SL-III MC1655/I

Time: 09105 CDT, 41/14:05 GMT

9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab mow

approaching Guam at 14 hours 5 minutes. And the crew, during
this pass over Guam, should be actively involved in ATM
observations on the part of Pilot Jack Lousma, wlth Commander
A1 Bean and Science Pilot Owen Garriott both involved in the
M131 medical experiment using the rotating litter c_air in a
test of the human vestibular function of the reactioms of the
inner ear to prolonged periods of weightlessness. And
following that Bean and Garriott will switch places_ me&m
serving as the subject and Garriott the observe foZ the
MI31 run. And Bean as the observer with Garri_Z :_?i$_eet
for an MO92/M093 medical experiment, a lower b_T.:_¥e
pressure and vectocardiogram experiment combi__i_ii_h.
follow. : -"-=_'-_
CC Skylab, Houston. We're t_._
for 8-1/2 minutes. _: _ _ ::: _::_
sPT ello,
Hank don't
VTR schedule looks like today, but whenever t__
time, oh, like 20 minutes or so on the VTR ___
one of my sciance actlvltles or something l__--i___
put some stuff on there about - a magnetic d_a
with dipoles and so forth. You still down t___ '
CC Roger, we're Just discusg__e'll
have to schedule those demonstrations, Owen. f _i_c!_=_::_
SPT Yeah, understand. That'i__i
I was letting you know that anytime you can ,__-_: i!_
fine. If there is some time on one ot these ____
llke today, that's fine; if not Just resched_--i ___
CC Okay, will do.

housekeeping 10AA where I'm cycling SUS 1 andi_ _

and secondary on for 5 minutes. Is that corze_,i?_[M_ '
only SUS
CC i, not SUS 2?
That's affirmative. _ !i!_i_

CDR Okay. - i- :!
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 mitre fz_
LOS; Honeysuckle at 21.
SPT See you later, Hank. j
PA0 This is Skylab Control. We're now out !
of range of the Guam tracking station, and in about 5 minutes
we'll regain contact for a very low elevation pass across
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia; actually off the northeast
coast of Australia. The crew, from the conversatlon8 through
Guam, would appear to be running Just a little bit b_hlnd the
scheduled time llne this morning. The flight plan calls for
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AI Bean and Owen Garriott to be running the Ml31 medical

experiment. Bean reported that they were just completing
the housekeeping activities and presumably they will be
beginning the MI31 in the near future. This is Skylab
Control at 14 hours 17 minutes.

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J

SL-III MC1656/I
Time: 09:21 CDT, 41/14:21 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control about to acquire

signal now for a brief pass over Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
and we'll stand by for acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Vanguard
at 47, if we don't get you on VHF there, if you don't need us,
it'll be Canaries at 15:06.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PAO Skylab now out of range of Honeysuckle,
Australia. They'll just cllp the corner of the Vanguard circle
of coverage and again, we do not expect to get any voice communi-
datlons through the crew through Vanguard due to the problems
they're having on the tracking ship with the S-band antenna -
a problem that's expected to prevent S-band up-link and down-
link, at least through today and hopefully they will have the
problem, at least, work around the problem by tomorrow.
Although it's expected to take 2 or 3 days for the S-band
antenna on the tracking ship Vanguard is fully repaired. We
do have VHF voice communications available as a backup, but
do not plan to use VHF through Vanguard as a matter of course.
And we don't expect to hear from the crew again until they
reach Canary Islands at 15:06 Greenwich mean time. This is
Skylab Control at 14 hours, 25 minutes.

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SL-III MC-1657/I
Time: 09:46 CDT, 41/14:46 GMT
916/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming

up now on the tracking ship Vanguard for the final time
today. And again, we do not expect any voice communication
with the crew through Vanguard. In the event there is
comm, it will be using the backup VHF mode, due to the
problems Vanguard's experiencing with its S-band antenna.
This, as on previous days, continues to be an active day
for the ATM experiment. AI Bean reported, again, an active
Sun today and was able to confirm, at least what appeared
to be, a coronal transient, which he was asked to look for
by the ground. And he said that there were a number of
active regions remaining on the Sun, a number of which appear
to have potential for producing flares. The crew's activity
at the ATM console has reflected in the number of hours
spent so far on ATM operations. In this mission the
three crewmen have spent a total of about 200 hours at the
ATM console. The premission plan had allocated a total
for the mission of about 186 and they've covered 218 day
light passes at the ATM console, and are also ahead of the
schedule in experiments to be performed in the scientific
airlock, 75 hours of operation in scientific airlock
experiments have been completed, as opposed to 59 hours
that had been planned. Other experiments, they've spent
a total of I01 hours, these are the nonscientific airlock
experiments, and would be such things as the M509 backpack
maneuvering unit. The premission allocation for these types
of experiments was 86 hours. And as opposed to the 9-1/2
hours of student experiments planned for the entire mission,
they have already completed 8 hours of student experiments.
In two areas they are behind the preflight plan allocation.
These are in the medical experiments where there was a period
of about 5 days early in the mission when medical experiments
were not performed, accounting for the fact that they are
behind in this activity and they have completed about 189
hours on medical experiments. There are a total of 276 hours
planned for medical experiments, premission, for the entire
mission. Also in the area of EREP experiments, they've
completed ll0 hours, 156 hours was allocated, premisslon, for
the Earth Resources Experiments. We have acquisition of
telemetry data through Vanguard. This pass will last another
4-1/2 minutes and then we'll acquire at the Canary Islands
tracking station, where we do expect to get voice communications.
PAO We've had loss of signal through the Vanguard
with no communications with the crew. And ii minutes until
we acquire at Canary Islands. This is Skylab Control at
14 hours 55 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC1658/I
Time: 10:05 CDT, 41/15:05 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about

i minute from regaining radio contact with Skylab through
the Canary Island tracking station. A pass that'll continue
on over Madrid. And we're about 45 seconds from acquisition
of signal. The spacecraft communicator, CAP COM on this
shift is astronaut Hank Hartsfield, and Flight Director
currently is Chuck Lewis. Major activities on the flight
plan for today are ATM operations, medical experiment MI31,
M092 and M093, the rotating litter chair and the lower
body negative pressure combined with the electrocardiogram
experiments. Also an Earth Resources pass the 16th of this
mission scheduled for this afternoon.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid
for 14 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank. I took a look around the
limb of the Sun and I noticed that we got a permanent - I've done
reported that - on the solar activity pad and they're located about
300 and 250. Over.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT And, Hank, trying to save 56 some film,
I've decided to omit the second patrol short in JOP 2 Alfa.
We got a patrol short and a patrol normal there. And I
also plan to omit the patrol short and patrol normal in the
JOP 6 unless Jim Milligan requests otherwise.
CC Roger, we'll confirm that. Stand by.
CC Okay, we concur with that.
PLT Okay, thank you.
PLT Say, Hank, I'm also wondering if the
SO54 wants another MIOS 256 and a M30164 since we got those
earlier in Jop 2 Alfa. And they want to repeat it again
in Jop 6. They had us to do it - just trying to save them some
film if we can.
CC Roger. Stand by I.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to stick with
the pad on SO54.
PLT Okay, I'ii give them a couple of more
of those then. Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. We've taken a look at these
two prominences you called out. The one at 300 is the
old filiment 33, and we're assigning number promimence 62 to that.
And the 250 one is the old filament 37 that we had before,
we're calling that prominence 61. We believe this is the
return of a large negative polaritive region that we've seen on
the last five solar rotations.
PLT Okay. Was that 63 and 61, Hank?
CC 62 and 61, and that's for 300 and 250 locations.
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PLT Okay, I got them. Thank you.

PLT Say, Hank, what's the latest thinking
from the boys in the backroom on the corona that we been
looking at and the possibility of a transient? We've just
taking a standing vote on it, and I'ii go ahead and take some
more if you say we need - it's worthwhile. However_ in looking
at it, it looks like a nice bright one but it doesn't really
look too much like a transient.
CC Okay, we'll try to get an answer for you.
PLT Okay, I'm going to have a (static) left over
here and I can either work on that a little more or I was
thinking about going down to active region 19, it's the
brightest thing, H-alpha wlse, _in the Sun at the moment. And
it's also probably the one that's going to be with us the longest.
CC PLT, Houston. We don't have anymore
on the corona other than what you've seen. If you'd like to
go work on active region 19, that's fine. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle
at 15:54 with a data recorder dump.

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SL-III MC1659/I
Time: 10:20 CDT, 41/15:20 GMT
9/6/73

PAO That was Jack Lousma reporting on the

solar activities. Jack currently has the duty at the ATM
console while Commander Alan Bean and Science Pilot Owen Garriott
are busy with the MI31 medical experiment - the vestibular
function medical experiment using the rotating litter chair.
Lousma reported, saying a prominence that was not included in
the llst of solar activities that had been provided from the
ground and the ATM controllers here in the Mission Control
Center have confirmed the prominence that Lousma was reporting.
These had been seen previously and they were redesignated as
current activities. Also, Jack Lousma requested that he be
allowed to turn his attentions from the solar corona - where
he,d been directed to look for a possible transient. He reported,
that although he did see a bright spot, he didn't see anything
in the corona that he would describe at the present time as
transient and suggested that he look at active region 19 - the
ATM officer and scientists on the ground aBreed with that and
Lousma was instructed to do as he requested and point the
ATM instruments at active region 19. Skylab now out of range
of the Madrid station. 32 minutes away from regaining contact
through Carnarvon, Australia. This is Skylah Control at
15 hours, 23 minutes.

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SL-III MC-1660/I
Time: 10:53 CDT, 41/15:53 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 53 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're about to regain contact with
Skylab over Australia through the Honeysuckle Creak tracking
station. And the crew should be still be involved with
medical experiments MO92, lower body negative pressure, and
the MO93 vector cardiogram experiment with A1 Bean serving
as the subject for that test and Owen Garriott as the
observer, while Pilot Jack Lousma continues manning the ATM
console. This pass through Honeysuckle scheduled to last
about 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle for
eight minutes.
CC And as a reminder, we're dumping the
recorder here.
CDR Okay. Might mention, Hank, that we're
having some trouble checking out the electrodes right now.
We're going to miss that vent window. We're going to have to
go back and change all these electrodes right now.
CC Roger. We copy. Let me work that a bit, AI.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like you to go ahead
and proceed with MO92 and do the vent whenever you get to
that point. Momentum state is nominal now. We have several
revs to get it squared away before EREP. And we don't think
we'll have any problem with this, but at next contact we'd
like for you to tell us when you did vent. And we may
force a contingency momentum sample to make the next
dump more effective.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about one minute
from LOS. Next contact is Bermuda at 38.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia tracking station. During that pass over
Australia, A1 Bean reported that they have been having some
problems getting the electrodes checked out that are used
in conjunction with the lower body negative pressure electro-
cardiogram combination of medical experiments. These are
skin sensors that are attached to the - primarily to the torso.
And must pass a number of checks before the experiment is
entered into. And, Bean, although he wasn't specific about
what the problems were, said that he was having difficulty
getting the electrodes checked out on time, to begin that
experiment at its planned time. Flight direetor_ Chuck
Lewis, after reviewing the affects of delaying the M192
experiment, elected to proceed with it. The primary concern
in performing the experiment later than planned is that
it leads to venting as the lower body negative pressure
device is evacuated. And this venting is related to the
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vehicle and control moment gyro momentum state, and could

lead the onboard computer to be mislead as to what the
vehicle's momentum state is. In simple terms the way
around it is to force the computer to sample the momentum
state at a time that had not been planned or in affect
a sample early. And thereby avoid the confusion factor
to the computer which would lead it to believe that
the venting was continuous when in fact_ it was not by sampling
early, the computer recognizes that the venting was a
short term process and corrects the momentum state of the
vehicle. The net affect of all of this is that the crew
will go ahead with the MO92 and M093 combination as soon
as they're ready, and we foresee no problem to that experi-
ment being started a little bit late. The next station
to acquire Skylah will be the Bermuda tracking station.
That' ii he 32 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control
at 16 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC1661/I
Time: 11:37 CDT, 41/16:37 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours,

37 minutes. Skylab approaching the Bermuda tracking station
and when we acquire Cap Comm Hank Hartsfield, we'll be advising
the crew of additional solar activity. Pilot Jack Lousma has
the duty at the ATM console and Hartsfield will be advising
him that the large subnormal flare in region 9 that began at
16:23 Greenwich mean time, or about 14 minutes ago, and reached
its maximum 16:25, approximately 2 minutes later. Active
region 12 on the Sun is also showing some potential for produc-
tion of a flare. We should have acquisition of slgnal momentarily.
CDR You there, Hank?
CC Roger. Just fixing to check in with you.
We're through Bermuda for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Got a question on the pad. On these
building block i0, 82B is requesting some 40 and 240 exposures
instead of their usual AUTO. And were not clear as to whether
that's short or long wavelength - I think it's short. We've
been working on short but we'd like to have it confirmed and
put on the pad which might follow.
CC Roger. That should be short.
SPT Okay. That's both exposures short, right?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay. We've been going that way but just wanted
to confirm it and we'd like to have that on the pad if it
doesn't appear anywhere else, please.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Hey Hank, we started the vents - we started
the run a 04 and so the first vent was at 09.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And we never truly solved the problems.
We touched bare metal and got the readings. Essentially, what the
situation is, we couldn't get a - we could get isolation, but
we couldn't get impedance correct. It was always off-scale high.
So procedure said touch bare metal and well, it worked then - we
touched bare metal, it worked great then. And so we pressed
on per the procedures, but we suspect that we got some funda-
mental problem and maybe somebody that understands the elec-
tronics would know what that - those two indications give you.
Namely that it will isolate okay, but the impedances are all off-
scale high unless you touch bare metal and then they're okay.
CC Roger. We copy that.
PLT And Hank, I'm assuming that you want all
from the same pointing on these Hop Deltas although it
doesn't say so there.
CC We'll check it, and, Skylab, we also noticed
that the OWS exchanger fans are off. Unless there's some
reason for that, we'd llke to get them back on.
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PLT Hank, would you answer that same pointing,

affirmative or negative?
CC We're checking that now, Jack.
PLT Okay. I - I could orient it in a different
manner and I could give you a little more (garble) if you wish.
CC Okay, Jack. Did you get a copy of the
summary sheet change number ii we uplinked this morning? It
essentially - it updated the summary sheet, so we do want to stay
in the same point as the message.
PLT Okay, same pointing. I'm sure we have
the message but it's not incorporated yet.
CC Roger. And if we could have the DAS
a moment, we'd like to force the contingency sample on momentum.
PLT You got it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Canaries at 47.

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SL-III MC1662/I
Time: 11:44 CDT, 41/16:44 GMT
9/6/73

CC PLT, Houston. For info we just noticed

a subfaint flare in active region 19. It started at
16:42, still on the rise.
PLT Roger. We're (garble) hardly anything
on that one up here (static).
PAO This is Skylab Control. AI Bean reported
while we were in contact through Bermuda, that they were
still having problems with the electrocardiogram sensors
which must be attached for the lower body negative pressure
and vectorcardiogram combination of medical experiments.
At the present time the biomedical officer is assessing
the impact trying to come up with i, a solution to the
problem and secondly - -
SC - - Houston.
CC Roger, we're back with you for 10-i/2
minutes.
CDR The reason the heat exchanger fans are
not on is because the thermostat's set about 70 down here.
The temperature is about 69-1/2.
CC Okay, that was a bad call, and we caught
that afterwards. EGIL noticed then that we probably were
in the heating cycle.
CDR Tell EGIL if he'll keep us out of trouble,
we'll keep him out of trouble.
CC I think he copied that.
CDR Yeah, I thought he might. Who is EGIL
today?
CC Sy.
CDR It's fairly cool down here now. In
fact, when you're down here and you're not working hard you have to
wear a jacket. So, we moved the thermostat up to about
70 hoping it maybe wouldn't be quite so cool.
CC Okay.
CDR Makes great sleeping, but it's a little
chilly for laying in the LBNP, for example.
CC Yeah, this is an unusual thing for us.
We haven't seen the heater on that much in the mission.
CDR Roger. It may be the first time, I
don't know. We'll probably have it here for quite a while.
There's such a lag in the thermal here we'll probably have
it by the time the data then goes up another 15 degrees
or so and then I guess it'll start getting warm again. Sure
been nice sleeping, I know that.
CC Skylab, Houston. While I got you here
we promised prior to mission that we'd keep you advised to
the tape recorder configurations if we made any major changes,
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and we made one several days ago, and I don't know whether
they got the change up to you or not so you can configure
panel 204. We're now using tape recorder number i as
experiment i voice, and tape recorder number 2 is data voice,
and tape recorder number 3 is in the correct position.
CDR Okay, Jack's up there now. May call
you back later and ask you for it. I'm exercising and
when I get up there I'Ii set them right.
CC Okay.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
PLT Okay, Hank, say again your call of the
tape recorders, please.
CC Okay, tape recorder number i should
be in experiment i voice, and tape recorder number 2 in
data voice.
PLT Okay, I just swapped positions on i and 2.
CC Roger, that's correct. Tape recorder I
should be experiment i, tape recorder 2 in data.
PLT That's where they are. Thank you, Hank.

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SL-III MC-1663/I
Time: 11:55 CDT, 41/16:55 GMT
916173

CDR Hank, comparing early morning, H-alfa

photo was (garble) at the moment looks like we're picking up
a filament - filament there in active region 19. And it looks
like there's sort of a horseshoe shaped filament there in active
region 12 that wasn't down there this morning.
CC Roger. We copy that. And we do confirm
that one on AR-19.
CC PLT, Houston. There's - Are you conserving
film on SO56, or are we in a hang-up.
PLT I've been using single frames i, 3, and 5,
everytime instead of active 1 long where they call out for one.
And if we're getting a little too stingy with the film just
let us know. But whatever active 1 long comes up we're going
i, 3, 5 short on them.
CC Okay. That's fine. And we concur with
that. We're Just trying to make sure they're the status
of the instruments. And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Carnarvon at 23.
PLT Okay. Thank you for looking at that, Houston.
We appreicate you checking that in and (garble)
PAO Skylab now out of range of the Madrid
tracking station. Telemetry data received during the pass
through Canary Islands and Madrid showed that the crew had
begun the MO92, MO93 experiment. The medical officer reported
tha= the data looked pretty good, but there may in fact be
some problems still with the electrodes, which Ban,reported
having some difficulty to check out properly before the run
started. At the present time, the biomedical officer did
not know what is causing the problem with the electrodes.
There is a suspicion that perhaps there is an inadequate
ground, which could be contributing to some unexpected or
unusual occuranees in the data. But for the most part, the
data does look reasonably good on the MO92, MO93 experiment
currently underway. And the next station to acquire Skylab
will be Carnarvon 23 minutes from now. This is Skylab
Control at 17 hours Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC-1664/I
Time: 12:22 CDT, 41/17:22 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming up

on the Carnarvon, Australia tracking station at 17 hours
22 minutes. This will be a pass that will take spacecraft
space station across the southern part of the Australian
continent, within range of both the Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
Creek stations. We have about 30 seconds now until acquisition
of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 15-1/2 minutes.
SPT You at attention, Hank?
CC Roger. We've got 15-1/2 minutes here.
And going back to the CDR's problems with the electrodes.
We suspect that the problem was with the RS electrodes. It's
possible to get good oscillation and still have impedance
problems even though - The RS electrode can be responsible,
even though it passes the oscillation check.
SPT We double checked that and replaced the
RS electrodes (static) (static) with the others. And in
as much as it's similar to a prohlem that AI had on the last
run, we were suspicious of something other than just the
electrode placement, over.
CC We Just had a drop out there, Owen, for
about a minute or so. Could you repeat your answer to the
question?
SPT Yes. I'ii repeat it. We were aware that
the RS electrode's essentially ground for the rest, so we
replaced that first of all with a new electrode. In the
past, my impedances on all the electrodes has been less than
30 K, with no problems. And in spite of that, we still did,
checked BAT electrodes first along with a couple of others.
And still that did not solve the problem. So we're suspicious
of something other than electrode placement. It is also
very similar to the problem that AI had the last time he
ran. Over.
CC Roger. We copy. We'll do a little more
thinking on that area. While I've got you here, we're taking
a look at EREP pass this afternoon, and we see that we can
get a little more data with the ETC to give us a little
more correlation with the S192 data. Now what we'd llke
to do is run the ETC a little longer and get about eight more
frames if you could copy a correction to your pad, we could
do that.
SPT All right, stand by. Let me go get it.
I'Ii be right back with you.
SPT Okay. Go ahead with the correction on ETC
pad.
CC Okay. What we're going to do is, essentially,
crank up about 50 minutes early, so your power on time will
be 21:22:40. And go to Auto at 23:40.
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SPT Okay. We're just starting it a little

bit early. That's all the change, powering up at 21:22:40,
Auto at 23:40. Is that all?
CC That's it, Owen. Thank you.
SPT Good enough. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. In response to your questions
yesterday regarding the flares we had, we have verified, today,
that the flare in AR-12 was classified as an M-I and the
flare in region 9 was classified as a C-8.
SPT Okay. Sounds fine. And that was about
what we would have guessed onboard, except maybe a little
higher on the first and a littler lower on the second. And we've
obviously got real good data both pre, during and postflare
on the active region 9 flares. I'm sure they could tell on
the ground telemetry by now, And both of them were docu-
mented pretty well, and so, looks like we had pretty good
flare activity yesterday.
CC _eal good.

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SL-III MC1665/I
Time: 12:32 CDT, 41/17:32 GMT
9/6/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Mila at i0 with a data
recorder dump.
PLT Okay, Hank. And we've located the message
on 82A and B.
CC Roger, we copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range now of the Honneysuekle Creek, Australia station.
Thirty-one minutes away from acquisition at Mila, the Merritt
Island - Merritt Island launch facility tracking station.
At 2 p.m. today there will be a briefing in the JSC news
center briefing room, room 135, on solar activity concerning
the observations of the crew and the data collected through
the Apollo telescope mount experiments over the past couple
of days. Participants in the briefing will be Dr. Ed Reeves,
Principal Investigator for the SO55 experiment, Dr. Robert
MacQueen, Principal Investigator for the SO52, and Joe Herman
of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
That's at 2 p.m. in the JSC news center briefing room.
At 17 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC1666/I
Time: 13:08 CDT, 41/18:08 GMT
9/6/73

PAO There will be a Skylab Control announce-

ment in 15 seconds.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab approaching
the Merrltt Island tracking station now. Our first stateside
acquisition of the day. Coming up at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
approximately 50 minutes from now, there will be a briefing
in the JSC News Center briefing room, which will cover the
solar observations made from Skylab during the last day and parti-
cularly, dealing with the aftereffects of a major solar
flare - which early this morning radiated nearly ten times
as many X-rays as the largest flare seen previously from
the Skylab space station. The after effects of the flare were
captured with instruments aboard Skylab. Although the flare
occurred just after 4 am Central daylight time, while the
crew slept, ground controllers turned Skylab's white light
coronagraph on to the fast scan mode - which allows it to take
photographs automatically, about once every 15 seconds. Once
the crew was awake, they reported observable changes in the
upper levels of the Sun's atmosphere. Solar scientists here
at Mission Control report that equipment on Earth could
not have seen these effects produced by a huge mass of material
escaping from the Sun. That briefing again scheduled to occur
at 2 pm this afternoon in the JSC News Center briefing room.
Participants will be Dr. Ed Reeves, Principal Investigator for
the S055 experiment, Dr. Robert MaeQueen, Principal Investigator
for the S052 ATM experiment, and Joe Hirman of the National
Ocean - Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. We're
about 5 seconds from scheduled acquisition time. We'll listen
for the call to the crew from Cap Comm Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Mila for 13-1/2
minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. How was - how did the
impedances check out on the electrodes for M093? I think you
repeat those checks there.
CDR Yes, same as before.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC And CDR, Houston. If you have a moment,
I'd like to give you some additional things we want done with
the star tracker, at your NUZ update 1933.
CDR Okay. I'ii copy. Go ahead.
CC Okay. After you acquire a star, we want
a DAS in 52011, which is in enable and 50011, which is orbit
plane error update. And then wait 10 seconds and close the
shutter. Now if the shutter fails to close again, we'd like to
DAS in 52010, which is inhibit and 50011, which is orbit
plane error update. And then park the star tracker at outer
plus 4200 inner minus 18:00. Then turn the power off.
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CDR Gotcha.
CC Okay, sir. And if we can have the DAS
a little bit, we're going to pump in a nay update.
PLT Go ahead; it's your DAS, Hank.
CC Thank you, sir.
PLT One thing I've been noticing, Hank, is the
JOP 2 Alfa's where you're supposed to maintain the same plane
all the time. I had it pointed up as best I thought I
could get it on a active - region that's likely to flare, and either
the - the area that I had it pointed at is shifting a little
bit or the pointing has drifted an arc second or two over a period
of half an hour.or so. Because I notice that the drift has
changed its position relative to the structure of the Sun.
And it's not completely off the bright area yet, but it's getting
to the edge of it. If I were repointing it, I would not point
it in the position it is now.
SPT Solar remission, Jack.
PLT You dudes down there want me just to let it
do what it's going and that's the purpose of the (garble). Or
they'd like me to ease it back to where it was - which would
be about i to 2 arc seconds. Okay. What - back to (garble) of
solar rotation and I'm wondering if the ATM guys want me to
account for that and keep the slit in relative position relative to
where it began.
CC PLT, Houston. What we'd like for you to do is
keep the slit pointed at the feature and do take into account
the solar rotation.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
PLT Okay, Hank.

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9/6/73

CC PLT, Houston for information, we've noted

a subfaint flare in active region 15. It began at 18:14 maxed
out at 18:18 and it's still in progress.
PLT Roger. I'm seeing a bright spot, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. We' ii
be coming up on Madrid at 28.
PLT Okay, Hank. Thank you. (static) - -
CC Skylab, Houston; through Madrid for 8 minutes.
PLT Buenas tardes, Senors.
CC Buenas dias.
CDR Say, Hank, this is Alan. Would you see about
setting up a family phone call for me tonight?
CC We'll sure work it.

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SL-III MC-1668/I
Time: 13:34 CDT, 41/18:34 GMT
9/6/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 19:01.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
the Madrid tracking station. Next station to acquire will
be Carnarvon in 25 minutes. The ATM science people here
in Mission Control have reconstructed a sequence for this
morning's unusually large flare. The after affects, of
which, were recorded by Skylab instruments. The Glare itself
occured at 4:00 a.m. central daylight time on the _est limb
of the Sun, which would be to the right as you face the Sun,
producing a surge of solar material, which was the fourth
largest this year, estimated the flare produced i0 times the
previous X-ray maximum seen on Skylab. At 4:57 a.m., over
Vanguard, ground controllers commanded the white light
coronograph to the fast scan mode, which allowed the instru-
ment to obtain photographs, of short medium and long
exposure durations every 42 seconds. And at 6:30 a.m.,
Commander AI Bean began the normal ATM day, after previously
planned operations were cancelled so that the white light
coronograph could be used. The ATM was pointed Sun center
for the white light coronagraph. Also, added were the SO54
and S056 experiments for X-ray data. Bean reported a visible
blob in the Sun's corona where the surge had occurred and
he reported this at about 7:30 a.m. And might be pointed
out that earth coronographs would not have able to have
seen this feature. And at 8:00 a.m., Pilot, Jack Lousma
conducted synoptic observations, which also included the
Sun center white light coronograph and at 9:35 a.m. to
complete the sequence, the white light coronograph was used
in the standard modes, one every 30 seconds using both
clear Polaroid film. The briefing with principal investigators
Ed Reeves, Dr. Ed Reeves and Dr. RobertMacQueen, and Joe
Hirman of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration, again scheduled for 2 p.m. central daylight
time in the building 1 briefing room, room 135, to discuss
the solar activity, the recent solar activity and!particul-
arly this morning's solar flare. At 18 hours 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1669/I
Time: 2:46 CDT, 41/19:46 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylah Control; on the 249 day

of the year, 19 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time. During
the briefing on solar activity, the space station passed over
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle and we acquired about 2-i/2 minutes
of tape recorded communication. The station currently is
passing over the Texas site, we'll play the taped recorded
information and then play catch up over Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
8 minutes.
SPT Say, Hank. I've got a question
for Bob Parker. Now we've got some little 2-1nch long magnets
in our demonstration kit here, would you ask him what the pull
strength of these magnets is.
CC Okay, we'll do.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got about a 30 second
keyhole.
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute til LOS. Honeysuckle
inl4.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
a minute and we'll be coming up on Texas at 43.
CC CDR, Houston. To help you out a little
bit with the star tracker there, the values have changed a little
bit, the outer gimbal would probably be better at minus 1450.
CDR Thank you. Okay, we've got a star. How
does that look to you.
CC Okay, it looks good to us. We're Just about
LOS. We need to go ahead enable the orbit plane error update
and go ahead with the instructions we gave you earlier.
CDR Understand.
CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and Mila for
16-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hank, a couple of quick questions from me,
the first one is the ETC pad did not call out a magazine
but I assume a prime mag is what is wanted and you might just
confirm that for me. And secondly I just checked the glue
on the ergometer for that TV business, TV summary and wonder
how much time is left on the VTR and do you have any other
plans for it?
CC SPT, Houston, prime mag is correct for the
ETC.
SPT Okay, and you got my other question, I guess.
CC SPT, Houston. We've _ot about 9 minutes
remaining on the VTR, however since we are - we're down to
one TV camera and the time critical on the - we've - are
requiring that we schedule all TV activities.
SPT Yes, I understand that and I was not
contemplating its use without your scheduling it. However I was
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SPT (CONT'D) going to suggest that - my - flight plan

today, I'm a little ways ahead, I was thinking of doing my
PT right now and I would have time for one of those demonstrations
that has been requested in the past, this evening some time after
22:00. And I'd like your VTR man and your TV scheduler to
see if they want me to try to work something in then.
CC Okay, we'll check into that Owen.
And also we have a - I think an answer to your question. The -
is that the pull strength is 250 gall at contact; I glaf at
1-inch.
SPT Okay. Lets see that's not quite the right
unit. We'll see what we can do with that. Thank you.
CC What unit you want, and we'll get it?
SPT It's probably the way the spect came on
the order form, or the order blank, that's good enough.
CDR You want some downlink, Houston?
CC Stand by one. Let's hold up about a minute
til we a - we'll be ready then.
CC Skylab, Houston. If anybody wants to look
out the window, STS-I ought to be the one to see what's left
of Delia, it's starting to break up now and it's - past College
Station, last we've heard.
CC C DR, Houston. We're ready for TV downllnk.
And we need to change the video switch over to one of the monitors.
CDR, Houston, the site reports they're getting good TV.
CDR Roger, you've cleaned out the air down
there. It's nice and clean from up here, looking down at
Houston.
CC It's been - it's been scrubbed here for
the last couple of days pretty well.
SPT Still, pretty large cloud formation up to
the north of the coast line there. It looks like it probably
covers the better part of Texas and Louisiana.
CC Roger. The remains of Delia ought to be,
pushing up fort of to the northwest and should be affecting
the panhandle and Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and Louisiana.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'd like to comment briefly
on this Nu-Z update. We've been starting to put these things
into detail pads and they also appear in the ATM schedule pad
and it's eauslng us some eonfuslon on the ground. What we'd
like to do if you concur is put the request for the NU-Z updates
other than the one we do in the morning and evening on a cue
card, directly into the ATM schedule pad and if we have any
other special request and nobody is at the console, we'll just
voice those up real time.
CDR That's perfect. To what's causing the
problem here. We don't look at our details that frequently.
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CC And what causes us the problem is that we

put them in the details and then the planning group for the
ATM doesn't meet until after the details are already onboard
and then we determine and they causes certain building blocks
and want a run and we need another NU-Z update and it sort of
complicates the thing.
CDR I notice, S054 has not requested to be
omitted on these two JOP-2Fs. Building Block i0 runs I'm
working on now, hut it turns out I'm giving them the same thing
that I gave them about 5 minutes ago. And I wonder if they
still want me to do it. That'll be three times on M1 and three
and 5 $54.
CC CDR, we'd like to stick with the pads.
CDR I knew you were going to say that, but they're
800 frames behind, okay with me.
CC And CDR, Houston. We're showing on the
XUV mon on the outer door close and the inner door open.
We'd like for you to cycle the doors.
CDR Not a bad idea. Must have hit it instead
of the integrate switch a few minutes ago.
CC Okay, that's good, both doors open now.

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915173

CDR Thought you had it to the integrate switch

a few mintues ago.
CC Okay, let's cllp both doors open now.
CDR Okay, here's a little integrated downlink.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 4 - 05:00. And CDR,
a quick answer to your question there, the rationale behind
doing the SO54 is to try to get good time resolution
throughout this daylight pass.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
PAO Well, the Skylab, traveling at about
18,000 miles an hour over the Atlantic at this time. It
won't take them very long before they are in touch with the
Madrid site. In fact, we expect to reacquire in about
3-1/2 minutes. So, we'll just keep the llne up for the
pass over Madrid on this the start of revolution 1663.
Standing by for more communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 6-1/2
minutes. And a recorder dump.
CC SPT, Houston. We'll be unable to do the
TV requested tonight. Our program requirements are such
that to maintain predictability of video releases to the
television media, that we have to adhere to a 24 hour
schedule constraint.
SPT R oger.

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TIME: 15:07 CDT 41/20:07 GMT
9/6/73

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.

Honeysuckle at 52.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
PAO We've lost signal through the Madrid
tracking station. And I have announcement here, that I
would llke to pass on. William C. Schneider, the Skylab
Program Director announced this afternoon that the second
Skylab manned mission has been given approval for continuation
until at least September 14, 1973. This approval for the
third 7 day incremental extension beyond 28 days, followed
the review of the inflight medical data and recommendation
of the NASA Director of Life Sciences, who is Dr. Charles
A. Berry. That's the end of the announcement. At 20 hours
15 minutes, Greenwichl mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 15:51 CDT 41/20:51 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 51

minutes Greenwich mean thime. About 45 seconds away from
acquiring the space station through the Honeysuckle, Australia
tracking site. We'll have the space station in communication
for about a minute and a half, minute and three-quarters,
Standing by for the alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for a
minute and a half through Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay Hank. We had a little extra time, so
we're going to run the ATM here for another 20 minutes, then
we'll shut it down and do the EREP.
CC We copy.
CC And that brings us about a minute from
LOS again. And we'll be coming up on Goldstone at 20.
CDR Okay.
(garble)
PAO There is a team handover here in building
30, Mission Control Center, with the on-comlng team headed
by Milton Windier, the Flight Director, and the spacecraft
communicator will be Dr. Story Musgrave. There will be a
change of shift briefing at 4:30 p.m. central daylight time,
in the News Center Briefing Room, building i. Participating
will be Charles Lewis, the Flight Director who is off-shift,
or going off-shift at this time. Change of shift briefing,
4:30 p.m. central daylight time with Chuck Lewis. And at
20 hours 55 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1673/I
Time: 16:16 CDT, 41/21:16 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 21 hours 16 minutes

Greenwich mean time. On the upcoming pass over the United States
the continental U.S., the Skylab crew will undertake the 16th
earth resources survey, scheduled to begin at a point in the
Pacific Ocean, southwest of San Diego and will end about
14 minutes later northwest of Montreal, Canada. The EREP survey
passes over Baja, California and good old Phoenix, cross the
spine of the Rocky Mountains near Denver, passes over Minneapolis-
St. Paul, Lake Superior ending in Canada. This pass, today's
EREP data will be used by the principal investigators working
on photo maping, urban planning, atmospheric studies, geology,
remote sensing equipment development, etc. Over the track,
the weather is reported to be very good for the pass. It's
our intention to record this information and play back later,
due to the emminence of the change of shift briefing, which is
on schedule for 4:30 p.m. with Charles Lewis in Building i.
At 21 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean time, we'll take the
line down, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1674/I
Time: 16:37 CDT, 41/21:37 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 21 hours

37 minutes Greenwich mean time. During the just concluded
press conference, we had the stateside pass about 12-1/2
minutes of air-to-ground including the EREP pass number 16.
We'll play that for you now.
CDR got your thing turned on down here
and have forgotten it.
SPT No you don't.
CDR We're supposed to have a - -
SPT What position in north?
PLT EREP is in start, space fans.
PLT All right.
CDR I got a 23.
PLT Rad is off.
CDR Now Goldstone or somebody - -
PLT A/timeter is ON. Mode to MANUAL.
CDR 23 - -
PLT Shorties.
CDR - - is my middle name here. 4 minutes
fron now.
PLT MARK. 191 to AUTO cal.
CDR How does Phoenix look to you, Big O?
SPT I can't see Phoenix yet but the coast
that I can see looks pretty clear.
CDR Excellent. Excellent. We've got our own
weatherman. He's in the bow of the ship. (Laughter).
CC Yes sir, Skylab. AOS stateside, 17 min-
utes. Reading you loud and clear. The maneuver looks good.
CDR Okay, we didn't fire a mib and we're
really going to zing off these targets. So watch our Phoenix.
We got them; we got these sites under complete control.
PLT Okay, Stroy. I got two readings out of
tolerance. Alpha 2 is reading 92 percent, it should be 45
to 75. Charlie 4 is reading 97 percent, should be 55 to 85.
All other were in tolerance last time I checked. Those two
didn't come in.
CC Thanks, Jack.
CDR How's the weather in Phoenix?
PLT Alpha-2 (garble) i.
CDR Say, one question we had for you, Houston,
was we got - to used DAC on the pad. Yet Jack seems to
remember a voice update saying not to use the DAC.
CC AI, that was just a comment that at
times if we didn't want the DAC, we'd say no DAC on the pad.
CDR Okay, but we've got the DAC today, right?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay, we're playing that. Want to make
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sure. You can't have a perfect pass unless it's all perfect.
Okay. 2130, there's a hole in the clouds. Tell ATM we
took the first two assignments on the ATM EREP alternate,
got them done.
PLT Okay, stand by for 190 mode to SINGLE.
CDR 2340.
PLT MARK, SINGLE.
CDR Still cloudy. How does Phoenix look
Owen?
PLT (Garble).
CDR If you can get down to the window maybe.
SPT It's probably okay, (garble). I can't
see Phoenix.
PLT Stand by for another 190 mode to SINGLE.
PLT MARK, mode to SINGLE, I heard go.
Oh, we got 3 in a row, really socking them off today.
CDR Looks clear over the coast here.
PLT Another single on 190.
PLT MARK. There we are again. And when -
PLT MARK. Ready 29 for 191.
CDR We're crossing Baja at the moment.
PLT We can go to rev 6. We're in rev 6.
CDR You cross the Baja and in i minute
you're in Phoenix. That's not bad traveling.
PLT We could see the Gulf of _exico from over
Baja the other day.
CDR That day, we (garble).
PLT Okay, we're standing by for altimeter.
Stand by. In mode i. Altimeter on LOCK.
CDR 40 seconds to go.
PLT MARK.
CDR Jack stand by. Weather looks good - at
the moment.
PLT 01.
PLT Now we're going scat to stand by next.
CDR Weather looks excellent.
PLT Weather's always good down here.
CDR Could be.
PLT Stand by.
CDR 2313.
PLT MARK. Scat to STANDBY.
CDR 2320. That's Phoenix, I believe.
CDR That's Phoenix, we're going to get
this baby.
PLT MARK. Altimeter ON.
PLT MARK. 192 Ready.
CDR (Garble).
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CDR Okay. We got the first one in site.

Let's zoom in on it.
PLT Okay. We got the tape motion light.
CDR We got the first one Story, we're taking
data on it already.
PLT Zoom in there, Eagle Eye.
CDR Hey, I'm watching this thing until it
gets to i0 and then I'm going to go to the next one. That's
going to be tough. Right on.
PLT Remember to bring this down once they
get faster. Faster.
CDR Okay, I will.
CDR It'll be 28 degrees. Taking all sorts
of data.
PLT Stand by for mode to AUTO.
CDR Looks good, good clear area right now,
Story.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, let's go.
PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO.
CDR (Garble) 16, cause we're going to miss
it we don't (garble).
PLT Now we're going to get the tape burner
off next.
CDR Okay, that's it. Go high. Zoom out.
PLT Up at 2, Charlie 4 is still out of spec.
CDR Go up here. That's the next one Story,
we got it. Zoom in on that little baby. That's it,
we're on it. We're taking data on number 2. Go down at zero
degrees in just a minute and I'ii quit taking data here.
Okay, that's it. I got to zoom back out again. Go down
to this other one. It's suppose to be right over here by
this canal. There's the place. Check.
PLT Tape motion light back on.
CDR There's the sight. We got her. We got
all three of them.
PLT That's the way to him them there, AI.
CDR We'll throw in a fourth one here in a
minute. Okay, we've got this one. We're at minus 17. It's
going to start moving. We'll try to get that air field if
we can.
CDR Okay, let's zoom out and get that air
field. (Whistle) Williams Air Force Base where are you?
CDR Couldn't make it.
PLT Yeah, we're going intervals. 20 here.
CDR Okay, we got those (garble).
PLT HARK. Intervals, 20 to 190.
PLT Standing by for mode READY.
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CDR 45 - up. Left 1.5.

CDR 45 up left 1.5. Okay, and it's 2537,
go on this one. That's - I missed it already. Okay, let's
back up, 26. No, no 2644 is zero. Zero in the left .2.
Zero in the left .2.
PLT MARK. Mode to READY. Malf light ON,
OFF and tape motion light ON, just the way we like it.
CDR Okay, 30 in there next.
PLT We'll get it. You'll get that one there.
You know Allamosa like the back of your hand. Here we go.
CDR 2644 is when I want to go.
PLT MARK. Chair speed medium on 190.
CDR 2644.
PLT 276.
CDR 37. Good. That's it. I don't got it.
CDR In the head.
CDR 6440, left 2 tenths.
PLT MARK. Rev 2 on 1 91. 27A and R to STAND-
BY.
PLT MARK. Altimeter to STANDBY. RAD to
STANDBY. Get the SCAT out here and the RAD ON in a minute.
PLT MARK. SCAT ON. RAD ON. 29 next.
CDR Well we got to stand around with our
hands in our pockets now.
CDR NAW, I never saw that. Never saw that one.
CDR Okay, this time maneuver 2933. We're
okay.
PLT 5 minutes yet, AI.
CDR Okay. We got three but we didn't ever
see the last one.
CC Copy.
PLT That's Just dirty beach sand anyway.
CDR Couldn't find it.
PLT Standing by for 29 here gang. King on
the polar 4.
CDR Maneuver 2133. Okay.
PLT Pass today brings us up over the north
part of the Gulf of California at Baja right over Phoenix
north of Albuquerque, south Denver, south of Minneapolis, up
over the upper peninsula of Michigan, and then Itm over
Canada and New Foundland.
PLT 29 before 4.
CDR Did that for me.
PLT (Garble) detector Charlie 4 is 192,
detector ii 19P, and we're in high level high, right where
we're suppose to be. Those were the two that were out the
other day, they came in just before the pass, I think they
were the ones anyway. They didn't do it today. Going down
there and check that alignment. Checked out real good
before. The - I did the 192 alignment at least, and the
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PLT Checked out real good before. The - I gave the

192 alignment a glance and the numbers are right up where
they're supposed to be.
PLT MARK. Shutter speed closed on 190. HARK.
192 to STANDBY. That's PAD STANDBY next. Second delay.
PLT There they go. Has Houston left us?
PLT HARK. SCAT to STANDBY. Two second. MARK.
RAD to STANDBY. 30, 40, AUTO CAL. MARK. AUTO CAL. MODE
to MANUAL. MARK. 194. 91 READY is OUT. Spect 190 on
Radial 3240.
CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out a minute
here, while we handover to Bermuda.
PLT Okay, Story. We'll see you in sunny Bermuda.
CC Back with you for 5 minutes.
CDR How do you like the maneuver time?
CC We llke it.
CDR Okay.
PLT MARK. Right on the money. 190 READY
light out.
PLT MODE to STANDBY. MS maneuver.
Coming on seconds. Coming up.
CDR B going SI right now. No blips. Not
even a (garble).
CDR At 22:05, they want that done. Set up my
timer. Like 32 minutes from now. Get that done.
PLT MARK. READY ON 191. And I go to STOP.
MARK we're STOP at 25.
SPT They want to squeeze in a timematic here
on my data camera. It doesn't have anything to do with
real GMT.
SPT Coming up. 22 01 15. On this data timer.
STANDBY. MARK 22 01 15 on the mark.
CDR Okay, and the kid was on the post. Voice
recording Bravo 7, 2-D. 30 percent. And 192 door CLOSED.
SPT How much time remaining to sunset, AI?
CDR Just a minute. Let me check it for you.
9 minutes.
SPT Thank you Sir. Close your window.
CDR I'll latch it when you get it closed.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Closed to me.
SPT Just a minute. Ther# we go.
CDR Okay, coming to latch.
SPT All the way. Okay.
CDR Done.
PLT Okay. This is the end of EREP number 16 pass.
So we're going to sign off for now. All this information
goes to out friends in the EREP world. Thank you for listening
and good-bye.
PLT We should have the frames used on the
ETC camera. Frames used is 51. 51 frames.
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CC Skylab. We're i minute til LOS. And 5

minutes to Madrid.
SPT Hey, Story, did you ever look at any of
that reflex, (garble) reflex velocity TV. And if you have,
did you think it's useful. Over.
CC Owen, we're going over the hill here. I
have looked at it, having completed the analysis. I think
it is useful. I'ii let you know.
SPT You might give me a work on it after you
come up next station.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab. AOS Madrid for 7 minutes.
PLT Okay Story, for the EREP guys down there,
tape recorder wise, there's 2-1/2 inches remaining free
space on the take-up reel and there's i inch gone off the
supply reel.
CC Okay, Jack.
CC Skylab, for the nearest person to the ATM
schedule pad, I've got a slight change to it.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC AI, at 23:53, that's the orbit starting
at 23:58 there, delete that NUZ update at 2S:5S, and change
it to NUZ update at 00:$0 GMT, that will be 19 of day
remaining.
CDR Okay. Copy.
CC And that is time critical. The star's
only available until 00:$5 tonight. That will give you
5 minutes to get locked on. And the reason for this is
that we think the star tracker shutter may be hanging up
due to thermal reasons. We'd like to have a little more
time in daylight to get thawed out.
CDR Okay. Anything else?
CC No Sir, that's it for now.
CC And I'm personally passing the hat around
here to collect for that excellent EREP show.
CDR Save it up and we'll go out and have out
spaghetti dinner.
SPT Jack can order - AI can order the food, but
Jack and I are going to order up the music.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you
over Honeysuckle in about 40 minutes at 22:27. Be dumping
the tape recorder there.
PAO That completes the tape recorded segment
of this pass. At 21 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean time
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1676/I
Time: 17:26 CDT, 41/22:26 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 22 hours

26 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station is approaching
Honeysuckle. We'll stand by for the communication through
the Honeysuckle tracking site in Australia. Expect to acquire
in about 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, for 6 minutes.
CDR Hey, Story. When I went to the teleprinter
to get out tomorrow's flight plans, I notice that the top of
mine did not print. It looks like it printed part of the
left side and then it kind of faded, it looks like it was a paper
problem, coating or something like that as opposed to anything
wrong with the teleprinter because the rest of it printed.
So you will need to send me another one and the only one we
really received was the SPT's.
CC Okay, understand the good ones
you got are the summary flight plan and the SPT details and
you need the rest.
CDR No, we only got the summary and the details
for the SPT and got nothing else.
CC Okay. And your family comm is on for
00:24 and the antennas are right and left.
CDR Thank you.
CC AI, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, your momentum looks good, you had no
problem with the earth resources maneuver, so you can go
ahead and inhibit the TAC switches and inhibit the soft-
ware per your pad.
CDR That was a nice way to say it, thanks.
CDR That does it.
CC Okay, we're seeing it.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see
you over Hawaii in about 15 minutes and we sent up the
PLT details, you might take a look at them.
PAO Loss of signal at Honeysuckle - at Honeysuckle,
we will acquire again through Hawaii in i0 minutes. At 22
hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1677/I
TIME: 17:47 CDT 41/22:47 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours

47 minutes. Approaching Hawaii, standing by for air-to-ground
through Hawaii and a long stateside pass.
CC S kylab. AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
SPT Hello Story. Are you with us?
CC Yes sir, another 5 minutes.
SPT I've just been wondering if there were
not some potential malfunction procedures that we might
attempt on the one bad Vidicon, in as much as it's
apparently unusable at the moment, there doesn't seem to
be any damage we can do to it, and I wonder if the
potential problem has been ascertained. If there's any
possibility of opening it up, to take a look at it on the
inside, or possible other troubleshooting schemes we
might attempt.
CC Okay, Owen, we'll get with you on that.
And have you got a couple of minutes right now.
SPT Yeah, I've got a few minutes, Story, go
ahead.
CC Okay. Evening questions on the S063.
Those auroras you took a look at yesterday, what colors
were they?
SPT They were still baslcally greenish. The
first one - the southern aurora, Jack had a better look
than I, I was, as I recall, up at the ATM, and he was Just
finishing the TO02 work. But I got a glimpse of that and
it was also greenish. The one - the northern latitude
was quite extensive and the whole arc was of a greenish
nature. You could see the auroral arc itself against the
background of the Earth and yon could also see faint
streation above the lower latitude, the lower altitude
aurora extended on up probably between i00 or 250 kilometers.
A faint, more or less vertical lines, aligned to the
magnetic field. Over.
CC Thanks. And which window was used?
SPT It was the STS window looking in the
northerly direction. I don't remember the number right now.
CC Okay. And during the SO63 SI runs, were
there any problems encountered tracking the targets?
SPT Encountered tracking. I'm not sure what
you mean. Perhaps you're talking about the - well there was one
attempt where we encountered two exposures on the same target,
and that did go well. If that's the thing you're asking
about.
CC Understand you had no problems trackinB
the target.
SPT That's correct.
CC Okay. And how about tracking the horizon
during the last exposure?
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TIME: 17:47 CDT 41/22:47 GMT
9/6/73

SPT That went particularly well, because the

horizon is moving at a very slow rate, and it's no trouble
to stay right on it. As a matter of fact, I think you can
stay on it more precisely with the brightly lit horizon than
you can on some of the airglow targets, because the horizon
is not so well defined. I also had the eyepiece, the little
viewfinder taped more securely this time. I found a little
better way to tape it, and so it is nice and stable now,
and there's just no jitter in it at all.
CC Okay. And one more thing. On the OTG,
the line target on the OGI goggles, has it been out of
focus the whole mission?
SPT That's affirm. I think we've sent those
comments down several times on the channel A. And the
target essentially looks like it always has ever since we
put the goggles on. And it's very fuzzy.
CC And can you confirm that it's not water
condensation.
SPT I don't see how it could be. I don't know
how water condensation would get into the goggles. They
are the same fuzziness as soon as you put your eyes to them,
and there's no change as the test progresses.
CC Okay. Thanks.
SPT I could take another check on that, but I
don't really know how any condensation could get into the
eyepiece there. But I'ii check it again.
CC Yeah. Sometimes on the ground it did get
on the surface of the glass.
SPT Okay. I could take a look, but I'm confident
that that is not the case.
CC Okay. Thanks. And we're about 40 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you over Goldstone in 5 minutes.
SPT Right, and don't forget the Vidicon question.
CC Okay.
PLT And Story, when are we going to start
working on M518.
CC We're going to send you up a procedure
tonight.
PLT Good. Looking forward to working on it.
CC And we think about mission day 43.
PLT I thought that ASCO was telling us that
JOP 13's were starting on about day 250. Is that right?
CC I'll find out.
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone 7 minutes.
SPT Something else came up tonight when we
were -

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SL-III MC-1678/I
Time: 17:59 CDT, 41/22:59 GMT
9/6/73

CDR Something else came up tonight, when we were

shooting out a - bunch of trash out of the trash airlock. As
I went to close the handle that clamps the lid down, the handle
did not completely come up on the rim of the lid and lock it
down. So I looked down at this long slender rod it has a turn
- it's a turn buckle with two rods on the end and it's the
interlock mechanism between the handle that locks the lld and
the handle that opens the shutter and fires out the (garble),
not fires out the (garble) but depresses it and opens the little
eyelets. This turn buckle with two rods that interlocks those
two things (garble) just as it is on our trainer. I assume
it occurred by as you know this lid is hard to push down and pull
the handle over. What I assume occurred was that we locked the
lid down, I'd locked the lid down and then when I moved the
handle that opened the eyelet - or (garble) it probably rubbed
on the the can and (garble) a little a - interlock there. Now
we can make it work okay, but it takes two men now, we have
to have somebody push down the lid real hard and we put the
interlock - I mean put the handle up and it locks well. If you
try to do it by yourself, by squeezing down with one hand and
then flipping it over, it doesn't work so good. So_ our question
is, is there another one of those aboard? Should we readjust it?
Should we take it off and turn it around the other direction
or should we just keep operating in the two man mode? As I see
it, it doesn't have any safety considerations or it doesn't,
not in any danger of breaking the lock, or causing us to loose
the operation of the trash airlock. It just is not operating
as simply as it was before because it now the out of adjustment
configuration because the little interlock mechanism there is
bent.
CC Copy, AI.
CDR We'll get a S056, the shopping item 13 for
6 minutes, on filter 5.
CC Okay, thanks AI. I'ii have to get with
Pete and his crew but here in the MOCR people remember seeing
on TV when the towel was used, that the SL-2 crew used two
people also. You'd see one coming down to push on the lid while
the other crewman brought the handle up.
CDR And we can keep doing, I'd just like to
straighten it out and just simplified things, like to leave
it like we found it. There maybe that spare part aboard somewhere
for all I know, although it doesn't look llke it's getting
ready to break or anything.
CC Okay, we'll be working it.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds tll LOS and
5 minutes to Bermuda.
CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda, 7 minutes.

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SL-III MC-1679/I
Time: 18:12 CDT, 41/22:12 GMT
9/6/73

CC AI, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC l've got another change to the ATM
schedule pad that starts at 23:58 for Jack.
CDR Okay, ready to copy.
CC Okay, at that point 25 minutes of day
remaining we suggest active region ii or 13 whichever is
brightest on the XUV monitor.
CDR Okay.
CC It's got ii down there use either ii or
13 whichever is brightest.
CDR Okay, Story, thanks.
CC Skylab; we're i minute to LOS. In 3 min-
utes to Canaries.
SPT And Story, the best window for auroral view
appears number 4 not number 3. Number 4 is the one that
looks to the north while number 3 looks more to the west of
the sunset ... region. Over.
CC Okay, thanks. We're going LOS here.
Pick you up in 2 minutes. Say, we are looking at the
SWS caution and warning down here.
CDR We accidentally twisted off a circuit
breaker it was emergency power we put it back on everything's
okay.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries 9 minutes.
CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen we're going to bring that failed
TV camera home.
SPT Understand; but thought there might be
an opportunity to take a look at it while we're still
here and when you get it running why so much the better.
CC Yes sir, they've taken a close look at
not just now but previously, they don't feel there's any-
thing you can do up there to fix it.
SPT Yeah, I guess that was my question if
it was really hopeless why no point in attempting it but
wanted to at least asked to see if there might possibly
be something we can look at on the inside in attempt to
repair it but if not, we'll just bring it back.
CC Yeah, they don't think you can fix it,
Owen.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 35 min-
utes to Honeysuckle at 00:04.
SPT Okay, we'll see you.
PAO Okay, next station contact in 34 minutes.
At 23 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1680/I
Time: 19:04 CDT, 42/00:04 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 4 minutes

Greenwich mean time. And day of the year 250. We're about
i0 seconds from acquisition through Honeysyckle. Standing
by for the communications with the space station.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.
And we need the DAS for a dump inhibit.
SPT It's yours.
CC Thank you.
CC The DAS is yours, Jack.
CC Skyla5, we're a minute to LOS. And
15 minutes to Hawaii. And for the Commander his family
comm is coming up over Hawaii antennas are right to left.
PAO At 13 minutes Greenwich mean time.
This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1681/I
Time: 19:24 CDT, 42/00:24 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 24 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station has nearly in range of
the Hawaii tracking site. For another of the long passes,
I just to say through Hawaii, Goldstone, stateside and then
down through Ascension. We're about i0 seconds away from
acquisition. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii, 9 minutes.

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SL-III MC-1682/I
Time: 19:26 CDT, 42/00:26 GMT
9/6/73

CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, during one of the last family comms,
AI reported that during his family comm when he had a record
light on, anytime he would hit l-comm, he would hear the
person talking on VHF in the command module. At the end of
this pass, when AI is done with his family comm talk, if you'd
have him just leave the command module configuration as is
and then you can hit a - the record on and then hit l-comm and
see if you can read him transmitting VHF and also we'll be
looking down here to see if there is anything appearing on the
transcripts. That'll be fine, even though we will be LOS at
the time you do it.
SPT Okay, good idea, I'ii run up and let him
know we're looking.(garble).
CC Yeah. Just have him leave it in configuration
he's in now, get the record light on and then you can hit l-comm
down in the workshop somewhere and see if you can hear him talking
on VHF.
SPT Okay, I'ii be over on channel A at the
time, that's how we had it configured the other day. I'ii put
record on and listen on channel A.
CC That's affirm.
CC And one other thing, Owen. During this test
could you verify that there are no head sets or anything plugged
into SIA 102 and with that switch and the l-comm PTT position.
SPT Do - position 102, where's that?
CC That's up in the MDA, one of the ones
you use for the EREP.
SPT Okay, understand. So I'ii - I'ii check that.
Good point.
CC And AI, we're looking for a NU-Z update
down here.
CC O r, Jack.
CC And Jack, would you like the DAS command
for orbital (garble) update?
PLT Yeah, why don't you read them all, Story.
CC 52011, that's enable and 50011, that's
orbital plan air update.
PLT 50011 is fine, 50011, right?
CC T hat's affirm. And we're going LOS here.
And we'll see you over Goldstone in 3 minutes.
CC S kylab, AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT _ello, Story.
CC Jack.
PLT Are you with us now, Story?
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Time: 19:26 CDT, 42/00:26 GMT
9/6/73

CC Yes, sir. We're here for 4 minutes.

SPT Okay, we just ran that VHF to channel A
crosstalk check and I did find it was still coming through
on channel A. A1 also found that there was a new power switch
on on channel - on panel 6. That probably should not have
been off and after turning that switch off the level dropped
from 16B although there were still some things crossed off
into channel A. And he went through the whole switch config-
uration. A bunch of test all on that channel A now and we
directed that message to EGIL. Over.
CC Okay, thanks. We'll get that to the
ENCO. And say again that switch that you turned off.
SPT (garble) power switch on panel 6.
CC Okay.
CDR That could have been conceivably been
the culprit because there's a mike also hooked, you know,
a head set hooked up to that. Maybe when we were talking
it was being picked up by another head set. Mainly that one
that was hooked into 6.
CC Okay. We also were thinking that's the
problem, AI.
PLT Okay, Story, on the NU-Z update, I've got
one brass 143, put the star tracker in auto and a couple of
seconds later it cut itself off the llne and closed the door
by itself and do you want me to do anything further with that?
CC We'd like for you to move the shutter
switch to the close position, Jack.
PLT Roger, I did that already. You want
the power left on?
CC A ffirm.
PLT Okay.
CDR Say, Story, I'm looking at my S019 pad and
I notice that the first start, says rotation and it doesn't
have any quantities and then it says .3. Is that 000.3?
CC Stand by one. That's correct, AI. That's
a 000.3.
CDR Thank you.
CC And in the future we'll put those in.
CC And we're going LOS here and we'll pick
you up over Bermuda in 3 minutes.

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SL III MC-1683/I
TIME: 19:42 CDT 42/00:42 GMT
9/6/73

CC S Skylab. AOS Bermuda i0 minutes.

CDR Want to give you the nightly report sans
photo log, which I'ii give you later.
CC Okay. Stand by i, so we can get ready, AI.
CC Okay AI, go.
CDR 105, 167, 188; 5776, 9622, 6333; 6.248,6.247,
6.244; 5.947, 5.946 5.944; 6.949, 6.950, 6.949.
2/29/5041, 3/15/mark i; 3/10/mark 2, 305mark 3. SPT:
2/30/5100, 3/20/mark i, 60A, 30B, 30D. PLT: 1/05/0605,
2/32/7408, 3/20/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, and 20 backbends.
No medications. Sleep: 7-G, 7-G, 6-I/2-G. Food items coming
up. CDR: i0 salts and an extra lemonade. SPT: 4 salts, one
peach ambrosia, orange drink and lemonade. All extra.
PLT: 4 salts and add one butter cookies. Substitute pork
and potatoes and applesauce for tuna and bread. Photo log,
we'll cool it for a minute. Flight Plan deviations: Every-
thing went okay. Shopping llst accomplishment: We got
all of our housekeeping completed. Inoperable equipment:
None, nothing new. Unscheduled stowage item location
change: The - changed - I wish I could read that number.
all light bulbs in airlock module.
PLT Six.
CDR Six, the word is six, changed six small
light bulbs in the airlock module. Jack did that. And that's
it, I believe.
CC Okay. We got it.
CDR Also, the food people, since we're going to
be running out of regular salt, I wanted to report, which
place we get our salt from. We'll use all our regular
salt up and then ever after that we'll let you know, and we'll be
using those pills salt, crushed up. So, we're presently
using the regular salt, so we mention it.
CC Okay AI.
CDR I don't know if I said that right. I meant
we are not using the pill salt untill we mention it. We're
using the regular salt.
CC Yes sir. We understood it.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. And 7
minutes to Ascension.
CDR Okay, Story. And don't worry about that
master alarm again. It was the main circuit breaker. I
hit it with my finger here, beside this STS window and
got it reset.
CC Okay.
PAO We've had loss of signal through Bermuda
at 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1684/I
Time: 20:02 CDT, 42/01:02 GMT
9/6/73

PAO Skylab Control; 1 hour 2 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Coming up to Ascension, standing by for the
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, AOS Ascension, I0 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC And Skylab, we'd like the DAS for dump
enable.
SPT Say again, Story.
CC We'd like the DAS for dump enable.
SPT It's yours.
CC Skylab, the DAS is yours.
CDR Story, I've got the film log here, are
you ready.
CC Stand by one. Okay. Go.
PLT Okay, 16-milllmeter was MI51, earth terrain
camera prep, CI59, 61 percent, CI57; second line, M516,
teleprinter load, IVI52, 0 percent, CI49; third llne, EREP,
VTS, CI03, 40 percent, same thing there. 35-millimeter:
Earl Victor 15, 00; we changed it out put in Bravo Victor
16, got 20 now. Charlle X-ray 29's got 46. Charlie India 103,
got 42. Charlie X-ray 26 has got 066. That was 70-millimeter.
Earth terrain: Charlle Tango 08's got the 051. EREP that
we used today has got, 8615; 0808, 8333, 7714, 9484, 8386.
Drawer A: there's only two transporters changed. That's in
Alfa-3, transporter 06, Charlie India 52, 0 percent, Charlle
India 49; A-4, transporter 03, Charlie India 59, 61 percent,
Charlie India 57. Over.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Here I am, what did I do now.
CC It's not what you did, it's what you didn't
do. The last - you seem to cut off very abruptly there at about
Charlie India 57.
PLT Is that on the 16 millimeter or the Drawer A?
CC Stand by one.
PLT We must have had a comm drop off.
CC We'll get the point where you left off.
And while we're working that, we've got a possible explanation
for your out-of-spec readings on A2 and the C4 meters today.
And that is possibly S192 was not in mode check for the
necessary 6 minutes, prior to taking the readings.
PLT Well I'm not sure, I'ii look at the
checklist. I put it in check right on time.
CC Okay, but we think there's no problem with
that and one other evening question, that is - your channel B
recording of the BMMD shoulder strap, could you tell us something
about the strap being unable to restrain you and the buckle
letting go.
SL-III MC1684/2
Time: 20:02 CDT, 42/01:02 GMT
9/6/73

PLT I got the buckles to work all right, I was

having problem with the Velcro before, but I got it working
okay now, so just disregard the comment.
CC Okay.
PLT I couldn't get them to catch with just
putting the strap back there, like you would with a venetian blind,
you got to get your hand back in there and work on it. If
you do that why it works okay.
CC O kay.

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SL III MC-1685/I
TIME: 20:12 CDT 42/01:12 GMT
9/6/73

PLT - but I got it working okay now, so just

disregard the comment.
CC Okay.
PLT I couldn't get them attached with just
putting a strap back there like you would a venetian blind.
You got to get your hand back in there and work on it. If
you do that, why it works okay.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, we think we have the entire photo
log down here. We think we're okay there.
CC And we're 20 seconds from LOS. And about
25 minutes from Carnarvon at 01:36.
PLT Okay. You got the entire log because the
last thing I said was, Charlie India 57, and then I said
over. So you missed the over.
CC Yes Sir, you must have dropped the switch
then. Fine.
PAO Loss of signal through Ascension. At
1 hour 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1686/I
Time: 20:36 CDT, 42/01:36 GMT
9/6/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 1 hour 36 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station approaching Carnarvon
in Australia. Standing by for air-to-ground communication.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story, got two things. Number
one is the little ambient thermometer in the workshop set up
down here in the crew quarters reads 72 degrees.
CC Got it.
PLT Is that all you wanted for that work-
shop temperature and notation for Flight Plan?
CC Yep, that's all we wanted.
PLT Okay, then one other item we took our
earth measurements a few days ago and I know the troops
down there have our preflight measurements. I'm wondering
if you'll have somebody send up on a pad the Delta's to
preflight or else send up our original measurements, compare
them with the ones we took on board. We don't have copies
anymore so we'll need that measure too.
CC Okay, copy that.
PLT Thank you very much.
CC Owen you got a minute?
SPT Go ahead, I was just looking at the
WLC display here over on the west limb trying to decide
whether or not they're any dark rays extending almost
at 090. I think it may just be that there is so many bright
rays the spaces in between them look dark. The darkness
makes you see back to the background corona. Yes I have
a minute, go ahead Story.
CC Okay, in Nikon 01, 46 the frames you
called them down tonight the same frames we had on it last
night and we wondered if therets any tape still over the
batteries?
SPT I think that may have been an error on
the callout. I'Ii go check that. No, the tape has been
removed from the batteries and I didn't notice that. I'm
up at the ATM panel right now but I'ii go double check that
frame. It's probably a mistake on the - that I made on the
logging.
CC Okay, good.
CC And CDR, PLT.
CDR Yes.
CC AI, we're showing power OFF the VTR.
We're wondering if you got into that _[518 procedure early?
CDR No, we didn't. We'll - let us check
that we may have disconnected it to run the vacuum cleaner.
PLT The switch is still in ON so we'll have
to check the power cable.
SL-III MC-1686
Time: 20:36 CDT, 42/01:36 GMT
9/6/73

CC Okay. Thatts fine. And we'll Just

need it by Goldstone at 02:15 to dump it there.
CDR Okay.
SPT Story, Nikon 01 reads 24 frames remaining.
CC Okay, that's good.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS 7 minutes
to Guam. We'll be dumping the tape recorders over Guam.
PAO We're less than 5 minutes away from
acquisition at Guam. We'll keep the llne up for the pass
through Guam.

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SL III MC-1687/I
TIME: 20:47 CDT 42/01:47 GMT
9/6/73

CC Skylab. AOS Guam 7 minutes. And Owen.

SPT Go ahead.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Owen, there's been a type 4 burst Or coronal
transit in the northeast limb. We'd like you to complete
building block i, and then go to Sun center, and roll to
get the northeast llmb away from the pylon, and then do a
S052 fast scan.
SPT Okay. Say again.
CC NOAA reports a type 4 burst in the northeast
quadrant. That's a coronal transient, and we'd like you to
complete building block i, then go to Sun center, roll the
canister as necessary and run a fast scan on S052.
SPT Okay. I have it. Thank you.
CC And Owen, when you get the SO52, we're
configuring Guam to receive some real time TV.
SPT From Guam.
CC It'll go down to the site, then we won't
get it here in Houston.
SPT You mean you'll get it back in Houston a
little later tonight. Is that right? By satellite?
CC It'll be a couple of days, but we'd still
like it.
SPT Okay. How soon do you want that.
CC Well, you've got about 4 minutes and
30 seconds.
SPT Okay. I'ii interrupt the continuous mode
that I'm in right now and give you several minutes of this
particular roll. Now the roll is not optimum, but you should
be able to see the northeast quadrant up at about 10:30, so
I'ii give it to you - send it down to Guam right now.
CC O Okay.
SPT There is a very bright ray at about 1:30
to 2:00 with the north pole at 12:00. I don't know whether
that can be associated with the transient or not. There
appears to be no other obvious manifestation of a transient.
Although all I have done is, of course, is to base that on to
the eclipse of the corona at this time. And I haven't really
been looking at the corona for the rest of the day. So it's
definitely a different configuration from yesterday, but I
can't tell if a transient is in progress at the moment.
CC Okay Owen.
CDR Say, Story, it might be a good idea if SL IV
crew brought up another roll of this so-called neutral tape
that we got. It's really silver looking, but the name is
neutral tape.
CC Neutral tape. Okay.
CDR Yeah. We've about used up the one roll that's
here and one roll should do them plenty well.
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TIME: 20:47 CDT 42/01:47 GMT
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CC Owen, we'd like you to optimize the roll

and give us a fast scan on S052.
SPT Roger.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR He's listening. Go ahead.
CC We're about 30 seconds to LOS. You're
med conference is coming up over Goldstone at 02:15, so
we won't be able to talk to you then. Grand Rapids, Michigan
is going to be flashing their lights at approximately 02:20.
CDR We'll all be looking. Jack will be glued
to the window.
CC And we don't think you've got any good
windows, but do the best you can. And I got one other
thing for you, A1.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. A better time for Grand Rapids
would be about 02:25 to 02:29. And when you get sunset,
rotate REG 8 FINE ADJUST clockwise until BAT 8 discharge
current is equal to BAT 5 discharge current. That's after
sunset. REG 8 FINE ADJUST clockwise until BAT 8 discharge
is equal to BAT 5 discharge. And the window for Grand
Rapids out to be STS 2 or 3.
PAO Loss of signal through Guam. Upcoming is
Goldstone tracking station, where we'll have the medical
conference. At 2 hours Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1688/I
Time: 21:15 CDT, 42/02:15 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 2 hours 15 minutes

space station about in acquisition at Goldstone. We have
a medical conference coming up. Standing by for the
air-to-ground.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, we'd like some white light TV real
time if you can please. And you've got 3 minutes.
SPT Okay, it's coming now.
CDR While he's talking, how about telling me
again what to do with reg 8. Does reg 8 go clockwise too fast
something does something.
CC Okay, AI. Reg 8 fine adjust clockwise
until bat 8 discharge current is equal to the bat 5 discharge
current and of course you'll have to wait until after sunset
for that.
CDR Understand now. I didn't have my piece
of paper out for 8 and 5 were just interrelated, interchanged.
Thanks.
CC Yes, sir. And we were just going LOS
there, so it's pretty hurried.
SPT Story, you did say earlier that that
transmit had been seen on the northwest llmb, was that correct?
CC I've got a long message here for you. It
moved from the southwest to the northeast. I'ii get the rest
of the message to you later. So I won't a - won't disturb
your work. And in addition to the white light TV we'd like some
the rest of the TV that was scheduled also.
SPT Okay, I do have a photograph, but I'm
comparing the present configuration with and there maybe some
small some changes in the ray structure. Not like the transit
that we had observed earlier, but changing definition between
narrow ways and narrow rays and then farther more use a streamers.
And it is possible that there is some changing of that and
I'd appreciate you get that message up and I'ii give you another
round of displays.
CC Okay.
PLT Just about lost the XUV MON due to extension.
So it's intensity was unusually low.
CC Okay, we'll be dumping the VTR over Mila.
And we'll get right back up to you what we see.
SPT I didn't put that on the VTR, were you
expecting me to get the VTR on?
CC Don't put anything on the VTR, Owen.
CC Owen, that VTR that we were talking about.
CC Owen, that VTR that we were talking about
when you were in the TV position over Guam, we took some on
the VTR.
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SPT Okay, you turned it on for me then. So

I hadn't seen the light over there. I wasn't sure what you
were talking about.
CC Yes, sir. We took it.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Is Grand Rapids to the left or the right
side of our trajectory? EREP officer down there happen to
know offhand?
CC Okay, stand by i. Windows 2 or 3 we
recommended.
PLT Okay.
SPT How do you read me down there Story?
CC Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, we're just passing south of Michigan
at this time. We just past over Chicago, we could see the
Michigan area from way out west somewhere and I just want to
say hello to all of the folks live down in Grand Rapid. I've
got lots of relatives down there, uncles, cousins, aunts, nephews,
nieces and also lots of friends down there. And Bob Day is
a - one of those who is - who's on the Grand Rapid press and
I'm sure he's watching this little event. And Grand Rapid's
the place where I was first launched and I just want to appreciate -
say how much I appreciate all the folks down there, remembering
us up here in Skylab as we go whisling across the city. I've
been looking at Michigan out of the window many times and I've
picked out Grand Rapids on several occassions and I've got lots
of good fun memories from the time that I lived in Grand Rapids.
And I remember living on the northeast side of town where we
lived right on the edge of the woods and that's I think completely
covered with the houses now. And I use to go over to my aunts
and uncles regularly to visit them and watch the cow and to
pull mustard weeds out of the alfalfa. Let them got lots of
good memories and look forward to getting back to Grand Rapids
one of these days. And as we whisled over the city there, why
it was a very clear night and I just want to think all of the
folks for flashing their lights and just - just don't send me
your electric bill, okay. (laugh)
CC Okay, Jack, copy. They're probably listening
in but we'll send your message on up to them.
PLT Thanks a lot.
PLT Okay, Story. One more thing we just crossed
over Washington and Baltimore and I can look back there and
I could still see Grand Rapids from this vantage point. So,
Grand Rapids stands out mighty loud and clear up here even
at 275 miles and 4 miles a second, we can still see where our
friends and relatives are down there on the ground.
CC Okay, Jack.
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CC Skylab, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC We'll like you to turn your back over to
Bermuda here to finish up your med conference and we'd llke
to see the panel closed out and the frames remaining and like
to take that up over Carnarvon at 03:14. That'll keep you
up about 14 minutes late if that's okay.
PLT I think we can handle that all right. And
you never did give me an update on the transient event, Story.
Even though we're not going to be looking at that thing any
more tonight. I guess you could do that adequately from
the ground and I'd like to hear what you'd llke to say about
it one of these times, when you got a moment.
CC Okay, we'll do that at Carnarvon. And
we've already looked at some of the VTR from over in Guam.
We'll he handing you over to the medical conference now.
PLT Okay.

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SL-III MC-1689/I
Time: 21:30 CDT, 42/02:30 GMT
9/6/73

PLT We've had loss of signal through

Bermuda. Next acquisition is about 37 minutes away although
we'll brush the Ascension Island tracking station. Perhaps
get data but no voice. At 2 hours 36 minutes Greenwich
mean time. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1690/I
Time: 21:43 CDT, 42/02:43 GMT
9/6/73

SPT Okay, what did you want (garble) were

there any special frames remaining or what else?
CC Owen, just to close the panel out for
tonight and get the frames remaining.
SPT Okay, 6423, 1977, 70, 416, 4123, and
2601. Now I don't know whether you want to change that
plus 5400 roller or not depending on where your fastest
estimate of that transient was occurring. 5400 does place
the southwest quadrants right there that little dust
particle so I'ii either leave it here plus 5400 or move it
wherever SO52 PI prefers.
CC Okay, thanks. We'll get an answer on
that.
CC You can leave that where it is.
SPT Okay. And I'ii put the 55 grating at
24:36 and as was indicated on the last part of the pad.
PLT Story, we - AI adjusted reg 8. Looks
okay?
CC Yes sir, it looks fine. Thank you.
PLT Okay, one other thing I'd like to have
go with that communique to Grand Rapids, is that Grand Rapids
is also the home of Roger Chaffee, one of our collegues who
was killed in the Apollo 204 fire at the Cape a few years
back.
CC Yes sir, copy.
SPT And (garble) dump was already commenced
before I could get a NuZ update Story, do you want one
after sunrise or you happy with the present orbital plane
error? Over.
CC We'll get that to you, Owen.
CC And 2436 on S055 is fine Owen.
CC And the NuZ is good.
CC And Skylab we're 20 seconds from LOS.
And about 25 minutes to Carnarvon at 03:14.
SPT Okay, how do you like the panel at this
point?
CC Stand by i.
CC 0 wen the panel looks good.
SPT Okay, fine. Was there something else
we need to talk about at 03:15.
CC No sir, I Just have a report here on the
corona trends is all and you could go to bed at this pass.
SPT I'Ii still be up at 03:15 so why don't you
go ahead - let me check with AI.
SPT Okay, go ahead and give us the update
at 03:15, Story.
CC Okay.
PAO At 2 hours 49 minutes Greenwich mean time
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1691/I
Time: 22:12 CDT, 42/03:12 GMT
9/6/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours

12 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute and
a half away from acquisition through Carnarvon on what
will probably be the final pass of the night for the
Skylab-III crew. I have the physician's report here I'd
like to pass it on. He says the vigor and morale of the
Skylab-III crew continues at gratifying high levels. They
report no illness nor injuries. In Captain Bean's own
words, "we all feel just great." That's the end of the
medical report by Dr. Paul Buchanan. About a minute away
from acquisition at Carnarvon. Standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon 9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story why don't you go ahead and
give us the work.
CC O kay. (Garble) reported at 01:200 a
moving type four burst presently in the northeast quadrant
at 1.4 radii. On 160 megahertz it was first observed in the
southwest at 22:40 Zulu, and moved to the northeast at 1
solar radii per hour. When the spectragraph was first
observed at 20:50 Zulu, there was intense continium which
was probably the intense phase of a type four burst.
SPT Okay, any other information about it?
CC Stand by I.
SPT Our reason for asking we thought perhaps
the coronagraph in Hawaii or if there's some other
indication of either white light or other transient
observations because my white light on board didn't really
show anything that we could see as a transient. If there is
one why hopefully all of the routine S052 data will show
it.

CC Owen the only other additional thing

I've got for you is that we did look at the VTR that you
took for us in the vicinity of Guam and that we dumped at Mila
and a little bit of real time TV that came down there and we're
seeing about the same things in the corona that you did.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. And I guess you'll
probably be making some measurements tonight while we sleep
away and we'll see. how things look in the morning.
CC Okay, I'll give you the LOS call then
right now, we got about 7 minutes to LOS and we'll see you
in the morning. The next station is Guam at 03:27 if you
need us.
SPT Okay, I expect we won't we're all in bed
at this point. Ready to get some sleep.
CC Okay, good night.
SPT Good night.
PAO We still have about 5 minutes left in
this pass but it appears certain now that the crew is tucked
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9/6/73

in for the night and so we'll say that at 3 hours 18 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control signing
off.

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SL-III MC-1692/I
Time: 06:00 CDT, 42/11:00 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours Greenwich

mean time. Skylab approaching Ascension where we expect
Cap Com Bruce McCandless to put in today's wake-up call to
the crew. Today being the start of the Skylab Astronauts'
42nd day in orbit, with a busy day of Apollo Telescope Mount
activities, two Earth Resources Passes and medical experi-
ments, M092/MO93, the lower body negative pressure and
vectorcardiogram series, aimed at determining thehuman body's
adaptation to weightlessness. And we have about one minute
before the scheduled time of acquisition through Ascension
Island. The problem that plagued the S-band antenna at
Vanguard yesterday, is still with us. The Vanguard S-band is
still down and we do not have S-band voice communications
through Vanguard. We are able to get data and we do have
the ability to get VHF communications through Vanguard if
necessary. Vanguard reportedly was unable to make it into
port because of 35-knot winds, requiring the ship to remain
anchored and it is going to have to get into port to obtain
the necessary equipment - parts to make the antenna repair.
We're about i0 seconds now from acquisition. We'll stand
by for the call to the crew.
CC Skylab, Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston.
Good morning. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Good
morning. Over.
PLT Good morning, Bruce.
CC Morning. And just like to remind Jack that
he's got a handheld photo sequence of Lake Chad coming up
here in about 12 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute and
15 seconds to LOS here at Ascension. Next station contact
in 37 minutes through Guam at 11:47 and I'Ii have a number
of small items to read up to you at Guam. Over.
PAO And we've had loss of signal now through
Ascension. Jack Lousma responding to the wake-up call from
Cap Com Bruce McCandless, this morning. The flight director
on the current shift is Nell Hutchinson and the next conversa-
tion with Skylab will come through the tracking station
Guam in 36 minutes. This is Skylab Control at ii hours
12 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III HC-1693/I
Time: 06:46 CDT, 42/11:46 JHT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now

approaching the tracking station at Guam Island. We'll
await the call of the crew from Cap Com Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
6-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Did you want to read up those changes now,
Bruce, or later?
CC I've got a bunch of them here, A1. I'd like
to get a couple up to you. They're not actually all changes.
Some of them are just sort of bits of news items.
CDR Okay. Shoot.
CC Okay. On the subject of NuZ updates, in
order to avoid cycling the star tracker shutter when cold,
we're going to change the NuZ update times on the ATI[
schedule pads that you already have on board. The first one
is from 12:19 to 12:50, that's to 12:50. Second one is
from - -
CDR Hold on a second. Getting out a piece of
paper. Just a
second.
CC Okay. Sorry.
CC And they alluded two on temperature. We're
beginnin_ to suspect that our problem comes when we try to
open that up right after Sunrise and it's still cold and
something hangs up when we try and open it up or close it
later in the day pass. Things seem to have warmed up;
operates a lot better.
CDR Those sound like good logic. Okay we're
ready for the next one.
CC Okay, that was 12:19 to 12:50, the second
one is from 18:43 to 19:03. The third change is from 02:18
to 02:50. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And those times are calculated to be i0 minutes
before star set. With respect to - -
CDR We didn't see one at 2:18, but we'll put one
in (garble).
CC All right 02:50.
CDR Okay.
CC With respect to the SAP update, all regions
have been quiet through the night. Active region 19
flare probability is now 7/2/0. It's hotter in XUV than
any other region observed - active region. Going to high
seas in the South Atlantic, the Vanguard has been unable to
come into port yet. Consequently the S-band system is still
inoperative. Next station after this is Vanguard and then
a rev later, wet11 have no S-band air-to-ground voice at either
of those. If you need to call us over them, you'll have to
use VHF, and 1'11 alert you prior.
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CDR What's wrong with that S-band equipment,

by the way?
CC One of the dirve motors on the S-band
antenna burned out. And when she can get into port, she can
take the drive motor off one of the satellite communication
antennas, use it on the S-band one, and then send the data
back to us by hardline. There's a new drive motor assembly on
itts way down via air freight right now, but it isn't
expected to get there and be installed until Saturday
afternoon. May be back in service on Sunday.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We want to add TV-II Bravo to the
EREP VTS pad prep remarks. If you look on the VTS cue card,
it shows you installing the DAC, however, for EREP 17, we're
not using the DAC, so any view of the VTS panel will suffice
for that. Over.
CDR Okay. So it's not VTS TV you want, you
want that TV-17 or whatever it is.
CC Roger. It's TV-II. TV-II is scheduled -
TV-II Bravo should have shown up in the EREP 17 VTS prep
remarks. What we're looking for is TV pictures or imagery
of the VTS panel and operator ad or something like that.
CDR Okay. We'll throw in the DAC and we won't
run it. We'll just put it up so you'll have a more typical
TV scene.
CC Okay. Whatever you like.
CDR We'll give you the first-class treatment.
CC Roger. Also, Sunday, which is _lission Day 44,
is scheduled to be another day off. We don't need an answer
right now, but as the day goes on, if you'll be thinking
about it, we'd like to know how you plan or how you would
like us to set it up for you schedule wise. The potentials
are there for two EREP passes, the TV inventory, ATM opera-
tions ranging from 2 synoptic to a full day, dump probe
heater check, science demos and the science PI conference.
We can set up anything you like from a full day off to a
full day of work; just let us know later. And it's about
35 seconds to LOS here at Guam. We'll be over the Vanguard
in 32 minutes at 12:25. Next voice contact will be through
Ascension in 45 minutes at 12:38. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC See you there.
SPT Bruce, one other additional word. I have
a little girl who turned 7 years old this morning. If you
wouldn't mind giving Linda a call at home and wishing her
a happy birthday for me_ before she gets off to school, I'd
appreciate it.
CC Okay. I'ii do that, Owen.
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CDR What's the TV inventory? We're a little

puzzled on that one.
CC That's the SL-4 crew training sequence that
you were asking us about.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. Kind of thought that
was what it was.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That'll be all
through Guam, this revolution. The next station to acquire
will be Vanguard, but as you heard, Cap Com l[acandless, the
Vanguard S-band antenna is still not operational. The next
station to acquire voice communications will be Ascension
and that will be about 45 minutes from now. At ii hours
55 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1694/I
Time: 07:24 CDT 42/12:24 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 24 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute away from
acquiring signal of Skylab through Vanguard Where as mentioned
previously we do not have S band communications. We are however,
able to send and receive data, telemetry data from the space
station. And we have VHF voice as a back up. We would not
expect any voice communications however, through Vanguard.
However, we do have one significant message that will be sent
up on the teleprinter to the crew, and that is a report of a
class XI flare from active region 09. This is, as flares are
classified according to their x-ray emmission, this is a large
flare classified CMand X, X being the largest classification. And
this is an XI which is at the bottom end of the X-scale of f_ares.
And we would expect to hear from the crew over Ascension with
voice communications. Ascension acquisition is in about 13 min-
utes.
PAO The initial report on the class X flare
that we're in the process of advising the crew about came from
the Vala satellite, a radiation monitoring satellite. And we
don't have the precise start and rise time on that flare, but
we'll pass that along as it becomes available. The flare
was detected within the last 30 minutes to an hour. Or more
precisely the indications that a flare was about to begin.
We have about 9 minutes remaining in this pass through Vanguard.
And although we don't expect voice communications, we'll keep
the llne up.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have about
7 minutes, 7-1/2 minutes remaining in this Vanguard pass. The
ATM, Apollo telescope mount Officer in the Control Center is
looking at telemetry data which indicates that the crew is
pointing the Skylab ATM instruments at the active region for the
Vala satellite detected a class XI flare. The flare report
first came into the Control Center here and was related to the
crew on the teleprinter at about 12:20 Greenwich mean time, or
about 9 minutes ago.
PAO 1"nls is Skylab Control. Skylab now out
of range of Vanguard, and a minute and a half away from acqui-
sition through Ascension where we expect to get voice contact,
and a report from Owen Garriott who has the duties at the ATM
console this morning on observations of a reported flare in
active region 9. And this active region has shown two peaks
of activity so far this morning. One occurring at 11:39 Green-
wich mean time. That activity described as large i, brilliant,
and then at 12:06 Greenwich mean time or about 31 or 32 minutes
ago the flare classified as XI. The ATM Officer reports that
there have been a total of about five peaks to this outburst.

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SL-III MC-1695/I
Time: 07:37 CDT, 42/12:37 GMT
9/7/73

PAO The ATM officer reports there's actually

been a total of about five peaks to this outburst with the
one at 11:39 and the one at 12:06 being the two largest.
The ATM officer does not believe from the data he's seen
and from the flight plan scheduling of ATM operations, that
it is very likely Garriott caught the rise of that X-I flare
although it does appear quite likely that he did see the -
perhaps the peak and the beginning dropoff. Although, as
we have said, we should get a report from Garriott at
Ascension acquisition - -
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension,
Canary and Madrid for quite a while. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Have you noticed any activity
in active region 9 this morning?
CC Y eah. We have. In fact, we've got a
message in the teleprinter for you concerning it because we
couldn't talk to you through Vanguard. I guess the real question
that we've got is did you catch the rise portion?
PLT Well, we were under this flare before the
- before we reached affective Sunrise. So, that was
about 53 or 54 minutes time remaining. It might - it was very
near peak at the time we first came over the Earth's horizon.
But we've been running flare modes on most everything in
sight since that time. The PMEC, the IIC, beryllium and
aluminum counters were essentially all saturated. And the
PMEC still is, as is the beryllium, pretty close to that.
So we're just chucking away as rapidly as we can in almost
every mode.
CDR It stayed at peak for about 15 minutes. We
turned the brightness down on the H-alpha 1 scope and
you couldn't turn out the flare.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR It's close enough to the limb too. We're
liable to get one heck of a coronal transient next orbit,
or at the end of this orbit, or something. And we're wondering
if 82A really wants 40's. We gave him a couple of 20-second ones
because it was so hot. But we're still waiting to hear
what he wants. We've just been giving him 40's every 20 - every
5 minutes.
CC R oger. We'd like the 20-second ones, please.
CDR In other words, substitute the 20's for the
40's at every 5 minutes.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
PLT We've had a lot of hang-ups on 56, and we've
been going and restarting it. Is it hung up now?
CC We're checking on that, Jack.
CC Roger. We confirm SO56 is hung up.
Give us a stop and then a start on 56 and that'll clear it.
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CC S kylab, this is Houston. We're going

to up-link you nay update, if you can stay clear of the
DAS for a moment.
PLT Okay. And could you give me the straight
word on how long this number 5 filter ought to be exposing
for 56? It looks like it always hangs up on filter 5 and
I'd like to time it every time it goes around and make
sure it doesn't get hung up for too long again.
CC Okay. We' ii get that for you.
PLT I'm looking at something that says somewhere
between 17 and 20 seconds.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Okay. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. On filter 5, in short, you should
be in filter 5 about 1-1/4 seconds, in normal 5 seconds,
and in long for 15 seconds. Over.
PLT Okay. We're working short, so that ought
to whistle right through there real fast.
CC Yes, indeed.
CDR When was the last X-flare? Can you still
rate this as an X-l?
CC CDR, Houston. Don't want to sound deflating
but the last X-class flare was yesterday. That was in
active region 13, after it had gone over the west llmb,
however. The flare in progress is also classified as
X-l, but it appears to be bigger than anything we've seen to
date in the program. Over.
CDR Yeah. We agree wlth you a i00 percent
up here. It's the big daddy.
CDR Owen's even talking about aurora, for
gosh sakes.
CC Boralls or australis?
CDR Both, simultaneously.

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SL-III MC-1696/I
Time: 07:46 CDT 42/12:46 GMT
9/7/73

CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. The DAS is

yours.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, in reference to your comment about some
possible coronal activity, starting at i0 minutes prior to
effective Sunset, we'd like to get S052 into the ball game.
And if you are ready to copy, I'ii tell you what I'd llke to
get.
CDR Go ahead. And that's what Dr. Garriott was
just saying less than 30 seconds ago. Go ahead though.
CC Okay. Starting at I0 minutes prior to
effective Sunset, S032 into fast scan, which normally lasts
about 16 minutes, but it will terminate automatically at Sun-
set. 82A, we want one 20 second time exposure every 5 minutes.
S054, continue with the normal post flare procedures per the
buildin_ block. And S056, in a series of patrol normal. Over.
CDR We got you.
CC And the CDR has also got a handheld photo
test here in about i minute if you are able to get to that.
CDR I decided to cancel it about 5 minutes ago.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC And Skylab, if there is anybody near the
ATH panel now, we'd like to remind you that we need to get a
NuZ Z update to set things square for the morning. Over.
PLT We're just sitting around the wardroom
table. We'll send someone up there.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack.
PLT Roger. (Chuckle)
CDR Okay, we've got that done and the shutter
closed. So maybe you're psyching out of the problem that it -
The (garble) is a good one.
CC Roger, we certainly hope so.
CDR And we're giving 82B its - every 5 minutes
we're giving it a timed exposure of i0 seconds. (Garble)
you have another suggestion.
CC Skylab, Houston. In reference to your
question on 82 Bravo, we prefer not to operate 82 Bravo. Over.
PLT Okay, weIre going to put it back on the
time exposure and we want to make sure that we know exactly
what length you want on 82A and B. We've already modified
82A. Do you want to jump back up to 40 seconds every 20 minutes
or do something different?
CC On 82B, we want no operation. Over.
PLT Okay, he's out of the game then.
CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and

30 seconds to LOS here at Madrid. Next station contact is in
26 minutes - 27 minutes through Guam at 13:22, where we will be
dumping the data voice tape recorder.
PLT Okay, Bruce_ see you there.
CDR And as we go over the hill, we're working
everything except 82B.
CC Stand by. Roger. Stand by please.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're scrubbing
EREP for the next pass. Continue with post flare operations.
Over.
CDR We kind of thought you might. Okay.
CC Roger.
CDR Is 82B saving his for synoptic later in
the mission or what?
CC I'm not sure. I'll get you an answer on
that, AI. But we dontt want to operate it right now.
PAO Skylab now out of range of Madrid after
a pass that took the space station through the Ascension Island
area, Canary Islands and Madrid. And a very active period
of time it was. The crew reported that they had apparently
gotten on to the flare in active region 9 prior to the time
that we sent them the teleprinter message, and had been observing
it. The data that we had received from telemetry would indi-
cate that the crew probably began observing and getting the
Skylab instruments trained on that flare shortly after it
reached its peak and began the dropoff. The decision has
been made, as you heard from Cap Comm Bruce McCandless, to cancel
the EREP pass scheduled for the next revolution. The pass was
to have taken data over Africa and southern Europe. Also all
three crewmen were obviously glued to the ATM console keeping
up with the events on the Sun during this pass. And AI Bean
reported that the handheld photography of the Mall area had
been dropped in favor of collecting data on the solar flare
and its aftermath. And we have, at the present time, going out
over the video a television picture from the ground base tele-
scope here at the Johnson Space Center showing the area of
tlle Sun which the crew observ _ the solar flare. This is the
third of three bright areas in a row, the third one to the right
near tile limb of the Sun, and the brightest of the three on
the television picture that we are putting out at the present
time from the ground base telescope. We_ll reacquire Skylab
in 23 minutes through Guam. And again to repeat the EREP pass
scheduled for the upcoming revolution with most of the sites
in southern Europe has been dropped. This is EREP pass 17
over ground track 40 and 41. The crew instead of doing that
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EREP pass will be doing post flare studies on the active

region 9 area of the Sun. A second EREP pass scheduled for this
afternoon designated EREP 18 is scheduled to begin at about
20 hours and 35 minutes Greenwich mean time this afternoon.
EREP 17 aKain has been dropped. At the present time we are
replaying television, television that was performed yesterday
aboard Skylab. The current television transmission is TV-61,
which is the crew exercising using the bicycle ergometer. We
see Jack Lousma exercising arms and chest using the bicycle
eargometer operating the pedals with his hands. We will also
be replayin_ TV of yesterday's observations through the Apollo
telescope mount with the white light coronagraph of the after
math of an X1 flare that occurred in region 13 of the Sun, just
after region 13 disappeared around the western limb of the Sun.
At 13 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours

22 minutes, with Skylab coming up now on the tracking
station at Guam. And we would expect to have further
conversation during this pass with the crew on the conclu-
sion of their day side observations of active region 9,
where an X-class flare occurred earlier this morning.
And according to the crew's report, they would have appeared
to have good data on that flare as it - shortly after it
reached its peak and began to drop off. Again to repeat,
the Earth Resources pass number 17 for this mission, scheduled
to begin at 9:27, this morning, his been cancelled so that
the crew can continue with the postflare observations of
active region 9. We do have an additional EREP pass
scheduled for this afternoon, which will take Skylab over
the United States for a data gathering pass that extends
over Kansas and up over the Great Lakes - -
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay. Good morning there, Hank. Glad to
hear from you today. Guess you just relieved the watch.
And would you confirm from the ATM science room that it is
building block 8 postflare that they want to follow. And
if that's so, l'm going to building block 9. And even if
it is building block 8, I assume we'll want some S052
operation. But perhaps you could clearify their preference
for me.
CC Okay. Will do.
CC SPT, Houston. We would like for you to
continue with building block 8. And then at 15 minutes
data remaining, we'd like for you to go sun center and to
extended standard on the S052. And also, during this
building block during this pass, sometime we'd like to get
a normal VTR TV down - data cycle. And after effective
sunset, give us a little WLC on the VTR.
SPT Okay. Understand that time remaining 15 min-
utes, I'ii go to sun center. And since my last point was at
sun center, I'ii Just give you - I'ii take a quick look at
sun center as soon as the apertures open at sunrise, also.
In fact, I can put a little of that on the VTR riKht at
sunrise. Incidentally wealready have on the VTR, several
minutes of data from all of the display, H-alpha, lower
XUV monitor, and white light coronograph taken during the
first rev. And I expect that to be rather interesting and
you'll find that from the first rev, already on.
CC Okay. That's real good, Owen. And we
concur. And also, to clarify a little bit on the remarks
we made about 82B before, not running it. What our intention
is not to run 82B while we're sun centered. We will run it,
however, in a postflare (garble) while we're pointed at
the acquisition.
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SPT Okay. Understand. That was a little

suddenly. As a matter of fact, we went ahead and took a
manual 10-second exposure even after that last voice callup
although, we did misinterpret what he said. We thought they
want to drop out altogether. But, nevertheless, we took
a manual exposures about every 5 minutes. Let me take just
a couple of minutes to run down the activities on that flare
last orbit. Do we have, still, 3 or 4 minutes available?
CC Roger. We have 4-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay. It'll only take me about half of
that. But soon as the doors were open, we saw that the major
flare was underway, (garble) there, still prior to
ESR, so I managed to roll up to my 82B as well. And got all
of the instruments operating in about their normal flare
mode. Auto short for 56. And the 54 was operating and
it requested MIOPI6, a new request of today. 82B ran one
flare sequence. It was still nearly at peak, so I ran
a second flare sequence of 82Bthen shifted to a few of the
manual sequences - manual exposures. On 82A, we took manual
exposures about every 5 minutes or so. On 55, went to
mirror line scan, and made one change at 12:35 Zulu. I switched from
line 9 to line sites - from line 9 to 9 - line 13. Because
13 was significantly brighter. That was obviously still
on the 82B SLIT and was substantially brighter in the XUV
line and continued airline scanner at that point. Then after
about 15 to 20 minutes of that, then to a mirror auto
raster, and a grating, auto scan and another mirror auto
raster for 55. And then we went sun centered and did as you
requested in the last voice transmission. So, as far as
whether or not we got that before the peak or not, I really
can't say for sure. I think we were there risht very close
to the peak as we could tell. Because as soon as we came up
to ESR, naturally our PMEC and our IIC increased. But that
could have been due to the decreasing extinction in the
atmosphere. And I suspect that we were very near peak at
the time the Sun came up. And we then essentially caught
it in flare mode for the full orbit. Over.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you for the run
down, Owen.
SPT Oh, one other comment that should be of
interest to our 52 people. We did get a couple of glimpses
of the corona also at the end of the orbit. It's the first
time that we've seen it since yesterday. And there are
definite changes in the southwest quadrant. Although there
is no loop structure visible, there's a whole array of -
streamers covering about a, oh, 20 to 30 degree segment
of the southwest quadrant that were not there last night,
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as compared with either WLC photograph we made yesterday

evening, or a sketch that was made yesterday evening. So
an array of new streamers out the southwest quadrant. Just
when these appeared, I can't say, hut it is different from
the appearance of yesterday.
CC R oger. We copy.
CC S kylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on the Canaries there at 23. However,
we'll be monitoring VHF at Vanguard, and your AOS for them
will be at 03. And, Owen, on our data here, we're not sure
exactly when you did get on it. It's pretty close to the
peak. We estimated you got onto it some where between its
peak at X-I and before it got to M-5.
SPT Okay. I would think that it was well before
M-5. As a matter of fact, we were on it before ESR. We
were taking some data before effective sunrise, if that
gives you a clue as to the timing.
CC We copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. During that pass
over Guam we received an excellent summary from Owen Garrlott
of the crew's activities and operations of the Apollo
Telescope Mount equipment in capturing the flare that
occurred early this morning in active region 9. Garrlott
again indicated that they had gotten excellent data on that
flare. He said that the data take had actually begun before
sunrise on the pass in which the flare occurred or shortly after
it began. And he also observed an area of streamers in
the corona that he had not seen previously. Streamers that
could possibly be - -

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PAO - - not seen previously, streamers that

could possibly be an aftereffect of the flare showing up in
the Sun's corona. The next station to acquire is Vanguard
28 minutes from now. And of course, Vanguard, as we said pre-
viously still has its problem with the tracking antenna with
the S band antenna, and we do not have S band voice capability
through Vanguard. At 13 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1699/I
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 22 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab now approaching the area of coverage
of the Canary tracking station, coming up on what was to
have been an Earth Resources pass. That Earth Resources pass
was delete_ today in favor of coverage of the aftermath of
a large solar flare that occurred this morning. The flare
reached it's peak at 12:06 Greenwich mean time. And the crew
will be using the Skylab telescopes and solar instruments to
monitor the aftermath of that flare during this daylight
pass on this revolution. The Earth Resources pass originally
designated number 18, which will now drop down to number 17,
will now be this afternoon. Here's the call to the crew.
CDR Hank.
CC R oger, go ahead.
CDR I just took out those four circuit boards
that - from the VTR electronics unit that were requested by
the message, and instead of putting them in backup fecal bag,
we had Paul Weltz's old doff kit, which was clean and so I
padded them and put the four of them in there. Do you want
me to take this thing over and shove it in the command module?
CC S rand by i.
CC C DR, Houston. That's fine, and we'd llke
to stow it in A9.
CDR Okay.
CDR Yeah, it says it on the message. Another
comment; a question was asked earlier this morning by Bruce what
we requested for our day off.
CC Roger, we're ready to copy.
CDR Okay, we'd llke to do as many EREPs as
everybody feels we can do; 1 or 2, whatever's available. We'd
llke to do the =est of the day with ATM full up. We'd llke
to do the _cience briefing, but we don't want to stop ATM
to do the science briefing or anything else to do the science
briefings. We'll just have them kind of integrated within,
because they're slack enough and we're able to work along
while they're going along, otherwise everybody sort of floats
around for about 2-1/2 hours just looking at the walls. And
if we go ahead and work during that time we can participate
and listen and it'll work okay. So let's have the science
briefings but let's don't cut anything else out during that period.
CC (garble)
CDR We'd like to do the TV - I'll do that TV -
I forget the word, but anyhow for Gerry Carr's crew that day.
And we'll also do the probe trouble shooting, so we'll - looks to
me llke we can get most of that done and still not work too
hard.
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CC Okay, we copy that, AI.

CDR Oh, yeah, and Owen don't forget the science
TV for Owen, we got to do that.
CDR In fact, if you get the procedures up on
that dump probe - and also seems to me that somebody mentioned
the other day about getting a tape out of one of the hags that's
down in the plenum area to see what the damage to the EREP tape
was or something. If you could get any of those type of items
up here on the pad Just the same as you did for this VTR,
we got plenty of spare time and we can pull those things out
on kind of a catch-as-catch-can basis, get them done and save
scheduled time. May take us 3 or 4 days to get to it, but we
can finally get to it.
CC Okay, we copy. And we had the tape removal
from the plenum scheduled for tomorrow.
CDR Why don't you have them send it up on a
pad today and we'll get it done today? In fact, you send it
up right now, we'll get it done right now.
CC Okay, we'll work that.
CDR Yeah, those sorts of things that are not
time critical, don't schedule them. Just send them up and we'll
- we'll get them. It may take a few days hut it'll save time.
PLT Say, Hank, I just did another set of T002-2's
and I considered it to be equal to two sessions. But according
to my tally that's all the T002-2 or - star to Moon sitings we
need. And I'd llke you to check with the guys who run that
experiment to see if that is in fact correct.
CC O kay, we'll do that. And we have one item
for either you or the CDR. We - what we'd llke to do is quick
check one of the 400 foot MAG DACS on the VTS. If we run out
of the EREP DAC film, we may he able to utilize SL4 color
interior film. And we did a fix check here on the I-G trainer
and it showed that there was about an eighth or a quarter of
an inch interference, but we're not sure what It'll he like in
the flight article. So if you have some time you might try
that.
CDR We'll whip it out in the next few minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. A general comment here
in regard to the temperature selector knob down on panel
617. We would llke to, if you would, not to increase the
temperature setting on that any more. If you get too cold
we suggest that you turn off the heat exchanger fans as required
to reduce the cooling. Now - now the reaction now here is that
if you increase that enough that the OWS duct heaters come
on, they can withdraw as much current if they come full blower
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there, as 500 watts per duct. And if that happened during

the EREP or prep EREP, it could hurt us pretty bad.
CDR Too bad. What would you llke it set on?
CC W ord is right now, it's okay. But if -
what we're just saying is if you get any - if you still feel
the need for further heat we would rather you turn the fans
off - the heat exchanger fan.
CDR Okay.

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CC PLT, Houston. To answer your question in

regard to T002, the way we tally these things is, each session
counts as - is what we count, not so much the amount of - the
number of sitings that you take during a session. So what we're
looking at is long range variation in the procedure. So we have
now credited you with six sessions, and we require a total of
twelve.
PLT Seems llke a super time wasture to me be-
cause it takes about i0 to 15 minutes to get 15 marks, which
is the max they desire, and the rest of the night orbit is standing
around with your hands in your pockets or else you get more
marks. It seems like to me what you ought to do is save some
time and kill off 30 marks or two sessions per night rev.
CC Roger. But as I tried to explain the goal
is to take sessions periodically on a daily period over a period
of days, and look for variations in the sessions themselves.
PLT Okay, understand. Thank you.
CC And, Skylab for general interest, the Smith-
sonian has reported renewed volcanic activity on the northwest end
of Isle Isabella in the Galapagos Islands. And that started
at about mission day 35. If you would llke, you can add that
to your optional handheld photo sites for today. At 17:23 Zulu
using the 300-milllmeter Nikon.
PLT Okay. At 17:23, which island is it in
the Galapagos ?
CC Roger. And it is on the north end of
Isle Isabella in that group.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 15:11 with a data
recorder dump.
PAO And with the usual burst of noise we've gone
out of range of the Madrid tracking station. During that
pass over the Canary Islands and Madrid, Commander A1 Bean
informed Mission Control that for the crew's day off he'd llke
to see as much EREP as possible scheduled, possibly two Earth
resources passes, one or two, whatever can be worked in. Also
a full day of ATM activities worked around the Earth resources
passes using the Apollo telescope mount instruments to continue
surveying and photographing the Sun. He requested that a briefing
be scheduled between the crew and mission scientists. And that
if possible TV activity that has been titled TV inventory
and which will consist a briefing for the follow on crew headed
by Gerry Carr which will fly the Skylab 4 mission. Give them
a run down on where the equipment onboard Skylab is stowed
and how it is operated, being felt that this sort of televised
rundown would asslst the follow-on crew in their activation
of Skylab. And also he requested that if possible the Flight
Activities Officers here in Mission Control try to schedule in
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some science television to be performed by Science Pilot Owen

Garriott. This again for the crew day off which is scheduled
to be Sunday. And during this pass we informed the crew that
according to information.forwarded to us from the Smithsonian
there is renewed volcanic activity on Isle Isabella in the Galapagos
Islands. And if the crew can find time at 17 hours 23 minutes
Greenwich mean time, a little less than 3 hours from now, they
will have an opportunity to obtain some hand held photographs
of this volcanic phenomenon. At 14 hours 39 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours l0 minutes

with Skylab now approaching the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
trackinR station. And we're about 45 seconds from acquisition
of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank, couple of items. One is I
tried the 400 foot HAGS up there; they work great. You can
- you can't quite turn the camera enough until it locks. It
lacks maybe 5 degrees of turn until it locks, but it's plenty
tight enough so that there's no light leak, and so that it'll
work very well.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Second item is; you know, since we've
got that salt shortage up here and optional salt - we got all
these optional salts on our menus. Yesterday I ate i0 of
my 15, or 10 of my 13, I think it was, optional salt thinking
they would send me a pad up saying take a pill and a half.
Apparently a sodium chloride pill up here is equal to 1-1/2 salt
pack - or 2 salt packs. But they did not - since we're trying
to kind of hold steady with the diet we've had all along I've
taken a sodium chloride pill and as the days go on here in
my optional salt, I'll either take the sodium chloride pill
for each two packages or use the salt each day; and I'ii report
that on the evening report. So we'll end up using all the
optional salt, either in the form of pills or in the salt packs.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC And, CDR. On the upcoming ATH pass we
would like to delete the omit on S054. Really, we'd like to
run S054 on the - on the building blocks 2 and 4.
CDR Good, we enjoy running it. We'll do it.
CC CDR, what does the 400 foot mag camera
bump up against that doesn't allow you to get the thing all
the way locked?
CDR Say that again.
CC You said you couldn't get the bayonet
twisted all the way around to the full lock position. What
is the camera bumping up against?
CDR The 400 foot mag bumps up against the
top of the - of tile VTR housing, the housing that has all the
switches on it, the scope and all that. But it's so close
to be, for all practical purposes, locked. So it certainly would
be - nobody would know the difference by looking at the film,
let's put it that way.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC And we have a couple of things that we
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would llke you to do today if you get time. And this is to

go under the plenum area and dig out EREP tape number Tango 7,
and we also have i0 SI90A film cassettes down there we'd llke
to get out. Stow all of these in D412. And I'ii give you
the numbers of those cassettes if you want them.
CDR Okay, why don't you give them to me?
CC Okay, I think all these items are stowed
in 1 plenum bag. The ten cassettes are November i through 6,
Oscar 3 and 4, and Papa 3 and 4.
PLT We'll sure find them.
CDR Got any other odd jobs, send them up. I
was looking at our llst of things to do and we don't have too
many on it. Most of them are things like BMMD sub and things
that we've already done and hesitate to do again. We're looking
for some new ground to cover.
CC Roger, we're working the probe procedure
right now. We'll try to get that up to you shortly.
CDR GDod.
CDR We were just speculating up here but
you probably have the answer. Is the plan_ when we get this
out, for us - toward the end of the mission when we look like
we're going to use up all we got and then we can use that up too?
CC That's one of the things we're lookin_
at, AI. We're not sure how we're going to disposition it.
We're working it with the possibility we may bring some of it
home to look at it.
PLT Okay, we'll expose it for you, and then
you can bring it home and look at it. That'll be a real test.
CC We're considering that. And that - we're
i minute from LOS. We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 55.
CDR Sure beats T002 all (garble)
CC Say again.
CDR It sure beats T002, I'ii say that.
CC RoBer, we copy.
PAO We've had loss of signal through Honeysuckle,
Australia. The next station to acquire will be Bermuda, a
very low elevation and brief pass, in 35 minutes. This is
Skylab Control at 15 hours 20 minutes Greenwich time.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 54 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the tracking
station at Bermuda. And this will be a low elevation pass,
Skylab just barely entering the area of coverage of the Bermuda
antennas. And the crew aboard Skylab continuing to direct most
of their activities towards observing the Sun where earller
this morning there was a very large solar flare described by
Commander A1 Bean as the Big Daddy, and by scientists here in
Mission Control Center as the brightest and largest solar flare
in the past year. A few statistics on the flare: it covered an
area I0 times as large as the planet Earth, and occurred in
active region 9 on the Sun's southwest quadrant. As a result
of the flare, the interest in observing it and it's aftermath,
Mission Control cancelled the scheduled Earth resources pass
this morning. The Earth resources pass scheduled for this
afternoon over the United States remains on the flight plan
however. The location of the flare and it's size produced a
tremendous mass of protons traveling at a speed of about 30000
miles per second toward Earth. Which incidently would have
been a hazard to a crew onboard an Apollo spacecraft on route
to the Moon. However, the Skylab space station and Earth itself
are protected by Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic field which
blocks most of the protons and prevents them from reaching the
Earth. The protons will, however, penetrate the upper atmosphere
near Earth's poles, producing the phenomenon called the Northern
Lights, for about 20 minutes after the flare erupted in two large
ribbons this morning beginning at 6:39 a.m. central daylight
time and reaching a peak at 6:42 and lasting until 7:02.
CC - - with you for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Are you calling me, Hank?
CC Ro_er. For the SPT, a little flight plan
change. Later in the day around 21:00 we have you scheduled
to stow the ETC. We'd like to delete that. We want to leave
it in the SAL for the next day's activity.
SPT Okay, that could be done easy enough.
I'II leave the ETC in the window.
CC And for the CDR, we're going to delete
your EREP tape as scheduled in the postsleep at 01:40 since we don't
need to do that since we only have one EREP pass today.
CDR I thought maybe you'd still figure out
a way to do two.
CC We couldn't quite do that. And also for
your info, the teleprinter message regarding the dump heater
should be on its way up. In fact, it's onboard now.
CDR I heard it knocking just a minute ago.
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PAO Skylab now out of range of the Bermuda

tracking station. Less than 2 minutes now from acquisition
at Canary Island. Some additional side lights on the large
flare this morning. It is predicted that as the slower parti-
cles reach Earth later tonight some electrical power stations
in the northern latitudes may experience temporary black outs
due to the size of the flare. It was also estimated that the
energy released by this morning's flare was enough to provide
all of the electrical power needed by the United States for
the next decade. And there was about a 20 minutes period
after the flare reached it's peak this morning when long dis-
tance short wave communications on Earth experienced a complete
fade out.

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SL-III MC1703/I
Time: ii:01 CDT, 42/16:01 GMT
9_7_73

PAO About a minute and a half now until we

regain contact through Canary Islands. We'll leave the line
up for that Canary Island and Madrid pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you
through Canaries and Madrid for 11-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. If you have some time
available, I have a few changes for the ATM schedule pad for
the rest of the day that'll take into account our film budget.
CDR I'm ready.
CC Did you say you're ready to copy?
CDR Yes, sir.
CC Okay, on your pass coming up at 17:03
we would like to include S054 in the 3 building block 36 Alfas.
And we want filter i and filter 3 in those two blocks in each
of those building blocks.
CDR In other words you want filter 3 every time
we use 54, and you want 54 used in everything case.
CC Filter i and 3. There are two cycles,
MIS56 we want, and then - with a filter 3 at 256.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC Okay, on - -
CDR (garble)
CDR Okay, go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, on the schedule pad for the cycle
that begins at 21:42, we would like to omit the S054 from
the 4 building block 10's. And make a note that we do want
to do the building block 2's there that's called out right at
the start, but we want to omit 54 from the four 10's.
CDR Just the fourth i0 or all four 10's? There's
only three 10's - there's four 10's.
CC Roger. There are 4 building block 10s
called for there, and we want to omit S054 in all four of
those.
CDR Okay, got that one.
CC Okay, and on the cycle at 23:13 it's the
same thing. We want to omit the S054 from the 4 building
block 10's. And our rationale for this is, we're interested
in continuing the observations of the XI flare that we saw.
We expect that there will be a decay time of 3 to 4 cycles.
And also, we want to optimize our film budget.
CDR Okay, for the 23:13 I've omitted 54 in
all the building block 10s.
CC Roger, and that does it. Thank you,Al.
CDR Okay.
CDR And I gather on the 18:52 run we do the
50 - 54 is already omitted so everything's okay there.
CC We didn't copy that, AI. Say again, please.
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Time: ii:01 CDT, 42/16:01 GMT
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CDR I noticed on the one that begins at 18:52

that 54 is omitted most of the time there, so that would be
acceptable.
CDR In other words the first building block 2
is incorporated and after that it's omitted which looks okay.
No, it's - it's - no, it's in the first two, then after that
it's omitted. Okay.
CC Okay, we - that's correct.
CC SPT, are you free to copy a pad change for
ETC pad?
SPT First let me get it out and I can copy it.
CDR Also would you check and see if PATROL SHORT
is hung up maybe in 56.
CC Will do.

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SL-III MC-1704/I
Time: 11:13 CDT, 42_16:13 GMT
9/7/73

SPT Okay, I'm looking at the ETC pad. Go ahead.

CC Okay. SPT, on ETC pad - the weather has
improved in the area and we can get a few more sites. So we
would like to - Where it says frames per minute to 9.5, we'd
like to change that time to 41:06. In other words, change
42:45 to 41:06.
SPT Okay. 41:06, go to 9-1/2 And I presume that's
all the changes I got.
CC Roger. That's the only change. And CDR,
S056 doesn't look like it's hung up to us.
CDR I just restarted it and we'll see what
it's doing - it's hanging around a long time in filter i. Just
went to 2. Everything's okay now.
CC Okay. And we're just about LOS now.
We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 39.
PAO Skylab now out of range of Madrid and
25 minutes away from regaining contact through Carnarvon,
Australia. This afternoon at 3:35 central daylight time,
Skylab will be carrying out its 17th EREP pass, Earth Resources
pass of the mission. This morning's pass, as we mentioned
beofre, were cancelled because of the activities on the Sun
and the interest in watching the aftermath of the large
solar flare. However pass - the pass that had been
designated 18 in the Flight Plan, which will actually become
17th in the mission, is still scheduled for this afternoon,
beginning at 3:35. That pass will cover river valleys and
provide ground water informatinn over the great plains of
the United States. Information collected will be used by
investigators in studying reservoirs in Kansas. Also, looking
at severe storms, targets of opportunity, over the United
States. And there will be studies of the atmosphere over
Lake Michigan and the water depth of Lake Michigan as well as
some mapping studies of Canada, and land use studies of
Southern Arizona; Lincoln, Nebraska; Sallna, Kansas; and Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Groundtrackpasses over the Gulf of California, up
over the southwestern United States,Arizona, and across
Kansas, and finally up over the Great Lakes, ending over Canada.
This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 16 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC-1705/I
Time: 11:38 CDT 42/16:38 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're scheduled

to regain contact with Skylab over the Carnarvon, Australia
track station at 11:39 or about 1 minute from now. This pass
takes Skylab across both of the Australia stations, Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
i0 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. Here are a few words in
regard to your query on the salt supplement.
SPT He's out on the (garble) right now, Hank.
CC O kay.
CC PLT, I do have one mod for your EREP 18
VTS pad since we didn't do the pass this morning.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC All right. Along at about the third
block there where it talks about film transfer Slg0 not appli-
cable, that's no longer true. And that's drawer kilo set
uniforms.
PLT Okay, I got it. Thank you.
CDR Houston?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, we Just went down on the plenum, and
we found the bag. We pulled out all i0 of the EREP rolls.
Now some of them had the little leader that apparently
drawn back inside, and we'll have to get it to feed you up on
the teleprinter pad that tells us how to go in the dark and
get them out. Although we think we could probably fake it and
do it by ear. We won't The next thing is we also noticed in there -
oh, by the way we got the tape (garble). We also noticed an
S019 film canister so we brought it up just in case you decide
that that might be usable or some parts of it. And then we found
three bags full of ETC film, so we brought those up too. So
we've got to have them stashed around ready for use whenever
you - if you think they are any good.
CC Roger. We copy. And we'll take a look at
the procedures for those SlgO cassettes.
CDR Okay. And where did you want us to put
it all? I'ii go put it there right now.
CDR D-412, I'ii go put them all in there right now.
CC Okay, that's good. And CDR, if you get a
chance I've got a few corrections for the C&D pad since we didn't
do the first pass this morning.
CDR This is a real new lease on life.
CDR You suppose there is any ATM film down there?
We'll go get it out and pitch it in.
CC I'm not sure.
CDR It's llke being in a toy store at Christmas
time for gosh sakes down there.
SL-III MC-1705/2
Time: 11:38 CDT 42/16:38 GMT
9/7/73

PLT Say Hank, I'm checking out the multlmeter.

I presume that the battery voltage is supposed to be greater than
4.6.
CC L et me check that.
PLT Can I use those tape recorder batteries
for that, Hank?
CC L et me check and see if there are some
spares on board. I think there are.
CDR Okay, we put - The best place to put that
film was 557. It's got the biggest open area that can house it.
CC Roger, understand. In D-557.
PLT And the batteries look Just like the tape
recorder batteries. So unless you've got another answer, I'm
going to put some of them in.
CC We're working that now, Jack.
CDR And it's not D. It's Just the forward
compartment, one of the food lockers.
CC 0 h, okay. We copy.
CC CDR, Houston. In regard to your question
about the salt supplements, the supplements are strictly op-
tlonal. And as long as you stay within certain bounds on those
things, you don't need any additional pills or supplements.
The optional salt, in your case, requires supplement in the
event that your difference between the optional salts listed
on your menu and the ones that you eat is greater than ii.
In that case, the next day they will ask you to take a salt
supplement pill. Now the possibillty of that occurring oceurrs
on three of your menus day 3, 5, and 6. In those cases there
are more than Ii optional saits listed.
CDR Okay, I understand. I'ii just continue
to make sure that I eat all of the optional salts because
I think it does us good up here.
CDR Okay, I'm standing here with my C&D pad
ready to copy your comments.
CC Okay, under prep remarks, we want to delete
the S190 film advance. Delete the delete is what we are saying.
You're going to have to do that since we didn't do it on the
first run. Then under the operate part of the pad on down
the llne where it says 39:10 S192 mode ready. We want to
change that time to 40:30. And that will allow, starting a
little later, that will allow usto get through tomorrow
without doing an EREP - tape change. And the last change
is in the post remarks, we delete the instructions to do a
tape recorder depletion.
CDR Okay, got all of those, Hank.
CC And we're about 1 minute from a very short
LOS. We'll be picking right up again at Honeysuckle at 50.

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SL-III MC-1706/I
Time: 11:50 CDT, 42/16:50 GMT
9/7/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with

you through Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
PLT Okay. The voltmeter batteries are
replaced, and are checking out good now.
CC Roger. We copy. And which batteries
did you get there, Jack - Where did you get them from?
PLT Out of the inner (garble) kit.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Mila at 28. And we're scheduled
for a voice data recorder dump.
PAO This is Skylab Control. During that
Australia pass, Commander AI Bean reported that the crew
had retrieved film and tape stored in the plenum of the
crew quarters deck. This is actually beneath the crew
quarters' deck, and above the bulkhead of the waste
stowage tank. Film had been stored in this location after
it was removed from the film stowage containers, possibly
having been damaged by the high heat that they had experienced
when the heat shield was ripped off during launch and before
the heat protective umbrella was erected during Skylab -
during the first Skylab mission. However, we find that we
are running low on film and tape for the Earth Resources
experiments. And there is a possibility toward the end of
this mission, or in Skylab-lV, it would be desirable to use
this possibly degraded film and tape rather than missing
data altogether. Bean reported having retrieved a good
quantity of both film and tape. There is also a possibility
that samples of both film and tape will be returned at the
end of this mission for testing to determine Just how much
it has been degraded, and to see if perhaps it could be
used on Skylah-IV. The next station to acquire Skylah will
be the tracking station at Merrltt Island. And that will
be 31 minutes from now. At 16 hours 57 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1707/I
Time: 12:27 CDT, 42/17:27 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 28 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're about to regain contact with
Skylab - Skylab through the Merritt Island tracking station.
And coming up at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the JSC news
center briefing room there will be a solar activity briefing.
Participants will be Jim Milligan of the Marshall Spaceflight
Center who is Principal Investigator for the S056 experiment,
the x-ray telescope, and Joe Hirman of the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration. Again this will be at 2 p.m.
Central daylight time in the Johnson Space Center building i
briefing room 135.
CC Skylab, Houston through Mila and Bermuda
for ii minutes. And as a reminder, we're dumping the recorder
here.
PLT Okay, Hank, and I just got a look at
the Galapagos Islands. They were mostly covered with clouds
on the big island of Isabella. Could have had a volcano on
the west end or the south end, I'm not sure which, although
I did see either what appeared to be some clouds or smoke
emanating from it or clouds over it. So I photographed the
whole island with 70-millimeter once, and a4 - 300 millimeter
shot and that ought to cover it.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT Can you tell me which end of the - the
island is kind of L shaped. It's got a hand pointing toward
the south and a hand pointing toward the west. Does the
back there have the info as to what volcano and what end of
the island is erupting?
PLT Now passing over some familiar territory,
Guantanamo Bay.
CC Roger. And the - the island there was
the Island of Isabella, and the - it was the northwest end.
I don't have a map of that here to really check it out.
PLT Okay, that end was more clouded in fog - more
shrouded in clouds than the other half, but I did photograph
the northwest end and as I said, it appeared that it had
either smoke or clouds coming up from it cause - -
CC We copy.
CC S PT, Houston. In place of your ETC stow
this evening, we're wondering if you'd like to do a - do
an M487 i Echo. And, at your option, take measurements at the
crew's use areas in the various compartments.
PLT He's working on the grinder right now,
but he'll check in with you later to find out what you want
to do, Hank.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. On your no EREP alternate
SL-III HC1707/2
Time: 12:27 CDT, 42/17:27 GMT
9/7/73

today, we'd like to verify that you did the S019 OPS.
CDR Did not do the SO19 OPS. I looked at
the momentum dump and it was not inhibited; so I didn't do
them.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Did ya'll inhibit it later or something
like that?
CC No we didn't. That was a good catch, AI.
CDR It happened to me once before.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Madrid
at 44.

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SL-III MC-1708/I
Time: 12:39 CDT 42/17:39 GMT
9/7/73

PAO We've had loss of signal now through Bermuda,

and about 3 minutes away from regaining contact through Madrid.
We'll leave the line up for that interim period of time. During
that stateside pass, the first of today, through Mila and then out
over the Bermuda tracking station about the only conversation
of any length with the crew concerned Pilot Jack Lousma's
efforts to obtain some 70-millimeter handheld photographs of
Isle Isabella in the Galapagos Islands where, according to the
Smlthsonian there is an active volcano. Lousma reported some
difficulty because of cloud cover determining Just where
the target was, but he said he had pretty well covered the
island and thought he may have included some volcanic smoke
in the picture. Skylab currently on the 1676th revolution
as counted for the orbital workshop. And about 1-1/2 minutes
away from acquisition through Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 min-
utes.
CDR I gave 52 a standard at the beginning of
the orbit, and I'm giving them one at the end. Ask them if
that's okay with them?
CC We'll check.
CC 0 kay, that's real good, AI.
PLT Hank, I've got the results of the dump heater
probe check. You ready to copy?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay, notice that all of these readings are sub-
sldent to the contact that you can make with the Alligator clips on
to the pin probes. So I wound up when I wanted to make a reading
cleaning the alligator clips real tight. And if you didn't do
that the readings could Jump all over or give you an off
scale high. But when I pinched the alligator clips real
tight they kind of settled down. I got the following readings.
On plug number i, I got AC was 47.5, Charlie Echo was .32 to .34,
and Echo to the probe case was zero. Mostly zero, but it would get
up to .8 if you let go. And then plug number 2, Delta to Charlle
was 47.5, Charlie to Echo was .12 to .13, and Echo to the probe
case, the same story, zero to .8. Zero if you held it tight, and
.8 if you let go.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Carnarvon at 17 with a scheduled recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now out
of range of the Madrid tracking station and 25 minutes from
the next station contact which will be Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. And again I'd like to repeat that at 2 o'clock this
afternoon in the JSC News Center Briefing Room, there will be a
SL-III MC-1708/2
Time: 12:39 CDT 42/17:39 GMT
9/7/73

background briefing and press conference on solar activity

particularly, dealing with the large solar flare that occurred
this morning on the Sun. Participants in that briefing will
be Jim Milligan of the Marshall Space Flight Center who is the
principle investigator for the S056 x-ray telescope experiment,
and Joe Hirman of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration. At 17 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-I II MC-1709/I
Time: 13:16 CDT, 42/18:16 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 18 hours

16 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on
the tracking station at Carnarvon, Australia. This will
be the last pass of the day across Carnarvon. A pass that
picks up Honeysuckle Creek, after a brief drop out and then
continues on across the Pacific and up across Mexico and the
Gulf of Mexico. Thirty seconds until we acquire signal.
We' Ii stand by.
CC S kylab, Houston through Carnarvon
for 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And, SPT, was the M487-I ECHO in place
of the ET - ETC stow acceptable to you?
SPT Just a second Hank. Would you repeat
that, please.
CC O kay. We would like for you to do in
place of the ETC stow that was scheduled down there at 21:00
a M487 i ECHO. And this is at you option. And take measurements
in the crew areas and the various compartments per this
area.
SPT Okay. I don't know what it is, but I'ii
do it.
CC Very good, sir. Thank you.
CC What that is, Owen, is taking a light
level measurement with a spot meter.
SPT Okay. I think I can handle that one.
CC CDR, Houston. Would it be convenient
to ask - answer a few questions in regard to the private
contest you did last evening?
CDR Yes. It's a good time. Go ahead, Hank.
CC O kay. We'd like to know what you did
to increase your transmit volume to the OWS crew member the
second time he called after switching the panel switch
SUIT POWER to OFF, and we'd like to know if you shouted.
CDR No. I may have shouted (garble). But
what I did was turn the suit power back on and try it again
and turn it off, to try to do a test of our own up here
during that test. And Owen indicated that it did get louder
when I chose the suit-power on panel 6 for that light-
weight headset that was sort of Just hanging there in the
air.
CC Roger. We copy, it was louder with the
suit power on.
CDR It was louder with the suit power on on
panel 6 because, apparently, my voice in addition to going to
the headset I was using connected to i0 was also being
picked up by the llght-welght headset on panel 6.
CC Roger. We copy and we'd llke to verify
that the pad comm TRs on panels 6, 9, and i0 are off.
SL-III MC-1709/2
Time: 13:16 CDT, 42/18:16 GMT
917173

CDR They're off, but I'Ii go check them

again. Because what I did last night was give the position
of every switch on all three panels, I thought.
CC Okay. If they're off, that's no
sweat. We just wanted to be sure. And we'd also like
to know, where the OWS - where the OWS crew member was, which
one of the SIAs, and was he using a headset or just a speaker?
CDR Just the speaker. It was 131 right
there by the ATM panel. That's why I said I might have
shouted, just hollered out and say how do you hear now or
something.
CT Carnarvon comm tech, Houston comm tech,
net one, voice check, how do you copy?
CT IIouston, comm tech, Carnarvon comm
tech. Read you loud and clear.
CT Roger. Same here. Good check.
CDR Hank, I just checked. All three pad comms
are off.
CC O kay. Thank you, AI. And we'd like
to know if you checked SIA 102 for a hot mike.
CDR I'ii do it.
CDR No, it's not hot mike.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
CDR Okay.
CC Sorry to bother your lunch there, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston, one minute to LOS,
Honeysuckle at 28.
PLT See you later, Hank.

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SL- III MCI710/I
Time: 13:26 CDT, 42/18:26 GMT
9/7/73

PLT Say, Hank, how much time do we have on

the VTR for this TV ii?
CC There are 18 minutes remaining.
PLT Okay, it's going to be a short show. I
guess you want it anyway, huh?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you
for 4 minutes through Honeysuckle. And the TV II was deleted.
We deleted that with the first EREP pass today. There won't
be a requirement to try to do that here on EREP this after-
noon.

CDR It won't be any trouble to do if you

want us to do it.

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SL-III MC-1711/I
Time: 13:30 CDT 42/18:30 GMT
9/7/73

CC S kylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Texas on the hour and we'll try
to have an answer on TVII there for you.
PLT Okay Hank, thank you.
CDR We figured maybe that they were just
worried because the other day when we started doing it and
it was canceled I was the VTS operator, Jack was C&D. We
thought this afternoon if we did that wetd Just do that part,
we'd each do that part until it came time to run and then we'd
swap and run with the proper - in the proper position, so we
could get the TV right and the pass correct also.
CC Okay, we'll take that into account.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now out
of range at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, and 26 minutes from
the tracking station at Texas. Coming up at 2:00 this afternoon
in the JSC News Center Briefing Room_ Room 135, we'll have a
press briefing on the solar activity of the past day and par-
ticularly the large solar flare that occurred early this morning.
The participants are Jim Milligan of the Marshall Space Flight
Center, Principal Investigator for the $056 x-ray telescope,
and Joe Hirman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration. This again at 2:00 p.m. at the JSC News Center
Briefing Room. At 18 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylah Control.

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SL-III MC-1711A/I
Time: 14:02 CDT, 19/02:20 GMT
9/7/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 16 minutes.

CDR Okay, just as soon as you lock up to
this data, I'll send you down the ATM information. And by
the way, I Just locked on a star, so you might want to
check it.
CC Okay, and we got an answer on your
TV ii. And we'd llke to do that if you can work it in.
CDR Okay, we will.
PLT Hank, do you need the whole thing, or
was there anything of what we had the other day that we could
just add on to, and that's - that way have to hurry less with
the VTR.
CC We'd like to do what's on the flight
plan, ii Bravo, Alfa Bravo, Charlie and Echo.
PLT Okay.
CC CDR, NUZ update looks good. You can
close the shutter.
CC And you've probably noticed, just for
info, we've had a subnormal flare in active region 9. It
began at 18:58.
CDR Rog, it was a little bitty one.
CDR The question is, are you locked up yet,
and I'ii give you the down-llnk.
CC We're checking the site.
CDR Okay, I've stayed at Sun center here,
an extra 3 or 4 minutes to give you the WLC.
CC Okay, CDR, (garble) configured. You're
clear for the down-link.
CDR Okay, I'ii rotate the WLC first, then
I'Ii come back and do the XUV mon.
CDR Okay, it's up to the XUV mon.
CDR Okay, that finishes a little H-alpha
NUZ (garble) I'ii do all the active regions at once and then
I'ii depart from Sun center.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC CDR, Houston, for info, we're seeing
a brightening at 100 at 1.0 on the west limb. It's Just
appeared.
CDR It did (garble)
CDR We're a little bit ahead of the game
and so I'll give them a grading auto scan right on the little
white dot, whatever it is.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR It's not particularly hot for UV. It's
got a little bitty H-alpha visibility to it, but it doesn't
show up on the UV monitor anything different, and it's not
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giving our 55 detectors one much of a thrill.

CC Roger, we copy. And we just got a report
that there is a surge coming out of it.
CDR Back room wants me to stay here and work
the surge, Itll be glad to do it, or I can return back to
the normal schedule, which is go to active region 12, which
isn_ t doing a beck of a lot at the moment.
CC Okay, AI, I'd guess we'd like you to go
back to the pad now.
CC Skylab, Houston 40 seconds to LOS, Madrid
at 21:00 with a data recorder dump.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; 6 minutes through Madrid.
CC CDR, Houston, we'd like to get the TV
XUV SLIT switched from LIMB SCAN to WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY. A
little - save a little wear and tear on the instrument.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS. Honey-
suckle at 08:00.

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SL-III MC-1712/I
Time: 14:26 CDT, 42/19:26 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab currently

in acquisition through the tracking station at Madrid.
During the briefing on solar activities we had problems with
one of the tape recorders in building one and we will have
to retrieve the tape of the crew conversations during the
press briefing from a master tape for replay later.
Briefly to summarize the conversations that occurred during
the press conference the crew said that they will do television
of today's EREP pass. They also reported and discussed a small
flare in active region 9. We'll pick up now with any live
conversations for the remainder of this Madrid pass, about a
minute and a half.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute til LOS.
Honeysuckle at 08.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had
loss of signal through Madrid. 37 minutes, now before we
regain contact through the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
tracking station. At 19 hours 31 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1713/I
Time: 15:06 CDT 42/20:06 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; 20 hours 6 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Honeysuckle, standing by
for communication withthe crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got 1 minute with
you and then they - we'll be coming up on Goldstone at 03:70.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 6 minutes
left on the VTR. When you get through, we'd appreciate if
you would initiate a rewind.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PAO Loss of signal through Honeysuckle, next
acquisition 26 minutes. This is Skylab Control; at 20 hours
I0 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL III MC-1714/I
TIME: 15:36 CDT 42/20:56 GMT

PAO This is Skylab Control 20 hours 36

minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for acquisition
through Goldstone and EREP pass number 18, Track 44,
carrying the spacecraft over Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska,
northeasterly into Canada.
PLT LOCK UP.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for
16-1/2 minutes of stateside. And are you through with the
VTR?
CDR You bet, but we're going to at the -
We're not finished shooting. We're going to have to take a
few of these one - of these EREP pictures here right after
the run, and then we'll be finished. If that's okay with
you? And then we'll rewind it for you.
CC Okay. Good show. And for information
some of the sites along the last part of your track there,
the weather has deteriorated, to maybe 8/10 to full coverage
so you may have a little trouble with those ETS sites, PLT.
CDR He won't. I know him. He'll get the
2/10. He'll fill them in. (garble) 6.
SPT (garble)
CDR Don't let him get in our way. That's
right. 191 READY ON. Go to reference 6. I'm there.
38:30, we're going to go A STANDBY and R STANDBY.
PLT Where does the weathere change in there?
CDR Last few sites.
PLT Last two?
CDR Last few, he said.
PLT Last few. That's all there is is a few.
That's the last few or the first few?
CDR (laughter) 38:30 coming up.

CDR A STANDBY and R STANDBY. Done. Stand-

ing by for 38:42. When it's S ON and R ON.
PLT Bad weather is good for that first one.
CDR S ON. R ON. Okay, now we're looking
for 39:03, which is 190 MODE to AUTO. 39:03, let's watch
it. 2, 3, okay. MODE to AUTO. Now we look for 40:30.
PLT How do you like the maneuver (garble)
back to SI?
CDR (garble) 6 -
CC Maneuv _ time looks good.
PLT Thank you.
CDR How we looking, Jack?
PLT Oh ho, we just crossed Baja.
CDR If that IMC works for you, you might
be able to get it with those 8/10 coverage.
CC Okay. The weather at sites 407, special
07, and 528 are the ones that deteriorated.
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PLT Bad news

CDR Is there anything else?
CC Special 01 might all be all right.
CDR Gives us some competition.
CDR 40:30, we're going MODE READY.
PLT 41, 41, I'm waiting for 41. One more
minute.
CDR One more minute to go, Jack.
CC Site 528 is thin cirrus. You may be
able to get through that.
PLT We'll give her a whirl if we can see
her, Hank.
CDR Standing by for 40:30.
CDR MARK. READY. Tape recorder is up to
speed.
PLT No DAC on the first one.
PLT Okay.
CDR 41:05 S STANDBY. R STANDBY.
PLT Okay, we're coming up on some weather
here, which is what we're looking for for this first nadir
swath, and then wetll be doing DAC on this one. Mark. We
got some clouds.
PLT Our pass today (garble) brings us up
over Baja, Tucson, Alburquerque, Omaha, Green Bay, Wisconsin,
over the Straits of llackinac, and up into Canada. Up over
Newfoundland.
CDR 459. Got it, 4130. Everything's going
well. 41 -
CDR The LIGHT OUT, just like they say.
STANDBY. 3, 3, 3. Intervalometer I0. 193A to MODE I.
PLT (garble) down ehre patch of cumulus
clouds.
CDR 365.
PLT Once in a while, we hit a patch of them.
CDR Got it.
PLT We're in a patch now. MARK.
CDR Stand by for 42:43.
PLT We're out of it. MARK.
CDR To MODE AUTO.
PLT We do this at 42:40.
CDR 190 to MODE AUTO.
PLT 4 miles a second.
SPT 42:43.
CDR i, a thousand. I'm looking for it.
PLT 2 a thousand, 3 a thousand, 4 -
CDR I got it.
PLT - That's 4 miles. How about that?
CDR Everything is running along just
perfect.
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9/7/73

CDR In the MODE AUTO. 42:43. How the

big 0 is doin_ down there?
PLT You on down there, rookie?
SPT (garble)
PLT He's on. I'm hearing you on channel B
there. Letts get on A.
CDR AUTO.
PLT Okay, that's right 5.2. 54. Here we
are up near the -
CDR IIODE AUTO. Okay.
PLT Thanks. We're looking for 43:15,
pole 4.
PLT Okay. We're set up and waiting. Like
the weather at all. It's overcast.
CDR Back to 125th. Where it is. Standing
by for 43:41.
PLT Standing by for 4315. (garble)
CDR That's it. How's the weather in Des
71oines?
PLT 44, 4523.
PLT You got weather in Des _oines, Hank?
CC Stand by.
PLT Say again?
CC Stand by i.
CDR !Okay. So far, we got i0 seconds to _o
and it's -
CC Des Moines is socked in.
CDR Yeah, it's socked in over topeka, also.
PLT Well, not much time. ZERO.
CD_ He says Des Moines has maybe got a
pole (garble) overcast.
CC CDR, Houston. Did we get an INTRACK
CONTIGUOUS on S193, 4107?
CDR You better believe it. It's there,
INTRACK CONTIGUOUS.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Thanks for checking, though.
PLT 4432, going for a backup site. Yeah,
it was completely overcast 407 and 408, Hank.
CC Okay. We were afraid of that.
PLT There's 432. That was an easy one, too.
CDR The eastern half of the country looks
a little better.
PLT Good.
CDR DAC ON, huh?
PLT I think it's clobbered in Des Moines
too. Just llke he said.
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Time: 15:36 CDT, 42/20:56 GHT
917173

CDR It's going to be mostly thin cirrus up

there ahead of us about 3 or 4 - 2 or 300 miles.
PLT You down there Des Moines? I can't see
youo

CDR Turn OAC OFF. (garble)

PLT A few section lights on, that's all.
PLT Hey, you're right about Des Hoines,
Hank.
CDR 23 OFF. R OFF. A ON. And back to 4545.
CDR 190 intervalometer 20.
PLT Got to get on with it.
CDR That's it. Intervalometer to 20.
PLT 4510
CDR Standing by for 4640.
PLT Lake Hichigan, we got.
CDR You got it, huh?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Intervalometer to i0
PLT You can look down the coast and see how
it is.
PLT Yeah, we're going to hit a spot on
Chicago, first.
PLT Boy, there's a nifty con going from
Chicago and New York.
CDR 4060.
PLT Okay, gang. We're taking some data in
Lake _Iichigan through some very thin cirrus off the coast
at Chicago. I'm going to back off.
CDR Intervalometer i0.
PLT I'm going to head upstream.
CDR 4720 tO reference 2. 91 reference 2.

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SL-III MC-1715/I
Time: 15:46 CDT, 42/02:46 GMT
9/7/73

CDR 91 reference 2.
PLT And it's going to be clouded over.
CDR Reference 2. 192 going to standby at 48,
Jack.
PLT ITp the coast at Traverse City.
PLT That's about it.
CDR 48 on STANDBY, 92. 194 was on mode MANUAL
at 48:06 which is right now, mode MANUAL. 48:14, we go to 20
on 190. 20 it is. Standing by for 48:20. AUTO CAL, I missed
it. I got it 3 seconds late.
PLT Okay.
CDR 20:49, start SI maneuver, Jack.
PLT The (garble) should have come off.
CDR Just a few minutes from now, Babe. Like
about 30 seconds. Got your time loaded so you're ready to SI
it. I'ii give you a mark at the time. 20:49, 3 seconds, 2,
i -
CDR MARK. SI.
PLT SI right away.
CDR Any mlbs?
PLT No mibs.
CDR Okay. Let's see if we've got a 191 light
on. I mean a 190. 190 READY OUT. That's good. 190 mode to
STANDBY. Okay, 49:35 is 193A to STANDBY.
PLT All we got was Lake Michigan, Hank. Every-
thing else was clobbered in.
CC Roger. That's about the way the map
looked down here.
PLT Got the (garble) (laughter).
CDR A to STANDBY. Standing by for READY ON.
PLT (garble)
CDR A t 51.
PLT I was going to try to sneak over there and
get Lansing but I think it's too far out of the way. Plus it's
clobbered anyway. Period. We better bring this thing up.
CDR All right. Good idea. One. They're going
to want me to voice record B7, and I'm going to tell them it's
31 percent.
PLT Well, nuts.
CDR Not bad there. We're at Nova Scotia,
almost. Is that where we were going? No, we are above Nova
Scotia.
PLT Got any time?
CDR 51.
CC CDR, Houston. Were Charlie 4 and Able 2
in spec on this run?
CDR Charlie 4 and Able 2? Yes. Charlie 4 now,
I'ii give you a reading, is 98. Sounds llke I've told you wrong.
SL-III MC-1715/2
Time: 15:46 CDT, 42/20:46 GMT
9/7/73

PLT Golly, look at that.

CDR Able 2 is 92.
CC We copy.
CDR Sounds like I gave you bum dope.
CC T hose were the ones we had trouble with
the other day.
SPT (garble)
CDR Okay.
PLT What did you say Big O?
SPT It's right over the Gulf of St Lawrence,
here. It's really a big Gulf by the (garble) river.
PLT Yeah, that's some - boy, that's a beautiful
sight.
CDR It's a big Mamuk. Okay, let's get on with
it. Voice recorder, B7. Okay, let's do it. 31 percent,
192 door to CLOSED, coming closed.
(Whistling)
CDR I gather you don't want us to do tape
recorder complete, but you probably want us to do a manual
measurement. Right? Right.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
PLT (Garble) light off.
CDR Wouldn't dare.
CC CDR, Houston. You did give a EREP stop,
didn't you?
CDR You bet. Stop occurred on time at - time -
51.
CC Roger, we copy. And we're one minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 58 with a recorder dump.
CDR Okay.
PLT You know, Hank. You can see a lot of con
trails all above the tops of these clouds here, looks like
they are flying a great circle route between New York and Europe.
CC Roger.
SC ( Garble)
PAO Well, we've lost data through Bermuda.
We'll reacquire again in about 3-1/2 minutes. So we'll just
keep the line up for the pass through Madrid.
SC (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for
3-1/2 minutes through Madrid.
CDR Sounds like somebody had their mike on
down there.
CC D o you still hear it?
CDR Nope, it's gone now.

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SL-III MC-1716/I
Time: 15:59 CDT, 42/20:59 GMT
9/7/73

CC Do you still hear it.

PLT Nope, it's going down.
PLT It was just before you gave me the call.
CDR Okay, we're finished with the VTR now,
Hank. Do you want us to rewind it?
CC Yes sir.
CDR The difference between the outside cir-
cumference of the tape and the periphery of the reel is
1-1/4 inches on the EREP.
CC Roger, copy, 1-1/4 inches.
PLT Has 76 frames on it.
CC Roger, that's 76 frames, - was that on
the ETC?
PLT That's right.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS. Honey-
suckle at 44.
CC S kylab, Houston, just as a reminder,
we need to get the experiment pointing mode prior to sunrise.
PAO We've lost signal through the Madrid
tracking station. In the meantime, here at the control center,
there is a change of flight control teams, with the one headed
by Don Puddy eomin B on, and_ in this case, the communicator
with the spacecraft will be Robert Crippen. There will he
a change of shift at 4:30 p.m. today_ central time, in building
i, room 135, with the off-going flight director, who is
Charles Lewis. 4:30 p.m. central daylight time, change-of-
shift briefing. At 21 hours 9 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-I II MC-1717/i
Time: 16:42 CDT, 42/21:42 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 21 hours 43

minutes Greenwich mean time, about a half a minute away
from acquisition at Honeysuckle. And we'll stand by for
the alr-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab. AOS through
Honeysuckle for 5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Well, hello there, Crip. Welcome back.
CC Yeah, it's time a fellow went back to
work.
CC Skylab, as you're probably aware, since
you've rewound the VTR for us, it will not be available
for your use, probably for the rest of the evening, since
we'll be dumping across the States throughout the evening.
PLT Okay, I don't have to turn our (garble)
valve pointer off or anything like that - I think it shuts
itself off.
CC That's affirm, Jack.
PLT We had some good action this morning,
Crip.
CC Roger. I heard the Sun's been pretty
exciting to you guys the past few days.
PLT Yeah, it's been looking llke somebody
kicked the heck out of it for a lon E time now, and flnally
somebody really did, I guess.
CC Well, that's good. Everybody should
get a little excitement in their lives every now and then.
CC And, Jack, if you've got a moment, I'd
llke to make a correction to some pointing you have on
your ATM schedule pa - -
PLT Let her rip.
CC Okay, in this current pass, at 26 minutes
remaining, we would like to change that right from 054 to
534.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay, and that same change is applicable
at the 18-mlnute remaining point also, from plus 054 right,
to plus 534 right.
PLT Okay, 534 to (garble), I've got it.
Thank you.
CC Okay, and those same changes are going
to be applicable also for the 23:13 pass, upcoming, that
Al's going to run. If you could make those up I'd appreciate
it.
PLT Consider it done.
CC Thank you, sir.
PLT It now is done.
CC Can always depend on the Marines.
PLT Okay, smart guy now, what's the punch line?
SL-III MC-1717/2
Time: 16:42 CDT, 42/21:42 GMT
9/7/73

CC I'ii just leave that open for you.

CC Going over the hill. We'll see you at
Goldstone in 23 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob, see you then.
CC That's a correction, see you at Hawaii
in 14 minutes, at 21:44. Correction, 22:05.
PLT Ah yeah, they're both great places, either
one, it doesn't matter, either one.
CC Roger.
PAO At 21 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1718/I
TIME: 17:04 CDT 42/22:04 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control 22 hours

4 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is on the
fringes of the tracking station at Hawaii. As it moves
closer to Hawaii, we'll stand by for alr-to-ground through
the Hawaii tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Hawaii
6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Aloha.
CC Yes. Aloha.
PLT Say, Crip. I got a message for the ATM
PIs.
CC Go ahead.
PLT (garble)
CC That didn't come through too clear.
Could you repeat that, please?
PLT Yes. I'll tell you one more time.
CC Okay. We got about another minute left
here. Gonna get you at Goldstone at 22:15.
PLT (garble)
CC Roger.
PAO We'll reacquire at Goldstone in about
a minute. So, we'll keep the line up and standby for the
air-to-ground over the stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Goldstone
for 6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crlp.
CC And Jack, for you or AI, I have a little
procedure that we'd llke to try on that dump probe that you
checked out for us earlier today. The one that's been
pulled.
PLT Okay. (garble) and go ahead.
CC Okay. Basically we - electrically the
thing checks out okay. So whawe're going to try now is
to run a piece of safety wire through the think to see if
it's possibly got any clogging in it. And you can find the
safety wire, of course, down in locker E-623, drawer 2A,
and we'd like you to cut off a piece long enough to run
through it and we'd like you to approach it from the rear
end or workshop end, opposite the tip, and push it through.
You can expect some resistance toward the end because there's
a 45 degree bend in it just very near the tip.

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SL III MC-1719/1
TIME: 17:17 CDT 42/22:17 GMT
9/7/73

CC Okay. Skylab, we're back with you. We

dropped out there just about the time I was completing
that procedure. Jack, did you manage to copy that?
PLT Yeah, Bob. Understand run a new safety
wire through it and start at the big end, not with the tip
end.
CC That's correct. And did you copy me
that you can expect some resistance toward the end, because
there's a 45 degree Bend in the thing.
PLT No. I didn't get that, but we'll look
for that.
CC And if you could give us some comments
on it in case you do find some garb - debris in it, we'd
appreciate it.
PLT Okay. We'll get to that this evening
sometime, I hope.
CC Roger. There's no rush. That one's
strictly at your convenience.
PLT Are you there, Bob?
CC That's affirm. We got about another
minute.
!
PLT Okay. I got this little dump over
my hand here and I noticed that the zero-g connectors are
the same size as our wall sockets." What would yon think of
the idea if the thing hasn't gotten any stuff in it to plug
it in for a moment and see if the circuits get warm.
CC Jack, we're not very fond of that idea.
That thing gets up to about i000 degrees out on the tip and
we're a little bit concerned that somebody might get burned
with it.
CC Worse than a pedo tube. We're about 30
seconds from LOS. See you again in Bermuda at 22:26. That's
in about 4 minutes.
CC And Jack, we've noticed an eruptive
prominence over at 07 plant 1.0, and at your convenience_
if you can give us a JOP 8 on that, it would be appreciated.
Realize we're getting short on time.
PLT Okay.
CC And we've got you across Bermuda here
for about 5 minutes now.
CC Okay, we have a keyhole coming up in
about 15 seconds that's going to last for a minute and I' ii
give you a call when we're out of it.
PLT Okay. You want a full flown JOP 8 or
just the SO152, right?
CC See if I can get you one - get you an
answer on that.
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Time: 17:17 CDT, 42/22:17 GMT
9/7/73

CC Yes, 252 will be fine, Jack.

PLT Okay. I'ii give you a fast scan and
extended standard.
PLT Okay. We got extended standard running.
CC Roger; copy. Extended standard.
CC Okay, we're out of the keyhole; we
got you for another 3 minutes.
PLT Okay. Would you like something a little
faster than extended standard?
CC No_ that'll be fine, Jack.
PLT And we're whistling into effective
sunset here and I guess maybe 52 will give then - just can get
them carried down to sunset - full sunset. Right?
CC It'll go ahead and shut down for you,
of course, when you reach effective sunset here.
PLT We'll shut it down before - just before then,
I had 54, Bob.
CC Yon can let it run into it if you want
to. It's okay to go below 400 K.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. See you again over Canary at 22:35. That's about
3-1/2 minutes from now and we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump there.
PLT Okay.

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Time: 17:32 CDT, 42/22:32 GMT
9/7/73

CC And if you hadn't notice your flight plans

are on board.
PLT Okay, we'll take a look at it. This mornings
message it says from the workshop hatch forward (garble) two feet
of the trash airlock.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnary and we'll be doing a
data voice recorder dump here. We've got you for about i0 minutes.
Jack you made some comment going over the hill_ that we were
unable to interpret, would you mind repeating it please?
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about a minute
and a half left in this pass. Jack I don't know if you heard
me, but we didn't copy your previous comment when we left you
at Bermuda. If you would like to repeat that, we would
appreciate it.
PLT Gee whiz, I don't remember what it was now,
Crip.
CC Yeah, you said something that where you
referred to the - the towels and the wardroom and couldn't copy
what it was. The trash airlock that is.
PLT Oh, I know, Owen was asking me for something
and he wondered where it was. And that was the answer.
CC Ah so.
PLT I just went from transmit to intercom.
CC Okay, no sweat. Guys we're about 30
seconds from LOS. See you again at Honeysuckle at 23:20.
PLT Okeydoke.
CC And you do not have to cut off that safety
wire to run it down through the probe that we were talking about.
It's going to be pretty long almost 2 feet long. So you can
just pull off a length of it then and then roll it back up
if you would like.
PLT Okay, I'm glad you told me that. Thank
you. I'd probably have cut it off to short.
PAO We've had lost of signal through Madrid
and Canaries. At 22 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1721/I
Time: 18:19 CDT, 42/23:19 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours

19 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is ap-
proaching Honeysuckle in Australia and we'll stand by for
communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Honey-
suckle for 8-1/2 minutes.
CC And, AI, I see you're busy there at
the ATM panel. I'd like to talk to you a little bit about
that eruptive prominence if you have a moment.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. I assume that Jack passed on
that one that we've got at 07/1.0. If you can see in your
displays any H-alpha or white light coronagraph activity,
we would llke to get a JOP 8 per the SAP. If you see the
activity in H-alpha, We want to do a JOP 8 step i. If you
only see it on S052, we'd llke a JOP 8 step 3.
CDR Okay. If I see it, do a JOP 8 step 1
and if I don't see dola JOP 8 - If I only see it on 52, do
a 3. If I see it on H-alpha do a i. Is that correct?
CC That's affirm. And this is if you can -
if you can work it in for us.
CDR You know we can.
CC We got faith in you.
CDR Say again.
CC I said, we got lots of faith in you.
CDR Feeling's mutual.
CC And, Jack, I assume you're busy down
there chowlng down so you'll be ready to do your 92 run you
got coming up. If you did have a chance to do anything
on that probe, we would be interested in hearing about it.
PLT Haven't got to it yet, Crip.
CC Okay, Jack.
CDR Well, we got something nice on the white
light coronagraph. We'll whisk them over and look at the
H-alpha right now.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Crip, I'm going to run this wire down
through this probe like you have suggested but just a
preliminary look at it I could blow through it with
no apparent difficulty at all.
CC Okay. We note that. And don't let that
probe activity in any way interfere with you getting chow
in so you'll be ready for the 92 thing.
PLT Okay. I've already finished the dinner.
It'll be just about an hour by the time we begin.
CC Okay. Very good.
SL-III MC-1721/2
Time: 18:19 CDT, 42/23:19 GMT
9/7/73

CDR Okay, Crip. We could see nothing in the

H-alpha so we're going to go back to Sun center and do
step 3.
CC Okay. Backroom copies that and appre-
ciates it, AI.
CDR You want me to run building block 17
in its entirety or just 52's part of it?
CC I'm checking into that. Stand by i.
PLT Crip, I've got this safety wire run through
the probe now and it seems to go through without any trouble.
CC Okay. We copy that. Nothing came out
the end. Right?
PLT No, nothing came out the end, just the
wire.
CC Roger. Thank you.
PLT Want me to put something on the end of
the wire and pull it back through?
CC O kay, AI. We'd like you to do the full
thing on that JOP 8 building block 3.
CC It's per the SAP.
CC And, AI, that's a building block 17
on JOP 8. It's noted in the second page of your SAP.
CC And, AI, negative on pulling anything
back through on that wire. For Jack rather.
PLT Okay. I'ii Just take it out now and let
you think about it some more.
CC Okay. We're going over the hill. See
you at Hawaii in Ii minutes.
PAO At 23 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III HC-1722/I
Time: 18:40 CDT, 42/23:40 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 40

minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is approaching
Hawaii. From there it will go stateside. We'll stand by
for air-to-ground.
CC - - 9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob, I was waiting to check on
that 47 i- - -i Easy, which I have done on checking the
light's intensity in various places around. I did not see
a - a specific llst of locations anywhere, so I've got about
25 readings all around the workshop area, in our normal
work locations, and I hope this is either what was intended
or is satisfactory, and I can read them down on channel A. Could
you confirm that for me?
CC We'll check with corollary down here.
It's been very qu%et down there this afternoon, Owen.
SPT Up here, or down there?
CC You up there.
SPT Been too busy, well, not really, but
we've had plenty of action to keep us occupied. That's one
reason we may have been a little quiet.
CC Yeah, that flare today sounded like
lots of fun. We'll see if weIve got an answer for you.
SPT Can't complain about X flares, plus a
nice little coronal transient to take care of another couple
of revs here, and EREP, and all the other interesting
experiments we've been doing.
CC Roger. Just trying to keep you guys
busy. And what you did on 487 l-Easy is satisfactory.
SPT Okay, fine, thank you, Bob.
CDR Do you think 56 is hung up? And to let
you know what we're doing, we're doing an active i long on
56, although I don't think it's working at the moment. We've
done nothin_ with 82A or B, and then we gave 54 a little
dent and it quit, and 52, of course, is running an extended
pattern. 55's running mirror auto raster zero.
CC Copied that, AI. Checking on 56.
CDR We're also running four frames per minute
on H-alpha.
CC Copy. Four frames per minute.
CDR What it looks like on the WLC is sort
of a heart-shaped bubble that's presently down at 5 o'clock.
On the XUV mon it's just a brighter area than it has been.
H-alpha, I can see some little bitty prominences over in that
area, but nothing that was of significance, that worth
trying to track or anything like that.
CC Okay, copy that.
CC AI, we concur that 56 did hang up, however,
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we did not want to reinitiate it. We would like to get

another extended standard on S052. And H-alpha's fine where
it is.
CDR Okay, that's what we'll do then.
CDR In the middle of these two extended
standards, I'll whip up the white light coronagraph and put
a little something on the VTR for you.
CC VTR is not available, AI.
CDR In that case, I won't use it.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Did you want intercomm?
PLT When do the boring moments in spaceflight
start, Bob?
CC Hope there are not any.
CDR llasn't oeen so far.
CC Gets kind of long down here some nights.
CDR I bet it does. I thought about y'all down
there plannin_ and trying to integrate this whole schedule in
together. It must be a monumental task. And then proof
reading it, and no doubt everybody finds something that needs
to be changed.
CC Oh, it actually, we manage to keep quite
busy down here.
CDR Well, I'Ii bet that's true. It's always
more fun to execute than plan, and I guess we're getting the
lucky part of it up here.
CC Roger that.
CDR Well, maybe we can pass it around some
time.
CC Sounds like a good idea. I manage to
sneak off and do a little airplane flying on my days off,
so that was kind of fun, too.
CDR Good.
CC AI, I'm talking to you on - on this -
we - on your next pass for ATM we do not want to continue
this special JOP 8 here. We do want to go ahead and get the
one that's scheduled, because that is your synoptic.
CDR Okay, in other words skip what I was doing
this orbit and to right to the one that's scheduled for next
orbit.
CC Rog, just go ahead and do what you're
doing now, and on the next orbit weVll do the synoptic.
CDR Okay, we just started another extended
scan and I took a good picture with the Polaroid. Let's
see how it comes out.
CC I understand, you got it on the Polaroid,
and AI, just to make sure that - this is clarified, we want
to do the operations that you do have scheduled for the 00:48
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pass.
CDR I understand. We're Just going to skip
the rest of my orbit that I was supposed to do now, just
cancel that, pick up with Sun centered 6, step i.
CC That's affirm.
CDR One of my favorite JOPs.
CC Like that, huh?
CDR Well, I'm going to keep doing it until
I do it right.
CC l've been looking forward to getting the
film status tonight.
CDR We've been whipping it off. I'ii give
you an interim status_ Just a moment.
CC Oh, that's all right - I don't really - -
CDR 83 56 is 1701, 82A is 53, 82B, 312,
WLC, 3838, 54, 2143.
CC That makes my whole day.
CDR We've spent it well though, I'Ii tell you,
when that X came, it came and stayed.
CC That's affirm. I'm afraid my reading
of the news hasn't improved.
CC We're i minute from LOS. See you again
at Goldstone at 23:53, 23:53, and that's about 3 minutes
from now.
COR Okay, are you going to have any real
time? When this is over, I can zing you a quick picture
of the 52?

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Time: 18:51 CDT, 42/23:51 GMT
9/7/73

CC S kylab, Houston, AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.

CDR Hello.
CC Rello.
CC AI, if you did want to give us some TV
on 52, we're ready to accept it, down at Goldstone now.
CDR Okay. Now what I'ii have to do is stop,
the extended can on 52. Give it to you and then start it
up again. Is that okay?
CC Stand by I. Okay, AI. That's - that's
good. You can go ahead and break into the extend standard
and give us the TV.
CDR Okay.
CDR Now, it's easy to see the bubble now. As
it was the - part of the bubble that kind of loops around between
the streamers has sort of gone off beyond the display. But
I think they can see generally of how distorted it is and
some of the streamers get wider as they go out and several other
little (garble) anomalies for typical streamers there and on the
downllnk it may possible to see the - the - the complete
loop which was visable to us earlier.
CC Roger, AI. We're recording that down at
Goldstone, now. We'll be able to look at it later tonight.
CDR It was a nice one.
CC This little of activity keeps you guys busy,
CDR Yes. Just fantastic. Total number of
things going on on the Sun in the off year. I wonder what
it is like in a hot year.
CC Probably couldn't work in an EREP pass at
all.
CDR That's right. Just passed over a - a -
Portland, Oregon. And I was looking down at San Francisco,
you can see all the way down passed Frisco and all the way
out through west, it's clear as a bell.
CC Wish I was there.
CDR Okay, nothing to do, I'm going to go back
to the extended scan - standard, I mean.
CC Copy that. We're about a minute from LOS.
And we'll see you again at Mila in about 5 minutes.
CDR I'ii give a little UV MON here.
CC Also, at that time AI. When we pick you
up again. I've got a couple of switches on 225 I'd llke for
you to throw, if it be convenient.
CDR Just as long as it isn't (garble).

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Time: 19:03 CDT, 43/00:03 GMT
9/7/73

CC Skylab, Houston, AOS through Bermuda for

8-i/2 minutes.
CDR (Garble) Bob.
CC Okay. We want to do a little atmospheric
management on panel 225. We'd like you to take the AM fill
primary switch number i to open and the then the 02 fill primary
switch i to open and do them in that order please, sir.
CDR Complete.
CC Okeydoke. At about 01:00 we're going
keep telling you to close them and we'll be doing that over
Carnarvon.
CDR All right. We'll put them back to command
when you say so.
CDR Looking over my flight plans for tomorrow,
why don't you ask the flight planners why they dontt slide
in a - S019 near a - it end of the post (garble) back here,
(garble)
CC Copy. S019 in the pre-fllght activity.
CDR Yeah. Looks like there's a possibility
there and I can't use that much time and just - just stand
around or float around.
CC Wouldn't want you to just float around.
Wetll- we'll see what we can work in.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. They did pretty good
for a while, but now they've started giving me too post-sleep
and too much pre-sleep. (garble) tighten up on those two.
CC Okay, AI. Copy that you don't like all
of that time. Is it pre-sleep or post-sleep your talking
about?
CDR Hostly, pre-sleep time, but I'd notice the
last two or three days we've had a lot of post-sleep time, too.
CC Okeydoke. So noted.
CC Skylab, I1ouston. We're i minute from
LOS. See you at Carnary at 00:15 and that's about 4 minutes
from now.

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Time: 19:13 CDT, 43/00:13 GMT
9/7/73

CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Carnary for 4 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll have you again in 2 minutes over Ascension
and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS through Ascension
for 8 minutes. Doing a data voice recorder dump.
CC And CDR, Houston. Do you have time to
do an inspection in the - of the - OWS heat exchanger fans
for us now?
CDR Guess on the link, I'm eating dinner.
What just to see if they're running or not?
CC No, if your eating dinner, go ahead. No,
we're a little bit confused by one of our telemetry indications
right now. It would appear that the OWS heat exchanger fan
number i should be on and the valve should be open. However,
we're not getting our transducer indicate any flows going
across it. And what we were going to ask you to do is at
some convenient time to go up there and take a look and to make
sure that that valve is open and to verify that fan number 1
is on. It maybe just wlndmilling, but we want to really verify
that it's actually running and you can do that by turning on
the adjacent fan in case there is any confusion about it. But
if you could just do that at your convenience, we'd appreciate it.
CDR I'ii do it in the next ten minutes or so.
CC Okay, no big rush at all.
CC Skylab, llouston. 1 minute til LOS, see
you again at Carnarvon at 24 minutes from now at 00:53.
SPT Say again, Bob. I was on channal A at
the (garble).
CC I was calling, i minute til LOS. About that
Owen. Actually we've got about a minute and a half left here.
SPT Okay, Robert. See you in 20 minutes.
PAO At 31 minutes Greenwich mean time, into
day of the year 251. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 19:52 CDT, 42/00:52 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 52 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is approaching Carnarvon.
Standing by for the air-to-ground through the Carnarvon,
Australia tracking site.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Carnarvon 9 minutes.
CDR Say, Bob. I checked the heat exchanger
fan. And number 1 is running and under its own power and
the vain is open, the valve is open.
CC Copied the fan is running and the valve
is open and didn't understand the no power.
CDR No no. I said it's running under its own
power when not windmilling, it was running.
CC Roger. And AI, I've got an item for you
on ATM. Sort of an update to the SAP. You should keep an
active region - keep an eye on active region 9 for flares.
We notice that filament 55 is moving towards the large spot
in active region 9, both filaments 53 and 55 are darkening
signlfically and these are major flare precursors.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
See you again over Guam in 6-1/2 minutes at 01:08 and A1 for
your information an old friend of yours is sitting beside
me. Pete came by to say congratulations on heating him on
time and press on and good luck.
CDR Say, that's great. Where's he now?
CC He's still sitting here beside me.
CDR I kept giving him advice, never to look
back. I guess it was because I was right on his tail.
CC Roger. (laugh)
PLT See what happens when you teach a guy all
that you know. He bites the hand that feeds him.
CC That's a Roger. Pete says that's the name
of the game.
PAO The Pete referred to in the conversation
just concluded is Astronaut Charles Pete Conrad, who was the
commander of the previous Skylab mission. We're some
4-1/2 minutes away from reacquiring through Guam. And we'll
kee p the llne up for - for that pass.

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9/7/73

CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. You're calling and
we barely got you in.
CDR Okay, is Pete still there?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Ask him if about a week before we enter,
and they've certainly gotten all the trajectory figured
out, the timing and everything and else. Ask him if he'd fly
our entry for us a couple of times and see what he thinks. He
and Van.
CC We'll see if we can get it worked in.
CDR Yeah, have him check up about an
hour prior to undocking and maybe a little - even a little bit
before then. See what he thinks that getting the suits
off and all the rest of the that business all the way to flash.
CC Wilco.
CDR We would appreciate it.
CC Roger, No sweat. He'll get in in if he can
kind of work it in with his banquet circuit.
CC And, AI, at your convenience, if you
could reach over on panel 225 and close the 02 fill primary
switch and then the AM fill primary switch.
CDR Okay, they're both in COMMAND.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Hey, Bob, why don't you ask the ATM
science room whether they'd rather have - it looks like I'm
going to have about 25 minutes of spare time, here, whether
they'd like me to do the suggested shopping list items, or
they'd prefer that I jump back up to the previous orbit
where we went off and took a look at this call transient,
and work some of those 2-F, step-l, buildin E block i0.
CC We're checking.
CC Okay, AI, if you can go back and pick
up those two F's and work in as many as you can, we'd appreciate
it.
CDR Will do.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. See you at Go - again at Goldstone in about 16 minutes
at 01:32, and now you're probably not going to have a chance
to finish all of those 2-Fs and it's okay to go ahead and
run them below 400 K. Go ahead and take it down to the
40 k.
CDR Okay.
PAO At i hour and 15 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 20:31 CDT, 43/01:31 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at I hour

31 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by the for state-
side pass through Goldstone and other tracking sites.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for
about 5 minutes.
CDR Looks like we're going to miss getting
them all in by about a minute or less.
CC Very good.
CDR They might want me to take 30 seconds
off this mirror auto raster and that would give it 30 seconds
more on the other and that would split the last two mirror
auto rasters but it's sort of up to the science room back
there.
CC We'll ask them.
CC AI. we'd llke you to go ahead and give
us a complete raster on this current one and we'll truncate
the last one.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. I'll mention it
to Jack and he might want to spend the first 5 minutes
getting the last one too. So that way you'll have it all.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to drop
out in about 45 seconds. Have you again in 2 minutes over
Texas - over Mila.
CC And also, AI, following this ATM pass,
we'll be ready to pick up your Evening Status Report
whenever you are.
CDR Okay. I'ii be ready.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you
again for 12 minutes.
CDR Bob, do we still have time for the
nightly report.
CC Yes, sir. We've got about S minutes
and we're standing by to copy.

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Time: 20:43 CDT, 43/01:43 GMT
9/7/73

CC (garble)
CDR Okay. Coming at you. Urine: 102; 155;
225. Water: 5819; 9658; 6374. BMMD: 6.258, 6.258, 6.259;
5.945, 5.946, 5.946; 6.958, 6.959, 6.955. Exercise: CDR,
2/30/ 5041, 3/15/Mark i, 3/10/Mark 2, 3/05/Mark 3; SPT,
2/33/5030, 3/25/Mark i, 70A, 60B, 60D; PLT, 1/05/0602, 2/38/8588,
3/20/Mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D and 20 backbends. No medications.
Sleep: 7 g; 6-1/2 g; 6-1/2 g. Here comes the food: CDR,
7 salts plus 3 salt pills, add one pear; SPT, no salt, add
butter cookies, jam and bread, peanut butter, and substitute
grape drink instead of orange drink; PLT, 4 salts, add one
lemonaide, i butter cookie, I lemon drop. How about an accurate
photo log: EREP, VTS track 44, CL0338; MI51 - M092/93,
C154. 00, C146. 35-millimeter: PBI6, 14; CII03, 46; CX29, 16.
70-millimeter: CX26, 076; CT08, by the way this is the ETC:
CT08, 076. EREP, SET used: 8664; 0857; 8382; 7763; 9533; 8435.
Drawer A: only one change and that's the A-2, 05, C154, 00,
C146. Flight plan deviations: none except what you've called
up. Tomorrows flight plan looks good, if we could get in an
S019 or something in that. Pre-sleep for the CDR, a little
something for the post sleep. Shopping llst accomplishments
today: we retrieved the EREP tape, the 190 film cassette,
S019 and ETC channel count from Pete's plenum bag. We also did
the dump heater probe work and got the four circuit boards out
of the VTR. Inoperable equipment: nothing new. Unscheduled
stowage item location change: nothing new there.
CC Say, we've got an hand over coming up in
about 10 seconds, so stand by for that.
CDR Okay, that's it anyway.
CC Okay, handover is complete, with no problem
no dropout and got all of that. A1 tomorrow what we would
suggest, and S019 is not advisable right now due to the film.
And what we would like for you to do is to preform an EREP tape
transfer plus a TV-12 which is a EREP tape change, which is
about 15 minute during that pre-sleep period.
CDR That's a good idea.
CC Okay.
CDR In other words, I'ii use the same pad that
I had today for the transfer but we didn't pull it off because
we only did one EREP and then just do it tomorrow. Is that
correct.
CC That is correct.
CDR We'll do it.
CC Okay, it sounds good. I've Bot a couple
of other questions here, I've got about 3 minutes left on this
pass. I'ii llke to run by ya.
CDR Okay, go.
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Time: 20:43 CDT, 43/01:43 GMT
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CC First I would llke to verify that for

wake up time, I guess maybe we're a little bit confused, we'll
probably give you a call at 11:03, tomorrow morning, that's
about 3 minutes after your normal wake up time at Guam. Are
you depending on us for a wakeup call or you using the
little digital timer.
CDR We are depending on you, unless we hear
from you, that it's you know you don't have good comm or that
like on our days off, the fellows that don't have to get up.
The man that doesn't have to get up likes to sleep in and so
we'll set the timers then. But we weren't planning to tomorrow
unless you want us to. We can very easily do it.
CC No, it's not necessary, we'll give you
a call at 11:03 if that's satisfactory.
CDR That's perfect.
CC Okay, could you give us a few words on
the trash airlock operations. Such as the seal seated properly?
Is the interlock working properly, or the handles operating
smoothly, is the lid lock outer door handle or any comments
on it.
CDR Essentially the trash airlock has been
operating real well the whole mission. We decided that we
just let one person do it and that's me and we've been shooting
them out of here with no trouble at all. We've been using
usually two urine bags correction on that, two urine containers
per urine bag and no more for every once in a while we'll throw
all three urines in the urine bag, but we've found out that's
the only one that really swells in there. The only thing that
we've noticed wrong was the other night we noticed that the
little rod that interconnects the lock handle to the safety
mecanimum for the eyelid open and close and which also - the
handle also includes the depress and press valves. That
little link, was bent. My opinion of how it got bent, I've
been closing the lid myself and as I closed the lid I'd push
on it and then flip the handle over. My opinion would be that I
didn't flip it far enough over and when I moved the iris handle
or the eyelid handle which ever you want to call it, depress
handle that it would cause it to put a load on that (garble)
that rod. And the rod is slightly bent. It still works great
we just use two person, two people now to do it, one to stand
on it and the other to lever it. Have we got anymore time?
CC Oh, we've got about 30 seconds, left.
We're going to have you again at Ascension in 9 minutes from
now at 01 correction 02:00 and we can continue with it there.
CDR Okay. But it's operating perfectly. We'd
just like to fix that rod somehow, straighten it out or find
another one that we could install, so that the interlock
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would work properly. I'm not convinced at the moment that

the interlock truly works. Even though you don't really need
an interlock because there's no way to foul the system up.
It looks to me like.
CC Okay, we copy that.
PAO At i hour 51 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1730/I
Time: 20:58 CDT, 43/01:48 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour

59 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is
approaching Ascension. We'll stand by for air to ground.
CC Skylab, llouston. AOS Ascension for
6 minutes and if possible, I've got a few more evening
questions I'd like to ask you, A1.
CDR Go ahead. We're all listening.
CC Okay. I'd like to find out the status
of the M509 models. Have they been changed - correction,
charged and topped off and what is the pressure on each.
SPT All three are full and topped, ready to go.
CC Okeydoke
SPT I can go get the pressure right now,
if you want it.
CC Would appreciate it.
CDR Okay. Hold on just a second.
PLT While Al's checking those pressures
let me ask about JOP 13. I thought mission - or day 250
was about when we were going to pick up on it. Was I
thinking of mission day 50 instead of day 250 or do you
know what the situation? Maybe ASCO can update you there.
CC We had a fay for it. Let me verify
which one it was.
CC Owen, that is on day - mission day 260,
day 52, right?
SPT Day 52. Son of a gun. We'll just
barely make it.
CC Rog.
CC O wen -
SPT Nothing else can be done any earlier?
CC That's - they tell us that ASC0 X-l,
that's the first time it's available.
SPT Yeah, I wouldn't have thought ASC0 X-I t
was the only talkative interest, but okeydoke.
CC O wen, while I've got you here, I'd like
to remind you to switch to channel A for your M133 recording
tonight.
SPT It's already done.
CC Okeydoke. And could you give us some
comments about Anita. Any changes in the web size, con-
struction? Might - appreciate any comments that you have.
SPT Okay. I took a look at Anita just a
couple of hours ago, as a matter of fact, and I can' t see
that she's changed her web for several days. I think she's
got one she likes and is sitting tight on it. However, I did
notice also, that after leaving the front doors open for a little
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SPT while she'll sometimes come around and

sit on the outer surface of the web instead of the inner
surface of the web. And, as a matter of fact, she's on the
outer surface now, I guess thinking that might be the more
likely side from which to pick up some flying bugs. But
the web - I don't notice much change in the structure. She
may change it a little bit from night to night but I think
it's basically still the same web. Over.
CC Okay. We copy that. Sounds like Jack
or somebody's really pounding that bike.
SPT Yes, he is.
CDR Okay. Here's the pressure. Bottle 2,
2400; bottle 3, 2305; bottle 4, 25 -
CC Okay. We copy those and got some ques-
tions about the batteries that you changed out of the Nikon
timer. Did you - wonder if you - if you saved it ,, and if
so can you identify it in any way? We're kind of thinking
about taking some voltage readings on it.
CDR Let me check. I think Jack took that
out, but I believe we shot it down the trash airlock after
taping it. Let me check with him.
SPT When was this timer changeout made, Bob.
Do you have any recollection?
CC Let me see if I can get a day for you
on that, Owen.
SPT If it was a long time ago, like S or
4 weeks ago, maybe I did it. But we're not certain that
there has been a - we don't believe that there's been a
recent timer battery change.
CC I bet that's the one we're talking
about. That's the one you did and it was quite a while
back.
SPT Okay. At this point I don't remember.
I'ii have to think about it. Whether or not I can spot that
battery or not.
CC Okay. It was just meant to know if you
had an easy access to it. Wouldn't sweat it if you can't
remember.
SPT I - I'ii just have to check. I'ii let
you know later.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. We have some questions about that
VT on the circuit board changeout today. Did Owen - did
you end up doing that?
CDR No, I ended up doing it (garble). I didn't
realize that it was on his schedule and I had free time this
morning when that EREP got cancelled and S019 we didn't get the
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CDR dump inhibited so we didn't - or some-

body didn't, and we - I just took it apart and took it out
and later on noticed that it was on his schedule. It was
quite easy to do, take off the 63 screws and use the tools
to pop them out. I inspected them very closely, I saw
no evidence of scorching, burning, broken wires, they all
looked nice and neat, so I packed them and put them in a
dop kit and they're setting in A-9 right now.
CC Okay. We're going over the hill shortly.
Have you again at Carnarvon, 02:30. Be a medic conference
there and also dumping data voice recorder.
CDR Okay, let me how long - -
CC We're out of touch.
CDR Okay. Bye.
PAO At 2 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1731/I
Time: 21:29 CDT, 43/02:29 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 29

minutes Greenwich mean time, about a half a minute away
from acquisition through Carnarvon, at which time we expect
to have the medical conference, so very little air-to-ground
at that time, but we'll stand by anyway.
CC $ kylab,, HO:_ston. We're AOS Guam 9
minutes.

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9/7/73

CC And for the CDR, if it's convenient, l'd

like to ask you a couple of questions about that VTR change-
out that you did.
SPT He'll be right with you Bob.
CC Okay, Owen. There's no hurry.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger. This is really in nature of finding
out how difficult it was to do that type of a task and I've got
some of the indication from it from your previous remarks. Did you
have any problems removing or retaining the 63 screw and washers?
Did you lose any? And were any of the screw heads stripped?
CDR In answer of all of them, no. No trouble, the
reason it was is because I used that 2-inch wide neutral tape.
2-inch wide neutral tape which was much sticker than the gray
tape. When we were removed the screws from - from - the panels
the previous - you know 3 or 4 weeks ago, we used gray tape
and that was a complete bomb because that gray tape doesn't
have much sticky on it. Used the neutral tape, laid them out
very neatly and didn't loose a screw or washer, didn't strip
any heads. The reason I didn't strip the head is because you or
somebody put a note on there saying that it was simple to do and be
careful, once that note was on there then I was careful and it was
no trouble. It was an easy job, I did not - one of the things
that everybody seems to want you to do here is take the objects
from somewhere it is and put it somewhere else. We don't have
any good somewhere else and usually in this zero gravity you could
just kind of throw it on the floor or if it's on the floor
in a locker. A lot of times you can just work on it there
just as easy as moving it. And so I just worked on it in place
under the BMMD and it was quite satisfactory and saved time
moving it. Also the circuit boards came out easy. I used one
screwdriver and then I used that 90 degree Allen bit and it just
lifted up smoothly. And they slid out and the whole thing
looks very nice inside, I kind of glanced through and could not
see any burned area, could not see anything that I felt was
significant either on the ones that I took out or the ones that
I just kind of just glanced down inside of which you can't
see too well by the way. Also - one other thing to mention,
I used a head mounted lamp that is in the medical kit, it
works like a charm. I just put it on my head and it provided
enough light to do the job. I wished l'd used it in some of
these other jobs.
CC Okay, very good. Rusty was convinced
that if we could do that job in space we could handle about any
task.
CDR I donVt think that job was near as hard
as the jobs we've done hunting down either the condensate leak
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or the coolanol leak, because the screws were much harder

to take out there. There was a varity of different fasteners.
They were all in tight spots. Some of them had all sorts of
paint on them which means you had to chip it out and of
course as you know some of them we couldn't get out and had to
use the vise grips some we didn't get out in the coolent area,
we just bent the panel and looked in there. So that to me
was a much more severe work task than this one today. This
one today took about an hour_ those took all day.
CC Okay, copy that. Probably wasn't nearly
as difficult as convincing the ground to change out the probe.
CDR (Laugh) no comment on that one. That one
incidently was a very easy job. There's a lot of extra steps
let me mention another thing about alot of these procedures.
They got way too many steps in there that aren't necessary to
do the job like get this and prep this and put this near here
and be careful of this and a lot of other things that i don't
think it hurts you to have them in there but it sure strings
out the work.
CC Okay, copy that. We'll try to keep that
take that into account on other future preparation of procedures
and if Jack is listening he's going to do a H518 tomorrow
for us and there were a couple of minor problems with the
pad that we sent up. We referred to a panel 139 a couple
of places. During - on step 19 during the prep and on step 3
during the ops and it's a - doesn't mean anything, he should
ignore it.
CDR He didn't copy. Mention it to him later,
would you.
CC Okay, I'ii -
CDR He's busy on the ATM.
CC We'll get it to him tomorrow during his
ops. No sweat. Got about another 4 minutes here. Haven't
really got too much red hot news this evening. I could give
you a few news items, if you would like.
CDR Let me ask you to do that next pass. And
give you a couple of news items.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I've got some unscheduled stowage
items changes that we made that - you might want to tell
the food people but also tell them we probably won't
eat all of these, or drink them all. But we just wanted to
quit going back up there for single items, so we brought them
down and then when we move them back to regular overage, our own
overage, weVll list them of course when we come home. Here
they are: 2 lemonades from 562 to the wardroom, 3 grapes from
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562 to the wardroom, 3 grapes from 563 to the wardroom,

5 pears from 563 to the wardroom, 5 peaches from 563 to the
_ardroom and 6 pineapples from 563 to the wardroom.
CC Okay, believe we copied all of those.
And -
CDR Hold on just a second. Okay, now I looked
at the housekeepin_ for tomorrow and accomplished all of it but
one. And this was a call down housekeeping item 81J. Which
looks to me like A_I dump pad replacement and didn't think you
really meant it or if you did I didn't know which to replace or
anything else. So standing fast on that one, the other one was
I gave the pure - water purification a check. It's 3 parts
per million and in the drinking unit now, so that's pretty good.
Also the water in the three tanks, the two for the SUS and the
one for the ATM coolant they're all full.
CC Okay, copy that.
CDR Go ahead, that's all I've got, Bob.
CC Okay, you're just too far ahead of us that's
all. This next pass we've got coming up is at Goldstone and
it would normally be after we would quite calling you it's just
03:03 and since Jack is still working on the ATM panel and we
would like to get an ate - update on films remaining, we
would appreciate, if we could give you a call there.
PLT How about if I give them to you now, and you
just kind of subtract a few. You could figure out on the pad,
I'm only goin_ to take about 5 more.
CC That'll be fine.
PLT Okay, H-alpha: 5903, 56, 1680; 82A: 50,
82B, 304; S052, 3755; S054, 2111. And I'Ii probably take about
5 or 6 more frames on H-alpha and 82B and maybe one or two on
56.
CC Okeydoke Jack, we copy that.
PLT Okay.
CDR But feel free to call us for news or anything
else, we'll all be up an hour at least, or maybe 45 minutes.
CC Okay, it's your direction if you'd like a
call we'll give you one and I'ii read the news. I do have there.
We're about a minute from LOS now. We'll see you again at
Goldstone in 16 minutes at 03:09.
CDR Okay, we'll be waiting to hear from you,
and get the news. One other thing, we've mention to the EREP
folks, that we were hoping that they would start using the numbers
we gave them for the sites. The EREP ones, I'm talking about
the _andheld photos. So if they still don't know the numbers,
we read - gave it to them on channel A, let us know and we'll give
them again. Because that's the ones that seems to appear on
our map that we draw in and it makes it much easier for us to
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find the write up before we go take the handheld pictures.

CC Okay, we got up through 27 and then wetve
giv _ you a bunch of sites that we haven't gotten your numbers
for and we need those.
CDR I'Ii give them to you at Goldstone.
CC Roger.
PAO At 2 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 22:08 CDT, 43/03:08 GMT
9/7/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours

8 minutes Greenwich mean time standing by for the pass through
Goldstone and Texas and Mila.
CDR Bob, can I send you a correction to the
photo log?
CC Say again, AI. We got 16 minutes now.
CDR Okay. I wanted to send you a correction
to the photo log.
CC Go.
CDR On the 35-milllmeter, should read CX29,
06.
CC Okay. We got that.
CC AI, while you're there, on that house-
keeping that you were wondering which fan they were talking
about, 81J?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay. It's the one in the STS area
that's sort of partially covered by the forward hatch when
it's open. It's also the one that you slip the little plate
in front of when you're going EVA.
CDR Oh, you're talking about the interchange
duct fan. I got you.
CC That's the one.
CDR Okay. You want that baby changed; will
do.
CC AI, you can wait till tomorrow. You're
using up all the housekeeping items quicker than we can get
them up to you.
CDR No, I will. We're going to bed. But
I'Ii remember that and get it done tomorrow.
CC Okay. Got a few news items for you if
you're - want to listen.
CDR Everybody's listening.
CC Okeydoke. Skylab news concerned the
flares you guys got yesterday and, of course, you beat it
today, but basically, Skylab records sun's huge blast. A
thermonuclear explosion on the sun Thursday's automatically
equal - correction - approximately equals the energy release
of several billion Hiroshima bombs, about 20,000 tons of
TNT and Dr. Joe Hirman of NOAA was giving this report out.
I'm sure that the one that you got today will make even a
bigger news entry. And the Miami Dolphins have got thir
problems, apparently. The Dallas Cowboys met the Dolphins
last night in a preseason contest for the first time since
Super Bowl 6 and the Cowboys walloped - not exactly walloped
I guess, 26 to 3 over the Dolphins. Have to rub that one into -
26 - 23 - correction. Yes, yes. And it left coach Tom Landry
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Time: 22:O8 CDT, 43/0B:08 GMT
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CC with a problem; should he go with Roger

Staubach or Craig Morton at quarterback when the Cowboys
spin their regular season on September 16 in Chicago. Here's
the good news for some us gas buyers by a vote of 76 to 6,
the Senate passed a bill which provides that the National -
correction - okay, I - the - got the wrong news item. I told
you I couldn't read the news. By a vote of 76 to 6 the
Senate passed a bill which provides that the National Foot-
ball League local television blackouts be lifted when the
game is sold out 72 hours before kickoff time. A similar
bill has been introduced into the House with 60 co-signers
and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozell says, "We do not like the
Legislation." On the price ceilings on gasoline which go
into effect at midnight tonight is the Nation's 218,000
service stations. Supreme Court Justice Burger declined
to lower a lower court order upholding the Administration's
Phase 4 rules which will force many service stations to roll
gasoline prices back I, 2, or even 3 cents a gallon. Yea
for that. The Cost of Living Council has lifted the ceiling
on the price of beef effective midnight Sunday. That was a 5.8
percent increase in the wholesale prices in August. And Jack
may be interested in the Southern Open. Red hot, John Schrea
and steady Greer Jones tied for the lead with 4 others all with
3 under par 67 Thursday after the first round of the was $i00,000
for that open golf tournament. And that's really all the - all
the items I had and after fouling them up that bad I better
quit anyhow.
CDR Thanks, Crlp. We kind of wonder what's
going on down there. One of the - one of the shockers not
long ago was somebody passed the news up that they've changed
the law - you know, turning right on red blinkers. We didn't
even know it was up for grabs.
CC Oh, yeah. That got passed some time aEo.
It just actually took some time to go into effect to make
sure they got all the signs up. Pretty nice to be able
to drive like you do in California.
CDR You said it.
CC I suppose they also passed up to you
that 18-year-olds now have the vote and all other adult
rights in Texas.
CDR Yeah, I remember that. That's good.
You don't think - things would change much in 2 months
but they sure do.
CC Yeah, if you pick out the right 2 months.

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Time: 22:15 CDT, 43/03:15 GMT
9/7/73

PLT Say, Bob, how do the people like the

film?
CC We'll take a look at it, Jack.
CC Jack, would you care to talk about that
M518 mess that you - that you've got that you're doing
tomorrow now_ or would you like to get it tomorrow when
you're doing it?
PLT Yeah, why don't we - let me take - take
a look at it tomorrow when I'm doing it. Well, briefly,
just tell me what it was and I'ii read through it and
- and I'ii understand it better that way.
CC Okay, there were a couple of small
items where we'd referred to panel 139, and that's - that's
the one where we got the rate gyros 6-pack plugged in. Of
course, we don't want you to use it, so we just said to
ignore it.
PLT Okay.
CC We'll give you the details on it tomorrow.
PLT Okay, thanks, Bob.
CC And, for CDR, if you have your
numbers for you - those handheld targets, we'd be glad
to take them down, or you can record them, or we'll get
them later at your convenience.
CDR Let's make it later, I'm in the bathroom
washing at the moment.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll go ahead and say good night, see you tomorrow
afternoon. The next pass is at Vanguard, which is VHF
availability only, at 03:35, in case you need us. And,
Goldstone at 04:45.
CDR Good night. We enjoyed working with you
today.
CC Rog, same here, enjoyed it. Nice coming
back to work, and maybe I'ii get in the groove by tomorrow.
And, correction on the last, we do have S-band corrected
at Vanguard, so that will be available, and we'll be moni-
toring in case you got any - anything for us.
PAO Skylab-lll has moved out of range of
the Texas tracking site, on it southward trajectory, heading
now over South America. We have the mission report here,
from the - for the mission surgeon's report from the good
ole doctor, and he says this: "As previous - as previously
reported, the crew of Skylab-lll considers their personal
exercise output as their own health thermometer. Tonight
they again reported feeling in superb health, and continue
to point to their impressive exercise figures as proof.
We have found nothing in our other tests to cause us to
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disagree." And that was signed by Dr. Paul Buchanan. The

crew has been given a good-night. We suspect we will not
hear from them until tomorrow morning at 3 minutes after 6.
And so ends mission day number 42 in the flight of Skylab-lll.
At 3 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC1735/I
Time: 06:01 CDT, 43/11:01 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours, 1 minute and

32 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station where we
expect we will have crew wake-up for today. Crew - just now -
today will be beginning their 7th week in space. Among today's
activities include a full day of ATM, with the exception of
a short period this afternoon when the Earth Resources Experi-
ment Package will make another survey beginning at 2:52 pm
Central daylight time, running across the U.S. and Canada.
This is Skylab Control. We'll keep the line up, live, for
alr-to-ground through Guam. The pass through Guam to last
approximately 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Skylab, Skylab. This is Houston.
Good morning. Over.
SPT Good morning, Bruce.
CC Yeah, if you look out the window, you'll
find it's really night up there, but it's morning down here.
SPT What time of the night is it?
CC It's 32 minutes remaining. 11:04 Zulu.
SPT How did 133 work last night, Bruce?
CC Itseemed to work very well, Owen. Wewere
looking at the data down here earlier and it's right on.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Did you get all that snoring?
CC We were wondering what that was. I guess
what the real question is how much goo Owen has in his hair?
SPT I filled the old electrodes up pretty well
last night, so I'ii let you know about that - if I wakeup,
though.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One and a half
minutes to LOS here at Guam. Next station contact in 34 minutes
through the Vanguard at 11:41. The Vanguard is back in work -
S-band is back in operation and we will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at the Vanguard. Over.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours, 9 minutes and
49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've run out the station of
the Guam - out of range of the Guam tracking station. Our
next acquisition is 31 minutes and 26 seconds from now at the
Vanguard. Scheduled for today are intensive period of solar
observation, expecting to get some more activity as the solar
activity period comes to a close. Also scheduled for today
an Earth Resources Experiment Package pass - that pass to
follow ground track 58, which has slipped to some degree -
approximately ii0 degrees further east than is shown on tile
maps prepared before the mission - has been this change. Pass today
will cross near La Paz and Baja California; Chihuahua, Mexico;
and the central part of the United States, including parts of
Michigan. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition,
30 minutes from now. It's now i0 minutes and 49 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC1736/I
Time: 06:40 CDT, 43/11:40 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours, 40 minutes,

and 27 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently about
55 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking
ship and we have the line up live for air-to-ground through
Vanguard. A full day of solar, medical and Earth resources
activity's scheduled for the second Skylab astronauts as they
begin their 7th week aboard the orbiting space station. Solar
instrument panel will be operated by Commander Alan Bean,
Pilot Jack Lousma this morning,with aAll three crew members taking
turns later in the day. Owen Garriott will run the Earth
terrain camera this morning to provide highly detailed pictures
of Paraguay. The photographs will be made between 8:24 and
8:27 am Central daylight time, will be used by the government
of Paraguay in mapping a substantial part of that land locked
South American nation. This is one of six passes to be made
for that purpose using the Earth terrain camera. It will not
require a roll of the space station, so it will permit solar
activity to go on at the same time. Later this afternoon, a
full scale Earth Resources pass will be made over North America.
The main purpose of the - remote sensing overflight is evaluation
of sensor performance. We have acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
CC through the Vanguard for ii minutes. Over.
CDR Roger. And for your information Bruce, it
was necessary for me to cycle the - the ATM inverter - LCA-I
circuit breaker to get the lights to come on this morning.
Also, I've got a star locked in. See if you llke it. If it
does, I'Ii attempt to close the shutter.
CC Roger. Looks good.
CDR Got it closed.
CC Say again, Alan.
CC And for the CDR, we had voiced up to you
last night an EREP tape transfer and TV-12 this evening during
your presleep activities. We would liketo cancel the TV-12
at this time. Over.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III MC-1737/I
Time: 06:51 CDT 413/11:51 GMT
918/73

CC S kylab, this is Houston. One minute and

15 seconds to LOS at the Vanguard. Next station contact in
3-1/2 minutes through Ascension at 11:55. Out.
PAO Skylah Control at ii hours 52 minutes and
57 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have temporarily gone out
of range of the tracking station as they are passing across the
south Atlantic between the Vanguard range and the range of
Ascension's tracking station. We'll have acquisition in about
a minute and 30 seconds from now over Ascension. We have the
line up live for air-to-ground through that station.
CC S kylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 10-1/2 minutes. Post-sleep update to the SAP for the CDR
and others interested. No new active regions reported. And one
and only one suh-brilliant flare, with no X-rays associated,
has been reported in active region 9. And that's the only
activity that has been noted. All other regions are quiet.
Over.
CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce.
PLT Bruce, the workshop temperature last night
wasn't reported, but it was read, and it was 72 degrees.
CC O kay, Jack. I copy 72 degrees in the work-
shop temperature. And if you have got a moment, I've got two
trivial corrections to your M518 message.
PLT Okay, ready to copy the trivia.
CC Okay. Step 19, delete - step 19 of M518
prep, delete the reference to panel 139. And in step 3 in M518
experiment ops, delete the reference to panel 139.
PLT Okay. All deletions accepted. Thank
you.
CC Roger. Out.

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Time: 07:04 CDT, 43/12:04 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute

to LOS next station contact in 2 minutes through the Canaries.
Over - or out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Through Canary
for 3 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next contact in 2 minutes through Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Through Madrid
for 2-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute
to LOS here at Madrid. Next station contact in 27 minutes
through Guam at 12:38 Zulu. And we'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at Guam. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 14 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The present time the Skylab space
station is over the Mediterranean, traveling out of range
of the tracking station at Madrid. Twenty-four minutes and
43 seconds to our next acquisition of signal at the Guam
tracking station. It's presently 14 minutes and 15 sseconds
after the hour. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 07:38 CDT 43/12:38 GMT
• 9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 37 minutes

and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. Presently about 54 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station. The
pass through Guam will last a little over 10 minutes. At this
time Commander Alan Bean should have completed his duties
at the ATM as the Skylab is now passedinto the dark side
of the Earth's orbit, and it will be in darkness for another
31 minutes. Following this darkness pass, shortly after 13:00
Greenwich mean time today, there will be a pass made over Paraguay.
Purpose of that pass, Earth terrain photography in the solar
inertial mode, which means that the space station will not be
rolling of the area of Paraguay. We have acquisition at Guam
and we have the line up live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
the next i0 minutes. We will he dumping the data voice tape
recorder here. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce. It looks like area 19, active
region 19, was starting to act up about i0 minutes before sun-
set. It's conceivable that they may have gotten something
as large as maybe a C-3 or 4 or something like that. I didn't
go over there, I stayed on 9. But it looked like it was bright-
ening over there, and I got an IIC of about 20. It was also
bright in my UV.
CC Okay, Alan. Your report triggered the
ATM down here to report to me that we confirm that. And
it was an optical class-i normal flare. It started at 12:17,
and peaked at 12:20 Zulu. And no report on X-rays associated
with it as yet.
CDR Okay, we'll keep an eye on that region the
rest of the day here.
CC Sounds like a good plan.
CDR The flare region was actually a ribbon.
It was a couple of seconds wide and about 60 seconds long, with
one interruption with in it. So it looked like it was a good
long spread-out flare, small flare.
CC S kylab, this is Houston• i minute and
i0 seconds to LOS here at Guam. Next station contact in
31 minutes through the Vanguard at 13:19. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range of the trackin_
station at Guam. Our next acquisition of signal is a little
less than 29 minutes from now, and that will be at Vanguard.
During this last pass Commander Alan Bean reported on his
stint at the ATM control and display panel where he said he
saw a flare; that was confirmed by the ground, which reported
that there was an optical i, normal, flare that's a surface
area size.
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An apparently small flare in the optical band. They had not

yet received an X-ray report from the satellites, and they
will probably get that a little later. It does appear
that it is a modest size flare, relatively small. It began
at 12:17 Greenwich mean time or about 7:17 a.m. central daylight
time and concluded, reached its maximum point, 3 minutes later
at 7:20 a.m. CDT. Commander Bean reported that it was approx-
imately 2 seconds by 60 arc seconds in dimensions which would
indicate that it is about 800 miles wide and 25_000 miles long,
a great deal smaller than the large X magnetic flare, X-ray
flare that was spotted yesterday, which was approximately
17 to 18 times the size of the Earth in dimensions. So this
is a flare that is certainly at least in the neighborhood
of 50 times to i00 times smaller than that. This is Skylab
Control. Our next acquisition of signal 27 minutes and 35
seconds from now. It is now 51 minutes and 31 seconds after
the hour.

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SL-III MC1740/I
Time: 08:18 CDT, 43/13:18 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 18 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Present time we're about 56 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship.
The pass through Vanguard will last 9-1/2 minutes. This
time we've began the daylight period of Skylab's orbit
and Pilot Jack Lousma is scheduled to be working at the ATM
control and display panel for this upcoming daylight pass.
Following that pass the ATM will go back to Commander Bean
for the remainder of the morning. We're 30 seconds from
acquisition of si_nal and we have the line up live for air-
to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS; Canaries at 39.
PLT Okay, Hank. And good morning.
CC Good morning to you.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 28 minutes
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal will be i0 minutes and 13 seconds from now at Canary
Island. During this upcoming pass there is a handheld
photography scheduled for a site in Spain, and we'll give
you a little briefing on that right before the next Canary
Island pass i0 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control at
29 minutes and 9 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-1741/I
Time: 08:37 CDT 43/13:37 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 37 minutes

and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have some data coming
in from Canary Islands already, but we will not have acquisi-
tion for about a minute and a half. During this pass over the
Canary Island station we'll be approaching Spain at which time
we should be doing some photography in an area of approximately
i degree by 7/10 of a degree in dimensions to photograph and
describe a test site in Spain where scientists will be studying
modern and ancient drainage systems, playa lakes, and a rela-
tionship between rock types and soil types and regional
geological structures. Using photography from Skylab, both
the Hassalblad lO0-milimeter lens and the Nikon with the tele-
photo 300-milimeter lens will be used on this scheduled Earth
resources photography, correction, Earth observation photography.
Handheld photo will be Alan Bean's duty during the upcoming
pass. One of the purposes is to examine the relationship
of landform features to natural resources like soll and water.
And that photography over Spain will be accomplished at approx-
imately 13:49 Greenwich mean time or a little over i0 minutes
from now. We have acquisition of signal over Canary Islands,
and we're live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary, Madrid for
14 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
PLT Okay, Hank, we've got the TV-5 on the VTR.
And I'm wondering how much time is left on them?
CC Stand by I.
CC PLT, Houston. Approximately 15 minutes.
CDR We're going to get the handleld targets
number i0, 19, and 35.
PLT I didn't copy you, Hank. Would you say
again, please?
CC Roger. Sixteen minutes remaining on the
VTR. And understand the CDR is getting the handheld targets i0,
19, and 35.
CDR You bet.
SPT S054 went in to the double sequence for
what it did on filter 2, but I terminated it.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Honey-
suckle at 28.
SPT Say again, please.
CC Roger. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Honeysuckle at 28.
PLT Okay, that's good.
CDR Okay, and you might tell the EREP Officer
that we've got multiple pictures of sites i0, 19, correction,
40, 19, and 35.
CC Roger; we copy. Thank you.

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PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 53 minutes

and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've passed out of
range of the Madrid tracking station as the Skylab is
passing now over eastern Europe. And they're nearing the
end of their daylight pass about 12-1/2 minutes left of
daylight. During this last pass Commander Alan Bean reported
that he did complete the Earth Resources handheld photography
using the Hasselblad Nikon camera. And the specific site
scheduled for this last pass was a area in Southeastern Spain,
around the city of Cartagena. Our next acquisition of
signal is 33 minutes and 33 seconds from now. It's 54 minutes
and 23 seconds after the hour. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1743/I
Time: 09:27 CDT 43/14:27 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 26 minutes and

56 seconds Greenwich mean time. Presently about 54 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station
in Australia. That pass will last 5 minutes and 38 seconds.
This is Skylab Control. We do have the line up live for
air-to-ground through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 5 minutes.
CDR Hey, Hank, I was just thinking about (garble)
housekeeping that I did earlier this morning, replacing that
f an.
CC Roger.
CDR $o I went back up and looked at those heat
exchangers, the 4 amp heat exchangers, and remember I had
been told to clean them ahout a week ago or two weeks ago,
and I reported that I'd had cleaned them and that they still
looked gray, and copper colored to me, which didn't make sense
the more I thought about it. So I went back in there this
morning, and took the fans out and got down in there and fooled
around a while and discovered that the gray was really dust.
And the dust was covering all of those little veins in the heat
exchanger there. I didn't know it was supposed to go through
because I had never looked at a real one I guess. And I thought
the air went down and that was sort of a duct edge and not really
a blow through. I got out the vacuum cleaner brush and cleaned
those all out. And now they look just like any heat exchanger
with air blowing through them. So then I put in - I had already
put in the new fan, but I took the new fan out and put back in
the old one. So why don't we run with it for a couple of days a
and see how it works out? It looks like the problem was a
whole bunch of dust o11 all those heat exchangers. And it also
looks like that ought to be either a weekly or every other week
cleaning task where you take out the fans, look down in there,
and you have to use the brush on the vacuum cleaner, and then
you have to use your flashlight and put your arm through the
other hole of that flapper valve. The problem is that you just
can't see down in there and get down in there, but once you
realize you need to, you can somehow get it done.
CC Roger, we copy that. And that' s a good
move we think.
CDR That sort of explains all the problems we've
had. And I guess the fact that I didn't clean it the first time
I was told to confused everybody down there because then they
thought it wasn't the problem. The problem was that I didn't
know what it looked like in there, and I didn't realize that
I wasn't looking at a clean one. What I was really looking at
was one where all the dust had collected on the little veins
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where the air blows through and the copper part that the air
doesn't blow through was showing. It was so u_iform, I thought
that was the way that it looked. So everything is okay right
n ow.
CC Okay, good show, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute to LOS. Can-
aries at 18.
CDR I'm going to activate the caution and
warning on the interchange duct in both mol sieves to see how
they hold up now.
CC We copy.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 34 minutes
and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range
of the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Our
next acquisition of signal almost 43 minutes from now. We'll
be at the Canary Islands that pass, then we'll be through
Canary Islands and Madrid. This is Skylab Control at 35 min-
utes and 8 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-1744/I
Time: 10:17 CDT, 43/15:17 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 16 minutes

and 57 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently within
range of the Canary Island tracking station. We have a pass
coming up through Canary Island and _adrid, lasting about
14 minutes. This is Skylab Control; we have the line up live
for air-to-ground through Canary Island and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary Island
and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes.
CDR Say, Hank, we've got a couple of caution/
warnings on that OWS interchange, so maybe just cleaning
that out isn't going to do the job. I've inhibited it again.
CC Roger. We copy. We may have recommenda-
tion on this caution and warning, if you'll stand by i.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. How did the ETC pass
go this morning?
SPT I couldn't hear your question, Hank.
CC Roger. How did the ETC pass go this
morning?
SPT Okay. ETC pass, itself, went very well.
It was cloud covered up to the coastline of South America,
but of course we weren't taking data there. To the east of
the Andes, it was clear for about the first minute of the
passage, then there was a front that crossed the, I would
guess, approximately the eastern portion of Paraguay. And about
a minute of the pass was more or less covered over with
clouds. And then the last minute or two it cleared back up
again. So I would say 1 to 1-1/2 minutes during the middle
of the pass was cloud covered. And the rest was, oh, 3/lOths
or _ess coverage, and pretty good pass after that.
CC Roger. Good report. Thank you.
CC C DR, Houston. When it's convenient to
answer: Which cautions and warnings did you get? And are they
inhibited now?
CDR Got the OWS gas interchange. It went
off a couple of times and it is inhibited at the moment.
CC Are the mol sieve flows still enabled.
CDR Yes, and they seem to - haven't kicked
off lately.
CC And, CDR. General question in regard
to the cleaning you did on the heat exchanger there. Approximately
how long does it take to do that, now that you've gone through
the whole thing once? We need this for flight planning
purposes.
CDR That's about a i0 to 15-minute job.
CC O kay. We copy.
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CDR If they'll put that on the shopping list for

about a week from now, then I can check it then, and if it's
dirty, we can make it once a week, and if it's not well, I
won't clean it and let it build up for another week. And we
can see how long it takes and what a reasonable rate is.
CC Okay. That sounds llke a good plan, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS; Carnarvon at 58,
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 30 minutes
and 56 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range
of the Madrid tracking station as the spacecraft passes over
eastern Europe near the border of the Soviet Union. Our next
acquisition of signal 26 minutes and 45 seconds from now.
We'll be at Carnarvon, Australia. During this last pass
we got a number of reports of caution and warning on the
orbital workshop gas interchange. That caution and warning
part of the process of cleaning out the condensing heat
exchanger where Commander Alan Bean observed a good deal of
dust. They had made a previous investigation of that possibility
when they were having some difficulty with condensing heat
exchanger about a week ago. But, at that time, Bean indicated
he felt there were - that it looked pretty clean, it wasn't
much need for leaning. Today, he said that he had been
deceive_ in part. By looking at it, it looked all so uniform
that he hadn't realized that it was actually rather dusty.
So that has been cleaned out and Commander Bean indicated
earlier today he'd like that to become a regular procedure.
Also got a report from Science Pilot Owen Garrlott on the
operation of the earth terrain camera during a pass this morn-
ing that lasted about 3 minutes. The pass was from 13:24 to
13:27 Greenwich mean time_ as the spacecraft crossed South
America. One specific site of interest there is the site
of Paraguay where photography is expected to be used in a
mapping project. This is one of six Earth Resources passes
to be made over that. This pass was made in the solar inertial
mode, which means that the Skylab solar telescopes and electrical
panels were all directly aimed at the sun during the entire
pass, normally for the use of the Earth terrain camera, requires
a movement of the spacecraft into the Z-local vertical or
directly pointed toward the Earth. Because this was a very
short pass, it was made without maneuvering the spacecraft
and the Earth terrain camera was used at a slight angle to
the ground. Science Pilot indicated that he had noticed a
lot of clouds off the coast of South America, but when they
came in to South America, it was very clear for the first minute
or so of the pass; then they did run into about a minute to
a minute and a half of cloud cover in the middle and then
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there was some clear period at the end of the pass again. He
said he thought he had gotten very excellent pictures over
first part of Paraguay at least. This is Skylab Control. Our
next acquisition of signal 24 minutes and 39 seconds from now
at Carnarvon, Australia. It's 33 minutes and 18 seconds after
the hour.

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SL-III MC1745/I
Time: 10:57 CDT, 43/15:57 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 57 minutes

and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently within
range of the station at Carnarvon and we'll bring the line
up live for air-to-ground through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle,
Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canarvon and
Honeysuckle for 13 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. We were wondering if
you'd be amiable to running a CBRM back capacity check
this afternoon.
CDR I sure would.
CDR The answer's yes.
CC Okay, what - what we're thinking of
is starting the test at about 18:45, just prior to sunset,
and then you would have to start your continuous monitoring
at 5 minutes prior to sunrise, at about 20:45. And you've
got an ATM pass in there that ought to cover that.
CDR Okay, can you send it up on a pad?
CC Okay, will do it.
CDR Thank you.
CC And, CDR; Houston. Saw your request
from yesterday. We put together a Flight Plan for tomorrow,
and we'd like to run it by to make sure we haven't overkilled
it. We're running the ETC ops in the morning and it's going
to require a getup there about 10:45, which is about 15
minutes early, and we wondered how you felt about that. And
also, right now we have a late ATM pass that will run the
SPT about 30 minutes pass the normal go-to-sleep time. We're
wondering how you felt about all this.
CDR We think it's great; that's the kind of
plans we like. T_at's great.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Are we going to be running one or two
EREPs tomorrow?
CC Roger. We got an early morning ETC ops,
which is a solar inertial ETC pass over Africa. Then
we got back - to - back EREPs in the afternoon.
CDR Sounds good. I sure hope the weather
corporates. One other thing I'd mentioned I wondered if
it turned out all right. We're still continuing to do some
work during that science conference, aren't we?
CC That's affirmative. We'll be running
the APCS stability test during that.
CDR Okay, that's good. And what are the
other two fellows doing?
CC You got us there.
CC CDR, Houston. We've been looking at this
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schedule since we came on this morning regarding this

science conference, and we're sort of out of items to put
in there opposite that stability test. It's right after
the back-to-back so we can't have another momentum inhibit
so that sort of rules out S019. And we're - we've been
looking for any troubleshooting or housekeeping items
we can pick up for that period of time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Mila at 45.
CDR Okay, and if you come up with any -
if y'all got any updates to any checklists that you're
holding down there for a better time, that'd be a good time
to do it perhaps, put them in there.
CC Okay, we'll look at that, too.

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SL-III MC-1746/I
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9/8/73

CDR We'll try to think about anything else

we can think of up here that needs troubleshooting. We've
got most of it troubleshot at the moment. Even though some
of it isn't solved, as far as we know, we've done the proce-
dures.
CC Well, that's the problem we're facing
down here, AI, we're just running out of items to do.
CDR I'll tell you one thing that could help.
We've been sort of waiting for somebody - we still have this
problem of Earth observations, of not always knowing dimensions
so that we can look out the window and compare dimensions with
our eyes with visible sight. Maybe the thing to do is have
EREP come up with some canned dimensions of things that we
see from orbit that we don't change inside, so that we can
start a sort of (garble) and objects that we are seeing and
whether this is something known or something that is not known
and that sort of thing. We don't have a baseline, a way to
enlarge upon that particular branch of science.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 12 minutes
and 44 seconds Greenwich mean time. Last words from the space
station were lost there as we went out of range of the Honey-
suckle tracking station. Our next acquisition is 32 minutes
from now. At that time we will have acquisition at Merritt
Island in Florida. During this last pass there was some crew
discussion of early wake-up tomorrow. Tomorrow is officially
listed as a crew day off, however there has been a request
for additional activity and they in fact will be doing probably
more tomorrow than they have most of their average days. In-
cluded in tomorrow's :Flight plan at the present time are an
Earth terrain camera ])ass over northwest Africa scheduled for
early tomorrow morning. That will require the crew to get
up about 15 minutes early. They have also asked to have
additional work added to the period when they will be conducting
a science conference in the afternoon. One of the possibilities
for that would be a rate gyro temperature measurement to give
them additional data on the temperatures of the rate gyros.
At the present time they have not found any other things to
do to occupy that time for the Pilot and Science Pilot. That
early Earth resources pass, Earth terrain camera pass over
northwest Africa, may be scheduled for tomorrow morning but
it is possible that weather conditions there will force cancel-
ation. At the present time weather conditions over the United
States for today's Earth resources are also listed as marginal.
There is a heavy area of clouds in the midwest which apparently
would also block out some of the area around Michigan where
agricultural studies will be performed. Right now we're not
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certain whether or not that will be delayed or not, but the

Earth resources people are taking a look at the weather con-
ditions. Weather conditions in Mexico apparently are fairly
clear at this time_ and in western Texas where there are also
sites. As part of tomorrow's crew day off there will be a full
day of ATM activity at the solar telescopes and there will
also be two full Earth resources passes scheduled back-to-back
which is encouraging evidence that the battery capacity problem
discovered a couple of weeks ago is not any serious inhibition
to the performance of double Earth resources passes which do
require higher power levels. This is Skylab Control. It's
now 30 minutes to our next acquisition of signal, 15 minutes
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-1747/I
Time: 11:43 CDT, 43/16:43 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 44 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're just approaching acquisition of
signal at Merritt Island, a pass through Merritt Island
and Bermuda. And this pass should extend for about 12 minutes.
And we do have the llne up live for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Mila and Bermuda
for 9-1/2 minutes. And for info, we'll be doing an unscheduled
recorder dump at Bermuda.
CC And, CDR; Houston. We'd like to verify
that you did get a message number, general message 4326 this
morning, regarding the S055 test.
CDR We got it. I think the SPT has it. The
thing kicks off all the time. I can go get the message from
it and run it right now. Hold on.
CC CDR, Houston. If we could have the DAS,
we'll send you up a NAV update.
CDR (Garble). Okay. And I've got the thing.
I'ii perform the test in a minute when it kicks out.
CC A ii righty.
CC Okay, uUnderstand we've got the DAS.
And we'll be sending up the up-link.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. There goes the (garble). We'll
turn it off.
CC We see it.
CDR GMT is 16:56.
CC W e copy.
CC And CDR, the DAS is yours.
SPT Hello, Hank.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Hello_
SPT I was over recording on channel A here, I
guess,when you started your tape dump. Now does the stuff
that lwas putting on channel A get recorded on the ground or
do I need to start over?
CC Stand by i.
CC 1 don't think it went on, Owen. You'll
probably have to do it over.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Okay, Hank, tThat test is complete.
And the time's now 17 - correction, 16:53:30.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Our data dump is complete.
The recorder is yours.
PLT Hank, this is Jack. I wonder if some-
one could set up a phone call to my wife this evening, please.
CC O kay. We'll work that, Jack.
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PLT Okay, and Owen would llke to have the same

thing, also.
CC _ger. We copy.
PLT And I'm wondering if you had a chance to
look at the EREP TV yesterday and to evaluate it.
CC We'll check that out.

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sL-III MC1748/I
Time: 11:54 CDT, 43/16:54 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS. We'll be coming up at Madrid on the hour. And in
answer to your question, Jack, we've only seen a portion
of the TV, where we're trying to get it all to take a look
at it. What we have seen looks real good.
PLT 0kay, thanks.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 56 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently out
of range of the Bermuda tracking station. However, we are
crossing the North Atlantic and we'll come within range
of the antennas at Madrid in about 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
We'll keep the llne up llve for alr-to-ground through the
Madrid pass which will last a little over 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for
6-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hank, I got a question for the corellating
room relating to S063 operations this afternoon. It'll take
someone familiar with the experiment here, I expect. Frames
3, 4, 5, and 6; It aeks that they be performed as fast as
possible, time is critical at this. Now normally I have to
return this carriage mechanism beyond a lever before the
UV camera triggers again. Now if they're willing for me
to trigger these manually, I can expose them much more
rapidly but there will only be one visible camera frame
taken at the same time. And I would suggest that I take
frames 4, - well, actually, 3, 4, 5, and 6, all four manually,
by pressing the little button on the timer, with one frame
taken automatically in the visible to perform that. That
way I can get it done more quickly. And I wonder if they
agree with that procedure.
CC Okay, I'ii sure ask them that, 0 _en.
CDR Say, Hank, did anybody ever come up
with anything - the flight planners never come up with any-
thing worthwhile for me to do between the hours of 01:00 and
03:00 this evening? I'ii have my exercise done before lunch
here.
CC Roger. Did someone voice up to you
to dothe EREP tape transfer?
CDR That ought to be worth about I0 minutes.
CC Okay, we've got a more i_edlate problem
right now. We're scrubbing EREP due to weather. And we'll
go to the alternate flight plan and - and your part of the
alternate we're going to be unable to do because the VTR is
full and we won't get it dumped until, if all goes well, until
about 20:i0, which will only give you about 30 minutes to
do the TV inventory, but that's about the best we can do.
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We're looking right now for something else to do in that

period. During that period, however, we also planned to
run the CBRM BAT capacity check, housekeeping 60Y. And we're
sending up a pad on that.
CC That's 7OY.

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SL-III MC-1749/i
Time: 12:06 CDT 43,/17:06 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, Houston, i minute from LOS. Car-

narvon at 33.
CC SPT, Houston. As we're going over the
hill here, we'd like to correct your Flight Plan to delete
the Nu z update that you've got scheduled at 19:33.
SPT Okay. And that should be on the ATM sche-
dule, shouldn't it?
CC That' s affirmative.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 8 minutes and
36 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab has now gone out of
range of the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition
in 24 minutes and 14 seconds from now will be at Carnarvon,
Australia. During ;:his last pass the Flight Director, Charles
Lewis, asked the Capcom Hank Hartsfield to pass up a message
to the crew that the Earth Resources Experiment package pass
for this afternoon has been canceled. Cancellation took place
because of extremely poor weather conditions over most of the
sites which were over the United States. Of a total of 13 sites,
a substantial majority of those in the midwest US from Texas
to Michigan are now covered with clouds approximately 8 to
i0/i0 cloud cover over the area from Lubbock northeast across
Michigan. Because of that at least half of the mandatory
sites were eliminated and a substantial number of the desirable
sites were eliminated. And because of the poor cloud condi-
tions today they have canceled the EREP pass for this afternoon.
There are two Earth resources passes scheduled tomorrow. Both
of those also over the United States. And they are endangered
as well by the cloud[ cover should it continue to be as it is
today, rather heavy in the midwestern area. With the cancellation
of the EREP pass the flight plan has changed to an alternate
flight plan. That alternate flight plan of course calls for
ATM activities for one member of the crew, the Pilot Jack
Lousma. It also calls for a television inventory for Commander
Allan Bean as Capcom Hank Hartsfield explained. That television
inventory will not be possible, at least in the early part of
the available time. The time available runs from about 18:52
Greenwich mean time to about 20:39 Greenwich mean time. During
most of that period the television video tape recorder will
be filled with other material. There is presently about 19.3
minutes of time on the video tape recorder. That has to all
be dumped before the inventory can be started. The TV inventory
requires a full 30-minute load of the video tape recorder.
That won't become available until about i0 minutes after
20 hours Greenwich mean time, well through the period set
aside. Here there apparently was an oversight in the flight plan
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that was plannlng for the alternate to an EREP pass today.

ATM activity will be conducted by Pilot Jack Lousma and
the Science Pilot will be working on housekeeping activities
during that period of time. This is Skylab Control. Our
next acquisition of signal will be in 20 minutes, 21 minutes
and 37 seconds from now. It is now ii minutes and 24 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-1750/I
Time: 12:32 CDT, 43/17:32 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 32 minutes

Greenwich mean tlme_ presently coming up on Carnarvon tracking
station in Australia and a pass through Carnarvon - and
Honeysuckle, Australia tracking station to last almost
15 minutes. During this last pass we did get the information
that the Earth Resources Experiment package overflight
scheduled to go over the United States later this afternoon
has been cancelled. In place of that there will be at least -
for certain there will be a solar study conducted by Jack Lousma
at the ATM control and display panel and a battery capacity
test on CBRM number 10 by A1 Bean. We have acquisition of
signal at Carnarvon and we have the line up live for air-
to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 14-1/2 minutes.
CC And, SPT; Houston. In regard to your
question on the SO63, we've researched that. And frames 3
through 6 can each be 30 seconds apart. We want you to use the
standard procedures.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you copy the answer
to S063 question?
SPT No, I didn't, Hank. I didn't know we
were in ground contact. I was over on channel A recording
some other stuff again.
CC Okay. Sorry. We researched that and
frames 3 through 6 can be 30 seconds apart. I guess that
pad really doesn't mean as fast as it sounds there.
So we want you to use standard procedures.
SPT Okay.
CC And also, SPT, on your ATM pass, yo_
got coming up here on the next daylight cycle, we would llke
to move the TV down-llnk that's scheduled at time remaining
of 29 minutes to a time remaining of 9 minutes. And that'll
give you - You'll also have a downlink time of 7 minutes
available there. And this is to aid us in getting the VTR
dumped over stateside. That moves it to Madrid from the States.
SPT Okay. Sounds fine. And I'll Just wait
until you give me a call. And whenever you call me, I'll give
you what I've got.
CC Okay. That's good.

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Time: 12:44 CDT, 43/17:44 GMT
9/8/73

CC S kylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Texas at 17 with a data
recorder dump. And, CDR, looks like a possibility we may
have VTR available for you at 20:10 and the latter part
of this time is made available due to canceling EREP. And
there's a possibility we may be able to get some of that
dump and allow some more of the TV inventory to be done
later this evening.
CDR Okay, that sounds good.
PAO This is Skylab Mission Control at
17 hours 49 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've passed out
of range of the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next
acquisition of signal 27 minutes and 51 seconds from now
will be at Texas for a pass over the United States and
Bermuda tracking stations. This afternoon in place of the
Earth Resources pass that has been canceled because of the
heavy cloud cover over the midwestern United States, Jack
Lousma will be working at the solar investigations at the
ATM console while Alan Bean, the Commander of Skylab mission,
will be performing a test on the capacity of CBRM number i0,
one of the charger battery regulator modules of the ATM
solar array. The test on battery 10 will be the third
performed on that CBRM. The purpose of it is to obtain
additional information based on the actual batteries in
flight. Data from ground tested batteries has not proven
useful forpredlcting the behavior of the batteries on Skylab.
They have also found that there's been some increase in the
voltage which - aboard this - aboard the CBRM's on the space-
craft. That voltage increase has given an additional power
availability of about 2 or 3 percent and it is a statistically
significant, although it's not a tremendously large increase
in the power they do believe that there may be a continouing
increase and the test on CBRM i0 will give them some additional
information on the present performan=e of those batteries.
Also scheduled for this afternoon is Skylab's electric furnace
being used for the first time. Jack Lousma will insert
three thin capsules to be heated to high temperatures in the
furnace this afternoon. Capsules contains materials that
don't mix on the surface of the Earth. In the absence of
gravity, however, they may form new space alloys with unusual
properties. Today's experiment is one of eleven to be performed
with the furnace, and it was originally scheduled to be
performed on the third and final SSkylah mission. Such tests
may lead to manufacturing facilities in orbit about the
Earth in future generations. This is Skylab Control at
51 minutes and 5 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-1752/I
Time: 13:16 CDT 43/].8:16 GMT
9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 16 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're presently about 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking station. This
pass through Texas, Merritt Island, and Bermuda will be an
extended one lasting about 17 minutes. We have the line up
live for air-to-ground through the tracking stations over
the United States and Bermuda.
CC S kylab, Houston. Stateside for 16-1/2 min-
utes.
CC And Skylab, as a reminder we'll be dumping
the voice recorder here at Texas.
CT Texas comm tech, Houston comm tech, net i.
CT Texas comm tech, read you loud and clear.
CT Roger.
SPT Hello, Houston. How do you read?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear now.
How me?
SPT Okay, reading you better now. And you were -
dropped out there for about 2 minutes at the beginning of this
pass. And some information for the ATM science room. We
have a fairly interesting coronal trascient in progress on the
northeast limb, correction, northwest limb, about 070. And
I picked it up right at the beginning of this orbit and I
would say it has moved about 2 or 3/10 of a solar radii in
the last 15 minutes. Now we're running building block 17
right now. And you might want to consider taking a couple
of minutes of real time TV downlink during the pass here, Hank,
in order to get some of that information on the ground. And
we'll of course continue in extended standard or some similar
mode for the remainder of this orbit. Over.
CC We copy.
SPT It looks as if the generating region may
very well be behind the llmb. And I think that is perhaps active
region 7, I believe is around the llmb now. Active region i0,
still on the disk, does not look unusual. In the XUV MON
there is a rather bright source clearly behind the llmb rather
than on the disk. And that bright source from behind the llmb
might very well have the thing that produced this transclent.
CC Owen, we think this is coming from active
region 7.
SPT I concur.
SPT Have ther been any ground-base reports of
this trasclent in progress in the last hour?
CC We're checking that now.
CC We haven't had any reports as of yetj Owen.
SPT Okay. Some loop structure is visible, and
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the loop has expanded somewhat and the briEhtness has changed,
the brightness through this loop structure. The loop itself
at the moment extends out between 2 and 3 solar radii from the
center of the Sun. That would put it i to 2 solar radii above
the limb. And I got a couple of Polaroid photographs which
show very definite changes in brightness as well as some ex-
pansion of the loop over a 15-minute interval.
CC SPT, Houston. We've already started our
VTR dump here stateside. And we'll wait until Madrid as
scheduled and pick up the TV.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. When did you say you observed
the transcient starting?
SPT Right at the beginning of the orbit. I
think we started data taking just about 17:57 Zulu, plus or
minus a minute or so. And that was within a minute or so
of the ESR. I took a quick look at the active regions at
the beginning of this orbit and then went Sun center and
took a look at the corona, and it was immediately apparent
that there had been some changes, and that that coronal transcient
was probably in progress at that time. So I started taking
data at about 17:57.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT 82A might think about a single long exposrue
at this stage. There does appear to be quite a bit of bright-
ness above the limb from the XUV MON.
CC We copy. We'll get back with you.
CC CDR, Houston. The message on the bat capacity
check is onboard. And that will need to be - you'll need to
start that prior at Sunset this pass.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. We'd llke to get 82A ON,
SHORT WAVELENGTH , one 80-second exposure, 80 seconds.
SPT Okay, that's 80 seconds. Good enough.
CC That's affirmative.

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SL-III MC-1753/I
Time: 13:28 CDT, 43/18:28 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Thirty seconds to LOS.

Madrid at 37.
SPT Okay, Hank. How about at Madrid giving
us a run down on Fredo's condition, please.
CC Say, again.
SPT How about giving us a rundown on Fredo's
status at the Madrid, please.
CC Okay. Will do it.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're out of range of the Bermuda
tracking station. However, we're about 2 minutes and
17 seconds from acquisition of signal at Madrid. And we do
have the llne up for that pass at Madrid. That pass over
Europe will last about 7 minutes and 37 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Madrid for
7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Tell me when you're configured for some
down-llnk TV.
CC Okay, Owen. We're configured, except
that you need to put your video switch over on one of the
markers.
SPT Okay, they should begin then.
CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know how much
you received on Fredo before, but he's continuing to improve.
His face and neck, which received minor 2nd-degree burn,
has healed nicely. And his right arm is almost healed. It's
too early to say if there's going to be any skin grafting
required on his legs, but the picture looks better with each
day. And he's having visitors now and his lungs are all
clear.
PLT Yeah, we're sure glad to hear that, Hank.
We haven't heard in a while and we're glad to hear that good news.
I presume he's still in the hospital. Is there any forecast
as to how long he'll be there?
CC Yes, he's still in the hospital, Jack.
We're not too sure how much longer it's going to be. l'm
sure they're going to continue to watch his legs for awhile
before they let him out.
PLT Okay. Well, I'm sure somebody will be
going down there to visit him soon, or also call him on the
telephone or something. We'd just llke him to know that
we're pulling for him and we're glad he's doing better.
CC Okay. We'll sure relay that message.
SPT Once you get a chance to see this WLC
video playback from Madrid, Hank. It's not going to look
too spectacular because the better part of the transient
now has moved off the scope over this 30-minute interval -
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40-minute interval. So you can probably see some change

in the range structure, which is sort of the remnants of what
is left behind the transient. And most of the transient is
probably now out beyond 4-solar radii.
CC We copy.

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SL-I II MC1754/I
Time: 13:41 CDT, 43/18:41 GMT
9/8/73

CC CDR, Houston. Just a reminder; somewhere

around now you ought to be starting on the bat capacity check.
SPT Do you know the setup that, Hank? You
just wait until sunset to turn off that charger?
CC You better get the checklist out and
take a look at it, I think there's a check you want to do
before you do that.
SPT Okay.
CC Prior to sunset we want to check a few
things.
CDR What'd you say, Hank?
CC kay, prior to sunset here you're goin B
to have to run a reg check. That's on page 217A of the
checklist as we called out in the message. And then the
reg is cut off prior to the next sunrise.
CDR Roger. I ran that check about 3 minutes
ago.
CC Okay, you're way ahead of us.
CDR I took the reg off, and then I put the
reg back on. Everything worked great.
CC Okay, real good. And also something
else you might do if you get a little spare time here. We
looked at our drawings here and we've discovered that there's
an inlet screen adjacent to panel 234 there in the STS,
that's that MDA OWS S select valve. And we can't find any
place in housekeeping where it's ever called out to clean
this screen. If you get time you might take a look at that
screen and see if it needs cleaning. And you can't remove
it but there may be something you can do with the vacuum
cleaner there. And that, we feel, if it is clogged up may be
influencing our duct flow.
CDR Okay, now, is this the screen that is
shaped Just exactly like the duct it's on, so that it's
sort of like having a hole in the duct except it's covered
with screen? Because we see that one all the time and keep
it clean. Or is it one that's actually normal to the airflow?
CC No, it's the one that's looks like it's
part of the pipe Just as you described it.
CDR Yeah, we keep that cleaned all the time,
Hank.
CC Okay, we - we thought you might.
CC And, Skylab. We're I minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 02:40.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 46 minutes
and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently out
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Time: 13:41 CDT, 43/18:41 GMT
9/8/73

of range of the Madrid tracking station as the Skylab passes

over the Eastern Mediterranean . Good deal of discussion
during the last pass over the United States and over Madrid.
Science Pilot Owen Garriott, who's been at the ATM Control
and Display panel for approximately an hour, reporting a
coronal transient at - in the northwest portion of the Sun,
northwest being the upper right hand corner of the Sun as
you look at it from the Earth. This transient or short-llved
event in the corona or upper atmosphere may have come from
a bright source behind the Sun, Garriott reported. The
ground indicates they believe it's active region 7 although
it has not yet been seen by any ground observatories. Part
of the problem being that coronal events are difficult
to see from the ground where the atmosphere does tend to
disturb the rays of light. The Skylab does have superior
equipment for observing coronal events, including the
white light coronagraph. Approximate time of the event
was 17:57 Greenwich mean time, or about 12:57 central
daylight time. Among the things reported by Owen Garrlott
was that there is loop structure visible in the corona at
levels of i to 2 solar radii above the limb. That is to say,
traveling out several hundred thousand miles above the
edge of the Sun, and that the loops did expand over a
period of about 15 minutes. He noticed a brightness in
the extreme ultraviolet monitor that he has on board and
suggested that perhaps we'd like to dump TV live over the
United States. That was not possible because we already
were in the process of dumping television from the video
tape recorder, and those two things are mutually exclusive.
However, it was possible to do that live TV at Madrid where
it was dumped there. It will be returned to the United
States after a reasonably short period of time. Also at
the U.S. station there was instructions - instructions
were given to Garriott to run the 82A experiment which is
used for extreme ultraviolet photography. That extreme
ultraviolet long exposure should show some of the brlghting
in the upper levels of the atmosphere. At Madrid they did
do a white light coronagraph downlink, although Garriott
reported that most of the transient had now gone beyond
the so - the 4 solar radii limit of the instrument. In other
words it had passed out into space well beyond a million
miles and was no longer in range of the instrument for
the most part. And Bean - Alan Bean, the Commander of
the mission was reminded to perform the capacity test -
begin the capacity test on CBRM number i0. This is a battery
that has been tested twice previously. The test should show
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whether there is a - indeed a voltage increase that's steady

or possibly even increasing. That increase in voltage does
allow greater amount of power to be utilized from the
battery during EREP passes andother times in dark period of
the orbit. Also scheduled for this afternoon during the -
what should have been an EREP pass now cancelled because
of weather conditions over the United Statess Owen Garriott
will be performing some addltlonal housekeeping operations
while the Pilot is occupying himself at the ATM Control and
Display panel. Following that, Science Pilot is doing a
operation using the S063; that will be conducted with a
corresponding aircraft flight in the similar area of the
globe. And also this afternoon the operation of the electric
furnace_ the multipurpose electric furnace. The first time
that's been used on Skylab and one of several times possibly
that it will be operated during this mission. Origlnally
the multipurpose electric furnace was not to have been
used untll the flnal Skylab mission. This is Skylab Control.
We're now 33 minutes and 50 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal. It's 50 minutes and 18 seconds after the hour.

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9/8/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 23 minutes

and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now within range
of the Honeysuckle tracking station. And we'll have live
air-to-ground, the period of alr-to-ground is only going to
be about a minute and 20 seconds through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston with you for just about
a minute here through Honeysuckle.
SPT Hank, I presume that ATM science room would
prefer us to continue in building block 17 for the next orbit
here rather than picking up on the EREP alternate. That's
the thing that Jack was planning on doing, I think.
SPT One other thing, Hank. The H-alpha door
did not open in time. We've got a white flag indication.
I'ii stand by to do to it what ever you want.
CC We copy.
CC A nd in regard to your question, Owen, use
your judgement.
SPT Thank you. We'll stay with building block
17.
CC And for the CDR, there is an M487 message
on board that could be done. And we'll be coming up on
Goldstone at 54.
CDR Okay. What is it, Hank; 487 what?
CC It's I-A. I think it's taking some noise
level measurements around the spacecraft.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 26 minutes and
15 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range of
the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station. The space-
craft is presently traveling just south of the island of New
Zealand. Next acquisition of signal 27 minutes and 18 seconds
from now. It will be at Goldstone tracking station in California.
This is Skylab Control at 26 minutes 33 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-1756/i
Time: 14:5.3 CDT, 43/19:53 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 19 hours

53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within acquisition
of the Goldstone station now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 16 minutes.
CC And PLT, Houston. If you haven't already
done so, we recommend that you run aperture door 1 malfunction
procedure in ATM malf hook, that's on page 14-3 and for
information the H-alpha 2 door is on the secondary motor at
the present time.
PLT I didn't get all of your transmission, Hank.
Repeat the first part of it, please?
CC Roger. If you haven't already done so,
we recommend aperture door 1 HALF that's in your ATM HALF
procedures on page 14-3 and for info the H-alpha 2 door is
on the secondary motor.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC And PLT, whenever it's convenient, could
you give us a read out on the BATT i0 volts?
PLT Yeah. 3-31 volts, Hank, 31.
CC Roger, copy. 31.
SPT Are you still with us Hank?
CC That's affirmative for another 13 minutes.
SPT Oh, plenty good. Just a brief transmission
here, we were looking again at these polaroid pictures and
it looks llke the top of the arch has moved Just about a half
a solar radius. And about 30 minutes.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT That'll be something like 200 kilometers
per second.
CC Roger, we copy. And CDR, Houston. We've
got two EREP passes scheduled tomorrow beck-to-back. And our
Flight Plan rule is 75 minutes minimum time between. We're
going to have 72 minutes, which is a little slower than
normal. And in addition, we're going to require tape load
between passes. And I don't know how long it takes you to do
that. But do you think that'll work out?
CDR Work out real well. The man that's operating
the VTS, really doesn't have a heck of a lot to do between
runs except look at the site book. And we can look at the
site book tonight and we'll have time tomorrow, wetll have
him change the tape recorder. So that won't be any trouble
at all.
CC Okay. And do you have a feel for
however long it is taking now to do a transfer and load?
CDR 15 minutes, maximum if you clean it too.
And by the way, when we mention - I meant to mention this. We
haven't been finding any sort of dirty petrol or is there
anything like that?
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We've cleaned them everytime, but there's just hardly any

dirt or grim or anything like that on any of the rollers in
the whole tape recorder. So it must of a have been SL-2
tapes that was given them so much trouble. Because ours are
very very clean.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR No, I've been thinking about asking the
flight planners to - cut down the VTS operator's prep time,
because he really doesn't have much to do anymore since the
alignment isn't in there. The C&D operator's is Just about
correct at the moment. He's still got some pads in case
something doesn't check out. But the VTS is awful loose.
I'd Just go ahead and leave it llke it is though because I
don't think they've got anything else to put in there. Even
if we did cut it down.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay, we'll be able to cut that tomorrow,
no trouble.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
CDR Hank, did I tell you that the battery
depletion test started at 19:53?
CC Negative, but we'll take that.
CDR 19:53.
PLT Hank, we've been continuing to take
extended standard in building block 17, and we'll continue to
do so on this rev. And I'm kind of wondering what you'd like
us to do next rev. The transient is no longer visable on our
scope although I recognize that you can see a little farther
than our scope is able to see with photographs.
CC Roger, we'll check on that right now,
Jack.
CC PLT, Houston. We would like for you
to continue the extended standard the rest of this orbit.
We concur with you. We think it going on the film even though
you don't see it. And we'll pick up with a pad on the next
orbit.
PLT Okay. Understand. We'll pick up the
normal pad on the next rev.
CC T hat's correct.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to verify the
time there. Are you sure you don't mean 18:53 that you
started to test?
CDR You're right, that's what I mean. Thanks.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. Have you had any success
for the H-alpha 2 door?
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PLT Yes, I ran down through the procedure, and

the door opened on step 3. And we're still on secondary motor.
CC Roger, we copy.

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SL-III MC-1757/I
Time: 15:06 CDT, 43/20:06 GMT
9/8/73

CC CDR, Houston, we have the VTR completely

rewound and cleaned and it's available for your use for
your inventory job and you have a full 30 minutes. However,
if you're not going to be able to do it all it will help us
on our tape management to - be only in about 15 minutes now.
SPT Hank, please repeat if you're not going
to use it all then what?
CC Okay, what we need to do is it will help
us in our management to you - if you can't do it all now do
about half of it now and then we'll try to dump some and
then we'll pick up the rest of it later this evening prior
to 02:15 and then that will allow for it to get dumped and get
ready for tomorrow.
SPT Understand, A1 says he'll do it that way.
CC Skylab, HoUston we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 14 with the
recorder dump.
SPT Okay, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has
loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in about 3-1/2
minutes. During this pass over the continential United
States, A1 Bean was advised that the flight planners are
scheduling a back-to back earth resources pass tomorrow.
He responded that would be no problem. Today's earth resources
pass was cancelled because of heavy cloud cover over
virtually all the test sites, continued Apollo Telescope
Mount operations battery checkout has been substituted for
today's EREP pass. Bean was also advised that the video
tape recorder is now clear and has been rewound from the
ground is available for his use in the TV inventory. This
will be a television record for the Skylab-IV crew showing
them where items are located and stored by this crew on the
space station. Skylab is about 2 minutes away from Madrid
now. We'll continue to keep the llne up and monitor live
at Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 min-
utes.
CC Skylab Houston, we're going LOS. We'll be
coming up on Honeysuckle at 01 and a reminder to CDR, he checks
his CBRM 5 minutes to sunrise.
CDR Say that again, Hank.
CC Just a reminder for the CDR, that the
back cap capacity check need to be started again 5 minutes
prior sunrise.
CDR Oh, okay, I've been watching it all the
time.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Madrid has loss
of signal now. Honeysuckle will acquire in 36 minutes. At
20 hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1758/I
TIME: 16:00 CDT 43/21:00 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours

Greenwich mean time. Standing by through the tracking
station at Honeysuckle, Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle
for 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Got down to 28.1 volts but never
did kick off, so it's sure to go early the next dark
period.
CC Roger. We copy, AI.
CC And for info, Skylab, we're sending
up a message on the EREP tape transfer.
CDR I might mention, the way we've been
working it, whenever we've finished up a tape and it was
completed, then we took it over and put it in A-9. And
that's the way we've been working, and that way we never
got them mixed up.
CC We copy.
SPT Hank, a couple of days ago, we were
concerned about pointing angles out this wardroom window.
And one thing I related to that is I was wondering if this
SO63 visible camera mount, which is sitting on a bracket
across that window and is angled, happens to be pointed
parallel to the minus Z axis of the spacecraft. You might
ask corollary.
CC That's affirmative SPT. It is supposed
to be parallel to the minus Z.
SPT Okay. That's probably pretty accurately
calibrated and it does angle a little bit more away from
the normal to the window than one would guess just by eye.
So it's possibly misleading just to look out the window
and try to get an idea which way the minus Z axis is. This
bracket makes a pretty good reference, could be used to
establish more accurately what really is minus Z.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about LOS.
Hawaii at 21.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Honeysuckle station. Hawaii will pick up
Skylab in 14 minutes. Pilot - Science Pilot Owen Garriott
now performing the S063 experiment, the ultraviolet airglow
horizon photography. This experiment utilizes cameras in
both the scientific airlock and the wardroom windows.
Flight Director Chuck Lewis estimates that his change of
shift news briefing in the JSC news center will be at 4:30
p.m. central daylight time. 4:30 p.m. central daylight
time for the change of shift news conference with Flight
Director Chuck Lewis. Approximately 23 minutes from this
time. At 21 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1759/I
Time: 16:20 CDT, 42/21:20 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours

20 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion through the Hawaii station.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab, we're AOS
through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SC (Music).
CC My kind of music.
CDR Thought so. (Music).
CC Say AI, could you give us an idea of
what your plans are for the TV inventory?
CDR Okay, let me look at my plans at the
moment. Right now I'm hung up at night watching this
battery but I'm suspicious in what's going to occur is it
going to trip - not trip off but the flag will come up and
it will reach 27 volts tonight. Probably the flag in about
I0 minutes after dark, let me look.
CC Okay, we concur with that AI, and we do
of course want you to continue to monitor that so we do not
get a trip off.
CC Our only concern about the TV was trying to
figure out where we were going to be able to dump it and so forth
for tonight and no sweat if you don't get it in we'll try
to work it in for tomorrow something of that nature.
CDR Well it looks to me the logical time
to do it I don't know how to fix your schedule is after I
finish M092-93, I've already done my PT for today so I've
got from about 24:45 all the way to 3 and at'd be a perfect
time to do it if it's available. Other than that I don't
- I don't see much time.
CC We're taking a look at that, AI.
CDR (Garble) MO92-93 til later and do it sometime
around M092-93 time, either those - it looks like the
schedule full until then is the problem.
CC Okay; we copy that. We'll take a look
at it with our dump sites and give you a recommendation
back and break Jack if you could let us know what's going on
with the 518, M575 ops, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Okay, I was Just standing by to do that
Bob, I got 557 started at 21:05, and the temperature on
cold i was reading 19 degrees centigrade and the pressure
was - Just a minute, I'iI look it up, it was 0.i, however,
I noticed now that after having been on for 20 minutes the
pressure is up around 3 and I've got the bulkhead valve is
vent and the work chamber valve in open. And another thing
I noticed was that the furnace cool light which was on It
finally went out about 5 minutes ago. But the temperatures
on it read 21 degrees and I thought that was suppose to stay
on until 46. So that's the status right now, Bob.
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CC Okay, those first readings you gave us

were for that 2105, 19 degrees centigrade and the reading
of 0.i understand the pressure nows is 3.0 and reading 21
degrees.
SPT Yes sir, and the furnace cool light went
out at about 21 as opposed to -well that option would
be 46 but maybe that on the cool down as oppose to the warm
up side.
CC Okay; we copy we'll take a look at it.
SPT Okay, thank you. And I'm standing by
to give you the readings at 2 and 3 hours.
CC Roger.
CC Okay, Skylab we're 30 seconds from LOS.
See you again at Goldstone in about 3 minutes at 21:30 and
we'll try to have a recommendation regarding the TV inventory
at that time.
CDR Okay.
SPT And the filament pressure is reading
4.0 psi now.
CC Copy ; 4.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Hawaii has loss
of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about a minute and
a half. However, Flight Director Chuck Lewis is on his way
to the News Center for the change-of-shlft news conference.
We will tape the Goldstone pass, play that back after the
end of the news conference. We'll take the line down now
for the change-of-shlft conference which should begin within
the next few minutes in the JSC News Center. At 21 hours
28 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1760/1
Time: 16:42 CDT, 42/21:42 GTM
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 21 hours 42 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab nearly was in range of the Bermuda
station now. We'll play back the Goldstone/Texas pass we
acquired about 4-1/2 minutes worth tape during that pass.
We'll play that back as soon as possible. We are up llve now
for the Bermuda pass. Bermuda should have acquisition in next
few minutes.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're back with you for
5-1/2 minutes through Bermuda.
CC And for PLT. Jack your concern about that
light going out, it is not connected with the cold temp that
you were reading. It's connected with the hot temp and it's
suppose to be - go out at 46 degrees and it's now reading about
160 degrees. So we assume it was working satisfactory.
PLT Okay, Bob. Thank you. Apparently then it goes
on early and comes later than- it is apparently suppose to come
on according to my write up - yet the 46 degrees on the cool
down cycle and - at centigrade and it just must trip out in
earller - cooler temps are going up.
CC Yeah, but that 46 degrees is the hot temp
and what your been reading is the cold side temp.
PLT Okay, that's not in the checklist.
CC Okeydoke, also your concern awhile ago
regarding the pressure, our indication is that - when you are
in the vent position that we can anticipate that the pressure
going up as high as 7 times 10 to the minus 3 (garble). So
perhaps what you were saying awhile ago was not - was not unusual.
PLT Okay. That's good (garble) I Just
notice that it was suppose to be less .5 when he started and
I'm not sure that it wasn't suppose to stay there or that
it wasn't okay to go up above tha. Apparently it is (garble)
let the pressure go up. Is that right?
CC It is, that's affirm. The normal outgassing
occurring will cause the pressure going up.
PLT Okay. Currently the valves are in the
open position and I'll wait for your call to change them.
CC Roger. That's fine. We'll go ahead and
leave it there.
PLT Thank you, sir.
CC S kylab, Houston. 1 minute from LOS, see
you 4 minutes at - Canary at 21:52, 21:52.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has had
loss of slgnal. Canaries will pick up Skylab in about 2-1/2
minutes. There's not enough time between these two stations
to play back the tape. We'll play that tape back after loss
of signal at Canary. We'll continue to keep the llne up
and monitor llve for acquisition through the Canary Islands
station. Skylab should be within range of that station in
about 2 minutes.
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9/8/73

CC $ kylab, Houston. We're AOS once more through

Canary for 9 minutes.
CC And for the CDR, whlle your setting there
monitoring your voltage and your talk back. We've got a
question we'd llke to ask you, please sir?

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SL-III MC-1761/I
Time: 16:53 CDT, 43/21:53 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, if you're reading me understand

that our station is copying you but I'm not so stand by i and
we'll see if we can get comm squared away.
CC Okay, Skylab let me see if we can pick
you up now. How do you read me?
CDR How you hear now, Bob?
CC Okay, we're back with you AI, thank you
very much. Got a question for you if you got a moment?
CDR Yeah, go ahead, plenty of time.
CC Okay, we're in the process of working
up the 7-day forecast down here and one item came up concerning
EVA, a little checkout that we want you to run, and our question
is do we plan nominal crewmen for the EVA, that is, is Jack
going to be ED-3?
CDR Let me give you an answer on that later
today. I'ii check with Owen and Jack and we'll talk about
it and I'ii let you know later today.
CC Okay, there's no big rush on it, we were
just kind of curious. It helps us out making up this message.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hello, Bob are you with us for a couple
of minutes?
CC Yes sir, Owen.
SPT Okay, I got some good UV photographs I
believe coming across the San Francisco Bay area. But there
is one problem with the visible camera that I want to
discuss with you. The visible camera is mounted in the
wardroom window with a cable up to the tracking mechanism
in the SAL. Now there's a mlcro-switch in the SAL that sends
down a little sync signal to the camera. Apparently it functioned
normally for about 3 times. I then found it did not photograph
for abogt the last 2 or 3 sequences. I found that after that
I needed to recock it manually before it would work right.
I gave it one more automatic sequence from the trigger of the
SAL which drove the motor works normally. The next time the
trigger from the SAL only opened the shutter and I presume
it closed at 102 50th - at 1250th but the motor drive never
drove to the next frame and I had to recock it again manually
before it would work. And so I'm a little puzzled about what
sort of a malfunction will send the trigger to the camera, the
shutter will actuate, but the motor drive will not drive to
the next frame. Over.
CC Okay; we copied all that, Owen. And we'll
look into it and see if we can solve it.
CDR Looks llke the batt is right at 28 volts
right now.
CC Okay, and that - we're copying 28 also.
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CDR And we Just got abatt barber pole

so I'ii go over there and do the thing.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay, charger ON, reg OFF.
CDR I might be able to get about i0 minutes
or so on the VTR. I'ii give it a go right now.
CC Okay, AI. And - -
CC SPT, Houston, can you verify for us the
countdown counter reading on that Nikon visible camera, please?
SPT Yes_ I started it out at 60. We had
just changed the film here earlier in the afternoon and
it counted down to 57 when it should have counted down for
a total of 7 exposures. I then recocked it and took
another one with the trigger from the sound and then tried
to take the second one and again it wouldn't drive and
then I recocked so that leaves it on about 55 now.
CC Okay; we copied that. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS now. We'll have you again at Honey-
suckle in 36 minutes, at 22:37, 22:37. We'll be doing a
data voice recorder dump there.

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SL III MC-1762/I
TIME: 17:01 CDT 43/23:01 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours

2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Canaries has loss of signal
with Skylab. The next station will be Honeysuckle in 34-1/2
minutes. We have 4-1/2 minutes in tape from the Goldstone
Texas stations during the last pass over the United States.
We'll play that for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
States for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay Bob, and one thing I noticed on
the 557 is that the pressure is going up, as you know, and
maybe the mistake is that we're leaving that bulkhead
vent valve in VENT. It wasn't open when we began pumpdown,
and then they had to go to vent as soon as you turned the
thing on, and maybe that's not enough to relieve the
pressure without it going to OPEN. What do you think?
CC I'ii find out what corollary thinks.
CC Okay, Jack. We'd llke you to go ahead
and go OPEN now. We'll probably ask you to go to vent
before you go to sleep. And we'd llke you to verify that
the telemetry switch is in position i.
PLT Okay, I'll do that.
CC And CDR, if you got a moment, I'ii
give you our recommendations regarding the TV inventory.
CDR Go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger AI. On the TV inventory, we'd
like to go ahead and keep your 92/93 run where it is, and
following that, you can give us up to about 15 to 18 minutes
of your TV inventory if it's done prior to 02:25. And
that's when we've got a Goldstone acquisition. If at 02:25,
you will have the VTR rewound for us, we'll go ahead and
start dumping what you've recorded for us. But we can take
about 15 to 18 minutes of the TV inventory tonight.
CDR Okay. And will 15 to 18 completely fill
the tape so it will stop running, and then I'll just com-
pletely rewind it. Is that correct?
CC Yeah. It's rewound at zero right now.
So really - I guess - somehow you need to sort of keep
track of how much time you're putting on there for us if
you could, please. Just sort of estimate about 15 minutes
worth and that'll give us plenty of time so that we can dump
it tonight.
CDR Okeydoke. In other words, that's the
only dump window you have tonight, is that 15 to 18 minutes.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay Bob, the pressure, when I looked
at it was 7 times I0 to the minus 3 (garble), and as soon
as I opened the bulkhead valve, it opened. It came down
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TIME: 17:01 CDT 43/213:01 GMT
9/8/73

immediately. And right now it's reading about 2.4 times

i0 to the minus 3 and you're probably watching on the TM.
I don't know if you have that parameter or not.
CC We're taking a look at it, Jack.
Unfortunately, we don't have pressure down here, so you
give us the update, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Say it again your last, please?
CC I said we did not have chamber pressure
down here so you reading it for us helps us out.
PLT Okay. It looks llke it's come down to 2.4
and 2.5 and it's going to stay there for awhile. I'ii
check it after I do a little exercise.
CDR Bob, you still there?
CC That's affirm, AI. We got you for
about another 45 seconds.
CDR Okay. Well, I gather if this battery
gives an indication of time to put it back on the line
early in the night. I can put something on this night
period. Is that correct?
CC Don't understand your question.
CDR Well, the reason I can't put it on this night
period is I'm standing here watching the battery. If the
battery gets down to 27 volts or more than likely gets a
barber pole, then I'll put the battery back on, you know,
take the battery off, and then put - do the procedure. The
question is - -
CC Okay - -
CDR If that occurs early in the night, can I put
some on the VTR tonight?
CC Rog. Understand, AI, and that' s
affirmative. You can.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We'll see you over Bermuda at
21:42 .
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
the tape that was accumulated during the Flight Directors
news conference. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in 29-1/2
minutes. At 22 hours 7 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1763/I
TIME: 17:36 CDT 43/22:36 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours

36 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition of Skylab through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Honeysuckle.
Doing a data voice recorder dump.
CDR Okay, and I put about 15 or 20 minutes
or something on there. I talked as long as I could before
daylight came.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CDR Okay. And then later on tonight I'll try to
put some of that other on there. I'ii go to the upper deck
and get as much as I can by the time 18 minutes is used up
and I'ii halt it and finish it tomorrow.
CC A1, we're going to probably have a problem.
That 18 minutes was really applicable. It's, you know, con-
sidering the whole dump situation. We'll have to look at it
now and see how much we can get down, and see whether we can
get any more on there later or not.
CDR Oh, okay. Well, I got the MDA part done,
so I'ii do the rest whenever you say.
CC Roger.
CDR It doesn't have a lot of class, but I think
it might help Get.
CC I'm sure it will.
SPT Bob, you with us?
CC Yes Sir.
SPT I found on the back of Nikon 01, that
the little rotating lever, which rotates to Z for closed, has
not been rotated all the way to close. Now that might have
resulted in the film dragging a little bit, and I want to
take a few more exposures manually with Nikon 01, and see if
that clears it up. I've not taken any yet. But it is possible
that that'll be the explanation for the problem and I'ii let
you know later.
CC Okay. Appreciate your letting us know
that.
CC And Owen, one recommendation we might
also have is that perhaps you ought to change the battery
in that Nikon 01. That - one of the indications that it gets
when it - when the battery starts to go down is to act sort
of like that one that you reported today.
SPT Okay. Well if I have any more trouble
with it and if the drive seems to operate normally manually,
then I'ii change out the battery and see if that helps the
situation any, and I'ii give it a good try with the manual
operation before we use it on S063 again. And I may be able
to find that battery for you. I think either you or Dick -
SL III MC-1763/2
TIME: 17:36 CDT 43/22:36 GMT
9/8/73

It wasn't you, I don't: believe - but, I'm still looking for

that timer battery that I swapped out about 4 weeks ago. I
think I know where I can find it.
CC _ Roger. We asked about it. And F509
was one recommendation, you might look in there.
SPT Okay. I don't think I put it there.
I think I put it away in my sleep compartment some place.
I'ii find it.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT I carried it around in my pocket for a
couple of weeks and finally got tired of it rattling around
in there and I have to go through it and see where I put
it.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds
from LOS. See you again in ii minutes over Hawaii at 22:57.
22:57.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal. Hawaii will acquire in about i0 minutes.
AI Bean reported during this pass that he has completed the TV
inventory of the multiple docking adapter. We're showing
21-1/2 minutes in tape On the video tape recorder as a
result of that activity. The ground will that tape recorder
later this evening. And probable some more of the inventory
will be scheduled tomorrow or the next day. They also
advised Owen Garriott, during this pass over Honeysuckle,
to change the battery in the camera for the S063 experiment,
the ultraviolet airglow horizon photography. It reported
that he was using the manual film drive. That the motor
would drive the shutter, but it would not drive the film.
Experimenters on the ground believe the battery is getting
weak. The symptoms indicate that a new battery may be
needed. At 22 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
lis Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1764/I
TIME: 17:56 CDT 43/22:56 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 56

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on the
Hawaii station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Hawaii for 9 minutes, and Jack, I'm tired just looking at
it.
SPT You didn't think that was me, huh?
CC Not hardlys Owen.
SPT You're right.
SC (Garble)
CC And Owen_ you may he interested to know
that there is an active prominence at 23 sllt 1.0. It's
not one that we've got designated on your SAP. Just - you
might want to look at it during your observing time.
SPT Okay. Thank you a lot. Over in the
southeast corner.
CC That's a Rog.
PLT You still there 3 Bob.
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay. After 2 hours the temperature
in 557 has reached 41. And the pressure is 1 times 10 to
the minus 3 torque and I still don't understand the explanation
on why that furnace cool light went out. It tells me in my
data that the furnace cool light ought to stay on until you
get to 46 degrees. It doesn't say anything about switch pos-
ition.
CC Okay Jack. You have a rotary select
on there that allows you to select four different positions
for reading temperature, the two on the left have the hot
side, and the two on the right are the cold side. I guess -
We were under the impression that what you were reading was
the cold side and the information that I've been given is
that 46 degrees is the hot side temp. We're 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll have you again over Goldstone at 23:08.
That's about 2-1/2 minutes away. We have the VTR rewound,
and we'll be doing some dump here_ so it is not available
for your use.
CDR Okay Bob. Thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii does
have LOS, loss of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab
in about a minute and a half. Science Pilot Owen Garriott,
who is at the Apollo telescope mount was informed during
the Hawaii pass that there is an active prominence in the
Sun that he can observe. Cap Com's remark early in that
pass that he was getting tired Just looking at the data,
was referenced to Jack Lousma who was riding the bicycle
ergometer, and telemetry showed that he had an off scale
SL III MC-1764/2
TIME: 17:56 CDT 43/22:56 GMT
9_8_73

high, which means that he was exercising very vigorously.

Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about 30 seconds. We'll
continue to stand by.

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SL-III MC-176511
Time: 18:07 CDT, 43223:07 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're back wlth you

through Goldstone for another 4-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. See you again at Bermuda at about 5 minutes, 23:19, 23:19.
PLT Okay, sir. See you there Crip.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Goldstone station. Bermuda will be the next
station to pick up Skylab in about 3-1/2 minutes. Skylab,
too far north for acquisition through Texas or Merritt Island
stations. Ground dumped almost 7 minutes tape from the video
tape recorder during the Goldstone pass, that's from the
21-1/2 minutes of the multiple docking adaptor inventory put on
the video tape recorder earlier by Commander Alan Bean. Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott still busy at the Apollo telescope mount.
A1 Bean now beginning runs of the M092 and 93 experiments, the
lower body negative pressure and the vectorcardiogram experiment
that measures the electrical activity of the heart. Beans
the subject, Lousma the observer on these runs today. We'll
continue to keep the llne up for acquisition through Bermuda.
That should occur in about 2 minutes.

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SL-III MC-176611
Time: 18:17 CDT, 43/23:17 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through

Bermuda for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. See you again in 2 minutes over Canary at 23:29. Cor-
rection, 23:30.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Canaries will pick up Skylab momentarily.
We'll continue to stand by. Less than a minute before
acquisition through Canaries. And there's overlapping coverage
through the Ascension station.

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SL-III MC-1767/I
Time: 18:30 CDT, 43/23:30 GMT
9/8/73

CC S kylab, Houston we're back - with you

through Canary for 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.
PLT And do you happen to have any time on
my phone call this evening?
CC Well, I was wanting to talk to you about
that. Got a slight problem in that both the ladies are out
having dinner tonight and I'm unable to contact them and
they'll probably going to be Betting back a little bit later
than we can have satisfactory station coverage so, I was
going to suggest we might try it again tomorrow niBht.
PLT Sounds like a good suggestion, thank
you very much.
SC Hello.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Must be have a big soiree down there or
something.
CC AIj I think all three of the ladies
went out to dinner.
CC Together.
SPT At least we approve of the company they
keep.
PLT Well in that case I guess we'll go out to
dinner too then together.
SPT And I approve of the company these
other two guys keep.
CC Spoken like a true Marine. (Chuckle).
CC S kylab, Houston weIre 1 minute from
LOS. See you again in 26 minutes over Carnarvon at 00:12_
00:12.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Skylab out of
range of the Ascension Island station. The next station to
pick up the space station will be Carnarvon in 25 minutes.
At 23 hours 47 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1768/I

Time: 19:11 _DT, 44/00:11 GMT

9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 0 hours

ii minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of Carnarvon now.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through
Carnarvon. We got you for about 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like the DAS for
a moment. We're going to go ahead and turn the reg on on
CBRM i0.
SPT Okay, you got it.
PLT And Bob, the temperature and pressure on
M557, was read on time i0 minutes ago. The temperature was
51, and the pressure was 0.55 times i0 to the minus 3 torque.
CC Copy Jack, thank you.
PLT You bet.
CC Okay, and the DAS belongs to you guys, again.
PLT Looks llke you turned it on alrlght.
CC And Owen, if you got a moment to talk to
me, I wanted to give you a note on the ETC prep you got coming
up later.
SPT Wait a minute, please.
SPT Okay, go ahead, Bob.
CC O kay, just wanted to tell you that to-
night we'd llke you to install filter 1 on the ETC. That was
necessary because of us scrubbing out that pass earlier
today.
SPT Okay, is that all? I don't have an
ETC pad yet. I guess that will come up tomorrow?
CC Rog, Owen, we're going to have to you
hopefully, doing ETC pass early in the morning which
we will be sending up a pad tonight, and you need filter
1 on for that.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine. Now is that
going to be a solar inertial ETC or a TLV?
CC Rog, Owen, that ETC pass is actually
the one we're associated with EREP and it is tomorrow afternoon
not in the morning. And that's where you need filter 1 on it.
SPT Okay, I'ii put filter 1 on. Thank you.
CC We're actually scrubbing out the pass
- that the first one that you had scheduled in the morning.
And that's why we need to have the filter 1 put on.
SPT Okay, fair enough.
CC Rog, the problem was weather over Africa.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Honeysuckle has
had loss of signal. Guam will pick up Skylab in about 4 min-
utes. We'll come back up just prior to that pass. At 0 hours
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1769/I
Time: 19:24 CDT, 44/00:24 GMT
918173

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 0 hours 24 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on a 4-1/2 minute pass
over the Guam tracking station. We'll stand by for acquisition
now.
CC $kylab, Houston. We're back with you through
Guam for 4-1/2 minutes. And sorry I missed that last LOS call.
CC 8kylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. See you again in nine minutes over Hawaii at 00:37, 00:37.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss of
signal. No got - no conversation during this pass over Guam.
As A1 Bean and Jack Lousma are in the midst of a M092/M093
run, lower body negative pressure, and the vectorcardiogram,
in which Bean is the subject and Owen Garriott is busy up
at the Apollo telescope mount console. Hawaii will pick up
Skylab in about 5-1/2 minutes. At 0 hours 31 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1770/I
Time: 19:36 CDT, 44/00:36 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This Skylab Control; at 0 hour 36 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Hawaii is acquiring Skylab now.
CDR How are you doing?
CC Very good.
CDR Okay, Owen will be EV-1, Itll be EV-2 and
Jack will be EV-3.
CC Copy that. Thank you AI.
CDR Okay.
CC And we have got you for about 2-1/2 minutes
here at Hawaii.
CC gkylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
See you again over Goldstone at 00:48, thatts about i0 minutes
from now.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Skylab out of
range of Hawaii now. Short pass over that station, low elevatlon
angle. Goldstone will pick up the space station in 8 minutes.
At 0 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1771
TIME: 19:46 CDT 44/00:47 GMT
918173

PAO This is Skylab Control at 0 hours

47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone about to acquire
Skylab for their pass over the continental United States.
CC S _lab, Houston. We're AOS through
Goldstone for 5 minutes.
SPT Roger Robert.
CC And Owen, we're standing by for ATM TV.
SPT Okay. Let me see. I'll give you some.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you again in about 2-1/2 minutes over Mila
at 00:55.
PAO _Lis is Skylab Control. Goldstone has
loss of signal. The elevation angle is too low for good
communications through the Texas station this pass. The
Merritt Island, Florida station will pick up Skylab in about
1 minute. We'll keep the line up for acquisition there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more
for oh, about 12 minutes here through Mila.
PLT Okay Bob.
CC Okay, and if A1 is listening, regarding
that TV survey, we're going to be unable to get any more
time on the VTR tonight, due to dump sites. And we'll try
to get that in tomorrow if we can.
PLT Okay. We heard it.
CC And AI, could you give us an estimate
of how much more time you think you're going to need.
CDR I guess 30 minutes_ plus or minus, no,
no, either 30 or 40 minutes would be my guess.
CC That's about our estimate and we' ii see
if we can work that in.
CDR Okay. Good. I got a couple of hours
here til sleep. I was going to go do that (garble) measure-
ment, which looks like it would take about 30 minutes or so_
you got anything else down there that needs doing?
CC S_and by I.
CC _id CDR, if you're looking for things
to do, that 81J you had scheduled today and you ended up
cleaning off the heat exchanger in that area. We do want
to go ahead and do 81J and put in the new fan. That fluid
transfer duct is still not correct. It is looking good
however back at the heat exchanger, the one you did clean
off.
CDR Okay. That will take about another 20
minutes.
PLT Hey Crip, I need about 45 minutes worth
of work, too.
CC We copy that Jack.

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SL-III MC-1772/I
Time: 20:01 CDT, 44/01:01 GMT
9/8/73

CC SPT, Houston, you got a moment to talk

with us about shopping llst item number 19, that you ran
last orbit7
SPT Okay, Bob, I was on channel A would you
ask me the question, again?
CC Rog, sorry about that Owen. I wondered
if you - on shopping list item number 19 that you ran last
orbit we noticed that you didn't complete that and we've
seen that before and we wonder if you got problems trying to
fit that in one orbit or what?
SPT Okay, actually it was item 16 not 19.
Is that correct?
SPT Anyway, item 16 is what I was working on
and yes, I think that I realized the beginning of the orbit
that I was going to be pressed for that extra 5 minutes, I
could have still made it, this is a segment that had never
been timed before and of course each step gets to be
longer as it goes along. So I got within 5 minutes of
completing it and I think had I just got very busy right at the
beginning without taking looks around at the corona and a
few things like that I took time out incidentally at the
beginning to get a picture of the corona and had to look a
round a little bit. I think if I hadn't done that I would
have had time. Over.
CC Okay, you don't think it's a basic
problem with the shopping list item 16, it's just trying to
look far enough ahead so that you can work it in. Right?
SPT I think so. As far as I know this has
never been ran before or timed, and I was sort of estimating
down there when I started I put times by the various blocks
and I just got a little bit behind after I took the extra
time at the beginning of the orbit to look around.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT I wonder if they'd like to have me to go
back and pick up that one long - wave length long exposure for
82B, at the first of the next orbit? That could be done although
it - there's some observing time although of course you
want to get in the JOP 6 stuff.
CC We're looking into that.
CC SPT, Houston, regarding that 82B exposure
next orbit we'd just as soon not go back and get that.
SPT Okay, wouldn't be any trouble to do it
but I just think the wavelength long was probably letting
the (garble) do them in that short. And I wasn't going to
mention it to you Jack I'ii Just let it go.
CC Okay, we're i minute from LOS. See you
again in about i0 minutes over Ascension at 01:16, 01:16.
PLT Hey, Crlp I got a hot item for you.
CC Okay, we're going over the hill, say again.
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PLT The workshop temperature is ablazing

73 degrees.
CC Copy. 73.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has
loss of signal as Pilot Jack Lousma reports the temperature
in the workshop 73 deErees. Ascension will pick up Skylab
in 8 minutes. At 1 hour 8 minutes Greenwich mean time.
This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1773/I
Time: 20:15 CDT, 44/01:15 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at i hour 15 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range of the Ascension
Island station now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension
for 4-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC Okay, and Jack for you and AI, I guess
the only items right now we got to suggest or a couple of
housekeeping items that you had scheduled on pad for tomorrow.
That's 14 hotel and 28 mike.
CDR Okay, we'll check those over and let me
give you the number for the fan. The old serial number - the
serial number is the one I took out is 129-120. The new one
that I just installed is 129-138.
CC Okay, thank you AI. Another item, can
you tell us which battery you have installed in the ASMU?
CDR We don't think there is any installed.
We think they are both kind of set down the bottom.
CC Can - do happen to recall which of those
two batteries 6 or 7, that you used first on the last run?
PLT No we don't but there is probably somebody
down there that got it under library.
CDR I don't remember, Bob. But the first one
didn't have as - didn't hold the charge as long as the second
one. And we mentioned it on our report and I asked them to - that
they might want to run a test on the first one. Didn't think
anything was wrong with it but it just didn't hold the charge
as long as the second. And I was a little bit suprised that
it did not.
CC Okay, AI. That's exactly the reason we're
asking the question. We think that one was battery number 6
and what we would like for you to do is to have you to go
ahead and put it on the charger this evening, if you could please.
CDR Right now - 5 minutes from now, we'll
have it on there by then.
CC Okeydoke, that's fine, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 25 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you at Carnarvon in 26 minutes from now at
01:46 and we'll be standing by for the Evening Status Report
there.
PLT Okay, Bob.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has pasted
out of range of the Ascension Island station. Next station
to pick up Skylab will be Carnarvon, Australia in 24 minutes.
At I hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 20:45 CDT, 44/01:45 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 45

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now within
range of the Carnarvon station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC .A nd, CDR, at your convenience, we're
standing by for your Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay, I'ii be right there.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Urine: 163, 130,
223. Water: 5877, 9731, 6400. BMMD: 6.260, 6.262, 6.263;
5.961, 5.964, 5.961; 6.938, 6.940, 6.939. Exercise: 2/28/
5241, make that 5 - make that 2/30/5541. Okay, 3/15/mark i,
3/10/mark 2, 3/05/mark 3; SPT, 2/32/5025, 3/20/mark i, 60A,
60B, 60D; PLT, 1/05/0611, 2/36/8498, 320/mark 1, 70 A's,
20 B's, 20 D's, 20 backbends. No medication. Sleep: 7 G,
6-1/2 G, 6-1/2 G. Here comes the food log: CDR, 10.5 salt
packs used, add one lemonade; SPT, no salts, omit the tuna
and applesauce - no, omit tuna and asparagus, substitute
pork and potatoes, add Jam, and add peaches; Pilot, 5 salts,
add peaches, grape drink, butter cookies, and substitute
a peach ambrosia and peanuts, for tuna and bread. Here
comes the photo log: No 16-millimeter, so we've got no
drawer A change. 35-millimeter: C113, 59, CX29, 00, CX31,
53. 70-milllmeter: CX26, 091. ETC: VW02, 057. Nothing
else on the report there. Okay, Flight Plan deviations:
Did not do M487-4E because screen was not dirty, will do
the moving next time we vacuum a dirty screen. Shopping
llst accompllshment: CDR did 487-3D, - I did that yesterday
late, by the way. SPT did MI72-PR2, and CDR did the BMMD
zero mass cal. Inoperable equipment: Nothing new. Un-
scheduled stowage item location change: three pork and
potatoes from 559 to wardroom, 12 butter cookies from 559
to wardroom, and two batteries from the entertainment kit to
the image intensity monitor, the batteries there had pooped
out. We put tape around the batteries, and fired them down
the alrlock. And that's it.
CC Okay, I believe we copied all that. And,
I had a couple of questions, if I may.
CDR Shoot away.
CC Okay, concerning the little digital
thermometer, we've been making quite a bit of use of that
with the 6-pack readings and so forth, and we - and we're
a llttle bit concerned about perhaps, it becoming degraded.
First question, I guess, is, do you always use the same
unit or are - have you been using both units on a random
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basis?
CDR I don't know the answer because we Just
open the box and pull out the first one we reach. So, I
guess you'd have to say it's probably random, but it may be the
closest one every time, and we wouldn't know it.
CC 0 My, is the response time still on the
order of 60 seconds?
CDR I'd say 60 or better.
CC Okay.
CDR l've noticed that it's usually stabled
out at least by 30.
CC Okeydoke. And, have you noted any unusual
readings - that might indicate the battery is depleting?
CDR Not at all. It's been real reliable.
The only thing that I've seen is a problem, is that thermal
grease we use is one heck of a thing to get out of the tube.
And, that's the only problem. You really get your exercise
trying to get it out. l hope it doesn't get harder as time
passes, because if it does, Ger - certainly won't be able
to get it out. And it may be that consistency all the time,
though.
CC Okay, copy that. And, AI, today you
had some six-digit BMMD zero mass readings called out in
your details, we haven't had any mention of this on - any -
any of the dump tapes yet. Have you managed to get around
to that?
CDR Sure did. I just put it on channel A
about 30 minutes ago, or so, so they're on there. I can
give them to you now if you want them.
CC No, that'll be fine. We can get them
off channel A.
CDR Say, I've been wondering, - I've been -
l'm about half through with this sound measurement. And one
- seem to be one artificiality in it, and thatts the fact that
all this equipment is running at once, as I check one indivi-
dual item. I know that this (garble) microphone is supposed to
be directional. However, I do notice the similarity in some
of the frequency ranges, and I suspicion that other equipment
that's running near by is just overriding the one I'm testing.
I assume that that's the correct procedure, though.
CC Believe so, we're checking with corollaries.
CDR Okay, it would be non-typlcal, I guess,
if we didn't do it that way. Non-representative.
CC That is correct, AI. You - you're doing
it right.
CDR Okay, we've got one other one. Number i
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was called the cabin heat exchanger fan muffler. Now, number
5 is called the AM clrc fan. We have a feeling that's the
same thing. But we're not sure. We don't find anything
that's called AM dump fan muffler. I - I didn't say that
right. I didn't say that right. We don't find anything
called cabin heat exchanger fan muffler. The only heat
exchanger we find in the STS is the one that's labeled AM
circ fan.
CC See if I can get that clarified.
CDR Yeah, thank you.
CC O kay, Skylab. We're 1 minute from LOS.
See you again at Guam in about 4 minutes at 01 - at - 02:00
even. And I'ii try to have an answer for you on that one,
A1.
CDR Okay, I'ii go work on the others.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Guam
station in about 2 minutes. We'll continue to keep the llne
up and monitor through Guam.

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TIME: 20:58 CDT 44/01:58 GMT
9/8/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through

Guam for 9 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. On your last run on ATM,
can you tell us in building block i, did you run SO56 in
patrol long or manual?
PLT You mean tonight or earlier today.
CC Tonight, on your last run.
CC Your previous building block i, that you
Just did.
PLT I don't - ran a patrol normal on I Alfa,
and I'm in patrol long now.
CC Okay. The reason we asked the question is,
we saw the shutter on 56 staying open abnormally long. We'll
take a look at it.
PLT Yeah. I kind of wondered if that thing
is hung up. And I think it hung up at the beginning of
patrol long, and I recycled and then started over again,
but I noticed that at the end of patrol normal that it
was circa filter i, but it had not gone to READY, and I
went to STOP, and I immediately got a READY light, so
something squirreley is going on with that.
CC O kay. We copy that. And CDR, if you're
listening, I need to consider about wakeup time tomorrow.
To get the ATM pass in, we don't have a good time to give
you a wakeup call, so you might need to set your timers in
on that. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Goldstone at
02:25, and that'11 be for medical conference.
CDR Okay. We'll set our clocks for tonight.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in 15 minutes.
During the early part of this next stateside pass, the daily
medical conference will be conducted between the flight
surgeon and the crew. We anticipate that we will be saying
goodnight to the crew at the end of this stateside pass about
loss of signal time through Bermuda. We'll come back up
just prior to acquisition at Goldstone. At 2 hours ii minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1776/I
Time: 21:24 CDT, 44/02:24 GMT
9/8/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 2 hours

24 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 30 seconds
away from acquisition through Goldstone. For the early
part of this pass Flight Surgeon will be having a private
medical conference with the crew. We'll stand by llve for
alr-to-ground communications following that conference.
CC Skylab, Houston, I got you back here
for 12-1/2 minutes through the states.
PLT Okay_ Bob, and it looks like that time
or battery must have been thrown out I carried around for
a couple of weeks and I think I finally tossed it in the
trash bag and it's long gone.
CC Okay, no big deal at all. For AI, I
guess 1 item on the film report for tonight. We didn't
see a report on for BB which is UV film on S063 that you
should have used.
PLT I must have forgotten to put that down
and it is reading 7, I took 7 frames from 14 leaves 7.
CC Roger, copy 7. And if AI is availlable
we probably are going to run in the question tomorrow we got
a TV 54 scheduled and we're going to need to - we're talking
about doing the rest of that inventory. It's going to be
strictly his option which he desires to do and he might
give that some thought.
CDR What's 54, Bob?
CC I was afraid you were going to ask
that. That's Owen's science memos.
CDR We'll probably favor his thing because
it takes longer to prep I can do mine on a moments notice
and also mine can fit in around other things for the next
3 or 4 days. So we'll pro_bly let Owen do his thing and
then I'ii fit around _is other.
CC Okay, copy that. And in our earlier
discussions on those sound measurements for 487, what you
got is satisfactory we had a duplication on the pad
apparently items i and 5 are really the same thing. That
is the cabin heat exchanger fans and the AM search fans
are really the same item.
CDR Okay, that's kind of what I assumed.
So I gave them the rate gyro package which makes more noise
than all the rest put together as item 1 and I read that
down on the comma little while ago.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Crip, how long are you going to
be with us?
CC We got you for i0 more minutes.
PLT I'ii check with you in about a minute.
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CC Okay, one item I mentioned earlier however,

I certainly didn't state it very clear. Owen, you were called
out to do that ETC pass over Africa tomorrow morning. And
that has been scrubbed due to weather.
SPT Okay, und _stand I have filter i in the
ETC right now.
CC Okay, very good. So really the only
guy that's got to get up early on the day off is the CDR.
CDR I figure it's about my turn though, so
that's okay. And I'ii set my little alarm clock as I under-
stand y'all aren't going to be around at that time.
CC That's affirm. We'll have a pass just
about ii:00 so we'll get you a little bit later.
CDR Okay. What time is sunrise. I noticed
my pad said ii:00, usually the sun rises about i0 or 15 min-
utes later.
CC Stand by I'ii see if I can get a sunrise
(garb le) .
CC While they'll looking for that anytime
you guys are interested if you want me to attempt another
news broadcast I do have some evening news down here.
CDR Yeah, we think you need to pract -
actually we don't want to hear the news put we think you
need to practice, so go ahead.
CC I thought you - (chuckle).
PLT Hey Bob can I give you one thing.
CC Go ahead Jack.
PLT Before I turn off all the lights I'd
like to give you the frame counts on ATM. H-Alpha has got
5833, Milligan has got 1521, Tousey A has got 45, Tousey B
has got 273, MacQueen has got 3332, and Vaiana, Kreeger
has got 2024, and Reeves has got all he wants.
CC Roger, that.
CC Jack, would you verify that 73 on 82B?
PLT 82B is 273.
CC 273, rog.
PLT I'd like to give you a little word on
(garble) 57 over there too. It's sitting around 65 degrees
right no_ and I calcu _ted that it was suppose to go to the
slow mode at 1:53 and when I came up and looked at it at
1:44 it was already in the slow mode. It was calculated
on the basis of my data I got onboard which maybe up to date
maybe not, and our pressure now on reading .i times i0 minus
3 and l'm wondering if you want me to go to advance or stay
in open on the bulkhead vent valve tonight.
CC We want you in vent, Jack.
SPT Okay, I'ii put it in the vent then
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thank you. And that's all l'm going to say so go ahead

with the news.
CC And AI, for that first pass in the
morning, 10:58 is 400 K and that's just about the time we're
going to have you on the first pass.
CC And for the Skylab news report. The
Skylab astronauts photographed the Earth and Sun Saturday
in their quest for more inform_ion on their home planet
and its energy source. They also tried to form new metal
alloys impossible to manufacture on Earth. An editiorial
writer said the Sky -

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SL-III MC-1777/I
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CC - - more information on their home planet

and it's energy source. They also tried to form new metal
alloys impossible to manufacture on Earth. And editorial
writer said the Skylab Prog is demonstrating daily that it is
a sound investment in the future. President Nixon met with
his advisers on ways to deal with the energy shortage for
two hours at the White House Saturday. The President told
newsmen the Government will ease antipollution controls
and will urge the states to do the same. The Administration
will also press for Congressional approval of the Alaskan
pipeline bill and legislation to remove the price ceiling on
natural gas. President Nixon will go on nationwide radio
Sunday to give the public a one-day preview of the second
State of Union message he is sending Congress Monday on his
legislative program. The Miss America Pageant is being
held in Atlantic City tonight. However, a labor dispute
threatened to black out television coverage. And our Houston
Oilers are playing the New Orleans Saints in Tulane Stadium
tonight. The Oilers have won 2 and lost 3 games in exhlbltaion
play, while the Saints have lost all 5 of their games. Maybe
we can get you an update on that score. I haven't heard one.
The Houston Astros sank below the 500 mark for the first
time since mid-Aprll when they lost to San Francisco, 9 to 6,
Friday night. And the Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated UCLA
40 to 13 today in an exciting season opening football game. And
more exciting than that, the JSC had their annual picnic today
and Bob Crlppen at least aleast 30 trips going into the dump
tank. I guess that concludes most of the news. We still have
you for about a - -
PLT So, you're all wet as usual, hey, Bob?
CC You've got me figured out. I've managed
to dry out a little bit.
PLT You know, I was going to mention to you
you ought to see a doctor about that plugged up head but
it a - I thought it was my imagination but I guess it's full
of water, huh?
CC Right.
SPT Hard to believe that last picnic out there at
Tom Madison's place was over a year ago.
CC Yeah. It moves around fairly rapidly.
Everybody had a pretty good time out today. Ate a lot, got
full tummies.
CDR You know Bob, we've got an awful good
flight surgeon that hasn't had much business for the last 6 weeks
we might be able to loan his services to you. •
CC Could probably use it. He's too busy
worrying about yon guys - to have him look at me.
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PLT You there, Bob?

CC Yes, sir. Still got you for 2-i/2 minutes.
PLT How about having the ATM troups take a
look at the panel and see how they like it while we put it
to bed for the night.
CC Okay, the panel looks good to us. We
can't tell of cou _e about the overrides on 55.
PLT That's enabled.
CC Roger, copy that. That noise I hear in
the background does that happen to be the 6-pack.
PLT Yeah, it probably is, Bob. Kind of it's
well, a humming noise like everything else. But it's the loudest
thing in here. It's directly across from the - speaker box
so that's probably it.
CC Roger.
PLT Actually it's pretty quite in here. The
noisiest place is up there in the MDA, but down in the workshop
you don't hear the (garble). We thought that might be too
noisy but there's not much of anything you can hear running
down there. The only thing is the blower over head the waste
management compartment this time objection (garble) off.
Those fans in the ducts you have to put your ear right up
to the - duct in order to hear them. Other than that why the
only nolce is AI and Owen.
CC Glad they built you a nice quiet workshop.
And - Al would probably be interested to know that we have
finished dumping the VTR so we have got all of that inventory
he did earlier today on the ground.
CC And Skylab, we're one minute from LOS,
tonight, our last call to you. We'll wish you a good night.
Next pass is at Carnarvon, at 03:26 if you need us for any
reason, need us, give us a - give us a i0,000 and we'll have
them give you a call tomorrow morning around if:00 and we'll
be expecting you'll be getting up setting your clocks. Good
night guys.
CDR Good night, down there.
PLT Good night, Crip. You and the whole team
and I just put the bulkhead vent valve to VENT and the pressure
started to rise immediately.
CC Copy that. Thanks, Jack.
CDR Looks like good plans for tomorrow, too.
Hopes the weather is good for EREP.
CC So do we.
CDR Know you do. Lot of work goes on down
there to get ready for those things when the weather is
bad it's - it's all down - well not all of it is down the drain
but a lot of it is down the drain.
CC That's - that's affirmative.
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PLT Say, if they can't get that television

through from the Miss America pageant, I'm sure that everybody
would rather see Skylab anyway, and we can send some TV down,
so you can use that.
CC Yes. You're pretty Jack. But I don't know
if you're that pretty.

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TIME: 22:01 CDT 44103:01 GMT
9_8_73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 3 hours

1 minute Greenwich mean time. We now have the mission
surgeon's daily report on the crew health status for today.
As the crew of Skylab III begins the 7th week in space, we
are pleased to report that they are still enjoying apparently
excellent health and morale. Their enthusiasm for accomplish-
ing all or more than the planned mission goals is a subject
that seems to creep into every conversation. We are well
satisfied with their general condition at this time. That's
the end of the report. And at 3 hours 2 minutes this is
Skylab Control signing off until 6:00 a.m. central daylight
time tomorrow.

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SL-III MC-1779/I
Time: 05:56 CDT 44/10:56 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control

at Greenwich mean time i0 hours 56 minutes on mission day 44.
Skylab coming up on acquisition at the tracking ship Vanguard.
We expect that the crew is already up, at least the Commander
Alan Bean should be up. He's due to begin Apollo telescope
mount operations at this time. Since Skylab was not over a
tracking station earlier, he indicated last night that he would
set his alarm and get up early. We expect that he probably
did that about 30 minutes ago. Ostensibly, this is a day
off for the crew. And indeed in addition to showers each man
does have 30 or 40 minutes off duty time scheduled on the flight
plan today. Otherwise it's a husy day of solar studies Earth
resources passes - two of those back to back - and a science
conference scheduled this afternoon. Vanguard should be
acquiring within the next few seconds. We'll stand by for any
conversation here.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard
for 10-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce. I'm up and in the ATM panel.
Everything is going okay. And if you can minimize calls, then
tile other two guys can sleep for a while.
CC Wilco. I do have a SAP update for you
if you are interested in that.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC New active region 24 has formed at 120 degrees
0.6. (garble) group is growing fairly fast. The flare probability
there is 3/0/0. Three subnormal flares from active region
09 at 01:26, 01:46, and 05:08 this morning with no x-rays. The
flare probability is up to 8/3/0 from 8, 2, and O. And F55
in active region 09, and F58 in active region 19 have been
moderately active. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you Bruce. What is the next
station contact? I tell you what, whenever we're ready, I'ii
just put i000 - i0000 on the DAS and you can see it.
CC Okay. Next station Contact is at ii:ii
through Ascension. And then 11:55 through Guam. Over.
CDR Okay, it will probably be around Guam time
or later, then.
CC Okay.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
PLT Say Bruce, I presume you want this TV of
Africa live, right?
CC Stand by. We thought you were sleeping in.
PLT Well, I've got TV and hand held photos,
so I'm up, about to get it done.
CC Are you sure you've got the right day's
flight plan?
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CC We voiced up - I think Bob Crippen - the

TV of Africa got scrubbed, Jack.
PLT Okay. I guess I didn't get the word, I
got it down here for i0. It's still scrubbed then?
CC Yes it is.
PLT Okay, so be it. Thank you.
CC However, the hand-held photo at 11:15 is
still good, so we'd like you to get that.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC However, if you want to sleep in feel free.
CDR Say Bruce, I was noticing on my first -
both Jop 2D, step 6's, they read - they said "systematic poinging"
at the first. I'm not sure I know what that is.
CC We're checking on that.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. On that 2D, step 6, what we're looking
for is systematic pointing which implies keeping the 82B slit
parallel and moving it across the target of interest at about
a 4 to 5 arc seconds increment so that in this case the second
one will be 5 arc seconds right or left of the first one.
CDR Okay. Do they want me to cross the neutral
line or just find a bright area 4 or 5 seconds away from that
or how?

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CDR Okay, do they want me to cross the neutral

line or just find a bright area 4 or 5 seconds away from it
or how?
CC CDR, Houston, the first time you do Z Delta
step 6, center it up on the features And on the second one, just
go 4 or 5 arc seconds either side of that. Over.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Okay Bruce, we've got our photos of the
Ascension Island. And it looks like a rather remote outpost
down there in the ocean. And we just want to thank all the
crews down there as well as those in tracking areas around the
world for their support.
CC Okay, we copy, Jack. And I suspect that
all the people at the tracking station at Ascension are also
listening. And I got a thumbs up on that one, so we got it
from you first hand.
PLT Yeah, we're just glad to help (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Ascension Island tracking station now. Next
station to pick up Skylab will be Guam in 33 minutes. Skylab
Commander Alan Bean is busy at the Apollo telescope mount
console. At ii hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

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Time: 06:54 CDT, 44/11:54 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

54 minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam is about to acquire
Skylab, we'll stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. There was no air-ground conversation during the
Guam pass. Alan Bean has completed the first run of the
day at the Apollo telescope mount, and Owen Garriott will
be picking up duties at the ATM console within a few minutes.
The first of the two Earth Resources surveys today will begin
at 2:04 p.m. Central daylight time, when the crew will be_in
taking data over the Pacific Ocean southwest of lower
California, During the 7,200 mile course Skylab will pass
over the city of La Paz on the southern tip of the lower
California peninsular and pass over Chihuahua, Mexico, across
the Rio Grande River at Presidio, Texas, continuing in a
northeasterly direction, the space station will fly over
Wichita Falls, Texas, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Joplin, Missouri,
go just a little north of St. Louis, Springfield, Illinois,
Southbend, Indiana, Jackson, Michigan, crossing the Canadian
border north of Detroit, and continuing over the cities of
Ottawa and Quebec, then out over the Goose Bay Peninsular and
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. That'll be 13 sites to he photographed
during the 30 minute data take period. Some of the principal
investigators who will recieve data from the first Earth
Resources pass today are Dr. J. A. Diez Perez, Secretary of
Resources from Mexico, who will use the data for identifying
irrigated croplands and lands which should be irrigated
in that nation; J. Braithwaite of the University of Michigan
Environmental Research Institute in the Skylab program office
here at the Johnson Space Center, will evaluate the multi-
spectral scanner data taken over wheat fields in Oklahoma.
Dr. Alan Shapiro of the U.S. Na_al Research Laboratory, will
study the use of radar altimeter data to identify terrain
characteristics in space; Dr. William E. Shenk of NASA's
Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will
recieve data from meteorological studies of cloud top heights
and identification of cloud characteristics associated with
significant weather activity; Dr. John C. Alishouse of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency in Washington
D.C., will employ data for studies of cloud top pressures.
The data taken over oceans will be used by Willard J. Pierson,
Jr. of the New York University Department of Meteorology
and Oceanography in the studies of ocean surface winds and
sea states; R. A. Stewart, of the Canadian Department of
Energy Mines and Resources will access Earth Resources
imagery and sensors for mapping areas of Eastern Canada.
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The second Earth Resources data take will begin at 3:46 p.m.
Central daylight time over the Pacific Ocean west of Canifornia.
The crew will operate instruments for 15 minutes over a
distance of 3600 miles. And Skylab on that revolution will
pass over the cities of Santa Maria and Bakersfield, California,
Mount Whitney across Nevada, Salt Lake City, Casper, Wyoming,
Rapid City, South Dakota, Fargo, North Dakota, and the
Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Data taken during
this second pass will be applied to studies of ocean currents
and sediments along the California coastline. Principal
Investigator there is Douglas Pirie, a U.S. district engineer in
San Francisco; A. Earl Davis of the Resources Agency, State of
California will use data for identifying pollutent concentrations
where there are no monitoring stations, for identifying map
features, evaluating geological factors, assessing the
impact of highway construction on the environment, tracking
waste discharges to surface water, and studying wildlife
habitats and migrations. Data taken over Nevada and Utah will
be used by Dr. Monem Abdel-Gawad of Rockwell International Cor-
poration, and Dr. M.L. Jensen of the Department of Geology at the
University of Utah, for geological studies. The next station
to acquire Skylab will be the tracking ship Vanguard in
25-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours Ii minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1782/I
Time: 07:33 CDT, 44/12:33 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours, 33 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up upon acquisition
at the tracking ship Vanguard shortly. Here in the Mission
Control Center, the world map and most of the clocks, which
are also reflected on the TV consoles in the News Center, now
belong to the simulation world. The AOS/LOS clock is still
reflecting real time mission acquisition and loss of signals,
but a launch and rendezvous simulation for the next Skylab
mission will be conducted here in the Control Center today
and the map and most of the other clocks will be used in that
simulation. Vanguard should be acquiring shortly. We'll
stand by and see whether there'll be any conversation during
this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the (garble)
Vanguard for i0 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC We copy here at i0,000 standing there in
the DAS. You can go ahead and clear it whenever you feel
like it.
PLT Okay. Thank you. We're all up and at'em.
CC Was that a lousy pun?
PLT Yes.
CC We got one low priority question here.
Sometime, when the SPT gets a little while, could he comment
some more on the sock shortage. We understand on mission day 37,
he reported that he needed additional socks and looking around,
we find that there's some SL-2 garment) union suits, and constant
wear garments that have intergal socks that could probably be cut
off. We'll be interested in hearing some more details from
him. Over.
SPT Okay. I'ii give you a little priority
answer right now. I hadn't been aware of any SL-2 stuff still
laying around, but the sock question has managed to get solved
in about the following way: I only had 12 per package, as
I recall, 28-day package, which is either - slightly less than
one every 2 days. But AI brought up an extra big supply in
the command module resupply that was done there in the last
month or so before launch. So I borrowed a few from him and -
permanent loan. And that, plus just not changing socks every
day, now left me in the state of having one per day so
there's no more problem involved. As far as extra clothes
is concerned, the only thing that I personally |lave found
that I was short on was socks. And I'd like to make sure - I'd
recommend to the following crew that they add on only chat
one item, if they're going to add on anythin B. And that
is just to make sure they, from the start, have enough for a
change of socks every morning. That's all.
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CC Okay. I understand you feel it's necessary

to use a fresh pai_ everyday?
SPT Not necessary, it's just more comfortable
and convenient and desirable.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
SPT The thing is, Bruce your feet get pretty
sweaty in these canvas kind of shoes with rubber soles and
especially when you're riding the bike, you have a sweaty pair
of socks.
CC Yes, sure. I was not trying to give you
the third degree, I was trying to get some words establishing
the fact that it's probably desirable to provide a pair of
socks a day.
SPT Yes, I understand, Bruce. I was just
trying to give you a little onboard information as to how they
get that way, and it's just not unusual. I guess when you're on
the ground, under the same conditions, you'd - at least I'd want
a clean pair every day. It's kind of like going to the
gym, you know, and using the same pair of socks every day. And
it doesn't take more than i day to get them in pretty bad shape.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT You still there, Bruce?
C C Yes, indeed.
PLT Okay. Here's one thing I don't understand -
I don't understand why I got to terminate the M557 this
afternoon. And then we're going to let the thing just sit there
and cool it until tommorow. Then we're going to start over
again. And it seems like we're wasting time there. We're
not going to get all these i0 sets of specimens completed
by the time we leave. So, I wonder if the planners could
think about cycling in a new set of specimens this afternoon
when we terminate the ones that are in there now, so we can get
them going and then have them done by tomorrow.
CC Let me put that one in work for you. And
we do have a teleprinter message up there that deals with
the subject. Let me check it.
PLT I got a message last night that told me
just to terminate the one that's in there now, do a few steps,
and let it sit there idle until tomorrow some time.
CC O kay. That's right Jack. The thing I'd
ask you to determine the approximate time to that and half of -
for the torque, and all that. That is our intent right now. But
let's take an action item and see if there's anything we can do
with your request.
PLT Okay. I don't think it's going to take
too long to vent down and - where I'm going to get through
all i0 sets of specimen, I guess. And it seems to me
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this is such a valuable experiment that if we were to use

them all up and Jerry were to bring up some more, take very
little command module space to bring up some more up in com-
parison to the result of getting them.
CC 0 kay, Jack. We copy all that. We got
30 seconds to LOS here at the Rio Vanguard. Next station
contact in about i0 minutes at the Rio Canary at 12:55. Over.
PLT Okay. See you there, Bruce.

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Time: 07:45 CDT 44/12:45 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard

tracking ship has loss of signal. The tracking station at
Canary Islands will pick up Skylab in about 9-1/2 minutes.
At 12 hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC1784/I
Time: 07:54 CDT, 44/12:54 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

54 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Canary Islands tracking
station about to acquire Skylab; we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Canary
and Madrid for approximately 13 minutes. We'll be dumping
the data voice tape recorder over Madrid. Standing by for
the PLT.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. In reference to your question
on M557, what we want to do today is go ahead and find out
how long it takes the thing to vent down to 0.5 times l0 to
the minus 3 torr. And then, prior to going to sleep tonight,
separate item, you can go ahead and open up and let us vent
down. And what we're doing is the second sample that you'll
run through this thing is the first time that we operate
the furnace in the active control cool down mode. And they
want to start the second sample early tomorrow morning
so that we can watch the cool down while you're still
awake. And if anything comes up that way we won't have to
wake you up in the middle of the night to go chase the
experiment. Following the second run, why we'll press
through them as rapidly as we can. And we're negotiating
right now for return stowage space and the things of that
sort to see how many we can get worked into the flight plan.
Over.
PLT Okay, that sounds like a good plan.
And as far as return stowage goes, it should be about - these
are pretty small packages as you know. Right?
CC We copy that, but it's still something
that has to be worked.
PLT Right. And for the folks on the ground,
it putting these 3 cartridges in it- into the - cartridges
into the furnace, I've devised a plan which they ought
to know about. And, if you remember there are three places
to insert these cartridges. If you put the vent cap at
12 o'clock and face the little furnace, there's a - one spot
at i o'clock, one at 6, and one at ii o'clock. And I've taken
to putting the lowest numbered one at the i o'clock, the
second - the highest number - the middle number at the 6 o'clock
one, and the highest numbered one at the ii o'clock one. So
that if there's any - ever any questions about one of those
slots not working or working differently then the rest of them,
they' ii know which of the specimens was in which slot. So they
work in increasing numbers from I o'clock through 6 to ii.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack, that's a real good
plan. And if there is any problem, it will be a great
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help in troubleshooting. Out.

CDR And, Bruce, would you ask the flight
director to assure the SPT there's nothing personal in
his scheduling the SPT for two showers today.
CC Well, we'll look into that. The silver
team flight director here is mumbling something about it
being time to be relieved by the next team flight director
since it's 8 o'clock Houston time, but we'll see if we can
find out whether it was personal or not.
CDR Sounds like a copout down there to me.
CC Okay, we've resolved all that, Alan.
And I assume that exercising your authority as commanding
officer, why you'll go along with us on this. The housekeeping
7 Jullett scheduled for 00:45 for the SPT is the clean up of
the shower. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS;
Guam at 34.
PLT Good morning, Hank. I was looking at
the Sun, we got a couple of prominences that weren't reported
on the pad. There's one fairly good one down around 120
at 190 of course, and there's another, a little smaller,
but significant, at 060.
CC Roger, we copy, Jack. Thank you.

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Time: 08:09 CDT 44/13:09 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of

range of the Madrid tracking station now. Skylab began this
pass at the Canary station overlapping coverage from Madrid.
The next station to pick up Skylab will be Guam in 25 minutes.
The change of shift flight control teams taking place now in
the Mission Control Center. FliBht Director Chuck Lewis re-
lieving Flight Director Nell Hutchinson. The new spacecraft
Communicator is astronaut Hank Hartsfield. The Flight Director
on the launch and rendezvous simulation for the next Skylab mis-
sion is Phil Shaffer. And his Spacecraft Communicator is astronaut
Dick Truly working with the Skylab 4 crew which is in the mission
simulator at the Johnson Space Center. The Texas tracking
station will be devoted to the simulation, and will not be
active for the real Skylab mission during the simulation. At
13 hours I0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1786/I
Time: 08:33 CDT, 44/13:33 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours, 33 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be in acquisition through
the Guam station shortly. We'll stand by.
CC Skylah, Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get a question
answered here. We - you did part of your TV inventory yesterday,
21 minutes of VTR usage and we're intend to planning to schedule
the second segment for tomorrow with a clean VTR. Does that
meet with your approval?
CDR Sure does. I might be able to get in
30 minutes or I might have an additional i0 minutes or so for
some other time.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
_/e'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 45.
PAO This is Skyla5 Control. Skylab is out of
range of the Guam station now. Honeysuckle will pick up
Skylab in about 4 minutes. There has been a change in the
station to be used for the simulations today. The Texas station
will be back on the line for the current Skylab mission. The
Hawaii station will be used for the first simulation run. Fol-
lowing that first run, the Vanguard tracking ship will be used
for the simulation. There are no more Skylab space station
passes through Vanguard during the time that the simulation
will he run today. Skylah, about 3 minutes away from acquisi-
tion through Honeysuckle. We'll keep the line up and monitor
live through that station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hank, can you set up a phone call to my
family tonight for me?
CC O kay. Put it in work.
CDR And say, we've got the rest of the numbers
on these EREP sites. Wonder what's the last number of sites you
had? Then I'll read the rest.
CC Our last one was 27.
CDR Okay. Just a second. Okay, 28 is next
to the Mexico earthquake area. 29 is Maria Teresa Reef. 30,
Alice Springs. 31, Tonga Submarine Volcano. 32 is Great
Barrier Reef. 33 is Southern California. 34 is Nevada.
35, Italy. Got alot of pictures there recently. 36 is Lake
Ontario. 37 is the Great Plains. 38 is Big Horn Mountains.
39 is Connecticut river basin. 40, Spain. Got some good ones
there. I think we've got plenty in that area. 41, North Aus-
tralia. We don't know when to keep taking them or not. We're
taken alot of Spain and Italy and we're not sure that you
want us to keep shooting the film up on those, but rather save
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them for some of these others. 42 is Langila Volcano. 43 is

Germany. 44, Ohio. 45, East Malaysia. 46, West Malaysia.
CC Roger. We copy, AI. And we may have copied
something wrong. I like to go back to item 14. We've got two
14s, southwest New mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico.
CDR Well, what we had was 13 for southwest
New Mexico, 14 for Chihuahua, Mexico.
CC Was Veracruz clear o_er there?
CDR Yes. Now there's one of them here that we
had to go for an A. Let me find it and I'ii straighten - I think
I know what the problem is, if I can just find it.
CC I think that was 9. We have 9-A for
Baja, California.
CDR Yes, that's it. All the rest, we think
we just skipped one.
CC Okay. We got - -
CDR We don't know whether to just keep shooting -
it always seems that the same targets are visible all the time.
So we end up shooting alot of those and not too many of some
of these others. And we're wondering if you want us to keep
shooting those of which we had, maybe 5 or 6 or 7 or 8, like
we certainly do of Italy, or you want us to quit doing that
and work on some of these others even though we may never get
the others?
CC Okay. We'll try to get you an answer on
that.
CC O kay. No hurry. We got Italy real well
today and took a couple of Spain. And just good weather over
the Med today, so we got some real good pictures.
CC S kylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on the Canaries at 33.
CDR I was noticing, looking at the anomaly
reports for today, did - they're still concerned about the
flow in that duct from the AM back here. And if they got any
troubleshooting procedures, this might be a good day for us
to look down the duct or whatever they got on their minds.
It doesn't look like anything could get in there, but maybe it
could.
CC Okay. Egil's working on a plan for that,
I think, or let - they're trying to come up with something.

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SL-III MC-1787/I
Time: 08:49 CDT 44/13:49 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out

of range of Honeysuckle, Australia station. The next station
to pick up Skylab will be Canary Islands with overlapping coverage
through Madrid. That acquisition in 42-1/2 minutes. At
13 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC 1"788/1
Time: 09:32 CDT, 44/14:32 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours

32 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Canary Island tracking
station will acquire Skylab in about 30 seconds and there's
overlapping coverage through Madrid on this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid
for 13 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank, and Owen and I would like
you to have us - have you set up calls to our families this
evening, also. And one other thing is, like to have somebody
call over to the Harris County Youth Village and tell the
boys in my Sunday school class there that I'm thinking about
them this morning. Okay?
CC Okay, we'll work on that, Jack.
CDR And what time do you recommend that I
do that TV inventory? In other words, is it available now,
or is there a certain specific time you want me to do it?
CC We'll be scheduling that for tomorrow,
AI.
CDR Okay, so I shouldn't plan to do any TV
inventory today. Is that correct?
CC That' s correct.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC PLT, Houston. For info, I didn't get
it up to you. We had a subfaint flare around 12:50 in that
new active region 24, and we've now updated the flare probability
to 510 for that region.
PLT Okay, I noticed it's about the brightest
thing there so far and the PMEC has been fluctuating a little
bit, but not too much. So it's not giving us a whole lot
at the moment, but like you say, it might. We'll keep watching
it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re 1 minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 13.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of the Madrid station. The next station to
acquire Skylab will be Carnarvon in 26-1/2 minutes. At
14 hours 47 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC1789/I
Time: 10:12 CDT, 44/15:12 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours, 12 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on coverage
through the Canarvon, Australia station with overlapping
coverage through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Canarvon
and Honeysuckle for 15 " 15 minutes. Make that 14 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Whenever someone's
free, we'd like to swap our 150 psi N2 regs again on panel 225
to open reg A and close reg B, whenever's convenient.
CDR How about right now?
CC O kay. That'll be fine.
SPT Hank, could you confirm that the TV's rewound
and available for our use now?
CC We're discussing that now, Jack.
SPT ()kay, that was Owen calling. I really
don't need it now. I just wanted to make sure that whenever
we got around to doing that TV, that is was ready. There's
no hurry.
CC ()kay, Owen. We'll be in good shape with
that by the time we get ready for TV 54, if that's what your
question's about.
SPT Yeah, I was thinking I might have a chance
to start it early, but I didn't _ant to do it until I checked
with you and it sounds like I better wait until I get the
word from you.
CC Okay. We don't have quite a full VTR
ready for you. If you do it on time, we'll have the full
30 minutes available for you. If you do it earlier_ we won't
have a full recorder for you. I think we're only got about
23 minutes remaining now.
SPT Okay. That's fine. There's plenty things
for me to do until (garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. In answer to the question
the CDR had earlier on the hand-held photos, what we're doing
is each day on the details, we're scheduling those that we
think would be good for that day. However, we would like to
rely on your good judgment. And also in taking those photos,
if you see one of the sites that is wide open and the weather's
good, go ahead and take it. However, as CDR hinted to, we
don't want to overkill the thing either.
CDR Okay. Understand.
CDR Say Hank, maybe somebody down there knows
his history fairly well. We were looking out the window as we
whistled over Switzerland a while ago and a discussion came up as
to how Hannibal got from Spain to Italy. And one field of thought
was that he went over to Switzerland, in Geneva, and he cut
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through the Alps that way. The other one, was that he didn't
go up that far north - that he cut through sort of along the -
not along the coast, but only about a i00 miles inland, right
directly into Italy. Does anybody know the answer to that?
CC We'll check around.
CDR We thought maybe he might have gone south
of Turin into Italy from there. But we didn't know.
CC I don't know which way he went, but as I
recall, it's the same route that Napoleon used going over into
Italy.
CDR Okay. Maybe somebody can look that one up.
Now he came from France, he could've come either way - he could're
come the southern route or he could're had a detour right
adjacent to Switzerland and over the northern route. Whichever -
The reason we were wondering, we looked down in there_ and it
looked like there was a nice route through the Alps from Geneva
that looked like a result of - there's a road there and it looked
like a wide area natural roadway, almost all the way. Where it
didn't look that way over part - southerly route.
CC S kylab, Houston. We got a typical response
from FAO on that one. They suggested Swiss Air.
CDR Those elephants won't fit. Well
maybe they would in a 747, I don't know.

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CC Skylab, for info, active region 24 pro-

duced a subnormal at 14:50. It maxed out about 14:56.
CDR Okay.
PLT Which active region, Hank.
CC Roger. Active region - new active region 24.
It's a pretty interesting region, there, in its relationship with
active region 19. We might be getting ready to get some big things
out of those two groups. They look like they are pretty close
together and interacting.
PLT Sounds good. All we need now is a little
more activity. It's been so quiet in the last few weeks.
CDR Like bringing two slugs of uranium together
huh?
CC Yes, that's probably a pretty good analogy.
CC S kylab, Houston i minute to LOS. We'll
come up on Mila at 01.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of range
of the Honeysuckle station. And as the space station has loss
of signal, research is underway to find the answer to Skylab
Commander AI Bean's question, which route did Hannibal take
across the Alps into Italy. Computers here in the Mission
Control Center are not programed with that information, we'll
have to find another source. Next station to acquire Skylab
is the Merritt Island, Florida tracking station in 32 minutes.
At 15 hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1791/I !
Time: ii:00 CDT, 44/16:00 CDT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition
of Skylab through the Merritt Island, Florida tracking
station. Bermuda has overlapping coverage.
CC Skylab, Houston through Mila and Bermuda
for 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, I noticed we got 14K on our house-
keeping list today, and I don't have one of those listed
in my housekeeping book.
CC We'll check it.
CDR I got a 7K for checking out the temps
of the gyros.
PLT I don't have that on mine - -
CC We may have had a - a misprint on your
flight plan there, AI. We indicate it should be a 7K, a
14 Echo, a 14 Hotel, and a 28 Mike.
CDR May be, let me see now. I got a 3K,
a 14 Echo, and a 14 K. You think - and then a 20 Mike. What
did you say that 14K ought to be?
CC Boy, you missed all the way. The house-
keeping should be 7 Kelo, 14 Echo, 14 Hotel, and 28 Mike.
What is your message number there, AI?
CDR Oops, well maybe I'm - let me look.
Says 440183.
CC Those items should have been on the
second page, and the second page should be a Alpha 2.
CDR Just a second, let me get this started
again and I'ii be with you.
CDR Okay, I took a look at Owen's and his
is a little bit different than mine. He's got 7K, 14E, 14H.
Mine say 14K, and then it says - mine says 20M and Owen's
says 28M, but everything else is the same. So somehow
I got sent the wrong pad or something.
CC Okay
CDR Everything else, the offduty time and
all that other business is the same.
CC Well, Owen's pad is correct.
SPT First time this has ever happened that
we know of. Maybe I never caught - maybe I've been doing
some housekeeping - -
CDR Maybe that accounts for that one time
we didn't change the charcoal canister. We got to _talking
about it and asked you mentioned that we did it a week ago,
not you someone else. And man, I couldn't figure out where
it came up. So that's strange. I also noticed that my -
well, the only difference is this one in 14M. I got 14K and
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Owen's got 14H, so it's just a funny print I guess.

CC And understand Owen's has 28M and
that is correct.
CDR Yes. The next to the last one on
his is 14H and mine is 14 - Okay, thank you. I see where
my problem is. My left half of my H didn't print and the
right half did and it's next to the parenthesis and so
it makes a K. Okeydoke. I'll whistle up there and do 14H
in a few minutes.
CC Okay, and let me - let me verify now that
you say you got a 20M rather than 28M?
CDR I just didn't say the right words. In
fact, we've already done it. But we got it running right, I
just didn't say the right word.
CC Okay, and for info, we'll be scrubbing
EREP 19 this afternoon. The weather just won't cooperate.
CDR Okay.
CC And the only changes required in the pad
is to leave any reference to a back-to-back pass. And
on the VTS run we've told you not to use the DAC, but we'd
like to leave that to your option. You can go ahead and use it.
CDR Okay, we're going to use it then.
CC CDR, Houston. We have an addition to
your maneuver pad 4413 message.
CDR You call, Hank?
CC Roger, for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead then, Hank,
CC O kay, on your maneuver pad in the remarks
there we say we will give you a TACS inhibit time, that
EREP 19 is scrubbed. And since it's scrubbed, we got the time
for you if you're ready to copy.
CDR (garble)
CDR Just a second, Jack's getting his pad.
He - it really belong to him, I gave it to him. The VTS
man does the maneuvers.
CC Okay.
CDR He's getting it out.

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Time: ii:ii CDT, 44/16:11 GMT
9/9/73

SPT Which pad number is it, Hank?

CC Okay) 4413 Alfa. That's the first maneuver
pad for the EREP 18.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Down - down the middle of the pad
there's a TACs inhibit time under no remarks. We tell you we
give you a new one if we scrubb 19 and the new time is 252:21:49
zip, zip.
SPT Okay. I Got it. Thank you.
CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Madrid at 16.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Madrid will acquire Skylab in about 3 minutes.
We'll continue to keep the line for acquisition there. We
did inform the crew along toward the end of the Bermuda pass
that Earth Resources pass number 19, the second EREP pass
planned for today, has been cancelled because of bad weather
in the site areas. That's the Earth Resources survey that
was scheduled to begin at 3:46 pm Central daylight time and
last for 15 minutes over the northern section of the United
States and into Canada. Earth Resources pass number 18 is
still scheduled for today at this time. That pass will begin
at 02:04 pm Central daylight time. It's about a 30 minute
pass covering 7200 miles. Madrid will be acquiring Skylab
shortly. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for i0 min-
utes. And for information, there's a surge in progress out of
active region i0, over on the west limb.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I have all of your
private phone calls set up for this evening.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
CC Whenever you're free to copy the sites,
just give me a buzz.
CDR Okay. What you got for the CDR?
CC Okay. Guam at 01:15.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Go ahead for Jack, Hank.
CC Okay Jack. Honeysuckle at 21:53.
PLT 21:53. Thank you.
SPT Okay, I'Ii take mine too.
CC Canarvon at 01:02.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, for info, we're training
your replacements here today. We got a whole MOCR full of folks.
CDR Who'd you say was there, Hank?
CC We're running a film with Gerry's crew
today and I was just saying that we got a full MOCR. Got two
teams in here.
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CDR I bet you do. I got an extra 12 minutes.

I'ii go over and look at that surge. Does the back room have
any desires on what they'd like me to run when I get there?
CC Stand by i.
CDR I doubt you see it.
CC Say again, AI?
CDR You can see something above the limb right
there - I'm not sure you can't see it move. I'm going to have
to look at it a little bit more.

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SL-III MC-1793/I
Time: 11:21 CDT 44/16:21 GHT
9/9/73

CC CDR, Houston. We'd like for you to run

shopping llst item number 2 on active region 10. Omit
54. And the exposure time for the two 82B exposures are
40 seconds.
CDR Okay. That's just where I was as a matter
of fact. Thanks.
CDR You said 40 seconds?
CC Roger, 40.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS,
Carnarvon at 49.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will pick up Skylab in 24 minutes. Skylab
Commander A1 Bean is busy at the Apollo telescope mount console
photographing the surge in active re_ion i0 on the west limb
of the Sun. At 16 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1794/I
Time: 11:48 CDT 44/16:48 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion through Carnarvon with overlapping coverage with the
Honeysuckle, Australia station. We'll stand by for acquisi-
tion there.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, Honey-
suckle, 15 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR I can give you the temp of the rate
gyros if you like them.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. By the way, we've changed the air flow
up there slightly by narrowing the duct opening as opposed -
you know adjusting it to narrow instead of wide because
it was gettin_ fairly cool to operate the ATM panel. So you
might note some changes in the temps here. X, 5978, X, 6959;
Y, 5985, Y, 6944; Z-5, 1015, Z-6 1004.
CC We copy.
CC And while we're on the subject, CDR, there
is a message 4442 on board for rate gyro six pack temp
measurements all over the whole package. And in regard to
three of those measurements, number i, number 4, and number 7
as called out in that pad, we're advised that they may take
longer than the 1 minute to stabilize, and we just wanted to make
you aware of that. It may take up to 3 minutes they think
for the temperatures to stabilize out. And those particular
measurements, we want to be very sure that we have a good
stable temperature on measurements number i, 4, and 7 on the
pad.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy in regard to
the six pack measurements?
CDR I copied the 147 and replied it - (garble)
appeared to make thermal sense to us since we thought the delay
was in the sensor as opposed to the box.
CC The racks now behind - the request now was
that - We realize that the delay is in the sensor, but the step
I, 4, and 7 start you on a series of similar temperatures.
And the thinking was that once, on the first measurement in each
group, that once the probe got to that temperature that the
others ought to go a little faster.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Since we're only doing
one EREP today, housekeeping 84L-I will not be required. Later
on we will probably give you an OCV adjustment.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready.

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SL-III MC1795/I
Time: 11:59 CDT, 44/16:59 GMT
9/9/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

Texas at 35.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
had loss of signal with Skylab. Next station to acquire will
be Texas in 29 minutes. At 17 hours, 6 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1796/I
Time: 12:34 CDT, 44,/17:34 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Texas tracking station now for a pass over the
Continental United States; we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston we're stateside for
14-1/2 minutes, and we'll be dumping the recorder this
time.
PLT Okay, Hank, and we just thought of
two things that Gerry might ought to think about bringing
up. One thing we seem to need around here is a whetstone
to keep our knives sharp. Another thing is something to
clean the smudges off the windows with, water just doesn't
do the trick. After a while, why you can get a handprint
or something on it and just smear it around.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And another question; I noticed there's
a sensitometry advance out on the pad for our EREP today.
Is this the first time we've used this load of film?
CC That's affirmative.
CC And, also CDR, the - since it is a
new set of film you might be aware of the possibility of
getting some malf lights until the film gets all tightened
up. And, SPT, Houston. We have your flight plan to do
the T50 - TV54 for your magnetic torques demonstration on the
next nightside pass. And we're considering calling up the
television circuits so that this can be used on nationwide
TV tonight, and we'd need to know if you think you'll get
to it. We'll only be able to dump the first 8 minutes of
tape in time for use tonight. And so it would be best not
to start the VTR until you have your magnets all set up.
SPT Okay, yes, I can get at it. And don't
want to mislead you about what the demonstration is. It's
not the magnetic torques demonstration that is in the flight
plan but a demonstration of magnetic effects with the small
magnets, so make sure that's understood. And I can get
at it if you like. And one other comment; just before sun-
rise we had a fairly good aurora down in the Australian zone
looking to the south out through STS window number 3. The
color was tending to be yellowish brown, apparently had
a little more red in it than some of the other auroras.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT And we have some photographs of it too,
of course.
CC And, SPT. As a reminder we need a
Nu Z update.
SPT Thank you. I had it on my mind but I
forgot it when we got to talking there.
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Time: 12:34 CDT, 44/17:34 GMT
9/9/73

CC And, Skylab, Houston. We did a little

research here on Hannibal. And with the help of Dr. James
A Tinseley, Head of University of Houston's History Department,
we contacted Dr. Rogerb Geisberg, Professor at the University
of Houston History Department, and also Dr. Katherine Drew,
who's Chairman of the Rice University, History Department and
they provided the following information: They said that -
that which pass Hannibal took from France to Italy has
never been clearly identified by historians. The most
probable location for the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal
in 218-217 BC were the Little St. Bernard Pass which is at
7,178 foot altitude, and the Col de Montegenevre Pass,
I suppose that's the way you say that, I'm not sure, and
that's 6,089 feet. Both of those passes go into the upper
courses of the Po River system. Most historians tend
to believe it was the latter, the Col de Montegenevre Pass
which is about 50 miles west southwest of Turin, and 95
miles south southeast of Geneva.
CDR That' s very interesting, Hank. We' ii
have to check our maps since those two paths are not
immediately obvious to me at any rate. And there was several
very good valleys or passes through the mountains there that
we were looking at. And we'll see if we can 'identify
those two alternatives on our chart.
CC Okay, I can give you the coordinates
for those passes if that'll help.
CDR Not - at least for the moment. Let us
take a look at the map again, and if we have another question
maybe call you back. And I appreciate all the extra research
done there. Don't feel quite so badly about not having
it on the tip of my tongue after the effort you seemed to
have gone through to dig the information out.
CC And I was wrong about Napoleon, he used
the Great St. Bernard Pass.
SPT What time is that real time dump you
were interested in, Hank?
CC S rand by i.
CC SPT, Houston. We will be dumping that
on the next stateside pass which will be coming up at about
19:10.
SPT Maybe I didn't understand whether or
not you wanted it on tape before 19:10 or you wanted to
do it real time without putting it on the tape?
CC Negative. We want to get it on the VTR
but we would only be able to dump about the first 8 minutes
of it on the next stateside. See we have to get it down so
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the news can edit it.

CDR Okay, and you want it then before 19:10.
Okay, I think I can make it.
CC You know, if you do it on schedule
we'll beat that.
CDR Okay, and I'ii remember to try to compress
it.

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SL-III MC-1797/I
Time: 12:44 CDT 44/17:44 GMT
9/9/73

CC S Blab, Houston. We have your reg adjust

finished for you for prior to EREP.
CDR Go ahead. Do you want us to put those
in there now?
CC Any time prior to EREP. And be sure you
mark the original settings before you move them. And we want
to turn reg adjust bus i, if you can estimate this, 19 degrees
clockwise, bus 2 18 degrees clockwise.
CDR We can do it. And we'll go do it right now.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS. Madrid
at 54.
CDR Okay, Hank, they are both adjusted. EGIL
might have noticed that I overshot on 2 and put it at 19 first,
but I put it back to 18.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC He said he noticed that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Madrid will acquire Skylab in about 3-1/2 min-
utes. During this pass over the United States we passed up
the information that the crew has asked for about Hannibal
crossing the Alps. With the help of history scholars from
the University of Houston and Rice University we told the
crew that historians have never clearly identified which pass
in the Alps that Hannibal took from France to Italy, but
we gave them the most probable loeations, a little St. Bernard
pass and a second pass I'ii spell for the newsmen who may
have heard the Capcomm passing it up, capital C 0 L d e M O N-
T E G E M E V R E. Most historians believe that it was the
latter pass that Hannibal used. We'll keep the line up for
the Madrid acquisition which should occur in about 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 min-
utes.
CDR I was just looking over this EREP downlink
box connection. As you know we've got two dots there, kind
of an orange one and kind of a - we've got four total, but
one of them is sort of orange and the other one is sort of
violet. And (garble) is a red dot, which is right next to
them when they've got the J numbers of the connectors. I wonder
which one of them is the red one is they are thinking of?
CC We'll check it.
CDR It's either J3 or J2. That might be a good
thing to always put on the pad because they are written right
there and those two colors are pert near the same.
CC J2 should be the red one.
CDR 2, okey doke. That's kind of the orange one.
CC C DR, Houston. We'd llke to run another
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Time: 12:44 CDT 44/17:44 GMT
9/9/73

CBRM check on number 18. You think you can get that
started this rev?
CDR Okay, will do. 18, and you want us
to check the reg first and then we'll turn off the charger
at night fall.
CC Roger. If you'll check the regs prior to
sunset this pass, which is about 7-i/2 minutes from now, and then
just follow your checklist. And some time after sunset, we'll
turn the reg off and we'll try to have some times up for you
here. The note free time will be 20:13 Zulu.
CDR Okay. And I just checked the reg and
it checks good.
CC Okay. And the sunset for step i is at
18:04. And sunrise for step 3 will be 18:40.
SPT Are you recording ATM TV now? Are you
ready for it, Hank?
CC We're ready for it. And you need to get
your switch to monitor.
SPT (garble)
CC CDR, Houston. The reason we're doing
another one of these things is that the data we got
yesterday on CBRM i0 showed a capacity a little lower than
we had expected. And so we want to get a third - that was
our third data point on bat i0, and we want to get another third
data point on 18 and see what it does. And we're still looking
at it.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III MC1798/I
Time: 13:00 CDT, 44/18:00 GMT
9/9/73

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.

Canarvon at 39.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Madrid station
has loss of signal. The next station to pick up Skylab will
be Carnarvon and then Honeysuckle, Australia. At 18 hours,
2 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1799/I
Time: 13:28 CDT, 44/18:28 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours, 28 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by through Canarvon
for communications with Skylab.
SPT Explain it. If I put on two of these,
as closely as I can together, and then perturb it with a
third magnet, you'll see that they begin to spin princibly
about the long axis. There I can make it spin about an axis
perpendicular to the rod. But for the most part, they end up
spinning about the minimum inertial axis. Like that. You'll
see it spins about the long axis. A1 - alternatively, when
I put three out here, and then align it with field, and then
perturb it - Have to bring them back in where it needed more
turbling.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
4-1/2 minutes and we hear you recording or something there, Owen.
SPT Okay. I think, Hank, we have channels A
and B tied together already, and so I'm just completing
the voice part of the VTR tape right now. So you'll probably
continue to hear me but it'll be on the VTR.
CC Okay.
SPT Three magnets, we see that the principle oscil-
lation turns out to be in a plane perpendicular to the plane
of those three magnets. Okay, we'll look one more time at the
period of oscillation here for a single magnet.
SPT And then when we connect two magnets
together - endwise, the period is much longer. And we can extend
that even to three rods if we like. And there the period is
very clear and can be measured rather accurately. And it's
worth the calculation to find out whether or not you can compute
how strong the Earth's field is up here at the altitude of
Skylab, or you can - if you already know that, you can get the
inertion on these rods that we're using as our little compass.
Now I'ii try this perturbation of magnets that we were looking
at a moment ago. And when we put out two of the rods, we know
that they aren't going to align with the Earth's field very
strongly; we can perturb them with a third magnet. And when we
do, they tend to oscillate about the long - they tend to rotate
about long axis of this pair of magnets. However, when we
couple them with a third magnet, so we put the three out here
together, in sort of a flat configuration, they, of course,
line up with the Earth's field, right off. And we try to per-
turb them with a third magnet, which we could - with a fourth
magnet, which we can do, they end up producing a flat spin.
And the explanation for that is something that I'm not aware of.
And it was a puzzle to me when I first saw it here the other
day. And perhaps you can talk that over in your science classes
and figure out a good explanation.
SPT Yes. Hello, Hank. You still with me there?
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Time: 13:28 CDT, 44/18:28 GMT
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CC R oger.
SPT Okay. We've got about 8 or i0 minutes on
the VTR here, and we'll rewind it if you like. Or you can
do it on the ground if you're ready to dump.
CC Are you going to put anymore on it, Owen?
SPT No, I think I've sort of condensed it down
to the point where it's ready to be dumped.
CC O kay. Why don't you go ahead and give us
a rewind then. And we're about a minute from LOS; we may have
us a short pass through Honeysuckle here at 40. If we don't
get that, then we'll be at Texas at i0 passed the hour.
SPT Okay. And I guess you' re going to dump it
over the next (garble) pass, right?
CC That's - that's affirmative.
SPT Okay. Fine.
CDR Okay, Hank. We did start of a charger check
on ATM. I just turned off the charger and also turned off - put
the VTR in rewind, so it's rewinding right now.
CC Okay. Thank you, AI.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon had loss
of signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in about 6 minutes.
During this pass over Carnarvon, we had sort of an audio preview
of the science demonstration that Science Pilot Owen Garriott
is putting on the video tape recorder - demonstration of magnetic
effects. That video tape will be dumped over the Texas station
on this upcoming stateside pass. We do have lines into the
Texas station that will be brouBht back to Houston in real time
as it is dumped. At 18 hours, 35 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC'I800/I
Time: 13:40 CDT 44/18:40 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle is about to
acquire the Skylab space station. We'll stand by there.
CDR CDR out. That's for EREP.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for about
a minute and a half through Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay, Hank. How do you like the (garble)
ZLV maneuver?
CC That looks good to us.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Hello, Hank, the film cassettes CII02 in
Nikon 03 is now up to frame 63, and I'd like to get it
changed so that we can catch the Aurora on the next pass.
We just missed a couple of good shots of the Aurora here due
to that TV program, and I think we should have another good view
of it the next rev. If you will give me a new changeout, I'ii
change the film.
CC Okay, that was 102 in Nikon 2?
CDR It was the Nikon 03, for the CII02.
PLT Say Hank, I noticed that we're going right
over Lansing, Michigan, which is one of our sites (garble)
the weather is bad and that's why we're not doing it, is that
correct?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal after a very short pass. Next station to pick
up Skylab will be Texas in 28 minutes. When we get acquisition
at Texas, Skylab should have begun the Earth resources pass
for today. Data on that pass scheduled to start at 2:04 p.m.
central daylight time while Skylab is still over the Pacific
Ocean southwest of Baja California. Data will be taken across
Mexico and the United States and into Canada, and end out over
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Thirteen targets sites are in this
30 minute, 7200-mile data pass. Some of the uses for this
data will be identifying irrigated croplands and lands which
should be irrigated in Mexico, data over wheatfields in Okla-
homa, data which will help identify terrain characteristics
from space, significant weather activity, cloud top pressures,
ocean surface winds and sea states and some mapping resources.
The second Earth Resources pass that had been planned for today,
has been cancelled because of weather. We'll come back up just
prior to acquisition at Texas. At 18 hours 44 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MCI801/I
Time: 14:07 CDT, 44/19:07 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours

7 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab will soon be within
range of the Texas tracking station. The Earth Resources
pass should have started about 3 minutes ago, and the crew
should be on VOX, Voice Operated Microphone Mode, talking
to each other. We should be picking up that conversation
within the next minute or so. Also during this Texas pass
we will receive television from the video tape recorder which
will be brought directly into Houston from the Texas station.
This is a science demonstration by Science Pilot Owen Garriott,
a demonstration of magnetic effects. We'll stand by for
the first conversation through Texas.
PLT (garble) Back. (garble) clouds, nice
flat (garble). Just see a few little blue channels in it,
very faintly blue. Okay, lets get off of that one.
CC Skylab, we're marking you for 16 minutes
stateside.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. There's some more coastal craters.
CDR A2 is 93 percent, B4 was 98, C1 max was 87.
PLT I'm on my second group of coastal (garble)
clouds. Set the point.
CDR B is out. B is on again. Go out at
11:32. And we're going to record AI, A2; B1 and C-I - C-4.
PLT Okay, we're coming down through 15
which is where we're getting the good data.
CDR Okay, ready out AI. 54, A2, 93, BI, 45,
C4, 98, 93A to STANDBY. MODE to i. 1236, we got to
go 192 IIODE to READY.
PLT I got you some coastal craters, we'll try
to find some more.
PLT There's some more coastal craters for you.
CDR Okay, 192 just went MODE READY.
CDR AUTO to 29. MODE AUTO.
CDR 13 downlink vox to 3. 251300, downlink
vox to 3. MARK. Downlink vox went to 3. READY light out
at 13:14. This is it. Downlink vox 1324 to 5.
PLT okay, space fans, we just crossed
the tip of Baja, we're coming up over Mexico. Over the Big
Bend country. You're into the Bend and the Rio Grande.
And then we're coming up over - just north of Fort Worth,
Dallas, up over St. Louis, Detroit, and up through Canada.
CDR Okay. Switch position 7 on the downlink vox.
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We have two mal lights in the 190 unit, 5, and 6, but we're
not worried about them.
PLT A uniform site, plus or minus 5 crosstrack
at 14:30. Okay -
PLT Hang on good here a minute and (garble)
seconds.
CDR MARK. Downlink vox at 12 - up at the
position 9 now.
PLT (Garble) clouds, I guess is what they're
lookin_ for.
PLT (garble) riKht here.
CDR (garble) 32, 3, 4, 5, 6, MODE. Check
on 192, 190, and MODE STANDBY, frame 7.
PLT (Garble) pick that hole in the clouds,
right there.
CDR Valometer I0 - 15 minutes, 193A ON.
PLT (Garble) this air field down there -
(garble)
CDR MARK. 193A ON. C20 ... SINGLE on 190.
PLT I'm going to pick a uniform ground site
to track at the moment, and then later on I'll pick a uniform
green site.
PLT We're near some city, and I don't know
what it is. (Garble) air field.
CDR MARK. SINGLE.
PLT I'm going through gimbal 30, and I want
somebody to tell me where that city is.
PLT IIARK. Gimbal's up 30. Tell me what that
city is. I know exactly where we're tracking. I'm tracking
that brown field at the moment, and a brown uniform site.
CDR 15:40 MARK. Okay, record A-2 at 54; A-2,
92. C-4, 99, - or 98, hard to tell. 846, 192, MODE READY.
PLT Got a hole in the clouds. That's what
we're shooting through.
PLT Okay (Garble) track ...
PLT l'm going to move up here a little bit
and get that green site.
CDR (Garble)
PLT (Garble) green site?
PLT Okay, I'm tracking the green site now,
Houston.
PLT I'm now on the green (garble). We're
going through 20 - minus 20, that is.
PLT Okay, there, we're off it.
PLT Okay, 17:20 (garble). Up to 45 to find
a thunderstorm.
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CDR MARK. MODE READY. At 192.

CDR SINGLE on 190.
PLT Yeah, the weather ain't much good down
there, Hank.
CC Sounds good.
PLT Huh?
CC You say, it's no good?
PLT Not much good. No, I like - -
CDR Single weather - -
PLT All across the track.
CDR - - we think.
PLT See a low down there.
CDR 17:20 another single.
CDR Another single.
CDR 17:20 - -
PLT Well, I don't see a thunderstorm. (Garble)
CDR Check.
PLT - - don't see a thunderstorm. Look around
here.a little bit.
CDR 17:32. MODE SINGLE.
CDR That's it. Another single.
CDR MODE AUTO, at 18:23 ....
PLT I don't see a thunderstorm, Hank.
CC We copy.
PLT Got a lot of (garble) cirrus. Probably
I00 or somewhere and I can't see much (garble), but we'll
keep looking. We've got another couple of minutes to look -
says here.
CDR Okay, _IODE AUTO.
CDR (Garble) malfunction lights 5 and 6 remain
on. All the others are out.
CC PLT, our best guess is you may have
been looking at Abilene.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CDR STANDBY at 19.
PLT Stand by.
CDR S to STANDBY and R to STANDBY. Every-
thing's ready. 1930 READY. (Garble) should be OUT.
PLT Okay, landin_ is clear and I got the site.
CC ...
CDR (Garble) 19 --
PLT DAC with the thunderstorm, if you
don't mind. We're transferring tracking site 535. No
question about it.
CDR 190, 1930, READY. OUT.
PLT I got the (garble) on the bigger scale
than that.
CDR (Garble) The 192 }lODE READY.
PLT I got - still got a - 15 gimbals to go.
Til we get to zero.
PLT I got the DAC going.
CDR (Garble) mode, Ready.
CDR MODE READY.
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PLT It's all the way in.

CDR 190 to STANDBY.
PLT And we're taking data.
CDR (Garble) Valometer 20.
PLT Had to hunt around a little, but I
found it.
CDR 20 (Garble)
PLT Found my old hometown of Grand
Rapids, first, and ran down the highway.
CDR 2053 is 190 MODE AUTO.
PLT Say hello to all the folks at the Univer-
sity of - MichiF, an State University, Lansing, the capital
of my home state. Michigan State University is second big
- second best school in the big i0.
CDR MARK - -

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MS (Garble)
PLT (Garble) have only been bitten by
the fighting (garble).
PLT Okay. Let me see if I can find you a
thunderstorm, now Hank_
CC Okay.
CDR 20:53.
PLT - - uplink Ontario at the moment but there's
no, (garble) I've never seen thunderstorms there at all.
I'd rather have Lansing anyway. Wouldn't you? That EREP guys
the best (garble).

CDR Load AUTO and 190, 191 is rest two.

Record A-2 and C-4, I think I can do that.
CDR (Garble)
PLT Thunderstorms are all disapated (garble)
CDR D4 is 98.
PLT But I'ii take Lansing any day, Hank.
CDR 21:30 is 190 shutter speed medium.
PLT Okay, ZLV is what time? 34, you've got all
kinds of time.
CDR (garble). 21:52 MOD to STANDBY.
PLT How would like a little data in one of
these lakes uphere? Kind of a - some data on one of these
lakes, then I'd know what it is. Taking data on a lake right
now, Hank. And that's minus 26.
CDR Okay, STANDBY. -
PLT (Garble)
CDR 192.
SPT That'll be Ontario -
CDR 22:40 -
PLT Okay, we took some data on Lake Ontario,
there, Hank.
CDR 22:40 READY out.
PLT Swing up here, see if I can find anything
else to take some data on. Coping Hank?
CC Say, again Jack?
PLT We (garble) data on Lake Ontario.
CC Roger. We Copy.
PLT l'm going to take some data on the uniform
green areas. Woops, ran out of gimbals. I can't do that.
Find something else here.
CDR 90 STAND BY.
PLT Aw heck, all I see is clouds. I know I'ii
take you some data on cirrus clouds, l'm at gimbal angle
45 and coming down right now on some cirrus clouds, Hank.
That's just for the - have somebody to mark the time. That
was 23 minutes.
CC Copy.
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PLT And about where the area is and where it

appears on the data. I guess we're going to miss hunting
season this year Hank. And this kind about the best thing
to makes up for it. Just to hunt around for - extra VTS sites.
CC Roger.
PLT You better shoot me some of those
Doves down at (garble), this year. Okay?
CC (Garble)
PLT (Garble) our old buddy, - Don (garble). Okay.
CC We'll do.
PLT Okay, I took you from - I still got time,
I'm going to you some data o_ clear water. Okay they were - -
PLT MARK, where glmbal 35, taking data on
clear water.
CDR In the Atlantic Ocean.
PLT Yes.
PLT Think we're not sure -
CDR S on R on and A off, 25 - -
PLT All of this time the DAC is off there is
no documentation as you requested. But a - I just want you
guys to know what's going on this - S191, you'll be able to
interpret the data. We sail on blue water. First college
football games yesterday, huh Hank?
CDR (garble) R on, A off.
CC (garble) they had a few of them. I guess
Nebraska - UCLA was the big one.
PLT Yeah, I heard. (garble) wait a long time
to go PLD. Okay, I'm not taking data on blue water. (garble)
like here.
CC O kay, we're about 1 minute from LOS and
we'll be coming up on Madrid at 31 for the recorder dump.
CDR, PLT Okay.
PLT Taking some more data on (garble) over the
Atlantic, here, Hank. (garble) now. Be there - oh I'ii stay
they're straight as - gimbal 36, coming down. Yeah, they're
wavy (garble) seems pretty good now. They've got a lot of
wrinkles in them.
CDR Say, Hank. Does the EREP officers see
any reason to take out the magazine on these back to back
passes on the ETV?
PLT No back to back. Back to back cancelled.
CDR You read me, O? He's departed for
Madrid. He's making a fast trip to Madrid to meet us there.
PLT Okay, for the record this is the VTS
operator S091, we're taking data on a - (garble) over the
Atlantic, a very lazy pattern - -
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PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean

time 19 hours 27 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda, next
acquisition will be Madrid. As the Skylab-lll crew completed
the 18th EREP pass of the mission. This was a 70 - 72 hundred
mile EREP pass which began over the city of La Paz on the
southern tip of the lower California penninsula across Mexico,
cross the Rio Grande River at Presidio, Texas and continued
a northeasterly direction. Spacecraft flew over Wichita Falls,
Texas, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Joplin, Missouri, and a little
north of St. Louis, Springfield, Illinois, South Bend, Indiana,
Jackson, Michigan. Next acquisition will be Madrid, - when's
our next acquisition - in approximately 2 minutes. We'll
leave the line up for this pass over Madrid.

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9/9/73

PLT ... Atlantic ... in the water - blue water

down there. Nothing different. Not enough to get any data,
but at least you can calibrate our instrument a little
bit. (garble) gimbal i0. (garble) Abilene back there; I'm
going to look that up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We didn't see an
AUTO CAL on 191. Did you get one of those?
CDR Sure did.
CC Copy.
SPT Give you another one if you want it.
PLT I had the data push button depressed
part of that time, Hank. Should we redo it?
CC Stand by i.
PLT Say again.
CC Stand by.
PLT Okay.
PLT Taking data over the Atlantic and the
blue water. We've taking a bunch of different kinds of
clouds. The cumulus buildup, a couple of stratus layers,
with a waffle weave patterns in them. Linear features in
them. Okay. MARK. That's the end of that.
PLT And now we're going to take some more
data in this high thin cirrus. There we are, we're taking
data in the cirrus. MARK. Normal sunset.
CC That AUTO CAL was okay,
PLT Okay .... It looks like the data
isn't too much good because of the wrong shutter, but we'll
take it anyway.
CDR Tape recorder was on. They must be
dumping.
PLT (garble)
CDR Dumping the tape recorder or has it
just reached the end of its roll.
CC It's a data voice dump.
PLT Okay.
PLT No, right in the middle of a voice pass.
CDR 3350.
PLT 19 (garble)
SPT That was 71 frames for the EREP officer
on the ETC and I notice there's no (garble) on my schedule.
Do you want to leave that in the window until tomorrow.
CDR We got a preview of that one. Yep. A
great one.
SPT Hello Hank. Did you read my last?
CC That's affirmative. We were checking,
Owen, and we do want to leave it in the window.
SPT Thank you.
PLT How do you like the load time for the
maneuver back to SI, Hank?
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CC It looks good to us.

PLT Okay. We're standing by ready to go.
CDR Okay. There's the time and there's
the switch. I got my eye on the switch.
CDR R OFF. S OFF. R OFF. You're getting
ready to start the SI maneuver.
PLT Yes, sir. Three seconds.
CDR And I'm going to down (garble) to OFF.
PLT MI. MARK. We're on our way to SI, Hank.
CDR EREP STOP.
CC Okay.
PLT That's it. No (garble) in; no ... out.
CDR We will now dump this tape recorder.
CDR Down load it.
CDR Off loaded and all that other.
PLT Okay. Voice record B-7.
CDR B-7 is 31 percent. 192 door to CLOSE.
Close and latch 190 window. Can you latch it on that side, Jack.
PLT Yes• sir.
PLT Hank, on that last (garble) site, I
picked a - There's several different fields in that area
and I picked the biggest one as a request and it was on the
south side of the site. I'd say it was the southwest side
of the site. And it was a dark green field.
CC We copy.
PLT For the ground troop people.
PLT What the heck are they growing down
there that's green this time of the year?
CDR Alfalfa maybe.
PLT Maybe it was that guys hayfield.
Might have been a hayfield, Hank.
PLT This is only September. The corn
ought to be - I don't think the corn's probably green any-
more.
PLT I guess the wheat is in by now.
PLT We're on our way. The next thing is
TACS INHIBIT at 21:49.
PLT 21:49. I copy. On the TACS INHIBIT,
Hank.
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay.
PLT Got my little plus or minus 2 minute
timer.
CDR ...
CDR Another AUTO CAL on 191.
CDR (garble) power OFF. Two minutes 26
seconds.
PLT Okay. I'ii see what Hank wants me to
do with this VTS business.
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PLT Black out there now. Wow.

PLT Okay. Zero, zero on the gimbals.
CDR Hank, on this new procedure for turning
off 191, where we're (garble) on AUTO CAL and then 2 minutes
and 26 seconds later go to POWER OFF. Is that 2/26 critical
or could it be 2/30 or 2-40?
CC Stand by I. I'ii get the answer on that.
PLT It's supposed to be right on the money.
I think it's -
CDR That's what I think. But I don't think ...
PLT ... 4 seconds or so off.
CDR I think it's only for storage, during
the last time we do it. That's why I was wondering.
PLT No, it's supposed to be that amount of time
every time.
CDR Every tlm_ huh?
PLT Every blinking time. Right.
CC CDR, that has to be done on time,
because that's what (garble), I think.
CDR That's kind of what I was wondering.
We'll get it. Approaching 2 minutes right now. 2/26,
we're going to park it.
PLT Fifteen of it.
PLT It's supposed to get a ready light
when it's done?
CDR MARK. No you don't.
PLT Oh, that's right.
CDR Just when it finishes.
CDR Okay, ... completed.
CDR And we turned that off. I noticed
I cycled the power switch on 190 before I did the four
frames and 5 and 6 still came on, so apparently there's
still something a little strange there. We'll count the
counters and see how they did.
CC Okay. And we're about I minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 17. And for the
SPT, he can use Charlie India 104 for Nikon, and from
the film reports that we've had the previous days, we think
that 103 was the one that on there.
SPT Okay. I'ii check to make sure. We
might have not (garble.
PLT 104's the new one.
CC That's in drawer Hotel, incidentally.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich
mean time 19 hours 40 minutes. Loss of signal over the
Madrid tracking station at the close of the 18th EREP
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pass. The vehicle has returned to solar inertial attitude

following the 32 minute pass. Next acquisition will be
Honeysuckle in 36 minutes from now at 19 hours 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1804/I
Time: 15:16 CDT, 44/20:16 GMT
9/9/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean

time 20 hours 16 minutes. We will have acquisition at
Honeysuckle in approximately 49 seconds. During this period
since the EREP pass number 19 has been scrubbed, Commander
Bean has a 90-minute off-duty period, as well as Science
Pilot, Owen Garriott. Pilot, Jack Lousma will spend approxi-
mately 90 minutes of this period - this pass, at the Apollo
telescope mount control and display panel. We anticipate
acquisition at Honeysuckle. We'll hold the line open for
this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle
for 4-1/2 minutes. And I have a - something for the PLT.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, when you finish up your JOP 6,
step two here, we're suggesting that you do some observa-
tions on active region 24. And, what we'd like for you
to do is - if it's okay with you, is to go to the tele-
printer fail JOPs, and do JOP 2-A, steps 4 and 7, and I
have some data here for you for those JOPS whenever it's
convenient for you to copy.
PLT Okay, let me get this one going first,
please.
CC Okay, I'll stand by for you.
CC And, for the CDR, or SPT, or whoever's
free, we'd like to return the REG ADJUST POT to the pre-
EREP setting.
SPT I think Al's on his way up there, Hank.
And while Jack's waiting, let me mention a couple of things.
First of all, I just did misread. It was CI0 - CII03 in
there. Cll04's now loaded in Nikon 03, and we have an
excellent southern aurora right now. I've been getting
a fair number of handheld shots, particularly this last
pass, it was particularly outstanding. Green region low
altitude's shading into reds into higher altitudes up
around 200 - 250 kilometers. A lot of structures seen in
the arc, and vertical rays - a lot of structures. I wonder
if this wouldn't be a good time to at least consider put-
ting in the AMS and the SO63 adapter and getting some
horizon shots or - while we are in this period of high
auroral probability due to the flares that occurred a day
and a half or 2 days ago. Over.
CC Okay, we'll put that in the hopper.
SPT Okay, we'll, it'll have to be done
fairly promptly, like, probably sometime til - (garble)
still this evening, and not first thing in the morning.
if we're going to have a good chance at it.
CC And, when it's convenient, PLT, we'd
like to get a readout on BAT 18 for correlation with
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telemetry.
CC Bat volts on 18.
CDR About 30 volts, and last night it came
down to about 28.1 and then the Sun came up, so that's
when it kicked off, 5 or i0 minutes into the next night.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, Hou - -
SPT Hey, Hank, I just got JOP 2 Alpha (garble)
in front of me here.
CC Okay, on step 4, we want to omit 82A,
82B, and 54. On step 7, omit 82A, and 54. And the exposures
for 82B are i0 seconds, and 40 seconds. On S055, we want
mirror auto raster detectors i, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 5, grading
2, 4, 3, 6.
SPT Okay, I understand you want me to run
a building - step 4 and a step 7. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay, and omit 82A and B and 54, and
then omit 82A and 54 on step 7.
CC That's correct, and did you - did you
copy the exposures and the S055 data?
SPT Roger. i0 short, 40 short - i through 6,
and 2436.
CC That's affirmative, and we're just
about LOS. We'll be coming up on Ho - Goldstone at 46.
SPT Okay, on the VT - how many minutes
you got yet?
CC We're just about ready to go LOS.
SPT Okay, I'Ii talk to you at Goldstone.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
20 hours 23 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Science
Pilot, Owen Garriott requested instructions to possibly
take photographs of the aurora, which he - they have been
observing during the last nightside pass. The aurora's
caused by the recent flares on the Sun, and they asked if
they couldn't arrange to put a camera in the scientific
airlock, possiby, and take some photographs Of the aurora.
The ground will look at the procedures and pass them up,
possibly, at the Goldstone pass, which is scheduled to
come in 21 minutes and 30 seconds from now. Here at Mission
Control Center, the rendezvous simulation with the Skylab
crew, for Skylab IV, crew of Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson, and
William Pogue, the simulation continues here in the Mission
Control Center, with Flight Director, Phil Shaffer and
Astronaut CAP COMM, Dick Truly. The sim is scheduled to
run until at least 7:00 p.m. this evening, and brief - de-
briefings of that sim are scheduled for another hour and a half -
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2 hours following the completion of the simulation. Here

at Mission Control Center, Greenwich mean time 20 hours
24 minutes. Next acquisition will be Goldstone in 20
minutes. This is Skyla5 Control, Greenwich mean time 20
hours 25 minutes.

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Time: 15:45 CDT, 44/20:45 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greewnwich mean time

20 hours 45 minintes. Acquisition coming up shortly at
Goldstone as the spacecraft concludes it's 1706 revolution
of the Earth since the Skylab workshop was launched on May 14th
from Cape Kennedy. We'll hold the line open for CAP COMIM
Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
9-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank, wanted to comment on of the ETS pad.
Now I see that (garble) and St. Lawrence seaway request. Til
after I got done and I started putting my paper work away,
and that's going to show up on the remarks on the end of the
flight plan. Now anything like that ought to be on the end
VTS operators pads. And that way we won't miss it. Over.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston. We can't find where you're
referring too about the St. Lawrence Seaway?
CC Okay, we've got it now. It's right on
the flight plan itself. That's a bad place for it.
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Okay, I see where you're talking about
now.
PLT Yeah, that's a place you don't ordinarily
look for VTS stuff and it's really the same kind - exactly
the same kind of data that's used on the VTS pads for every
other site we got so I think that's where it ought to be,
that way we'll see it.
CC Okay, now the - this Adams air per CDR's
request, to put the sites on the pad the night before. Why
it did not appear in the pass itself, I don't know.
PLT Yeah, I agree that's a good idea to have
the sites in there, however, it just got over looked and
a - (garble) on the VTS pad I guess the subject no longer
a good one or something like that.
CC Okay, we dropped that one out on weather,
Jack. And a - I - apparently the weather didn't clear enough
for you to see it, but what we do is we send the flight plan
up of course like this evening we sending one up and on it will
be the sites we think we're going to get tommorrow, and over
night we find if the weather has changed, we may not put
those in the detail pads.
PLT Okay, Hank. I understand now. We don't
want to change that idea of putting the sites in the pads before
that gives us a chance to research (garble) although I didn't
do that last night because I was Just too busy but understand
how that got dropped off now from weather. Although, I'm
not sure how the weather was in that area. So it's just a
a misunderstanding about the part that the - you cancelled it
overnight.
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CC Roger.
PLT I recognized that you had wanted it
on today you would have put it on the VTS pad and so everything
squared away let before I never said anything, so forget it,
okay?
CC Okay, we'll do. And on the M518, control
box, we'll like to get the cartridge temp to hot i.
PLT Hot i.
CC And if you remember SPT, could you tell
us what the frame count wound up on the ETC.
SPT Just a minute 71 and I did call it down on
the channel, I guess you didn't get it.
CC Okay, thanks.
CC And CDR Houston, during the EREP pass
there, did you happen to notice if you said you had a couple
of miles on the stations 5 and 6, did it appear that the
film was advancing in those two cassettes, two cameras.
SPT Yes, sir. We checked them all afterwards,
they all said the same number of frames, Hank. So it looks
like still (garble) next time we drag it out it'll be better.
CC Okay, thank you. Okay, in answer to the
SPT's query about doing the S063 on horizon - we would prefer
not to do that because we're down to just a few frames of film
remaining.
SPT I was thimking of that too, we could use
the CI film and a - CI camera.
CC Okay, we'll see how that goes through.
SPT Garble) CI.
CC And I have a general question reguarding to
the battery life time on our pistol thermometer_ we'd like to
know what's your technique is in taking the readings with
thermometers, another words, how long and how many times is the
red push button depressed per measurement?
CDR Okay, Hank. You got me just when I was
doing right behind the rate gyro pack. The a - we punched -
we push it against the wall - the sensor bulb against the wall,
wait about 30 seconds, then punch the button, hold the button
down for i0 or 15 seconds while you watch the numbers, see if
the numers have stabilized, are they going up or down or what
they are doing. If they're stablized, then that's about a hit,
and then you take the number and go to the next. If they're not
you turn the button off and wait for another 30 seconds and
turn it on and check it again. And if you want to get increase
accuracy, I don't think you really do, looks to be like
that the controlling thing for an accuracy be of getting that
little end flat or having a flat piece of metal that you could
push it in, but you could go along and use the same technique.
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CC The reason we're asking this question, AI.

Is we're - we're told that the battery life is approximately
20 minutes and we're just trying to get a handle on the technique
that the three of you are using on these measurements so we
can get a guess at about how much battery life we've used up.
CDR Here's a question for you, what happens
when the battery's used up? Does the light go out or does
it give erratic readings or what?
CC The light goes out.
CDR The light's not out yet so everything's
okay. And my guess is that we've put 20 minutes almost on
at least one of them or maybe the two of together. So we don't
you know we haven't been making an attempt to use one instead
of the other and or anything else. They look like they're
working okay. I know that doesn't help somebody trying to
figure it out but we can start using the same one all of the
time, if you want or we can keep track of the time if you
want, but of course up to now we haven't any more than we do
other batteries we've got.
PLT Hank, the 55 - 55 auto raster or mirror
line scan on 24:36.
CC Mirror auto raster.
PLT ()kay, that's what we're them, thanks.
SPT And Hank, would you ask corollaries to think
about the using that CI film please.
CC Okay, we're putting that in the - in the
mill, Owen.
CC And we're about to go LOS, and we'll
be coming up on Bermuda in 3 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
20 hours 55 minutes, loss of signal at Goldstone, next
acquisition will be Bermuda in approximately 2 minutes 45 seconds.
The Skylab-4 rendezvous simulations still continues here at
mission control center. Flight Director Phil Shaffer, directing
the operations, while the prime crew works from the command
module simulator in building 5 here at the Johnson Space Center.
On this previous pass, conversation surrounded the request
by Owen Garriott to use one of the on board cameras to attempt
capture photographs of the aurora, which the crew was able
to see on the last nighttime pass. This aurora has been the
result of the continuous flares on the Sun the last several
days. We will have acquisition at Bermuda in approximately
2 minutes. We'll hold the line open for conversation between
the Skylab-3 crew and CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.

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9/9/73

CC S kylab, Houston through Bermuda now

for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Bermuda
for 3-1/2 minutes now.
CC SPT, Houston. We're working the CI
film request, and we'd like to know if you need any tilt
and rotation help.
SPT Yeah, I expect it would be a good idea
to know what they should be. I'd appreciate just sort of
a general pad. If you can't get a pad, why then we'll
get along without it, but any other information about it
would be helpful, but tilt and rotation is not really a
necessity. I can hunt around until I find it.
CC Okay. And which window will you use?
SPT I had to use the SAL. What I was
talking about was setting up for the horizon using the AMS
SO63 adaptor.
CC We copy.
SPT I can get all the handheld stuff from
the STS window number 3.
CC We copy.
CC S kylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Canaries at 08.
SPT Okay. We'll see you at Canaries, Bank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Canary for 8 minutes.
PLT Hello there Bob. Welcome back.
CC Oh, it's good to be back. If Owen is
still listening, regarding what Hank was telling him on
doing S063 with the AMS, of course, he is GO on that. One
item would like to mention, that we make - got to make
sure that the AMS gets retracted prior to you initiating
that 518 vent, Jack.
PLT What time is that?
CC Well, we've got it scheduled at around
about 22:30 or so, but it's strictly a non time critical
thing.
SPT Okay. It's not clear if we'll be able
to do that. I've got the next ATM pass, and the best
opportunity is going to be just before this next sunrise,
which is only, I guess, 30 minutes or so away. So I'ii
see what our schedule looks like here. I'm a little
doubtful that I can get it done that fast. It might also
be that the Earth's rotation to the (garble) is taking us
away from the auroral zone now. And the only way to get
another equally good shot would be to wait until tomorrow.
But I'll take a look at it with the other fwllows here and
see what we can to.
CC Okay Owen, Thank you.

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TIME: 16:11 CDT 44/21:11 GMT
9/9/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute

from LOS. We'll see you again over Honeysuckle at 21:53.
We'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there. Also
Jack, we have your phone call set up for Honeysuckle.
Antennas start out left and then switch to right during
the pass. And also $kylab, we're going CBRM_ 18 test. We
anticipate getting the talkback during this night pass.
You might keep an eye out for it for us.
CDR We're standing there watching it right
this second.
CC Figured you were, AI.
CDR It's down to 28. It ought to kick off
here in a few minutes.
PLT Say Bob, is that phone call this next
Honeysuckle pass?
CC That's affirm.
PLT And what time is that again, please?
CC 21:53.
PLT ()kay. 21:53. And we replaced the
desiccants in the S190. We've done that just about every time
we've made a pass, for the EREP guys.
CC Okay. Thank you, Jack.
PAO Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
21 hours 18 minutes. Loss of signal at Canary. Next
acquisition will be Honeysuckle in 34 minutes 29 seconds
from now. The plot board here at Mission Control Center
still tracking the simulation with the Skylab IV crew,
rendezvous and docking simulations still underway with the
crew performing in the command module simulator in building
5. On this last pass the crew was given the go ahead to
use the SO63, the ultraviolet light photography, ozone
photography experiment to catch photographs of the aurora.
The AMS referred to in the conversation earlier is the
articulated mirror system, the AMS, which is used in the
S019 experiment. The crew is reminded to make sure that
this is retracted before they attempt to take pictures of
the aurora. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle. During
that Honeysuckle pass, Pilot Jack Lousma is scheduled to
have a conversation with his family. This is a request he
had made e_rlier in the day. The other two members of the
Skylab crew are also scheduled to talk to their families
today. Next acquisition at Honeysuckle in 33 minutes. At
Greenwich mean time 21 hours 19 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1808/I
Time: 16:52 CDT, 44/21:52 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,

21 hours 52 minutes, acquisition coming up in approximately
40 seconds over the Honeysuckle tracking station. We've had
a hand over here at the mission control center with with
flight director Don Puddy, CAP COI_M is Astronaut Bob Crippen.
We'll hold the line open for this Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay_ Bob. We've got a couple little
sub flares going there in active region 24 and we're - get
our mirror lines scan to 55 and give it a single I, 3, and 5 short
to 56 and give it an 82 a couple of i0 seconds exposures.
CC Okay, AI. And we show that we've got
CBRM battery 18 back on.
CDR That's a fact. And it went - off at 21:19.
CC 21:19, Rog.
CDR And the voltage was just slightly less
than 28 volts.
SPT I'ii bring you up to date on that saddle
operation here, Robert. We did get the ETC camera out and the
AMS in and the S063 hardware all mounted and the doors open and
everything and time to reach the souther Aurora zone just before
that. But as it turns out all the Aurora is - was on the
plus Z side of the spacecraft, the AMS could not reach it,
so we took the - the same Nikon camera back up to the
STS number 3 window and I think got some excellent handheld photo-
graphs. It was a most extensive Aurora that we've seen. Must
of a have lasted for a full i0 minutes of spacecraft travel, mostly
greenish, as we neared the sunrise preterminator it turned at
higher altitude more reddish and brown at the higher altitude.
(garble) much variability and the arc structure and all the
other things I've mentioned before on the other Aurora's were
visable. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. We copy that. Think you were
back there doing something like that. Since AI was working
the ATM. And - one question we have for you regarding your
science MO since you only had an opportunity to get a short
amount of time on that, did you desire any further time -
TV on the VTR for that today?
SPT No, I don't think so. I sort of condensed
things a little bit but on the other hand to do any more would
probably just extend the repeat out what I've said before
if you wanted something for say school instruction or something
like that, it could be done. Better spread out a little bit
more if your only interested in something for release to -
TV stations they probably don't want very much anyway. Over.
CC Okay, we copy that. We were just trying
to find out your druthers. Thank you.
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Time: 16:52 CDT, 44/21:52 GMT
9/9/73

SPT Yeah, you might ask Fred Koons or PAO

what they think in terms of anymore of it, if they want any
more why of course there are a few other things that could
be done. And you might ask what generally thought - what -
what they wanted - whether or not they wanted something more
extensive or is this adequate.
CC Okay, we'll do that.
SPT Bob Parker might have a comment on it also.
CC Okay, I'ii get him to comment on it when
he comes on later.
SPT We're just going to process again the
S063 hardware, restowed it in the AMS back out of the windows,
So 518 can go off as normal.
CC Okay, Owen, thank you.
CDR These little sub flares are starting to
die out now.
CC Copy, AI.
CDR I don't think we've got the rise by the
time of effective sunrise looks like it peaked. I got out
of here in the peak and it just gradually coasted off.
CC Roger.
CDR There about 6 or so little bright points,
scattered along 24 there. You know 24 had sort of a - like
two quarter moons crossed and they were just kind of spread
out each of the quarter moons, sort of an X shape. Gave good
indication on the (garble) MOD and also the x-ray scope.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR I think I'ii give them a mirror auto raster
and then go over and start doing the JOP 6 here.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CDR I finished the rate gyro 6-pack temp
measurement due later on and send them down on channel A.
CC Roger, copy. You have completed them, AI?
CDR Yes, completed them about 16 minutes ago.
Did them last day pass.
CC Okay, though you might have been doing
that.
CC And Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute
from LOS. We'll see you again over Hawaii at 22:13, 22:13
and AI you can go ahead and inhibit TACs with switches and
then the software at your convenience think you can get to it?
CDR Okay, how about right now?
CC That's fine.
CDR Okay, that did it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Thanks for reminding us.

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SL-III MC-1809/I
Time: 17:05 CDT, 44/22:05 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

22 hours 5 minutes. During this pass, Commander AI Bean
should be preparing for his weekly shower aboard the Skylab
space station. And one of the next activities scheduled
for Commander Bean today, is the APCS test. APCS test
is the automatic pointing control system of the Skylab
workshop. This test is designed to provide information
for support of JOP 13, Joint Observation Program 13 for
the Apollo telescope mount pointing, and also, preparations
for vehicle attitude for the Skylab IV mission, during
which time the crew will be observing the comet Kohoutek.
This test is scheduled for later this afternoon, to be
performed again by Commander A1 Bean. Ear - later this
evening, the crew is scheduled to have their weekly science
conference with people on the ground. This conference
will cover Apollo telescope mount activity, medical ex-
periments, and also other science activities. Conducting
the Science Conference for the Apollo telescope mount,
will be Dave Bowen, discussing the medical with the crew
will be Dr. Story Musgrave, Astronaut, Story Musgrave, and
discussing the Corollary Experiments will be Astronaut,
Bob Parker. We anticipate acquistion at Hawaii in approxi-
mately 5 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 22 hours 7 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1810/I
TIME: 17:12 CDT 44/22:12 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

22 hours 12 minutes, with acquisition coming at Hawaii as
the spacecraft is in its 1707th revolution since launch of
the Skylab workshop on May 14th from Cape Kennedy. We
anticipate contact with the crew with CAP COMM astronaut
Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay. Robert.
CC Say Owen. Since you're changing things
around, pulling out the AMS, putting in the ETC and so forth,
we're just getting ready to uplink you a message for tomorrow
morning's Africa pass, and ETC will require filter 5.
SPT Okay. Now what time does that run come
off?
CC Early. POWER ON time for the camera is
10:35.
SPT Okay. I'ii get it set up before I go
to bed tonight and put it back in the window so all I have
to do is the ETC ops tomorrow and of course you'll be waking us
up early.
CC Rog.
CDR And we got the AMS inside, but we're
venting it and letting it warm up for awhile.
CC Okay. I'm sure Karl will appreciate
that.
CDR What else is new down there, Bob?
CC Not much. I'm watching these guys
practice how to rendezvous for the next mission.
CDR How are they doing?
CC Oh, Richard Truly is just sitting here
not doing anything, so it doesn't look llke they're tDo active.
CDR Probably haven't gotten any data from
the CMS is why.
CC You hit the nail on the head.
CC So what else is new?
CDR That's right. What else is going on in the
world? What's going
on in the space program these days?
CDR What's Conrad doing for work? What's
going on around the office?
CC Well, Pete spends all of his time out
on the banquet tour right now. Think he's trying to work in
some time to do that reentry run you requested. Looks like
he's soaking up a lot - -
CDR That's good.
CC Looks like he's soaking up a lot of
sunshine on the banquet tours.
CDR Good. He always makes the best of things.
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919/73

The - He's not supposed to run that thing until we find

out when we're going to enter. Whether it's 60 or 65 or
70 or what. And also, when they get all the trajectory
figured out and all that business. So he really runs the
timeline right on the line.
CC Rog. Well that is the intent and he
of course, was just - was trying to look at what they had
procedure wise set up for you.
CDR Hey, that's great. How's Phil Shaffer
these days?
CC Phil's his usual jolly self.
CDR What's Don doing?
CC Don's just sitting here listening to
you. Keeping all this crew squared away. We're sitting
here trying to think up things to keep you busy.
CDR I figured you all are working a lot
harder right now than we are, trying to think up things.
We've been thinking this for about 3 weeks. That's why
we haven't pressed you too hard.
SPT We gave you a little help on that last
flap on the SAL.
CC Kept you running back and forth there,
huh?
SPT Yeah, taking stuff out and putting it
in and then taking the camera eventually back up to the STS
window where we had it to begin with.
CC Figured since it's supposed to be your
day off, you'd like to set down and read a good book.
CDR You don't train 2-1/2 years to read a
good book_ I'll tell you that.
CC Roger that.
CDR I know you guys don't spend your nights
there either to have us up here reading a good book.
CC Yeah, but we get to leave every once
in a while.
CDR You've been on leave for about 2
months now.
CC You're right.
CC And AI, we do have all your Flight
Plans on board now.
CDR Okay then, we'll go up and read them
over.
CC This Africa pass I mentioned to Owen
awhile ago is the one we were originally set up for this
morning and ended up scrubbing and he can have the details
on the reports in the Flight Plan there. We're busily
scurrying to get up the pads on that pass so you will have
a chance to look them over tonight.
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CDR Okay.
CDR Where we copying through right now, Bob.
CC Through Hawaii.
CDR We were trying to figure out what those
islands were. Now we just figured it out.
CC They've really got me fouled up today,
since we're sitting here in this SIM. The little orbital
map up there is, of course, being used for the SIM also.
If I lose you a few times, saying where you're at, please
bear with me.
CC Buddy will keep me squared away though.
CDR Say we read all those quantities they
asked us to record during the EREP pass. I also wrote
them on a sheet paper. We're planning to throw the sheet
of paper away unless there's some reason not to.
CC Let's check with EREP right now.
CC AI, on those EREP readings, it seems
that we did have some dropouts on comm during your pass, so
we did not get all of them and (garble) we really don't have
time to copy them right now. We'll have Goldstone coming up
here at 22:24, and we're i minute from LOS right now.
CDR Well I can give them to you now and go
put them on A - you want me to give them to you later or
put them on A, whichever you'd like.
CC Strictly your druthers.
CDR I'ii go put it on A, that's probably
where they ought to go. They're not that critical.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
22 hours 22 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone. This past pass Commander
AI Bean discussing with CAP COMM Bob Crippen in an obviously
relaxed mood. All three crew members discussing their
work load. And the fact that the guys on the ground have
a lot to do to keep those - the three crew members busy up
there. Apparently Commander Bean has not taken his shower
yet, because he was having an active conversation with
CAP COMM Bob Crippen during the scheduled time for his
shower. The science conference with the three crew members
is scheduled to start at the Ascension pass, and on the
ground will be Dr. Story Musgrave, Astronaut Story Musgrave,
who will be discussing with the crew the medical experiments,
and Dr. Robert Parker, Astronaut Parker will discuss corollary
experiments with the crew. Next acquisition will be Goldstone
in approximately 40 seconds. We'll hold the line open for
that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more
through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay. That EREP information is on A.
CC Thank you, AI.

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SL-III MC-1811/I
Time: 17:25 CDT, 44/22:25 GMT
9/9/73

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

See you again about 5 minutes over Bermuda at 23:36, 23:36.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 8 minutes
through Bermuda.
CC And for the CDR, that little bit of sub
flares he was talking about earlier, are reported that was an
MI. Actually the peak had occurred prior to you having
also sunrise up.
CDR I be darn, that's great. I picked up the
latter half of it and got it going down. So there may be some
data there for 82B and 56 and 55.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Earlier today you had
mentioned adjusting that MDA air defuser that flows on the
ATM C&D there could you give us the approximate time on
that please.
CDR Boy, that's going to be tough. - I'd
say between 1 and 2 weeks ago. It's got two positions, well
it's got a position narrow and then a wide and anywhere
in between. But it started getting rather chilly up there,
I adjusted one day from the wide to the narrow so it wouldn't
blow on the back of our necks as we stood there in front of
the ATM panel. But, I didn't think it was significate enough
to give you a buzs on it.

CC Okay, understand. I guess we had thought

the day that maybe you had adjusted it today but that was
incorrect.

CDR No this was about a week and a half ago.

CC Okay.
CDR But I mentioned it today because we were
taking temperatures again.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.

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SL-III MC-1812/I
Time: 1739 CDT 44/22:39 GMT
9-9-73

CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from

LOS. See you again over Canary at 22:46, 22:46.
PLT Okay, Bob. And we're (garble) the M512
chamber in the (garble).
CC Copy that, Jack. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more
through Canary for 6-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Bob. When are you going to start
these science conferences?
CC We're getting ready to start it now.
SPT Okay. I'll stay off channel A, then.
SPT Hey, Bob, have you got a phone call
for me at - Oh, yes, that's right, 01:02.
CC -That's affirmative.
SPT Two hours ahead of my schedule, here.
CC Okeydoke. I've got you for about another
minute and a half and then we're going to drop from
minute, pick up over Ascension, and I'll go ahead and turn
it over to Dave Bowen at that time.
SPT Fine.
SPT You still there, Bob?
CC That's affirmative. Got you for 1 more
minute.
PLT Okay. The 512 chamber vented down about
9 minutes too. Five times i0 to the minus 34 and I'm just
going to put the bulkhead vent valve in vent now.
CC O kay. Fine.
CC Okay. We're getting ready to go over
the hill in about 30 seconds. I'll have you again in about
a minute and a half. I'll give you a call there.

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SL-III MC-1813/I
Time: 17:54 CDT, 44/22:54 GMT
9/9/73

MCC AI, Jack and Owen can you read me, this
is Dave Bowen.
CDR Loud and clear.
SPT Hi, Dave.
MCC Okay.
SPT Glad to hear from you, Dave and we're all
standing by.
MCC Okay fine. We'll start right down on the
agenda column - that we a - up-linked unless you would like
to bring up some other subjects first. What's your druthers?
CDR No, we've looked at the agenda. And that's
a good place to start. Why don't you go right ahead.
MCC ()kay. Fine. The flare that we - observed,
lets go in reverse order, the big one that you caught on Friday,
certainly was a big one. It was actually a secquence of four
flares in a roll, unfortunately you were in the night side
during all four of the peaks. And when you came off at
sunrise, you were about 21 minutes past the peak of an XI flare.
And that's when you started the ATM operations. At that time
the XI flare was about 1/2 power decay point. The other
phenomena associated with that was from Canary. They reported
no less than a total short wave fade out and a 75 degree (garble)
shift at the very low frequency wavelength. So Owen your
probably interested in that one. By the way this whole flare
complex was preceeded by a great deal of active filiment
phenomena along the neutral line filiment in this active region 9.
And this is a fairly common oecurance, if you can remember
from crew training, Sarah Smith or Sarah Martin as you may have
know her from Lockheed observatory likes to talk about this.
Phenomena of the neutral line filament becoming quite active.
A lot of surging material back and forth along the filaments
this case it also became darker and thicker and then the flare
started one after another with the peaks about 5 or 6 minutes
apart. There was also quite a bit of radioactivity type 2, 3,
and 4 bursts. There was also a proton event but not a
particularily strong one. The proton level now of the earth
is returned to about it's normal background level. Okay -
SPT Hust of a have been an awful lot of work
on that night side there because we didn't see much of any of
that on the preceding day orbit.
_CC That's right, it all happen -
SPT I remember now, we were asleep, that's
the reason.
Mcc That's right. It all happened - the activity
started right as you were going into sunset and all the peaks
occurred on the dark side unfortunately. However, -
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SPT Preceeding rev was still - we were asleep

we hadn't woken up for the morning, yet as I recall.
MCC I see. Okay, just the - the Harvard people
immediately went to work and tried to pull out some of their
data, unfortunately on short term like this they always have
their problems but what they have gotton out so far was very
very good and their extremely excited about it. Many of the
counters saturated and it's making a little tedious to analysis
the data they saved but they are making progress. They see
obvious major differences in the time beheavor of all the
various lines in the mirror lines scans. The density they
see in the transition zone is surprisingly lower than in this
flare than a C5 flare of - of a couple of days ago or so.
And they infer this from the carbon 3 and oxygen 4 line ratios.
SPT Now just let make one question about the
procedures that made to be aware of. The last couple of
flares, I stayed on the initial point for 15 minutes or so,
but that even though the 82B was properly alined, I did
(garble) the 55 morrow a few steps to get on a brighter
portion of the flaring region. I wonder if they've raised
any comments about whether or not that was preferred satisfactory
or undesirable.
MCC Well we can certainly - we copy that and
we'll have the Harvard people study that and relate back to
you by pad messages just as soon as we can on that okay.
CDR Okay, Dave.
CC Right. Let me go ahead, I see this pass
is disappearing and I want to get onto a couple of other
things. There's a program coming up tomorrow on Alphing waves,
I don't know if you've got much on - waves like this in your
training. What we're talking about is (garble) wave that
- the transverts wave. That a -
SPT Understand.
CC Right.
SPT We understand.
CC Right, okay. And the way they want you
to try to study this and do three consecutive orbits so the
shopping list 13, this is mainly for the coronagraph to operate.
And they'll be on a continuous MOD for all three - these
cycles, the first one 0wen your scheduled up in there and
the next two I believe AI has. Just a word on these waves
they travel at a speed of about 3 solar radii per hour if
they exist, we don't know if they exist. The wavelength is
about 3 solar radii and the density fluxuation is maybe I0 percent.
So they're through - subtle type of phenomena to see in real
time but there is a good chance that it would be emcited,
specially with a big active region on the limb. Okay -
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SPT Okay, we'll be looking for that and if

we have any questions about the procedure we'll call down
about it, Dave.
MCC Okay, fine. And it's pretty well spelled
out on the pad, I don't think there really should be any trouble
there. A little tid bit from S056 which is very relevant
right now, they've been looking through SL-2 photographs and
they tell me that they have seen several examples of (garble)
flares and active region interaction. On the 16th of June,
in the first mission, there was a class MS flare which occurred.
And a very short time later, it triggered another smaller sub
flare - seven minutes later in a near by active region. And
several hours later they were able to see that these things
where connected by a loop structure and soft x-rays. I very
much expect you might see something llke this in the XUV
monitor as well.
SPT We've seen it almost continually in the
XUV monitor for the last two weeks. That - probably your
down link shows also connecting - the - active regions along
the same latitude line, all the way across the wide range of
longitude.
MCC Great.
CC Going, LOS shortly. Carnarvon at 23:28.
MCC Okay Owen, I'd like to say one thing that
that XUV MON, we know you have mentioned the number these
subtle phenomena, we don't normally - lot of times we don't
see these on the link that we got on the ground because the
band width limitation of that S-band transmitter. So any verbal
description you can give us llke that really helps out.
SPT Okay, good point.
MCC Okay, just a real quicky on the alignment
bomb thing, they definently seen what they think is an alignment
bomb and they see it in the transition zone and in the coronal
lines and they're be more on that later. I'ii see you at the
next pass.
SPT Okay, Dave.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time, 23 hours
3 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension with the evening -
the weekly ATM review with Dave Bohlin and Science Pilot Owen
Garriott. Reviewing the rather hectic week, busy week the
crew had observing the activity on the Sun. This briefing
will continue at the next pass at Carnarvon at approximately
23 hours 26 minutes Greenwich mean time. The medical science
report will pick up at 23 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time
with Doctor Story Musgrave, one of the Science - Scientist
Astronauts who also serves as a CAP COHM here at mission control
center. We've had loss of signal at Ascension, next acquisition
will be Carnarvon in approximately 24 minutes and at Greenwich
mean time 23 hours 4 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1814/I
Time: 18:27 CDT 44:23:27 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 23

hours, 27 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Carnarvon in
approximately 40 seconds. And we will have a continuation
of the science conference with Doctor Dave Bohlin who is co-
principal investigator of the SO82B Apollo telescope mount
experiment. Acquisition in approximately 20 seconds. We'll
hold the line open for this Carnarvon pass.
MCC AI, Jack, and Owen, can you copy?
SPT Okay. We've got you now, Dave. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, fine. I'd like to go into an item
here that wasn't on the agenda list that came up just yes-
terday as being a fairly important one. Has to do with the
film budget for the rest of the mission. I'ii start out
with S052. Basically they have no problem right now. They're
budgeting about 280 frames a day, of which 200 are for
synoptic. And, they can run through to the end of the
mission without any problem. By all means, take advantage
of all the coronal transients that you might see. The
(garble) wave program for tomorrow will use about 330 frames
in those three orbits, but that's budgeted. SO54, as you've
probably noticed by the pads, is dropping out of all opera-
tions, including flares. Now, that's important. They are
down to a point now where, all they've got left is strictly
reserved for the synoptic programs only. That's SO54. Okay,
SO56. Right now, they're using about 300 frames a day,
and that would give them 4 to 5 days film left at the
current rate, assuming no flares. Now, the important thing
here is that when their frame counter reads zero, it turns
out that they have a film reserve that would normally be
used for calibration of their camera film. But they tell
me that they do not need this film for calibration and
that you should continue to run the SO56 camera after it
reaches zero on your film cou - counter. And the ground
will advise you when - if you are in danger of actually
running the camera out.
SPT Okay, I understand there's about a
thousand to 1200 frames after it goes to zero, and I thought
we'd probably just reset the frames remaining. And then
just let it count down another thousand, but why don't you
ask him what he wants to do? I just - I'd rather reset
and then let it count down than I wouldn't just let it
sit on zero for the whole time and not know.
MCC No, you could reset it. I think that'd
be perfectly acceptable. And, Jim is copying this, and
if he doesn't agree, why, he can - we'll relay a message
up, but that sounds like a good method to do, Owen.
SPT Okay, and so I'd - it's the same thing
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for 54, incidentally. And theirs - they've got about a

thousand more than the frame counter shows. And if they
want to reset it any time, why, just establish the best
time to reset it and we will.
MCC Okay, we copy that. And we'll see if
they have any change in plan. But, right now, they say
drop out of everything including flares, except whenever
they're scheduled on the pad.
SPT That's a separate point. I know that
we're out of everything except the synoptic, but they have
more frames than their counter shows, I believe.
MCC That's correct. 56. Nope.
MCC Okay, 82A: we are low on film there,
we have the film reserve right now is just sufficient for
the scheduled synoptic. That's about 4 frames a day.
However, the PI feels that flares are still very important,
especially if there's a possibility of catching a flare
rise. So, if you can catch a flare rise, by all means, go
ahead and run the 82A instrument even if it means running
the camera out. Otherwise, we'll budget through on synoptic
for that one. 82B is about the same kind of category. We're
low on film, but we feel that the current state of solar
activity warrants running it on the activity as is scheduled
and as you fellows see that - that targets of opportunity
present themselves. If for some reason we run out of film
before the end of the mission, then it'll just be out of
film. In
SPT Okay, understand• I had a question on
H-alpha. It looks to me like it ought to be about time
to go back to one frame per minute auto on H-alpha.
MCC Okay, we copy that, and we can certainly
check on that to see if that's a good plan.
SPT Whenever you're ready, let's go on
back just to save us the convenience of not having to do
a manual every time we think of it.
MCC (Garble) Copy that. Okay, let me
touch on operations here for just a few minutes. The S055
maxi-rastors - they've retrieved now, several of these from
the computer and they really look _ood. The pointings have
been good, and they've been able to piece them together,
and get a good look at a large-scale portion of the solar
disk there. So, that has proven to be a very good program.
The SO82B mini-limb scan program, which you should now
have in hand, and also the building block exposure changes.
I'd like to take the opportunity just to clarify, the reason
for those.
SPT ... up there, Dave.
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SPT Say again, Bob?

MCC Okay, I'd like to clarify why the 82B
mini-limb scan and building block exposures were changed.
I think you probably realize that we're getting rid of
the exposures there that are either too short or too long.
in the normal auto step.
SPT (Garble) Understand it.
MCC Okay, fine. Just want to make sure
there's no one question. With the science is just as good,
we're just not taking the frames that won't do any good.
SPT Sure, understand, just saving the film
and making use of the best ones. And the new procedures
that you sent up for that new mini - mini-limb scan there
I think, look real good, and look like, since you've had
a chance to - from your photos - earlier photographs
establish what exposures you really need, and it looks like
that's the way to optimize their value.
MCC That's affirm. We've looked back at
the SL-II and picked out the best exposures, and that's what
we're using. Okay, on the XUV monitor, we're very excited,
Owen, about your comments and anything you can give us further
on this in the way of voice tapes certainly are appreciated,
In particular, we're very excited about this business of
the flare peaks points showing up before you see the PMEs -
PMEC counter rising. And, tell me, can you say now, or
could you put on tape later, whether you - this is a very
common thing, do you see it all the time, or just some of
the time?
SPT Well, I wouldn't want to say that the
PMEC hasn't at least started to rise. It may have started,
but we certainly see these fall points very early in the
flare and subflare, well before it reaches its peaks. And,
I think that the XUV mon is probably as early an indication
as is anything. And one other thing of interest that relates
to the altitude at which the region is - is flaring is par-
ticularly on this last flare, you'll notice from the H-alpha
photographs when you eventually see it that the - I've
pointed slightly toward the limb of the brightest line in
H-alpha. And this is because the S055 detectors peak up
distinctly several arc seconds limbward of the brightest
H-alpha region, indicating the higher altitudes for the XUV
radiation. And I - I will try to put something together in
a little more detail on the time evolution of those bright
spots, but my - my strongest impression is only of their
very small size and the fact that they stand out so much
more clearly above any of the normal plage activity on the
XUV mon. Now, when they start it's really very noticeable
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SPT and very early.

MCC Okay. We copy that. We're very happy
to hear those remarks. Let me push on here to the scheduling
of JOP 13 which you've asked about. We've had difficulty
scheduling it so far because of the unavailability of
targets and darkside passes and the system constraints in
the sunside passes. That's the charging of the batteries.
However, we do have it tentatively scheduled right now for
mission day 52. That's a week from tomorrow - darkside pass
for SCO-X i. And, in addition, the Harvard people have been
looking at a list of ultraviolet targets from the Copernicus
satellite and so they're going to try very hard to work in
an ultraviolet target yet before the mission is over.
SPT I should think that'd certainly be worth-
while. I do remember some of the arguments relative to
cross calibrating between night sources and solar sources
with same detectors and so on. It's seems to be a very
unique opportunity that'll be missed if we don't give it
at least a - one or two tries.
MCC Copy that, and we're trying to get it
on the schedule now. Okay, I'ii - I'd like to say a few
words here about the state of solar activity in future
operations. As you are well aware, better than we, perhaps,
the activity last week has been the best and most dynamic
we've had, and that, combined with the rather quiet Sun we
had first in the mission has allowed us to complete essen-
tially, every JOP in the list. There's - there's not
one right now that we aren't doing pretty well on except,
possibly, the flash phase of the flare, which is the hardest
thing to catch, of course. The XUV monitor, of course,
reveals a very quiet east limb, and we anticipate having
a very quiet Sun as soon as this stuff goes over the limb.
The new active region, which has emerged has got a reversed
polarity, as I think you've been told, and we may see some
flares on that. The point here is that we want to capitalize
on this - this activity while it exists.
SPT Okay, and I'm more convinced than ever
that the way that - to really check these things early, is
to allow plenty of observing time, and which, basically,
you're loitering around the most probable region, so that
as soon as it happens, you're really - I've - have done
a little bit of previous groundwork on it and are ready
to hop right to the spot where the activity shows up.
MCC Right.
CC Okay, we are about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll have you again over Hawaii at 23:51. For Story, we'd
appreciate it if you' d turn CBRM 18 REG ON, please. And, also,
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the teleprinter paper's _etting kind of low.

SPT Okay, CBRM REG 18 and teleprinter paper,
Bob.
MCC Hey, one last word, guys. We really, -
the ATM Pls are very excited about your operations and
thanks.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
23 hours 41 minutes. With Dr. Dave Bohlin, co-Pl on the
S082B experiment, discussing with Dr. Owen Garriott, Science
Pilot, Skylab-IV, the film budget for the solar experiments
aboard the Skylab space station, going over some of the
cameras - are low on film, whereas others, - the SO56,
particularly, has sufficient film - they've used 3 to 300
frames per day. S082A is low on film, as well as SO82B,
and instructions from the ground are that these cameras
will be used to capture activity events as they occur. SO52
presents no problem at this time, approximately 280 frames
per day. And anticipation is that this film on board SO52,
will be sufficient for the remainder of the mission. How-
ever, SO54, is down to reserve film load. This camera is -
will be used only in the synoptic area of the observation
programs of the Sun. The weekly Science Conference will
pick up again with - at Greenwich mean time 23 hours 52
minutes, in approximately lO minutes from now, as the
spacecraft passes over Hawaii. And this will be the
Medical Science portion, with Dr. Story Musgrave. This
will take part over the Hawaii tracking station, and again
at Goldstone. Greenwich mean time 23 hours 43 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SPT We're doing great. What's new in the

medical world.
MCC Okay, here we go. To start with, we'd
like to think you very much for the instrumented PT that
you've gotten. You've gotten us a lot of different data,
different harts of the curve, and also some new stuff we
haven't lo_ked at all. We're real interested in that and
we are looming at the data down here.
SPT _ Okay. Now, do you mean this is the stuff
that Jack did after a 171 or you looking at just the normal
bicycle ergometer or what?
MCC Okay. Let me look at the - talk about
the three things that each one of you did and a little bit
about the physiology that we saw. Owen, your mode i, mode 2,
and then mode i, you picked us up on the significance on
mode 2, you confirmed how we thought mode 2 would operate
there. We ihad lost an earlier mode i, mode 2, mode 2, mode I
run. So you put that to bed back for us.
SPT Okay.
MCC And on Jack's run, where he went 220
watts for about 20 minutes. That was interesting data and
if, withou_ any steps in there, we could start looking
especially :at that high work level, we could for something
that you m_ght see with fatigue especially since it was
done after a previous MI71. See, what you might expect to
see with fatigue is a little decrease in efficiency,
where for @ constant amount of work, you'd see increase in
heart rate. An increase in oxygen consumption, and a decrease
in the - a_d an increase in the production of carbon dioxide.
Also, with _a constant level of work, we can also see how long
it takes the system to get geared up and reach an equilibrium.
In Jack's case, it was about 3 to 4 minutes that his heart
rate reached an equilibrium and likewise for the oxygen
consumption. It reached about a li - 2.6 liters at 3-1/2
minutes, a_d the carbon dioxide was 2.3 liters. So he reached
equilibrium at about 3-1/2 minutes there. In terms of looking
at fatigue,i we saw very little. Actually the last 5 minutes
of that 20 _minute run, the heart rate dropped from 154 down
to 150, but the 02 consumption did go. It reached an
equilibriu_ for about 15 minutes at 2.7. It got up to 2.9
at the end._ And the carbon dioxide, which reached 2.6 liters,
it peaked _ut at about 2.7.
SPT _ Okay. Understand all that. And looks
like you're going to have to fatigue Jack, you going to have
to work a _ittle harder than 220.
PLT i I can't tell if that's good or bad, Story.
What does ft all mean?
MCC _ You know it means good. I don't have to
tell you th!at.
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SPT It also means that the 5 minute selection

for your work - different work levels on 171 must have been
a good choice.
MCC It's pretty good. It takes just about
5 minutes to reach the equilibrium at that step. That's a
good pointf Owen.
SPT Go ahead.
MCC And AI, on his run, he did 5 minutes at
three different work levels, but he started out at 145 watts,
and then he went 5 minutes at 170, and 5 minutes at 195. His
usual third run is about 145, and I plotted these three runs
in terms of heart rate. I plotted them and indeed we get
a straight line curve, so he pushed his curve way on out
there in terms of level of work, so that extends his curve
and gives us some brand new data that we didn't have before.
SPT Okay. Now we're up with you.
MCC Okay. And I've got one question on that.
I don't believe, looking at this data that AI had the mouth-
piece in. And we didn't get any MA data. Could you verify
that?
CDR I had the mouthpiece in for a long time
when we quit the 171 and reset it, for that run something
happened. We're not sure what, and we recorded that on
channel A. I breathed into it for 15 minutes and the data
was completely fouled up, so we just took it out and forgot
it. But we attempted to do it, but it just didn't work out.
MCC Okay AI, we were just wondering if you
had an explanation for that. We really weren't expecting
any MA data anyway, because during the exercise, of course,
it's not the most pleasant thing in the world to wear a
mouthpiece, but we're very happy to get it, and even though we
didn't get the MA data, plotting your work versus heart rate,
you got a straight line curve way on out. You pushed your
curve on out. That's good, AI.
CDR Thank you. What you need to do is have
somebody pad us up the procedures that we need to follow
so that we can finish a 171 and go through the cals at the
end and then start up again and still be in, you know, not
have lost cabin air and all that other business. Somewhere
the ball was dropped in there.
MCC Okay. We'll take a look at that. We
think probably all you need to do is just leave the MA as
it is and just get your reset in the appropriate time or
whatever protocol you like to pick.
CDR Okay. Well, just send it, we'll do it,
because somehow we've lost it.
MCC Okay, but we've still got excellent
data there. Your heart rate did peak out at 180, which
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is about as high as anyone gets their heart rate during that

run, so it shows you did get an optimal amount of exercise.
Okay, and you're getting a lot of good stuff there and I
would even hesitate to give you any suggestions on what to
do. You've chosen such good protocols, but a possible idea
would be after an MI71 run, for the observer who's down
there to have brought down the mark I devise, say, and
for him to simply change out the mouthpieces. The observer
could get on the MA, and simply crank his the usual mark
I protocol and see what type of oxygen consumption that
requires.
SPT Okay. Understand that Story. That's
a good way to do it without any extra equipment to be done -
to be set up.
CDR Okay. Now, we've looked at that Story.
We've looked at taking the stuff upstairs, running the
hoses up there. It might be simpler, because we've got
that thing bolted to the floor up there. Also, I've noticed
that everybody exercises and they end up pulling the thing
above their head. It's too short for the ceiling. And
there's no place to bolt it down. We'll have to work on
that a bit.
MCC Yes, I don't want to suggest too much, you're
doing so well, but ideas like that, you might give some fru -
fruitful data. Maybe the mark II or the oxygen or something
like that just to look at oxygen comsumption. Well, we're
about 30 seconds to LOS here. And we'll pick you up over
Goldstone in 7 minutes and continue with the body mass and
structure.
SPT Bill Thornton happy with all the 172 data
yet?
MCC Okay. That's coming up next.
SPT Okay. (Chuckle)
MCC And he is happy, but he's got some more
ideas.
SPT I was afraid of that.
SPT Bill's always got lots of good, new ideas.
MCC Okay. Let me just hit you in some
simple questions going over the hill here. In terms of
the temperature measurements you made with the mass measur-
ing devices, have you used the (garble) probe all along as
opposed to the - -
SPT No, that's the one that I've used. When
I've logged it, that's the one I've employed.
MCC Okay.
SPT I also have never found any change.
MCC Okay. Bill appreciates the repeatability
studies you've done, where you made 5 measurements and get
out and jump back in and take 5 more. It tells him something
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about what the restraint system is doing.

SPT No, we can suggest some mods to it, I think
when we get back, or even on channel A, because there is
some room for improvement there.
MCC Okay. And the studies you've already
done show an absolute accuracy within about a quarter to
a half a pound. Meaning that that amount - you could be
running that high due to flop. Any kind of motion inside
the device will cause a high reading.
SPT Yeah, we figured maybe a little bit
better than a quarter of a pound.
PAO Skylab Control. We've had loss of
signal at Hawaii. Next tracking station acquisition will
be Goldstone in approximately 4 minutes and 30 seconds
from now. The discussion between Dr. Story Husgrave,
astronaut Musgrave and the crew concerning the activities
of the - in the medical experiment area. Specifically on
that metabolic analyzer, frequently referred to as the MA
during their previous discussions. The sugEestion from
the ground was that to get better data, the crew might use
one of the exercisers on board, specifically the mark i
exerciser and put the mouthpiece of the metabolic analyzer
to gage the - of carbon monoxide - carbon dioxide, that
is, not monoxide. Further discussions on Bill, the reference
was to Dr. William Thornton and his experiments 172, body mass
measurement device, which has received frequent use through-
out the mission. This medical conference will continue
at the Goldstone tracking station in approximately 3 minutes.
And we'll bring the line back up in 3 minutes from now.
This is Skylab Control.

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CC - - Now when I mentioned a quarter

to a half of a pound. I meant if you were to put a rigid body
weighing your same amount in there as opposed to a slightly
flexible body restrain strap that the contribution due to a
little bit of motion like that may be a quarter to a half of
a pound. Bill is confident that he's got the accuracy to
repeatability down to i/i0 of a pound.
SPT Okay, that's just about what we were seeing
up here. We were discussing it between Hawaii and Goldstone.
And we think we can get to about plus or minus two digits
in the forth place and our calculations indicates that just
about a tenth of a pound if we've done it right.
CC Okay now looking at that device - as a
measurement insensible loss, we did discuss in insensible at the
last science conference. And it's a tough thing to get at
it. If you want to get it absolutely precisely you kind
of have to wear a cellophane suit and a mouth piece all day
which of course we can't do. Now, in terms of - I've a comment
that comes next week. In terms of a -
SPT (Garble) already did it, he wants us to try it.
MS ( Laughter)
CC Okay, in terms of what we did see, you recorded
three studies between 0.2 and 0.6 pounds. Now when I did a
theoretical calculation to come with a reasonable valve for
seven hour sleep period, taken a look at your intake and out
put, I've calculated 0.5 pounds so it comes in there pretty close
considering the 0.i (garble) device.'
SPT Yeah, I'ii try that again too. I'm not
too happy about that one measurement that was only 0.2 maybe
I wasn't (garble) careful. I'ii try it again, too.
CC On the ground the average person loses
about 1200 ccs, that's spread halfway between lets say 600 ccs
through the respiration and another 600 ccs due to imperceptible
flesh. And I calulated, based on your 2500 cubic calories
a day and also about an insensible loss taking your outputs from
your input to be about a I000 ces and drawing a portion between
using about 70 calories an hour during your sleep in portioning
it out, I came out to a losing about .5 pounds during a sleep
period. So it's pretty close.
SPT Okay, sounds fine and I'm glad your coming
out that closely.
CC A nd some other things Bill is interested
in and that is a couple more zero measurements. If a some
morning when you get weighed do you just run from zero measurements
and shoot those down on the Evening Status Report, he'd appreciate
it.
SPT Sure, that's the kind of request we like.
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CC O kay, and one other thing if - if even

a zero mass device is during and - a - after a dump.
SPT Okay. My guess is that you can't even
tell it when there is a GG dump underway. Do you have any
indication to think that suggest that you can?
CC No I don't think we got that evidence Owen
and of course it depends - some what on how large a dump it
is.
SPT Well, it always was pretty small - pick
a 2.5 degrees some 2 or 5 degrees somewhere around there.
But a - we'll - give that a try. And I bet just no indication
at all and we can maybe take that out of the next guy protocol.
CC Okay, and if you don't have anything else
on that, I'ii move on to a few things on MI71.
SPT Let's go on.
CC T hey would appreciate getting a max heart
rate during your PT, now anytime your instrument of course,
there - there able to get that and we've see a bunch of them
all ready. So they are interested in that data though.
SPT Okay. Now that's - you don't get that
from (garble) do you?
CC No we don't get that Owen.
PLT Okay, when you say your interested in the
rate you just mean what the number is or a verbal recording
of how high it got during the exercise or what were you asking for.
CC Just one number, peak heart rate.
PLT Okay, I think Owen probably pretty well
knows those right now because we see them every day when we
ride the bicycle. I can almost tell you mine after 20 minutes
of work at each varity of power levels but we'll try to record
those and a - I was interested in what day do you do get down
during our normal ergometry. Apparently you see workload, I
don't know whether or not see you total watt minutes.
CC No we don't see total watt minutes.
PLT Only power, apparently.
CC And in rmp too of course.
PLT Okay thank you.
CC And I think on channel A, you may still
have some questions on why V dot 02 is running low up there.
PLT (Garble) understands that there is a 6-1/2
up correction on 02 dot and think there was 2 or 3 percent
down on C02 dot and do understand it what the effect is on
our cue of course so I don't - there was a question in my
mind about what our cue card is written in. Our cue card mentions
that 02 dot correction but it doesn't say whether it is or is not.
Inserted in the table, but that's sort of a minor point at this time.
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CC Yeah, I looked at that too and I think that

is inserted in the cue card. That is what you should expect.
SPT Those numbers on the cue card is what
we should be reading on the - the instruments.
CC Let me get a quick verification on that.
SPT Now that's the way I interpreted it anyway
and then there's a correction made once it gets on the ground.
CC Yeah, we think that cue card is true Owen,
and if it's not true I'ii get that up to you.
SPT Okay.
CC And the reason for that difference is that
the (garble) in the mass spects analysis in nitrogen and it
has been proven out and that at 6.5 percent 2 percent of the
C02 that was derived from running the white backup instrument
in the 5 psi chamber.
SPT Okay.
CC And I've got about 30 seconds til LOS here
as far as the Skylab-2 data goes I just like to say that we
are taking a look at that. We're discussing the past but any
new thing come up I will get it to you.
SPT Okay, fine Story.
CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS here,
see you over Bermuda with Bob Parker, be dumping the tape
recorders there.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
00:i0 minutes after the hour as the 253 day Greenwich mean
time starts for the Skylab-3 workshop. Doctor Story Musgrave
concluded the medical conference with the Skylab crew. Discussing
several more experiements, the M172 body mass measurement devise,
principle investigator which is Doctor William Thorton and
also MITI experiment, the MITI is the metabolic analyser,
Doctor Musgrave reported to the crew his new data is reduced
from Skylab-2 flight, the flight of Astronaut Pete Conrad,
Doctor Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz. This new information
will be passed up to the crew. Next acquisition in approximately
2 minutes will be at Bermuda in which time Astronaut Bob Parker
will continue the weekly science conference and he will be
concentrating on the corollary experiments preformed during the
previous week. We'll leave the line open for that discussion.

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MCC Skylab, Skylab, Houston.

CDR Go ahead Bob.
MCC Okay. Got a few corollary goodies for you
here and I'd like to start out with a few comments on SO63.
First of all, everybody is very pleased with the observations
of the aurora. Particularly the night you got auroras at
both poles. I thought that was outstanding. I think also,
you've been told already that there's a good chance of some
aurora tonight from that big flare yesterday.
SPT We've already - are you up to date
with what we've seen on auroras already?
MCC Right, I saw that comment about down
there in the south already.
SPT Okay. We've seen the best ones - the
most extensive just this last orbit and as a matter of fact,
if I can break away here before sunrise, I bet we can go
get a handful of more pictures.
MCC Okay. Outstanding. A couple of comments
on that SO63 solar inertial pass that we had you doing 2
or 3 days ago. I don't know whether that was explained to you
or not, but those are with and in coordinations with under-
flights by B57 and a U2 respectively. They were looking
at pollution in the low stratosphere caused by SST type
vehicles and looking into the ecological aspects of
those things.
SPT Okay. All of the explanation was not
there, but we did understand there were underflights, and
I did not see any contrails but I was busy on tracking.
MCC Okay. Let me talk now,(garble) about
some what I call new vision observation I did. Partly because
we realized that having 30 some sites was just weighting
the system as far as you were concerned, even more so as
far as we were concerned here on the ground processing
data and having meaningful questions and all that are
concerned, We've delineated the list down now to a list of
one in terms of very extensive workups on the Salt Lake
City area. The reason for doing this is not that that we
have an awful lot of questions that need to be answered
here. In particular, in fact, we're doing it because, one,
we have the ground truth, and two, you happen to have a
good VTS map on board. So we're sending up tonight or
tomorrow, I think it's being reviewed now, so it probably
ought to go up tonight. A whole series of questions about
different aspects of the Salt Lake City area. The question
really is, what can you see, what small features can you
see, and particularly for the small features, how much detail
can you see in them and what sort of features allow you
to discriminate them. Things like air fields, cities,
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mining areas, roads, lakes, the whole gambit of things in

various sizes and in various amounts of detail. And in
particular, they say, we're not just going after unknown
scientific data which we don't have before, we have the
ground truth. We're interested in what sort of things are
reasonable and what sort of data are useful on board as well
for the Skylab IV crew. Over.
CDR Great idea. That way - what you plan
to do then, is every pass that we get a chance, we'll work
the Salt Lake City area. We'll learn it, and then these
other sites, we'll work also but we'll do that mostly for
photographs or what.
MCC That's affirm, and we have right now -
one reason we took Salt Lake is we have something like 12
passes left over that this mission. And there's no way
you can get through this list at any one pass and so you'll
get a chance to work it again and again, and as time goes
on you may learn to recognize the features and see things
you couldn't see the first time. So it's this sort of aspect
we're trying to get out on one site and perhaps another one
later on to just see exactly what man - what his capabilities
are able to do both visually and also with the binoculars.
CDR Outstanding idea. Say, we've noticed
one thing about those stabalized binoculars. Their focus
changes all the time. If you get them set for your eyes
and come back in a couple of hours, they don't work any more.
You have to go to a different place. So that's the problem
with those stabalized binoculars. We really can't figure out why
that's doing that, either. It doesn't appear to be the same
on the other two, they work okay.
MCC Okay. That's an interesting piece of data.
The - another comment on S183, we're going to in the next
week or two be running a few observations, few more observations
with the S183 instrument itself. And when we do this, each
time we do it, we will be specifying a particular DAS to use.
And the troubleshooting which we're continuing here, we'd like
to - eventually when we get the film back, have it on a number
like 4 or 5 DAC, so we can if possible delineate the problem.
Right now it looks like the problem may be in the DAC that
was used on Skylab I too, but we don't have a good feel for
that, and that's why we're asking you to use a number of
different DACS on these passes as they come up. And it prob-
ably will be looking we'll get 4 or 5 in the rest of the mission.
ON different DACS. Over.
CDR Okay. Good. I noticed it was on a broad
view for this nest week and we're looking forward to doing it.
MCC Okay. And I might just comment that the
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CDR -- we're looking forward to doing it.

MCC Okay, and I might just comment that star
fields we'll be looking, will be scientific valid star fields
if this data does turn out to be good.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, Owen. We know you work with the
magnetics today, I guess a - I also might comment that I
myself thought that water demonstration you had last week
was outstanding. And tremendous bit of yankee ingenuity
there or Oklahomian ingenuity for that piece of thread holding
those drops in place. That's just great. Do you have any
plans on the airplane or the pendulum, how are those going
or have you written those off? Over.
SPT Well the airplane, we haven't worked up
the courage to try yet and the pendulum I'ii tell you has
so many different modes of oscillation you probably haven't
thought about, a very - knotting mode that (garble) expected
in 1 G is a predominant mode of there and I might just show
you what is oscillation is like, I don't know how to interpret
or how to make it behave the way it's suppose to behave and
if you'd like to take 5 minutes to see how it really does,
I'ii put that on the TV some time.
MCC I think that'll be interesting myself.
SPT Okay, we might schedule 5 minutes or so
for that and so as I can get our aerodynamic specialist up
here to fold an airplane why we could show you that.
MCC Okay, excellent. Okay, now we've got
something for Jack to do when he's wearing that cellophane
suit and a mask is some more T002, how do you react to that?
PLT You got to zip the suit up I can tell you.
MCC (laughter)
PLT Looking forward to it Bob.
MCC Okay, let me talk to you a bit about
T002. First of all as your probably well aware you've now
spent about 18 hours working on T002. Premission requirements
for T002 were 14 hours. Everybody is over - over what
they were planning premission, I point that out the fact
that T002 regardless has been approved for something like
14 hours which in all itself was quite a bit of time. On
terms of FOs we now count you as having completed 26 of the
scheduled 34 in the MRD, the 8 remaining, 6 of these are
moon stars. I might say something about how the way - how
we've been scheduling these FOs. Right now an FO was - for
TO02 they were plan to be spread throughout the mission
and they got bunched up also - an FO as per the checklist
is really only a 15 MARK occurance and it turns out that we scheduled
something like 30 minutes as opposed to the 15 minutes that
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were really needed. We did that just because we have to find

where we didn't want to push anybody or you know we had the time
we felt we could do it.
CC We're about i minute from LOS, Carnarvon
is at 01:03 and Owen that's your phone call, left antenna
switch to right in the middle of it and I'll let Bob continue
talking.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bob.
MCC Okay, and as a result of that Jack because
we scheduled for 30 minutes you went ahead and worked for
30 minutes which is absolutely commendableand that meant you were
getting 20 or 50 on occassion MARKS instead of a 15 that really
required. However, since the MRD in the program was really
set up to see how these things change during time, that effect
weightlessness. Those things don't really meet the objectives
as they were per - as they were stated. Over.
PLT Okay, well I didn't understand that and
my object was to get as many MARKS as I could there pass so
that we could count that as two sessions instead of one. In
the future then I'ii do 15 and go do something else.
MCC Okay. We were also at the present time,
now going to start scheduling those that we do have left for
15 minutes instead of 30 so that you won't get - you know -
eased into that situation in the first place. You might
say, is that you guys realize TO02 is extremely low priority
experiment and as it's been a mission like Skylab-l, 2 or had
we had problems along the way and time has been very tight it
certainly would not have gotten the attention it's gotten.
But the time has been available and so for that reason, we have
scheduled it in.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time, 00:25
minutes after the hour with loss of signal. Astronaut Bob
Parker discussing with the Skylab-3 crew the corollary experiments
during the weekly science conference. He asked the crew what
their plans are on two other science demonstrations experiments,
that of the paper airplane and the pendulum. Doctor Garriott
remarked he has not yet worked up enough courage to start
folding the paper airplane. The - these two experiments are
apart of series of science demonstrations designed for this
mission. The demonistrations hopefully would be beneficial
to the science teachers and pupils alike. There is a kit on
board of these experiments, some what you have already been
viewed by television specifically the water demonstrations
which came down by television the other day showing science
pilot Owen Garriott with a bubble of water on a string. The
corollary experiment conference will continue at the next
station pass in approximately 3 minutes and 20 seconds from now.
We'll leave the line up for that upcoming pass which will be
over Ascension. We'll leave the line up for this pass.
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CC Hello, Skylab. I knew that map was going

to foul me up. We've got you through Ascension for 9 minutes.
PLT We're not there. It's only your imagina-
tion.
CC That' s what I thought. Since we' re not
here - -
PLT We're waiting for 01:03.
CC Right.
CC I'ii let Bob _o ahead and continue
talking here.
MCC ()kay, Jack, I think we went over tile
hill just as I was finishing there and if you got any comments
on T002, I'ii let you pick up there, and I don't reallv have
too much more to talk about today. So if you have any
comments, feel free to talk on and ask questions. Over.
PLT Oh. I don' t have any thing to say. I'ii
just go when you schedule and I probably won't get near
as many marks.
MCC Okay. As we say, we only have six or
eight remaining and they will be spread out and we will
schedule them for the shorter period of time. And if you
have no further comments, I'ii let it get dark. You can
look at the aurora or you can ask questions or I'ii turn
you back over to Crip.
PLT Well we got about i0 more minutes before
there's a good aurora, but I'm up here around the window
right now.
MCC Okay. I thank you then and I'ii talk
to you next week.
CDR Okay. Thank you Bob. We' re looking
forward to that information on Salt Lake City. We were
just trying to look up and see if we had any photographs
of it. We sought the maps in our EREP. You think we have
photographs somewhere.
MCC No. I think as far as I know you have
that VTS map of the Salt Lake City area, and that's it that
I know of.
PLT Yeah, Bob all of the maps of the Salt
Lake City area is in as an ERTS photo of the Bonneville salt
flats, but that's pretty small compared to the rest of the area.
MCC Right, and I think the thing will be
keyed to a VTS map is my recollection of the pad. It should
be coming up tonight. 220A, I believe. 220A.
CDR Okay. You might want to think about
another site that we got some good photographs and maps of
so that we can learn the difference between those two sorts
of things looking down and pick something like Africa where
we're not nearly in an ERTS EREP mode or something and we
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can just whistle down here and look out the window. Africa
has been real good lately. I don't know how - what's going
to happen the next couple of weeks, but some of those places
like Casa Blanca or Gibralter or some of those are usually
real clear.
MCC Okay. We'll get with that. And you
should get that pad up tonight.
CC And AI, for that African pass we got
coming up tomorrow, the Flight Plan we gave you did not
give you an asending node for your slider map. I can give

you one verbally if you like it.

CDR Good idea. Just a second.
CDR Okay. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. It's 4.6 degrees west at 10:36
Zulu.
CDR Thanks.
SPT ATM didn't finish theirs earlier. Are
they still around.
CC I'ii check and see if he's still around.
I was under the impression that he had finished it up. We'll
check.
SPT We always seemed to be rushed at ATM,
possibly because we did do a lot of people reducing that data
real time and may be we ought to try to somehow get that
a little bit longer.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can work that in.
You guys got any specific questions or anything right now
that we can get - we can work with the back room?
SPT None other than I'm hoping they're going
to send up a pad with all that information on about how we
should - their recommendations for how we should handle the
remaining film. We heard it today and Owen remembers
it, Jack and I sometimes do, and we get it written down,
we can really do a better job. But I know we've got some
information on it , but the additional word they gave us a
today.
CC On 56, I think they mentioned that
they were going to take advantage of the extra film that
they had after the counter goes to zero. And we were going
to check and certainly do not see any problem with reseting
the counter for that on on your - Owen mentioned that he
thought 54 also had some and that is incorrect. That is
not true.
SPT Okay.
CC Now what is -
SPT I did think there was more than 6000
in there. Just my mistake.
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CC Now, Owen, actually when it gets down

to 200 you are out of film.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thanks for correcting me.
CC Okay. And one item we might like to
find out from you. It was mentioned about several instruments
that we're normally going to omit_ and we've been putting
those down in your schedule pad, of course, for each one.
And we're wondering if we just couldn't summarize that since
it seems like it's quite a bit of repeating over and over.
Either you know, at the end of the pad in remarks, or some
way like that, just to keep from using up so much paper.
SPT What - could you give me an example of
the sort of thing you want to abbreviate. AI tends to think
that they could be omitted. But I was thinking that that
it doesn't hurt to have them show up so that we don't for-
get them. But maybe there are some general things that
you had in mind that I wouldn't tend to forget.
CC Okay. An example would be right - on
right now you've been told not to use 54 except for the
synoptic, and of course, we've been putting down every time
at each building block that it's normally included in to
omit it, except for that synoptic.
SPT Yeah. But there's a question of whether
or not synoptic, and then sometimes you'll schedule a part-
icular building block in a JOP that is really serving double
purpose or really some other JOP and it's a question of
what is or is not synoptic to me. It's not always clear.
Usually it's clear, but not necessarily.
CC If there is any chance of confusing it
at all, we certainly would rather do it the way we've been
doing it.
SPT I'ii tell you what you could try for a
day or so, Bob. See if it works out. If there's something
that should be omitted for that particular pass, just write
it right at the first, like you do sometimes, say, dont'
repoint in multiple building block i0 or something. Say,
write it first. Omit 82A, B, and 54 this day pass. And
anything extra, just put within it. I think that would
be a workful solution.
CC Okay. We copy that. We'll take a look
at it. It's not going to be, of course, applicable to your
pads tomorrow, because we got those built, but we'll see if
we can work something out that might make it a little bit
better for the following day.
SPT Okay. I think that we can try a couple
of ways up here that you all come up with. I don't think
we'll have any trouble abiding by them, and then after we've
tried a couple, we'll let you what it looks like - seems to
be the best.
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CC Okay.
CC One item. We've got about i minute
to LOS and that real Carnarvon pass that I was talkinB
about will be coming up next at 01:13. Can you give us an
idea how your Poloroid film usage is goinB? About how much
more you've got? And how much you used up?
SPT We reported earlier, Bob, that we thought
we would essentially have it all used, and I think we're
actually not using it quite that fast now. I don't know
exactly how many packages were used, but I think it's
about 5. I've also found that a couple of packs after the
tape has been removed from the battery, slipped them in
and they do not function in the camera. Now, I've cleaned
the electrodes with a wipe, not with alcohol, and reinserted
it and it still did not function. So I'm assuming that
this is a deficiency in the battery pack and it's not
something inside the camera, but the next load will normally
work, but I think we've used up about five, and maybe another
one or two of them have been fouled in operating, so that
leaves about half at this point.
CC Okay. You' re asking pad's on board.
Going over the hill.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
00:41 minutes after the hour. Loss of signal at Ascension.
Next pass will be over Carnarvon tracking station. As
the Skylab space station begins its 1709th revolution.
Since launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14th. The Skylab III
crew concluded it's science debriefings for the week, with
Astronaut Bob Parker closing out the discussion with the
crew on the corollary experiments. Next acquisition at
Carnarvon in approximately 20 minutes at Greenwich mean
time 00:42 minutes, this is Skylah Control.

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SL-III MC-1820/I
Time: 20:02 CDT, 45/01:02 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,

i hour 2 minutes, acquisition coming up at Carnarvon with
CAP COMM Bob Crippen. We'll leave the line open for air-to-
ground.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS through Carnarvon,
i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. We've (garble) from the plan
here we got turned the thing on and we got a super erruptive
prominence going. Okay, it's near active region, it's just
going around the limb, active region 9 I believe.
CDR That thing is so big that you can see it
on H-alpha 2 when it's zoomed out.
CC Copy that.
PLT You can also see the dynamics in real time,
by just setting here watching it. You can see the change of
a perceptively. It's the first thin E I've ever seen
move on the Sun.
CC Roger.
CDR Zoomed out, it's right on the limb. Zoomed
out the thing is about half an inch long and a 1/16 of an
inch wide and by wide - about as wide as a pencil lead half
an inch long just laying on the limb of the Sun. If you get
a close up of it you can see that one end of it is emanating
from active region 9. It looks like it's coming out of it.
(garble) normal to the Sun's periphery limb and then it kind
of flattens out it's almost like a waterfall and then it comes
on down and then after it leaves that area it travels about
a hundredths second make that 200- make that 200 arc seconds
and then kind of flares out away from the Sun's disk.
CC Okay, AI. Are you going for a coronal
transient guideline?
CDR We're working on what's know as Hydrogen
alpha (garble) detected transient event and that's were are
at the moment.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR (garble) that's following the proven material.
PLT What we're doing is - we're given Miligan
an active one long at the moment and mirror auto raster for 56.
And - the 82B we're given him some pictures but they're just
40 and 20 short. We'll give him something different if he'd
like. 82A, we haven't given him anything.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Or 54.
CDR Most incredible thing I've seen since I've
been up as far as goings on on the Sun.
CC Okeydoke. Sounds exciting.
CDR fit's big.
CDR Wonder if 82A wants us to give him a shot
of it?
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CC Negative, AI.
CDR Yeah, we kind of thought so.
CDR How about 54, what does he think of these
days ?
CC No he doesn't want to participate either.
CDR Okay.
CC AI, one item, to get 52 in, we would like
you to do step 2 before you go to step 3.
CDR Will do. Uhen would like for us to go
to Sun center? Looks like we could stay here for ever or we
could stay here for as long as you think reasonable.
CC AI, 82B says he's got enough too, he doesn't
particularly care to shoot up anymore.
CDR Okay. I'ii tell you it makes those -
too bad he doesn't want some sort of limb scan because he's
got the opportunity of - of a- of a few (garble) or something.
Okay. When do you want to go to Sun center?
CC We're checking on that right now, AI.
Stand by.
CDR Okay.
CDR The only thing that we've got running is
56 so and 55 we can go after the active one long.
PLT That's where we're going to go, Bob. We're
going to wait until the active one long and the mirror auto raster
over and then we' re going.
CC T hat's satisfactory.
CC AI, 56 is apparently hung up again. When
you finish that one raster on 55 you can go ahead and go
to Sun center.
CDR Okay, we're thinking about it. It's nearly
finished.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're i minute from LOS,
we'll have you again at Guam at 01:15 and that's just about
3 minutes away. AI you were set up for your phone call there,
do you want to go ahead and keep it or do you want me to
shove it until later.
CDR I'ii go ahead and keep it. Owen will be
back. And Jack and Owen will work the problem.
SPT (garble)
CC Okay. And that's VHF right for you on the
antenna.
CDR Okay, thanks.

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CDR Nothing seems to show on the white light

coronagraph, it may not have gotten out far enough yet.
CC C opy that.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
1 hour 13 minutes. Loss of signal at Carnarvon, next acquistion
will be Guam in approximately 1 minute and 50 seconds. Rather
a super errupted prominence as Pilot Jack Lousma discribed
it. And one of the most exciting incredible things I've
seen up here, Commander Bean reported when they spotted a
an errupted prominence on the limb of the Sun. They are -
still looking at this - phenomena on the Sun as this a - the
end of the day for Skylab-3 slowly comes to a close. On this
44th day in orbit for the Skylab-3 crew. Acquisition at
Guam, we'll hold the line open for conversation between
CAP COMM Bob Crippen and the Skylab-3 crew.
CC S kylab, Houston. We're AOS through Guam
for i0 minutes.
PLT Okay. We're doing the bottom (garble) building
block -
SPT (Garble)
CC And CDR, Houston. If - we're have been
unable to raise you on VHF, we're standing by for the phone
call.
PLT Okay, Al's down there. I don't know
if he's talking or not.
CC Copy.
SPT I hear him telling Houston, he's reading
them, although I don't know if they're hearing him. I don't
think they're hearing AI.
CC Owen, are you on the panel yet?
CC J ack, how do you read.
SPT Okay, Bob, I'm on the panel. A1 reports
that he's reading your through the VHF loud and clear but
they can not hear him. And Jack's still with the panel.
CC O kay, I'll work - work that up.
Think he probably copied it. Since you reported that 52 is
was in the (garble) all 52 yet. We would recommend that
you started that step 2 to go ahead and truncate it and go
into the limb scan shopping list item 19 and use your judgement
where to point.
SPT Okay, understand. And we'll take another
look at the corona and then if we don't see anything pick
up on 19.
CC We are - we're sitting hear of course,
with out any ground base information one way or the other
to help you out.
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SPT That sounds like a real good idea and we'll

keep an eye on the corona occassionally, that we only got 30
minutes here left but probably take one other look and then see if
we do see some coming out beyond 1-1/2 solar radii so we'll
follow thos guide lines, that sounds like a good idea and we'll
see how it looks up here.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Say, Bob. I assume you want that shopping
list 19 over the - prominence we're looking at as opposed to
active region i0. Which was called down earlier.
CC That is affirmative Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Goldstone at 01:41 and that's
about 17 minutes away and we'll be standing by for your
Evening Status Report there.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
1 hour 26 minutes, loss of signal at Guam, next acquisition
will be Goldstone in approximately 14 minutes. Here at
mission control center we now have our plot board back up.
The simulation which the Skyla5-4 crew has concluded for
the day and normal operations hack on line here at mission
control center. No further discussion with the crew, concerning
the super errupted prominence, described by Pilot Jack Lousma
on his turn at the ATM this evening. Also Commander A1 Bean
referred to it as the most incredible incredible thing I've
seen up here. The back room, the ATM backroom is looking
at the - of the data, which will they will be receiving
from a TV dump shortly. The crew was advised not to generate
additional photography of this particular event at this time.
The crew is scheduled to end their day today, in approximately
one hour and a half from now. They have an early wake up
tomorrow, to do television, record television over Africa
in the drought area. This TV is scheduled to begin at 5:36 in
the morning. The television is aimed at track which crosses
the Sahelian Zone in Africa, a drought ravaged band of about
500 miles wide stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
immediately south of the Sahara Desert. This is the six
nation area, where several million people are threaten by
famine and disease after 4 to 5 years of abnormally dry
weather. Tons of emergency relief supply are being sent
to the area. It is hope that imagery from Skylab will
contribute to the avoidance of future such famines by helping
to identify water and mineral resources and determine the
patterns of vegetation. At Greenwich mean time, 1 hour
29 minutes, next acquisition will be Goldstone in 12 minutes
25 seconds. At Greenwich mean time I hour 29 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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919173

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

1 hour 41 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone
in approximately 30 seconds. We'll hold the line open
for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Goldstone
16-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob.
CC And we're standing by for TV down-link
whenever you can provide it for us.
PLT ()kay, understand you got real time (garble)
CC Affirmative.
CC W e'ii get it down to the site real
time, but it won't go on the VTR. We'll see it later.
PLT ()kay, it's sitting on H-alpha one right now.
CC Coming down good.
CDR Is this a good place for the Evening
Status Report?
CC That's a great place for it.
CDR How long we got?
CC Oh, 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR I hope I can cover it in time. Here
we go. Urine: 142, 160, 180. Drinking water: 5925, 9778,
6421. BMMD: Now, on this BMMD, I called down on channel A.
I ate, and I remembered that soon as I ate that I hadn't
weighed. So, I went up and weighed immediately in the
proper clothes, so all they've got to do is subtract off
exactly what I ate, plus one squirt of water. So, I put
that down on channel A and there - they shouldn't haven't
any trouble. But here's the number: 6.289, 6.288, 6.285;
5.967, 5.968, 5.969; 6.946, 6.949, 6.949. Exercise: CDR,
0; SPT, 2/31/5030, 3/20/Mark I, 60 A's, 30 B's, 30 D's;
PLT, 1/05/0607, 2/36/8706, 3/20/Mark I, 50A, 20B, 20D, 20
backbends. No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2 G, 7 G, 6-1/2 G.
Here comes the food log: CDR, four salt, add pineapple;
SPT, 5 salt, plus add four salts to yesterday's menu. Also
add peanuts to today. PLT, zero salts, one grape drink,
one butter cookies, one lemon drop. Okay, photo log: I'ii
get that. EREP: VTF, track i, CL03, 37. 35-millimeter:
CII04, 18, CX31, 21. 70-millimeter: CX26, 099. ETC:
VW02, 071. EREP: Set Z: 8,123; 7,460; 8,336; 8,330;
1,873; 9,191. Drawer A: no change. Okay, Flight Plan
tomorrow looks like a good one. Are you going to have
a good position, by the way, to give us a wake-up call
tomorrow ?
CC That's affirmative. We do. Got - one
set up about 10:14.
CDR Perfect. Okay. Now, shopping list: no
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shopping list items accomplished that you don't know about.

No inoperable equipment that's new. Unscheduled stowage
item location change: we moved some wipes from 729 to the
waste management compartment, we moved five red towels from
D418, I think it is, to the waste management compartment.
Let me check to make sure it's 418.
Long pause
CDR That is correct, and that's the end of
the night report. Any questions?
CC I don't believe so, AI. We're checking,
just stand by.
CC A I, apparently we don't really have any
more questions. It looks like a good report. And, Jack,
are you or Owen available?
CDR You bet. Jack's working - oh oh, well,
I think he just finished. All of us are available. What's
on your mind?
CC O kay, just wanted to tell Owen on his
pass for next rev at the ATM. We would like to have the
H-alpha I back to manual just to conserve a little film.
And we would like to pick up that building block I that -
that we left. And, since we've already done shopping list
item 19, of course, that's not necessary.
PLT Okay, understand. Just about what we'd
planned.
CC Also, - the VTR is all cleaned off, re-
wound, and it's yours if you need it.
PLT Have anything in mind?
CC Only item we had is, we have scheduled,
of course, that inventory thing for AI tomorrow, if you
wanted to start picking up on that a little bit earlier,
that's - would be satisfactory.
PLT Okay, I'ii sure (garble)
CC A nd, Skylab, you might have noticed we're
doing a data voice recorder dump here at Mila.

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SL-III MC-1823/I
Time: 21:51 CDT, 45/01:51 GMT
9/9/73

CC Jack, could you give us an idea of how

much of that mini-limb scan, shopping list item 19 that you
were able to do.
PLT Yeah, went over to the - area where we
saw the surge errupted prominence and got pointed and - and we
got - at least two grading scans at the limb and plus 2 and
plus 4 (garble) for the mirror and I got - for 56 1 got a
3, 4, 5 long exposures. They were all between 8 and l0 seconds
especially at the end, the last two where 8 and 82B, I got
him pointed at zero, 2, 4, 8, 12, let me check that a minute.
Right, excuse me I missed those long exposures on 56 (garble)
82B got pointed at 0, plus 4, plus 8 and plus 20. What the
thing was we had to cut down on exposures a little bit
in order to work that many points in, but we tried to do
it by using the same portion that they had for the short
and long. The only one didn't get was the - minus 4 (garble)
from the limb.
CC O kay, that sounds good Jack. We didn't
want that minus 4 anyway.
PLT I didn't think you did.
CC Okay, and one other item we would like to
terminate that battery 6 charge down on 509 as late as practical
tonight prior to the charge termination, any time we would like
to get a read out of the charger current.
PLT Okay, that's pretty easy. Stand by.
Reports half an amp.
CC Roger. 0.5 amps.
PLT And we'll take it off charge for you at
(garble) .
CC O kay, very good. For Owen, on that S054
frame count I think maybe I've got an answer to why to some
confusion while ago as to how much frames it had after it
counted down. The S054 frame count is presently a real count.
The frame count was reset after the magazine installation
when some 990 frames had been used. When the frame count reads 200
no more film should be expended as damage to the film could
Occur.

SPT Okay, I hadn't known about that reset on the

S054. I guess it was done while I wasn't around the panel. I
didn't know about it, so that - A1 just said he did it. So
that accounts the other frames that I was expecting.
CC Okeydoke. And Owen, another item is the
S063 visiable camera working correctly now?
SPT We'll I've been using that camera all day
but in a manual mode. And I have not connected up with a timer
and it done it electrically again. So I guess I cannot verify
that - the battery is up and everything is working electrically,
although there is no problem with any of the mechnical preformance.
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Time: 20:51 CDT, 45/01:51 GMT
9/9/73

CC ()kay, if you do have a chance to check

it out electrically we would appreciate the word on it.
PLT Yes, I'ii do that tomorrow. I had actually
thought that I could - press the button on that motor drive
ring and get it to work electrically but I guess I can't do
that. And I'ii have to hook the timer up to it.
SPT One big item we don't want to leave off,
tonight, Crip. The workshop temperature ambient gauge is
reading 72 degrees.
CC M ustn' t forget about that.
SPT AI suggest that I should have rotated that
motor ring into drive to N single (garble) then it would
have kicked off electrically. So I'ii try it that way or with
the timer tomorrow before any S063 runs.
CC Okay, copy that.
CC For CDR, we're of course, setting here
with a few more sites tonight and no big busy activity. We're
wondering if there is anything that - well actually for any
of you that we owe you or you'd like to talk about that we
could take advantage of the time.
SPT Yeah, now we know all about M518 and
were we turn the heat on.
SPT Maybe you need to get it up to (garble)
temperature before everybody goes to bed.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get you a good
answer on that one.
SPT Could you comment Bob. I appreciate
the quick response from the corollary room on giving us a go to
get that S063 apparatus body installed although it turned out
to be on the wrong side of the spacecraft. Glad to have the
opportunity to give it a try and sure took some quick thinking
and (garble) to make sure it was satisfactorily.
CC Okay. Sorry it turned out to be on
the wrong side of the spacecraft. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. Carnarvon pass next at 02:41 and that's your med conference.
CDR Okay, Crip. I can't think of anythin_
right now, we've cleaned up a lot of loose ends on this day off
and we'll try to think about that though if the situation
comes up again.
CC Okay, we've been considering putting
together maybe a little story about some of the troublesbootin_
items we feel that we need to get down between now and
end of mission and we might talk to you about that some time
if your interested.
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Time: 20:51 CDT, 45/01:51 GMT
9/9/73

CDR You bet, that's a Bood idea. The sooner

I can get them in the better, because we're going to have time
to work on them. (Garble) do ya'll stand back with that probe
or do you want us to keep working on it. Looks like _ _'ve got
the things you mentioned but we still haven't solved the problem.
CC T hat's one of the items.
CDR Okay. That's enough no doubt.
CC Love those. Over the hill.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time, i hour
59 minutes, loss of signal at Bermuda, next acquisition will
be Carnarvon in 41 minutes from now. As the Skylab-lll crew
winds up their 44th day in orbit. They are scheduled to have
a - a shorter sleep period tonight than normal. Scheduled
early tomorrow morning at 5:36 a.m. is an attempt to take television
pictures of the drought area, Mall drouBht area in north Africa.
Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in approximately 41 minutes
at Greenwich mean time, 2 hours 13 seconds, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC 1824/1
Time 21:40 CDT, 45:02:40 GMT
9-9-73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 2

hours, 40 minutes. Acquisition coming at Carnarvon in approx-
imately 30 seconds. WE'll leave the line up for that pass.
This pass is scheduled to be a medical - the nightly medical
conference. We'll hold the line open in the event that the
conference is short and the crew does get back on the line
with the CAP CO MM Bob Crippen. We'll just hold the line
open for this pass.
CC Okay, Skylab. Got you back here for
about a minute and a half. And we're going to have you at
Guam at 02:56. We'd like to know what you put on the VTR
for us if you could tell us.
PLT AI is putting the information for Gerry
on the TV at the moment.
CC Okay. And we copy that we filled up the
VTR. Is that an adequate amount of time for the inventory, or
are you going to need some more time for that?
PLT He's going to need some more time because
he's not finished down there yet, Bob.
CC Okay. I believe we've got some more
scheduled for him tomorrow, so we'll probably be able to
finish it up then.
PLT And we came around the sunny side (garble)
over to the little flare that's going on and ran_ the bell
and got up to about 730 or 40. And we were at beryllium 2
at about 37:00.
CC Roger.
PLT And the IIC was up around 160.
CC We're - we're - we're getting ready to go
over the hill here.
PLT Okay. Trouble is we got (garble) top
again. We didn't get the rise.
CC R oger.
CDR Say, Bob, I was on the comm. Did you get
the word we were using the VTR?
CC Roger. We - And it's full right now. It's
not available for your use anymore.
CDR Okay. And it's finished and my guess is
I've got probably another 20 minutes to go to finish the
job - maybe 30. If we had a full one, we could do it for sure.
CC We'll work on that.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 2
hours, 49 minutes Acquisition in 5 minutes at the Guam
tracking station. One of the last station passes for this
evening. If the crew does retire on schedule at 3 hours
Greenwich mean time. Next acquisition will be Guam in approx-
imately 5 minutes, 25 seconds. At GReenwich 2 hours, 50 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1825/I
Time: 21:55 CDT 45:02:55 GMT
9-9-73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 2

hours, 55 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Carnarvon in
approximately 30 seconds. We'll leave the line open for
CAP COMM Bob Crippen with conversation with the Skylab-lll
crew.
CC Skylab, llouston. We' re AOS through
Guam for 5 minutes.
SPT Okay. About the MASTER ALARM, we're
just changing-
CDR Solids trap.
SPT Solids traps over here. We haven't
told you very much about this flare. Jack mentioned a little
bit, but it was a reasonably nice flare and the XUV signature
is still one very small pinpoint on the XUV mon and it has
an unusual, rather dark halo around it. There is a dark
region, perhaps, oh, 30 arc seconds - Maybe up to an arc
minute - more likely 30 arc seconds in dia - in radius - I
dont't think that's diameter - around the small bright spot.
which is very dark in XUV and then the briEht plage beyond
that. The signature on the XUV mon that I indicated is
principally this one bright spot quite different in - in
H-alpha. It shows a lot of wriggles and kinks and lines along
the neutral lines in H-alpha, but not in the XUV mon.
Now we're still consi - continuing in the flare operations
for several of the instruments, but not yet done the JOP i
A and B - or building blocks i, A and B. And I'm wondering
if the back room has any suggestion of whether or not they
can do any of it while unattended if they'd like for me to
stay up and finish it before I turn in tonight.
CC We're looking into that, Owen. And
regarding that active prominence that we saw earlier, it -
according to our Carnarvon data went out to about 0.05
solar radii and was pretty good for 82B to get that limb
scan done with.
PLT (Garble) flare we're up there working
on started going down; now it's going back up. And we
caught it on the new spot, same active region on the horizon
again. And, so we're taking data in the modified flare
mode.
CC Okay. And we also copy and agree with
you, Jack. It does looks like it's coming up again.
PLT Okay. Now we're already giving 82B
10-second exposures here once in a while. We'd be more _enerous
if we had the okay down there.
CC Okay. Understand 82B is getting 10-second
exposure.
CDR Never in our wildest dreams did we
ever imagine we'd have that much action on the Sun as we've
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9-9-73

CDR (CONT'D) had in the last mouth.

CC ¥es, old man Sun's really been cooperative
here with us lately. And we're about
CDR fit's been incredible. Every time that
something like this has happened we said, well, that's about
it, and it just won't stop perking. Like today, we've had
three big events already; it's just fantastic how this Sun's
cooperating.
CC Yes, you're right about that. And, Jack,
it's your discretion on 82B exposures. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We've got a Goldstone pass upcoming at about 03:18,
and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there. I nor-
mally will not give you a call at Goldstone. I'll try to get
an answer for you regarding this - the syuoptics.
CDR Okay. Give us a call when you get there.
CC Roger. Understand you want a call at
Goldstone.
PLT And we missed the handheld (garble) be-
cause it's clobbered with clouds.
CC Copy.
CDR Also, one thing you asked if we wanted
to talk about - WWe kind of wanted to talk about what your
thinking was down there about these film- these 8-minute
film we brought out on the plenum the other day.
CC Okay. We - we copy that.
CC See you at Goldstone at 03:18.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time, 3
hours, 1 minute. Loss of signal at Carnar - at Guam. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in approximately 16 minutes.
Science Pilot Garriott asked the ground if they wanted him to
stay with the flare they were observing on this current sun-
side pass of the Sun. The ground, looking at the data, and
apparently the crew will not retire on time as earlier scheduled.
They'll retire - scheduled to go to retire for the evening at
03:00 GMT; it now looks as though it may be at least a half
hour late. We'll come back up at Goldstone and follow tha
pass. At Greenwich mean time 3 hours, 2 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1826/I
TIME: 22:17 CDT 45/03:17 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

3 hours 17 minutes. Acquisition shortly over the Goldstone
tracking station in approximately 30 seconds. Cap Com will
be Astronaut Bob Crippen. We'll hold the line open for
this Goldstone, Texas, Mila pass.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone and
we've got you for about 15 minutes on this stateside pass.
SPT Okay, be with you in just a minute.
CC O kay. No sweat. We copied that we had
2 MI flares previously and pretty sure that you got the
rise on that second one.
SPT Okay.
SPT We're over in that second one now. This
is a fairly active region 24, I believe that's the correct
number. It's the new one there that we didn't have listed
on the SAP. And the second one was another portion of the
northern segment of active region 24. There are two segments.
I' ii call them the northern and southern segments. And the
second portion of the northern segment began to brighten.
We noticed it on both the XUV MON and the H-Alpha, but really
noticed it first this time on H-Alpha. And I went over there
and (garble) caught a good part of the rise. 56 keeps
hanging up, but I think we kept it going all right or
at least most of that. As 56 or 55 going properly in
mirror line scan at this time, we've given 82B 10
seconds exposures. Now, I Just now moved over to another
bright point in the southern region, which is starting to
brighten in H-Alpha. But we did not have an XUV MON signature
as yet. In hopes that perhaps we can catch even earlier in
the rise. Now apparently, I just moved over there a couple of
minutes ago. Nothing has begun to increase there. We've
only got a 2 minute flare, so we'll not see anything again for
30 minutes. Now the other rather interesting thing, at
least one other interesting thing, on the XUV MON there
is a very dark region between the northern and southern
segments of active region 24. There's a very difinite
cavity which, from which all the brightness is excluded
between the northern and southern halves. I probably
should have taken an 82-Alpha exposure early in the game,
which I did not do. It would have been nice to have seen
what it looked like there, although, of course, I'Ii have
some X-ray photographs. And that looks like it's going to
be about all we can do on this particular orbit. But I am
standing by to pick up the synoptic stuff at the beginning
of the or during the next orbit. You mentioned 2 class M's
I presume that's the (garble) and you've already got the
information back there on the X-ray signature. Is that
correct. Over.
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TIME: 22:17 CDT 45/03:17 GMT
9/9/73

CC That's affirm, Owen, we did get the

satellite with the X-ray signatures indicating MI.
SPT Okay. Looks real good. The H-Alpha
and the XUV MON signatures are really quite different. The
A-Alphas, you may have seen down there by now. On the
other hand, you probably haven't. This is night time
locally. It - In the northern segment was composed of a great
many, let's say 6 or 8 different small bright points. We
were on the brightest of these for both of the two flares,
but there were undoubtedly a number of bright points contributing
However, on the XUV MON, there was no way a single bright
point in each case, and it was very small right at the
of the resolution that our scope and the XUV MON has.
So I can't say which has the (garble) which is the earliest
but their appearance was definitely quite different. Over.
CC O kay. Owen, that was an excellent
summary and regarding the synoptic, we do not want you to
go ahead and stay up for that next rev. We had just as
soon you would go ahead and sack out, since you're going
to have to get up early tomorrow morning.
SPT Understand. (garble) What configuration
would you like for me to leave the panel in. And I really
wouldn't object to staying up a half hour and see the first
part of it or even the whole thing if you'd like. But if
you don't want that, how would you like for me to leave
the panel in terms of roll and the pointing.
CDR I don't think we're going to have any
problem with fatigue. And we can take it (garble) after all
Owen's a civilian you.
CC Roger. Understand, AI.
CC Owen, since you're being so cooperative,
if you could give us the building block 2, at the first
portion of the next rev, with a roll of minus 4800, it
would be very much appreciated.
SPT Nothing to it. Is that all? If I'm
going to stay up, I might as well give you everything you
really want.
CC O wen, the Flight Director says he's
doing flip flops trying to observe all the ground rules
and it's strictly your option if you can get the synoptic
in I guess that would be appreciated also.
SPT Okay. That'll be fine. We'll manage to get
that done and I'ii just take it and not get up til i0:00.
CC Rog. get - get to get up early on
your day off, so I guess tomorrow is a work day you'll
get up a little bit earlier.
SPT Why not. Why not.
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TIME: 22:17 CDT 45/02:17 GMT
9/9/73

CC I did have a few items if the CDR is

listening regarding his troubleshooting stuff I spoke to him
about earlier. And I could just sort of run down it in
about 30 seconds here. I may cover most of them.
SPT He couldn't think of going to sleep
with all this fun and gaming going on up here.
CC I didn't think so. Just to run down
them quickly. We're talking about flushing the secondary
refrigeration subsystem and we would not do that until we got
into the deactivation timeline so that we'll make sure that we
don't harm any of the blood and urine samples. We're going
ahead and do some mroe ATM battery capacity checks llke we were
doing today. We' re talking preping the TV camera serial
number 3002 for returning home. We're talking about checking
out that dump probe heater that we mentioned earlier. I
guess a couple of the items that is we're talking about
right now are one, since we really can't figure out what
the heck's wrong with it is to reinstall it and do a dump and see
whether it works or not. Another way is to try and figure
out if we can come up with someway of checking out that
heater to make sure it's working inside. I'd be interested
in any comments you might have on that one.
CDR We can check that out inside without
running a dump. I think quite easily. We can mount it -
universal mount if need be and turn it on and use our temperature
probe here that has about 8 inch end on it and measure it you know,
close to it or tough it or whatever else they may think
would be right, using the probe. I don't think we'll have
any trouble. We also got a vice we can put it in. So we
can very easily check it out _for you.
CC We'll take that under advisement and
get back with you on it. For the EVA, we're talking about
dusting off that spec on SO52 and also pulling the ramp on
H-Alpha 2.
CDR Sounds good.
CC Also, we're talking about changing out
the airlock module recorder number 2 with one of the spares.
CDR Okay. That's going to be my job.
CC And really, that pretty much covers the
special things that we figure we need to get done between
now and end of mission. Regarding the film question you
had earlier, our indication right now is that that 190A
film is all sort of stuck together and we're actually afraid
of hurting the 190A unit if we stick it in.
CDR Why don't take one of the rolls apart
and check it for you and see how it looks? Take it out and
do it by hand and look at it.
CC That's an excellent idea.
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TIME: 22:17 CDT 45/03:17 GMT
9/9/73

CC And now regarding that SO19 film canister

you've brought out, I guess right now we just don't think
that that's any good at all. It had had it's earlier
problems. It's spent all of this time out of the film
vault, so the rediation pretty much, we're sure of gotten
it by now.
CDR Okay. How about the ETC film?
CC Well, it supposedly had the same problem
that the 190A had, and we're not really sure that there's
anything that we can do to verify that that it doesn't have
the problem.
CDR In other words, just taking out a roll
and not reeling and sealing it, looking at it, being familar
with film to begin with, it's not possible to look at it and
say hey, this stuff works great or it's sticking together,
huh?
CC Stand by on that. I think we need to
get a better answer on it. I'm really - if we - do you
think that you can look at the ETC film and make that kind
of an evaluation?
CDR Definitely. I think I can look at
both the films, make the evalu - -

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SL-III _C-1827/I
Time: 22:30 CDT, 45:03:30 GMT
9-9-73

CC -- film and make that kind of an evaluation?

CDR Definitely. I think I can look at both
the films, make the evaluation. The two rolls we look at
will be long. But then the - we might realize that the
others are acceptable. Certainly because we've handled the
film up here that's brand new coming in, so we know how it
looks and we can certainly compare that with what we're
using in the EREP right now - for flexibility, tracking_
stickiness, anything else that the ground can think of. But
I'm sure we can tell whether it was going to stick and hurt
the equipment, for sure.
CC Okay. Is - You - you've got a GO from
us to take a look at that, too.
CDR Okay. We'll think about that and we've
also got ... gauges up here we could even put them on the
end and measure the strength it takes to unroll it or any-
thing like that. There's a lot of gear up here for doing
that sort of thing.
CC Roger; copy.
CC Okay. We got about a minute and 45
second s with - before we go over the hill. Next pass is at
Vanguard, 03:44. I'll go ahead and cut off for here for to-
night and we'll - we'll be talking to you tomorrow.
CDR Okay. I gather that there's not going to
be more troubleshooting on this dump. Is that correct?
CC Are you talking about on the condensate
dump on the DELTA-P thing?
CDR No, I'm talking about the air ducts from
the - to mol sieve back to the OWS - those fans we changed
the other day.
CC Sorry; I misunderstood you. Duct - the
transfer duct flow is the one that's still erradic and indi-
cating a little bit low. The heat exchanger flow is good
now - that - When you cleaned that thing off, that solved
that problem. We really suspect that all we've got is just
a transducer problem on that transfer duct. But we don't
have any way of proving it one way or the other.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. Just wondered what
your principle was on it. I guess you're happy now with the
condensate system because it seems to have quit leaking.
I - I hope we can break this thing down at the end with
minimum connectors disconnections. I'm sure you're thinking
that pretty hard, too.
CC Yes, we concur with that. Xegarding that
duct thing, we thought about the intervelometer, but we con-
cluded that it just doesn't - doesn't measure iLigh engough.
CDR Okay.
CC I'd say velometer - not intervelometer; sorry.
CDR Okay. See y'all tomorrow.
CC 'Night, guys.
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Time: 22:30 CDT, 45:03:30 GMT
9-9-73

CC Appreciate it if you could re - -

CDR We're supposed to be in bed by that time ...
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 3
hours, 33 minutes. Loss of signal at _ILA with a goodniFht
call from CAP COMM Bob Crippen to the crew. A busy day they
did have on their day off. Their day began at 10:58 Greenwich
mean time yesterday. They are scheduled to awake an hour
early tomorrow - lionday morning. The prime purpose of that
is to catch television on the video tape recorder of the
_lali drought area in North Africa. Two EREP passes scheduled
for Monday, both stateside passes. That will be EREP pass
number 19, EREP pass num_r 20. Both passes are weather-
dependent. If the ground track is bad, it's possible EkEP
pass may be cancelled aga _ tomorrow as was today. One of
the areas on tap for tomorrow is the Houston-area test site.
However, predictions are for this area to be heavily clouded
tomorrow, so it's possible that the first pass may be
scrubbed tomorrow. The crew - the crew again reported
quite an active Sun late tonight at Greenwich mean time, 1
hour and 2 minutes - 2-1/2 hours ago, that was. Jack Lousma
reported a super-eruptive prominence as the spacecraft passed
over Carnarvon. Commander Bean added his comments describing
the - what they viewed from the spacecraft was the most
incred - one of the most incredible things he has ever seen.
Commander - Science Pilot Garriott referred that the Sun was
incredible, and it was fantastic how the Sun is cooperating
with the Skylab-III crew in providing almost daily flares and
prominences. The close of business for the Skylab-III crew on
their 44th day in orbit as they - the spacecraft, Skylab, con-
clides its 1710th revolution. The next acquisition will be at
Vanguard. The crew will probably be in the start of their
sleep period fot the evening. Early wakeup tomorrow at 5 a.m.
at Greenwich mean 3 hours, 36 minutes, this is Skylab Control

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SL-III MC-1828/I
Time: 22:42 CDT, 45/03:42 GMT
9/9/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,

3 hours 42 minutes, we have the daily surgeons report on the
crew health. Which is as follows, for Doctor - from Doctor
Buchanan, "We are please to continue reporting the excellent
state health and spirit which exist aboard our Skylab space
station, Astronauts Bean, Garriott and Lousma enjoyed another
day of moderate activity, which was suppose to be a day off.
Their eagerness for work and mission related duties has caused
them to ask for more and more assigned tasks and so their time
off has decreased. They are obviously thrieving on their
work and medically we have no objections to this," signed
Doctor Buchanan for Doctor Royce Hawkins. We'll leave the
line open for possible conversation on this Vanguard pass.
The crew was scheduled to retire at Greenwich mean time,
3 hours, however, due to the active Sun, the crew has been
spending a little more time at the ATM console this evening.
We'll hold the llne open for possible conversation on this
pass.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
3 hours 54 minutes, loss of signal at the Vanguard. The
crew has apparently begun their sleep period for this their
44 day. Wake up time will be short 6 hours from now at
Greenwich mean time, i0 hours. We will open the line from
the public affairs console at Greenwich mean time i0 hours
at Greenwich mean time, 3 hours 54 minutes, this is Skylab
Control signing off.

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Time: 05:13 CDT, 45/10:13 GMT
9/10/73

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control at

I0 hours, 13 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 45.
Skylab is nearing acquisition at the Vanguard tracking ship
where we'll put in our first call to the crew - getting them
up early this morning to do some television and Earth terrain
camera work over Africa - the drougth area of Africa. Should
be acquiring in the next few seconds. We'll stand by.
CC Good morning, Skylab. AOS through the
Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Morning, Story.
CC Morning.
PLT Weather look good for this first EREP?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Very good.
CC And a friendly reminder to everyone at
TSA and plus IMSS - it's on your Flight Plan. That's crew
sampling, so don't brush your teeth and also avoid washing
ear canal and see that you do in the morning - don't wash
those areas prior to getting the sample.
PLT You caught me just in time. I was just
about to get my feet washed.
CC By who?
PLT My imagination.
CC Jack, let me know when you get to the ATM
panel.
PLT I'm there.
CC Okay. We'd like a Nu Z update by 10:22
and I've got an update on your Sun. No flares have been reported
since 05:00 Zulu. Active regions 19, 24, and 09, now have
near equal flare probabilities. Flares in active region 15 are
occurring sympathetically with flares in active region 24.
Prominence 53 is active. The slight prominence activity at
07 on the limb.
PLT Okay.
CC And Jack, when you can work it in the
frame count on the ATM, please,
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. _e'll
see you over Ascension 4 minutes. Be dumping the data voice
recorders then. We see the Nu Z update - looks good.
CDR This is an SI - is it not, Story?
CC We got about 20 seconds. Could you say
again, AI.
CDR This is a SI EREP pass, is it not solar
inertial EREP?
CC That's affirm. And while I got you, don't
use anymore than ii minutes on the VTR - you'll be erasing
some previous recordings, AI.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has

loss of signal. The Ascension Island tracking station will
pick up Skylab in about 2 minutes. It's another busy day for
the crew. Two Earth Resources survey passes scheduled for
this afternoon over the United States. Two runs of the lower
body negative pressure and metabolic activity experiments. One
this morning with Pilot Jack Lousma, as the subject. One this
afternoon with Science Pilot Owen Garriott, as the subject.
Six hours and 58 minutes of Apollo Telescope Mount, solar ob-
servations and activation of the electric furnace again today.
for the M562 experiment - using the furnace, the MDM crystals
experiment. Objective here is to produce semiconductor crystals
of high chemical homogeneity and structual perfection and to
evaluate the influence of weightlessness in obtaining these
properties. Ascension should acquire momentarily, we'll stand by.

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SL-III MC1830/I
Time: 05:27 CDT, 45/10:27 GMT
9/10/73

CC Skylab, AOS Ascension, i0 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. Here's the frame count.
H-alpha is 5432. (garble) 1113. Cal DA is 39. Cal DD, 232.
MacLean is 3076 and Diana 3.1921.
CC Okay. Thanks, Jack.
PLT Now let's see. Do we have any other open
items you want us to work on?
CC Could you say again, please?
PLT Was that all the info you wanted?
CC Yeah, that's fine.
PLT Okay.
CC Jack, was that frame count prior to your
starting the ATM ops this morning?
PLT Say again, please.
CC Was the frame count prior to your starting
the ATM ops this morning?
PLT Oh, I had just started - just started Jop 6
and hadn't gotten too far into it.
CC Okay.
SPT I've got it recorded from last night up
there. Just a second, Story.
PLT Story, I'Ii give you a frame count as of -
at the end of operations last night, if you prefer.
CC Yeah, that'll be helpful.
PLT Okay. H-alpha 5435. 56, 1116. 82A is 39,
82B is 232. 52 is 3005, and 54 is 1929.
CC Thanks.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Owen_ the Flight Plan's not very clear, but
the IMSS you do along with PSA is IMSS 3 and it's on page 32-18
IMSS checklist.
SPT Okay. Thank you. I think we have it all
out and ready to go, actually. We don't have the bottles out
yet but - if I have any questions, I'ii give you a call.
CC Thought that was the case.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. Good luck
in your study of the African drought. We'll see you in about
35 minutes over Guam at ll:ll.
SPT Okay, Story.
SPT Got alot of cloud cover so far, but they
may be more clear once we hit the coast.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has loss
of signal as Skylab begins this photography pass over Africa
with Owen Garriott operating the Earth terrain camera, AI Bean,
the television. Jack Lousma is at the Apollo Telescope Mount
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console. Skylab's track will cross the Saharian zone in

Africa, a drought ravaged band about 500 miles wide, which
stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea - immediately south
of the Sahara Desert. This is a six-nation area where several
million people are threatened by famine and disease after
4 to 5 years of abnormally dry weather. It's hope that imagery
from Skylab will contribute to the avoidence of such famines
in the future by helping to identify water and mineral resources
by determining the patterns of vegetation. June to September
is the normal rainy season in this zone. Next station to
acquire Skylab will be Guam in 32 minutes. At I0 hours,
39 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1831/I
Time: 06:10 CDT 45/11:10 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

i0 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acqui-
sition through Guam.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story. Glad you mentioned that on
the IMSS numbers. According to my flight plan the only
thing listed specifically is my IMSS 1 at about 12:30. And
apparently the other IMSS is for all three crew members
starting at ii:00 or a little after with the IMSS 3 for
each of us. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, Owen.
SPT Okay Story, we'll do it. Thank you.
CC And for your information the air sample
is performed later on around mission day 58.
SPT Okay, fine. And for the EREP Officer, let
me check the (garble)
SPT 79 frame is used. (garble) prime mag,
of course.
CC Could you repeat that please, Owen.
SPT 79 frames were used for the prime mag.
ETC Ops.
CC Okay, thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, and 30 min-
utes to the Vanguard.
CDR We did some talking with Bob last night about
this film, the ETC film and the EREP film that we brought up from
Pete's bag downstairs. And the concern was that it might be
sticky or it might not be acceptable to run through the 190. And
we finally decided last night I think, that it would be okay
if I opened it up and looked at one roll to see if it was sticky,
cracked and all that business both ETC and EREP. I want to make
sure that's still okay today, and I would like you to recommend
which roll, and then I'll do it some time today and that way
you'll be aware of what the state is of those two film canisters.
CC Okay AI, I'll get you the answer on that.
And on your M092, 171 coming up, you will need a vital capa-
city cal on that one. And you only do that one once, the other
one you take a measurement. And it's just that first one
you take a cal.
CDR Okay.
CC And you'll need that
PLT (garble)
CC Yes, we're going over the hill. Give it
a try.
PLT Okay, I noticed last night or yesterday I
was 6-1/2 packs short on salt. And I started to say something,
and I noticed they didn't prescribe any for me this morning,
salt pills, and I'm wondering why. And I'm wondering why (garble).
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CC Okay, we got it.

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the Guam station. It will be picked up by
the tracking ship Vangaurd in 29 minutes. At ii hours 22 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1832/I
Time: 06:50 CDT, 45/11:50 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

50 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by through
the tracking ship Vanguard for communications with Skylab.
CC Skylab, AOS the Vanguard i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And, Jack, I've got an answer on your
salt.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC 0 kay, yesterday even if you took zero salt
you'd still be at the minimum amount of salt, so no supplements
would have been prescribed for today.
PLT Okay, we've been talking it over after
I mentioned it to you, and I guess we made a decision to
take some supplemental salt pills if we don't use up all
of our salt during the day; and we'll report them.
CC Okay, and that's true for, I guess, about
every menu cycle you've got. Even with no salt you're right
at the salt minimum.
PLT Okay, thank you for looking that up Story.
CDR Story, we were talking - the rule that
came up with the one salt pill equals two salt packs, and that's
what we've been using for several days. But my subjective opinion
is,there is a lot more salt that actually gets inside you from that
1 salt pill than ever gets inside you from those two salt packs.
And I'm not sure that maybe one salt pill, the amount that gets
inside you isn't about three or four times more than two
salt packs. That's just a subjective feeling I've got from
looking at the amount salt (garble) and so forth.
CC Okay, copy, Alan. Out of curiosity,
was that the ATM event timer that went off in the background?
CDR You got good ears. I Just ran that
240 long on 82A.
CC Okay, in the next 7 minutes I've got a
couple of things for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC On your flight plan delete the EREP tape
load at 21:03.
CDR Okay, we got a brand new tape on there.
CC That's affirm. And sometime at your
convenience, not now, you're running the ATI_, with the
(garble) that's aiming air at the rate gyro six pack, using
your own judgement could you adjust that to maximize the
cooling on the six pack?
CDR Sure can. We can even put up a little
baffle on it out of cardboard if you llke.
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CC Okay, the - they've been creeping up

gradually. Oh, they've come up about 5 or 6 degrees on the
average.
CDR But - I'ii just adjust it now and then
- we'll do some thinking about how we might baffle it over there
and cool it better. We didn't know it was a problem.
CC It's nowhere near a problem yet, we're
just watching them come up gradually.
CDR May be more function of beta angle on
that side of the vehicle then it is air; I don't know.
CC Okay.
CDR We're getting a lot more reflected Earth now,
so it's possible that that's the reason they're getting
warmer.
CC Okay.
CC JacK, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC We should have got it to you a little
sooner, but on EREP pass number 19, that's a nadir swath,
so don't bother to do any homework on the tragets we listed
on the summary flight plan.
PLT Okay, weather cooperative?
CC Last I heard it was. And we're a minute
from LOS. I'ii let you know - I'II let you know at Madrid
in about 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, if the nadir swath does interrupt it
I'Ii probably take a look at the weather in Houston and see if
I can get something, anyway. So anywhere I've got a site,
I'Ii probably do a little hunting.
CC Okay.
PAO Vanguard has loss of signal. Ascension
will acquire in 6 minutes. At 12 hours 2 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1833/I
Time: 07:08 CDT, 45/12:08 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours, 7 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Ascension
Island acquisition. Canary Island and the Madrid station have
overlapping coverage - this will be a lon E pass.
CC S kylab, AOS Ascension, 3 minutes.
CC I f that was Jack, the weather along EREP 19
is averaging between 0 and .7 coverage with an average somewhere
around .4.
PLT Okay. Thank you. Does that Nadir swath
take place during the time that I'd like to be looking
for some Houston sites?
CC I'ii have to get you the answer on that one.
PLT Maybe It'll be a good idea if there's a good
possibility of getting some Houston sites to give me some
tracking angles.
CC Okay. And while I've got you, the Friends-
wood Mustangs came through Friday night.
PLT Good. They'll probably have another good
team this year. That's one thing about the folks in Friendswood -
they all get out and pull for the high school football team and
other sports as well. A lot of community spirit for the high school.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Wonder if 56 is held up on filter 4?
CC Say again, AI.
CDR I was wondering if 56 was held up but it
finally shifted over to filter 5. Everything's okay. Thank
you, Story.
CC Rog.
CC And Skylab, we're about 20 seconds to LOS.
We'll see you over Madrid in 5 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Canary Island
station is now available to Skylab on this pass supporting the
Earth Resources technology satellite at this time. Skylab's
about 2-1/2 minutes away from Madrid. We will have acquisition
there. We'll continue to keep the llne up.
CC Skylab,AOS Madrid, 6 minutes.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC In terms of tracking sites, we don't think
you can help us an awful lot. We're pretty far east of the
track that those sites line and also, with the weather we got,
we're presently planning to run a Nadir swath on the cumulus
clouds over land during that pass.
PLT Okay. Maybe I've got my slider set up wrong.
I got it going about 50 miles north of Ilouston. I'ii plan to
get the clouds in unless some changes in the meantime, you can -
If the weather does change between now and then, why don't hesi-
tate to send us up some - some coordinates cause we can react
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with just a couple of minutes.

CC We know you can and we'll do it.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over Guam in 25 minutes. Be dumping the tape recorder
there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range at Madrid now. Guam will acquire Skylab in 26 minutes.
We're showing 9 minutes of use on the video tape recorder
aboard Skylab - that being the pass over the drought area in
Africa shortly after the crew was awaken. That video tape will
be dumped during a pass over the United States later today.
We don't have a time for that yet. At 12 hours, 24 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1834/I
Time: 07:48 CDT 45/12:48 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within
range of the Guam station now.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 7 minutes.
CC You all will be glad to hear that as far
as the ground troops go it's all down hill from here.
SPT What do you mean, Story.
CC Okay. We thought you'd ask. Yesterday we
passed the half way mark.
SPT Let's see, that would put us up here
about 90 days. Is that what you' re getting at?
CC Between you and the next crew.
SPT Roger. I understand. And I've completed
IMSS 3 now. And there is one deviation that I would llke to
report, just want to make sure that that was okay. On the wet
and dry swabs which were done for these crew samples. I took the
wet and dry swabs from the first wet and dry swab package I came
across and it turns out the dry came actually from culture
transport box, and the wet from an environmental surface
sample box. In looking at the other little slots to pull
these swabs out of for crew body samples, I think the swabs
are essentially identical, but they are already into the culture
media. And I would llke to report that and get just for my own
verification that these swabs were satisfactory for the purpose
that I used them. Over.
CC Okay, we'll get with you, Owen.
CC AI, Houston.
SPT He can hear you. He's up in the dome
area now.
CC O kay. We were seeing the video switch
in TV, and we thought if A1 put some ATM on the VTIR we expected
to see it on mon i or 2.
SPT Okay, we'll switch it over.
SPT We doubt that he's putting anything on the
VTR right now, so we' ii switch it before we do.
CC Okay, good.
PLT We already put the Sun on the VTR, Story.
And we did (garble) on mon i and mon 2 and we switched it back
to TV.
CC Okay, good Jack.
CC Skylab, 30 seconds to LOS. See you over
Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam hass loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Honeysuckle,
Australia station in 5 minutes. At 12 hours 57 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1835/I
Time: 08:01 CDT, 45/13:01 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours

I minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at Honeysuckle.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS Honey-
suckle for 3 minutes.
CDR Good morning to you, Dick, and hello
to your team.
CC Hi there, Owen. We - Our team was
in here yesterday but we were working with Jerry Cart's
crew running the SIM over there. We ran a - some launch
SIMs and also rendezvous. We didn't get to talk to you
but we were in here all day. But good morning to you, we're
glad to be back on days - working with you.
SPT Well, I'm glad to hear from you fellows again.
And I guess you're getting those other fellows all tuned up and
ready to go.
CC Yes, sir, we sure are.
SPT They're probably been that way for 6 months.
CC Yes, they're itching.
CC Skylab, we're at 45 seconds from LOS. Texas
is coming up at 18:26. Correction - -
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC C orrectlon - -
SPT And I put the M562 into the oven, and
it was put in at 13:00 and the temperature at the time of
start was 19 degrees centigrade. Apparently TMI reading out
(garble) I'll change it if you request. According to my
calculations, the heat up (garble) and cool down auto
terminate at 10:48 tomorrow morning. And so we ought
to be able to have the flight planners throw another one
in on the fire about eleven tomorrow.
CC Roger, copy. And I made a wrong call
there. The next
station is Canary at 13:49; 1349.
SPT Okay, see you there.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal after a short pass there. Skylab will
just miss Vanguard coverage on this revolution. The next
station will be the Canary Island station in 42 minutes.
Jack Lousma reporting there at loss of signal that he
has activated the electric furnace on Skylab for the M562
experiment. This is the experiment to produce semiconductor
crystals to evaluate the influence of weightlessness in
attaining high quality crystals. At 13 hours 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1836/I
Time: 08:48 CDT, 45/13:48 GMT
9110173

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours, 48 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the Canary Island station with overlapping coverage
through Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and
Madrid for 14 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC And I got a couple of notes for you guys.
One, for - an answer to Owen's question about the swabs. We're
real happy with the swabs he used on IMSS this morning and
the sample should turn out okay. And secondly, on the VTR, the
ENC0 reports that there's about 5 minutes remaining unused at
the end of the VTR, that you guys are welcomed to use anytime
in the next couple of revs. We are going to start into our
dump cycle stateside in a couple of revs from now and I'Ii let
you know when that's coming up.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you and we'll figure out
how's the best way to use it.
CC 0 kay. It's yours if you want it.
SPT Oh we'll use it one way or the other. We
can always put a little ATM stuff on there.
CC Yeah, or wiggle the wheel before it's
pendulum.
CC I 'm impressed on that. I think Bob Parker's
interested in seeing that thing nod back and forth and we'll
do that probably not on this 5 minute segment. Well, let's
see. I could maybe between ATM revs. We'll see.
CC Rog. Understand. I was sitting here last
night when Bob was talking to you about that and it seemed to
me that if it isn't reacting the way we thought it was, it
probably would be a good thing to get some TV op.
SPT Yeah, that's a good point.
CC Skylab, Houston. One more comment on the
VTR. I was a little bit confused. There is 5 minutes on the
tape. However, it is the - it is not at the end of tape, so
there is some of your TV stuff from yesterday sitting behind
that 5 minutes. So if you do use it, time yourself and don't
run over that period of time.
CDR Understand, Dick. Thanks for the clarification
otherwise we might very well have done that.
CC Roger.
CDR Dick, I notice in our hour Flight Plan this
morning for Jack, we've got this vital capacity measure. But I'm
not sure that Story didn't say something about (garble) cal. Do
we have both of them or just one?
CC S rand by.
SPT And Just a comment for the ATM room, Dick.
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I was just comparing a WLC photograph that I'd made the last
few minutes - with one taken last night at 01:20 Zulu and I'm
not so sure but what there might have been some transient visible
last night about 01:20 in the white light coronagraph. We
were taking a good many WLC photos there and so if it - if it
was in progress, it will be visible on that print. I remembered
Jack and I were talking about this - sort of a dark region
over about ii0, (garble). And decided it probably was
not a transient, hut I'm not for sure now but what it was. It
certainly differs from the appearance of the corona this morning
and it's worth making a special note of to take a look at on
the photographs.
CC Okay, Owen. We noted that. Thank you
very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. In answer to your question
about the M092/171, we do want to do a calibration and a
measurement on the first M092/171 run this morning. That's
the one on the PLT. We only want to do a measurement on the
second run this afternoon, which is, the subject is SPT. Over.
CDR Okay. Understand. We'll do it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Canarvon at 14:31.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Jack Lousma and A1 Bean busy with the start of
the lower body negative pressure and metabolic activity experi-
ments. Lousma's the subject, Bean as the observer and Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott at the console of the atomic - Telescope
Mount studying the Sun. Next station to pick up Skylab will
be Canarvon in 26-1/2 minutes. At 14 hours, 4 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1837/I
Time: 09:29 CDT 45/14:29 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 29 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to he acquired at the
Carnarvon, Australia station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 14 minutes.
SPT Say again.
SPT Do you have a message for us, Dick.
CC Negative, Owen. Go ahead.
SPT I just didn't hear your call and I was
just checking to make sure that you didn't have anything for us.
That's all from here.
CC Roger. We've got you for 14 minutes.
Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're showing about a
95 percent momentum level. We'd llke for one of you guys to
enable the TACS hardware and software.
CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know if you
copied my last transmission. We'd llke somebody to enable
TACS hardware and software. We're seeing a high momentum.
CDR Okay. We got an ACS malf, so we came
up and enabled it. It's done.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
LOS at Honeysuckle. Bermuda at 15:21. And we'd like to
leave the TACS enabled. We do see the momentum coming down,
however.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine. We didn't have an ACS
mall caution there. And we also apparently got a transient
rapid Delta P. I don't know if it is associated with the
LBNP in some way or not. But the altimeter showed no change
and there - it is not on at the moment.
CC 0 kay Owen. Thank you. We'll look at the
data.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Honeysuckle station. Next station will be Bermuda
in 35 minutes. At 14 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours

19 minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking station
at Bermuda should acquire Skylab momentarily, we'll stand
by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for
8 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CDR We've had several caution alarms here
on ACS mal. And momentum just seems to be out of shake.
CC Roger, AI. We've counted 5 mlbs since
we saw you last, and we were just discussing it. The way
our numbers look it looks llke you started the M092 vent
right in the middle of the window, if our reconstruction of
it is right. And we're sitting down here puzzled as to
why the momentum is high.
CDR Agree with you a hundred percent. I
just went down and checked the - all our vents. We don't
have anything else venting and we don't have any low cabin
prep, we can't figure it out either unless the dump Just
for some reason didn't go right last night.
CC Well, we're talking about it now, AI.
And if we - when we come up with anything we'll get right
back to you.
CDR Okay, we're going back to 171, but
everything seems to be okay up here. We can't - Jack's
checking the 518 there.
CC Okay, that's - -
CDR It's okay too. Everything we have looks
good.
CC Okay, that's a good idea to check the
vents, and let us know if you find anything.
PLT Dick, the 518 is bulkhead vent valve was in
vent which is a small orifice and the pressures - and the chamber's
reading .3 times tenth of a minus 3 (garble). Doesn't seem
llke that thing can do it. I can't hear any leaking around
it or anything like that.
CC Roger, Jack; understand.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS
Bermuda. I'ii give you a call in about 4 minutes at Madrid.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
had loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in about
2-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the llne up and continue to
monitor for acquisition at Madrid.

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SL-III MC1839/I
Time: I0:30 CDT, 45/15:30 GMT
9/10/73

CC Skylah, Houston. We're - got you at Madrid

for 8 minutes. We'd like you to stay off the DAS, Owen, so
we can give you aNAV update in preparation for the EREP pass.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay. And also Skylah. I forgot to warn
you but we're going to be dumping the data recorder here at
Madrid.
CDR Okay. We're running 171 at the moment.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've been watching the
momentum dump samples and the last couple of samples have been
showing a high momentum. However, they have been consistent
with each other, which tells us that the vent, whatever it
was that is caused the high momentum, probably has stopped now.
We would like to leave the TACS enabled throughout this upcoming
dump - momentum dump period. The only thing that we've been tossing
around here that might have caused such a thing would be if
we had a - when we did the M092 vent, possibly had a poor
seal on the LBNPD, although our data it - doesn't indicate
that. And we were wondering if you had any comment on it. Over.
CDR When we first started, we had a poor seal.
We tightened it up. Now it's the first dented, let's say. As
far as we know, it was good after that. It was one of our thoughts,
too; but I don't think so.
CC 0 kay, AI. At any rate, we'd like to leave TACS
enabled throughout this dump period. We're about a minute from
LOS in Madrid. We're going to pick you up at Carnarvon at 16:05.
CDR Well, we're still puzzling over that first
one we got. As you know, it was just about the time we got
up to the panel, we got a rapid Delta-P, also. But nothing showed
around the Delta-P. None of our altimeters - I mean the ready
climb indicators or anything else.
CC Roger, AI. One other thing, the EGIL has
been showing us a plot that shows cabin pressure. And ap-
parently, about the same time we did - our initial indications,
at least, are we had a very slight decrease in cabin
pressure during this same time. However, it seems also to
have stopped now. At any rate, we'll take a close look when we
get to Carnarvon and you guys can look in the interim, and
we'll see if we can figure this thing out.
CDR Okay. And how long was that cabin pressure
decreasing, for the full 15 minutes of the LBNP or just a little
while?
CC AI, indications had were more like over
an hour. However, they're very gross and really kind of down
in the noise level and you have to really take a look at the
data and think about it to get that kind of an indication.
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9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has lost

signal with Skylab. Carnarvon will acquire in 25 minutes. The
discussion during this pass is concerned a higher momentum
state than usual on the vehicle - that the best guess here on
the ground right now is that it may be associated with the
vent from the lower body negative pressure device. We'll come
back up just prior to acquisition at Carnarvon. At 15 hours,
41 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1840/I
Time: 11:05 CDT 45/16:05 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 5 minutes

We're acquiring Skylab through Carnarvon now.
CC Skylab_ Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle, 14 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
and be advised that when we hand over to Honeysuckle here in
just a few minutes, we're going to be rewinding the VTR and
from then on we'll have it in a dump mode.
SPT Okay Dick. But they (garble).
CC Roger, 0wen. You were very broken up
there. What I was saying was that we are A0S at Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for the next 13 minutes. And we'll be rewinding
the VTR at Honeysuckle, so it will not be available for your
use then since it will be in the dump mode.
SPT Roger. And - that will be fine.
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC1841/I
Time: 11:15 CDT, 45/16:15 GMT
9/10/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute

and a half from LOS. We're going to plck you up at Texas
at 16:51. Two things I'd like to reminder - to remind
Owen, on this next ATM schedule we got a Nu-Z update we
need to get in order to be setup for the EREP. And also
for Jack, we're watching you ride the bicycle, Jack and
we think you might be pushing some of the ergometer restraints
and just wanted you - to caution you about that.
SPT (garble) Pushing the ergometer constraints,
you mean the number of watts per hour and so on?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay, I'm sure he's checking it. We'll -
if he didn't hear you I'll remind him again.
CC Okay, Owen. We just wanted to make sure
that you and he kept it in mind.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal with Skylab. Next station to pick up the
space station will be Texas in 30 minutes. During this
pass the flight surgeon monitored Pilot Jack Lousma on the
bicycle ergometer. Lousma's powerful pedaling made the
surgeon a little bit nervous. He was afraid that he might
exceed the - the limits on the ergometer, put it out of
commission. CAP COM passed up a caution to him at LOS at
Honeysuckle. At 16 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1842/I
Time: 11:50 CDT, 45/16:50 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours, 50 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the Texas station. There'll be coverage through Bermuda
on this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for
about 15 minutes. We intend to power down the wall heaters
here by command, just for your information and also we're
standing by for ATM TV down-link.
SC Okay.
PLT Okay, Dick and the TV down-link will be
coming your way momentarily.
CC Roger.
CC And SPT, Houston - like to verify that you
accomplished the NUz update.
CDR He thinks he forgot it but he's going
go try to get it now. The star still available?
CC That's affirm, but we need to hustle. We're
getting close to the occultation time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still got about 8 or
9 minutes left - of time in which to Bet the update.
CDR They're up there right now, Dick.
CC Okay.
CDR Thanks for reminding him.
CC Okay, real fine.
CC CDR, Houston. It sounds like you're able
to listen to the comm. I had one note I want to pass up to
you. You know, we've been chasing this problem into N2 regs
which we've seen a slow decrease in pressure when we had the
regs on the line, we went to the business of swapping the regs
out every 5 days or so. Turns out the last time that you
switched us over to into reg Alpha, the pressure coming
through that reg now appears to be holding up pretty well. So
we're going to discontinue the - the 5 day swap in the regs
until we can watch this reg for a while and look at the rate
at which it degrades. Over.
CDR Good idea.
CC Okay. And one other thing, AI that we
were - our spies down here looking at the data during M092 and
171 run, noticed that the bicycle was being used durin_ the
time that we were doing M092 and we were just - wantin_ to ask
you to - we weren't sure whether or not it was you on the bike
or Owen, but if it was you, we were just going to ask you if
you - you know, in your opinion you felt like you could adquately
monitor the M092 run, you know, while you were doing that?
CDR Definitely. Cause you're looking - that
was me and you're looking right at the guages and also the
head of the PLT happens to be by your left shoulder. So I think
it's the perfect time to do it.
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CC Roger that. Thank yon.

CDR Yeah, we've been doing that for some time.
CC I figured that.
SPT Can ASCO give me any clue on where to
look? I've gone all the way around the listed coordinates.
CC Stand by, Owen.
CC SPT, Houston. We're slightly out of attitude
due to some of these - venting problems we've been having.
We think it might help to decrease the outer gimbal - that is
go more positive to a number like 1247.
PLT Say Dick, the subject is M518 experi-
ment and we got M562 in there cooking off and I've got a table
page 9-2 in my book. I've been trying to monitor the times that we
ought to start soak and end soak and start cool down on the tempera-
tures, the max temperatures and all that. None of them look
like my book. Everything happens earlier and the temperatures
are different and I think that maybe either the logic didn't
work the way it's suppose to or it's got a big tolerance or
else there's some new data that I don't have onboard. I wonder
if we could figure out which it is.
CC Roger, Jack. Let me break in here. We
need to go ahead and start the ATM TV down-link because we're
going to have LOS MLA in about 4 minutes. And we will be
thinking about that. I guess my first thought is you might
Jot down some of the differences if you haven't already to
give us an idea. I am looking at that page in the book.
PLT Okay. Well on the one we got in there now,
the max temperature was lower and I can't stand right there and
watch them when the thing changes from one cycle to another
but I noticed that everything happens earlier than I expected
it should. Cause everytime I go up there and check it, why it's
already in the cycle that I always think that it ought
to be getting into about that time and it's considerably earlier
lots of times.
CC Okay, Jack. We'll be thinking about it
and if you have to - if you happen to notice when you're doing -
in any of the upcoming runs and you know, any information on
times that you think might help us, just jot them down and let
us know.
PLT Yes. I thought maybe there was just enough
update to the logic boxes in there and maybe we need some
new data on that page of the checklist. If that's all it is,
you know, I'd like to have it.
CC Okay. That's a good point. We' ii talk
about it.
CDR How do you like that star? It's a little
bit off from the pad, but oddly the right one.
CC Okay. Thank you, AI.
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CDR See what you think though before I leave.

CC O kay.
CC Skylab, Houston -

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SL-III MC-1843/I
Time: 12:00 CDT 45/17:00 GMT
9/10/73

CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, affirmative,

we like that star. You can go ahead about your business.
Thank you much.
CDR Okay. We're going to close the shutter.
Let me give you another couple of thoughts on riding the
bike, doing 91 - 92/171. I think you're in a good position to moni-
tor the equipment. And you're also in a good position to moni-
tor the occupant of the 92 can. I think also that we are in
an interesting position now, and everybody is breezing through
pretty fast on all of these 92's. And maybe when you first get
up here you're going to want to stand there and look at his
eyeballs. But right now we're - seem to be pretty well stabilized,
in fact, everybody seems to be improving.
CC Okay AI. Thank you much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
Madrid at 17:10. And we're going to dump the data recorder at
Madrid.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda is at
loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in 3-1/2 minutes.
We'll continue to keep the line up for Madrid acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid, 7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.

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SL-III MC1844/I
Time: 12:12 CDT, 45/17:12 GMT
9110173

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from

LOS. Pick you up at Carnarvon at 17:45. And the momentum
is getting real squared away; looks llke we'll be GO for
EREP today.
PLT (garble) Dick.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Carnarvon
station in 26 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott still
at the Apollo telescope mount console with - gettin B ready
to wind up that activity for a while very shortly, and
get some lunch. He'll then get ready for the Earth terrain
camera operation. AI Bean and Jack Lousma, within the
next 5 or 6 minutes, will be getting preparations for the
first of two Earth Resources runs today. Earth Resources
passes numbers 19 and 20 for this mission. At 17 hours
19 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1845/I
Time: 12:43 CDT 45/17:43 GMT
9/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 43 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CDR Say Dick, I was looking at the site that
I have for EREP, which is 197, and I have about 5 or 6 sites
in that area. I wonder if they would llke me to shoot 190
at the same time 197.
CC Stand by.
CDR They are similar - the way we did Phoenix
the other day we got 3 sites in that pass. This looks a little
bit easier because they are both right in line. It ought to
be easier to pick up both of them.
CC Roger AI. Stand by, please.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, there
is a message in the teleprinter for you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in 6 minutes.
At 17 hours 50 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III HC1846/I
Time: 12:50 CDT, 45/17:50 GMT
9110173

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute

from LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out for about
4 or 5 minutes and then have a very short pass at Honeysuckle.
And for the CDR as long - AI, as long - as long as you can, get
197 and don't compromise that side. It looks to us like it
laight be possible to go ahead and get 190 in addition to
that. And so that would be our advice Get 190, also, but
not at the expense of 197. Over.
CDR Okay, that makes sense. What I'ii do
is shoot 196 - point at 197 first, get the data through about
10 degrees. And I'ii see if I can swing back and pick up the
other; if I can't, well, we can, and if I can, well, I will.
CC Okay, AI, and the times are in the
pad for the data take, and that looks llke a good plan to us.
CDR Okay, that way we'll be sure to get
the lake, and we'll get the other if we can. We may pass
over it so fast that I can't get the gimbals back, but that's
the way it goes.
CC Understand.

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SL-III MC-1847/I
Time: 12:55 CDT 45/17:55 GMT
9110173

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 55 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Honeysuckle. We'll stand by there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about
a i minute pass here at Honeysuckle. We're going to see you
again at
CDR Say again. Where did he go? And 192 just went
MODE CHECK on voice and record D-6. D-6 is 56 percent, 56 percent
within limits. CDR, out. That's for EREP.
PLT How do you like the ZLV load, Dick?
CC Say again.
PLT How do you like the load for the ZLV maneuver?
CC Roger. Stand by, we're looking at it. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS here at Honeysuckle. Texas is
coming up at 18:26. And stand by on that. And we'd like
the load, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Thanks. He loaded it himself.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
had loss of signal. The LOS clock here in Mission Control
seems to be back in sync now. It was off during the Carnarvon
pass, and we had some conversation after the clock showed LOS.
The crew in active preparation now for the first of two Earth
resources passes this afternoon. The first pass starts at
1:24 p.m. central daylight time on a ground track that runs
5800 miles diagonally across Mexico and the United States
starting at Mazatlan and running to Maine. The second pass
will begin at 3:01 p.m. These EREP passes are on a successive
revolutions. Some of the objectives of today's Earth resources
surveys are weather, land use, environment, geology, sea pol-
lution, and oceanography, and forestry. At 17 hours 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1848/I
Time: 13:24 CDT, 45/18:24 GMT
9110173

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours, 24 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 2 minutes away from
acquisition through the Texas station. However, the crew should
be on the voice operated microphones - the VOX system. We
normally start picking up conversation a little earlier than
we usually would when they're on that system. This first Earth
Resources pass should have started about a minute ago - Skylab
still out over the Pacific. We'll stand by for first conversations
through Texas.
CDR MARK. Okay. We just went to VTS AUTO CAL.
I'm going to record C-19 max when it comes up. Right now it's
running at 86 per cent. Keep watching it. (Garble) 20 is the
position time. There's a C-I now; it's down around 84, but
we'll wait.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at
stateside for 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR C-I MAX is at 86 per cent. l_'s now
dwelling down around 83, but it'll probably come back up.
CC Okay.
CDR 82 is out of limits at 92 per cent; still
there. D-4 is 98 per cent. B-2 is 86 per cent, which is a
little high. And B-3 is 85 per cent, which is a little high.
Those are the four that are a little bit different.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, the READY light's back on in 193-A.
CDR 27:58, I'm going to STANDBY on A.
CDR Now the READY's out. Going to STANDBY now -
on that, go to STANDBY on R. D-I has dropped down to about
15 per cent at the moment. 191 READY on at this time.
REFERENCE, 6. Standing by for 29:33.
CDR MODE, AUTO on 190.
PLT Caught it all right.
CDR Thank you. Did it clock in, Jack?
PLT Yes. (Garble)
CDR MARK. 92 to READY.
PLT Okay. We're tracking cumulus clouds over
land.
CDR MARK. S, ON.
CDR R, ON. 32:50 coming up. Take a little
while.
PLT (Garble) 32:21 (garble).
CDR Okay.
PLT Then we ought to be over Houston precisely at - -
CDR 215.
PLT 31:30.
CDR Didn't get any film advance malfunction light
at this time, which is good. (Garble)all that peddled down.
PLT Yes. Clobbered (garble). Trying to pick
off a few sites here, Houston, but doesn't look like it's any good
anywhere.
CC Roger. We concur with that. It's clobbered
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9/10/73

over Houston today.

PLT It's clobbered down around Corpus too. I
tried to get some of that around Harlingon, Brownsville - nothing.
Okay. We're still tracking cumulus clouds. (Garble) A lot
of haze. Now I wonder how's the weather up in Indiana, gang?
CDR MARK. 92 to STANDBY.
PLT How's the weather around Louisville?
Anybody know?
CC Roger. Stand by i.
PLT It's (garble) Greenville.
CDR Yes, - it's clobbered there, too. Can't
see nothing on the ground.
CDR Must be cloudy all the way across the south-
east.
PLT Yes, it is. Doggonit. Well, we're getting
a few more clouds, no doubt about that. We ought to be over
Louisville about 34. Ah, it's going to be bad, I think. There's
the Ohio River.
CC PLT, Houston. The weather around Louisville,
you ought to be getting - it ought to be pretty clear up there.
PLT Pretty clobbered, is what it is. We're
over Louisville now, I think. It's smoked over. Doggonit all.
I wanted to pick off something.
CDR Okay. READY's out on 190. We're back to
STANDBY. We're going frames 06.
CDR Where we are right now. They were going to
put 06 on here, but they only put 6. 36 33.
CDR That must be it. MODE AUTO.
PLT 15 to 21. 336. It's getting worse.
CC And CDR, Houston. While you got a minute
here to rest before your next thing comes up, a couple of
reminders. On the maneuver pad, be sure when you come out of
here to load the new towel and also there's a TACS inhibit that's
listed in there, but the GMT is after the second EREP pass.
You want to make sure and leave TACS enable between the two
passes.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. Thank you, Dick
for the reminder.
CC Okay and if you'll let us have the DAS,
we're going to clear the alert light from the star tracker
shutter.
PLT Wait I, please.
CC Okay.
CDR Wait i- wait, he's - -
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC1849/I
Time: 13:35 CDT, 45/18:35 GMT
9110173

CC ... and if you'll let us have the DAS

we're going to clear the alert light from the startracker
shutter.
PLT Wait i, please.
CC Okay. okay.
CDR (Garble)
PLT Okay, how do you llke the maneuver time?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We - we like that new
maneuver time.
PLT Okay. Tell you what we're going to do,
we're going to track a site at Lake - Lake Erie or Lake
Ontario. Let me - I'ii get a reading on it; it's Lake Erie,
if you don't mind.
CC Okay, we like that.
PLT And we're doing it right now. We're
tracking the site now, Lake Erie. There isn't any - there's
no clouds up here. How about a metropolitan area?
CC Okay, have at it, Jack.
CC And, PLT, Houston. I assume we can have
the DAS for a second.
PLT You're DAS if you like the load. Okay,
I'm homed in on Cleveland. I'm taking data right over
Cleveland now, that's our big city for today. Uniform
area over Cleveland. Okay, right over the city.
CC Okay, good,
PLT Now. Don't take a different place on
the city. I'ii run the DAC now.
PLT Another place over Cleveland. We've got to
move off of Cleveland. Okay, we're taking another place
in Lake Erie. Okay, we're moving off of that. We're going
in to where Buffalo. Okay, we're taking data on Buffalo,
Houston.
CC Roger, Jack.
CDR MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO.
PLT Next we're going to move out to Lake
Ontario, we're going to take some data on that. Okay we're
going to swath it up to Lake Ontario.
CDR Swathing it, huh?
PLT Okay, we're taking a swath up Lake Ontario,
staying clear of clouds. Enough of that. I didn't have
the DAC on for that so you'll want to make a log of that so you'll
know what the data says.
CC Okay.
CDR Inter, velometer i0 to 3830. Range 64
on A, 64. Standing by for ready out at 39.
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Time: 13:35 CDT, 45/18:35 GMT
9/10/73

PLT What time is the maneuver time, AI?

CDR 18:45, which is about 7 minutes from
now; 6 minutes from now.
PLT Okay.
CDR READY, OUT at 39, should be. Coming up
3 seconds. 396 S, STANDBY and R, STANDBY.
PLT Okay, we're taking some more data now.
CDR MARK. S, STANDBY; R, STANDBY. A MODE, 2,
R, OFF. 3926 is A, ON; 56 A, is ON; 90 MODE to STANDBY.
PLT Here, I think we're taking data (garble) - -
CDR 3940, 191 REF 2.
PLT See where that island is there.
CDR 3940.
PLT We can't (garble) it far enough to get it.
CDR 39 MARK. Going to REV 2 on 191. 41 is
BGS AUTO CAL and there'll be a time for that.
PLT (garble). Dick?
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, there - that last point we took
the (garble) with on the Gulf St. Lawrence in the north part of
it.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT Well, (garble)
CDR Check.
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
PLT I've got 4 minutes yet.
CDR Okay, that was it.
PLT Well, Houston, we got the cumulus clouds
over land and that's all we can see when we got upon the
Ohio area. We got Cleveland and we got Buffalo, and then
we got some Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and Gulf of St. Lawrence.
CC Roger, Jack. I was following down the
pad and I'm not sure I copied that you would VTS AUTO CAL
at 41 minutes. You might confirm that.
PLT We did.
CC Okay ... that. Okay, thank you.
CDR Thank you for the remind, but we did it.
PLT Yeah, keep reminding us.
CC Okay, guys, we're about 45 seconds from
LOS. We're going to drop out about 5 minutes and I'ii call
you at Madrid.
CDR Okay.
PLT See you there, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT Well, that's that for the (garble). Get
back over here to (garble)
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CDR Got a maneuver in about a minute. Maneuver

in exactly 1 minute. Got the time loaded because you just
did it, so that's good.
CC CDR, Houston. The ready on light 191 is
4340; the maneuver time is 45, that's about 2 minutes from now.
CDR Yeah, you're right; 45. Thank you.
CC Okay.
CDR It's written up there.
PLT You' re right, thanks.
CDR P.EADY ON 4340, okay?
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda's had
loss of signal. Will be a short break S-I/2 minutes before
Madrid acquires. We'll continue to stay up and monitor
through Madrid. Skylab crew indicating that the southwestern
part of the United States pretty well cloud covered on this
pass. They did take EREP data on the clouds, weather was
one of the objectives. Most of the test sites on this pass
were in the northeastern part of the country. And as
Jack Lousma observed the weather started clearing up in the
Ohio Valley area, and the northeastern part of the country
apparently was fairly clear. About 2-1/2 minutes away from
Madrid. The crew may still be in the VOX mode when we get
into Madrid, although the maneuver of the space station
back to solar inertial should be starting right now. We'll
continue to stand by for Madrid.

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SL-III MC-1850/I
Time: 13:45 CDT 45/18:45 GMT
9110173

CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay.
SPT And there are 45 frames used on the ATC
there, Dick.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're going to be
dumping the data recorder here at Madrid.
CDR Okay.
CDR Standing by for 226.
CDR Okay, and at that time I'm going to go 191
POWER OFF. MARK. That's it, 226. Okay, 190 power off. Leave
on 192. Turn the cooler off on 191. You agree with that,
don't you, Dick?
CC Stand by.
CDR Be sure we don't turn off something we're
going to need.
CDR All right.
CDR Down also 190.
CDR Yeah, that's exactly what you do. Okay,
we'll get - no turn off - no 192 is on. SCAT POWER OFF Al-
timeter power off. We'll just hold up and cool here off for
a minute, and make sure that's right.
CC Yeah, please do, AI. We're still talking
about that. Hang on.
CDR Yeah, we normally do, but we don't want
to take a chance.
PLT Why don't you do that.
CC CDR, Houston. In between these passes
191 should go OFF, but the 192 COOLER should remain ON.
CDR Okay. Now we're talking - we know 192
should be on, we're thinking about the 191 cooler. According
to our checklist it goes off for back to back and only the
92 stays on.
CC Roger. Roger, AI. That's correct.
CDR Okay.
CC 191 COOLER should go OFF.
CDR It just went OFF. Okay, thanks.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about
3 minutes left here at Madrid. And I had a couple of things
I wanted to ask you about before we left Madrid. We've got
about a 45 minute LOS.
PLT Okay, go ahead, Dick.
CC Rog, Jack. One is for you, we're trying
to do some detective work on this vent we had a while ago.
And one of the things since it was so closely related to that
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LBNPD vent and that terminate, we were wondering if it was possible

that you broke the seal, the waste seal prior to getting the
vent valve closed?
PLT No, we didn't. We didn't break it prior
to that. We had a master alarm about that time, and A1 went
to look to see what was going on with that, and Owen came
down and turned the LBNP off with 5 minutes to go as usual.
And at that time, I was snuggly tucked in.
CC Okay, thank you much.
PLT Yes sir.
CC Another thing, be advised we are going
to update, get some updates up to you on the M518 checklist
on those times. And the other question we had was after
the nu Z update that we got prior to this EREP pass we noticed
that the star tracker door came open at the next sunrise.
And we were wondering if possibly you did not manually close
it and whether or not it was closed by the computer?
PLT I don't know. Owen, are you on the head
set?
CC I tell you what, Jack, that's not a time
critical item, so if he's not don't bug him. We're about
a minute and a half from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up at 19:34.
PLT Okay. Do you want me to do anything to
the star tracker? Of course everything is barber pole at
the moment.
CC Negative, Jack. It's okay as it is. You
can leave it go.
PLT Okay. I'ii ask O. About that other question.
CC Okay, no problem.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station now. Next acquisition will be
Honeysuckle in 37 minutes. The first of two Earth resources
surveys for today completed. The second coming up on the next
pass over the United States beginning at 3:01 p.m. central
daylight time. That will be a 4800-mile data take pass
crossing the west coast at Los Angeles and the ground track
going across southern California, Nevada, northern Arizona
into Colorado, the Dakotas, and into Canada across Lake Superior.
At 18 hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 19 hours

33 minutes as Skylab space station comes into the Honeysuckle
tracking station. The crew will probably be on VOX prior to
the EREP pass. So we'll bring the line open up for this pass
over Honeysuckle.
CREW ... be there for awhile and ... the DAC.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a short pass here
at Honeysuckle, about 2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. I didn't hear your earlier
call and about the star tracker - I may not have closed the
door. I don't remember for sure, but since I don't remember
specifically closing it, it's probable that I did not close it
after that other NUz update. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. I think that most likely
is probably what happened because the activity we saw with
respect of the door after that, that would've explained it
and I think we're going to go at that.
SPT Okay. Was there any - was there any apparent
problem with the star tracker?
CC Negative. It's all squared away now and
in good shape.
SPT Roger.
CDR Dick, let me mention a couple of possible
improvements in EREP pads, here.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, first one is, we always have trained
where the VTS operator does the maneuver. And I've noticed
just recently the last 2 or 3 days, the pads have been coming
to the C and D for that specific maneuver to the fellow that's
operating the C and D at that time. So we could do it, the
C and D man, but he has a lot more work to do. So,you might
mention that to EREP and ask them to start putting the pad
with the VTS man at that time.
CC Okay, AI. Copy. We'll do that.
CDR Roger. That's the maneuver pad. Now,
another one, I don't think we're getting these different things
on at the right time for you - these different components.
And the reason is, we got times all over the - the pieces of
paper. For example, let me tell you the EREP times I've got
on my detail pad. EREP power bus i on, 17:09. EREP C and D,
17:24. EREP VTS, 19:01. Now if I look at my EREP pad, it's
got - begin prep at 17:20, which doesn't rhyme with either of
those others and then it has warm-up at 17:35, which isn't like
any of the others. So I got five times there and the question
comes to your mind there as you get ready to do this, which time
do I do what? So may I make a suggestion? Let's put on the
EREP pad itself, the time that we do everything on the
EREP. For example, the very first item should be, on EREP pad
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should be EREP power bus i on, and whatever time they want
that done. Bus 1 on slash 191 power on or something. They
can abbreviate, but put that as the first time - -
CC Roger, CDR, Houston. We're - CDR, Houston
we're going LOS and we'll pick up up at Goldstone and I'ii
give you a call there.
- CDR (Garble) We'll get to them.
CC Roger. And the Goldstone AOS time, AI
is 20:02.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab, Control; Greenwich mean time,
19 hours 39 minutes, with loss of signal at Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone in approximately 22 minutes.
When the spacecraft comes over Goldstone and the crew will
have started the 20th EREP pass of the Skylab-lll mission.
Approximately 20 principle investigators will use the data
gathered during this pass. The investigators, include test
sites in northwest Mexico, Nevada, California, Arizona,
Utah, the Great Plains and work on the coastal waters
off Los Angeles, Lake Superior, coastal stratus clouds in
the continental U.S., Indian Peaks, Colorado, New York, Pro-
vidence, New York, Providence mountains in southern California,
and the Stoddard and Johnson Valleys in southern California.
They're also photo mapping for principle investigators in
the Dakota's land use work in Denver, Colorado. This is the
20th EREP pass, second for today. Twenty six EREP passes have
been scheduled for Skylab-lll. EREP pass will begin at the - the
coast of the U.S. on this pass coming up on track - track 16.
This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time, 19 hours 41 minutes,
with acquisition at Goldstone in 20 minutes_

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9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

20 hours 0 minutes. With acquisition coming up at Goldstone
as the crew begins - alread in process of the 20th EREP
pass which should have begun about 1,020 miles southwest of
Los Angeles, in tile Pacific Ocean. This pass is scheduled
to cover approximately 4,000 mile ground track and end
north of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Canada. We'll leave
tile line open for air-to-ground on this pass.
PLT MARK. 194 to MANUAL.
PLT ... SCAT, RAD, STANDBY. Okay ....
CDR Strato cumulus.
PLT Okay, here we go.
PLT MARK. SCAT TO STANDBY. Two seconds.
PLT MARK. RAD TO STANDBY.
PLT 212, 193, OFF.
PLT R, OFF; A, ON. Stand by.
PLT MARK. RAD, OFF. ALTIMETER, ON.
193, POLAR 4 is done. And I'm standing by for a 191
ready light.
CC A _ Skylab, IIouston we got you AOS at
Goldstone for 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR All right.
CDR Things are going smoothly.
CC V ery good.
CDR Got some coastal stratus clouds. So
if they don't go away in the next minute we'll get them.
PLT Okay. The down-link VOX is configured
you should be getting data.
CDR 58, we're looking for.
PLT 340.
PLT MARK. S191 READY light ON, right on
time. 512 next. A lot of standing around this pass.
CC I t'll pick up.
PLT Good. Good.
CDR Okay, we got some coastal stratus. I'Ii
zoom in, and take some short passes of the - -
PLT Okay. You're right on them.
CDR The INC is controlling a little bit.
PLT Where we're going today? Coming to hit
the coast right over San Diego. Comes a little south of
Vegas, Grand Junction, north of Denver, Minneapolis and up
over Lake Superior into Canada.
CDR Letting it slide every once in a while.
Pick out a new part of the cloud and try it out. Okay. In
place. About i0 seconds of data or so there. Let's move
to a different one. Pretty stratified - and uniform.
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CDR (Garble), looking for it.

PLT Okay, going to pick up at 512, here.
PLT ... STANDBY.
CDR (Garble).
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER and RAD to STANDBY.
SCAT ON; RAD, ON (garble).
CDR Okay. Let's go back out and zoom out
and get set at 45.
PLT Okay. We're going to go MODE, READY on
192 here.
CDR (Garble).
PLT We're going to get the tape burner going
in a minute.
CDR 45, i and (garble).
PLT I'll do a Charlie 8 as soon as we get a
lot of tape, that's what it says anyway.
CDR Okay, we're looking out ahead. (Garble).
1 and left 6 . ..
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY, malf light on
recorder it's off and the TAPE MOTION light is ON. It's
all working good. Stand by for a 190 to auto.
CDR (Garble).
PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO. 193, 41. Okay.
Here standing around again.
CDR (Garble). Okay, (garble).
PLT 612.
CDR There's the lake we got all the targets
in site. We'll get them.
PLT SCAT, STANDBY ...
CDR Camera's on.
PLT Never misses, never misses. There we
go.
PLT MARK. Scat to STANDBY. Two seconds.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR We're on the lake and we got it.
PLT 193 is angle.
CDR We're taking data at the moment.
PLT Pitch 30.
PLT 193, SCAT, ON.
CDR We're going to take data on llO and then
we're going to go - -
PLT RAD, ON. 93 ALTIMETER, OFF. Stand by
for 8 minutes. Oooh, a whole minute and a half.
CDR Taken it, let's try a different part of
the lake. We're at angle 33 right now. Everything looks good.
That one the other day stood out like this. We are a nice
job EREP, pointed right at it. Taking data by the bunch.
We'll let it go to plus lO. Going to be fast and furious.
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Set? Okay, let's go (garble) mag. Go INC off so I can

travel back down here. Okay we got this hill we got it
again. Hey, we're in business. Okay, we got that site
we said we'd get. We're on it right now. 130.
PLT Sock it to them, AI.
CDR Got it. Getting all sor=s of good data
on it. Right now. Going to unlock here in a minute. Go
down to a negative 22. If it unlocks I'll see if I can
get that one over by Boulder.
PLT Standing by for 192, to ...
CDR Okay, coming back we're try to get one
over here by Boulder. Let's go. Okay we got another site.
I'ii tell you the number of it later. Naw, we couldn't
get it we lost INC, there.
PLT MARK. 192 to CHECK. TAPE MOTION light,
OIFF; back ON. Shutter speed to medium. That's where she
goes. 830. Oh.
CDR Get out ahead and see if we can get that
one at Denver. Okay. That's as high as we can get but the
weather is getting awful bad.
PLT SCAT, RAD, to STANDBY. (Garble) didn't
give it to you. Try to get them, there, AI. 830, going by.
CDR Going to have to zoom in a little bit
the weather's gone - -
PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY. Two seconds.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR Could be ...
PLT 193 angle back to zero.
PLT We can do that. 845 SCAT, RAD, ON.
Standing by here.
CDR . .. I don't think it is.
PLT MARK. SCAT, ON.
PLT MARK RAD, ON.
CDR ... clouds.
PLT Now, switch position to off okay, we're
give her an off on the down-link VOX. Now, I lost my place
where was I - here I am right here. Waiting for i0 minutes.
(Whistle) whole minutes.
CC T hat's sounded real good, AI, the EREP
officer and I just sorry we weren't out in Vegas looking
up at you doing that.
CDR Yeah, I know what you mean. (Chuckle).
You'd be sleeping about this time, though.
PLT (Chuckle).
CDR Have to make it a night pass. It's
clobbered in Colorado I was hoping to get Dillon Reservoir
but can't even see the mountains.
CC R og, understand.
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CDR Bad news there. Okay, that EREP

maneuver is 20:18 we got a long time I'Ii just fool around
here a minute.
PLT Hight be able to see Minneapolis or
Lake Superior or somethin E. Okay, here we go. Mode to
ready.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY, mall light on
and off tape motion light back on. Now 1142 (whistle).
CDR That's the way it goes.
PLT I got time to go down and get a can of
apricots.
CDR You'd think we're up there - -
PLT I know somebody like those apricots we
got, big Phll over there.
CDR Well, I've got Pierre Res - No, Or -
O-a-h-e Reservoir there.
PLT You know - -

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9110173

PLT (garble) O-a-h-e reservoir there.

CDR You know what's on the bill of fare at
the club today, Dick?
CC What's that?
PLT Steak and ice cream on the bill of fare
at the club tonight. Best night at the club.
CC Well, you've earned it today.
CDR E-y-o-l-c, they don't know what that is.
PLT They don't huh?
CDR The can figure it out I bet.
CC We'll think about it for awhile.
CDR Okay.
CDR I got to go back and get ready for this
maneuver, Jack.
CDR We don't want to be late. How does the
trim look to you, Dick?
PLT Tape burner is running and running and
running.
CC Roger, say again, please.
CDR How does the maneuver time look? I
loaded 18 minutes a while ago.
CC Okay. We'll look, and we're about 30
seconds from LOS. I'ii call you back in Bermuda in about
3 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And -
CDR Dick?
CC And we like the maneuver time.
CDR Okeydoke. Good.
PLT You gonna miss all the action, Dick.
CC Story of my life.
PLT Never give up. Never give up.
PLT MARK. We're in check, STANDBY rather
on 192. Now we're going SCAT to STANDBY. MARK RAD to STANDBY.
MARK. Two seconds later. Okay. Now 190. (garble)
PLT MARK. 44 on 193. STANDBY for MODE to
AUTO on 190.
PLT Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you,
Bermuda for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay Dick. We're still milling around.
CDR Okay, Dick.
PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO.
CDR STANDBY for that READY LIGHT.
PLT Taking pictures over the ocean, I'ii
betcha.
PLT Pictures over the clouds over the ocean.
PLT MARK. That's 191 READY LIGHT ON. MODE
to MANUAL on 194. Donc_.
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CDR Coast is clear all the way down to the

Carolinas from here, Dick. You can see Cape Cod, Boston,
New York, Norfolk, all the way down to the Carolinas.
CC Roger.
SPT He's looking out the window when he's
supposed to be working.
PLT READY LIGHT ON on 190. MODE to STANDBY.
Okay, there we are.
PLT RAD next.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. MARK 20:18.
EREP stop.
CDR (garble)
CC Okay AI.
CDR Okay.
PLT EREP post. I'm voice recording Bravo 7.
to B. 30 percent there Houston.
PLT That's 192 door CLOSE. (garble) minute to
close that door.
PLT Close the 190 window.
CDR And the second site we got was 190, Houston.
CC Roger AI. Copy.
PLT Okay. 190 is closed and latched. We're going
off record. This is the end of the EREP pass number 20,
all you EREP fans. End of message. Okay. Door CLOSE
LIGHT has got to come ON here, Dick.
CC Guys, we're about i minute from LOS.
Madrid's coming up at 20:24.
PLT Okay. MARK. 192 door is closed.
PLT And I'ii guess we'll just go off of
headset here if you don't mind and get powered down from
EREP. Thank you Dick.
CC Okay. I'ii give you a call at Madrid.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
20 hours 21 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. Next
acquisition will be Canary, overlapping pass, Canary and
Madrid tracking stations in approximately 3 minutes. We'll
leave the line up for this upcoming pass.

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9/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 8 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick. I used 62 frames on the ETC
that time. I let it run a little longer on the end than listed
on the pad, since I was just going to run out to film anyway.
And still had to run out about 40 frames at the end of that
before the end of film light came on. And that depletes
this spare magazine.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you.
PLT And, Dick, measure the tape, I got a - 1
and 15/16 inches empty on the take up reel and one is 5/16
inches empty on the supply reel.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston. And for the CDR,
(garble) question awhile ago and suggestion about improving
the EREP C&D pad, what we Would propose doing and we'd start
doing it tonight for your tomorrows pass, would be to take all
the EREP related items, that presently are on your detail (garble)
details pad and - and repeat them - we would leave the details
pads exactly as they are however, we would put all the at
the start or at the end of EREP C&D pads which ever is
appropriate, we would list all those time critical items in
a row that had to do with that day's EREP pass. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. And just list
them sort of in chronological order there so that when you pick
up the pad and read the first number, you know when you read
that number to show up at that time then you can start the
ball rolling and then you can look for the next number down
and show up at that time (garble)
CC Okay, we will do that. We are going to
leave the detail pads the same though, cause we imagine that
there might be some cases where - an item might slip in between
one of the early switch changes in the actual start of the
EREP prep and in that event we'd like to have it on the
details, also.
CDR That's a good idea. And - it's also -
also possible to slip something in between passes, there is
a lot of dead time between the two passes. Okay.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I got one comment here
on the Sun for Owen whose going to be at the ATN at the next
daylight pass. At 19:00 ZULU Mauna Loa believe that prominence
53 is errupting and they were using a i0 angstrom band pass
}{-alpha and the top was at about i/i0 of a solar radii. Over.
SPT Okay, a prominence 53, you say. Thank you.
CC That's affirmative.

CDR I've notice that you got me (Garble) loading

EREP tape DI2 in a TRI, do you really want me to do that?
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CC Rog. We're checking again on the DAL.

We're i minute from LOS. Honeysuckle is coming up at 21:09
and we're going to dump the data recorder there and we'll get
an answer right back to you.
CDR Okay. I've got 509G in the (garble) okay
but I sent it down on channel A.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, negative.
We do not want you to do that EREP tape change.
CDR Okay, sounds good to us. We'll -
CC Roger. And apparently he didn't - he
roged it but didn't mark it out on the details.
CDR (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
20 hours 34 minutes. Loss of signal at Canary, next acquisition
will be Honeysuckle in 34 minutes. The crew returning the
workshop to solar inertial following the 20th earth resources
pass of the mission. A 4,000 mile ground track which began
approximatel 1,000 miles southwest of Los Angeles, cross the
United States and ended in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Next
acqusisition will be at Honeysuckle in 34 minutes at Greenwich
mean time 20 hours 35 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III HC-1855/I
TIME: 16:07 CDT 45/21:07 GMT
9/10/73

PAO - Greenwich mean time 21 hours 7 minutes

Skylab Control. There will be a change of shift briefing
at about 4:30 in the building i news room, with Flight
Director Phil Shaffer. We'll have acquisition at Honeysuckle
in i minute 39 seconds. We'll hold the line open for this
Honeysuckle pass.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS
through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello there, Robert. How are you today?
CC Pretty good, Sir. Is the Sun quite as
exciting as it was yesterday evening?
SPT Oh, it's always exciting. Haybe not
quite as much as it was last niBht. And I wonder if you
could verify with the back room that prominence 53 is the
one on the west limb.
CC Checking.
CC That's affirm, Owen. It should be
down there at about 140.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we are doing a voice data
recorder dump at this time.
CC Owen, when you get a chance, would you
mind looking at panel 202 and verify for us that the
circuit breaker for the caution and warning system sensors,
emergency 2 is closed.
SPT Just a moment.
SPT Got a noisey warning light 2 are closed.
(garble) emergency.
CC Okay. i and 2 are closed. The reason
we had asked is that earlier today when we got that
rapid Delta P, we only saw one.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. See you again in ii minutes over Hawaii at 21:29.
21:29.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 19 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. The
next acquisition at Hawaii in 9 minutes. That will be a
9 minute pass over Hawaii. We've had a changeover at the
Mission Operations Control Room with on-comlng Flight
Director Don Puddy. Cap Com is astronaut Bob Crippen.
The off duty Flight Director Phil Shaffer. Phil Shaffer
will be at the building i news room for a change of shift
briefing at 4:30. Flight Director Phil Shaffer will be
at the building 1 news room at 4:30 for a change of shift.
Next acquisition Hawaii in 9 minutes. At Greenwich mean
time 21 hours 20 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 16:28 CDT, 45/21:28 GMT
9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time

21 hours 28 minutes. With acquisition coming up in 30 sec-
onds at Hawaii. CAP COMM is Astronaut Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS through
Hawaii for 9 minutes. And we didn't get our data voice
recorder dump in last time. So we'll be doing it this pass.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC And Owen, we don't show that you got
52 going it's kind of down there buried in you pad and it
should be 52 on mode continuous.
SPT I was just taking a look at it on my
TV monitor right now and just about to switch to continuous.
I will in a moment.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT Bob, info for the back ATH science room I
did take a look at prominence 53 on the west limb at the
beginning of this orbit. And configuration was fairly
different from that when we worked on it about 3 orbits ago.
So I did put it over on the right-hand limb and took 120 second
82B exposure partical mirror auto raster and a few 56 short
- short exposures on the prominence on the - prominence 53.
And then went back to sub-center and picked up with the normal
plan, that caused me to have to reduce the plan 27 minute exposure
to about i0 minutes for SO56. One other thing I wanted to comment
on it does appear to he a possible new emerging flux region
over near the east limb, at about 280.9 radii. It got a noticable
signature on the XUV mon it's only H-Alpha signature is
a rather bright spot in the network. But it does have a
small H-Alpha signature as well as a somewhat more noticable
XUV signature. And it might be interesting to try to pick
up some early work on that in the next couple or 3 orbits.
Over.
CC We copied that. And we'll get some
confirmation and get some word back to you.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC S kylab, Houston 1 minute from LOS. See
you again in 3 minutes over Goldstone at 21:41.
SPT Okay, Bob.
PAO Skylab Control; 21 hours 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time. With loss of signal at 11awaii, next
acquistion will be Goldstone in approximately 2 minutes.
We will take the line down for this stateside pass for the
change-of-shift-briefing with Flight Director, Phil Shaffer
and replay the tape at the close of the change-of-shift.
Skylab Control Greenwich mean time 21 hours 39 minutes.

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9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time,

21 hours 56 minutes. We have an accumulation of 4 minutes
of tape over the Goldstone tracking station. We'll play
that tape and bring up the air-to-ground live at the close
of the tape.
CC $kylab, Houston. AOS through Goldstone
for 7 minutes.
CC O wen, for your information NOAA is
unable to comfirm that new emerging flux region that you
reported at 280.9.
SPT Roger. I didn't really imagine they'd
be able to see it. About the only thing that they can see
on the ground at least with H-Alpha is a small bright spot,
which is more or less - doesn't look very unusual. It's only
on the XUV that you can really see (garble) the signature
is much more substantial. I took an (garble) XUV photograph,
but it really stands out over on the east limb at about 9/10
radiant. And you'll just have to see it, as it continues to
develop and I have some spare time and it would - I think,
useful to go over and do a bright spot shopping assignment
or something like that.
CC Copy.
CDR You can sure see the forest fires from up
here. Up northwest of San Francisco.
CC Roger. They've been having some problems
with that out there. Understand, they stand out very well.
CDR Boy, they stand out beautifully. I think
with a map you could put X's right on every spot that the
smoke's coming from and report it back to the ground pretty
simply. And you'd be sure that you got all of them, too,
because you sure got the synoptic view up here. You wouldn't
have to worry about smoke getting in your way from seeing
some other burning object further back. Really can see it
well.
SPT And Bob, it might also be worth notin_
the near absense of the bright spots which we found so
prominent all over the Sun's disk before the activity began
increasing you know, about three weeks ago. There's really
almost no bright EUV spots visible on the disk in longtitudes
towards the east in active region 19, until it gets clear
over to this new emerging flux region and that's what it
developed into. About 9/10 of a radius on the eclipse.
CC Copy. And apparently from what you are
saying is the bright spots are not anywhere in the longtitude
associated with the activity.
SPT At this point, I don't see them
associated at the longitutes where there is activity or
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trailing the longitudes. Although from the active longitudes

clear over to the east limb. The first bright spot that
really stands out is this one that I just called the EFR
It may not develop, but; that's the only other bright spot
I see, really, on the disk.
CC Copy.
CC O wen, on this 52 study of the (garble)
wave program, the continuity is very important and we do
want to keep that going, so we're really not wanting any
other observations except if still you want to get them in
they should be right at: the beginning or right at the end.
SPT Okay. Good point. And that was
only on SO52 that you were so concerned about the continuity.
CC L et me verify that.
CC Y es Owen. That's affirmative. That's
52 that is designed to continuity.
SPT Okay, that's my mistake there. I
didn't appreciate that. I'm glad you brought it to my
attention. And I'ii make sure we stay continuous mode.
Thanks a lot.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Okay Skylab. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll pick you up again over Bermuda in about 5 minutes at
21:52. 21:52.
CC A nd as we're going over the hill, all
of your Flight Plans are on board.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. See you again in 2 minutes over Canary.
CC And CDR, you might be interested. We've
got all the stuff off the VTR. It's rewound, available for
your use in case you want to get to that TV inventory any
time early.
CDR Okay. Good. Thanks.

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Time: 17:10 CDT, 45/22:10 GHT
9/10/73

CC Hello, Skylab. We finally got back with

you. We're through Ascension for 5 minutes and a little mistake
on our part, we did not have the Carnary pass awhile ago.
PLT Okay, Bob.
SPT Say, Bob. When - when's your next AOS after
this station?
CC O kay, we've got you again through Carnarvon
at 22:45, 22:45. That's about - -
SPT Okay, 22:45, we'll have something for you
there, I expect, Bob.
CC Rog. And - by - by the way we've got a
calcium K photograph in and it verify that new emerging flux
region that you were talking about.
SPT Okay. I thought it might. I thought probably
all we had immediately available was the H-alpha, but it is
sort of interesting that the calcium does show it up where
prehaps it wasn't so obvious in H-alpha. And it certainly
is quite obvious in the XUV.
CC O keydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. See you again at Carnarvon, 22:44 in about 27 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. Fine.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
22 hours 18 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension on a very
relevantly quiet pass. There was a Canary pass, however, due
to a mixup in the ground - ground control as to the tracking
station, there was no communication between the spacecraft
and CAP CO_ Bob Crippen. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle,
in approximately 25 minutes. At this time, in the flight of
Skylab-lll, Science Pilot Owen Garriott is spending his third
session today at the Apollo telescope mount. While Commander
AI Bean is performing his daily period of physical exercise.
As is also, Pilot Jack Lousma. Later this - later on this
pass, at 23 hours Greenwich mean time, Science Pilot Owen Garriott
will be the subject of a M092/MI71 run, lower body negative
pressure device, metabolic analizer experiment. Later this
evening after spending an hour on the Apollo telescope mount.
Commander Bean will do another series of TV inventory for the
Skylab-IV. A video tape recording made on board to assist
the Skylab-lV crew and - preparation when they board the
vehicle in November, to help them in placement of the equipment
and show the crew where things belong and make their activation
period much easier. At Greenwich mean time, 22 hours 20 minutes,
next acquisition will be at Honeysuckle in 24 minutes from
now. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1859/I
Time: 17:44 CDT, 45/22:44 GMT
9/10/73

PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

22 hours 44 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Carnarvon in
approximately 35 seconds. We'll hold the line open for that
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon 5 minutes.
SC Egad, I don't see how the boy's manage to
get rid of the feedback between these speakers.
SC Hello, Houston. This is Skylab. Are
you reading me down there? Hello, Houston. Are you reading
Skylab.
CC Skylah, this is Houston. I heard you
all right, but I had a little difficulty recognizing your
voice. Who we got on the line here.
SC Oh, Houston. Roger. Well I haven't
talked with you for awhile. Isn't that you down there Bob?
This is Helen, here in Skylab. The boys hadn't had a
home cooked meal in so long, I thought I'd just bring one
up. Over.
CC Roger. Skylab. I think somebody's
gotta be pulling my leg. Helen, is that really you. Where
are you?
SC Bob, gosh, just a few orbits ago,
we were looking down on the forest fires in California.
You know, the smoke sure does cover a lot of territory. And
Oh, Bob, the sunrises are just beautiful. Uh-oh, uh-oh. I
have to cut off now. I see the boys are floating up towards the
command module and I'm not supposed to be talking to you.
See you later, Bob.
CC Bye bye.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you scheduled
to inhibit TACS here. Due to the little problem we had earlier
today in momentum not being quite in the nominal configuration,
we'd like to hold up on that for awhile.
CDR Okay.
SPT Didn't hear anybody on that voice loop
up there, did you, AI?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We'll have you again in about a minute and a half
over Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Honeysuckle for 4-1/2 minutes.
CC Hope you guys aren't gettin_ lonesome.
SPT No, but a good home cooked meal sure
tastes good now and then.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Hawaii in 14 minutes and
we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump. That's at
23:08. 23:08.
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PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

22 hours 55 minutes. Loss of siBnal at Honeysuckle. Very
interesting conversation with CAP COHM Bob Crippen and the
voice of an apparent female stowaway aboard Skylab. The
voice was that of Mrs. Owen Garriott. Mrs. Helen Garriott,
wife of Science Pilot Owen Gariott. Apparently this was
recorded last night during Science Pilot Garriott's con-
versation with his wife. Referring to the home cooked meal,
the crew, in fact, is having filet mignon this evening.
And ice cream. This is mission day 45 on their menu. Filet,
asparagus, strawberries, ice cream, and lemonade for
Commander AI Bean. And shrimp and filet with mashed potatoes
corn, strawberries and ice cream for Pilot Lousma. And
filet mignon with potato salad, corn, butterscotch pudding
and grape drink for Science Pilot Owen Garriott. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in ii minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 22 hours 56 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 18:06 CDT, 45/23:06 GHT
9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

23 hours 6 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii in
40 seconds. This will be the last Hawaii pass for the day.
As the crew begins the final events in their flight plan
for the 45th day in orbit. A pair of medical experiments
being performed by Science Pilot Owen Garriott, MO92/MITI
experiments with Commander AI Bean operating the Apollo
Telescope Mount Control and Display Panel. We'll leave the
line up for conversation between Bob Crippen, CAP COMM and
the Skylab-lll crew.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Hawaii 8 minutes.
We'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
CC CDR, if you have some time we want to
put a little 02 into the bird and so you can go to panel 225
and hit the AM fill switch, primary switch to open and 02
fill primary switch 1 to open also, please.
CDR Okay, complete.
CC Thank you.
SPT Hello, Bob, the electric drive on
Nikon 01 seems to be working satlsfactorily today. I've taken
several photographs with it and it all drives normally.
CC Okay, Owen appreciate hearing that.
Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Goldstone in about 4-1/2
minutes at 23:20, 23:20.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
23 hours 17 minutes. With loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in approximately 2 minutes.
We'll hold the line up for this stateside pass.

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Time: 18:18 CDT, 45/23:18 GMT
9/10/73

CC S kylab, Houston AOS, Goldstone 5 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston 1 minute to LOS. See
you over Bermuda in about 5 minutes, at 23:29, 23:29.
PAO Skylab, Control; Greenwich mean time
23 hours 25 minutes with loss of signal at Goldstone as
Skylab passes up across Canada and we'll have an acquisition
at Bermuda in approximately 3 minutes 28 seconds. We'll
hold the line open for this upcoming Bermuda pass.
CC S kylab, Houston AOS Bermuda for I0 min-
utes.
CC CDR, Houston, if you're about to finish
up your work there at the ATM C&D, we've been puzzling
down here over the little problem you had today with CMG
(garble) the rapid at Delta P, and we were wondering if you
could give us - enlighten us a little bit about what
transpired about that time.
CDR Okay, Jack had been - went into "the
92 unschedule we noticed when he first started being
pumped down he was leaking at the DAS, we continued to pump
down, we got until about 3 minutes to go on the 50-millimeter
which is the last step in the 92. And we got a caution
and warning; I zipped up there real quick and saw it was ACS
and punched it off, went up to the panel and got another
caution and warning right then which was rapid Delta-P.
Punched that off looked at the al - the rate of climb it
was nominal pressure was nominal, well I said well it - somehow
it must have gotten tripped when I punched the button but
that didn't make sense either. All I could image even later
on is maybe my other hand which was holding the guards
tripped the temp switch for just a second but not enough
to throw it on 3 cause it's still off but just enough to
activate it. Still haven't figured that one out. And ACS
light was on so we looked at that and determined the CMG's
were not in the position they should be to 90 percent. And
the ground was available at that time and they recommended
that we activate the TACS both switches and - in the computer
which we did and then we had multiple ACSs just about every
2 or 3 minutes we'd have another one as it fired (garble),
pulled the attitudes and we don't - still don't think we
had a leak and we're a little bit puzzled. The only thing
we could figure out that won't set too well down there was
somehow the dump was scheduled at the wrong time. That's
all we could figure out about the thing, cause we don't think it
was leaking, and we don't - we went around and checked all
our other vents. Bruce, we're mystified too.
CC Okay, now we agree that you were running
the - in the window when you started the thing. And the
window was correct, we reverified that. And it is possible
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that the LBMPD vent was enough to do - to cause the CMG's

to saturate but it was definltly not enough to cause the
rapid Delta P. And we were just trying to get some more
information trying to find out if there was a possibility
that any other thing might have been bending over board
at the time and I guess from what you told us you're not
aware of anything.
CDR No, we went around and checked them
all. Plus the rate of climb indicate

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9/10/73

CC -- he's unaware of anything.

CDR No we went around and checked them all.
Plus the rate of climb C indicator which pegs long before
that happens, or at least we'll be off zero. It's off zero all
of the time, but off a little mark that we've made on it.
What have to (garble) was just as happy as could be. I'm
still convinced - myself that the rapid Delta-P was somehow
erroneous either by some relay when I punched the - MASTER
ALARM OFF triggered it and don't ask me how that could occur.
Or, my other hand might have been on the guard there and actually
somehow hit the test portion of it, but - but didn't turn it
on, you know what I mean, hit it enough so that it triggered
the test but did not turn the switch on. Now that might be
born out because I think - Dick Truly made the comment that
it only tripped one part of the caution and warning.
CC That is affirmative.
CDR Okay, well that kind of makes you believe
that's possible. It's certainly possible to hit those switches
when you're in a hurry, you use one hand to hold onto the guard
and the other to push on the button.
CC Okay, we - we appreciate that hit of
information, AI. We'll sit here and continue to ponder.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS now. And we'll see you again
over Ascension at about 6-1/2 minutes from now at 23:46, 23:46.
Thank you very much.
CDR Okay. Do you think you've got - figured
out then, the cause of the CMG being out of position is just
the normal dump or maybe it's slightly extended dump.
CC Slightly extended dump. Probably looks
like the problem.
CDR (garble) you much leak around the body
or something?
CC That's affirm. That - that could have -
• hat could have given us what we saw today.
CDR Sure possible.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
23 hours 40 minutes. With loss of signal at Bermuda. Next
tracking station acquisition will be over Ascension in
approximately 5 minutes. Greenwich mean time, 23 hours 40
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 18:45 CDT 45/23:45 GMT
9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

23 hours 45 minutes with acquisition coming up at Ascension
tracking station in approximately 40 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 23 minutes. And
that's at 00:19. 00:19.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
23 hours 57 minutes. With loss of signal at Ascension. A
very quiet pass. Cap Com Bob Crippen put a call to the
spacecraft with no response as Science Pilot Owen Garriott
is in the midst of performing the MO92/MI71 experiment,
the lower body negative pressure and metabolic analyser
experiment while Commander A1 Bean is at the control and
display panel of the Apollo Telescope Mount. Next acquisition
in 21 minutes and 25 seconds at Carnarvon. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours 57 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1864/I
Time: 19:18 CDT, 46/00:18 GMT
9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

00: 18 minutes after the hour. A new day in the life of
Skylab. Greenwich mean time 254 days Julian calendar.
18 minutes after the hour with acquisition coming at
Carnarvon in approximately 25 seconds. We'll hold the line
open for CAP COMM Bob Crippen and Skylab-lll.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Carnarvon I0 minutes.
CDR I temporarily stopped the 02 flow of the
- cause I noticed we were up to 3.6 PPO2 and I seem to
recall that's what we usually went to but I didn't know.
I did that at 00:13, and I'm standing by to either turn
it back on or hold right there.
CC Stand by i, AI. We were going to ask
you to terminate it here.
CC AI, we'd appreciate it if you go ahead
and turn that back on, I'm sorry I should have told you a
while ago. One of the items - we're going to build it up
to about 3.9 and just preconditioning for TO20 run.
CDR Okay, we got it back on again.
CC Okeydoke anff we'll give you a call
when to turn it off.
CC And CDR, Houston, at your convenience
you can inhibit the TACS.
CDR Okay. I'ii do it right now.
CDR Okay, that's just about it.
CC And we copy; it's inhibit.
CDR I came up here and practiced punching the MASTER
ALARM in a hurry. And it turns out the place where the
rapid Delta-P test switch is is just perfect for catching it
with you finger as you hold on there to punch the MASTER
ALARM so I'm (garble) cleared that one up.
CC I've think you've convinced us all, AI.
CDR I thinked what could have possibly
happened after I pulled up there and tried it a couple of
times is it may be that when I grabbed it there on that
... it tripped it. It probably went to 1 or 2 and then went
probably to 1 and then when I re - reset it without even thinking
about it you know I sort of like you do if you throw a switch
you don't mean, sometimes you just put it back without giving it
additional thought and then tried to work a different problem.
And the caution and warning on that doesn't come on for a
little bit delay. So I didn't recall it as I was over
here working the problem when the other one when on.
CC Roger, appreciate that info.
CDR How does the dump vent with Owen look?
CC We're checking it.
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CDR They're finished I just wondered what

kind of . .. you got out of that one.
CC Roger. I guess we were thinking that
perhaps what caused the problem earlier was the understanding
that you had some problem when you put Jack in initially
and then you reseated it and it almost appeared that the
mementum got by at that initial point and not during the
run.
CDR Okay, that sort of make sense. Cause
that's the only leak that we heard and also you feel those
leaks as it's slipping by your body the guy that did it
usually senses it immediately and Owen tucks it in and
tightens it up and you know yourself where the chamber is.
It's kind of hard to get a leak that you're not aware of.
CC Roger; concur on that. And it looks
good for Owen right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. See you again over Guam in 4 minutes at 00:33, 00:33.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
00: 29 minutes. We've had loss of signal at Carnarvon.
Next acquisition is Guam in approximately 2 minutes. We'll
leave the line up for the Guam pass.

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Time: 19:30 CDT, 46/00:30 GMT
9/10/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Guam for

8 minutes and Jack we're not dropping any blood pressure on
on Owen right now. Correct, I _uess I've got that turned
around, we're not copying on Jack.
PLT Okay.
SC (garble)
SPT That's okay, Bob. We just did a vital
capacity check prior to starting 171 run.
CC Aw so, Owen. Thank you.
SPT Are you getting blood pressure now, Bob?
CC Standby. That's affirmative. We do have
it. Thank you very much.
PLT Okay. We just started the run. We took
a break in there to get recalibrated.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll have you again over Goldstone in 17 minutes at 00:58
and A1 if you could go ahead and terminate that 02 fill for
us, please. 02 fill primary switch to contmand and AM fill
primary switch to command.
CDR Complete.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR I get about 3.7 PP02 indicated at the
moment.
CC Roger. We're showing 3.8 to 3.9 right
now.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
00:42 minutes, as - with loss of signal at the Guam trackinB
station. Next acquisition will be Goldstone in approximately
15 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garriott is still in the
process of performing the MI71 metabolic analizer experiment
with Pilot Jack Lousma serving as the observer. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in approximately 14 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time, 00:43 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1866/I
Time: 19:57 CDT, 46/00:57 GMT
9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

at 00:57 minutes with acquisition coming up at Goldstone
in approximately 30 seconds. As Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
is scheduled to be completing the MITI run, metabolic
analyser with Pilot Lousma as the observer. Commander A1
Bean is still on the Apollo Telescope Mount C&D panel
continuing the observations of the Sun.
CC Skylab, Rouston we're AOS through
Goldstone for 6 minutes.
CDR How does the weather look for EREP,
tomorrow, Bob?
CC Well_ we're already going to have to
scrub one of them. Track 30 is not any good. And in
fact if I could interject here Jack I'd appreciate if you'd
check Owen's electrodes our data is getting a little bit
erratic.
CDR Interested in any UV mon down-link?
PLT All his electrodes are in good shape,
Bob we're going to do a VCG for electo check here in a
minute. And he"s going to gone and do some PT wired up.
CC Okay, I'm sure the medics appreciate that.
CDR Bob, did you want any UV down-link,
you didn't mention it at 37, so I didn't know. I had it
selected but I didn't give you any intergration.
CC Sorry, about that we were receiving
it - well stand by.
CC AI, we would appreciate some XUV mon.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, for your information for the
weather I guess it looks we can get in five of the mandatory
Spanish and southern France targets, with the weather being
0.4 to 0.7 general few places it is broken to overcast. And
on the last track that we will be doing, track 31, it looks
like we can get in 13 of the sites.
CDR Okay, good.
CC And I think Jack will be happy to know
that we can conclude the OWS temps after tonight. You can
put your little - get your little thermometer away we've
concluded we have enough for information we've been
indicating according to our prep down here you've been
getting readin_ about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit lower than
what we have and they've been ranging from any where from
half a degree to 2 degrees different but we're satisfied
with what we've been doing.
CDR Good.
CC Going to take away one of your highlights
of the day I'm sure.
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CDR Not in the same category as that -

flare that we saw one day for sure.
CC I can understand that. We're going to
drop out here in about a minute and we'll have you again
shortly, thereafter over Texas.
CDR Okay .... dumping and we don't mind doing it
because there's probably a lot of these other things that
we can check up here to make sure that your instrumentation is
all you hope it is.
CC Okeydoke. You open yourself wide open.
(Chuckle).
CDR That's what we're here for.
PLT Crip, one critical item I didn't read
down yet, it's the temperature on that ambient crew compartment
gauge, it's reading between 72 and 73 so I'd say that's
pretty close to 72.5, wouldn't you?
CC That's very good. Use the HP35 for
that?
PLT No, I had do it doing in the ...
CC Okeydoke. (Chuckle)
CC Skylab, We're back with you for i0 min-
utes here. And that was a VCG problem we had awhile ago
on - with data only so you're electrodes are good.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, glad to hear that he checked that good
there at the end of the 171, only thing he had a little
problem was with the isolation but we figure everything is
still working okay.
CC We concur. The way Owen twisted on that
bicycle there I know he's going to beat me when he gets
back, I haven't had a chance to run all I do is sit on the
console here all the time.
CDR Boy, y'all do put in some long hours,
I'll say that. You're right, you probably don't. He sure
does, I tell you we've exercised more up here than we ever
did before flight.
CDR I don't think there's any way to get
that sort of free time before flight, up here you got to
do it to survive. You got three things you got to do:
you got to exercise good, you _ot to eat meals pretty much
on time, andeat them all and then you _ot to make sure you
get sleep. And we've been trying to put those to the
highest priority items of anything we do.
CC Funny you should mention that. That's
a good - you're a good straight man AI, one of the things
we wanted to talk to you about a little bit was sleep,
as you're aware of we're going to have to readJsut your
time a little bit for re-entry right now the other
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readjustment requires 4 hours and we kind of like to get

your feelings as to the way you would llke to do it.
CDR We'd like to coast along at the exact
schedule we're on right now until the day we have to do
the 4 hours and then we'll get up 4 hours early and do it.
CC We copy that. And we'll put it into
the mill that way.
CDR Yeah, it's a lot harder to shift your
circadian rhythm around an hour or 2 than it is to just take
the - bit the bullet and go ahead and do it. We've found
that we have enough time going to bed early up here, we
usually stay up and chat or end up doing something, till
about 3:30 or 3:45 every night even if we don't have some-
thing to do we're stirring around doing something. And
along about ii in the morning we wake up so I have a feeling
if we just tried to turn around for a week or something we'd
end up either getting up early or late or going to bed
early or late and really start missing sleep where this way
we only miss 4 hours and actually never miss it as you know.
CC Roger, copy that. One of the proposal
that have been put forth here is a gradual change over
doing it in an hour you know and then skipping a few days
and doing another hour and so forth and -
CDR We'd be a hundred percent against that
one.
CC Copy.
PLT We're just going over an area widespread
thunderstorm activity right now, there's a lots of cells
down there and of course dark and when you look down you can
see 4 or 5of those are (garble). All - at least 4 or 5 at
one time (garble) and they keep flashing all over keeping
that many . .. at one time is just like a string of fire-
crackers going off.
CC Scares me and I'm fearless. Looks like
you're coming over Georgia or somewhere around there right
now.

CDR I'ii tell you one thing I've noticed

Bob, up here and I don't think it ... either I believe we've
seen some of the wildest thunderstorms and biggest ones over
the U. S. , I don't know whether it' generates them down there
from something or not but a lot of these other areas we've been
over just don't seem to produce the large storms it just maybe
chance but it's something I've noticed a couple of weeks a%o,
over the last month.
PLT I think it's all those rockets you're
shooting off Bob.

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CC You've mentioned that before, Jack.

We're getting ready to do a data voice recorder dump here
through Bermuda.
CC While I got you guys talking, I might
as well go ahead and ask one of my evening questions here.
We've talked a little bit about eating meals regularly. Rita
had some questions. She's getting ready to prepare the
spice kit for SL IV, and you've mentioned before that you've
had some problems with the way you're using your - well,
not being able to dispense the items properly, like the
tobasco won't come out, some of the pepper floats around,
and we were wondering if you had found a good method of
dispensing those items in zero g and have you got any
changes that you would recommend for SL IV?
CC We got a handover problem here. Stand
by.
CC Okay. We're back with you and did you
hear my complete question?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you
once more. Did you manage to copy my question about dis-
pensing the spice items?
CDR Yeah, we've been thinking about that
one, not only now, but for the last month or so. Let me
tell you a couple of things that don't work. Just a plain
jar with a sprinkle cap on it doesn't work. The shaker type.
That doesn't do the job. You open the lid and it's all
floating inside there between the lid and the top of the
shaker, so that gets all over. If you try to shake it, it
doesn't work. Now, suspending it in liquid, if you could do
that and get enough strength in it, and not put them in
little bags, but put them in something like these plastic
mustard carriers, mustard dispensers that you know about,
or the things that have mayonaise in them, you know, these
big plastic things where you squeeze and it would come out,
that would be good. But I'm worried about - it might turn
out like this salt- where you squirt all sorts of things
on your food and you don't get a heck of a lot of salt in
there. And I don't know if you could suspend pepper and
some of these other things that way. Now something like
horseradish would probably lend itself to that, or some-
thing like tobasco would be good in there. That would be
a good dispenser for tobasco, and they might have to put it
in a little - fill it up at 5 psi and then - and then bottle
it in 5 psi in the chamber over there and then seal it, and
then send it up so that it won't squirt all over the first
time you open it. I don't think that would be much trouble.
Another thing that works fairly well, but not as good as
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having a squirter like that is we got pepper in metal cans,

and you can sometimes squirt the pepper out of the metal
cans by squeezing the sides, just as you can on Earth, but
the trouble is, the pepper hasn't got much mass, and so
some of it hits the food, but a lot of it just floats
around. Now, it seems to me that if we can come up with
maybe, some sort of dispenser that had plastic sides with
a littler spout on it (garble) once again to the mustard
thin B maybe, except without it being in suspension, and
had just a little nozzle that you might be able to squeeze
it and squirt it on the food. Jack has an idea that might
work. He suggest something like a perfume atomizer, except
you don't pull out liquid, you somehow have a little bulb
that you squeeze and it squirts past the top and makes the
materials come out. Now, I don't think it would be too
hard to simulate on Earth. All you got to do is _et a
full something and turn it upside down. If it falls out,
it's no good. But once it's upside down, if you could
squirt it out or blow it out or something like that, then
it probably would work in zero g.
CC Okay. I think we got all of that.
What about something like the hot sauce in the jar itself,
Is that - -Can you dispense that okay?
CDR I'm sorry. I was carrying on two
conversations. Go ahead.
CC Sorry AI. I was asking, what about
the hot sauce in the liquid form in the jar. Is that - can
you dispense that or is that difficult also?
CDR It's the most - the easiest thing to
dispense because it's got a small orifice and you can tap
bottom, but still lose about 50 percent of it. So that
ought to be in a squeeze bottle too. We shouldn't come up here
with glass bottles or glass jars with shakers. We should
try to get some method of squirting what ever it is out of
the can Either suspended in a liquid or Just by itself,
and I think maybe pepper could be done by itself, and
certainly tobasco could be squirted out quite easily.
CC Okay. We copy that. And I also gathered
from what you have said there, that you don't think regular
table salt in individual shakers would work.
CDR No, but I definitely think table salt
in a squirter would work. I don't mean liquid, I mean,
Well, it's gonna be a problem with salt, I guess, because
it can lump up and clump, up so you may have to have some
little device on it where you can kind of squeeze it and
break it up and then squirt it out, or if they're gonna
suspend it in a brine, water, and make a brine like they
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do - we have now, don't put it in these little envelopes.

Put them in about five great big squeeze bottles with little
bitty spouts and then you can squirt as much as you want
and it'll be reasonable. Half the trouble now, your food
sometimes gets cold by the time you get these sauces on it,
cause it takes so long to dispense them.
CC Okay. We copied all that, and I'm
sure Rita appreciates that - those words. We're about 40 - 30
seconds from LOS, and we'll see you again over Carnarvon
in 41 minutes from now. And that's at 01:57. 01:57.
CDR Okay, and Jack didn't get a word in
edgewise, so he might have something to say. He was the
one talking about that atomizer, womens perfume type dis-
penser, and also Owen may have something to say, and so we
may talk with you about it when we get to the next site.
CC Appreciate talking about it there, if
we haven't got enough time, you can also put something on
channel A for us.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
i hour 16 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. The last
pass through the Bermuda station tonight. Lengthy conver-
sation with Cap Comm Bob Crippen and Commander AI Bean.
Obviously the longest discussion with the crew in the last
three hours. Bean commenting on the three most important
things they do aboard the spacecraft. That's exercise, eat
their meals, eat them on time and get enough sleep. The
crew was asked their preference to changing their sleep
pattern towards the end of the mission to - not to compromise
the M133 sleep experiment, the circadian ryythm experiment.
Commander Bean suggested they let - they get up four hours
early the last day and not change the schedule until the
last day in space. Also Commander Bean commented on some
wild thunderstorms that they viewed as they passed over the
United States. The crew was asked to comment on the spice
kit for Skylab IV, reference to Rita. That's Rita Rapp,
she is a food technologist with the Johnson Space Center.
She's responsible for the menus aboard the spacecraft. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 38 minutes 25 seconds. At
Greenwich mean time i hour 18 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

1 hour 56 minutes. We will have acquisition at Carnarvon
for the last time tonight in approximately 20 seconds.
As the spacecraft, Skylab-IIl ends it's 50th 45th day in
orbit.
SC (Music).
PLT Okay, Bob we're here.
CC Say again, Skylab.
PLT Roger, we're here, Robert. (Music).
CC Oh, it's sounds so sweet.
PLT We got the NUZ update. I hope you
like it. (Music).
CC We'll take a look at it.
PLT Okay. (Music).
CC NUZ looks good.
PLT Okeydoke.
CC Jack, when you get a moment free there
at the ATM I'd like to tell you about a small job we'd
like you to do, at your convienence.
PLT Okay, go ahead right now, Bob.
CC Okay, we've been having some telemetry
problems with the mol sieve B inlet CO 2, and what
we'd like to do is put on the spare inplate which is
stowed in 202. Which is - all you have to do is remove
the CO2 detector inplate blue in mol sieve B take the filters
off that are in there, insert the filters in the spare in-
plate and then put it on with the spare inplate and you
might put a piece of red tape on that one to that - the inplate
that you take off and restow it at 202.
PLT Okay, so you think you inplate problem.
I'ii keep that up.
CC Well, we think it might be leaking
around the seal where it screws on.
PLT Okay, that's mol sieve B, right?
CC That's affirm.
CC That's on the inlet.
PLT You know it might be because I can see
a little gap in there and although when I tighten down
pretty tight and it doesn't do much to tighten it down any-
more. It makes it harder to get off. That's what it does.
CC (Chuckle). I wouldn't - didn't think
anything was hard for you to get off, Jack.
PLT You guys are all right. Let me tell
you what happened. Little (garble) in there popped up
when the things were changed out yesterday. It caused
a little gap in there and it didn't pop up very much but
just a little hit. And I reseated it and screwed it down
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again and it looks like did there - why don't you take a
look at the TM and see if that did the job if not I'Ii
pump it out like you said.
CC We copy that. And we'll take a look at
it. As the - I think maybe the EGILL got one up on you
there Marine.
PLT Ah, I think he's really been running way
ahead all this time anyway.
CC Jack, while I'm talking to you we're
getting ready to send you up a message tonight that has you
modify one of the old LSU's and it's an attempt to make
a sort of a light weight flexible umbilical to use with the
TO20 run we got up coming. We're actually scheduling you
to do that modification day after tomorrow, however, you take
a look at the pad and give us any comments on it that you
might plus if you have a chance we might give you a chance
to get started at it early.
PLT Okay.
CC T53, is looking active Jack, you might
want to keep an eye on that. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We're going to have you again at Guam at 02:11, 02:11.
And we'll be standing by for the Evening Status Report there.
PLT Okay, have the ATM guys check with their
stations and see if they see any thing in the corona. See I
mean to compare not to be some high straight rays on the
corona but appears there's a super dying loop and have them
look at it and see if there's anything unusual.
CC Can you give me a location on that?
PLT Yeah, it's at 6 o'clock on my scope now
I roll by it's 4800.
pLT It's 5 o'clock on my scope.
CC Five o'clock.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
2 hours 5 minutes. Loss of signal at Carnarvon on the last
pass over Carnarvon for day 46, in the life of Skylab-lll.
Next acquisition will be Guam in 5 minutes and 40 seconds. As
the crew concludes their days work and get a good night sleep
for another busy day tomorrow on tapped are 3 EREP passes;
One over Europe, Spain and France, one over the United States
and a third pass referred to as a lunear calibration during
which time EREP instruments will be focused on the moon at
3 particular locations. The Sea of Tranquility, upon which
Apollo ii crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren landed in the
summer of 1969. And the Ocean of Storms which saw Commander
AI Bean, and Pete Conrad land in 1969, in the fall of 1969.
And the Sea of Serenity. These areas on the moon will be the
focus of the attention of the EREP instruments during a 33 min-
unit lunar calibration tomorrow. And a 9 minute stateside
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pass is scheduled for tomorrow. Making a total of 22 - 23

EREP passes for the mission of Skylab-lll. Next acquisition
will be Guam. We'll leave the line up for this pass.

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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through

Cuam 6 minutes, and we're standing by for the Evening
Status Report.
SPT Okay Bob. You might have to wait a
minute.
CC Okay O, thank you.
PLT The coronal feature we were looking at
there Bob, was the west northwest. And Owen and I both
looked at it and it might just be a couple of (garble)
streamers sort of ( garble) into each other, but
we're going to be interested in havin E you folks look
at it too. We've been taking pictures of it all along just
with a normal JOP 6.
CC Okay. We copied that. And we're taking
a look at it. We're trying to get hold of Mauna Loa now.
CC Jack, if you could, could you tell us -
we saw some 82B photographs while ago that we didn't have
scheduled and we wondered what your exposure time was on those?
PLT Yeah, our (garble) came up a little
garbled on that and I got the ten and the 40 from the JOP 2
below and the line flashed by three times and I gave them
a i0 40 short on the minus 40 hour roll. (garble)
CDR Okay. We have a little night report
here for you.
CC We're ready. Shoot it at us, AI.
CDR Okay. Urine: 232, 175, 170. Number
1 for the first time. Drinking water gun: 5961, 9811,
6455. BMMD: 6.268, 6.2.68, 6.265; 5.937, 5.936, 5.932;
6.953, 6.950, 6.954. Exercise: CDR, 2/36/6041, 1/06/0541,
3/15/Mark I, 3/lO/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III; SPT now: 2/15/2700,
3/25/Mark I, 60, A; 60, B; 60, D. And in addition to that
2/5/2700 on him, he did a 171. PLT, 2/36/8136, 1/05/0614,
3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends. Medi-
cation: none. Sleep: 6/G, 5/G, 6/G. Food log: CDR,
seven salt packs, and four salt pills. No deviation in
food. SPT, two salts, add butter cookies, peanut butter,
peach ambrosia, and lemonade. Sounds like he's got four
meals a day going to me. PLT, six salt packs, two salt pills,
one butter cookies, one peaches, and substitute a veal and
two lemonades, for tuna and bread. I'ii give you a photo
log right now. VTS track, 15 A: CL03, 45. Now, that's
going to throw a little hooker into some of their data down
there, because we've been reading that magazine wrong. It's
got four marks on it, and we thought they were each 25 per-
cent. But, it turns out that the empty doesn't have a mark
by it, but that's zero, so, - and that's an indication
for CL3, 45, and I think by looking at the marks on there
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they can see what the others were. It's all been VTS, so
it's all counted as the same thing anyway. Next one's
BTS, track 16A: CL03, 40. Okay, 35-millimeter: CX32, 43,
CII04, - that's 104, 22. 70-millimeter: CX26, 117. ETC:
CT08, 79, BW02, 107. And then, Owen's got a note here that
says: "That film did run to depletion." EREP: Set B,
8,176; 7,513; 8,389; 8,383; 1,926; 9,244. Drawer A: no
change.
CC Break, break. We're going to go LOS.
We'll have you at Goldstone at 02:35, and that'll be med
conference.
CDR Okay, we'll give you the rest later.
CC Keep talking.
CDR Okay, we don't have that much more.
Flight Plan looks good for tomorrow. We hope - we're sorry
to hear that EREP's cancelled, hope we have something to
do in it's stead. Shopping list accomplishment: 21 (garble)
minutes of PT, MI71, to (garble) by the Pilot. And, also,
21 minutes by the SPT. So, we hope it gets - (garble)
today. Inoperable equipment: nothing new. Unscheduled
stowage item location changes: (garble) from B40-D, WMC,
six blue and six white towels from the same place - -
CC Going over the hill.
CDR Okay, that's the end of it anyway. We
just barely made it.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 2
hours 19 minutes. Loss of signal at Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 15 minutes and 20 seconds from now.
Tomorrow reference with Commander Bean to start an EREP pass
was cancelled. That was one of three separate EREP passes
planned for tomorrow. There are two planned with a third
pass for lunar calibration, using the Earth Resources ex-
periment package equipment. The calibration is a 33 minute
pass during which time the instruments aboard the spacecraft
will be aimed at the Moon at three separate locations as
well as the limb, the edge, and the center of the Moon. The
purpose of this is to calibrate the instruments on board.
The first pass is a European pass, which is scheduled to
start about 900 nautical miles southwest of the Canary Islands
as the spacecraft crosses over Lisbon, Portugal, and passes
northeast of Madrid, then crosses the Perinnes mountains,
goes over Zurich, Munich and the pass will stop as the
spacecraft crosses over Vienna in Austria. The second EREP
pass of the day is a short stateside pass across from the
northwest to the central part of the United States. This is
a very short pass of 9 minutes in duration. Activities on
day 45 for the Skylab III crew are coming to an end on this
the 1724th revolution of the Skylab space station since it's
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launch from Cape Kennedy on May 25th. Next acquisition

will be Goldstone in 13 minutes and 25 seconds. At
Greenwich mean time 2 hours 21 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

2 hours 34 minutes. On the final stateside pass for the
Skylab-III crew this evening. We will have acquisition
at Goldstone in approximately 15 seconds. We'll hold the
line open for CAP COMM Bob Crippen and the Skylab.
CC Hello, Skylab, I got you back for
about 5-1/2 minutes. And got several questions I'd llke
to run over with you.
SPT Would you like a frame count in real
time, here Bob?
CC Affirm.
SPT Okay, H-alpha i, 5377, Milligan 929,
Tousey A, 35, Tousey B 197, MacQueen 2641, and Vialana
Kreeger 1827.
CC Okay; copy that. Appreciate it.
SPT Sorry about those two frames on 82B.
CC No sweat. And we need roll at minus
4800 for close out.
SPT Roger, I just powered the thing down
and I'd like the guys back there to take a look at it when
I'_ all done.
CC Okay, will do. For your information
we - computer burped on us and so we've got two S019
messages up there. No sweat they're just duplicates.
SPT Okay, we'll do them both.
CC (Chuckle). Okey doke. We'd like to
know if A1 completed his TV inventory we got a full VTR
and we'll dumping it.
CDR You bet it's complete.
CC Okay, and understand you do not need
any more time for that.
CDR That's right. There may be some
duplication here from last night becasue I wasn't sure what
I ran out but I think that'll do the job.
CC Okay, very good. And for Owen, I'd
like to find out since we've got an ATM pass for him that
starts right off at ii:00 he can either set his little
timer to wake up or the closest we can give him a call would
be 10:30.
SPT I'ii set my timer for about 10:50.
CC Very good. Figure that would be the
best way to do it. And Jack -
SPT I'ii set my timer, Bob.
CC Copy. Jack one item I need to run down
a few things on your - -

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CC - - one item I need to run down a few

things on your flight plan and modify them slightly as -
for everybody knows that we did cancel that EREP 22.
PLT Yes.
CC Okay, if you got your details there,
Jack, the thing that we need to do is to move the tape
cilange around a little bit for you. If you'll add in the
no EREP, at 21:38 to do a EREP tape.
PLT I got that too, Bob.
CC Okay, on your summary on 22:00, you've
got that housekeeping scheduled there, that's where your
EREP tape will be.
CC And on the no EREP it has EREP tape
called out at 20:00 want to scrub that and make it house-
keeping.
PLT Okay, understand, just swap those around.
CC Okay, very good. Would like to know -
we're looking some transcripts and would like to know if
you're using any soap other - are you usin_ Nuetrogena
or the Miranol when you're taking a shower.
PLT Naw, we use the soap in the tube when
we take a shower and I guess that's the second one you
mentioned isn't it.
CC That's affirm, that's the Miransol, the
one that's in the tube. We were a little bit confused by
readinK one of your transcripts talking about how you were
cleaning your hair and since you can't use anything other
that Miranol in the shower because it would tend to clo_
up that hydrophobic filter we got in there.
PLT Right. Well we are using Neutrogena to
wash our hair with (garble) we can't do it in the shower.
CC Yeah, roger, I guessed we gather that
and sounds a little bit difficult to do but understand
that's what you are doing.
CDR Right. We just take a complete wash
rag bath in here almost every night.
CC Okay, copy that. We'd like to know
if you performed the modification that was sent up earlier
on the WMC foot restraints and if so was it satisfactory.
CDR You still there Bob.
CC That's affirm.
CC You copy my last, I asked about the -
CDR Is that the end of the question?
CC Skylab, I couldn't copy your last. Did
you copy my - question about the WMC foot restraints?
CDR We got uplink problems, and maybe some
down-link I'm not sure at the moment.
CC Skylab, if you read we're about 30 seconds
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from LOS. I'm going to go ahead and say good night to

you here. The next pass is at 03:00 at Vanguard if you
need us for any reason you might be interested to know
that Hank Aaron just took his 710 37th for this season.
PLT That's great.
SPT And I got the vents closed. I hope
everybody likes it.
CC Looks good.
CDR See you all tomorrow.
CC Roger, dodger.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
2 hours 51 minutes. With a good night from CAP COMM Bob
Crippen to the crew of Skylab-lll. The 45th day in orbit
for the three crew members comes to a close and the last
pass Pilot Jack Lousma reading down some frame numbers
for MacQueen and Tousey. Tousey is Dr. Richard Tousey of
the Naval Research Laboratory, he is PI for S082A and SO82B,
HacQueen is Dr. Robert MacQueen PI, Principle Investigator
for the SO52. He's with the High Altitude Observatory
at Boulder, Colorado. Tomorrow's activities include two
separate EREP passes one a 13 minute pass over Europe and
the second a 9 minute pass over the United States, starting
north of Eureka, California, running across the northwest
and endin_ in Canada. The third operation with the earth
resources package using the instruments aboard to calibrate
themselves aiming at the Moon. At several locations on
tile Moon including the Sea of Tranquility, the area of the
Apollo II lunar landing site, Ocean of Storms, the landing
site for Apollo 12 which was commanded by Skylab Commander
A1 Bean, and Lunar module pilot at that time was Commander
A1 Bean and Pete Conrad. This is a 33 minute lunar
calibration program for tomorrow. Other activities include
approximately 5 hours of solar observations the ATM
instruments. We have a Vanguard pass coming up in
approximately 7 minutes. At which time we hope we' _ read
the daily medical report from Dr. Paul Buchanan. At
Greenwich mean time 2 hours 53 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.

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9/10/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

2 hours 59 minutes with acquisition coming up at Vanguard
at approximately 35 seconds. In the event there is a
conversation with the crew, we'll hold the line open for
this pass.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
3 hours 9 minutes. With loss of signal at Vanguard the
crew has begun their night rest period. They were bid
goodnight over the Mila station approximately 20 minutes
ago by CAP COMM Bob Crippen. We have the daily surgeons
report, which is as follows, "Forty-five days into the
mission of Skylab III, and the crew retains their preflight
high good humor and from all reports and data, their health
as well. Medically our outlook continues optimistic."
Signed Dr. Paul Buchanan, for Dr. Royce Hawkins, Deputy
Director for Medical Operations at the Johnson Space Center.
Tomorrow, two EREP passes and a lunar calibration. The
lunar calibration is a 33 minute operation designed to
calibrate all of the EREP instruments on board. The reason
they use the lunar calibration is that it's a - the Moon
has a uniform reflectivity and it's omitted brightness is
uniform and the operation is taking place at i day minus
the full moon. This is to again, calibrate the instruments.
This was done on Skylab II, and it was done early in this
mission on Skylab III. This will be the third lunar
calibration of the Skylab program. There is an EREP pass
over Europe beginning south of the Canary Islands, crossing
Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
The second EREP pass of the day is a 9 minute pass beginning
north of Erueka, California, crossing over the northwest
portion of the United States and ending in Canada. Tomorrow's
activities include approximately 5 hours of solar observation
Tomorrow, the 46th day in orbit for the crew of Skylab III,
Alan Bean, Dr. Owen Garriott and Pilot Jack Lousma. At
Greenwich mean time 3 hours and ii minutes, we will close
down the PAO console and begin operations at 6:00 a.m.
central daylight time September ii. At Greenwich mean
time 3 hours ii minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1873/I
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9/11/73

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control at

ii hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 46.
Skylab approaching acquisition through the Vanguard tracking
ship. First call today will go up at that station. Flight
Director on this shift is Milton Windler. Spacecraft Communi-
cator, Dr. Story Musgrave. Another busy day ahead for the crew.
Two Earth Resources Surveys today. One this morning over
Europe; one this afternoon over the United States. Six and
a half hours of solar observation today. We'll stand by for
the first call.
CC Morning, Skylab. AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.
PLT Okay, Story, how are you today. I'll give
you a little downlink for ATM TV.
CC Okay, we're beautiful today, and we'd like
that downlink on the VTR. Instead of downlink we'll be able
to get it back here faster. And we'd like a little XUV and
white light.
SPT Okay, and how much time do you want on the
VTR?
CC Just 3 minutes is all we've got.
SPT Okay, giving you 3 minutes starting right
now .

CC And you solar update, at 07:00 Zulu, active

region 24 produced an M-I flare.
SPT Why don't you wait a minute, okay?
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, you've got it on tape, and please go ahead
with your updates, Story.
CC Okay, we see you're on Nu Z update; that looks
good. At 07:00 Zulu active region 24 produced an M-I flare followed
by a type 2 burst, indicating probable coronal transient. Minor
surge activity over departing active region 09, and active
region i0. Prominence 53 remains active. New active region 25,
at 280 at 0.8 is stable and (garble) with a flare probability
of zero for all classes.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC And have you cut up the maneuver pads yet?
SPT Jack just took them downstairs. I don't
know where they are distributed at this point; I don't have
them.
PLT I've got them, Story.
CC Okay, Jack I need to give Owen a comment
on his lunar cal pad.
SPT (garble) you know earlier I'ii wait a little bit.
I want to get going on the ATM here, Story.
CC Jack, I got a couple comments for you.
PLT Okay, just a second Story. I'm still cutting
these things up.

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SPT Okay, Story, go ahead, (garble) these pads

here somewhere now.
CC Okaydoke, changed your Flight Plan. I
don't think you have it, you may have it already. And that's
the EREP tape load at 19:50. Don't do it then, move it
downstream until after the EREP pass number 23.
SPT Okay, I got it. Thank you.
CC Okay, and just a reminder. After your
VTS TV 29, the switch to the DAC for the lunar cal.
SPT Okay.
CC And that's it.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS, and 3 minutes
to Ascension.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has loss
of signal. The Ascension Island station will pick up Skylab in
2-1/2 minutes with overlapping coverage through Canary Islands
and the Madrid stations. Story Musgrave's first call to the
crew today found Science Pilot Owen Garriott already at the
console of the Apollo telescope mount actively engaged in
observation of the Sun. We'll stand by for communications
through Ascension.
CC Skylab, AOS Ascension 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, a minute to LOS and 5 minutes to
Madrid.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Canary Island
station is supporting the Earth Resources technology satellite
at this time. And is not being used for Skylab this pass.
It will be back in the Skylab network on succeedinB revolutions,
however. Madrid will pick up Skylab in about a minute and a
half. We'll continue to monitor for the Madrid pass.
CC Skylab, AOS Madrid, 5 minutes.

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CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you

over Guam in 25 minutes, be dumping the tape recorder there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Guam will acquire Skylab in 25 minutes. Conversation
very light during the first few station contacts this morning.
Owen Garriott operating the Apollo telescope mount. Alan
Bean and Jack Lousma getting ready to start preparations on
their first Earth resources survey for today. That run begins
at 8:06 a.m. central daylight time over Europe. Crew Commander
AI Bean was also scheduled to get some hand held photographs
of the drought area in Mali as Skylab passed over Africa a
few moments ago. At ii hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1876/I
Time: 07:04 CDT, 42/12:04 GMT
9/ii/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours,

4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
acquisition through Guam.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 8 minutes. Who's that?
PLT That's a voice from out of this world.
CC Okay. I've got a change to your maneuver
pad number 23, if you've got it right there, Jack.
PLT I got it right here but it's buried under
all the papers. So I'ii have to - let me dig it out.
CC Okay.
PLT I found it. It was right on the bottom.
Go ahead.
CC Okay. It's a maneuver time back to SI.
Instead of a 50,021, put down a 50,031. That's 25 minutes.
And are you all aware that EREP 22 is cancelled due to weather?
PLT Yes, sir. We knew that.
CC Okay.
CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, in regard to your maneuver pad for
the lunar cal, it is clear, but the operation's a little dif-
ferent than you're use to, so. I Just wanted to go over it with
you. We'd like to see the maneuver immediately after going
to ATT HOLD CMG - right after going there. So if you'll
just load the maneuver time, and load the maneuver except
for the last inner, then hit ATT HOLD G - -
SPT Okay.
CC Okay.
SPT Right. Thank you.
CC Team, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over Honeysuckle in 7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Honeysuckle,
Australia station in 5 minutes. At 12 hours, 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 07:19 CDT, 46/12:19 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 12 hours

19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be with in range
of the Honeysuckle station in the next few seconds. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, 2 minutes.
CC And Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you
over the Vanguard in 25 minutes at 12:46.
PAO This is Skylab Control; the space station
is out of range of the Honeysuckle station. After a very
short pass there, the Vanguard tracking ship will acquire
Skylab in 23 minutes. The crew busy preparing for the first
Earth resources survey of today. One of two scheduled, ori_inally
three Earth resources passes had been scheduled for today,
one of those has been cancelled because of weather. Shortly
after the completion of the first EREP run this morning. The
Earth resources sensors will be calibrated using the Moon.
This is the third time in the Skylab program that there has
been a lunar calibraction of those instruments. Once on Sky!ab-II
this will be the second calibration durln E the Skylab IIl
mission. At 12 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking ship Vanguard
is about to acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, A0S at the Vanguard for 5 minutes.
And if you are not using it, we'd like the DAS for a momentum
dump inhibit and a momentum bias.
SPT You've got the DAS, Story.
CC Okay. And for your information, we will be
bias in Y minus 35 percent.
CC We're taking that bias out, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT Story, could you tell me when the DAS
is mine again, please?
CC Say again.
PLT Roger. Can you tell me when I've got
the DAS back?
CC Okay, we'll let you know.
CDR Okay, we've gone record, and we're goin_ to
read off this information on the monitor switches for the
_round. And here we go. We're on A2. A2 is reading 59 percent,
and that's okay. Incredible. Okay, A3 is 8 and 86. That's
go. A4, 72, that's go. A5 66, that's _o. A6 is O. That's go.
The end of that one. B, B2 is 56, go, B3, 76, and that's go; B4
7i, that's go; B5 74, and that's go; B6 51, and that's go; B7
31, and that's go; B8, about i, and that's go; B9 is 58, and
that's go. They all passed. C2, 44, go; C3, 79, go; C4, 71, go;
C5 83 go.
CC Skylab, we're about 20 seconds of LOS.
See you over Canaries in 13 minutes at 13:05. We had a data
dropout. I'm taking that bias out. We'd like you to do a
terminate that's at 52040.
CDR Okay, we're going to do it.
PLT Okay, the sound (garble) through the DAS.
Do you want us to go ahead and enable TACS and get the maneuver
loaded.
CC Yes, that's fine. Just do the terminate
and press on.
CDR C-7 - (:-6 was 46 percent, as I mentioned, correction -
47 percent, that's go. C7 is 51 percent and that's go. They
are all passing so far this morning. Good warmup. D2
44 percent, that's go; D3 44 percent, go; oh, I'm reading the
wrong number. D-2, 86 percent and that's not go.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Canary Island station will pick up Skylab
in 12-1/2 minutes with overlapping coverage through Madrid.
Today's first resources pass scheduled to start shortly at
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8:06 a.m. central daylight time. As Skylab passes over Portugal,

Spain, southern France, Switzerland, and Germany recording
information on volcanic features, land use, glaciers, snow
cover, weather, and pollution. At 12 hours 53 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1879/I
Time: 08:03 CDT, 46/13:03 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours, 4 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range of
the Canary Island station. We'll stand by there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and
Madrid. Standing by for 15 - 14 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. Everything is going smoothly.
We're standing by to get the EREP underway.
PLT Morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
PLT Good morning to the boss there, too.
CDR R is off and EREP is START. Just per
planned. 193-A is ON. 615 MODE to 6. Got it, just like they
say? There's 94 MODE MANUAL, just like they say. 630 VTS,
AUTO CAL. Okay. AUTO CAL on that one.
PLT flow's the weather in Spain and France, central
Europe today? Do you know Dick?
CC Stand by i. We were just looking at a map.
I'll get right back to you.
PLT Yes, sir. Thank you.
CC Jack, the prediction is 4/10 to 7/10 cloud
cover. We think it's probably going to be closer to 4/10.
Looking good.
PLT Very good. Thank you.
CDR Standing. 715 is MODE CYCLE again. Okay CYCLE.
CC And Skylab, a reminder, you can load the
new (garble) anytime you want to now, for the next maneuver, if
you'd like.
PLT Good idea. I'ii do that right now. Thank
you for reminding me, Dick. It's in there. How do you like it?
CC Looks good to us, Jack.
PLT Okay, thank you. Saves us a few mibs.
CDR A mib saver.
PLT I think the kid will turn the TV on over here
then I'ii give you a holler when I need the VTR.
CDR All right. I'ii give you a VTR at your
request. 835, on single.
PLT (Garble) remind us the that switch is the TV -
don't touch that switch there, O. Okay. We got some TV on the
monitor.
CDR Okay. There's a SINGLE on 190. READY on
191 at 09:10. Let's watch.
PLT Few spots in that optical terrain. You decided
they're not in the big lens for the camera because they don't
show up when you take the camera off.
CDR Okay. IR on going to 6. 9:22, we go A to
STANDBY and range 63. MARK. 63 done. 37 in AR. MARK. A's on.
09:45 MODE, SINGLE. MARK, MODE, SINGLE. Put the VTR on in
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a few moments. Whenever you say, I'm going to give it to you.

PLT Very well.
CDR 10:45. 10:45 another MODE SINGLE.
10:30 want the VTR on according to your suggestion. That's what
we'll put it on.
PLT Wish you'd do that.
CDR Okay. 22.
PLT Okay. Couple of browing Nadir swaths.
CDR Okay. VTR is on right now.
PLT Okay. Thank you. And we're starting a
Nadir swath here.
CDR 10:45. MODE single.
PLT Okay, space fans, this is Skylab. We're giving
you a little tour of Europe today. We're taking some data on
weather systems - formations of cold fronts and low pressure
systems for future use of long range weather forecasting primarily.
And then we're going to take some data over the Swiss Alps.
We're going to hit the European coast at Lisbon. We'll then
be traveling up over Spain, crossing the Pyrenees just a few
miles from the Bay of Biscayne, over the Lyon, France, Geneva
Switzerland, Zurich, just off of Munich, Vienna, and then we'll
be turning our instruments off as we continue on. And the data
we're taking today, is the united up unto it's (garble)
frequencies and analyzed. They have the capability - they
can track an object less than a quarter of a mile square. They
can track farmer's field. They can track a city block. They
can track lakes. They have very good resolution with the telecope.
At the moment, it's in it's minimum zoom position and that is as
far away as possible. You see a reticle on your scope - on
your picture. The center of that reticle - or the open space
of reticle represents one-quarter of a mile.
CDR By range, 65.
PLT I'd say we're now coming up on the coastline.
I see the coast at Lisbon. See Lisbon down there. Zoom in on it,
for you a little bit. There's Lisbon. You can see the airfield,
now we'll zoom back out. Crossing the land of Spain. Buenos
dias to all our amigos in Spain. Now you can see rivers, lakes
down there. You can actually see various fields. Parts of
ground that are farmed. You can see wooded areas and here's a little
lake coming up, we'll just kind of zoom in on this a little better.
Then we have the capability of stopping our machine, taking a
look at that lake, if we want to and tracking it, as I'm
doing now. We're moving across the ground at 4 miles
a second. But, still I'm tracking that lake with no difficulty.
Over - cross there right on that lake without any trouble.
How, we'll pick it up again. Back to business here. Now
back forward. We can look 45 to 50 degrees ahead of our track
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PLT No back forward. We can look 45 to 50 degrees

ahead of our track over the ground. Now we're about to cross
the Pyrenees. Looking down at the ground below you can see
what it looks like to travel across the Earth at 4 miles a
second. You can see the major geological features there. Many
linear features of mountain regions across the Pyrenees from
Spain into France.
PLT We're taking data on all of that territory
down there. There is an interesing little lake with something
in it. Let's take a look at that. Zoom in on it. That lake has
got some sort of break waters in it or bridges in it that show up
very clearly. Vertically you can see the farmers fields over here
all across the ground. There is one right there. We can track that
one right there. That's a quarter of a mile square, we can keep our
instruments on. Okay, let's get back to business here. Zoom
ahead a little bit. Now we'll zoom way out ahead, and see what's
coming ahead of us. Well, we're going to get a little bit of weather
it looks like. Now we're looking way ahead of us, 53 degrees
ahead of our position over the ground. And then we'll swing
back to take data straight down, which is what we want to
do momentarily. And now we're looking directly below us.
We're crossing into the Alps. And we're taking a look at
Switzerland now, very mountainous terrain. You can see some
clouds above the Alps down there, and you can see rivers cutting
their way through in the mountains. The data that we take with this
instrument is used on the Earth resources study where we look
at agriculture, forestry, water, resources, pollution, analogy,
mineralogy.
CDR I'm turning the VTR off, unless you want
it on.
PLT Just let it go.
CDR Let it run, or what?
PLT Let it run for a little while.
CDR All right, will do.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and
20 seconds from LOS Madrid. I'll pick you up over Honeysuckle
at 13:53. You'll be looking at the Moon then. We're looking
forward to getting the TV from this pass. One final reminder for
Jack, be sure to swap out the DAC for the TV for the lunar
cal see you at Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay, I'll do that, Dick. Thank you. And
as I was saying what we do with this data is to use it for
the more efficient management and utilization of our Earth
resources. This data combined with that from unmanned satel-
lites will - future permit us to do that to a greater extent.
So, we're going to sign off now and turn off our instruments.
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CDR You've got a maneuver in 5 seconds. You

got a maneuver.
PLT Okay. Turn off the VTR please.
CDR Eighteen frames for the EREP Officer
down there Dick. 18 on the (garble).
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, we're on our way to SI.
PLT Thank you for reminding me.
CDR You bet.
PLT I got a little long winded there, as usual.
CDR Okay (garble) Okay, voice record (garble) 7. I
don't know if we - let me look. Mine just keeps going. I'm
not sure.
PLT (garble) to put it away.
CDR We've got to cut down on - -
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station now. And the space station has
started to maneuver back to solar inertial attitude following
the first Earth resources survey of the day over Europe with
commentary by Jack Lousma. This pass was televised and recorded
on a video tape recorder onboard Skylab. That tape will
be dumped later today over the United States. The next station
to acquire Skylab will be Carnarvon, Australia in 32-1/2 minutes.
At 13 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1881/I
Time: 08:52 CDT 46/13:52 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 52 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Honeysuckle, Australia. The crew should be starting
the callibration, the lunar callibration of the Earth resources
sensors during this pass. We'll stand by.
PLT Now I'm going to initiate our VTS work
now. 53:30, and the DAC is (garble). And we're going to go 5
above the limb. We're reading a minus 1 right now. So we'll go
to 4 up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at
Honeysuckle for 7 minutes. We're dumping the data tape recorder
here at Honeysuckle. I'm standing by.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay.
PLT And the way I understand this seven-point
sequence we're going to start right now is that you want the modified
as on the pad, as opposed to the standard in the book. You don't
want the standard in the book at all, or do you want that in
addition? MARK. We're 5 angles above - 5 degrees above the limb.
CC PLT, Houston. Use the pad we sent up to
you.
PLT Okay, that's instead of, as opposed to in addition to?
CC Roger. That replaces what's in the book.
Use the pad only.
PLT Okay, we've got her 0.5 degrees
above the limb. Now we're 2-1/2 spaces on the limb.
CDR Go ahead.
PLT Okay. Now we're going to slew upward and
go to ALIGN ON; it'llwork better. The data pushbutton is down, and
we're slewing up to the limb. There across the limb. MARK.
Data pushbutton, on. We continue up, then stop. We come
back. Slewing back down. At the limb. MARK. We go
2-1/2 below. T09 one more time. Okay, we're starting on slew.
Pushbutton. MARK. Start to slew 2-1/2 DOWN. We're crossing
the limb now. Iq_ARK. Data pushbutton off. Slew to 2-1/2
up. Okay we stop and come back. Stand by for a mark. MARK. We're
on the limb. And we're slewing to 2-1/2 down. Got us down twice. Now
we go to the right limb. Same thing. Only measure exactly 2-1/2
as we start out at the limb here. (garble) 2, 2-1/2. Okay, right limb.
Pushbutton down. We slew to the right. MARK. Off the limb.
Going back now. blARK. On the limb.
CDR S to stand by.
PLT One more time.
CDR X-TRACK CONTIG, POLARIZATION i.
PLT Slewing.
PLT MARK. (garble) going back. That's a limb mark,
2-1/2. Okay, we did each one of those 2-i/2 times, Dick. Now
we're going to go to 5 (garble) angles below the limb. We're
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starting at a minus 2, so we're going down to a minus

7. There we are, 7. Push the push button, i0 seconds,
now we've got 3 and (garble).
CDR S, ON and R, ON.
PLT Okay, now we'll go back to the Moon and -
get some data on that (garble) you requested. The first one
is tranquilitotus, at 30-1/2 a radius. There it is right there.
MARK. We're tracking it. I see the moon jump every time
the DAC clicks. Okay, that takes care of Tranquilitatus.
i_ow we go over to Serenitatis.
CDR S OFF and R, OFF. X-TRACT noncontiguous.
PLT Okay, we're tracking the cerentatus. Data
push button is down.
CDR 05. 50:15 right there. So, ON and R, ON.
94 MODE MANUAL. Done. Standing by for 58:30, which is
coming up in a minute.
PLT The Moon is moving every time the DAC
goes on.
CDR 191, REF, 2. 191, ref 2.
PLT Signal the optics. Okay, now we're going
over the (garble). Then of course 1/5 of the radius. Tango right in
there. We'll miss Tango for this. Okay, there is - mark. i0 seconds.
For the heck of it, I'm going to put Tango right in the middle
of the field of view after this see what he looks like.
MARK. Data pushbutton off. (garble) now we'll put Tango in
there. That goes right in across here, now, Houston.
CC Roger.
PLT Just for the beck of it.
CDR B - S, off. R, off.
PLT Say, what's that big crater down there, AI?
Is that Copernicus?
CDR Could be. I don't know which way to go.
PLT I'm going to go over there just for the heck of it.
CDR It's on the opposite quadrant.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay, AUTO Cal started.
PLT Okay, we've got auto Cal. I don't know
if we're taking data or not. But I'm looking at Copernicus.
I'm right in the field of view.
CDR 91, 14:02. (garble)
PLT That's a pipper item as they say in the -
in the trade (laughter). Pipper on the target, Dick, as we use
to say back there is A Force.
CC (garble) too.
PLT And (garble), yes.
PLT Okay, we've got the - anything else you
want to do with VTS?
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PLT I'll go down and give you another 5 below.

CC Roger, Jack.
CC Roger, Jack. I was just going to ask you
if you had done that step 5, that 7.5 degrees below
disk, on the pad prior to turning the DAC off.
PLT Yeah, I did that prior to going back out
and tracking the mare. I wanted to get all that sequence
complete. But in order to keep it in sequence you've got on
the pad, we'll do it again. We're doing it right now. It is
done. Okay, and we'll get the DAC off now.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. We're satisfied
with that on the VT, on the VTS work. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. Bermuda at 14:37.
PLT Okay. We've got an end of film light in there
somewhere. I don't know exactly where it came on, but it is
on now. It's not reading any where near empty.
CDR Owen couldn't load a maneuver time of
50008, so we went ahead and loaded it 50010.
PLT Couldn't find that 8 button, huh? Doggone. Still
looking around for that some more. I tell you what we ought
to do is draw a little square on the panel next to 7, and we'll
call it 8.
CDR Okay.

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PLT Okay, now see the (Garble)

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range at Honeysuckle station. The next station will be
Bermuda in 34-1/2 minutes. The crew now in the lunar cali-
bration of the Earth Resources sensors aboard Skylab. At
14 hours, 2 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1883/I
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9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours, 35 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab moving within range of the
tracking station at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for
7 minutes and we'd like to have the DAS, please. We need to
enable momentum dumps and we're going to set momentum bias
to zero.

PLT Okay fine Richard. And the DAS is yours.

CC Roger. And Skylab, while that - those
two EREP passes are fresh on your mind, we had a couple of
questions that we wanted to ask and I'ii go ahead and tell
you both of them are. And sometime during this pass, you can
get us an answer. One, is the comment Jack made about the
jiggle in the VTS caused by the DAC is the first time that
we'd heard that and we were wondering if that was the first
time you'd noticed it and - and how bad that was or what kind of
magnitude that jiggle was. Second thing was, how was the
pointing arrow after the maneuver going into the EREP CAL.
Did you have to use a contingency maneuver? Over.
PLT That's a negative, Dick. We didn't have
to use them - the contingency maneuver - the (garble) was perfect.
I was reading 8 up and zero left-right and it was even better
than the last time. So there was no maneuvering required and that
was good work. Regarding the DAC, this is the first time
that I had noticed it although I would not say that it had
not occurred before. Now, most of the time, as you know, you're
tracking over the ground and you wouldn't notice that jiggle.
But since the Moon was stationery and it's a very bright object
in a black background, (garble) in it made a - a very slight
vibration whenever the DAC went off. It's hard to quantify
it. It's just enough to notice but not enough to measure
quantitatively.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much and we
appologize about that maneuver entry that was 50008. It
turns out the team last night was reviewing that entry just about
the same time that Crip talked to Helen on the air-to-ground and
maybe that's how it happened.
PLT That's a reasonable explanation down there,
Dick and all we did was get a good chuckle out on it anyway.
CC Roger.
PLT We're going to draw another button on
the panel there, next to 7, we're going to put 8 in the middle
of it.
CC Okay. We'll start using that one.
PLT Owen takes his two pictures instead of one.
CC Roger.
CDR What - what do you want the IMC set on
next time?
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CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CDR Dick, what setting do you want for the IMC
for the next EREP run?
CC Roger, it's a setting of 16.0.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We're going to drop out for a couple minutes. I'ii
call you at Canary.

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Time: 09:44 CDT 46/14:44 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has

loss of signal. However, the Canary Island station will pick
up Skylab in i minute. We'll continue to stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary Madrid for
ii minutes.
CC PLT, Houston when you get a chance.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Rog. Two things for you Jack. One is
we're going to be sending up a message to you probably on this
pass with some new times, new heat up times for the M518
experiment. And essentially what it shows is that we went
back to Marshall yesterday afternoon and they gave us a range
of times for each of those. And it turns out they think that
probably the heat ups are going a little faster than normal
because the bus voltage is a little higher than they were when
we predicted - than we predicted them when we made that SL-2
checklist. But at any rate those times are coming up. And
for N566 which you're going to do this morning, the range of
times for heat up is 3.3 to 4.8 hours for your information.
The second thing that I had was - we wanted somebody to get us
just pictures, some photographs of the trash alrlock interlock
and the turn buckle, and the torsion spring that is located
on the trash airlock rod between the lid lock handle arms.
And we thought that today that during this no EREP alternate
time there is a good bit of open housekeeping for you since
we moved that EREP tape down a little bit later, and maybe
you could do it. And if you need them, I've got some camera
information for you in order to take the pictures if you'd
like to jot it down.
PLT Yeah, go ahead with it.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. That squeal was so bad,
I didn't copy. Go ahead.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. We'd like you to use the Nikon
03 camera with the flash. Flash settinE of range i, F stop
of F/8, shutter speed of 1/60, and lens 55 millimeter/Fi.2.
Over.
PLT Okay, understand. You want some still pictures.
And understand the camera and all that. Will you say again
the specific items?
CC Okay. What we're interested in is the
damage you've seen in the bending of that little rod. Specifi-
cally we want the bent trash airlock interlock turn buckle,
and the torsion spring that is located on the trash airlock rod
that goes between the lid lock handle and that interlock.
And I guess if there is any other thing that you could see better
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than us that we didn't ask for that might help us out to

fly up some new piece of equipment to fix it up for Jerry's
crew, use your own judgement and get pictures of that. Over.
PLT Okay, we'll do, Dick. Thank you.
CC Great. Thank you.

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SL-III MC1885/I
Time: 09:54 CDT, 46/14:54 GMT
9/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from

LOS. Carnarvon coming up at 15:22.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of Madrid station. Next station to acquire will
be Carnarvon in 24-1/2 minutes. At 14 hours, 57 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1886/I
Time: 10:20 CDT 46/15:20 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 20 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylah coming up within range of
the Carnarvon station now.
CC Skylab, IIouston. We're AOS Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
SPT Did you call, Houston?
CC I was just telling you, Owen that we are
standing by here at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 15 minutes.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC And Skylab, Houston. When we hand over
to Honeysuckle, which is going to happen in about 9 minutes,
we're going to rewind the VTRs to start dumping it. So it
will be ours for a while.
SPT Okay. I don't think we have any use for
it coming up here.
CC Okay.
SPT We're all just chucking away on our
schedule. Jack is down below on the T002, A1 is over on the
Mark I, and I'm on the ETC.
CC Okay. Thanks for letting us know.
CC And Skylab, Eouston, for the PLT. We did
get up that pad that changed the M518 checklist. It isn't man-
datory for Jack's run with 566 this morning, but if he would
like to stick it in there prior, it's in the teleprinter.
PLT Okay Dick, thank you. I'll take a look
at it before I do (garble)
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC1887/I
Time: 10:33 CDT, 46/15:33 GMT
9/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute

and a half from LOS. We're going to see you at Mila at 16:09
and for SPT, you're going to be settling down at ATM panel
here, shortly. And the first thing on your agenda up there,
it says to perform a NUz update and ASCO advises me
that the outer gimbal - you'll probably have more luck with an
outer gimbal of minus 1200 - (garble) what's written on the pad.
Over.
SPT Dick, all I got was the - use minus 1200
on the outer gimbal. I didn't get the first part of your
transmission to me. Over.
CC Okay. I just said, Owen, when you get up
to the ATM, the first thing on your agenda is to perform a
NUz update and an outer gimbal of minus 1200 ought to work
better than what's listed on the star tracker pad. Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you. I'm just now photographing
the southern aurora from up near the ATM panel. That's the
reason I couldn't hear you to begin with.
CC Roger. Is it pretty?
SPT It's interesting. It's a little further
away on this pass. It's a little too early. I think the
next pass will be better, but you can see the arc very clearly
curving around - across the various longitudes and it's a rather
bright curving feature rather unlike any of the rest that we've
seen before.
CC Roger. Sounds nice and I'ii give you a
call at Merritt Island.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Honeysuckle station. In 30-1/2 minutes, Skylab
will be acquired by the Merritt Island, Florida tracking station.
At 15 hours, 38 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1888/I
Time: 11:08 CDT 46/16:08 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

7 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for communi-
cations through Merritt Island, Florida station. The Bermuda
station has overlapping coverage on this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Mila and
Bermuda for 13 minutes.
CDR Say Dick, I was looking over my S019 pad
and sort of wondering if that was plus .8 that was written
on there, it didn't have a time.
CC That's affirmative, AI. It was plus.
CDR It looks like we can get handheld site
number 6 here. We'll get it right here.
CC Great.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS to
inhibit momentum dumps. Also we would like to verify that
vou got a good nu Z update. We think you did. And we do want
to inhibit TACS also.
CDR Owen says he did.
CC Great.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you will go ahead
and confirm the DAS is ours, then we'll let you inhibit TACS
hardware and software after we get through commanding.
CDR Okay. How about saying that - just a second
Owen is headed up there right now. We've got him in midflight.
CC Okay, we're standing by. No problem. Got
lots of time.
CDR Okay, he's standing by. He'll wait until
your finished.
CC Okay, we'll let you know.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours, and
you can go ahead and inhibit TACS.
SPT Okay Dick, thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, IIouston. We're going to hand over
to Bermuda in about a minute. And when we get there, we're
going to dump the data recorder.
CDR Funny, I thought we were just over
the island of Bermuda right then.
CC Well, you are, but Mila has just got long
arms and we're just handing over from Mila now.
CDR Okay, a couple of questions, Dick. I've
got a pad up this morning about modifying a LSU for T20. Are
you going to schedule me to do that tomorrow because I can
probably get to it today?
CC Well, it was on the schedule to be put on
there for tomorrow. Stand by one.
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Time: 11:08 CDT 46/16:08 GMT
9/11/73

CDR Okay, same question for that day 56

transfers. I probably get to those today too if you were
planning - we don't want to get too far ahead here.
CC Roger AI. Stand by on that one, please.
CC CDR, Ilouston. In answer to your question
on the modification of the LSU, we were going to schedule
that right at the tail end of your day tomorrow. So if you
get a chance to do it today, it's not goin_ to mess us up
too bad, we can figure out how to fill that in. And we're
a little bit confused about the stowage transfers. We origin-
ally, I think on our forecast showed those transfers for
tomorrow. However now, we had not planned to schedule you
for any transfers either for today or tomorrow. We did have
the SPT scheduled I think for day 46 transfers today. Over.
CDR That's the ones I was thinking of. And
he called down on the intercomm and said he was scheduled for it.
And I'll go ahead and get those today.
CC Okay, great. We're about a minute from
LOS. We - I'll call you at Madrid at 16:26.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Madrid
tracking station in 3 minutes. We'll continue to keep the
line up and monitor for acquisition at Madrid.

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SL-III MC1889/I
Time: 11:23 CDT, 46/16:23 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Crew Commander AI Bean in preparations

now for operation of the S019 experiment - ultraviolet star
astronomy experiment towards light from distant stars and
from the Milky Way. Science Pilot Owen Garriott still at
the Apollo Telescope Mount console monitoring the Sun's
activity. And Jack Lousma, the Skylab Pilot, getting ready
to activate the M566 Aluminum-Copper Euteetic experiment -
one of the manufacturing in space investigations which uses
the electric furnace aboard Skylab. Madrid should be acquiring
Skylab in about a minute. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for
6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for
about 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid, 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. Our persistent image scope has
been on the blink here for a couple of days now since we
had to change those batteries. It appears the - the power
switch - which has 3 positions, off - see what the second's
called here, just a minute - it's just called on, and the
third one is IR. In the on position, it really shows
IR and it also does in the IR position and we could not get it to
show the normal persistent image. And I therefore think I ought
to try to take this switch apart and see if I can't get it
straightened out because its not much value to us now. If you
can you provide any clues or have any objection to taking
it apart, why please let me know.
CC Roger, Owen. We copied that. Let us think
about it - we'll get back to you.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS in Madrid. I'll call you at Carnarvon at 17:00.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will acquire Skylab in 25 minutes.
During this pass, Science Pilot Owen Garriott reported a
faulty switch - image scope - he uses at the Apollo Telescope
Mount console. He proposes to take the switch apart and fix
it and has asked for any advice that ground might like to
give him. The ATM people are studying schematics of that
switch now. Failure of the switch on the image scope does
not affect any of the Apollo solar experiment. The image
scope is a - is an aid for the crew and not - does not affect
any of the experiments. It was taken up by this crew - this
is the first mission that it has been flown - the image scope
did not fly on the Skylab-2 mission. At 16 hours, 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1890/I
Time: 11:59 CDT 46/16:59 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

59 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
acquisition through Carnarvon, and then a short dropout
at Honeysuckle will acquire. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon
for 14 minutes.
PLT Okay Dick. We're just up here eating
our pea soup and asparagus roots.
CC Roger that, and allow it. We've only
got you for 8 minutes and then we're going to drop out a
couple of minutes and Honeysuckle then. Also we'd like
the DAS so that we can reenable the momentum dump.
PLT Okay, you've got the DAS. And I've _ot
518cooking again. And I noticed something different about
that last set of three that I took up that's different from
the first set that I put in and the set that is in there now.
I noticed all three of them you could shake them a little bit
and feel something rattling around inside. They are probably
built that way, but the other six aren't like that so I just
thought I would mention that for the record.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR And Dick, I'm up here running S019 now.
We put back on cassette number 5 or film canister 5, which
ever is a good word. We haven't run it since the first of
the mission. And I'm noticing that the handle operates very
smoothly without a lot: of friction where as 3 did not.
Now I can't, neither can Jack, neither of us can remember
whether that's the way it operated at the first of the mission
or not. You might just mention that to Carl or Wally and maybe
they remember that this was the nice smooth one and that 3
was the high friction one. It looks like, from looking at
the bottom of the canister that everything is working well,
but it sure has a different feel than canister 3, which we
have been using for the last month.
CC Okay AI. We'll call over there and see
if we can find some body that fiddled with those during tests.
And maybe we can help you out.
CDR I'd sure hate to think that we were free
wheeling this thing. We're operating it correctly, in the same way
as the other, it just feels awfully soft when you go
into the place - the position that you use to pick up the film,
and it also feels soft when you move it to shutter open.
CC Okay AI. Thank you. And the DAS is yours.
CDR Okay. And that's called five retracting
where you pick up the other film.
CC Roger.

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SL-III MC1891/I
Time 12:07 CDT, 46/17:07 GMT
9/11 73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS. I'll give you a call at Honeysuckle in 4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
lost the Skylab signal. Honeysuckle will acquire the space
stat on in 3 minutes. A news briefing has been scheduled
for pm today in the Johnson Space Center News Center. Parti-
cipants will be Jack Walte of the Marshall Space Flight Center
who is in charge of corollary experiments and Robert Randle
of NASA's Ames Research Center, who is the Principal Investiga-
tor on T002 - the Manual Navigation Sighting experiment. To
repeat, a news briefing at 2 pm Central daylight time today,
in the JSC News Center. We'll continue to keep the line up
and stand by for acquisition at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for about
a minute and a half.
CDR Also, Dick. I wonder what the new time
was that you wanted me to run on the 191 power switch, Bus 1
switch, in as much as we cancelled EREP 22, or whatever
the number is.
CC We'll check it and get right back with you,
AI.
CDR Okay. Just - with just that one time I
can do the rest.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. The time is 19:44.
CDR (Garble)
CC Skylah, Houston. We're real low elevation,
and I didn't copy your last - but the time for the power -
for the EREP Bus i, S191 power on is 19:44.
CDR Roger, Dick. It was on the pad and I didn't
even see it.
CC Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Next station to pick up Skylab will be Texas
in 27-1/2 minutes. At 17 hours, 15 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1892/I
Time: 12:41 CDT 46/17:41 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours

41 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acqui-
sition through the Texas tracking station. There will be
continuous communications through the Bermuda station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for 16 minutes.
SPT Roger Dick.
CC And Skylab, I've got one note for you
here. There is a weak tropical depression that is standing
off the Texas coast just off Palacios, and it's causing some
rain down south of Houston, and a little bit up here also.
And you're going to pass just about over it at a time of
17:47, which is about 4 minutes from now. I just thought
you might want to look out the window and take a look at it.
It does have a fairly well formed view on the satellite photo
that I'm looking at here. It should be just slightly north
west I guess of your ground track as you pass over at 17:47.
Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you Dick, we'll look out the
window.
CC Roger.
CDR That's a good call. It's right there right
now •

CDR Even got a little slight counter clockwise

drift to it. The (garble) of clouds, that are at the periphery -
sort of curved back and to the right as they move outward,
as opposed to left inward (garble) but just looking at it.
CC Rog, AI. As a matter of fact, we were
just commenting here that it looks a little more well formed,
or more classically formed than Delia did actually. Actually
it is very weak, and not expected to build up and cause a
lot of problems here in Texas, but it is causing some rain.
CDR Yeah. What it looks like at closer
inspection here, it looks like about a fifth of Delia, just
sort of a fifth of a quadrant there. And it's sort of slightly
curved. It's from the center and then out. And it's like
somebody took away the other 4/5 of the storm. And in there
there's just scattered cumulus clouds out in front over Palacios
and the like. There is one nice thunder storm approaching
the coast there, but most of the cirrus that you described is
off shore still.
CC Roger.
CDR It doesn't look bad towards Houston. It
looks like you've got scattered clouds up there.
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CC Well, it's been a while since we've been

out doors to see. It was raining a little bit when we came
to work this morning.
CDR I presume you've got TV downlink now,
Dick.
CC That's affirm, Owen.
CDR I don't think I'm looking at the right
storm. I'm looking at one here next to Hexico. We'll have
to wait until we get up towards Houston.
CC Roger. I think you may be right.
CDR We're just crossing Central America and
Mexico over here.
CC Yeah, I think you're right, AI. But
you should be getting to it in just a couple of minutes.
CDR Well, in case you're interested in that
other storm, I gave you a description of it.
CDR Okay, you're right. Now we got a nice
counterclockwise flow here. It's a very small one but it's
right over the coast.
CC Rog. Well that was a terrifc description,
the first time anyway. We'll just use that for both of them.
CDR That's a good idea. This is the other
4/5 I think. The only quadrant that is missing is towards
the western, southwestern quadrant. The rest is there, although
the diameter is - looks to be maybe only 50 miles or so in dia-
meter.
CC Roger.
CDR It's funny, right at the head they all
seem to have one little big thunder storm, and the rest of
it I guess is hidden by the stratus.
CDR It looks like a spiral galaxy from over
here.
PLT Hello Dick.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Hello Houston.
CC Skylab, llouston. Go ahead.
PLT There is one thing I meant to bring up
with you earlier. Apparently at the end of last sunset the
82 Alfa door did not close. And the barber pole on it is
white at this time. And I cannot get it to close when I
put the switch to off. Now I believe the wave length flag
will cycle when I close the door, and I'ii give that a try
again here if you like. But I presume that you are running
on one motor now, and I'ii either let you give it a try or
pick up on the door malfunction procedure either way you
prefer. Over.
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Time: 12:41 CDT 46/17:41 GMT
9/11/73

CC Okay, ()wen. Stand by please.

CC Owen, we'd prefer that you'd go ahead and
do the mal. Over.
SPT Okay.
SPT Story, we have enable at the moment, and
(garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. You caught us right in
the middle of a hand over. I didn't get that, say again, please.
SPT I just wanted to check to see if that was
a primary or secondary motor that we were using at the present
time.
CC We're on the primary, Owen.
SPT Thank you.

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SL-III MC1893/I
Time: 12:52 CDT, 46/17:52 GMT
9/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston for Owen. We're looking

at the down-link of the X-ray and we see it increasing. Just
thought you might be aware of that.
SPT Okay. Thanks for pointing it out.
CC Roger.
CDR Can see all my EREP sites up the east coast there.
CC Roger.
CDR The ones around Long Island.
CC Roger.
CDR Nice and clear there.
PLT Say Dick, what is this other thing about
EREP on each (garble).
CC PLT, Houston. Sorry, I didn't copy that.
Say again, please.
PLT Well, we're fixing the speakers. Just a
minute. One EREP thing we - changed desiccants again today.
Seems like you got to change them out every 2 or 3 days. They
turn very - very pale blue in a short time.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT One other thing about finding that EREP
site with the VTS that I've had on my mind but never mentioned
to anybody is this, in relation to clouds. Turns out that if
you've got scattered clouds, naturally that reduces your
chances of picking up your sites, but it's not only because of
the clouds, it's because of the cloud that - the shadow that
the cloud makes on the ground. So your site doesn't show
up nearly as well when it's not as much illumination on it. So if
you've got scattered Clouds, that's almost as - as bad as
some worse cloud coverage from not only the cloud's standpoint
but also the shadow that the cloud makes on your site.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT And Dick, one other thing I'd like to
find out is, how many T002-1 sightings do we have yet to perform
to fill all the squares in T002-1?
CC Okay, Jack. I'll find out for you. Stand
by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS
Bermuda. We're going to pick you up at Madrid at 18:04.
SPT Okay, Dick. Another thing about on
these doors, I've cycled through that twice now. After
inhibiting both motors and then reenablin_ primary, the
door talkback goes barberpole immediately. Now, I just
(garble) tried to open it rather than close it the way the
malfunction procedure says. When I tried to close it, it just
went white again, the same way it was before. Whereas it
looks likes if I try to open it, it might function correctly.
I do have a barberpole showing now. Over.
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CC Owen, our suggestion is to try to go through

it and try to close it once more. If it still doesn't work,
go ahead and do what you suggested.
SPT Okay. Thanks.
CC Roger.

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SL-III MC-1894/I
Time: 12:59 CDT, 46/17:59 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has

loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in about 3 minutes.
We'll continue to keep the line up and monitor through Madrid.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Skylab coming
up on acquisition at Madrid now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Madrid for 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. And the 82 door is open now
and - I went through the procedure again through the two block
and when I got to block 3 in the malfunction procedures, I issued
the close on the second time through and the door flag just went
white again. So on the third time through, when I got to block 3,
I issued the door open instead and - the door opened on up and it
appears to be normal right now. I've got a READY light and the
proper flag.
CC Roger, Owen. We're not sure we understand
that right away, but - looks like we're in good shape right
now .

SPT Okay. And one more in the same group.

That's me.
CC Roger, that. And for Jack, after you do
the T002-1 today, you111 be all through with a - with the dash
i which I'm sure is good news to you. For information you have
five more dash 2s to do. Over.
CC Skylab, Houston. I got two notes here
on - that has to do with operation for that ATM console. First
is for Owen, we'd recommend that you don't change the ATM pointing
between your observations at the end of the - this daylight cycle
and those beginning with AI. At the start of 18:50 ZULU cycle,
since they should remain the same, might save A1 a little time. And
the second thing is, :is a NuZ update listed in the schedule
pad at the start of 18:50 cycle, that we do not want to do,
we're going to delay that about a rev. I'ii be getting up -
getting back up to later with a new NuZ time and the reason for
the delay is the cancellation of that EREP in the middle.
CDR Understand. I'ii just mark it out on
our ATM schedule. And - and for Sun centered both times, so I
think we can get back to the same point without any problems.
CC Roger.
SPT Hello, Houston. Are you still with us?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I just terminated the 52 (garble)
as per ATM schedule. Took a quick look at it here and got a very
nice loop transient underway out on the west limb. But - now
out to about - about oh I would say 2-1/2 solar radii and it's
got a very nice loop structure.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're i minute til LOS.
Honeysuckle comes up at 18:50.

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SL-III MC1895/I
Time: 13:09 CDT, 46/].8:09 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of

range of Madrid now. The next station will be Honeysuckle
in 39 minutes. The malfunction procedure on the 82-A door
that was performed by Science Pilot Owen Garriott, appears
to have worked. That door is operating properly at the moment.
At 18 hours, ii minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1896/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 46/18:48 GMT
9/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 18 hours

48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is nearing acquisition
at Honeysuckle. However, the network controller just - reported
that the Honeysuckle station is having a problem with the
receivers on the Skylab frequency. So we don't know whether
we'll have communications here or not. In any event, it's
a very short pass, about a minute 45 seconds. A reminder that
at 2 p.m. central daylight time, there will be a news briefing
in room 135 of the JSC News Center. Participants will be
Jack Waite of the NASA Marshall Space Fight Center, in charge
of corollary experiments and Ron - Robert Randle of the Ames
Research Center, the principal investigator of the TO02
experiment. That briefing scheduled for 2 p.m. central daylight
time. We'll stand by now and see if we acquire at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Honeysuckle
for a minute and a half.
CC And Skylah, I've got one note for the
CDR, I realize it's right at sunrise for you, but this is a short
pass. Based on Owen's report of that transient for this daylight
cycle, we'd like for you to perform three S052 extended
standard modes during this cycle, this will prevent further
observations of that transient, do not repoint for these observations.
CDR Understand.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're about
30 seconds from LOS at Honeysuckle. We'll see you at Goldstone
at 19: - -
PAO This is Skylab Control; Honeysuckle
has loss of signal. Skylab will next be acquired by the Goldstone
station in 26-1/2 minutes.
PLT We're TO02-1 as requested and the - (GARBLE)
PAO We'll we do have loss of signal now,
all indicators were'that we - we had earlier. Goldstone
will pick up in 26 minutes, if the news briefing is still
on at that time, we'll take communications there and play
them back later. At 18 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1897/I
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9/11/73

CC Stand by i.
CDR And another question while you're working
that one. We had a fitting on test 0.6 in the CSM panel 352,
for purposes of dumping some of the water out of the waste
tank into our tanks down in OWS, now - I think that's fulfilled
its need so a few minutes ago I took that out and put the
plug back in that was in there for launch and rendezvous.
I'm wondering what I should do with that fitting? Is that a
throw away item or should it be returned to the OWS water
kit?
CC Okay, AI, we'll get the answer back to
you on that one also.
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 19 hours 22 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We're up llve at Goldstone now.
The earlier portion of this pass was taped we'll play that
back at the first opportunity. We'll continue live through
this stateside pass.
CDR By the way, the door is still acting the
same way. The only way we can get it to operate is to
disable both motors and enable the primary motor and then
the act of enabling the primary motor somehow resets the logic
it looks to us like. And whereever the door happens to be
at that time either opened or closed, I have the feeling
it's either one or the other; although it doesn't indicate
it. Then the talkback immediately goes barber pole or gray
it doesn't wait like it's cycling there it acts like it's
already there. Just waiting for some sort of logic to allow
it to say so.
CC Roger. CDR, let us talk about that one
a second.
CDR Okay, so we're still on primary motor. I
suspect that this night we'll a white and then to get it open
again next time we'll have to disable them both even though
secondary's disabled and then enable the primary.
CC Roger.
CDR And I'm giving SO56 three 15 mlntues exposures
on frames the - correction, filters 3, 4, and 5.
CC Roger, AI.
CC CDR, Houston, after this daylight cycle
if you will leave the door as it is we think that while you're
running your EREP and we'll have a good bit of time with
you not on the ATM panel we're probably going to do some
troubleshooting by command. Over.
CDR Good idea.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 15 seconds
from an LOS. We're going to drop out for about a minute and I'ii
call you at Bermuda.
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CC Skylab, Houston; we got you back at Bermuda

for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 3-1/2
minutes here at Bermuda. I've got a note here on the NRL
persistence scope for Owen and also a note for Jack.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all on your request to take
apart the scope. We brought one over here from the trainer
and we did - and I took the switch apart but it turns out
that the IR ligh - lamp was removed from that little scope
and when - it was being prepared to fly so we don't think
what you're seeing when you go to the ON and IR positions
is any kind of an IR thing. What we think possibly
might happen, you might clear us up on this is that the - if
the batteries are way down you might be seeing just a green
phosphor but seeing no enhancement so one thing that -
before you take it apart you might replace the batteries and
try it again if you've already done that or if after you
replace the batteries you don't have any change we
don't see anything to be harmed by taking it apart. I did
that this one apart Owen and there were several little screws
little washers and once I got into the switch itself, the
switch was kind of sealed so you may end up finding something
floating around in there perhaps causing a short. But we
don't see anything to be harmed by going ahead and troubleshooting
it. Over.
SPT Okay, we'll try that. Now it used to be
before we replaced the batteries the first time we could see
a different sort of image between the ON and the IR positions
and that led me to believe that there was some IR response that
was at least different from the visible persistent image
response. And now we get exactly the same sort of an image
it looks in a way like a TV raster in which the vertical sink
is slipping. You can see sort of horizontal lines moving
up and down a bit. And it just does not look llke the good
persistent image should, so we will replace the batteries again
and check it all over as you've suggested. And then if that
doesn't work I'Ii probably look at it inside.
PLT And what did you have for me Dick.
CC Roger, PLT, just a second-

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SL-III MC-1898/I
Time: 14:35 CDT, 46/19:35 GMT
9/11/73

CC Roger, PLT. Just a second. And Owen,

one other thing. The rewiring that was done in there just
for your information, should have resulted in the ON and the
IR positions doing exactly the same thing.
SPT Well, I can guarantee you it didn't
look that way and for the first 6 weeks of operation, we
had a different display between ON and IR.
CC Okay. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.
Madrid is coming up at 19:41 and we're going to dump the
data recorder there. The note that I had for Jack, and we
were wondering if you might have time today, Jack, for
purposes of calibration of TM data with your onboard readouts
on M518. We'd like for you to sometime to cycle the cartridge
temperature switch through all four positions and return it
to hot-i and log the results of that either on the voice tape
or send it down to us real time.
PLT Okay. You want that with the time hack, right?
CC l'm sorry, the squeal - I didn't hear that
Jack.
PLT You want it with the time hack?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT One other word for the ATM room, Dick.
AI and I took a look at the WLV display just before starting the
extended standard at the beginning of this orbit and the top of the
loop was already off our visible scope, although we believe
we can see the two extensions of that loop where it comes
back and intersects the occulting disc. So it's moving out
more rapidly than most that we've seen. Must have been a
couple solar radii, a couple - yeah, a couple of solar radii
for half hour or something like that.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 37 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. We will
play the beginning of the stateside pass, which is on tape.
We'll play that 2-1/2 minutes now, and pick up at Canary
live after the tape. We'll run that tape now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for ii minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. And we're running along
in the - the extended standard.
CC Okay, AI. I have a couple of notes I
want to get up to you. First of all, at sunrise on your
next daylight cycle, we'd llke to get a Nu Z update. That
time is about 22:03. You might want to jot that down on
your ATM schedule pad. And also, for you as a response on
what you asked while ago on the SO19 film canisters, we've
talked to several different sources. There was nothing on
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test on the bench that made us think that those two canisters
were going to be different. And as long as - essentially
we think, that as long as the film hatch was open when you
were trying to do that during operation, that probably there's
nothing wrong with the two. Over.
CDR Yes, the hatch was open.
CC Okay. I guess at this point there's
not much else we can check, but we don't think anything's
wrong with it, over.
CDR Sounds good. I was trying to see if
we were going to be on the ATM next daylight pass.
CDR I guess we're on the ATM day - daylight
pass after that.
CC Rog - That's affirm. Stand by one.
CDR We can always bring it up. Tell me the
time again and we'll see what time we maneuver. We can
always bring it up and get that.
CDR ZLV maneuver is 20:49.
CC Roger, AI. That was my mistake. I
had written up the wrong time and I associated it with the
ATM pass. The time that we want the Nu Z update is 20:22.
Over.
CC And that is right at sunrise period.
20:22.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Real fine.
CDR Just got a question to think about.
I noticed when I - looking over this procedure for modifying
the umbilical number 013 that we're deservicing both PCUs.
Then what are we going to do with those two PCUs?
CC Stand by one.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
19 hours 39 minutes. We will have acquisition at Bermuda
in one minute. We'll hold the line open for this pass.

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SL-III MC-1899/I
Time: 14:41 CDT, 46/19:41 GMT
9/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 8-1/2

minutes.
CC And, Skylab, we're dumping the data tape
recorder here at Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR. In answer
to your question about the PCUs. The messages - the message
on LSU had you restow the PCUs where you got them. And as
far as fu - future use, we are going to use the PCUs on the
upcoming EVA, but it should not require reserviclng, as long
as we do conduct that EVA as we now plan. Over.
CDR Well, I don't understand - I'm still
trying to puzzle out why we keep servicing both of them.
CC Roger, AI. We're deservicing them so
that they won't freeze during the EVA. Over.
CDR I don't get it. Those are the two we
wear, aren't they?
CDR We aren't planning to use water cooling
on the EVA? Is that the game?
CC Well, what we're talking about, AI, is
that - and we're working up procedures to do a - gas cooled
EVA rather than using the water loops. And, if, in fact
that turns out to be the way we do the EVA, we won't have
to reservice them.
CC We're - and Phil reminds me we still
have a good bit of evaluation and stuff to do here before
we commit to that, so, obviously we haven't made that decision,
and that's the reason we can't tell you right now whether or
not the PCU's got to be reservlced or not. In event we do
it as planned, we'll be all set and we won't have to touch
them again.
CDR Okay, then we'll get out a couple of new
LSUs, is that the name of the game?
CC Stand by, AI.
PLT Say, Dick, I just made some readings on
our friend, 518. These were 3 minutes ago, and cold 1
for - cold 1 for - and cold 2 are both reading the 9 - 99 degrees,
and the hot 1 and hot 2 were both reading 843 desrees ,
and according to my calculations with our latest update as of this
morning, this kind of (garble) period (garble) well ahead of the time that
they should of and they're not up to the temperature that
they should be.
CC Roger, PLT. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting close
to LOS at Madrid. Canary's going to come up at 18:42. And
AI, I'll get you an answer on the LSUs when we get down there.
CC I'm sorry, the - I gave you wrong there.
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The Honeysuckle pass is coming up at 20:26.

CDR Okay. We got 191 on on time, so it's -
(garble)
CC Okay, AI.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 19
hours 50 minutes. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle in
35 minutes. On the next stateside pass the crew will be
performing another stateside Earth's resources experiment
pass. This is scheduled to start at 21:59 into the mission.
It's a 9-mlnute pass which begins approximately 300 miles
off the coast of California, and crosses California coast
north of Eureka. The pass - the data take stops as the
vehicle crosses the 77th latitude, approximately 230 miles
southeast of Hudson Bay, Canada. At Greenwich mean time 19
hours 51 minutes, next acquisition Honeysuckle in 34 minutes.
This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1900/I
Time: 15:25 CDT, 46/20:25 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

20 hours 25 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Honeysuckle
in approximately 45 seconds as the Skylab-lll crew prepares
the Earth Resources Experiment Package for its 22nd data
take in the Skylab-lll mission. This data take begins at
about 200 miles off the coast of California north of Eureka.
We'll leave the line open for air-to-ground with CAP COI_M
Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for
5 minutes.
CDR Couple of items, Dick. Started to work
on venting those hoses down, or one hoses down and two PCUs.
310 houses LSU number 9, so that's the one we're venting
down now instead of 13 which must be in the other sphere.
And that's the one. Two, I noticed that there's not a heck
of a lot of vacuum being pulled on the depress fitting deservice
fitting or whatever it's called, with the water deservicing hose,
as I deservice these. So, I'm just kind of wondering in my own
mind if we're really getting all the water out of the hose
in the PCUs in a 7-minute vent.
CC Roger, CDR. While we get an answer
back to you on that one, we'd like to have the DAS. We want
to start doing this commanding to troubleshoot ATM.
CDR You've got the DAS. Oh yeah, I meant
to mention that. I got the star NuZ update and closed the
shutter at 22 and then I got 52 running along with 55.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Two things, one that
waste water transfer QD, that was used up in the command
module ought to go back to MI51. And secondly, I've got a
couple of notes as to our plans for LSU use during the EVA
if you have time to listen to that about 30 seconds or
a minute.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Assuming that we do a water-cooled
EVA from this point, here's what we'll have to do. We'll
have to get a new LSU from the trays above the dome lockers
and service that and then we'll have to reservice the two
PCUs. Now we don't think that this is what we're going to
end up doing. We think we probably will do a gas-cooled
EVA. In that event, what we're going to have to do is to
get a new dry LSU to replace serial number 9 that you're
working on today and secondly we're going to have to get a
second new dry LSU to replace the wet LSU that's now stowed
in M310. Over.
CDR Okay. Understand. And I'm hoping that some-
body's taking a real hard look at the jet-down time of those
PCUs. It could conceivably be that that little fitting l'm
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using - the depress fitting just doesn't pass as

much air as the one down on Earth. Maybe it's clogged a
little bit or something. I put a little bubble over the
top of it of liquid, spit mainly to see how it was doing and it
sure took a long time for the little bubble of spit to move
down and touch the screen, probably about 8 seconds.
CC Okay, AI. We are thinking about that one.
CDR And the distance between the bubble and
the spit is to start with about 3/10ths of an inch.
CC Roger.
CDR (Laughter) I got it wrong. The bubble
and the screen 3/10ths of an inch.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Dick. Regarding the back usage for
EREP, it turns out that we had less film in this last magazine
than we thought. And we got end of film light this morning with
about 30 percent remaining on the counter. So I had to go get
a new magazine. I got TLO4. And it's the last one, and I
hope that's the one you wanted me to use. If not, why let me know,
and I'ii get a different one.
CC Roger_ Jack. That is the correct one.
That' s okay.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
PLT And I notice that 518 is in it's cool-down
cycle now, which is ahead of the numbers I got. That pad
apparently knows what it's doing. It's Just that I don't have
the - all the dope up here.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT Say, Dick. Maybe one of the guys down there in the
(static) could tell me the first curve depression angle from this
altitude. Is it 20 degrees or something like that?
CC I'm sorry, Jack. I didn't copy the
question. Say again, please.
PLT I'm trying to find out the depression
angle for the horizon. I think it's around 20 degrees, but
I'm not sure.
CC That is affirm. About 20 degrees, Jack.
And, Skylab, we're going LOS, Honeysuckle. Hawaii's coming
up in about 13 minutes. I'Ii give you a call there.
CDR Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
20 hours 33 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 12 minutes and 30 seconds, on
this EREP pass, the 22nd of Skylab-lll mission. Commander
A1 Bean will be at the control and display panel of the
Earth Resources Experiment Package located in the multiple
docking adapter, while Science Pilot Owen Garriott is operating the
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Earth terrain camera through the scientific airlock with

Pilot Jack Lousma operating the view tracking - the view
finder tracking system for the S191 experiment of the Earth
Resources Package. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in ii min-
utes 50 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours 34 minutes
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1901/I
Time: 15:45 CDT, 46/20:45 GMT
0/11/73

PAO Hawaii in approximately i minute 30

seconds. The crew will probably be on VOX on this pass prior
to the start of the ER - Earth resources pass the 22nd on this
mission we'll leave the line open for the Hawaii pass.
CDR That's you.
CDR Okay, this is the CDR, and I think l'll
just read you the information contained on these dials, A, B,
C, and D. 2, 60 percent, go. 3, 86 percent, go. 4, 61 percent
go. 5, 66 percent, go. 6 0, go. Just 1 second.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Hawaii for
about 7-1/2 minutes. Standing by. One thing we'd like to
do while - if you haven't already done it is to go ahead
and secure that LSU deservicing until after the EREP, until
we get ourselves pulled together and can give you a straight
answer on that time.
CDR It's secured. We've emptied both PCUs
We've done 7 minutes on both PCUs and apparently then the umbilical
is empty or should be according to the procedures. And we're
down to the stage where we would start taking off the cover.
CC Okay, AI, we'll get back with you. Under-
stand the deservicing is secured now and you're putting us
in good shape -
CDR (Garble).
CC Okay, great.
CDR Secured and complete. Okay. But I'm
still wondering about it. Okay, back to 6 no, we just gave
A-6, so let's go to B, B-2 is 56 percent and that's go; B-3 is
77 percent and that's go; B-4 is 71 percent and that's go;
B5 is 74 percent and that's go; B-6 is 51 percent and go; B-7
31 percent and go; B-8 1 percent and go; B-9 58 percent and go.
So those are all good. C-2 is 44 percent go; C-3 is 89 percent
and that's okay because we got our little VOX diagnostic
down-link unit VOX in. Okay, C-4 is 71 percent that's go;
C-5 is 83 percent that's good; C-6 46 percent that's go; C-7
is 54 percent and that's go; okeydoke, those are all good.
D-2 86 percent and that's go because of the down-link VOX;
D-3 85 percent that's go for the down-link VOX; D-4 72 percent
that's go anyway; D-5 14 percent that's go; D-6 57 percent and
that's go. So everything is go because we got the down-link
VOX and that's allowing some of them to deviate. C-7 as you
notice is less than 80. So everything is good there. 190
mode ready, 192 mode ready and door coming open. Okeydoke.
CC And Skylab, Houston while we got the break
here we're looking at the momentum time - I mean the maneuver
time you got loaded it looks good.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Okay, there's the ready light, on 192 for
the mode check, heater switch light is off and the other two
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are pressed i0. Pre-op configuration, TR on, ready light

on. 92 on, ready out, check door open. 91 on, ready on,
cooler on, door open. 90 is on, ready, is out, standby
medium and door is open, we see that it is open. 93 R,
standby ready out, 93F off, ready out 93A off, ready out
and 94 on, ready on. So pre-ops configuration check we're
standing by for 205530.
CDR Twelve into GR (garble) okay. Think we
can do that. Hey Dick, tell me again the number that place
to put the adapter out of the CSM that I called about. Number
that went into ... 6. MI51.
CC That's right AI, MI51.
CDR Okay, I had it written down and forgot.
I'm working on that other.
CC Okay.
CDR Got it.
CDR What - what does the EGIL think of the
Delta-P now, on his waste tank where the water went?
Does - did it go down in an amount that he feels is equivalent
to the amount of water in two PCUs and one hose. One hose
go inboth directions so two hose length.
CC AI, we're going to have to get back to
you on that. And we did see a drop and it was recovered a
little bit and we're talking about that we'll probably -
after this EREP pass we'll probably have ourselves pulled together
and we'll tell you where to go from here. Over.
CDR Okay, no trouble. I think - and correct
me if I'm wrong. It looks to me like continuing on with the
procedure does not bother the hoses or anything else we just
start taking the cover off and that's pretty straightforward
nothing much there to say.
CC Roger, understand.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS, Goldstone coming up at 20:57.
CDR Okay. We'll try to be on time.
PLT Smart guy, huh?
CDR Nobody likes a smart guy. 205530.
CDR ... A . .. to STANDBY.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
20 hours 55 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii with acquisition
coming up in about 2 minutes at Goldstone. We'll leave the
line up for this upcoming Earth resources pass. The crew
will be on VOX as the - at the start of the 22nd Earth resources
pass of Skylab-lll. The data take begins at approximately
300 miles off the coast of California, as the - and the
vehicle will cross 60 miles north of Eureka, California on
this data take. We'll leave the line up for this upcoming
Goldstone pass.

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SL-III MC-1902/I
Time: 15:56 CDT, 46/20:56 GMT
9/11/73

CDR How's it look out there Jack? Weather-wlse.

PLT It's all cloudy right now.
CDR Okay.
CDR Clear when we hit the coast, huh? Good.
CDR Where we headed across? Oh, up north,
okay, no wonder it's a short pass. Okay. Probably get
some plcs of those forest fires down there.
PLT That's what l'm trying to home in on
(garble)
PLT I'm locked on a forest fire.
CDR I'ii be darned. Good. I don't start
taking data here for another 15 seconds or so.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at
Goldstone.
CDR MARK. Okay, we just started taking a
little EREP start in a MODE MANUAL on 194.
CC Good - -
PLT I'm locked on a forest fire here, Dick.
I think I'Ii take you a little data on it.
CC Roger.
PLT Got two of them.
CDR MARK. MODE AUTO.
PLT Both in northern California.
CDR MARK. S ON and R ON.
PLT Very easy to - Very easy to pick up these
forest fires.
CDR (Garble) 42. 90 intervalometer.
CDR MARK. Intervalometer i0.
CDR MARK. MODE SINGLE.
PLT I'm taking some data of the smoke.
CDR 04.
PLT Now I'm taking Some data just upwind of
the smoke. In the trees.
CDR 14. Intervalometer 20.
CDR Intervalometer 20.
PLT Okay, we're past that area.
CDR 92, stand by.
PLT 40 is AUTO CAL.
CDR Lean under you here.
PLT Get her?
CDR MARK. AUTO CAL.
PLT And I took you a little forest fire data
there, in northern California. Right in the smoke llne and
then upwind of it, in the green trees. Show you the dif-
ference, in case anybody's interested. I would think they
would be.
CDR One down 191:20. Okay, stand by for READY
OUT on 120.
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PLT That's a - -
CDR 90 READY OUT.
CDR 19:20. READY OUT. Just as adver-
tised.
CDR S to STANDBY. R to STANDBY. R OFF.
Beyond it.
CDR A's ON. 190 to STANDBY. Frames 28, 28.
Intervalometer 10. 193, cross-track contiguous. Angle,
minus 15. Roll minus 15 - first time I've seen that - pole
minus i. A236 to go 190 MODE SINGLE. R minus 15. Okay,
that's what I have.
CDR MARK. MODE SINGLE.
PLT Okay, we'll go looking for Winnipeg.
CDR MARK. MODE SINGLE.
CDR READY ON at 320 (garble) ere.
PLT 46.

CDR And go REFERENCE 6. I think I can do it. Maybe.

PLT We're coming within a few miles of James
Bay this time. We're really up north. You don't realize how
far north you really are.
CDR Okay, READY LIGHT ON on schedule.
REFERENCE 6 on schedule. Down-llnk VOX switched to position
OFF at 4. All right. We'll do that.
PLT Here's that big spot we (Garble) see out
the window.
CDR La da dum, diddle dee dee.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS Goldstone.
We're going to drop out for about 5. I'll call you at
Bermuda.
CDR Okay.
CDR Down-link VOX OFF.
PLT Just a second.
CDR MARK. Down-link VOX OFF.
PLT There's Winnipeg. You've got an IC
Winnipeg.
CDR 26 and 2, huh?
PLT Well, - well, we're there now. We're
421.
CDR MARK. MODE AUTO on 190.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 5 minutes. Loss of signal at Goldstone as Skylab IIl
continues the 22nd Earth resources pass. With acquisition
at Bermuda in 3 minutes and 25 seconds from now. The 22nd
EREP pass should be concluded. And we'll leave the line up
for this Bermuda pass.

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SL-III MC-1903/I
Time: 16:06 CDT, 46/21:06 GMT
9/iIJ73

CC Skylab, we're standing by at Bermuda

for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. Things have gone well. I
haven't had any film advance malfunction lights indicating
that we're out of film yet. And it's almost time for it
to stop.
SPT 27 frames on the ETC, Dick.
CC What was that, 27, Owen?
CDR Stand by.
SPT Affirmative.
CC Okay.
CDR Stand by on 190.
PLT There's one.
CDR First one just came on. Right on time.
Number 3.
PLT Stop light on 3.
CDR 191:930.
PLT Want to change out this tape this time,
huh, EREP?
CDR EREP to stop. That' s it.
PLT Well, how much you figure's on there?
CDR Do tape recorder depletion. Do tape 190 mag
depletion. Do EREP tape load. DI2 to TRI. We'll do it.
PLT Okay_ Dick. I got Winipeg with no
problem and I picked the uniform site east of town. It was
a dark colored site. There were many brown ones and many
green ones or dark ones. So I figured something was growing
there, so I homed in on it. I don't know - I think maybe they're
doing some aerosol studies, so I figured the wind was from the
west. And we do better by getting the site east of town. Then I
tracked that down to about minus 15 degrees and then I came
back and put it right over the city for a few seconds.
CDR And let me give you a B-7 while we're
here. B-7 31 percent and door coming closed. Closing latch
190 window. Going off record.
PLT Give you a little data on Lake Superior
after it was all set and done there, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We'll
pick you up at Canary at 21:18.
PLT Okay. I'ii tell you about it later.
CC Rog.
CC Roger. Sorry about that guys. I've still
got you here at Bermuda for about 5 minutes.
PLT Okay. As I was saying, in looking out
the window going over Lake Michigan, today, I noticed some-
thing that I didn't notice through the eyepiece. Maybe it
was the Sun angle or something. But, it looked to me like
I could see sediment streams and so forth in Lake Michigan,
something I didn't recognize was there. Maybe the sun angle is
just right, but I wasn't able to get a picture of it either
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But maybe if we look for it again, we will. But, I don't

know what's going on in the lakes down there, but I hadn't
recognized that as being a charaterlstic of that lake and just
thought perhaps Stoney might be able to make something
out of that. Looks like some deep blue holes and then some
sediment around the edges of them in various places all up
and down the lake from south to north. Ah, heck, we're
over open water, now. There's nothing to look at.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute
from LOS. The next station that we've got is Honeysuckle
at 22:03. We're going to dump the data recorder at Honeysuckle.
And we would like for you to stand by right where you are on
that TO20 LSU special procedure. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll Eo into hold on it right
now.

CC Okay, AI. We'd appreciate that. We've -

The reason we aren't having this next Canary pass, is we -
it's been scheduled for another satellite support and we'll
see you in Honeysuckle.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
21 hours 16 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. Because
the Canary tracking station is supporting another satellite
operation during this pass, the next pass for Skylab will
be in 45 minutes at Carnarvon. The - Apparently the 22nd
Earth Resources Pass was carried off without problems. On
the pass, Jack Lousma noted some unusual sediment flows
in the Lake Michigan, something he said he had not noticed before.
And he had hoped that maybe he would have - will be able to
take photographs of this lake in later passes. At Greenwich
mean time 21 hours 17 minutes, next acquisition will be
Carnarvon in 45 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 16:30 CDT, 46/21:30 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

21 hours 30 minutes. On the Canary-Ascenslon pass there
has been no air-to-ground cOmmunications between the Skylab
III space station and CAP COMM Richard Truly, this is due
to the fact that the Canary and Ascension tracking stations are
supporting the earth resources technology satellite at this
time today. Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 32 minutes.
This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 16:01 CDT, 46/22:01 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours i minute. Acquisition coming up at Honeysuckle -
at Carnarvon. We will have a change-of-shift-briefing with
Flight Director, Phil Shaffer. We'll tape this upcoming
pass and play it at the close of the change-of-shift-briefing
with Flight Director Phll Shaffer. To repeat the change-of-
shift-briefing to begin in Building 1 News Room momentarily
will tape the Honeysuckle and Hawaii passes during the
change-of-shift-briefing.

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Time: 17:34 CDT, 46/22:34 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 34 minutes. We have approximately 8-1/2 minutes of
tape from the Honeysuckle and Hawaii pass. We'll play those
tapes now and play catch up as Skylab-lll enters the Goldstone
tracking station. We'll play the tapes first, and then play
catch up on the live pass over the United States.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab, this is Houston.
AOS through Honeysuckle for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Hidy, hidy. And we'll be doing a data
voice recorder dump here. You guys, apparently, had a good
EREP day.
CDR Well, we didn't have any 191 sites, but
we got in a couple of passes.
CC Roger that. Understand, I was trying
to have you put in an 80 in the DAS, last night.
CDR Well, Owen claims you can use two fingers.
Jack wants to draw an eight on the panel here so he can punch
it just for fun.
CC Might try that.
CDR You ought to give us one once in awhile,
we give you about 15 a day.
CC Roger. I tell you, pads for three EREP
passes are kind of overwhelming.
CDR I bet they are.
CDR Working together, _ they seem to come out
okay, though, don't they?
CC Roger, that.
CC Say, AI, wonder if you'd verify for us
on panel 216 that we've got that vent valve in off.
CDR I sure will. Give me 360 and I'ii check.
SPT Hello, Robert.
CC Hidy, hidy.
SPT I'm going to try to get that feedback out of the way,
that completes the fourth sequence of auroral photographs
down in the southern auroral zone. The activity on the Sun
has really slopped up the activity down south here, probably
up north also. We were just up there at the right time of
the day to see it, or the right time of the night to see it.
And there's really some very pretty displays that I think I've
got on film now.
CC Very good. I'm sure the Packers will be
glad to hear that.
SPT One other interesting thing about it.
The color is important because of the molecules generating
the light. And the arcs tend to be of a reddish hue toward
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the lower portion of the arc in the yellow, and then a green-
ish hue in the higher altitudes of the arc. So that was
observed now on two or three of the passes. And it seems
to be at least at least a general characteristic of the
aurora today.
CC Very good. We copy that.
CDR I checked it. And it was closed.
CC Roger. Understand. It was in the off
position.
CDR Yeah. I think it says vents closed or
something like that.
CC No, no. We're talking about the one
that's - that says primary off secondary.
CC Right at - -
CDR Never touched that valve at all.
CC Okay. It is in the off position now.
Is that affirm?
CDR That's affirm. According to the procedures
as I remember them, it didn't tell us to use that valve at all. I
ga - I assume the water was going into the holding tank.
CC That's affirm. It should be in the off
position.
CDR That's where it is.
CDR Are you - You're wondering why it's
built up a little bit, huh? So am I.
CC No. We were still debating to under-
stand why we're holding a good Delta-P on the condensate
to verify that we actually know where the ah - where the
leak is. What did you say was in the closed position while
ago?
CDR On 316, when I dumped the - emptied
the hose, you know, on the two PCUs to get ready to strip
down that one hose. That's where you vent the water through
and air. And it goes into the holding tank. And I came up
and looked at this tank to see how it was doing as I was
venting. And I noticed it was - actually went down below
four psi. It's back up higher now. I assume that the holding
tank sucked it back up a little bit.
CC Roger that. Okay. That's good.
CC And AI, for your information, and for every-
body's information on ATM panel now, while you were doing
that last EREP pass we went through the malf on the 82A
door, and we're now operating with both primary and secondary
motors on. We could not get it to close on a single motor,
... the primary or the secondary.
CDR Okay.
CDR I was looking at my schedule pad for ATM
and I noticed that at 24, I think it is, you had me do
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active region 9. Active region 9, I guess, you just want

me to go to the limb and find the brightest UV area and call
that active region 9, because I suspect it's around
the limb at the moment.
CC Try to get you an answer on that AI,
before we go LOS. We're about 30 seconds, now, from LOS.
Hawaii at 22:24, 22:24. And that's - -
CDR Okay.
CC And that's affirmative. Go over there
and get the brightest spot you can find.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii 9 minutes.
PLT Say, Bob. I've got some rate gyro
temperatures for you, housekeeping, something or other, if
you want to copy.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. X-5 was 92.5, X-6 91.3, Yankee 5 was 91.1,
and 6 was 89.3, Zulu 5 was 92.4, and 6 was 8 - 89.2.
CC Okay. We copy those, Jack. Thank you.
PLT You bet.
CC AI, I know you're busy there at the ATH
panel, when you get a moment, we've got a little idea that
might help us check out that problem with deservicing the
water in the LSU.
CDR Okay. I've got a few moments here. We're
in the mirror auto raster, it's only on minus 54, go ahead.
CC Okay. What we'd like you to do is to
replace the water deservicing adapter with the wardroom
purge fitting on that water servicing umbilical and then go
ahead and open up the vacuum source on 316 to see if you
can get flow there.
CDR Excellent idea. You want all the umbilicals
and everything hooked up just as it was before except replace
that one fitting?
CC That's affirm. There's a check valve in
there that might be hanging up.
CDR Okay. Sure possible. Will do.
CC And, AI, one other idea. If that one
does not work, you can disconnect the water servicing umbilical
from the LSU and try to find something where you can depress
the inlet fitting on the blue end of the LSU and see if you
can get flow like that.
CDR Okay. I'ii have them cheek to make sure
that there's no little rubber washer. I did that one time
when we were troubleshooting condensate ... and got a little
rubber washer in trouble. So I had - I had to disassemble
a valve and put it back together. So, might want to check
that.
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CC AI, it doesn't really make any difference

on that one since we're not going to be using that any more.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're one minute from
LOS. See you again in about four minutes over Goldstone at
22:35, and your Plight Plan's on board.
CDR Okay. We're Just looking at them. Thank
you, Bob.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Goldstone 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in one minute.
We'll see you again over Bermuda at 22:46. That's about
5 minutes away.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 43 minutes. We've had loss of signal at Goldstone,
a pass with little conversation except with CAP COMM Bob
Crlppen. We will have acquisition at Bermuda in I minute
and 35 seconds. We'll hold the llne up for this pass.

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SL-III MC-1907/1
Time: 17:44 CDT, 46/22:44 GMT
9/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS through Bermuda

for I0 minutes.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hello, Bob, I einstalled that persistent image
scope, was just a change of batteries and a cleaning of the
contacts. These cleaned contacts did improve the noise llke
appearence the scope had earlier in the day and for the last
couple of days. But still the image is different that it was
before. The focus is all right because you can focus on the
electronic cross-halts sharply but for some reason when you
release the integrate swtich on for example the XUV mon the
image doesn't just pop out at you llke it has done in the first 6
weeks. And it's also not possible to see a good image of
anything very bright like the - an H-Alpha display, It's as if the ...
might have changed the character or something like that and
I'm at a loss to explain how it might have happened Just all
of a sudden a couple of days ago. Any of your folks have
any clues as to what might provoke those sorts of symtoms
we'd appreciate hearing about it.
CC Okay, Owen. Understand that cleaning the
contacts did help it but still not the same status as it was
originally.
SPT It eliminated that problem of - noise
appearing on the scope moreless like bright horizontal lines
appearing and that was just apparently just the battery contact
being fore. But the problem with the lack of sharp image
and the fact that it didn't pop right out when you release
the integrate switch hut instead a little more fuzzy and slow
to generate it did not change that eharcter at all and that's
the one that's quite different from what it was in the first
6 weeks.
CC Okay, we copy that we'll see if we can get
somebody on it.
SPT Bob, AI was Just noticing that when we get
the image too bright for example when we turn the brightness
up then those horizontal bright lines still appear so it's as if
still relating the fact that its response to a bright image or
to any image for that matter seeming to be quite different than
it was before.
CC Okay; we copy that.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Ascension in about 7 minutes, 23:02, 23:02.
CDR Say Bob, I just connected up the wardroom
depress fitting and it turns out that puts pretty good suction
on the line. So apparently it did dump it out even though it
did it slowly.
CC Well, it could have been that the other line
was clogging up and not flowing. Did you allow it to flow for
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a pretty good period of time with the wardroom purge on.

CDR No, if you'd give me a time I would do it.
I didn't want to run down our holdin E tank Just give me a
time and I'ii let it run that length of time.
CDR We used 7 minutes on the small one hut
I was afraid to leave it for 7 minutes on this one. The
(garble) area looks to be about - in area about 4 times as great.
CC Let me give you a time over Ascension.
CDR Okay, no hurry. We got it connected out in the
.... dump it - dump the othere one ...

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Time: 17:57 CDT, 46/22:57 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Greenwich mean time 22 hours 59 minutes.

Loss of signal at Bermuda. We will have acquisition at
Ascension in approximately 2 minutes. We'll leave the line
up for the Ascension pass. CAP COMM is Bob Crippen, new
flight director is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Ascension for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Bob.
CC And, AI, we kind of recommend about 4
minutes flow time on that thin E to make sure that we've got
the water out. If you could do it through this site so
we could watch our condensate tank Delta-P we would
appreciate it.
CDR You got 4 minutes now?
CC Oh, yeah, we've got plenty of time here
now. We've got about 8-1/2 minutes left.
CDR I'll give you four fast, right now.
CC Rog.
CDR Dump is in progress.
CDR Did you get that call?
CC Roger, AI. Thank you. We're looking at
the Delta-P now.
CDR Okay, I watched it awhile ago when I
did about a minute's worth and I noticed that it didn't seem
to affect it much. I'ii do 3 minutes worth and that'll give
me a minute to change the other one and then I can dump
the other for 4 for you.
CC That sounds good.
CDR May not need 4 on the other because
by then we'll know that this line is nice and clean.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I dumped the first one 3 minutes
and 20 seconds because I dumped it about a minute earller.
And I'm now in the process of dumping the second one.
CC We copy, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. And AI, you can go ahead and terminate that -
that dump right now. We're convinced that the lines are cleaned
out. You've got a GO to continue on with that LSU mod.
CDR Okay. And I Just finished a 3-minute
20-second dump on number 2.
CC Okay, that's fine. It looks good to
us right now. Our next pass is at 23:35 over Carnarvon.
That's about 23 minutes away and we'll be standing by for
the Evening Status Report there.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
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9/11/73

23 hours 13 minutes with loss of signal at Ascension, at

the start of revolution 1,737 for the Skylab workshop. Dis-
cussions in these stateside and Ascension pass concerning
the modifications to the llfe support unit, the LSU, to the
TO20, fOot-maneuverlng unit, and M509, astronaut maneuvering
unit. During the runs of these two flying units inside the
workshop dome, the crew had reported that the llfe support
unit, the umbilical system, provided extra dynamics to the
- to the units, not prohibiting the crew to fly them freely.
So modifications to the LSU have been made by the crew, re-
moving excess cabling and Just having the oxygen llne, the
02 llne run to the unit. This was done by using a scalpel
and sclssors onboard the spacecraft by cutting open the -
by cutting away the the extra insulation around - the beta
cloth around the LSU. Removing that and permitting it just
to have the 02 llne run to the M509 and TO20. So, in future
runs, the - this would not be in - provide the additional
dynamics to the operation of the vehicle. At Greenwich mean
time 23 hours 15 minutes, next acquisition will be Carnarvon
in 20 minutes from now. At 23 hours 15 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1909/I
Time: 18:34 CDT, 46:23:34 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control, 23 hours 34 minutes

Greenwich mean time, with acquisition coming up at Carnarvon
in approximately 25 seconds, as the spacecraft crosses over
Australia on its 1,737th revolution.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon
7 minutes, standing by for evening status.
CDR Okay. Here it comes. Urine: 174, 145,
182. Drinking water: 6002, 9871, 6487. BMMD: 6.240, 6.239,
6.240; 5.939, 5.942, 5.940; 6.967, 6.968, 6.969. Exercise:
2/36/5441. That includes the 171 run I'm gonna make later
tonight. 1/05/0500; 3/15/Mark I; 3/lO/Mark II; 3/05/Mark III.
SPT: 2/30/5200; 2/30/Mark I, 60, A; 60, B; 60, D. PLT:
1/05/0621; 2/35/8674; 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and
20 backbends. No medication. Sleep: 7/G, 7/G, 6-I/2/G.
Food log: CDR: one salt, and add one lemonade. SPT: no
salt. Jam was missing from prepacked (laughter) - Jam was
missing from prepacked food and he couldn't find any in overage,
so we just had to skip it. Add butter cookies, bread,
peanut butter, and grape drink to the SPT. PLT: three salts,
add one pears, two salt pills, one tea with lemon and sugar,
and one lemon drop. Okay. Here comes the photo. M487-4E,
CI58, 60, CI53; VTS, track 26A, CL03, 00; VTS track 31A CL04, 90;
35-millimeter: CII03, 45, CX32, 23. 70-millimeter: CX26, 124.
ETC: CT080, 54; a total of three operations. EREP U, 8797,
0990, 8515, 7896, 9666, 8568. Drawer A: A-l, 07, C158, 60,
CI53. And no change in the rest. Okay. Flight Plan deviations:
nothing new there, everything went well. Shopping list
accomplishment: four sets of - No, four sets of auroral photos
by the SPT. We should have been putting those down all along
because he's been getting those sets of photos everyday by
a bunch. Inoperable equipment is the PLT's portable timer.
It's setting on three wheels, he's going to take a look inside
and see what - maybe give you a little more information on it.
Unscheduled stowage item location change: two full urine
bag racks from D426 to waste management compartment. One
full half sample urine bag rack from the same place. Four
peanut butters from 598 or 4 - excuse me, 548 to the wardroom.
That's it.
CC Okay, AI. We copy that. Got a couple
of questions here I'd like to ask you about. One of them I
was trying to ask last night just as we were going over the
hill, apparently. Back on Mission Day 40, we sent you a message
telling you how to modify your WMC foot restraints so they
would be - except the shoes with the - triangle shoes that is,
we wondered if you did it and if so was it satisfactory?
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CDR We did it to the wardroom one, and it's

satisfactory, doesn't look too grand but it seems to do the
job. And we have not done it to any other items, just because
we're just not doing it. That's all. We could do it.
CC Okay. We're just trying find - You did
it to all three sets in the wardroom, is that correct?
CDR No, no. Jack didn't want his done. So
he didn't do it. Let me look at Owen's. Owen doesn't use
his period, so his is - just mine. Apparently, Jack just
did mine. He put them in and I just asked the guys if they
wanted them or not.
CC Okay. Very good. We copy that. Got
a few questions on the stabilized binocs. You mentioned the
balance getting out of focus, is it the individual eyepiece
diopter focusing ring that gets out of focus or is it
the distance focus knob.
CDR Individual diopters. Every time you put
them on, you have a new diopter setting. And it's real wild.
And then you set them down for a while and you pick them up
again, and put them up to your eyes, then you've got to reset
them. The big problem is, to set them you've got to get
them stabilized and get a good target, which just isn't dirt,
but something like a city, or a beach or something, by the
time you get them focused, whatever you were going to look
at is gone. So we don't use them that much because of this
focusing problem.
CC Okay. I guess the one item I had here,
I don't know if it'll really help or not. It says that
the 20-power setting, the focus ring should be moved to
infinity, and after that they really should hold a focus.
If you haven't tried it like that, you might give it a try.
CDR Well now the focus ring, is that that
little round black knob there that you turn counterclockwise
(garble) adjust the focus?
CC AI, I'm not really positive about that.
We'll check it. We're going to Eo LOS here, shortly. We'll
see you over Guam at 23:50. And that's about 5 minutes
from now.
CDR Okay. And I think those are very useful
items, if we could just get them where we could keep them
focused. We wouldn't mind looking inside them if there's
some way to fix the problem.
CC Okay. We'll see if - We've got an
expert on those around.

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SL-III MC-1910/I
Time: 18:46 CDT, 46/23:46 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

23 hours 26 minutes with loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next
acquisition will be Guam in 4 minutes 28 seconds from now.
During this pass Commander A/ Bean gave the daily status
report which includes the items the crew ate, the additional
items they ate over and above their menu, and the items in
their menu they did not eat. Also, gave a film report of
the film used rod _. Space - on the film area, during this
pass, as the spacecraft crossed over north Australia, Science
Pilot, Owen Garriott is scheduled to take some photographs
of a drought - of drought conditions in the normally moist
region of north Australia. Area priority is the coast along
the Arafura Sea, and the coastal plain Gulf of Carpentaria
He will be using the Hasselblad with a 100-millimeter lens,
and the Nikon camera with a 300-millimeter lens. He will
be asked to visually locate and verbally describe drought
phenomena and provide a reference for ground truth and other
remote sensing data. This is one of the - more than two sev-
eral dozen photographic targets of opportunity that the
crew has been taking pictures of during the last several
weeks. Again, this is in north Australia on this pass. These
photographs heine taken, probably at this moment as the
spacecraft crosses over the coast of north Australia. Next
acquisition will be at Guam in 2 minutes and 53 seconds. We'll
hold the line open for this pass over Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 7 minutes.
CC And for the CDR, one - one question on
the photo status. On 35-millimeter, you reported BII03.
We think that should have been 104. Can you verify that
for us, please?
SPT Just a minute please, Bob. We'll check.
CC Thank you, Owen.
SPT Bob, that should have been 104 on the
CI camera. You're right. Thank you. And, we just got a
couple of photos just a moment ago of the Arafura Sea,
Carpentarla Gulf area. Actually, the northeast coast of Aus-
tralia where there's apparently, a rather severe drought.
We could see a number of dust storms blowing across the
plains there, as well as a number of fires. Over.
CC Okay, copied that, Owen. Thank you very
much. One question if Jack is listening, there, on that
M566, (garble) temp. We've noticed as well as he did that
it's - was about 24 degrees below that expected, and we'd
appreciate it if he could give us the (garble) temp setting
currently on the - on that potentlometer.
PLT The - ... temp on the potentlometer is
just like on page 9-2 of the checklist, which is 855, Bob.
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CC Copy. 855.
CC And, another general item for everybody.
We noticed during that TV inventory that AI gave us, that
you have quite a few of your comm cables connected into
the SIAs, and the - and you've also complained about having
to set the volumes up pretty high to hear them. And we've
also had that feedback problem in some of our family comms.
It so happens that that is still putting a load on - on the
system, even when it's selected to OFF, so it may help us
out if we - disconnect as many of those as possible.
CDR We'll do it. I never would have guessed
that one, Bob.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR We'll run disconnect them all right this
minute, as a matter of fact.
CDR Another question. Did you notice any-
thing else along those lines, Bob, where maybe we're opera-
ting a little bit different that looks - worth - I can change?
CC I don't believe we've had a - a chance
to make up a real thorough survey of that. There was a
very interesting film from the portions of it that we've
seen, though, and we will certainly do that to see if any-
thing else would cause any problems. But I don't believe
we've seen anythin_ of that nature that - that we could say
about it now.
SPT Okay, they're all disconnected.
CC Very good. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS shortly.
We'll have you again over at Texas at - correction over
Goldstone at 00:14. Jack, would you check your exposure
with your position on that 5 - that 19 that you're doing
right now?
CC Rog. At plus 4 you should be at 240.
PLT I just gay e them a 240 at plus 4, Bob.
CC Rog. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
00:00 Greenwich mean time. A new day on the clocks at
i_ission Control center. Julian calendar day 255, phase
elapse - phase elapse time clock reads day 47:00, hours,
00 minutes, as Skylab loses contact at Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone 13 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

00:13 minutes after the hour. Acquisition coming up at
Goldstone. We'll leave the line open for CAP COMM Bob
Crippen and the crew of Skylab-lll.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS across the States
for about i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob, for that call back there, I
was in the process of giving 82B an extra frame which I
didn't mean to do but had it inadvertently not stepped out to
plus eight. So I ran a run and gave them another 240 short
and picked up from there, so they got one extra frame.
CC Okay, we copy that. We didn't know exactly
what was going on. That was the reason for the call.
PLT I appreciate you calling. And I just
had counted just before you mentined it.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I have a comment here
that I think originally came from AI. He was talking about
the M - EMU maintenance kit and he said something about needing
some more needles or something of that nature. And we wondered
if he knew that there was a second layer to that kit that did
have needles and thread in it?
CDR I saw some the other day with a bunch of
thread but I didn't see the needles. I'Ii go look again. It
probably is on a second layer down there, Bob.
CC Rog, it might help you out with things llke
sewing up that bag and so forth that you mentioned.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CDR I got that umbilical about half apart, Bob.
I tell you it sures puts out a lot of little beta particles when
you take it apart.
CC Copy that. Hope that doesn't cause too much
of a problem.
CDR So so I. I think prohably it'll get taken
up on the screen up there in the dome cause it seems to catch
things that size, but I was just - kind of been wondering. It's
a good idea to modify this so that we could look at 20 and 509.
Whoever thought of the idea came up with a good one.
CC Okay, we was hoping that we'd cure some of
those dynamic problems that you've been having.
CDR iiaybe will, cause I was looking at the
hose inside and it's very very small.
CC Say, Al, Flight Oirector here came up with
an idea that might help you out on that - you might try running
some of the - the neutral tape or some other kind of tape along
that and try cutting on that to hold the particles.
CG That's not a bad idea. I'ii give it a try.
CC Could I ask you a question about when you
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refer to neutral tape there's some confusion down here as to

exactly what it is. Is it the silver or aluminium kind of
tape or is it the cellophane tape?
CDR It's that silver . The reason we call it
that is that's what they call it out in all the checklists.
We kind of wondered why it was neutral. The only way we could
figure it out is somehow maybe the Alfa over Epsilon is one
or something on it and so they said it's neutral. But it's
nice and silver.
CC Yeah_ okay, well that's - the same
thing was puzzling us but we just wanted to make sure
we were all talking about the same thing.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there on
a handover to Texas, and wetre back with you for about 12
minutes.
CC Jack, I don't think we ever reported to
you today, but when you rec - reseated that O-ring on the
inlet mol sieve B for PTC20, it apparently solved our
telemetry problem. We appreciate it very much and we're
probably going to be scheduling a calibrations for that
particular sensor a little bit later on.
PLT Okay, well, thank you for pointing it out.
I just happened to look under there and sure enough that
was the problem. Just have to make sure they don't
come out when you take that off. They tend to be a little
slow under the groove and that was left out.
CC Yeah, actually you didn't do it when you
put it on. That problem's been with us since the start of
Skylab-II.

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9/11/73

CC Jack, if you'd select white light

display down there on the XUV sllt, we'd appreciate it. Got the
mirror up against the stops right now.
PLT Okay. Thank you for calling that one up.
CDR Say, Bob. We're going to start the
vent for 92 on the last part of the window.
CC AI, I couldn't copy that. Yon said
you were going to do the vent at the last part of the window?
CDR That's affirmative. That way we'll have
the maximum time between eating and still be in the window.
CC Okay. Sounds good.
PLT Okay, Bob. Instead of making the
postwork on channel A, I'ii give it to you in real time.
The ATM rev started at 23:33, came off as advertised, got
everything done like you wanted except for giving 82B
one extra exposure in there.
CC Okay. Copy.
PLT S056 got behind the M a little bit. He
got a 12 second, a 9 second and a 9 second, 3, 4, 5, and
long, 3, 4, 5, long.
CC Roger that, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We'll see you again in 40 minutes over Carnarvon at
01:13, 01:13. And for your information, if you happen to
check it, your condensate tank Delta-P is now at about
3.6, which is down from what it was of course. However, it's
holding steady and there's no problem with it. It Just
went down when we were dumping the water.
PLT Would you like us to dump the holding
tank tonight, Bob?
CC Negative. Negative. We want to keep
that holding tank just like it is.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
00:33 minutes, with loss of signal at Bermuda. Next acquisition
in 39 minutes will be Carnarvon. On this pass Commander
AI Bean should be in the preparations for performance of
the MO92 lower body negative pressure device, and MITI,
metabolic analyzer, two medical experiments performed back
to back. Observer for these experiments is Science
Pilot Owen Garriott, while Jack Lousma will be performing
his activities at the control and display panel of the
Apollo Telescope Mount in the multiple docking adapter.
Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 38 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 00:34 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

1 hour 12 minutes with acquisition coming up at Carnarvon
in approximately 9 seconds from now as the spacecraft comes
to the end of another day.
SPT Bob, I'm just now setting up with AI
on the 171 run going through the MA checks We Just completed
the I{092 and we did cut off 2 minutes early at the
50-millimeters.
CC Copy.
CC Jack. We may have had a little problem
on our last uplink on the teleprinter for the film thread
pad. If you get a moment, we'd appreciate it if you'd
check it and make sure that it looks okay. And if you got
to the end of - message part.
PLT Okay. I heard you knocking on the teleprinter.
I'ii look in about 2 minutes. Over.
PLT Yeah, Bob. We got the whole message
loud and clear with no mistakes and no interruptions.
CC Thank you, Jack. We'll go ahead and
proceed with the rest of them then.
PLT Okeydoke.
PLT And tell the 82B guy back there now,
that I won't shoot up any more of his film tonight.
CC Okay. We copy that.
PLT Just want to help them relax.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. See you again in about 5 minutes over Guam. That's
01:26, 01:26.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
i hour 22 minutes, with loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next
acquisition will be Guam. Commander AI Bean still performing
the MITI metabolic analyzer experiment. He has already
concluded the M092, lower body negative pressure device. Next
acquisition will be Guam in approximately 3 minutes.
We'll keep the lines up for this Guam pass.

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CC Skylab, you might be interested to know,

you're families are - have come over tonizht and are sitting
in the VIP room back here looking on at what's going on
in this busy room. And, one thing I can say about Helen,
she's certainly travels around fast.
PLT You might tell her we sure appreciated
that dinner the other night, too. It was really good.
CC Roger.
PLT Now I know who really does all the work
down there. Right?
CC You're right.
PLT Did the kids come along with them, Bob?
CC That's affirm, Jack.
PLT Well, good. Give them all a wave for us.
CC Rog.
PLT You can tell them we had a good day up here
today. We got three EREP passes in and some medical work. And
wetve all been working on the ATM today. Going through and doing
a lot of other miscellaneous odd jobs and eat real good and
in about an hour and a half we'll be hittin the sack.
CC Rog. Just a - another normal day in the
life of Skylab. Rog.
CC You guys are always doing good work.
PLT You know the people that would really
enjoy it up here are the kids. Boy, they'd have a ball
floating around up here, and just - there's just nothing
like it. And - they'd be able to do every stunt they ever
- ever dreamed of.
CC Roger that.
CC They're even having a ball in the VIP
room.
PLT They haven't torn the place down yet
have they?
CC It still looks somewhat intact.
PLT Tell them they better have their fun
now, because when the ole man gets back he's going to sit
on them.
CC Uh oh.
PLT Yeah, they know he's pretty easy, though.
CC We suspected that all along.
CC Jack, you guys had mentioned earlier
that you were getting short of the neutral tape, and we'd
like to find out whether that was the three-quarter inch,
two inch, or both. Welre i minute from LOS, now. We'll
see you again about 17 minutes over Goldstone at 01:51.
PLT Okay, wetll see you there at 01:51 then,
Bob. And as far as the tape goes, one of our wide roll is
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getting down, although we did find another roll the other

day in the tool box on the upper shelf. So, the narrow tape
is okay, but the wide tape has got about one roll gone.
CC Copy that.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
1 hour 37 minutes, with loss of signal at Guam. The word
was passed up to the Skylab-lll crew that their wives and
children are at the Mission Control Center viewing the opera-
tions here this evening. The three children of Dr. Owen
Garriott, three children of Pilot, Jack Lousma, and AI Bean's
daughter, Sue, age i0. His older son, Clay, is at college.
The families are in here to view the operations. As we have
lost signal at Guam, next acquisition will be Goldstone in
approximately 13 minutes. At Greenwich mean time i hour
38 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1915/I
Time: 20:50 CDT, 47/01:50 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

1 hour 50 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone in
approximately 45 seconds. With Commander A1 Bean concluding
the :_171 metabolic analyzer experiment, Pilot Jack Lousma
on the Apollo Telescope Mount control and display panel.
We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Bob Crippen and the crew
of Skylab-III.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS across the States
for about 12 minutes.
SPT Hello, Bob, you there?
CC That's affirm. We got you for actually
15 minutes there.
SPT Hey, that's a little bit more than I can
use. I was wondering if we could delay that med conference
at 02:17 until the next pass I'm going to be sort of busy here
at 02:17 I'm not going to be through with AI here, I don't think
I wonder if - what's the next AOS after that.
CC The next one is not until almost 03:28,
almost 03:30.
SPT Okay, if you want to we'll hook up with
you for a few minutes at 02:17 and then switch over to the
med conference, that'll be all right I wanted to - get through
with AI here, I'ii give you a call first. Straight to the
CAP COMM and then the med conference after that. Will that
be all right?
CC Okay, sounds okay. We'll work it that way.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bob.
CC Owen, we've lost diastolic on down-link
are you reading that on board?
SC (Garble).
SPT No, as a matter of fact the last cycle it did
read a number when I was there, it read 5 for an example so
it's not making any sense right now.
CC Okay, copy.
PLT Hey, Bob, are you getting any TV at the
moment? Or could we set up for it?
CC Stand by Jack.
PLT The reason I'm asking is cause I'm pointed
at the above active region 9 with H-alpha and I noticed a
brightening about i00 arc seconds off the limb and I don't know
if it's telescopic reflections or perhaps we got something
going on out here that is sort of detached from the llmb or we
just can't see all of it. It's someting I've never seen before.
CC We're setting it up now, so that we can get
it.
PLT We've been taking a whole lot of 52 data
so we probably got some of that and it's the real thing.
CC Okeydoke.
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CC Okay, Jack we're standing by for any TV

you want to give down to us.
PLT Okay, I got mon -mon 1 hooked up right
now. And - - and another thing about it is that it rolls
when the Sun rolls.
PLT I'm getting the detector 3 - the detector
1 signature on it itts not very bright but it's going up
around i00 in the reference position.
CC That's detector 3 going up i007
PLT Yeah, detector 3. Flashed over i00 every
once and a while.
PLT Had a little H-alpha.
CC Okay, Jack we're looking at in time
it's you r TV down-link in H-alpha right now. I'm not sure
we see exactly what you're pointing out.
PLT Okay, I got the crosshair right on it.
And let me give you a little H-alpha 2 and you can see where
it is in relation to everything else. There's H-alpha 2 and
I'ii give you H-alpha 1 back and maybe you don't have the
resolution to see it or maybe it's just a ghost but I'm still
pickin8 up some signature of it and it's right on across there on
- H-alpha i.
CC Okay, I'm - understand that people got a
picture I have that are seeing it. We are seeing what you're
talking about.
PLT Well what do you recommend we do with it?
Do you think 82B worth any of it?
CC We're geting ready to go sunset here. I'm
afraid we don't have that time to do anything with it.
PLT You're right.
CC Jack, wetre pondering what that was. One
item we would like we still got 6 minutes so anytime it's
convenient we would like to get to frame count down.
PLT Okay, give it to you right now. H-alpha
has got 5304, Old friend Jim _illigan has got 776, and
Tousey A has got 31, and I hope we still got some friends
in Tousey B there he's got 172, and Bob MacQueen has 2199,
and Vaiana and Kreeger 125, Ed Reeves got all - -
CC Fifty-four cut out there on a handover,
Jack.
PLT 1725, Bob.
CC Jack, you mentioned a couple of times
there's no sweat on those two 82B photographs.
PLT I know_ they'll never loose their sense
of humor.
CC Roger. (Chuckle).
PLT We'll never miss any data we might get a
little bit more than they want sometimes though.
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CC That's the right attitude (chuckle) hey

one item I guess l'd like y'all to ponder. I know the other
guys are down there running. Tomorrow morning you got an EI<EP
fairly early and I'm really sure whether you want to get an ear
- get up call or not. I've got a AOS from 10:46 to 10:56 and
the next time I have you is 11:21. Do you want to call or

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CC 10:46 to 10:56 and the next time

I have you is 11:21. Do you want a call prior to ii:00
or you want to set your timers or what?
PLT You mean it's going to be four minutes
early, huh?
PLT Hey, Bob. AI just suggested that we
set the timers instead down here.
CC Rog. You'll set the timers. Thank you.
So we'll give you a - First call that we'll talk to you will
be at 11:21 over Guam.
PLT Okay. What time is the EREP ops?
CC About 11:25 is the first time I think
CDR is scheduled to start the VTS activities.
PLT Okay. We - We can do that easily then.
PLT Okay, Bob. How do the viewers from the
backroom like the panel? We got her put to bed, I think.
CC Okay. We'll take a look at it.
CC Panel looks good to us, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CC You guys work so late at night, I never
get a chance to tell you the news any more, which there
hasn't been very much of anyhow. Which everybody says
down here I can't do properly anyhow.
PLT Go ahead and practice your reading awhile.
CC I'ii try it. I never was good at that,
even back in the first grade. I've only got a minute to
LOS, though.
CC Vanguard is going to be at 02:17, as
you got noted. That's about ii minutes from now and
we'll go ahead and set you up to talk to us first and then
we'll turn you over to the doc second. One item of
interest to you while you're going over the hill, your
African TV scenes were carried on national television news
at 5:30 this evening. And former heavy-weight champion,
_iohamid Allie wiped out the stain of a broken jaw and an upset
loss to Ken Norton, 5-1/2 months ago by scoring a split-
decision over the former Marine muscleman in a 12-round
rematch last nig _ to put himself right back in the title
picture.
PLT Took it easy on him, huh?
CC Mauna Loa confirms that observation you
made, Jack. And it doesn't appear to be moving, just sitting
there.
PLT Say again, Bob. I didn't get all that
transmission.
CC The observatory at Mauna Loa confirmed
the observation you had above active region 9. It appears
to just be sitting there and not moving.
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PLT Okay. What is it, they suppose some

sort of a - part of a loop structure, the rest not being visible.
It's probably part of a structure that's connected to the Sun.
CC I don't think we've got a good answer
on that yet. We'll try to get one for you. We're getting
ready to go over the hill here.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
2 hours 8 minutes. Loss of signal at Mila with acquisition
in 8 minutes at Vanguard. At the close of day 46 for the
Skylab-lll crew. Next acquisition 8 minutes at Vanguard.

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Time: 21:16 CDT, 47/02:16 GMT
9/ii/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich laean time

2 hours 16 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard in 33 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we have you - total pass time is
about 7 minutes. We'll go ahead and get our conversation
out of road as rapidly as possible so I can turn you over
to the physician.
SC (Loud noises)
SC (Crew singing Happy Birthday to Robert).
CC You guys are so sweet.
CDR We're having a big party up here. Wish
you could join us.
CC He too. Thank you very much.
One item before I - -
CDR Okay. Well, we'll hoist a few for you
while we're here.
CC Oh, how sweet it is. I don't know if
you know it, but they just brought out a big cake, so I can
share in it too. Too bad you guys can't have any.
CDR If you put it in a can, we can have it.
CC (Laughter) Roger, that. I'ii tell you
what. This is a much better place than where I spent my
last birthday. I was locked up over in the can in building 7.
CDR I remember that.
CC Yes. (Laughter) Don't we all. I guess
one item here before I turn you back over to tile doctor is an -
To make the most of the time, I appreciate the happy birth-
day and I guess the bit of news I need to convey now, is
probably something you're not overly glad to hear. Regarding
your question on extending the mission. They've bounced that
up to the top and back down and examined it thoroughly. There
were a lot of pros and cons but they did make their final
decision on it today. And the decision was, that it was
not to extend the mission.
CDR Okay. When did they finally decide that?
CC This afternoon.
CDR Okay. Thanks.
CC Okay. Sorry to convey that on a good
night call. I'ii go ahead and wish you good night now. And
thanks for the happy birthday greetings. And I'ii turn you
over to the - to Paul.
CDR You bet.
CC Good night, guys.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
2 hours 21 minutes. A happy birthday to Commander - Navy
Commander Robert Crippen, CAP COHM, whose 36th birthday is
today. Keference to his last birthday was spent in the
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20-foot altitude chamber in building 7 here in the Johnson

Space Center during a 56-day Skylah Simulation, Si[EAT,
Skylah :[edical Experiment Altitude Test, in which he and
two other astronauts, Dr. Bill Thornton and Carroll Bobco,
had spent 56 days in the chamber. A large cake was brought
out, which Commander Crippen is now cutting. And apparently,
the children of the three Skylab astronauts will enjoy the
cake also. A F.ood-night call was put to the crew. The crew
is now discussing the day's medical report with Dr. Paul
Buchannan on the Vanguard pass. We'll have a summary of
' that conversation, shortly. At Greenwich mean time 2 hours
22 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 22:08 CDT, 47/03:08 GMT
9/11/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

3 hours 8 minutes. The crew of Skylab-III was bid good
night over the Vanguard tracking station approximately 45
minutes ago. During that pass Fli_ht Surgeon Dr. Paul
Buchanan discussed the crew's status during the - that
Vanguard pass. And this is the contents of his report:
_ith 13 days remaining in the Skylab-lll mission the good
health of the crew continues. Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen
Jarriott, and Jack Lousma are obviously vigorous, in good
humor and comfortably adjusted to their weightless world.
The crew surgeon and the recovery medical team leave for
the Pacific tomorrow morning to begin tracking the space-
craft back towards the _Lainland for recovery off San Diego
at 5:27 p.m. Central Daylight time Tuesday the 25th of
September, signed Dr. Paul Buchanan for Dr. Royce Hawkins
Deputy Director of }ledical Reserach, Life Sciences Director
of the Johnson Space Center. Today's activities included
two Earth resources passes one over Europe, one over the
United States. Tomorrow day 47, Wednesday, September 12th,
we'll have the crew performing 3 EREP passes first time 3
Earth resources passes have been conducted in the Skylab
program. The first pass which begins at 12:25 is a i0 min-
ute pass over Europe, on track 41, the pass begins off the
coast of Brest, France and ends just below Vienna, Austria,
as the spacecraft Earth resources experiment instruments
gather data on geology, atmospheric conditions and remote
sensing techniques over Spain, France and Italy. This pass
covers the ground track of about 2400 nautical miles. At
16:52 Greenwich mean time, alon_ track 45 which is a 23 min-
ute pass, the data take starts i00 miles north of Sacramento,
California and will end 5520 nautical miles later at Cape
Rose, New Foundland. This pass covers the disciplines of
agriculture, water resources, atmospheric investigation,
coastal waters and shoals, sensing techniques and regional
planning. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours ii minutes a
14 minute pass will begin along track 43, the track begins
south of French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean and will
end in New York. The track covers data gathering and ocean
investigation and cartography in Mexico, Gulf of Mexico
Chesapeake Bay and New York. Also on tap for tomorrow are
optional handheld photography of Germany, the objectives
of this experiment is to photograph and describe areas of
West Germany to determine geological structures, distributions
of rock types, marine sediments transports, distribution
of glacial soils and to map industrial and urban land use.
Second optional target for tomorrow is the Great Plains of
the U. S. The objective of which is the photograph and describe
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area of the states of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa,

_issouri for the purpose of mapping surface geology, soil
types and land forms as related to sand and gravel supplies
potential land fill sites, road construction, engineering
and ground water information. Also on schedule for tomorrow
day 47, is a run of the M092, lower body negative pressure
device and M093, vectorcardiogram medical experiments, for
Science Pilot Owen Garriott. Five hours and 50 minutes of
data gathering with the Apollo Telescope Mount instruments
is also on tap for tomorrow. Three EREP passes tomorrow
day 47, 5 hours and 50 minutes of ATM work, 2 medical
experiments to be performed by Science Pilot Owen Garriott,
and optional handheld photography. At Greenwich mean time
3 hours 13 minutes. This is Skylab Control, public affairs
console will close and re-open at 6 a.m. Central Daylight
time, Wednesday, September 12th. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1919/I
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9/12/73

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control; at

ii hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time, on mission day 47.
Skylab is approaching acquisition through the Guam station.
First call of the day will go up there, CAP COMM Story Musgrave.
Busy day for the crew, for the first time in the Skylab program
three Earth resources surveys scheduled today. The first one,
over Europe_ beginning at 7:25 a.m. central daylight time.
Two more later today over the United States, 5 hours and 50 minutes
of solar studies scheduled today. We'll stand by for the first
call.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through Guam
for 9 minutes. Be dumping the tape recorders here.
CDR Okay.
PLT Good morning, Dick.
CC It's Story with you for about another hour
and a half.
PLT Okay, Story. Sorry, I thought I heard
Dick's voice passing through the room here. Want the
EREP pass, to verify what set they want on the FMC.
CC We'll get right with you Jack.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC And while I got you here, for your information
the attenuator adjustment on 192 from the EDDU data; it looks good.
And also the A-2 and C-4, from the data we get down here, they look
within tolerance, but since it is erratic we'd like you to keep
recording that.
PLT Okay, we'll keep you up to date on it. And
as I recall, when AI ran it yesterday it sounded like the numbers
all came out okay though. Up here, that is.
CC Okay. And on the FMC that's 16.0.
PLT Okay. That's where it's been, just wanted
to take look, make sure it's okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Yes, Story.
CC Owen, you may not be the best one to do it,
but we do need _ NuZ update, prior to the ZLV pass and sometime
after the end of the dump. So it looks like about 12:00 be
a good time to get that.
SPT Okay, I'ii work it in.
SPT Are we going to be in contact into that
12:00, Story?
CC No, we won't. We're about a minute from
LOS now. And the next station is Vanguard about 30 minutes
from now. That'll be at 12:01.
SPT Why don't you give me a call at 12:01, I'ii
put it in right then.
CC Okay, we'll do it.

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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out of

range of the Guam station. Next acquisition is through the
tracking ship Vanguard in 29 minutes. At ii hours 32 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.

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SL-III MC1921/I
Time: 07:01 CDT, 47/12:01 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours Green-

wich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship.
PLT Okay, space fans, this is Jack on channel A,
and the subject is EREP. This is the EREP number 24 and got
things powered up here now and
CC Skylab, AOS over the Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, we have you a star and how do you
like it?
CC We're looking at it. And if you don't
need to voice record right here, we did not get finished -
finish our dump the last pass so if we could have dump tape record
here a couple minutes.
CDR Have at it.
CC And your Nu Z update looks good.
CDR Okay. Shutter closed.
CC Thank you.
CDR TACS has been enabled.
CC We're seeing it.
CDR Going to have to put in a maneuver time now
and you can see how it looks to you. 7 minutes. Okay.
CC That's verified, AI.
CDR Thanks, Story.
SC Turned on.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We're
through dumping the tape recorders. We'll see you over Canaries
in 12 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And we're reading you loud and clear on
VOX.
PLT Okay. Real good and for the world that wants
to know, Delta-6 is reading 57 percent.
CC Copy.
SPT Okay. Let me give you some PRD readings.
374 for the PLT - Jack, 374,
PLT Sounds like a fair number.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Vanguard now. Canary Island station will acquire
Skylab in ii minutes. Few minutes after that, the crew will
begin the first Earth Resources run of the day over Spain,
France, and Italy gathering information for European investi-
gators in the fields of geology, meteorology, and mapping.
We'll come back up just prior to Canaries acquisition. At
12 hours, ii minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1922/I
Time: 07:19 CDT, 47/12:19 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 19 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acauisition through
the Canary Island station. Madrid has overlapping coverage.
We should hear most of the, if not all of the Earth Resources
pass through the Madrid station. Crew is on the voice operated
microphone mode. We'll stand by for first conversation from
Skylab.
PLT MARK. 192 door is open.
CDR MARK. (garble) here, we're getting it anyway.
PLT Yeah, that's right. That's the way to look
at it.
CC We're reading you loud and clear, Skylab.
Canaries and Madrid for 14 minutes.
PLT Okay, we're going to do the preoperate
configuration. T minus 3 it is coming up. Here we are, preop
configuration. Tape recorder power ON. Ready light On.
192 power ON. Ready light is Out; the MODEs are CHECKED;
the door is OPEN. 191 power is ON; the ready light is ON.
The cooler is ON, and the door is always open on 191. 190,
the power is ON; ready light is OUT. We're in STAND BY,
and the door is open because the light's coming through
the window and I can hear the camera shutters working. 193 RAD
is OFF; the SCAT is OFF; ALTIMETER is in STAND BY. 194 power
is ON, the ready light is ON. Might make one comment on the
checklist on the warmup section. Under 193, ours says 193 RAD
power to STAND BY which I crossed out the word RAD this morning
because the pad said 193A and I think 193 ought to say B pad
for which experiment and then power stand by. Because this
morning it's the altimeter as opposed to the radiometer. Okay,
where are we here? We're ready to go. Standing by for 25. Now,
We got to stand with our hands in our pockets for another
minute and 45. See if you can find that barber shop
down there in Seville, O - big AI.
CDR All right, I've got it pinpointed; I know
just what street to look on.
PLT Is that barber still in Seville, Story?
CDR Story wouldn't know. Could ask the Crip.
CC Thanks a lot.
CDR (laughter) Takes one to know one they say.
Okay, Seville, we're going to make it near Seville. We'll
come just to the right of Madrid, just to the left of Valencia,
and just to the right - left of Barcelona and then we'll be in
Andorra over the Pyrenees into Marseille. We'll stay there
a little while, maybe a minute or two, and try to make it
through Milan. A short trip, a little quicker than Hannibal
did it but we ain't got any elephants with us either, so we're
in good shape. We could put a couple down in the workshop.
SPT Might be an interesting experiment instead
of the spider next time.
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PLT If 0 keeps eating all that chow we're going

to have an elephant in the workshop.
CDR Okay, 2847, that's one of our favorite
times, roughly 4 minutes from now.
PLT Look over the ready verify again, hi, low,
hi. Calibration 9; reference 2; shutter speed medium; frames
2, 3
CDR Seville, I think that's where Columbus
left from - lived. Or did he live from - -
PLT Interval i0; MODE 5 - -
CDR - - maybe he did; I can't remember.
PLT 3860 ought to be.
CDR Good old Columbus left from Se - he just left
and never came back.
PLT Here we go standing by now. MARK, EREP
start. MALF light ON and OFF. Tape motion light is ON.
CDR Okay, we're (garble) MLA, (garble) Canaries - -
PLT 2506 AUTO CAL.
CDR I can see the dogs down there.
PLT MARK, I'm AUTO CALing you.
CDR Are you?
PLT 193A is coming on. 194 to MANUAL. Okay,
AI, that's not - -
CDR Now what?
SPT Good idea. What else are we going over?
CDR Saragossa, we'll pass Saragossa.
CDR Oh, boy. 2847. Wonder how accurate EREP is
today; wonder how their computers work? They don't have an HB35
down there, so they may be a little off.
PLT You down there, O?
SPT Yep.
PLT Got the door open?
SPT Yep.
PLT Okay.
CDR Not talking much today.
SPT Nope.
PLT (laughter) He's con
PLT (garble) that's there, O.
CDR 2847. Two minutes, 22 seconds.
PLT Short pass. I wonder if all these count as
passes
CDR (garble) ZLV switch (garble).
CDR Okay, there's some nice clouds down there.
Scattered - scattered to clear. No coastal stratus at the
moment.
CDR Camera on at 2847. Okay, I think I can do that.
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PLT You'll recognize Milan by all the

big spaghetti fields around it.
CDR I know, I been - Think it's about harvest
time. Isn't it?
PLT I don't know. Looked like harvest time
in the workshop last night spaghetti with that umbilical
all torn up.
CDR Should have seen that umbilical in the
workshop, Houston, when we got it all apart last night. That
whole thing has 3 hoses, and a tether, and then a big bag
of wires.
CC I can imagine.
PLT MARK.
CC Did you get the job done?
CDR We got it done except for - we haven't
finished taping it up. We got it apart. It sure is a lot
better, I think it's going to make 509 and G20 much better
flying. It's very limber and shouldn't give much of a
tether force. It'll give some, even string does up here, I've
noticed.
CDR 1047. Takes a long time.
CDR Okay, we're in REF 6, we have been since
2746.
CDR Got some good clouds. There's a little
stratus coming in 2847, we're going to go to.
PLT Stand by. MARK, ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on the coast. 28 - -

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SL-III MC-1923/I
Time: 07:29 CDT, 47/12:29 GMT
9/12/73

PLT Power back on again.

CDR Minus i0 that's it. Pull back out. And
let's turn that off and that off and go to the next one, which
is 31:37, 45. 45 up and left 0.6. Okay, we've got overcast skies
now .

PLT Standing by for MODE to READY.

CDR 31:37, that's a minute away.
PLT Get the tape burner going.
CDR Skies are clearing up a little bit. Getting
ready to go across the Med. and then into Marseille.
PLT MARK. MODE READY on 192.
CDR 31:37. Coming up maybe.
PLT AUTO on 190. Okay, 33:20 next.
CDR 31:37, about 32 seconds from now. Marseille,
we're going to get you, Marseille, if you're clear.
PLT We got a short interrupt on the altimeter
data at 28:45 there, Story, and I got it back on, around.
CDR Okay, I think we're approaching Marseille.
Seem to be overflying everything today. Okay, that's there. Run
that in. Let's see if we can see, there's the city of Marseille.
Let's try site - there's a nice site. It's a little bit northeast,
there's another nice site, I think that'll be good. Okay, let's
try it right there.
PLT Way to get them there, AI.
CDR It's a nice field, it's green, and we'll
track it to minus i0 again. Guess they're not going long, I
keep wanting to stop on the coast and they go to the middle
of town. So I guess that's not bad. It's about right on. Okay,
we're still tracking at plus 15. We're tracking to minus i0.
Everything looks good. Okay, we're down to a minus i. 7 -
8, 9, i0. Okay time is 32:56. 32:56, I think - I can't make
33 with that one, though. 33:39 which is zero at left 8.4.
PLT Standing by for 32.20 here. The altimeter on - -
CDR Zero, left 8.5.
PLT (garble) rather
CDR 6, 7, 8. uh oh, it's going to be
clouds. Want to do this at 33:39.
PLT MARK. Altimeter to STANDBY.
CDR 33:39. Now I want to go to rev 2 here.
CDR Looking for Milan, 33:39, 0, left 8.4. Left 2.
PLT 1910.
CDR MARK. Okay, let's zoom in and see what
we can see.
PLT MARK. Rev 2 on 191.
CDR Okay, now (garble) is there, we're having
trouble seeing it. We found the town. Scan around a little bit.
We could be on the town and not know it, it's so hazy.
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PLT MARK. Intervals to 16.

CDR There's an airport so we know we're near
town somewhere.
PLT MARK. MODE STANDBY on 192.
CDR I'ii go ahead and take it but it's very
hazy and I don't know if we'll even be able see the pictures.
I'ii go near the airport. We'll take it right on - didn't get
it. Okay, didn't get it, talked too long. End of it. Okay,
I've got to do an SI maneuver at 12:35.
PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. READY light OUT on
190. We'll put that in STANDBY. 36:20.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS. Your
maneuvers looking good. We'll see you over Honeysuckle in
35 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders there. That's
at 13:09.
PLT Okay, Story. We'll see you there.
Stand by to shut her down.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station. Honeysuckle, Australia will be
the next station in 33 minutes. First Earth resources pass
of the day completed. The crew reporting the weather a little
hazy long towards the end of that pass, but apparently good
weather for the first half. The next EREP pass scheduled to
begin at 11:52 a.m. central daylight time. This next pass
will be over the United States. At 12 hours 37 minutes,
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1924/I
Time: 08:09 CDT, 47/13:09 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours, 8 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be within range of the
Honeysuckle, Australia station now. We'll stand by there.
CC Good morning, Skylab; Houston. We got
you Honeysuckle for 7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
CC And Skylab, I assume you guys are getting
squared away from having done the EREP pass you just did. And
I've got a whole pad full of notes that - to talk to various
people about this morning, none of which have gone up because
of your prep for the EREP. The first one that I have is the
solar update for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead there, Dick.
CC Okay. No flares were observed in the past
12 hours, Owen. New active region 25 is no longer visible in
either H-alpha or in calcium. A prominence activity continues
near i0/i.0. And active regions 19 and 24 continue to be the most
likely flare producers. Over.
SPT Okay. Understand and I'ii take a look
for 25 on XUV mon when we get it cranked up and just see if
we can still see it there.
CC Okay, fine. The next couple of things that
I have are for couple of corrollary things that Jack is going to
be doing today.
PLT Okay Dick. I'm listening.
CC Okay Jack. Two things. First, on the
M518 operations. Certainly that oven - or at least there's
a possibility we think that that oven is running about
20 degrees cooler than it should per the pot setting. And
we want to do a little troubleshooting on it. So for today's
operations on the M564, we'd like you to use a soak temperature
of 915 instead of the 895 on the pad. And another thing that I had
for you was we copied your comment on T002-2 where you used
filter 1.6 instead of 1.0 due to the Moon brightness and we
think it'd be okay for you to do that again today. Over.
PLT Okay. In other words, you think it's
okay to select the filter that seems best at the time. I
was a little concerned about that in that I thought that maybe
the PI wanted data with a certain kind of filter and apparently
you answering that question by saying select whatever one,
is necessary. Is that correct?
CC That's affirm, Jack. Select whichever one
you think will be best for the sightings and press on from there.
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PLT Okay. Thank you.

CC Okay. The last - I got two other things
for the CDR. The first is a question about a report that
you gave last night, A1, on M487. We're a little bit confused
as to which of the M487's were accomplished yesterday. We had
a 4 Alfa and a 4 Foxtrot that were scheduled and you reported
4 Echo. Was that in addition - did you get all three of them
done? Or if not, could you square us away on that one? Over.
CDR I did the one of the eating of the meal.
I forgot which alpha numeric that is.
PLT The way that we summarized it -
that by saying this, Dick. We got all three of the 487 re-
quests for photos. Two of them were from yesterday and trash
airlock, and eating a meal, and one was from a couple days before
when they wanted to vacuum the screen, we were just waiting
for it to get dirty. So we got all three of those in and two of
them got done after the film log had gone in and so they didn't
get on last night's film update. But we did get them done.
CC Okay. Good show. Thank you very much.
Two more notes and then I'ii be through. You may have already find -
found this one, AI. But there was an S183 cue card change
that went up last night and I just wanted to remind you about
that one prior to the S183 ops today. And secondly, I
understand that the team that followed us last evening re-
quested that you disconnect any CCUs which were connected
to speaker boxes but not being used, to remove some of the
channel loading. And we were wondering after you did this, did
you tell any difference in SA - SIA volumes required on either
channel and have you had any better luck with the squeal. Over.
PLT A1 incorporated the S183 checklist update
and we haven't noticed anything different on the comm boxes
as a result of unplugging the CCUs, Dick.
CC Okay. Real fine. Thanks for bearing
with us for a few minutes here. We still got about 3 minutes
left at Honeysuckle and I'm standing by.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS.
Bermuda comes up at 13:54.
CC Skylab, if you're still with us, next
site will be Canary at 14:01. Bermuda's very low elevation.
See you at Canary.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Canary Island station will acquire Skylab
in 42-1/2 minutes as Cap Comm pointed out the Bermuda station
elevation on this pass is 2.6 degrees, the maximum elevation.
We don't get good communications on anything under 3 degrees.
So we won't use Bermuda this time. The Cap Comm now is astro-
naut Dick Truly. Flight Director on this shift is Phil Shaffer.
At 13 hours, 19 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1925/I
Time: 09:00 CDT, 47/14:00 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours Greenwich

mean time. Skylab moving up within range of acquisition
through the Canary station with overlapping coverage from
Madrid. AI Bean scheduled to obtain some handheld photographs
over West Germany on this pass over Europe, with those
photographs to be used in determining geological structures,
distribution of rock types and glacial soil, marine sediment
transport, and to aid in mapping industrial and urban land use.
CC Skylab, Houston; Canary and Madrid for
12 minutes.
PLT Okay, Richard.
CC SPT, Houston. I've got a request for you
for a change in this daylight cycle operation from the backroom.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Owen. They suggest on these two
building block 10's that are scheduled on there for active
region 15, instead of doing them on active region 15, do them
on the cloudlike prominence that's located at 10/1.0. Over.
SPT Okay. I didn't see that prominence, but
I'll go look for it and change the target accordingly. Thank
yOU.
CC Okay. And SPT, Houston. If we can have
the DAS we'll inhibit momentum dump.
SPT Okay, the DAS is yours.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Okay, it's not entirely clear what you
meant there, Dick, since there are two building block 10's, sort
of spaced, to give a - a 5 by i0 arc-minute picture. Did they
want both building Block 10s done on the one prominence, or
did they want a couple of them adjacent to each other?
CC Stand by.
CC Owen, the backroom says they'd like them
both done on the prominence. Over.
SPT Thank you.
CC And, PLT, Houston. When you have a minute
we've got a question while it's fresh on your mind from the
EREP officer about that last EREP pass. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, at a time on the pad, I think of
about 28:45, you reported or we heard you say that you had
a short interrupt on the altimeter and you got it back on.
The question is, what was the interrupt? Did the altimeter
go to off and back to on, or just on later? Over.
PLT No, I interrupted it. I run the 29:45 as a
28:45 since it was right after 28:37. I turned it off then I
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recognized I'd turned it off mistakenly, and I turned it back

on.

CC Okay, that answers it. Thank you very much.

CC PLT, Houston. Like to get back to the same
subject of the altimeter again. We're still a little bit
confused. At 28:45 when you did throw the switch, did you
throw it to stand by and back to on, or off and back to on?
Over.
PLT I put it to stand by for several seconds
then back to on.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much.

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Time: 09:09 CDT, 47/14:09 GMT
9112173

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute

from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 14:38.
CDR I've been getting some fabulous hand held
photos of Germany. It's clear as a bell.
CC Great.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Next station to pick up Skylab will be Carnarvon
in 35 minutes. The crew commander Alan Bean reporting very
good weather over West Germany. He believes he's getting very
good photographs. At 14 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1927/I
Time: 09:37 CDT, 47/14:37 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours, 37 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for communications
through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC SPT, Houston. I've got some more suggestions
for this next daylight cycle for you on ATM and you're going to
need a pencil and a piece of paper to copy them down. Over.
SPT Just happen to have it in hand right now.
Go ahead.
CC Okay, Owen. Turns out that we see something
kind of unusual, and that is that this prominence that we told
you about a while ago, is as bright as it is so far off the
limb. And this change will provide an opportunity to observe
some of this condensations of coronal material as they fall
back towards the surface. So what we'd like to suggest, is
that instead of the operations that are listed on your pad for the
15:03 daylight cycle, that you accomplish the following:
First of all, on S055, we'd like to you perform one mirror auto
raster - and that's for all detectors, at each of the follow-
ing gratings and mechanical reference. 0102, 0130, 0302,
0528, and 0868. Have you got that so far?
SPT I'm with you.
CC Okay. In S056, we'd like you to perform
three 10-minute exposures at filters 3, 4, and 5. And in S082
Bravo, we'd like you to perform two time exposures - a wave
short for I0 minutes and a wave long for 5 minutes. The rest
of this - if you get through with that, Owen, and you have any
spare time in this daylight cycle, you can use it as you see
fit. Either go back to what's listed on the pad prior to
making this change or if you see something that you think is
better, do that. Over.
SPT Okay. That is pretty close to what was
scheduled anyway. At least it suggested that item. And the other
thing that I'd like to ask is the following. The signature
in H-alpha is not very clear. There is a bit of a prominence
near active region 15, 19. And that's what I was using on
the last orbit. I would like the best coordinates they have got
on the ground, which I'ii look at carefully to see if they agree
with the prominence I've got. It's just to assist in the pointing
because the H-alpha signature is just not very distinct.
CC Okay. Stand by i, Owen.
SPT Of course, I've already got 100 at one
radius - if that's the best, why I'ii get along with that.
But I thought perhaps they had something a little more precise.
CC Owen, the back room says that on that last
time, on S055, you were square on the target. So whatever you
were using there is - is the best.
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SPT Okay. Now I'ii give them a little info

on that last run. I did overlap two exposures on S055 because
I thought my first - first mirror auto rater was not quite fitted
well so I went up precisely 3 arc-minutes. And so, from what you've
told me, I assume that the last mirror auto raster is the one they
thought was the best pointing and that's where I'ii be.
CC Okay. Let me check one more time. Thank
you.
CC Owen, Houston. They say that the first one -
your first pointing was better than the second. So you ought to
go back to the first one that you took. Over.
SPT Okay. That's great. Boy, they're really
watching the telemetry down there closely and I'm impressed
that they were able to pull that out as quickly as they were.
Sometime you can tell me how they managed to develop - not
to develop, but to scan that picture as quickly as they did.
So I have all those coordinates and I'ii be at the first point-
ing, which was right 941 and down 200, as I recall with a roll
of zero and that's where I'ii be.
CC Okay, Owen. Very good.
CC And Skylab, Houston. If you can give us
the DAS, we'll enable momentum dump.
CDR You got it. Can we talk for a minute about
this 183 a second, Dick?
CC Roger. We got the DAS and go ahead.
CDR Okay. Now it's in process right now, running
a 1260-second exposure. And the thing that puzzles me every-
time I run the thing, with this being the second time, is whether
or not that DAC is really opening the shutter at the right time.
There's sort of a click inside the 183 equipment and it sounds
like maybe the DAC shutter's open. What I'd like to do after
this last exposure, which is the one I'm on now, is take the
DAC - well, advance it for 2 seconds for 24 frames per second,
they'd like to do that. Cause that puts it away from the
two exposures we made. Take the DAC off, look at the front end,
set up on knob I, about a 20 second exposure, turn it on and
look. Look right in there at the shutter to see if the thing
is really working like it should, cause it doesn't look like
it's possible to tell just from listening or anything. So
you don't really know if it's working. That's one question.
The next one is, I noticed the pad tells the time stars are
available. I assume this may be wrong. That they want
us to quit before sunrise. If that's true, then they need
to change this availability time to the time - the little window
time - where we can get in and still have the - still have the
full exposure. In other - in other words, for the second one,
instead of having an availablity time of 14:35 to 15:00, which I'm
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sure if you added 15:00 to the 1260, you'd get past sunrise.
That window should be like 12:35 to 12:37 or whatever the
size is that allows you to do the job. Otherwise, you really
don't know when to knock off. Maybe you could go after
sunrise, I don't know.
CC Okay, AI. Stand by just a second, please.
CC And Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III MC1928/I
Time: 09:47 CDT, 47/14:47 GMT
9/12/73

CC CDR, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out for just a few
seconds, and I'll call you again at Honeysuckle. In answer
to your questions; it looks llke - we think it's a good idea
to do what you said on the DAC, you can go ahead with that
as you outlined it. And the second; the 15:00 that you see in
the pad is the sunrise time. And the exposures for S183 should
be complete prior to that time. So if you started them at
the window opened, for example, at 14:35 they would be complete
well ahead of that 15:00 time. Over.
CDR Okay, I think I catch on now.
CC Other words as I understand it, AI, there's
no pad given to you in that second time. That available time
that - the second time after available there is actually the
sunrise time. And we want to be finished with the 183 exposures
at that time, there's no pad in that number.
CC CDR, Houston. I guess I talked through
the LOS there myself. What I was saying was, in the available
time there for S183, that second time has no pad in it. In
other words, that is the sunrise time and you should be complete
with the exposures at that time.
CDR Okay; understand.
CC Okay, AI.
PLT And, Dick, for info, we've got M564 cooking
and changed the soak temp box to 915 as you suggested this morning.
CC Okay, PLT; thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
We're going to pick you up at Mila at 15:27. And one reminder
for Owen; since we're changing the ATM schedule pad. I don't
want you to forget that we need a Nu-Z update at sunrise
at about 15:03 or so. And suggested outer gimbal is
minus 1170. Over.
SPT That's minus 1170, 1503. Roger.
CC Okay.
CDR We were look - we were looking at the
longitude on my ascending pass here for EREP 25, it's written
897. We suspect it ought to be something like 1135, or something
like that.
CC Stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range at Honeysuckle now. The next station will be
Merritt Island, Florida in 32-1/2 minutes. At 14 hours
54 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1929/I
Time: 10:26 CDT, 47/15:26 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 15 hours 26 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The tracking station at Merrltt Island,
Florida will be picking up Skylab in the next few seconds.
This pass will extend through loss of signal at the Bermuda
station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Mila and Bermuda
for ii minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. Just for the ATM room there.
Since I was already in grating zero, I've subtracted 102 from all
of those grating settings, and I was doing it all in optical ref-
erence.
CC Roger, Owen. Copy.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, we just
were to close to LOS there for me to get an answer back on
Slidter map, but the number on the flight plan, you probably
already figured this out, but the number on your flight plan
is correct. 89.7, the hooker is - is it's for i rev earlier
than your - it's for the rev - rev prior to the EREP pass and
the reason that the guys set it up that way was because the pass
actually starts below the equator, so if you set it up actually
the rev later, you wouldn't have the track for the entire pass.
Over.
SPT Okay, he got it.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Be advised, we're
right now we're tracking you through Merritt Island. We are
having some equipment problems at Bermuda. We're going to
hang onto - we're going to hold you here at Merritt Island
tracking as long as we can. That's going to be about another
4 minutes or so. And we may lose voice when we go over to
Bermuda.
SPT Okay, understand. And we've been sort of
a looking ahead on the ATM schedule to see when we were going
to shoot 82 alfa. And if we didn't have a 82 Alfa operation
we've been leaving the door closed. You might want to ask
the boys in the ATM room to think about the possibility of
elimating 82 Alfa OPEN from our normal - set-up procedures
and start putting it on the ATM schedule for those revs when
82 Alfa is going to be used. We did it that way in training
and it worked fairly well, and it might save extra cycles with
the double motor on 82A.
CC Okay, Owen. We'll certainly think about
that. Thanks for
the input.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to
hand over to Bermuda. We think we've got the problem fixed.
We're going to hand over there. If we don't have - if it doesn't
work out okay, we'll switch back to Mila.
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SPT Okay, and you might ask 82B, what they think
of these 5 and 10-minute exposures 18 arc-seconds off the limb.
I thought that might be about the bright - the best place for
a fairly bright prominence and those exposure lengths, and
see if they concur.
CC Roger, Owen. And also we will be dumping
the data recorder at Bermuda.
SPT Sounds fine.
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC1930/I
Time: 10:35 CDT, 47/15:35 GMT
9/12/73

CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question,

the exposure lengths are okay, we think. However, the 15 arc
seconds off the llmb is a little close. We think it ought
to be about a tenth of a solar radii or about i00 arc seconds
off the limb. And for your information, Ramey Just reported
that another brighter blob appeared about twice as far. In
other words, about 2/10 of a solar radii above the limb. Over.
So we havea continuing activity.
SPT Okay. Sounds good. However, I think to
point it that far off the limb for the 82B exposures put them
in quite different from my usual procedures and if they should
want me to point that far off, I'd appreciate them letting me
know about it. So these exposures were taken in as I said 18.
a i00 arc-seconds would have, of course, been far beyond
what I could've maintained pointing with - with the limb scan
equipment on 82B. So we'll see how they come out at this point.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from
LOS. Madrid at 15:42.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Skylab will be in range of the Madrid station in
3 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garriott working at the Apollo
Telescope Mount console on solar study. Crew Commander Alan
Bean has been operating S183 experiment taking ultraviolet
panarama photographs of distant star fields. And Pilot Jack
Lousma is loading the Earth Resources Experiment magazine,
preparing for the - the next Earth Resources pass which comes
shortly before noon, Central daylight time. We'll keep the
line up and monitor through Madrid.

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SL-III MC1931/I
Time: 10:40 CDT, 47/15:40 GMT
9/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger.
CDR Say, Dick, this morning when we did the
PHI and the stow 1 for 183, we didn't use transporter A2 -
correction A5, because it Just didn't work right, we had trouble
threading it this morning. So I went ahead and used the
transporter that's in A3.
CC Okay, AI, I copied that. You used the
one out of A-3 because A5 didn't work very well.
CDR That's right, and we haven't had a chance
to troubleshoot it yet but essentially it just wasn't - it was
grinding up film and it wouldn't seem to transport it right.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR We'll troubleshoot it and give you more
information on that later. Those two items are complete,
by the way, and also, the configuration of the hose for G20
is complete.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
CDR Used that neutral tape and it really looks
like a nice job because the ends are closed off with this
sort of silver looking tape, and it looks like it was almost
built that way on the ground.
CC Well, very good, maybe you'll have a good
chance to get a job doing that when you get home.
CDR Funny, I was thinking that as I did it.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, for the ATM room. There is one
particularly bright streamer at about 080 theta, just north
of the west limb. And I don't know it that's associated with the
transient that's been reported or not. Of course, it was
not right where the active prominence was described, but
I'm giving S052 some exposures for the last i0 minutes of
the orbit here.
CC Okay, Owen; thank you.
CC And, Owen, Houston. We suggest you go to
white light on SO82-B.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC And, Owen, Houston. One more input, to
save some film we'd like to terminate the fast scan and do
one standard patrol. Over.
SPT Roger. That's what I was going to do here,
give them about two revs through the fast scan and go to
standard. Thank you.
CC Okay, real fine.
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CC Skylab, Hous- - Skylab, Houston. We're

i minute from LOS; Carnarvon comes up at 16:16. Go ahead.
SPT I was just going to report, we are getting
a few RF bursts, as well, so it could be that that's associated
with the transient.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the Madrid station. Carnarvon will pick up
Skylab in 24-1/2 minutes. At 15 hours 50 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1932/I
Time: 11:14 CDT, 47/16:14 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 16 hours

14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston, Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We wanted to pass up
one caution note to you on this upcoming maneuver. Turns out
that the momentum dump terminate time is just about - less than
a minute before the scheduled maneuver start time, so when you
do go to start the maneuver, make darn sure that you've checked
and the dump has already terminated.
CDR Okay. Do we have to wait until the end
of the dump to load the time or can we load the time in right
now?
CC You can go ahead and load the time now, AI.
And we can look at it.
CDR Okay. CC
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like the maneuver time.
PLT Say Dick. On that transporter number 7,
we had the problem on this morning. I think there is still
some film stuck in it and it just never did come out and -
it ripped up in one or two places inside. So I'm going to
have to figure out away to fish it out and I'ii do that and
I had to pull some of it though the frame - where - through the
platen area. But what I did was I took the full roll and put
it in the suggested place, in the next place in line. Then in order
to use the next transporter which I think is number 5. It also
I had to put a reel on it - so I took it off and put it in the
next slot. That's just for purposes of bookkeeping. And
I put the - the - 400 foot reel that I was suppose to use on
transporter 7 on the backup transporter.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you. The only confusion
I have is AI said that the problem was the transporter that
was in A-5. Was that correct?
PLT No. The transporter I was suppose to load
this morning which ever one it was.
CC Roger.
PLT Here's a stray word, Dick. Transporter
number 5 is the bad one. It's in A-2. Transporter number 6,
is the one that was used.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from LOS
Carnarvon. We're going to drop out for a couple of minutes.
I'ii call you at Honeysuckle.

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SL-III MC1933/I
Time: 11:24 CDT, 47/16:24 GMT
9/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS,
Honeysuckle. Texas comes up at 16:59.
SPT Okay, Dick. We'll be there.
CC Right.
SC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has passed
out of range of the Honeysuckle station. Next station will be
Texas in 27-1/2 minutes. Skylab will start the next Earth
Resources pass prior to acquisition atTexas. That pass
starting down in the south Pacific and extending up to
Newfoundland. Data gathering during that EREP pass will be
oceanography, cartography in Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, studies
in the Chesapeake Bay area, land use in New York. Data take
starts at 11:52 am Central daylight time. At 16 hours, 32 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1934/1
Time: 11:57 CDT, 47/16:57 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 57 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab moving up within range of the
Texas tracking station and crew should be in the midst of
an Earth Resources pass as we acquire the signal at Texas.
We'll stand by.
PLT (garble) Mexico City.
PLT MARK, ALTIMETER to STAND BY.
CDR 50 seconds.
PLT Now we got ALTIMETER ON again. How about
that? 5908 - -
CDR Clouds are gain.
PLT 1'11 turn those clouds off just a minute,
all right? Stand by.
PLT MARK, ALTIMETER, ON; clouds ; off.
CDR No.
PLT That didn't work, huh?
CDR Uh, huh.
PLT Shucks.
CC Try it again, Jack, it might work.
PLT Oh, oh, they're listening.
CDR We found the EREP switches the cloud
simulator.
CC Roger.
PLT There they are.
CDR They're talking to us through Mexico City.
PLT You know what they're serving at the club
tonight, Dick?
CC Roger - roger that.
PLT Same old - Same old thing; cake and ice cream.
CDR Okay, here's the - something.
PLT Okay, we got to tend to our knitting, no
goofing off here.
CDR All right, 145 at 45 we ought to be there.
There's a lot of ocean down there, Jack. Getting ready to
cross the coast in about 20 seconds.
PLT I noticed that for the last 40 days, there's
a lot of ocean down there. Everywhere yon look it's ocean
and clouds.
PLT Okay, I'm standing by for a READY ON.
CDR Okay, I'ii give you a mark as we cross the
coast.
PLT Then we're going to rev 6 and I got it in my
hot little hand, right here.
CDR Okay. Zoom in a bit and see if I got something
in sight. Yeah, it's a nice little snug harbor down there.
PLT I ran off Alfa 2 and Charlie 4 awhile ago
spacefans.
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CDR Not on the chart.

PLT It was - Alfa 2 is 4041 now, and Charlie 4
is 71. Looks like they're doing real good.
CDR 0035 (garble)
PLT MARK at 39 we got a READY LIGHT ON S191 and
we're in reference 6 now. Okay, now 0157.
PLT A whole minute and i0 seconds with nothing to
do except to pick up this little box here and examine it for
position 4.
CDR Okay, l'm looking around for Mexico City
which is due in about 20 seconds.
PLT Got 2 TV switches on Mexico City, huh?
CDR Uh, huh. Got scattered clouds. And there's
Mexico City, I think. No, doesn't look llke it on second thought.
PLT Buenos dias, Amigos.
CDR Maybe down there somewhere is a Metropolitan
area. Yeah. No, there's a big river.
SPT I can see it easily out the window here.
PLT Smart guy. Open your door.
CDR Okay, time's 134. 145 is when I go light -
(garble) hit the water. We're approaching the water. Okay, we're
getting sights 145. That's it, MARK, we're off. We'll zoom in.
We'll make the marks right in nadir.
PLT Okay, here we go with Jack's got an action.
CDR Hurry up nadir a little bit.
PLT Now, position 4 on the down-link box.
Okay, I got 227 waiting for her.
CDR Three sites in there and then we go for a
thunderstorm. Okay? The sea is drifting pretty good today.
PLT 227 coming up. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
Be nice to that altimeter today.
CDR Okay.
PLT I treated them wrong there once. Stnad by.
PLT MARK, ALTIMETER is at STANDBY, the MODE
is now in 2.
CDR Okay, I'm starting to take marks on this
piece of water down here.
PLT MARK. MODE READY on 192. Okay, we're
going to go AUTO here pretty quick.
CDR Even the cloud is (garble) - -
PLT MARK. MODE AUTO on 190.
CDR (garble).
PLT 93A.
PLT MARK, ALTIMETER ON. Okay, now we're
standing around (garble) check all the (garble)
CDR 3, 2, l, 0. Okay, let's find another one.
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CDR There's another piece right there, taking

marks on it.
PLT Okay. Let me give you a little tour. Came up
over Mexico City, we're going to cross just south of New
Orleans over Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta, Charlotte, Roanoke,
Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
and up over Nova Scotia. There's the tour.
CC All aboard.
CDR Huh, we're tracking it through Nadir.
Doing okay. Let's go up to the next one.
PLT Very good, very good, Dick.
CDR Okay.
PLT (garble) your board this morning?
CC You've - that's affirm.
PLT Uh, huh. Wait a minute
CDR Let's go for another one. Let's give them the
full treatment here.
PLT Treat them right, A1 over here.
CDR Give them an extra sight or two. Now let me
(garble)
CDR . .. 445, time now 350. We're not going
to get that far
PLT MARK, (garble) to 20. Okay, we're going to
check here. Stand by.
PLT MARK, MODE to CHECK on 192 tape recorders, off.
CDR (garble) contracted it right here. (garble)
spot for you.
PLT Turn off that tape burner.
CDR Okay, I'm going up to 445. Okay, we're going
to 45 up.
PLT Go get them there, eagle eye.
CDR I don't see any thunderstorms. We're supposed
to track one. Well we'll just have to wait and see if we
come across one about 445. If not I'll just kind of keep
muttering along.
PLT Okay, give them a little soft shoe there,
AI.
CDR 445, we're 45 up. We're left to right
4, let's get back in line. Okay? Be it 441, we don't have
any thunderstorms. I'm just going to let it kind of coast
along here as long as I can until we find a thunderstorm.
PLT How many EREP passes are we making, including
this one, Dick? I lost track.
CC Well, this one is number 25.
PLT MARK, MODE to READY on 192.
CDR I'm go to go out here and look and see if we
see any thunderstorms.
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PLT 190 is going back to 2 here in a moment.

CDR Okay, now there's one over there. Let's use it,
it's a huge one. Hey, that's got a nice bumper on it.
PLT MARK, INTERVALS to i0 on 190.
CDR Okay, we're taking thunderstorm data right
now. We'll take it the best we can.
PLT That's the way. Stay right on the ball.
CDR Okay, now, the next one I got to get an
824 so I don't want miss that one.
PLT MARK, SHUTTER SPEED to FAST on 190. Oops,
I'm going to get the tape burner off here in a minute. Yeah,
I know, Dick, I think that includes the ones we cancelled though.
CC Well, we cancelled one so this is the 24th
one that you've gotten so far.
PLT Okay, thank you. Keep the ball rolling, this
is fun.
CDR Okay.
PLT Oh, MODE to CHECK. MARK there.
CDR (garble) I see a big bright spot through the
take. Is it clear (garble)
PLT Okay. Stand by for ALTIMETER in RAD to STANDBY.
CDR There's no ample top for the request of
the experimenter but that - we just can't do anything about
that. Well, we can't hold it because it's too far offcourse.
Let's get one closer to the middle, if we can find one.
Let's use this one; you can just change targets. And we're
way off to the right.
PLT MARK, ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RAD to
STANDBY.
CDR We got this one okay.
PLT Going to do SCAT and RAD ON. Okay, I can
do that.
CDR 16 (garble) this 22, that's about the end
of the game.
PLT MARK, SCAT's ON and MARK the RAD is ON.
It's time (garble)
CDR (garble) 824 is what I got to worry about. We're
getting a good bumper.
PLT MARK, intervals to 20 on 190.
CDR Good bumper. (garble)
PLT (garble)
CDR The clear area next to it is going to be
over the ground, so we're just going to have to live with that.
PLT MARK, POLA 4 on 192.
CDR Okay, to minus i0, I'ii move (garble)
PLT 93A is MODE i.
CDR Minus i0 it is, I'm moving into a clear
area. There's one right -
PLT Stand by.
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PLT MARK, SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM.

CDR Right there. Okay?
PLT Number 4, SCAT (garble)
CDR Take data right there.
PLT MARK, SCAT to STANDBY, 2 second delay.
PLT MARK, RAD to STANDBY.
CDR (garble) is what I'm worried about.
PLT Okay, now we're getting SCAT OFF and
the RAD OFF.
CDR That's it, okay? We finished that job.
Let's go out to 45 up and 2.0 right.

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SL-III MC-1935/I
Time: 12:07 CDT, 47/17:07 GMT
9/12/73

PLT 45 up, .09.

PLT MARK. INTERVALS to i0 on 190. Down-
link switch position to OFF.
CDR Okay. Now the time we wanted to get is
07:37.
PLT Switch position to OFF.
CDR Now we want to get 08:24. We use DAC on this one,
don't we Dick.
CC Stand by.
CDR I'm going to go that filter, that orange
filter shows up water real good. Chesapeake Bay. 07:54 there,
I want 08:24.
PLT How's the weather?
CDR Scattered, not bad. Little hazy, but that's
okay.
PLT Got it in the bag. Got it in the bag.
Attaboy.
CDR 45 to 08:24. 08:24 is almost here.
I think that's Chesapeake Bay down there.
PLT We've got a lot of EREP to do yet because
we've got a lot of 191 sites we got to get.
CDR Camera on.
PLT We've got to get them all before we quit.
CDR 08:24. That's it. I'm zooming in.
CC CDR, Houston. I'm told to use the DAC on
the last site.
PLT Scatter On.
CDR Okay, I've got it running.
CC Okay.
PLT Thank you, Dick. Thank you very much.
CDR I'm looking for chlorophyll bloom in
Chesapeake Bay. I see nothing new, just a kind of light -
PLT Camera light.
PLT MARK. Altimeter ON.
CDR Light blue, nothing special that could give
you a clue that you had chlorophyll. There's a ship down there.
I'm looking around.
PLT Put it right down thesmokestack.
CDR We're 27 degrees up still, we still got time.
I'm looking all around.
PLT MARK. MODE to READY on 192.
CDR See no blooms. See no even discolored water
through here. Looking around, still data is being taken.
PLT Just can't quit thinking of that thing as a
bombing site. (garble)
CDR And looking around.
PLT 9:24, we're going SLOW.
CDR I see no chlorophyll blooms, I haven't taken
any data yet.
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PLT MARK. MODE to SLOW. Shutter speed SLOW.

I mean. Got my tongue wrapped around my left molar.
CDR I think we did it. We're way past it.
Didn't take any data. Still out. We had the right place, but
no clorophyll.
PLT Oh, it's taking data, you just didn't have
the button down.
CDR 09:42 and (garble) 449 and left 5.7.
449.
PLT MARK. Shutter speed in MEDIUM.
PLT He was on it there Houston, it was just -
he didn't put the data button down.
CDR Left, 3.7.
CC Okay.
CDR We're going to get Block Island, too.
There's Block Island, baby we got you.
PLT Attaboy, I knew you would do it.
CDR Zoom in. Put on the camera (garble)
to LOW.
PLT Alfa 2 is reading 5S percent. Charlie 4
is -
CDR Okay, we're getting that data.
PLT 71 percent. (garble)
CDR I've got you Block Island, don't go away.
PLT Good day for hunting on that 191 site.
CDR If we could hit two, we could hit that
site number -
PLT Hit it.
CdR 630 if we want.
CDR Knock them dead.
CDR When we go through I0, we'll go back and
get picture 30. If we can go back that far. Got Block Island
made. I'm going to try to get 630 if we can after this but
it's behind us.
PLT Remember to flip the switch down at HIGH
rate.
CDR (Garble) I've got to let this go through
zero here. We've got lots of data.
PLT And I'm coming up on rev 2.
CDR It's coming out, going to center. Let's go
back down and find it. There it is. We got it.
PLT That a boy.
CDR We should get in on it. We've got it made.
PLT Put your finger on the button. That a
boy.
CDR Okay, we've got. We've got 630.
PLT MARK. Rev 2.
CDR That just left. We only got in a little
while though Dick.
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CC Okay.
PLT That was it.
CDR Got you at alternate and at extra.
PLT That' s the way.
CDR I'm not sure we got 5 seconds worth of 630
though.
PLT MARK. STANDBY 192.
CDR Got the right place. May have got 3 or
4 seconds worth.
PLT MARK. READY out on 190. That was darn
close, one second. Okay, darn close. Only one second off on
that 190 READY light. Change all those intervals that (garble)
CDR There's Cape Cod that sure shows up pretty.
PLT Okay, 12 minutes. I wonder when we're going
to get a little action there (Garble)
CDR (Garble) last EREP.
CDR Nobody's there.
CC I'ii go up there.
PLT Deserted island.
CDR Yes. Nice and pretty today.
PLT (laugh) Yeah, there's the place to go,
there isn't anybody there. Don't pass the word though.
CC I won't.
PLT MARK. Altimeter to STANDBY. MODE has
gone over to 5, right now, range is 60 and 3. That's set okay.
1218 numbers -
CDR Nova Scotia. We've got Nova Scotia.
PLT MODE 5. 63 MODE to check.
CDR See if we can find Halifax.
CDR Might be interesting.
PLT MARK. Altimeter ON. Okay, we're going to get -
I get a single on 190 now. Stand by.
PLT MARK. Single frame on 190. There's AUTO CAL.
CDR I think Halifax is right there. AUTO CAL.
PLT (garble) here.
CDR Go.
PLT MARK. AUTO CAL maneuver in 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR That's the end of the game. I'm going back
to min. And I got to get ready for the SI maneuver
which is going to come off here.
CDR How do you like the maneuver time, that's
in there Dick?
CC We llke it, AI. Looks good.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. We're reading a mode single on 190 here.
PLT MARK. MODE SINGLE. We got it.
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PLT With all this time to standaround here,

my fingers get itchy on these switches.
PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL on 194. We got one
more single coming up here. I notice that in looking over my shoulder
here that 518 is in it's soak cycle now, Dick, It just
got that way in the last little while. Andit's on 915 degrees which
is what we're hoping for. So we may have the secret on that.
CC Well good. I hope so.
PLT MARK. Yeah. MODE single, there we got.
Yeah.
CC Guys, we're about 45 seconds from LOS.
We'll pick you up in Madrid at 17:20 and we're going to dump
the data recorder at Madrid.
PLT Okay. The cold - the cold thermal covering is
a little -
CDR Get ready for SI.
PLT (garble) 82 degrees on the cold end of that. M560
somthing or other.
CC Roger.
PLT MARK. There we are READY light ON. By
golly look at that. Right on time. That was on 191 now we've
got a couple more actions to do here. Yeah, on M564 the
low temperature is 82 degrees.
CC Roger, Jack. I copied that.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
PLT MARK. Altimeter to STANDBY and EREP is going
to stop.
PLT MARK. EREP is at STOP. Coolant's out of the
flow. Delete 190 filament bands. Okay. We can do all that.
We're going to power this thing down now Dick.
CC Alrighty. See you in Madrid.
PLT Yes, sir. And thank you very much. Give old
Big Red a swift kick in the pants there for me, will you.
CC I'II do that, if he doesn't break my arm.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
signal. Madrid will acquire Skylab in about 3-1/2 minutes.
We'll continue to stay up for the Madrid pass.

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SL-III MC1936/I
Time: 12:19 CDT, 47/17:19 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours, 19 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Madrid will be acquiring in about
30 seconds. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for
i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We just got everything shut
out.
CC Okay. And while you're LOS, we were talking
about how many total EREP passes you'll have. It looks like
with consumables and Flight Pla_ and everything going together,
you'll probably end up with around 40 passes or so. Maybe
a little bit more. So that says you got about 20 more to go.
PLT Good. That's great. We're glad to hear
that. We want to use up all the tape and the film and use them
both as efficiently as we can. And we'd also like to pick up - pick
off all these VTS sites that we've been working on for so long if
we can.
CC Rog. It's alot of fun working with you
guys. You obviously enjoying these EREPs and I for one,
really enjoy working them with you. I got one note here for
AI. There's a long string of paper that we're putting in the
teleprinter that are series of messages that are some final -
are some checklist changes to support the entry. I'd like
to pass on a couple of comments to him. These are'nt the
result of us finding mistakes in the ones we've already sent
up to you, AI. But they primarily result from 2 or 3 things.
One is a little bit of clean up but mainly the incorporation of
using the dock DAP for coasting operations with some different
gains in there. And also, we've included that the - which I
think is the last message in the stream, a message that's called
a study guide which sort of leads you through a good bit of
the rationale of how the entry's going to go - which you can peruse
at your own convenience. And we suggest that you might take
some time this afternoon in that period of time that's blocked
off T020 LSU modification, which you've already accomplished,
and enter these checklist changes in your various books. And
then when we have the entry minus 5 days systems checks, we're
going to be prepared and have the right people here to review
the whole set of books with you on air-to-ground if that's
going to be required. Over.
CDR Okay. Sounds like a good idea. We've
been thinking about those things for the last couple of days and
one of us - just a second, I - I'ii be back in a minute.
CC Okay.
CDR We've been thinking about that a little bit.
I spent a couple of hours up here one night going through each
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and every switch and procedure from close out through landing
to make sure that I kind of knew what the plan was at the moment
and it sort of all makes sense to me at the moment. I got about
five question marks written in there. We can talk about - just
figured I'd wait until we got closer, then talk about them. So
I'll go through this rationale - I'm glad you included that.
You try to put those changes in later today and then we'll
sort of think about it. Then we want to block off a couple
of hours where Owen, Jack, and I can get in here and run through
it a couple of times, touching all the switches for entry.
We'd probably like to do that about 4 or 5 days prior to
entry or less.
CC Rog, AI. I think it would be a good idea
for you to go ahead and put this new set of little things in and
soak that up for a while. For your information on the - on
that day that's about, oh, it's entry minus 5-day checks,
we got 3-1/2 hours blocked off for the actual systems checks
themselves, which I think you'll probably do. And then a
couple of hours blocked off there following that with all
three guys to do exactly what you're thinking about. So I think
we're in pretty good shape.
SPT Little tired.
CDR Say, I just started up the CM-7 checks.
Everything looks good. Let me read to you the temps on the
CSM quad, starting with 4B.
CC Okay.
CDR 1.7, 1.9, 1.5, 2.2, 2.0, 1.3.
CC Okay, A1. I got those.
CDR Okay. Thank you. We'll come back and
check this place out in an hour.
CC All righty. And Skylab, Houston. We're
going LOS from Madrid. We're going to pick you up at Honeysuckle
at 18:06.
CDR Tell EREP that if it looks like we got 2 or 3
sites in an area, give us the first one on the pad. That way we
got a fighting chance to be longer on the other couple. It
looks like up in that area, up in the Phoenix area and up in
the Boulder area, we ought to be able to get a bunch of sites.
And that also includes the run in on Boulder. There's about
five sites on the run in we can pick up.
CC Rog, AI. Copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Alan Bean and Jack Lousma, obviously very enthusi-
astic about the Earth Resources surveys they've been conducting
and looking forward to a number of more such runs. Next station
to acquire Skylab will be Honeysuckle in 38 minutes. At
17 hours, 28 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC1937/I
Time: 13:05 CDT, 47/18:05 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours, 5 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for a very short pass
through the Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle,
just in time to tell you we're i minute from LOS and Goldstone
comes up at 18:35. Over.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC And a reminder for the SPT. The - at 18:10,
we need a NuZ update.
SPT Okay. I was thinking about giving it to
you right now.
CC Well, all righty and we think the pad angles
are good or at least the angles I gave you a while ago are good.
Matter of fact, let me correct that. The pad angles are better
this time, Owen.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal after about a minute long pass there. Al Bean
and Jack Lousma having lunch at this time. Owen Garriott has
just finished his lunch and is beginning another session at the
Apollo Telescope Mount. Goldstone will be the next station
at 26-1/2 minutes. At 18 hours, 9 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1938/I
Time: 13:34 CDT, 47/18:34 GMT
9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 34 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab nearing acquisition through
Goldstone and the pass over the United States. During this
pass Jack Lousma's scheduled to take handheld photographs over
some of the great plain states, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota,
Iowa. The photographs will be used for mapping surface
geology and soil types and land forms as related to sand and
gravel supplies for finding potentialland filled sites and
for gathering road construction engineering and ground water
information. We'll stand by for this stateside pass.
PLT You there, Dick?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for
18 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick, one thing we've run out of
is our film in Hasselblad. I was wondering what magazine
you recommended as a replacement and where it's located, please.
CC Okay, we'll get back to you, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, for the CDR. Earlier this
morning you know we were talking about that DAC problem you
thought you might be having during S183 and we never heard
any more about it due to the business with the EREP, we were
wondering how that came out.
CDR Forgot to report that, Dick. I checked it
out and it checked out okay, so it looks like we've been
getting good pictures.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
PLT On our Hasselblad, Dick, we're up over
150 frames. Now, if there's any more on there - I know the
magazine says 150 but sometimes there's a few extras, why we'll
go ahead and shoot them up, but we don't know how far we're going
to go before we run out of film.
CC Understand.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like you to use
magazine CX 27. It's in drawer Bravo in the back of the drawer..
And we think you probably do have a few more frames on that
I - on the magazine you have now; maybe up to 170.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT Hello, Dick, you with me?
CC Yes, sir, go ahead.
SPT Okay, two items for the ATM. First one
on the orbit preceding the EREP pass, say about 3 hours ago,
we were cycling the H-alpha manually fromoff to manual and
back. And for several operations they became intermittent.
You could press it to manual and the ready light would never
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switch to operate, and the frames remaining would count down.

You could still take frames by going to AUTO, in which case
it would take a normal frame rate. This orbit it's all
working fine again, but there is something either a little bit
funny at the switch or the poles that's attached to it. It
was intermittent but now it's working fine. And I just
completed this SO55 detector 5 test (garble) check all 3
detectors 4 times. And on the second test of detector 5
there was one little flurry of crosstalk where the detector
number i, which I was monitoring just to get the count up
to about 20 seconds into the second test on detector number 5.
None of the other checks showed any crosstalk during the
procedure, so I think that completes the check as requested.
And if there's any other questions you might let me know about
it now while there's a little observing time. Over.
CC Okay, Owen, let us glance back at the
message and see if we have any more questions. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. That satisfies us on
that SO55 test. And be advised, we're configured for ATM TV.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. It's 4 or 5 more
days before you're going to get another film status but we
thought you'd be interested in knowing that CX27 magazine
on that Hasselblad is the last Hasselblad magazine for
you.
PLT Okay, understand we got a few frames
left on the one we brought up with the command module. Right?
CC That's affirm, Jack.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'm at the window trying to
get a look at the Great Plains for this handheld photo, but
the whole Great Plains area is covered by - by widespread
cloud system.
CC Roger; copy. Too bad that cloud button
doesn't work.
PLT Yeah, well, we're not at the panel now.
I guess we should have been up there.
CC Roger.

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Time: 13:44 CDT, 47/18:44 GMT
9/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from

LOS at Bermuda. I'ii call you in about 5 minutes at Madrid.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Madrid station
in 4 minutes. At 18 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time.
This is Skylab Control.

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9/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours, 56 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Madrid now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're having
some machine problems and we have no spacecraft data at the
moment. So we're not sure as to whether or not we're going to
maintain voice through this pass or not. We still have about
5 minutes left and I'm standing by. No response required.
SPT Dick, I did a 4-1imb coalignment on
day 252, I guess that'd be 3 days ago, I wonder if the ATM Pls are
planning to . .. that information. I noticed it again on the
schedule for the next orbit. Over.
CC Stand by Owen, please.
CC SPT, Houston. Be advised we did get the
data from that other 4-1imb coalign you did the other day. But
we did purposely schedule one today and we do want one as
scheduled on the next rev.
SPT Fine. Thank you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS Madrid.
Honeysuckle at 19:43 and we're going to dump the data recorder
at Honeysuckle.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range at Madrid now. The next station will be Honeysuckle in
35-1/2 minutes. At 19 hours, 17 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1941/I
Time: 14:41 CDT, 47/19:41 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

19 hours 41 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Honeysuckle
in 45 seconds, as the Skylah-III crew prepares for the 26th
Earth Resources Pass of this mission with Commander A1 Bean
on the control and display panel. Pilot Jack Lousma operating
the view tracking - viewfinder tracking system of the S191
experiment and Science Pilot Owen Garriott operating the
Earth terrain camera. We'll hold the line open for CAP COMM
Dick Truly and the crew of Skylab-III.
CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger.
PLT Say, Dick, could you please have someone
set up a call to my family this evening?
CC Roger. That was Jack, wasn't it?
PLT Affirmative, Dick.
CC Sure will.
PLT Thanks alot.
CDR Same thing for me, Dick. This is Alan.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We'd be pleased
to watch you load the maneuver time if you want to for
the next maneuver. This Honeysuckle pass is really the
last chance we'd have a chance to look at it.
PLT Okay. I'II get it, Dick.
PLT How do you like that time, Dick?
CC Looks good to us, Jack. Thank you.
PLT Okay. Thank you. I'ii load the rest
later.
CC Oh, okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute to
LOS. Hawaii comes up at 20:01.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We didn't get the
data recorder completely dumped at Honeysuckle, so we're
going to continue the dump when we get to Hawaii.
CDR Okay. This is the CDR, 20 minutes in
the lap. I did keep (static) - -
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
19 hours 49 minutes. Loss of signal over Honeysuckle as
the crew begins preparations for the Earth Resources Pass,
scheduled to begin at 20:11 Greenwich mean time, as the
spacecraft crosses the coast of California - northern
California, gathers data in California, Nevada, Idaho,
Minnesota, North Dakota. This EREP pass starts approximately
900 miles off the coast of California. The data take will
stop as the spacecraft crosses on track 45, south of Hudson
Bay in Canada. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 13minutes
and 14 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 19 hours 50 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1942/I
TIME: 15:03 CDT 47/20:03 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

20 hours 3 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii tracking
station, as the crew in the process of preparing the vehicle
for the 26th Earth Resources pass of the Skylab III mission.
A pass which crosses northern California, and ends south
of Hudson Bay in Canada. We'll hold the line open for
CAP COMM Richard Truly and the crew of Skylab III.
CDR 20:07, we're standing by for a little
STANDBY.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got you at Hawaii
for about 7 minutes and we see the new maneuver time loaded
and it looks good to us.
CDR Okay.
CDR Everything looks good here.
CDR Command module checks went okay, by the
way, on CM 7.
CC Roger.
CDR Put in the changes to the entry check
list a few minutes ago. They look a little complicated, but
I'ii have to read it. Also read the blurb you sent up, and
that's a good thing. I'ii bave to digest it awhile.
CC Okay A1, good.
CDR Concur with your comments about sending
up additional information for quads A or C failure, or both.
That's a good thought. We've been wondering about that one
too, but we figured you'd get around to it.
CC Roger AI.
CDR 20:07.
PLT Water, water everywhere.
CC And AI, Phil points out to me that the
field that you're going to be getting on 3 or 4 quad ... will
be a complete time line and checklist, so that should put you
in good shape.
CDR You bet if I can figure, I guess
it's a big paste-in thing, huh?
CC Well, I haven't seen it yet myself, but
it'll be coming up shortly. We'll be reviewing it down here
before we send it.
CDR Okay. Sounds like a big stick in with
our scotch tape. That's okay.
PLT Which you ain't got much of any more.
CDR (garble) has time to really peruse it too
much, ask him do the burn in docked app or do we switch over
to undocked just before the burn. That's one that was
puzzleing me a little bit. Wait, I take that back, must be
the undocked, because he mentioned that- they mentioned in
there that if you tried to (garble) ithout the undocked you'd
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CDR pitch up.

CC That's affirm, AI. It is undocked.
CDR Okay. So that means you go undocked
before you undock and that's the way it is forever. Or
maybe you do it immediately after undocking. I don't know.
CC Well, it's before the burn - and you do -
that's right, and after you go to the undocked it's THC for
i yaw.
CDR That's right. And you're undocked all
the way from undocking. You do all the maneuvers undocked
and everything else. Okay. We got 45 seconds to go here
before we go into this little pad I've got before me.
PLT Well, today, we're gonna hit the coast
just about a hundred miles north or less than that, about 30 miles
north of San Francisco. Coming up over the mountains of
north of Reno, and heading over Cody. Name ring a bell there
Dick?
CC Sure does.
PLT Bismark, North Dakota and just north
of Lake Superior and up through Canada.
PLT One big site.
CDR A STANDBY. R OFF.
PLT But you've already got one.
CDR Get them again. Okay. They want to see
if it's changed with the season. 10:09 is the next event
for me. How about you, Jack?
PLT 14 minutes.
CDR One other thing I didn't exactly under-
stand was - we're still going to be doing the burn at the
same attitude relative to the horizon that we've always been
doing them, at heads down, and I didn't exactly understand
why the comments about yaw right to 045, instead of the old
way.
CDR EREP START at 10:09.
CC AI, that's due to some - the fact that
we're going to land on the other side of the - the side of
the footprint closer to the land mass and also some new
aerodynamics work that we have, and we want to make sure that
we jettisoned the service module in the direction opposite, of
course, to the way that you're going to fly and the way the
checklist is written, it does make an option there, where we
can send you up a pad for yaw left or right. Also the other
question is you - after you undock you fly around with the
docked DAP until just before the burn and then at a certain
place in there, you go to the undocked and then you stay
there all the way down to splash.
CDR Say again at what point you change to
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the undocked. I'm still a little puzzled on that one.

CDR Fly around docked until sometime, probably
after the burn. Entry.
CC Okay AI, we got a little bit for your
next switched on. You will undock in the docked DAP.
CDR Okay.
CC And then you will stay there until just
before the burn. Then you will go - and then you will go
to the undocked DAP, and then you will remain there for the
rest of the mission.
CDR Okay. In other words, I do the burn in
the undocked DAP.
CC That's correct.
CDR I thought there was a note down there
that said you can't ullage if you do that. You'd loose
its pitch. I got to go read that again. It probably says
It probably says you can't ullage in docked. Well, let me
get back to this JOP.
CC Okay.
CDR Thank you for talking about it. It's makes it a
little bit clearer. Okay. EREP START in 4 seconds. EREP is
starting.
CDR I got to give you an AUTO CAL in a minute.
Like right now. AUTO CAL's on time. MODE MANUAL. That's a
good one. A is ON. And record A-2 and C-4. Okay. A-2 is
51 percent. C-4 is 71. Y'all have that? I'm not writing it
down. I'm just recording it. A-2 moves around. Now A-2 has
been down as low as 49, now it's 53, coming down to 49 again.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. I'ii
call you at Goldstone at 20:11. That's about - just a couple
of minutes from now.
CDR Okay. We'll be there.
CDR Bring Owen with us.
CC Good.
PLT (garble) door, O.
PLT Are you there, O?
CDR Opening the door. (garble)

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SL-III MC-1943/I
Time: 15:12 CDT, 47/20:12 GMT
9/12/73

CDR READY ON, reference 6. Okay, you're READY ON,

in 191, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT AI, we got some clouds in the field of
view, we are going to do a nadir swath over them for a while
here, til 15 minutes. Then we're going to pull up and hit Black -
Black Desert or Smoke Creek Desert. A little tracking.
CDR Good. Good.
PLT Here's a cloud canope.
CDR S to STANDBY. Okay, that's STANDBY and mode i.
PLT Yeah, we're still tracking clouds they're
a little heavier now. These are heavier clouds than we were
tracking before.
PLT I'm going to go up 45 and lest 4.
CDR A to STANDBY and mode i.
CC Roger, AI, and I'm back with you guys
standing by.
PLT Okay. We got some good - -
CDR All right.
PLT cloud cover down here that we're covering
now Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR A's on.
PLT Okay, there we are. 15, up - left 4.
Got a good entry point.
CDR 92 in READY. I think it's running along.
1943, we got -
PLT I got the desert site all right, and we're
not there. Okay.
CDR 1943.
PLT The line up on it. There's Pyramid Lake.
They say the times was 46.
CDR MARK. MODE AUTO.
PLT Nice shot Houston. Put us in there.
Honey Lake doesn't show up very well cause it's all brown about
the same as the terrain of the Pyramid Lake. It's is a very
distinct aqua color. Uniform area of this dry lake bed is
what we're getting right now.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT Looking at the first one, which is Smoke
Creek Desert, we're going to move up and pick another one
in a little while. This is a uniform site. As uniform as I
can find.
CDR Altimeter unlock light - excuse me. The
altimeter unlock light has been on a inordinant amount of time
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this run for some reason. Just went out. Just came on again.
CC Roger.
CDR Don't know why.
PLT Okay, there were some at 30 and I think
I'Ii move up to another place. Now, we'll give it a
little more. I'm not sure how this thing runs - -
CDR Reference 2 on 191. Let me give you a
A2 and C4. A2 is 50 percent. C4 is 71 percent.
CDR Okay, good enough.
PLT Let's take some data around in here now.
We're on the Black Rock Desert now, Dick. Picking a uniform
site it's a little bigger I guess. I'd have to say that the site -
sites are more uniform in the Smoke Creek Desert than they are in
this one.
CC Roger, Jack. l'm looking at the picture
of it. I wish I was looking at it through the scope.
CDR We do too. We wish we could crowd all
of us in here. Get us all in here about 15 in flight.
I'm in intervalometer 20. And I want to be A to standby. A to STANDBY.
R to STANDBY. Stand by for 1806. 1806 192 MODE STANDBY.
That's it. 192 to STANDBY. S is ON. R is ON. Standing by
for a auto eal at 18:25.
CDR I can't see there. I got you. TV box
was not on. You weren't getting that down-link box -
let's put it on right now.
PLT Now we're looking at Yellow Stone land - Lake.
light.
CDR Let's don't.
CDR NOt.
PLT Got a nice shot of Yellow Stone Lake,
here. I caught some of the nicest trout out of that
lake a few years back.
CC Bragging again.
PLT Ah, they just don't want to leave me alone
I Each time I got my hook out of the water they leaped off
and tried to get in my bucket. - way I could save them was
to leave.
CC Why'd you leave.
PLT Had my limit.
CDR 30. 190 is out and shut down at the moment.
PLT They were biggies too. They're about - AI,
what if I told you they were 16 inches? Would you believe they
were 16 inches?
CDR 20 - 30.
PLT I'm getting you another site right now,
you ain't going to believe this. But I'm getting you that
site by Swan Lake.
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CC Good show.
PLT I didn't think we could reach over that
far but we are - over clear to 21, 22 gimbals. The Oahe Reservoir.
Now we're moving off it. Can't get any more of it. We got it
down to 26 forward. And there's a little town of Mobrldge, Mobridge,
North Dakota. Long story behind that.
CDR (Garble).
PLT (garble)
CDR Stand by there. On S and R, stand
by.
PLT There's Mobridge.
CC And Skylab, we're going to drop out here
from Goldstone, in about 30 seconds or so I'ii call you again
at Bermuda in about 4 minutes.
CDR S ON and R ON.
PLT How about that.
CDR Not bad.
CDR 91 ON. Ol on 93. 0154. Okay.

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SL-III MC-1944/I
Time: 15:22 CDT, 47/20:22 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

20 hours 22 minutes. Loss of signal at Goldstone. Acquisition
will be coming up at Texas - Bermuda in three minutes in
45 seconds. Pilot Jack Lousma, again giving a running
commentary of the northern U.S. as they pass over on the
26th EREP pass this afternoon, commenting on Smoke Creek
Desert which is in Nevada, approximately 50 minutes north
of Reno in the Black Rock Desert which is i0 miles north
of the Smoke Creek Desert. A little lesson in Geography,
Pilot Lousma referred to Mobridge North Dakota, Mobridge
is in South Dakota. However, he did mention that he did
catch a lot of fish in Yellow Stone Lake. We will have
acquisition in Mila in three minutes. We'll hold the line
up for this continuation of EREP pass.
CDR Here we go that's . .. , good.
PLT Another ... maneuver for the good
guys on the ground.
CDR STANDBY and R to STANDBY. EREP 2
stop. That's it. New tape measurement, I think I can do
that. Maybe.
CDR Tape measurement. (Garble)
CDR Plenty of tape left.
CDR One and one quarter.
CDR One and one quarter inches.
CDR Okay. Let's record B7.
CDR B7 31 percent, just as it was before.
Here comes 92 door coming closed. Ninety one to latch.
Would you care to latch that when I close it, Jack?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay. Just a second and it'll be closed.
All right, it's closed.
PLT Latched.
CDR All right. I'ii turn off the record
switch. And that's about it.
CDR Okay. Let me run those mags for you
a little bit. 190 MODE to AUTO, READY light ON. Frame 04.
INTERVALOMETER -
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you at
Bermuda. And we had a little keyhole here. But, we're
out of that now. And I've got you about 3-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. We're going back on another
(garble) maneuver and getting her powered down.
CC Okay.
PLT On the desert sites, I was about half
zoomed in when I was taking data except right in the end.
But the desert big enough so that I don't think that I was
pointed off of it, because of the misalignment in the optics.
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CC Roger.
PLT And then in fishing around there looking
downstream, came across the Missouri River and I scanned
down it until I got to the Oahe Reservoir and homed in on
the big field between the Oahe Reservoir and Swan Lake,
which is another one of my sites and it was gimbal angle
clear over to the right. And we're no longer able to
hold it after the top gimbal got past about 25 or 26. I
think I called it out after it got to there_ why we
just didn't have enough right gimbal to hang onto, so
weren't able to track the true zero.
CC Rog, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. Couple of things for
you. First of all, sorry we didn't help you catch that
EDU down-link problem there a little bit earlier. We did
want to verify what position the EDDU, correction, the EREP
down switch was during the EREP pass and where it is now.
CDR Dick, we had it at 4 and then right at
the time it said turn it off, when I turned it off I realized
that I hadn't turned the switch on over here, although, everything
was connected. So, it's now in OFF.
CC Roger, AI. What switch are you referring
to that did not go on?
CDR The one called television power.
CC Okay, AI. Thank youvery much. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS. I'Ii call you at Canary at
in about 3 or 4 minutes from now. One note we also wanted
to remind Owen and Jack on these HK70 Yankees that are scheduled
later, we expect CBRM 5. We'll barber pole first so we can
suggest leaving the monitor switch - the switch selected to CBRM 5,
except when you desire to monitoring CBRM i0.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Roger. I'ii call you at Canary.

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9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

20 hours 32 minutes with loss of signal at Bermuda. Next
acquisition will be Canary in approximately i minute 20 seconds.
We'll hold the line up for this Canary pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Canary 9 minutes.
CDR Say Dick, the way we might not make a mistake
on that again, is on the 3 op configurations check have
that for last item, down-link VOX position 4, TV switch on.
CC Roger, AI, I think that's a good suggestion
matter of fact we were just pouring - you know - through
the pads and the prep cue cards and so forth and trying to see
how we could have helped you out there.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the SPT, it looks like
CBR - looks like battery number 5 is not going to re-charge
completely prior to this upcoming sunset so we'd like to
change the swap around and do the HK70 Yankee on CBRM i0
first and then later Jack can do the same procedure on
CBRM 5, and that reverses the comment a min - ago - I did
a second ago. This means that i0 will probably barber pole
first, so we'd suggest leaving the switch on i0 except when you
have to monitor 5 if that occurs later. Over.
SPT Okay, I'ii start it on i0, then.
CC Good show, thank you.
SPT Hello, Dick, are you there?
CC Yes sir, sure am. Go ahead.
SPT Simple question. Will you explain to me why
the reg volt flag was barber pole in the daytime and ... at night?
CC Owen, we cut out there right in the
middle of that. Ask your question again, please.
SPT Okay, I guess it's a simple question. But
why does that reg volt flat stay barber pole by day and it
goes grey when it came night?
CC Okay, we'll think of an answer I'ii get
right back to you, Owen.
CC Owen, Houston, do you have CBRM 17 selected
now?
SPT Negative. I got i0 selected right now but I
dialed in several others on either side of it and they all
showed the barber pole during the ends of the daytime period
and then they switched to grey when it turned night.
CC Okay, Owen thank you. We'll get back with
you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up at 21:19 and Owen, we're
still thinking about that question and puzzling over it and
we will get back to you when we can explain it well to you.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
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20 hours 45 minutes with loss of signal at Canary Island

tracking station. As Skylab-lll returns to social - solar
inertial attitude. One of the items the crew has on tap now
is to check CBRM number i0 charger battery regulator module
number i0. This is to determine the state of the charge of the
battery following an EREP pass during which time the vehicle
uses mostly power from the batteries and not the use of the
solar cells during this EREP pass. Next acquisition will be
Honeysuckle in 33 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours
45 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

21 hours 18 minutes. Acquisition coming over Honeysuckle
in 42 seconds. We've had a change over in the Mission Control
Center, with Flight Director Chuck Lewis, CAP COM Astronaut
Henry Hartsfield.
PAO There'll be a change-of-shift briefing
in the news room, building i, at 4:30 with off-going Flight
Director Phil Shaffer. Change-of-shlft briefing at 4:30 in
building i, news room, off-going Flight Director Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle
8-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. In regard to the question
on the barber pole on batts. What position was the power
system marker switch on panel 130 in? Was it in OFF, or
bus i, or bus 2?
SPT No. I was looking at reg, at the time.
CC Okay. Had it been in off, bus i or
bus 2, then we might have expected that since we have
this anomalous operationon CBRM 17, in which we have a short
in the daytime that goes away at night. However, if we're
i either in reg or BAT, when we're getting the barber pole day,
and going away at night, then we'd like to look at it a little
more.
SPT Okay. It's there right now also. I just
switched from BAT to reg. And it shows barber pole in the
reg volt.
SPT For example I can look at reg ii. And it
shows barber pole, right now.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. If it's convenient, could
you give us a BAT volt reading on BAT i0 for a telemetry
comparison?
SPT BAT volt is reading 31.1.
CC Roger; copy. Thank you, Owen.
CC SPT, Houston. Just to give us another
data point, is your power system alert light on?
SPT I've got a BAT charge alert light.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT But no power system.
SPT On all regulators, all the way to 1 through 12,
I've got a barber pole on reg volts, right now.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; one minute to LOS.
Hawaii at 39.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
21 hours 29 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 9 minutes 50 seconds.
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9/12/73

Discussions on this pass with Science Pilot Owen Garriott

concerning the CBRMs, charger battery regulator modules,
of which the crew is making periodic checks of the status of
the batteries on board the spacecraft. At this point in
the Mission, Commander AI Bean is scheduled to be performing
physical training. He'll be using the bicycle ergometer
or several of the - one of the several exercise devices
aboard the spacecraft_ while Pilot Jack Lousma is performing
the TO - TO02 manual navigation siting experiment. Next
!_. acquisition will be Hawaii in 9 minutes. At Greenwich mean
time 31 minutes 30 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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,._ 9112173

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

21 hours 59 minutes. We have a tape playback over the
Hawaiian tracking station of 3 minutes and 15 seconds.
We'll play that now, and pick up live over Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. Whenever it's convenient,
!!i we'd like to get a TACS INHIBIT.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay Hank. Did you want both the
hardware and software. Is that right?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay. I'll do that.
CC Skylab, Houston. For a little info
here. A little while back, one of you, I don't recall which,
adjusted the attenuator settings on the S192. We've
finally gotten the data back and analyzed it from our
down-link and the new settings are doing the job. We've
got much better signal. We really appreciate your good
work there.
PLT Okay. Al did that Hank, and we're glad
it's coming down better. I looked at the alinement today, just
took a quick look at it. Didn't touch it at all but it was
reading 82 and 66 on the visible and 44 on the thermal. Now, I
understand from that that the problem was in the thermal.
Would that attenuator adjustment take care of the thermal channel?
CC This was on visible channels 4 and 5,
I think.
PLT Okay. Well how is the thermal channel doing.
I understood that in the past it wasn't quite up to snuff and
there was some question of what to do about it.
CC Okay_ Jack. We still got problems with the
thermal channels. We're still discussing on what to do about it.
There has been some talk of maybe even bringing that cooler
back and trying to adjust the thermal on the ground and
taking it back up on Gerry's flight.
PLT I see. Okay. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. No need to acknowledge
on your PT there, but we're tentatively setting up your
private call for 03:08, which is a little past your bedtime,
if that's all right you, but it looks like it's the only
_ time we can work it in there.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS,
Goldstone at 51.
CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We show BAT 5 is
fully charged now, and we'll be ready to start the REG
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i
! check on that CBRM this rev, in fact the REG check you can
do prior to this sunset, which is about 16 minutes from
now.
SPT What did you say the last. You said it
is required prior to this sunset _ Is that what you said,
_!;
i!
_ Hank ?
_ CC Right. We would like to start the
..... housekeeping 70Y on BAT 5 this pass, which means that the
_? REG check, which is done in daylight, should be done just
prior to this sunset.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 02 and we'll
be dumping the recorder.
SPT Hank, did you want us to start working
on CBRM BAT number i0 now?

haven't
cc we? i think alreadysupposed
to startedlO,
SPT Okay. You want 5 now. That's right.
CC Right. We want 5. We didn't get to
start 5, you recall, because it didn't have a full
charge on it.
CC What we did was we reversed them in
order. We were going to do 5 and then i0, but because of the
_, state of charge on 5, we started with i0.
_ CC Was the phone call time okay with the
CDR? At 03:08?
_ CDR Perfect.
CC Okay. Good show.
CDR Couldn't hear you. I was up here
exercising.
CC And Skylab, on CBRM 10, we start our
continuous in - continuous monitoring in 5 minutes, prior to
the next sunrise.
PLT Okay, Hank. I ... reg 5 off and then back
_ on and it works okay.
CC Okay. We copied. Good show.
CC Skylab, Houston. About 4 days ago on
EREP 18, we got some intermittent data from the down-llnk
VOX, and then on the next day, on EREP 19, when you changed
from the red dot to the blue dot connectors, everything
sort of cleared up and we were wondering if you noticed
anything funny about that red dot connector. I believe it
was the CDR who made that connection. I'm not sure.
PLT What was it that you got better when
?_._ we did that, Hank?
_:_ CC Okay. We hooked the EDU or the (garble)
down-link VOX into the red dot and I remember AI had some
_ troubl identifying what was red, and the data we got that day
_ was intermittent, then the next day on EREP 19, we changed
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from the red dot to the blue dot connector. I'm not sure
which one that is - J-3 or one of them in there and the
intermittent condition was no longer present. And I guess
the general question, if you can remember was, did you
notice anything funny about the connections on the red dot,
and was it hard to connect up or anything like that?
PLT No, the connection went right well.
And I didn't notice anything unusual about the connectors
at all, Hank.
CC Okay. We copy. And Jack, in regard
to your request for a private phone call, it looks like
we're going to have a little trouble working that in this
evening. There just doesn't seem to be a hole for it,
There is a hole along about your supper time, however, your
spouse is picking up your son from football practice and
didn't think she'd be there.
PLT Okay. How about somewhere between
24:30 and 01:30?
CC That's a possibility, but can you
break away from the MO92?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Ascension at 19.

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Time: 17:11 CDT, 47/22:11 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours ii minutes loss of signal at Bermuda. Next acquisition
will be Ascension in 6 minutes and 45 seconds. CAP COMM is
Astronaut Henry Hartsfleld and Flight Director is Chuck Lewis.
Next acquisition will 5e Ascension in 6 minutes 30 seconds.
At Greenwich mean time 22 hours 12 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 17:17 CDT, 47/22:17 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 17 minutes. We will have acquisition at Ascension
in approximately 45 seconds as Skylab space station begins
its 1,751st revolution of the earth since launch from Cape
Kennedy on May 14th.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension i0 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes sir, go ahead.
CC In regard to your request again for the
phone call the time we were looking at was in that area - about
00:42 and I talked to Gratia and she wasn't sure when she
has to pick the boy up so I told her I'd check with her later
this evening so what we are targeting for right now is Guam
at 42 K the following stateside pass. You have to be through
in time to start monitoring the CBKM' s at 16 past the hour.
PLT Okay, I'm sure if I'm not available we
can find somebody to take over for a few minutes on that.
CC Okay, so we're going to try and set it up
for somewhere in that time period and I'll try to have word
for you later on this evening.
PLT Okay, well if it doesn't turn out to work
out for her while we'll just do it tomorrow night. What time
was that again, Hank.
CC Okay, the site we'd like to do it at is
Guam at 00:42 that will give you a 10 minute pass and if we
can't get it in there we'll get it on the following stateside
which starts at 01:07.
PLT Okay, real good. Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute to LOS. Carnarvon
at 52.
PLT See you later Hank.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 29 minutes loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 22 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 22 hours 30 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 17:51 CDT, 47/22:51 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 51 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Carnarvon
in 25 seconds. We'll leave the line up for this Carnarvon
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get the
fine Sun sensor bias switch to the IN position.
CDR So would I. Thanks for mentioning it.
CC Skylab, Houston; one minute from LOS.
Guam at 07.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CDR Hank, I noticed my little pad tells me
to go to find active region 24 and 15. I'm kind of wondering
about 15, I think it's Just gone, adios.
CC Roger. I believe it probably is. It
should have gone around the corner, shouldn't it?
CDR All I can see is 24 right on the limb
and 19 behind it. So I'm just kind of wondering how I'm
going to point it at 15. Maybe they want me to just point
on the limb in the general vicinity and take up 82Bs,
although, that doesn't exactly make sense. I can sure do it.
CC Okay. We'll get you an answer at Guam.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 1 minute, with loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next
acquisition will be Guam in 4 minutes 45 seconds. At this
time, the Science Pilot is in the midst of a presleep
activity checklist, while Pilot Jack Lousma is performing
some standard housekeeping chores and personal hygiene, with
Commander A1 Bean serving another hour and 15 - 20 minutes
at the Apollo Telescope Mount. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
should be beginning an MO92, MO93 run, lower body negative
pressure device, vectoreardiogram experiment, with Pilot
Jack Lousma serving as the observer. Next acquisition will
be Guam in 3 minutes and 50 seconds. We'll keep the line
up for this Guam pass.

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Time: 18:03 CDT, 47/23:03 GMT
9/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 6-1/2

minutes.
CC And CDR, inanswer to your question we'd
like for you to do the last 2 building block 10's on active
region 24 instead of 15 and if 24 is not on the llmb or right
on the limb we'd like for you to do one of those building
blocks pointed precisely at the limb.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC Skylab, Houston, you might be interested
we just got another update in on Fred-O, and he's continuing to
show improvement his progress is slow as it is in any of the
burn cases but all the burned areas aer healing up nicely and
he has no serious problems at this time. Looks like now
that there will be some skin grafting required on the inner
portions of his thighs but this won't be done for another
couple of weeks yet. He's up walking around although he's
doing it a little slowly and they allowed him to have visitors
now in the evening.
CDR Hey, real great.
PLT Glad to hear that Hank, whenever you talk
to him or somebody goes down there why be sure to let him
know we're thinking about him.
CC Okay, we sure will.
CDR And thanks for giving us the update.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 00:31.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
23 hours 16 minutes loss of signal over Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 14 minutes 25 seconds. Pilot Lou -
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is performing the MO92/M093
medical experiment while Commander AI Bean is serving another
1 hour period on the control and display panel of the
Apollo Telescope Mount. Pilot Jack Lousma is serving as
observer of the pair of medical experiments being per-
formed by Science Pilot Garrlott. The pass - the pass 2
passes overCarnarvon and Hon - Guam very quiet, very little
conversation with the crew and CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone 13 minutes 35 seconds.
At Greenwich mean time 23 hours 17 minutes. This is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 18:30 CDT, 47/23:30 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

23 hours 30 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone
in 35 seconds. CAP COM is Astronaut Henry Hartsfield - -
CC Through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS. We'll have a short dropout and pick up again at
Mila at 37.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you
through Mila and Bermuda for 12 minutes.
CDR Okay. We got finished a little early.
I did that one on the llmb, and now I'm doing one on the
other active region. And - 19. And I'm giving the mirror
auto raster a 766 again. It looks llke we had a little time
for that and giving a 7-minute exposure to 56 on filter 5.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I guess that 766 is the number they like.
CC Roger. We copy. And we'd like to get
a readout on batt 5 voltage for correlation with telemetry.
CDR 31.5.
CC Roger. We copy. And as a reminder,
we'll be wanting to monitor batt I0 during this night
side coming up.
CDR It's on my mind and it's reading about 30.2.
CC Understand. 30.2.
CDR We're going to be able to give an
8-minute exposure to 56, here, not at 7. We'll give
that a go.

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CDR You there, Hank?

CC Roger. Another 3 minutes.
PLT Okay, I don't know how important it
is or not. We had trouble with one of our transporters
earlier in the day and we got it back in operation now.
That's transporter 5, and I've got it loaded with C161, and
we'll report that on the film log tonight.
CC C161. Roger. Copy.
PLT C161.
CDR For your information, Hank, the voltage
here now on the BAT 5 is 28.4, so it - We probably got about
25 minutes here or something.
CC Roger. EGIL expects it to drop off
this pass and also don't forget, we want to pick up on the
5 minutes prior to sunrise with checking BAT 5.
CDR Yeah. I'll just stay here and watch it.
CDR Tell EGIL we won't let it out of our
sight.
CC Flight says you got about 10 minutes
left on BAT i0. That's his prediction.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Ascension at 58.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
23 hours 50 minutes with loss of signal at Bermuda. Next
acquisition will be Ascension, a low elevation pass, probably
6. degrees. The pass is scheduled to last 6 minutes.
Ascension in 7 minutes and 40 seconds. Today's 5 hours
and 40 minutes at the Apollo Telescope Mount gathering
data on the Sun will bring the mission total to date to
249 hours of data takes on the Sun. Premission plans were only
for 186 hours. The crew has accomplished 269 Sun passes
gathering data of the activities of the solar Sun. Pre-
mission plans, we had 142. This increase in activities of
observations of the Sun is due largely to the crew's
input early in the mission Commander Al Bean had requested
that he be permitted to have more time at the ATM console.
They managed to add one pass on in the morning and one
pass in the evening, thereby raising the grand total to
almost 250 hours as of today's operation. Today the crew
has for dinner filet mignon, peas, vanilla wafers, butter-
scotch pudding, and lemonade for commander AI Bean. A
similar menu for Pilot Jack Lousma. Science Pilot Owen
Garriott is scheduled to have prime ribs of beef, mashed
potatoes, green beens, ice cream and lemonade. Next
acquisition will be Ascension in 6 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours 52 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 18:57 CDT, 47/23:57 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

23 hours 57 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Ascension in
approxlmately 30 seconds. CAP COMM is Henry Hartsfleld.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
'_ 5-1/2 minutes.
_i
ii:_ CDR Okay we locked that batt about 8 minutes
so that's not a bad guess by Eagle.
_ CC Roger did - -
CDR 3356.
i_ CC Okay, did you get a barber pole or it
Just kept at 27.
CDR Barber pole. They always go at about a
smidgen under 28 volts.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Right now 5 is about 28.2, so it may not
have long to go either.
CC And for the PLT, your private comm is set
up for Guam at 00:42.
PLT Thank you very much, Hank and
I appreciate it - I appreciate your working that one.
CC No problem. Glad to do it.
CC Skylab, Houston 1 minute to LOS. Carnarvon
at 28.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
24 hours 4 minutes, with loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 24minutes. This is Skylab
Control.

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PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

00:28 minutes with acquisition coming up at Carnarvon in
approximately 30 seconds. As Science Pilot Owen Garriott
should be concluding the MO93 vectorcardiogram experiment
with Pilot Lousma serving as observer. Commander Bean should
be at the Apollo Telescope Mount concluding a 5 hour session
of observations today of the Sun. We'll hold the line open
for CAP COMM Astronaut Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 10-1/2
minutes.
CDR Roger
CDR The battery number 5 didn't quite kick
off. It was down to about 28.1 or less when sunrise occurred.
CC Roger, we copy EGIL says about 5 minutes
more on that one.
CDR If possible. Also while we were waiting
to get started, our shopping lists a standard mode for 52 and
a 5 minute exposure on 56 filters 3.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 40 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 42 with a data recorder
dump and a reminder for the PLT this is his private comm.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
00:39 minutes loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next acquisition
will be Guam. Little conversation between the ground,
Astronaut Hank Hartsfield and Commander AI Bean on this pass
what there was concerned the CBRM batteries a daily check
of the status of the batteries at each night side pass. Next
pass will be Guam in approximately 2 minutes. We'll leave
this line up for the Guam pass.

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CC Skylab, Houston; through Guam for

9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR And Houston, Jack's reading them but
they're not reading him at all.
CC Okay. We'll check it out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We suggest the left
antenna there. I don't know whether that'll help it or not,
but that's the best one.
CDR He tried left and right. He hears them
great. So the antennas seem to be working.
CDR Okay. They're checking into it, AI. I
don't know what else we can do.
CDR ... physical. Sometimes it just works
perfect, and sometime it's a little bit rough. A suspicion
that sometimes the down-link comes down to the ground and
somehow doesn't get back to Houston for a little while.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've checked everything
down here. Everything looks normal.
PLT Hello, Hank. How do you read?
CC Okay. Read you loud and clear.
PLT Okay. The VHF isn't coming through.
I'm hearing them, with lots of noise, but they're not hearing
me.

CC Okay. I don't know what to tell you at

this point. We've checked out the ground station here and
everything seems to be all right. I'm sure you've already
rechecked your configuration on board there. What we might
do is configure for this next stateside and give it a go
there if it's all right. We can try it again.
PLT Okay. That's all right with me, if it'll
work out with you guys.
CC Okay. I think we can handle that okay.
And we'll - And Goidstone will be at 01:07. And we'll pass
that to Gratia.
PLT Okay. That'll be fine, Hank. I appreciate
it very much. Thank you.
CDR Hank. Looking at the Flight Plan tomorrow,
I see one problem. That's with Owen there, SPT. There's
no way he can get that postsleep activities, MII0, hemoglobin
and specific gravity done in 2 hours.
CC We copy.
CDR I guess for him to do that would be at
least three, because it takes that long.
CC Looks like we may have had a little
goof there in the Flight Plan.
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CDR May be they can fly that ATM out of

there and let him have that whole time in there to do the
postsleep ii0, hemoglobin and all of that other right in
there.
CC Okay. We'll work it.
CDR Got it?
CC PLT, Houston. The site, Guam, reported
that they received no down-link whatsoever on VHF. So we
may have a problem with the spacecraft.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS, Goldstone at 07.
CDR All right. Jack's talking to somebody
in there.
CC Okay. I guess they're trying to check
it out. They redid some reconfiguring at the site. We were
hoping to get it ironed out here before stateside. Maybe
they've got it licked now.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
00:52 minutes, with loss of signal at Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 14 minutes and 45 seconds. Discussion
between the ground and the spacecraft during this Guam pass
concerned the problem Pilot Jack Lousma was having in placing
a - the phone call to his family as the spacecraft flew over
the west Pacific. An attempt will be made on this Goldstone
pass for another placement of this call. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 14 minutes. At Greenwich mean time
00:53 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 20:06 CDT, 48/01:06 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

i hour 6 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone on the
close of the 1,753rd revolution of the spacecraft.
CC Skylab, Houston stateside for 17 minutes.
PLT Hey, Hank somehow we lost the down-link
on the VHF - in the handover.
CC You lost the down-link in the handover.
Copy.
CC Okay, we're checking it now, Jack.
CDR Hey, I'ii be watching the DAS for Jack,
so no strain there.
CC Okay, thank you AI.
CC Skylab, Houston i minute from LOS.
Vanguard at 34 with the Evening Status.
CDR Okay, and back to CBRM 5, barber pole so
I put on a charger took off the reg.
CC We copy.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
i hour 25 minutes. Loss of signal at Mila. Next acquisition
will be a low level pass over the Vanguard in 8 minutes.
This is the start of the 1,753rd revolution of the Skylab
workshop launched from Cape Kennedy May 14, the clocks at
Mission Control Center now read Day 48 in the mission of
Skylab llI, Julian calendar day 256. The crew has approximately
an hour and 34 minutes before their scheduled sleep period
begins at this the close of their 47th day in space. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard which is scheduledfor the
Evening Status Report with Commander Bean. Skylab Control
1 hour 26 minutes.

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Time: 20:33 CDT, 48:01:33 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

i hour 33 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard in 40 seconds
for the Evening Status Report with CAP COMM Astronaut Hank
Hartsfield and Commander A1 Bean. We'll hold the line up
for this pass.
CC Skylah, Houston through Vanguard for
6 minutes. Standing by for the Evening Status.
CDR Ready to look for our little evening
report.
CC Ready to copy.
CDR Okay. Here it comes, i17 - no, I think
that's 112, 130, 205. Let's start again. 112, 130, 205;
6024, 9917, 6512; 6.252, 6.252, 6.250; 5.957, 5.956, 5.959;
6.949, 6.951, 6.951; 2/35/5041, 3/15/Mark I, 3/10/Mark II,
3/05/Mark III. The SPT was not scheduled and he's not going
to do his exercise till after the 171 run which occurs in
just a little while. So he'll probably report late. PLT,
1/05/0603, 2/35/8681, 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; B; D; 20, D; and
20 backbends. No medication. Sleep: 6-I/2/G, 6/G, 6/G.
Here comes the food log. CDR, 8 salts plus 2 salt pills
plus a lemonade; SPT, 4 salts, add grape drink, butter cookies,
peaches; PLT, 4 salts, add butter cookies, grapee, and lemon
drops, substitute pork and potatoes and applesauce for tuna
and bread. Here comes the photo log. M487-4A and M48-7 -
I didn't do that right. M-487-4F, C158, 45, C153; we did
those last night, but it was too late to report. S183, UA02,
88; S183 PRI for MI51, C160, 70, C152; S183 and DI3 in 151,
C160, 41, C152; VTS, track 41A, 43A, and 45A, CL04, 80.
Here comes the 35-millimeter: CII04, 60; CX32, 00.
70-millimeter: CX26, 160, ETC, CT 08, 104. EREP, set B:
8275, 7612, 8488, 8482, 2025, 9344. Drawer A: A-l, no
change; A-2, 05, C161, 99, C154; A-3, 06, C160, 41, C152.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Tomorrow's Flight Plan looks
good but that one exception I mentioned earlier. Owen can't
get that work done that fast; no way. SPT - shopping list
accomplishments. SPT, he did a zero math calibration of
both SMMD and the BMMD while the spacecraft was maneuvering
and in SI. We're trying to put together - put to bed
that statement you can't work these items when -
unless you're in SI. So he did a lot of extra work there.
Four sets of auroral photos, handheld. Inoperable
equipment: nothing. Jack fixed the transport
that wasn't working. Unscheduled - it's fixed
with - we removed the film from it. Unscheduled - the
torn film. Unscheduled stowage item location change:
wet wipes from 742 to 768, two portable timer batteries
from M202 to timer. And in one portable timer
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Time: 20:33 CDT, 48:01:33 GMT
9/12/73

CDR tone battery from M02 - M202 to

timer. Just a minute.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS. If we lose out here, we'll be coming up on Gold-
stone at 02:44 with your medical conference.
CDR Okay. That's a total of three tone
timer batteries. We didn't can use any timer ones, Just the tone
generator batteries for the timer. And one can blue washcloths
from 737 to the WMC and that's it.
CC Okay. We got it and there will also
be a recorder dump at Goldstone. We're about an hour and
three minutes away from Goldstone.
PLT Looks like the (garble) comm works
out well finally there, Hank.
CC Okay. Good show.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
i hour 41 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next ac-
quisition will be Goldstone in i hour and 2 minutes at
which time the final portions of the Evening Status Report
will be made and the medical conference will be conducted
with the crew. Greenwich mean time i hour 42 mlntues, this
is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 21:43 CDT 48/02:43 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

2 hours and 43 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone
in 45 seconds. The last stateside pass for the night for
the crew of Skylab III. We expect the completion of the
Evening Summary Report by Commander AI Bean, and the medical
conference with the crew by the Flight Surgeon, and probably
a goodnight on this pass as the spacecraft passes over
Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got you now for
another 7 minutes.
CDR Go ahead there, Hank. Hey Hank, you
been getting my TV down-link?
CC You send something down AI?
PLT Yeah, I got a TV down-link at Madrid
here, so I didn't get a chance to talk with you because of
the med conference, but I'm sending it down anyway.
CC Okay. We're getting it. Looks good.
PLT Good.
CC And for info, we commanded REG i0 back
ON.
PLT Okay. I didn't notice if the old CBRM
number 5 was out when I came up here or not. But it's not
working right now. Oh, I got three yellow lights.
CC Okay. We've noticed a funny down here
too that it didn't get charged up and we're puzzling over
it.
PLT Say Hank, how about the frames remaining?
CC Ready to copy.
PLT Okay. H-alpha, 5242; M. Milligan, 668;
Dr. Tousey A., 27; Dr. Tousey B, 156; Bob MacQueen, 1946;
Vaiana and Kreger, 1615;
CC We copy.
CC On the evening status report, you said
you got some lights out of 742, to move to 758. Should
you have meant 741 or - 742, we think, is an FTS locker.
CC PLT, Houston. We're going to be
commanding the CBRM 5 to try to get it back on line.
CC Did you copy, PLT?
PLT Roger Hank. The REG light is still lit,
and you got the charger and the battery lights off. And now
say again your question about that locker.
CC Okay. In the Evening Status Report, you
read down that you were removed some wet wipes from locker
742, that, we think, is the flight data file locker. Did
you really mean 741. Which locker was it?
PLT No, I think you got the wrong number,
but I'II go down and look. Just a second.
CDR 741, yes.
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9/13/73

CC Okay. Thank you.

CC We got about 4 minutes left on this
pass, how about a quick rundown on the late news?
CDR That's a good idea, Hank.
CC Okay. We'll get on with it here.
Chile's new ruling military junta has begun rounding up
supporters of President Salvadore Allende, who reportedly
committed suicide after a coup ended his attempt to bring
socialism to his country. Allende's first ouster on
Tuesday, followed weeks of unrest created by the Marxist
President's refusal to come to terms with the countries
moderate and conservative majority. For the first time,
the Nixon administration has invited key members of Congress
to help draw up the Federal Budget. A proposal by a budget
director Roy L. (garble) asked that a series of meetings be held
with Senate leaders on -

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SL-III MC-1960/I
Time: 21:55 CDT, 48/02:55 GMT
9/12/73

CC - and the Nixon Administration has invited key

members of Congress to help draft the Federal budget. A proposal
by a budget director royal asked a series of meetings he
held with Senate leaders on next year's budget was quickly
accepted by the Senators. (garble) North Carolina - North
California fire fighters reinforced their lines today after
the region's last big active fire slowly died. Skylab news
centered around yesterday's EREP passes and manufacturing in
space. The two developers of a flying automobile have been
killed in the flaming crash of their craft only minutes after
takeoff in Oxnard, California. Known as the flying
Pinto a combination of a Ford Pinto auto and Cessna air-
plane the prototype plunge to earth about a mile from Ventura
County airport, late Tuesday afternoon. And in sports the Houston
Astros put 26 men on base through 9 innings including ii on
hit but only 2 of those runners could score. Then the Astros
got 2 runs in the 10th without a hit last night to whip San Diego
4 to 2 and salvage a split of the two game series. Following
his quick decision over Ken Morton, Monday night, Muhammad
All said he wants only 2 more major fights against Joe Fraizer and
George Foreman in that order. And finally in sports Coach
Tom Landry picked Roger Staubach as the prime quaterback
for the Cowboys. Craig Morton will be traded.
PLT Great Hank. Would you add one thing to the
exercise report for me. Add on some 2/30/4500, please.
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT And I got the ATM put to bed, maybe the
boys in the baekroom could take a look at it, Hank.
CC Okay, we'll take a look.
CDR What time is my private comm, Hank?
CC Okay, A1, that's coming up at Vanguard,
the next station at 03:08 and we're about a minute from LOS
now. Unless you want different we plan to give you a wakeup
about 17 after the normal wake up time tomorrow morning.
CDR Okay, we're still puzzling over what we're
going to do about Owen not being able to do all that work in
a couple of hours.
CC Okay, that's all squared away. We're -
we've changed the ATM schedule pad and It'll be coming up
reflecting the correct ATM activities and it essentially gets
rid of the pass Owen has.
CDR Excellent, because I think that will
make everything run smoother tomorrow.
CC Okay. The ATM panel looks good.
PLT Thank you Hank.
CC We'll say good night to you now. I'ii
talk to you tomorrow.
CDR Good night, Hank. Enjoyed working with
your team today.
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Time: 21:55 CDT, 48/02:55 GMT
9/12/7S

PLT Good night, Hank.

CC Good night.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
2 hours 58 minutes. At the close of day 47 for Skylab III
crew a day which had 5 hours and 50 minutes of the ATM
gathering data on the Sun. Two EREP passes both over the
United States, continuation of the manufacturing in space
experiments. One performance of the MO92/M093 by Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott. Tomorrow 2 more Earth resources passes
scheduled. Again both over the United States, another test
flight of the TO20, foot maneuvering unit, on tap for tomorrow
and 5 hours and 50 minutes of gathering photographic and
electronic data of the Sun is scheduled for tomorrow. In
addition a series of photos will be made over East Malasia,
the northern part of Borneo. Objectives of these handheld
photographs are to capture on film the major drainage basins,
surface water distribution, and the major land forms for
mineral and petroleum exploration in that Indonesian country.
At the close of day 47, Greenwich mean time 3 hours - 3 hours
0 minutes, the public affairs console will close for the
evening reopen again at 6 a.m., September 13th, at
Greenwich mean time S hours. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1961/I
Time: 22:19 CDT, 48/03:19 GMT
9/12/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

3 hours 19 minutes. We have the daily mission surgeon's
report on the status of the health of the Skylab-lll crew,
which is as follows. The crew is in good health. There is
no current medical problems that would shorten planned mission
length of 59 days. Signed Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky, for Dr.
Royce Hawkins, Deputy Director, Life Sciences Director,
Johnson Space Center. To repeat, the crew is in good health
there is no current medical problem that would shorten the
planned mission length of 59 days. At Greenwich mean time,
3 hours 19 minutes, the Public Affairs console will reopen
at 6:00 a.m., Thursday, September 12 - September 13.

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SL-III MC1962/I
Time: 06:14 CDT 48/1].:14 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Good morning, this is Mission Control

at Ii hours 14 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 48.
Skylab is nearing acquisition at the Vanguard tracking ship,
first call today will go up there. About 2:35 a.m. Central
daylight time today the crew was awaken by a sieve flow Caution
and Warning. Had a brief conversation with the ground. Ground
apologized for not reminding the crew to inhibit that caution
and warning. Here's a tape of that conversation.
CDR Sieve flow.
CC Skylab, we got you through Hawaii for
3 minutes.
CC Skylab, we got you for 2 minutes.
CDR Just had a sieve flow caution and warning.
We went up and checked it out; punched it off. It was
kind of an intermittent and - or temporary, and then turned off
both Sieve flow caution and warning.
CC Okay, that's fine. I guess we should have
reminded you to get that earlier. Sorry.
CDR Not your fault. Should we be turning -
leaving them on during the day and turning them off at night?
I can put it on my checklist. I didn't know we were supposed
to be.
CC We recommend inhibiting those day and
night, AI.
CDR I don't know why we got them on then. Okay,
they're both inhibited now; and we're going back to bed. Thanks
for coming up.
CC Okay, see you in the morning.
PAO That completes the tape of the conversation
between Skylab Commander A1 Bean, the spacecraft communicator,
Story Musgrave. Dr. Musgrave is still on duty and will be
the spacecraft communicator at the Vanguard. Flight Director is
Milton Windler. Two Earth Resources passes over the United
States today, 5 hours and 50 minutes of solar studies, and
a suited run of the foot controlled maneuvering unit this
afternoon; the unit being operated by A1 Bean with Lousma as
the Pilot. We're acquiring at Vanguard now.
CC Morning, Skylab, AOS the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Story, we're on our way.
CC Okay, now, we've got a little bit of flight
planning change to do here because tape recorder 3 has got some
problems as far as handling MO93 data goes. It's been dropping
out on US.

CDR Is it something we can remember or we got to

wait until we get our flight plans?
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9/13/73

CC No, I'm about to give it to you right n_w.

We'd like Jack to replace AM tape recorder number 3 per
a general message that you got up there now. 4834 it's called
general message AM tape recorder.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Story, I'll do it.
PLT When do you want that done? Do that on the
flight plan or what?
CC ]it's not on the flight plan. We need it
done prior to a MO92, M093 run in which you're the subject.
PLT Okay.
CC ()wen,Houston.
CDR He's listening, go ahead.
CC Okay, this flight plan change, get him to
cancel all his ATM prior to his ETC OPS.
CDR Okay, he's got that.
CDR ()kay, and AI, I got something for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Due to that tape recorder failure we lost
MO93 data on Owen yesterday, and we're thinking we'll cancel
his ATM OPS. We'd like to work in M093 in on him between
the M092 on Jack and Jack's M093. You're the observer there,
and you can stick him right in there in the middle if possible.
CDR ]in other words run Jack a 92 and then run Owen
a 93, and then run Jack a 93?
CC Yeah, that's what we're thinking about.
CDR We can do it.
CC And if you're ready to copy, I've got just
a few
hints on things to look at while you're doing that.
CDR Okay, you'd better hold on that one, I don't
have any pieces of paper.
SPT Hey, Story did you say you got my 92 but
not the 93. Is that right?
CC That's affirm. This subframe 3 failure on
that tape recorder, the 92 data is fine.
CC And, AI, we need a Nu-Z update.
CC Skylab, we see a good Nu-Z update. Going
LOS in a minute. See you over Canaries in i0 minutes, be
dumping the recorders there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has loss
of signal. Next station will be Canary Islands in I0 minutes.
Eleven hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1963/I
Time: 06:36 CDT 48/i[1:36 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 36 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up on acquisition
through the Canary Island station with overlapping coverage
with Madrid.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid, 14 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're putting a little WLC and a
little XUV mon syncs on the VTR.
CC Okay. In the next 12 minutes, let me know
when you've got a couple minutes to copy things down.
PLT Okay Story, the tape recorders were changed
out, and I'm ready for you to make the appropriate selections
for your direction. The number of hours on the day old tape
recorder are 1070.
CC Okay, thanks, Jack.
CC And Jack, we've got an instrumentation
panel 204 configuration for you when you're ready.
CDR Go ahead, I'll do it.
CC Recorder 1 to experiment voice. Experiment
1 voice, that's recorder 1 experiment 1 voice.
CDR Okay, keep going.
CC Recorder 2 data voice, and recorder 3
experiment 2.
CDR Okay, they are all there.
CC Rog.
CDR And standing by to copy your notes.
CC Okay. On cycling Owen through the M093
remind him if possible to finish his eating prior to an hour
starting to ride the bike. And some switch positions to look
out for when he starts doing his M093 be sure to select the
subject, that will be 2 for him, and also to put his VCG gain
positions in. And of course when you run Jack at his subject
in VCG gain positions in. And we'll need high cals on both sides
of both M093s. Get high cals on both sides of both of them.
CDR I haven't looked at the schedule right
in there. Is the reason for sandwiching in - between the runs
there and Just let Jack float around for 17 minutes is because
Owen's got to be somewhere then, at the end of that or what?
CC If we didn't do it this way, we'd have
to schedule, you know, a complete run again on another day.
Owen does have an ETC ops coming up at about 14:30 or so. And
if you get behind on running this, we'll schedule your canister
align that you have coming up at about 15:00 we'll schedule
that some other day. And I've got a couple more things
for you, a change to your detail pad.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
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9/13/73

CC Insert at 18:23 EREP power bus i on, S191

power on.
CDR Okay.
CC And during the housekeeping period you
got it about 15:15, you may want to look over some T020 check-
list changes we sent up last night.
CDR Okay, good.
CC And you can leave the mol sieve flow caution
and warnings, leave them both inhibit night and day.
CDR Not a bad idea.
CC And one other thing if you get ahead,
on running your M092, if you'd like to start that vent earlier
we could force a dump sample at about 13:21 over Madrid, but
we'll be speaking with you then.
CDR Okay.
CC And that's it. Thank you.
CDR Thank you, Story.

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Time: 06:47 CDT, 48/11:47 GMT
9/13/73

SPT Is 54 running?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Bet he didn't run it right. I just
started it and it didn't start. No frames were taken and
after a little while it took i frame, and it's just hanging
around on that 1 frame. Something is a little funny there.
Maybe it got hung up or tried a double run and I'm not really
sure what it's doing.
CDR May need a new start.
CC Okay, we copy, AI.
CDR Let me know what they think in the backroom.
CC We're showing - we're showing it running
down here.
SPT Okay, we'll let it run and we'll see what
happens.
CC Okay, and that CBRM 5 malfunction; we think
that's a short across the charger between the SAS and the
battery. That's what got the charger regulator battery off
line.
CDR I'ii be darn. Too bad. Okay.
CC We can get SAS power during the day out
of it, but charging the battery up, once it reaches a certain
voltage, it comes off line.
CDR You think it had anything to do with that
test we pulled on it yesterday?
CC We're not sure about that yet, A1.
CDR Yeah, well we got the bat back, you know
we just - up here part right, we think. Did we get the reg on on
time and everything?
CC We think you did it right during the test, AI.
We're about l0 seconds from LOS here. We'll see you over
Honeysuckle 35 minutes at 12:26.
CDR I'm going to restart 54 at F-negative frame
since we been talking.
CC Okay, it looks good down here. It's on the
last exposure right now.
CDR Okay, then it didn't take it's first one or
something. Something was bad. We'll let it go.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station. The next station will be Honey-
suckle in 33-1/2 minutes. As the CAP COM Story Musgrave reported
to the crew, the ground believes there's a short circuit between
the solar array system and the charger battery regulator
module number 5. This battery number 5 can continue to be
used. It'll require some careful ground management but it
can continue to be used. At 11 hours 53 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1965/I
Time: 07:25 CDT 48/12:25 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 12 hours 25 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
the Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab. We're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over the Canaries in 45 minutes at 13:16.
CDR Okay, I didn't get those two building
block 2-Ms done on the end of my orbit because I went back and
did another 54 filter 2 and I'm going to - get those on sometime
during this next orbit, since nobody will be using it.
CC Standby i.
CC Okay, copy, AI. We'll get with you over
Canary.
CDR Okay, what I think happened is that first one
did a double cycle and then I - looked at it in the middle
of the second cycle, thought it had stopped but it had not.
It was on a long exposure and that's why I went back and did
2 over because I don't think we ever got short exposures on
2.
CC That's exactly right, AI.
CDR It's got them now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal with Skylab. Next station will be Canary Islands
in 41-1/2 minutes. Here in the mission control center, this
is another simulation day with the Skylab-IV crew. There will
be two flight control teams on duty here, one involved with
the mission presently being flown. And Flight Director
Phil Shaffer and his team of controllers will be involved with
launch abort and rendezvous simulations for the next mission.
The world map on the television monitor in the news center
reflects the simulation. It does not reflect the actual mission.
The ground track and the revolution numbers and stations in
acquisition on the map have no relationship now to the mission
being flown. It's being used in connection with the simulation.
At 12 hours 36 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-1966/I
Time: 08:15 CDT 48/13:15 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 15 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition at
the Canary Island station with overlapping coverage through
Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Madrid for 13 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder over Madrid. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Madrid for 12 minutes. We'll be dumping the data vioce
tape recorder over Madrid. Over.
PLT Okay Bruce, good morning.
CC Good morning, Jack. I've got a pile of
miscellaneous mission notes here when any of you all feel
free to listen.
CDR Okay, shoot with the miscellaneous mission
notes.
CC Okay, first bullet comes right for the Com-
mander with his name on it. Relative to the canister fine
Sun sensor acquisition Sun sensor alignment scheduled for you
later on today at 14:50. We would like to delete the call
out switch to fine Sun sensor secondary at the top of page
2-17 in the systems checklist and data book for the ATM. It
is now plan to checkout the secondary FSS if and when we
need it. Over.
CDR I understand. We'll comply.
CC Okay, the sleep period SAP update, no flares
today. Flare probability on active region 19 and 24 are down
to 7/1/0, which actually looks pretty high still for the small ones.
New features you've got are active region 26 at 260, 1.0 on right
the limb. Flare probability for 200, prominence 72, 270 degrees
at 1.0, and prominence 73 230 at 1.0. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC And if - is anyone up at the ATM panel right
now like maybe the SPT?
SPT No, we're down in the wardroom at the moment.
Do you need someone up there?
CC Okay, no rush. The next time somebody
goes up there, we'd like you to check the S052 thermal power
switch. The instrument looks like it's cooling down. It's
a fairly slow phenomenon, so there is no great rush, hut we
would like to check it out.
SPT Roger.
CC And for the PLT, got a change to
the M559 pot setting if you want to write it down. For the
M559 soak temp pot setting it should 995 instead of 985.
Over.
PLT Okay, 995.
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CDR The thermal switch that was off is now on.

CC Okay, thank you, AI.
CDR And we finished the two JOP 2S this morning,
this Sun pass that we gave standard at 52. And then we're going
to power back down.
CC Okay.
CC And with respect to the BMMD and the SMMD
zero mass readings, you wanted us to let you know when we got
the data on dump. We have it and we also relay thanks from
the PI for getting this data. Over.
PLT Thanks Bruce. I'ii throw myself away.
CC And I guess that about wraps up the file
of miscellaneous mission notes for right now. We'll talk to
you later.
CC Skylab, Houston, now coming to you through
Madrid where we will be dumping the data voice tape recorder.

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SL-III MC1967/I
Time: 08:24 CDT, 48/13:24 GMT
9/13/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to

LOS at Madrid. Next station contact in 28 minutes through
Carnarvon at 13:57. Over.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station. The next station will be
Carnarvon in 26-1/2 minutes. This is the time period in
the flight plan for Pilot Jack Lousma to be the subject in
the lower body negative pressure and vectocardiogram runs
with crew Commander AI Bean as the observer. The Apollo -
Apollo telescope mount operation by Science Pilot Owen Garriott
for this time period, has been cancelled so that Garriott can
make a - a run on the vectorcardiogram between - between
Lousma's runs on the lower body negative pressure and the
vectorcardiogram. Garriott was the subject for the vector-
cardiogram yesterday. However, due to a problem in the tape
recorder, that data was lost and he will repeat that run
this morning during the time that he was scheduled to
be doing solar observation. At 13 hours 31 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1968/I
Time: 08:55 CDT, 48/113:55 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 13 hours 55 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Standing by for acquisition through
Carnarvon, with overlapping coverage through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab. This is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 13 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and
30 seconds til LOS at Honeysuckle Creek. Next station contact
in 35 minutes through Merritt Island at 14:43. We notice that
you seem to be running a few minutes behind schedule on M092.
We'd like to remind the SPT that he has a solar inertial EREP
data take scheduled to start at 14:47 Z. We'd like to get his
M093 in before lunch if you can work it. If not, however,
be fine after lunch. The only constraint we have is that i hour
must elapse betweem finishing your meal and running M093. Over.
SPT Okay. Understand all that. I just got
my medical kit put away. I'm starting my breakfast right now
and I'ii probably get done eating in time to get that solar inertial
EREP and that'll put that 93 later obviously.
CC Roger. We copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Merritt Island, Florida tracking station will
acquire Skylab in 32 minutes. That last transmission from
Science Pilot Owen Garriott. It appears obvious that he will
not be able to do the electrocardiogram run during this period.
He has Just finished the work involved with the blood sampling
and that was on the flight plan for right after wake up today.
Garriott is the one that takes the samples, processes the
blood, does the specific gravity work. He reports he's now
getting ready to have breakfast and then it'll be time to begin
preparations for the - on the Earth terrain camera which he will
operate during the first Earth resources pass. At 14 hours
12 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1969/I
Time: 09:42 CDT 48/[[4:42 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 42 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range of the
Merritt Island Florida tracking station. We'll stand by there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for 12 minutes. Over.
CDR Hello there.
CC Hello Alan. Prior to the EREP pass, we
would llke to get you to inhibit on panel 207, the battery charge
low number 3 switch. And then after the EREP pass we will call you
to reenable it. The reason for this is that the primary amp
hour integrator is lagging on PCV 3, and we don't want you to
get an unnecessary caution and warning. Secondary is in a
little better shape, but it is lagging also. We will inhibit
the depth and discharge cut off if it looks like the depth
of discharge limit as indicated on the amp hour indicator will
be reached during the pass. Over.
CDR Understand. Thanks, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR And we finished with Jack and now l'm
starting on the panel with the canister alignment check.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT Hello Houston. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear. Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I just finish that ETC pad. And am
I correct that that was supposed to be a swath across the
Dominican Republic?
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The area of
interest is right after crossing the Dominican Republic. It's
an area of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea. And it would probably
be more appropriate to describe it as being - going by Bermuda.
Over.
SPT Okay, that's what it looked llke. I was
afraid that the time had been incorrect, because we were beyond
the island before the photography began. And I wanted to make
sure that there had not been a slip up on that point. One
other little item. I just noticed here when I got the pad
update last night, and that is it appears that we are going
over the beautiful city of Enid, Oklahoma along about 17:58
in another - few revs here. And I was wondering if the EREP Officer
has time or if it is convenient for him to give me a more precise
time of when we will be passing closest approach to Enid. Over.
CC Okay. And would you spell that city, please
Owen.
SPT Well, there's a long story about that spelling,
but Just dine backwards, E N I D.
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9/13/73

CC Okay. And that's in Oklahoma, is that

right?
SPT The EREP Officer knows all those facts
down there, Bruce. He'll help you out.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can locate it on
the map, Owen. And it's a minute and 50 seconds to LOS here at
Bermuda. The next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid.
And we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder at Madrid.
SPT You're really asking for a lot of
rate mail down there, Bruce, but Just so it's all addressed to you.
CC No, I'm just pulling your leg, Owen. I'm
sure the Chamber of Commerce will appreciate it.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Madrid station will pick up Skylab in about
2-1/2 minutes. Enid, Oklahoma is Owen Garriott's home town.
Home town of both Dr. Garriott and Mrs. Garriott. And as
he indicated in his conversation with Capcom Bruce McCandless,
if Astronaut McCandless is ever in Enid it might be wise
for him to use an alias after his joking remarks about that
city. We'll stand by for acquisition through Madrid.

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SL-III MC1970/I
Time: 09:56 CDT, 48/14:56 GMT
9/13/73

PAO The flight director on duty now is

Nell Hutchinson.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Madrid
for 8 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at this site. And for the SPT, if you've completed the
ETC load we wondered if it would he possible for you to get
the M093 run in prior to your ATM run scheduled to commence
about 15:50. Over.
SPT Yeah, Bruce, I'm Just now working on
the load.
CC (3kay, we're not - we're not meaning to
bug you. I guess we just got the impression when you talked
about the pass last time that it was all wrapped up and you
were working on the load then.
SPT No, I just finished the OPS and I came down
to give you a call about it. There were 21 frames used.
CC Okay, 21; we copy.
CDR We'll get in that 93 the blank spot we
got.
CC Roger; out.
CDR Okay, now, this canister alignment, I
did it twice. Let me give you the times on the second one
since I'm apparently supposed to give them to you because
it was the better of the two.
CC Okay.
CDR I started at zero at 23:30. I stopped at
plus 5400 at 22:40, waited 30 seconds, then I stopped at
minus 5400 at 20:55, 2055, and I waited 30 seconds, then
I arrived back at zero at 19:40. Then at 19:10 I went to solar
inertial and I'm still there.
CC Okay, and those are minutes and seconds
you're giving us. Is that correct?
CDR That's the time it requested information
from the daylight remaining counter.
CC Okay, I copy; in minutes and seconds.
CDR And it says to report recording time
to STDN, there at earliest opportunity. We're now going to
go back to experiment pointing where it'll then he in the
normal configuration.
CC Okay, and would you open the fine sun
sensor doors, please?
CDR Normally when you go to experiment
they do, and darn if they didn't. But you had me worried
for a minute.
CC CDR, Houston. Over.
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CDR Go ahead.
CC Yes, sir, you're a hundred percent correct
in thatwhen you select experiment pointing, it does open the
fine Sun sensor door. However, while the door is opening
you have about a 15 second period where the canister is in
experiment pointing but has no reference, and the fine Sun
sensor wedges have a tendency to drive. We've had a glitch
or two in the past on this subject. And what we'd like
you to do prior to operating ATM next time for data taking,
is to go through the wedge rezeroing procedure if you would
please. Over.
CDR Okay, you're right. Let me do it right
nOW.

CC Roger.
CDR And it looks like we did re-zero up because
I just zeroed the roll and checked the center of the 52 and
it's about 30.2 which is about nomnial.
CC Roger, we copy. Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Jack. We're experiencing some
difficulties with the VTR dump. I wonder if you could verify
that during your performance of TV4 this morning you did
have a good picture on the monitor. Over.
PLT That's affirm; we had a good picture.
CC Okay, thank you. And we have i minute
until LOS here at Madrid. Next station to contact in 25 minutes
through Carnarvon at 15:31. Out.
CDR Houston, we just installed the calibration
cartridge mol sieve B.
CC We copy. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Madrid station. The next station will be
Carnarvon, Australia in 24 minutes. At 15 hours 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1971/I
Time: 10:30 CDT, 48/15:30 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; 15 hours 30 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
the Carnarvon station.
CC Skylab. This is Houston through Carnarvon
for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Owen. Are you up by the ATM panel now?
SPT Negative.
CC Is there anybody up there?
SPT Negative but we can get there.
CC Okay. Next to it, we need to verify that
the TV input station panel 133 power system's switch is in the
OFF position. We're having trouble still dumping the video
taperecorder. Over.
SPT Okay. Stand by.
SPT Okay, Bruce. TV power on panel 133 is
and has been off and for information I'm just now instrumenting
for 193. Over.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Anything else you want checked while I'm up
here?
CC Negative.
SPT Okay.
CC And - for the PLT, Houston.
CDR He's on the bike and can't hear, go ahead.
CC Okay, never mind. I'ii catch him later.
CDR Also, we checked the position of the other
TV power cables and they're off.
CC I understand, all the other TV input stations
are off. Thank you very much.
CDR The only thing that I see that's just a
little bit different than normal is that we left the - downlink
VOX wire in the television power station 133 all of the powers
OFF. We do that every once in a while when we have an EREP
coming up.
CC Roger. We copy. It's our bellef that that
should not make any difference. However, for your information the
problem that we've encountered is that on dumping the VTR, the ATM
video came down beautifully and at the point where you should
have switched over to the portable camera, the signal changed
to one that could not be demodulated in terms either of television
signal or the EDDU signal and we're trying to track down what
the situation is on that. We'll keep you posted.
CDR Okay. Sure hope it isn't that switch,
although we've got a spare panel, I think. Okay.
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9/13/73

CDR Too bad. Because we put - not only put the

blood draw in there but we put the hemoglobin punch and looking
through the hemoglobin (garble) 42.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And for the SPT, I have your time over head
Enid when you're ready to copy?
SPT I don't have a pencil right now, Bruce.
Can I catch you a little later on, I'd appreciate it?
CC Certainly.
SPT Thank you.
CDR (Garble) sounds llke you managed to find it
anyway.

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SL-III MC-1972/I
Time: 10:45 CDT 48/15:45 GMT
9/13/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston, 30 seconds to

LOS. Next station contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 16:15. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Honeysuckle station. And the next station will
be - the next station will be Texas in 27-1/2 minutes. We
have gotten a time when Skylab will be almost over head Enid,
Oklahoma, and Capcom will pass that up later. That time is
17 hours 59 minutes 2 seconds. And as Owen Garriott told
the Capcom he was glad they were able to find it. Capcom
McCandless considered another joking remark and told the flight
director, pointed out to him that there are five flight direc-
tors on this Skylab mission, three of whom are also native
Oklahomans. At 15 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1973/I
Time: 11:14 CDT, 48/16:14 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylah Control at 16 hours 14 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylah coming up on acquisition at
the Texas station for a pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Texas
and Bermuda for 17 minutes. Out.
CDR ()kay, you want a little TV downlink?
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR Okay, I'ii give you a little XUV mon. I'm
pointed off the Sun here, but maybe it'll be acceptable.
I don't want to move because I'm getting ready to run a
mirror auto raster at a different gratings setting and I want to
make sure I'm in the same place.
CC PLT, Houston. When you have a minute
I have a request for you.
PLT (garble)
CC ()kay, on your maneuver pad for EREP pass
27 coming up here, we would like you to do the TACS enable
and to load the maneuver time for the maneuver to ZLV at 17:20
vice 17:32 if you would. This is so we can verify it in the
computer on the downlink over Honeysuckle. Over.
CDR Tell me what it is now and I'ii load it now.
PLT Okay, 17:20 (garble).
CC CDR, Houston. We we'd just as soon hold
off and do it at 17:20. Over.
CDR Okay with me. Why though?
CC Well, the procedure we've been following
is to have the TACS inhibited except when we're getting ready
to do a maneuver or EVA. And we're about an hour and a half
prior to maneuver and we don't see any particular point in
leading it by it another hour over the half hour or so that we
have built in at 17:20. Over.
CDR No, what - I was thinking of TACS. No -
no question there, I was just thinking if you wanted the maneuver
time set in, I'd just: put it in for you now. No trouble,
let's stick with your procedures.
CC Okay, 17:20 it is.
PLT Hey, Bruce, could you give me that time
for - cross Enid.
CC ()kay, at 17:59:02 will be your closest
point of approach; that's 175902. And you'll be nearly
overhead, that is at an 88 degree elevation angle with respect
to Enid. And the spacecraft will pass slightly south of
town. You're going overhead 18 seconds prior to the end
of the ETC OPS, so if the cloud cover permits, you'll probably
get some pictures of the old homestead there.
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Time: 11:14 CDT, 48/16:14 GMT
9/13/73

PLT Good, very good, I was hoping that it would

fit into that block on the schedule and that's very nice that
it does. Thank you very much, Bruce, and the EREP officer
down there for checking it out.
CC Roger.
CDR Me and Owen Just completed M093.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Looks llke there's a little tropical storm
brewing off the Coast of New Orleans there, somewhere.
CC We'll check with weather on that, Jack.
Right now it doesn't seem that we've heard about it.
PLT It - classic counterclockwise pattern to it.

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SL-III MC-1974/1
Time: 11:24 CDT 48/16:24 GMT
9113173

CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We verify that there is a cyclonic
circulation pattern over there by New Orleans. This is the
remains of the tropical storm that was around Palacios around
3 days ago, tropical depression that is. And it has no name
to it, but the pattern itself is better developed than was
Delia's. The maximum surface winds seem to be around 5 knots.
Over.
PLT Thanks a lot. It looks just like the
clouds are developing and I'm glad it's not doing much of
anything.
CC Roger.
PLT It seems to have the classic eye level
pattern, but it doesn't have the big nucleus of storm clouds
associated with it in the middle.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Do we have
some body to be free for a minute to run a portable camera
test for us over this station. Over.
PLT What do you need done, Bruce?
CC We need to take the portable TV camera
and connect it up to TV input station 133 which currently has
the EDDU plugged into it, I believe. Then the I_DA video select
switch on 132 to TV, TV input station 133 power on. Verify
you have a good picture on the monitor and we'll tell you when
to shut it off. Over.
PLT Okay.
PLT There you are, Bruce. How do you like
the picture of the Big O?
CC Say again?
PLT We've got it cranked up.
CC Okay. Thank you. You got a good picture
on the monitor.
PLT Yeah, the back lighting looks good, but
let me shine it down in the workshop.
CC No, no, no. What I mean is from a techincal
stand point. You got a raster and you got a recoginzable
picture and all that stuff on the monitor.
PLT Yeah, it's a good picture, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact is Madrid in 5 minutes at 16:36.
We will be dumping the data voice tape recorder at Madrid.
And the TV picture that we're receiving down here is no good
at the present time. We'd like to leave the TV camera hooked
up and operating through 133 until some time in the Madrid
pass. We'll give you a call on it. Over.
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Time: 11:24 CDT 48/16:24 GMT
9/13/73

CDR Yes, I think we changed the power

cable. So if you don't get it, let us know and we'll change
out the power cable real quick.
CC Let's see, when did you change the power
cable last?
CDR We changed it Just before the EREP run
because it's now on our downlink box.
CC Okay, we'll talk to you over Madrid. If
you've got the other one handy, you might be standing by with
it.
CDR We've got it handy, and we're standing
by with it.
CC Roger.
CC Go ahead and change it out now, AI. I'ii
look at it at Madrid when we get you. Over.
PAO ! This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Madrid
station in about 3-1/2 minutes. A1 Bean is in the process now
of changing out the power cable to the television. We'll
evaluate the quality of the TV at Madrid when Skylab has
acquisition there. Owen Garriott has completed his belated
run on the M093 experiment, electrocardiogram. He did not
get that accomplished earlier, however Skylab Commander Alan
Bean took over Garriott's spot at the ATM console to allow
Garriott to complete that run. We'll keep the line up and
monitor for the Madrid pass.

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SL-III MC-1975/I
Time: 11:34 CDT, 48/16:34 GMT
9/13/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid in 7-1/2 -

for 7-1/2 minutes. We will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at this site. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC And understand you're configured with the TV
camera with an alternate power cable at this time. Is that correct?
SPT That's correct.
CDR And when you dump that recorder how about
having somebody look and make sure that we've gct Jack's M093.
We did a 92 and then immedlcately did a 93.
CC Okay, Skylab. We now have good video, so
would you take that cable which yon just took off and strangle it
in red tape for the time being and put it somewhere out of
the way. You might give us the serial number on it also when
you get a chance.
CDR Okay, we might also want to check it and see
if it's good enough to work with the down-llnk and we can use
it as a permanent down-llnk and we won't have to be moving the
other cable around.
CC Hey, negative. On the ground here we have
found that the channel Ii and channel i data which we got down
through EDDU just the other day was bad and they were telling
us, that was because you guys hadn't turned the input station
on and we think right now that it's because of that cable.
We think it's completely bad on the signal part of the cable.
CDR Okay. We've turned that down-llnk VOX on
everytime but the last pass yesterday. And we did not have
the box on then.
CC Okay, we copy. You might - not right now,
but you might think back and see if you can recall any other
applications where this cable was used. Just get it out of the
system right now.
CDR Okay. I'm looking for the serial number
on it. And I'm not having a lot of luck.
CC And CDR, Houston. Was this cable that
we're calling bad, the cable that was used between the
EDDU and the TV input station on the first EREP pass yesterday?
Over.
CDR Aw, I don't know the answer to that one.
Owen - Jack says no.
CC Okay. Well, that may not have solved our problem
then. I guess for right now, we'll consider it bad and put
it out to one side.
CDR Okay. And I can't find any serial number
here's one, 3002.
CC Beautiful. Thank yon.
CDR Okay, we're turning off this TV set then.
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Time: 11:34 CST, 48/16:34 GMT
9/13/73

CC Stand by please. Okay. Roger. Go ahead

and secure the TV.
CC Skylab. This is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 40 minutes, through Honeysuckle
at 17:22. And that'll be a fairly short pass, a little over
a minute. And we'll be verifying the TACS ENABLED and the
maneuver time loaded during that contact. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. The next station will be Honeysuckle in 37-1/2
minutes. The elevation on this revolution is too low at
Carnarvon for satisfactory communications. With the change
out of the television cable, the Madrid station reported receiving
good quality television from this last pass. At 16 hours 45
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC1976/I
Time: 12:21 CDT, 48/17:21 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours

21 minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking station at
Honeysuckle, Australia is about to acquire Skylab. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Honeysuckle
for i minute. Next station contact in 30 minutes through
Goldstone at 17:52. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce, how do you like the time
on both of those maneuvers?
CC Roger, it's GO, both the TACS hardware/
software and the maneuver time. A quick question for you.
Did the cable used to give good TV come from the EDDU
installation? Over.
PLT Yeah - yeah, it did, Bruce. The first
one was the one we had on the TV; the second one was the one
we had on the EDDU.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Very short pass
there at Honeysuckle. The next station will be Goldstone
in 27 minutes. At 17 hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1977/I
Time: 12:50 CDT 48/17:50 GMT
9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 51 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Goldstone and the beginning of the first Earth resources
survey pass for today on ground track number 58. It crosses
BaJa, California.
CDR Sorry I mentioned it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston.
CDR You made it in and out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, and Bermuda for approximately 16 minutes. Out.
CDR Sounds llke a nice trip.
CDR 17:53. Everything is working well, Bruce.
CC Glad to hear that.
CDR MARK. EREP is starting. S to stand by,
and 94 to mode manual.
PLT We've got a problem with the VTS, Bruce.
CC Tell us about it.
PLT Oh, there we go. We're okay now. I thought
she was hung out, but she's not.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR VTS cal on the way. R is on. 53 A 190 mode
to AUTO.
CDR Mode AUTO on 190. I'm going to record
A2 and C4 in just a second for your benefit. Okay, A2 is
47 percent, climbing. C4 is 71 percent. Everything is okay.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR All right. By the way, just to make
things simple and we've got plenty of time. From now on out,
let's don't have a begin prep time. We'll just begin prep
at the same time we start warm up. We've got plenty of time
to do it. So we'll have a turn on time and then begin prep/
warm up time. That will simplify your thinking down there
and that will simplify ours. We're able to do it pretty
easily that way.
CC Okay. I guess that now that you've
been through it twenty some odd times, you're getting the
hang of it.
CDR Pretty much so. And also the equipment
seems reliable. We haven't had to allow much time to trouble-
shoot anything. And I think maybe a good thing for SL-IV is
when they get here they Just start.
CC Okay, you cut out after just start. Be
careful how you talk about the equipment.
CDR Okay, yeah ....
CDR 193 R to STANDBY. Just a minute. 552.
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PLT There goes White Sands. I ought to take

some data on White Sands for you. There is that lava flow
down there. Would some of that, Bruce?
CC Stand by.
CC Roger, Jack. If you see you can get it,
let's do it.
PLT Okay. We got it.
CDR He can get it.
CC You're still in auto cal though aren't
you?
CDR R to STANDBY. Yes we are. Pitch
40. But it will be off in a minute. It will be off at 56:04.
Time now is 56:02. Okay, there he is. I'll give him reference
6 even. How does that surprise you? Now he's taking data
on reference 6. 5640.
PLT It's a little off to the left ...
CDR ON and R ON.
PLT 1'11 give you some of the sand pile though.
... in the sand piles, Bruce.
CDR S ON and R ON. I thought maybe this
afternoon on my run l'd not only give him Mono Lake, I might
give him a little Walker Lake too. EREP might like that, I
don't know.
PLT I know that they're awful easy to get along
with.
PLT i[5:33 I ought to be ... Reservoir, but
I think it's going to be in the clouds.
CDR That's a minute and a half from now, Jack.
As you well know. I'm going to INTERVALOMETER i0 in a few moments.
PLT I was going to pick off ... Reservoir
for you, space fans. But looks like we're just hitting that
front.
CDR INTERVALOMETER i0.
PLT We'll we're going to get our frontal clouds
nadir swath pretty good. At 15:33 I figured out.
CDR MODE READY on 192. Everything is moving
along.
PLT And that 15 and a quarter (garble) - -
CDR - - 58 A to STANDBY when the time comes.
93 pole 4.
CDR A to STANDBY. 93 to POLE 4.
CDR That's not right
CDR Tango pitch zero. I've got it. 5830.
I'm going to record A-2 and C-4 for you again. 5830.
PLT It looks like frontal clouds it's going to
be, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. A-2, 52. C-4, 71.
PLT There you are.
CDR Dropping now. A-2 is now around 41. It's
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behaving llke it normally does.

PLT (garble) little hot for you today with no coop-
eration here with the weather.
CC Owen's big moment is coming up here in
about 3 seconds.
CDR I hope the weather is good.
CC MARK. Overhead Enid.
PLT It's got a few scattered clouds.
CDR Good.
CDR 193 enter (garble).
PLT There is a hole in the clouds.
CDR Just a moment.
PLT Owen, (garble) Air Force base.
CDR (garble) STANDBY. R STANDBY, S ON. R ON.
Okay, we've go it. Ready out on 190 and 5930.
PLT Owen, there is a hole in the clouds right
over Enid.
CDR Enid does it again. Okay, ready out.
PLT We've got a lot of fans down there.
CDR 59:40 is 190 mode STANDBY.
PLT Of all the luck.
CDR He needs it.
PLT He's a lucky guy.
CDR Stand by frames 04. INTERVALOMETER 20.
Standing by for 18:00 and 30.
PLT ... I've got to slew up there
and pick up the big lake. We've still got these frontal clouds
here. Let me see if I can delay it a little bit.
CDR Okay, POLARIZATION 3.
PLT Well, there is Lake Michigan all right.
CDR POLARIZATION 2.
PLT There is a elomp of clouds. I need to
find a hole in there some where.
CDR POLARIZATION i.
CDR 90 in MODE AUTO.

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CDR Right on.

PLT Okay, we're taking data on Lake Michigan.
I got a hole in the cloud; a little hazy, except the (garble)
with a few (garble).
CDR S to STANDBY, R to STANDBY; S ON.
!_ Standing by for 147 at which time we go S STANDBY again
_ and A ON.
PLT Give me all the tough targets.
CDR S to STANDBY to STANDBY; A to ON.
PLT Enid, Oklahoma use to be famous for
the - being the home of the Grand National Quail Hunt. Now that's
got to take second place with the Big 0 there.
CDR Two minutes, READY OUT, MODE to STANDBY
frames to 6.
PLT Never give up.
i_ CDR I just put the 0 in there again.
We'll live through it though.
CDR (garble) SI.
PLT Okay, we're going down to (garble) 15 on
the gimbals on Lake Michigan. You know what we're doing now.
CDR MODE STANDBY on 92. 224 S OFF and
R OFF. That's it, S OFF: R OFF. 2S6, SHUTTER SPEED MEDIUM.
SHUTTER SPEED MEDI - MEDIUM.
PLT Lancing looks clobbered, spacefans. High,
over there.
CC Sorry about that, Jack.
PLT Yeah. Well, guess I'm just going to have to
just sneek a peak around here and find what else I can find. One
up over Lake Huron and Georgia Bay.
CDR I haven't got much running. In fact, we
got ziltch running. 191 is doing - -
PLT What - Georgia Bay, we're passed Georgia
Bay. Lots of clouds.
CC You got 193A on, don't you, AI?
CDR Oh, yeah, that's right; I see it down there.
It is on. Altlmeterlng along here. You're right. Thank you,
Bruce. Also, 194 is on.
CC Roger.
CDR Well, we got 3 of them, and the tape recorder's
on.

SPT I, 2, 3, 4. 29 frames on the ETC, Bruce.

CC Okay, Owen; we copy.
CDR 28 of them were Enid.
PLT What a lucky guy. What a guy.
CDR He couldn't see the clouds spread around
him.
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CC I guess we'll tell the photolab to lay

out another stock of 16 by 20 print paper.
CDR That's right. How many citizens are there?
528.
PLT We've turned on the anticloud switch for you
right on tome there, O.
SPT Sure appreciate that.
PLT I knew you'd like it.
CDR ALTIMETER went OFF. Standing by for 528
which is a minute from now. ALTIMETER'S unlocked for some
reason. Okay, it's finished it's move.
CDR 528.
PLT Okay, you wanted some data in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence the other day and now's the time you're going to
get it.
CDR Oops, there's some water there now, Jack.
Bombed that one. Okay, ALTIMETER'S still unlocked, but
maybe that's the way it works about this time.
PLT Okay, I'm not going to take any pictures
of this because it's not (garble) to photograph.
CDR A to STANDBY, 5, 6, 7, 8, MODE 28, range - -
PLT Mark your data, I'm looking in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence.
CDR - - 65. 610 is A going to be ON?
PLT And when I get to zero I'm going to
nadir swath.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Is anybody in the backroom
keeping track with all the extra data we're getting so that
they can correlate it, or is it just wasted energy on our
part?
CC No, it's very useful. Just keep describing
it and tell us what you're getting. And we're recording
the voice and the data, we'll correlate it later.
PLT Okay, very good. And at the moment we're
(static) And (garble) I'm going nadir swath right
now.
CC Did the CDR get 193A on at 0610?
PLT You better believe it, but thanks for
asking.
PLT (garble)
CC Yeah, my general philosophy is just
to not to say anything is because I - everytime I do I
interrupt you.
CDR No, you don't. (static)
PLT Clouds are over the Gulf - -
CDR Keep us (garble) here. I got it on.
PLT No, that's a good idea, Bruce. Keep -
keep us straight here.
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PLT Okay, we're going over intermittent clouds

and water at the moment. We're going to get some clear
water here quickly. I'm going to swath a little bit
the rate.
SC Okay.
PLT Now we're into clear water.
PLT How do you llke the maneuver time back to
solar inertial, Bruce?
CC We like that.
PLT Over the clouds now MARK. Okay, now we're
going to hit land. STAND BY.
PLT MARK, we're over land and clouds. Land
and clouds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
18:13 where we'll dump the data voice tape recorder. And if
you get 193A locked back on when you turn it on again or
see the altimeter.
CDR Yep, that's affirmative. It appeared to
have gone through a sequence and then just retired. And then
when I put it on the ready light came on and the altimeter
slowly unlocked and - Iean fully locked up and it's been flickering
every once and a while. Presently locked.
PLT Still over land and clouds.
CDR 33, we got to go MODE AUTO.
PLT Hey_ we're coming into water again. STAND
BY.
PLT MARK, we're over water. Our up/down is
zero and we got 15 to the right end. Fifteen angles to the -
15 degrees in angle to the right. (garble) angles come in
degrees.
CDR Okay, we Just turned MODE AUTO on to S190.
PLT STAND BY time is 13.
CDR Yes, I'm watching it for you, you got
4-i/2 minutes.
CDR 926 is A to STAND BY.
PLT Check. Okay, we're on the Atlantic now.
We're taking data over the Atlantic. And we're coming up
on some scattered clouds here now, and I'm going to take
my finger off it.
PLT MARK.
CC Okay, we're losing you now.
PLT/CDR Okay, Hank.
CDR See you in Bermuda.
PLT MARK, we're off the - -
CC At Madrid.
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CDR Well, stop by Bermuda and - -

PLT Ole.
PLT MARK, 926 - - (static)
CDR (garble) stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Madrid will pick up in 3-1/2 minutes. Heavy
cloud cover on this pass starting in Oklahoma, continuing
on up into Canada with a few breaks in the clouds including
one over Enid, Olkahoma, Science Pilot Owen Garrlott's
home town. He should've gotten some photographs with the
Earth terrain camera which was operating as Skylab passed
over Enid. This data began in the Pacific Ocean, crossed
over Baja, California, the Gulf of California, the Mexican
Coast at Wymus, ground track entered the United States
around E1 Paso, crossed near Amarillo, through Olkahoma,
over Enid, near Topeka, Kansas, Kansas City, Milwaukee,
over Lake Michigan, the Upper Michigan Penninsula, Lake
Huron and into Canada, and will still continuing over the
Atlantic, with loss of signal. Some of the objectives this
particular pass were crop inventory studies in Southern
Michigan where there was heavy cloud cover; studies of
irrigated crops in Central Mexico, cloud densities in other
atmospheric data, and a considerable amount of that should
have been taken on this pass. Sensor evaluation and techniques,
terrain characteristics, water table analysis in Texas,
and an attempt to detect changes in urban areas since the
1970 census.

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PAO in an attempt to - detect changes

in urban areas since the 1970 census. Aurora, Illinois was
the target for that and was apparently covered with clouds.
Skylab about - a minute and a half away from acquisition at
Madrid. Today's second Earth resources pass will be over the
United States on the revolution that Skylab just entered.
That pass starting at 2:27 p.m. central daylight time. We'll
stand by now for acquisition through Madrid.
CDR 31 percent, same as it always is. 192
door coming CLOSE and I'm going OFF record.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for
9 minutes and we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
this site. Been ask to pass to you a comment that your running
commentary here on the EREP pass is the closest thing we've encountered
so far into the voice (garble) commentary that we were getting
on the lunar landings on the Apollo program. Over.
PLT Roger, thank you Bruce. Hope you'll find
it, I thought it might help on the data and the only thing
is that we don't want to land.
CC No indeed. We - We encourage the commentary
and, yeah, you don't want to land. You still got a few days
left up there.
PAO Skylab, has started maneuvering back to
solar inertial atitude.
CDR And Bruce, we're going to be turning
off everything but the 192 power here in a few seconds.
CC Okay, we copy that AI.
CC And CDR, this is Houston. We've got to
GO from EREP for you to do Walker Lake and Mono Lake, next pass
if you would like.
CDR Okay. Okay, I'ii give it go.
CDR And I've got to turn this 191 off here in
a second, Jack. 26. That's it. 191 is OFF and POWER is OFF,
cooler is OFF, everything is off but 92. And everything else
is fine. Okeydoke, Jack. You got your - and do that tape
recorder.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute till LOS.
Next station contact in 38 minutes through Honeysuckle at 18:59.
Out.
SPT See you there Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss of
signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in about 35 minutes.
At 18 hours 23 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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9/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 58 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle is about to acquire
Skylab. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 6 minutes. And we see you've already got the man-
euver time ordered in for the EREP maneuver number 2-8 ZLV.
It looks good to us. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC And for your information tape recorder
number 3 which was replaced this morning has been dumped
successfully twice by us. And it's looking very good to
us down here.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston. It looks
to us like you may have omitted or be a minute or so late
on the last NuZ update which was scheduled for 19:00 Z.
SPT Thanks Bruce, we'll get it.
PLT How do you like that, Bruce?
PLT We're going to (garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. It looks good to us.
Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at
19:20. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Hawaii will pick up Skylab in 14 minutes.
Skylab will conduct another Earth Resources survey Gver the
United States on this revolution. Data take beginning in the
Pacific Ocean on ground track 59, crossing the west coast near
San Francisco, going near the great Salt Lake across Idaho,
the Yellowstone Park area, North and South Dakota, and going
into Canada and there to International Falls, Minnesota,
across Canada and out into the Atlantic. Objectives of this
next Earth resources survey include geology in California,
Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, pollution, waste discharge,
wildlife migration, and impact of highway construction and
the San Joaquin Valley of California, classification of forest
and land use and detection of infestation in South Dakota,
weather and atmospheric studies, oceanography, and sensor
evaluation. The data take starts at 2:27 p.m. central daylight
time. It extends to 2:53 p.m. At 19 hours 8 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours

19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Hawaii. Skylab maneuvering now to the Z-local vertical
attitude for this next Earth Resources run.
SC ... red light's on on 194. (static)
Ready operation configuration is complete. Stand by to do
the operation (static) ... 1 minute 40 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Hawaii
for 4-1/2 minutes. We see you're in the second Z-LV maneuver.
And the maneuver time at you (garble) looks good to us. Over.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC And for your information, we believe that
TV4 this morning was a total loss because of the - the cable
problem with the TV camera. And we'll look into trying to
reschedule some time later in the mission.
PLT All right; thank you. I guess we don't
have but one other time.
CC That's correct.
PLT Man, they were good pics too, you really
missed it. You should have been here.
CC Yeah, I've been saying that for a long time,
Jack.
PLT I know it; that's what I was thinking, Bruce.
I sure hope it ain't too long.
PLT Okay, 19:23, standing by.
PLT SCAT and ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Here we
go. Standing by on that.
PLT MARK, SCAT to STANDBY.
PLT MARK, ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Now we got
to stand around for 3 minutes and 48 seconds.
CC CDR, Houston. On the last pass when the
altimeter unlocked, did the ready light go out? Over.
CDR Yes.
CC Understand, yes, affirmative. Over.
CDR That's affirm; yes.
CDR Got to remember that each site had two
parts to it. Last site had two sites but I - then track this
in the lake and swap across for i0, then I go to Walker, track
it until I get to 5, and then get out and get this granite (garble).
Offlca!ly it'd be past 5 though, see, because I do a Nadir swath
to zero.so that means when I get this it's already got to
be behind us.
PLT (garble)
CDR (garble) lO-second nadir swath. If I could
make it a 5-second nadir swath it'd be a lot better. Yeah,
we'll do it right. We missed the second one; we'll probably get
it, but I don't know if we'll be able to - -
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CC Skylab, thls is Houston; 45 seconds to

LOS. Next station contact in about 4 minutes through
Goldstone at 19:28. And for the CDR, we don't mean to be
pestering you but dld the altimeter ready light go out at
the same time as the unlock light came on? That is, were
they coincidental? Over.
CDR I do not know. I looked down and noticed
that the unlock light was on. I looked over and noticed
the ready light was out. They could have occurred In either
sequence.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR You bet.
PLT AI, I can plck that side up in 36 minutes,
and track it down to zero, which is where you need to be
for your nadir swath.
CDR At 37:08. I don't want to - I don't think we
ought to do - -

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PLT Might get you an auto cal here in a moment.

CDR Okay.
PLT MARK. Auto cal.
PLT And the light goes out. Okay, Alfa i
is reading 65 percent, and Bravo 1 is 60 percent on a slow
search it looks like to me.
CDR What's going on on your pad between,
you're going to read between 3540 and 3708?
PLT Yeah.
CDR And you'd get the special 5, is that
right? You've got to track clouds and both anvils and
the main cloud. We ought to switch permanently right then
if we're going to switch. I think we could do it if we
switched permanently.
PLT You think so? If the frontal cloud is
there then there is no sense in even looking.
CDR Well, if you can do the clouds. You'd
have to do the clouds in this nadir swath.
PLT I haven't briefed myself well enough on
what you've got to do.
CDR Point at the clouds and take data. And
then when it gets down to the zilch switch over, you know
try the anvil. You could special it to special i, special
5. The time does this go 31:46, time now 29.
PLT 29:50 1 need a (garble).
CDR Tracking column. (garble) the clouds
until you get the data. Five seconds of data. They would
llke a clear area of clouds. They don't want you to check
clear in the area, they want you to get a regular cloud here.
PLT Okay, Charlie 1 is around 90 percent,
and it's getting a little higher. It's around 90 to 95 percent.
Alfa 1 is 50, Alph - Bravo 1 is 50 to 55 percent, and Charlie 1 is
right around 94 percent right now. Alfa 1 Bravo 1 right
around 50 percent. (Garble)
CDR What have you got that on at 3540?
PLT Uh, 35;40, I'm waiting for 30 seconds
at that point.
CDR Your next (garble) is 35:30?
PLT Yeah, right in here somewhere.
CDR Ya got READY OUT. MODE STANDBY, and
then 37;06 is your next act. We could swap right there.
No you don't. You got a 36:10
PLT Wait a minute, let me look. 30:28.
PLT Okay, there's READY ON in the altimeter
at 32. RECORD A-I and B-l. A-I is 56 percent and B-i is
58 percent. And we already recorded Charlie i.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Goldstone,
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Bermuda for about 8 minutes.

CDR What'd he say?
PLT Okay, ALTIMETER was put in STANDBY.
31:49 was for (garble) REV 6 is set. 31:46.
PLT Alfa 2 and Charlie 4. I recorded this
all (garble) Bruce Alfa 2 is 40 percent and Charlle 4 is
70 percent.
CDR 31:46. Left 46 left 49. 31:46.
PLT And, I was a little late on getting MODE
to AUTO on 190.
CDR Okay, we got the target in site, right
now.
PLT Thata boy.
CDR Put the camera on. We've got the site
in site. I'ii punch it right in there, go right (garble)
PLT Okay, stand by for a SCAT/ON and RAD/ON.
CDR (Garble) Okay, we're now taking data.
CDR Camera and data. I've got to watch
this to i0 degrees when I'm going to go (Garble)
PLT SCAT is ON and the RAD is ON.
PLT 32:16 next. The (garble) is going ON.
CDR (Garble) We're right on the alley. We're
getting great data. Nice llne-up by EREP. Right on the
center of the island Right on the top, I guess. Looking
for i0 degrees. We're now at 30 - -
PLT MARK. MODE READY for 192. The MALF
light was ON and then OFF TAPE MOTION light's back ON.
(Garble)
CDR We're at 25 degrees. Everything's going
Just dandy.
PLT Stand by for SCAT/PAD STANDBY.
CDR 16 degrees we're at right now.
CDR 11:10. Okay, we're now taking data on
the lake. Taking data on the lake right next to the island.
Stand by for a - - (Garble)
PLT MARK. SCAT TO STANDBY 2 seconds.
MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR Okay, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, i0.
Okay, let's see if we can get it. Walker Lake's right there.
We got Walker Lake (garble). Run in and get it.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER - -

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CDR Right there. We got Walker Lake. (Garble)

Run in and get it.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
PLT The RAD is OFF.
CDR The lake. Take 5 seconds. With i, 2,
3, 4, 5. We gotta zoom out and go see if we can find that
outcrop. There's the outcrop. If we can get there in time
There it is. Right there. Okay, we got the outcrop. And we're
taking data on it.
PLT STANDBY for intervals I0 on 190.
CDR We've got good data on both. Okay.
Let's go to zero. Camera OFF. Go to zero. 16:15. 5. 4. 3.
PLT MARK. Intervals of I0 on 190.
PLT Zero.
CDR And we're supposed to start the
swath at 34:09.
CDR We got it made. We'll get the swath in.
PLT Alpha 2 is reading 5.2 percent.
Charlie 4 is reading 71 percent.
CDR Okay. We're in the nadir swath, cutting
across to Salt Lake, so we got them all. Everything is
working Just right.
PLT STANDBY for 36:10.
CDR Crosstrack angle 0, up and down track
zero, we're right on. There's Salt Lake, see the split
in the lake. Colors, passed over the northwest corner.
MARK. We're over the eastern edge of the lake now, we're
proceeding out towards the mouth. We continue this one with no
DAC, until 34:38. 34:38. That was Just a few seconds ago.
Okay. Let's go to the next one. 35:06, same thing.
CDR That's a pretty lake down there. 35:06.
Okay. I'm watching the data mark button. I did not have
the data mark button depressed during the Nadir Swath, previously
but we had a nlce Nadir Swath. Related to the time, weIre
right on.
PLT Standing by for 36:10.
CDR Okay. It's goin E to go off at 35:40.
35:40 this one goes off. Lots of good weather, Jack.
PLT Bertha that one is open.
CDR Wanta to give it a go if we can.
35:40. 38, 39, 40. Okay. That's it.
PLT Right there? Pencil mark
PLT You get a pencil mark_
CDR 35:56. 35:56. I got to do 36:10. Right?
PLT Yep.
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CDR Okay. 36:10. MODE to STANDBY. 36:10

92 toSTANDBY. It is. READY OUT at 36:50.
CDR It's STANDBY when READY is OUT.
CC One minute to LOS through Goldstone.
Talk to you through Bermuda in about 4 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay. (garble) Science Pilot
CDR Okay. Do you want to start tracking
a cloud at 37:08, which is another 15 seconds or so from
now, Jack. If you don't get it, start tracking an anvil top
at 37:08 at 45 degrees left zero.
CDR READY OUT. Going to STANDBY. Okay,
37:06. A to STANDBY. (Garble you more instructions.
CDR @gee more seconds, she should be at
45 degrees. Okay. Therets 37:08 I've gone A STANDBY.
MODE to 5. Range 67.
PLT I'm hunting for an anvil top but I don't
see one.
CDR Try to find one somewhere. 190 shutter
speed, MEDIUM. 37:30. Okay. Shutter speed MEDIUM. Frames
04. Intervalometer 10. 38:03. 190 MODE AUTO.
PLT I don't see a thunderstorm anywhere, AI.
CDR Too clear, huh.
PLT Yep.
CDR There's clouds, but none of them have -
llke you point out, none of them are cumulus clouds. They're
little puffy things.
CDR Can't even get clouds when you want them.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda.

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CDR Can't even get clouds when you want them.

CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Bermuda
for 6 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay. Everything went okay. We weren't
able to find any thunderstorms around so that we could do
the special 05. There's some, what I'd call a strato-cu(mulus)
or ... cu(mulus) down there, but they're all very small puffy
clouds. I've been looking for the last 4 or 5 minutes and there
just isn't any around. Owen looked out the wardroom window and
couldn't find any either. Just don't have any big funnel clouds
for us today. I may see some before it's over. So if I do,
I'ii take the data on them.
CC Roger, AI.
PLT If it hadn't been for a few clouds we'd
have pulled off the nearest EREP stunt so far, Bruce.
CC We heard you swapping places. We weren't
sure exactly what it was you were setting up for, though.
PLT Right in between the nadir swath it
turns out that the Oahe Reservoir slt_ that I have suppose
to fall into view and I got down there and I got the Oahe
Reservoir. In that picture of the reservoir my book looks
llke a dragon with front legs and back legs. And the front
legs were open but the back lees where the site is were
covered with clouds, unfortunately.
CC Sorry to hear that. But it sounds like
you're really hustling up there.
CDR (Laughter) It would have been a good show.
PLT It's kindly - kind of llke close air support,
Bruce. (Laughter).
CDR 43:34 .... - -
PLT Take them out and get them.
CDR 43:34 - -
CC (Garble)
PLT (Laughter)
CDR 43:34. And we'll get a few sites here.
PLT Okay. Let's hang in there, now. 43:19
coming up.
CDR Okay. Still no cumulus, but zero, zero
now for this last nadir swath.
PLT Let me double check.
CDR However, still 8 more minutes to hunt
before SI.
PLT Shutter speed is slow. The frames are
in 08, and the intervals are in 20. We're ready to go on an
auto at 43:19, - -
CDR 43:34.
PLT Auto on 190.
PLT Oh,rats_ We're coming ...
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CDR (Static) nadir swath.

CDR (Static) We're swapping at 00 (static)
clouds.
PLT That Oahe Reservoir is giving me a fit.
I almost got it yesterday, when it ran out of film.
PLT I had it right on, but we quit tracking
through zero, because we ran out of right gimbal.
CDR Walker Lake. We got both the lake and the
outcropping.
PLT Way to go.
CC Roger. We copied all that.
CDR Okay. 44:14, 45:33 is what we need.
The camera, running, we're getting lot of cirrus clouds down
there. We see the water now, every - I say at 95 percent covered
at the moment.
CDR 45:33. See now, we've broken out of the
clouds. Seeing about 50 percent coverage.
CDR This is a more straticumulus.
CDR No thunder bumps anywhere. The land
again. Looks llke.
PLT That's the first time llve had a nadir line
up there, that I can remember. Noticed I had A-I and B-I zoom
more slowly than they do in the simulator. That's the square
search or ... decreasing square search ....
CDR It was near the end. We're at scattered
clouds, scattered small. Now approaching the bay, I bet.
Okay. That's the end of that one. I'm going to zoom out
ahead and see if we can pick up some - -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
CDR Some sort of bumpers out here. There's some
stratus.
PLT MARK. READY light out on 190. Stand by.
PLT 49:03. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR More stratus. (Garble) all that stratus data
you want, but I'm not ... - -
PLT (Garble)
CDR I've got to go back and 53 - -
PLT 53 is your big number.
CDR Okay. Hey, bow's SI maneuver time look to
you? Probably good.
CC Looks good to us. When we saw you coming
over the hill to start with.
CDR Oh, yeah, I remember now. Okay.
CDR Got lots of stratus.
CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 4 minutes through Canary at 19:50.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hey, Bruce. 34 frames. 34 on the ETC.
PLT ... 7.
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CC We copy, Owen.
CDR Six minutes to go. You running?
PLT Yeah.
CDR See. We're doing it over the ocean now.
The altimeter's running.
PLT And, you're running, too.
CDR Yeah. I'm looking around for a thunder
storm, but don't have any. None to be had.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
19 hours 47 minutes. - -
PAO Skylab-Ill crew completing EREP pass
number 28, as we loose signal at Bermuda. Next acquisition
will be Canary in 2 minutes 20 seconds. Greenwich mean time
48 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1985/I
TIME: 14:48 CDT 48/19:48 GMT
9/13/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary

for i0 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay Bruce.
PLT Still running.
PLT MARK. 194, MANUAL.
PLT Are you there, Bruce.
CC Yes, sir. Still here.
PLT Okay. I've noticed that on the AUTO CAL
that we do after - just before we shut things down takes
about 2 minutes and 38 seconds, as about - as opposed to
2, 26.
PLT MARK. We got the AUTO CAL light ON now.
CC Isn't it normally 2,40?
PLT Yeah, but they say wait 226 on our
little checklist change and that's what's got me puzzled ....
CC Okay Jack, that is to - I believe that's
to allow you to cut the power off with the calibration
capping shutter in place instead of closing the door.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER STANDBY. And go to stop.
PLT Yeah, I always wait until the light
comes on Just to make sure everything is working all right
and so forth. And it takes 2,40, not 2,26 and perhaps the
time wasn't until light on anyway.
CC Jack, what we're trying to do is to get
you to push the button, and precisely 2 minutes and 26 seconds
after you push the button put the 191 power switch OFF. This
is before the auto cal sequence is complete.
PLT Okay. Well, then I've been doing it
wrong. I - A1 says he's been doing it your way and I've been
thinking that was a minimum as opposed to an exact time.
CC No. This is when you're shutting down
S191, llke at the end of the run here, we want to interrupt
the thing in mid cycle so that the calibration cover or
hemisphere is over the sensor and stays there, so that in
between runs the thing is protected since you can't close
the 191 door.
PLT Okay. I guess I didn't read the check-
list change that way and perhaps A1 did. I read it, it Just
says wait 2 minutes and 26 and then turn the power off, and
I thought that that was not a tlme-crltlcal thing, but since
it is, I'll make that little notation and I'll do it properly
from now on. And I appreciate you calling it to my attention,
I brought it up because otherwise I probably would have Just
kept on making sure I waited at least 2,26 and then power
off sometime thereafter. But I'll do it right on the money
here from here on out.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT I'm glad we found that out, Bruce. And
B-7, just for the record is reading 30 to 31 percent. That's
Bravo 7.
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CC Roger. We copy.
PLT And the door is coming closed on 192.
Window is coming closed and -
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
tll LOS here at Canary. Next station contact in 36 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek at 20:35, where we will be dumping
the data voice tape recorder. Out.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
20 hours i minute. Completion of the 28th EREP pass for
Skylab III. The pass was across the United States ending
up over Canada. Next acquisition will be Honeysuckle Creek
in 33 minutes 35 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours
and i minute, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1986/1
Time: 15:04 CDT, 48/20:04 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

20 hours 4 minutes. We have announcements from William C.
Schneider, Skylab Program Director. Today Hr. Schneider
announced that the second Skylab manned mission has been
given approval for continuation to the end of the planned
59-day mission with nominal recovery on September 25, 1973.
This approval for a fourth incremental extension beyond
28 days, followed the review of the inflight medical data,
and the recommendation of the NASA Director of Life Sciences,
Dr. Charles A. Berry. In accordance with routine established
procedures, there will be the usual medical assessment of
the crew's medical status prior to the EVA now scheduled for
September 22, 1973. The crew's health and spirits are
excellent. Their body weight has been relatively constant
since mission day 5, with daily fluctuations commensurate
with their eating and exercising. The cardiovascular system
of all three crewmen has been closely monitored every 3 to
4 days throughout the mission, and has appeared to be res-
ponding similarly to the Infllght findings on the crew on
the first Skylab mission, which lasted the planned 28 days.
Dr. Berry stated that considering this is the 48th day of
the mission, and even though the commander did not complete
the full lower body negative pressure protocol on mission day
46, which was terminated 2 minutes short of the full duration,
this crew should be considered to be in better condition
than expected, based on the 28-day mission experience. How-
ever, he went on to state that the final assessments of the
effects of the 59 days of manned spaceflight can not be
made until the crew returns to the one g of Earth and the
postfllght medical examinations have been completed, showing
the time to return to preflight baseline. This ends the
announcement from William C. Schneider, Skylab Program Dir-
ector. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours 6 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1987/I
Time: 15:34 CDT, 48/20:34 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

20 hours 34 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Honeysuckle
in approximately 40 seconds. Following the successful EREP
pass Just concluded on the last stateside pass, Flight Direc-
tor Nell Hutchinson commented to the EREP Officer, "We had
a pretty good day on EREP." As Skylab is now in its 48th
day in the mission, Flight Director Phll Shaffer is heading
a team of flight controllers conducting a simulation of the
rendezvous and docking simulation for the next mission with
the backup crew of Skylsb IV. This simulation is now in
its third revolutlon. Phase elapsed time on this sim is
now 3 hours and 40 minutes. CAP COHH for the simulation is
Astronaut Dick Truly. We'll hold the llne open for this
pass over Honeysuckle. CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
CC This is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek
for 9 minutes and we will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at this site. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 9 minutes, dumping the data voice tape recorder at
this site. Over.
CDR Okay. You might take a look at our momentum.
We think that we Just fired a ...
SPT And we had an ATM mall momentarily Just
as you were giving us a call.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Roger, we confirm
a ... We saw only one firing. We believe that your momentum
is at its peak right now. It will be going down so Just hang
in there and it should work out. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC And for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. We've come up with the procedures
for shifting your circadian rhythms around prior to launch.
The reason (garble) shifting your schedule 2 hours early,
that is with a 2-hour early wakeup, commencing with mission
day 52 and then an additional 2 hours commencing on mission
day 54. So you wind up with your day shifted 4 hours early.
Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going to do it both times here
by taking the 2 hours out of your sleep. The intent of shift-
ing you over is to avoid masking any effects or to avoid
creating any additional effects on the biomed data after
recovery due to the possible circadian rhythm upsets. Over.
CDR Okay. We understand their thinking. And
I assume then we'll be getting to bed 2 hours earlier the
night before. Is that correct?
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Time: 15:34 CDT, 48/20:34 GMT
9/13/73

CC That is incorrect. Over.

CDR See if you can convince the flight planners
to make it correct. I don't think we're going to hussle around.
Right now we're getting about 7-1/2 hours sleep. So I don't
think we're going to do too well on 5-i/2 hours sleep.
CC Okay. The input I'm getting here is that
if you guys will promise to go to bed 2 hours early, we'll
put it in the schedule. If you don't think you're going to
actually get turned in 2 hours early, we'd llke to go ahead
the schedule stuff there. Over.
CC I guess it's a credibility problem here.
CDR I'll tell you what, I think we ought to
end the work day 2 hours earlier on those 2 days preceding
2. So we have the time available to go to bed when we feel
like it.
CC Okay. We'll do that, Alan. And - I -
try to clean up a couple of items here. For the SPT, we
have S063 scheduled for tomorrow. What is the status with
NKOI, Nikon electric camera? Does it work properly electri-
cally now? Over.
SPT As far as I can tell, it does work
properly.
CC Okay. Thank you. And for the PLT, on
the star/Moon sitlngs for T002, we're wondering if you
think you'll still be able to see the Moon on mission day 49
which is tomorrow from our plots on the wardroom window and
all that. It seems sort of marginal. We think you're
probably in a better position to estimate. Over.
PLT Well, I'ii agree that I probably am in
a pretty good position to do that, Bruce, and the Moon seems
to be out there right now and if I were to have to do it
right now, I think I could do it. So I think I could
probably do it tomorrow.
CC Okay, our plan is to schedule star/Moon
sitings up to day 50, inclusive, and to assist in our -
Okay, I got that, I'm sorry. That's it. Thank you.
PLT It looks like to me this must be our
last opportunity to do that. And I'm wondering how many
of those star/Moon sessions I got to do yet.
CC PLT, Houston. We have two more star/Moon
sessions scheduled following those scheduled for tomorrow.
I can't get a real firm input right now on when they'll
be in the Flight Plan. Over.
PLT Okay. It looks llke if we can't get them
tomorrow or the next day we probably won't get a chance to
then, if the Moon wont, be in a able position so maybe we
ought to either try to get two sessions in one or count two
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PLT in one as we've - that many in the pad.

Now I got a little word to relay to you about EREP. Number
i point is that we change the desiccants today. Number 2
point is during the tape measurement I got 2-13/32 inches
of space remaining on the takeup reel and 31/32 inches of
space remaining on the supply reel.
CC That was 2-13/32 on takeup and 31/32 on
the supply?
PLT I guess you cut out there for a minute,
Bruce. We got 2-13/32 inches of space remaining on the
takeup and 31/32 space remaining on the supply.
CC Okay. That's empty space measured radially
inward from the outside part of the reel.
PLT Yes, sir.
CC Beautiful. And also for you, later on
today we've got this EV3 cooling experiment and since the
M518 is using panel 115 hlgh-power accessoryoutlet,
you'll need to connect two hlgh-power accessory cables
together in series to panel 402 and run it up there in
the MDA to connect to the suit drying blower to keep you
cool. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I was going to mention
that to you. I'd like to suggest something else if I could.
We're running short of these cables and how about if we were
to take the one that's connected to the VTR right now and
plug into that one. That one's running down to the dome.
CC Let us put you off on that till the next
station and let us kick it around here. We're cuurently at
a minute and 30 seconds until LOS. Our next station contact
is in 12 minutes through Hawaii at 20:55. Over.
CC PLT, Houston. With respect to your sug-
gestion, the VTR is intended to be being dumped through
stateside sites during the period in question for the EV3
cooling experiment. Over.
PLT Okay. I'ii try to - I guess I can round
up a couple more high-powered cables. I see one here and there's
another one around somewhere.
CC Yeah, if you're going to scrounge them
up, there's probably one on the shower.
PLT We used that one. It's - well, it's
hooked up now to the centrifuge and one to the ETC. I see
them both.
CC Okay. See you over Hawaii.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
20 hours 45 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 9 minutes and 55 seconds. At
Greenwich mean time 20 hours 45 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1988/I
TIME: 15:54 CDT 48/20:54 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

20 hours 54 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii in
approximately 45 seconds. Commander A1 Bean should be in
preparations for the TO20 foot maneuvering control unit,
which he'll be flying in a suited mode today, with a pressure
suit on. The foot control maneuverin E unit will be flight
tested inside the workshop dome. We'll hold the line open
for CAP COMM Astronaut Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 9 minutes. Out.
PLT Say Bruce, we're having a little diff-
iculty finding one of the DAC magazines. CI69 is not in
I-5. It is empty.
CC Stand by on that, please.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. You can use CI70 in I-6,
and we'll track the problem over.
CDR Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
PLT Yeah, Jack, in checking our records,
the last time that CI69 was used, and it was used about
50 percent, was on your previous run of TO20. It's
one of the 140 foot magazines and we're wondering if perhaps
you could have left it in the maneuvering unit instead of
returning it to I-5 at that time. Over.
PLT No, we didn't do that. I checked that
too and I had replaced the DAC back in the DAC locker and
so there - is empty as far as film goes.
PLT We found it in 1-10, Bruce.
CC Say again.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT We found the missing film in 1-10.
the other location.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
and 20 seconds to LOS here at Hawaii. Next station contact
in about 3 minutes through Goldstone at 21:07. Out.

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SL-III MC-1989/I
Time: 16:05 CDT, 48/21:05 GMT
9/13/73

PAO We've had loss of signal at Hawaii. Next

acquisition will be Goldstone in approximately i minute
25 seconds. This is the third time that TO20, foot-controlled
maneuvering unit has been test-flown inside the workshop.
The first flight was on the 23rd day of the mission, on
August 19th. The second flight was on August 29, on the
33rd day of the mission. This is the first time the unit
will be flown in a fully-sulted mode. The experiment TO20
consists of the foot-controlled maneuvering unit, a restraint
harness, two shoe plates, a mounting fixture, propulsion
gas supply unit, or backpack, and a remote control clip.
The experiment hardware weighs approximately 73 pounds in
one g environment. Donald E. Hewes of the NASA Langley
Research Center, Hampton Virginia is the Principal Investi-
gator for this experiment. The purpose of which, is to
evaluate the mode of maneuver for potential use during
extra vehicular activity.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Goldstone for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, HouSton. One minute to LOS,
Bermuda at 18.
SPT Sounds llke you have to go to work, Hank.
CC Yeah. It's about that time. Go get
a little licks.
CC PLT, Houston. As we're going over the hill
here. We'd like to suggest you use C170 for your TO20 run.
It's a full meg and use the 69 as a spare or reserve. If
you use 69 to start with, we're afraid you'll run out
about halfway through the run.
SPT He said, okay.
CC Copy.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
21 hours 14 minutes. Loss of signal atBermuda. Next
acquisition will be Canary in approximately 3 minutes
and 30 seconds. In today's TO20, foot-controlled maneuvering
unit test flight, commander A1 Bean will straddle the
maneuvering unit as if he is riding a horse and strap on
the back pack, which contains the propellant supply sub-
system. The propellant system utilizes one of the nitrogen
tanks of the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit. Bean's foot
will be locked into foot plates, much llke wearing a pair
of roller skates. And by moving his right foot, he
mecanically operates the thrusters which are attached below
the plates and correspondingly the left foot pedal operates
the valves to the left thrusters. Two thrust control valves
are operated by each foot pedal and each thruster manifold
consists of four nozzles, position 90 degrees apart. By
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movement of each foot, individually, or by moving the

foot in the same or oposite direction, Commander Bean will
be able to control his pitch up or down, translate, head
first or feet first, yaw left, or yaw right, for roll
to the left or roll to the right. For example, if he
moves his right foot up, and his left foot down, he will
roll left and by reversing the foot movements, he can
roll to his right. Movement of the toes also results in
maneuvers. Right and left toes up, result in a pitch up
or head back movement. Pour of the thrusters provide
1/2 pound of thrust, approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes
has been set aside for preparations of today's run, and
60 minutes for flying the vehicle in simple maneuvers inside
the workshop. We've had a change-of-shlft here in the
Mission Control Center. New Flight Director is Chuck Lewis
and CAP COM is Astronaut Henry Hartsfield. We'll hold
the llne up for this Canaries pass in approximately 1 minute,
at Greenwich mean time 21 hours 16 minutes.

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SL III MC-1990/I
TIME: 16:17 CDT 48/21:17 GMT
9/13/73

SPT Hank, I don't know if you remember, we

had some discussion recently about the performance of our
persistent image scope.
CC Skylab. We're with you through Bermuda
for 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT I don't know whether you remember or
not, we've had some discussion over the last few days about
the performance of this persistent image scope.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
SPT I wish I could say I fixed it, which I
didn't do, but somehow or other it fixed itself. We've
all played with it from time to time and changed the
batteries and I never took the switch apart, but for some
reason, it's decided to behave in the way it had behaved
before. I can't help but think that there is an explanation
tha= is reasonable, that seems to be most probable that that
(garble) has changed its characteristics or something llke
that. But it now behaves in the way it was behaving in the
early part of the mission. And we can get a good image
and make good use of it.
CC We copy that, but we hardly know what
to say in response to it.
SPT I hardly know how to tell you.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, there's a
possibility that we may get a few TACS firings here in the
next few minutes. We're going into this dump with a pretty
high momentum state.
SPT Rog. It does look pretty high.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.
Canaries at 28.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for
7 minutes.
PLT Roger.

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SL-III MC-1991/I
Time: 16:29 CDT, 48/21:29 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

21 hours 29 minutes, with acquisition at Canary. They'll
be a change-of-shlft briefing in the building i newsroom
at 4:45 with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson and Dr. Royce
Hawkins. That's 4:45, building i newsroom, change of shift
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson and Dr. Royce Hawkins.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minutes from
LOS through Canaries. We're coming up on Carnarvon at i0.
We were scheduled for Ascension this pass, however, the S-band
has been given over to ALSEP support. We will be monitoring
duplex Bravo up until 45 if you need us.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 21 hours
37 minutes with loss of signal at Canary. The Ascension
tracking station is committed to support of the ALSEP data
today. At this period the six ALSEP instruments left during
the Apollo Program, on Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.
The Ascension station is committed to reception of data from those
instruments on the Moon and on this pass we will not - more
than likely not have voice with the crew. We'll hold the
llne up in the event there is. We will have a change-of-
shift briefing in the building i newsroom with Flight
Director Nell Hutchinson and Dr. Royce Hawkins. Flight
Director Hutchinson is still in the building. We will pass
word when he leaves for building i. We'll hold the llne up
for this Ascension pass.
PAO Skylab Control. We'_e had loss of signal
at Ascension. Next acquisition will be CaTnarvon in 21 minutes
and 20 seconds. Change of shift briefing in building 1 news-
room will be in approximately 5 minutes with Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson and Dr. Royce Hawkins. Next acquisition
will be Carnarvon in 20 minutes. At Greenwich mean time
21 hours 50 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1992/I
Time: 17:44 CDT, 48/22:44 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 44 minutes. We have accumulated approximately
1-1/2 minutes of tape over two previous passes. We'll play
this tape and then pick up the llve pass over Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Guam at 24.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're through Guam
for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about
2 minutes left on this pass through Guam.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC And whenever it's convenient we need
to get a teleprinter paper change this evening, prior to the
up- - (garble) inking the detail pads. Prior to changing out
the paper, we'd llke for you to check and make sure we do
have the Flight Plan and the three details onboard.
SPT Okay. They've already been sent up.
Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Just a minute and I'Ii let you - I'ii
tell you what the last message was.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go
LOS here in about 30 seconds. Next station is a very short
pass at Hawaii at 35.
SPT Okay. The last message is the Flight
Plan, 4901-Alfa 3.
CC Roger. We copy. You should have all
of them onboard. So you're clear to change paperanytime.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Hawaii 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS.
Goldstone at 47.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Goldstone for
5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; one minute from LOS.
We'll be picking up with Mils and Bermuda at 54. And we'll
be dumping the recorder at Bermuda at 55.
PLT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 52 minutes. Loss of signal at Goldstone. Next
acquisition will be Mlla, Bermuda tracking station. In
approximately 8 minutes, Science Pilot Owen Garriott should
be taking television pictures of the yest run of the TO20
with Commander A1 Bean serving as the test pilot today.
Approximately 29 minutes of television will be put on the
video tape recorder onboard of this activity and then later
dumped to the ground. At Greenwich mean time 22 hours 52 minutes
we will have acquisition at Mils, Texas in approximately
53 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this pass.

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SL-III MC-1993/I
Time: 17:33 CDT, 48/22:53 GMT
9/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Bermuda

and Mila for 10 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Ascension at 14.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I Just set up the good television - so-called
good one to try to record some of this TO20 ops and I get no picture
on my monitor. The line scans do come on and it will show
Just a uniform gray scan. What I thought - just about -
I am in the process of changing monitors right now and I'm
wondering if you can tell whether or not we're getting a
good down-link video signal. Over.
CC We're just about to go LOS now. We'll
try to talk about it again here at Ascension.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 6 minutes. Loss
of signal at Bermuda. Next acquisition will be Canary in
7 minutes and 45 seconds. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
reporting that he had trouble with the TV monitor. He has
been setting the television camera up to record activities
of the flight of the T020 foot maneuverin E unit with
Commander A1 Bean serving as pilot. Further instructions
are expected to be passed up when the spacecraft passes
within the Ascension tracking station, not Canary. Next
acquisition will be in 7 minutes. At Greenwich mean time
23 hours 7 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1994/I
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9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

23 hours 13 minutes with acquisition coming up at Ascension
in 45 seconds, with Commander A1 Bean flying the TO20 food
maneuvering unit, with Pilot Jack Lousma serving as the
observer. Hopefully Science Pilot Owen Garrlott able to
take television of this activity being performed in the
forward dome of the workshop. We will have acquisition in
approximately 20 seconds. We'll hold the llne up for this
Ascension pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
5-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. How are you coming with
the TV?
SPT Okay Hank. I'm down in the dome area
now recording these guys. I switched monitors. The other
monitor does work, so it looks like the first monitor
is malfunctioned, but this the monitor that's intermittent,
so we're still working on it and I'ii be off the comm now
for a little bit while I'm recording these guys.
CC Okay. So it does look like we're getting
good TV now. Good show.
CC SPT, no need to acknowledge. The
Ascension site reports that they are getting excellent
quality on TV.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Carnarvon at 45.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
23 hours 20 minutes with loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 24 minutes. On this previous
pass CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield reported to Science Pilot
Owen Garrlott that Ascension tracking station was receiving
excellent quality of TV on the TO20 activity with Commander
A1 Bean flying the foor maneuvering unit in the workshop dome.
Next acquisition Carnarvon in 23 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours 21 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-1995/1
Time: 18:44 CDT, 48/23:44 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

23 hours 44 minutes. Acquisition coming at Carnarvon in
45 seconds. CAP COM Henry Hartsfield. Commander AI Bean
should be concluding - near conclusion of the run of the
TO20 foot-controlled maneuvering unit.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
SPT We put the interesting part of TO20 on
the VTR now.
CC Roger. We copy. And Owen, you made
a remark a while ago about the monitoring being being
intermittent. That sort of puzzles us. Could you elaborate
on that a little bit?
SPT Yes, Hank. Hold the line a minute.
I'll talk to you in a minute.
SPT Hank, A1 wants to put some more on that
VTR and - so don't rewind it or anything and we'll finish
up with - How much time have we got on it now?
CC There's 15-1/2 minutes remaining.
SPT Okay. That'll be fine . And let's see,
about the intermittent. The monitor picture interrupts
occasionally. It apparently is a power interruption, because
the whole picture collapses if there's a flat or a horizontal
llne. And then will pop back in again. And I though
that it had been noted and mentioned to you before. But
it's the monitor that we do not use very often, because
of that fact. We had them on the bad - over - on the bad Vldlcone.
And that's the one that I put on to the good Vidlcon
as I was talking to you 30 minutes ago. And it functioned
all right, whereas, the other Vidlcon it gave only a
gray background. Over.
CC Roger. We copy. It appears that you
did have a raster on the other monitor but no picture. Is
that correct?
SPT Exactly correct.
CC And in regard to the exercises coming
up here where the EV-3 cooling and the TO20 suited run you're
doing. The CWG should be dried the same as the LCG. And
dry only one at a time and temporarily stow the second one
in B422, after drying the CWG, should be restowed in the
sleep compartment.
SPT Maybe you could ... that up again a little
later in case we don't remember it. That be all right?
CC Fine.
CC $PT, Houston. No need to acknowledge,
but we were Just brainstorming here a little bit about this
monitor thing and we're kind of toying around with the idea
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that it may be related to the bad TV cable we uncovered today.

SPT Well, I don't see how. You mean one
caused the other one or that's there only one failure that's
producing both. If it's the latter that you mean, we've got the
cable over on the other Vidicon where it's not being used.
And yet, this one was showing intermittent a few minutes ago
on the good Vidocon. So it looked to me like it's probably a
few things, unless you're thinking about one of them
causing the other, in which case I don't see how it could
have happened. Over.
CC Oh, okay. I understand now. We had
heard you say a while ago that it was - that the monitor was
working all right now. And we didn't know that it was
still cutting up.
SPT Oh, sorry. I'm afraid I didn't make
that very clear. Yes, it did interrupt on me a couple
of times today while we were recording. But then it pops
right back in again. So it's still acting up.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Okay. I'm going to be knocking off
ATM ops for a while so I can go down and make some more TV.
CC Okay.
CT Carnarvon comm tech, Houston comm
tech off net one, voice check. How do you copy?
CT Houston, corm tech, Carnarvon eomm tech.
I read you loud and clear.
CT Roger. Same here. We're lost our
net two to you. Thank you, Carnarvon.
CT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute
from LOS. Guam at 58.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
23 hours 55 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Guam in approximately 2 minutes. We'll
leave the line up for this pass.

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SL-III MC-1996/I
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9/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for I0 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston through Guam, i0 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. Guam is configured for the
XUV MON down-link and as a reminder your video switch is in
TV.
SPT Just switched now. Thank you for the remin-
der.
CC SPT, Houston. If you would please when
you're through with the VTR we'd like to get you to initiate
a rewind so that we can start dumping this stateside coming
up.
SPT Okay. I'll initiate it right now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 24. Be dumping
the recorder over Texas at 28 and also like to remind you
we'll be set up for the Evening Status Report on this state-
side.
SPT Set up for what, Hank?
CC The Evening Status Report.
SPT Gee, I don't think it's going to be ready.
Those two (garble) are still down there flying TOO - TO20
and haven't any supper - haven't got any put together yet.
So it's going to be a while I expect before it's ready.
CC Okay. We'll just play it by ear.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
00:09 minutes with loss of signal at Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 14 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-1997/I
TIME: 19:23 CDT 49/00:23 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

00:23 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone in
approximately 45 seconds. Commander Bean should be con-
cluding the run with the TO20 foot maneuvering unit, while
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is at the Apollo Telescope
Mount control and display panel.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're stateside for
13-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Are you through with
the VTR?
SPT I've rewound it for you Hank. I pressed
rewind when you asked the other time.
CC Okay. I guess we must have a problem
here with our telemetry. We're showing that it didn't rewind,
and we're a little confused.
SPT Okay. Let me press it again and see if
it will rewind this time.
CC Stand by. Stand by.
CC We're going to try a command from the
ground and see what that does to it, Owen.
SPT Okay.
SPT Hello Hank. Just found the problem here.
I should have hit the motor switch on before rewind, and I
Just pressed the rewind switch alone and that doesn't rewind
it, I guess without the motor switch on first.
CC That's affirm. You have to have the
head wheel motor on.
SPT Okay. That's why it didn't rewind then.
CDR Hank, you still there?
CC Roger. For another 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Jack and I Just got finished
with T20. There's no way, I don't think, I suspect that he
can do that suit evaluation tonight. It's just running
late. It just takes a long time to get rigged out for 20,
you can get the suit on and everything easy, but getting
all those extra straps on and getting them balanced and
getting it all checked out and it's just a time consuming
operation.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I would recommend that you just re-
schedule that for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or
something like that. He just can't do it now. There's no
way he can pull it off.
CC We'll reschedule.
CDR Okay. A couple of words about T20, but
I'ii need debrief it on the air. That harness to the suit
holds you on the T20 very tight, but you're just trapped
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on the thing. You're strapped in there and your legs are

tied down tight and that's strapped on your back and your
bottom and you're in this pressurized suit and you're really
sort of in a semi-helpless situation. And you have to be
pointed right at the target. Sometimes you can make it, but
once you're there, you can't turn around and the straps over
your shoulders keep your arms from coming together so you
can't really manipulate your body too well lwlth your hands
and also your CG is now moved way down there real low, so that
makes it doubly difficult, and of course, working in the gloves
is a problem, and we even used IVA gloves as opposed to EVA.
When you're operating with the system it doesn't have 6 degrees
of freedom. You're Just out of luck. That's about it. You
can't even get from the doning station out to the center of the
workshop and stop. It's that simple. Now, we knew that all
along, before we brought it up here. It's Just doubly obvious
when you get up here in 6 degrees of freedom and in a suit,
just how sort of helpless you are in there. It's really a
problem. If Jack would set me up sort of in the right position,
you know, like the plan, I could fly to the other side, but l'd
have wait until he came and got me and put me back. And you
know you don't want to have a system like that. So it's maybe
good to evaluate it, but I don't think you'd ever want to fly
it for real. It's really - you're Just kind of hanging on to
the front end is what it amounts to.
CC How did the stripped LSU compare with
maneuvering with just the SOP?
CDR That's a good question. A lot better,
a lot better, but without the comm, you're sort of out of
business also. My recommendation for Gerry would be that
they take one of those other LSUs. The other one that we're
going to dispense with up here, figure out which comm, which
wires are the comm wires, strip everything out but the 02
and the comm wire or wires, I don't know how many there are,
let's say there are two, and then tether those, maybe every
5 feet, but don't try to cover them or anything, just, you
know, tie them to the 02 umbilical. They don't provide any
stiffness, but they're still there. Cause trying to operate
in that suit when you can't see anywhere but forward and a
llttle bit up and left and right is extremely difficult. I
think also, more time has gotta be spent trying to figure
out how the - and he's trying to stabilize himself and hold you
and run the camera, no comm, it's a pretty tough go and I'm
not - there's Just a lot of problems when you don't have
any control. There's - he's trying to control himself and
you, and you have no control and that's just, there's the
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problem in a nutshell. And with that reg on and the suit

and everything, you weigh about 400 pounds, and although
the weight is no problem, it's the mass, and there's no
where to get a handle on you. It's Just real world problems
up here and some of them showed up on the air bearing and
some showed up on the 6 degree of freedom, but -

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Time: 19:34 CDT, 49/00:34 GMT
9/13/73

CDR Some of them showed on the air bearing

showed some of them up on the 6-degree of freedom but it's -
I think it's even more difficult than we had extrapolated.
CC Roger; we copy, AI, that pretty good
description. A general question here, did the stripped LSU
rotate or twist when you pressurized it prior to con-
necting it to the PCU?
CDR No, I tried that, I pressurized and tried
to shake it out and everything and it seemed happy in any
number of positions. I honestly could not - did not feel that
the LSU was hindering me or moving me any at all. I always
felt llke most of the problems encountered were a result of
cross coupling in the control system, cause there's a lot
of that in there with the suit. And with - Just the lack
of 6 degrees of freedom you've got no way to correct an
error. If you accidentally translate a little bit too
much in Y or X, you've had it, cause you ain't got no Y -
as the expression goes, you ain't got Y or X correction.
Sort of an inherent deficiency of that sort of a system.
CC I guess, AI, - could you comment. I
think you already answered part of it, but on comparing
the suited maneuvering with the unsuited maneuvering.
CDR Well, I thought the suited was a little
more difficult from the point of view that you don't have
the feel in your feet with the suit on, but I don't think
that's the problem. I think the thing you find out when
you're in the suit is sort how helpless you are there.
You're strapped to that base and your every control is down by
your feet. Your arms are free but - you - it's a little
bit llke being on the hood of a car and it's going forward,
you're kind of - you're there boy and it's in motion and
maybe you can control it a little bit - 1'11 give you an
even better example, maybe it's llke sitting on the back
of a convertible and trying to drive the car with your
feet. You can't get to the brakes fast. You can't get
to the clutch and you're kind of hanging out there. You
got your hands free and you'd llke to feel llke in a real-
world situation that you'd have some circuit breakers there
that you can throw in case you got a stuck thruster. And you
think of a lot of things that you'd need your hands for. You'd
llke to have an on/off switch near your hands. You do in -
on a little toggle there. You'd llke to have - I know when
we fly these things EVA which I'm sure we're going to - not
this one, but something - some sort of maneuvering unit,
you're going to have to have a simple set, you're going to
have to have circuit breakers for your each thruster, you're
going to have to have isolation valves for each set, you know,
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CDR sort of like we do on the command module,

so that if you do have a failure you can - you can get around
it. Here if you had any failure, you're out of business.
And the minute you say, well, let's take one of these and
then put a bunch of circuit breakers and things around where
you can get them with your hands, you say okay, then, let's
just put the controls up there, because that's the way over
the years we've found cars and bikes and tricycles, wagons,
sleds, you name it, everything that you can think of you use
with your hands because you've got dexterity andcapability
that you Just don't have with your feet. I think it's worth
looking at and I'm glad we brought this thing up, but it's
even more impressive to me after today's operation how -
sort of out in the wind you are here with this thing under you
and on your back. You're - you're awful vulnerable there
operating with your feet and going outside with something like
that would be interesting. First of all, you'dhave to have some-
body strap you in it completely. Once you're in it, you're
sort of in it and you'd be awful vulnerable going from one
place to another where you're not with something in your
hands, with a controller and translation and the like.
CC Roger, AI. We thank you very much. That
was a good summary.
CDR Well, a lot of it - I think a lot of it
is intuitive. And a lot of it is thinking back to problems
like we had with our command module coming up here. If you
had one of those with this maneuvering unit, you're finished;
that's it. If you're on the way somewhere, adios. Okay,
with something with hand controllers with 4 degrees of free-
dom and with some circuit breakers and things like that,
we're going to have to build into a system like this. Then
you got a chance. You can figure out a way to isolate some-
thing and then instead of flying forward, fly sideways
cause those thrusters are good. Here you've got no sideways,
you've got no forward. All you've got's up and down. If
those thrusters are gone, you're - that's it. So I think
it's kind of a little philosophical about the whole thing.
You're really going to have to have all 6 degrees. You're
going to have to have isolation capability and kind of
intuitive control instead of memorized control, if you
know what I mean.
CDR I used this remark when I was flying it
unsuited. My son's got a unicycle at home and I can ride
his little unicycle a few feet. He can ride it a long way.
But he doesn't take it anywhere and he Just doesn't - it's
Just something - it's something I think probably was a good
thing to evaluate back in the first era of bicycles and
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CDR wheeled vehicles. But I don't think we'll

ever be in the space program where we can't afford the weight
of a 6 degree vehicle. It Just - we've passed those days.
CC Roger, AI. We're about i0 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up very short pass at Guam an hour
from now at 01:40.
CDR Okay. We'll try to get that nightly re-
port for you there.
CC Okay. And then also the following stateside
at 02:00, part of that will be your med conference too. Maybe
we can work the rest of it in there if we don't get it all
at Guam.
CDR Sounds good.
PAO Skylab Control, 00:41 minutes. Next
acquisition will be - next acquisition will be Guam in
58 minutes. On this pass Commander AI Bean described very
graphically the experience flying the T020 in a suited mode.
He described how helpless he was in trying to control the
unit with his feet. The TO20 is the foot-controlled maneuvering
unit. He said he felt llke he was in a seml-helpless situa-
tion. That he could not manipulate the flying vehicle with
his feet. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 57 minutes.
Skylab Control 00:42 minutes.

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SL-III MC-1999/I
Time: 20:39 CDT, 49/01:39 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

1 hour 39 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Guam in approxi-
mately one minute. Prior to acquisition, Science Pilot
Owen Garrlott was scheduled to take photographs - handheld
photographs of east Malasia, northern part of Borneo, objective
of these photographs was to get on film the major drainage
basin surface water distribution, flood damage areas, and
major land forms for mineral and possible petroleum exploration.
These photographs would have been taken about i0 minutes
ago, as the spacecraft - -
CC - - Through Guam a couple of minutes
here, and we're standing by for what bltof the Evening
Status we can get.
SPT Okay. Stand by then, Hank.
CDR Okay. Here it comes - Oh, and let me give
you the - the film log first, because that usually seems
to be something that everybody wants to hear first and I'll
give you the other later. Okay. EREP VTN, CL0470, T20,
CI60, 19, C152; TO20 SPS, U CI69, 50; TO20 SCMU CITO, 00;
35-millimeter: CI105, 04; CX33, 57. 70-mi11imeter: CX270, 04;
ETC, got three of them here, CT080,21; IR 02,029, CT090, 34;
EREP: set D; 8354; 7691, 8567, 8561, 2104, 9423. Drawer
A configuration: The only change is A-3, 06, CI60, 19, CI52;
Still there?
CC Roger. We copy that, A1. And we're
about 15 seconds from LOS now. Why don't we pick the
rest of it up stateside. And part of that pass will be
med conference.
CDR Sounds good and we'll be standing by
to do it.
CC Okay. We're coming up on Goldstone on
the hour.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
1 hour 42 minutes. Loss of signal at Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone. The Evening Status Report given by
Commander A1 Bean on this pass over Guam. The Goldsone
pass will be in 18 minutes during which time, the crew
flight surgeon will discuss the health of the crew with
the crew members. We'll have a report of that conversation
at the close of the pass. Next acqulsiton will be Goldstone
in 17 minutes and 45 seconds. Greenwich mean time 1 hour
42 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2000/I
Time: 20:59 CDT, 49/01:59 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

1 hour 59 minutes. Acquisition at Goldstone in 55 seconds
with the final stateside pass for the night for the Skylab-
III crew. We anticipate the medical conference o_ this
stateside pass. We'll have a report of that conference
later at the close of the pass. We'll hold the line open
for conversation with CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield and the
Skylab-lll crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for
14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Owen's up there changing the tele-
printer paper at the moment.
CC Hey, good show. You made a (garble)
We were going to have to ask you do that pretty quick.
CDR Okay. Let me read the rest.
CC Okay. We're ready to copy.
CDR Urine: 190, 155, 190; 6064, 9964, 6540.
BMMD: 6.2 - whoops, 6.223, 6.223, 6.220; 5.946, 5.948, 5.950;
6.951, 6.950, 6.953. Exercise: CDR getting ready to exercise
in a few minutes so he'll call you later; SPT, 2/ - well,
let me tell you what he's going to do. I know what he's
going to do anyway. He does the same old thing. Here you
go: 2/35/5041, 3/15/11, 3/10/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III. Okay, here's
the SPT: 2/23/3900, 3/15/Mark I, 30, A; 30, B; 30, D. PLT,
1/05/0610, 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; 20 backbends.
No medication. Sleep: 6/F, 6/F, 6/G. Food log I'ii read.
CDR, 7 salts and 3 salt pills; SPT, substitute spaghetti
instead of pork loin and peanut butter and grape drink;
PLT, 4 salt packs, add one drink and one butter cookies.
I read the photo log. Flight Plan deviations: we did
everything except ED3 cool which y'all are going to resched-
ule. Shopping llst accomplishments: nothing I know of at
the moment. Inoperable equipment: nothing new. Unscheduled
stowage item location change: nothing. I've got a couple
comments though. One: when I got ready to prep the PCU
with the SOP, I was depressurized at the time and I was
going to bring up the pressure with the SOP. The SOP took
a long, long time before it ever brought it up. In fact,
I finally had to go from FLOW from I_A to OFF. And it brought
the pressure up and once it did, it would hold it. Now I
think that's normal, but I'd like to have that verified.
It'd be the SOP with 6000 pounds will not bring the suit
up. Now the normal 02 flow from the spacecraft brings it
up about i0 or 15 seconds, or something llke that. But it
looked llke this would never have done it. Now I may - I
didn't wait over a minute. I kept thinking I was having
a leak, but was not.
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CC We copy.
CDR Okay. Let me mention - are you all starting
to think about our day off 3 days from now?
CC Okay. If you've got any input for us
now, AI, go ahead.
CDR Okay. I thought maybe you'd like it today
because I thought you'd be planning it tomorrow. Okay. On
Owen, he needs the TV for several things. Let me tell you
what they are. He needs about i0 minutes in the TV for the
Wilbur force pendulum. He needs i0 minutes for the fish,
we got a bunch of fish in here now. And he needs i0 minutes
for a medical demo for - and we use the closeup lens and
he shows our throats and our eyes and ears and things like
that. And maybe we understand a little - they'll not only
see in real-live color but they may get some insights into
what might bedone by television. Next, he needs another
2 or 3 hours of science activities because he wants to finish
up all these science things he's working on, see if they're
good for TV. Next, we'd like to, if possible - this has
nothing to do with off-duty - let me finish the off-duty
then. We'd llke to perform as many EREPs as can be done on
the day off and fill in the rest of the time with ATM. So
it'd be EREP and ATM. Now, one other request that we have.
And we'd like to know if you're planning to finish all the
troubleshooting by entry minus 5 days. In other words, if
you got anything to do with this probe, we hope you give it
to us soon so we can do it. We'd like to, if possible, get
all that out of the way by entry minus 5 days so that all
we got to concentrate on is learning the entry real well
and getting stowage organized and getting all the last
minute things cleaned up. And if there's anything like that
just throw it in the day off too and we'll work on that.
CC Okay. We got all that, AI, and we'll
sure crank it in the system.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
CC We got a few minutes here left before
the med conference, AI, and while we're doing that I'd llke
to get you an answer to a question you had in regard to the
effect of move maneuvers on the MMDs and you did some measure-
ments yesterday to check that out and first off they'd llke
to thank you very much for the data. It was real good. He
says there is a very small detectable effect on the calibra-
tions but it would be negligible effect on ordinary measure-
ments. If possible, he'd llke for you to do your cals with
maneuvers inhibited. If you can't do that, all he needs is
the rates.
CDR Okay. Understand completely.

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9/13/73

CC If you can't do that, all it needs is

the rates.
CDR Okay. Understand completely.
CC If it's convenient, we'd like to get
a readout on the M518 cartridge temp on hot i.
PLT ¥eah, Hank. I looked at it a little
while ago and it was 1005 and right now it's not quite
between 1007 and 1008. So it looks like we got - we got it
down there and got the right ... settings figured out now.
CC Okay. It stands between 1007 and 1008,
and we're about 30 seconds from handover and that'll be
your med conference.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
2 hours 9 minutes. We've had loss of signal at Goldstone
with the Texas tracking station picking up the spacecraft.
Dr. Jerry Hordini will - Hordinsky will do the briefing
with the crew tonight. We'll have a report of that at the
Vanguard pass. We'll keep this line up in the event that
the crew is able to get back to discussions with CAP COMM
Henry Hartsfield. The previous discussions, Commander AI
Bean passing word to the ground on suggestions for their
day off coming up in three days. He mentioned that Science
Pilot Garriott would like to have some more time to work
on the science demonstration, which he has on board. There's
approximately 14 separate experiments, some of which have
been already televised to the ground, including the
mummychug minnows, the two mummychug minnows plus 50 fish
eggs, which did go up. Several have hatched and these have
already been shown on television. Commander Bean also
suggested that they'd like to have as many EREP passes as
possible on their day off. He also asked that all the
troubleshooting necessary for closeout of spacecraft, the
space station be passed up to them so they could work those
Out on their day off and leave the remaining days to con-
centration on deactivation of the vehicle and reentry pro-
cedures. Today, the 48th day in space for the Skylab III
crew saw two back-to-back Earth resource passes over the
continental United States, handheld photography, 5 hours
and 50 minutes of solar observations by the three crew
members, a flight of the TO20 foot-controlled maneuvering unit,
which Commander Bean described as not too successful. He
was encumbered by wearing the fully pressurized pressure
suit. He remarked that he was unable to adequately control
the vehicle with his feet, due to the fact he was strapped
into the chair-like device. We'll hold this line open in
the event that the crew does get back to CAP COMM Hank
Hartsfield. At Greenwich mean time 2 hours and ii minutes
This is Skylab Control.
SL III MC-2001/2
TIME: 21:07 CDT 49/02:07 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

2 hours 16 minutes. Loss of signal at Texas tracking
station. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 8 minutes
35 seconds. As the spacecraft begins it 1768th revolution
of the Earth. The crew has already completed 687 revolutions
of the Earth since their launch at Cape Kennedy on July 28th.
They've logged a total of more than 17,664 miles in their
48 days in orbit. Tomorrow for the crew will be day 49.
Another day of Earth Resources passes. Two U.S. passes,
one which begins over the BaJa, crosses La Paz, Chihuahua,
Mexico, crosses between Fort Worth and Lubbock, over
Tulsa, over St. Louis, passes southeast of Chicago, over
Detroit, over Toronto, Montreal, and crosses the St. Lawrence
River. The first pass beginning at 17:04 Greenwich mean time,
is a 25 minute data take. The second pass, on the next
revolution across the United States, begins at Greenwich
mean time 18 hours 42 minutes and will gather data for
19 minutes as the spacecraft crosses north of Los Angeles,
goes by Bakersfield, California, over Mt. Whitney, Salt Lake
City, Casper, Wyoming, Rapid City, South Dakota, passes
north of Duluth, Minnesota, and crosses over the Gulf of
St. Lawrence. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 6 minutes
45 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 2 hours 18 minutes,
this is Skylah Control.

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SL-III HC-2002/I
Time: 21:24 CDT, 49/02:24 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

2 hours 24 minutes. Acquisition coming over Vanguard
in 40 seconds. This should be the last discussion with the
crew of Skylab-III for tonight on this Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre with you
through Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And to answer, we think, to answer
the CDR's question in regard to his pressurizing earlier,
we think that probably the long time to pressurize using
the SOP is probably normal. The manifold or regulating
pressure in the SOP is 30 psi, while that from the umbilical
is i00 psi. And so, we're not surprised that it would take
well in excess of a minute to do the job.
CDR Okay. Understand. Might be a good
procedure, maybe, then for Gerry when he does it up here for
509 T20, to pressurize with the umbilical then take it
off and maintain pressure with the SOP and that way he'll
have a longer time on the SOP.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to inhibit
the MPCs and the roll.
SPT Okay. And your teleprinter ... test
message looks llke it did all right.
CC Okay. Thank you. And understand you've
given us some new paper.
SPT That's right.
CC And if we could have the DAS for a little
bit, we'll command SI.
SPT It's yours.
CC And to repeat a comment I made earlier
before you were through with TO20. The CWGs should be
dried the same as the LCGs. We dry only one at a time
and temporarily stwo the second one in B422. After drying,
the CWGs should be restowed in the sleep compartment.
SPT Okay. Thank you for repeating that
for us, Hank.
PLT Hank, does the rest of the (garble)
look okay?
CC We'll check it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be
bringing home one of the PPC02 sensors - filters. We'd
like to ask if you can remember which one of the filters
you took out of the mol sieve A inlet sensors. What
we'd like to do is get this thing back and look for the
presence of coolanol.
PLT All the ones that were taken out have
red tape on them.
i SL-III MC-2002/2
Time: 21:24 CDT, 49/02:24 GMT
9/13/73

CC Okay. May be - May be difficult for

you to at this time, now go back and find out. The one -
We wanted one in particular and that was the one that came
out of the mol sieve A PPC02 inlet sensor. You did that
on mission day 43.
PLT There's not much way to do that, Hank.
They're all marked with red tape and the all look alike.
CC Okay. I was afraid of that.
PLT We generally work from one end of the
box to the other in taking out new ones and putting in the
old ones. So I can take the last six or eight back I suppose,
but I couldn't identify which is which.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. You probably have
already done it correctly, but the cue card you're using
had the wrong stowage location for the SOPs. What we
really want to do is put them back where you got them.
PLT For the what, Hank?
CC The SOPs.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, on the ATM console, only one
switch needs to be moved. We need the X-ray image on SO54
to OFF. And we're ready for frames remaining, if it's
convenient.
PLT Okay. Here they are, Hank. H-alpha is
5191. And Milligan's got 561. Doctor Tousey's got 23 and 143.
Bob MacQueen's got 1734, and (garble) they have 1482.
CC We copy. And how would you like a
little news here, before we sign off?
PLT Yeah. That'd be fine, Hank.
CC Okay. Highlight in news tonight was
that the Skylab astronauts received medical clearance today
to complete their record-making 590day orbital journey. The
crew's health and spirits are excellent. Their body weight
has been relatively constant since - -

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SL-III MC-2003/I
Time: 21:33 CDT, 49/02:33 GMT
9113/73

CC - - making 59-day orbital journey. The

crew's health spirit excellent. Their body weight has been
roughly constant since mission day 5. Astronaut Charles
Conrad said in Madison, Wisconsin, today, "It's Just a matter
of time before there will be women in space." President
Nixon may ask Congress for a temporary i0 percent increase
in Federal income tax rates, with the money to be refunded
to taxpayers later at a forced savings plan intended to cool
the economy, the White House said today. Israeli and Syrian
war planes wheeled over Syria's Mediterranean coast today in
two dogfights that marked the biggest Middle East aerial
battle since the 67 slx-day war. The Israeli Air Force said
it shot down 13 MIG 21 fiEhters and lost one of its own
Phantoms but rescued the pilot. Syria claimed its air force
shot down five Israeli jets and lost eight MIGs. Billle Jean
King has been ill, but officials say today she will be ready
by next week to face Bobby Riggs in their $i00,000 winner-
take-all tennis match in the Astrodome. The House passed
legislation today to llft the local television blackouts on
home professional football games if they're sold out 72 hours
in advance. The Senate passed similar legislation last
week. Blackouts may be lifted in some cities Sunday on
the opening games of the 73 NFL season. With the strike
deadline only one day away, the United Auto Workers said
Thursday that Chrysler Corporation had not made a new economic
proposal, but added, "it better happen soon." General Augusto
Pinochet Maramblo, an artillery officer, was named President
of the four-man junta in Chile today, and he swore in a
lO-man cabinet composed mostly of military officers. Chile
has broken diplomatic relations with Cuba. And back on the
investigation scene, a federal grand jury resumed its probe
of alleged political corruption in Maryland amid unprecedented
security restrictions. And I guess we're only a few seconds
here from LOS. We'll be saying good night to you and we'll
give you a call over Madrid tomorrow at ii:00.
PLT Okay. Thanks a lot, Hank. Good night.
We'll see you tomorrow.
CC All righty.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
2 hours 35 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard as spacecraft -
space station Skylab begins its 1768th revolution of the
Earth. We have the Mission Surgeon's daily report as follows:
"The crew's health remains good. In regard to the adequacy
of his diet, the Science Pilot reported that he is very
satisfied with the current modifications in his diet and
that he does not experience any hunger on that diet." Signed
Dr. Jerry R. Hordlnski for Dr. Royce Hawkins, Deputy Director
for Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center. On the previous
SL-III MC-2003/2
Time: 21:33 CDT, 49/02:33 GMT
9/13/73

PA0 pass a good night was passed up to the

crew by Hank Hartsfield, CAP COMM, as the crew gave their
final status report for the evening. Tonight Dr. Owen
Garriott will donn the sleep cap to record the various
stages of his sleep as part of the M133 sleep monitoring
experiment. Today has been described a most successful
day by Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. Successful back
to back EREP passes over the Continental United States,
nearly 6 hours of manned observations of the Sun at the
Apollo telescope mount control and display panel. The crew
has received a GO for the full 59-day mission by Skylab
Program Director William C. Schneider, following review
of the medical status of the first 48 days of the mission.
Tomorrow, day 49, Friday, September 14, will have two EREP
back to back passes over the Continental United States,
6 hours and 40 minutes of manned observations of the Sun
from the control and display panel, as well as handheld
photography, two different locations tomorrow, one in Germany,
some photograph and describe areas of West Germany to deter-
mine geological structures, distribution of rock type, marine
sediment transports, distribution of glacial soils, and to
map industrial and urban land use. The second site is in
Italy, objectives of which are to photograph and describe
the eastern coastal areas of Italy and western flanks of
the Apennine Mountains for the purpose of rock and soil
identification and for thermatic mapping of land use patterns.
In both cases, synoptic coverage will be done w_th the
Hasselblad camera and the Nikon camera. At the close of
day 48 all looks good aboard Skylab. The crew is in good
health; they've got a GO for 59 days, splashdown scheduled
for September 25. At Mission Control Center, this is
Greenwich mean time 2 hours 39 minutes. The Public Affairs
Console will reopen at 6:00 a.m. Friday, September 14th.
At Greenwich mean time 2 hours 39 minutes, this is Mission
Control.

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SL-III MC-2004/1
Time: 05:59 CDT, 49/10:59 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control; at

i0 hours 59 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 49.
Skylab is in acquisition through the Madrid station and the
spacecraft communicator Story Musgrave will be placing a call
to the crew within the next few minutes. One Earth resources
survey scheduled today. A second planned one has been cancelled
because of weather. 7 hours 30 minutes of Solar studies at
the Apollo telescope mount, medical experiments, the lower
body negative pressure and the inflight vectorcardiogram with
Skylab Commander Alan Bean as the subject, handheld photos
over Italy and Germany, and other experiments - S019, the
ultraviolet stellar astronomy, S06S, ultraviolet airglow horizon
photography, and another of the manufactoring in space
experiments using the electric furnace will be activated today,
M561, whisker-reinforced composites. Today's Earth resources
pass starts shortly after noon, 12:04 p.m. central daylight
time, covers Mexico, the United States and Canada. We'll stand
by for the first call to the crew. The Flight Director is
Milton Windier.
CC Good morning, Skylab. AOS Madrid for 4 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Story.
CC And this is your friendly flight plan
changer with you again this morning.
SPT SPT, Story, I'm ready to copy. Do you
have any for me?
CC No I don't need to get any real detail
to you at this time. I just wanted to let you know, that we
cancelled EREP number 30, that's your second pass. Our first
estimation looked llke about 150 pounds-seconds of TACS; that's why
we cancelled it. So you'll be on the alternate flight plan between
18:00 and 21:00.
SPT Okay, cancelled 30.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you
over Guam in 25 minutes at 11:32.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Guam will pick up Skylab in 24-1/2 minutes. At
ii hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2005/I
Time: 06:32 CDT, 49/11:32 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at ii hours 32 minutes

Greenwick mean time. We're standing by for communications
through the Guam station.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And A1, I've got a change to your flight
plan there.
CDR Ready to copy.
CC Under your alternate flight plan there,
why don't you to swap the PT and eating. Eat at 18:00, and do the
PT at 20:00. That'll get your eating a little bit earlier.
CDR Okay, they were trying to separate my
food from my M092 by a couple of hours, but maybe we can make
it. 1'11 - I'ii fit it in there, somehow.
CC Okay. We're just thinking of swapping out
your PT with your eating, but you're right, that's the purpose is
to get the eating done at least 2 hours away from M092.
CDR Okay, I'Ii - I'ii make sure that it's 2
hours away.
CC Okay. We are scheduling a couple of medicals
M092/MI71s, pretty late tomorrow evening, there is one way
we could get around that. The day after that is going to be
your day off, and we're not scheduling medicals on the day off. The
day after that, we're running a JOP 13 and two EREPs and another
M092. And because of the - the large maneuver for JOP 13
and the two EREPs, we couldn't get a M092/171 done on that
day, another one.
CDR That's good.
CC And that's all I've got for you. I've
got a small change for Owen.
SPT Okay. Go ahead, Story.
CC Owen, delete housekeeping 84L-I and 84L-2,
delete both of those.
SPT i can handle that one.
CC Okay, we'll let you get to work now,
and - update your solar activity. Active region 19 produced
a C-2 flare at 2:33 ZULU on a C-3 flare at 03:07 ZULU. Active
region 26 is fully on the east disc but no activity reported.
SPT Did you call 27? Is that what you said?
CC That was 26.
SPT Okay, 26 on the east limb, fine.
PLT Hey, Story, I didn't get all my exercise
turned in, (garble) Copy some please? I rode the bike for
35 minutes, then I walked for 86:51.
CC Got it.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes
from Honeysucle.

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SL-III MC-2006/I
Time: 06:39 CDT 49/11:39 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of

range of the Guam station. And Honeysuckle will acquire in
3 minutes. We'll keep the line up and monitor into the Honey-
suckle pass.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle 4 minutes.
CDR Hey Story, you can put that 92/171 on
our day off if you want. If it keeps things from getting
screwed up as far as the medical sequence is concerned, we
don't mind.
CC Okay. It's good to have that information.
At present we've got two up there tomorrow, but thanks.
CC And no need to acknowleBe , but for your
information we are running two Jop 13s, one on day 52 and one
on day 53.
PLT That's a good start there, Story.
CC Say again, please.
PLT That's a good start.
CC Okay, we think so.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, and 45
minutes to Canaries at 12:32.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of Honeysuckle's range. Canaries will acquire Skylab in
43 minutes. At ii hours 49 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2007/I
Time: 07:31 CDT, 49/12:31 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

31 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Canary Islands tracking
station is about to acquire Skylab. There is overlapping
coverage through the Madrid station on this pass.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid for 13 minutes.
We'll be dumping the tape recorders at Madrid at 12:35. And
Jack, we need the DAS for dump inhibit.
PLT You got it, Story.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, the DAS is yours. We're seeing a
good Nu-Z update. And could you verify that you closed the
shutter manually?
PLT That's affirmative, Story; I closed it manually.
CC Thanks.
CDR Story, I just completed the water reservoir
check, and they're all up.
CC Thanks.
CC Jack, 54 is in the double sequence; we'd
llke a stop there. We saw the same problem yesterday.
CC And it's looking good now.
PLT Okay, thank you for (garble)
PLT You there, Story?
CC Yes, sir, another minute and a half.
PLT Okay, I recieved a message this morning
in general about (garble) channel and that sort of thing, and
I had reported that one of mine had torn out. And I think
it was misunderstood that it was one of the soft boots. The
boot that tore out was my triangle shoe boot, and I been
holding it together with tape. The other question was did
anybody use those (garble) or whatever you call them, for -
in place of the triangles. The answer is AI tried them and
thought it would be suitable. And I looked at them and then
tried them and decided that the triangles would be a lot better.
So we're not using those; we're using the triangles.
CC Okay.
CDR The reason they're not as good as the other's,
Story, is because they're not passive. You can go somewhere
and hold yourself in readily as long as you keep your mind
on it. But the minute you start concentrating on a pass, one
of your shoes or either both of them come out and you float
away. So the triangles, if you once get them in and they're
adjusted right, you can then concentrate on the job and don't have
to worry about holding your feet in place.
CC Okay, thanks, AI. We're going LOS here.
We'll see you over Carnarvon at 13:12.
SL-III MC2007/2
Time: 07:31 CDT, 49/12:31 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss

of signal. Skylab will next be acquired by the Carnarvon,
Australia station in 26 minutes. At 12 hours 45 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2008/i
Time: 08:11 CDT, 49/13:11 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 13 hours ii minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition at
Carnarvon with overlapping coverage at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 14 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC And Skylab, we Would like you to stay off
the DAS for a moment so we enable momentum dump and also we'd
llke you to command the star tracker shutter closed again. It
doesn't seem to have closed. The NuZ that you've got in is good.
Over.
CDR Okay. Just went closed, and you're right, it's
been stalled in AUTO.
PAO The CAP COMM now is Bruce McCandless,
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The dump enable
command has been sent. The DAS is yours. Out.

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SL-III MC-2009/I
Time: 08:20 CDT 49/13:20 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and

20 seconds until LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes
through Merritt Island at 14:00 Z. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the Honeysuckle station. The Merrltt Island
Florida station will acquire in 33 minutes. Skylab Commander
Allan Bean at the Apollo telescope mount console performing
observations of the Sun at this time. Science Pilot Owen
Garriott calibrating the body mass measurement device, and
Pilot Jack Lousma engaged in housekeeping tasks. At 13 hours
28 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2010/1
Time: 08:59 CDT, 49/13:59 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours

59 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at the Merrltt Island, Flordla station. Skylab will not
be in contact through Bermuda on this revolution. The Bermuda
station is supporting ERTS, the Earth Resource - Resources
Technology Satellite.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island for 5 minutes. We will be dumping the data voice
tape recorder next station at Madrid. We will not have you
through Bermuda this pass due to Bermuda's supporting the
Earth Resources Technology Satellite. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact will be in 9-1/2 minutes through
Madrid at 14:14. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce; see you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Merritt Island
has loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in 7-1/2
minutes. At 14 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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 SL-III MC-2011/I
Time: 09:13 CDT, 49/14:13 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 14 hours 13 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to be acquired at the
Madrid tracking station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder here. Out.
CDR Got an interesting thing going on the
limb, I'm down here pointing at active region 19. And the limb
was nice and smooth for a while and right now itts starting
to bulge out right at active region 19. And I can even see
a little white bright hump starting to form. I can't see
it move, hut it's certainly bigger than it was a couple
of minutes ago. I'm just observing it, taking - H-alpha frames
because I'm doing this off-the-limb work on shopping list
item nin - 17 - not 17 - 19.
CC We copy, AI. Keep an eye on it.
CDR Yes, it's kind of a llke it's building
a prominence or something, only it seems to be more - not as -
diffuse as a prominence - prominence.
CDR Now it's starting to make a little arch,
I can sort of see a little arch, if I use my a imagination.
, CDR I think I'ii Just put H-alpha to four frames
per minute here and let it run for a while. And I'm taking 82B
data right now, 7 arc-seconds off the limb, so I may he right
in the midst of it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute til
LOS. Next station contact in 25-1/2 minntes through Carnarvon
at 14:48. Over.
CDR Okay. And it really is turning into a
beauty. It's - I think it's going to make some sort of a
arch prominence or something. My guess is we just got a surge
that occurred. I happened to be ideally pointed, because of view-
ing this shopping list item 19 where I'm right in the center of the
whole surge. I've got two parts of archs, one on either side
of the center line there and we were just finishing up 19.
So we didn't give the class grating screen scan to 55 but rather
as Owen suggested that (garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. On the grating, we'd like to be
in mechanical reference position 102. Over.
CDR We'll put you there then.
CC Thank youj talk to you over Australia.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Skylab's next acquisition will be through the
Carnarvon station in 24 minutes. At 14 hours 23 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2012/I
Time: 09:46 CDT 49/14:46 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 46 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Carnarvon
station with overlapping coverage through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 15-1/2 minutes. And I've got a question
or two for you regarding valve configurations. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay. For about the past 8 hours or so
we've noticed the cabin pressure decrease corresponding
to a leak rate of approximately i pound mass of atmosphere
per hour or approximately a tenth of a psi in 6 hours. We'd
like you to close or verify closed the panel 831 water dump
valve, panel 706 water dump valve, 818 urine dump valve, and
tell us what the position of your waste processor vacuum
vent valve is, please. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Five minutes left
this pass through Honeysuckle. Has anyone had a chance to
check on those dump valves yet? Over.
SPT AI says affirmative, and he'll talk to you
when he gets a chance here.
CC Okay. No rush.

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SL-III MC2013/I
Time: 10:00 CDT, 49/15:00 GMT
9/14/73

CDR Are you still there?

CC Still here for a minute and a half, AI.
And go.
CDR Okay, here's the - it's funny, never
heard of this one before. I went in there and all the valves
were closed, except, obviously, the waste processor. And so
I said I'll check all the doors to the waste processor. The
bottom two doors that I put in the - the desiccant for
the suit that I wore yesterday weren't sealed - right, although
everything was done right. So I looked at them and pulled out
the - the desiccant; it worked great. Put in the desslcant;
it wouldn't work. All I can figure out is, if the desiccant
happens to be a little bit wide, it pushes the plate down; and if
the plate's down, it won't pressurize, although I never heard of
this event. So I fooled around with the bottom one and got it in
there and closed the door and it worked. But the next one up I
tried 8 different times putting it in there and then I tried
another one. Each time when it was fully in there the plate was
depressed and it wouldn't - it wouldn't pressurize. If I'd
take it out of there, it worked great. So that's where the
02 was leaking, but I'm still mystified as to exactly why. And
I guess I'm going to have to go around and hunt some desiccants
that are skinnier or something.
CC We have 14 seconds to LOS. Let us take
that for action; and thank you for the info. We'll see you
over Corpus Christi at 15:33 in about half an hour. Over.
CDR Okay. And it's not the length that's
the problem, it's the width. Because you have to put them
in there sideways so that they can fold on their little
hinge line. And if they're too wide when you put about
2 or 3 sections in that's it.
CC Roger; understand. I've taken quite a
bit of time trying to cram those things in myself.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range at Honeysuckle. Next station will be Texas in 30 minutes.
At 15 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-2014/I
Time: 10:32 CDT, 4_/15:32 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; at 15 hours 32 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Texas station is about to acquire
Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,
Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes. For the PLT,
due to weather conditions, we have made some changes to your
EREP 29 VTS pad. These were sufficiently numerous that we
are resendlng the VTS pad up to you. It should be coming up
during this stateside pass. Over.
PLT Okay, I'll be looking for it, Bruce. How's
the weather around Louisville, by the way?
CC Stand by.
CDR And we just started JOP 2C step 6 on 19
and we're getting some data adjacent to the XUV active region
there on the limb.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR XUV is in AUTO.
CC PLT, Houston. Your revised VTS pad
is on board at this time. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT,
Louisville weather is currently - running about 8 to I0 tenths.
Forecast to be that, or overcast when you come by it next pass.
Over.
PLT Okay, thank you very much, Bruce.
CC Yeah. We've got a front that just passed
through there. And looking up here at the map, you might be
interested in knowing that as you pass the Cape, you're on
revolution 1776.
PLT Well, that's a very historic number.
CC Certainly is.

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SL-III MC-2015/I
Time: 10:44 CDT 49/15:44 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to

LOS here at Bermuda. Next station contact in 5 minutes through
Madrid at 15:53 where we will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the Bermuda station. Madrid will pick up
the space station in about 3 minutes. Very shortly the crew
will begin preparations for today's Earth resources pass.
There is very heavy cloud cover over a portion of the
ground track for this pass, but the EREP Officer says they
don't expect to lose very many sites, in addition to which
the weather system's one of the objectives for the pass.
We'll stand by and keep the line up for Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes dumping the data voice tape recorder. Out.
CDR I've got a question on building block 14
I'm doing, Bruce. Just before Sunset, let's say at ESS,
I wonder if that's when I go stop, and then go hold, and
then go normal. Or I go hold, then normal, then stop.
CC All right, we'll be right back to you on
that one, AI.
CC AI, no stop is required. All you need
to do is go hold and then normal. Over.
CDR Okay. I think this Sunset, I'm going to
go hold and then normal.
CC Roger.
CC And CDR, we showed an EREP bus powerup
at 15:49 on your detail pad. Over.
CC That and the S191 power on.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III MC2016/I
Time: 10:57 CDT 49/15:57 GMT
9/14/7S

CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to

LOS. Next station contact, Carnarvon in 28 minutes at
16:27. And for the CDR on your SOS2B operation. If it
• doesn't time out prior to - if it doesn't time out prior
to the end of the pass, you need to hit the stop switch,
then hold in normal. We saw when you started it; looks like
it will time out to us. So, the hold in normal should be
all that's required. And for the PLT, update on the
Louisville weather: looks like forecast for 2,000 broken, 4,000
overcast, 4 miles in haze. Over.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through Madrid. The next station is Carnarvon in 27 minutes.
i At 16 hours Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2017/I
Time: 11:26 CDT 49/16:26 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 26 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 4-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS at Carnarvon. Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through
Honeysuckle at 16:38. And for the CDR, the cabin pressure is
stabilized now following your corrective action on the fecal
dryers.
CDR Okay, I went up and tried a couple more
of those desi'ccants, and finally found one that was small enough
so that I could get it in, and closed the door and caused the
suction to take place.
CC Okay, so you now have two fecal dryers loaded
with desiccants under vacuum. Is that correct?
CDR That's right. And those were the two,
the bottom two that we always used. And those were the two that
provided the leak over the last evening.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC We'll get back to you Honeyscukle here.
Understand that one desiccant that you removed is still in
a damper 1 (?) configuration. Is that correct?
CDR It's not really (garble) so I just put
it back in the extra pile, and got one out of the extra pile
(garble).
CC Okay. We're having trouble reading you now.
Let me get back to you over Honeysuckle.
PAO _is is Skylab Control. Skylab is passing
out of range of the Carnarvon station, and will be within
range of the Honeysuckle station in about 5 minutes. At 16 hours
33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2018/I
Time: 11.:37 CDT, 49/16:37 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is nearly within
range of the Honeysuckle station now; about 45 seconds away.
We' ii stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Honey-
suckle for about i minute. We need to - llke to remind you
that we have a Nu-Z update due at 16:42. And for the SPT,
since we're operating on the alternate flight plan here
with the second EREP pass cancelled, you do need to get
S063 stowed right after its operation on track 29 about
18:00, so S019 can be installed by the CDR right - right
afterwards. Over.
SPT Happy to do it.
CC And 9 seconds to LOS here. Next station
contact in 20-1/2 - 29 minutes through Corpus Christi at
17:08.
PLT How do you llke the maneuver load, 0 -
Bruce?
CC We like the maneuver load. We see you
got a star, but we're still in the dump maneuver.
PLT Yes, I know. We aren't (garble) yet.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal after a very short pass. Texas will pick up
Skylab in 27-1/2 minutes. Skylab will be in the Earth
Resources pass at that time. That pass starts out in the
Pacific at 12:04 p.m. Central daylight time. Skylab will
cross the Mexican Coast very near the tip of Baja California,
come across the United States border about midway between
E1 Paso and Laredo, go near the Dallas/Fort Worth area,
St. Louis, Detroit, up into Canada near Toronto, Ottowa,
Montreal, Quebec, cross Newfoundland, and on out into the
Atlantic before the crew stops taking data. On this pass
cameras and sensors will be looking at the crops, geological
features, land use, weather systems, ground water, urban
growth, and gathering data for mapping and sensor evaluation.
We'll come back up Just prior to Texas acquisition. At
16 hours 42 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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• .

SL-III MC-2019/I
Time: 12:06 CDT, 49:17:06 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 6 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition at
Texas and for today's Earth resources pass over the United
States.
CDR He'll grow out of it. (garble) mature.
CC Okay, A1 and we've got you here through
Corpus Christi and Bermuda for about the next 15 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay. We're just charging along. Everything
looks good.
CC For your information, we show that correct
maneuver time loaded.
CDR Good news.
PLT Glad to hear that, Bruce. We're just conver -
conversationallzlng (sic) that we're looking forward to this EREP
pass by going to up glmbal 53. Are you there, Bruce?
CC Roger. Do your own thing.
CC Do your own thing.
PLT Hi there. I wanted to give you the tour
this morning (laugh)
PLT At the coast, Just south - at the tip of BaJa,
coming across Mexico and the Big Bend. Crossing the hometown of
many famous people, namely, Fort Worth, St. Louis, Toledo, Detroit,
Toronto, Montreal, up over the northern tip of Maine and across
New Foundland.
CC Yes, I guess you missed Azusa and Cucamonga
this pass.
PLT Wait; let me look down here.
CDR We'll pick it up along with Big E.
CDR (Laugh)
PLT I'ii put them - Right. I'ii put them on
the map - -
CDR READY, ON. Reference 6.
PLT - - Right next to Enid here, Bruce.
CDR (Laughter)
PLT I got a stop right there now.
CDR Down-llnk box goes to 5 in i0 seconds (garble)
PLT (garble) hlnk that we need a nadir swath on it?
CDR Never waste a nadir swath.
CDR Okay, i0. Downllnk box at 5.
PLT Looking forward to seeing Mexico, gimhal
angle 53.
CDR Okay, ii. I'm watching for ii, 193A ON.
PLT We crossed the coast Just where I told you.
PLT These guys are right on. (garble)
CDR (garble) Either that or the map's wrong. We
don't know which. Okay, ii. 193A ON, I'm waiting.
PLT Still crummy weather in Louisville, I suppose.
CC Yes, sir.
SL-III MC-2019/2
Time: 12:06 CDT, 49/17:06 GMT
9/14/73

PLT Thinking on taking a little hunting trip

this morning but - I just get your nadir swath on the clouds.
CDR 193A ON. STANDBY.
PLT (garble) get that cloud switch to work, we
would be in good shape.
CDR 93A is ON.
PLT Attaboy. S to STANDBY.
PLT 1402 (garble)
CDR (garble) logic is now correct.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Oh does it look llke the logic is correct?
I' cycled them again after daylight this time to make sure
they got - (garble)
CDR 92 MODE ready at 12, okay?
PLT No.
CDR (garble) 12 minutes. Okay. Okay, mode
ready on 192.
CDR Tape motion is working.
CDR 90 is ON now. 12:13. Must be over
a good silte now, Jack.
PLT (Laugh) I was just looking around down
there.
CDR Reason I wondered, is because I've got the
92 cranking away.
PLT The take burner is running.
SPT We'll be taking some S063 photos here in
about 3 minutes. First break number on the UV camera is 7,
and it's 43 on the visible.
PLT I suppose you'll want to talk right on
channel A, huh, O?
CDR Oh, I'm over on channel -
SPT Yes, A; that's a good place to talk.
PLT Okay.
CDR Wondered what you were doing down there.
CDR Okay, 13:30 coming up. I got to go
MODE CHECK when it comes up. First filter is 2,700 angstroms.
CDR 8, 9
CDR MARK. MODE CHECK. Okay, we're standing
by for 14:50 now.
PLT Okay, we're coming over some scattered weather.
Scattered clouds that is. Big highway, somewhere somewhere.
CDR If that were in Houston, you wouldn't
know it to be true.
PLT No.
PLT MARK. we've just entering some weather.
CDR (Garble)
PLT Right at 14:02 for the nadir swath.
CDR 00. And I'm watching him closely.

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SL-III MC-2020/1
Time: 12:14 CDT 49/17:14 GMT
9/14/73

PLT Further.
PLT First site at 14:02 for the nadir swath; 00
and I'm watching it closely. I just happen to know that I'm going
to be over (garble) Island at 17:12. What city that is? There's
a biggy, it must be (garble)
CDR A stand by, R stand by, and down-link
to off.
PLT That was Fort Worth we just passed there,
O.
CD_R Okay. The only double city we've passed
I've noticed.
PLT Yeah.
CDR 15:15
PLT I'm going to really have to (garble)
CD]R S on and R on. Okeydoke, we'll do that.
S on and R on at 16:16.
PLT Attaboy.
PLT There is Cucamonga. Cucamonga.
PLT We're over a cloud, no question about
that. Even I can recognize it from here. It looks like it's
kind of stratified. (Garble) Folks on the ground there

are keeping track of the types of clouds we're taking

data on. I don't see any build-ups is what I'm getting at,
very few broken spaces. Bingo, there is a broken space and it's
gone a_ain.
CDR 92 is READY. Record A2 and C4. A2 right
now is 27 percent and climbing. C4 is 71 percent and steady.
PLT Okay, that ought to do it.
CDR C50.
PLT Still cloudy. Confound it. Stand by for
a UV mark.
CDR 15:15. S to STANDBY, R to STANDBY. INTRACK
CONTIGUOUS. B zero. S on. R on. Okay, there's (garble)
again.
PLT Intervals to 50 now.
PLT (Garble) right there.
CDR Weren't we cross the Mississippi, you say,
Ja¢k?
PLT We should have.
CDR RAT receiver has got a malf light, and
a RAD SCAT gimbal. I wonder where that RAD receiver has
got a malf light. 17:26, shutter speed, medium.
PLT Okay, we're done taking data.
CDR 17:32, mode to CHECK. That's done. We've
still got a RAD receiver light on.
PLT Okay, we've got our first two UV blood
visible. We switch to 1/2 second exposures for the next set.
CDR 18:04 is S STANDBY and R STANDBY.
PLT Okay, I'm just kind of hunting around
the VTS right now, and the nadir swath is finished.
SL-III MC-2020/2
Time: 12:14 CDT 49/17:14 GMT
9/14/73

CDR R to STANDBY, 18:16, A on, R off.

PLT We've got about a minute to wait.
CDR A on, R off.
PLT We should be over (garble) Mill Reservoir,
in Lansing _
CDR Valometer i0.
PLT (Garble) Lansing is clabbered, also,
We're backln zero now.
C:DR And we're tracking the target.
PLT Hope to see Hamilton at 19:20. It better
clear up.
CDR (Garble) UV.
PLT I've got the map in my hand here. Right
at the west end (garble) --
CDR Intervalometer i0, Jack, to second UV.
PLT MARK. To vislble.
CDR MODE READY in 36.
PLT Sorry about Hamilton, space fans. The
place is ciobbered with clouds. Try the next one. To Ifontreal
at 20:42.
C:DR Okay, MODE READY.
PLT You can just barely see a little bit of
Lake Ontario down there.
PLT Lots of clouds. High cirrus. Low stratus.

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SL-III MC2021/I
Time: 12:20 CDT 49/17:20 GMT
9/14/73

PLT - it's yours. (garble)

PLT Okay, we've switched back to 2700 angstrom,
we've got our timer set to 2 seconds got our arm set to 2 sec-
onds, our motor drive switch set to T, and the time on top
of the camera set to T. Cocking the visible and we're
cocking the UV.
PLT (garble) angle zero. (garble)
PLT Looks like to me it's a little bit - a smidgen
to the right of course, but not much.
SPT We ain't going to see Montreal either, space
fans.
PLT There's where it ought to be. It ain't
there.
CDR (garble) over Montreal, too, Bruce.
Rat link,
CC Roger that.
CDR 25:16 over - 26:45 over Gulf of (garble).
Mark after the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I have 56 seconds of that, I
ought to be able to see it.
CDR Intervalometer, 20.
PLT And that will spin a - -
CDR And we're tracking for our UV pad. Okay,
we're maybe getting somewhere over the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
CDR They want that at 23:45. I've got the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, I'm going to move the tipper a little
though.
SPT Nice going, Jack.
PLT MARK, UV. Switching filter.
CDR Okay, 56. Stand by. S to standby.
Mode to 5, range to 60 - -
PLT MARK, the other UV.
CDR (garble) 190, slow.
PLT Got to move on the same target.
CDR Okay, I got the flipper on - -
CC And taht was A to standby, AI.
CDR What?
CC That was 193A to standby at 21:56.
CDR That's what I did. That's Just what I did.
I'ii tell you what I did do though, I went shutter speed to
slow at 22, and then I put it back to medium. And 24 1 go
shutter speed slow.
PLT Okay, I'm looking at a (garble)
CDR I hope it didn't bother any of the exposures.
PLT Here we go. (garble) over the Gulf of
St. Lawrence. We started at a point at the - Just at the
bottom of the Gaspe - G-A-S-P-E Peninsula. Little Bay down
there, started right on the mouth of the bay. I had to move a
SL-III MC2021/2
Time: 12:20 CDT 49/17:20 GMT
9/14/73

little bit to the - got two ggimbal angles to the left, Bruce,
because I want to stay out of the clouds.
CDR Okay, we switched to our last UV exposure
2700 angstroms, 8 seconds.
PLT Nice comm down there. But now we're
hitting 1_he high stereo.
PLT - a minute and 24.
PLT Going south of Anacost Island. And
(garble) Island. - flying the (garble) more out north, 8
gimbal angles left, we're in line with the Anacosti Island
staying clear of the clouds by moving the (garble) around,
Bruce. (garble) keep it on the water.
CC Roger, hang in there.
SC (garble)
PLT - - rise a little bit, I want to get
Newport.
PLT Okay, stand by I'm going to give you a
mark on the (garble). MARK, we're coming over Newfoundland
now, which has parallel rows of scattered clouds. Okay, I'm
going to llne it up on a clear area. Train gimbal -
PLT Train gimbal angle to the right. Now it's
clear of clouds over there.
SPT Shutter B, slow.
CDR Tracking for UV.
CC One minute to LOS, next station contact
over Madrid at 17:29. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder out.
PLT MARK.
CDR Okay. (garble) 15 is going to be mode
CHECK on 192. (garble) 24:30 hopefully.
PLT READY out.
PLT Oh, I think the (garble) came up and hit me in
the eye. Okay, now we're off the coast of Newfoundland (garble)
CDR Ready out, mode standby, frame 05. At
25:40 we're going to go A ON.
PLT We're over the big pond right now.
SPT (garble) time, 17:29. (garble)
I'm going to get a lemon drop out.
PLT Now we should be nadir swathing again.
We're coming up on clouds. Now I'ii give you a mark when we hit the
edge of the cloud layers. Standby. MARK. Okay, now we're over
clouds over water. Now, (static) - -
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Madrid will acquire in 3 and a half minutes. We'll
continue to keep the line up; monitor the Madrid pass.

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SL-III MC-2022/I
Time: 12:26 CDT 49/17:26 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 9 minutes. Dumping data voice tape recorder for the CDR.
Over.
CDR Go ahead.
PLT Okay, we're still talking on it, but I
guess we don't need to. We had another Miblous (?) maneuver.
We're on our way, O, - Bruce.
CC Okay. Standing by for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead, I'm listening.
CC Roger. Prior to EREP stop, we'd like
you to check out the RAD SCAT in the following manner: RAD
to standby for at least 1 second, then RAD and SCAT both on
at once. And record Alfa 9, Bravo 9, Charlie 9, and then SCAT
standby, RAD standby. Over.
CDR I wish I was smart enough to remember that.
Unfortunately it doesn't happen that I am. Just a second and
I'ii write it down.
CC No AI, I'ii talk you along. RAD stand by.
CDR Okay, just a second I'm not finished yet with
this 191. Have you got a few minutes?
CC Yeah. We can probably do it before EREP
stop.
CDR Okay, just a minute. We're going to have
the ready on in Just a second, and then I'Ii be ready to follow
your sequence and tell you what I see.
PLT You've got a problem with him, Bruce?
CDR Yeah, RAD receiver mall light came on when
they were both on. Okay, the ready is on, and that's the end
of it. Okay, tell me what you'd llke now. The first thing
you want is R standby, right?
CC Roger.
CDR R standby, nothing new. Okay.
CC Okay, RAD and SCAT both ON.
CDR Okay, S is on, ready light, R is on ready
light.
CC Okay, record Alfa 9, Bravo 9, and Charlie 9.
Or tell me.
CDR Okay, here they come. Alfa 9 is about
4 percent, Bravo 9 is about 58 percent, Charlie 9 is about -
it's kd of hopping between plus 2 and minus full scale low,
which is about minus 2.
PLT And we've got SCAT transmitter light on,
and they come on after a while. The RAD SCAT gimbal was
intermittent.
CDR SCAT transmitter light stayed on all the
t ime.
SL-III MC-2022/2
Time: 12:26 CDT 49/17:26 GMT
9/14/73

CC I don't understand the Charlie 9 reading

Give that one to meagain, please?
CDR Charlle 9, okay, now it's plus 3 percent,
now it's minus 2 percent. And now it's plus 3 percent, and
now it's minus 2.
CC Hey, it only reads from 0 to i00 doesn't
it?
PLT Yeah, but it's off scale low.
CDR Okay, take your choice.
PLT Plus 3 to off scale low, Bruce.
CC Okay, we copy. Go ahead in RAD and
SCAT to standby, and finish up. Thank you.
CDR Okay, RAD to standby, SCAT to standby.
Anything else?
CC That's it, EREP stop.
CDR EREP stop.
CC And for the SPT.
PLT We did that yesterday, didn't we?
CDR Nope, we didn't do that yesterday. I got
some problem on yesterday's. Do tape measurement. I think I
can do 1:hat after I read my - -
CC SPT, Houston.
CDR Voice record B7. Okay, B7 _s 31 percent,
same as it always is. 92 door to close.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Owen. During your S063 stowage
operation here since this is the last time that S063 will
be run on this mlssionwe would like to get a general descrip-
tion of the S063 window for cleanliness, and the S063 filters
for cleanliness, irregularities in the surface, and pin holes.
Over.
SPT Okay, you want that right now?
CC Put it on the tape recorder. You're going
through the stowage operation right now though I believe.
SPT you're sure going to (garble) out.
CC Okay, I may be getting cut off by VOX,
I'm not sure.
CDR Shouldn't be, it's not simplex.
CC Okay, how are you reading now, owen?
SPT No, I think you're right. I think it's
V0X triggering cut off upstairs. So why don't we wait tll
Madrid or something llke that whatever the next station is.
And I understand you want to check on all the filters and
window, and I'll put that on channel A.
CC Roger. That's all we needed and we are
over Madrid.
SL-III MC-2022/3
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SPT Okay.
PLT Okay, l've got the VOX off now, Bruce.
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC-2023/I
Time: 12:34 CDT, 49/17:34 GMT
9/14/73

CC And also for the SPT, we're wondering

if you've put all of the science demo television that you
intend to put on the VTR on there yet? And can you try -
SPT I put on there the (garble) spectrum and a -
another look at - the little fish. We have about 12 to 15 of
them now. And I did not intend - nor did I put obviously anything
on about the airplanes today. We're going to have to - do some
folding and some work on that before we're ready. If we get it
done on the day off.
CC Okay, so - everything that's going to go on
there today is already on there.
SPT All that I intended to put on there today,
yes. I guess that was your question.
CC And - which portion of this tape do you
think would be the most interest for news broadcast. We've
got on -
SPT Are you with us, Bruce.
CC Yes, I am. Which portion of the tape do
you think would be the greatest interest for a news broadcast.
We have only a limited site coverage, we're dumping. We're
trying to get about 8 minutes worth of it down here. Over.
CC SPT, Houston. I seem to he reading every
body else in the cluster okay. Could it be your VOX or your
headset. Over.
CC Stand by. We're going to drop the up-link and
reacquire it. May be our problem after all. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR Loud and clear now, Bruce.
CC Okay, what we were trying to ask is,
which segmet of the tape do you think would be of the most interest
for a news broadcast? We have limited site opportunities for
dumping the TV. We can get about 8 minutes of it down.
In the immediate future we'd like to pick the most interesting
8 minutes to dump. Over.
SPT How much did I put on? Was it 15 or
so or how much was on there.
CC Roger. 15.6.
SPT Well, my guess is - the last part which
is - shows our little mummichog minnows swimming around
along with a few of the unhatched eggs. The first half, I
mhowed the (garble) the last half the little fish.
CC We copy. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute til LOS.
Next station contact in 38 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek
at 18:16 Z. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Honeysuckle will acquire Skylab in 36-i/2 minutes.
At 17 hours 39 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2024/I
Time: 13:15 CDT 49/18:15 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 15 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range of
the Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 2-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC You - -
CDR What's the (garble) word on that 193?
CC We're still working it. When you reported
the malf light, we noticed some irregularities in the data coming
down on the EDDU, and we're trying to piece all that together.
Incidentally, a question we have for the CDR, was the RAD
receiver malf light on continuously during the pass, or
while it was operating, or did it come on Just the second
time you turned the gear on there at about 17:00. Over.
CDR It came - it came on there when I reported
it, Bruce. It had been off until that point, an_ once it
came on, it stayed on.
CC Okay, we copy that. And while we're talking
to you, AI, what we'd like to do on this desiccant that was
causing the problems in the dryer is put a piece of red tape
or sometlhing like that on it to mark it for identification and
then go ahead and stow it in D424, I believe the locker is,
with the rest of the spares. Over.
CDR Okay, actually I tried 3 of them before
I found one that works, so there's a couple there that are
bad and I'ii put the tape around them.
CC Roger, we copy. For the SPT, we'd like
to find out the serial numbers of the TV monitor, and of the
monitor to television camera cable that were used during the
TV53? Over.
SPT Okay, there are - what we think are two
good ones. Did they come down badly?
CC No, the TV came down just fine.
SPT Okay, I'ii go give you the numbers on them.
CC Okay, why don't you make a note of them,
or put them on the tape recorder. We got 30 seconds to LOS
here. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Goldstone
at 18:44. And it's the monitor and the cable that goes
between the monitor and the TV that we're looking for. And
with respect to your reference to the something-or-other
mummichog we looked in stowage list and we find that you're
flying Fundulus heteroclitus on board. Over.
SPT Well, that's what I meant to say, but
somehow or other it slipped my mind Just when I got to the
descriptive part, so I thought mummichog would fill in just
as well.
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9/14/73

CC Rog, we concur.
PLT And, Bruce I got some prominences
over on the west llmb that were reported on the pad this morning,
no doubt: associated with those active regions that are
going out of sight.
CC Okay. Little bit of an update, new active
region - designation active region 27 on the east limb with
spots at 280/1.0, small surges peaked out at 15:20 Z. Over.
PLT Okay, prominence 27?
CC Active region 27 coming over the east llmb.
PLT Oh all right, I misunderstood you. I'ii go
take a look at it.
CC I'm not necessarily implying go take a
look at it, I'm Just updating you on the SAP.
PLT Thanks, I'ii probably take a look at it
anyway.
CC Roger.
PLT And the prominences I was reporting there,
I meant to say west llmb, I don't know if I did or not, but
that's where they were.
CC You say - you did say west limb, I realize
this thing I'm telling you about is on the opposite_ side.
PLT Right. I guess that's left with the north
at the 1:op, right?
CC Right. Left with the north at .the top is
east.
PLT Right, I'd like to get to the guy that did
that.
CC When you do, give them a llck for me too, okay?
PLT What if his name was Corrigan?
CDR I think it was Galileo.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab moving out
of range of the Honeysuckle station. Goldstone will acquire
in 22 minutes. During this pass the crew inquired whether the
ground had any further information on the malfunction light on
the S193, the microwave radiometer/scatterometer and altimeter.
CAP COMM reported that the EREP experts are still looking at that
data. And the CAP COMM astronaut Bruce McCandless, informed
Science Pilot Owen Garriott that those fish he's been calling
mummichog minnows are really Fundulus heteroclitus. For transcript
purposes that's spelled F U N D U L U S H E T E K 0 C L I T U S.
At 18 hours 23 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 13:43 CDT 49/18:43 GMT
9/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 43 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by at the Goldstone
station for communications with Skylab. We have lines up
between Houston and Goldstone and expect to bring back the
television that will he dumped from the video tape recorder
at this station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 7 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay Bruce, glad to see you back.
CC Okay. And we will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder here. I think we held off doing it
over Madrid since that was the tail end of your EREP pass,
and I called it up erroneously.
PLT Okay.
SPT Bruce, the serial number on the monitor
I used was 1021. The serial number on the cable which connects
the monitor to the camera is 3005. And I did notice intermittant
operation again this morning.
CC We copy that, Owen. Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. If you will stay off the
DAS for a second, we will inhibit momentum dump for you.
PLT Thank you, Bruce. It's yours.
CC Roger.
SPT Bruce, Just looking down on Stanford
there scattered clouds down below.
CC Say again about the scattered clouds, Owen.
SPT Looking down on Stanford right there,
your old stomping grounds out there and there are scattered
clouds.

CC Yeah, your old stomping grounds too. Can

you see the linear accellerator or anything llke that?
PLT We're a little too far south to see it
b eye, but I have seen it for example yesterday. I
didn't have a chance to mention it because I was too busy
with other things. But I could see the straight llne where
the linear accellerator goes down.
CC Beautiful. And for your information we're
dumping TV 53 into the Control Center right now. And we're
watching you somewhat delayed in time operating the Wilher
force pendulum.
SPT Okay. I expect that's at the tall end of
it there,, then, and you'll see the fish on the end of that.
CC More than likely.
CC Skylab, Houston, 30 seconds to LOS here
at Goldstone. The DAS is yours. Next station contact will
be Bermuda at 18:57 in about 4 minutes. Out.

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Time: 13:53 CDT, 49/17:53 GMT
9/14/73

SPT Okay, Bruce, See you there. Thank you.

PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone has
had loss of signal. Bermuda will pick up Skylab in about
a minute and half. We'll continue to keep the llne up and
stand by for Bermuda acquisition.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for approximately 3 minutes. Out.
SPT Bruce. One thing I've been meaning
for a couple of days to mention to you again. You asked a
couple of times about the use of the viewflnder with 300 millimeter
lens. And I think our answers up to this point has not been
too encouraging on that point. But it seems to me the more
I use it, the more I do see through that 300 millimeter
lens. And that it is a pretty good - device for - picking
up small features or identifying small features that were
only guesses by naked eye. And - I think that it does rival
binoculars for that sort of use, of course it's not stabilized
but you could brace your arm or something so there's not
to much Jitter. I think it's very useful thing for magnified
images.
CC Okay. Thank you Owen. Good input.
PLT Something sort of interesting thing, but I
haven't said too much of the Sun Bruce is something I see right
now on -- on the llmb I could read this 19, where we're
doing this building block 19. (garble) and that is
that - several gaps in the llmb brlghtlng. Normally you see
that in one contlnous - continue form - brlghtlng areas -
bright area with a few prominences. But I can see definite
gaps - 3 or 4 of them on my - in a - H-alpha i. And max
magnification that they're in.
CC We copy. Sounds interesting.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute tll LOS.
Next station contact in 6 minutes through Canary Islands at
19:07. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of Signal. Canary Islands station will plck up Skylab in about
2 minutes. We'll leave the llne up and continue monitor for
acquisition at Canaries.

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Time: 14:06 CDT 49/19:06 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary

for 8 minutes. Out.
PLT Did I hear you call, Bruce?
CC Roger, Owen. We're right here coming
to you through Canary Islands.
PLT Okay, this is Jack Bruce. I want to clear
up something that I didn't read properly earlier. I was
talking about the H-alpha and I erroneously called the area
I was talking about llmb brightenings. It should be called more
properly I think the ring of spicules that you can see between the
white light limb and the edge of the H-alpha. And it's that ring of
spicules that has the gaps in it. And it appears as though a cross
section through a plage area or an active region, that kind of
wipes out those spicules an areas. So the gaps are inthe spicules
above the white light limb.
CC Roger, we copy that. And just for identi-
fication, what is that in the background that was making
the noise that was varying in speed. Are you turning a fan
on or off?
PLT No, I wasn't turning anything on and off,
Bruce. Probably the rate gyros. They do a lot of humming
back here and that's the thing that makes the most noise
up here in the MDA, when EREP is not with us.
CC Okay. The only reason I asked is it
sounds like it was varying speeds, you know the frequency
or the pitch or the hum was varying. Maybe it's just on
the down-llnk.
PLT That's ... relatively ... you can
hear a w_ry slight variation in it, if you've got good ears
to pick it up.
CC Okay, and we copy your amplifying remarks
about the gaps in the ring of spicules.
CC There they go getting noisy again, Jack.
Did you ]hear it this time?
PLT Yeah, did you hear that vibration?
CC Yeah. Is that what you were telling me
was the rate gyros?
PLT No, I just wanted to see if your ear
was good enough to pick that up too.
CC My ear isn't very good, but it was
good enough to pick that up.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 30 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 36 minutes through Honeysuckle
at 19:51. Out.
SPT Okay Bruce, we'll see you there. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
moved out of range of the Canary Island station. Honeysuckle
Australia will pick up Skylab in 33-1/2 minutes. At 19 hours
17 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 14:50 CDT, 49/19:50 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

19 hours 50 minutes. We will have acquisition at Honeysuckle
in 30 seconds. We'll hold the line open for Skylab-III.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at the next site, Hawaii. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
SPT Hey, Bruce. I wonder if you'd set up
a phone call with the wife and the family for me tonight?
Owen, here.
CC Okay. We'll do that, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for
a moment in order to enable momentum dump.
PLT You've got it, Bruce.
CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. We're
through with enable. The DAS is yours. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, a minute and
i0 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 12-1/2 minutes
through Hawaii at 20:11. Out.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
20 hours I minute, with loss of signal at Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii in eight minutes 55 seconds.
Commander A1 Bean should be in the operation of the SO19
experiment while his fellow astronauts, Science Pilot
Owen Garriott, and Pilot Jack Lousma, should be having their
afternoon meal. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in
8 minutes 30 seconds. The afternoon change of shift with
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is now tentatively set for
6:00 p.m., central daylight time, in the building 1 news
room. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson at 6:00 p.m. in
the building i news room. Next acquisition in 8 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 20 hours 2 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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TIME: 15:09 CDT 49/20:09 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

20 hours 9 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Hawaii in 30
seconds. CAP COMM is Astronaut Bruce McCandless as Skylab
space station midway through it's 1778th revolution since
launch from Cape Kennedy on May 14th.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're I minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone
at 20:23. Out.
PLT Okay Bruce, and (garble) you want some
real time TV of the Sun.
CC Roger.

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SL-III MC-2030/I
Time: 15:22 CDT, 49/20:22 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through

Goldstone for 7 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. How are you receiving the
white light coronograph?
CC Stand by. We're checking on that.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're receiving
the TV satisfactorily at Goldstone. They're recording it
there, but we have been having some computer problems at
that site due to a failure of the air conditioning system.
But, keep it coming down and we'll record it there and ship
it in later. Over.
PLT Okay. It looks like 56 is hung up. It's
the third time it's hung up on this pass.
CC Roger, Jack. We confirm that.
PLT The other two times it hung up was
just a plain old single frame 1 and 3 short. I had to
reinitiate it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute
to LOS through Goldstone. Next station contact in 5 minutes.
Bermuda at 20:34. Out.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
20 hours 30 minutes, with loss of signal at Goldstone.
Next acquisition 3 minutes 35 seconds over Bermuda as the
spacecraft crosses over the northern limits of the United
States. We'll hold the line up for the upcoming Bermuda
pass.

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TIME: 15:34 CDT 49/20:34 GMT
9/13/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston with you through

Bermuda for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.
PLT Okay. Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're i minute
til LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through the
Canary Islands at 20:44. Out.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
20 hours 44 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary,
Ascension for about 15 minutes. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce, here's something for the - for what
it's worth department. I've - I know we've changed the
center of the mirror auto raster to 933 as opposed to 932,
and at the last two bright points that I've pointed at the
maximized detector, I've had to slide the H-Alpha off to the
left just a little bit in order to get the detector maximized,
or if I put H-Alpha right on the bright spot, then I have to
set the mirror one step to the left to get it maximized.
Now, I don't know if the H-Alpha signature is going to be
bright :in the same point as the 55 signature, but that's
Just my observations for the records. Over.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you, Jack.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station in 2 minutes and a half is Ascension. Out.
CDR Okay. Bruce, we'll see you at Ascension.
CC Roger.

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SL-III MC-2032/I
Time: 15:51 CDT, 49/20:51 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. With you

through Ascension for 7-1/2 minutes. B -
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Ascension for 7 minutes. For the CDR. Over.
PLT Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay. In our flight planning efforts
for tomorrow. We attempted to squeeze in our long EREP
pass. That is the one starting down over New Zealand and
winding up over North America, here. And we just found
out that we can't afford it from our TACS budget problem.
So, we're essentially starting back at square zero again,
and the Flight Plan; the details will be about 4 to 5 hours
late coming up this evening, but we're going to try to
get them to you before you go to bed. Over.
CDR Sounds good, Bruce. How many pounds
seconds of TACS did it take?
CC It was somewhere over a I00 pound seconds,
AI. But the problem is, that we were facing a high probability
of a reset, which would have been on the order of about
500-pound seconds and we didn't feel we could afford that
for one EREP pass, over.
CC I concur. I just sort of wondered
what kind of numbers a long pass like that would incur.
Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute to
LOS. Next station in contact in half an hour - 31 minutes,
through Honeysuckle, excuse me, throuEh Carnarvon at
21:26. And for the SPT, we're tentatively setting up
your phone call this evening for the Merritt Island,
Mila pass at 23:47 to 23:57. We're still trying to get
an antenna analysis and site coverage run on it. When
we do, we'll advise you further. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Thank you very much.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
21 hours i minute with loss of signal at Ascension. Very
quiet pass ending at Goldstone across the United States,
through Canary and Ascension very little conversation between
Skylab-lll and CAP COMH Bruce McCandless. At this point in
the mission, Pilot Lousma is currently at the ATH console,
while Pilot - Science Pilot Owen Garriott and Commander A1
Bean are performing routine housekeeping chores aboard the
spacecraft. Commander Bean is scheduled to begin the M092,
MO93 run, that lower body negative pressure device, vector-
cardiogram experiment with Science Pilot Owen Garriott
serving as observer. This pair of medical experiments
scheduled to begin at Greenwich mean time 22 hours. Pilot
Lousma has two more consecutive sunside passes at the ATH.
Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 24 minutes. At
Greenwich mean time 21 hours 2 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-2033/I
TIME: 145:26 CDT 49/21:26 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

21 hours 26 minutes. We will have acquisition at Carnarvon
in approximately 45 seconds. We'll leave the line up for
CAP COMM Henry Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Welcome Hank.
CC Good evening.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 50.
PLT See you there, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 36 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Next
tracking station acquisition will be Hawaii in 14 minutes.
A quiet pass over Carnarvon and Honeysuckle as has been the
case for the last stateside pass as well as the Canary,
Ascension pass. The crew is busy with Commander A1 Bean
performing the MO92/MO93 run, lower body negative pressure
device. Metabolic vectorcardiogram experiment, with Science
Pilot Owen Garriott serving as the observer. And Pilot Jack
Lousma is at the solar observatory C&D panel in the multiple
docking adaptor. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 13
minutes i0 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 21 hours 37 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2034/I
Time: 16:50 CDT, 49/21:50 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

21 hours 49 minutes. We will have acquisition at Hawaii
in 30 seconds. We have a change over at the Mission Control
Center with oncoming Flight Director Chuck Lewis. And
new CAP COM is Henry Hartsfild.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20
seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 02.
CC That was an awful short pass. What I
really mean to say is we're with you here for about i0 passes.
CDR We kind of wondered.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC We've been noticing that the S056 camera
is now hanging up in a single frame mode. And this hasn't
happened before. And the increased load on the film-drive
(garble) motor could cause single point failure in the
S056. And the PI feels that we should severely restrict
the S056 operation to ensure that we still have the
instrument for SL IV. So what we'd like to do is use SO56
only, in JOP 6, building blocks i, and then only in the
single frame long and do that for the rest of our mission.
Bowever_, for right now, we'd like for you to go ahead and
shut it down now on this pass and allow the camera motor
to cool down the pressure to build back up in the camera.
And I'm sure you know how to do that. What we want to do
is get the airlock closed, close the door and get the camera
power off.
PLT Okay. Will do.
CC And also, for the remainder of the
mission=, to best utilize our film on B-alpha i, we'd like
to go to normal operation which is one frame per minute
from now on. And the only time we'll change out of that
for flare mode when we go to four frames per minute.
PLT Okay. It's running in auto i at the
moment. And we've got the airlock closed, the door closed
and the camera power off on 56 and I'd like you to be more specific
on what single frames you want in the long mode in JOP 6,
building block I.
CC Okay. I misread that to you, Jack.
What we'll do is operate only in the JOP 6 building block 1
and also, we'll do single frame long mode.
PLT Okay. So the way I understand it is, you
want the single frame longs when they come up as the shopping
list items, and also in the building block l's where it asks
for an active one long, you're happy with our procedures to do
single frame i, 3, 5 short and let it go with that.
CC Rog. Just as they call it for in the
building block.
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Time: 16:50 CDT, 49/21:50 GMT
9/14/73

PLT Okay. Well, the building block calls

for an active one long. In order to save film, we've been
giving them single frames I, 3, and 5. Now we can go to
active one long as a standard procedure, if he wishes.
CC Okay. We - We'll - -
PLT (garble) active one long - Go ahead.
CC Let us take a look at that. We're
discussing here in the backroom with Adam and we'll try to
get an answer back to you at Goldstone. And we are coming
up on LOS. And Goldstone will be coming up at 02.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
56 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 6 minutes. Hawaii pass discussions
between Hank Hartsfield, CAPCOM, and Pilot Jack Lousma
concerning the SO56. CAP COMM Hartsfield passed up the
recommendation of PI for that experiment, S056 dual x-ray
telescope, the James E. Hilligan of the Marshall Space
Flight Center. Apparently, the SO56 has been hanging up
in the - To prevent any further problems it's been suggested
that the camera be used only in a selective - selective
operations. It has been shutdown for now. Also recommenda-
tions passed up on the H-alpha 1 camera to be used only
on a basis of one frame per minute. Next acquisition will
be Goldstone in 5 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 21 hours
57 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2035/I
Time: 17:01 CDT, 49/22:01 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

22 hours i minute. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone in
45 seconds. We'll hold the line up for CAP COI_M Hank Harts-
field.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through
Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC And, Jack, answer to your question here,
the - the backroom boys would like to run the SO56 and the
JOP 6 building block 1 there about one per the pad.
PLT Okay, per the pad. We'll look at the pad,
do whatever's best, and if it says nothing_ we'll give them
an active one long.
PLT I tried an active one long just a little
while ago. I was going to give them one run-through on this
whole rev to cover all of these JOP 2 foxes - and - because
I thought he hadn't had one for a long, long time, might
want one. And it ran through ,the sequence of filters two or
three times, then it hung up on filter 5 again.
CC PLT, Houston. We're a little puzzled
by your remark there, about the active one long in the JOP 6
there. It calls for a patrol normal long and short and
we're a little puzzled by your comment, there.
PLT It was not referring to JOP 6. Perhaps
I misquote myself. I was talking about the building block
i0 that we're doing here - the two fox trots. And INC alls
are active one long and I was not give him an active one long in
the first run-through on building block iO, but, it wouldn't
go past filter 5 second or third time around.
CC Okay, we copy now.
CC And Skylab, just to make it perfectly
clear here, we are not going to run SO56 anymore today.
And we will get back with you later today on how we want
to shut it down for the night.
PLT Okay, we'll leave it as is. I presume
the door's not open, come around and make us a sunrise, and
then just close it again. Right?
CC Uh - well just go ahead like - do - do
it's thing, and then we'll be all right.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS.
We'll be coming right back with Bermuda at Ii:00, and we'll
have a data recorder dump there.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
22 hours 8 minutes. We've had - have had loss of signal
at Goldstone. Next acquisition will be Mila in approxlmately
2 minutes 30 seconds. During this pass, Commander AI Bean
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Time: 17:01 CDT, 49/22:01 GMT
9/14/73

is conducting the MO92/MO93, lower body negative pressure

vectorcardiogram experiment. This is the 13th time he
has conducted this - these pair of experiments since the
start of Skylab III. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott is serving
as the observer during this dual run medical experimtent.
Pilot Jack Lousma is still at the ATM console. We will hold
the line up for this pass with CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.

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SL-III MC-2036/I
Time: 17:09 CDT, 49/22:09 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for

10-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have - a general
comment for all three of you. Occasionally GNS has a little
trouble tracking down the RG 6-pack temp so we'd appreciate
very much when you put those temps onto a tape, that you'd
add GNS to the address.
PLT Okay. I put the last set on yesterday,
I believe, Hank. And _f you haven't gotten the last set, why
I got them right here before me, I can read them real time.
CC Okay. We did get the ones from yesterday.
PLT Okay. And I guess I (garble) the EGIL.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Ascension at 29.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 22 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. Acquisition
at the next tracking station will be in 6 minutes. That
will be Canary, Canary Island tracking station. Commander
Bean in the process of performing M092, lower body negative
pressure device, then MO93, the vectorcardiogram experiment.
Both experiments designed to assess the cardiovascular system
in a weightless condition. This is the 13th time that
Commander Bean has performed these pair of experiments.
Premission planning called for each astronaut to perform
M092, MO93 17 separate times throughout the 59-day mission.
Next acquisiton will be Ascension in 5 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 22 hours 23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 17:28 CDT, 49/22:28 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 28 minutes. Acquisition coming up in 45 seconds
at Ascension as the Skylab-lll crew begins their 700th
revolution of the Earth, since launch from Cape Kennedy on
July 28.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
8-1/2 minutes.
CC And for the PLT. We have a change here
details.
PLT Okay.
CC So that we can better utilize the time
remaining for to run through our H518 series of experiments,
at 00:40 today, you have M561 scheduled. We'd like to
change that to M563 ops. And set the SOP temperature
pump to 960 instead of 950.
PLT Okay. I understand that's M563 and the
temperature will be 960. Is that right, Hank?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay. Thank you for that change.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.
Carnarvon at 01.
PAO Skylah Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 39 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 21 minutes. CAP COI_M Henry
Hartsfield advising Pilot Jack Lousma to - tonight that
the M518, the materials processing facility, to use the
M563, crystal growth experiment, Principal Investigator
is William R. Wilcox - Dr. William R. Wilcox, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles. This is one of the
several manufacturing of space experiments scheduled for
Skylab. There was no schedule for M518 use during the
third mission. However, the crew has requested considera-
tion be given to using the experiment during the mission.
And procedures were passed up to the crew to supplement
the - this series of experiments. Next acquisition will
be Carnarvon in 20 minutes 50 seconds. Greenwich mean time
22 hours 40 minutes, Skylab Control..

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TIME: 17:55 CDT 49/22:25 GMT
9/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

22 hours 55 minutes. We anticipate a change-of-shlft
briefing in the building 1 newsroom with Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson at 6:15. A change-of-shift briefing, building
i newsroom with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson at 6:15.
Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 5 minutes and 30
seconds. At Greenwich mean time 22 hours 55 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-2039
TSME: 18:00 CDT 49/23:00 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

23 hours. Acquisition coming up at Carnarvon in 35 seconds
with CAP COMM Hank Hartsfleld. Commander A1 Bean should be
completing the second half of the dual medical experiment.
M093, vectorcardlogram experiment. This is the iSth tlme
he will have performed this experiment in Skylab 555. He's
scheduled to perform it a total of 17 times during the 59
day mission. We'll hold the line up for this pass through
Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
10-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did we get a full
protocol on the CDR?
SPT That's affirm. The best one yet.
CC Good show.
CC Skylab, Houston. Whenever it's con-
venient, we'd like to know did you clean your entertainment
tape recorder according to pad we sent up and how is it
working now?
PLT We cleaned it Hank, and it seems to be
working pretty well now.
CC Okay. That's good news.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're almost LOS. We'll
be coming up on Guam at 14.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
23 hours 12 minutes. Loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next
acquisition will be Guam in approximately 2 minutes. We'll
hold the line up for the Guam pass.

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TIME: 18:12 CDT 49/23:12 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for another

8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 40.
SPT Okay Hank. Thank you. We'll see you there.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
23 hours 25 minutes. Loss of signal at Guam. Next acquisition
will be Goldstone in 15 minutes. Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson is preparing to leave the Mission Control Center
for building i for a change of shift briefin E in approximately
5 minutes. Nell Hutchinson, Flight Director will be at the
building I news room in about 5 minutes. During the Carnarvon
pass, the Skylab III reported Science Pilot Owen Garriott
reported that Commander AI Bean had completed a full protocol
on the MO92 lower body negative pressure device experiment.
It was reported yesterday that he was unable to finish a
complete protocol on the last time he ran this experiment,
which was 3 days ago. However today,he managed to complete
the full protocol on the MO92. Change of shift briefing
in building i news room in about 5 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours and 26 minutes. Next acquisition
Goldstone in 14 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 18:39 CDT, 49/23:39 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

23 hours 39 minutes. We expect acquisition at Goldstone
in approximately 45 seconds. We'll record this stateside
pass and play it back at the close of the change-of-shlft
briefing. To repeat, we - we'll have acquisition at Gold-
stone. We'll record the stateside pass and play it at the
close of change-of-shift, with Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson.
Skylab Control, 23 hours 39 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2042/I
Time: 19:11 CDT, 50/00:11 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

00:ii minutes. We have accumulated 7-1/2 minutes of tape
through the previous stateside pass during the change of shift
briefing. We'll play that tape now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Goldstone and
Mila for 16-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data recorder
over Mila at 47. And a reminder for the SPT. Your private
phone call is set up for Mila at 46. And you'll probably
use antennas right and then left. And the last part of that may
be a little wormy, hut do the best you can.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're unable to
locate on our dump tape the tape measurements you did on
the EREP tape today, and we kind of need that data to make
our plans for tomorrow.
CDR The answer's 1 inch.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I can give you most of the nightly report,
if you'd llke it right now. I didn't see it on my schedule.
I can give you everything but the photo pad.
CC Stand by 1 AI. Let's get everybody
ready.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, AI. Everybody's ready to copy.
CDR Okay. 082, 120, 198; 6094, 9998, 6556;
6.235, 6.235, 6.245; 5.946, 5.948, 5.946; 6.942, 6.943, 6.945.
Exercise: CDR hasn't done his yet, but he'll tell you what
it'll be. 2/35/5041; 3/10/Mark I, 3/05/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III.
SPT: 2/17/3000, 2/12/2000, 3/25/Mark I, 60, A; 60, B; 60, D;
PLT: 2/05/0621, He hasn't done a lot of some of his yet.
He'll call you back on that, but let me tell you some more that
he's done. 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20,B; 20, D; 20 backbends.
No medication. Sleep: 7/G, 7/G, 6-I/2/G. Food log: CDR,
four salts plus three salt pills, add one lemonade. SPT, zero
salts, omit asparagus and tuna, add, pork and potatoes, add
peanut butter. Pilot, four salt cubes, that's salt packs,
add one lemon drop, one salt pill, one butter cookie, one
grape drink, one pear, substitute peanuts and peach ambrosia
for tuna and bread. Photo log we'll give you later.
Flight Plan, we're standing by to see it. Shopping list
accomplishments: there's nothing new. Inoperable equipment:
We - one pen light, we got out another pen light and discarded
the old one. Unscheduled stowage item location change: Two
TOO2 batteries from W-740 to the sextant. Little note on
here from Jack that says, day 20 and day 40. Maybe he meant
he didn't report it on day 20 one of them. I don't know
how many the TOO2 has. Let me ask him.
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CDR Okay. I did check with Jack. And he

says there's two batteries gone. One he replaced about
day 20 and one about day 40. So he just wanted to to make sure
you knew there were two gone.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Okay. That's it. Any questions, Hank?
CC No questions. And I guess the only
thing remaining is the film report.
CDR And we'll get you that just as soon as we
can .
CC Skylab, Houston. EGIL noticed some
funnies yesterday, in the OWS heat exchanger gas flow and
was wondering if anybody was doing any work with the
OWS heat exchanger just before, or during your TO20 run,
yesterday.
CDR No, we didn't do anything to the heat
exchanger, but you know we turn off the fans and things
down here in the workshop.
CC We copy.
CDR Without those fans, I would suspect it
somehow reflects back up there on the load on the heat
exchanger.
CC Skylab, Houston, if we have someone
free, we would like to get back normal configuration on
our cabin pressure control valves. We're back down to
pretty much normal pressure now.
CC Skylab, HoustOn. Did you copy regarding
the relief valve?
CDR No. Go ahead, Hank. Excuse me. What
you - What's on your mind?
CC Okay. Whenever it's convenient, what
we'd like to do is, on panel 300 and 391, that's MDA and
I think aft relief valves, we'd like to make sure those
are open and verify that panel 313 relief valve is closed.
I'm sure here, that's one that goes outside. And on panel
225, we'd llke to get the N2 solenoid selector valve to
primary. And then verify in the command module that
on pane]. 325, both of those are - cabin pressure relief
levers are in normal position. What we're trying to do is
get back to a normal configuration, since our cabin pressures
are pretty much normal again after TO20 runs.
CDR So you want the command module one in
normal as opposed to closed, okeydoke. I copied the rest.
CC Okay. And we're about 30 seconds from
LOS and we'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 39 past the
next hour.
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PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

00:19 minutes after the hour. That was a playback of
7-1/2 minutes recorded during the stateside pass, while
the change of shift briefing was in progress. Next acqui-
tion will be Carnarvon in 20 minutes. At 19 minutes after
the hour, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2043/I
Time: 19:39 CDT, 50/00:39 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

- Greenwich mean time 39 minutes after the hour. Acquisition
coming ,up at Carnarvon in approximately 25 seconds. CAP COMM
is astronaut Hank Hartsfield, Flight Director, Chuck Lewis.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
6-1/2 minutes.
CC And, if we could have the DAS for a minute
we'll command then - momentum inhibit.
CDR You got it.
CDR How do you llke the star?
CC Looks good. You're free to close the
shutter.

CC And, CDR, Houston. We passed you some

- well, not bad poop, but not in - not exactly correct accord-
ing to the checklist a while ago. Those two cabin release
pressure valves you questioned in the co ......
and module should
indeed be closed to agree with the checklist. EGIL says he'll
take 25 lashes and you'll get those at shift change.
CDR Okay, well, that means we've still got
about 500 coming if we subtract his off ours. Here's the
question: I noticed in next event down here is shopping list
item 13, which is 56. Do you want me to Just forget that and
go do some other shopping list, and if so, have you got a
suggestion? If not, I'll figure something out.
CC Since you asked, a - a type-four radio
source has been reported by (Garble) Observatory from down
under, and we'd llke for you to look at the WLC TV and see
if you see anything unusual above the northwest llmb. It
should be about at 060. And if you do see a coronal transient
there of some sort, we'd llke to replace shopping llst item
13 with an S052 extended standard. Otherwise, we'd like to
replace it with the following operations: the (garble)
last building block i0 of the last orbit you did, except it
was running entirely below the 400 kilometer limit, and then
do shopping llst item 9 on filament 57. Use an 8-minute
exposure for the 82B.
CDR (Garble) Say that once again, I got part
of it.
CC Okay, I know I went a little fast there.
I just wanted to give you a summary of it. We want you to
look for the transient at 060 and see if there is one. If
there is a transient there, we'd llke for you to do - instead
of the shopping llst item 13, Just do an S052 extended stand-
ard. Now, if there is no transient, we want to go back to
your previous pass and do the last building block i0 over
again, since it was run below the 400 kilometer limit. And then
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after you've finished that, shopping llst item 9 on filament

57, and a - an S-minute exposure for the 82B.
CDR Okay, now is this the JOP - building
block i0 2-F that's right above this subflare?
CC On the last rev, the cycle beginning
at 23:01, there was a series that in JOP 2-F, building block
i0. All we want you to do is run that last one again. And
then you finish that do the shopping list item 9 on the
filament 57.
CDR Okay, I was trying to find out if it
was my last i0 or the last rev i0. You just answered the
question. Thanks.
CDR And Hank, I guess I never reported back
to you - and, by the way, I just closed the two in the
command module. And I closedthe valve in the STS, I opened
it, I left the one closed in the lock compartment,
and I opened the one in the aft compartment.
CC Okay, that sounds good. Thank you, AI.
CDR As soon as this 52 standard's over, then
I'ii take a look at the WLC, and go from there. So if
it's going on right now we're getting the data.
CC We copy. And we're about i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 54.
CDR You said this burst over on the
west llmb somewhere, is that correct?
CC Roger, 060, northwest limb.
CDR Well that's good, cause the roll is
just right for them now then.
PAO Skylab Control. 47 minutes after the
hour. Loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next acquisition will
be Guam. Information on our radio burst type-four was
relayed to Commander AI Bean, who was at the Apollo tele-
scope mount. The radio burst occurred on the west llmb
of the Sun, and he is now realigning the instruments to
catch that radio burst. Next acquisition will be Guam
in 6 minutes and 25 seconds. At 47 minutes after the hour,
this is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 1'9:53 CDT 50/00:53 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. 53 minutes after the

hour. Acquisition coming over Guam tracking station in 40
seconds. Commander AI Bean at the Apollo Telescope Mount.
Pilot Jack Lousma preparing the M518 manufacturing in space
facility for another - the start of another experiment.
While Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is performing his physical
exercise for the day. Hold the llne up for CAP COMM Hank
Hartsfleld.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 5 minutes.
CDR Okay Hank. I took a look at the corona.
It looked llke there was a possible disturbance down in that
area, but it looks llke the top of the bubble is already out
beyond the limit of my scope, although if I look down at
the bottom, I can see curves or streamers going out. My
feeling is we probably did have a visible. It was probably
picked up by and earlier 52 when I was there before hand.
Maybe the one in the previous orbit. I'm not sure, but I'm
now in extended standard and I feel that you want me to
restart the extended standard when this one stops in about
12 or 13 minutes.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
CC And also A1, we see the SO82 doors are
closed. Did you close those?
CDR Yeah. I took the pictures and closed
the doors.
CC Okay. We copy. We Just wanted -
CDR I can open them up if you like. Say
again.
CC That's good, like they are now.
PLT Say Hank. Could you copy down some
more exercise please?
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. For the PLT it's number - Sorry about
that. It's a number 2, 35 minutes, 8674. Over.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Goldstone at 17.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
i hour. Next acquisition will be Goldstone in 16 minutes
20 seconds, with Commander Bean still at the Apollo Telescope
Mount. A report by Pilot Jack Lousma on exercise performed.
Commander Bean is scheduled to perform exercise in about 35
minutes. Each crew member is allotted i hour a day except
those days that they ride the bicycle ergometer. On those
days, they're given an additional 30 minutes in addition to
riding the bicycle ergometer for a medical experiment.
Pilot Lousma is also scheduled to operate the SO19 camera
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again this evening. One of the final activities Flight

Plan, and Science Pilot Owen Garriott is scheduled for i
hour session at the Apollo Telescope Mount. Next acquisition
Goldstone in 15 minutes 20 seconds. At Greenwich mean time
i hour i minute, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2045/I
Time: 20:16 CDT, 50/01:16 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skyl_b Control , _ro_nw!,-l, m_,, ! 11,,_

i hour 16 minutes. Acquisition coming at the Goldstolse
tracking station in 35 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone,
Texas, and Mila for 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to clear up
a little something we got on the Evening Status Report.
Yesterday, the pilot's water gun, we copied 6.564 and today,
we copied 6.556, which is a lower number, and we're a
little confused.
CDR We'll Just have to check our last couple
of readings and see how they set. I'm sure we can figure
it out.
CC Okay. Whenever you get to it. Thank
you, AI.
CDR Okay. Jack's headed down there right
now. He may be able to check it out.
PLT Allright. Yesterday's was 6.540, Hank.
CC Okay. We copied that wrong. It should
have been 40, yesterday?
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR I probably read it wrong, Hank.
CC And, for the SPT. We copied on channel A,
yesterday, that there were two frames of the CBI6 film
remaining for the SO63. And we concur that the timer was
at fault and we're in the process of trying to work up a
malf procedure for you. We would like to hang on to those
two frames and we'll schedule those for use later.
SPT Okay, Hank. Thought you might feel
that way.
PLT Hank, I've got the photo log, are you
ready to copy?
CC Okay. We're ready.
PLT Okay. day 257, no 16-millimeter was
used. 35-millimeter: Bravo-Victor 16, 02; Charlie-
India 105, 06; Charlie-X-ray 33, 36. 70-millimeter: Charlie-
X-ray 27, 019. EREP set Victor, 8414, 7751, 8627, 8621,
2164, 9484. And I noticed that number six there took one
more frame that all the others took. There's no change
for the drawer-A configuration.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you, Jack.
PLT Okay. I'd like to make one other request.
I don't know if we made this in the past or not, but we'd
like to know what camera settings we ought to use with the
35 - or the 35 and 70 to take pictures of cities at night,
with CX and CI doing both.
CC Okay. We'll work it.
PLT Thank you.

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TIME: 213:26 CDT 50/01:26 GMT
9/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 41 and we'll be dumping
the recorder.
PLT Say Rank, if you dump the recorders,
you're going to be dumping SOl9 for (garble)
CC Say again, Jack. There was a loud
squeal.
PLT Yeah. I'm right in the middle of a
S019. If you dump it you're going to dump all the MARKS.
CC Okay. We'll check it.
CC We'll tell youwhat we're going to do
at Vanguard. We won't dump until we're sure we've got you
covered.
PLT Okay. Thank you Rank.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
i hour 312 minutes. Loss of signal at Mila. Next acquisition
will be the Vanguard tracking ship in 8 minutes 23 seconds.
On this the next to the last pass for Skylab llI over the
stateside tonight. Pilot Lousma is working on the S019,
that's tlhe instrument of fellow astronaut, Dr. Carl Henize.
The ultraviolet stellar astronomy experiment. Next acquisition
will be 'Vanguard in 7 minutes 45 seconds. Greenwich mean
1 hour 33 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2047/I
Time: 20:41 CDT, 50/01:41 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time i

hour 41 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard tracking station
in 5 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard
for i0 minutes.
CC And, PLT, we'llbe redesignating recorder
so you won't lose any SO19 data. And could you have the
DAS we'll enable momentum dump.
PLT Okay, thank you. You've got the DAS and
thank you for keeping my data intact.
PLT Karl Henize thanks you, too.
CC Rog. That'd be affirmative.
CC PLT, Houston. We've done some checking
on this cities of night photography and we find that CI and
CX is much too slow to do the Job and we don't have any black
and white film left.
SPT Hello, Hank. We've talked with Bruce
about this earlier and we believe that there's a way, in the
developing process to push the CI film to ASA 500. And, for
example, we are doing that sort of thing now for the - faint
auroral photography. And I think that's the intent of Jack's
question. If we pushed the CI film to a higher ASA, one of
the appropriate settings in that case.
CC Okay, we'll check that. And I'm pretty
sure that you can twist it up around 400 - 420. We'll check
it out.
SPT Right - now that's our understanding also.
CC Skylab, Houston. Just a little reminder.
During the next stateside pass, you're scheduled for some
XUV mon 2 to down-link, and that's during the med conference,
so we won't be able to talk to you. And the video switch is
now in TV.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'ii try to remember that.
CDR Hey, Hank, are you still there?
CC Roger, we have another 5 minutes.
CDR Roger. Cancel the exercise I reported
this evening. I mentioned I was going to do it later. I
think I will not do it later and hit the bed early. See you
later.
CC Okay, I understand you're turning in now.
CC Skylab, Houston. Would you llke to listen
to a minute or so of news here?
SPT Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okay, I think in the business they call
this a slow news day. It looks what I read up to you yesterday.
There's still having at it down in Chile. The armed forces
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have battled the Leftist workers in downtown Santiago early

today, in a drive to crush sporadic, butpersistent opposition
to the military coup against the late President Salvador
Allende. Machine gun and rifle fire broke out at midnight
with bullets slashing through the windows of buildings near
the Presidential palace. In southeast Asia, the Vientiane
government and the Communist Pathet Lao signed a political
peace agreement today making them partners in another coali-
tion government for divided Laos. Premier Souvanna Phouma,
who will head the coalition, said he hoped the new government
would meet before October 10th. A massive Israeli air
battle with Syrian aircraft off the Med coast that I told
you about last night, was seen here as a swift response
by Tel Aviv to Arab consideration of a renewal of eastern
front activity. In Salmon Arm, British Columbia, the fire-
fighterE; were winning their battles today to control a
12,000-acre forest fire that has destroyed more than 20
homes, scores of farm buildings and killed hundreds of
cattle. The Skylab news today centered around the okay you
were given to complete your 59-day mission. Following a
press conference with Dr. Royce Hawkins, the wire services
quoted him as saying "the Skylab 3 astronauts are in better
condition than ex - than expected." And in sports, the
Los Angeles Dodgers officially put the Astros out of the
running for a pennant yesterday by beating them 8 to 6.
Here in Houston, interest is heightening in the September
20th tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King
in the Astrodome. That's about all we've got this evening.
CDR Night-night.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about l
minute from LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 02:54.
And that is the med conference. And also, we're going to
try to get you last couple of minutes of that pass and
get our frames remaining from the - on the ATH. And the -
the sunset there, I think, is about 4 minutes before that
pass is over.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
i hour 52 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next
acquisition Goldstone in 1 hour and 2 minutes. The Goldstone
pass will be devoted to the evening status review with
the flight surgeon. Flight Surgeon tonight is Dr. Charles
Ross. And after that medical report it's expected the
crew will get their good-night signal from CAP COMM Hank
Hartsfield. On this day 49, for the crew of Skylab III,
the close of their 7th full week in space. Tomorrow they
start their 8th week, the home stretch of a 59-day mission.
Next acquisition, Goldstone, i hour and i minute. At Green-
wich mean time I hour 53 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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9/14/73
i

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

2 hours 53 minutes. Acquisition coming up over Goldstone
tracking station in 40 seconds. This pass will partially
be occupied_by the surgeonns with their Evening Status
Review with_ the crew and probably a good night call from
CAP COM Hank Heartsfield. We'll hold the llne up for this
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about a minute
left.
PLT Okay, here's the frames remaining, Hank.
H-alpha is 4891, SO56 is 468, 82A is 18, 82B is 109, 52 is 1456,
and 54 is 1350.
CC _ Roger. We copy and we want you to use
the normal eloseout procedure on SO56. And we would also
llke to verify on panel 225 that the N2 solenoid select
valve is in" primary.
PLT It's in primary we'll get it to normal.
Thank you.
CC _ And we're about 30 seconds from LOS
and we'll say good night to you. Get a good night's rest
and we'll t_ik to you tomorrow.
PLT Okay. Thanks to you and your team for
everything _nd have a good night yourself.
CC Thank you, sir.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
3 hours 2 minutes, with a good night call from CAP COM
Hank Hartsfleld to Pilot Jack Lousma who read down the
final photographic usage for the day - film count for the
day. This closes out day 49 for the crew of Skylab-lll.
A rather busy, but rather relatively quiet day as far as the
conversation is concerned from the crew. Tomorrow, Saturday,
September 14th, we'll have the crew performing two more
Earth Resources passes, back to back passes over the
contlnental Unlted States. The first one starts in
the Pacific'Ocean southwest of GuadalaJara Mexico, crosses
Mexico into Texas over San Antonio between Fort Worth,
Dallas, up over up over Cincinnati, Ohio, Cleveland,
Buffalo, New York, passes north of Montpelier Vermont, over
Prince Edward Island, then over Gander International
Airport, New Foundland, out over the north Atlantic. The
data tape stops approximately 7 degrees west of Bordeaux
France in the bay of Bisque. Total ground track is well
over 7000 miles for a 29-minute data take. ,The first EREP
pass, pass number 31 along track 15 begins at Greenwich
mean time 18:02 - no, 16:20. Greenwich mean time begins
at 16:20 and runs until 16:49. Total pass is 29 minutes
along the ground track in excess of 7000 miles. Second
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pass, EREP pass 32, in the mission of Skylab-IIl, follows

ground track 16, begins about 400 miles west of Los
Angeles in the Pacific Ocean, crosses over LA, Las Vegas
Nevada, crosses near Cheyenne Wyoming, crosses the Missouri
River below Pierre and then over Duluth Minnesota, over
Lake Superlur, up across southern Canada, ending in Central
north Atlantic Ocean. This pass of more than 5300 miles
ground track, the data take is to begin at 18:02 Greenwich
mean time and end 22 minutes later. Seven hours of manned
operation of Earth Apollo Telescope Mount is scheduled
for tomorrow, Saturday, the 50th day in orbit for the
crew of Skyiab-III, in addition to routine housekeeping
chores. The crew will also perform two separate medical
experiments. The first being performed by Science
Pilot Owen Garriott, the M092, lower body negative pressure
device and the MI71, metabolic analyzer. Observer for
this series of experiments is Commander Alan Bean.
Pilot Jack Lousma will perform the same palr of experiments
later in the afternoon - later in the evening with Science
Pilot Owen Garriott serving as observer. We will have the
daily crew health Status Report from the Flight Surgeon
shortly. As soon as this is available, we'll bring the
line back up. At Greenwich mean time 3 hours 6 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-2049/I
TIME: 22:31 CDT 50/03:31 GMT
9/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

3 hours 31 minutes. We have the Mission Surgeons report
which is as follows: All crewmen remain in good health.
Today's lower body negative pressure experiment run on
Commander Bean was associated with a healthy physiological
response. Commander Bean's planned early sleep stems from
the routine fatigue buildup coupled with the opportunity to
go to sleep early Just llke on Earth, and does not reflect
any unusual strain. Report signed by Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky
for Dr. Royce Hawkins. This concludes the report from the
Mission Control Center Public Affairs Console. We will
reopen the Console at 6:00 a.m. Saturday, September 15.
At Greenwich mean time 3 hours 32 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC2050/I
Time: 6:00 CDT, 50/11:00 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control at

ii hours Greenwich mean time on mission day 50. Skylab is
nearing acquisition at the Honeysuckle tracking station.
Cap Comm astronaut Bob Crlppen will put in the wake-up call
at Honeysuckle. Two Earth Resources passes scheduled today.
Seven hours of solar studies and two runs on the lower body
negative pressure and metabolic activity experiments. One,
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott, one with the Pilot Jack Lousma.
Flight Director on this shift is Don Puddy. We're about
5 seconds away from acquisition and we'll stand by.
CC (Loud music) Good morning, Skylab. The
Crimson team's back with you.
PLT Okay, Bob. I didn't know you had a recording
there of Marines doing close order drill.
CC We were Just playing back what - what A1
was talking about on TO20 the other day.
CDR (garble) That's about right.
CC Or maybe that was Jack talking about T002,
I'm not sure. We only got you for about a minute and a half left
here. We're not going to talk to you again until over Canary
at about 11:48. So you can get a little more rest or A1 can
go up and go to work.
CDR Go ahead. We're working.
CC I figured that, You guys are really
enthusiastic. We've got only 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you
again at Canary at 11:48.
CDR Who's got the early ATM? We didn't get
a schedule last night, I don't think. You probably got it on
board. We Just haven't read it yet.
CC Rog. It's all onboard. Should be up
there in the teleprinter.
CDR Okay.
CC And it's for - the first one, is for AI.
CDR Okay, I'ii get it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal after a short, but noisy pass. The wake-up
music, if you can call it that, was entitled, "Paralyzed" and
the artist was the legendary Stardust Cowboy. That information
is provided by the Cap Comm Crippen. The next station will be
Canary Island in 41-1/2 minutes. At ii hours, 6 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2051/I
Time: 06,:47 CDT 50/11:47 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 7 mln-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Canary Island station with overlapping coverage through
Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canaries
for 13 minutes. And we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump
during the later part of this pass.
CDR Okay Bob. And I got your star there, and
I also put that XUV mon on VTR.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much. And we
need the DAS for a moment to inhibit momentum dump, please
sir.
CDR You've got it. And also I noticed that
the pad called on these coronal holds JOP to use the precise
pad coordinates as opposed to looking on the UV mon. So that's
my intention to do that.
CC Okay, very good. That's what they desire.
And if you llke, I can give you the SAP update now.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, D58 has been moderately active with
a possible minor eruptive at 08:18 Zulu. There has been minor
motion in T76. New active region 28 at 26/1.0, and it's forcast
for flare probability is 000, which is not much. The regions
have all been quiet, hut active region 26 does show a minor
growth characteristics.
CDR Okay, thank you, Bob.
CC Okay, and the DAS belongs to you once more.
CC And if somebody has got a little time,
I would llke to do some flight plan updates and also to make
the maneuver time change, which goes through several pads today
for that second EREP maneuver.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, do you have the EREP pads and maneuver
pads available there to you, AI?
CDR I've got some of them. Which ones are you
thinking of?
CC Okay, this is for the second maneuver.
And you should have the maneuver pad I believe on that one,
for EREP number 32. And we want to change the maneuver time
on that which is currently 14 - stand by one.
CC It's currently 14 minutes long and we want
to change it to 24. So that means your entry is 50030 with
24 minutes. And we want to change the GMT to 17:36 vice 46.
CDR Okay, let me see if I've got it right.
I've got a 50030 and then a 50030 - with 24 minutes. And the
GMT of that is 258:17:36:00.
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CC That is correct. And if you have your

VTS pad for that one also, EREP 32 VTS, I'd like to change
that starting time in there for the ZLV maneuver.
CDR Okay, I'll change it right now.
CC Okay, that's 17:36 of course. And I would
also llke to make sure that gets into Jack's pad for when to
start the ZLV maneuver at 17:36 - on his C&D pad.
CDR Okay, we'll make sure he gets it.
CC Very good.
CDR Anything else?
CC On the other item I had here is for Owen,
I would llke to add an MI51 on ETC prep at 14:35.
CDR He'll be glad to hear that. I hope he's
listening.
CC If he's not, we'll call up again and change
it. I would also llke - we're going to try to get final ca-
pacities on both Owen and Jack today when they are doing their
runs. So you might note on your details Just a vital capacity
at 21:03 when you're running Owen there, please.
CDR All right.
CC AI, I've also got something for you just -
you can listen to. We heard your druthers about getting
all our troubleshooting items out of the road prior to the
last 5 days of the mission, which certainly makes sense, and
we go along with it. However, we've got one exception we'd
like to tell you about. And that is in our battery degradation
test. Currently, we - -
CDR You Just dropped out, Bob.
CC Okay, am I back with you again?
CDR Right. You Just got back.
CC Sorry about that. We had a handover, didn't
get notification on the drothers you had about not doing any
troubleshooting during the last 5 days of the mission, we go
along with you on that wholeheartedly, however, we've got
one exception we'd llke to make, and that is onthe battery
degradation test. We're trying to get that, an idea of what
the battery is doing spread out throughout the mission as
late as possible. Currently on day 260, a couple of days
from now you're going to be doing airlock module batteries
i and 8, and on day 264, we're going to be doing CBRMs number
i0 and 7. And then the one that goes into the day 5, the 5
days is on day 266, we want to do CBRMs number 2 and 8. And
we hope that you'll go along with that exception.
CDR Roger. We sure will. It was just an (garble)
and I knew you were thinking about it down there, also.
I think one of the problems we had during activation was
while we were trying to stick to that site time llne,
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we were in the midst of a bunch of troubleshooting,

and it really made it tough. And what I was hoping to avoid
was not do the same thing again because we would once again go
into a tight time line on this deactivation. And if we start
troubleshooting there too, we're going to have that time line
out. I knew you were concerned about it, but we'd been think-
ing about it.
CC Okay, real fine. l believe we're all talking
in the same language in that regard. And one other item, and
this may be to help you look or check o_t that problem you mentioned
with the trash airlock being a little bit tough to get down.
The one thing we have come up with on the ground that they
have seen on the backup unit is a little torsion spring that
is located on a couple of teflon blocks right up where the
handle of the trash airlock goes up over the lip of the lid.
And if you could visually inspect those sometimes and verify
that that torsion spring is in a slot, which you can see through
a hole in the top teflon block, just to make sure it's in its
proper location and hasn't slipped out, that would probably give
us a better handle on maybe what that problem is.
CDR Okay, I'ii look at it this morning. My
feeling is it is Just a seal - I don't know; I'ii - let
me look at that. It takes quite a bit of force to get that
lid down. We used an extra person to stand out and push down,
and he had to push down pretty dog gone hard to get that
seal made and that's, of course, the way it's been the whole time.
CC Yes.
CDR I get the feeling that it's just the design
of the seal.
CC Okay, well that was our initial feelings, also.
Of course, Pete has reported the same thing, however, we got the
impression that you were saying that it was getting a little bit
more difficult to do than it had been originally. So we suspected
that might have been a possible cause, that is the spring.

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SL-III MC2052/I
Time: 06:57 CDT, 50/11:57 GMT
9/15/73

CDR No, I guess I did seem to say that.

What - I had begin at (sic) a different technique. I can still
use that same technique now but I'm not sure that that
technique didn't eventually result in that bent strut, or
rod that we have on there. I can - It's not any harder to
do, I Just think it's a little more prudent to do it this two-man
way until we get a new rod, although it looks like everything
would still work the old way.
CC Okay, real fine. You might, if you get
a chance, just to take a look at that spring, that's all.
CDR Okay, will do. Thanks Bob.
SPT Say, Bob, I have copied those changes to
my flight plan that you mentioned a minute ago. And last
night I was putting a channel A recording on, between about
03:15 and 03:25, and telecom, I guess, starting dumping a
tape recorder someplace in the middle, I don't know exactly
when. Is it easy to get, to tell me what time the dump
started last night about - between 03:15 and 03:25?
CC We'll check it out for you. Owen, let
me verify that you did get that - we had 151 on the ETC
prep at 14:35.
SPT I think I got a ET - a 151 pad, donVt I?
Photo pad.
CC Yes.
SPT Say again.
CC That's affirmative, it is on the photo
pad that you got.
SPT That's what I thought. So I've got it
on that flight plan now.
CC Okay. And if you would also add on your
details about wanting to get that vital capacity for both
you and Jack, which means that we need it down at 21:03,
when you're the subject, and at 00:09 when Jack is the subject,
in your details, I'd appreciate it.
PLT We'll jot that down, Bob. Thank you.
CC Okay, Jack, and if you'd also note it
in yours, I'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay, Bob, I just whistled out to the
the trash alrlock and inspected it again. The spring is
in the Teflon box. It's not the handle that's difficult
to get over the lift when the lid is down. As long as
the lid's down, it's quite simple to get the handle over.
The problem arises - and I expect at the back - when the
seal that's in the lid - which sort of looks llke a incompressible
seal - touches right at the back, meaning it's then starting
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to compress near the back, near the hinge line. Okay, then
it's push - tough to push down from that point, which means
the front end is open now about 3/8 of an inch all the way
down to the lld's there. And I assume that's the way it's
built so that you get a good'seal there. Now, it may be
that that combination rubber/metal seal that's in the lid that
serves as the seal, could be lubricated or something. We
haven't attempted it because it didn't seem to increase in
sever - difficulty of pushing down, but it may be that if
somebody - if I lubricated it in some way - and you might want
to look at that - then it would be easier. But I don't hold
a lot of hopes for it, but that seems to be the problem.
It's the lid moving down but not the lock or anything else.
CC Okay, AI, we appreciate you checking that
for us, and we think we understand the problem. We'll look
into the: lubrication suggestion. In answer to Owen's question:
We did a dump from 03:20 to 03:25 last night.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bob.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 2B minutes; that's
at 12:29, 1229.
CDR. Might also mention to the ATM folks back
there, that we've had a couple of times it's been difficult
to put the debriefing on from the run immediately afterwards
because S019 began immedlately. So we've had to sometimes
delay that to the next rev or later, but we eventually get
it on there, It's just not always possible to get it on
immediately after, the way we're working SO19 right now.
CC Copied, AI.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has
loss of signal. Next station to pick up Skylab will be
Carnarvon in 27 minutes. At 12 hours 2 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2053/I
Time: 07:28 CDT, 50/12:28 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours, 28 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon is aho_t to acquire Skylab,
followed by coverage through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnar-
von for 14 minutes. And Owen, for your information, regarding
your concern about the voice recording you were doing last
night about 03:15, 03:25, we did get all of that voice down and
recorded through some gymnastics that we went through down
here.
SPT Amazing. How'd you manage to do that, since
there must have been about 5 minutes when the recorder light
was out.
CC They redesignated the recorders on you.
SPT Does that turn off the light when they do
that?
CC They're checking that. I understand any-
time you're dumping, the light's off, and so it would appear
to you that it wasn't being recorded during that period.
SPT Oh, I understand. That's great. In fact,
since we've had that problem a couple of other times, it
would seem to be maybe a good normal procedure, if it can be
done. But too late to be figuring that out now, I guess.
But sounds like a good idea. Thank you.
CC And if anybody's up in the vicinity of the
ATM C&D, we do need the DAS a couple of minutes there, to re-
enable dump.
CDR You got it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC And for the PLT, Jack, you don't happen
to be in the vicinity of the MDA STS area, do you?
CDR No, hut we can do something for you up
there. Doesn't take 5 seconds to get there.
CC Okay. The other day, Owen ran a little
test for us on the PPC02 on mol sieve B inlet to get our sensor
calibrated and unfortunately the thing has dropped off again like
it was the other day when - when Jack discovered that the
0 ring 'was popped out on the cap. And we would like him
to inspect it and find out for us whether the O-rlng has
popped out again and let us know. And I guess what we're
thinking about doing is putting on the spare cap which
in M202.
CDR Okay. He's in his suit. I'ii go check it.

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SL-III MC-2054/I
Time: 07':36 CDT 50/12:36 GMT
9/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS belongs to you

once more. And Owen, I don't know if youtve got time, but
I could give you a little comment we had regarding your pendulum
operation. I guess we had to agree with everything that you
had to say about it. And we had slight suggestion, if you
wanted to try it.
SPT Could you wait Just a minute, Bob?
CC Yeah, no hurry at all.
SPT Okay Bob, I Just helped Jack zip up his suit
there, and all set. I would appreciate any suggestions that you
might have on anything different to do with that pendulum.
CC Okay. I guess the only suggestion we had
that the best mode for release at the start is probably,
with Just a very slight extension, no rotation, and with one
end held stationary. And if that proves to be any more stable,
you might go to releasing both ends after Just a slight extension.
SPT Okay. I guess all of the ones on that
tape probably did start from a slight compression. But
that sounds llke a good idea. And the next time I'm doing
any TV, with 5 minutes on the end, I'ii do that. And any
other thoughts that you or Bob Parker or others might have,
well just let me know, and we'll try that too.
CC Okay, that was a Parker special.
SPT Very good.
SPT One comment for Bob, I haven't had much
of any time to try to adjust the weights, in and out, to vary
the inertia on the end of masses. And I assume that he had adjusted
pretty close on - in one g before launch. If he has any other
thoughts about the adjustment of those masses, or the little screws
there, l'd appreciate those.
CC Okay. We'll give thatto him. I think he's
probably listening.
CC And he says that they are adjusted properly.
At least, the best we know how.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again in about 48 minutes over Madrid. We don't
have the upcoming Bermuda pass. And that's going to be at
about 13:30. And assume Bruce will have you then, so good
day.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bob.
PLT Thanks, Bob, for the nice, smooth get-up
call too. I felt llke I was right back in Boot camp.
CC We'll see if we can find another one that good
for you .Jack.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Next station is Bermuda. Stand hy.

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SL-III MC2055/I
Time: 0'7:49 CDT, 50/12:49 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Bermuda tracking station
is supporting the Earth Resources Technology Satellite on
this next pass. So the next station to acquire Skylah will
be Madrid in 40 minutes. At 12 hours 50 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2056/I
Time: 08:29 CDT, 50/13:29 CMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours, 29 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired through
the Madrid station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 8-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
next station which is Carnarvon. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC And, for the PLT there, I got a comment
or two on your EREP pass coming up this morning. EREP 31,
which is the first one with the CDR as C&D operator, we'll
be operating S193 in the altimeter mode only, which we have
reason to believe is functioning quite satisfactorily. EREP 32,
where the PLT is on the C&D panel, you may notice that
they've got some apparently unusual operations with 193. What
we're trying to do is to check it out in the RAD/SCAT and the
combination modes in various sub-modes of operation to de-
termine what the problem may be with the hardware. And I think
this will, perhaps answer any questions that might come up as to
what sort of data we're actually taking. What we're taking is
troubleshooting data. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Be glad to do it for you.
And I was wondering what the thought down there is on the
status of that basic equipment at the moment.
CC Well, we've been looking at the real-tlme
data we got back on the EDDU and it's still not - still not
very satisfying, although we haven't completed the analysis
on it. We're going to pretty well view EREP 32 over or
that part of it that's associated with 193, over trouble-
shooting and some data gathering. So if you'd give us
a word anytime the malfunction lights come on and things of
this sort, why we'll get a lot of insightlnto how the equip-
ment is operating in addition to getting data on the sites
as we go by. Over.
PLT Okay. We'll be sure to do that, Bruce.
And has this been a problem that we've seen coming up? Has it
been a gradual degradation? Or did that Just happen all of a
sudden yesterday?
CC It Just happened all of a sudden yesterday.
PLT Okay. My malfunction procedures say it's
somethin S to do with the ca1 operation, and then possibly, will
degrade the data, but not necessarily. Is that still a good
malf procedure or is something more drastically wrong?
CC Well, if you're looking at the same set
of malfs as I was yesterday, that little two-block procedure,
that's pretty much your malf during the pass. That is, you
know, you press on, you keep going and you take data, and we
expect it maybe degraded, but in the analysis stage, which
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we're going through down here between passes, we're not sure
in detail yet, exactly what the problem is. But we're trying
to figure it out. Over.
PLT Okay. I understand. Thanks alot, Bruce.
CC And when you or somebody else get a
chance, we've got a regulator, open circuit, voltage adjust
procedure for you here up on panel 206. Over.
PLT Okay. Stand by i. I'm Just in the process
of changing building blocks.
CC Okay. It's not urgent, just so long as
we get to it sometine before EREP.
CDR Bruce, I was putting in that change into
the M092 observance card concerning this test number 2, and
they indicate something about recorders off and that's when
you make the test. I assume that's after M092's complete, if
you turn the recorders off, then that test could take place as
required.
CC Let me check on that for you, AI.
CC CDH, Houston. In reference to the M092
blood flow check, message number 33 you're correct. It can be
run anytime as convenient, after M092 is complete. The
intent was that you go ahead and run a normal M092 and then
while the guy's still there in the can, you can go ahead and
run this before he gets out. The recorder is started on 19 -
on llne 19, and it's stopped on llne 32, I believe. So it's
a self contained procedure. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, thanks. We're getting some
good hand-held photos of Germany right now. Better than the
ones we took yesterday. So It'll - EREP, I think, will
be about these.
CC Ah, very Good.
PLT Say, Bruce. I'm standing up here by the
ATM. I'm running this with my suit on and with this blower
unit hooked up.
CC How's it feel? Keeping you cool or not
hacking it?
PLT Yes, I think it'll probably do the Job.
It was a little bit interesting at first because I didn't
think of it as being a function device. But the blower unit
inlet, of course, is llke a vacuum cleaner. Instead of blowing
air, it sucks it in and so it collapses the suit around
you. And I thought maybe it wasn't getting a very good flow. So
I turned it off for a while and I noticed I was getting some
flow because with it off, I started to heat up. And we
also went down and got the vacuum - the blower unit out of
the suit drying unit to hook it up to the outlet side so it
would blow air instead of sucking it, thinking that this
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might be even better. And I don't think that that was an efficient -
as the - an efficient an operation as the, in terms of cooling, as
the suction device is because I seem to build up a little
heat load. So it looks like the - the setup that you recommended
is the best one. And communications wise, I just got a headset
plugged into the SIA with a comm carrier on. It's not hooked to
the suit it's Just like we use it for EREP or any other opera-
tion with a CCU out of a - out of a headset through out of a
SIA.
CC Okay. We copy that, Jack. We looked at
both modes of operation in the suit also and came up with the
one that we recommended. We got about 15 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon at 14:04.
Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will pick up Skylab in 24 minutes. At
13 hours, 39 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2057/I
Time: 139:02 CDT 50/14:02 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 2 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on a pass over
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for ii :minutes. We'll be dumping a data voice tape recorder
here. And I'd like to talk to CDR a second.
CDR He's right here.
CC Okay, I think I've got my messages tangled
up last pass on that M092 test. The answer that I
gave you was specifically addressed to M092 test i, however
the general comments are the same for test 2. That is do it
after M092 is completed in the right sequence in your cue
card. And we will schedule specifically on the flight plan
both test 1 and test 2. They are not to be performed unless
we schedule them. Over.
CDR Okay, understand that. Now one thing
puzzled me a little bit this morning on the cue card - M092
cue card change. It had continued at the top. Well, I didn't
have any part before that that it could be continued from,
and only addresses out to the change - the test 2. Now if there
is a similar thing for test 1 or a message before the one that
said continued, then we did not receive it this morning.
CC No AI, M092 observer (and continued)
is the name of that page of the cue card. Over.
CDR That's a fact, you're right. I've got
you now, thanks.
CC Yes, one side is M092 observer, and the
other side is M092 observer continued.
CDR I remember. That's come up a couple of other
times, thanks.
CC Okay, and the reason that we don't want
you to perform this test 2 unless we schedule it is because
of the fact that it advances gas overboard, also, and we want to
be in a position to accomodate the momentum build up from the
vent. Over.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And for the PLT if he is handy, I've got
a comment on the maneuver pad.
CDR He's - call him later. He's presently
working on reinstalling the floor and everything. He'll give
you a call.
CC Okay, we'll do that.
CDR Bruce, we did cycle SUS 1 off primary and
secondary for 5 minutes. That worked okay. All the caution
and warning checks, rapid Delta-P, and the power checks worked
all right also. I'm getting ready to take the temps on the
rate gyros at the moment.
CC Roger; we copy.

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9/15/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. 2 minutes

to LOS here at Honeysuckle. Next station contact in 32 minutes
through Corpus Christi at 14:50, with a couple of comments
here for the PLT. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. One item, we'd llke to
remind you that there's a Nu-Z update scheduled in your
ATM schedule pad at 14:29, it's about ii minutes from now.
And in your EREP 31 maneuver pad, let me Just read it through
for you and if you have questions we can hear it again at
Corpus Christi. The maneuver time at your loading is
17 minutes, and we expect that the gravity gradient dump
will be completed 37 seconds before the scheduled time to
begin the maneuver. So what we'd llke you to do is verify
that the momentum dump auto, gravity gradient talkback has,
in fact, turned grey before initiating the maneuver to ZLV.
If it has not yet turned grey, indicating completion of the
dump, hold off on starting your maneuver; do not change the
maneuver time, and go ahead and initiate it when the talk-
back does go grey. Over.
PLT Okay, understand all that, Bruce. Thank
you.
CC Roger. We'll talk to you over Texas.
PLT Got anything more?
CC Just this open circuit, voltage adjust.
We're about to go over the horizon now, so I'll talk to you
there.
PLT Okay.
CDR Did you still (static)
CC We can't read you, AI, you're going down
in the mud here.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Honeysuckle station now. The next station
will be Texas in 29-1/2 minutes. At 09:49:28 a.m. Central
daylight time today, astronauts Jack Lousma and Owen Garrlott
will equal the time in space of astronaut Pete Conrad. One
second later they will tie as having the second longest
time in space up until about - and that time - at
that time, it's 49 days 3 hours 38 minutes 36 seconds. Up
until about I0 days ago that was the manned spaceflight
record, but that was exceeded by A1 Bean who now holds the
record. At the time Garriott and Lousma equal Pete Conrad's
time the crew Commander A1 Bean will still be ahead by
i0 days 4 hours 36 minutes and 25 seconds. At 14 hours
21 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2059/I
Time: 09:48 CDT, 50/14:48 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours, 48 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Texas.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Texas and
Bermuda l!or 13-1/2 minutes. For the PLT. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. We need a couple of things up there
in the airlock module at the present time. We'd like to in-
hibit the PCG-3 batt charge low input and would also llke to
adjust the open circuit voltage on Bus 1 and Bus 2. Over.
PLT Okay. I'll got it inhibited now. Give
me the adjust.
CC Okay. Bus 1, reg adjust pot - i0 degrees
clockwise, bus 2, 15 degrees clockwise. Over.
PLT Okay. i0 and 15 clockwise. Thank you.
CC Roger. That's 10 degrees and 15 degrees.
PLT Roger. That's what I got.
CC And Jack, for your information, the values
to which you've Just finished setting the reg adjust pots, will be
considered to be new original settings. That is, will not
return to the old settings and we'll stay with these until
further notice. Our intent here is to jack up the percentage
of the load being carried by the airlock module system in
relation to the ATM, as a result of the CDR M-5 being left
offllne. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. That's good. I've got a
suggestion. Why don't you take a look at them, and make sure they're
exactly right before you mark them. And let's erase the old marks
and establish new ones when you call.
CC Okay, we're looklng. It'll probably
take us a rev or two to determine that that's what we want - rev
or two after EREP. And while we got you there, with respect
to the EV-3 cooling scheme_ do you feel that that configuration
will he adequate for 3 to 4 hours of operation?
PLT I think it's marginal but adequate.
CC Okay, and which flooring unit was utilized
on the section end of the thing? Over.
PLT The one on the shower.
CC And did you encounter any problems taping
or untaping the (garble) ports? Over.
PLT No, I ound that there're four of them and
I taped three of them.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.

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SL-III MC-2060/1
Time: 09:57 CDT 50/14:57 GMT
9/15/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston coming up on LOS

here at Bermuda. Next station contact in 4 minutes through
Madrid at 15:08. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Madrid is about 3-1/2 minutes away. We'll continue
to keep the llne up, and stand by for acquisition through Madrid.

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SL-III MC2061/I
Time: 10:07 CDT, 50/15:07 GMT
9/15/73

CC SkylaS, thls is Houston through Madrid

for 7-1/2 minutes. When the CDR is finished up with his
PT we'd llke to give him a few comments on what to look for
during the second EREP run today. Over.
PLT Okay, he got it, Bruce. He'll glve you
a call later.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 15:43. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will pick up the space station in
26 minutes. At 15 hours 17 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2062/I
Time: 10:42 CDT, 50/15:42 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours, 42 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab nearing acquisition at
Carvarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 5-1/2 minutes. For the PLT and CDR, when you have a minute.
Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce. We're both listening.
CC Okay, AI. For you, durin E the second EREP
run, if you've looked at your VTS pad, we're asking you to
look out: the window between 18:06:30 and 18:10 to observe the
S193 antenna. And I'd like to describe the movement that you
should see in the two different modes on that antenna. Over.
CDR Okay. Which way? I don't have a
pad here right now, but go ahead. I'll remember.
CC Okay. It's window i, I think was your
question. But the first part of the block of operations
that you're to be observing out the window and the last part
are the intrack contiguous modes. And the motion that we're
looking for on the antenna is that it should be centered in
a roll; and in pitch, it should Jump up - that is Jump forward
about 48 degrees pitch forward in a space of about 1 second.
And them it should scan back down relatively slowly to zero
degrees or looking at the nadir over a period of 3 or 4 sec-
onds. In the second and third parts, the X-track con-
tiguous, we've got it set up so that the reference position
is 0 degrees pitch and 0 degrees roll; and incidentally,
the antenna should return to 00 between modes, that is, when
it's not operating. And X-track contiguous, the basic motion
should be a plus or minus 12 degrees leftright movement.
That is from 12 degrees right to 12 degrees left and back
then again. At the end of each sweep, the pitch should jump up
about 1 degree and then angle down slightly as it goes to
the other side and roll jump up again, making sure the next
shape to mode time motion which gives you the image motion
compensation associated with this X-track contiguous mode.
Over.
CDR Okay. Understand.
CC And we'll be over Goldstone during this
procedure, so if you have any questions on the anticipated
antenna movement, why we'll be happy to discuss them with
you at the time. We're looking particularly to see if there's
any sort of Jerky or sticking operation also in the movement
of the antenna. For the PLT, the first part of the S193
operations in the second EREP pass is an altimeter mode i.
And this has been intentionally shed with the altimeter gaged
too low. We expect an abort on it. And we're trying to check
the altimeter frequency synthesizer. So you needn't be
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Time: 10:42 CDT, 50/15:42 GMT
9/15/73

concerned if it doesn't seem to operate normally on that one.

The second block is the RAD/SCAT X-track contiguous. The
operation in that was good prior to the mall light in - in
intrack contiguous mode yesterday. The rest of it - it picks
up with the troubleshooting. Over.
PLT Okay Bruce. Thank you.
CC And for your prep remarks on the EREP 32
C&D pad, I've got a couple of changes to the remark if you
happen to have your pad handy.
PIT I have it right here. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Under prep remarks, you read down
to about the eleventh - about the twelfth line. It says, "During
S193 area oBeratlon 18:58:50 to :18:02" - excuse me, 17:58:50 to
18:02. That should read iF:58:18 to 18:02. The voice record
altimeter ready light on and delete the 17:59:00. Then it
goes, "Time of steady state altimeter unlock light on and altimeter
ready light off." And delete the whole last parenthetical state-
ment. That is, delete the statement that reads, "Should occur -
should occur 16 seconds after altimeter ready light on." Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. That's done; thank you.
CC Okay. That about brings us up to date.
Sorry to interrupt your operations here.
PLT No problem. Apparently the weather in
Houston and up around Louisville are still no good. Is that
right?
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Too bad, (garble) I had a question on
my last nadir swath about the special 01, cloud is cold air
and 4057. And I'm wondering if they'd llke to delete the DAC in
that also.
CC Stand by. We'll ask.
CC Okay. Going LOS here at Carnarvon. We'll
see you over - over Honeysuckle in 2 or 3 minutes.
PLT Okay.
PA0 This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in about
5 minutes for a very short pass - about a 1-1/2 minute pass
through Honeysuckle, The discussion over Carnarvon concerned
S193 - one of the experiments in the Earth Resources Experi-
ment Package. That's the microwave radiometer scatterometer
and altimeter. Along toward the end of yesterday's Earth Resources
pass, there was an indicated malfunction in that experiment. On
today's first Earth Resources survey, only the altimeter in
that instrument will be operated. During the second survey,
early this afternoon, all of the instruments in S193 will be
operated at one time or another for troubleshooting and to
checkout the instrument to provide information to the experts
here on _the ground. We're about 3-1/2 minutes away from acqui-
sition at Honeysuckle.

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SL-III MC2063/I
Time: 10:51 CDT 50/15:51 GMT
9/15/73

CC In answering your question on that one,

Jack, yes, we do want DAC photography, we have no other cameras
running during that time, and we need the data for identification.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, back with you
through Honeysuckle for about a minute and a half. Go ahead.
Over. For the PLT, in reference to your question about the
nadir swath clouds and cold air, we do need to have the DAC
running since no other cameras are running, and that's our
only way of telllng what it is you've been gathering data on
through 191. Over.
PLT Okay, that's all I wanted to know, and
I'ii be sure that it's running. How do you llke the maneuver
time and load through ZLV?
CC Roger, we see the TACS enabled, hardware
and software, and we like the maneuver time and load you've
got in. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you. We'll proceed to SI
maneuver in about 5 minutes.
CC Roger. And 30 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christ. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Texas will pick up Skylab in 27-1/2 minutes.
Several minutes prior to that time, as Skylab crosses the
equator, the first Earth Resources survey for today will begin.
Skylab's groundtrack will enter Mexico near Mazatlan, pass
near Durango, Mexico, cross the United States border near
Eagle Pass, Texas, come up by Austin, Texarkana, Poplar Bluff,
and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Columbus, Ohio, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Presque Isle, Maine, and out into the North Atlantic. Objectives
on this pass will be metals exploration, land classification,
weather systems, ocean studies, mapping, ecological effects of
strip mines, geology, crop identification, urban studies and
detection of insect infestations. Duration of the data take
is 29 minutes. At 15 hours 58 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2064/I
Time: i1:22 CDT 50/16:22 GMT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 22 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through the Texas station for a pass over the UnltedStates.
And the crew scheduled to begin the Earth resources survey
about 3 minutes ago. They will be on the VOX mode of communi-
cation. We will stand by for first contact.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. AOS through
Texas and Bermuda for 16 minutes. We like the maneuver time
and you have loaded coming out. And for the PLT, on your
first VTS site, site 460 is NO GO due to weather. We request
you do the special 01 nadir swath starting at 30:32. Over.
PLT Wilco.
PLT Okay, approaching the coast of Mexico. Our tour
today takes us up over Houston, Shreveport, Memphis, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburgh, (garble), Maine, and into
Newfoundland. There is Monterrey.
CC Roger. Tickets please, tickets. All
aboard.
CDR No standing in the isles, no floating in
the isles. Hold your hat and don't stand up.
PLT No go, huh? Dog gone it.
CDR 2645 we're standing by for.
PLT I figure we ought to have Houston at a
45 degree mark at 29:41. A bunch of clouds over Houston.
And it's cloudy over Mexico today, too.
CDR Mode auto.
PLT The whole world is covered with clouds.
Somewhere the Sun is shining, Bruce.
CDR S to stand, - A to standby.
PLT Somewhere the people shout.
CDR VTS to auto cal.
PLT The weather has struck out.
PLT Hey Bruce, there is something that is not
clear to me on some of these city sites. The special 07 says
to put the (garble) on a uniform area next to the city is the
way I interpret it, like a big field or a big woods. But I'm kind
of wondering if maybe they want it on the city?
CC Stand by.
CDR Okay, mode to standby. Should have
seen the medium. Frames to 32, one of our favorite numbers.
Okay, Intervalometer to i0. 29:30 data on.
CC PLT, this is Houston, reference to your
question, we're looking for any uniform field or area near
the city, but not a buildup, not a portion of the builtup
area of the city. What we're trying to do is acquire radiation
type data from natural features filtered through the atmosphere
around the city. Over.
SL-III MC-2064/2
Time: 11:22 CDT 50/16"22 GMT
9/15/73

PLT All right, I got you. Thank you very

much, Bruce.
CC Uh-huh.
PLT I wonder if they would take some data
around Padre Island if I was able to. It looks llke I'm going
to run out: of gimbal angles. I got the site at - not Padre,
but down by Brownsville.
CC Roger.
PLT I'm going to run out of gimbal angles.
CDR MARK. A is on.
PLT Yes, I am.
CDR 91, when do we go to REFERENCE 6. 92
mode ready in a moment.
PLT Okay, I'm getting one of the sites on
Padre Island.
CDR Mode ready.
PLT 22 degrees to the right, however.
CDR Mode auto on 190. Record A2 and C4. A2
42 percent, C4 is 71 percent, 42, 74 - Correction. Now it's
40, now it's 41 - 74. Okay, I'Ii read A2 again. They move around
a lot. 49, 71.

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SL-III MC2065/I
Time: 11:30 CDT, 50/16:30 GMT
9/15/73

CDR 31 coming up. Out 44 and 71. I

already said 71, I said 74 once but didn't mean to. 54 percent
right now on A2. MODE to CHECK, and READY at 32:02. So I'll
wait until 32:02 and put it back in READY. A2 is now 47,
C4 is 71.
PLT Here, I got three sites in the (garble)
area. Bruce, I'll tell you what they are later, I'm
right around Houston..
CC Okay, we show you in your nadir swath
right now.
CDR 3202, 192 MODE READY. STANDBY.
PLT Oh, I thought you'd llke to have some
sites around Houston if I could get them. There's no weather
down here to nadir swath on at the moment.
CC Okay.
CDR 32:02, 192 MODE READY.
PLT Bruce, we're looking at the Clear Lake
and the Johnson Center by naked eye.
CC Oh, beautiful.
PLT Check it out very clearly.
PLT I see they've done a lot of land clearing
over towards Bay Town, but it wasn't clear when we came
up 2 months ago.
CC Okay, is Clear Lake look any clearer
from up there than it does from down here?
PLT Just about the same; no change.
PLT All of it was much improved when I looked
through the 300 millimeter lens.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Intervalometer, 20.
CDR MODE to STANDBY. STANDBY. MODE to 5,
RANGE 63. Okay. Standing by for 37i40. Big blank.
PLT Tracking a site near Pittsburgh here, Bruce.
CC Roger.
PLT (garble) site. There aren't too many
uniform sites in that area, it turns out.
CC Okay, hang in there. And for your information,
tracks i and ii on S192 are coming through loud and clear now.
Our data problem seems to have cleared up.
PLT Sure am glad to hear that.

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SL-III MC2066/I
Time: 11:36 CDT 50/16:36 GMT
9/15/73

PLT Okay, Bruce, let me tell you that I got

you some data on site 430, 435, and 440 in the Houston area.
CC Okay, 430, 435, and 440 in HATS.
PLT Right.
CC Beautiful.
PLT And I got some down around on Brownsville, too.
I'ii have to look at my book to tell you what it was. I almost
got some of Louisville, but couldn't get onto it soon enough.
CC Okay.
CDR A's on.
PLT And I got Pittsburgh, east of town.
CDR Ready out on 90. MODE, STANDBY. Shutter
speed, FAST. Frame i0, i 0. Intervalometer, i0. _garble)
PLT We had a bad angle off down at Brownsville,
but maybe that won't affect the data too much.
PLT Okay, Bruce, I got site 305 North.
CC Right now, or down at Brownsville?
PLT No, down at Brownsville.
CC Thank you.
PLT Roger. I couldn't quite get 308, had
some clouds over it, and 314 was too far to the right. We had
that before anyway. I darn near got 447, but I ran out of
angle before I did.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS, next station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through Madrid at
16:46. And we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
there. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
PLT Okay, 40:57, there we go.
CDR MODE is AUTO.
PLT Well, we got on four sights we didn't get on
before, AI.
CDR Uh-huh.
PLT Pittsburgh and a couple nadir swaths.
CDR Sounds like you got a good one there at
Brownsville, too.
PLT Yeah, I picked off one of those. Kind of
in rightfield though.
CDR Okay A, 65. All right. A to standby,
range 65, standing by for 190 to go out at 42:26. Then we go
MODE STANDBY when it does.
PLT Still taking pictures, I heard one go.
Taking one every i0 seconds, I guess.
CDR (Garble).
PLT What? Static.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Madrid will pick up the space station in 3-1/2
minutes. We'll keep the line up and monitor through Madrid.
CDR Can you hear me, Jack? What's your new rev at?
PLT VTS, AUTO CAL.

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SL-III MC2067/I
Time: 1].:46 CDT, 50/16:46 GMT
9/15/73

CDR Can't you hear me, Jack. What's your new rev at?
PLT VTS AUTO CAL.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. With you through
Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes and you can expect an occasional
TACS firing and a couple of mibs here shortly. Over.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay. We Just got - why don't you turn
off your heater? Is that the ACS, Jack?
PLT (garble) no.
CDR Why don't you fllp that ACS switch off.
Otherwise, we're going to get them all the time here.
PLT Okay. Is that CMG, SAS? It must be. Okay.
Got that AI.
CDR Okay. We Just had a caution and warning.
PLT Okay. DAC off.
CC Roger and we're going to dump your data
voice tape recorder.
SPT Okay Bruce. We had 5 minutes over the
ocean there. A total of 83 frames on the ETC and I was wondering
if you (garble) the Gulf Stream or something like that for so
much water photography.
CDR MARK. A tO STAND BY.
SPT Hello, Houston. Are you with us?
CDR MODE, MANUAL.
CC Yes s sir Owen.
SPT Did you get my question?
CC Yes, we did. We're working on it.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CDR Jack, you're going to be maneuvering in
35 seconds or so.
PLT Right.
CDR You got the time in so that's good.
PLT We're all ready to go.
CDR Okay. And I'm standing by for 191 READY
light on.
PLT Stand by on the switch.
CDR It Justcame on.
PLT (Garble)
CDR EREP to stop. That completes that one. I'Ii go
change the tape recorder after I do some of these other things.
SPT Another comment, Bruce. Looks llke there
might have been a substantial low pressure area off to the
southwest of Houston a couple hundred miles. A good deal
of cloudiness associated with it. Thought that might have
produced a front that moved through the last 24 hours because the
weather around Houston was as clear as a bell. Probably better
visibility than I recall having seen from up here. Over.
CDR And I'm recording B 7, which is 31 percent,
which is nothing new.
CC For the SPT, you're correct in your analysis
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Time: 11:46 CDT, 50/16:46 GMT
9/15/73

of the weather situation, a front did move through here about

24 hours ago. And with respect to your question on the ETC ops,
the objective of the pass was to study cloud formations over
the north .Atlantic waters and we did intend to take that
many frames out over the ocean. Over.
SPT Okay, fine. Thank you. There were more -
probably scattered clouds over most of it - occasionally
broken, but there'll be some clouds but not an awful lot.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 38 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 17:32. Out. If you were calling us, AI, we didn't
copy.
PLT Say again, Bruce.
CC I said, that if you were calling us after
my LOS call, we didn't copy. I guess it was just a random
VOX skiing. Over.
PLT Yeah, it was probably (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the Madrid station. Next station will be
Honeysuckle in 37 minutes. First Earth Resources survey pass
of the day has been completed. The second and last one for
today, will be over the United States during this revolution.
At 16 hours, 55 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-2068/I
Time: 12:31 CDT 50/17:31 GMT
9115/73

I'AO 'l'hl_ IH Skylnl) Col_Lrol _Jt 17 hour_ "]l ml.-

utes Greenwich mean time. We're _tanding by through Honeysuckle
for communications with Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for a minute and a half. We're looking at your maneuver
time as loaded, and it looks good to us. And of course TACS
is still enabled from the last time. For the PLT, we have a
change to your C&D operate pad. Over.
CDR Okay, he's right here.
CC Okay, on the C&D operate pad at 09:54
S190 shutter speed slow, we want to delete the shutter speed
slow and leave it as it was for the remainder of the pass.
I believe that's in medium. Over.
PLT Okay, 09:54 delete shutter speed slow.
CC Roger. We've got i minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 27 minutes through Goldstone at 18:00 Z.
Out.
CDR Okay, and it looks like I've got a long
blank space from site 170, until I do that nadir swath. How about
asking EREP to give me the 45 degree time and angle and all
that on site 300 up in Denver, even though it's probably cloudy
up there we'll work with it, I guess.
CC Okay, we'll have that for you over Goldstone.
CDR Okay.
CDR And we'll be maneuvering in about a minute
and 30 seconds.
CC Roger. And AI, I believe we have you
scheduled to be watching the 193 antenna through its motions
during that period of time you're refferring to. Over.
CDR It looked llke it to me. Let me check
on itagain.
CC Okay, we'll work with it this end, too.
CDR (garble).
CDR I noticed that I was observing that during
the time I was doing the nadir swath.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in 25 minutes.
The next Earth resources survey scheduled for this upcoming
pass beginning at 1:02 p.m. central daylight time lasting
20 minutes. Data take will start while Skylab is still over
the Pacific Ocean ground track, enters the country near
Los Angeles, leaves the states, and enters Canada near
Lake Superior. Objectives on this pass include ocean studies,
pollution :monitoring, geology, land classification, and the
weather and atmospheric studies. At 17 hours 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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51,-III HC2069/t
Time: 12:58 CDT, 50/17:58 (;HT
9/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours

58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
acquisition at the Goldstone station and we'll have the
second and last Earth Resources survey of the day during
this past;.
PLT Still reading 35 percent.
CDR Scattered cu(mulus).
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Goldstone
for a 9-]./2 minutes. We do not see the new correct maneuver
time loaded in the ATMDC.
CDR Let's put it in there then. Good idea.
CC And for - for the CD - -
CDR Great, I agree with you. Don't say anymore.
52030 ENTER. How's that? 50020, bow's that? 50020 ENTER.
PLT Okay, 191 READY light goes ON.
CDR How's that look to you?
PLT Alpha-2 is 55 percent. Charlie 4 is 71
percent, Bruce.
CDR And we are going to get a stratus cloud
bank.
CC Okay, we like the maneuver time. And
for the CDR, I got the angles for site 300.
CDR I think you were right though, I can't
make it. I was wrong. Let me get this though.
PLT Say, Bruce - -
CDR l'm going to have to wait a little bit - -
PLT 193 altimeter, when I put the power from
STANDBY to ON, the READY light came on immediately and so
did the altimeter unlock - unlock light. And the unlock
light has been on steady every since. The READY light
has since gone out, but didn't catch the time at which
it went out.
CDR Okay, we're taking stratus cloud hank
right now.
CC Okay, I believe that's what we were
expecting.
PLT Okay, and Charlie i, I recorded on, the
voice tape is reading 35 percent.
CC Roger.
CDR Stratus cloud bank; we got it.
PLT Is that good or bad?
CC That's acceptable, Jack.
PLT Okay, I'm standing by for 240. 193
ALTIMETER READY LIGHT is OFF; ALTIMETER UNLOCK, UNLOCK
LIGHT is ON. Okay, let's go on. We got the downlink box
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powered up and working. Standby here.

CDR Going to move her down to a different
point on the clouds now just for fun. 13 degrees up, we're - -
PLT MARK, ref 6. A to STANDBY.
CDR Stratus cloud bank looking Just like
you planned.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, RANGE is
now 6 and 5. 193 RAD is going to STANDBY.
CDR Minus 3 - -
PLT MARK. To STANDBY. Now I'll jump over here.
417 next.
CDR Okay, that looks good.
PLT Okay, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK LIGHT is out,
Bruce.
CDR Move up and get a little bit more. I've
got tO get this target 04:06 time, now 03:15. Okay, I'll get a
little more data for you here, Bruce,
PLT Must have gone out when I went to STANDBY.
Okay, what's next? 417.
CDR Little more data right here. Okay, now
let's go to 04:06. Camera OFF, 45 upright toward i0. That's
it right there. See when it picks it up. Right before i0, let's
see how it sticks. Okay, I want to do this on time, which
is 04:06. Okay, we're getting the Salton Sea right now, we're
passing through itp little beyond it. MODE 6. Okay, now let's
zoom in and see where it goes. Zoom in, it moves right
down to the center of the Salton Sea. Not bad. Okay, we're
just going to - -
PLT MARK, 190 to AUTO.
CDR In fact, there's a little pollution in
the middle of - -
PLT MARK, 192 READY. The tape motion light
was OFF and back ON.
CDR - pointing to a nice blue part of
the sea. Nice blue part of the sea is getting the data
right at the moment.
PLT 04:09's here pretty soon. 04:09, that's pretty
good.
CDR Looking good; we're Just tracking along
here. We're plus 9 degrees. We're just going to keep
going at least a minus I0. Well, we're just about at ll.
PLT Can't hear me. Standing by. MARK, SCAT READY,
READY LIGHT ON - READY LIGHT ON. RAD, ON; READY LIGHT ON. I
jUSt got a RAD SCAT - intermittent RAD SCAT GIMBLE LIGHT
but the rest of the lights are off_ Bruce. And I give you
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Alpha-9 _s 2 percent. Bravo 9 is 56 to 57 percent.

CDR Minus (garble) Different part of - -
PLT Charlie 9 is off scale low, oscillatln E
up to 2 percent. And Delta 9 is hangln E in around 18 and
19 percent, moving Just a little bit.

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CDR We've set our nadir swa_h here, and then

go watch out the window for you.
PLT Any questions?
CC Negative. Sounds good. Keep going.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, now what I've got to do is - -
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. Two-second delay.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
PLT Okay. Intervals to i0 in a minute.
CDR There's 18:06:30. Start watching. 18:06:30,
I'm watching.
PLT MARK. Intervalometer to i0 on 190.
CDR (Garble) sites loud and clear.
PLT Okay. We're going to INTRACK - -
CDR 93 not moving at the moment.
PLT INTRACK CONTIGUOUS, AI.
CDR All right. I'ii watch it.
PLT SCAT , on and RAD, on.
PLT SCAT, ON; READY light. PAD, ON; READY light.
Okay now it's nodding back' now it's nodding up. And it kind
of counces off and then back.
PLT Alfa 9 is reading - -
CDR Up - back, with kind of a pause in the middle.
PLT - - 3 to 4 percent.
CDR It doesn't appear to be going either left or
right.
PET I don't know what you want on Bravo O.
Oh, Bravo O, okay.
CDR Okay. It's pulled down, now it's pulled up.
PLT Bravo O is oscillating.
CDR (Garble) in the middle, and then back. Pull
up and kind of hits the stops (garble)
PLT Charlle 9 is off-scale low up to 3 percent.
PLT I got (garble)
CDR Up, (garble) middle and back.
CDR Up, middle - -
PLT MARK.
CDR - - back.
PLT MEDIUM on 190.
CDR Up, middle, back.
PLT 35 HIGH and about at i0 per cent LOW.
CDR Up, middle, back.
PLT Scat to STANDBY. i
CDR Up, middle, back.
PLT Two-second delay. RAD to STANDBY.
Okay, X-TRACK CONTIGUOUS, AI.
CDR Okay, now I'm looking ahead.
PLT The SCAT is ON. READY light is ON. No other
lights.
CDR (Garble) 9. It's kind of holding over to the
right.
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PLT (Garble) is - 3 percent,

CDR Way to the right.
PLT Bravo 9 is 56 per cent. Delta-9 is 19
percent. I got a - no other malf lights except intermittent
RAD/SCAT GIMBAL lights.
CDR What it seems to do it is it doesn't seem
to scan LEFT and EIGHT. It's over to the right, and it's nodding
up and down.
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
Now :it's coming back to the center.
PLT RAD is ON.
CDR Now it's gone to the right. And it's Just
kind of staying there nodding up and down every once in a while.
Like it Just went up. It goes up in a smooth track and then
smoothly back to where it was.
CC Understand it's nodding up and down now,
007
CDR Yes. Right now, it's nodding up and down.
PLT READY light out on 190, and we're in
STANDBY.
CDR It's stayin E over to the right and nodding
up and down. Up, stop.
PLT Let me give you Bravo 9.
CDR Up, stop.
PLT Let me read to them, AI. Bravo 9 is 57.
Charlle 9 is off-scale low and Jumping up to 1 per cent some-
times. Delta 9 is 17 to 18 per cent. I got no mall lights
except intermittent RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light.
CDR What it looks llke it's doing is - it's
not doing a perfect up and down. It goes up straight - to it
looks like, the max leading it can go; and then it kind of
swings to the left and down, but it only swings by a couple
of degrees.
CC Okay, but in XTC, it ought to be at zero
PITCH. And it ought to be going back and forth, left, right.
CDR It's not. It's - -
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR Now it just went back to the center, and
(garble)
- PLT Okay. We're INTRACK CONTIGUOUS, AI.
CDR It's sort of like in stow position.
PLT SCAT is ON. RAD is ON. Record A-9 to B.
CDR Moved down inclinely.
PLT Zero and now 4 percent on A-9.
CDR Up again and hits the stop hard and then comes
back and hits the stop again.
PLT Bravo O is oscillating between 10:25:35. 10:25:35.
CDR All right, it's coming back to stop.
CDR (Garble), back, (garble) Boy, it really socks
it. (Garble) this operation.
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PLT Charlie 9 is off-scale low to 2 per cent.
CDR Yes. Up; it hits the stop part (garble)
PLT Okay. I got a SCAT TRANSMITTER light on.
CDR MARK.
PLT SCAT TRANSMITTER light is on, RAD/SCAT
GIMBAL is intermittent.
CDR No left and right at all.
CC Okay. You should'nt have left and right
in this mode.
CDR Yes. It sure isn't -
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. 2 seconds.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Okay, we're
going X-TRACK CONTIGUOUS, AI.
CDR All right. I'm watching.
PLT Okay. 9:54, - we got to get the DOWN off.
PLT MARK. Down-link off. S190 (garble) FRAMES
15. 1 and 5 - intervals to 20.
CC Ten seconds to LOS. See you over Bermuda
in about 3 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay.

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PLT Standing by to get the RAD on again, and

X-contiguous. MARK. RAD is on. 192 is getting ready to go
to standby. MARK. 192 to standby.
PAO This is Skylab Control. A short drop
out of communications, about a 2-1/2 minute gap before Skylab
reaches range of the Bermuda station. Skylab Commander Alan
Bean calling out the movements of the S193 antenna, antenna
for the microwave radiometer, scatterometer, and altimeter, part
of the troubleshooting and checkout of that experiment which
had a malfunction in yesterday's Earth resources run. We'll
stand by now for Bermuda acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston, back with you through
Bermuda.

CDR Maybe this thing is not supposed to go

very far in roll, Bruce.
CC Okay, it should be centered in roll and - -
CDR (garble) in motion. Let me describe
it to you again. First, let's assume we start some where,
right? Not starting in the center, start it with the pitch pointed
to the right. It pitches up and then back to where it was.
Then it kind of moves to the right slowly. And then right at
the end of the motion which is about 10 degreesj it's hard
to tell from here, it pitches up and sort of swings, then,
back to where it started the first time. So it's a pitch up
and down, then it moves slowly to the right, and then up and
over back to the starting point. And up down, over to the
right slowly, then up and around to the starting point.
And I'll give you a mark when it reaches the starting point
each time you get the cycle. MARK. That's start. MARK. It's
in start again. I'll describe it again, okay? Pitch up, move
right, up and around. Pitch up down, move to the right,
around and initial point. Up down, right, and up and around.
CC By up and - CDR, Houston.
CDR Yeah.
CC By up and around do you mean that it is
now moving to the left?
CDR Yeah. Well it's always to the right, but
it did move back to its starting postlon. Its total roll
travel, it's going to be hard to guess from here, you're looking
at a funny angle, it's 3 degrees or 5 degrees or something
like that. It doesn't go back and forth llke I visualized it
would. It never comes past the center llne, and it always
seems to work in awfully small circles, hut it could be a big
circle on the ground, of course.
CC Would you say that the angle, when it
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changes in pitch, is about one-third of the angle through which it

moves in roll or some other ratio?
CDR That's a good question. I would say that
in roll it moves a little bit less than it does in pitch.
Pitch, my guess would be 4 to 5 degrees. In roll
my guess would be, now that you mention it, something less than
that. But you can't tell from this angle, Bruce. You're not
getting - you're not on one of the axes, you're sort of looking
at it - off to the corner. It's all covered with insulated
material, and you can't see the gimbals too well, so it's
tough to separate one from the other. But it's always to the
right of where the stone position is, which I assume must be
the center.
CC Roger. We've got a keyhole coming up
here. We'll be back in a few minutes.
CDR Okay, I'm going to haul it back to the
nadir swath place.

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CDR It sure didn't act like I thought it was

going to, Jack. It never goes over to the left. Maybe it's just
PLT MARK. Ready light on on 190. We're in standby.
CC Okay AI, I don't think this key hole it
going to affect us greatly here. We seem to be hanging in
anyway. The thing should be moving to a total roll angle
of about 23-1/2 degrees.
CDR It's not even close.
CC And the pitch angle ought to be on the
order of a degree or two.
CDR That'a about right. They are both operating
on a degree then. That would be my guess. It's hard to tell.
CC Yeah. And how about commenting once
again on the intrack contiguous mode. We copy that it moves
out fairly rapidly and bounces off the stop, and then sweeps
down properly.
CDR It moves out, bounces against the stop
hard, comes back to the center and pauses. Then it moves
abruptly towards the back and bounces off it, less - less
hard. But still, it isn't the kind of thing you'd - it isn't
llke any tracking antenna I've ever seen operate. It looks
llke the parts would wear out. But maybe this is different.
CC I suspect that you would be hard pressed
to design one that would do that job.
CDR That's right. And I'ii tell you it shakes
the struts that it's mounted on. When it hits the stop either
way it shakes the insulation and the struts themselves. So it
gives them a pretty good zap.
CDR Okay, we're ready to do this nadir swath,
so we're watching it right now. We're getting some clouds
coming, so we may have some good information. We're at thin
mag, which is what you llke. 1815 to 2158. This is going
to take a few frames.
CC CDR, Houston. On the intraek contiguous
mode, does the antenna ever pitch farther aft the zerodegree
position? Over.
CDR You mean the one that is up and down.
PLT We're in auto cal.
CC Yes sir.
CDR Yes, it goes all the way to both stops.
It goes to the front stop, hits it hard.
PLT MARK. RAD to standby. Altimeter on. Ready
light is ON on the altimeter.
CDR It pauses at the middle a second or so,
and it moves to the back position hard.
PLT RAD OFF.
CDR Then it goes to the front position hard. It
looks llke it moves through its full pitch range in this intrack
contiguous except a very abrupt (garble).
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PLT MARK. Altimeter unlock light on.

CC Okay.
CDR Now it looks like it's stowed in zero by
the way.
CC We're going farther aft than the zero stow
postion.
CDR Yeah, it's going back to about an equal
distance back.
PLT MARK. Ready light out on 193. 193 al-
timeter, the ready light just went out without doing anything.
CC Okay, we copy, AI.
CDR Okay. And we're still running this nadir
swath; it's looking llke it's okay.
CC Okay, and as you go swathing over the
horizon here, we'll see you at Madrid at 18:23, which is
about 4 minutes from now. Out.
MC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal. Madrid will acquire Skylab in about 3 minutes.
The S193 experts here on the ground will begin digesting this
information they have received from AI Bean. We'll stand by
and keep the llne up for the Madrid pass.
PLT (garble) Recorder, this is the end of EREP 32
for the EREP people. Thank you for standing by for this message.
CC Roger. This has been a recorded announce-
ment from Mission Control. Would you tell us what the
position for the RAD SCAT antenna is at the present time? Out.
CDR It's what I would call the 00 position
in that it looks llke it's pointing down to the Earth about
45 degrees from the X axis. It looks llke it's along the
center line, and it's motionless.
PLT Can I give you any monitor readings, Bruce?

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CDR - - and it's motionless_

PLT Can I give you any monitor readings, Bruce?
CC CDR, Houston. Did you _ay 45 degrees
from the X-axis, or along the x-axls?
CDR Oh, about - It's hard tO guess from here,
but it's Just what I consider the stowed position. It looks
to me like about 45 degrees down from the p_us axis, plus
X-axis, towards the plus Z-axis, but it may be 35 or some
number like that.
CC Oh, okay. You mean it's pointed radially
outward from the center line of the vehicle?
CDR That's right; towards the center of the
Earth. In other words, it looks like that's probably a
place you'd pick to park it; looks centered up.
CC Yeah, you'd call O0 if we put the words
in your mouth.
CDR Even if you didn't, I would.
CC Okay, thank you. And fqr the PLT, we
don't have any specific questions for you at this time. We
may want I_o come back in a site or two and talk to you
both abou1_ the EREP problems here.
PLT Okay, Bruce. They appear to be inter-
related; I mean the scatterometer transmitter and the -
and the antenna out there, or are they seperate problems?
CC We don't know yet but we suspect they
are. It apparently is some sort of a problem in the logic
control box for the - the whole unit. Over.
PLT Okay, and I - this - I guess this is
only the second time this showed up, isn't it? Or was it
showing something llke this on the downlink before?
CC The best to my knowledge, this is the
first time - the second time that it's shown up; yesterday
being the first.
PLT Yeah, okay. I had never noticed anything
prior to this time that wouidlead me to believe it wasn't
working right, and I was wondering if this kind of Shucked -
snuck up on us or hit us all of a sudden; or what. And
apparently this hit us all of a sudden yesterday, huh?
CC Yes, it did.
SPT 77 frames for the ETC.
PLT Okay, we'll go on and powerdown now with
your permission.
CC Roger, proceed as planned.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
SPT Get the frames there, Bruce?
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CC Yes I did, Owen. Thank you. And for the

CDR: We did get the angles and everything on VTS site 300
for you, but the weather was billed as being 10/lO's or
500 overcast in fog, so we didn't see too much point in
interrupting you. Over.
CDR Thank you, Bruce, I was wrong. I went back
and checked my times and I'd written down the wrong time for
looking out the window. As you pointed out, I had to look
out the window then, so that's what I did.
CC Yeah, I think the confusion arose from
putting 18 hours in on the VTS pad and having an 18-minute
block later on on the C&D pad. Or 18 minutes on that nadir
swa th.
CDR You figured it out.
CC Thirty seconds to handover here to Canary.
And we think that the last TACS firings have occurred, so
we'd like to make sure you re-enable the CMG SAT on your
caution and warning inhibit panel. And we will be dumping
the data voice tape recorder at Honeysuckle. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS through Canary. Next station contact in 37 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek at 19:08. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Madrid station. Still no good understanding
of the S193 problem. The experts here on the ground considered
to, still considering the data. One of the suspects is that
the logic control box for the antenna, but no good under-
standing yet of - of Just what the problem is. Next station
to acquire Skylab will be Honeysuckle in 33-1/2 minutes. At
18 hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control _t 19 hours, 6 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the Honeysuckle, Australia tracking station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes and we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
here. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Thank you,
PAO This is Skylab Control. This is lunch
time for A1 Bean and Jack Lousma. Owen Garriott is at the
Apollo Telescope Mount console. We don't expect a lot of
conversation through this Honeysuckle pass. We'll continue
to stand by.
CC Skylah, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in ii minutes through Hawaii at
19:28. Out.
SPT Roger. See you in Hawaii.
CC Aloha.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. The next station will be Hawaii in i0 minutes.
At 19 hours, 18 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

19 hours 27 minutes. We will have acquisition at Hawaii in
45 seconds at the tail end of revolution i_92.
PAO Capcomm is Astronaut Bruce HcCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 8 minutes and 50 seconds. For the PLT. Over.
CC Or the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Owen. We've observed S052 standard
modes being performed in shopping list item 17 instead of the
requested trunk heated fast scan. In orde_ to minimize film
usage, we request that trunk heated fast scan be used for
shopping list 17. That takes three frames instead of twelve,
and supplements the synoptic. Over.
SPT Just a minute.
PLT What did you have for me, Bruce?
CC Jack, we asked this morning while Crip was
on if you'd replace the mol sieve B PBCO2 idler sensor end
cap blue with the spare end cap out of lock@r M202. And we're
wondering if you had gotten around to that because we
haven't seen any change in the telemetry.
PLT Okay. He didn't ask me to change it, he
asked me to go up there and check it again like I did the other
day, and I"ii do that right now.
SPT Bruce, is that a new change or it that
something had been sent up before about using the abbreviated
mass scan instead the standard.
CC I believe tha_ has been sent up before,
Owen.
SPT Okay. That's something that some how or
other I guess we didn't understand because =he shopping list
item indicates that we could do a standard If we have at least
5 minutes. And I'll change that shopping llst item if that's
the way the back room prefers. I'ii make that little notation
on it to knock out the standard and do the fast scan any way.
SPT Bruce, about 5 minutes ago I noticed one
thing that I hadn't seen before and that's on S054. It failed
to accept a start command twice on both a 250 second single
and a 54 second signal. I recycled it a third time and it
accepted it all right and it's been running_since. But I hadn't
noticed it failed to accept the start before.
CC Okay, we copy, Owen. i
SPT And Bruce, we're still _eaving S056 in camera
power off with the airlock closed and await%ng any change you've
intent from the back room on that. I presume that's the con-
figuration they want. They, I presume are also seeing that
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on telemetry.
PLT Okay Bruce. That was m_l sieve B, PBCO2
wasn't it?
CC Yes, it was, Jack.
PLT The blue one, right?
CC The blue one.
PLT Okay. I stuck it off and the other
night we had - Crlp said they were having trouble with it
all through the last mission. The other night I went over
and looked at it and the O-ring had popped out and it was
leaking tlhrough the O-ring so I just tightened it down and - just
right now I'm taking it off and inspecting the O-rings, kind of
dusted them off a little bit and screwed the lid back down again
sure the O-rings are in their seat. Would you like to look at
it for a little while or have me put the other cap on right now?
CC We'll go ahead and look at it for awhile
here, Jack. Did you notice anything out of order with the
O-ring seating? Over.
PLT No, I didn't. You really can't tell.
The - raise it up a little bit. The O-rings pop out very
readily. They don't have good groves to fi_ in, hut as soon
as you take the top off, why the O-rings te_d to pop out. I
noticed some (garble) of material stuck to _he O-rings and
I kind of cleaned that off a little bit, put them back in to
see how they'd work. Now, I'd like to know how they're
doing it so you can tell right now.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Jack. We are seeing some improvement
on it rig_ht now. I guess the terminology down here is that
it's now at least half way believeable. Why don't you just
leave it like it is and we'll get back to you later if we
need any further work.
PLT Okay. It looks like it's maybe screwed
down a little more flush than it was before, but it was
a lot better this time when I looked at it than it was a
couple of days ago.
CC Roger.
SPT Hey Bruce, I'd appreciate it if you'd
ask the 82B and 55 personnel if based upon the last two
four limb coalignments, if they like column 33 as well as
they do column 32 for the (garble) center. And let me know what
their conclusion on that is.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CC We got i minute to LOS here. Next station
contact in 3 minutes and 30 seconds, Goldstone at 19:40, and
we are happy with 33 as well as 32 for Owen.
SPT Okay. I perfer 32 up here myself, and I
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think Jack found the same thing on a point the other day.
If they're Just as happy with 32, I'Ii push it back. Other-
wise, I'ii leave it 33.
CC Okay.
PLT Still there, Bruce?
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, I put M563 out to cook this morning
last night before I went to bed at 01:56 (g_rble) temperatures
(static)
CC Losing you.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
19 hours 37 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in 1 minute 55 seconds, with
Science Pilot Owen Garrlott spending a 2 hour schedule at
the ATM control and display panel at the Apollo Telescope
Mount. Pilot Jack Lousma performing routine housekeeping
aboard the Skylab space station. Commander AI Bean doing
physical exercise with one of the several types of exercises on
board the space station. Next acquisition will be Goldstone
in i minute 20 seconds. We'll leave the line up for this
stateside pass.

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CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Goldstone

for 6 minutes. For the SPT.
SPT Just a minute, Bruce.
CC And for Jack we copied _563 on at 01:56Z
and then you faded out as we went over the hill.
PLT Yeah, the rest of it was the cold work
temperature was 223 - 22 degrees centigrade, and the pressure
at the start was reading on the .05 mark. And the experiment
before that was 559; I didn't report that I don't think.
We got that on the cooker on day 256 at 20:51, temperature
was the same, and the pressure was a 0.i mark.
CC Okay; copy. M563 is 0156 Z cold i
22 centigrade pressures to start with .05 experiment 559
was day 256 20:51, 0.i pressure and 22 degrees C. Over.
PLT That's affirm. If you need anymore of
them I got them all written down.
CC I think we're okay.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, Owen, on the subject of SO56, we
passed up a message last evening at 22:00 Z! we said basically
it's requested to SO56 camera be shut down ¥ith airlock
closed for the rest of the mission day 49, This will allow
camera motor to cool down pressure to buildi up in camera.
SO56 planners have been instructed to restrict future
Skylab III SO56 ops to JOP 6 building block l's and a single
frame long exposure for the rest of mission. The camera's
now hanging up in single frame modes this has not happened
before and the increase load on the film drive spectic motor
could cause single point failure in SO56, therefore we're
serverely restricting a ops in SL III to insure they will
have the capability for the next mission. So the configuration
you got it in right now is okay and we will - stand by. And
we're standing by for ATM TV down-link per the scheduled pad.
SPT Okay, you got the TV now and we did -
do have tlhat message on board I got it on the panel here
so we also understood that we were to shut St down which
we did and then not power it up for either TOP 6 and so on
until we talk with you on the ground about _t. So I guess
for example, on the JOP 6 that I just did a'_little while ago
if I understood the message you just read we should have
been doing SO56, let me correct that; I see now that 56 has
been completely omitted on the schedule but had it not been
omitted on the schedule then I presume we would have been
expected to do it.
CC Okay, we concur that the JOP 6 that you've
just finished 56 should not have been operated but there was
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an earlier pass this morning where we had intended it to

be run.
SPT I see. Okay. We'll try - we'll remember
to include it on JOP 6 unless it is speclfi_ally mentioned
to be omitted the way the one I just passed and omitted
with the specifically called out.
CC Roger.
CDR I think the hangup came though, Bruce because
they told us yesterday that they'd give us _ddltional instructions
not to use it until we got them and we talk@d about that this
morning and since we hadn't any additional _nstructions we
decided to Just wait until we heard from y'wll. That's what
we're doing now.
CC Okay. That's no problem that's fine with
us. The status we're in right now is I guess unless you're
instructed to omit it you can expect to operate on Ja - JOP
6 building block l's and where we want single frames longs
we'll write them in.
CDR Okay. We'll start doing that. Thanks
Bruce.
CC And again for Owen. We confirm your
intreputatlon of the way the S052 shows up in item 17 of the
shopping list and right now we're examining our posture on
whether or not we want to change that item or not.
SPT Okay. I've already marked out the
standard on mine so please let me (garble) on our sheet up here.
So let me know If you want to change what we got.
CC Wilco. One minute tll LOS. Next station
contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at 19:51. Out.
PLT Here's one for you Bruce. You seem to be
the guy who comes up with the good camera settings and we've
been wondering what camera setting we should use with CI (garble)
to take pictures of cities at night, say with a 35-milli-
meter.
CC Okay. Let us work on that one.
PLT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 19 hours
47 minutes with loss of signal at Goldstone. Next acqnistion
will be Bermuda in 3 minutes and 25 seconds. We'll hold the
line up for the upcoming Bermuda pass.

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9/15/73

CC Skylab. This is Houston through

Bermuda for 7-i/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce. We Just Bo_ a clear shot
of Hudson Bay. It's about the first we've _ad that we could see
up in the Hudson Bay to 150 to 200 miles up around Churchill, Canada.
CC Beautiful. You take an F pictures?
PLT Oh, yeah_ we got some p$ctures of that.
PLT Took all the clouds off of Hudson Bay and
played them over the U.S., today I noticed.
CC Rog.
CC PLT, Houston. With respect to your
M563, and associated experiments, we'd llke to get the
rest of the data that you have written down,elther alive
or put on the channel A voice recorder. We're particularly
interested in the hot temperatures associated with the specimens.
Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I've got some of them, and
some of them I don't have, because I don't really have opportunity
to go up tlhere and monitor them all the time. But when I am
looking at an area, why I look at them and Jot them down. And
some of them I have and some of them I don' t . If you want me
to do - go up there at specific times, I hope you'll have them
put it into details, and I'ii be glad to do that.
CC No requirement on that, Jack.
PLT Okay. I'm kind of wondering how much
of this we're getting on the - the TM. I don't know what
their specific readouts are.
CC PLT, Houston. There is no requirement
for reading these temperatures either at a specified time,
or periodically. But we were interested in, perhaps, if
you had recorded some them at specific times, we could use them
for comparison with our telemetry data since we think
that we're getting a few degrees difference between the
two sets of readings. And we believe yours to be more
accurate.
PLT Okay. Let me collect and you the ones
I've got, Bruce. And I'ii let you know.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Canary
Islands at 20:00. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 59 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. Next
acquisition will be Canary in 58 seconds. We'll hold the
line up for Canary pass. Back-to-back pass with Canary
and Ascension.

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CC Skylab, this is Houston, through

Canary and Ascension. With you for 15 minutes and in the
useful bits of conversational knowledge and facts to amaze
and confound the world, today at 14:49 Z, both the SPT and PLT
surpassed Pete Conrad's total accumulated flight time of
49 days 4 hours plus, thus securing for themselves the joint
possession of the number 2 position in total manned space
time, first up behind your leader. Over.
PLT Well, nice to hear, Br_ce. If you can't
be number one, I guess it's just about as good to be number
two and three.
CC Roger. If you're going to be number
two, you better try harder.
SPT Jack and I are.
CC I thought E=IR.
SPT I don't feel any different, Bruce.
But, I'll tell you, our friend, Pete's got an enviable
record and one that's pretty darn tough to beat. It's just a
long haul.
CC No, I'm not dlsparagin_ Pete. We're
Just keeping track of total accumulated miputes here.
SPT Right. I understand.
CC Ought to be good for a party of some
sort when you get back.
PLT Yeah. We'll probably break out the
orange juice and the ice cream tonight, or something like
that.
PLT I've got a few of these maximum
temperature readings on the M518 experiment and I'ii read
you the ones I have. Number 563, which is in there now,
by the way, is reading 969 to 970. And it's second thermal
couple is reading right in the same neighborhood about
two degrees lower. And number 566 got up to 843 degrees
and number 562 got up to 781, and we changed the pop
setting on 559, and the anticipated readout was a thousand and
5. I didnt' write one down for that, but I remember -
recall that it was real close to that if not being right
on.

CC Okay, Jack. We copy those. Thank you

very much.
PLT Yes, sir.
CC And for the SPT. In the waning
moments of this daylight pass, with respect to shopping
list item 17, we would llke to change that to be the no
more than 2 minutes in fast scan mode of operation and
delete the performed standard mode as 5 minutes available
as you've already done. Over.
SPT Fine, Bruce. That's taken care of.
Thank you.
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CDR How many waning moments have we left?

CC Daylight, 2 minutes and 33 seconds, and
contact through Canary and Ascension, i0 minutes. Over.
CDR Let me mention somethipg. I just
went through permanent general message number 32, which
talks about the TV cable checkout. And I found step 5, where
we're supposed to see the continuity of the internal wire, the
center wire of the coax to be zero, mainly, it's open.
The resistance is infinite. Number 7, which wants to know
the _esistance of the shield, I found to be half an ohm, which
seems to make sense. And the resistance between the shield
and the sensor wire, ls open. So that makes sense too, so
it looks llke we've got an open on the center wire of the coax.
I'd be more than happy to undo the plugs in each end and look
for obvious problems where that wire connects into the plugs.
CC Okay. Let me see if I got this right.
On permanent GH 32, step 5, you measured zero, or infinity?
Over.
CDR Infinity. Here it indicates a big i.
And that's it.
CC Alri - I'm - I'm not sure I understand
you. You're on the 20 - 2000 ohm range, and it's reading i?
CDR It reads i when it's open.
Nothing's touching now and it's reading i.
CC What does it read when you short the
probes together?
CDR Zero. It's - it's a digital meter and
I guess it doesn't have a little infinity on it.
CC Okay. We'll take your word for it.
Infinity on the center conductor, half ohm on the shield
and open between the two.
CDR Yes. That's another i.
CDR But I'ii say one thing, it's a flashing
i. So maybe that means something different.
CC All right. Now you hit the - -

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9/15/73

CDR But I'll say one thing, it's a flashing

i, so maybe that means something different.
CC All right. Now you hit the right words.
A flashing i. And we appreciate your attention to this
message, however, you've just blown our Flight Plan for
tomorrow. We're going to have to put something else in in
place of it.
CDR That's okay. What you should do right
now is give me a go ahead to look at the back of these plugs
and see how they're doing. We might fix _is.
CC We'd like to hold off pn that for right
now, AI.
CDR Okay. That may be a little tougher than
I thought cause I notice they've got epoxy on the screws.
At least on the end that fits in the T_ connector and on
the other - both ends, so there's going to be some expoxy re-
moving before we go to the next step.
CC Okay. Just for my own curiosigy, what's
is that noise in the background that sound_ llke deep
breathing or a cross cut saw being pulled back and forth?
CDR Deep breathing ... Jack Lousma pulling on
the Mark 1 exerciser.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR You back with us, Bruce?
CC Still here.
CDR Okay. There was a dropout there a
couple of minutes - about a minute and a half ago. And I
want to talk about EREP for Just a minute. On the first
pass, I presume also, on the second pass, you were taking
lots of photographs over the water apparently for Just
cloud studies that you wanted to make. ] wanted to sugRest
the possibility that if there are certain objectives llke, either
stratus clouds or cumulonimbus or various sort of large
patterns that you are looking for, we might consider
mounting the SO63 visible mount in the wardroom window. And I
can put a little Nikon on it to use it as a viewfinder,
and set :four sides with the minus Z axis. It would be a
simple matter to just wait until the right sort of target was
in the fleld of view or approaching the field of view of
the camera in the wardroom window and then simply turn the
ETC on. Now, you might let the EREP people think about
that and see whether or not they think they could either
save any film or increase the probability of getting the
target they were looking for by doing it in this manner.
Over.
CC We'll do that. A very good suggestion.
We'll get back to you on it.
CDR Another item. When we got finished
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with EREP while ago, we decided we would clean the platens

with water, which we did, and the platens are nice and
clean now.
CC Roger.
CC Were they noticably dirty when you
cleaned them? Or what prompted you? Could you see particles
of emulsion and, you know, were they all equally dirty?
CDR It was the same thing that had been
reported by Paul, that there was sort of streaking on the
platen not critical streaking, but certainly visible. And
apparently they had cleaned them with that Ovlck solution or
whatever it is, Orvick, and had a lot of problems. So I just -
We had not cleaned them. We had mentioned it a couple of
times, and then we just decided that maybe if we used water,
we could probably shine them up real good. So we used some
water and cleaned them up and they look unscratched and
unmarked and they're just llke new.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
CDR So I'd recommend that we clean them
periodically then with Just plain water and use - we have to dry
them awful fast cause they dry very quick and if they do it,
they may spot. So you have to get them on and then dry them
off with that paper whatever you call it. Lens paper.
CC Roger.
CDR Also Bruce, if you have any other trouble-
shooting procedure, today looks llke a good day to do it.
I've got some free time at the moment. It looks llke I'ii
have some free time later on this evening, so if you got
any more work on that probe, or anything like that, let me
know, and this is a good time for us to work on then.
CC Okay, AI, we copy. We don't have any-
thing in hand right now. Tomorrow, we are shcedullng a
check on one of the TV mlnl-monitors and the cable associated
with it. I expect that message will be up later on this
evening, but it hasn't been reviewed yet.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon
at - make that through Honeysuckle at 20:47. Out.
PAO Skylab Control. GreenWich mean time
20 hours 16 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Honeysuckle in 30 minutes 40 seconds.
During the pass over Canary, Ascension, Commander AI Bean
requested some more - some additional troubleshooting
procedures to work out. He indicated he had some free time
later today and this evening, during which time he suggested
to have some more work to do to troubleshoot some of the
anomalies aboard the spacecraft. The ground says there are
some in preparation which will be passed up on the Flight Plan
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this evening for him to work on tomorrow. Next acquisition

will be Honeysuckle in 30 minutes. At Greenwich mean time
20 hours 17 minutes_ this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2080/I
Time: 15.:47 CDT, 50/20:47 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

20 hours 47 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Honeysuckle
in 35 seconds. We'll leave the line up for this Honeysuckle
pass with CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 5-1/2 minutes. And for the PLT.
PLT Yeah, go ahead Bruce.
CC Okay. With respect to this photography
of cities at night with the CI film the stpry is that the
ASA rating the speed of the CI film is 500, The 2485 film
which was planned to be used for this type of thing had a
speed of 4,000 so, to get comparable exposures you're going
to have to use 8 times as long an exposure and the recommendations
we have is that we're not enthusiastic about the results
that you'll probably get using CI film at night. However,
if you want to use a few frames we suggest that you take
a sequence of exposures that runs about llke 4 seconds and
i second excuse me 4 seconds and a half of second and a
fifthteenth of a second and see what that does for you. Over.
PLT Okay, we'll give that _ try and just
to keep points and I guess one other request that I failed
to mention which I should have anyway. Is that we would
like to also use the 35 on sunrise and sunset take a couple of
sequence of that and we're kind of wondering what the
exposure setting going to be for that. And wetre near the
DAC or is it different.
CC Okay, I didn't - didn't we send you up
a message on sunrise sunset a while back or was that
moonrise moonset?
PLT Those summaries I believe were for the
DAC only and I'm not sure that the CI film and the DAC and
the CI and 35 - millimeter film are the same.
PLT As a matter of fact I have that message
right in my hip pocket here. 100-millimeter and 300-millimeter
you suggested that were for moon photos. The sunrise and
sunset were used for DAC so I guess there was just one problem
we don't have in there and that's 35-millimeter for still
photos on sunrise sunset.
CC Okay, the CI film of course is the same
whether it's 16-millimeter or 35-millimeter we don't have
the message on hand right now regarding the CI film for sunrise
sunset on the DAC but the exposure should be comparable
let us go ahead and check into that one and get back to you
on it. Over.
PLT Okay, I got 1250 at F ii and FI6
depending on where the Sun is and I wonder if that is also
true for the CX film that the exterior and - or the DAC and
35 or the same. And a 100-millimeter by the way.
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CC Okay, is
CC SPT_ Houston. We see that the TACS are
still enable both in the hardware and the software. We
need to disable both places there. Over.
SPT Okay. Jack's up at the panel now. So
I expect he'll get it.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. I had my timer set but it didn't
go off I guess I must have put the little lever in my pocket.
CC Okay, i minute til LOS. Next station
contact in 13 minutes through Hawaii at 21:06. And for the
PLT, right now we'd llke to plan on taking the sunrise, sun-
set photos with the DAC only. We have some rational for
you on that a little bit later. I think it's probably
concerned with the fact the significant thing here is the
motion coming up and coming down. I suppose is trying to
catch a (garble) red disc with the sun or 8omething - -
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
20 hours 53 minutes. Loss of signal at Hopeysuckle as
CAP COMM, Bruce McCandless passed up instructions to the
crew on using - - board camera for taking hight time pictures
of cities under the track of the Skylab III vehicle. The
vehicle travels approximately 4 miles per second. And the
ground is concerned about whether the cameras will be able
to catch night time photography at that speed. The speed of
the film plus the speed of the vehicle. At Greenwich mean
time 20 ihours 54 minutes. Next acquisition will be Hawaii
in 12 minutes 25 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours
54 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 16:05 CDT, 50/21:05 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

21 hours 5 minutes. We will have acquisition at Hawaii
in approximately 1 minute with CAP COM Bruce McCandless,
currently a changeover taking place here at Mission Control
Center. Offgoing fllgh_ director Neil Hutchinson. The
on-coming Flight director is Chuck Lewis. Oncoming
CAP COMM will be Hank Hartsfleld.
CC Skylab. This is Houstpn through
Hawaii for 8 minutes. And for the PLT. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC ()kay. Sometime this evening, Jack,
we need to get PCG 3 bait charge low input to the caution and
warning system reenabled. And are you on the ATM panel now?
Is that correct?
PLT Yes. That's enabled.
CC Okay. And then on page 0-Bravo of the
ATM JOP summary sheets, that is, the shopping llst, what
we'd like to do on shopping list item 17 is have you all run it
as it came from the print shop, IE one sequence of
fast scan taking 43 seconds and approximately 3 frames
whenever you run item 17, deleting all pen-and-ink changes
to that, over.
PLT Okay. We'll do 43 seconds. Our pen-and-inks
tell us no more than 2 minutes of fast sea D and do a standard
mode if 5 minutes is available. So (garbl_) all after -
anytime at Sun center.
CC Right. We're deleting both of those
pen-and-ink comments.
PLT Okay. Understand.
CC And, with respect to sunrise sunset
photos, as requested, we'd llke to use the DAC since the
responsible parties are interested in the sequence of
events that occur during the process of sunrise and sunset.
If you want to take some additional still photos on your
own hook, the same exposure data is good with the still cameras
using CI film. If you're using one that has _X film in it,
you want to open the lens up by 2-1/2 stops to account for
the slower speed of CX. CX has an ASA of 64 and the CI is
being processed at about ASA 320 to 500, dependlng on our frame-
by-frame basis, over.
PLT Okay. I've got the CX settlngs for
the DAC film for sunrise, sunset and I take it that CX DAC
equals CX 70
millimeter, and CX35, right?
CC Yes, sir. It's all the same, Just
different widths and different perforations.
PLT Okay. That's good info. Thank you
very much. And I noticed that our old buddies Vianna and
• Kreeger there with S054 are tossing in the game with a bunch
of exposures here this rev. Did they really want to repeat
this M30P 256 a second time?
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9/15/73

CC That's affirmative, Jack. And info we

got from photo lab is that the SL-II crew took a couple of
pictures of Madrid at night on the CI film and it turned
out fairly well except _or the fact that the image was a
little bit blurred. So I guess the big thing you've got
to concentrate on here is tracking the target and avoiding
image motion on these longer time exposures. Over.
PLT Okay. Today is the 300 or was that
for the 35 or 55?
CC I can't answer that right offhand. I
don't know. I expect it was with the 55 to 300 as a much
smaller aperture and you probably wouldn'_ be able to get
enough light through.
PLT I think with the 300 we can get a lot
more blurry, too. That's why I asked.
CC Yes, indeed. I guess our recomendation
would be the 55-millimeter. The normal lens is on there
and wide open.
PLT Okay. That's a good r_commendation.
thanks a lot for all the info.
PAO Greenwich mean time 21 hours 10 minutes.
A change of shift briefing with off-golng Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson is scheduled to be held at the building 1
news room in about i0 minutes. Change of shift with off
going Fllght Director Nell Hutchinson in approximately i0 min-
utes in the building 1 news room.
PLT - - primarily used by BO56 shopping
list item, and since SO56 is kind of out of the ballgame
for a while, or sitting on the sidelines momentarily, it
may be well to have the backroom back pick pick up some
new shopping llst items for the next two revs.
PLT Otherwise we'll probably go over and
(garble) auto scan and auto rasters and mlrro£ llne scan
to active regions and so forth. And I've noticed there's another
bright plage appearing in H-alpha 2. I haven't had a
chance to look at it yet, mostly in H-alpha i, but it's coming

in right behind active region 26 at about _60. And I'm not

sure that: anybody read that up the morning,update or not, but
it's not on our activity pad. i
CC Hey, Jack. On the ATM_schedule pad,
shopping llst Item 13, those are the single frame exposures
that we told you we would be scheduling specifically for
SO56. S¢, we'd llke to run it as scheduled. Over.
PLT Okay. Thank you. I wasn't sure that
we had (garble) that out already. But I'll go ahead and
do it as scheduled.
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CC No. That's one of the - that and the

JOP 6 on the synoptic pass in the morning are the two times
when we do want to operate it.
PLT Okay. I've got the JOP 6 where it
didn't have it on the single frames. Bur's that's (garble)
little - Thanks a lot, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is HoustoD. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 mln_tes through
Goldstone at 21:18. Out.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
21 hours 15 minutes. Loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Changeover here at Mission Control Center. Flight Director
for the Bronze Team, Chuck Lewls_ taking over with off
going Flight Director Nell Hutchinson, who is scheduled to
be at the building 1 news room in about 5 minutes for a
change of shift briefing. CAP COM for this change of
shift will be astronaut _enry Hartsfield. Acquisition at
Goldstone in two minutes. We'll hold the llne up for the
stateside pass.

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TIME: 16:16 CDT 50/21:16 GMT
9/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for

5-1/2 minutes.
PLT Hello Hank.
CC Hello there.
PLT Say Hank, I just reported that it looks
llke there's a new active region, and it's in the area - coming
around the east llmb behind active region 26, and that
may not be new information, but I hadn't heard it before. But
the other thing I noticed is that as I recall there was a fairly
well-developed filament on the north side of active region
26 this morning, but it's not there now. I don't see any
sign of it at all and I believe there was a fairly good
sized one: earlier today.
CC Roger, we'll check it out Jack.
CC Jack, that new active region, I think,
is going to be active region 28 and has the flare probability
of 200 and we're checking on that filament.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Bermuda at 27 and we'll dump the recorder ihere.
PLT Okay.
CDR We got Owen in the can and we're waiting
tll we get the window before we go the rest of the way.
CC Okay. We copy.
SPT Just fits.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 24 minutes. Loss of signal at Goldstone. Next
acquisition Bermuda in 3 minutes 15 seconds. We'll take
the line down for the change of shift briefing scheduled
to begin momentarily in building 1 news room as Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott begins the M092 experiment, lower body
negative pressure device. This is the 15th time for Science
Pilot Garriott to perform this exercise. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 24 minutes. We'll take the llne down for the
change of shift and play accumulated tape at the close of
the shift. Change of shift briefing with Nell Hutchinson.
Skylab Control 21 hours 24 minutes.

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Time: 16:41 CDT, 50/21:41 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylah Control; Greenwich mean time

21 hours 41 minutes. Aequlslt_on comln K up at Ascenslon 111
2 minutes 40 seconds. We havt_ i mLnute and 40 set'o,ds t_f
tape accumulated during the change-of-shlft. We'll play
that now then go into the Ascension pass.
CC Skylab, Houston throug_ Bermuda for
10-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PLT Hank, I don't know wha_ time it occurred
but in the last hour the M518 experiment that's in there has
gone from its (garble) to its cool down cy=le. And in the
past I've kind of put my hand back there where the(garble)
behind me - behind the work chamber and no_ed that with only
it was only lukewarm and if you were drinking coffee out of
a cup that warm why you would say that it was cold. But
this one's been in there quite a long time it's the soap
temperature that got pretty warm and I Just put my hand back
there and[ if you've been drinking ca - coffee out of that cup
you'd say it was too darn hot to handle I think. So the
temperatur back there you can feel it and sometimes it's Just
lukewarm and other times it soaks a long t_me why it's going
to be pretty hot.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston 1 mlnu_e tll LOS.
Ascension at 44.
PLT (Garble), Hank.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
21 hours 43 minutes. Ascension coming up in 50 seconds.
We'll hold the llne up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston i minute to LOS. We'll
be coming up on Carnarvon at 17.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
21 hours 55 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 22 minutes. As Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott performing the M092/M171 run pair
of medical experiments. This is the 15th time that Science
Pilot Garrlott has performed the M092 he is scheduled to
perform this experiment 17 times during th_ mission of
Skylab III. This will be the 7th time he performed the
MI71 metabolic analyzer experiment. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 55 minutes. Next acquisition will be Carnarvon
in 21 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2084/I
Time: 17:15 CDT, 50/22:15 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 15 minutes. Acquisition coming over Carnarvon
in approximately 30 seconds. CAP COM is a_tronaut Hank
Hartsfleld. Flight Director is Chuck Lewis. We'll leave
this llne up for this Carnarvon Pass.
CC Skylab, Houston throug_ Carnarvon for
9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.
Guam at 31.
PLT Okay, Hank. We made iF over something on
SO55 when you throw in all these vectors llke I have them down
for mirror auto raster. They all momentarily light the
scan spec light and then it goes out except for (garble) and
I was wondering if they're working normally?
CC We'll check it out.
PLT Of course, detectors 1 and 2 don't light
it, but 3 to 6 - 3 to 7 1 thought should. Although I haven't
really played safe (garble), although I've noticed that - that
at the moment they don't.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
22 hours 28 minutes. Loss of signal at Carnarvon with
acquisition coming up at Guam in minute, 30 seconds.
We'll leave the llne up for the Guam pass.

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SL III MC-2085/I
TIME: 17:28 CDT 50/22:28 GMT
9/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 8-1/2

minutes.
PLT Okay Hank.
CC And PLT, could you clarify the last
transmission you made. We're trying to sort out and I don't
think we got it straight on which detectors were lighting
the alert light.
PLT Okay. I probably didnWt made myself clear.
When I put the mode switch to auto raster in grating position
all zeros, I started putting on the detector, and 1 and 2
don't normally light the scan spec light, but 3, 4, 5, 6, and
7 usually light it momentarily, if you're in a zero mode. I
noticed this time that only 3, 4, and 7 li_ it momentarily.
Five and 6 did not, and I was wondering if they're working
normally or if that's Just the way they have worked in the past
and I haven't noticed.
CC Okay. We got you straight now, Jack, and
we'll see if we can dig up an answer.
PLT Okay. Sorry it wasn't more clear the first
time.
PLT I'm running the mirror auto rasters in
all zeros and with all dectors at the moment as you notice.
CC We copy.
PLT (garble) thought you might have some data
CC Jack, we've been talking to the observ-
atories and that filament that you noticed indeed has took
off. It has blue shifted which means that it is coming
out toward us, so you're absolutely correct, that thing
rupping off.
PLT Okay. I wish we'd been here to see it
go.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
til LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 57. And Jack
did you happen to note anything on the WL-3 about i0 minutes
ago?
PLT No, I sure didn't notice anything unusual
Hank, I looked it over quite carefully. I think that - Just a
minute, I'm working on an experiment here. The answer to
your question is no, and I looked at it for awhile. I could -
I've got the door open. I guess I could power it up and take
another look right now.
CC Okay. If you want to take a look, that
would be fine and we'll talk to you stateside and see what
yOU saw.
PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time
22 hours 41 minutes. Loss of signal at Guam. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in 14 minutes and i0 seconds.
At Greenwich mean time 22 hours 41 minutes, this is Skyla5
Control.

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SL-III MC-2086/I
Time: 17:55 CDT, 50/22:55 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

22 hours 55 minutes. Acquisition at Goldstone in 25 seconds,
as spacecraft Skylab begins its 1,796th revolution of the
Earth.
CC Skylab, Houston. Stat_slde for 17 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC And, Jack, to answer ypur question about
the alert light you were getting there, we would not expect
to see alert light on detectors 5 and 6. The electronics
are different in that those detectors in the on - the others
with i, 2, 3, 4, and 7, because of the way electronics is
designed, we - it would be possible to get the alert light
as you're doing. However, we are a little surprised that
you have been seeing them on detectors 5 and 6. Five and
six look perfectly normal to us, other than the chip out
problem that we're always getting there with five.
PLT Okay. I'm glad to hear that. I didn't
know that little fact. I have not been getting the alert
light switches on five and six. Number five, for sometime
during the last rev was working quite well. And earlier this
rev was too and I'm Just starting to get scan spec lights
from it again. So, I know it's working even though it's not
too well. Thank ya - alot for that answer, Dick.
PLT And I looked at the white light corona-
graph quite closely again and I didn't notice anything
unusual that wasn't there earlier in the rev at which time
I hadn't even got a picture of the corona, I noticed at
about 250, that we have sort of a bright streamer beginning,
although it doesn't appear to be changing and doesn't appear
to look much different than any other normal streamer. Before
coming to the present pointing position, however, I did
take another fast hand for 43 seconds and I will take one
more in about 5 minutes remaining in the orbit unless you
suggest otherwise. And that should cover some of the action
that might be going on in the corona.
PLT I finished with the request for this rev
early. And what I've done is to go over and center the auto
raster between active regions 26 and 28. And I getting
another mirror auto raster for that whole _rea and getting
both active regions at once.
CC PLT, Houston. We copy that. And we concur
it's - with you to do another S052 run there.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC And, Just so we got it straight here
on this, detectors five and six. Did I understand you to
say that you had been getting occassionally the can spec
alert light flicker on five and six and it quit doing it and
it Just started back again?
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PLT No, it has never occurred, to my knowledge.

I have never seen it. That's why I asked the question, because
I thought I should like I did on 3, 4, an d 7. But I have never
seen it come on when I put the detectors on. And it doesn't
now.
CC And - And you say, you are getting a flicker
on detector five now?
PLT No, I never have. And I'm not now.
That's why I asked the question, because I thought I should.
llke the other detectors. But no, I haven't seen it and
I'm not getting it now.
CC Okay. We copy. I think we've got it
now, Jack.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about one minute
from our - i minute LOS.
CC Skylab, we're back with you. We've
got about i0 minutes left in this pass.
PLT Okay.

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SL III MC-2087/I
TIME: 18:05 CDT 50/23:05 GMT
911517s

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 55 with a recorder
dump.
CDR Okay Hank.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
23 hours 14 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda. During
this pass Pilot Jack Lousma, who is at the Apollo Telescope
Mount discussed with the ground the alert lights he was
receiving at the console and display panel. He was referring
to the S055, the ultraviolet seanning polychrometer
speetroheliometer experiment, which has seven photo decector
units within the instrument and these alert lights are
connected with the detectors in the unit. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours and 15 minutes, this i_ Skylab Control.
Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 38 minutes and 50
seconds. This is Skylab Control.

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SL III MC-2088/I
TIME: 18:53 CDT 50/23:53 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

23 hours 53 minutes. We will have acquisition at Carnarvon
in 30 seconds. We'll hold the llne up for CAP COHM Hank
Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
7 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're about 20 seconds from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Guam at 09.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
3 minutes after the hour with loss of signal at Carnarvon.
Next acquisition will be Guam in approximately 4 minutes
30 seconds. On this evening's bill of fare for the crew of
Skylab III, their 50th day in orbit, Commander Alan Bean
has on the menu prime ribs of beef, green peas, macaroni,
and lemonade. Science Pilot Owen Garriott has lobster
Newburg, peas, biscuits and grape drink, while Pilot Lousma
has shrimp, pork loln, macaroni, peas, ambrosia and lemonade.
On this their 50th day in orbit since launch from Cape
Kennedy on July 28th. At Greenwich mean time 4 minutes
after the hour, we'll hold this llne up for the Guam pass
for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.

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SI. III MC-2089/1
TIME: 19:05 CDT 51/00:05 GMT
9/15/7s

PAO Skylab Control 7 minutes after the

hour. Acquisition coming up at Guam in approximately i
minute. Pilot Jack Lousma should be in preparations
of the performance of M092, lower body negative pressure
device and the Hl71, metabolic analyser experiment. Each
crew member is scheduled to perform this p_ir of medical
experiments 17 times throughout the 59 day mission.
CC Skylab, Houston throug_ Guam for 6
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'r_ through Guam
for 6 minutes.
CC And CDR, whenever you get a break at
the panel there, we'd like to - on panel 206 adjust REG ADJUST
BUS 2 pot 5 degrees clockwise.
CDR Okay. That's complete,
CC Thank you, Sir. The last one we did, it
wasn't quite enough.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Goldstone at 33.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
17 minutes after the hour. With loss of signal at Guam, a
relatively quiet pass with the crew of Skylab Ill as Pilot
Jack Lousma begins preparations for performance of the
MO92/MITI, lower body negative pressure metabolic analyser
medical experiments. Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is the
observer for this pair of experiments while Commander A1
Bean is serving another hour at the Apollo Telescope Mount
Control and Display panel. Nest acquisition will be
Goldstone in 15 minutes and 35 seconds. Greenwich mean
time 17 minutes after the hour, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2090/I
Time: 19:32 CDT, 51/00:32 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 32

minutes after the hour. Acquisition at Goldstone in 40 seconds.
With Science Pilot, Owen Garrlott performing the MO92/MITI
run. With Pilot Lousma performing the M02 - MO92/MITI run.
Science Pilot, Garrlott serving as the observer. We'll hold
the line open for CAP COMM Henry Hartsfleld.
CC (Garble) stations for 15 minutes.
CDR Need a little down-lin_, Hank?
CC Stand by and we'll see if we're configured.
CDR Okay, had it on the schedule at i0, I'm
Just - I'll be standing by whenever you're ready.
CC Okay, we - we won't be ready for that
for a couple of more minutes, AI. We - we have it set up
for Texas, which - we have an AOS there of 37.
CDR Okay, I'll Just cool it tll we get there.
CC CDR, Houston. We're ready for your
down-link anytime.
CDR Okay, (garble) for the integrated XUV mon.
CDR Here's another series.
CC We copy.
CDR That's two series. Did you want anything
else?
CC Okay, that ought to do it, AI. Thanks
a lot.
CDR You're welcome.
CDR If you're going to be here another - it
looks like about another minute, I can glve you some white
light coronagraph of - we finished up with this pointing.
CC Okay, well, give us a little of that WLC,
and then maybe a little H-alpha zoomed all the way out, so
we can see if the filament is still there.
CDR All right.
CC Stand by a minute, AI.
CDR Say again.
CC Okay, we've already turned the FM trans-
mitter off. I guess we can't get it now. We could turn it
on if we can hold on here. It'll take a 90-second warm-up.
CDR Okay, well, why don't you turn it on
and I'll whistle on over and give it to you.
CDR All of it's finished. I Just finished
shopping llst item 19, and so I'm goln E over there.
CDR We'll give you the best roll we can get.
CC Okay, CDR, we're warmed up again and
ready for it.
CDR Okay, my little WLC isn't warmed
yet but it's almost.
CDR Okay, you're getting it. I'ii do a little
roll for you in a minute.
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Time: 19:32 CDT, 51/00:32 GMT
9/15/73

CDR You_ll noticed that the corona in front of

the nice little glow to it down there - - you seeing it in
real time.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Well, we talked about this at the first
of the orbit the - if you'll notice down there at 4 o'clock it
got a nice big helmet in between 2 little _treamers and there's
a dark place - a hole right in the middle of that glow and
about 2 radius from the center. And 1/2 from the (garble).
And that dark area has not moved nor has the definition of
that area become significantly different it looks unusual but
it doesn't seem to be doing anything dynamic.
CDR I'ii roll it for you. Still there Hank?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Here's H-alpha 2, we're about 40 seconds
from sunset so I'ii let you look at that and there turn of the
reg.
CC Okay.
CDR Let me move down a little bit where you
want to look.
CDR There's a close-up. That's it.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
CC And Skylab, Houston we're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard in 58. And we're
scheduled for the Evening Status Report there.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
48 minutes: after the hour. Loss of signal at Texas. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in 9 minutes 45 seconds. During
the Vanguard pass Commander AI Bean is scheduled to give the
daily Status Report to Mission Control Center on the next
stateside pass the daily medical conference will be held with
the crew with Flight Surgeon this evening is Dr. Jerry
Hordinsky. Pilot Jack Lousma in performin_ the M092/MITI run
Alan Bean at the console of the Apollo Tel_scope Mount.
Observer for the medical experiments on this pass is Science
Pilot Owen Garriott. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in
9 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 49 minutes after the hour.
This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2091/I
Time: 19::57 CDT, 51/00:57 GMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time

57 minutes after the hour. Vanguard acquisition coming up in
30 seconds for the Evening Status Report from Commander Alan
Bean. CAP COI4M is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
8 minutes.. Standing by for Evening Status.
CDR 175, 147, 16 - 160; 6126, 0055, 6594;
6.241, 6.:!48, 6.240; 5.946, 5.949, 5.947; 6.948, 6.950,
6.9 foive 0; (chuckle) - that's 6.950. CDR, 2/33/5041,
3/15/Mark I, 3/10/Mark If, 3/05/Mark IIl; SPT, 2/25/4150,
3/20/Mark I, 30, A; 30, B; 30, D's; plus a 171; PLT, 1/05/0604.
He's not finished his exercise at the moment, and in fact,
he's getting ready to do some on 171 in a little while, so we'll
report it. 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 back-
bends. No medication. Sleep: 8/G, 7/G, and 6-I/2/G. Food
log: CDR, two salt pills, plus one lemonade; SPT, no salts,
add two ounces of water, peanuts, grape drink, and peanut
butter; Pilot, three salts, add four salt pills, and one
lemon drop. We'll give you the photo log later when we've
finished the photos here. Flight plan deviation: nothing,
it came off real well. And we'd like tomorrow's schedule
with the exception of a couple of items we've done.
And I think several of us have done 47-2D, and for example,
I think I have. And also we've finished that TV cable check-
out. And that's scheduled tomorrow, and I know it was too
late to change, but maybe they can come up with some - you
can come up with some possible substitute items. Shopping
llst accomplishments: TV cable checkout, cComplete. With
a open noticed in the coax center llne. We cleaned
S190 platens. Inoperable equipment: nothing new. And
unscheduled stowage item change: nothing new.
CC Okay, AI. The - on the schedule tomorrow,
that's the checkout on the TV monitor and cable. It's not
the same ,one you did today.
CDR Oh, excellent. Well, soon as that gets
up, we'll do it. Good.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you recall when you
did the 487 2-Delta?
CDR Hold on a second. I'ii check to make
sure that was the right one.
CDR Sorry. We have not done 487-2-Delta.
I did the individual one instead of the round table. We'll
work on t!his one also.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
CDR It's my - my fault. Well I did
it without being scheduled, and I thought since this came
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Time: 19:57 CDT, 51/00:57 GMT
9/15/73

up that maybe that was it. We'll get this done tomorrow.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 02:10, a little
over an hour from now, and that'll be the med conference.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll be waiting. Thanks.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 1
hour 8 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next acquisition
will be 1 hour and 2 minutes from now at Goldstone. The
Vanguard ]pass Commander A1 Bean re - gave the daily status
report to CAP COI_M Hank Hartsfield. Duriug the Goldstone
pass we'll have the da$1y medical conference. We'll - there'll
be a summary of that conference at the close of the pass.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone 1 hour and 1 minute from
now. At Greenwich mean time 1 hour 9 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL III MC-2092/I
TIME: 21:09 CDT 51/02:09 GMT
9115173

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

2 hours 9 minutes. Acquisition coming over Goldstone
tracking station in 25 seconds. The evenln E medical report
will be discussed with Flight Surgeon Dr. Jerry Hordlnsky
as the spacecraft makes this last stateside pass for the
day. At Greenwich mean time 7 seconds - _cquisition in 7
seconds with CAP COMM Henry Hartsfleld.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got you for 5-1/2
more minutes.
CDR Let me give you the frames remaining.
CC Go ahead.
CDR R-Alpha 4408, 56 441, 82A 14, 82B 95,
52 1291, 54 1181.
CC We copy. And we're also standing by for
the photo log if you got that rounded up yet.
CDR Jack probably does. He may read it down.
Let me give you (garble) piece of information. I was looking
out window number 3 in the STS a few moments ago, looking
at - as the Sun was down, kinda looking at the poles that
we deployed early in the mission. As you may recall, these
poles had ii smaller poles hooked together. When they were hooked
together by pushing in against a spring rotating and then
coming out against the same spring then they bayonet had locked.
Then we had a screw fitting that lock locked it, and then
we had a little rubber grommet that bumped up against the
screw. The nut anyway, it looked llke. It was knurled (garble)
The second one out on the one closest to the plus, correction,
minus Y axis, the little rubber grommet looked like it moved back
by about 2 inches and the lock lock had moved off to it's
fully unseated position. However, the pole's intact, every-
thing is just dandy. Now my suspicion as to the reason is
this. Those little rubber grommets are molded and they have
a certain position they llke to be, you know, they llke to
the first part of their top section to be interior and a
certain part to be exterior because of the molding. My
suspicion is that that one was rolled up next to the lock
lock where it wouldn't fatigue, so finally with all this
thermal cycling all of a sudden it just kind of Jumped back
to where it's natural interior diameter was the right
diameter, and it's exterior diameter, which was larger is the
right diameter. And I Just wanted to let you know. There's
probably some others out there we Just can't see that have
done the same thing.
CC Roger. We copy. It sounds pretty
interesting.
CDR It does. I couldn't believe my eyes. I've
been looking out there for a couple of months and looked at
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9115173

poles. They weren't moved. All of a sud4en today, it's

just popped out. And my suspicion is that it's not a problem,
but I think maybe testing and thinking ousht to be done about it.
The reason I believe that to be true is the original design
had no lock blocks or washers. We requested the lock blocks
and had them put on. We requested the washers and had them
put on. Also the poles are continuing under tension through
_hese new tiedowns, so my suspicion is even if they didn't
have the spring loaded bayonet, they couldn't get away, but
somebody wiser than myself is going to have to do some
thinking about that one.
CC SPT, can you listen up.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. Earlier today, I think it was
you that reported an anomaly with the SO54 not starting up
when it should have. And we've got all the MDRS data back
and taken a look at it and it shows that we ran two con-
secutive 265 exposures and looking at it we also saw during
the second one that the filter was changed during the run.
Now what we suspect happened is that you set your auxiliary
timer and forgot to change the C&D exposure setting from
256 to 64 which would account for the instrument not starting
when you tried to get your second exposure going there.
SPT I think that's a possibility. If it
had been in a long exposure or in a - or the run when I
thought it had already stopped, then I could have tried to
restart :Lt and it wouldn't start and I think that's probably
the best explanation for how it happened. And if I'd have
stopped first and then tried to restart it and then it
would have started that would have been a real malfunction,
but I thJ[nk you've probably figured it out.
CC Okay. And we're about i minute from
LOS now. We'll be coming up on Vangard at 34.
CDR And I assume the ATM back - the back
room (garble) is all powered down.
CC Okay. We'll glve you the final word at
Vanguard, AI.
CDR Okay. The 56 door is closed and the
power is ON. I assume that's how they want it. Is that
correct?
CC We wanted the door open and the power
OFF on to normal close out on that, AI.
CDR Okay. Somebody got to tell that to (garble)
CC Okay. What we are doing is turning the
camera power off and leaving the door open for X-REA data.
CDR Okay. We got it.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
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TIME:21:09 CDT 51/02:09 GMT
9/15/73

2 hours 213 minutes. We have loss of signal at Texas. Next

acquisition will be Vanguard in i0 minutes. Commander
Bean describing to the ground what he saw out of the STS
window number 3. He reported that the rubber grommet which
was used on the twin bloom parasol poles, one of the
grommets ]has slipped approximately 2 inches from it's affixed
position. He told the ground that he didn't think this
was not a problem, but he said somebody on the ground should
think about this. The twin boom assembly- the sun shield
was deployed on the lO_h day of the mission on August 6th.
It was deployed over the existing parasol which was put out
by the second Skylab crew. Next acquisition will be
Vanguard in 9 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 2 hours
25 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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S1.- I II MC-209 3/l
Tiroe: 21:33 CDT, 5J/02:33 CMT
9/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 2

hours 33 minutes. Acquisition coming at the Vanguard tracking
station in 40 seconds. This will be the final pass of the
evening for the crew of Skylab III as they conclude their
50th day in orbit since launch at Cape Kennedy on July 28th.
We'll hold the llne up for this Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab Houston through Van - Vanguard
for i0 minutes.
CDR We got a film report, if you'd llke it,
Hank.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay, 16-milllmeter Hank; first activity
was sunset: C160, 16; C152; ETC prep, for MI31; C161, 61;
C154; VTS track 31 and 32; CLO4, 54; HISI for MO92; 171;
C159; 05; C157; MISI for M092 and 171; C156; 18; C144;
35-millimeter; CIi05, 21, CX33; 23; CX27, 034; R02 this is a
ETC IR02; 160; by the way the PX27 was for 70-millimeters.
EREP, set, Victor has done 4 but the settings are 8578; 7915;
8791; 8785; 2328; 9648. (garble) AI, transporter 07, C158; 45,
C153; Alfa 2 is 05; C161, 61, C154; Alfa 3 is 06; C160, 16;
C152; Alfa 4 is 03; C159, 05; C157; back of the drawer is
C156, 18; C144. That's transporter 2, I believe.
PLT Hello, Hank?
CC Roger; we copy. And if we get the DAS
we're going to command SI.
SPT Okay, you've got the DAS and we'd like in
addition to that food log that A1 read down to you a little
bit ago, would you add one more orange drink to my meals for
the day.
CC Okay. We'll_ do. And on the panel
close-out we would like to - on SO55 have the lines stepped
to 33 and also we'd like to verify that the no-interlock
overrides are in normal and the main - high voltage is enable.
SPT Okay, understand and did you mean the
line or 1:he column to 33?
CC We want the step - mirror step to 33.
SPT Okay, there is both a row and a column
We can s1:ep it in two directions and I was wondering - normally
we put it on line 25, and column 33. I thought perhaps that
was what you meant.
CC Okay. Adam says that's the column he wants.
SPT Okay, fine. Thank you there Adam.
PLT You didn't get all of my exercise I'm
not finished yet. I don't know if I'ii do anymore or not
cause it's getting kind of late.
CC Okay.
PLT Maybe AI or I will read it down tomorrow,
okay?
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9115/73

CC All righty and SPT in answer to your

suggestion about using the Nikon in place of the ETC for the
cloud photograph - -

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SL-III MC-2094/I
Time: 2].:39 CDT, 51/02:39 GMT
9/15/73

CC All righty and SPT in answer to your

suggestion about using the Nikon in place of the ETC for
the cloud photograph th_ MRD does require that these photos
be taken either with the SLI90 or the ETC and we're in a much
better film position on the ETC so we choae to use that.
SPT I guess maybe my suggestion wasn't made
clear. What I was trying to get at was wQ could put this
Nikon in the window to tell us when we had the approprlate
target in the field of view of the ETC and then when we saw
for example clouds coming if that was the objective of the
pass was we could - I could float up about 6 feet above my
head and turn the ETC to operate - or to auto and I was
only using the Nikon to determine when the ETC was pointed
at an appropriate target. Over.
CC Okay, we understand now. We'll put that
in the happer.
CDR Okay, now say again Hank about this
night in1_erlock?
CC Okay, we can't see those on telemetry
AI, we just want to verify that they're in normal. And also
that the main high voltage - is enable.
CDR Sure is everything is like you said.
Okay. Powering it down again.
CC Okay. Good show. Thank you, AI.
CC Sometime during the evening we sent up
a pad reference and a cue card change for the M092 observer.
It was to do the M092 test number 2, and since that time
we've noticed that we did have a mission _n the pad
and I was wondering if we could read the correction ot that
now.

CDR Probably could. It's in the book. Let

me go
get the book?
CC This was on the observers cue card, M092
observer cue card.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, down the llne here you'll see after
main vacuum value open then re - recorder experiment i on right
after that we'd llke to insert calibrate to auto.
CDR That's a new one on us.
CC Well, what we're trying to do there is
get the leg-band cal data on the recorder.'
CDR We're trying to remember which switch
has the eal to auto on it.
CDR We never throw it. You want us to start
using that one huh?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR What happened to the same old way of
putting on both recorders llke we do for everything else?
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CDR Why don't - are we going to hold on this one

and let you think it over tonight. And we'll be glad to do it
in auto but it's different than anything else we've done and
so l"m suspicious of it just on that grounds alone. Not that
we don't want to but something's funny.
CC Okay, (garble) discussed it and we don't
have time to talk it over and get it up to you tonight, AI.
We will do that we'll take the suggestion and get you a final
answer on it tomorrow. A couple of quick questions here
before we sign off. For M518, can you comment on how long
it takes for the - for to do the terminations in ops in
others words is it still taking approximately 9 minutes
for the chamber to vent to i0 or to the minus 3 (garble).
PLT Yeah, it takes about that long and it
doesn't take very long to do the ops and the termination,
about the amount of time you've allowed for us is about
right.
CC Okay; we copy.
CC And we noticed on the tape once that
you've commented on the lack of hand hold - a hold down restraints
for use oi! the wardroom table when making changes to the
checklist. And the entertainment kit there there's some
magnetic card deck and card hand holders that you might be
able to fashion in some form to hold those checklists down
we wondered if you tried those or thought of trying them.
PLT We haven't thought of them but we will
and if we can't use them for that why the Big O can probably
think up a science demonstration (chuckle).
CC Roger; we copy. And we're just about
to go LOS. We'll say goodnlght to you now and give you a
call in the morning.
PLT Okay. Thank you Hank. And thank you
and your team for all your good work today.
CDR And how about Hank not calling us tomorrow
morning until we put i0,000 to the DAS is that okay?
CC Okay, we'll do it that way.
CDR Okay, thatll let Jack get up and do his
ATM while the rest of us snooze.
PLT Nothing has changed in the junior (garble)
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 2
hours 46 minutes. Loss of signal at Vanguard as Commander
A1 Bean suggested that he and Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
might snooze a little late in the morning. They'll put a
i0,000 on the DAS the dlgnltal address system which the
ground can read out and that means that the crew is up.
Jack Lousma will get up early and make a sunslde pass at the
Apollo Telescope Mount. Close of business day 50 for the crew
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of Skylab III. We have the Mission Surgeon's daily report

which is as follows: the crew reports no illness or injuries
after completing his regular MI71 protocol, the Science Pilot
proceeded to exercise at a higher rate and expressed that
he felt very fit even when reaching a heart rate of 180,
signed by Dr. Jerry R. _ordinsky for Dr. Willard R. Hawkins,
Deputy Director for Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center.
Sunday September 16th, mission day 51 for the crew of
Skylab III, has back to back EREP passes across the
contlnential United States. One pass crosses over the Houston
area test site. A second pass crosses the coast of
California over Los Angeles. Also on schedule for tomorrow
is a photographic session over Salt Lake City, and its
environs, this is a comprehensive photo session tomorrow
and through the subsequent 3 days, September 16, 17, 18, the
astronauts have been asked to additionally and photograph key
land marks to determine size and shapes of objects on the
ground. The assignment will aid the Skylab IV crew the
follow on crew going up in November, in recognizing features
with and without viewing devices such as binoculars. Skylab
I'II will describe weather patterns including extent and location
of of cloud layers and smog. They will be asked to describe
the effects of the sun angle as it relates to the ability to
identify objects; they will film and describe the selected
sites in and around Salt Lake City. Under study are of the lakes
in northern Utah, including the Great Salt Lake, Bear Lake
and a reservoir north of Odin, Utah. The crew will seek
to identify airports, cultural landmarks, directions of smoke
plumes agricultural features and geology. Geology studies
will include lava fields, a copper strip _ine at the south
end of the lake and the valleys east of the city. Skylab
also will attempt to identify and describe the 17 mile long
railroad bridge across the Great Salt Lake and also the
salt flats. Salt Lake City comes into view as the space-
craft passes over a ground track beginning tomorrow and
through subsequent days through the 19th of September - -

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PAO - - beginning tomorrow and through

subsequent days through 19th of September. The close of
business of day 50 for Skylab III ended as the spacecraft
passed over Vanguard tracking station. At Greenwich mean
time 2 hours and 49 minutes, the public affairs console
will close, will reopeD again Sunday morning September
16th at 6:00 a.m. This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean
time 2 hours 49 minutes.

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SL-III MC--2096/I
Time: 06::30 CDT 51/11:30 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 30 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. In deference tQ the crew's working
day off today, Mission Control will not call the crew until
we see a signal in the onboard computer. We could of course
get voice communications from them over a tracking station,
and if we do we'll come up and bring that to you. Skylab
now is about 20 minutes away from acquisition at Honeysuckle.
Each crewman has time in the flight plan today for a shower.
Each man has an hour or so of off duty ti_e alloted. There
will be two Earth resources surveys today, as well as 4-1/2 hours
of solar observation. Science Pilot Owen Garriott is scheduled
to televise a couple of science demonstrations. Those will
be video tape recorded onboard and brought back here later.
And the crew will hold a conference with scientists here in
the Mission Control Center later today. We'll come back up
when the crew gives us a call or when we see the proper signal
in that onboard commputer. At ii hours 31 minutes Greenwich
mean time=, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2097/I
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9/16/73

SPT Go ahead, Bill.

CC Okay, the solar activity update: Activity
has been low, two subflares has been observed, one suhfaint in
AR26, one subnormal in AR27, no X-rays were seen with either
flare, new region AR30, FP0/0/0 has emerged near 26/0.2,
P58 and P76 have been moderately active.
SPT Okay, we've got it. I do remember noticing
one yesterday which I called down on channel A over the
northwest quadrant, not where you called it out. I don't
know whether it's developed any over the night or not, but
apparently not since you haven't called it up with the
new active region. Go ahead, what else have you got?
CC Okay, this was the answer - this was for
the CDR in answer to the question on MO92 cue card change 2,
teleprinter message 5032B, M092 test number 2. And the
reason for the auto cal is that it simply gives a shorter
cal sequence. It can be a manual cal if you prefer it that
way, there's no great difference. Normally we use a manual
cal for the data processing purposes. Since we'll crank
this one through by hand, a short cal will be fine for it.
CDR Okay, Bill, it didn't make any difference
to us, we just wanted to make sure that when this little
procedure that was cranked in - it looked like a good thing,
once we deviate too far from the nominal accidentally, so if
that's on purpose we're game. Thanks.
CC Okay, Story's going to be talking about
these two procedures this afternoon also; won't bother with
them now. We'll discuss them before we get on to them
really.
PLT Say, Bill, this is Jack. My exercise
didn't get completely reported last night because it wasn't
finished. Are you ready to copy a little?
CC Yeah, Jack. We're standing by; go ahead.
PLT I did a number 2/36/8172. And
I need to have a tea with lemon and sugar added to my update
food log. I neglected to report that.
CC We copy, Jack. Thank you.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bill. And how's every-
thing up the creek?
CC Hey, it's raining but nothing too hard,
and the creek has stayed down this time, Jack, and everything's
going well and so forth; healthy and happy.
PLT Good news; thank you.
CDR I thought maybe you'd been burning Jack's
firewood by now.
CC Negative.
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SPT Say, one other thing I should report.

Last night I went in to take a few pictures of Anita's latest
effort and it turned out that Anita's no longer living. I don't
know whether it's because of - I expect - think it was because
of inadequate food. I don't know that she ever ate any of
those little pieces of filet that we put into the web there
or not. I have replaced the water, I guess, twice since I
put her into the cage, but somehow or other she didn't make
it through the last couple of days someplace along in that
interval. Now, what I intend to do is to collect this last
web that she's spun, and we can bring that back anyway. And
my principal question is whether or not it's better to leave
Arabella in the vial for the last week here - and of course,
I'm going to be giving her water today - ar whether to release
her back into the cage for the last week, whether's that'd be more
satisfactory for keeping her healthy? So you might get your
people to think about whether or not to leave things as they
are or to put Arabella back into the cage. Over.
CC Okay, we will do. Say, we need the DAS
here for a minute. And I hope you're coming up with some
sort of suitable memorial service there.
SPT I think we Just completed the memorial
services, Bill. And - why don't you take the DAS for 2 minutes.
We except - -
CC We're enabling dump here at the moment
on the DAS.
CC Okay, and the DAS is yours now; and we'll
have you at Canary at 12:44.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal. The next station is Canary Island in
about 44 minutes. Owen Garriott initiated a call during
this pass over Honeysuckle. We got the line up shortly
after he first started the conversation. We do have a tape
of the initial part of the pass and we'll play that back
for you shortly. During this pass he regretfully reported
that the backup spider, Anita, has expired. Apparently
Anita did not eat, and Science Pilot Garriott found her
dead in the cage this morning. We've got the tape of the
initial part of this call; we'll play that for you now.
SPT Hello there, Houston. When you fellows going
to wake up down there?
CC Good morning, we were letting you sleep
in. We understand after the rousing music yesterday you
didn't want to be bothered today.
SPT We just been working away up there for
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no telling how long, Bill, just waiting for you Euys to

finally take a look at our spacecraft for us down there
and come up on the radios.
CC Okay, we're standing _ we're standing by
here. We'll be around for about 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, I figured you'd be swamped in numbers
by now, Bill.
CC No, been pushing little HP pretty hard,
and listen, I sure appreciate it. There was a lot of good
stuff that came out. Story's going to talk to you at
the science conference on a couple of the things there, and
on some of the things we wanted you to run. There are a
couple of messages here for you if you're ready to copy.
SPT Go right ahead, William.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
CC Okay, the solar activity update: Activity
has been low, 2 subflares has been observed, i subfaint in
AR26 - -
PAO That's the end of the tape. We'll come
back up just prior to acquisition at Canary. At 12 hours
3 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2098/I
Time: 07:42 CDT, 51/12:42 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours, 23 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Canaries with coverage at Madrid following.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS ii minutes.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control with a correction
on the Greenwich mean time. Greenwich mean time now is 12 hours,
45 minutes. Some of the clocks here in the Control Center are
being changed. The map no longer reflects the actual mission.
A simulation for the next mission is being run in the Control
Center today in addition to this mission. The map and most
of the clocks will belong to the simulation world instead of
the real world. The S_-4 -
CDR (Garble)
CC Yes, I'm still here, AI.
CDR Would you check with the medical folks - find
out what - I wanted to ride that bike today for a little bit
longer than an hour. I wanted to ride it about 93 minutes
and find out what power level I could do it for 93 minutes -
My guess is it probably would be a hundred but if they said
50, that would be okay.
CC Wilco.
PAO Today's simulation is for deactivation and
entry and is being run in conjunction with the Skylab-4 crew.
The Flight Director for the simulation is Phil Shaffer. For
the actual Skylab mission, Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is
preparing to relieve Flight Director Don Puddy.
CC And Skylab, have a message for the SPT,
if he has any time or whenever it's convenient.
PLT First part of your transmissions are cutting
out, Bill. We don't know who you're calling.
CC Okay. Have a message for the SPT whenever
it's convenient for him.
PAO Astronaut Bill Thornton is the present
Cap Comm.
CDR Say Bill, I was looki_g at the limits we
had up here and I noticed it says you can go 1 hour for
12,000 watts which would be 200 watts or you can go 2-1/2 hours
- 22,500 watts and note 2 says "do not exeeed 1 hour continuous
operation" and note 3 says "when 1 hour of continuous operation
endured watts are greater than anticipated." I'd like to
go the 93 minutes at some lower levels that wouldn't bother
the machine.
CC Okay they're scrabling through their stuff
right now, AI. And we'll get you an answer in just a minute.
Sounds like might be a good time to get a big sweat sample.
CDR Well I'm - I want to ride it once around
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the world just to do it and I guess the thing to do is run it

at a low level. I don't think I could do it much over a i00 -
that would be a bunch of watts. Bunch of watt minutes - You could
do it. I don't think I can.
CC Hey, AI that sounds good. But remember
it's got to be those legs that you got to walk on when you get
back.
CC AI, could you take a _essage for the SPT?
CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC It was my fault, but there was a bad instruc-
tion on the BMMD urine measuring thing an_ I simply under esti-
mated your people's ingenuity. I didn't imagine that you could
get all three bags tied on at once. And it should have been
one bag at the time. They should're done a step to remove the
bag and then replace it with another bag and then go on through
measuring each bag separately that way. That was the intent.
And as I say, I underestimated your ingenuity.
SPT Weren't you happy with the way - happy
enough with way it was done though Bill?
CC Yes. The numbers look good. They look
very good, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'll talk to yQu about it in just a
minute.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC As long as you stay below 150 watts on the
bike, there'll be no problem, AI.
CDR You can count on that. Thanks.
CC We copy.
SPT Okay, Bill - I interpreted the instructions
to mean - -

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SL-III MC-2099/I
Time: 07:55 CDT 51/12:55 GMT
9/16/73

CC Are you still there. We lost you, SPT, on

that one.
CC Skylab, Houston. We';e appear to be LOS,
but Carnarvon is at 13:19.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid does have
loss of signal. The next station to pick up Skylab will be
Carnarvon in 24 minutes. At 12 hours 56 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2100/I
Time: 08:19 CDT, 51/13:19 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours

19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon is about to
acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 15-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder when we get to Honeysuckle. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC And if the SPT is listening, we've scheduled
a star tracker magnitude test for today i_ p_eparation for
the JOP 13 operations tomorrow morning. We'd llke to see
that done at 14:25 Z over Madrid during your ATM observing
time. And Just let us know when you're ready to work on it
and we'll watch. Over.
SPT Okay, it has to be done right at 14:25,
does it?
CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question
there are a couple of items that are pertinent. One is that
we would like you to do it over a site an4 Madrid appears
to be the appropriate site; secondly, there is a window
of about 20-22 minutes during which both stars are simultaneously
available. Also, owing to the magnitude of these stars we
anticipate that it will be a challenging test to acquire them.
And, in fact, the equipment may not be able to pick them up,
so we'd sort of like to be looking over your shoulder when
you do that. And I guess we'd be interested in knowing
if there's any conflict with this 14:25 schedule time you
have that we don't know about. Over.
SPT Wet11 make it a 14:25. See you at Madrid
and we'll check these two stars.
CC Okay, mighty fine.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to a short LOS here while we hand over to Honeysuckle. And
we'll be with you through Honeysuckl e for about 5 minutes
dumping the data voice tape recorder. Out:.

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SL-III MC-2101/I
Time: 08:30 CDT 51/13:30 GMT
9/16/73

CC Houston, back with you through Honeysuckle

for 5 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houstan. A minute and
30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 33 minutes through
the real Merritt Island at 14:07. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Merritt
Island, Florida in 31 minutes. At 13 hours 36 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2102/I
Time: 09:06 CDT, 51/14:06 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours, 6 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
the Merritt Island, Florida tracking station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island for lO minutes. Out.
SPT Roger, Bruce and I'm standing by to do the
D-4 calibration anytime you're ready.
CC We're ready. Let her rip.
SPT Okay. I guess you're looking at this in
real time, is that correct?
CC Negative. We have a simulation going on
down here in the Control Center today, so most of the displays
are tied up with that.
SPT Okay. Do you want this information on the
VTR then or - -
CC No, no. No, no.
SPT - - (garble) air-to-ground instead of the VTR?
CC No, no. Keep it coming per the Flight Plan.
I was just answering what I thought was your question, how
we are not viewing it directly in the Control Center but we
will be recording it on the ground.
SPT Oh, yes, you did answer it correctly. I was just
wanting to doublecheck to make sure I understood it right.
CDR Also Bruce, I just went through the monitor
cable checkout and the problem is obviously within table number -
serial number 3005 pen number I0.
CC Okay. We copy that the problem is in the
cable serial number 3005 and does that mean that you got both
monitors to work satisfactorily with the opposite cable?
CDR That's right and they wouldn't work. I could
make them work intermittently by moving P-IO around either monitor.
CC Okay and it - I thought you said pen i0. It's
the P-IO area of the cable that's intermittent.
CDR That's - that's right. I guess the -
plug i0 would be a better word.
CC Okay. Thank you in the absence of further
direction, I assume that you can take a great big piece of red tape
and put it around cable 3005 and set it off to one side some
place. Probably the same place you put the intermittent TV
camera power cable.
CDR That's a fact. I'll just hook it up to
the intermittent not - intermittent TV camera and it doesn't
work, period. So they're all hooked together.
CC (Laugh) Okay.
CDR We put something on the VTS a few minutes
ago with some dart throwing that looked like a pretty good
thing. But our rendition of it wasn't that great. If you
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want it redone, let us know and we'll do it. I think it'll be

interesting for the networks.
CC Okay. Let us see if we can get it down here
and have a look. We'll get back to you later today.
SPT Bruce, can you tell us how much time is left
on the VTR and if you intend to dump the t_pes before the 19:30
TV that's on the schedule?
CC Yes, we do. And 21.1 _inutes are on the
VTR giving you a little less than 9 minutes remaining.
SPT Okay. When do you plan to do the dump?
I think maybe we're through with it now. I don't have
anything else until 19:30.
SPT I checked with AI and Jack and they're
through wi_h it also so if you wanted to dump it, we'll be
through until later today.
CC Okay, Owen. We'll get going on that right
now. In order to get good high quality video dumps down, we're still
restricted to Texas to Goldstone type passes and it looks like they
will take us up until shortly before 19:30 Z to get it dumped down.
Over.
SPT Roger.
CC And SPT, this is Houstpn. When you have
a second, we received a report from the CDR this morning that the
H-alpha 2 1=elevision picture was coming in and out and as a
consequence he secured it. We noticed you've got it operating now
and wonder if it's working in satisfactory fashion. Over.
SPT That was Jack, I think. And yes, the
answer is, we got it back to normal. It w_s the same symptom
that has been exhibited from time to time.
CC Did you do anything particular to get it
back to normal? Like kick it or beat on it, or it just happened?
SPT Yes, but the procedure's somewhat more
gentle than that. All you need to do is zoom H-alpha 2
in and out a little ways and then it'll quit that.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Owen, in checking back on that, the word
I get is that when you turn it on, either it can be less on for
about 15 minutes and the automatic game control circuits will
warm up by themselves. Or in fact, as you _oint out if you
zoom into maximum magnification, the circuit will heat up more
rapidly and give you the same result. Over.
SPT Roger. We were familiar with that. It just
apparently turned out that Jack hadn't experienced it before so
he hadn't been familiar with that. But we've seen it here and
we - we all know how to correct it now.
CC Okay.
SPT I was just wondering about active region 29
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which is one of the new ones that showed up. I reported it

yesterday and it's been assigned a name today. It's definitely
developed over the course of the last 24 hours, particularly
in the XUV. It's now developed sort of a loop on the XUV moni-
tor, extending out towards the west llmb and I plan to spend
at least a part of my shopping list time studying that.
Also, it does look llke we've got some more activity coming
over the east limb. So, it's Just too bad we don't have a couple
more weeks and another roll of ATM film up here. And I - I
might ver_ well have another couple of weeks of very good active
stuff.
CC Okay. I find in my notes here, a statement
to the effect that the current plan is not to extend the mission
and we're 45 seconds from LOS at Merrltt Islands. Next station
contact will be in 8 minutes through Madrid at 14:25. Over.
SPT That's funny how that note never seemed to
get sent to the spacecraft but we'll take it under consideration.
CC AI, we'll have to check (garble) out. I
think it's gone up a few times before. And how did you spell that
city in Oklahoma again?
SPT You know, you're giving old Big E so much
publicity here, they might even invite yoy up for the grand
national quail hunt this year.
CC (Laughter) Yes, he'll probably have me
for dinner.
SPT No, there's no old duck on the menu. It's
all quail and pheasant.

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SL-III MC2103/I
Time: 09:17 CDT, 51/14:17 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab has moved out of range of the

Merritt Island station. Madrid will pick up Skylab in
7 minutes. At 14 hours 17 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours
23 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by at Madrid
for communications with Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes. Standing by for the SPT and his star
tracker test. Over.
SPT Okay, it'll be coming up in just a moment.
SPT Well, it doesn't look too good for Altair.
Has telemetry any better gimbal angles they can think of?
CC Negative, Owen. We're right on on NuZ,
and these angles are confirmed as valid. If you can't get
it go ahead on and try Antares. And incidentally, I gave
you some bum dope earlier; these stars are not in support
of the JOP 13 for tomorrow morning, but are in support of
the following JOP 13, that is the second one. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you. And how much time do
we have remaining here?
CC A little over 2 minutes.
SPT Okay, I better go on to Antares then.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 45 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through
Carnarvon at 14:58 where we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder.
SPT Okay, didn't look like Antares either on the
first sweep through, I'ii take a couple of more passes.
CC Okay, Owen, as you go over the hill here
we're going to lose contact with you, but we'd like you to
go back and try Altair again and then try Antares as
long as either the window is open, which is about another
17 minutes, or until you feel certain that neither one of
them can be acquired to support a JOP 13. Over.
SPT Will do.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Carnarvon will be the next station in 25 minutes.
At 14 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 09::57 CDT, 51/14:57 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Tihis is Skylab Control at 14 hours 57 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab nearing acquisition at the
Carnarvon station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for about 8 minutes. Over.
CC And for the SPT, we see the star tracker
shutter open at this time in the middle of the dump and we'd
like to get it closed.
SPT Okay. I had forgotten about the dump. I
was still trying to lock onto Altair and Antares. But of course
they - naturally wouldn't work because of the dump. I'll close
it now.
CC Okay. Did you have any success in locking
onto either one of those stars? Over.
SPT Negative. I was hopeful we'd have a little
more luck here at night, but of course with this dump enabled,
why there wouldn't be any chance to do that. There is another
chance to do it at night when the TV dump is inhibited say,
before we started Z-LV or something like _hat. It might worth
another try. Although I haven't noticed any difference in
performance between day and night.
CC I don't think it's worth any further effort
on this particular combination of stars. We've had some con-
versation in the control room since I las_ talked to you and it
may be possible to recompute the maneuver for a different
roll about the Z-axis and go with a different pair of stars
that are a little brighter and I suspect we're going to be
working along those lines. Over.
SPT Okay. That sounds great. Okay, I'll go
ahead and re-enable the NuZ update.
CC Okay. In reference to your question last
night for INCO, about the tape recorder dump that interrupted your
message to the people at Goddard, the data voice tape recorder
was dumped commencing at 03:20 plus 30 Z, until 03:25 plus 19.
So we estimate that approximately the last 5 minutes of your
message was interrupted. Over.
SPT Okay. Understand tha_, Bruce. Now, some-
how or another I
got a message yesterday Chat indicated that
by some other - oh, yeah - I remember now, They said they
switched tape recorders and that therefore, the whole message had
actually been received even though the tape recorder light
went out. Now does that make sense to you today?
CC Stand by, please.
CC SPT, Houston. We're going to look for that
information. We're not certain the exact configuration that
the system was in when you were making your message to Goddard.
If it's a high priority thing or any rush about it, probably
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the best thing to do would be to re-record it and let us take it

from there. Over.
SPT Okay. It was just a sort of a lengthy one. I
had talked along for almost i0 minutes there. So I hated to
spend the time to re-record that unless it was necessary. Now, I
did want to get an answer to that problem if they had some comments
before the end of the mission. So there was some priority
associated with it. I remember the wording that we used yester-
day and they said they had redesignated tape recorders,
if that makes it any more clear and I hadn't been aware that - that
would turn out tape recorder light. But yesterday was when the
message came up that the whole thing that I'd sent down on channel A
had been received.
CC Roger. We're looking into that. We will
be dumping the data voice tape recorder this pass and we're
looking for the CDR for a minute, please.
SPT Okay. He'll read you down in the wardroom.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. During your first EREP runtoday,
EREP 33, on the C&D pad, we would like to get some additional
monitor meter readings. If you've get your pad out, I can tell
you where and what we want.
CDR Okay. Let me get it. It's right up by
EREP. Hold on. Go ahead.
CC Okay Alan. At time of 15:40:36. That's
40:36 -We'd like to get monitor readings Alfa I, Bravo i,
Charlie i. And if Alfa i, and Bravo i are not on scale, we would
like Bravo zero and Delta 9 instead. Over. Copy, CDR?
CDR Roger. I was just writing it down. So that's
time is 53:40.
CC 15:40:36 on your pad, it'll be 40:36 and
at time of 46:00, we would like to get readings on Alfa I,
and Bravo 1 with the same alternate Bravo O, Delta 9, if they're
not on scale. Over.
CDR Just a minute. I didn't put that down in
the right place. On my pad, it would read 40:36. Is that correct
for the first one?
CC That's correct. MPC roll and control switches
to inhibit when someone gets a chance to the ATM panel, please.
CDR Okay. Now I got the one just then, the
first one, which you said 40:36. Now, give me the other one again,
Bruce.
CC Okay. That's 46:00. We want readings again
on Alfa 1 and Bravo 1 with Bravo 0 and Delta 9 as the alternates
if the former are not on scale.
CDR Problem is I had trouble finding the time by
the time you'd given the message. Now let me see if I've got it
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right. 46:00's the time. We look at Alfa i and Bravo 1 again.

If they're not on scale, we give you Bravo 0 and Delta 9 again,
or two different ones.
CC That's correct. And _here's two times
involved. 40:36 and 46:00. Okay -
CDR Got it.
CC Okay. 15 seconds to _OS. Next station
contact in about 8 minutes - about 4 minutes. Honeysuckle
Creek at 15:11. We'll call you there.

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SL-III MC-2105/I
Time: 10:07 CDT 51/15:07 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. There is a short

gap in communications between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle on
this revolution. The station at Honeysuckle will pick up
Skylab in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll continue to keep the
line up and stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for about a minute and a half. A couple Qf quick comments
for the upcoming EREP pass. For the SPT, we would like you
to delete the last ETC photo sequence at 16:02. We'll cover
it with the 191 DAC photos. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC And for the CDR, a couple of more comments
with respect to S193A. We're particularly interested
today in hearing if the ready light goes out at any time when
it should not, or if the altimeter unlock light comes on at
any time during the operation of S193A. For your information
the 193A ready light should come on when you put 193A to on,
and stay on until the end of the mode. But if you - we're
going LOS here it sounds like. We'll see you over Corpus Christi
at 15:41, 15:41 at Corpus Christi.
CC Skylab, Houston. Back again through
Honeysuckle. We see the TACS enabled, maneuver time loaded,
and they are both good. Over.
SPT Okay, that's fine, Bruce. And I've deleted
everything after the power off at 56:08 on my pad.
CC Roger. And is the CDR copying my comments
about the ready and unlock lights on 193A?
SPT Affirm.
CC Skylab, Houston, going LOS again. We'll
see you through Corpus Christi at 15:41 or in about 29 minutes
or so.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle does
have loss of signal with Skylab. Next station will be Texas
in 28 minutes. The first Earth resources survey of the day
will be conducted during this upcoming pass over Mexico and
the United States beginning at 10:39 a.m. central daylight
time. Skylab's ground track will enter Mexico near Guadalajara
and come across that country entering Texas near Brownsville,
will skirt the coast of Texas, go through Louisiana, Alabama,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York, up thorugh the New England states. Objectives on this survey
include sensor evaluation, volcanic activity, and thermal
patterns, geology, weather and atmospheric studies, land use,
and urban studies and regional planning. At 15 hours 14 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 10:39 CDT, 51/15:39 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours

39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab cqming up on acquisition
through the Texas tracking station and the start of the
Earth Resources survey over the United States and Mexico.
CDR D-Ois 9. D-9 is - 8. Looking for 41:46 for
a mode single. I'll turn the power off a_d recycle these
cameras. Okay? 41:46 mode single coming up.
CDR MARK, we gave it one.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. With you for about
16 minutes through Texas and Bermuda. Out.
CDR 42:40, we're standing by for a READY on.
Okay, A1 39 percent; BI, 44 percent; CI, 4 percent; and I've
read DO, which was 9, and B9 which was 8 anyhow.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Okay.
CDR READY ON, reference (garble) A to
STANDBY. 33 shutter speed MEDIUM, read A2 and C4. A2 is
55, C4 is 71. 193A to MODE i; RANGE 61. Standing by for
4330. Malfunction light to film malfunction on camera 6,
but of course, it counted off correctly while ago. MODE
AUTO on 190. MODE to READY on 192. Tape recorder looks good.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK LIGHT is not ON. MODE to CHECK.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the
maneuver time you have loaded; looks good to us.
CDR Thank you, Bruce. READY OUT on 190.
Stand by frames, 40. Standing by for 46, when I'll
read some to you. l'm cycling the power on 190. Okay.
PLT Okay, I got the first site.
CDR Standing by for A-I and B-I readout (garble)
PLT I'm checking the first site, Bruce.
PLT Scattered clouds down there. P05S, we
got right on the pipper. Green vegetation along the river
bank. Okay, now, we're going up to - beach.
CDR A1 is indicating 47 percent; BI is indicating
54 percent.
PLT Tracking the beach, Bruce.
CDR D-0 is i0 percent; D-9 is 8 percent.
CC Roger; we copy. Thank you.
CDR Okay. Last of the readouts.
PLT Okay, now, we got the third. We're in the
backup sight, we go to Mare A, it's in the maudrin. (garble)
the breakers off shore. Okay, that's it, we got it, Bruce.
CC Good show, Jack.
PLT First (garble)
CDR Sure it was right
PLT Okay, looks like it's nadir swath time
coming up at 4740.
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CDR 90 to AUTO.
PLT Why don't you take some data (garble)? Okay,
I'm taking data at - (garble) We're gGoiBg back to nadir swath
now when the time comes.
CDR 47:45 is A ON.

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