ because there' s no way we can all three start
working the EVA problem until we get all these checklists
in shape.
CC Okay. We copy. And we'll work on that
AI. We're just about to go LOS. And we'll say good night
to you. And we' ii try to have everything up to you in the
morning.
CDR Okeydoke.
58 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
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Honeysuckle tracking station. Spacecraft communicator

Hank Hartsfield did give a good night there to Commander
Alan Bean. Before saying good night in that very short
less than 2-minute pass over Honeysuckle, Commander Bean
indicated that he would llke 1-1/2 hours set aside early
in the day for preprep on the extravehicular activity
plan for Friday morning. EVA preprep has been extended.
Two ATM passes were deleted, and so was television 25, which
is a TV tour scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Those dele-
tions, however, did not com_ in the morning time. And there
is a requirement for the commander to have some time in the
morning. At the present time, the major part of his morn-
ing is to be spent on the solar telescopes. He has time
set aside from approximately 8:18 in the morning, to after-
noon to work on the Apollo telescope mount. He has requested
that an hour and a half be set aside for him to review some
of the teleprinter messages isent up, so far, and the ones
to be sent up during the night, so that they will be able
to work during the night, so that will be able to work more
quickly on the EVA preparations, later that evening. Tomorrow's
activity was to have included approximately 6 hours of ATM
activity, now it looks like it will be much less ATM time
set aside. They did indicate earlier in the day that the
H-alpha telescope has apparently used up its entire compli-
ment of film. That will be restored in Friday, as part
of the EVA. Also, scheduled for tomorrow are 2 runs on the
M092 and 171 combination of experlments, subjects to be
Science Pilot, Owen Garriott, and Commander, Alan Bean.
Primary activity tomorrow will be EVA prepreparation now
scheduled for tomorrow evening. Apparently, some time
will be set aside tomorrow morning for Commander Bean to
look over the teleprinter messages on that EVA prepreparation.
The tentative schedule for the EVA on Friday, indicates
that the extravehicular activity, or spacewalk will begin
at about i0:00 a.m. central daylight time. At that time
Jack Lousma will go outslde and investigate the positioning
of cables that will have to be inserted to connect a new
set of rate gyros. Following a darkness pass, in which, he
may deploy a piece of sail material, used to study the
effect of the Sun on thermal reflected surfaces. He will
go out and connect up that new package of rate gyros. That
will be during the first Sunrise, he will be ready to do
that connection. And we hope that those things will be
operating properly before Sunset. If they are not, they
should be operating by the time of the next Sunrise. This
has been a very busy day in Mission Control. Primary
activities for the day included nearly 7-1/2 hours of ATM
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activity solar telescope investigation. A coolant loop

inspection conducted this evening, by Co_mmander Alan Bean,
which apparently revealed nothing as far as we can learn here
in mission control. That coolant loop inspection did cause
Alan Bean some trouble. He had difficulty removing screws
from some of the panels protecting the cabin heat exchanger.
After some assistance from Jack Lousma, he did succeed in
removing those panels and as far as we know the inspection
came up with no results, as have been the experience in earlier
inspections of the coolant loop. It's generally believed
that the coolant loop leak is overboard, rather than interior.
But is is necessary to make a complete check, since that
coolant does evaporate into the atmosphere, and would be
desirable to keep any coolant evaporation from occurring
inside of th6 spacecraft:. Also, if there is a leak they
would llke to be able to make an attempt, at least, to plug
that leak. Also today, a number of runs on the MI31 with
all three members of the crew, acting as subjects and all
three of them also, working on the ATM today. MO92 and
MI71 was run with Jack Lousma as the subject today. Also,
today, we had an announcement from Skylab Program Director
William Schneider, that after a thorough medical evaluation,
of the crew involving officials from NASA headquarters and
principle investigators on the medical experiments, official
approval for a planned continuation of 59-day mission at
least through August 31 has now been officially given. There
will be further medical evaluations made on a weekly basis
all the way through the 59-day mission, scheduled to end
September 25th in the evening. A reminder of Skylab's
3-man crew is expected to set a new record for manned
space flights early Saturday morning approximately 7:00 a.m.
as the spacecraft passes across the Arabian Sea towards
India. The old record, 28 days, 49 minutes, and 49 seconds
was set by the first Skylab crew at splashdown, June 22nd of
this year. This is Skylab Mission Control. Our next report
will be tomorrow morning at - Just before 6:00 a.m. It is
now 2 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour.
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Time: 06:30 CDT, 27/11:30 GMT
8/23/73

Ii hours, 30 minutes. As Skylab approaches the Goldstone
tracking station, a wake-up call from Cap Comm Bob Crippen
will be made, on this 27th day in orbit for the crew of
Skylab-3_ On tap today is M0 - M092/MI71 for Commander Bean
and Pilot Lousma. Approximately I0 hours of EVA preparations
for the crew today and 6 hours of manned observations of the
Apollo Telescope Mount. We'll hold the llne open for wake-up
call from Cap Comm Bob Crippen.
CC (Music) Good morning, Skylab and that was
brought to you courtesy of your friendly Flight Director.
And we have about ii minutes more coming across Goldstone.
CDR Who's the Plight Director?
CC Mr. Puddy.
CDR Mr. Puddy, huh? What service was he in?
CC l think it was the army. Per your request
last night, the Plight Plan was reworked and because it was such
an extensive change, we have uplinked you some recent details
which you may have already have found in your teleprinter.
CDR iHaven' t yet, but thanks.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. See you
over Vanguard at 11:56, 11:56 and that's about 12 minutes
from now.
time ii hours, 45 minutes. Loss of signal in Texas. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in Ii minutes. The Skylab-3
mission was given a go-ahead for an additional 7 day continu-
ation yesterday by William C. Schneider, Skylah Program
Director. This decision was made after successful completion
of the 28-day - 28-day first - first Skylab mission. This
decision was made by Dr. James Fletcher, NASA Administrator,
following a review of medical findings of the first 27 days
of this mission. Weekly reviews of the additional 7-day
continuations are scheduled with Skylab Program Director and
the NASA Director for Life Sciences. Next acquisition will
be Vanguard in i0 minutes. This is Skylab Control. Greenwich
mean time Ii hours, 46 minutes.
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SL-III MC- L083/I
Time: 0£ :54 CDT, 27/11:54 GMT
8-23-73

ii hours 5-_ minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard in approximately
1 minute. Science Pilot Garriott should be preparing to - the
first run of the Apollo Telescope Mount for this morning, one
of 6 scheduled hours at the console for the three crew members
today. On tap today is MO92/MI71 medical experiments for Science
Pilot Owen Garriott and Commander A1 Bean. Also scheduled for
today are approximately 10 hours of EVA preparations for tomorrow' s
scheduled extra vehicular activity. We'll leave the line up live
for air-to-ground with Cap Coma Bob Crippen over the Vanguard
tracking _=ration.
for ii minutes.
CC And SPT, have you manned the ATM panel yet?
SPT Just turned it on.
CC ()kay, a little word info - that info you were
sending to Ed regarding the telescope that they're planning on
building and going up on four, we've got the transcripts and we'll
give them to him early this morning.
SPT ()kay, fine Bob and he can give me a call
if there's any further discussion desirable.
CC Okay, Also infor for you. The VTR is
all rewound and available to you if anybody needs it.
SPT Okay.
CC And down in this first run that you're
making on the ATM in building block 28 it shows for 55 that
for - have all the detectors on. We'd llke to change that to
detectors ] , 2, 3, 4, and 5 only.
SPT Got it.
CC And Owen I got a SAP update I can give you,
if you'd ]Jke.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, there are no significant changes to
the solar activity neccesary because of rescheduling ATM OPS
the - we do need to delete some things if you've got it handy.
SPT I've got the SAP go ahead.
CC Okay. On page i, the first one we'd like
to delete references to scheduled OPS and PI comment, shopping
list item 17, HOP - -
SPT Robert ?
CC I beg your pardon.
SPT Are you talking about the SAP or the ATM
schedule ?
CC On the SAP.
SPT Okay, I haven't found yet anything about
PI comments.
CC Stand by one.
SPT I expect you're talking about this thing
that says 52 doing film calet cetera.
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CC That's affirmative, that's what they're

talking a_cut. Yea, O-
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay.
CC That item 17 we won't delete it. Down
below that J t talks about JOP 12 Delta, want to delete that
and also building block 27, of JOP one Echo.
CC And the reference to taking polaroids of
all paint][ gs if convenient.
CC End of page 2 under flare guidelines
we'd like to change that omit 54 to 54 1_ 30 PAPA 64.
SPT Okay.
CC And that was all of that SAP update.
CC Owen correct one item on that. They
would lik_ you to take polaroids of all pointings if it is
eonvenien _:
CC And Owen if you'll give us the DAS,
for a momet_: we need to man the dump inhibit.
SPT It:'s yours.
CC Okay, Owen the DAS belongs to you and
since you d: d so good measuring the rate gyro six-pack
temperature_ for us. We would like to get another set of
measurements today. What they'd like you to do is on rate
gyro X-5, they'd like you to measure it and read it out at
one minute and then hold it on until you got a total of
5 minutes and read it out again. And then to measure the
other gyro._; again, using a i minute time on it.
SPT Do you have any clues to where this can
most (gar_] e) conveniently be worked into the flight plan?
CC I guess that one is where ever you can
do it if yc,u can work it in.
SPT I understood you to say if it can be
worked :in.
CC That's correct.
CDR Say, Crip send my congratulations to
the Flight Planners. That looks like they worked it out real
well. And also it looks like they worked it out where we're
are doing this EVA prep a little bit earlier so if it stretches
out we can keep going and if it doesn't we can have some time
right t her_ to get some other things done. So looks to me
like they iLade a good change overnight.
CC Okay, I'm sure they appreciate those
kind words i a lot of hard work was done. For your information
we've got a total of 4 hours planned for that EVA first thing
out.
CDR My guess is it's going to be closer to
five but that's good enough because the suspicion in mind
is we're gc i_ng to end up getting out and we're going to get
out eitlher at night or in the day, how's that for logic?
But we' re _ing to get out one of the other and either way
we get ou_ _hat day pass either the one we get out on or the
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first one up, is going to be the one Jack reconnoiters the areas
and so that means then we' re going to have to cool it that night
and then the next day we'll go out and put in the rate gyros.
So essentially it's sort o_ with a 50 50 chance you can say
then add 45 minutes and do it right there. But seems to us
that's the conservative way to go and the way we'd like to do
it so that would be an extra 45 and that would account for
the difference between the 4 hours and my guess the 5.
CC Okay, we copied that also for your information
we got a 2 hour and 40 minute prep time preceeding the EVA.
CDR Okay, what did we have last time, I
forgot.
CC It was approximately 2 hours A1, and we've
added about 40 minutes on it.
CDR That's good that ought to make it just
about right.
CC Okay, also another item we've got
housekeeping 3 Charlie down as one of the items that you
know whenever you carl pick it up and I'm not sure who would
be doing that but we would appreciate it if you would remove
that VCS stuff from the OWS mixing chamber and inspect the OWS
mixing chamber as screen for debri. If there is some debri
present, we'd appreciate it if you could vacuum it off and
reinstall the duct.
CDR ()kay, that's a good idea, never thought
of that. We'll do it.
CDR Don Puddy must run a good ship down there?
CC Ah yes, he runs a tight ship.
CC AI, I don't know if the other guys are
listening i'd like to pass on some info for you. The Fredo-
Fred Haise managed to (garble) one of the confederate air force
planes yesterday. He is not serious but he is in the
hospital. He got burned I guess 2nd degree burns over about
50 percer._ of his body and a few 3rd degree burns on his
legs but the prognosis is good and I understand he was
sitting up talking to people last night, pretty good shape.
CDR Guess you'd call that bad news and good
news.
CDR Well we're glad the good was last.
That' s great.
CC Roger.
CDR Send him our best and we' ii be looking
to see him when we get back home in another month. He
ought to be up and around again.
CC Oh, I'm sure he will be.
CDR That's great, thanks Bob we like to
keep up we kind of won - one of the things we were kind of
wondering up here the other day what was Pete doing?
CC Pete' s been loafing, I haven' t seen
him around for a while.
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CDR Okay, sorry we brought it up.

CC I think he deserves to Io - rest a
little while anyhow. We're about 45 seconds from LOS
we'll |lave you again over Hawaii at 13:06. That's just about
an hour f'rom now.
CDR Okay. I'm not sure you do need to rest.
This thing is like a vacation up here. Everyday is almost
like a hc]iday. There's so many fun things going on. You guys
are the ores that deserve to rest, you' re the ones that take the
strain down there.
CC Okay, since everything is like a day off,
can I talk a few seconds about your day off coming up. Right
now we've got a - we're kind of planning to put in a few ATM
passes and run another CBRM battery reverification test. I'd
like you to think about that and give us some feedback on it.
CDR Okay, we want a full ATM schedule just like
we've always had.
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Time: 07:07 CDT, 27/12:07 GMT
8/23/73
CDR Okay, we want a full ATM schedule, just

like we've always had and a - put in the CBRM test. And anything
else that has to be done and that's about it. In other words
try to shoot like the last day off.
CC Understand. Okay, your going over the
hill, bye bye.
PAO Greenwich mean time, 12 hours 7 minutes,
loss of signal at Vanguard. Next acquisition will be Hawaii
in 58 minutes, lengthly pass over Vanguard, discussing ATM
operations with Science Pilot Owen Garriott, Commander Bean
complimented the flight planners in their EVA preparations
planning. CAP COMM Bob Crippen, past up the message on
former Astronaut Fred Haise, who was injured yesterday in
a plane accident at Galveston. He also commented every day is
like a holiday up here. So many fun things to do. At
Greenwich mean time, 12 hours 8 minutes, next acquisition
Hawaii, in 57 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI085/I
Time: 08:05 CDT, 27/13:05 GMT
8/23/73
PAO This iS Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

13 hours, _+ minutes. Acquisition coming over Hawaii tracking
station in approximately 1 minute. Today's Flight Plan has
been modified to some extent to provide additional time for
the crew oF Skylab-3 to prepare for tomorrow's Extra Vehicular
Activity. Prime - one of the prime objectives of the scheduled
EVA tomorrow is attachment of rate gyro cables to the
two positions outside the - the MDA. Modifications include
deletion o f approximately 2 hours from the scheduled ATM
observation program. This will be the least amount of time,
approximately 4 hours, scheduled on the ATM since mission day 16,
ii days ago. At Greenwich mean time, 13 hours and 5 minutes,
we' ii hold the line open for Cap Coma Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Hawaii for
5 minute_;
PLT ()kay_ Crip.
CC _[ou sound bright and cheerful this morning,
Jack.
PLT As usual.
CC Right.
PLT I don't know how bright, but cheerful anyway.
CC [I'm sure both, Jack. Say, I've got some
info on that S056 hangup that you guys reported yesterday, if
anybody's got some time to listen.
PLT ]Fire away.
CC ()kay. From the data wwe looked at down here,
we indicate that the - two pro - the two patrol, short modes
ran properly and the active i, long mode took 12 frames instead
of 15. And we have seen that particular phenomenon before.
In addition, we have found the truncated patrol, short two
frames ou_ of six that were taken at 22:25 Zulu, and we cannot
find the patrol, sho:ct which should've been run at about
14:30 Zu]u and that *nay have been our hangup.
PLT The patrol, short that hung up on me, hung
up on fi_ 5er 3 and I must have sat here for 4 or 5 minutes.
The whole mode is suppose to be over within about 2 minutes.
CC Roger. Copy that and in case anybody's
around the DAS, if you'd stay away - off of it a couple of
minutes, u'e're going to enable momentum dump.
PLT Okay that.
CC And does the SPT happen to be available for
a quick zLote?
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC ()kay Owen. This evening you're running an
S063 pass and you've got a general message. You've probably
already pLcked up on it. There was no note made of it, but
you should put on a 55 milli - millimeter lens with the
Nikon 01 for that particular photography. I think it's got
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8/23/73
CC (CONT'D) a 300 millimeter mounted on it now.

SPT ()kay. 55-millimeter on Nikon 01.
CC That's correct. Okay, and the DAS belongs
to you guys again.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. We'll
see you again over the Vanguard at 13:34. That's about
23 minutes from now. We'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump then
CC And Skylab, Houston. For your info, the
rate gyro cue card has been uplinked to you and also the
day 21 plag information.
13 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii. Next acquisition at
Vanguard :in 21 minutes. Discussions on this pass primarily
concerned the ATM operations, manned operations todate total
104 hours of manned operation of the ATM console. However,
today will be the lowest in the last ii days. Only - approxi-
mately 4 3ours are scheduled for ATM operation today.
Greenwich mean time 13 hours, 13 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCIC86/I
Time: 08:32 CDT, 27/13:32 GMT
8/23/7:3

time 13 hours 33 minutes acquisition coming up at Vanguard
as Skylab space station concludes its 1,456 revolution since
launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over the Vanguard
for 10 m_nutes.
SPT Okay, Robert I just took some battery
measurements up there. The voltage is reading 2.99 volts the
temperature measurement on X5, after I minute was 91.1,
after 5 minutes it was 93.1 but it was not a problem with
reach equilibrium at the end of one minute. It's a problem with
keeping the temperature sensor flat and to parallel with
the surface of the thing to be measured. During the i
to 5 interval the temperature did fluctuate from 93 up
and down a degree or so and the - Just a problem with making
sure you got good firm flat contact between that and the
gyro package and equilibrium is reached within a minute if you've
got good flat contact. The grease is getting sort of dry now
anyway, that makes the contact extra difficult. I did not have
time to complete the other gyros we've knocked off- I've knocked
off to come to 92 171. Over.
CC Okay, Owen we copy that and as you suspected
that extended time on that was to see if the things - the tempera-
ture had stabilized. Could I ask you if you managed to get
JOP 12 DELTA done last time?
SPT Negative_ did not do that. I've got it
noted on the pad and the first time we have any extra observing
time then the rest of the day well, we're going to work that
12 Dog in.
CC Okay; copy.
PLT Say, Crlp could you set up a couple
phone calls for me please?
CC Okay, Jack sure.
PLT Make the first one to my wife and the
second one to Fredo, please.
CC Okay, I'ii see if I can work on those.
PLT Thank you.
CC And CDR, Houston. If you've got a moment I
need to talk to you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, AI as you probably heard there Owen
said he didn't get JOP 12 DELTA done on his last pass
and rather than just kind of leave it ad lib we'd appreciate
it if we could go ahead an_ replace your building block i0 at
the end of this pass that you've got - working on now with
JOP 12 DELTA and the details are on the schedule from the
last rev.
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CDR ()kay, got them in sight and will do.

CC Thank you.
SPT lley Crip on M092, 171 it was implied last
night that we were doing something not according to the cue
card tlhat was messing up the data somehow, however, we haven't
been able _:o - nobody identified for us what it was and before we
get going we'd kind of like to know what it is so we can either
plan on what it was or make a change or whatever is necessary to
do it righ-_.
CC Roger.
CDR Crip, I think I can answer that. We didn't
have the _electors for experiment tape recorder number i in
the righz _osition. We had it on G and it should have been
in a different position.
CC That' s affirmative AI. That' s correct.
Jack you ,_opy that.
PLT Yea I got that Crip and I'll be looking
for it. Thank you.
CC Thank you.
CDR Crip, are you still there?
CC That' s affirmative, AI.
CDR Okay, I noticed it says I was looking at
this capability (garble) in C&D RGT J-21 connector procedures.
CC that's affirmative.
CDR Is all ATM C&D ground DAS enable and
inhibit switch (garble). That needs a little more clarification
perhaps because I know that after we do this we do all sorts
of inhibiting and activating the rate gyros, et cetera.
CC What that means is up there the 7 switches
you've got underground DAS in the upper left hand protion of the
thing where you can enable either (garble) for the DAS command
or DCS command. Those switches are basically inoperative
and they're enabled right now; and that Just means during that
period that you've got J-21 disable you cannot inhibit them.
CDR They're all the DAS, the DAS works normally
after ground command.
CC That' s affirmative.
CDR Okay.
CDR Yeea, that's not to much to lose.
CC AI, we couldn't copy you last please.
CDR That's not bad.
CC Okay, now that - they're not many functions,
lost there. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you again over Hawaii at 14:41, 14:41 and we'd like to
ensure that you did close the star tracker shutter - pretty soon.
(:DR How about right now?
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CC That's fine.
CDR You know we ought to start putting it on the
ATM pad when we want a star tracker lock on, like it would
have been nice to have Owen lock it on early this morning,
then we would have had a nice collective nu Z for (garble).
time 13 he_rs 45 minutes loss of signal at Vanguard next
acquisition Hawaii in 56 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
reported the work he was doing on the rate gyro temperature
readings. As of readings from yesterday indicated the rate
gyro temperatures are lower than expected and this checkout
of the rate gyro temperatures will continue throughout the
day in support of the EVA for tomorrow. He reported he
had to knock that work off and go do the MI71 which is the
metabolic analyzer experiment. Each crew member performs this
particular experiment 8 times throughout the mission. Next
acquisition at Hawaii in 55 minutes Skylab Control at
13 hours z5 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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SL-III MC-I087/I
Time: 09:40 CDT, 27/14:40 GMT
8/23/73

time, 14 hours 40 minutes with acquisition at Hawaii in
approximately I minute. We'll leave the line up live for
conversation between CAP COMM Bob Crippen and the crew of
Skylab-3.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Hawaii
for 8 minutes and, Jack, if you got a moment, I'd like to talk
to you.
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, we've got about this pass and one
more before Jack gets into this CBRI_ battery verification
test and I would kind a llke to talk to him about a few
items on that.
SPT Okay, he's right in the middle of a
MI71 run now, so you'll have to do it later, Bob.
CC Okay, Jack, I really couldn't read you,
because of the feedback. Understand you are in the middle
of the MI71 run, I guess - -
SPT That's right, Robert.
CC Okay, Owen, if you do get a chance, I would
appreciate it if you could if possibly look over that procedure
prior to Vanguard, which is about 28 minutes away, and I would
like to go over with - some items with him at that time if he
can.
SPT Okay, I don't know if we're going to be
through with 171 or not, I guess we'll work it and see.
CC Okay, like to do our best. And if anybody is
available, I guess maybe, AI, just for information, we got about a
couple of minutes til sunrise; understand you might see an aurora
out the F-4 window.
CDR Okay, I might mention that on JOP-12 DELTA
I got the 10-second exposure, the 40, and couldn't get the
240; ran out of time.
CC Copy that AI, thank you.
CDR Crip, I gather on EVA our plan is to
use SUS-2 loop completely and use the same coma configuration
that we have always used, is that roughly it?
CC That's affirmative, AI.
LOS. We're see you again over the Vanguard at 15:13, that's
about 22 minutes from now and we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump. And if Jack's got a chance, sure would like to
talk to him about that CBRM battery verification test.
time, 14 hours 52 minutes, loss of signal at Hawaii. On
a previous pass over Vanguard in the last revolution Science
Pilot Garriott was performing rate gyro package temperature
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PAO _CONT'D) readouts. These readings have a - are

presently averaging between 91 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit
which is what the flight control has fully expected. The
voltage readings are nominal. They have read 2.99 in the
workshop as well as 2.99 in lab tests at the Marshall Space
Flight Center. These readings are perfectly normal according
to the G&N officer here at the MOCR and the readings
previously reported as 36 degrees Fahrenheit was a - the
readings were 36 degrees lower than what was expected. However,
these readings are normal, averaging 91 to 95 on the rate
gyros - the 6 rate gyro package on board. At Greenwich mean
time, 14 hours 54 minutes, next acquisition Vanguard in
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SL-III MCI088/I
Time: i0:Ii CDT, 27/15:11 GMT
8/23/73

Ii minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard in I minute.
Commander A1 Bean is still at the Apollo Telescope Mount while
Science Pilot Owen Garriott is performing the MI71 run, meta-
bolic analyzer experiment. Commander Bean will perform this
same group of experiments this afternoon. This is to determine
M092/MI71 run is to access the condition of the astronauts
cardiovascular system and to access his work capability on the
metabolic analyzer bicycle ergometer. At Greenwich mean
time 15 hours, 12 mlnutes, we'll hold the line up live for
for air-to-ground communication.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR Cbkay Crip. We're still working on getting
the checklist changes in here say a few words about the plan
we have with 149.
CC Okay. The intent was 149 instead of bringing
it back in this time completely. What we're trying to do is
to get it cut of the road from the transfer work station up
there. So you can go ahead and get the Sun end and then redeploy
it.
CDR Are we going to close it or just move it?
CC No, we have to close it.
CDR So we're going to _go out there. Owen's going
to close it, move it over, do all the Sun end work, including
the removing the ramp. And then as he comes back by, he puts
it back in original position and opens it up, huh?
CDR Understand.
CC And A1, while I've got you there on that
Jop 12 Delta exposure 240 that you didn't get in. We're a
little bit concerned about running out of 82B film, cause we
expect to pretty shortly. And on your next - next pass, which
you've got coming up at 16:30, we would llke you to go
ahead and get that exposure in and then you can go ahead and
pick up Jo_ 2 Foxtrot, which is the first one scheduled
step 1 and drop out the last building block i0 if necessary.
CDR Okay. I understand and forgot to mention
that in 82A, when it got down to 1 frame_ it stayed one
frame. Indicated even though I attempted to take a couple
more pictures. So apparently_ it's out now with an indicated
1 frame.
CC We copy and concurr_ AI.
PLT Okay Bob. Go ahead with this housekeeping
battery verification.
CC Okay Jack. Did you have any chance at all
to - to lock over that procedure?
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Time: 10:11 CDT, 27/15:11 GMT
8/23/73
PLT No, I just passed it in the book and

(garble) ]71, we're still working that.
CC Yes, I understand. We sort of got a little
bit uptight here. Actually, you - I think you can get started
in the procedure without any problem and then we can maybe
if you got any questions on it, we can give you some details
on it after you've already started it. There are a few items
that I woL_](| like to emphasize though, maybe if you could jot
them down. If you got a note pad or something handy.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. We tell you - you - you end up
with both of - testing both CBRM 18 and i0. Starting
with 18 first and then getting i0 on later. And in -
(garble) your monitoring, we want your primary monitor 18
and I think that's clear in the procedure. We'd like you to
check l0 _very 4 minutes. Okay and it's important to us not
to get an auto disconnect. I would llke to emphasize that.
And for information purposes, 18 is one of the - one of the
CBRMs that got a little hot back in - on the first Skylab and
we - and ai._;obecause we go ahead and turn it off first. We
anticipate that it should be the first that reaches the
27 volts. And that's Just information.
PLT Okay. How do you recommend now to prevent an
auto disconnect?
CC We have a procedure for you at the bottom
of step 5, _hat if you get an auto disconnect, that's the
procedure we want to go into. But as far as preventing it,
when you ge-_ down to 27 volts, you still got 5 minutes before
you would get an auto disconnect. So, really by watching
when we get to 27 volts, we tell you to go on to step 6 and
that will put the thing back on the line so will not dis-
connect.
PLT Okay. So, what you're saying is when you
get down t(} that point, watch it real close, make sure you
don't go over the time limit to get auto disconnect.
CC No, when you get down to the 27 volts, or the
talkback's going barberpole, that's the time to go ahead and
go on with - pick up step 6, immediately.
PLT Okay. I understand.
CC And for the CDR. This morning, earlier, you
went over _;le hill talking about the star tracker and perhaps
putting on _ pad getting nu Z updates and our current intent is
to put - we're building a 482 and we're going to send you up
a - a change for your unattended cue cards. Such that, basically,
every morning, you'll get a nu Z update and then every evening
on the las_ pass, you'll also get another one.
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Time: i0:Ii CDT, 27/15:11 GMT
8/23/73
CDR Okay. Good idea.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS. We'll
have you again in an hour over Hawaii at1621 and we'll have -
turn you over to Bruce for that one.
CDR Okay. Enjoyed it and see you tomorrow.
CC Roger.
CDR Who's going to be on during the EVA?
CC Should be Bruce.
CDR Okay.
CC Thanks a lot.
CDR What do you mean "Thanks a lot?"
22 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next acquisition
will be Hawaii in 58 minutes. Discussions with Pilot Lousma
concerning the checkout of CBRM number 18. CBRM is one of
18 charger battery regulator modules, which condition the
energy from the solar array to the - to the lower 28 volt level
required for Skylab operating power. Skylab presently is
producing approximately 6900! watts of power and peak usage
during hlg_ experiment activity is approximately 6400 watts.
CBRM 18 had high temperature readings during Skylab-2 and
the current checked out by Lousma is to verify the stability
of that particular CBRM. CBRMs control the power for the
Apollo Telescope Mount for solar panels. Whereas, the power
conditioning units - there's 8 onboard - control the power
from the single orbital workshop solar panel. Greenwich
mean time 15 hours, 23 minutes. Next acquisition, Hawaii in
57 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III M6-I089/I
Time: 11:19 CDT, 27/16:19 GMT
8/23/73

time 16 hours 19 minutes, access over the Hawaii tracking station
in approximately i minute. Comander Bean still at the Apollo
Telescope Mount console and display panel operating the solar
instruments. We'll leave the line up for CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless .
4 minutes. For the PLT, over.
CDR He's listening, go ahead.
CC Okay, AI we show that bat i0 has also
commenced the battery capacity test. That was not scheduled
to be accomplished until 17:31 Zulu; we would like to turn
charger IC back on at: this time and commence to test for the
PLT details, over.
CDR Okay, we'll look at it a little closer here.
PLT Hey, Bruce the way I set B of the note
was that ]8 and I0 will be tested simultaneously, but I'ii do
whatever you say.
CC Roger.
CC The intent of that - maybe we didn't make it
perfectly (:lear - is that we would have some overlap in the test.
However, we intended to stagger the start so that we would
get a staggered stop and you wouldn't be in a situation where
both batteries were about to come down on 27 volts at the same time
and you ttad to hop back and forth on voltage readings. Over.
PLT ()kay, I got the charger and temp back on
on the line and it's charging back up again. And I'll do it
that way. They've been discharging together all through the
night and well discharging, them reading - I got down to 30 volts
and 9 to 10 amps and 50 degrees. They were both doing the same
thing and I'll check 18 for you now so you can check your
telemetry.
CC Roger; we copy, Jack. And for the PLT, could
you give us a frame counter readout on H-ALPHA 1 again, please.
Over.
CDR 595.
CC That's was for the CDR, I'm sorry. 595?
We'd like to, when you have a chance, we've got a shutdown
procedure
CDR Okay, got a chance right now.
CC Okay, verify you're in daylight, H-ALPHA
1 door is OPEN and turn your H-ALPHA 1 AUTO switch to OFF. We'd
like to know if the READY light comes and then whether the READY
light came on or not, turn the H-ALPHA 1 camera power switch OFF.
Over.
CDR Okay, it's shut down. And the READY light
did not come on.
CC We copy; thank you.
PLT Okay, Bruce, here's the specs on the - what
battery - CBRM 18 is doing right now - battery -18 - and at
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Time: 11:].9 CDT, 27/16:19 GMT
8/23/73
the moment_ as best I can read, reading 31.3 volts, minus 0.8 amps
which turns out to be zero, and 51 degrees.
CC Okay Jack; we copy that. Thank you. We
have one minute until LOS here at Hawaii; next station contact
in 25 minu_es over the Vanguard at 16:50. Over.
PAO Skyla5 Control; Greenwich mean time
16 hours 26 minutes loss of signal at Hawaii next acquisition
will he Vanguard in 24 minutes. Dr. Royce Hawkins, Deputy
Director for Medical Operations of the Life Sciences Directorate
at Johnson Space Center, will conduct a 5tiering on medical
status of the Skylab-3 crew at 2 p.m. this afternoon, the
Building i News Room. Dr. Royce Hawkins will hold a medical
status review of the Skylah-3 crew at 2 p.m. in the News Room
in Building i. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 27 minutes
next acquisition Vanguard in 23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-1090/I
Time: 11:48 CDT, 27/16:48 GMT
8/23/73

16 hours 48 minutes aqulsition coming up at Vanguard. We
anticipate a briefing in the News Room at i p.m. today,
News Room in Building i at the Johnson Space Center on
Rate Gyro 6-Pack Installation as well as EVA Procedures.
This will be at i o'clock in the News Room, in Building i. We
have - wil2 have acquisition here with CAP COMI_ Bruce McCandless
new flight director on duty is Nell Hutchinson.
for 9 minutes and 50 seconds. We have a note for the commander.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger, during your housekeeping command
module 7 teday, 17:00 or 18:00, we would llke you to
change the polychoke setting to position number 2,
that's position 2. Over.
CDR Okay, I'ii do it.
SPT Hello, Bruce.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I'm suppose to be calibrating the SMNN -
SMMD in th_ head right now and notice the GG dump is not
inhibited. Are you concerned about that conflict with the
checklist ?
CC Okay, how much longer do you figure it
will take you, Owen? If you're near the time line it shows
finishing up by about 17:30 and we've still got 38 minutes of
daylight left so you ought to come out, you know, fairly close.
SPT Stand by just a minute. I had my daylight
cycle a little out of phase here, Bruce. I actually delayed
the (garble) so I could check with you on this. I'Ii get
on it right now see if I can finish it before sunset.
CC Okay, GG dump commence is at 17:21, 17:21.
Over.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Say, Bruce, it would save about an hour of
my time if I was able to discharge bat 18 and i0 together. Would
you llke to reconsider doing it that way.
CC Negative, acknowledge. Over.
PLT Acknowl edged.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, we're 1 minute til LOS
over the Vanguard, next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes
over Canary - over Ascension at 17:04 and we will be dumping
the data voice tape recorder over Ascension. Out.
CDR ()kay, Bruce been thinking about that
extra 45 mLnutes they added to the prep time and looking over
the JOP teat we've got to do extra in addition to preplng and
I think riley ought to add another 30 minutes besides that.
That'll _Jve us 30 minutes extra to prep and 45 minutes to
do the special things for the rate gyro 6-pack.
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Time: 11:48 CDT, 27/16:48 GMT
8/23/73
CC Today or tomorrow?
CDR Tomorrow morning, prior to the getting
out time.
CC Okay, we'll see you over Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCIC91/I
Time: 12:01 CDT, 27/17:01 GMT
8/23/73

1 minute. Loss of signal over Vanguard. Next acquisition
will be Ascension in approximately 3 minutes. Commander A1 Bean
asked for an adjustment in tomorrow's Flight Plan to give the
crew 30 minutes more in preparation time prior to the start
EVA. Cap Comm Bruce McCandless said the ground would look
at that. EVA tomorrow scheduled to last approximately 3-1/2 to
4 hours, at which time Pilot Jack Lousma will install the
cables for the rate gyro package to two separate locations
outside the vehicle. One at the trunnion of the Apollo
Telescope Mount and the second location at the WCIU, which is
the workshop computer interface unit. The cable is - got
20 some feet in length. It has 2 separate connections at
each end. At Greenwich mean time 17 hours, 2 minutes, we'll
hold the line up for the Ascension pass in approximately
2 minutes.
for 9-1/2 minutes. We will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at this site. And for the CDR, (cough) we went
over the hill there as you were making a request regardin B
additional 30 minutes to the EVA prep for tomorrow. For
which crewman did you want this half hour added or was it
for all three? Over.
CDR No, add it for the PLT and CDR.
CC Roger. We copy. And also Alan, earlier
today, we asked that you make up the 2 minute 40 second
S082-B exposure associated with Jop 12 Delta, step i, on
quiet region i. Did you accomplish this on this daylight pass?
Over.
CDR I sure did and rather than just give them a 240,
I gave them 240 first, then I gave them 40 and a i0 so then
they'd have - have it all in one spot at one time. I'd given
them the l0 and the 40 on the previous orbit, but the time
ran out. And I wanted to make sure that they had their data
correct. So I think they've got it now.
CC ()kay. We copy and they're happy.
CDR And Houston, I've just put the purge valve
on 2.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have 2-1/2 minutes till
LOS here ac Ascension. Next station contact in 39 minutes
over Guam. We'd like to remind the PLT that the procedure
on battery i0 needs to be started during this night cycle per
checklist. The charger needs to be commanded off prior to
sunrise. We do need continuous monitoring of battery 18
starting 5 minutes before the next sunrise and that time is
17:48 Zu_uo Just a little bit of rationale, or background on
the situation here, we'd like to retell it that during pre-launch
SL-III MCI091/2
Time: 12:01 CDT, 27/17:01 GMT
8/23/73
CC (CONT'D) testing, we have found repeated evidence

of SAS contacters sticking in the open position and if the
battery does auto disconnect, it opens the SAS contacter
associated with that CBRM. You may recall, this is the
problem we had with CBRM 15 where it stuck open. We
were unable to use that one Until it was fixed by gently
tapping it with a hammer during the EVA. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce, I understand. Thank you.
CC Okay. And back on the ATM situation, we're
down to the point where we're running low on film in $082B.
The next ATM pass, which is scheduled for the PLT, we have
2 auto modes selected. They're in Jop 17A, step i, and we'd
llke to delete the second auto mode. Over.
PLT Okay. That's delete the second auto mode,
82B. Thank you.
CC Roger. Actually that's 17 Alpha, step 2,
building block ii. Delete the auto mode for 82B. And
20 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over Guam at 17:50. Out.
time 17 hours, 14 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension.
Next acquisition will be Guam in approximately 35 minutes.
Discussions again continued on CBRM 18 and CBI_M i0. A
checkout of these charger battery regulator modules is
presently being conducted by Pilot Lousma. As called to
the crew's attention, the - it's felt that the SAS switch
has stuck, as it was on CBRM number 15 during the Skylab-2
mission and during the last EVA. Commander Pete Conrad
went out and tapped it with a hammer and put it back
in the operating mode. There is only 1 CBRM that has been
totally lost in the mission and that is CBRM number 3, which
was lost during Skylab-2 mission. AT Greenwich mean time,
17 hours, ]5 minutes, this is Skylab Control. To repeat the
earlier announcement concerning the briefing at 1 pm on
rate gyro six-pack installation and EVA procedures:
Partlcpants will be asking astronaut Rusty Schweickart and
Ted Buras of the Flight Integration Division of the
Johnson Space Center. Again, 1 pm briefing with Rusty
Schweickart and Ted Buras. They're to go over the rate
gyro six-pack installation and EVA procedures at 1 pm in
the newsroom, building i. Greenwich mean time 17 hours,
16 minutes. Next acquisition at Guam in 34 minutes. This
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-].092/I
Time: 12:4!) CDT, 27/117:49 GMT
8123173

17 hours 49 minutes acquisition coming up at Guam.
CC Through Guam for 7-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Hello, Bruce and Guam.
CC Roger, Jack, how are the old CBRMs doing
today?
PLT Well number 10 voltage is rating 2 volts
above number 18 and 18's approaching 28 volts.
CC Beautiful, thank you.
CDR Got: a little message for your CSM troops.
CC Okay,fire away. We're ready to copy.
CDR Okay, I got halfway into the procedure
of housekeeping, went ([own to the 382 panel opened the door
noted about ]/3 of a pint of liquid in there which I believe
to be water glycol, but: not sure. And it seems to be clinging
around the two heat exchanger primary glycol valves. For those that
are familiar with that area there are some machines frames
on the sides rib-like affairs that hold that whole panel.
And so it sort of - it leads a machine down into little cubby
holes; a little cubby hole that 382 was - I mean that the C -
heat exchanger primary glycol (laughter) was in - was about
3/4 full of this liquid. I then backed out of the secondary
radiator procedure that I was in the process of working on -
the secondary loop - and put it back in the nominal configuration,
dried up the liquid an4[ that's the situation as it presently is.
Waiting for some suggestions.
CC Okay, AI, we copy that. What makes you
believe that it's water glycol mix? Do you - experienced -
smelled or felt that stuff before? Is that your basis for
saying that? Over.
CDR The answer is no. The basis is for saying
it is that it is not water but it doesn't Smell and it doesn't
taste and it has an oily feel to it. And it's on the glycol
panel so I don't - I mean the coolant panel - so that was
the only reason. I don't have any other scientific data at
hand.
CC Okay. I wasn't - -
SPT It's a clear liquid and when it dries on
your hands it makes your hands sticky.
CC Okay, I wasn't trying to question your
analysis we're just trying to get all the facts through here.
CDR I knew you wern't Bruce, and I should have
said that. Because I don't really know what water glycol is but
I think you asked a good question. No problem there. Just
kind of laughing.
PLT This obviously isn't the orbit for CBRM -
for battery number 18, maybe next one, huh?
CC Say again, please, Jack.
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Time: 12:49 CDT, 27/17:49 GMT
8/23/73
PLT Looks like this isn't the night pass for

battery num_e r 18. Maybe the next one, huh.
CC Okay, we don't know about that. T_e reason
we' re runnir:g the test is of course is to try and get an handle
on the capaci,:y of the battery we need to stress that continuous
monitoring through the night passes from now on will be required
until complex:ion of the test and I guess you probably want
to confirm - well I guess it's in daylight now and you got
the charger on bat i0 off is that correct.
PLT That's affirmative. And I'ii Just - the
time you told me to turn if off and its battery's reading
about 2 volt:.,_above 18 -- no less now looks llke 18's
going down i_o_e slowly now that it was originally. And you're
right I'm continuing to stand here at the panel just watch it
during the night pass.
CC Roger.
CC AI, Houston, would you confirm that the
fluid was there when you opened the panel that is before
you started Lurning any valves on 382? Over.
CDR That's affirmative, I never turned any
valve about 382. Because when I opened the door I noticed the
liquid it ju:_t cleaned it up and then left everything as it was
and then I bucked down from that position. I did not move
any of the v_ives on 382 at all.
PLT Say the heat exchanger valve is flowing
bypass and right now it's between - pointing at 12 o'clock.
CC Say again Jack about the heat exchanger
flowing bypass.
PLT Yea, the heat exchanger valve says flow
on one side; and bypass on the other. Right now the
pointer is pointing to 12 o'clock which is right in between them
when you look on this spec.
CC Okay, this is the suit heat exchanger primary
valvs.
PLT That's affirmative. We were thinking maybe
you'd want us to put it one way or the other. And see if we can
stop whatever leak we got here. If that's the - if that's the
story.
CC Stand by.
CC Okay, Jack and AI, that valve should be
in bypass at the present time. Go ahead and put it there.
CC Skylab, Houston belay the last it
should be in bypass. However leave it in its present
position until we get a little more time to look into the
system. We have 40 seconds to LOS over Guam here; next station
contact in 31 minutes, over the Vanguard at 18:27 Zulu. Over.
CC Skylab, Houston did you copy my last?
PLT Right Bruce.
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Time: 12:49 CDT, 27/17:49 GMT
8/23/73

17 hours 58 minutes next acquisition will be Vanguard in
19 minutes. Cn this pass through Guam Commander Alan Bean said
that he uncovered a small amount of liquid which he thought
was water glycol. There has been concern of the environmental
control syste_ of the command module which had been - the accumulator
area pump in the glycol loop had been showing a leak of
about 16 percent of its volume from the launch of Skylab-3 until
day - mission day 22. This however, presents no problem
there is ample supply of coolanol on board to fly the remainder
of the mission. Would not constrain the mission at the current
rate of decrease. This accumulator problem turned up as we say,
five days agc, when it was noted about 16 percent of the total
amount of glycol in the ECS system in the command module
had leaked. But this again did not present any problem or
constrain the the mission in any way. He uncovered this puddle
of liquid while he was making a weekly check of the command
module as part of the housekeeping chores which included
checks of the power system, the primary, secondary glycol loop q
circulation equipment in the command module and other activities
concerned with weekly checks of the command module. Loss of
signal at Guam, next acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately
27 minutes. To remind everyone there is a briefing in
the Building I News Room beginning at i p.m., with Rusty
Schweickart and Ted Buras to go over the six-pack rate gyro package
installation and EVA activities scheduled for tomorrow.
Greenwich mean time 18 hours this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-I093/I
TIME: 13:53 CDT 27/18:_3 GMT
8/23/73

18 hours 53 minutes. We have taped a Vanguard of approximately
6 minutes. We'll play that tape now and then bring back
the other pass that's underway right now. This is a taped
Vanguard pass just concluded.
for ii minuted. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, AI, with respect to the leak in the
command module, we'd llke you to save the rag or rags with
which you've mopped up the liquid, preferably in a plastic
bag or something that you can seal them up, maybe even a
food can, so that if we decide we want to analyze this
later, we have that option. We'll take care of finishing
up the items in housekeeping command module 7 at our pleasure
in a day or so. Understand that you backed out and currently
have the secondary coolant loop powered down. Is that correct?
Over.
CDR That's correct. We' re in the normal con-
figuration for (garble) operations.
CC Okay, and did you do the fourth part of
the check? That is, topping of the command module 02 supply?
Over.
CDR They were both as high as the tank.
CC Roger. We copy. We'd like to request you
not to reconfigure any valve on panel 382 until we have a
chance to work the problem and get back to you. Over.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC Now, with respect to the airlock module
primary coolant loop. This seems to be coolant loop day.
As you know, we've been watching the pressure in the loop
go down over a period of time. Last night the loop hit a
low pressure of 5.8 psi, and our criterion has been always
that when it got down to 5, we would check down the airlock
module primary coolant loop. It looks llke it would not
last through the night tonight and our decision subject to
your concurrence is that we'd like to like to shut it down
now over the Vanguard here, ix order to give the secondary
loop plenty of time to staballze prior to the EVA tomorrow,
and to give us the option to watch the system performance.
Over.
CDR Okay. That makes sense.
CC Roger. We'll do it.
SPT Hello Bruce, I've got a malfunction procedure
on the camera that was used for SO63 to run, using the
multimeter. That's the same multimeter that I now have hooked
up to the temperature sensor on the rate gyro pack. Is there
any problem with disconnecting that temp sensor lead
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TIME: 13:53 CDT 27/18:53 GMT
8/23/73
now and putting it back to the original configuration and

and using the multimeter elsewhere. Over.
CC Stand b_ a second, Owen.
CC Skylab, SPT, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Owen, we would llke to leave the
multimeter connected to the rate gyro six-pack as it is
at the present time. In place of the Nikon malfunction
procedure that we sent up to you, we suggest you replace
the battery in the timer. That is, the timer battery, and
then without loading film, in the Nikon, see if the system
will function satisfactorily, i.e. the Nikon with the timer.
Over.
SPT Okay. I understand. And I'ii get onto
that probably after we run the M092 stuff. We'll have to
delay that, but I'll check it out that way.
CC Roger. I think that's the best we can do
under the circumstances.
SPT Sounds llke a good idea anyway.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Are you configured for TV down-llnk, Bruce?
PLT Okay. Here it comes.
CDR Okay. We've put the rags in a nice new
clean fecal bag and it's all sealed up.
CC Roger. We copy, AI.
CC And while your mind is fresh on the subject,
AI, we'd llke to get the most accurate quantity estimate you
can regarding the amount of liquid that leaked out. Our
analysis here shows that based on accumulator quantity change,
we're missing approximately 0.4 of a pound of glycol and
this seems to correlate in sort of a preliminary way with what
you' re finding. Over.
CDR I'd say that's good. My guess was a third of a
pint. And that was a pretty rough guess, but in that
neighbo rhood.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And we were wondering, Bruce, what are the
flammability characteristics, if any, of water glycol, loose?
CC Okay. Give us a little time to work on
that one. We're a minute from LOS over the Vanguard here.
Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes at Ascension at 18:41
Zulu. Over.
time 19 hours. That concludes the playback of the Vanguard
pass. We have accumulated another i0 minutes of air-to-
ground over the Ascension/Canary/Madrld. We will play that
back as soon as it's reracked in the sound room. On the
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TIME: 13:53 CDT 27/18:53 GMT
8/23/73
Vanguard pass, the crew was advised to shut down the primary
coolant loop, the one that has been concerned since mission
day 9, when a low indication on the accumulator showed low
on the primary and secondary inlet pressures of the pumps.
Our subsequent searches for a coolant loop leak on two
successive tries by Pilot Jack Lousma proved unsuccessful
and the secondary coolant loop will have been brought back
online and will service the EVA. The coolant loop had dropped
to a 5.8 percent pump pressure and it was felt here in the
Mission Control Center and approved by Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson that the primary loop would not expect to last
throughout the nlght_ so therefore bring on the secondary
loop and allow the secondary loop to become stable for the
heat loads that will be anticipated during tomorrow's EVA.
Also during this past rev, Pilot Jack Lousma still working
on the CBRMs, CBRM 18, CBRM i0, checking out voltages and
temperatures. There is only one CBRM on the vehicle that's
not operating. This was lost during the Skylab II mission,
15, which had been a problem during Skylab II, was brought
back online during an EVA when Commander Pete Conrad tapped
it with a hammer. We have about I0 minutes of tape or 4
minutes of tape, I'm sorry that we'll playback momentarily.
We have loss of signal at Madrid tracking station. Next
acquisition will be Guam in approximately 20 minutes. If
this press conference with Dr. Hawkins is still in progress
at that time, we'll tape that pass and play it back at the
close of the press conference.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Ascension
for 7 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce. On this power down for unattended
ops, I was wondering if the S054 guys want me to leave the
grating in?
CC That's a negative, Jack. We'd llke it out,
please. Over.
PLT Okay. I take it from this, they want me to
leave it M3 OP64. Is that affirm?
PLT Okay. I got it now.
PLT I didn't read those last few lines when I
was talking to you before. (garble)
CC Okay. We got you.
CC Skylab, Houston. 35 seconds to LOS Ascension.
Next station contact in i minute and 43 seconds over the
Canaries. Out.
PLT You there, Bruce.
CC Go ahead, AI.
PLT It's me, Bruce. Ask the boys in
the back room if they think SO56 is hung up on filter 5 in
ACTIVE i LONG?
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TIME: 13:53 CDT 27/18:53 GMT
8/23/73
CC That's affirm, Jack. It is hung up and

we're formulating a course of action for you.
PLT Oh, you want me just to go to stop and go
to my next mode like the patrol short or something.
CC That's affirmative, Jack. Do that.
PLT Okay. I don't think I've got time to get
a normal in so I'ii give them a short, if they don't mind.
CC Roger. We copy and concur.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. About 1-1/2
minutes to LOS here in Madrid. We will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at your next station contact in 27
minutes over Guam at 19:25, and for the PLT, we have about
4-1/2 minutes until sunset here. If you're near the ATM
panel, maybe you could give us a quick reading on bat
18 voltage. Over.
PLT Yeah, Bruce. I call it about 30.6. 30.6.
CC Okay. Copy. 30.6 on bat 18.
PLT i0 is reading almost 32.
CC Say again, please.
PLT Battery i0 is reading almost 32 volts.
CC Understand. Battery i0 is reading almost
32 volts.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 19
hours 6 minutes with the conclusion of this taped pass over
Ascension/Canary/Madrid. Next acquisition will be Guam in
approximately 19 minutes. And if the press conference with
Dr. Royce Hawkins is still in progress, we'll tape that pass.
Greenwich mean time 19 hours 6 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 14:48 CDT, 27/19:48 GMT
8/23/73

and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We recorded the pass
over Guam between the - conversation between the ground and
the crew of Skylab-2. We will now play hack that alr-to-
ground.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Guam
PLT Okay. Last time around, Bruce, mount
18 seems to be stable at the moment at 28 volts. Last
test each one of them got to be about 28.5 volts. And Sun's
coming up again.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you, Jack.
PLT Okay. In order to watch my displays,
I had to turn out the power system Bus 1 switch. I also
turned on the event timer so it - (garble) phase timer
so I could see what's going on. I presume you want me to
turn the recorder (garble) those.
CC Break, break. Hey, Jack. I'm having
extreme difficulty reading you over the music in the back
ground, would you say it again, please.
PLT Yeah. I had to put the power system
bus 1 switch out to read the meter over there_ of course, and
I put on the auto phase bus 1 also, so I could see my
relationship in daylight. And you want me to turn those
off for (garble) dump? I can turn them back on later, I
guess, huh?
CC Jack, you might as well go ahead and
leave them on. There doesn't seem to be any problem either
way. Over.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
CC And we thank you for your vigilance in
monitoring the voltage and the talkbacks on the bats. I
guess, it's semper vigilance or something like that.
PLT Huh, just what he did to music.
CDR That's good, that's good.
CC Now, we are dumping the data voice
tape recorder here.
PLT Good. We'll be glad to get that stuff
cleaned off.
PLT Bruce, did somebody pass the word
to you that I'm wanting to set up two phone calls tonight,
one to my wife, and the other to Fredo?
CC That's right, Jack. We're working on
them. And we'll have some word for you later on. Okay?
PLT Okay. Thank you.
LOS at Guam. Next station contact in 31 minutes over the
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Time" 14:48 CDT, 27/19:48 GMT
8/23/73
PAO Skylab Control 19 hours 51 minutes

and 46 seconds Greenwich mean time. That concludes the
recording of the air-to-ground over Guam. During that pass,
Jack Lousma indicated that he would like to speak to his wife
and carry on one other private conversation for this evening.
Also, indicated that he had monitored the charger battery
regulator module number 18, one of the tests that's being
run today on the CBRMs. And he said that battery number 18
was stable. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition
of signal 13 minutes and 46 seconds from now will be at the
Vanguard tracking ship - station.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI095/I
Time: 15:50 CDT, 27/20:05 GMT
8/23/73

We' ii have the line up for live air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylabthis is Houston through the
Vanguard for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston through the
Vanguard. Ten minutes to LOS. Next station contact over
the Canaries at 20:25 in 13 minutes. And is the PLT handy?
PLT (garble)
CC Okay, Jack. We're working on your request.
Right now we've got your private family conference set up
through Carnarvon at 22:42_ that's 2242 Zulu. It's a i0 minute
pass and that will be on the VHF right antenna. Over.
PLT Real good. Thanks a lot, Bruce.
CC Okay_ more words for you later.
PLT Yeah.
and 57 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have loss signal
at the Vanguard tracking ship. Our next acquisition of signal
10-1/2 minutes from now will be at Canary Islands. That pass
will go through Canary Islands and Madrid. This is Skylab
Control at 15 mlnutes and i0 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-I II MC-I096/i
Time: 15:24 CDT, 27/20:24 GMT
8/23/73

and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are approaching
acquisition of signal at the Canary Islands. This pass will
be through Canary Islands and Madrid, lasting approximately
15 minutes. This is Skylab Control, we'll stay live for
air-to-ground through Canary Islands and Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canaries
for 14-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Just got to thinking about
this call to Fredo, I guess, although we'd llke to do something
like that, probably just meet the (garble) communications
have been set up, so maybe we ought to cancel out the idea
and pass our best regards along to Fred, and hope that he'll
be out of the hospital soon.
CC Roger. We'll do that, Jack.
PLT Tell him that I said, that I know they
won't keep a man very long, because they haven't got enough
food to feed him.
CC (Laughter). I would say that they might
not have enough food to feed you.
PLT No, that's what Fred would say. You
wouldn't say that.
CC (Laughter) Okay. We copy.
CDR Bruce, are you there?
CDR Are we suppose to get out fresh LCGs
and - for this EVA, all three, or just two.
CC Nobody's suppose to use the same LCGs,
that you used on the first EVA, Alan. Over.
CDR Okay.
CDR Do the stowage folks know where that
little package of the nylon, that we're suppose to put out
EVA tomorrow is stowed?
CC Roger. That's in A-9. Alfa 9.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. After it gets dark here in about
2 minutes, we would like you to adjust the regulator control
fine adjustment for REG number 7 in the airlock module 20 de-
grees in the clockwise direction. That's two thirds of
space between the marks, clockwise on regulator fine
adjustment number 7 and verify that bat 7 discharge
charge increases by eight tenths of an amphere. We're
asking you to do this, so that Jack will remain free to
monitor CBRM bats number i0 and 18 over there on the ATM
panel. Over.
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to LOS, next station contact in 34 minutes. Over Honeysuckle
at 21:13. And you in the process of adjusting reg 7 now, AI?
CDR Just finished.
CC Roger. We saw the telemetry change,
and it looks good to us.
CDR Okay.
and 35 seconds Greewnich mean time. We are now out of
range of the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition
of signal 33 minutes from now, at the Honeysuckle station in
Australia. This is Skylab Control at 40 minutes and 49 sec-
onds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC1097/I
Time: 15:59 CDT, 27/20:59 GMT
8/23/73

Greenwich mean time. At the present time Nell Hutchinson
in the process of breaking his shift - completion of this
flight shifts on Phil Shaffer, the oncoming Flight Director.
Neil Hutchinson will be available for a change of shift
briefing at approximately 4:30 p.m. Central daylight time
in Building i. To repeat: At approximately 4:30 p.m.
there will be a change of shift briefing with Nell Hutchinson
in Building i. Flight Director Hutchinson will be the
Flight Director tomorrow for the EVA. This is Skylab Control.
It's now 20 hours, 59 minutes and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 16:13 CDT, 27/21:13 GMT
8/23/73

from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking sta-
tion. This pass will last approximately 8 minutes. We'll
be llve for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for
8 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Howdy, here's the PLT.
CC Jack, when and under what circumstances
did you terminate CBRM 18?
PLT Just a see. I'Ii give you the straight
word. Okay. I've got it written right down here. Battery
number 18, I got a BAT volt talkback, I go barber pole, and
the voltage is reading about 27.8 volts. Just a little
less than 8 volts. Just a little less than 28 volts.
And that was a half hour ago, at 20:45. And bat amp show
we got the juice on.
CC We copy that, Jack.
CC Jack, say again the battery temp.
PLT Battery temp, 47 degrees.
CC Copy.
CDR Who's the Cap Co*,?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hey, Bill, Alan. Say, did I ever thank
you for this doggone mark i exercise. I don't know what'd
do if we had - what we'd do up here if we didn't have it.
CC Hey, you need to thank a whole lot
of other people for that one. I was just one of several,
that bird-dogged that one. But, Jack, I'm sorry. John
Rummel was the one that initially found it, but I'm glad that
thing's working out. And anything you can tell us about it
will be appreciated.
CDR Okay. Well, I tell you. I think maybe they
ought to try sending up some little triangles that fit there where
the gold triangles do now. They fit your shoes better. Your
shoes continue to come out of there, and if they maybe could
change up those, they'd be a lot happier with it. Although,
that's really the finest device that and the ergometer. And
this mark 2 is not bad, either. So, without you birddogging
all that business, I don't think we'd be nearly as healthy as we
are, up here.
CC That's good, AI. Stay with it.
CDR Appreciate it.
CC Skylab, we're LOS in about 30 seconds.
We'll have you again, at Bermuda, 21:57.
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the Honeysuckle tracking station. Spacecraft is now on
revolution 1461 about the Earth, crossing over New Zeland.
Our next acqusltion of signal a little over 35 minutes from
now. We'll be at the Bermuda station, a low elevation
pass, expected to last approximately 6 minutes and 20 seconds.
This is Skylab Control at 23 minutes and 7 seconds after
the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI099/i
Time: 16:29 CDT, 27/21:29 GMT
8/23/73

and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. At this time
Neil Hutchinson is engaged in discussions for tomorrows
EVA. He is not yet ready to leave Mission Control. For
that reason we'll have to announce a delay in that press
conference originally scheduled for approximately 4:30.
No time available yet. We would estimate at least 15 minutes
before he'll be available for that press conference. This
EVA discussion does involve a change in the plans for
tomorrow's EVA, a relatively minor one, a shifting of duties.
But it will require some more of his time. We'll give you an
announcement approximately 5 minutes before he arrives at
Building i. This is Skylab Control at 30 minutes 16 seconds
after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 16:57 CDT 27/21:57 GMT
8/23173

acquisition of signal at the Bermuda tracking station. We
have the llne up for llve air-to-ground through Bermuda.
This pass should last approximately 6 minutes and 21 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 6 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Hello Bill. I think maybe you called up
here. The first couple of syllables in each of your transmissions
is being cut out.
CC Say again, Jack, you squealed on that one.
CC Jack, - -
PLT Can you read me?
CC Only partially, Jack. Battery 18 is
charged and we're going to ground command the REG ON at
this time.
PLT Okay. I see it's already on. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 50 seconds.
Canary at 22:05.
41 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of range
of the Bermuda tracking station, but we're Just about to
reacquire signal at Canary Islands. This pass through
Canary Islands and Madrid will last approximately 8-i/2
minutes. We have the llne up llve fro air-to-ground
through Canary Island and Madrid.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCII01/I
Time: 17:05 CDT, 27/22:05 GMT
8/23/73
PAO Skylab Control. An additional announcement.

Neil Hutchinson indicates that he will be available for that
change of shift briefing in approximately i0 to 15 minutes.
We're live for alr-to-ground through Canary Islands and
Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC We'll be dumping the tape recorder at
Madrid at 22:08. And Jack we would like you to watch CBRM
i0 on this nlghtside pass.
PLT I'm watching.
CC Also, the ground will be standing by on
this next stateside pass for a conversation about the EVA
prep or any questions on EVA.
CDR Okay.
CC And also on the stateside pass we'll be
commanding the ATM DC to enable the gyros to switch from
fine coarse scale and reverse.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have a message for
anyone that' s convenlent.
PLT Go ahead, Bill.
CC We want you to shoot some photos, $230
photos, with Nikon 01. Shoot 2 frames of the $230 spool
from SPS window 3 at the followlng settings. One is f/8,
leader 7 feet, 2, f/56, leader at 7 feet, and record in the
35 millimeter log book.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bill.
CC Okay, Jack, and these do have to be
performed in daylight. And we're simply getting this done
early so you don't have to bother with it tomorrow.
PLT Okay. And the meter that you gave must
be the - whatever shutter speed we get with the light meter
at those apertures. Right?
CC That's affirm, Jack.
PLT We'll do it.
PLT Okay, we got a bat volt talkback barber
pole on battery 10 and 328 volt. I'm going to see you when
I finish with it.
CC We copy that, Jack.
CC We'll be LOS here in approximately 50 seconds.
We'll have you again at Carnarvon at 22:42. And, Jack, your
communications are all set up for the family.
PLT Okay, Bill, thank you. I've reconfigured
reg on on CBRM number i0, and you can take a look at it.
CC We' re looking now, Jack.
.. ,o
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Time: 17:05 CDT, 27/22:05 GMT
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PAO Skylah Control at 22 hours 17 minutes

and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now lost signal
at the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition 22 minutes
and 50 seconds from now will be at Carnarvon. At that time
there will be a private conversation between Jack Lousma
and his family. We're are now prepared to began a briefing
in building 1 with offgoing flight director Nell Hutchinson.
We'll turn you over to the briefing. This is Skylab Control
at 18 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-II02/I
Time: 17:41 CDT, 27/22:41 GMT
8/23/73

and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're approximately
32 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon,
Australia tracking station. This pass through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle will last approximately 15-1/2 minutes.
This is Skylab Control, during this pass, Jack Lousma will
be carrying on a private conversation with his family.
Skylab Control, we're llve for air-to-ground through the
Australian tracking stations.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for
15 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT I'm up in the command module right now Bill.
CC Okay, Jack. They want you on the VHF
loop. They're all set up for you.
PLT I've been waiting on the VH_, but I
don't hear nothing, Bill. I'll go back there.
CC Okay. Go hack and try it.
CC And Skylab, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bill.
CC We want you to stay off the DAS here
for a while. We're going to do some ATM commanding.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hello, Bill. How do you read?
CC You're loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay. These guys aren't coming through
on VHF. I've been waiting, but I don't get anything, but
some background noise. I'll try again, if you say.
CC Yeah, Jack. Go ahead and try again.
They're working it. They thought they had you, but apparently
don't have. They're working it, Jack. Go back to VHF.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hello, Houston, Skylab. How do you
read?
CC Jack, you're coming down on the alr-to-
ground i.
PLT Well, let me check.
PLT Still not hearing anybody, Bill.
CC That's affirm, Jack. They've got some
problem that they're working.
PLT Okay. Shall we postpone it until the
next station?
CC Stand by, one.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bill.
CC Jack, we've got some up-link problems,
apparently and we'll try to reschedule this for you.
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PLT Okay. I'll reconflgure then, and stand

by for a new time. I guess we're coming up over the states
pretty soon, aren't we?
CC That's affirm. And I'll try to get your
time back shortly.
PLT Okay. Could you give Grace a call and
tell her to postpone for a little while.
CC Wilco.
PLT Maybe she knows. Thank you.
CC Skylah, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We have two Flight Plans on board and
we'll get the third one up on this coming stateside pass.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 17:54 CDT 27/22:54 G_T
8/23/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in about

30 seconds here. Rusty will be standing by with some flight
plan changes on the EVA on this stateside pass coming up.
And Jack, we're still trying to work out a Bood pass for
your communications.
CC Correct that Flight Plan changes to check-
list changes.
PLT Hello Bill. You were cutting out. We've
only got about last half sentence there. And I notice that
all your transmissions the last hour or so looks Just llke
the first part of your few syllables is cut off. So would
you repeat, please?
CC Copy. We're going LOS here. Rusty will
be standing by with checklist changes this stateside pass.
We're trying to get Jack's comm set up.
PAO S'kylab Control at 22 hours 58 minutes and
38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range
of the Honeysuckle tracking station. Apparently some
difficulty in the communications network on both parts of
that Australian pass. Crew indicating they had difficulty
hearing spacecraft communicator Bill Thornton and the private
conversation for Jack Lousma apparently did not get through
during that pass. Some trouble with the VHF antennas or with
the operation here on the ground. They will attempt to
reschedule that for later in the evening. We're now 30
minutes and 30 seconds from acquisition of signal. This is
Skylab Control at 59 minutes 14 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-II04/I
Time: 18:28 CDT, 27/23:28 GMT
8/23/73

and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about
50 seconds from acquisition of signal over our United States
tracking station. This pass through Merritt Island and
Bermuda should last approximately 15 minutes. This is
Skylab Control. We have the line up llve for air-to-ground
through Merritt Island and Bermuda. And then a short
interruption before the Madrid pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for
I0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bill.
CC And, Jack. We are plannin E to set your
VHF comm at 02:41 at Texas, and we'll have a couple of
stations after that, if we need them. And I notified
Gracia.
PLT Okay. Thanks a lot Bill. I appreciate
that a lot.
CC Also, if you choose an antenna make it
VHF right, and we want you to stay off of the DAS. We're
going to do some ATM commanding. And a message for the CDR.
PLT He's listening.
CC Omit SO82A from JOP 6j bracket I, at
GMT 00:33. This is just a reminder.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
CC And we now have Rusty standing by for
the EVA comm.
CDR Okay. (Static)
SCHWEICKART Okay. We've got a good bit of static
on the llne just now. What we'd llke to do is find out,
first, so we can go into the research mode, if you've got
any questions on what you've seen so far. And then I'd
like to have you stand by with the Summary Flight Plan, so
I can go over the tlmellne with you. And also if you've got
the EVA checklist out, we've got some mods there. I tell you
what, why don't you stand by just a second until it clears up.
Sounds pretty good right now. Go ahead.
CDR No questions. I had a chance
to look through the whole procedure, pretty straightforward
Y'all did a good job. Ready to listen to the genius.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Let me give you some new words
on the electrical power profiles. We've rerun them, based
on what we actually expect tomorrow, including the real
Beta angle and the real loads and all of those good things.
And Io and behold, we've discovered that we've got considerably
greater amount of time than we thought we had to get back to solar
inertial from the time we go into standby mode. It turns
out now that we've got on the order of 2 hours and 40 minutes
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from the time we go into standby until we have to be back

in solar inertial mode. Now, we'll be taking a look at the
state of charge of the batteries as EVA proceeds and in case
we run into some kind of a off-nominal situation. We'll be
updating the back end of that window for you and keep you
updated on it. But, if things go as we expect, we won't
have any problem with that at all. In other words, what
I'm saying is we don't - we have no attitude constraints
to get back into solar inertial for something on the order
of 2 hours and 40 minutes after we go into the standby mode.
CDR Sounds good, Rusty.
SCHWEICKART Okay. And the only attitude criteria
again, in that interim from standby until we have to be
back in SI, is just to avoid gimbal lock.
CDR Rog. And I guess, I'ii kind of have
to go back and forth to check to see how it's doing, there,
if we're really off that much, that long, which I doubt.
One question I had. I noticed in the procedures, once
we bring the system back up again, I gather it doesn't know
where solar inertial is, and we have to actually do
a manual maneuver close enough for the ACS Sun sensor to catch
it. Is that right?
SCHWEICKART Okay. There are two conditions there, AI.
One, is if the Sun presence talkback is grey, that is we're
still in the field of view of the ACS Sun sensor, we Just
go right into SI mode, and SI will take it over. If the
talkback is barber pole, either because we're at night, or
if because we went outside the field of view that is 9 degrees,
from the ACS Sun sensor, then we go into att hold, and we do
an attitude maneuver either you guys using out the window
cues, or we can give you an attitude maneuver from down here,
when we see the errors on the command module. Either way,
you do an art hold maneuver to SI, reinitiallze the strap
down, switch into SI, and then we're off and running.
CDR Okay. And essentially, that's the way
the procedure is written, as I understand it, the way you
Just went through.
SCHWEICKART That's correct.
CDR Okay. Understand. Go ahead.
SCHWEICKART Okay. One of the things - let me-
Have you got the Summary Flight Plan handy, AI?
CDR Sure do.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Look at tomorrow morning there,
at the beginning of EVA prep.
CDR I'm looking.
SCHWEICKART Okay. We would llke to have you do the
first part of the rate gyro pre-EVA work that is bringing
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up the command module CMC only. That is, do a pro to get

out of standby, a VERB 96 ENTER, and then throw the upheld
switch to ACCEPT. That is you'll put the commands - the CMC
into an accept mode for a state vector. We'd like you to
do that anytime starting right now. In the morning we will
update a state vector and time to you, during your post-
sleep activities so that at 12 - Stand by, I don't have it
in front of me, unfortunately. I th_nk it's 12:00 o'clock.
You are free to go up and start the EVA - the CMC powerup
on the rate gyro pack cue card.
CDR Okay. That makes sense. The first
thing I'll do when I get up in the morning, is do that.
SCHWEICKART That's a negative, AI. We'd prefer that
you do it tonight. And leave the CMC in ACCEPT and Just do
the VERB 96 ENTER after you get out of standby.
CDR Okay. I'ii do it when we quit talking.
SCHWEICKART Sounds good.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Just for information purposes.
We have some hlp-pocket kinds of power reductions we can
perform down here as the EVA progresses in case we do need
to conserve even more power, that is to give you e_en more
time. And just to let you know what they are, we can power
down the principle control on the ATM canister. That's
about the only one we can do. We can ask you to turn off
half the caution and warning power with a couple of breakers.
We can ask you to turn MOL SIEVE B fan off. And that'll take
us down quite a hit. And as sort of a last resort, which
we in all likelihood would not ever use, but it's there
nevertheless, we could bring up the descent DAC in the CSM,
which would save us another few hundred watts. Now, we
don't expect any of that to he required.
CDR Neither do we.
SCHWEICKART Good. Okay. In the Summary Plight
Plan, in the middle column, that is in the SPT's column,
during the EVA, we've got listed what we would consider
the nominal sequence of events outside of the ra_e gyro
pack install. That is starting with the sail samples.
Now, if you get out - If we get hatch open in the middle of
a daylight pass, you can do that stuff in order as you
see fit only being ready to do the right rate gyro installa-
tion at Sunrise. So you can do whatever is convenient
there on that, or whatever you'd llke to do during the
night pass, or during the part of remaining day after you
get the hatch open. We've got about a minute to LOS here
and we'll be picking you up - -
CC We don't have Bermuda, we'll be picking
him up at Madrid.
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SCHWEICKART - - We will be picking you up at Madrid

at 23:46.
CDR Okay. Be waiting for you, Rusty.
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal from
the Merritt Island tracking station. The Bermuda tracking
station is not up, although it's listed on our acquisition
times here. Bermuda tracking station is presently being
used for supporting an Internat'l Sat communication satellite
launch from Cape Kennedy. For that reason, we'll have no
communications through the Bermuda pass. Our next acquisition
of signal will be at Madrid station. And that will take
place in approximately 7 minutes. During this last pass
there was an instruction given up to the commander to remind
him to omit SO82A from the joint observations plan on - the
joint observations program for the ATM solar array. That
instruction was to remind him that the SO82A, the extreme
ultraviolet coronal spectroheliograph is out of film, and
they are concerned that if it were to be used again, it
would cause double exposure. So, they did give him a reminder,
although, he had been instructed that way earlier, he is
running another solar - another period of solar observations
this evening, beginning in approximately an hour. They
did want to remind him that SO82A has now used up all of
its film, that will be resupplied tomorrow by Owen Garriott.
Also, instructions on what sort of - -
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PAO - S082A has now used up all of its film.

That will be resupplied tomorrow by Owen Garriott. Also
instructions on what sort of maneuvering might be necessary
following that connection of the gyro packet. The Commander,
Alan Bean, indicated that he thought that perhaps we would
have to do an automatic maneuver, a manual maneuver, using
the command and service module, however, he was instructed
that if he gets gray on an indicator, that means that the
solar sensors, sun sensors would be able to move them back
into solar inertial, that is, to point the ATM panels
directly at the Sun. That would require that the space-
craft not be more than 9 degrees away from solar inertial
for the Sun sensors to operate easily. If, in fact, he gets
a barber pole, that would indicate that he is more than 9
degrees away from solar inertial and that either he will do
it visually by determining where the Sun is and then correct-
ing it using the command module or the ground will give him
assistance. That will be during the EVA, of course, tomorrow.
In addition, the Commander was instructed to perform one
of the activities for EVA this evening. The reason for
that being that there is poor station coverage tomorrow
morning and they do want to get that done early to keep from
interfering with other EVA procedures. He did indicate he
will be performing that this evening. This is Skylab
Control. Our next acquisition of signal approximately
4-1/2 minutes from now at the Madrid tracking station.
A little over an hour from now, we'll be beginning another
darkness pass. At the present time the spacecraft is in
daylight. About a minute and 20 seconds from going into
the darkness over the North Atlantic. During the next
darkness pass, to begin about an hour and a half from now,
Owen Garriott will be taking photographs of the Aurora
Borealis. The Aurora Borealis is a phenomenon that must have
awed the earliest men on Earth. Popularly known as the
Northern Lights. In the southern hemisphere it's known as
the Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights. Aurora are
caused by hydrogen atoms and free electrons streaming
earthward from the Sun, being concentrated around the Earth's
northern and southern magnetic poles. The charged particles
are deflected to the magnetic poles while they are inbound
several Earth radaii out in space. Owen Garriott, a former
college professor, was very interested in the effect of
the solar particles radiating into space and their effect
on the upper atmosphere, so the Aurora Borealis is an area
that he would be specifically knowledgable about. He will
be taking photographs of that beginning this evening. Visable
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Aurora occur simultaneously at both magnetic poles in a

cyclic pattern coinciding with Sun spots and other solar
features, as they face the Earth in the Sun's 27 day rotational
period. The aurora usually start their pulsating glow within
2 to 4 days after the solar feature appears. The altitude
of aurora ranges from about 100 kilometers or 62 miles to
an average maximum of about 400 kilometers or 248 miles,
that's just about 30 miles below the spacecraft orbit.
occasionally a powerful aurora may reach as high as i00
kilometers or 620 miles. Today's auroral photography from
Skylab is under the direction of Dr. Donald M. Packer of
the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, who is
principal investigator for the SO63 air glow horizon
photography experiment. An aurora at the northern magnetic
field has been reported today and it is reportedly growin B
stronger according to the U.S. Air Force observers in
Anchorage, Alaska. Garriott will attempt to photograph the
phenomena through one of the small windows in the multiple
docking adaptor. These are structrual transition section
windows. He will use a Nikon F 35 millimeter camera loaded
with hlgh-speed color film and the exposures will be from
2 to 4 seconds at f/l.2, that's the wide open angle to get this
very low light event. The aurora photography opportunity
begins over New Foundland at 8:18 p.m. central daylight time,
and ends as the space station comes back into sunlight over
Somalia on the east African coast at 8:40 p.m. central
daylight time. That will be in the next revolution of the
Skylab, approximately an hour and a half from now. This is
Skylab Control. We're now one minute and 30 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Madrid. The Madrid pass an 8 minute
pass. We'll keep the llne up 1lye for elf-to-ground through
Madrid.
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CC Skylab, Houston over Madrid for the next

7-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston over Madrid for about
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Go ahead. Let me ask you a question,
Rusty.
MCC You speak.
CDR Okay, we're ringing out the lock compart-
ment with the extra equipment for the rate gyro hookup. Do
you recommend that when Owen and Jack are using the rate
gyro - taking the cable out that they use those hooks that
are on there or did we attach a separate tether to the cable
itself?
MCC The recommendation is to use the hooks
that are on there and hook those to your wrist tether attach
point. My actual recommendation, AI, would be not even to
do that, but Just to hold it in your hand as you go out the
handrail.
CDR Okay, understand. So, I gather then
we don't need - the only extra wrist tether we need then
is for the pin straightener.
MCC That's correct and even that one would
end up staying in the lock compartment.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your co*,ments.
MCC Okay, I want to clarify one thing or
make sure that you understand the capability we have down
here. When you're ready to switch back into APCS
control at the end of the RGP installation, we want you to
know that if we have speech and contact we can look at
the NOUN 20 on the command module and we'll be able to come
right up to you with a 3-axls art hold maneuver so that you
wouldn't have to do it out the window. We just want you to
know that if we are in station contact we can do that for
you.
CDR Okay, I'll keep that in mind for sure.
MCC Okay, but we do not want you to hold up
the - you know, if you're ready to do it and go back att
hold out the window is just fine. Okay, if you've got the EVA
checklist we would like to voice you a couple of changes
there that came out of your last EVA. These were requests
that you made concerning the orientation of the VS tree on the
VS boom before sending it out there.
CDR Okay, tell me the page.
MCC Okay, 2.2-16.
CDR Okay, I'm there.
MCC Okay, in the sentence there that says
to attach tree to boom and lock hook, we'd llke you to put
t
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VS tree, that is attach VS tree to boom shoe toward AM and

lock hook.
CDR Okay, I've got it.
MCC Okay, AI, that same comment goes in
three other places. 2.2-22 is the next one. And you can
just Jot these down. Then for EVA-3 it comes up on 2.3-14
and -18.
CDR Okay, I've got that jotted down.
MCC Okay, fine. And we'd llke to have
some idea how your preprep is going. Have you had any
problems or any comments? And whereabout are you in the
checklist?
CDR We're nearly finished with it. Every-
thing is going well. We're got all the items moved up to the
lock compartment, all the preprep. It has to do not with
the rate gyro but our normal one are finished. The key
to the whole thing was getting that extra hour and a half
this morning to put in those checklist changes and then
having some time then to think about those all day so that
when we got started tonight we knew where we were going.
So we're in good shape.
MCC Okay, that sounds fine. And- -
CDR You got - -
MCC Go ahead, AI.
CDR You got any questions of us?
MCC No, everybody's shaking their head
sideways. Let me Just say that when you guys start with
the EVA prep in the morning, you' Ii be going right up into
the CSM. And we've got Jack scheduled to man the ATM C&D to
give you star tracker angles. And just for his information,
he can actually start the ATM DAS work and also the J21
connector activities while you're still doing your PSI and
setting up P20 in the CSM.
CDR Okay, we'll probably do them together.
MCC Okay, fine.
CDR Anything else?
MCC No, just a reminder that when you do the
PSI you want to make sure that you are in SI and if you're
going to use the star tracker angles make sure that you are
SI before you do that because the dumps will be enabled all
through the whole EVA.
CDR Okay, thank you for the tip.
MCC That's all we got and I'm going to turn
it back over to Bill here who's got something for you. See
you tomorrow on EVA.
CDR Okay, Rusty, thanks. These procedures
were awful straightforward. We appreciate the work that y'all
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have done. And I don't know who's been working with you.
Who has been?
MCC Well, it's an awful long llst and we
only got a minute before you' re lost at Madrid and I better
return it to Bill.
CDR Okay, well, thank them.
MCC I'ii thank them all.
CDR We'll do it right.
CC Have a message for you for - in the
command module, AI.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Want you to select position 1 on the
polychoke since the pressure's falling off a little too
rapidly.
CDR Okay.
CC Second one on panel 382, use tool E and
verify that the suit heat exchange primary glycol valve
is in bypass; thatts clockwise. If it's not, put it in
bypass but don't over torque it. If it doesn't go with a
moderate force leave it as it. The reason for this is
Apollo 16 had a valve in an intermediate position and it leaked.
CDR Okay, I'll go do it right now. And I'Ii
verify that it is not, it's in an intermediate position
right now. I tried to recall why it might be there and it
looks llke our 7 day check has us put it sort of open for
a minute and then bypass for 30 seconds. And I assume
that must position it in the mlddle_ I don't know though.
CC We copy that. We're going LOS here.
We'll see you at Carnarvon. And also, Carnar - that's at
00:20 and at Carnarvon we'll be dumping the voice tape
recorder.
and 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now gone out
of range of the Madrid tracking station. We're 24 minutes
and 32 seconds from acquisition of signal at Carnarvon. That
Carnarvon pass to last approximately 10 minutes, and we do expect
a Honeysuckle pass immediately following that, about a
3-1/2 minute pass. Preparations, according to Alan Bean,
for tomorrow's extravehicular activity are going very well
tonight. They did set aside a little extra time at his
request yesterday evening, and he has had some time this
morning for that EVA prepreparation. He did say that
everything is going very well on that. Checklist has been
reviewed and apparently is in good shape. Rusty Schwelckart
was the spacecraft communicator during that last pass and
the preceding pass discussing the events for tomorrows' EVA
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with Commander Bean. Flight plan for tomorrow calls for

that extravehicular activity to begin at approximately
I0:i0 a.m. Central daylight time, and it is expected to be
a 4 hour EVA. First event in the EVA to be a rate gyro
pack installation. They expect he'll be - Jack Lousma will
be doing that gyro pack installation. He will act as the
outside man during the first part of the EVA. He will get
out, we hope, Just before darkness in the daylight period
of time so he can have a chance to reconnoiter then during
the darkness period he will work on other things until
we're back into daylight. As soon as we're back into daylight
he will begin the actual installation of the rate gyro pack.
And following that, JSC sall samples will be deployed, these
are samples of the thermal reflective material used for
shielding the solar lab, the Skylab. And following that
then the ATH film replacement will take place. The last
event al - these activities to be done by Owen Garriott,
will be the removal of ramps or launch locks on SO82A and
S056 ATM instrument doors. The activities should be over
a little after 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. We do expect
that some television at the commanders' discretion will be
downlinked during the afternoon tomorrow. He has several
opportunities. He will be in the command module and
multiple docking adaptor areas of the spacecraft and he
may do some photography of that at his discretion. This is
Skylab Control. We're 22 minutes from acquisition of signal
in Australia and we will come back at that time. It's now
58 minutes and i0 seconds after the hour.
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from acquisition of signal at our Australia tracking station
at Carnarvon. We'll keep the line up for live air-to-ground
up through Carnarvon approximately 10 minutes. Immediately
following that, there will be a pass through Honeysuckle
with a flight interruptions between the two. We're llve
now for alr-to-ground from Carnarvon.
CDR Okay.
CC And we want you to stay off the DAS
since we're sending up some scale factor co_nnands here. And
you have two free minutes on the VTR tonight, should you
need it. And some news items. If you'd like for me to
read them up.
CDR Yeah, llke to. We'd sure like to
hear it.
CC Okay. The first one is that Henry Kissenger's
been nominated as Secretary of State and the reaction has been
generally favorable today, in this country and abroad. And
Kissenger, at the western White House, pledge that he will
operate American Foreign Policy on a bipartisan basis, with
increased information to Congress and the country. Skylab
was a big story today, in anticipation of tomorrow's EVA.
And TV networks and press are talking about details of the
operations six packs. Fred Hales is in the John Sealy
Hospital's burn ward. His condition is stable, but _e
sustained 2nd degree burns over 40 to 50 percent of his
body. He's fairly comfortable, and responding satisfactorily
to treatment. And we're optimistic about the outcome. There
are ten major forest fires out of control in the northwest.
Texas will get 800 thousand new adults a minute past mid-
night, Monday, when 18, 19, and 20 year olds gain the right
of adults under a new law. It says that a substantial number
of them may celebrate at the local bars. The Pirates beat
the Astros 4 to 0 last night. And Skylab, the DAS is yours.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We want you to perform M509-F3A, prior
to sleep. The purpose of this is to get the cluster pressure
down in preparation for EVA prep tomorrow, which would normally
raise it 3/10ths of a pound. This will minimize venting.
And a later message: We'll give you configuration of AM
rellef valves for EVA.
CDR Okay. We've been kind of wondering
about that. Let me tell you what went on in the command
module. I've got the CMC up and in accept, and (garble) 96,
ready for anything you want to do with it. I went down
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there and checked the coolant valves. And it was - it

points to the center between bypass and open. But, that's
as close to bypass as it goes. It sort of hits the stop
there. I rotated it the other direction to open to see if
it went a hundred and eighty degrees. It looks llke it
ought to go near the nomenclature decal on the valve, but
it does not. It only goes 90 degrees. So it will point
to open, but then it won't go the other direction and point
to bypass. It'll only go half way. So it ends up pointing,
essentially, up midway between the two. And it hits a
hardstop there.
CC Okay , AI. EGIL says that is - that
90 degrees is normal sort of thing. And that under these circum-
stances, it is not unusual for it to be pointing upright as
you found it. However it - this should place it in the bypass
position in actual fact.
CDR Okay. Understand. It was there then,
all the time.
CC We copy that, AI. Thank you.
CDR And, Houston. I did not do the 82A
exposures per your upvolce update of an hour ago.
CC We copy that. Thank you.
CDR What kind of airplane was Fred flying?
CC AI, it was one of - Confederate Air
Force's. It was apparently, a rebuilt BT-13, one of the -
that has been converted to a (garble). And lost an engine
and dead sticked it into a field, apparently.
CDR I'ii be darn. Well, we'll sure be
thinking about him over the next few days, here.
CC We'll keep you posted.
CDR He's in the right place for the problem
he has. That's going to be - They know what they're doing
over there.
CC We sure agree with that.
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CDR We're completely finished with our prep

now and Owen and Jack are eating dinner. And then after
dinner we're going to kind of talk through the EVA and
then hit the sack - We'll be pretty late. I think Jack still
has his exercise to go. So, I think this added time worked out
just perfectly.
CC We copy that and we'll be going LOS for
about a minute here in 30 seconds.
after the hour. We do have loss of signal temporarily between
the Carnarvon and the Honeysuckle tracking stations as the
spacecraft is to the south of the Australian continent. We
expect to have an acquisition again in approximately 33 seconds
and we will keep the llne up live for alr-to-ground through
Honeysuckle for approximately 3 minutes and 49 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds.
We'll have you at Texas at 103.
after zero hour Greenwich mean time. We have now lost our
tracking station at Honeysuckle. The spacecraft passing
out of range as it goes south of New Zealand and begins its
pass across the South Pacific. Next acquisition of signal
27 minutes from now, will be at the Texas tracking station
in Corpus Christi. This is Skylab Control at 36 minutes
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19 seconds Greenwich mean time. We now have acquisition of
signal coming up at the Merritt Island and Texas tracking
stations. This is a U.S. and Bermuda pass. We will stay
live for air-to-ground through Texas, Merrltt Island, and
Bermuda.
CDR Okay, Houston. Just powered down the
ATM panel.
CC We're looking at it. And we're setting
Y-scale factor here, now. And we'd llke for you to stay off
the DAS.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy to stay
off the DAS? We're setting in a Y-scale factor.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we want
you to stay off the DAS. We're setting in Y-scale factors.
PLT We read. We will.
CC Skylab, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. It appears we're having
some comm problems, here. Are you readin E me at this time?
SPT Right now, we're reading you, Bill.
CC Okay. We want you to close the H-alpha
1 and 2 doors.
SPT Okay. Just a minute. I'ii go up to
the panel.
CC And we're also standing by for the
Evening Status Report.
SPT Is there anything else on the ATM
panel that looks unusual to you, we'll - would llke to get
it closed out for the night.
CC Everything else looks good. As soon as
you get those doors closed.
CDR Okay. Here it comes. 165, 185, 183.
How are you hearing?
CC We're reading you loud and clear, go
ahead.
CDR Okay. Now for drinking water: 5403;
8882; 6026; BMMD: 6.244, 6.244, 6.246; 5.959, 5.960, 5.957;
6.950, 6.947, 6.946. Works pretty good, doesn't it. 2/3 -
this is exercise: 2/35/5230, 3/15, mark i, 40A, 20B, 20C,
and 20D; 3/10 mark 2, 40A, 10B, 10C, 10D; Pilot hasn't
exercised yet. No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2 G, 7-1/2 G,
6-1/2 G; Food log: CDR, (static) correction on that,
15 salt packs, no deviation. SPT, five salt packs add
butter cookie and jam; PLT, 13-1/2 salt packs and one butter
cookie add, one orange drink add; So he's getting healthy.
How about a little photo log?
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CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Change that orange drink to an apple
drink. Here comes the photo log: We've got one photo to
take tonight of this maintenance 487, or whatever it is, we'll
get it. 35-mill - So there's no 16-milllmeter activity today,
so no change. Here's the 35: CII01, 55, CX1346; 70-milli-
meter: CX25, 051; Flight Plan looks good ... ready to do it;
and shopping list accomplishment: did all the things assigned
and all the housekeeping; unscheduled stowage item location
change, four Jams, one vanilla wafers, two lemonades
from 548 to SPT's food shelf. That's it.
CC Okay. We copy that, AI. And there's
one question. Have any of you used the gyro stabilized
binoculars, and if so, are they better than the Nikon
viewflnder with the 300-millimeter lens for seeing fine
ground detail?
PLT Yeah. You're breaking up, Bill. We're
not getting the full transmission.
CC Okay. We'll try again here. Have any
of the crew used the gyro stabilized binoculars for ground
sltings, and if you have used them, are they better than
the Nikon vlewflnder, with the 300-millimeter lens, that is
for picking up fine details?
SPT We have used it for such things as, for
example, the other day we werelooklng at icebergs off of
South America down towards Antarctica with them. And it is
better than the 300-milllmeter lens of the Nikon. I think
we - oh, have given them a try, Bill.
CC Okay. And have you done the F230
film yet, and M509 F3A?
PLT The answer is yes on the F230
pictures, Just took four of them, ... experiment.
They're setting out there, everything looks nice and gold
and doesn't have any discoloration on it.
CDR And we started the cabin purge Just
about 30 minutes ago.
CC Copy.
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CC And, AI, do you have a current BMMD

conversion chart on board? That is to convert your readings
into masses made off of this time's calibration.
CDR We thought we did, but we noticed that
out weight comes - well the weight that we read, when we
use that chart is different than the weight that gets sent
up on a daily basis. It reads less than the one that's
set up on a daily basis.
CC Copy that. We' ii have a look and maybe
correct it.
CDR That'd be good, because we'd llke to
use it on a - as weighed basis.
CDR Also, would you tell the food people, that
two days ago I had a cherry drink, and I Just happened to think
about it, today. I forgot to write it down and report it.
So, two days ago, one cherry drink. It's a free item so
it won't affect their data.
CC We copy that, AI.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in one minute.
And at Madrid you'll have the medical conference at 1:24.
CDR This comm has been so bad for the last
30 minutes or so, Bill, we thought it was a private family
comm.
CC AI, we didn't copy that last transmission,
say again.
CDR I said (laughter) I'm not surprised
you didn't. I said the comm has been so bad the last 30 min-
utes to an hour that we thought we were on a private family
comm.
CC (Laughter) We copy that one, AI.
and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. That last comment by
A1 Bean was received with a lot of laughter here in Mission
Control. _e said that the communications has been so bad
with the ground that they thought they were in a private
family conference there. During this last pass, the space-
craft did move into darkness, just a matter of a few minutes
ago. At this time, Owen Garriott should be in the multiple
docking adapter beginning some photography of the aurora
borealls, that's the northern lights, an electrical activity
in the atmosphere over the North Pole. He'll have about
19 more minutes to take pictures using that Nikon F camera
that they carry aboard the spacecraft and he has some very
hlgh-speed color film. We' re about two minutes and - -
PAO We're about 2 minutes and 30 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Madrid tracking station. And
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we will keep the line up live for this communications from

Madrid. During this last pass, also, the crew indicated
that they did not have a chart they thought was accurate
for the body mass measuring device. This is the device that's
used to determine the crew's weight in orbit. Of course,
they have no real weight, the gravity gradient not being
present, but without gravity they do have a mass measuring
device that by the use of springs can determine the total
mass of the human body. Also used, a similar device used
for weighing the masses of other items on the spacecraft.
That body mass measuring device does reveal weight, but they
do not have a chart that allows them to calculate it and
get the same data they get from the ground. Spacecraft
communicator William Thornton did indicate that they will
make some attempt to get them more accurate data and that
will allow them to get an actual weight as soon as they have
the readings from the body mass measuring device. We're
now one minute and 26 seconds from acquisition of signal
at Madrid. The crew is indicating that they may be going
to bed a little early tonight, but since they have been
staying beyond the i0 o'clock sleep time, that may mean a
regular i0 o'clock slgn-off. They'll be going to bed a
little earlier, because of the EVA, which is scheduled to
begin tomorrow about i0:i0 a.m. central daylight time. They
will begin work on that promptly after awakening. There's
some discussion here in Mission Control, the possibility that
the crew may be up before six o' clock in the morning to
begin work on that. Extravehicular activities scheduled for
tomorrow. This is Skylab Control, we're now 49 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Madrid. And we will keep the llne
up for air-to-ground through Madrid.
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and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. The early part of
the Madrid pass, which is expected to last a little over
7 minutes, has been reserved for the private medical
conference. This is the daily crew health status report.
So we do not expect to hear any commentary from the crew
until several minutes into the Madrid pass which is now
underway. We do have acquisition of signal at Madrid
and that private medical conference is now underway through
the Madrid station. We will keep the line up for alr-to-
ground through Madrid at the end of this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston we're standing by.
CDR Let me make sure I gave you the SPT's
exercise. I may not have done that.
CDR It follows. 320, Mark i, 60A, 30B, 30B.
That's 60A, 30B, 30B. 2/20/2900 plus in the MITI run.
My numbers included my 171 run. The PLT's on the bike now;
he'll have something for you before he goes to bed.
CC Yeah, we hear him grinding away there,
AI. You think you'll make i0,000 tonight?
CDR I hope he doesn't, that bike can't take it.
Last time he tried to go for the big numbers it ground to a
halt.
CC We copy that.
PLT Tonight's a light night, Bill. Getting
ready for a big day tomorrow.
CC We missed that one, Jack.
PLT Tonight's going to be a light night
getting ready for
tomorrow.
CC Yeah, you'll put a few watt-minutes
in that suit tomorrow. You still fit it?
PLT No, I rattle around in it like a (garble)
CC Skylab, the photo people say that Nikon 01
still has the same frame count in spite of the pictures that
were supposedly taken. We're going over the hill here at the
moment. We'll have you at Honeysuckle at 2:10.
PLT Right.
and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have gone out of
of signal, 38 minutes from now, will be at the Honeysuckle,
Australia tracking station. During that last pass the ground
did ask a question; didn't have time for an answer on it.
The Nikon number 1 camera is - frame count did not show
the number of pictures taken during the day. Presumably
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Time: 20:23 CDT, 28/01:23 GMT
8/23/73
3 or 4 pictures were shot today and there was no indication

in the frame count of that picture taking. The people here
on the ground were concerned that they might run out of
film at an inopportune moment unless they correct that film
counter and make sure it is accurate. We expect we'll get
an answer on that during the Honeysuckle pass. It may have
Just been an oversight on the part of the crew, but we can't
tell at this point. Next acquisition of signal 37-1/2 minutes
from now. This is Skylab Control 33 minutes and 16 seconds
after the hour.
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TIME: 21:09 CDT 28/02:09 GMT
9/23/73

and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now approximately
50 seconds from acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle. This
is a relatively low elevation pass lasting about a minute
and a half. We'll keep the line up live for air-to-ground
at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for about
i minute at Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay. We're just having a little chalk
talk on our game plan tomorrow.
CC All right. We want you to do something
here on the 02 system reconfiguration.
PLT Go ahead.
CC We want you to reconfigure it per page
F4-7, tyro 02 vent, and begin with the step following note
which is in midpage. This is to adjust some pressures to
prevent a possible caution and warning this evening, Jack.
PLT Okay. Is that the systems checklist?
For the CSM systems?
CC That is affirmative and this is in
essence removing the polychoke.
PLT Okay.
CC We're going LOS here, and we will have
you again at Goldstone at 03:47.
PLT Is this time critical or can we do it
in a little while?
22 seconds Greenwich mean time. We went out of range of
the Honeysuckle tracking station there before an answer
could be sent up to indicate that that was not a critical
activity, but that they did want to get it finished before
they went to sleep this evening. They have about 45 minutes
left before that sleep period. We will have an acquisition
of signal about 25 minutes and 45 seconds from now at the
United States tracking stations. We did not hear a response
on the activity of photographing the Aurora Borealis, the
northern lights. Owen Garriott was scheduled to do that
during the last nighttime pass which was completed during
this last revolution. No report from Owen Garriott on that
yet. We may get a report on that before they go to sleep
this evening. Had a busy day today working on the advance
preparations for tomorrow's EVA. They do expect on the
ground that that crew will be in bed by i0:00, 45 minutes
from now. This is Skylab Control at 14 minutes and 19
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TIME: 21:38 CDT 28/02:38 GMT
8/23/73

and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're just about to
acquire signal at the Goldstone tracking station for a
pass through Goldstone, Texas, Merritt Island and Bermuda.
This will be an extended pass and we do expect to have
air-to-ground before the crew goes to sleep this evening.
This is Skylab Control. The line is up for live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 16
minutes.
CDR Say Bill, one thing I wondered on that.
I removed the polychoke. I didn't know whether you wanted
me to remove the high pressure vent, and in so removing if
you wanted me to replace the original fitting in the hatch,
or just leave the quick disconnect in there for the moment,
or what.
CC Stand by i on that, AI.
PLT Hello Bill. Are they working on the VHF?
CC That's affirm, Jack. _ou'll be coming
up here in just a minute or so on it at supposedly at this
time, however, they say it may take a minute or two to acquire,
and that it will get progressively better as you continue on over
stateside. You have it on up through Bermuda.
PLT Okay. That's great. Say thanks to all
the people. I'll be standing by.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, the hose is disconnected from the
hatch and panel 603. Disconnect at both ends. The high
pressure relief valve remains in place, and the quick dis-
connect is self-seallng. You could check that that in fact
happens, but it's supposed to be self-seallng.
CDR Okay. I'ii take off the hose at both
ends, but I'ii leave in the little pressure device and that
way if it over pressures it just pushes into the cabin, huh.
CC That is affirmative, AI.
CDR Okay. How about the switch on the IVA
panel 02 flow? Leave it open or on?
CC Stand by i, AI.
CC AI, on that IVA station 02 supply, leave
that on until we call it up to you. We'll be watching the
temperature down here.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy the IVA
station 02 supply message.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you read?
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TIME: 21:38 CDT 28/02:38 GMT
8/23/73
CT Houston Com Tech, inner voice, net i.

CT Roger.
CT Apparently you lost net 1 to Texas. Stand
by.
PAO Skylab Control. We've lost communications
temporarily through our Texas tracking station.
PAO We continue to get telemetry data. Thi_
is Skylab Control. But we have lost the voice llnk to the
spacecraft through the Texas tracking station. We'll soon
be changing over to our next tracking stations in any case.
PLT Hello Houstonj Skylah.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
PLT Ro 8. Bill, I'm hearing somebody on - I'm
hearing COMM TECH on VHF, but he's not hearing me.
CC Yes, 3ack_ we have problems apparently
on the down-llnk there. I've been unable to raise you on
S-band for several minutes now.
PLT Okay. You might advise COMM TECH that
we've tot up-llnk but no down-link on VHF, it sounds llke.
CC Jack, HHave you verified your switches
against the private comm llst?
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Time: 21:52 CDT, 28/02:52 GMT
8/23/73

SPT Loud and clear, Bill.
CC Okay. We haven't had you for some time.
A couple of messages here, Jack, we'd llke to get in. The - -
SPT Stand by, Bill. Jack's up in the
command module.
SPT You still reading me there?
CC That's afflrmative.
CDR Okay. Are these for Jack, or for any
of us?
CC Any of you. For the CDR, after - this
is part per the checklist. We want you to leave the IVA
station 02 supply on until we,have observed the temperature
to stabilize. And we will give you a call on that.
CDR Okay. It' s' already complete. And IVA
station pressure's on, hose disconnected, pressure release
valve still installed.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you see any aurora
today?
SPT That's affirmative. I just saw the
more or less quiescent aurora over the northern portion of the
orbit, and I got a - oh, six or eight photographs of the airglow
and aurora.
CC We copy.
SPT It was not a very strong one, but it
did extend upward from the 80-kilometer airglow on up
probably another i00 kilometers, sort of a diffused glow.
CC All right, we'll be going LOS here for
the evening in one minute. We will have a tape recorder
dump at Madrid. And I guess that's about it for the day.
CC And tell Jack, that we are prepared to
continue the family conference at Madrid if he should llke
that.
SPT Okay. I'ii tell him.
24 seconds Greenwich mean time. Beginning the 28th mission
day. During this last pass we had a good deal of difficulty
with the communications network having a lot of trouble
linking voice up and down from the spacecraft to ground
control, here. That problem was rectified at the Bermuda
station where we did have a successful pass. But continuing
interference on the VHF lines, possibly associated with
aurora activity, but not definitely. That indicates that
they may continue that private conference between Jack
Lousma and his family,that was underway at Bermuda, but
did not get started as early as expected. It was to have
started at the Texas station. That may be continued at
Madrid at Jack Lousma's discretion. We're about three minutes
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from acquisition of signal at Madrid at this time. During

this last pass, Owen Garriott did indicate that he took
six to eight photographs of the Aurora Borealis, which
he said ran from approximately 80 to 180 kilometers above
the surface of the Earth. That's roughly 50 miles and
upward and above the air glow phenomena, which S063 experiment
investigates during the mission. He did say he had six
to eight photographs using that Nikon camera during the
last nighttime pass about an hour and a half ago. The
spacecraft is now back in darkness again. It will be in
darkness for another 15 minutes. Darkness pass is now
taking approximately a little less than a third of each
orbit, roughly 20 to 25 minutes. And the remainder of
the orbit, of course, being in daylight. The difference
between daylight and night has had an important affect on
today - today's activities, when the crew is investigating
the depth of discharge on the battery system, trying to
determine what the total amperage capability of those
batteries is. Indications are that those are degraded more
than was expected by the ground controllers. However, not
so far that they pose any sort of danger to the mission at
this time. They are well within range. It does indicate
that they may have to shorten EREP passes at the end of
the fourth mission. At this time, they have more than
enough capability to run EREP passes to the greatest length
desired. Daylight - Night passes will also have an important
affect on tomorrow, when Jack Lousma will go outside to
install that gyro package. That's package of attitude control
gyros, used primarily to instruct the computer as to the
drift of the spacecraft. He will be connecting up a 22-foot
line that will put six of those gyros on llne with the
three of the nine that are now being used. We're now
approximately one minute from acquisition of signal at
the Madrid tracking station. This is Skylab Control, we'll
stay live for alr-to-ground. It is now Just after i0 p.m.
central daylight time. The crew's last pass, probably of
the evening through Madrid, Canary Islands, to last
approximately nine minutes. This is Skylab Control. We
are approaching acquisition at Madrid.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 22:00 CDT, 28/03:00 GMT
8/23/73
PAO Skylab Control at 3:08:44 Greenwich

mean time. We do have acquisition of signal and a good signal
of strength with the spacecraft. We are not calling them because
it is past their bedtime. But, we do have the llne up
in case they should be interested in speaking to the ground.
We' ii keep the llne up another one minute and 37 seconds
until loss of signal.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours ii minutes
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have run out of
range now at the Madrid and Canary Island tracking stations.
Our next acquisition wouldn't be for another 35 minutes and
30 seconds. We do not expect to hear from the crew again
this evening. They apparently, have now retired. They
were expected to go to bed a little early tonight. Early
in the sense that they are scheduled to go to bed at
i0 o'clock, but in fact, have been going to bed a little
bit later than that the last several nights. They will be
getting to sleep early so that they can getup early for
tomorrow's Extravehicular Activities. That spacewalk
scheduled to begin at i0:i0 a.m. central daylight time and
to last approximately 4 hours. This is Skylab Control.
Our next - We do have a surgeon's report. The mission's
surgeon's daily health status report: Crew surgeon continues
to be well pleased by the level of health and fitness
which the crew of Skylab-3 is able to maintain. From
crew comments and available data, we are hopeful that a
plateau has been reached in weightlessness deconditionlng
process. Signed, Dr. Buchanan, for Dr. Hawkins. That
report does indicate, of course, that the crew is continuing
to be in excellent health. Jack Lousma, this evening,
working out strenuously on the bicycle ergometer, as he
has for several nights, apparently is in physical condition
that far surpasses that of the first Skylab crew. We
expect to have no further commentary from the crew this
evening. Their next commentary should be some time about
6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. This is Skylab Control at
END OF TAPE
"L ".
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Time: 06:09 CDT 28:11:09 GMT
8/24/73

time ii hours 9 minutes on August 24, the 28th day in orbit
for the Skylab 3 crew. A day which will have another EVA
for the crew that has already set an EVA record in space of
6 hours and 31 minutes. Today's EVA, scheduled to run 3-1/2
to 4 hours, major objective is to install a rate gyro package,
hook up 22-foot cables, hooking the rate gyro 6-pack up to
the onboard rate gyro system. Also in today's EVA the crew
will transfer the S149 particle collection experiment which
they deployed on the rim of the ATM during their first EVA. They
will return it to the FAS area, reconflgure it and put it
out again; transfer film and cameras and all of the ATM
experiments, and also remove and return to the spacecraft
ramp doors of the S082 and the S056 ATM experiments. The
ramp door from S054 was removed on the first EVA. Also on
tap today, is some handheld photography of Peru and some volcanic
islands, the Antipodes Islands in the southwest Pacific.
Wakeup call by Capcom Bob Crlppen coming up at Vanguard in
approximately 1 minute. Greenwich mean time Ii hours ii min-
utes. We'll hold the llne open for this wakeup call.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We have AOS over
the Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Good morning. That was a good choice
this morning.
CC For a happy EVA. Little good news, the
Oilers won a ball game last night - 27 to 24 over the Cowboys.
CDR Who were they playing?
CC Cowboys, Dallas.
SPT Say Bob, would you confirm the blomed
is getting 133 data now?
CC Standby.
CC Okay, Owen. We got data all night; we're
showing REM state right now, which I don't understand.
SPT I don't understand that either.
CC Now we're showing stage 3. Owen, while
I got you there, we would appreciate it - I know you've got
a crowded schedule ahead of you - but just for a little bit
of reassurance, we'd llke to get a temperature measurement
on each of the rate gyro 6-pack gyros this morning. And all
we need is for you to get the digital thermometer and put
it on and take it about a minute, whatever it requires to
stabilize. And we don't need the voltage readout.
SPT Voltage readout takes me 5 seconds and
I'Ii give you the temperatures in a few minutes. How about that
133? I'm checking my switches here. I've got the channel B
to off now, and can they confirm that they're still getting
133 data?
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Time: 06:09 CDT, 28:11:09 GMT
8/24/73
CC Okay, we're indicating stage 2.

SPT Something's startlng.
SPT With that sort of a report from the
ground, Robert, my crewmates are going to be convinced I've
been working in my sleep.
CC (Laughter) Well, if you can do that good a
work in your sleep, well, why not?
CC And a little information, that message you
have onboard about rate gyro drift - in case you got to switch
over and so forth - is invalid, since we zeroed them all out
in preparation for the EVA and installation of the 6-pack.
PLT Hey Bob, I did my exercise last night
after the evening report and maybe you could copy it down now.
I had number - whatever it is for the lower body, 22 minutes,
5005.
CC Okay, Jack, copy. You got 22 minutes and
5005 watts.
PLT Right.
PLT That type exercise is a number 2.
CC Roger, number 2.
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Time: 06:20 CDT, 28/11:20 GMT
8/24/73
CC And gentlemen we were a little bit curious.

We didn't see any dump voice after about 23:00 yesterday, and
were kind of wondering whether that was - whether you didn't
record anything or whether we might have a problem.
CDR I don't think we recorded anything after that.
We were prepping for EVA and then briefing about it.
CC Okay. We kind of suspected that might be
the case, but it eases some people's minds down here.
CDR Now we just noticed that the little green
record light up there by the SIA by the ATM doesn't seem to
be working. But the others do. In fact, we were wondering
if there's a quick way to fix that.
CC Okay. That was the one up by the ATM C & D?
CDR Yes. In fact, we'd almost be tempted to swap it
out because otherwise today we're going to have trouble keeping
record in the proper configuration. No, I take that hack.
We've always looked at the other boxes. Okay.
CC Yes. You can look at the ones up there in
the forward part of the MDA.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Hawaii in about an hour from now at
12:22 and I'll probably be off shift by then. So have a
happy EVA.
CDR Okay. We'll work on it for you.
PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time ii hours,
23 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next acquisition
will be Hawaii in 58 minutes. Today's EVA will give the
crew of Skylab-3 the longest total Earth EVA time or any
established with - on the - August 6, the tenth day of the mission,
when they deployed the twin boom sail accumulated 6 hours and
31 minutes outside the vehicle. Today's EVA is scheduled to
last approximately 4 hours. Prior to EVA today, Commander
A1 Bean is scheduled to take samples of the atmosphere inside
Skylab with the T003 aerosol analyzer. This will he the
sixth sample-takinB of the atmosphere inside the vehicle
during this flight. T003 experiment measures the size,
concentration and composition of particles in the atmosphere.
Representative locations throughout the vehicle are sampled.
Particles of three size groups, 1 to 3 microns, 3 to 9 microns,
9 to i00 microns will he accumulated by the battery operated
particle counter and the results will be displayed on a counter
on the face of the instrument. The instrument has also a
particulate collection system to permit post-flight analysis
to ascertain the shape and composition of the individual
particles. A filter used to collect the particles, along
with a written log of the results of each analysis will be
returned by the crew. EVA preps are scheduled to begin in
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8/24/73
CC (CONT'D) approximately i hour and 25 minutes from

now. As Pilot Lousma and Science Pilot Owen Garriott will
perform the EVA while Commander Bean will operate from within the
MDA at the console of the Apollo Telescope Mount, where he
has access to the APCS system - the attitude pointing and
control system. First item on the agenda for the EVA is
the installation of the rate gyro cables, deployment of
swatches of the sun shield deployed in the parasol during the
first mission, exchange of film in the ATM, deployment,
return and redeployment of the S149 particle collection
experiment, additional film exchange of the cameras, and
the final activity, removal of the door ramps of the
S082 experiment, S082A experiment and the SO - S056 experiment.
The S082A, Apollo Telescope Mount experiment has run out of
film as has the H-Alpha i experiment, which ran out of film
yesterday. At Greenwich mean time Ii hours, 27 minutes,
next acquisition at Hawaii in 55 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-III8/I
Time: 07:21 CDT 28/12:21 GMT
8/24/73

12 hours 21 minutes with acquisition coming up at Hawaii on
this another EVA day a space repair Job number 5 in the Sky-
lab program. We will have acquisition at Hawaii in approximately
1 minute. Capcomm is Bruce McCandless, Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 2 minutes. Good morning. Over.
CDR Good morning, Bruce. Let me mention a
couple of items. We've got the command module powered up,
and went through Bbl. If you've got a check star down there
that I can look at through the optics that would be good. Or
even better if I could do something to give you the
ref mat, you could look at it and agree that we sure enough
have the right star on the ATM tracker, and we'd have a good
one there. We need to know the NOUN 78's for C20 so that
I can put those in. And we're getting ready to make the con-
nection near the ATM.
CC Roger. Your NOUN 78 load is plus 17187,
I say again, plus 17187. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll make the load in the ATM and
then I'll load this 17187. And we'll be ready to go.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Bruce, here are your temperature measurements,
Bruce.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT 3.03 volts which you didn't ask for, X56 Y56 Z56
in order, 92.3, 92.6, 92.7, 91.7, 93.7, 89.4. Over.
CC Roger, Owen, we copy. One minute to LOS
at Hawaii. Next station contact in 3 minutes at Goldstone,
12:28. Over.
CC And Alan, while you're in the vicinity of
the ATM, we'd llke to get the S052 frames remaining reported
if you could please.
CDR 1598.
CC Roger, we've got it.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 26 minutes. Loss of signal at Goldstone, loss of sig-
nal Hawaii. Goldstone next acquisition in about 1 minute 40 sec-
onds. During today's space walk, the 9 gyroscopes that are
used to calculate the space station movement away from its
prescribed attitude will be disconnected for a period of time
lasting anywhere from i0 minutes to possibly a half hour or
more. During this time which could include part of the orbit
in which Skylab's view of the Sun is blocked by the Earth the
Guidance and Navigation Systems Officer at the Mission Control
Center will command Skylab's attitude control system computer
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Time: 07:21 CDT 28/12:21 GMT
8/24/73
into standby mode. The computer is kept out of operation be-

cause without the nine gyroscopes it cannot judge the attitude
drift. During this time the control moment gyroscope's three
400 pound wheels that hold the space station in a stable orbit
will be in what is called nominal H cage. Nominal H cage is
a term used to describe the operation of the control moment
gyros when there are no forces acting to change the spacecraft's
momentum. Commander Bean discussing the command module. The
command module was powered up last night. The command module
is capable of taking over the attitude control in the event
that it is necessary during the EVA procedures. EVA is scheduled
to start about i0 minutes after I0 this morning when the de-
pressurization will begin and the hatch open. About 4 hours is
set aside for this activity today. The prime objective is - -
CC Goldstone for 2-1/2 minutes. We'll be
dumping the data voice tape recorder next station at the
Vanguard. And I have a relief valve configuration change
for you if you are ready to copy.
CDR Ready to change. And I just finished doing
all the DAS work prepatory to removing the A21 cable.
CC Roger, we copy, AI. We'd llke to get the
cabin pressure relief valve on 391, that's aft lock compartment,
open. And panel 300 forward section in the STS open. We're plan-
ning on leaving 313, in the lock itself closed, unless you feel
you need it under some particular situation to help venting.
We're doing this to minimize the number of valves that will
crack from the purge flow on the PCU. Over.
CDR Sounds good to us. We're going to close them
right now, open the two and leave one of them closed.
CC Roger.
CDR And how do you llke the looks of the
CMC IMU?
CC We're getting a star for you right now,
AI. And the ref mat looks reasonable. Since we've got
i minute to LOS here and the next station is Vanguard in 20 min-
utes at 12:50 it will probably be then by the time we get that
star for you, but I'Ii have it if I can.
CDR Okay. And I like this way of powering up
the night before our CMC and getting all that information
in. Let's try to do this entry day.
CC Okay, Alan. Break, break. Okay, star
4, shaft 270.3, trunnion 16.7, that's star number 4 270.3,
16.7. Over.
CDR Thank you.
CC Roger. And we'd like to shut off the
atmospheric purge that is going out through the wardroom vent.
Over.
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8/24/73
SPT Okay, did you want both of those forward and

aft lock valves open, Bruce?
CC Negative. We want 391 open, 313 closed,
and 300 open. Over.
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Time: 07:31 CDT, 28/12:31 GMT
8/24/73
SPT Okay, okay. Did you want both of those

forward fore and aft lock valves open, Bruce?
CC Negative, we want 391 open, 313 closed,
and 300 open. Over.
SPT All right, that's what I meant, that's the
way they got them.
CC Roger, see you at Vanguard.
12 hours 52 minutes, lose of eignal at Goldstone. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in 18 minutes. Commander Bean's
reference to getting the J-21 cable out, this is the cable
that runs from the 6-pack affixed inside the MDA, will
run along the wall of the MDA to hook up to the ATM C&D console
which has - below the console is the outlet to the rate gyro
6-pack extension, which goes through the wall of the MDA.
At Greenwich mean time, 12 hours 32 minutes, ne_t acquisition
will be Vaguard in 17 minutes 30 seconds, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-III MCII20/I
Time: 07:48 CDT, 28/12:48 GMT
8/24/73
PAO There will be a Skylab Control announcement

in approximately 55 seconds.
PAO 8kylab Control. Greenwich mean time 12 hours,
48 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard. On this, the 28th
day in orbit for Skylab-3 crew, as preparations are underway for
today's EVA, which is scheduled to start in approximately
2 hours from now. One of the first things to perform this
morning is the checkout of the temperatures of the gyro rate -
gyro six-pack. Also, unstowage and placement of the J-21 cable,
which runs from the six-pack on the wall of the MDA and will
hook up on the opposite wall of the MDA to the ATM console.
Jack Lousma will do the rate gyro six-pack attachment while
Science Pilot Owen Garriott will do the film transfer and the
S149 activity and door removals from the S082A and S056 ATM
experiments. Anticipate acquisition at Vangurad in approximately
50 seconds. We'll leave the line up for Cap Comm Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Vanguard for
7 minutes and 30 seconds. We will be dumping your data voice
tape recorder this site. We will also be dumping at the next
site at Hawaii. Over.
CDR Okay. For your information Bruce, we checked
with the star and it was in the sextant. We_ve got the two plugs
hooked up onto the ATM panel. Everything's going smoothly.
CC Beautiful Alan. We got a couple of miscellaneous
notes for you here. One, if you're ready to copy. Over.
CDR I'm ready; go ahead.
CC Okay. In the CMC on channel 7, we've seen
a counter fail bit. Channel 77, we believe it to be transient.
The CMC, itself, looks okay. But we'd llke you to reset it
so we can continue monitoring. It's verb 21, noun i0 enter,
77 enter, enter. Over.
CDR Verb 21, noun I0 ATR, 77 then ATR, and another
ATR. Will do.
CC Roger and for some load shearing adjustments
on panel 206, a rag adjust pot for BUS i. We'd like it turned
20 degrees clockwise, BUS 2, turn 30 degrees clockwise. Over.
CDR One, 20 and two, 30. Go do it right now.
CC And please mark the position of a POTs on the
panel before adjusting them. I believe we'll be coming back
to them after the EVA. Over.
CC Okay. And while you're on your way
down there, we're going to reconfigure the coolant loop per
EVA condition - the way we did it the second time - last time
that is. On loop 2, we're going to turn inverter 2 off, command
pump Charlie to inverter 2, and inverter 2 back on. So you can
expect a caution and warning on the airlock module secondary loop
while we're doing that. And for the SPT and CDR, the S056
experiment door is now operating on primary motor only. The
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CC (CONT'D) The secondary motor was commanded off during

unattended closeout. Over.
SPT Roger Bruce. And last night we left the 56
door open. Now do you want that door closed prior to the
EVA or just left open the whole time?
CC We're working on that one, Owen. And another
sure one for the CDR. We'll try and remind you about it
again later. We'd especially llke to get the video tape
recorder run when Jack is taking the six-pack rate Byro cable
from the FAS up the EVA trail to the WCIU connectlonary. Over.
CDR According to our plan, there was no EVA TV to
go out until after we finished the rate gyro hookup. But we can
put it out beforehand if you like.
CC Hey, look AI, it's your option, whatever you
think is compatible with getting the Job done in the optimal
fashion, is fine by us. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll go ahead and put it out. I
don't think there will be any trouble. If it turns out we
get out at a time when we can get it done, you know - we'll
plan to put it out unless something happens with the time, it
makes it smart to go ahead and not fool with it, and go ahead and
hook it up. Then we'll get it out afterwards. So we'll play it
that way. We'll plan to do it.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. I've adjusted those pots and one
question. As you mentioned it - and also the checklist that
I've got to go to cage theCMG in nominal cage, at 42
minutes, which you get ser - sight remaining. Would y'all
compute and give the GMT times for that. That way I can
set my clock earlier and get my timer set and do a little bit
better planning.
CC Okay Alan. We'll do that for you and we'll
upllnk it on the site before it occurs each orbit if you
don't get it on the first orbit we figure it for. Over.
CDR Sounds llke a good idea. How does the
electrical system look?
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CDR Sounds llke a good idea. How does the

electrical system look?
CC Say again, please and for the SPT we want
to go ahead and close the S056 door at your convenience so
that we are in the nominal configuration for EVA and also
so you can verify it's operation when your out there at the
sun end. Over.
SPT Roger.
CDR Okay the verb 21, nou_ i0 enter enter
correction 77 enter enter has been entered.
CC Roger, we copy and looks good on telemetry
AI.
CC And while you're over there AI, we'll like
to get the up telemetry switch to block on the CMC.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. On your P-20 select
we need to get you to load a 5 degree dead band - that's
500 in the register, you went violating it at .50 degrees.
Over. And we have the first time in ZULU computed for you
for this 42 minutes to go.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger. 16/01:16, that's 16 plus 01 plus
16 ZULU and we'll have later increments for you as they're
required. Over.
CDR Okay, say again that time, one more time,
Bruce.
CC Roger, Allen. 16 plus 01 plus 16 ZULU.
Over.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy that time,
AI, or do you want to read it back? Over.
CDR I got it that time, it's 16/01:16.
CC Roger, we have 1 minute and 30 seconds
til LOS here at the Vanguard, next station contact in 59 minutes
through Hawaii at 13:58. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder there. The reg adjust on the airlock module BUSES
looks good to us, the CMC is okay. Your airlock module
coilant loop, secondary loop on two pumps is working fine
and we'd like you to confirm that you have texminated the
atmospheric purge to the wardroom vent valve. Over.
CDR Okay, consider that terminated. I've
set the box by the way, X-l, Y-l, Z-3, panel 161 per the
checklist.
CC Roger, we copy that.
CDR And we finished then with the rate gyro
prep. We're going to go back and get our regular prep finished.
CC Okay, and by the way, Alan on that
SIA-131 we think that you probably come down to the point
where you install the eom cluge on channel A, which would
keep you from getting the record light there. Over.
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CDR Your absolutely right, didn't realize it

did keep us from doing that. Good thought. By the way, l've
checked the coolant leak we had and I had a rag in there to towel
up - absorb whatever was coming out and it looked llke it did a
pretty good job and you can not tell this morning that any
additionaled leak but since we didn't do anything, I suspect
it did, but it's still not enough to measure.
CC Okay, we copy and we'll see you Hawaii.
CDR Okay.
13 hours i minute, with loss of signal at Vanguard, next acquisition
will be Hawaii in 57 minutes. When the spacecraft comes over
Hawaii it should be i hour to the start of EVA at that time.
When Commander Bean reported he had the cables hooked
up, the J21 cable which runs from the 6-pack to the opposite -
on the wall of the MDA to the opposite wall where the ATM
console and display panel is, his statement brought some quiet
cheers from the flight controllers. He reported also that there
was no additional leak in the command module. Yesterday he reported
finding about 1/3 of a pint of fluid which he reported as
being waterglycol. The primary glycol accumulator in the
command module had exhibited gradual decrease from the
day of launch until several days ago. Howevex only 16 percent
of the total fluids on board had shown to be leaking and this
does not replace any constraints on the current mission. The
glycol accumulator can - must be filled twice more during
the mission and there is sufficient fluid aboard to fill it
at least ten times, so this does not present a problem to
flight controllers here at mission control center. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 55 minutes. Greenwich mean
time, 13 hours 3 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I122/I
Time: 08:56 CDT 28/13:56 GMT
8/24/73

56 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii. On the upcoming
revolution the EVA will begin as the spacecraft begins its
1472 revolution. At hatch opening if it is on time at 15:10
Greenwich mean time, the hatch will open as the spacecraft
passes over Upper Mongolia northeast of the Gobi Desert,
28 minutes prior to contact with the Hawaii tracking station.
During the first Sun side pass, it is planned that Lousma
will go out and reconnoiter the trunnion area, and the WCIU
area, the workshop computer interface unit, at which stations
he will later hook up the rate gyro 6-pack connector cable.
The WCIU is under the EVA ladder. Following the reconnoiter - -
CC Approaching Hawaii with you for a little
over i0 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, everything is going along. That cabin
purge was stopped as you requested. Could you find out the
serial numbers on our three helmets? We want to make sure
we have the right helmets with the right suits.
CC Okay, that's in work. We'll be dumping
the data voice tape recorder over Hawaii here. We'll also
be dumping it over Vanguard next pass. We'll be commanding
to turn off the heaters to reduce your power load for EVA.
And we'll also be shifting to the two watt to the alrlock module
transmitter in accordance with the nominal checklist. Also
there is a possibility of some test activity over the south
Pacific today. Recommend heads down in that area. Prior
to your EVA, we suggest that you obtain one roll of two inch
aluminized tape from either drawer 2 in M144 or drawer 2A in
E623. And make an EVA tab in one end of the roll and stow
it in the zipper pouch next to the panel 316 in the airlock
which is the same pouch as the scissors are in. This will
he used for EVA repairs if required or maybe to hold the
cassette shut on S149 if you have trouble cranking the minner
out, just sort of a general contingency thing. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea and we'll put
it in there. We've got a few extra tools in there already,
so we'll throw this in with it.
CC Okay.
CDR And we're wondering if you want S052 main
power off like the checklist? We've had it taped on for the
last 20 days or so.
CC Okay AI, turn S052 main power off in spite
of the tape. Make it go with the checklist.
CC And AI, while we're working the question
of the serial numbers on your helmets, maybe you could give us
a little bit of a status as to how you're coming along and where
you are in the procedures. Over
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CDR Okay. Owen has got his LCG on and he

is assisting me in antifogging the helmet. Jack is Just finishing
up disconnecting the aft heat exchanger fans from our fans
down here. We've stopped the condensate dump. And everything -
I think we're going to be putting on our LCGs and getting in our
suits in just a few minutes.
CC Mighty fine. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got the helmet
serial numbers for you here.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC For the CDR, 332; for the SPT 315; and
for the PLT 331. Over.
CDR Okay, just a second.
CDR Okay, that worked out just right. Thanks
Bruce.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR They ought to mark your names in these helmets
too.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS
here at Hawaii, 22 minutes until next station contact over the
Vanguard at 14:29 where we will be dumping the data voice
tape recorder. All your systems are looking good to us on
telemetry. In particular airlock module coolant loop 2 with
the suit umbilical system operating looks good. The vidio
tape recorder has been rewound and cleaned, and it's all yours.
Over.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI123/I
Time: 09:08 CDT, 28/14:08 GMT
8/24/73

14 hours, 9 minutes. Loss of signal over Hawaii. During
this pass, Commander A1 Bean r_ported that they were moving
along on schedule on their EVA preparations. Hatch opening
is scheduled for Greenwich mean tlme 14 hours - 15 hours,
i0 minutes, which is 61 minutes from now. At that time,
the spacecraft should be passing over Upper Mongolia on its
1472 revolution. First activity on the EVA, Jack Lousma will
reeonnoltder the trunnion area and the WCIU area under the
EVA ladder at the ATM prior to deployment of the rate
gyro slx-pack 23 foot-long connector cable. While the
activity - while the EVA actlv_ty is going on, Commander Bean
will remain at the ATM console. EVA preparations in this area
have already been completed. He has hooked the - the rate
gyro cable from the slx-pack on one wall of the MDA and run
it over to the ATM console where he has hooked it up to the
other area. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson told his flight
controllers here, "All looks good on this Hawaii pass as
preparations proceed for the EVA. The SUS loop, suit umbilical
system looks good. The coolant loop aboard, the secondary
coolant loop is performing nominally at this point and all
looks good for scheduled EVA at 15 hours and I0 minutes. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately 18 minutes.
Greenwich mean time 14 hours, ii minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI124/I
Time: 09:27 CDT, 28/14:27 GMT
8/24/73
PAO Skylab Control; 14 hours 27 minutes,

Greenwich mean time. Anticipation of acquisition at Vanguard
in approximately 2 minutes, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson,
after discussions with his EVA officer, indications are now
that the EVA may start a little later than planned, possibly
not until the next Vanguard pass. However, they'll - they'll
talk to the crew again at this Vanguard pass to get a better
handle on how the crew is in their pre-EVA preparations.
At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 27 minutes, we'll hold the llne
up for air-to-ground.
Vanguard for 8-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, we're putting on our LCG's.
CC Roger. We'll be dumping the tape recorder
this pass. And we've noticed that the star tracker is still
operating at AUTO, when someone gets up there by the ATM panel
we'd like to close the shutter on it. And it is
our plan to manage the momentum dump situation for you, however
if you do dump the pressure in the airlock module prior to
nightfall this pass, which is about 45 minutes from now, we
need to have you force a contingency momemtum sample by
inhibiting CMG control and then re-enabling it through the DAS.
Over.
CDR Okay, I got it. We'll make it. We'll
probably be getting out the next daylight pass, I hope.
CC Roger. That's our expectation and we'll
handle it for you in that event. Also should any contingencies
arise with respect to the airlock module coolant loops,
the primary coolant loop is available to be powered up if
you require it. Over.
CDR Okay, that's good news. Thanks.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, I minute and
30 seconds remaining over the Vanguard. Next station contact
in 59 minutes through Hawaii at 15:36 ZULU and on your way
out don't forget to turn out the lights and turn off the
air conditioning and close the door. Over.
CDR Okay, we won't.
14 hours 38 minutes as Skylab passes over Vanguard. The start
of its 1472nd revolution of the Skylab space station. The
scheduled EVA looks as though it will be starting late at about
16:07 Greenwich mean time, which spacecraft comes in contact
with Vanguard in the next revolution. This will approximately
be more than - little more than - less than an hour late.
However, flight controllers feel this is no problem, the crew
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PAO (CONT'D) is still going through their pre-EVA

preparations. CAP COMM Bruce McCandless reminded Commander
A1 Bean don't forget to turn out the lights turn off the air
conditioning and close the door. Here at the Mission Control
Center in the viewing room presently is Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher.
Dr. Fletcher is Administrator for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. On the floor of the mission operations
control room presently is Tom Stafford, Deputy Director
of Flight Crew Operations here at the Johnson Space Center.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii in approximately 56 minutes,
and between the Hawaii and Vanguard pass the crew should be
about ready to open the hatch prior to the Van - next Vanguard
pass in approximately 1 hour and 27 minutes from now.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI125/I
Time: 10:33 CDT, 28/15:33 GMT
8/24/73

33 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii in approximately
2-1/2 minutes. At this point in the mission, it should be
close to batch opening, either during this Hawaii pass or between
Hawaii and Vanguard. Sunrise on this pass occurs at 15:40
Greenwich mean time in approximately 7 minutes from now. The
crew will have 69 minutes of daylight and then they go into
darkness for 24 minutes. The plan is for Lousma to first
reconnoiter the trunnion area, the WCIU area, and then return
to the EVA bay, get the 6-pack connector cables and then
attach those to the trunnion area first, then WCIU connection,
and after that, Commander Bean will attach the 6-pack inside -
the final attachment inside - the MDA. We expect acquisition
in Hawaii in approximately 2 minutes. We'll hold the line
up for conyersation. Cap Comm Bruce McCandless.
PLT Okay. Whatever you did there_ did it.
7 minutes. Over.
SPT A1, I don't know what happened. Maybe -
Hello, Bruce. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Owen. How us?
SPT I'm reading you loud and clear. I'm not sure
whether A1 is. We're all three suited right now. We're
trying to get our comm straightened out so that A1 can get
on - hot mike intercomm with the two of us.
PLT How you hear me, Bruce?
PLT How you hearing me, AI?
CC Okay. We're not reading Ai.
PLT Neither are we. AlVs -wetre having trouble
getting A1 on the intercom.
CC Okay. Reference the comm configuration chart
on page 1.2-13, if you can get that message to him.
PLT 1.2-13 of the EVA checklist?
CC That's affirmative. It has a diagram of
how you're supposed to be hooked up.
PLT Okay. We're hooked up to B in the lock and
we got the - the cluge here in the MDA hooked on A, of course.
It's the only way you could do it. My guess is we got to do some-
thing in the command module.
CC Okay, in the command module, panel 6s you need
the Intercom switches to T/R.
PLT Fine.
CC And on panel 9. Both of them.
PLT Okay. I think we've got it now, Bruce. We've
been down here working on it; we had the intercom switched. I'm
hearing you loud and clear, AI.
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SPT Ditto.
PLT Okay.
CC Ask A1 to give us a transmission.
PLT He's got to get up in the HDA to do that, Bruce.
CC Roger. Sorry about that.
PLT We're hearing him loud and clear on our
intercom now. i, 2, 3, 4, 5. Normal conversation seems
to work okay in VOX. Okay. I'm going to move back down into
the workshop, AI. As long as you think we've got everything.
Okay. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All right.
PLT I think the VOX is in good shape.
CDR I can hear you whispering.
SPT Nope, that's fine.
CDR How you doing, Bruce?
CC Oh, loud and clear, A1. How are you reading
us? Over.
CDR Reading you real well. Panel 6 was not
configured. I reconfigured it and it works like a charm.
CC Okay. We got two items for you here. One,
you probably want to write down some times. The other is
at your convenience. We'd llke you to disconnect the multimeter
from the X-5 gyro package by the following procedure.
On panel 141, which is the little panel on the rate gyro
6-pack,open the X-5 circuit breaker, disconnect the connector
to the multlmeters - that has the multimeter leads on it. Cap
the connector, that is, cap th_ receptacle and then reclose
the X-5 gyro circuit breaker. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce. Just a moment and he'll get it.
CC And we apologize for having you do that
after you've suited. It slipped by us.
SPT Recorder. Attaboy. Give it a bell for Bravo.
CC And AI, we've got about 2-1/2 minutes
left here at Hawaii. When you can write, I've got some
times for you.
SPT Okay. Still working on the connector there, _
Bruce.
PLT You guys aren't saying much these days, Bruce.
I notice that we don't talk to you a whole lot.
CC Well, it's pretty much your show up there
with the comm coverage we've got here and - you know the phasing.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay. I passed you up one day remaining
minus 42 minute time of 16 plus 01, plus 16. The one for
the subsequent rev is 17 plus 34, plus 36 and the window
panes for your headsdown activity, are 15:45 to 16:05. Over.
CDR Okay. We copied on that.
SPT 25 minutes.
CC I understand you copied all that?
CDR Sure did, Bruce. Thanks.
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CC Roger. Out. We got about a minute and

15 seconds left here at Hawaii. Next station contact in
25 minutes through the Vanguard at 16:07. Out.
CDR See you there_ Bruce.
SPT How long til sunset?
CC Actual sunset is an hour and 6 minutes. Over.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Dark outdoors now. Yes, sir.
CC We show you only about a minute and a half
into daylight. You must have Just crossed the terminator.
PLT Kind of halo dark out the window. All right.
PLT (garble)
SPT Yes, I've got it on anyway.
PLT Yeah, I've got an 02 vent flow on. Been on
for some time.
44 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii as the crew's still
in their preparations to open the Skylab hatch to do the rate
gyro dis - connections and do ATM film transfers and also lay out
the two swatches of the parasol material on the - one of the
ladders outside the EVA hatch.
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SL-III MC-I126/I
Time: 11:03 CDT 28/16:03 GMT
8/24/73

3 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard in approximately 3 minutes.
Visitors here at the Mission Control Center this morning include
Dr. and Mrs. James Fletcher, Dale Myers Associate Administrator
for Manned Space Flight, Dr. Rocco Petrone Director of the
Marshall Space Flight Center, Dr. Kirt Debus Director of the
Kennedy Space Flight Center, William C. Schneider Skylab Program
Director, Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Director of Johnson Space
Center, Mr. Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, Skylab Program Manager
at JSC, Brigadeer General Thomas Stafford, Deputy Director
of Flight Crew Operations and Astronauts Don Lind, Bob Crippen,
and Carl Henize. We anticipate acquisition at Vanguard in
approximately 2-1/2 minutes. At that point we should know
if the crew has actually begun their second EVA. Predictions
on the ground now say that it may not be - hatch opening may
not come until Ascension pass which is approximately 17 min-
utes from now. We'll leave the line open for Capcomm Bruce
McCandless and Skylab-3.
SPT It works.
PLT Is that the one they ran up last night
or a new one?
PLT - time schedule you're talking about.
for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, everything is going just perfect.
We've got 35 minutes of daylight. We're now pressurizing
suits inside the lock compartment. We're going to need rest
in a few minutes. That will give us about 25 minutes to do
that reconnoiter Job. We'll be back and in the next daylight
pass, we'll do the Job.
CC Okay, we'll - -
PLT (garble) me up in tee i, 3.8.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, A1 - -
PLT (garble) went out at 2.9.
SPT (garble)
PLT Not yet, Just a minute. I'm not quite fully
pressurized. Okay, I'm stable at 37. I'm in both, stable at 37.
Both in 3A.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We're going to go ahead and force
the contingency sample on momentun now for you based on your
preferance to opening the hatch in the near future. So if you
will stay off the DAS for a minute.
CDR Okay, off right now.
PLT Okay Owen, what have you got there?
SPT I'll turn to my right.
PLT Okay.
SPT You can see mine then and Itll have to turn
right the other way to see yours probably.
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PLT Okay, you're in the green. You got

about six thousand. Let me check your valve. It's open,
and in detent.
SPT In the detent. Okay. I'll turn back to
my left to check yours.
PLT Yeah, you're going to get wrapped up if
you don't.
SC (laughter)
PLT Okay. That's good - Just a second. 6000 in
the green. In the detent.
SPT Okay, the SOP to check now.
CC And AI, we've got that in. The DAS is yours.
SC Just a minute (garble).
CDR Thank you.
SPT Are you sure that's yours?
PLT I think that Owen's the EV-I, isn't he?
SC (garble)
PLT Okay.
PLT That's mine.
SPT All right. Okay, turn the flow off and do
what?
SC (garble)
SPT Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston. We have a power recon-
figuration for you.
PLT Yes sir. And I put it back on and the SOP flow
light went out, and when the SOP was worklng,lt was in the green.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. On panel 203 we'd llke you to turn
the sieve B fan off, that's sieve B fan power switch off. Over.
CDR Fan off.
CC Okay. On panel 207, we'd like you to
inhibit the following caution and warning switches. Emergency
sensor, 1 and 2, that's 2 switches; emergency power, 1 and 2,
that's 2 more switches.
PLT I'm all set, AI. Yeah.
CDR Okay, we've got both of those, Bruce.
CC Okay. Then down in sort of the lower right hand
corner there on 207, the three switches associated with caution
and warning. That's caution and warning, power i and 2, and
caution and warning, signal conditioner. Over.
SC Okay.
CDR Okay, got them.
SC Okay.
CC And now we'd llke to power down the number 2
part of the caution and warning system, and the number 2 emergency
system by - on panel 202 we've got a row of caution and warning
circuit breakers. We'd llke to open the six circuit breakers asso-
ciated with the number 2 systems as you go acrossthe whole row. Over.
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Time: 11:13 CDT, 28/16:13 GMT
7/24/73
CDR Okay, I opened the caution - here's

what I opened, emergency-2, caution and warnlnE-2, siena1/
condltloner-2, emergency-2, caution and warnlng-2, and
caution and warning-2.
CC Roger, that's it. And while you're out
of contact from us, if you need to power down a little
more, you can drop 550 watts in the daytime by turning
off the EVA lights and that's on panel 202, two circuit
breakers EVA lights number 1 to open. Over. And that of
course -
CDR I understand.
CC That's of course your option, we don't
want you to do it now.
CDR (garble)
SPT Just a minute, Jack, your feet are down in
there. (garble).
PLT I'll come up your way.
SPT Yep. This is far as I want to go.
PLT Okay. Okay Owen, your red one is -
key is locked, your blue one the key is locked, and your
comm connector is also locked, your water is - key is down,
I have already checked the SOP connections. Take a look
at mine, would you?
SPT Okay.
PLT You think everything's in good shape?
SPT Thatts down, that's down, that key
is down, those keys are down,:everything is fine.
PLT Okay. We've checked them, AI.
SPT Okay, now your feet are right around
the camera, Jack. Everyone's happy.
PLT Yes, sir.
PLT Understand.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay, coming around until we can get a handle
on it. Okay, we got our vent - -
CC Skylab_ this is Houston, 1 minute 30
seconds to LOS over the Vanguard, next station contact in
7 minutes through Ascension at 16:22. Out.
CDR Roger, did you get my call that we're
depressing the lock right now.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay, we're passing 4 psi. Check, the
workshop is staying up. We couldn't be dropping this fast
if there's a very big leak in here. You know we're getting
a llttle ice on the screen as usual. (garble)
PLT AI, do you feel like this is the
first inning of the second game of a double header? (laughter)
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PLT (laughter)
CDR (Laughter)
PLT (Garble) A long time between games,
2 weeks.
SPT Oh yeah.
PLT We didn't know you thought it was our
problem. (garble)
16 hours 17 minutes, loss of signal at Vanguard. As
depressurlzatlon of the alrlock module, EVA area continued.
When it started it was 5.1 and at loss of signal it had dropped
3.09 and still going down. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson,
polling his flight controllers, EM-U officer, the extra-
mobility unit officer who supervises the suit system aboard,
he said everything looks good, everything is stable. Flight
Surgeon reports they were getting good data. EGIL said
power looks good aboard the spacecraft. The crew now has
approximately 31 minutes left of daylight, during which time,
when the hatch is open, Pilot Jack Lousma will reconnoiter the
trunnion area and the WCIU area, the workshop computer
interface unit for placement of the rate gyro 6-pack connectors
on the next daylight pass, which will begin at Greenwich
mean time 17:14. Commander A1 Bean is still in the alrlock
module, adjusting switches prior to final EVA. He will
work at the MDA console, the Apollo telescope mount console
which has the controls for the attitude pointing control
system, the APCS. We'll leave the llne open for the Ascension
pass coming up in approximately 3 minutes. When the EVA
starts and Lousma begins the connection of the 23 foot cable
to the two positions outside the M])A, the spacecraft will
be put in a free drift mode for approximately 20 minutes to
1 hour - as long as it takes Lousma to make the connections.
This will he the first time the spacecraft has been in a
free drift mode and during that period from the no control
to sunset, which will probably be 1/3 of an orbit, it will
take that long to get the Job accomplished, the ground feels.
We will have acquisition at Ascension in approximately 2 minutes.
We'll hold the llne open for that pass.
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for 7 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay, the cabin is - correction - the lock
is almost down to zero press, and we're going to open the
hatch in 3 or 4 minutes.
CC Okay, why don't you give us a mark when you
do and we can start some clocks down here along with you.
CDR Okay, will do.
SPT (garble)
SPT I'd say that left gage is reading about
0.15 now, wouldn't you, Jack, or didn't you see it?
PLT I can't - the parallox has got me from here.
SPT Okay.
PLT Well, there's a little difference in the lock
and the aft pressure gages, but the lock's reading about 0.15
and the art's reading about 0.25.
CDR (garble)
PLT It is?
CDR (garble)
PLT In work.
PLT Okay.
PLT Attaboy, you've got it.
CDR Here's a mark for you - hatch is open.
PLT A few odds and ends are going in that direction.
CDR (garble)
PLT Didn't work. (Laughter). Try a rubber band.
SPT A few odds and ends going out there.
Yeah, that odds and end going out too. That odds and end is
out.
SPT And the hold open rod is engaged, and I'm
on my
way out.
PLT Okay, stand by, I'll put it there.
SPT Okay, I stabilized at 3.6. (garble) and
I stabilized at 355. Verified both.
CDR (garble)
SPT What's that (garble)
SC (garble)
PLT Okay, Just a moment. Yeah, it's about 3.6
now, it's coming up slightly.
SPT Yeah, I'm at EVA door.
PLT Go ahead, O.
SPT Here's some umbilical for you.
PLT All right.
SPT You Just did.
PLT Okay.
SPT We might want to get our gold visors down
here, Jack; it's a little bright out.
PLT Okay.
PLT There's old 149 sitting right there, pretty
as you please, collecting all that sunlight and everything else
that's coming in its direction. Attaboy, O, and you sure opened
that okay.
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PLT I want to make sure this umbilical's not

hung up on anything and I'm on - You want me to go to go out
now, AI?
SPT D-7 is above your head.
PLT Okay. Okay. Now he could go either above
or below there, that's right. (garble) D-7.
PLT Round D-7, left arm, left and passed.
PLT D-2 or D-7?
CDR D-2.
SPT (laughter) Okay. We don't see D-2. It's
probably that one underneath the llmb experiment. Okay.
I can't verify that that's D-2, hut it presumably is.
SPT Watch out for your cable there, yes, that's
right.
PLT Oh, boy. There's the world.
PLT Oh that says B-2 on it.
SPT Okay. That's yours.
PLT I'm going right past (garble) experiment.
But (garble) get out of here, then. You mind if I Just
walk forward to the trunnion? Okay. Okay. I am between the
trunnion and the M_DA. Throw me a - fllp my little tool over
her e and see how it's going to work. Oh, boy, it's straight.
! SPT Smash (garble)
SPT You've already got the tool on the connector,
don't you?
SPT Yeah, don't worry. I won't turn it. (Laughter)
PLT 8130 Alfa 2. Yes, sir. Oh, not to get it
off, it won't, and probably won't to get it on. Yes, sir.
CDR Still there, Bruce?
CC We're still here, AI. We have 1 minute to
LOS at Ascension. Next station contact in 37 minutes over
Guam. We will dump the tape recorder. Over.
CDR Okay. Jack's out at the trunnion.
He might want to say a few words about it.
PLT Okay. I waltzed out here to the trunnion and
Just like Rusty said in the water tank. I'm facing connector
8130A, The trunnion box is shading the Sun from my eyes and
my tool did solder very well and looks llke I'll be able to get
into position and do the job next daylight pass with no problem.
The wire bundles will not be in a - in the way to get the connector
off. Although, I don't know if they will be or not to insert
the nutrient connector, but the trunnion situation looks
pretty much as ever. Tonight I got good stability out here.
And I can do this Job, it appears, with no problem.
CDR Okay, Jack.
CC Okay. We copy and looks good; going over the
hill in Guam at 17:06. Out.
CDR Okay. Jack?
PLT Over the hill he was talking about. Looks
llke all clouds and water.
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CDR Now, before you head back, how about looking

around to see where you think you're going to route that cable.
And then as you crawl back, you'll be able to see if you're
just right. But when you're ready to do, translate to the
WCIU area using D-I in the dual handrails.
SPT Yeah, looks llke to me we can go behind
some of these tresses that won't be exposed to the EVA trail,
whatsoever.
CDR I think, when you've got it syched out.
Well, just head on down that way and think about it as you go.
SPT What was the one (garble)
CDR Yes.
PLT What are those words you -
CDR Let me tell you some words, good. Translate
the D rod handrail close to FAS. Other (garble) from
ED-I.
13 minutes with ac - loss of signal over Ascension as the
hatch was opened and Pilot Jack Lousma beBan the reconnioter
inspection of the trunnion area and the WCIU where he'll hook up
the cables for the rate gyro slx-pack on the next daylight
pass, which will come in 17:14 Greenwich mean time during
the Hawaii pass. He made the comment, "Oh boy. There's the
world down there." He waltzed out to the trunnion and he
accessed the problem and saying there's no problem to do the
Job and the trunnion looks llke advertised. He tried the
hand tool that he has. It's a - a pair of pliers, so to
speak that will be used to unplug the - the existing connections
and put on the new fixtures. He presently has 17 minutes
remaining in daylight during which he should be able to
complete the WCIU inspection and get back into the EVA bay,
where he'll assemble the cables and go out at in approximately
well, Greenwich mean time 17:14. Next acquisition will be
Guam in approximately 34 minutes at 16 hours, 32 minutes,
this is Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control.
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Time: 11:35 CDT 28/16:35 GMT
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time 16 hours 35 minutes. The EVA clock here at Mission Control
Center started at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 24 minutes
10 seconds. That's 11:24 a.m. central dayliEht time. The
clock now reads ii minutes 20 seconds elapsed time into the
EVA. Next acquisition will be Guam in 30 minutes from now.
This is Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time 16 hours 35 minutes.
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time 17 hours 4 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Guam in
approximately 2 minutes. Sunrise on this pass will be 17 hours
14 minutes Greenwich mean time or approximately i0 minutes
from now at which time Pilot Lousma should be ready to start
the connection of the rate gyro 6-pack connecting cables.
This will be a three step operation for Pilot Lousma, two step
operation, one at the truunlon and one at the WCI_. The third
installation takes part inside the M_DA, and Commander A1 Bean
will perform that portion of the installation. During this
Sunslde pass there will be approximately 68 minutes of daylight,
during which time Lousma will be able to install the 23 foot
long cable. We'll leave the line open for air-to-ground,
Capcomm is Bruce McCandless.
5-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT First connection.
PLT Why don't I go out and do it? I can see
anyway.
SC Uh-huh.
CC CDR, this is Houston. We'll be dumping
your data voice tape recorder this Guam pass. And I have a
new window frame time for you. It's 17:26 through 17:36 Zulu.
And if you'd llke me to repeat the daylight remaining minus 42
minute time, I've got it here. Over.
CDR 17:26 through 36. Is that what you said?
CC That's correct, AI.
CDR Okay, and we're going to be ready to go.
We've got everything out. All the film is standing around.
We put out the little samples, nylon samples in position. They
look good, they are not perpendicular to the Sun llne. If
you want them perpendicular to the Sun llne, we can make it that
way. Also it interferes slightly with window number - window number 3,
but not excessively. Now we've got the cable, EVA cable out
and attached to Owen. Jack is getting ready to go out in a
few minutes, and go to the spot where he can - the trunnion and do
the job. We found that the TV does not show that spot very
well because there is a bump, an ECS bump between the mount
and that point. But it shows the second connector point which
is down by the WCIU. So we'll have some good TV there but not for
the first part.
CC Roger, we understand. And in fact, I think
that that was basically our intent. And it's great.
SPT You want me to go out there AI? I can
see it very well.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and for Jack, on the way by the sail
samples if you could square them up perpendicular to the Sun llne
we'd appreciate it. Over.
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PLT Okay.
SPT Now let me reach over here and I'll make
it parallel to this panel with the little bolt on it.
PLT I can sort of tell you - make it parallel
to the back of the ATM. That's something you've got good
reference to.
SPT Yeah, that's what I was lookin E at earlier.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay.
PLT Make sure it will catch the TV there, O.
PLT Okay, you've got about a foot clearance.
Now, keep your feet - -
SPT I've got big feet though, so watch out.
PLT How do you llke that O?
SPT Oh, you're (garble) okay. (garble) That's
pretty close. That's good. That's plenty good.
SC Yeah.
CDR Okay, depress the AM, translate to the
D-7 handrail with back towards M_DA and left arm towards DAS.
PLT AM at D-7. Can you get that between my
legs there Owen?
SPT It's clear your two little legs.
PLT Okay.
SPT It's out of your legs.
CDR Okay, get the tether box in and you can
either tether it to yourself, but Just as long as it's tethered
to Owen you can take it in your hand if you llke, and - -
PLT Wait a minute. You've got to go up and
make the trunnion connection first.
CDR That's exactly right. You've got the
box end and he's got the other end.
PLT That's right. And I'm keeping it.
CDR You bet.
PLT Okay.
CDR Translate along D-2 handrail leading with
the right shoulder to the AM trununion carrying the other end
from the box end.
PLT Hey, I'm doing Just that. Hey look at
the Sun come up.
SPT Oh that's pretty. There is a very bright
above us, planet -
PLT Um-hum.
SPT - - Just above the border between the black
and the (garble)
CDR Okay, let me read you another note.
It says caution MDA panels are very thin and could be bent
while moving into position. Carefully position self between
trunnion and MDA.
PLT Okay, I'm going past my friend Don Lind's
experiment here, my associate and back-up pilot taking care
not to rub on that. You want to get this kink out of your
umbilical here. Did you step from your umbilical in.
SPT A little bit.
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PLT Okay, I've got to pull a little more out.

SPT Okay, here I am at the trunnion. It's
dark on the - my side of the trunnion here but then - panel
by the trunnion.
SC Okay.
PLT But I don't want to locate myself and
weight myself in as I did before.
CDR Okay, let's wait until you've got good
visibility on the top of that panel and then I'ii read onward.
PLT And I want to take this little hook and
try to dismount - if I can get it out of my hands for a
momen t.
LOS at Guam. Next station contact in 33 minutes through the
PLT Okay Bruce, I'm sitting up here on the
side of the docking adaptor. Off to my right is the trusty
command and service module, and I'm facing the Sun. The horizon
the Earth is upside down as I figure. The Sun is just coming up with
a beautiful orange glow over the horizon, and a light blue band
above that and a darker blue diffusing into the very very black
that is up here day and night. And I've got the cable clipped
to the side of this box like Rusty showed us. And I'm Just sitting
here waiting for it to get light to take this connector
off. I can see it very dimly at the moment with the EVA llghts.
And I've already been up here and tried this out on a reconnaisance
pass. It looks like I can get through the area and stabilize
myself with no problem. In the mean time if you don't mind, I'll
just sit here and enjoy the view. This is a beautiful Sunset, or
Sunrise. And I can see that pencil-thin cycle or crescent-shaped
light on the horizon spreading out becoming wider as it expands
around the globe. And getting more altitude as the Sun comes up
the bright band gets wider and wider.
CC Okay, well, you're losing altitude on us,
so we'll see you over the Vanguard.
PLT Okay, see you later. What t_me?
CC 17:44 which is 31 minutes and 32 seconds
from now.
PLT Okay, well (garble)
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 17 hours
13 minutes. The phase elapsed time clock recording EVA now
is at 49 minutes 25 seconds as Pilot Lousma begins the connec-
tion of the rate gyro package cables. The first work area is
at the trunnion. They will be working on 8130 Alfa trunnion
club plate. He will be using a pair of pliers to disconnect
the plates and attach the wide connector to that area, and
then move on to the WCIU. At the WCI_ end of the 23 foot long
cable is the control panel box. This is approximately 6 by 4
by 2 inches in which are the three switches, one for each of
the XYZ axis. When the rate gyros are operational, they will
become Xl, X2, YI, Y2, Zl, Z2 axis sensors. And the onboard
rate gyros will become X3, Y3, Z3 using the best of those three
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onboard gyros. Discussions during this pass were concerning

the sall material. There are two swatches of the material
used in the parasol deployed during the first Skylab mission
by Pete Conrad and his crew. These are 12 by 12 inches each
as two separate swatches which have been placed on a 12, 15
by 24 inch flight data cllp board and aflxed to a handrail
outside the EVA bay. One of the samples will be retrieved
by the Skylab-3 crew on their final EVA, and the second sample
will be retrieved by the Skylab-4 crew durln_ an EVA procedure.
The purpose of this particular test is to verify ground-based
studies which were conducted prior to the launch of Skylab-2
to determine the duration durability of this sall material.
This is again the material from the parasol which was deployed
through the scientific airlock. And these two pieces of material
will be returned one by the Skylab-3 crew and the other piece
of material by the Skylab-4. Next acquisition will he Vanguard
in approximately 28 minutes. There is approximately 1 hour
and 8 minutes in this daylight pass for Pilot Lo_sma to conclude
that work. Then when that is finished Science Pilot Owen
Garrlott will begin work in removing the SI149 experiment from
the rim of the ATM, and also transferring film and cameras from
the vehicle back into the workshop. S054, S056, and H-alpha 1
experiments will have film transfers only. S052, 82A, and 82B
will be a camera and film transfer. These transfers will be
made at the Sun end. S082A and S082B will be taken from the
Sun end whereas the center work station Science Pilot Garrlott
will transfer the film for the S052, S054, and S056 and H-alpha i.
Also during this EVA Sccience Pilot Garriott will remove two
ramp latches, one from the S056 door which failed to open on
mission day Ii of the Skylab mission and S082A door failed
to indicate closed on mission day 23, 5 days ago. These
latches will be returned with the crew and undergo analysis
at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Next acqusltlon will
be Vanguard in approximately 26 minutes. At Greenwich mean time
17 hours 18 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-1131/1
Time: 12:42 CDT, 28/17:42 GMT
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time, 17 hours 42 minutes, coming up at Vanguard in 1 hour
and 35 seconds. If EVA simulations in the water tank at
the Marshall Space Flight Center prove correct, Pilot Lousma
should be nearing completion of the installation of the
rate gyro 6-pack connectors and Science Pilot Owen Garrlott should
be getting - should be beginning the installatlon of new
cameras and new film in the ATM. The EVA clock now reads
1 hour 19 minutes and counting with acquisition at Vanguard
we'll leave the line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
SPT Okay. Got to get the TV up.
PLT All right.
Vanguard for Ii minutes. Out.
CDR Okay, we just went to stand by. We Just
disabled all the rate gyros. Jack is in the midst of
disconnecting and making the connections at the WCIU.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I'm down here looking at
WCIU and all these connectors and I just got the victim
loose, and here in a few minutes, the good Lord willing
and the creek don't rise, we're going to have this hooked up.
SPT Hey, Jack.
PLT Yes, sir.
SPT Ah - -
CDR Houston, do you show all of our rate gyros
off, or can you see them?
CC That's affirmative, we can see them
and we show them off.
CDR And how's our attitude and rates by
looking at the command module? It'll save me from going over
there.
CC They're looking good, AI. Right now
you're only off about 2 degrees from SI, AI.
PLT I can't believe that went on so easy.
SPT Which axis?
CC In the Y-axls.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay, I got B-4 hooked to J-3 and I can
verify that the pins are in and now let me get the other a -
we got 3 out of 4 here, Bruce.
CC Okay, we want 4 out of 4 though.
PLT All right, guy. You guys are never
happy. We got the PT air going on down here. You have
real time on the ground?
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CC Negative.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay, we've got 4 out of 4, Bruce.
CC Beautiful, Jack.
PLT Now what?
SPT Jack.
PLT Hey, where are we here? Look at it down
there. We' re over - -
SPT Okay, why don't you get back into the
FAS now so I can run through the rest of the procedure,
please.
CC Uh - -
PLT Hey guys, sure you don't have anything more I
can look at while I'm out here?
CC No, you're over South America, on the way
back in you might take a look and make sure that the sail
sample isn't blocking the window with respect to $230 photos
and aurora photos.
SPT - pointed back - -
PLT Well it's not blocking the window, it's
looking right at the sun and -
SPT Is the corner of it shaded there, Jack?
I couldn't tell.
PLT There is about 1 inch, there's a triangle
of the corner shaded and the - the - it's about 1 inch,
SPT (garble)
PLT yeah.
SPT Get back in the same way.
PLT A (garble) thing of interest - -
CC Break, break, break, break. A1 you don't
need to wait until Jack gets back to the FAS. You can go ahead
press on while he's moving in.
CDR One thing that might be of interest to
you Bruce, when we went to TAts control here a little while
ago, we did fire a few nibs of course. I can see them, the plumes
extend out about 20 feet or so and there was absolutely no
perturbation to either the sall or the parasol when the TAts
fired.
CC Okay, thank you, hat's a good data point.
CDR Okay, and I was in fact doing that Job. I
disconnected the CBs, connected the signal cable and now -
I got the CBs on and we'll see what happens.
SC (Garble)
CC Okay, we're doing on telemetry AI, and you're
1 degree off in X and 4 degrees in Y right now.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Boy, we can see the whole southern part
of South America. There's a very beautiful bay
down there we're crossing. You can see clear over to the Andes
and we're crossing the east coast of South America.
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CC And for the CDR on telemetry, the 6-pack is

looking good, the gyros are matching each other. -_
CDR Good news. And now I'm going to power up
the CMG again.
PLT Well, Owen, I guess I'll come back and
we' ii swap.
SPT Okay.
PLT Sall is taking on a little tannish color
on the top, I noticed. But the line is still tight and
appears to be in good shape.
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Time: 12:49 CDT, 28/17:49 GMT
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PLT There's one little corner of that sail sample

which is shaded but it's just a little triangular section
and the altitude there - the height on that triangle is about
1-1/4 inches and it's sides are about equal, equallateral
triangle and the side shaped is about - give us a square root of
2 on that, Bruce and will have it. (laughter)
CC Okay, Jack. Hey look there's no problem
on that. We're go Just llke it is with that little bit of
a corner shaded. Over.
PLT Okay, good. And we had to straighten
that up a little bit to get it perpendicular to the sun. But it
is in good shape now and think you'll llke it.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Houston, I Just got the CMG on,
how does it: look? And also I put the X, Y and Z rate gyros
on the rack on are they coming up to speed now?
CC Okay, AI. We tracked you on telemetry
as they came on. They're looking beautiful, we're waiting
for the 90 second time out.
CDR Okay, give me a call.
CC We'll do Just that.
SPT Okay, Jack can you come up to the pass
here?
PLT Do I have to?
SPT Yeah, you have to.
PLT Do I have to, AI?
SPT (laugh)
CDR Huh?
SPT We got (laugh) - (garble) - -
CC CDR, Houston, we're ready to go ahead with
the redundancy management on the rate gyros. Over.
CDR Okay, I'm ready too.
SPT This is going to take awhile.
CDR Now I know how Weebe Eubank felt with one
Joe Namath. I've got a couple of them out there in operation.
SPT We don't rate their salary though.
SPT No wonder I couldn't step anymore umbilical
in, you weren't coming any further. (laugh) Why don't you
forget it for awhile and rest.
PLT The poles are bent down real nicely in that
a -
CC CDR, Houston. For your info_matlon we're
showing attitude air is now of X minus 2-1/2 and Y is 6 and
Z is estimated about 3. Over.
SPT Looks like there's 2 to 3 feet overlap
there at the traillng edge, (garble).
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PLT On my end here.

SPT No, the other end. Oh, I can't see the
other end, yeah.
PLT But on my side over here, it's about
a foot and a half.
SPT Yeah. The shadow of the sall is not
quite parallel to the edge of the parasol; it widens out
as you go back.
CC Okay, A1. We see Sun presence still,
CMG control's enable, we're going back to the real solar inertial
attitude and it's looking beautiful.
CDR Good news, Bruce.
CDR Okay, all of those commands are in and
I just selected solar inertial.
PLT The box is all set up the way you wanted
it, I take it, Garriott? I understand. Right.
SPT That must be the coast of South America
we're Just passing there, Jack.
PLT (garble) we're coming up parallel to the
east coast sort of.
SPT Yeah.
CC Okay, one minute 30 seconds til LOS,
next station contact is Ascension in 4 minutes, we'll be dumping
the data voice recorder tape there. Out.
17 hours 54 minutes apparently the connection of the rate
gyro 6-pack connectors are - have been sucessful. Skylab-3
is back in solar inertial as of 17:53 Greenwich mean time.
CDR (garble) drive to zero, I got pretty near
zero on the X but not on the Y.
PLT They should have.
CDR Okay, here it comes.
PLT Good. You got a Y rate and it's in the
right direction?
CC Skylab, Houston the acquisition Sun
sensor takes a fair amount of time to settle down so Just
keep patient with it. Over.
CDR It's coming now, Bruce. It's real good
now, it was about 98 percent and - -
SPT (garble) you can see it, Jack, (garble) about
3 miles (garble)
PLT It's some kind of foot pedal, we figure.
SPT (Garble) can you-
17 hours 55 minutes, loss of signal at Vanguard with apparent
successful connect of the rate gyro 6-pack connectors by
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PAO (CONT'D) Pilot Lousma. Skylab-3 returned to

soloc - solar inertial at 17 hours 53 minutes, Greenwich
mean time. A period of only free mod - free drift mode for
only 9 minutes from the time it was - it was put into free
drift mode for connection of the connectors until the job was
completed only 9 minutes. We have - we'll have - acquisition
at Ascension in approximately 1 minute, we'll leave the
llne up for that pass.
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Time; 12:56 CDT, 28/17:56 GMT
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PLT Okay.
with a 10-1/2 minute pass for you. Out.
PLT No, I got to get around here (garble) -
CDR -- (garble) rack in this site, Bruce. Every-
thing settled down and we're pressing on with the rest of the EVA.
SC (garble)
CC Roger AI. We saw a fracture of about 1 degree
and you're settling down nicely. We're dumping the data voice
tape recorder.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Let me get back in here and stuff
some of this stuff back - -
CDR All right.
PLT - - It's going to be a big spaghetti boom
The (garble) AI don't mind much but we don't like it.
PLT It's a good look of the cow-,and module I've had.
Well, see if I can figure out which plug is which here. That's
right. I'm looking up the quad A and what it is and some of the
insulation on the outside of the quads is sort of chipped away.
It looks like the quads all look to be in good shape and down
on quad B, the paint and stuff has chipped away, all around
the quad. The nozzles themselves, all look to be in good shape.
CDR Looks good. Say Houston. I think I'ii
float to the command module and turn off the PSM helium and fuel
manifold if that's okay with you.
CC Roger AI. That's good with us. Go ahead.
PLT Just a minute. I'ii be with you. I want
to get rid of this tool here so that it doesn't bang all over.
And no hurry. Just a straight drop - straight down into the
water from here. From about 235 miles. (Laughter)
PLT Come on and step down in it.
SPT It sure is. That's tremendous. Amazing view.
I'm out of hose.
MS Hey I'm (garble) work station yet.
SPT Just a minute, AI. Okay. Can I get more
on my pwn umbilicle now, Jack? And I'ii go on down to center
work station.
PLT That'll be fine up here.
SPT Okay. Number 9 umbilicle coming out there.
CDR Okay. Both switches are off and talkback
is verble in the command module.
CC Okay. We copy that, AI.
PLT AI, what were those settings again on TV
X, Y, Z?
SPT Okay. I'm down in the center work station
now, AI. And -
CC Jack, this is Houston. Over.
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PLT Yeah, go ahead.

CC Do you want the TV settings for the F-8 hand-
rail is X equals 60. Y equals 180. Z equals 315. Over.
PLT Thank you.
SC Yeah.
SPT Okay. The ladder is verified and I'm clamping
it. Stand by. Okay now. This is the door that was reported
to not have latched. Okay. The kid's in the foot restraints.
SPT What are we suppose to do to the DAC right now?
SPT Just a second there. Were not the S054 door
reported to ihave not locked mechanically and no they didn't
tie it in with magnetic latches?
CC That's correct, Owen.
SPT Okay. Well, the flag is up and it certainly
doesn't turn open. So it looks to me like its locked mechanically
the way it Should be. Got a white flag on the door and it
does not turn open. Yeah.
PLT Ser boom. Get out of the way with it.
PLT Put the Floatation collar on now.
PLT Oh, your umbilicle came unclamped.
CDR Hey Bruce, how about giving our congratula-
tions to Rusty on a - and the men that worked with him, who
developed these procedures because they worked out just
perfectly today. We had no problem. And I guess we ought
to thank Rocko and his boys down there for making sure all the parts
of the wires were connected correctly. Cause it looks like
it leads from what I'm looking at the moment and it's all
running currently.
CC Okay. We'll do that AI. Rusty's back here
on the back row and Rocko's sitting in the viewing room and
they're both listening.
SPT My regards to Rusty and the Colonel.
SPT What number was that Ow - AI? Thatts the
suitcase.
PLT Yep.
SPT And the 54 door was locked normally.
CC Okay. We copy that Owen and we have a
problem with it on the mag latch at the end of SL-II EVA,
the last EVA- the EVA there. And we don't have any positive
report. One way or another after your first EVA.
SPT We didn't touch the door on our first EVAj
Bruce. That's the reason why I was discussing it.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR And bow's the checkout going with the other
rate gyros down there?
CC I have a little quote for you. It says they
are absolutely impeccable, unquote.
CDR (Laughter) Okay. That's close enough.
Good enough.
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SPT That's a pretty big word.

MS (garble)
SPT Okay. I got S054 up here. It's verified
to be locked under the boom.
SPT Just send it down, Jack.
PLT Look at that go. Right at it.
PLT Yep, it is. I'm ready to do that.
SPT Just give me the word there, professor.
PLT Okay, we' re coming.
SPT I'ii drop it right in your (garble) zone.
PLT That's Just where I want it.
SPT Hit them in a bad place, right in the hands.
(Laughter)
PLT Stubborn.
SPT Okay.
SPT You got her.
PLT Okay•
SPT Hang on to it.
SPT Okay, take her back.
PLT Okay•
PLT I'ii take her back a little ways, a couple
of feet.
SPT Um hmm.
SPT Brin_ back the bacon, right?
PLT Okay
PLT Okay, and down there he's got her latched
on the hook, and he's in the process of getting the used
one out. How many pictures are on (garble) 4 to 5
thousand or wha - how many is that?
SPT How many what? Oh, pictures, about - gee,
I think it's 7,000, 6- (garble)
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CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We'd like to get the computer
switch to auto on panel 130 there at the ATM.
CDR Okay.
PLT You say the word, and I'ii send her down,
O.
SPT Okay, bring her down.
PLT And when you say, I'ii stop it.
SPT Stop.
PLT Stopped
PLT There he is (garble) about 7 to 8000 pictures
of the Sun under that boom and going to bring them home, and that's
only a few of them.
CC And 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact
in a minute and a half over the Canaries. Out.
PLT Okay, Owen is hooking on the S054
canister and giving me the word to bring it back, which is what
I'm doing. It's coming up real nice on this boom.
SPT Okay, it didn't work.
SPT Okay, here comes this one up to me. I'm
going to store it on this little rack. Owen is getting a
new one and putting it in. No, no hang on to it you dummy.
PLT I wasn't talking to you O.
SPT I figured that.
PLT Talking to myself there. (garble) calling
(garble) a dummy. Okay, this one is on the rack and it's
verified to be locked in.
SPT Okay AI, I've got this one in, latched.
I've got a latched flag on the magazine and the double white
showing
PLT It works.
SPT Okay, I've got the next set of film,
S056 loaded on the boom here. And verified to be locked on. Okay,
54 door is closed. White quite visible.
SPT Roll is enabled.
CC Skylab, Houston now through Canary and
Madrid for the next 7 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay Bruce, are you going to be dumping
this VTR? I wanted to know whether to just leave it run or
cycle it for the most interestin E parts of the EVA.
CC Cycle it for the most interesting parts,
AI. It looks like you've got about 3-1/2 minutes left on it.
Over.
CDR Okay. I'ii turn it off and I'ii get him
translating out to the Sun end and some action out there.
CC Beautiful.
CDR Okay.
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PLT Okay, Owen is rotating the canister around

now so that he can get to the next one of the solar telescopes
that is out there. And I've got the new load on the boom for
the S056 telescope. And it looks like 0 }en has Just about got
it rotated around in front of him where he can get it out.
SPT I'm about half way, Jack. It's a slow
rate here I've got to do.
PLT I noticed the DAC is running away. You can
tell its running as it wiggles every time it takes a little
vibration. I hope the pictures come out okay. They did the last
time, the pictures of Pete's EVA came out very nice.
PLT We're out here in bzoad daylight, but that
sky is black as black can be all over.
SPT Well, we've had a couple on hours on this EVA,
Bruce.
CC Okay, you're about an hour and 27 minutes
into it at this time. Over.
PLT We're too fast.
CC Excuse me, make that a hour and 47 into
it.
PLT Well, we're getting ahead.
CC If we told you you were 4 or 5 hours into
it, would it make you happy?
PLT Sure.
SPT l've got a watch too.
SPT What is the roll rate in high position
down here Bruce? Does some body have that position handy?
CC We'll have that for you in a second.
SPT I was just wondering whether there was any reason
to remain in low or whether or not high was an acceptable rate.
CC Okay Owen, we're in times 1 believe it's 3-1/2
degrees per second, so the high rate is acceptable.
SPT Okay, so it is affected by the switch on
the C&D. I wasn't sure of that. Good enough, I'll use high
after this.
CC Roger.
PLT And those cable hookup for the gyros -
for the slx-pack worked real good, Bruce. The only one that
I had to work on a little bit was the big one up on the trunnion.
It turned out that every time that I got the slot for the key
lined up that when I went to rotate the power shell, the locking
shell that it would float out again, it would never hold. So
I had to repositlon myself up there a little bit and work on it
for a while. Then it went in real nicely.
CC Yeah, it sounds llke it wound up working real
nicely (garble).
PLT It sure did. Boy the guys did a great Job
on that, not only on the procedures but also on the hardware.
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PLT We got it strung behind a couple of trusses

there so it won't get in the way.
SPT Okay, I'm at 56 and I'm unlocking the door.
PLT Okay, Owen's got that telesope rotator around
in front of me, and unlocking the door and opening it.
SPT Okay, I'm ready for your -
PLT Waiting for AI to give him some more procedural
words. Okay, here comes - -
PLT Yeah, we're going to fall off these foot
restraints and it's a long drop.
SPT I've got your umbilical here and I'Ii grab
you.
SPT That's very good. Stop her there.
PLT Okay. There you got them.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Okay, Owen is taking a new load of film
for S056, off, and I'm going to return to the boom (garble) - -
SPT Pull her back away.
SPT Wrong way again, Jack.
PLT - - I'm returning to move out of his way a
little bit
CC Skylab, this is Houston. A little over
i minute to LOS at Madrid. Next station contact in 26 minutes
through Guam and we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at Guam. We'll be dumping the video tape recorder in about
4-1/2 hours when we come up on the states for the first time
out.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce, that's kind of what
I was wondering and I appreciate you keeping me informed there
when I was punching the DAS to get those rate gyros back up
on what was going on as far as attitude was concerned. Thanks,
I just couldn't answer then.
CC We admired your fancy finger work there
on the DAS. You put them in in something llke record time,
I think and we're just keeping you up to date. I was getting
a steady flow of info from the trench down here.
SPT Okay.
CC Make that the upper trench.
PLT Sounds like they got a little status
thing blowing down there.
CC You better believe it.
SC (laughter)
PLT We don't up here, we Just do whatever the
Commander says.
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SPT We dontt up here we just do what

ever the commander says.
CC Rog, and you better believe in brown
side out when he says brown side out.
PLT Okay, Owen has got the - looks to be
a - exposed film out now and he's going to load it on that
boom -
18 hours 16 minutes with the loss of signal at Madrid,
a long pass over Ascension, Canary, Madrid. The a - heard
the actual transfer of film from Pilot Jack Lousma to
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott who is working at the center
work station of the Apollo telescope mount where he will
be changing film in the S052, 54, 56 and the H-alpha-I
experiment. The boom refered to by Pilot Lousma is the
remotely control motorized extendable boom which goes from
the EVA well to the center work station and also another
boom which goes from the EVA well to the sun end work station.
Followlng completlon of these film transferes and those
four experiments at the center work station, Science Pilot
Garrlott will move up to the sun end where he will remove
the S149 experiment, because it's placed in such a position
at it - would interfere with his work at the sun end station.
This particle collection experiment will be transferred
back to the EVA well while he completes work at the sun
end station then the S149 will be returned to the sun end
where it will placed on its bracket to continue experiment
data gather. Next acquisition will be Guam in approximately
23 minutes. At Greenwich mean time, 18 hours 18 minutes,
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time, 18 hours 24 minutes. The phase elapse clock counting
the EVA is exactly 2 hours 42 seconds at this time as the
Skylab space station goes through a night pass over Europe.
Next sunrise will be at 18:47 Greenwich mean time. While
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott continues to change out the film
at two different work stations at the ATM. His final activity
will be removal of the S056 door latch, which failed to
open on mission day ii and S082A door latch which showed
operations - the door failed to indicate close on mission
day 23. Pilot Lousma did comment that they were moving along
pretty well on the last pass through Madrid. Heart rate
during the portion of the 6-pack connector installation
according to Flight Surgeon John Zieglschmid here at the
control center, range 95 to i00 for both pilot and science
pilot. Next acquisition will be over Guam in 15 minutes
from now. Dr. Charles Berry, director for Life Science
for NASA wlll hold a briefing one hour after the completion
of EVA today, to discuss medical criteria in the selecting
and extentlon of each mission, the week of each mission
on Skylab-3. Again Dr. Charles Berry, Director for Llfe
Science wlll hold a briefing in the NASA News room, buildin E
1. One hour after the close of the EVA to discuss medical
criteria.
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18 hours 40 minutes. Acquisition coming at Guam in approxi-
mately i minute 30 seconds. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
should still be making film exchanges possibly at the Sun
end of the ATM at this time. The next step is to remove the
latches from the S082A, and SO56 door ramps, return those
to the spacecraft for subsequent return and evaluation at
the Marshall Space Flight Center. The final activity on this
EVA will be inplacement - replacement of the S149 on the
Sun rim of the ATM. Greenwich mean time 18 hours 40 minutes,
we'll hold the llne open for alr-to-groumd. Cap Com is
Bruce McCandless.
SPT Well I think she's very well pointed now.
PLT Yeah. Turn it on. Owen's (garble).
SPT Okay. I'm moving.
PLT Okay. Owen came back and had to do around
the top of the sall and (garble). So, that's the way he's
going now, if you can see him right there in front of the
picture. He's headlng out toward the Sun end of the solar
telescopes. Hand over hand along the handrails, umbilical
trailing behind. Now you see the rear view of an Okie.
North end going south. Okay, now he's out to the sun end.
Let me give you a little umbilical there, O.
SPT Okay. All right.
SPT Okay. I'm in the foot restraints.
PLT VTR is off.
SPT Okay.
PLT Let me fix this umbilical where ever it
needs to be now. I'm kind of - - Trouble with my skates
(laughter) here. Man is that TV.
PLT You're pointed back then.
SPT (Garble)
SPT Back up here.
PLT After you (garble).
CC Skylab this is Houston through Guam
PLT Okay, Bruce. We're about half way
through with the film exchange now. We've got all the
feather work station exchanged. And we've got all the
cameras they're, checked out. And moved out to the Sun end
now. We're Just getting ready to work on the S149.
CC Roger. We copy you. And you've got
about 2 minutes left on the VTR. And we' Ii probably be
dumping the data voice tape recorder this site. Out.
SPT Okay. Let me get around here and do
that.
SPT (garble) all the way closed and a little
bit open, and when the Sun comes up, I'ii adjust it.
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SPT Okay. I'd like to ask Jack a question

here. It looks like to me to get this 149 crank closed• you
could not do it from these interim foot restraints. I had
to kick out of those and get behind the experiment. Is that the
way you did it Jack?
PLT Yeah. You might have to take one foot
loose there• O, and reach around there.
SPT Yeah. It looks to me llke that's the
better. Have to get kick both loose.
CDR And• Bruce, all the experiments that
we cha - or films that we transferred into the center work station.
The four of those checked out okay.
CC Okay. We copy that• AI.
PLT Look at the thunderstorms on the horizon,
Owen.
SPT Yeah. I saw them. They're really fierce.
PLT Looks llke the llmb of the Sun with a
bunch of prominence.
SPT That's right. There's a close analogy.
SPT Close comparison.
PLT How are you doing there, O. Can you
work from that position?
SPT I'm going to have to scoot back a little
bit more• yet, I think.
SPT Okay. Now I'm in a little bit better
position, I think, to crack this (garble) machine.
SPT That was after I got a (garble) crack closed.
SPT Few thunderstorms down there on the
Earth.
PLT See them flashing away,
SPT The Sun's Just about to come up. (garble)
get a
gold visor down, Jack.
PLT Good idea9 Owen.
CC Owen, this is Houston. We notice there's
no talkback indications open or closed on the 52 aperture
door. Have you or A1 done anything with the S052 door?
SPT Well, I'm not from out here.
CDR Yes, I think I did. Let me look at my
procedure.
SPT Jack, where is that little lock on this
handle?
PLT There should a a little knob sticking
right in the end of the handle that you can pull out.
SPT Yeah. But not in the crank end. It's
up by the shaft isn't it where it rotates.
CDR No• according to this I don't touch the
door. The door is indicating open. Let me close it.
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PLT Right there in the end- -

PLT Yeah. It should be in the end there.
CC Let's leave it on AI, in the present
configuration. Over.
CDR Okay. The door - I put the main power
back on. - -
SPT Yeah. I can turn it.
CDR - - And the door shows grey, which is
open. And I don't think I opened it. And normally it
should go closed anyway when the main power goes off. Stand by.
CDR It's still in fast scan. And I interrupted
it by going to stop when we used up i0 fr_,,es.
CDR And the EVA auto door enabled to inhibit
door - -
CC CDR, this is Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. If,Owen's clear of the 52 door,
we'd like to have you close it from the panel.
SPT Okay. I'm clear. That's three turns
on Sthis 149.
SPT Four.
CDR Well, I still indicate open here. I'ii
put - Let me put the EV auto door enable. He's clear of all
the doors and we'll get this thing closed.
SPT I Just noticed on the - on one of the
S149 panels, and it's the one that's toward the lower end. There
are four little brown patches. Two of them are peeling up
right now. One of there's about to pop off. It's peeled
half way up right now.
CC Okay. We show the S052 door closed.
That is we show it closing.
CDR Okay. We agree. What I did was go out
of EVA auto door inhibit to enable, close the door and now
I'm going back to storage.
CC Okay. And last pass when you were over
the Vanguard, we show that you had a caution and warning
although we couldn't tell what it was, that you reset over
Madrid. Was that ACS mall or cluster act, that we expected.
Over.
SPT It turns.
PLT Well, I don't have it on Owen right
now, but l'm adjusting it right now to - -
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We need that EVA auto door
switch to the inhibit position, vice the storage position,
Ove r.
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CDR Okay. That's where it is. I moved

it to enable and then back to inhibit.
CC Roger, AI. We saw a caution and warning
over the Vanguard that you reset over Madrid. We couldn't
tell what it was. Was that one of the ACS mall, or cluster
(garble) Over.
CDR It ah - I don't know which it was, Bruce.
I went over and punched memory recall and nothing came up.
Although, the master alarm was on. So, I Just turned it
off.
CC Okay.
CDR I don't exactly know what it was.
CC Mighty fine. Thank you.
CDR Now, one of the things that we noticed
on our checklist, it says before we finish closing out, we've
got to get a go from you for ingress and secure to make
sure that the rate gyros are all working. Have we a GO for
that?
CC Roger. You're GO for that.
CDR Okay. We're not there yet, obviously.
But I just wanted to get it out of the way.
CC Understand. But the gyros are there.
SPT Which gyros are we using now?
CC You're still on the rack rate gyros.
We're watching the six pack ones for a rev or two here to
see how they track during the dump maneuvers.
SPT I see.
CC And, actually, they're doing quite well.
You've got a minute to LOS. The next station contact in
half an hour over the Vanguard at 19:22. Out.
SPT You in a hurry, AI?
PLT Owen is still cranking the S149 closed.
And he's doing it very slowly so he doesn't mess up the
gear train. And I see that the petals are all closed. And
he's just cranking a little more to make sure that the locks
get set on 149.
SPT Okay. Now that (garble) handle is as far as
it wants to go. I never did find the lock on it.
SPT I'm going to see if I can get this
thing hooked in from my foot restraint. I'm not sure that
I can. (Garble)
PLT You still there, Bruce?
CC Yeah. We're still here for a couple of
seconds. Make it fast.
PLT I was Just going to tell you what's going
on. Owen's hooking the S149 to a tether now. He's - We're going
to bring it back in to get it out of the way. And then we're
going to put it out later.
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CC Okay. Sounds good. And you've got

just a little less than two minutes left on the VTR.
PLT Okay. We' ii use it. Thank you.
time 18 hours 52 minutes, with Science Pilot Owen Garriot
at the Sun end of the Apollo telescope mount. Starting the
removal of the $149 particle collection experiment, which
was deployed at the Sun end in the first EVA. This is an
experiment of Dr. C. L. Hemenway of the Dudley Observatory,
Albany, New York. It was originally designed to be used to
bolt in the solar scientific alrlocks_ as well as the anti-
solar scientific airlock. But3 due to the fact, that the
parasol and sunshade covered over that airlock, it was placed
outside at the ATM, during the first EVA. Rate gyros of
the six pack are doing great, according to Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson. In fact, earlier he described it as just
impeccable. Surgeon reported to Flight Director Hutchinson,
that all is fine with the two crewmen outside the vehicle.
As Science Pilot Owen Garrlott gets towards the end of
transfer of film in cameras to the Apollo telescope mount.
The time elapsed clock- time elapsed clock for the E_A now
stands at 2 hours 30 minutes. Next acquisition will be
Vanguard in 27 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours
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PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 19 hours

17 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Vanguard. Following
review of data from the previous Guam and Vanguard pass,
flight controllers are looking at putting the rate gyro 6-pack
on-line with the - the rack gyros in the ATM. For the past
rev they've been looking at the data from the rate gyro pack-
age described by Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson earlier
as "Just impeccable." The plan will be that the rack gyros,
one of the best of the three axes rate gyros will be used
as in the X-Y-Z attitude and the rate gyros 6-pack will also
be used. That'll give three axes with three good gyros in
each axes, total of nine, using the 6-pack plus one good
rate gyro in each of the other axes. It is planned that the
crew will be advised that this will be brought on-line on
this pass over Vanguard, making the EVA an apparent success
at this point. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott, at the Sun-end
of the Apollo Telescope Mount, completing the exchange of
film and cameras at this station, as well as return of the
S149 to the position on the Sun-end of the ATM. At the
Sun-end workstation, Science Pilot Garrlott is the - putting
in the camera and film for the S052, 82A, 82B, film and
cameras. And again, he will replace the S149 in position
at the Sun-end of the tele - ATH. We anticipate acquisition
at Vanguard. We'll leave this llne up for that pass.
PAO Currently the phase-elapse clock shows 2
hours and 55 minutes into the EVA. Approximately another hour
and 5 minutes is planned for this extravehicular activity
today.
SPT That rubber seal is binding a bit, causing
it to stick. But I've already done it a couple of times.
Okay, that's complete.
CDR Okay, for your information we got another
master alarm which - I checked in the C&W and it turned out
to be a CMG SAT. I checked total momentum and it's running
around 94 percent. And the Y momentum is the high one up
around 96. So, I guess somehow during the night pass it
didn't know exactly where it was and it didn't dump precisely.
SPT Well, we got all the film exchanged now,
Bruce. Just waiting for the film checks on 82A and B at
the Sun-end.
CC Okay, for the CDR, we've seen a couple of
mid-fire from CMG SAT. The momentum is running high. We
believe it's from the crew activity associated with EVA.
Over.
CDR Okay.
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PLT Don't move around so much out there, O.

SPT I can t t do it. It's not my fault. It' s
all the oxygen you're pumping overboard, Jack, that's doing
it. If you'd quit breathing, why, that'd help.
CC Okay, - okay, for the CDR, again. We
want to re-emphasize that this has nothing to do with the
gyro pack. We're very happy with the rate gyro 6-pack,
we've watched it through two maneuvers, one dump and when
we're turned to SI, and at this time we're goin E to enable
three rate gyro reduncancy managements, in all three axes,
using the 6-pack gyros as the two controlling ones, and the
three good rack gyros as the ones held in reserve, but
still spinning. We're also going to shut down the unused
gyros out on the rack. For your information, we believe
this is the first time since day 1 that we've had three
rate gyros redundancy management in all axes. Over.
PLT Great.
CC Correction, that's 76 days since we've
had that configuration.
CDR Okay, we're glad to be part of it, I'ii
tell you.
SPT Say, Bruce, I've just got to make one comment,
here because this is absolutely the most beautiful view
that I've ever seen. I'm sitting up here on top of the
ATM, you can see the horizon through a full 270-degree
arc. As the Sun reflection out over the Pacific. We're
just now crossing the Andes, coming across from the Pacific
on to the South American coastline, and with the Andes
a sharp relief down below with some cloud cover, it's Just
utterly amazing view.
CC Oh, you've got a whole room full of people
here that wish they could be up there to see it in person.
SPT Well, I thought views out of the wardroom,
or out the STS windows were something, but it really can-
not compare with the fishbowl view that you've got sitting
up here on top the ATM Sun-end, with a visor - a full
- essentially, two hundred and - 180 degrees of visor
available, and you can see the horizon Just from 270 to
all the way around. Wonder if- -
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SPT ... 200 and 180 degrees of visor available.

You can see the horizon just from 270 to - all the way around.
(garble) I get back to business a little bit. The 82B door,
the outside door was very sticky when I went to open it. Had
to - after unlocking it tug on it several times to get the
door to open back up. And, also in closing it was pretty
sticky, but it did close satisfactorily. I think it's the little
red rubber ring that goes all the way around the outside edge,
probably thermally tended to stick to the canister itself.
It just takes a very hard tug to get it loose.
CC Okay, we copy all that, Owen. And I
realize you're not up to it right now, but let me give you
a word or two on the S149 handlelock subject, and then if
we' re in contact when you get to it we can talk it through
if there's anymore questions.
SPT The 82A door is open. Not yet. Nope.
Looks llke 82A door may have hung up here, Bruce.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT Hung up on the ramp if it is. If it is
hung up that's the ramp that I'ii be removing a little latter,
I guess.
PLT Why don't you nudge it a little.
SPT Yeah, I could but I hate to.
PLT Boy, sure wish I had a camera here. Look
at that pretty little aqua blue lake down there, Owen, right in
the middle of the Andes in the middle of all that snow covered
area.
SPT I don't see the aqua blue one. I see all
those salt flats up there that you - Oh, that's the one you're
talking about up there.
PLT There's one way down to your left a little
more; very, very small. Just one aqua color. Look at all
the varying shades of and browns and tans of the mountains there.
SPT That's right. Remember we saw that
salt bend up there either that or it's a glacier, l'm not sure
which. Yeah, I wonder if that's a glacier.
PLT All varying shades of brown in the mountainous
area there.
SPT 82A is still open, 82B is closed.
PLT That's a fire down there.
CC Say 82A is open and B is closed, Owen?_
SPT Right.
CC And for Jacks we realize we're second
guessing you here, but looking at the telemetry on your blomed
looks llke your - the temperature across your water oxygen is
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up a little. We suggest that maybe you might want to increase

your coolant flow. Over.
PLT Sure, I'Ii do that. I'm- I've got
out of the as a little bit and I'm just hanging on the
B2 handrail looking up toward the command module so I could
take advantage of this good view. You don't pass this way
very often, you might as well get out and look around a little.
And it really is inspiring.
SPT Say, Bruce, do you have any advice on the
82A door? It doesn't seem to want to go closed.
CC Okay, stand by. We thought your problem
was getting it open.
SPT Oh, we're talking about the instrument
door now, the instrument aperture. I've got the EVA doors
fully closed and locked. A1 is just going to do the checkout
of the instruments and he tried to - I guess you did open
and close the doors, didn't you, AI? And now - that's right -
B closed and 82A did not.
SC That's positive.
SPT Wait a minute. I'm looking at the
82A hatch. Nope, I'm glad you mentioned it. The 82A
- the 82B swings over this way. It is the 82B that's still
open.
CDR Okay, everything's okay, Bruce. The doors
inside closed.
PLT There are two that arelabled 82B up there,
also, of course.
CC Okay, we - -
SC (garble) jumble now, O.
CC We copy that.
SPT Say again.
CC We copy the door configuration, we're
checking out telemetry and I got a quick word for Owen.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, in regard to this locking procedure
on S149 handle, the handle itself turns freely, however,
there is a large narrow knob which has a little wire tether
on it, and the idea is that once you get the experiment
corrective position you want to leave it. You pull the
narrow knob loose from the supporting silver colored bracket
and then you stick it in the end of the handle and the length
of the wire keeps it from rotating.
SPT Okay, think we understand.
PLT We got it inside, Bruce. Okay, 82BI
has Just opened and closed now.
CC Okay, Skylab this is Houston. We show the
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82A door neither open nor closed. The tlmer's timed out,
we're going to reset the power from here and co_,_-and it.
Over.
CDR Okay, that's a good idea. We got the B
doors closed we think.
PLT B2 is not. 82B2 is still opened.
CC We have a minute until LOS here at
Vanguard. Next station contact in ii minutes at the Canaries
at 19:41. And for the CDR_ the window is closed. Out.
CDR The window's closed_ you mean the door's
closed or the head down window or whatever it is?
CC Roger, the last.
SPT Okay, B2 Just closed. Yeah, everything' s
closed now. Okay, did you have any cycled experiments?
CC Okay, CDR this is Houston. We have not
yet reenabled power on 80 - - Okay, CDE, Houston. All the
doors are closed. We show your configuration satisfactory.
Ove r.
CDR Okay, I think maybe somebody needs to
take a look at these talkbacks that are supposed to show up
on these. We've had about 3 or 4 time holder-uppers here
while we tried to figure out why the talkbacks didn't do
like the checklist. For example, 82A and B, instead of going
barber pole are presently in the white configuration. So,
it's probably that we - it was working right except the
checklist suggested that it go some other direction and
never get there.
SPT Okay.
CC Roger. See you over Canary.
and 6 seconds Greenwich mean time. During this last pass
over the Vanguard tracking ship the crew indicated that they
were working up at the Sun end there - Owen Garrlott working
at the Sun end of the workshop near the SO82A and B instrument.
And at the very end of that pass the ground indicated that
the doors were closed on those solar telescopes. This is
Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal 9 minutes
and 25 seconds from now. The EVA is still in progress at
this point but nearing it's end. This is Skylab Control. ItVs
now 32 minutes 42 seconds after the hour.
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50 seonds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching acquisition
of signal at Canary Islands and Madrid. We'll stay live
for alr-to-ground through those stations.
PLT (Garble) up - reaches across. I remember
from the surface about - oh, 200 and - 200 to 240 degrees around
they llft up and then it's fastened down to surface of the other
60 degrees and it kind of curled up, just llke that old
Eisenglas used to do on those old stoves.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary/Madrid
for 14 minutes. For the CDR, we're going to be enabling contingency
- or forcing a contingency momentum sample so if you'd stay off
the DAS for a minute, please?
CDR Sure will.
SPT Hey, we're Just about to get the first
rap off, the SO56 passage - package experiment, Bruce. And
as far as binding is concerned on the door, for about the
last 12 to 18 inches of travel, the motion was slightly
Jerky on opening. And this was not associated with the
ramp. On one of the openings, I did notice a slight binding
coming off the ramp, but it was pretty slight. And the
others - the only unusual thing noted was a slight Jerkiness
in opening and closing on the last 12 to 18 inches.
CC We copied that, Owen. Thank you.
SPT And the other thing is, there's a- all
the paint on these nuts gets scraped off and floats around.
Now, I've not seen any of it floating into an instrument
aperture, but it - it's a little uncomfortable to see this
paint chip away and there's no way to take the bolt out
without scraping the paint off the edges.
CC Okay, we copy. I understand as you're
putting the tools on (garble) the paint's coming off.
PLT Got a - got a beautiful view toward the
dark horizon. We're - something going down all the dif-
ferent hues of blues on the clouds down there. It's just
a beautiful, beautiful view - beautiful sight.
CC Roger, and for the CDR, the DAS is his.
CDR Okay.
PLT We're lucky guys if you're living in the
land of opportunity where we can get to do this. Had - had
some comments about the command module, Bruce. Looking at
the scan on the command module between the quads. The quads
I have in mind are the one - what's the one right over the
hatch? Is that A? And B, those are the ones I can see.
The skin appears to - in places look like - I was mentioning
to AI, remember on those old-time stoves where you had Eisenglas
and then when it got real hot and old, why, some of
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the layers would peel off. The outermost layer is very

thin, in the command module, and it's got that appearance.
There's little - sort of - almost circular shapes, which
are completely broken loose from the skin and curling up.
They're about 4 inches in diameter, three or four inches
in diameter, and they're detached for about 200 degrees
of the circumference and then they're held down by the
other hundred or so degrees. And I guess I can see about
- oh, about a dozen of them between those two quads. It
doesn't look llke a hazardous situation, by any means, but
I just thought it'd be interesting to note, since we don't
get very many of these service modules back. I was particularly,
where the quad A to the left firing thruster - when it fires
toward the - that particular VHF antenna.
CC Okay, that's toward command module minus-Y
you' re saying?
PLT Yeah. Yeah, in the direction of the B-quad.
PLT Okay, well, B quad is on the left, and then
on your left elbow, right? The (Garble) to (garble)
PLT Yeah, well, it's on the - your side.
CC Okay. Okay, Jack, B quad is on the
plus-Y side, the PLT's side of the command module. Over.
PLT Okay, well this is on the mlnus-Y side.
CC Okay, so you've been describing the area
between the Alpha and the Delta quads to us and we'll make
corrections appropriately.
PLT Yes. That's correct. Yeah, I thought
I did.
PLT All right, I don't care.
SPT Yes, I've got one ramp off and I'm
trying to get it over here and get it pinned down under-
neath the tape.
PLT Don' t (garble) Do that.
SPT It's going to be awhile. I've got to get
you some tape. I've got two hands full is the problem.
SPT It's starting to get dark, Bruce, and
we're seeing some stars out there - -
CDR Have you got our EVA lights commanded on
this time, Houston?
CC We haven't touched them, AI.
CDR Well, I remember last time, you know, we
didn't have them at the Sun end and then y'all did some-
thing on the ground and they started working at the Sun end.
We always had them up here at the FAS area, center work
station.
PLT Okay, there goes some of those little
chips.
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CDR (Garble)
SC (Garble)
CC We have a question, AI. They ought to all
be on. And for a TV camera thermal management, we'd like
you to do the following: on panel 202 in the airlock module,
television power circuit breaker, alrlock module, to OPEN,
and then allow the TV camera to cool down for 15 minutes,
and after it's cool, and when you desire, reclose that circuit
breaker on 202. This lets you inside to turn the camera
on and off and the crew outside need not be bothered with
it and you still have about 1.9 minutes left on the VTR. It's
your option. Over.
MS Okay.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CDR (Garble) Okay, I Just kicked off the -
one for the AM.
CC Okay.
PLT (Laughter) How're you doing there, O?
Need a couple of (garble) ?
SPT One, two, three, four, and a nut.
PLT Yep.
SPT All right. (Garble) the nut taped down,
but the nut around here in under the tape.
PLT I know it. They' re awful hard to manage.
PLT With these clumsy gloves on.
PLT Am I going the right direction, Owen?
SPT Okay, you can close the S056 door if you
want to.
CDR (Garble)
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SPT Okay. Close the S056 door, if you

want to.
CDR It closed just the way it did before.
Slight amount of jerkiness in the last 12 to 18 inches.
CC Understand. Previously you mentioned
that there was the last 12 to 18 inches when it was opening.
Over.
SPT That's true. Both opening and closing
on the last 12 to 18 inches near the ramp. In the closed
position there was a little bit of Jerkiness. But it's
essentially the same. Obviously there's no hangup on the
ramp, because the ramp is not there.
CC Okay. We copy. And I guess, in a
nutshell, you'd say that moving the ramp does not appear to
have made any difference in the door operation.
SPT Except, I did notice. On one of the
other openings there was a slight binding on the ramp as it
started open. And so, there was a possibility of some extra
friction there. And I noticed it on one opening that will
of course, not be present.
CC Roger.
SPT Incidentally. The engineers probably
remember that there are a number of little shims under
neath these ramps. And the shims under S056 are now in
their own independent trajectories.
CC Okay. We'll watch for them when they
come over this evening.
SPT Okay.
SPT What ramp would you like to have removed
next, AI?
SPT All right.
SPT Very smoothly.
SPT Full open.
SPT Okay. It is now fully closed and it
also moves back and forth with a slight amount of jerkyness.
I'm not sure that this is unusual. It might very well be
the way they were designed to run.
SPT Okay. I'm going to need it rotated
more toward me, also. If you'll continue rotating more
in the direction that it was coming in.
SPT Quite a bit more.
SPT It's coming.
SPT How much room have you toE?
SPT It's going to be a long reach.
I may have to come out of my foot restraints to get over
there. Yep -- No, I can reach it. I can - Okay. I can
reach it.
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PLT Sun's about to go down, Bruce.

CC This is Houston. Did you call?
PLT I was just saying the sun's about to go
down. Owen's out there taking the ramps off and some good
success. He's got one and got one to go. I got the film replaced.
And the Skylab moves along swiftly and (garble), smoothly,
like a continuing travel log. Moves relentlessly over the
ground.
SPT I think Jack needs a new writer.
PLT Yeah. I wish there was some way to
capture in words or photos, which you can really see and feel
up here. But I don't know if there's anyway at all.
CC Skylab. This is Houston, for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We're coming up on nightfall
here. And the momentum is still off nominal. We expect
you may well get some C&G sats and few TACS thrusters firing.
Over.
CDR Okay. Anything I can do to assist?
CC Negative. Just hang on.
CDR Okay.
PLT Turn on my oxygen flow.
SPT (Garble) momentum, huh?
CDR You were right. Just got one.
CC Okay. We've got about a minute and
a half to LOS here. Next station contact in 36 minutes
through Honeysuckle at 20:30. And we'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder, Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay. What happened? Did the X axis
just get out of plane here as unknown - a unknown quantity
here in the drifting flight, or what?
CC S rand by.
CDR (Garble) thrusting from our EVA suits.
Yes, I'm still puzzled about this EVA suit business, because
%_e didn't have that problem last time. And it's puzzling me.
PLT That pretty random, too.
SPT There goes a thruster firing. Wow'
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Okay.
CC We'd llke you to monitor the X axis
attitude error. And if it starts approaching 20 degrees go
to at hold TACs. Over.
CDR Okay. I understand that one.
CC We show you at ii degrees now and it
wouldn't surprise us if you have to go to at hold TACs in
the near future. Over.
CDR Okay. I'm indicating 12 degrees at the
moment. And I'll go at hold TACs if that occurs. I thoughZ
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maybe you'd have a field for us from this CMG - I mean the
noun 20s in the CMC.
CC Okay, and AI. We want you to go to go to -
Before you get to 20, if you hit 20 without being there,
it'll give you a reset.
CDR Okay. I'ii watch it. It's got six
to go and I'ii get it about two or three before hand.
CC Correct that. It would go to TACs only
if you get out to 20 degrees.
SPT Okay. Understand. You know it's too
bad we didn't build this with just a little control stick
we bllp this thing and put it right back where we wanted it.
CC Amen. And we show 16 degrees now.
CDR It's moving up pretty fast (static).
CC Do it now, AI. Go to at hold TACs now.
8 seconds Greenwich mean time. That pass through Canary
Islands and Madrid shows the EVA is still in progress, very
near its end, probably in the last 20 to 30 minutes of the
EVA now. Owen Garriott was working at the Sun end of the
solar telescope continuing his work there. Apparently, he
has now completed his change out of film. And he is now
working on the second of two launch lock ramps. These are
devices used to restrain the doors that protect solar instru-
ments. The devices are used during launch, to keep those
doors from moving. But they were considered to have possibly
be causing some interference with the smooth opening and
closing of the doors. So for that reason, two of the launch
locks. One was taken off during the last EVA. SO55 door
launch ramp lock was taken off in the last EVA. During this
EVA, two of them scheduled SO56, and the SO82 launch locks
were to have been taken off. That SO56 door launch lock
was taken off. Owen Garriott indicated that he felt that
although it did appear to cause some binding, even without
the ramp locks, on the SO56 door, there continues to be
some jerkiness in the last 12 to 18 inches of the operation
of that door. Right at the end of the pass, the ground
instructed AI Bean to prepare for a TACs attitude maneuver.
They did get two TACs, thruster attitude control systems
firing. Those are small gas Jets that are used to keep
the attitude of the spacecraft properly alined. They did
get two firings right at the end of that pass and he was
instructed to prepare for continuation of that maneuver.
They believe that the maneuver's necessary because of the
EVA movement taking place on the crew - part of the crew
or possible venting. A slight X attitude change that will
be corrected by thruster attitude control systems firing.
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The gyroscopes appear to be working very very well. No

complaints at all here from the ground. All indications
are that that six pack that was installed today, is working
perfectly. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition
of signal with the crew will not be for another 32 minutes.
At that time we would expect that the EVA should be pretty
much completed. And the may well be back inside. EVA
began today with a sort of depressurizatlon at 11:15 and
the hatch opening at 11:24 a.m. central daylight time.
That's about an hour and 15 minutes later than it was
expected to begin. And they are running pretty much on
schedule after that late opening. This is Skylab Control
it's now 59 minutes and 49 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approaching ac-
quisition of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station.
We have the line up live for air-to-ground through Honey-
suckle. We should hear at this Honeysuckle tracking station
whether or not the crew has completed that EVA. They should
be very near the end of it if they have not yet completed it.
A reminder that there will be a medical criteria briefing
with Dr. Charles Berry, approximately i hour after the com-
pletion of the EVA. This is Skylab Control. The line is
up for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
SPT Take her back a little, Jack.
PLT Okay.
SPT I think you can probably take her all the
way back this time.
PLT Yeah. Unless you want to ride.
SPT I do, but somehow or other I couldn't get
on i t then.
for 7 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
PLT Well, we got the film exchanged, Bruce, and
now we just fired 149 back out there. Owen got the ramps
off the doors and - and he's reinstalling the S149 and it
looks llke we're going to have to be forced to go in, which -
we don't want to do too much.
CC Roger, we copy. Stand by.
PLT Are you sure you don't have something else
we can do out here?
CC Negative. Stand by, please.
CC And for the Commander, we'd like to reselect
solar inertial attitude now. Over.
PLT I'ii do that,
SPT All right. I've got it tethered.
PLT Yeah, but you - -
CDR My guess is - it isn't the venting up here,
it's that we really didn't now where the X-axls was or our
rotation of X around Z awhile ago. And it was probably
sticking out of the orbit plane or somewhere. It just built
up too fast.
CC AI, we're pretty sure it's the venting and
then the other thing is this momentum management, seeing that
we have with respect to the X-axis, giving up momentum to
Y and Z when you're going to DUMP. Over.
CDR Yeah, that's what I was thinking of perhaps
it didn't exactly know where the X was relative to the orbit
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plane. I haven't given you a star tracker update. I guess

you're using the command module attitudes though, somehow.
Aren't you?
CC No, we're not using the command module
attitudes but it did know where it was and it knows where
it is now and we're - we're really happy with the way the
attitude is being tracked and the gyros are working. Over.
CDR Okeydokey.
CC However, we did use command module attitude
to confirm it and it's in good shape.
SC (Garble)
CC (Garble)
CDR Owen's busily connecting the 149 to the
edge of the solar Sun - sunshade at the moment and so I
guess they'll extend the pass and come back in and stow
everything and get in (garble).
CC Okay, AI. And it's - we'll be about another
I0 minutes before you're all settled down in solar inertial
at the tail-end of this maneuver. When you are settled
down, we'd like you to go ahead and do a nominal H-cage,
and we'll get this momentum problem under control. Over.
CDR Okay, we were kind of thinking that might
be the plan. Could you give me the two commands that you
would like - on the one - the one command you would like?
CC Roger, stand by.
SPT I'd like to bear in mind that there's no
other lock on this handle other than just slipping it 180
degrees.
PLT That's affirm. Okay.
CC (Garble)
SPT Jerk it back a little, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT I guess you can probably take her all the
way back this time.
SPT Yeah. Unless you want to ride.
PLT I do, but somehow or other I didn't get (garble).
CC Skylab, this is Houston.
CC Okay, Owen, and for the CDR, the DAS code
is 52023. Over.
CDR Okay. (Garble) looking up (garble).
SPT Okay, and which way would you llke it
cranked?
PLT Well, probably counter-clockwlse.
CDR (Garble)
SPT Okay, here we go. Counter-clockwise.
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SPT High (garble) is (garble)

CDR Okay, Bruce. Is there any particular point
along this orbit you want the nominal momentum change? I
know it really doesn't make, generally make any difference,
but I didn't know what you were thinking.
CC (Garble)
SPT Bring her back a little, Jack.
PLT Okay.
SPT I guess you can probably take her all the
way back this time.
PLT Yeah. Unless you want to ride.
SPT I do, but somehow or other I didn't get
it written in.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
MS (Garble)
CDR Well, we got the film exchanged, Bruce,
and now we Just fired 149 back (Garble) - -
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Roger, we'd like to do that nominal H-cage
at 20:50 Zulu, that's 20:50 Zulu. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And we have about 45 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 43 minutes at the Canary Islands at 21 - -
PLT I guess you can take her all the way back
this time.
SPT Yeah.
PLT Unless you want to ride.
SPT I do, but somehow or other I couldn't get
it written in.
CC Skylsb, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
CDR Okay, Bruce.
PLT Well, we got the film exchanged, Bruce,
and now we just fired 149 back out there. Owen got the
ramps off the doors and - and we - Just reinstalling the
S149 and it looks llke we're going to have to be forced to
go in, which we don't want to do too much.
CC Roger, we copy. Stand by.
PLT Sure you don't have something else we can
do out here?
CC Negative. Stand by, please.
CC And, for the Commander, we'd llke to re-
select solar inertial attitude now. Over.
PLT I'ii do that,
SPT It's all right. I've got it tethered.
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PLT Yeah, but you (garble)

CDR My guess is it isn't the venting up here,
it's that we really didn't know where the X-axls was or
our rotation of X around Z awhile ago. It was probably
sticking out of the orbit plane or somewhere. It's Just
built up too fast.
CC AI, we're pretty sure it's the venting and
then the other thing is this momentum management, seeing
that we have with respect to the X-axis giving up momentum
to Y and Z when you go into DUMP. Over.
CDR Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. That
perhaps it didn't exactly know where - where the X was re-
lative to the orbit plane. I haven't given you a star tracker
update. I guess you're using the command module attitudes
though, somehow, aren't you?
CC No, we're not using the command module
attitudes, but it did know where it was, and it knows where
it is now, and we're real happy with the way the attitude
is being tracked and the gyros are working. Over.
CDR Okeydokey.
CC However, we did use command module attitude
to confirm it and it's in good shape.
CDR Owen's busily cranking the 149 to the edge
of the solar sunshade at the moment, and, so I guess he'll
extend the panels and we'll come back in, stow everything,
and get in.
CC Okay, AI. And it will be about another
i0 minutes before you're all settled down in solar inertial
at the tail-end of this maneuver. When you are settled
down, we'd like you to go ahead and do a nominal H-cage and
we'll get this momentum problem under control. Over.
CDR Okay, we were kind of thinking that might
be the plan. Could you give me the two commands that you
would like - or the one - excuse me, the one command you
would llke?
CC Roger. Stand by.
SPT I'd like to verify that there's no other
lock on this handle, other than just flipping it 180 degrees.
PLT That's affirm. Okay.
CDR That's a (garble)
CC I understand that that's the handle where
it clamps on to the llp of the ATM?
SPT That's correct.
CC That's correct.
CC And you see - -
SPT Okay.
CC - - narrow knob that I was tellin E you about
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for the deployment?

SPT I know which one you mean, Bruce, and I'Ii
put that on after I have cranked the panels open.
CC Okay, Owen. And for the CDR, the DAS code
is 52023. Over.
CDR Okay. Concur. Just looked it up also.
PLT Okay, and which way would you like it
cranked, AI? Probably counter-clockwise.
CDR (Garble)
PLT Okay, here we go.
CDR Counter-clockwlse.
SC (Garble)
PLT My tether has been removed now.
PLT Okay, Bruce, is there any particular point
along this orbit you want the nominal momentum cage? I
know it really doesn't make - generally make any difference
but I didn't know what you were thinking.
PLT Coming up on something here, AI, must be
New Zealand.
CDR Yeah, it is.
SPT Hey, we're going to split right between the
two islands. Looking off to the right. Oh yeah - -
MS (Garble)
PLT Yep. There's South Island and North Island.
MS (garble)
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Roger. We'd llke to do that nominal H-cage
at 20:50 Zulu. That's 20:50 Zulu. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And we have about 45 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 43 minutes at the Canary Islands at 21:21.
Ove r.
PLT Okay, and are you happy with the way it's
maneuvering back to Sl?
CC Yes, we are.
CDR Okay.
PLT I almost said our sample panels are coming
uncovered from shade where - before they were shaded - say
about 10 minutes ago.
CC I understand those are the solar sall sample
panels_
PLT Right.
PLT You can tell what attitude you ought to be in
by just looking at the dark - the darker brown lines and
shadows on the spacecraft because everything that shaded is
kind of white and everything else is kind of tanned.
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SC (Laughter)
CC You mean even on the - the struts on the
trunnion - on the deployment assembley and stuff llke that?
PLT Well, on the side of the MDA and it's back
to doing a little EVA light and it's right by the hatch - -
CC Yes.
PLT - - with a little birdcage over it. That
(garble) birdcage - - (Garble)
45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We had some difficulty
during that pass with our alr-to-ground line coming out
Air-to-ground was being received here in Mission Control
as you could see from that tape. That was a recording of
the pass over Honeysuckle. At the very beginning of that
pass, the - Jack Lousma indicated that the film exchange
had been completed, the ramps were off of both the ATM
instruments - that's SO56, and S082A, and at that point
Owen Garriott was re-installing the S149 that had to be
removed to allow open access to the ATM instruments. The
S149 was nearly re-installed at the end of that pass. We
expect our next acquisition of signal at this point, still
35-1/2 minutes away. We do expect that EVA will be com-
pleted well before the 35 minutes are up and there are
some indications it may be over, even now. That nominal
H-cage is a momentum procedure used to instruct the control
moment gyros to go back to normal operation. The H, of
course being a symbol for momentum. That means that at that
pont there should be no additional venting and there will
- the momentum procedure will not take care of moving of the
- during the EVA. That was to begin at 20:50 Zulu, approxi-
mately 5 minutes from now, and that would normally follow
the EVA rather than being done during it. So they do
expect that the next acquisition of signal, 34 minutes from
now, will show that EVA completed and the crew back inside
finishing up the post-EVA procedures. Everything seems to
be working very well. At the beginning of the pass, Jack
Lousma said - asked the ground if they were sure if they
didn't have something else the crew could do outside. He
said he wasn't at all in a hurry to get back in, that things
were so beautiful he really didn't want to go back inside.
But the ground informed him that they would like him back
inside so they can go back to solar inertial and continue
the mission. The maneuver to solar inertial was successful.
A1 Bean asked whether or not it seemed to be working
properly, he was concerned that perhaps there was a - some-
thing wrong with the attitude control system since it did
not return as he had expected it to. But the ground informed
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him that was in fact, because of the momentum management

procedures that have been introduced earlier today, and be-
cause of the movement of the crew outside and the venting
involved in the EVA. The rate gyros are working excellently.
All 9 of them seem to be preforming well, the six new ones
and the three from the original nine all working very
well at this point and momentum management now well under
control. They have gone back to a normal momentum pattern
that nominal H-cage described in the alr-to-ground. All
procedures seem to be completed at this point. The EVA did
last a little bit longer than expected. At this time, 4 hours
and 23 minutes, but it appears that it's just about over at
this point so that means that it only ran about 15 mlnute8
longer than expected. It did begin late this morning at
approximately 11:24, when the hatch was open for the EVA.
This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal 33
minutes from now. There will be a change-of-shift briefing
approxlmately at 5:00 o'clock. Immediately following that
we'll have a medical criteria briefing with Dr. Charles Berry.
This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 48 minutes and 12 seconds
Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now just a minute
from acquisition of signal at Canary Islands and Madrid.
This pass should last approximately 9 minutes. Correction,
that should last approximately 14 minutes, and we are llve
for air- to-ground,
CC Skylab Control, we have cabin repressurlzed.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for about 6-1/2 minutes - 6 minutes. Over.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Canary
and Madrid for 12 minutes. We're rewinding the VTR at
the present time. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC And we show your momentum state to be good.
PLT Very good. And we're down in the work-
shop now getting out of our suits and so forth.
CC Okay, sort of figured you were from the
fact that pressurized PCU power off. We won't bug you then,
Just go ahead.
CDR Owen, we ended up with 4 hours 30 minutes,
40 seconds EVA time. And what was it you mentioned, Bruce?
CC Roger. I only said we're rewinding the
video tape recorder preparatory to starting the dump at a
piece at a time. So I guess it belongs to us now until we
give it back to you. Over.
CDR Okay, I thought you had some other switch
that you wanted moved.
CC I didn't mention it. However, I do
have a - a little checkoff llst of reconflguratlon of some
of the circuit breakers and switches that we threw the
power down for you. When somebody's up in the alrlock
module they can give me a call. Over.
CDR Okay.
CDR Airlock on the MTS panel seems to be
eratic now, jumps all around. And one of the plastic lines
in my LCG about 6 inches from the port that fits into the
suit is leaking.
CC Okay, we copy that, AI. That was the
last wearing on that LCG. We'll have a fresh one for the
next EVA.
CDR Okay, good. Well, then, I can Jettison
this thing, I guess. I guess that's what we do.
CC Coming to you now through Madrid. Just
had a handover from Canary. Out.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to

LOS at Madrid. Next station contact in 26 minutes through
Carnarvon at 22:00 Zulu. For your information, we're retaining
two pumps running on the airlock module secondary coolant
loops. It's still going through a transient phase of
readjustment to steady state. We'll let you know when we
decide to take the second one off. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
26 minutes and 44 seconds from now, will be at Carnarvon.
During this last pass, the crew did indicate that they had
completed their EVA. They were back inside and getting out
of their suits at the beginning of the Canary Island pass.
Total time for that EVA, 4 hours 30 minutes and 40 seconds
just a little over 4-1/2 hours. One of the crew memebers
indicating, I believe, it was Jack Lousma, indicating that
there was very slight leak in one of the liquid cool garments
and that garment will be thrown away. Very slight leak, not
causing any difficulty, but was reported to the ground the
liquid cool garment that's used for cooling the astronauts
while they're in their suits. That will be discarded follow-
ing this EVA. Indication of TACs usage, that's thrusters
attitude control system gas used on this mission, relatively
high, probably due to the momentume activity and to the
installation to this rate gyro package during the first
EVA of this mission, 6-1/2 hours, there was no TACs usage,
no thruster attitude control system gas was required at all
during that 6-1/2 hour EVA. We did use a fairly substantial
amount, although, by no means any unexceptahle amount. At
the very end of the pass, spacecraft communicator did
indicate that both pumps on the airlock module coolant loop -
secondary coolant loop are being kept on. Those two pumps
are kept on during the EVA, normally following the EVA they
would be shut down, - one of the two would be shut down.
At the present time, we have two of the three pumps on the
secondary coolant loop operating. The reason for that, the
temperature control valve - temperature control valve B,
which is now reading about 42 degrees, this is a device
used to modulate the amount of cold water coming out of the -
coolant, coolanol, coming out of the radiators. That normally
modulates that temperature to 47 degrees, is now modulating
it at 42 degrees. And that's a little bit colder than we
would expect from the temperature control valve. We did
have some difficulty with that temperature control valve
on an EVA during the first Skylab flight. At that time,
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it was sticking in a low temperature. That's not believed

to be the problem at this point. It is a possibility, but
at this time, it's believed that this may be just cool
temperatures due to the relatively long EVA. Temperature
reading, again, is about 5 degrees cooler for temperature
model - modulation than would normally be the operating
mode. They will keep those two pumps operating perhaps
for another 24 hours to see what affect that has on that
temperature control valve and to see whether or not the tempera-
ture in that line comes up. There will be a change-of-shift
briefing beginning in approximately 22 minutes with the
off-going Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson. And he'll be
able to answer questions on the secondary coolant loop, if
there are questions about that, or other problems TACs usage,
and so forth during the 4-1/2 hour EVA. Our next acquisition
of signal will be about 24 minutes from now. By that time,
we should have the press conference underway. That change-
of-shift briefing scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. central
daylight time in the building i briefing room This is
Skylab Control at 37 minutes and 27 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI145/I
Time: 17:17 CDT, 28/22:17 GMT
8/24/73

19 seconds Greenwich mean time. At this time we've run out
of range of the Honeysuckle tracking station and we do have
a recording from both Carnarvon and Honeysuckle which we'll
play for you at this time. This is the recording.
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for the next 14 minutes.
PLT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello.
PLT (garble) are you Dick? I guess that's
better, huh?
CC Roger, I hear you loud and clear now.
Go ahead.
PLT We're Just sitting here eating late
lunch.
CC Okay, we noticed that the CMC data we have
no CMC data and we wanted to verify that you'd gotten through
and shut the - and turned off the command module computer.
PLT Yes, sir, that's correct.
CC Very good. And is everybody eating lunch
now or - sometime during this pass I have some switch
configurations and one minor checklist change that I - in
the EVA checklist that I'd llke to read up to you. The
switches - the switches are up in the airlock module and
they're not time critical. So if you'd llke to stay down
in the wardroom, that's fine with us.
PLT Yeah, we'll stay here and eat, but you
can read them off if you want.
CC Tell you what, Jack, there's about
6 or 8 of them so why don't you guys just go ahead and eat
and I'ii catch you later when you're not eating. No problem.
PLT Well, Al's on his way up there, he'll
get it. Stand by.
CC Okay.
CDR Say the words, Dick.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Before I start,
AI, if you'll give us the DAS we're going to do an outer
gimbal backup commanding.
CDR Good idea. You got it.
CC Okay, here's the configurations that
you may have already gone through, but we'd like to remind
you of. On panel 202 circuit breakers of the caution and
warning 2, 6 circuit breakers closed. Also, the TV power
to AM circuit breaker closed. And verify - -
CDR Can I shut this second one now?
CC Roger, TV power AM circuit breaker closed.
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CDR Okay, that's closed.

CC Okay, and I think this is a verify, but
EVA lights i and 2 circuit breakers closed.
CDR Okay. (garble)
CC Roger. Then on panel 203, mol sieve
Bravo fan to secondary.
CDR Are you don't want primary?
CC Stand by.
CC AI, well we're talking about that one
on panel 207 there's 7 sensors that we can reenable eemergency
sensor, there's two of those; emergency power, two of those;
and caution and warning, three of those, so can enable all
seven of those.
CDR Okay, that's done.
CC And you were right, AI. The mol sieve B
fan, we'd prefer in PRIMARY.
CDR Okay, mol sieve B in primary right now.
Coming up to C that (garble).
CC Okay.
CDR Is that it?
CC Well, a couple of other notes that is -
while I'm at it, there were some glycol wipes that you
sopped up some glycol with and bagged, and we want to make
sure they end up getting into the trash airlock this evening.
We wanted to ask the PLT - late yesterday there was a SWS
Systems Checklist change ii which was housekeeping 70 Yankee
that was the CBRM battery capacity verification. We want
to make sure that that message is still onboard and available
to you because we're going to check another battery tomorrow
or the next day. Over.
PLT That's affirm. That added change number
ii to the SWS checklist. And by the way, we only got 1 of
them. So, if you could send another one up we'd update
our other checklist as well.
CC Roger, Jack. And one other thing. I've
got a change to the EVA checklist that's on page 3-1 -
correction 3.]-8, and that's the end of my llst.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'm on 3.1-8.
CC Okay, there're two changes and it's in
the right hand column under X ray spec where it says
image disector switch to enable. Change the enable to off,
parenthesis verify. And the only other change is on the
photo multply enable switch where it says enable. Make
that say off parenthesis verify. And the reason is, Jack,
is the - we got pressure still - pressure increases in the
ATM canister and we want to allow them to decrease before
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- to exceptable levels before we turn this equipment back

on. And this is the last time you'll be using this section
of the checklist, so you can feel free to just mark it right
up.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. I got both of
those on the image disector photo multiplier enable. Both
off verify.
CC Roger, and that's the end of my list that
I have right now. We still have about 7 minutes left here
at Honeysuckle, and I'm standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. No response required.
We're uplinking a couple of the detailed flight plans and also,
a couple of copies of tomorrows' flight plan here at Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle. They'll be in the teleprinter. And one
reminder that you may have already gotten but it's not on
the checklist anywhere, and that is that is Just be sure and
restow the tools and aluminum tapes that you got out for the
EVA and head up in the air like module when you get a chance
this evening. I'm standing by.
PLT We'll be sure to do thatp Dick.
CC Okay.
LOS. We're going to see you at Merritt Island at 22:48.
Skylab, Houston we're going LOS at Honeysuckle. We'll see
you at Mila at 22:48.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Roger, see you there.
and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now completed
the recording of the Honeysuckle and Carnarvon pass and that
is all that was said during that pass. One note of interest,
the remark from spacecraft communicator, Richard Truly to
the crew that glycol wipes should be disposed of in the
trash airlock. The glycol wipes are some - are pieces of
material that were used to wipe up glycol that had spilled
out of the command module primary coolant loop, and those
were noticed yesterday by A1 Bean. Commander Bean put them
in a waste matter bag and sealed them, but they were stowed
in the command module during the evening last night. And
again today they reviewed that procedure and decided that
for safety reasons it would be better to dump those into
the trash airlock. Glycol when it expands does have a
tendency to be flammable. And although they felt there
was very llttle hazard involved, they did think that the
safest procedure would be to dump the glycol wipes and their
plastic wastematter bag into the trash airlock, and so that
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will be done this evening. This is Skylab Control. Our

next acquisition of signal 22 minutes from now. It's now
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Time: 17:48 CDT, 28/22:48 GMT
8/24/73
PAO Skylah Control. We have air-to-ground

Merrltt Island for about the next i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. This comment is for
the PLT. We're not sure exactly, Jack, where you are in
your checklist, but one change that we wanted to make was
on page 3.1-6. We do not want to make a change to this
checkllst, but for this time only, when you get to India 02 N2
system reconfiguratlon, we want the N2 solenoid valve select
left off, rather than primary as it's written there.
PLT Okay. (Garble), thank you.
CC Roger , Jack.
SPT Hello, Dick, are you with us?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Just takln E a look at the SO54 film
cannisters, and instead of putting it on Channel A, (static).
There are 1200 feet exposed and the aluminum filter on the
front of the - underneath the little window it looks in very good
condition.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much.
PLT Hey, Dick. I have a note, also, to
wait until the dew point to the heat exchange temps get up
to 46 degrees, it's reading 39 now. And seems like, as I remember,
last time we disregarded that, but took out the circulation
fans anyway. What do you want me to do this time7
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. Accordin E to our TM
indication, which we think is correct, and that yours may
be reading a little low, we think we ought to Eo ahead and
turn the heat exchanger fans on.
PLT Yeah. I think that was what the problem
was last time. We're not getting a true reading onhoard.
What are you reading, anyway?
CC Stand by, I'ii get you a number.
CC PLT, Houston. We are reading 46 degrees
now.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. While I've got you
here at Bermuda, you might be interested to know that the
channel 77 counter failure alarm that we saw on TI_ earlier
today_ and talked to you about, we think was caused by
powering up the optics. This occurred a couple of times
occassionally, at least, in ground testing. And no action
is required other than clearin@ by loading channel 77. And
the affect of not loading that only 4mpacts the ground
ground capability to see a subsequent problem. So, in
essence we do not think we have any kind of a problem on that
and Just thought we'd let you know.
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CDR Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.
CDR Appreciate it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Madrid in about 4 minutes.
And I'ii call you there.
SPT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control 22 hours 59 minutes
and 56 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
spacecraft has gone out of range of the Bermuda tracking
station, after a pass through Merrltt Island and Bermuda.
At that Merritt Island station, there was a dump of about
6 minutes of television. That television recorded earlier
today during the beginning of the EVA. At the present time
we're about 2-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signal.
During this last pass, ground controllers noted that the
temperature control valve B, stiil apparently, is running
a little bit low at an hour, - about 45 minutes ago, it
indicated that it moved up a degree from 42 degrees to
43 degrees. Now it's reading back about 42-1/2 degrees.
They do have both pumps running on the secondary alrlock
module coolant loop. And they do expect that may solve
itself during the next 24 hours. They have, however, in
the pass had problems with the loop, temperature control
valve B sticking. But right now, they're not certain
whether that's a temporary problem or one that they may
have to worry more later. This is Skylab Control. Our
lines are up for alr-to-ground, a minute and a half from
now through the Madrid tracking station, to last approximately
8-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 18:01 CDT, 28/23:01 GMT
8/24/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid

for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still have you at
Madrid for about the next 5 minutes. I'm not sure how
you're doing on the timeline. If you are behind and need
to give up either one of the ATM passes this evening, our
d'ruthers would be that we give up the one that's on this
next dayllght cycle that's starting around 23:38, I believe.
rather than the later one tonight.
SPT Okay, Dick. We' II probably try to
catch them both, but we'll keep that in mind.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you.
PLT Dick, here's something the EVA troops
wanted to know. The PCU that we used inside the MDA for
EV-3 was serlal number 015. Number 15.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute
from LOS. See you at Carnarvon at 23:36.
SPT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control 23 hours ii minutes and
50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at the Madrid tracking station. The next acquisition
24 minutes and 8 seconds from now at Carnarvon, Australia.
During this last pass, mission control environmental
insturmentatlon and llfe support systems officer is continuing
to monitor that temperature control valve, which does appear
to be coming up. The reading at the end of thatpass,
was 48.3 degrees. That's only about 3-1/2 degress below
its normal operating temperature. There was a little bit
of concern at the time at the conclusion of the EVA when
the temperature control valve was reading 42 degrees, because
in previous EVA on the first mission, it did stick in a
lower temperature than was desired at that time. It stuck
at approximately 37 degrees and at times after that did
stick. It does appear, now that that's movin@ back up into
an acceptable range now reading 43.3 degrees. And we would
expect to see that continue to move up. Secondary coolant
loop is still operating with both EVA pumps on. One of those
pumps will be shut down as soon as that temperature comes
back to a normal level. This is Skylab Control. We're
23 minutes and 7 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Carnarvon. It's now 13 minutes and 3 seconds after the
hour.
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Time: 18:35 CDT, 28/23:35 GHT
8/24/73

18 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're
about 45 seconds from an acquisition of signal at our
Ausalian tracking station in Carnarvon. We have the
line up for live air-to-ground through Carnarvon. Following
the Carnarvon pass there will be also a pass through Honeysuckle
with a brief interruption between them lasting approximately
15 minutes. This is Skylab Control. The line is up for
air- to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
for the next i0 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. If you'll stay off the
DAS we're going to uplink a command to inhibit the TACs in
(garble) .
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Owen, we see you
working on the ATM, and when you get settled down after
entering this daylight cycle I've got a couple of notes on
the Sun for you. And for Jack or AI if either one of them
can, we'd like to return the reg adjust BUS i and 2 pots
to the pre-EVA settings. And this requires the reg adjust
bus I about 20 degrees counterclockwise, and reg adjust
bus 2 about 30 degrees counterclockwise.
SPT Okay, what's your update, Dick?
CC Roger, Owen. I have two of them. One
is fairly transitory, the other one could last for a long
time. The first one is starting at 22:20 and the importance
2 continuing birth was reported by Manilla. And the end
time for that was 22:30. And another one that I'm sure you'll
be interested in is active region 04 which is located at
180 at about 0.8, appears to be the first confirm region
of the new solar cycle. Dr. Helen Datson Prince says she
regards the region as being the authentic part of the new
II year cycle. And (garble) magnetegram show the polarities to
be by-polar but reversed from the normal order for southern
hemisphere regions. So far, no spots are visible, and the
region appears stable. Over.
SPT Okay, I think I see it down there Just
south of the filiments that I'm looking at right now. And
that is an interesting report. Also, it looks to me like
we had some very bright plages or a small subflare over
toward the (garble) underway at the present time. I (garble)
of the operating plan for anyone that's got a quick look
at H-alpha might see what they think of the very small bright
regionover toward the - excuse me, I meant west limb, at the
present time. And I still have the photo multiplier and the image
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detector enabled off. If the pressure look better to you now

I can get the X-ray information turned on again.
CC Okay, we'll check on that, Owen. And
also we'd llke SO55 high voltage off grating zero.
SPT Say again what you wanted, Dick.
CC Roger. We think we have a bad grating
position and on S055 request high voltage off and grating
zero. And then - -
SPT Okay, I was showing grating zero. 1'11
do another grating auto scan and recycle them back again to
make sure that it is properly set it at gratln E zero.
CC Roger, we concur.
CC And SPT, Houston. On S054 wetre go to
turn the high voltage back on.
SPT Okay. And from the looks of the zero
water plug I probably wasnt grating zero the way my indicator
showed on S055. But of course, I'ii complete the grating auto
(garble) now. And 1'11 be turning the image detector enable on,
and the photo multiplier enable..
CC Roger, Owen, that's right.
SPT And I wonder if we're ready to take the
gray tape off the H-alpha for a minute equal to 1 now so we
can adjust the H-alpha frame rate as aeeordlng to the JOP sheet?
CC Roger, Owen, we concur. The tape can come
off.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
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CDR Jack's got a little of his ATM film up

in the command module and the frame remaining counters are
looking healthy these days p Dick.
CC I bet that looks good to you doesn't it?
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Don' t think I
ever got a roger on the reg adjust that we requested. And I
just want to make sure you got that request from us.
PLT Say again on the reg adjust, please,
Dick?
CC Roger. We'd like to return to the
pre EVA settings which requires a reg adjust bus i, 20 degrees
counter clockwise and bus 2, 30 degrees counter clockwise.
SPT It's in work, Dick.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR It' s complete.
CC Say again.
CDR Reg adjust complete.
CC Thank you.
CC And_ CDR, Houston. You mentioned
while ago throwing away the LCG, that had the leak in it.
We'd appreciate it if you would not throw that away at
least until a little later in the evening. We have a
couple of evening questions that are being developed to ask
you about that. And be advised we are - I am building up
good stack of questions to ask you guys later on this after -
evening.
CDR We'll be looking forward to it and
suspected you might be.
CC Roger.
from LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out about
1 minute and I_ii call you at Honeysuckle. We are going
to dump the data recorder at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for the next 3-1/2 minutes. And for Owen, we think the
problem on the S055 grating was the fact that when we cycled
the power swltch_ for the EVA_ today, our TH got out of
sync with the instrument. So we don't think there was a
grating problem And sorry about that. Also_ I told you
we'd be dumping the data tape recorder here at Honeysuckle,
that was incorrect. We're going to dump it at Texas.
CC Skylah_ Houston. We're 30 seconds
to LOS. We'll see you at Texas at 00:20.
PAO $kylab Control 23 hours 52 minutes
and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of
range at the Honeysuckle tracking antenna. Our next
acquisition of signal 27 minutes and 25 seconds from now.
We'll be at Texas. Skylab Control at 52 minutes and 31 seconds
after the hour.
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acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking station. This
pass through Texas, Merritt Island, and Bermuda. Acquisition
of signal should last approximately 17 minutes. This is
Skylab Control 30 seconds now from acquisition. The air-to-
ground is up llve.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for about the next 15-1/2 minutes. And if I could get
somebody to talk to me, here, I've got some evening questions
The next stateside pass is devoted to the evening status
report. I was thinking if CDR or one of the other guys has
the time to answer some of these questlons, maybe we can start
getting them out of the way.
CDR Okay. Let me ask you one. (Garble)
somebody's thinking of, I'm sure they've though of it,
but I'd just llke to know the answer. I noticed that these
six rate gyros are all protected by one single circuit
breaker, which is number 2. Have you given any thought
to having Jerry Cart bring up some sort of jumper where we
split out and have half of them runnln E on maybe hlgh power
one and the other half running on high power two. Or some
sort of Jumper so if two circuit breaker decided to open up
and you couldn't close it, then you could put them all on
two?
CC Roger, AI. I remember some discussion
about that fact, that they went through that one circuit
breaker and also that one switch at that high-power outlet.
And thanks for the reminder. We will think about it again.
CC CDR, Houston. I wasn't sure whether
or not you would have time this pass to talk to me about the
evening questions. Over.
CDR Sure will. Just a second, Dick.
CC Okay. Fine. We've still got 13 minutes
AI.
CDR I think they ought to brin E up an
improved switch guard for that circuit breaker and they
ought to bring up a guard for the six circuit breakers we
have on the panel. I think it is 141, the rate gyro
distributor.
CC Roger, AI. I got that comment.
CDR Yeah, we're working up a little make-
shift thing 'with some tape, but I don't think it's really
good enough now that I've stood here and thought about
the gyros we've got and what they're running on. Okay.
Go ahead.
CC Roger. Stand by a second.
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CC And, CDR, Houston. Before I get to

you on the questions, I have one thing for the SPT on the
ATM panel. The subject is SO55 mirror stow. Cycling the
main power off on switch for the EVA today, caused a loss
of the stow memory. And the mirror returned to the center
of the stow position. Request you coaline, sllp center
position of mirror llne 9 step 32. Over.
SPT Okay. I'd all ready noticed that, Dick.
We just haven't had to do a grading scan yet, and I was going
to put it back on 10:32, not 9:32 which was our last coaline
position. Over.
CC Roger, Copy, Owen. With that, AI, I'm
ready to ask you a couple of things.
CDR Okay. Let me mention one more thing.
How about having somebody dream up a better switch guard and
a better cover for 141 and then we can invent out of things
we've got up here and we'll put them on ourselves to start
with.
CC Roger, CDR. And first question that I have
here has to do with the LCG leak, you described to us before.
First of all was the leak apparent before removing the suit?
Secondly, we'd llke to know the location of the leak such as
which tube and counting from the next side of the water
connector and if the opening can be seen, we'd llke a descrip-
tion of it, whether it's smooth or Jagged or whatever? And
the reason we're asking these questions is we're trying to
determine if we ought to ask you to bring the LCG for a
failure analyses.
CDR Okay. I'm not really sure. I looked
at it and noticed that it was - I noticed that it was leaking
last time I was wearing it. So what I did was check the
O rings this morning and make sure that the O-rlng was good
and make sure that everything was shipshape. And today,
when it was leaking, - -
CC Roger, AI. You cut out in the middle of
your conversation. Go ahead.
CDR The bottom tube as you have it mounted it
on you was about 8 inches down and although I can't see any
opening, I suspicion it's the (static) right where those -
all those tubes are molded together, if you remember and the
they split out and go their separate ways. And I have the
feeling that it was right at that point. And at that point
it actually ripped between two tubes there and maybe (static).
I took a look at it but it wasn't apparent to the eye. Only
the end result was apparent, actually the water that had
leaked out.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you much for that
comment. And let me turn to another subject. We had a
° .
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housekeeping 3-Charlie scheduled yesterday, which was cleaning

of the OWS mixing chamber screen. We're not sure who did
it and we're: wondering if any debris was observed on the
mixing chamber screen when the VC (garble) was removed?
CDR The answer was. I cleaned it and there
was some debris noted. There was a peanut on there, there
was a small bolt, there were several assorted other particles
resting on the screen, which I vacuumed away.
CC Roger, CDR. Thanks very much. This
is not a question, but a piece of information for you. You
asked the other day for verification that we had the data
from mission day 26 dump voice, particularly the medical
data. The answer is affirmative. We do. We've got a both
for S074, and M131-2.
CC These last two are requests that are going
to have to -- which you're going to have to get some informa-
tion for us. And if you will get it and put it on channel A,
we'd sure appreciate it. One is - The first one is, in order
to track the leak rates in SOPs we'd like a reading from you
from the hlgh pressure gage from the two SPOs that were
not used for today's EVA. If you'll voice record that, we'd
appreciate it and the decision to use one of the four
remaining SOPs for TO20 will be based on this piece of infor-
mation.
CDR Okay.
CC And the next thing comes from Carl
Henize on S019, we'd like for you to get the M4 - 487 digital
thermomenter, which is located in locker 749, drawer Bravo
and go into the film vault, drawer D - that's delta and
make a temperature reading of the S019 cannister number 5.
What we're worried about is what the temperature actually -
the temperature of the cannister is inside the film vault,
because we want to avoid any possible film fogging problem.
Over.
CDR Okay. I'ii sure do that. Are they
worryed about it getting too hot or too cool?
CC Too hot, we think.
CDR Boy, I don't know what it take, but it
always seem cool in those drawers. I'ii give them a check real
quick and I'ii give you SOP information right now.
CC Okay. Real fine.
PLT Hey, Dick. They asked me to record that
temperature the other day and that's what I did. I think I
put it on tape somewhere.
CC Roger, Jack.
CC PLT, Houston. Did you - When you did
that did you actually measure the temperature of the cannister
itself? O1: did you measure a gas temperature? Over.
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PLT I put the digital thermometer right up

against the cannister.
CC Okay. Sounds llke we may have dropped
them off. But we would like to get the temperature again
today.
CDR Okay. Okay. SOP 12 has a pressure Just
a smidgen out of 6 thousand, I'd say it'd be 59 - - Hard to
tell.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. JOP 12 has a pressure just a
little bit out of 6000, which about 5950.
C¢ Okay. I've got that.
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CDR SOP 15 has 6,000 even.

CC Roger, AI. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. I have one more question
for you guys and it has to do with the timer that was reported
to be erratic earlier. One thing was is we were wondering
if you could describe in a little more detail exactly what
happened. Was the clock keeping time but skipping numbers,
or exactly what and secondly is the timer that's in the - on
the feeling in the experiment compartment also erratic? Have
you noticed anything there? Over.
PLT The one in the experiment compartment
is very erratic.
CDR Okay, Dick, they're both the same, way and
here's what they do. For example, right now it's reading
19:53:40. I wait just a few minutes I read 22:49:48. Now
it's 23:06:40, now it's 19:52:46, now it's 22:49:40. It
changes all the time almost like EMI and it's not both of
them.
CC Roger, we sure get the point on those
kind of numbers. And thank you much, AI, we'll do a llttle
thinking about that one.
CDR First time I noticed it was when Jack
disconnected and reconnected at the trunnion.
CDR Just for my own amusement, what is the rating
of that circuit breaker high power 2?
CC Stand by i.
CDR And what's the total load of the rate
gyros? I'd be interested in knowing the relationship.
CC Roger, AI. I'ii get the numbers for
you and pass them up to you.
CDR And we did not get the Antipodes pictures.
We're kind of clear all around and then Just as we got near
the area it became overpass and no - no (garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to
LOS. We're going to see you at Madrid in about 5 minutes.
I'ii give you a call there.
PAO Skylab Control at 36 minutes - 37 minutes
after zero hour Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Bermuda tracking station. We have a short loss of
signal here between Bermuda and Madrid as the spacecraft
nears the top of its arc over the North Atlantic Ocean.
About 3 minutes from we we should reacquire signal at
Madrid. During this last pass Commander Alan Bean informed
the ground that he had no luck getting photographs of the
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Antipodes Islands in the Antarctic current. That was the second

attempt we made to photograph the Antipodes. Today again
we gound cloud cover, although the area in general was
relatively cloud free. The Antipodes were covered by clouds
again as they had been in an earlier attempt at the beginning
of the week to photograph that area. No report on the
attempted photography at the Plains of Maska or the
Airfield of The Ancient Astronauts, but it's believed that
because the EVA was still in progress near that time that
very likely no photography was gotten there either. This
is Skylab Control. We're about 2 minutes and 20 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Madrid tracking station.
Also on this last pass some discussion of the liquid cool
garment which Commander Alan Bean indicated he had noticed
leaking even in a preceding EVA but he had checked it out
throughly before putting it on today and it did continue
to leak a bit. No serious problem. He did give a brief
report during this last pass on the conditions in that
liquid cool garment used to cool him during the EVA. He
was of course, inside the spacecraft during that time while
working in the multiple docking adaptor and on the command
module. We're now approaching acquisition of signal at the Madrid
tracking station. We'll keep the line up for llve air-to-
ground through Madrid. This pass will last approximately
7-1/2 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Madrid

for the next 6 minutes. And AI, in answer to your
question, tlte rating of that high power accessory outlet
is 12 amps and with all six gyros spun up and running. They're
drawing around 200 watts and that represents a current drain
of about 6 to 7 amps. Over.
CDR Okay. I'm sure they did a lot of thinking
about it, but maybe Jer could bring up a cable and connect
six of the - three of them to outlet one and high power one
and pick up three to hlgh-power two. And then you'd have some
nice margin there. In fact if they can figure a way we can
do it, well we'll do it for them up here.
CC Roger, AI. I do specifically remember
at the discussion premisslon on both the guards and this
subject, and we will rethink it for Jerry's mission.
CDR Yeah. I'm thinking it myself. Say,
now I just checked, it's 761 in two or three places there.
So roughly 76 degrees is the temp of that S019 cannister.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much for
going to the trouble to get us that temp again.
PAO Skylab Control at 49 minutes and 27
seconds after zero hour Greenwich mean time. We have now
lost signal at the Madrid tracking station. The next
acquisition 37 minutes from now at Carnarvon Australia.
Not much said over the Madrid pass. We do have llve air
to ground during the entire pass and temperature control
valve B on the secondary coolant loop which had been an
object of some concern at the end of the EVA, continues to
increase in temperature up to its normal 47 degree level.
It's now reading approximately 44-1/2 degrees. That's
a good sign and apparently with those two pumps on the
temperature is rising to a normal level as heat is put
back into this system. That problem at this rate, should
be solved in a matter of hours and they will then go back
to a normal configuration of a single pump operating on that
secondary coolant loop. The primary coolant loop was shut
down yesterday after pressure became too low on the loop,
indicating that the coolanol had leaked out as far as it
could be allowed to leak out. They did shut that llne down
at that time. That will be reservlced at the beginning of
the fourth Skylab flight, or SL-IV, the third manned mission.
This is Skylab Control, 36 minutes and 21 seconds to acquisi-
tion of signal at Carnarvon. It's now 50 minutes and
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of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station. The Carnarvon
pass that just went by was a very low elevation pass, and
for that reason we did not call up the ground station at
Carnarvon, Australia. This Honeysuckle pass will last only
a minute and 24 seconds, this too a relatively low elevation
pass to begin in about 30 seconds. This is Skylab Control.
We'll be live for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle for a
minute and a half.
CC Skylab, Houston. We been dropping in
and out trying to get locked up here at Honeysuckle. We're
going to have a very short pass. I Just thought I'd give
you a call and tell you that we'll be coming up at Goldstone
at 157 and I'll be standing by for the evening status report
there at Goldstone.
and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. That was a very, very
short pass over Honeysuckle. We had some trouble bringing
up the communications network. Good deal of interference
as the spacecraft pass south of Australia very close to the
horizon. As spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly indicated
to the crew no response from them. That was only a brief
pass. Our next acquisition of signal 26-1/2 minutes from
now we'll be over the United States, Goldstone, Texas, Merritt
Island, and Bermuda all in llne for that pass. That will
begin 26 minutes and 18 seconds from now. It's now 30 minutes
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PAO Skylab Control at I hour 55 minutes

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently about
42 seconds from acquisition of signal over the _nited
States tracking station. This pass through Goldston, Texas
Merrit Island, and Bermuda should last about 17 minutes.
This is Skylab Control. We have the line up live for
air-to-ground over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for the next 116 minutes and we're standing by here for
your evening status report. Over.
PLT Okay, Bob, ready to copy?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
PLT Oh, that's Dick down there. - -
SPT AI, you've got a mirror auto raster
to do after that grating 3 scan, don't you?
PLT 150, 87; Water gun - -
CDR Not suppose to do that - -
PLT 8953, 0.26063 - -
SPT What grating settin, AI?
CC Hey, Skylab, Houston. Break break.
PLT 247, 6244, 243 - -
CDR Sorry to interupt you, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. Break, break.
Roger, Skylab, Houston. We're hearing Owen talking to AI
at the same time and it's confusing us with your report,
Jack. We need to start again, with the evening status report.
Sorry. Over.
PLT Okay. Here we go again.
CC Okay. We'll get it right this time,
go ahead.
PLT Urine volume: 135, 150, 187; Water
gun: 5427, 8953, and 6063; BMMD: Commander 6.247, 6.244,
6.243; SPT, 5.982, 5.981, 5.976; PLT, 6.936, 6.940, 6.943;
CDR, SPT haven't got their exercise in yet. We'll be phoning
you later on that. I Just did a little bit. I did a
number two, for 32/7315; Sleep: Commander, 6-1/2 good,
6-1/2 fair, 6-1/2 good; No deviations in operable equipment
at the moment. I'm schedule to stowage items. Salt packs - and
Deviations: salt pack, commander, one; no deviations,
Salt packs, SPT, none, add one lemonaide, salt packs PLT,
seven, add one cherry drink and one butter cookie. That's
the evening report and I've got the film log, if you want
it.
CC Roger. Stand by i.
CC PLT, Houston. Affirmative. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. Photo log: for day 236 16-milli-
meter activity: M516, (garble) housekeeping 28A, is C140,
00, C141; second line: MISI for EVA prep and post: C152,
60, C149; line number three, EVA-2 C151, 00, C148;
ime :
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35-mi11imeter: CII01, 55, CX1320; 70-milllmeter CX25, reading

070; No EREP; drawer A, alpha-l, 07, C150, 21, C140;
alpha-2, 05, C146, 00, C141; alpha-3, 06, C152, 60, C149;
alpha-4, 03, C151, 00, C148; back of the box 02, C144, 16,C142;
and the last transporter 02, was not rethreaded this morning,
is on the film pad because we got 16 percent and we want to
use it somewhere. We won't unload it until we have the time
to use that ]6 percent. Over.
CC Roger, PLT. Is there anything else
you got on the evening status report for us this evening?
PLT Sounds like you know something I don't,
Did I leave something out? That I've got here, Dick.
CC No. No. We're happy. I've got some - a
few news items for you guys. I see we've still got about
7 minutes of daylight and about ii minutes left in this
pass if one of you guys up at the ATM would like me to
delay, I certainly will do that.
PLT It might interupt their concentration,
but let me ask them.
PLT Okay, Dick. We'll have the news. AI
was trying to call you from up there, apparently, you didn't
read them from that box, but they said go ahead with the news.
CC Okay. First of all is a daily bulletin
on Fred Haies's condition. Fred is improving today. He's
beginning to take nurlshment orally today, and this means
that the intrevenous feedings may be discontinued totally
in another day or so. He's not yet ready to receive visitors,
but if his present rate of progress continues, he - we think
he should feel up to having some company after seven or
eight days.
PLT Don' t worry about (garble) Fred. He' ii
be taking it orally, before you know it.
CC Yeah. You betchum. It was announced
today, that the U.S. will pull out about 3550 men and
more than a i00 aircraft a the first step that U.S.
military withdrawal from the Thailand Bases. The wlthdrawal
should start as early as next week. In his first press
conference since being nominated for Secretary of State,
Henry Kissenger waved all his branches in all directions,
to the congress, to the pub - public and to the state
department, saying that he and the President intend to
create a new and full partnership with the congress in the
conduct of foreign policy. Only four major fires burned
out of control Friday, after a week long fire fighting
effort in several parts, northwestern states. Nearly
200,000 acres of grassland and forest, some of it in
national parks has been blackened and fire fighters are in
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process of demobilizing crews, which at their peak number

is over 10,000 persons. I think you've already got this
information, but it's fourth, last night Houston Oilers
beat the Dallas Cowboys 27 to 24 in the dome. 0iler Richard
Lewis recovered the Cowboy's fumble with 55 seconds left
in the game, to heist the game for the Oilers before an
overflow crowd of 47,000 people. In Skylah news today,
naturally it's centered around your EVA. The news wire
services have stories describing the gyro repairs and the
film exchange you did. Many of the stories are quoting you
Jack in regretting that the space walk had not been longer
and really not wanting to go back in side. One final note
that I know that A1 will be interested in, comes from
Battlecreek Michigan. Police, FBI Agents, and the Smlthsonian
Instl - -
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CC ... that I know that AI will be interested

in. Comes from Battle Creek, Michigan. Police, FBI agents,
and a Smlthsonlan Institute Investigator are hunting for
a spacesult stolen from the Kingman Museum in Battle Creek,
Michigan. The astronaut gear on lone from the Smlthsonlan
was taken last Saturday by thelves who smashed a museum window
and cut through a secruity padlock to get inside. The suit
was worn by astronaut Alan L. Bean during his Apollo 12 mission
and is valued at $6,000 dollars. Museum officials said
there was no alarm system at museum and nothing else
had ever been stolen before.
CDR Hey, they got a good set of clothes.
Little dirty but needs repressing, but everything else is
good.
CC Roger that, AI. Well, I'm sure that
with all those folks looking for them that they'll get it
back for you. And that's all I had to say then.
CDR He'll be easily recognized on the street
though, Dick.
CC Right.
CDR Probably wearing it to a dance somewhere.
CC Right, in silver threads. And Skylab
we still have about 7 minutes in this stateside pass. There
was one more little work item that we wanted done in chasing
this clock problem. Is it an event time or on panel 206?
And we'd llke for you - somebody this evening to verify that
it counts up at the normal rate. It is - it's pulsed by
the same source that pulses those other tlmersD and we're
trying to find out if the problem with the scrambling of the
time is at the source of it.
CDR Okay, Dick. Since you still ask the question
it's been counting up regularly for about 10 seconds. Supposedly
we' ii have to watch it a little hit longer. And while we're
watching it l'd Just llke to fix one - certainly one thing
on my SO63 pad. This one and preeeedlng ones have mentioned
about counting the seconds and use bulb steady. Now, are
you talking about T for tire on the top of the top of
the time setter, or what is meant by that bulb setting? Over.
CC Okay, hang on Just a second.
CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question
about the Nikon, the quote there says use bulb setting means
just on the camera itself select the position Bravo which
stands for bulb. And then hold down the - the exposure button
for the number of seconds that the exposure lasts and then
release the button.
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SPT Okay, that'd be nice if I had a bulb

setting maker on the camera, I don't. I do have (garble)
our time and it's a picture of the same thing.
CC Roger, Owen.
SPT Hello, Dick. On this little event timer
on panel 206, it's counting smoothly and regularly, but it's
not counting very accurately. It looks like it's gained
a second or so every minute, but it does count smoothly.
CC Understand, Owen. Thank you for the
information. And stand by, we're still talking about the
Nikon and I'Ii get right back to you.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.
The next pass is a Madrid pass at 02:18, and that's a scheduled
medical conference. In the event that we don't get an
operational comeback, we suggest that we - we do have a
Honeysuckle pass that is just after your scheduled bedtime
at 03:04. And assuming you guys are going to be up a little
bit late tonight, we were thinking about giving you a call
there so we could get one more operational pass in tonight.
CDR Okay, I guess that means that if you
go to bed late you get up early. Right?
CC Right. Just like the Marine Corps. Also
for Owen, I guess all we can say is on the - we think that
on the little shutter speed knob there ought to be a position
there - there ought to be a position there marked T and another
one marked B and several others that are timesettings. But
we think there should be one there marked Bravo.
SPT Must be a manufacturer.
CC Say again.
SPT I just said, this must be from a (static)
manufacturer.
and 59 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Bermuda tracking station. That last transmission
not a terribly clear one. Some disagreement between the ground
controllers and Owen Garrlott on whether or not there's a
B setting on the Nikon camera. That's a time exposure setting
that he was instructed to set the camera for to do photo-
graphy this evening and also the photoEraphy will be repeated
again. He's doing some S063 ultraviolet airglow horizon
photography. And that's supposed to be underway right now
as this spacecraft moves into the darkness. He has about
19 minutes and 40 seconds of darkness left. Part of this
darkness period will be the Madrid pass to come up in about
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Time: 21:04 CDT, 29/02:04 GMT
8/24/73
2 minutes and 45 seconds. That pass, 9 minute and 30 second

pass over Madrid tracking station is reserved for a private
medical conference. Pattern has been for that private
medical conference to take less than the entire pass and
we would expect the crew will come back llve on the alr-to-
ground to the spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly here in
Mission Control. That airglow photography to take pictures
of the Aurora and of some noctilucent clouds should be taking
place during this next 20 minute period. This is Skylab
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Time: 21:1.5 CDT, 29/02:15 GMT
8/24/73
CC Skylab, Houston. I understand I

have the comm back now and we've still got you at Madrid for
the next 3-1/2 minutes.
CDR Say, Dick, I meant to ask you something.
And I'm not making official (garble). I just want you to
look into it and see if it's difficult, easy or whatever else.
My wife's gone on vacation with my daughter over to London and
Switzerland and I didn't know whether it would be convenient to
try to comm through Madrid to them, or if that was a big deal then
forget it, because I Just wanted to check though and see
if it was easy or difficult.
CC Roger, AI. I'm pretty sure I have the
phone numbers and we will check and let you know.
CDR Okay. I don't want to do anything out
of the ordinary, but I didn't know if that was simple or
hard. We've got such a worldwide comm now, and it's hard
to tell what's really hard and what's really easy.
CC Understand, AI. I'ii get back to you.
Maybe not tonight, but I'ii get back to you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i
minute from LOS and since we got you back here, I do not
intend to give you a call down at Honeysuckle. Our AOS
time there is 03:04, so if you'd like to give us a call, please
feel free. But I'd like you to know that the GNS is sure
happy today with the way he's got all these rate gyros to
work with. And they're looking real super. So it looks llke
a real good days work. So you all get a good night's sleep
and we'll see you in the morning.
CDR Okay. Thank you Dick. We'll probably
be up another 45 minutes to an hour at least.
CC Okay. Well the Honeysuckle time is 03:04
through 03:10 and we don't plan to give you a call unless
somethlng comes up that makes that necessary. But I'ii be
standing by.
CDR Okay. And if you've got any questions
that anybody's got about the EVA, or anything else, well
call us and we'll answer them. We're Just putting the
food up for tomorrow.
CC Okay.
and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we
are out of range of the Madrid trackln E station. We did have
a handover back there at the Madrid station from a private
medical conference. And we expect we will have a report on
that medical conference in the next 45 minutes or so. Our
next acquisition of signal is 36 minutes and 23 seconds
from now. Ground controllers did indicate that they will
not call up the spacecraft at that pass, or do not plan to.
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Time: 21:15 CDT, 29/02:15 GMT
8/24/73
However, A1 Bean indicated that they will be awake and will

be available for a call over the Australian tracking stations.
Skylab's three astronauts will celebrate the end of their
fourth week in space early tomorrow morning. The crew members
launched Just after 6:10 a.m. on July 28th. They've all
ready taken thousands of pictures of the Sun and the Earth.
And essentially, matched the total work output of the
first Skylab mission. By tomorrow morning, AI Bean,
Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma will have traveled more than
11-1/2 million miles. At 40 seconds after 7:00 a.m. central
daylight time, tomorrow, the three Skylab astronauts will
set a new record for the longest manned space flight in
history. That record should be broken as the spacecraft is
traveling in the Pacific Ocean, about the area of the
Equator on ground track number 64. This is Skylab Control
we will be around for the medical report when that comes in.
It's now 28 minutes and 53 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I157/I
Time: 22:0] CDT; 29/03:01 GMT
8/24/73
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours i minute and 18

seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently coming in range
of the Honeysuckle tracking station. We do not expect air-
to-ground during this pass. However, the crew did indicate
earlier that they would be awake and we may again hear from
them over Honeysuckle. The Honeysuckle pass will last 5
minutes and a half and begins in approximately 2-1/2 minutes.
We have the mission surgeon's daily crew Health Status Report.
It is as follows: "Following their 4-hour 30-minute 40-sec-
ond extravehicular activity, the Skylab-lll crew reports that they
still feel very well, not particularly tired, and ready to
go for another four weeks. Reviewing the available medical data
from the EVA, we have no reason to do other than concur with the
crew's evaluation." Signed: Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins.
Dr. Buchanan's report, again indicating the crew is in excel-
lent health, as they have been for most of the mission since
they got over that early bout with motion sickness. Last
night the crew slept about 6-1/2 hours. That's a fairly
good night's sleep for them. They have been sleeping more
the - little more - more than the original crew. But they
did have a very good day of the EVA. They indicated they may
be going to bed a little bit late tonight to catch up with
some of their final duties. This is Skylab Control. We
will have acquisition of signal in about a minute and 25
seconds. We'll keep the llne up through the Honeysuckle
pass in the event that there is any alr-to-ground.
SPT Hello, Dick, are you there?
CC Affirmative. For the next 2 minutes. Go
ahead.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Hello, Skylah. Houston listening. Go
ahead.
SPT Very good. I wonder if you'd be so kind
as to add two cans of biscuits and five salt packs to my
menu for today.
CC We certainly will do that.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
SPT We're Just getting around to eating right
now, and I didn't get this M516 and S054 film put away to-
night. And I guess I'll go ahead and go to bed after supper
here, and flight plan is - you might take note of that,
I've got to work it into my schedule someplace tomorrow.
CC Roger, Owen. We copied that. And we'll
take account of it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going over the hill
in about 30 seconds. We'll see you in the morning.
PLT That's where we're going too, Dick. Over
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Time: 22:01 CDT; 29/03:01 GMT
8/24]73
the hill.
CC You think.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours i0 minutes and
55 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have gone over the hill
at Honeysuckle. We're now out of range of the Honeysuckle
tracking station in Australia. Our next acquisition of signal
13 minutes and 9 seconds from now at Hawaii. We did a good-
night from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly, to Owen
Garriott, who was giving a final report on his eating habits
for the day. They are finishing their evening meal. They
indicated they would be going straight to bed following the
evening meal. Tomorrow's activity aboard the spacecraft,
a new record to be set at 7:00 a.m. and 40 seconds tomorrow
central daylight time. That will make this the longest
Skylab mission and the longest mission - longest manned
spaceflight in history. That record will be broken on
ground track 64 descending as the spacecraft travels towards
the southeast, about 2,000 miles off the coast of South
America, in the Pacific Ocean. Tomorrow's activity calls for
a good deal of time on the solar telescope, a total of more
than 7 hours of data taking. That solar telescope activity
divided among all three crew members as it normally is. The
Commander, to spend most of the afternoon tomorrow on the
solar telescope. Also scheduled for tomorrow, are runs of
the MO92, MO93 experiments. Both Pilot Jack Lousma and
Owen Garrlott will be running the MO92, MO93 tomorrow as
subjects. M131, one part of that, M131, motion sensitivity
experiment to be run. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott, will
be the subject of the first run on the second run to be
Pilot, Jack Lousma's subject. Also scheduled for tomorrow
is another check of the CBRMs. This is a test to find out
the depth of discharge on those CBRMs. Numbers 5 and 8 will
be checked tomorrow. Earlier investigations of the CBRM
degradation showed that they were down approximately 8 amps,
that's rather substantial degradation, although, it's not
substantial enough to cause any worry, since the power capa-
city of the spacecraft is rather good right now. But there
will be a test of two more of the CBRMs continuing tomorrow
during the nightime passes as they let those discharge to
as low a level as they can safely be discharged. And then
make readings on them. That activity described as housekeep-
ing 70-Y, will be handled by Science Pilot, Owen Garriott,
and by the other members of the crew. They will be dividing
the activities as they go through night time passes during
the day tomorrow. Wake-up time tomorrow morning 6:00 a.m.
central daylight time. And we do not expect to hear from
the crew until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. This is Skylab Control at
13 minutes and 50 seconds after the hour. Our next broadcast
tomorrow morning before 6:00 a.m. wake-up.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI158/I
Time: 06:42 CDT, 29/11:42 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. 11:42 Greenwich mean

time. About a minute and 50 seconds to acquisition Goldstone.
Final stateside tracking station for today. Wake-up call
if the crew is not indeed already awake, will come at this
Goldstone pass. Workshop in its 1484th revolution, command
service module in 404. Standing by for AOS Goldstone.
CC (Music) Good morning, Skylab. We have you
for about 2 more minutes over Goldstone.
SPT Say again there, Robert.
CC Your welcome.
SPT Thought maybe we were over Tijuanna.
CC Oh, not too far. Not too far - 8ort of.just
west of there now.
CC One small item of interest here. In very few
minutes, you guys are going to be passing Pete, Joe, and
Paul's mark. ATabout 1240 seconds, you will pass SL-II's
time in air.
SPT Hey, that sounds goo.
CDR Yeah, I think we're all equally as healthy
as they were, maybe even a little bit more, tThanks to all their
advice after the flight. We all seem to feel good. We're all
eating well, we're all sleeping well and we're sure as heck happy.
CC Very good. I saw Pete yesterday and he passes
his regards. The reason I haven't seen him, he's just had
5 days at sea sailing back from Bermuda. And he looks relatively
healthy now. Nice and brown. We're about i minute from LOS.
We'll have you again over the Vanguard at 12:06. 12:06.
CDR Okay Bob. Say, the last couple of seconds
there (garble) over into Marshall (garble
CC Unable to copy. We'll get you over Vanguard.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Goldstone.
Wake-up music this morning a combination of Julie London and
Tijuanna Brass. Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crlppen advised the
crew that they would exceed the time-in-space record set
by the Skylab-2 crew earlier this year. At 40 seconds past
7:00, central daylight. Next station in 16 minutes will be
tracking shlp Vanguard and we'll be back then at 11:51 Zulu,
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-III MC-I159/I
Time: 07:04 CDT 29/12:04 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 12:04 Greenwich

mean time. Coming up on tracking ship Vanguard in a minute
and 50 seconds. Skylab-3 crew now the new endurance-record
holders for space flight by about 4 minutes. Revolution 1464
will, 1483, I beg your pardon will end as the space station
crosses the longitude of Kennedy Space Center, and obviously
1485 will start. Standing by for AOS Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard
for 10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay Robert, I'm afraid I probably cut out
of the end of that last transmission. Is that correct?
CC That's affirm. I copied you were saying
something, but I couldn't understand it.
SPT Okay, we've been thinking about Jim Splawn
over in the water immersion facility at Marshall quite a bit
lately, not only Jim, but the whole crew at that ceatarl buoyancy
facility. And we believe they've done an outstanding Job over
the long term, over the last 2 or 3 years in getting us trained,
and ready to do these EVAs. And we'd llke to recognize Jim
and the whole WIF crew. Not only our regular EVAs, but the
last 3 or 4 EVAs have all had one or two things that are certainly
unique and came up at the last minute and required a lot of special
training Just on hour's and day's notice. And that whole group has
done such a professional Job over there that we really think they
deserve a lot of extra recognition. And we'd like to contribute
a small part of that here this morning. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. I'm sure that all of
us in our office will certainly have to agree with that.
Appreciate it. And we'll pass it on to them. And if anybody
is in the area of the DAS now if you could stay off we'll go
ahead and do a momentum dump inhibit. And also if you could
go ahead and lock on to the star for us, we'd llke to watch it
track for a while please. We're going to take a look at Z
drift.
SPT Okay Jack, I was just going up there in a
minute now. I'll get you a star. And what about - do we have
a star pad up here yet.
CC If you don't, I'ii give you the angles
right here.
SPT No,Jack says it is already on the board,
so 1'11 get it locked on.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Think I told you
before the EVA to disregard that permanent message you have
regarding rate gyro drift in case of a swltchover. That is
still the case. Currently all the drifts are zero, which is
good news. And we're going to take a look at Z axis as you
come across here when we get that star. Hopefully, we can
end up just deleting that message.
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Time: 07:04 CDT 29/12:04
8/25/73
CC Okay, we copy that, thank you.

CC And AI, we can report to you right now
that the quads all look good on the command module. We'll
continue to verify that.
CDR Okay. Well we just had wondered. We
didn't power up the ATM that quick after the last EVA. At least
I didn't observe it, if we did. And I was a little surprised at
the total number of particles that seem to be leaving the space-
craft going somewhere. And I'm still not sure in my own mind where
they are from unless somehow when we cranked up the water loop
afterwards that caused increase dumping through the mol sieves or
something. I'm still puzzling over that. We would have made a
bigger issue of it but it looked llke it died down there after
a while.
CC Okay, copied that. And for information
for a SAP update, we have that active region 93 is developing a
new spot group rapidly and has an arch filament system. In-
tensity in area is increasing in the western portion of the
H-alpha plate. And we have had no overnight flares.
SPT Okay, sounds infor- interesting. And I
did report yesterday as a matter of fact that 93 did look like
it may have developed a small subflare linked to a pretty bright
plage. And I can see this morning that the area of the plate
has increased a bit.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I159/2
Time: 07:04 CDT 29/12:04 GMT
8/25/73
CDR Okay, that's great.

CC And AI, we would appreciate a little bit
more information regarding some comments you recorded last
night about a washer or some object you said you saw in using
S052.
CDR Okay. We were using 52 afterwards, and we
saw a number of light flashes, little round particles going out
which we assumed were some sort of water dump. So we checked
around and we weren't dumping any water. And we went over and
looked at the command module again because last time we saw
something llke that it was coming out of one of the quads. We
found nothing there. In fact, we'd like the command module troops
if they would to give a close look to all the quads today.
But anyhow we were looking and looking at the white light and
all of a sudden right across the front of the screen comes a
round object which looked like it had a hole in the middle.
And we were Just kind of laughing about it, and it came back
and then it went over again. It may have been different, ones
but the way it worked it looked like it could conceivably be
one going back and forth. In fact, the last time it went by
it looked llke it had some writing on it. Jack and I both
thought we saw it. Then we thought about it a little while
after we had voiced that down, after I had voiced that
down. We were kidding Owen because he had lost those, a couple
of those shims and washers. So we thought, we realized that
even if there had been a washer in there it wouldn't have
focused in properly. It had to been out some number of feet and
been the size of an inner tube to really appear on the screen
llke it did to us. But anyhow there was there seemed to be a
little more not contaminatlon_ but things floating around outside
the coronagraph yesterday than normal. And we didn't believe
that it was as a result of the EVA. But it may have been,
it may have been some of the oxygen fluid gotten in there.
And that was what we were seeing. I don't know, but I Just
wanted to report it and ask them to look at their data.
CC AI, I'm informed that an object one foot
out from the end of the telescope end on 52 would be in focus.
And maybe this was reported yesterday, but I'd Just llke to
confirm it, that - I understand Owen did lose the shim on one
of the wedges that he removed?
CDR The first ones that he removed were from S056,
Bob. And they are not Just a couple of shims, they are maybe
8 or i0 shims to each of those plates. And on that 56 door, I
did lose that set of shims and one of the little washers on
the, trying to get them transferred, put underneath that
tape. I got all of them retained on 82A, but not on the 56.
Over.
SL-III MC-1160/2
Time: 7:14 CDT, 29/12:14 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS Vanguard.

Next station, almost an hour away, Hawaii in 57 minutes.
Skylab-3 crew has a mixture of solar astronomy experiments
and medical experiments today. With hand-held photos for
the pilot, over the Patagonlan dessert and the Straits of
Magellan shortly before 8 o'clock this morning. The stormy
Straits of Magellan and the desolate Patagonian Desert are
the two objectives that Pilot Lousma will point his cameras
toward. In addition to the Straits and the Island of Tierra
del Fuego, Lousma will photograph an elongated depression
which runs north and south along the eastern slope of the
Andes Mountains as well as man-made features such as a railroad
and an oil field to the south of the Rio Gallegos. Later on
in that same revolution, Lousma will click off pictures of
a region of southern Argentina and Chile called Patagonia.
This region has a sparsely populated terrain of broad plateaus
bordered by the spectacular South Andes Mountains, which is
laced with glaciers, Morrains, and deep canyons. Such hand-held
photos from Skylab will be used for detecting geological
features such as active and passive valcanoes, rift zones,
glaciers, and mountain lakes, and perhaps a hint on how the
rugged Patagonian terrain affects local weather, which said
to be among the stormiest in the world. 54 minutes to Hawaii,
and at 12:20 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-II60/I
Time: 7:14 CDT, 29/12:14 GMT
8125173
CC Okay, we copy that, thank you, Owen.

CDR It's Just wait until we got a new load
here.
CC And can you - someone comfirm for us
that we did get rid of the towel with the glycol in it.
CDR We had several, we got rid of those with
the exc -most of those, with exception of two. One of which
we have in the glycol panel now acting as the - as a -
continual, I hate to use the word wick, but a continual drying
agent, and the other is in a fecal bag all sealed up and put
in the command module lockers to return to base.
CC Okay, we copy that, AI. Thank you very
much.
CDR What we will do is go put in a new drying
towel and discard the old.
CC Copy. And one item I would llke for you
to think ahout, if you if you could AI, they're reading some
of the transcripts. Seems to be a little hit of confusion about
a NU z update. I guess we had told you to do it in the morning
and in the evening, and also we wanted you to do it anytime
that you needed a NU z value. For example on S019, or if we get to
it, 183 op. And I guess our question is, do you think you need
us to send you a cue card change regarding S019. As the fact
that when you get the NUz, you need to use the star tracker
to update It?
CDR No, I don't think so. I'ii tell you,
the thing that still puzzles us a little bit is - why can't
we Just go ahead lock on the star tracker and see what it's
doing and then close the shutter without affecting anything?
Can we do that?
CC That's affirmative. There's no - There's
no problem at all there, we Just don't want to go off and
leave with the shutter to be commanded automatically because
it may not shut normally. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS and maybe we can elaborate a little bit more on that at
the next pass. We'll see you at Hawaii at 13:15. You can
close the star tracker shutter now.
SPT Okay, Bob. Let me mention one other
thing, we already zapped. T_at is, apparently if we have a NU z
update enable, and we lock o._ the wrong star or a particle
or something like that, we ge_ an incorrect update. And we're
wondering about whether or no_ we ought to inhibit NU update
until we re satisfied with th_\gimbal angles. Over.
CC Okay, we'll\talk about that at Hawaii.
And would you make sure that thl_ star tracker shutter is
closed..
_1
SL-III MCII61/I
Time: 08:13 CDT, 25/13:13 GMT
8/25/73

mean time. Slightly under 2 minutes to acquisition at
Hawaii, and the warning warbler has gone off here in the
control room to alert flight controllers that we're
2 minutes away from a station pass. Tracking station
Hawaii upcoming.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Houston.
CC And, PLT, in the next 7 minutes I've
got two notes concerning your M092/93 run.
CDR He can't listen right now, Story, he's
trying to do TO02. He'll give you a call.
CC Okay, AI.
CDR Good to hear you back.
CC Yes, sir, it's good to be back.
CC And we're going to be enabling dump
if you can stay off the DAS, Owen.
CDR Okay, he's off.
CDR Give you a little bit more information
about the timer problem we've been having. This is the STS,
the general timing system. Last night it _abillzed for
a while and it worked okay. This morning it's sort of erratic
again. It's llke it's getting some EMI maybe from the ATM
panel or something.
CC Okay. And the DAS is yours, Skylab. And
AI, while I got you, those towels youIre using to soak up the
glycol in the CSM, go ahead and dump all of hem - trash
airlock all of them.
CDR Okay, then the one you were thinking
about having me bring home, you want me to_mp it too?
CC That's correct.
CDR Okeydoke, will do today.
CC And also, AI, sometime today we'd like
you to check out the caution and warning lamps on panel 206.
CDR Check the lamps; will do.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Just a second.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, yesterday TV camera, as _u call it,
number i or serial number 3002, it got quite hot and
we lost the picture on that, and we're thinking maybe you've
set it up to run. And how is it working?
CDR We checked it out last night and it
wasn't working too great. We haven't had a chance to look
at it this morning. We'll give you some information on that
soon as I do this TV setup.
SL-III MCI161/2
Time: 08:13 CDT, 25/13:13 GMT
8/25/73
CC Okay, if you're not getting a satisfactory

picture on the monitor, just go ahead and cancel TV6.
CDR Okay, we can always use the other camera.
CC That is a two camera operation.
CDR Oh, okay, understand.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard in about 22 minutes at 13:45.
We'll be dumping the tape recorders at that time. We do
have a teleprinter low indication down here. And when you -
if you get a chance you could change the teleprinter paper.
We have no messages to send up right now. And a reminder
for the PLT to changeout the BTMS probe prior to starting
9293.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Owen, no need to acknowledge, but
when you get back on the ATM, you' ii find a large prominence
on the west llmb at 090.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of slgnal
through Hawaii; next station, tracking ship Vanguard, in 20 minutes.
Later on today at about 2:45 Central, Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
is scheduled to attempt to coax the spider Arabella back
into her vial, storage vlal, and release the backup spider,
Anita, for her debut for the remainder of the mission. And,
hopefully, Garrlott will describe his attempts at spider
husbandry. Next station, in 19 minutes, tracking ship Vanguard.
At 13:25 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I162/I
Time: 08:43 CDT 29/13:43 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Coming up now on

the good ship Vanguard, about a minute and a half away from
acquisition at that tracking ship. We'll stand by for that
pass. Pilot Jack Lousma should be getting his still cameras
ready for the Straits of Magellan and Patagonian Desert, hand-
held photography at targets of opportunity of interest archeolo-
gists, geologists, oceanographers around the world. Standing
by for acquisition at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR Story, made a check of the old TV, and it looks
like the TV is out of it. It sends out, as you saw on the screen
down there, an occasional white dot. The rest of it is black.
I changed the power cable and the monitor cable and the monitor.
Those three work well on the other camera. The ones from the
other camera which worked well, do not work at all on the camera
number i. They give the same indications as the monitor cable
and power cable did originally. So it looks like our camera
number 1 is out of business at the moment.
CC Okay, thanks, AI.
CDR Okay, what we'll do, I noticed that change in
the pad was a change to one thing. It was shooting the legband
installation from a different side. We'll go ahead and
shoot that and not the others, and they can use that to put
together with what they have already, I believe, and get
perhaps what they are looking for.
CC Stand by i, AI.
CDR By the way, I turned off the S015 20-power
and 40-power cameras this morning.
CC Copy.
PLT Hey Story, is Bill running the show down there
today?
CC Milt Windier and the maroon team. Yes, sir.
PLT How is everything; what's the latest in the
city of Frlendswood?
CC He says we're percolating along and everything
is fine.
PLT Percolating, huh? Does that mean the flood
waters previously, are rising to the surface again?
CC That's a good interpretation, but per Jack's
request, we legislated against floods.
PLT That's good work.
CC And, Jack, the extra pipes are in the Sunset
crossing; it's back in operation.
PLT Good, glad to hear that. Sounds llke the
council really got on the ball and got that done.
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CC And for AI, there is no way we can use that

proposed TV scenario. And we prefer Just to get you doing some
MON 2.
CDR Okay, we'll do some MON 2 today and get that
for you. Now another question.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I forgot it, just a second.
CDR Oh yeah, from your view of the TV does it
look llke we drifted into the Sun when we were out of attitude?
Or that thing got too hot?
CC We don't think the Sun goE in the lens, AI.
We just think it was a gradual increase in heat, and we saw
an associated decrease in the performance as the heat increased.
PLT Okay, I noticed also in bringing the thing
in and getting it restowed, it smelled kind of funny. It smelled
the lock compartment up too. It smelled llke hot, burned rags.
CC Okay, you had me worried. I thought you were
smelling it while you were bringing it in.
PLT Well, we don't report everything, you know.
By the way, I've been wondering how has the TV shows that we've
put on as requested in the TV ops book come out? We know about
the sort of ad hoe TV, but I'm wondering how well satisfied you are
with the canned TV shows so far?
CC We think they have been excellent. And I'll
give you a more detailed report this evening.
PLT Okay.
CC And AI, we're hoping you did not get a chance
to change the teleprinter paper.
CDR I'ii bet it's because you want us to take
pictures of it, r_ght?
CC M516.
CDR We've had it on our minds for about a week,
since we missed it last time. Jack is going to do that soon
as he gets a chance. Right now I'm getting ready to check out
the lights on 206 and 7.
CC Yeah, we were thinking maybe Owen could run
that between the ATM passes.
SPT Yeah, that's a possibility. I was also looking
over my Flight Plan as to where I might want to best put in
this S054 film stow which I didn't get yesterday. And it looks
like maybe those housekeeping items had best be the thing that gets
eliminated. But you might take a look at what this offsets on
my schedule.
CC Okay, Owen.
CC And I've got a photo pad for you, Owen.
SPT You mean on the teleprinter or where?
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CC Yeah, the M516 photo with the teleprinter

change-out.
SPT Okay, we'll have to worry about it a little
later, Story.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, it looks like all the lights there are
working properly. We have had several inhibted. I'ii read
you the names of them to make sure we agree.
CC Okay, we've got a minute.
CDR Okay, I'm going to read them so I get the
exact names. Welve had the SIEVE FLOW inhibited because since
we baked it out it kind of kicks on and off every once in a
while. I think everyone is aware of that. PCC02, HIGH and LOW,
MOL SIEVE A, we've had out. OWS INTERCHANGE duct we've had out.
And CONDENSATE Delta-P.
CC Okay.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you
over Hawaii in about an hour at 14:51.
CDR Okay, and that CO 2 302 both SIEVE sieve A and
B. Now those are the ones we have out. If there is any dis-
agreement or any suggestions, we welcome them, because the status
may have changed since we turned those off.
CC Nope.
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CC Okay, we'll look at it.

PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through Vanguard. Space station Skylab now on the start
of revolution 1486. Next station will be Hawaii in
56 minutes, final Hawaii pass and next rev we start picking
up Ascension Island, and eventually after a couple more
revs we'll start picking up the Cana ary Island and Madrid
station. Back in 56 minutes, at 13:55 Greenwich mean time,
Skyl ab Control.
END OF TAPE.
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SL-III MC-I164/I
Time: 09:49 CDT, 29/14:49 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control; 14:50 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition in a minute and a half at the tracking
station Hawaii, final Hawaii pass this morning. Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott at this time is scheduled to be operating
the Apollo Telescope Mount solar physic experiment while
Pilot Jack Lousma is subject on the M092/093 medical experiments
observed by Commander A1 Bean. We have acquisition at
Hawaii.
CC Skylab; we're AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. Say how are the flight planners
coming on tomorrow's Flight Plan?
CC Okay, wetve got a ray A here.
CDR Okay, I'ii tell you what I'd like
them to do if they would. We got ATM all day I gather and
then a few other items. What do you see there roughly?
CC Okay, we've got a MIIO for all three
of you, we got essentlally ATM all day. We got some off
duty periods scattered here and there. A little bit of
housekeeping, showers, and about 2 hours when we have station
passage for a status conference and that's about it.
CDR Okay, that sounds good to us. Let me
get them to make one minor change there. We want Owen to
try to get some time on his science kit and a couple of other
items that he's got here that's been hangin E for about 3 weeks.
So how about dividing those ATM periods among Jack and I
and then let's let Owen have a little hit more free time so
he can get this science thing out of the way and some of
these other demonstrations. We Just never seem to be able to
work it in. It's always going to be tomorrow but tomorrow
never gets there and when it does we Just can't get it done.
CC Okay, we'll get Owen some time. And
understand you don't want any formal schedule for him, Just
some time.
CDR That's right. And we'll - this will -
otherwise it Just fills up, llke today we added on a couple
of items already and then the down load of the 54, I think is
still in progress from yesterday because we got finished late.
So he's got plenty to do, tomorrow to help clean up today.
So, I'd llke to do that, and that way maybe we can get this -
get caught up. And we'll take the ATM stuff.
CC Would you llke for us to call it science
activities?
CDR That's a good idea because that's what it'll
be. All science, I'll guarantee that.
CC Okay. And we've got a battery vearlficatlon
test tomorrow too.
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CDR Okay, no trouble, we'll get 'em.

CC Skylab; we're 30 second til LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard in about 25 minutes at 15:23 and we'll
be dumping the tape recorders there.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of siena1 ,
Hawaii, a final pass through that station this morning. Next
station tracking ship Vanguard and we'll begin picking
up Ascension Island during this next revolution. 22 minutes
to acquisition st Vanguard and at 15:01 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time and a minute and 50 seconds away from acquisition
at tracking ship Vanguard. We'll stand by for resumption
of communications through the tracking ship. Nearing the
end of revolutlon 1486 for the workshop and starting 1487.
In a few seconds as Skylab space station crosses the longitude
of it's point of origin_ Kennedy Space Center. Standing by
for Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we're AOS over the Vanguard for
8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. In the new co-align position
is going to be for 5509/32 about back where it was before.
And I'll send the data down on channel A.
CC Okay_ thanks, Owen. live got two or
three notes here for you if you've got a chance to copy.
CDR Okay.
CC In a change to S063 pad tonight that
you'll run in 0125, and that's the - -
CDR Story.
CC Yeah.
CDR If I could delay on that, I'd appreciate it.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything else for the current pass or
anything like that?
CC No, only camera to use if you do do the
M516 when you change the teleprlnter paper.
CDR Okay, 1'11 what's that?
CC That's transporter 06. And Ii percent
required. And the M516, part of that's on tape 3-7 of the
SWS systems checklist.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you over Ascension in 6 minutes. And CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Yon riding the bike now, AI?
CDR I Just flnlshedj go ahead.
CC Okay, on the CBRM the back capalclty
verification on note B, we'd llke to change CBRM 18 to 8,
and 10 to 5 if you haven't done that already.
CC That's - we'll he - -
CDR (garble)
CC That's on the SWS systems checklist change
number ii we sent up. If you don't get it now, we'll get
it over Ascension in 5 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I166/I
Time; 10:34 CDT, 29/15:34 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal through

tracking ship Vanguard. Ascension in about 5 minutes, Ascension
Island tracking station. With that brief gap, we will just
leave the line up as the space station Skylab coasts around on
the start of revolution 1487, 5 minutes to Ascension.
PAO Skylab Control, 40 seconds away from acquisition
at Ascension for the first pass along that station today. A
fairly low elevation angle of 4.6 degrees and lasting about
6 minutes. Up and live awaiting acquisition at Ascension.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for 6 minutes.
SPT Okay Story, what else did you have for me?
CC Owen, on the S063 time, we've got a change
for it. We've determined that the T-settings on Nikon 01 work
the same as the B-settings on Nikon 03. So for tonight's pass
you can use the T-settings like the B-settings.
SPT Okay, understand. That's what I had assumed
before. And there's Just a slight difference in those two Nikon
cameras and the way those heads - the little timer system is scaled
there. The T works just the same here, I can tell also.
So that will be fine. Thank you.
CC Yes sir. And on your deployment of Anita
at 19:35, use transporter 07 from drawer i and shoot up the
remaining film, that's 21 percent. And that's on your details;
that's permanent general message number 14, step 5.
SPT Okay.
CC And are you at the ATM panel now?
SPT That's right.
CC Can you reach over and take one of the 150 psi
nitrogen regulators, take one of them off2 They have been running
low, about 142. And from our SL-2 experience we've found out that
if we turn one of them off for a while and bring it on at a
later time we can get the pressure up. It may be due to icing
in the regulator.
SPT Okay.
CC And - -
SPT It is turned off.
CC Okay, that's B?
SPT B is on, A is off.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, we've got those CBRMs for you to run those
tests on.
CDR Okay Story, I understand that we do it on
8, and then in step 3, where it talks about I0, we do that
on 5.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay, got it under control.
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CC Thank you.
CDR And understand you wanted to mark i or mark 2
on TV?
CC Stand by i. We understand that you are not
using the mark 2 very much.
CDR Oh, we use it sometimes. We use them both.
CC That's mark 2, AI.
CDR That's what I thought. Okay and we're running
right now.
CC And while I've got you, one other question.
When you checked out the lights on the caution and warning panel,
did you enable the switches that were inhibited to check their
lights or did you just leave them inhibited?
CDR I enabled them, checked them all, and then
turned those back off.
CC Okay.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you
over the Vanguard at 17:00. That will be an hour and 15 minutes.
And Owen, we'd like H-alpha i in AUTO.
SPT Thank you.
the tracking station at Ascension Island. Normally in 38 minutes
we would be tracking through the station at Guam Island. However,
that maximum elevation at that station is only 2 degrees, and
unless it is an unusual circumstance, anything below 3 degrees
is skipped. Therefore next station contact will be the tracking
ship Vanguard again in an hour and 14 minutes. At 15:46 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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mean time. And about a minute and 40 seconds away from
acquisition at tracking ship Vanguard. We're standing
by for confirmation that the antennas aboard the tracking
have locked onto space station Skylab. And the line is
open for alr-ground. Brief gap across to Ascension Island
of about 3 or 4 minutes and we'll stay up across to that
station also.
CC Skylab. We're AOS over the Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And, Jack, if you got 30 seconds, I've got
a change to an ATH pad.
PLT Okay, wait a minute Story, just setting
up a new building block.
CC Okay, any tlme.
CDR Story, while you' re waiting on that one,
I'm going to start the battery check on the next night orbit.
I got up there at 14 after the hour per plan and it was already
dark and some of the steps suggest I check it before dark,
so I will go up there and check it before dark and start it
next time.
CC Okay, copy, AI.
PLT Okay, Story, go ahead with the change.
CC That's for Al's pass that starts at 18:18.
PLT I'm looking at it.
CC Okay, at 21 minutes remaining, change the
roll of data of that coronal hole from 10/0.8 to 115/0.9. The
shape and position of the coronal hole has changed.
PLT Okay, I've got it, thank you.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we concur with your starting the
BAT test on 8 the next rev and sliding that 51 rev to 19:20.
CDR (Garb le)
CC Okay, we're dropping out too bad here over
Vanguard, we're about a minute til LOS. We'll see you over
Ascension in 4 minutes.
PLT Hey, Story, is this (garble)
CC We can't read you here now, we'll have
to pick you up over Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI168/I
Time: 12:11 CDT, 29/17:11 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal

through the tracking ship Vanguard. The communications
becoming rather scratchy there toward the end of that pass
as the antennas aboard the tracking ship apparently lost
lock with the space station. We're a minute and a half
away from acquisition again at tracking station on Ascension
Island, a lonely piece of rock in the South Atlantic.
Standing by for Ascension.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Ascension for
i0 minutes. And we were dropping out over Vanguard; could
you say again, AI, about the last 2 minutes?
CDR Okay. What we're going to do is,
Owen is going to go ahead and run BAT 8 on the next night
rev; that would be on schedule. Then I'ii pick up BAT 5 on
the rev following. Is that what you have in mind?
CC That's affirmative, AI. BAT 5 after
sunset at 19:20.
CDR Okay, that way he'll be right on sched
and ours won't have any trouble fitting in anyway. We got
plenty of time. Okay.
CC And, AI, you can do steps 1 and 2 prior
to sunset.
CDR Okay, I've already done those, Story,
for both bats. Everything's nice on both bats so we're
ready to perform the rest of the test.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we'd like to have the DAS for
a moment. We're going to command rate gyros 1 and 3 on
with the redundancy management enabled.
PLT You got it, Story.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, the DAS is yours.
CDR Say again, Story. You were blocked.
CC The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay.
CDR Hey, Story. The intercom volume in the
command module-on-whlch panel controls the overall volume
of the intercom down here?
CC Stand by i.
CDR We noticed since the EVA that our inter-
com volume is very high down here but we thought we had
everything back llke it was. I went up to panel 9 and
reduced the volume somewhat. It didn't appear to affect it
slgnlflcantly, and I don't know whether I should go up and
reduce it some more.
CC Okay, we're working on that question.
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CDR And I went and got all the rags, and

they're bye-bye already.
CC Okay, and we're a minute to LOS here.
We'll see you in 35 minutes over at Guam at 17:58.
Be dumping the tape recorders then.
CDR Okay. Now a question also for the
coolanal man- glycol man, water glycol man. Should we
leave a towel all times in that area to wick off the leak
if it continues, or should we not do that? Should we keep
the little door to that 382 panel open or closed?
CC Copy. _ We'll get you an answer to that
over Guam.
CC In the blind, Skylab. It's panel 9
to adjust your intercom.
CDR Sorry, I didn't hear you Story, go ahead.
CC That's panel 9 to adjust your intercom
volume.
CDR Okay, I'ii go turn it down some more in a
fre minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 12:25 CDT 29/17:25 GMT
8/25/73

the Ascension Island tracking station. Next st&tlon Guam in
32 minutes. Two rather quiet passes, here at Ascension and
just prior to that, over tracking ship Vanguard. Rate gyros
1 and 3 were commanded on by the ground and Commander A1 Bean
reported that he had dumped the raKs with which he wiped up the
leaking water glycol mixture in the command module cooling
system, into the trash alrlock. Back a_aln in 32 minutes for
Guam. At 17:26 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-IITO/I
Time: 12:56 CDT 29/17:56 GMT
8/25/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 17:56 Greenwich mean

time. Guam Island tracking station upcoming in a minute and
50 seconds. According to the flight plan all three crew men should
be either in the midst of eating their noon meal or at least
building up an appetite. We'll stand by for acquisition at
Guam. t
CC Skylah, AOS through Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And AI, in answer to your question on panel
382, the glycol leak: We'd like you to take a used PBI garment
and push it in there in the vicinity of the leak, and if possible
close the door; maybe just one or two fasteners.
CDR Okay, PBI garment? Is that the word you used?
CC Yeah, that's a clothes garment, one that has
been used.
CDR Okay, will do.
CC And one other thing while I have you. We shut
off our pump Charlle on the secondary coolant system. We're
anticipating the temperature to fall maybe down around 40 degrees
Fahrenheit. You may get a temp low light. And Just punch off
the button, no other action required.
CDR Okay.
CDR Owen turned the CBRM-8 charger off at 17:48.
CC Okay.
CDR You know, Story, one thing that puzzles me
is why these star tracker pads aren't exactly right as opposed
to being not very close.
CC Okay, we'll speak to ASCO on that.
CDR Well, what I think is occurring is they never,
he doesn't know what our NUz is so he can't figure the outer
glmbal; he can get the inner hut he can't get the outer. It
seems to me that it might be appropriate to put on the pad
what the outer glmbal NU z is figured at, and then if we know
it's changed, we can subtract the difference, multiply by
60, and come up with a new number that would be closer to right
than the old number, and we wouldn't have to just kind of hunt
around and hope for the best. There has got to he a better
way to find these stars than going to the star tracker pad
angles and then moving in the outer glmbal for, you know, plus
or minus i0 degrees.
CC Okay, he copied that, AI.
CDR Ask him to start thinking about some way that
we can - Just got the star - some way that we can get these stars
faster, realizing his limitations maybe, because of not knowing
the NU z so we can update the pad mentally, ourselves. Sort
of maybe the same sort of technique we're using for S019.
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CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see
you over the Vanguard in 30 minutes at 18:38.
PAO This is Sky lab Control. Loss of signal through
the tracking station on Guam Island. Next station in 28 minutes
will be the tracking ship Vanguard. And on the next rev the
Ascension Island station will drop out, and we'll start picking
up Canary Islands and Madrid tracking stations. As the ground
track moves up over north Africa and Europe, southern Europe.
During this Just completed Guam pass, A1 Bean was advised
by the ground to stuff an article of used clothing into
the area, where the CSM command service module water glycol
leak was noticed recently, to act as sort of a wick to sop up
the cooling fluid. Back in 27 minutes, at 18:10 Greenwich mean
time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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8125173

mean time. The warning warbler has bleated loudly here in
the control room, to alert people, acquisition. Coming up
at tracking ship Vanguard, final pass for the day over
Vanguard. We'll stand by for any conversation over Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard
for i0 minutes.
CDR And, Story, you might mention to the science
room that I went over the action - active region 6 and did
a shopping llst item 5 there; it came out real well, I gave
82B a 240 second exposure and a 40.
CC Was that a 240 and a 40?
CDR That's affirm.
CC Okay, thanks.
CC CDR, Houston.
CT Vanguard COMH TEC, Houston COMM TEC,
net 1 voice check.
CT Vanguard COMM TEC, on that one, how do
you copy?
CT Vanguard COMM TEC, Houston COMH TEC,
network i.
CT Vanguard COMM TEC onNet i.
CT Roger.
CC Skylab, we've had a problem with the
down-link.
CDR I guess we have had a problem, I said
go ahead awhile ago when you called a couple of times.
CC Okay, we're reading you loud and clear
now. A1, looklng from down here, we did not see S054 filter 3
run. If you haven't done that, with your present pointing and
a11, could you glve us an M30S64 with S054?
CDR My little thing says omit 54.
CC Yeah, we're talking about back in the
first part of that Jop.
CDR I gave them a 30S256 but I'll sure glve them
another.
CC Okay, make it an M30S64.
CDR Okay.
CC Thanks.
CDR Has Owen discussed with the science room
this little thrust of light we see on the 52 monitor up at
01:007
CC I'll let you know, AI. We're 30 seconds
tll LOS. We'll pick you up over Canary in ii minutes.
8/25/73
PAO This is SkyZab Control; loss of signal

for the final time today through tracking ship Vanguard.
Next AOS at Canaries in about 9-1/2 minutes. There was
some difficulty in establishing communications or voice
down-llnk from the space station to the Vanguard on that
pass but it was reconnected. Apparently one of the llnes
coming from the ground station which relays the Vanguard's
data and communications went out momentarily. Vanguard in
8-1/2 minutes, at 18:49 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI172/I
Time: 13:56 CDT, 29/18:56 GMT
8/25/73

mean time. About 2 minutes away from acquisition through
the tracking station on the Canary Islands. And we're
standing by for overlapping coverage between Canary and
Madrid for, it looks like, about 17 minutes total time across
these two stations. Crew hasn't been too talkative today,
but apparently they're rather busy. Standing by for
acquisition Canaries.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Canaries and Madrid
for 13 minutes. And no need to acknowledge, AI, but on those
lights at i o'clock on the S052, we don't have the TV back
yet.
CDR Okay, and for the information in the back room,
I just started on JOP 15A step 3. They will have to truncate
it at the end. I can't find a reel to coronal hole at that
point of 115.9. I go over there and except for those very
bright points with action - active region 39, everything
is - which tends to sort of overpower all the rest of the
UV in that area. It's difficult to find a hole. Almost
everything else comes up at the same level of intensity
when you integrate except the active region 93. So, as
far as I can tell it isn't a real well-defined hole over
there, 115.9. I found the best one I could which was sort of
the smallest UV area in that region. But it Just didn't -
I don't consider it satisfactory. But I thought maybe you
could tell something I couldn't, so I went over there and
did it.
CC Okay. Thanks, A1, I'ii get them working
on that. And we need the DAS here for a nay update.
CDR We might find one when they send up those
coordinates for the holes that they come up in roll and up
and down, left, right, and then we can go right to that
spot. And then if UV pointing capability exists we can
trim it up real good. When it's given in azimuth and
percent of radius - tips of radius, you're always unsure
too if you're at the right spot unless there's a well
defined hole and then you can go over there and find it.
CC Okay, AI. And you've probably got much
better capability on finding those holes than we do down
here. The update we gave you is from a XUV downlink we
got a couple days ago.
CDR That may explain it right there. It's -
it's being overpowed by 93 is what's happening. And it
may still be there, but it's just hard to discern on - with
the image intensity scope, or even without it, exactly where
that little hole is. It may have moved further to the north.
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CC Okay.
CDR We're going to be through truncating it
there, and I wouldn't reschedule this one until we get a better
handle on where that hole is.
CC Okay, we'll be handing over here in
5 seconds, AI. And just pick Out the best hole you can,
maybe to the south of active regions 93 and 02. Pick out
your own best hole.
CDR Okay, I did, but it's not satisfactory.
CC Roger.
CDR Houston, are you there?
CC Yeah, we got another 3 minutes, AI.
CDR Okay, well, I'm picking up on this
coronal hole here the next orbit. So I'ii get out my little
Polaroid camera at the beginning of the next orbit and try
to get a better handle on it. And my suggestion would be
that - but they'll have to think about it - that I'd go back
and do step 3 again on the new place that I find, if I
find a good one. And then that means that we wouldn't
be able to do something else in that orbit. So they might
want to think about it. I'ii wait to hear from you, though.
And I might be able to get it better with my Polaroid picture.
CC Okay, great. And we'll be seeing you over
Guam before you start the next daylight pass. At about an
hour and a half ago we saw a reset on the alrlock module
time reference system. We're wondering if by chance anyone
could have hit the 24 hour reset switch. That's in the
STS panel on 212 about an hour and a half ago.
CDR Let me check with my crewmates.
CC It's a momentary.
CDR Owen gave it a hit. Jack gave it a
hit.
CC Okay, that's fine, thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
pick you up over Guam in 25 minutes at 19:38.
CC And if you're seeing any erratic time
indications on the TRS there we'd like you to put that on
channel B, so that we can pursue that problem.
CC Okay, put it on channel A.
CDR Was that for the PLT?
CC That's for anybody and we were also wondering
why you used the reset switch?
CC We're going LOS here, we'll see you in
25 minutes.
through tracking station at Madrid, Spain. Next station in
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25 minutes will be the final Guam Island station pass of the
day, cutting down across the gap between New Guinea the
Island of New Guinea, and the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia,
tracking station. First pass over that station today.
Twenty-flve minutes to Guam and at 19:13 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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30 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition of
signal at the Guam tracking station for the next 4 minutes
and 50 seconds.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Guam for the
next 4 minutes, and before we get into sunrise here we'd
llke some BAT volts on BATs 5 and 8.
CDR Okay.
CDR BAT 5, 28.2. That was BAT 8, 28.2.
CC Roger.
CDR BAT 5, 30 volts.
CC Okay. And I've got a regroup force on
the coronal hole. Do you want to hear ?
CDR Okay. Just a second. I turned off the
CBRM number 5 at 1917. And the BAT (garble) indicated 32.2
volts.
CC Okay.
CDR Ready to copy?
CC Okay. Pick out a coronal hole, boundary
of your choosing, m_ybe to the north of active region 93
and 02. You may find a bigger coronal hole, up there. Any-
way, anywhere of your choosing pick out a coronal hold, go
back to JOP :IbA, step 3, that's back in the orbit that
starts at 1818, and carry on with JOP 15A through steps
3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
CDR Will do.
CC And you probably won't get step 7 done
during this orbit. If you don't, just move it on to the
next orbit, and then pick up with JOP 2B when you can.
CDR Okay. And it may take a little time, too,
to get this good coronal hole, but I'll find a good one this
time, and we'll start fresh and get it right.
CC Okay, and if you get behind, don't worry,
we'd llke to get that 15A. Get what you can of JOP 2B, and
there is 17 minutes of observing time at the end of your
last orbit, so you can take up some then.
CDR Okay. That's good news.
CC And our curiosity down here is really
getting to us on why the 24 hour reset switch was thrown.
CDR I think Jack was just unhappy about the
way the timer was running. Namely, it wasn't working; and
so he just thought maybe somehow it would straighten things
out. It didn't do that either. It still doesn't work.
CC Okay.
CDR Does it bother anything else other than
the volt timers we look at?
CC That's affirmative. It does, AI.
CDR What does it bother? Probably the time
recording on tapes and all that other business, maybe.
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CC That's affirmative. It does affect that

stuff, AI, and those things have been good down here.
CDR Okay. It sounds llke we didn't do you
right there, but we didn't know that. We thought that it
was just our little timer boxes, and they haven't been
working and we been needing them, so we hoped maybe the
reset would make them work right, but it didn't. I don't
think any of us knew it was as far reaching as you just
suggested.
CC Okay, and are those timers still erratic,
AI?
CDR Yeah, they had a good period last night
for about an hour or two. Most of that time, but they're
just completely screwed up and it may be, we'll have to see
tonight. It may be the BMI through this ATM panel is getting
through to the ones we see, whereas, the ones we don't see
pointed out on the tapes are okay.
CC Okay. And we're going LOS here. We'll
see you in Honeysuckle in 5 minutes.
CDR Okay. We hope you can sort that out, and
we'll keep our fingers off of that thing for awhile.
CC Okay. Thanks.
Greenwich mean time. We've just gone out of range of the
Guam tracking station. Our next acquisition 3 minutes and
45 seconds from now will be at the Honeysuckle tracking
station in Australia. Investigation is underway now here
in Mission Control and on the Spacecraft to evaluate the
charger battery regulator modules that are used to power
the orbiting workshop, those 18 CBRMs, one of which has been
out since the first Skylab Mission. CBRM number 3 shut down
when there was a failure in a relay. Seventeen operating
batteries for the ATM solar array. Those are now being tested
for total battery capacity. Early investigation of that so
far has shown that they're degraded rather substantially,
a good deal more than was believed earlier by Mission Controllers,
and the degradation appears to have effected both the batteries
effected by heat during the part of the mission when the solar
workshop - when the Skylab workshop was not protected by a
parasol, and also those that were not affected by heat during
that period. The degradation now indicated is approximately
from 20 amp hours, which is the normal rated capacity of those
batteries to approximately 12 amp hours. That's a degradation
of roughly 40 percent. Another problem that arose yesterday
after the EVA is we do again have a temperature control valve
in the secondary coolant loop that has stuck. This problem arose
during the EVA in the first mission that was set up to deploy
the parasol, correction, to deploy the solar wing that had to
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be freed. That stuck temperature control valve B, is modulating

the temperature on the coolant loop to 42 degrees. Normal
procedure would be for that to modulate it about 47 degrees.
There was a little fluctuation yesterday and an indication that
there be an improvement in temperature control valve B, but that
improvement tended to be only due to changes in the orbit
when the radiators were put in the heat. The temperature
did come up very slightly, and once they came out of the
warmer part of the orbit, they sgain went back to 42 degrees.
So, temperature control valve B continues to be stuck follow-
ing yesterday's EVA. It is not considered a serious problem
at this time and they are going to allow it to run. About
2 hours ago they shut down one of the two pumps on that
secondary loop, so it's back in it's normal operating
configuration. Two pumps used for the extravehicular
activity, only one pump used for normal operations. The
rating of the pressure on that llne 25 pounds per square
inch, is the rated normal capacity for the line, which
shows that the total leakage from the secondary coolant
loop has been minimal, has not yet had any effect at all
on the operation of the secondary coolant line in the
airlock module. That temperature control valve B, however
is stuck and it will have to be monitored continuously, probably,
throughout the mission. Although it is not considered to be
a serious problem, it's stuck at a temperature that was
substantially above the temperature it was stuck at earlier.
No danger of freezing even at the 42 degree level, it's
well above the 32 degree freezing point of water. That
line of course contains coolanol, but it is adjacent to
lines that are used for carrying water. Thirty seconds
from acquisition of signal now at Honeysuckle. We'll
keep the line up for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle
for about 5 minutes.
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CC Skylab, we're AOS through Honeysuckle

for 3 minutes.
CDR Okay. I found the good one - picture
developed. It's just to the northeast of active region 93.
And I'Ii go over there and get lined up on it, and we'll
pull it off here in a few minutes.
CC Okay. Great, AI. We thought there'd
probably be one up there, too.
CDR Well there's just very small little
spots that are a little darker down - Just the 115. All the
coronal hole is either is the northeast, it's on the
northeast area from the rim to about 810 and then there's a
little hole - that's the northwest llmb, I'm sorry. On the
northeast llmb above that active region, is also a nice
little coronal hole. All the holes seem to be wide, it's about
080 and narrows down near the poles and then widens out again
as it gets over to the other limb. I mean correction, the
other equator, on the other side of the equator. So, I'ii
go over there and get right on it and we'll get some good
data here, I hope.
CC Okay.
CDR You couldn't do this Job without this
Polaroid and percent and image scope, it would be impossible.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS now. We'll
see you over Canary in 44 minutes 20:36. Be dumping the
tape recorders then.
and i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost
signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next
acquisition of signal not for 41 minutes and 26 seconds, at
which time we will be acquiring the Canary Island site in
the Atlantic Ocean. Those battery tests that have been
underway now for the last several days are continuing today.
All three members of the crew participating at one time or
another in the battery checks. Batteries 5 and 8 to be
tested today. Every nighttime pass, they allow these batteries
to discharge until they reach the lowest level possible on
them and then shut them off to keep them from being auto-
matically turned off by the control device on them. So
far those indications are that they're running about 40 per-
cent below their rated normal power, and that may in the
long run have some effect on the Earth Resources passes and
the length of those passes, since they must be done out of
solar inertial attitude when the total amount of solar
power being generated to the batteries is reduced. In the
coming days there are no full-up EREP passes, no Z-local
vertical EREP passes. That is to say the spacecraft is
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to say the spacecraft is not going to be oriented directly

towards the ground for Earth Resources. However, there is a solar
inertial Earth Resources pass, tentatively being scheduled
for the 33 - 33rd day of the mission, which is Just four
days from now. This is Skylab Control, it's 40 minutes
before our next acquisition of signal, 56 minutes and
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and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are presently
coming into range of the Canary Island and Madrid tracking
stations. That Canary Island pass with the Madrid pass
should last about 14 minutes. This is Skylab Control. We'll
have the line up for air-to-ground through Canary Island
and Madrid.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Canaries and

CDR Okay, Story.
CC And, AI ah - -
CDR - - going well. I just finished - You
know I'm in the process of doing step six.
CC Okay. Great. And we don't have a star
available right now. We'd llke a star lock on later. The
availablity on the pad is good. And the inner gimbal is the
same at 17:88, the outer gimbal minus 30:10. And in the
future we are going to get our computed Nu-Z on the pad
when we sent it up to you.
CDR Okay. You might send up the simplified
instructions on how we use it. We think we know how, but
maybe (garble) could give us some good tips on how to do it.
CC Okay.
CDR In other words, if it's a bigger negative
number, do we go more negative, or more positive and if
you multiply it by 60 exactly. So we won't go through a
big (garble) thing there.
CC Okay. We'll send it up to you. But
you are correct. If it's negative, you go negative, if
it's positive, you go positive. Then you multiply it by
60.
CDR Okay. Now you might tell the science
room that I think we've got them some good information on
this coronal hole. I put it on channel A, but essentially
we took some right on the boundaries, then we went inside
and took some. Then I moved up so that my mirror auto
raster would be continuous with the first one, and took
some data there in the hole, but the mirror raster would
now cover verticle 10-arc minute instead of a verticle 5.
And now I've moved over a 150 a arc minute. I couldn't
go the full 300 (garble) a second. I couldn't go the
full 300 because it would have put me off the llmb. The
82B slld off the llmb. So the raster will go off the llmb,
but the 82B won't. I think we'll have a good kind of L-shaped
5 by 5 section there that will allow them to get some good
coronal hold, though.
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CC Okay. Get right back with you.

CC That's good, A1. Great.
CC And in the first step working on that
time reference system, if you haven't already, take a look
at how the time is operating over there and then go to
secondary in panel 212.
CDR Okay. Let me watch it awhile.
CDR It's operating erratically, as usual.
Secondary on panel 12. Okay. We'll do it.
CDR Didn't help much Story. Same opera-
tions in secondary buffer as primary buffer.
CC Okay. Copy AI. And you can put it
back to primary and leave it there.
CDR Okay.
CC And while we're on the subject, A1,
when you do your EREP check tonight, you may - might check
the EREP timer to see if it's okay.
CDR You know it isn't going to be, but
we'll check it.
CC Okay.
PLT Say, Story, I'm up in the MDA, vacuuming
here, trying to, and we last - we used up our last hlgh-power
accessory outlet with the rate gyros. And I noticed that panel 115
has got something plugged into it, but I don't know what it
is. Wondering if you could find out what it is and if it's
okay, we'll Just unplug it and use that.
CC Stand by i.
PLT lWm thinking it's got to do with M512
I'm not sure because the - the cord goes into the bulk head
and disappears from there.
CC Jack, that's the VTR, and you can use
for a short while. When you're done, hook it up again, because
we do have about 15 minutes to dump.
PLT Okay. Only need it for about 5 minutes.
CC Be fine.
PLT Hey, Story. One other thing. I'm
developing a sty in my left upper eye-lld and I haven't had
one of those for about i0 years. But back in the days that
I did have them, I use to use an ointment called yellow
mercury. The closest thing I've come up with here in the space-
craft, is Neosporin topical ointment, opthalmlc type and I'm
using that. I wonder if that's the same thing?
CC Okay. We'll get you an answer.
PLT Roger. If you have a better recommenda-
tion I'ii use it. It seems to have stabilized the thing,
I hope anyway.
CC Okay.
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PLT Must have been something Iet.

PLT The stuff I'm using, I got out of the
command module.
CC Roger.
CDR Story, I never got time to get you that
star lock. And I'll have to get it the next daylight pass.
CC Yeah. You'll have to do it then, AI.
CDR For your information, Story, BAT A is
30.2 volts, BAT 5 is 31.8.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, what you're using right now from
the command module is about as good as we have.
CDR Okay. He heard you, Story.
CC And keep us posted on that. And, AI,
did they get through with the MI31?
CDR Yes.
CC Thank you.
PLT We're almost through, Story. Due to
the fact that I've got this little thing in my eye, I did
not do the OGI parts. I did the rotating chair part with my
eyes closed.
CC Okay, copy.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll
pick you up over Carnarvon in 25 minutes, at 21:16. And
at that time we will have handed over to Sharer, Truly, and the
purple team.
CDR Okay. Sounds llke a good team there, too.
I did not finish the petrol short on the step six. I'ii
finish that when we come up and then press on. We won't
have any trouble, I think, getting it all done.
CC Okay.
22 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have gone out of range
of the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal 26 minutes and 23 seconds from now. We'll be at the
Carnarvon, Australia station. That pass through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle. At 4:15 p.m. central daylight time, off-
going flight director, Milton Windier, will be available
for a change of shift briefing in building i. The off-going
flight director will be replaced by Phll sharer, who is
now here in the mission control center, and preparing to
take over. Spacecraft communicator for today, so far, has
been Story Musgrave. The on-coming spacecraft communicator
is Richard Truly. At the present time in Mission Control,
we're having some discussion of the upcoming tests of addi-
tional charger battery regulator modules. These are the
batteries that are attached to the ATM solar array.
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Several of those have already been tested, two underway,

today, test run on CBRM number 5 and 8. Tomorrow's scheduled
CBRM numbers 2 and 13. And Monday, tentatively scheduled,
repeat of the tests on number 7 and lO. Those tests during
the past week have shown that the batteries can hold only
about 40 percent - about 40 percent than less the charge they
were originally designed for. That did come as a surprise
to Skylab flight controllers. The flight controllers were
aware that there would be a degradation on the total capacity
of the batteries. They expected that degradation to be in
the neighborhood of about 20 to 25 percent. And in fact,
it appears now that the total capacity of those batteries,
their ability to store energy, has been reduced to about
40 percent rather than the 20 to 25 percent expected. That
limited battery capacity is not expected to have any signifi-
cant affect on Skylab operations now, but it may lead to
shorter earth resources passes later in the 59-day planned
flight. There are no full earth resources passes scheduled
in the next 6 to 7 days. Earlier today at 7:00 a.m. and
40 seconds this morning, central daylight time, the Skylab
crew broke the record of the first Skylab crew by passing
that 28-day, 49 minute, 49 second mark, set when the Skylab
crew splashed down on June 22nd. This is Skylab Control.
Change-of-shift briefing in about 20 minutes, pass to follow
immediately after that, we will very likely be recording
that Carnarvon Honeysuckle pass and play it back following
Milt Windler's change-of-shlft briefing. This is Skylah
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PAO Skylab Control, at 21 hours ii minutes

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 5 minutes
and 15 secnds from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon,
Australia, tracking station for a pass through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle. Off-going Flight Director Milton Windler informs
us that he will be staying in Mission Control through the beginning
of this Carnarvon-Honeysuckle pass. He wants to get some additional
information on the operations and the tests being run on those
charger bettery regulator modules numbers 5 and 8. He will be
available for that briefing at approximately 4:30 at the very end
of this Carnarvon-Honeysuckle pass, and we will keep the line
up through Carnarvon and HOneysuckle for that pass. This is
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PAO Skylab Control; at 21 hours 16 minutes

and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition of
signal through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for approximately the
next 15 minutes. This is Skylab Control live for air to
ground through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 14 minutes.
CDR Okay, I Just got a BAT volt barber pole
on number 8 and I reset the charger.
CC Roger, AI.
CC And also AI, we need to get the regulator
off.
CC CDR, Houston. If you have a time - have a
chance we'd like to get a time that you got the barber pole
or was it just now? And also, a readout on the battery
voltage, please.
CC Got a long pass and no hurry.
CDR I had 21:12, and what else did you want
to know?
CC Understand 21:12 was the time and we wanted
the battery voltage at that time please?
CDR Just under 28 volts.
CC Okay, A1 thank you.
CDR (Garble) gave some good angles that time.
I got a star lock right near there and closed the shutter.
CC Good AI, real good.
CDR Dick, what's this science conference I
note on the schedule tomorrow?
CC Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. That's the time that we've set
aside tomorrow afternoon to get the appropriate people here
for the medical area and the ATM area and corollary to talk to
you about the various science status and ask you questions and answer
them and Just have a chit chat is about - I think as I recall,
I think it's a one long pass for each of the areas that's scheduled.
CDR Okay. Just a second.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Mila at 22:04 and as of this
morning it's sure nice to be talking to the new world champions
of space flight.
CDR Thank you. How about having somebody figure
out when we reach the exact halfway mark and let us know what
time that is? We're going to celebrate.
CC Okay, I'ii find out, and I'ii celebrate, too.
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PLT We'll have a little extra apple Juice and

butter cookies.
CC Me too, Jack.
PLT It's great to be on unchartered ground
for once.
CC Roger.
and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. At present time the
Skylab space station has passed over Honaysuckle and now
gone out of range of the tracking station. At this time on
revolution number 1490 of the orbital workshop, the space
craft is over the Southern Island of New Zealand and we're
now 33 minutes from our next acquisition of signal. This is
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from acquisition of signal at our Bermuda Island tracking
station. That acquisition should last approximately i0 min-
utes. And shortly thereafter we will have a pass through
Madrid. We do have a very low elevation pass near the
Merritt Island station during this revolution bBut the Merritt
Island station is presently being used to support systems
intergration tests for SL-IV at Cape Kennedy. We are live
for air-to-ground through Bermuda for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for
i0 minutes.
CT Burmuda com tech, Houston com tech
now one voice check.
CT Burmuda com tech, read you loud and clear.
CT I read you loud and clear also. (Garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for
9 minutes.
CDR Say again, Dick.
CC Roger. Just letting you know that we
were at Bermuda for about 9 minutes.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC And I have the time for the midpoint of
the mission that I'd like to give to you, if you'd like to
write it down.
CDR Okay. Go.
CC Okay, it's on day 239. And the time is
04:48:25. And Phil and I noticed that there was both some
good news and some bad news about that time. The bad news
is that that's about a 2 hours after you guys are suppose
to be in bed, but it's about 12 minutes before this team
gets off of shift, so we may have to celebrate for you.
CDR Okay. Feel free.
CC Will do her.
PLT I know that hurts you a lot, Dick. But
you can stand it.
CC Well, we'll do our best, Jack.
PLT Maybe we can celebrate a couple of hours
early.
CC Roger.
PLT How long a mission is that the midpoint
for?
CC That's a nominal 59-day splashdown.
PLT Okay.
SPT Say, Dick. Did you say that was day
of the year 239?
CC That's right, Owen.
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CC That's correct.
SPT What mission day would you think that
falls on?
CC It's going to be mission day 31, Owen.
Like day after tomorrow.
SPT Mission day 31, halfway through a
59-day flight, huh?
CC Well, it turns out that lift off was
day lj which made the numbers come out that way. And the -
And splashdown turns out to be on day 60, is the way the
numbers fall out.
SPT I see. Okay. Thank you.
SPT Helps me with my arithmetic.
PLT You know the Professor, he's just used to
working on the back of an envelope. So, we got to check him
every once and awhile.
CC Well, we need the checking. So keep
it up.
SPT Well, on top of that, Phll Shaffer never
makes a mistake.
CC Who said that?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
from LOS. We'd llke to check and find out if the XUV monitor
door talkback is grey. We did not have an open hit down here.
CDR That's strange. I was using it a
minute ago and the door was open. Was closing and opening.
CC Okay. We're going to drop out here about
4 minutes and I'll call you at Madrid, A1.
CDR Good. X'm opening it now. Has been open;
I've been using it.
CC Roger. Understand.
CDR Okay. It's open now. May have just
got a funny bit.
CC Roger. We concur with you now, here on
the ground. Our TM looks good.
CDR Maybe I hit it when I went to integrate.
CC Roger, A1.
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of
range of the Bermuda tracking station. A pass over the
north Atlantic, that will take us to within range of the
Madrid, Spain tracking station in approximately 2 minutes
and 32 seconds from now, that Madrid pass to last approxi-
mately 8-1/2 minutes. During this last pass, spacecraft
communicator Dick Truly informed the crew that they will
reach the midpoint of their planned 59-day mission tomorrow
evening. That's at 11:48:25 p.m. central daylight time.
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The time he gave them was mission day of year 239, 04:48:25
Greenwich mean time. Owen Garrlott giving them a hard time
about the fact that it will occur on mission day-31, although
it's the midpoint of a 59-day mission. That's bit of inconsist-
ency due to the fact that the launch day is actually midway
in day I. And they will be Just beginning an official mission
day, although it will not actually be the 31st day that they
have been in space. They have now been in space for 28 days
and approximately i0 hours. And that is the record for
the longest space flight. They did surpass that record
earlier today. Midpart of the mission, again, 11:48:25: p.m.
central daylight time, tomorrow evening, Sunday evening.
This is Skylab Control, we have the line live for air-to-
ground through Madrid to begin in about a minute and 20 seconds
an 8-1/2 minute pass.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS again at Madrid.

We got you for 8 minutes and AI, when you did recycle we
ended up in good shape on the two doors and we're going to
take a real close - we've never seen that before. We're going
to take a close look at the data and see if we can psych it
out, but apparently no problem.
CC Skylab, Houston. We just commanded REG 8
back on, and we did have a battery complete.
CDR Okay, that's good.
CDR A little light's out up here.
CC Roger.
CDR That seven is about 30.5 volts. I mean
that 5.
CC And, CDR, Houston. You're just going into
the night pass and there's probably a good chance that
battery 5 may kick off this night pass since 8 did it last
time.
CDR (Garble) I'm going to watch it llke a
hawk.
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
CDR Now indicating 29 volts.
CC Roger.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're one minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Carnarvon at 22:52 and we're
going to dump the data recorder at Carnarvon.
CDR Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control; 22 hours 28 minutes and
6 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now at range at the
Madrid tracking station and our next acqulstlon of signal
24 minutes from now will be at Carnarvon. During this last pass
Commander Alan Bean was giving some data on battery number
5 as the spacecraft began to go into its darkness period
of orbit over Europe, that darkness period to last 27
minutes and 3 seconds in this ocassion during the darkness
period it is expected that battery number 5 will reach its
minimum depth of discharge and will indicate that it is at
its lowest available level, and at that time he will be instructed
to stop discharging the battery and to command it off, the
reason for that being that it is necessary to command it
off before it discharges beyond its minimum depths of
discharge at which point it may interfer with the operation
of the regulator. That's something that did happen early in
the first Skylab manned flight when the batter - several of
the batteries were discharged beyond their depth of discharge
capacity and did for a short period of time turn off so
Commander Bean indicated that he will watch battery number
5 llke a hawk during the nighttime pass and we should get
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reading on that battery at the next acquisition of signal

about 23 minutes from now at which time the spacecraft
will be coming back into daylight, south of Indonesia.
Earlier this afternoon Jack Lousma was told that the ophtalmlc
ointment used from the inflight medical support system kit in
the command module was the best available medication aboard
Sky!ab. Jack has a minor eye infection, a sty or a localized
bacterial infection of a gland in his left eyelid. That's
relatively a minor eye infection, but he is using an ophthalmic
ointment, an eye ointment, to treat that_ and the doctors here
expect that it will clear up with the use of that antibiotic
ointment. As a result of the sty, Lousma did not complete the
oculogylal illusion oportlon of the experiment MI31 which was
scheduled for this afternoon. MI31 involves both a motion
sensitivity experiment, a spinning chair and also a measurement
to detect the very small motion in a weightless environment and
that's the oculogyral movement portion where the subject must
wear a pair of close fitting goggles. Jack felt that those would
be uncomfortable with the minor infection which does cause
some swelling. And for that reason he did by-pass that
oculogyral illusion section of MI31. That will be rescheduled.
We should get a more full report laker this evening after
the medical pass before the crew goes to sleep. My next
acquisition at signal 21 minutes and 15 seconds from now.
This is Skylab Control at 31 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently 45 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia
tracking station. This pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
will last approximately 16 minutes. During this pass we
should bet a report on the total depth of discharge on
Battery number 5, a test run earlier on battery number 8
indicated it was reading about 12 amp hours, a little bit
above that and we should get a report on battery 5 following
this acquisition of signal in 15 seconds. This is Skylab
Control. We have our lines up for alr-to-ground through
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 15 minutes.
CDR Ro E • We're jumping the kangaroos.
CC And CDR, Houston. When you get through,
get squared away for this daylight pass, we're standing by
for the CBRM BAT 5 data.
CDR Okay, Dick, I'll give you a call in just

a second.
CC It's your thing, AI. No hurry. 13 minutes

left.
CDR Okay. It's got barber pole at 22:43 and

just barely under 28 volts.
CC Thank you AI, very much.
CDR Say, Dick, Is it Saturday down there?
CC That's affirm. Sure is.
CDR Would - How about putting in a call to my
home in Houston, if my mother and father-ln-law are there and
set up a private comm for me later this evening sometime.
CC Roger, AI, sure will. I'ii call them after
this pass over.
CDR Okay. Thanks.
SPT And Dick, I'd appreciate a call tonight home
too.
CC Okay. Owen.
CDR You know, we're doing a lot of work of this
active region 06. That active region as you view it is just
about a i0 ARC 15 arc second round white blob. It really
doesn't have a lot of structure to it. It's sitting over there
on the - close to the limb, and it doesn't have much in the
way of unusual features to point at, if you know what I mean.
CC Understand.
CDR I'll he finished in a minute with step 7,
and I'll he -correction - step 5, of 2B and I'll be doing
step 2. And I guess they still want me to do that. I can
go over and work on that spot if they want me to.
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CC Roger. They're talking about it now, AI,

and I'll get back to you in a second.
CDR I pointed at all possible places on that
plage there and it just isn't that big.
CC Understand. Stand by. And we're talking
about it now.
CC CDR, Houston. The suggestion down here is
rather than continuing to work on active region 06, to do
some building block 5 on active region 93. Over.
CDR How's the comm now, Dick? Is it started
working again?
CC Well, I guess we dropped out there, AI, I
read you loud and clear this time and the suggestion from
the back room in ATM was do a building block 5 on active
region 93. It's on your SAT.
CDR That's a good idea.
CC Okay.
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from LOS. We'll see you at Texas at 23:38.
CDR Okay.
28 seconds minutes Greewnlch mean time. We have passed
out of range of the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next
acquisition of signal 29 minutes and 40 seconds from now,
will be at Texas. This pass upcoming through Texas and
Bermuda, will be an extended one over the United States.
Present time, 8 minutes and 50 seconds after the hour, this
is Skylab Control.
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Time: 18:37 CDT, 29/23:3? GMT
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PAO Skylab Control; 23 hours 37 minutes and

24 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition of signal
at the Texas tracking station and we're live for air to ground
over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS stateside for
15 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR Say, Dick I was getting ready for that
VTR thing tonight and I happen to be looking at our EREP BTS
prep card and I was looking on the second column and in talking
about how to connect the VTR comm cable. Now I guess it goes
to A tonight, but this little thing says than B and than the
intercom to push to talk. I suspicion that we didn't get
a checklist change that should have included that. Would you
check and see if we should change on our checklist cards for
normal EREP VTS, column 2 line i, 2, 3, 4, 5, those Bs to As.
CC I think you are right, AI and I sure will
get back with you on that. Incidentally we're going to be
commanding the secondary electronic timer on here at Texas,
and then we're going to reset that timer to GMT - to zero at
GMT midnight which occurs over at Madrid. So after we command
the secondary timer on you can - might take a look at your
clock and see that scrambles - it probably will read the
wrong time but hopefully it won't be garbled.
CDR Okay, we'll sure give you the word.
CC Okay, I'ii let you know when we're
commanding.
CC Commands up.
CC CDR, Houston we have commanded the secondary
timer and you're right on the VTR it should be channel A and
we'll check back in the paper work and make sure that there's
a checklist change that supports that. I'm not sure that there
is, but if there is we'll send it to you again if not we'll
generate one.
CDR Right.
CC CDR, Houston, I made the phone call you
asked and it was no answer and I'ii keep trying and for Owen
I'm - I'ii let him know later exactly what time that phone call
will be set up. I do have a couple of other items that I'd
like to talk to you about. One is some dump voice that we
lost and the other about the ATM battery test.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, this afternoon we at one of the
Canary dump passes we had problems with some flucuating signal
strength and we re-dumped that tape recorder and got some of
the voice back at Carnarvon however, the summary of it is that
we've lost the channel A dump voice today, between the following
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times: 17:58 Zulu to 19:14 which is about an hour and 16 min-

utes and again from 20:02 Zulu to 20:36 Zulu which is about
half an hour. So if you recall anything that you did put on
those tapes or if that Jogs your memory about anything
we don't have them so if there's anyway we can help you out
let us know.
SPT Dick, I did put some things on the tape
but of course I don't remember the exact - the GMT time what
I think I'ii do is just send you a note down on channel A and see -
to make sure that you got some materials on each of these
subject then if you didn't I'll try to repeat that.
CC That's a good idea, Owen and we'll go
through it and make sure. The second item I had was on the
ATM battery test it looks like so far the way the tests are
turning out that the - all the battery capacities are about
12 to 13 amp-hours. In stead of bats 13 and 2 which are
called down on your flight plan for tomorrow we are considering
scheduling a test on batteries 7 and i0 for re-test. We have
some of our data indicates that deep discharge actually produces
some recovery and we'd llke to demonstrate that this is fact or not.
CDR Okay, we'll - won't make any changes
until we hear from you, exactly.
CC Roger, good idea.
CDR Might tell the ATM science room we finished
all of Jop 2B and we're doing shopping list item 13 with a
four second - correction - a four minute exposure and I think the
coronal hole is a possible area of interest and that's what
we're working on at the moment.
CC Roger, CDR.
CDR One other thing on this VRT test tonight
it looks like they were time critcial I couldn't really
understand why.
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, you said VTR, do you mean VTS or VTR?
CDR I meant VTS, sorry.
CC Roger, stand by i.
CDR Maybe that's the time the inertial attitude
happens to be local vertical or someting like that.
CC Roger, AI, l'm looking at the message now
and trying to figure out exactly which part you're talking
about as being time critical which step?
CDR Well, I don't know that's the question.
I hope on my CDR details it says, 0035, VTS check, video
select TV, data take 0045 to 0055, First of all, I dont' think
we can pull that test off in i0 minutes. But, I'm a little bit
puzzled about the whole thing.
CC Well, let us talk about it for a second and
I'ii get back to you.
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CC CDR, Houston. The only thing that's time

critical about this operation and the reason that it is
listed on your DPL pad at that i0 minute window is the fact that
while you're slewing the VTS around we want an Earth scene
in the VTS so that we can thereby put it on the VTR and
have something to reference it to. So as long as when - as
when you're slewing the VTS around during the procedure
that's set forth in this message, as long as we have any
Earth scene in the VTS at that time, we're happy. Over.
CDR Okay. Well, I'ii plan to start step 5
there right at that time, and just keep going til I finish,
and hope that I finish in i0 minutes.
CC Okay, AI. That's exactly what we want to
do.
PLT Hey, Dick. Has there been any decision on
what we're going to do the EREP S192, if anything, prior to
the resumption of EREP in a week or so?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We have no plans at the
moment to change the coolant Dewar on the S192, however, the
issue is still being talked about and the issue is not
completely closed and that's about the best answer I can
give you now.
PLT Okay, that's flne. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT Hey Dick, while we're talking about EREP,
could you ask the EREP officer if it is not his plan to
make sure by the end of this flight that we do not have
any 190B film that is left unexposed?
CC SPT, Houston. Be assured that we do
intend to use every frame.
SPT Okay. That sounds good. Didn't look
llke we'd reached half way on it yet, and I just wanted
to make sure that didn't plan to leave any unexposed.
That's good. Thank you.
CC Roger. That's correct.
CC SPT, Houston. One thing that's going to
help us use up some of that ETC film also, is we have some
solar inertial data takes scheduled. The first one, I think
is starting this next week and that will use up some of it,
profitably, we think.
SPT Sure. That sounds real good, and it
seemed like there had been several good opportunities of
that nature, and I'm sure you're just waiting along for
the best ones, and that sounds like a good idea.
CC Roger.
LOS. I'ii call you about 5 minutes from now at Madrid.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a complete on

battery 5 and we're commanding REG 5 ON now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about
45 seconds left. Was there any improvement in the operation
of the timer after we commanded the secondary timing back
on?
CDR Looks like it's working perfectly and the
time is a little bit off. It shows it at hour O0, minute 13,
and second 07, but they're not bouncing around any.
CC That sounds super, and the time is going
to start reading correctly at Madrid when we set it to 0
at midnight Zulu, about 8 minutes from now. I'ii call you
at Madrid.
CDR Okay. Good show.
PAO Skylab Control, 23 hours 53 minutes and
35 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range
of the Bermuda tracking station. We're now approaching
acquisition of signal at Madrid. That's 3 minutes and
9 seconds away. A little discussion during this last pass
of Skylab's event timer, which has been acting erratically
aboard the spacecraft. The telemetry for that event timer
has been working perfectly here on the ground. We're
getting accurate times out of the downllnk from the event
timer, but aboard the spacecraft it ran a lot of very strange
numbers last night, flunctuating from one set of numbers
to another set without any sort of pattern at all. They
have attempted to correct that problem today and it looks
as if during this last pass, it's running properly. Now
they'll try and reset that to zero hours Greenwich mean
time, which is upcoming about 5-1/2 minutes from now. Some
discussion during this pass also of the use of the Earth
Terrain Camera, SI90B, Owen Garriott indicating that he did
want to make sure that we were going to use up all the
film in the Earth Terrain Camera. That is part of the plan
here by the Earth Resources operations officer. There is
an Earth Resources Earth Terrain camera pass, a solar inertial
pass, which means, that the spacecraft will continue to
collect its full supply of electrical energy and will not
be oriented specifically towards the ground, but since it
will be taking place when it's directly over a point on
the ground that's below the Sun at high noon, we'll be able
to get Earth Terrain camera data at the same time we're
getting a full electrical power supply. That Earth Terrain
camera pass scheduled for over Paraguay will take place on
mission day 33. That's day of the year 241, 46 days from
now. Scheduled for that morning. And no details yet
available on that. There will be some additional planning
taking place in the coming days for that Earth Terrain
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camera. That's specifically for Earth Terrain camera and

it is a solar inertial rather than a Z local vertical pass.
One minute and 19 seconds now from acquisition of signal.
During this last daylight pass - we're now back into darness over
the North Atlantic - during the last daylight pass, the
charge on battery number 5 did come fully up and that's
now back on line operating as it had been in the past,
after the test was completed. Battery number showing 12.3
amps output. That's again the amp hour rating again low,
approximately 40 percent below it's rated level of 20 amp
hours. And that goes along with the test of the other
four batteries that had been completed earlier. During
this last pass, Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly told
the crew that they may be expecting to run a check again
on numbers 7 and i0, those charger battery regulator
modules have been tested before. We're going to see if
there has been any improvement in their performance since
the test. Some ground people indicated that they thought
would improve the performance of the batteries. That check
will be run, possibly tomorrow, that's still under consid-
eration here in Mission Control. No test yet run on the
power conditioning group. Those are the larger batteries
used for the orbital workshop solar array, but we may
expect some test of those to be upcoming as well. This
is Skylab Control. We are 7 seconds from acquisition of
signal. And we're llve for alr-to-ground through Madrid.
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TIME: 18:56 CDT 29/23:56 GMT
8/25/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 8 minutes.

CDR You there, Dick?
CC Affirmative. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, Dick. I guess we're all cleared
away now. This concerns salt. Due to the fact that the
food people dontt seem to be too worried about the salt
problem with regard to Owen's lack of change in the cue
cards. I know how he felt tonight. I'd llke to have a
little extra to make my meat taste better. Do you suppose
it would be all right Just to go ahead and take some?
CC Well I do, but let me check.
CC PLT, Houston. Use the salt to sui£ your-
self, and Just be sure and report to us what you did.
PLT Okay. I'ii do that. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Welre about a minute
from LOS. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 00:33. And one
question for Jack. We'll just wanted to confirm that the salt
request was not any degradation in the taste of the meat,
but Just a desire to make it palatable or taste as well as
possible.
PLT Yeah, I Just llke to have salt on it,
it makes it taste better. The meat's fine, but I'd llke to
make it better.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. See you at
Carnarvon.
CDR The clock looks llke it's set correctly.
CC Good show. Thank you for letting us know.
after zero hour Greenwich mean time. That pass over Madrid
station, the last one for the next 26-1/2 minutes. We'll
have another pass then beginning 26 minutes and 44 seconds
from now at Carnarvon. And through Honeysuckle, a relatively
short pass through those two stations. During this last pass,
the Skylab event timer was reported by Commander Alan Bean
to be working properly again and that was good news. They had
some problem with that yesterday after the EVA, but they did
correct that problem and apparently it is working well now
after it was reset to zero or Greenwich meantime over the Madrid
station. This is Skylab Control, 6 minutes and 27 seconds after
the hour.
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after the hour. We're presently coming into acquisition of
signal over our Australian tracking station and we'll keep the lines
up for live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon for
the next 6 minutes. Over.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon. Still
got about 3 minutes left in this pass and be advised in answer
to your question this morning about the television, we worked
up back in the TV - the guys worked up some answers to that
and anytime this evening that you're in the listening mood
I'Ii pass them up to you.
SPT Okay, Dick after while probably.
CC Roger, I figured that you might be busy
now so we can catch them later. And for Owen, we've set up a
phone call for him at the Goldstone pass at 02:48 this evening.
SPT Okay, 2:48.
CC Roger, and I'ii remind you again.
after zero or Greenwich mean time. We're presently out of
range of the Carnarvon tracking station. Four minutes from
now we'll have acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle. The pass
through Honeysuckle, a relatively low elevation pass, will
only last for a minute and 20 seconds. This is Skylab Control.
We'll keep the line up for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle
in about 3 minutes and 50 seconds.
PAO Skylab Control. We've just heard the
carbler here in Mission Control for the beginning of this
pass through Honeysuckle for about a minute and 19 seconds.
We're now about a minute and a half from acquisition of signal
at Honeysuckle. Here in Mission Control the Flight Director
is Phil Shaffer, he is now reviewing tomorrow's plans which
includes a battery verification test on the pow - one of the
power conditioning batteries presently scheduled to be battery
number 6. This is a separate set of power containers for
the orbital workshop. This one attaches to the orbital workshop's
single solar array wing. The other ATM charger battery regulator
modules have been undergoing tests earlier in the week. Five of
those have already been tested. Apparently the present schedule,
looks like now, will retest two those tomorrow. Those will be
numbers 7 and i0, this tomorrows test of the pow - one of the
power conditioning group batteries for the OWS will be the first
test on those and we'll - this too will be a test to determine the
total depth of discharge or the total capacity of the battery.
That PCG number 6 is schedule for activity tomorrow early. This
is Skylab Control. We have the line up for air-to-ground through
Honeysuckle.
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8/25/73
CC Skylab, Houston we have a very short

AOS here at Honeysuckle we're about a minute from LOS and
we're going to have you at Texas at 01:13 and I'll be standing
by there at Texas to get the Evening status report.
SPT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control; at 45 minutes and 45 seconds
after zero hour, Greenwich mean time. We presently are out of
range of the Honeysuckle trackln E station, our next acquisition
of signal 27 minutes and 23 seconds from now will be at Texas.
This is Skylab Control; at 46 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour ii minutes

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about a minute
and a half from acquisition of signal over the United States
tracking stations at Texas and also at Bermuda, Just outside
the U.S. area. This pass should be an extended one. At
the present time in Mission Control, flight director,
Phil Shafer, is working over tomorrow's plan, including
instructions on the solar viewing, indicating that active
region 7, appearing again, on the Sun as a return of old
active region 85. That's the active region that produced
two flares on the 7th and 10th of this month. That will be
back visible again, on the Sun. And that has been renumbered
now as active region number 7. We have the llne up for
alr-to-ground through the U.S. passes. And that begins
about 45 seconds. This is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Texas
for the next 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Texas
for the next 14 minutes. We are receiving downlink TV and
I'm standing by for the evening status report.
PLT Okay, Dick. And A1 will be with you in
just a minute.
CC Okay. We've got lots of time.
CDR Okay, Dick. Here it comes. By the
way the DTS test came off all right.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Start with urine volume: 148,
145, 150; Drinking water unit: 5444, 8995, 6119; BMMD: 6.238,
6.235, 6.234; 5.966, 5.963, 5.963; 6.950, 6.948, 6.948;
Exercise: CDR, 2/33/5004, 3/15, mark I, 40A, 20B, 20C, 20D;
3/10/mark 2, 40A, 20B, IOC, 10D, 10G; SPT, 2/30/4300, 3/20,
mark i, 60A, 60B, 60D; PLT, 1/05/0554, 2/32/7356, 3/20, mark i,
50A, 20B, 20D, and 20 back bends; Medication: PLT had the
Neosporin ointment for a sty on his eye, which, he'll talk
about with the doctor, tonight. Sleep: CDR, 6-1/2 G,
SPT, 7 G, and PLT 6-1/2 G. Here comes the food log:
CDR, all salt packs were used, which were 13 (garble)
CC Roger. I got all that, AI.
CDR CDR used 12.5 salt packs, and had an
extra cherry drink. SPT had five salt packs, and add
blsqults, add lemon aide, add jam. PLT had five salt packs,
and one cherry drink. Okay. Photo log next.
CC Okay.
CDR Photo log says: M516/S054 casset removal,
C152, 50, C149; M516, housekeeping 80B, C144, 00, C142;
30-millimeter, - correction, 35-milllmeters: CII01, 57, CX1320,
CX25 - This is the 70-milllmeter: CX25, 076; drawer A con-
figuration: 07, C150; 21, C140; 05, C146; 00, C141; 06, C152;
00, C149; 03, C151, 00, C148; in the back it's 02, C144;
00, C142; Now let me back up just a second and look at
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something.
CC Okay.
CDR On the C152, here, 06, C152 is in that
50, not 00, C149.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR Okay. Flight Plan tomorrow, tell them
that's a good Flight Plan. It looks like we've got a good
day off for everybody. Owen's got some time. We've got
some good housekeeping. I'm glad they planned it the way
they did. It'll give us all time to get our clothes out and
things like that. So, that's a good plan and we'll pull
that off tomorrow. Our request is, that you don't call us
tomorrow morning. We'll set our own little alarm clocks
up here. Only Jack has to get up early and I have to get
up next. And everybody else can get up when they want, and
nothing's time critical for quite awhile, so don't call us,
please, unless you have something, of course. Shopping
list: nothing. Inoperable equipment: GB number one, as
you know. Unscheduled stowage item: nothing. So that's
the evening report unless you have some questions.
CC Roger, AI. I've got two or three
things that I'd like to talk to you about. And we might
as well do it now. We - That's fine on the wakeup call.
We had planned on calling you at 12:00 o'clock tomorrow.
But, I'm sure you guys can get the right people up when you
want them. So we will not call you in the morning. We
did want to remind Owen that the special specific gravity
check within MllO, tomorrow, is due. And as long as it's
taken on the first void, it can be done, actually, accomplished
either before or after the urine test, his choice. And
I've got two or three evening questions that I thought I'd
pass up to you.
CDR Fire away.
CC Okay. This is from ATM. The tempera-
tures on S052, and SO54 both cameras were high after
installation during the EVA. We're wondering, how long
were these cameras on the VC tree at the SAS work station
prior to installation?
SPT Well, I was just stopping a moment to
think. But, we took them out the night before, and the
following day they were installed. And so, it had to have been
less than an hour.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much.
Next question has the SO54 film been stowed?
SPT It's in the command module A-8.
CC Great. Next question is, it's going
to be a few ho - -
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CC - - 54 film been stowed?

SPT It's in the command module A-8.
CC Great. Next question is, it's going
to be a few hours bef
CDR I'm trying to remember on that cannister
whether we sent it out you put it there, did we move
149 or you moved 149. Then we set out the cannister and
then you did the TAC.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay.
CC The next question we had is: it's
going to be several hours before we get some white light
coronagraph TV on the ground that we can look at, we're
wondering if you could described the nature of the cusp
that's is apparently visible on the white coronagraph now,
and does the character of the image that you see change
with time, or does it change with roll? And what would
you estimate its brightness to be relative to the coronal
structures? Over.
SPT Okay. I'm not certain whether it
rolls or not. But I'm - because I've not tried it the couple of
times I've had a chance to look at it, Dick. But I'm
reasonably certain that it does. And it looks like a -
sort of a dish concaved outward, located at about 130, at
least the times I've seen it. And of course, that may
roll. And it's brightness relative to the streamers I
would say, that it's comparable with a bright streamer
at the edge of the occulting disks. Over.
CC Roger. I got that. And did you notice
any change in the brightness of this image with time? Over.
SPT I don't believe any of us have noticed
it, Dick.
CDR Let me give you a thought, that I
have on it, although I'm not looking at it now.
CC Okay.
CDR I get the impression it's on the
occulting disk. So as you rotate it around - rotate the
cannister then it rotates with it. So, it always stays -
As you look at the tube it always stays in 130, or so.
That's my impression. The next one is, that the cusp is
most noticable because it provides a dish shaped shadow
with the base of the dish sort of in contact with the
occulting disk. And so then you have the bright corona
on the other side of the dish. And the dish would probably
be in terms of angular degrees around the center of the
occulting disk something like I0 to 15 degrees in width there,
So, I see it mostly as sort of little shadows - disk shaped
shadows with that slight brightening in a dish shaped, as
it moves away from there at 130, or so.
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CC Okay. Thank you very much. Let's

move on to another question, AI, and get back to the business
of the guards on the switches for the rate gyro packs. First
of all, we flew up a guard in the rate gyro pack tool kit
which was a little u-shaped aluminum dealy, and it was
intended to go over the hlgh-power accessory circuit breaker
on panel 202. Did you find that guard, and is it now on
that circuit breaker?
CDR The answer is yes. I even taped the
base of the guard down. It's completely, to my mind, doesn't
do the job, considering the criticality of that circuit
breaker staying closed all the time. Now it's taped there
and somebody will have to go to great effort to knock it
off. But 11'11 guarantee you when you getting in the coolant
trying to hunt around for the coolant, or you're trying to
get some of those screws off, like we've been doing lately
to hunt the leaks or hunt the vacuum, then sometimes your
feet flail around. They don't usually, but once in a while
they do. And you'd sure hate to knock that circuit breaker
off. So it's on now, and taped down. But I think we ought
to come up with a design that we can put on there, and
screw it on so if somebody gives it a good kick, it still
doesn't move. Right now, if you give it a kick it just
kind of flies off its snap and the circuit breaker's exposed.
CC Okay, AI. Let me go on to another
couple of suggestions that we had. First of all on all
these switches, for you flight, the hlgh-powered accessory
outlet switch that's over there, we think it's be okay just
to get a piece of gray tape, and actually tape that switch
to the on position. In the case of the circuit breakers,
we obviously want some kind of guard that will allow the
circuit breakers to pop open. And the best idea that we've
come up with, would be to get maybe one of the backs off
one of the books that, maybe you can find, that Pete was
using, or a piece of cardboard or something and just form
a little U-shaped cover over it. One that could be taken
off in a hurry if you needed to. And also, one that would
allow the circuit breaker to do its job, but would hopefully
prevent, you know, you from getting your finger or foot in
there. And then for Jerry's mission, of course, we can do
something a little more scientific.
CDR Okay. That's not a bad idea. We've
got tape over them now, that'll still allow them to throw,
but protect them somewhat. Before we launched, I thought
those things were acceptable. And I don't think so anymore.
The circuit breaker we've discussed is fixed the problem there
is, that's a rather narrow area of the space ship and you
end up going by there and sometimes you're not in complete
control. You know, your feet are dangling and it's just
t.
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not the place to have a - some open things. I would

suggest that when they do come up with a guard, some sort
of a metal guard or somethlng_ that they go to the trouble
of painting it orange and black or some - I mean orange -
yeah, orange and black or red and silver, or something
like that, so that it will be a noticeable thing. Because
there's a lot of items in there and those black rate gyros
stand out about as much as any other box in there and you
know you can't avoid them all when you come t_rough there.
So you can know, you'd want to be alert to. So it ought
to not only protect it, it should be color coded so it
would be obvious that those are something you should stay
away from.
CC Roger, AI. We got your suggestion.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS at Bermuda. I'm going to
give you a call at Madrid in about 5 minutes and I have
a couple quick things I can probably get up here. One was,
we'd llke to get ATM frames remaining tonight. We could
not find it on channel A from last evening. And the
second one is - Okay. l'm being told to hold up and I'ii
get this one back to you later. So I'ii give you a call
at Madrid in about 5 minutes.
PLT You want the answer to real time, or
on the channel A?
CC We'd appreciate it real time. Maybe
at Madrid, if we could.
PLT Okay. I've got them in front of me
I'ii hold them until then.
CC Okay. I'ii be calling you very
shortly, Jack.
range of the Bermuda tracking station. Our next acquisition
at Madrid in about 3 minutes and 37 seconds. During this
last pass we had the evening status reports, including
information on the television camera that went out earlier
today. There - One of the two TV cameras aboard Skylah,
is now, not operating. As a result of that, one of the
television plans for today, that television item number 6,
which had been scheduled earlier was cancelled. Also,
during this pass, Owen Garriott was asked about the possible
exposure of one of the cameras to the Sun for a too long
a period of time. They wanted to know how long two of
the ATM cameras have been out, these are camera and film
units that were used to replace the camera and film units,
already on the solar telescopes. He indicated that he had
brought them up the night before and put them up the following
day, of course. On Skylab there are approximately 15 nights
and days for each earth day. That meant that the exposure
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was a relatively short period of time and should not have affected
the temperature which read a little bit high when they
installed it yesterday. Also some information on a speck
that's been identified on - believed to be on the occulting
disk of the SO52, white light coronagraph, one of the solar
instruments. The occulting disk is a small device about the
size of a dime, used to block out the Sun, so that corona
can be studied by the white light coronagraph. They were
uncertain - They still remain uncertain at this time where
that speck is, whether it's on the occulting disk or floating
in the area, or attached to some other items in the equipment.
A similar problem did appear on the S052 occulting disk during
the first mission. That was corrected by using a camels-halr
brush and during one of the Skylab ErAs, during that first mission
that a brush was used to brush avery very tiny speck of material
which was interferring with the photography of the corona
around the Sun. Yesterday, during the EVA, Owen Garriott
did report that there were a number of paint chips floating
in the area, as a result of removing the ramp locks on SO56
and SO82A, two of the instruments which had launch locking
devices to keep the doors from moving during the launch. Those
devices were taken off, but to do so, Owen Garriott had to
remove screws which were painted. And a number of paint
chips did come off. That is possibly one of the problems
of the SO52 occulting disk. No way of knowing at this point.
And also, no way of knowing how long it will be before that
problem might be solved. That does inferrer with the
data gathering, but does conclude the damage that - -
This is Skylab Control we're one minute from acquisition of
signal at Madrid. And we'll have the line up for air-to
ground at Madrid.
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CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Madrid for

9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick and here's the ATM frames remaining,
H-ALPHA 14889. SO56, 5370; 82A is 188; 82B is 1451. 65 is 7608
54 is 5615.
CC That 54 was 5615? Is that correct?
PLT Yes sir.
CC Okay, good thank you for reading them
down and I got them. I have a couple more things that we
can get out the way this pass. First of all, we intend to
be - send up to you a new procedure for ED78 that you may -
can use later. _ But the one note on that the SL-2 student
experiment checklist has some useful pictures in it and so
the task is to find that checklist. We think it's in a
plenum bag that you stowed Just to the left of the freezers
up in the forward compartment of - etween the freezers and
that duct. And there maybe some pictures in there you might
want to have a hack at trying to find. Also, have a change
to the CDR, and the SPT, details for tomorrow and some battery
number change.
SPT Okay, lets get them out.
CDR I know right here the book is but I still
don't understand what we're going to look for in the book?
CC Well, I guess the note that I have and I
don't have one of - I don't have Pete's book here at the
console AI, but the note that I have are - there some
photographs or pictures of this experiment in the book that
would be useful for you to take a look at.
CDR Okay, so it's in his student demonstration
book?
CC I'm sorry, say again.
CDR It's in his student (garble) experiment book.
CDR That affirmative. Student experiment
checklist.
CDR We'll find it in a flash. Okay.
CC Okay, and I guess we want to know if you
can find it in order so that we can tailor the procedures
that
you have that information. That's about all it it.
_ CDR As soon as we finish talkin E we'll find
it. Okay.
CDR Ready to copy BAT numbers.
CC Okay, on the CDR details for tomorrow
at 15 - at a time of 15:15, I want to change bat 13, to read
bat 7. And then on the SPT detail at a time of 16:59; I
want to change bat 2 to read bat 10.
CDR Okay, I'll - the SPT is working. I'll relay
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that message to him. But (garble) I do CDR bat 7 and PCG

bat 6. Is that correct?
CC Roger. You do 7 and Owen does 10.
CDR Oh my, I also, must be doing PCG BAT 6 in
between times is that true?
CC That is affirmative.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston we've still got about
5-1/2 minutes here at Madrid. Another thing this evening
that we wanted to get up to you. You asked this morning about
television and how things are going and Fred Koons worked
up a pretty good summary of what we think to date and I'd
like to pass that up to you sometime this evening.
CDR How about right now.
CC Okay, I'm going to be half reading from
this page and half paraphrasing so, I'ii just go ahead and go.
We promised you a report on TV and particularly the ones you've
done from the TV ops book. And what we've done is we've taken_a
look at the las - At the first 28 days of the mission and the
following is a summary of that. First of all just about all
the TV has been great. Both from the TV ops book and the
others. You've done a total of 31 telecasts, 13 of which is
from the ops book, almost everyone of these has been broadcast
and of course you know that after we get them down here we
do edit them some Just to get them short enough for the networks
to use them. The reason that there is not to many from the
TV ops book is that we didn't start until day Ii, and prior
to that we had trouble finding time for the TV and of course
we had the VTR failure we had to contend with. The one that
you did on day ii was a real beauty. It was one of the tom-
complicated 2 camera Jobs with the M171 and you did it almost
perfectly. You had trouble with one scene because the light
was out but we fixed that up in the ground processing. The next
day you did MI31, it didn't go as well but that was our fault
because the checklist we thought was too complicated you did
a real good job in picking up the miss scenes in that one.
The three telecasts that Jack did on meal prep and eating were
real good. The M509 and TV went very well and they were also
- was an impressive and the guys down here think that Owen is
a first class zero-g cameraman. We have one piece of constructive
cri=iclsm.
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CC - with an impressive, and the guys down

here think Owen is a first class zero g camera man. We
have one piece of constructive criticism. When Owen did
the TV 28 from the ATM C&D, this was the time he ran out
of tape, we thought he didn't pause quite enough in his
narration, so we just suggest a reminder to just go a little
slower on the talking. When Jack did the camera comparison
test, it showed that there was not much difference between
the two cameras. The one that you have left may need a
little more light and particularly in the forward compartment
in the MDA, and we'd recommend an f stop of f/4. And that's
just a note there, that will probably make the focus
more critical. We are starting to get some live TV
opportunities in the evenings, and that may be a good time
to look at Anita's web. The last time that Owen televised
the web, he used the close up lens, and we'd Just like you
to know that that worked real well, and best of choices he
had. It might even help to turn out one of the spider box
lights to get a little more contrast on the web. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick, we appreciate that, and tell
Fred Thank you for working the problem.
CC I'ii sure do it.
CDR By the way, we did housekeeping 60-E
yesterday, so we got plenty of food around.
CC We got that.
CDR Forgot to put it on the shopping list
accomplishments.
CC Okay, and that was 60 Echo, right?
SPT Right. Ambient food transfer.
CC Okay. Fine. And one note from ATM for
the unattended closeout on the SO55, we need optical re-
ference line 25 and a verify that the night interlock
switch is normal.
CDR I'ii get it.
PLT That's in mechanical 102 and - which is
the same as optical zero.
CC Stand by.
PLT What?
CC Skylab, Houston. We do need optical
reference. You are correct about what you said about
the mechanical being the same, however during the night
we do change that, so we would appreciate optical reference.
CDR Okay. Owen's doing that right now.
SPT Dick, I think - I'm not sure - but if you mean
the last one is in mechanical reference, we'll have to wait
until sunrise. Go all the way around to get another zero
in on the optical reference. Now is that what they want
us to do? Or do they want us just to add 25 to this 102?
And then put the switch to optical?
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CC We're satisfied that we see you Just put

it in optical reference now and we think that we're in
good shape now, Owen.
SPT Okay. I understand. So you're satisfied
with just putting the switch there. Thank you.
CC Roger. We're going LOS here at Madrid.
We'll see you at Honeysuckle. That'll be your med con-
ference, and the next pass is!Owen's telephone call.
Greenwich mean time. We're presently 36 mlnu_es and 30
seconds from that acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle.
That pass is the reserved p_ass for the medlcal - private
medical conference. Following the medical conference, we
will get a status report from the Mission Sur@eon, Dr.
Buchanan. During this last pass one change noticed in
the preparations for tomorrow's Flight Plan, they ha_e now
officially confirmed that CBRM batteries number 7 and i0
will be worked on tomorrow. That's a repetition of the
test run on 7 and i0 earlier. They will be repeated.
Previously the schedule called forCBRMs 13 and 2 to be
run tomorrow. The activity on those CBEMs will be handled
by all three of the crew members, Commander Pete Conrad will
begin the work on CBRM number 7, he will also be working
on the power conditioning group battery number 6.Power Condi-
tioning groups, of course, attached to the orbital workshop
solar array. The CBRMs or charger battery regulator modules
are attached to the ATM solar arrays. Early tests have shown
that those ATM solar array CBRMs are reading about 12 amp-hours
of available power. That is about 4 amp-hours below what was
expected. They are retesting 7 and i0 tomorrow to determine
whether or not that original test did improve the performance of the
battery and increase it total capacity. That is a theory
of some Mission Control Planners and that will be evaluated
by the test tomorrow. The test will be taking place during
the nighttime periods beginning at approximately i0:00 in
the morning and will run through most of the day. It will
be finished tomorrow evening about 6:00. This is Skylab
Control, 34 minutes and 33 seconds to our next acquisition
of signal. That acquisition at the Honeysuckle tracking
station is reserved for a private medical conference. That
medical conference may be expected to take up virtually all
of the Honeysuckle pass. It's a 5 minute pass, but because
there has been at least one medical problem today, that
being the sty in Jack Lousma's eye, that may be expected
to absorb most of that 5 minutes and possibly all of it, so
we would not: expect that that would be a pass. If that is
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not available for live air-to-ground, the next llve air-to-ground

opportunity is a little over an hour from now at Goldstone. This
is Skylab Mission Control at 46 minutes and 43 seconds after
the hour.
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from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station.
This station pass should last 5 minutes and 5 seconds, is
reserved for a private medical conference which should be
underway at the beginning of the pass. We do not expect to
have air to ground llve doing this pass put should we have
that we will have the lines up live. This is Skylab Control;
our lines are up for Honeysuckle pass but we do expect a
private medical conference to be underway.
and 33 seconds. Wetve completed that Honeysuckle pass that was
reserved for a private medical conference and there was no
hand over to the ground controllers here. That medical
conference was completed at Honeysuckle. We would expect to have
acquisition of signal 21 minutes and 6 seconds from now at
the Goldstone tracking station. That no doubt will begin
the last pass of the day as it is an evening pass of the
United States. This is Skylab Control at 28 minutes after
the hour.
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and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently 43 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Goldstone. The pass for Goldstone
in Texas will last apporximatley i0 minutes. We have the
line up live for air-to-ground through Goldstone in Texas. We
will expect thfs_Lmayb_ to _ ,he.final pass _ the evening,
although the crew!_ihaSi_:_ndicated tha_ _.they w_ll be sleeping late
tomorrow.. Tomor_ow is__he_,_cr_e_ day_f_ _ Ground had intended
to wake them up at 7 a.m. central daylight time, but that will
be now up to the 6few to decide. We're 18 seconds from
acquisition of signal. The llne is up live for alr-to-ground
over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Goldstone, for the
next 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC And, Jack, I've got a _uple _ questions, and I
know Owen's tied up. I thought I'd _ss them to you, and I could
get the answers later or maybe you'd know. And also one other
thing is the precaution to void the possiblity _ a caution
and warning tonight. We're seeing secondary loop temps go down.
We don't think this is anything serious with AM secondary loop,
but we don't want to risk waking you up. So we suggest on panel
207 secondary coolant temp low inhibit.
PLT Okay, we'll get it.
CC Okay, and the two items that I- we_nted
to find out was that - it makes us wonder from looking at your
photo log from tonight and that is did you - we'd _ke to know
how the spider transfer went today? Did you get any problems
with Arabella out of her vlal? And did you get any 16-millimeter
photos of her?
PLT Well, you'll have to ask Big O. I haven't
seen Arabella around here loose. I image she's where she belongs
but 0 can answer those questions, I don't know If hers near a
mike or not.
CDR He's not and the answer is he's going to
do it
tomorrow, he didn't get to it today.
CC Great, A1 thank you very much.
CC And did he have any luck with the S063 aurora
photos tonight?
CDR I don't know he's still there. We'll have to
ask him when he comes back.
CDR I just turned on cool low now. Tell me
a little hlt more about why this thing is going low.
CC Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. What we think happened was that
during the EVA, the TCB valves in that loop, moved and then restuck
in a position that allowed more flow and loop the is getting
cooler however, it's not going down at a rate that concerns
and in order to understand more about it we're just watching it
go down and we think it - and we think it's going to stabilize at
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about 40 degrees at the rate it's going now and the trip point
is about 38.
CDR Okay, understand, and I - in other words
you don't anticipate us having to break out our US heaters
and all that other business.
CC Negative, _right now we do not AI.
CDR Okay, good.
CDR Hey, we're going to go and set our clock
to day 238, if that's okay with y'all.
CC Roger, we concur with that and also AI,
we've upllnked a housekeeping 70 Zebra message. It's in the
teleprinter now and that's the PCG test that you're going to
be doing in the morning. You might want to take a look at
that and I have a few news items for you here. We still got
about 4 minutes left to Goldstone.
CDR Good we enjoy them every night.
CC Stand by - okay here we go. First thing
is - first thing first. I want to tell you a little bit about
Fred, he's made real good progress _day, his _ndltion is
stable he's taking food orally now. And all the intravenous
catheters have been removed. And so we think he's improving
very much.
CC And I'Ii go ahead and catch some of these
news items. Authorities discovered to the horror of many
Frenchmen today that the equivalant of 2 million bottles of
fake Bordeauz wine were in the cellars of famous wine making
region and that's being persued very carefully in France. A
500 pound bell from the sunken U.S.S. Houston, was delivered
Friday, to the U. S. Embassador in Indonesia. Also handed
over in the Embassy ceremony were a machine gun and a telescope
from the crusier which the Japanese sank in the Battle _ the
Java Sea in 1942; in which about 500 of the Houston's crew were
lost. A group of Indonesian frogmen found the wreck last June.
General Omar Bradley, the nationts only five star General has
been moved out of the intensive care unit of a Los Angeles
hospital. A spokesman said that Bradley continued to show
satslfactory progress. The Skylab news today is Primarily
centered around you breaking the manned space flight record.
References are being made to the old record set by Pete Conrad,
Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz. Other milestones being mentioned
are the mission mid point which you reach tomorrow night and
of course the fact that you plan to gomore _an double the
old record. And incidentally at the time you cross the mid point
you would have traveled 12 million miles. Nineteen year old
Joyce Ann Koctch wanted to be an Army MP but flnding the
quota for women to be full, she is _ttling for being the Army's
first woman paratrooper, although she will never see combat if
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she successfully completes her training she will be qualified

to jump in emergency situations and possibly in Army
exhibitions. The helicopter carrier at New Orleans arrived
in Peearl Harbor Saturday afternoon to ready _r its assignment
as primary cover ship for the Skylab-3 astronauts. The ship
will operate in and out of Pearl Harbor covering several
contingency landing areas and on September 14 will head for
the planned splash in point about 350 milessouthwest of San
Diego and she'll cover the other contingency points enroute
I have one more item. The floral arrangement of Mrs. Myron Harp of
Junction City, Kansas won a blue ribbon as the best arrangement
at the Central Kansas Free Fair. After three days on display
it was confiscated by Abilene police _ seems the greenry
used to set off a smattering of red buds was marijuana. She
said it just grows wild in her back yard and _e yard and
the long lacy leaves added to the arrangement so me used it
for fern. Although she knew what it was, she had no idea
it would create so much excitement and no charges were filed.
We're about a minute from LOS at Goldstonewe're going to
have you - pick you up in Bermuda in about 3 or 4 minutes and
I'II give you a call there.
CDR Okay, Dick thanks.
CC Roger.
CDR Good finale, too
CC Roger.
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PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 58 minutes _d

46 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are just going out of
range of the tracking station at Goldstone. We'll have
acquisition at Bermuda in about 2 minutes _d _ seconds.
During this pass over Goldstone two - _mous (garble) -
given to the crew by spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly.
Truly indicated that the crew should inhibit the coolant
temp low caution and _arnin_ device. They have had a lower
than normal readings on the secondary coolant loop. Those
readings ihave been in the neighborhood of 42 to 43 and 44
degrees in the last day. Thee problem began after the EVA,
a problem that was similar to the one that occurred during
the first Skylab mission. The temperature control valve
that's used for regulating _the amount of cold water _ming
from the radiators and flowing through the coolant lights -
or, I'm sorry, cold coolanol, flowing from the radiators
through the coolant pipes, has, apparently, stuck in a lower
than normal temperature. The normal temperature for those
temperature control valves is 47 degrees. And they normally
do regulate the temperature to 47, so that you have a con-
..... stant temperature in the coolant loops. However, those are
reading approximately 42 degrees right now, and there is
some concern that they may drop even lower, possibly to 40
degrees. The trip point for the caution and warning li -
signal is at 38 degrees, but just in case they should drop
that low, they do want to have that inhibited so the crew
won't be awakened by it. There is no concern at all about
the possibility of this dropping much further than it has
already, but they do not want to awaken the crew with it.
Also, Alan Bean was given instructions to pay attention to
the teleprinter pad being up-linked to _e crew tonight.
That's housekeeping HTOZ, housekeeping 70Z, which _ a
test of the power conditioning group aboard - one _ the
power conditioning group aboard the orbital workshop. Power
conditioning group is a large battery. There are a set of
eight of them. This is number 6 and that 411 be tested
tomorrow for its total battery capacity. Tests have been
performed on five of the ATM charger battery _gulator modules,
and they will repeat tests of those - of two of those tom-
orrow. This will be a test howev - first test, however,
of the orbital workshop's power conditioning group batteries
which are much larger. We are now approaching _quisition
of signal at the Bermuda station, the pass lasting approxima-
tely 5 minutes and 51 seconds. And we will be live for
air-to-ground through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Bermuda for 3 min-
utes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
SL-III MC--I193/2
Time: 21:58 CDT; 30/02:58 GMT
8/25/73
CC And, Owen, Houston. We hoped your call

went okay, and I had one question for you and that was that
did you have any luck with the SO63 aurora photographs to-
night?
SPT There was no visible aurora of any kind
tonight. I did look through the hole though, in that part
of the orbit there, during that window, and just no luck.
And the call went through very sm6othly.
CC _oger.
from LOS. In case you want to talk to us,._we're haying our
Canary AOS at 03:11 and I won't call you. So, you guys get
a good nights sleep and call us in tile morning. We won't
call you.
SPT Okay, Dick. See you in the morning. Thank
yOU.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours 8 minutes and 35
seconds. We have now gone out of range of the Bermuda track-
ing station. We do have an acquisition of signal_out 2
minutes and 42 seconds from now again, but there was a good-
night given by spacecraft communicator, Dick _uly, at this
last pass. We may not hear from the crew until tomorrow
morning, when they will awaken on their own, _omptly after
7:00 a.m. central daylight time. That's about an hour _ter
than usual. Tomorrow is the crew's day off. However, they
are scheduled for a very busy day of activity nevertheless.
Included in tomorrow's schedule are approximately 5 hours
of solar data-take time on the ATM, all that activity to
be done by Commander A1 Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma. There
will also be some science activities performed by _ience
Pilot, Owen Garriott - -
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I194/I
Time: 22:09 CDT, 30/03:09 GMT
8125173
PAO - - by Commander AI Bean and Pilot

Jack Lousma. There will also be some science activities
performed by Science Pilot, Owen Garriott. Blood test
samples to be taken tomorrow morning after _eep. Also
a test of specific gravity of the blood to indicate changes
of the blood during a mission and also specific gravity
test of the urine tomorrow morning. Also, set for tomorrow
are tests of three batteries aboard the solar workshop. One
of those batteries is a power conditioning group, one of
the orbital workshop's eight large batteries used to
absorb power out of the one solar array wing that sits from
side of the orbital workshop. There will _so be a retest
of two of the batteries that have all ready been tested,
the charger battery regulator modules that are attached to
the ATM solar array. Those CBRMs, number 7 and i0, will be
retested tomorrow, as well. Present schedule calls for
all three crew members to participate in the battery tests,
which will begin tomorrow morning at 10:15. We are still
awaiting the medical report from the surgeon. We normally
would get that about this time of the evening, but we have
not yet received it. We will come back up live when we have
the medical report and then give you a final word on Jack Lousma'8
eye sty. This is Skylab Control at i0 _nutes and 40 _conds
after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL III MC-1195/I
TIME: 22:21 CDT 30/03:21 GMT
8/25/73

57 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have presently gone
through our pass through Madrid, Canary Islands and there
was no communications from the spacecraft. The Mission
Surgeons daily report on crew health status has now been
made available to us and we'll give you a reading of that
now. A minor illness event was reported today by the crew
of Skylab III. The Pilot, MajOr Jack Lousma reported that
he awakened this morning with a sty on his upper left eye-
lid. The Science Pilot, Dr. Owen Garrlott reports that
there is a small amount of non tender swelling and slight
redness. An MI31-1 run, which was scheduled for the pilot
today was cut short and the ocular gyro illusion portion
was not performed. The reason was not pain, but because
the crew decided on their own that they would not take a
chance on spreading infection through the use of the special
goggles required for the test. We certainly agree with
this decision. Treatment was started with medications
provided in the infllght medical support system, the IMS,
carried on board the orbiting workshop. A sty on the eye
in the sky. That's the end of the report from Dr. Buchanan
for Dr. Hawkins. That's the Mission Surgeons daily report
on crew health status. This is Skylab Control. It's now
23 minutes and 19 seconds after the hour. Your next report
will be tomorrow morning. Crew wake up time to be at their
own descresslon, tomorrow being the crew's day off. We
don't expect to hear from them until about 7:00 a.m. or
after tomorrow morning, central daylight time. This is
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I196/I
Time: 07:30 CDT 30/12:30 GMT
8/26/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, 12:30 Greenwich mean

time. A minute and 50 seconds to acquisition at Hawaii. The
crew apparently still asleep at this time, at least they haven't
uttered a word this morning. And spacecraft communicator Hank
Hatrsfleld said he is going to do llke wise. He is not going
to say a word to them until they call or enter 10000 on the
digital address sys£em, which shows up on t_,_G and S console
here in mission Control. The i0000 entry isJin lhdication
by the crew that they are ready to go to work, oz that they
want to be called from the ground. We'll stand by for the
Hawaii pass to see if the crew is ready to begin the day's
activities.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal at
Hawaii. And apparently the crew is either still asleep or - at
least are not ready to talk to the ground because there was not
a word said nor was there any indication that the crew had entered
the number 10000 in the digital address system. Twenty minutes
to tracking ship Vanguard. We'll be back at that time, and
at 12:41 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MC-I197/I
Time: 07:59 CDT, 30/12:59 GMT
8/26/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 12:59 Greenwich

mean time. Coming up in a minute and 50 to the tracking ship
Vanguard, and in all likelihood, the spacecraft communicator
Hank Hartsfleld will give the crew a call, whether they're
ready or not over this station. There's an ATM pass, and
that should be starting about now with the pilot. So we'll
stand by here for tracking ship Vanguard and the start
of air-to-ground communications for this so-called day off.
Standing by, a minute out of tracking ship Vanguard; at
13:00 ZULU.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you over
the Vanguard for 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And Jack, Just out to get Owen, because you do
have an ATM pass coming up pretty shortly.
PLT I've already got the panel all powered
up and I'm looking at the sun. I shall report it to you.
CC Thank you.
CC And as a reminder, we are running some
specific gravities on the urine this morning and we'll need
some samples from the first voids.
SPT It's already been started.
CC Thanks, Owen.
CC And in the next 7 minutes for anyone,
I need to tell you about the teleprinter messages.
PLT Okay, go ahead and tell me.
CC Okay, message 3033 A1 - discard. Use
in it's place 3033 Delta-l.
PLT Okay, I'ii go up and pull them off.
CC And, discard 3030 Alia-l, and 3025 was
sent twice.
PLT That's kind of hard to remember at once. If
you give any more, I'll have to go write them down.
CC Stand by one. I got one small change
but I'll wait until you get the message in your hand.
PLT Okay, Story.
PLT Okay, I found 3033 Alia-l, I've disregarded
that in favor of Delta-l. 3030 Alia-l, I've not yet located
but I may have already taken that off the teleprinter and
that's to be disregarded also.
CC And that's affirm and use 3033 Charlle-2
along with the 3033 Delta-l.
PLT Is 3033 Charlie-2 and Delta-i to be
used in place of 3030 Alia? Is that the idea, or is that a
separate subject?
CC Stand by one. Okay the 3033 Delta I,
that's the one that supercedes the others. And the change to
that is the 3033 Charlle-2. It's a change to a checklist.
SL-III MC-I197/2
Time: 07:59 CDT, 30/12:59 GMT
8126173
PLT Well, I hope I got this straight. The

only two things that I'm supposed to throw out is 33 Alfa-i
and 30 Alfa-l.
CC Stand by one. Okay, we've got it
straightened out, we're a little slow this mornln E. Discard
3033 Alfa-i and Alfa-2 and discard 3030 Alfa-i and Alfa-2.
The 3033 Delta-I and a 3033 Charlle-2 are good.
PLT Okay, I'ii repeat them back, 33 Alfa-l,
33 Alfa-2, 30 Alfa-1, 30 Alfa-2 are all four to he
disregarded. Good ones are 33 Delta-i and 33 Charlle-2.
CC That's affirm and we've sent up 3025 twice.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're going LOS here and we'll see
you over Hawaii in about an hour.
PLT Okay, do you know any reason why READY light
shouldn't be ON on my panel? Have the ATM guys look at it real
quick.
CC Which experiment?
PLT All of them.
CC And put the TV on the VTR recorder.
from tracking ship Vanguard. As space station Skylab begins
revolution number 1500. I erroneously announced earlier the
spacecraft communicator's is not Hank Hartsfleld but we've
had a handover here in mission control and Story Musgrave
is manning that position. And the new flight director is
Milt Windler with flight director Chuck Lewis just having
gone off shift about 5 minutes ago. Next station in
55 minutes, it's be the final pass over Hawaii for the morning.
And at 13:12 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-III MCI198/I
Time: 09:06 CDT, 30/14:06 GMT
8/26/73

mean time, and a minute and 50 seconds out of tracking station
Hawaii. Listed on the flight plan today are electrical
systems test aboard Skylab, including reverlflcation of
capacity of charger battery regulator modules numbers 7 and
i0, and power conditioning group number 6. It is thought
that a capacity test run last week may have actually
improved the capacity of these power supplies. Similar
capacity tests were run yesterday on CBRMs 5 and 8 with
both units displaying a 12 plus ampere hour capacity. Tomorrow
capacity tests will be run on CBRMs ii and 16, and power
conditioning group number 7. Routinely going down through
the power supplies on Skylab with a series of capacity
tests and verifications, we're starting to get data now
at Hawaii. Cluster wattage showing 3300 watts. Available
watts 5696. All regulators are showing 6 or 7 amps, except
for number 3 which cratered early in Skylab-II.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CC And, Jack, did you get your ATM straightened
out?
PLT Yeah, I did. I had to go to variable
instead of fixed on the alert status light.
CC Okay.
PLT And I've got 3 requests this morning.
Perhaps my wife would want to take care of them so you could
pass them on to her. I'd llke to let three different
sets of people know I'm thinking about them. Number i,
today is my brother Don's birthday. He's a student at
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and llke him to
know that I'm wishing him a happy birthday. Secondly, I'd
llke the boys in my Sunday school class at the Harris
County Youth Village to know I'm thinking about them this
morning. And also the people at the church in which I'm
a member, The Clear Lake Community Church there in Clear Lake.
If you'd pass that word along, I'd appreciate it.
CC Okay, I've got it; will do.
PLT Thank you.
PLT And to Story one more thing. I'd llke
to place a call to my wife this evening, please.
CC Okay, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Better watch out, Story. Dr. J. is getting
so good at taking blood it's fantastic. He got us both
this morning and neither of us felt it.
SL-III MCI198/2
Time: 09:06 CDT, 30/14:06 GMT
8/26/73
CC Yeah, I guess that's bad news for you all.

CDR It is, he might be doing it in our
sleep and we don't know it.
CC He's not working up around your neck
yet, is he?
CDR We're worried, he's pretty skillful
at it. Letting his hair grow too is another strange thing.
Mustache is getting longer.
CDR How long until sunrise, Story?
CC Down here we're showing 8 minutes.
CDR Good.
CC Jack, we got another 4 minutes before
LOS and we' re still puzzling with your problem with the
lights. Could you tell us just what the problem was and
how you fixed it?
CDR Apparently, he didn't have his switch
on and he was invariable to the fixed, and as you know,
fixed is the only one that works. And he's now taking
Owens' blood, that's why he can't answer himself.
CC And he didn't have any lights on any
experiments. Is that right?
CDT That's affirm. It was just a switch
problem.
CC Okay.
CDR - - a long checklist and it's got about
25 write ins scribbled in. It's kind of hard to sift them
out sometimes..
CC Okay.
PLT Story, I just had to take Owen's blood. But
that problem turns out that our fixed position doesn't
work and you have to go to varible on the status - the
alert status light.
CC It's the other way around, isn't it, Jack?
The varlble doesn't - -
PLT No, the top two are fixed, and the bottom
one is varible. That's the way they - that's the only way they
work.
END OF TAPE
P
oe
SL-III MC-I199/I
Time: 09:16 CDT 30/14:16 GMT
8/26/73
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see

you over the Vanguard in about 22 minutes at 13:01. And
we'll be dumping the tape recorders there.
PLT Okay Story, thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The space station
Skylab passing over the horizon from the tracking station at
Hawaii, final Hawaii pass of the day. Most of the conversation
with the space station was from Pilot Lousma who wanted to
have greetings passed along to his brother John, who is a
student at the University of Michigan, to the Harris County
Youth Center Sunday school, and to his church, the Clear
Lake Community Church. And also asked for a telephone patch
later today wlth his wife and family. Lousma also commented
that Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is getting so adept at taking
blood samples that he and Commander Bean don't even feel the
needle. And made some rather humorous implications there
that Science Pilot Garrlott was beginning to even look llke that
caped gentleman from Transylvania. Next station in 19 minutes
will be tracking ship Vanguard. And at 14:20 Greenwich mean
time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE

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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more

to try to get these mission things out of the way here.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours

PLT Okay. We're photographing the typhoon.

CC Okay. Very good. And, the next item

CDR Sounds llke a good idea. And we'll Just

rather have a 25-mlnute exposure with 82B?

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 22

PAO Skylab Control here in Houston, 23 hours

CC Okay.. In that case, because you're

PAO This is Skylab Control at 31 minutes

go to the CSM. We're in no hurry to Jump into the CSM. And

the S190 window. Again, compute the maneuver time perform

PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour 21 minutes

MCC right now; we'll incorporate whatever comments

CDR of course, I'll tell you another couple of

CDR - to check rate gryos at first and then

on, we would have probably suggested that that we not have

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 ho_rs

SPT Well, yes, as a matter of fact I can

seven that we apparently degraded when we were setting

to be the big thing on Skylab. And it said, I guess also

CDR ... will clear up the confusion,

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 48 minutes Green-

CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS over

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours

PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean

battery number 7 - and go ahead and start charging it, right

easily go up there and run that first pass. And it won't do

however, there is a limit to the number of S019 passes you

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

CC And we're getting the ATM TV now with

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

the transmission and I don't know if we got anything on

CC Skylab, Houston, on the star tracker if you

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

CC Roger, CDR. We've got some machine problems

CDR Okay Dick, we got a star at outer, 1401

of EREP program at the Johnson Space Center will hold

PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

to 2 and we don't understand that right now.

PA0 This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean tlme

CC CDR, Houston; be advised. We're getting

PLT (Garble) bring the transmission home

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

CC PLT, Houston. The answer is we'd like the

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

CDR Now if they don't get in our physical

CDR Yeah, I think we ought to maybe think

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

- those same coordinates on the bright spots. Also NOAA

PAO This is Skylab Control 19 hours 24 min-

CC Skylab, Houston. Ascension for 6 minutes.

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours

PAO Thi:s is Skylab Control at 21 hours

CDR Might mention one other thing. The -