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Time: 10:47 CDT 51/15:47 GMT

9/16/73

PLT Here we're nadir swathing.

CDR A is on.
PET Not many clouds over land, Bruce.
CDR Altimeter unlock light is on. No other
lights except film malfunction 6. 48:20 mode to ready. 92
is in ready.
PLT Okay, we didn't get any cumulus clouds
over land. They just weren't there, Bruce.
CDR Altimeter is still unlocked.
PLT That marked the end of the nadir swath.
CDR Altimeter unlock remains unlocked.
CC For the CDR, is the ready light on the
altimeter still on?
CDR The ready is off.
CC Did it go off at the same time the unlock
light came on?
CDR I didn't, I didn't - -
PLT Just a second, Bruce, we've got something
going.
CDR Intervalometer i0. I didn't check it,
Bruce. I don't know.
CC Okay.
CDR The minute I turned A on, and the light.
CDR Okay, we're now is check, on 92.
CC We're with you now through Bermuda. Next
time you operate the altimeter in a few minutes here, we'd
like you to pay particular attention to both of those lights
if the unlock light comes on.
CDR Will do, will do, Bruce. Sorry.
CC How about another A-l, B-I reading?
CDR Okay, how about one? How about A-I being 39.5,
and B-I being 44.
CDR Going to standby here in a second or two.
Okay, standby right now. I'm going to come back on at 51:30.
Both are off. Both lights are off. Now I'ii have 45 seconds
to watch them. It's on, it's on. Ready light is on. Unlock
light is out.
PLT I think I've got Delaware Bay here Bruce.
Taking some data on the flatlands. When it gets to zero,
we'll nadir swath across Delaware Bay.
CDR Altimeter unlock light is on. Ready light
is still on. Both lights are on at the moment. That's the
way it was before if I remember it, the little ready stayed on all
the time anyhow. Now the ready just went out. Altimeter unlock
still on. Still the same. Okay, ready. I'm in ready
for 192. Ready out, altimeter unlock out. It must have gone
through its sequence I guess.
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CDR How far Off track were you for Delaware,

Jack.
PLT Oh, about 20 to the right. Okay, now
another nadir swath at 3:19. Ready to start. Okay Bruce, I've
got a site there 615A, I've got that one too.
CC We copy.
PLT Hazy down there, but _ can see it.
PLT I've got a little data on 425 too. Not
as much as I wanted because I had to _et off.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT So, in summary, we've got 305 south,
308, 307, 314, going to 20. A little bit on 425, and a good
one on 615 Alfa. Standing by for a swath, a long ways off. And
we got that nadir swath at 47:40. Although there weren't any
clouds down there, just a few little puffy, scattered things
now and then, and we got them anyway.
PLT Maneuver at 16:08.
CC Request another A-l, B-I whenever you get
a chance, AI.
CDR All right, I will in just a few seconds.
A-I is 39, and B-I is 44. And we go ready, or check, I'm sorry.
Check on 192. Standing by for A to STANDBY again.

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SL-III MC2108/I
Time: 10;54 CDT, 51/15:54 GMT
9/16/73

CDR A to STANDBY. MODE to 5. Range 65.

Okay. We got that. I'ii watch A when it comes on here again
and tell you what to do. A-I, B-I. A-I Ss about 46, B-l's
about 53 right now. 55:30 standing by for it. A's on.
READY is on. ALTIMETER unlock out.
PLT 16 minutes. Now we're out over the loop.
CDR ALTIMETER unlock on. READY on.
ALTIMETER unlock and READY continue on. When I called it, that's
when it came on. Right there. READY out on 193. ALTIMETER
unlock on still. Same sequence as last time. A-l, 40.
B-l, 44. READY light out on 190. MODE STANDBY. Shutter
speed to low. Frames 03.
CDR Going to blow too much there, are we?
CDR A-I, 40 percent. B-l, 44 percent.
SPT Sixty-one frames on the ETC.
CC Roger, Owen. 61 frames on the ETC. One
minute to LOS. Next station contact through Madrid in 5 min-
utes at 16:02. Out.
CDR Ole. Ole, amigo. Adios. Standing by for
59:50.
PLT Good (garble) today.
CDR Sounded llke it.
PLT Right on. Nnot bad weather down
there at all.
CDR The altimeter doesn't seem to be working. It
goes to a kind of a sequence and then it unlocks and that's it.
CC We think - we think it never locks on, AI. We're
reaching tlhe concluslon, though.
CDR Right. It just - hops around for a
while and then finally it says that's it.
PLT Got the right altitude in there, Hank?
CDR Well, I've -
CC Yes, it looks good to us.
CDR Yes.
PLT I know you do. I just thought it - seemed
like a little short. What's the numbers?
CDR - 59:50
PAO This is Skylah Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Madrid station
in 3-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the line up iand monitor for
communications through Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid.
With you for 6-1/2 minutes. You may get a TACS fired.
CDR Okay. We're going to go inhibit to the caution
and warning, then.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. It's inhibited. Yes, we appreciate
knowing about those; it saves excitement in the end. Right
in the middle of when we're trying to do this.
PLT MARK. DAC on.
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PLT Okay. There's scattered clouds down there.

Some big ones and some little ones. Underneath that is lots of
blue water. Every once in a while, we hit some clouds and
then every once in a while again, we hit some water - you
might expect. Looks like the clouds are gettinB a little more
predominate.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. For your information on 193, the
angles A-I and B-I should be 56 and 57. That corresponding to
minus 26 degrees and minus 0.7 degrees. These are not corre-
lating witlh the - the course angles that you've been reading us
off D-O and D-9 and we also see the antenna wandering. So
it's just - let's you know what we think the status of the
antenna drive is to the altimeter. Over.
CDR Sounds kind of grim.
CC Yes, it does and after you all start the
maneuver back at SI here at 16:08, I believe, we'd like you to
enter the maneuver time for the next Z-LV maneuver as rapidly as
is convenient so we can watch it before you go over the hill.
We've only got about a minute - a minute and a quarter
between starting a maneuver back to SI and LOS here at Madrid.
CDR I'll give Jack my pad and he can do it
right after he goes.
CC Okay.
CDR There is the pad and it's a 37 - 34 min-
ute maneuver time - 42 optional.
PLT Okay.
CC That's Charlie.
CDR No, everything's okay, we'll do it for you.
Keeps us out of trouble.
PLT 651. We're nadir swathing now we're getting
good cloud coverage. Just what we're after. Looks like mostly
high stuff kind of whiskey cirrus, (garble) and there's
some

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SL-III MC2109/I
Time: 11:05 CDT, 51/16:05 GMT
9/16/73

PLT - - scattered small cumulus clouds

underneath them.
CDR MODE READY on 92.
PLT We're almost out of DAC here, Bruce.
CC Roger, we copy. I don't know what we
can do about it in the middle of a pass though.
PLT Well, I'm thinking about for the next
pass. Actually, it says it says it's got 40 percent, but the last
one ran out about 30. I don't trust that little measuring
device too much. Last time it was full it didn't read full
either.
CDR Mode AUTO.
PLT Okay, 651 coming up here. Got some
cons down there we took data across too. Oh, my goodness,
we're coming over land.
CDR STANDBY on 92.
PLT Boy look at the cons down there. Wonder
if that's Ireland?
CDR REFERENCE 2.
PLT MARK. DAC OFF.
CDR READY out in 7 minutes it says here.
PLT Couldn't have been, we were (garble)
CDR MODE MANUAL 07:50. I've got to do a VTS
AUTO CAL.
PLT Be my guest.
CDR And, you've got about 50 seconds to
PLT (garble) amble back on this direction
here.
CDR 07:50. Getting ready to punch the SI
button. That England we just passed over?
PLT I think it's France.
CDR No, the water's too wide. I wonder
what it was.
PLT There on the map there it looks like
it was France; maybe it's somewhere else.
PLT Okay, (garble) coming up.
CDR A AUTO CAL.
CDR Got an SI maneuver coming off in
2 seconds.
PLT SI. MARK. (garble)
CDR (garble) _mib.
PLT Okay, now, Bruce wants to look at this
maneuver time. Clear, 52030, CHECK. ENTER IN clear.
50042, CHECK, ENTER IN clear.
PLT How do you like that, Bruce?
CC Okay, maneuver time you've loaded is
good. We're about 40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact
is Honeysuckle at 16:48 in about 40 minutes. And if you
run out of DAC film next pass CX08, Charlie X-ray 08, out
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of India 8 is the magazine to use. I suggest that perhaps

you want to put it in your pocket and have it on hand any-
way during the run so you can swap out if you need to. Over.
CDR Yes, sir. That's a good idea, Bruce;
thank you. India 8 for CX08.
CC Roger; out. And in passing for the SPT
as we go over the hill; we believe that we have his entire
conversation regarding a message to Goddard. What they did
is they brought up one of the experiment tape recorders and
got the voice on it that was dumped down Sater. We're trying
to track it: down and piece it together.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC And in that case, the ready light would
have gone out because he did not change the designation.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in 39 minutes.
The Skylab space station maneuvering back to the solar inertial
attitude now. Today's second and last Earth Resources survey
will begin on this revolution; the next pass over the United
States. The S193 antenna problem apparently still with
Skylab. This problem cropped up 2 days ago. At 16 hours
i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2110/I
Time: 11:46 CDT 51/16:46 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 46 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the Boneysuckle, Australia statioD. We'll stand by
there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for a minute and a half. We see you've s_arted the Z-LV man-
euver and the maneuver time you've loaded looks good. Over.
PLT Okay Bruce, we copy. Thanks.
CC Okay, Jack. And for you since you're
going to be operating the C&D panel this pass, we've got
a couple of comments if you are ready to copy.
PLT Let me get my pad.
CC Okay, we've got 1 minute to LOS. Next
station contact is in 28 minutes through Goldstone at 17:17.
For the CDR.
PLT Okay Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay Jack, we're going to operate S193
altimeter as scheduled on the pad this pass. Periodically
while it's running we'd like to get two sets of readouts.
The sets are Alfa i, Delta 9, and Charlle O. Second set
Bravo i, Bravo 0, and Delta 0. We'd like to get the readings
as a set for time correlation between the angle on fine and
coarse and the torque motor currents, Over.
PLT Okay, Alfa i, Delta 9, Charlie O, Bravo i,
Bravo O, Delta O. Right?
CC Roger. And for the SPT, the times are
off by 2 hours in your ETC pad. We figured you could proba-
bly handle that okay anyway. Standing by for the CDR.
CDR Okay, standing by for you.
CC Yeah, if you have to change over to CX08
magazine during your VTS run today, we want to change the
shutter speed to 1/60, that's 1/60. Over.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And I think we're losing you now. We'll
talk to you over Goldstone. Out.
CDR (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal after a very short pass there. Goldstone will
pick up Skylab in 26 minutes. The next Earth resources survey
is scheduled at 12:16 p.m. central daylight time extending
to 12:29 p.m. central time. That will be on this revolution
over the United States. The ground track crosses the Baja
California coast, and enters the United States near Yuma,
Arizona. lit goes up through Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,
Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and then on
into Canada and out over Newfoundland and into the Atlantic.
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Time: 11:46 CDT 51/16:46 GMT
9/16/73

Objectives of this pass include land use, cropland identifica-

tion, and remote sensor performance and techniques. At 16 hours
52 minutes Greenwlc mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC2111/I
Time: 12:15 CDT, 51/17:15 GMT
9/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours, 15 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Goldstone
acquisition and the next Earth Resources survey. We'll stand
by for the first communications through Goldstone.
PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. Charlie 4. Alpha 2 is
50 percent. Charlle 4 is 71 percent.
CC Skylab, Houston.
PLT (garble) READY light is on on the altimeter. 193
altimeter. The READY light is out. Notice I didn't know -
exactly when it went out. It is out now.
CC Skylab, Houston. With you for about
17 minutes - about 9 minutes through Corpus Christi and Gold-
stone. And CDR has a minute, could he peek outside and see
what the position of the 193 - 193 antenna is.
CDR He most certainly can. He can go to window i.
PLT Okay. 193 altimeter, I put on. The
READY light and altimeter lock - unlocked light came on to-
gether, Bruce and subsequently I don't know exactly what time
the ready light went out and Alpha i at the moment is reading
39 percent. Delta 9 is reading 7 percent. Charlie 0 is
2 percent.
CDR I would say the altimeter's centered in
roll, and pointed 45 degrees down from the X-axis towards the
plus Y. Correction plus minus Z, that is. So it's the same
thing I called the stowed position the other day.
PLT And Bravo i, for your info, is reading
44 percent. Bravo 0 is reading 57 percent and Delta 0 is
reading off-scale low.
CDR Did you copy first?
CC Yes, I did, AI. We're not sure we under-
stand you. Is it pointed out along the minus-Zaxls? Over.
CDR It's pointed part way that way. It's
halfway between the minus Z and the plus X.
CC So it's pointed sort of - at its 4 limits.
CDR I don't - I don't know. Because the other
day when it would move forward, it moved much closer to the X-axis.
CC Okay. We copy. But it's about 45 degrees
forward of a minus Z.
CDR That's exactly right. Once again, you've
said it right.
CC It's not a matter of right. I'm just
trying to make sure we understand what we're saying to each
other.
CDR No, that's what I mean. That's precisely
what I mean. We communicated -
PLT Okay. I get a 191 READY light here momen-
tarily.
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PLT MARK. It's on.

CDR We're now crossing Ba_a, California.
CDR MARK. There's the coastline. (garble)
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CC And CDR, it should're been pointing right
down the minus-Z axis. Did yon notice any motion in the antenna?
CDR None. It's stationary as if it were parked.
PLT Okay, we're going to go to ALTIMETER on
in a minute here.
CDR We're now crossing (garble).
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER on. I got a READY light and
the unlock light is out now, Bruce.
CDR I gather we couldn't get any true sites at
Phoenix. Is that the latest word?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO on 190. Stana by.
CDR Okay. Why it would're been awful close
anway. So I'ii just look out and watch them -
PLT MARK. MODE to READY on 192. Record Alpha 2
and Charlie 4.
CDR - and go after them (garble) We're now
in Mexico again, gentlemen.
PLT Tape motion light is doing it's right thing.
CDR We're out of Mexico and in New Mexico.
PLT Alfa 2 is 44 percent, which is a little
bit low.
CDR Phoenix is clear. I can (garble)
PLT Charlie 4 is 50percent.
CDR I will refrain from taking them though.
PLT Charlie 4 is 70 percent.
CDR (garble) is clear.
PLT And that's good for Charlie 4.
CDR Be a good day (garble) but I guess we
can't get them.

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SL-III MC-2112/I
Time: 12:20 CDT 51/17:20 GMT
9/16/73

PLT 24 is 70 percent, and that's it for Charlie 4.

CDR I guess we can't get _hem. We just passed
over the first site. I think it's number - -
PLT Are you ready for another set of read-
outs, Bruce?
CDR - _ 240.
CC Go, Jack.
PLT Okay, I want to give you Alfa i to be 39 per-
cent, Delta 9 to be 7 percent, Charlie 0 Ss reading 2 percent,
Bravo i is 44 percent, Bravo 0 is i0 percent, and Delta 0 is
off scale low. Okay, 21:46. Get the tape burner off here.
CDR Nadir swath.
PLT And 193A is running with the ready light
off and the altimeter unlock light on nowl Bruce.
CDR Looking for 22:50.
PLT MARK. Mode to check on 192.
CDR One minute from now we're going to be
in the right place.
PLT Tape motion light did its right thing.
CDR We've got scattered clouds, scattered to
broken.

PLT How are you doing down there, Big O?

SPT Great.
PLT Have you got your door open?
SPT Yes.
PLT Attaboy.
CDR 22:50 is what we're looking for.
Move in a little bit. I don't like to be pulled back right
now. It's hard to see anything down there pulled back. We're
looking for 22:50.
PLT Okay, that's pretty soon, AI, 25 seconds.
CDR Okay. Scattered to broken clouds. It's going
to be tough.
PLT I hit the cloud switch for you.
CDR Okay. I see the mountains coming up.
40. I've got it in sight now.
CC PLT, this is Houston. Request 193 A to
off and leave it off.
PLT Okay, it's off. And I'll leave it off,
No more readings.
CDR We've got this site. And we're now going
to take some data in a minute.
PLT Yeah, we'll scan it a minute here.
CDR We are right in the center of the site.
PLT That's the way to hit it, A1 baby, right
in the sandpile. Right in the sandpile.
CDR Went right in the (garble) Somebody must be
taking ground truth down there.
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PLT MARK. Intervals to i0. We're going to

go toready again with this little switch here.
CDR There were 32 of them. I'm going to find
the uniform place. Just hold it right there.
PLT MARK. Mode to ready. Malf light on re-
corder, tape motion light back on. Boy, I thought it was
going to stay off there for a minute.
CDR It's 20 degrees out there.
PLT Okay, do you want me to get the altimeter
to standby and on, right?
CC Negative. Altimeter to off.
PLT It's off and left off. Next motion is
192. Okay.
CDR Taking multiple data.
PLT Charlie 8 is hanging at 30 percent. Time
is already in. There is a little bit of jittering when you've
got the tape burner running.
CDR We're minus i0 degrees now. Everything
is running along just perfect. Minus 15. Then it's 20. Minus
26. That's it. Camera off. We didn't run out of film. Got
the site. Everything else is okay. And I've got to make this
mag at 29. That's just a little time to get organized. We
all seem to like the - -
PLT Standing by for standby on 192.
CDR - - time so we won't worry about that one.
PLT MARK. Standby on 192. Okay, at about
INTERVAL 20. MARK. Intervals to 20 on 190.
CDR I'ii go over and check the old antenna
again for you while we wait.
PLT Say Bruce, in doing the warm-ups on the
194, I put the switch to standby instead of all the way to on.
And I didn't catch it until about 05, and I put in on on at
that time, and then I waited around for the ready light to come
on before I did a mode to manual. And it came on after its
normal start time and so I did a mode manual. So it started
taking data after its calibrate just a little bit later than
was in the pad. So when this 194 guy looks at his data,
that's what happened.
CC Roger, Jack. Hey standby and on on that
particular experiment are exactly the same. It makes no dif-
ference.
PLT All right, just the light wasn't on. I
did a manual at the right time. So it's working okay then.
CDR Also I just checked the old antenna, and
it's still in what we call the stowed position up here. 45 degrees
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forward of the plus Z - correction, minus Z.

CC Okay, we copy that, A t.
PLT I remember that little piece
of data now, Bruce. Thank you for bringing that to my atten-
tion.
CDR Refreshing your mind. On clouds, you're
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SL-III MC211S/I
Time: 12:27 CDT, 51/17:27 GMT
9/16/73

CDR Two minutes I got to _o into the SI MODE.

PLT Right.
CDR You're familiar with the SI MODE?
CC Okay, about 30 seconds to a i minute
dropout handing over to Bermuda.
PLT All right.
PLT MARK. 190 READY LIGHT out right
on time, and we're at STANDBY. 27:50 SKIP 28 next.
CDR 27:50, that was it. 'We don't have to worry,
we got a maneuver coming off at 29.
PLT MARK, REF to 2 on 191. 194 _ODE to MANUAL.
CDR The last one may have run out at a different
time check because we were misreading it. Remember how we were
misreading them by 20 percent?
PLT What was that, AI?
CDR (garble)
PLT Did it run out?
CDR Nope.
PLT MARK, AUTO CAL.
CDR I think he's not in cQntaet, Big O.
SPT (GARBLE)
CDR (garble) we're coming by.
CC Send your message.
CDR How about the message we're headed for
SI?
CC Beautiful.
CDR Okay.
PLT Do recorder depletion.
PLT Do we have anymore 190 film to load up
here, Bruce.
CC Let me check on that for you. PLT, on
the 190 film, negative. We are on the last set of film.
PLT Ooh, boy.
CC Why do you say that?
PLT I was afraid of that.
CC Are we out?
PLT No, but we've made two passes with it.
CC Okay, well, that's - yeah, we're aware
of that and we're worrying that problem down here.
PLT I thought you were, I just wanted to make
sure that I hadn't overlooked some that's laying around
somewhere. That was consistent with my inventory as well.
CC Roger, and I guess we're standing by for
a report from the SPT on how may ETC frames he took.
SPT 40.
CC Thank you, Owen. And for your information,
the last EREP tape recorder tape load will be done this
afternoon, also. Over.
PLT That's the last one, huh?
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CC Yes, sir.
PLT Boy.
CC Hey, but also we've gQt a virgin tape
on the other tape recorder which we will _ry to use in
sequence.
PLT And you're sure that's the only other
one we got, huh?
CC Well, after you've changed it out this
afternoon you should have two recorders e_ch loaded with tape.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay, I'm waiting for a READY LIGHT on
191 to terminate AUTO CAL, 2 minutes and _ seconds.
CDR MARK; 2 seconds early on it, okay. But
that's all right. And we're going to go to stop now and
then we're going to run this beauty out. Now, the POST
checklist says to do this. Voice record B-7 to my friend
Bruce down there; and that is reading 31 percent. Door
CLOSED. Wait for the light. We're going to close this here
190 window. You will latch it when I get it closed, please.
It's latched - it's closed; and now it's latched. Very well,
Door switch off. Thank you EREP folks for listening
to all this. And then we're going to go up to headset, Bruce.

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Time: 12:32 CDT, 51/17:32 _MT
9/16/73

t'I,T I_ll don' I fai I to glve us a c_111.

CC Okay, Jack and we thank you For runulng
the equipment up there and in fact, all o_ you for running
the EREP passes so that we can (a) listen and (b) get the data
down here.
SPT (Garble)
CC We had a dropout there for a keyhole at
Bermuda. We're back with you now. We'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at Madrid. LOS in about i minute. Madrid
at 17:39, which is 6 minutes from now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has had
loss of signal. Madrid will pick up Skylab in about 3 minutes.
We'll keep the line up and stand by for communications through
Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 9 minutes. Dumping the data voice tape recorder. _Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. It's all yours. A few items
I want to mention. Was looking up on the - with a flashlight
up through the 190 cameras today. And you can see up in there
through just four of the filters two of them are too dark to see.
But I noticed on some of the inner lenses_ that that's something I
already knew all about. But it looks like there's a whole lot -
a little, very fine particles or imperfections. Or thing in the -
in the lenses on the ones I was able to see.
Don't know how to describe it to you other than that. It
looked like lots of little dust particles way inside near the
capping shutters but I couldn't see any glass in the lens through
it, though. So I Just thought I'd pass that along for info. And
one other (garble) item is I'd like to place a call to my
wife and family this evening. And the same for AI Bean.
CC Okay. Could you tell us which camera stations
were associated with the observed dust particles and stuff?
PLT All of them except for two filters I
couldn't see through, but I'ii go take a look to make sure
which ones those are. But, I'm guessing if I took the
filters off of those and looked in, that I would see a lot of
that in there, too. I did take one filter off to see - just
to verify that itwasn't on the outside lens where it
could be brushed away not sure which one it was and it was -
appeared to be on the interior.
CC Okay. We copy and understand you'd like
a phone call and the CDR also.
CC Is that
PLT Say again.
CC Understand phone call for the PLT and for
the CDR.
PLT That's affirmative, Bruce and we're checking
the main door right now.
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SPT Looks like I got a lot of time tonight, Bruce.

So goahead and see if there's an open pass for me, Also.
CC Okay. And I guess you're probably getting
ready to eat lunch and while you're at it_ we'd llke to serve
you up a little "Humble Pie" here with respect to the problem
with the tape recorders. As it turns out, we did not get the
last 5 minutes of your conversation put oB the tape recorder
intended for the folks up at Goddard. What happened is, that
you came into the range of a site while you ewre recording and we
should've sent a data voice recorder stop command. Noticed that
the recorder had not stopped and gathered from this that you
were recording on that unit and then designated - turned on
the experiment i recorder, which also records voice while we were
dumping the data voice recorder. We did not do that. We just
commanded a dump on the data voice recorder and discovered that
after the dump was completed, that you'd been recording on it.
So we lost that 5 minutes of the information you were
putting on - with understanding of the way the system works,
that we should've started another one is perfectly correct.
Over.
SPT Okay. Except I don't remember what I had
on when it came to the end. I'ii just try to repeat that motion
again. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Okay. The last stuff that we got runs
something like this, "and then the blue layer, and the whitest
layer above that and then black." I don't seem to have it on
this sheet of paper, hut at many times I felt as many as 3 or 4
of these played blue transitions above the first transition
from boring into the white. So these fans, as near as I can
tell, it - most of those are (garble) And they look very much
like that photograph that you provided us with. Now we stopped
seeing and if when you look around to your rightsay,
during the light scattering - End of Tape."
SPT Okay. I know what I was doing at that
point. I'll repeat that latter part. Thank you.
CC Okay. Sorry about that.

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CDR Are you in experiment pointing.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One and a half
minutes to LOS. Next station contact is through Honeysuckle -
through Honeysuckle Creek at 18:24. And for the PLT, we no-
ticed by telemetry that the cool light on the M518 facil-
ity has come on. At your convenience if you can go ahead
and start M561 early, it would probably help us out. Over.
PLT Okay, I think they must be a little disparity
with the telemetry there, Bruce. I'm watching the
temperature. The amps light is on, but the first cool light
is not yet on which comes around about 46 or 47, and it's
sitting at 49. Since you've given me the option to do that,
I will go ahead and make that change as soon as the first
cool light comes which will, I'm sure be a little earlier than we
had planned. Thank you.
CC Okay, thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Madrid has loss
of signal. Honeysuckle will pick up Skylab in 35 minutes.
At 17 hours 49 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Contro_ at 18 hours

23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Honey-
suckle for 6 minutes. Out.
PLT Heard you, Bruce.
PLT Say, Bruce, Just before the end of the
last rev after EREP we turned on monitor 1 on the ATM
panel and noticed that the image was oscillating slightly and
you could see horizontal lines in it, and so we turned it
back off and thought we'd give it a rest. And I just turned
it on now to start using it on our present ATM pass and it's
doing the same thing. And I was wondering if anybody's got
a little information on that down there, or have a suggestion
as to what we might do to correct it.
CC Roger, you're looking at H-alpha?
PLT Yeah, I'm looking at H-alpha i. If you
look at it on the right scope where it appears normally and
every other display on monitor 1 does the same thing, exhibits
the same characteristics.
CC Okay, are you seeing apparently a full
raster with a little irregularity or just a line across the
middle?
PLT No, it's a full raste_ and it looks like
lots of little black streaks sweeping across there at a
very fast rate. You can - they stick with the Sun very
readily, however although the - the image of the Sun -
it appears as though you're looking at the Sun from on the
ground. It looks as if the seeing is bad, I guess you might
say. It oscillates and vibrates just a little bit. And
then this oscillatlon-vlbration is particularly noticable about
the periphery as opposed to the center. It comes in and out
a little bit very rapidly.
CC Break, break. Skylab, this is Houston.
Roger. Secure monitor 1 until we get back to you. We
got 25 seconds to LOS. Next station contact through Hawaii
at 18:45 where we'll be standing by to start the science
conference; subject: ATM. Over.
PLT Okay, monitor 1 is the peculiar thing.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle
has loss of signal. The next station will be Hawaii. The
science conference will begin over the Hawaii station. The
participants here in the Mission Control Center in that
conference will be Dr. Story Musgrave, one of the scientist
astronauts who will represent the medical experiments and
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Dr. James Underwood of the Aerospace Corporation, who is one

of the Apollo telescope mount scientists. At 18 hours
34 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours, 44 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through Hawaii and the start of the science conference. It
appears that Dr. Bill Thornton, a medical doctor and one of
the scientist astronauts may be the one to handle the medical
experiments in this conference rather than Dr. Musgrave. We'll
stand by for acquisition through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
7 minutes. Standing by for the CDR and the SPT on the ATM science
conference and I got Dr. Jim Underwood of S056 down here to whom
I will turn it over now. Over.
SPT Okay, fine and let's hear from you, Jim and
Jack's in on this conference too, Bruce.
CC Yeah, well, we don't want to distract him
too much from the ATM.
SPT Well, at the present rate of experiment
production. I think he can handle both Jobs.
MCC Hi, Owen. On the first item on the agenda
is questions from you. The back room is copying so if you
got any questions, why don't you let me have them and then we'll
have a chance to think about them till Goldstone.
SPT Okay there, mate. Be happy to do that and
about the only question I might have would relate to your own
experiment, Jim. Do you think that there's been any potential
high temperatures involved in your filter cycling motors there
to cause any damage to it? Or do you think that - think that
it's going to be safe enough for the next flight? And also
looking at the agenda, I think that item number 4 can probably
be fairly short, unless it pertains to our next week's activity
and item number 5 on the pictures for return - I think we'll
try yo bring back all of the good ones since there really aren't
all that many. Over.
MCC Okay. Well, let me check the S056 item
first. I was going to get to that during the film budget but
I'ii treat it straight off from - 56 has plenty of film left, of
course. But we're unable to use it because the hang ups are
getting worse. We think what's happening is that during the
mode where the film is being rapidly transported, like in the
active modes - it kind of winds up llke a spring until the force
becomes too great for the motor to move it and the camera hangs
up. This happens because the film is drawing out and it gets a
bit stiff. And also, there's a clock in there which is given a
little bit too much friction. We find - we think that we find if
the cameras are allowed to rest, the film relaxes andbeglns to
unwind. And eventually, it's possible to move it again. Closing
the alrlock door lets the humidity build up and accelerates the
process of relaxing the film. For this reason, we've decided to
run only in building block l's and shopping list items using the
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single frame mode for the rest of this mission. This way, the
film gets plenty of time to rest between the exposures. We
felt that the continual reinltiating the Camera viewing the
active I modes when we had a hang up, would give excess motor
heat and then might possibly eventually result in a single point
frame failure. But I don't think that running in the building
block i and in the single frame modes poses any real hazard to
the instrument. Over. Is that adequate?
SPT Yeah, that leaves you a good point of it. Now,
in building block i, do you mean only in JOP 6, building block
i or any time JOP 6 comes along, would a building block 2 also
be appropriate or I'd appreciate if, maybe on a teleprinter
you'd be a little more specific about Just when you do want it
to run, and in the shopping list items. Also, the way you've
described it, it sounds like we might be better off to be closing
the airlock door more frequently and also to replace any of the
automatic modes by manual sequence in which we cycle in the di-
rection of i through 6 and not backwards $o to avoid the extra
stepping. Do either of those alternatives assist in any
way? Over.
MCC We got the - we got the JOP 6. It's Just
building block I we want to run and we don't want to run in any
of the building block 2s. We can get the synoptic data from the
shopping list items and we're particularly thinking about
shopping llst items 13 and 19 - the mini llmb scan. I don't
think if we run - if we run the - the only buildin E block ls
and the shopping list items, there will be no active modes.
There'll be patrol modes and I think in those patrol modes
where you run patrol long at the beginning and the end of the
day, patrol - patrol normal and patrol shortj the film has
time enough to rest such that this relaxing process would take
place and I don't think there's any hazard. So I think if we
run building block 1 as scheduled, that we'll be okay.
SPT Okay. That sounds fine Jim, and does it
also mean that the next camera is essentially a new ball game
and it could start out and be good for the whole budget the
way load number 2 was.
MCC That's affirmative. The camera - the
cameras that have the most problem are the ones that are being
tested the most and we expect that the reload should operate
the next camera has the least testing, and should operate
better than any previous camera.
SPT That sounds very good. That's about the
only question I have. Maybe A1 or Jack have something to add.
MCC Go ahead, Jack.
SPT Why don't you pick up the next agenda, Jim.
MCC Okay. The next - the next thing on the
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agenda was the folium coalignments and I Oust wanted to clear

up some of the confusion that apparently Occurred on that.
The first, there were two folium co-alignment scheduled earlier
this week, the first one seemed to indicate there had been
a change of more than arc seconds in the fine Sun sensor bias.
And we wanted to verify this and possibly identify a cause if
there was one, because the fine Sun senso_ has been stabled
previously. There is no real worry about the experiment as of -
about this because there was no significant change in the
relative alignment among the instruments. However when you
did the second folium coalignment, the 82 engineer seem to
think that you left fine Sunsensor bias switch in the IN
position during the second coalignment on day 255. However,
they figured out a way to verify that there was in fact a 5
arc second fine Sun sensor here and - the cause is not yet known.
They told me not to worry about it because the 82 people have
all the data that they need, the 55 is happy too and there is no
change in relative alignment, so essemtoa;;u - you - you can
do - consider that one as a - that they're happy right now.
SPT Okay, understand all of that. And I could
have very well left that - bias switch in on the last ones
and the only other thing that I'm a little - puzzled about -
I just prefer to be on 0932 instead of 0933. And if your -
aligntment numbers look down - look down there - if that's
equally satisfactory, I'd llke to switch back. I think we're
biased a little bit towards the 33 number on the basis of the
way the alignment procedures are written. And they're based
upon the 55 mirror triggering at about a Z0 or 15 percent
illumination point and - it's a small detail but I think 0932
is a little better. Over.
MCC Yeah. - It's okay to switch back. Right.
CC And we've got 30 seconds til LOS. Goldstone
in 3-1/2 minutes at 18:56 and I'ii let Jim just keep on talking
here.
MCC Okay, the second -
PLT Thank you.
MCC The next item is the flare indicators and -
the - the 54 people, especially wanted to _- were very interested
in remarks you made about the flare, brig _- the pre-flare
brightings and H-alpha and XUV MON. They'ire of great interest
down here. As Owen knows, Domally at Boulder thinks EUV precursor
to a flare is frequently indicated on some of the SSP data. And
54 thinks that they may have observed similar precursors on
X-rays on SL-II. And they are interesting scientifically
and also from the point of view of making an efficient flare
alarm system. So there is a couple of questions that we'd
like to ask - regarding these - so that we can perhaps train the
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SL-IV crew to - to look for these and help make flare detections
more efficient. And these question are as follows: Okay.
It's coming up to LOS, I'll continue at Goldstone. Ont.
PLT Okay, we still read a_l of that and (garble)
PAO Hawaii has loss of sisnal. Goldstone will
pick Skylab in about 2 minutes. And this science conference
will continue there. We'll keep the llne up and continue to
monitor for the Goldstone pass.

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PAO Skylab, this is Houston; through Goldstone

for 7 minutes. How do you read?
CDR LoBd and clear, Bruce, Let's go ahead,
there Jim.
SC BrBce, do
CC Negative' cancel the TV down link over
Goldstone. We're still trying to dump the video tape recorder.
Out.
SPT Okay, thank you.
MCC To continue with the questions about
the (garble) we'd like to know if the brightening seem to
occur before every flare or just before some of them; and
if they don't occur before every flare, about what percentage
of flares have precurrences? And - -
SPT There's really no way for us to answer
that well, Jim, because there are many of them and we just
don't observe early enought. And just because you didn't
see it doesn't mean it wasn't there, it may be that you
weren't looking or were distracted by the XU or the x-ray
increase, or regular noise burst, or your other activities
at the panel. And so just because we didn't see it doesn't mean
it wasn't there. And I was trying in the last couple of
minutes here to think of a really the bes_ way to establish
their relative timing, and I don't see any good way to do
it unless there is a lot more observing time available when
there is a high flare probability. And of course, that's
hard to justify when we only have a very limited number of
observing hours. But unless you're really standing around
in - near the active regions, or at least surveying the
whole bit with nothing to do but look for these initial
phases, I don't think we're going to get an accurate
answer to that question. Over.
MCC Okay, I copy that. The other question
is did you get any brightening which are false alarm?
In fact, did you get any bright ones whic_ are not followed
by a flare? Over.
SPT I would say negative. Anything that
we've identified is really these very small but very bright
points in XUV, has always been a subflare or larger.
MCC And the last question is then, do
these brlghtenlngs - do they merge into the flare, or
do they die away before it? Is it continous or does
it discontinue to process? Over.
SPT The one's that I have seen will start
as a small bright point and then the plage around that
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point will get brighter. But it'll be some time before

that bright point itself fades down away. And although
the plage surrounding it will get brlghteT, it'll never
come up to the intensity of that bright point, and it'll
also usually be the brightest point in H-alpha, but there's
much more contrast in XUV than there is i_ H-alpha. And
the - it doesn't just merge together, it _eally is a distinct
point surrounded by the brighter plage and brighter activity.
Over.
MCC Okay, thanks, Owen. ; think that information
will be really useful, for working out a flare for the
for the next mission then. The next item is the film (garble)
and I'ii start with 52. Fifty-two is getting a bit long
film, they have about 180 frames per day left for the rest
of the mission. General message which is 5036A has been
sent up, and this requests that the continous patrol be
truncated up to 5 minutes in building block i. Fifty-two
is coming down on their usage of building block 2 in favor
of shutting this item 17. And they feel that way the - the
way the JOP is written on the Job summary sheets, which
is a truncated fast scan taking 43 seconds is an excellent way
to fill in the synoptic program at a cost of only 3 or 4
frames per performance. The combined truncation of building
block i and the use of shopping list 17 will leave plenty
of film for calibrations, JOP 7 and coron_l transients, should
they occur.
SPT Okay, we understand that. And if there
are any changes to our building blocks or JOP summary sheets,
well, we'll get those by teleprinter, I'm sure.
MCC Okay, with regard to coronal transients,
they're very interested in seeing how the corona restructures
itself after the passage of the transients. And they're
very appreciative of your efforts in observing on every
orbit after a transient. They feel - feel sure you've
got them some good data because the Skylab-ll data shows
that the corona undergoes major reorganization after transients.
One question that Jack (garble) and the guys in 52 had was
they're interested in this dark space that AI saw between
the helmet stream of yesterday. Is there anymore comments
on - on - on that that you can let us have? They'd llke to
know how long - how long it was and how long it lasted;
whether you saw it fade away or anything llke that.
CDR Jack saw it on the previous orbit; I
saw it on the next orbit and called him up and asked him
to look at the shape that the corona didn't- they had a shape
that I felt was unusual he looked at it and said it was
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the same he pointed out the dark spot. I looked at it at the

end of the orbit and it was the same dark spot and in the
next orbit we talked about it and I looked at it at the end
of the orbit we still there and I believe that was the last
time I was on. It was a strange one and it Just seem to
stay at the same point in the corona. It was just much more
bright from about 1-1/2 radius out to about 3 and then after
that it faded away, I mean the envelope of white surrounding
the dark.
PLT This is Jack talking. It was difficult
to distinguish it from just the vent helmet streamer although
I - it was very marginal as to whether as to how it was
anything significant a_d what we winded on the first orbit
there was to glve you three fast scans one at the beginning
one in the middle and one at the end of the orbit and it was
about that time I think - I think that Hank called up and
wondered if we'd seen anything in the past 10 minutes in the
corona and that was the only thing that I could call to -
that I could think of that might be different although it was
so marginal I thought it could have been my imagination but I
felt we had it pretty well covered with the photography that
we took and then like A1 said he watched _hereafter.
MCC Okay, thank you gents surely the 52 guys
will be interested in what you told them there. Now go on
with the film (garble) for 54, 54 is - you know low on film
and their operating in the synoptic and certain selective
Jops. They're also keeping some film for calibration they're
trying to fill out their synpotlc program at bit with extra
building block 2s. As for SL82, 82 - 82B film is being mainly
used for the mini- minillmb scans and a just - -
CC Thirty seconds tll LOS. Our next station
contact 4.-1/2 minutes Bermuda at 19:07.
SPT Okay, I think we're up to date on the film
on 82 there Jim, so low now we can see pretty well where we're
headed.
MCC Okay, I was just going to give you a little
bit of the science that they've been getting they see interest
of spectrums of the chromospheric in homogenlety of about 12
arc seconds above the limb and a mini llmb scan is a short way
they've come up with to get data of different reasons on the
llmb. And 82B people are very please about the way the mini
llmb scan program is going on shopping llst item in general.
Okay let's move on to XUV monitor artifacts, I'ii just - you
surely discovered these for yourself but there are two artifacts
of blemish on the monitor. Okay, that's it.
PAO This is Skylab Control; we've had loss of
signal at Bermuda. Madrid will pick up Skylab in abo_t 3-1/2
minutes. We will continue to keep the llne up, monitor for the
continuation of this Science Conference at the Madrid station.

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PAO Correction, that was _OS at Goldstone,

and Bermuda will be the next station in about 3 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab about
45 seconds away from acquisition through Bermuda and Dr.
Story Musgrave has arrived in the Mission Control Center
now and will be the one to conduct the medical experiment
science conference.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 7 minutes. We've got a l-minute keyhole 2 minutes into
the pass and I'ii give it back to Jim.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
MCC Okay, we're up to XUV monitor artifacts
and as I said, you've got two artifacts that we've discovered
on the monitor. One, you should be able to see, appears at
about 170 degrees 0.60 solar radius. It's a bright spot. It's
about 5 arc-mlnutes in diameter and it could be possibly
mistaken for a plage if you didn't know it was there. There's
also a dark spot which we can see on the integrated XUV
mon, but which you might not be able to see. This one's at
250 degrees 0.9 solar radius. It's quite possible that there
may be others which we haven't picked up and some may appear
as time - as time goes on. They'll stay with - they'll -
They'll stay with the canister when you roll, of course,
and that way you can distinguish them from real solar features.
We're in a keyhole.
SPT Okay, we've got you. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, do you - do you - are you familiar
with what I'm talking about? Those artifacts have you picked
them up?
SPT No, as a matter of fact, I wouldn't have
identified them and I'll take another look the next time
we're up there.
MCC Okay, that's - we'll go on to the 55
results. They've got some pretty interesting results from
sunspots and flares. Sunspot observations. 55 observations
of the sunspot in active region 12 on mission day 41 gave
some real interesting results which we can summarize as
follows: the li - the lines in continual which have formed
below i0 to 5 degrees Kelvin are dark in the spots, while
the surrounding plage is bright. In - the lines I'm talking
about include the lines of Kelvin 2 and Kelvin 3 in the line
of continuum. The lines which have formed in the transition
region, such as oxygen 6 at 1032, and neon 7 at 465 angstroms
they're bright in the spot with oxygen sprouting from the
interior of the spot. And the coronal lines like magnesium
i0 at 625 and silicon 12, they're dark in the spots and the
arches sprout from the edge of the spot. And_ of course,
the coronal lines are formed at temperatures that are over
a million degrees. And there's a sunspot brightening.
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The - this is one JOP you did on your own there, Owen. They
got some interesting results on that. There was some short-
term brightenings near the sunspot in actSve region 12 on
mission day 41. We gave them i0 minutes of MLS in line 9
about 50 minutes from the center of sunspot and it shows
very small scale of less than 5 arc-seconds brightening,
a factor two about the ambient for periods of 30 to 40 seconds.
The brightenings occur simultaneously in oxygen 6, 1032,
which has formed around 3 times i0 to 5 degrees Kelvin.
Kelvin 3977 angstrom which is formed around 9 times temps of
4 degress Kelvin, and oxygen 4 at 554 which is around 2 times
temps of 5 Kelvin. The brightenings are not periodic and
they seem to be too far from the sunspots to be (garble)
flashes. There are only two brightenings within the 10-
minute observing period. No brightenings observed in Kelvin
2 1336, Lyman-alpha, Lyman continuum or magnesium i0. Clearly
more observ - observations analysis are needed such as -
CC You're letting up on it
MCC At this point I'd like to relay a mes-
sage from 55. They say that if you do - muf - mirror line
scan to give them at least i0 minutes of - I beg your pardon,
if you give them mirror line scan, 5 minutes of mirror line
scan is - is not really very useful, they'd prefer to have
a truncated rastor. If you longer than 5 minutes, like 5
to i0 minutes of mirror line scan, is much more useful and
for a longer period. That way they get continuity. Over.
SPT Okay, I understand that, and we'll have
to spend a little time digesting all you've given us when
we get back, so go ahead and do the next one.
MCC Okay. The next is the flare which
occurred in active region 09 on mission day 40, it was
observed by the Science Pilot during cycle 609 and 610.
The intensities in oxygen 6 at 1032 and oxygen carbon 3 977was
sufficiently high to cause overflows in the detectors 3 and
4. During the brightest phase of these observations, I saw
horizontal velocities of about - horizontal motions of about
i0 arc seconds and velocities on the order of 62 kilometers
per second. There needs to be more analysis on that before
we can give meaningful conclusions, they say. And there
was a C6 flare on mission day 38 and they see real rapid
changes in the loop structures in that in the oxygen 6 and
1032 line and the carbon 3 line, and the two rasters that
they did on that were separated by about 16 minutes. And
finally they have an item here on spicules, time variations
of about 2 - on the order of 2 minutes for the appearance of
- disappearance of really small scale, about i0 arc second
features, just rising and falling spiculum material in
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helium above the limb. I guess that's all on 55 results.

Have you got any comments on that, Owen? Over.
SPT No. I think on SO5 that we might have
a chance to do some more on brights spots and that sort of thing
in this last week, because S055, of course, we'll be concentrat-
ing on since there's no film limit there, so we'll keep all
that in mind as we work this last week here. The spiculi
business, I think we ought to talk about after we get back.
Why don't you go ahead then.
CC One minute til LOS. Canary at 19:16.
MCC What comment did you _ave on item 4 there,
Owen?
SPT Okay. I don't think we need to talk
much about item 4 unless it's something that pertains to our
last weeks observation here. Go ahead.
MCC Well, I think - if you don't want to
talk about item 4, then that essentially does it except
for the Polaroid pictures. We just wanted you to pick out
the ones that you thought were going to be useful, so that
we could use them for determining the quality of the monitors
and the (garble) of features and changes which you can detect.
Any other items you might find interesting, and which the
SL IV crew might find interesting.
SPT I still have (garble) is good.
MCC Okay. I guess that's all, Owen. I'ii
hand you back to CAP COMM.
CDR I got a question. What do you anticipate
we're going to do with 52 on EVA, as far as removing that
(garble) and if we're going to do anything with any of the
doors?

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CDR - - the question. What do you anticipate

we're going to do with 52 on EVA as far as removing that
(garble) and we're going to do anything with that any of
the doors.
MCC They can answer that - the Flight
Directors said they can answer that one. So I'ii turn you over
to them.
CC Okay, A1, right now our plan is not to
do anything with the doors and we'll have further updates
for you on that and we're working the S052 problem.
SPT Glad to talk with you Jim, and tell the
rest of the fellows h_llo.
MCC Okay , thanks Owen.
PLT Don't press too (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has loss
of signal. Canary station will pick up Skylab in about a
minute and a half. We'll keep the line up, continue to stand
by.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, there, Story. Go ahead.
CC Okay, on the BMMD urine measurement we
did intend to use just one bag at a time on that.
SPT That's what Bill said this morning. Now
I had the impression that the protocol that I used was
equally satisfactory was that to optomistic, or not?
CC Did you put all three bags in one thing,
Owen?
SPT That's right one and then added another
one and then added the third and did it f,ust the way the up-link
message read I believe.
CC Okay, it maybe if there's no slop in the
bags it certainly ought to turn out all right. What our
intend was was i bag at a time, restrained in the box and
to get each bag. What you'v've done it will probably be fine.
SPT Okay, I could see no greater increase
in the scatter - the DD standard deviation I would guess was
about the same either way. So I don't think there was much
light.
CC Okay, and have y'all had a chance to look
over the blood flow experiment yet? That's pumping the blood
pressure cup up on the leg to 30 millimefers?
SPT No, we've looked at it, we've not tried
it.
CC Okay, now we're going to schedule that
later and the principle involved is that the blood pressure
cuff stops all venous outflow until the venous pressure
gets up to 30 millimeters and we can take a look at the
flow into the leg that'll be a measurement of blood flow into
the leg it's changing volume.
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SPT Okay, I'ii be happy to give it a try.

CC And on the muscle contractions there,
we'd llke to make that isometric to avoid as much movement
as possible just tense the leg without any ankle movement at
all and this will give us an idea of the effectiveness of the
muscle pumps switch which you are pumping blood out of the leg.
SPT I was noticing there was only just 2 or
3 seconds, are you sure that's enough to get something
measureable or if it's not anything noticable that you wanted
say - a longer period.
CC No that's plenty 2 seconds will be fine.
SPT Okay.
CC And a couple of more questions on the
BMMD here. On the last cal I've got a question I've got a
questions did you use two 6 inch strip. Was both those put
on the first food tray?
SPT That's correct. It was just the way I
read it on the tape interpreted - interpreted literally,
the first tray had tape already on it so I just left it there
and then was no more tape added to the rest of course the
tape remained on the first tray.
CC Okay, and did you use 2 (garble) on each
food tray?
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay, fine, any more repeatability type
measurements or insensability loss or zero mass it will be
appreciated by Bill.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC Moving on to SL2 data. You've got most
of that already I'ii just get you up to speed on things
we haven't discussed before. They did show a loss of calicum
phosphorus nitrogen and potassium very similar to what you see
during bed rest. The MO78, that's a bone (garble) that
we didn't show any losses - bone density at all and they'll
be very interested in seeing what y'all show.
SPT Okay, we hope it's the same.
CC And in terms of the force veolcity (garble)
did Bill get a - generated with a (garble). There's no
change at all with the arms, reflections or extension no
change in flects of the legs but a 30 percent decrease in
extension of the legs.
SPT I - - I don't know how to interpret that
but I guess Bill does.
CC My interpretation is that you're probably
pulling up with the legs on the ergometer quite a bit and that
way you're protecting the flextion muscles, he doesn't agree
with me though.
SPT I think that's a real good point as a matter
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of fact AI is the one who first I think developed a technique

that (garble) or what every you call it a torguing on the
upstroke and I thinks that's an enlarged measuring possible
for our improved workload up here, in IG_ at least I never
(garb;e) never put any torgulng on the upstroke but here we have
to for several reason_ and I think that could very well be
exactly what you say.
CC Okay, and MI51 that we haven't discussed
before it got some very interesting data on SL II. It shows
that almost every tasks the first time you run it it took a
lot more time the second time you ran it and most of those
occurred right on around mission day 7 to 10, the second time
it closely approached or got slightly ahead of preflight time
and usually off casts the time that they were done for the
third time it was a little more rapid than preflight.
SPT That's sounds reasonable.
CC And it was a few things like putting
VCG sensors on y'all probably found it out yourselves they
took about 3 times longer the first time and they never really
did get to preflight because of lack or restraints of the
observer and that of course is due in the WMC foot restraints
and think you probably fou_ the same thing.
SPT My guess is that the times are about the
same because the observer, or at least the way I do it is
I keep one foot on the outside in the wardroom and I think
it goes just about the same speed myself.
CDR I'ii tell you another thing we found out.
You can get those tape (garble) those little (garble) if
you don't try to treat all of them the same, by that I mean
don't say from now on out I'm going to blot all of them or l'm
going to put them in wet or whatever, the techniques we've
been using had real good luck with lately is to put the
sponge in and before you take off the cover off the (garble)
is you push down on it with your finger and just almost to
the level with the little seat and as stuff squirts out it's
pushed out on top of the protector and you can clear it off
and then when you put it on your body it doesn't squirt that
stuff out all over you yet it doesn't take away exesslve
moisture from the sponge sort of a-close look check itts been
working real well.
CC Okay, thanks AI. And one more comment,
MI51 the inflight data is a lot regular or a lot more smoother
than the preflight data in which many more interruptions and
that sort of thing occured.
PLT Okay.
CDR My guess is we're getting a lot faster
than preflight just because we're do it every 3 days instead
of once every 3 weeks.
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CC Yeah, that's another excellent point

and another bit of data you can add to that if you - you're
using your watch if you got some tranisent times to and from
different places in the workshop like from the wardroom to the
command module and that - that'll be very much appreciated.
CDR Wardroom to command module is 15 seconds
max speed.
CC Okay, copy. And that's of course about
four or five times faster than with S - -
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9116173

CC - - and that - that will be very much

appreciated.
CDR Wardroom to command mQdule is 15 seconds
max speed.
CC Okay. Copy. And that's of course about
4 or 5 times faster than was estimated prefight.
PLT Yeah, but that is max speed, he said, to
remember.
CDR I would say that I'll measure some typical
ones but one of the things that's also aided that's up here is
we get around so much faster than you'd think. To any - to a
stowage item and to get back and forth you really_ can move
out.
CC Okay. If you can time some of those, for
sort of a nominal transit, that would be good and some of the
other distances, too, llke experiment compartment to MDA and
the alike.
CDR Will do it.
CC Okay. A quick summary of where you all stand
here today. Your weights, of course, have been stable since about
mission day i0. In fact it really - turned up a little bit
now and you're eating enough to hold them right there.
SPT Okay. We watch that every day, of course.
CDR My feeling is, Story, if they wanted us
too we can just gain like crazy up here or lose - you're sort
of in a balanced condition, you can eat more. I'm hungry sometimes
and I Just don't eat because I know I'm not suppose to gain
weight.
CC Okay. And people are happy just with what
you're doing right now.
SPT Okay.
CC And we're one minute to LOS. We'll pick
you up over Honeysuckle at 20:01 be dumping the tape recorders
there. And I'ii keep talking.
SPT Hey, Story, how about the reflex velocities,
have you had a chance to look at that yet?
CC Okay, I havenVt reduced the data, but -
you carried it off perfectly. You did it as good as you could
and if the data can be reduced, it will be.
SPT Okay, that's all I need to know. Thank you.
CC Your mean calf girds went down about 6 percent
the first 10 days and in about two weeks it was down to 7 - 7-1/2
per cent and it hasn't changed since.
SPT Which is that?
CC That's the - the leg measurements. The
calf girds.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC Could you make some - could you respond
some to any tenasetic reponses you get to the M092. Does it in
anyway represent a tilt to you?
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SPT No, I don't - never notice any impression

llke that at all, but incidently we've been more or less logging
the - calf circumferences as we do our 92_s and it looks to me
like we're still on - on a steady down trend.
CC Okay. We're not showing that down here.
SPT That's a puzzle. We keep writing them right
on the side of the LBNZ and all of these numbers are still
decreasing.
CC Okay. Let me take a look at that.
In summary, on the M092, everything is pretty stable here, we
think all the aborts that we have were either due the things llke -
dehydration or or - complicated by motion sickness or secondary
to discomfort on the saddle.
SPT Yeah, we agree, that was a long time ago, except
for one which is a - meal interference so - actually our heart
rates look to the lowest that we've seen for the whole flight
to me.
MCC Yeah, you r actually improving there and we're
going over the hill, I'ii see you at Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 19 hours
27 minutes. Loss of signal at Canary, ne_t acquisition will be
Honeysuckle in 33 minutes 50 seconds at the Vanguard pass. Canary
pass, discussions on the science briefing with Science Astronaut
Dr. Story Musgrave detailing the briefing on the medical aspects
of the previous week's activities with the crew of Skylah-III.
Next acquisition in 33 minutes at Honeysuckle. At Greenwich
mean time, 19 hours 28 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 15:01 CDT 51/20:01 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

20 hours. Acquisition coming up at Honeysuckle in 20
seconds. We'll leave the line up for CAM COMI4 Bruce
McCandless.
CC Skylab. AOS Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CDR Speak up.
CC Okay. Finishing up with M092, if possible
we'd like you to stay away from that vent - stay away from that
at least two hours after eating.
CDR We read.
CC Okay. And in summary, your responses to
the LBNP are sllghtly better than the SL II crew.
SPT Looked to us like our responses to the
LBNP is down very close to the ground level baseline, if
not even a little bit better in a few cases.
CC That's correct. It's right there. And
could you comment on any subjective responses to the M092 that
you notice that were different from the preflight.
SPT Well, in my own case, I can always tell
that there's a shortage of blood in my upper torso up here
in zero g, which is something I never noticed on the ground.
As a matter of fact, I really could feel nothing unusual
at all on ground level on our test, and even though the
blood pressure response and the heart rate is nearly the
same up here. I can always feel a subjective sensation,
that there's a shortage of blood in my upper torso, particularly
around the head and arms and things, and that sensation I have
not experienced preflight.
CC Okay. And as I remember A1 made about
the same comments.
CDR Yeah. Pretty much the same. I've
noticed on the times that I had to abandon the run before
we finished, each time I felt like I was hot in the shoulders
and the head, a little tingling in the arms, and when I
saw it coming, I wiggled my toes a little bit and tried to
reject it, but didn't have any luck. It just continued to
mount until the time that I decided it was too far gone to try
to hold it any longer. Now, my opinion of the last problem was
Just running hard all day long and got to the end of the day
and just didn't have a lot of reserve left. Because the
last run we had a couple of days ago was a piece of cake,
and I didn't even feel the tingling or anything. So, I
don't know. I think you're a little bit more on the edge
of the problem up here than you have on Earth, and I'm not
sure exactly why.
CC I think that's a good point, AI.
We also thought that fatigue had a part to play in that one.
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CDR I think it was bigger than the food,

frankly.
CC Okay. And moving on to M171 I - You've
been following that data as well as we have. We've noticed
no reduction in your work capacity, no re4uction in your
effinciency and all the plots of 02 versus heart rate and
the like, they're all actually been improving during flight
and you're right about at preflight levels.
SPT Okay. You say there has been no increase
in mechanical effenciency.
CC No. It would seem the mechanical
efficiency is right about the same, Owen.
SPT Okay. That does surprise me a little
bit. I wouldn't think our 02 dot would actually improve,
but maybe it is.
CC The only thing we seen, as I mentioned
last week, was a slight hyperventilation at rest. A slight
hyperventilation.
SPT I think that was two weeks ago, wasn't
it Story? And we have, at least in my own case, concentrated
on slower and more deep breathing, and that does lower the
heart rate a little bit. That's about the only thing that I can
see that makes any change, by breathing more deeply.
MCC Okay. That's a good idea, and I'ii
take a look at that.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
MCC Your vital capacity measurements have
turned out very well. We think they're very close to the
laboratory data that we have. Have you any comments on
running that procedure?
SPT No. It's a very simple thing to do. It
doesn't waste any time, because it's Just about a 60 second
interruption during the normal 171 prep, and as far as the
protocol is concerned, the procedure is no problem. The
results, I think if anything mine were maybe either at or
a few percent above the ground level tests. And I think
Jack and Al's were very close. Although I don't remember their
preflight vital capacities.
MCC Okay. In summary, your MI71 data, you
are a lot closer to preflight norms than the SL II crew
was.
SPT Good.
MCC M093, there's no significant clinical
changes noted on that. MI31, as you know, you got high
thresholds on the MS test and you're doing a little better
on the OGls than the SL II did.
SPT Okay. So we do have higher thresholds
you say on OGI?
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MCC No, that's on the MS.

SPT Oh yeah. Way up on the MS. Before
you'd mentioned lower thresholds on the OGI. While my impression
had been either the same or a little bit higher, but I guess
you've got all the data to look at down there.
MCC And on the M133, Owen, you're showing
decreased stages in 3 and 4, and you're spending increased
amounts in stage 2. Could you make any comments on subjective
quality of your sleep? I know in the Evening Status Report
you've been showing good sleep every night.
SPT Just that. I'm really impressed with
how well you can sleep up here. I think that I'm getting
about the same amount of sleep that I di4 on the ground,
7 hours or so, and you can probably tell the total down
there even better than I can subjectively. But the quality,
I'm really pleased with. Last night I slept right through
until Jack woke up, and then I went back to sleep and dozed
another half hour after he got up. And the night before it was
about 7 hours straight without waking up. And I - I'm
really impressed with how pleasant it is to sleep here. I
find that I want to sort of restrain myself. I've always been
sleeping under those straps, and with that much restraint,
why, it feels very comfortable, very normal, and very
sound.
MCC Okay, good. In general, on postflight
predictions, we think you're dolng a lot better than the
SL-II crew, and as far all our numbers go, the MO92 and the
MI71 and that sort of thing. And we're very optimistic
about how you're going to do when you get home.
SPT Well, so are we, Story, and we're sort
of planning on the - the protocol on the ground to conform
with that.
CC Yes sir, and after you get on the water,
you might just stay in the couches a short while and get
your inner ear used to the one g.
SPT Right. We - at least don't anticipate
any readjustment similar to the adjustment from one g to
zero. I assume that - that you don't either.
MCC No sir. And we're i minute to LOS.
We'll pick you up over Hawaii about 13 minutes at 20:22.
This will probably be the last med science conference since
you'll be in deactivation on next Sunday. But the blomed
science people do wish to thank you very much for your
expertise in the conduct of their experiments, your extreme
responsiveness, and to your infllght observations and
comments, and for all the additional data that you got us
running extra experiments and your instrumented PT.
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SPT Okay, we appreciate those comments and

we've still got a week to get more, which we'll be trying
to do here. And did you see any of that med TV that was
sent down earlier today?
MCC No sir, we haven't seen it yet.
SPT Okay, if - if you do _ake a look at it,
if you have any comments about either add_tlonal things or
ways to improve, why, we can still get some of that in during
this last week, also.
MCC Okay, thanks again.
SPT Thank you, Story.
SPT (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
20 hours i0 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in Ii minutes and 35 seconds.
During the Honeysuckle pass Dr. Story Musgrave continued
the medical review with the crew, commenting on the fact
that the Skylab-lll crew seems to be in slightly better shape
than the SL-III crew in the lower body negative pressure device
experiments and actu - in the MI71 metabolic analyzer. They
seemed to be improving and near their preflight level. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in ii minutes. At Greenwich mean
time 20 hours ii seconds, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2123/I
Time: 15:21 CDT, 51/20:21 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 20

hours 21 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone in
approximately 25 seconds. Leave the lin_ up for this Goldstone
pass. This pass is over Hawaii not over Goldstone. We'll
hold the llne up for _his Hawaii pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 8 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger.
CC And for the SPT. With respect to Anita
we requested that Anita be placed in her vial that is vial 2
and leave Arabella in her vial and with respect to permanent
general message 14A, we can delete steps i, 2, and 4. And
continue to feed Arabella per step 3, we'll also put this
in the SPT details and prepare for returq for both spiders
per step 5. Over.
SPT Okay, I got the picture.
PLT Bruce, we started ops on the M561 at
20:26, cold work temperatures to start is 3 degrees centigrade
and the pressure was 0.2.
CC We copy Jack; thank you.
PLT Yes sir.
SPT Say Bruce, have you dumped the VTR, yet?
CC It's clean you got a complete tape to
work with.
SPT Okay, I'm not sure how much we'll have for
it. I - going to be a while before I can get anything
collected together but we wanted to make sure it was ready
if we did want it.
CC Risht, itts all yours.
SPT Have you seen the stuff that came down?
CC Not here in the Control Center, yet.
SPT Okay, I was interested in some sort of
med comment about that stuff, I mentioned it to Story about
that last time.
CC Yeah, I was here monitoring when Dr.
Frank Musgrave was on.
SPT Oh, I remember him. Yeah, Frank (garble)
Musgrave.
CC Roger, Frank (garble) from Denver.
CDR We got a world record attempt going here
Bruce.
CC Yeah, I heard you're trying to peddle
yourself around the world.
CDR Hard to do with no wheels.
SPT Jack and I were thinking until waiting
later in the week and taking i second off of his time.
CC Hey, for an FAI record, it's got to be
at least i0 percent.
CDR Hey, that's good they've been giving me
a hat d time. Outstanding Bruce.
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CDR Twenty minutes to go.

SPT I don't recognize that agency anyway
for these sort of records.
CC Well we were going to ask the Commander
what class and type he was competing under_ but we fo- thought
better of that.
CDR No, there's nobody in this class but us.
CC Yeah, we agree with that.
CDR One thing that made this bike riding
a lot le - easier lately is I moved the clip over here and I'm
reading one of my books when I'm biking along. So it takes
me 30 minutes or 20 minutes or whatever it is pass pretty
fast.
CC Roger.
CC It's nice when you don't have to watch
out for the stop lights and the traffic.
CDR We haven't run into the MSS yet.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS
next station contact in about 3 minutes through Goldstone
at 20:34.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwlth mean time 20
hours 30 minutes. Wetve had loss of signal at Hawaii.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone in 2 minutes 38 seconds.
We'll hold the llne up for the Goldstone-Stateside pass.

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SL-III MC-2124/I
Time: 15:31 CDT, 15/20:31 GMT
9/16/73

CC Skyla5, this is Houston through Goldstone

for 6 minutes. Out.
CC And for the PLT. We _ondered if you could
give us a time check o_ the watch or refe;ence you were using
to start M561. You called down that it had been started at
20:26. And at that time our time here on the ground was 20:24.
And telemetry backing up indicates that i F probably started
around 20:20 so we think there may be about a 6-minute discrepancy.
Over.
PLT Okay, just a minute, Bruce, I'ii tell you.
PLT Yeah, that's the way ! read it on my watch,
Bruce and my watch is right on the mission timer so - pick any
time in there you llke and I think (garble) system which was -
a couple of minutes off perhaps that'll he a better thlngto
do.
CC Okay. We're showing 20:36
CC MARK.
PLT Yeah, that's what I've got.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, thl8 is Houston. 1 minute til LOS.
Next station contact is Bermuda at 20:44. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. See you there.

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SL-III MC-2125/I
Time: 15:43 CDT, 51/20:43 GMT
9/16/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda

for I0 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. With phone call
information. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. - It's some bad news and some good
news. And I guess since answered up first Jack, I haven't
been able to get ahold of Gracia by telephone in about the past
half an hour. We're going to continue trying. And - we're looking
at the Texas pass that - starts about 23:54 for you - if we -
when we get a hold of her when she comes back to the phone.
Over.
PLT Okay. And if she doesn't why - just try
later on- I'll talk to her just before I hit the sack, if that's
okay, because I'm sure she'll be home pretty soon.
CC Oh yeah. We've been working the antenna
coverage problem in site availability for a while since if you
called, so I'm sure I'd Just caught her while she was out for
a minute and for the commander, we've got him set up at - 21:34
through Carnarvon, starting out on the left antenna for just a
couple of minutes then switching over to the right. Over.
CDR Thanks, Bruce.
CC That's in about 40 minutes and that is
confirmed and for the SPT, we've got him set up through Guam
at 23:25, left antenna all the way and that's also confirmed.
Over.
SPT 23:25, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, I was wondering Bruce. We had
housekeeping 12B on our schedule today and we can't find it.
CC Your schedule or 12B?
CDR We can't find 12B in the book, so we can
go do it. We've done the rest.
CC Okay, stand by. You may have a got you there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute til LOS.
Next station contact through Ascension in about 6 minutes at
21:00 and housekeeping 12B has to do with OWS heat exchanger
fans. We concur, we don't have it in our SWS systems checklist
but we're trying to track it down for you. Over.
CDR Probably a general message, I did it anyway.
- By the way, I told them I'd check it next time, I did it which
has been about 2 weeks and they weren't too dirty but I would
suggest a 2 week interval on that.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay AI, we're talking about getting in
there on the heat exchanger vanes, checking those also, not
Just the inlets. Over.
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CDR I did. I took every fan out usedthe brush

got every bit of the dust, I could off all (garble) vanes today.
CC Okay, thank you very much. Out.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
20 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal at Bermuda, Next acquisition
will be Ascension in 6 minutes. During this pass, information
for the crews telephone conversation with their families was
past up. Here at mission control center, the simulation with
the prime crew of SL-IV re-entry, splashdown slm which began
8 o'clock this morning, concluded Just recently. Prime crew
of Gerrald Carr, Ed Gibson and Bill Cro _ Polk have splashed
down, simulation wise in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego.
A simulation will begin shortly with the back up crew of
Vance Brand, Bill Lenolr and Don Lind. Flight Director for this
simulation here at mission control center is Phll Shaffer.
CAP COMM for the slm is Astronaut Bob Crippen. Acquisition
coming up at Ascension in 5 minutes. At Greenwich mean time,
20 hours 55 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2126/I
Time: 16:54 CDT, 51/20:59 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 20

hours 59 minutes, We will have acquisition at Ascension in
45 seconds with CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Ascension for ii minutes. Out.
CC I'm trying to - -
CC CDR, Houson. Over.
PLT Hels busy with the TV show right now,
Bruce, can he talk later?
CC Yeah, we can it him later.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon
at 21:33, with a phone call for the CDR, at that station.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC Okay, subnormal flare in active region
26, we'd llke you to take a look at it the next pass if you
have the opportunity with the white light coronograph. Over.
PLT We sure will, Bruce.
CC It's moving out toward active region
28.
PLT Okay, I'ii just do a fast scan for
43 seconds when I get there. Okay.
CC Yes indeed, Jack that will be fine.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 21
hours 13 minutes loss of signal at Ascension. Next acquisition
will be Carnarvon in 20 minutes. Greenwich mean 21 hours
13 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 16:33 CDT 51/21:33 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

21 hours 33 minutes. We will have acquisition at Carnarvon
in 45 seconds. There will be a change of shift briefing
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson in building 1 news
room at 5:00 p.m. central daylight time. Change of shift
here at the mission control center. On-coming Flight
Director Chuck Lewis. And CAP COMM is Astronaut Hank
Hartsfield. We'll leave the llne up for this Carnarvon
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
9-1/2 minutes.
CDR H_IIo there, Hank.
CC Good evening.
CC PLT, Houston. Is the CDR working on
his private call?
PLT He just got set up.
SPT Hank, A1 says he's hearing Houston loud
and clear, but they're not reading him.
CC Copy. I'Ii check with the Com Tech.
CC PLT, Houston. Would you confirm the
CDR is in duplex Bravo?
PLT Hers confirmed to be in duplex Bravo.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT And Hank, I'm looking at the white
light coronagraph in the - in the general region of the
corona in which you might see something emanating from
active region 26, and we got a real sharp distinct ray in that
area, however, I don't see any blobs of material or any
unusual shapes for the brightening and I'm getting ready to
do a fast scan. I'ii do more if they wish.
CC Roger. We copy. And we'll see if they
want anything else.
PLT Okay Hank. AI says he's reading the
ground very well, but they're just not reading him.
CC Okay. At this point, I don't know what
else we can do. We're verifying that we are not receiving
any downllnk at all from the vehicle, on the VHF.
CC And PLT, Houston, the ATM would like to
do what is scheduled on the pad after you do this fast scan.
PLT Right. Thank you, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. If you read, we've done
a little change in configu _tion at the site. Would you
try downllnk again, please.
CC CDR, Houston. If you read, we might try
simplex Alpha. Just take your VHF AM over to simplex Alpha
and we'll see if that will work.
CC PLT, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Loud and clear, Hank.
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TIME: 16:33 CDT 51/21:33 GMT
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CC Okay. We were just checking. We're

still in S-band.
PLT Okay. Al_s still not having any luck.
CDR Say Hank, I hear them and have heard
them for 5 or 6 minutes. They just can't hear me. Some-
thing's wrong with the downlink.
CC Roger AI, and we're _ust sitting here
scratching our heads. We suggested you try simplex Alpha
and that didn't work. We're monitoring both downlink
frequencies and we're absolutely not getting a downlink,
and we're not sure yet why. We'll smoke it over here and
see if we can come up with a plan. We're going to have to
or nobody's going to get a call and maybe we can reschedule
later this evening. I'm not sure. I'ii look for some more
sites.
CDR Okay. It's been my experience up here
that it's - the problem is somehow getting the thing to go
from like Carnarvon to Houston, and not anywhere else. As
far as I can remember for the last month or two, we've never
had a problem anywhere up here.
CC It's not a line problem. The site verified
they were getting no downlink. And we're about 15 seconds
from LOS now AI, wetll be coming up on Goldstone at 13.
CDR I'ii Just leave the - somebody's got a
comm to make now. I'Ii just leave the VHF set up.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
21 hours 44 minutes with loss of signal at Carnarvon. Next
acquisition will be Goldstone in 28 minutes. There will be
a change of shift briefing with off-going Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson in the building i news room at 5:00 p.m.
central daylight time. In the event the change of shift is
still in progress at the Goldstone stateside pass, we'll
record the Goldstone pass and play it at the close of the
change of shift briefing. A change of shift briefing at
5:00 p.m. with off-going Flight Director Nell Hutchinson in
building 1 news room. Greenwich mean time 21 hours 44 minutes
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III _IC-2128/i
Time: 17:26 CDT, 51/22:26 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 22 hours

26 minutes. We have an accumulation of 7 minutes and 30 seconds
of recordered tape taken during the - change of shift briefing
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson. We'll play that tape
now and then pick up the air-to-ground l_ve at the close of the
tape.
CC Skylab, Houston through Golds,one for 5 minutes.
CC And CDR, we're - we're set up to try again
on the call here at Goldstone.
CDR (Garble) I'ii hustle right back up there.
CC And CDR, if we don't have any luck, we'd
like to verify your configuration and - go through some
troubleshooting here, see if we can't sort this thing out.
PLT He's floating up there right now, Hank.
SPT (garble) was wrong. I - went through canister
roll of 5400 instead of experiment roll, I had rolled it around
and - neglected to put the switch back in experiment. So -
we're taking it at about 7450 as oppose to - 5400.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT And I'm hoping that - the amps to supple the
data.
CC Okay, we'll buy that Jack, and just stay
where you are.
CC And Jack, for the CDR, what we'd like for
him to do is confirm his private comm cue card configuration.
And - if he still has no trouble in there we'd like for him
go into TC MAL - MAL 4 and I don't know if that's going to get
us anywhere or not but - it looks like to me it leads up right
into an antenna problem and I don't believe that.
PLT Excuse me, Hank. I was - (garble) unable
to understand your last transmission, where you calling me?
CC Roger, I had a message for AI. He's up
trying to set up his comm again - if he has no luck right off the
bat, wetd like for him to reverify his private comm configuration
I don't know whether he uses the head set or the speaker box
up there. He might - after he verfies configuration switch
over to the other system, which ever it may be. If that doesn't
work, then go into the HAL on page 11-4 of the CSM MAL, it's
TC-4, loss of VHF comm (garble) although/I'm not so sure that
going to lead him anywhere.
PLT Okay. I just went in there and double
checked for him and he's got the right configurations all set
up so looks like he ought to do the MAL, huh?
CDR Do you hear me down there, Hank?
CC Roger, I'm reading you, AI.
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Time: 17:26 CDT, 51/22:26 GMT
9/16/73

CDR Hello, Hank. CDR, how do you hear?

CC CDR, l'm reading you loud and clear.
CDR Roger, everything is set up just prefect,
I just switched on S-band to talk to you and tile VHF is on
and obviously everything else is on, or I couldn't talk to you.
CC Okay, we might - staqd by i.
CC CDR, have you been coping the ground on
VHF.
CDR l've heard them over Carnarvon and here,
loud and clear. They just don't hear me at all. I've tried
both antennas and I had Jack to come down here and check the
comm. And (garble) set up just right.
CC Okay, what we want to try to do then
according to the MAL is - configure (garble) for a VHF (garble)
A&B simplex. So if you'll set up a simplex B, we'll see if
that'll work.
COR Okay, we're going to go A&B simplex right
now. Okay, I'm still talking to you on S-band.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, lets work him a little bit. Hello,
Houston, CDR on simplex A & B.
CDR Houston, Skylab, simplex A & B
CC Give them another call, AI.
CDR Houston, Skylab, simplex A & B, how do you
hear?
CDR Hello, Houston on simplex Bravo, how do you
hear?
CDR Hello, Houston. Skylab on simplex alpha
and Bravo, how do you hear?
CDR We hear them calling up simplex Bravo, Hank.
But that's about it.
CC Okay, the only other thing in the HAL is
to play with the antennas and it leads to a block that says
antenna degradation I'm not so sure I believe that. We're about
to go LOS. We'll be picking in another minute at Texas.
CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Hello, there, reading you loud and clear.
We're just trying to figure out what's going on here now with
the thing - it's kind of - it's hard for us to believe, we've
lost both transmitters on this bird.
CDR I don't believe it, myself because we've
had comm problems before and it's never ever been the transmitter.
CC Al, which - which motor you using now? You
using the - the head set or the speaker box.
CD_ I'm using the head set now to talk to you,
so obviously it should talk to them. The fact that I can hear
them, indicates that l've got a receiver. Also I'm on simplex
Alpha and Bravo at the moment.
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9/16/73

CDR I tried the comm box several times by the

way. I'ii try it now just to show you that we've got con -
We've got continuity everywhere but down, Okay, how do you
read me on the comm box?
CC I read you loud and clear, AI.
CDR Read you the same. Mow we've got one
possibility that we can try, just for fun. I can connect up
this head set to another comm panel real quick and see how
if we can reach time on VHF that way.
CC Okay, why don't we give it a go AI. See
what happens.
CDR Okay, hold on.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello, there.
CDR Okay, I wasn't able to contact you through
that other comm panel.
CC Okay, which one did you use, AI?
CDR Tried to use, - 6, may not be possible to
do it through 6. Thatts why I didn't worry about it too much.
CC Okay, I'm not sure right off myself either.
CDR Lost the VHF uplink _ow.
CC Okay, we were coping some down link then
on VHF 2597, AI.
CDR You coping right now?
CC Affirmative.
CDR Well, I'm still head configured the same
old way again, still simplex A and slmpl_x B. I don't carry
up-link I must have good down link at the moment.
CC Okay, weIll get the site to give you a
call, AI -

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SL-III MC-2129/I
Time: 17:33 CDT, 51/22:33 GMT
9/16/73

CDR I don't carry any uplink but I must have

good down-link at the moment.
CC Okay, we'll get the _ite to give you
a call, Al's on VHF.
CDR Okay. You want me to stay simplex A and
B.
CC Let's stay right where we are for the
time being, until we get this sorted out.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. I don't know what's
happened then. Now we're getting down-link on both A and B
freqa and apparently did not - getting any uplink we'd like
to go back to the normal cue card configuration now.
CDR Okay, I'm now in duplex B. Standing by.
Hello, Houston, I'm in duplex B, how do you hear?
Hello, Houston, I'm in duplex B, how do you hear?
CC Okay, the sites have to be re-configure
now. We're doing that now, AI.
CDR Okay, I hear their uplink starting to come
in now. I never got any uplink sounds from the A and B
simplex.
CC CDR, Houston, how do you read?
CDR Oh, read you loud and clear.
CC Okay. Were you getting VHF okay?
CDR No, heard nothing on VHF.
CDR Sounds llke somebody's trying to key,
what I hear is kind of a static quisp but no modulation.
CDR Hello, Houston, Skylab. How do you read
VHF?
CC Okay, AI, we're copying a down-link, but
apparently we can't get up now.
CDR My guess if y'all (chuckle) there's only
one llne between the center and these VHF sites maybe we got a
choice we can either go up or down.
CC This is unbelievable. First we can't get
up now we can't get down.
CDR Maybe there's some sort of relay in our
spacecraft that's suppose to switch back and forth and it
doesntt do it.
PLT Hey Hank, how was the SO52? I can do
another fast scan in 43 seconds.
CC We're checking.
PLT Let me see if there's anything up here
that would be at the beginning of the rev.
CC Okay, Jack give us another one.
CC CDR, Houston. We want to try something
else here, if you'll set up for simplex Alfa and wait i minute
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Time: 17:33 CDT, 51/22:33 GMT
9/16/73

until we get our sites reconfigured and we'll call you.

CDR Okay , I'm now timing a minute.
CC CDR, Houston, on simplex Alfa. How
do you read?
CC CDR, Houston how do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston on VHF simplex Alfa,
how do you read?
CDR Read you loud and clear, simplex Alfa.
How me?
CC Okay, AI reading you loud and clear
now. And we're about to go HelLos (chuckle) We'll be coming
up (laugh) on Carnarvon at ii.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
22 hours 36 minutes. Loss of signal at Ascension. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 34 minutes. The discussions
previously concerning the comm configurations from Skylab.
Thls was prompted by difficulty Commander Bean hid in placing
his family call earlier. Apparently this has been straightened
out now by switches aboard the command module. Next
acquisition will be Carnarvon in 33 minutes. At Greenwich
mean time 22 hours 37 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2130/I
Time: 18:10 CDT, 51/23:10 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 23

hours I0 minutes. Acq_isltlon coming up over the Carnarvon
tracking station in 30 seconds. Pilot Jack Lousma is scheduled
to be taking his weekly shower tonight at this time with
Commander A1 Bean at the Apollo Telescope Mount, Science
Pilot Owen Garriott performing pre-sleep activities. We'll
leave the line up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab Houston, through Carnarvon for
9-1/2 minutes. And CDR, we'd llke you to go ahead and do a Nuz
update this pass so that we don't have to do it at 00:45 and
you can go out - ahead then and close that the panel when you're
through with this pass.
CDR Okay.
CC And if we could have the DAS, we'll also
be inhibiting momentum dump.
CDR You've got the DAS.
CC And SPT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank, he's listening.
CC Okay, either he or you will one of you
be free to help us do a little more troubleshooting on the VHF?
PLT Yeah, I'ii do it Hank in about 5 minutes.
CC Okay, we are presently configured for
simplex Bravo, so whenever you get up there we want to do a
voice check on simplex Bravo, I'ii be broadcasting on sim.
So you can turn the S-band off and we'll see how it goes.
Tell me when you're ready.
PLT Okay, going up now.
CC And while he's going up there CDR, we'd
like to re-schedule the TV down-link that we - we missed
earlier. We lost the TV, the one that was done at Goldstone
at 18:58, we'd like to do it over Texas at 23:54.
CDR Okay.
CC And in that down-llnk we - so you can be
Thinking about it we'd like to get 2 minutes of H-alpha 1
on monitor i.
CDR Okay, we'll get her out.
SPT Hey, Hank was S052 happy with the D-4
calibration that we did earlier today?
CC Okay, we're checkin E that now, Jack.
PLT Hello, Houston, how do you read on
simplex Bravo?
CC PLT, Houston. Reading you loud and clear.
PLT Okay, reading you the same, Hank. Or the
left hand does let me try the right.
PLT Okay, Hank what do you want me to do?
CC Okay, PLT. We read you loud and clear,
now. We'd like to go over to duplex Bravo give us a
chance to re-configure the site and we'll do acom check on
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duplex Bravo the normal private comm conf_guratlon.

PLT Okay. How long will What be Hank?
CC It'll take up a couple of minutes to get
reconfigurated, Jack.
PLT Okay, I'm going to duplex Bravo now.
CC And CDR, the DAS is yours.
PLT (Garble) transmit, Rank. Maybe we're con-
figured already.
CC Okay, PLT. How do you read me on duplex
Bravo. I'm broadcasting simo.
PLT Power square, Hank how me?
CC Okay, leading you loud and clear. Looks
like the - whatever the problem we had went away and so we'll
be all set up for the SPT's phone call at Guam, the next
station at 25.
PLT Roger, 25. Thank you. I'ii Just leave it
like it is.
CC Okay, Jack. And I still haven't been
able to get a hold of Grace, yet, so if I don't get a hold of
her by the time we come up on stateside, how about I'ii let the
CDR talk on that pass rather than you.
PLT Yeah, I didn't have any time planned
anyway.. Just let AI go ahead and talk and on the next pass
anyway and if there's a - still an opportunity after they get
finished why I'ii take it if Grate's at home.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, we have a good update. You're clear
to close the center.
CC PLT, Houston. You still up in the
command module?
SC (Garble).
PLT What can I do for you Hank?
CC Why, we just sitting here talking about it.
the only thing that we didn't check on that comm check was
the constant Key like you're use in a private comm would you
be willing to go back and let's just check constant keys and
see if something's not happening there that's blocking us out.
PLT Yeah, I'll be right there.
PLT How do you read me in constant key,
Hank?
CC Okay, reading you loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay, I got a lot more background noise
right now than I had before it was a real clean transmission
but now I'm hearing myself talk and background noise when
I'm not talking.
CC Okay, the same thing happens down here.
PLT Okay, so the constant key deal works okay,
then, huh?
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CC That's affirmative. I think everything

has been all set up for the com call.
PLT Okay, thanks a lot Hapk, for working
it out. And I'Ii just leave it like it i_.
PLT You still there, HankL?
CC Roger, - -
PLT Say, we don't always _et that echo.
Half the time you get and it half the tim_ you don't. It's not
desirable of course but I'm kind of wondering what the
configuration difference is down there between getting the echo
and on the other hand having a nice clean conversation.
CC Were you using the speaker box or the
head set?
PLT I've always used the head set and half
the time you get the echo and half the time you don't.
CC What it sounds llke is that the up-llnk is
being turned around and sent right back at you. JYou're doing a
close-looped comm which sort of drives you out of your
gourd. When you're trying to talk you hear yourself a fraction
of a second later.
PLT Yeah, that's what it does. And there must
be a way around it becuase it's not like that but part of the
time.
CC We'll check into it and we're about
45 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 25 for
the SPT's private call. And I was wondering if it'd be
convenient, Jack, for you to give us the Evening Status since
we missed that over the last stateside, at Guam.
PLT You want that right now, Hank?
CC Negative, we're Just about LOS. I was
wondering if you could have it ready sometime during the
Guam pass which is coming up from 25 to 34 and read it down
while Owen is doing his private comm.
PLT Sure be ready anytime.
CC Okay, we'll see you at Guam then in a few
minutes.

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SL-III M0-2131/I
Time: 18:22 CDT, 51/23:22 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,

23 hours 21 minutes. With loss of signal at Carnarvon, next
acquisition will be Guam in 2 minutes 50 seconds. Greenwich
mean time, 23 hours 22 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay.
SC (Music to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of
Texas)
CC Well, I hate to cut out the yellow rose there,
but we're all standing by for the Evening Status.
PLT Well, that's the first part of it.
CC Sounds good.
PLT Okay, here we go. Urine volume: 105; 177;
180. Water gun: 6153; 0092; 6616. BMMD_ 6.249, 6.247, 6.253;
5.947, 5.946, 5.948; 6.940, 6.940, 6.943. Exercise: CDR,
2/95/8641, wow, 95, he peddled around the world; SPT, 2/15/2630;
PLT, 2/05/0656. PLT got 3 for 20/ MARK I, 50-A, 20-B, 20-D,
20 Backbends. And by the way the CDR set a new - upset the
original record and will probably stand for a long, long time of
peddling the bicycle clear around the world, with no wheels.
Sleep: CDR, 8 good; 7 good; 6-1/2 good. Flight plan deviations:
stand by. Okay on flight plan deviation, Hank. We omitted T002-
correction T003-7 which was supposed to be taken before/after
shower because nobody took a shower. Shopping llst accomplish-
ments: SPT took a sweat sample after exercises. Unscheduled
stowage items: - we got 3 grape drinks from locker 562 to the
wardroom. Okay, menu deviations: CDR, salt packs 7, plus
4 pills - 4 salt pills; SPT used 3 salt packs and biscuits,
peanutbutter and grap drink; PLT used 4 salt packs and 1
butter cookie and 3 salt pills, substitute veal and two lemonades
for tuna and bread.
PLT Did you get all of that, Hank?
CC Roger, we copy. I guess that's all of it
but the photo log.
PLT Okay, here it is. Day 259, 16-millimeter:
EREP/VTS, tracks 33 and 34 was on CL04, 35 percent remaining;
69 was activity crew exercise, C161, 20, C154. 35-milllmeters:
CX33, 00; CII05, 37. 70-millimeters: CX27, 054. ETC: was
CT09, i01. EREP set whisky 8922; 1115; 8641; 8020; 9790;
8693. Drawer A: location Alpha-2 was only changed, transporter
05, C161, 20, C154. That's it. Any questions?
CC No questions, thank you a lot, Jack.
PLT Okay, I've got some exercises to do yet,
I'ii either report it later this evening or tomorrow.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, can you listen up a bit?
CDR Sure, go ahead.
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9/16/73

CC Okay. In answer to your question on the

housekeeping 12 Bravo, we just sorted that out now. What we
did we sent you up a change to the cue card, flight plan to
checklist correlations and it's on there but we didn't change
the checklist. I guess we probably should of change it, even
though there's - there's no procedure other than that 12B which
says vacuum clean the heat exchanger vanes. And we should
have added it to the - list and the checklist also.
CDR Okay, we'll write that in and call it,
vacuum clean, what do you call it, heat exchanger vanes or how
would you - I've forgotten. We don't use the flight plan to check
list correlation, cause we know where they are in the book. That's
just an aid to helps you find the right hook. So we just
go right to the book.
CC Okay, it's - vacuum clean OWS heat exchanger
vanes.
CDR Okay, we'll write it in.
CC And Skylab, we're about - 40 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming upon Goldstone at - 49 and the CDR's
phone call will be set up for Texas at 54 and congratulations to the
CDR for his new world's record.
CDR Okay, thank you.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time, 23 hours
34 minutes. Loss of signal at Guam with the report by Pilot
Jack Lousma, that Commander Alan Bean set a new world's
record peddling around the world inside the orbital workshop.
He was riding the bicycle ergometer, used as an exercise device
and also used in two medical experiments onboard the spacecraft.
Peddled around the world for 93 minutes. As the spacecraft
orbited the Earth, traveling at approximately 25,000 miles.
The ground responded by passing congratulations back to the
commander for his new world record. Next acquisition will
be Goldstone in approximately 14 minutes, during this - during
this state - stateside pass, Science Pilot Owen Garriott will
be focusing the spacecraft cameras - hand held cameras on
Salt Lake City. The objective of this experiments is to -
provide data information for the Skylab-IV crew. The follow-on
crew going up in November. To aide in recognizing features
with and without devices such as binoculars Skylab-III crew
will describe the weather patterns including extent and location
of cloud layers and smog. They will also describe effects of
the Sun angle as it relates to ability to identify objects.
Then they will film and describe the selected sites on the
ground track. These sites include Northern Utah, the Great
Salt Lake, Bear Lake, and a reservoir north of Ogden. The
crew will seek to identify such objects as airports, cultural
land marks, direction of smoke plumbs, agriculture features
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and geology. Great Salt Lake will be - Great Salt Lake area
will be the target for subsequent passes through mission -
through September 19. Greenwich mean time, 23 hours 36 minutes
with next acquisition at Goldstone in 12 _inutes 50 seconds,
this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 18:49 CDT, 51/23:49 GMT

9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 23

hours 49 minutes. Acquisition coming up at Goldstone in
approximately 25 seconds. CAP COMM is Hank Hartsfleld.
On this more than likely the stateside pass tonight for the
crew of Skylab III. Tonight they begin their change in their
circadian rythm cycle to put their sleep cycle back on schedule
for (garble) on the 25th.
CC Skylab, Houston, stateside for ii minutes.
CDR Okay, Just let me know when you're ready
for the downllnk.
CC Okay, and we - I sort of goofed up there
a little bit AI, I wonder if you could get Jack to relieve
you there on the console for your private comm coming up
here at 54.
CDR Okay. They'll come up.
CC Okay, A1 we won't be ready for the down-
llnk until 23:54.
CDR Okay, I'ii tell you what's been happening
on 56. 56 has been hanging up everytime in - filter in
filter 4 it seems to go along until it gets to 4 then it
hangs up it did that in normal and it did it in long. It's
- gone back and take single frames for 5 and 6, the normal
5 and 6, in long 6 Just finished in long. And I'm going to
do a short. So maybe it's something that has to do with
filter 4, I know it doesn't sound llke the rest of the
explanation but it seems to always be hung up in that one.
CC We copy.
CDR It's obviously causing the time line to slip
a little bit too, here. While we wait for it to get-
try to get un-hung.
CDR (Garble).
CC Skylab, Houston we're ready to configure
for the TV down-link.
CDR Okay, should be getting it. I got it
set for mon 2. And whenever you're ready I'll turn on mon
i right now.
CC Okay.
CDR Ready and locked up. I'ii go switch to
mon i and turn it on you can watch it power up.
CC Skylab, Houston, we'd like to get some
XUV mon intigration on monitor 2 and after we get that we'll
like to go over power up monitor i where we can look at it
and give us some H-alpha i.
SPT Okay, you're getting it now.
SPT Okay, I'm going to switch you over to
mon i and power it up as soon as I put you over.
CC Okay; we copy.
CDR How you hear Hank?
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CC Reading you loud and clear.

CDR I hear the com tech Texas and Houston
talking to each other they call me but they don't hear me.
We have not touched this comm since Owen _alked on it.
CC I don't believe it.
CDR Back to life.
SPT Are you receiving rea_ time video now,
Hank?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay, now you should be looking at H-
alpha i. I have H-alpha i displayed on both mon 1 and mon 2
and mon i exhibits a little bit of that noise but very little
as Jack was describing earlier but I - there's a difference
- a substantial difference between the appearance of mon 1
and mon 2 in brightness. I got the contrast all the way up
on mon i and mon 2, I got the brightness all the way up on
mon 1 but the image is still relatively dim while the bright-
ness on mon 2 is down at about 3, even though the appearance
on the 2 scopes is the same so again this is something new
that we have noZ seen before the apparent very low level of
brightness on mon 1 is something that Just - Just happened.
CC CDR, we verify that Texas has lost it's
VHF transmitter.
CDR Okay, I understand (chuckle) that explains
why I don't hear anything from them anymore.
CC I can't believe this is happening.
(Chuckle).
CDR I can't either but that's the way it goes.
Usually it's about 1 (garble) will recover in about - you
know 3 or 4 minutes all of a sudden it all starts working
but Just never did (garble) - it did - what was that site that
Owen talked through?
CC Guam.
CDR Guam.
SPT Now the brightness is on mon i and is
increasing apparently it just took a long time for the tube
to get warmed up and it does exhibit a little bit of extra
noise and Jumpiness that monitor i does not have but it's
brightness level is still increasing. It's comfortable at
mon 2 now you can see there's nothing abnormal about the
brightness level on mon i.
CDR My wife's at home. Tell her we're sorry
we couldn't get together (garble).
CC SPT, Houston, I have an answer to the
question you had the other day, in reardlng the extension on
magnesium i0 line at 625 angstroms.
SPT It couldn't be the fact that gravity
gradient dumped again to slip in did it.
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SPT Go ahead with the answer.

CC Okay. there - the radiation shorter
than about 700 (garble) is absorbed by the atomic oxygen while
the longer wavelengths usually seen on the dectors one and
three is absorbed by the molecular oxygen and as you recall the
density scale heights atomic oxygen is twice that molecular
oxygen the atomic oxygen extends much higher in the atmosphere
than the molecular oxygen does. At sunset the short wavelength
radiation is absorbed out much sooner than the longwave lengths.
SPT Okay; understand. Thank you.
SPT Now are you still looking at the H-
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CC - - the long way thing.

SPT Okay, understand, thank you.
SPT Now, are you still lookln_ at the H-alpha
i video or did you get a good look at it a minute ago?
CC We got a good look at it. And I wonder
if you if you show us the same thing now on monitor 2.
SPT Okay, your looking at it on monitor 2 and
at this point you'll probably be unable to distinguish any
difference. Because there's almost no difference up here. -
The brightness level are the same, the contract levels are the
same. There is a small amount of extra - it appears to be
sort of - white snowy super imposed off the H-alpha 1 - monitor
i picture. There is really a negligible difference at this
point in there performances are essentially the same.
SPT And it certainly wasn't this good though
when Jack called - called down the earlier reports. I came
up and took a look at it also and - there was very definitely
a contraction and oscillation scope, that was not present on
MON 2.
CC Okay, we copy Owen. And we thank you very
much and your clear to terminate the down-link.
SPT Okay, how about the use of MON 1 now?
Should we go ahead and use it normally?
CC Okay, we'll get back to you with that Owen.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hank, I didn't know if you got my call a
few moments ago. My call is through and -- explaining what
happen and - tell them we'll try tomorrow night. Just one of
those things.
CC Okay, I'm real sorry, AI.
CDR Not your fault. - Somewhere in the lines
are acting funny. I'm not sure where.
CC Yeah, we - we got site problem. We did
determine we were getting down-llnk in the bird and we couldn't
get it back to Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 15 and that's your
med conference.
CDR Okay, thank, Hank.
CC And at Vanguard, for info we'll be doing
a - commanding a dump enable.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab_Control; Greenwich mean
time, 6 minutes after the hour with loss of signal at the
stateside pass. Next acquisition will be Vanguard in 9 minutes.
During which time, we'll have the evening medical report,
with flight surgeon Dr. Jerry Hordinsky. Tonight begins the -
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two hour shift in the sleep patterns for _he crew of Skylab-lll,
to put their sleep cycles circadian in rhythm back on schedule
for the re-entry scheduled for September 25. Sleep time
begins in approximately 54 minutes at 01:00 Greenwich mean time.
Next acquisition in 8 minutes 30 seconds _t Vanguard. This
is Skylab Control; 6 minutes after the ho_r.

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PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 15

minutes after the hour. Up-comlng pass over Vanguard in
approximately i0 seconds. This pass will include a discussion
with Dr. Jerry Hordlnsky, Flight Surgeon, with the crew on
the status of the crew health for this day, day 51 in the
mission of Skylab III. We'll hold the line up in the event
that the conversation is concluded. We'll have conversation
with CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield. Greenwich mean time 15 minutes
i after the hour. We'll hold this llne up for Vanguard pass.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 27
minutes after the hour. Loss of signal at Vanguard. Next
acquisition in 59 minutes, will be GoldstQne. Greenwich mean
time 27 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab Control.

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Time: 20:01 CDT 52/01:01 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 1

hour 1 minute. On the Vanguard pass the Flight Surgeon
Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky discussed the crewVs status with the
3 astronauts and the report is as followsl The crew remains
in good health, Commander A1 Bean utillze4 his duty time -
his off-duty time to perform a continuous 95 minute exercise
run on the bicycle ergameter, literally a trip around the
world. The Science Pilot and Pilot demonstrated close-up
TV utilization techniques to determine their usefulness in
assisting with the diagnosis of potential inflight illnesses
or injuries, signed Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky, for Willard R.
Hawkins, Deputy Directpr of Life Sciences at the Johnson
Space Center. CAP COMM Hank Hartsfleld according to the
Flight Plan should have bid the crew good night on the last
Vanguard pass, however, next acquisition will be Goldstone
in approximately 24 minutes if the crew is still up andabout.
as anticipated CAP COMM Hank Hartsfleld will talk with the
crew. We'll come up - come back up at - in 24 minutes for
the stateside pass. At Greenwich mean time 1 hour 2 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 20:26 CDT, 52/1:26 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time i hour

26 minutes. We anticipate acquisition at the Goldstone tracking
station in 25 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this stateside
pass in the event CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield has further
discussions with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Sorry to bother you, after your bedtime
here but - we've been discussing this monitor i thing
here for quite awhile now and - we're worried about the
power supply and - to - stop worrying at least tonight about it,
we'd like to turn MON i off.
PLT Okay, I'ii go up and do it.
CC And, - PLT while you're there would you
give us a - status of the H-alpha-2 talk back. The door talkback.
PLT Yeah. It's white. It's - I've got the HON i
OFF.
CC Okay, thank you and - we have indications
that door is kind of a hung up in between. We won't worry
about it tonight, we can work that tomorrow.
PLT (garble) in 151.
CC Okay, that's one of those we'd have to
DAS the power on and off, we'd rather not mess with it tonight
Jack. We can get that tomorrow, run a malf on it.
PLT Okay, thanks a lot, Hank. We're all just
hitting the sack right now, in fact I'm about the last one.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean i hour
33 minutes, message passed up to Pilot Lousma to turn off
the - monitor i, the TV monitor aboard the C&D panel. It
was left on during the last pass. And apparently this will
be the last conversation with the crew tonight.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
i hour 40 minutes. Loss of signal at - Goldstone. The
crew is retired for the evening. Going to bed two hours
early to put their sleep cycle - moving it up two hours for
the next two days, to put themselves in position for
splashdown. So their workday will come out right on wakeup
day on the last day of the mission. Tomorrow, Monday,
September 17, has the crew performing two more Earth
resources passes. One over the Gulf of Mexico up through
the south Central United States, out off the east coast.
The second EREP pass will be over the South China Sea, over
the Japanese Islands. Three separate medical experiments
scheduled to performed tomorrow, MI31, human vestibular
function experiments with Commander Alan Bean. M092, lower
body - lower body negative pressure test and the MI71,
metabolic analyser experiment. 5 hours nearly 6 hours of
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manned observations of the Apollo telescope mounts scheduled

for tomorrow. Wake up time again will be 4 a.m. central
daylight time, Monday, September 17th. PAO console will close
Reopen at 4 a.m. central daylight time, September 17th.
Greenwich mean time, i hour 41 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-III HC-2137/1
Time: 04:19 CDT, 52/09:19 GHT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 18 minutes

and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently about
55 seconds from acquistion of signal at the Guam tracking
station. We have the llne up live for the wakeup call from
spacecraft communicator, Bob Crippen.
MCC Good morning Skylab. I'm Just calling
to tell you I'm anxiously awaiting your recovery. I wish the
rest of the mission a very (garble) success. And by the
way, please (garble) my regards. It was such a lovely site
last night (laughter). You boys take care of yourselves,
and remember I'm watching over you. Have a nice day, all
my love, Mother.
(WAKE-UP MUSIC) COME SATURDAY MORNING.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through
Guam for 8 minutes.
PLT Thank you, mother.
SPT Thank you, mother.
CDR That's the way to wake up.
CC I thought that was a little nicer than
what we did to you the other day.
PLT I guess that's the way they wake up in
the Air Force boot camp, huh?
CC Don't know about the Air Force.
PLT You there, Bob.
CC That's affirm. We've got you for about
3 minutes.
PLT I see you got us up before daylight,
today.
CC Well, I thought you Marines were use to
that.
PLT Yeah. We're night fighters.
SPT Hey, Bob, could you play the first part
of that wake up message over again. We kind of slept through
part of it.
CC We'll see if we can do that for you.
We've got about a minute til LOS. We'll see you again over
the Vanguard at i0:00. And that's about 31 minutes from
now.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bob. See you there.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 30 minutes and
45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've passed out of range
of the Guam tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal
will be 29 minutes and 14 seconds from now at the Vanguard
tracking ship off the coast of South America. This morning
Bob Crippen played up the crew wake-up, which included a
message from Mother Earth, and also a playing of the instru-
mental version of Come Saturday Morning. That's quite a
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change, as Crippen pointed out in the wake-up news a couple

of days ago, when they were awakened by the legendary Stardust
Cowboy and Paralyzed, which sounds a little llke the
Marine Close Order Drill, according to Owen Garrlott. This
is Skylab Control, our next acquisition about 28-1/2 minutes
from now, at Vanguard. It's now 31 minutes and 33 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2138/I
Time: 52/09:59 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 59 minutes

and 10 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently about
54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking
ship. We'll have the line up llve for alr-to-ground through
Vanguard. The pass at Vanguard will last about 8_I/2 minutes.
During this pass we would expect that the wake up message
which was broadcast up the crew at Guam will be repeated for
their benefit here at Vanguard as was requested by Jack Lousma
at the end of that last pass. This is Skylab Control, we have
the llne up live for air-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the
Vanguard for 8-1/2 minutes.
CC And Owen, we copy that the H-alpha 2 door
is open now. All we did last night was take the secondary
motor off, inhibit it, and put it back on. And copy that you
got it open.
SPT That's right. It opened automatically
with the Sunrise signal. I didn't do it manually. So we're
still leaving monitor I off now incidently. Is that as your
druthers.
CC You can turn it on any time you want.
And Owen, we'd appreciate a ATM frames remaining if you would
give it to us, please. We did not get it last night, nor
could we find it on channel A.
SPT Okay. I did notice that H-alpha 1 was -
let me see here just a minute. We left H-alpha 1 in auto.
I don't know whether it was taking pictures all night or not.
3995, 404, i0, 81, 1116, 1025. Over.
CC Okay, we copied that. And I've got a staff
update for you if you would like it.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, activity has remained low. The last
flare was less than a Charlie I subflare in active region 26
at 01:45. Small spots have appeared in the trailer of active
region 27. All other regions are stable. Only llmb activity
was small infrequent searches on the east limb at 280/1.0 which
may be associated with old active region 08, which is due back
late today.
SPT Okay. Not much to change on the time here
I guess. I just turned monitor 1 on.
CC Okey doke, that's fine. And if Jack or
CDR is available, I've got a few flight plan changes that I'd
like to voice up to you, please.
CDR Well, we're right here.
CC Very good. If we could start off, most of
these I think are associated with PLT's plan. It's on the
summary plan. If you have it available I'd llke to change
the order of review items.
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PLT Let her rip, Bob.

CC Okay. At the period of around 10:30
there where you have an M074 cal, we'd llke to place that Just
general housekeeping , and to move it. And the reason is it's
in conflict with urine stuff that AI is going to be doing.
And on down further, you have at 13:00 a general housekeeping.
We want your housekeeping 80 Romeo to start there at 13:00
by 13:30. And then at 13:30 we want you to do the M074 cal.
Okay, and a little bit further down on the pad, for the EREP
36, which is about 23:30, we've got you and AI turned around.
CDR is supposed to do the VTS, and PLT the C&D.
PLT Okay, we've got that. And I guess we've
got everything on the EREP except for the maneuver pad for EREP 36.
CC Okay, we'll look into that. It was sup-
posed to been up-llnked. And on your details if you want to
make those changes that basically were the same ones that I
gave you, Jack, on yours you can change that housekeeping
80R to13:00. And note that at 23:32, you've got the
C and D. And for CDR the only change is at 23:32 to note
that he has the VTS. And Jack, if you've got the S183 pad,
I need to give you a time change on it.
PLT Okay, go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, where it says 17:10 do the 183 prep,
that should be at 18:03, 18:03.
PLT Okay, I've got all of that. Is there
any more?
CC Let me see if I have got all of my paper
work straight here. Okay, I've got one other item. We gave
you a recorder look that A1 is going to do today, and we put
in the wrong serial number for the recorder. If he's got
that one handy, the recorder that we want to do that look on
is serial number 28. And that's the one that failed on us
last. Serial number 30 is the one that you're going to be
pulllng out today, Jack.
PLT Okay, we understand that, Bob.
CC Okay, and I believe that's got our pass
squared away, we hope.
PLT Okay. I've got some exercise to record
that I didn't turn in last night.
CC Okay, I'm standlnE by to copy.
PLT Okay, that was a number 1 for 35 minutes
8565.
CC Okay, we copy that.
PLT I got that wrong. That's a number 2 lower
body.
CC Copy number 2.
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SPT Crip while he's on the subject, I

also add mine was 3/15/mark i, 30 As, 30 Bs, and 30 Cs.
Over.

CC Okay, copy that, Owen.

CDR Those guys are keeping me awake with their
exercise while I'm trying to sleep.
CC Sounds like Bill Thornton. He did the
same thing to me.
CDR I think they are out of control.
SPT Either that or finally getting organized.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have reverlfied that that
maneuver pad 36 is supposed to be on board. If you would take
another look around, we'd appreciate it. If it's - If you haven't got
it when we see you at Canary, we'll sendlt back to you.
PLT Okay, Bob. And there's one other mistake in my
exercise last night I had 5 minutes for 656, so there was a mistake
and they reported as - as lower body instead of upper body.
CC Okay, copy that, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS
We'll see you again over the Canary in about 12 minutes at
10:20, 10:20.
PLT See you there, Bob.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 9 minutes and
34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now gone out of range
of the tracking ship Vanguard. Next acquisition of signal
I0 minutes and 14 seconds from now. It will be at the Canary
Islands. The pass through the Canary Islands and Madrid will
be a rather extensive one lasting about 14 minutes, and we'll
come back up at that time. This is Skylab Control at 9 minutes
and 55 seconds after the hour.

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PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours, 19 minutes

Greenwich mean time. At the present time, we're about
55 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Canary Islands. The
pass through Canary Islands and Madrid will last approximately
14 minutes. We'll keep the llne up llve now for alr-to-ground
through Canary Islands beginning about 40 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Canary for 13 minutes and can you tell us whether you found
that maneuver pad for EREP 36?
PLT Well, we haven't looked hard enough yet.
We'll have to go back up in the teleprinter. It didn't come
down in the first load we brought down. Let me go look.
CC We got another one in route to you.
PLT There's nothing new on the teleprinter
so we'll have to catch your update - your up-link here, Bob.
CC Couldn't quite copy that, Owen. We are
up-llnklng a new one.
SPT That's right. I see - I hear it coming
up. I see it's coming in right now so we'll have to use it.
There was nothing else new prior to this.
CC Okay. Copy that. Owen, are you busy
there at the panel, if you got a moment, I'd kind of llke to
talk to you about this JOP 13 and why - why it wasn't done
today.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. The problem was in all of our
computer runs we made down here, we kept running into getting
firings and getting on gimbal stops during the actual
data take and subsequent to the actual JOP 13, we were getting
resets. Plus, we were in a pretty bad momentum state. And
it ended up that it cost us in excess of 500 pound seconds
of tacs and it just didn't look like a good thing to go ahead
press in that DAC configuration. Right now, we're looking at
day 55 and it's our intent to do our best to get it
scheduled there and we're to the point of sacrificing other
items that might be planned on being schedule. However, during
our current momentum profile which is primarily due to the
beta angle it is going to cost quite a bit of TACS. And
we're looking at it now and trying to get it squared away.
SPT Okay. Sounds llke you're working at it
as hard as you can and nothing else we can do. I guess we
really pinned In because of the stars too. Must require a
maneuver that - I take it it's out at a pretty bad angle to
produce all those bad momentum effects. So it looks llke you're
doing the best you can down there. We thank you very much.
CC Okay Owen. We're working on it and the
guys are really trying real hard.
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SPT Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For CDR and PLT,
we're sorry about the problems we had on the VHF with your
phone calls last night and assume that you would llke us to
go ahead and try those again this evening.
PLT Yes, sir for both of us, please.
CC Okay. Hope that it will work a little bit
better this time.
CDR Did you ever find out what was wrong?
CC Unfortunately AI, we're not really
positive what was wrong.
CDR I think that's why we have to (garble) the
problem. Is because we never really nailed down after the
fact what was wrong. It's usually - somebody says, well, check
the spacecraft et cetera and we honestly haven't had
a mistake. We got about 6 sul - switches to throw up there.
And any time we have a problem, we got through the little
old checklists. And there's no mistakes - we haven't had a
mistake up here in months. Yet, consistently we have problem
on the ground. And my feeling is, somewhere, since we don't
have them with other comm systems, somewhere we're not back-
tracking and following through to find out what's wrong and
then fixing that one thing. I think it's been a shame the way this
private comm has gone as far as ability to consistently
get VHF. Cause we don't ever have any trouble with the VFH when
we're needing it for rendezvous or anything. It's Just these
klnda turn up for private eomm, we nevercan get it through.
CC We copy AI. Understand your feelings
and can certainly appreciate them. We'll see if we can't
dobetter.
CDR Yeah, I'm not disturbed because we're
inconvenienced. We got plenty of time. But I just think
it's an unprofessional way to operate in the space business.
CC Copy that.
CC CDR, Houston. One item I'd llke to make
sure that there's no confusion on - on your summary Flight
Plan down there for EREP 36 data take. Do you have that
handy?
CDR You mean the VTS pad toward the bottom?
CC No. Actually, such reason - I don't think
there's going to be any problem, on the summary Flight Plan, you know
where we normally llst in the little blocks the data take
time? It listed that starting at 00:22 we're actually going
to have EREP start at 00:19 and that's just to handle a
VTS cal. And I just mentioned it here, I don't think there'll
be any problem in it, but just to make sure you know what we're
doing.
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PLT Okay. Thank you.

CC And Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS.
Have you again over Honeysuckle in 35 minutes at 11:08. We'll
be doing a data voice recorder dump. Itm assuming Bruce will
have you by then, so I'll say good morning to you and talk to
you tomorrow.
PLT Okay. Thanks for hearing us out. We'll
see you tomorrow, Bob.
CC Roger dodger.
PA0 Skylab Control at 10 hours, 34 minutes
and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
we've gone out of range of the Madrid tracking station after
a pass through Canary Islands and Madrid. Our next acquisi-
tion of signal will be 33 minutes and 21 seconds from now.
And that will be at Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia
This is Skylab Control at 35 minutes and 4 seconds after the
hour.

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Time: 06:07 CDT, 52/ii:07 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 7 minutes

and 19 seconds Greenwich mean time. Presently about 54 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
tracking station. The pass through Honeysuckle will last
a little over 7 minutes and then we'll have another long
period of loss of signal. This is Skylab Control. We have
the line up live for alr-to-ground through Honeysuckle Creek.
CC, Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 7-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder here. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 35 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 44 minutes through Canary
at 11:59. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce. That was a pretty short
pass. Good morning.
CC Say again, please.
PLT I said, good morning. That was a pretty
short pass. I think this is the first I've heard from you.
CC Okay. Well, we better check. I gave
you an AOS call with something like 9 - 7-1/2 minutes or so. And -
May be you didn't hear it.
PLT Yeah. Maybe I just didn't hear it.
I did hear quite a bit of static on the speaker, though.
I thought may be we were having a comm problem.
CC Okay, we'll check it out, Jack - -
PLT (Garble) check (static)
PAO Skylab Control at Ii hours 17 minutes
and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of
range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station.
Our next acquisition of signal not for 42 minutes. At that
time we'll be acquiring at Canary Islands. During this
last pass the crew indicated that they did not hear an
acquisition signal call from the spacecraft communicator, now,
Bruce McCandless. Bruce McCandless Just come on with the
shift of Nell Hutchinson, Just taking over now from off-
going flight director Donald Puddy. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal not for more than 40 minutes.
It's now 17 minutes and 52 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2141/I
Time: 06:58 CDT, 52/11:58 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 58 minutes

and 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
spacecraft is traveling over the mid Atlantic Ocean about
to re - receive acquisition of signal from the Canary Island
tracking station. This pass through Canary Island and Madrid
will be a rather extensive one lasting almost 12 minutes.
We have the line up now, live, for alr-to-ground through
Canary Island and Madrid for about the 12 minutes. Acquisition
of signal expected about 30 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
Islands for 5 minutes. Out.
PLT Say, Bruce, has the tape recorder number 30
failed? Is that why you want it changed?
CC PLT, Houston. Negative. Tape recorder
serial number 30 is still operative. It does however, have
1400 hours accumulated operating time. We Just want to
change it out at thls stage to maximize our chance of having
four good operating tape recorders through the unmanned period.
Over.
PLT Okay. Well, I hadn't heard anything about
it, and I didn't know whether to put red tape on it or not.
So, it's not failed and I will not put red tape on it. Thank
yOU.
CC NO. YOU might put gray tape on it or
something and mark it as a last backup.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yeah. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Hi, Jack. Looking at the time on the VTR,
we show only 3.4 minutes of record time up only 9/lOths of
a minute from last pass. We're wondering if that's ATM data,
or if you've had some problems running TV-16. Over.
PLT That was a pretty quick shave wasn't it?
We haven't been able to get the TV-16 done yet. But, we're
delaying that and it's not on the (garble) yet.
CC Okay. Understand.
CC Skylab, Houston, now coming to you through
Madrid for an addltlonal 7 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute ill
LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 12:36, where we'll be dumping the data voice tape'recorder.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 11 minutes
and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're out of range of the tracking station at Madrid. Our
next acquisition of signal 24 minutes and 48 seconds from
now will be at Carnarvon, Australia. It is going to be a
very busy day aboard the Skylab space station. The crew was
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awakened this morning at 4:20 a.m. by spacecraft communicator,

then, Bob Crlppen. At the present time the spacecraft communl -
communicator is Story Musgrave. The astronauts are beginning
a change in their sleep schedule in preparation for that
long day of activity before splashdown, scheduled for Tuesday,
September 25th. Among the activities to be done today,
include two more Earth Resources surveys that'll bring the
total number of passes during the mission to 36, more than
three times the number completed during the first Skylab
mission and i0 more than were originally planned for the
current flight. Today's Earth surveys will include several
sites in the eastern United States from Alabama to New York.
Test areas in southern Europe and half a dozen sites in
Japan and its coastal waters. First Earth Resources pass
today, EREP number 35 will be along track 43 beginning at
9:56 a.m. central daylight time. That pass begins about
i000 miles southwest of Acapulco in the Pacific Ocean and
concludes Just south of Italy in the Mediterranean. Start
time for that again, 9:56 a.m. central daylight time, conclusion
at 10:25 a.m. central daylight time, a 29 minutes pass.
Second EREP of the day, EREP number 36 will be along track 49.
All the sites are located in or near Japan. Begin at 7:22 p.m.
central daylight time and run to 7:29 p.m. central daylight
time, a 7-minute pass, covering approximately 2000 miles.
It begins Just south of Talwan and concludes about 200 miles
east of the Island of Hokkaldo in Japan. This is Skylab
Control. Our next acquisition 22 minutes and 53 seconds
from now. It's now 14 minutes after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2142/I
Time: 07:35 CDT 52/12:35 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 35 minutes

and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time, we
are about 53 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Car-
narvon, Australia tracking station. This pass through Car-
narvon and Honeysuckle will last approximately 15 minutes.
We have the line up for alr-to-ground through two Australian
tracking stations as the spacecraft passes over Australia.
We're now about 35 seconds from acquisition of signal and
we will keep the llne up live through this pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for i0 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder here. Out.
SPT Say, Bruce, back at 12:12 Zulu we had
a rather strong 6 centimeter radio noise burst onboard. I
did check the corona as soon as possible there after, and
did a short fastscan for S052, although there was nothing
visible in the corona at that time. I wonder if the ground
has any concerning evidence? Over.
CC Okay, we'll check on that, Owen.
CC SPT, Houston. Roger, we're checking on
that. We'll get back to you when we have an answer. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC And SPT, while we're talking to you here
we realize that it is night now, but what's the status of
ATM monitor number i. Over.
SPT Monitor i is working in top shape. There
is nary a jitter. And the display is perfectly normal in all
respects.
CC Okay, we copy. And do you have any feel
or any idea of what was causing the problem?
SPT Only be a couple of guesses. It didn't first
show up right after the EREP operation yesterday. And perhaps
there was some sort of a thermal transient that was altering
the sleep circuitry in the monitor. In as much as I believe
the sync Jet provides the sync signal from both monitors,
and it did not show up on monitor 2 so I can eliminate that.
And down stream where that comes complete circuitry and mon-
itor I, so I assume that it was something associated with
just that circuitry. And my guess is maybe a thermal problem
or something like that. Over.
CC Roger, we concur with that.
CC SPT, Houston. From Canary Island we get
the report that they observed a 30 megahertz burst, a fairly
small one at about the same time that you reported observing
the 6 centimeter burst. Over.
SPT Okay. Of course the 30 megahertz occurs
a lot more frequently than the Sun bursts, but (garble) pretty
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substantial my guess is 500 flux units or so. And I thought

that it might be associated with the coronal transient, but
we'll Just take another look at the beginning of the next orbit.
CC Understand, but nothing reported in 6
centimeters from Canary. And you're right, it is a pretty
small one.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston coming up on a
about a 45 second drop out as we hand over to Honeysuckle.
I'll call you there.

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SL-III MC2143/I
Time: 07:46 CDT, 52/12:46 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston coming to you

through the courtesy of Honeysuckle Creek for 4 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact is in 34 minutes through Merritt
Island at 13:26. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours, 52 minutes and
53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now gone out of range
of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station. Our
next acquisition of signal, 32 minutes and 36 seconds from now
will be at Merritt Island. During this last pass over Australia,
Science Pilot Owen Garriott indicated that he had observed
the radio burst of in the vicinity 500 flux units. He thought
that possibly was associated with the coronal transient. How-
ever, the ground reported that they had observed a very small
30 megahertz spike on their instruments at Canary Island
observatory off the coast of Africa. A relatively small indi-
cation of solar activity, so there's - that will be studied
by Science P'ilot Owen Garrlott during the next pass over -
during the daylight time. It's now ii minutes and 48 seconds
from daylight aboard the space craft as they pass south of
New Zealand. Next acquisition of signal, more than a half of
an hour from now. It's now 53 minutes and 53 seconds after
the hour.

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SL-III MC2144/I
Time: 08:24 CDT, 52/13:24 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab Control at 13 hours, 24 minutes

and 41 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently 54 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Merrltt Island tracking
facility and we'll have the line up llve for alr-to-ground
through Merrltt Island and Bermuda. This pass will be rather
extended one lasting about 11-1/2 minutes. We do have the
llne llve for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merrltt
Island for i0 minutes and for your information, we've checked
the NUz update over and looks good to us. Out.
PLT Okay Bruce. When I replaced the tape
recorder and in doing so, I had to reconflgure the recorder
switches and I'm standing by to put them wherever you want them
according to the checklist.
CC Okay, Jack. What we'd like to get is
recorder i to experiment one in voice and the recorder 2 to
off and recorder 3 to data voice. Over.
CC And for the SPT, we'd llke the DAS for
a minute to inhibit momentum for the EREP.
SPT You have it. Okay. I put number i on
experiment i voice. Number 2 is off and number 3 is data voice.
Is that right?
CC Roger. Thank you.
SPT End of command.
CC Okay Owen. DAS is yours.
CC PLT, Houston. We got a change to the
configuration there.
PLT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we'd llke to wind up with is
recorder 1 being experiment 1 in voice. Recorder 2 being data
voice and recorder 3 being experiment 2. Over.
PLT Okay. You cut out on the first on, but
the number 2 is data voice and number 3 is experiment 2. Must
be the other on was experlmentl, huh?
CC Roger. That's the configuration we're
looking for. And I guess you need to wind up with us back
in command also.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We're currently getting more
pretty good size 6 centimeter radio noise burst. You might
check that out again.
CC Okay, Owen. Will do.
CDR Hey Bruce, I assume that you really want
me to shoot this Sargasso Sea out window i or - window i. One
or two look llke the best to me.
CC Roger, Alan. That's fine with us.
CDR At EREP - whether the flight D-I specifi-
cally within 300 millimeter lens - straight down or to the left
about course?
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CC CDR, you are looking for is up and down

track from Bermuda, pretty much straight down and I guess
you have to take as many shots as you feel appropriate to
blanket the area. If you see a boat down there that has Wood's
Hole written on the stern, you might get a couple shots right
around it.
CDR Okay. We've never seen any sargassum
but we may see the boat. I'ii take a quick look.
CC For the SPT, we're not seeing anything
on the ground that's correlatable with the 6 centimeter ob-
servations you are making. Keep us posted on what you
observe. We're beginning to think that maybe you've got
a problem in the reception equipment up there. Over.
CDR Okay. But it looks to me like it's
behaving normally. Because after a couple of bursts there,
it'll drop back to normal level and behaves normally at night.
And so my guess in there really hasn't been a couple 6 centimeter
bursts. But we'll see.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Say Bruce. We had to tape this Sargasso
Sea with a Hasselblad because just as I was ready
to take the picture, the Has - the Nikon decided it was out
of film.
CC Roger. We copy.

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Time: 08:35 CDT 52/13:35 GMT
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to

LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 13:41. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 37 minutes
and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. The spacecraft is pre-
sently in the north Atlantic Just out of range of the Bermuda
tracking station. We'll have acquisition of signal in about
2 minutes and 50 seconds at the tracking station at Madrid.
During this last pass Commander Alan Bean was doing a little
hand held photography of the Sargasso Sea in an area in the
middle of the Atlantic near Bermuda. It is covered with a
sargassuim seaweed, and this was one of several passes made
over that Sargassum area. They have used the Earth terrain
camera previously on it during a solar inertial pass. That
may again be repeated in another few days, but they are trying to
get hand held photography of several different points at the same
time that a research vessle from Woods Hole Massachusettes is out
surveying the actual situation in the ocean. During the pass
Commander Bean indicated that he was to have been using the
Nikon camera but it was reading out of film as he began pho-
tography, and as a result he used instead the Hassleblad
70 millimeter camera for the activity. We're now about 1 minute
and 50 seconds from acquisition of signal at Madrid, and
we'll keep the llne up llve for air-to-ground through the
Madrid tracking station that pass lasting about 8 minutes.
During this next pass A1 Bean will go on to do a little bit
of his physical training. And Science Pilot Owen Garriott
will be at the ATM console as he was in the beginning of the
Merritt Island pass. There are about 27-1/2 minutes of daylight
left in their ATM activity. The next rev around the Earth
will begin the first EREP of the day, pass number 35 of this
mission. That pass will begin 1000 miles southwest of Acapulco
We'll cross Mexico with several sites on the east coast of
the United States from Alabama, North Carolina, Delaware, and
up to the New York coast. That also passes over southern
France and southern Italy. And the final sites then being
in southern France and Italy and it concludes in the mid
Mediterranean. This is Skylab Control. We have the llne
up llve for air-to-ground through Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.

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SL-III MC-2146/I
Time: 08:46 CDT, 52/13:46 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute til

LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 14:14. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 49 minutes
and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of
range of the Madrid tracking station as the spacecraft is
passing over eastern Europe. We're about 24 minutes and
36 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia
tracking station and we'll come back up live at that time
for alr-to-ground through Carnarvon. At the present time
the spacecraft is near the end of its day cycle about to
pass into darkness in another 17 minutes. And the crew will
now begin preparing immediately after this period of daylight
preparing for that EREP pass. During the EREP pass the
Flight Plan calls for Science Pilot Owen Garrlott to be
operating the Earth terrain camera from the antlsoiar scientific
alrlock and the other two crew members to be operating respectively
the 191, and the control and display panel. That is controlling
the remaining instruments. This is Skylab Control. It's
now 50 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC2147/I
Time: 09:13 CDT, 52/14:13 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours, 13 minutes

and I0 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is coming within range of the
Carnarvon, Australia tracking station. This through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle will last approximately 15 minutes. There will
be a short break between the two portions of the pass as
there will be a dropout between the two tracking antennas.
We'll have the llne up llve for air-to-ground through Car-
narvon and Honeysuckle beginning in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 9-1/2 minutes. Over. Okay. We've verified maneuver
time you have loaded looks good. We don't see tacs enable
yet. We realize we're a little early and I got a couple
of words on the 193 altimeter test today for the PLT, if
you're interested.
PLT Here I am and I'm interested.
CC Okay. If you've looked at your C&D
pad, you have noticed that with great skill and cunning we've
scheduled S193 operations again today after we secured them
yesterday. What's different about today, is that we'll be
passing over a wall of silence and there will be a transponder
operating on the ground measuring the output of the 193
altimeter transmitter and attempting to turn it around
with enough signal strength to get 193 A a lock on even
though the antenna is not pointed down to Nadir. Concurring
with it, we'll be acquiring altimeters down-link data out
of the EDDU. Our intent is to verify the functioning of the
altimeter transmitter and also the receiver and the data
handling functions and we're considering the possibility of
during one of the EVAs on SL-4, attempting to manually re-
position the antenna in a circle launch locks to regain
this operation. Therefore, as you may have noted, we're
asking you to give us status on the radio lights and a couple
of meter read outs while 193 A is running today. Over.
PLT Yes, sir. I noticed that and I'ii
sure do it. If you're sure you wouldnlt like us to go up
there to check that once or twice?
CC Negative. What we're trying - what we
need to do, really is to take a little time and get some
maturity in the procedure and right around the management
level and before we commit to something like that. And since
we're not going to be operating the EREP package during the
unmanned periods, it doesn't seem to be any great rush to
get it done. Over.
PLT Okay. Sounds like you came up with a
ready-made answer there, Bruce. And we thank you for that
information. We hope that this works out well. We'll make
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the readings at the right time and is there anymore word about
the nature of the problem?
CC Okay. We need the DAS for a moment to
enable momentum dump and there's no further word of the nature of
the problem. We hope we'll be able to give you some after we get
the data back from this pass.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Sounds llke at the moment,
that it's probable that the altimeter electronic transmitter
receiver are both working. It's just that the gimbal mode
drive is not working properly. Is that correct?
CC We don't know.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Sounds llke your mike's stuck
open but I got a little information here on our experiment -
that's M561 as to some temperature last night on Jop i of
1002 and on Jop 2, it was reading 997. That was that 0050
and I don't know exactly what time I switched over but
at that time, it wasn't (garble).
CC Okay. Thank you very much. And the DAS
is yours. We're through with it. For the SPT, since you
collected a sweat sample yesterday, we request that you
not collect the sample schedule on the Flight Plan for today.,
on mission day 52 and we will schedule another one later on
in the mission. Over.
SPT Roger. In other words, this is a no sweat
day, right Bruce?
SPT (garble) SPT.
CC You took the words right out of my mouth.
In fact, we had them in the Flight Plan for yesterday
but we thought better of it and took them out. And
I'm not sure you copied, Jack. You bet - you know my mike
was stuck open. What I was saying on 193 is that we don't
know what the status is on the electronics and we're trying
to find that out.
PLT I see. Is there any knowledge as to whether or
not the altimeter problem coupled with the SCAT/RAD problem.
CC Right. We think they're interrelated
because it's - of course the same box, the same setup that
drives the antenna in both cases and we've persuing the
problem by running this test over (garble) today.
PLT Real good. Glad to hear it and hope it
works out, well. Thank you, Bruce.
CC And we show the TACS enabled hardware and
software and looks llke you're all set for the pass.
CDR You got it right. And does EREP want us to
pick up many of those other targets up there too, if we have
the opportunity - llke 630 A, 620, 635, and if so, which ones
does he like the best?
CC Stand by, please.
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CDR Everybody's circadian rhythm seems

to beturned around by 2 hours.
CC Yeah, we noticed that down here, too.
CDR Watch our smoke today.
CC Okay. Just don't give off much UV or
that'll trip the fire detectors.
CDR Okay.

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Time: 09:21 CDT 52/14:21 GMT
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CDR Hey Bruce, you all are attempting to

get a family comm set up for Jack and I tonight, aren't you?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Thank you.
CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 1-i/2 minutes through Honeysuckle. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
for 4 minutes. We'll he dumping the data voice tape recorder
next station which is Corpus Christi. Out.
SPT Hey Bruce, are you going to be on the
day shift tomorrow?
CC I'd say I'ii be working the same hours
tomorrow that I am today. Over.
SPT Yeah. That's what I was asking about. I didn't
think you'd want to change shifts right here when we were
coming up on another opportunity to collect data over that
darkened spot of the southwest up northwest of us there.
CC Where is that?
SPT You know, your favorite locality, Big E.
CC Okay, up there in Oakland. I'ii spell
it for you. Oregon, Kansas. Louisiana, Arkansas. Over.
SPT You're homing in on it pretty well. You
know you're glving that little locality so much good publicity
it wouldn't surprise me at all if the city council up there
wanted to make you an honorary citizen.
CC Say Owen, we've been copying all of your
transmissions but there is a little confusion down here in
the Control Center. The reason I spelled it out last time is
that we're not sure whether you mean Enid, Mississippi, or Enid,
Montana. Over.
CC And for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Yes sir, if you can get them stand by and
you might check and make sure the SPT received our last com-
munication.
CDR He did. He's still reverberating from the
shock.
CC Okay Alan, here we go again. If you can
get them, the sites we'd llke to have are 630, that's 630,
625 and 635 in that order. Over.
CDR Okay, I might be able to get one of them
because they are all sort of in the same area, but I'ii look for
630 and if it is not there, I'ii do 25. All right?
CC Yeah. Hey look we're responding to your
request to tell you what we'd like to get. None of them are
required. Just whatever you can get is gravy. And we've got
Just a couple of seconds to LOS. Next station contact in
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28 minutes in your pass through Corpus Christi at 14:58. Out.

CDR Okay, we just went ZL_.
CC Roger. We confirm it.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 29 minutes and
43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
now passed out of the range of the tracking station at Honey-
suckle Creek, Australia. It's traveling south of the Island
of New Zealand. During this last pass there was a little
bit of kidding there about Enid Mississippi, and Enid, Montana.
The Big E as Owen Garriott called it is Enid, Oklahoma his
home town. Bruce Musgrave was informed by the EREP ops Officer
here, the Earth resources Officer, that there are two other Enids
in the United States, one in Mississippi and one in Montana.
And he gave the Science Pilot a bit of a hard time about that.
At the very end of the pass Commander Alan Bean told us that
they had Just begun the maneuver to go into Z local vertical,
that is to point the Earth resources equipment at the surface
below them. And they are now out of the solar inertial
attitude which points the ATM directly at the Sun. They are
now in the nighttime period, so it makes a little difference
for getting electrical energy or for Earth resources data. They
will however begin an Earth resources pass about 25 minutes
from now. That pass beginning at 9:56 a.m. central daylight
time or 14:56 Greenwich mean time, will begin about a thousand
miles southwest of Acapulco. Most of its sites located in
the United States along the east coast from Alabama running
to North Carolina and along the Atlantic coast of New York.
Some of the studies are to study the usefulness of Skylab
remote sensing equipment for preparing detailed oceanographic
charts. Also a study over Alabama will be used to - the data
from Skylab will be used to evaluate a computerized system
for detecting and recording changes in the environment from
a space platform. Survey will also provide some information
on the relationship between ocean conditions in the Atlantic
and the production of biological life. That is to say marine
productivity and the ocean currents, sea state, and things of
that sort. That pass will also include sites in Europe, southern
Prance and southern Italy. The Pyrenees are one of the sites
to determine the relationship there between outgoing terrestrial
radiation that has been collected by satellites. Also mentioned
during this last pass is a problem that has been going on
for some time now with the SI 193, the a microwave radiometer, scatter.
ometer, altimeter. They have had some difficulty with the
antennas on that system. They will be attempting tests during
this pass with Wallops Island NASA station to attempt to acquire
a lock on the S193 using a transponder on the ground. We'll
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get some more details on that before the EEEP pass which is
begin about 20 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control. It
is 24 minutes and 50 seconds to our next acquisition of signal
It's now 32 minutes 46 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2149/I
Time: 09:55 CDT, 52/14:55 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylah Control at 14 hours 55 minutes

and 36 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab crew should be Just about beginning their Earth Resources
Pass. They are about i000 miles southwest of Acapulco at
this time and we're about a minute and 45 seconds from
S-band acquisition. Although, we do expect to hear some
talk from the crew almost immediately. So we'll keep the
llne up live for alr-to-ground through Texas, Merrltt Island,
and Bermuda, an extended pass lasting approximately 17 minutes.
We have the llne up llve now for air-to-ground.
PLT Time: number 1 is 48 percent.
PLT Is 55 percent.
CDR Bunches of clouds.
PLT Bravo 0 is 10 percent. Charlie 0 is
2 percent. Delta 9 is 8 percent. Delta 0 is off-scale low.
Okay. 58:52 next.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with you through
the stateside pass. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. We're off and running.
CC We llke the maneuver time you've got
loaded.
CDR You llke it, huh?
CC We llke it.
CDR We thought you'd like it. That's why
we put it on there. Thanks for catching it the other day.
PLT Okay. It says time, 17 minutes.
PLT 52:030 and 500:21.
CDR 17 minutes is what you see, huh?
PLT I'ii put it in again, just to show you.
CDR We put them in two or three times.
CDR 15:27. How late is that after my pass?
PLT 15:27. Plenty late. Way after intended.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We were telling
you that the maneuver time you had previously loaded is good. The
one that you Just loaded again is also good. They're both
17 minutes. Out.
PLT MARK. READY LIGHT ON. Okay. For 191 - -
CDR Just redoing it.
PLT Reference is 6. 953 next.
CDR 95 for what?
PLT Okay. Now, Bruce wants to know exactly
when the altimeter READY LIGHT is ON when we get a steady
altimeter unlock and when the READY LIGHT goes OFF. Okay.
CDR What a llfe those fellows have in
Mission Control. They've got it made down there. We're up
here sweating and eating those steaks. They're getting to do
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all sorts of fun things down there.

PLT Yeah. Ice cream.
CDR That's right.
CC Hey, (garble). Could I have another jelly
do-nut, please?
CDR Yeah. The flight director takes care
of him. He's probably going to buy him dinner tonight
again.
PLT (Laughter) I would if I were flight
directo r . MARK. MODE to AUTO on 190. Okay. Down to
position 5.
CDR On the time?
PLT MARK. Position 5 on the down-link box.
PLT Yeah, I could use a couple of enchiladas,
Bruce. A hamburger and a milkshake would be great.
PLT It would.
CDR But we'll suffer through it.
PLT Why don't you go over there to the Monterey
House scarf down some of that mexican chow. (Laughter)
Oh, boy.
CDR You bet. 5 weeks to go.
PLT (Garble) a month to go. (Laughter)
PLT Well, forget it.
CDR We're passing over land.
PLT i0 of them.
CC Strange you should notice that.
PLT (Chuckle) at this early in the morning.
CDR Not a lot you can tell at lens zoom when
you're not hunting for something that's big, I'll tell you.
If you're not hunting for a bay or a city or something llke
that or a road_ you're - In zoom you dontt see a lot, or
big sand piles, or something.
PLT Oh, when I get back, I'm going to tell
them how to design the left-hand operation on that VTS.
CDR Think you're qualified?
PLT Yeah, maybe I will be in another week.
CDR Ten more EREPs to go. This is number 1
of ten.
CDR Nadir swath. 0 0r that's where we are.
We've got 30 minutes to get to the next one. That'll be
slmple enough.

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PLT Knock them deadthere today, AI.

CDR Got them on the (garble) Wonder what
we're going to do when this 10 minutes of data at 45 degrees,
with special 10. I've been trying to figure that one out.
I didn't know when you get data very good up that far ahead.
PLT So we're finding out. Maybe that's it.
That's the check. Over the water again. Coming up through
the Gulf.
CDR Yeah, the Gulf. Yeah, if I were the
Flight Director, I'd take the crew for a nice dinner everytlme
we got a solar flare or good EREP pass.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC You're looking at a description of special
kind. It has you 45 degrees up, IMC on, DAC ON, select uniform
site near designated target point, magnification max and then
track it to at least 10 degrees down-track. Over.
CDR It doesn't say that, see. What it says
here - that's what I'm wondering. It says, "Acquire Chesapeake
Bay at 45 degrees." Okay, I can do that. Now it says, "Track
for i0 seconds and then return to the special site, 615."
I must be reading it wrong.
PLT Hey, babe - -
CC Roger, AI. You're reading it correctly
and what we want you to do is acquire it, track it for about
i0 seconds, and then do the proximity of target 615. We
figure you have to break off there and try and acquire 615
and get data on it. Over.
CDR Okay. That sounds good. I'm still won-
dering what they hope to get at 45 degrees off Chesapeake
Bay, that's the thing that puzzled me a little bit. But it's
okay, Just a general interest thing.
PLT Got something in the middle angle of rare
fraction as it builds up an imaginary plane at minus infinity.
CDR That's it.
PLT Remember that one?
CDR Yes. Remember that briefing?
PLT Okay. Here we go tol0 (garble) is
nearby.
CDR MARK. INTERVALS to i0.
PLT And we're going to get the tape burner
on.
CDR MARK. MODE to READY.
PLT Faded away to the spot.
CDR RECORD Alfa 2 and Charlle 4. Tape motion
light is doing right. Just like what we want it to be. Okay.
Alfa 2 is 51 percent, Charlle 4 is 70 percent - -
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PLT I seem to read them a lot.

PLT (garble) need to know. Seven minutes
fixed -
CDR What? (garble)
PLT (garble) hand in the pocket routine
this morning.
CDR Okay. 443, I've got a few seconds. 508;
we're still over the Gulf. We're approaching the coast of
Florida I think. Yeah, we are - no, no. Yeah, Florida,
Just below Alabama.
PLT Attaboy. He always knows where he's at.
CDR Yeah, I used to land there; there's
Tyndall and those places. 508, camera's on. Turn it on
a little bit early. Okay, we're nadir swathing and we Just ran
into some overcast clouds. Then you go to 622, Jack. Nadir
swath now entered the clear area. That was just a small,
localized overcast area; didn't look like a thunderstorm.
We're clear, now we're going to scattered. We're looking
for 622.
SPT Put it on them, AI. Put it on them.
CDR Yeah, I got it right on them. A lot of
them there. 622. It's going to make history, this one.
How's your circadian rhythm?
PLT Going in circles.
CDR Okay.
PLT You know what that means?
CDR Uh-uh.
PLT Makes you want to go to bed as soon as
you get up. (Laughter)
CDR 622, we're there.
PLT Yeah, you have that problem up here too.
CDR 622.
PLT I don't think I've got up yet. I feel
pretty good.
CDR Yeah, 617. We've got 5 seconds of swathing.
PLT Okay, get off of that swath and get on
the site.
CDR I've had it with swathing.
PLT Go man.
CDR Okay.
PLT 4 - -
CDR It'll be 5.6 and left .01.
PLT Pick up this real stuff.
CDR 45.6 is right there, left 0.1. I think
showing is 652.
PLT They can see it better. They got their
fingers in their ears saying, "Oh, no. Here those guys go
again." Why don't they keep their fingers (garble)
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CDR Itts a little cloudy down there.

CC You're oh so riEht.
PLT (Laughter) Never lose your sense of
humor.
CDR 652, we're goin E to Eo on time.

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SL-III MC-2151/I
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CDR Okay, we Just went on time, now we're

going to zoom in. 62 - -
PLT Wait until it gets in the press he says
he thinks - is not thinking. MARK. Mode to check. You thought I
was going to miss that one.
CDR Well, it's cloudy. I can't see anything.
Just look around.
PLT Alfa 2 and Charlle 4 are behaving the same
as they were.
CDR If I didn't know better l'd think I was
doping off. We've got it, we've got something.
PLT We're really wearin E out this tape. I
hope the tape lasts.
CDR Let's try to get a different filter. That
won't work. Okay, now I think we've got Chesapeake Bay. It's so
hazy I can't tell, Bruce. I'ii take some data on it right
now. Now I'm going to go back to the shore line_ but I can't
make out any, I can't make out it enough to know what I've got
here.
PLT Wait til I say MARK. Mode to ready.
CDR It's possible.
PLT Okay, we're going to get that altimeter on
and then I'm going to watch.
CDR That's sort of something. It could
conceivably the wet lands. This is still (garble).
PLT MARK. Altimeter on. I've got a steady
ready light and a steady altimeter light, unlock light immedi-
ately when I put the track in - -
CDR We were switched (garble).
PLT - - (garble), but now the unlock
light is out. Unlock light went out. Okay, you want Bravo 9.
I've got about a - -
CDR (garble) is off. It Just went to off.
PLT - - 30 seconds to get all of this.
CDR Okay.
PLT Let me talk. Bravo 9 is reading
57 to 58 percent, 57.5. Charlie 1 is reading 96 percent and
climbing gradually. Charlle 0, Chalrle 1 is now off scale high,
Charlie 0 is reading 2 percent, Delta 0 is off scale low. The
unlock light is on. Steady again, I didn't see when it came on,
but I did call it when it came off. I was reading the dials when
unlockcame on.
CDR We've got these other targets.
PLT The ready light is out.
CDR What we've got right now is the targets
you wanted next whichever - I don't remember the name of it_
but we've got it. We've got it right foresighted.
PLT MARK. Mode to check. Altimeter ready
light is out. And the unlock light is still on. Record in
1.
CDR Now I'm going to be approaching minus i0.
I've got to go to a different flux.
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PLT Let me talk to them. A1 is 40 percent,

Bravo 1 is 44 percent, Bravo 0 is I0 percent. Delta 9 is
7 percent. Did you get all of that, Bruce?
CC Got it all, Jack.
CDR Okay, we've got Block Island. So we've
got both of them. I'll tell you the number of the other one
in a few minutes.
PLT The unlock light is still on. The ready
light is out. Bruce, on 193 A. Somethin s happened to
those lights. Are you there?
CC I'm here.
PLT Something happened to those lights while
I was reading the dial. I couldn't watch them both at the
same time. And I think I recorded their off and on, but
not the exact times.
CC That's okay. I think we're getting
the data we need.
PLT That's a boy. That's what we want to
hear.
CDR Okay, that was it.
PLT 190 next.
CDR What we got was 630A in Block Island,
which is 640A.
PLT Ready light is on on the 190. We're
in standby, the shutter speed is slow. The frames are
1 and i. The intervals are 20. What's next?
CDR (garble) 11.
CDR I don't know but I've got to go stand
by the computer since we (garble).
PLT Same status on 193A, Bruce. Altimeter
light is out. The unlock light is on. That gives you some
readings to get what you want. We got time. 39 percent for
AI. Bravo 1 is 44 percent, Bravo 0 is i0 percent, Delta 9
7 percent. Where were we, ii minutes coming up. The unlock
light is on and the ready light is off on 193A. And MARK.
We're standby. Unlock light is off. Okay, down switch
position off, downllnk V X is off.
CDR (garble).
PLT 193 rev is off. 193 altimeter is off.
11:36.
PLT Did yo get them?
CDR Got them both.
PLT That's a boy.
CDR But get the wet lands? I couldn't tell.
I think so from looking at the map. You couldn't see it.
PLT MARK. EREP stop.
CDR It was so hazy. All I could tell
was the water, and then I could see a couple of points.
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CC Okay. Good show. And our friendly flight

director down ehre says that he'd be happy to buy you all
dinner if you can get him out of the Mission Control during
Skylab 4 some time.
CDR No, we want him to buy you dinner. Every-
body dinner down there. Dinner for the Mission Control,
dinner for the whole team.
PLT That's right.
CDR You know, flight directors are wealthy.
PLT (garble).
CC Okay, we'll go along with that, but he
is shaking his head.
PLT We knew hers buy (garble).
CDR We don't need a dinner.
PLT That's 40 votes against i. We won.

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SL-III MC-2152/I
Time: i0:ii CDT, 52/15:11 GMT
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PLT Who's your flight director, Bruce? Is

that Hutch?
CC That it is. Good old Nell Hutchinson.
PLT Good old Hutch. He'll do it. Running
the show again. Tell him to hang in there. Hamburger and
a milk shake and some enchiladas will be just fine, Hutch. Ed
Fendell on there today?
CC Negative. He's not on this shift.
PLT Okay. If he wants lox and bagels
salami. I know Ed. I never saw him working Mission Control
before.
CDR 40 A. Getting ready for the next pass.
PLT 79 degrees on MS.
CDR Nice job of pointing by EREP, by the way.
I would never have seen that - that's right. That's going to he
my advice when I get back home. And if you don't know
anythlng 9 go on to time and don't move that little baby until
you know something, or else Just take the data right there.
Because you're probably going to be on.
CC Okay. Thank you. We've got 50 seconds
to LOS. The next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid
at 15:18. Out.
PLT Okay. We're going to turn this thing on
in a little while and tear up some more tape with this 192,
Bruce.
CDR So, watch out.
CC Roger, King of the road.
PLT They get my message. (Laughter) New week.
CDR We're off and running.
PLT Yesterday was a drag, Bruce. It was a
real bummer. We didn't work hard enough.
CDR Gotta have something to do up here. Getting
a little bit slow.
CC Well, we figured that for a day off we
pretty well packed your time line. Maybe we can do better
with the SL-IV crew, if you want to recommend that.
CDR Well, they're going to have to find their
own thing. But I'ii tell you. The time llne looks packed.
A lot of times it isn't, because sometimes the squares are
real big for a small Job, and vice versa. And yesterday,
for some reason, we just ended up with big squares and the
pad looked llke we had a lot. And we really didn't. We
were - We spend a lot of little - -
PLT No. I - I mean - It was a good FliBht
Plan, Bruce. It's just that we got through (garble) at the
time. Got a few extra jobs (static)
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CC Okeydoke. See you at Madrid.

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 14 minutes
and 52 seconds Greenwich mean time. The spacecraft has gone
out of range over the north Atlantic, out of range of the
Bermuda tracking station. We're about 3 minutes and 24
seconds from acquisition of signal at the Madrid tracking
station in Spain. During this last pass there was an Earth
Resources Experiment Package activity going underway. That
began southwest of Acapulco and most of its sites were located
along the east coast of the United States. Heard a good deal
of discussion during the pass of AI Bean working out the
view finder tracking system for the Sl91. That's the
infrared spectrometer. He has to spot very small sites on
the ground using the view finder, which is like a small
telescope. He then, spots those sites and zeros in on them
and the infrared spectrometer takes the data. He did say
he had good success in finding most of the sites. There was
a good deal of haze along the Chesapeake bay area, but he did
indicate that he got some good information on the wetlands
there and on major test sites there. The central Atlantic
regional ecological test site is located along the Maryland
border. Includes a good deal of the several states there in
the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, being the main
states included in the CARETS area. He also indicated he got
some data from Block Island, which is near New York. Block
Island Sound is one of the areas being studied by the U.S. Geological
Survey and that data will go to them at the end of the
mission. All of the data from the EREP mission, EREP activities
will be brought back by the Skylab crew in the command module.
There is no method for downlinking any substantial data. There
is an EREP diagnostic downlink unit that is used, however,
only for testing the operation of the equipment. The EDDU
did identify a problem with the S193, the diagnostic down-
link unit showed that there was some problem with the antenna
working on the multi - on the micro-wave radiometer spectro-
meter - I'm sorry, radiometer scatterometer altimeter. They
will possibly have to do _omething during an EVA on the
beginning of the next mission to make a repair on that. During
this last pass at about 8 minutes after the hour, they were
checking that out using a transponder from Wallops Islands
NASA station. We'll have the line up live for air-to-ground
through Madrid. This EREP pass will be concluding right at
the very end of the Madrid pass as they pass off the coast
of Italy into the middle of the Mediterranean. We have the
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PAO We have the line up live for air-to-ground

through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7 minutes. Out:.
PLT Okay, we're still here, Bryce.
PLT Where is the maneuver pad?
PLT Did you hear anything from Wallops there,
Bruce?
CC Not yet Jack. Stand by.
PLT Find 240 coming up. Do after this.
PLT Okay, I've got it. Get ready to get with
it again. Okay, recorder is back on. We're back with EREP
35 again. We're going to complete this run. Standing by for
EREP start. MARK. EREP start. Okay. Getting ready for mode to
auto. 53, frames ii and intervals 20, set up. MARK. Mode to auto
on 190. Standing by for mode to ready. MARK. Mode to ready on
192. Tape motion light is working properly. Where are we
over AI? What are we taking data over? O, where are we?
CC It looks like you're over France.
PLT Okay, good.
CDR Check the grapes down there.
PLT That noise is me chewing lemon drops, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. Be careful you don't break
your teeth on them or Owen is liable to have some on-the-Job
training with the IMSS Kit.
PLT Oh, he's dangerous. I know him.
SPT That's okay by me.
PLT Mode to check.
PLT That's why we all took that training. It
motivates us all to stay well.
PLT The big 0 is not going to work on me
until he lets me trim his mustache.
CDR We'll have some good data on those CB's
you were looking for the other day.
PLT MARK. Mode ready on 192. Tape motion
light back on.
CC 45 seconds to LOS. Next station con-
tact is through Honeysuckle in 40 minutes at 16:04. Out.
PLT Okay Bruce, see you there. Thank you.
PLT Let's hear it for the Flight Director.
Everybody stand up and give him a yell down there.
CDR The Flight Director.
CC And now you hear the sound of silence.
PLT Boy, he's going to get you guys.
CC Out.
PLT I heard them all laughing down there.
You can't fool me. Even I could hear that.

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SL-III MC-2154/I
Time: 10:25 CDT, 52/15:25 GMT
9117173

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 27 minutes

and 22 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
has now passed out of range of the Madrid tracking station
and completed its Earth Resources pass for the morning. There
will be an Earth Resources Pass scheduled this evening
just before the crew goes to sleep. That pass begins just
south of Taiwan and crosses the islands of Japan ending
about 200 miles east of Hokkaido. The next acquisition of
signal not for 37 minutes. Good deal of kidding going on
during the last pass between the crew of the second Skylab
manned mission and flight director Nell Hutchinson's team,
suggesting that the flight director should be buying dinner
for everybody in Mission Control. Flight director indicated
thathe thought the social record was excellent for this
team and that he was going to see about the crew when they
got back. It's now 28 minutes and 15 seconds after the hour.
Our next acquisition of signal not for 36 minutes. That
will be at the Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia.

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Time: 11:03 CDT, 52/16:03 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 3 minutes and

55 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently about 54
seconds from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia, tracking station. This pass will be a short one
lasting i minute and 26 seconds. We do have the line up live
for air to ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. AOS and 45 sec-
onds to LOS. Short pass here at Honeysuckle. Two quick
messages, one for the SPT. You may want to turn off the
fire sensors when you run S063 here in a couple of minutes,
back on when you finish. We're looking - -
SPT That's already done.
CC Okay. And for the CDR, NOAA reports a
type 4 radio burst starting at 15:20 Z. It is decreased and
started back up. We'd like you to observe on the WLC TV
before running shopping list item 17 at 16:17 Z. Next station
contact in 28 minutes through Goldstone at 16:34. Over.
SPT Okay. We got those - that info about the
type 4 burst. Didn't they ever see those earlier ones that
I reported to you?
CC That's negative, Owen. And that was
panel 529 sensors i and 2 and 530 sensor i.
SPT I already got them. And better check
the receivers.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 7 minutes
and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now gone out of
range of the Honeysuckle tracking station after a very brief
pass there. During the pass, spacecraft communicator Bruce
McCandless indicated that ground observatories had observed
a radio burst at 15:20 Zulu, that's less than an hour ago, and
gave instructions to Owen Garriott on operations for that -
for radio burst - burst of radio energy from the Sun. Ground
also indicated that they had not in fact seen evidence of
their radio activities that Owen Garriott reported from the
Skylab space station's monitor earlier. That was relatively
a small activity perlhaps and not reached here by ground-
based observatories. At the present time, we're about 25
mintues and 50 seconds from acquisition of signal. Our next
signal acquisition over the United States at Goldstone tracking
station in California. This is Skylab Control at 8 minutes
and 22 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 11:33 CDT 52/16:33 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 33 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're just about to acquire signal at
the Goldstone tracking station for our pass through the United
States station, and 1_hrough Bermuda Island. The pass willlast
17-1/2 minutes. We'll hold the line up live for air-to-ground
of this pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 8 minutes. Over.
CDR Say Bruce, I took a look at the corona
when I first came up, and it appears that the west limb has
undergone some incredible reorganization since Owen looked
at it earlier, several hours earlier. Namely part of the
streamers, the brigh_t part that was up when the roll was
zero, there would be along about 3:30 or 2 the bottom of that
group up there has been sort of hacked away, it's missing.
An extra streamer or two has been added down at the 4 to 5
position, a ray or two. So apparently there may be something
going on in that, between those two areas which would make
it 3 to 330. It's not visible to the naked eye on the scope.
Owen suggests that we do an extended standard for JOP 8 which
we're now doing. And it's probably got another 3 or 4 minutes
to go. l'm not sure. We're taking some long exposures on
56 shopping list item 18, I think's it's 18. Shopping list
item 13 things, but I wondered if there was anything you'd like
me to do?
CDR I kind of wondered if we should run another
extended standard after this one here, which you just did a
second ago.
CC CDR, Houston. Negative on the additional
run of extended standard. We'd like you to wind up what you've
got going here in progress when it times out and go
to the building block i0 as scheduled in the pad. Over.
CDR We'll sure do it. And I'm now looking
at the UV mon, correction, the WLC again, and sure
enough those rays are even better defined than the ones that
were formerly at 4 o'clock, which I've rotated now to 5 o'clock.
And the ones that were occupying the 2 o'clock position now,
it's about to 3:30. Uh - it's been - a little bit different
than they were earlier, so Just as soon as it times out
which will be about 5 minutes and 54 seconds, then I'ii
press on with building block i0.
CC ,Okay, we copy. And getting back to the
more mundane questions of getting y'all home again. We've
got a question, when you were down in the plenum a couple of
days ago would you catagorize the plenum as being full, or
is there room for more plenum bags down there? Over.
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CDR I would catagorize it room for more

plenum bags, there's plenty of space down there. I'd also,
for thinking on Jerry's flight, I think there's plenty of
room to go down there and string some other string or some-
thing to suspend plenum bags around in other places where
we presently even haven't planned_ So, there's a lot of
room down there and !_he bags are close nicely in a clear area,
and so there's just all sorts of possibilities down there.
CC Okay, and talking about the timeline
that's in the front of the deactivation checklist, what we
would like to do is rather than go through and pen andink
a bunch of changes in times there in the checklist, is that
on mission day 59, when you get up, we'd like you to set your
watches ahead by 4 hours even, and that'll put you on the
timeline for day 59. And when you turn in that evening, you
can set them back 2 hours for a net gain of 2 and that'll
put you in sync with the published times for mission day 60,
up until the point where you transistion to phase-elapse
time in the command module, but that's Phil Shaffer's job.
Over.
CDR I would say that sounds very agreeable
to us. We'd like to it that - just that way. Could you
tell me now a couple of things about that as long as we're
discussing it. One, is the Mission Control going to run
a simulation with this exact time with Vance Brand before
we do it for real?
CC Okay, AI. The answer to that one is
that we have anticipated you, and we ran it yesterday. We
used your checklist, all the trajectory stuff, and in fact,
the SL-III backup crew with Vance. We figured that since
yesterday was your day off there wouldn't be anything much
going on over here in the control center so we brought the
other team in and doubled up. Over.
CDR You're way ahead of us. That's real
great. I assume that it came out pretty near like - nominal
with all the checklist changes we've had so far?
CC Right. And it went very nicely.
CDR Excellent. One thing that's bothered
me a little bit, I'm just wondering. When we actually make
the entry burn, where is the workshop relative to our
field of view. In other words, is it down below us, above
us, right in front of us, - where is it? By that, I don't
mean it's position, I mean relative to where we're pointing.
CC We're working that one, AI. We've got
the data here, we're just trying to get it in a form where
I can convey it to you verbally.
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CDR Okay, what I was thinking of was - (garble)

the command module's centered coordinates
CC Right° I understand.
CDR (Garble)
CC Roger. We understand.
CDR Okay.
CDR A couple of other items you might (garble)
CC Stand by on that, AI.
CDR (Garble) comm box here.
CDR (Garble) and that is what is the present
time between close-out and undocking and the time between
undocking and the burn? The burn and entry interface and
what's the length of the burn? We kind of calculate it's
going to be about an 18-second burn up here, but we didn't
know.
CC ()kay, how about running those again in
sequence and we'll pick up working on the attitude in a few
minutes. Over.
CDR ()kay. Time from tunnel close-out, that's
when we finish the check and take our suits off - and right -
I don't know if we take our suits off then, but finish the
check, take our helmets and gloves off, and the undocking
time, and what's the time between undocking from the burn,
plus the time between the burn and entry interface - -
CC ()kay, you're looking for the times from
tunnel closeout to undocking, the time from undocking to the
entry burn, and the time from the burn to entry interface.
Right?
CDR That's affirm.
CC ()kay, we'll have those for you in a minute
or so.

CDR ()kay, no hurry.

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SL-III MC-2157/I
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9/17/73

CC CDR, Houston. On the attitude situation,

at the - time of the burn we expect you to be approximately
one nautical mile ahead of the workshop and two-tenths of a mile
below it. You'll be of course, facing back towards it but
pitch down about 15 degrees from local horizonal. And since you'll
roll upside down, the closest description - would be that the
workshop is - somewhere down in the direction of your feet
or the plus-Z axis. It won't be visible in the window. When
you thrust it'll be sort of a - a skewed thrust vector, which
will not take you back towards the workshop, but will take you,
if you followed that path, it'll tend to take you underneath
it and behind it. Of course, orbital mechanics will come into
the situation. Over.
CDR ()kay, that's good news. (garble) we're
thinking -
CC And - we're getting the times for you now.
CC CDR, Houston.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR How do you hear now, Bruce?
CC Okay, AI. - First item - we'd like to get
you to run some shopping list 17 Sun centered, - not to interfere
with the scheduled ATM operations and pick up a little data on
that coronal reorganization you were commenting on. In response to
your questions regarding time intervals, the approximate time,
between schedule funrel closeout and undocking is 6 hours.
Time from undocking i_o the - entry burn is an hour and 48 minutes
that's i plus 48. And the time from the burn to entry interface
is 26 minutes. Over
CDR That's a pretty good time line. I - We ought
to be able to do tha_ one.
CC Yeah, what we -
CDR Here's a question for you. Another words,
they want me to - 52 right now and open it up and take data?
CC Okay, we do not want to interrupt the ATM
schedule. If you're in a position where you're Sun centered and
can take data, why go ahead.
CDR Okay, well, I'Ii tell you where I am, per the
pad, I'm at - stop 80 and ref minus 5. So I don't know whether
they - what - what they'd like for me to do from that position.
CC Nothing, AI. And wait until you're Sun
centered. Over.
CDR Okay, that'll be towards the end of the
pass and I'll sure do it. Thanks Bruce.
CC Roger. That' ii be fine. And we're going
over the hill here. Next station contact in 5 minutes through
Madrid at - 16:55 and we'll talk to you there.
PAO i_kylab Control at 16 hours 51 minutes and
44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range of the
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Bermuda tracking station. Our next acquisition will be at

Madrid in approximately 3 minutes and 40 seconds. In this
last pass, Skylab crew is inquiring about procedures for
splashdown, which is to talk place a week from tomorrow. And
A1 Bean did receive some information on the exact location of
the command module at the time of the - deorbit burn. The
exact location is i nautical mile ahead of the orbital workshop
in it's orbit 3 and an orbit about two-tenths of a nautical mile
below the orbit of the orbital workshop. At that time, they
will deorbit. They will not be able to see the workshop because
the workshop will be below their feet there, oriented in a
upside down positions, and they will be burning backwards behind
the orbit of the command module down - down below the workshop.
Our next acquisition about 2 minutes 50 seconds from now.
We'll keep the line up live for air-to-ground through the
Madrid pass that's a 9 minute and 17 second pass.

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SL-III MC-2158/I
Time: 11:52 CDT, 521'16:52 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 9 minutes. Over.
CC And for the CDR, if you could tell us
without going down there and looking we'd like to know how
many plenum bags are presently in the plenum and
whether or not they're deployed in accordance with the
instructions in activations checklist for locating these
things. Over.
CDR They are deployed correctly. I don't
know how many Bruce, we've reported each one, it would
be no trouble. Sometimes when I got 15 minutes I can pull off
the lid and look. But I don't know. Seven maybe, I hate
to guess cause I don't remember.
CC Okay, AI, we're take you up on that.
Sometime in the next day or so when you have a few minutes
take a peak. The reason we're concerned about it is it's
significant that the limit down there is 7 due to consideration
to air circulation and we'd like to make sure we're not
getting the plenum overcrowded and cut off the ventalation.
Ove r.
PLT Say Bruce - -
CDR Okay.
CDR They might want to reset some of those
re - constraints we got all sorts of circulation down there
and my guess is that you could put quite a bit more and
you wouldn't affect the circulation. There's a (garble)
of circulation and you could live without the (garble) you
go and get stuck, you might want to Just say well one more
isn't going to make any difference, and it probably isn't
because we got pretty good air flow down there. Besides
when you take off the cover it kind of pops out.
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT Say, Bruce I put most of those bags down
there and I think there's 8 of them down there instead of 7.
I think there's 4 A sizes. And the picture page 3-11, should
tell you pretty much how they're located but we had to
put I think about 3 or 4 of them down there.
CC Okay; we copy. Thank you.
PLT But they're all located between -
there's 4 between duct 3 in the access cover and 4 more bet-
ween duct i and duct 2.
CC Okay; thank you.
CC And CDR, this is Houston. In response
to Jack's description of how many bags are down there and
where they are stored I think we can cancel out your inspection
task and we'll take it from here.
CDR Okay.
CDR Also Bruce, have there been any thought
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on undocking to giving it let's say foot per second

probably so that we end up being able to photograph the
twin pole sunshade as we back away.
CC Negative. Out.
CDR ()kay, I wondered I knew we didn't have
anything but extra inflation but I didn't know what
thoughts were given on that.
CC As the word I'm getting back here now is
that you're undocking at local midnight so you wouldn't be
able to view the workshop anyway. Over.
CDR ()kay, thanks that makes sense.
CDR Looks like a good time we'll ease down
to sun center and take the data and return to this point.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes through Honeysuckle
at 17:41. Out.
PAO Skylab, Control at 17 hours 5 minutes
and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal 35 minutes and 46 seconds from now will be at
Honeysuckle, Australia. This is Skylab Control at 5 minutes
and 37 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2159/I
Time: 12:40 CDT, 52/17:_40 GMT
9/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; Houston at

17 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a
minute away now from scheduled acquisition of Skylab
space station throu_ih the Honeysuckle station, Australia.
In Mission Control we're standing by now for possible
voice contact with Bean, Garriott, and Lousma aboard
Skylab. Our CAP CO_ here in the Control Center is
Astronaut Bruce McCandless. At 17 hours 41 minutes Green-
wich mean time, continuing to monitor this is Skylab
Control Houston. Now receiving data from Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Honeysuckle for 5-1/2 minutes, with some info for the EREPers.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce, we're listening.
CC Roger. Wallops Island reports that
they did acquire a signal on S193 from your transmitter
and were able to do so and turn it around for about 8
seconds during your pass. They're report of the UNLOCK
light out and first pro - operations of the light
delay forces of the alitmeter. We'll have to wait for
the arrival of data tapes from Mila to go any further in
accessing the validity of the data handling electronics.
the meter readouts for gimbal monitoring on board appear
to be invalid. Over.
PLT Okay. Bruce thank you for that report.
At least it sounds like we got part of it working. Right?
CC Roger. Maybe there's hope for SL-4.
PAO That's Jack Lousma responding to call
up from Bruce McCandless.
CDR Hey, Bruce there's one thing I noticed.
I'm scheduled for a 92 test 1 and 2. Test 2 we got a
checklist change for, and test i, we just got the message.
Should we plan to use the message or is - was there a
change that we did not receive? Our message is explanatory,
so (garble) we're just trying to check.
CC Okay, just the message on test 1 as you
pointed out. Test 2 changed your cue card, I believe.
CDR Okay, we got them.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, approximately
2 minutes 40 seconds remaining on this pass over Honey-
suckle. A little earlier we heard from Commander A1 Bean
asking about some teleprinter readouts on M092, the
inflight lower body negative pressure experiment. Commander
Bean is scheduled to be subject to - the subject of the
MO92 inflight lower body negative pressure experiment,
a little later this afternoon, with Science Pilot Owen
Garriott acting as the observer. Less than 2 minutes away
now from loss of signal through Honeysuckle. Standing by
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and continuing to monitor. This is Skylab Control Houston.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 15-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 18:02. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 17 hours 48
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've just had loss of signal
with the Skylab space station over Honeysuckle. Next station
to acquire will be _[awaii. This in approximately 14-1/2
minutes. This is Skylab Control Houston, at 17 hours 48
minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC-2160/I
Time: 13:01 CDT, 52/18:01 GMT
9/17/7S

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours

i minute Greenwich mean time, less than i minute away from
a predicted acquisition of signal of Skylab through Hawaii.
We'll leave the line open and continue to monitor. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7 minutes. Out.
PAO Bruce McCandless makin E the call-up.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 18 hours 4
minutes Greenwich mean time. Bruce McCandless has placed
a call-up to the crew of Skylab, presently passing over Hawaii.
As yet, we have not heard from Bean, Lousma, or Garriott.
Standing by and continuing to monitor, this is Skylab Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'd llke to
get the DAS for a minute so we can inhibit momentum dump.
Over.
PLT You have it, Bruce.
CC Roger. Thank you.
PAO That was Jack Lousma responding to the
call, asking for the ground use of the digital address system.
We're at 18 hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time, still 3
minutes 40 seconds remaining on this pass over Hawaii.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 18 hours 8
minutes Greenwich mean time.
PAO A very quiet pass over Hawaii. Per the
Flight Plan, Commander AI Bean should be at the Apollo tele-
scope mount console. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott undergoing
his physical training, and Pilot Jack Lousma, who we heard
from only briefly, completing his lunch break. 18 hours
8 minutes Greenwich mean time, continuing to monitor, this
is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Thirty seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 1-1/2 minutes through Gold-
stone at 18:10. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 18 hours i0
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with
the Skylab space station through Hawaii. However, acquisition
with Goldstone is less than 1 minute away now. We'll leave
the line open and continue to monitor. This is Skylah Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for the next 8 minutes, standing by for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Alan, a quick question. Did you
do the air - airlock module tape recorder work procedure this
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morning? Over.
CDR Uh, I'ii tell you what. It took so
doggone long to do ti_at BMMD urine thing that I didn't get
to do it. I've got it set up now, I've got the lights on
it, I've got the camera pointing that way, and I'm planning
to do it just as soon as I can get to it, which is about
right now.
CC Okay, no problem. We're Just trying
to X in the squares on the Flight Plan down here so we can
keep up with your progress through it. With respect to
the phone calls for this evening, we have you tentatively
set up through Merritt Island at 23:13, but have not been
able to definitely confirm it with your wife yet. We have
the PLT tentatively set up through Guam at 22:41. Same
comment with respect to confirmation.
CDR My wife's teaching school, so she will
not be home till around 3:30 or so, Bruce.
CC Roger. I left a message with the maid,
and she's supposed to be home about 5.
CDR Okay.
CC And the preceding pass through each
of these stations, Merritt Island and Guam, we're setting
up for a VHF comm check through the site, up to you. And
to implement that, we've got a couple of switches we'd like
you to throw at your convenience in the next hour or so up
in the command module. Over.
CDR How about right now?
CC Okay, panel 3, we want VHF AM B to
duplex.
CDR Okay, what else? Are - those are the
two?
CC Negative. One more.
CC And on panel 9 we'd like to get VHF/TR
switched to TR.
CDR Okay, I think I understand your thinking,
and will do.
CC And what we'll do on that is configure
through the site, and we'll just give you a call on the
air-to-ground on VHF and you can Roger us through the normal
speaker boxes, and we'll - log it as complete or unset, or
whatever it is.
CDR Okay, that sounds like a good way to
go. I'm about ready to make that change right now.
CC And after we complete this, we've got
about an hour or so between the checks, and we'll remind
you we need to undo this configuration before private comm,
especially, the panel 9 one. Over.
CDR I understand completely. So we're goin E
to operate on duplex

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SL-III MC-2161/I
Time: 13:13 CDT, 52/18:13 GMT
9/17/73

CC - so between the checks we'll remind you

we need to - undo this configuration before private comm,
especially the panel 9 one. Over.
CDR Understand completely. But we're going
to operate on duplex B again, is that correct?
CC Roger. As far as I know.
CDR Okay, thank you.
PAO Skylab Control; Houston. 18 hours 14 minutes
Greenwich mean time. That's Commander AI Bean talking with
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless, on a communications check for the
private converstation with families of - that is scheduled for
this evening.
PAO Skylab Control; Houston. 18 hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time. About 2 minutes 40 seconds remaining on
this stateside pass. Skylab passing over the northern portion
of the United States_ We show 2 minutes 25 seconds remaining
before loss of signal with Goldstone, the next station to
acquire will be Bermuda. Standing by, continuing to monitor
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 45 seconds til
LOS. Next station contract in 4-i/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 18:23. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Houston. At 18 hours
20 minutes Greenwich mean time, we've just had loss of signal
with Skylab space station passing out of range now through
Goldstone. The next station to acquire will be Bermuda in
approximately 3 minutes 20 seconds. Meanwhile, the - shift
change over, the silver team of flight controllers and the
purple team of flight controllers is scheduled to take place
at approximately 2 p.m. central daylight time. Our best
estimate at this time for a change of shift briefing with
off-going Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is at 2:30 p.m.
central daylight time in the small auditorium. We will up
date that time as the event draws closer. We're at 18 hours
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approximately 2 minutes
40 seconds away from reacquiring Skylab through Bermuda,
and this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2162/I
Time: 13:22 CDT, 52/18:22 GMT
9117173

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 18 hours

23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less that a minute away now
from scheduled acquisition time with Skylab through Bermuda
we'll keep the line up awaiting the call up from Capsule
Communicator Bruce McCandless here at the Mission Control
Center.
PAO Skylab Control; Houston 18 hours 25 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Network Flight Controller reporting
we've lost our data lines through Bermuda. Actually this
pass at a very low evaluation maximum evaluation of some
4 - 4 degrees. Standing by continuing to monitor at 18 hours
25 minutes. Skylab Control; Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Bermuda
for 3 minutes. Out.
PAO Skylab Control Houston 18 hours 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Less than 2 minutes away from loss of
signal with Skylab thLrough Bermuda CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
is - has attempted i call up trying to reach the crew aboard
Skylab. However, on this pass the evaluation angle of the
spacecraft is very low we've had no communications thus far
the evaluation being - maximum being approximately 4 degrees.
We'll stand by and continue to monitor at 18 hours 29 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control; Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact 3-i/2 minutes through Canary Island at
18:32. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Houston at 18
hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Mission Control
Center has had loss c f signal with the Skylab through Bermuda.
Next station to acquire Canary Island tracking station in a
little more than 2 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control; Houston 18 hours 33 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab through Canary Island.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 9 minutes and 45 seconds. Out.

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SL-III MC-2163/I
Time: 13:36 CDT, 52/18:36 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston i mimute to LOS.

Next station contact through Honeysuckle in 36 minutes at
19:17 where we will be dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Houston at 18
hours 44 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
has passed out of acquisition through Canary and Madrid
tracking stations. During this pass we had no conversation
with the crew aboard Skylab, Commander A1 Bean, Owen Garriott,
and Jack Lousma. Tc briefly recount the Skylab 3 crew
awaken early this morning to adjust their body clocks in
preparation for the splashdown a week from tomorrow. The
crew was awaken at approximately 4:20 a.m. Central Daylight
time. Both Science Pilot Owen Garriott and Commander AI
Bean have been working at the Apollo Telescope Mount console
during the morning. One EREP pass took place this morning,
with a Skylab camera and an electronic sensor pointed toward
test sites which covered the southeastern section of the
United States and the coast of New York. To test the useful-
ness of Skylab's remote sensing equipment in preparation of
ocean and graphic charts. Also this EREP pass was designed to
provide data on the relationship between the Altantic Ocean
conditions and the abundance of marine life. In all the pass
covered approximately 8,000 miles with Skylab additionally
making observations over southern Europe. This afternoon
Commander Alan Bean is set to be the subject on the experiment
MO92, this being the inflight lower body negative pressure
experiment. And early this evening the first EREP pass over
Japan and it's coastal waters is scheduled to take place.
We're approximately 32 minutes away now from acquisition of
signal through Honeysuckle with Skylab. And at 18 hours
46 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control;
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2164/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 52/18:48 GMT
9117173

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have a refinement to
our change of shift schedule time with Flight Director,
Neil Hutchinson. That change-of-shift news conference now
set for 3:00 p.m. I repeat, 3:00 p.m. central daylight
time, in the small briefing room in the Public Affairs
building number i. 18 hours 49 minutes, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2165/I
Time: 14:17 CDT, 52/19:17 GMT
9/16/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 18 hours 17 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now from scheduled
time of acquisition of the Skylab space station through
Honeysuckle tracking station, Australia. Astronaut Dick Truly
has assumed the position of CAP COMM here in the mission control
center, taking over from Bruce McCandless. Meanwhile, a hand-
over of flight control teams is in progress. The purple team
of flight controllers, headed by Flight Director Phil Shaffer,
in the process of taking over. We'll keep the line up and
monitor, this is Skylab Control Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes. And if you'll let us have the DAS we'll enable
momentum dump.
CDR You've got it.
CC Okay.
CDR Say, Dick, how are you doing?
CC Real fine. And you guys?
CDR Couldn't be better. Say I just ran the -
so call tape recorder luck procedures, and I think we fixed
this tape recorder. What is occurred, I think, was the -
tape came off the two (garble) and the two idlers that position
the tape in front of the playback head. I took it apart -
disassembled it, cleaned everything up in it; none of it was
dirty, incidently. The pinch valve was in good shape, it was
not broken like the others. Reassembled the tape on the
two (garble) and the two - idlers, adjusted the pitch and then
pitch belt, and put it all back together. Now the procedure
only called for me to - do - two things that - tells me not
to do two things that I did when I removed it. One, they
did not want me to - The heat shield and heat shield screws, they
asked me not to reinstall; I did not do that. Then they only
asked me to install two screws on the cover that covers the
whole business, which that's what I did. But essentially, my
guess is that the tape recorder is working. If it's net working,
I'll bet you, and we ought to maybe, put it in and give it
a go and if it isn't, we can take this belt off and put it on
the other tape recorders that failed because of pitch (garble)
drive problems.
CC Roger, AI. I copied all of that. And -
I guess we'll - think about that a little bit and maybe -
try that tape recorder again. It sounds real good, glad that
belt isn't broken.
CDR You bet. Okay. See you later.
CC Another thing, AI, while you're close to the
phone, on the subject of plenum bags, we've done a little homework
here, during the day and definitely can stow more plenum bags
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down in the plenum. And we're - looking at a plan to help you

out, and we'll get it up to you well in advance of deactivation
so that you'll know exactly where to put the bags down in the
plinum so we won't disturb the airflow. Over.
CDR Okay, good show.
PAO Skylah Control, Houston; approximately
6 minutes remaining on this pass over Honeysuckle. That was
Commander A1 Bean reporting that he had gone through the
tape recorder 6 procedure.
CDR Four times a day when I'm working at this
workshop, I think about some of the things that you did when
you were - following this thing. That's made it a lot more plesant
to live up here. There must be litterly thousands of improvements
that could be traced back to Dick Truly that we - enjoy
everyday, everything from the head to the 70 - (GARBLE) fittings on
the side the - tool boxes are some. It's really fantastic. This
thing is made for convience.
CC Thank you, AI. Appreciate it.
PAO Little more than 5 minutes remaining now
on this Honeysuckle pass. A1 Bean, Skylab Commander, reporting
that he thought the tape recorder was working after going through
the fix procedures. Then he extended the pat on the back to
CAP COMM Dick Truly who has worked diligently and for lon_
hours prior to the flight and during the mission itself as
a support crewmember for Skylab. Dick Truly reported that
here in the mission control they had been doing some advance
work, homework procedures on - stowage activity which will
precede the entry of Skylab from space next Tuesday.
PLT Say again, Dick.
CC I was just commenting that it's obvious that
you got one of those music producing tape recorders fixed.
PLT I think he's got that piped in from the
ground.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Dick. I noticed the record light went
out, if you guys are dumping - sometime during the time I was
talking about S183. I don't know exactly where it is, so
maybe you could tell me that my recorder was still working
or tell me where that - I left off.
CC Okay, Jack. Stand by a second.
PLT Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. We did - We have been dumping
the data tape recorder. We have not completed the dump yet,
and we started the dump, ENCO says, right at the AOS of this pass,
which I would estimate to be about 4-1/2 to 5 minutes ago.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. I'll - repeat some
of the stuff that - I'd put on the recorder about S183. I
remembered most of it.
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CC Okay, sorry about - -

PLT (garble) my experiment 1 recorder light is still
on, which is a good deal.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information,
the data recorder dump is complete. We're about i minute from
LOS at Honeysuckle. Hawaii is coming up at 19:38.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
PLT And I want to second what AI said about
your good efforts on - keeping the Skylab shipshape to begin with,
and also the efforts (garble).
CC Roger, thank you very much.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours 27
minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station has
passed out of range now from - Honeysuckle tracking station.
Next station to acquire will be Hawaii in a little more than
i0 minutes. During that pass, we heard from two members of
the Skylab crew, A1 Bean and Jack Lousma, both extolling the
efforts of CAP COMM Dick Truly in his role as support crew
member and the aid in design for the comforts of the
orbital workshop. So on day 52, it appears that the crew
of Skylab-III continues to enjoy their stay aboard. We'll
pick up Skylab again in approximately i0 minutes through
Hawaii and at 19 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2166/I
Time: 14:37 CDT, 521/19:37 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours 37

minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from acquisition of the Skylab space station through Hawaii
tracking station and[ as we acquire Commander AI Bean should
be starting shortly if not already his series of medical
experiments of this afternoon. First the lower body negative
pressure experiment then he'll take his turn on the bicycle
ergometer for experiment MI71 the measure of metabolic
effectiveness of man in space. Acting as observer for these
medical experiments will be Science Pilot Owen Garriott.
Standing by now for a possible call up from CAP COI_M Dick
Truly. This is Skylab Control Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Hawaii for
7 minutes.
CDR Dick we want to verify something and
that is that we do both test 2 and i after 92.
CC Stand by.
CDR It's good to hear you.
CC The answer to your question Al, is
affirmative. We want test 2 and i after MO92.
CDR Okay; thanks.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston since this MO92 is going
to have to vents associated with it we think we just as soon
enable the TACS both hardware and software. We'd like you to
do this for us and if you could do it while we're here at
Hawaii we got you for another 2 minutes and 20 seconds we
would sure appreciate it.
PLT (]my, Dick I'ii work on that now.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT How does it look?
CC Looks real good. Thank you very much.
PLT Yes sir.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
I'ii call you in 4 minutes at Goldstone.
PLT See you there, Dick.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours 47
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with
the Skylab space station through Hawaii. Acquisition is
scheduled to occur with Skylab through Goldstone in approxi-
mately 2 minutes. We'll stand by with the line open for
reacquisition on this stateside pass. We're at 19 hours
48 minutes Greenwich mean time. And this is Skylab Control
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2167/I
Time: 14:48 CDT; 52/19:48 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 19

CC Houston, AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO We're 19 hours 50 minutes Greenwich
mean time. That was CAP CObiM Dick Truly advising the crew
aboard Skylab that we now have acquisition on this stateside
pass.
PLT Say, Dick, you know, well, we were just
talking about the thing we like most about these new hours
is that you get to go to bed early and there's a lot more
daylight.
CC It - somehow it doesn't work exactly
that way down here.
PLT That is eastern Washington and Canada
up there by the U.S. border.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours 55
minutes Greenwich mean time. That was Pilot Jack Lousma
reporting the view from space of the state of Washington
close to the Canadian border. Continuing to monitor, 19
hours 55 minutes, Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.
We're going to have about a 5-minute break, and I'll give
you a call at Bermuda. And for your information, our TM
shows that M561 has reached its cool temp and so if it is
more convenient to you, before you get to the scheduled
Flight Plan time, Jack, at about 1:30 or so, to start the
M560, you're welcome. We're not rushing you to do that,
but anytime from now on is okay with us.
PLT Okay, thank you for watching it. I'd
just started early enough but I'll do - within the next
half hour, Dick.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours 58
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal,
approximately 2-1/2 minutes now, away from reacquisition
with Skylab through Bermuda. The M561 referred to is one
of the i0 samples that are involved in the M518 experiment,
the multipurpose electric furnace system. We're at 19
hours 58 minutes Greenwich mean time, and this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20:00 hours
Greenwich mean time, approximately 15 seconds away now from
predicted time of acquisition of the Skylab sta - space
station through Bermuda tracking.

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SL-III MC-2168/I
Time: 15:00 CDT, 52/20:00 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab, HOuston. AOS Bermuda for 9 minutes.

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 20 hours 2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're receiving data from Skylab-lll as
it's passing over Bermuda tracking station. Quick call up from
CAP COMM Dick Truly, thus far, no response yet from the crew
aboard Skylab-lll. At this point, A1 Bean undoubtedly performing
the - medical run, the lower body negative pressure test,
with Science Pilot Owen Garriott acting as an observer. We
have some 7 minutes remaining of acquisition time over Bermuda.
Standing by, continuing to monitor Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS at Bermuda. We're going to drop out Just a couple
of minutes and I'ii give you a call at Canary Island.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 20
hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
through Bermuda. The next station to acquire will be Canary,
however, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson has left the mission
control center and is in route now to the - Skylab News
Center for the change of shift briefing. We'll take the line
down at this time and stand by for the news conference. And
in the process we will tape conversation which take place over
Canary Islands and Ascension on this pass. At 20 hours 11
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2169/I
Time: 15:44 CDT, 52/20:44 GMT
9/17/73

PA0 Skylab Control Houston at 20 hours 44

minutes Greenwich mean time. At this time we will play back
the tape which we accumulated during the News Conference
this being the tape acquired during the Canary Island and
Ascension tracking station passes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Canary and
Ascension for the next 15-1/2 minutes. And infor for the
PLT, I - I just talked to Gratia at home and we're all set
up for that phone call and we'll check out the comm for the
Guam pass when we come around this rev.
PLT Okay, this will be a check before our
conversation. Is that correct?
CC Yhat's affirm, Jack. The check will be
at Guam this pass and then you're call is at 22:41 Zulu.
And that's the next rev.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT And by the way that tape recorder
that I replaced this morning had readings of 1,510 hours.
Over.
CC 1,510. Thank you. PLT, Houston, before
you get to far away from the ATM panel, if I haven't already
let you get away the - we see the S056 shutter is still open
on the instrument, you might take care of that for us.
PLT The door is closed the camera air lock
was put to close and camera power was put to off and that
was all after I had the ready light and I had a frame decrease
after the long exposure and I went to start and stop and
decreased it again by 1 but what I'ii do if you request, is to
turn the power back ,on and cycle the start switch again if you
suggest that.
CC Roger. We think if you turn the power
on and then issue a _stop and power back off it out to hack it
for us.
PLT Okay, Dick. Maybe that's something
they'd like to research their instruments because after the
last long exposure I went camera power on and it decreased to
380, and then I went to start for a couple seconds and then to
stop and it decreased to 379, and perhaps after the - the -
decrease to 379 the shutter was door closing and it may give
them a little bit of information for troubleshooting. But
I'll do as you say and see what happens this time.
CC i_oger; Jack.
PLT Okay, as soon as I went to camera poweron
that time it jumped down to 378, so I don't know what their
sequence is in there but we did get a frames remaining decrease
and then the shutter clo6ed now.
CC _oger; Jack. The shutter is closing now and
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Time: 15:44 CDT, 52/'20:44 GMT
9/17/73

and we think that's the normal operations so we're happy here

on the ground. Also Jack, I've got one correction to the
EREP 36, C&D pad, for you to make sometime prior to that
pass. We still got about 4 minutes here left here at
Acsension if it's convenient.
PLT ()kay, Dick go ahead I'm staring at it
right now.
CC Okay, down there attime of 28:06 for
S192 you'll see it says mode, standby. We'll like to change
that to say mode, check.
PLT Check I got it.
CC ()kay, thank you.
PLT Thank you. You still there, Dick?
CC Yes sir, go ahead.
PLT Yeah, do you have any different spot
settings for M518 - oh, I got ithere 560 instead of the
665, just down a little further than I was looking. Thank
you.
CC ()kay. You're squared away then I'ii
forget chasing that. We're about a minute from LOS at
Ascension. Carnarvon comes up at 20:50.
PAO Skylab Control Houston at 20 hours 49
minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute 40 seconds away
from timeofscheduled acquisition with the Skylab sta -
space station through Carnarvon. We'll keep the llne up,
open and live and pick up conversations as they take place.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Carnarvon for 9
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston,Carnarvon for 8 minutes.
PLT ()kay, Dick, we're here. Thank you.
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC-2170/I
Time: 15:52 CDT. 52/20:52 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 20 hours 56

minutes Greenwich mean time. A little less than 4 minutes
remaining on this pass with Skylab over Carnarvon. Standing
by, continuing to monitor, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 2 minutes
from LOS. We're going to have acquisition at Guam at 21:05.
And, Jack, I think one thing that Bruce did not pass up
to you in preparation for the VHF test at Guam is, is that
we need to be on the right antenna.
PLT Okay, right antenna. And whattime
was that again, Dick?
CC Oh, it's coming up in just about 7 or
8 minutes at 21:05. And I'll - when I transmit to you,
the way we're doing this - I'll be transmitting to you on
VHF only. So if you hear me, that'll confirm that, and then
we'll copy your VHF down-link and that'll confirm a good
loop.
PLT Okay, and I think I've got an extra
line here on my pad, and that's JOP 12 (garble) We got
82B down four exposures, but it's got a skip there.
It's on i0, but they only want3. A i0, a 40, and a 240.
Is that correct?
CC Stand by i, pl_ase.
CC Jack, what we want is a I0, a 40, and
a 240. That's what my pad says and - but that's what we
want. Ten, a 40, and a 240.
PLT Okay, thanks. I got a repeat in mine.
I got two 40s in there, but I crossed one of them out.
CC _oger.
PLT And, Dick, I put M560 on the (garble)
at 20:53. (garble) i temperature was 22 degrees centigrade
and the pressure was 0.2.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank youvery much.
PLT You bet.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with Skylab
3 over Carnarvon tracking station. The next station to
acquire will be Guam in approximately 4-i/2 minutes. And
during that Guam pass we will have a VHF communications
check with Skylab, this being done in preparation for Pilot
Jack Lousma's private conversation with his wife over the
next Guam pass. The - that pass scheduled at 22 hours 41
minutes Greenwich mean time. Twenty-one hours 2 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2171/I
Time: 16:07 CDT, 52/21:07 GMT
9/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Guam for

6 minutes, l'm making this transmission on S-band, if you
can hear it okay. I'll give you a call on VHF.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time, approximately 3-1/2 mintues remaining
on this Guam pass. Standing by and continuing to monitor,
this is Skyla5 Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Approximately
a minute and a half remaining of acquisition time through Guam.
CAP COMM Dick Truly reports the VHF test has been completed.
And the - voice quality was quite good. He also indicates
that they do plan to repeat the test over MLA. Less than a
minute away now from LOS of signal through Guam. We show
21 hours ii minutes, Greenwich mean time and this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute til LOS.
I'ii call you at Goldstone at 21:29. And Jack there was one
thing I missed, and I'm sorry; I had it written down and didn't
see it. For the test at MLA we need to be in left antenna,
other than that, we're in a good configuration.
PLT Okay, Dick. (garble) time that's coming up.
CC The MLA site comes up at 21:35 and that's
immediately following Goldstone which is coming up next. I'ii
remind you again.
PLT Okay, thank you for what's been done.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with the Skylab
space station through the Guam tracking station. The next
station to acquire will be Goldstone in approximately 16 minutes.
At 21 hours 13 minutes, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2172/I
Time: 16:28 CDT, 52/21:28 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 21 hours 28 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're now receiving data - systems data
from Skylab, we'll stand by for conversation between CAP COMM
Dick Truly here in the mission control center and the crew of
Skylab-lll.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're still here. Is S056
still operating or is the hung on filter 2?
CC Stand by. PLT, Houston, S056 is hung up.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours 30 minutes
Greenwich mean time. S056, the x-ray scout telescope.
CC Skylab, Houston. W_'d like to restart
S056, one time and if it hangs up again we'll probably just
terminate it.
PLT Okay, I was just looking through my -
reference (garble) on S056, I was thinking of taking them off
manually.
CC Roger, Jack. If that's not too much trouble
to you and you have the time - we'd like that.
PAO That's Jack Lousma speaking from Skylab-lll
to Dick Truly here in the mission control center serving as
the CAP COMIC.
PLT The way I read it here and what it needs
is filter 2, 88 secon1|s then 162, 186, 176, and 3.2. Is that right?
CC Stand by i please, let me look it up.
PAO Lousma is presently performing experiment
with the Apollo telescope mount. 21 hours 32 minutes greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston. Reading you off all the
filters in the exposure times probably a little complicated
and we'd be just as happy if you did a shopping list 13 for
filters 3, 4, and 5.
CC That's on S056 -
PLT I think I've got them written down here,
I think, Dick. I found them and I'll run it off.
CC Okay, I do have - I do have the numbers
written down here, also, if you would like to confirm them.
PLT I already got filter 2 taken but 3, 4,
5, and 6 go 162, 186, 176, 3.2.
CC Roger, those are good numbers, Jack and
we're about 15 seconds from LOS. We're going to drop out
about a minute or so and I'ii give you a call at - Texas.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 21 hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean. All of the conversation thus far on this
stateside pass with Skylab-lll has been with Pilot Jack Lousma.
SL-III MC-2172/2
Time: 16:28 CDT, 52/21:28 GMT
9/17/73

Meanwhile, Commander ,Elan Bean has been performing the medical

experiments with Science Pilot Owen Garriott serving as
observer. These expe - experiments being the M092, lower
body negative pressure test and MI71, the bicycle ergometer.
Standing by continuing to monitor at 21 hours 35 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS MLA for ii minutes.
I'm transmitting on S-band. If you hear this okay, I'll
give you a call on VHF only.
PLT Okay, reading you loud and clear, Dick.
Let me run this exposure out, I'll set up the next one and
I'ii be right with you.
CC Left antenna is the correct antenna, I'm
still on S-band, let me know when you have time, Jack and I'll
give you another call.
PLT Okay, it'll be about - 20 seconds.
CC Okay, no hurry.
CC Ready to receive ATM TV down-link also,
here at MLA.
PLT Okay, Dick how do you read on duplex Bravo.
CC PLT, Houston, read you loud and clear, how
do you read me and I'd like to hear you again. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. I'm hearing you 5 square with
no echo and the TV down-link ought to be up pretty soon when
the white light coronagraph.
CC Okay, real fine. I hear you loud and clear
also, I am going to go back to S-band for the remainder of this
pass, however, Jack because - for this pass the left antenna, I'm
told, is going to get kind of ratty comm toward the tailend
however for Al's - Al's pass - it - it should be good one all
the way through. So I think we have a good check and I'm going
back to S-band. Thank you very much.
PLT Okay, real good. You want me to leave this
set up - the way it is, switch wise.
CC Negative, I don't - I'd like you to go
before you leave up t]here, I'd like you to go VHF TR to OFF
on panel 9 and on panel 3 go VHF AM Bravo to OFF and then when
it comes time for the phone calls just go right by the cue card
and it should be set up properly.
PLT Okay, on panel 9 VHF TR OFF, right?
CC That's affirm and panel 3 VHF AM Bravo OFF.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Jack Lousma completed the second VHF comm
check with CAP COMM Dick Truly here in the mission control center.
This in advance of his private converstation with his wife,
which is scheduled to occur or take place during the next pass
over Guam tracking station. That pass now scheduled for
22 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC-2173/I
Time: 16:41CDT, 52/21:41 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Hou - -

PLT That's about it for a TV down-link, Dick.
I can't drive it around because it takes pictures.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. In about 30
seconds we're going to ha - hand over from Merritt Island
to Bermuda, and we're going to dump the data recorder at
Bermuda.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. Ascension comes up at 21:56, about i0 minutes from
now.
PLT Okay, let me give you the frames re-
maining, Dick. H-alpha, 3567; 56 is 360; 82A is 6; 82B is
73; 52 is 950; and 54 is 859.
CC Okay, Jack, I got that. Thank youvery
much.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 21
hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab III has Just
passed out of range with the Mission Control Center through
Bermuda tracking station. The next station to acquire will
be Ascension in approximately 8 minutes.

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SL-III MC2174/I
Time: 16:55 CDT, 52/21:55 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston 21 hours 56 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now from
acquisition of Skylab 3 through Ascension. We'll stand by,
keep the line open, and monitor conversations as they develop
between CAP COMM Dick Truly in the Mission Control Center
and the crew aboard Skylab 3.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension for 6 min_
utes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. Carnarvon at 22:27.
PAO Skylab Contro_ Houston at 22 hours 3
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've just had lost of signal
with Skylab 3 following this pass over Ascension tracking
station. The next station to acquire will be Carnarvon;
this, in approximately 24 minutes. Taking the line down at
this time at 22 hours 4 minutes, Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2175/I
Time: 17:26 CDT, 52/22:26 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours 26

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now less than a minute
away from acquisition through the Carnarvon tracking station.
We'll stand by keeping the land - the line up for conversation
as they develop between CAP COMM Dick Truly in the mission
control center and the crew aboard Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Carnarvon for 10
minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC And Skylab, be advised of - I did confirm
for A1 on his phone call and it is set up. Jack's is the next
site, I'll he reminding you of both of those and I've got
a couple of evening questions and with all the EREPs and
evening status and so forth I thought perhaps we might get a
couple of them out of the way. I had one for Owen and one
also for Jack.
PLT Let me ask you one, Dick. You want us
to maintain configuration where we're in - VHF to PR on panel
9 for subsequent comm.
CC Stand by i. PLT, Houston. Negative.
We want you to - that was strickly for the test and we want
you to go straight by the private comm cue card.
PLT Okay, thank you and now go ahead with
the question.
CC Okay, Jack. The - other day I think Hank
I was reading the transcript and I think Hank was talking to
you about the PPC02 sensors filters that we asked you about,
and the one we were _nterested in was out of the mol,
one of the mol sieves that you took out on mission day 48.
And in reading the transcript, it's implied that there was
- that you guys are stacking them in the container in a
certain order. And we were wondering if you could figure out
the last two sensors that you put in there, if you can, we
were considering going to CCB and perhaps flying home both
of them. And if you cannot figure it out - that the last two
that went into that stowage, we'd like to know that.
PLT No, I don't think so Dick. I can
probably figure out the last - was it PC02 or (garble) I could
figure out the last four or the last eight, I suppose. The last
four ins and the last: eight out. But there could be no way - of
knowing which one exactly it was. If this turns out that we're
getting all of the - the old ones and putting them on one
end and new ones in the middle and as we work towards
the other end, why we: just - put the used ones back in the
slot we just go the new ones out of. But there is no way
of knowing which one is which.
CC Okay, stand by Just a second please.
SL-III MC-2175/2
Time: 17:26 CDT, 52/22:26 GMT.
9/17/73

CC PLT, Houston. I guess what we'd ask you

to do then is if you can figure out the last 4 of the ends,
if you'd mark them a special way, at least we'll have
it narrowed down to that and if we decide to bring them home
at least we'll still have that option if that's possible for
you to do. The other question that I had - I wanted to talk
to - I guess was Owen, perhaps you, I'm not sure on this -
it has to do with the - UV Camera problems that we've been
having.
SPT Yeah, that's for me, go ahead Dick.
CC Okay, I've got a number of things written
here, Owen, and so why don't I just give you the just of
what the whole thing is and perhaps you can clear me up as
to where you stand. !First of all, we had a problem that you
reported on mission day 49. And for your information the
shutter will not cock until a full frame of film has advance
and if the battery is low it will advance either slow
or not at all. We were wondering if you tried to operate the
UV camera in automatic: after all of the film was exposed today
and if you didn't, the suggestion is here - is that you try that
and if it doesn't work correctly you might try changing the
batteries with in - with the Nikon 01. Be advise also that
we have - camera timer S063 MAL procedure that's on a teleprinter
message that we have not fired up to you and that's available
if you'd like us to send it up. So why don't you Just
let me know what the status is.
SPT I don't think I'ii need that, but I'ii
tell you what I did. I've - tried to think that it was just
at the end of the film roll. When I tried to advance it. It
would neither advance manually nor would the motor driving
and so I - could also not press off or fire the exposure. So I
rewound the film off 1:he cassette into the original cassette and
restowed it as I mentioned it in the down-llnk voice tape, which I
guess you have. And after it was cleared then I did operate the
camera in every MOD I could think of, single times continuous and it
all works perfectly, llnd - so it looks to me like even though I had
43 frames set, when it got to 42 it was out of film. Now that
could be - I might of used an extra frame at the beginning
somehow, perhaps in putting the spool on, I rolled it, lets
say a little further than average or something llke that
and took up one extra frame that way. Although I wouldn't
have imaged that those cassettes were measured so accurately
that there wasn't room for an extra frame or two on the end.
But I've just assumed that it was the end of the reel
and it rewound normally and after the film was out the camera
operated in all modes normally.
CC Okay, Owen. Thanks much and sounds like
it may be working okay, now.
SL-III MC-2175/3
Time: 17:26 CDT, 52/'22:26 GMT
9117173

SPT As near as I can tell it's functioning

correctly.
CC ()kay. We've still got about 4 minutes
left here at Carnarvon, I'm not sure exactly what you guys
are up too now. We do have several things later on this evening.
I do have a few items of news, I might - thought I might pass
up here, it's a little early in the evening for the news, but
I thought you might ]Like to hear them.
SPT Why don't you go ahead and take it there,
Dick.
CC ()kay. The United Auto Workers union has
reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the
Chrysler Corportion. And a strick by abo_t 112,000 workers
began on Friday and possibly will be over very shortly.
And in Lakewood, Colorado, sextuplets - four boys and two girls
were born late Sunday to a lady and are doing real fine, up
there. The a - bombs have exploded in Northern Ireland and
Britain and guerrilla sympathizers demonstrated in Dublin as
the prime ministers of Britain and the Irish republic conferred
on attempts to end strife in Northern Ireland. New stories
about Skylab continue to report the mission just as it is,
and that's as a scientific bonanza. The details on preparations
for return of the crew, both on the ground and in space
are being reported in quite a bit of detail. And as a matter
of fact, I'm - we're looking on the TV screen here of the
recovery ship that is presently steaming eastward out of
Hawaii and as the days goes on it'll end up at the end of
mission site, to the southwest of San Diego.
CDR How is she rolling Dick?
CC Say again.
CDR How is she rolling? How is she rolling?
Dick.
CC Very slightly. She's steady as a rock.
CDR That's very good. (laugh)
CC On the sports scene, the Houston Astros
Sunday defeated Los Angeles, 6-2. The Oiler didn't make out
quite so well, the Giants bet them 34-14. On the college scene,
the University of Houston beat Rice, 24-6, I think the score
was. And Michigan beat lowa, 31-7.
CDR ()kay, your - you know we've got our personal
physician or crew physician out there, Dr. Paul Buchanan on that
ship and I don't think he's got his sea legs yet and so we gave
him some good advice before he left, and that was to be sure
and take along a little handbag full of scop/Dex, to make
sure he got accommodated and adjusted to the new enviroment well.
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Time: 17:26 CDT, 52/_-2:26 GMT
9/17/73

CC I'm sure, he sure appreciated that advise

coming from you guys.
SPT He even asked us whether or not we would
recommend any head movements and we thought only after all symptoms
had disappeared would that be appropriate.
CC Roger, that.
PLT Did you say 41-7 Michigan over Iowa?
CC It was 31-7, Jack.
PLT Okay, that's still good enough. Looks
like the wolverines sharpened up their teeth this year and
clipped the wings off the seahawk.
CC Yeah.
CDR How's the Longhorns doing?
CC They didn't play yet. I checked AI and
they didn't play yesterday, I guess their first game is
scheduled for next Saturday.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS at Carnarvon, Guam comes up at 22:41 and Jack that's
where your phone call is set up so I'ii give ya'll a call
at Guam.
CDR Okay, (garble) something up here for biomed
today on the bike run.
CC Say again. I didn't copy that and also
one thing for Jack, you should start off on the left antenna
Jack and then switch to the right antenna and AI say again
please.
CDR I said I put a lot on there for Biomed.
On the end of that 17] (garble)
CC 0kay, real fine, we've warned him and
he'll be looking for it.

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SL-III MC-2176/I
Time: 17:38 CDT, 52/22:38 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 22 hours 39

minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal with Carnarvon,
Guam acquisition in approximately I minute 40 seconds.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours 41 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition of Sky -
Skylab through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston, Guam for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, Guam for 9 minutes.
CC And I Just talked to COMM TECH, and he was -
he made one call and just got a noise burst down, and he
wanted me to confirm that you had received his uplink.
PLT Hello, Dick. This is Jack. I'm reading
the COMM TECH loud and clear on VHF; he's not hearing me.
CC Okay. Let me talk to him.
PLT Hello, Dick, this is Jack. How do you
read?
CC I read you loud and clear. How me?
PLT I'm hearing you five square on S-band, but we
got the same problem, a lot of background noise, and I'm hearing
the COMM TECH, and my wife_ hut nobody's hearing me.
CC Roger. Understand. We're working on
it. Stand by please.
PLT Okay, I'll go back to VHF.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For Jack. We'd
like to verify you on that left antenna?
CDR He's on left.
PLT Dick, I'm on left. I believe that's where
he told me to be.
CC That's right. The word that I have from
the ENC0, Jack, was to start on the left and you probably
would have to shift to the right sometime during the pass.
I can check again witlh COMM TECH right now.
PLT I tried them both and I'm going to give
up here, in another minute until I get it squared away.
CC Okay.
PLT Dick, I'm still trying. It's the same
problem. I hear the COMM TECHS talking between Guam and Houston,
and I can hear the Guam COMM TECH, also, but he can't hear me
either.
CC Roger, Jack. Copy. I'm not sure what to
say right now, we're ]_ussling to try to get it fixed. We
prob - we - looks like we may - we still got about 4 minutes
left here at Guam, and I'm sure we'll go ahead and try to get
the Mila pass for AI, and perhaps set this up later, if it's
no joy all the way.
PLT Okay, Dick, and now Guam is reading me,
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but Houston isn't. And I'm hearing both of them.

CC Roger; understand.
PLT Dick, how many more minutes we got in
this pass?
CC We got 2-1/2 minutes, Jack.
PLT Okay, tell them I'm going off the line
here. They can work it out, somehow.
CC Okay, Jack, we'll - sorry about that.
We'll - if we can get ourselves squared away here, we - and
we will, we'll set it up for a later pass.
PLT Okay, Dick. That'll be fine. Thank you
very much.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Goldstone is coming up at 23:06, and I'ii be standing by
there to get the Evening Status Report.
PAO Skylab Control Houston at 22 hours 51
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 has now passed out
of acquisition range with the Guam tracking station. Still,
difficulities are developing with the VHF comm for the
private conversation. No joy on Lousma's private conversation
with his wife over the Guam tracking station. Lousma report-
ed that he could hear the communications technicans talking
between Guam and Houston, and he could also hear his wife.
Unfortunately, they were not able to hear Lousma in this mode.
Although weather appeared questionable over Japan earlier,
Skylab has been given a firm go ahead for the first Skylab
Earth resources pass ever over Japan and her coastal waters.
Six targets are scheduled and these include such geographically
prominent positions as Mount Fuji and Toyko Bay. The data
takes, on this EREP pass, are scheduled to start at 17:22
Central Daylight time. This will occur while Skylab is out
of station contact with the Mission Control Center. Scheduled
to take place on the next revolution over the Pacific. We're
at 22 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time. And some 13
minutes away now from acquisition by Goldstone. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2177/1
Time: 18:05 CDT, 52/23:05 GMT
9/17/73

PA0 Skylab Control, Houston at 23 hours

6 minutes Greenwich mean time, less than a minute away, now,
from acquisition of signal with Skylab through Goldstone.
The llne is now open and this is Skylab Control standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 17 min-
utes.
CDR (Garble)
CC Roger. I heard about half of a cut-out
conversation there, but I didn't catch it.
CDR You ready for the ole nightly report?
CC Yes sir, I sure am. Go ahead.
CDR 093, 105, 168; 6167, 0121, 6640; 6.239,
6.241, 6.237; 5.954, 5.957, 5.954; 6.950, 6.951, 6.954.
CC Roger.
CDR Exercise: CDR, 2/35/5041, 3/15/Mark I,
3/10/Mark II, 305Mark III; SPT, we'll give you the informa-
tion later; PLT, let him give you the information later be-
cause hers on the bi - bike exercise at the moment. Medl-
cation: CDR, one Seconal that's
CC Okay°
CDR One Seconal last night. Sleep: CDR,
6-I/2/G; SPT, 6-I/2/G; PLT, 6/G. Uh - how about a little
food log. Okay?
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR (:DR, salt packs 1/2 and add one lemonade;
SPT, two salt packs, add peanuts, and butter cookies; PLT,
four salt packs, add one lemon drops, one butter cookies,
an_ one PG.
CC Okay.
CDR Hiere comes the photo pad: M516, tape
recorder change: CI60, 04, and CI52. BMMD, SMMD: CI61, 00,
CI54. MI51, S183 prep: CI58,13, CI53. M516, tape recorder
repair: CI20,05, CI59. S183: UAO286. M151/S183 stow:
CI56, 03, CI44. 35-millimeter: CII05, 39, CX34,54. 70-mil-
limeter: CX27,073. ETC: CT09,051. EREP, Set W: 8,989;
1,182; 8,708; 8,087; 9,857; 8,760. Drawer A Configuration:
07, CI58,13, CI53.
CC Roger.
CDR G5, CI61,O0, CI54; 06, CI60, 04, C152;
03, CI20,05, CI59. Backup - not the backup the drawer:
02, C156; 03, CI44.
CC Roger, AI. Got it.
CDR Just looking at Denver and the Rocky
Mountains. They don't look so big up here. They sure do
down there. Okay, here we go: Flight Plan Deviations:
completed medical inventory requested by message 4605. I
guess that really should be a shopping list item. We haven't
looked at our Flight Plan tomorrow. I don't know if they're
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aboard or not. And unscheduled stowage item location change:

now this is some drink from Jerry Carr crew chow, so I want
to be sure to get it down, also sending a message on channel
A today. It's 562F. Lemonade from can 151, 162, 171, 819-1, 21-1.
So there were essentially six lemonades removed from his
food, and he's going to have to bring those up.
CC Roger, AI. And - I'm sure it's about
a minute or so from handing over from Goldstone to MLA, so
you might secure this and let one of the other guys read me
the rest of it or I can catch it later and whiz up to the
command module.
CDR (Garble) and will do.
CC ()kay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. I forgot to warn
you, but we're going to dump the data tape recorder at MLA.
SPT ()kay, I don't think anybody's using it
now, Dick. And I think A1 read you all the info that you
needed and that he had, didn't he.
CC I think we were just about to the end of
it, Owen. I just wanted to make sure that I warned him in
time for him to get up there and see if we can have any better
luck on his phone call than Jack did. And so if there is
anything more that you want to pass down, feel free. We've
still got about i0 minutes left in this stateside pass.
SPT Okay, no, I think that catches everything.
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC-2178/I
time: 18:13 CDT, 52/23:13 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 23 hours 14 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab now under acquisition with the
Mila tracking station. This the station in which AI Bean
is conducting his private conversation with his wife here
in Houston. Apparently the communications functioning
successfully. Standing by continuing to monitor with some
8 minutes 35 seconds remaining on this pass. Skylab Control
Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute to LOS.
Vanguard at 23:33.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 23
hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab III has now
passed out of station range on this stateside pass. The
next station to acquire is Vanguard in approximately 9 min-
utes. However, Skylab will skirt the outer edge of the
range of Vanguard at a very low elevation angles a
maximum of some 3.7 degrees. The next station to acquire
beyond Vanguard will be Goldstone this some i hour and 18
minutes from this time. And during that intervening period
Skylab will have it's pass over Japan where the Earth
resources pass is scheduled. This will be done - will take
place out of station contact with the Mission Control Center
we're 23 hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean time. And this is
Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC-2179/I
Time: 18:32 CDT, 52/23:32 GMT
9/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 23

hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now approaching acquisition with Vanguard, less than
a minute away now. We'll stand by. Keep the llne open in
the event we pick up conversation over the t_acking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
5 minutes.
CDR c)kay, we had very good comm on that one,
Dick. Thanks.
CC Okay, AI, I'm sorry the thing didn't
work out for Jack. We have - about the only pass that we have
left that's possible to set up again, and I'd suggest we
try it, is the Vanguard pass at 01:07, that's just about 5 or
i0 minutes, after your EREP. And the ENCO just told me that
the - that one maybe a little hit noisy but I su - I just
talked to home and I'd suggest we go ahead and try that one.
That's 01:07.
PLT Okay, Dick. I'ii give it a try. And I'II
plan to do that at 0]:07. And I've got some thing that didn't
get reported because I didn't have it done. So stowage
wise, I moved 6 blue towels from dome locker 418 to the
waste management compartment, and I got (garble) for that.
Let me get it.
CC Okay.
PLT It's number 2 for $5, 8684.
CC I'm sorry. You betcha- you cut out. You
better say that one again on the exercise, please.
PLT Okay, that was a number 2 times and 35
minutes, 8684. And thank you for setting up the comm,
appreciate it.
CC Okay, I hope it works out. And if it
doesn't, I guess we'll catch you tomorrow, Jack. Also as
long as I'm talking here, this is the last chance we'll have
to remind you that we're need to be sure to get a NuZ update.
And the time is 00:02, and it's on the ATM schedule pad, hut
that daylight cycle isn't scheduled for anybody so I thought
it might be a little bit of a trap for you. 00:02 is the
time for a new Z update.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC And also, I think monitor i is still on
up there and you can - when you go up there to do a NuZ
update, you can turn off that monitor.
PLT Okay, would you like us to make that a
part of our powerdown checklist, now to turn off mon I as
well as mon 2?
CC Roger, Jack we thought that was on the
checklist and I'ii check it right away. But yes, we -
it ought to be on the powerdown checklist to secure both monitors.
PLT No, it's only mon 2 at the moment, but if you
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check it out, why we'll include it in the (garble) change

that's what he wants done.
SPT Roger. Dick, you might check to make sure it
doesn't affect your ability to down-link TV, during the
night.
CC Roger, Owen. Yes, don't make a checklist
change. We'll check it out and get squared away.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Goldstone comes up at 00:42. And we do have the
med conference scheduled at Goldstone, but I think it's been
arranged that Owen's going to for us. Also we'll give you
a "gotcha" on that powerdown. We were thinking about the
powerdown for EREP cue card that does have mon i on it but
your pad said powerdown for unattended. So it was powered down -
the C&D was closed out properly. I'ii give you a call at
Goldstone.
PLT So you still want mon i off. Right?
CC That's affirm. We do want mon i off.
PAO Skylab, Control Houston 23 hours 40 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 has now passed out of
range with Vanguard. The next station to acquire will be
over the states at Goldstone. This acquisition time some 1
hour and 3 minutes away. This is Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC-2180/I
Time: 19:42 CDT, 53/00:42 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 42 minutes

Greenwich mean time, And day 53 of the mission of Skylab
IIl, less than 1 minute away now, from acquisition of the
Skylab space station through Goldstone. During this pass
the private medical conference is scheduled to take place.
Also, Vanguard is being configured for a private family
conversation, this being the one that Jack Lousma missed
earlier this evening over Guam. Some i0 seconds away now
from scheduled acquisition of signal, keeping the line up,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Now receiving
systems data from Skylab through Goldstone.
CDR (Garble)
PLT That's what we're doing.
CDR Terrible.
CDR They're going to have a tough time
getting this one.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'm with you at Texas
for 9 minutes.
CDR Hello there, Houston.
PLT Dumping down the Pike, here.
CDR It was snow-covered or cloud-covered
over at Japan, Dick. The northern tip was clear, - well,
broken to clear, but the rest was socked in. No Tokyo Bay,
no Mount Fugi.
CC Roger, AI.
PLT (Garble) (garble) all our friends in
the land of the rising Sun, anyway, Dick.
CDR 329, and l'm supposed to
PLT MARK. MODE SINGLE.
CDR (garble) degrees - like about right now.
CDR Let it stay there. 229. E229. They
sure got a bad horizon on this one, Dick. It - we must be
going into dark_ but it just wasn't distinct at all. I
hope this comes out to their satisfaction.
PLT How's Big Red down there today, Dick?
CC Hers really having fun tonight.
CDR What's he doing?
PLT Let's hear it for the Flight Director.
Everybody Rive him a holler.
I_S Hey, Hey, Yea. Yea.
PLT I bet he's almost as good a guy as
Archie is.
CDR Ask him what we're going to do with
that 6 hours between tunnel closeout and undocking.
PLT I wonder if Big Bill's going to buy
the whole - all the flight controllers dinner like Hutch is.
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Time: 19:42 CDT, 53/00:42 GMT
9/17/73

CDR He is. There's no doubt in my mind.

PLT Yeah, a good guy like him.
CC (Chuckle)
PLT Wealthy bachelor.
CC (Chuckle)
CDR Big pocketbook.
PLT Yeah.
PLT Well paid flight director.
CDR Thatts right. They get extra - they
get flight pay for this. (chuckle) I wouldn't be surprised.
PLT I wonder if they could get perdiem for
being in the MOCR.
CDR (Chuckle) Probably. They get to sleep
there.
PLT (Chuckle) They got to record us first,
though.
CDR 50:01, and boy, this is a tough one.
PLT This one is really stirring up the old
pump, Dick.
CC Well, it sounds like fun to me.
PLT (Laughter)
CDR It is - a great site - (garble)
PLT Never lose your sense of humor. (Chuckle)
CC I'm trying.
MS (Laughter)
CDR It's only a matter of time Richard.
PLT They're saying what Bruce was saying
this morning.
CDR What're they saying?
PLT Wish these guys would shut up.
MS (Laughter)
PLT Here they come again. (Laughter) Oh.
CDR (Garble)
PLT 52:29. Boy, it seems like a long time
off. It seems like almost 2 minutes. Seems like we've been
up here for two months.
CDR Okay, 47:39 - that's the wrong time.
I'm going to 52:29. They're getting a lot of movies of
black space for some reason. I don't know why, but they
want them. No, they wonIt let me turn it off they said.
PLT That'll make them jump up and down if
you do that.
CDR No, they want me to keep it on. It's
gonna be interesting footage.
PLT I betcha Phil could take everybody out
to dinner on all the money he's got off that lousy coin trick.
CDR He should do it.
CC Everybody on the team concurs with you.
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CDR (Laughter) Little - little uh - Chinese

food. He'll probably take you down to the - what's the
Chinese (garble) (clhuckle)
PLT (Laughter)
CDR 52:29. Oh, this is good one - this is
good - I can't wait to see this footage when I get back.
They're going to think we didn't expose it. Solid black.
PLT That's what they want. (Garble) a lot
darker picture they can take.
CDR Right.

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SL-III MC-2181/I
Time: 19:52 CDT, 53/00:52 GMT
9/17/73

PLT Okay, we're going to get a MOD signal here

pretty quick.
CDR Okay, at 52:29 this camera's coming off.
PLT MARK, MODE Single. EREP to STOP
PLT MARK.
PLT Okay, what's this post operating thing here.
Something that Dick want's to know right here. I guess he's
gone.
CC No, I'm not gone. I'm ease dropping.
PLT Good. Okay. You want to know what Bravo
7 is. So I'm going to tell you. It's 31 percent.
CC 31, okay.
PLT And when we were in check, Alpha 2 was doing
some swirlley things. It was moving up and down between -
this was before we started the - Earth limb pass, it was
oscillating between - 37 and 40 - 45 or 50. Just going real slow
and - with out any - apparent direction to it's motion. Since
you want to know Alpha 2 and Charlie 4, thought that might
be - little interesting piece of data. Okay, 192 door CLOSE.
Close and latch the window. Okay. One little piece of note -
data you might want to have there, Dick is concerning the M518.
It - It was in a (garble) temperature, I'ii give that to you
later. I - I ain't got it written down. But the guys seem to
want to know that.
CC Okay. And Jack one thing - this next
Vanguard pass is the last pass of the evening and we're hoping
to have that set up for your private comm. And I did have a question
for you about one of the things you did earlier today. It
had to do with the photography of the S183 stow. We were -
you reported down the X-porter 02 where we had a X-porter
03 scheduled. And - we think, probably that the film on X-porter
03 was used up earlier, but we weren't sure what - which. We
understand the configurations of the X-porters, but we were
interested to know - what happen on the 183 photography.
PLT I got the - prep and I got the stow.
I just did it in a different X-porters on account of the -
07 I guess was less than the required amount. And - I was able
to get all the stow in - and the one that - I did. So - the
rest I guess is on the film log. But I did get a photograph
of the prep and the stow.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Yes, sir.
PLT Okay, AI, I'Ii get that for you, just a
sec here. (garble) vent, AUTO (garble) Before you got here.
No, it was open. I just did it right now. (laugh) Scared you
and you're fearless, I know.
CDR (Garble) and I'm not fearless.
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9/17/73

PLT Okay, the READY light is OUT. The EREP

goes to STOP. The MODE goes to STANDBY. And I'Ii take the power
OFF for you. And you can have those pictures. I've waited
more than 2 seconds now. There we go. Tape recorder power
OFF. No time for S191.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS.
PLT MARK.
CC Vanguard is coming up at 1:07 and Jack, your
comm will be set up - set up there. We're - you ought to start on
the left antenna. And incidently, be advised that the problem
down at Guam was the hardware failure. We had a - we - they found
a switch failure in the black box down there and - and that
was the cause of that:.
PLT (}kay. Well, I'm glad they were able to sank it
out and - I hope we can - make it at Vanguard. Thank you
for passing the word and working it all out, appreciated it much.
CC Okay. And we're all leaving to have Chinese
dinner.
PLT (laughter) Au Sol. Good old Phil. I new
he'd come through. Door closed light is on. Okay. I get
190 power OFF, 192 power can go OFF, now. 191 we'll leave ON.
SCAT and RAD and altimeter OFF, 194 power OFF, standing by for
191. 58:36. Use the steel tape to do the measuring too.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 58 minutes
Greenwich mean time into the new day of the mission, that day
53. We've had loss of signal now through Texas. Next station
to acquire will be Vanguard in approximately 9 minutes. The
Big Red or Phil referred to by the crew of Skylab 3 during
this last pass of course is Flight Director Phil Shaffer. A1
Bean and Jack Lousma coming through with a sterling suggestion
from space - namely that - Flight Director Shaffer take his
team of purple flight controllers out to dinner, the suggestion
Chinese dinner. The last remark from CAP COMM Dick Truly was
that - he was ready to leave. Also during that pass, we heard
a report on the - EREP pass over Japan where the cloud cover
prevented data takes of - Tokyo Bay and Mount Fuji. We're
8 minutes away now from acquisition through Vanguard and
this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2182/I
Time: 19:05 CDT, 53/01:05 GMT
9/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at i hour 6 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 less than a minute away
now from acquisition through the Vanguard tracking.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Vanguard for ii min-
utes .
SPT Okay, Dick, let me update a couple of
numbers for you on the Evening Status Report.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, on the SPT's exercise as follows:
2/31/5100, 3/25/mark i; 90A, 60B, 60 Deltas and on the food
additions add another biscuit to (garble) addition and
that's all I've got. Let me see I think the frames on the ETC
was 30 for the EREP officer.
CC Okay, Owen. And incidentally on that
T - ATM monitor you were exactly correct about mon i staying
on and being required when we do TV downlink we originally asked
you to turn it off because we didn't have any TV scheduled
for this evening. However, on second thought weve got some
funnies on that mon i and welve had to warm it up for some
time so in order to get data first thing in the morning we
would like to get it back on this evening before you go to
bed so it can be nice and war m when morning comes.
SPT Okay, instead of mon 1 wouldn't mon 2
do just as good. The original concern about leaving mon 1
on I believe was due to the irregularities of the tweak patterns
that we had observed a couple of times and my guess is that mon
2 will serve just as well. You might check on that.
CC Roger. We'll talk about it real quick.
CDR And one other thing, Dick. I forgot to
do the Nuz update before the EREP.
CC Okay, AI. Thanks for letting us know and
back to Owen on the monitors we're not sure and I guess we
could take a little while and check but it'll probably ev -
simpler to tell you twice if you've already heard it but
welre not sure that we ever got back to you and tell - told
you that we think that one of the problems that we saw the
other day with the monitor i where we had the dark streak
across it was affected. We had allowed it to cool down over
a EREP pass period and so tonight we would like to get monitor
i back on cause we'd like to keep it warm.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. I'Ii check and make
sure it's turned back on right now.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm headed up there. And also let me
give you the EREP numbers for EREP officers on the film,
set W, 9040, 1233, 8759, 8138, 9908, 8812. You want me to
give you a Nuz update, now?
CC Stand by.
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CC CDR, Houston, negative we don't we -

we don't need one now.
CC CDR, Houston, one thing on the EREP pass
that we didn't get when we went L - LOS, and I think you
guys were just doing it and that was the tape measurement.

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SL-III MC-2183/I
Time: 19:12 CDT, 513/01:12 GMT
9/17/73

CDR Just a second. I'll have to check with

Jack. Hold on.
CC Okay.
SPT 30 was correct on the ETC. And that'll
show up on tomorrow nights film log.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We'd like - we'd just
as soon go ahead and inhibit TACs both hardware and software
now. We're looking in good shape on momentum.
CDR Okay, we'll do that. And it's one inch.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR And it's inhibited now.
CC Roger. We see the hardware and software
inhibited. Thank you very much.
CDR And does ATM like it? I just turned on the
MON 1 for them.
CC Roger; we copy. Thank you for that, also.
CDR We're going to wait 6 hours in the command
module from closing the hatch to undocking. We may want to
think about getting up 2 hours later or something. I don't
know
CC Roger; I'm not sure we can stand another
change in our plan :[or getting up and going to be_, but a -
we'll - we'll take another look.
CDR No, there wouldn't be any circadian change,
it would be, for sample, wetre getting to bed about an hour later
tonight, it won't bother us. And - that's going to be a long
day. I'm not pushing it, but we might - maybe we ought to
think about it.
CC Roger, I understand.
CDR We might have a better feelfor it. flatter
of fact, the day before we do it, though, we'll see how much
we've got done and how much we lack. If we've got a lot of stuff
to put in there, lot of things to close out, itVs hard to get
disability from this minute, til that point.
CC Roger, AI. - Phil point - makes a good
point; and that is, with a single impluse re-entry, all our
pad is built completely into that time there and, you know,
it's not really so much a - matter of - of - when you got up
and the length your day is - just that those contingencies
that might come up, and weld like to keep all the pad we've
- we can get in there.
CDR I agree with that. There's some limits.
Maybe we haven't exceeded it; I don't know. I just threw
it out for a thought.
CC Roger.
CDR Well, you figure - I see for 6 hours there
and if (garble) and 3/4 in orbit before we re-enter there's a
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Time: 19:12 CDT, 53/01:12 GMT
9/17/73

7-3/4 hour, and - another hour or so for recovery, make that

an hour and half for recovery, that's 9, i0 hours. I don't
know; we ought to look at it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. And - and - in the morning, we've got a choice of
waking you up, probably, the best time would be in order to
to - let you get that ATM there's a - Guam pass I could wake
you up at LOS, 8:46. The next choice is Vanguard at 9:16.
CDR Why don't we go for 8:46.
CC Okay, I think that'll be a good deal,
because get Jack up in time to make sure he gets that first
early morning EREP. So you guys get a good night's sleep
and we'll see you in the morning.
CDR You bet; see y'all. Enjoy your dinner.
CC Okay, we really will.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 1 hour
19 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-III has now passed out
of range with tracking ship Vanguard. The next station to
acquire will be - Hawaii in - approximately 58 minutes. However,
CAP COMM Dick Truly has past along the word to the crew of
Skylab-III that they now should start their rest period.
We will be taking down the line momentarily, however, before
we do, we will pass along the - mission surgeon's daily medical
summary. This, provided to us by - Flight Surgeon Jerry R.
Hordinsky. And it :reads as follows: "The crew is in excellent
spirits and is having no health problems. The circadian
adjustment is oecuring smoothly with the second shift of the
sleep period to occur tomorrow. The commander reported that
he felt fine during the entire M092 run today, and the data
substantiated this :feeling." We're at 1 hour 20 minutes Greenwich
mean time, now. The crew is scheduled for wake up at Greenwich
mean time, 8 hours ,$6 minutes. And at this time, Skylab Control,
Houston si_ning off.

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SL-III MC2184/I
Time: 04:12 CDT, 53/09:12 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours, 12 minutes

and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
we're about 3-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station. The crew was awakened earlier
this morning at 43 minutes after the hour at 8:43 Greenwich
mean time or 3:43 a.m. this morning and we will replay the
wake-up song, Glenn Miller's "String of Pearls" played by
Mission Control about 20 minutes ago. Here is the wake-up
call that went up at Guam.
CC (Music) Good morning, Skylab. This is
the voice of the Crimson team coming to you from high
atop building 30 at JSC overlooking the trench in our 8 by
15 orbital map. It's time for the CDR to start thinking
in terms of solar physics and to watch a very quiet non-flaring
sun.

PLT . .. down to earth ...

CC I would too. Sorry about that. I wanted
to put A1 awake instead of Jack. Jack, you better get up and
go to work. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you
again over the Vanguard at 09:16. That's about 30 minutes
away.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours, 15 minutes
and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 42 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship. That
was a replay of the crew wake-up which took place at 8:43
Greenwich mean time over Guam. We'll now have the line up
live for air-to-ground through Vanguard. The pass through
Vanguard will last about I0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard,
i0 minutes.
PLT You still there, Crip?
CC That's affirm. Would you rather I go
away?
PLT No, sir. But I said it looks like we've got
a new active region coming around the - that's the east limb, and
it's right at 270. It's facing the bright spot, let me say that.
CC Okay. Copy. We'll look at it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS.
See you again over Canary in ii minutes at 09:66.
PLT See you at Canary.

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SL-III MC-2185/1
Time: 04:25 CDT 53/09:25 GMT
9/18/73

CC Jack, that's returning region 02 we think,

and we'll give another number for it probably when it gets around.
PLT Thank you, Bob. We've got a good XUV
signature, though.
CC Copy.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 26 minutes and
18 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now gone out of range
of the Vanguard tracking ship. Our next acquisition of signal
9 minutes and 45 seconds from now. We'll be at Canary Islands.
The pass through Canary Islands and Madrid will last approxi-
mately 14-1/2 minutes at that time. During this last pass
we were confronted with a new active region at location 270
on the Sun just coming around the Sun's east limb. And it was
identified by the ground as returning active region 02. And
it will get a new number as soon as it becomes visible on the
Sun's phase. The correction on the name of the song the crew
was awakened this morning to Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade
from high atop Building 30. This morning the flight plan
calls for early ATM by the Pilot, Jack Lousma. And he was
at the ATM console during this last pass. He has about 52 min-
utes left of the daylight cycle. This is Skylab Control. It
will be 8 minutes and 50 seconds before our next acquisition
of signal. It is now 27 minutes 25 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2186/I
Time: 04:34 CDT, 53/09:34 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 35 minutes

and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently about
54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Canary Islands
station. This pass through Canary Islands and Madrid will
last approximately 14 minutes. At the present time the
Commander and Science Pilot of the Skylab mission are in
postsleep activities, brushing their teeth, eating break-
fast and so forth. And Jack Lousma is still at the ATM
console. And we do have AOS at Canary Islands and we have the
line up llve for alr-to-ground through there and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary 13 minutes.
PLT ,Okay, Bob. And I just want to verify that
you want those MI51 photos of the S183 prep in stowage unit I did
yesterday.
CC Let me check that for you.
PLT Thank you.
CC Jack. Yes we do want to get those 151's.
Of the 183.
PLT Say again, please.
CC 'We do want to get that - the photos with
MISI of 183.
PLT Okay. We'll get them. Thank you.
PLT Bob, I'd like the gents down there
to sort of keep their eye on S056 and if they see it hanging up
let me know immediately so I can go manual on it please.
CC Okay. We're keeping an eye on it.
PLT Thank you.
PLT And one other little piece of informa-
tion. M560 was in its 50C temperature, or 50C period
last night at 22:40. I don't know what time it went there
but when I made the reading at 22:40 and it was bashing out
at 652 degrees.
CC Copy that, Jack.
CC Jack, you might want to designate on
your SAP that that new active region was on a number 31, 31.
PLT Okay, Bob, number 31. Thank you.
CC Sorry, Jack. I couldn't understand
you.
PLT Okay. I copied your active region 31. Thank
you.
CC Rog.

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SL-III MC-2187/I
Time: 04:48 CDT 53/09:48 GMT
9118173

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Honeysuckle in 36 minutes. That's
at 10:26, 10:26.
PLT Okay, Bob. And let me real quickly give
you some rate gyro temperatures. X-5, 91.7; X-6, 91.5; Yankee 5,
92.1; Yankee 6, 90.2; Zulu 5, 93.6; Zulu 6, is 90.3.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 50 minutes and
54 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the Skylab
space station is out of range of the Madrid tracking station
as it passes over eastern Europe. About 34 minutes from our
next acquisition of signal at the Guam - correction, at the
Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia. Today's activities
include one EREP pass, pass number 37 in the Earth resources
program along track 58 which crosses from Baja, California into
Canada. After crossing an area including Chicago, which is
the prime site for the infrared spectrometer. That's the view
finder tracking system that is used by the spacecraft Pilot
Jack Lousma. The VTS will by used today to spot Chicago as
a prime site. The secondary site is Lake Michigan in case
that Chicago might be overcast. In addition to the EREP pass
we have about 6-1/2 hours of solar data take time as we reach
a relatively good angle for solar activity with longer periods
of daylight. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition
33 minutes from now will be at the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
tracking station. It is now 52 minutes and i0 seconds after
the hour.

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SL-III MC2188/I
Time: 05:24 CDT, 53/10:24 GMT
9118/73

PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours, 24 minutes

and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently at 54 se-
conds from scheduled acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia tracking station. The pass through Honey-
suckle Creek will last 5 minutes and 28 seconds. We'll have
the line up live for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle. This
is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Honeysuckle. We got you for about 2-1/2 more minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob. You probably didn't get the
rate gyto temperatures I read down to you, so I'll give them
to you again if you want.
CC We copied them earlier, Jack. Can you
tell us how mon 1 looked this morning, please?
PLT Well, it looked normal, just like it
has every other day except for 1 day.
CC Okay. That's what we thought. We
wanted to just verify it. Thank you.
PLT You bet.
PLT Oh Bob, one other deletion to my food
menu two days ago. I didn't notice until the last night
but it's for not yesterday, but the day before yesterday. I
neglected to eat two salt packs and one salt pill, that I
reported that I had and I found them yesterday - yesterday evening.
CC Copy that.
CC And is CDR available for a question,
please sir?
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. Yesterday, he mentioned following
his MI71 and exercise run that he had recorded something for
biomed about 171 and we were - have been unable to find any-
thing about that on the tapes. Appreciate it if he could
repeat it again on channel A.
CDR Weren't any words, Bob. I just gave them
an extra 25 minutes of data.
CC Oh. Misunderstanding what you said then.
Okay. Very good.
CDR Sorry.
CC Okay. We're getting ready to go over the
hill. We'll have you again at Mila at 12:42.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC Correction on that. Canary at 11:14.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours, 31 minutes
and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently at the
edge of the tracking range of the Honeysuckle tracking station
and about to pass over New Zealand. Next acquisition of signal
43 minutes and 9 seconds from now, will be at Canary Islands.
At that time, we'll have a pass through Canary Islands and Madrid
lasting approximately 12 minutes. This is Skylab Control at
31 minutes and 56 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2189/I
Time: 06:13 CDT, 53/11:13 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 13 minutes

and 56 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about
55 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Canary Island
tracking station. The pass through Canary Island and Madrid
will last about 13-1/12 minutes. At this time we have 39 minutes
of daylight left in this daylight pass. And we do have
acquisition of signal now at Canary.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 12-1/2 minutes. For the CDR, we need to get into the
DAS for a minute to inhibit momentum dump. Over.
CDR You've got it.
CC And while we've got you on the horn, Alan.
The current plan is to schedule 3 hours for EVA prep on the
evening of mission day of 56. The EVA that's being planned
for you is basically the nominal one, with only the addition
of knocking the dust particles off the S052 if it's in the
right place. And of course, the change to gas cooling
instead of liquid cooling. And we're wondering if this
3 hours allocation is sufficient in your estimation. Over.
CDR Definitely. And be interesting to know
what we're going to do about umbilicals and we can - within
the next couple of days we can remove the ones we have and
dump them or whatever else, and put in the other one. So
you might get that message up sometime and we'll take care
of that before the 3 hours and we won't have any trouble
meeting the others.
CC Roger. That's being worked right now.
CC And we're through with the DAS. You've
got it back, AI.
CDR Hey, Bruce, would you do me a large
favor?
CC Try me and see.
CDR Okay. Today's my wife's birthday. How
about calling that florist down in League City and have
them send out about a dozen yellow roses.
CC Roger. We'll do it.
CDR And maybe you could put some message
on the card there or something, if you would, too, or have them
do it.
CC Okay. You want us to just bill it to
the house, or something like that?
CDR That's a good idea.
CC And we're coming up on handover to
Madrid. We'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at Madrid.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 11:55. Out.
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Time: 06:13 CDT, 53/11:13 GMT
9/18/73

CDR Hey, Bruce. I just finished doing the

housekeeping in the CSM. Let me read you thruster temps. We've
probably got enough time for that.
CC Give it a whirl, fast.
CDR Okay. 4-B, 1.7, 2.0, 1.6, 2.2, 2.1, 1.3.
CC We got them, thank you.
CDR You bet.
CDR Everything else looked good with no
leaks. Apparently, we were leaking when we cycled it during
the command module check. So that now that we haven't chi -
cycled the coolant any more, we got no leak.
CC Roger. Sounds good and we'll talk
to you over Carnarvon.
CDR All right.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 28 minutes
and 24 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now gone out
of range of the Madrid tracking station. During this last
pass, spacecraft communicator, Bruce McCandless talking
with A1 Bean. A1 indicating that he would approve a 3-hour
limit on the EVA scheduled for Saturday. He said that was
all right. One of the things that will have to be done on
that EVA in addition to the ATM film changeout is possibly
to attempt to brush some contaminant off the SO52 occulting
disc. The SO52 is the white light coronagraph used on one
of the solar telescope equipment. It does have a small
piece of matter on the occulting disc, or device used to
block out the Sun's disc, a very small item about the size
of a dime, a much smaller piece of material on that occulting
disc. And they may attempt to brush that off. That was
something that was done previously during the first Skylab
mission. Also, a request from Commander A1 Bean that
roses be sent to his wife. Our next acquisiton of signal
25 minutes and a half from now. We'll be at Carnarvon
Australia. It's now 29 minutes and 33 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-III MC-2190/I
Time: 06:53 CDT 53/11:53 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 54 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're presently within range of the
tracking station at Carnarvon, Australia. This pass through
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle will be an extended one lasting
over 14 minutes. We have the line up live for air-to-ground
through the Australian tracking stations.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 14 minutes. Out.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And we have a momentum dump enable to do.
I don't see anybody at the ATM right now, but if there is
if you'd stay off the DAS for a minute, we can get it in.
PLT Okay, we're off it.
CC ()kay, the DAS is back to you.

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SL-III MC2191/I
Time: 07:06 CDT, 53/112:06 GMT
9/18/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to

LOS. Next station contact in 34 minutes through Merritt Is-
land at 12:42. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours, 9 minutes
and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. Our next acquisition of signal after 32 minutes
and 43 seconds. During this last pass, very little conver-
sation over the Australia tracking station. We did, however,
observe that TV 55 now has apparently 16 minutes on video
tape recorder. That's a television of the flight of the
paper airplane that's carried aboard the Skylab. This is
one of the science demonstrations planned by Science Pilot
Owen Garriott. He was to perform that TV 55 demonstration
about an hour ago and the reading on the VTR is now 20.7 min-
utes, about 4-1/2 minutes of that is ATM time that was put on before
the TV 55 demonstration. We would expect that that demonstra-
tion will be coming back into tracking stations around the
globe this morning and we have no time yet for its arrival
back here in Houston. In addition to that, we also got a
reading here in Mission Control. It shows the S183 operations
which were to begin just before 12 o'clock Greenwich mean time.
Seem to be looking good at this point. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal, 31 minutes and 33 seconds from
now will be at Merritt Island. It's now i0 minutes and 34 sec-
onds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2192/I
Time: 07:53 CDT, 53/i[2:53 GMT
9118173

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 41 minutes

and 5 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab space station is about 53 seconds from acquisition of
signal at the Merritt Island tracking facility. This pass
will be through Merritt Island and Bermuda, lasting about
11-1/2 minutes. We have the line up live for air-to-ground
through Merritt Island, Florida.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Hello, Bruce, are you still with us?
CC Yes, indeed.
PLT Could you tell me how much time is left
on the VTR at this point, please?
CC Okay. You've got about 5.9 minutes left
on it available. Over.
PLT Okay. 6 minutes. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're one
minute til LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through
Madrid where we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at 12:57. And did you copy that all right on the VTR, Owen?
SPT I copied 6 minutes. Is that what you
said?
CC Roger.
SPT Bruce, you seem to be overmodulating
down there. I didn't know whether you are about to swallow
the mike or whether or not one of the amplifiers is set
too high.
CC No. We'll check on it. That's why
I asked. The site reported that my comments were coming
through garbled, but 'we'll check it out.
SPT Okay. It was that way up here. And
it hasn't improved a bit in my transmission.

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SL-III MC-2193/I
Time: 07:53 CDT 53/12:53 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 54 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We have now gone out of range of the
Bermuda tracking station. The spacecraft is traveling across
the north Atlantic about to acquire signal through Madrid.
That will be about 2 minutes and 40 seconds from now. Today
is another busy day for the Skylab crew. It includes exten-
sive activities on the ATM control and display panel, 6 hours
and 35 minutes of data take time scheduled. Additional visual
observation scheduled for later today at Salt Lake City. That's
set for 17:33, about 5 hours from now. They are doing exten-
sive photography of that area. More than 3 dozen pictures
taken a few days ago of the Salt Lake City area using the
handheld camera. Also scheduled for today handheld photo-
graphy of Germany and the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. This
morning the Skylab crew has been occupied with preparing some
television of the flight of a paper airplane. From the fact
that they have put on nearly 20 minutes of time on that paper
airplane so far we suspect that there may be more than Just
paper airplane on that. That is listed as TV 55, and we suspect
that because there is so much of it, it will take some time
to get it all back here in Houston. Also this morning beginning
in a few minutes is a run of the MI31 experiment with Jack
Lousma as the subject. The observer on that will be Science
Pilot Owen Garriott. And the ATM will be manned during this
next daylight pass by Commander Alan Bean. We have an early
schedule for the EVA planned for Saturday. It looks now like that
will be Saturday morning beginning some time after Ii hours
Greenwich mean time, and lasting from 3 to 4 hours. As it
is listed now the Science Pilot will be EVI and EV2 will be
Commander Alan Bean. This is Skylab Control. We have the
line up live for air-to-ground through Madrid. The Madrid
pass will last 8 minutes and 17 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 8 minutes. How do you read me now, Owen?
SPT Sounds pretty good now, Bruce.
CC Okay, we just moved the world a little
to bring a new site into view of the spacecraft to fix the
problem.
SPT Yeah, either that or the ionosphere is a little
thicker up here and got all those garbles filtered out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon at 13:30.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 3 minutes and
44 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over
eastern Europe has passed out of range of the Madrid tracking
SL-III MC-2193/2
Time: 07:53 CDT 53/12:53 GMT
9/18/73

station. Our next acquisition of signal in 24 minutes from

now will be at Carnarvon, Australia. Very little conversation
going on at this time in the Skylab mission. Medical run
underway with Jack Lousma the subject of an MI30 run, and ob-
server Science Pilot ()wen Garriott. At the present time there
is still 20 minutes left in this daylight period which means
that Commander Alan Bean remains at the ATM console. At the
end of this daylight period and the beginning of the next one
Owen Garriott will completed observing on MI31 and will take over
the ATM duties. Pilot Jack Lousma having completed his MI31
run will be stowing the S183, that's the ultraviolet panorama
camera. Operations were done earlier on the ultraviolet panoramic
camera. That's a French experiment that was operated around 12:00
Greenwich mean time this morning. And the report here in
Mission Control was that that was successful. There is an
Earth resources pass scheduled for this morning beginning
at 15:05 Greenwich mean time and will give you a more complete
report on that a little bit later. This is Skylab Control
at 7 minutes after the hour.

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SL-III MC2194/I
Time: 08:29 CDT, 53/13:29 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours, 29 minutes

Greenwich mean time. At the present time, the Skylab space
station is about 53 seconds from aquisition of signal at
Carnarvon, Australia tracking station. Pass through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle - we'll have a small interruption between
those two stations that will last about 15 minutes. We have
the line up live for air-to-ground through the Australia
tracking station as the spacecraft has in its 1832nd rev-
olution around the Earth.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for about 9 minutes and we're going to have to take the VTR
away from you to start rewinding it so that we can dump on
the coming stateside pass. Over.
CDR Okay. We're finished.
CC Okeydoke. In accordance with SOP, we'll
contact you when you can have it back again and it's clean.
Out.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 30 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 14:14. Out.

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SL-III MC-2195/I
Time: 08:44 CDT, 53/]_3:44 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 46 minutes

and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab is now out of
range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station
passing south of New Zealand. 27 minutes and 44 seconds
to our next acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking
station, Corpus Christ±. This is Skylab Control at 46 minutes
35 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2196/I
Time: 09:13 CDT 53/14:13 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 13 minutes

and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the Corpus Christi tracking
station. We have the line up llve for air-to-ground through
Corpus Christi. This time the space station will be passing
across the southern part of Mexico near Yucatan, and also
across Florida as we begin. The (garble) 18:32 of the orbital
workshop and began 18:33. This is Skylab Control. We have
the line up live for air-to-ground through Texas and Merritt
Island, then Bermuda. This is an extended pass lasting approx-
imately 17 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes. We'll
be dumping the data voice tape recorder over Bermuda. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston now coming to you
through Merritt Island. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston now coming to you
through Bermuda. Dumping the data voice tape recorder. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
14:35. Out.

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SL-III MC2197/I
Time: 09:30 CDT, 53/14:30 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours, 31 minutes

and 19 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is over the mid-Atlantic out of
range of the Bermuda tracking station, not yet acquired by
the Madrid tracking station. The second Skylab crew are
now, just about to prepare for another survey of the Earth's
surface. Today's pass comes - covers nearly 2000 miles from
E1 Paso, Texas on the border of Mexico, across the mid United
States, ending just across Lake Huron in the Quebec providence
of Canada. The space station's electronic scanners and cameras
will record data from more than a dozen sites in the United
States, emphasing urban growth. Robert Alexander of the
U.S. Geological Survey will use data from Midland and Odessa
in the Texas panhandle and from Aurora, Illinois, just out-
side Chicago, to evaluate space sensors for estimating changes
in populations since the 1970 census. The Department of
Interior will also be given computer data and photographs
of Kansas City, Davenport, Iowa, and Peoria, Illinois for
use in studies of urban land use. Space station will be
acquiring data over the Anadarko Basin of northern Oklahoma
for Robert Collins of the Eastern Oil Company. Collins will
use computers and other sophisticated techniques to deter-
mine which remote sensing equipment is best for discovering
new oil and coal deposits. This morning's pass lasts only
7 minutes beginning at 10:55 am Central daylight time. Data
will also be gathered during the pass for the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers for route - on river errosion, sediment trans-
port, and water table analysis in four counties of the Texas
panhandle. A 140-mile stretch of Oklahoma wheat fields is
the subject of study for the Skylab program office at the
Johnson Space Center. Here, the S192 multispeetral scanner
which gives 13 separate bans of data, will be giving us
data for that study. Another test site is the Great Plains
where Dr. Roger B. Morrison of the U.S. Geological Survey
is looking for glacial effects upon river valleys and places
in river terraces. Spectral reflectance of reservoirs
in Kansas will be gathered by the Skylab EREP sensors for
study by Principle Investigator Harold Yarger of the Univer-
sity of Kansas. Three infrared spectrometer sites listed
and Jack Lousma will be running the viewfinder tracking
system during the EREP pass on the next revolution about
the Earth. The three sites are Chicago, Illinois, Lake Mich-
igan and an agricultural region just to the southeast of Lansing,
Michigan. Lake Michigan is a secondary site. If Chicago
is available, they will choose Chicago rather than Lake Michi-
gan, although any one of the three are eligible as sites to-
day for the infrared spectrometer which must be pointed by
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one of the spacecraf1_ crewmembers, Jack Lousma designated today.

We're now about 20 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Madrid tracking station. We have the line up live for
air-to-ground through Madrid. The pass lasting a little
over 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 40 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 15:21. Out.
CC :BPT, acknowledge. Over.
SPT Okay. See you in about 40 minutes, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO 5kylab Control at 14 hours, 43 minutes
and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is over the eastern Mediterranean
and out of range of the tracking station of Madrid, Spain.
We're now in the 1833rd revolution of the Skylab space sta-
tion and at the end of this revolution, we will begin a
rather short Earth Resources pass over the United States.
Today's Earth Resources pass begins as Skylab passes over
E1 Paso, Texas. Altlhough it's numbered as EREP number 37,
it's actually the 35th Earth Resources data take during the
Skylab second manned mission. Two previously scheduled
EREP data takes, numbers 22 and 30, were cancelled. This is
a very short EREP run. Only 7 minutes in duration. The
space station passes over such cities as Oklahoma City,
Tulsa, Kansas City, Chicago, and Lake Michigan, and Lake
Huron on the Great Lakes. The data take ends about a
100-miles northwest of Montreal, Canada. Number of studies
underway today, include data for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers on river errosion, sediment transport, and water-
table analysis in a four county region of the Texas pan-
handle. The study of urban growth and inferred population
changes in the Midland-Odessa's metropolitan area of the
Texas panhandle will be the subject of remote sensing data
taken for Dr. Robert H. Alexander of the U.S. Geological
Survey. Similar urban studies will be made with data from
Aurora, Illinois, just outside Chicago. As the space station
passes over Oklahoma and Kansas, data will be gathered on poten-
tial hydrocarbon locations. These are oil and coal deposits
in the Anadarko Basin, an area between Witchita and Okla-
homa City. Information is being gathered for Dr. Robert
J. Collins, Jr., of the Eastern Oil Company in Oklahoma.
140-mile stretch of wheat fields is the subjectof study for the
Skylab program office at the Johnson Space Center. The data will
allow NASA investigators to evaluate the performance of the
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S192 multispectral scanner which is used in the 140-mile data

take. Multispectral scanner is a device that electronically
records images in 13 spectral bans including the thermal band.
Infrared and color photography can be reproduced from the
electronic data, although it's primary purpose is for use
in computer analysis. Another test site today is the Great
Plains area where Roger B. Morrison of the U.S. Geological
Survey will be studying for the effects of glaciers in earlier
eras creating river valleys and on the places in river
terraces. The reflectance of reservoirs in Kansas will be
studied by Principle Investigator Harold Yarger of University
of Kansas using the EREP electronic sensors. Crop inventory
and pattern recognition test are among the objectives of
data collected over Michigan for Dr. L. V. Mandershide of
Michigan State University. The site in Michigan is just outside
Lansing, Michigan on the southeast side of the city. One of
the sites that has to be acquired by spacecraft Pilot Jack
Lousma using the infrared spectrometers viewfinding tracking
system - a telescope device used to point out a very small area
on the Earth, this area being just to the southwest of Lansing and
in slight - an agricultural area outside the city. Dr. Robert
E. Turner of the University of Michigan is seeking remote
sensing data over Lake Michigan in his study of atmospheric
radiation transfer. The Lake Michigan study is also an infrared
spectrometer site. However, it is a secondary site. The
primary site on that pass being Chicago. Those sites are
to close together to be acquired at the same time but weather
conditions will determine which of the two will be chosen.
A University of Michigan aircraft sensor equipped C-47 is
flying over the Michigan test sites during this pass gathering
additional data at a lower altitude than Skylab. This data
will be then compared to Skylab's data to give additional
background. There's much information available on the
performance of aircraft sensors than we've received so far
from Skylab. The Department of Interior will receive data
from a number of the EREP passes including passes over Kansas
City, Davenport, Iowa, and Peoria, Illinois. The Department
of Interior is one of the user agencies that's been
specified by NASA to receive data. They do not normally -
they're not normally allowed to give instructions as to which
areas are to be surveyed however, when the Skylab is passing
over an area that is desired by the User Agencies, data will be
taken when possible. That study - that data received over
Kansas City, Davenport, Peoria, will be given to the Department
of Interior for the use in land - land use, planning and
analysis. This the 35th EREP data take covers the ground track
of 1,835 miles starting at E1 Paso, Texas and ending in the
Quebec Provience of Canada northeast of Lake Huron. This is
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Skylab Control. We're 32 minutes and 48 seconds from our

next acquisition of signal. That acquisition will be at the
Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia. It's now 48
minutes and 28 seconds after the hour.

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PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 20 minutes

and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab space station is passing south of Australia about
50 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle
Creek tracking station. This pass through Honeysuckle Creek
is a very low elevation pass. We expect out acquisition to
be only a minute and 20 seconds through Honeysuckle Creek.
We will, however, have the line up live for air-to-ground
through that pass, beginning in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Honeysuckle we're one minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 29 minutes at Goldstone, 15:51. Out.
SPT ()kay, Bruce. How do you like the
maneuver load?
CC Roger. We like it, we like it, both
TACS and maneuver load. Over.
SPT ()kay, Bruce. And also I wanted to
complement the UF Officer for getting all the important
information put down on my ETC pad today.
CC Stand by, we'll check that out.
SPT ()kay.
CC Roger. We need a NUZ update at 15:34
and for the commander. His mission has been accomplished.
And with respect to the ETC pad, roger, we copy you. We'll
see if we can't get Mississippi and Montana in there too.
SPT ()kay. Those outlined outpost should
certainly be covered whenever possible.
CDR Thanks, Bruce.
CC Roger.
SPT The only thing you didn't do, Bruce, is
tell them how far away the closest approach is.
CC 4,367 miles, it says here.
SPT That's what I was telling them.
PLT When you told the CDR his mission was
accomplished, I thought you were about to tell him to reenter
tomorrow or something like that.
CC No, no. You know and he knows what I
mean.
PLT ()kay.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 23 minutes
and 19 seconds Greenwich mean time. That pass through
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia is now over, space station
having passed out of range very far south of Australia
nearly i00 New Zealand at this time. Comments by Owen
Garriott as to the completeness of the Earth Terrain
camera pad that was sent up by the teleprinter during the
overnight, with a reference to a statement on the ETC pad
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that said, "remarks, use primary magazine 15:57 andlS:57:36,

that is Greenwich mean time, for closest approach to Enid,
Oklahoma." Now, Enid Oklahoma has become the subject of
a good deal of comment here in Mission Control, Owen Garriott's
home town is Enid. Yesterday the Earth Resources Officer
indicated that there are three Enids in the United States,
one in Mississippi and another in Montana. Spacecraft communi-
cator Bruce McCandless was making reference to that again today, he
did yesterday. Kidding Owen about the possibility that the
Enid that Owen had been referring to was probably Enid,
Mississippi or Enid, Montana. The preparations have
began for that Earth Resources Pass to take place over the
United States a few minutes from now. Our next acquisition
of signal will be at 126 minutes and 20 seconds from now at
the Goldstone tracking station in the Mojave Dessert of
California. And when we have - Shortly after acquisition
of signal we will hear the preparations for that Earth
Terrain Camera and Earth Resources operations pass. Earth
Terrain Camera being operated by Science Pilot Owen Garriott
Jack Lousma will be running the view finder tracking system
for the S191 infrared spectrometer. And the control and
display panel for the other Earth resources experiments will
be handled by Commander Alan Bean. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition 125 minutes 46 seconds from now.
It's now 25 minutes and 18 seconds after the hour.

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9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 49 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now approaching
acquisition of signal at Goldstone. We expect an early
acquisition since the Earth Resources pass is to begin
very shortly and the crew will be, undoubtedly talking
on their headsets. We - we're now about a minute and 35
seconds from acquisition of signal. The pass today begins
over E1 Paso, Texas, and crosses the mid-western United
States for a distance of just under 2,000 miles, ending in
Canada to the northeast of Lake Huron. We have the llne
up live for air-to-ground through the U.S. tracking stations.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. And stateside
pass AOS for 15 minutes and 40 seconds. We like the new
maneuver time. Out.
CDR Thank you, Houston.
CDR We didn't NuZ update again.
CDR That thing ought to be on the EREP pad,
and I'ii tell you why. Once you've shut that ATM down and
start taking EREP, you don't think about ATM much anymore, tll
after the EREP's over. And it ought to be sequenced in
there on this pad end it should he done for the C&D and it
ought to be right at the top of this maneuver pad at the time
you want it. Cause that's what he's got it out and looking at
and thinking about. The VTS operator.
CC Okay, AI. We copy that, and that was
one of the reasons we voiced it up over Honeysuckle to you,
also.
CDR Because everybody gets his mind on
making the maneuver on time and getting all this equipment
powered up again. We should have written it down on our
pads or something, because you really get hit in the EREP
loop and you're not in the ATM loop, and that - that's what
got to us. During the EREP subroutine if you can't get
a - whatever they call it - computers and send you over
the other one. Some sort of rut. ATM rut.
CC Okay, we - we copy, we sympathize and
we tried to schedule it over a site so we can watch and
help you out, but the star wasn't available at that time.
Over.
CDR We goofed - we goofed it - we've got no
excuse - just wanted to tell you how it's become we could -
prevent it. Okay, EREP just went to START.
CC Okay, EREP START. And actually the
NuZ time - the NuZ looks good you've got onboard.
CDR Those rate gyros. They sure do it,
don't they. Those rate gyros
CDR VTS AUTO CAL right there, and I'm going
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record for you A-2 and C-4. A-2 is 50 percent. C-4 is 71 percent.
CDR Now A-2 is decreased to 44 percent, and
it's still 71 on C-4. So, nothing's new there. Still moves
around llke it always does.
PLT 538
CDR How're you doing, Jack?
CC And, for the unofficial EREPers here
the weather over Enid is 50 to 75 percent obscurred, broken,
going to clear, and the weather over Lansing, Michigan is
clear.
CDR Okay, thank you.
PLT Well, we'll let you know a little more
accurately, I guess here, in about 3 minutes. Hope for the
best.
CDR 5538. MODE to AUTO on 190.

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PLT How do you hear me Bruce?

CC Loud and clear, Jack.
PLT That a boy. How's the weather over (garble)
CDR MODE to AUTO at 190.
CC Pretty good up over Michigan.
PLT Okay. How's it at Okla City?
CC About 3 quarters of obscurred, broke and
go into clear.
PLT Oh, boy not much. 56:05 I figure I'ii be
there.
CDR READY on 190, and going to 7, that's READY
on 191. Looking for a 56:20 when 192 goes to ready. Then
we'll give you 82 and C-4 I guess. Come on machine. Okay,
192 just went READY. Record 82 by the way tape motion is ON.
82, 40 per cent, B-4, 71 per cent.
PLT I agree with you, that it's overcast at
Okla City, it's to bad, because I was going to pick you off about
5 of those sites.
CC Okay, Jack, if your planning on tracking
the sites around Oklahoma City, go ahead and use the DAC,
whether we have enough film.
PLT Okay, I'm sorry, Bruce, just overcast,
there like you said. I - I got the time figured out and
everything but - it's overcast, no question about it. Too
bad too, because the overcast ends about I00 miles north
of there, I guess. Okay, I go to Michigan.
CDR Okay, frame interval 10.
PLT (garble) Michigan (garble) Michigan is
my number i.
CDR 30, Oh it is, is it? (garble) alternate
PLT (garble) Lake Michigan is the alternate.
I'm going to get a Lansing right on the (garble). My old stomping
grounds. Okay, I'm waiting for 59 and 43.
CDR And at 30, we're going intervalometer 20,
if you don't mind.
PLT To bad about Okla City, Bruce, I was
going right over it. I could of have gotten you some goodies.
I guess we're not offically tagged with those sites but -
could of got them anyway. Have an apricot Jack, don't
mind if I do, thanks.
CDR Intervalometer 20, There's Chicago.
PLT There's Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is -
clear in case I need it. I pick up there at (garble) (garble)
is going to have broken clouds.
CDR MODE to CHECK on 192.
PLT Shoot.
CDR 190 (garble)
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PLT We've got here lucky.

CDR (garble) i0. STANDBY 43.
SC We might make it in three.
CDR MARK. Got it.
PLT There's a town, it looks reminisence (garble)
CDR MODE, READY on 192.
PLT (garble) is not it.

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PLT (garble), I think. B-9 is

CDR Intervalometer, 20.
CDR Stand by.
CDR REE 2.
PLT It's under a broken cloud, Bruce. I just
can't find them.
CC Okay, Copy. You can't get your primary site.
Can you get the alternate? (Garble).
PLT (Garble).
CDR You got a maneuver in about 30 seconds.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, 190 is out going to MODE standby.
PLT There's a (garble) lots of roll going
into it.
CDR Got 30 seconds.
PLT Climbing a lot of flim.
CDR Got 20 seconds.
CDR Your time's loaded.
PLT Right.
PLT Here goes. MARK. Well the pressure solar
inertial, no mib.
CDR MARK. AUTO CAL.
SPT 31 frames on the ETC, Bruce.
CC Roger, Owen.
PLT Think you shoved me a little long that
time, and Lansing, itself, was back underneath the clouds.
Looks to me like we're holding dead right between Lansing and Flint.
And I could see Flint.
CC Roger, Jack, we copy.
PLT There's a ano - there's a little town
between Lansing and Flint.
PLT Not sure what it was, might have been a
(garble) I don't know.
CDR MODE MANUAL. In Lansing we had to back
up. We got under broken clouds, although just east of there it
was clear. The town I did see, it was clear.
CC Okay, that town is the one that's
essentially on track about two-thirds of the way from Lansing
towards Flint in your site book.
PLT See if I can pick it out.
PLT I can't make it out on my map, just on
the arm length photo on the map, but - -
CC I was looking at 535A, the i to 2 million
map.
PLT Get that one out, I got the 528A
out which probably is the same. Like a little town southwest of
Flint.
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CC Yeah.
PLT I could see the highways some - I could
get to - little glimpses of the highways going into Lansing
but I couldn't make any (garble) because of the clouds.
CDR EREP to STOP. I'll do a quick tape
measurement before we go out of comm distance and then you'll
know the answer.
PLT You there, Bruce?
CC Still here.
PLT He's there. I bet you it was that town
it was
CDR Half an inch - -
PLT ]it's between Lansing and Flint but closest
to Flint.
CC Yeah, about 2/3 of the way from Lansing to
Flint in almost astraight line.
PLT Yes sir. That's the one you were talking
about. Right on track, yeah.
CDR (Garble).
CC Yeah, okay.
CDR Half an inch tape.
PLT ]i say that was - moved in halfway between
that town and Lansing and that town was in the clear and a
little bit - just a few miles southwest of it we had the
broken cloud layers.
CDR B-7, 31 percent. 92 door coming close.
CC ()kay, we copy the CDR. Half an inch of
space from the edge of the reel end of the tape and B-7 31
percent. And we got a little over a minute to LOS here. Next
station contact in 6 minutes through Madrid at 16:12. We'll
be dumping the data voice tape recorder there. Over.

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CDR (Garble) 31 percent. 92 door coming

closed.
CC Okay, we copy the CDR, a half an inch
of space from the edge of the reel end of the tape as B-7,
31 percent. And I've got a little over a minute to LOS,
here. Next station contact in 6 minutes through Madrid
at 16:12 and we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorders
there. Over.
CDR Okay.
CDR (garble) Clouds are there - they're
there
PLT Same way with Oak city. A little bit
past, it was clear. (Garble)
PLT Fortunately we got some data on that
site before.
CDR Struggle against the inevitable. Okay,
the door's closed. RECORD switch to OFF. Had to take
off the headset, unplug, it.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 8 minutes
and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab Space station
has now passed out of range of our tracking stations. And
our next acquisition is 3 minutes and 35 seconds from now
at Madrid and Canary Island. During this last pass there
was an Earth Resources survey underway. That Earth's Re-
sources survey did run into a bit of bad weather at various
locations along the track, including Lansing, Michigan, one
of the primary sites for the infrared spectrometer. Where -
Pilot Jack Lousma said he did have difficulty acquiring it.
We had a weather report as of an hour ago showing clear
weather in that area, but apparently some noontime cumulus
clouds have built up, and Lousma did indicate that there
were clear areas just to the east of that. Today's EREP
pass was the 35th in the mission, nine more than were origin-
ally scheduled. Another four passes are under consideration
for the remaining week. Principle investigators will receive
appreciably more data because of these additional data takes.
And in order to accomplish the added passes, some modifica-
tions have been made to the film requirement. Earlier plans
called for as much as 60 percent overlap and many photo-
takes of certain ground test sites. In order to conserve
part of the 30 cassettes of 70-millimeter film used by the
six cameras of the SI90A, or multi-spectral photographic
facility, this overlap was reduced to i0 to 15 percent.
The change has resulted in additional film being available
for the photography of many more sites than were planned
in the original 26 passes. Some 2,230 frames of film were
scheduled for each of these six 70-millimeter cameras of
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the S190 experiment. As of today, a total of about 220 frames

were remaining for each of the cameras. That's enough for
the run just completed and the four passes scheduled for the
remaining days of the mission. The SI90B Earth terrain cam-
era, which uses film with a 5-inch format, was scheduled to
use a total of 2400 frames in six cassettes during the second
mission. As of yesterday's EREP pass, a total of 2,050 frames
have been used. That's about four times as many on the first
Skylab mission. That left 350 frames for the remaining 7
days of the mission. Another 31 frames were used by Owen
Garriott during today's pass, according to his report just
given to us. The other Earth Resources experiment package
equipment, the S191 infrared spectrometer, the S192 multi-
spectral scanner, the S193 radiometer - microwave radiometer
scatterometer altimeter, and the S194 L-band radiometer, all
use magnetic tape, upon which the resource data is recorded.
The S193 has had an anomaly since last Saturday - a difficulty
in pointing its antenna. Eleven reels of one-inch magnetic
tape were scheduled for use during the mission. These ii
reels have been entirely used up, and the crew has now bor-
rowed from the supply originally set aside for the final
Skylab mission. Two reels have been borrowed so far of
magnetic tape for the Earth Resources experiments. Replace-
ments of those two reel of magnetic tape will be carried up
by Gerald Carr on the crew of the final Skylab mission in
their command module. Each tape con - contains about 7200
feet, or more than a mile of tape, about a mile and a half
of magnetic tape on each of those reels. We're now coming
into an acquisition of signal and we're live for air-to-ground
through Madrid.

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9/18/73

CC Skylah, this is Houston, through Madrid

for 9 minutes. Out.
CC We'll be dumping your data voice tape recorder
here.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
And next station contact is Honeysuckle in 38 minutes at 16:58.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control; at 16 hours 21 minutes
and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now over northern Africa, out of range of Madrid tracking
station. Our next acquisition of signal will be a little over
36 minutes from now. Complete the discussion of the Earth
resources experiments, I completed on that last pass. Each
tape reel of magnatic tape - produced by the Earth resources
equipment which has both photographic data and magnatic tape
to be returned at the end of the mission. Each tape reel
contains 7200 feet or nearly a mile and a half of magnatic tape.
A total of more than 18 miles of computer tape will be returned
next week by the crew. That's more than double the amount
returned by the first crew. Many weeks of processing will be
necessary to prepare selections from that electronic data
for use by the scores of sceintific investigators under contract
to the Skylab Earth resources program. All of - nearly all of
the 506 specified sites for the second , Skylab mission have
now been surveyed by the crew. The only test sites, still not
satisfactorily completed are those in the northeast United States.
Bad weather has been the primary reason for interference with
Earth resources passes over the northeast sites. Most of the
data sought over sites in South America, has been - accomplished
successfully, including two passes for special mapping project
in Paraguay. Other foreign test sites in Europe, Spain, France
Northern Africa, and the far east, have also been successfully
added to the data bank which the crew will bring back to Earth
next Tuesday. This is Skylab Control; 34 minutes 57 seconds
to acquisition of signal at the Hawaii tracking station. It's
now 23 minutes 25 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2204/I
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9118173

PAO Skylab Control; at 16 hours 57 minutes

and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab space station is approaching acquisition of signal at
the Honeysuckle Australia tracking station. The pass through
Honeysuckle will last about 5-1/2 minutes. We have the line
up for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle for this pass;
beginning about 30 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-
suckle for 5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute and 15
seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through
Hawaii at 17:18. And prior to your starting the ATM operations
that is at about 17:08 we'd like to get a NuZ update please.
Over.
CDR We'll try to remember this time.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Got one for you right now.
CC CDR, Houston, NuZ update looks fine.
Thank you.
CC And close the star tracker shutter if you
would, please.
PAO Skylab Control; at 17 hours 4 minutes and
48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now gone out of range
of the tracking station Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Our
next acquisition of signal will be 14 minutes from now. That
acquisition to to be at - to be the Hawaiian tracking station.
Second Skylab astronauts completing another full day at work
aboard the orbiting space station, working on solar experiments
and medical experiments. They have also completed an Earth
resources pass over the United States, earlier, meanwhile the
Flight Controllers here on the ground are making plans for
closing out the space laboratory and bringing the crew back
with their load of films, computer tape and experimental
samples. Preparations will be underway for the next several
days as they do prepare for that splashdown a week from today.
Also underway are preparations for an extravehicular activity
space walk. That space walk is scheduled for Saturday morning.
The present plans call for the EVA to begin about 11:15
Greenwich mean time or 6:15 a.m. on Saturday and it should
last approximately 4 hours and 7 minutes, that's the time line
originally set up by the Flight Op - Activities Officer, how-
ever there are indications that it maybe much lower - much
lower period of time than that, perhaps 3 to 4 hours. The EVA
pre-preparation the night before on Friday evening will be from
- approximately 18:39 Greenwich mean time to 21:40, three hours
set aside for the EVA pre-prep. This - early this morning
Alan Bean was asked whether or not he felt that was enough time
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for the pre-preparations for the Extravehicular activity,

and he indicated that 3 hours he thought was more than enough
since it will be mainly routine activities, including change-
out of the ATM film and camera assemblies and cleaning of
a contaminated particle from the SO52 white light corona
graph occulting disk. Meanwhile, as this crew prepares for it's
return the backup crew for the final Skylab mission are
performing a one day simulation - simulating activities of
mission day 3 of the final Skylab mission. That's a typical
flight date from 8 to 6 p.m. today, they will be working in
the simulating trainer here and among the activities scheduled
are activation of the biomedical experiments, activation and
checkout of the ATM and Earth resources experiments and a
number of medical runs, including the MI31 and M092 and MI71.
There will also be some work with the earth terrain camera
and ATM monitor in the simulation for day 3, performed by
Vance Bran and the other members of the backup crew for the
final Skylab mission. This is Skylab Control; our next
acquisition of signal 11-1/2 minutes from now will be at
Hawaii. It's now 7 minutes and 32 seconds after the hour.

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9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 18 minutes

and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
the Skylab space station is passing over the Pacific Ocean,
just south of Hawaii. We expect to have acquisition through
the Hawaiian tracking station in about 28 seconds. We'll
have the line up live for air-to-ground through Hawaii for
5 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 5 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC (Garble) Out.
SPT Say, AI, would you enable TACS please (garble)
CC J_d, Skylab, this is Houston. We confirm
TACs inhibited, both hardware and software. Out.
CDR All right. And I'ii be standing by
for down-link when you get through (garble) - Just give me
a call.
CC Roger. I understand. That'll be over
Goldstone.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3-i/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 17:26-1/2 where we'll be getting your TV down-link. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 25 minutes
and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
the Skylab space station is crossing the gap between the
Hawaiian tracking antenna's range and that of the Goldstone
antenna, and we should have acquisition of signal at Gold-
stone in about a minute and i0 seconds. We have the llne
up live for air-to-ground through Goldstone beginning about
a minute from now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Gold-
stone 8-1/2 minutes, and we're standing by for your TV
down-link. Out.
CDR Let me know whether you're locked up
and we'll do some integration for them.
CC Okay, we're receiving at this time. Let's
go with the integration.
CDR Okay, I gave you some integration, here's
a little H-alpha 2. (Garble)
CC Okay, we're not receiving it live in
the control center, but your commentary, of course, is going
along with the video for a later debriefing.

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Time: 12:30 CDT, 53/17:30 GMT
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CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii

for 5 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT q[Garble) would you enable TACS, please (garble)
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We confirm TACs
inhibit, both hardware and software. Out.
CDR Alright, I'ii be standing by for down-link
when you get through (garble) just give me a call.
CC Roger, I understand. That'll be over
Goldstone.
CDR ()kay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 17:26 and a half, where we'll be getting your TV down-link.
Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
8-1/2 minutes and we're standing by for your TV down-link. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute til LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda at 17:40.
Out.
CDR Looks like I'm going to have a little spare
time today, if you got anything you want done up here.
CC ()kay, let's look into it. Right now, we're
biggly engaged in preparing pads for deact checklist and -
we'll see what we can come up with. Over.
CDR ()kay, sounds like a good idea. Anything
to prep for EVA or DEACT or - anything else you need checked,
modes or anything; let me know.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 36 minutes and
26 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the
tracking station at -- Goldstone and we'll be acquiring Bermuda
in about 3 minutes. We'll bring the line back up at that
time. This is Skylab Control, at 36 minutes 40 seconds after
the hour.

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Time: 12:39 CDT, 53/17:39 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 17 hours 39 minutes

and i0 seconds. We're now Just about to acquire signal at
the tracking station Bermuda. We have the line up llve for
the pass through Bermuda lasting 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 5-1/2 minutes. For the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. AI we see from telemetry that
the cool light is on on the M518 package. If you can talk
Jack into letting you do it M560 could be terminated and
M565 started up for the pad you have onboard. Over.
CDR Okay, I'ii check with him. He's down
there observing 131, 1'11 check.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Thanks for coming up with some extras
there, Bruce. We could use some work there.
CC Roger. We'll work on it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Canary Islands
at 17:49. Out.
PAO Skylab Control; at 17 hours 45 minutes
and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Bermuda tracking station. We'll next acquire in 3
minutes at Canary Island. This is Skylab Control at 45
minutes and 55 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2208/I
Time: 12:48 CDT, 53/17:48 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 48 minutes

and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently just
about to acquire signal at the Canary Island tracking station
and we'll wait for a call from Spacecraft Communicator Bruce
McCandless to the second Skylab crew. This is Skylab Control
live for air-to-ground through Canary Islands for the next
9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Honeysuckle in 36 minutes at 18:33. And we will be dumping
the data voice tape recorder over Honeysuckle. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18:00 hours
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal now with the
Skylab space station. Next station to acquire will be
Honeysuckle tracking station in Australia. This acquisition
scheduled to occur in approximately 34 minutes. At 18:00
hours Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2209/I
Time: 13:33 CDT, 53/18:33 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours

33 minutes Greenwich mean time. We should be picking up
Skylab III through Honeysuckle in approximately 30 seconds.
When we do acquire the space station, Science Pilot Owen
Garriott is scheduled to be the liter chair subject, doing
both part of the MI31 experiment, measuring the motion
sensitivity and seml-circular canal responses. Pilot Jack
Lousma should he acting as the observer, while Commander
A1 Bean is operating the Apollo telescope mount. Standing
by now for acquisition.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 18 hours 35
minutes Greenwich mean time, some 8 minutes remaining on
this pass over Honeysuckle. We're receiving systems data
from Skylab, however, Bruce McCandless has not yet placed
a call to the crew. We're standing by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-
suckle for 6-1/2 minutes, with a message for the CDR.
CDR 8_ahead.
CC Okay_ AI° We've been putting together
just a few remarks on some of the changes that you may ex-
pect to see in the deactivation checklist and deactivation
activities coming up later in the week. Of course this
stuff will all be coming up in checklist form on the tele-
printer, but I'd like to just comment on a couple of the
major ones if you've got a minute.
CDR Sure do, and appreciate it. So we can
be thinking about them.
CC Okay, number one is that in order to
keep the rate gyro package cool, we'll be maintaining a
atmosphere in the unmanned portion five psi, mostly nitrogen,
and in conjunction with this, your checklist will be re-
vised to leave MDA fan number 2 on and also to install a
portable fan in the MDA, both blowing on the rate gyro
six-pack package. Over.
CDR I never thought of it. It makes sense.
CC And also, we'll be asking you to close
off the condensate isolation valve on HEAT EXCHANGER A on
both mol sieves in order to prevent breakthrough if the
plates dry out between missions. The current plan is to
go as far as possible in Skylab IV without breaking any
of the condensate lines QDs. Over.
CDR I think I can understand that one. Okay.
CC Also, no dump at the end of the mission.
We're keeping our fingers crossed and we think it'll hold
vacuum for well into SL-IV.
CDR I'ii be darned.
CC Uih- -
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9/18/73

CDR Because I don't think when you dump you

break any of the lines y'all are worried about.
CC Roger. That's correct. We don't see
the need to dump anyway, though.
CDR Okay, sounds good.
CC Uh - another item, is that you'll be
setting up the TV camera in the MDA on - universal bracket
on the handrail of the ATM, and leaving it connected, but
of course not activated. This is to allow the SL-IV crew
to get into a TV down-link mode very near the start of their
activation and to make it a record of their initial activities
inside the MDA as they start out getting set up. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Also, we're going to have a - rather a
large change in the EPS configuration. It - and the (garble)
reason for this is to allow us flexibility in managing the
parasitic loads and the loads in the workshop itself in the
event that the remaining airlock module coolant loop decides
to turn belly-up on us in the interim. The basic features
of the three configurations are going to be a large reduction
in the reg bus 1 and reg bus 2 voltage adjust box, thereby
bringig the bus voltage down, opening the battery control
circuit breakers, eight of them, and by ground command, but
while you're still in the vicinity of the cluster, opening
the reg to transfer bus ties switches. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC The refrigeration system. We plan to
have you on day 58 - do the J-5 connector disconnect. This
will allow us complete flexibility in operating refrigeration
system i, 2, or both simultaneously. Over.
CDR Okay. Why wait?
CC The only thing we're waiting on, really,
is getting the procedure completely finalized and up to you.
In fact, when you called down earlier today for something
to do, we kicked that around the control center, but it's
not quite ready to be executed. Over.
CDR Roger. There's all sorts of advantages
to do - to getting this all whipped-up early, and not for
us, but - makes your 'work so full - as you - I know you're
working as hard on it as we are.
CC Okay, we copy that, Alan. And we'll see
if we can't move it up some.
CDR Okay, no - I - I just mentioned that -
enough - okay. No strain. Either way.
CC Yeah. And, that pretty well summarizes
the major deltas as we see them at this time. We've got
some small ones - that's just bringing the location of the
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additional blood sample vials that'll be brought back and

rehydrating some of your food for mission day 60 after sup-
per on mission day 59. And take care of the failed equip-
ment that has to have the circuit breakers reconfigured
differently from what's in your printed checklist. I think
most of these will be pretty self explanatory as you work
through and enter them. Over.
CDR Okay. Well, thanks. We've sort of
been kicking around thinking of that food one. Some of
these others we hadn't thought of. It really makes sense.
Y'all have been busy bees down there.
CC Yes, we have indeed. And we've got
about a minute to LOS here. Next station contact in ii
minutes through Hawaii, 18:54. And we can continue it
there if you have any further questions.
CDR Okay. I don't have any questions right
now.

CC Roger. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours
44 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
with Skylab III through Honeysuckle. The next station to
acquire will be Hawaii in approximately l0 minutes. During
that pass we heard CAP COMM Bruce McCandless talking to
spacecraft Commander A1 Bean, passing along the procedural
changes to the deactivation process prior to entry. Current
Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson is also the prime flight
director for deactivation prior to entry. In addition
to other things, Hutchinson is now involved in planning for
that final step, or process, prior to deorbit. We're at
18 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time and this is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2210/I
Titae: 13:51 CDT, 53/18:51 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours 51 minutes

Grewnich mean time. Less than 3 minutes away now from
acquisition through Hawaii. When we pick up at Hawaii, more -
medical experiments in progress. Owen Garriott, heavily
involved as medical subject this afternoon for Skylab experiments.
At the completion of the M092, lower body negative pressure
experiment today, Science Pilot Garriott is scheduled to
perform a two step limb blood flow, designed to determine
performance of the superficial veins in his legs. The test
imposes pooling of the blood in one leg and the second phase
measures response of the superficial vein when muscle
contraction is imposed. In the first phase of the test, an
M092 leg band is placed on the right leg below the knee
a large blood measuring cuff is placed on the right leg above
the knee. This - limb blood flow test is conducted while
Garriott in the LM - LBNP canister. The blood - the blood
pressure cuff serves as a tourniquet and when inflated forces
pooling of the blood in the leg, this causes swelling of the
leg which is measured by the multi layered leg band.
When the blood pressure cuff is deflated, the leg band measures
the speed at which the blood pooling disappears. This part
of the test takes approximately 8 minutes and will be performed
on each crew member one time between now and the end of the
mission. The second part of this test is conducted again
with the crewman inside the LBNP canister. It starts with
a two minute rest period at the close of M092 run, the chamber
is pumped down to a minus 30 millimeters of mercury which
in affect induces the same stress on the lower torso as
would be experienced on the ground. The crewman in this case
Garriott, will be asked to voluntarily contract the muscles
of his lower leg. As - this is done - the LBNP leg bands
measure the size of his legs and indication of the flow of
the blood through the superficial vains. This test although
simular to the M092 run is different in one aspect. During
M092 runs the subject - lays motioniess, in the LBNP chamber
and the measurement of his cardiovasular system is accomplished
without inducement of muscle action. It is hoped these test -
CC - through Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
PLT And I take it what they want to do is run
the mirror line scan in front center for - for - 6 or 8 minutes
then step her down to line 25 with pointing - pointing at
quiet region i, is that right?
CC Let us check that out, Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the PLT, could you
repeat, please?
SL-III MC-2210/2
Time: 13:51 CDT, 53/18:51 GMT
9/18/73

PLT Yes, I take it that - from the - ATM

schedule what they would like to do is run mirror line scan
at front center for about - 6 or 8 minutes and then - jump
right down to line 25, run on the rest of the rev there.
The other option is to run it all on line 25, and I think they
must want to make some distinction between line 8 and line
25.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to be on line
9 for the duration of the S055 run.
PLT All right. That's where I've got it now
and - it's kind of a confusing in that they - it looks like
they want me to do the same thing only they specify two
different building blocks. So the only thing I could think
that was different was at one time they wanted it at line 9.
And the other time at line 25. At the moment - line 9 is
pointed 80 arc-seconds above Sun center. So it looks like
line 25 would be right on Sun center but I thought maybe they
wanted me to do that but until I hear different I'm going to
leave it on line 9. Right.
CC Roger. Jack. That's the thing to do and
there was an error in the pad.
PLT Okay, that straightens it, thanks a lot
Bruce, I'll run it at 80 arc-seconds above Sun center for
the rest of the rev.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Now that this discussion is going on, I'm
trying to figure out, if I should have run it at line
9 or 25. I ran it at 9.
CC Roger. 9 is the line on which it should
of a have been run, so everybody is correct so far.
CDR Okay. Building block 18 has it on 25,
that's why I wondered. I though maybe this was to repair
my mistake or something.
CC Negative.
CDR Okay. Because yesterday when we did it,
called out line 25 in the pad, just said line 25. We did
it there. Okay.
PLT I guess in other words, they don't want
us to run a building block 18, they just want us to run a
mirror line scan at line 9 - for the whole rev.
PLT And, Bruce, lets put M565 on the cooker
at 18:07, code 1 temp at start with 23 degrees and the -
pressure was 0.25 - just a minus 3 around (garble).
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
PLT And there's something I notice about these -
(garble) that - you could shake them and - some of them you
can feel something rattling inside, some of them you can't. -

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SL-III MC-2211/I
Time: 13:59 CDT, 53/18:59 GMT
9/18/73

PLT about these spot (garble) that

you can shake them and some of them you can feel something
rattling inside, some of them you can't. And I presume
that's the way they were made, but if that's peferct data
I've got which ones do shake and which ones don't. I thought
if there are not any of them suppose to shake why maybe the
PI would want to recognize that they were loose when we got
them.
CC Jack, the word we're getting here is that
that's a condition to be expected after they're run. But it
probably shouldn't shake or rattle before hand. Over.
PLT Well, I found so far that the same ones
that shake after the run are the ones that shook or rattle
before the run, so they - so of them are - they're not
changing that around as far as shaking and rattling is
concerned. The ones that go in loose and come out loose
I guess when he gets |:hem on the ground he'll know that.
But, they're either meant that way or they got loosened up
on launch, I don't know which, but they're all coming out
the same as they went in.
CC Okay, roger that. And we'll work on it.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
PLT And Bruce, I'm still a little puzzled
about this line divers on line 25, and in view of the fact that
they called out a building block i0 for 9 minutes and 30 and 51,
exceeded by here building block 18 and 42 it still makes me think
that somebody wanted something different in there and that
everything in line 9 and - - to make sure that they're
giving us the right word on line 9.
CC PLT, Houston we got 20 seconds until
LOS here. Just consider that the pad read to run SO55A
and mirror line scan at line 9 for the entire pass along
with H-alpha and everything else shut off. Over.
PLT Okay, well H-alpha is running as usual
at i frame a minute, I will shut it off, however, if you wish.
CC Roger, the configuration is H-alpha
on SO55. Copy?
PLT Okay; copy. Thank you, Bruce.
(Garble).
CC And we'll see you in about a minute and
a half through Goldstone.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours 4
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal now
with Skylab III over IIawaii. The next station to acquire
is Goldstone in approximately 1 minute.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 7 minutes. Out.
SL-III MC-2211/2
Time: 13:59 CDT, 53/'18:59 GMT
9/18/73

PLT Okay, Brad, Bruce, you won't believe

it but I got one more question on that pass for that point-
ing on active region - correction quiet region number i. We
got 4 zeros for a roll but we only got 3 numbers for the out
and for the left now there's a zero missing in each one of
them now I hope it's going on the left side because we're pointed
up 80, left minus 5 and I hope it's not suppose to be up to
800 minus 50.
CC ()kay, let us check that.
PLT ()kay.
CC ()kay, on the pad copy that we got down
here it shows for quiet region 1 up plus zero 80 and left
minus 005 so I believe you're correct. Didn't it print
out on the teleprinter up there?
PLT Yeah, that's what we got on our pad
too, and it did print: on the teleprinter except that our
counter's got four digits not three, and so we kind of wondered
where the extra zero suppose to really go.
CC Okay; copy.
PLT So it's suppose to plus 0080 then I
guess and likewise for the left.
CC Roger; we concur 0080 and minus 0005.
PLT Okay, thank you Bruce.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Did you call Bruce?
CC Yes, with respect to your question on
the coordinates on ATM the radis of the Sun - from Sun center
out to the limb is about 960 arc seconds and we believe
what we've been giving you fairly consistently is three
digits for up, down, three digits for left, right and then
four digits of course for roll. Over.
PLT Yeah, I guess that's right I understand
that this up (garble) I just thought that there might be some
effort to have the same number of digits on the pad as on
the counters but I understand the difference in this case.
CC Okay.
CC And we're standing down here now watching
the TV in the Control Center of A1 doing a no-arm pushup
with both of you on his back, you probably recall the
situation.
PLT I be doggone, I wonder where he got
that.
CC And Jack, this is Houston we've dug
a little more deeply so to speak, into the M518 situation
and we find that some of the (garble) did indeed rattle before-
hand we speculate that perhaps they rattled a little bit
more afterwards but that was normal. Over.
SL-III MC-2211/3
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PLT Okay, I suspected that was the case and

I'm just glad to hear it confirmed. And those are really
really running good apparently then and I noticed that each time
I take three of them out they all have the same heating marks
on them and so apparently each one is being heated rather
uniformally like each other.
CC Roger.
CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 5 minutes through Bermuda at 19:17. Out.

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SL-III MC-2212/I
Time: 14:12 CDT, 33/19:12 GMT
9118173

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours

13 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
with Skylab III through Goldstone. Next station to acquire
will be Bermuda in approximately 3-1/2 minutes. During
the stateside pass thus far, we've heard mainly from Pilot
Jack Lousma who is working at the Apollo telescope mount
while Owen Garrlott is serving as a subject for a medical
experiments with Commander AI Bean serving as the observer.
On the test following MO92 it is hoped that these tests
will enhance the data of the M092 experiment, the purpose
of which, is to provide information concerning the time
course of deconditioning of the heart and blood vessels,
as well as providing inflight data to predict the degree
of orthostatic intolerance as a result of long periods of
weightlessness. We should be re - reacquiring the Skylab
space station in approximately 2-1/2 minutes. We'll stand
by and continue to monitor. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 8-1/2 minutes. And when you have an opportunity, we'd
like to have the TACs enabled hardware and software, Jack.
Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC This is of course is as a backup for
the MO92 double operation here. And starting tomorrow,
this call-out will be on the detail pad of the HO92 observer.
Out.

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SL-III MC-2213/I
Time: 14:19 CDT, 53/19:19 GMT
9/18/73

PLT Look all right to you, Bruce.

CC Roger, Jack. The TACS is enable properly.
Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 40 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 1-1/2 minutes through Canary
at 19:27. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce, (garble).
PAO Skylab Control; Houston 19 hours 26 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal. Next
station to acquire Bermuda. Meanwhile in the Mission Control
Center a hand-over is taking place, with Phll Shaffer's
purple team of Flight Controller taking over from the silver
team, Dick Truly is to be the new CAP CO_IM. However, Nell
Hutchinson control team will remain in place here for an
extended period of time, using another loop in the Mission
Control Center to conduct a deactivation checklist procedures
review, the Hutchinson's team is the prime team for the
deactivation period in the mission. We're about 15 seconds or
so away from re-acquiring Skylab III so we'll stand by with
the loop up.
PAO Now receiving Skylab's system data on the
console in Mission Control Center, 19 hours 27 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Canary and
Ascension for 16 minutes.
PLT Welcome aboard, Dick.
CC Glad to be here.

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SL-III MC-2214/I
Time: 14:32 CDT, 53/19:32 GMT
9118/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 19 hours 33 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll continuing with this pass
over Canary. No conversation with the crew during this pass.
We will be acquired back to back by Ascension on Skylab-lll,
some i0 minutes remaining on this pass before loss of signal.
19 hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean, this is Skylab Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute til LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 20:09.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 19 hours
44 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with
the Skylab-lll crew following this pass over Ascension. The
next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in approximately 25
minutes. Very little conversation during this pass over
both Carnary and Ascension. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
continuing - the experiment M092, the inflight lower body
negative pressure test. We're at 19 hours 45 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2215/I
Time: 15:08 CDT, 53/20:08 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours

Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition.
CDR Are you there, Dick?
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
CDR I'm running this a mission F number
2 on M092 on Owen right now. (Garble) do - hope you did,
because (garble) wanted[ us to do it. It says remove adapter
and reattach right leg band to right leg. Now, with Owen,
that adapter is 13 - 14 adapter - his right leg is
something like 12-1/4 inch in circumference, so it fits - the
(garble) is too loose, but that's the way we're running it.
Now we can run it again with a different leg band, and if
so, - but they recommended legband - or is this what they
want? I can't imagine this is giving them what they want,
but we - they know what sizes all these things are so, I
guess maybe this is the way they want it.
CC Okay, AI. Let us talk about it a second
and get back to you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 20 hours i0
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've heard from A1 Bean during
this pass over Carnarvon. Owen Garriott apparently pressing
on with the - the test following M092, the lower body nega-
tive pressure experiment, in which he's performing the - a
two-step of limb blood fo - flow performance.
MCC EREP, blood, and ATM, and biomed - -
MCC Okay, hey - I'm going to get - -
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 20 hours 14
minutes Greenwich mean time. In the control center, a
discussion continuing on the M092 legband which will be
used in the test. Here on the ground we're trying to
match a proper size for Owen Garriott's right leg.

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SL-III MC-2216/I
Time: 15:14 CDT, 53/20:14 GMT
9/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, our intent

on that scheduled test was for Owen to end up with the legband
for that part of the test that was a 12 to 13. And - we un -
I understand that there's suppose to be one Charlie Popa that's
stowed over there in one of the drawers a back up leg band.
If at any rate that was our intent for this test.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Goldstone is coming up at 20:45.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 20 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal through
Honeysuckle. The - next station which Skylab-lll will cross
is - Guam tracking station. Some 4 minutes and 45 seconds
from this time. However, the maximum elivation for this pass
over Guam is quite low, maximum elevation of 2.7 degrees.
We're at 20 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean time and this
is Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 20 hours
27 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has passed beyond
Guam tracking station. No communications with the crew, the -
next station contact shows Hawaii, next to acquire at 6 minutes
37 seconds, however, Skylab will be at the outer fringes of
the the tracking ring around Hawaii and our count down clock
in the control center, is counting towards an aquisition through
Goldstone in some 17 minutes 50 seconds. We'll stand by however,
in the unlikely event, we do talk to Skylab through Hawaii.
20 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2217/I
Time: 15:44 CDT, 53/20:44 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours 45

minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
with Skylab III on this stateside pass. Acquisition through
Goldstone. Now receiving systems data on Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Goldstone for
about 5 minutes and we see in the vent cycle on MO92, and
our assumption is tha1_ you're probably rerunning that
test. You might clear that up for us.
CDR That's a good assumption. We just
finished it up.
CC Okay, AI. Sorry about that checklist
problem in that legband size. Looks like that was just kind
of built in for - at least for Owen, there, and was an over-
site on our part.
CC Skylab, Houston, for your information,
your tomorrow's Fligh1_ Plans are onboard and in the tele-
printer. And also, an oversite on today's detail pads. We did
not list anywhere the stations and times for the Evening
Status Report and the Med Conference, so I thought I'd pass
those up here. The Evening Status Report will be at Ascension
on - later on on this rev at 21:13. We had originally planned
for the PLT to catch both of these for us. That's Ascension
at 21:13 for Evening Status. And the Med Conference will be
the following Carnarw)n pass also on this rev at 21:43. Out.
CDR Okay, we finished that, Dick, it came
off okay. Owen says he's really ready for Earth now. He's
been in this can so long. How about setting up a call again
for my wife tonight, it happens to be her birthday.
CC Roger, AI, I'ii get on it.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. On the calls, AI, I will
get on this one as soon as I can. One thing - as you know, we've
been working down here to try to make these calls come off
a lot better. And one thing that probably would help if we
could get as much warning as possible when we when you would
have one probably the night before or in the morning, if you
could. At any rate, I'iI get right on this one. And we'll
see if we can get it set up.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Mila is coming up in about 3 minutes and we're
going to dump the data tape recorder at Mila.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 20 hours 50 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Had loss of signal through Gold-
stone, next station to acquire will be Mila in less than 2
minutes.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're AOS Mila at - for
about 12 minutes.
CDR Hey, I'm sorry, Dick. I didn't think about
giving you that notice. Sue works until about four in the
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afternoon and I just thought I'd wait until she got home
and that way it would be easier for you to get hold of her.
But I should have mentioned it earlier because it's a lot
more problems than that. Will do.
CC CDR, Houston. I'm learning how to work
my key set here. I just gave you a message on the Flight
Director loop and Phil would like for me to tell you again.
At any rate, on your comment about the calls, it does help
us a little bit to get an early warning because we like to
get the network messages out, and do a site configuration
check with the COMM TECHS. So the earlier the better and that
will give us the best chance. And I just called over there
and the line was busy, but I'ii call up and we'll get set
up this evening. No problem.
CDR Okay, Dick.

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SL-III MC-2218/I
Time: 15:57 CDT, 53/20:57 GMT
9/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll let us have

the DAS for a minut_ or so. We'd like to force a contingency
momentum sample to take care of that last M092 vent that was
a little bit out side our window, so if you'll let us have the
DAS, we'll take care of that.
CDR You've got it, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute til LOS.
Ascension comes up at 21:13 and I - I'd like to get the Evening
Status Report at Ascension if I could.
CDR We've got it ready for you.
CC Okay.
CDR We've notice on tomorrows flight plan
something that's called Earth 0 and Earth S, is there going to
be a pad up to tell us what that means?
CC Stand by a second.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 21 hours 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab has now past out of acquisition range
through Bermuda. The next station to acquire will he Ascension
in approximately 8 minutes. During the Ascension pass, the
Evening Status Report is scheduled to be passed down by the crew
aboard Skylab-III. And on this same revolution over Carnarvon
at 21 hours 43 minutes the - medical private conversation is
scheduled. We're at 21 hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time,
and this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2219/I
Time: 16:12 CDT, 53/21:12 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours

12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from the scheduled time of acquisition o_ Skylab III through
Ascension. We'll stand by and leave the line open for
conversations between CAP COMM Dick Truly and crew members
A1 Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma. Some 30 seconds
away now from acquisition. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Ascension
for 5 minutes. I'm standing by the EVA - correction, the
Evening Status Report. And AI, in answer to your question
about the grith measurements, we understood that this was
something that y'all had taken up at the start and didn't
need any support. We want you to do the same thing on the
girth measurement tomorrow that you did a couple of weeks
ago. If you do need the assist of a measures to support
that, we can resurrect one. We had planned to send up earlier
and never did.
CDR No trouble just wanted to make sure. We
weren't exactly sure what it meant. We thought that's
what it meant, but we wanted to check.
CC Yeah, that's right. And I'm standing
by for the Evening Status Report.
CDR Coming at you then. 132, 143, 160.
CC Okay.
CDR Hold on just a second.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, let me start again. 132, 143, 160;
6195, 0165, 6667; 6.234, 6.234, 6.234; 5.942, 5.940, 5.940;
6.939, 6.940, 6.942; 2/35/5041, 315Mark I, 3/10/Mark III,
3/05/Mark III. SPT has not exercised yet, and we'll report
as soon as he does. 1/05/0603, 2/35/8664. D - also PLT is
3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends. No
medication. Sleep: 6/G, 6/F, and 5-I/2/G. Food log:
CC Okay.
CDR CDR, three salt packs, plus five salt
pills, one lemonade; SPT, five salt packs, plus strawberries
and ice cream from yesterday that he did not eat; PLT, four
salt packs, plus one tea with lemon and sugar, and he sub-
stituted a pork and potatoes, and applesauce for tuna and
bread.
CC Roger.
CDR Here comes the photo plan: VTS, track
35: CX08, 80; S183: UA02, 84; VTS, track 58A: CL04, 34;
MI51 of S183: CI62, 06, CI61; 35-millimeter: CII05, 46,
CX34,46. 70-millimeter: CX27, 079. ETC: CT09, 61. EREP,
set W: 9,076; 1,268; 8,795; 8,173; 9,943; 8,847.
CC Okay.
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CDR Hold on just one second again. One

CC Okay, AI.
CDR Do you hear a little noise in the comm?
A little kind of squeak?
CC Yeah, I have been hearing it, and I've
- wasn't sure which of the loops I was - I was hearing it
on. I've got severai punched up, AI.
CDR Let me go check everything. Hold on.
CC Okay, incidently, we're about 45 seconds
to LOS. I can pick up the rest of the Evening Status in
case we miss it, at a later site. The next site, Carnarvon,
at 21:43, is scheduled for the med conference.
CDR ()kay, let me give you Drawer A Configura-
tion: the only change is A-2, which is 05, CI62, 60, CI61.
CC Roger, AI. I got that.
PLT Well, we don't have it now, Dick, but
a little while ago when that - we had that squeal, what
I had been doing was_ I turned the - STS panel and STS
aft light re (garble) to their a variable position and
they made that squeal.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
CDR They're leaking. Okay, strange - but
that don't mean electron. Flight Plan Deviation: nothing
new. Shopping list accomplishment: nothing new. Inoperable
equipment: the blood pressure cuff number 5 needs a new
string. And it's put back in the IMSS kit. No, not IMSS,
but back over there in metabolic analyzer. Flashlight:
wore another one out,. we discarded it, so we got a
flashlight from 625 to use. And that's it.
CC ()kay, AI. Thank you very much. I
think we just squeezed it in under the LOS. We're going
there now, and the doctor will see you at Carnarvon.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours
20 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
now with the Skylab ][II during this Ascension pass. The
next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in approximately
23 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2220/I
Time: 16:42 CDT, 53/21:42 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 21 hours 43

minutes at Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisi-
tion of Skylab III through Carnarvon. This scheduled to
take place in less than i minute. During this pass the
private medical conference has been scheduled. We'll stand
by keep the line open. Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 21 hours 48 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. No conversation between Dick
Truly and the crew of Skylab, thus far during this pass over
Carnarvon. The crew now engaged in the private medical
conference.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours 55
minutes Greenwich mean time. Now approaching acquisition
through Guam tracking station. Acquisition sheduled less
than 2 minutes away now.

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SL-III MC-2221/I
Time: 16:55 CDT, 53/21:55 GMT
9/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for

i0 minutes. I guess A1 got the word on the phone call on
very short notice. And if he's set up for - on configura-
tion, COMM TECH will give you a call and y'all can get
going now.
CDR Okay, (garble)
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 21 hours 57
minutes Greenwich mean time. Now have Skylab III through
Guam. That call-up from CAP COMM Dick Truly indicating
that Commander AI Bean is set up for a private conversation
with his wife through this Guam pass.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. The network
flight controller reporting that
CC Not sure what you're up to at the moment.
There is - we mad e one mistake on your - on your summary
Flight Plan for tomorrow, which is for you. We show a S063
deactivation at 19:]_5 for you to do. We do not want to do
that tomorrow because it turns out that camera will be used
for photos on a later day. And I was thinking you might
get ahead toniKht, and on some of the things, and you might
go ahead and do that:. So, we'd like to just delete that,
please.
SPT Okay, I've still got some exercises to
meet - to do after this ATM pass, so I don't expect I'Ii
be doing much extra tonight. And I'm trying to find a star
at this time. I wonder if - if either - I'm not sure who's
looking at it down there. ASCO perhaps, can give me a
clue as to any better gimbal angles.
CC Okay. The outer gimbal, and I had it,
I'm sorry, I should have passed it up earlier, was - is
suggested as minus 2460.
SPT Okay, I've got it. Thank you.
CC Roger, Owen. We were watching. Looks
like a good lockup. Thank you.
CC And I'll - I'll assume that you've de-
leted that entry on S063 deact off your Flight Plan for
tomorrow.
SI'T I haven't taken a look at it yet, Dick.
I'ii check that later and remember that.
CC Okay. Fine.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. The network
flight controller reporting that the private conversation
through Guam is - the system is working well. AI Bean is
presently scheduled to be talking with his wife, this taking
place through the Guam tracking station. We're 22 hours
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1 minute Greenwich mean time, standing by, Skylab Control,

Houston.
CC SPT_ Houston. One comment on this ATM
daylight cycle pass. We show you're putting some TV on the
VTR and we think we_rll be money ahead if you'd just delete
that entry and wait a couple of minutes until we get AOS
stateside, and then I'll let you know and then we can put
it on the down-link - we'll get it a little faster here.
And not have to use up the VTR tape.
SPT Wilco.
GC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute till
LOS. Goldstone comes up at 22:23. That's about 15 or 16
minutes from now. I'ii give you a call. One note for Jack.
!_e got a whole raft of teleprinter messages that we - on
deactivation and entry that we'd like to get up tonight and
_¢e think tile teleprinter may be getting a little low on
paper. We'd sure appreciate it if he could change the tele-
printer paper for us this evening. Also, when we get squared
away with the comm on the stateside passes, I did have a few
things to visit with you guys about. I know Bruce talked
to you about the Deactivation Checklist changes and I wanted
to mention some similar items about what's - what is in store
for you when you look at the pads tonight on the entry
books. So, I'ii see you at Goldstone.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours 8
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab III has now passed out
of range of Guam tracking station. The next station to ac-
quire will be Goldstone in approximately 14-1/2 minutes.
During - coming up - during this stateside pass at 22 hours
29 minutes Greenwich mean time, shortly before the end of
their work day, the crew has been asked to take handheld
photographs of the Great Plains as the space station Skylab
makes a descending pass over the central United States, on
the end of this revolution, revolution 1837. Objective
of this photography is to capture on film, geology soil types,
and land forms as related to sand and gravel supplies, poten-
tial landfill sites, road construction, engineering, and
ground water sources. In addition, the crew has asked to
visually describe this area, which covers Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, Iowa, and Missouri. These photo assignments
are part of more than 50 optimal targets which have been
passed to the crew. We also have for you now, the mission
surgeon's daily report on crew health of the Skylab-lll crew.
Tile report reads as follows: "The crew is having no medical
problems. The second 2-hour component of the circadian shift
will occur tonight. SleepinR medication will be taken at the
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crew's option if difficulty is experienced in going to

sleep tonight." This message passed along by Flight Sur-
geon Jerry R. Hordinsky. We're at 22 hours i0 minutes
Greenwich mean time, and this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2222/I
Time: 17:21 CDT, 53/22:21 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 22 hours 40 -

23 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition through Goldstone with the crew of Skylah III.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS stateside
for 17 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick, let me know when you got the
TV ready, and I'ii send you down some ATM television. And are
you getting a real time or is it going to be recorded on the
ground.
CC We're going to get it real time, well
stand by i. No, I'm sorry about that Owen, I was wrong.
We're going to record it on the ground and stand by and I'ii
give you a go.
CC SPT, Houston, we're go for the ATM TV
down-link. And I've got two or three evening questions and
I also wanted to visit with the Commander about some entry
checklist items. Over.
CDR He's right here, available for visiting.
Must be visiting hours at the moment.
CC (Chuckle) okay. And I hope the call
went okay A1.
CDR Tell the COMM TECH that was a perfect call,
no background noise they - as soon as they locked on every-
thing just went smooth. One of the best.
CC Okay, good show. What - I made a call
a while ago and I didn't get a roger and we would like to
make sure that after this LOS or sometime this evening before
you go to bed we'd like - appreciate it if somebody would
change the paper in the teleprinter. We want to make sure that
we can get up all the pads we have to tonight. And AI, on
the subject of the entry checklist changes, let me describe to
you what - what you will find in the teleprinter in the
morning. And I think that we're essentially going to send up four
general items. The first one is very swift, I'm looking at
a copy of it now. And it - what it is is some entry time
line. It shows - it's all written in PET; it shows the day
night cycles, it shows all the AOS. And as it goes down it
shows each of the checks and checklist correlation as to
page number and so forth. And it takes you from 13:00
PET, on one piece of paper which is starts at the hatch
intergity check and walks you right on down to splashdown.
So I think more than anything else this time line will probably
help you a lot.
CDR Okay, that sounds good. By the way I
changed the teleprinter paper about 5 minutes ago.
CC Oh, okay, thank you. The second general
subject of - of the types of things and it's not too many of
these is some cleanup to the nomal - your nomal deorbit
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9/18/73

procedures and primarily, there, - Pete and Vance ran in a

simulator, I think i:t was yesterday morning, and there were a
couple of places there that we had made so many pen and inks,
I think one of them was in RCS - one of the RCS checks and
a couple of other places that the number of pen and inks
confused them. And so these checklists - some of these changes
are not really changes to what you already have in your books,
but they're just typed on one clean sheet of paper that you
can tape over the existings. And you can take a look at those
and - and if you hawe any questions, get back to us.
CDR Now that's a real good idea. Because
when I was going over it a couple of days ago myself in the
command module, I realized it was going to take some reading
and Owen and I have been talking about how we were going to
go through it before flight. But that would be a good
improvement in somebody's area and somebody checks.
CC Okay. The last two catogories
are things AI, that you're going to get on entry have to do with
the three and four quad failure cases. The first one is the
study guide that is somewhat similar to the study guide that
you already got on the nominal and just like it did it just
leads you in words through the - our philology and making up
the procedures. And then finally behind that it's going to be
a procedure that is essentially a stand along procedure for
either three and/or four quad failure cases. I say stand
along it rea - it naturally does refer you back to the entry
checklist for those checks that are - that don't change.
But it stands along in that once you can enter it anytime
til - from undocking right down to splash and it tells you
at what per - at what times to go do which checks. So
tomorrow morning when you get that, you might look over all
that stuff and soak it in a little bit and ask us any questions
you feel like after that.
CDR Okay, I've got about 7 or 8 questions
outlining that entry checklist, already, I'ii put these
changes in, look it over and I don't know if I have any time
tomorrow, but if I do I will as soon as I can and then I'ii
come back with these questions and then maybe - the entry
minus 5-day questioning exam and all our business is day
after tomorrow isn't it?
CC That's affirm and that's when we'd like
to entertain the questions because we'll have all the right
people here.
CDR Okay, we got another pass tonight. I
might pass on a few to you now, and later on today so we'll
clean those up. And then that'll open things up for new and
better questions.
CC Roger, AI. We still have about 12 minutes
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9/18/73

in this pass. And this is tile last pass o[ the, _'v_.u[ug [h_t
we have scheduled since we're - this is one of the days we're
knocking off early. We have a real long, like an hour 20 min-
ute LOS after this one. I do have a couple of evening
questions that we haven't had time to pass up to you and I
thought I'd cover them now.
CDR Okay. Cover those now and then if you
start talking to somebody else, I'll go get the book and see
if I can pick them out real quick.
CC Okay. The first one there, I have addressed
to the PLT. We listened to the dump tape and he reported that
the S019, AMS display numbers 2 and part of 3 have come
off and in preparation in fixing this for Gerry's flight
we like

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Time: 17:28 CDT, 53/22:28 GMT
9/18/73

CC - he reported that the S019 AMS display

numbers 2 and part of 3 have come off. And in preperation
for fixing this for Jerry's flight, we'd like to confirm that
he was referring to the tilt displays numbers.
PLT That's correct, Dick. If there is no
other rotation, I - AI went down the rotation numbers,
as a matter of fact - the - little aluminum end started to
come out of the - the place it was sticking in and - I don't
consider it a big deal really. Long as they don't all come out,
your're okay.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack. Second question
that I have here is it has to do with S055 ramp latch. That
you removed on the EVA-I and then - photographed later and
stuck in a plenum bag. It turns out, as you might guess
that we've decided that we'd like to bring this home if possible,
so the question is if you can - figure out where it is
and retrieve it, we'd like to stow it in A-9 and bring it home.
CDR I think I can figure that out very easy.
PLT (Garble) those in a plenum bag; we've
saved them all.
CC AH_ Ha_ Okay. Good show. You were
thinking ahead. Another question is, we'd like to know the
stowage location of the TV camera, which is serial number 3002,
which we - which was bursted on the mission day 28. This is
the one that over heated on the EVA day. We're - we're going
to bring this one - home also and we'd like to know the stowage
location.
PLT We've got it hanging on the blue ringer
underneath the water tank.
CC Okay. I had one more note - from you,
and this goes back to - this is passed to us from the deactivation
team which incidently they're still here working on the - some
of the checklist changes. Way back several weeks ago, AI,
you suggested that we send up a Deactivation Checklist changes
in three separate - separate increments, one for the three
books that belong to each of guys. And the team has decided that
for several reasons, they think that would be kind of a unwise
thing to do and so they've - so we are sending up - a set of
the changes - full set of the changes for each of the books.
Aand the reason that we like to do this is they did try to take
this approach, but it turned out that in many cases, it was just
difficult to - to get the coordinations straight and there were
so many - kinds of items that would be - that would make the
time line - that would be switchable between crewman that we'd
like to try to get those changes fully in all three books and
that would let the - deactivation go a little bit smoother.
So, - your deactivation changes will be coming up in that
fashion in the morning.
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CDR ()kay.
CC And that's the end of all of the things,
that I have sitting in front of me to talk to y'all tonight.
We still have about 9 minutes left in this pass and this is
the last pass of the evening. So I'm standing by.
CDR ()kay, here's a couple. I've got open my
Eentry Checklist, right now. Let me glance through and l'll
put a few marks here.. Probably simple; no need to answer them
now, but maybe - maybe later.
CC Okay.
CDR ()kay. On page 12-1, I've notice it's got
item 2 stowage dock May West. I kind of a felt that you were
thinking about us unstowing and donning May West after the
write-in item 8 over on page - 12-2.
CC Okay, we've got the question.
CDR ()kay, now I'm still a little puzzled from
looking at my checklist, when and where the we activate the
command module RCS and when and where or if we activate
Primary water evaporator and the secondary water evap. Because
I've found places in here that say, do it and then I'ii real-
ize that when I went over to do it, I'ii notice it's got an
X through it, so I'm a little bit puzzled there. For example,
on page 12-3, we crossed out the set water evap activation.
CC Okay, AI. We've got the question, I think
this is one of - the cases where there's time line will help
you. I think - in the morning when you look at this - you
won't have any questions at all about where any of the checks
are.
CDR Okay, that sounds llke a good idea. Now one
of the - couple of questions up the air, we talked about them on
the medical tonight, one of them - is - from my point of view
the most important as a result of what, Paul and Jack -
Paul and Joe said about - the SPS burn and - and their visibility
during this time. We kind of was thinking about pumping up
our hypertensive garments for that burn, in an attempt to
keep our visibility better than their (garble) but you know about
that, and we're waiting to find out what comes o_f on that item.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, now, I still don't - let me go over
now to page 12-4.
CC Okay.
CDR There - there was a write-in there down
at - let me - let me read some things here, it says perform
CM RCS check, page E12-5. Okay, then it says, after that,
do spacecraft control CMC AUTO, does that mean after that
whole check? Or to do that then perform the check. So that's
just a little cofussing thing to me, but it's - I'm pretty
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sure you do it after the check but I just want to - verify it.
CC Okay, AI. I got the question - I'm -
my - my impression when I entered it into my book was exactly
ifke yours is - that that was an entry that was to be done
after that check, but at anyrate, we'll get you a straight answer.
CDR Okay, then there is a couple right in that
area some talking about - perform primary and secondary water
evap, and secondary's crossed out and then up earlier it says
something about - I had a write in it tells - it told me to
perform them both but I may have written it in wrong or something
but I won't say anymore about that. I still don't under-
stand why we don't do VERB b 46 earlier than 59 minutes for
the entry burn. But - that's just a question, I'm sure that's
technique, the guys have worked out. Because I can't image you
going anywhere during the last few seconds but maybe you do
and that - that's why you don't.
CC We'll get you an answer.
CC We'll get you an answer on that.
CDR Okay. And the next page on 12-5. It starts
talking about maybe we ought to do the command module RCS check
(garble) command or mid impluse. And I assume that our time
line is going to tell which. And I can scratch what every
I've got here out and I'll end up with just one of them.
CDR Okay. In the bottom of that box, by the
way, the CM RCS check box there on page 12-5. I assume that
the bottom thing should read, spacecraft control CMC AUTO
per what we just discussed a moment ago. One philosophy
I don't understand at all is - is exactly what we do with the
B MAG switches when we're in the different control modes, with
the CMC backing up the burns. Wheither we put yaw into ATT
i rate 2, or that's the one we leave out and just put the other two
in. And I guess I need sort of a paragraph or something that kind
of tells the stratagy there, the logic and - then I can probably
can go from there but that was one unclear thing through here
exactly the time that I put them all ATT 1 one 2 two and
when I just put two of them ATT 1 rate 2.
CC Okay.
CDR And that extends mostly from not understanding
exactly what advise you use either way.
CC Okay, AI. Understand.
CDR Let me go to a different section.
CC Okay, we still got about 3 minutes and
45 seconds. Incidently, AI, it says CM RCS check, if I remember
right, I'm not looking at message right now on page 12-5
with those pin and ink and errors, and etc that we're
completely replacing with a clean typed block.
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Time: 12:28 CDT, 53/22:28 GMT
9/18/73

CDR Okay, that'll be good, because it looks

fairly - messy.
CC And -
CDR Okay -
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We just up-linked some
teleprinter stuff you might have somebody glance at it and
make sure it's printed out okay with the new roll in there.
CDR Good idea, we'll do it. Old Owen will
do it.
CC Okay, we still got 3 minutes. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. On page E5-3, I had a write in
that says RCS select 12 main A and B. I'd perfer that
you'll - if you would go ahead and - define which is which.
What I'm trying to avoid is getting into a situation where I
do it like I always did it, because I think that's the way
in there some new strategy available that I'm not aware of.
CC Okay, understand.
SPT Dick. The left 30 percent of your (garble)
message did not print, but the - message which follows that
on - the - film load all came through in good shape.
CC Okay. -

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SL-III MC-2224/I
Time: 17:37 CDT, 53122:37 CMT
9/18/73

SPT The left 30 per cent of your test message

did not print but the - message which follows that on - the -
film load all came tlhrough in good shape.
CC Okay. We up-linked a photo pad, Owen and
a film thread pad and - and a test message. That's what you
ought to have.
SPT Okay, the test message is missing - the
left 30 per cent. The film thread came through fine and
I haven't read the - load pad yet.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Probably the glue, or something like that
on there.
CC AI, we still got a couple of minutes, if
you'd like to continue.
CDR ,Okay, I'm - I'm still looking - Dick.
CC Okay.
CDR One of the fundamental questions I had,
was knowing that if we don't get a SPS burn, we - come around
again and retarget. I don't understand exactly what the
retargeting would do, do we then make a burn at the next
place that would put us - do - do we make the burn the
next rev? I don't understand the whole sequence there in
the event the SPS does not come off. What do we do next?
Where do we land? What's our recovery time generally? And
that sort of strategy, I don't have any feel for that at all.
CC Skylab, Houston. Roger. We're about
i minute from LOS. We'll give you a call in the morning and
AI, very briefly and - we will put together a - more for you on
this you'll end up splashing down about three revs later and it's
2 - 2 impluse RCS the deorbit procedures and it's out by Johnson
Island.
CDR Okay. I guess you'll give us some more
information. I might mention when you're sending up pieces
of paper to paste in, to simplify things, you might want to
think about doing that per page E7-4, which is the RCS
completion for yaw to quad D&D failing. I've got a lot of
writeins there and you might want to think about - scratching
those out and pasting in something.
CC Okay. We've got about 5 or i0 seconds
on the clock now, AI. We'll see you in the morning. These -
just one more thing, the order in which these checklist
changes are coming up will be the timeline first, then the
nominal clean up, then the study guide for 3 and 4 quad fail,
and finally the 3 and 4 quad fail procedures.
CDR (garble)
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SL-III MC-2224/2
Time: 17:37 CDT, 53/22:37 GMT
9/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston; at 22 hours 40

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of range
now with MILA tracking station. That was CAP COMM Dick Truly
giving the crew of Skylab-lll a go ahead to start their rest
period for this evening.

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SL-III MC-2225/I
Time: 17:51 CDT, 53/22:51 GMT
9/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22

hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time. We announce that there
will be no change-of-shift-briefing this evening with
Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson. Flight Director Hutchinson
and his Flight crew or Flight Control team members are now
involved in a deactivation checklist review. A review of
procedures, however, Flight Director Hutchinson has passed
along these preliminary times for entry day activities.
Crew wake up the morning of September 25th, scheduled for
7 hours GMT, crew transfer to the command module this key
to the multiple docking adapter hatch closing time, 13 hours
50 minutes GMT, undocking 19 hours 50 minutes GMT, SPS
deorbit of the command module, command and service module
21 hours 38 minutes GMT, splashdown, 22 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean tme. Closing out at this time at 22 hours
53 minutes Greenwici_ mean time. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC2226/I
Time: 01:53 CDT, 54/06:53 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control 6 hours, 53 minutes

and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is nearing the South American coast
and about to come in range of the tracking ship Vanguard.
We'll have the line up live for air-to-ground though the
Vanguard tracking station where we should hear a wake-up call
from Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen. At the present
time, we're about 6 minutes before the crew's normal wake-up
but we do expect that call to come through Vanguard. We
have the llne up live now.
CC (Music)
PLT Stand at attention, you people.
CC Yes, MOCR's at attention, Jack.
PLT Going to be a good day, I can tell.
CC I figured that'd put you in the mood for
a good day's work, Jack. That's horrible to wake up early
by, though.
CC Skylab, we have you for about 3-1/2 more
minutes through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in I minute. See
you in 3 minutes over Ascension at 07:08.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CDR Just wondering if you wanted to change
our flight Plan, it's looks like a good time to me for us
to get back in the back, close our eyes and try to count
those light flashes.
CC I figured that. Nothing like a circadian
shift.

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SL III MC-2227/I
TIME: 02:25 CDT 54/07:05 GMT
9119173

PLT We saw that on the Sun the other day.

It made part of the limb go dark in H-Alpha.
CC One of those circadians, huh?
PLT Yeah, it took it out of the filter
when it shifted. I don't know. It's one of those funny
things.
PAO Skylab Control, 7 hours 6 minutes and
i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the
tracking station - tracking ship Vanguard. Our next
acquisition about a minute and 43 seconds from now will be
at the Ascension tracking station. This morning the wakeup
call, Marine Corps Hymn, played up for Jack Lousma's benefit.
Jack, a Marine Corps officer, and Jack informed us that
we should all be standing at attention here in Mission
Control. Little note as to how early in the morning it is
for the crew as well as the ground troups. A1 Bean says
it's a good time to go back and count some light flashes,
and Jack Lousma reminding us of some of the phenomena he's
noticed on the Sun as a result of getting up too early in
the morning. The crew's workday is starting early, of
course, for preparations for the splashdown next Tuesday,
when they do get up a little bit early to complete de-
activation and prepare for reentry. This is Skylab Control.
We're now 55 seconds from acquisition of signal at Ascension
and we'll have the line up live for this pass lasting
I0 minutes and 44 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Ascension
for 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC 0keydoke. You know every once in a
while on these summary shifts I think I see some of those
light flashes that A1 was talking about while ago. One
item - A couple of items I probably ought to tell you
about. We ended up leaving the TACS enabled throughout
the night and we want to keep it enabled for the venting
on this upcoming MO92 run today, so we can just leave that
as is.
PLT Okay Bob. Got no record on the length of
the tape - the teleprinter message today.
CC How long is it - Did we go - Would you
believe that we're s1:ill - ... is still busy down here
trying to get it all up. He hasn't got it all yet.
PLT Well this one we intercepted it by the
time it got the length of - from the trash airlock to the EVA
hatch.
CC You notice we had a few entry checklist
changes that are still coming in. We had about 20 pages
worth of that. Plus the deac stuff.
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TIME: 02:05 CDT 547:05 GMT
9/19/73

CC We're -
PLT We may notice that in a couple of hours
when we get through it.
CC (Laughter We've scheduled some time for you
tomorrow to try to get some of those checklist changes entered.
One item we'd appreciate you looking at and giving us a report
on is, we've been having a little problem with our airlock
module time reference system. It's reset and seems to be
cycling. It's done 1_hat several times during the night and
if you could look at your GMT clocks and give us a report on
whether they look like they're working normally or intermittent
or erratic or what, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Well, they're working, but they're not
on time. I guess - I think it's day 265. 000036 something
like that.
CC Well, that agrees with telemetry. If
it doesn't agree with what - It's day 262, and it's about
071226.
PLT Somebody's Just getting in a hurry, I
guess.
CC It's you guys working so fast up there.
CC And Jack, somewhere down in the middle
part of that message, you'll notice that you've got a couple
of EREP 39 C&D pads. The first one messed up. The second
one's okay.
PLT Okay.

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SL-III MC-2228/I
Time: 02:16 CDT, 54/07:16 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from

LOS. We'll see you over Guam in 35 minutes at 07:52. We've
switched over to the primary time reference system because
of the loop we ran on the secondary and we'd appreciate
another readout as to what your timers are doing.
PLT Okay. Day 265. It's an eye test
from here. Active 0556, 50 MARK.
CC Okay. Thank you, Jack.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 19 minutes and
i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now passed out of
range of the tracking station of Ascension. Our next acqui-
sition of signal will be a little over 33 minutes
from now. That will be at Guam. During this last pad -
During this last pass we had some discussion of the operation
of the timers aboard Skylab, which apparently have been operating
erratically during the overnight period. And the information
given by the spacecraft - Skylab Pilot, Jack Lousma, do indicate
that the telemetry readings have been correct, that they are
reading now 265 day of the year, instead of 262. They will
make an attempt to correct that during the day today. Also,
comment by the Pilot on the amount of teleprinter message
sent up today by the ground. Teleprinter pad set a new
length record, Jack Lousma indicated. Construction from the
trash airlock to the EVA hatch. Most of the teleprinter
messages, of course, are checklists for the EVA and checklists
for reentry and deactivation. They do take a great deal of
volume and there will be a time set aside for the use of those
checklists. There is a procedure's review tomorrow, Thursday,
that is and there will be time set aside for checklist updates.
This is Skylab Control. We're 31 minutes and 45 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Guam. It's now 20 minutes and
39 seconds after the ihour.

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SL-III MC2229/I
Time: 02:51 CDT, 54/07:51 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours, 51 minutes

and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
we're about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the
Guam tracking station. The pass through Guam will just last a
little under 9 minutes and we have the line up live
now for air-to-ground through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, down there.
CC Hello, hello. We finally got back with
you.
SPT Say Bob, I've got a few questions here for
Adam, I think - a couple of problems. First problem is H-alpha -
I cannot get to take any (garble). Either manually or in
H-alpha i auto. It - ready light is on, but I cannot get it
to cooperate. And the next thing, is I cannot get any DAS
for phase displays or event timer displays or ATS counter
displays in Bus i. I had to go to Bus 2 in order to see
them and I don't know if I got a switchout configuration or
it's some other problem. I appreciate a little advice or
assistance there. Over.
CC Okay. We'll look into the H-alpha problem
Have you tried cycling the inverter i circuit breaker?
SPT Nope, try that next. As my CDR
just reminded me in cycling that circuit breaker, which doesn't
seem to reset does the trick, which it just did again this
morning.
CC Okay. Very good. That seems to be rather
sensitive kicking off sometimes and we haven't really explained -
explained why. And for all of your, information, when we get
it even on the hour here, INCO is going to reset your - your
timers so that there'll be 00:00:00 and that' ii mean you'll
be right as far as minutes and seconds is concerned. It's
coming up on 08:00, so you will be 8 hours behind as far
as your clocks are concerned and you can reset the day to
day 262. That's not EVA day yet.
SPT Okay. Understand. And I noticed on the
next orbit, I've got a lot of work to be done on bright spot
number i. These coordinates I believe. Stand by. These coordinates
have suggest - suggested to me 11:0/.5. Now, I'm looking at my
XUV mon picture and I had two bright spots at ii0. As near I
can estimate one of tlnem's about 0.3 and the other's about 0.7.
I think probably what they want is the 0.7 which has some sort
of loose structure associated with it on the XUV mon. But
I would like a little clarification whether or not they're
talking about the one at about .3 or about 0.5 and their indireeted
knowledge of bright spot i work on? Over.
CC We'll check that one out for you, Owen.
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Time: 02:51 CDT, 54,/07:51 GMT
9/19/73

CC And if you're interested, I got a - can

read you the SAP update.
SPT I sure am interested.
CC Okeydoke. There have been no flares. Prominence
81 has been intermit1_ently active. A minor surge region observed
near 29/1.0. It may be associated with old active region 03, which
is due to return about now but not expected to be very active.
Active region 13, also due late today near 27/1.0 and it
apparently produced the X-I llmb event from behind the west
limb on mission day 41 at about 79:10 Zulu.
SPT Would you say again that last comment about
the old active region returning.
CC Okay. Stand by i. I want to verify the
time there. Okay. ()wen, on the bright spots, they leave that
up to you and you can select the one that you think is most inter-
esting.
SPT Okay. Sounds fine.
CC Okay Owen. That last note for the SAP was that
active region 13 is due back late today near 27/1.0 and
it apparently produced the X-I llmb event from behind the
west llmb on mission day 41 at 09:10 Zulu. The time doesn't make
much difference here.
SPT Okay. Understand. We've got a lot of brightness
over on the east limb now and that's probably the active region
returning right there.
CC Okay. And you copied my comment about
pick out the bright spot that you think looks most interesting.
SPT Yes, sure did. We'll do that.
CC Owen, if you got a moment, I can tell you
a little bit about JOP 13, which we're planning on tomorrow.
SPT Do we have another nearby pass? I've
got a little work to do here in the last 5 minutes this
orbit.
CC Yeah. I'Ii get it for you later.
CC CDR, Houston. AI, if you've got a moment,
I wanted to make a comment about our checklist. Not checklist,
a Flight Plan deletion.
CDR Okay. Go ahead with your comment.
CC Rog. We had scheduled a housekeeping 14
Bravo 4 today, which was biociding the MA hose. And we need it yet,
so we're going to save that for day 58. So if you'd just scrub that
off, we'd appreciate it.
CDR Scrub the hose biociding. Will do.
CC Rog. Another item, we sent you up on the
film prediction thing for your - on your day off. An estimate
of Hasselblad stuff so that you'd basically just go ahead and
shoot it up. We recommend you save about 20 frames from hasselblad
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Time: 02:51 CDt, 54/07:51 GMT
9/19/73

CL-3 which is in command module i and save that for - to be used

during reentry. Might use it -
CDR Understand.
CC You might use it for some shots when you're
backing out from it or something of that nature.
CDR That's what we thought that we found when we
undock at midnight.
CC Yeah, but it's still hopefully, it should
be visible from you b_T the time you hit sunrise.
CDR That's true. Okay.
SPT Bob, I'm still unable to take any H-alpha
pictures.

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SL III MC-2230/I
TIME: 03:00 CDT 54/08:00 GMT
9/19/73

CC Okay, Owen. Our recommendation on

H-alpha right now is we had a problem previously where we
had to end up cycling switches. We'd like you to cycle
the H-alpha camera power to off and back to on, and then
try going with the operate auto switch to AUTO and then
back down to MANUALand verify that you do hold it at least
a quarter of a second at MANUAL.
SPT Okay. I've done the last part several
times, cycling between AUTO and MANUAL. I Just turned
camera power OFF, and now camera power is coming back on
again.
CC Okay. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
have you again over the Vanguard in 31 minutes, and that's
at 08:32, which I guess will be on 00:32 on your clocks.
SPT Okay, and I did recycle H-alpha AUTO/
MANUAL and it still just remains in READY.
CC Copy. We'll try to look at it.
SPT iFor information. Scan spec detector
number 5 has stayed in for about oh, 20 or 30 minutes here.
It just now popped off. The first time.
CC Is that some kind of new record?
SPT New record for the last 2 or 3 weeks.
CC Rog.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 3 minutes
and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is now passing to the southeast of Guam out of
range of the tracking station there. Our next acquisition
of signal 28 minutes and 37 seconds from now will be at
Vanguard. During this last pass over Guam the ground
informed Skylab Science Pilot that active region 13 is due
back today. Science Pilot Owen Garriott has the ATM duty
for the first daylight pass just now being completed.
Active region 13 is ¢,f interest because it was believed to
haved produced the X-1 flare, that's an extremely large
flare observed on the limb of the Sun at about 09:14
Greenwich mean time on mission day 41. That's 13 days ago.
There was a major flare at that point, quite visible from
Canary Islands, photography provided of that and some data
on the effect on the corona given by the Skylab crew.
Active region 13 has now rotated around the backside of
the Sun. A 14 day period to go from one limb to the other
limb of the Sun. It's now expected to be coming back into
view. It's now believed that that will be a relatively
reduced activity in that active region. Also during this
Guam pass, the timer was reset on Skylab so that their
clocks are now reading the wrong hour, but the correct number
of minutes and seconds. They should be reading 0 hours
4 minutes and 47 seconds right now as opposed to the correct
SL III MC-2230/2
TIME: 03:00 CDT 54 08:00 GMT
9/19/73

time of 8 hours 4 m:Lnutes 47 seconds. They are off now

only by a matter of some few hundredths of a second. Later
in the day, about 24:00 Greenwich mean time, at the midnight
for Greenwich mean 1:ime, that's about 16 hours from now,
those will be reset to the correct hour so they will be
operating properly again. This is Skylab Control. Our
next acquisition of signal 26 minutes and 51 seconds from
now will be at the Vanguard tracking ship. It's now
5 minutes and 18 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2231/I
Time: 03:31 CDT, 54/08:31 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 31 minutes

and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard
tracking ship. The pass through Vanguard will last approxi-
mately 9-1/2 minutes. We have the line up live for air-to-
ground through Vanguard and we expect a call here from
spacecraft communicator, Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for 10-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, if somebody has a
moment I'd like to talk a little bit about the M092 special
test one and two.
CT Vanguard comm tech, Houston comm tech
net one voice check.
CC Skylab, Houston - -
CT This is Vanguard comm tech on net one.
I read you loud and clear.
CC Skylab, Houston. In the blind, under-
stand that the - they're copying you out at the site, but
we're not here. Stand by until we get the problem cleared
up.
SPT Roger. We're reading you all right.
It's just the down-link.
CC Okay. We're back with you once more.
CT Did you have the Vanguard set in?
SPT Okay. I'd asked if any news or have
any comments about H-alpha. And I think Jack and A1 could
hear you on the 92 special test.
CC Okay, Owen. First on the H-alpha, the
only thing that we came up with was that we copied that you
were in normal and not override on the night interlock. And
you should have gotten to the panel after daylight and if
you had stayed in normal you would not be able to get it to
operate. So, if that was the case then it should operate
properly on this upcoming pass.
SPT That should be correct, Bob. I should
have thought of that too. Thank you. And here's - A1 and
Jack can hear you.
CC Okay. If A1 and Jack are copying regarding
the M092 special test that we've got coming up today, we'd
like to run over procedurally a couple of problems that
apparently we've had.
PLT We're listening. I'll tell you.
CC Okeydoke. Wish to report that we've
got excellent data from the M092 test one. And we've had a
little problem with the test two, which is the one where you
pull the - you use the muscle to try to squeeze a little
SL-III MC-2231/2
Time: 03:31 CDT, 54/08:31 GMT
9/19/73

blood up into a part of your body and it's primarily

associated with the cal coming at the wrong time and trying
to tell whether the muscle tension was correct. And the
items we'd like to emphasize, is that the leg - the legband
should be fully calibrated both low and gain per the MO92
OBS cue card. And I think on the first test it looked like
it was done a little bit late and - on the beginning. And
on the last part, it looked like it was done too - too soon.
The auto cal should be initiated before going to negative
Delta-P, of course. And both legs should be - should con-
tract them maximumly without movement. And I guess they
sort of emphasize, you know, you don't want ... and that
you should be breathing normal. And the contraction should
not last over about 2 seconds. Following the return to
zero Delta-P, you should wait about2 minutes before performing
the auto cal. And then if you would record any pertinent
data recording on both of the tests, we would appreciate it.
CDR Yeah. I'ii record some data for you at
the moment. I thought that we performed the cal correctly
the other day. We gave an auto cal and another cal. The
thing that kind of mistified us about the whole test is
when you're laying in the can on MO92, sometimes you twiddled
your toes accidentally anyhow. So, kind of said, interesting
to performing a test that we perform everyday anyway and
and they haven't eve:n known all along that we've been per-
forming the test. So good luck in trying to find out the
results of this test. So we'll keep doing it, but it looks
to me like the data is not going to show much more than just
regular data, because on regular data, you know, at 15 minutes,
every once in awhile you pinch your toes or you wiggle
around or something :like that. And it doesn't show up much
on the data.
CC Okay, AI. We copied that and we'll
pass the word along.
CC And, AI one item regarding the deac
checklist change, the one that's a mile long, and I been
spending most of the night here trying to enter in my - my book.
I've got one little item that might be somewhat confusing and if
you've got that hand_T I can point it out to you.

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S L III MC-2232/I
TIME: 03:38 CDT 54/013:38 GMT
9/19/73

CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the very first page of the
message, it makes a reference to page 1-39.
CDR Let me find that. Is that the bottom
or the top?
CC It's at the top.
CC Talking about making a change in the
note.
CDR Okay. I got it. It's under note and
on last line change.
CC Okay. That would be clearer if it read
in note and on last line.
CDR Okay. Got it.
CC Okay. That's all it was, thank you.
CDR Okay. Now I've got these change i and
2 to friendly little test. Tell me exactly what to write
in where.
CC Okay. You talking about the MO92 tests
AI?
CDR Youbet.
CC Okay. I'ii tell you what. The one
thing that you should write in is at the end, that the cal
should follow 2 minutes after returning to zero Delta-P. I
haven't got the test in my hand right here, but I can pull
it out for you.
CDR Okay. Why don't you pull them both out
and tell me exactly where to write in.
CC Okay.
CDR For example, we think that the main
vacuum valve should go closed before you go to 000 millimeters
HG. We changed that around without asking, but we're still
standing by on that one.
CC Okay AI, if you'll allow me, what I'ii
do is I'ii pull out the change and give you the exact pro-
cedures over our next site, Canary, and that's going to be
in about, oh, 52 after the hour.
CDR That would be perfect. The exact write-
in procedures for both would allow us to do it more accurately.
CC Oikay. We'll do that for you. And if
Owen is still copying, I can run down quickly with him the
JOP 13 planned activities.
CDR He's listening.
CC Okeydoke. We were planning a JOP 13
for tomorrow
SPT Hey Bob.
CC Yeah. Go ahead.
SPT W_ny don't you wait a minute. I've got
to get the JOP set up here at the beginning of the orbit and
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l'd llke to think about what you're saying without too much
diversion. Over.
CC Okay. We'll hold off on it. We'll
also give you that over the next site. And we're about
a minute from LOS. We'll see you again over - over Canary
at 52, and that's about 8-1/2 minutes - correction i0 minutes
from now. Also we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump
over Canary.
PAO Skylab Control at8 hours 43 minutes
and i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Vanguard tracking ship, as the spacecraft is passing
over Brazil, we're 9 minutes and 15 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Canary Islands. The pass through Canary Island
Madrid willbe an extended one lasting approximately 14 minutes.
We'll bring the line back up about 9 minutes from now for
that Canary Island/Madrid pass. This is Skylab Control at
8 hours 43 minutes and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time.

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SL-III MC2233/I
Time: 03:51 CDT, 54/08:51 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours, 51 minutes

and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Canary Island. Pass through
Canary Island and Madrid will last approximately 13 minutes.
At the present time, the Skylab crew are just about beginning
the next daylight period. Science Pilot Owen Garriott at the
ATM console while the other two crew members are completing
some girth measurements. We have the line up live for air-
to-ground through Canary Islands and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary, 13-1/2 min-
utes. We won't be doing a data voice recorder dump.
CDR Say Bob, on that entry time line are you recom-
mending that we take that and scotch tape it in the entry book
where the time lines _its at the moment called the nominal
time line or single burn deorbit time line or something like
that?
CC Actually, AI, we pretty much put that in
there for your druthers. The antenna that would Just give
you a feeling of how -- how the time line was supposed to flow
since it was a little bit erratic and you had to jump around
quite a bit. So, guess right now, we just say to leave that
one up to you, what you'd like to do with it.
CDR Okay. Could you have somebody make the
recommendation as a result of Pete's ... did or something? Did _hey
put it on a card, stick it to the panel and then use thator
what'd they do with it? We'll - we can figure out something
but they may have a better idea.
CC Okay. They did not use that time line
at all. They did not have it available to them.
CDR Okay. We'd might take it a stick it on a card
or something and then we could use the card and the book and
won't have to keep flipping back and forth through pages in
the book. We can check the card, and then go to the page.
CC Rog. The pages are specific items you
should be using for tlne procedures and again, that is just
basically a time line flow. Putting it on a card sounds
like a good idea. If you've still got that M092 test 2 handy,
I can tell you the specific recommendations that we would make
to it.
CDR We got it. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Really, there are only a couple.
Previously, you - you've been voiced up a calibrate auto to occur
right after returning recorder experiment 1 on. Is that
correct?
CDR That's right. CAL to AUTO. But we've
been doing manual for them.
CC Okay. Manual is fine. I think they
just put down an AUTO cause they thought that might be a little
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bit shorter. But manual's what you're use to and should be

no problem with that. What you said a while ago about putting
the main vacuum valve to close, that's the way you're used
to going to 0 Delta P and that's fine also. The - specifically
right after - right before they calibrate auto, if you would put in
a wait 2 minutes there, we would appreciate it. That's the latter
one after you've gone back to zero Delta P.
CDR Okay. That's written in.
CC Okay. And really, that's all the proce-
dural changes that we have for you. The other one was talking
about how to contract a ... isometrically and it's kind
of difficult to describe how to do that but I was Just
give you a verbal idea what they were talking about. And I
agree with what your comments about wiggling your toes and
so forth, almost gives you the same effect.
CDR Okay. Tell us how to isometrically do it again
so we'll do it right.
SPT Bob, the other day they described it as
tensing the muscles - is that - Story called it that -
is that a fair description?
CC That's a fair description. That's basically
all you're trying to do is to tense up the calf muscles. Over. I got
Story here and I'ii let him give you the words again, if he's
got some good ones.
MCC I'm not sure I got any good ones this
time in the morning, but what is the guess is just plain
tense in the leg without the moving the ankle joint or the
toes. Just - just tense the leg.
SPT Speak of the devil.
CC That Story gets around. And Owen, any
time it's convenient, I can run over a couple of these items
with JOP 13. I'm really not getting any great amount of details,
I Just kind of want to let you know how it was going.
SPT Okay. Now's a good, convenient time.
So please go ahead. I was just about to ask you.
CC Okay. As I mentioned before, we've got
it scheduled for tomorrow morning as one of your - your
first activities and currently, of course you're going for
... one, and it's going to costs in TACS 210 pound-seconds
and the slight procedural changes will be required is after
you get in correct attitude, we're going to have to do a
nominal H-cage with some biases in that the ground will have
entered for you. Also, the groundwill be going ahead and
doing your momentum inhibits. We have established thatafter
you get back to solar inertial attitude, we're - momentum
profile should return to nominal about 3 revs.
CDR Okay. And what two stars are used?
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CC I'll see if ASCO can give me an answer.

on it. It's Achernar and Canopus we'll be using.
SPT Okay. That sounds good. What - do we
start the maneuver a little before sunset? In other words,
are we going to infringe on normal solar viewing here a little
bit in order to get that done? When you check that out on
a pad though Bob, you needn't give me the other details now
really and sounds like you've done a lot of good working to
get this possible, but even the price of a little TACS here
is of course, makes it extra important that we get it done
right. So we'll be doing it just the way it calls for with
plenty of care taken.
CC Okay. The guys have done a lot of work
I'm told that we'll be initiating the maneuver about noon.
l'm afraid I don't have very many more details for you now,
but they will be giving you that on the pad. Also, one item
that of course, was a printing factor for this was to esta-
blish what it would be llke to - to point at Kohoutek. So,
that was one of our objectives as well as to get the JOP 13
thing.
SPT Okay. Just a note for S056. I've tried
both patrols - patrol normal and patrol long and it hung up
on S and i each time.
CC Copy that.
SPT Oh, let me take it back. We just switch
to frame 2 and to partollong so itmay seem we'll get this
one done right.
CC Okay. Got our fingers crossed. And we've
got a handover coming up here in about 30 seconds. I may
drop out.
CC And we're back with you again after the handover
into Madrid and all of your teleprinter messages are on board,
we hope.

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SL-III MC-2234/I
Time: 04:02 CDT, 54/09:02 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from

LOS. We'll see you over Guam in about 26 minutes at 09:31.
CC I'ii say good night to you and see you
in the morning.
PLT _[eady to go to bed again, huh?
CDR Bye, bye.
CC _[og. Or is itgoodmorning? I'm not
sure which it is. My circadian's all fouled up. I'm going
to go - go look for those light streaks AI was talking about.
PLT Could be that you'll see as many on the
ground as we see up here°
CC I don't know about that.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 6 minutes and
38 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
passing over eastern Europe, is out of range of the Madrid
tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal 24-1/2 min-
utes from now, will be at Guam. This is Skylab Control
at 6 minutes and 54 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2235/I
TIME: 04:30 CDT 54/09:30 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at9 hours 30 minutes

and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently 55
seconds from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking
station. The pass through Guam will last 6 minutes and
20 seconds. We have the line up live for air-to-ground
through that station.
CC Skylab. AOS Guam 6 minutes.
CC And we're a minute from LOS and
about 5 minutes from IIoneysuckle.
SPT Okay. Story, have you taken a look at
that test one data on the M092?
CC I'll get you a report on that.
SPT No. I was just asking you personally if
you'd seen it. But it looks like there's a very rapid
response. As soon as you pump up to 30 millimeters, why,
the leg volume increases 2 percent Just right off, and I
assume that's the response that biomed's looking for down
there. And it's a very immediate one.
CC Okay Owen. That's very consistant with
our ground based studies that have been done.
SPT Okay.
CC And it's that slope they were looking
at to get a flow measurement.
SPT Did you say slope or flow or both?
CC It's the slope of that curve. It's
the slope of the Delta V there, the change in volume we're
looking at to get a flow into the calf.
SPT Okay. Well, that's going to be a pretty steep
slope then because just by eye the change in leg volume is
pretty rapid. I suppose there might be 5 seconds or so, maybe
i0 - I0 or ii minutes_ You ought to get a pretty good (garble)
out of that I guess.
CC Okay. Both that 2 percent and that
time sounds like reasonable data.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 38 minutes
and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of
range of the Guam tracking station as the spacecraft passes
over New Guinea and we'll soon come in range of Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. That's about 3 minutes and 20 seconds
from now. At the present time a new Flight Director has
come on duty. Don Puddy having gone off, Milton Windier
now on duty. Story Musgrave the spacecraft communicator.
Replacing Bob Crippen. Some discussion going on of the
next few days' activities aboard Skylab. They'll include
science demonstrations tentatively scheduled to show
diffusion of material in water and also to show a process of
ice melting in space. Also some discussion of T053, which
is a laser experiment to be run from Goddard Space Flight
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9/19/73

Center. The crew will attempt to observe the laser light flashes
from the ground. That's tentatively scheduled as an alternate
for Thursday in the event that there's no Earth Resources
pass on Thursday, they will do that T053 laser experiment
then. However if they are -is a successful Earth Resources pass
that day, it would be postponed until late Friday. It is
now in the preliminary drafts for Friday and Saturday
Flight Plans, so we would expect to have that T053 light
flash laser to he taking place later this week. Complete
instructions were sent up during the overnight for the crew,
both for deactivation of the Skylab workshop and for the
return using only two of the thruster sets of the quads on
service module -

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SL-III MC-2236/I
Time: 04:40 CDT, 54/09:40 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Complete instructions were sent up

during the overnight for the crew, both for deactivation
of the Skylab workshop and for the return, using only two
of the thruster sets of the quads on the service module.
Two of those, of course, have not been operating since the
first few days of the mission. They had had a failure in
that area and they are now shutdown. They have now, sent
up a set of instructions for operations. These are essentially
the same instructions that were sent up earlier, but before
they were pen-and-lnk changes. They now have new copies they
can paste over the copies they had originally. It makes it
a little easier to read. They discovered here in simulators
here on the ground that reading the checklist was very
difficult after the pen and ink changes had been made.
This is Skylah Control. We'll keep the llne up now for
acquisition at Honeysuckle. The pass through Honeysuckle,
a 4-1/2 minute one, will begin about a minute from now.
CC Skylab, we're back through Honeysuckle
for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over Canaries in 45 minutes at about 10:30. We show
you running behind on hitting the M092 vent window. That's no problem.
We can force a contingency sample over Madrid. So press on.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 47 minutes
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now just north of New Zealand is out of range of the tracking
station at Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition of signal
will be 42 minutes and 40 seconds from now at the Canary
Islands. At the present time, ATM cycle just being completed
CC fine. We don't show the BPMS working.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours
49 minutes and 4 seconds. That was a - one more attempt at
a call by the spacecraft communicator. We were, however, out
of range of signal at Honeysuckle Creek and it's very unlikely
that the crew heard that. There was no reply from the crew
on that pass. We're now about 41 minutes from acquisition
of signal at Canary Islands. The call went up to inform the
crew that they weren't getting any readings on one of the
experimental devices on the body temperature measurement
system. That's part of the M092 run that should be under-
way now. And that was scheduled to have Pilot, Jack Lousma,
as the subject of that. The observer was to have been Alan
Bean. Some indication we did have at Guam was that Science
Pilot Owen Garriott was_ apparently participating in that.
That may indicate that the commander was working at the
ATM console in the place of the science pilot. We're not
entirely certain of thet, hut it really makes very little
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difference since one -- either one could be the observer on

the experiment. That would be a change, however, from the
original Flight Plan, which calls - called for the science
pilot to be working at the ATM console during that last
daylight pass. At an unusually high Beta angle at this
time, which means we have very long daylight passes, relatively
short nighttime passes. This is Skylab Control. Our next
acquisition of signal 40 minutes from now. It's now
50 minutes and 22 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC2237/I
Time: 05:30 CDT, 54/10:30 G_T
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours, 29 minutes

and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
we're 55 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Canary
Island tracking station. The pass through Canary Island
and Madrid will last approximately 13 minutes. First data
is already coming in now from Canary Islands however, we do not
yet have voice llnk up there.
CC 5kylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid, 13 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And going over the hill, we didn't see
the BPMS working on M092. Did y'all get that running?
CDR Just what I was going to call you about.
The answer is no. You want us to run that test again? It
came out good except for that.
CC Okay. Was that the switch didn't get
thrown?
CDR That's exactly right and every - we're
in the midst of test number i. Now we've completed test 2
and we can pump Jack down in about 8 or 9 minutes from now.
CC Stand by i.
CC And we're taking a look at the momentum
situation with the second vent and EREP and we'll get right
back with you.
CC AI, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC About how far are you from finishing
test number i with the M0927
CDR Two minutes.
CC Okay -
CDR I take that - I take that back. We' re
suppose to do Jack's arm also so we've got to do that.
If we weren't going to run this again, though I'd prefer to run him
in the can now cause he's all in and configured.
CC C kay. We concur with that. Go ahead
and finish test number 1 on the leg. Delete test number i
on the arm and recycle as rapidly as you can into a standard
M092. And confirm that you didn't take any manual or auto-
matic blood pressures.
CDR That's confirmed. When we realized what
had gone on, we took them during the test number 2. But
of course that doesn't go all the way up to 50 millimeters.
CC Okay. We do need those blood pressure
measurements on the standard M092. So run that when you
get done with the leg test.
CC And Owen, we need the DAS to force a
contingency sample here.
SPT It's all yours.
CC Roger.
CC DAS is yours, Owen.
SPT Okay.

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SL III MC-2238/I
TIME: 05:40 CDT 54/10:40 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. And

about 27 minutes to Csrnarvon at II:i0.
PAO Skylab Control at 10 hours 44 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of the antenna at Madrid. Next acquisition
26 minutes from now will be at Carnarvon, Australia. At
the present time ther_ is a MO92 test being run. They are -
it was required to be a repetition of that run as Pilot
Jack Lousma was the subject for MO92, but the blood pressure
measuring device, I wrongly reported that as the body
temperature measuring device earlier. The BPMD, blood
pressure measuring device on the M092 had not been switched
to the ON position, and as a result_ the data was not com-
plete for the first run on the lower body negative pressure
device. As a result of that, they did have to repeat the
test. The test that'_ being run now is a little different
than the ordinary MO92 run in that there is an attempt to
Judge the blood flow using the superficial veins in the legs
of the Pilot. This test essentially consists of a tourniquet
that's put around the upper leg and then a - cuttln E off the
lower blood and then releasing that tourniquet to allow the
blood to flow out again. This shows what tendency to pool
blood in the legs exiE_ts in the crew members at this point.
The test that was run yesterday on Owen Garriott, they're
certain that the data was entirely complete yesterday, but
they do expect to run that on all three members of the crew.
The fact that they have to rerun the M092, at least a good
part of it takes about 8 minutes to run this special test
on the M092 means that they may have to cancel one of the
MI31 runs later today, however, they have completed essent-
ially all of the MI31 that is required at this point in the
mission so that would not present any problems for complete
medical data on the mission. At this time Science Pilot
Owen Garrlott is apparently still at the ATM console. We
didn't hear any conversation from him. We did receive an
ATM report just a few minutes ago in Mission Control from
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Solar
Forecast team here. They were reviewing the present con-
ditions on the Sun. Very inactive Sun at this point. There
is however, some prominence activity surges seen around 15
degrees north of the equator on the Sun's eastern llmb. That
is a sign of an active region returning to the face of the
Sun. It's expected to be back in the next 4 or 3 hours.
There are only two sunspots on the surface of the Sun at
this point. Both in active region number 27. One leader
spot and a very small trailer spot. Relatively little
activity. Sunspots are frequently associated with flares
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In the past 24 hours, however, there's only been one

sub faint flare, a very minor flare and the relative absence
of sunspots would indicate that we may be in for a con-
tinuing period of quiet solar activity. There will be some
study made today, however, of a bright spot showing down in a
coronal hole near active region 30. This is on the western
half of the Sun. There are four small bright spots down in
this coronal hole that are visible and one of those four
will be studied in some detail today as part of the solar
activity. All of the small active regions in the past few
days have been apparently associated with coronal holes.
At the present time the Skylab space station is passing
over the Soviet Union. We are about 22 minutes from
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. This is Skylab Control at 48 minutes and 15 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2239/I
Time: 06:09 CDT, 54/11:09 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at Ii hours 9 minutes

and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now passing over Indonesia, 50 seconds from acquisition of
signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking station. The pass
through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, Australia will last
approximately 14-1/2 minutes. At present time the Mission
Control Flight Team of Milton Windler is on duty and they have been
Just briefed on weather conditions over Europe and over the
mid Atlantic, some study being given to the possibility of
doing a little photography of tropical storm Ellen located
in the middle Atlantic about 2,000 miles from the coast of
Florida. Doesn't appear that that's going to be ideal, but
we may take a look at 1_hat a little later. We now have
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon.
CC Skylah, AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
14 minutes.
CC And we assume you had no problem getting
the blood pressure on MO92.
CDR I found a switch up on the upper right-
hand corner of the panel that made it work.
CC Okay. Good.
CC And, Owen, if you're still at the ATM,
we've got a note for you on SO56.
SPT Go ahead.
CC You can leave the SO56 camera power on
at all times except when you're runnin E timed exposures
during the building block and JOP operations. This will
avoid cycling the relays.
SPT Okay. Good point. I was thinking we
had a call to turn it off, but apparently by then we'd slipped on
that point. And we'll be leaving the camera power on now. Thank
you.
CC Okay. And now that does not contribute to
heating of the film advance motor.
SPT Okay. Very good.

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SL-III MC2240/I
Time: 06:23 CDT, 54/11:23 GMT
9/19/73

CC All, we're seeing you're about ready to

begin M093 run and we're seeing only 1 tape recorder running
and you'll need 2 for M093.
SPT Okay, Story. He heard you and he mentioned
that he appreciates that, but he's working on something else.
CC Okay. Understand and we're 30 seconds
from LOS and 35 minutes to Bermuda at 11:59.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours, 25 minutes
and 46 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of tlhe tracking antenna at Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. Our next acquisition of signal, 33 minutes and
44 seconds from now, will he at Merritt Island in Florida.
At the present time, Skylab space station crew is working
at medical experiments and at the solar telescope. Commander
A1 Bean to be taking over the ATM duties now as they pass
into daylight in another 16-1/2 minutes and the M131 run
scheduled for Owen Garrlott, that's human vestibular function
run will be performed on the science pilot today with the
observing Pilot Jack Lousma. One of the MI31 runs may still
be cancelled. We haven't received any additional information
on that. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of
signal, 32 minutes from now. It's now 26 minutes and 49 seconds
after the hour.

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SL III MC-2241/I
TIME: 06:58 CDT 54/1]_:58 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 58 minutes

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing Venezuela, about to come in range of our
tracking station at Merritt Island and Bermuda about 45
seconds from now. This pass through Merritt Island and
Bermuda will last about 9 minutes. We'll have the line up
live for air-to-ground through the tracking stations and
we will have a brief interruption after this for the pass
over the Atlantic before we are acquired at Madrid. This
is Skylab Control. Tile line is live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab. AOS Bermuda 9 minutes.
CDR Okay Story. We finally got all the
things done with Jack,. so everything came out all right,
although we had an extra pump down and everything.
CC Okay. Maybe you done him good.
CDR We're just trying to get him in shape
for one g.
CC Roger. We thought that's what you had
in mind.
CDR It's a subtle crutch.
CC Okay.
PLT I figure I'm all done with M092 now.
That was an extra one.
CC No need to acknowledge Jack, but you got
one more M092 4 days from now.
PLT Well, what's one more MO92. I just
thought I had it.
CC There's no doubt you've had it. But
you've still got another MO92.
CDR We're waiting for the next time Owen's
got it cause once he's strapped in that can at 50 millimeters
we're going to cut his hair.
CDR Ask the ATM back room what they did
yesterday when we ran our line scans in line 9 instead 25,
if they called the observatories and had them run their
information in line 9 instead of 25 at the same place on
the Sun. Ask them what they did.
CC Okay. I will do that and you've only
got 26 minutes of VTR to your TV 21.
PLT I think that will be a big plenty Story.
CC Okay. And have you noted any erratic
operation of your timer there running on primary?
PLTI haven't looked at it myself. I'ii
have to check.
CDR I've looked at it a couple of times
awhile ago and it looked like it was running okay.
CC Okay.
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TIME: 06:58 CDT 54/Ii:58 GMT
9/19/73

CDR Eey Story, another suggestion that the

back room might want to think about, the ATM back room,
that is, is they started putting operational notes over on
the SAP that had to do exactly with how to operate and
my thoughts would be that they might want to put that right
at the front of the particular orbit that it applies to.
Otherwise now we got information on operational techniques
instead of just information on how the Sun's doing in two
different places. So, if you don't read that SAP carefully
and you go to run your operate pad, you're liable to make
a mistake because some of the information is over there.
CC Okay. That's an excellent point, AI,
and we'll do that.
CDR One of the chief problems I think we've
had here, but it's getting slowly ironed out by changing
around, is having information on an event in several places.
For example, EREP, you got a start time in your details,
and then there's another comment about it on the general
pad, and then the EREP pad has one of them on it, so when
you get ready to run EREP, previously, you had to look all
three places to try to remember which one of them came
first. Now they're putting all of it on the EREP pad, so
if EREP is coming up you can just get out the EREP pad and
start reading it. And maybe we can make it the same way
here as far as operating the equipment on the ATM. It was
that way at first, but there's been a little - since we've
been having so many changes in ATM ops, now they've began
to kind of sticking them over there, and I think the reason
is that then they don't have to write it two or three times.
But it seems to me it would be worth the two or three times
to be sure we got it right, or have the best chance of
getting it right.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CDR We don't always make it, but we're
working at it.
CC Neither do we, and we're working at it
too.
CDR ¥eah. We know. We know.

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SL-III MC-2242/I
Time: 07:08 CDT, 54/12:08 GMT
9/19/73

CDR One thing strange about that test number 1

that we ran on Jack's arm. I still haven't figured it out,
but we had to change cuffs so that we could get one to fit, which
was a 12 to 13. And ilt just barely was small enough. We had
to do it on his right arm, because it was bigger that his
left. His left was too small. I think maybe it was still
too large because both tests, after the test was over, the
null was zer - instead of being zero was one. And
it was off-scale high on the low cal. Yet, every - You know -
yet the same sort of thing on your leg, it returns to zero and the cal
may be off, but it's not off too far. So, I don't know what
happened. Maybe it expanded his arm a little bit. And
then when his arm contracted the cuff wasn't that tight. It
just didn't come back down. I'm not sure, but it looked to
me llke the data really didn't come out like we wanted it,
although we ran the test I think, the best we could with
a 12/13 cuff, which is the smallest we have.
CC That's a good point, AI. We were
worried about that too. LOS here. Madrid in 4 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours i0 minutes
and 27 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now over the north Atlantic is out of the range of the
Bermuda tracking station, but about 2 minutes from acquisition
of signal at Madrid. The Skylab crew was awakened this
morning by the Marine Corps Hymn, played especially for
Marine Major Jack Lousma, the pilot aboard Skylab. Major
Lousma responded with an order for everybody in Mission Control
to stand at attention during the playing. The 2:00 o'clock
wake-up, which will be standard for the remainer of the
mission, was two hours earlier than on the preceeding two
days and four hours earlier than the standard 6:00 a.m.
central daylight time wake-up for the crew's first 7 weeks
in space. Commenting on the shift in sleep - wake
schedules, Commander A1 Bean kidded the ground controllers
that the early wake-up was a big help in seeing light flashes.
Spacecraft communicator, Bob Crippen, on the over-night
shift agreed that he was seeing a great many light flashes
himself. In all seriousness, the light flashes which have
been reported by every astronaut to participate in extended
space flight, except Ken Mattingly on Apollo 16, have in fact
been seen by the Skylab astronauts. The phenomena is pro-
duced by high speed cosmic rays penetrating the space station
and producing changes as they pass through the eyes of the
crewmen. We're now about a minute from acquisition of
signal at Madrid tracking station. We have the llne up llve
for air-to-ground through Madrid, lasting about 8-1/2 minutes.
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Time: 07:08 CDT, 54/12:08 GMT
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CC Skylab, A0S through Madrid for 8 minutes.

And AI, you may want to take a look at the weather passing
over central Europe here, to get a feel for the weather you'll
have on your EREP pass the next orbit.
CDR Okay. I'ii do that.
CDR One of the reccomendations we're going
to make when we get back is to have some sort of different
scheme for this EREP, than we've had as far as trying to
not shoot films during weather. And I don't know you'd do it,
or how you'd get - what you get - they're going to get
Bill Pogue or Ed Gibson down at the window and he calls them or
what, but somehow we need to improve the -our ability to operate
with last minute weather to conserve the resources we have
on board, because they're going to ha - I assume you're going
to have less resources than we do.
CC Rog.

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SL-III MC2243/I
Time: 07:16 CDT, 54/]2:16 GMT
9/19/73

CDR They've got a nice counterclockwise I low

pattern of clouds right over the center of Europe. England's
socked in.
CC Okay.
PLT If this had been in the Carribean, you'd
think that was a hurricane with the - from the flow pattern, it
looks like.
CC Rog.
CDR I_t's really one of the prettiest counter
clockwise spirals we've seen. It must be some 5 - 600
miles across and the whole thing is just a sequence of
spiral arms all focused on about the center of Britain.
CC Okay.
CDR Just look at that pattern all over in the area
where we're going to be on the next orbit, we're going to be
covering part of this area, but some them but it's a little bit
better further to the west.
CC Okay. Your next track will be a course
southwest of where you are right now.
CDR Yeah. It looks like it's better down
towards the Siene and around in there. Best (garble) places- France,
Switzerland, Yugoslovia, Albania, and GMV. It looks a little better
that way - not that great though.
CC We're a minute from LOS. And about 25 min-
utes to Carnarvon at 12:46. Be dumping the data voice recorders
at Carnarvon.
CC And AI, on that change request on the
lines there, the observatories that we called to get informa-
tion on that were socked in due to weather.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours, 21 minutes
and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range
of the Madrid tracking station. Next acquisition, 24 minutes
from now will be at Carnarvon, Australia. Solar activity on
the Sun today, very much the low what it had been a couple
of weeks ago when we had a number of active regions and several
major flares. However, ATM activity is still continuing at
a very high rate - 6-1/2 hours of solar data take time expected
today during this next pass over the sunlit part of the Earth.
Commander Alan Bean will be working at the ATM console. Very
little information being given by our ground observatories today.
The major observatory at Carnarvon, Australia and at Canary
Islands, have both been covered by heavy clouds. However, we
do have a report from earlier in the day that active region
formally numbered 13, which produced a major X-ray flare on
Sun's west linb nearly two weeks ago, is now about to
return to the face of the Sun. Some surges have been reported
as the region returns to the Sun's east limb later today.
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Some sun's level of activity, however, is expected to remain at a low

ebb with even the new active region much diminished in strength.
Only two small sunspots, which are associated with solar flares,
are visible at this time on the face of the Sun. Both of
those a leader and a trailer sunspot are in active region 27
near the center of the Sun. The fact that active region
number 13 is now returning to the Sun's east limb, may indi-
cate there is an opportunity there for a few prominences
in the next 24-hours, but that's still unknown at this time.
Today's EREP pass, the 36th in the mission but numbered as
EREP number 38, will gather data for the first time over
Israel. Multi-discipline studies will be made of Israel using
all of the operating EREP sensors at the end of the 2900 nautical
mile pass which begins 400 miles off the coast of France.
There are only 3 target areas in these - in this pass. The
first of two EREP passes scheduled for today. The second
pass later today, makes a sweep across the northwest U.S. ,
over southern Canada and down over the northeast ending in
the central Atlantic Ocean. This morning's EREP pass begins
at Greenwich mean time 13:53, or 8:53 am Central daylight time
and it first gathers atmospheric data over the Atlantic Ocean at
the Bay of Biscay off the French coast. That data is being
gathered for Monsieur Villevieille of the Bureau of Meteo-
rological and Space Studies of Paris. As the space station
crosses the Swiss Alps, data will be collected on snow cover
in relationship to vegetation and water run off. This study is
being conducted by NASA for Principle Investigator Professor
Harold Haefner of the Department of Geography at the Univer-
sity of Zurich. The study will also collect information on
surface temperatures of large snow fields and glaciers as a
means of predicting avalanches. Israel - Israeli test sites
cover the range of natural resource disciplines - geology,
hydrology, limnology, oceanography, and agriculture. During
the 12-minute take beginning off the coast of France and
ending southeast of Israel, Skylab will be at an altitude
of 270 miles. The ground track passes over Milan, Italy,
Athens, Greece, and Tel-Aviv, Israel. At the viewfinder
tracking system for the S191 infrared spectrometer, will be
the Pilot Jack Lousma at the control and display panel. For
the other EREP instruments will be the Commander Alan Bean
and the Earth terrain camera, the 5-inch format camera will
be controlled by the Science Pilot Owen Garriott using the
anti-solar scientific airloek. That EREP pass, the first
one to go over Israel, and it will beginning on the next
revolution about the Earth. During this last pass, the
crew did indicate that they saw fairly heavy cloud cover near England
which is where they were passing. That would indicate that
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there will be a good opportunity to get good data on weather

conditions just off the coast of France. That is one of the
goals of the pass scheduled for a little later this morning. Also
under consideration at this time, is a study of tropical storm Ellen
now in the mid-Atlantic, about 2000 miles east of Florida.
That tropical storm is expected to grow to hurricane strength
in the next several hours. It is expected, however, that it'll
remain a rather weak hurricane as it passes over the north
Atlantic. There is no predicted land fall for it - should
last at least several more days in the midst - mid-Atlantic
and be a very strong storm for a long period of time - al-
though it will not be a danger to any land areas. This is
Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal will be
19 minutes from now. It's now 26 minutes and 52 seconds
after the hour.

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SL III MC-2244/I
TIME: 07:45 CDT 54/12:45 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 45 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're now approximately 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. We have a pass through Ca_narvon lasting
approximately Ii minutes and then that will be followed by
a pass through Honeysuckle lasting about 5 minutes, so we'll
have an extended pass here through the Australian tracking
stations for about 16 minutes. We do have the line up live
for air-to-ground now through the Australian tracking sites.
CC Skylab. AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
15 minutes.
CC Jack, we've been dumping the data voice
recorders here the last three minutes. Just wanted to make
sure you didn't put any parts of your M131-2 on the voice.
SPT Okay. He heard you Story.
CC Thanks.

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SL-III MC-2245/I
Time: 07:59 CDT, 54/12:59 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds from LOS.

Pick you up over Texas in 30 minutes at 13:31. We're still
showing you've only used about 3-1/2 minutes on the VTR.
Could you tell us how long you've used that on TV-21?
PLT We just started, Story.
CC Okay.
CC And we see it running.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 2 minutes
and 42 seconds Greenwich mean time. Present time the Skylab
space station has gone out of range of the Australian tracking
station, now passing south of New Zealand. Out next acqui-
sition of signal 29 minutes from now. This morning we sat
a new record aboard Skylab for the longest teleprinter message
so far in the mission. Today's package of written instruc-
tions for the second crew is the longest teleprinter message
passed up in the Skylab Program. Teleprinter messages pro-
vide updates in detailed Flight Planning, experiment scheduling,
and general mission information. The teleprinter load, today,
contained 34 separate messages relating to medical, earth
resources, and corallary experiments, in addition to general
information on vehicle operation and housekeeping. The message
included checklist for the deactivation of the space station
and for the return of the command module using only two
engines of the reaction control system on the service module.
The message had to be sent up over nine tracking sites
during the night and 16 separate opportunities were required
for that completion. Pilot Jack Lousma who reported
after awakening this morning, that the teleprinter message
stretched from the trash alrlock to the EVA hatch in the air -
in the airlock module, where the teleprinter is located.
Actually, according to AI Briscoe, the instrumentation and
communications officer responsible for sending up the tele-
printer messages, today's teleprinter load measured 50 feet
in length and required 3.1 million computer data bits to
complete. That's another new record. Apparently, we're
going to have as much paper in space as we have on the ground.
This is Skylab Control 4 minutes and 25 seconds after the
hour. Our next acquisition 27-1/2 minutes from now.

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SL-III MC2246/I
Time: 08:30 CDT, 54/13:30 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours, 30 minutes,

and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is about a minute from acquisition
of signal at the Texas tracking station. They have a pass
through Texas, Merrltt Island, and Bermuda. It will last
approximately 15 minutes. We have the line up live for
air-to-ground through this pass and at the end of the pass,
we will have the beginning of an EREP pass over Europe and
Israel. We have the line live now for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside, 14 minutes. Looking
at a good NUz update and the maneuver time is verified.
PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.
SPT SPT on channel A with a note for the
ETC folks. Wanted to mention the last time we ran yester-
day, I inserted the magazine I'm doing normally right up to
the power turn on time. When turned on the power on switch,
why no power to the camera. Checked everything, finally
went to malfunction procedures which required me to take
the magazine out and put it back in again and that fixed it.
So it did look as if it was running on prime mag that time.
There might be a little bit of dust or something in there.
That's the only time I've had that problem for the whole
mission. But I thought you ought to be aware of it so that
if it comes up again, that'll be the first thing to suspect.
And you might also mention it to Ed Gibson in his training
that that's the first thing to suspect if you don't get power
on. End of note to the ETC folks from the SPT.
CC Okay, Owen and we copied that real time
tOO.

SPT (Laughter) Forgot about that. I didn't

know they had the A and B parallel together yet. So I was
supposedly putting that on channel A. Glad you got it,
Story.
CC Skylab, we'd like a verification if you're
through with the VTR. If you are, we'll start dumping it.
PLT Yeah, we finished the PT on the MI31 at
any rate.
CC Okay.
PLT I've got a question for the EREP guys.
On ETS pad, the second special 02 makes it look like they
sure would like me to get site 863 to 865 to fill the bill for
special 02. Is that the intent, or is there something
more subtle than that I ought to be thinking of?
CC Okay. Got it, Jack.
CC Jack, in answer to your question, the
program sites are too far off the ground track, so we're just
having you pick your own to satisfy the requirements.
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PLT Thank you, Story. It looks like to me

they'd be about 70 miles off track which would indicate ...
of the VTS but perhaps (garble) straight up angle now.
CC Jack, if you can get to them, go ahead
and take them.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
PLT Okay. I got the SI maneuver time loaded,
Story.
CC Looks good.
PLT Thank you.

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SL III MC-2247/I
TIME: 08:40 CDT 54/13:40 GMT
9/19/73

CDR (garble) lemon drop.

PLT (garble)
CDR They're goodfor EREP.
CDR Okay. We got a little information for
EREP and it's known as record switch to RECORD and then to
check all readings. I'm going to do that. 2, it's -
start with A first, A-2, 60 percent; go. A-3, 86 percent
Go. A-4, 71 percent. Go. A-5, 66 percent. Go. A-6, 0
Go. Actually it's lower than 0. Okay. And now we're
coming to B-2, 56 percent. Go. B-3, 76 percent. Go.
B-4, 71 percent. Go. B-5, 74 percent. Go. B-6, 50
percent. Go. B-7 31 percent. Go. B-8 about i, Go.
B-9, it's about i and it's not Go. But B-9, if I read it
to you and the TDA bias on 193. We know that isn't working so
we don't worry about it. Okay. C-2, 45 percent. Go.
C-3, 89 percent, that's go. C-4 is 71 percent, Go. C-5,
82 percent, Go. C-6, 46 percent, Go. C-7, 51 percent. Go.
And that ought to do it. D-2, 86 percent go. D-3, 85
percent go. D-4, 72 percent go. D-5, 13 percent go. D-6
47 percent go. D-7 is i0 and that's go. Put that back in
2 and let's take a look at the ones that you like special.
I always read them twice. B-7, 31. B-8, i. C-7 is 51.
C-6 is 56. So everything looks real good. I'm going to
MODE READY and I'm going to DOOROPEN. Now on this pad, let's
see if they want me to read out anything. A-2 and C-4, I'ii
just set those right now. Be able to read them at the time
that they want them.
CDR We've checked all the lights. They're
working.
CDR 192 READY LIGHT ON. Meaning door is
OPEN. Going to check. That's it. Let's go to the preop
configure pad. Tape recorder ON. READY ON. 92 ON.
READY OUT. MODE check. Door is OPEN. 91 ON. READY ON.
Cooler ON. Door is OPEN. 90 ON. READY is OUT. STANDBY.
Door is OPEN, can see the light. R OFF. S OFF. A is OFF.
Don't worry about the READY. 93A, correction, 94 is ON
with READY ON. So we're ready to run.
CC Reading you loud and clear, AI, i0
seconds to LOS. Madrid in 4 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 47 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Bermuda as the
Spacecraft passes over the North Atlantic. The crew just
about to begin a study of Earth Resources over Europe.
Among the studies today are cloud forms off the coast of
France. Snow cover, water and vegetation on the Swiss Alps
and the interrelation between those things, and a wide
variety of studies over Israel using all the electronic and
photographic instruments that are operating on Skylab.
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TIME: 08:40 CDT 54/13:40 GMT
9/19/73

At this point the S193 microwave radiometer scatterometer

altimeter is still malfunctioning and that is not being
used during the pass today_ however, the other electronic
instruments are. And so are both of the camera assemblies.
In addition to the pass over the Swiss Alps and France,
Israel will be very thoroughly studied during this pass. The Earth
Resources sensor will be operated just for 12 minutes.
Enough to cover an area though that's 3000 miles in length
and the pass will begin at 8:53 a.m. , justa couple of
minutes from now, central daylight time, or 13:53 Greenwich
mean time. There will be a second Earth Resources pass
later this afternoon. That pass covering the northern
United States and Canada. Today's Earth Resources runs will
push the total number of passes to more than three dozen.
That's far above the 26 overflights planned for the second
Skylab Crew. An estimated 18 miles of computer tape and
well over i0,000 photographs are expected to be returned
with the crew when they splash down early Tuesday evening.
This is Skylab Control. We have the line llve for alr-to-
ground through Madrid for about 8 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2248/I
Time: 08:49 CDT, 54/13:49 GMT
9/19/73

CDR Must have, Jack.

PLT Yeah.
CDR You can maneuver right in the middle of it.
PLT Five.
CDR Yep.
CDR I'ii watch it for you.
PLT Yeah. I wish you would. Wait about
15 seconds.
CDR Not for you, but with you.
CC Skylab, with you through Madrid for
7 minutes. Jack, we're showing those sites about 120 miles
off. And so you probably ought to go with the pad and at least
keep the crosstrack angle on 191 within 5 degrees.
PLT Okay. Thank you very much. The map
that I've got to use for measuring that is the whole world map.
It doesn't get quite as accurately as our little U.S. map does.
CC Okay.
PLT I figure on this VTS, should you pick up
anything outside of 18 degrees crosstrack, about 18 degrees,
15 to 18, at 45 degrees, you're not going to be able to
track it through nadir. Just for a rough gouge, and that's about
a hundred miles, I think. It turns out.
CC Yeah. We'd - We'd like it with in five for
the data.
PLT Okay. I'll forget those sites then and
pick up something else. I had a hunch that might be true.
It's too bad. We're darn close to those sites.
CDR EREP START.
PLT Atta boy.
CDR I've got to give you an auto cal in
5 seconds.
PLT Shoot it to her.
CDR Okay. You just got it.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Open MANUAL. Here comes A2 and C4 for
you. A2 is 44 percent. C4 is 71. Same old numbers. Nothing's
new there.
PLT A2's a little low.
CDR A2 climbs up and down. It'll be
up in a minute.
PLT I know. It just oscillates.
CDR 56:44. Where are we?
PLT Okay, space fans. Our path today brings
us over the Atlantic Ocean and down - We hit the coast of
France just above Brest that goes just slightly south of
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Time: 08:49 CDT, 54/13:49 GMT
9/19/73

Paris, over Bern, Milan, down over the Adriatic Sea, over Greece,
just hit the edge of Turkey and almost directly over Jerusalem,
and down across the Saudia Arabia Desert, leaving the coast
there of the Arabian Sea Just east of the Gulf of Aden.
CDR Not a bad trip.
PLT Right now we're over the Atlantic.
PLT Hold your hat and don't stand up.
CDR 25.50, I'm going to reference sync when
the ready light comes on.
CDR About a minute away.
PLT Now we're traveling over (garble) almost.
CDR Good.

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SL-III MC2249/I
Time: 08:55 CDT, 54/13:55 GMT
9/19/73

CDR 55 minutes at the time.. I've got a 55:50

rendezvous.
PLT All clouds today.
CDR Did you say all clouds or no clouds?
PLT All clouds is all I can see here. There's
a couple of streaks of broken areas.
CDR We'll get those. We don't turn on our
cameras for another 7 minutes so we got time to get in
some good weather.
PLT Okay. I'm running down here. I guess
I'm not sure what they wanted, but they're getting lots of
clouds. Going to be cloudy over the Alps today, space fans.
CDR Space fans. Okay, I just went reference 6.
Next 55:50. The ready light's on. Next event is 14:02.
PLT There's that little lake down there by
Zurich. You can barely see it. I can see the Alps if I look
ahead.
PLT Have to say hello to my good friend
Dr. (garble). Met there at the naval post-graduate school, a native
of Switzerland, and recovering from an injury - an operation.
PLT MARK. Camera on. - In his homeland of
Switzerland. Wish him a speedy recovery and hope he gets
back in his ski clothes pretty soon. All right, I can't put
the data push button down on this but it's clouds. It's not snow.
That's it. That's the pass over the Alps. It's very cloudy,
gang. Okay. We'll go for that desert site.
CDR 38.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS here over
Carnarvon. 30 minutes at about 14:26.
PLT Okay, Story.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours, 59 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of signal of the Madrid tracking station. As the
Earth Resources pass continues, a pass going to end a few
minutes from now as tlhe space craft passes over Israel. At
the present time, the EREP pass is underway. The crew,
however, is behind in their timeline apparently today. The
problem was the special cuffs of the ability of the heart and
blood system to circulate blood after it's been forced to pull
in the leg by a tourniquet. That was completed this morning
on Jack Lousma as an addition to the lower body negative pressure
experiment. Tests had to be run twice however. During the
first run, the blood ]pressure measurement device, which was
inadvertently left in the off position. Mission Control tried
to reach the crew to remind them to turn the blood pressure
measurement device on, but the space station had traveled out
of range of the Australian tracking station, then being used
to communicate with the astronauts. When they came back into
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9/19/73

signal, the ground did remind them they had to repeat that
experiment. Commander AI Bean indicated that he was aware
that it had been left off, although he didn't discover it
until too late. The (garble) was completed a bit late this
morning and the crew now appears to be slightly behind the
Flight Plan. Television of MI31, the vestibular function
experiment, that uses the rotating chair in the space station,
is apparently only about i0 minutes completed on the tape
recorder. 30 minutes were planned and the whole run should've
been finished over an hour ago. This is Skylab Control.
We're now about 25 minutes from acquisition of signal at
Carnarvon, Australia. Pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
will be a relatively brief one, about 6-i/2 mintues. It's
now i minute and 7 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2250/I
Time: 09:25 CDT, 54/14:25 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 14 hours 25 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds from acquisition
of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking station. Pass
through Carnarvon will last about 5 minutes. Following
our acquisition at Carnarvon there will be an intrrruption
beforewe have the Honeysuckle pass and we'll come back up
at that time. We'll now acqui - within range of the tracking
at Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for 5 minutes.
CC And we show in the middle of a maneuver
going back to SI your momentum looks good.
CDR Say, again, Story.
CC Ah, we see you going back to SI in the
maneuver and your momentum looks good.
CDR If you look more closely you'll see a
big lunch.
CDR I thought I'd pedal the bike just a
little before lunch.
CC Okay, that's all (garble) good idea.
SPT And Story, they're 5/8 frames (garble).
CC Could you say again on that the - the
squeal cut you out.
SPT Five-eighth.
CC Five-eighths.
CC We're 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you
over Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, at 14 hours 31 minutes
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now passing out of range of the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. Our next acquisition about 5-1/2 minutes from
now will be at Honeysuckle. That pass through Honeysuckle
is a brief one lasting about a minute and a half. Earth
resources survey at - completed early this morning at - along
a 3,000 mile track across Europe to Israel. The track began
several hundred miles off the Atlantic coast of France and
ended over the (garble) Desert to the South of Israel and it
completed successfully by the crew just before their lunch
time today. Electronic and photographic data from the study
will be used for investigation of cloud formations off the
French Coast, snow, water run off and vegetation in Switzerland
and for a variety of scientific disciplines in Isreal and
that material will be returned by the crew next Tuesday.
We'll bring the line back up again at the Honeysuckle pass begin-
ning about 4-1/2 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control; at
32 minutes and 43 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2251/I
Time: 09:36 CDT, 54/14:36 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylah Control; at 14 hours 36 minutes

and 19 seconds Greenwich mean. We're now approaching acquisition
at the Honeysuckle, Australia tracking station. And we'll
have the line up live for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for I minute.
CC And we'd like a verification that you did
leave the EREP coolant in BYPASS as opposed to FLOW.
CDR We did.
CC Okay, you can leave it right there.
CDR Take that back, you did say right, we left
it in FLOW instead of BYPASS per the pad.
CC Okay, that's fine AI.
CDR I just checked it again, it's in FLOW.
CC Okay, fine. And we'll see you over Texas
in 30 minutes at 15:07 and be dumping the tape recorders there.
PAO Skylab Control; at 14 hours 39 minutes
and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking
station. Our next acquisition of signal, 27 minutes and 39
seconds from now will be at Texas. This is Skylab Control,
at 39 minutes and 35 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC2252/I
Time: 1006 CDT, 54/15:06 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston at 15 hours

7 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab-lll on this stateside pass. First station to acquire
will be Texas. Standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside 15 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. I noticed that the M518
is timed out. Would I be clear to put the new experiment
in anytime?
CC I'ii get you an answer.
CDR And let me know when you got TV downlink
and I'ii do this PSS - correction, PES FSS CAL.
CC Ckay. And we're go for you, AI.
CC And, Jack, if you can work it in at
around 15:12, that's about 3 minutes from now, we've got
an updata link task to check out the DSC in the command module
if you can work it in.
CDR I noticed this calibration doesn't worry
about whether or not you - what your roll is, so I'm going to
Just continue to work at this minus 4200 roll.
CC That's fine, AI.
CC And, Jack, that test in the command module
will take about a minute and a half; and you can change
out the 518.
PLT Okay, when did you want to do that test?
CC Oh, in about 3 minutes. Just go to the
command module and I'ii call the procedures off to you.
PLT Okay, can we wait about 5?
CC 5 will be fine.
PLT Okay, see you there. Thank you.
CC And, AI, we're not getting the real time
TV in Houston, so let us know when you're through with the
downlink and we'll start dumping the VTR.
CDR Oh, okay. and it's according to how our
(garble) what's on the VTR TV downlink. Oh, you want me - you
don't want me to put this on the VTR, do you?
CC No, - no, just let us know when you're
through.
CDR ()kay, so I'ii not use the VTR, but
somebody's recording it on the ground?
CC That's true; we Just haven't called up
the llne to get it here in Houston.
CDR That sounds good. I'm presently in
left 28, up 28.
CC ()kay.
CDR Right now I'm riBht 28, up 28.
CC Got it.
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Time: 10:06 CDT, 54/15:06 GMT
9/19/73

CDR I'm in right 28, down 28.

CC Got it.
CDR Right now I'm left 28, down 28.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm now at 00 - in other words, the
crosspointer is centered on the face of the dial, not at the
little red X that we normally use.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I've now manipulated it to get i
the best white - let me try something else.
CDR Okay) I've now manipulated it to get the
best I possibly could. I'ii read you the numbers.
CC Go.
CDR Up 18.5; right 88. Now it's a little
bit difficult to discern because we got this artifact at
2 o'clock. I believe if that were gone we could do better
Job setting, but with it there we're constantly wandering to the
side way off center because (garble) we take (garble) the Sun
earlier when it tends to offset the (garble) somewhat and
minimize the total light.
CC Okay, I didn't get the right, AI.
CDR Right was 88; 88.
CC Okay.
CDR I think we ought to do this after we
dust off 52's occulting disk during the EVA, and then give
them some new numbers.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay, test complete.
CC Okay, thanks. And, Jack, when you're ready
we're ready for the EDL pad.
PLT Okay, Story, l'm on my way.
CC And, no need to acknowledge, but you'll
be working on panel 3.

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SL-III MC-2253/I
Time: 10:18 CDT, 54/15:18 GMT
9/19/73

CC And Skylab, your not scheduled to use the

VTR we'll - but we will be dumping it the next couple of revs.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 15 hours
20 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll still under
acquisition. During this pass over the States, the UDL test
still being discussed with - Pilot Jack Lousma as the up data
link test to perform this - a test message to the teleprinter
is issued from the ENCO console -
CC (garble) on panel 3 verified. Tape recorder
forward switched toFORWARD.
PLT Okay, tape recorder to FORWARD.
CC And tape recorder record to RECORD.
PLT That's verified been at RECORD.
CC Standby for RQ for a RESET.
PLT Okay. What are you going to want to reset?
CC Right now. Up telemetry command to RESET
and then to NORMAL.
PLT Okay. Command RESET, NORMAL.
CC And stand by for our cue for record
FORWARD to STOP.
PLT Okay.
CC Tape recorder FORWARD to STOP. Center.
PLT FORWARD to STOP CENTER, verified - er -
switched.
CC And stand by for our cue for tape recorder
FORWARD to FORWARD.
PLT Okay.
PAO Our CAP COMM in mission control, Dr. Story
Musgrave.
CC Tape recorder FORWARD to FORWARD.
PLT MARK. FORWARD.
CC Okay, the test is complete. We Just wanted
to check out that we did have our command to the tape rec orders
for your re-entry.
PLT Okay, very good. And I'ii leave it in
FORWARD then.
CC Roger.
PLT Thank you Story.
CC Thank you.
PLT Who's your ENCO?
PAO That's Pilot Jack Lousma following the
procedures from the ground given by Dr. Story Musgrave. We're
at 15 hours 22 minutes Greenwicteam.
CC We're i minute from LOS see you at 5 minutes
from Madrid.
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Time: 10:18 CDT, 54/15:18 GMT
9/19/73

CDR And you might mention to the ATM backroom

that they're missing shopping list item 13, 56 (garble) 3
exposure 16. What I think I'ii do is go back up and redue
JOP 2F, step 2. I wasn't satisfied with the stepping time
I did up there - on - active region 27, if it's okay with
them.
CC I'ii get you an answer.
CC We're going that AI.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 15 hours 24
minutes Greenwich mean time, we've had loss of signal now
with Skylab-lll through Bermuda. Next station to acquire
will be Madrid in approximately 3 minutes 45 seconds.
CC Front and centered for that data on S052.
PAO That call up - from Dr. Story Musgrave
just a little bit late, we had passed out of acquisition
range.

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SL-III MC-2254/I
Time: 10:26 CDT, 54/15:26 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hours 28

minutes Greenwich mean time. About 30 seconds away from
reacquirlng Skylab III through Madrid tracking station.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Madrid for 8 mintues.
And AI, we're wondering if you ran a standard mode on S052
on that building block you're runnin B.
CDR It looks to me like it's still running.
I just started it. I started it about 4-1/2 minutes ago, is
my guess. It ought to be over in a moment. Row does it look
to you?
CC Stand by i. (Whistle).
CC AI, we're showing down here that you're
not pointed close enough to Sun center to get within the
20 arc seconds discriminator cutoff.
CDR I see what the problem is. I got this
thing down in i0 instead of I. You did tell me to return to
i. Okay. Right.
CC That ought to do it.
CDR Now give it a go.
CC And it's looking good down here, AI.
CDR Thanks for catching it. I thought it was
working. I had a Barber pole and the needles were (garble).
CC Something like a no signal ILS, huh?
CDR That or picking up one of the - one of
the other (garble) is probably a better - (garble) way.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 15 hours 32 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. That's A1 Bean speaking from the
work area of the Apollo Telescope Mount. S052, one of the
ATM experiments, the white light coronagraph, which they were
discussing. We have approximately 5 minutes remaining
during this Madrid pass of acquisition time.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 40 minutes
to Honeysuckle at 16:14.
SPT Story, I understand I'm suppose to delete
SO63 deacts from my Flight Plan, is that correct?
CC That's affirm, Owen.
SPT Any other changes?
CC Not that we have right now.
SPT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 15 hours 38
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of acquisition of
signal through Madrid tracking station. The next station to
acquire is Honeysuckle, Australia, this in approximately 36-
1/2 minutes. Both Commander AI Bean and earlier this morning
Science Pilot Owen Garriott, have been working at the Apollo
Telescope Mount console. This the typical of the accelerated
or considerable amount of workload that has taken place in the
experimentation with the ATM. The last run, last ATM run is
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9/19/73

scheduled for mission day 56, the day before the EVA,
today of course being mission day 54. We have some approximate
numbers which represent the total amount of ATM film used
and to be returned at the end of this mission by experiment
H-alpha; 32,000 frames, S052; 16,000 frames, S054; 14,000
frames, S056; 12,000 frames, S082A; 400 frames, S082B 3,200
frames representing a total frame number of 77,600. We're
at 15 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time. And this is
Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2255/I
Time: 11:13 CDT, 54/16:13 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 16 hours

14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approaching acquisition
now, acquisition of Skylab-lll through Honeysuckle tracking
station. We'll stand by and keep the llne open.
CC Skylah, AOS Honeysuckle, 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, got a short pass here. About
20 seconds to LOS. See you over Goldstone, 25 minutes;
16:42.
CDR Okay, there, Story.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 16 hours
19 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
through Honeysuckle. The next station to acquire will be
Goldstone on the next stateside pass. Projected time in
approximately 24 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2256/I
Time: 11:39 CDT, 54/'16:39 GMT
9/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; at

16 hours 39 minutes Greenwich mean time. The change of shift
News conference with offgoing Flight Director Milt Windler
is now scheduled for i:00 p.m. central daylight time today
in the small briefing room. We're 4 minutes from reacquiring
Skylab-lll through Goldstone. One of several photo targets
which may have been taken by crew earlier today is Mount Ararat
in northeast Turkey, Mt. Ararat 16,946 feet tall mountain
is located about 60 miles northeast of Lake Van near the
boarder of Russia and Turkey. Photos of the mountains have
been requested by Colonel Walter Brown of the U.S. Air Force
Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Also on this upcoming
stateside pass is crew description and photos of major linear
and circular features in dainage systems in Arizona, Nevada
and Utah. This photo target is available to the crew as
Skylab concludes it's 1848 revolution at about 16 hours 45
minutes GMT. Later today, about 21 hours 45 minutes Greenwich
mean time, the crew has another opportunity to photograph
the Big Horne Mountains region of Wyoming and Montana. In
addition to the photos of the area. The crew has requested -
to put on the onboard tape recorder their description of
crystal fracture - crustal fractures regional patterns of
glacial land forms and rock types. Todays opportunities
are part of a list of more than 50 global sites. The crew
has been asked to describe and photograph. Earlier in the
mission - has recorded on film natural events, storms, typhoon
in the Pacific's, hurricane in the northern hemisphere and
valcanoes and new born islands in the Pacific. We're
approximately 1-1/2 minutes away now from reacquiring Skylab.
Standing by with the line open, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone and Texas for
i0 minutes.
CC And Owen, we need the DAS for dump inhibit.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay.
CC The DAS is yours Owen.
SPT Okay, Story. And I've taken a bit of extra
time here to make sure I've got - really the edge of this coronal
hole, and had to go to the magnizium pin line and do a lot
of sweeping back and forth across the disc to make sure I'm
on the proper boundry. One thing I noticed on the ATM
schedule, and apparently it does not change the
82B auto. It's normally scheduled in chip 36 Alfa. However,
I would like to get a confirmation from the backroom that
they did intend to do that AUTO on 82B.
CC OKay.
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Time: ii:39 CDT, 54/16:39 GMT
9/19/73

CC Owen, we see you've got a good NuZ update

and we do plan to do an 82B AUTO.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Story, for the baekroom information,
82 Alia is now counted down to one frame remaining for the
first time. So according to the - note they sent up on the
teleprinter, apparently we have 2 more frames left in 82 Alia.
CC Copy, Owen. And we concur.

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SL-III MC-2257/I
Time: 11:53 CDT, 54/16:53 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 2 min-

utes to Bermuda.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 16 hours 56 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Standing now - by now for acquisi-
tion through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda 5 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story, I can't find the S183 ops
pad anywhere about.
CC Okay, AI.
CDR We got the ones for no EREP, but we don't
have one for the ops coming up soon.
CC Would you like me to read it to you, AI?
CC Would you like me to read it to you, AI?
CDR Excuse me, I was upstairs. Could you
send it up on the teleprinter?
CC We don't have enough time, the ops is at
17:19.
CDR Just a second.
SPT Story, we began the operation of
M - M558 at 16:41, the temperature was 23 degrees centigrade, the
pressure was a minus .027 with a minus 3.
SPT Copy?
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, go ahead and read.
CC Okay, prep, mag UA02, parentheses, that's in
IA3, DAC02, parentheses, in E2, NuZ, plus 4.0, available 17:26
to 17:44. Field M57, rotation 331.0, tilt, 13.2, exposures
3 zips, 3 zips, and 0620.
CDR I got it.
CC Okay, I'm 40 seconds from LOS. I got a
little more for you. Available 17:38 to 17:55. Field M42,
rotation 128.9, tilt 30.8, exposures 3 zips, 3 zips, 0940.
Remarks; operate without film, Carrousel, after sunset and before
first exposure, operate DAC for 2 seconds. At - -
CDR 24 frames a second.
CC That's correct. And prep for the second
exposure at 17:37 and we're going LOS here. And if you got
any questions on that we'll pick you up over Canaries in 4 min-
utes.
CDR Looks pretty straight forward to me, thanks.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 17 hours 2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal now through
Bermuda. The next station to acquire Canary in approximately
3-1/2 minutes.

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SL-III MC2258/I
Time: 12:03 CDT, 54/17:03 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Less than a

minute away now from reacquiring Skylab-lll through Canary.
Meanwhile in the Mission Control Center, flight control team
handover has taken place - or is taking place. Flight
Driector Phil Shaffer and his team of purple flight controllers
coming onboard relieving the maroon team headed by Flight
Director Milt Windier. Our CAP COM picking up at this time
will be astronaut Dick Truly. We're at 17 hours 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Standing by, this is Skylab Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary for 9 minutes.
CDR Good afternoon to your team there, Dick.
CC Well, good afternoon to you guys. Are
you having fun today?
CDR Oh, I think we would say that that's right.
All sorts of things going off, (garble) ATM, EREP and all sorts
of good and interesting activity.
CC Roger, we - we're looking forward to the
upcoming EREP pass later on ourselves.
CC Skylab, Houston; no response required. For
your information, all the flight plans are in the teleprinter.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS.
I'ii give you a call at Honeysuckle at 17:50.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 17 hours
16 minutes Greenwich mean time. Passed out of acquisition
range through Canary' Island. The next station to acquire
will be Honeysuckle in approximately 34 minutes. The change
of shift and news conference with Flight Director, Milton
Windler now attentively scheduled for i p.m. Central daylight
time in the briefing auditorium of the Skylab News Center
in Houston. Seventeen hours 17 minutes Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2259/I
Time: 12:35 CDT, 54/17:35 GMT
9/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 17 hours

35 minutes Greenwich mean time. The change-of-shlft news
conference with Flight Director Milt Windier is now set for
no earlier than 1:30 p.m. Central Daylight time. I repeat
1:30 p.m. Central Daylight time in the Room 135, Briefing
Room in Building I. Meanwhile, while we have loss of signal
we'll pass along some updated times for the landing plan that
have been provided. Day of year 268, first item, undocking;
19 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time. Time for retro-fire
21 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean time. 400,000 feet time;
for entry interface, 22 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Begin black-out 22 hours 7 minutes Greenwich mean time. End
of black-out 22 hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time. Max G
which in this case, equals 3.21 Gs, 22 hours 12 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Drogue Chute deployment 22 hours 15 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Main chute deployment 22 hours 16
minutes Greenwich mean time. Time of landing 22 hours 20
minutes Greenwich mean time. Latitude and longitude predicted
for splashdown would be 28 degrees 57 minutes north latitude
longitude 121 degrees 30 minutes west, longitude.

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SL-III MC2260/I
Time: 12:49 CDT, 54/17:49 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 17 hours

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away
now from reacqulrlng the Skylab space station through Honey-
suckle. We'll stand by and keep the line open at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for the next 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC And, SPT, Houston. Only note that I have
this pass is for you. We've got a proposal for something
extra for you to work in during the EREP this afternoon. And
anytime you have a couple of minutes I'ii describe it to you.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. Turns out that the EREP track 39
that's coming up after a while is going to pass Just, oh,
to the north of the Goddard Space Center. And the Center
is operating laser, which is going to be tracking the Skylab
workshop as it passes overhead to the north. And what we'd
like to do, the intensity of the of the laser is low enough
so that there's no danger to the eye, and the weather's
fairly clear, right now. I'm looking at a satellite photograph
over Goddard, and we think you might have time to whiz down
from your ETC operations and look for the laser. And it
should appear as a very bright spot of light llke a star
on the ground. And I have a little bit of information for
you to help you locate Goddard.
SPT Is it a ruby laser, a red light? And
I know right where Goddard is. As a matter of fact, I was
photographing it Just the other day.
CC Okay, if - then I won't give you any
road directions. The track will pass to the north, Owen.
The time of closest approach is 20:11 and 58 seconds, which
is - -
SPT Wait Just a minute, please.
CC Okay. One suggestion, Owen; you might
Jot this down on your ETC 39 pad because you're going to have
to fit this in between two steps on there.
SPT Okay, that's just what I was getting.
I have it in my hand now. The time again, please, 20:11 what?
CC Okay, it's 20:11:58; should fit in between
the frames to 9.5 in the standby at 13 minutes. And it's
going to be about 50 degrees to the south of the ground track
when you're - when you pass at your closest approach. And
the distance to it will be about 275 nautical miles. That's -
excuse me, that's ground range from your nadir point to
Goddard. And one other piece of information; the Sun angle
at that time is going to be about 33 degrees.
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9/19/73

SPT Okay; understand. And I'ii - The way

I normally look for Goddard is Just to find downtown Washington,
downtown Baltimore, and more or less on a llne between them, which
is what I've used before. And do they have any information
about the (garble) rate? Is it a - I presume it's a bolt
laser, and any other things about the color and so on?
CC Owen, it's going to appear to you as if
it were a contlnous steady beam of light.
SPT Okay, what color?
CC Owen, we have a - had a photograph here
and we think it's going to appear to be kind of white or
possibly with a blue tinge to it. It's an argon laser.
SPT Okay, I'ii certainly be looking, Dick.
Thank you very much.
CC Okay. Incidentlally, one thing; I'm
not sure whether Baltimore or Washington will be more visible.
Goddard is almost due north of Andrew's Air Force Base, and
Just to the east of the intersection between the beltway
that goes - that loops around Washington and the Washington
Baltimore parkway.
SPT Roger.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll let us have
the DAS, we'll enable momentum dump.
PLT You got it, Dick.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. Thank you, the DAS is
yours.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.

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SL-III MC-2261/I
Time: 12:59 CDT, 54/17:59 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS, Honey-

suckle. Hawaii at 113:10.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 18
hours Greenwich mean time. We've just had loss of signal
with Skylab III through Honeysuckle. The next station to
acquire will be Hawaii in a little less than 9 - i0 minutes. During
this pass we heard CAP COMM Dick Truly describe to Owen
Garriott, an upcoming laser experiment which is scheduled to
take place during the EREP pass 39, as Truly described the
time of closest approach to perform this experiment with -
is 20 hours ii minutes 58 seconds Greenwich mean time with
the laser located some 50 degrees south of the ground track,
275 miles ground range from the spacecraft, at time of closest
approach. This experiment is part of a series of experiments
using an earth based continuous wave laser beacon as an
artificial star for visual navigation in manned spacecraft
control. Purpose of the experiment is to provide NASA
realistic assessment of the las - laser's value as a terrestlal
aid for tracking reference and manually directed scientific
instruments. Investigations will also be made into atmospheric
distortion of data from a variety of earth sensing
instruments. The experiment plan is a cooperative effort
between Scientists of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and
the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. The
plan, as presently constituted, calls for the illumination of
the Skylab with a high power i00 watt Argon Ion laser from
the Goddard during a specific ser - series of passes, the
first taking place of course at 20 hours Ii minutes 58 seconds
GMT today. Power output in spectro contact of the laser
beacon will be varied during each pass and recorded on the
ground. When a Skylah astronaut is the primary sensor he will
describe and record 1_he ease of siting and his ability to
follow the artiflcial star, with and without optical aids.
In the case of measurements, where primary sensors are earth-
oriented instruments, the astronaut will point the instrument
at the beacon as Skylab passes over the Washington D.C., area.
Ground beacon data will then be compared with sensor data after
the mission to determine how well experiment objectives have been
met. The argon laser to be used has an output entirely
in the - in the visible blue-green portion of the spectrum.
However, results will be directly applicable to the future use
of a wide variety of lasers with outputs from ultraviolet
to far infrared. Argon gas gives off energy continuously in
the green and blue wavelengths of the visible light spectrum. The
second EREP pass of the day takes Skylab - takes place as
Skylab nears the end of it's 1850th revolution of the earth.
The space station remote sensors will be turned on for the 37th
time. This pass will capture data on a 3,600 mile sweep across
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Time: 12:59 CDT, 54/17:59 GMT
9/19/73

the United States concentrating on the east coast, New York

and Long Island sound. Nine separate Principal Investigators
will receive information collected during today's pass which
begins 300 miles off Vancouver Island and North of Washington
state and ends approximately 300 miles southeast of Bermuda
in the Atlantic Ocean. The S194, L-band radiometer instrument
will gather data for the entire 15 minute run, with the other
EREP instruments concentrating on data gathering over
Pennsylvania, the New York area, Long Island and Black Island
Sounds, remote data of the Great Lakes Area - Lake Michigan,
Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior - is being gathered for Fabian
C. Polcyn, University of Michigan; and Dr. K. P. B. Thomson
of the Canada Center for Inland Waters. Department of
Interior is expecting data from this pass of New York State
as well as Metropolitan New York City. Also Dr. Ernest E.
Hardy of Cornell University is looking for land use data
for planning purposes of New York State and Long Island.
Dr. R. Lawrence of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration has the New York blight as a target site for
which he plans studies of water circulation patterns at
different stages of tides, at different seasons of the year.
Dr. Edward Yost of Long Island University, will use data
collected by the EREP sensors for the New York Coastline.
His study revolves around using EREP data to compile small
scale oceanographic charts for monitoring spatial and
water characteristics. An alternate target site on
this pass is the Black Island Sound at the _ip of Long Island.
In addition, the U. S. geological survey will obtain
cencus information from this pass on New Haven, Connecticut.
This is part of a large group of U. S. cities - the
U.S.G.S. is studying to determine if urban changes since
the 1970 census can be detected by remote sensing. We
now show 18 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're
some 3-1/2 minutes now away from re-acquiring Skylab III
through Hawaii. Standing by, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2262/I
Time: 13:08 CDT, 54,/18:08 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours 9

minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from time of acquisition of Skylab III through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS, Hawaii for 9 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 18 hours 14 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Milt Windler, the off-going
Flight Director is now leaving the Mission Control Center to
go to the Building I Briefing Room for the start of the
change-of-shift, which should move slightly ahead of schedule
it should be at approximately 1:20 p.m., this afternoon.
I repeat 1:20 p.m., approximately 8 minutes from this time.
Also participating in the News Conference willbe John
Stanley, who will be in a position to speak on S193. We're
at 18 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, continuing with
Skylab III pass over Hawaii. And this is Skylab Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS.
I'ii give you a call at Goldstone, in 3 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 18 hours 20
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've just hadloss of signal
with Skylab III through Hawaii. The next station to acquire
will be Goldstone in approximately a minute and 40 seconds,
however, we'll take the line down at this time and await
the start of the change-of-shift, News Conference with off-
going Flight Director Milton Windier. 18 hours 20 minutes
Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2263/I
Time: 14:06 CDT, 54/19:06 GMT
9/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; at 19

hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time. We now show Skylab-lll
at 19 minutes away from time of acquisition through Carnarvon.
Meanwhile during the change of shift briefing, we have
accumulated tape - during the stateside pass as well as the
Canary and Ascension pass. So we'll play that tape for you
now.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Goldstone for 7 minutes.
SPT Dick, are you recording down-link TV.
CC It's affirm, Owen. We are.
SPT In addition, I've got tape recorder number
2 hooked up and checked out, verify that it runs and so forth,
For EREP, however, I got the down-link VOX connected up
and tape recorder 2 and the number next to the blue
dot connector is J2, not J4, so ought to have somebody verify that.
CC Okay, we'll sure check it.
PLT I wanted tape recorder number i at
J4 but it turns into a J2 on tape recorder 2 in our spacecraft
and might be a good idea to look it over.
CC That is a good idea, and we'll check it.
CC PLT, Houston. You're exactly right, the
tape recorder 2 does - is - J2 is the correct one and the EREP
officer says he owes you a coke.
PLT I hope he's not counting the cokes for
everyone I owe him for I'm way behind.
CC Hey incidently, Phil showed me that coin
trick last night and I thought it was pretty easy, I'ii teach
you how to - how to do it when you get home.
PLT Okay, I hope you beat him, if anybody
beat him that'll be great. How was the Chinese dinner, by
the way, he bought you?
CC Well, my noodle was great. He says he
really is going to buy us a Chinese dinner pretty soon, though.
PLT Okay, we've got that on tape.
CC Me, too.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS at Goldstone. I'ii call you at Bermuda in 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, - just for the record - we can -
see Great Slave Lake from our present point of view and -
that's way up in Canada at 62 north.
CC Roger, thank you. Is it pretty.
PLT Yeah, it's about at the edge of - where
you can distinguish - shore lines and that kind of things,
it's about as far as you'd want to look to - to get a good visual
observation.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
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PLT And I don't think we're quite at the -

50 degree latitude yet either. We're almost there but not
quite. So we'll probably see it - fairly distinguish things
up to about - 63 to 65 north or south latitude.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Bermuda for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS. We're going drop out just for a minute or so and
I'ii give you another call at Canary Islands.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Canary Islands
and Ascension for 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to handover
to Ascension here in just a few seconds and we're going to be
dumping the data tape recorder at Ascension.
CC SPT, Houston. Just for information for
you the region that you're pointed at now, we saw on the ground
at one of the sites and active surge and just thought you might
like to know that.
SPT Okay, I was just taking data on a - what
appears to be either a large prominence or what's leftover
from the surge there. Now I see prominence, a large spicule
what - maybe the remainder of a little bit of a surge there.
So - have some data on some of the same location.
CC Okay.
SPT I think I've got quite a bit of extra (garble)
in this observing period here, I'ii put it all on channel A.
CC Roger.
PLT Say, Dick. That 400 foot DAC that we've
been using for a - VTS and EREP - are lielng to us like one will
do and they ran out this morning. And so I went and got this
other one we've been using out of India 8 and - I got it in my
pocket. And I'm going to load it unless you tell me otherwise and
CX08, but I think we needsome new shutter speed settings for it.
And maybe - you can recommend a different - magazine or
shutter speed sites for this thing.
CC Okay, Jack. We'll take a look at that.
PLT Okeydoke, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute til LOS.
Carnarvon at 19:25.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours 12 minutes_
our clock now shows some 13 minutes away from acquisition by
Carnarvon tracking station, Australia. This is Skylab Control
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2264/I
Time: 14:24 CDT, 54/19:24 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours 25

minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab III through Carnarvon. Acquisition expected in
about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for the next 9 minutes. In answer to
Jack's question the CX08 mag is okay with us. And a
shutter speed of 1/60 is what we suggest. We see the man-
euver time and it's loaded okay. And I got an outer gimbal
to suggest for Owen so that he can get the NU-Z update
properly after the momentum dump is completed. And that
outer gimbal is minus 1780, for the NU-Z update.
SPT Now, when is that NU-Z update is due,
Dick?
CC It's on the schedule Owen for 19:34
about 7 or 8 minutes from now.
SPT ,Okay, I'ii go up and get it. That -
that was the - tell me again the gimbal, 17 - what.
CC It was minus 1780, and I don't think
you can do - can get it now, you're going to have to wait
until a little closer to that time.
SPT Okay, 1780.
CC That's affirm.
PLT You there, Dick?
CC That's affirmative for2 minutes. Go
ahead.
PLT I got this message from the RETRO
officer, he asked me to pass along to the EREP officer.
(Music).
CC Believe me, he got the message.
PLT I thought this might be an appropriate
time for that.
CC It - it certainly is - and I copy
flight. (Chuckle).
PLT (Laughter), okay.
PAO That rendition of "Make the World Go
Away" played by Pilot Jack Lousma aboard Skylab for the
EREP officer here in the Mission Control Center. Less
than a minute away now from loss of signal.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 19 hours
35 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've just had loss of
signal with Skylab IIl through Honeysuckle. The next
station to acquire will be Hawaii in approximately 13-1/2
minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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Time: 14:48 CDT, 54/19:48 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours

48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition of Skylab-lll through Hawaii.
PAO The GNS flight controller reporting
the space station maneuvering for Earth Resources attitude.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
5-i/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're about ready to go here.
CC Very good.
PLT I just finished the vacuum cleaners and
don't call me boy.
CC Roger. (laughter)
PLT How do you read me, Dick?
CC Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, we're on VOX now. And we'llJust
take a look at our monitors at this time. Go through the
T minus i0 check. Okay, Alpha-2, 60 percent; okay, alpha-3,
86 percent; okay, Alpha-4, 70 percent; okay, Alpha-5, 65
percent; okay, Alpha-6, 0 percent; okay, Bravo-2, 56 percent;
okay, Bravo-3, 76 percent; okay, Bravo-4, 71 percent; okay,
Bravo-5 74 percent; okay, Bravo-6, 52 percent; okay, Bravo-7,
31 percent; okay, Bravo-8, I percent; okay, Bravo-9, offscale
low, and that's 193 readout (garble). Charlie-2, 45 percent;
okay, Charlie-3, 88 percent; okay, Charlie-4, 71 percent; okay,
Charlie-5, 82 percent; okay, Charlie-6 is 47 percent; okay,
Charlie 7, 54 percent; okay, Delta 2, 86 percent; okay, Delta 3
is 85 percent; okay, Delta 4 is 72 percent; okay, Delta 5, 14
percent; okay, Delta 6 is 57 percent, okay. Then I give you
a few here to - are all together. Bravo 7 - -
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 15 seconds from
LOS. I'ii call you at Goldstone at 6 minutes from now.
PLT Okay, I'Ii just keep talking here. Old
motor mouth is on tire panel again.
CC Roger.
PLT Everybody agree with that, huh?
CC Phil sure does.
PLT (laugh) I was afraid of that. He's bigger than
me too, I ought to shut up, I guess. 30 for Bravo 7,
Bravo 8, i percent; okay, Charlle 7, 55 percent which is
less than 80 percent so we'll leave the cooler on and Delta 6
again is 57 percent. Standing by for T minus 5. At 56.
In the meantime we'll go through the ready verification again.
192 is high, low, high. 191 calibrate 9 to reference 2. 190
is shutter speed medium, frame 07, interval i0. 193 is
polar i. And 194 is AUTO B. Okay, there's T minus 5. Go to
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MODE READY. Go to DOOR OPEN on 192. In the meantime we

check the $190 heater switch light, OFF. Delta temperature
and over temp, press the test light; works. Stand by for
the door to come open on 192.
PLT Okay, we got a READY light on 192 on the
door and we go to (static)
PAO Apparently had loss of signal, 19 hours
57 minutes. We heard Jack Lousma going through the procedures
coming up on this revolution over the states. This is the
37th EREP pass for Skylab-lll. This pass will take data
across the 3600 mile, 15 minute sweep of the United States,
concentrating on the East Coast, New York and the Long Island
sound. Commander A1 Bean and Pilot Jack Lousma are the
principles for this EREP pass. Also, during this pass
when the spacestation approaches the Goddard Spaceflight Center
a ground based to continuous wave laser will be turned on
for possible astronaut visual and optical sighting. This
is the first time this experiment has been tried. The purpose
of the experiment is to provide an assessment of the laser's
value as a terrestial aid for tracking reference and manually
directed scientific instruments.

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SL-III MC-2266/I
Time: 14:58 CDT, 54/19:58 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Our clock shows 2 minutes 25 seconds

from reacquisition through Goldstone, Skylab Control,
Houston.
CDR 1/60th of the second set down there
for timing. As you well know. Special to.
PLT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there. We're standing by at
Goldstone for about: 6 minutes.
PLT Okay. Yes sir, I noticed the VTR has
a green light on so you must be dumping it.
CC Must be.
PLT Okay, I was wondering if it's going to
be in good shape to go ahead and do this TV-12 that comes
after the EREP pass.
CC That's affirm, it sure is.
PLT Okay, thank you.
PLT Stand by for a START. Okay. MARK.
EREP to START. Recorder malf light ON and then OFF. Tape
motion light is ON. 194 to MANUAL. MARK. Okay.
CDR See how far they can watch it at
Goldstone. (Garble) can get us til we're over - -
PLT Tape recorder 2 is hooked up.
CDR South, North Dakota.
PLT Becked out,
CDR Winnapeg.
PLT Watch it turn over a few times.
Kept it cool, well over the number 2.
CDR Bermuda. Okay.
PLT That down-link box hooked up to number
2. And is OFF. And I verify that the T¥ selector switch
and TV power switch are both on. Now I know. I'll check
them again, yeah, they're both on. Right position.
CDR The auto cal, huh?
PLT Yeah, I was laying on the auto cal
here Houston.
CC Say again, Jack.
PLT I was laying on the auto cal on the
VTS. Alpha-2, Charlie 4.
CDR Going to be a long time before I got
a site anyway.
PLT Right.
CDR About 8 minutes, anyway.
PLT Alpha-2, and Charlie 4 are reading.
And Alpha-2 is 39 percent and Charlie 4 is 71 percent.
Now Alpha-2 is down to 37. Kind of isolating in there a
little bit.
CDR Taking i0 minutes to cross the U. S.
What's the delay?
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CDR 'Hatching the clouds, right now.

Vancouver Island should be here but I don't see it.
Oh, we did, okay. Thank you O.
CDR Bunches of clouds, Jack. Hope you're
not running any photos.
PLT We will be after while.
CDR Okay.
CDR (Garble) tracks, thought we'd get
Atlanta before it's over, I don't know.
CDR Multiple Canadian Lakes.
CDR The time 10:42.
PLT And 191 ready light. And we'll go rev
6. That's where we are now.

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Time: 15:04 CDT, 54/20:04 GMT
9/19/73

PLT 91 READY LIGHT, and we'll go to REF 6.

That's where we are now.
CDR And, Dick, what are they looking for today,
it didn't say? A uniform wooded site - a green uniform area,
is that what generally we're looking for?
CC CDR, Houston. It's uniform area, and
we're checking to see if they perfer wooded area or not.
CDR Okay. Actually we can't tell if it's
wooded or grass. We can only tell if it's green or brown,
or blue, or something like that.
PLT Oh, I assume that must be it. Okay,
we're standing by toget 192 to READY here, pretty soon.
PLT Say, Dick, were you on today when we're
saying how far north we could see?
CC Yeah, I sure was. I
PLT Go ahead.
CC Well, after you passed I got out the map
and looked at that lake you pointed out. It is way up there.
PLT Yeah, boy you can really see up there
in (garble). We could see Alaska if it wasn't cloudy up
there all the time.
CC Roger.
PLT Several of the Aleutian Islands and
we photographed that.
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston. We're going to
be losing you from Goldstone here for about 3 minutes, and I'ii
call you at Bermuda.
PLT MARK, MODE READY. Okay.
CDR We'll be waiting.
PLT MARK, MODE AUTO on 190. Okay, we're at
READY in AUTO. Alpha 2 is now 55 percent, Charlie 4 is 71 percent.
(static)
PAO Standing by now for reacquisition of
Skylab-lll through Bermuda.
CDR (garble) let's you plan it and (garble).
PLT Have to do something about this when we
get back.
CC Skylab, Houston; Bermuda for 10 miniutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR looks like we're Just finishing up with
Lake Ontario. Looking for 1042. 1042, 45 up, 0 left/right.
1037 right there, camera ON. 1042, okay. We got green
ones and brown ones_ We'll search a green one for a while.
CC Okay, that sounds good.
CDR Okay, we're taking data on a green something.
And it's been tracking to a minus i0 degrees which I will do.
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Now it's plus 33.

SPT Hello, Dick, I've got the (garble) loud
and clear. It's a bluegreen light and very steady.
CC Hey, good show, Owen.
SPT You see it - you can see it easily?
CDR Take a picture.
SPT You bet you.
CDR Eyes like an eagle.
PLT Not bad for a mature set of eyes. Right
AI?
CDR Yeah, I would say that's true.
SPT I wish they'd turn them back on.
CDR Well, we were wrong, O, they just won't
last as long. Good for short periods but they wear out.
CDR May have burned out a rod or (garble) there,
Jerry. (garble)
PLT What did you say, O?
SPT I think perhaps our 40 is off a little bit
now. We had it loud and clear just a minute ago.
CDR Minus i0 degrees right there, let's
move up ahead. Okay, there - there's someplace. There's
Block Island. Has anybody ever heard of that?
PLT Let them have it, AI?
CDR Let's zap them in Block Island, that's
one of their favorite (garble).
PLT That a boy.
CDR Okay, we're giving you your alternate
site.
PLT It's left 7 so we won't have any sweat. We'll
get some good data.
CDR Good old Block Island. I think I'll
visit there someday.
CDR Minus i0 right now. We're getting data
we haven't even thought about yet.
PLT MARK, 190 READY LIGHT O_T and we go
to STANDBY. Gee whiz, we're coming to the end of this
already.
CDR Not over the - -

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PLT - thought about yet.

PLT MARK. 190 ready light OUT and we go to
STANDBY. Gee whiz we're coming to the end of this already.
CDR I don't maneuver until 29, I believe.
CDR Data, a bunch (garble). That was it.
PLT 21. Maneuver 21, AI.
CDR 21, it is, okay.
PLT Plenty of time, huh?
CDR Bye-bye, Block.
PLT Stand by for 13:30.
CDR We've got'em.
PLT Nice going.
PLT MARK. RAD 2. He doesn't miss.
CDR Nobody misses Block Island. Like missing
Lake Superior.
CDR 20:21 maneuver time, Jack. In case you're
in doubt about it - --
PLT Concur.
CDR - - I know you are.
PLT Plenty of time. You can look at all that
water down there, if you want.
CDR Okay. That's a good idea.
PLT Well, what's Charlie 8 doing? Well, it's
come off the big. Last roll of tape, I think. In fact, I
know it is.
PLT MARK. AUTO Cal on 191. READY light
went out .
CC Skylab, Houston. You might be interested
to know that - just -- past the end of your data take at closest
approach of - 20 plus 18 plus 30, tropical storm Ellen is
going to be just to the south of your ground track. It's still
a tropical storm but the winds are up to about 70 miles per
hour and you might want to look out the window and take a
look. We do not require any photography of it.
PLT 3 more minutes, huh? Okay, thank you,
Dick.
SPT (Garble)
PLT Didn't know there was another one out
there.
SPT Hey, Dick - the apparently the laser didn't
track us right to its closest approach, about the time we got to
New York why they were back on again and tracked us again for a
couple of minutes and I do have some hand-held photographs.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
SPT Oh yeah. The storm is very clear up
here ahead of us now, with the typical counterclockwise
pattern and -
CDR MARK.
SPT and (garble) over the whole thing this
time, not quite like some of the others we've seen but (garble)
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
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PLT And - the VTR is ready to go you said.

Right?
CC That's affirm, Jack. Sure is.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
PLT Standing by for READY light to come ON.
PLT Then, we're going to STOP.
PLT MARK, it's ON. and we're STOP.
PLT MARK. Okay, that's it. How many more
minutes we got there, Dick?
CC We still got you for - in AOS for 3 more
minutes.
PLT Okay, I'll just read you down the - tape
recorder measurement: here in a minute, if I get that far.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, you folks want me to voice record
Bravo 7 and I will. Bravo 7 says 31 per cent. Door CLOSED.
Close and latch the window.
CC And Skylab, we see the maneuver time and
it looks good to us.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. Good, that takes
care of 190. And we go off record, this is the end of -
EREP pass number 39, thank you for listening.
PLT Okay, we're going to rip off four frames
on 190. To AUTO, READY light is ON. Zero and 4. Intervals
is down to 2, hand to start.
PLT Okay, it's taking the frames. Hear
it running? READY light goes OUT just before the last frame
gets pulled by in the transporter. EREP STOP. To STANDBY.
PLT Tape recorder power OFF. Yeah, we're going
to - AUTO CAL on 19]. for 02:26.
PLT MARK. At 19:20. 19:20. And 02:26, I'll write
down there. 21:46 it goes OFF.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. Ascension
comes up at 20:27.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PLT Okay, Dick, on the take-up reel we have
2-9/16 inches empty.
CC Okay.
PLT And on the supply reel, we've got - oh, that's
pretty close to 7/8 inches empty.
CC Okay, got that too.
PLT Thank you.
PLT Okay, 192 door is CLOSED.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 20 hours
21 minutes Greenwich mean time, thus ends Earth resources pass
number 31, the EREP pass over the states now completed. Skylab
reported seeing the laser beamed from the Goddard Space Flight
Center, the first time this experiment has been tried. We heard
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Jack Lousma reporting that - Owen Garriott has eyes like an

eagle. Also it was reported that the laser was seen from
as far away as New York. We show 5 minutes 35 seconds until
time of acquisition through Ascension. And at 20 hours 22
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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Time: 15:22 CDT, 54/20:22 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 20 hours 26

minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from acquisition of Skylab III through Ascension tracking
station.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS, Ascension
for 9 minutes.
CC And Skylab, Houston, I've got a correction
to the maneuver pad number 39, it was addressed to the CDR,
but whoever has it we - I'd like to change the TACS inhibit
time on it.
PLT Go ahead, Dick, I'ii write it down.
CC Okay, the TACS inhibit time should be
a GMT of 22 hours 40 minutes and zero seconds. And it was an
oversight on our part. The reason is we'd like to keep the
TACS enabled throughout the post-EREP momentum dump.
PLT Okay, 22:40. Thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 20 hours 32 min-
utes continuing on this pass over Ascension approximately
5 minutes remaining. No contact with the crew on this
Ascension pass, following the stateside pass, in which EREP
39 was successfully concluded.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. Carnarvon at 20:59. And we're going to dump the data
recorder at Carnarvon.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours 38
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal through
Ascension with Skylab III. The next station to acquire
Carnarvon in approximately 21-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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Time: 15:58 CDT, 54/20:58 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 20 hours 59

minutes Greenwich mean time. Now approaching acquisition
for Skylab III through Carnarvon tracking station. We'll
stand by with the line open.
CC Skylab, Houston, Carnarvon for Ii min-
utes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR How about a little Evening Status
Report.
CC Roger, would you stand by just a second,
A1 onthat. We're talking about something here.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're still in solar
inertial mode and we suggest the we - somebody select experi-
ment pointing prior to Sunrise which is going to occur in a
couple minutes so that we won't have to - so that we'll
get an automatic opening of the fine Sunsensors doors. And
CDR, Houston, affirmative. I'm ready to copy the
Evening Status Report if you'd like to get a little hit
ahead on that.
CDR We going to go do it but we don't think
it's necessary. Mainly because we don't need the fine Sun
sensor unless you're in experiment pointing. Here we go.
093; 125; 160; 6.623; 0.210; 6.712; 6.243; 6.242; 6.239;
5.954; 5.950; 5.954; 6.953; 6.954; 6.954. Exercise:
CDR: 2/35/5041, 315Mark I, 3/10/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III;
SPT will report later. Also at the end of this report I'll
give you his exercise from yesterday which he wasn't able
to report until later. PLT, 2/35/8675, 1/05/0621, 3/20/
Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 backhends. Medication:
CDR, one Seconal, SPT, one Seconal, PLT, one Chloral hydrate.
Sleep: CDR, 7/G, SPT, 7/G, PLT, 7/G. Food log follows:
CDR, seven salt packs, plus three salt pills, plus one
lemonade; SPT, no salt, add butter cookies_ peanut butter,
and grape drink; PLT, four salt, add one lemon drop, one
tea with lemon and sugar, one butter cookie.
CC Roger.
CDR Here comes the photo: Sunset, C160,
00, C152. S183; UA02, 82. VTS: track I got a ID, but
the fig - ID okay, CL04, 00. S183; PRI for an MI51; C163,
70; C120.
CC Okay.
CDR 1183; SPI, MI51; C163, 42, C120.
CC ]Roger.
CDR VTS, track 4, CX08, 75. 35-millimeter:
CII0566. CX3411. 70-millimeter: CX27101; ETC: CT09070.
IR, 02058, EREP, set, W, 9121; 1,313; 8,841; 8,218;
9,988; 8,892. Drawer A Configuration: no change AI, A2,
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or the back, A3, here, 06, C160, 00, C152; A4, 03, C163,
42, C120.
CC Okay, AI. we got that.
CDR Now comes the Flight Plan Deviations;
I'd like to read Owen's yesterday's exercise. It is:
2/30/4900, 3/20/Mark I, 60, A; 30, B; 30, C.
CC Okay.
CDR The only other item is an unscheduled
stowage change, spaghetti from 559 to wardroom for the
SPT. That's it.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much. l've
got a couple of evening questions that I was going to ask
later but I might as well pass it on up to you now if
you're (garble).
CDR Whatever that means we're in.
CC (Chuckle) okay. First of all Pete
Conrad and those guys built some little flapper valves
out of tape and mosite and installed them on the OWS hatch
check relief valve and we'd appreciate it if somebody
would go inspect those little fabricated flapper valves and
we'd like to know if they're still functioning - functional
as a check valves and do they provide a good seal and are
they free to move.
CDR Tell us where this is. We haven't
seen it.
CC Well that was part of the question,
if they're still there they were originally - -

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9/19/73

CC - - and do they provide a good field,

and are they free to move?
CDR Tell us where this is, we haven't seen it.
CC Well, that was part of the question is -
if they're still there. They were originally put on
the OWS hatch check valves. You know, those two check release
valves on OWS hatch?
CDR We're familiar with them but we've never
noticed. Hold on, we doubt they're there, but hold on.
CC Okay.
CDR There's one on us. Now on the backside
of the door and we never look at the backside of the door.
They're both there and they look Just probably llke they did
the day - the day they were installed.
CC Okay, amazing what you find out when you
look on the backside of the doors. Right?
CDR You said it; never did it.
CC Okay, the EGIL was interested as to whether
or not you think that they would still be functional as
a check valve. In other words, would they - are they free
to move and would they provide a good field?
CDR They're free to move, and they'll do whatever
they did before as Jack points out. Whether or not something
of that material provides a good field or not on the pressure
at 5 PSI, I wouldn't know. They - they could easily establish
that by having Pete build something on the ground like that
and stick it in the chamber or something. My opinion would be
it would probably work, but I'm not that familiar with check
valves, you know, the materials and the like. Looks like
it would work. Probably has some leak rate if it leak -
I mean if that were the only item with the air - preventing
the air from escaping, but it would close it off pretty well.
CC Okay, AI, that satisfies us. We're
about a minute from LOS, and we're going to drop out for
about 4 minutes and I'ii give you a call at Guam. I got
another question here, it has to do with EREP. And the
question is: Was the S192 internal scanner cover ever left
off during any EREP pass, particularly those when the C&D
meters Alpha-2 and Charlie-4 were reading out of tolerant
high?
CDR We both think that they were always on.
We've had them off during warmup whenever we thought we were
going to read them. You know, whenever you'd send up one
that says 192 CAL or whatever the words are, then we'd read
them and we'd always stick the tops back on.
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CC Okay, AI; thank you very much. I'ii

give you a call at Guam.
CDR A lot of times we wouldn't screw them
down completely, but they's be on.
CC Okay; thank you. And, Skylab, as we
go AOS, I have i more evening question that I want to ask
Owen and I'Ii get up - I'll get that to him over Guam.
SPT Go ahead with the question while we're
still listening to you.
CC Okay. What circumstances required the
large pointing changes between the building blocks ii of
JOP 15 Alfa? This occurred about 1700 Zulu. We're sorry
the question's come up so late. We had anticipated only
5 to i0 arc seconds pointing across the coronal hole boundary.
SPT Yes, I understand the question, I debriefed
it in on channel A, but I would like to give you the info in
this downlink.
CC Okay, real fine. I'll give you a call
at Guam, Owen.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours
13 minutes. Standing by now for acquisition of Skylab through
Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for
i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
SPT There's a fairly lengthy explanation for
that, Dick, which is on channel A. But to summarize the thing,
the XUV mon photograph, which I obtained right at the beginning
of that orbit, did not show the coronal hole distinctly
at all. In order to find out Just where the boundary was,
I had to put the grating to magnesium i0, that's 1941 grating,
and scan around, more or less manually, looking at the detector 3
numbers in order to define the outline of the coronal hole.
Then I tried as best I could from the XUV mon to get the
XUV slit parallel to that. Now, after doing the - I
forgot whether it was building block i0 or ii - on the
boundary itself, I also (garble) before that found that the
gradient across the boundary was not as sharp as it is on
most coronal holes, at least some coronal holes. And in
as much as I did not belleve the 82B slit at that time was
really parallel to the boundary, I had to move further than
5 arc seconds in order to get any sort of different data on
the 82B slit that I had at the boundary itself. And so
I purposely moved further than 5 arc seconds and actually
scanned around trying to - better to find the boundary in order
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to clearly get the 82B slit out of the coronal hole and
into the coronal hole for the final two pointings. Over.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger, Owen. We copied that and we're
soaking it up and and we were trying to decide if we
had any other questions to ask you. Stand by just a second,
please.
SPT Okay, I don't know what's on the pad
for tomorrow, but if there is any observing time I think
it would be very well worth letting the operator up here
try to find his own defined best coronal hole, and this may
repeat three pointings, both on the boundary, and try to find
one that has a fairly sharp gradient across the boundary at
magnesium i0. And then, at that point, step inside and outside
by 5 arc-seconds or so, approximately.
CC Okay, Owen; thanks for the suggestion. We
don't have any other questions about that subject now. I
do have one clarification on the evening status report on the
photo log for - what the CDR gave us that I'd llke to ask
about.
PLT Go ahead, Dick, we're listening.

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Time: 16:16 CDT, 54/21:16 GMT
9/19/73

CC Skylab, Houston. I didn't copy if the

CDR was ready to listen to me, I do - I do have another question
though. Our TV VTR dump plan included a VTR dump to be done
at this upcoming States pass that occurs in about 22 minutes
and we had a question as to whether or not TV-12 would be
accomplished by that time.
CDR We think it will. Jack is on the way
to do it now but go ahead with your questinn.
CC Okay, AI. In the photo log report, the
first activity you were reported on-hand to do and it
was associated with the C160. We got the information about
the magazines and so forth but we didn't catch - what activity
that was associated with.
CDR There was a small amount of film left on
that - (whisle) cassette (garble) of the sunset. It's out the
window sunset.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much. And that
was all I had. We still got about 6 minutes left in this pass.
I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, Jack's headed up there now and don't
dump it until - he get's finished but it's going to be kind
of a close - he ate - he ate before he went because otherwise
he's going to be eating just as he goes to bed.
CC Roger.
CDR Going to read us any news tonight?
CC We'll I just walked up to the back row
and asked him to get us some. I don't have any right here
infront of me, AI. I'm planning on it before the night is over
though.
CDR Actually, I think one of the things that
happens up here is that you really lose touch with what's
going on in the world. And ya'll try but I guess there's no
way that you could ever duplicate, scan a whole newspaper and
look at a couple periodicals, llke you seem to do every week,
you know, so even though you get the primary news you don't get
it's hard to retain in a lot of it because there's not much
detail there. But we don't have the time to do it either.
But it's - it's Just one of the - observations we've made.
CC Roger, AI. I'm sure when you come back
you, you're going to-probably are going to hear about a lot
of things that you wonder why we didn't tell you. It seems
to me that about the only time I catch up with what's going on
is when I read it up to you.
CDR We're both in trouble, then. (lauFh)
CC A heap of trouble.
CDR Put in the changes to commander's checklist
today and had a chance to look over the timeline and study
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guide. Both are - all of them are real good and real straight
forward. I particularly like the tlmeline. I mounted it on
a couple of old food cards, put some rings in it, and we're
going to - have that up there and then we can - have two
separate books, that one that leads us from - you know, gives
up the timeline and then we move from there to the page in
the entry book that's applicable. So we think it
might be a real useful way to go.
CC Roger, AI. We thought you'd like that
timeline. You - old Robert Crlppen pushed real hard to get
that on a piece of paper for you and get it up there. So you
can think him for that one.
CDR Okay, well, I will because that's really
going to make it nice as far as looking ahead, seeing what's
next, what you've got to do and where it is. It's really
laid out nice and I think I intend to agree with Phll that -
that amount of time, is not going to be - it's going to go
fairly slow but it also gives you some flexibility to get
back in and readjust the fans on the - rate gyros or some
of these other things that are liable to happen at the last
minute. We've got the time there to take the hatch back out
and go fix something in case it comes up.
CC Roger, AI. We sure concur.
CDR I guess immediately, it didn't mention -
I guess immediately, after we close out. We vent down the
area between the two tunnels so we will be able to establish
right then, the leak - if we got a good seal. One thing l've
been wondering, these seals have been open up here for a
long time, particularly the command module ones, and I'm
wondering - I notice the procedure something it talked about
if you had problems with your seals to take them out and put
some of the lublcant from the command module suit kit in there.
Now we've got of that lubicant up here in our - our - EVA
kit and I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be wise to - within
the next day or so, get out that lubicant. Same sort of thing,
we put on our seals and everything before we go EVA and -
venturely lubicate those two seals, the one there in the MDA
and the one on the command module hatch.
CC Roger, CDR. We'll sure think about that
one.
CDR I kept an eye on them, they're nice and
clean but they are also pretty dry, now maybe - maybe they're
just as good dry, I don't know.
CC Roger, AI. We're about a minute from LOS.
Goldstone is going to be coming up at 21:39. And the blomed
officer points out AI, that the PT, the exercise that you
read down on tonight's status report is identical down to
the last number of what you read down yesterday and we just
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wanted to make sure that that actually was today's and

you hadn't possibably read us the wrong numbers.
CC And no answer required now, AI. We're
about i0 seconds from LOS. And I'ii call you at Goldstone.
CDR Okay, now Jack's is different, Owen's we
didn't give you and mines been the same for days. I always do
that same amount. I really end up doing instead of 5041, I
usually hit 5045 or something but I'm keep shooting for 5041.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you.
CDR I'm 41 years old, so I figure I ought to
do 41 watt minutes and then I throw in the extra 5000 for the
heck of it.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 21 hours
24 minutes Greenwich mean time, we've had loss of signal through
Guam. The next station to acquire will be Goldstone in
approximately 14-i/2 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2273/I
Time: 16:38 CDT, 54/21:38 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 21 hours

38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition of Skylab III through Golds,one.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello stateside for
17 minutes.
SPT Jack says he's not ready, quite, to
dump yet.
CC Okay, we'll stand by and when you -
when we are able to dump then if your11 just let us know.
WeIll start immediately.
SPT Okay.
CC Also while we're waiting, I do have a
few new items if you'd like me to pass them up now or if
you'11 busy, 1111 do it later.
CDR Now's the time.
CC Okay. At the United Nations the
General Assembly admitted the two Germanys, both East and
West_ to United Nation membership yesterday in a ceremony.
The United Auto Workers and Chrysler reached agreement on
a new contract to cover 10,500 white collar workers_
bringing 127,500 UAH wo - members at Chrysler under
tentative new agreements and they're expected to re-open
the 1974 car production lines at Chrysler possibly by
early next Week. The Senate foreign relations
committee yesterday approved the nomination of Henry A.
Kissinger as Secretary of State. In Skylah news, most
stories today centered around your overnight teleprinter
load which had spit out 50 feet of paper with instructions
from us here in Mission Control, most of them aimed at
bringing you back to Earth next Tuesday. And Jack's
quotes - or Jack was quoted when he said that it stretches
from the trash airlock all the way to the EVA hatch. You
may or may not know that this Thursday night in the
Astrodome is scheduled the battle of the sexes, a tennis
match between Billie Jean King and 55-year old Bobby
Riggs. This battle has also become know as the battle of
the vitamins. Mrs. King is reportly taking vitamin E to
build up her strength and Riggs is said to be taking
enough vitamin C to equal that of 2_000 oranges a day.
Also in the sport scene, last night the Cincinnati Reds
nudged the Astros 1 to nothing to trim the Big Red Machine's
magic number for the National League West title down to six.
And up in Dallas_ retired linebacker Chuck Howley, was
invited to rejoin the Dallas Cowboys by Coach Tom Landry
and he announced Tuesday that he'll resume workouts with
the team three days a week. Over.
CC Out.
CDR Back to recovery.
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CC You made everybody in here laugh at

me.
CC Skylab, Houston. Also, sometime this
evening wetd sure appreciate it when it's convenient for
- for us to get a readout of the frames remaining on the
ATM so we can help to keep up with everything.
SPT Here it comes, 2661, 279, i, 24, 602,
578.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you very much.
SPT Dick, are you with us?
CC That's affirm, go ahead.
SPT And Jack said you can dum - dump the
tape recorder now. And does that mean that you do not
want this TV down-link, that's on the ATM schedule?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston, Yes, we would like the
ATM TV down-link while we're rewinding the VTR so we can
start the dump.
SPT Okay, I'ii give it to you now.
CC Thank you.

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SL-III MC2274/I
Time: 16:49 CDT, 54/21:49 GMT
9/19/73

CDR That long deact checklist change you -

Forget it, Dick, I got an idea.
CC Okay.
PLT Bey, Dick, give you a little extra on
that TV down-link VTR on the tape recorder. I reloaded the
tape recorder also instead of just unloading it, but tell
the EREP officer not to worry because I've cut the tape
off and put it in the command module.
CC Okay, Jack; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS at stateside here. You'll be talked to by the
doctor at Carnarvon at 22:38, and then we have one more
pass before bedtime at Guam after that.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours
56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has now passed
out of range of Bermuda tracking station. The next station
to acquire will be Carnarvon in approximately 42 minutes.
Skylab-lll crew is now nearing the end of day 54 activities
with crew bedtime scheduled during the Guam pass coming up
in approximately 56 minutes from this time. And shortly
after wakeup tomorrow morning, Science Pilot Owen Garriott
will be involved with a new use of the Apollo telescope
mount. The solar telescopes, cameras, electronic equipment
tomorrow plans to be aimed at the scorpio constellation
in an attempt to photograph for the first time, a source
of unusually high X-rays. The Skylab space station will
be maneuvered from the standard solar inertial attitude in
order to a - point the Apollo telescope mount equipment away
from the Sun and the at the scorpios constellation. Here
before astronomers have recorded this high X-ray source only
with counters and have been unable to obtain high resolution
photographs afforded by the ATM instruments. Tomorrow's
activity refer to as JOP 13, Joint Observation Program number
13, will utilize several of the ATM instruments, including
the SO54, X-ray spectrographic telescope, which will be the
prime instrument for JOP 13, S056 dual X-ray telescope, the
S052 white light coronagraph, which will be used to - for
accuracy of pointing. Additionaly the S055A ultraviolet
spectrometer which will be used in an attempt to ddetect the
Xx-ray energy from the st - this stellar source. The Skylab
vehicle will be maneuvered from the solar inertial attitude
at 8 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Shortly after
crew awakening on mission day 55, or tomorrow. Approximately
200 pound seconds of TAC propellent will be used for this
meneuver and the return of Skylab to it's normal solar inertial
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attitude. Approximately 13 minutes has been set aside for

the actual data take. The entire JOP 13 maneuver, data
take, and second maneuver will involve approximately i hour.
This maneuver is simular in scope as to what is planned for
Skylab-lV when comet Kohouteo comes into view of the Skylab
space station. We're at 21 hours 59 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control, Houston,

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SL-III MC-2275/I
Time: 17:37 CDT, 54/22:37 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 22 hours

37 minutes Greenwich mean time, less than a minute away now
from acquisition of signal of Skylab-lll through Carnarvon.
This is scheduled to be the pass in which the private medical
conferencetakes place. We expect no live alr-ground communi-
cations, however, we'll leave the llne up during this pass.
22 hours 38 minutes GMT, Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 22 hours 39
minutes GMT, workshop data is being received here in the
mission controlcenter. System data being recieved.
CC Skylab, Houston. Understand you're through
with the medical conference and we still got about 3 minutes
left here at Carnarvon, I'm standing by.
PLT Is Big Phil writing those jokes for Jerry?
CC Say again, please.
PLT Aw, the doctor, just told us a couple of
good jokes; guess maybe you didn't hear them. I thought maybe
Phil was wrlting them.
CC No, but we'll make him tell us - tell them
to us when he gets back down here.
CC Hey, Jack. One more imput for you, though,
Phil just won a quarter off Don Lind on the lousy coin trick.
PLT I don't doubt it. Don's should have used
Phil's money.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute til LOS.
Guam comes up at 22:52 and that's the last pass of the evening.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 22 hours 46 minutes
Greenwich mean time, we've had loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Acquisition of Skylab-lll through Guam expected in about 5 minutes
45 seconds. Guam will be the last pass of the evening, in In which
we expect air-to-ground conversation from the crew of Apollo -
Skylab-lll. We'll expect the sleep period to start following
that pass.

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SL-III MC-2276/I
Time: 17:51 CDT, 54/22:51 GMT
9/19/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 22 hours 52

minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from acquisition of signal of Skylab III through Guam
tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS, Guam for 5 min-
utes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR What's the next pass after this, Dick?
CC AI, the next pass is Goldstone and it
comes up at 23:15, it's about - well we're 22 minutes from AOS
Goldstone.
CDR Okay, call us there too, would you.
CC Okay, sure will.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 22 hours 55
minutes Greenwich mean time. A little less than 3 minutes
remaining on this pass over Guam. However, we heard the
call from Commander AI Bean asking for a call at Goldstone
at well - as well. Goldstone acquisition approximately
20 minutes from this time. So this will not be the last
pass of the evening with Skylab III. Standing by at 22
hours 56 mimutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. I'Ii give you a co - call at Goldstone at 23:15.
And we're going to dump the data recorder at Goldstone.
CDR Sounds good. Let me make a correction
to our photo pad. On 16-millimeter, we shot more film -
crew activity. C163,00, C120. And go down to A4 it
should read 03, C163, 00, C120.
CC Okay, AI, thank you I got that.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 23 hours
Greenwich mean time. Skylab III now out of range with
Guam tracking station. Next station to acquire will be
Goldstone in approximately 15-1/2 minutes. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2277/I
Time: 18:14 CDT, 54/23:14 GMT
9/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

23 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 30 seconds
away now from acquisition through Goldstone. We have the
mission surgeons' daily summary on crew health which we'll
read now. It reads as follows: As this mission is nearing
it's end, the crew remains in good health and reports no
illnesses or injuries. The crew used medication to assist
with their early sleep onset last evening but do not plan
on any this evening. Signed Dr. Jerry R. Hardensky. We'll
stand by now for acquisition of Skylab-lll through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for 15 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CDR We thought Owen would be finished with
his exercise now, but it doesn't look like he's going to
make it, Dick.
CC Okay, well, this is a pretty long pass
so if he does get through by that time, just give us a holler.
CDR Just ground to a halt. I don't know
whether he's finished or wore out; he was pumping 225 watts.
Well - okay. What is it, about a 15-minute pass?
CC Yes, sir; that's right.
CDR Okay, Dick, we'll - we'll be working -
working out.
CC Okay.
PLT Say, Dick, I ought to report that I changed
the desiccants in the Sl90 today and also, I was curious to
know how the EREP tape mode TV came out.
CC Roger, Jack. We haven't seen that TV
yet.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, Dick, here's the update on a couple
of things on the flight plan_ status report for me.
CC Okay.
SPT On the exercise, 2/25/5000, 3/25 mark I,
90 A's, 60 B's, and 60 D's, Delta. And on salt packages
add two tablets. Over.
CC Okay, Owen, I copied that.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.
You guys have a good night's sleep. You'll get a call -
wakeup call in the morning at Guam at 07:08 Zulu. One
suggestion to Owen. You might set your timer a little bit
early since that JOP 13 is going to be about - start about
half an hour. We will have a pad sitting there in the teleprinter
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about JOP 13 when you wake up in the morning.

PLT Okay, Dick, we'll make sure he gets the
word. And thanks a lot for your good work today. How long
will you fellows be on today?
CC Roger, guys and see y'all in the morning.
PLT Okeydoke. Good night.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 23 hours
SI minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has passed out
of range of - on this stateside pass. The crew of Skylab-lll,
AI Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, recleving a goodnight
call from CAP COM Dick Truly here in the mission control
center. We'll take the llne down at this time. Crew
wakeup time is scheduled on mission day 55 for 7 hours
8 minutes Greenwich mean time. We'll bring the line back up
at that time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2278/I
Time: 02:07 CDT, 55/07:07 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours, 7 minutes, and

51 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time, the
Skylab space station is about 53 seconds from acquisition
of signal at the Guam tracking antenna and we'll have the
line up llve for wake-up call from Spacecraft Communicator
Bob Crippen. At the present time, Flight Director is Don
Puddy. This shift will be on for another couple of hours
this morning. This is Skylab Control waiting for that wake-up
call from Bob Crippen over Guam.
CC (Music) Good morning, Skylab. We're
AOS over Guam for 8 minutes.
SPT Good morning there, Robert. How are
you today? And I hate to mention business quite so
early in the morning, but was Just up taking a look at the tele-
printer papers and CD maneuver pad for Jop 13. Do they have
that setup?
CC No, we were playing around with it here
this evening and we are just now up-llnking it. So it should
be coming though, we hope. It's going to be in a little bit
different form than what you're used to seeing, Owen. Because
we're going to ask you to do a CMG reset in the middle of
it and a few other things, so we sort of did it as a fill-ln-the-
blank kind of thing on your JOP sheet. If you go up and take a
look at it now, and see if you have any questions about it,
we'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay. That sounds fine and when the next
pass after Guam, well I'll let you know there if there's any
questions.
CC Okay. The next pass is going to be over
Vanguard at 07:48.
SPT Okay. I'ii mention any questions there.
CC Okay. Fine and dandy.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. See
you over the Vanguard in 31 minutes at 07:48.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours, 19 minutes,
and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of the Guam tracking station after Owen Garrlott
responded to the wake-up call, "Moonlight Becomes You," with
a request about the teleprinter pad for ATM JOP 13. ATM
JOP 13 is one of the activities scheduled for today.

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SL-III MC-2279/I
Time: 02:19 CDT, 55/07:19 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Owen Garriott responded to the wake-up

call, Moonlight Becomes You, with a request about the teleprinter
pad for ATM JOP 13. ATM JOP 13 is one of the activities
scheduled for today, early this morning to begin about an
hour from now. JOP 13 is going to be the first use of the
ATM instruments to point for x-ray sources in the depths of
space rather than to point at the Sun, instruments of the
telescope array will be pointed out into deep space. This
is Skylab Control. We're 28 minutes from our next acquisition
of signal. It's now 20 minutes after the hour.

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SL-III MC2280/I
Time: 02:47 CDT, 55/07:47 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours, 47 minutes,

and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time,
the Skylab space station is traveling across the south Pacific,
just about to acquire signal at the Vanguard tracking ship. The
pass through Vanguard will last approximately i0 minutes and
we'll have the llne up llve for air-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard,
ii minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob and the pad - all looks fine.
I presume that we're opening doors in that nominal momentum
cage because we're certain that that's a time that is into
the night. And everything else looks pretty straight forward, in-
cluding that really.
CC Okay. That's affirm and then that is the
reason. Owen, one other additional item which we didn't really
call for out on the pad is - but it's the way we've been handling
entering maneuver times from these EREP pads so that everybody
gets a chance to take a look at it before you initiate it.
The maneuver times that you use to come out of the thing
after you've done it, if you have a chance to put that in -
in early, it would be appreciated.
SPT Okay. I'ii plan to do that. In fact,
I think the number sheet sort of worked out that way, didn't
it? I guess maybe it doesn't call out the timing, but I
see avoiding that and I certainly plan to do it just like that.
CC Okay. Thank you. And Owen, while I'm
talking to you on the SAP there's been no significant
activity over the last 12 hours. A new small plage at 28/1.0
has had some minor surges.
SPT Okay.
CC Good morning, CDR. AI, do you have a
moment to talk with me, please sir?
CDR At least.
CC Okay. Very good. We had a little question
we'd like to get your opinion on. We're considering another
M509 run for day 57 right after the EVA, with you being the
pilot and the primary objective of this test is to evaluate
the effects of the LSU 02 hose on the M509 stabilized modes,
with and without a light weight CCU attached. The umbilical
effects can be evaluated in the shirt-sleeve mode, but we
would llke your opinion about donning the suit after lunch
and making the run suited. Of course, I guess, the consid-
eration here is primarily you've just gotten out of the suit.
The PI would of course like a suited run since we could make
some of the maneuvers we couldn't do because of the LSU on
M509-3. It looks as if only about 2 hours will be available
for you to do the run. So if we do it suited, there will be
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less time available to do the actual maneuvering. And we'd llke to

get your opinion on doing the additional run and considering
the time available, what do you think about doing that suited
versus shirt-sleeve? We'd llke whatever your honest opinion
is about it, AI.
CDR Let me think about it a minute.
CC Okay. No - certainly no big - big hurry
for an answer.
SPT A comment for you, Bob. Might note the
stated lighting backup circuit breaker was popped again this
morning. I had to reset it.
CC Oh, the inverter LCA breaker was popped
is that what you said?
SPT Yeah, that's correct.
CC Okay. We have not seen it out before.
That's - that's different, I think. We had been cycling
it but I don't believe we've ever seen it popped before.
SPT Wait a minute. I think that was the
LCA stated lighting backup i. Just a second. Maybe it wasn't
either. Excuse me. Stand by. Let me check thiS.
CC Okay. Backup i should be out.
SPT Yeah, that's right. My - my
mistake, Bob. It did not need to be reset and ! saw the
stated lighting backup circuit breaker popped and I thought that
was the one that was giving us trouble yesterday. But it's all
set normally.
CC Okay. Very good. Hake us feel better.
CDR I can think of two factors on this 509
run as I said here. One is two hours is not
enough time to suit out, get in it, strap in, do the maneuvers
and get finished. You can't do it in two hours. There's
just - there's too much prep time. Just getting in the suit isn't
that hard. But doing all the rest of it is a long time-
consuming job as you've seen from the other runs. And two,
I'm not sure what extra you get out of doing it with the
suit. However, it doesn't take that much longer to do it
with the suit. The thing that concerns me mostly is I don't
think we can pull off anything worthwhile in two hours.
Maybe there's more time in there that could be made available.
CC Well, what is your opinion on doing the
run at all, thinking about it in the shirt-sleeve mode with probably -
still only having two hours available. Our basic problem is
time right now, it looks like.
CDR Well, our problem is you Just can't do
all that in two hours, Bob. You've got - you've got to rig
out the vehicle, and then you got to get in it, and then you
got to get all the cameras set up and you got to get the
comm set up and then you got to get those special straps on.
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And although it sounds easy, that takes a long time to do it

right. There's a lot of parts to it. I think we could do it
either suited or unsuited. But I'm not sure we can do either
of them worth - worth anything in two hours. We've got to get
another hour. Maybe there's an hour earlier that we could
rig it all up and then come back after the EVA and do it, or
something like that. Or else cut something else out. I
think we could do it in 3 hours either way. As far as
suited or unsuited, as long as we got the suits out, we can
sure do it that way. I don't know if there's going to be
a lot of difference. You see the umbilical affects more
without the suit cause you're lighter. But we did not inves-
tigate all the suited problems. So, my feeling would be that
we probably ought to do it suited. But they ain't got a prayer
doing it in two hours.

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CC Okay. What is your opinion then if we

can get the additional hours that you think you might need
of doing the (garble) Do you think we should try to do it?
CDR I think we might learn something. I
think just what we're going to learn, we're going to do -
as far as doing all their maneuvers again, I'm not sure that's
the most worthwhile thing in the world, because we've done
many, many maneuvers in that thing and certainly enough to
demonstrate and give them data that determines the numbers
they want to know. There's always - Itts always good to do
other runs and other maneuvers. In fact, I'm not sure we hadn't
done every single thing that they thought of plus a few
extra we hadn't thought of. But, that's a good experiment
and compared to something like, I won't name any others but, compared
to some other things that are possible to do, it's sure more
worthwhile. My opinion would be, it depends on any other
things you might have down there that you feel are higher
priority. Now, let me mention another thing. We got up our -
We're going to have to take the umbilicals out again and
put in the - no, we won't, we can leave them in. But get
out our new 02 umbilical, which we got stowed up there in
the food lockers, which will be easy enough. We'll have to
get out and rig a new comm capability. We'll have to - We've
already put the 509 to bed, in that we've taken all the straps
off, put them away neatly and got it all folded up as we
have T20 for stowage, but that doesn't take but another
15 minutes to put it all back together. It certainly a good
experiment, and it certainly worth the time it takes to do
it, if it doesn't knock out something like - that's more
important. I'd certainly think it was a better thing to do
with our time than some other things I could think of.
CC Okay AI, we're going to go LOS here in
about 30 seconds. I'll have you again over Ascension in
6 minutes at 08:05. I think get the gist of what
you're saying and we'll sit down and take a look at it, and
see whether we can come up with that additional time and weigh it
against the other experiments we do have.
CDR That's right. I think it's strictly a
priority sort of a thing. The additional amounts (static) necessary,
I don't think. The evaluation with the 02 umbilicalthrust
CC We're over the hill, AI.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 59 minutes and
43 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
has now gone out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard for
about 5-1/2 minutes from our next acquisition of signal at
Ascension. And during that last pass we heard a discussion
with spacecraft communicator Bob Crippen talking to Commander
AI Bean about the possibility of doing an M509 run, either
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suited or unsuited. About 2 hours had been set aside earlier

for that on Sunday and there was some discussion of
possibly doing a suited run after the EVA, which is scheduled
for Saturday morning beginning at 6:15 central daylight time
or 11:15 Greenwich mean time. The M509 run does require a
good deal of time for preparation. And for that reason
Bean says that he does not believe that either a suited or
an unsuited run could be accomplished in the 2 hours that
Mission Control was setting - thinking of setting for that.
Also Owen Garrlott reported a popped circuit breaker, but
as the ground controllers informed him, that was the normal
status for that and when reminded of that Garriott agreed
that was in fact normal for that circuit breaker. The
ground also reported some minor surges in one of the plages
on the surface of the Sun. That's one of the brighter
areas, light colored areas ,on the surface of the Sun has had
a minor surge. That may be a prelude to a flare activity
later. And there still are very few active regions and
relatively small ones at this time on the surface of the
Sun. We're now about 3 minutes and 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Canary Islands and we'll come up
and announce the pass Just before it begins.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 4 minutes and
38 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab space station is about 37 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Ascension. The pass through Ascension will be
followed by a pass through Carnary Island and Madrid as
the spacecraft crosses the northwest coast of Africa. This
will be quite an extended pass lasting about 15 minutes,
and we do have the llne up live for air-to-ground during
the pass.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS through Ascension
for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR What's the possibilities of doing 509
tomorrow?
CC We're (garble) - -
CDR - - Slipping something tomorrow to the next
day. That might be more appropriate We're going to have to
break up that 02 BCUs. We're going to have to tape them
together in two or three spots, I suspect, just to keep,
It'll minimize the torque but it will also keep them from
being all over the workshop.
CC AI, in the initial look see at that,
we've got a normal ATM work, an EREP pass, dead run tomorrow,
and 3 hours of EVA preprep which we anticipate that you
wanted and it just doesn't look reasonable right now on the
initial look see to try to put a 509 run in there. Could I
ask you another couple of questions here, just to give us
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some idea of what the status is? On the 509 bottles, is -

we'd like to know if bottle four is charged andtopped off?
CDR The answer is yes. They're all charged
and topped off.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR I think the big factor is whether or
not we've got time to allow about 3 hours to do the Job.
CC Rog. We copy that and we're taking a
look at that right now and Just seeing whether that may
be possible. Not for tomorrow, but for later.
CDR The think that we can't afford to get
knocked out of there the EVA day is our exercise, cause
that EVA just doesn't give you that much exercise. We
got to keep our exercise up here the last 4 or 5 days.
CC Copy that, and we'll make sure you
have it.

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CC Owen, we're getting ready to inhibit

the momentum dump for you for this JOP 13, also to load the
momentum (garble) that we talked about in the message and to
discuss yesterday evening. So if we can have the DAS please,
sir.
SPT You have the DAS.
CC Owen, have you had a chance to do your
NUZ update, yet, this morning?
SPT That's affirmative.
CC Okay. We just wanted to verify that this
NUZ was correct so that the attitude was. And apparently,
it looks like it's good.
SPT It's only changed about 2/lOths
degree.
CC That's good. And the DAS belongs to
you once more.
CDR You still there, Bob?
CC That's affirm. We've got you a couple
more minutes.
CDR Okay. I was still thinking of 509 in
time, also we'll have to take the two others too. But their
head, you know, head pieces and all that other business and
take it up and stash it in the MA - I mean MDA - MDA for
a little while in order to get the volume down there and
not he (garble) in their suits all the time.
CC Okay. Copy that it would require
transferring the suit.
CDR It's not - It's not a big deal. We just
had to get them up there and then do the job and then, when
we finish bring them back at this time, that's what I
mean then. When you think about it a little hit, there's
just some time involved, if we've got the time we can do it.
It's that simple.
CC Okay. We'll taking a look at that
right now to see if we can come up with the time for you to
do it. It's kind of hard to find three hours right now,
but we've got the FAO scratching after it. We're
about 1 minute from LOS. We're going to see you over
Guam at 08:46, just about 28 minutes from now. We'll he
doing a data voice recorder dump and looklngforward to seeing
Owen doing his JOP 13.
SPT Okay. How does (garble) look?
CC Stand by. Everything looks good right
now, Owen.

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9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 22 minutes

and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now passing over eastern Europe is now out of range of our
tracking station, at Madrid, Spain. Our next acquisition of
signal 23 minutes and 40 seconds from now will be at Guam.
During this last pass Science Pilot Owen Garriott is making
preparations for the ATM JOP 13. That's the joint observation
program number 13. Joint observation program 13 is the first
attempt made during the Skylab Mission to receive data on
X-ray sources from deep space. The solar pointing experiments
which are normally used for study of the Sun, including
primarily the X-ray telescope will now he pointed at the
constellation, Scorpio. Scorpio is the source of unusually
high x-radlation and the Skylab will be maneuvered to point
into darkness of space rather than to be pointing at the
Sun as it normally is. This maneuver was scheduled according
to the message sent up to the crew to begin at 8:25, that's about
a minute and a half from now. Following the maneuver about
15 minutes of data take time are set aside. Up to this time
very little information has been gathered about deep x-ray
sources, about the only thing available so far has been counters
and little has been available in the way of high resolution
photographs. These things can be provided, of course, by
the ATM instruments. The maneuver being performed to receive
data on the constellation Scorpio is very similar to a maneuver
that will be done in the Skylab final mission to receive data
on the comet Kohoutek. The prime instrument during the experiment
will be the SO54 X-ray Spectrographic Telescope. However
the SO56, Dual X-ray Telescope and SO52, White Light Corono-
graph will also be used. The White Light Coronograph will be
primarily used for pointing the instruments. In addition the
S055 A Ultraviolet Spectrometer will be used in an attempt
to gain ultraviolet data on the x-ray energy source. The
maneuver does expend about 200-pound seconds of thruster
attitude control propellant. That's propellant that's
used to control the attitude of the Skylab workshop and is
in relatively short supply. However, only about 200-pound
seconds will be used and it will leave an ample supply for
the duties for the final crew. The entire maneuver requires
about 2-1/2 hours to three hours of crew-tlme, this morning.
All of that being set aside out of Science Pilot Owen Garriott's
schedule. During this last pass over Ascension, Canary
Island, and Madrid, Commander Alan Bean indicated that he
was interested in the possibility of doing an M509 run, perhaps
be scheduled for EVA day, but he did indicate it would
require at least 3 hours of time and he made mention of the
fact that he would like to have as much time available as
possible for physical training. The crew does want to
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stay in the best of possible condition for their splashdown

next Tuesday. Because the time required for that M509 is
approximately 3 hours, and ground controllers had indicated
only about 2 hours available_ it's now very unlikely that
they'll be doing that M509 run on EVA day, much more likely
that they will now increase the time available for physical
training. Very little had been set aside in the early
preparations for that Flight Plan for Saturday morning.
EVA has about 4 hours set aside for it on Saturday morning,
beginning at 6:15 a.m. central daylight time. Primary
purpose of the EVA is to replace film and camera cannlsters
for the Apollo telescope mount solar instruments. They
will also be clearing a speck of contaminating matter
from the occulting disc of the White Light Coronograph.
This is Skylab Control. We're 19 minutes and 38 seconds
from our next acquisition of signal at Guam. It's now
26 minutes and 52 seconds after the hour.

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9/20/73
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/
/ PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours, 45 minutes,
/ and 28 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking station.
f Skylab now about 13 minutes left in its daylight period with
Owen Garriott preparing for that Jop 13 - Joint observation
program 13. The first attempt made by Skylab to observe
an X-ray source in the constellation Scorpio in deep space.
This is the first time that Skylab has pointed its instruments
at target other than the Sun and the telescopes are expected
to return more than a dozen photographs of the X-ray source
known as SCOX-I, located in the constellation Scorpio. Very
little information's available about this rare X-ray source
and we will get something during this next pass beginning
a little after 4 o'clock Central daylight time. We now have
acquisition of signal at Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam and we will
be doing a data voice recorder dump. We got you for about
7 minutes.
SPT Okay. You might check the times
and so forth to make sure you still llke those, Bob. And I've
got the gimbal - star tracker gimbal set for the star track
for the star number i position. And I did notice, up until just
a couple of minutes ago when I went manual on the star tracker,
the door would not open. And then here about i or 2 minutes
ago, it would start opening. Now that may be normal, I'm
not sure whether the computer has control of when that door
opens or not. But, we appear to be all set up now. Over.
CC That should've opened when you hit manual
immediately, Owen.
SPT That's sort of what I thought and I tried
it about 3 or 4 times and recycle through manual and
close and back to manual and it wouldn't open for intervals
of about i0 minutes there. We did point the star tracker
at the Sun, if that might have helped and Just about 2 minutes
ago now, why it opened again. I should clarify that, I guess
not at the Sun, but where the Sun could fall on the star tracker.
CC You made everybody's eyeballs open up wide.
SPT I think A1 was looking og out the window and
did CDA and my gimbal position and and did just this so that
the sun could fall on the star tracker.
CC Okay.
SPT If you can see that nominal minimun cage
is perturbing our attitude there substantially.
CC We're looking at it.
SPT And of course, we've been firing the TACS.
I hope that was about the amount you were expecting.
CC We calculated 42 and you're up to 45 right now.
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CC We're getting ready to go LOS. We'll

have you over Honeysuckle at 08:59 and that's about 6-1/2
minutes away.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours, 55 minutes,
and 28 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now passing over New Guinea, has gone out of range of the
Guam tracking station. It will be acquired by the antenna
at Honeysuckle Springs in approximately 4 minutes. This
time Owen Garriott is working at the controlling display
panel for the Apollo Telescope Mount solar instruments.
Those powerful telescopes are going to be trained in the
next few minutes on an X-ray source known as SCOX-I in the
constellation Scorpio. This is the first time during the
mission that the telescopes have been pointed at a target
other than the Sun. They will be used to point at Scorpio
to gain data on the X-radlations emitted by - believed to be
emitted by a blue star in Scorpio. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
began his preparations for this pass just after wake-up this
morning. First time that the solar telescopes have looked
at deep space. They expect they'll take more than a dozen
photographs of the strongest source of X-radlatlon in the
sky. The X-ray source, which is located in the constellation
Scorpio, was first discovered in 1961. It was the first
X-ray source ever discovered by man and the universe. No
photographs have ever been made of an X-ray source until now.
So the dozen or more photographs returned by Skylab will be
the first such photographs. This is a 13-mlnute observation
period on the Skylab observation of Scorpio. That begins
at 4:06 am Central daylight time or 09:06 Greenwich mean
time. Two purposes for doing the observation which is con-
sidered to be a very exploratory observation according to
A1 Kreiger, the co-lnvestlgator on the experiment. First
purpose is to gain additional data on soft X-rays. There is
fairly extensive data on hard X-rays or the longer X-ray
band. The soft X-rays are not as thoroughly studied. That will
be gained in the 36 angstrom band. The second purpose is
to confirm the location as identical to the blue star that
is believe to be associated with. At this time, there is
some suspicion of the star that is very strongly believed
that that is the source because there is a variation in both
visible light of the star and the X-radiation, which Seem to
be simultaneous. ScoX-I is one of the few X-ray sources lo-
cated precisely in the sky. It appears to be an extremely
blue star, about 500 to 5,000 light years away. It's defi-
nitely not an ordinary star. It's considered to be extremely
unusual. It's spectral characteristics do not conform to
that of other stars which would appear to be simular. Most
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X-ray sources are very well understood. X-ray sources in

general are either super nova remlnents, distant galories,
or close binary members. That is, twin stars that rotate
about each other and for thatreason, appear to
pulsate. ScoX-I does not appear to have any of the charac-
teristics of super nova remnants, distant galaxies or binary
members and that makes it an unusual source of interest.
Some have been known for a dozen years, which also makes it
a considerable interest. The maneuver that was performed
a short time ago to orient the spacecraft for this observa-
tion of the night sky. It's similar to the kind of maneuver
that will be performed to track the comet Kohoutek on the
final Skylab mission. We have acquisition of signal now at
the Honeysuckle tracking station. We'll - -

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PAO - - the observation of the night

sky. It's similar to the kind of maneuver that will be
performed to track the comet Kohoutek on the final Skylab
Mission. We have acquisition of signal now at the Honeysuckle
tracking station. We'll keep the line up live for air-to-
ground through Honeysuckle, the pass to last about 3 minutes
and 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle
3 minutes. See you solar inertial.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS.
Vanguard in 25 minutes at 09:27.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 4 minutes and
i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of the Honeysuckle tracking antenna crossing
New Zealand that's - 23 minutes to our next acquisition of
signal at Vanguard. That's a low elevation pass that's
expected to last only about 30 seconds. It's now 4 minutes
and 30 seconds after the hour. This is Skylab Control.

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9/30/73

PAO Skylah Control at 9 hours 26 minutes

and 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is now approaching acquisition of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station. The ship is going to be acquired
only for a very short period for voice, approximately 29
seconds. We will, however, bring the line up live for
air-to-ground in the event that that acquisition comes a
little bit early.
PAO We have acquisition of signal now at
Vanguard for telemetry data and we'll get voice acquisition
shortly.
CC Skylab. AOS through the Vanguard for
5 minutes.
SPT Okay Story. We're on the way back, as
I guess you can see by now.
CC Yes Sir.
SPT Just for backroom information, we got
a 12-3/4 minute exposure on SO56. We got about 2-1/2
rasters on S055, and we got 2 complete sequences for SO54,
and the inner gimbal angle star hung right at plus i000.
Just about 2 arc minutes away from the pad value for
essentially the whole data taking interval. So the whole
thing looked real good and gee, I must congratulate ASCO
and all your fellows down there who did the calculations
for this maneuvering. It was certainly precise and everything
went exactly llke the plan.
CC Okay. Very good and thank you, Owen.
SPT Incidently one other bit of information.
While monitoring the detector number 3 for the most part,
during the scanning operation, there were very frequent
intervals in which the first digit wouldn't flicker indicating
some small count was registering in the 40 miliseconds
or so that each position is being scanned. And I couldn't get
a pattern to it, but it does look as if there may be some
information recorded on the S055 telemetry and I would
appreciate any feedback that they might have after scanning
the data.
CC Okay. That's real interesting, Owen.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Yes Sir.
CC You've got a terminate of M518 and
pickup of M556 Ops at about 18:00 on your Flight Plan, but
we're looking ahead to your EVA prep. We'd llke to get
everything done way short of that if we can, so if you
can pick that up earlier, it will be fine.
PLT That's a good idea and I will, Story.
As soon as the first cool light comes on. Thank you for
reminding me.
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CC Okay.
SPT Another question for the ATM room. l'd
like to know if 4906 grading position does put 01
on detector number 3 or where does it put it? Over.
CC Get it for you, Owen.
CC One minute to LOS.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll pick you up over Canaries in 15 minutes. And
we concur Owen, that 4906 on the grading will put the
01 on detector 3, and we're wondering what you got on S052.
SPT S052 did get three exposures, spaced
5 minutes apart. System exposures is about 3 percent.
CC Okay. Outstanding. And for Jack, I
checked that the cool-down light is on priorto pressing on.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 33 minutes and
42 seconds Greenwich mean time. Rather unusual conditions
at the Vanguard tracking ship allowed us to have extended
communications there. Much longer than were predicted by
our tracking charts here. Next acquisition of signal is
about 12 minutes and 20 seconds from now. That will be
at Canary Islands. During this last pass Owen Garriott
reported that the maneuver to acquire ScoX-I, the X-ray
source of constellation Scorpio was extremely successful,
and he thinks he's got some excellent pictures of that area.
That includs a dozen photographs using the X-ray telescope
cameras and also photographs using the whltellght corona-
graph. He did indicate too, that some data may be observed
on the S055 telemetry. That is sent down to Earth, of
course, immediately after the pass and we should hear
something from the scientists perhaps a little later in
the day. This is Skylab Control. Eleven minutes and 30
seconds to our next acquisition of signal. It is now 34
minutes and 51 seconds after the hour.

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PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 45 minutes

and 21seconds Greenwich mean time. We're presently crossing
the Atlantic Ocean about 50 seconds from acquisition of
signal at the Canary Island tracking station. The pass
through Canary Island and Madridwill last about 15 minutes.
We have the line up live for air-to-ground through Canary
Island and Madrid.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid 13 minutes.
We see you've completed the maneuver. Your momentum
is looking good. We'd like the DAS here to put back in the
momentum bias.
SPT Okay, Story. You've got the DAS and
I have not inhibit - not inhibited TACS yet. Either switches
or software of course, awaiting until 11:30 on that.
And I don't know whether the backroom's interested in the frame
count of the frames where the stowage 1 photographs are
taken or not or whether that information has come out normally.
If they'd like those numbers, I'ii give them to them.
CC We'd like the numbers, Owen, as usual.
SPT Okay. On S056, frames 276 to 274.
Only one of those is good, of course, and it's one of those
three. SO54, after the two sequences the frame counter was
531, so we used 16 frames above that. S052 the final frame
count was 547, so it's the frames Just above that. And incidentally
on the NUZ update, the orbital plane error was plus 4.3 before
storing JOP 13, and after the NUZ update there was no
change, still 4.3.
CC Thank you.
PLT Say, Story, I'm trying to set up for
this demonstration 5530 Bravo-i and I'm trying to find
some length of 2-inch grey tape. Can you tell me where the
2-inch grey tape is? I'm thinking maybe either you mean
the 2-inch neutral or silver back tape or the l-inch grey tape
that we fix everything with.
CC Okay. We'll get that for you, Jack.
And Owen, the DAS is yours. We got the biases in and
dump enabled.
CC Jack, on the tape, you can use any tape
which has a light background. And the neutral tape will
be fine and we agree with you there's probably not 2-inch
grey tape onboard.

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SL-III MC2288/I
Time: 04:59 CDT, 55/09:59 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, i minute to LOS. It's about a

half an hour to Carnarvon at 10:27.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours, 0 minutes,
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now over eastern Europe, is out of range of the Madrid
tracking antenna. We'll acquire communications again with the
spacecraft 27 minutes and 7 seconds from now. That'll be
at Carnarvon, Australia. This is Skylab Control as the
Skylab space station is in its 1859th revolution above the
Earth. It's i minute and 6 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2289/I
TIME: 05:27 CDT 55/10:27 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 27 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're presently Just 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. Our pass through Carnarvon will last approximately
5-1/2 minutes. And we will have a pass shortly thereafter
at Honeysuckle lasting 8 minutes, so we'll have the line
up live for air-to-ground through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
At the present time, the crew should be engaged in house-
keeping activities, having completed the ATM activity for
earlier this morning. And the science demonstration that
was planned - I believe that one will be showing the melting
of ice in space. We're live for air-to-ground now through
Carnarvon, Australia.
CC Skylab. AOS Carnarvon 5 minutes.
SPT Roger Story.
CC Was that Owen?
SPT That's him.
CC Okay. In the next I0 hours sometime,
I got a change to your ETC pad.
SPT Okay. Let me see here, just a minute.
Maybe now is as good a time as any. Give me aboutl minute
and I'ii get it out.
CC Okay. No hurry.
PLT Story, I put M556 on to cook at 10:03,
and the cold one temp was 23 degrees centigrade and the
pressure was 0.2. time i0 to the minus 3 torque.
CC Thanks Jack.
SPT Okay Story. I've got the pad out. Go
ahead.
CC Okay. 2107 change standby to run to
depletion. We're estimating you only have 5 frames left
anyway at that time.
SPT Okay. I've got it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out here for
about 30 seconds. Handing over to Honeysuckle. Be dumping
the tape recorders over Honeysuckle.
CC We're back with you for 7 minutes,
Skylab.
SPT Hey Story, about 11:30, you might give
the ATM operator a reminder on that TACS INHIBIT.
CC Will do.

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SL-III MC2290/I
Time: 05:36 CDT, 55/10:36 GMT
9/20/73

CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, I'm running your entry minus 5 on CSM
checks. Subtract 2 hours from the timeline you got there.
Your timellne is going to be 2 hours ahead of ours. Just
subtract 2 hours.
CDR Okay. I Just spent about 30 minutes
looking it over. We're ready to go.
CC Okay. And AI, no need to acknowledge,
but we're not going to be ready for CSH loads and that kind
of thing for about 37 minutes till we get to Bermuda at 11:17.
CDR Okay. Do you mind if I bring up the
CMC on time and get a good platform so that when you give me the
(garble) ops Tig I need to do an option i. So that means I can
bring up the platform and just do an option 3 - just a
P-51, then we'd know where we were. Then when you gave me
load, we can do an option i.
CC Stand by i.
CDR What I'm trying to do is avoid you sending
up the load and then saying taking allgnments when we're in the
middle of the night.
CC Yeah, we're working that.
CDR Also, I noticed the last alignment is
an optic so I'm going to need stars and gimbal angles for that.
CC Okay.
CUR The computer should do it, but I'd llke to
do it manually.
CC Okay. AI, we'll need to get your clocks
synced at some other things, so I think you'll have to
stand by on that to Bermuda. AndBermuda will be coming up
in 35 minutes at ii:17. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
CDR Okay. Understand, Story. Thanks.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours, 42 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
over New Zealand, is out of range of the tracking antenna at
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Our next acquisition of signal,
35 minutes from now, will be at Bermuda. At the present
time, Commander Alan Bean is preparing to begin entry minus 5
day checks of the command module and he did indicate he'd like
to bring up the command module computer, the CMC, but ground indi-
cated they weren't quite ready - having a little difficulty
in computers and have not quite had them configured for the entry
minus 5 checks. But that will beginning probably at the Bermuda
pass which is 34 minutes away. This is Skylab Control at
43 minutes and 13 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2291/I
TIME: 06:16 CDT 55/11:16 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 16 minutes

and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the
Bermuda tracking station. That signal through Bermuda
should last for 7 minutes and 50 seconds. We'll keep the
line up live for air-to-ground through Bermuda for a little
over 7 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab. AOS Bermuda 8 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, we'd like an E-MOD. That's a verb
74 inner.
CDR Want BIT rate HIGH or LOW. Let me check
what it is now.
CC It'll be BIT rate HIGH. Okay, and we're
already there.
CDR And it's on the way.
CC And AI, we'd like to know if you've
completed self check and what were the results.
CDR I have not. I waited to start so that
you could see it. And l'm just finishing up STS power up. And
then I'ii do the self check where you watch it.
CDR Did you copy my last -
CC Roger, and you can go ahead with the
self check and after that we'd like accept for a clock sync,
and a REFSMMAT update.
CC AI, could you tell us what the source of
the C and Ws that we're seeing down here are.
CDR Okay. The first one was caused when I
put on caution and warning gate A through D, then A and B.
I didn't like the way the lights illuminated, so I went to
the CM Just to make sure that the lights and the buttons to
turn them out were working properly and they are. I pushed
recall and got no recall, so apparently it was just a little
quickie there, whenever we activated the ones per the check-
list.
CC Okay AI, we need accept now for clock
sync and REFSMMAT update.
CDR You got it.
CC Okay.
CC AI, we got your TFN manual complete
clock sync over Madrid and we're about 20 seconds to LOS.
Over Madrid we'll be doing an entry VHF check and on page
3-2 you'll find the reconfiguration to VHF.
CDR Okay. I was Just staring at it. I'll
get reconfigured right now and you can call me on VHF if you
want.
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TIME: 06:16 CDT 55/11:16 GMT
9/20/73

CC No Sir. We'll get the logic checks

first.
CDR All right. Then I'ii cool it and wait
for that.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm in a hole right now. Did you get
the time in there?
CC We only got part of it in, and I'ii
have some time changes for you on pages 3-3 and 3-4 when
we get to Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 26 minutes
and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of
range of the Bermuda tracking station. I could hear, during
that last pass, Commander Alan Bean up in the command module
preparing the entry minus 5 checks. These are simulations
in advance of the splashdown next Tuesday afternoon. We're
about 2 minutes from acquisition of signal at the Madrid
tracking station and we'll keep the line up live for
about an 8-1/2 minute pass at Madrid.

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SL-III MC2292/I
Time: 06:27 CDT, 55/11:27 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, back through Madrid for 8-1/2 min-

utes.
CDR Roger. Okay. I'm down to the point
where I can close the sync arm whenever you're ready. That's the
circuit breaker.
CC Okay, AI. Press on.
CDR Okay. I'm ready to coordinate the next
three steps with state and are standing by for 6 logic; 2 of
them on.
CC Go.
CDR Okay. They're both on. Standing by.
CC And for Jack, we're seeing the TACS in-
hibited.
PLT Okay.
CC AI, you got a good check. We're GO for power
on.

CDR That's good news. I'll turn off the

6 logic, put it back llke it was.
CC And when you're ready A1, configure for
VHF. That'll be in i0 of llst and the right side of page 3-2
and during those comm checks, I can pass up some times to you
on page 3-3 and 3-4.
CDR Okay. I'm going to be off that stand for
a few minutes.
CC Okay and I_ll come up on VHF.
CDR How do you hear me on the'headset? Okay.
It's Just the old speaker box. It doesn't have alot of zing
to it. All right. Anything new? Go ahead. I think we can
hack it. Go ahead. I'm ready to copy. 01255. All zips.
Got it. Okay. If you're satisfied with the _HF, I'ii go off
it. Okay. Here we are in S-band.
CC Okay.
CC A1, could you tell us on the C and W's -
was that the quad Bravo package temperature or the SPS oxidizer
pressure?
CDR There was no way to tell when I punched
recall. I did not get a recall.
CC Okay.
CDR Two caution and warnings that I have at
the moment are B-max 1 and 2. Maybe that was it.
CC Okay.
CDR I could turn them off and turn them back
on. We could probably get a check that way, if you're
interested.
CC AI, we're about i0 seconds from LOS. See
you over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 12:02. You can go
to block now and press on with this.
CDR Okay. I'm working away on the needles
test and they're passing.
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SL-III MC2292/2
Time: 06:27 CDT, 55/11:27 GMT
9/20/73

CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours, 38 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've gone out of range of the Madrid
tracking antenna. Our next acquisition of signal will be
in 24 minutes at Carnarvon, Australia. Commander Alan Bean
has begun an extended checkout of the command module in
preparation for next Tuesday's splashdown in the Pacific
Ocean southwest of San Diego. Earlier this morning, Science
Pilot Owen Garriott reported complete success in the pointing
of Skylab's array of telescopes at the strongest source of
X-radiation in the night sky. Those instruments which pre-
viously have been used only for the study of the Sun, were
pointed at the constellation Scorpio, where the X-ray source
was discovered in 1961. Today's survey of the powerful
radiation source, known as ScoX-l, and believed to be an
unusual blue star, will provide more than a dozen photographs -
the first ever taken of a stellar X-ray producer. The instru-
meats were pointed at the ScoX-l, an estimated several
hundred to several thousand light years away from Earthp
for 13 minutes beginning at 4:06 am Central daylight time.
Astronauts were awakened Just after 2 am today. Part of the
new space station day will continue through the conclusion
of the 59-day mission next Tuesday. This is Skylab Control.
22 minutes and 55 seconds from acquisition,of signal at
Carnarvon and it's now 39 minutes and 20 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-III MC-2293/I
Time: 07:00 CDT, 55/12:00 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours i minute and

12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. The pass will be through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia and will last approximately 15 minutes.
There's a line up live for air-to-ground through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle where we expect we will hear spacecraft
communicator Story Musgrave talk with Commander Alan
Bean, who's now in the midst of entry minus 5-day checklist
for the command module. We have the line live now for
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, AOS carnarvon and Honeysuckle
for 15 minutes.
CDR Okay. We've run into a little problem
we're probably going to have an entry day. The star's
not available till just a fewlminutes before it goes into
momentum dump. And there's not very much time in there to
get the 51:52. But we're working on it at the moment.
CC Okay, AI. We're looking at it.
CC And the dump just started, AI.
CDR All right. Well, look, we're going to
have to hold this 51 until the next sunrise. There's nothing
we can do about it. We went to - We can Just leave right
now and we'll probably have a fairly close alinement. But
it probably won't check the things you want to check. But
we're going to have to look at this for entry day, because
it's liable to even be worse. The star might not even be
available, period.
CC Okay, AI.
CC AI, did you get the P-51 completed?
We show that you have coarse aline to platform.
CDR What we did was - did a P-51 complete.
And then we did a P-52 as far as coarsing aline to platform
option one. And now we're going to leave there. So that's
going to give us a pretty close alinement to what you
wanted anyway. But it will not be trimmed up bythe P52.
CC Yeah. Still - He trimmed it
out afterwards.
CDR Sounds llke Vance Brand's voice.
CDR What I'm going to look in my little
book for right now is, I want an exit right now, leaving this
platform alined as it is.
CC Okay, AI. We show a good coarse aline-
ment now. And we show stars 2_ 4, and 6 available. And
you can probably complete the P52 nowm even in the middle
of the dump.
CDR Okay. This might be an interesting task.
We'll get Jack up there and see if he can do it. He do -
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Time: 07:00 CDT, 55/12:00 GMT
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l'm not sure he knows how to acquire the stats unless you
want me to use the CSM optics, which I could do. I'll do
that. You think tars - stars 2, 4, and 6 are available, huh?
CC 2, 4, and 6, and use the CSM optics.
CDR Okay. That's what we're going to do.
SPT Story are you there?
CC Yes, sir, another 9 minutes.
SPT Just wanted to make sure that we were
in a position to record on the VTR. I'm about to do that
TV-45.
CC Okay, you're go, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Looks like star 2 is not available.
Looks like it may be occulted by spacecraft. We'll try
something else.
CDR No. Take that back, there it sits.
I've got her in site.
CC Okay.

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SL III MC-2294/I
TIME: 07:11 CDT 55/12:11 GMT
9/20/73

CC Okay A1, we're seeing a good P-52.

We've already got your torque time and your NOUN 93.
CDR And the check starts right in the
middle of the sec, so I'ii get out of this program.
CC Okay. Looking good.
CDR Will those same three be available
(garble) do you suppose?
CC Stand by i. Okay. We expect 2, 4,
and 6 will be available on entry day.
CDR Excellent. And if this other thing
comes up, we'll be able to maybe get in the 51 and if we
have to go to 52, we can go it this way. Should be - Are
you still there?
CC Yes Sir. Another 4 minutes.
CDR Sounded like you dropped out. I
did the Delta V test and it worked well. Ended up with a
minus 217, which is acceptable. Did the null bias check
and found out we have a drift of plus 0.6. By that I mean
I started minus i00, 1 minute 40 seconds later, we're
indicating 99.4. I ran it twice and once it was 99.4,
once it was 99.3.
CC Okay.
CDR A little minus.
CDR And I guess I'll bring on the old
BMAG.
CC You're-We're go for that, AI.
CC And before we lose you here, how'd your
error needles test go?
CDR Went perfect. Everything looks good
on the arlon needle.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Let's bring on the old FDAI/GPI
power now.
CDR Okay. We'll start the drift check in
a minute.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you here over Texas in about half an hour at 12:48.
CDR Okay. We just began our drift check.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 18 minutes
and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
the Skylab space station has passed out of range of the
antenna at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. We're 29 minutes
and 30 seconds from acquisition of signal at Texas. A
checkout of the command module this morning has Commander
Alan Bean going through nearly totally powering up the
command module. This duplicates the activities the crew
will perform prior to reentry next Tuesday morning. The
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TIME: 07:11 CDT 55/12:11 GMT
9/20/73

preorblt systems check of the command module includes

everything short of actually closing the hatch and undocking
the command module from the Skylab workshop. This checkout
scheduled for 4 hours began with panel configuration and
then powering up the command module computer, the CMC. The
initial inertial measuring unit, the spacecraft control
system synchronization of onboard clocks, platform alignment
and checkout of the reaction control system and service
propulsion system engines. That checkout of the RCS and
SPS engines includes electrical checkouts only. That is
mainly to see if all the switches and controls are working
properly. These engines will not be test fired during the
checkout. During this operation, Flight Controller Phil
Shaffer is here supervising a group of Flight Controllers
who will be on duty the reentry and splashdown stage of
the Skylab mission. Astronaut Story Musgrave is acting as CAP COlqlq
during the phase of the mission, but he is being assisted
by astronauts Bob Crippen and Vance Brand, the backup
Commander for the present mission. A side note is that
Robert Crlppen is celebrating an anniversary. One year
ago today he completed the Skylab medical tests called
the SMEAT. That was a prior test of the equipment used on
Skylab which did show a number of equipment problems before
the mission and those weze remedied in time for the first
Skylab crew to go up. One year ago today that SMEAT test
was completed. The command module has been in a powered
down or quiescent mode since the crew boarded the workshop
on July 28th. The command module draws power and at a
minimum level approximately 800 to 1000 watts. Since the
fuel cells were shut down on mission day 20, that's August
16th. During this period the workshop power system has
been furnishing about 40 amps, and during the checkout
that will draw approxlmately 60 amps. About a 50 percent
increase in total power consumption. While Commander Bean
is in the command module, Pilot Jack Lousma will periodically
monitor the electrical systems of the Skylab workshop. The
checkout of the guidance and monitoring systems aboard the command
module is the longest portion of the checkout. Two sep-
arate phases of the checkout require an hour and 30 minutes
to run with Commander Bean monitoring those systems. At
completion of the checkout of the command module systems,
the command module will be powered down once again and all
three crew members are scheduled to spend an hour reviewing
the checklist for the command module. Those checks are
expected to run through about 14:15 Greenwich mean time
this morning, at which time there is a scheduled test of
the $193. The $193, of course is the EREP instrument with
the microwave radiometer scatterometer altimeter, which
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9_20_73

has been malfunctioning. A problem with the antenna. That

test will follow the CSM entry minus 5 day checks, which
are presently underway. This is Skylab Control. It's now
26 minutes to our next acquisition of signal at the United
States and it's now 22 minutes and 30 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-III MC-2295/1
Time: 07:47 CDT, 55/12:47 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 47 minutes

and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal over the United States. We'll
have a pass through several stations in the U.S. and Bermuda.
And the pass should last approximately 13 minutes. We
have the llne up llve for air-to-ground over the U.S.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 14 minutes.
Be dumping the tape recorders over Mila at 12:49.
SPT (Garble) you to let me know when you're
configured for down-llnk TV, Story.
CC We're ready, Owen.
SPT Okay. You're getting that T_ mon, or
you will be as soon as I move my video switch.
CC And you're on the next 13 minutes, got a
couple of questions.
SPT For who, was that?
CDR Well, I'm working on - -
CC That! s for CDR.
CDR I've got 5 minutes until I'm supposed
to do this little operation here.
CC Okay. We're wondering how the EMS
entry takes went?
CDR Went good. But I didn't work under this
... plate.
CC Okay.
CDR You can hear those glmbal motors growling
back there when you give it the MPVC. Never heard those
before.
CC Copy, A1.
CC Owen, you've got a good NUZ update.
SPT Are you asking me_ or letting me know
how it looks on the ground?
CC No. Wefre Just telling you it looks
good from down here.
SPT Good. Fine. Thank you.
SPT This activity coming over the east llmb
is certainly producing a lot of XUV mon brightness above the
llmb. There's quite a bit out there in the corona that
we can't see the H-alpha.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. We're 145 from the simulated
burn.
CC AI, you're too far down in the mud
to read you. Can you adjust your headset or mike or something?
CDR Okay. I Just wasn't talking very loud.
We're 130 from the simulated burn at the moment. Both
C&M valves are auto. I checked them a moment ago.
CC Okay.
CC And, Owen, we'd like you to close the
star tracker shutter door.
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Time: 07:47 CDT, 55/12:47 GMT
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SPT The - my barber - my flag is barber

pole.
CC We'd llke the switch in the closed
position.
CDR The MS mode to normal. GHC power is
off per instructions here. And of course, right now is
the time, I guess, I'd give it a verb 46. In real life.
SPT It's a barber - It's a momentary switch
Story. And it was already barber pole, I didn't cycle it again.
How does your telemetry show it now?
CDR (garble) blank.
CC It's okay, Owen.
CDR Okay. We start ullage about right now.
But we won't today. We've got the - both Delta-V
thrusts off and we've got both pilot valves circuit breakers
pulled. So everything's okay.
CDR DMS is counted up to 100.4.
Okay. We've still got a 99:40.
CDR Okay. We've got a 6:40, 97:40. We've
got the engine on light just like we should have, helium
valves are still barber pole, ejecter valves are still
closed. We've got the nitrogen pressure A in 20:50 and
B is 23:00.
CDR Okay. There's an enter.
CDR Thrust light went out just per plan.
CDR 99:40, we entered. Got a 16:85 with
a bunch of residual. We (garble) we're through 37, we
go to PO0, now.
CDR Okay. Now this is PCM blt-rate low.
But I don't think you want that, because that's where -
because it wasn't that way when we started.
CDR Okay, Houston. Gimbal motors are off.
CC Okay, AI. And you can go to low and
bit-rate so you'll have the switch in the proper position
for your checklist.
CDR Okay. I went low. BMAGs back
to rate 2. Main bus ties are coming off. Now we've got
to be careful here, where we've got the batteries on the bus.
Okay. - because we've kind of done something funny to the bus
there.
CC And everything's been looking great
down here.

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SL III MC-2296/I
TIME: 07:57 CDT 55/12:57 GMT
9/20/73

CDR Concur. It looks fine. Okay. Main

BUS ties are OFF. EMF is OFF to STANDBY. I might consider
biasing this thing about 4/10 of a foot per second. And
it says DSC dump. That's something you'll be doing, I guess.
CC On that biasing the EMS, AI, we will
probably have some new numbers for you on entry day.
CDR In other words you're going to take
care of the bias, huh?
CC Yes Sir.
CDR Okay. That's a good idea. Okay, I
think that circuit breaker panel 275 is right. Let me
double check it one more time.
CDR Okay. That looks good.
CDR Okay. The engine package and the
quad heaters are primary.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS here.
See you over Madrid in 4 minutes. And A1, you got ahead
of us a little bit on the RCS checks. How did they go?
CDR I'm sorry Story. I thought you'd we'd gone
AOS. They went just exactly as planned. I got the right
numbers and everything worked out. I got the heaters on,
and I went back and did verb 48, and put the proper things
in the computer, gave it a verb 46. Standing by to end the
STS drift check at 18. Everything else is complete and
satisfactory.
CC Okay. Thanks. I got a couple of more
questions and comments. We'll pick up over Madrid and
over Madrid, we'll need to restore EMT 51 that the self
check wiped out so (garble) go to accept there.
CDR Okay. I'll be ready to do it.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 3 minutes
and 51 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
the Skylab space station has gone out of range of the
tracking antenna at Bermuda and it's about 3 minutes from
acquisition of signal at the Madrid tracking station. During
this past revolution about the Earth, Commander Alan Bean
has been busy working on the entry minus 5 day checklist on
the command module. Everything is going well according to
the Commander at this last report and that will be com-
pleted about an hour from now. Following that there will
be a test run on the S193. The purpose of the test, 193
has been malfunctioning. Had a problem with the antenna
control on 193, which is the microwave radiometer
seatterometer altimeter. One on the Earth Resources electronic
sensors. They will do a test on that, that will hopefully
dislodge a piece of contaminating material that's believed
to be fouling up the antenna. That test will be performed
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shortly after 14:15 Greenwich mean time, a little over an

hour from now. On the past revolution about the Earth, the
ATM has been manned by pilot Jack Lousma, who has gone on
to housekeeping and at the present time Science Pilot Owen
Garriott is handling the ATM duties. In this past revolution
handheld photography was scheduled to be taking place. That
was a duty set aside about an hour ago over Pakistan,
During the pass over Pakistan, Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
was scheduled to take photos of flooded areas in West
Pakistan where hundreds of towns are under 4.5 to 6 meters
of water. Heavy rainfall in the mountains of Kashmir sent
water surging through rivers such at the Hanab and Junjab,
in Junjab province. The waters of the Imdus River burst
through their banks and abruptly flooded towns. For i0
days the swollen waters of the Imdus moved from Punjab
to northern Sind Pakistan. The flood has damaged the
cotton crops and the wheat supply stored on fields has
been washed away. That handheld photography assignment
was given to Science Pilot Owen Garriott should have been
completed during this last pass. We have not yet received
any formal report, but we should get one later this evening.
We're now about 40 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Madrid. We'll have a 7 minute 47 second pass through
Madrid and we'll have the line up live for air-to-ground
there.

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CC Skylab, AOS Madrid for 7 minutes and we'd

like accept now.
CDR Okay. You gots it.
CC And how busy are you right now?
CDR Not at all for another 6 or so minutes.
Six or i0 minutes.
CC Okay. We'd like to know on the end of
P-50. Did you accept the NOUN 23s or did you reject them?
CDR I noted it didn't say, so I went ahead
and accepted them. May I give them to you?
CC Yeah. We're ready to copy.
CDR Okay. 146, 28. 180, 02, 00011.
CC Okay. We're showing those are essentially
unchanged.
CDR Suprise.
CC And could you make some comments on the
gimbal motor growls. Did that seem normal to you from your
previous experience?
CDR No, it seemed much louder and I don't
recall them ever growling near that much. Although we've heard
them before. Now it may be it's because we're being held
so solid here inertially and then they're moving around. So that
has an effect although I don't know what it would have rather than
be a undocking movement. And they did it both in pitch and yaw
which kind of leads you to believe that it might be normal. But
I was suprised at the growling of them. And I think growling
is a good word because I wasn't sure it was the gimbal motors
for a few minutes. Then I moved the hand controller and I
said, "¥eah, that's what it is." It was a little bit
different than I recalled.
CC Okay and on your Pbl and P52's, on the
Pbl, using the sun sensor or the star tracker and you can't
do that during a dump. But you could do the P51 on using
stars if they're available and of course, you could do the
P52 using stars during the dump. We're looking at the rates
that are achieved during a typical dump. Earth is the passive
thermal control that you used on Apollo, and these dumps are
a tenth of what the rates were in the passive thermal control
and you had no trouble doing 52's then.
CDR I concur. As long as can find the stars
there's not a lot of things to see out the window, I've noticed
particularly when the Earth is the occulting (garble).
If we can thumb ahead on - get the shaft to trunnion, we
can very easily do it. But what I hope to do, is llke we did
prior to that EVA - last EVA where we cranked this thing up
real early, the idea anyway when we get a 51 and 52 and just
let it set there. So we don't have to get into a hassle
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about getting a good alignment.

CC Yeah. There's no trouble in doing that
51 early, AI. We just passed you a time for your own sequencing.
CDR Understand. I'm Just hoping that on
real entry day, we crank it up either the night before or early
in the morning before we start doing anything else. Get over
here and get it aligned and then just let it float there.
Then you can find those stars and everything else pretty
simple with y'alls help and tell us which ones are available.
CC And AI, it's your computer and we'd
llke a VERB 74 to check our lock.
CDR Okay, youknow bit rate low is low
now, don't you? I can put it in high but this'll - might
be best to just leave it low and take longer. What do you
think?
CC You can leave the switch in low, but we've
commanded high.
CDR Way ahead of me. It'll be interesting to -
CC Okay. Stand by. We've lost the MC data
down here.
CDR Okay. Going to be interesting to see how
brown part of this command module is. Because I'ii tell you, it
seems to me that the workshop is much more gold in color than
it use to be when we got here. That thing is slowly but
surely turning sort of a light gold.
CC Okay, AI. We've got the data back and give
us the VERB 74 and we're thinking down here that maybe the
glmbal motors are louder now because you've got less background
noise than you've had before. We've had a lot of motors and
fans that aren't running right now.
CDR I suspect that's probably a good call.
The encouraging thing is that they're the same in pitch as
they are in yaw, which gives you the feeling that maybe it's
not Just one motor acting funny or one gimbal doing something.
That's the way they always are. You're probably right
and of course, it's quiet up here most of the time and we're pro-
bably less sensitive to noise than we were some time ago during
launch where we're_ you know, around on the Earth. It's pretty
quiet up here most of the time. Like right now.
CC Rog.
CDR I guess we're crossing Italy now. I can
see it out my side window. Looks mighty pretty down there.
See Corsica and Sicily.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 13:41 and
everything we could see in the gimbals down here was good.
CDR Okay. I'm feel pretty good about them too
and I'Ii be checking out BMAGS here - going over to BMAG i
here in another 3 or 4 minutes.
CC Okay.

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PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 16 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of
range of the tracking antenna at Madrid. Our next acquisition
of signal in 25 minutes and 6 seconds from now will be at
Carnarvon, Australia. During this last pass, there was a
brief interruption in the data received here from the
command module computer, but there's no problem there and
they are completing now, the entry minus 5 checks of the
command module prior to the reentry for next week. This
will be completed during the next pass around the Earth.
It's now 24 minutes and 42 seconds to acquisition of signal
and 16 minutes and 40 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 08:40 CDT, 55/13:40 GMT
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PAO Skylab Control, at 13 hours, 40 minutes

and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. The pass through Carnarvon will last approximately
5-1/2 minutes. We have the line up llve for alr-to-ground
through Carnarvon. At 13:40 we have scheduled a completion
of that CSM E-5 checks. Those will be completed in the
next 20 or 30 minutes. And ATM activities underway and Just
now being completed by Science Pilot Owen Garrlott, who's
probably about ready to eat lunch. We have the llne up
llve, now, for the air-to-ground through Carnarvon, Australia.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon 5 minutes.
PLT Hey, Story. Let me give you a little
word on this diffusion experiment. I got the little (garble)
set up, there's a swab in the top. It got soaked in water, of
course. Then I went to put the tea on top of it and
waited about an hour and nothing happened. And the tea Just
stayed right on top of it. And I'm guessing that probably
nothing will happen. And maybe what we ought to do is
get a swab and soak it with tea and stick it in the top,
llke you folks were-thinking down there for a while and -
and - Want to know what you think we ought to do?
CC Okay. Get back with you.
CDR Story, I 're got the ru - results of that
BMAG 2 test if you need them.
CC And, AI, for your P52, star 2.6 is still
good.
CDR Okay. I'm waiting until the proper
time, unless you want me to do it now. But I can give you
the BMAG 2 check, if you'd like it.
CC Okay. We'd like 2 and I test results.
CDR Okay. l's not finished, of course,
yet. Here's 2; 16436, 33590, 00083. That was NOUN 20.
Same time the ASCP thumbwheels were 162.8, 337.8, 001.4. Start
time was 18:00, stop time was 27:05. So it amounted to
09:05, as far - correction - i hour 09:05 as far as time is
concerned.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Now, I got a little information
for the food people here.
CC Go.
CDR I was looking over their meal B for
entry day in the command module to make sure it was all
here. And a couple of things that I noticed, and you might
pass it on to them. They may want to reach G. They said
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for us to get out some things out of overage. For example -

Just a minute let me look at something.
CDR No, forget it. I found it right here.
I thank you.
CDR No. I still can't find it. It says -
Are you still there?
CC Yeah. We've got another minute here.
CC And, AI, you can go ahead with the P52.
CDR All right. I'll go ahead on that. But
they indicate that the PLT is going to eat two sausages -
We can work that problem. Okay. I think we can handle it.
Here's a meal. All right. We got it all.
CC Okay. Good. We're 30 seconds from
LOS and 6 minutes from Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay. And I'm going on to 52.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out of range
of the Carnarvon, Australia tracking station, passing very
far south of the continent of Australia. And we'll have
acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle Creek in about 3 minutes
and 17 seconds. During this last pass, Pilot Jack Lousma
indicated that he was a little concerned about the key
diffusion science demonstration that is underway at the
present time. He said that the tea, which was saturating
a fiber pad remained on top of the water and didn't diffuse.
Here in Mission Control the corollary experiments officer
informed the flight director, although it has not been called
up to the crew, that that was exactly what was expected. That
it's expected - that it's anticipated about 36 hours will be
required for that tea to diffuse in zero gravity. So he
will probably inquire as to whether or not the tea was properly
saturating the pad. And other than that, they would not
expect a complete diffusion to take place for a good deal
of time yet. During this last pass, the Commander of the
Mission, A1 Bean, back in the command module, reported that
the body mounted attitude control system test had been completed.
It took an hour and 9 minutes and 5 seconds to complete that
test. The BMAC was compared for its performance with the
attl - with another attitude control system. And its per-
formance was excellent. In fact, flight director Phil
Shaffer indicated that it was better now than it had been
previously. Its performance was extremely close to the
expected, and quite satisfactory. Commander Bean indicated
that there was a problem with one of the entry day meals. Didn't
go into much detail, but he - Apparently, something had been
removed from the meal that had to be replaced. He said that
he would take care of that problem and wouldn't bother the
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ground with it. Bean is now going aheadwith Program 52

which is - which is one of the activities scheduled for
today. That's the inertial alinement - the IMU alinement.
That is now underway. He was going to postpone it a bit,
but he was given an okay to go ahead with the - -

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PAO - That is now underway. He was

going to postpone it a bit, but he was given an okay to go
ahead with the alignment of the IMU. We're now about a
minute and 14 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Honeysuckle. This is going to be a relatively short pass
lasting approximately a minute and a half and we have signal
coming in now and we do have the line up live for alr-to-
ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab. AOS Honeysuckle for i minute.
CDR Okay. Could - Would you be interested
in the results of that last P-52?
CC Yes Sir. And you need to hurry.
CDR Okay. Here it comes. Stars 2 and 4.
All zips. Noun 93 plus .134, minus 2, that's 002, minus 051.
And time of gyro torque was 13:49:22:00.
CC Okay. Thanks AI. When you get done
with your checks there, you're GO for a power down and
remember to get your VERB 45, that's activate the dot DAP
along the way there.
CDR If it's in there, I'ii get it, I hope.
I - there it is. I'ii sure do it. I'm just standing until
this 30 minute check runs out.
CC Okay. And for Jack, we want you to
check that pad between the tea and the water. Be sure you
got good contact of the fiber pad between the tea and the
water. And also Jack, the Goddard Space Flight Center Laser
may be visible from 14:32 to 14:36. We're going LOS here,
we'll see you over Texas in half an hour at 14:23.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 55 minutes
and 39 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. During this last pass AI Bean gave a
report on the performance of program 52, which is inertial
measurement unit alignment and that apparently has gone off
all right. Spacecraft Communicator Story Musgrave indicating
to the crew that they may have an opportunity to see the
Goddard Space Flight Center laser as they pass over the area
to the northeast. That laser was spotted yesterday by Science
Pilot Owen Garriott. It appears to be a 51uegreen color from
the spacecraft and they had no trouble at all identifying it.
Said it was very, very clear. They will however, be repeating
that today and may do it a number of times during passes over
Goddard over the next several days. The experiment is an
attempt to determine whether or not a ground based laser can be
used for navigational purposes and for other scientific purposes
for spacecraft. That will be visible beginning at 14:32
which is a little less than an hour from now as the space-
craft crosses the U.S. on revolution number 1861 of the
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orbital workshop. We're now 26 minutes and 18 seconds

from acquisition of signal at Texas tracking station in
Corpus Christi and we are now 57 minutes and 4 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC2301/I
Time: 09:22 CDT, 55/14:22 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours, 22 minutes

and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approximately
50 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking
station in Corpus Christi. We have the llne live for air-
to-ground through Corpus Christi and a long pass over the
United States station lasting approximately 16 minutes.
During this pass, one of the three crewmembers may be taking
the opportunity to see if he can spot blue-green laser from
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, just
north of Washington, D.C. That laser was aimed at the space-
craft yesterday successfully and Science Pilot Owen Garrlott
said he saw it coming through loud and clear and that'll
be done again today using that argon high powered laser to -
for tracking purposes. We now have -
CDR Trying to lock up on us.
PLT Hello, Story.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Yes, sir. We got you stateside, 15 minutes.
PLT Hey Story, my spot meter readings don't
agree with the (garble) mine or yours.
CC We're breakln up pretty bad here. Stand
by about 30 seconds so we get a solid lock on.
PLT Very well.
CDR Solid lock.
CC Okay. We're good now.
PLT Okay. My spot meter's reading 1/25th at
F-16 as opposed to 1.8 llke the pad suggest it might.
CDR S to STANDBY. R is STANDBY. Let me
read you some information.
PLT Want me to go to my meter readings there,
Story?
CC What's your distance, Jack?
PLT I got it located about - well it should
be about 3 feet.
CC Okay.
PLT That's what it is, 3 feet. I got F-16 at
1/25, is what I'm spotting.
CDR Okay, Story, let me read you A-9 which is
zero, actually it's offscale low. B-O and I0, C-O is 2, B-9 is 8.
SPT Story, question for the ATM backroom. I'm
doing a shopping llst 19 over on the east llmb instead of
the west where there is a very large area of brightness
Just coming around, and I'd llke to know if 82B wants to
participate in this. Over.
CC Okay, Owen.
CDR Story, why don't I read you the results
of that friendly little alignment while ago? I mean the
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BMAG check.
CC Okay, we can - we're pretty busy hear on
other things. Let's take that up over Bermuda.
CDR Okay, can't handle it, huh? Okay. Well,
we finally overloaded them down there, Jack. (garble) would
happen.
PLT Okay, the antenna's pointing to forward
now, looks like it's down to plus Z all right but it's
pointing forward and I got some pictures of it.
CC Owen, we concur with your suggestion.
PLT BaJa, how about that? Good old Baja.
CDR We've probably got 80 pictures of that.
PLT Know we didn't get anymore here, that's
for sure. Okay.
CC Jack, use the spot meter readings you're
getting onboard.
PLT Okay, 1/25 at F-16 (garble).
CDR It's Just standing there, isn't it Jack?
PLT It's not doing anything rizht now.
CDR Right, it's in the park position, 45 forward
or something like that.
PLT Yeah, looks like it's forward and very
much straight down. Now it's going to be noncontiguous so it's
going to fly back and go step, step, step, step and fly back to
the other side and step, step, step, (garble) - -
CDR EREP at START, Jack. S190 - S is ON
and R is ON. Standing by now.
PLT Give me a hack before you go to ALTIMETER
ON, will you?
CDR I most certainly will. S is ON, R is
ON.
PLT There it goes. RAD going to the right.
CDR RAD (garble) GIMBLE light is illuminated
and blinking.
PLT It's going to the right, it's looks like
it might be moving but I can't tell. Jiggle it a little bit -
there it goes. It swung out to the left and back to center.
CDR Got both READY LIGHTS ON.
PLT Left, center, right, left, it hasn't
ever got to minus Z - or plus Z rather. Looks like it's
just doing dithering around at random. It goes clear to the
right stop now; it's on the right stop. What - what you got
it in now, AI?
CDR Same old thing.
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PLT Okay, it went to the right stop and is

hanging up there, and every once and a while it twitches
a little. Twitches off and stops toward the center and
goes back. Now it goes to the left - -
CDR Okay, let me talk a second.
PLT But it wasn't unlf - wasn't stepping,
it was Just a swing over there. It's swinging off the
right stop to the center and back to the right now.
CDR A-9 - A-9 is 5, B-O is i0, C-O is off-
scale low, B-9 is 6. Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, it's hungup on the right stop now
and it's Just twitching a little bit. Every once in a while
it swings towards the center a little bit, comes back to the
right stop - that time it swang back, probably all the
way to the center, maybe all the way to the left. Now it
looks llke it's looking straight down and it's zinging back
to the right, but it's not giving us any definite step
movement.
CC We got the carrier on the EDDU downllnk
but we don't have any modulations.
PLT We got both switches right.
CDR Everything's okay, it was right a few
minutes ago.
PLT Let me know when you go to another mode,
AI.
CDR All right. I'ii go to STANDBY in a minute.
PLT It's not doing anything uniform, Story.
It's moving off from stop and Just swinging over to the left
and it'll hesitate for a minute and come back to the right
stop, but it's not swinging right, stepping back to center,
swinging left and stepping back to center like it's supposed
to. And it never has pointed straight down, it's still
pointing forward.
CDR On the intrack noncontiguous (garble)
in a minute.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR We're standing by to go intrack non contiguous.
PLT Okay, let me look that up. That's at
12:19.
CDR 29:30, which is about 33 seconds from
now.
PLT It's suppose to swing away forward and then step
back to zero; swing forward, step back to zero. Right now it's
looking forward toward the command module and it might be straight
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down and it might be at the right stop; I can't tell which.

CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Between 14:32 and 14:36, if you get a
chance look out STS 2 and see if you can see the Goddard
laser.
CDR S ON, R ON.
CC Yesterday we ran it on 20 watts; we'll
be running it 2-1/2 watts today, and we're trying to calibrate
that.
SPT Okay, that's 32 to 36.
PLT Okay, now the antenna apparently wasn't
all the way forward. We're looking forward, but now it
went down to the forward stop and it - it occasionally comes
back to the original position and then it goes right back
to the forward stop and bounces. Now to the forward stop
and it's trying to bounce off a little bit. It comes up
occassionally and then bounces against the stop, Just kind of
dumps itself out.
CC And, Owen, have you got the camera up there?
SPT I don't think so; I'ii check.
PLT It's doing the same thing. It doesn't
come back to the same - -
CC If you got an opportunity I've got the
camera settings.
PLT For what?
CDR Okay, let me give you A-9 again. A-9 is
plus 3, B-0 is plus 8, C-O is plus 2, D-9 is plus 8.
SPT Okay, go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, it's still on a forward stop and
every once and a while it looks like somebody just kicked
it a little bit and it comes off the stop and it goes right back
to it. It Just bounces and damps itself on the stop and then
it - a little while later it'll come back off the stop to
a different location, and go right back to stop and bounce
on it a little while. It's (garble) off the forward stop back to
plus Z is erratic, it doesn't go to the same place when it comes
off of stop everytime. It certainly is not doing any kind
of stepping at all. It looks llke something is trying to
get it off of stop, but nothing - nothing making steps. Right
now it's not doing anything.
CDR S STANDBY, R STANDBY. I'ii give you the
A-9. Again A-9 is 3 percent, B-0 is 9 percent, C-O is 2 percent,
D-9 is 8 percent. Switch position going off on the downlink
VOX.

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CDR Czero is 2 percent, D9 is 8 percent.

Switch position going off on the downlink VOX.
PLT Okay, now we - A1 went to standby and
come off the forward - -
CDR S off, R off. EREP going to STOP.
PLT It came off the forward stop. oops,
now (garble) something. (garble) to the left.
CDR Displays OFF. Bus i off and bus 2 off and
that's the end of the show.
PLT Okay, when AI went to stand by, I think
that's what he said, it came off the forward looking stop,
but did not go back all the way to zero, I do not believe.
Later on, - -
CDR Yet.
PLT About the time he said he went to off
why it slung to the left as I look at it. To the right if
you're looking through the - with your headturned to the command
module. But it not ever swing back to - looks like it's straight
now. It appears to be looking forward yet, although it may possibly
be in the right vertical plane although it's definitely not
looking straight down, it's looking more forward.
SPT What settings do you want, Story?
CC Okay, Owen that's FI1, at 1/250, with
a 55-millimeter lens.
CDR Not contiguously.
SPT Okay, that's for the Nikon 300-millimeter
now, Story. Right?
CC That's a 55-millimeter.
SPT I got the 300-millimeter lens on, I'm going
to have to leave it there.
CC Let me get you some settings.
CC And AI, if you're done with S193, we can
use you in the command module for about 5 minutes.
PLT EREP guys got any questions down here
about what I was trying to describe?
CC No sir, we certainly needed that running
commentary. It doesn't look llke we got any EDDUand the
running commentary, that's the data we got. Thank you.
PLT Okay, I don't know why; it was all hooked
up right.
CDR Be in the command module in a minute.
CC Okay.
PLT I guess in summary, Story, it looks
to me like the thing's kind of doing the samething in both
modes. It goes to a stop and then it looks llke somebody kind
of boots it and it goes off a little ways and it looks like
the guy who's booting it, boots it with a different strength
each time. And it goes in a random place and it comes
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back like it had a spring on it. Hits the stop and kind of
bounces a little bit - bouncing dance out and sits there a
while and then it looks like somebody kicks it again.
SPT Don't see the laser, Story, but I don't
- I think they're not tracking us too good.
PLT That's getting it.
CC Okay, Owen, shutter speed 1/500 in F8 on
the 300-millimeter.
SPT Just a minute, I think we got it in sight
here.
CC No need to acknowledge Owen, hut the
laser is on.
SPT Okay, Jack and A1 both have it visually.
I didn't see it, but Jack and A1 both have it and it looks
llke we got a couple of pictures of it.
CC Okay. Super. And it's off now.
CDR It didn't look like a bright point; it
looked llke three bright points lined up in a line, parallel
with the horizon. It was much more than just a single point.
CC Okay.
CDR And it was not a blob. If I'd seen it
somewhere else I'd thought it was like a neon tube, the
dlam - the length - the diameter was - length was maybe 20
times longer than its apparent diameter or width, or whatever
you want to call it.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm in the command module now, Story.
We double checked our down-link VOX and it was connected
perfectly.
CC Okay, we're a minute from LOS here, and
about 5 minutes from Madrid. And I got you - got some things
for you to hook up there so we can verify some data.
CDR I'm standing right here to do it.
CC Panel 275; circuit breaker, bat bus A
and B. Bat A and B, two of them closed. That's circuit
breaker bat bus A and B, bat A and B, two closed.
CDR I was going to mention it the voltage is
down on those things and we may need a charge. Looks like
about 33 when I looked at it previously. I'ii look at it right
now.

CC Okay, that's the next thing coming up.

Read out the hat bus A and B volts, and the bat C volts.
CDR Bat A is 33.8. Bat B is 33.3.
CC And Bat C?
CDR 36 - wait a minute. 36.5. When we
started this mission, A and B were up there too.
CC Okay, I'm going over the hill here now.
And on panel 275, you can open up those circuit breakers.
Bat bus A and B, Bat A and B to open.
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CDR They're open.

CC Okay, and coming up over Madrid in 4
minutes. I'ii just have a couple more questions for you
and then that will complete the command module check.
CDR Okay, and I'ii give you the BMAG goodies.
CC Yes sir, I'ii be looking at BMAG 1 and
also we'd like to know what the BMAG warm-up after you went
to warm-up how long the temperature - how lone did it take
for the temperature light to go out?
CDR I do not know.

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PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 40 minutes

and 39 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of
range of the Bermuda tracking station. There was an attempt
there apparently by the spacecraft to make some additional
communications as they passed over the North Atlantic but the
message was totally broken up and it was impossible to read any of
that. They did come up a little early on the Texas pass,
again attempting to communicate before they were within range
of the tracking antenna. Very very busy pass over the United
States_ we're now about 3 minutes from another acquisition
of signal at Madrid. During this pass, Jack Lousma and A1
Bean participating in a test of the S193 antenna. That antenna
has apparently malfunctioned and they've had a good deal of
difficulty in pointing it. They were testing it - trying a
number of maneuvers with the antenna. And they said during
this last pass they were attempting to point it - and to photograph
its position. At the same time, they had a EDDU the EREP
diagnostic downllnk unit operating but the EDDU was malfunctioning
and they were not receiving any useful data on the ground. They
thought that perhaps the switch might be in an incorrect position
but at the end of the pass, Commander A1 Bean indicated that
the EDDU was properly connected. So they did not recleve
very good data on the ground, however, Jack Lousma gave a
continuing description of what the antenna was doing. That it
was being moved back and forth in the hope that it may have
been fouled in part by a piece of mylar, but they're not certain
of that and apparently it is not operating properly at this
time. They will however, continue to work on that problem
and attempt to discover why the antenna is not properly
controlled. Also, during the pass, both Commander A1 Bean
and Jack Lousma indicated that they had seen the laser that
was fired into space from Goddard Space Plight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland. The laser was substantially reduced in
power today. Yesterday, Science Pilot Owen Garrlott indicated
that he saw the 20-watt laser. They poweredthe laser down to
2-1/2 watts today and A1 Bean did indicate that he could see
it. He said it looked llke three bright points rather than
a single one. And it looked a little llke a neon tube about
20 times as long as it was wide. The crew both saw and photographed
the Goddard Space Flight laser today. Even at the very reduced
power. The laser which is an argon laser is capable up to
i00 watts of power, but it's very very easy to observe, it's -
and it also apparently is observable even at that reduced
2.5 level. Purpose of the experiment is to provide NASA with
a realistic assessment of the laser's value as a terrestial aide
for tracking reference and for manually directed scientific
experiments. Investigations will also be made into the atmospheric

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distortion of data from a varity of Earth sensing instruments.

This is a cooperative program of Johnson Space Center and
the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Number of more
passes over the Greenbelt, Maryland site will give additional
data on the laser's performance. We're now 18 seconds from
acquisition of signal and we'll bring the llne up llve for
alr-to-ground through Madrid.
CC Skylab, AOS Madrid, 8 minutes.
CDR Story, do not know the time the lights
went out, but - any other information you need?
CC How about the BMAG 1 drift results?
CDR I think I've got'em.
CC Go.
CDR 164.42; 337.25; 003.08; that's NOUN 20.
Here comes the ASCP thumbwheel: 1643, 3377, 0033, and the
Delta-T was 3900.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything else?
CC No, sir. We're going to be looking over
all of this for the next couple of days to get a firm status
on the CSM. Vance will be coming on the line again over
Honeysuckle at 15:30 to give you the topics for discussion
during the procedure review and then he'll come back about
16:00 stateside and discuss all the entry procedures with you.
CDR Excellent, I thought I heard his voice,
a couple of hours ago.
CC Yes, sir. He was plugged inwlth me and
supposedly on ADF conference and we were air-ground then.
CDR Good to hear him again. Say, did you want
me to put the PCM bit rate high or do you want me to leave
it where it where it is in low?
CC You can leave the switch in low, AI.
CDR Alrlght, is there any other switches that
you see out of position that you would llke for me to reconflgure?
CC One more thing, A1. On another 509 run,
whether 2 hours is enough - that's only a 30 minute run and
it's unsuited. Do you still think that 2 hours is not enough?
CDR We could sure try it. I mean we're game
to try but we might run over, so position it at a place where
we can run over. It's just hard to get all of that gear
together. It's a tough one to assemble and get on and
strap in and check out. It just - it Just takes awhile.
It - maybe we can get a little lead time on it or something.
We're game to give it a go, I'll tell you that.
CC We'll schedule you a little more than
2 hours on that, AI. And could you comment on the comparison
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between the brightness of the laser you saw yesterday and the
brightness of the laser you saw today?
CDR I did not see it yesterday and I don't
think Owen saw it today, so that's a little bit tough to do.
Now the thing that puzzles Owen and I both, Owen is convinced
that maybe I didn't see the laser - or Jack didn't, because it
was not a pin point of light. However, it's the only bright
thing I've seen on Earth, so I personally think it was the laser,
but I don't know why it appeared as a horizonal llne as opposed
to one bright dot. It was plenty bright to see by the eye
and we saw - at least the thing I saw. It stood out well.
It was sort of a green color and it tracked us well until
we were perhaps 1 minute past the site.
CC Okay, that does, that does sound llke
the laser. I guess you don't have a comparison and - all of
the command module switches where looking at, they all look
good from down here.
CDR Okay, I think I'ii go find my lunch.
CC And before Jack digs into his dinner, I
need to talk to him for a short while.

PLT I'm here, go ahead, Story.

CC Jack, could you confirm that - in your -
running commentary on the 193 test, that when you were using
the term righthand that this was in the motion towards left
of track?
PLT Yeah, when I say it moves to the right,
that meant it moved toward my right and I was looking aft.
So that would have been to the left of track.
CC Okay, thank you.

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CC And Jack, did you happen to notice that

the - the fiber is in contact with the tea and water?
PLT Well, I haven't had a chance to go back
and do that again but here's what happend. I put the water
in and then I put the little fiber thing on top to make the -
then I pushed it down a little bit and a little air bubble
forms under it so you got to push it down and let the air
out. Then it gets a little wet so, then I made sure that
the wet fiber was in contact with the water. And then I put
the tea on top of the wet fiber and it didn't go anywhere it
Just stood up there and filled up the rest of the tube and
it didn't go anywhere at all. Then I tried taking all the
tea out with a syringe and injected it a little further down
along side the fiber. Well, that didn't work very good
either because some of it slipped by and went on down into the
water so that's where it stands right now. And my suggestion
is that we soak up a new fiber with tea and stick it in there
and contact with the water and then let it do it's thing, because
I don't think the other one was going to do anything at all.
The tea would not defused on down into the fiber while I was
watching it anyway.
CC Okay, you did get all the bubbles out?
PLT Yeah, I got a good interface between the
fiber and the water I could do that.
CC And how about the contact between the
fiber and the tea?
PLT Yeah, that was good too. There's a - the
tea is a little bubbly but they're just very small bubbles
and there's no way to do it differently that's just the way
the tea mixes up and get to the syringe. But there's no big
bubbles just a little bit frothy but that had good contact
with the fiber.
CC Okay, thanks. We're 30 seconds from
LOS here. We'll give you a good 40 minutes to eat. See
you over Honeysuckle at that time at 15:30. And I guess
Vance will be talking to you then.
PAO Skylab Control, at 14 hours 54 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the tracking
station at Madrid, Spain; as the spacecraft is passing near
Egypt over the Southern part of the Mediterranean. During
this last pass an additional description by Commander A1
Bean of the observation of the laser bean sent up by
Goddard Space Flight Center. Commander Bean indicating that
the laser tracked them for about i minute and he was quite
convinced that the blue-green light that he saw was that
of the Argon laser beamed up by the Goddard Space Flight
Center. Description was a little bit different than that
given yesterday by Science Pilot Owen Garriott who apparently
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did not have an opportunity to see the laser today, it

may be due to a number of things, one of those is atmospheric
transmission of the laser which is an area to be studied
today by the - by the Goddard Space Flight Center team and
the Skylab astronauts. That laser will be a possible value
aid in navigation for space - future spacecraft and also may be
used for pointing instruments at locations specified on the
ground for various sorts of earth resources experiments.
These are of course future applications for the Argon laser
that was tested today. The test today used only 2-1/2 watts
of power, yesterday when Owen Garriott spotted it, it was
using a full 20 watts. It's capable of up to i00 watts of
power - it's quite a powerful laser, of course there is no
danger to the crew from the laser's beam. It's quite a safe
on, radiates only visible light in the blue and green spectrum
so it appears as a bright light on the ground. Today it did
appear as a long horizontal light apparently like a neon
tube. Commander Bean indicated as he passed over the United
States he said it was about 20 times as long as itwas wide
and also indicated that it had 3 bright points of light in
it. This is Skylab Control, it's now 55 minutes and 49
seconds after the hour. We don't have another acquisition
of signal for 35 minutes.

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PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

15 hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 2 minutes
away now from reacqulrlng Skylab-III through Honeysuckle.
Meanwhile in the Mission Control Center a backup Commander
Vance Brand is presence. Brand will talk with the crew of
Skylab III at Goldstone activation, approximately 1600 hours
GMT. This would be on checklist changes for reentry, the
long llst of procedures which were sent up on the teleprinter.
We'll stand by and pick up Skylab-III as Story MusErave
makes his call.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 3 minutes.
Here's Vance.
PLT Hi, Vance.
MCC Hey, how you doing? You guys really - -
CDR We really haven't got much to say in
3 minutes.
MCC Yeah. I don't know if we'll get much
done in the 3 minutes but, A1 we're prepared to answer,
first of all, the questions you sent us the other day. And
ready to copy anymore you might have or - or disucss it in -
things informally or whatever you'd llke.
CDR Okay, we're ready; go ahead.
MCC Okay, the point you brought up the other
day, the Mae West donning thing is out - out of sync with the
suit doffing, and I think that that will he corrected in the pad
that we have here ready to send up. And next thing was the -
you asked about when do we do the secondary and primary water
evaporator activation. And I think maybe the stuff you've
recieved recently might have squared that away. Do you still
have a question on that?
CDR No question; understand now. Thanks, Vance.
MCC Okay. Okay, we only have 15 seconds, AI,
and probably the next thing will be discussion of the hyper-
garment and when you wear it. And we'll see you next time.
CDR Thanks for the briefing. See you on the
ground.
MCC Okay, see you in a few minutes.
CC Okay, we'll pick youup over Goldstone,
Skylab, at 15:59. Vance will have 15 minutes that stateside
pass.
CDR Okay, ask Vance - here's a question he
might want to think about. How would it, if we did use the - -
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
15 hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've Just had
loss of signal with Skylab through Honeysuckle. The next
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station to acquire will be Goldstone in a little more than

25 minutes. Meanwhile in the news center auditorium at
11:45 Central daylight time this morning, a JOP 13 briefing
will take place with Dr. A1 Kreiger, who is a Principal
Scientist for S054. I repeat: The news briefing will take
place in the news center auditorium at 11:45 a.m. Central
daylight time this morning. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 15

hour 58 minutes Greenwich mean time, now approaching acquisition
of Skylab-lll through Goldstone. We expect resumption of
the conversation between A1 Bean, Commander of Skylab-lll and
Vance Brand, backup Commander for this Skylab mission, once
we reacqulre. Brand setting along side CAP COMM Story Musgrave
here in the mission control center. Standing by, this is
Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, AOS, stateside, II minutes.
CDR Okay.
MCC Say, AI, you cut out on that last
transmission, when you were asking a question, would you repeat
that please?
CDR The question was Just, when you get a chance
you might discuss, if we did do an RCS burn, how we secquence
through the different tanks that we have.
MCC Okay, llke - PSM to QUADs etc, huh?
CDR That could be later, other words, do you
burn out the PSM first and then shift over to the primaries
or - I mean the QUADs or what? But that's of low priority, go
ahead.
MCC Okay, that's a good question. It's already
been discussed down here. There's a lot more gas in the PSM.
We'd like to see you use up the PSMs first and then shift to
the QUADS.
CDR Well, I gather you just keep burning until you
started to loose attitude control, is that how you would do
it? The minute you start to loose attitude control you'd
assume that you were out there and then switch to QUADs or
what?
CDR Would you watch the pressure? I'm not
sure - I'm not sure how you know exactly when to shift.
MCC Okay, there is - we'll check it down here, but
I think AI, what the answer is going to be is that you're
going to have caution and warning lights coming on, telling you
you're going down on pressure but stand by on that one.
CDR Okay, go ahead with your things, Vance.
MCC Okay, and let me finish off that - darn
Mae West by just giving you the quick checklist change right
on the spot, have you got page 12-1 open there?
CDR Sure do.
MCC Okay. Where you see F-I unstow and donn Mae
West, just scratch that, move it to the next stage, at the
very end of - I - of - pin and ink number 8, which is after
doffing.
CDR Okay, it's there. So - go ahead.
MCC Okay. Next - counter pressure garments
you asked about that. There has been a lot of discussion on
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how that should be handled down here. Basically - it's your

option to inflate the counter pressure garment to 175 millimeters
of mercury, prior to the SPS deorbit burn. You can do that
if you want or not. After splashdown, the garment must be
inflated to 175 and maintained at that until your in the (garble).
And, I think that'll probably give you what you want in option.
CDR Okay, let me make sure now. If you do
do it prior to the burn, then you do it on the water, or I
mean before you get out on the ship. If you don't do it prior
to burn, what do you do? Do you then do it on the ship?
MCC In any case, you do it after splash on
the water, and you keep it inflated until you're on the ship. But
the option applies to whether or not you inflat it before the
burn, for example, if you decided to inflat it before the burn,
you could depressurize it until you are on the water, or leave
it inflated until you are on the water.
CDR Okay, I think that's a good idea. I haven't
liked leaving it pressurized so long. What do - Paul, Joe and
Pete say about this SPS burn, that was one of my big
questions today. You talked with them about it I guess, what's
their thinking?
MCC Okay. They're sort of - for it - Paul and
Joe, I've talked to and Story. Story is right here. He's
been in the middle of this item. Why don't I let you listen
to him.
CC Both Joe and Paul had a - slight
graying out of narrow of their vision during the - their first
, SPS burn. And apparently that was enough to get the reflexes
going, that during the second SpS burn, they had no symptoms at all.
It's our feeling though Al, that this is probably an arterial
reflex and that the - the counter pressure garment itself,
which prevents being as venous pooling. It probably isn't going
to help you a lot during the burn.
CDR It sounds like that there doesn't appear to be
an easy way get our reflexes in shape. That that burn is going to
be sort of - tunnel vision. Is that correct? Would you
assume that?
CC Joe and Paul did on the first one, they
had no symptoms on the second.
CDR How about Pete on the first one?
CC No Pete never did on either one.
CDR Well, we're in pretty good shape, we'll
liable not do either. Go ahead then.
CC It sure won't hurt to inflate it though, but
that's your option.
CDR Okay, I plan to inflat it, by the way.
Go ahead.
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MCC Okay, next thing AI. You ask the question

about - where do you - go spacecraft control to CMC AUTO
after undocking? You wondered was it was before or after the
RCS check? The answer to that, we expect you to come off,
undock, in CMC free, that'll give you a min impluse mode on
the dock DAP then when you're clear of the SWS, you will
go into the CM RCS check directly and that'll put you into
SCS free, then when you finish that, you'll end up in SCS
free and then it'll switch you over to CMC AUTO. If that's
clear.
CDR Okay, that's clear. Would you please put
these three sentences on a pad and send them up on a piece of
paper and then I'll look through my checklist and make sure it's
right.
MCC Okay. That brings up another point,
those three pages, right in that - that area from about 12
wellor more. 12-1 through 12-5, we're curious to know how
clobbered up your book is, right in there. You know, what we
could do if we want - wanted to sendup a teleprinter message
to redue the left side of those pages, it's up to you.
CDR No, I think it's okay. I just want to -
and I think we have all of the changes in there. I just want
to make sure that I understand the philosophy and it being
the words reflected because - I don't think we'll have any
trouble, I've been working with this book, plus that nice
tlmellne you sent up and it's been working real well but I
just want to make sure I understand what the plan is.
MCC Yeah. Basically the CMRCS check has to
be done in SCS or we desire it to be. And basically when you
undock, you want to be in im - min impluse so you don't -
spray your solar panels and - after all of that smash is
finished. Then you'll want to be in - CMC AUTO so that you
can get your AUTO maneuvers and that sort of thing with the
dock DAP control.
CDR Okay. How about - go ahead and continue.
I've got about 5 more questions after you're finished.
MCC Okay. You asked Just prior to the SPS
burn, why one minute before the burn, we do the VERB 46,
why we don't do it sooner? The answer to that is, that the -
the attitude hold using dock DAP is so good, and keeps you
pointed so well, that we llke to stay in dock DAP until the
last minute before the burn and then - there's very little
chance you'll do any drifting before you start the ullage
but you have to be certain that you do the VERB 46 about
a minute before the burn because - your ullage will be not
good if you forget that.
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CDR Okay, and it's just a simple verb 46

takes you out of the dock into the undock. We previously
loaded the proper numbers in there and away you go. And there
is no check, Just do it and then - when 20 seconds come, you'll
find out that it worked okay, is that correct?
MCC That's exactly right. Of course, we
mention in one of the study guides that you might during the
coasting phase sometime leading up to the burn, go into the
undock DAP and maneuver it just a little bit to see how
it feels. And you do that just by doing a VERB 46 maneuver
using the RHC and THC for your and then when your satisfied
do a VERB 45 enter again.
CDR Okay, I plan to do that. They got it
under the plan is OJT, so I'm going to do it.
MCC Okay, and I might mention thatwhen
you do that, be real careful to notice which way you have
to control with the THC when you you or - correct you
in a certain direction.
CDR Well, I figured it was fly from, now the question
is, when you're flying in - with the THC, do you try to keep
the needle centered on the fly from (garble) or do you get your
mind turned around where you Justfly the ball?
MCC I use the needles and that's the only way
to go. And you'll be set up to use the needle. If you see
your error needle going off to the left, meaning youhave
to correct to the leftin yaw, then as I recall, you do
THC to the right , so it's kind of a fly from situation. Which
is a little strange that's why you might think about it when
you do the OJT. You got that?
MCC Okay, Skylab, Houston, how do you read
now?
CC Okay, Houston, - Skylab,Houston. How
do you read now?
CDR Okay, read you well, and question was,
how do you know when to put B MAG - B all B MAG Just leave
it in rate or when to put it in ATT i rate 2 with the other
2 when you do them?
MCC Okay, AI. I don'twhere we -
CC We'll pick youup over Bermuda in about
a minute.
MCC Okay, Well- we'll hit that one under - over
Bermuda. Did you get all of my transmission on the flight from
bit?
CDR Sure did, Vance and understand that one.
No - no need to say more.
MCC Okay. Basically - it doesn'thurt much
if you drag a B MAG around but -

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CDR ... stable it.

MCC Okay. Basically it doesn't hurt much if
you drag a BMAG around, but I'ii give you some words on
what the little simple rule on that will be. Okay, here
we are at Bermuda. How about that? Okay, basically you
handle the BMAGS for this nominal entry Just llke you would
if you had 4 quads, with one exception. If you ever get into
a control mode where you're using the THC for yaw control
then put the yaw B mag to the same rate 2 so that it's caged,
and you won't drag it around. But for burns just go by the
checklist and in general Just follow the checklist.
CDR Okay, so it's a drag around problem as
opposed to any sort of switch over problem or things of
that nature.
MCC That's correct. Not really very much
to be concerned about.
CDR Okay, understand.
MCC Okay, you had one question about - for
the CM RCS check, are we in CMC mln impluse or FCS min impluse.
I think our uplinks have squared thataway. It's SCS mid
impluse.
CDR Okay, you're right.
MCC And that was a confusing section that
we think's all in good shape now. You askedabout what do
we mean by auto RCS select 12 to main A, main B. We didn't
want to clobber your checklist too much so we looked for
a convenient notation that we could use that was familiar.
And basically that's just your ring i, ring 2 type notation.
But when we say that let me - why don't you copy down really
which jets are on main A and which are main B, if you're
ready to copy.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
MCC Okay, that means AC roll 4 off. Okay,
and ring I, 6 in parenthesis to main A, and those are
Bravo i, Bravo 2, Charlie 3, Alfa 4, Bravo 3, and Delta 4,
and ring 2, 6 to main B, and those are Delta i, Delta 2, Alfa
3, Charlie 4, Delta 3, and Bravo 4. Is that clear.
CDR Yeah, I got them. You don't need to
say anymore there.
MCC Okay. And you asked about having a
teleprinter pad sent up for your checklist for page 7-4, the
completion, and I think you've got that. We also sent one
up for 7-3. Next thing is go around stragedy if you're ready.
CDR Okay, ready.
MCC Okay, so, for the case that you're -
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in your nominal deorbit and SPS fails to light. What do you do?
The strategy as is follows. And we can actually send it up
on a teleprinter later, because it's a little bit lone and
maybe I could just explain it to you here.
CDR That's a good idea.
MCC Okay, it's for 2 quad, 2 impulse RCS deorbit
with an addition having B-4 on quad Bravo enabled. And it's
going to be - you'll get your first pad over Vanguard at
a PET of 2100 or 21 hours rather, and that'll be the pad for
RCS i. Now the nominal pick for RCS 1 would be 24 minutes
after you get the pad about 21:24. And it'd be a Delta V of
185 feet per second; a burn time of 14 minutes, taking you
down to a perigee of 130 miles. Next you'd coast for 2 revs
between RCS i and RCS 2. You'd get you RCS 2 pad overVanguard
at 24 hours and 7 minutes, and the RCS 2 tic would be 24 hours
and 25 minutes with the same Delta-V and the same burn time
as you had for RCS i. And it would take you down through a -
that is a Delta burn time 14 seconds. That'll take youdown
to 37 nautical miles.
CDR Okay; understand.
CC And, we're going LOS here, AI. You can
keep talking. We'll see you over Madrid in 5 minutes. You'll
have a i0 minute pass there.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, the entry would be (garble) down to
one-g and then it would be G&N. Entry interface would come
at 25 hours and 5 minutes, and the splash would be about
300 nautical miles southwest of Johnson Island at a time of
25:22. And you'd havea fixed wing airplane covering the
splash area dropping swimmers by parashoot.
CDR Okay, understand now.
MCC Okay, incidentally, you'd go into chapter
8 for your RCS burn, that's the planned 2 quad deorbit
procedure which we have changed somewhat butwhich - if there
are any other changes we'll get up to you later. Do you still
read?
SC (static)
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 16 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had a dropout of signal through
Bermuda. Madrid should pick up Skylab-lll in approximately
3-1/2 minutes. And we'll expect to see a resumption of
Vance Brand here in Mission Control talking to AI Bean, Commander
of Skylab-lll on a series of questions that Bean had posed
to the ground regarding procedures on entry day. About 3 minutes
away now from reacquiring Skylab-lll. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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Time: 11:18 CDT, 55/16:18 GMT
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MCC Okay, Skylab, Houston how do you read?

CDR Loud and clear, waiting to hear what you
got to say.
MCC Okay, AI I think that covered your
initial questions. I'm standing by for more questions and
have a couple of comments. One of the questions later on -
oh, - somebody just said, in addition towhat I just gave you
about the - the 2 impluse deorbit wouldbe thatyou'd get
(garble) in3 hours - about3 hours after splash. Now to go
back we thought you might like to run over some of the
denser checklist pages to make sure you're right. Specific-
or that you have them all copied in right, specifically
pages 121 through 5 in the entry checklist and possibly
a couple pages in the deactivation checklist, iike288 and
289. How do you feelabout that?
CDR I've got some questions here I'd much rather
ask you about and then work that problem or they can
send up, verbatim ona pad what ought to be - on the teleprinter-
what ought to be on those pages cause I think I got them
right now. But if they just send up in sequence what ought
to be on there then I can double check mineagainst the pad.
MCC Okay, well let's hold that then and why
don't you give us your questions?
CDR Okay. What's your opinion of the - is
there any part of this time linethatseems a little tight
to you when you put it in the simulater?
MCC No, I really can't say that there were
any tight places. You have what appears tobea lot of time
before undocklng and you have a long coast period. And if
there's anything I couldsay it seemed rather nominal
procedurally. I know we don't normally do a single impluse
deorbit but I thought there was plenty of time.
CDR Okay, that's sortof the way it looked
to me. Now you'regoing to pass some more information up
on handling the PSM and shifting to the Quads and that sort
of thing so I won't say anything more. Give me your sub-
Jective opinion againabout flying the vehicle with the
undocked DAP, with the dock and also with the CSMthrusters
alone.

MCC Okay, very good. First of all, the

most preferred mode during coasting flights is a docked DAP,
it's just really good, super. It's almost like having four
Quads, especially for auto maneuvers and that sort of thing.
We smoked it for a long time before we decided to sendit
up because we wanted to make sure there wasn't anything
wrong with it. The only thing that's a disadvantage is that
you got to be sure that youget that VERB 46 in to (garble)
Just before the burn - 1 minute before. The - you can use a
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RHC and it's just superb control. Now, if you go to

the undocked DAP, or FCS control mode where you have to use
the THC, it's - it's not super but it's - it's good. It's
kind of bothersome to have to control with a THC all the
time. You don't have an attitude hold capability so you
have to watch to make sure you're not drifting towards
gimbal lock, something like that. I wouldn't hesitate for a moment
to fly on that control mode. We thought in the beginning that's
what you'd be on all the time. And there's a slight
cross coupling that you get when you move the THC, that
cross couples into roll. And so if you do it THC you
may or may not have to do a little roll correction.
CDR But would you put it att i rate 2 on
pitch and roll and then fly the THC? Or would you Just leave
them all at rate and fly manually, preferred?
MCC Well, I guess if I - I would leave it
pitch and roll in att i, rate 2 because whenever I move
the hand controller, the RHC, it's going to cage the BMAGS so
it's not going to drag them around and you'll at least get
attitude hold on two axes when you want it. Of course, the
yaw I would leave caged in rate 2, then.
CDR Okay understand. Now how about the (static)
MCC I'm sorry you were cut out AI.
CDR Just the command module alone?
MCC Okay.
CDR With the service module on the back end.
MCC Right. Okay. That, once again, isn't
quite as nice a control mode. That's one step down the best
being docked DAP. The next best being using two quads just as I
just discussed without the docked DAP. One step down is
using CM on, only, but itIs perfectly adequate. The things
that are not so pleasant on it are a greater crosscoupling
between yaw and pitch. And the fact that the pitch thrusters
are fairly weak compared to the yaw and roll.
CDR Okay, let's change the subject for a
minute. I'd like to ask them to send up, tonight if possible,
the planned SPS deorbit burn pad and the planned entry pad Just
as we normally have them in our books up here so that I
can look at them and get on my mind the direction of
roll - the direction we're going to go to Jettison the service
module and all that business, so that it becomes sort of
second nature instead of seeing it first on entry day.
Much the same as we have done all of training. But now some
of these questions that aren't serious ones and we can be
sure that we can play it by ear. It would Just be nicer to
have it up here and kind of get it on my mind. Just as a
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fly of thumb technique has been on my mind and I feel pretty

confident that we can whip that off without any trouble.
MCC Okay, Flight says he'll send you the best
we've got and it may get corrected at the last minute.
CDR Okay, but that will at least give me an
idea which way we're going to roll first and whether Beta's
going to be plus or minus. So if I see it, I don't have
to look back and try to remember which is was. I'ii know that
beta is suppose to be positive or negative or whatever it is.
MCC Yeah, and let me emphasize that the CM only
or CM RCS only controls, with the service module still on, is just
more than adequate. I've flown a whole bunch of them and it's -
it's just no sweat if you ever got into them - that mode
which we dontt think you will.
CDR Okay, now I assume that you looked over
our entry car - cue cards and SPS burn cue card - I had just
a couple of questions. Let me glance at them a minute. Right
at the top is attitudes dead-band and rate min low. I assume
that's still where we go, in the undocked DAP, I mean the
docked DAP that will be in at that time. So we handle the SPS
pretty much the same as we've always have even though
we're operating in undocked DAP. Corectlon, docked DAP.
MCC Yeah, that's correct. For example we'd
like to have it at min low, just to maintain that narrow dead
band in pitch and roll if you ever switched over to SCS.
CDR Okay, of course there's going to be no
trimming except in X but that shouldn't be any problem. Once
we separate - have you noticed any - since we're in the
undocked DAP for the burn then we yaw out - I understand we
yaw out with the THP, then the minute we separate we're
standing around in the normal control mode is that correct_
Just the very second it separates then we're standing around
CSM VERB 46, and everything just like it always is?
MCC Yeah, after the instant of CM SM sep,

you're Just back to normal procedures.

CDR Okay, just a second let me look at a
couple of other pages.
MCC Okay.
CC We're about i0 seconds from LOS here.
See you over Honeysuckle in 40 minutes at 17:06; be dumping
the tape recorders there.
CDR Okay, I'm not sure Vance has to stay, I -
I think - I think I understand what the plan is and how to
do it. We may be calling back for another consulting session
but it's strictly up to Vance.
MCC Okay, well we sure have the day free
if you want something later. Shall I hang on until the
next station?
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CDR No, let us digest what you said. We

got (static) I think you answered most of our questions and (static).
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
16 hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss
of signal now through Madrid. The next station to acquire
the Skylab III space station will be Honeysuckle in
approximately 34-1/2 minutes. Meanwhile in the News Center
Auditorium, at 11:45 a.m. Central Daylight time, in
approximately 15 minutes, the briefing on JOP 13 will start
with Dr. A1 Crelger, Principal Scientist for S054. Also
at 12:30 Central Daylight time, in the News Center
Auditorium will be the change-of-shlft Conference with
off going Flight Director Milton Windler. I repeat
Milton Windler change-of-shift-brleflng, at 12:30 Central
Daylight time in the News Center Auditorium. At 16 hours
33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC2309/I
Time: 12:25 CDT, 55/17:25 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 17 hours 25 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We'll play back tape now which was
acquired during the press conference.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 8 minutes.
CDR All right, Dick, we're right here.
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston. I've got a
note. I wanted to talk to the PLT if he had a chance about
this defuslon demo.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Hey, Jack, we've talked some about the
- the defusion demo that you started earlier today, and
after some talk we think what we'd like to do is, at your
convenience today to get you to restart it. It turns out
that the defuslon is expected to be extremely slow at Zero-G.
For example, only about I inch after 36 hours. So, what
we'd like you to do, if you have the time today, is to
repeat the original procedure according to that general
message that you have. It's - the 36 hour period will
probably go into your sleep period or possibly into the
EVA; we don't care about that. We do want to go ahead and
get it started today. We want you to allow the defuslon to
continue during the EVA without photography, and take the
photo series at your convenience after the EVA, and then terminate
the demonstration. Also, one other thing that's a late
input and was not on the original pad. If you can provide
us on channel A or air-to-ground of the identification of
SL-II syringe needle and pills that were used, we'd appreciate
that. If you've already thrown them away and don't have
that, that's okay.
PLT Okay, the pills came out of (garble) i0,
the one that was marked, and think it was 1034. And it was
a scopdex - well, wait a minute - that was for the ice
cubes. The scopedex was toss out for the - for the
ice cube cylinder. And the syringe came out of our - our
stuff. The syringe was for the defusion experiment. And
didn't have to dig into any (garble) but it came out of
our - our supplies.
CC Okay, well, the suggestion here is to
reuse the forceps tube syringe. And so if you still have that
you might give us the ID number if it has one on there, otherwise
you can Just forget that. And you might let us know today
about what time you do get this thing restarted and that'll
help us help you keep up with it.
PLT Okay, that'll be good. The syringe - the
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5 CC syringe. It's the only one that was in the kit,

doesn't have a serial number on it and the tube was just one that
had - one of 3 forceps (garble). And I did restart the experiment
with a little different technique. I soaked the - I soaked
the divider with a fiber thing in tea and stuck it in there
and the thing is proceeding on. But I'Ii take it apart and do it
over again, I'm getting pretty good at that. My concern was that
the tea was never going to get through the fiber divider. And if
you say that the fusion will take place through that, why
that's good enough for me.
CC Okay, Jack; thank you very much. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS at Honeysuckle. And Hawaii comes
up at about 17:26. I'ii give you a call there.
PLT Okay, Dick. See you there. Thank you;
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We had a Nu-Z update
scheduled 3 or 4 minutes ago. We don't believe it's been
accomplished. When you do get to it, the outer gimble is
about - should be about minus 1317.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'Ii go get that. We're
taking care of our (garble).
CC Looks real good to us, Jack. Thank you very
much.
PLT Yes, sir. Thank you for reminding us.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 17 hours 30 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Now up live over Hawaii tracking
station with 5 minutes 52 seconds remaining on this Hawaiian
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
I'ii give you a call at Goldstone 3 minutes from now.
PLT Okay, Dick, see you there. Thank you.
CC All rlghty.
PAO Skylab, Control, Houston 17 hours 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Had loss of signal with Skylab-lll through
Hawaii. Goldstone scheduled to acquire in approximately
2 minutes.

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Time: 12:37 CDT, 55/17:37 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours 39
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now under acquisition
through Goldstone. The call up from CAP COMM Dick Truly
here in the mission control center. No response yet, from
Skylab. We've had a shift hand over as far as flight controllers,
Phll Shaffer's purple team of controllers now on duty.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours 44
minutes Greenwich mean time. Continuing on this stateside
pass is Skyla5-III. Very little communications at this point.
Skylab-III still under acquisition by Goldstone.

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SL-III MC-2311/I
Time: 12:44 CDT, 5.5/17:44 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 17 hours 47 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. I had loss of signal with Goldstone
Bermuda scheduled to acquire in approximately 2 minutes 45
seconds.
PAO Becelvlng data now through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston, Bermuda for 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, you guys are kinda quiet down
there today.
CC Well, I was thinking the same thing
about you.
PLT I bet you that makes ole Phil happy,
doesn't it.
CC He says that's very affirm.
PAO That's Jack Lousma speaking from Skylab
III, Dick Truly here in Mission Control.
PLT Well, I hope we haven't caused him any
trouble, we're Just trying to keep his morale up.
CC Rog, well, Phll says he's really going -
when he's really going to miss you is when you guys - after
you guys come down and he won't have anybody to keep telling
him about the coin track.
PLT I know, there's nobody to harass him
anymore he'll miss it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute to LOS.
Canary comes up in about 2 minutes. I'ii give you a call
there. A couple of reminders one for - on the maneuver pad
there's a TACS inable scheduled at 18:00 Zulu, and that's
normally put also on the detail pad so you won't forget it. And
we overlooked that today. So we do want to get TACS enable
sometime around then. And also on the M092 vent window we'd
like to make sure that we get that window today, because we
only have one momentum dump period prior to the EP - succeeding
EREP pass and with those reminders I'ii get off the air and
call you at Canary.
PLT Okay, thank you for the word on the dump
and I'Ii get the DAS set up. Thank you.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 17 hours 58 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal through
Bermuda. Canary to acquire in less than i minute. A refined
time on the change-of-shift-briefing with off-going Flight
Director Milt Windier that time now 1:15 Central Daylight time
in the New Center Auditorium. I repeat the change-of-shift-
briefing with Flight Director Milt Windler, 1:15 Central
Daylight time in the News Center Briefing Room.

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SL-III MC-2312/I
Time: 12:58 CDT, 55/17:58 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Standing by

now for reacquiring Skylab-III.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary and Ascension
for 16 minutes and we see the TACS enabled. Thank you very
much.
PLT Okay.
CDR Dick, I noticed on my friendly little
C&D pad, it tells me to crank up BUS 1 and also 191 at
18:50. Do they mean 19:507
CC Well, let me check.
CC CDR, Houston. That was purposely put
a little early today, due to flight planning problem in which
they thought there would be a conflict in your activities a
little bit later. So we did make a mistake, that 18:50 is
okay with us.
CDR Okay, I'ii see if I can reach out of the
can. Also when you're up there, turn it on. We'll get Jack
to do it. What conflict are they thinking of?
CC Well. I'm still - still here AI. I haven't
left you. I'm just - turning the pages, looking at my different
pads, hang on.
CC CDR, Houston. For the last couple of
minutes, I've been trying to reconstruct what our thinking
was. The - that switch throwing is listed on the EREP C&D
pad per a normal format. However, it's called out for the
PLT to do it on his details flight plan - his details pad.
And if we had put it at the absolutely nominal time, it
would have turned out to be about 19:40 which does conflict,
both times conflict with you because of the medical runs.
But we stuck it on the PLT's pad, right at the beginning of
one of his ATM observations.
CDR Okay, thank you Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR We didn't mind. We were thinking it was
going to get too hot. We knew you had to have it on a certain
length of time before you put on the cooler and that's what
I was worried about. It might of a have been a misprint,
by an hour is what 11 was klndof guessing.
CC No it was purpose - purposful the way
we did and it just took me a couple of minutes to reconstruct
what the thinking was.

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SL-III MC-2313/I
Time: 13:06 CDT, 55/18:06 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston. To the medical - guys doing

the medical run, we see the ESS is not on yet and it needs
to come on in the next couple or 3 minutes in order to meet the
vent window.
SPT We know Dick, we're hurrying as fast
as we can. It looks now we'l either just barely make it or miss it
by a couple of minutes.
CC Roger.
PAO On the M092 medical experiment A1 Bean
is the subject today with Owen Garriott as the observer.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 18:42.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 18 hours 16 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through
Ascension with Skylab III, the next station to acquire will be
Carnarvon in approximately 25-1/2 minutes. Off-golng Flight
Director Milton Windler has left the Mission Control Center
for the Skylah News Center for the change-of-shlft. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2314/I
Time: 13:42 CDT, 55/18:42 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours 42

minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
with Skylab-lll through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PLT Say, Dick. What are the chances of setting
up a phone call sometime? Too late to start thinking about
that.
CC Negative, Jack. We'll give it a whirl.
PLT Okay, I'd appreciate it, thanks.
PLT As the diffusion experiment is off and running
again, I took a few pictures of it when I initiated it, and
I_ii take some more very shortly.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute til LOS.
Hawaii comes up at 19:04.
PLT Okay, Dick. We did the 191 thing.
CC Say, again, please.
PLT We turned off the power on 191.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 18 hours
52 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab-lll has now passed out
of acquisition range with Honeysuckle. Very little communication
with the crew during this pass over Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
Today is A1 Bean's day as a medical subject. At the completion
of the M092, lower body negative pressure experiment, which
should be coming up shortly Bean is scheduled to perform a
two-step limb/blood flow, designed to - determine performance
of the superficial veins in his legs. The test im - imposes
pooling of blood in one leg and the second phase measures
response of the superficial veins when the muscle - muscle
contraction is imposed. The first phase of the test, a M092
leg band is placed on the right leg below the knee, a large
blood measuring cuff is placed on the right leg above the
knee. This limb/blood flow test is conducted while Bean is
still in the lower body negative pressure canister. The blood
pressure cuff serves as a tourniquet and when inflated forces
pooling of the blood in the leg. This causes swelling of the
leg which is measured by the multi layered leg band. When
the blood pressure cuff is deflated, the legband measures
the speed at which the blood pooling disappears. This part of the
test takes approximately 8 minutes and will performed on each
crew member one time between now and the end of the mission.
The test has already taken place in the case of Owen Garriott.
The second part of this test is conducted again with the
crewman inside the lower body negative pressure canister. It
starts with a 2-minute rest period. At the close of the
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M092 run, the chamber is pumped down to a minus 30 millimeters

of mercury which, in effect induces the same stress in the
lower torso as would be experienced on the ground.
The crewman - in this case, Bean - will asked to voluntarily
contract the muscles of his lower leg. As this is done,
the lower body negative pressure legbands measure the size
of his legs an indication of the flow of blood through
the superficial veins. This test, although similar to M092
is different in one aspect. During M092 run the subject lays
motionless in the chamber and the measurements of his cardio-
vascular system are accomplished without inducement of muscle
action. It is hoped these tests will enhance the data of the
M092 experiment, the purpose of which is to provide information
concerning the time course of deconditioning of the heart
and blood vessels_ as well as providing infllght data, to
predict the degree of orthostatlc intolerance as a result of long
periods of Zero G. We're about 8-1/2 minutes way - away now from
reacquirlng the Skylab-III space station through Hawaii.
And this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2315/I
Time: 14:03 CDT, 55/19:03 GMT
9/20/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 19 hours

4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
with Skylab III through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston, Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And SPT, Houston. If you have a chance
sometime during this pass, or the next one I've got a couple of
notes that I wanted to mention to you. One is one the laser and
also another one on the now hurricane, Ellen.
SPT Okay, IIm still working with 92/93, you
need to tell me now or can we wait a little later on.
CC Well, I need to get up the one sometime
either here or Goldstone about the hurricane, there's an
opportunity that you might have a chance to look at it I
wanted to pass that up to you. The one about the laser any-
time before EREP.
SPT Okay, tell me the hurricane, now.
CC Okay, it's going to be - it is now is a
hurricane with gusts up to a 100 knots, it's going to be
visible from the wardroom window from 19:29 to 19:34 Zulu,
and it's going to be about 120 miles southwest of your ground
track if you have time in between your monitoring the medical
run to whiz over to the wardroom window and take a look,
that's 19:29 to 19:34.
SPT And where is it located, Dick?
CC Stand by I and I'ii get that for you.
SPT While you're getting that Dick, why don't
you go ahead and give me the other info on the laser now also.
CC Okay, and for Jack we're wondering if we
could get a readout on frames remaining for 82 Bravo, we
might have a little problem there.
PLT Yeah, Dick, I just finished taking a couple
and we got 12 on the counter.
CC Roger, 12. And for Owen, it turns out
the business this morning about the laser when you saw the
three bright spots of light Owen, instead of one, it turned
out that they were in a scan mode with the lazer due to the
late arrival up there of the (garble) update to them. So -
and that's the reason you were looking at the laser and that
is the reason that it appeared to you to be more than one
spot of light. It is going to be turned on again during this
next EREP pass and you'll be on the AT - you'll be running the
ETC, it's going to be the smaller power level, that is one
watt it was 20 watts yesterday and the observation time is
21:04 to 21:07 and window to look for it is the SI window
and we wondered if you'd try to have a chance to do that
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one note on that we're going to use up all the film in the
ETC cassette during this run so if you're a minute or so late
to get back to the ETC and turn - and hit - and put it to
standby which occurs right at 21:07. That's okay with us.
SPT I wonder why I can't see it out of the
wardroom window, wouldn't that be adequate?
CC Owen, I haven't looked at the angles
right now so I haven't checked it myself but I'm told that
it is not available out the wardroom window and the STS window
SI is the best opportunity.
SPT Okay, I'ii check my ground track up here
also.
CC Okay.
SPT I thought you might appreciate a little
more information about that scan mode you were talking about
I'd llke to know what it is you're describing for us there?
CC Okay, we'll get some more information
for you.
CC SPT, Houston, the hurricane is located
at coordinates 3.7 north, and 54.5 west, and that is several
hundred miles - almost due east of Bermuda.
CC And it will be to the south of your - or
southwest of your ground track.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
Goldstone comes up in 5 minutes from now, I'ii give you a call.

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SL-III MC2316/I
Time: 14:14 CDT, 55/19:14 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours

15 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approaching acquisition
now with Goldstone. Skylab-lll less than 2 minutes away
now from acquisition through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. The problem on 82 Bravo
that we're looking at is we are not getting a - on
TM, a film transport descrete. And we think that you're
film counter should now read ii. Is that correct?
PLT Dick, the film counter is reading 12
right now. And it's in the middle of the 26 minute exposure.
CC Okay, thank you, Jack.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like you to continue
your normal operations on 82B per the pad. However, we
wouldn't be surprised that when this exposure is over that
your counter does not count down. We - there are a couple
of possibilities; possibly the camera may be jammed, the
film transport switch possibly may have failed, or with -
somehow the counter may have gotten out of sync, and we
actually may be out of film. In any case, after the EVA
if any of these turn out to be actualities they'll be
cured by your EV - what you replace during the EVA. So,
we'll just press on now with normal procedures and keep
you advised.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. And I'ii be
watching the film counter in this frame.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to
LOS. Bermuda comes up in about 5 minutes, I'ii give you
a call there. We're going to dump the data recorder over
Bermuda.
PLT Okay, Dick.

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SL-III MC2317/1
Time; 14:26 CDT, 55/19:26 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Merritt Island

and Bermuda for the next i0 minutes. And for Jack: If we're
following you correctly, Jack, the exposure on S082 Bravo
should be complete in 3 or 4 minutes. And when you get
there, if the film counter decrements okay, press on with
normal operations. If you get no decrement on the counter,
however, weVd like you to terminate S082 Bravo operations
for the remainder of the day and we'll think about it because
if one of the failures could cause us, if we continue to
get multiple exposures on that frame, and we might as well
save that one good frame if that happens to be the case,
and we'll Just think about it some more. So, watch it and
let us know.
PLT Okay, I'll do that, Dick. We got about
10-1/2 minutes of this exposure yet, and I'll do as you say.
Thank you.
CC Roger.
PLT Are you with us, Dick.
CC Skylab, if you called, say again, please.
PLT Yeah, I was just looking at the hurricane
out the wardroom window right now, and itVs a very large
counterclockwise structure. The circular pattern is
again very evident. There's no eye visible at the moment,
but itVs certainly a very large hurricane. And over the -
all the central portion is a very thin layer of clouds with
no way to penetrate visibly down to the water.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for the
description. Appreciate it.
SPT I (garble) that the outer extremities
are getting more and more dense as it gets near the eye.
CC Roger.
SPT We're right at clostest approach to the
eye right now, Dick. And as you say the center is just
a little bit southwest of here.
CC Roger, Owen. But you still can't really
see down to the water in the eye from your angle, huh?
SPT No, that's correct. It's a solid deck
of clouds all the way. Perhaps 50 miles from the center
I can see i or 2 little passes. And also, off to the
east of the eye the cloud layer is less dense and somewhat
less extensive. It extends not quite out as far into the
east as it does to the north and other quadrants.
CC Okay, thanks a lot.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. I'ii give you a call at Ascension in about 6 minutes.
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Time: 14:26 CDT, 55/19:26 GMT
9/20/73

SC Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours
37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has now passed
out of range with Bermuda tracking station. The next station
to acquire will be Ascension in approximately 5-1/2 minutes.
During that Bermuda pass we heard the crew description of
hurricane Ellen which was some 120 nautical miles southwest
of the Skylab-lll ground track. We should be reacquiring
Skylab-lll through Ascension in approximately 5 minutes.
And this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2318/I
Time: 14:39 CDT, 55/119:39 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 19 hours 43

minutes Greenwich mean time. Now under acquisition Skylab
III now under acquisition through Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS, Ascension
for i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. At the end of the 82B
exposure the frame counter did not decrement. Therefore, we'll
terminate ops on 82B until we hear further from you.
CC Okay, Jack, thank you very much.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Be advised we did
not finish getting the data recorder dumped at Bermuda and
we are du - we are dumping it here at Ascension. I'ii let you
know when we're through.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. You might be interested
to know that we have some guests in the viewing room that are
from - it's a rugby club that's here from Nairobi, Kenya and
they're scheduled, playing some games here in Houston this
week. They're going to be playing the Houston Rugby Club
on Saturday, and they all said to tell you hello.
PLT Hello to the ruggers down there, too,
Dick, and by golly, you could sure kick a goal up here full
length of the field.
CC Roger.
SPT Hi, Dick, tell them we've flown over their
country many times, and looked down and have photographed it
several times as well. Glad to have them aboard in Houston.
Hope they enjoy their stay in the U.S.
CC Okay, you're talking right to them cause
we got the alr-to-ground going right into the viewing room
and they appreciate it very much.
CC And Skylab, Houston, we've completed the
dump on the data recorder.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PLT And Dick, in looking at our orbital map
it appears to us that we've passsed over Nairobi just about
3 hours ago.
CC Roger, thank you for the reminder.

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SL-III MC-2319/I
Time: 14:52 CDT, 23/19:52 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds

from LOS. Carnarvon at 20:16.
PLT (garble) there.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 19 hou
54 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've just had loss of signal
with Skylab-lll through Ascension. Next station to acquire
will be Carnarvon in approximately 21 and a half minutes.
Today's Earth resources pass, coming up this revolution is
the next to the last one scheduled for the Skylab-III mission.
It is a 12 minute pass crossing the United States from the
northwest to the southeast. Beginnln_ at Greenwich mean time,
20:55 minutes, the Skylab sensors will gather information on
cloud cover, wheat fields of South Dakota and mineral exploration
planning in South Carolina. The ground track for todays pass
crosses the west coast near Vancouver Island, where multi-
spectral photos will be made for R. A. Stewart, Department of
Energy, Mines and Resources, for use in mapping of the area.
Data will be gathered on six states as the vehicle passes
250 miles over the continental United States. In South Dakota
physical and thermal characteristics of plants and soils for
V. I. Myers of the Remote Sensing institute of South Dakota
University. As an aide in alining the Earth resources
instruments for the South Dakota pass, the Oawaii Reservoir,
70 miles southwest of Aberdeen will be the target for the
S191 viewfinder tracking telescope. Two U.S. geological
survey scientists will obtain data on South Dakota for geographic
mapping. Another USGS principal investigator will look
at todays data in search of - of buried rivers caused by
glaciation across the Great Plains of the United States. Over
Iowa, the Earth resources sensors will be collecting performance
data for the Skylab program office at the Johnson Space Center.
Des Moines and Harton County are prime targets for these
investigations. The Monroe Reservoir outside of Blumington,
Indiana is a target for S191 vlewfinder, which will be operated
by Pilot Jack Lousma. Earth resources data will gathered on
the Wabash River basin for Dr. LeRoy F. Silva of Purdue
University, who is studying the basin with emphasis on crop
identification, acreage measurement and urban studies. Dr.
Silva is studying the same disciplines in the Blue grass country
of the Hoosier National Forest, 400 miles west of Louisville,
Kentucky. Towards the end of this 38th Earth resources data
take, the remote sensing equipment will be focused on Ashville,
North Carolina for Robert Alexander of the USGS as part of
a census urban area study. Todays ground track is 3040 miles and
ends 300 miles off the coast of South Carolina. Near the
end of todays Earth resources run, Science Pilot Owen Garriott
will again try to sight the laser beamed up from the Goddard
SL-III MC-2319/2
Time: 14:52 CDT, 23/19:52 GMT
9/20/73

Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. This experiment

has been successfully accomplished twice in the past 24 hours.
First with the laser at 20 watts of power yesterday and
then again this morning with 2-1/2 watts of power. This
afternoon the laser will be operating with i watt of power
for the experiment. Four Earth - or Four sensor equipped
aircraft will support todays Earth resources pass. Two
aircraft, an RB-57, a C130 will fly over the South Dakota
test sites. Another RB-57 and a University of Michigan
C47 will fly the Wabash River basin test program. The
two RB57 and the C130 are part of the Earth resources aircraft
prog _m here at the Johnson Space Center. The final Earth
resources pass, scheduled for tomorrow, will be the longest
of the Skylab-lll mission. Beginning in the Gulf of Mexico
and ending in Ethiopia, Africa. We're some 16-1/2 minutes
away now from reacquiring Skylab-lll over Carnarvon. And
at 20 hours Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC2320/I
Time: 15:15 CDT, 55/20:15 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours

15 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away
now from reacquiring Skylab-IIl through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
PLT How's the weather shaping up in the
Louisville area, Dick?
CC Roger. Let me check on that whole ground
track and I'ii get back to you.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. The weather looks kind
of grim for this pass. It's going to be overcast from the
point where you go feet dry and Ontario, almost half way across
the United States. There are a couple of breaks where it goes
down to fort to 7/lOths cloud cover. Louisville presently
is overcast. The southeastern states, however, it breaks out
and it's clear there or 0 to 3/10ths cloud cover. We did
have a report from Goddard that they were picking up a little
bit of scattered clouds there in the last hour, and - but
that's how the weather looks. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you for researching that
for us, Dick. Appreciate it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a Nu-Z update
that's scheduled here in about a minute, at 2025. And
we suggest an outer gimble angle of minus 1815.
PLT Okay, I'ii get that, minus 1815. Thank
you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS; Guam at 20:29.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'm close the maneuver load.
CC Roger.
MCC (garble) Houston, COM TECH (garble)
CC Read you loud and clear.
MCC Roger. You're normal here.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 20 hours
29 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for acquisition
of Skylab 3 with the Guam tracking station. The voices
that you heard over the air-ground which sounded as though
it could be a soap opera, in fact was just that. Somehow
it got the - what appeared to be the narative on a television
show got switched into the circuitry between here and
Goddard. It was not part of anybody's flight plan or unflight
plan as far as Skylab-lll is concerned. We're at 20 hours
30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for contact
with Skylab-lll through Guam. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2321/I
Time: 15:30 CDT, 55/20:30 GMT
9/20/73

CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS, Guam for

9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. How you llke the maneuver
(garble).
CC We like it a lot, looks real good.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Here's a short note to Ed Michael and
John Rummel, and Bill Thornton, and physilogy in (garble) books
respectably. The answer the other day about heart rates and
things llke that, I was just handling the bicycle at an average
load of about 171, essentially 175, for 30 minutes a little over
5,001 minutes of work and my heart - slowly leveled out at about
165, it really is a little bit below that but as I began to
get toward the end it went on up to about 165. I suspect that's
consistent with the data that you've seen on me as the harder
workloads in the last couple of weeks, but that's the information
you were asking for at any rate. End of message, Ed Michael,
John Rummel, and Bill Thornton from the SPT.
CC Skylab, Houston, SPT, that was on the air
to ground and we did get the message just thought I'd let you know.
SPT (Chuckle) I guess so, well I keep forgetting
that you guys parallel the channels here, a little earlier
than I expected, thanks Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, this is for EREP, and CDR, it's been
about 20 minutes since we turned on the 192, I'm now in mode
check. I will now give you the read out of B-6, B-6 indicates
57 percent, or roughly where it always does. 57, so every-
thing looks good. We'll be back later.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Give you a call at Goldstone at 20:55.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're just standing by to
maneuver - (garble) 1 minute.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours 40
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with
Skylab III through Guam the next station to acquire will be
Goldstone in approximately 15 minutes, when we pick up Skylab
III again it will be at the start of the Earth Resources pass
over the United States and we will expect to pick up Commander
AI Bean and Jack Lousma in a VOX mode of communications. 20
hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2322/I
Time: 15:53 CDT, 55/20:53 GMT
9/20/73

PAO At 20 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean

time, standing by now for acquisition of Skylab III through
Goldstone.
PLT How's your door there, O?
CDR He's looking out of a window for some
reason. There's Houston.
PLT I hear them coming up.
CDR They're always coming up.
CC Here we come, here we come.
CDR Here they are.
PLT Here they are.
CDR Watch out. Okay, let me give you some
news on A2 and C4. A2 varies between about 40 and 49 which
is normal; C4 was at 71 percent in fact it still is which is in
normal; so they look good.
CC Okay.
CDR Anybody holding their breath, can
immediately release it. 191 ready light's on we're going
ref 6.
PLT I bet big Phil got his eyes and
ears covered right now.
CDR Bet he does.
PLT Here we come again.
CC You said it.
CDR Has he smiled today, I've wondered that?
CC Well, he was smiling this morning,
hut it's going away as the day wears on it's been a long one.
CDR Ah, we're wearing him out again, he's
got to learn to toughen up, running the track will help.
I found it builds up your endurance. Why don't you take him
over to the gym sometime Dick. Okay, 20, I got 190 auto
by the way and 192 went ready at the right time, so every-
thing is running along okay at the moment.
CC Okay.
CDR Sometimes they come unglued later.
Take him over to the gym, put him on the erogemeter, he
ought to do that for training so he can understand what
we are doing up here.
PLT Well, now there's a pretty thick cloud
area I guess we'll take that, right there. Camera on.
Zoom in.
CDR You still have data priority means or
they disband them? Did they solve all the problems or
just fold their tent? (Chuckle)
CC No, we'll never solve them all we still
have them.
CDR We're up here. We're one of them.
SL-III MC-2322/2
Time: 15:53 CDT, 55/20:53 GMT
9/20/73

Okay. Mode to check on 192, gentlemen.

PLT And there's another one.
CDR Did you get one?
PLT One cloud area.
CDR Ah, good shl - show.
PLT Right on, right on.
CDR Your training wasn't wasted.
PLT Right. Right on, Dick.
CDR We got - we got to get that EREP simulator
that has clouds on it, it's a big old thunderstorms then some
strat _ coastal stratus that's what we need.
PLT Hey, I can do this until 15:30 Itsays,
CDR Well, we got to get them to put the
Great Lakes on there, because he
PLT Lake Michigan is a toughy.
CDR That's a good one.
PLT There's a goodie over there wait until we
get that one, Ron (garble) is going to like this.
CDR Wonder how Ron and his gang are? (garble)
wonder what he's doing these days? Probably working with -
SL IV.
PLT They're holding their breath
and their eyes and ears, just like Phll is down there.
CDR Okay, 5724, we put mode ready on 192.
PLT What was it that got him Dick, was it
that Chinese dinner he's going to get everybody I'ii retrack
that if that's what it is - -
CC No, don't retrack that, don't retrack that.
PLT Anything I can do to get along with big
Phil, you know I ought to do it. I llke the guy
he's a nice fellow. Ah, let's do one more here it's a little
off to the left but that is a beauty, (whistle).
CDR Ready out on 190.
PLT _eat set of clouds I've seen in a long
time.
CDR Mode to check, gentelmen. 190 mode to
stand by, frames to 24.
PLT (Garble).
PLT 1530. And wonder how things are in
Hawaii Reservoir.
CDR (Garble) I0. I bet they're good.
PLT 5930.
CDR Standing by for when - 21:00.
PLT We're getting some good thick clouds there Dick,
just like the doctor ordered, and Hawaii Reservior is about
i to 2 shots to the left, 5930, the way I got it figured. I
bet it's covered with clouds that's why they didn't give it
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Time: 1553 CDT, 55/20:53 GMT
9/20/73

to me. Those guys - -

CDR Showing that - - (garble).
CC Always thinking.
CDR On that 192 - correction on M092, I
think all three of us are having less heart rate increse
with the delta Vthan we had on the ground.

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SL-III MC2323/I
Time: 15:58 CDT, 55/20:58 GMT
9/50/73

CDR 92 - correction. On MO92 I think all

3 of us are having left heart rate increase with the Delta-P
than we had on the ground.
CC Roger.
CDR Been in that can too much. How many
more runs do we have, one more a piece?
CC Stand by.
PLT Okay, I'm taking 5 heavily clouded sites.
SPT Oh, you're all right, Jack.
CDR 5 is (garble).
PLT I'm bein f an extra good guy tonight.
PLT That fifth one's for Phil.
SC Must be a big bumper. Well, no it wasn't.
Well, Hawaii's going to be dug in.
CDR 2115 seconds.
PLT Little town of Mobridge down there by
the Hawaii reservoir. They had one bridge years ago and
then built another one. They didn't want to call it bridges
because that was the name of the town drunks. So they
called it Mobridge because they had one more bridge. One
more bridge.
CC That's the worst story I ever heard.
CDR (laughter)
PLT I came up with it in a hurry though.
CDR He's trying to make a recovery.
PLT I just happen to see that on the map.
CC There's 2 more runs for the PLT and the
SPT, and 1 more run for the friendly CDR.
CDR That's the way it ought to be.
PLT Okay, I'm taking some more clouds in
since you're such a good guy.
CDR Tell the flight planners they're getting
back into my good graces with that sort of planning.
PLT Okay, I got some more clouds here.
CDR Know what they're doing.
PLT Beyond the clouds until Ii0, it says.
CC AI, did you get the S192 MODE READY
at - -
CDR I got them both.
CC O kay.
CDR I wouldn't miss them. Ruins the run
when you do.
PLT Don't use as much tape though.
CDR I'm waiting for 220 now. MODE's READY
and - Thanks for saying it though, Dick. I was blabbering
there, but think we're okay.
SL-III MC2323/2
Time: 15:58 CDT, 55/20:58 GMT
9/20/73

PLT Okay, this will be a nadir swath.

CDR A nadir swath.
PLT I'm at 00.
CDR Wish this pass would hurry up, I got
a filet, a nice butterscotch pudding, a lemonade - -
PLT Steak and ice cream with the club tonight.
I'm not going to turn the camera on because we're over some
clouds at the moment. But perhaps we'll come out of them
at which case I'll Just turn them on and - -
CDR Standing by for 220 at which time we
go intervalometer 20. Hoping I can hack it.
PLT Th[S one here. That was too late. Trying
to go to this sight up here which is 45 and left .8.
CDR We sure got a lot of EREP tape around
I know that. The command module is going to float with tape.
PLT 244 is the time.
PLT They must (garble) weather down there.
My favorite sites too. I flew this one in the 38. (garble)
I flew 8 (garble) and 40 sites.
CDR I remember that. Acquire A2 and C4,
let's go the same game. You don't say 4 71 percent, it still is.
A2 is a mere 54.
PLT Come on weather. Oh, this next one is
250 which ain't much better.
CDR Now, mark it at 244 overcast, Dick.
CC Okay.
CDR Standing by for (garble) minutes.
PLT ALTERNATE is at 250, MARK it's overcast
there too. Tell you what, I'ii get you some more clouds.
Some different kind of clouds this time.
CDR They haven't changed their mind about
giving us the extension, huh?
CC That's affirm so far.
CDR Well, we're okay up until PET 20 hours
I guess.
PLT Everybody hanging in pretty well down
there, Dick?
CC Oh, yeah, we're doing fine.
CDR Did we tell you - I guess we're bringing
back 2 extra EREP tapes. Is that right?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Yeah, I wanted to tell - I didn't tell
EREP the other day we couldn't get that last one in so I
had to take it off the reel and stuff it in one in the compart-
ment. But it's all in there.
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Time: 15:58 CDT, 55/20:58 GMT
9/20/73

CC No creases, huh?
CDR Just - it's just there; he won't have
any trouble. Just trying to find out which end is the (garble).
Okay, Just gone to 2. Standing by for MODE to STANDBY.
PLT Well, that's all of that. No more
tracking. 2107 (garble)
CDR MODE TO STANDBY. VTS AUTO CAL at 5, Jack.
New here at 07. Couple of minutes.
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR VTS.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. The - it's been
reported that the Goddard laser is turned on.
CDR Been reported that they lost comm.
There's the coast.
CC I'ii answer - I'ii answer Owen's question
about the laser as soon as I understand it. Not the question,
the answer.
CDR AUTO CAL. I need the AUTO CAL you baby.
PLT Okay, you did. Thank you. Okay, 07
the time. Our little trip over the states brought us over
Canada and over to the U.S. border at Idaho, over Great
Falls; over Siux Falls, South Dakota; over Berllngton, Iowa,
Terra Haute, Lexington, through Louisville, Kentucky and off the
coast Just south of Wilmington today. With that I part the area
and head for the ATM.
CDR MODE to MANUAL at 6. Late getting off
192. Tell Bill I still think he's a great guy, will you
there, Dick?
CC I will. Everybody deserves one guy who
likes him.
CDR Six minutes.
PLT (garble) guy who says he's one of his
greatest fans. He's waiting to meet the other one.
CDR 625, the READY is going out. Everything's
running along just swell, we think.
PLT There's the big O down there looking
for that laser. Tell him about that satellite we saw?
CDR Yeah, we saw a great satellite. We didn't
know if we told you about it.
PLT The closest and brightest one we've seen
(garble). We've seen several - -
CDR 625 READY OUT.
PLT ... was a red one.

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SL-III MC-2324/I
Time: 16:06 CDT, 55/21:06 GMT
9/20/73

CDR - satellite, we didn't know if we told

you about it.
PLT Closest and brightest one we've seen,
(garble). We've seen several.
CDR 06:25 READY OUT.
PLT It was a red one,
CC No, you may have told somebody, but it
wasn't this team. I don't remember hearing about it.
PLT I guess we didn't report it. It was
reflecting in red light. Oscillating - oh, count its period
of brightness to its dim _st, about i0 seconds, it led us
into sunset (garble)
CDR SI maneuver in 15 seconds.
PLT Yes, sir. I'm standing by. That was
about three revs ago, I think. Something like that, wasn't
it, AI?
CDR MARK.
PLT Yes, sir. We're on our way. Go man.
SPT No luck on the laser, Dick.
CC Okay, Owen, thank you.
PLT No miss in or out, you guys are doing a
great Job on the maneuvers down there. Okay, we're going
to leave TACS enabled overnight, it says. So I won't set my
timer for that. I guess I'ii come over here and secure this
operation.
CDR 7:40. 7:40. Okay, IR is ON, EREP to
STOP. That's it. Do tape measurements. I think we can do
that.
(Whistling)
PLT I didn't see the flight plan for tomorrow,
we must have some more EREPs tomorrow, huh?
CC Yes, you do as a matter of fact.
PLT Is tomorrow the last EREP day then, or
do we have another one after that?
CDR I wonder where the tape measure went.
CC Jack, tomorrow is the EREP number 41
and that is the last one and I sure hate to see them end.
PLT Oh, I do too. I really enjoy doing EREP.
CDR Jack, have you seen any tape measures?
PLT I took the tape measure and it's on
that diffusion experiment. (garble)
CDR On the difussion experiment.
PLT I'ii take it off, I'ii get you that other
one.
CDR I'ii get the one off the medical experlmentl
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, let me do whatever it said to do
here.
SL-III MC-2324/2
Time: 16:06 CDT, 55/21:06 GMT
9/20/73

CDR Which is record BT. B7 is 31 percent. 190

door CLOSE.
PLT How about half of a little finger?
Would that be good enough estimate there, Dick? For this tape.
SC (Laughter)
CDR Okay, let's close and latch the window.
PLT I'ii say it's about an inch and a quarter,
to an inch and a half of empty space on that top reel.
CDR I'ii go get it in Just a moment. As soon
as I latch this thing. Okay, I think that window is latched.
PLT Last EREP. Sad thing, sorry to see them end.
CDR Okay, be back in a second.
CDR All of the doors are CLOSED.
PLT Okay, what's the kid got to do here?
Perform the maneuver, we've done that. Set the gimbals to zero
we've done that. Turn off the DAC, we've done that. VTS
power OFF. Okay, we're going to switch the COMM off here,
Dick, back to normal mode.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
til LOS. Carnarvon at 21:54.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 21 hours
14 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
through Bermuda with Skylab-lll. Next station to acquire
will be Carnarvon in approximately 39-1/2 minutes. Judging
from the crew comments, you might say this Earth resources
pass was again dedicated to Big Phil. Big Phll being Phll
Shaffer, Flight Director for the purple team of flight controllers,
presently on shift. We also heard a crew report of the
siting of a satellite about 3 revolutions ago. Owen Garriott
reported a no roger on the laser siting, indicating that
he was unsuccessful in seeing the laser beam today. And
with the completion of tomorrow's scheduled 36 minute Earth
resources pass, Skylab-lll will have logged a total of 39
separate runs of gathering data. These passes included 4 over
South America, Africa and Europe, one each over Australia,
Japan and the Mediterranean Sea area, two gathering data
on Atlantic Ocean hurricanes and the remainer over the United
States. Only 26 passes were scheduled for the total mission
preflight. We're 38 minutes now away from reacquiring Skylab-lll
over Carnarvon, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2325/I
Time: 16:52 CDT, 55/21:52 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 21 hours

53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition of Skylab-lll through Carnarvon tracking station,
Australia.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
for the next 9 minutes.
CC And Skylab, Houston. A couple of things
where - when we were going LOS there, we never got the
tape measure from the EREP. I'd llke to get that and also
the PLT's phone call is set up the next pass at Guam at 22:07
if he could get somebody to - no I take it back, I see that
it's Owen on the ATM. Also, I've got a pile of evening
questions here that I'd kind of a llke to get started and
get a head on.
CDR Okay, the answer to the tape measurement
is i-1/2 inches. Tell the EREP officer I always won. I turned
off 190 or put 190 in STANDBY instead of 192. I caught it
about i0 seconds later, got 192 ON, correction to STANDBY
but I did not put 190 back on.
CC Okay, AI. Copy that.
PLT Thank you for setting up the phone call.
CDR And we're ready for questions.
CC Okay. I've got a number of them here
and I'II Just start at the top and keep going. You'll see
that there are several in here that have to do with stowage
with deactivation coming up. You can understand that, I'm
sure. One, this first one has to do with the S192 (garble)
that were taken up in your malf book. We're not - We're not
certain as to whether or not all of those were used, we're
wondering, were they used and if not, where are they in case
we have to use them on SL-IV.
PLT Dick the (garble) were not used at
all. And they are in the - I think they are in the experiment
Malfunction procedure or in the EREP - EREP malfunction
procedures book. The (garble) gage that I used to - check
out the 192 is taped inside of the gold box, S192 gold box.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you much.
CC Okay, here's another one. This has to do
with the SOP serial number 12 that - which you used on T020. What
we would llke you to do is to give us the current pressure
reading on it. We - detected a leak in a SOP in a test at
KSC in preparation for SL-IV. We'd llke to check that SOP
that's used on TO20 because we're - it might effect us, even
bringing up a new one on - on SL-IV. So when you get a chance
why don't you check that and put it on channel A or call it
down to us on alr-to-ground.
CDR It works at the moment.
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CC O kay, the next one is - has to do wlth

alrlock tape recorder serial number 28. We're wondering
is this recorder stowed in D438 and does it have all of the
screws and associated little items taped to it?
CDR The answer is yes to all questions.
CC Okay. Okay, earlier today, I'm skipping
around a little bit. Earlier today on the S063 photos that
Jack took for us, he - he asked if he had done what we had
intended on estimating angles and so forth. And the answer
is definitely yes. We think we got the acurate data.
Here's another one that has, also the PLT, has to do with
the girth measurements that were read down last. They
were read down for the CDR chest measurement was inhale of 90.0
centimeters and exhale was 92.4 centimeters and we think those
were inadvertently - vertently reversed. And we wanted to
confirm that.
PLT I'll clarify that for you, Dick in a minute
and - things have change around (garble) you know. The SOP
is reading 2600 psi at the moment. It was reading less when we
cut off, I think that's because it was providing (garble)
CC Okay, Jack, thank you very much.
CDR You spend a lot of time in the 92 can
and that happens to you.
CC (laugh) Roger. Okay, here's another one
and Owen may be busy on the ATM but the package of fish has
been approved to bring home. We're wondering is the can
that this experiment came in still available. Can alpha
and the spacer from the can - and is the spacer from the
can also still available?
SPT I didn't remember that it came in a can
Alpha but - I can look around and find - see what I can find
down there. Right at the moment I can't answer the question.
CC Okay, Owen. When you get a chance,
why don't you do that and just call it down or put it on
channel A for us.
SPT Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We - I'm informed by
ENCO that we have upllnked your pad for the entry, the P30
and the entry pad. There - They're in the teleprinter now.
One correction for the CDR's details pad for tommorrow, that
we up-linked awhile ago, that you may have in your possession
by now AI. I'm sure which but it - indicates there - that
you have EREP C&D tomorrow. That's incorrect. You have
EREP VTS. The summary pad I think is okay. But the EREP
VTS for you is correct.
CDR Okay, I'ii change it.
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PLT You might as well reverse the numbers on the

chest measurements for AI. 92.4 inhale and 90.0 exhale.
Thank you for call that out.
CC O kay, I think that gets me through the
pile of questions that I had. We're about a minute from LOS
and we'll be at Guam at 20:07. Correction 22:07 and Jack
that's were the phone call will be set up. I do have a note
here on Fred Halse. Fred's condition continues to improve.
But as in most burn cases the progress is very slow. He has
not had any gross complications but some minimal skin graphing
is intislpated.
PLT Any forcast for how long he'll be in the
hospital, Dick.
CC I don't know Jack. But I - from every
indication that I have, it's going to some time.
PLT Thanks a lot, we're glad to keep getting
update on Fredo.
CC Roger.

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SL-III MC-2326/I
Time: 17:03 CDT, 55/22:03 GMT
9/20/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, at 22 hours 6

minutes Greewnich mean time, coming up now on acquistion with
the Skylab III through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Guam for
6 minutes, and for the ATM operator, we noticed that S054
is an exposure range 54, we think it shoud be 256 and we'd
llke to ask you to re-run filter 3.
SPT I think you're right and I'ii do that.
Thank you.
CC Roger, and I'm standing by to collect the
Evening Status Report.
CDR Okay, here it comes.
CC Okay.
CDR 113; 145; 195; 6.261; 0.270; 6.720; 6.247
6.247; 6.241; 5.953; 5.953; 5.953; 6.945; 6.947; 6.946.
Exercise: CDR hasn't done any yet but will report when he does.
SPT: 2/30/5030, 3/20/Mark I, 60, A; 30, B; 30, D. PLT: 1/05/
0612, 2/35/8681, 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, B's, 20 back-
bends. Medications: CDR, Seconal, SPT, Pilot; zero. Sleep:
CDR, 5/Good, SPT, 6/Fair, Pilot, 6-1/2/Good. Here comes the
food items:
CC Okay.
CDR CDR: salt, four, plus three salt pills, one
lemonade, one pear; SPT, two salts, subsltute pork and potatoes
instead of tuna, and pears, peanuts, and grape drink; PLT,
four salts, add one tea with lemon and sugar, one butter cookie,
substitute peach ambrosia and peanuts for tuna and bread.
CC Roger.
CDR Photo log: S193, antenna, BV07, 30; VTN
track 19D, CX08, 65; two activities, C162, 00, C161; 35-milll-
meter: CII06, i0, CX35, 52, 70-milllmeter: CX27, 119, CT09, 076.
EREP: Set, W, 9,155; 1,347; 8,875; 8,252; 0,022; 8,926.
Drawer A: the only one that was changed was A2, should read
05, C162, 00, C161.
CC Okay.
CDR And no remarks for the rest of the nightly
report.
CC O kay, AI thank you very much. We still got
about 2 minutes left here at Guam and I'm standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute to LOS.
Goldstone comes up at 21 - correction 22:32, that'll be the
med conference and then after Goldstone when we hand over to
Texas I'ii get you back for the rest of that pass.
SPT Okay, Dick, I noticed on the ATM schedule
it says power down at 13 minutes time remaining, was it a little
bit early there because you want to check the panel out or
something like this?
CC Stand by Owen.
CC SPT, Houston, negative we had a little
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schedule conflict there and we thought you'd need to leave

the console early but if you have the time we'd llke you to
stay.
SPT Yeah, I'ii finish the run. Thank you.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 22 hours
17 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with
Skylab III through Guam. The next station to acquire will be
Goldstone in approximately 15 minutes.

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SL-III MC2327/I
Time: 17:30 GMT, 55/22:30 CDT
9/20/73

PAO Skyla5 Control, Houston; 22 hours

31 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
with the Skylab-lll through Goldstone. During the Goldstone
pass the private medical conference is scheduled. We expect
further contact with the crew of Skylab-lll from CAP COM
Dick Truly as Texas tracking station is acquired.
CC Skylab, Houston. Understand I have you
back. I've got you still stateside for 9 minutes. And I've
got a couple of things for you guys. For Owen on the ATM,
when you power down the ATM this evening for unattended OPS
tonight, at the end of this pass, we'd like you to please
leave the roll at minus 10800 or as close to that as possible.
We've changed our mind about some of the unattended OPS and
that'll set us up a little bit better.
SPT Okay, I've got it.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And also,
for the CDR. The other day AI, you asked about lubricating
some of the seals on the hatches and we have considered that.
We've talked to the folks here and at Marshall and at the
contractors. The seals are completely qualified as they
are, and so we don't think lubrication will be required.
Furthermore, - and incidentally the lubrication on most of
those seals is a dried lubricant like a talcum. However,
applying a moist lubricant to them we think might inhance
them picking up little tiny pieces of grit and so forth,
and so it possibly might do more harm than good. So the
answer is negative, we would not llke to lubricate the seals.
CC S kylab, Houston. I got caught by a
handover there and I'm not sure if my entire call got up
there about the lubricant on seals. If I was cut out in
the middle, let me know and I'II say the last half of it.
CDR No, you got completely through it, Dick.
And I Just was interested. And sounds good, we won't touch
them. We'll just dust them off and put them in when the
time comes.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you, AI.
CC SPT, Houston. We're configuring for ATM
TV downlink.
SPT Okay, that's fine. And would you ask
the S055 people if they ever took a look at those two mirror
auto rasters during JOP 13? And if they managed to see
anything other than a little bit of scattered noise?
CC Okay.
CC Owen, it happens that we Just got the
data delivered here to the backroom. And we're hustling, I
think we can get an answer for you here at the states, if not,
possibly at Vanguard.
SPT Okay, sounds fine.

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SL-III MC2328/1
Time: 17:41 CDT, 55/22:41 GMT
9/20/73

CC S kylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS stateside here. I'Ii call you at Guam at 2257;
that's the last pass of the day.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'm still taking pictures
periodically of the diffusion experiment and right now nothlng's
happening.
CC Okay.
PLT OU _t to make the comment that that tea
has got a lot of sugar in it and it's very syrupy, very
sticky and it may be that it's too thick to get through
that fiber thing.
CC Roger, Jack.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 22 hours
47 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
now wlth Skylab-!ll on thls stateside pass. The next station
to acquire will be Vanguard in approximately 9 minutes.
This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2329/I
Time: 17:55 CDT, 55/22:55 GMT
9/20173

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. AT 22 hours

56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now less than
i minute away from acquisition with Vanguard. We'll stand
by, keep the line open.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
PLT Yeah. How long do we got here, Dick?
CC We have got about 9 minutes.
PLT Okay. I didn't get the (garble) back around
to optical reference by the time the Sun went down. Didn't
quite make it in time. So I've left it a mechanical 102.
Now if - stand by for (garble)
CC O kay.
PLT Oh, that's all right. We still got plenty
of sunlight but I can see it coming in the window but we must
have got cut off on (garble) gravity gradient So - if the backroom
or ATM would like, I'ii go back up in about 25 minutes and bring
it around to optical reference and then really get it a little
more percisely in - optical reference and I'ii just go ahead to th
with the rest of the panel power down now.
CC Okay, Owen. We'll get right back to you.
SPT The other point was I could go as
far as minus 10250, I could not make it to 10800 because
I - hit the roll stop so with a (garble) angle won't permit
us to quit reach the point you were asking for.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for that.
CDR Also, we we're looking in our maps today
trying to find the Islands of Telba, (garble) where Naopolen
was exiled, two different times. One of them we think (garble)
but we can't find it. Could give us some help and we don't
know where (garble) is. Could you give some help on that
one.

CC Sure will, AI.

SPT H_re comes the frames remaining 2122 on
H-alpha, 231, i, 12, 419 and 445.
CC Thank you, SPT, Igot them.
CDR One other note to the flight planners,
Dick.
CC G o ahead, AI.
CDR Last couple of days, we've been eating
our dinner about an hour before we went to bed and that's
not a good way to get to sleep, I've notice. And since we've
got a kind of a big physical thing coming up here in about
4 days, 5 days, I'm hoping that the flight planners will
try to schedule our evening meals kind of evenly dissearse
during the day if they possibly can, particularly the
last 2 or 3 days. And also make sure we've got some good
time between
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eating the last one and going to bed and if we get to bed on
time, because - I think one of our biggest physical pushes of
all this 56 days - this 60 days is going to be on day 60.
And we want to make sure we're fully rested and - and (garble)
properly and got all of our exercises last week. So whatever
it takes, in the way of moving things around, I'm hoping they'll
put that almost as the primary thing to do.
CC Okay, AI. Very good suggestion. We - We've
got it.
CC SPT, Houston. On the ATM close out, what
we'd llke - stand by I'm getting - On S055, we see
that you are in line 25 and if you'll just put it in optical
reference then you can close out the rest per normal and
you do not have to go back up there. We'll take care of the
rest.
SPT Okay, well I can put the switch in optical
reference but of course - the counters are zeroed on division of
mechinical reference now and it's in mechanical 102.
So I'm sure they understand that, Itll put the switch back up there
it really won't change the position of the grating.
CC That's affirm, Owen. We do understand that
and that's how we want it.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC SPT, Houston. On your question about the
the JOP 13 you did this morning. I'ii initial look at
the data on one of the rasters one of the - the first one that
you did, we did see a spike and we're not sure whether or not that's
a source or a noise spike and so right_now we _ust can't really
give you a straight answer. We don t know whether we got it
or not.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. That was sort of my
impression by keeping my eye on the intensity counter as it
was scanning, of course I couldn't watch it as carefully as
anywhere near as carefully as you could do with the data in
front you the way it is in the back room. The other point
perhaps is irrelevant as we mentioned on that first scan. I
do remember that detector 5 kicked out, at least I believe it
kicked out, oh, 2/3rds of the way through the first scan or
something llke that. And I turned it off. Now, it's just
possible based on that test we ran about a week ago, that detector
5 was providing cross talk into - detector 3. So - I'm sure
they'll be checking that too. It's just - It just registered
in my memory that there might have been a connection between
detector 5 tripping out and the noise spike on the other detector.
CC Okay. The - turned out it was the lower
right part of the first raster is where we saw the - the
spike that we saw and I guess it will just take a little
more careful looking at the data.
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SPT Okay, fine. I think there is a very

good chance that we got good X-ray photographs at any rate.
Based on the way the star tracker intergimbals look. I
think there is every probability that we got some good X-ray
photos.
CC Roger. And Skylab, Houston. We're about
30 seconds from LOS Vanguard. Last pass of the night. So
you guys get a good night sleep and we'll call you in the
morning.
CDR What happen to the news?
CC Woops, we slid down the hole without passing
it up but believe me you didn't miss much tonight.
PLT Good night, Dick (garble)
CC I missed that one.
SPT I guess ATM looked at the panel there,
Dick, and apparently liked it all right.
CC That's affirm, they have looked at it.
CC W e would like to open the S056 door. If
PLT Sure is, I missed that
PLT That's done, understand.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At 23
hours 7 minutes Greenwich mean time, that's the final conver-
sation with the crew of Skylab-lll for the day. The crew
given the go to bed call. We have the mission surgeons'
daily summary on crew health. The summary reads as follows:
"The crew had no medical complaints, they appear m_dically
fit for the planned EVA on mission day 57. The circadian
shift is causing a minor difficulty with sleep onset." Signed
Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky. We're at 23 hours 18 minutes Greenwich
mean time. We'll be taking the line down at this time and
bring it back up at time of crew wake up which will be 7 -
7 hours Greenwich mean time in the morning. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2330/I
Time: 19:45 CDT, 19:46 GMT
9/20/73

CDR Dick, no need to answer. Let me give

you my exercise for the evening. It's 2/35/5041, 3/15/Mark I,
3/05/MARK II, 3/05/ Mark III. Out.

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SL III MC-2331/I
TIME: 02:03 CDT 56/07:03 GMT
0/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 3 minutes

and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is now about to acquire signal at the Vanguard
tracking ship. We'll keep the llne up live for air-to-ground
through Vanguard lasting approximately i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
SPT Good morning Hank. How are you doing
today?
CC Oh, pretty good. How are you all feeling
this morning?
SPT Very well, thank you.
CC You're over Vanguard now and we got
about i0 minutes left.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
PLT And Hank. Could you tell us what time
we begin ATM operation.
CC Okay. It's 07:15 according to the
CDR's detail, he should be on the console.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
SPT Hello Hank. Would you check with
blomed and make sure they were happy with the 133 data
last night. And also I noticed on my Flight Plan that I
got 133 again tonight. Two nights in a row. I guess that's
not a mistake. Could you confirm that.
CC I'ii check it out Owen.
CC In answer to the first question, the
133 data looked good last night.
SPT Okay. And one electrodes didn't
want to pop in, hut I think we can get away without one
electrode as long as it's not two on the same side, I believe
is the situation.
CC And Owen, the answer to your second
question. This is an end of mission requirement, guess
three successive nights.
SPT Oh, I see. I'ii probably get it for
two more nights in a row then.
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, for the CDR, in the hand-
over, we got that perhaps you didn't get an acknowledgement
on the exercise report. We did get your exercise from
yesterday.
CDR Thank you, Bank.
CDR We made another amazing discovery in
zero g.
CC What's that.
CDR We found that your eyelids have
counterweights on them, like window sashes and in zero g
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they won't counterweight the llds. The llds keep going

closed in the morning.
CC We're having the same struggle here.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Ascension at 18.

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L

SL-III MC-2332/I
Time: 02:15 CDT, 56/07:15 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 15 minutes and

58 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
passed out of range of the Vanguard tracking ship as it goes
along the coast of Brazil. We're about 2 minutes and 18 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Ascension. And we'll have a
long pass through Ascension, Canary Island and Madrid, lasting
approximately 17 minutes. This is the wake-up call over
Vanguard from spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfield. At
the time Hank made the call up, we could read on the M133
sleep monitor that Owen Garriott, the Science Pilot, was
still sleeping. He was in a moderate stage of sleep, sleep
stage 2 of possible 4. Four is the deepest sleep, one is
a very early stage of sleep. He was asleep and shortly
after Jack Lousma answered the wake-up call, you could see
the indication that it went to rapid eye movement, which
indicated that Owen was waking up and he did wake up
just a short time after that. We have the line up live now
for air-to-ground through Ascension, Canary Island and Madrid
beginning about a minute from now.
CC S kylab, Houston, through Ascension for
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Didn't take you long to get - - to get
down there.
CC And for the CDR, a little update on the -
what's been happening with the Sun. Nothing significant in
the last 8 hours. Active region 31 is growing and there's
possible complexity in active region 36. We suspect that the
solar activity may increase somewhat during the next 12 hours.
CDR @od. I'ii point 8-al - H-alpha at it.
CC And CDR, if we could have the DAS
a little bit here, we'll command inhibit on a momentum dump
getting ready for S019.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, DAS is yours.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got about 6 minutes
left on the - on our star for our NUZ update.
CDR They've been here for i0 billion years.
CC It has, but you're not going to be. (Laughter)
It'll be occulted here, shortly.
CDR Okay. It's one of those things that
happens every i0 billion years. All right.

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SL-III MC-2333/I
Time: 02:24 CDT, 56/07:24 GMT
9/21/73

PLT Say, Hank. I took a couple. Just a

minute.
PLT Hank, I took a couple of more pictures of
the tea bag experiment, but nothing's really happened. Tea's
just sitting on top of the fiber stopper and it doesn't seem
to diffuse even through the central stopper and let alone
in down into the water below it.
CC Okay. We copy. And we're about 30 seconds
from a short LOS. Be picking right up again at Canaries at 27.
CDR How does that look to you Hank, on the
star tracker?
CC Looks good to us, AI. You're clear to
close the shutter.
CDR If you can get Jerry to bring up a
couple of tea bags on the resupply mission.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Canaries
and Madrid for another 8 minutes.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We see the star tracker
shutter still open and we're in manual mode. Maybe you got
the wrong switch there.
CDR How's that, HanK?
CC Okay. Looks good to us now, AI.
CC Skylab, Houston. Of general interest
to you maybe. We - the - a quick look at our JOP 13 XREA data
indicates that we did get a spectrum on the beryllium
counter, and counting rate was pretty much what we expected.
CDR That'll make the Big O real happy.
Great.
SPT Yeah. I'm Just thinking about that.
So you're suggest - indicating that the beryllium counters did
indicate a higher flux when pointing at the general area of
Sco-X and it did when we were pointing in some other direction
apparently. That's what you're saying.
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay. That's very interesting. So
pleased to hear that. And there's a - suggest again that
we ought to have some good XREA photographs when we get those
developed in a couple of weeks.
CC We're looking forward to getting those,
too, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. See
you at Guam at 02. We'll have a recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 37 minutes
and 39 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now passing over Greece towards the northeast out of range
of the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal
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24 minutes and 20 seconds from now will be at Guam. During

this last pass we had a little bit of kidding going on since
the crew awakened this morning, giving Hank Hartsfield a bit
of a hard time. Jack Lousma indicating, right after wake-up
at Vanguard that he has discovered a new zero g affect, which
is that the counterweights that operate the eyelids don't
operate and won't keep them open. And Hank Hartsfield
replied that that's a problem we're facing here on the
ground, too. And over Ascension, Hartsfield told the crew
that they had 6 minutes left to acquire the star for a NUZ
update and AI Bean replied the star's been there for i0 million
years. And the crew was also informed that solar activity
may be increasing in the next 12 hours and replied that they'll
try and aim H-alpha at it. At this point, they're just
about out of film in their instruments and there's not much
left they can do. In solar activity, of course, that
film will be resupplied tomorrow morning during the EVA.
Report also went up that berrylium counters did show higher
flux when pointing it at Sco-Xl yesterday morning. That
was the strongest XREA source in the night sky. And Owen
Garriott indicated that he had believed he had seen
a spike during the scanning of that area on the XREA equip-
ment and that spike has been confirmed and it is, in fact,
related to the XREA source. That would indicate that the
photography that would be brought back at the end of the
mission should be very good photography of ScoX-i the XREA
source in the constellation Scorpio. This is Skylab Control.
It's now 39 minutes and 33 seconds after the hour and we have
22 minutes and a half until our next acquisition.

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TIME: 03:01 CDT 56/08:01 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours i minute and

14 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now just about to come within range of the tracking antenna
at Guam Island. And we'll have the line live for air-to-
ground through Guam. This pass will last a little over
8-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9
minutes.
CDR Say again.
CC We're with you for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR 56 hung up in filter one at the moment?
I think maybe it is.
CC We'll check it.
CC CDR, Houston. It appears to us
S056 terminated it's sequence properly.
CDR Well, it may have, but the operate
light is on, so that makes me - it should have run out at
several minutes ago. I'ii turn off the operate light. And
I'm turning off the stop switch. I think in the last frame
it didn't cycle far enough.
CDR I guess if it hangs up at the middle,
you all see it, but if it hangs up at the end, it still
glves us an operate light, hut it looks okay to you down
there. We have both kinds.
CC That's affirmative, AI. We're still
discussing this thing now, about what happens when it ends
up a sequence and doesn't quite catch the signal on the last
frame there.
CDR It goes back to frame one, which gives
you the clue, but the operate light stays down - stays on.
l'd say about 50 percent of the lockups are that way.
CC We copy.
CDR That also accounts for several times
I've said, "Is it hung up", and the answer was no and I've
left it sort of sit there for awhile. I did not realized
that when it was hung up on the final frame there, having
taken it but the operate light was on, that you all didn't know
it.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 43.
SPT See you there, Hank.
CDR And Hank, I notice that I have a handheld
photo scheduled at about 09:15. Just (garble) with my
Madrid - Okay, I got it. Understand now.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 12 minutes and
27 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam passing to
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the southeast of Guam. We're 30 minutes from acquisition

of signal at our next tracking station. We will be passing
close to Honeysuckle, but that is not indicated as an
acquisition. It's only about 2.5 maximum elevation and
the rule has been to not acquire signals that are too low
in the sky. That would have been a very short one in any
case. So our next acquisition will be at Vanguard in a
little less than 30 minutes from now. This is Skylab
Control at 13 minutes after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2335/i
Time: 03:41 CDT, 56/08:41 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 41 minutes

and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now 53 seconds from acquisition of signal through the Vanguard
tracking ship. That period of communications will last
approximately 6 minutes. We have the llne up live now for
alr-to-ground through Vanguard for about 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for
7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank. We've got a problem, possibly
not a problem, but when we found ... S019 (static) I could not
get the film lever over to slide retraction. We are filming
that but it's only reading about 122 or 123. I've mounted the
other film cassette, don't know if there's any film in it or not,
but I thought I'd get one or two more exposures and let you
know what - let you decide what to do for the next pass.
CC Jack, I'm sorry. We had a drop out there
and we lost all the first part of that.
PLT Okay. The subject is S019, Hank. I
got the first exposure and then I went - was going to go from
carriage to slide retracted on the second one and the lever
wouldn't move into slide retracted, although it would move
into the other direction, freely. I've got a hunch maybe it's
out of film, but it's only counting at 122 or 123. I put
in the second film cassette and I'm going to try to get one
more exposure or whatever I can get in the rest of this rev.
But, you might want to decide what to do for the next
operational period.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC Skylab, meant to tell you earlier, but
I forgot it. The long awaited tennis match came off last
night. And Billy Jean King consistantly outplayed Riggs and
put him down. 6, 4; 6,3; 6,3.
CDR Woman's Lib rides high. Tell me this,
what kind of vitamins was she taking? We want to get some.
CC I don't know. I wonder if he was taking
too many. He might have had them rattling around and couldn't
do much there.
CDR Dr. Garrlott informs me that he was
taking C and she was taking E.
SPT I told you those vitamins are no darn
good for you.
PLT All right - Okay. I got it here.
CC Say again.
PLT I've got to get the comm refigured -
reconfigured. Okay. I took one more exposure. We've only taken
two this rev. The first one was on cassette single number 5.
And this last one was on cassette number 3. I've got the
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270 to 30 second exposure on PO512. The rest of it, of course, I've

already mentioned it, the film lever locked up. And so I'm
standing by for what you want me to do about that.
CC Okay. We're discussing it down here
now, Jack. We'll try to get an answer to you here, shortly.
PLT Okay. At the moment, I've got number -
whatever it was, the last - number 3 I guess, installed and available
for taking pictures. I don't know how many frames we've got left.
It's sitting on 144 now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about one minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Canaries at 02. And Jack,
we'll try to have an answer for you there. That will still be
in time for the next pass.
PLT Okay. Thanks.
CC The quant - the number - serial number three
you put in there appears to be working okay.
PLT Yes, sir. I don't know how much film it's
got left in it though. It's been sitting on 144. And I
don't know the characteristics of what happens when you come
to the end of the film slot but I've got a hunch that may
be what happened. Because I think we must have maybe run
out of slots.
CC Okay.
PLT That was a real hard stop there. It -
gears retracted and it just won't go any farther.
CC Normally, I think, there are 150 in those
things.
PLT That's what I thought too. So I was a little
surprised.
PLT There's something else that I don't
understand on this melt demonstration, and that is, what -
what does step 3 mean? A painted photo i/8th piece of paper
in the front center of the ice cube. And then I want to know what
part of the ice cube they want to see on the film, is it the cylindrical
side or is it the front with the - the front circular looking
portion?
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 51 minutes
and 24 seconds Greenwich mean time - -

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TIME: 03751 CDT 56/08:51 GMT
9/21/73

PAO - seconds Greenwich mean time. The

Skylab now out of range of the Vanguard tracking ship's
antennas. Our next acquisition of signal is 10 minutes
and 43 seconds from now will be at Canary Island. During
this last pass Pilot Jack Lousma indicated he was having
a problem with S019. That's the ultraviolet stellar
astronomy experiment that's operated by fellow Astronaut,
Carl Henize. The problem seems to be that the film lever
has locked up after one frame was shot. The reading on the
film lever was 122 film count. There are 150 frames normally,
so that would indicate that it should not have been out of
film. Pilot Jack Lousma replaced the cassette with a used
cassette that had 6 frames remaining on it, and he said
that it seems to be operating properly. The experiment is
to photograph, with three exposures each, an area of 50
star fields in the milky way, primarily of young stars to
determine something about the origin of stars and about
inner stellar matter. Also a little discussion of last
night's match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
tennis match here in Houston and the crew has been follow-
ing that. Just gone into a long daylight period now. The
Skylab space station having more than an hour of daylight
as we're in a very high elevation for solar astronomy and
how longer data take times on those ATM instruments. At
this time the film status of those instruments is coming
fairly close to the end. Only H-Alpha has a good deal of
film left. About 2000 frames left in the H-Alpha. SO82B,
the film counter has reached a telemetry reading of stop,
which indicates that either it's no longer operating
properly, that the camera is jammed or that it has run out
of film. The 82B is the ultraviolet spectograph. S082A,
which is the extreme ultraviolet coronal spectroheliograph,
is going to use up it's final frame of film today. It has
one frame left and that will be shot a little bit later
in the day. The other cameras are going to be pretty much
used up today in preparation for that EVA tomorrow. They
will run out the rest of the film there, expecting some
activity possibly on the Sun. There is a active region
27, which is near the Sun's center will be studied fairly
extensively during the day. And two active regions very
close to each other on the Sun's eastern llmb are expected
to possibly have some interaction today. If they should
have a flare in that area, and they think there's about a
75 percent chance of flare of C magnitude or larger, a
medium size flare anyway, then they may start observing
that area down on the eastern llmb of the Sun. Those

active regions, 34 and 37 are expected to interact during

the day. We're 7 minutes and 50 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Canary Island_ This is Skylab Control at
54 minutes and 32 seconds after the hour.

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TIME: 04:01 CDT 56/09:01 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 1 minute and

20 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at Canary Island.
This pass through Canary Island and Madrid will last about
14 minutes. We'll have the line up llve for air-to-ground
through tracking stations near Africa and over Europe.
CC Skylab. AOS Canaries and Madrid 13
minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders over Madrid
at 09:06.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Jack, on S019, field 215 is a high
priority field. We're looking at having you run 215 at
the next opportunity. That'll be 09:52. Prior to that
if you can, get to the malfunction procedure on page 2-4
of the experiment malf book and we're coming up on Honeysuckle
at 09:50. At that time we'll pass you some rotatation and tilt
numb e rs.
PLT Okay, Story. And there's one other
question I had on this melt de _nstratlon. I don't understand
step number 3 on mission day 56. Obtain and fold a 1/8 inch
piece of paper at the center of the ice cube. That Just
mean a 1/8 inch strip and stick it on the cyllndrlcal end?
And the other question is what view do they want in the
camera of the ice cube. Do they want the cylindrical end
or do they want cylindrlcal side?
CC Stand by i.
PLT Okay.

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9/21/73

CC Okay. We'd llke a picture of the

paper ice interface straight on. We're going LOS here, see
you in 35 minutes over Honeysuckle at 09:50.
PLT Okay. They'll have to come up with a
better answer than that. That doesn't tell me anything.
Where do they want the strip, on the end or the side?
CC Want the side view.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab, now over eastern Europe is
out of range of the Madrid, Spain tracking antenna. Our
next acquisition of signal will be 32 minutes and 55 seconds
from now. And that is at Honeysuckle, Australia.

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TIME: 04:40 CDT 56/09:49 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 49 minutes and

7 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now
54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle
tracking station. This pass through Honeysuckle will last
approximately 8 minutes. We'll have the line up live for
air-to-ground through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 7 minutes,
and I've got an S019 pad for Jack.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Are you ready to copy?
PLT Yep. Ready to copy, Story.
CC Okay. You'll be using cassette 003 as
you know. We've got 6 frames remaining until we get
into the CAL frames. We are going to use just one of the
CAL frames. So you'll be taking 7 frames in all. Start:
0956, rotation, 343.9, tilt, 18.3, field 560, exposure, 270.
Start: i001, rotation, 135.7, tilt, 26.5, field, 215, expsoure,
270, 90, 30. You still with me?
PLT Sure. Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. One more. Start: NO8, rotation
140.5, tilt, 25.2, field, 211, exposure, 270, 90, 30. And
this will complete the frames remaining on cassette 003.
PLT Okay. You might tell me what the NuZ is
down here on that pass.
CC Okay. That's 4.3.
PLT Okay. Thank you Story. I got all that.
I got about 3 minutes and I have to be in run. So I'ii take
off and tell you about the other canister later. Looks like
film in it is working okay to me. It's just that the gears
won' t come out.
CC Okay. Copy. And on the ice melting
experiment. Take those photos perpendicular to the paper.
Looking straight at the paper.
PLT Okay. And the paper I take it should be
lined up along the cylindrical side parallel to the long
axis. Is that right?
CC Yes Sir. That's affirm.
PLT Okay. That's as opposed to being on the
end. Then I'ii take the photos perpendicular to it.
CC That's correct. Thank you.
PLT Okay. Thank you for clearing it -
clarifying that for me, Story.
SPT Story, for ADAM down there, the H-Alpha 2
door just did not close at sunset here, and so I started on
the door fail to open malfunction procedure here. Let me
hear some other suggestions. Dver.
CC Copy Owen.
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CC And Owen, we've got no data down here,

and we've also got no command capability and we'd like an AUTO
GG ENABLE.
SPT Okay Story. You have the GC ENABLE, and
I'd like to verify that we did have the primary motor
ENABLED on H-Alpha 2. Over.
CC Stand by i.
SPT In other words, I Just want to make
sure that's the one we've been using.
CC H-Alpha 2 is on secondary, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab. We're getting data now. Still
do not have command capability.
SPT Okay Story. After step 2, I show barber
poles on both the H-Alpha i and H-Alpha 2 now.
CC Copy.
CC And Owen, from what we can see down here
you're in good shape. When you get into sunrise we expect
the doors to open.
SPT Okay. I'Ii terminate the malfunction
procedure at that point after block 2.
CC Okay. That'll be fine. We're about
a minute from LOS. We'll see you over Bermuda in 35 minutes
at 10:33.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 58 minutes
and 42 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
on revolution 1873 is now out of range of the Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia tracking station. We have 34 minutes and
50 seconds to our next acquisition of signal, and that will
be at Bermuda. During this last pass instructions were
given to Pilot Jack Lousma for another attempt to get some
S019 data that is ultra violet stellar astronomy photography.
They were new instructions for the location and the amount
of time to be given to those frames that will complete the
cassette number 3 that is being used now on the ultraviolet
astronomy experment. Earlier Jack Lousma had difficulty
with that previously used cassette that stuck with about
28 frames remaining and he is now using up the remainder
of another cassette. Today is the last day of solar
observations by the second Skylab crew. So far on their
55 days in space, Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma,
have spent more than 400 hours at the control panel for
the six solar telescopes. By working longer hours, the
second Skylab team has gathered nearly half again as much
data as was expected by the Flight Planners before the crew
was launched in late July. Although the Sun has been very
quiet for nearly two weeks, solar forecasters are pre-
dicting at least one modest flare today. And they believe
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there may be a series of eruptions from two active regions

on the Sun's eastern edge. That might be another series of
eruptions with one active region igniting a flare in a
second active region. Tomorrow Science Pilot Owen Garriott
will assist Commander Alan Bean in replacing film in camera
assemblies on the solar instrument. The film will be returned
with the previous film cassettes used by the telescopes
and provide scientists with more than 75,000 separate views
of the Sun. The film will be removed during a space walk
beginning just after 6:00 a.m. central daylight time
tomorrow. This is Skylab Control. It's now just after
i0 hours Greenwich mean time, and we're 33 minutes from
our next acquisition of signal.

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Time: 05:32 CDT, 56/10:32 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at I0 hours 32 minutes

and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing the coast of South America. It's about to come
within range with the tracking antenna at Bermuda. We have
the line up llve for air-to-ground through Bermuda, lasting
about 7 minutes and 20 seconds. And we're about 44 seconds
from acquisition of signal there.
CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda 6 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. I've rigged up that
6-pack cool a few minutes ago. Got that rigged out. You
might want - put a note in Jack's deact checklist right at
the very end just after the close-out before he closes
the hatch to verify the fan's on and that the tie-downs
are tight and it's all alined. But y'all may have a better
place to put that. It's my guess it's going to get bumped
around over the next few days, particularly suited ops
during the EVA. It's right in the middle of the normal traffic
time.
CC Okay. Sounds like a good idea. If we
got any change to that, we'll get them up to you.
CDR When I opened my urine drawer this
morning, I noticed there was quite a bit of urine around. And it
looked to me llke the little rubber boot that fits over the
pipe coming out of the centrifuge, part of it was over the
wide bump. The other part was not. It looked okay, but
apparently it was not, so I cleaned that up. I've put down
the number that I read, but my guess is, the leak was about
i/2 of one of those sample bags. And I assume the sample
bags are what, 120 millimeters or something like that?
CC That's affirm, AI, so about 60 MLN.
CDR Okay. When I read it out tonight I'ii
mention it again, but you might alert the urine interested
biomeds llke Mike Whittle that it looks llke this thing's
going to be in error about half of a sample bag's worth.
CC Okay.
CC And, AI, could you comment on your
hand-held photograph of Madrid. Did you get a good picture
and what was the weather there?
CDR Weather was good there. I was not able
to pull it off. I got hung up in the urine - problem.
CC Okay. We're interested in the weather
because the EREP pass will go over there.
CDR Okay. I looked out. And France looked good
as did Germany.
CC Okay. And we'll reschedule that photo
tll later.
CDR Okay.
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CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Stand by i.
PLT Looking good to do the melt experiment.
CC Okay.
CDR He'll be with you in a minute. Story's
working on his lee cube. It's not a cube, his ice cylinder.
CC Okay, AI.
CDR I mentioned it to Dick, last night,
Phll Shaffer's team, we're kind of hoping that the Flight
Planners for the next 3 or 4 da - well til the end of the
mission put the eating on time and getting to bed on time
and getting the exercise at least a couple of hours before
we get to bed and also getting to eat, at least, 3 or so
hours before we get to bed. It's about the highest priority
things they have.
CC Okay. They got that, AI. And we'll
do it.
CDR Okay. The last couple of days we've
been eating just as we went off to bed and also exercising
right at the last minute too. And we need to get this thing
really psyched out here for the last five days.
CC Okay. And we're going LOS here and
we'll see you over Canaries in about i minute.

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CDR Okay. We're going to move our own eating

periods around today so that we're eating pretty near normal.
We noticed we're eating 8 hours after we get up, lunch, so
we're going to move that back.
CC Okay. Good idea.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 41 minutes
and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now over the mid Atlantic is just about 44 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Madrid and at Canary Island.
We'll have the line up live for air-to-ground through those
stations. Just a few moments ago Commander AI Bean did
indicate that he had no success today in getting the handheld
photography over Madrid. We're AOS at Madrid and we'll
have the line up live now.
CC We're back with you through Canaries and
Madrid for i0 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
recorders over Madrid at 10:45.
PLT Okay Story. Go ahead.
CC Got a little addition to your ice melting
experiment there, Jack. You ready to copy.
PLT Okay. I want you to know the thing
is up and melting.
CC Okay.
PLT Go ahead.
CC When it gets done melting and you've got
a sphere of water there. Take the shower soap dispenser and
put a small amount on the edge of the globule and in terms
of perspective, put that at right angles to the DAC. As
the DAC is looking at the globule, put the soap off to the
edge of the sphere of water and try to avoid touching the
water with the tape.
PLT Try to avoid touching the water with the
tape. What's the tape got to do with it? I understand the
soap, but I don't understand the tape.
CC We just don't want any contact between
the tape and the water.
PLT Oh. I understand. The tape that it's
hooked on to. Okay. And I'ii put a little dot of shower soap
on the outside edge of it. Right?
CC _eah. At right angles to the DAC, so
we'll get the best view of the dispersion. And run the DAC
at about two frames per second for i or 2 minutes to observe
the dispersion.
PLT Okay. And right now, I got it hooked to
the tape. I took a little piece of mosite to make it stand
off and I wasn't completely sure if you said it but I got it
set up so it'll all be in the DAC and set up so that you will
be able to get all of the data you need. So far the diffusion
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experiment hasn't done anything. The tea is just sitting

on top of the fiber stopper like it was doing yesterday. I
think the trouble is that tea has Just got too much sugar
and it's just sort of llke syrup and I don't think it's
going to go anywhere, but I'ii just leave it like it is and
take pictures of it every once in awhile.
CC Okay. That's all fine, Jack.
PLT Yesterday, when I was working away with
another mode I got a little bit of that tea in the water
and noticed that when it did get in the water, it started
to diffuse, but at the moment, I don't think any of that tea
is going to get in the water, because the stoppers is in
the way.
CC Yeah. We understand that, Jack.
CC Owen, we'd like the DAS for a NAV
update.
SPT You have it.

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CC Owen, the DAS is yours, and AI.

CDR Go ahead.
CC D o you need any more time for updating
your checklist? You need any more scheduled time?
SPT Not with the checklist onboard,
we wonlt need any more. If we get a lot more I guess we will.
CC Okay. The rest of the stuff we've got
is pretty minor.
SPT A1 says to tell you the most important
thing we can do is to eat on time and get to bed on time. Out.
CC Okay. We're going to do that.
SPT Okay. That's great. We'd llke to do
that too.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about
25 minutes from Carnarvon at 11:18.
SPT Okay, Story. See you then.
CC And we're going to have all the EVA troops
in here about 2 or 3 hours from now. So, if you're looking
at any questions on those procedures go ahead and shoot them
down to us around then.
DPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 54 minutes
and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
over eastern Europe is out of range of Madrid tracking antenna.
And we'll have another acquisition of signal in about 24 minutes
from now, that will be at Carnarvon, Australia. During this
pass over Bermuda, Canary Islands, and Madrid, had several
odd things discussed by the crew. Commander Alan Bean reporting
a leak of about 1/2 of a sample bag of urine. That sample
bag contains a 120 milliliters and half of that would be
60 milliliters or about 2 ounces of urine were leaked out.
The medical officers here indicated that that would not affect
the experiments. But, of course, it did create something of
a problem that was cleared up and it was noticed at the time
that the sample bags were being changed. New sample bag has
been placed on and the problem has been solved. Apparently,
the configuration of the sample bag had indicated that it
was properly attached, but as it turned out, A1 Bean said that
it had leaked despite the fact that it looked all right.
Commander reported that the weather was good over Madrid and
also good over France and Germany. He was to have taken a
hand-held photograph of Madrid during a previous pass over
that area at 9:11 Greenwich mean time this morning. The
purpose of that was to take photographs of the new tracking
station Dish antenna, 64 meters in dimensions and also to
make a photograph of metropolitan Madrid, Spain. Because
he was working on that leak from the sample bag, he did not
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have an opportunity to take the hand-held photo of Madrid.

Flight Director Milton Windier indicated that we'll attempt
to reschedule that at the earliest opportunity. The weather
report for the European continent is good news for an EREP
pass scheduled for later today, which will cross both the
United States and parts of Europe. At Canary Island, Pilot
Jack Lousma indicated that the tea is not diffusing in that
tea demonstration of diffusion in water and the ice is melting,
which is the second demonstration. These are two additional
science demonstrations that were proposed for the crew. Earlier
in the mission at the time when their additional work schedule
permitted some added science demonstration. But this time
the time is becoming more critical. There will be no request
for additional demonstrations. Commander A1 Bean was working
on the bicycle ergometer during this last few minutes. He's
now on his physical training period. And he emphasized by
way of Jack Lousma that he does want to get plenty of sleep
and also to have their exercise and meal time scheduled in
such a way that they do not all pile up Just before the
sleep period. He did mention that, himself, over Bermuda,
saying that he would llke to have his meal - evening meal
about three hours before sleep time and the exercise to be
completed about 2 hours before the sleep time. A1 has made
several times in the last few days a mention of the fact that
during these final days of the mission he wants to do every-
thing possible to maintain his physical condition at the best
level. And that's in preparation for the splash down on
Tuesday. This is Skylab Control. We're 20 minutes and 53 sec-
onds from acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. It's
now 57 minutes and 42 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2343/I
TIME: 06:17 CDT 56/11:17 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 17 minutes

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Carnarvon, Australia. The pass will be through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle, Australia. And it will last approximately
16 minutes. We have the line up llve for alr-to-ground
through the Australian tracking stations.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
for 15 minutes with a slight dropout for the handover.
CDR Okay Story.
PLT Story, did you get the word that I
passed on the troubleshooting of S019 film canister?
CC Jack, we think you've gotten on through
the malf and the film hatch mechanism is working okay.
PLT Yeah. That's basically what it is.
When you try to go to (garble) retracted, the - it's a metal
to metal type of stop. Pretty definite and I took the thing
in the (garble) where it was dark and fooled around with it, but
I found that the shutter was closed, the carriage is retracted.
It would not go in any direction. And when you tried to open
the shutter_ it obviously would not open with the carriage is
retracted, the film runner free wheeled all the way from
carriage retracted over to shutter open mal, and the film
hatch works normally.
CC Okay.
CC And we don't have any more procedures
for you on that right now, Jack.
PLT Did you call, Story?
CC Yes Sir. We dontt have any more procedures
for you on the SO19 right now.
• PLT Okay. I evacuated that canister it's in the
film vault now and I'm about ready evacuate the other one,
since I understand it's now empty. Is that correct?
CC That's correct.
SPT Hey Story, H-Alpha 2 door did not
close at sunset here again, so it looks llke I'ii have to
go through the same motor turn off and back on again.
CC That's fine, Owen.
SPT Show barber pole now.
CC Okay.
PLT Story, you still there?
CC Yes Sir. Honeysuckle for another 4-1/2
minutes.
SPT I wonder if you'd try to set me up a
phone call tonight to the home folks, please?
CC Okay. Who is that to, Owen?
SPT To the wife if you can reach her this
afternoon.
CC Okay. Will do.

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SL-III MC-2344/I
Time: 06:30 CDT, 56/11:30 GMT
9/21/73
SPT Yeah, Story. You might catch her about
8:00 o'clock local or something like that, before everybody
gets up and around. Since we have to sort of set it up a
little early on our present schedule.
CC Okay.
CC Understand you want that this morning,
in the next, oh, hour, hour and a half, Owen?
SPT I just thought you might call Ellen
sometime this morning. It doesn't make any difference.
At 7 to 8 o'clock somewhere like that. That way it will catch
her before she gets off running around somewhere. And I
guess we'll have to have the conversation before our bedtime,
which will make it afternoon there.
CC Okay. Understand.
CC S kylab, about 20 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Mila in half an hour at 12:05 and be dumping
the tape recorders ther e .
SPT Okay, Story.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 35 minutes
exactly Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the
tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. The Skylab
space station 30 minutes and 45 seconds from our next
acquisition at Merritt Island, Florida. So far today, we've
had relatively few problems aboard the Skylab. A small
leak with one of the urine bags found by Alan Bean and cleaned
up, lost approximately half the sample bag, or about 60 millileters
of urine leak around the boot of the device that's used to
fill those sample bags. Did not accomplish the hand-held
photography assignment this morning of Madrid, but that will
be rescheduled for a later time. Later today, we have an
Earth Resources Pass, the 39th of the mission, but officially
designated as EREP 41. The Earth Resources Pass will be
along track 29 and 30, covering more than i0,000 miles running
from the Gulf of Mexico, with sites including the Houston area
test site, an 18-county area around Houston, Texas, and
crossing three continents including the United States, Canada,
France, Italy, and Etheopia as major countries for study.
This is Skylab Control. We're 29 minutes - 25 seconds from
acquisition of signal. It's now 36 minutes and 30 seconds
after the hour.

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SL III MC-2345/I
TIME: 07:04 COT 56/12:04 GMT
9/21/73
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 4 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now _ust about to cross Central America is coming
within range of the tracking station at Merritt Island.
We'll be there in about 48 seconds and we'll have acquisition
of signal for a relatively extended pass through Merritt
Island and Bermuda lasting approximately 13 minutes. We
have the line live for air-to-ground. We're one rev away
from that extended Earth Resources pass covering i0,000
miles and we do have acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, AOS Mila and Bermuda 14 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. I did the NuZ update
here about 5 minutes ago and I went to close the shutter
and it - the shutter door on the star tracker will not close.
When I tried to do that. When you visually look out
the window here and see that it is still wide open. And I
wonder if you have any recommende_procedure for me. Over.
CC Okay.
CC Owen, you might give it another attempt
to close it. If it doesn't work, park it and power it down.
SPT Okay. I've already tried it a couple
of times already. I'ii try it one more and where would
you like for me to park it. What are =hose numbers?
CC That's inner, minus 1800, and outer
plus 4200.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And the NuZ looks good.
CC And Owen, we'd like the DAS for dump
inhibit.
SPT 6 ahead.
CC Okay. And your phone call is on for
Mile at 21:55. The antenna is right, and I will remind
you about that later on.
CC The DAS is yours, Owen.
SPT Okay.

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SL-III MC-2346/I
Time: 07:15 CDT, 56/12:15 GMT
9/21/73

CC Skylab, one minute to LOS, five minutes

to Madrid.
PLT Okay, Story.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 20 minutes,
exactly, Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of
the Bermuda tracking antenna. Spacecraft traveling over the
north Atlantic about to acquire at Madrid in 3 minutes. At
the present time the Earth Resources Officer is reviewing
the weather for today's pass. That'll be made on the next
revolution a little over an hour from now. The pass begins
at 13:44 Greenwich mean time at 97 degrees west longitude
and ends at 14:20 Greenwich mean time at 45 degrees east
longitude. Covers three continents beginning over North
America including sites in the United 6rates and Canada, also
a number of sites in Europe and in Etheopia and Africa.
Weather conditions over the U.S. at this time, appear to be
very good for the sites that are indicated. Areas along the
Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast show zero to 3/10ths cloud
cover or almost perfect conditions. There is some cloud
cover in the - part of the area north of Alabama, but that
does not appear to contain many of the sites of primary
interests for ground sites. And there is a goo - good condition
again zero to 3/10ths cloud cover over the New York area
where there are a number of sites on this pass. This is
Skylab Control. We are 1 minute and 50 seconds from acquisi-
tion of signal at Madrid tracking antenna and we do have the
line llve for air-to-ground at Madrid.
CC Skylab, AOS Madrid i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Sory. And for the ATM room, I
just completed the 4-mlnute exposure for SO52. If they want
any more than Just the one exposure now is the convenient
time to get it. And also, since we don't really have a
ready light very often on SO52, we probably ought to include an
extra step in the checklist. Did they cycle the mirror
position to camera to make sure that we're not wasting that
one frame? I did do that, but for the next iteration, we
probably ought to include that to make sure. I'ii be sun center
here for another minute or so in case they do want any other
exposures.
CC Okay. I'll get back with you.
CC Owen, we've got enough pictures on the
S052 for now.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And sometime in the next 5 minutes I've
got a couple of tee bus adjust for you to do.
SPT Okay. Just stand by.

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SL Ill MC-2347/I
TIME: 07:28 CDT 56/12:28 GMT
9/21/73

CC And we got 2 minutes, Owen.

SPT Okay. Go ahead with what you wanted.
CC Okay. REG adjust BUS i, 15 degrees
clockwise. And REG adjust BUS 2 I0 degrees clockwise.
SPT Okay.
CC And the reasons for that are we will be
discharging the batteries pretty good during the next EREP
pass. The airlock batteries are in better shape than the
ATM batteries, so we'd llke them to carry a little more of
the load.
SPT _ Understand.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. Be coming
up over Carnarvon in 25 minutes at 12:56. We'll be dumping
the tape recorders there and also will be turning off the
MDA wall heaters over Carnarvon, for your information.
SPT Okay. The REG adjust is complete.
CC Thank you.
SPT And the frame count for that 4 minute
exposure on 52 was 295.
CC Got it.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 32 minutes
and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now crossing eastern Europe is out of range of the
Madrid tracking antenna. Our next acquisition of signal
24 minutes and 26 seconds from now will be at Carnarvon
Australia. This is Skylab Control at 32 minutes and 27
seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2348/I
Time: 07:55 CDT, 56/12:55 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 55 minutes

and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're
55 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia
tracking station. This pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
will last approximately 10-1/2 minutes all together. But there
will be an interruption between the two passes and we'll stay
live during the entire time. It's now about 35 seconds to
that acquisition. We have the line up.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story. Did you redesignate another
tape recorder or am I going to have to wait until you get this one
dumped.
CC Say again, Owen.
SPT I was adjusting channel A tape recorder.
I guess you Just started to dump it. I wondered if you turned
on experiment recorder or whatever required. So far, channel A
is still recorded or shall I wait until you're through with
the dump and put it back on again?
CC We're already dumping, Owen. We'd like
you to stand by until we get done.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
SPT • Story, this is the third straight rev, and
H-alpha number 2 door goes white instead of barber pole at
Sunset.
CC Yeah, we're looking at it, Owen. And do
you want to take care of it, or would you like us to take care
of it?
SPT I'ii take care of it. It Just takes me a
minute.
CC O kay. And we're showing power off of the
VTR now. And we do need to have that powered up for a dump
over Texas.

SPT Okay. Jack says he'll get back at it in

Just a minute. And it looks like the recorders - that dump is
back for us. Is that right?
CC That's affirm, on the recorder.
CC And there's no hurry on the VTR if you're
vacuuming or something now.
CC Owen, when you're done with the door, ops
would llke the DAS for dump enable.
SPT Okay. I'm through with it. You can have it.
CC Okay.
CC The DAS is yours Owen.
CC S kylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over Honeysuckle in 5 minutes. And for your planning
purposes. We will be taking some more data with SO19 a couple
of days from now, using the ca1 frames.
SL-III MC-2348/2
Time: 07:55 CDT, 56/12:55 GMT
9/21/73

PLT Okay, Story.

SPT Story, I was off the llne there for
a couple of minutes on channel A. Did you have anything for
me? I Just heard you talking on our squawk box some distance
away. Over.
CC Negative, Owen. That only concerned SOl9
ops a couple of days from now.
SPT Thank you.
CC And your Z-LV maneuver time is verified.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 6 minutes and
32 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
south of the continent of Australia is out of range of
the Carnarvon tracking station in western Australia but will
be acquired by Honeysuckle in the eastern part of Australia
in about 2 minutes and 46 seconds. Short time from now the
Skylab crew will begin preparing for the operations of the
EREP number 41. That's the 39th actual completed EREP of
the mission. Two of the earlier numbered EREPs were cancelled.
Follows track 29 and 30, across the United Statesj Canada,
Europe, and Africa. During the pass there will be an infrared
spectrometer site spotted by Commander Alan Bean using the
view finder tracking system on the S-191 infrared spectrometer.
That site is Long Island Sound, where Dr. Edward Yost of
CW Post Center at Long Island University, is attemptlng to
determine the utility of several sensor systems for complying
small oceanagraphlc charts. The targets that they'll be
looking for is Eden's NecK Point on Long Island Sound very
near Huntington. This is Skylab Control. We're about
a minute and 40 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Honeysuckle Creek and we have the llne up llve for alr-to-
ground there.

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T"

SL III MC-2349/1
TIME: 08:07 CDT 56/13:07 GMT
9/21/73

CC Skylab, we're back again for Honeysuckle

for 2 minutes.
CC We're a minute from LOS. About 30
minutes to Texas at 13:39.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 11 minutes
and 54 seconds Greenwich mean tim e . Skylab now out of
range of the Honeysuckle_ Australia tracking station.
Twenty-seven and a half minutes before our next acquisition
and that will take place at Texas. During the beginning
of this next acquisition of signal_ we will have our Earth
Resources pass ready to begin. The beginning time for that
pass is at 13:44. It begins at 97 degrees west longtitude,
which is approximately over Mexico. We'll give you a more
complete report on that Just before the EREP pass begins.
And 27 minutes from now we'll have acquisition of signal.

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SL-III MC-2350/I
Time: 08:34 CDT, 56/13:34 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 34 minutes

and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now over the Pacific Ocean about 4-1/2 minutes from acquisition
of signal at the Texas tracking station. At this time the
crew is preparing for that Earth Resources Pass, which will
begin shortly after the acquisition, about 4 or 5 minutes
later. Today's Earth Resources Pass, which crosses three
continents and includes sites in the Gulf of Mexico, the
United States, Canada, France, Italy, and Ethiopia is one
of the longest made by the Skylab crew. The pass begins at
I0 - at 8:44 a.m. central daylight time near the Mexis - the
Mexico-Texas border on the Gulf of Mexico and extends more
than i0,000 miles along the Appalaeian Mountains, across
New England, over the north Atlantic to Bordeaux, France,
across the Islands of Sardinia and Sicily and along the
northeastern portion of Africa not far from the Red Sea.
The pass concludes at 9:20 a.m. central daylight time over
Ethiopia. Nearly three dozen sites will be surveyed for
a wide variety of purposes exhibiting the range of studies
to be performed on through the Earth Resources Program.
Today's EREP pass is the 39th completed during the mission.
Only 26 were planned before the July launch, but due to the
additional work load that the crew required and demanded,
there were an extra 50 percent completion on Earth Resources
passes. In addition, substantial number of Earth Terrain
camera passes in addition to those EREP passes were com-
pleted including two over Paraguay where a special mapping
project is underway. The passes during this mission have
covered more than 500 sites around the world. They're expected
to provide approximately 18 miles of computer magnetic tapes
and roughly 15,000 separate frames of photography. Today's
pass includes only one infrared spectrometer site, that is
site just off Huntington on Long Island Sound, where the data
will be used for the purpose of mapping the waters there.
There are, however, some nadir swaths which are paths
directly below and over an extended period, including the
Gulf of Mexico, using an infrared spectrometer. Infrared
spectrometer will also be on during the pass over Ethiopia.
And there again there is no specific site, but it is a nadir
swath. Weather conditions are very good for the sites that
have been indicated today. A zero to 3/10ths cloud cover
from the Gulf of Mexico where the pass begins to the Tennessee
border. There is some cloud cover over the Appalacians, but
by the time we pick up most of our sites again, from Pennsylvania
to Maine, again, there is zero to 3/lOths cloud cover.
During part of the pass over the mld-Atlantic, the equipment
will be turned off. There are no sites in that period and
SL-III MC-2350/I
Time: 08:34 CDT, 56/13:34 GMT
9/21/73

then it will be turned on again before the Bay of Bisque in

France. Over Ethiopia Earth Terrain Camera 190A, 191, and
192 insturments will all be operating. The 194, of course,
operates during the entire pass, with the exception of that
short period over the middle Atlantic. Should the Long
Island Sound site for the SI91, which Commander Alan Bean
will be operating be clouded over, the backup to that would
be an alternate site at Boston. Substantial number of
sites around the world, the lower Rio Grande Valley of
Texas is being studied to determine methods for early detec-
tion of insect infestation on plants by W. G. Hart of the
Department of Agriculture, Jacques Gillemot of the Institute of
Petroleum in France is going to be studying geological
alinements on southern France, particularly the techtonlc
systems between the eastern Pyrenees and the southern
Alps. And there are a number of other sites in - in Europe
to be covered today. We're approximately going to have
acquisition of signal, so we'll bring the line up live now
for our U.S. pass.

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SL III MC-2351/I
TIME: 08:38 CDT 56/13:38 GMT
9/21/73

CC Skylab, AOS stateside 16 minutes.

CDR Not too good. How do you read me, Jack?
PLT MARK
CC We're reading you, AI.
CDR Okay. We just (garble)
PLT MARK
PLT Okay. We just started. Now we go to
AUTO CAL. MARK. AUTO CAL. 194 MODE to MANUAL. MARK.
Okay. We're standing by for 191 READY LIGHT to come on.
PLT Bow's the (garble) from Friendswood
today down there, Story?
CC They're all great.
PLT Okay. Did they stop all that flooding?
Stop the rain? And -
CC There's a drought there now. We need
some rain.
PLT Oh, I see. Well, I thought they
legislated against floods, which is a good deal. A good
way to get reelected.
PLT Maybe he doesnlt want to get reelected.
CDR How's your door down there, Big O?
CDR Okay.
CC While I've got you in a break here,
there's three cloud decks at Goddard and the laser's been
turned off.
PLT Okay, Story.
PLT Hey O, are you sneaking over there to
get a couple of pictures of that water ball every once in
a while?
SPT I'ii go do it now. I've been busy
otherwise, Jack, and I haven't had a chance. I (garble)
turned on. I'ii get a couple.
PLT I know it. I kind of hate to interrupt for
taking pictures of the melt experiment here for the last i0
minutes or so, cause I got busy doing EREP, Story. The
things pretty well melted. Just got a little bit of ice
left in it. It's forming a nice ball around the outside.
Don't breeze over there too fast, Owen, or it will blow off.
Still no diffusion. If they'd clear me to use another one
of those little test tubes, I'd set up a diffusion experiment
that they could watch. Okay, just had a buzzer on the S191
READY LIGHT to come ON?
CDR 56.
PLT What's your path look like today, AI?
Right up the backbone of the Adirondacks? Is that it?
CDR Yeah. We're headed up over Mexico
and then over New Orleans -
PLT MARK. READY LIGHT ON. Ref 6.
SL III MC-2351/2
TIME: 08:38 CDT 56/13:38 GMT
9/21/73

CDR Alabama, Tennessee, Roanoke,

Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Providence,
Boston, and right over Nova Scotia, and right through
Halifax, so we're in pretty good shape for hitting the
nice part of the country. I hope it's cloud free, at
least partly cloud free. We got a Nadir swath here in a
minute.
PLT Another toughy.
PLT Okay. Standing by for 43:53.
CDR I'ii do it.
PLT Sorry to see this pass get here, Story,
this is the last one. We've really enjoyed doing this EREP.
CC Okay. Stick it to us.
CC We've enjoyed listening to you.
PLT MARK. MODE AUTO on 190.
CDR 40. Looking for 45.
PLT Well, we won't say nothing about your
Flight Director taking the team out to dinner like we did
for Hutchinson's team and big Phil's.
CDR He probably did it anyway. He's probably
done it already. Nice guy like that.

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SL-III MC2352/I
Time: 08:44 CDT 56/13:44 GMT
9/21173

CDR Nice guy like that•

CDR 45:04•
PLT Tape recorders read right around
45 percent somewhere. Come on 45.
CDR We're over the Gulf. Nice and clear.
PLT Alpha 2 is 58 percent, Charlie 4 is
71 percent. For those who like to know that. They didn't
ask me to read that out today. I wonder why.
CDR Never changes.
PLT Probably - Well, we figured out that
the less I say, the better.
PLT Got old motor mouth and eagle eye going
today.
CDR Okay, we're going to get the tape
burner on in a minute here.
CDR 45:04.
PLT MARK. Mode to ready, MALF light on, off
tape motion light on.
CDR Camera's on.
PLT 192 is working good.
CDR About a 46:04. This is almost 2 minutes.
I'ii - -
plt One minute (garble) I'm just standing
around on this EREP.
CDR Well, we're getting some good pictures
of the Gulf. There's not many clouds down there. And
that's what you're looking for. Gulf surface.
PLT Shutter speed going to MED on 190.
CDR (Garble) shattered but still plenty
of surface.
PLT MARK. Medium.
CDR Still plenty of surface.
PLT Alpha 2's hanging in there. Here's
another one.
CDR And now we're back to clear (garble) - -
PLT Intervals, i0.
CDR EREP will be happy.
PLT Alfa 2 is 40 - 57 percent for some
reason. Charlie 4, 71 percent. Maybe it just likes to
be over water.
CDR DAC OFF. That finished that little one.
Now we go up to 45 up and left to zero right there.
CDR Okay, we stand by to go on here at
47:17. Just a minute away. We're over some - looks
llke overcast here. It's hard to tell. Just says white out.
PLT 35 percent being read on Charlie 8
now. It hangs in there. It's real steady when you've got
the old tape burner running.
SL-III MC-2352/2
Time: 08:44 CDT, 56/13:44 GMT
9/21/73

CDR Look at this haze. We're actually

over the ocean, but hazy. It's hard to tell. I zoomed
in I might be able to tell more.
PLT Standing by for 47:30. Tape recorder's
getting low. Pretty near 31 percent. Still got a half a
minute to go.
CDR 47:17.
PLT You got Block Island again today?
CC No. I've got the one I shot two or
three times short of that. Kind of in - in a little inland
a few little points of land. 47:17. Then I got Boston after
this one. Block Island isn't going to get a treatment today.
47:17 coming up. Camera's on.
PLT TAPE MOTION light Just went out and oscil-
lating is flickering.
CDR Okay. 47:17 is there.
PLT It is flickering.
CDR And we're going to zoom in and see what
we can get.
PLT Well, I guess (garble) must be a sticky
tape. Stand by.
CDR We can track, but we can't see what it is.
It's just (garble)
PLT (Garble) check.
CDR Very hazy day down there. Come on (garble)
PLT Recorder malf light on steady now with
the tape motion light on steady. I've never seen that before.
Now the malf light went out. I think it's that reel of tape.
Story, is that a reel of tape one that was up here when we got
here? Or did we bring it up?
CDR We're tracking away, Story, 20 degrees;
same old site.
PLT (Garble) that roll of tape. But any
other roll of tape we've run through.
CDR Why? Does it feel different?
PLT It's already - It's also on the tape
recorder number 2, which might make a difference. It did
not make a difference yesterday.
CC That's correct, Jack. And it's happened
before.
PLT I know it's happened before. But hasn't
happened to us in the tape recorder i. Does it happen in
tape recorder 2? Is it function of tape recorder or the tape?
CC That's the tape recorder.
PLT Okay. Thank you. I've got it on my
funny list and I've been looking for it. But I've never seen
it on tape recorder i.
SL-III MC-2352/3
Time 08:44 CDT, 56/13:44 GMT
9121/73

CDR Locked on. (garble)

PLT Standing by for intervals to 20.
CDR Hey we're about in 22. That's plenty
enough. All that's coming off.
CDR Coming back and - -
PLT MARK. Intervals to 20 on SI90.
CDR (Garble) And right, 4.
CDR 45. AC i, 2, 3, 4. Looking for
50:09. Less than a minute away. Incidentally, it (garble)
a little bit, so we can pick it out.
PLT Tape recorder's oscillating around
25 percent plus or minus 7.
CDR We're looking for 50:09, 45.1, right 40.
A right 40 and a 45.1. Little hazy down there again.
50:09. Think that's just the way of the world up here.
Okay. We're getting Long Island. We got the target - not
yet, but we're going to get it. I can tell.

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SL-III MC2353/I
Time: 08:49 CDT, 56/13:49 GMT
9/21/73

PLT Okay, putting intervalometer to i0.

PLT MARK. (garble) to 10.
CDR I see it. The site is not in sight yet.
P09 is what I'm looking for. Okay, it doesn't look right down
there.
PLT Did you get your VTR dump, Story?
CC Stand by I.
CDR (garble) we didn't get a good point
that time for some reason. We got the place but the point
was poor.
PLT We're going to READY on 192 here. STANDBY.
PLT MARK, MODE READY. 192 MALF LIGHT ON; OFF.
No tape along there. And the tape motion light's coming on,
Just flickering on.
CDR We got the goodie.
PLT STANDBY for SHUTTER SPEED to FAST. Tape
motion light just likes to flicker. Makes it more interesting
when the lights don't all work right.
CDR We're 16 degrees; we're taking data right
on. Good weather down here; the way it ought to be. Going
park - -
PLT SHUTTER SPEED to FAST. I hear them turning
ou t too.
CDR When it goes back to i0, we're going
to get off this site. Zero right now.
PLT Boy, I'ii tell you, if this doesn't
run off that tape, nothing will. We're at 20 percent. Get
out my little book that tells me what the cal curve looks
llke for tape recorder number 2. All written up neatly by
our friends from Martin there in the back of the - -
CDR (garble)
PLT - - EREP (garble) to (garble) up that data
section cause this is the last page.
CDR Let's go to zero.
PLT Yeah, there we go.
CC We got the VTR dump, and it's rewound.
CDR And we're going to go right - thank you -
2.3. Get back over here.
PLT Got 15 percent on the tape recorder.
CDR (garble) time 51:51. That was it back there.
That's okay, we got it. Now we find Boston; there's Boston.
Now we find a place close at hand.
PLT Of course, here we got more tape left than
we do on the other tape recorder.
CDR Okay, we got a uniform site. Everything
looks good.
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We're getting Boston's uniform site. Okay, we've unlocked.

PLT Okay, what you think? He takes a bead
on that historic city.
CDR (garble) 822, next to the historic city. 822.
PLT See where the Boston Tea Party was.
We're having our own little tea party up here but see it doesn't
work llke - -
CDR Doesn't have any confusion that goes along with
it. Huh?
PLT That's what you're taking a picture of.
Okay, we're going to go to check here and get this little tape
burner off. STANDBY..
PLT MARK, we're in CHECK. Tape motion light
to (garble)
CDR - -00 we're standing by for the time 08:22.
I got a maneuver at 14:20, that's a good long way away.
PLT A long pass.
CDR Yeah.
CDR We're hitting Nova Scotia. I think I'ii
take a look and see if I can see Halifax.
PLT You take a picture of my (garble) down there, 0?
SPT Not right now. I'm shooting (garble) here
Nova Scotia or anything.
PLT Let's get back to science down there.
SPT Well, we're doing that, Jack. (garble)
PLT (Laughter)
CDR Can't keep his mind off science.
PLT I think that guy was sightseeing. Keep
thinking he's in a train; alway's traveling.
PLT Okay, 191 is next.
CDR Okay. _ Standing by for an 08:22 operation.
PLT All kinds of time, AI.
CDR I'd say so. Makes me think my pads
wrong, it's so much.
PLT Yeah mine too.
PLT MARK, REF 2 on 191. We've got a little
bit of tape. My cal curve hit 00 at the same time here,
as opposed to tape recorder number i, tape recorder's number 2
is supposed to hang in there a little longer. I'm waiting
for the 190 READY out light. READY LIGHT OUT is what
I should have said. Not yet, however. What will happen
if I do that?

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PLT (garble) when that happens, I o that. MARK.

One second early, but pretty darn close. We're in standby.
Frames are going to i and 7. Intervals to 20. Okay, let's
doublecheck that.
CDR i, 7, 20. Stand by.
PLT Okay. VTS going to get an auto cal on you,
AI.
CDR Why don't you do that.
PLT MARK. The auto cal. EREP stop after the end
of this auto cal.
PLT 191 ready light is out.
CDR You can put that in storage and forget it.
PLT I'ii come down and take that picture, O.
I'm going to have a minute here.
SPT Well, if you'll take one now, I'ii take
one in 5 minutes.
CDR I can go take one now for you, Jack. I've
got it in 5 to 8 minutes.
SPT I just did that take, you don't need to
worry about it.
PLT Thank you, Owen.
CC We're a minute from LOS. Five minutes to
Madrid. Your SI maneuver time is verified. And it looks like
a good pass you had.
CDR We got them all. Boston was - we got Boston,
but it wasn't straight viewed by then. I followed the first
site until it was about 20 degrees back and then it moved up
to Boston. So Boston we started maybe i0 degrees in and back.
But we got it (garble).
SPT It should have been next to our data, Story.
About the only thing dropped in happened to be that Washington
Baltimore area. The rest of the coast, all the way up and down,
is nearly clear.
PLT Weather is clearing up now we're leaving.
CC Okay, great.
PLT I think it was that active Sun that made
all the weather up there over the states.
CDR Could be.
CDR Nothing like an active Sun. There is
nothing really llke it.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 56 minutes and
51 seconds. The Skylab space station has gone out of range of
the Bermuda tracking antenna. It is now over the north Atlantic
where there will be a brief interruption in that Earth resources
pass. That will be continuing however shortly after we get
acquisition of signal at Madrid. This is the final Earth re-
sources pass, the 39th of the mission. And all of the instru-
ments are being used during the Earth resources pass today
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which covers a total of i0000 miles. The only instrument not

being used today is the S193, that's the microwave radiometer
scatterometer altimeter which has been malfunctioning, a problem
with the stepping operation of the i.i meter terribolic antenna.
It has an antenna that can move through several different po-
sitions. It has not been subject to control by the crew or
by the instruments. And for that reason it has not been a
useful instrument in the last several days. There will be some
consideration given to possible EVA to repair that, certainly
not on this mission, but conceivably on the next mission. How-
ever, there is no real decision made yet on that move. Tomor-
row there is an EVA scheduled. That will begin early tomorrow
morning. About 6:08 is the tentative time set for hatch opening.
And we'll have some more details on that later in the day. Next
pass around the Earth we'll have a news conference. That news
conference is to begin at 10:15 central daylight time or 15:15
Greenwich mean time. And it should extend at least 12 minutes
and possibly a little longer. There will be live television
for the 12 minutes of the U.S. pass. And there may be additional
news conference without television following that. This is
Skylab Control. It is now 58 minutes and 40 seconds after the
hour. We'll have the line up llve for acquisition of signal
_ through Madrid for 7 minutes. The Earth resources pass will
continue beyond that acquisition of signal for approximately
another 13 minutes as the space station goes down the coast
of Africa along the Red Sea.

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SL-III MC-2355/I
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9/21/73

CC We're back with you through Madrid for

7 minutes.
PLT Hey, Story. What kind of photographic
protocol did you want when I put the shower soap under it -
water glob? Want to let it run continuous for two frames or what?
CC That's about i to 2 minutes at two frames
per second. And I guess it will be a good idea to start the
camera Just prior to putting the soap on it.
PLT Yes, I've been doing that anyway. I've
been putting the camera on it when - the thing gets secure
under and that kind of thing. So - every couple of minutes,
you say, for a couple of frames per second, huh?
CC That's affirm, Jack.
PLT Are you there, Story? Not there.
CC Another five minutes, Jack.
PLT Okay. When they ran this melting test on
the ground and - they put the soap on it, how big of a glob
of soap do they want on it there? About the same as - a normal
water drop on earth or is it a bigger glob?
CC Stand by i.
PLT Okay.
CDR During this nadir swath over Sicily,
we noticed that the volcano at the eastern end of Sicily, this
morning was putting out a little smoke. Too bad we can't
stop the - 191 and put it right on the mouth of the volcano.
PLT MARK, EREP to START.
PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO.
PLT TAPE MOTION light is ON. Everything
seems to be running pretty well.
CDR 8:22, Jack. It's roughly 4 minutes.
PLT Okay, after this is over, I'm going to
raise that up. I'm going to look through the window while you
look through there, and the door comes CLOSE.
CDR You've got it right. I'Ii read the procedure
as we do it.
PLT Okay.
CDR And I'm going to do a quick alignment,
which I suspicion, hasn't moved a bit.
PLT Hope you're right.
CDR And I'm going to change into seal in the
water spicate. (garble)
PLT Standing by for MODE to READY.
CDR Okay.
PLT MARK. READY light on - READY on the 192.
MALF light on and off. Tape motion light is ON. Okay,
we're in good shape.
CDR Let me check and see where we are.
PLT (garble) where it is.
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PLT We must be over a good place because

we're only getting 40 seconds on 192.
CDR That's what I'm wondering. Maybe over
(garble)
PLT (Garble) 9 percent. Charlie 8.
CDR No, we're right over - we're coming in
over the coast of France, it looks like. Hard to tell real
quick. No, we're departing it.
PLT Well, we must be departing something.
CDR We just - I think we just cut across the
PLT Right now, I'd say.
PLT MARK. MODE to check on 192.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Haven't got my map set, but I think it was
(garble) we just passed.
CC Jack, that's a very small drop of soap.
PLT A very small drop of soap, okay.
CDR We just wait for that 22.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC And while we got a break here in your EREP
ops, on your maneuver back to SI, we think you'll probably
get a CMG SAT and fire a couple of mibs on the way back.
CDR Okay, we'll watch out for it.
PLT I figured we'll ought to take the DAC down
there and take movies of that come from that other window.
CDR Okay.
PLT We saw the TACS firing the other day Just
at sunset. It Just happen to fire that one near the - workshop -
the wardroom window. It Just sends out a white cloud, like
a flash.
CDR Sure see it. CMG SAT.
PLT Sounds llke lightning. Brightening up the
window for a moment. If the Sun's shining right on it.

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9/21/73

CC Okay, we're about 40 seconds from LOS

here. See you over Honeysuckle in 40 minutes at 14:47.
CDR Okeydoke.
PLT Okay, Story.
CDR Make sure I'm looking at the (garble)
PLT Standing by for 8 minutes. Shutter speed
to medium.
CDR It looks like Gibraltar down there. I
think it is.
PLT And for Siciliy.
CDR Sicily.
PLT Okay, standing by for shutter speed to medium,
coming up in 8 minutes. MARK. Medium. That shutter speed I can
hear it wind down on 190. 02:22 standing by.
CDR It's nice and clear right now over the Med.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 8 minutes and
19 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
crossing the island of Sicily. It is just out of the range
of the tracking station at Madrid. That Earth resources pass
is still under way and it will be completed in another few
minutes at 20 minutes after the hour as the spacecraft passes
over Ethiopia. Today is the final Earth resources pass of
this mission, 39th to be completed. All the instruments
operating except the S193. Most of the data returned by the
mission and probably the most important data is computer data
that is put out on 1-1nch magnetic tape, 18 miles of it all
together• They have used so much magnetic tape in fact that
they have had to borrow from the Skylab-4, final Skylab
missions load of tape and they did borrow two reels in addition
to the eleven that they carried up with them. That gave them
a total of 18 miles of computer tape. It takes about 2 months
to process that tape after it is returned here. And it does
have to be stripped out and individual sites located, and the
information transmitted on individual magnetic tapes to each
of the principle investigators. There are approximately 150
Principle Investigators in the Skylab program. Most of them
do make use of the magnetic tape rather than the photography,
although the photography is probably a little bit better known.
However, in addition to the 18 miles of magnetic tape to be
used by computers there is also approximately 15000 frames of
photography. But 2000 of those are Earth terrain camera pho-
tography. And the remainder are photos taken by the 6 band
multispectral camera which produces 70-milllmeter photos six
at a tlme using different sorts of film. On our next pass
around the Earth as we come over the United States we'll have
a press conference with the Skylab crew. This will be the
final press conference in space for this mission. And today
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is the final day both on Earth resources and on the ATM solar
experiments. Both of those being closed out. Both of them
having been completed to about 50 percent greater total man
hours than were expected previous to the mission. The ATM
hours having exceeded 400 man hours for the crew. This
is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal 30 minutes
and 24 seconds from now. It is now i0 minutes and 39 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2357/I
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9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 46 minutes

and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 50 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle tracking station.
This pass will be a very very brief one only lasting about
a minute and 40 seconds through Honeysuckle. And we'll have
the llne up llve for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for just I minute.
CC And Owen, I've got a message for you on
downloading the ETC.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Are you ready to copy?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Download both prime and a spare mags per
the cue card. The prime mag stow the film in F26, the mag in
FSI0, the (garble) mag, the film in F27, and the mag in M124.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine. Now that's not
on my schedule. Do you want me to do it at the end of the
ETC stowage I have?
CC You can Just get that any time you can
work it in, Owen.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you
over Goldstone at 15:15. And you've got a press conference
coming up then. We've got aobut 17 questions for you and
you'll have a total of about 16 minutes so you probably won't
get to all of them. You'll have TV for the first i0 minutes
of the press conference. That's through Goldstone and Texas.
And the last two sites will be voice only.
SPT You're (garble) right now, Story.
CC Okay, good.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now out of the
range of the Honeysuckle Creek Australia tracking antenna.
It's passing over the southern island of New Zealand, and will
next have an acquisition of signal 25 minutes and 30 seconds
from now. And as Spacecraft Communicator Story Musgrave tried to
inform the crew at the very end of that pass over some very
bad communications lines that there will be a press conference
underway there at the Goldstone and Texas pass. The press
conference will be broadcast llve here in Mission Control.
At 14 hours 50 minutes and 35 seconds, this is Mission Control.

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SL-III MC-2358/I
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9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours ii minutes and

17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now a little over
4 minutes to the beginning of that press conference with the
astronauts. This will be a live television press conference
through Goldstone and Texas. The press conference will be
continued, but without television at Bermuda for about 5 minutes
afterwards. The pass through the U.S. stations will last for
about 11-1/2 minutes. That does begin at 15 minutes and 45
seconds after the hour. There is going to be a corollary
experiments briefing today at ii:00 a.m. in the Building 1
Briefing Room, Room 135. Participants in the corollary briefing
will be Jack Walte, the Marshall Space Flight Center Manager
for the Corollary Experiments, Bob Adams, the Manager of the
Materials Processing Program, Dr. Harry Gatos, the Principle
Investigator for M562, and Art Bolse, the Marshall Space Flight
Center Technical Manager on M518. This will be primarily
concerned then with the manufacturing and space aspects of the
corollary experiments. And those four participants will be
available at II:00 a.m. in the Building 1 small briefing room.
At 1:00 p.m. central daylight time, there will be a news briefing
on ATM, general briefing on ATM by James Milllgan who is the
Principle Investigator on $056. That will concern all of the
solar research. Today is the final day of solar research on
board the Skylah space station for this mission. And tomorrow
there will be a change out of that film. More than 75,000
pictures are estimated to have been shot so far during the
Skylab mission. We are now about 2 minutes and 46 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Goldstone. This pass through Goldstone
and Texas lasting a little over ii minutes. And then we'll
have an interruption before we have our pass beginning at
Bermuda for a press conference that will be without television
at Bermuda. And we will have llve TV through Goldstone and
Texas for about ii minutes. Questions were submitted earlier
by Newsmen and Capcomm Story Musgrave has read them over and
will be reading them up to the crew during this next pass.
PAO Skylab Control, we have had an Earth resour-
ces pass completed today very successfully. That pass covered
some i0000 miles of track from the lower Rio Grande Valley of
Texas across the eastern United States including the cities of
New York and Boston, across the maritime provinces of Canada,
Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, out over the north Atlantic and then
across France, Sardinia, Sicily, and down through Ethiopia,
and Africa where all of the instruments were used that are
operating with the exception of course of S193 which has been
inoperable because of a failure in the antenna control. We're
coming up to about a minute and 19 seconds from acquisition of
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signal at the Goldstone tracking station for that televised

llve news conference with the astronauts. Capcomm at this
time is Story Musgrave. Dr. Musgrave will be reading up a
series of questions presented by newsmen. And the pass through
Goldstone and Texas, ii minutes of television, then we will
have about 5 minutes of voice only at Bermuda. And that will
complete the press conference. We'll leave the line up live
now for alr-to-ground and the beginning of that press conference.

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9/21/73

CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 17 minutes.

We'll have a i minute dropout for handover between Mila
and Bermuda.
CDR Okay, we've got our TV setup; our comm
seems to be working okay; we're ready to go.
CC Okay, this is a list of questions
submitted by newsmen who have been actively covering your
Skylab mission, AI. For each of you: Do you anticipate
any trouble when you return to a 1 gravity field next
Tuesday? And do you think you'll be able to walk out of
the spacecraft?
CDR Let me answer the second one first.
We know we're going to he able to walk out of the spacecraft.
And go back to the first one, my opinion would be that
we probably are going to have some problems because we
been up here for 2 months in a zero-G environment obviously.
We do know that we've been working very hard in the LBNP
and that we've found that our indications there, measurements
there, have been pretty close to baseline on Earth, which
gives us a very encouraging opinion. We've been able to put
out more work on the ergometer here than we had before we
left on Earth, so that leads you to believe that our heart's
in good shape. But I think we'll have some small problems
readjusting to zero-G. But I don't think we'll have any
trouble getting out of the spacecraft nor performing the
physical tests and medical tests afterwards, and I think we'll
be back in pretty good shape within a week or so. How about
you, Owen?
SPT There's really not very much I think
that myself or Jack can add to that because you've covered
the field pretty thoroughly and I think you've expressed
my opinion well, in addition, AI, so I don't have anything
else to say about it.
PLT I have the same comment as AI; I don't
think we're going to have any problem, at least we've been
working particularly hard on getting our legs in shape, and
we're used to putting a good load on them because of the exercise
that we have. So I think we'll be able to adjust quite well
to walking. And I think perhaps some of the problems are
a little bit unknown as to what's going to happen after that,
but we don't anticipate any significant problems.
CC Okay, and we're getting an excellent
picture down here. You might try holding the mike just
a little bit closer. And for Commander Bean: Do you
and your crew feel you're getting tired or bored or
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uncomfortable after your long stay in weightlessness?

CDR Not at all. In fact, that's one of the
reasons we asked for an extension several days ago, was
because there is a multitude of things you can do up here.
There's so many things that haven't been thought of that
we could do on a daily basis. For example, this ice cube
melting experiment Jack's doing right now is Just a small
example of some of the things that could conceivably
result in important discoveries, that haven't been attempted
yet because we Just haven't had time in space to - to set
around and pick up the smaller items or think about the
littler ones. Now we tried to do some of these things;
we've flown some paper airplanes up here; we've thrown some
darts; we've made - Owen's made some big balls of water;
we've played with some matches. There's Just many many
things that we can do up here if just had more time. I
might add one other thing. I think the thing that - that
has really impressed us the most about living up here for
these 2 months is the fact that you can put out a lot
of work; you do have a lot of energy all day long to keep
going; and you sort of like to have something to do from
the time you get up until the time you go to bed. There's
- you got energy, you're eating well up here, we all feel
very good, and you feel like in this environment you're
only going to he here a couple of months that there just
isn't enough time to do all the things that you'd llke to
do. We keep hoping the ground will send us up even more
things to do, particularly in the way of new science. And
so I really think that - that the time has gone extremely
fast; each day does. Today, for example, is about over
half way through and it seems like it's only been several
hours or so. Let me ask Owen to say some words about that,
he's more scientific minded and does a lot more thinking
about the possibilities of zero-G than maybe sometimes
Jack and I do. At least he has a better grip on it.
SPT Well, I think I would answer it just
a little bit differently. First of all, yes we get tired.
I'm tired at the end of every day because I've put in a
pretty good 16 hours of work and Jack and AI, I know, are
the same. But as far as whether or not we're getting bored
with it, the answer to that is, "absolutely not." As a matter
of fact, I would dearly love to have another 2 months
in the spacecraft, with absolutely no requests from the
ground, to do Just the things that I would like to do myself.
I'd be very happy to have no requests from the ground to
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tell me what to do. Standing here at the window I know

Jack and I, after working hours or sometimes taking a half
an hour of the last of our dinner, to look out the window
with cameras in hand, and you can amuse yourself indefinitely
seeing things that you've never had any chance to see
before, and photograph - -

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CDR You can amuse yourself indefinitely, seeing

things that you never had a chance to see before. And photograph-
ing (garble) work to be accomplished. And so it's certainly not
boring. No if we had more time, more fll _ we could do it a
lot more effectively.
CC Okay, following that one up and back to Owen.
For Dr. Garrlott. Do any of you have a feeling of homesickness
or perhaps a psychological need to return to gravity?
SPT I don't think so. Of course, we all miss
our families. But we're also all accustomed to being away
from our families from time to time. And this has only been
two months, and as a matter of fact, it's going very quickly, as
AI just said. And I expect our families at home have found
it a very fast 2 months as well. So other than the
general sense of wanting to be with our families, which we
would all expect to experience, certainly no other psychological
requirements to get back into society or back into i G. But
we feel very close to society, as a matter of fact right up
here, talking to everybody, everyday.
CDR Only one thing I've mentioned a couple of
times to the guys that this would be the perfect Job, if you
could go home every night to your wife.
CC Okay, for Jack and we got about another
12 questions to go here. Do you think you could continue to
work effectively in space well beyond 59 days? And do you
feel your mission indicates that man could llve and work
comfortably in space for long term flights llke a trip to
Mars?
PLT I think there's no question about the fact
that we could go farther than 59 days. We've all steadied
out on the amount of work that we can put out and our
health is pretty much stabllzed in (garble) as far as we
know. We could go on working up here almost indefinitely, I
think. We'll be able to know better when tests are performed
on us, of course and after Gerry's mission. But it looks to me
now, with the data that they have that there is no reason that
we couldn't extend beyond this. I feel that we all could right
now, if requested to do so.
CC Okay. Hold the mike a little bit closer
for us. Commander Bean, the Skylab station has had a number
of problems. Do you feel that it could be left unmanned until
November and then support the next crew for 8 weeks?
CDR Very easily. Very much so. For the
simple reason that the problems that we've had, the major ones
have been solved. The only one that I can think of right
now, that's a large problem at all is the fact that we no
longer have a primary cooling loop. But we have a very good
secondary cooling loop and have no indication that the lifetime
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of that loop would be less then - before November occurs. So I

feel that the station itself is in better shape at the moment than
it was when we got here. In fact, the station itself seems
to be getting in better shape with each crew. I assume when
Gerry comes up, the SL-IV crew comes up, and reservices the
primary loop, we're going to end up with the station about
as good as we wanted it to be when we launched it. I think we
all know the problems we had then. It does show that man
himself can do a great number of things. If he can just get
on the scene and have good support on the ground, you can -
you can fix many things that - that - fall or are wrong when
you first get there. The station, in my opinion, is in
excellent shape.
CC Okay. And also for Command Bean. Do
you anticipate any problems at all with the entry, Tuesday? Using
the new QUAD firing procedures? Plus the fact that you haven't
flown anything for two months?
CDR No, I've spent some time in the command module
over the last two weeks, reviewing the procedures. And I've
been very happily amazed at how familiar the command
module, the switches, the positions and everything are. I
believe this is because we spent several hundred, I don't
know how many, maybe 350 or 400 hours in the command module
doing launches and entries mostly before we came. So that
that sort of thing just doesn't depart from you in 2 - 2 months.
As far as - follow the entry procedures, they've worked -
been worked out by number of people. Two of which are Vance
Brand and Pete Conrad, which I have the utmost confidence
in. I've looked them over very closely, as Jack and Owen -
have, as we've talked about them, looked at them and they look
prett straightforward. I have also appreciated the - let's call
it the wide open time line that's in there, that will allow
us to do some thinking prior to each of the major maneuvers.
And I don't anticipate any problem at all with the command
module or the execution of the maneuvers. It looks - we're
looking very positive - Once again, I think I feel a lot better
about entry than I have since day i when we got here.
CC Okay. And we're about 30 seconds here from
a i minute dropout as we handover to Bermuda. A question for
Owen, for Dr. Garriott. People who have been following your
flight on television mainly have seen the fun aspects, dart
throwing, paper airplanes, acrobatics and the like. Would
you briefly tell us what immediate benefits that the man
on the street might reap from Skylab? And you've got about
15 seconds here, Owen. And then you can complete it over
Bermuda.
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SPT Do you want me to wait on that until our

hand over, Story?
CC Okay, good idea, Owen.
SPT While you're in the process of handing over,
I seem to detect two different courses in your question.
I'm not sure that the first portion had anything to do with
the ultimate question. You were talking about the fun we
did, and then what benefits Skylab has. Now is that all one
question?
CC Yes, that's one question.

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SL-III MC-2361/I
Time: 10:27 GMT
9121173

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

we will not be getting any TV here, it will be voice only.
And the i_portant part of that question Owen, is would you
briefly tell us what im_diate benefits the man of the street
might reap from Skylab?
SPT Well the most im_nedlate thing, perhaps,
during the (garble) of the Earth resources photography that
we've been taking. Just today we completed our last pass
as a matter of fact and there are going to be literally thou-
sands and thousands of film which will be developed and used
to evaluate these techniques for the study of our crops for
the study of water resources, mineral deposits and that sort
of thing. So in the area of Earth resources I think we do
have fairly immediate benefits for all of our country and
other countries as well. This of course coupled with similar
sorts of work being accomplished with other of NASA's auto-
mated satellites, ERTS satellites in particular. And then
longer range programs almost everything we're doing up here
we think will contribute to our knowlege of ourselves, knowlege
of our environment, and ultimately be of benefit to all of
our citizens. But the more immediate ones, I think my guess
would come in Earth resources and perhaps some of the techno-
logical experiments. Over.
CC Roger. And for AI Bean. Based on your
experience what major recommendations will you make to the
next Skylab crew about working and living in space?
CDR Well, I would recommend first of all
the three things that we keep in mind now all of the time,
that perhaps we didn't have in mind the first few days. And
that is you've got to do three things every single day, and
you've got to try to do them on time, and put them the highest
priority. Those three things are one, you've got to get enough
sleep. You've got to get to bed and get up so that you've
got enough sleep to keep your energy up. Next you've got to
eat pretty much on time, and you've got to eat enough food so
that your weight stays up and you feel healthy. And the last
one, you've got to get a lot of exercise so that - at least as
much exercise as you did on Earth so that once again you are
healthy. This gives you your health. This keeps you feeling
good, keeps you going hard. And then from that point on,
it's wide open. Probably major recommendations would be i,
try to get a few more experiments up here that you can run
because it looks llke we can work longer days than we planned
to work. I think we've demonstrated that. We're able to get
in more per day than we actually thought. So that means more
experiment time. The next one is I think we need to work
on EREP a little bit so that we tend to, in EREP, use the man
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up here to decide whether or not to take data, whether it is

too cloudy, too clear, too rainy or what ever else. Use the
man on the scene so that we can conserve the expendables that
we have in EREP. We've been able to do that in ATM and I
think we've shown up here, particularly Owen super expert
in operation of the ATM that the man on the scene can do
an excellent job. Let me go back to the previous question
and discuss that a second, about what we're doing up here. I
think we all decided before we came we wanted to do two things.
One, we wanted to do what ever we did in space to make sure
we did it right. Secondly we wanted to do the job that was
assigned up here, mainly see what man can do in zero g. And
lastly we wanted to have a good time doing it. And I believe
that we've done that.
CC Okay, and for Jack Lousma. How much has
the extensive exercise contributed to the good health of the
crew?
PLT I think that we knew before we left that
a lot of exercise is going to be to our benefit. And I think
that we have not only maintained our physical condition up
here, I think, in some cases we've improved it. And I think that
this is probably what has kept us in as good a health as we've
been in. And I certainly recommend that the following crew
do as much. I think that you can get to the point that you can
do too much exercise, however, and there is a happy medium
in there that you want to try to ascertain relatively early
in the flight. But the excercise has no doubt been a great
benefit to us up here, and I heartedly recommend it to the
future other crews.
CC Okay. We're about a minute and 20 seconds
from LOS. Madrid in 5 minutes. We've got time for one more
question for Commander Bean. Do you feel your crew accomplished
everything it set out to do on this flight?
CDR I don't know if we - I don't exactly know
the answer to that. I will say this. That we put in i00 percent
of what we had and - every day. And we probably could have
worked harder, but I think at the same time if we had we would
have compromised some other things. You've got to have relax-
ation. You've got to have some change of pace. And we've
done one whale of a lot more than what was planned for us to
do. And I think we tried each day at the end of the day to discuss
whether or not we put in the best we could that day, and how
we were going to do tomorrow. And that was what we planned
to do today and tomorrow. So my feeling is we've done as much
as our crew can do and still maintain the health the attitude,
and the energy level that we've got right now, which you can
see is pretty dog goned good.
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CC Okay. And we don't have enough time

for a complete answer to any other question. So thank you
vert much, Skylab.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 33 minutes
and 51 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
crossing the north Atlantic has now gone out of range of the
tracking antenna at Bermuda. Our next acquisition of signal
is 3 minutes and 45 seconds from now at which time will
be acquired by the Madrid tracking station. That's a 9 minute
pass through Madrid and that does conclude the press conference
there at Bermuda. We will not hear any more questions from the
ground, Spacecraft Communlcator Story Musgrave will be talking to
the crew again in another 3 minutes and 25 seconds and we will
have acquisition of signal then. And we will leave the line
up from now until then for air-to-ground at Madrid.

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SL-III MC-2362/I
Time: 10:35 CDT, 56/1535 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 15 hours 35 minutes

and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 2 minutes
and 25 seconds from acquisition of signal at Madrid, And
here is a reminder, at Ii a.m. this morning central daylight time,
there will ba a corollary experiments briefing focusing _n
manufacturing in space. The participants in the briefing will
be Jack Waite, the Marshall Space Flight Center Corollary
Experiments manager, Bob Adams, who is the Material Processing
Program Manager, Dr. Harry Gatos, of MIT, the Principal
Investigator on M562 which was used during this mission and
was originally scheduled for the final Skylab mission and
Art Boese, the Marshall Space Flight Center Technical Manager
for M518. That corollary briefing will be held in the building
I briefing room that's in room 135 beginning at ii a.m. At
i p.m. this afternoon, there will be a news briefing on ATM
on the solar telescope array and that will be with James E.
Milligan who is the principal investigator on S056. That
news briefing will be a general briefing on the subject of
ATM and its performance during the mission. ATM activities
are completed today. This is the final day for solar telescope
and solar observation during this mission. The film will be
replaced in those cameras tomorrow and they will be used in
unmanned phase during the_period which Skylab is not manned
by a crew. That ATM briefing is again at 1 o'clock in
the building 1 briefing room with principle investigator,
James E. Milligan. This is Skylab Control, we're about 53
seconds from acquisition of signal at Madrid tracking station
for about a 9 minute pass there and we'll have Story Musgrave
the Spacecraft Communicator talking to the crew again here.
CC Skylab, AOS Madrid, 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, we dropped out a minute there, we're
back with you through Madrid for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And AI, I've got about 3 things for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to readjust the - the
reg buses. Bus i - you're at the ATM now, aren't you?
CDR You be t.
CC BUS i, 20 degrees counterclockwise,
BUS 2, 25 degrees counterclockwise.
CDR Okay. Tell them to look at that, I think
I did it but I can tune it up for them also.
CC Okay. We're looking at some pretty large
dump angles, the next nightside pass. It's possible that
you could get a CMG reset and a cor - a caution and warning
associated with that, but we think the machine will do all
right, even if you do get a CMG reset.
SL-III MC-2362/2
Time 10:35 CDT, 56/15"35 GMT
9/21/73
CDR Okay. We've got of course the TACS activated.
We did not get any CMG reset - before - that you mention -
I don't think at least we didn't know it if we did.
CC No you haven't had one but we're thinking
maybe you'll get one during the next dump.
CDR Okay.
CC And I've got a two step procedure here
for you, if the H-alpha-2 door hangs up again going into
night.
CDR All right, I listening.
CC Okay, inhibit the secondary motor and
enable the primary motor.
CDR I think I can remember it okay. Right
now what motor is doing what?
CC You're on the secondary alone right now.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And the reg adjust looks good.
CDR Okay.
CC And concerning your press conference there,
the troops on the ground concur i00 per cent, that you've been
meeting all of the flight plan requirements and more.
CDR Okay, llke I said, we - we talk about it
almost every night. And I've asked myself over the last few
days, if I thought that - that we - you know if I was happy
about the way the mission has gone. And adding up all of the
things that we've done or haven't done or anything else, I'm
- I really couldn't be happier myself about the way the mission
has turned out so far. It's - we've had super Sun activity,
solar activity, which has really been great. We've been able
to do a lot of EREPs, lot more than what we thought, which
has been real nice. We've been able to work on these
corollary experiments longer than - than I ever imagined.
The only thing that's been a real suprise to me on the
negative slde, is we make a lot of errors_and that - I never
realized we made so many but I assume that goes along with
doing a lot of things. That - that to me was surprise
but the others were surprised too, and there are a lot
positive. So all in all, I been just super happy about the
way the weather, the- the solar activity and the experiments
have held together.
CC Okay, I guess we've got somebody looking
after us.
CDR Yeah, I think it's y'all down there. That's
the somebody.
CC Jack, Houston.
SPT He can hear you.
CC I've got a little change to your M092/MlYl
p rocedure.

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SL-III MC-2363/I
Time 10:44 CDT 56/15:44 GMT
9/21/73

CDR It will be jusq a minute I think here,

Story.
CC Okay, we're going to hold on that one,
anyway.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, we did have a change in procedure
on your M092 vent window, but we're going to wait on that
until we see how the next dump comes out. I do have some-
thing for you on the diffusion experiment here. You're the
expert on that so I cancel Owen's activity at 16:30 on that.
And we'd just llke you to reinitialize that experiment using
your own ingenuity, and what you think is best to carry that
thing off. And we'll let it diffuse on past the EVA and see
if we can get some data.
PLT Okay, very good. Thank you Story, I'ii
work on that a little bit. And I just put the soap under the
big water blob that used to be ice. And it looked like it
kind of diffused itself or spread,itself around the outside.
I don't know if you are trying to look with the (garble) or
what but that is the status of it now. I'ii take a few photos
of it from time to time. And perhaps later on you'll want
me to inject it with some grape juice or anything maybe tea.
CC Okay, that's just about what we expected
it to do. And concerning your EREP run, the tape recorders
behaved the same way they did on SL-2 and it's probably just
a light malfunction, and we think you got excellent data.
PLT Okay, real good. The guys figured it real
close on the tape. I think we only had about 65 feet left
out of over about a mile and a half.
CC Okay, we're about i0 seconds from LOS.
See you over Honeysuckle in about 40 minutes at 16:23.
CDR Does this mean Jack can use grape juice
instead of tea?
CC That's affirm.
CC And AI, you may get some faulty talkbacks
due to your door work. And they will come up right as soon
as you get sunrise.
PAO This is Skylah Control Houston at 15 hours
48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now passing out
of acquisition range through Canary and Madrid. Next station
to acquire will be Honeysuckle in approximately 34-1/2 minutes.
The corollary news briefing is now scheduled in the small
auditorium of the Skylab News Center at ii:00 central daylight
time this morning. That's ii:00 central daylight time the
corollary experiments briefing. At 15 hours 49 minutes,
this is Skylab Control Houston.

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Time: 11:01 CDT, 56/16:01 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

16 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time. The corollary
/ experiments briefing is now ready to start. The participants
are in the briefing room in the Skylab News Center. Standing
by now for members of the press to arrive. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2365/I
Time: 11:48 CDT 56/16:48 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

16 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll is
now over Hawaii, however, we'll pick up and play back the
Honeysuckle tape on that pass and play catchup as Skylab-lll
passes over the states.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, 6 minutes.
CDR Hey, Story, I've just did housekeeping
83S, which is squeezer valve seal replace - seal replacement.
The seal had struck the edge of the cylinder a bunch of
times and bolted back. So I replaced it but my suspicion is
that another one will not last Jerry's mission. He ought
to bring about 3 maybe.
CC Okay, copy, AI. I guess you're riding
the bike now?
CDR No, that's Jack. I've finished mine.
CC Okay, if you got a minute could you
tell us something or describe by that sighting of that active
volcano that's a state first?
CDR Okay, what we saw- actually Owen had
seen it on yesterday. Let me get out my little map. I
can't remember now if it was the northwest tip or the
north - or - or the - the northeast tip or the southeast tip.
Anyhow, there's a big volcano there we've been looking at
because it's very cone shaped and it's black. It is
black with salt relative to the rest of the terrain so it
stands out. It's not a shield type volcano and it looks
llke a huge cinder cone. It's kind of like a classic one.
And Owen noticed smoke was coming out of it this morning. And
we looked down and we said, yes, it looks llke clouds
but it looks like smoke too. But when we saw it a while, we
said it must be smoke. So then when I made the pass
(garble) I looked down and (garble), and what it looked llke -
it looked llke there was 3 (garble) on the top of the
volcano. And one, of the direction we were going would be
the right one, looked like it was partly concealed by,
it looked like smoke, a white steam as opposed to any other
color, sort of a white steam smoke. And - -
CC AI, we're - we're 20 seconds from
LOS here and I've got to interrupt you.
CDR (garble) nadir swath .... In other words, we
left Sicily and I quickly zipped back with the 191 and put it
right on the one that was smoking, and- -
CC A L, we're going LOS here and I've got
a - - AI, we're going LOS here. See you over Hawaii at
1644. I got a couple of DAS ammends for the H-Alpha doors.
SL-III MC2365/2
Time: 11:48 CDT 56/16:48 6MT
9/21/73

Inhibit secondary with 40034, and enable primary 40174

prior to sunrise.
CDR Will do.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii i0 minutes. Jack
you - -
CDR Story, let me tell you what happened
with the door. First of all I inhibited secondary and
enabled primary; couldn't get any action. So I enabled
them both and then it enabled primary; nothing. So, I
inhibited them both; and enabled secondary and it worked great.
So, now the door is open and it's on secondary motor.
CC Did you ever give it an open command,
AI?
CDR Yes, I did. And I couldn't get no action;
it just remains white. The minute I enabled the secondary
motor the thing went barber pole, then I gave it an open and
it came open. I know it's strange but that's the fact.
I think maybe we've got two problems we see. One, it takes
some logic to recover from a failed motor, namely you got
to get them both off and then one of them back on. And
the other may be just the fact that one of these motors
is acting up. I'm not sure which one now. Because we
(garble) - we've had this problem before but the minute
I put secondary motor on it clicked close. It dldnlt wait
to go closed, the barber pole just went close which indicated
it had already been closed which is not indicating. Another
thing about that water squeezer, Story, and I dontt think
we' re going to have time to work the problem, is the water
squeezer itself appears to reason that that seal failed
is it fairly it's not very free operating. The lever does
not move the shaft and piston up and down very freely. Probably
because the pistons - no, no, no - probably because the shaft
has grime and grit and the likes on it perventlng it. Now,
what occurs is, if you try to close the little door - I
mean try to close the whole piston there so you can squeeze
the rag without the handle fully up, it's possible to
catch the edge of the seal. Now, it seems to me this is
probably what occurred. What would be necessary to get it
ship-shape again is to take that whole head off; disassemble
the screws; and take out the pistons and clean it out with
something so that at once more you have Just metal to metal
contact without a lot of grime in there. We've squeezed
that valve to make sure that the handle's up before we
close the plunger, but I think it needs to be reworked. I
just don't think we're going to have time to do it over the
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next 3 or 4 days. We got a lot of action coming up. If we do

we' ii whip it apart and fix it and put it back together.
CC Okay, we copy that, AI.
SPT Story, for the EREP officers. The
ETC has used about 150 frames at the time the solar inertial
return was initiated. I continued to let it chug away
and it went to about 175 before the film was completed. Over.
CC Okay, copy that, Owen. And while I've
got you, why did you ever find the fish can?
SPT I'm sorry, I haven't looked yet. I'ii
do it now.
CC Okay, and Jack, Houston.
SPT He's plucking on the ergometer right
now and can't talk to you, Story.
CC Okay. AI, on that H-alpha 2 doors,
we want to take a look at the ASAP data. And just
leave it running on secondary. We may have to reenable
it every nighttime.
CDR Excuse me; I was doing something else.
Say again, Story.
CC O n the H-alpha 2 doors we're just going
to leave it running on the secondary motors, and we may
have to reenable that every nighttime pass.
CDR Okay, well now has anybody taken a
look at the logic and see if there is - -

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SL-III MC-2366/I
Time: 11:56 CDT 56/16:56 GMT
9/21/73

CC - running on the secondary motors,

and we may have to reenable that every nighttime pass.
CDR Okay. Now has anybody taken a look at
the logic and see if there is a funny going on in the logic
as opposed to the border itself. I'm sure they have, it just
probably hasn't filtered back up to us.
CC That's affirmative, AI. And the logic
may be causing an inconsistency in the talkback indications.
CDR That's what I think happened. I think
it closes real great and it just won't show it and then it
won't open again. And so when you turn them both off and
turn it on then it says okay now I can do something.
CC Okay, that's about what we're thinking
too. And while I've got you on the detail pad that we're
sending up to you for tomorrow, we've got a AM cabin depress win-
dow. That's when you depress the airlock module. And that is only
an optimum time to depress the window. And we're fully aware
of how you can't stick to a hard time line on an EVA prep.
So that's just an optimum time. If we hit it we hit it, if
we don' t we don' t.
CDR Okay, understand. We'll probably get out
about the same time we did for the last EVA relative to the
time we get up. If we work long at a pretty steady pace, yet
we didn't get carried away with being in a big hurry.
CC Yesh, and we're about 15 seconds from LOS.
See you over Goldstone in 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, back with you over Goldstone for
6 minutes.
SPT Okay Story. Now I have canister A which
I thought just contained medical resupply. I had forgotten
that the fish came up in this. I have cut both ends out of
the cylinder, so we still have the cylinder with neither a
top nor a bottom. And I have quite a bit of a black, tacky
material that goes around the stuff too.
CC Okay.
SPT Did you have a question or a comment about
that or do you want to thing about what I have just described.
CC We'll think about it Owen. And we had
two different procedures to send up to you. One was if the
can was available, and the other was if it was not.
SPT So the answer's halfway in between. I have
a can with neither a top nor a bottom.
CC Okay, so we don't have one for that. But
we'll come up with something.
SPT Okay.
CC And while I've got you, I've got something
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concerning your M092/MITI test.

SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Because of momentum changes and
all due to the EREP pass, we'd llke to change that vent win-
dow from 1730 between 17:30 and - 5.
SPT Okay. I guess that just narrows it.
What was it before?
CC I'm looking.
SPT It's on Jack's pad is the reason I don't
have it at my fingertips here.
CC It was 1730 to 17:57.
SPT Okay, that will be no problem. We're
just now starting to get rigged out, so we'll make it pro-
bably, we'll try to make it at the beginning of the window.
CC Okay. And after you get done the standard
M092 then go in and get as much done as you can of the test 2
and the test I, and still making the window. So if you run
out of time I would just stop the test 2 and test 1 and make the
window.
SPT Test 2 and test 1 come after the normal
of M092. And with a 15 minute window it's impossible to
get any of test 1 and 2 done in that window. Right?
SPT Now when we had a 26 minute window there
was a possibility of getting a little bit of it done, but
there is no way now.
CC Stand by one.
CC Owen on the M092 test 2 and test i the
only important thing is there we do not want to run into
your EVA prep time.
SPT Okay, we'll have to see then because
I still have to exercise after M092 and also eat after
that. So it's going to be a tight squeeze to get much
done in there.
CC O kay, Owen, get it and get it if you can. We
don't want to infringe upon your EVA prep time. If you look
pressed, then don't do it.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1 on S055 the mirror line scan we'd like
you to be at llne 25.
CDR Okay, thought I was. I'ii change it.
CC Jack, Houston.
SPT He's still pedaling. Could I take the message
for him, Story.
CC No, I better talk to him on this one at
the next station.
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9/21/73

CC And we're 30 seconds from LOS. See you

over Bermuda in 4 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 17 hours 2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We have now caught up on all of our
back tape. Skylab 3 some three minutes away now from being
reacquired through Bermuda. The volcano sited reported as
being sited early in this transmission yesterday by Owen
Garrlott the Science Pilot was - geographically is located
in Sicily. 17 hours and 3 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC-2367/I
Time: 12:05 CDT, 56/17:05 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours and

5 minutes Greenwich mean time, standing by now for re-acquisition
of Skylab-lll through Bermuda. Meanwhile in the mission
control center, we've had a changeover in flight control
teams. The purple team of flight controllers, headed by
Flight Director Phil Shaffer now on duty. Our oncoming CAP
COMM will be Astronaut Dick Truly. The change of shift news
conference with offgoing Flight Director Milton Windier is
now scheduled for 12:45 central daylight time in the Skylab
News Center briefing room. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab-lll. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC S kylab, AOS Bermuda, 7 minutes.
CC And is Jack off the bike yet?
CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda, 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story, go ahead with that message
for Jack.
CC First of all, I've got a simple question,
after he ran the malf on S019, canister 005, when he evacuated
that, did he have the film hatch knob open?
PLT No, sir it was closed.
CC Okay, we would like to get the - the film
evacuated, so if you can open that film hatch knob and then
apply a vacuum and after you've done that go ahead and close
the knob, that'll evacuate the film.
PLT Okay, do you want me to do the same thing
to seal 03? Since it's apparently used up, I locked the knob
of course. I'd do the same thing to it, wouldn't I?
CC Yeah, we - we would like that evacuated
also. You - of course you will be using it for one more run,
two days from now. We're going to use some of those CAL frames for
one more data take. But we would like that film evacuated
also. And if while you are evacuating the film hatch knob is
closed, the vacuum is not getting to the film.
PLT Okay.
CC And one more thing on that, on 005, if
you pull a vacuum on it with the film hatch nob closed, it
may be difficult to open. If you have any trouble opening
those, you can just depressurize the canister and that'll
let you open up that film hatch knob.
PLT Okay, we're guessing there's some leakage in
that film hatch anyway because in the past when we've taken it
out of the SAL, we've just not been required to depress it.
But when we (garble) later go to open it why we can't get it open,
so we think tha - some of that gas is leaking back in by
the film and it created a vacuum in there and we have to
let a little gas in to open it up. So I think there's some
leakage in there, anyway.
CC Okay, while I got you, did you see the
S191 door go close?
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CC Skylab. We're a minute from LOS. Canary

in 3 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now out of acquisition range
with Bermuda. The next station to acquire will be Canary in
approximately i minute.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary for
9 minutes.

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CC S kylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We're
gonna pick you up at Carnarvon at 17:58.
CC Skylab, it's just about a minutes
difference but the Carnarvon pass is gonna be very low
elevation. We're not going to call it up. It'll be Honeysuckle
at 17:59.
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at
17 hours 25 minutes Greenwich meantime. Skylab III
has now passed out of range through Canary tracking
station. The next station in which the mission
control center will be in contact with Skylab Ill
will be Honeysuckle in approximately 35 minutes that
call up coming from Cap Com Dick Truly here in the
Mission Control Center. The change of shift briefing
with flight director Milton Windler is now scheduled
for 12:45 p.m. central daylight time in the Skylab
news center briefing auditorium. This will be
immediately followed by an ATM briefing with
James Milligan, the principal investigator for S056.
At 17 hours 26 minutes GMT this is Skylab Control Houston.

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CC S kylab Control Houston at 17 hours 51 minutes

Greewlch mean time approximately 9 minutes away now from reacqulrin E
Skylab III through Honeysuckle. Flight Director Milton Windler
has now left the mission control center and headed toward
the Skylab news center for the change of shift news
conference. This is Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC-2370/I
Time 13:28, CDT 56/18:28 GMT
9121173

CC Skylab control, Houston at 18 hours, 29 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Wd'll now play back the tape which was acquired
during the news conference, be tape of the pass over Honeysuckle and
Hawaii. Skylab III now approaching acquisition with the States.
CC Skylab, Houston_ weIre AOS Honeysuckle for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, we're going to
be passing over the hurricane in the Atlantic the next descending
pass, whlch occurs at about 1845 and we were going to ask you, if
you had the time off off the ATM, to go take look at it, and even
get some pictures of it, maybe. And ,ill be giving you some
information about that coming over the States.
CDR The answer is yes, and I'll waiting back for the
info.
CC Also p AI, Bill Lenore and I are sitting
here looking at an Atlas and I was gonna get - be getting back
to you shortly about the island of Elba in St. Helene.
CDR Okay, we kind of wanted it that stop down the
hole, we Just figured ... hadn't heard all day.
CC No sir, it didn't. I'ii get back to
you very shortly.
CDR Okay.
CDR Tell William, hello.
CC Hello
CDR Things are going alone okay up here, Bill. Wlsh
you could Join us.
CC So do I.
CDR I know you do.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, I believe.
One of the things we wanted to get out of the way, and we
weren't looking for a lot of elaboration on how the procedure
went, but we wanted to insure that the S191 door got closed
after the EREP this morning,
CDR Okay, it took roughly 3 minutes to close. It
was a little bit jerky, but not unnecessarily so, it completely
closed. I then tried to do the align. It apparently doesnt t
hit the lock because it stops the lightener switch or
whatever it is because I could not get the gimbals out of zero
zero. So we still have the old alignment taped in, which
I hope is still good. That's the one we've been using for the
last month and a half. And there doesn't appear to be
any way to allgn anymore because of the interlock.
The door's closed. Everything's put to bed. Tape recorders are
clean and ready for the next group.
CC Real fine, AI. Thank you, very much for the info.
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CDR Okay, and let me tell you what I did to the

ATM motors. I thrned them both off; I knew the primary - I talking
about H-Alpha-2. I knew the primary was off, but I commanded
it off, and I commanded the secondary off, then I commanded
the secondary on and then both H-Alpha i, and H-Alpha 2, indi-
cated barber pole, so I suspect, but I don't know that when sunrise
comes through in a minute, that H-al-pha 2 will open automa-
tically, but if it doesn't, I'ii hit the switch and I think
it'll open then, we'll Just have to wait and see.
CC Okay, AI. Copy. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS; Hawaii, at 18:21.
CC Flight.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR ... door open agression. H-Alpha 2 door
opens all by itself.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you for letting us know.
And I've got a couple of notes here for you, one is - about the
upcoming hurricane, and there's some camera info you have the
time for that, and also this business about E_ba and so forth.
CDR Go ahead. I'm ready to copy.
CC -Okay, on the hurricane, your closest
approach to it will be at a time of 18:49:30. You'll actually
should be able to acquire it, we think, about 3 minutes before
that• It's going to be about 30 miles northeast of your track -
the Sun angle out there is about 30 degrees. And the camera
information, we suggest, a Hasselblad with 100-millimeter lens,
1/250, and an aperture of f/100.
CC Also, I forgot to tell you, it should be
visible out the wardroom window.
CDR Okay. Got it.
CC Okay, and while I'm talking, A1, a couple
of things about the hurricane. It's located about
700 miles eastnortheast of Bermuda. It's moving to the
north - northeast about 17 miles per hour, and expected
to be no problem to the United States or to Bermuda. Our morning
satellite pictures indicate that it's well organized and it does
have about a 20 to 30-mile eye.
CDR Okay.
• CC Okay on the subject of the two islands, AI, - uh - here"s
the coordinates of them. Elba is at 45 deglees north, and
10.3 degrees east. And - St. Helena is at 16 degrees south,
and 5.5 degrees west. A couple of notes on each of the islands.
First, on ELBA. It's Just about due east of the northern
tip of the island of Corsica, and
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it's - uh - the only kind of large island between - uh - the

northern tip of Corsica going due east to the coast of Italy.
So that should be easy to spot. Secondly, on St. Helena, you're
going to have an almost overhead- uh'track of it on this des-
cending pass after the hurricane. Youtre gonna- it's going
to be about 2 minutes before Ascension LOS is upcoming, and
that's going to be the time of about 19:08, and it should be about
northeast of the track - about 80 miles or so.
CDR Okay, give me a reminder of that, and I'll look
out the window, and we probably have seen Elba for a lot of times_
We all were remarking the other day how many islands in the
(garble) that we didn't know about. A lot of speckles is this
little island.
CC Roger. I'm sure you have, A1. I - I remember
when I was flying over there a lot seeing all of them. And
I remember this specific one in particular.
CDR Thanks for looking that up, Dick.
CC I enjoyed it, 1 learned - I found there's some
experts - uh - here in the center as a matter of fact, on
Napeoleon. I've learned more in the last 24 hours than I think
I knew before.
CDR When I was over this - when I was over in Europe
this summer, I visited Waterloo, Just outside of Brussels,
not very far. And I guess, as well as Jeanette, (garble)
and Bergerac showed up, we'd all be speaking French right now.
CC That's a good thought.
CDR One thing regarding the EVA. When we built that -
uh - universal mount and - uh - uh - cardboard back, two hatch -
or rather not hatch - but samples that we've had out there for
the last month. We taped that on there pretty - -

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SL-III MC-2371/I
Time: 13:36 CDT, 56/18:36 GMT
9/21/73

CDR (garble) I want not patch, but samples

that we've had out there for the last month. We taped that
on there pretty good. And I suspect I'm going to have to use
my scissors and cut the tape off to get that one patch and
break it in. Now that doesnlt look llke it's going to be
too hard and Owen and I can work together. But I thoupht
maybe you ought to be aware that it kind of looks llke we're
going to have to use scissors on it to get it off in good shape.
CC Roger, AI. Thanks for the input. And
Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS, Hawaii, I'ii give you a call
in a couple of minutes at Goldstone.
CDR Uh, why don't you go for the procedures,
we can't seem to (garble) coming in ...
CC Skylab, Houston, we're aAOS Goldstone for
about 6 minutes. Wetre set up for the ATM TV. And AI, after that
LOS call that I gave, I heard you saying something but
I didn't catch what it was. Say again, please.
CDR Okay, let me get this TV started. You
got to (garble) Alpha, tune AI, whenever they got to get mock
up, then I'ii give them to you. You'll be mark.
CC Okay.
CDR I was saying looking over the procedures
it doesn't look like we're going to be making any ramps off
any doors or doing anything mechanical, other than breaking
in that one sample. Everything else is llke $230, 149,
and all the ATM equipment, is that correct?
CC CDR Houston, that's correct,
with the minor exception of pressuring of S052.
One point that Flight wanted me to mention to
you, that now is probably a good time to do it. Is
with this cooling lash up that we have tomorrow's EVA,
we think that probably he is, and we're planning on, a
maximum EVA time of about 4 hours. And we intend to
give a go, no go on that in about 3 hours, and that's been hldde_ in
the little comments in the various paper work that we've
sent up to you but we Just wanted to remind you. We certainly
aren't encouraging you to hurry, but you know,
you ought to be aware that that probably is a cooling restraint
we're going to have to llve with tomorrow.
CC Ok. It should be we should be
able to do that. Usually this thing gets up in the air
is exactly when we get out cause we like to (garble) steady
pace and not get in a hurry and as you know, an extra things
come up, one of the extra things coming up tomorrow is, we're
going to have to check out our BioMed briefly before we suit
up, and I sure hope we're near a ground station before we're
ready to do that.
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CC Roger. I think the best thing to do is

just pass it, I'ii pass the word down that there's
line to the CAPCOM and let you be kept very aware
of you know where the stations are coming up as you
progress in the prep.
CDR We're going to go down a little early, to
get that part on so we get it checked out and then to some
other things.
CC Roger. And CDR, Houston, the
TV downlink, we are receiving Okay.
CDR Okay, here comes the XUV llne.
CC Okay.
CDR Now maneuver the door open.
CC CDR, Houston, we copy that you got the
NU z update and the shutters closed, and we were Just
wondering if you had any trouble, with that.
CDR No trouble, seems to work okay. My guess
is, is that it had to be one of the (garble). Get on it and
warm it up a little bit, and it Just works just perfectly.
CC Good.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute from
LOS, I'ii call you at Hila, in about 4 minutes.
CDR Okay, we've given - uh - 2 sets of integrated
data so that ought to do it.
CC Okay, thank you much.
PAO Skylab, Control Houston, 18 hours
41 minutes Greenwich nean time. Back up live again, and about
1 minute away now from acquisition through Mila and Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're (garble), Herritt
Island and Bermuda for about 9 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston, back on the star
tracker, the last thing we think we need on entry days is
star tracker shutter that stuck open. So we're considering
leaving it closed from now on, to minimize the
degradation during the unmanned phase and PSI with
grand predicted an_les for the sextant, we think should be
no problem, and Phil wanted me to ask you, and see
what you thought about that. _ x
CDR It's okay with me, provided we do it the
night before, so we get this thing powered up and alined.
That's the you know like day 59.
CC Okay, AI, I guess we're going to have to
think about that one and Bill's initial thought
is, is that he thinks there's plenty of time on the last
day to get that TMU and get the siEhtlng done, but
we'll think about it.
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CDR Okay. Well, l'm not that l'm

going to hold out. I was hopinE you was going to do that
away. If he isn't I guess you can schedule that for the
very first thing when we get and and leave it up all
day. Because that's the problem even in the film
we're trying to get those off storage because of - uh - right
now several factures. You haven't got a tape right there you
hadn't got (garble) that's the problem. Probably the biggest
problem we have in the film. In the star is getting all that
stuff put in there right.
CC Roger, CDR. We'll give it some hard
thought and we'll make sure that there is plenty of time to -
some back-up opportunity to get the thing squared away
so there'll be no problem. We'll think about it.
CDR Okay.
CDR We really need a way to get a llne without
the star tracker if we think about it a little bit.
CDR We - we know no the enicial latitude
probably we could set the inertial and set it up there - uh -
commanders attitude (garble) to oxygen 3 or something like
that. I bet there's someway we could - bet there's
someway we could do it.
CC Rog. You're sure now. We can get externally
close up with ground numbers and another thought that Phil
had was we probably - uh - the evening before can Just
bring up the CMC, and leaving it in except and then when you
do work up on that final morning we'll have had plenty of time
to get the vectors in and get CMC square away.
CDR Okay, pal.
CC Roger.
CDR Boy, that's a beautiful star that's
for clampit.
CC Roger.
CDR Right in the middle righ t in the eye.
it (garble) now weather were going to be able to feed
water through it or not we don't know. But it's one
of the nice pieces (garble) we've seen on this spot.
(Garble) stuff we've seen but it sure is llke you pointed
out well formed. And at the counterclockwise rotation. It
doesn't have to many advancing clouds are following clouds.
Yes, we can see the water riEht down there, It's not
a perfect eye we see a couple of times down at the (garble)
but you can see the water.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR It's a beauty.
CC And CDR, Houston. ATM backroom
observed that 56 is hungup and you might restart it when
you have the oppertunity.
CDR Okay. I elther got an arm stretch or
wait just a second.
CC Okay. No problem, AI.

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CC When you have an opportunity.

PAO Okay, I need to get arm stretcher, wait just
a second.
CC Okay. No problem AI.
PLT We got it, that was the night.
CC Roger.
CDR We saw one down off South America about a
month and a half ago. It was real perfect llke that and then
it had about a - 30 mile diameter core that was just very
clean, not a single cloud in it. You could see right down to
the water. It was a classic.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from
LOS Ascension comes up at 18:59.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Houston at 18 hours
and 53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has now passed
out of range through Brmuda. The next station to acquire
will be Ascension in approximately 6 mlnutes. During this pass
over the states, we've been hearing mainly from AI Bean,
operating in part at the Apollo Telescope Mount also making
visual observations. We heard him describe the hurricane in the
Atlantic, Hurricane Ellen. Meanwhile Owen Garrlott and
Jack Lousma performing medical experiments with
Owen Garriott the subject, Jack Lousma, the observer.
Owen Garrlott working in the Inflightlower body negative
pressure experiment. He was also scheduled for MI71
metabolic activity, riding the bicycle ergometer. Additionally
Lousma will be shooting photographs of Garrlott. These
photos will not be the usual tourist type pictures, but -
rather documentary stills for the medical personnel here at
the Johnson Space Center to study after the mission. The Skylab
2 crew of Conrad, Kerwin, and Weitz reported that the lack of
gravity made their faces feel slack as facial muscles relaxed.
The medical officials here are interested in having progressive
pictures made by this crew to record any changes in facial
contours, and the apparent size of neck veins.
Similar photos will be made during runs of the lower
body pressure experiment to compare for changes caused by
differences in blood volume distribution. Color photos of
each men two front head and shoulder and one each of each side
are made for the total series. The doctors have asked
that the crewmen wear T-shirts and be photographed either against
a dark background or at a maximum distance from the workshop
wall. The photos will be made with a Nikon F with a 55 millimeter
lens, high speed color, one sixtieth of a second at FI4. Wetre
reacqulre Skylab-III in about 3-1/2 minutes through Ascension,
and this is Skylab Control Houston.

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Time: 13:58 CDT, 56/18:58 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston standing by now for

acquisition for Skylab-III through Ascension. Wetry at
18 hours 59 seconds Greenwich mean time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for lO minutes.
PLT Okay, where did you said you were, Dick?
CC We're AOS Ascension Island, Jack, for
about 9 minutes.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CDR Thinking about it a little bit more, Dick,
I think that's a good idea. We fly up to CMC at night, get
all _at information in and then when we get up in the morning
wetll have on the pad the point angles to those stars and
wetll wander in there when wetre solar inertial and get a
good alignment.
CC Roger, AI, and one other note that l was
going to pass up toyou this evening that we might, since
we're talking about it and thlnklns about it, I thought I'd
just go ahead and pass up to you now. We're considering a
change and probably will make it; we'd llke you not to get
too firmly in your head the yaw angle for the service module
jettison and initial roll for entry. W hat - essentially,
what happened was - is there's - the island of Guadalupe
it - at our intitlal splashdown point was right on the very
edge of the - like 3 sigma footprint from a - for a bank,
reverse bank entry, nd so to be super triple conservative,
we decided to roll, I think it's left on your pad, to go to
the side of the footprint thatIs away from California. We're
- that one - we don't think that was a very smart thing to
do. What we should have done was retarder about 15 miles
shorter than that to get that 3 sigma possibility of that island
completely out of the footprint, and then roll in the opposite
direction because it means about a 7 or 8 hour difference
from splashdown to being feet-dry in San Diego and I figured
you'd llke that.
CDR Okay, just send it up as soon as you can so
we can change our minds and get our mind thinking the other
way. Thanks for keeping me informed. I read those two pads
the other day, and we been talking about it down there and tryins
to get that down in our mind as the standard. Now we only have
to learn deviations from that.
CC Roger, AI, and actually on the pad - and I
will let you know as soon as we're sure that that's the decision
we're going to do - actually there's Just a couple of pen and
inks that - to the pad - one is, you change the roll left to roll
ripht, and the other one is to change the CM SM sep attitude from
yaw right to 045, to yaw left to 315, and I'ii keep you advised.
CDR Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger. And of course there - well I take
that back, there was - there'll be one mory pen and ink and
that is there's a remark says target south of ground track;
the tarset will be north of the ground track.
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CDR Okay.
CDR From the training Phll gave before flight,
I think we can handle it.
CC Roger that. Incidentally, your - our
closest point of approach to St. Helena is coming up in about
3 or 4 minutes. And just a reminder about that, we think it's
about northeast of your groundtrack about 80 to i00 miles.
CDR Okay, thank you. I had my little timer
set, was thinking about it.
CC Okay.
CDR When these doors go closed tonight, do
you want me to - do you want me to turn off both motors and
relnltlate the secondary? Or do you want to do that by command?
In order that H-alpha 2 will open whenever you want it to?
CC Stand by on that one, please.
CDR CDR, Houston; we'd llke you to leave it
alone and we'll secure it back by command.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Wetd llke a verification also.
Are you counting down frames on S052? We see an increase in
camera temperature.
CDR No, I'm not; should I be?
CC Roger, will - -
CC C IR, Houston. Yes, we think you should be.
We'd llke to issue a stop on S052 and we think we're probably
out of film now. Thank you • sir.
CDR l'm looking for that node and can't find it
anywhere.
CC For what note, AI?
CDR The note that says look at the something.
CDR That note that tells me to count the frames
on 52.
CC R _er, CDR, and we were wondering if you
could give us the frames remalnln_ on all the instruments
there while you are there.
CDR Okay, I'm still a little puzzled where
this count the frames 52 came from. I can't say that I've
tea d it. Here's it comes: H-alpha 618; 56, 180; 82A,
I; 82B, 12; 52, 227; and 54, 243.
CC Roger, AI, thank you very much.
CDR Better go look out the window, be right
back.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going LOS Ascension
Carnarvon comes up at 19:32.
CDR D _ we ever figure out about that 52
count-the-frames business?
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CC Roger. There's a chance, AI, that the

camera is Jammed. We're not sure if it's that or out of film.
You were in an exposure there, so you should have been
counting, we think.
PAO Skylab control, Houston. At 19 hours
Ii minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
with Skylab 3 but through Ascension. The next station to
acquire will be Carnarvon in approximately 21-1/2 minutes.
S052 is the white light coronagraph that we heard in the latter
part of that conversation. Dick Truly passing up the word
to A1 Bean who's working at the Apollo telescope mount that
there's a chance the came_ would be Jammed, but that data's
being looked at both here on the ground and we're sure also
by Commander AI Bean. Wetre at 19 hours 7 minutes Greenwich
mean time. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2374/I
Time: 14:28 CDT 56/19:28 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours

28 minutes Greenwich mean time about 4 minutes away now from
reacquirlng Skylab 3 through Carnarvon. And when we pick up
Skylab 3 at Carnarvon the crew may very well be involved in
the prepreparations for tomorrow's extravehicular activity.
They have a 3 hour block of time coming up now to prepare for
the EVA scheduled to begin at 11:15 Greenwich mean time in
the morning. During this EVA preparation period the crew
will prepare their pressure suits and associated equipment
necessary for the planned activities outside the Skylab work-
shop. Included in this preparation work will be preparing
of the communications systems, verification of the atmosphere
control system and readying of the film which will be replaced
in the two Apollo telescope mount experiments. There will be
an additional 2-1/2 hours of EVA prep is scheduled for Saturday
morning or tomorrow morning prior to the start of the EVA
which has Commander AI Bean and Science Pilot Owen Garriott
outside the space station with Pilot Jack Lousma monitoring
and supporting the exercise from inside the multiple docking
adaptor and STS structure transision section. We're about
2 minutes away now from acquiring Skylab 3. And at 19 hours
30 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon
for 9 minutes.
CC And Skylab, Houston, I've got two notes
that I need to get up to you here. We feel that we still
have S052 camera - we feel that we've had an S052 camera jam.
The temps are still increasing and we'd llke some body to
cycle the main power to off and then back to on again for it.
CDR Okay Dick, here it goes. Main power is
off.
CC R oger.
CDR Main power is on.
CC Okay AI, thank you very much. If we need
any more help with it I'ii call you again later. Also the
second note that I have and we're a little bit late telling
you this but we've decided that we're not going to use TV
for this EVA. Primarily we think we've met our objectives
for EVA TV in the past. And also since we did lose one of
the TV cameras earlier we just think it's an undue risk. And
so on page 1.2-2 of the EVA checklist, that TV prep
this afternoon you can just completely skip that.
CDR Will do.
CC Okay. And one more thing we're presently
reviewing here a film thread pad and a photo pad to prep the DAC.
We're going to get these up to you as soon as we can. If
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you are at a point where you absolutely have to have them

I can voice them up but we - should be in the teleprinter very
shortly.
CDR Okay, you'll probably have plenty of time
because we're eating dinner and then we're going to get after it.
CC O kay, real fine. We'll do that.
CC S kylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS,
Guam in 6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours
42 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 has now passed out
of range through Carnarvon. The next station to acquire
will be Guam in approximately 5 minutes as you heard on this
pass. You hear Capcomm Dick Truly advise Skylab 3 that there
will be no television on this upcoming EVA in the morning.
A decision was made not to use A TV camera because an unex-
plained increase in the temperatures of the camera during
the previous EVA on mission day 28. At 19 hours 43 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control Houston.

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Time: 14:43 CDT, 56/9:43 GMT
9/21/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston 19 hours 47 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition of
Skylab IIl through Guam.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. _Ie Just upllnked a film
thread pad to support the EVA prep on the DAC when you get to
it. Also we got a couple of photopads that will be
coming up either here at Guam or over the States for
the same purpose. One note of caution, they do have
57 numbers on the upper right hand corner instead
of day 56. And they Just ...
PLT Okay, Dick, wetll look at that. And we're
about ready to go up there and grab waf to get with it.
CC Okay, Jack, and one other thing while
you're close to the phone. We have some very distinguished
visitors back in the viewing room. a bunch of the
guys from over at the Harris County Youth Village.
And we got the alr-to-ground turned on back there. I
think some of the guys have been in Sunday School
classes with you before. And I thought I would let you
know that the other Sunday afternoon on luckily for me,
it was one of my off days. I went over there and we
dedicated a an Oak Tree. And also a new - workout
room full of weights and so forth and a bunch of
airplane pictures and so forth in the memory of Stu Present.
PLT Well, I'm glad that you did that, Dick. And
I know that the boys over at the Boys home and those
associated with the Youth villase appreciate much a lot
of people not only in the Nasa Bay area but also from Houston and
had a lot to do with those boys. And I've got a lot of friends
over there and I hope they're listening now. And I just want
to say that I miss all of them. And looklng forward to
getting back and hope they're behaving themselves in Sunday
School class.
CC Got a bunch of big grins out of that Jack.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. I'll give you a call at Goldstone at 20:11.
PLT Okay, we'll see you there, Dick. And say
so long to those boys from the Youth Village there. And tell them
we'll be seelng them in a month or so.
CC Okay. I'll sure do that, Jack.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours
56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab Ill is now
passed out of - communications range with
Guam tracking station. The next station to acquire will be
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Goldstone in approximately 15-1/2 minutes. You heard Cap Comm

Dick Truly advise pilot Jack Lousma that a group of boys from
the Harris County Youth Village were in the viewing room of
the Hission Control Center. And pilot Lousma extended his
greetings and salutations. There were about 55 to 60 boys
in the viewing room from Harris County Youth Village. And
Jack Lousma, when he is here on Earth teaches Sunday school classes
at the Youth village. We're at 19 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time and this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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Time: 1510 CDT, 56/20:10 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At

20 hours ii minutes Greenwich mean time, standing by now
for acquisition with Skylab-lll through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going - in about
a minute, we're going to drop out for Just a few seconds and
I'ii give you a call when we got you back at Texas. And we'll
have the remainder of this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're - got you AOS again
and we - standing by for about 12 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 20 hours 19 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Very little communication on this pass.
As the crew of Skylab-lll going through their preliminary
preparations for the EVA tomorrow morning.

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SL-III MC2377/I
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9121173

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS. Ascension is coming up at 20:39.
CDR Oh - You are aware that that hose
that I'm taking out of 311 and stowing still has water in
it because it's never been drained, but that's okay. Is
that correct?
CC T hat's affirm, AI.
CDR And we're just going to leave it with
water in it from now on out. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, AI. We are going
to leave it with water stowed during the unmanned period.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours
31 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has now passed
out of range with Bermuda. The next station to acquire
will be Ascension in approximately 8-1/2 minutes.

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SL-III MC2378/I
Time 1538 CDT, 56/20:38 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

20 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute
away now from reqcquirlng Skylab-III through Ascension.
CC S kylab, Houston. We got you at Ascension
for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 39 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 21:10 and we'd llke to
take time out there to catch the evening status report;
I'll call you.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
20 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-III has
now passed out of range with Ascension. The next station
to beacquirlng Skylab-III will be at Carnarvon tracking station
Australia in approximately 25 minutes. No conversation
with the crew of Skylab-III during this pass over Ascension.
The crew apparently quite preoccupied with their prepreparatlons
for tomorrow morning's EVA. Tomorrow's EVA, the third of
the mission, is scheduled to last about 2-1/2 hours with
a few modifications. The EVA will have Cap - Commander
Alan Bean and Science Pilot Owen Garrlott moving outside
the workshop while Pilot Jack Lousma monitors the work
of his partners and performs tasks from within the multiple
docking adaptor. The EVA is scheduled to begin at ii hours
15 minutes Greenwich mean time as Skylab moves - begins
a stateside pass on the start of the space stations 1,889th
revolution. Tasks to be performed include retrieval of
film from the battery of solar observatory cameras, return
of a trio of scientific samples, return of a sample of
sunshield placed outside the vehicle on mission day 28, on
August 24, and the dusting off of the lens of the SO52
camera. Commander Alan Bean will exit the spacecraft through
the airlock hatch behind Science Pilot Garriott. Garriott
will work from the workstation in the fixed airlock and
assist Bean as he moves out to the Apollo telescope mount
and other locations to pick up the scientific samples. Bean,
know as EV2, will work at the two workstations of the ATM;
the center workstation and the Sun end workstation with
Garrlott, who will be known as EVI for the purposes of
this EVA. Our best estimates are that no more than 2-1/2
hours will be required for the total EVA. It should take
the two EVA crewmen about 20 minutes to transfer equipment
from inside the airlock to the fixed airlock shroud workstation,
a well-like compartment outside the hatch. The hatch is
a modified Gemini hatch. Thrity-five minutes are scheduled
for the operations at the center workstation of the ATM.
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Bean will unload film from four of the cameras at this

location. These cameras being S052, S054, S056 and H-alpha i.
Bean will first remove the used SO54 film canister, then
the SO56, the SO52 camera and film and finally H - finally
the H-alpha 1 film canister. He will replace film in SO54
and camera and film of the SO52, the only Apollo telescope
mount experiments operated during the unmanned portion
of Skylab. As he removes each film canister or camera
he hooks it to the extendable boom which Garriott reels
back to his workstation for transfer back. While Bean and
Garrlott are outside Lousma will monitor systems and EVA
procedures checklist from the structural transiston section
as well as commanding open ATM aperture doors in order for
Commander Bean to retrieve film and cameras. Bean will
move up to the Sun end of the ATM, the Sun end work station
of the ATM. He will remove the S149 experiment and bracket
which was affixed to the rim of the ATM during the first
EVA on Skylab-III, that being mission day I0. The S149
particle collection experiment was scheduled for use through
the solar scientific airlock, which has been inoperative
since the first 56 - the first Skylab mission because of
the Sun shield. The S149 is scheduled to be replaced on
the Apollo telescope mount during an EVA on Skylab-IV.
While at the Sun end, the top of the Apollo telescope mount,
Bean will remove both the camera and film of S082A and
SO82B experiments. The work at this location is planned
to take 50 minutes. Before moving on to the final steps
in the EVA, Commander Bean will dust off the disc of the
SO52 experiment. A smudge or contamination - -

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SL-III MC-2379/I
Time: 15:50 CDT, 56/20:50 GMT
9/21/73

PAO - the EVA. Commander Bean will dust off

the disc of S052 experiment. A smudge or a contamination of
a sort have been reported on the disc by ground controllers
who are able to monitor this experiment white light corona-
graph by television. In order to get at the S052 disc or
outer lens, Lousma from the Apollo telescope mount console,
in the MDA will direct a slight rotation of the ATM canister.
15 minutes are scheduled for the retrevial of the D024 thermal
control coatings experiment, which is located on truss of
the alrlock module. The sample panels of the experiment are
6 by 1/2 inch in size. Bean will remove one of the four
panels from the truss and place them in an 8 by 8 by 5 inch
sample return container, which he passes back to Science
Pilot Garrlott. The remaining sample panels are to be returned
by the Skylab-IV crew. The next step in the EVA is retrieval
of sample panel of the S230, the magnetospheric particle
composition experiment. This experiment consists of a pair
of spools on which are placed cuffs of aluminum, -aluminum
oxide and plutonium. Bean will retrieve one of these cuffs,
a similar one was retrieved on Skylab-ll. This is the
experiment of Astronaut Don Lind. One of the final steps
will be for Commander Bean to retrieve one of two 12 by 12
inch pieces of parasol material deployed on the second EVA.
The other sample will picked up during one of the three EVAs
on Skylab-IV. Throughout the EVA, Science Pilot Garriot
will position the 16-milllmeter DAC, data acquisition camera,
outside to record Commander Bean's activities. A
modification to the operational procedure is not the - is
that the primary coolant system will not be used to be -
to provide coolant to the suited EVA crewmembers. Skylab has
been operating on the secondary coolant loop since mission
day 27, the day before the second EVA of the flight. The
system of using i00 percent oxygen for Bean and Garriott was decided
upon to pre - prevent additional strain on the secondary
loop. This EVA is not as strenuous as earlier work outside
the space craft. Therefore controllers and engineers estimate
this oxygen system which will be pumped through 50 foot long
llfe support umbillcals into the suits 13.5 pounds of pressure
will be adequate to provide cooling to the astronauts. This
rate of oxygen will be sufficient to provide cooling for
as much as 800 to i000 BTUs. Bean and Garriott will also
not wear the liquid cooling garment during this EVA. They
will wear the constant wear garment, cotton longjohns under
their space suits. Essentially, this system calls for the
astronaut to - to sweat. The cool oxygen being feed into
the suit from the 3000 pound pressure oxygen tanks will
carry off the excess moisture produced by the astronaut
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work load. Pilot Lousma will be usin E a separate means

to cool himself. Although he is wearing a pressure suit, he
is not wearing gloves or a helmet. He will hook up the
blower fan on the vacuum used for the shower to ,the suit
outlet, which in effect will draw air through his suit as
opposed to the system used by Bean and Garriott. Without
a helmet on, the cabin air, 74 percent oxygen and 26 per-
cent nitrogen at 5 psia will be drawn through the suit,
thereby providing cool air. To prevent this system from
leaking at the wrists, Lousma will have placed tape at the
wrist disconnects. Engineers ran tests on this system at
building 7 here at the Johnson Space Center and they report
this will be ample coolant for BTUs 500 to 700. Lousma
will not be performing any heavy workloads. He will be movln E
only from the STS area to a few feet away from the Apollo
telescope mount control and display panel. Three cabin
circulation fans will be turned on during the EVA to increase
the flow of cabin air. Garriott has performed two previous
EVAs, a record 6 hours and 31 minutes on mission day i0 and
on mission day 28, spent 4 hours 31 minutes outside the
spacecraft with Pilot Lousma. We show 13 minutes 40 seconds
now remaining until we reacquire Skylab-Ill, at Carnarvon.
At 20 hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean time, this Skylab Control
Houston.

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SL-III MC 2380/1
Time: 1680 CDT 56/21:08 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 21 hours

9 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approaching acquisition now
of Skylab 3 through Carnarvon less than a minute away now
from reacquiring Skylab 3 over Carnarvon. We'll keep the
line open and stand by. 21 hours 9 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Carnarvon
for about 9 minutes and standing by for the evening status
report.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Urine: 082, and we
had about a 60-millimeter spill so you can add 60 on to 082
as an estimate. SPT, 130; 190; 6278, 0314, 6744. BMMD: 6.231,
6.233, 6.233; 5.972, 5.972, 5.972; that's not bad; 6.933,
6.934, 6.935. Exercise: 2/30/5041, 1/05/0500; 3/15/MARK I,
3/05 MARK II, 3/05 MARK III. SPT: 2/15/2500 plus his MITI
run, more to come he's got written. PLT: 1/05/0613, 3/ -
I didn't read that right. Let's try that one again. 1/05/0613,
okay, that's one of them. Okay, next 2/35/8661, 3/20 MARK I,
50, A, 20, B, and 20 backbends. Medications: CDR one seconal,
SPT and Pilot zero. Sleep: CDR 6/G, SPT 5-I/2/F, PLT 6/G.
Food log follows: CDR 7 salt plus 4 salt tablets, substitued
1 lemonade for a strawberry drink because there is no straw-
berry drinks available. SPT, 1 solt pack and added a pine-
apple; PLT 4 salt packs, add one lemon drop and one tea with
lemon and sugar, and as a note he substituted pork and potatoes
and applesauce for tuna and bread, as he always does.
CC Okay.
CDR Photolog: VTS/29/3, CS08,55. EREP
prep and ops CI83,60; CI63. Diffusion in melting experiment,
CI 64, 72; CI 62; 35 millmeter; CI 106, 14; CX 35, 31; he
added 70 milimeters. CX 27, 134; ETC IR 02, 175; EREP set
W. There is amps (garble) so the numbers may be meaningless,
we'll fire them at you. 3331, 1523, 9052, 8428, 0198, 7103.
Drawer A configuration AI, 07, CI 5813, CI 53; A2, 05, CI 64,
72, CI 62; A3, 06, CI 21, 99, CI 60; A4, 03, CI 83, 60, CI 63,
back of the drawer, 02, none, 00, CI 56.
CC Roger, got that on the tape recorder.
CDR The flight plan came off as planned. It
looks good for tomorrow. It doesn't look llke there is too
much so that we won't get in bed on time. It looks good.
CC O kay, AI, good. Go ahead then, if you have
some more.

CDR Shopping list accomplishments, housekeeping

83S, squeezer valve seal replaced. And inoperable equipment,
the squeezer is hard to operate, and disassembly and cleaning
we don't plan to do it, not unless we're told to just because of
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9/21/73

time constraints. Unscheduled stowage item locations: 2

pork and potatoes from 561 to the wardroom.
CC Okay.
CDR And that's it.
CC Okay AI, thank you very much. The good
tape recorder got all of that. And I had a couple of things
here that I was going to say but since we're talking already
I'ii Just give them to you. Nell Hutchinson asked me to pass
up that they have identified a couple of small deactivation
changes that are in work. And we'll be coming up to you as
soon as we can get the message ready. One of them has to
do with the plenum bag stowage arrangement that we talked
about several days ago, and also for the retrun of the fish.
And I had one question for the evening for the PLT, and it
goes back to the S019 film hatch business that we talked about
several hours ago. We listened to the tape again and some
people thought that Jack inferred - -

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SL-III MC2381/I
Time 16:17 CDT 56/21:17 GMT
9/21/73

CC ... business that we talked about several

hours ago. We listened to the tape again and some people
thought that Jack inferred, possibly, an apparent film hatch
leakage problem on one or more of the canisters. We wanted
to confirm if that really was the right asumptlon; and if
so, which canisters.
PLT I think we've noticed some in both
of them, although I'm not sure. Maybe A1 knows. But welve
noticed that - that usually when we get the film canister
out of the film vault, that we have not fire until it
depresses, and you don't do that except for the last time.
And we noticed that we can't get the lid off. So we suspect
that what's happened is that the thing has evacuated when
we got the film hatch opened and operating it - it - we
then closed the film hatch before it gets repressed. And
it throws a vacuum in behind the film hatch. Then we
repress the whole thing and there's still a vacuum in behind
the film hatch and we take the film canister off and put
the cover on and that lets some of the air that's in between
the film hatch and the cover leaks through the film hatch
and causes somewhat of a vacuum throughout the whole film
canister, thus making it impossible for us to get this
lld off. But what we normally do is just bleed it llke
we do the AMS of the optical canister. So thatts what
leads us to think that there's a leak through the film
hatch.
CC Okay, Jack, has this been pretty much
true for all the canisters that you've tried?
PLT Yes, Dick, there's only two, and we've
noticed it with both of them.
CC Yes. Okay. I've got one more question
for you guys. The SL-IV crew is going to use panel 500,
the QD for the 35 PSI GN2 source. And since that higher
PSI QD is there and we were never successful in getting
those a different size QD, we want to make darn sure that
the nomenclature on panel 500 was still nice and clear and
legible. And sometime, you guys mlght let us - reassure
us that that's true. We're about 15 seconds from LOS.
And I'll give you a call at Guam in about 4 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
21 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-III now
out of range with Carnarvon. Golds - Guam's scheduled
to acquire in approximately 3 minutes. We've been listening
to CAP COMM Dick Truly in the Mission Control Center going
through the evening status report with the crew aboard Skylab.
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We'll stand by and pick up Skylab-lll again over Guam.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for
about 8 minutes, and we'd llke to get the TACS inhibited
both hardware and software. The momentum looks real good.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'ii do it.
CC Okay.
CDR Dick, when I untacked the two umbillcals
to put in the two spheres, which I completed, I noted
that there were dummy connectors on the end of all of
them. So, for example, both of the water connectors on
both umblllcals have plugs in them. I left those plugs
in the water umbillcals, obviously, didn't connect them
up to the panel. Now, is that the way you want them, or
do you want me to take those little dummy connectors out
of there? There'd be four of them. I removed the electrical
ones and removed the 02 ones, and then, of course, I
removed the one from the end that goes to the S - PCU.
CC Stand by i.
CC AI, we'd like to leave the plugs in.
CDR Okay, and Jack wants to report panel
500 looks brand new.
CC Roger, AI; thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 4 minutes
left here. And the stateside pass next time Owen is going
to have a phone call. I'ii remind again, Owen, about that.
And then after that is the med conference. I do have some
news, I'm not sure how busy you guys are with the - with
the EVA prep, but if you'd llke to listen here, okay;
otherwise, I'ii delay it.
CDR Welre never too basy for news. Go
ahead, Dick.
CC Okkay. The big news here in Houston
last night was Billy Gene King's triumph over Bobby Riggs.
King defeated Riggs with ease as 30,472 people watched
that much (garble) Astrodome Battle of the Sexes tennis
match. It was the largest crowd ever to watch the tennis
match anywhere. Each time Riggs trled hls famous (garble)
Kllng answered with a scorching slam or even better log.
She took the set 6 to 4, 6 to 3, and 6 to 3. In other
sports, University of Houston meets the South Carolina
Gamecocks for the first time tonight in the Astrodome and
ten Texas Longhorns, favored to win their sixth SWC
championship in a row, travel to Miami to play the
Hurricanes tonight. On the golf scene, Jack Nicklaus
and Arnold Palmer managed only a split for a long day's
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work and Tom Welskopf lost twice as the United States went
dsown to a crushing three-point deficit to Brltan on the
opening day of the Ryder Cup competition. On the national
scene, inflation took its biggest bite in more than a generation
last month as consumer prices, led by - -

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SL-III MC-2382/I
Time: 16:30 CDT, 56/21:30 GMT
9/21/73

CC - On the national scene, inflation took

its biggest bite in more than a generation last month as
consumer prices led by the biggest one-month Jump in food
costs since 1933, it rose 1.8 percent. Workmen rushed final
preparations for thousands of visitors expected at dedication
ceremonies tomorrow for the new $700 million Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport, the largest in the world. The dedication week-end
was launched Thursday when the Brltlsh-French supersonic
transport Concordla made its maiden flight to America. On hand
were local dignitaries and some 400 mewsmen. Henry
Kissinger was confirmed as Secretary of the State by the
full senate today and is due to be sworn in tomorrow.
International news, the Soviet Union has started preliminary
talks with General Motors in hopes of convincing the auto
maker to build a billion dollar truck factory in Siberia.
Sources say that the Soviet Union has a target date in the
early 1980's. And in the Sky - the Skylab news today, it all
centered around the news conference that you held with the
press this morning. Let's see, I think there was another
item here. White House officials said today that they have
not ruled out the possibility of a trip to Europe by President
Nixon later this year, although they repeated that the timing
of such a journey is now uncertain. We're about a minute
from LOS at Guam. I'll give you a call when we get to Goldstone
at 21:48.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thanks for the news.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, was my private comm not at Goldstone
21:48 but 21:55 or where?
CC Well, let see, it's for MLA, it's when
we get AOS at MLA, Owen. It's 21:55 about and I'll remind
you again when we're about to hand over to them.
SPT Thank you.
CDR What's the weather llke back home now?
Is it cold, fall, summer or what's goin? on?
CC Well, the last few days it's been very
pretty. It's getting cooler and the days have been very
pretty. We did have a lot of heavy rain several days during
Khe mission but it's just been real nice lately. You're coming
home at a nice time.
CDR Good. Are we still on daylight saving
time? Or what?
CC Yes, we are. Some time in October, Phil
says, early. So you got another couple of weeks of that,
I guess.
CDR All right.
CC The last Sunday in October, the EGIL
says.
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CDR The EGIL knows all, says the Big Jack.

CC (laugh) Roger.
CDR We don't argue with Jack, (garble)
CC I don't argue with Phil either.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours 33
minutes Greenwich mean time, loss of signal now with Skylab-IIl
through Guam. We will next acquire Skylab-III at Goldstone
in approximately 14-1/2 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2383/I
Time: 16:47 CDT 56/21:47 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 21 hours

47 minutes Greenwich mean time now standing by for acquisition
of Skylab 3 through Goldstone less than a minute away now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone,
and we've got you stateside for about 13 or 14 minutes. And
I'ii give you a call when we're going to hand over to _lila.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC And Owen, Houston. We talked to the
people up at Goddard and back to the business of the laser
that you all saw the other day that was not a single point of
light? Well, I'ii give you the information that we have about
that pass, and then I guess then that your guess can be as good
as ours. The first point is that the laser site did not have the
correct pointing info for tracking during that pass.
SPT Which pass now are you talking about?
The one when we apparently saw about three bright points?
CC Yes sir, that one. I think it was day
before yesterday. That is the one I am talking about.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. So the laser was never correctly
pointed during that pass. Since it wasn't pointing directly
at the spacecraft it was being viewed obliquely. And we think
this may have given the long shafting appearance. The only
possible reason that we've come up with so far is when you
saw three rays instead of one, is that the laser itself is composed
of several columns of varying intensities of light, and I
guess it is possible that you may have seen more than one
of these. But that may sound a little weak, but we really
don't have a good explanation for it.
CC Skylab, Houston for Owen. We're going
to be handing over to !lila in about a minute or a minute and
a half or so.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 9 minutes
left in this pass. And the following pass is Vanguard scheduled
for a medical conference, and that's the last one of the day.
We thought we might give you an opportunity to let us know
how the EVA prep was going.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 4 minutes
prior to LOS. We'd like to get a status if we could as to
how the EVA prep went tonight.
PLT AI and I are finished, Dick. And Owen
is still working up there, of course he did have a phone call,
but I think he's near being through.
CC Okay.
PLT AI and I just now got finished.
CC Okay, I'm assuming from the lack of problems
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that you reported to us and so forth that everything went

okay.
PLT So far so good, Dick.
CC Roger.
PLT You did a real good Job with the- -

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SL-III MC-2384/I
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9/21/73

CC - from the lack of problems that you

reported to us and so forth, that everything went okay.
PLT So far so good, Dick.
CC Roger.
PLT They did a real good job (garble) on the
checklist.
CC Roger. The EVA guys have been working
very hard last few days as always do prior to an EVA.
PLT Now they know it forwards and backwards,
if it's going to be right, those guys are going to do it.
They seem to do it every time.
CC Roger.
CC S kylab, Houston. For the CDR we have
decided that we are going to do what I said about targeting
on the - on the entry and I've got a few pen and inks for
those two, that entry pad and the P30 maneuver pad. We only
have about - they have been sitting here and I forgot to pass
them up to you a little bit earlier. We've got about 2 minutes
left here. I could either pass them up now or probably Just
hand it down and give it to you in the morning, if you can't
get to those pads.
CDR Got the pads in my hand, go ahead.
CC O kay, on the entry pad. On about I0 lines
down or 6 or 8 lines down on the "lat long," the latitude is
plus 30.83, longitude minus 120.50. About another 8 or 9
lines down, at bank angle, you should delete the two L's
for left and make those R's for right. And below that in
the remarks, number i, target _ it should read target north
of ground track. And then the P30 pad.
CDR Go ahead.
CC O kay. In- under the remarks, the undocklng
time should change it about i0 seconds or so, 18 plus ii plus
20. And remark number 2, should read, yaw left to 315 and that's it.
CDR You don't change the burn time, same
burn time we Just target slightly different huh? Just so the
entry equations will fly it out, huh?
CC That's affirm, AI. We don't - we do not
change the burn time.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
to LOS. Vanguard is going to pick you up at time of 22:14.
And that's the scheduled medical conference. If we don't
get you back on alr-to-ground then, you guys have a good night's
sleep and we'll see you in the morning.
PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Was that longitude 120.50 or 1 - I mean 120.30?
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CC .50.
CDR Was just one degree, huh?
CC Yeah, that's right. 1 degree.
CDR By the way, I went over that llst of
changes, fastest changes that you have and all our entry and deact
books are up to date.
CC Okay AI, thank you for letting us know.
Incidently your evening status report on photos didn't quite
Jive with what we thought and we're going to be sending you
another photo pad later on this evening so you can disregard
the early ones that we did send.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours
6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab -III has now passed out of
range with Mila. The next station to acquire will be Vanguard
in approximately 8 minutes. This could very well be our last
conversation with the crew of Skylab 3 this evening on the next
pass which is our go to sleep pass over Vanguard the private
medical conversation is scheduled. We're at 22 hours 6 minutes
GMT. This is Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC2385/I
Time: 17:13 CDT, 56/22:13 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; 22 hours

13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away
now from acquiring - reacqulrlng Skylab over Vanguard. We
expect no conversation with CAP COM Dick Truly and the crew.
The private medical - medical conversation is scheduled
for this pass. Additionally this should be the last pass
of the evening prior to the start of the rest period for
the crew of Skylab-III. Twenty-two hours 14 minutes GI_T,
Skylab Control, Houston. Our controllers report workshop
data being received now. Systems data from Skylab being
received in the Control Center.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
22 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has
now passed out of acquisition range with Vanguard. The
next station coming up on Skylab's path will be Goldstone
in approximately 1 hour and 2-1/2 minutes. We will bring
the llne at the time we receive the - the medical summary -
crew medical summary for this evening. And this is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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Time: 17:50 CDT 56/22:50 GMT
9/21/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 22 hours

51 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have the Mission Surgeon's
daily summary on crew health. It reads as follows: The health
of the crew remains good. Sleep adjustment is still not per-
fect. The crew still has a medical go for the EVA planned
for tomorrow. Si_ned Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky. At this time
we'll take the llne down. Crew wake up time is scheduled
for 7 hours Greenwich mean time tomorrow morning. At 22 hours
51 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control Houston.

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Time: 02:17 CDT, 57/07:17 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 17 minutes

and 22 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 50
seconds from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking
station, and we expect to have call for wake-up from
Hank Hartsfield, he's the spacecraft communicator. At this
time we would expect the crew is awake. However+ during
the last pass, just before the hour, the sleep monitor on
M133 that Owen Garrlott's wearing this evening was reading
sleep stage II, which indicates he's still in a moderate
stage of sleep. So we would expect that wake-up call
to come here if the crew's not already awakened.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
PLT Good morning, Hank. How are you doing
today?
CC Oh, pretty good. How're you boys doing
up there today?
PLT Well, we'll know better in about 5 min-
utes.
CC All righty. We're - we're - you're
over Guam now, and we've got about 9-1/2 minutes left.
CC For info, Skylab, we'll be dumping
the recorder this station.
CDR Jack?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 58.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC By the way, CDR, Texas opened their
season with Miami last night.
CDR And?
CDR How'd they do, Hank?
CC Uh - Hurricanes got the best of them;
20 to 15.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 29 minutes
and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of the Guam tracking antenna. We'll be
within range of signal again in 28 minutes and 54 seconds,
when we'll be passing near Vanguard. Today is, of course,
EVA day. Activities yesterday on the ATM and on Earth's
Resources experiments were completed for this mission.
And we'll give you a complete report on that EVA a little
later in the morning. EVA is scheduled to begin approxi-
mately 6:08, and that's when we're out of range of tracking
station, 6:08 a.m. central daylight time. This is Skylab
Control at 30 minutes after the hour.

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TIME: 02:57 CDT 57/07:57 GMT
9/22/73

: PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 57 minutes

and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing the South Pacific is just about to acquire
slgnal from the Vanguard tracking antenna. And we'll have
communications from spacecraft communicator Hank Hartsfleld
with the crew of the second Skylab manned mission. We're
now about 40 seconds from that acquisition of signal. We
have the llne up llve for alr-to-ground through Vanguard
lasting about 8-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston through Vanguard for 9
minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC We were going LOS while ago when I read
up that score. Did you copy that?
PLT Unfortunately it was copied.
CC That was a big shocker for everybody.
Kinda surprised us. Houston had a little better luck. They
knocked off South Carollna 27 to 19.
SPT You have a minute or so here, Hank?
CC Roger Owen. We got about 5-1/2 minutes
left.
SPT Be enough to give you a couple of minor
changes to last evening's status report?
CC Gd ahead.
SPT Okay. On the SPT exercise. I'd like
to add the followlng. 3/25/Mark 1, 90 Alfa, 60 Bravo,
60 Delta. And you had the earlier portion from last night.
And also, on the menu devlations, add peanuts to my list.
I already had some plneapple added.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Canary in about 12 minutes
from now at 18.
PLT Okay Hank. See you there. Thank you.

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SL-III MC-2389/I
Time: 03:07 CDT, 57/08:07 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 8 minutes and

8 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station,
now passing over Brazil, is out of range of the tracking
ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition of signal will be
just a little over I0 minutes from now. That's at the
Canary Islands. That pass through Canary Islands and Madrid
will last approximately 15 minutes. This morning is sche-
duled for a - the third extravehicular activity of Skylab,
the third space walk in this mission. During the first
Skylab mission there were also three EVAs, the first one,
however, was a stand-up EVA from the command module on
mission day i. That was an attempt to release that stuck
solar array. It was unsuccessful. The beam was deployed,
however, on the first formal walk on mission day 13, a 3-1/2
hour space walk during the first Skylab mission. And on
mission day 26 there was a film change-out. Today the
primary activity to be completed is also a film change-out
on the ATM cameras. The EVA is the third in the mission
and the sixth in the Skylab program and it's scheduled to
last approximately 2-1/2 hours. With a few modifications,
the EVA will have Commander Alan Bean and Science Pilot
Owen Garriott moving outside the workshop while Pilot Jack
Lousma monitors the work of his partners and performs tasks from
within the multiple docking adapter. Garrlott will assist
Bean in the removal of those film canisters from the ATM
instruments. EVA is scheduled to begin at 11:08 GMT. That's
about 3 hours from now, at 6:08 a.m. central daylight time.
Just before our - the EVA begins, the spacecraft will be
out over the Pacific Ocean, and it will be out of range of
signal at the time the hatch opening is to occur. Shortly
after the EVA is scheduled to start, there is the beginning
of a stateside pass, and this is at the end of the 1,888th
revolution of the orbital workshop. Tasks to be performed
include retrieval of film from the battery of solar observa-
tory cameras, a return of a trio of scientific samples,
a return of a sample of sunshield material placed outside
the vehicle on mission day 28, or August 24th, and also
the dusting off of the occulting disk for the S052 white
light coronagraph. The occulting dlsk, whlch is 1-1/2 inches
in diameter, has a speck about i/i0 of an inch in diameter,
block - acting as a contaminant on that occulting disk.
The occulting disk is used to block out or occult the Sun
so that the white light coronagraph telescope can photo-
graph the Sun's atmosphere or corona, which runs from about
200,000 miles above the solar disk, outward to 6 solar radii.
This is Skylab Control. We're about 7 minutes and 15 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Canary Island. We'll come back
up at that time for that pass through Canary Island and Madrid.

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SL III MC-2390/I
TIME: 03:17 CDT 57/08:17 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 17 minutes

and 24 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now crossing the North Atlantic is about 50 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Canary Island tracking
station. The pass through Canary Island and Madrid will
last approximately 14 minutes and we have the line up
live now for air-to-ground through those stations. Space
craft Communicator Hank Hartsfield as he is completing
his shift on the duties of spacecraft communicator here
in Mission Control. Flight Director Charles Lewis is in
the early stages of handover to on-comlng Flight Director
Milton Windier. We now have the line up live for air-to-
ground through Canary Islands and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and
Madrid for 13-i/2 minutes.
CDR Okay Hank, we're going to get a picture
of that tracking station today.
CC Okay. And we just checked the weather
there and it's i0 percent or less. It ought to be real
great for you.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. We got Madrid.
CC Good show.
CDR Took all three of us to do it,
CDR It's a nice clear day there, but
Madrid doesn't show up too much and it's parked against
the mountains. We had trouble finding it before but, we
pretty well got it. We shot at two or three different
places.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle about 35 minutes
from now at 06, and we plan to dump the recorder there.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 33 minutes
and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now over Eastern Europe out of range of the Madrid
tracking antenna. During this last pass Commander Alan
Bean was scheduled to photograph the tracking antenna
station at Madrid, where there is a new antenna there, a
64 meter antenna, and he did report that it took all three
crewmen to locate the target area, they did succeed in
getting photographs of that area, three sites there, in-
cluding the City of Madrid. The Nikon 300 millimeter
handheld camera was used for that, using some color film.
Very little cloud cover at Madrid. Yesterday they were
scheduled to take these photographs of Madrid, but a leak
in the urine container system forced them to postpone that
photography. Alan Bean was occupied with cleaning up
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that mess while passing over Madrid, although the weather

was clear again yesterday. It's now 8 hours 34 minutes
and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. And we're 32 minutes
and 23 seconds from our next acquisition of signal. That
acquisition will take place at Honeysuckle. This is Skylab
Control at 34 minutes and 28 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2391/I
TIME: 04:05 CDT 57/09:05 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 5 minutes

and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now is just crossing the Australia coast and is
about to acquire signal through the Honeysuckle tracking
station. The pass will last about 7-1/2 minutes and it
begins 45 seconds from now. We have the line up live for
air-to-ground across Honeysuckle and the coast of Australia.
PAO Spacecraft Communicator Story Musgrave
has now come on to replace the off-golng Communicator, Hank
Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, 7 minutes.
SPT Okay Story.
PLT Story, my checklist tells me to enable
the TACS which - but it doesn't say anything about enabling the
TACs and the DAS but my impression is that they want that done.
CC Jack, you can go ahead and do that or
we can do it. And do you need the command.
PLT No_ I got them here. Thank you.
CC Okay. And for your information, during
the EVA, we are going to inhibit all the dumps and we'll
accept the desat firings that we did.
PLT Okay.
CDR Why is that, Story?
CC Say again, AI.
CDR Why that change to the normal ops?
CC We think we can get away that way with
using less TACS than the other way. And also related to
that, that does away with the vent window we had.
CC And while I've got you A1, one other
thing we'll have you do out there is check the H-alpha
door. We think that it is closed and we think we've got
bad indicators, but we'll want you to take a look at it
while you're out at the Sun end.
CDR Okay. Be glad to do it.
CC And could you tell us where you are on
the prep checklist right now?
CDR Yes, we're putting the coatings on the
inside of the helmets.
CC Okay.
CDR And Owen's just about ready to don, and
Jack is probably just about ready to don also.
CC Okay.
PLT Story_ do you want the S052 main power
switch off? I have a note from before to check with you people.
CC Could you say that again, Jack?
PLT Yeah. The S052 main power switch. My
checklist calls for it to go to OFF, but I have a note that
says I ought to check with you before I do.
CC Go ahead and turn that off, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
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CDR Also Story, the inside of the SPT's

protective visor has lots of scratches, but it's just - it's
not as clean as it ought to be. I think that's the UV
coating in there, but I'm not sure. I tried to smooth it
out as best I could, but couldn't do it too well. It's
acceptable, but not perfect. That's the inside of the
protective visor on the EVVA - the SEVA.
CC Okay. Copy AI; We're about 15 seconds
to LOS. See you over Bermuda in about 35 minutes at 09:51p
and we'll be looking for your instrumentation check at that
time.

CDR How long is that from now?

CC It's about 35 minutes. 09:51.
CDR Okay. We might make it.
CC Well, we got Canaries and Madrid right
after that, if you don't.
CC Going over the hill, AI, there's a
spare visor over 509.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 15 minutes
and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now over New Zealand and out of range of the
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station. At the
present time the Skylab crew is engazed in preparation for
their early morning Extra Vehicular Activity. During this
pass Spacecraft Communicator Story Musgra_e informed A1
Bean that he will also be asked to check the H-Alpha door
when he's at the Sun end of the ATM to see that it is
closed. There is some concern that that may have been left
open and the indicators here on the ground are not correct.
They will make a check of that. Bean says at this point
they are putting antifog coating on their visors, moving
along fairly well on the checklist and he also indicated
that there was some apparently some scratching to the
ultraviolet coating on the Science Pilot's protective visor.
The ground then informed him at the end of the pass that
there was a replacement visor available above the M509.
Story Musgrave also asked A1 Bean or reminded him that they
will be looking for an instrumentation checkup about 35
minutes from now, although they may have to wait a little
bit longer for that according to the commander. That
instrumentation check is on the operational biomedical
system, the OBS, that's used by the crew during this EVA.
Today's EVA is a little different than all the previous
EVAs in that there's been a modification of the procedures
for operating. That modification necessary because of the
failure in the primary coolant loop, which has now been
permanently shut down. There is only one coolant loop now
operating in the alrlock module, and during the previous
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EVA, the second EVA of this mission, they had some difficulty
with the temperature control valve. That temperature control
valve normally should read 47 degrees and since the EVA it has
varied from about 42 to 44 degrees. They are a little con-
cerned that using the coolant loop to provide cooling to the
system of the astronauts, the suit umbilical system, would
possibly perturb that temperature control valve further. So
they have decided for today that there will be no water cooling
provided to the suits. Instead they will be cooled by oxygen
flowing through the suits at about 13.5 pounds of pressure.
And they believe that will provide adequate cooling for the
EVA today. However, because that cooling system will be used,
they will be wearing the operational biomedical system, the
OBS, to give constant data on the metabolic activity.

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Time: 04:17 CDT, 57/09:17 GMT
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PAO - - over. Because that cooling system

will be used, they will be wearing the operational biomedical
system, the OBS, to give constant data on the metabolic activity
of the crew. Also, for that reason, although there's a 2-1/2
hour schedule for the EVA today, there is a formal limit of
4 hours put on it for medical reasons. They would not want the
EVA to run longer than 4 hours, and the OBS will provide data
on the condition of the crew after 3 hours to determine whether
or not they'll be allowed to go the full 4 hours. For that reason,
Bean and Garriott will not wear the liquid cooling garment during
the EVA. They will, however, wear the constant-wear garment,
which are cotton long-johns under their space suits. Essen-
tially, the system calls for the astronaut to sweat, and
then the cool oxygen is fed through the suit from the 3,000
pound pressure oxygen tanks, and that carries off the ex-
cess moisture produced by the astronauts while they're
working. Relatively less work is required for today's
EVA than for certain EVA's in the past, particularly the
EVA in which the solar panel was deployed. Pilot Lousma
will be using a separate system to cool him. Although he
is not wearing a pressure suit - he is not wea - not wearing
gloves or helmet - he will hook up the blower fan of the
vacuum used for the shower to the - su - suit outlet hose,
which, in effect, draws air through his suitas opposed to
the system used by Bean and Garrlott, in which oxygen is
blown through the suit. Without a helmet on, the cabin
air - 74 percent oxygen and about 26 percent nitrogen at
5 pounds per square inch -will be drawn through the suit
and thereby cool Lousma. We're coming up towards that
EVA, which begins at 11:15 Greenwich mean time, a little
less than 2 hours from now - correction, that's 11:08 Green-
wich mean time, a little less than 2 hours from now. It
is scheduled to last about 2 hours and 37 minutes. This
is Skylab Control at 31 minutes and 28 seconds to our next
acquisition of signal and that's at Bermuda. It's now
20 minutes and ii seconds after the hour.

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Time: 04:50 CDT, 57/09:50 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 50 minutes

and 35 seconds. Skylab space station now crossing the
coast of South America, is just about to come within range
of the Bermuda tracking antenna. That antenna is - range
is very near where the spacecraft will be tracking so it'll
be a very short pass, about a 4-1/2 minute one, at a very
low elevation. We may have some trouble with communications
here. But because of the preparations for the EVA, they
did want to make sure that there was an opportunity to
talk to the crew. We do have acquisition of signal at
Bermuda and the llne is up.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Yes sir. We're here through Bermuda
4 minutes.
CDR Okay, let me connect up and see what
you think of the blomed.
CC Great. And just a reminder here, they'll
be no TV during this EVA as you know.
CDR Okay, I'm connected up.
CC Okay, we're looking, AI.
CDR See anything at all?
CC AI, we're GO on your blo instrumentation.
CDR Okay, here comes the big O.
SPT How does that look, Story?
CC It's beautiful, O. You're GO.
SPT Okay, fine. We'll disconnect here.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 2
minutes to Canary.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over the
mid-Atlantlc is out of range of Bermuda and approximately
40 seconds from acquisition of signal at Canary. During
this pass over Bermuda, both of the operational biomedical
system units were attached and were operating properly on
the two crewmen, Commander AI Bean and Science Pilot, Owen
Garriott, and the crew is now approximately on their time-
llne, although they did get started a few minutes late
this morning. They do look like they'll meet that hatch
opening time of 11:08 Greenwich mean time as they're work-
ing right now.
CC Skylab, AOS; Canaries and Madrid 12
minutes.

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SL III MC-2394/I
TIME: 05:01 CDT 57/1.0:01 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll

see you over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 10:35.
SPT ()kay Story. Jack and I are in suits,
and we're just now getting A1 in the other suit. Just about
to make it.
CC Thanks a lot. We were just thinking
about that.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours i0 minutes
and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now less than
an hour from the beginning of the EVA, with Commander Alan
Bean the only member of the crew now not suited. Owen and
Jack Lousma both being suited and helping AI on with his
suit during this last pass. They are moving along very well
on the time line and do appear to be right on schedule.
Earlier Story Musgrave, the spacecraft communicator informed
the crew or reminded them that there was no TV today. Of
course they will record this, using the 16 millimeter data
acquisition camera. That will be Science Pilot Garriott's
responsibility to position that for recording Commander
Bean's activities up on the Apollo Telescope Mount. A
little earlier we had tests of the Commander and Science
Pilot's operational biomedical system, and those were working
properly. The importance of this is that because of the
lack of liquid cooling for the suits today, this action
being taken to prevent any possible damage to the secondary
coolant loop in the alrlock module. They will be using
oxygen cooling only. The oxygen is pumped through the umbilical
suit umbilical system at approximately 127 pounds per square
inch of pressure. It comes into the suit, however, it's
modulated at the suit entry point to 3.5 pounds of pure
oxygen per square inch, and that will be used to carry away
the body heat of the crew members. Because of this there is
considerably reduced cooling capacity and the crew members
will be watched very carefully for overheating. The main
measure of that temperature, body temperature for the ex-
periment today will be a measure of the outlet temperature
of the gas leaving the suits and that - an attempt there will
be made to modulate that somewhere below 90 degrees. There
is a difficulty in that the suit outlet was not intended
primarily for this purpose, but it has a off scale high
reading once it reaches 90 degrees, so when it does reach
the 90 degree level the doctors here may instruct the crew
to slow down. The other main measure of metabolic rate will
be the heart rate of the crew members, and the medical officer
Dr. Royce informed Flight Director Milton Windier that the
general guideline for that will be that when the heart rate
reaches 120 beats per minute for a period of more than
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5 minutes, the crew will be asked to slow down. And that

would indicate an output of 1500 BTUs per hour. The suit
system is capable of removing about 800 to i000 BTUs per
hour. At 140 beats per minute for a 5 minute period, the
crew will be asked to take a break and rest completely
rather than Just slow down. That does indicate a 2000 BTU per
hour heat loss, and that's a very high work load. Should
the heart rate reach 160 beats per minute for a 2 minute
period, the medical officer will also instruct the crew to
stop and rest. At 3 hours into the EVA or approximately
that time, there will be a review given and a GO or NO/GO
for a possible 4th hour should that be required. The
Flight Plan calls for about a 2-1/2 hour EVA, but the
experience of the Flight Director on this mission has been
that such EVAs have been run rather slowly by the crew and
they tend to take their time. For that reason, there is
a possibility that we may run to that 3 hour GO NO/GO sign
from the medical officer. At that time they will review the
total amount of heat output for the previous period, the
general guideline being about ii00 BTUS for output over a
long period of time. And at that time they will concern
themselves with whether or not the heat buildup inside the
suits has been so great that it might provide some danger,
even though a very small one to the crew, and they then will
decide whether or not that 4th hour will be premitted. Four
hours is the outside limit for the total EVA, with the
exception possibly of a few minutes at the end for stowage
inside the spacecraft. This is Skylab Control. We are now
20 minutes and 50 seconds from our next acquisition of signal
at Carnarvon, Australia. And it's now 14 minutes and
45 seconds after the hour.

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TIME: 05:34 CDT 57110:34 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 34 minutes

and 31 seconds Greenwich mean time, The Skylab space station
now crossing Indonesia. It's - -
SPT REG i LOW FLOW and LOW VENT FLOW lights
will light. Monitor cuff gage for max decay of .8. This
is a i minute test. Whenever I say FLOW OFF, we'll go
FLOW OFF and then time it for a minute. Turn FLOW OFF.
CC We're reading you loud and clear, AI,
through Carnarvon for i0 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data voice recorders here.
CDR Okay Story.
CDR We're doing our suit integrity check.
PLT Mine's gone up a tenth.
PLT Did you get your press select OFF.
AI.
CDR In a minute.
PLT Okay.
PLT PRESS SELECT to both, and then IVA.
SPT Mine leaked down about 3/10.
CDR Okay. Let's see what it says. PRESS
SELECT both and then IVA.
CDR Okay. That's dandy. Let's see what's
next.
PLT Cuff gage is stable. 38 and all the
lights are out.
CDR Says if suit PRESS decays .3 to .8
verify helmet, wrist rings and gas connectors lock before
proceeding.
PLT Mine decayed about 3/10.
CDR And we can verify it.
PLT (garble) Maybe we ought to run the
check again. I don't like to- let me do the check one more
time.
CDR All right.
PLT How do you read me, Story?
PLT Hello Story. How do you read me?
CC Loud and clear, AI.
CDR Okay. Jack was just giving you a call
there. I guess - Were you pressing to talk up there, Jack?
PLT How do you read me, Story?
CC Loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay. Thank you. I - apparently it didn't
copy the first one.
PLT How was it that time.
CDR Still about 2 to 3 tenths.
PLT Hm.
SPT All my stuff is locked.
PLT Hm.
CC AI, we're following your EMU check down
here and if you've checked all your connectors, wrist rings
and the like, press on.
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9_22/73

CDR Okay. That's what we're doing. I'm

Just kind of looking at the,, some more. I want to look
at them again.
CDR How do they look to you again, O?
SPT Okay. That lock's flush, flush.
CDR That's the way I want to -
PLT That - uh - you' re not into - that
water connector is not down into the lock.
CDR Because there's nothing in it. See.
PLT Okay. That's right.
CDR There's just the plug (garble) in the
back.
PLT Here' s the iron lungs.
PLT Wrist rings. Vox.
PLT They're locked. Helmet ring is locked.
Okay.
CDR Go back to where we were.
PLT Okay.
CDR Cuff gage stable. 36 to 39. All lights
on.

CDR Okay. MODE select to ABSOLUTE.

PLT Okay.
SPT Okay Jack. We're ready for you.
PLT I'm not quite down yet in mine. Okay.
CDR No it's coming down here a - It's little slow.
clearing.
CDR All right.
CDR All riEht. We'll be right here.
PLT Okay AI. Cabin pressure.
CDR And we are in ABSOLUTE. I got the
tones.
PLT All integrity checks complete.
CDR Okay. Checks complete. Jack's off the
headset and he's probably floating over to get something.
CDR Okay.
SPT (garble) break for you.
CDR EVA, we'll read all procedures from
here, Jack.
PLT Two's OFF. One's OFF.
CC We' re a minute from LOS and 2 minutes
to Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
PLT One's OFF. Two's OFF.
CDR Okay. I'm on my way.
CDR Okay.
PLT Let's see. Which way does it say.
Feet first, I think, doesn't it. Or did it say?
CDR Head first.
PLT Head first. Okay.

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Time: 05:45 CDT, 57/10:45 GMT
9/22/73

CDR Just floating right here waiting till

I hear from you.
CDR Okay.
SC (Garble)
SPT I am in pretty good shape.
CDR Okay, I'm in the LSU hatch and I'm
inspecting the field.
CC Back with you through Honeysuckle for
4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. We're just crawling into
the alrlock.
CC Okay, and Jack's at the STS isn't he?
SPT No, he's in the alrlock with us here
stowing our umbilicals.
CC Okay.
SPT (Garble)
CDR Hatch handle open.
SPT Okay.
SPT Pull that closed. Okay.
CDR That's before release handle unlocked.
Okay.
SPT All right. Just a second.
CDR Okay, I'm working on it, Jack.
CDR The hatch looks closed, but the handle
doesn't llke to go.
CDR There, that worked.
CDR Yeah. The whole thing went. (Garble)
CDR Just a second.
CDR Now, let me do this.
CDR We go there and then we unlock the handle.
Now go to equalize pressure.
CDR Okay, now what?
CDR Release handle to UNLOCK.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hatch handle CLOSED. Hatch handle LOCKED.
CDR The thing's Just right.
CDR Okay.
SPT Uh, we'll scoot it down a little bit
to get out of your way.
SPT Just a minute.
CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. We'll
see you over Mila in 35 minutes about 11:24. All your
systems are looking good and you're GO for AMD PRESS.
SPT/CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, good. Appreciate it.
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Time: 05:45 CDT, 57/10:45 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at l0 hours 51 minutes

and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing New Zealand is out of range of the tracking
antenna at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, and the crew is
moving along well on their planned timeline for the EVA.
Hatch opening is still expected to take place at 6:08 central
daylight time. That's about 16 minutes from now. Everything
is moving very smoothly and they are right on the timeline
according to the EVA officer here at Mission Control. That
timeline would indicate a hatch opening time of ii:08 Green-
wich mean time. A FAS configuration should be in about -
11:28. That's first steps to configure the fixed alrlock
shroud and prepare for the EVA, moving equipment and so forth.
The VC operations - film operations taking 35 minutes. Esti-
mated GMT is 12:03 on that. The VS Sun end operations film
dusting and the S149 should be a - estimated GMT of 12:53.
That's - take 50 minutes. D024, estimated duration i0 minutes,
will be completed at 13:03. The $230, i0 minutes completed
at 13:13. Sail material sample return should take them about
5 minutes completed at 13:18. The AM airlock module re-
configuration taking about 20 minutes, should be completed
at 13:38. That would give them a total time of 2 hours and
30 minutes for the entire EVA and hatch closing, then, to
take place at 13:38, 2 hours and 30 minutes after the crew
begins. Doctors here in Mission Control are monitoring the
bio-environmental data. Both Science Pilot Owen Garriott and
Commander Alan Bean do have their biomedical equipment on
under their suits now and we were getting readings, heart
rates of approximately 90 on the Science Pilot and during
the end of that pass over Honeysuckle, the rate on Commander
A1 Bean was up to above i00, about 108 or 109 for a mean heart
rate at the end of that. The importance of that, of course,
is that, because the suit umbilical system cooling loop and
the liquid cool garments are not bein E worn during this EVA.
Cooling is going to create something of a problem. The
equipment that will be used, of course, is the flow of
oxygen through the suit. That is oxygen flow is believed
to be able to remove about 800 to 1,000 BTUs per hour. And
800 to i000 would be the expected rate of usage of heat loss
during the activity today. Should that rate Teach ii00 BTUs
per hour, the - the medical officer would ask them to slow
down in their activities or possibly to stop for brief per-
iods of time. A main method of monitoring that will be to
watch the temperatures of the outlet of the suit and those
temperatures can be read up to 90 degrees. At that point
they do go off-scale high. That would be a rough indication
of their total heat output. A better indication, they believe,
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is that the total rate of - of hearts - of heart rating

beats per minute should indicate the total BTUs being
used. A heart rate of 120 BTUs - 120 beats per minute,
would indicate 1500 BTUs per hour of heat loss and if that
should occur for more than 5 minutes, the crew will be
asked to slow down. They also have restrictions of 140
beats per minute for a 5-mlnute period would indicate that
they'll have to stop and rest during the EVA. And should
the rate reach 160 beats per minute for a 2-minute period,
the crew will also be asked to stop and rest to keep from
producing too much heat. The total amount of energy is
used normally by a person in moderate activity - seated
activity is about 420 to 450 BTUs per hour. The equivalent
for the total heat loss that the suits can take care of
800 to i000 BTUs, would be swlmling - swimming, or blslcklng -
bicycling. Swimming and bicycling do absorb roughly in
the neighborhood of 800 to 1,000 BTUs. This is a moderate
bicycling activity and a - fairly active swimming. It's -
that level is a higher level than is normally used up in
playing tennis. So the crew will be watched Very carefully
for the totaheat output. There will be a GO/NO GO after
3 hours of the EVA. We do expect the EVA to be less than
that period of time, but should it run to 3 hours, there
will be an approval from the medical officer for a fourth
hour before we can go on to a longer EVA. The crew's
record so far has been to participate in relatively long
EVAs. In the past none of their EVAs has been as short
as 4 hours. This is the sixth EVA of the Skylab mission,
the first one a standup EVA on Skylab I, first Skylab mission.
That was Just before the crew docked with the Skylab work-
shop in the first mission. The first crew managed to
complete their EVAs relative - in relatively short periods
of time. The solar array deployment in 3 hours 23 minutes
and the normal EVA an hour and 3 - -

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SL-III MC-2397/I
Time: 05:57 CDT, 57/10:57 GMT
9/22/73

PAO - - for the crew docked with the Skylab

workshop in the first mission. The first crew managed to
complete their ErAs in relatively short periods of time.
The solar array deployment in 3 hours and 23 minutes and the
normal EVA an hour and 36 minutes on day 26 of the first
mission. For this EVA, however, the crew has had relatively
longer period of time required for comple_ion of EVAs.
PAO Time on EVA is a record 6 hours and 31
minutes for that first EVA on mission day i0 - that was
August 6th. And on August 24th, mission day 28, the 4 hours
and 31 minutes occupied in the second EVA of this Skylab
second manned mission. EVA today is going to begin in
approximately 10 minutes from now according to the schedule.
And we will not hear from the crew for another 26 minutes,
so we expect the MDA - the airlock module to be without
pressure at that time. We should have the hatch opened
well before we have acquisition of signal 26 minutes from
now at Merritt Island. This is Skylab Control at 58 minutes
and i0 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2398/I
Time: 06:21 CDT, 57/11:21 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours, 21 minutes

and 6 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're about 2 minutes and 50 seconds from acquisition of
signal at Merrltt Island, Florida. At this time we would
expect the crew has probably opened up the hatch to the
alrlock module and they should be in the process of moving
equipment from the interior of the Skylab space station
to the fixed airlock shroud where Owen Garrlott will be
working from during this EVA. Owen Garriott will be acting
as an assistant to Commander Alan Bean, who will do the
actual job of replacing the film and camera assemblies
for several of those ATM instruments. Also to bring back
in three of the sample arrays or experiments that are now
deployed outside the workshop. Among the things to be
moved out to the fixed airlock shroud during the first 20
minutes of the EVA which will be completed in about
another 4 or 5 minutes, are film and camera assemblies
for two of the instruments which will be replaced for the
unmanned period of the ATM and the DAC camera which will
be attached to one of the airlock module struts that will
record the activities of Commander Bean during the EVA.
And those activities should be underway right now. 11:08
to 11:28 is the period required to configure the fixed
alrlock shroud for the EVA activities. Following that, we
will have operations - We should be coming up on air-to-
ground now. Here is the CAP COMM, Story Musgrave and the
crew.

SPT ... look good.

PLT ... Okay? Now let me look.
PLT Okay. Just a second.
PLT F-II. Okay. Infinity. Just a
moment. I've got to look in the bottom for that. Six
frames it is.

CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and

clear through MILA and Bermuda for Ii minutes. Your
systems are looking good.
SPT Okay. What'd you say there at last,
big Jack?
PLT Okay. Just a second here. l'm
switching my tether to the other wrist.
CDR Okay.
CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Yes, sir; go ahead.
SPT I have it, AI.
PLT Just a minute, Story.
PLT Okay.
PLT Just a minute. Okay, I wondered.
CDR Okay, we're on f/ll.
SL-III MC-2398/2
Time: 06:21 CDT, 57/11:21 GMT
9/22/73

CDR That put it at 1/60th.

PLT Okay. We got 5 Honey set. Infinity,
set. Wait a minute. It was set on 12, not six. You want
it on six, huh? Okay. Yes.
CDR Looks llke Hawall down there. Wonder
where we are.
PLT Go ahead, Story. You called.
CC Okay. You're passing over - getting
close to Bermuda now. You - you may get some TACS firing
for CMG desat. We'd llke you to INHIBIT on panel 207, a
caution and warning panel, ACS MALF INHIBIT CMG SAT.
CDR That A-7?
PLT That's done.
CC And we'd like your time for hatch
opening, Jack.
PLT Okay. I'ii give you a mark when it
happened. It was about i0 minutes ago and it's going to
be 9 minutes and 45 seconds. Stand by.
PLT MARK.
PLT Kick out of my shoes to get down there
and see if that thing's running or not. Sometimes you can
see -

CDR ... looks nice and gold. Much better

panorama out here. Faster -
CDR Okay. I'm waiting for the big O to - -
SPT Okay. It's clicking.
CDR It's clicking? Owen's going to pull
out my umbillcals, no doubt.
SPT Okay. Let me get out of your way a
little bit.
CDR Blue hatch - I mean, the blue handrails
have turned turquoise on it.
SPT They sure looked turquoise.
PLT Uh-huh. Sort of - -
CDR Everything has - -
PLT Watch out. Your - Okay. You're in the
DAC. Could you - right leg there.
CDR How's my umbilical doing?
SPT Doing.
CDR You're outside here. You sure are.
CDR Nice view. There's the old commands (sic)
module. Quads - Boy, is the sight of the - ... Back there
just below United States all that stuff is scorched and the
foil is kind of bent up.
CDR . .. been getting some - All right. Let's
do that. Looks llke a good place to visit over here.
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Time: 06:21 CDT, 57/11:21 GMT
9/22/73

CDR You sure can get around here, Houston,

compared to that water tank. Okay. It works. Solar panels
look nice and clean; I can see them back there - the ones on
the side of the workshop.
SL III MC-2399/I
TIME: 06:30 CDT 57/11:30 GMT
9/22/73

CDR I don't see that cable on there anymore

that the SL-II crew put on to pull it up.
CDR If you look out the window it looks
like it may have departed. Maybe that's what I heard the
other night.
PLT I don't know what cable you're talking
about.
CDR When they pulled out that SAS beam, they
had -
PLT Oh yeah.
CDR - - cable, they tied it on. It stayed
out there. It's not there any more.
CDR Feel the Sun on your gloves here.
CDR I'm standing right close to SO54. Not
exactly, but close.
PLT Yep. It's all clamped.
SPT Al's is not clamped.
CDR Okay.
PLT llm holding 365 and no lights.
CDR Put a little tension on my old umbilical
would you, O?
CDR That's it. Thank you.
PLT Okay.
SPT Incidentally for the EVA troups down
there. This 31 feet is a little too much. I clamped it at
31. We got more play than we need. It'd he better clamped
at about 29 to 30. Story.
PLT Okay. It is deployed and it is unlatched.
PLT Okay. It works.
CDR Not exactly. I can put it there though.
CDR Okay. Power primary and secondary
enabled.
CDR (garble) enabled.
PLT Okay.
CDR (garble) stopping.
CDR Opening the door. See me looking at
S054.
PLT Okay. I'm going to take up some of the
line in his umbilical. There's too much of it hanging out.
CC Skylab. We're a minute and a half from
LOS. Five minutes to Madrid and to verify telemetry, we'd
like an EMU standard check from the Commander.
SPT The Commander gives it a big 3.65,
which is about a half a psi less than it was while ago. And
no lights are on. EVA HIGH FLOW. Anything in particular?
CC No, sir. That's fine. Thank you.
SPT Hey Story, did you get my comment about
SL III MC-2399/2
TIME: 06:30 CDT 57/].1:30 GMT
9/22/73

31 feet being too much. I pulled it back to about 29

which is adequate for the length of umbilical out to the
center work station.
CC We've got it, Owen.
SPT Okay. I pulled it in and I've got the
SO54 on and locked.
PLT ()kay. Are you ready, AI?
CDR Are you kidding?
PLT Nope.
CDR Fire away.
PLT There you go. Sending me a present.
CDR Boy, this old vehicle is sure motionless
up here.
PLT Fantastic. This is really fantastic.
PLT Tell me when.
PLT Hey Story, that canister roll of plus
4392, there really
CDR When - - put S054 in front of AI. It's
that 4750 that I'm - Now he's rolling around a little bit. You
might want to make that note for a future reference.
CC Copy Jack.
PLT i got it in my hot hands.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 36
minutes and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab
space station now crossing the North Atlantic. The EVA
underway. About 2 minutes and 50 seconds to our next
acquisition of signal at the Madrid tracking antenna.
During this pass we got an estimate of the beginning of
the EVA hatch opening. A rough count here from procedures
was 17 minutes and 48 seconds after the hour. That's
11:17:48 Greenwich mean time. For the purposes of the
Flight Controllers, we've rounded that off to 18 minutes.
And the Skylab I elapse time clock is now counting from
that estimated time of 18 minutes after the hour. But the
time that we did copy from Jack Lousma indicated about
17 minutes and 48 seconds after the hour for the beginning,
that is hatch opening for this EVA. This is AI Bean's
first EVA on this Skylab mission and his first EVA in open
space. He did spend 7 hours and 45 minutes on the surface
of the Moon during Apollo 12. Owen Garriott commented for
the EVA officer here that 29 to 30 feet appears to be the
right distance for the EVA umbical through the center work
station and he has pulled that back down to that level. He
was originally set to have that hooked up at 31 feet. He
has shortened that now, and clamped it down. AI Bean is at
the center work station at this time and is working on the
operations there for replacing the film on those cameras
instruments at the center work station. About 35 minutes
set aside for that. And they are moving along very well
on their time llne. Four instruments receive film at that
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TIME: 06:30 CDT 57/11:30 GMT
9/22/73

location. The white light coronagraph, the X-ray spectro-

graphic telescope, the _-ray telescope, and the H-Alpha i
telescope. That's SO52, 54, 56, and H-Alpha i. We're
llve now for alr-to-ground through Madrid for the next
8 minutes and we keep the llne up for the comments from
the crew now working on that EVA.

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SL-III MC-2400/I
Time: 06:38 CDT, 57/11:38 GMT
9/22/73

PAO - - minutes and we keep the llne

up for the comment from the crew now, working on that EVA.
SPT Okay. I'm - I've got the 54 off and
I'm ready to extend the boom.
CC We're back with you through Madrid
for 8 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Are you ready for the
boom, AI?
CDR Not yet.
SPT Okay.
CDR But I will be in a minute.
CDR Open the door.
SPT Look in the door.
CDR See S056 restln E there happily.
CDR I'm ready for the boom.
SPT All right. Here it comes.
CDR I have S056 in my hand.
CDR Well, let's see where Madrid is. I
don't see it.
SPT AI, still coming up here.
CDR Nice place to visit up here. Even a nice
place to llve.
SPT Yep.
CDR Halt.
CDR S056 is locked on your boom. I would
recommend you retract it (garble)
SPT Okay.
SPT All right. She's on her way back.
CDR Okay. Consider it in. No new ones
in this game.
SPT (Garble) visible ops.
SPT Okay, it's in work.
CDR In work.
CDR There, believe it or not.
CDR There's SO52. Got corona all over it.
Fantastic.
CDR Must of - some of it must of leaked out.
CDR Okay, bl E O.
SPT Just a minute.
PLT You've been workln E hard up there.
SPT I'ii get this rascal locked on the tree
firmly.
PLT Not a bad idea.
SPT I don't see Europe. Where is it
PLT Still ahead of us.
i

SL-III MC-2400/2
Time: 06:38 CDT, 57/11:38 GMT
9/22/73

SPT Looks like--

SPT Okay, you ready? What's the next step?
PLT Okay, it's in WORK.
CDR I got the doors open and looking at the
corona thinE.
CDR There. The motor's inside that can.
No, the motor looks like it's on top of the can.
CDR This thing's attitude is beautiful
because it's never quite level with the Earth. Ah, there's
England, I think. Hard to tell.
SPT Okay, 52 is ON and LOCKED.
CDR Okay. You ready for it?
SPT Yeah.
PLT You better believe it.
CDR Hello, Jack. You're barely there.
SPT Hello there, Story.
CC Hi, Owen.
SPT Well, we got about 12,000 X-ray photo-
graphs retrieved now.
CDR Partially retrieved. Still got to handle
them once more.
SPT Yep.
CC We got all the confidence in the world.
SPT Halt. That's it. They're out of the
ATM. We're Just gonna bring the tree inside7 And you fallows
have to go to work developing them.
SPT Okay, I'm goin E to retract that out of
your way, AI.
CDR Why don't you do that?
SPT That's really bad llke that, don't you
think?
CDR Yes, I do.
SPT But I think you can lick it by being
careful.
SPT All right. You want a new one?
CDR No, I'd llke an old one.
CDR (Garble) to 52 can. Okay.
SPT Extend it hack so we can put it on first.
CDR Perfect.
CDR You've got it.
SPT Good. Here she comes.
SPT A thousand photos of 9 solar eclipse.
CDR Hope they don't get mad. I noticed some
of the rays were bent on that. Some of the pictures we took.
(Chuckle) They weren't all straight.
PLT Installed, the white flag's visible,
and it feels firm.
SPT Not a bad idea.
PLT It works.
SL-III MC-2400/3
Time 0638 CDT, 57/11:38 GMT
9/22/73

CDR Okay, that door's locked and white

flag's visible, Jack.
SPT (Ga_ble) one.
CDR (Garble) running manual part of the
time and 4 frames a second part of the time - four frames
a minute part of the time. Okay, the doorts open and there
it sits.
CDR Okay. It wiggles - the Big 0 sends me some
boom.
SPT Okay, here it comes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and
25 minutes from Carnarvon. All your systems are looking
good.
CDR Thank you, Story. We're having a good
time out here.

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SL III MC-2401/I
TIME: 06:46 CDT 57/11:46 GMT
9/22/73

PLT You prefer to leave your umbilical Just

floating like that, AI.
CDR Yes.
CDR Let nature take it's course.
CDR O?
CDR You got it O.
SPT Okay.
SPT Stand by and I will.
SPT It's locked and visible.
CDR Okay, will do. Sure didn't stay here long.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 47 minutes
and 56 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now crossing Eastern Europe is out of range of the
Madrid tracking antenna. We're 24 minutes and 25 seconds
from out next acquisition of signal and that will be at
Carnarvon, Australia. During this last pass, EVA still in
progress, replacing film on several of those instruments
at the center work station. Commander A1 Bean receiving
some things on the end of an extendable boom that's per-
manently attached to the workshop. Owen Garriott passing
the film up to him for replacement on two of those instruments
and the film being retrieved from the SO52, 54, 56, and the
H-Alpha telescopes. The Commander will put new film in the
S054 and a new camera end film assembly in the SO52. These
are the only ATM cameras operated during the unmanned
portion of the Skylab mission. In addition, the SO55,
ultraviolet scanning polychrometer spectroheliometer will
be returning electronic data on the Sun. That way telemetry
during the month and a half Skylab will be without a crew.
We're 23 minutes and 30 seconds from acquisition of signal.
It's now 49 minutes after the hour.

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SL Ill MC-2402/1
TIME: 07:09 CDT 57/12:09 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 9 minutes

and 31 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station now 2 minutes and 53 seconds fzom acquisition of
signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracklnE station. The
pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle will extend approxi-
mately 14 minutes altogether with an interruption at the
midst of that pass. The end of the last communciations
we had from the spacecraft at Madrid, apparently A1 Bean
had completed his work at the center station replacing the
film for those four instruments, two of them getting new
film and four of them having the film removed from them,
and was approximately ready to move up to the Sun end of
the ATM where he'll also take out some film units. Before
moving to the Sun end work station of the ATM, Commander
Bean will remove the S149 experiment and bracket, which
was affixed to the rim of the ATM during the first EVA of
this mission. That was on August 6th, mission day I0. The
$149 particle collectlon experiment was scheduled for use
through the solar scientific alrlock, but that airlock has
been inoperable since the first Skylab mission when the
parasol was installed through the small alrlock. Although
a twln-pole thermal shield has been installed since that
time, the parasol does remain in the scientific alrlock on
the solar side of the vehicle. The S149 is scheduled to
be replaced on the ATM during an EVA on the final Skyleb
mission. Both the Sun and the top end of the ATM, Bean will
remove both the camera and film from the SO82A and SO82B
experiments. The work at this location is planned to take
about 50 minutes. Although the crew did begin about i0
minutes late today at 11:17:48 Greenwich mean time, they
have been moving very quickly. They cut about 6 minutes
off the time expected for the configuration of the fixed
airlock shroud. And they did cut about another 12 minutes
off the operations at the center of the workshop if we're-
at the center of the ATM; _f we're correct in interpreting
Beants final remarks. The medical officer reported that
the metabolic activity of the crew members, Science Pilot
is 950 BTU per hour, and the Commander running about 1500
BTUs per hour. That's a relatlvely high rate, but because
the total temperature output and the perspiration level and
the related -
CDR Maybe we ought to look before we go.
SPT Yep. (garble)
CDR (Garble) Let me describe this thin E to
you, Jack, because it's becoming pretty much of a rectangle.
Now let me tell you. It's centered on the workshop real nice,
but as I look aft, the end nearest me would he my right hand
which is ou t - -
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TIME: 07:09 CDT 57/12/09 GMT
9/22/73

and then the opposite corner, which is back towards the

tail, it's out. In other words, if you're standing inside,
the parasol has rotated about i0 to 15 degrees clockwise.
Out here it looks like itt s rotating counterclockwise.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and
clear through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Everything's going smoothly. We Just
put in the 149. Owen's putting in the stowage plate. It's
complete. And he's Eolng to send out a couple of cans,
which we're gonna go mount and do 82A and B.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay. It's in works.
CDR And now I can see that cable that the
SL-II crew hooked up. It was close aboard enough to be
hinge lined and couldn't be seen from the center work
station, but it's seen quite easily out here in the
transfer work station.
CC Okay. Good. And you don't see any
entanglement with any important part of the structure do
you?
CDR No, I don't and I was just looking at
the friendly little twin-pole sunshade and it looks just
like when Jack put it out. The accordian has come out
pretty much. It's still accordian like, but not enough so
it does not shield the workshop. I can look and see the
Sun as it tingeing on the left side of the workshop and the
right side, but it looks like it's so close to the maximum
diameter, you probably don't know it inside. The place
that it's in the Sun - let me tell you the place that it's
in the Sun. One side is the - is that air duct that gave
way first and caused the meteoroid shield to give. That's
in the Sun. That's one limit. On the other side, in the
Sun is just about a foot earlier than when you come to
the area where the other SAS beam used to be. If the other
SAS beam were folded now, it would be in the Sun.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. I'm ready to extend these empty
cans to you, AI.
CDR Well, fire away then.
PLT All right. Here we go. Front end entend.
Would you keep an eye on the clearance here? It's a little
tight with this big box.
CDR I'll do it.
PLT Okay. Here it comes.
CDR Nice place out here, Story.
PLT Barely slips through this.
CC Yes Sir. You're making me Jealous.
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CC Could you verify that that line going

to the SAS beam is intact?
CDR It's intact and just exactly like it
was. It Just could not be seen from the center work station.
I thought it was further away from the hinge line.
It looks good, in fact, it looks llke it did when we looked
at it out the wlndow_ I've also looked at the little
grommets on the twin poles. The only one thatts loose,
I think, is the one we talked about, and itIs concelvable
that it got bumped by the umbilical.
PLT S top.
CDR We're going to have to move it a little
bit more 0 but - -
PLT The oouer end.
CDR Out. A little further. Stop.
PLT Okay.
SPT Consider it done, although I haventt
done it yet.
CDR Take her away, O.
SPT Okay.
CDR 1'11 tell you one thing, Story. Handling
these big boxes is sure easier here than the water tank.
You can Just use your wrist action and they all move around
llke you want them to, instead of balancing here and there.
CC Yes, Sir.
CDR Okay, I've done that, Jackt and stowed
happily.
PLT Okay. Owen's goln E to get the boom in.
I notice the boom from I see it, through the window has got some
marks perpendicular to the long axis. They look llke to be
in regular places every 4 to 6 inches and closer in as the
door gets closer to being retracted. About an inch long.
PLT Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Okay. I think I'ii go for a trip.
SPT Another thing that's different Story,
I remember from the last tlmep that's different from the
water tank, when you come back in, you don't need to worry
about focusing your eyes. That 4/3 correction for the
water tank on index of refraction is missing out here. You
can see right off. Where did the Earth go? Okay, wetre Just
coming into night.
SPT If that's correct, ilt Just -
CDR Golee, what a place to visit.
CDR Looking down and see these experiments.
They really are looking out at the Sun.
SPT If I were to - -
PLT You might want to take the gold visor up.
CDR A/I right. Let's do that.
CDR Everything's turning a sort of reddish
pink now, as the Sun goes down.
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SPT And some people have been interested in

the looks of the horizon. The aurora shooting from the
6range into white, at least three white bands above the
first white band as the Sun goes down. Several white
bands. And it goes into blue and then black. I see two
two distinct bands to the south and two or three bands to
the north. And they extend about 15 degrees either side
of the Sun and then those white bands disappear.
CDR Can I do anything for you, Jack, as
long as I'm here? All lights are out and my suit press
is 365.
PLT Okay. Just a minute. As soon as I
clamp this umbilical, I'ii recheck that.
CDR I'll tell you what. Right where -
you know these little mounts that you put your toes in
on the foot restraints. They cast a perfect shadow on
the Sunshield here and throw - where the shadow is itls
still white and all the rest is just brownish pink. Just
perfect focus. I'll be darn.

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9/22/73

CDR Yes. You can see the outline of all

these ha- these handrails. I think you should.
SPT Okay. l_oving out pretty fast.
CDR Good lighting up here. See stars.
SPT I hope so.
CDR Well, it's obvious we got to wait because you've
got to check it against the sun. We may want to do this
last and do these others first. I'll look in there and
dust it off, but we'll have to wait to cheek it.
SPT Sure you can see well enough, huh?
CDR No, I dont t think I can.
SPT Then I sure wouldn't try it unless you
could - really got good visibility.
CDR Yeah. But it doesn't look down in any
of these holes is the problem. I see an ins,r-men, that's
looking right now.
CC AI, we'd like you to leave the S052
alone until you get into daylight.
CDR We concur with that. Will do. I think
I can see in there now, but you can't see any - It' s so
dark in there, you cannot see what's going on, really. I
think we ought to go - Why don't you rotate this back, Jack,
to 82A and B and I'ii make that exchange and then when the
Sun comes up, we'll be in good shape.
PLT All right.
CDR Well, we've only got 3 hours to go, Story.
I hope we can hack it.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, could you give me a canister
roll for S082? A1 rolled it down there from VC, and
I want to go back there now. We're goin 8 to transfer
the film before we do the brushing.
CC Okay, we'll _et that for you and
we' re about 30 second_ rTom LOS here and abou_ 2 minutes
to Honeysuckle.
CDR It's rotated; I'ii tell you when you
get there, Jack.
PLT (Garble)
CC Jack, at minus 4200 for 82 A and
B.
PLT Okay, Story, 42 - minus 4200.
CDR I can look down in the mirror and
see that, gee, that thing that's bothering them- -
SPT ... Jack.
CDR - - (garble) way back there.
PLT Uh oh, is it not on the first
CDR It looked to me llke it was something way
back there on the mirror.
PLT Uh-oh, no. Bet you that wouldn't do it, AI,
it's got to be something out on a- -
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SPT Okay, we'll see.

PLT - - (garble) needed to focus.
CDR It looks to me like a washer.
CDR You got to watch H-alpha door 2 door move
a couple times too, Jack. Fortunately it's about the same place.
CDR That's close for me, you need to
k - keep coming.
PLT How about right there?
CDR Now if we could go even further
it'd be better, then it would be llke the training;
but I can hack it there. That's it, right there. When
you read to me the procedures, I'ii do it.
CDR Container door, okay, I think I know
what that is. Okay.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Honeysuckle for 4 minutes. And an update for the
canister roll. We think minus 6700 would be a better
number, Jack.
PLT Okay, Story, thank you. And we
found a good number that was a little bit more than
that; 42. Thank you.
SC Uh -
CDR Okay, I've got it. I've got the
magazine in my hand. It's complete. In the container.
It is - complete. I'll check it. Pin in hold,
everything is Just right. And, it's open. Okay, closed.
It's locked. I'ii do that. That door needs a little muscle.
CC Owen, to verify telemetry could you
give us an EMU status check, please?
SPT Okay, I'm sitting on 370 and no
llghts.
CC Okay.
CDR Not having much luck with that door
at the moment. I think I'll take a break. Boy, I'm
shaking the whole canister up here.
SPT That the 82B- -
CDR 82B door.
SPT All right.
CDR I'll Just lift out of my foot re-
straints a little bit. I think I can get in a better
position.
CC And now while you're taking a break; we
don't think you'll get to D024 before we Eet stateside,
but in case you do we'd llke you to observe the coloration
on both sides of the sample trays when you pull them out,
and also the color of the aluminum around the structure
where the trays are attached.
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SPT Okay, I'ii try to do that, Story.

The door doesn't want to come open. I got it.
CC And, Skylab; we're a minute from LOS
here, see you over Texas in about 30 minutes at about
12:55. We'll be dumping the data voice recorders there
And you're momentum is building up, we're estimating
you might use a little TACS around 13:00, that's about
35 minutes from now, probably not until stateside. We
just wanted to tell you there is a possibility.
PLT Hey, Story, what's our present
location, are we - -
SPT Thank you. Story.
PLT - - are we down near the southern
extreme of the orbit?
CC Thatts affirmative, you're right
about minus 50 at this time.
PLT We got a very nice aurora just off
to the left, it's several curtains and sweeping green
arcs. They extend over about 90 degrees on the horizon.
All well below us, hopefully
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT - - and you can see some of the rays
extending up vertically above the lower altitude aurora.

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SL-III HC-2404 /i
Time: 07:27 CDT, 57/12:27 GMT
9/22/73

CDR 82B (garble)

SPT (garble)
SPT (garble) cZouds
CDR live always wanted to (garble)
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours, 28 minutes,
and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
south of New Zealand has passed out of range of our tracking
antenna at Honeysuckle Creek. We_ll have acquisition 27
minutes and 13 seconds from now at Corpus Christi, Texas.
At this point the Commander Alan Bean is out at the Sun end
of the ATM. He has completed the center operations, appar-
ently now running right along the schedule that was orlglnally
planned and a little bit ahead of the time that we might have expec-
ted since they did get started about i0 minutes late with a
hatch opening at 17 minutes, 48 seconds after the last hour.
During this pass, got a report on the twin pole sunshade
which is working very well, but apparently a little bit of
Sun is touching on each side of the orbital workshop. One
place that it's touching is in - near the air duct that
caused the meteoroid shield to deploy prematurely on the
launch of the Skylab space station. And touching a little
bit on the other side where the SAS beam, the solar array
system beam, would have been if it bad not been torn off.
Commander Bean also reporting that the - the llne that ran
out to the SAS beam that was used in deploying that beam does
remain intact. Earlier he said that it had apparently dis-
appeared. He was - He informed that it was just out of sight
from his position earlier. During this pass, they did have
sunset about 10 to 12 minutes ago. That sunset puts them in
the nighttime period of the orbit now. And they are contin-
uing to work, though, in replacing the film on the SO 82A
and 82B at the Sun end of the ATM. 82A and 82B are the XUV
coronal spectrohellograph and the ultraviolet spectrograph.
XUV, of course, extreme ultraviolet coronal spectrohelio-
graph. During this pass, Jack Lousma was inside rotating
the mechanisms to give access to the instruments. Instruc-
tions also given up to the crew to observe the color around
the housing and also observe the color of the samples for
D024. That will be an instrument removed a short time from
now. As I was saying earlier, the doctors reported after the
Madrid pass, about 40 minutes ago, that the metabolic ac-
tivity of the Science Pilot was at 950 BTUs per hour and the
Commander was running about 1520 BTU per hour. There was no
concern, however, at that point because the total temperature
output and the related perspiration levels were quite low and
the heart rate remained well below the levels that would have
had the crew forced to reduce their activity. Bean's
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maximum heart rate so far in the EVA has been about 120
beats per minute. And that was just a brief period of time
at that high level. During this last pass, the metabolic
activity was considerably reduced. Total amount of heat
lost a great deal lower. Apparently the crew relaxing
in their activities, although they're moving along very
well. 950 BTUs per hour now for the Commander, about the
same amount of energy that would be used up in moderately
active swimming or bicycling. And his heart rate running
a little over i00 beats per minute. About 102 beats per
minute, the estimate given to us by the Science Officer
here. Science Pilot using about 770 BTUs per hour. His
heart rate well within the range that's acceptable for an
extended EVA. It does not appear, however, that wetll run
beyond the 2-1/2 hours originally scheduled for this.
There is a NO/GO GO at 3 hours should the EVA have to be
extended beyond that period of time. Also as the
spacecraft was passing south of Australia, very near the
50-degree south mark, the furthest southerly point that the
spacecraft travels over. Owen Garriott reported a very nice
aurora to the left of the spacecraft down towards Antarc-
tica. This is Skylab Control. Wet11 give you a little llst
of the people who are here at Hisslon Control during the activity.
Dale Meyers, The Associate Administrator for Manned Space-
flight; Doctor Christopher C. Kraft, the Director of
Johnson Space Center; William C. Schneider, the Director
of the Skylab Program Office; Kenneth S. Klelnknecht, the
Manager of the Skylab Program Office here at Johnson Space
Center; Thomas P. Stafford, the Deputy Director of Flight
Crew Operations, and one of the crewmen for the Apollo/
Soyuz test project in 1975, and Donald K. (Deke) Slayton,
the Director of Flight Crew Operations at Johnson Space Center,
and a fellow crewmember on that ASTP flight. This is
Skylab Control 22 minutes and 44 seconds to our next
acquisition of signal. It's now 33 minutes and 17 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2405/1
Time: 07:54 CDT, 57/12:54 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 54 minutes

and 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing the south - the North Pacific, Just going
across the equator. It's within about a minute and 20
seconds of the Texas tracking station. We'll expect a
quick acquisition of signal with the crew on their VOX.
We have the llne up llve for air to ground through the U.S.
stations for an extended period of time, lasting approxi-
mately 15 minutes.
SPT Yes. I see their signal.
CDR 52 Just came closed.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and
clear, and we're AOS stateside 16 minutes.
CDR Okay, the thing that I saw on the
occulting disc, looked - at least, if this is it - I don't
know, it looked almost llke a whisker on your chin that's
been there about a - about a day, and that's all I could
see on there. But I've dusted everything that - that -
I just dusted around in general, got rid of that little whisker,
and we'll Just have to see what happens, I guess.
CDR By the way on H-alpha 2 door, seemed
to work smoothly. I did notice that on the top of the
ramp, there were sllght scuff marks. Now 82B's ramps also
have slight scuff marks, so maybe that's not important.
And of course I cannot see under the ramp, so I don't know
what's going on there. But it appeared that - that it -
the door operated smoothly.
CC Okay, now is Jack taking a look at the
- the S052 image on the TV?
CDR He's working on it right this minute.
SPT Is it nice and uniform all the way
around?
PLT Yes, yes, that's getting there; that's
the standard.
SPT Good. Are you keying your marks?
SPT Story, Jack just said that it looks
uniform all the way around. Of course it's a little brighter
over towards one side where the pointing is - is off to
one side. But it's uniform all the way around. Looks
like it's clean.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR I'ii tell you what, though. When I
look down inside there, Story, I can see a few little
particles kind of floating around down in there and they're -
they're not the size of paint chips or anything llke that,
they're just like - like I say a bunch of little whiskers,
maybe four or five of them, floating around down in there.
And I wouldn't be surprised to see one of them in just a
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little while land up and do the same thing again. Because

there doesn't appear to be any reason they- they wouldn't.
SPT Maybe we can wait about 5 minutes and
see if they won' t drift out.
CDR Just keep the door open and maybe
it'll float out.
SP T Uh-h uh.
PLT Okay, Story, it looks nice and clean
there where the particle was before. We've got a nice,
smooth rim on the occulting disk. Like Owen said, it's a - a
little bit - Somebody's moving around out there I believe.
CDR That' s me.
PLT Yeah, don't do that.
CDR That bad news?
PLT Yeah.
CDR I'ii quit moving around.
CDR Now you got to leave the door open so -
Boy, I didn't move it much did I? All right I'll be - I'll
be still here.
SPT 5 arc-minutes is a- less than a
tenth of a degree.
PLT Okay, Story. Like 0 said on the
opposite side of where the particle was, there's a brightening
there as there always has been on the place where the
particle was, why, it's a little darker, but it's not
due to particle any more, it's just due to plage.
CC Okay, Jack. And in reference to
Al's comments, and we've seen those particles floating
around in there on previous EVAs.
CDR I'm not moving much.
CDR Do you want us to do anything about
H-alpha 2? Wetve got our wrench in sight if you want us
to remove the ramp.
CC No sir, leave it the way it is.
CDR Okeydoke.
SPT I guess we're finished out here, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT Story, on my checklist, the PES fine
sun sensor cal is on page 2-19 and your pad calls for
2-20 unless I'm overlooking something, probably ought to
start on page 2-19 and do the first paragraph. Is that
correct?
CC Stand by 1.
SPT AI, you may remember that that--
PLT Okay, there's a lot of streaking on
the screen and something or other just is closing the
door again. Itve opened the door twice, and it's
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apparently closed itself.

CDR It's probably me, wiggling around
a little bit. I'll quit wiggling.
SPT When you're doin E a lot of moving,
it's Just bound to move the canister that much.
SPT Uh-oh.
PLT Okay, we got something back on here
that's - we - the same thing we had before is back on
the screen now for some reason, Story. You see that
dust speck? It's in the same - exact same location,
and before that happened, there was - the image flashed
on and off on the screen very bright and very dark a
few times, and then it went off completely. And I
went back to TV and the image came back. But now we
also have that discontinuity there at 2:00 Just exactly
the same as we had before.
CC Copy, Jack.
SPT Here.
SC Yes.
SC Just a little bit (garble)
PLT There" It's happened again. I'm getting
a lot of fast, very bright things streaking across the
scope. Sometimes it blots out the whole picture and
and then it comes back and sometimes it closes the door.
SPT Looks llke we're looking right down
on Cape Kennedy.
CDR We are, huh?
PLT What it looks like is a great big
washer about the size of the occulting disk with a little
hole in the middle. And it moves across the screen
very slowly sometimes and other times it goes very rapidly.
CDR I'm going to go over and get the
b rush.
PLT Sometimes they're big and sometimes
they' re little.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
PLT How about some TV down-link, Story?
CC A1, could you brush off the occulting
disk once more?
CDR Sure, I'm on the way.
CDR You get Jack to open the thin E and
turn off the motor to the door, so the door won't close
while I'm out here.
CC That's affirmative, we're Just
going to pass that up. And we don't have TV down-link
capability.
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PLT l'm going to have to look back

to find that command. How about giving it to me, Story?
CC Stand by i.
CDR We're going over Cherry Point in a
minute, Jack.
PLT I know the area well.
CDR _Light be little parts of these paint -
this paints kind of dried out up here, a little bit soft
and crumbly.

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PLT It's coming open.
CC Jack, I've got those commands for you.
CDR And I don't (garble) Let me try to get
some different perspective on these things.
CC Jack, I've got those commands for you.
PLT I've loaded 401, 41, 40061. Are those
the ones, Story?
CC That's affirmative. And on the PES and SSS
CAL, we only want the top paragraph on page 2-20.
PLT Okay. I'll do that. Thank you.
CC No TV.
PLT Okay.
PLT I just thought it would be good to have
some TV to see this illusion that I see in the screen so you
can perhaps analyse it. Too bad.
CDR I don't see a thing in there. See if I
can turn around a little bit. Look at it upside down, maybe.
Pushed it in there as best I can. Let me take up my visor
a little.
CDR Down further down on those other discs,
they look good, too. Just a minute.
CDR Well, I hate to say it, Jack, but I cant,
see anything there. I've dusted it and looked at it, stared
at it. It may be something way back there on the mirror that
I can't see. The only thing that I see different about
the mirror is it's got a round dot that's off center. And
I think that's part of the mirror system, though; but I donIt
know what it is.
CC AI, we think you've done all you can do
right now.
CDR I think so, too. I can't see anything.
I've raised my visor and looked in there and it doesn't look
llke anything is on it.
CC Okay. We Just suggest you press on.
CDR Okay. That's the end of the ballgame
there.
PLT Right.
PLT Any little motion will disturb that thing.
CDR Just the same, let me get set and I won't
move, okay?
PLT Go ahead.
CDR Nova Scotia.
CDR I'Ii Just sit quitely here while you
finish that Job.
CC Jack, when you get done with that top
paragraph on page 2-20, we would llke some TV down-llnk to
Bermuda.
PLT Okay, I'm working on it right now.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 5 minutes
to Madrid.
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CDR Okay. Nice storm out here, Story.

SPT I just wondered if there was a tropical
storm that is reported just off to the right of our (garble)
track.
PLT Okay, Story. You should be getting
the TV. I've distributed the light around it about best I
can. We still get a bright glow around the 8 o'clock
portion, very closed in. But if I move the disc any
more, it distorts the 3 o'clock area without changing the
brightness at 8 o' clock. And it looks like we got a uniform
brightness all the way around from the 9 o'clock position of
the (garble) through 12 around through 6 o'clock, and with a
little extra brightness between 6 and 9. And I can't seem to
get rid of that. So I've made some new coordinates and
logged them and perhaps, I'm going to do some changing. You
copy?
CC Okay, we did. And we'll be going over
the hill, here. That's probably Hurricane Ellen that
you're seeing down there.
SPT She looks pretty. She's got a lot of
clouds -

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SL-III MC-2407/I
Time: 08:13 CDT 57/13:13 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 13 minutes

and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now over the north Atlantic out of range of the Bermuda
tracking antenna, and about 3 minutes and 25 seconds fram
acquisition of signal at Madrid. The Madrid pass coming up
a little over 3 minutes from now. We will extend about 7 min-
utes as the spacecraft passes over Europe. At the present
time the Skylab crew has fallen a little bit behind in their
time llne. They are running about 20 minutes behind the
original plan, and about i0 minutes behind the time that
would be indicated from their opening of the hatch, i0 minutes
behind the usual schedule. At the present time the crew's
heart rate and the total BTUs, which are important for there
termination as to how long this EVA may be allowed to extend, are
both very low and well, well within range. Commander Alan Bean's
estimated heart rate, according to telemetry, about 70. Owen
Garrlott at the end of that pass had a heart rate of around
90. Both of them using from about 500 to 600 BTUs of very,
very restful output of heat. The body temperatures are running
low, below the danger levels, or the levels of concern. Total
output temperature on the oxygen from the suits running
about 83 to 88 degrees. That's well within the limits of
the system. So that would indicate that there won't be ant
problem about extending this extra hour if that is required,
however they are only about i0 to 20 minutes behind schedule
at this time. At the present time we had some discussion of
the cleaning of the white light coronagraph occulting disk.
That occultlng disk, which is used to block the Sun out during
photography of the corona, had a tiny speck of contaminate
matter. Ground control estimated it as i/i0 of an inch on
the occulting disk, which is 1-1/2 inches in diameter. A1
Bean did brush that off, and Jack Lousma reported he could
still see it, and Bean went back and brushed it off again
and apparently it is all right now. We did have a TV down-link
at Texas and we'll get that back in a short while I would
imagine. That TV down-llnk will show whether or not the
occulting disk was properly cleaned. At the present time
Commander Bean has moved on for the final - Before he does
finish the final step of the EVA, hHe is now working on
the DO24 thermal control coatings. He is scheduled to take
about 15 minutes doing that. It is located on the truss of
the airlock module. A sample panel 6 by 6 by a half inch
in size. There is one to be removed at this time. We'll
leave the line up live now for air-to-ground through Madrid
and the commentary from the crew in the midst of their EVA.
PLT Thls is incredible.
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Time: 08:13 CDT 57/13:13 GMT
9_22_73

CC We're back with you through Madrid for

7 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And Jack, if you are not too busy some
time you can tuTn to page 5-10 in the ATM experiments check
list.
PLT Be with you in a minute, Story.
CC No hurry.
PLT Okay, Story, I'm looking at page 5-10.
CC Okay, there where it says, consult stayed
input in canister, roll minus 1800.
PLT Okay, I've got minus 1800 on page 5-10.
Thank you, Story.
CC And you can secure the TV too.
PLT Okay, I've powered down the S052, and
turned everything off and closed the doors. And we're ready
to proceed with the EVA.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Jack, I'll start moving around again.
SPT Okay, 270 and no llghts.
CDR 365 and no lights.
CDR Say again. Yes, I am at the transfer work
station, standing by to pass 82A and B back.
CDR Careful we don't bump this brush too much,
O. It's sticky.
SPT Yes, I was going to ask you, is it still
tack on the top of the canister?
CDR Yeah.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hey, he got them unstowed.
SPT Let's extend it then.
CDR Okay.
CDR Shield towards lock.
CDR Shield towards lock. All right. That's
the way you want it, we'll do it that way.
SPT Yeah, it's probably enough.
CDR Lock.
SPT Okay, now the shield is unfortunately
away from the alrlock..
CDR The alrlock is where you are. It's facing
you. There's the shield. Why don't you pull it back and
see how it does?
SPT Well it's just the opposite from the way
I sent it out is the reason I'm pretty sure that's the reverse.
CDR Why don't you give it a try?
SPT Okay, but it will hit up here on the corner,
that's how we decided to do it this way.
CDR Don't - Don't - Don t t let it hit.
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SPT That's the only way to do it is to

turn it around.
SPT I can't tell when it's going to hlt_ AI.
You have to tell from out there. Now watch.
CC Skylab, we're 2 minutes from LOS. And
we'll have a long LOS here of 30 minutes. Pick you up
over Carnarvon at 13:54. And Owen and AI, could you give
us a description on the air cooling? How does it feel?
SPT I find mine satisfactory. It ls not quite
as cool as the LCG, but it is not too bad.
SPT AI_ it's Just in the light. Would you
llke to have it back out?
CDR No, Just reach up there and pull it in
the inch and pull it in.
SPT All right, I'ii pull it around.
CC Understand you' re comfortable, Owen.
SPT I'm a little warm, but it certainly is
satisfactory.
CDR And the only part I notice warm about
me is my hands. And they have been warm since the start.
And everything is okay otherwise. I think the workload
isn't that hard out here.
SPT Incidently, this is a much lower work load
than the other two EVAs, though Story. I think it would have been
too hot if I'd have had to put those poles together for example.
A1, when I hand it out - -
CDR Move and Itll turn it around if you cantt
do it.
SPT That's right.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, thanks.
SPT You have to pull the pole in a direction
parallel to these long axis and it doesn't bend that way.
CDR Ok ay.

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SL-III MC2408/1
Time: 08:23 CDT, 57/13:23 GMT
9/22/73

SPT . .. and it's direction's parallel to

this long axis, it doesn't bend that way.
CDR Okay, didn't look like it was bending.
Those islands; It's probably Elba down there.
CDR Okay, stop.
CDR Okay, give it a go that way, O.
SPT I don't believe it's latched.
CDR I hope it is. Is it?
SPT The lock on it; I didn't see it. Yes
it's locked. (garble) okay.
SPT Everything's okay.
CDR Keep checking, though.
CDR There's Athens down there.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 24 minutes -
25 minutes and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab
space station now out of range of signal as it passes
over the Mediterranean. During this last pass spacecraft
communicator Story Musgrave informed the crew that they'd
like an opinion of their comfort in the air-cooled space
suits. Liquid cool garments not being used today. The
reason for that being to protect the secondary coolant
loop in the airlock module; that's the only operating
coolant loop in the airlock module. And there was some
concern that perhaps using the liquid cool garments on
EVA might effect the temperature control valve which regulates
the temperature in that coolant loop. During the previous
EVA that was what happened. Temperature control valve B,
which normally regulates the temperature through the coolant
loop at 47 degrees stuck at 42 degrees and it's remained
stuck during the period from that EVA until today. They
did not want to use the liquid cool garment for fear that
it might again force that temperature control valve to go
to a lower temperature. That's not a serious problem but
it is a problem that they did not want to take any chances
with. They do not want to lose the secondary coolant loop,
although it is possible to operate the spacecraft without
it, it would certainly affect the final parts of this mission
and the beginning of the next one when they will reservice
both the primary and secondary airlock coolant loops. Three
minutes of television was down-linked at Texas, and 2-1/2 minutes
at Merritt Island of the spect or contaminating matter on
the occulting disc of the white light coronagraph. That
ATM television may be returned later today. There are line
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callup times available between 3:30 and 5 p.m. Central

daylight time. Whether or not we'll get that back is
not certain at this point. But it is possible we'll get
it back later this afternoon. There is also about 3 minutes
of television down-link at Bermuda, and that will be shipped
back to Houston. Owen's temperature at the outlet to his
suit was reading about 89 degrees during this last pass,
and that was one of the reasons for asking about his comfort.
He did indicate he was not as cool as he had been in the
liquld cool garment. And even at the lower workloads it
is 89 degrees inside the suit; so he is a bit warm. As that
temperature reading is going to go off scale at 90 degrees,
they did want to get some sort of a subjective report from
the crew on thief comfort. On the other hand, the mean
heart rate of the crew members is quite low now, about 84 to
82-84 on the Science Pilot is the telemetery reading and 82 on
the Commender. We do have - we Just got a report from the
medical officer here that the heartrate on the Commander
counted in the backroom by one of the technicans, was 108,
which is a little higher than our telemetry was giving us.
Medobollc rate still quite well within the limits and on
both crew members indicated rate on the telemetry is below
1,000. That would indicate that there's not much chance
of them becoming much too hot or reaching any stage where
they would have to stop work. No close estimate of how far
along they are on the schedule, but it appears right now that
they're running behind schedule by about 30 minutes. They
have completed the Sun end operations and at this last stage
we're working on the DO24. That is the thermal control
coatings experiment. It's located on the truss of the
alrlock module. Contains sample panels of 6 inches by
6 inches by 1/2 inch in depth. Alan Bean will remove
one of the four panels from that truss, and he'll seal it
in an 8 by 8 by 5 inch vacuum sealed sample return container,
which he then passes back to Science Pilot Garrlott. The
remaining sample panels remain outside attached to the
airlock module truss, and they'll be returned by the final
Skylab crew. Following this, tthe next step in the EVA is
the retrieval of a sample panel from the $230, the magntospherlc
partical composition experiment. Experiment consists
of a pair of spools on which are placed cups of aluminum,
aluminum oxide, and platinum. Bean will retrieve one of
these cups. A similar one was retrieved on the previous
Skylab mission. This experiment is under the control of
principle investigator, astronaut Don Lind, whots one of
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the backup crewmembers for this and the final Skylab

mission. We have about 24 minutes and 50 seconds to our
next acquisition of signal. That acquisition is going to
be at Carnarvon, a very short one lasting about a minute
and a half. And that will be followed by another short
pas_ at Roneysuckle about a minute and 20 seconds. This is
Skylab Control at 30 minutes and 21 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2409/I
Time: 08:53 CDT, 57/13:53 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 13 hours 53 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now crossing the
Indian Ocean is about 50 - a minute and 50 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. This pass at Carnarvon, a very low elevation pass,
will probably have about a minute and 50 seconds of commentary
and we'll come up live now for that commentary.
CDR Okay, O.
SPT Okay. (garble) my shoes here, and I'll
bring it in closer to you.
CDR Itve got it.
SPT Okay, you have it.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon
for a minute.
SPT Okay, hey, Story.
CDR We've got everything but the VS and VC tree,
and we're putting them in. Okay, what's next, Jack.
CC I understand you' re completed, and you' re
putting things back into the airlock.
CDR Bet.
PLT Hang on tight, O.
SPT You bet you.
CDR Yes, don't hold - donIt hold there.
SPT Going to turn around for you for handles.
CDR Okay.
CDR llve got it.
SPT You have it. Okay.
CDR What's that one -
SPT It's featuring.
CDR Okay, there's a good place for this one. l
see a good place to put -
CC And we're at 20 seconds from LOS. See you
over Honeysuckle in 7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CDR Get a couple of things out of the way.
(garble)
SPT Think you-could go the other way around.
CDR I got to (garble) and, I want to get out
of the way.
CDR Make sure that it's locked.
SPT I don't - I thought it went in the other
way - other direction, but maybe not.
CDR That baby is in there tight -
SPT Okay.
CDR And it isntt going anywhere.
SPT Okay.
CDR One more.
SPT Ready for it, huh?
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CDR If you can stand it, I can.

SPT Here we go.
CDR Don' t lose them.
SPT Fixing to lose is a wlsker on that brush.
CDR Pad it Inp I'ii hold those Jandles.
SPT I've got a handle on the back.
CDR Alrlght. You got it?
CDR I got it.
SPT Good.
SPT Okay, I'm looklng around the area down
here, Jack.
CDR Did we leave anything out? We got it all,
Jack?
PLT Looks to me llke we do, everything is all
up in stowed. Everything is cleared out. Just a second,
let me check one thing. (garble)
CDR (Garble) Just float out there a llttle
bit, and let me stand there for a second.
SPT Okay.
CDR Get these umbillcals untangled here.
SPT We don't need, well -
CDR I'll Just go under this one here. That way
when we come in, we'll be llke it was when we went out.
SPT We're picking up that aurora again.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, now the umbilicals are strelght.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 58 minutes
and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now south of Australia, is out of range of the Carnarvon,
Australia tracking station and has not yet been acquired by
Honeysuckle. We're about 4 minutes from acquisition of
signal at Honeysuckle. The pass there is - pass lasting about
a minute and a half. During this last pass over Carnarvon,
we did get an indication that the crew is very nearly complete
with the activities. They have stowed everything but the
VS & VC tree, that's the film receptlcal, those are the
receptlcals used to carry film up to the center work station
and the Sun end work station and those - attached to the ex-
tendlble boom. That means everythln E is back in the airlock
module at this point. At this time the Science Pilot's oxygen
outlet temperture reading has gone off-scale high at 90 degrees or
above. That was sort of expected by Mission Control during
the last pass when he was reading at 89. They are working
a little bit harder now with heart rates indicated on the
telemetry at around i00 for the Science Pilot and about lO0 -
about 119 for the Commander. Those higher temperatures
on telemetry - higher heat rates on telemetry will have to
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be confirmed by the surgeon a little bit later on when we have

the actual count from our backroom here. Everything is up
and stowed_ that would indicate that the crew is very nearly
complete with this EVA. They are running right now a little bit
over 20 minutes behind schedule, but it looks like they'll
complete the EVA in a little less than 3 hours. And
we would expect perhaps that the time we come back in and
possibly during our Honeysuckle pass wetll get an indication
of repressurization inside the airlock module. We're very
near the end of the EVA that begin at 6:18 central daylight
time this morning. This is Skylab Control. We'll leave the
llne up live now for air-to-ground through Honeysuckle. It'
probably won't begin for another minute and a half or so.

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SL-III MC2410/I
Time: 09:00 CDT, 57/14:00 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours Greenwich mean

time. We just got a report from the mission surgeon_
Dr. Ross_ that the BTU rate from the Science Pilot was
114 peak - peak heart rate and 1300 BTU's; 15,080 BTU's
on the Commander_ with a heart rate peak at 120. Those
are both well within the safety range and we probably
would set a GO from the 3-hour mark if that is necessary.
That would, howe_er_ be another 15 minutes from now and
by that time the crew should be back inside. We have the
line up live now for alr-to-ground through Honeysuckle;
a pass that should last about a minute and a half.
CC Skylab, back with you for 1 minute
through Honeysuckle.
PAO Skylab Control. They have repressurized
the alrlock module.
SPT Not quite together yet I don't think,
AI.
CDR Nope.
CC Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS. See
you over stateside in 28 minutes at 14:32. And when did
you start the repress, Jack?
PLT We probably ought to go IVA flow, though.
SPT Ought to what?
PLT Go IVA flow.
SPT Whatever you say.
PLT Doesn't make any difference; Just
cuts down the flow.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See
you at stateside at 14:32.
PLT There she is.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 5 minutes
and 26 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
has passed out of range of the tracking antenna at
Honeysuckle Creek. We did not get an answer from Jack Lousma
on that question as to when the repressurlzation was begun.
We do not have an exact time for hatch closing yet. We
will request that in 27 minutes when we have acquisition
of slgnal at Goldstone. When we saw the acquisition at
Honeysuckle at 14:03 Greenwich mean time_ there was an
indication on our monitors here that the repressurlzatlon
was very nearly completed. That would indicate that
they did complete the EVA in a llttle less than 2-3/4
hours. Today's EVA was the 6th of the Skylab activities
so far; 3 in the previous mission, 2 space walks_ and
i standup EVA from the command module on the first day of
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the first Skylab mission. From the second Skylab mission

there were 3, and this is the final one of those three.
And there will be 3 EVA's planned for the final mission.
One of those is being scheduled for Christmas day in support
of photography of the comet Kohoutek. This is Skylab
Control, itls now 6 minutes and 40 seconds after the hour.
And we're about 25 minutes and 45 seconds from acquisition
of signal over the United States.

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SL-III MC-2411/1
Time: 09:32 CDT 57/14:32 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 32 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on acquisition of signal
at Goldstone. And we have the line up llve for alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside 16 minutes.
SPT Say, Story, some time when it is convenient,
not right now, but a little later, perhaps, I wonder if it wouldn't
be a good idea if I went up to the panel and opened up the
S052 door and took another look at the corona, and also, put
a little bit on the VTR for downllnk. Over.
CC Okay, that will be fine, Owen. Go ahead
and take a look at it. And we can get a downlink over Bermuda
at 14:42.
SPT I just as soon delay for a bit if it is
all right with you folks. We're still getting cleaned up
from the EVA, and I'd llke to wait, unless it's more convenient
for you to do it now.
CC Okay, that's fine.
CC And no need to acknowlege, but the weather
is not satisfactory at Goddard for T053, so cancel that this pass.
CDR Okay, thanks for the info. I just got
out the camera and was standing around. I'ii go turn my
timer off. Thanks.
CC And while I've got you, AI, I've got a
couple of questions. Did you notice any contamination or
discoloration of the T024 train?
CDR Here is what it looked llke. The strips
themselves that were exposed to the Sun and you look at the
metal around them, it was, they had turned a slight pinkish
brown color, but not very just the mildest amount. When
you open the container and looked inside, it was nice
clean metal. So it didn't appear to be effected at all inside
the can.
CC Okay. And did you wear the visor, your
on visor?
CDR Good question, no. Owen wore the back-up
visor. Now I don't know - I think the one we did not use
is acceptable, but it does - it is not an even coating any
more inside that top visor. I tried to smooth out the marks
that were in there, but you can't smooth things out, as you
know. And I wou _ have found it acceptable during EVA, but
we went ahead and used the backup one because we thought
it would also be good - better.
CC Okay, thanks. And we need the DAS for
dump enable.
CR You've got it. What I'm trying to say
is I wouldn't worry about Jerry trying to bring up another one.
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I think he can use what we've got here, but I guess he could,
if he wanted Are we through Bermuda right now, Story?
And if so, fo; how long?
CC We're Goldstone now, and we'll be coming
up at Bermuda at 42, that's about 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, I'ii be up at the panel then and get
the S056, in fact, I'ii go up and put it in experiment right
now. And then have the downlink ready for you at Bermuda.
CDR We didn't have any trouble. We didn't
have to use the scissors to get the samples panel off of the
board. We just pulled it off and removed the tape with our
fingers and brought it in.
CC Okay.
CDR Another thing we did when we were out
there, we took a close look at that one grommet on the twin
pole, and then it moved back and allowed the nut to unscrew.
We took a close look at that and determined that the grommet
had _t rolled back on its own, it had actually broken. And
the grommet was now a C shape. I guess that's what made it
come back. So I took the grommet and tossed it and screwed
the nut down tight and got a piece of the tape off of the
sample time and put it around _e nut, so the nuts lock locked
again. I also inspected all that I could see fromboth the
center work station and the Sun end. And that was the only
one whose grommet had broken that I could view.
CC Okay, AI.
PLT Say, Story, I've got a little wmessage
about the EVA.
CC Okay, let me get to Owen first. Owen,
there is absolutely no rush on that S052.
SPT That's okay. I won't get it right now
and we'll have it in just a moment.
CC Okay, go Jack.
PLT Yes, one of my favorite little girls is
5 years old today. She's my little girl and I just wanted
to wish her a happy birthday. And I think she is probably
listening to the squawk box. Her name is Mary; and I call
her Punkin. So Mary Punkln happy birthday, and you have a
good party and when Dad gets home, we'll celebrate your birth-
day all over aga _. Happy birthday Mary Punkin.
CC Okay, Jack. I'm sure she is listening,
but we'll pass it on.
PLT Okay, thanks. Maybe you can set up a
phone call and maybe I can talk to her if you would, please.
CC Will do.
PLT Thank you.
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PLT Say, Story, we're hearing a peculiar

noise when you turn the interc _m way up. It sounds kind of like
a bumping sound. It sou_s like an old water pump pumping
about 4 cycles a second. We tried to reconfigure the comm,
and we can't flgu _ out what it is yet.
CC Okay, copy, Jack. And while we have you,
could you comment on your tooling during the EVA.
PLT Yes, it was adequate for standing around,
but you wouldn't want to do much activity in it. But it was
adequate for the job we had _ do.
CC Okay.

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SL-III MC2412/I
Time: 09:40 CDT, 57/14:40 GMT
9/22/73

CC AI, Houston.
CDR (garble) hear you.
CC Okay, l've got a bunch of questions
here pertaining to the EVA that we'd like to get up to
you while it's still fresh in your mind.
CDR Okay, glad to answer them. Take off.
CC Okay, could you elaborate a little bit
further on the gas cooling? Could you have gone another
hour or two satisfactorily?
CDR ... gone 8 hours; no sweat. That's
not a pun, either. But the whole point is, as long as you
work at a moderate rate, you do not seem to get warm. The
only place I've noticed that it was - had noticed the heat
at all was in my hand. I noticed that from the very first
minute I got out. The cooling, apparently, is not too good down
in my hands. I didn't have comfort gloves on. The - My
feeling would be that you could run as long a EVA as you
wanted, you just have to be careful you didn't get too hot.
And, of course, that's sort of self regulating. The minute
you start getting hot, you stop. I did not notice any
difference, particularly, in heat from being down at the
center workstation and being up at the Sun end when my back
was actually facing the Sun. I was not able to feel any
heat from the Sun through my suit. If I put my hands in
the Sun, I could feel it on the back of my hand. So my
feeling generally was that we could stay out a lot longer
than we did and not ought to feel hot neither ought to
feel dehydrated. We each drank a little hit of water out
of our drinking thing, but that was mostly just to do it
and, you know, just kind of preventive. I think it's a
good thing to have, but I think you can even do without the
water for much longer than we did. It wasn't - it didn't
appear to be a cooling problem is what I'm saying.
CC Okay, did you have any trouble opening
one of the 82 doors?
CDR Sure did. 82B doesn't want to open,
and it didn't for Jack or Owen. Apparently, the seal in
there is - swells up or something. I pulled and pulled and
couldn't do it so I sort of got out of the foot restraint
and got both hands on it and my knees on the front of the
ATM canister there, not on any doors or anything, and gave it one
good hard tug and it came open.
CC Okay, and did you bring that garment in you
were telling us about earlier?
CDR No. The grom - When I tried to remove it,
it slipped out and flew off. I attempted to do it, but muffed it.
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CC Okay, you can take a note when you get

to it. We'd like the serial number of the S056 camera
you brought in. That's the one that's been hanging up
on up this trip.
CDR Okay, why don't you hold up; I'ii get
that for you right now.
SPT While he's checking that, Story, I don't
get any displays on that monitor. Now I've got the - both
A-alpha doors open. I've got the S052 doors open in the WLCR,
and I have both the H-alpha vitacons powered and the monitor
powered. I wonder if you can give me a clue as to what switch,
if any, I've overlooked.
CC Okay.
CDR Serial number 3.
CC Okay, AI.
CDR The EVA went not (garble) generally
very (static) ground along and didn't have any problems
neither tethering or cooling or handling the equipment.
I think you've got to be careful though with the small ones
to keep your teathers on them when you're handling them;
but other than that, no sweat. The S149 worked well.
We had no trouble getting off the material sample. I
started to bring in the old one that SL-II put out and
decided that you didn't want me to. I really didn't plan
to do it, but I wondered if you wanted me to. I was going
to ask you about it and then I decided no, you probably
would have said to do it. It's easy to get to, though.
Had no trouble getting the 24 samples; just didn't touch them
with our fingers. The pin pulled easily. I don't think you
really want to pull the pin before you put the samples in the
box or it's liable to float off. I don't know; think of
some other questions.
CC No, that's all I've got for you, AI,
except we will need a teleprinter paper changeout in the
next couple of hours. And, Owen, we're not showing any power
to the ATM monitors.
SPT Well, I have the MON I POWER switch
ON. Is there another circuit breaker switch preceding
that?
CDR We were kind of wondering maybe the
sync generator power went off in some way.
CC We don't have anything more on that
right now. We're 20 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over Madrid
in 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story, I turned light MONITOR 2 off.
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MON I does not want to power up right now, so you might

think about that.
CC Okay; copy, Owen.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 49 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station,
now crossing the North Atlantic at the northern most
point in it's orbit, ils about 3 minutes and 54 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Madrid and Canary Island.
Very busy discussion over the United States with the crew
which is presently in the process of getting cleaned up
after their extravehicular activity. We've still have
not gotten an exact time on the closing of the hatch. But
we expect we'll get a request from spacecraft communicator
Story Musgrave for that information on our pass coming up in
about 3-1/2 minutes from now. One of the instructions
given to the crew was an instruction for Commander Bean
to disregard the TO53 experiment to be performed today.
TO53 is a laser beam that is being beamed up from Goddard
Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland just north
of Washington D.C. That laser has been spotted successfully
by the crew as the space station was tracked with the
laser. And it would have been done today except there was
bad weather condition at Greenbelt, and for that reason
they did not do the laser experiment. Also, information
on the back advisor; Owen did wear a back advisor because
the advisor he was originally intended to wear had some
scratches in it's untraviolet coating. And Commander
Bean did decide to have Owen wear the backup. The scratches
were not serious enough, according to Commander Bean, to
effect the EVA but they did prefer to use the on_ that was
available to them. Crew completed 8 weeks in space this
morning at 6:10 Central daylight time, Just before the
EVA began. EVA start time was 6:17:48. Happy Birthday
from Jack Lousma to Mary (pumpkin) Lousma, who is 5 years
old today. Mary is one of 3 children of the Lousma's,
the other's Timothy, 9 and Matthew_ 7. Owen Garriott's
daughter, Linda, had her 7th birthday on September 7th.
Report from the medical officer indicates that the
total number of BTUs used during the EVA according to
their figures on the 39 percent coverage they had from
ground stations: Science Pilot used 790 BTUs per hour, and
his average heartrate was about 91 beats per minute; tThe
Commander used 1,060 BTUs per hour, and average heart
rate was 94 beats per minute. Commander Bean indicated that
he could have gone up to 8 hours using the air cooling
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9/22/73

system, the oxy - pure oxygen cooling system rather than

the liquid cool garment. He did say that his hands got
rather hot and that there was not sufficient airflow there.
Although it would have been possible for that suit to have
been reconfigured to give additional airflow to the hands
and legs.

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S[-III MC-2413/I
Time: 09:52 CDT, 56/14:52 GMT
9/22/73

PAO - - he did say his hands got rather hot

and there was not sufficient airflow there. Although, it would
have been possible for the suit to have been reconfigured to
give additional airflow to the hands and legs. It was deter-
mined that the main area for cooling should be the chest and
head and that was the way the suit was configured when they
when out EVA. Commander Bean could not feel the Sun on the
back of his suit when he was up at the Sun end of the ATM.
He said he did not feel dehydrated, although he did drink
a little bit of water while they were on - out in their suits.
This is Skylab Control. We're about 50 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Madrid. The pass through l_adrid will last
approximately 9 minutes. We have the line up live now for
air-to-ground through Madrid from Commander Alan Bean and
his crew to spacecraft communicator Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid
for 9 minutes.
CDR Teleprinter paper is changed, Story.
CC T hanks, AI.
SPT Well, Story, there's several buttons (garble)
I don't understand up there right now. We can't power our monitor
2 up. MON i does not want to power up. I did have a display on
the WLC as well as Hmalpha 2 and H-alpha 1. And just as we were
going over the hill, we got an automatic door closing on the S052
and I lost the H-alpha displays. I didnotice on the Acq Sun
Sendor there that something seem to have thrown the attitude of
the spacecraft off by a couple of tenths of a degree. And leave
the ACQ sun sensor about one axis of indicated- somewhere,
maybe up to 1/2 degree off of the solar interial attitude. It
then come back to solar interial and I still have an H-alpha I
display and I no longer have a H-alpha 2 nor WLC display.
CC Owen, you probably had an attitude problem
with the cluster. Our CMG number I was on the stops at that
time and we were anticipating a possible CMG reset, which at
present we' re not.
SPT Okay. That, I guess, would explain the
reason for going out of attitude momentarily. I'm not sure what
to say about my displays at this point.
CC Owen, we haven't got all of the answers,
yet. We're showing down here that there is no power to the
H-alpha 2 camera and also the S052 is in the CAMERA position
as opposed to the TV position.
SPT Okay, it must have flipped back to CAMERA
then, when - when - when the door shut or something like that.
I'ii - repower it up and go to TV, thank you.
CC Owen, we don' t have an answer for you on
why you're not picking up something on monitor i. And what did
you see on looking at S0527
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SPT Okay, I'm looking at it again right now.

That was all that was - required, was apparently it's just jumped
back to CAMERA when the power - when the door closed. But
it looks real good. 2 o'clock position is perfectly clean,
and I was just now off-centering the - just a few minutes
ago, I was off-centering the pointing to make the bright
ring symmetrical around the whole disc, to Just verify that it
all looked smooth all the way round. My initial check was
that it looks very good and I'ii take about 30 seconds right
now and reverlfy that.
CC Okay, good.
SPT In order to make the brightness equal
all the way around, I - down 12 - Is that right? - and right 70
arc-seconds. Now the a - oh left, excuse, minus 12 and minus
70 so it is down 12 and left 70, in order to make the
refraection rings symmetrical, the brightness of the rings. And
in order to center the pointing error sensor, we used to be about
3 and - 3 and 34 arc-seconds or something like that. We are -
34 up was it? - Yes, minus 34 and minus 3 were our old numbers
and those have changed a little bit now, and I'ii give you
those numbers in order to center the crosshairs.
CC Okay.
SPT Minus i0 and minus 2 arc-seconds
respectively. Now I'ii center the crosshalrs of the pointing
error sensor.
CC Okay, during the nightside pass, during
the dump, you may get a CMG reset. We don't think you will,
but if you do,,just let the system take care of itself.
SPT Okay. And when is the next time, that
it's is convient to get some down-llnk TV? I presume you'd llke
to get a look at this corona. So if you would, I'ii send it down
to you whenever you want it.
CC Thanks, we'll let you know about that
in the future. Also, we're getting together a procedure for
tracking down ATM, mod i. But at present just hold on this.
SPT Okay. Fine, Story. Thank you.
CC And we're 20 seconds tll LOS here. See
you over Honeysuckle in about 37 minutes at 15:39. And at
that time, we'd like to get, from Jack, the total elapsed
time of the EVA.
PLT I put it on the tape, Story. But I
_hink if I remember, it was 02:41:30.
CC Thanks.
PLT You ought out to check the down-link,
the recording on channel A on that though.
CC We'ii do it.
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Time: 09:52 CDT, 57/14:52 GMT
9/22/73

CDR And Story, could you check and see what

we do with these CWGs. I don't think these are the ones
we wear entry day, so we probably throw them away.
CC We'll get it.
CC Hang on, hang on to them, dry them; we are
going to re-enter with them.
PAO Skylab Control, at 15 hours 4 minutes
15 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
passing over North Africa. It is out of range of the tracking
station at Madrid. We're 35 minutes and 21 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle. During this last pass
we got a report from Science Pilot Owen Garriott on the
white light coronagraph which AI Bean cleaned during the
EVA this morning. And Garriott reports that the white light
coronagraph's occulting disc which had a small piece of matter
about 1/10th of an inch in length on it, rReported by AI
Bean as looking a little like a day-old whisker, it's
perfectly clean, The white light coronagraph, S052, is now
perfectly clean all the way around and that's good news
to the solar scientists who will be using the instrument.
We have a weather report now on the splashdown site. Weather
forecast for Skylab splash from NOAA's national weather service
spaceflight meterology group. Meterology - Spaceflight
meterology group said this morning that satisfactory weather
is expected for the landing of Skylab on Tuesday afternoon
Houston time. The landing zone is located approximately
200 nautical miles west southwest of San Diego and is
expected to have cloudy skies with temperature in the
upper 60's. The surface winds should be northerly i0 to
14 knots and the seas near 4 feet. One other thing reported
by Owen Garriott during this last pass was there is apparently
some difficulty with the ATM monitor number I. He did - he
indicated that did not appear to be working. We did however
have a report from the ground tracking sites at Texas and
Merritt Island, that they were receiving some ATM television,
possibly some problem with it;, nevertheless, the ATM
TV apearently not perfect at those sites, but we were
receiving some data. There will be a malfunction procedure
run on that ATM monitor aboard the spacecraft. This is
Skylab control. It's now 6 minutes and I0 seconds after
the hour. We did not again, repeat, get any report on the
total time for that EVA, approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes,
but we have not yet gotten an exact time for hatch closing.
We may get that a little bit later. This is Skylab Control
at 6 minutes and 25 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2414/I
Time: 10:39 CDT 57/15:39 GMT
9/22/73

PA0 This is Skylah Control Houston at 15 hours

39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now less than a
minute away from being in station contact with Honeysuckle
station Australia.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle 6 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And we're seeing you've got a CMG reset
up there.
PLT Say again, please.
CC We see that you did get a CMG reset up
there.
PLT We were having a lot of TACS firing about
I0 minutes ago. There must have been about 15 or 16 of them.
CC And for AI, we need to hang on to those
CWGs and dry them at the suit donning station. And after
they are dry, we'll be bringing them down to the sleep com-
partment. You'll be wearing them home.
PLT Just a minute please, Story.
CDR Excuse me, Story. I couldn't hear you,
go ahead.
CC AI, those CWGs, hang them up near the suit
donning station to dry. After they are dry, we'll be bringing
them down to the sleep compartment. You're going to be
wearing those home.
CDR Okay. I wonder what we do with those
three in the command module. I guess we just leave them
UP here, huh?
CC We'll get with you.
CDR All right. I've got S149 stowed in the
command module now in its little box, in A9. S230, I don't know
whether to put it in with the $230s we already have or
p_t it in this new white pouch.
CC AI, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC On the $230, put all three collectors in
one pouch. Restow the other pouch for use on SL-4.
CDR Okay, I'ii hay e it done in 2 minutes.
CC Down here we're unaware that you had any
CWGs in the command module. Are those the ones you launched
in?
CDR No, we launched in some, and then when I
waB going through A9 the other day I found three of them in
there. And I assumed that those three were the ones we were
wearing them _me because we never discussed moving them on
all of the stowage changes. So that's what I sort of thought
we were going to wear back.
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Time: 10:39 CDT 57/15:39 GMt
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CC AI, we think those are LCGs in the command

module.
CDR My eyes must be going bad on me. I'ii
give them another check. I'ii feel them and see if they are
wet.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, we've got all $230s in the same bag,
and it's back in the freezer for them.
CC Okay, and on those CWGs, for safety purposes,
we'd llke to dry Just one at a time. And stow the other two
in D424. That's on the bottom of page 3.1-10, that's 422.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And we're about i0 seconds from LOS. See
you _er Hawaii in 15 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 15 hours
47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 has now passed
out of range through Honeysuckle. The next station to acquire,
Hawaii in approximately 14 minutes. The CWGs discussed on
this pass are the constant wear garment, or the long johns, which
were worn by the crew on this morning's EVA. Incidently we do
have a preliminary time on this last EVA hatch open, hatch
close. We show, at least as an early look on EVA 3,the third
EVA of this mission, a duration of 2 hours 41 minutes and
30 seconds. This interpolating, our hatch open was at ii hours
17 minutes 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. And an early look
at the hatch close time, or an estimate, shows 13 hours 59 min-
utes 18 seconds. Taking an overview of Skylab 3, this wou Id
give a total, once we add EVAs 1 and 2, a total of 13 hours 43 min-
utes. EVA l's duration was 4 hours 31 minutes. EVA 2's 6 hours
31 minutes. And as a sid e bar, this compares to a total EVA
time in the entire Gemini program of 12 hours 25 minutes. We're
at 15 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time, about 12 minutes
away now from reacquiring Skylab 3 through Hawaii, and this
is Skylab Control Houston.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 10:59 CDT, 51/15:59 GMT
9/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control,Houston. At

16 hou _ Greenwich mean time, Skylab-lll now less than a
minute away from Hawaii acquisition.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii, 5 minutes.
CC And AI, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We think we heard you say you put S149
in A-9, we think both of them go in A-6.
CDR Yeah, I was just talking with Jack about
that. I was looking at the change. Okay.
CC And one other thing, were those 3 LCGs
in A-9?
CDR No, they were CWGs.
CC Okay.
SPT Say, Story I Just noticed - I just
noticed that we had a CMG MALF light on the alert panel up
here. And as I started to check into it, it disappeared;
it went away.
CC Okay, we were resetting it while you
where looking at it, Owen. And on panel 207, could you
re-enable the - under ACS MALF, that CMG SAT?
SPT Roger.
CC And Owen, coming up over Goldstone at
about 16:08, we've got a little TV monitor checkout procedure.
We will be receiving TV at Goldstone at that time.
SPT Okay, I better - go to experiment pointing
and get S052 run off right now then.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Yes, I notice that it says - change
command module location of S149. Cassette return container
number 3 and _9 detector cassette number 4 from
8q86. I thought we just brought in number i.
CC Could you say that again for us, AI?
CDR The ones that I just took off and put in a
box had like IA, IB, IC, and ID. So I assumed that was
number i, and then we got one other set that we brought in
initially. So I guess that's two sets. But they're talking
about sets number 3 and 4. Something's funny.
CC We'll get you the answer on that.
CDR Okay. And I've got - material
sample that we brought in EVA and I'm - somewhere it told me
tc put it in A-9, I think and I'm looking on this change sheet
again.
CC We'll get that, too.
CDR Yeah, I stuck it in a fecal bag, backup
fecal bag and closed it. That way, it would be as clean as
it possibly could be.
SL-III MC-2415/2
Time: 10:59 CDT, 51/15:59 GMT
9/22/73

SPT And Story, after our last conversation, I

turned H-alpha 1 and 2 both off. This time when I turned H-alpha 2
power back on, why its light's on normally. So it looks like
there might have been intermittence or something in the - either
switch Qr pulsar which - if there is one behind the switch, on H-alpha 2.
CC Okay, Owen. And there is a pulsar behind
the switch.
SPT Okay.
CC And we're 15 seconds from LOS. And about
2 minutes from Goldstone.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 16 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now out of range with
Hawaii. Next station to acquire Goldstone in less than I
minute. The S149 discussed between AI Bean aboard Skylab-lll
and CAP COMM Story Musgrave. This the particle collection
experiment. The cassettes from the particle collection
experiment were brought in by the crew during this last EVA.
They were talking about which container that the cassettes
should be placed inside. We're coming up momentarily on
acquisition with Goldstien - Goldstone. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

END OF TAPE
SL-III MC2416/I
Time: 11:09 CDT, 57/16:09 GMT
9/22/73

PLT We got our diffusion experiment going

again, Story. I'ii just take pictures of it every once
and awhile.
CC Okay, thanks, Jack. And Frlendswood has
won the last three.
PLT Say again.
CC Frlendswood has won the last three
games.
PLT Good, I'm mighty pleased to hear that.
I'm looking forward to getting back and seeing some games
(static)
CC And your family comm is on over Texas
at 22:45. That's the ANTENNA, RIGHT, and we'll remind you
when that comes up.
PLT 22:45, and my respects to the councilmen
and the city councilmen of Frlendswood.
CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, you ready for the TV checkout
procedure?
SPT Standing out by (garble) right now and
I'm ready for the procedure.
CC Okay. MONITOR 1 circuit breaker, verify
closed. That's under the power distribution panel.
SPT It' s verified.
CC H-alpha I POWER switch ON. MONITOR i
switch ON.
SPT They both stay on.
CC MONITOR 2 switch ON.
SPT It's on.
CC MONITOR i select switch, H-alpha i.
SPT Okay.
CC MONITOR 2 select switch, H-alpha i.
SPT Okay.
CC Video switch. TV to ATM MON 2.
SPT It is.
CC And stand by, we're going to check
with Goldstone to see if we're getting the TV picture.
CDR And did you get my call, Story, that
the two exposed ones are cassettes i and cassettes 3. Cassettes
i being, he just brought in.
CC Okay, AI.
CC Okay, we're getting the picture down
at Goldstone, Owen. What are you seeing on your monitors?
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Time: 11:09 CDT, 57/16:09 GMT
9/22/73

SPT On monitor i, it's blank; and on monitor

2 is a good H-alpha i image.
CC Okay, now put the video switch TV to
ATM MON i.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, Owen, that's the end of that
procedure. We are getting good TV on the ground, so it
looks llke you've got a power supply problem in that monitor.
SPT That's very strange because monitor i
was used by Jack during the middle of the EVA to see how
the white light coronagraph was looking. And yet as soon
as we got inside, and powered it up and nary a glimmer. Un-
fortunately, it went out right then. Story, let me give you a
little WLC on the down-llnk 2 because I think you'd llke to see how
that looks if you can get them back from Goldstone fairly soon.
CC That'll be fine, Owen.
SPT I haven't been able to see any sleep
any (garble), no - no electronic cross hairs or anything like
that on MON i at all.
CC And we assume you have played with
CONTRAST and BRIGHTENERS, Owen.
SPT All the way. Now I've not recycled that
circuit breaker, but it was never opened. So it would
be sort of unlikely that - that it would have ever gone
out. I could recycle it.
CC Yes, both monitors come off that same
circuit breaker, so it's probably not that, Owen.
SPT So it's a MON i and a separate MON 2
circuit breaker. So I suppose they each come off of separate
circuit breakers.
CC Those only change what bus we're coming
off of, Owen.
SPT Okay.
CC And, if you've got a minute, I've got
a REG BUS ADJUST for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC That's REG ADJUST BUS 2, i0 degrees
counterclockwise.
SPT Okay, 2, i0 degrees counterclockwise.
CC Affirmative.
CC A1, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC AI, on the S149, the cassette return
container number 3, and the detector cassettes, four in total,
all ought to be in A6.
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Time: 11:09 CDT, 57/16:09 GMT
9/22/73

CDR Okay, wait a minute now. Got 4 boxes

up here; each of them has 4 - 4 little cassetts in them.
And the boxes numbered i, 2, 3, and 4. The ones that
we've exposed are box number l, box number 3.
CC Bring them both home, AI.
CDR I got you; I'm not too smart. I see
what you're saying. Cassette return container number 3,
and detector cassettes four in there. I got you now. Okay,
now you want that box in A6, or you changed? Now the
one we just brought, we just got; you want it in A9 or
A6? There's a spot for it in A9, a tiedown place.
CC Like it in A6, AI.
CDR All right then we're going to end up
with both boxes, with a total of eight cassetts in A6, and I -
one of the ones in A6 will have a mounting; the other
will not. And in the mounting that's now in A9, 4149, I'ii
take out. Is that correct?
CC That's fine, AI.
CDR Okay, I've stopped doing what I was
doing. I'm starting to put the change in this stowage
book so we'll - I won't have to ask you questions that
you've already answered right here.
CC Okay, and on the CWGs that you found
in A9, if they are new and clean ones, go ahead and wear
those home. And - and trash alrlock the ones you wore
today.
CDR Will do.
CC And we're i0 seconds from LOS here.
See you over Bermuda in about 4 minutes.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 16
hours 19 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss
of signal. The next acquiring station of Skylab-lll will
be Bermuda in about 3-1/2 minutes. Shortly, the Skylab
crew will be starting some of the deactivation procedures
prior to closeout of the space station. Beginning
in about 30 minutes, Pilot Jack Lousma will start deactivation
of the EREP. This includes cleaning the Earth - the
EREP tape recorder, transfer of the 18 miles of magnetic
tape, removal and stowage of the S190 camera filters, and
an inspection of the camera optics system. In addition,
Lousma will replace the desiccante packages. These are
placed in the EREP equipment to absorb moisture. The
EREP package was used in the 39 data takes during the
mission, using a total of 13 reels each, with 7200 feet
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of magnetic tape, more than 14,400 frames of film from

the six-camera multispectral experiment, 2,400 frames of
the Earth terrain camera, and four 140-foot magazines of
16-millimeter film from the Slgl experiment. We're now
some 2 minutes away from reacqulring Skylab through Bermuda.
This is Skylab Control, Houston.

END OF TAPE
SL- III MC-2417/I
Time: 11:20 CDT, 57/16:20 GMT
9/22/73 z

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 16 hours 22 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Less than 30 seconds away now from
reaqcquiring Skylab 3. The change-of-shlft briefing with
Flight Director Milton Windier is now tenatively set for
12:00 noon in the Briefing Auditorium of the Skylab News
Center.
CC Wetre back with you through Bermuda for
6 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 16 hours 28 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We've had LOS with Skylab 3 through
Bermuda. Next station coming up, Canary, in about 2-1/2 minutes.
And while Jack Lousma is deactivating the EREP, Science Pilot
Owen Garriott will be making a closeout of the IMSS, the
Inflight Medical Support System, the inflight diagnostic
and tTreatment center aboard Skylab. The IMSS consists of
three basic groups of equipment, diagnostic, laboratory, and
therapeutic.
CC Over Canaries in 4 minutes.
PAO Garriott will conduct three separate
activities between now and 4 o'clock local time this afternoon.
He will first expose a laboratory petri dish to the atmosphere
of the vehicle. And then seal it for return to laboratories
at the Johnson Space Center. He will also place a measured
amount of water in another dish for analysis upon return.
Phase 3 of the IMSS closeout consists of taking microbiology
samples of selected hardware throughout the vehicle, and
step 4 consists of closing out the complete IMSS system. We're
about I minute away now from reacqulsitlon. And this is
Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries
for 9 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, whoever is nearest the ATM
panel, we'd like to get the power off of ATM MONITOR I.
SPT I'm at the panel, and I've already turned
it off, Story.
CC Thanks, Owen.
CC And we sent a test message up to you on the
teleprinter after you changed out the paper. We'd like to
know that we got a good message there?
SPT Stand by.

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SL-III MC-2418/I
Time: 11:34 CDT, 57/16:34 GMT
9/22/73

SPT It all looks real good.

CC Okay.
CDR (Music) Puzzling over one thing here, Story,
looking at this day-55 transfers. Is day-55 transfers about
5 pages long here?
CC Was that a question, AI, is it 5 pages?
CDR 8, is it 8 pages long day 50 - or
does it change to some other day in there somewhere?
CC We'll find out for you.
CDR It looks like we move everything over
there in day-55 transfers then.
CC AI, we're working on an answer to your
question, there. We're a minute from LOS. We'll see you
over Honeysuckle in 35 minutes at 17:15. We'll be dumping
the tape recorders there. And for the maroon team here,
this is our last pass with you. We'll be handing over,
the next time we seeyou will be at Ellington. We've
enjoyed very much working with you. We appreciate all that
you've done and have a good trip home.
CDR Okay. We've enjoyed working with Y'all
as a team and think we've accomplished - at least, we think
we do up here, acc _plished the goals the team had in
mind for a 60-day mission. We really appreciate it and
enjoyed working with you.
CC Yes, sir. Thank you.
SPT And I wanted to say (garble) in
addition to that too, Story, because it really has been
fun working with all you fellow professionals down there
and really have had a pleasant 60 days. We'll be looking
forward to shaking your hands and exchanging greetings back
home in Just a few more days.
CC Okay, Owen. And it's probably another
space first. It'll be the first time in the history of
space flight, that the crew will come back in better shape
than the controllers.
SPT (laugh) Well, you fellows have had longer
hours than we have, that's the main thing.
CC The day-55 transfers are between pages
2-36, 2-43.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At
16 hours 42 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-IIl now
out of range with Canary. The next station to acquire will
be Honeysuckle in approximately 33-1/2 minutes. We have
been handed an updated landing plan for Tuesday. And
we'll pass the events and times along to you now. Undocklng
at 19 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time; time of retrofire
21 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean time, retrofire
SL-III MC-2418/2
Time: 11:34 CDT 57/16:34 GMT
9/22/73

will have a Delta-V of 450 feet per second and a Delta time
of 18 seconds. Time for the command - command and service
module or command module reaching 400,000 feet, or entry
interface, 22 hours 4 minutes; blackout begins at 22 hours
7 minutes Greenwich mean time; blackout ending 22 hours
i0 minutes; time of MAX G, 22 hours 12 minutes, MAX G reading
3.29 Gs. Drougue shute deployment time, 22 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time; main shute deployment time, 22 hours
16 minutes Greenwich mean time; time for splashdown at 22 hours
20 minutes Greenwich mean time. We presently show coordinates
for splashdown, 30 degrees 50 minutes north, latitude and
longitude, 120 degrees 30 minutes west. We're at 16 hours
44 minutes Greenwich mean time, and this is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2419/i
Time: 11:54 CDT 57/16:54 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 16 hours 54 minutes

Greenwich mean time, with the change-of-shift briefing with
the Flight Director Milton Windier still scheduled for 12._)0
noon today in the Briefing Auditorium of the Skylab News
Center. I repeat, 12:00 noon for a change-of-shift with
Flight Director Milton Windier.

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SL-III MC-2420/I
Time: 12:16 CDT 57/117:16 GMT
9/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 17 hours

16 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for reacqui-
sition of Skylab-3 through Honeysuckle.
PAO We've had a shift change in the Mission
Control Center. Flight Director now Phll Shaffer, Capcomm
Astronaut Dick Truly.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 17 hours 18 minutes
GMT. We're now receiving systems data on Skylab-3 through
Honeysuckle. As yet, no call-up from Capcomm Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC And Skylab, a reminder, we're dumping
the data recorder here at Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay, thank you. We're not using it.
I'm just now down to a spot in the ATM panel reconfiguration
for Story where I'm about to turn the TV bus i off. I presume
that we've completed all of the down checks desired on monitor
i, and you're ready to turn TV bus i off with the DAS code.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, please.
CC SPT, HouSton. We've still got a good bit
of phone calling between here and the (garble) over at Marshall
concerning this problem. So we think that even though we
don't know any specific troubleshooting, we're going to be
doing the rest of the afternoon, we just as soon leave TV bus i
ON now. Do everything else on the checklist and then when
we get to the point where we figure it's wise to go ahead
and turn it off, well we'll Bet you to do that for us.
SPT Okay, and there will be several other
things that need to be turned back on, like the monitors,
and Vidicons and so on. So we'll go through with everything
else but leave the TV bus i on.
CC Roger, understand. Understand we do not
have any further troubleshooting that we know about right now,
but we might as well let these phone calls run their course.
SPT Underst and.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii at 17:36.
SPT Okay, Dick. I've gone through that Power-
down stowage now. There are several things that differ from
the checklist. I'ii wait about i0 minutes and point those
out to you over on about pages 58 and 59 of the Experiment
checklist data book. I'ii read them up with you at the next
station.
CC Okay, real fine, Owen. Thank you.
SPT None of them are Of any significance, but
they are just different from the checklist.
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Time: 12:16 CDT 57/17:16 GMT
9/22/73

CC Understand.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 17 hours
26 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
with Skylab 3 through Honeysuckle. The next station to pick up
the space station will be Hawaii in approximately i0 minutes.
When AI Bean made reference on a previous pass to day-55 transfers,
he was referring to activities concerned with transfer of
experiment samples, film, ATM, EREP, and corollary experiments.
And in addition, the transfer to the command module of certain
pieces of hardware being returned for analysis. This includes
such experiments as S149, the particle collection retrieval,
retrieved during today's EVA. More than 77,000 frames of film
taken by the ATM cameras, 18 miles of EREP magnetic tape,
more than 16,000 frames of EREP film, several thousand feet
of 16-millimeter motion picture film, and the samples of the
M518 manufacturing in space experiment. A 2-hour block
of time is set aside for these activities. And additionally,
AI Bean is scheduled to spend i hour to review the procedure
for transfer. In addition, Bean will make certain stowage
transfers of food and certain equipment within the workshop
to ready the space station for the next - -

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SL-III MC-2421/I
Time: 12:27 CDT, 57/17:27 GMT
9/22/73

PAO - - the workshop, to ready the space

station for the next crew to arrive on the scene, this, of
course, being Gerry Cart, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue. Crewmembers
for Skylab-IV, are now scheduled for launch on November ii. We're
at 17 hours, 28 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2422/I
Time: 12:35 CDT, 57/17:35 GMT
9/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; at

17 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now
for acquisition with Skylab-III through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. Just a couple of items here,
are you with me?
CC Yes, sir. I'm looking at the pages and
we've done a little talking about it ourselves. So go ahead.
SPT Okay, over on page 5-8 there a step that
says EPC rate gyro up/down switch to PRIMARY. Thought perhaps
you's like me to leave that at secondary.
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Down a little ways there, star tracker
power switch ON and then AUTO, (garble) and then close in - close
the door. Correction, that's not close the door yet. That's
the fine sun sensor, but those three steps on star tracker, I did
not do those, I didn't know whether you're ready for me to do the
up- date or not.
CC Owen, We'd like to leave the star tracker
just like it is. We don't want to mess with it.
SPT Okay, that's been omitted. And down
on the rate gyros monitor, those are now in 2/3 of course,
instead of 1/2.
CC That's affirmative, we agree with that
one, also, Owen. Did you have any others?
SPT Yes, over on page 5-10. Under TV, there
is a XUV mon doors talkback, white, that really shows barberpole
and that's because, I expect, that the 82B's left main power is on.
CC Roger, Owen. We concur with that.
SPT And of course, I have delayed - (garble)
10134 enter, and I did roll to experiment roll of minus 1800 which
I presume is the roll position that you currently want.
CC Roger, Owen. We want canister roll
instead of experiment roll.
SPT Okay, for some reason, I thought that
said experiment.
CC Roger, Owen. We have re-affirmed that
what we do want is canister roll minus 1800. And -
SPT Okay, fine. I read that 2 or 3 times
and gee, I think they want canister but it says experiment.
So I'll go change that roll to canister minus 18. I did - I
believe those are the only changes that I notice to the checklist.
SL-III MC-2422/2
Time: 12:35 CDT, 57/17:35 GMT
9/22/73

CC Okay, Owen. Sorry about that. I guess

we'll have to give you a "gotya" on that one. We - I guess
we failed to look ahead to those particular pages and verify
those, because when you were LOS, we did look at the pages
and I had - I had the same list that you just read down. We
should have got to you a head of that.
SPT Don't worry about it. No problem.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information,
all of tomorrow's flight plans are in the teleprinter now.
PLT Hey, Dick. We still got a pulsating
going on your (garble) I have to turn it real high in order to
talk. It oscillates about 4 cycles per second and checked
over the configuration after EVA and everything seems to
set up all right. We're kind of wondering what the problem is.
CC Jack, the squil was in that conversation
and I just couldn't hardly understand what said. Something
about 4 cycles per second, but I did get much else of that.
Say again, please.
PLT Okay, we seem to have a - a pulsating
sound on our communications system and we have to turn up
the volume quite a bit more in order to hear anything. And
the pulsating is about 4 cycles per second. You can't
hear it unless you turn the volume way up, but still in
all, it's there. And I've checked the comm reconfiguration
per the post-EVA checklist. It seems all set up okay. And
we can't figure out what the problem is. But something's
different. And wonder if you could have somebody look it over,
please.
CC We certainly will do that. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. And Goldstone is coming up in just
about 3 minutes. Is this true for both intercom and air-to-
ground conversations, Jack?
PLT Well, you can kind of hear it super imposed
on every conversation that you get whether it's intercom or
air-to-ground. If you just turn up the volume loud enough
and you can hear when there is no conversation at all. Just
turn the volume up and there it is.
CC Okay, we'll certainly think about it.
PLT Okay, another point is that we have to
turn up our volume a lot louder than we did yesterday.
CC Understand.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 17 hours 46 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now Skylab-lll through
Hawaii. The next station to pick up will Goldstone in
approximately 2 minutes.

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SL-III MC2423/I
Time: 12:47 CDT, 57/17:47 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone

for 6 minutes. And, Jack, on the comm question, the only
additional question we have at the moment is this - aAlso,
is this true on both channels Alpha and Bravo?
PLT That's a negative, Dick; it's only on
Bravo.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And, SPT;
Houston. ATM officer asked me to get you to check a couple
of switches on the ATM for him, please.
SPT What would Adam llke? What would
Adam llke, Dick?
CC Oh, okay. On XUV, on page 5-7, if you
still have the checklist, if not, I'ii just read them to
you. On page 57, under XUV spect and sllt, we see MAIN
POWER switches both ON, and they should be OFF. If - and
to get them off, if you've already done the steps at the
bottom of 510, which is the XUV SPECT switch and SLIT switch
to both OFF, you'll have to bring them on before you can
get the MAIN POWERS, OFF and then get them all four back
off again.
SPT Okay, now, in this Experiment Checklist
and data book, we've entered in changes i through 7. And
this is one of those changes. It was a pen and ink write in
or my writing on 57 - Oh, I see, it's change number 6. We'll
- at the bottom of both of those two, should be inserted
MAIN POWER, ON.
CC Okay, yes_ that' s correct, Owen. But
if you look down under that same sequence, still printed
under there, the next to the last line, is the MAIN POWER,
OFF step. And that's the step that we think was missed.
SPT Well, Just a minute. There's a bunch
of steps. One of them- Let's see it's about step i, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 says MAIN POWER, OFF; Talkback goes white.
Then MAIN POWER switch back ON again; and that's the
procedure that I followed.
CC Okay, I think the difference is,
at least in my book, Owen, when I entered the pen and ink,
I entered the MAIN POWER switch to ON as the first step
in that whole series of things. And we'd have to go back
and check the message, and we will do that.
SPT Okay. I suspect that it was my mistake.
And so is there anything wrong with Just turning the MAIN
POWER switches OFF at this time?
CC Okay, we - we would llke to get them
off now, Owen. But on the CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION switches,
SL-III MC2423/2
Time: 12:47 CDT, 57/17:47 GMT
9/22/73

we will need to get the SPECT and SLIT switches ON; then
the MAIN POWER switch is OFF, and then the SPECT and SLIT
switch is OFF after that.
SPT That's been done.
CC Okay, thank you very much. And I
have one more item that we can't see on telemetry and we
wanted to verify. Under - on page 5-9, the next to the bottom
line, FILTER SELECT switch under X-ray spect, FILTER SELECT
switch to STORAGE. We'd just llke to verify that's the switch
position there.
SPT That's affirmative. It was put into FILTER
i and after it want gray, then I placed it to STORAGE.
CC Okay.
CDR And, Dick, is this the place for the
storage review?
CC That's affirmative, AI. We'll certainly
entertain questions on that - on that anytime here.
CDR Well, on - -
CC We still have - -
CDR Not y'all; we're going to review me, but
go ahead.
CC Okay, let me get right back with you, AI.
We got about a minute and a half until LOS and we want to
clean up this ATM switch thing, if we could. We will have
a MLA pass coming up here in just about 5 minutes, and we'll
get to the storage.
CDR Okay.
SPT What's next, Dick?
CC SPT, Houston. We've dug out the original
message and it's certainly obvious how it could be interpreted
to put that MAIN POWER switch either immediately after the
words XUV spect and slit or after the entire sequence. However,
we intended to have that switch at the top of that list. We
have looked at the switch configurations that you've done,
however, in both those areas, ands're satisfied with them.
SPT Okay, sounds fine. Do you have any other
questions about the panel?
CC We'd like the ROLL switch to INHIBIT,
please.
SPT Good.
CC Okay, we're going to continue - we'll
continue to look at it for the next rev or so, so we may
be getting back to you later, but right now, we're satisfied.
Thank you very much.
SPT Sure. Thank you, Dick.
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Time: 12:47 CDT, 57/17:47 GHT
9/22/73

CC And, Skylah, we're going LOS in about

I0 seconds from Goldstone. Pick you up at Bermuda at
- in about 3 or 4 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 17 hours
55 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with
Skylab-lll through Goldstone. Bermuda coming up in approximately
4 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2424/I
Time: 12:56 CDT 57/17:56 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for

9 minutes. We're going to recommence our commanding unattended ops,
so we'll - all of the AOS passes we will by using the DAS. And
for AI, on this stowage procedures, Al, the other night -
I think this was put into the Flight Plan because the change
to the stowage book to support the day-55 transfers has got
to be about 2 or 3 feet long. And we thought in making that
change into the stowage book and prior to doing the transfers
you might have some questions on it. We do not have anything
specifically prepared, so if you run into any questions, go
ahead and pass them down, but otherwise I suggest just using
the time to get ahead on the transfers.
CDR Okay, sounds good. The only question I've
got is I'm not sure now which ones of these pictures in the
stowage book are correct pictures, so that when I stow things
in there, I should follow the pictures or whether - which boxes kind
of up for grabs, and I just keep putting things in there and
stowing them as best I can.
CC Okay, stand by on that one, please.
CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question
about the pictures, I talked to Jim Smothenab is here on duty as
our stowage guy today. And he says that the pictures for Alfa 6
and Alfa 9 lockers probably are - they have been changed
so extensively that there will be quite a bit of difference
there. Most of the others, the changes have been minor
enough that we think you can make do pretty well. He does
have some photographs of the lockers the way we stowed them
in the trainers, and they are going to bring them over here
Eo the Control Center. They are not here right now; but they
will be in a few minutes. So if you do have questions later
on then for the rest of the afternoon while you are making
these transfers I think we'll be a little better able, if
you have any questions in stuffing things in there, to help
you out and tell you how we did it.
CDR Okay, sounds good. I noticed I got sessions
now, and then I've got a couple of sessions. It's about a 6
or 7-hour job. I notice I've got it broken into three parts,
so I should be able to pull it off. Right now I think I'ii
g_t on that bike and get my 5000 watts a minute.
CC That sounds like a winner. And one of
the stowage folks will be over here with us for the rest of
the afternoon. So if you have any questions about it, feel
free to ask.
CDR Okay, my plans are to exercise, eat, and then
stow the rest - until it's time to go to bed.
CC All righty.
SL-III MC-2424/2
Time: 12=56 CDT 57/17:56 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from

LOS. Canary comes up at 18:10.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 18 hours 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now out of range with Bermuda.
Coming up now on Canary tracking station in about I minute.

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SL-III _C-2425/I
Time: 13:08 CDT, 57/18:08 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Canary and

Ascension for 16 minutes.
CC And - CDR, Houston. You know the other
day you suggested to us that we might bring up the - G&N on
the command module the day before entry. And we're been doing
a good bit of thinking about that. The problem that we had
on SL-II was - was - scheduling problem with some of our
people, but we have had the time here to - arrange that satisfactory.
So what we're think about doing now is sometime around noon,
IIouston time, on day 58, the day before you - the re-entry
at a time on a non interference basis with - when you can
do it - get up to the command module, we're going to point
out the steps we'd like down in the Deactivation Checklist.
And we do plan on bringing up the IMU and the computer
and leaving the computer in accept, and that'll give us
quit a few hours to look at the platform and look at the
total G&N system. So I think that'll give us a whole lot of
confidence that afternoon and plenty of time to handle any
little flitches that might come up.
CDR Sounds like a good plan. I'ii be ready
to sist whenever you'll say so.
CC Okay, I image that we'll just pick a
spot where we've got ground coverage when you're not doing
a whole lot, and Just get it done.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. Carnarvon at 18:49.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 18 hours 27 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Out of range now with Skylab-lll through
Ascension. The next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in some
22 minutes. Very little communications with the crew aboard Skylab
during this pass over Canary Islands and Ascension. The crew
apparently pressing on with their deactivation procedures. AI
Bean also reporting - that - he was riding the bicycle argometer.
We're at 18 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
Control Houston.

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SL-III MC2426/i
Time: 13:48 CDT, 57/18:48 GMT
9/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

18 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now
approaching station range with Carnarvon. Less than a
minute away now from acquisition by Carnarvon. We'll
keep the llne open.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're AOS
Carnarvon for about 9 minutes. And I've got a little
procedure that if one of you guys have time you might
do some - a little bit of switch throwing for us and maybe
we can chase down this 4 cycle per second noise that's
appeared on the audio.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS Carnarvon
for 7 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, if somebody has a chance,
I've got two or three switches and circuit breakers wetd like
thrown, and to troubleshoot a little bit on this 4 cycle
per second noise that's appeared on the audio system.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, what we suggest doing is going
up to panel 200, the AUDIO SYSTEM BUFFER AMPS i circuit
breaker, and open that one and see if the noise persists.
Then close that circuit breaker and open the AUDIO SYSTEM
BUFFER AMPS 2 and make the same check. Then after the checks
are over, close both circuit breakers. Over.
PLT Okay.
SPT You have a storage pad handy, Dick?
CC Sure do.
SPT Where can I find the M071/73 tledown
straps
CC Okay, we'll get right back to you.
PLT Dick, how are you reading?
CC Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, when I open the number i circuit
breaker, the noise goes away. When I open the number 2 circuit
breaker, it stays.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, please.
CC PLT, Houston. What we think, probably,
we have is a hardware problem that's associated with one
of the amplifiers on the - that is powered by that BUFFER AMPS
i circuit breaker. However, for now, we'd llke to leave
both those circuit breakers CLOSED. We may eventually
change that configuration and - and just operate with one
of the circuit breakers on. But for now, we would llke to
leave them both CLOSED, if it's not too irritating.
PLT No, it's not irritating, Dick; and they
are both CLOSED. I do know additionally, however, that
we have to turn the volume up a little bit.
CC Roger.
PLT . .. in order to hear.
SL-III MC2426/2
Time: 13:48 CDT, 57/18:48 GMT
9/22/73

CC Understand. Okay, let's leave them

both CLOSED until we fully understand what we think the
problem is, and then we may change the configuration later.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. I'ii give you a call at Guam in about 6 minutes.
And, Owen, we think that there's six D-rlngs and two PGA straps
in U4. And there are a couple of more D-rlng straps that
we think you guys stowed around some place, and we don't
know where they are. But U4 is the suggestion as to where
to look.
SPT Okay, I'ii give you a call. Thank you.
CC Okay, I'ii call you at Guam.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 18 hours 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Carnarvon
with Skylab-lll. The next station to acquire will be Guam
in approximately 5 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2427/1
Time: 14:00 CDT, 15/19:00 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Guam for

6 minutes.
SPT Okay, U4 is empty right now, Dlck.
We're still trying figure out if we - took those two
extra out or what. Four weeks ago, we used four of the
7173 straps on the 282 canisters that came back and the
the two PGA straps. Now the remaining two, l'm pretty sure
one was broken because the (garble) didn't hold when I tried to
put it around the can. So it still leaves at least one
if not two that are unaccountable and we also don't know
anything about the ones that we might have stowed somewhere
else around the workshop.
CC Okay. We'll keep looking through our
tracking system and see if we can help you any more, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds til
LOS. Goldstone at 19:28.
SPT I think we found them in another
location, Dick. Thank you.
CC Okay. Thank you for letting us know.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. At 19 hours
ii minutes Greenwich mean time, loss of signal now with
Skylab through Guam. Coming up next wlll be Goldstone in
approximately 16 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2428/I
Time: 14:26 CDT 57/19:26 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 19 hours

27 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab-lll now approaching
acquisition range with Goldstone. Systemsdata now being
received here in the mission control from Skylab-lll.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone
for 5 minutes.
CC And CDR, Houston. A reminder - if you
have a chance, the laser opportunity, as you pass over the
Goddard Space Center is coming up at 19:37 Zulu. You have
about a 50 per cent chance, due to weather, of seeing it. And
due to the haze up there, we' re - there is one change to
the - configuration of the laser, we're making from the pad
you have. And that is we're going to go with a 2.5 watt
instead of a i watt. It should not change the color of it
if you can see it.
CDR It'll still come off as a 19:36 though?
CC That' s affirmative.
SPT Okeydoke, we' ii be watching.
CDR Say, Dick, oOn that sall sample,
do you want us to bring the cardboard that's beneath the
sail sample back too or just the sall sample? Looks to me
like a better arrangement might be to put the sall sample
in a - a - contingency fecal bag.
CC Stand by, AI.
CDR In fact, that's where it is right now
but I had the cardboard and I can take it out of the bag
and put it back on the cardboard.
CC Okay, the initial input that I had, AI,
that we wanted to talk about for a second, was that we did
want to bring the cardboard home because we wanted to make
sure that the sall sample did not get folded in any way but
let me talk about it a little bit more please.
CDR Okay, I'ii put back on it. It's not
folded in a crease. It's just kind rolled fold over once, so
it hasn't been hurt. I'ii put it back on the cardboard and
put it in there.
CC Okay, AI. Let's go that way, thank you.
CDR Okay.
PLT Dick, acomment on the stowage. Our cue
card shows the VS tree going on MI70. I believe that's
where the rate gyro pack is mounted and so I have it now,
the VS tree taped up to the wall, to the bulkhead, where the
NRL packages used to be located. It is adjacent to
the rate gyro pack and it could just stay up there, taped.
Ove r.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you for letting us
know.
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SL-III MC-2428/2
Time: 14:26 CDT, 57/19:26 GMT
9/22/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds

from LOS at Goldstone. We're going to drop out just a couple
of minutes. I'ii call you at Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got you again stateside
here for about ii minutes. And I've got one more ATM
configuration item for Owen. Or anybody that can move it
for us.
CDR He's listening.
CC 0 kay, Owen. I think - I think as a matter
of fact while ago when you - I think I copied you saying
that you had changes 1 through 7 in the ATM experiment check-
list and data book and there was a change 8 sent up about 2 or 3
days ago and I think this - and you didn't report it and it
only had one switch on it. And what it is the - on the white
light coronagraph, low film inhibit switch, we think - we do
not have TM on this switch. We think it's in NORMAL. We'd
like for it to be in OVERRIDE. The reason we think it is
in normal is we' re unable to get a fast scan.
SPT Cause your quite right. I remember taht we
went to OVERRIDE for our normal operations and the checklist
did show it going back to NORMAL where I placed it this
afternoon. And that's sort of early. I didn't have the change
in the book yet. I'ii go back and put that to OVERRIDE.
You' re quite rlght.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
CDR Nobody seesthe laser. We're all at the
window.
CC Roger. It's on. Sorry about that.
PAO A report from Skylab-lll, no sighting of
the laser being beamed from the Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Maryland. Weather reports indicate it's quite
cloudy over Maryland this afternoon.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute til LOS.
Ascension at 19:55.
PLT How are you there Dick_ We;re eating chow
now.

CC Roger, what are they serving in the club

tonight?
PLT Would you believe turkey and gravy?
CC Roger.
SPT Tomorrow night's filet and ice cream,
though.
CC Okay.
PLT This must be bingo night or something.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, is this science demo term on my
flight plan? Is tThis the diffusion experiment that Jack's been
running?
SL-III MC-2428/3
Time: 14:26 CDT, 57/19:26 GMT
9/22/73

CC Stand by and I'ii get you an answer.

If we go LOS here, I'ii have one at Ascension.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 19 hours
47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now out of range
with Bermuda. The next station to acquire will be Ascension
in approximately 7 minutes 40 seconds. Very little conversation
with the crew of Skylab-lll during this stateside pass Just
ended. The crew now in their evening meal period. Following
the EVA this morning, Bean, Garriott, Lousma have been
involved with deactivation procedures. However, on this
last pass over the States, another attempt was made -
another attempt was made to sight and photograph the laser
beam from Goddard; this was unsuccessful today. Apparently
a fair amount of cloud cover over Goddard. It is an experiment
which has been sucessfully accomplished during the past
week of the mission of Skylab-lll. 19 hours 48 minutes
Greenwich mean, about 6-1/2 minutes away now from reacquiring
Skylab-lll over Ascension.

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Time: 14:54 CDT, 57/19:54 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 19 hours

55 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now approaching
Ascension tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for 5 minutes. And, Owen, the answer is yes, the science
demo termination in your flight plan is the diffusion
expe rlmen t.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS;
Carnarvon at 20:26.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours
I minute Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now passing out of range with Ascension. Carnarvon will
acquire in 24 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2430/I
Time: 15:24 CDT, 57/20:24 GMT
9122173

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston 20 hours

25 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now approaching
Carnarvon tracking station Australia. We'll stand by for
acquisition.
PAO Now receiving spacecraft systems data
from Skylab-lll. No contact, yet, with the crew aboard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for
I0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Hey, Jack. One thing we want to know
is if you were through with EREP deactivation because we
got a couple of folks hanging around because we have a couple
of folks that can go home.
PLT Yes, sir; it did go okay. And I recorded
it all on channel A. I think I got some good pictures.
CC Okay, good. Thank you much.
SPT Dick, you remember the large thermal
isolation can that _ all of our IMSS supplies go in? Early
in the mission, we took the overcan, the thermal installation,
out of the chiller and left just the contents in there. And
as I recall, we were supposed to be to put that back into
the chiller or the freezer a day - couple of days before our
return. Could you check to see how soon and where that
thermal isolation can needs to be put? Over.
CC Sure will.
CDR Dick, are you still there?
CC Affirmative, go ahead.
CDR I now have the sall sample, and I'm
going to place it at Ag. I noticed that it doesnt t request
we put it inside anything, so I guess we won't. What do you
recommend?
CC Stand by i.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds
from LOS. Guam comes up in 3 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC CDT, Houston. It's okay to put the
sail sample that's on the cardboard just in A9 and not
in any other con - you know, not enclosed in any other
separate container.
PLT Got it. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.

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Time: 15:36 CDT, 57/20:36 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, Huston; 20 hours

37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-III now out of
range with Carnarvon. Next station to acquire will be
Guam in approximately 1 minute 40 seconds. We heard from
A1 Bean on that last pass. Commander Bean now involved
in the activity known as the day-55 transfers. He's concerned
with the transfer of experiment samples, film, ATM_ EREP, and
corollary experiments. And in addition, the transfer to
the command module of certain pieces of ha]_dware being
returned for analysis. Twenty hours 38 minutes Greenwich
mean time. We'll leave the llne up for acquisition through
Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for
l0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Goldstone is coming up at 21:04.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
20 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-III has
now passed out of range with Guam tracking station. The
next station to pick up acquisition with Skylab will be
Goldstone in approximately 15 minutes. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2432/I
Time: 16:03 CDT, 57/21:03 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours 4 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Standing by now acquisition of Skylab-IIl
through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone
for about 6 - or stateside for about 16 or 17 minutes. This
is the place I wanted to get the Evening Status Report. But
before I do, we wanted to talk a little bit about the stowage
transfers that are going on. And- and a little bit about
the heat sinks.
PLT We' re ready.
CC Okay, first thing on the stowage transfers
today, we've - a couple of the questions - one on Owen -
that Owen had about the heat sinks has made us wonder as to,
to make sure that we - we wanted to make sure that we're
doing the correct portionsof the storage transfers for day -
55, today. What we were to do today, is - and I'm looking
on page 2-36 of the stowage book. We wanted to do, up there at
the top where it says CSM stowage reconfiguration. We did not want
to do the next section which said, experiment transfer to
command module. We did want to do the miscellanous transfers
that came up on a pad a day or so ago. And then we also
wanted to do the TV transfer. It's on the top of page 2-37.
And we'd like you to confirm that that's what you guys are
doing this afternoon.
CDR We confirm that we're working on that
one. With a question on just pre-coolin E that - cooler so
that - so the - you know it probably takes a day to chill
it down. We just wanted to give you some advance notice.
CC Great, AI. Let me ask you a question
about your question so we can make sure we're all together.
The heat sinks, does - and also on page 2-36 and you'll
be doing this tomorrow night. If you'll look under the
experiment transfer to the command module step 2. That's
where you transfer the heat sinks from the chiller down
to the freezer. Now if the heat sinks - so we want it to
ask if the heat sinks themselves are in the chiller now
or - -
SPT Dick. Yeah, the sinks are there. What
I'm talking about is this large chest of 8 inches in diameter
into which all of the IMSS supplies and the heat sinks fitted.
And you may remember we took the inside cylinder out - Correction,
we took it out, left that in the chiller; the outside thermal in-
stallation is what we took out just to glve us more volume in the
chiller. And as I was explaining to you we just wanted to know how
may hours we need to prechill it before we can take the contents
back in again. Over.
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CC O kay, the answer to that is the requirement

on putting the heat sinks into the freezer turns out to be
24 hours prior to assembling for return and that time is
met by - and you will be doing that tomorrow evening. We are
talking about, however, the - putting the external cans in
either the pre-zero chiller for a shorter period of time
than that to sort of prechill it and -
SPTS And that was our question Dick, right there.
CC Okay, now on that one, what worries us - what
we're been talking about is is that we're - in order to get it
into the chiller at all, you gona - it seem to us that you're
going to run into the same problem that you did before and
that is - is probably not going to be enough room for it
to fit. So we've been talking about chooising possably one
of the forward compartment freezers to - to stick it in for
a while.
SPT That was the reason - also part of the
reason for our question, it will fit into our cooler, into
our chiller. It's just that - there's almost no room left
then for any drinks. And that's the reason that we wanted
to take it out early. But we can get along without any drinks
if necessary or better yet we can put it into (garble)
a chiller - into a freezer.
CC Well if we understand the stowage properly,
I think that one of the upstairs freezers certainly has
enough room for it. You might confirm that and we'll choose
the proper number of hours to get it into there and we'll
let you know.
SPT You know we have S052 in a freezer up
there. We got that into the command module one of these
ti_es. And if we took that over tomorrow, then thre would
certainly be room to put it in.
CC Roger, Owen. We think - the number thatwe
think there is room is F551. At any rate I think we've had
enough talking about this and we'll certainly have procedures
for you tomorrow before you do the stowage transfer. There's
still about 12 minutes left in this stateside pass. And
I'd like to get the Evening Status Report, if I could.
CDR Okay, here it comes.
CC Okay.
CDR 130, 170, 200; 6310, 0370, I'ii start
that one again, excuse me. CDR was 6310, 0370, 6760.
CC Okay.
CDR 6.219, 6.220, 6.222; 5.956, 5.956, 5.956;
6.937, 6.939, 6.938. Exercise: CDR, 2/35/5041, 1/07/0541,
3/15/Mark I, 3/05/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III; SPT and PLT have
not exercised. PLT is exercising right now. We'll pass you
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those informations later.

CC Okay.
CDR No medications. Sleep: 6/G, 6-I/2/G,
6/G.
CC Okay.
CDR Here's the food: CDR, zero salt, substltuded
a lemonaide for a strawberry drink because there are no
strawberry drinks available. An extra 6 ounces of water was
consumed EVA so that should be added 6 ounces. SPT, add
butter cookies, and 12 ounces of water. PLT, 4 salt packs,
add i butter cookie, I grape drink. Omit - - Are you still
there?
CC We dropped out and you need to go back
were you said "omit" something, AI, and pick it right there.
CDR Omit Jack's tuna and bread.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR All right. 16- mill - talking photo now.
16-millimeter: EVA-3, C121, 45, C160; the reason we've got
45 left is because of that power pack quit working after
about 50 per cent. The one last time quit working just about
the time it ran out. There's something wrong with those
power packs, they just don't have enough pep. MI51/EVA prep
and post: C183, 29, C163. 35-millimeter: CII06, 22, CX35,
09. 70-millimeter: CX27, 145. Let me give you drawer A
configuration in its entirity: 07, C158, 13, C153; 05, C164,
60, C162; 06, C121, 45, C160; 03, C183, 29, C163: 02,
empty, MTO0, C156.
CC Roger.
CDR No Flight Plan deviations. We're still
working along, little out of phase here because we want to
get our meals in and get our exercise in a little early.
No shopping list accomplishments, except taping up that
nut on the pole, the twin pole. Inoperable equipment, the
DAC power pack number 4 of course it's a throwaway item anyway
but we ought to do some They are just not worth it. Unscheduled
stowage item location change: Nikon flash battery from
F510H to the Nikon 03. And that's the nightly Status Report.
Ready for any questions.
CC Okay, AI. One question I have from the
INC0, on the channel Bravo noise problem that we were chasing
earlier, and you guys have heard. Could you tell us when you
first notices the problem? Do you remember? Was it - at the
time that it started, was it co_related with any other particular
event7
CDR The answer is, the first time that we
noticed, it was when we turned the comm on after EVA. So we
immediately thought the EVA comm was the problem. We
reconfigured - -

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SL-III MC2433/I
Time: 16:14 CDT, 57/21:14 GMT
9/22/73

CDR . .. times we noticed it was when we

turned the comm on after EVA. So we _mmediately thought
that the EVA comm was the problem. We reconfigured, and
it didn't go away. That made us a little bit suspicious
so we went around and looked at all the comm boxes to see
if anything was left on. We couldn't seem to locate anything
that way. My suspicion is it's gone away now, and I will
tell you why. I haven't heard it lately. But mostly, when
you came up about 20 minutes ago and talked to Jack, the
volume all of a sudden jumped up about 50 percent. Along
with this problem of the plusing was a reduced volume
level, as Jack pointed out. And now we seem to have gotten
our volume level back. And I don't hear the pulsing anymore,
so something is - has corrected it.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you for your - for the
information. The only other note that I have here that
I want to talk to you about now is we made a mistake
and we - I need to change the time on both the CDR and
PLT detailed Flight Plan for tomorrow.
CDR Just a second_ we haven't retrieved them
yet.
CC Okay.
CDR Retrieved momentarily.
CC Okay, there's no hurry. When you get
them, just give me a holler.
CDR Okay.
CDR Standing by to copy corrections of time.
CC Okay, it's the same on both of them.
The M092/171 that's shown at 09:26, I want to change that
time to 09:10. And the reason is, is to give you enough
time in order to meet the vent window.
CDR Good idea.
CC Roger. And, AI, that's all I have
right now. I'ii have some news later on, but I don't have
it right now. We still got about 4 minutes in this stateside
pass and I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, tell the stowage folks that
are standing around down there that we haven't done a lot
of stowage yet, but we're getting ready to crank up. We've
been eating, exercising, putting changes in the Entry
Checklist, and all that sort of thing, cleaning up, and
now we're getting on the stowage.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
and a half from LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard at 21:31.
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And I forgot to tell you, there was one more correction

on the PLT details for tomorrow. He's listed at 21 -
correction, at 12:31 as the subject for the M092 only.
That's incorrect. The PLT, tomorrow, is the observer and
the Summary Flight Plan has it correct. Owen is the
subject and Jack is the observer.
PLT Thank you, Dick. I'ii put it to him.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 21 hours 22 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll has now passed out of
acquisition range over the states. The next station to
acquire will be Vanguard in approximately 9-1/2 minutes.
This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2434/I
Time: 16:31 CDT, 57/21:31 GMT
9/22/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours 31 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition with
Skylab-lll through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for 5-i/2
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're Vanguard for
about 4-1/2 minutes and I wanted to talk to the CDR, for
a second, back to the subject of the sail sample.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Al, ever since we talked before about
how to stow the sail sample and how to protect it, we've
been having a discussion down here as to - as to the
protection of that sample. And what we finally decided to
do, after thinking of quite a number of options, is to tell
you what we'd like to protect it against and then let you
choose what you think is the best method of stowing it.
Essentially, what we'd llke to do is to minimize the scuffing
on the side of the sample that was exposed to the Sun. And
also, we'd like to keep it as clean as possible. And we've
had several suggestions that range from taping it to an
exterior surface in the command module; putting it in a
- the PGA pocket or another bag; leaving it on the cardboard
and stowing it like that inside a locker. And there's one
more thing we don't want to do; and that is, to put a crease
in it. So what we suggest is that you take these inputs
- and we realize that you're having to do some - a lot of
unplanned stowage, and figure out the best way to meet these
requirements. And let us know what you did so we figure
out who wins the nickel.
CDR That sounds like a good idea; will do. Now,
I was just moving the APK's and PTK's to U4. U4 has a
cloth beta liner in it. Do I leave the beta liner in it?
I think I do. And I count a total number of 7; 3, 6, 7. Is
that correct?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. And, AI, we don't have an immediate answer to
your question, so we're going to have to research both
about the liner and the number of APKs and PPKs that you
have, in order to answer it for you. Your next pass is
Goldstone at 22:41; that'll be a medical conference. And
also, Jack's phone call will be during that pass and it'll
be when we have AOS at Texas. And that time is 22:45.
We will call you at one more pass of the evening, which is
down at Vanguard at 23:05, if I don't get the coma back up
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9/22/73

at stateside.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CDR Just keep calling until we go to bed
here because (garble) we'll probably have some questions.
CC Okay. And we're going to need a salt
report on Owen when we get you back in comm.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours
38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now out of
range with Vanguard. Coming up next on the tracking
network will be Goldstone, a stateside pass in i hour and
3 minutes. Twenty-one hours 39 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control, Houston_

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SL-III MC-2435/I
Time: 17:40 CDT, 57/22:40 GMT
9/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At

22 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab-lll now
less than a minute away from acquisition through Goldstone.
We expect to hear no air-ground on this pass since the private
medical conversation is schedu _d, while under acquisition
with Goldstone. Next station to acquire will be Texas
in approximately 5 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Now receiving
systems data through Goldstone from Skylab-III.
CC - - Long ago now. The Beta liner in U4
should stay in there. Also on the subject of APKs and PPKs,
the only information we have is that the proper number of
those is listed on page 2-36 of the stowage book. We don't
have anymore than that. And one thing that we didn't get
in the Evening Status Report and we'd like to get, is the
salt report from the SPT.
SPT No salts, zero salts.
CC Okay, and AI, before I get to any further
questions, that you have or get to the news, I'd like to
talk to you just a second about a message we're going to
send up to you tonight. We're putting together, with -
in response to the conversation that you and Vance had the
other afternoon on entry the checklist, we have put together
a message that we think will easily allow you to make sure
that your pen and ink entries into your entry checklist
and also into a couple of critical pages on your entry
checklist and also a cou _e of pages in the deactivation
checklist were entered correctly. This is not a checklist
change, it's just a guide to allow you to - to go down the
pages of your checklist if you so desire and make sure that
all the pen and inks are in the right place and what they
say. If you run into any problems about it, rather than
correct it on the spot, what we'd like for you to do is
just give us a holler and we can talk about it. One thin Z
on that, though, most of the people that - that have been
supporting the command mod _e in the entry will be - not
be on duty tomorrow but they will be back on duty the first
thing day after tomorrow. So if you have any questions
today - I mean tomorrow, it may be some delay getting an
answer. Over.
CDR ()kay, understand, Dick. Sounds good.
CC Okay, and for your information the
pages we're talking about are pages - last couple of pages
I think it's 2-88 and 89 of the deactivation checklist
and then the entry checklist section 12 pages 3, 4, and 5.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, you guys got anything else? And if
not, I have a little bit of news here.
SL-III MC-2435/2
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9/22/73

CDR I sure do. Couple of items. Talking

about the TV transfers. I went to 521 to put the broken TV
camera lens in, the lens was okay but from the broken camera.
There isn't any noom in there. It's all full of bags. So
I put them over in - 556. Which is an ex-food locker. We've
got a lot of things in that Gerry is probably going to want to
use. I think that's a good place for them and then when he comes
up and pulls them out, then they are out of stowage and they
will be hanging around on the walls or something. So my suggestion
would be, don't forget 521 and let's talke 556 for that equipment.
CC Okay, that's done.
CDR Okay, the next one is. I looked into 521,
it's got all sorts of bags in there, maybe a hundred. And I
looked all around for a bag called TV return bag. No such thing.
But we've got also hundreds of other bags around here. So
I found another bag, that fits the TV camera real well, put
the TV camera in it and then put it in the proper place, RI3
along with the - (static)
CC CDR, Houston. Are you still there?
CC CDR, Houston. We got caught in a handover,
are you there?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay, whatever bag you put the TV in for
return, if your satisfied with it, we certainly are.
CDR Okay. We got, I'm telling you everything
is in a Beta cloth bag and they are all over the place. And
we got a good bag and I think they'll be happy in it. It's
also padded in there with med kit and a cou _e other kits that
are in the same RI3, jammed full.
CC Okay. Anything else?
CDR You let me back up again. That ends the
TV stowage room for a while.
CC Okay.
CDR Get back to this APK, mine had orginally
APK with 3 and then somebody crossed through the 3 and it
says OSK 6. If you cross through the 3 I guess it means
APK I, OSK 6. So it would be in the right number, I don't think
we misplaced any but I just thought I'd mention it.
CC Roger, understand.
CDR Okay, now about all I'm going to get tonight -
Right now I'm doing the environmental samples. Because I did
them the first time, and it's necessary for the same guy to do
it the second time because he - he's got to rub the same spot
to get the sample correct. I will finish - I had finished the
CM stowage reeonflguration. And I've finished the TV but that's
the only stowage I've done this evening and I'ii have to pick
up, then, tomorrow from that point.
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CC Roger, AI. Thank you.

CDR Okay.
CC Anything else?
CDR No, that's it. Jack's got a little exercise
to report he tells me. And Owents peddling away on the bike
right now. So he'll have it later.
CC Roger, I can hear somebody sawing away
over there on the bicycle over the comm and - -

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SL-III MC-2436/I
Time: 17:52 CDT 57/22:52 GMT
9/22/73

CDR (Garble) Owen is pedaling away on the bike right

now. So you'll have it later.
CC Roger. I can hear somebody sawing away
over there on the bicycle over the comm. And I've got some
news if you'd like to hear that.
PLT I thought we already had the good news
and the bad today.
CC I thought you'd see that.
CDR It's a good game, a good one.
PLT Le me give you some exercise.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, I had 2 (stet) for 35, 8664; I for 05,
0627; 3 for 20/MARK I, 50 A's, 20 B's, 20 D's, 20 backbends.
That's it.
CC Okay.
CDR Good night.
PLT Ready for the news, Dick,
CC Okay. Henry Kisslnger today took the
oath as Secretary of State and pledged to work for a "world
not based on strength but on justice." President Nixon beamed
his approval as Kissinger was sworn in by Chief Justice Warren
E. Burger in the East Room of the White House. Dallas and
Fort Worth dedicated their new 700 million dollar airport today.
Texas Governor Dolf Bricoe, one of the speakers, called the
air _rt construction "a bold and exciting step." Also on
hand was former Governor John Connally, the mayors of both
cities, and ambassadors from more than 50 nations. Hurricane
Ellen gathered speed as she crossed the mld-Atlantic today,
but forecasters say that she had begun to losing strength and
was posing no threat to land. Chancellor Willy Brandt accepted
an invitation to visit President Nixon during the German
gov _nment chief's upcoming visit to the United States. And
a Japanese governm _t spokesman said today there was a possi-
bility that President Nixon may visit Japan within the year.
Skylab news today centered, quite naturally, around your EVA.
Wire services reported your unprecedented views on three of
nature's most awesome sights: a sunset, an aurora and a hurricane.
Some quick sports scores: the University of Houston 27, South
Carolina 19; Miami upset Texas last night 20 to 15. Rice
goes against Montana tonight in Rice Stadium. And Michigan
beat Stanford 47 to I0. And Skylab, Houston; we're about
30 seconds from LOS. I'ii give you a call at the Vanguard
at 23:05. That probably will be our last call of the night
because the following station is about an hour and a half
down the road. And one thing that we do have that I can get
down at the Vanguard is for the recovery people, on the subject
of the bag, in which you put the TV, if there is any identification
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9/22/73

on the bag that you chose, you might give us a call or put
it on channel A so we can do our recovery plan and they will
know how to identify the location of that.
PLT I've got a call I guess, again at Vanguard, right?
CC That's affirm, Jack. We're sending up
for the Vanguard. And that time is 23:05.
PLT And the Professor Just about fell off
of the bike when he heard that Stanford score.
CC Roger.
SPT I think you probably had it reversed.
CC You wish.
PLT Let me see if got our seconds, Dick.
CC We're going LOS. Say again.
PLT Okay, I'll check with you later.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours
56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through
Texas. Coming up next on the network will be Vanguard in
approximately 9 minutes. This is Skylab Control Houston.
l

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SL-III MC2437/I
Time: 18:03 CDT, 57/23:03 GMT
9/22/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

23 hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now
approaching acquisition with Vanguard. We have the mission
sur _on's daily medical summary. It reads as follows: The
EVA today was completed without medical complications. Heart
rates during the EVA were indicative of the workloads that
the gas cooling suit mode could handle. Subjective comments
about the EVA reflected the relative comfort during the
procedure. There are no illnesses or injuries to report.
This summ_y is signed by Dr. Jerry R. Hordinsky. We're
about a minute away now from reacqulring Skylab-lll through
Vanguard. We'll sta _ by with the line open.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard
for Ii minutes.
PLT (garble) Dick, while I'm waiting for
the VHF to come up, I've got two things. Water tank 2
was two parts per million, water tank 5 was 6 parts per million.
I didn't do anything to either one of them. Rate gyro
temperatures are as follows: X-ray 5, 90.3; X-ray 6, 90.3;
Yankee 5, 93.0; Yankee 6, 91.5: Zulu 5, 95.7; and Zulu 6, 92.2.
CC Thank you, sir; got them all.
PLT Okay, I'm going VHF, Now. Thank you.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, now I'ii update my exercise now,
Dick. You ready?
CC Sure am. Go ahead, Owen.
SPT 2/21/3500, 3/15 MARK i; 60 A's, 30 B's,
30 Delta's. Over.
CC I got it, Owen.
SPT Roger.
PLT I don't hear nobody, Dick. Are they
trying to hear me?
CC Stand by, let me see if I can help you.
CC We've tried to call, Jack, and understand
you've got no joy. We'll keep trying.
PLT Okay.
CC And suggest left antenna.
PLT Okay, on left.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. I know that - for the
CDR and SPT - I know that Jack is tied up on the phone
call; I'd like to talk to him too, but since he isn't, I
have something for you guys.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger, guys. As you know, the shifts are
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coming to the end of the mission and this happens to be

the last shift of the last pass that the purple team will
get to talk to you guys during this mission. Several
of the guys on this team will get to see you again on the
entry. And I'm going to do another shift for Crip prior
to entr y, so I'ii get to talk to you, but it won't be here.
So therets a lot of guys here tonight that have been working
with you and we all feel that you guys have really done
a great job, and it's really been a lot of fun for us to
work with you. And you're bringing back a U-haul truck
full of science, and we really have enjoyed every minute.
I know it's real hard and impossible, as a matter of fact,
for you to know each of the guys on the team, and I'd Just
like to give you my personal word that these guys, night
after night and day after day, have really put out for you
both in the front room and also back in the SSR's. And
I'd like to go down the list and tell you the names of
the guys who are at least out here in the front room on
our team, so at least for this moment you'd know. Our
EREP officer is Bill Brizzolara; Corollary is Merlin Merritt;
ASCO is George Guthrie; our Biomed is Bob White; our
ATM officer is Bob Holkan; GNS is Harry Clancy; our EGIL
is old Charlie Dumis; the INCO is Harry Black; our Procedures
Officer is Kim Anson; our EAO is Pletty Baker; with us tonight
on the network is Fred Wrinkle; and our MCS is Bob Htilli
and _ course, last but not least, our quarterback who
looks more like a right tackle is old Phil Shaffer. And
from everyone of us, we'd sure like to just wish you the
best luck coming home.
CDR Thank you, Dick, that goes double for
us. This whole thing is a super team operation. And I
think - I know we put out a hundred percent, and like
you just said you - -

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Time: 18:11 CDT 57/23:11 GMT
9/22/73

CDR This whole thing is a super team operation.

And I think - I know we've put out i00 percent, and llke you
just you just said, you all did. And I think we did what
we planned to do when we came up here. So I hope everybody
has the same feeling down there about the flight as we do.
We're real happy to have all of these goodies. The Sun co-
operated, the weather cooperated, and you all cooperated,
and we cooperated. And we're real happy. And I personally
feel real good about everything, and I think it's a good Job
for all of us. And I'm real proud to be part of the team.
CC So are we, AI.
SPT I'd like to say thanks to you purple
fellows down there too, Dick and Phil, and all of the rest
of the fellows you've just named. And we want to be seeing
you guys back on the beach there in just about a week. And
all come over and we'll be talking to you personally before
very much longer.
CC Well, we're sure looking forward to it,
so you guys hurry home.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. The next pass, if you want to call us, is about 00:20
at Goldstone. So you guys get a good night's sleep. Good
night, Phil.
SHAFFER Good night, Dick.
CC And good night to Skylab from the whole
purple gang.
SPT Okay, Bill, and Charlie, and Bob and all
you purple guys. See you in about a week.
CC Okay, see you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 23 hours
17 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now out of range
with Vanguard tracking station. Next station to acquire will
be Goldstone in i hour and 4 minutes. As you heard, the crew
of Skylab - 3 has been given the GO to start their rest period.
Also as you heard during that call-up from Capcomm Dick Truly,
this represents the end of the mission for a number of the members
of the purple team of Flight Controllers. Flight Director
Phll Shaffer will be on duty of course during entry. Wake-
up for the crew of Skylab-3 is scheduled for 7 hours Greenwich
mean time. And at 17 hours, correction, 23 hours 17 minutes
on day 57, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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Time: 02:13 CDT, 58/07:13 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 7 hours 13 minutes

and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing the South Pacific is about to come in acquisition
of signal with the Vanguard tracking ship. And we expect
a call up from Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield.
Our last pass over Guam about 25 minutes ago indicated
that Owen Garriott who's wearing the M133 sleep monitor
was still in a moderately sound state of sleep and we
do expect we have to wake them up here at Vanguard although
they may have awaken on their own, since it is about 14
minutes after the hour. We have the line up live now
for air-to-ground through Vanguard, lasting approximately
i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, good morning.
PLT Morning Hank.
CDR Morning Hank.
CC Good morning, we got about 8-1/2 min-
utes left through Vanguard here.
CDR Hank, I got a little something for
the Flight Planners.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, one other thing we had wanted to
do but the time never seem to roll around, was get all
three of us over at the command module for about 2 hours
to go through the entry timeline and just generally become
familiar with the entry book again now that it's been changed.
And it's got paste ins here and there and work through the
normal time line and then imagine that we have problems and
try to find them in the book and make sure we all are kind
of tuned up. And we sort of thought it was going to happen
on the entry minus 5 checks but that turned out to be
only me over there, Jack and Owen were doing other work.
Now it seems to me that perhaps today is the best day to
do it. But it's going require some modification here
it looks like a possible time is around the 20 to 22:00
time and maybe we could ask them what they can do to
shift things around a little bit without shifting the
eating periods or sleeping so that maybe around that time
all three of us could go over to the command module and
work through this entry business.
CC Okay, we - we'll take a look at it, AI.
Our problem here is on all the medical stuff. We're pretty
much boxed in with the momentum management and events. Those
can't be moved at all. The only choice there is cancelling
something. We - we'll take a look at it. Day 55 transfers,
if you were to get along pretty good with those, they might
be generate some time there.
CDR Well, we're going to work on that.
There is a - sure thing isn't anything more important.

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TIME: 02:23 CDT 58/07:23 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Canaries at 34.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PAO Skylah Control at 7 hours and 24 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now passing over Brazil is out of range of the Vanguard
tracking ship. We'll next come within range of the tracking
antenna at Canary Island in about 9 minutes and 25 seconds.
Over Vanguard Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield gave
the wakeup call. Owen Garriott's sleep monitor indicated
that he was sleeping in the deepest possible sleep stage,
but a quick response came from both Jack Lousma and Alan
Bean. Commander Bean asked for a couple of hours during
this pass to work through a checklist for reentry with all
three crewmen on the command module. That came as quite a
shock to Flight Control team here. They are now reviewing
today's activities to see if it's possible to locate 2 hours
for all three crewmen and they're having a bit of difficulty
doing that. We'll give you a further report on that when
some decision has been made here. We'll no doubt have that
decision passed up to Commander Bean. Today's activities
include primarily a medical test and day 55 transfers, that's
moving certain items of film and equipment to the command
module from the orbital workshop and various parts of the
Skylab cluster. This morning the crew will be performing
the MIIO, that's a blood sampling exercise that they've gone
through several times during the mission and they will be
doing a television of it. About 20 minutes on the VTR has
been set aside. And that video tape should be done some time
this morning. Also today there is a handheld photo scheduled
of Mount Ararat in Turkey. And we can give you a little
further report on that later. This is Skylab Control. It's
now 7 hours 26 minutes and 36 seconds Greenwich mean time
and we're about 7 minutes and 54 seconds from acquisition
of signal.

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Time: 02:33 CDT, 58/07:33 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 36 minutes

and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're about 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Canary Islands. And we'll
bring the line up live for alr-to-ground through Canary
Island and Madrid, lasting approximately 14 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and
Madrid for 14 minutes and we'll be dumping the recorder at
Madrid about 5 minutes from now.
CC And, Skylab, if we could have the DAS
for a minute or two, we'll be uplinking the momentum bias.
PLT Okay, Hank. AII yours.
CDR Hank, we need some information on stowage.
Exactly how many EREP tapes go in which boxes. That way I
can stash those things in the right boxes and then work around
them.
CC Okay. I'ii get you an answer.
CC CDR, Houston. A-9 should get i0 of them
and A-5 gets three.
CDR Okay. On that i0, how many go in the
forward part and how many go in the lower part?
CC Okay. We'll work that.
CC And, Skylab, the DAS is yours.
CC CDR, Houston. Have you got a moment to
talk about what we might do with the Flight Plan?
CDR You bet, go ahead.
CC Okay. AI, what we're looking at here is
the possibility of deleting test one and two on either
the PLT or yourself, which would give us about 45 minutes to
show time for two crew members to work on the Day 55 trans-
fer th_ t are scheduled at 20:00. And these are primary film
transfers which take two guys. The other thing we're looklng
at, is we've set up some messages on the S082 which is
primarily removing screws out of the kick plate, but we can
delay that and generate some time there in the 14 - 13:30 to
15:30 time period that you have transfers alone to do
some more film transfers by freeing up the PLT to help
you there. And then to get all of you then, - then also
the PLT can help with some of the transfers that you would
normally be doing at 14 to 15:00 and cancelling the
removing screws that your 9:00 o'clock would also give you
time to work some more of that in. And then around 19:00
we would cancel the SO19 off, move the PLT's activities up
into that area in which would leave all three of you a couple
of hours free from 20 to 22:00.
CDR That latter suggestion appeals to me
greatly and I can - What we can do maybe, somehow, is work
along, for example, myself, do this urine and eat and then
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start working on 55 until it's time to do the test and

do the test and then go work on 55 some more, eat - you
know say, do a 55 and that would free me up down there,
probably, maybe, if I can get finished. And the same
sort of thing then for Owen and Jack, like you just pointed
out.

CC Okay. What it would take, I think, AI,

would be all of what I read up to you. And since that what
it amounts to is not doing anything on removing the screws
from the kick plate and then that leaves you quite a bit of
free time then to work on the - by doing a little something
in his schedule there with the PLT to work on that film
transfer. And then using that screw time also for you to
work on your solo transfers. And the PLT, of course, can
help on that some too.
CDR Okay. That sounds real good to me.
And you can hand up the SO19 pad. And if we end up having
time, we can do it. If we don't because of the predictions
right now, then we won't. I think it's hard to gain. I
haven't gained any insight in how long this things going
to take. It may start going faster. It may go slow. A
lot of it just depends on where you can round up the gear
and whether somebody wants you to put it in the bag or not,
whether the bag's really in the place it's supposed to be.
CC Okay. And we mentioned deleting the
test i and 2 on one of you, and guess biomed preference is
to delete that on yourself. And the ans - and that'll give
you and the SPT about 45 more minutes to in parallel that
you can work the film transfer together.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. We'll start planning
on doing that right now, then.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 08:23.

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Time: 02:48 CDT, 58/07:48 GMT
9/23/73

CDR You still there, Hank?

CC We're just going LOS.
CDR Okay, we'll talk to yon next
PAO Skylab Control; at 7 hours 49 minutes
and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now passed out of range of the Madrid tracking antennas
over eastern Europe. During this last pass some discussion
of what changes might be made o today's Flight Plan,
indication right now is that they may delete the operation
of SC19, and they also make some movement of the suit drying
and housekeeping operations that are later in the day.
Also will be - delete the test of MO92, those are test 1
and 2, which take about 45 minutes for that. They will
not of course delete the M092 run, but they will delete
the test number I and 2 on the Commander. They will use
that time for day 55 transfers instead. They also will
delay the general message on SO82, which is the screw
removal. On SO82 that's prior to replacement of the timer
for the Skylab-IV crew. That SO82 activity will be delayed
part of it at least between 14 and 15:00 Greenwich mean
time. And the Pilot will use that time to give some
assistance in the transfers. Purpose of all these changes
is of course to respond to Commander Bean's request at
Vanguard to have a couple of hours for all three crew
members to work through the checklist for re-entry, of
course this - this re-entry is a little different than
previous re-entries in that it's a single burn re-entry
and it does have the problem of the two quads not functioning
properly those are the quads that have been inactive since
very early in the mission due to leakage in them. So changes
are now being made so that about 2 hours will be set aside
for all three crew members to run over the checklist in
the command module a little later in the day. That will
be - probably be between 20:00 and 22:00 Greenwich mean
time. We're now 32 minutes from acquisition of signal
at the Honeysuckle tracking station. This is Skylab
Control; at 51 minutes and 25 seconds after the hour.

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TIME: 03:22 CDT 58/08:22 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 22 minutes

and 32 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now just about to acquire signal at Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. And we have the line up live for air-to-ground
through there. The pass lasting about 5 minutes and 20
seconds. The Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield is
going to read up the changes here to the Flight Plan for
today in response to AI Bean's request and we do have
acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If one of you could
break free, I'd llke to get you to mark up one of your
Flight Plans as we see it and see how it works out.
CDR Let us do it in a few minutes, Hank.
SPT[ Hank, are you there.
CC Roger. For another 3 minutes.
SPT AI thought he would prefer to have his
earlobe stuck instead of his finger stuck for the hemoglobin
check this morning. Can your Flight Surgeon down there
advise me as to the best location on the earlobe for the
painless puncture.
CC Okay. We'll check it.
SPT Okay. Go ahead with the Flight Plan
update too, Hank.
CC Okay. I guess the easiest thing to do
is to go down each column as we see it. On the C_R at 09:00
in place of the general message S082, we would do day 55
transfers. And at 17:00 delete test i and 2. That will
free us up about 45 minutes at the end of the M092 period
there, so at about 18:00 right after subject, we'd add in
some more day 55 transfers. For the SPT, at 12:00 in place
of general message S082, we'll put in RF prep. And at 17:00
also for the SPT, we'll delete i and 2 and give him day 55
transfers around 18:00 there on the Flight Plan. For the PLT,
what we would do is at 14:00, delete the RF prep and the
GMS082 and it's place day 55 transfers. That'll help you
with the film transfer. And at 16:00 delete the S082 and
let him pick up some more of the day 55 transfers. And at
18:00 in place of the eat period, we're going to do PT and PH,
and slide his eat period down to 19:00, where we'll cancel TO53,
the photos, and the photo setups. And by sliding the
housekeeping and the food drying down into the further end of
the post sleep, that should give all three of you a couple of hours
free there around 20:00 to 22:00.
SPT Perfect Hank. Thanks. Thank the Flight
Directors for reacting fast on that thing.
CC And we're about to go LOS here, we'll
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be coming up on Canaries at 09:13 and an additional comment,

if anybody does have any free time in this schedule, we
would like to try some of those screws just so we can get
a timeline onhow long it takes to an average to remove
those things.
SPT Okay.
CC And for the SPT, prick the bottom of
the earlobe.
SPT Is that the front or the back bottom.
Oh, right on the very bottom, huh?
CC That's affirmative.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 30 minutes.
We're just about out of range of signal, but we do have
a couple of seconds left and we'll keep the line up for
another little while.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 31 minutes
and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab now out of
range of the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station. It's
passing over New Zealand at this time. During this last
pass Hank Hartsfield, the spacecraft communicator did read
up those changes to the Flight Plan. Relatively few are
major changes. Most of the problems, of course being
moving the day 55 transfers around so that there's enough
free time between 20:00 and 22:00 hours to allow all three
crew members to participate in a review of checklist for
the command module reentry procedures. The main changes to
that are for the Commander moving the day 55 transfers to
earlier periods in the day. Those day 55 transfers will be
completed in place of the S082 screw removal, which is to
be taking place about 08:45, which is a few minutes from now.
He'll begin those day 55 transfers then and work on those for
about 25 minutes. And then later in the day he will have a
cancellation of his tests of i and 2 on the M092. Those
tests are to check the efficiency of the leg muscle in
removing blood from the leg. The tests were origlnally
adopted in day 50, that's about 8 days ago, and the purpose
of them was to get a little bit of information in addition
to the M092 run on what effect the leg muscle might have
in getting blood to flow after the lower body negative
pressure device had been operated. The tests have been
run a number of times in the past and biomedical officer
here suggested the best candidate for not repeating the
tests would be Commander Bean. The tests will be run,
however today on the Pilot Jack Lousma and that's in the
early morning period. So in place of those tests, which
take about 45 minutes there will be some more day 55 transfers
during that period for the Commander. On the Science Pilot,
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the major change, he will be doing the refrigeration system

preparation. That's a preparation to run both coolant loops
on the refrigeration system. We'll give you some information
about that. Take place about 12:00 and it will take place in
as a substitute to his general message S082, that's again
the screw removal in preparation for installation of a
timer at the beginning of Skylab IV. Also a cancellation
of the observation of tests i and 2 for the Commander. The
Science Pilot will no longer be observer for the Commanders
test 1 and 2. That gives him 45 minutes. And that 45
minute period will be occupied with day 55 transfers as
well. And perhaps the most important change is the
Commander will be taking out his general message SO82 period,
which is the rather extensive one. A little over an hour
this afternoon. About an hour and 25 minutes. And he will
be doing day 55 transfers in place of that. His physical
training and also personal hygiene period will be moved
from it's present time which is around 15:00 to 16:00 GMT
and that will now take place at the time he was originally
scheduled to be eating. The eating period will then be
slipped to immediately thereafter and S019 operations, it
looks like right now, will be scrubbed. That's not entirely
certain, the crew did indicate they would like to do those
if there was an opportunity to do so, but as it stands
right now, S019 operations have been eliminated for later this
afternoon. So there will be a change there, in that day
55 transfers will be participated in by Pilot Jack Lousma,
he was not scheduled to take part in the day 55 transfers,
but he will be spending an extended period of time,
approximately from 1!5:00 to 17:30 today working on day 55
transfers. All three of these changes, or all of these
changes to the three crew members schedules will be with the
purpose of freeing up the time from 20:00 to 22:00 so that
checks can be run on the checklist. That was a request
given by AI Bean this morning right after wakeup at
Vanguard a little over an hour ago. This is Skylab Control
with 37 minutes and 24 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal and it's now 35 minutes and 40 seconds after the
hour.

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Time: 04:12 CDT, 58/09.12 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 12 minutes

and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on
acquisition of signal at Canary Islands. We'll have a
pass through Canary Islands and Madrid. And we have a call
up here from• the spacecraft communicator. We're live for
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Canary Islands and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Good morning, Bruce.
CC Good morning, Jack. Hey, while I'm
talking to you. When you look at your SOl9 pad for later
on today, you may note that since we are not getting any
more NUZ updates you've got to do all the work with
Achernar and figure out the Deltas to your rotation and tilt
settings before you perform the rest of the experiment.
Over.
PLT Oh, yeah. I see that. I'ii be
sure to get that a little early and do that, Bruce.
CC Okay. And by the way. It was Just pointed
out to me that performing SOl9 at all today, is your option
but if you're going to work it in, you need to do that.
And in voicing up the Flight Plan changes last time one item
was omitted. You were scheduled for PT and PH running from
approximately 15:00 to 15:45. This is moved down to
the 18:00 time frame. And the day 55 transfers go ahead
and fill in your schedule up through 15:45. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you. Got that.
CC And for the CDR, when he feels like
talking, I've got the pictures and some words on A-9 locker
stowage. Over.
CDR Now's the time.
CC Okay. No time like the present time.
Basically, since you are not bringing back the S183 film
container, and the return support, and things like this,
what they've done is add two more EREP tape reels in the
aft side of the locker. By aft, I'm referring to the side
toward the side hatch. And parallel to the existing four
or five - parallel to the existing bundle of six in the
middle. And then after that, you've got the M518 cartridges
and things of this sort. Over.
CDR Okay. Now all I've noticed in there
was one addition. How many should be in that box total?
CC There should be i0 total. What you've
got is a lump, if you will, of six of them on the optics
G&N side of the locker. And one on each side and then
coming back from that lump of six, we have two more and
I'm trying to see what it is in between the lump of six
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and the lump of two. It looks like the CO2 passive filter
inlet two of them. One on each side of the SO55 door ramp.
Over.
CDR Okay. By the way, I had to take out
the S149 mounting fixture to get the EREP takes to fit in
A-9 without touching the top of the box.
CDR Do you have a 149 that could fit in
there - a box that could fit? Or have you got both of them
over in A-6?
CC We've got both of them over in A-6.
Is the word I'm getting here.
CDR That's a good word. That's a lot better
words than I'm working on at the moment. One thing. These
sweat samples that we took about a week ago, as I recll,
we were told to stow them down with the fecal samples. I
can't remember for sure. I'ii have to check. But if we
did, they're presently stowed in fecal bundles somewhere,
so we' Ii just bring them home in the fecal bundles. And
they've got sweat sample written on the front of them instead
of fecal.
CC Okay. The word we' re getting around
here is no sweat.
CC And, we have a message in the teleprinter
for you. Next time somebody gets by the SCS you might
pick it up.
CDR Okay. And I think I'ii take out this
A-7 locker without a lock top and put it somewhere to get
this command module a little more freed up.
CC Roger, AI. That locker does, eventually,
get replaced with the urine retain container- the urine return
container anyway, so press on.
CDR I've got an SO20 cushion in A-6. Should
I pull that out or is it removable?
CC Stand by we'll get you an answer on that.
CC And did you copy AI, about that A-7
position being taken by the urine return container anyway?
CDR You bet.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for the CDR.
We believe the S020 cushion in A-6 snaps out. In any event,
it is removable. And should be pulled out. SO20 is not
coming back. We've got a little over i minute to LOS here.
Next station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon at
09:53 where we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Over.
CDR Okay. I kept working on 20 - SO20 cushion.
Could never get it out.
CC Okay. Do you need to get it out to put
_he contents of the locker in, or does it look llke it will
go without it ?
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CDR Well, so far it's okay. I'II Just

leave it in. It looks to me like it may be bonded. You
know a lot of times it's snapped, but I couldntt get it out.
CC Okay. We'll look into it again during
this LOS period. The word we got back was that it was in
there with snaps, but we'll check it.

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Time: 04:12 CDT, 58/09:12 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 9 hours 26 minutes

and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now crossing the border of the Soviet Union is out of
range of the Madrid tracking antenna. Our next acquisition
of signal 26 minutes and 18 seconds from now we'll be at
Carnarvon. The Flight Director is apparently catching on
to the slight degree of craziness that's been induced by the
shift in circadian rhythm of the crew sent up a couple of
messages one - one message uplinked last night says as
follows: Message is general message on news men for all
crew members, we have some good news and some bad news.
First the good news, there is no bad news. The bad news
that's all the good news there is. That concluded the
genreal message on news sent up last night. Now at
Canary Island just a few minutes ago, we had another message.
This one general message 583 - 5835C for mission day 58
general message on BVD change; for all crew members good
news and bad news again. First the good news, in preparation
for returning to Earth you get to change you underwear.
Now for the bad news; Jack you give yours to Owen. Owen
you give yours to AI. And AI you give yours to Jack.
That's end of message on general message on BVD change.
This is Skylab Control; 25 minutes until our next acquisition
of signal. It's now exactly 28 minutes after the hour.

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TIME: 04:52 CDT 58/09:52 GMT
9_23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 52 minutes

and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on
acquisition of signal at the Carnarvon, Australia tracking
station. We' ii be up live for an extended pass lasting
14 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control. The spacecraft communi-
cator now is Bruce McCandless as it was at the last pass,
and we do have acquisition at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for
14 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 13-1/2 minutes. And we're scheduled
to dump your data voice tape recorders here. Over.
CC And for the CDR, with reference to the
SO20 cushion in A-6, further checking shows that that's
bonded in. We think you can leave it in place without
interfering with the return stowage. Over.
CDR Okay. We've got a little information
to pass on to you about a sound wetve been hearing up here
lately.
CC Pass.
CDR Okay. The first time we heard it was
about - we think - was the last EVA, but we' re not sure.
CC Is this -
CDR It only happened one time and we thought
it was something else.
CC Is this Mister Hertz at four per second?
Over.
CDR No. Different.
CC Go.
CDR You got a few minutes.
CC Twelve of them.
CDR Okay. That's a few. All right. What -
Yesterday, we started hearing this gurgling sound. And it
sounded like high pressure air was being squirted out under
water or a shaft on an electric motor was squeaking. Mostly
it sounded to me like high pressure air gurgling under water
or a relief valve relieving. So we tracked it down. And
we found that it was not in the spacecraft, but it seemed
to be outside the spacecraft, at the point where we could
hear it best, so we thought it was probably right at that
point, was out in the lock compartment - let me give you a
good position now - let me cross and I'ii give you a good
position. It's a little bit further aft than the relief valve,
which incidentally is closed, because that was an obvious thought,
that somehow the relief valve was making the noise. It
was a little bit further aft than that, but still before
you get to the next frame. Now, you' Ii hear it - hear it
gurgling. You'll come up there and listen to it and it'll
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do it for maybe i0 seconds, stop, do it for 5 seconds, stop

for another 30 seconds, do it for i0 seconds, and that's it.
Then you won't hear it again for another hour or two. Then
it goes through the same (garble). Now we heard it earlier
last night. We all listened to it, then it kicked off
about 4 or 5 times again last night. And it's done it
about twice this morning that we've heard it.
CC We're still with you.
CDR That's all we know. It's a real
stranger.
SPT And we're obviously going to hit the vent
window because I'm going to pump Jack down in about 2
minutes.
CC Okay. And the same sort of thing in
connection with the wierd noises. If you do notice the
4 hertz noise again on channel B. We got a fairly simple
procedure we'd like you to run through. I can sum it up
as saying record on the VTR the steps would be to connect
the VTR voice cable to the channel B and the SIA.
Initiate VTR recording, the camera not being required, put
some voice on the VTR, and put 30 seconds of the 4 cycle
noise on the VTR with no voice and then let us know
over the next station and we'll dump it and see what
we've got down here. Over.
CDR Will do.
CC And that of course, is to get the
thing on record, since we can't do a record on channel B
any more from inside the airlock on the airlock module
system.
CC CDR, this is Houston. For your in-
formation, we're not seeing blood pressure measuring system
readings at the present time. We are wondering if you're
getting them on board. Over.
CDR I was in the process of setting it
when you called. How does it look now?
CC Looks good now.
CDR On your miscellaneous stowage transfers
they indicate that they want us to bring home the last
two C02 passive filter cartridges we used. Jack indicates
that we can tell - possibly we can bring home eight, those
two will be in there somewhere, but we don't know which
two are the last two.
CC Okay. We copy that. We'll get you
an answer in a pass or two.

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 SL-III MC-2447/I
Time: 05:01 CDT, 58/10:01 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute

to LOS. Next station contact in 34-1/2 minutes through
Merritt Island, at 10:40. Out.
CC And for the CDR. As we go over the
hill here, with respect to that procedure for recording
the four Hertz signal on the VTR. We just discovered
that in order to record the voice satisfactorily you need
the sync signal coming from somewhere. We recommend that
you hook up the portable TV camera and operate that in
order to provide the sync signal to the VTR. Over.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 7 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing New Zealand out of range of the Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia tracking antenna. During this pass over
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle there was an announcement from
Commander Alan Bean about a sound that they've heard during
the EVA yesterday, and following that. A gurgling sound
• that Bean described as sounding like high pressure air
bubbling under water. Or possibly something escaping from
a relief valve. Bean said that the crew tracked it to the
_ outside of the spacecraft and indicated it was further to
the aft part of the workshop and that it goes on and off.
And he said he heard it four or five times last night
and once or twice today. The environmental general instrumen-
tation llfe support system's engineer here at Mission Control
indicated that apparently the period of time between the
gurgles is about 1-1/2 hours. And that that corresponds
of course, to the orbital cycle of the workshop, which may
indicate it has something to do with temperature changes
that take place during that orbital cycle. Period of
revolution, of course of the orbital workshop now about
93 minutes. No indication right now what that is and
the environmental engineers here will be looking into various
things that might possibly cause such a thing. Three possibilities
have been indicated so far. One of them is the primary
coolant loop and the secondary coolant loop that's associated
of course with that. It's possible that that may be the source of
the coolant leak. Another possibility is that it may have
something to do with the suit umbilicals which of course
are stored in the same area. And it's also possible that
the heater system or the coolant or - The heater system
may also be responsible for some of that sound. The exact
location hasn't even - has not yet been determined by the
EGIL, but they will be looking over the charts now to try
to determine exactly where that was. He did say it was
toward the aft end of the space station from the - from
their vantage point and I assume that's at the airlock
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module. Also, some discussion of last two filters of

carbon dioxide filters. And those couldn't be identified
by A1 Bean. He said he can bring all eight of them back.
The filters are used for removing carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere. They're very very small filters about 3/4ths Of
an inch in diameter by about 2-1/2 inches long. And the
reason for bringing those back is that the engineers from
the Marshall Space Flight Center have indicated that they
believe that the carbon dioxide filters may show some
indication of coolanol if it has been inside the stationls
atmosphere. No certainty about that and it's generally
believed that the eoolanol has not been in the atmosphere
but the Marshall engineers did ask for the final two
filters. The filters were, however, taken out about 15 days
ago. And at that time the request did not come in. So
it is not possible now to identify which two of the eight.
But because they are small, they may be considered for
return. This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of
signal about 29 minutes from now will be at Merritt Island.
It's now ii minutes and 14 seconds after the hour.

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 SL III MC-2448/I
TIME: 05:39 CDT 58/10:39 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 39 minutes

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now crossing over the Panama Canal Zone, about to acquire
signal through the Merritt Island tracking station. The
pass through Merrltt Island and Bermuda will last approximately
i0 minutes. We have the line up llve now for air-to-ground
between Merritt Island and Bermuda and we'll have a call up
from Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through _erritt
Island and Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes for the SPT. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for ii minutes for the SPT. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Owen. If we can interrupt you
for a minute, we've got a little test we'd like to run on
ATM TV monitor number i. Over.
SPT Stand by just a moment and I'ii be up
there.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay. I'm at the panel, Bruce. What
would you like?
CC Okay. Over there on the left hand side
of the console power distribution, we'd like you to cycle
the monitor 1 main power circuit breaker to out and then
back in once please. Over.
SPT Roger. It's out now. And it's in
again now. Test completed.
CC Okay. Give us a MARK and turn the
monitor 1 power switch ON and give it 1 minute to warm up.
SPT Roger. STANDBY. MARK. MON 1 power ON.
CC And let us know if during this period
of time the raster appears on MON i.
SPT Unfortunately not.
CC Okay. We'd llke you to turn the MON 1
power switch OFF. And go back and cycle the main power
circuit breaker several times and leave it in CLOSED and
we've got a handover here to Bermuda in about 30 seconds.
SPT Okay. The power switch is OFF and the
circuit breaker is a MON 1 breaker from experiment - from
main. That's right. Main to MON 1 and I'll cycle it several
times.
CC Roger.
CC Okay. We're with you now through Bermuda,
Owen. When you've completed cycling the breaker, we'd llke
to go through three cycles and we'll give you a MARK for
the following: TV monitor 1 power switch to ON for i0 seconds
and then OFF for 60 seconds. If you're ready to go, why go
ahead and turn it ON. MARK.
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TIME: 05:39 CDT 58/10:39 GMT
9/23/73

SPT Roger. I turned it ON on your MARK.

CC Okay. OFF. MARK.
SPT Roger.
CC What we're doing here is watching on
telemetry, seeing if we can get an indication that there's
at least a transient of power indicating that power would
be coming up to the input of the TV MON i, maybe into an
input filter or something of that sort, that would allow
us to send up a replacement unit on SL IV and be assured
of getting power up to the connectors.
SPT Yeah. That sounds like a good idea.
SPT I thought once I heard a click on the
intercomm here when the - I opened the circuit breaker, but
I didn' t hear it after that.
CC Okay. Standing by to turn it ON again.
MARK.
SPT Roger.
CC Standing by for OFF. MARK.
SPT Okay. And if you don't see anything,
positive, it might be worth doing the same thing on MON 2
one time, just so that you' ii see the signature - what it
shouid look like.
CC We copy your suggestion, Owen, but since
MON 2 is working normally, we don't think it is necessary.
The effects would be much larger, since it's drawing - would
be drawing normal power and having shut it down, we'd just
as soon not cycle it. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Standing by for the last ON
cycle. MARK.
CC And going back OFF again. MARK.
SPT Comp lete.
CC Okay. That completes the test. Thank
you. We're sorry to have to break into your schedule like
this.
SPT No problem. Does it look like that it
told you anything. Did you see any changes down there on
the telemetry or do you need to look at it a little while.
CC We need to look at the high speed data.
Right now, it' s just on the tubes that it shows up in the
MOCR. We didn' t see anything, but we' ii examine it on the
high speed tracers and let you know later.
SPT Thank you Bruce.
CDR What did you all decide to do about the
C02 filters?
CC We' re still working that one, AI.
CDR Okay. Let me give you another one to
work.
CC Okay. You' re all heart.
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9/23/73

CDR Say again.

CC You're all heart. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. I was working on collecting the
food they want brought back. Two items, we don't have.
One is eggs. One is apple drink. Now, they may want me to
bring back some of SL IV's one egg and one apple drink. Now,
if that's true, you have to send me where it's located and I'ii
go get it and I'll put it in the bag.
CC Okay. We'll do that. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2minutes through Madrid
at 10:55. Over.

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SL-III MC-2449/I
Time: 05:50 CDT, 58/10:50 GMT
9/23/73

CDR I just looked at something and maybe

I know where I can find an egg. Let me go work on the eggs
a minute.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 52 minutes
and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now over the north Atlantic is out of range of our tracking
station at Bermuda, but we're about a minute and 35 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Madrid tracking station.
That pass through Madrid will last approximately 8 minutes.
At the present time Science Pilot Owen Garrlott is preparing
to take the hand held photograph scheduled to be taken
during this pass over Turkey. The time of the photograph
will be approximately 11:08 Greenwich mean time. That's
about 16 minutes from now. And the photograph is going to
be of Mount Ararat in Turkey, repeatedly the place that
Noah's ark landed after its 40-day voyage. The elevation
of Mount Ararat 16,946 feet. It's 60 miles - nautical
miles northeast of Lake Van in Turkey. We're coming up
with air-to-ground in a little over a minute and we'll
keep the line up live for communications between Bruce
McCandless the spacecraft communicator and the crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Madrid for 7-1/2 minutes. For the CDR.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Madrid for 7 minutes. For the CDR, over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Ready.
CC Okay. With respect to your question
on the food. Looks like the scrambled eggs should be in
F550 and overage. If they're not there, you can look in
the SL-4 overage, which is in F562 front bundle over can
number 28. We show all the apple drinks as being stowed
in location F548, which is over to the left of your frozen
food lockers and it was in the second bundle of the SL-2
crew's move out of the galley on activation. Over.
CDR Okay. I've got the scrambled eggs out
of where you said. Out of 562 front. And we've drank all
the apple drink. There isn't an apple dring one in the
spacecraft, unless it belongs to Gerry's crew somewhere.
It's not in overage. We got all the overage drinks.
CC The word we've got is that all the
apple drinks that were on the spacecraft was in that F548
location.
CDR That's gone long time in the MO7172.
CC Sounds llke you might have eaten the
data.

CDR That's it, unless they want us to bring

home applesauce. We've got some of that.
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CC Well, the apple drink will be coming

home in some other form, but just transformed.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, one minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 25-1/2 minutes through
Carnarvon at 11:28. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at II hours 4 minutes
and 7 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of signal as it passes over the eastern
portion of Europe. About 23 minutes and 53 seconds to
our next acquisition of signal and that will be at Carnarvon
Australia. During this pass Science Pilot Owen Garriott
is scheduled to be doing that hand-held photo, the only
one scheduled for today. Later today, he will also,
however, make a hand-held photograph of the laser that's expected
to be beamed up from Greenbelt, Maryland. The Goddard
Space Flight Center. This - about the fifth run of that
laser activity. Two of them successfully spotted by the
crew last week. And two of them apparently blacked out by
bad weather. The run today, will be with one watt power on
the laser at Goddard. That's the lowest amount used so
far they have run it at 20 and 2-1/2 watts on the successful
days that they did see it. One or two photographs to
be taken by Science Pilot Garriott roughly at - that's approxi-
mately at 12:30 Greenwich mean time, about an hour and a half
from now that's on the next revolution around the Earth. This
is Skylab Control it's now 22 minutes and 48 seconds to
acquisition of signal and 5 minutes 24 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-III MC-2450/I
Time: 06:27 CDT, 58/11:27 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control; at Ii hours 27 minutes

and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now just about to be acquired through the tracking antenna
at Carnarvon Australia. This pass through Carnarvon will
last about 10-1/2 minutes, and there will be followed in
a short time through Honeysuckle lasting about 5 minutes.
We'll have the line up live for communications between
Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless and the crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 15 minutes. Checklist -
Flight Plan change for the SPT. The T05S operations
scheduled today for about 12:20 has been cancelled due
to overcast weather at the Goddard Spaceflight Center. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, I have it.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Getting back to
you on the question of the apple drink, no substituted is
required for the apple drink for return this beverage has
been selected as being potentially most susceptible to
change due to temperature, however the fact that you
consumed all of them seems to verify its acceptability
for human consumption, and a scrambled egg which you
obtained out of that F562 will be quite satis factory. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce we copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to
handover. Pick you up at Honeysuckle in a little over a
minute. We will be rewinding the video tape recorder and
taking control of the per - schedules at Honeysuckle. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce the VTR is yours.

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SL-III MC-2451/1
Time: 06:38 CDT, 58/11:38 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab this is Houston, one minute

to LOS. Next station contact in 29 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 12:12. Out.
SPT Bruce_ on the 133 deactivation, there's
apparently a tape canister bag that goes around the return
canister. I've never found that bag, but I also don*t
think it is really necessary. I've got the tapes into
the cannisters and wonder if it's just satisfactory to go
ahead and stow the canister itself without the bag?
CC We copy, Owen. We'll try and get you
an answer. We've got about i0 seconds before scheduled
LOS here.
SPT Understand. The next pass is fine.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 44 minutes
and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now passing south of New Zealand is out of range of the
tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Our
next acquisition of signal is about 27-1/2 minutes from
now. That will be at Texas. During this last pass we
did have an announcement from ground that a couple of things
will be changed. One is that there will be no T053 laser
siting attempt at Maryland. The reason is, of course,
cloud cover at Goddard. And Goddard Space Flight Center
will not be sending a beam of light up towards the space-
craft as they have on previous days. And for that reason,
T053 has been cancelled twice today. The first one was
cancelled earlier because of the changes being made to
the Flight Plan to arrange approximately 2 hours this evening
for the three members of the crew to go back to the command
module and review the checklist for reentry. That request
was made by Commander Alan Bean over Vanguard during the
first pass of today, just after 2:00 a.m. central daylight
time today. A number of other changes were made at that
time to the Flight Plan. One of the changes, the cancella-
tion of test one and two on the MO92. Those tests on Commander
A1 Bean, were cancelled to shorted his run by 45 minutes
to allow some additional time this evening for that reentry
checklist review. The test are test that are not immediately
a part of the MO92 run. The M092 run will be completed
today on all three crew members. That's the lower body
negative pressure test. Those tests will be completed on
all three crewmembers, however, the additional tests, which
were added during the last week or so by medical officers
were tests that would Judge the ability of the muscle to
participate in the return of blood from the lower body.
And their ability to overcome pooling of blood. These
tests are some of the additional experiments that were
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added because of additional time available to the crew. On

that additional time that was not available today, they -
the run of those two tests on Commander AI Bean was cancelled.
Science Pilot Owen Garriott was reporting during this last
past, that M133 deactivation was underway. He is running
a bit behind with doing the M133, apparently, but he will
no doubt catch up now in the next few minutes. Approximately
12:00 o'clock Greenwich mean time, just i0 or 15 minutes
from now, Science Pilot Garriott will be working on the
refrigeration system preparation. Preparations are very
simple ones. He's going to remove a unit that forbids the
two cooling loops that serve the refrigeration area from
operating at the same time. The reason for removing this
is that the end of the last Skylab mission we had a temporary
problem with the refrigeration system and during that period
the freezer became relatively warm moving the temperatures
in the area of 15 to 20 degrees. They normally are deep
freezers kept below zero. The reasons for that are still
not well understood by mission control officers, but it's
believed that it was a flaw in the radiator bypass valve,
which forces it to stick in a position that did not allow
enough coolant fluid to go out to the radiators. Because
that's a matter of concern now, that that could happen again,
for whatever reasons it happened at the end of the last
mission, they've decided to set up a system that will allow
them to run both cooling loops at the same time. This
would allow the coolant to keep the refriEerations systems
relatively cold even if there were to be such a sticking
of radiator valves. The way it was solved last time was
approximately 300 commands were sent up during the period
after the crew undocked from the spacecraft. And those
commands eventually did free up the radiator bypass valve.
• At least that's what's believed here. They're not absolutely
certain that's the reasoning behind the solution of the
problem. But the temperatures did start coming down again
and they went back well within range to protect the food in
those freezers. This is Skylab Control. We are now about
24 minutes from our next acquisition of signal, and it's
48 minutes and 51 seconds after the hours.

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SL III MC-2452/I
TIME: 07:11 CDT 58/12:11 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours Ii minutes

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
the Skylab space station crossing the Pacific Ocean is
about to reach acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking
station in Corpus Christi. This pass through the U.S.
stationswill be an extended one lasting approximately 17
minutes. We have the line up live now for air-to-ground
through the H.S. stations.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 14 minutes.
Dumping data voice tape recorder over Corpus Christi, and
for the SPT, the last place that we tracked the M133, stowage
bag for return is in $913, that's $913. It may be in
another bag or with some other bags in that location. Over.
SPT Good. I'll take a look there, but it
doesn't really look it needs a bag anyway. That's what I'd
like confirmation on also, please. Okay, I'll check 913
again.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CC Okay Owen. If you can't find the
provided stowage bag. Take some of the prowerbial gray tape
and tape them securely together and bring them back like that.
SPT Well, the mag tapes are not loose. They're
inside a hard metal canister right now. And it's just the
bag that goes around the canister that I couldn't find. And
that's the thing that I don't really think is necessary.
They've got a hard cover metal can - canister enclosing both
of the tapes.
CC Roger. We understand all that. Our
understanding is you're bring back two of these tape assemblies.
We were suggesting taping the two assemblies together to keep
them from rattling against each other.
SPT Well, they slip inside this container
which holds them firmly, so there's no way for them to rattle
around.
CC Okay. One container total.
SPT That's right. One container containing
the two tapes.

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SL-III MC-2453/I
Time: 07:26 CDT, 58/12:26 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute

to LOS. Next station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through
Madrid at 12:33. And for the SPT, did you find that bag
in $913, or are you bringing the 133 stuff back without a
bag. Over.
SPT We're bringing it back.
CC Roger. We copy. You're bringing it
back.
SPT I didn't find the covers in 913, Bruce.
CC Okay. Thank you.
No sweat - -
SPT Say, Bruce, I do notice that the 133
deactivation did not say anything at all about this large
can full of electrolite needles and that sort of stuff that
I brought up in order to make the caps work. And I wonder
if they just want me to trash airlock that stuff, or have
any desire for any of that stuff to be handled otherwise.
Over.
CC We'll catch you over Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 29 minutes
and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now over the North Atlantic, out of range of the Bermuda
tracking antenna. And about 3 minutes and i0 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Madrid, Spain. We have a weather
forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, the National Weather Service, and the space
flight meteorology group here. They said this morning,
that satisfactory weather is expected for the landing for
the Skylab Command Module on Tuesday afternoon. The landing
zone is located about 230 miles southwest of San Diego.
The report from the space flight meteorology group indicates
that that area will be under cloudy skies and 9 tempera-
ture in the upper 60's for the Tuesday landing. Surface
winds should be northerly i0 to 14 knots and the seas near
5 feet. That's this morning's weather report, 12:00 Green-
wich mean time weather report from the space flight
meteorology group, here at Johnson Space Center. We've
begun dumping the television that was made this morning by
the Skylab crew, of blood samplln_. This is TV 4, about 12.3
minutes recorded on the VTR. And about half of that has
now been dumped at Texas. The video tape will be returned
to Houston about i0:00 a.m. this morning. That's central
daylight time. We're now about a minute and 49 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Madrid. Another point, the
crew this morning indicated they couldn't find any
apple drink to return. They were requested by the medical
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9/23/73

officers to return the apple drink. The reasons for returning

it, as spacecraft communicator Bruce McCandless indicated, were -
the medical officers did want to check it for any possible
deterioration. This was one of the products that was considered
to be the most susceptible to deterioration, but was considered
well within the safe range. Certain other items were considered
not to be acceptable and those were eliminated from the
diet. Both scrambled eggs and apple drink were required
for the return, but the apple drink has all been used up
by the crew and there is no - none _board, not even in the Skylab
IV supplies. They did borrow, however, scrambled eggs
from the Skylab-IV overage, the extra supply for Skylab-IV.
They have been eating a good deal of that extra supply during
this mission. Flight Director was joking with the CAP COM
a short while ago about the fact that maybe they had been
drinking a little of that apple juice during their last
Earth Resources pass, when they were kidding a good deal.
This is Skylab Control, we'll have the line up now for the
Madrid pass, lasting about 7 minutes and 44 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for _ minutes. Out.
CDR Say, Bruce. I forgot to mention that
I looked over that entry briefing that was sent up this
morning, for correcting - or verifying my checklist was
correct and it was completely correct. And everything's
just right.
CC Okay. So much for the good news. Great.

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SL-III MC-2454/I
Time: 07:39 CDT, 58/.12:39 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston 30 seconds to

LOS. Next station contact in 39 minutes through Honeysuckle,
Creeek at 13:19. And for your information there's a
pretty good aurora australis going on. You should be
able to see just after sunset down by Honeysuckle. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce thank you. We had a little
2485.
PAO Skylab, Control; at 12 hours 42 min-
utes and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space
station now passing over the eastern Mediterranean is out
of range of the Madrid tracking antenna and is about 36 min-
utes and 54 seconds from our next acquisition of signal.
The _ery end of this pass Spacecraft Communicator Bruce
McCandless indicated that the crew will have an excellent
opportunity to view aurora Australis over the southern light.
During this next pass they're about 27 minutes now from
sunset on the space station, and that would put them over
the Indian Ocean at the time they'd be able to see the
aurora, sugesstion was made that they might want to take
a look at that. They did get a formal messagee, a general
messege today on night airglow indicating that they would
like the three crew members all to look out of the
structural transition window to see if they couldn't make
a record of what colors they thought they saw. The message
says in various night glow horizon and observations and this
in previous missions, different colors have been reported
by different observors in order to help understand whether
this is actual variation in the airglow or subjective
difference between observers. They would like all three
members to take a look and then record their impression
of the color and the approximate times of the siting on
channel A. And that's one of the opportunity that will be
coming up very shortly, although of course higher priority is
given now to the activities of M092, which is going to be
underway very shortly. All three crew members are
participating in the lower body negative pressure device runs
today, both Commander and Pilot will be also conducting the
Ml71, the bicycle ergometer, metabolic activity experiment
however, Science Pilot Owen Garriott will not be participating
in that activity today, he will - because of that have a
longer period available for physical training, to keep
himself in good shape before return. Today is the final
day of medical activities aboard the Skylab space station
medical equipment will be deactivated later this afternoon.
This is Skylab Control; we're a little less that 35 minutes
from acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle and we'll come
up at that time, now 44 minutes and 33 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2455/I
TIME: 08:18 CDT 58/13:18 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 18 minutes

and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
the Skylab spacecraft is traveling to the south of Australia
and about 47 minutes - 47 seconds from acquisition of
signal at the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station. We have
the line up live for this pass through Honeysuckle. It is
a very brief one, lasting a little over i minute.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Honeysuckle. One minute to LOS. Next station contact in
30 minutes through Corpus Christi. Short pass and for the
SPT. How are you progressing on this refrigeration system
reconfiguration with respect to J-5. Over.
SPT We got all the screws out but six and
they're loose, and that's where we stand at the moment.
CC Okay. What we'd like to do is schedule
this disconnect for the stateside pass, the one that starts
with Corpus Christi here in about 29 minutes. Over.
SPT He's pulling MO92 right now.
CC Roger CDR. How about you? We've got
you up for PH and you' Ii be winding up an eat period then.
CDR I'm trying to stow the command module.
You want me to stop that and go work on this or what? I
can do either you want me to do.
CC Negative. Go ahead, l_aybe we can
catch the PLT then. It's 13:49, 13:50 is Corpus Christi
and it looks like he'll just be winding up being observer
and getting ready to eat.
CDR Okay. You better slide that thing a
little ways and let us - we haven't been working that one
too hard. We got it in a position to go on it, but we're
just - we got about eight balls in the air at the moment.
CC Okay. We'll hold it.
CDR (garble) . .. number 50 (garble)
CC All right. (garble) we'll go ahead and
hold it. Talk to you over Corpus Christi.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 21 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now passing south of New Zealand is out of range of
Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition of signal 27 minutes
and 12 seconds from now will be at Texas. At the present time
it's about 22 minutes after 13 hour Greenwich mean time, but
the M092 run on Science Pilot Owen Garriott is running a
little bit behind schedule. They will be running medical
tests during most of the day. The other two crew members

both taking the MO92 and the MI71 tests today. And these
are the final medical tests of the Science program, of the
Skylab program during this mission. There will be medical
tests performed after the crew comes back to Earth on
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Tuesday. They are scheduled to perform them Tuesday evening

if the crew health seems to be good enough to allow that to
go on. If there should be any kind of discomfort, it's
quite possible those will be delayed. This is Skylab
Control. We're 26 minutes from acquisition of signal and
it's 23 minutes and 2 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2456/I
Time: 08:48 CDT, 58/13:48 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control;; at 13 hours 48 min-

utes and 22 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space
station now crossing the Pacific Ocean. It's just about
to acquire signal through the Goldstone tracking station
in the Mohave Desert of California. We have the line live
now for air-to-ground through a U. S. and Bermuda pass
that will last approximately 17 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Corpus Christi and Bermuda for 15-1/2 minutes. The
message for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. With respect to the M133
electro-llght, the extra electro-light that is, we'd llke
to put the vials in a fecal bag, seal the bag and return
it to $909, where we believe you currently have it stowed.
In filling the bag up try and get as much as the air - as
much as the air out as possible, and then make a airtight
seal on it. You can leave the balance of the paraphernalia
associated with this kit in its present location, $909 and in
its present configuration. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CDR Bruce, I was unable to fit $230 and 228
into U-4, so I stuck them in my TSB.
CC Okay, we copy that. Let us think about
that a minute.

CDR I tell you what might be appropriate

to do. We were pretty full up before we got all these
extra things it might be appropriate to find a bag here
of - that y'all might know about and then when these lockers
fill up then just put those items in the bag and we'll tie
that bag down for entry and we won't have - won't take quite
so long to pack them. It takes a long time to pack each
of these lockers because if you don't get them in exactly
the right way they just don't fit. And we really don't have
any - we got pictures for some of them up here, some we don't
and I just haven't really come to that problem except on
U-4. U-4 is completely full there's no way to get those in
there and maybe we just need kind of a accumulator somewhere
that can take the few items that are bound to not fit.
CC Okay, AI, we'll take that under advise-
ment. I mentioned we will work the U-4 problem right now,
however, the general philosophy we'd like to stick to
configuring the lockers per the stowage list if you have
some problems with configuration why we' ii be glad to work
with you on them and do whatever we can to get the things
in but we think that for the time being thatls probably a
better plan than an accumulator system and with respect to
your gurgling noise from this morning, we've been looking
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9/23/73

around and if you were to position yourself in the airlock

facing that relief valve with your feet down towards the
workshop and your head up towards the STS, the eight liquid
accumulators for the airlock module primary cooling system
would be off to your riBht about I to 2 feet and directly
outside the skin of the vehicle. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Jack and AI are both fairly
optimistic that's what - what the interpretation should be.
CC Okay, we're seeing, incidentally, a cyclical
pressure fluxation with a 93 minute period from 3 to 7 psi
in the primary coolant loop and it heats and cools. Over.
SPT Roger.

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Time: 08:58 CDT, 58/13:58 GMT
9/23/73

CDR You still there, Bruce?

CC Still here.
CDR Now one of the teleprinter uplink
messages. It says bring back MO92 leg band number - serial
number BJ078-139 configuration.
CC Okay.
CDR I have a legband in my hand, written on
it 1450BJ32. And also it's got some tape on in, that I
assume came from a previous flight. It says malfunction
something or other, I can't read the rest of it. But, I
can find in no place this BJ078 or the minus 139 configuration.
CC Stand by, please.
CDR On the side it has assembly 8400 0032500
and then 39 and then 04236. That's the only numbers on
there.
CDR Here's another big number. It gives
me the clue we may be right, it says 000 00078. But we've
got the BJ one place and we've got the 78 another place.
Plus a bunch of other numbers, but the suspicion is it's the
right one.
CC Okay. We're working on that, AI.
CC CDR, Houston. The reading on that BJ32,
would you confirm the 32 is 3.2, the cal number? Over.
CDR Yes it is.
CC Okay. We'll have you an answer here
in a second or so. I suspect that it's going to be the
right one.
CDR Concur, also, it won't fit in the tissue
box. Tissue box is full.
CC Okay. That's the correct legband. The
proper identification is BJ or serial number 00000078. And
understand, you can't• get it into the tissue box?
CDR Tissue box has padding in those ports.
And then I also put in the 558, I believe it was, view port.
I was afraid it would get broken if I just left it floating
around in A-9. I
can take that out, but it's still going
to be awful tight and squashed in there.
CC Okay. Fourty-five seconds to LOS. Next
station is in 5-1/2 minutes over Madrid at 14:10. We'll
aee you there and we'll be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 6 minutes
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
row out of range of signal over the North Atlantic. Our
next acquisition about 3 minutes and 30 seconds from now
will be at Madrid. At the present time, the commander,
Alan Bean, is busy working on what is called day 55 transfers.
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9/23/73

These are transfers for one day before the end of the mission.
Of course, today is officially day 58. But day-55 transfers
are set up before we extended to a 59-day mission. Transfers
included today, film and a number of other items, as you
heard during this last pass. Commander's experiencing some
difficulty with the stowage. Experimental sample containers
from transuranic cosmic ray detector 5228 and from the magnetospheric
particle detector $2303 were found not to fit into the drawer
that was indicated for them U4 in the command module. Problem
apparently might be one of him packing things out of order and the
ground flight control team is now looking into the stowage
problem. And they will come up with some sort of an answer.
Little confusion too, on the serial number for tPe device used
to cut off circulation to the legs in one of the experiments.
That device was properly named but there was some confusion
about the serial number. They did locate the right one.
Now, they are going to attempt to determine a way of packing
that in such a way that it won't be damaged. It's a relatively
fragile instrument and for that reason the medical officer
and =he flight activities officers are trying to arrange
stowage for that. Commander indicated that it wouldn't fit
into the tissue boxes, he was instructed to place it. Those day 55
transfers will take up a good part of the crew's day today.
Commander's got another hour and a half to work on them now
and will be working on them for about 45 minutes a little
later in the day. Owen Garriott _ill also be helping them
for about 45 minutes working on the film transfer. Transferring
a great many things during the day today, including experimental
hardware and a substantial collection of film. Hardware from
the ED52 experiment, the legband from M092 as just was indicated.
The S052 White Light Coronograph Camera, M518 cartridges and
M553 sphere forming specimen camera and other equipment.
Also, a broken television will be returned along with the
malfunctioning cable and a television mount. A good deal of the
activity requires the transfer of items from one place in the
command module to another. And also some transfer of items
from the command module to the orbital workshop and from the
various parts of the Skylab cluster to the command module.
Extensive collection of Earth Resources film will be included
today and cassettes from the S190, some 12,000 or more photographs
from the S190 and a number of other items including DAC
camera, 16-millimeter camera film. This is Skylab Control
we're coming up on acquisition of signal at Madrid. And we'll
have the line up for this 9-minute pass.

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SL III MC-2458/I
TIME: 09:09 CDT 58/14:09 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 8 minutes and 45 seconds. Dumping the data voice tape
recorder with what we hope is some good news for the CDR.
PLT We'll take any good news you got, Bruce.
CC Okay. With respect to this tissure
container and the legband and the 553 camera viewport
shield. What is to be done is open up the tissue dispenser
and on the back there's some snaps which you can unsnap and
remove all the tissues and cardboard and anything else you
find in there and put the leg band inside that compartment
and snap the back closed again. Then on top of the front,
you place the M553 camera viewport shield and then you
fold the container closed so that in effect, you've got
that layer of fabric between the leg band and the viewport
and the whole thing is contained in the tissue package.
Over.
PLT Okay Bruce. I got it.
CC And with respect to the U-4 stowage,
we checked our stowage down here and we think that the
following items which we're carrying as being in U-4 should
all fit. That's the PGA maintenance kit with strap, the
official flight kit, the OFK, APK with strap, parasol sample,
one set of the S-228 transuranlc detectors, and the S-230
sample and its return bag. Over.
CDR Okay. There's six OFK's, not one,
Bruce.
CC Yeah. That's six packages making up
the OFK. Right?
CDR Yeah. Was that what you were speaking
of?
CC Roger.
PLT Another reason for the difficulty we're
having, Bruce, is that the differences in sizes between the ones
we got and the ones you have. We don't believe they're the
same.
CC Okay. Roger on that. Would you confirm
that on the 228 stuff, it's one venetian blind worth or one
set of samples that you're talking about. And the one set
you retrieved from EVA on S-230. And if you still have
problems with the stowage, well, we'll come up with
a] ternate locations for 228 and 230 for you. Over.
PLT Bruce, we've got three of the 230 -
S-130 samples rather than two.
CC Okay. Let us check on that.
PLT And Bruce, I'd llke to have somebody
call over to the Harris County Youth Village and tell the
boys in the Sunday School class I'm thinking about them,
and also please call my wife and have her speak to the
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9/23/73

Pastor of our church and tell the people there that they're in
my mind.
CC All right. You were sort of cutting
out on that last one. You want me to call over to the
Harris County Youth Village and tell them you're thinking
about the boys who were out here the other day?
PLT Yeah, the boys in my Sunday School
class, and also have my wife speak to the Pastor and let
the people know at the church I gc to that l'm thinking
about them also today.
CC Okay.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 38 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 14:57. And I got some more words on U4 stowage for
you. Over.
PLT We can hear you.
CC Okay. On S-230, right. It consists
of three items in their return bags. On S -but
that has to go into U-4 first before the other items in
order for it to fit. Secondly, on S-228, confirm that
you are bringing back just one panel measuring about 7 by
8 inches by a quarter of an inch thick, serial number 50.
Over.
PLT Roger.

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SL-III MC-2459/I
Time: 09:19 CDT, 58/14:19 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 14 hours 19 minutes

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing North Africa is out of range of the Madrid
tracking antenna, at 36 minutes and 33 seconds to its
next acquisition of signal that will be at Honeysuckle.
During this last pass some additional information given
up to the crew on the packing of that M092 leg-band and
the stowage of - drawer U-4 in the command module. That
stowage has been giving the crew some diffculity probably
because the things were not put in the proper order,
indication here is that the 230 samples, there are three
of those, originally they were planned only two for this
mission but they did take out three of the sample collectors
from $230 which collectmagnetospheric part±cles there are
three to go in there and they must go in first before the
other items can go in the fact that Commander Alan Bean
indicated that 230 samples would not fit in the drawer
because it was already full may indicate that the packing
has to be done over again. Today of course we are engaged
in the packing of the command module for the return trip
of that part of the deactivation will go for sometime yet
there will be additional items packed tomorrow. Main
items being packed in the command module today are
crystal specimen bags, magnetic tape, and film, and a wide
variety of other equipment including a television cable
camera mount and a broken TV camera. This is Skylab
Control; our next acquisition of signal 35 minutes from
now it's now 21 minutes and 27 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC2460/1
Time: 09:55 CDT, 58/14:55 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 55 minutes,

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now approaching acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle. We'll
have the line up live for air-to-ground. The Honeysuckle
pass should last about 5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through •Honey-
suckle for 5 minutes with some good news and some bad news.
Ore r.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. The Bood news is we've solved your
C02 cartridge problem. What we want to do is to return 5
of the passive inlet filter cartridges, and that' ii take care
of the identification problem. That's 5 out of 8 of the passive
inlet cartridges. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick. Got it.
CC And the other news, is that we've reviewed
the thermal constraints on the IMSS return container and it
is developed that the shield on this container cannot stand
being in the freezer for any longer than a period of 45 min-
utes in order to insure effective operation. And this period
of time in the freezer is not long enough to get a good
cold soak on the return container. Therefore, we need to
get it put in the chiller as soon as possible and left in
the chiller until it's timelined removal for packing and
transfer to the command module. Over.
SPT Okay, now you're talking about the large
over can, the two half cylinders into which all the IMSS stuff
fits. Is that correct?
CC Yes, sir. We are.
SPT Already in the chiller.
CC We copy. They're already in the chiller?
SPT That's correct. (garble) Could you
copy me?
CC Roger. We copied. It's already in the
chiller and that's great. We'll get it down to temperature
and everybody's happy down here.
SPT Great.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at
15:17. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 2 minutes,
and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab has now passed
out of range of the Honeysuckle tracking antenna. Our next
acquisition of signal will be 14 minutes and 27 seconds from
now at Hawaii. I'd like to announce that there will be a
Earth Resources briefing this afternoon at 2 o'clock. That
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9/23/73

Earth Resources briefing will include both the summary of the

activities in this mission by Dr. Wilmarth of the Johnson
Space Center and also reports by three principle investigators
including Dr. M.L. Jensen of the University of Utah, who will
talk about some geological findings based on the data return
of the first Skylab crew. William G. Hart will talk on insect
infestations in the Rio Grande valley and the relationship
of Earth Resources data to those insect infestations, and also
there will be a report on the African drug situation by yet
another principle investigator. This is Skylab Control. Our -
that time for that Earth Resources briefing, 2 pm Central
daylight time in the Building 1 briefing room. We're now about
15 minutes from acquisition of signal, and it's 3 minutes and
52 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC2461/I
Time: 10:16 CDT, 58/15:16 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

15 hours 16 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition of Skylab-Ill through Hawaii. On this pass
the space station will brush the outer ring of the Hawaii
tracking station. Acquisition time will be approximately
4 minutes 40 seconds. Standing by now with 35 seconds
until projected time of acquisition. Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Hawaii
for 3 minutes. Over.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Two quick items for you. One
is that we're working on the last set of changes, oh,
about a half a dozen real small ones, to the deactivation
checklist right now. We expect to have them onboard for
you within about an hour. Secondly, if you're still having
trouble getting U4 stowed, we recommend that you take the
OFK and stow it in the PGA bags. And then when you go ahead
and add the PGA's later, you can just secure the whole
thing in one location like that. Over.
CDR Okay, that's what I' ii do. Good idea.
CDR We got the films loaded in bags; we haven't
transferred them to the command module yet. And when we're
loading film we noticed that film CX- these are 400 foot
mags - CX60, 62, and 83 were not listed, but we have film
,ha,we've taken, in them. We need to bring them back.
CC Okay; we copy. It's CX60, 62, and 83 are
used magazines with exposed film in them and they're not
carried on the list. Is that correct?
CDR You' re right.
CC Did you notice any that were listed that
you had not used?
CDR No.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR We found the bag full of bags, and we
came up with the 133 bag, so we'll go stick that in the bag.
We came up with a TV camera bag but itt s too big to go in
RI3 correctly, so we'll probably continue to use the bag we
got in there. And we also came up with the T003 hag. So
they were all other great big bags.
CC Roger. Glad you got the bag of bags. We'll
check on the film. One minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 3-1/2 minutes through Golds,one at 15:25. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. Fifteen hours
22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-III now passing out
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9/23/73

of range with Hawaii. The next station to acquire will be

Goldstone in 2-1/2 minutes. When we picked up the crew
of Skylab-lll on that pass we heard from Com_,ander Alan Bean,
who is now actively involved in the day 55 transfer activity.
What he described he was doing, he'd loaded the film in bags
for transfer to the command module. The transfer has not
taken place yet. Two minutes away now from reacquirin B over
Goldstone. And at 15 hours 23 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2462/I
Time: 10:23 CDT, 58/15:23 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 15 hours, 25 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for reaqusltion of
Skylab-3 through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, this is Houston coming through
the courtesy of Goldstone for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Say, Bruce. I'm going to start in this
refrigeration system work now. What's the ground coverage
requirement?
CC Okay. We need coverage when you pull the
connectors. And we'll have Goldstone here for about 7 minutes
more, followed by a fairly short Bermuda pass, about 5 minutes,
followed by a long Canary pass. So go ahead and press on up
to that point, and then we'll have to give you a status check
when you get there.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
CC CDR, this is Houston. A minute and
30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through
Bermuda at 15:38. We got a couple of questions for you on
the film. You said, "CX60, 62, and 83." We're thinking that
perhaps you mean C160, 62, and 63, talking in terms of the
takeup reels. Over.
CDR You're right. You're right. Got a question
for you. What do we do with that second S019 canister? We
didn't see a notice anywhere.
CC Okay. The second S019 film canister goes
in A-5 for return and we'll get with you on the- the stowage
of these extra 400 foot cassettes.
CDR Okay. I also get the impression there is
a bag for that second S019. Is that correct?
CC CDR, Houston. We'll get you the word on
that. There is no bag. We may want it wrapped in something.
And you can change the stowage to include through C163 on the
400 footers. The extra one does not have a pocket in the bag.
You got 30 pockets and 31 mag. You might put a piece of tape
over the film gate on C163 and work it in. We'll talk to you
over Bermuda.
PAO Loss of signal with Skyab-3. Next station
to acquire will be Bermuda in approximately 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 5-1/2 minutes, for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, AI. I don't know if you copied me, as we
faded out over the hill there. On page 2-39 of your stowage book
under the day 55 transfers, the 400 foot magazine transfer llst
presently reads C139 through Cl61. That needs to be changed
to C139 through C163. Change the total quantity there to 31 and
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as I was trying to say as you went over the hill, there'll

be one mag left over without a pocket into which you can
place it. You put a piece of gray tape across the film gate.
We believe it can be worked in with the locker configuration.
Locker A8, as it is, without any particular concern, the S019,
there's no requirement for wrapping the second film unit.
But if there is something hand - -

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Time: 10:39 CDT, 58/15:39 GMT
9/23/73

CC - - without any particular concern. The

SO19, there's no requirement for wrapping the second film
unit, but if there is something handy you can put around
it or in which you can insert it, why it probably would
be a good idea. And in your flight plan later on today,
for the PLT, there's some 35 millimeter films being used
for photographing the SO19 stowage operations. That
35 millimeter film winds up going into A6. Over.
CDR Okay. Making that noise right now again.
And I don't mean the comm, I mean the - I guess it must be
the coolant loop, primary.
CC Okay, we'll take a mark on it. Can
you tell whether it's coming from that area described as
the primary loop accumulators?
CDR Seems to be.
CC Well, we'll get the EGIL to check and
see if you're getting any pressure fluctuations.
CDR When you put your head to the wall
between the DS3 and the release valve and you can hear it.
That seems to be the epicenter of the whole operation.
CC Okay, you think you can gain anything
by using the stetoscope out of the IMSS kit to listen?
CDR I don't think you need to.
CC Okay, that loud, hey?
CDR We can hear it down here when it goes
off up there. Woke up Jack, and that's the impossible.
CC Keep the faith.
CDR Owen thinks it sounds like a water pump
on a car that needs lubrication.
CC Okay, we'll input that. That sounds
more like you're describing something that is mechanical
friction than it does something like it's gurgling. Over.
SPT It does to me, Bruce; that's why I
offered the other suggestion.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through
Canaries at 15:47. Out.

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 15 hours

44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now out of
range with Bermuda. The next station to acquire will be
Canary tracking station in 3 minutes. On that stateside
pass we heard from the crew of Skylab-lll continuing in
the preparation of - of film for transfer. We also were
offered the observation by Commander AI Bean, who had again
heard the noise what he described as a gurgling sound. The
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suspect is the primary coolant loop. Owen Garriott, Science

Pilot, offered another observation saying it sounded much
like a water pump on a car which needs lubrication. We're
about 2 minutes away now from reacquirin E Skylab-lll. And
at 15 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2464/i
Time: 10:46 CDT 58/15:46 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylah Control, Houston. Standing by now

for acquisition of Skylab 3 through Canary.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 9-1/2 minutes and we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder next site, which is Honeysuckle. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Is your EGIL down there
wide awake?
CC Yeah, we got a flight director with an
EGIL on his back right now.
PLT (Laughter) Okay, I'm ready to break this
J5 connector. All you got to do is say the word. I'm looking
at it and I got the wrench on it right now.
CC Okay, Jack. Break away.
PLT That was Jll, wasn't it?
CC Very funny, brown side out.
PLT I'm just kidding you, it's J5, I got it.
Just a minute, it' s going to come loose.
PLT That's it; it's broken loose.
CC Okay. Everything' s quiet down here, so
I guess you' re clear to go ahead and tape it up and cover it
up like it says in the pad.
PLT Okay, I've got that written down. You
won't have to describe it to me, Bruce. Nothing happened up
here, it just came loose. That's it. You don't see anything
else, huh?
CC Well, what that does is it enables us to
go ahead and run either or both loops by ground command.
PLT Right, understand it disconnects the
auto disconnect, right?
CC Rog.
PLT I mean the auto circuitry. Okay, I'Ii
just go ahead and proceed and complete the procedure and put
everything back, except for the connector. That was about
as easy as pulling front teeth, Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can't set a few
more of those up for you when you get back. And by the way
for the CDR, if he's listening, in a time coincidental frame
with his report of the gurgling, we noticed the flow through
the ATM C&D coolant loop dipped to about 202 pounds per hour
from its normal 237 pounds per hour, and then go back up. Over.
SC (garSle)
CC We didn't copy your last transmission.
CDR The next time we hear it, we'll try to
give - get a time and then maybe you can track it back again.
CC Okay, another thing you could do when you
hear it is go up and take a peak at the ATM C&D coolant
reservoir up there behind that stowage locker in STS.
CDR Okay.

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9/23/73

CDR There it goes again.

CC Rog. We copy.
CDR We've been (static) AT_ reg.
CC Say again, please.
CDR We were just looking at the -
CC Understand you were just looking at the
ATM C&D resevoir?
CDR That's - Owen's going up there to look at it
again.
CC Okay. For some reason, we're getting alot
of static on the down-link here.
SPT The ATM cooler resevoir is full and no
bubbles - no apparent change in volume.
CC Okay. Is the gurgling still going on?
CDR Affirmative.
CC Say, i minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 36 minutes through Honeysuckle at 16:32. We show decrease
in ATM C&D flow to 230. Not nearly as - it's going down
farther now.
SPT At least, it's still croaking away.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Jack is in the airlock and he says the
sound is right next to the cabin release valve in the airlock.
CC Roger. Right next to the cabin release
valve. Okay. ATM C&D coolant loop pumps are right there
on the rlghthand side of that valve. Leave the configuration
as is unless something unforseen comes up during this LOS.
And we'll talk to you over Honeysuckle further about it.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 15 hours, 58 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now out of range through
Canary. The next station to acquire will be Honeysuckle in
approximately 34 minutes. Again, we heard a report from the
Skylab-3 crew of the gurgling sound that occurred at least
on two occasions this pass. The - here on the ground, tied
somewhat closely to the time - was observation of a - a pressure
drop, fall in the pressure in the ATM C and D coolant loops
that seems to coincide with the timing of that. This data is
being looked at of course here on the ground. A message was
passed along by Cap Comm Bruce McCandless recommending to
the crew that they look at the coolant resevolr for these
loops when they - when they heard the sound again. This was
done. Owen Garriott reporting that the coolant resevoir was
full and no bubbles and no changes in volume. It is a phenom-
enon that it being discussed and studied here now in the
Mission Control center. We're at 15 hours, 59 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Acquisition with Honeysuckle some 32-1/2 minutes
away. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2466/1
Time 1130 CDT, 58/16:30 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

16 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by
now for acquisition of Skylab-lll through Honeysuckle.
Meanwhile an announcement. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson's
change of shift news conference tentatively set for 12:30 p.m.
Central daylight time today in the small auditorinum of
the Skylab News Center. I repeat change of shift conference
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson tentatively set for
12:30 p.m. Central daylight time today. About a minute
away now from reacquiring Skylab-lll. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Honeysuckle for 9 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Okay, what we would like to do is on
panel 203, ATM coolant pump for the C¢D system; pump a
to OFF. We are considering removing and/or replacing
the filter in the llne later on today. And possibly
after that, checking out the system using another pump.
Over.
SPT Okay, I'ii have to wait a few minutes,
I'm just finishing the LBNP with AI. I'm not sure what
Jack is doing.
PLT Okay, Bruce, pump A in the ATM coolant
loop is off. That means there are no pumps running on the
ATM coolant loop.
CC Roger, we copy that. We see the flow
going down to essentially zero. And we have confirmed that
there is no requirement for cooling for the balance of
the mission with the TV monitors both off.
PLT Okay, good. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Also for your joint information, we'll
be taking out the momentum biases that were loaded in over
Hawaii this rev after you complete the last MO92 run. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce, and I've just located the
5 inlet passive filters that have been replaced most
recently. And I've numbered them i through 5. The lower
the number the more likely it is to have been removed
most recently. And I put a note to that effect
on the package that the filter cartridge will be in.
And I forgot where you wanted the stowed, but I guess
AI probably knows.
CC Okay, I think it's A9, but we'll check
that.
SPT Okay, thank you.
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CC And we understand you're using something

other than a linear distribution of probability on judging
which ones are the most resently removed.
PLT That's right. I'm using that equation
that goes off into the imaginary plan to minus infinity.
CC Just so long as we get you guys back
on entry day, that's okay.
PLT Okay, you guys can work out those probabilities
on the ground. I've numbered them I through 5, being the
simple minded guy llke myself.
CC Roger, we thank you.
CC And for your background information, one
of the failure modes with which we're concerned on the ATM C&D
coolant system is a pump bearing failure. This gets (garble)
because the bearings are cooled by the circulating coolant.
And we're concerned that unless we leave the pump run too long,
we may wind up with deteriorated bearing particles circulating
throughout the loop. Therefore, we want to get it shut off
now and think about it.
CC At the present time we're dumping your
data voice tape recorder. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in ii minutes through Hawaii at
16:52. Out.
CDR See you there, Bruce.
CC And the final, we hope, change to the
deactivation checklist message is in your teleprinter.
CDR We hope so too. Thank you, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 16 hours
42 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now has passed
out of range with Honeysuckle tracking station Hawaii. Coming
up next - coming up next will be Hawaii in approximately
i0 minutes. As we heard on that last pass discussion with
CAP COM Bruce McCandless here in the Mission Control Center
with the crew of Skylab-lll, the coolant pump of the Apollo
telescope mount C&D coolant loop system has been shut down
at the request of ground controllers. This system was considered
a primary suspect for the gurgling sound which had been reported
earlier from aboard Skylab-lll. There is no requirement for
these pumps to be in use for the balance of the mission with
the ATM TV monitors shut down. One concern on the system would
be a bearing failure Bruce McCandless reported which could
cause contamination to the system. So, the crew of Skylab-lll
has shut down the pump for these loops on this Australian - or
on the Honeysuckle pass just completed. We're at 16 hours
44 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2467/I
Time: 11:51 CDT, 58/16:51 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. It's

16 hours, 51 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now ap-
proaching acquisition with Hawaii tracking station. Hawaii
is expected to acquire in less than one minute.
CC Good evening, Skylab. We're AOS over
Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes.
PLT By golly, there is a Crip. Hello there,
Crip.
CC I decided it was time to come back to work.
And we' ii need the DAS for a couple of minutes to put the mo-
mentum biases back to zero, as Bruce told you earlier.
CC Don't you guys forget it either.
PLT - - the whole day. It's yours.
CC Rog.
PAO Astronaut Bob Crippen now manning the
Cap Comm console.
CC Skylab, the DAS belongs to you guys again.
PLT Okay.
CC Owen, on our data down here on the ground,
we aren't seeing blood pressure yet. Are you reading systolic-
diastolic?
SPT We haven't started the 171 portion yet, Bob.
You'll get it in a minute.
CC Okay. We've seen the cal and thought you
should be there.
SPT I'm just getting the vital capacities right
now.

CC Thank you.
SPT You got it now, Bob.
CC That's affirm. We're copying. Thank you,
Owen.
PLT Say, Bob, in terminating M518 yesterday,
I noticed there is no requirement to close the filament
chamber vent valve and I know it's really not required, but
I was wondering if somebody just overlooked it or we should just
leave it like it is? It's open now.
CC Copy that.
CC Jack, we do want that closed, so if you'd
close it for us now, we'd appreciate it.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Goldstone in about 2-1/2 minutes at
17:04. And Jack, you copy, we do want to go ahead and close
that filament chamber vent valve.
PLT Yeah, I thought you did. So I just closed
it. Thank you.
CC Thank you, Jack.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours,
SL-III MC2467/2
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2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now out of station

contact with Hawaii. Next to acquire will be Goldstone in
about 1-1/2 minutes. The crew of Skylab-3 continuing to
put the space station in the proper configuration for de-
parture and then in turn, arrival of the next crew. As we heard
earlier during the Honeysuckle pass, the coolant pump aboard
Skylab was shut down. This was the Apollo Telescope Mount
control and dlsplay/EREP cooling system which provides single
loop cooling by circulating water through a heat exchanger
that interfaces with both loops of the airlock module coolant
system. The fluids of the control and display panel cooling
system water and the AM coolant system, are isloated by
heat exchanger walls. There is no requirement for this
system to be in use for the balance of the mission with the
ATM monitors shut down. We're standing by now for reaquiring
Skylab-3 through Goldstone. Our Cap Comm now on duty,
Bob Crlppen. Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson now being
replaced by Flight Director Don Puddy.

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SL-III MC2468/I
Time: 12:0S CDT, 58/17:03 GHT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab, Houston. AOS though Goldstone

7 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment, Jack?
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Regarding the SO19 today, if
you elect to go ahead and do that we'd like to have you
do that photo OPS that we had scheduled subsequent to the
S019 run done during the prep.
PLT Looks to me, Bob, llke we're not going
to be able to get to it today because we're still stowing
and we got procedural review to go through tonight too.
And we still got a lot of stowage to do. So it looks like
SO19 isn't going to make it today.
CC Okay, no sweat.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re i minute from
LOS. See you again over Bermuda in 5 minutes at 17:15.

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SL-III MC2469/1
Time: 12:11 CDT, 58/17:11 GMT
9-23-73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours 12 minutes

Greenwich Mean Time. A loss of signal with Skylab Ill through
Goldstone. Next station coming up - Bermuda, in approximately
2-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Be over
Canary in 2 minutes at 17:25.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 17 hours
24 minutes at Greenwich l{ean Time. Skylab III now out of
station range with Bermuda. Next station to acquire will be
Canary in less than 1 minute, however Flight Director,
Nell Hutchinson has left the Mission Control Center enroute
to the Skylab News Center for the start of the change of shift
briefing. So at this point we will take the alr-ground llne
down and await the start of the change of shift news conference.
17 hours 25 minutes Greenwich Mean Time this is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2_70/I
Time: 12:51 CDT, 58/17:51 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 17

hours, 52 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've acquired a
little more than 3 minutes of tape during the change-of-shlft
conference. This tape acquired during Skylab's 3 pass over
Canary and Ascension. We'll play that tape for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary 16 minutes.
PLT, Houston. You got a moment to talk, please?
PLT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger, Jack. Regarding that S019 that we
talked about earlier, no problem of not getting the ops in,
but it is our desire to get the photograph of that mirror if
we can. Do you think you'll be able to work that in for us?
PLT I'll sure gve it a try.
CC Okay. A couple of recommendations that
are not in you message, regarding it. We recommend lighting it
along the axis of the ellipse of e mirror, with the light
elevated, oh i0 to 30 degrees above it, so you sort of get a
grazing incidence on it. And then shoot across the short
axis to pick up the - about three photographs.
PLT Okay, understand. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to talk, sir?
CDR Just a minute.
CC Regarding out ATM C&D water pump problem,
we would like to go ahead and change out that filter if you
can squeeze it in today; that's housekeeping 81 X-ray on
page 9-50 of your SWS systems checklist. A new filter is
available in dome locker 446, and we're still considering
bringing that one that you pull out, back, so we'd like
you to hold onto it until we make that final decision. And
after you make the changeout, you can go ahead on panel 203
and restart the loop after changeout on pump B, pump Bravo,
not Alfa.
CDR What housekeeping number was that?
CC Roger. 81 X-ray on page 9-50, AI.
CDR Okay, if it's all right with you, what
we plan to do is finish up our stowage and get that complete.
And then we plan to do the entry practice, and we'll eat
before that, and then before we go to bed if it's not too
late we'll get to that.
CC Okay, AI, that sounds good to us, if you
get it on kind of late, we'll Just hold up on turning on the
pump, and we'll work that tomorrow, because we want to look
at it for - being on about an hour and then turn it back off.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute.
Carnarvon in 26 minutes at 18:08.
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Time: 21:51 CDT, 58/17:51 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylah Control, Houston, at

17 hours 55 minutes Greenwich mean time. Out clock shows
Carnarvon acquisition in about 12 minutes 30 seconds. This
is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2471/I
Time: 13:36 CDT, 58/18:36 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston 18 hours 37 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We'll pick up now and play back the tape
acquired over Carnarvon, Honeysuckle, and Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Canarvon 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Got a couple of questions for you concerning
storage, Crlp.
CC Shoot.
CDR Page 2-43, it's talks about U2 having a
DO24 return container. We think the D024 return container in
A5 because when we look in A5, there it is. But maybe it shouldn't
be, although it had the bracket in there for it, and it seems
to me I read to put it there.
CC We're checking it.
CDR Okay, now we got a teleprinter update that
says, "transfer 9198 that's full from F557 to M124. Transfer
198 cassette P4 from 557, day 5." These are the ones that we
brought up form Pete's down in the plenum bag, is that right?
CC Let me check that out.
CDR Okay, Crlp.
CC And, AI, while we're trying to get the answer
for you on those, this afternoon around 22:00, you had a
housekeeping 3A, and Jack, a contamination 2A to observe the
waterbag dump. If ya'll get that in, live got a couple of
windows for you that - that are good for observing that. And
one may be a little bit better then the one we've got scheduled.
CDR I would suggest we not try to make that,
that we try to stay on course here and get - get this thing stowed,
and get the ATM in shape, and try to get our exercise, and get
in bed. There's no way to fit something llke that in, it
looks to me llke right now, Crlp.
CC Okay, sounds good.
CDR That was a good thing for a month ago. By
the way, I - I may have missed it in the book sometime ago, but
I still have in the command module some items that I think I'm
suppose to offloa d. Let me mention the names of them, and see
if you concur in where you'd llke them.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, the polychoke orifice, the hose
that - that bleed valve for the - for the 02. One of the cabin
vent fittings that goes over - that we had on during launch.
That's about the bag full.
CC Okay, we'll get you a reading on those also.
PLT And, Crlp, those passive filters that -
they wanted brought back for the CO 2 unit are in A5.
CC Copy that Jack, thank you.
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Time: 13:36 CDT, 58/18:36 GMT
9/23/73

PLT And I'd like to know what backloads l'm going

to use for _try photos and photos of the shoots. And undocking
I've got to get that set up now.
CC Okay, I believe that the entry checklist,
gives you some photo settings for the DAC for - for the
fireball, but we'll get them all confirmed for you.
PLT Crip, it's not the settings I need. What
I really need is what magazines. Normally, I put one on the
DAC and I have now one ready. And I'd like to know what they
are so I can get them out and load them and stow them.
CC Okay, sorry, misunderstood.
PLT Okay, thank you. I got a hunch it's CX08 and
09, but I'm not sure.
CC Okay, Jack, you're right. CX09 and 08 are the
ones that you should use.
PLT Okay Crip, now the - one of them's only got 55
percent remaining, and I kind of thought maybe we ought to have a
full one so that's why I wasn't sure that was the right one.
CC Rog, we copy 08 should have been used for
some EREP stuff, earlier,
PLT Okay, well 55 percent is all I need, is
that correct?
CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you again at Hawaii in 17 minutes at 18:32. And
Jack, we think 09 is full, we recommend you starting out with
that.
PLT Okay, Crip, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Hawaii 4 minutes. And
for the CDR, AI, I think I can answer those stowage questions
you had earlier.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger. On the polychoke, the hose,
the bleed valve, and all those 02 fittings, according to our
information, they should have been transferred in A7 down
to 518 earlier. So since you still have them in the command
module, you can go ahead and put them in F518.
CDR Okay, thank you, Crip.
CC Okay, regarding the 198 cassette_ you're correct.
Those are the ones you brought up from the plenum. And you're
suppose to stow all of them but one in M124 and we want you to
bring back Papa 4 and to stow it in A5.
CDR Okay, we've stowed on the comm, so it's already
done, thanks.
CC Very good. And I guess we're still sort of
confused about D024. That should be stowed in U2.
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CDR That's right. It's our mistake; I moved it over

there. It's in U2 now.
CC Okay, very good.
CC Skylab, Houston LOS in i minute, Goldstone in
9 minutes at 18:44, 18:44.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours
44 minutes GMT.
CC Hello, we got you for 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob, now I've completed the med deact
at this point, but we're still gonna want to do some ergometer work
over the next day and a half, and I wonder if there's any objection
to throwing the necessary switches and circuit breakers to
supply power to the ergometer. And then sometimes tomorrow
afternoon, I'ii repeat or go throuEh pa_e 5-2 and make sure
that all the switches are back to their nominal stowage
position. Over.
CC No objection from here, sounds like a
good plan.
SPT Okay.
SPT If you think about it, you might Just
verify on telemetry as best you can or give me a reminder
tomorrow afternoon to make sure 5-2 has been rechecked.
CC We'll be doing that.
PAO Owen Garriott speaking live on this
Goldstone pass. Bob Crippen here at the CAPCOMH console
responding.

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SL-III MC-2472/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 58/18:48 GMT
9/23/73

PAO Bob Crlppen here at the cap comm console

responding.
CDR Also, Crip, we're about finished with that
command module stowage, so Just as soon as we eat, we'll get
on that ATM operation for you.
CC Okay, AI, we'd appreciate it, thank you
sir.
CC Skylab, Houston, LOS in i minute, we'll
have over Bermuda in about - correction, over Mila in about 3
minutes, at 18:50.
CC Skylab, Houston,_ AOS Mila 12 minutes,
and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump here shortly.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. About 8-1/2
minutes remaining on this stateside pass. We're at 18
hours, 54 minutes, Greenwich Mean Time.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours
58 minutes, Greenwich Mean Time. 5 minutes away now from a
loss of signal with Bermuda. The Earth Resources briefing
will start immediately at, after Bermuda loss of signal.

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SL-III MC-2_73/I
Time: 13:55 CDT, 58/18:58 GMT
9/23/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for

a moment. We're going to give you a NuZ update.
PLT Thank you, it's yours.
CC Skylab, the DAS belongs to you guys again.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
we'll see you over Ascentlon in 9 minutes at 19:11.
PLT Okay, Bob.
PAO Skylab control, Houston. 19 hours 3 minutes
at Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with Skylab 3
through Bermuda. We'll switch now to the small auditorium
and the skylab news center for the start of the Earth resources
news conference.

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SL-III MC-2474/I
Time: 15:45 CDT, 58/20:45 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

20 hours 46 minutes Greenwich Mean Time. We'll play back
the tape now that was accumulated during the Earth resouces
news conference.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Ascension
5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob.
PAO Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from
LOS. See you over Carnarvone in 26 minutes at 19:42. 19:42.
PAO Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, say tell me where that filter is
stowed right now, and I'ii go get it and stow it for you.
CC It's stowed in dome locker 446.
CDR Okay, its connected right now.
CC Okay, AI, if you could, on panel 203 go
ahead and turn on the pump Bravo for the ATM coolant, we'd
appreciate it. And we're run it for a little while and get
a little confidence in the system and probably ha_e you turn
it off before you go to bed.
CDR Okay, B is on. Incidentally, if you didn't
hear that gaurgling sound from the time that you turned off the
pump. Just set if off (garble).
CC Copy that.
CDR Have you decided that you want me to stick
this in A5 or somewhere, or do you want me to put it back where you
can see the red tape on it.
CC If you can just mark it and hold it for
us, AI, we have to, of course, run it through the board, find
out whether we're going to bring it back.
CDR Got you. And it's returned to 446.
CC Copy.
PAO Skylab, Houston, We're one minute from
LOS. See you again over at Guam in 3-1/2 minute at 19:55,
19:55.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, I0 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. If you got a moment, we got
a couple of things for you, sir.
PAO Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
See you over Goldstone in 16-i/2 minutes at 20:21, 20:21.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone, 17 minutes.
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Time: 15:45 CDT, 58/20:45 GMT
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CC Skylab, Houston. We are dumping the

data voice recorder through Mila, here.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. We'll
see you over Carnarvon in 44 minutes at 21:21.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 20 hours
50 minutes Greenwich mean time. This concludes the tape
playback that we had. Next station to acquire will be
Carnarvon in 31-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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 SL-III MC-2_75/I
Time: 16:20 CDT, 58/21:20 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 21

hours, 20 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for
acquisition of Skylah IIl through Carnarvon.
PAO Now receiving systems data from the Skylah-III
space station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon 5 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylah, Houston. LOS in 1 minute; Guam
in 10-1/2 minutes at 21:36, 21:36.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylah Control, Houston at 21 hours, 28
minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with Skylab
III through Guam - through Carnarvon. The next station to
acquire will be Guam in approximately 8 minutes. This is
Skylah Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2476/1
Time: 16:35 CDT 58/21:35 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 21 hours

35 minutes Greenwich mean time, standing by now for acquisi-
tion of Skylab 3 through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 3-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS,
we'll see you again over Goldstone in about 19 minutes at
21:57. And during that stateside pass, we'll be standing by
for the Evening Status Report. And also for that Evening
Status Report, AI, Just - since this is the last one we're
going to be getting on the film report and to check the FAO's
bookkeeping ability, we would appreciate it, if when you
check drawer A, you would end up listlng for us each of the
transporter locations in the drawer and the supply and takeup
cassettes.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 41 hours - 21 hours
41 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now with
Skylab 3 through Guam. Next station to acquire will be
Goldstone in approximately 16 minutes. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2477/1
Time: 16:56 CDT, 58/21:56 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 21

hours, 56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab III now ap-
proaching acquisition through Goldstone. During this
stateside pass, we do expect to receive the Status Report -
the Evening Status Report from the crew of Skylab III. Less
than a minute away now from time of acquisition. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone 14-1/2
minutes.
CDR Okay. Let me give you some nightly status.
We'll get the film log in a minute.
CC Very fine.
CDR 112, 165, 135; 6343, 0398, 6789; 6.214,
6.214, 6.213; 5.937, 5.934, 5.935; 6.932, 6.933, 6.934.
Excercise: CDR only is 171; SPT, 2/30/5000; PLT, zero.
Medication: zero for everybody. Sleep: CDR, 5-1/2, fair;
SPT, 6, good; (garble) 5-1/2/G. Here's the food log: CDR, six
salt packs plus two salt pills; SPT, four salt packs plus
grape drink, peanuts, butter cookies, and substituted grape
drink for lemonade; Plt, four salts, had one grape drink, and
pears. Delete Chocolate Instant Breakfast, none available.
Delete one orange drink, none available. Substitute one veal
and one lemonade for 2-1/2 breads. Flight Plan deviation:
We were not able to accomplish, although you already know
it, M092, test 1 and 2 on the CDR. We did not do general
message S082, contamination 2-A, or the cooling loop photo.
Shopping list accomplished: We did do housekeeping 81X. In-
operable equipment: Nothing new except, you're familiar with
the ATM pump problem. Unscheduled stowage o - kl - location
changes: one Jam from can 4 from the front of 563 to the
wardroom; 31 fecal bags from 571, the waste management com-
partment; one lemonade can, number 15 -num- can 15, from 563,
front; and one lemonade from can 11 of 563 front. Anything
else?
CC Believe that's got all that. I've got a - a
couple of evening questions I can do for you or you can - I can
wait until you get the film log squared away.
CDR Jack's working on it now. Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the - Since we did not do the
SO19 ops this evening, we wondered, did - if you did get that
canister 003 transferred to the command module.
CDR We sure did. And it's stowed.
CC Okay. Very good. Also, did you get to
move - remove and transfer that F228 sample?
CDR Yes, we did. We removed it. It now resides
in - still in my plenum - my TSB. As soon as we get anything
else stowed, weIll put i_ I_ a good place. It still wonVt go
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Time: 16:56 CDT, 58/21:56 GMT
9/23/73

CDR (CONT'D) in U-2, nor will the F230. But as soon as

most of the stuff is stowed, I'll find a nice neat place and
tell you where it is.
CC Okay. Very good. Regarding that AT![ C&D
water filter, we have got the decision made here that we would
llke to bring it home and we think that you could probably find
a neat stowage place quicker than we could. If you want some
help with it, wetll - we'll try to look up something for you,
though.
CDR No, 1111 just carry it up now, as I've got
to go back to work on A-9 for a few more minutes, and I'ii find
a nice place and park it and tell you.
CC Okay. Very good. Also, if you noted
anythln_ about that filter that would be of interest to us -
Did it look llke it had any contaminant in it, or something
llke that, we would be interested in any comments you had about it.
CDR Wish I could help you. It's a solid metal
filter from the outside, and it Just looks llke a piece of pipe
with a - a hat - a - a - another piece of pipe perpendicular
to it. It's - There's no way from the outside to gain any
insight into whatts going on inside.
CC Okay. Copy that.
CC And, AI, at your convenience, we've been
taking a look at the ATM C&D coolant loop. Looks good and you
can go ahead and secure pump Bravo whenever - whenever you want to.
CDR I'll do it right now; Itm on the way up there.
CC Okay. Believe that clears up most of my ques-
tions here.
CDR Do we have Flight Plans for tomorrow?
CC No, sir. Strictly running out of your
Deactivation Checklist.
CDR Okay. I've got mine over across the room,
but are the times there in sync with the times that we're usin Z
now?
CC Have to check that, AI. I thought that
y'all were passed up the word about changing your watches for -
to make them - put that in sync. I don't know whether - have
the details on it and I'ii check it.
CDR Good idea. I'd never heard of it, though.

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SL-III MC- 2478/1
Time: 17:0S CDT, 58/22:0S GifT
9123173

CDR Say, Bob, the filter goes just fine in AS.

CC Sounds good, A1.
SC Say, Crip, I got the film log, you want
to listen to it?
CC Yes sir, Jack, go ahead and shoot it down.
PLT Okay, 16 millimeter, we filmed the blood
draw this morning, CI8300, CI63. The defusing experiment, is
CI6460, CI62. HIS1 for MO92 is 171 is CI82S0, CI83. We filmed
the preparation of the evening meal, CI8222, CI83. llandheld photos:
CX3S has 04, CI106 has 27, 70 millimeter CX27 is 1S6. Drawer A
confiyurations follows: Alfa 1 is 07, CISd, 13, CIS3
Alfa 2, has 0S. CI6460, CI62. Alfa 3, has 06, CI214S,
CI60. Alfa 4 has 03, CI8222, CI83. The back magazine is
transporter 02 no supply and take up with CIS6. We got your
pad a little too late on EVA day, to execute it. The transporters
were already loaded when we got it, so tha't one of t]_e reasons
for differing in the film loading. We have 1 malfunctioning
magazine, and it happened a couple of days ago when I tried
to finish but not able. Hagazine CI84, in F/14, the tab has
been withdrawn through the magazine. And that's the film box.
Any questions?
CC Okay, we copied all that, let me run it
through our backroom and see if we have any problems.
PLT Our plan is to shoot up the film inside the
transporters tonight and tomorrow and load no more.
CC Copy.
CC Okay, Jack I guess one - one question
was did you have an opportunity to photograph the SO19 mirror?
PLT Yes sir, I did do that, I took 4 photos.
CC Very good, appreciate it. Regarding Al's
question earlier, our recommendation is to set your clocks
ahead 4 hours for tomorrow so that you can run with the time
line that is in your deactivation checklist. That would mean
that it would be strictly on your watches and the time that
you had on your G_T displace, would be in error, we're also
thinking about running a test to going back to the secondary
time reference system. And, which could possibly put those
clocks in error otherwise, and we wonder how you feel about
that, not being able to use those tomorrow.
CDR I think it's okay not to have those tomorrow
we can use our wristwatches.
CC Okay, very good. You guys did a lot of
good work today seeing all the things back to way the command
module. Sure glad to see you got your spiders tucked away,
there, so the - don't have a chance to leave them loose in the
workshop for Gerry's light, i_e're about 1 minute from LOS and,
your next pass is at the Vanguard, where you'll be talking to
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9/23/73

the doctor. And that's at 22:22 and, we'll be doing a data

voice recorder dump. I'll be saying good night to you, and
be talking to you after hatch closure for interdate.
SPT Okay, Bob, be looking forward to seeing
you that afternoon.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours
13 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab III, now out of range
on the stateside pass, the next station to pick up on
Skylab III, will be Vanguard at approximately 9 minutes.
During this pass, the crew passed down the evening status
report tO CAP CO_d Bob Crippen. Also, as we heard, the Apollo
telescope mount control and display coolant loop, was being
run with the secondary pump. The data on this test looked good.
It was earlier planned to run the system on the secondary pump
for an hour or so. The crew aboard Skylab, was given a go
to'shut the systems down, this was a system that produced what
was described earlier today as a gurgling sound. The next
pass, Vanguard, is the medical pass, or the time for the private
1'edical conference. The crew will be given a - or has been given
a go ahead to - to retire after that pass, so it is unlikely
that we'll hear from them again this evening. But we'll stand
by and continue to monitor at this time, 22 hours 14 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2479/I
Time: 17:20 CDT, 58/22:20 GMT
9123/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours

21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab III now approaching
Vanguard tracking station. We expect no live air-ground on
this pass, this being the pass in which the private medical
conference is scheduled. However we'll stand by and monitor
systems during this pass. 22 hours 21 minutes, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.
PAO This is Skylah Control, Houston at 22 hours
33 minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab Ill, now out of station
range with Vangua_, the next station to acquire Skylab III,
will be Goldstone, in i hour and 4 minutes. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2480/1
Time: 17:49 CDT, 58/22:49 GMT
9/23/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours,

49 minutes Greenwich mea - mean time . And we have now the
Mission Surgeon's daily summary on crew health. The summary
reads as follows, " The health status of the crew remains
good. A medical symptoms signs review with the crew indicated
exceptionally illness entry free state of the crew during the
mission and especially so in the closing days of this mission."
This is ssigned Jerry R. Hordinsky, M. D. We'll take down the
llne at this time. Crew wake-up time is scheduled for 7 hours
Greenwich mean time tomorrow morning. This will be our last
transmission on mission day 58. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III I_C-2481/1
Time: 01:56 CDT, 59/06:56 G_fT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 6 hours 56 minutes

and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now within range of the _ladrld tracking antenna_ and will
expect to hear a wake-up call from Spacecraft Communicator
Hank Hartsfleld during this pass over _adrid. We're about
3 minutes from the standard wake-up time and we will keep
the llne up live now for the rest of the Madrid pass lasting
a little over 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston good morning.
CC Skylab, Houston you're up and stirring
yet?
CC Skylab_ Houston we see the gyro moving
around we know somebody's up.
CDR Hank we - we answered you Hank, maybe
you just didn't hear us. How you doing this morning?
CC Okay, pretty good. How about yourself?
CDR Everybody's ready.
CDR People started stirring around the min-
ute we could hear your up-llnk before you started talking, so
that's a good sign.
CC Okay, and I guess - we don't have any
good news or bads news for you this morning.
CDR l[eans we got to give our shorts back, or
what?
CC _ell, I dontt we'll have that - require
that this morning. Right away we're about a minute from
LOS and we'll be coming up on Guam at 29. Might be interested
in football score yesterday; Miami's regular season unbeaten
string came to an end as the Oakland Raiders did them in it
was George Blanda 12 lfiami 7.
CDR Great scot - -
PLT Hey there's some good news right there,
and the old fellows are coming back.
CDR That's really good news for Owen, he's
happy to hear that. He's - he's been worried. Says he's
been letting his hair grow, the first few days we thought
he had grey tape on his head but we realized finally it was
hair.
CC Owen, you going to let that go?
SPT Well, these fellows are both a
little Jealous about that you know, Hank but I Just try to
humor them along.
CDR Out of control already, Hank. Watch
out today we're going to get this thing all put to bed.
CC Okay, good show. We'll see you at Guam.

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SL III IiC-2482/i
TIME: 02:05 CDT 59/07:05
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 5 minutes

and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab spacecraft
now over Eastern Europe out of range of the Madrid tracking
station. The wakeup call came at 7 and the crew did indicate
that they heard it, but they had a little trouble answering
back. Apparently a problem with the down-llnk. And our
attitude control _officer here in mission control indicated
that he could recognize the movement of the crew by changes
in the gyros. A good deal of kidding going on there about
yesterday's message, good news and bad news, that the crew
had to exchange their underwear, AI giving his to Owen and
so forth. Commander Bean said when he heard that there
was no good news or bad news today that they'd have to
ask if they had to return the underwear to each other. And
a little kidding also to Owen Garriott who's letting his
hair grow a bit during the mission. Owen's the oldest
member of the crew and he was getting a hard time on the
fact that George Blanda could kick four field goals yesterday
came as good news. The Commander indicated that Owen would
certainly be happy about that, as he was looking a little
gray haired because of his longer hair now. This is Skylab
Control. Twenty-three minutes to our next signal and it's
6 minutes and 35 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2483/1
Time: 02:29 CDT, 59/07:29 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 28 minutes and

53 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
about 37 secnds from acquisition of signal at Guam. This
pass through Guam will last about 6-1/2 minutes. We have
the llne llve for alr-to-ground and a call from Hank Harts-
field, the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab_ Houston through Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CDR We're over the Philippines looking out.
CC I do have a couple of things I want to get
up this morning before you start deactivation. We've got
another pass at Honeysuckle if that's more convenient. Just
give me a call whenever you're ready.
CDR We're ready right now.
CC Okay. First off I got a question. Want
to know if youIve shot up all the film that's on transporter
03?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay, we would llke to return that C183 with
the other 400-foot mags, and this wasnVt originally in the
day 55 transfers.
CDR Okay, baby, we're not going to leave a single
bit that we shot. We hope. We got everything that you've
listed plus the extras we reported yesterday, and then we
will bring all the rest back.
CC Okay, and we do have some relocations within
the film vault wetd llke you to do. And the reason is to
get some of the film over into the SL-IV location which has
better protection from radiation.
CDR Go ahead. I have a pencil and paper in hand.
CC Okay, we'd llke to move C184 from FI4 to C-01.
CI65 from I-ll to F-12. CI66 from 1-12 to F-13, and C167
from 1-13 to F-14.
CDR Consider it accomplished.
CC Okay, and I have a change to the PLT's part
of the checklist. Deact checklist.
CC First change is on page 1-19.
CDR Hers shaving. Could you hit him later at
Honeysuckle?
CC Okay, I'll get him - Honeysuckle. That'll
be fine, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre 1 minute from LOS;
Honeysuckle at 41.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 37 minutes and 26
seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now crossln_
New Guinea is out of the range of the Guam tracking antenna.
SL-III MC-2483/2
Time: 02:29 CDT, 59/07:29 GMT
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Our next acquisition of signal about 3 minutes from now

will be at Honeysuckle. Today the crew is engaged in
addition deactivation activities, including the movement
of logs and other items to the command module and substan-
tial rearrangement of the orbital workshop before they
complete their 59-day mission. A number of things, in-
cluding a - chan_es made to - foot restraints and several
minor items, frozen food and so forth, rearranging these
things as you heard during this pass over Guam. A re-
arrangement of the film to move - the film to be used by
the final Skylab crew into areas of lower radiation. In
addition, another item of film has been identified for
return. That was in addition to those things that were
listed on yesterday's checklist. So these things will be
done today - a number of things - some very minor - re-
duction in the amount of equipment being used and that -
those changes are changes preparatory to return on Tuesday.
We're conin_ up to 2 minutes before acquisition of signal
on Honeysuckle and we'll keep the line up for Honeysuckle
pass lasting about 4 minutes and a half.

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SL III _C-2484/1
TIME: 02:38 CDT 59/07:38 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab, Houston throuFh Honeysuckle

for 4 minutes.
PLT Okay Henry.
CC Jack, did you want to copy those changes
to your checklist now, or did you want to wait till we're
in Canary/_{adrid about 30 minutes from now?
CDR He He said he'd rather wait. He's shaking
90 wa- or 70 watt right now.
CC Okay. We'll Just wait until we're over
therets no bip rush. I do need to get it. It comes on
page 19 in deactivation and that'll be about an hour or so
from now.
CDR Okay.
SPT Wanted to mention one thing. Got some
exercise last night here's the numbers. 2/35/5041, that's
for the CDR.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Here's a little PLT exercise. 6 - no
that's wrong. (Laughter) Here it goes 2/36/8238.
CC We copy again.
CDR Also, is Gerry going (garble)?
CC He hadn't come in yet, AI.
CDR You might mention to him when he comes
in, a possible suggestion for Gerry Carr's deactivation.
If they'd set this timeline up so that they got tome to
exercise both days of deac. Yesterday and today.
CC Okay. We'll copy that down and we're
about a minute from LOS now. We'll be coming up on Canaries
at 29.
CDR Okay.
SPT What's your longitude of our ascending note,
Hank. You got it handy.
CC We'll have to look it up Owen. We'll
get to it as soon as we can.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 45 minutes and
53 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now out of range of Honeysuckle's tracking antenna. And
we're about 32 minutes and 46 seconds from our next
acquisition of signal. That will be at Canary Island. This
is Skylab Control at 46 minutes and 9 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-III MC-2485/I
Time: 03:27 CDT, 59/08:27 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab ontrol, at 8 hours 27 minutes and

53 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now about
50 seconds from acquisition of signal at Canary Island. This
pass through Canary Island and Madrid will last about 12-1/2
minutes. This time the crew should be engaged in a number
of miscellaneous activities having Just finished their break-
fast, the things included in the activity are transfers and
stowage of triangle shoes, clothing modules, and a variety
of checks on the orbital workshop. We have the llne up live
now for alr-to-ground through Canary Island and Hadrld.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Canary and
Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes.
CDR Film has been transferred.
CC Good show.
CC And, answer to the SPT, we have some ascending
node time is 08:20:45; the node was 55.3 west.
SPT Okay, now would you repeat it please?
CC Okay, 08:20 and 45 seconds, 55.3 west.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
PLT And Hank, I believe you got some additions
to my checklist.
CC Right, Jack, on page 1-19.
PLT Hey, you were cut off. Say again, please.
CC Roger. Page 1-19.
PLT Okay, I'm looking at it.
CC Okay. The - about the second llne there
calls for a canister CII09, and that's already been used,
canister 106, it's already on the camera. It's only got about
33 exposures left and you're going to need about 50 for your
mandatory and crew option photos. So what we want to do is
change that to CII07 and its location is H-10. And also down
at the bottom of that column, change that reference to CII07.
PLT Okay, know right where that was - - is, it's
the only one that's left in there. Thank you.
CC Okay, and on page 267 is the same change
there Jack. It refers to CII09 and it should be CI-I07.
PLT Okay, thank you Hank.
CC And Skylab, Houston, we certainly
appreciate today if periodically you could - each of you
could give us and update on where you are so we can track you.
PLT Okay, Hank try to do that.
CDR Got two special requests, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
CDR One, I'd like to talk to my family tonight.
Two is a little more unusual, when y'all send up teleprinter
pads for certain day do you put them on tapes and then fire
them up, is that how it works.
CC Negative, they're generally built right
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9/24/73

in the computer we - in the ASP and we brin E them up on the

screen. They can be put on tape some of the special messages
are done that way. Are you looklng for an old message?
CDR Say again, I blocked you out.
CC Okay, are you looking for an old message, AI?
CDR What I wanted to do, is I wanted to bring
home a - one day set of teleprinter messages that I used, so
that I could have a complete set of one day, llke day 252, I
didn't know how hard that was to get.
CC I'm not sure I understand you, AI, you
want us to up - up-llnk to you an old set of messages. Is
that what you want?
CDR ThatIs affirm, if you can do it. If it's
not to big of a deal that's why I ask if you had - had them
on tape, you Just ran them off and they printed off. I never
kept any of the teleprinter messages l'd llke to have one set
to see how we did it.
CC Okay, we see what we can do. We have some
of them on tape, but Itm not sure we have them all. We'll
cheek into it.
CDR Okay, day 252 would be a nice one. And it
would take my details and my general and three or four messages
you sent me and a couple of EREPs if you got them or something
like that. Whatever would have kind of a general date. Day-
252 is just an example, you found out day 253 you had that
would be Just as good.

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SL III MC-2486/I
TIHE: 03:36 CDT 59/08:36 GMT
9/24/73

CDR And Hank, what's the speed of 16

millimeter DAC° Interior film if you shoot it out the window.
CC Okay, if you - if you use the whole thing -
one whole cassette out the window, it can be 160.
CDR And if you Just use partial.
CC 500.
CDR Thank you.
CDR We got a little bit left.
CDR Hank, did you say that was an ASA of
500?
CC That's affirmative. That's what the
interior film is processed at if you shoot in interior.
That's why we said if you split a roll, it'll have to be
processed at 500 because of the interior shoot. If you
want to shoot a whole roll out the window, then we can
process it at 160 and get better results.
SPT Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Carnarvon at 08.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 42 minutes
and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylah spacecraft
now out of range of the Madrid tracking antenna. During
this last pass, Commander Alan Bean indicated that he had
completed some film transfers that were requested by the
ground today by voice. He also requested that the teleprinter
pads for mission day 252 be up-linked again. He said that
he that he would be willing to take another day's teleprinter
pads, but he would prefer the 252. Correction, that's day
of the year 252 rather than mission day 252. The reason
behind that is not entirely clear. He did give an explanation
for why day of year 252. He did say he'd be willing to take
253. Hission day or day of the year number 252 was Sept.
9. That day was a crew day off, and however was a very busy
one nevertheless, it was 7-1/2 hours of activity on the
Apollo telescope mount were performed. One Earth Resources
experiment package pass, number 18, was performed. They
did however cancel another EREP pass, number 19. There
was an extended science conference held that day with the
crew on the solar experiments, medical and Earth Resources
experiments and on corollary experiments with Dr. David
Bowen, Dr. Story Musgrave, and Dr. Robert Parker being the
participants. They also did a pointing stability test for
the Comet Kohoutek on that day. So there were a great many
things golnz on. Also at i:00 Greenwich mean time on the
day of year 252, a large active prominence was reported by
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the crew associated with active region number 9, and they

did do a mlni-scan. It's not entirely clear why that day
was selected_ but it apparently was because there was a
wide variety of activity and it was a crew day off. The
date on that Earth Resources pass included photographic
and infrared scanner information collected over Western
mexico, radaraltimeter data over the southwestern U.S. for
the purpose of identifying terrain characteristics and for
the design of future sensors, also multispectral radiometry
and photographic data. Plus over a local storm and coastal
cloud systems in the continental U.S. This is Skylab Control
We're now 21 minutes and 36 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal and it's 45 minutes and 14 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2487/1
Time: 04:06 CDT, 59/09:06 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 6 minutes and 20

seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab spacecraft now crossing
over Indonesia, is about 2 minutes and 20 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. That pass
through Carnarvon and the following pass through Honeysuckle
should extend approximately 15 minutes. We have a - esti-
mated times for the post-activities after splashdown tomorrow,
approximately 5:20 p.m. central daylight time. These times
in Greenwich mean time: in command module landing, 2 -
22:20 Greenwich mean time, command module on dolly at
22:55, command module hatch opening at 23:00 Greenwich mean
time, in the hangar bay by 23:25. And the crew is expected
to arrive at the pier with the prime recovery ship - that's
the U.S.S. New Orleans at 16:00 Greenwich mean time on the
26th. That's at about Ii:00 a.m. central daylight time on
the day after they splashdown on Wednesday. Flight crew
will - the crew will also be coming off the ship and arriving
at Elllngton on the 27th at about 01:30 Greenwich mean time.
On the 27th of the month, that is on Thursday which would
of course make it late Wednesday evening. This is Skylab
Control. We're llve now for elf-to-ground through Carnarvon
and Australia - and Honeysuckle, Australia.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 14-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC Rog. Wetd like to get an update on where
each of the three of you are in the activities for today
when you get a chance, please. Over.
PLT Lousma's is just concluding post-sleep acti-
vity.
SPT I'm looking at WLC fi_ter replacement, Bruce.
CC Rog.
SPT Al's working stowage transfers.
CC And are you showing a time on board of about
13:09 pseudo Zulu. Over.
SPT Now we could change our watches, Bruce. Our
clocks are still showing 09:09.
CC Okay, we recommend you set your watches - add
another 4 hours to your watches and we'll be giving you
call-outs today on that GMT plus 4-hour basis to keep you
synced up with the time llne here. And then this evening,
you can set your watches back 2 hours when you go to bed
or sometime Just before you get up in the morning. And
then you'll be synced up with tomorrow's tlmeline.
SPT Okay, we'll put them ahead 4 hours now.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
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Next station contact in 35 minutes through Bermuda at 13:58

pseudo ZF.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 24 minutes and 35
seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab spacecraft now out
of range of the Australia tracking station, a relatively
quiet pass over Australia. At the present time the Skylab
crew should be engaged in the activities we described a
little earller - those should take them something over an
hour. There was discussion at the beginning of the pass
over Carnarvon of changing the watches that the crew members
are wearing. Bruce HcCandless who just came on as the
Spacecraft Communicator, asked them if they now had pseudo
Z, which is, of course, a false Greenwich mean time -
pseudo Greenwich mean time. That time would be plus 4
hours compared to the real Greenwich mean time, which means
that right now it's now 09:25 GMT. It would now be 13:25
on pseudo Greenwich mean time. The reason for changing that
is to have the crew member's watches correspond with check-
list times, which were set up before the mission. Those
checklist times are off by 4 hours because the crew has
modified their sleeplng-waking sleep cycle to arrange for
them to awaken a little earlier in the morning. That 4-hour
change in the circadian rhythm is now being corrected by
changing their watches temporarily. Tomorrow the circadian
rhythm was expected to have been changed by a couple of
hours so there will only be about 2 hours off on tomorrow's
schedule. The crew now did make that change to pseudo
Greenwich mean time so from time to time during the day
we will be hearing times that are off by 4 hours read up
to the crew. At the present time they're engaged in miscel-
laneous activities involved in the deactivation of the
workshop. Those include a transfer of stowage items by
the commander, who will also be transferring the triangle
shoes. The Science Pilot, Owen Garriott, will be involved
in transfer of the clothing module, replacing filters in
the wardroom waste management compartment and checking the
lighting of the orbital workshop. And Pilot Jack Lousma
will be engaged in frozen food transfers and checking the
waste management vent filter and replacing it. Those things
should take them approximately another 30 minutes. And
then after that there will be a number of other housekeeping
tasks which will likely spend most of their day. This
is Skylab Control. It's now 31 minutes to our next acquisi-
tion of signal and almost 27 minutes after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2488/1
Time 04:57 CDT, 59/09:57 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 9 hours 57 minutes

and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now crossing the northern coast of South America in
about 40 - 1 second from acquisition of signal at Bermuda.
This pass through Bermuda will last approximately 9 minutes
and 50 seconds. We have the line up live now for air-to-
ground through Bermuda.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Bermuda
for 7-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC And for the information of the CDR,
starting at about 16:00 pseudo Z at his convenience weld
like to go ahead and bring the command module computer and
the platform and things of this sort up and get her set up
to do a l-day drift check and see what sort of shape we're
in. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, we're looking
for a volunteer to do some iodlnizatlon. Over.
SPT What is it you need, Bruce?
CC Okay, Owen, water tank 2, we need iodin-
ized it has approximately 37 percent water remaining in the
tank from your last report we show two parts per million
and we'd like it brought up six parts per mi11ion in
accordance with the procedures on the decal. Over.
SPT Okay, wetll take care of it.
CC Roger, thank you.
CDR Y'all generally tell us the amount
to squirt in.
CC I believe you got a decal with a graph
on the inside front cover of the iodine equipment locker
which has the percent remaining and in the tank. The
quantity remaining in the tank and the parts per million
in there is your entry, so - -
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC And simultaneous I get the input that
the quantity required is 15 units.
CDR Okay, that's been the traditional way
of doing it, we'll put in 15 units.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, now tell me what time this command
module thing is coming off. My - -

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SL III MC-2489/I
TIME: 05:06 CDT 59/10:06 GMT
9/24/73

CDR Okay. Now tell me what time this

command module rhinE's coming off. My time right now is
1406.
CC Okay. We concur with your time. We're
talking about approximately 16:00 and it's listed as the
CSM systems checklist period of time starting at 16:00 and
also including quiescent panel configuration check. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll be ready to do it.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC Okay. One minute to LOS. Next station
contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 14:11 pseudo Z.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 10 hours 8 minutes
and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab spacecraft
now crossing the North Atlantic is out of range of Bermuda
and will be acquired by Madrid in about 2 minutes and 30
seconds. During this last pass a little additional inform-
ation going up to the crew and their deactivation procedures.
Science Pilot Owen Garriott indicating that he will take
the necessary action to add iodine to the water tank number
2. Water tank number 2 presently reading 2 parts per million
of iodine. The iodine does dissipate over a period of time
and it would drop below the minimum level of one part per
million during the unmanned period lasting about a month
and a half. For that reason iodine is being added, 15 units
of it added to bring the level up to six parts per million.
That will take care of any possible degradation in the total
amount of iodine. That water tank holds about 250 pounds
of water right now. It's normal storage capacity is 600
pounds of water, so this is one that's presently being
used up by the crew although it's not nearly empty. This
is one of I0 stainless steel storage tanks located in the
forward compartment of the orbital workshop. We have the
line up live now for the air-to-ground pass through Madrid
lasting about 8-1/2 minutes. We're about a minute and
20 seconds from our acquisition of signal there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 8 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder this site. And for the CDR, we'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder over Carnarvon next site and for
the CDR, I have the details on his private comm. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. You're set up over Carnarvon
at 14:44 to 14:55 pseudo Zulu. That's about 32 minutes
from now. It'll be VHF right antenna for the first part
of the pass, and shifting to left at the tail end of it.
Over.
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CDR Hey, that's nice. Thank you Bruce.

CC Roger.
CDR Let me give you a little more information
about a stowage change we made.
CC Go.
CDR Okay. There's essentially two of them. I
attempted to put all the overage food, plus the SL II - all
the new overage food. That food that's been here that's
never been anybody's fllght kit in one locker. Namely
locker 550. It's in there now. Then in 554 is the SL II
overage food. And in 555, the SL III. So all the overage
food is now grouped in three adjacent lockers. Now_ in order
to give Gerry a little more room in his flight data file
here in the wardroom. It's pretty tight with just two. I
did not put our flight data file in 745. He just doesn't
use it that much and this will give him three compartments
instead of two. It'll make it a lot nicer for him. And
I put our flight data file in 557 in two bags, and then I
put Pete's in 557 also, so we've got all three flight data
files in 557, and if he needs something out of anybody's
old flight data file, he goes there. If he needs something
out of his own_ he goes to three lockers instead of two and
I think he'll like that a lot better.
CC Okay. Well, you got four lockers down
there in that W-742 area, don't you?
CDR Yes. 743 has some of Pete's. I did
not move it. Now, Gerry may want to take that 743 of Pete's
and put it in Pete's bag and then he'll have four, and that's
probably even a better idea, because it's just nice to have
more room, and then he can put the books and find them a
lot faster, but I didn't move Pete's. I only moved ours.
CC Okay. I'm sorry. I thought I copied
you saying that you had put some of the SL II flight data
file in 557.
CDR That's true. That's the part that was
in the bag that was behind the - behind the food stowage
area initially. We moved it out there lone ago because we
were constantly going in and out of there. So I just left
it there and put ours there, because it looks like something
that you do frequently. Any time you need old cardboard
or an extra ring or something you go over there and there
they are.
CC Okay. And I understand that the SL II
leftover overage food is in F-554, SL III leftover overage
food is in 555 - -

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SL-III MC-2490/I
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9/24/73

CC - - (garble) two leftover overage

food is in F554. SL-III leftover overage food is in 555.
And Just plain leftover food is in F550. Is tha_ correct?
CDR That's true, and before I leave here tonight,
I'm going to get out a long extension cord and chanel A
and I'm going to go inventory that stuff on channel A - what's
where everywhere.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 25-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 14:44 pseudo Z. Out.
CDR Okay, now another thing. I noticed it's got -
on page 1-8 for me to transfer the LSU/PCU below the ATM
C&D panel to the OWS. Now the SL-II crew left it
right in the use position. I would llke to leave it right
there also. That's a good place for it.
CC Okay, we copy you. Our first thought is that
it's okay. We'll get back to y'all over Carnarvon with
the final detail on it. It's moved to get around the docking
load constraint for SL-IV docking. Over.
CDR One thought is it's very well packed (garble)
CC Okay, you're going down in the mud. We'll
have to take you over at Carnarvon, AI.
CDR (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 20 minutes and
24 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of Madrid. Our next acquisition of signal
23 minutes and 49 seconds from now will be at Carnarvonj
Australia. Not much conversation here in this last pass.
A reminder though, the times that are heln E used now -
pseudo-Z, as Spacecraft Communicator, Bruce McCandless has
been calling it. The phase-elapse time clock here in Mission
Control has been adjusted 4 hours in advance so the actual
Greenwich mean time - so that present time - being Just
a little after I0 hours Greenwich mean time. Our phase-
elapse time clock here reads 14 hours Greenwich mean time.
The reason for that is to adjust the crew's checklist to
their watches - checklist were set up without taking into
account the 4-hour adjustment in their sleep cycles and that
has now been corrected for by having each of the crew members
set their watches 4 hours ahead. There was also an announce-
ment for Commander A1 Bean that a private comm - conversation
has been set up with his family for 10:44 Greenwich mean
time. We're at 14:44 pseudo Greenwich mean time. That
will be at Carnarvon and our next pass at 44 minutes after
the hour. Also on the previous pass at Bermuda, the commander
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was reminded to remember that CSM checks, the command

module checks, including the qulesent panel check. That
will be done at 16:00 pseudo-Z or at 12:00 Greenwich mean
time. This is Skylab Control. It's now 22 minutes and 21
seconds to acquisition of signal and 22 minutes and 2 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2491/i
Time: 05:43 CDT, 59/10:43 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control; at i0 hours 43 minutes

and 27 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approaching
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. The pass
through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle will last approximately
15 minutes and there maybe a drop out of about a minute -
in the middle of that. Skylab crew are still working on
the closeout procedures for the orbiting workshop those
include some photo preparations, and general housekeeping
tasks. At this time they're running on course now the phase
elapsed time clock which reads 14:43. There will be a private
comm underway here at Carnarvon. We have the line up live now
for alr-to-ground through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Carnarvon for 10-1/2 minutes. Over.
CC And for your information, it's okay to
leave the PCU/LSU that is at the ATM C&D panel in its present
location. And CDR should be standing by or in progress
with his phone call.
CDR He's on the way.
CC Roger.
CC And we'll be dumping your data voice
tape recorder this station pass. Out.
CDR And a quick update, we're all ahead of
the time llne right now and we' re all busily cleaning up
MDA, OWS, (garble) the whole business.
CC Okay, we copy that. I guess you ought
to be up in the command module, AI.
CDR I'm reading him Bruce, but he doesn't
read me.
CC Say again, AI.
CDR I read him but there's a tremendous
amount of noise and he does not read me.
CC Okay, we'll work that.
CDR Background noise is loud as I ever heard
it.
CDR Read you loud and clear Houston. How
me?
CC Okay, on S-band we're reading you loud
and clear down here, AI.
CC And if you still read us we're
configuring Honeysuckle also for VHF private comm incase
we don't get set up here.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, confirm right
antenna for VHF comm.
CC SPT, Houston. Next time you're near a
squawk box you might tell us if during your conduct of
_he lighting check you were replaced any light bulbs, out.
SPT Okay, I'm to a squawk box and I haven't
replaced no lights.
CC Roger, out.

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SL-III MC-2492/i
Time: 05:57 CDT, 59/'10:57 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 31 minutes through Texas. Corpus
Christi at 15:30 seudo Z. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours and 1 minute Green-
wich mean time. We're now out of range of the Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal 29 minutes and 7 seconds from now. During this pass
Commander Alan Bean - first part of the pass was conducting
a private conversation with his wife, and that'll be probably
the last private conversation during the mission, although
it is conceivable either of - one of the other two crew
members might ask for one. They will be back on the surface
of the planet tomorrow evening, at which time they will have
_n opportunity to talk with their wives in a private phone
call. That's tentatively scheduled for about 7:00 p.m.
central daylight time, about an hour and a half after they
splash down. They will not, of course, see their wives again
until they arrive back. They're expected to arrive here in
Houston on Thursday evening about 6:00 p.m. Presently
the recovery schedule calls for the ship USS New Orleans,
the landing platform helicopter to arrive in San Diego at
16:00 Greenwich mean time on Wednesday or ii:00 a.m. central
daylight time Wednesday morning, and then they will be in
San Diego until they arrive back here in Houston by way
of C-141 departing from North Island at 1:30 - correction,
they will be departing from North Island at 20:00 Greenwich
mean time, or at about 4 p.m. and they'll be arriving back
here that evening about 6:00. Correction - that's departing
at 3:00 p.m. rather than 4:00 p.m. - departing at 3:00 p.m.
and arriving here at 6:00 p.m. central daylight time. At
the present time the crew is moving along well on their
checklist. The report they gave us at the beginning of that
Carvarvon pass was that they were about midway in their
housekeeping tasks. Apparently they are now in the process
of bioclding the space station, that is cleaning it down with
a - a disinfectant and that will be one of the final steps
of the housekeeping tasks. Following that they are scheduled
to go back to the command module and do some review of entry
procedures and configure at the - do a configuration check
on the quiescent panel and then following that they will have
lunch at 1700 pseudo-Z or false Greenwich mean time, the
clocks now having been reset 4 hours in advance. Our present
time 1500 pseudo Greenwich mean time, that correction being
made earlier today to make the flight - Flight Plan checklist
correspond to the crew members watches. The actual time,
of course, being 4 hours earlier than pseudo Z. So at the
present time they are moving towards that lunehtlme - about
a - 2 hours from now. And they are moving along well with the
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final deactivation procedures. Ne're 26 minutes and 19

seconds from our next acquisition of signal at the Texas
tracking station in Corpus Christi. And it's now 4 minutes
and 3 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2493/I
TIME: 06:28 CDT 59/1128 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at ii homrs 29 minutes

and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Corpus Christi, Texas
tracking antenna. And we'll have the llne up live for
air-to-ground through Texas and Merritt Island and Bermuda.
This pass is going to be an extended one lasting almost
15-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes for the CDR please.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. Wonder if you could give us an
update on where you are in the deactivation checklist. Over.
CDR Okay. We're right on time. We're in the -
well, right on time would be the answer. Everybody's cleaning
up. Jack's run into a problem with his urine separator. It's
not sucking air at the moment. But he's working on it. Owen
is fixing his lunch. Not eating it, but just getting it
ready. I'm over here in the command module. I'm a little
bit ahead doing - getting ready to start the quiescent
configuration check. Owen just finished taking the pictures
of the coolanol loop requested yesterday. If you'll shoot
us up the pad, we'll take those vent pictures you wanted
yesterday. And I've got the tools in my pocket. Sometime in
the next 4 hours, I'll pull out some of those 82B tie plate
screws and let you - you indicated you wanted a timellne on them.
So I'II pull out 10 and time it, and that'll give you a
clue how long it's going to take to get the rest.
CC Okay. Mighty fine. And whenever you're
ready, preferably this stateside pass, within the next 13
or 14 minutes, we'd like to get the G&N power off, page 2-4,
and page 2-6 down to the bottom of the left hand side and
then the E memory dump on page 2-10 and we'll upllnk you
a clock sync and we'll be pretty much in business. Over.
CDR Okay. I'll do that right now.
CC Beautiful.
CDR Okay. Now, do you want me to Just give
you a verb 74 or do you want me to do the CMC self check.
IMU power up, optics power up, SCS power up or what?
CC We'd llke to follow it through the
checklist per pages 2-4 and down to the bottom of the left
hand side of 2-6, including the CMC self check and all of
that. Over.
CDR Okay. I'll do that right now. It's
powered up at the moment.
CC Roger, but nothing to do with powering
up the SCS and nothing with the STS either. Over.
CDR Understand.
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9/24/73

CDR We took some extra time yesterday to

make sure we got everything shipshape, so when we went
this morning, we didn't have a lot of extra things going on
and it really paid off.
CC Beautiful. Sounds llke you're really
staying on the timellne there.
CDR Wetve been ahead of it. Okay. This is
the self check is complete. I'ii can it and IMU is coming
up now.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR IMU's up. Standing by for (garble)
CC Roger. We copy. Stand by.
CC Okay AI. We're ready for the verb 74.
Let her rip.
CDR There she comes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you downlinked.
It will take us about an hour to complete the analysis of
the E memory dump. We see an accept. We'll go ahead and
uplink TFM update and the clock sync to you at this time.
Over.
CDR Outstanding.

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SL-III MC-2494/1
Time: 06:41 CDT, 59/11:41 GMT
9/24/73

CC CDR, this is Houston, TFMs on board

we're working on the clock sync we hope to have a state
vector update and a REFSMAT available for you over
Carnarvon at 16:24 pseudo Z which would be about 4 or 5 min-
utes before sunset. And we're hoping you can get a platform
alignment in following sunset. Over.
CDR Okay, if you tell me the star numbers
and the shaft and trunnion I'ii do it.
CC The trench and the upper trench are
working away on that.
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, this is Houston, as you all
noticed oh, clicking noise coming from the airlock module
we've commenced up-linking your day 252, collection of
pads for the record and it will probably take us several
hours to get them up but they're coming we're sending every-
thing up except the complete criteria update which is a
14 pager and we Just assume not resend that one. Over.
CDR I concur a hundred percent. And I
appreclate it. I don't know who had to do all that work
but thanks.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, the clock sync
is complete, the DSKY is yours. We have a minute and 30
seconds until LOS. Next station contact in 5-1/2 minutes
through Madrid at 15:49 pseudo Z. And we'll have the REFSMAT
and state vector for you over Carnarvon as promised.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control; at ii hours 45 minutes
and 18 seconds. We're going out of range of signal now
from Bermuda and we're now out of range about 3-1/2 minutes
before we acquire again at Hadrid. During this last pass
Commander Alan Bean indicated that he had moved down to the
command module and was working through the checklist for
the 16:00 schedule that's phase elapsed time, schedule
doing the checks on the quiescent panel and also they were
in the process of powering up the command module computer.
Some of the instructions sent up there were instructions for
TSH, the time from the - time of the ephemeris which is a
reference tins being used by the computer and also there
will be a REFSMAT or a a reference - an inertial reference
data to also be submitted into the computer all these
things have to be done of course before re-entry. Also
during this last pass the ground through Spacecraft
Communicator Bruce McCandless, told the crew that they will
up-link day 52 teleprinter pad which will be complete except
for the complete criteria which was a 14 page section of
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that teleprinter pad all of the information relating to

mission day - day of the year 252, will be included in that
teleprinter pad that was a response to a request from
Commander Bean, earlier this morning that he would llke to
have a souvenir copy of one day's teleprinter pad and that
has been started now, and the up-llnk will be made sometime
during the day. That will be all of the pads from day 252
a very active day, a crew day off, howevers did Involves
activity includlns a solar prominence and A - Earth resources
pass and 7-1/2 hours on the ATM. Right now the crew is
moving along well in their housekeeping task during the
closeout of the workshop. Owen Garrlott is fixing his lunch
during the pass over the U. S.p he did earlier today take
some pictures of the coolanol system that had been requested
earlier by the ground. And at the same time Jack Lousma is
working with the urine separators he had apparently had some
difficulty getting those separators to pull air through them
but that is moving along well. And Commander Alan Bean also
indicated that he will do some work with the 82 - SO82B
kick plate screws, ground having requested that those be
removed so that the final Skylab crew can install a new
timer there. They will try and get an idea of how long it
takes Just by removing a few of them today. Bruce McCandless
did remind Commander Bean not to use the stabilization and
control system during the power up of the command module
computer s and also said don't use the SPS, being facetious of
courses the SPS is the service propulsion system which is the
main engine of the command module and of course he will not
be using that during the power up. We're about 42 seconds
from our acquisition of signal at Madrid. The pass through
Madrid will last about 7 minutes and 50 seconds and we do have
the llne llve for the air-to-ground between Bruce McCandless
here at Mission Control and the crew of the second Skylab
mission.

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SL-III MC-2495/I
Time: 06:48 CDT, 59/11:48 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab, this is-Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Bruce, I'm looking a little ahead in - in
my checklist here on page 1-39 to configure that TV camera
up on the ATM panel. Are you with me?
CC i will be in Just a second.
CC Go.
SPT Okay, on page 1-39 there is a space - for
a TV configuration and the XYZ coordlnance there - I don't
believe will work. They must not have considered the ATM
work boards which are attached to that panel there. And
I'll go ahead and mount the camera in that location, but
it will not he in quite the XYZ location - that they
specified on the pad.
CC Okay, what we're trying to do is lined
up with the camera pointed at the axial tunnel so that it
covers the area where the SL-IV crew will be ingressing
and egresslng for the beginning of the mission. Over.
SPT Okay, I'll - will point it toward the
command module tunnel.
CC And it - input that I'm getting here is
we took into account the - the boards and the coordinants
were given to get the c_mera out of the way of the boards
on the ATM handrail.
SPT Okay, I'll check it one more time. And the
f-stop does not print on my copy of the pad here. It just
has F comma. I don't know what F-stop they wanted it set
on.
CC Okay, it's F-stop zoom setting in focus,
425 and 15 respectively. F/4 zoom 25 and focus 15. Over.
SPT Okay, now I understand it. Thank you.
CC Hey, Owen, correct my last. The XYZ settings
that we gave you were set up to move the camera out of your
way rather than to position it properly. However, if you
could aim it at the axial hatch and still have not it get-
ting too much in your way during the final phase of the
deactivation that's what we'd llke to do. OVez.
SPT Okay, I'll modify the XYZ settings to try
to accomplish both of those.
CC Yeah, you might even disregard them.
SPT Fair enough. I'll do that. I hated to say
it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 28 minutes through Carnar-_on at
16:24 pseudo Z. Out.
PAO Skylah Control at Ii hours 57 minutes and
38 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
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Time: 06:48 CDT, 59/11:48 GMT
9/24/73

crossin? eastern Europe. Sixteen minutes and 31 seconds to

our next acquisition of signal at - that's a correction that
should be 26 minutes. The clocks are reading, apparently,
a bit off. Our next acquisition 26 minutes from now at
Carnarvon. During this morning we've been quite occupied
with a number of things, housekeeping and closeout procedures
biocidin_ of the orbital workshop and other areas, a number
of things necessary before the month and a half of unmanned
activity aboard the Skylab craft. Astronauts will be working
for awhile longer on that command module computer in the
power-up. They're scheduled to have lunch about an hour from
now. _{ost of the things are going very smoothly this morning
and they are catching up on some things that were not done
yesterday, including a photography of the coolanol loop and
also some activities including putting a little iodine in
the water tanks. Uater supply in Skylab is still very well
maintained. About three of the six tanks available for
drinking water have been used, a little less than three of
those tanks. And that leaves about half of the total supply
for the final Skylab mission. That's far more, of course,
than we would expect them to use and should leave a consider-
able amount left at the end of a standard mission. Also
on one of - Just a little less than one of the two tanks
available for waste management uses is - has been used. Each
tank contains about 600 to 650 pounds of water, or roughly
80 gallons of water. And there is one - tank 180-gallon tank
is set aside for possible use in the event of a fire and
a final tank, another 80-gallon tank, all of them stainless
steel, all ten of the tanks. One other tank is available
as a spare for any use that may come up. There is a very
ample supply of water. This morning we had a little iodine
dropped into one of the tanks, 15 units of it by Owen Garriott,
for the purpose of keeping that water pure for drinking.
Everything moving very smoothly in the checklists and have
encountered no problems at this time. The crew will complete
their record-breaking 59-day mission tomorrow. The astro-
nauts will undock the command module at 2:50 p.m. central
daylight time. Because of the leak in the two - one of
the pair - pair of quad ensines - or sets of maneuvering
rockets on the crew's service module, the main engine is
going to be fired only once tomorrow instead of the usual
two times. Now, that will be at 4:38 p.m. It'll slow the
small capsule by about 300 miles per hour and bring it back
into the Earth's atmosphere. Splashdown set for 5:20 p.m.
Houston time, tomorrow. The helicopter landing ship, USS
New Orleans will be waitinz 230 miles southwest of San Diego
for the landing. It's now exactly 12 hours and 37 seconds
Greenwich mean time, and we're 23 minutes and 34 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon.

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SL
TIHE: III _C-2496_i
07:23 C T 59112:23 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 23 minutes

and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now 54 seconds from acquisition of signal at Carnarvon,
Australia and we'll bring the line up live for a 5 minute
pass through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 5 minutes. Standing by for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. I've got some stars for you.
Okay. We see you're in accept. We're coming up with the
state vectors and the REFSMAT, and I've got some stars for you
when you're ready.
CC Say again please.
CDR Just 1 second.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Star 1 is 4 Achernar, shaft 220.3
trunnion 44.4. Second star is star number 6, Acamar. Shaft
235.7, trunnion 24.8. These are _ood ,,ntil 17:11 oseudo _T.
And the shaft and trunnion angles may be a little bit off
since we have some uncertainties in NuZ at the persent time.
With the star tracker out of commission. Over.
CDR Okay. I've got that. Understand you
want me to do a P-51 and then P-52 option i.
CC Thatls affirmative.
CDR Okay. I went through the quiescent
panel configuration. Found one anomaly. Let me tell you
what it is. Over on the EVA panel the vent valve is still
in, that cryo vent valve, and of course then, the 02 supply
valve is on. So I suspect you want me to remove the vent
valve and turn off the 02 supply.
CC Is that the polychoke youtre talking
about?
CDR No. The pressure release.
CC Okay. We copy. Stand by.
CDR And how long before darkness?
CC About 2 minutes.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC CDR, this is Houston. We're in the
process of trying to get you a state vector and REFS_AT
via up-link at the present time. If we could have the DSKY
please.
CDR Okay. Itm sorry. I didn't know that
interfered. What should I do to get it back to you - -
CC PO0 and AC - -
CDR - - ...
CC PO0 and AC - -
CDR PO0 and ACCEPT, okay.
CDR Sorry, it was a display and I guess I canIt
have displays when you're doing it.
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9/24/73

CC Roger.
CDR Okay. One minute to LOS. Next station
contact in 7-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at 16:35
pseudo Z.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 31 minutes
and 41 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now out of range of the Carnarvon, Australia tracking station.
And about 3 minutes and 50 seconds from acquisition of
signal at Honeysuckle. The crew in the midst now -
Commander Alan Bean in the command module working at the
command modulets computer. And some data being upllnked
here by _flsslon Control for that computer prior to tomorrowts
reentry. When the crew reenters the atmosphere tomorrow
and splashes down at 5:20 p,m, central daylight time about
230 miles southwest of San Diego, they will have a total
of 24,000,000 miles in space durlnE this mission. The total
time for the mission, 59 days 11 hours and 9 minutes. That
will exceed the previous record for the longest spaceflight
in duration, and it will exceed that record by 31 days 10
hours and 20 minutes. It will be more than twice as lone
as the 28 day 49 minute 49 second mission commanded by
Charles (Pete) Conrad. That was of course, the first Skylab
mission. Wet11 keep the llne up 1lye now. It's about
2 minutes and 40 seconds before we acquire at Honeysuckle.
The Honeysuckle pass a very short one, lasting about a
minute and 20 seconds. At this time the phase elapse time
clock is reading 16 hours 33 minutes. Thetis of course, the
pseudo Z or pseudo Greenwich mean time that Spacecraft
Communicator Bruce IfcCandless refers to from tlme to time.
That pseudo Z, a false time is set up to allow the crew
to follow checklist that were created before a change in
their sleep cycle that revised everything by 4 hours. So
the checkllst right now is reading 16:33, and that's in time
also on the pseudo Z or phase elapse time clock here. To-
morrow the phase elapse time clock will be off by 2 hours.
It will be 2 hours in advance of actual GHT. That reason
of course, for the same as todayVs change, to allow the
checklist to correspond with the crewVs watches. The crew
did reset their watches this morning 4 hours ahead and to-
morrow they will adjust those so theylre 2 hours ahead for
tomorrow's checklist. We'll keep the llne up live now for
elf-to-ground through Honeysuckle, lasting about a minute
and a half and about a minute from acquisition.

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SL-III MC-2497/1
Time: 07:34 CDT, 59/12:34 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Honey--

suckle 1 minutes and 16 seconds until LOS. Next station
contact through Corpus Christi in 29 minutes at 17:05
pseudo Z. And we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at that site. On panel 603 we'd llke to get the
cryo vent valve removed and stowed and the 02 SUPPLY valve
turned OFF. Over.
CDR Okay, for your information there doesn't
have to be stars at star 2 shaft and trunnion.
CC Roger_ we copy and - -
CDR ... we were dumping. Say again, Houston.
CC Roger; we copy and we're in the process
of getting you a REFSMAT at this time.
CDR Okay, are we - are we in the middle of
a dump?
CC Thatls affirmative, AI.
CDR I gather those were for a nondumping
situation, huh?
CC That's also affirmative.
CDR Not an acceptable way for entry..
SPT Bruce, give me those (garble) valves
again, please.
CC The REFSD_AT is in the computer is
Alan's again, the valves are for panel 603 in the command
module that A1 was asking about a few minutes ago. And
we're coming up on LOS here. Over.
CDR Okay, Itll get the valve out and close
the thln_ and I guess I'ii just cool it on this alignment,
huh?
CC If you can find the stars while we're
maneuverln_ that's great, if not why I guess we'll have to
do as you say.
PAO Skylab Control; at 12 hours 37 minutes
and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now passing to the south of New Zealand is out of range of
the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking antenna. Our
next acqulstion 27 minutes and 27 seconds from now will be
at Corpus Christi_ Texas. We're now 38 minutes and 6 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2498/I
Time: 08:04 CDT, 59/13:04 G_IT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 13 hours 4 minutes

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 52 seconds
from acquisition of signal at the Texas tracking station.
This extended pass through Texas-Merritt Island and Bermuda
will be approximately 17 minutes. We have the llne up llve
now for the alr-to-ground between Spacecraft Communicator
Bruce McCandless and the crew.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi and Bermuda for 15 minutes 40 seconds. Dumping
the data voice tape recorder here at Corpus Christi and
we'd like to get an estimate from you all of what your towel
and wash cloth consumption has been over the past few days
so that we can make any required deltas to the SL IV
storage llst. Over.
PLT Okay, Al's been using two towels to
three wash cloths every two days.
CC Okay, we copy that, for the CDR.
PLT And Owen and I have been using one towel
and one wash cloth per day.
CC Roger and we copy that.
PLT And effectively we ain't - we haven't
used any extras the last few days, over our normal supply.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC And CDR, this is Houston, the platform
you got looks good to us, How did the alignment go?
CDR Takes time to find the stars of course
the same star is going to going to show up tomorrow hopefuly
and that means it would be a lot easier. I think the way to
go is go this way except plan to get up in the day time cause
then we're back to solar inertial and these angles put it
within the field of view are close at hand. At night during
dump they could be anywhere.
CC Okay, for tomorrow we're planning on
leaving the platform up, so you ought to be able to do
auto optics to the stars.
CDR Now, there - that's _reat. That's -
you mean leave it up from now on through tomorrow.
CC Yes sir.
CDR That's the way to do it. That's great.
Good that's the best news I've heard today. Now here's
another comment, the time I got to alignment was 12:53:00
that was the P52, and errors were zero and torquing angles
from the PSI were plus 163, plus 62, plus 95. And I used
stars 46.
CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you. And - -
SPT Bruce, I wonder if there's not a
hurricane just to the north of our location up here?
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Time: 08:04 CDT, 59/13:04 Gt{T
9/24/73

CC Therets one sort of to the left of your

locatlon_ maybe south I think it's hurricane Ira. In fact
we were Just (garble) away our time down here by looklng
at the predicated track of that hurrlcane_ and (garble)
your splash point tomorrow. And it looks llke you'll be in
pretty good shape.
PLT That's encouraging because not only from
our standpoint but Just looking out here it's the best
developed hurricane I think we've seen, with a very clear eye,
CC It Just came up from tropical storm to
hurricane status last night.
CDR It's a beautiful hurricane. It doesn't
look very strong, cau - I gather because the clouds aren't
very thick but it sure is a pretty shape.
CC Okay, tomorrow at your predicated splash
time the eye of the particular storm will be 5 to 600 miles
southeast of your splashpolnt_ the nearest 30 knot wind
velocity will still be some 2 to 300 miles southeast of you
and the peak winds are 75 knots at - near the center of the storm.
Over.
SPT Roger.

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SL III MC-2499/I
TIME: 08:16 CDT 59/13:16 GMT
9/24/73

CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.

CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for the CDR.
Over.

CDR Apparently our comm link is not working.

CC Okay. We were right on the edge coming
out of the keyhole there, so it probably explains it. In
the command module, we'd like to get you to verify the
(garble) switch in the GDC position. And we're a minute and
20 seconds ill LOS. Next station contact in 6 minutes
through _adrid at 17:26 pseudo Z. Out.
CDR Okay. I think it said Z_IC and in GDC.
I'll check it.
CDR Roger. APSET is in GDC. Why? Did
you see some funny indications?
CC Yes. We're seeing flight differences
in pitch between the ISS angles and the ACDU angles and we
can talk to you about it over Madrid. We're going LOS now.
CDR Okay. Now you know that I haven't
powered up the STS or anything like that.
CC Yes Sir. We realize that.
CDR Okeydoke.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 22 minutes
and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now over the North Atlantic out of range of the Bermuda
tracking antenna and 3-1/2 minutes from acquisition of
signal at Madrid. Here in Mission Control Flight Controllers
Nell Hutchinson and Phll Shaffer are reviewing weather
conditions for tomorrow's splashdown. As was mentioned at
the beginning of this pass, the crew could see indications
of a hurricane south of BaJa California, and that hurricane
has been a matter of interest to Mission Flight Directors
and to weather people here at !{ission Control. Hurricane
named Ira, with winds at 75 knots is predicted to be 500 to
600 miles southeast of the impact point for tomorrowts
splashdown at 5:20 p.m. central daylight time. That
prediction assumes that Ira which has grown from tropical
depression to tropical storm to hurricane in the past two days
will continue to move northwest at i0 knots from it's present
position directly down range from the splash point. The
hurricane is now several hundred miles due south of the
southern tip of Baja, California. By the time of splashdown
5:20 p.m. CDT tomorrow, it's present course and speed would
put the eye about 150 miles west of BaJa's southern tip.
Winds of about 30 knots extend out from the eye 200 miles.
Because the storm center will be about 500 tO 600 miles
southeast of the predicted impact point, weather conditions
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9/24/73

do not appear at this time to be a matter for concern. The

footprint for maximum llft on the Apollo Command Module
however_ does meet the 30 knot wind area at the present
time. If that prediction were to be followed up_ that
would mean that should the spacecraft go as far as it is
possible to go with it's present schedule for burns, it
would put the impact point directly at the 30 knot wind
level. Of course_ at this time_ it's very unlikely that
the spacecraft would travel an additlonal 400 miles down
range. That would be unusual and due to the fact that we
have generally been right on target. But that is still a
matter under consideration here. We will be watching for
the next prediction on the storm's tract. At the present
time it does not appear that it is going to present any
real difficulty. It would be possible to move the splash-
down point without much difficulty on relatively short
notice. The main constraint on that being the travel
distance of the USS New Orleans. The New Orleans can travel
at approximately a maximum rate of 20 knots_ 21 knots listed
as it's officlal maximum and it normally does schedule a
travel rate of about 15 knots. So it would be possible
to move that track up further towards the northwest and
that wlll be considered during the next several hours. We
will recleve another report on the hurrlcanets path in
about 2-1/2 hours. The weather people here in mission
control donlt believe that the hurricane will follow
directly along itls path to the northwest along the down
range track_ but they do believe it will probably shift
either to the west or the east as it gets further into the
northern and colder water, Wetll bring the line up live
now through Madrld. This pass to last approximately 9
minutes.

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,t

SL-III MC-2500/I
Time: 08:26 CDT, 59/[[3:26 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Madrid

for 8 minutes. With some information for the CDR.
PLT Go ahead we're all listening, Bruce.
CC Okay, then let me cover the SPS oxidizer
manifold pressure drop first. About i0 to 12 hours ago on
a measurement that we have only on telemetry which is the
SPS oxidizer manifold inlet pressure, we observed a fairly rapid
drop of 30 psi the oxidizer tank pressure has remained steady and
we've been watching it over this period of 10 to 12 hours.
And are pretty certain that it's an instrumentation shift and
there should be no cause for alarm on board. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce we'll go look at our own
meter.
CC Okay. We - we're not requesting you to
do that but certainly for piece of mind why there's no harm in it.
And for the Commander, we have been looking at the deactivation
closeout procedures for tomorrow and what we'd perfer to do
is to send you up a teleprinter pad to be added into the
deact checklist for configuring the ergometer and the
ESS panel for closeout to be accomplished coincidental with
the panel 613, circuit breaker reconflguratlon at about
10:45 (garble) time, that's your time tomorrow. This is
so close to wake up however, that it doesn't seem to us
llke it would give you much opportunity for useful work on
the ergometer and our recommendation would be to go ahead
and get your exercise in today and then press on with
deactivation essentially for the checklist tomorrow. Over.
CDR Okay, that's what we'll do Bruce. I
think that's a good suggestion.
CC Okay, the thlnp that we're really
concerned about would be somehow getting out of sequence
in deactivation and winding up in a off nominal configuration.
And back in the CMC world again, what we think we have is
a change in the calibration or a shift in the cal curve of
either the co-slgn or the sign winding of the resolver that
feeds the IMU (garble) in pitch and we're trying to determine
right now exactly what it is we observed in the past few
minutes a 3 degree error on your entry minus 7 day power up
and checks we observed a 5 degree error we'll keep you
posted on the situation. We believe we can up-llnk a load
that will delete that. We will just have to keep analyzing
it and let you know what the situation is. Over.
CDR I'm not sure what - what that sort of
an error results in to the operator.
CC Okay. It would give you a ball position
which is different from the true position on the IMU, and
I think your VERB-16 NOUN 20 angle would be different from your
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Time: 08:26 CDT, 59/13:26 GMT
9/24/73

ball angle.
CDR Okay, now is this sort of 5 degrees of
what? Is this a bias or is this something that's fully
tripped?
CC We're working that problem now, A1 and
all I can say is that we'll have to get the information back
to you in a little while.
CDR Okay, glad y'all caught it. That's kind
of interesting.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, with 40 seconds
tll LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes throush Honey-
suckle at 18:12 suto Z. We finished the up-llnk to the CMC.
You can go back to block and for the CDR on continuing to
look at the AC DU, ISS discrepancy the problem can either be
one in the resolver itself or in the trans - not the
transducer but in the connection, the si?nal conditioner
the - gives us the down-llnk of the AC DU readouts and we're
not going to bring the ball up today. We'll bring it up
first thing tomorrow morning, our suspicion is that when we
get the ball on the line why it'll go ahead and load the
circuit down so that we probably won't have any noticable
discrepancies. And if you have any questions on the subject why
go ahead and talk (garble). Over.

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SL-III ?_C-250111
Time: 08:35 CDTs 59/13:35 G_fT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 13 hours 36 minutes

and 7 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab went out of range
at _fadrld as Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless was
completing that discussion. Spacecraft now over North Africa.
A little continuation of the comments on hurrlncane Irah,
thatWs I-r-a-h. llurrlcane Irah is located well down range
at the present time of the splashpolnt predicated for tomor-
row expected to be about 500 to 600 miles southeast of that
impact point which is located 230 miles to the southwest
of San Diego. The 30 knots winds which would also bring
8 to i0 foot seas are expected to reach the furthest sou -
southeastly point that the spacecraft could reach should
it go all the way down in itts footprint. The maximum
down range point that the spacecraft could reach is exactly
at the edge of those 30 knot winds. _t's very unlikely
however, that the spacecraft will travel the additional
400 miles down range from its predicated impact point.
They will howeverp in the next few hours be giving consider-
ation to moving that end of mission point up some distance.
We dontt have any information yet on whether or not that's
going to be necessary. The present predication for the
weather in the area for end of mission is I_800 foot clouds
scattered and variable and broken clouds at 1,800 feet.
Winds of 15 knots and waves at 5 feetp vlsability is i0
miles. Does appear at this time the conditions in the wl -
in the impacts point will be quite satisfactory and it is
possible that hurricane Irah, will turn from its present
course which is in the general direction of that impact
point. 1_e're now 35 minutes from our next acquisition of
signal. This is Skylab Control at 37 minutes and 54 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-III HC-2502/I
Time: 09:11 CDT, 59/14:11 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours ii minutes

and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now coming in range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
tracking antenna. And we'll have an acuqlsition of signal
there in about 47 seconds. This pass is a relatively low
elevation one as the spacecraft passes to the south of
Australia. And we expect the communication to last only
about 2-1/2 minutes. Spacecraft Communicator at this
time is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Honey-
suckle for 1 minute and 40 seconds. Next station contact
in 27 minutes through Goldstone at 18:41, suto Z. Over.
CDR Okay, our SPS pressure also shows 115
in oxidizer. Now is that the tank or the manifold pressure
we read.
CC CDR, Houston. The pressure that you're
reading on board is SPS oxidizer tank pressure and under-
stand you're showing a reading of 115. Did you get the
fuel pressure also?
CDR Yeah, it's up in the green, our tank
pressure is below the green. Jack's headed up that way
right now; he'll give you the exact late word.
CC Okay, we got about 20 seconds to LOS.
And I had some messages I was going to pass to you here.
I'Ii catch you over the states.
CDR Okay.
PLT Bruce, we're reading 170, 170, and 155,
respectively.
CC Which is which?
PLT Fuel oxidizer.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
CC Are we - -
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 18 minutes
and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossin_ the north island of New Zealand, is out of
range of the trackin_ antenna at Honeysuckle. Our next
acquisition of signal 22 minutes 13 seconds from now will
be at Goldstone, Califronia. This is Skylab Control at
19 minutes and 7 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III _C-2503/I
Time" 09:36 CDT 59/14:36 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 36 minutes

and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
Skylab space station is crossing the north Pacific Just about
to come into acquisition of the signal from Goldstone. We're
about 4 minutes now from AOS there. During this last pass
we got some additional information on the drop in the oxidizer
manifold pressureto the service propulsion system engine.
That reading given last night was a rapid drop of about 30 pounds
per square inch on the transducer to the oxidizer manifold.
The indication was rather disbelief here in Mission Control.
No information on the - the tank itself had not lost any oxidizer
pressure , but the transducer had given a reading of a loss
of pressure. There are separate transducers at various points
along the line, and only a single transducer indicated a drop
in pressure. During the last pass we did get information that
Commander A1 Bean first read down 115 for pressure on the
oxygen tank, which would have indicated a drop in oxygen
pressure fro m the tank. But it was later corrected by Jack
Lousma who said that the correct reading was 155. That is
well within the range that would be expected without any loss
of oxidizer. So people here at Mission Control are quite
convinced at this point that it is only a failure of the trans-
ducer in the line, in other words a measuring device for mea-
surin_ the oxidizing pressure. That does measure the flow
of oxidizer to the engine. And if both of those readings would
have gone down it would have indicated some oxidizer loss.
At this time it is quite certain according to the Mission
Control people that there has been no loss of oxidizer, and
that in fact it is only a failure of that transducer. So a
report on biomedical part of the mission. Skylab's mummichog
minnows were moved yesterday to the stowage compartment on
the command module's aft bulkhead. They will be returned
tomorrow with the crew. Also scheduled for crew return tomor-
row are Skylab's two spiders, Arabella, and Anita. Both spiders
are now in their viles, and they will be placed in the inflight
medical support system's container tomorrow. The IMSS is
presently being cooled down in a chiller aboard the space
station. Anita, Skylab's backup spider was reported dead on
September 16_ but Arabella is believed to be remaining in good
health. Skylab crew members are also maintaining their exercise
program. Commander Bean suggested earlier this morning that
arrangements be made to allow the third and final astronaut
team to keep the bicycle ergometer available for their use until
their day of reentry. The Science Pilot Owen Garriott was
scheduled to deactivate the bicycle by switching its circuit
breakers to off yesterday afternoon. Some of the breakers
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are being left on with the approval of medical personnel here

in Mission Control so that all three crew members can exercise
some today and perhaps tomorrow. Bean, Garriott and Lousma have
all exercised vigorously during the mission. And despite some
expected decrease in the general condition of the heart and
blood vessle system, and in the system which helps the crew
members to maintain their sense of balance, the extensive exer-
cise program may aid the crew members in offsetting the effect
of floating in wie_htlessness for nearly 2 months. Tomorrow's
splashdown is scheduled to take place at 5:20 p.m. central
daylight time approximately 230 miles southwest of San Diego.
And we will get a further weather report on hurricane Ira
which is expected to be 500 to 600 miles down range from the
impact point tomorrow when the crew splashes into the ocean.
Hurricane Ira is not expected to present any problem. Predlc_ion
at the present time for winds in the area of the impact point
are 15 knot winds from the north, and seas at approximately
5 feet. Those are realatively moderate conditions for tomorrow's
splash point. Clouds are expected to be broken at 1800 feet.
We are now 38 seconds from acquisition of signal at Goldstone
for a U.S. pass that will be broken in half. It will last
approximately 15 minutes. And we'll bring the line up llve
for the alr-to-pround.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
and Corpus Christi for 10-1/2 minutes, for the CDR. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, our review of the data shows
that the SPS oxidizer manifold pressure drop was an
instantaneous one with no temperature or other pressure change
correlation. This substantiates us and our conclusion that
it was a transducer problem. And your onboard read out of
155 also goes along with this. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce. That's good
news.
CC You gave us a little bit of a start with
that 115 reading though for a minute.
CDR I'm sorry. I was confused.
CC No problem. Also in connection with the
reported glitch in the ATT set situation. The reason we
asked you for the ATT set which position is that we were
checklnK out our ground instrumentation of the pitch cosign
telemetry readout. This telemetry is sensitive to the swltch
position but your eight ball is not. Even though the eight
ball is given by the same signal, since the ball object stays
sensitive while the telemetry is sensitive to the magnitude
of the voltage while it is in the phase. Therefore we expect
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that the ACDU and the eight ball displays on board should both
be okay. Over.
CDR More good news, great.
CC Rog. And now for the bad news. Do you
remember the cryo relief valve up there on panel 603,
cryo vent valve?
CDR I remember it well.
CC That gets stowed in A7 which is currently
located down there in T020. Over.
CDR I think I can figure it out and put it
there.
CC Okay. And another one in the category
of beins neutral, is that in the light of the AT_I C&D coolant
loop pump A failure and a check out the pump B, we'd like
to turn on pump Charlie and let it run for a while to verify
good circulation, and it is a good back up pump. So at your
convenience we'd like on panel 203 ATM coolant pumps Charlie
to on. And we'll give you a call when we want it secured.
Over.
CDR Sounds good.
CC And the box score as of a few minutes ago
here, is that we have 31 pads on board and I0 more of the day-52
ones enroute to you. And when you have a minutes, we'd llke
to get a brief update on your status of progress through the
deactivation checklist. Over.
CDR Okay, I'm presently stowing fecal bottles
in the command module. I'ii let Owen and Jack say what they
are dolns. We're all stirring around.
CC Okay, we show you then at the equivalent
of about 18:45, in fact on time to the minute you might say.
CDR A t the time we had some we'd get on our
exercises.
CC R _, we copy.
SPT Rog. I've got that (garble) heater on
yet, but I can't turn it on right now. And then after I finish
up a little more general housekeeping I'ii be going on to the
squeezer bag.
CC A _ right.
PLT I'm trying to find my checklist.
CC I'ii throw here in.

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SL-III HC2504/1
Time: 09:46 CDT, 59/14:46 GMT
9/24/73

CC Okay_ we show you coming up on the ward-

room window installation. Or plenum bag stowage.
PLT Yeah_ we're going to hold off on that
for a while. And I noticed there going up the film volt that
the little humidity controller sliders are already in
the position called out in the checklist here on the bottom.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jack.
CC And Jack, we show that the movement
of the humidity sllders should have been a verify. They
were put in that configuration in SL-2 and stay there for
the valve of program. Over.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact is coming up in 4-1/2 minutes,
Bermuda at 18:54 pseudo Z. And we'll be dumping the tape recorder
at the site after that - Canary Islands. Out.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours, 53 minutes
exactly Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of
tracking antenna at Texas and we'll be acquiring in about
1 minute at Bermuda. There will be a recovery and medical
procedures for recovery briefing held in the buildlng 1
briefing room beginning at i0 o'clock. Participants will
be Royse Hawkins on medlcal procedures and Don Stullken on
recovery procedures. We will continue to have the llne up
llve for elf-to-ground through Bermuda. That will last
approximately 5 minutes. And following that, we'll bring the
llne down and record the pass following. That's recovery
and medical procedures briefing. Again, will begin at
exactly i0 o'clock Central daylight time and we'll bring
the llne up llve for alr-to-ground through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 5 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston. 30 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact over Canary in 4-1/2 minutes
at 19:03 pseudo Z. Out.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, and 11 seconds
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of
range of Bermuda tracking antenna. Our next acquisition
of slgnal will be 3 minutes and 35 seconds from now. But
we will be taping that acquisition and we'll play that back
at a later time. A recovery and medical procedures briefing
will be underway by that time in the building 1 briefing
room. Room 135. Participants in that will be Dr. Royse
Hawkins of the Life Sciences Directorate and Dr. Donald
Stullken, Chief of the recovery operations branch of the
Flight Control division. Also, at 1 o'clock today, there wil_
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be a press conference with Glynn Lunney, who is in charge of

the CSM operations for Skylab. And that will be on the command
module re-entry. Again, at 1 otclockp command module re-entry
procedures and the discussion of CSM with Glynn Lunney. And
recovery and medlcal procedures briefing should be ready to
begin in building 1 and wetll it over to them at this time.

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SL-III IIC-2505/I
Time: ii:01 CDT, 59/16:01 G_T
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

16:01 Greenwich mean time. We'll play back tape now which
was accumulated durin_ the news conference.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 8 minutes and 54 seconds. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute and
30 seconds to LOS, next station contact through Honeysuckle
in 37 minutes at 15:48 and we have an additional item of film
that we'd like to get transferred here, out of drawer Charlie,
position i. We would like cassette C184, that's Charlie India
84, which is unexposed radiation fog testing film to be
transferred up to - and stowed in A-8 in the command module.
Over.
CDR Okay. C184.
CC Rog. It should be in drawer Charlie,
slot I, and it goes in A-8. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston throuFh l[oneysuckle
for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Got some information on that 82B panel
changeout.
CC Lay it on us, Alan.
CDR Okay. It's - I timed it and I got out
5 of them in 22 minutes and 30 seconds.
CC _hoo - boy.
CDR Now, a couple of observations. One is -
you Just can't get any of them undone with that high torque
wrench or the hiFh torque ratchet wrench either screwed to,
you know, spin handle arrangement of the ratchet. It's Just
in there too tight. What I used was the vice grip, sometimes
about 2 out of the 5, I was able to turn two turns worth
complete and then pull it out with the driver. The others
I had to pull it completely out with that vice grip. So if
they plan to do this job it seems to me they can multiply
whatever the number of screws is by that number and (garble)
by the number I just indicated, if we divide it, but the
whole point is, they either ought to bring up a backup set of
vice grips or they ought to - what would be better if we had
a special tool because we take out enough of these high torque
fasteners that we really ought to have something that's called
high torque fastened quick removal tool - special.
CC Okay. Now, let me get this straight.
You used the high torque bit in the - and the ratchet wrench
or the other wrench, did you not? And that did not work?
CDR They're in there too tight. You just
can't turn them to be_in with. They'll slip out the top.
So you say, aw, brother, so you go get the vice grips and
then just grip the heads with the vice grip. And then sometimes
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after you turn them one or two times, then you can use the
driver. But three out of the five, I had to use the vice grips
all the way out and that takes a long time because they're
in little tight spaces where you can only swing an arc of
20 or 30 degrees.
CC Okay, I think we copy what you're saying.
When you put the torque on it, the high torque bit or the tool
itself, rides up out of the depression of the (garble) part
and the head of the bolt.
CDR In some cases it does ride out of the slot.
In other cases it does not dependln_ on how - what condition
the slot was when they put it in. But sometimes you Just can't
turn it, you're not strong enough. Those babies are really in
there. We should have used those on the command module quad
and put those fin_er-type Jobs here.
CC Okay, we'll give you a call over the States
in a cou _e of revs.
PLT Bruce, I don't think those bolts are made
for hand operation. I think they're used - for use with a
machine or high powered tool and that's the only way they
really work good.
CC Ro_er, we copy. I suspect that maybe the
thing to pull them would be some sort of impact tool, but we'll
take you're input here and we've got a couple of weeks between
missions to come up with a better way to get them out. Cer-
tainly, 22 minutes for five of them is excessive.
CDR That was hustling for the five, too.
CC Rop. You think you could hustle through
all 70 some of them (garble). Hey, don't misunderstand my
last remark, we were not asking you to remove any more
fasteners. What you've done is quite adequate for our purposes.
Over.
CDR Okay. We don't have enough time anyway.
That - that's a real Job, I'm not Just kidding.
CC R _.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in ii minutes through Hawaii at 6 - at
20:08 pseudo Zulu.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 16 hours 6 minutes
Greenwich mean time. During that last pass we heard the com-
mander A1 Bean describing the - his difficulties in removal of
screws on what is known as a kick plate. Under the Apollo tele-
scope mount control and display panel, the kick plate is located,
this is there to protect the electronics when an operator is
at the console. He's doing this because of the SO82B telescope.
The automatic exposure device for that telescope is not working.
Here on the ground is beln_ built a modified timer to be taken
UP on Skylab 4 and when this is taken up it will have to be
plu_Eed - the timer will be plugped in behind the kick plate.
There are about 70 screws involved and these are being removed to
take out the kick plate. We're less than a minute from reacqulrlng
Skylab 3 over Hawaii. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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Time: 11:07 CDT 59/16:07 G_[T
9/24/7S

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii

for 9-i/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 2-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 20:20 pseudo Zulu. And we'd like to get an update from all
three crewmen on your progress through the deact checklist
timeline. Over.
CDR Okay, the CDR is deactivating his urine
system. Jack Lousma - let me check. He's on the bike at the
moment. And Owen is going to deactivate in just a second.
CC Understand Owen is getting ready to deactivate
the urine sysyem. Aside from being on the bicycle, how is the
PLT doin_ on progressing through his checklist?
PLT (garble).
PLT I Just finished the mol sieve business,
standinp by for the urine replacement.
CC Okay, we copy you're through with the
mol sieve work, and standing by for the urine system replacement.
CC Understand you finished the solids trap
charcoal canister replacement up on the mol sieves, and you're
standln_ by for urine system. Over.
PLT Affirmative.
CC Okay, did you have any trouble stowing
the bags down in the plentum, and how many bags total did you
put down there? Over.
PLT No trouble, and I put one bag down there,
and there's now nine.
CC Okay, one down, bringing it to nine total.
Thank you. I didn't mean to interrupt your bike ride. Have a
pleasant exercise.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 20 hours 18 minutes -
correction there. That's 16 hours, 18 minutes, Greenwich mean
time. Less than 2 minutes away now from acqiring Skylab 3
through Goldstone. ileanwhile here in the Hission Control
Center, looking at retrofire displays for tomorrow's entry,
We have the following numbers, preliminary numbers. The
time of ipnition is 21 hours, 38 minutes, and 8 seconds, Green-
wich mean time. Time of entry interface: 22 hours, 4 minutes,
7 seconds. Time of 05G: 22 hours, 6 minutes, 29 seconds. Time
of begin blackout: 22 hours, 6 minutes, 50 seconds, Greenwich
mean time. End of blackout: 22 hours, i0 minutes, 15 seconds,
Greenwich mean time. Drogue shoot deployment: 22 hours, 14 min-
utes, 23 seconds, Greenwich mean time. Standin_ by now for
acquisition of Skylab 3 through Goldstone, this is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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Time: 11:20 CDT 59/16:20 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston now coming to

you through the (garble) of Goldstone for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC C _, Houston. In the teleprinter bend
is your mission day252 pad. And also one change to the deact
checklist on the tall end of that. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in a little over 5 minutes through
Bermuda at 20:31 pseudo Zulu.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 16 hours 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time. A loss of signal now with Goldstone.
Next station acquiring Skylab will be Bermuda in approximately
3-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 7-i/2 minutes. Out.
CDR When we threw out the squeezer ba_ out
of the wardroom, correction out of the waste compartment,
does the inside bag, the Beta outside bag, and the filter go
with it going down the trash airloek?
CC Stand by. We'll get an answer for you.

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SL-III MC- 2508/I
Time : 1133 CDT 59/16:20 GMT
9/24/73

CC CDR,Houst on. That's affirmative. Squeezer

bag and the filter, and all of the loose pieces that are asso-
ciated with the squeezer bag operation go. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce, thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 16 hours 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal now through Bermuda. Next
station to acquire will be Canary in 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Ascension for 15 minutes. We're dumping the data voice
tape recorder here at Canary. For the CDR, with respect to
the squeezer bag, to make sure we're speaking the same language,
what we're talking about trashing is two separate assemblies.
One, is the squeezer filter, and the other is the squeezer bag
assembly including the fabric overbag that's an integral
part of it. Over.
CDR That's what we thought, and that's what
we did. Thanks Bruce.
CC Roger, out.
CDR And Bruce, I'm going to be using the
voice recorder. You don't plan to dump it any time soon do
you?
CC We are in the process of dumping it right
now .

CDR Yeah, I meant as soon as you are finished

with this one.
CC Negative. After that the next dump will
be about 2 hours and 20 minutes away.
CDR Okay, I'm going to connect up and do this
inventory of food.
CC Okay. I guess you can see when the little
green light comes on and we can try and call you also when
we' re through with the dump.

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SL-III _C-2509/I
Time: 13:46 CDT 59/16:46 GMT
9/24/73

CC CDR, Houston. Data voice tape recorder

dump is complete. And, at your convenience in the near future,
we would llke to get either yourself or the SPT to drop by
the command module and run a P52 option 3 for us and go ahead
and torque the platform according tha angles and time if you
please. Over.
CDR Will do.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Command module, Houston. Stars that should
be available for you are star 2, Diphda; 4, Achernar and 6,
Acamar. Over.
CDR I just tried them and it started looking
at the Earth, so I assume the Earth is in the way at the moment.
I'll wait until a little bit - till a little bit darker and
that part gets away from the Earth.
CC R _er, we copy.
PAO We've been hearing from Commander AI Bean,
who is aligning the command module platform, guidance and
navigation platform, program 52. 16 hours 55 minutes Greenwich
mean time, about 2-1/2 minutes remaining on this pass through -
over Ascension.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes
till LOS. Next station contace in 28 minutes through Carnarvon
at 21:24 psuedo Zulu. And for the CDR, we have all gotten
deactivation checklist change that we sent up in the teleprinter?
That's change 7 to the deact checklist. Over.
SPT Negative. Who's the change for, Bruce?
And they - we'll go check it right now.
CC It's for the ergometer eloseout change.
And I believe it's for the PLT.
SPT Okay, we'll catch it.
CC And we sent it three times, so that there
is a copy for each checklist should you desire to make multiple
intrles.
PLT Roger.
CC And for the CDR, there are no stars available
at the present time, due to Earth occultation.
PLT He's on - recording his inventory over
channel A, Bruce, and he probably can't hear you.
CC Okay, tell you what, Just pass to him that
it's about 12 minutes till sunset. After sunset, the stars we
mentioned will be available. Over.
PLT Okay, after sunset. Thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston 16 hours 58 minutes
Greenwich mean time, Skylab 3 now out of range through Ascension.
SL-III MC-2509/2
Time: 13:46 CDT, 59/16:46 GMT
9/24/73

The next station to acquire Skylab will be Carnarvon in approx-

imately 25 minutes. A news conference with Glynn Junney is
set for i:00 p.m. central daylight time today in the small
auditorium of the Skylab News Center. Glynn Lunney, speaking
on the command module systems. We're at 16 hours 59 minutes G_T,
Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III 11C-2510/I
Time: 12:22 CDT 59/117:22 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control, llouston, 17 hours, 23 minutes,

Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition of signal
with Skylab 3 through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 9 minutes. Over.
SPT Here we are, Bruce.
CC Roger. If the P-52 was completed, we're
standing by for the time and the torquing angles. Over.
SPT Okay. He's still - AI did it and he's still
workingon the inventory. It might be a few minutes before he gets
to you. The torquing angles were pretty small, reasonably small.
And l'm working on the urine separator exchange right now.
Jack has finished his. I guess he's still ahead of schedule.
And A1 will give you a call with the torquing angles when he's
through on the inventory.
CC Roger. No rush. l_e weren't meaning to
bug him. The fact that they are small is good news. And since
you're workinp on the urine seperator stuff, and I believe you
get the Job of stowing them in T027, why there is some mild
curiosity around here as to what the inside of that container
is going to look llke when you open the lid. Over.
SPT Okay. You say I can stow them where?
CC You stowed the separators I believe in
the T027 sample array container, which is the small T027 locker.
And it was last opened at the end of SL-2 when that crew stowed
their urine separators in there and then evacuated the container.
Over.
SPT Okay, now I understand. I'ii -
PLT ...
SPT Jack thinks it's full right now, but we'll see
how it goes and I'ii report.
CC Okay, it's supposed to have capacity to
contain six separators. We believe there are only three in
there at the present time.
SPT Okay, we'll let you know.
CDR Okay, here is a little information. NOUN
050, NOUN 93 plus 313 minus 46 minus 94. Torquing time, 17:10:15.
CC Okay, we've got all of that, AI. Thank
you very much.
CDR Tell the food people we gave them a complete
inventory. Oh, I didn't give them the frozen food. I'm going
to give a quick frozen-food inventory.
CC Roger. Out.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston. We've got
a couple of commands to send up to you. You probably won't
notice anything, but we're going to command TV BUS i, OFF in
accordance with the preestablished plan. And up in the command
module, the electron proton spectrometer power supply has tripped
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9/24/73

off aRain, and we're goln_ to command it back on. At your

convenience, we've seen enough of the ATM C&D coolant loop
operation to be satisfied that pump Charlle is satisfactory.
So we'd like to get pump Charlie turned off, leaving you with
no pumps running in that loop. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce.
CC Roger. Thank you, Owen.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 2 minutes to LOS.
Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at 21:47
pseudo Zulu. And for the SPT, we're Just trying to keep track
of where you all are. We understand that you're down into
the actual urine separator replacement, pages 1-45 and subse-
quent. Is that correct? Over.
SPT That's correct.
CC And the PLT is involved in still getting
the final urine sample prior to actually starting the mechanical
work on his separator? Over.
SPT He's completed that now also.
CC So he's working on the separator?
SPT No, he removed the separator, and it's
out there in the experiment area. I'm going to replace the
separator when I get around to it. And that's what I'm working
on now.
CC Okay, thank you. We're not meaning to
be bug_in_ you, but we haven't got any other way of looking
over your shoulder.
SPT Absolutely. I didn't mean for it to sound
that way. I mean - I appreciate you -I'ii just keep you updated.
And, let's see - actually, Jack is in the wardroom doing some more
cleanin? up stuff now that is not on the list.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Pump Charlie is secure.
CC Okay, thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 17 hours, 34 minutes,
Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now out of station range with
Honeysuckle. The next tracking station to acquire will be
Hawaii in 12 minutes, 40 seconds. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2511/I
Time: 1245 CDT 59/17:45 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours 46 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition of
Skylab 3 through Hawaii. This should be a 6-minute pass over
Hawaii.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
6 minutes. And for the SPT we have a minor checklist correc-
tion. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, on page 1-69, your column, the ATM
presleep configuration, instead of numeric control fully
counterclockwise, it should read numeric switch, off. Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And for your information, and the CDR's,
the gyro drift rates that we've arrived at from a 4.3-hour
drift check are X minus 5 milliearth(?) rate units, Y plus 0.7
mehru(?) and Z minus 1.5 mehru(?). These are within the range of
compensation. We've got a compensation load built and we'll
send it up whenever somebody swings by the command module and
puts the switch in accept for us. There's no rush on that,
though. Just at your convenience, next time somebody's up
there. Over.
SPT Okay, AI said he's go ng up there now.
CC Roger, thank you.
CDR You got it; nothing's too good for the CMC.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce. Where am I supposed to get
these 9 juice bags for the cat ion cartridge deactivation? We
supposed to use - reuse some that we've emptied?
CC Which bags are these, please?
PLT Pa@e 1-45 - my step 11 it says obtain 9
juice bags.
CC Okay, standby.
CC P LT, Houston. Those are intended to be
additional juice bags. Recommend you get them out of overage
food. Three per crewman, and the selection of which juice you
tak_ is you_, I£'8 all fre_ there, OV_:.
PLT 1 had the impression that they were Just
only water, but it's just the kind of Julee we want to drink.
Got you. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 7 minutes through Goldstone at 21:59
pseudo Zulu.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours 54 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 has gone out of range with
Hawaii. Next station coming up will be Goldstone in approxi-
mately 5-1/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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Time: 1255 CDT, 59/17:55 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston, 17 hours, 56 minutes,

Greenwich mean time. Glynn Lunney is now enroute to the new
center to begin the command and service module systems briefing.
We'll take the line down at this time, and await the start of the
briefing. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2513/I
Time: 13:27 CDT 59/18:27 GMT
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 18 hours

27 minutes Greenwich mean time. We will play back tape now
accumulated during the News Conference.
CC S kylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda at 22:08
pseudo Zulu. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with you for
10-1/2 minutes through Bermuda. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 2-i/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 9 minutes through Ascension
at 22:25 pseudo Zulu. And for the PLT, we've got one minor
checklist rood, and a request for you. Over.
SPT He's on the bicycle right now, Bruce.
Can I handle it for him or could you get him later?
CC Okay, I'ii tell you what, Owen. The change
we've got is on page 1-65 at the top of the page. In his
column it refers to disconnecting the WMC hose from the water
outlet on tank 8. And of course tank 7 is the one from which
it gets disconnected. Over.
SPT Okay, just 8 to 7. We get it, thank you.
CC Roger. And the 9 juice bags Jack got
and filled with water for your activities tomorrow, if they came
out of the food that has already been inventoried by the
CDR on tape on channel A, I guess we need to get a correction
to that inventory also put on the tape. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC Roger. Thank you. And a nay update
correcting the drift rate on the gyros in the X-Z axes of
the command module is in. Excuse me, it's going up at Ascension.
We didn't need to correct Z, it was within the mission rule
limits, but we figured as long as we were getting X we would
go ahead and correct Z also. over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC S kylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 9-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at your next site, which is Carnarvon. Out.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC This is Houston. Maybe I got my tongue
twisted on the last message regarding the update of the gyro
drift compensation in the command module. That's coming up
this pass here at Ascension. And it looks like we're back
in block up in the command module. What we loaded in last
site was a nay update to the ATM DC, although we did
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calculate the one for the CMC.

CDR Okay, now do you want us to extend that? I
can go put it in.
CC Yes we do. Regretfully, we need it.
CDR On the way.
CDR You've got it.
CC Roger. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 18 hours 31 minutes.
Now live with Skylab 3 over Ascension.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. The gyro drift
compensation is loaded. DSKY is yours, and you can go back to
block at your convenience, AI.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station conact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon
at 22:57 pseudo Zulu. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. And I wonder if I can get a
phone call set up with my wife for the next time? If it's the
afternoon or morning, whenever it is.
CC We'll give it a try, Jack, but it's only
a couple of hours before you guys are supposed to hit the
sack and we've got to see if we can find a site. The evening
status report is coming up shortly. We' ii see what we can do.
PAO Skylab Control Houston 18 hours 36 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 has now passed out of range
with the Ascension tracking station. The next station to
pick up Skylab will be Carnarvon in 21 minutes. Meanwhile the
crew aboard Skylab 3, AI Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma
continuing with their deactivation procedures prior to undocking
and returning to Earth tomorrow. And we're still targeting for
a splashdown time of 22 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time,
or 5:20 p.m. central daylight time. We're at 18 hours 37 minutes
GMT, this is Skylab Control Houston.

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Time: 1356 CDT, 59/18:56 GMT
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours,

56 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now approaching
acquisition range with the Carnarvon tracking station. The crew
of Skylab 3, AI Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, will retire
early this evening. The rest period is scheduled to start at
21 hours Greenwich mean time this evening. The pseudo Zulu
time which CAPCOM Bruce McCandless has been using refers to
the phase elapsed time. The crew moved their watches ahead
4 hours to match Flight Plan and checklist times, which were
prepared before and did not take into account the 4-hour early
wakeup schedule that the crew of Skylab 3 has been following,
this being done to take into account circadian rhythm changes.
We' re less than a minute away now from picking up Skylab 3 over
Carnarvon. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 10-1/2 minutes. For the PLT, over.
CDR He's listening, go ahead.
CC Okay, for Jack, we've set up a phone call
with his wife through Guam this pass. It's from 23:11 to 23:21
pseudo Zulu. That's starting about 13 minutes from now and it
should be a fairly good pass. Start out on the left antenna
and go to the right. Over.
CDR He copied. Got something we just noticed.
We were going over our food for tomorrow and we've been saving
day 57 food per instructions. Then we looked in our checklist
for deact and noticed that the 57 food doesn't rhyme with what
the deact checklist says 57 food is. Now, 57 breakfast food
is the same as our mission day 3, I think - let me check. Which
is correct in that we ate mission day 2 today. It's just that
the checklist seems to be in error. Also, meal B that was
provided and brought up in the command module for today does
agree with the checklist. So we'll be eating a breakfast for
mission day 3 and then we'll be eating the command module meal
B. So I think they can just be aware of it; and whenever we get
to the ship, they can give us the right supper to make everything
normal. But it looks to me like there was a slight error there.
CC Okay. We've copied everything that you've
said. It's going to take us a little while to sort it out. You
do have the changes to the mission day 57 menus, which are
basically the command module menu E as in Echo, for the three
of you, with changes primarily to the PLT and SPT columns, and
mission day 57 change to mission day 60, do you not?
CDR Sure do and so - for example Jack's having
butterscotch pudding instead of egg. He's having two sausages.
CC Roger, and you're saying that this corrected
manu is the one that doesn't check out with what you've got.
CDR Let me give you an example. My menu says,
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instant breakfast, pears, biscuits, jam, and apricots. What

actually exists, day 57 for breakfast, is peaches, bread,
grapefruit drink and rice crisples. And we can - we've got -
we captured some overage, the proper overage thing. Namely,
the butterscotch pudding and the sausage in the meal.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR It's a little bit weird. We didn't notice
it because we thought we were setting pretty, because we had
all this 57 food with 57 written on the label. Until we got
ready to eat it, and then we noticed it didn't agree with our
menu. Also, these six extra - nine extra drinks we have to come
up with, which is an excellent idea, there's nothing - hardly
in overage anymore in the way of drinks. But we managed to
scout up nine by hirating here and there, and I'ii read you
that on the nightly report.
CC Okay, and incidentally, the evening status
report is due the station contact after next, at Goldstone
at 23:37. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll be ready.
CC And while we're talking to you here could
you give us an update on the progress of the three of you
through the time line. Over.
CDR Okay. Nothing new, we're eating dinner
right now.
CC Okay, we show then that you were doing the
urine separator stuff out of sequence, and now you're eating
dinner. And would you say that when you finish dinner, you'll
be pretty well up to the point where you'd be normally doing
hygiene kit reconfiguration, let's say?
CDR Yes. I'd say we're halfway through the
reconflguration of the urine And, just as soon as we finish
dinner here in a few minutes, we're going to close out the
wardroom water and we're going to proceed from there. We do -
according to my calculations, we're in pretty good shape at the
momen t.
CC Okay. Thank you. We agree. We're Just
trying to keep track of where you stand, here.
PLT Thanks a lot for setting up the phone call,
Bruce. Appreciate it.
CC Rog. You were Just lucky I could find Gratia
at home there. You know, sometimes it's a site problem and
sometimes it's the local co,.,,here, but it should be all set.
PLT Thank you.
CC S kylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam at 23:11 with
a phone call for the PLT. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce, thank you. See you there.

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SL-III MC-2515/i
Time: 14:08 CDT 59/1908 GMT
9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston, 19 hours 9 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now out of station range with
Carnarvon. Coming up next will be Guam in approzimately
2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
9-1/2 minutes, for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we' re working on the food problem
here. Back in activation we told you to take the command
module menu E as in Echo, .which would be consumed on the last
day of the mission, and put it in L3. Do you recall doing
this at that time, and if so is the food that is in L3 in
accordance with the menu for tomorrow? Over.
CDR Yes, but I believe that food is only the
lunch food.
CC Okay. Let us check into it a little further,
AI, and we'll get back to you.
CDR My mind seems to remember somebody saying
sometime before we launched to ignore the menu in the deact
checklist, that it was wrong, whereas the menu as issued in
the evening status report food log area was correct. I think
if you went right to that evening status report log that is
near you, right in the front when they talk about how to get
ready for mission day-57 and see what it says, you can
get the answer.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 19:37, at 23:37 pseudo Zulu. And we'll be standing by
for the evening status report at AOS. Over.
CDR Okay, and what did you find when you
looked in that book, Bruce.
CC Okay, what we're finding so far is agree-
ment between the evening status report book menu for mission
day-57 and the mission day-57/60 menu in the deact checklist.
And we're working on the problem for you.
CDR Okay, all of our cans for the breakfast
on 57 have the items I named, which is menu day-3.
CC Right. We copy that, thank you.
CC And just before you go over the hill, AI,
you're eating menu day-2 today and menu day-1 yesterday?
Do you recall?
CDR The book (garble).
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 19 hours 23 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Out of communications range now through
Guam with Skylab 3. Next station coming up will be Goldstone in
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approximately 14 minutes. The crew aboard Skylab 3 now closing

their deactivation procedures. Go to sleep call is expected
on the next revolution over Guam at approximately 21 hours
Greenwich mean time. We're at 19 hours 23 minutes GMT. This
is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III _[C-2516/I
Time: 14:36 CDT 59/19:36 GMT
9/24/73

P_O This is Skylab Control, Ilouston. 19 hours

36 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now approaching the
contact with Goldstone.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
and Merritt Island for 16-1/2 minutes. Standing by for the
evenin_ status report. Over.
CDR Be right there.
CC All SPT or PLT, this is Houston. What is
the status on reconstitution of the food for your breakfast
tomorrow? Are you holding up, waiting instructions from us?
Over.
CDR Negative, we've already done it. It's
all completely reconstituted.
CC What have you reconsti - I mean what
menu have you reconstituted for tomorrow?
CDR We've reconstituted the menu in can 57.
So the menu would be mission day 3.
CDR Are you ready for the nightly report?
CC CDR, this is Houston. We're still trying
to figure out the menus. We request you hold the water system
in an active status until we determine what your menu for
tomorrow should be, and where it can be obtained. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea.
CC And I didn't mean to cut you out - you
were calling me. Over.
CDR Just wondered if you wanted the nightly
status report.
CC Roger, we're standing by to copy.
CDR Okay. Urine: 160, 125, and 155. That's
the morning. IIere's the closeout: 068, 055, 095. Drinking
water gun: morning, 6378, 0422, 6808. And the eloseout is -
hasn't been accomplished yet, as you know. B_ID: 6.204,
6.204, 6.204; SPT, 5.942, 5.940, 5.943; PLT, 6.916, 6.917,
6.919. Exercise: CDR and SPT, zero. PLT, 2/35/8667.
lledications: CDR took a seconal. SPT and PLT, zero.
Sleep: CDR, 6 good; SPT, 6 good; PLT, 6 good. Food log:
Okay the food log, let me look and see here. It's just not tile
same typical format, that's what l'm looking at. CDR, 4 salts,
actually 2 salts and I salt pill. SPT, add butter cookies.
Zero salt for the SPT. 4 salts for the PLT. Add lemon drops,
butter cookies, grape drink and 1 salt pill. FliGht Plan
deviations: - No photo io_ today. Flight Plan deviations:
nothin_ new there. Okay, we've got some transfers here. We
got i apricot out of 550. We _ot i lemon pudding out of 550.
And i cocoa out of 550. We got - out of 563 front, we got
i lemon, can 18 - i - that's i lemonade. One lemonade, can 18.
One lemonade, can 26. And two lemonades, can 27. One orange
out of can 29, and one grape out of can 32.
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CC Roger, we copy.
CDR One rack of full urine sample bags from
D-426 to the WMC. Towels, 5 red, 5 white, 7 blue - make that
8 red, 5 white and 7 blue from D-418 to the WIIC. And some
wipes from _J-729 to WMC.
CC Okay, we've got that also.
CDR That's it.
CC Roger. And the deviations you read me
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CDR That's it.

CC Roger, and the deviations you read me from
the food logs were for the mission - were menu cycle 2, menu
deviations per the deact checklist. And we believe that break-
fast for tomorrow should have been obtained out of the last
food bundle that you broke into in the workshop. However, we're
still checking that. And we confirm that you should have lunch
for tomorrow, that's menu Echo, meal B, up in the command module
in L-3. Over.
CDR Okay. Now, that's exactly what we thought.
We have the last menu from the workshop bundle, got 57 written
all over the can. Or the second one, I don' t remember. It
says - you can see that what we plan to do is (garble).
CC We've got a handover going on here.
CDR That's what we did.
CC Excuse me, AI. You cut - -
CDR Somewhere - Did you call
CC Yes, you cut out. We were handing over
to Bermuda. Go ahead, now AI.
CDR Where did I leave off?
CC Just after "that's what we thought." You
told me that the cans were marked 57 on them.
CDR Okay. I went up and looked at our nightly
report again. And there's two mutually contradictory statements
in there, it seems to me. One of them, and the one we followed,
says something on this order, "As you can see, what the plan
is is to take (garble arranged." And that's what's happening
tomorrow. Earlier - -
CC CDR, Houston. You dropped out again,
there. You were Just telling us where you were looking for
the first set of reports. Over.
CDR How do you read now?
CC Loud and clear now.
CDR Okay. I wandered over to the command module
and got out our nightly status reports that I've transferred
to there per the closeout.
CC Roger.
CDR (garble)
CC Roger and you're looking on page 1-6, perhaps?
CDR Yes, and there's - maybe, I don't know.
It's near the front. ANyhow, there's two mutually prohibitiwe
or contradictory statements in there. One says, and you can
probably fine it, it says "you can see the idea is to make
old 56, 57 into two 59, 60. Now that's exactly what we did.
However, somewhere else, when it's defining the menus, it
points out that mission day 57 - mission day 60 should have
CSM E for breakfast, CSM E for lunch and CSI_ E for supper. Now
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you can't have both of those things, it appears. And what we

have now is the former that I discussed, and the latter is what
I our friendly little deact checklist book has.
CC Okay, I don't see where you're reading that
statement that says as you can see the intent is to do this
that and the other. (garble) is to make your original day 56
and 7 the extended mission day 59 and 60. Now that is correct,
in that the original mission days 56 and 57 were supposed to be
menu 2 and menu Echo. And we have preserved menu 2 and menu
Echo for days 59 and 60. If you look at the extended mission
menu ending sequence there on page 1-6 in the evening status
report book, that is consistent with the deact checklist. Over.
CDR I agree, that's what I'm saying. The
second one is consistent. The first statement, it says it's
going to make days 59 and 60 the same as days 56 and 57 is not
correct.
CC Well, originally, days 56 and 57 were intended
to be menu 2 and menu Echo, and apparently there's some conflict
in the way that the day 57 food was packaged when it was launched
or something like that.
CDR Maybe that's it. It's strange to me. Maybe
that's the answer. Maybe in 57 can should have been Echo,
whereas 57 cans at the moment are menu day 3, which is the normal
sequence after day 56.
CC Roger, and that's what we're checking right
now, to see if that situation prevails.
CDR We're hoping that the results of the discus-
sion are that we go ahead and eat 57 breakfast, eat E for lunch,
and then they'd modify our supper so that it works correctly.
CC Okay, we'll hope along with you on that.
But we have to get a buy-off from biomed on it and see if we
can unsnarl the situation here.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact is 43 minutes through Carnarvon at 00:36.
We're unable to get you an answer to the food question prior to
LOS this site. We'll have it for you at Carnarvon. We'd
like you to press on with the rest of the deactivation except
for the water system deact.
PLT Going to have the answer at Carnarvon on
that, Bruce?
CC Yes, I guess so, we plan to.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston in the blind. Go
ahead with menu 3 breakfast, menu Echo lunch, and we'll make
up the deficit on the ship. Over.
CDR Outstanding.
CC And they are mild. GO for water system
deactivation. Press on.
CDR Thank you.
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9/24/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 23 hours -

correction ! 19 hours, 55 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Loss
of signal now with Skylab III through Bermuda. The next station
to acquire will be Carnarvon in 31 minutes. As we heard on
that last pass, the discussion between Bruce McCandless and the
crew of Skylab 3, the wrong meal was - the wrong food was
reconstituted for tomorrow's menu. However, the crew was given
a GO to conclude their full deactivation pzocess, including
the water. We're at 19 hours, 55 minutes GMT. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

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Time 15:06 CDT, 59/20:06 GMT
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At 20

hours, 6 minutes, Greenwich mean time, we have a revision
to an earlier announcement. The crew should be awake until
23 hours Greenwich mean time. The planned work schedule
is for a 14 hour work day, which should be ending around this
upcoming pass over Guam. We do expect additional communications
with the crew until 23 hours i Greenwich mean time. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.

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TiDe: 15:34 CDT 59/20/34 G_T
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 20 hours

35 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now
from reacquirin_ Skylab 3 through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 8 minutes. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay Skylab, we have set up a private
medical conference for you over Guam which is the next site,
at 00:50 pseudo Zulu, duration of approximately 6 minutes
in that pass. And our understanding is that we'll be pressing
on until 03:00 pseudo Zulu, at which time you can set your
watches back 2 hours to 01:00 and pick up with the sleep
activity. Over.
CDR Okay, we're not sure any of us fully understand
any of these cycles we're going through on the tide, but how
many hours of sleep do we end up with tonight?
CC You wind up with 8 hours of sleep tonight.
CDR We're going to bed at what time peseude - whatever?
CC Okay, commencing going to bed at 03:00
pseudo Zulu, which is your present wristwatch time. You
will then set it back 2 hours so that it, reads 01:00, and then
you will sleep for 8 hours until 09:00 on the new pseudo Zulu time,
and get up and work through the day on the time llne for mission
day-60 until you get secured in the command module at which
ti_e you go over to PET. Over.
CDR This is the first time we've understood
it today. Okeydoke, thanks.
SPT When you get time, Bruce it will be about
2 hours and 25 minutes before we go to bed or before bed time
anyway, and there is one little thing I wanted to bring up.
I'm just about to finish the exchange on the urine drawers,
and I would llke to describe this thing to you. Over.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT Okay, there is a gas supply line
that runs up from the back side of the drawer out through
a little plan_e that then meets with the gas supply line
that runs out to the moveable portion of the drawer on the
sliders. Now this mating section mates with the little
washer, both a rubber composition with a metal backplate to
it. The backplate on that metal washer is bonded in so_e
way to the fixed portion of the drawer. However, on the
SPT drawer that bonding has come loose. As a matter of fact
the little washer was sticking to the moveable portion of
the drawer, until just tonight when it happen to come loose while
I have the drawer completely out for biociding and so forth.
Now we're not goin_ to use it a_ain, but of course it will
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essential for the next mission that that air fitting be tight.
before any of the drawers will function properly. And so some
new bonding agent sould be brought along so that that little
rubber composition washer can be recemented to the fixed portion
of the drawer. Over.
CC Okay, thank you, Owen. We copy that,
and we'll put it in work down here.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'd like to get an update from you
re_ardin_ your progress throuEh the deact checklist. And
you'll see from the foot work with the time that what we've done
in effect, is give you another 2 hours here unexpectedly to you.
But through skill and cunning on our part. Over.
SPT Well, I'm glad to hear you say that it was
unexpected to us because that is the way it hit us and weren't
certain whether we were behind the times or how it happened
that we were a bit out of phase. We weren't sure whether we
were running plus 4 or plus 6 or what time zone. So I'm
about 15 minutes from finishing up this drawer exchange. And
then all I've got of course is that hygiene slot transfer. So
I'ii be throuEh before 30 or 45 minutes I'd say.
CC Okay.
SPT Jack says he's on page 1-55.
CC Jack is on page 1-55. Over.
SPT That's right, and Alan is now working on
the hyplene kit. So that sort of brings you up to date, I
think.
CC Okay. And you've not put the old urine
separators in the T027 container yet, have you?
SPT No, as a matter of fact. There is a report
that it is pretty full, and I haven't placed them up there yet.
I don't know how long that is golnE to slow me down.
CC Okay, we don't copy the report about it
being too full. We show three separators being in there, and
there are room for six. Over.
CDR We haven't checked yet, we'll look.
CC And 0wen, did we copy that that washer had
come completely loose, and if so, where are you stowing it or
would you tape it on with a piece of gray tape and proximity
to the use location? Over.
CDR That's exactly what he's done.
CC Okay. And could you get some pictures of
it for us with the Nikon so we can be certain of the thing you
are descrlhin_?
CC Skylah, this is Houston 1 minute to LOS.
_ext station contact with us is in 31 minutes through Goldstone
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at 21:14. Next station contact is private comm Guam in 8 minutes

at 00:51 psuedo Zulu. And for the SPT, we show that you all
have about 30 frames available for optional photography on
the Nikon. Ile'd like for you to get some photos of the thing
you've been describing perhaps with the Honeywell flash to
get good depth field and thlnEs of that sort. Over.
CDR Youtll have it.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 20 hours
44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Out of station range now with
Skylab throu?h Carnarvon. The next station to acquire Skylab
will be Guam, however, the private medical conference is scheduled
for this Guam pass, so we expect no live air-ground communications
with the crew. The schedule start of rest period for the
Skylab crew this evening is 23 hours Greenwich mean time.
The schedule wake up time tomorrow morning is 7 hours Greenwich
mean time. We're at 20 hours 45 minutes G_[T, this is Skylab
Control Houston.

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SL-III MC2520/I
Time: 1549 CDT, 59/20:29 GMT
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

20 hour, 50 minutes Greenwhich mean time. About a minute
away now from contact with Skylab-3 through Guam. We
expect to know - live air-to-ground communications on this
pass. The private medical conference is scheduled during
this Guam pass. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for a minute and a half. Over.
CDR We're reading you, Bruce.
CC Okay. Loud and clear. Next station
contact is Goldstone in 19 minutes at 13 minutes after the
hour.
PLT Say Bruce, in dumping the water lines.
Can't get the water dump pressure to go off-scale high
down to 0.3 like it's suppose to.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jack.
PLT Excuse me, that was 0.7 PSI or less than
3 minutes and I'm wondering, you want me to press on or do
something else?
CC That's the one in the wardroom, isn't
it Jack?
PLT Yes, sir. And it looks llke I've got about
to the point where I've done about everything and might as
well just press on and see what happens. Maybe I ought to hold
off on the ward - on the waste management dumping - water
heater.
CC Okay. We show there's still fluid
flowing into the waste tanks. So go ahead and continue dumping.
We'll give you a call over Goldstone.
PLT Okay. Well, there's not suppose to be
any because the six minutes is up and all that sort of thing.
But I' ii just let it go.
CC You might - are you sure you cut the
water off. You' re on page 1-55?
PLT Yeah, I'm on 1-55. The water's (garble) - -
CC We're losing you. We'll have to track
you over Goldstone.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 20 hours,
58 minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone will acquire in
approximately 16 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III "[C-2521/I
Time: 16:12 CDT, 59/21:12 G!(T
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 21 hours,

13 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away now from
reacquiring Skylab-III through Goldstone. We'll stand by,
keep the line open for acquisition.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Texas, and Merritt Island for 15 minutes. For the PLT. Over.
CDR Question first. _le Just finished off
deactivating the Nikon electric camera. Are we supposed to
take the two little bats out of the light meter?
CC We'll check on that for you. I don't believe
so. They were launched in place in this manual Nikon. We'll
get an answer though.
CDR The reason I'm wondering is it said "remove
batteries," and I could only find one battery, if I did remove
those.
PLT I'm here, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. We've got a question for you.
When you removed the - pur_e fittings from the wardroom water
hose, prior to looking for the indication less than 0.7 PSIA
on the dump, did you notice good airflow through the fittings?
Over.
PLT Yeah, you could hear it.
CC Okay, we copy. Are you still off-scale
high on the meter on 700?
PLT No, I'm coming off slowly. It's 1.5 now.
CC Okay, we copy 1.5 now.
PLT I assume, I oupht to wait until that gets
down 0.7 before I go dump the - wors - waste manageuent water
tank.
SPT (garble) Bruce, I have some word on T027
box for you when you've got a minute.
CC Okay, (lauGh) go ahead, Owen.
SFT (Laugh) (garble) The box 590, T027 sample
array container was already at ambient pressure. I didnlt
have to pressurize in order to open tile lid. When you open
the lid, itVs got a baE in there, which presumably contains the
old three separators. But it's also got a lot of dust. And it's
sort of a like crystallized material, but it's floating all
around, comlnz out every tlne you crack the lid. And it's got
a very musty stale odor. And so my question is whether or not
you want me to proceed (laugh) by half opening nh and packing
these other three containers in it. It's going to be a - oh, a
5-minute job at least, to get all of that stuff crammed in
there. And (garble) A1 thinks it just the fact that the
screen on the - waste management screen has never been cleaned,
and that's where all the dirt is coming from.
CDR }ley, that's wrong.
SPT No, it's not either. It's coming -
CDR It's inside the bag.
PLT Yeah, it's coming out of the bag, euen
thicker now. So - they only answer or comment it to revise for it.
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9_24/73

CC Okay. Leave it closed up for the time being

and let us think about it for a moment.
PLT Okay. Al's comment is we can stick it
in there.
CC While we're getting your answers on these,
for the CDR, we've checked our records over and we confirmed
that - menu 3 breakfast was indeed packed in place of menu
Echo breakfast when Skylab-I was stowed. We've also determined
that the same situation prevails for SL-IV. And being forewarned,
we'll see if we cantt rearrange their menus. Over.
CDR Say, Bruce. We took a look at this 27 more
closely with a vacuum cleaner and everything. And my guess
is all of these particles are crystallized urine of some sort
in here, that's dried out because of the vacuum. And, I guess
my recommendation, would be we go find another place for these other
three. We can go in here and put them in here if you want, but
it's golnc to release a lot of particles which may - you may not
want out in the atmosphere.
CC Roger, keep her closed. We're thinking about
it and tryin_ to come up with an alternate location for you at
the present time. Over.
CDR Originally they were going to be trash airlock
candidates, we're they?
CC Yes, sir. But toward the end of SL-II, we
determined that there will be a high probablity of jamming the
trash airlock, if you try to trash it without some sort of form
or somethin? wrapped around to smooth its contours so it didn't
hanp up on the eyelet down at the bottom of the airlock. Over.
CDR Yeah, we can sure do that - if that's
necessary.
CC _ell, don't - don't initiate anything yet on
them, for their final stowages is a real short item. So we can
afford to take a little bit of time and work on it here.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III "IC2522/i
Time: 16:21 CDT, 59/21:21 G'IT
9/24/73

CC PLT, this is Houston. If you could give

us your read out on that panel 700 meter again and at the
present time, you're GO to continue (garble) assuming it's less
than 0.7 PSIA. And for the SPT, yes sir, we want the batteries
removed from the light meters on all three Nikons. Over.
PLT Roger.
CC PLT, Houston. We didn't copy a Roger
from you. Do you understand that you're GO to proceed with
the water system deactivation as if the pressure were currently
below 7 tenths of a PSIA. But we would llke to get your meter
reading as you go by.
PLT Okay. I'ii press on and it's 1.45 at
the moment.
CC Okay. Thank you. And as soon as you
get to it, why you're GO on the wardroom - on the waste manage-
ment compartment water also.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
CC And did Owen copy on the light meter
batteries?
PLT Affirmative, Bruce.
CC Okay.
SPT Actually, most of that has been done before.
Jack did the S063 activation - deactlivatlon and I guess he
didn't get that llght meter battery but it's just ben got. Only
one of the - I guess two of the three Nikons have a light
meter. The other one has the (garble) without light meter but
we'll get the batteries out of those.
CC Roger. We expect NK02 doesn't have a
light meter since it was intended for UV.
SPT That's correct.
CDR And I'm still a little puzzled.
We;re GO when the pressure gets down to 0.7 or we're
GO right now on to the water deac?
CC You're GO right now. You're GO right
now on the water.
CDR Okay.
CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact
is throu?h the Vanguard in 9-1/2 minutes at 01:38 pseudo Zulu.
Out.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours,
30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now out of station
range through Texas. The next station to acquire will be
Vanguard in approximately 9 minutes. On this stateside pass,
the crew aboard Skylab-3 contlnuln_ through their deactivation
checklist. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2523/I
Time 1637 CDT, 59/21:37 GMT
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control• Houston, at 21 hours,

38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now approaching
acquisition through Vanguard. Meanwhile, we have the mission
surgeon's daily summary on crew health. That summary reads
as follows : "The crew continues a busy deactivation schedule.
There are no medical problems to report. The crew is approper-
ately briefed on the use of anti-motion sickness medication and
anti-hypertensive garment usage on the day of recovery." This
summary signed Jerry R. Hordensky, M.D. Standing by now for
acquisition with Skylab through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard
for i0 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab• this is Houston through the Vanguard
for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR (garble) Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-i/2 minute til
LOS. Next station contact in i hour and 5 minutes - through
Goldstone at 0251 pseudo ZULU. And for the SPT, if you
have not already taken the batteries out of the light meter
on the Nikon or are not familiar with the precedure involed with
that, we'd like for you to go head and just leave them in. Over.
SPT I have already completed that. Out.
CC Okay. Understand. You got the batteries
out of NK01 and NK03.
SPT That's affirm. Actually three may not
be complete yet, now one we completed• three of the -
one on internal CI film in it and we've not taking it out of
that one yet.
CC Okay, Owen. Your familiar with the procedure
in getting the head off and taking the battery out and all of
that.
SPT Right.
CC Okay. Go ahead then, procedure as we -
had formed you previously. Taking the batteries out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Going over
the hill. We're still hunting for a satisfactory location
for the urine separators. But you can go ahead and seal them
up in some bags for the time being and we'll give you a location
later.
CC Were you able to copy that.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 21 hours, 49
minutes, Greenwich mean time, Skylab-lll now out of station
contact with Vanguard. The next station to acquire will be
Goldstone in approximately i hour 2 minutes. We have the
time of the change of shift briefing with Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson. That's 5 p.m. central daylight time•
approximately i0 minutes from this time. The change of shift
conference with Neil Hutchinson at 5 p.m. central daylight
time in the the small auditorium of the Skylab News Center.
21 hours• 50 minutes GMT, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III _IC-2524/i
Time: 17:50 CDT 59/22:50 G_IT
9/24/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. at 22 hours

50 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab 3 space station
now approachinF acquisition with Goldstone in less than i minute.
We expect the crew to be given a GO to start their rest period
durinF this stateside pass. Our Fli_ht Director is now Don
Puddy. Capcomm is astronaut Dick Truly. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston we've got you AOS Goldstone
for 8 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston, this is the last pass
of the evenin_ and I've got several items that I need to - to clear
up here if I can. One of the things was we never got the final
H20 drink gun readings on your deactivation checklist, I think
page 1-2.
CDR Let me give them to you right now.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Jack will give them to you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, if you read, we've got
a keyhole comin_ up here at Goldstone for about a minute and
a half. I'ii give you a call when we're out of it.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston we're out of the keyhole
and go ahead with the readings.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we're
out of the keyhole, and we've got about 5 more minutes in this
pass. Go ahead with the readings.
PLT Okay, Dick, here's the end of closeout. 6393,
0438, 6812.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you very much. Another
thing that I wanted to mention and this was primarily for AI.
At the last pass which was a long time ago we unlinked in the
teleprinter some entry checklist items that we didn't make a
voice call about. The only thing that I wanted to say about
them was that they are all a result of Vance over the weekend going
out to Downeyg. lle flew the mission evaluator and the result
of that run. And talking to the team here, they thought there
_ere a few more reminders that we ought to get up, and that was
the rationale behind sending up you these final changes.
CDR Glad you did. I read them and I appreciate
it. I particularly like the one that gave me a feel for the duty cycle
on the wide translationg during the ullages. Quite a bit more
than I'd get.
CC Roger, it was me tod, but that was the way
Vance - it came out on the mission evaluator. Another item
that I have here, AI, is - back to the stowage of these urine
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Time: 17:50 CDT 59 22:50 G_{T
9/24/73

separators. We've looked at several - looked and talked about

several options that varied between putting them in to a freezer,
possibly putting them back into the T027 canister. And it
looks llke right now, what we're - sounds like the best one is to
just go ahead and empty out one of the dome lockers that has
some unusable thlnps in it that we'll switch around, and Just
put the_ in the dome locker, shut them up in _here and leave
them so we never would have to go back in those lockers. Because
there is apparently no particular problem since they've - You said
that when you opened the T027 canister that that one had actually
been - it was at 5 psi at the time, and so it had been breathing
somewhat. And since it didn't get out of there, we're thinking
along those lines. At any rate, in the morning we'll tell you
what we'd like to do.
CDR Okay. In other words you don't want us to
take a locker now and stick them in tonight, you want to wait
and tell us which one tomorrow?
CC That's affirmative. _We think that would
be better. We - Let another team think it over and consider that
and just let you know in the morning what we want to do with
them.
CDR Okay, sounds good to us.
CC Okay, had another question from the INCO.
Have you heard the 4-cycle-per-second noise in the last couple
of days on the audio.
CDR Havne't heard that. Nor hzve we heard the AT_ pump
problem since we changed the filter and haven't been back to
pump A. Those two anomalies after the EVA have gone away.
CC Okay. One final reminder, AI. CominR up
here in about 3 or 4 minutes, we'd - is a reminder - this will be the
time to set your watches to 01:00, and that way when you _o
to bed tonight and you wake up, you'll be on the PDT counting down
to entry.
CDR Did it about i0 minutes ago. We're
ready right now.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything else? You got any news?
CC I'll tell you, I got - I don't have any news that's
here. Ue're looking on the (garble) I don't think we're going to have
any AI. I do have one other thing that I'd like to say. I'm
standing this shift here for Crip who is going to be back over
with you on the entry team. And he really ought to have the
privilege of telling you good night on Skylab from Don Puddy
and the Crimson team. And I kind of get that job, and it's one
with a lot of pride on my part because this team has really
,]one an outstanding job starting with the guys out here in
the front room and going right back into the SSRs, and their
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Time: 17:50 CDT 59/22:50 GMT
9/24/73

support guys. It's been a real pleasure for every one of them
and it's a privilege for me to say goodby to you guys. And
every one of them are looking forward to you getting home,
and wetll see you pretty soon.
CDR Well, we - we've been pretty happy to be part
of the team, too. I guess part of all of these experiemnts
belong to us and part of them belong to y'all. And I guess
the amount that belongs is how hard we each sweated to get them.
And I want to invite everybody out to Ellington. WeVre looking
forward to being there in 3 or 4 days or whenever we get there.
And _e - we've really enjoyed it. It's been a fantastic experiment
and it's just incredible how - how much you do up here if you've got goo
support and people down on the ground that can figure out what
you ought to be doing and lay out for you, and then you become
their hands, so to speak, and their eyes, and they do the thinking
and we - you just execute it. That's exactly what happened up here,
and we've really enjoyed it.
CC Okay AI, we sure appreciate your - your comments.
Ue're going LOS here very shortly. And we Just wanted to
confirm right at the last that you got through your planned
deactivation activities for today.
CDR Everything is complete except the centrifuge
as you well know. Everythin_ else has been done.
CC Okay, real fine, AI. We'll say goodnight
to you guys. Get a good nizht's sleep and we'll be talking
to you in the morning. Goodnizht.
CDR Okay, wathh out.
SPT (garble) It's been a real pleasure for
a long period here to work with you all.
CC Thank you Owen, appreciate it.
PLT And goodnizht Dick - - (garble).
PAn Skylab Control Houston at 23 hours Greenwich
mean time. And the crew of Skylab 3 given the go ahead to start
their rest period from CAPCO_ Dick Truly. We'll shut down
the Public Affairs console at this time. Crew wake up is
scheduled at 7 hours Greenwich mean time tomorrow morning. This
is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2525/I
Time: 01:57 CDT, 59/06:57 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 6 hours 57 minutes and

13 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab spacecraft now 52
seconds from acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. We have the line up llve for the pass through
Honeysuckle lasting a little over 3 minutes. We should have
a wake - wake-up call here at Honeysuckle from Hank Harts-
field, the Spacecraft Communicator_
(Music) ("Houston" by Dean Martin)
CDR Watch out Houston, here we come.
CC Wow. That's a good voice.
CC And, Skylab, that brings us about i0 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 25.
CDR Good way to wake up.
CDR We haven't seen a dollar in two months.
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 2 minutes and
3 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylah space station now out
of range of the Honeysuckle tracking antenna as it passes to
the north of New Zealand. We' re 23 minutes and 22 seconds
from our next acquisition of signal a relatively brief one
over Vanguard. This was a wake-up call from Spacecraft
Communicator Hank Hartsfield, playing the Dean Martin version
of "Going Back to Houston." Commander Alan Bean commenting
there at the end of the pass that we haven't see a dollar
in two months. There is a line of course in the - in the
song - I saw a dollar yesterday but the wind blew it away.
The crew will be getting back in Houston about Thursday
evening. According to their present schedule they'll ge
landing about 5:20 this afternoon and be back in port tomorrow
morning about Ii:00 a.m. central daylight time. It's now
2 minutes and 51 seconds after the hour. This is Skylab
Control.

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SL-III MC-2526/I
Time: 02:23 CDT, 60/07:23 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 7 hours 24 minutes

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now approaching acquisition of signal with Vanguard. We'll
have the line up llve for alr-to-ground through Vanguard.
We don't have an exact time on this pass but it looks llke about
a minute pass through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
about 5-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank we're up and at them.
CC Okay, and yesterday you had a question
on what you wan - what we wanted you to do with the urine
separators and we just now arrived at a solution. We would
llke for you, when you get to that to wrap them up in some-
thing, some towels or old clothing or something and so it
don't it rattle around too much and stow them in the empty
food freezer 552.
SPT Okay, understand 552, Hank. Another
question, unrelated to the subject. We want to make sure that we're
doing the right thing with the urine bags. Now the bag
that we've been using yesterday we assume will not be weighed.
Of course it won't be sampled and after this morning's first
urination we think we're suppose to switch to I/CTA. Now as
I know we had the one UCTA for return. Is that correct?
Over.
CC We'll check that out Owen, and get right
back to you.
CC Skylab, Houston 1 minute to LOS.
Canaries at 44.
CDR Let me tell you what I was doing with
the urine separators when you called. I got an inspiration
last night how they can get in TO27 box. So I tried to
put them in T027 box and it turned out that I can really
just get two of ours plus the three of theirs without making
any excessive dust. So presently there's two of ours and
three of theirs in T027, and we'll put our one in a bag in
the freezer. Over.
CC Roger, we copy.
PAO Skylab Control; at 7 hours 32 minutes and
33 seconds Greenwich mean time. A relatively long pass
although it was a very low evaluation one at Vanguard.
We're about ii minutes and 55 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal at Canary Island. During this pass the crew is
instructed to place their three urine separators, the devices
used to separate urine in the waste management compartment
to take those out. They are removed for each crew and install
them in a food locker, a food freezer locker they informed
us however, at the end of the pass that they had already been
- two of them had already been installed in the T027 vacuum
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9/25/73

box and that was where the three from the previous mission
were. There had been a discussion earlier here in Mission
Control about where those were to be installed and finally
the decision was arrived at that they should be put in the
freezer locker and Flight Director was quite surprised to
discover that they had already been placed in the T027 box.
Now one of the three however, would not set in the box and
that would be installed in the freezer locker. This is
Skylab Control we're Ii minutes from acquisition of signal
at Canary Island. And it's now 33 minutes and 38 seconds
after the hour.

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 SL III MC-2527/I
TIME: 02:43 CDT 60/07:43 GMT
9/25/73

: PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 43 minutes

and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab spacecraft
now crossing the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is about to
be acquired by the Canary Island tracking antenna, and we'll
have the line up live for a pass through Canary Island and
Madrid lasting about 114 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and
Madrid for 13 minutes.
PLT Okay Hank. We're just sitting
around a good cold breakfast.
CC Roger. Copy. And in answer to the
question about the urine collection. Yesterday, I think
you did take samples of yesterday's urine last night as you
closed out the WMC, and the bags that are - I think you put
on the handrails there and and that can be used right up
until suit donning later today. And at that time, when you
are doning the UCTAs, then you can close out those bags and
get them ready to transfer. The urine bags are transferred
as one of the last items to go over.
SPT Okay Hank. Thank you. That's just what
we had in mind. You' re correct, we did sample last night
and those are in the freezers so we're all set.
CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid is about to
acquire you now and we'll be dumping the voice recorder
there.
PLT You there, Hank?
CC That's affirmative. Another 8 minutes.
PLT Okay. I notice from looking in the
cooler there, I forgot to eat my pears and my peach ambrosia
last night. And I'm wondering if the troups want me to go
ahead and eat that this morning, or forget it, or- if I'm
left to me, I'd probably go ahead and eat it right now.
CC We're getting you an answer.
PLT Okay Hank.

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SL-III MC-2528/I
Time: 02:53 CDT, 60/07:53 GMT
9/25/73

PLT l'm ready to eat it, Hank.

CC Say agaln.
PLT l'm ready to eat those pears and peach
arab rosl a.
CC Well, it's still under discussion,
Jack.
CC Go ahead and eat them if you want them.
PLT Thank you, Hank.
CC We'll write those down as a deviation.
PLT Okay, better knock them off of last night's
schedule then.
CC Consider it done. And we're about 40
seconds from LOS. We'll picking you up again at Carnarvon
at 26.
PLT Say, Hank, we're wondering if we ought
to throw away our spices and tobasco and stuff like that,
that's been opened.
CC We'll get with you at Carnarvon.
PAO Skylab Control at 7 hours 59 minutes and
8 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab spacecraft now over
eastern Europe has gone out of range of the Madrid tracking
antenna. Our next acquisition of signal 27 minutes and 18
seconds from now will he at Carnarvon, Australia. Question
asked by Jack Lousma was whether or not he could eat his
pears and peach ambrosia today. He did not eat them last
night. A discussion here in Mission Control with the medical
officer was whether or not these were an acceptable overage.
Each day's meals are carefully planned by the nutritionist
for the Skylab program and there is an attempt to maintain
a perfect balance of mineral intake. For that reason, it's
dlfficult to make changes and - on short notice without a
nutritionist's approval. This deviation was permitted,
however. There are mineral supplements taken every day to
replace items that are not eaten and that mineral balance is
supposed to maintained from day to day. The crew's meals
today are, as Jack Lousma indicated earlier, cold meals for
the most part. They - breakfast he had this morning included
eggs, sausage, cocoa, and orange drink, and of course he
did add to that then, the pears and peach ambrosia. Owen
Garriott, for breakfast this morning, was having eggs, bacon,
corn flakes, and orange drink. And Alan Bean had Rice Crisples,
bread, Jam, peaches and grapefruit drink. That is a final
Skylah diet that the crew will be eating. Their next menu
will consist of foods from the command module diet, and this
is the third of the six diets that the crew repeats from
time to time during the mission. There are a total of six
diets for the entire mission and then each day a new diet
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is had. So that- that limits the range of foods that the

crews have - to only six separate diets of- for each of the
three meals. We expect we'll get a report on the hurricane
Ira, which is down-range from the end of mission splashpoint.
That report should be coming in about 5 o'clock central
daylight time today and we'll give you a report as soon as
that's available. The most recent information we had on the
landing weather is 15 knot winds from the north, seas at 5
feet, and partly cloudy, broken clouds at 1800 feet, with
visibility of i0 miles. That report was from yesterday and
we will get a new weather report this morning sometime after
5:00 a.m. There's a note on this - this morning on the clocks
being used in Mission Control. Greenwich mean time right
now just after 8 hours GMT. We have a pseudo Greenwich mean
time - a spacecraft Greenwich mean time, which is now set
2 hours in advance of the actual GMT at i0 hours GMT right
now. That pseudo Greenwich mean time is to help the crew
figure out where they are in their checklists. The checklists
are set up for a wake-up tlme_ that was 2 hours earlier than
their standard wake-up during the remainder of the mission,
and, in fact, they are waking up 4 hours before the standard
wake-up during the remainder of the mission. So that means
that instead of getting up this morning at 9 - 9 o'clock GMT
as the checklist indicates, they are, in fact, getting up
at 7 o' clock GMT. Now they - that pseudo GMT clock will be
referred to, no doubt, during the day as the checklist time,
or something to that effect. They also have begun running
the phase-elapsed time clock which now reads 6 hours 24 minutes
and 19 seconds. That phase-elapsed time clock is keyed to the
burn time, 4:38 this afternoon. And at 4:38 this afternoon
the PET, or phase-elapse time clock will be reading 20:00
hours. The reason for that is that they do want to calculate
all maneuvers to that burn time and the clock does do that
for them. It's not counting down, it's counting up to the
20:00 hours. It's now 6 hours 24 minutes and 47 seconds.
We're now 23 minutes and 26 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal. It's 8 minutes and- it's 3 minutes and 14 seconds
after the hour. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-III MC-2529/1
Time 03:38 CDT, 60/0838 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 8 hours 26 minutes

and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 30 seconds
from acquisition of signal at our Australia tracking station.
And we'll bring the line up for this pass through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Carnarvon for
4-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston, I have a- two comments
in regard to the CSM checks if you can listen up now.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. I think your flight plan calls
for us to up-link some things to the CMC and that won't be
required at this time. Also we'll be setting up the PET
at the nominal time, after your P52, that comes at 1214 on
your pseudo GMT. Your REFSMMAT state vector are valid and
the undocking time is unchanged. And a couple of hours from
now when you get to your P52 it gives you options on stars
2, 4, and 6. Four is not currently available, so you'll
have to use 2 and 6 there. And at the P52, P51-P52 point
the P52 option 3 is all that's going to be required. And
your sunset will be coming there at 12:14. The P52 that's
called out Just prior to suit donning is not required. We
already go all the drift check data that we need on the plat-
form.
CDR Good news. Now would you tell me what
times you have at the moment that we're running on.
CC Okay. Your watches should be reading
about 10:28 right now, that'S will keep you at the right
place in the checklist.
CDR That's where we are. Good show.
CDR And understand the other. Thanks, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from losing Carnarvon and we'll come right back up after a
very short LOS with Honeysuckle at 32.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you
through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes and in answer to your
question regarding the spices, Just leave them as you
presently have them stored.
CC CDR, Houston. Where are you right now
in respect to the SPS repress?
CDR With respect to what?
CC Roger, SPS repress.
CC It's on page
CDR I'm not doing it right now, I'm not in
the command module. Will be in the command module in i0
mlnutes, is that okay?
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CC Okay. We need state and coverage for that so

we'll pick that up stateside.
CC Skylab, Houston, this is a light shift
with you from the Bronze teams. And on behalf of all the guys
at the Bronze team we'd llke to salute you as an outstanding
crew. We were continuously surprised during the mission with
your enthusiasm for requesting more work. It's been a great
mission and thanks to you we've accomplished much more than
we had anticipated and collected a tremendous amount of data,
for example we've got over 14,000 EREP photos now and over
18 miles of EREP tapes. You did a tremendous Job and it's
been a real pleasure working with you. We'll be watching
your splash here on TV and be looking forward to seeing you
again in Houston.
CDR Thank you Hank, and thanks to the team.
It's simple thing, I think we do have a heck a lot of data
up here and part of that data belongs to every one of us and
every one of you and I guess the percent that belongs to each
has to do with how much of what percent he had available to
give, he gave. So, nobody knows except yourselves and I think
we feel pretty good about it and I hope every member of this
whole team feels good about it we're happy to have been part
of it and proud to be part of Skylab and NASA. Want to invite
everybody up to Ellington when we get baek_ and we're coming
home today so watch out.
CC We'll be watching.
PLT _hanks a lot Hank to you and your team
from Owen and myself also.

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SL Ill MC-2530/I
TIME: 03:38 CDT 60/0838 GMT
9/25/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 16, and we'll
be standing by there to monitor the STS repress.
CDR We' ii be ready.
PAO Skylab Control at 8 hours 40 minutes
and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek. Our next acquisition of slgnal 35 minutes and 8
seconds from now will be at Bermuda. During this last pass
congratulations going up to the crew from the Spacecraft
Communicator Hank Harts field. He and the Bronze team of
Flight Controllers under Flight Director Charles Lewis are
going off shift now. During the next pass we expect Bruce
McCandless will be on duty as the CAP COM_4. And the on-coming
Flight Director team of Neil Hutchinson as Flight Director
for the orbital workshop and Phll Shaffer now here in
Mission Control, who will be Flight Director for the command
module reentry. The Bronze team going off duty and their
Mummychog minnow mascot will be taken off the screen in
Mission Control and be replaced by the spider Arachne a
symbol of the Silver team of Flight Controllers under Nell
Hutchinson. We're now 34 minutes and 15 seconds from
acquisition of signal and it's 41 minutes and 30 - and 40
seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2531/I
Time 04:15 CDT, 60/09:15 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 15 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now crossing the
South America coast, is about to be acquired by Bermuda.
This pass will last about 8 minutes. We'll have the llne
up live now for air-to-ground through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 6-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. And on the URC closeout,
I wanted to mention the fact that one of the cardboard in-
serts could not be left inside of the URC. That's because
the size of the urine container was such that it just would
not fit with - and get the lid down close to where it's
supposed to go, so one of those thin cardboard inserts has
been removed. Also, on the IMSS, which I'm about to set up
to do, there is a slot to return those little fish in. Now,
that would of course have frozen the fish. We still have
some of those alive and so last night we'd already put
them in the canister A which was the canister they were
sent up in and I have that over in my TSB, and so I proposed
(garble) in alteration. _'ii bring those- that little
small can containing the fish and see if we can bring back
a few of them alive rather than putting them inside the IMSS.
Over.
CC Okay, we copy that. Let us work on it
for a minute. And we'd like to check with you on one thing,
here. The evacuation of the TO27A stowage container is
neither required or desired. Could you confirm for us that
you did not evacuate same? Over.
CDR I'll confirm that we did. I did it this
morning.
CDR I can go repress if you want
CC Negative. Negative. We were concerned
about clogging up the orifices with urine crystals. And
water's been wrapped around the one urine separator that's
stowed in freezer 552.
CDR (Garble) urine bag and it's sealed.
CC Okay, you have no padding material such
as a towel or anything?
CDR It didn't look llke it needs for us to -
It floats around there and doesn't bang anything, but we'd
be glad to go put one on if you llke.
CC Okay, what we'd llke you to do is cram
some stuff in there so it's sort of held in place in the
freezer. Good suggestion might be some of your sleep
restraints when you peel them off.
CDR Will do it. Ready for the STS repress.
I did a P52 awhile ago but didn't torque the platform be-
cause I didn't think you wanted to. Need to I can give you
the results if you like.
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CC Go ahead with the results of P52.

CC And we 're
CDR The time I did it was a CMC time
of 33:12:00. The torquing angles would have been minus 32,
minus 124, plus 72.
CC Okay, I'm not sure I copied the time
correctly. 33:12:00?
CDR That's affirm. CMC time 16:65. My
watch time was 11:15:00.
CC Okay.
CDR And standing by to do whatever you
want me to do.
CC Go ahead on the repress.
CDR I've already activated the RCS so
somebody might want to take a look at it.
CC Okay, go ahead with the SPS repress.
CDR They seem to be stabilizing about 171
up he re .
CDR Looks llke they're stabilized at 171.
CC And when you get a second. We've got
2 minutes to LOS here. We'd llke a brief update as to
where you are in the deaet checklist.
CDR Okay_ and - and I put the switch back
to AUTO per the instructions.
CC Roger.
CDR Are you satisfied - you think that's
the nu - that - is that the number you predicted?
CC Roger, we're happy with the SPS.
CDR Okay, I'm exactly on the time. Well
I'm actually ahead of the time line. I've finished every-
thing up to - I think it's 10:50 - less 55 thine- I think
Owen just put in the urine box and Just put in the fecal.
And Jack, I don't know what he's doing, he'll have to give
you a call.
PLT I'm up to Page 2-17, Bruce.
CC Okay_ we copy. We've got 1 minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 11:27 pseudo Zulu. Out.
CDR Okay, now, one of the things it told me
to do was set the CM - set both mission timers to GMT. I
don't even have the slightest idea where that is. So I set
it for the CMC time which I'ii change later. My watch is
on pseudo Zulu.
CC Okay.
CDR And I gather you don't want to move 74 and
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you don't want any other - anything done to the CMC or

any IMU for awhile.
CC That's correct, AI. And Zulu time is
2 hours less than your watch time at the present time, but
you can go ahead and leave the timers as you got them.
CDR Okay, and I'm standing by on page 2-18
which CSM power source transfer to internal. And I'm in
a hold right there waiting.
CC Okay. Stand by on that one, please.
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 24 minutes and
18 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of the Bermuda tracking antenna. Our next
acquisition of signal at Madrid will be about 2 minutes
and 35 seconds from now, and that will be an 8-1/2 minute
pass. During this last pass Commander Alan Bean indicated
that he had not only gotten caught up with his work.
He was about i0 minutes behind half an hour ago, but he is
now caught up and moved about 30 minutes ahead of the time
llne. Right now he's operating what is called pseudo GMT.
It's a false time that has been given to the crew to cor-
respond to their checklists which were created before the
change in sleep cycles about a week ago. That GMT time
is 2 hours in advance of the G- of actual GMT. At the
present time they are 1125 pseudo GMT and the actual GM
time - GMT time is 09:25. The crew's moving along very
well in their time line this morning. Most of their
activities are a final closeout of the water system,
urine sampling, condensive blank transfer, inhibit -
inhibiting the caution and warning system aboard Skylab
and final configurations of the orbital workshop panels.
Meanwhile, Commander Alan Bean has moved out of the com-
mand module and has been running some final checks. He
has realigned the inertial measurement unit which is the
heart of the command module's guidance system. That was
the P52 that he was talking about - program 52 that he
was talking about during this last pass. Also, now in
Mission Control we have a phase-elapse time clock reading
7 hours 47 minutes and 43 seconds. That's counting down
to 21:38 Greenwich mean time which is the time for the
main burn of the SPS ser- service propulsion system
engine. That'll be an 18-second burn and partinE
velocity of about 300 miles per hour to slow the vehicle.
We' re now coming up on acquisition of signal and we' ii
bring the line up llve for air-to-ground.

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 SL-III MC-2532/i
Time 04:26 CDT, 60/09:26 GMT
9/25/73

CDR By the way Houston, how do you like the

RCS?
CC Looks good to us Alan, and we're with
you through Madrid for 8 minutes, now.
CC SPT, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Reference your mummychog minnows
or Fundulus heteroclitus, we think they'll be all right in the IMSS
return container in the position specified however, it's
your option if you'd like to bring the,, back in can A and
some other location in the command module that's okay with
us. However, please tell us where you've stowed them so
that we can advise the recovery people to extract them in
something less than a couple of weeks from the command module.
And for your information the fish did go up in the IMSS
container. Over.
SPT That's right, but it didn't have the
same frozen plugs in it. I didn't- I don't think. Is that
correct or was it at the same temperature coming up as it did
going back - would be going back?
CC We believe it had the heat sinks in it and
approximately the same temperature going up.
SPT Okay, sounds fine I'ii- I'll probably
retrieve them and put them back here and I'll let you know.
CC Okay.
CC And CDR, this is Houston. We're go for
your pressing on with the power transfer whenever you and the
PLT are both ready. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll probably get to it in about
i0 minutes. If that's okay?
CC Okay, we won't be able to watch it then
but that sounds good to us and press on. Also, I have a -
another editorial change to your checklist in the CSM
system checklist page 5-7, we want to change the secondary
coolant loops switches to reflect the fact that the loop is
active. I got the changes here if you want me to read them

i off. CDR Can you cool it. I'm down in the OWS and I'Ii
be back up there in about 15 minutes.
CC Okay, no rush. I think it's something
you'd pick up anyway when you came to it, AI.
CDR Okay, I'ii be up there and talk to you
next pass.
CC PLT, this is Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, when you go up there, close out the
teleprinter you'll find a message in there addressed to
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Gerry, Ed and Bill. We'd appreciate if you'd leave it in

there for the next inhabitants of the workshop. Over.
PLT Now, you'll have to say again, all after-
I didn't get it.
CC I said, "Roger," we're shifting the teleprinter
traffic over to Gerry, Ed, and Bill, i.e., the SL IV crew. Over.
PLT Okay, I didn't get any of that at all
and what that means is that I should take anything more off
of there?
CC That's affirm. It's _ust a short message
and we just llke to leave it in the teleprinter for them.
Over.
PLT Will do. Thank you Bruce.
CC Roger. That's Gerry Carr, Edward Gibson, and
Bill Pogue. Over.
PLT I think I remember at least the last
n ame s .
CC Okay.
SPT You there, Bruce
CC Yes indeed.
SPT I don't normally read other people's
correspondence but in this case you Just sent up a blank
sheet of paper to our friends Gerry, Bill and Ed.
CC What just one llne and then a blank? Over.
SPT I don't even see the one llne, I'll take
another look.
CC It may not be on board yet, it will either be
coming up here in a few seconds or through Carnarvon.
SPT That's more like it.
CC And we got 45 seconds until LOS. Next
station contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon at 12:00
pseudo Z. Out. And we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder at Carnarvon, also.
PLT They're going to like it up here, Bruce.
I envy them.
CC Likewise.

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SL III MC-2533/I
TIME: 04:36 CDT 60/09:36 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 36 minutes

and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab now out of
range of the Madrid tracking antenna is passing over Eastern
Europe. The message referred to during this last pass by
Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless has not been com-
pleted yet, however they are in the process of typing that
up right now, and we'll give you a complete reading of it
as soon as it is completed. The first few lines are Gerry,
Ed and Bill, it says, "General message Skylab IV greetings.
Gerry Ed, and Bill: Welcome aboard the space station
Skylab. Hope you enjoy your stay. We are looking forward
to several months," and that's as far as they've typed so
far and we' ii - "several months of interesting and productive"
and we' ii give you the rest of it a little later. Also some
talk about the Mummychog minnows, which Bruce McCandless
called Fundulus heteroclltus which is the scientific name for the
Mummychog minnow. Some of those Mummychog minnows still
left alive aboard the space station, according to Owen
Garriott. They were originally listed in the Skylab check-
list as having been moved to the aft bulkhead of the command
module and stored, but apparently the crew actually did not
do that. They have, in fact, decided to put it in the IMSS,
although the crew members did not want the IMSS to be used
for fear that the fish might freeze. The in flight medical
support kit does have some cold temperatures. It's been
kept in the chiller for quite a while, as a means of keeping
it from overheating during the reentry. But the medical
officer here in Mission Control did indicate that there
would be no danger to the fish and they will be stored in
the IMSS for return. We have a completion of that message
now and we'll read the entire message. It's general message
Skylab IV greetings. First message, day of year 315: "Gerry
Ed, and Bill: Welcome aboard the space station Skylab.
Hope you enjoy your stay. We are looking forward to several
months of interesting and productive work. Signed Flight
Control," and that's general message Skylab IV greetings. End
of message. That will be up-llnked to the crew during one of
the upcoming passes this morning as Bruce McCandless
indicated it is not to be taken out by the Skylab III crew.
McCandless talking here to the Flight Directors was kidding
that, he said, "I guess at the end of the next mission, we'll
have to up-llnk a message that says, to whom it may concern."
This is Skylab Control, 22 minutes and 23 seconds to our next
acquisition of signal. That will be at Carnarvon. It's now
39 minutes and 14 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2534/I
TIME : 04:59 CDT 60/09:59 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 59 minutes

and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. We have a
pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle lasting about 16
minutes. We have the line llve now for air-to-ground.
The Spacecraft Communicator is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for ii minutes. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce. Here'a a problem that I remember
we had in the training, but I thought it got worked out. I'm
stowing the cans here in the IMSS return container. There
are two cans K, and only one K slot in this rack. Now, the
first can K is called medical supplies and microbiology
supplies. The second can K is called simply microbiology
supplies. The checklist calls for the can K to remain in
K where it was at launch. Yet, the microbiology supplies
can K is the one that was in there, not medical supplies
and microbiological supplies. So I'm assuming both cans K
are returned, but I'd like to know where the other can
K gets stowed. And I presume that it is in slot E, since
that's the only one that's big enough to hold a can of this
size. Over.
CC Okay. We've got that. We'll get the
answer for you in just a second.
SPT Also, the IMSS checklist calls for the
6 BSVs, blood sample vials to be taped and returned in slot
A. Yet, I'm pretty my original checklist in the biomed
checklist called for me to put it inside the can K labeled
medical supplies and microbiological supplies. And that's
where I have the six BSVs now located. And I'd like to
leave them inside that can K, where they are now presently
found. If that's satisfactory. And I assume that it will
be. Ove r.
SPT And Bruce, we've performed the Apollo
transfer and it looks good from here.
CC Okay, Owen. Stand by please.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Stand by please.
CC Owen. Could you describe these two
cans K, Kilo, to us again please.
SPT Certainly. The first can K is labeled
medical supplies paren A and microbiological supplies paren
A. The second can K is called microbiological samples paten
A. Subtitles include the illness events, ... assembly and
so forth. This was pointed out in training, and is exactly
the same thing we've had all along. Two cans K and one slot.
Over.
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CC Okay. Stand by.

SPT Incidentally the one of them, micro-
biology supplies paten A, that can K has never been opened.
It's the other can K, with the double title that has been
opened and used.
SPT Further information. The one that hasn't
been opened as I mentioned a moment ago is the one for
illness events. Because we didn't have any. It was never
opened.
CC Okay Owen. We're talking about it right
now and I'Ii comfirm it for you in a minute. It looks like
we're moving towards taking that can that's never been
opened and leaving it up there on board since there's been
no change in its internal composition. Over.
SPT I think that's the way it should be.
CC And also the word I'm getting on the
blood sample vials is that the samples in them have been
chemically stabilized so that it's not critical whether
they get chilled or refrigerated or not. Over.
SPT Okay. I'ii leave them right inside
the can K which has been opened and which I have stowed
in location K.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CC Okay. And the can K in which you have
the BSVs is in position K in the IMSS rack, with fish can
A in position J on top of it. Is that correct?
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay. I think we're making some
progress here.
CC And while we're talking to you Owen.
Prior to close out of the ATM C&D panel, if it's convenient,
we'd like to get a readout of the S054 and SO52 frames
remaining, so that we can verify proper unattended operation
of the system. Over.
SPT Will do.
CC And for the CDR and PLT, this is Houston.
The command module power configuration looks good following
power transfer. Out.
CDR (garble)
CDR We had a hold mode until 12:45 or so for
the landing.
CC Okay. I've still got this one little
change for the command module systems checklist outstanding.
CDR I'II be right up to the command module.
Wait one.
CDR Okay Bruce, go ahead. Systems check-
list is in hand.
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CC Okay. On panel - on page 5-7 of the

systems checklist, you come down, oh, about eight or nine
lines and it says secondary coolant loop evap off. We
want to change that to secondary coolant loop evap to evap.
And secondary coolant loop pump from off to AC-2. And
secondary evap water flow from off to auto. Over. _
CDR Wish I could write that fast. Go a
little slower.
CC Okay. You found the three entries
for the secondary coolant loop. What we want is the
evap switch to evap, pump switch to AC-2, and evap water
flow to auto. A-u-t-o.
CDR Okay. I got it. Thanks Bruce.
CC And of course, that change is called
out to keep you in compliance with having fired up the
secondary loop as part of the deactivation
checklist on about page 2-85. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you.

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Time 05:09 CDT, 60/10:09 GMT
912517:3

CC SPT, Houston. I may cut out in this

transmission we got 30 seconds to handover, but on the IMSS
we would like to get the blood sample vials packed for return
per the checklist, i.e., wrapped and stowed without the can in
position A. And the empty can Kilo in position Kilo. Over.
SPT Now we have no empty can Kilo but I'ii
take the BSVs out of A and tape them to A, now I
think that is contrary to the biomed checklist. It's consistent
with the Deact Checklist but we have no empty can Kilo. I'ii
put the one I got where it is in Kilo.
CC Okay, back with you now through Honey-
suckle Creek, Owen. It turns out that the blood sample vials
are not that well stabilized chemlcally we'd like to get them
next to the heat sink that's in slot Bravo to better preserve
them and keep the,, cooler for the return trip and with respect to
can K the one we're talking about is the one in which you had
the BSV located. My understanding is when you take the BSVs
out of that can K it then will be empty. Over.
CC SPT, this is Houston, through Honeysuckle
Creek, with respect to the stowage there we want to get the
BSVs next to the heat sink in location B. Because it turns
out that the samples really aren't that well chemically
stabilized and we think it would be a much cooler more
satisfactory environment for their return in that location.
And the can - the empty can K that I was talking about is the one
in which you said you put the BSVs we were putting it down in position
K to serve as a spacer to hold the fish can off the bottom
and our understanding was that when you take the BSVs out
it will then be empty. Over.
SPT Okay, I've already taken the BSVs out.
I've taped them in position A and I'm going to reinsert it
again into the IMSS and I guess I mislead you. There's a
lot of other stuff in can K also, that was not empty. But
the other stuff still remains in position K.
CC Okay, that's - Roger. Leave the other
stuff in K and stow thing per checklist.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 31-1/2 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 12:47 pseudo Zulu. Out.
CC And, again for the SPT the unopened can
K containing the illness event materials should be left in
the wardroom food chiller. Over.
SPT Okay, happy to do that and I didn't see
anything about that in the checklist and there's a couple of
other cans I'm leaving behind also.
CC Roger, you might make a note of which
ones they are and we can talk to you over the States or in
the postfllght debriefing about it.
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SPT Okay, can Delta, can Hotel, and the can

K under - about which we've been discussing are the three
left behind.
CC Roger. Out.
PAO Skylab Control; at I0 hours 17 minutes and
3 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab crew working through
their checklist for this morning seem to be right on schedule
Owen Garriott there working with the inflight medical support
kit. The IMSS and he is having some problem with everything
to fit and there was a rearrangement made one of the problems
with the IMSS is that keeping it cool properly has samples
stored in it, including blood samples and keeping those at
the proper temperature during the return is a minor problem
they do want to keep the blood samples near the cold parts of
the IMSS there is a number of heat things or things used for
absorbing heat in the IMSS. Power transfer to the CSM was
completed that okay and that was done approzimately on
schedule originally scheduled for 9:50 Greenwich mean time,
and it was reported about 10:05 that it had been completed.
And the report here from the ground was all indications are
that was made very successfully, no problems at all in either
the workshop or in the command module. We have a report now
on Hurricane Irah, the course of the hurricane has shifted
towards the Mexican coast that has winds now of 90 knots and
suspected to be crossing the southern tip of Baja, California
during the hours Just before splashdown. That would put the
center very near La Paz at 5:20 p.m. Central daylight time,
when the command module lands in the Pacific Ocean 230 miles
southwest of San Diego. With winds of 30 knots extending
outward and estimated 150 to 200 miles from the hurricane
eye the predicted impact points for the command module is about
500 miles beyond that radius the center of the hurricane is
700 miles southeast of the command module, within impact point.
One precaution is being taken however, by the Flight Dynamics
officer here, should the command module burn of the main
engine slow the craft by 290 feet per seconds instead of the
planned 450, the splashdown point will be at the edge of those
30 knot winds and since that is several hundred miles down
range it would require the crew to stay in the water for a
considerable number of hours as the U.S.New Orleans steamed
in that direction. Since approximately 500 miles down range
that would indicate a time of perhaps as long as 30 hours in
the water. One of the things that's being done to correct for
that is the change of the roll of the spacecraft, the present
course was to have the spacecraft to roll to the east of the
ground track and that would have put it at the edge of the
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30 knot winds since the storm is also on the east of the

ground track there is a plan now to provide for a roll to
the west of that ground track. That would put it well out
of the range of the 30 knot winds and a relatively milder
waters. The hundred and 60 foot per second difference between
290 and 450 is the significant figure if it should be less
than a 160 per second difference. In other words if the
speed of the spacecraft does not slow it by as much it would
be allowed to continue along its course and stay in orbit
for another 3 revolutions which would allow it to splash down
at - at back of impact point near the Johnson Island, south-
west of the Johnson Islands, in the Mid-Pacific. If however,
the velocity on the other hand is to reduce more than a 160
feet per second difference. That is to say if the planned
velocity is 300 feet per second then it would land closer
up range and out of the 30 knot winds in rela - relatively
calmer waters. Those are of course all backup and contingency
plans that's unlikely that there will be a change in that
burn which is scheduled for 450 per second or 300 miles per
hour. The burn to take place this afternoon, at 4:38.
Conditions in the area of the splashdown appear to be very
good this time. The U.S.S. New Orleans is presently about
55 miles to the northeast of the splashdown point. It's
going in that direction to make a rendezvous with a helicopter
bringing parts for an X-ray device used on the Skylab mobile
laboratory. There was a break down in that equipment
and that rendezvous was made necessary. Expect the
rendezvous to take _place about 5-1/2 hours from now. That
will put the New Orleans 55 miles toward San Diego from the
splashdow n point. They will at that time return to the
splashdown area, and expected to arrive there a little before.
3 o'clock today. Splashdown again 5:20 p.m. central daylight
time, this afternoon. Still working on pseudo GMT so
from time to time we may be confused by the crew's comments
that they're 12:21 GMT right now, their clocks were
changed to correspond to the checklist. It's now 10:21
Greenwich mean time here. And we're 25 minutes from our
next acqulslton of signal. This is Skylab Control at 22
minutes and 2 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2536/I
TIME: 05:46 CDT 60/10:46 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 46 minutes

and 7 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now about to be acquired by the U.S. tracking stations for
an extended pass lasting approximately 15 minutes including
the Merritt Island and Bermuda. And we have the line llve
for the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for about 18 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay Bruce. One configuration correction
on panel 225. It tells me to put both N-Z rigs to
OPEN and we were operating one open or A open and B closed.
How would you llke it left?
CC We'll get you an answer on that.
CDR Okay Bruce. I did the T52, stars 2 and
6. 00, down 93, minus 54, minus 138, plus 78. Time of
torquing on CMC time, 34, 37, 4600.
CC Roger. We got that AI. And for the
SPT, would you verify that the 3 IMSS cans that you are
leaving, that is, Delta Hotel and Kilo Illness are being left
in the chiller. Over.
SPT I thought you only asked me to leave the
one Mi_o and I put the other two in a waste bag. I could
probably still retrieve it. And I'll put the other two in
the chiller if you like. The IMSS is stowed and I'm now about
to pick up on ATM panel closeout. Over.
CC Yes Sir. We wouldllke the other two
in the chiller also.
CDR Okay. The GDC aline was performed at
34:40:54 CST time. And also I'm in the midst of the ECS
prep on page 246.
CC CDR this is Houston. We see that you
are in POO and ACCEPT. We will now sync your FMC clock to
PET. Over.
CDR That's a good show and I'ii set the
clocks when you've done it.
CC Roger.
CDR And I'm on panel 382 getting ready to
put the EVAP H20 control to PRIMARY. I hoped they've looked
over closely all that evap business.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, this is Houston. We want both N-2 rigs
open per the checklist. Over.
PLT Okay. That's the way I put them. Thanks
Bruce.
CC Roger. Thank you for asking though. It
was a point that perhaps needed some clarifying. Out.
SPT Okay Houston. I'm about to give it the
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52012 and the 51117 on the DAS. Are you prepared

for that? Over.
CC We are. Go ahead, Owen.
CC And before you power down the panel,
we'd like to get the frame counts on S052 and S054 please,
and the undocked gains look good to us.
SPT Okay. I'ii give you all of the readings
while I'm here. The H-Alpha is reading 616, X-ray Telley is
reading 180, 82 A and B are off. 52 reads 59. 54 reads 5882
and CBRM lights number 3 and 5, I have all three status
lights on for both sets. Sets 3 and 5.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you.
CC For the CDR. You have PET loaded in
the command module computer. Out.
CDR Thank you Bruce. And I do have a batt
volt and a reg volt barber pole now occurring in - that's in the
checklist .
CC Roger.
PLT And Bruce. I've configuring the circuit
breaker panels in the STS and wonder if there's anything you
want to do before I go ahead and flip some of them.
CC Press on Jack. We're in good shape. We
got a handover here in about 30 seconds. We'll have a short drop out.
Over.
CC Just let us know when you're finished
Jack, so we can do the command verification checks. Over.
PLT Wilco.
SPT (garble)
CC Stand by a second. It's a little noisy.
CC Okay. I'm back with you now, Owen.
SPT Okay. We have the H-Alpha console power
distribution switch taped into the BUS i , the REG lighting
BUS position and I presume you're ready for it to go off now.
CC That's affirmative, Owen. Turn it off.
SPT Roger.
SPT Okay. If you would, verify your ATM
command capability please.
CC Roger. That's in work.

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SL-III MC-2537/I
Time 05:57 CDT, 60/110:57 GMT
9/25/73

CC SPT, Houston, the ATM command verification

checks have been completed, satisfactorily. Over.
SPT Okay, we heard that Bruce, and I'm now
ready for you to do the same on the STS control panel.
CC Okay, that's in work.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, I minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 13:05
pseudo Zulu. Out.
PAO Skylab Control; at ii hours 2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now crossing the
North Atlantic in daylight is about to be acquired by the
Madrid tracking station 3 minutes and 17 seconds from now,
as we've gone out of range of Bermuda. During this pass the
crew gave us an update on their procedures going through the
checklist apparently they are running a little bit ahead of
schedule the gyro display coupler being alined by Commander
Alan Bean during this pass in the command module. He did that
about 20 minutes ahead of schedule. The phase elaspe time
clock has now been loaded in the command module computer. The
phase elapsed time clock is a clock that counts up to the
burn of the service propulsion system. On the phase elapsed
time clock that's a little over i0 hours from now. The burn
will come at 20 hours phase elapsed time or at 21:38 Greenwich
mean time. PET was loaded into the command module computer
at 10:51, that's almost 20 minutes ahead of schedule the
Science Pilot Owen Garriott, reported he is presently working
at the closeout of the ATM panel and Jack Lousma is doing the
STS and MDA, multipel docking adapter and cer -
structural transistion panel configuration that will take a
fairly long period of time. Commander Alan Bean of course
will be workinq for quite some time now on preparations for the
command module and for reentry, we'll be now using two
different clocks as we have been most of the morning in addit-
ion to the GMT times. One of those the so-called pseudo GMT is a
time that's keyed to the checklist it's 2 hours higher than
the GMT time in other words it's now 13 pseudo GMT, and ii
GMT, and also now we' ii be running on the phase elapse
time clock which does count to the 20 hour burn on the STS.
You may hear all of these numbers used at the same time so, it
will be rather confusing. Bruce McCandless is now Space-
craft Communicator, Flight Director for the orbital workshop
Neil Hutchinson, but Flight Director Phil Shaffer is here at
Mission Control preparing his team for the command module's
reentry. Undocking is going to occur this afternoon at 19:50
Greenwich mean time, it will be done by extending the probe
on the command module and pushing off at a rate of about 0.4
feet per second. The spacecraft will descend below into a
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lower orbit and then pass by the workshop, and then the
retrofire burn of the main engine will be at 21:38
Greenwich mean time, a 450 foot per second burn it takes
18 seconds to make that burn. We're coming up on acquisition
of signal we' ii have the line up live now for our pass
through Madrid lasting 7 minutes and 48 seconds.

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SL-III MC-2538/i
Time 0605 CDT, 60/11[ :05 GMT
9/25/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR GCS complete. LiOH installed.
CC Roger. Thank you, AI.
CDR Still there, Bruce?
CC Yes indeed.
CDR Okay, we were planning to bring back
several pounds of personal items. We thought we'd bring
back our EVA gloves and maybe a couple of other things.
And so where we're stowing them is right on top of A-5.
The fecal bundles are on A (cough) - A-2, A-3, A-9 has three
of them and A-7 - A-7 has one.
CC Okay, I understand. One fecal bundle on
A-2, one on A-3, three on Alfa 9 and one on A-7. Over.
CDR That's affirm. Now we put our bag right
in the middle of A-5.
CC Roger. And miscellaneous items on top
of A-5. Do you have an estimate for the weight involved?
CDR My guess would be about 5 pounds. It
wouldn't be more than i0. Five to i0 and I tried to put it
right on the CG.
CC Roger. That's a good ball-park figure.
Thank you.
CC PLT, this is Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. AM co_,mand verlfication is
completed satisfactorily, and I have the reg adjust settings
for a closeout for you here. Over.
PLT Just a minute.
PLT Okay, go ahead, Bru- -
CC Okay, do you want to enter it in the
checklist - it's page 2-51. REG ADJUST bus I pot, we want
170 degrees counterclockwise. That's 170 degrees counter-
clockwise. REG ADJUST BUS 2, 165 degrees counterclockwise.
That's 165 degrees counterclockwise. Over.
PLT You mean from the present position you
want to go that far counterclockwise on both of them. Right?
CC That's correct. We're trying to relieve
the loads on the airlock module system here. Over.
PLT Okay. Number i will be 170 degrees
counterclock and then number 2 will be 165.
CC Roger.
CC And that is 170 degrees Delta, that is
170 degrees change from the present position and 165 on the
other. Over.
PLT Okay. Right now number i is sitting at
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315 so you want it over somewhere around 915 and number 2

is sitting at about 240, so you want it around 8 o'clock
somewhere.
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay, I understand. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon at 13:39
pseudo Zulu. And for the SPT, how're you coming on the
air interchange duct in your progress? Over.
SPT Okay. I've just about completed the
SOP over here - just put the film away and the next item is A.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 13 minutes and
50 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
crossing eastern Europe and out of range of the l_adrid track-
ing antenna. We're about 25-1/2 minu_es from our next acquisi-
tion of signal. That will be at Carnarvon, Australia. The
crew is moving along very well on the timeline. Commander
Bean indicating that they will be bringing back some personal
items, an estimated 5 to i0 pounds. He said that he was
attempting to locate those near the CG or center of gravity
of the command module. The location of such items, of course,
would affect the actual landing point of the spacecraft by
some small distance. That will be checked out here on the
ground to make sure the location of those items will not
affect that target of reentry point. Skylab is expected to
splash down 230 miles southwest of San Diego at 5:20 p.m. central
daylight time today. And the U.S.S. New Orleans will be on
station there a llttle before 3:00. We're now 24 minutes
and 45 seconds from acquisition of signal and it's 14 minutes
50 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-25 39/i
Time 06:38 GDT, 60/11:38 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control; at II hours 38 minutes

and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
crossing the Indian Ocean is approximately 38 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. We have the
llne up llve for alr-to-ground through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 6 minutes. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce, we got most everything
done now, up to the PGA doffing ... We're having a little
trouble with the center couch here, getting that (garble)
in the right spot we're working on that now.
CC Okay, didn't copy. You said you had
everything done up to what and working on the center couch.
Over.
SPT We're about up to PGA doffing except for the
fact that we've not quite got the center . .. readings - the couch
reconfigured yet, and looking (garble) the shoulder right
now.
CC Okay.
CDR We got it fixed Bruce. The problem is
or was in the shoulder joint. If the spaces that come
together (garble) together that make up both the right and
the arm rest_ there's a screw in there, one on each side, this is
90 degree to the pen and along the long axis of the couch,
that screw would come unwound and then it was so far out
... couldn't close the - the upper part of the couch
with the lower part of the couch because the screw prevented the
angles from coming together. We opened it up closed the screw
and put it all back together and it's working great now.
CC Okay, we understand that that's on the
removable part of the couch where the thing folds down near the
shoulders. Over.
CDR Right. In other words you would be
looking at the head of the screw perpendicularly when the
couch is fold- when the couch is in the normal position.
When you fold it then it will come - it folds out and you can
see it. In other words it would be llke opening a book and
then the heads of the screw would be the same place the print-
ing is in the book mainly used on the page, whereas the book's
closed you can't see them. It's not ... the books so to speak
because the screw head was too long.
CC Okay; we copy and we also copy that you've
got it installed satisfactorily now, Is that correct
CDR That is affirm.
CC Beautiful,
CC And before you get too far into the suit
donning we'd just llke to verify with the SPT that the few
additional IMSS containers got put in the chiller. Over.
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SPT That's affirm all three of them are in

there.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC And for Jack, we haventt seen the reg
bus adjust yet, over.
CDR He's on the way.
SC Roger.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC And for the CDR, just a reminder that the
upcoming schedule P52 is no longer required since we already
have the gyro compensation. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Twenty seconds to LOS. Next station contact
in 6-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at 13:51 pseudo
Zulu. Out.
CDR Okay, we've had a B mag drifting for an
hour and 4 minutes you want me to (garble) shut it shut for you.
CC That's affirmative on the B ma& check.
And we' ii talk to you over Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Bruce I adjusted them on the (garble)
CC Okay, let us look at them for a little while
here and we' Ii talk to you after that.
CDR Okay, you want me to do a B magi check
now?
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Okay, here comes the numbers; 170.64;
48.33; 3.52 that's now 20, 170.9; 51.3, 3.9, that's GDC
on the thumbwheels that's for an hour and 5 minutes.
CC Okay, we copy AI, in 5 minutes. 170.64 ;
48.33; 3.52 on NOUN 20 and the GDC thumbwheels are 170.9, 51.3,
and 3.9 roll pitch and yaw. Over.
CDR Right o.
PAO Skylab Control; at II hours 48 minutes
and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
out of range of the Carnarvon tracking antenna about 3 minutes
and 25 seconds to our next acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle
Creek. This time the crew members indicated that they are
about ready to don their pressure garments and enter the -
enter their space suits that's about 20 minutes ahead of the
planned schedule. They did say they were have some trouble
with the configuration of the center couch in the command
module but other than that they seem to be moving along very
well. They have all during the morning been moving ahead of
the time line by a few minutes. We'll keep the line up live
now for the pass coming up in about 2 minutes 50 seconds, that
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pass through Honeysuckle is going to be a relatively brief one

expected time from acquisition to loss of signal is about
a minute and a half. But we will keep the llne up for that
pass starting at 2-1/2 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2540/i
Time 06:49 CDT, 60/11:49 GM_
9/25/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-

suckle Creek, 1 minute and 30 seconds til LOS. Next station
contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi at 14:21 pseudo
Zulu where we will be dumping the data voice tape recorder.
And for the PLT, request you verify that both fans in the
MDA that are supposed to be blowing on the rate gyro six-pack
are in fact blowing air on it. That's MDA fan number 2 and
the portable fan. Over.
PLT Roger. They are, and I've got that G-
I've already checked it and l've been working on it. Thank
you.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 54 minutes
exactly Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out
of range of the Honeysuckle antenna as it passes to the south
of New Zealand. We're 27 minutes and 23 seconds from our
next acquisition of signal. That will be at Corpus Christi
Texas. At the present time the members of the crew are in
the orbital workshop donning their pressure garments. All
three crew members will continue to wear these pressure gar-
ments until they're inside the command module and until the
hatch has been closed and checked and they're completely secure in
the command module. At that time they'll remove the - the
pressure garments_ the hard suits and replace them counter-
pressure garments. The soft pants that are worn for reentry.
Those counter-pressure garments will be pressurized before
the burn of the main engine on the command module, the
service propulsion system. The purpose of the counter-
pressure garments is to provide pressure to the legs. They
reach from the ankles up to the waist and they provide a
variation in pressure from- going from 175 millimeters of
mercury at the ankle to a lower level of about 50 millimeters
less at the waist. The purpose of the counter-pressure
garments is to aid the return of blood from the lower legs.
And while the crew members have been in space the lower-
the normal pull of gravity - and pull of gravity has not
been available to them and for that reason the cardiovascular
system is somewhat deconditloned. The flow of blood from
the lower legs is not - not as difficult during weightlessness
and for that reason the - there is a very slight atrophy of
the veins and the muscle power in the lower legs to return
blood. For that reason, when they reenter the atmosphere and
come back into gravity, there will be a tendency for blood
to pool in the lower leg. That pooling of blood in the
lower legs is helped - is caused by the weakness in the muscles
and the - and the lower ability of the veins to return blood
to the heart. To overcome that, the counter-pressure garments
are worn during reentry and following reentry. Those counter-
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pressure garments press on the lower legs and help the blood
flow up towards the heart. And they do, to a large extent,
overcome the cardiovascular deconditioning. Those garments
will be worn at least: until the crew members are inside the
Skylab mobile laboratories. That's at least an hour after
splashdown, at which time the cardiovascular experts will
take a look at them and carefully monitor their physical
condition and the systems that point - the blood pressure
and other data that they'll get in the Skylab mobile lab-
oratories. At that time, they'll make a decision as to
whether or not they should take off the counter-pressure
garments. There is no exact time set for taking them off.
It's entirely the determination to be made at that time.
It could take several hours and it may well go through several
of the experiments. This is Skylab Control. It's now
24 minutes and 40 seconds to our next acquisition of signal
and it's 56 minutes and 59 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2541/I
TIME: 07:20 CDT 60/112:20 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 20 minutes

and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now crossing the Pacific Ocean and about to be acquired
by the Corpus Christi Texas tracking antenna. At this
time the crew should be pretty much inside their pressure
garments and that stage should be completed. They are
running a little bit ahead of schedule at this time. There's
a correction on the pressure used by that counter-pressure
garment. 175 millimeters of mercury is the inlet pressure
of the garments. The total pressure on the body is about
90 millimeters of mercury on the ankle and that's reduced
to a very low level near the thighs. That's a correction
on that last commentary on the counter-pressure garment.
We have the line live now for a U.S. pass beginning at
Corpus Christi.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce. We're getting the suits on.
CC Very good. Just for information to
the PLT. We've looked at the results of his REG BUS
AS JUST changes and both REG BUSSES are looking good.
Thank you. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're
actually 2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact in 6
minutes through Madrid at 14:42 pseudo Zulu and we notice
the waste tank pressure coming up at the present time.
Are you all operating the trash airlock now by any chance.
Over.
PLT Yes Sir. We're making the final dump.
(garble)
CC Okay great Jack. And for general
information for all of you, we' re still watching the
weather pretty closely here. This hurricane Irah, which is
down off Baja, California will probably necessitate some
changes to burn completion rules for your entry check-
llst. We'll be in a position to discuss them at your
convenience when you get through with suit donning and
maybe the CDR could give us a call when he feels llke
delving into them. I'ii put on the entry experts. Over.
PLT Okay Bruce. Fine. We'll do that.

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SL-III MC-2542/I
Time 07:37 CDT, 60/12:37 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 12 hours 39 minutes

and 16 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
crossing the North Atlantic at its northern most point in
its orbit and it's about 3 minutes and 13 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Madrid. The pass through Madrid
will last about 9 minutes. As Spacecraft Communicator Bruce
McCandless indicated to the crew in this last pass crew this
time should be about finished with their suit donning and
the next step in their checklist would be to power up the
command module's environmental controls system, preparation
of that should be done by Commander Alan Bean - was done
by Commander Alan Bean a little earlier and that will now be
the next step after completing su- a completing donning of
their suits. The present plan is to make only one small
change to the reentry pad. Reentry will take place as
scheduled and the impact point is going to be as planned
earlier 230 miles southwest of San Diego, however, as a
contingency mend - method of dealing with the possibility of
trouble from the storm, hurricane Irah, the other completions
of the flights, which are completions based on a incorrect
burn for reentry, that is to say when the SPS engine is fired
if the burn is be in - turns out to be incorrect then the
velocity change is not that expected yet it's possible to
keep the spacecraft in orbit for a later splashdown there is
an optional splashdown 0.3 orbits later at Johnson - near
Johnson Island in the Pacific. If it's impossible to - if
it is necessary to land because of the burn but it is not
possible to land exactly at tha impact point because of a misfiring
of the SPS then there will be a completion of the flight
with a change in the roll of the command module near the end
of that target of reentry. That roll would be to the right
of the ground track rather to the left that is to say that
the west of the ground track rather than to the east.
Naturally that's only in the event that there is a misfiring
on the SPS and it is necessary to land. Otherwise, we would
that would - splashdown would take place as scheduled the
roll to the west would carry the command module further
away from the winds that's actually only for one possible
contingency which is 160 foot per second deviation from the
plan burn velocity. If that occurs it is possible with the roll
to the east that the space - spacecraft would land near the
30 knots winds produced by hurricane Irah, rolling to the west
will take it about a hundred miles outside that range.
This is Skylab Control; we're bringing the line up now for
a Madrid pass lasting 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
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9/25/73

PLT You there, Bruce?

CC Yes indeed, through Madrid for 7-1/2
more minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, that ought to be enough time.
I noticed on page 2-56, says for me to leave the - the outer
door handle of the trash airlock in closed vent, and we're
kind of thinking maybe it really mean press where we had in
the past. Could you check that, please?
CC We will check that.
CC PLT, Houston, per the checklist we'd
like it in close and vent. Two reasons are being advanced
we're having it in vent i it is - it inhibits the growth
of bacteria during the unmanned period and secondly when we
bleed the workshop down to half a psi for repress why there
will be no chance for a DELTA-P to build up inside the
trash alrlock and tend to open the lid. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you for checking, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.

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SL-III MC-254S/I
Time: 0746 CDT, 60/12:46 GMT
9/25/73

CDR Say, Houston, I just opened the main

regs - it sounds likes it's flowing 02 to somewhere.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR What it feels like to me is that it's
leaking air right around the emergency cabin pressure selector.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Want me to turn off the regs for awhile
or leave them on?
CC CDR, Houston. We' d like to leave the
regs on. We show yo-'re flowing a little over a pound an
hour and you've got plenty of oxygen on board. Over.
CDR Sounds good to me. Thanks.
CC Hey, and also for the CDR. I believe
you did the TO27 stowage container vent. Can you tell us
when you did it and can you also verify that the SAL was
properly secured after the vent? We're still showing a
momentum build-up. Over.
CDR Well, we had the vent - there's no
hose that will reach to the plus - correction - minus-Z
SAL so you have to vent to the plus-Z SAL. And it's always
in vent. It was in vent when we came and it's still in
vent as far as I know. And the little cap that's on the
spot where you - where you connect the vent hose.
CC Roger. We copy that. The cap is on
the QD that - is a part of the SAL and the hose is dis-
connected. Over.
CDR Rog.
CC Okay, we've got about I0 seconds till
LOS here. Next station contact is Honeysuckle in 37 minutes
at 15:29. Out.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 52 minutes
and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab now passing
over north African coast is about 36 minutes and 35 seconds
from its next acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. This is Skylab Control at 52 minutes and 37
seconds after the hour. Control at 12 hours 56 minutes
and 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of signal. At the very end of that Madrid
pass, after we had, in fact, lost the tracking on the space-
craft and lost signal with Spacecraft Communicator Bruce
McCandless, tried a last ditch effort to give up a final
message over Madrid. And we'll play back the tape of his
attempts now.
CC CDR, this is Houston in the blind. If
you're still reading us we'd like you to remove the cap from
the QD on the SAL and replace it and we' II try and stop the
leak. Ore r.
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Time: 0746 CDT, 60/12:46 GMT
9/25/73

PAO That concludes Bruce McCandless' attempt

in the blind to reach the spacecraft. The message was to
stop a very small amount of venting through the - believed to be
through the plus-Z SAL. That's the solar- solar-side
scientific airlock through which the parasol is deployed.
That was used earlier today for venting a TO27 container in
which the urine separators are placed. The venting is no
problem, although it does provide a very slight momentum
to the space station and that might have to be corrected later
if it should continue for too long by use of thruster atti-
tude control system. That - for that reason they will try
and prevent that vent - at probably the next station, about
31 minutes and 14 seconds from now. This is Skylab Control
at 57 minutes and 53 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2544/I
Time 0827 CDT, 60/13:27 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control; at 13 hours 27 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're now about 2 minutes from
acquisition of signal at the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
tracking station. The pass through Honeysuckle will last
approximately 2 minutes. Present time the crew is moving
along well on their checklist, completed their donning of
garments and activation of the environmental control systems
in the command module. They'll be now doing some final
preparations and check of the final stowage of the command
module in this time frame. They should be approximately
comlleted with that final stowage check now and they should
be doing a final closeout of the orbital workshop airlock
module on MDA. That was scheduled to take place at 11:33
phaser elapse time that's about 16 minutes ago. And if that
has gone along on schedule and they will be completing the
probe and droguetransfer. Science Pilot and Commander
doing that work at this time. Two problems both of them due
to be interactions between the command module and space station
systems one is that the oxygen from the command module was
now flowing into the space station apparently the regulator
is in the command module, environmental control systems are
trying to regulate the total oxygen and the space station
cluster to a higher lever than the orbital workshop cluster.
Orbital workshop regulators and for that reason we've had
a flow of about i pound per oxygen - of oxygen per hour
during this past 45 minutes, that's a very small amount about
2 percent out of the total oxygen supply in the command
module, and does not present any problem although they may
review it. We're coming up on acquisition of signal so I'ii
bring the line up line now for air-to-ground for 2-1/2 min-
utes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Honey-
suckle Creek for 1-1/2 minutes. Next station contact 28
minutes through Goldstone at 15:57. For the CDR, we'd llke
to verify that someone has removed , checked , and replaced the
vent QD cap on the plus -Z SAL. The reason for our concern
is that we are seeing a momentum build up that indicates a
force in the plus -Z direction, we are continuing to track it
we won't be able to get you anything definitive until after
this next daylight pass but we'd like to make sure we're not
leaking for the duration of the unmanned period. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. Nobody has done
just what you've said we'll askthe PLT to do it. And do
you think it could be a vent on the other end for example,
ion the CSM, likethe service module?
CC Negative, we do not and speaking of the
command service module we'd llke you to do the following:
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panel 7, direct 02 off, verify and on panel 380, the demand

REGvalve we'd llke to take the deman regs off - off for one
minute then back to both and monitor the 02 flow during the
i minute to see if flow drops , we'll be checking also, if
you get it before LOS here, we think that you may just be
flowing to compensate for the differential on the regulation
pressure we doing in the command module regs, and the workshop
regs, but we'd like to check this out. Over.
CDR Just put the deman regs to off and also
check the direct 02 was closed which it was.
CC Okay, we're watching we had seen a jump
in the suit -cabin delta P about the time the 02 regs came on.
CDR Okay, and I might mention that we've
disconnected the umbillcals between the vehicles. Owen's
presently over there reconfiguring. We've made the single
point ground; we've powered up the ECS, and we've powered up
the comm, and we' re right on schedule looks to me llkeat the
momen t.
CC Sounds good. And we're going down the mud
we' ii talk to you over the States.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control; at 13 hours 31 minutes
56 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station out of
range after a very short pass over Honeysuckle, 23 minutes
and 18 seconds to our next acquisition of signal. Present time
the crew appears to be right on schedule why they have not yet
completed the probe and drogue transfer but they are very near
that. They are near the MDA hatchclose which is a- to have
taken place about 5 or 6 minutes ago. But they are pretty
much along where they should be at this point. Jack Lousma
who's still back in the space station portion has been asked
to go back and check the vent cap to the solar scientific
airlock, that was replaced earliertoday after the scientific
airlock vent was used to vent the T027 container. The T027
container originally used to hold an experiment has been used
to hold 5 urine separators, 3 from the previous mission and
2 from this one. That was vented to provide a vacuum inside
the separator - inside the container. That venting apparently
produced a very slight change in the momentum of the space-
craft and they have not yet seen a correction for that and that
might indicate that there is a continued vent from the
scientific airlock on the solar side under the parasol. That
possibility has been reviewed here, however, it is quite
possible that this is merely an interaction between the command
_oule 'sattitude control system and that on the Skylab space
station. But he will go down and recycle or take off and
replace the vents and make sure it's on tight. That's the
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9/25/73

vent cap for the plus Z SAL or the sol - solar scientific
airlock. Here's a little update on the modification the
contingency modification for the retrofire burn. If the
service propulsion system retrofire burns today at 18 second
firing of the command module main engine goes off on schedule
at 20:00 Green - 20:00 phase elapse time or 2138 Greenwich
mean time, then splashdown will occur at the planned target
point 230 miles southwest of San Diego. That's exactly
where we had originally planned the target this several days
ago. If however, there is a deviation from that there are
several possibilities. If the burn should run from 0 to i0
seconds then it would permit the crew to stay in orbit for
an additional 3 revolutions and they would be targeted for
a splashdown point southwest of the Johnson Island, that's
in the Pacific Ocean. If the burn should run from i0 seconds
to 13 seconds rather than the planned 18, that would require
the crew to land down range or further to the southeast of
the planned impact point. And that would get them in the
general vicinity of the hurricane Irah. Hurricane Irah is a
very powerful, 90 knot wind hurricane but relatively small
one. To avoid getting in the path of the 30 knot winds, at
the outside extremities of the possible landing point. If
there should be a i0 to 13 seconds burn on the re - during
the retrofire, they will roll to the southwest of the ground
track, at present time they're planned for landing is to roll
to the northeast of the ground track. That probability of
that burn lasting only 10 to 13 seconds that is to say the
burn will start properly but cut off for some reason in the
middle of it is estimated by our Flight Dynamics Officers
as less than 1 in i0 million, however, because it is a
possibility however, small the plan is to roll the command
module and land as a result about i00 miles of the opposite
side of the previously planned impact area. This would be
of course a down range point that would keep them out of the
30 knot winds, if the burn should run from 13 to 18 seconds
18 seconds is again the planned retrofire burn if it should
run from 13 to 18 seconds it would be possible using the
llft capability of the command moudule to fly the command
module to the pre - predicated area point. So if we have
a burn from 13 to 18 seconds we' ii land on the target area,
if the burn should be from i0 to 13 seconds we'll make that
a change in our roll plans and instead of rolling to the northeast
of the ground track, we'll be rolling to the southwest of
the ground track, to take it away from the higher winds of
the hurricane down range. And if the burn should go from 0
to i0 seconds then it would be necessary to arrange another
impact point probably the Johnson Island impact point southwest
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of Johnson Island several hundred miles that's the backup

target area for today and that would be three revolutions
later than the planned splash time at 5:20 Central daylight
time. We're now 20 minutes and 56 seconds from our next
acquisition of signal that's at Goldstone and it's 36 minutes
and 40 seconds after the hour.

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SL III MC-2545/I
TIME: 08:56 CDT 60/13:56 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 55 minutes

and 53 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now crossing the Pacific Ocean is about to be acquired by
the Goldstone tracking antenna about 1 minute and 30 seconds
from now. At the present time the crew is moving along on
their checklist and we'll get a report no doubt on how far
along they are. At the present time they should be donning
their helmet and gloves and doing a suit and PGA spacesuit
integrity check. We have a weather report for tomorrow's
splashdown- for this evening's splashdown. Scattered
clouds at 1800 feet. Visibility i0 miles. Winds north
northwest at 16 miles per hour and seas at 5 feet. Very
comfortable conditions in the splashdown area for today's
splashdown. The hurricane Irah which had given considerable
concern yesterday is quite a ways to the southeast of the
predicted impact point. We'll bring the line up live now
for our U.S. pass using Goldstone, Merritt Island and Bermuda
tracking stations.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, we got the SPT - we got the probe
and drogue in, not in the tunnel, but in the command module.
Jack's just finishing up his pictures and when he crawls in
we'll close it up.
CC Okay. We're sure you had a reset during
the dump. The big momentum problem seems to be caused by
the command module secondary water boiler operation. How-
ever one thing - two things, first we'd like to get PO0 and
ACCEPT on the computer so we can send you a state vector and
a couple of bias updates. And we'd llke to know what luck
you had on checking out the plus Z SAL to see if it was
leaking through the QD. Over.
CDR We didn't check it out. We did just
exactly what you said and replaced it with a 183 cap, so
there's a new cap on top of that connector at the moment.
We don't know of a way to check it out. Did you copy, Bruce?
CC Yes Sir, AI. We copy. What we had intended
was to remove the cap and recycle the cap back on. We're
scratching our heads here for a second on that. Over.
CDR Okay. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. I
thought you said remove the cap and replace it with another one.
CC No problem. No problem. Let us just
consider it for a moment. And when you have a chance, after
the state vector and Pippa bias updates on board
you might check your FDAI against the NOUN 20 values and
let us know whether we really have good agreement or not in
light of our conversation yesterday.
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9/25/73

CDR Okay. Understand. Will do.

CC After the state vector and Pippa bias.
CDR Okay. We're holding fast right here
without closing the hatch til we find out what you'd like
to do with the plus Z SAL.
CC Roger. We show you're in block on the
computer. We still need ACCEPT even though you're in POO.
CDR Just a second. Okay. Go ahead.
CC CDR, this is Houston. We request the
following action on the plus Z SAL. We'd llke the SPT to
go down there, remove the cap from the male QD on the
plus Z SAL, using his finger, check for flow through the
fitting and he can attempt to push the center part of the QD
if necessary to clear it, and if there's any question, go
ahead and attach the vacuum vent hose at the SAL to the
QD on the SAL and have the plug in the far end of the vent
ho s e. Ove r.
CDR Understand. Is it okay if we have the
PLT do it. He's - the SPT is strapped in the command
module.
CC Yes indeed. PLT will be fine. He
can push a little harder perhaps.
CC And for your information also, AI, we've
seen nothing down here that would indicate the 02 flow in
the command module is due to anything other than the
difference in ! the regulation deadbands of the regulators
in the command module and in the workshop. It looks good
to us.
CDR Okay_ That's good news.
CC And SPT, Houston. If you could reach
over to panel 3, we'd like to be in SIMPLEX ALFA as the
VHF voice configuration, and B OFF. Over.
SPT Okay. I'm in the CDR's seat right
now with the probe in the middle, but I think AI can reach
it.
CC Okay. No sweat. No rush. But when
he said you were strapped in, I assumed that meant you
were strapped in to your position, but I guess not.
SPT No, I'm not this time.
CC And CDR, whenever it's convenient
with you, why, we still have this briefing on a couple of
pads and changes from the entry CAP COMM.
CDR Okay. Is this just a discussion or do
we need to change numbers?
MCC We were just going to discuss it, AI, and
we'll talk about changing numbers if we have to later after
we get another weather update.
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CDR Sounds like a good idea. The reason

I'm- my books and everything are setting over at the other
side and I've got probes and drogues and hatches and things
nearby. So go ahead and discuss it there, Crip. We're
listening to you.
MCC Okeydoke. If you think you've got
time, we'll go ahead and hack at it now. I guess Irah has
not been too cooperative with us. It's been moving up north
a little bit. And it's anticipated it's probably going to
be around the - centered of about the tip of Baja at about
splashdown. Consequently, we're considering changing the
burn completion critera and lowering the 200 feet per
second down to 160. The problem - we can't go lower than
160 because that's where you're suborbital, and you'd be
going ahead and coming in anyhow. And it's not really a
weather problem there. So what we're considering doing is
changing it down to 160 from 200 and also on burn completion
if you get from ii0 to 160 we're considering having you roll
in the opposite direction, which puts you south of ground
track and that'll just get you a little less wind if we
get in that kind of a problem.
CC And theDSKY is your's. We're through
with the uplink.
CDR Okay. Let me see if I can say it back.
You're thinking about reducing it to 160 because 160 is
suborbital and if we do get a burn with that much left,
we'd better finish it because we're coming in anyhow. Is that -
Got the first part correct?
HCC That's correct.
CDR And the second part is if we get between
160 and ii0, you're considering us having instead of roll
right, roll left 55. You're considering us having roll left
and then roll right? Is that what you're saying?
MCC Negative. Roll left, then come in 55.
All the way so you'll land south of the ground track instead
of north.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III MC-2546/I
Time 09:05 CDT, 60/14:05 GMT
9/25/73

CC - - all the way, so you'll run south

of groundtrack instead of north.
CDR Okay. I'ii have to get- write that down
in the right place.
CC Okay. Now - -
CDR Telling us what the story is for nominal
entry.
CC Okay. It does not affect nominal entry.
Weather is reasonable - weather is good at nominal so it's no
sweat at all on that. And - but first, you don't write any of this
down right now, AI, and we can talk about it later. We've
got plenty of passes. We're not going say to do that until
we know exactly what the weather's going to be.
CDR Okay, I understand. And what kind of
sea do we have in the recovery site?
CC Five-foot seas right now.
CDR Not bad.
CC Not bad for a Navy man. I'm sure you've
seen much worse than that.
CDR Yeah, that's true. I haven't seen them
in this thing much worse than that though. Yes, I guess I have.
On 12 we had a - pretty big swells.
CC Rog. Okay. I'ii go ahead and turn you
back over here to Bruce and we'll talk to you later.
CDR (garble) You bet. We're running a few
minutes behind at the moment cause we' re all in a hold waiting
for Jack to work the plus-Z SAL.
CC Rog. That's a problem that's just come
up and we're with you. You've got plenty of pad inside the
command module so we' re not in any real rush to press on. We'd
llke to just do it up right and make sure we don't have a problem
with the unmanned phase. And as I mentioned, you may have
heard, the DSKY is yours. You might do that elght-ball - or
maybe Owen could do the elght-ball versus NOUN 20 comparisons.
CDR Let's Just wait.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Bruce, PLT did all the work
(garble) from the hold, looked around and - -
CC Stand- stand by please, AI. We're having
ratty comm here. I'ii get back to you.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. Thirty seconds to keyhole. Next AOS
is at Merrltt Island at 7 minutes after. For the CDR, we didn't
copy all you were saying about the SAL, but go ahead.
CDR Okay. The PLT gave it a check. He found
no reason to believe it was leaking nor did he find any con-
taminants in it. He then put the hose on and the other end
of the hose is capped. That's the situation where it stands.
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CC Mighty fine; we copy. And if you can

read me through this, we' re getting momentum buildup from
the secondary loop water boiler. We'd like to secure the
water boiler, turn on the radiators, so for SPT, over there,
panel 377 glycol to radiator flow valve to normal, that's
clockwise. You'll need tool E and after you get that ac-
complished the secondary evaporator to reset for 58 seconds
and then to off. Over.
CDR Well, we can do it neatly as you tell
us to do it.
CC I don't understand your comment, CDR.
CDR Okay. Let's work the problem, then.
Okay. Say it again. You faded in and out and we're not
really sure exactlY what you said. We'd like to do it as
you say it.
CC Okay. We're trying to secure the secon-
dary water boiler and get the secondary radiators online
because you're perturbing the thruster momentum. So on panel
377, down on the side by the SPT's left shoulder to left hip,
we want the glycol to radiator flow valve position it to normal,
that's a clockwise rotation of about 90 degrees, and following
that on panel 2, evaporator- secondary loop evaporator
switch to reset for 58 seconds on the timer and then to off.
Over.
CDR Okay. We're going to put glycol to
radiator normal and then we're going to - secondary loop
we're going to evaporator reset for 58 seconds and then put
it off.
CC Rog. And we copy your input on the
plus Z SAL. Thank you very much.
CDR Do you want us to hold at this configura-
tion with the hatch open or press on?
CC Okay. We're polling the 140CR here. We'll
have you an answer in just a second.
CC And you are in the process of securing
the evaporator, right?
SPT It's in normal right now, Bruce.
CDR That's affirm.
CDR And we - PLT wants to know if you want
the alrlock emergency light circuit breaker open.
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. On the circuit
breaker, circuit breaker emergency lights, 14DA, airlock module,
i and 2, two of them should be open. It's a callout on page
2-69. Also the CB emergency light, OWS, i and 2, two of them
open. Over.
CDR Okay. Now here's what was puzzling us
a little bit. When we take and turn on the entry lights, no
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CDR (CONT) lights come on. And we're puzzlin E over

perhaps it has to do with that switch where we have the aft
lights in the MDA disabled, you know, they're on permanently
by tape because - and we're turning them off by the switch
on the lights themselves because that switch has failed.
We're puzzling a little bit.
CC Okay. Now you mean the switch right next
to the axial docking port, when you turn that on, you're
not getting all the lights on in the MDA, but you are getting
half of them on?
CDR You're getting zero on.
CC Okay. We copy that. Stand by.
CDR Okay. We think we probably got a circuit
breaker switch out of config and we can't figure it out.
CC Okay. We got 15 seconds to LOS here.
Next station contact is in 5-1/2 minutes through Canaries.
We'll talk to you there.
CDR Okay.

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SL-III MC-2547/I
Time: 09:15 CDT, 60/14:15 GMT
9125173

PAO Skylab Control; at 14 hours 16 minutes

and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab spacecraft
now over the North Atlantic out of range of Bermuda and
will be acquired in a short time by the Madrid tracking
antenna. During this last pass Spacecraft Communicator Bruce
McCandless talking to the crew about the problem with very
slight vent occurring from the solar side - scientific air-
lock, that's the airlock in which the parasol is located.
That was used earlier for a T027 pump down to create a
vacuum inside the TO27 container and it's believed that there
was a continuing vent after that. There's no absolute
certainty about that becuase it is an unusual configuration
with both the command module and the orbital workshop being
activated. However, the - Jack Lousma was asked to go back
down there to reconfigure the cap put a new cap on it or
put the cap back on; and he did so and after that they had
him attach a hose to it so that now they will have no venting
occurring through that one opening. Opinion here now is that
there really was no venting occurring that perhaps it was
just an anomaly due to tha - both of the systems being active.
The EGIL the environmental general instrumentation and
llfe support systems engineer who monitors the pressure of the
Skylab space station said that there was no pressure loss
and that would indicate that there was no venting occurring.
That problem has been solved now and the crew will get a go
to close out the MDA hatch which has not been done that was
scheduled for 11:58 phase elapse time. Phase elapse
time now 12:39, so we're running about 50 minutes
behind schedule. Phase elapse time clock is geared to the
retrofire burn this afternoon at 20:00 ho_rs phase elapse
time or 21:38 Greenwich mean time. Also, heard on this pass
Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen who will be doing the
reentry this afternoon. He was giving the crew the instructions
on entry under the conditions of ii0 to 160 pounds - - ii0 to
160 feet per second deviation from the plan retrofire burn
that's the i0 to 13 second burn that we discussed earlier.
Under those conditions the crew will get the instructions
to roll to their left as the crew is coming in upside down.
That is to the southwest of the ground track. There's plenty
of pad left in the command module activities now, as Bruce
McCandless indicated during that pass so we wouldn't have
any problem catching up with things that have not yet been
completed. Crew are a little bit behind. Instructions also
went up to the crew to shutdown the secondary water boiler
which is also preventing a slight momentum build up.
Apparently about 190 foot pound - 190 pounds of - pound-
seconds of TACS will be used to compensate for that momentum
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change. They will go to the secondary loop the glycol

containing coolant loop on the CSM at this time. We're about
39 seconds from acquisition of signal now at Madrid. And
we'll bring the line up for a pass lasting about 8-1/2 min-
utes.

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SL-III MC-2548/1
Time: 09:19 CDT, 60/14:19 GIIT
9/25/73

CC Skylab, this is Houston through 14adrld

and Canary for 8-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, we're standing by for some more
information on those lights.
CC Okay. If you will glance at pa_e 2-69,
the wrlte-in correction that we have Just above step 12,
panel 202 circuit breaker compartment lights _DA, 2 open
refers to the circuit breaker compartment light MDA number
2, one circuit breaker only, open. Compartment lights HDA
number I, should be closed and with that close was when you
operate the switch Just inside the actual hatch you should
get a total of 4 lights coming on, being !IDA 1 and 3 aft and
!IDA i and 3 forward. Over.
CC That circuit breaker on 202 we suspect
that you may have confused MDA 2, with _DA (2). Over.
PLT Okay, got it.
CDR Okay, that's what we did and we're going
to rectify it right now.
CC Okay.
CDR That made it all work.
CC Beautiful.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston, you're go -
go for hatch closure and tunnel close-out. Over.
CDR Does it look like the momentum problem
is solved?
CC It's too early to tell, decidely whether
the momentum problem's been solved, however, the rate of
increase seems to have dropped off with shutdown of the
secondary water boiler we had to force a contingency momentum
sample this pass so we won't be able to watch that for awhile.
And the question of the momentum from the SAL vent was
completely emassed by the water boiler so, in a nutshell
we're optomistlc but we can't say defendantly yet. Over.
CDR Sounds good to us. Okay, we're going to
close her up.
CC Ro_er. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, a minute and
a half to LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 15:04 Zulu. And we'll get that for you
in PET in a minute. And we don't expect any TACS firing
during the next momentum dump which starts at 13:11 PET,
but we wouldn't be to terribly surprised if you did get a
couple of firinEs. Over.
CC Okay, and PET, will be 13:26, at AOS
Honeysuckle. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce we got that info.
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9/25/73

CDR Okay, we got everybody in the conmand

module we're now goin_ to install the drouge and probe.
CC Roger.

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SL-III MC-2549/I
Time: 09:28 CDT, 60/14:28 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 30 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylah now over Africa is out of range
of the _[adrld tracking antenna. Our next acquisition 34 minutes
and 37 seconds from now will be at Honeysuckle, Australia.
During this last pass, the crew did get a go ahead to close
out the HDA and fasten that hatch. The HDA hatch, of course,
leading to the command module. That's the only hatch that's
closed. The airlock module hatch and the - that is, the hatch
between the airlock module and the orbital workshop areas and
between the airlock module and the MDA are left open during
the unmanned period. Apparently our problems for the most
part are solved at this time. A venting problem solved.
Somewhat masked by the secondary water boiler, that is to say,
the water radiation system which is used for cooling the com-
mand module. That apparently did provide enough of a vent
momentum bias to affect the spacecraft as well and for that
reason we're not certain that there was any venting even taking
place. But the total cost in TACS now having been reviewed
by the EGIL is 189 pound-seconds, a very, very small amount
of thruster attitude control system gas used to regain the
spacecraft's momentum. At this time we'd expect that the crew
will be in the process of installing the probe and drogue.
We'll get you an exact time on that HDA close as soon as we
have it available. We do not have one at this time. They
are runnin_ approximately i hour behind the timeline. It's
now 12 hours, 53 minutes phase elapse time, that's counting
up to the 20 hour phase elapse time burn on the service
propulsion system engine, that will be at 21:38 Greenwich
mean time or 4:38 p.m. central daylight time today. This is
Skylab Control. It's now 32 minutes and 42 seconds to our
next acquisition of signal and 32 minutes and 7 seconds after
the hour.

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SL III MC-2550/I
TIME: i0:02 CDT 60/1502 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 2 minutes

and 17 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now about 2 minutes and 24 seconds from acquisition of
signal at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia where we'll have
about a 9-1/2 minute pass. A short time from now at
approximately 1353 phase elapse time, which is the clock we
are now operating on. That's keyed to 20:00 phase elapse
time, which is the time of the service propulsion system
main engine burn on the command module. That's at 21:38
Greenwich mean time or 4:38 this afternoon central daylight
time. At 13:53 phase elapse time or 15:31 Greenwich mean
time there will be a hot firing or test firing of the
reaction control system engine. That will be on quads A
and C only. Quads B and D are both shut down. Quads A and
C will have one of their four engines, one each of their
four engines on those quads will be fired for approximately
15 i/i000 of a second. That's 15 milliseconds. The schedule
calls for that to take place over the Hawaiian tracking
station on this upcoming pass. The reaction control system,
quads A and C, which are the two operating attitude control
rocket engine sets will be used today in pitch control after
the undocking scheduled to take place at 2:50 this afternoon.
That undocking occurs over the Indian Ocean about i000 miles
from the coast of Australia and well out of sight of any
land. Retrofire is to occur today at 4:38 p.m. That's an
18 second burn of the main engine. It should impart a
velocity of 450 feet per second or about 300 miles an hour
to reduce the speed of the vehicle. That will brin E about
reentry. That will occur over the Malay peninsula near the
border of Malaysia. This is Skylab Control and we've got
39 seconds to acquistion of signal at Honeysuckle. We'll
bring the line up now for that 9-1/2 minute pass.
CC Skylab_ Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for
9 minutes.
CDR We're performing the hatch integrity check
at the moment.
CC Copy that AI. As soon as you get it done,
we'll appreciate the results of it.
CDR Okay.
CDR How's things going down there, Crip.
CC Great. Guess the partyts over in time
for you guys to come home. SWS is looking real good right
now.
CDR Good. We didn't have any trouble putting
the drogue and probe and hatch in. It's Just a matter of
seeing how these seals do now.
CC Very good. Don't forget to leave the
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9/25/73

key torque tucked under the doormat now for Gerry.

CDR We sure did. We tucked it right under
the handle there.
CC And AI, when you get a chance, we do
want to verify that you do have your pads on board. The
DO comfirm pad and the entry pad.
CDR You bet. Wouldn't be without them today.
CC Hope not. We've got no updates for
those at this time.
CDR That's good.
CDR By the way. I had to turn the command
REGs back on to perform the suit check.
CC Copy that.
CDR And I just left the,-on.
CC That's affirm, We had just wanted to
make about a minute check with it, so that's good.
PLT And Crip. I notice that entry BATs
A and B are down around 32-1/2 volts. That doesn't seem
like very much. Or at least I guess I'm used to looking
at more, I guess.
CC Okay. We'll (garble)
CDR Okay. Another thing, Crip. I've got
NOUN 20s called up and I was looking at our FDAI and it
looks like they indicate about the same thing.
CC Okay. That's good. That's what we
suspected.
CDR Okay. We can check it later. I'Ii
give you a BMAG check here in a second. It's been about
a minute and 30 seconds on BMAG i. You've got - probably
reading out down there the NOUN 20. I'ii give you the
GDC angles here.
CC Okay.
PLT Say Crlp. On page - systems checklist
5-7, I've got a couple of changes on there that in-
dicate that I ought to crank up the secondary water boiler
and (garble) in AC-2. Is that affirm? Or do you want me
to leave it off?
CC Okay Jack. We want to leave it off.
We changed it originally to make it be conslstant with
our original configuration and then the problem we had
with momentum caused us to turn it off again. So we want
to leave it off.
PLT Okay. I got EVAP OFF. Secondary
pump is at AC-2 and water flow is in AUTO and I thought
you would want me to leave the pump on and let the secondary
run.
CC We want to leave it Just llke it is.
You don't have to touch anything there.
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9/25/73

CDR Okay, now here's the at tltude set thumb

wheel. 174.1, 059.9, 007.6.
CC Copy that. Thank you.
CDR By the way, I checked out the - EMS awhile
ago and it worked Just dandy.
CC AI, would you verify that time for us
again? Was that an hour and 30 minutes or a minute and 30 seconds?
CDR One hour, 30 minutes.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC And, Jack. We agree that the entry BATs
there are a little bit lower then what we're used to looking
at but think there is no problem at all. No sweat.
PLT Okay, we're not going to spend much time
on them. I figured that's the rationale.
CC Okeydoke. We're 1 minute from LOS. And
we' 11 have you in 11-1/2 minutes over Hawaii at 1346 PET.
All time figured in the future will be PET. And A1, if it's
satisfactory with you, we'll planning on doing a hot fire
checks at Hawaii.
CDR Okay, how far is that away?
CC That's ii minutes now.
CDR Okay.
CC Yes, it's a 9 minute pass. So it's
about 20 minutes total, we've got.
CC And AI, can you verify that you did the
MS entry checks?
CDR That's afflrmstlve. Did it, and it passed
with flying colors.
CC Copy.

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SL-III MC-255111
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9125173

CDR And that's affirmative, did it and it

passed with flying colors.
CC Copy.
PAO Skylab Control; at 15 hours 14 minutes
and 55 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
and command module are now out of range of the Honeysuckle
tracking antenna. Our next acquisition of signal will be
in 9-112 minutes at Hawaii. At that time we will have as
Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen Just indicated to the
crew, a hot fire check on the reaction control system quads
A and C. Splashdown today at 5:20 p.m. Central daylight
time. If it should occur exactly on that time will make
this the longest space flight in history with 59 days Ii
hours 9 minutes and 8 seconds total time that's assuming
at 5:20:00 splashdown time. The total record 59 days ii
hours 9 minutes and 8 seconds for the longest space flight
in history. And the total milage traveled by the crew some-
thing over 24 million. Alan Bean the Commander of the
Skylab mission will mark the longest total period in space
with _ 69 days 15 hours 45 minutes and 33 seconds total time
in space. He had a llttle over i0 days in space on Apollo
12. The new record will be set less than a week before
NASA celebrates its 15th anniverslty on October ist of
this year. At this time NASA has more than 11,500 total
manned hours in space at the end of the Skylab flight.
That's nearly 70 manned weeks of space travel. We're now
8 minutes from acquisition of signal at Hawaii. This is
Skylab Control at 16 minutes 25 seconds after the hour.

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SL-III MC-2552/i
Time: 10:23 CDT, 60/15:23 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

15 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab III now
approaching acquisition through the Hawaii tracking station.
During this pass over Hawaii, we expect the crew aboard
Skylab III to perform the RCS hot firing check on thrusters -
reaction control system thrusters A and C. We'll stand by
now for acquisition. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. I'ii be ready in Just a second.
CC Okay. No rush. We're going to make sure
we got to get data locked up good.
CDR Okeydoke. We're also getting ready to
do that alinement so we can get it in.
CDR I've now got on the PSM both the helium
and manifold isolation open.
CC Copy that. And AI, during these hot fire
checks, your checklist says to pause i0 seconds between firings.
We'd like you to just hold up and we'll give you a GO for each
one.
CDR Unde rst and.
CC AI, we're assuming the hatch integrity
checks are all okay. Is that correct?
CDR That's affirm. It went well, and we're
cointinuing to depress the tunnel area. But it came off just
right.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Okay. I'm ready to go when you are.
In Just a second; as soon as we finish this alinement.
CDR Okay. Can you read the" torquing angles
there?
CC Okay. We've got them, AI. Thank you.
CDR And I assume you want it torqued.
CC Go ahead and torque it, AI.
CC And, AI, we're ready for the hot fire
checks when you are.
CDR Okay. Just a second.
CDR Okay. Here comes some VERB 46's and things.
Okay. There's a VERB 46. A-3, C-4, off. Okay. I'm going to
give you a plus pitch first.
CC Let her rip.
CDR That was it.
CC Stand by i.
CC AI, this is the first time we've tried
this hot fire check, and we could not see anything. We're
looking at the rates and that kind of stuff, so what we'd
like to do is to go to ACCEL command and give us one second
blip.
_meI._I _._5_, 60/15:23 GMT
9/25/73

CDR Here it comes. Pitch up. I thought I

could hear it.
CC Okay, AI, that looks good to us and you
can give us minus pitch now, please, sir.
CDR Okay. In fact I can see the rate needles
jump around when I did it.
CC Okay, your hot fire's go from here and
you can go back to rate command.
CDR All rlght.
CDR And according to my thingamajig, you're
going to give us some dock gains. Have you already done that?
CC No, we're holding up on that, AI, to verify
that we got a good momentum state with the SWS. We'll probably
be doing that over the States.
CDR Okay. And although I can't find it in
my procedures. I guess you want me to go rotational control
power off and lock everything up like it was.
CC Stand by i on that, AI.
CDR I performed the EHS Delta V test. It
passed satisfactorily. I'm now in process of doing the i minute
and 40 second null bias check.
CC Okay. Very good, AI. And we concur about
that. You can go ahead and secure the power and lock up your
hand controller.
CDR Okay. Complete.
CC And Skylab, Houston we're i minute from
LOS. We'll have you again over Goldstone in about 3-1/2 minutes
at 1359, 13:59.
CDR Okay, Houston on the null bias check and in
a minute and 40 seconds, I started at minus i00 feet per second,
and it indicates minus 99.5.
CC Copy. Over the hill.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 15 hours 35 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now passed out of range through
Hawaii. Coming up next over Goldstone in 2 minutes. During this
Hawaii pass, the service module reaction control system hot firing
check occurred using the reaction control system quads A and C.
It was done successfully. We heard AI Bean talking back and forth
to our Capcomm here in Mission Control Center Bob Crippen. We're
about a minute and a half away now from reacquirin E Skylab 3.
And this is Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC2553/I
Time 10:35 CDT, 60/1.5:35 GMT
9/24/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone

now for about 6-1/2 minutes and if we can have ACCEPT please,
we'll go ahead and load that dock DAP.
CDR Okay. Just a second. I was loading 48.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR You got it, Houston.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Okay, AI. We've finished loading the
game for dock DAP and it's your computer again.
CDR Okay. I guess I'ii check it per the
checklist here? This one says I should pro to 89 which
I just did and then it says reload register i, which I'm going
to do now.
CC Okay, AI. It's looking good to us. We're
I minute from LOS. We'll see you again in 5 minutes over Bermuda
and that's at 14:10. 14:10.
CDR Okay. How does that look to you now,
05 000?
CC Looks good here.
CDR That's the end of the deact checklist.
CC Roger and Mr. Doerre's packing his gear.
CDR He does a good job. I don't think
there were many things that weren't exactly right. In fact, I
can't think of any at the moment.
CC I 'm sure he appreciates those kind words.
CDR Okay. Is there anything that we owe you
in the way of what we've done that you're wondering about?
CC Deact team is happy and thinks the workshop
looks great. Appreciates all the good work.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. And for the command module- everything
looks good to us. We're going to have you verify some of the
switches for us on panel I and 226 later.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 15 hours, 44 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now out of range with
Goldstone. The next station coming up will be Bermuda in
approximately 3 minutes. During that pass, we got the word
that the deactivation checklist for the orbital workshop has
been completed. Kind words passed along for gentleman named
Gary Doerre. Gary Doerre is deactivation Flight Controller here
in the Mission Control Center. All the while, this has been
taking place, AI Bean has been working in the command module,
working with the command module computer. We' re about
2-1/2 minutes away now from reacquiring Skylab. This is
Skylab Control, Houston.

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9/25/73

CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS Bermuda 7-1/2 min-

utes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you in about 2-1/2 minutes over Canary at 1419,
14:19. And for your information we've got a couple of small items
that we're going to ask you to check and do for us, but we're
going to wait until you guys get out of your suits and get all
comfy.
CDR That's nice of you and we're doing that
right now. Owen and Jack Just got out of theirs, they haven't
got their clothes on yet. And I'ii be getting out of mine in
a few minutes.
CC Roger, thank you sir.
CDR How long did you say before the next site?
Maybe we'd better - I've been just waiting because I need to
be on the comm.
CC Oh, about 2 minutes.
CDR Well, I'ii wait some more.
PAO Skylab Control Houston, 15 hours 56 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Out of range now with Bermuda. Canary
tracking station coming up in less than i minute. All three
Skylab crew members are now in the command module, and as we
hear from AI Bean, they are in the process of taking off their
pressure suits, the pressure garment assemblies. And then in
turn they will put on the counter pressure garmet which goes over
their cotton underwear. We're at 15 hours 56 minutes GMT standing
by now for reacqulsition with Skylab through Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS through Canaries
for 15 minutes.
SPT Okay, Robert.

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SL-III MC2555/I
Time 10:57 CDT, 60/1557 GMT _
9/25/73

PLT Hello, Houston. Skylab.

CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. Just had'nt heard from you in so
long, Robert. I thought maybe I'd gone off the comm accidently
or something.
CC Nothing to talk about. I was letting
you guys get all situated.
PLT Okay. We've all got our suits off,
and just packing them right now.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're i minute from LOS.
We_ll see you again over Carnarvon in 28 minutes. That's
at 1501. 15:01.
PLT Okay, 28 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. 16 hours,
14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 now out of range
with Canary and Ascension. Next station coming up will be
Carnarvon in approximately 26 minutes. A very quiet pass
over Canary and Ascension in terms of communications with
the crew. The crew has removed their pressure suits and
were in the process of stowing them when we last heard from
Owen Garriott. That take the PGAs off and put on the counter
pressure garments over their cotton underwear and it appears
that they are perfectly on their time line in terms of the
Flight Plan at this point. The garment which they will be
wearing, the counter pressure garment, is designed to counteract
pooling of blood in the lower extremities and help force
the blood back to the heart. The counter pressure garment
covers the trunk and the lower torso. It is made like
an anti-G suit through which a series of caps and tubes run.
Each suit is custom fitted to each crewman. The suit, in
effect resembles a large two-legged blood pressure cuff.
Each man pumps up the pressure in the suit by a rubber bulb.
The pressure is pumped up to 175 millimeters of mercury,
which tightens the garment causing pressure on the blood
vessels of the legs. While in orbit, the crew has the option
of pumping the CPG prior to the firing of the service pro-
pulsion system engine. If the crew does not inflate it at that
time, it is necessary that they inflate the garment after
splash and before exiting the spacecraft. On Skylab-2,
Dr. Joseph Kerwin was the only crewmember to inflate the
garment. The CPG will assist the crewmen in adjusting to
one-g after 59 days in weightless condition. It prevents
dropping off of the blood pressure. We're 24 minutes away
now from reaquiring Skylab-3 over Carnarvon and at 16 hours,
16 minutes, Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2556/I
Time: 11:39 CDT, 60/16:39 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

16 hours, 39 minutes, Greenwich mean time. Standing by now
for acquisition with Skylab-lll through Carnarvon.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, now recieving
systems data through Carn arvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS, Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Robert.
CC And if you guys are all squared away,
I'd like to get you to do a little writing in some switch
text for us, please.
PLT Okay, Just a minute there Bob. We're
not quite squared away but I think we'll have time.
CC Okay. Well, there is certainly no rush.
I was - what I was going to do is if - whoever has got that
timeline - entry timeline handy, I was going ask you to put -
Jot some down- things down on that.
PLT Okay. AI has that and he just getting the
headset on, so he'll be able do that in a moment.
CDR Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, AI. About 16:25 on the timeline,
we would like you to do a P52 option 3 for us, please.
CDR Okay, any particular reason.
CC It's been a while since we've done one
and- just play it nice and good. No problems at all.
CDR Okay, that's what I was wondering. I'ii
sure do it.
CC Okay. Have you got that Jotted down?
At around 17:20, on panel 377, we'd like to take that glycol
to radiator secondary valve back to BYPASS, which is counter-
clockwise.
CDR Okay. It's 17:20, 377 to BYPASS. Got
it.
CC Okeydoke. After undocking, on panel 2,
we'd like you to go SECONDARY EVAPORATOR WATER FLOW, verify
it's in AUTO and then SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP to EVAP.
And that's - thatts, you can put it down at that llst of stuff
you got about 18:20 there.
CC And I've got a handover and a keyhole
coming up here. I may dropout a (garble).
CDR Okay, now you want it to go sec- are you
still there?
CC Yeah, that' s affirm.
CDR Tell me the two things that you wanted
done.
CC Okay. On panel 2, we want to verify that
the SECONDARY EVAP WATER FLOW is in AUTO and then we want to
take the SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP to EVAP.
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to check up on panel 5 if you- in that area.

CDR Okay, let me get there.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, I want you to check the FLIGHT/POST
LANDING batteries A, B, and C. All three of them OPEN.
CDR They are all open.
CC Okay. That checks everything that we -
we can think of and we just want - wanted to make sure that we
didn't have some load that wasn't suppose to be on the batteries.
CDR Why, do you see more current coming out
of the bats than you'd like?
CC Stand by i, AI.
CC Okay, AI. No, we don't see any - any
drain on the batteries at all. The reason we were having
you check was that you were down about a half volt from what
we saw on SL-II. And we Just wanted to make sure that we
didn't have any kind of parasitic low we didn't anticipate
it was just a- just a check, that's all.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, also, we're going LOS here in about
30 seconds. We're going to have you over Hawaii in 13-1/2
minutes at 15:24 and we'd like to do the logic secquence
check there, if we may.
CDR We' Ii be ready.
CC Thank you, sir.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 16 hours 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab-lll now out of station range
with Honeysuckle. The next station to pick up Skylab-lll
will be Hawaii in 12 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2556/2
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9/25/73

CDR That's what I wanted to check. It is

in AUTO already.
CC Yeah, that's - we Just wanted to verify
it was there and that's fine.
CDR Okay, wanted to make sure.
CC And AI, we want to make - make a few checks
of switches and circuit breakers here, to - to find out
if we've got any (garble) drain on those entry batteries.
If you could look on panel i, we'd like to verify that the -
launch vehicle SPS indicator is in GPI.
CDR It's in GPI.
CDR We wondered why we never charged them up
but we felt you had reasons.
CC Okay, AI. Are you still reading me?
CDR I am now. The only - last word I heard was to
check and see if the LV SPS indicator was GPI, and I checked
it and said yes and that was all that I heard.
CC Okay, that was - that was that I'd given
you. I've got a couple more things here that I wanted-
Jack to check over on his side of the cockpit, if he's available.
CDR Say, agaln.
CC I said I've a couple more items, I wanted
Jack to check if he's available.
CDR He's on the couch, I can sure check it
for you.
CC Okay, we'd like to verify on panel 226,
the following circuit breakers are open. FUEL CELL i and 3
REACS BATTERY, tWO of them are open and FUEL CELL i and 3
RAD BATTERY RELAYS, 2 of them open.
CDR Let me get over - let me got over there,
and say it again.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Okay, say them again, real slow.
CC Okeydoke. The following circuit breakers,
FUEL CELL i and 3, reacts battery relay, 2 open.
CDR Okay, they are open.
CC Okay.
CDR They always have been open.
CC That's affirm, they should he. Okay on
also FUEL CELL i and 3, RAD BATTERY RELAY, 2 open.
CDR Okay, I've got - FUEL CELL 1, let me tell
you what they are and make sure that we've got them right.
We've got the REACS BAT RELAY and the RAD RELAY on FUEL CELL
i open, and they always have been. We've got the REACS BAT
RELAY and the RAD BAT RELAY on FUEL CELL 3 and they always
have been.
CC Okay, that's correct. That' s the way
they should be, AI. Okay, I've got 3 more I'd like for you
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Time: 12:01 CDT 60/17:01 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 17 hours

2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
with Skylab through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Hawaii for 8-1/2 min-
utes.
PLT Fine Robert.
CC Howdy, howdy. As soon as we get our data
locked up and you guys are ready, we'd like to do a logic
sequence check.
PLT Okay, Al's just getting on the headset and
get all ready for it.
CDR Okay, I'm ready for that check. I've
checked the logic in SAFE. The PYRO ARM is SAFE, and
the logic CBs are in, and I'm getting ready to go from there
whenever you say so.
CC Okay AI, we're ready for sees logic 2
on up.
CDR Okay, I'm going to put in the arm circuit
breakers first.
CDR Okay, the logic is on, as is the ELS
auto, ELS logic and the others.
CC Okay, let us take a look at it.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC Okay AI, all looks good to us. You're
go for pyro arm as required, and you can proceed on out.
CDR Okay, logic coming on.
CC And Skylab, I guess if Jack is available
or whoever would like I have some settings for you for the
Hasselblad that could be used to take photographs of the SWS
after sunrise after undocking.
CDR Okay, why don't you give them to me. Jack
is stowing away.
CC Okay, very good, sounds busy. It's at f/ll,
1/250th, and infinity. For you information at about sunrise,
the Skylab vehicle is going to be about 600 feet away from you.
And we've already call out for you to go to a burn attitude,
so you probably won't be able to see it. It would probably
be visible if you were still in undocking attitude.
CDR Okay, understand. In other words we're still
happen to be in undocking attitude doing OJT, then we can take a
picture or two.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
CC And AI, we've just had a check on the
weather on the hurricane, and I guess we would like to go ahead
and make these changes to the checklist that we recommended
to you earlier. We don't have to get them in now, but
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whenever it is convenient for you I can give them to you and

you can copy them down.
CDR This is just the right time, and if you'll
tell me the page, I'll turn to it.
CC Okay, first if the SPS burn entry cue
card, is handy, we've got one of them on there.
CDR It's pretty handy, I've got it in my hand.
CC Okay, if you'll look on the back down at
the bottom, we have the criteria noted with 200 in there both the
less than and greater than. We'd llke to change that for BG
less and 160 go to chart. BG greater than or equal to 160,
go around.
CDR Okay, ready for the next one.
CC Okay, if you've got the entry checklist,
go to the back of page 12-5. You'll note when you get there,
this is where we pasted in that procedure for the 3 or 4
quad fail procedure.
CDR I've got it right in front of me.
CC Okay, toward the end of that, we have in
step 15 the completion rules. Got the same change to
make there. BT less than 160, record BT and so forth, and
BT greater than or equal to 160 BERB 82 enter POO and so
forth.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, now if you'll turn on page 12-5 proper.
And what we're going to do here is I talked about earlier we'll
have you - if we get into this situation for velocity to go
about ii0 to 160, we'll go ahead and have you roll in the other
direction. And that is roll left so that you'll - and south
of the ground track. Consequently we'll have to go to a different
attitude for SM - CM-SM SEP. And what we want you to do there is
Just following that pen and ink where it had you go to the correct
attitude, where it speaks of yaw left from burn attitude to
315 degrees, we want you to write in exception, if RCS completion
was required, with VG on the dash line, that's where we're talking
about the ii0 to 160 bit, dash line seems to be the easiest way to
convey it.
CDR Rog. I've set that and thought about it
a little bit later.
CC Okay. Change CM-SM SEP attitude to yaw right
from burn attitude to 045 degrees.
CDR Got it.
CC Okay, and the other places we probably -
need to put something is on your completion chart, if you
go to page 7-3. And while I'm talking here, we're about a minute
from LOS. I think I can get these changes in though. Goldstone
is going to be in about 4-1/2 minutes at 15:37.
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CDR I'm on 7-3.

CC Okay, under item 15, it talks about pad
bank in two places. We'd like you to change on the solid line
roll right 55 degrees, and then dash line little bit below that
roll left 55.
CDR So solid llne I roll right and then left
again at REtrb.
MCC (garble>.
CC Negative. There is no reversal at all, AI.
Depending on where you are on with BT, if you're on that solid
line, it will be to the right, if you're on the dash line it will
be to the left. And we're going LOS here, but that same change
is on page E7-4, and it's under item 18. And if there's any
clarification required, we'll talk about it over the states
over Goldstone in about 3 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR See they used to have a reversal for the
solid line.
CC Okay_ they used to but
CDR But now we've not got them. That was the
question.
CC Okay, yeah. We're not going to reverse
now. That is correct.
CDR Okay, solid line is to the right (garble) and
dotted line is to the left (garble).
CC That's affirm.

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Time: 1212 CDT, 60/17:12 GMT
9/25/73

CDR (Garble)
CC That's affirmative.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours,
12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Out of station range now
with Skylab through Hawaii. The next station to acquire
will be Goldstone in about 2-1/2 minutes. During this
Hawaiian pass, we heard that Cap Comm Bob Crlppen pass up
to A1 Bean checklist changes for a contingency entry. This
was not - these are not changes for a normal entry profile
for splashdown. We're now showing weather in the end of
mission area as follows: 1800 scattered, variable clouds;
wave heights, 6 feet. Wind direction, 340 degrees. Velocity,
20 knots. Visibility of i0 miles. We're a little less than
2 minutes away now from reaquirlng Skylab. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Goldstone for 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Bob and I've got those changes,
essentially throughout that solid llne. You roll right
55 and hold, which is a change from the old way. If you're
on the dash, you roll left 55 and hold.
CC Yes, AI. I -
CDR Okay. Now, we - Quad 9B - not quad but
CM RCS thruster 9B has an indication of 1.35, which means
it barely makes it temperature wise. All the rest are a
little bit higher. So we do not need CM RCS pre-heat, according
to my checklist. What do you think?
CC We concur, AI; and unfortunately, I gave
you the wrong word going over the hill there. You were
correct about reversing at RETRB, for the solid llne.
CDR No sweat. I'll change it.
CC Okeydoke. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll have you again in about 5 minutes over Bermuda
at 15:46. 15:46.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours,
22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Loss of signal through
Goldstone. Next station to aquire will be Bermuda in
2-1/2 minutes.

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Time: 12:23 CDT 60/17:23 GMT
9/25/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for

i0 minutes.
CDR All right.
CC And Skylab, we might mention to you,
the camera settings that you've got coming up for the DAC
are for photographing the fireball.
CDR Okay, understand. We Just took them in
so we won't plan to use it on the workshop, but if we do, you
got any good settings?
CC Stand by.
CC And Skylab, as a matter of information
while I'm getting those DAC settings for you, we - our no -
momentum state is not - still not squared away good on - back
on the workshop. And it's quite possible that you maybe -
or we' re going to be experiencing a few TACS firings to relieve
it during during the next orbit or so.
CDR Yeah, we noticed that we were going way
out in yaw, maybe 30 degrees, for the dump last night, and so we
figured something was going on. What's your opinion as to
the cause?
CC We still don't understand it, and we're
still investigating it. But it's nothing for you guys to worry
about.
CDR What's cruising through my mind all the
time is the thought that we're venting propellant or oxidizer.
CC Okay, AI. No reason for you to worry
about that. We're looking at all the data down here and
there's nothing to indicate anything like that. And for those
camera settings, if you look on your entry checklist,
page 4-1, we have some settings in there for the DAC for the
flyaround. And those will be fine to use.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We' ii see you again in about 7 minutes over Ascension
at 16:03, 16:03. And if it's convenient, we'd llke to do
the command module RCS activation over Ascension. That's
on page 12-4 of your checklist.
CDR We're standing by for you.
CC Rog. Thank you.

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SL-III MC2560/I
Time: 12:36 CDT, 60/17:36 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours,

37 minutes Greenwich mean time. A loss of signal now with
Skylab-3 through Bermuda. The next station to adquire will
be Ascension in approximatetely 4 minutes. One thing is being
looked at now here in the Mission Control Center is - is
the momentum on the orbital workshop. Having momentum at a -
with precision is very important to have a stable and precise
attitude and it should be exactly right and proper for the
undocking. Presently a plan is being considered strongly
to control the workshop attitude for undocking and using
tacs propellants. This is likely to occur based on discussions
among the flight controllers here in the Control Center.
We're at 17 hours, 38 minutes Greenwich mean time. This
is Skylab Control, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 17 hours,
41 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away
now from reaquiring Skylab-3 through Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for 10-1/2 minutes. And as soon as we get all the data squared
away, we'll be ready for log - correction, the command module
RCS check- activation.
CDR Okay. We're standing by, ready to go.
CC And hang on with us for a minute, A1.
We got a small data problem here. As soon as we get squared
away, we'll give you a call.
CDR Okay. We're cooling it up here, having
our lunch. What time is it Houston-time, by the way?
CC It is now 12:42 approximately.
CDR Great.
CC I was sitting here having my lunch.
CC We're getting our circadian rhythm back
again. These last three days, we finally figured out what
was happenin 8. The idea wasn't to change our circadian
rhythm. The idea was to just move things around enough
where you had no idea what your rhythm was.
CC I concur.
CDR Those time changes yesterday were mysti-
fying.
CC I was hoping you'd understood them. I didn't.
CDR We just set the clocks where you say and
press on. Then later on, you tell us to move them, and we got
2 extra hours or something, we change them and take 2 extra.
CC Sounds like a trip to LA to me.
CDR Uh-oh.
CC Okay, AI. We finally got things squared
away and we're ready for you to press on.
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CDR Okay. Let me read you a few pieces of

information. It said cue STDN SECS logic, two of them on.
I'm going to put them on right now.
CC Presso.
CDR Okay, and I'm standing by.
CC Okay. You' re GO for pyro arm.
CDR Okay. Here we go. Okay. It's armed.
I've got two talkbacks grey. And I think I'Ii pressurize the
RCS. Okay. Made lots of noise, rattles, and squirts, and things
are looking good. Pressure shows here about 34:50 on both.
Manifold pressure, about 285 or so. Temp is okay.
CC All looking good here too, AI.
CDR Okay. We're going to go pyro arm, two
of them safe and - -

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SL-III MC-2561/I
Time: 12:46 CDT 60/17:46 GMT
9/25/73

CC - all looking good here, too, AI.

CDR Okay, we're going to go PYRO ARM, two
of them SAFE and leave everything else armed, according to this.
CC That is correct.
CDR That's where we are then. We're now going
to execute the old pyro bat check.
CC Okay, AI. Also, because of our momentum
problems the SWS may be moving around quite a bit again during
this dump, and that P52 we talked about earlier is not
absolutely mandatory. So just use your own judgment on that.
CDR Okay, we'll give it a try. And with
auto optics we ought to be able to pick up something.
CDR Okay, our pyro bat check has at the end,
putting BAT C on MAIN A and BAT B on MAIN B. Is that what
you want?
CC Stand by i on that AI.
CDR Okeydoke.
CC AI, you are correct. The breakers will
do that. Also, if we could get Jack on - over on panel 5
to take a service module source 2 to MAIN A, we would appre-
ciate it.
CC And for your information, it is quite
possible, during this upcoming dump, that we may go through a
reset routine.
CDR Okay.
CDR We're a little puzzled by your last
request on service module source. Could you say that one
again and which panel?
CC Oh. Roger. Over on panel 5, just service
module power source.
PLT Okay, we have service module power source,
can either go to BAT i or fuel cell i, BAT 3 or fuel cell 3.
CC Sorry about that. Stand by.
CC l'm - I'm sorry, it's on panel 3. That's
where I want you to go.
PLT Okay, you want BAT 2 to MAIN A. Is that
correct - on panel 3?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay, thank you.
PLT Okay, Bob, we got it on. It's holding
around 30.5 volts and it's picking up i0 amps.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, to let you know what we're
thinking about on this momentum state for the cluster. It
appears now that the problem was that the momentum dump
perturbed when we were - while ago when we had the evaporator
going overboard. And since we've got the undocked gains in,
it would appear that it's not working very efficiently on
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handling the BAT problem with the large momentum perturbation.

CDR Okay, understand. That's good news.
CC Okay. So it doesn't look llke any events
are occurring or anything llke that. The Delta and momentum
appears to be fairly constant now. We're about 1 minute
from LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon in 23 minutes at
16:36, 16:36.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 17 hours
53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 now out of station
range through Ascension. The next station to acquire Skylab
will be Carnarvon in approximately 21 minutes. The Flight
Controllers are still looking at the perturbations and
momentum of the orbital workshop. It's considered very
likely at this time, that - for the undocking this would be
ground controlled. That it would go to a TACs attitude
hold firing the TACs thrusters to hold the attitude precise
and stable. Having stable and precise attitude during the
undocking is very important. And because of the minimum
impulse involved in the undocking, the momentum state must
be exactly right. We'd earlier shown momentum readings in
the X-axes as 25 degrees high, Y axes, 50 degrees low.
Those are attitude deviations that have been noted by the
guidance and navigation system controller here in Mission
Control Center. We're 17 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2562/I
Time: 13:13 CDT 60/18:13 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston, 18 hours

13 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
of Skylab 3 through Carnarvon, less than a minute away now
from reacquirlng the space station over Carnarvon.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS Carnarvon for
about i0 minutes. And we're just observing that we've got
a reset routine.
CDR Okay. Things are going okay on the displays.
We just took an alignm_t while it was maneuvering. Let me
give you that information.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Stars 2 and 6, (garble) 5 was all balls,
minus 66, minus 30, minus 3; torqued at 16:24:40, and we were
maneuvering at the time we torqued.
CC Okay, copy that, AL.
CDR Okay, what is the weather report for the
splash area these days, Bob?
CC Stand by one. Let me see if I can get a
late update.
CC Okay, right now it's forecast to be 1800
scatter, visibility i0 miles, wave height 5 feet.
CDR Sounds llke a good place to go.
CC Rog. And winds about 15 knots.
CDR That's good, it will keep the spacecraft
cool.
CC And CDR, if you are interested, I can give
you a little information about relative motion with the SWS
following undocking.
CDR Very much interested, go ahead.
CC Okay, the CSM will be slightly below and
about 1 mile ahead of the SWS at retrofire. And it's going
to pass through the, the SWS is going to pass through your
window when you're in the burn attitude from about tig of minus
15, which will be 1945 to tig a minus 5, which will be about
1955. But it's probably not going to be visible as both ve-
hicles are going to be in the dark when this happens.
CDR Row far do we miss it during the burn?
CC About 4/10ths of a mile.
CC And also for your information, we're going
to turn the docking lights on for the undocking sequence
just as a backup for your spot light.
CDR Okay. If we don't have it, the coas
will burn. If it's pointing at it the I guess will.
CC We concur. It should not be there. Have
you calibrated the coas, AI?
CDR We calibrated during rendezvous and it's
right on.
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9/25/73

CC Okeydoke, very good.

CDR I asked that question about 5 days ago
because I got to thinking about it one night. It always seems
that when you undock, to get ready to burn, you look out and
whatever it was you left, is right in front of you.
CDR I think maybe Fido has got a plan of some
sort? He's got constraints to keep it there.
CC Rog.
CC Fido is always planning.
CDR He hasn't missed yet.
CC Roger that. He's not going to. That's
what the boss said.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS.
We'll see you again over Guam in 4 minutes at 16:50, 16:50.
PLT Okay, Bob. And I'm kind of wondering
how come SERVICE MODULE SOURCE picked - i is picking up 25 amps,
and 2 is only picking up i0. I thought they would equalize out
after while.
CC We'll get EECOM to comment on it, and I'ii
give you the word over Guam.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 18 hours 25 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab now passed out of range. Next sta-
tion to acquire will be Guam in 2-1/2 minutes. The orbital
workshop attitude now holding stable, however, it is still
an active consideration to go to TACS attitude hold which
would be ground commanded at the time of undocking. There
would not be the same amount of concern for the percision of
the attitude if a normal undocking was scheduled, in which
the reaction control system thrusters would be used to move
the command and service module away from the workshop. However,
given our current situation, it's considered prudent to spend
the gas and use the TACS thrusters. We're a minute and a half
away now from reacquiring Skylab. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC2563/I
Time 1326 CDT, 60/18:26 GMT
9/25/73

CC S kylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 9 minutes.

CC Skylah, Houston. Wetre AOS Guam, 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob. How do you read?
CC Okay we read you loud and clear, now Jack.
And I've gotan answer to you regarding source 1 and 2 and
reason for the difference. And Charlie, the EECOM says that it
is the temperature difference. Number 1 is Just hotter.
It's running about 141 degrees. Two, is 74 degrees and as
soon as 2 comes up, gets a little bit warmer, it's going to
pick up more of it's share of the load.
PLT Okay. Well, tell Charlie I haven't ever
seen him miss very many, so I believe him.
CC Figured you would.
PLT In fact, I can't remember one that he
did miss.
CC Hard to beat.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. About 4 minutes
remaining on this Guam pass, very little conversation. During
the pass thus far, the Charlie referred to in the conversation
between Cap Comm Bob Crippen and Jack Lousma is Charlie Dumas,
who is the EECOM Flight Controller in the Mission Control
Center. We're at 18 hours, 34 minutes. Continuing to monitor,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Goldstone in 17 minutes at
17:15. 17:15 .
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston. 18 hours,
39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab now out of range
with Guam. Next station coming up will be Goldstone in
15 minutes. This is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2564/I
Time 13:52 CDT, 60/1.8:52 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At

18 hours, 53 minutes, Greenwich mean time, Skylab-lll now
approaching acquisition with Goldstone. We'll stand by
with the llne open.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Stateside
for about 18 minutes. And we see in PO0 if you'd give us
ACCEPT please, we'll go ahead and update state vector and the
target load.
CDR Good idea, there it is.
CC Okay, also AI. Your deorbit pad is go as
is. I've got a couple of small changes to the entry pad on
page 5-1, if somebody can take them.
CDR Okay, we're getting there now, just a
second. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We want to change the range to go
from .05G to 11203 and the RET for .05Gto 2813. And that's
the only changes that we had.
CDR Okay, let me read them back. 11203 and
2813.
CC That's affirmative.
CC Also A1. For your information, the
momentum state looks good following that RESET route we went
through, but just to be cautious, we're going to go to
ATT HOLD TACS for undocking so you can anticipate there might
be some TACS fires going on and you can probably see that
when you back off.
CDR Okay, we'll watch for it.
CC CDR, Houston. I've got a weather update
for you, AI. I can read you, if you'd like.
CDR Go ahead. We're going 377 and BYPASS
right now.
CC Roger. Okay. Weather is 1800 scattered but
it is variable broken. The wave height is now 6 feet and the
winds is out of the northwest at 20 knots, also having
northerly swells about 5 to 7 feet. Recovery people see
no problems with all that. Still looks good.
CDR Okay.
CC Computer belongs to you again, AI.
CDR Okay, we' re going to BLOCK.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston, 19 hours Greenwich
mean time. Skylab now on the stateside pass. The crew aboard
Skylab has been advised that we will be going to ATTITUDE HOLD
with the TACS thrusters, this will be accomplished close with
a MILA loss of signal. It'll be ground commanded by the
G&S - G&S flight controller here in the mission control center.
It'll be done as a precaution for the undocking.

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SL-III MC2565/I
Time 1403 CDT, 60/19:03 GMT
9125/73

PAO 8kylab Control, Houston. 19 hours, 5

minutes Greenwich mean time. The GNS controller reports
he started the command sequence and the Skylab is going to
TACS attitude hold. Coming up now are GO - NO/GO for undocking
here in the Mission Control Center.
PLT I see you put the SWS lights on.
CC Say again.
PLT 11see you put the SWS lights on.
CC That's affirm. The better to see it with.
PLT Well, I know at least one of there's
working.
CC Okay, Skylab and we've just went around
the MOCR here and you guys are GO for undocking. AI, for
your information, the range and range rate are not going to
be any good in case you were thinking about using them.
CDR No, I wasn't planning to. Thank you
though.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Carnarvon in about 41 minutes after undocking
of course, at 1814. 18:14.
CDR Roger. We got 18:14 - I think 24 on our
mind, if we can find it. Now 1811:24 is when we're doing it.
Okay?
CC That's undocking. That's correct.
CDR Okeydoke.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours,
12 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab-3 is now out of
station range with Bermuda. The next station to acquire
will be Carnarvon in 39 minutes. The time for undocking,
being discussed between A1 Bean and Cap Comm Bob Crippen,
was in phase - phase elapsed time. The - in Greenwich mean
time, undocking is scheduled to occur at 19 hours, 49 minutes,
41 seconds, Just prior to acquisition through Carnarvon.
The three Skylab crew members are now secure in the command
module. Have been given a GO for undocking prior to Carnarvon
aquisition. The G&S Flight Controller here in the Control
Center has issued a ground command to hold firm the attitude
of the Skylab workshop for the undocking exercise. The
command will involve the use of TACS thrusters to make sure
that the attitude is very precise at the time of undocking.
We're at 19 hours, 14 minutes Greenwich mean time and this
is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2566/I
Time: 14:46 CDT 60/19:46 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours

47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab 3 undocking coming
up in less, in a little over 2 minutes. Now set - the command
and service module set for undocking 19 hours 49 minutes 41 sec-
onds Greenwich mean time. Today's undocking procedures are
different than what was planned prior to the mission because
of the separate problems with two of the quads of the service
module reaction and control system engines. Eliminated from
the post docking events have been the flyaround, the separation
maneuvers, and the shaping burn. All of these would require
use of all four RCS engines of the service module. In addition
the two impulse burn of the SPS has been reduced to a single
service propulsion system burn for retrofire. And retrofire
is scheduled now to take place at Greenwich mean time of
21 hours 38 minutes 18 seconds. This will be an 18 second
burn with a Delta V of 446 feet per second. This burn will
take place over Malaysia just before sunset, or correction,
sunrise• Undocklng will take place 2 hours earlier, at Greenwich
mean time of 19 hours 49 minutes and 41 seconds in darkness
over the Indian Ocean. Undocklng will be accomplished by
release of the Command and Service Module docking latches.
The undocking will provide a Delta V of 4/10 of a foot per second
to the command and service module. We now show 19 hours
49 minutes 17 seconds GMT. And undocking should be coming up
in less than 30 seconds. We'll reacquire Skylab 3 in about
2-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon. And we will stand by at
that time for the crew, AI Bean, Owen Garrlott, and Jack Lousma
to give us a status report on the undocking. This is Skylab
Control Houston.
PAO Skylab Control Houston 19 hours 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time with less than a minute away now from
reacquiring Skylab 3 over Carnarvon at which time we'll stand
by for a report from the Skylab crew now aboard the command and
service module as to their status following undocking.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Carnarvon 7 minutes.
CDR We undocked on time we're moving away.
We indicated about 3/10 of a foot per second separation velocity.
We're getting ready to run the RCS check.
CC Very good, AI. And we'll be watching them.
PLT Okay Bob, I've got both water motors going•
It looks like they are coming in.
CC Thanks, Jack.
PAO Five minutes remaining on this Carnarvon
pass. A1 Bean - -
CDR Houston, do you think this 3/10 is good
enough or do you want me to add a little more?
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CC That's great. We'll lim to that.

CDR Okeydoke.
PAO AI Bean reporting undocking on time, moving
away. The 3/10 is 3/10 of a feet per second, the Delta V at time
of un docking.
CC Jack, we're not seein E any OBS data on
you right now. Would you please check your plugs.
PLT Wilco.
PLT (garble)
CC Skylab, you cut out and I couldn't read
your last comment.
PLT i It seems like we're leaving home, Bob.
CC Say again, Jack.
CDR It's a beautiful sight at night. We left
our spotlight on. We've got the lights. They look sort of -one of
the top one looks sort of a yellowish white. The right side, as
we view it looks red. The bottom ones look gold. And the left
ones look blue. It's just like a Christmas tree. Our spotlight
is illuminated the white, and we see the stars in the back
ground. Superimposed on all of this is the COAS, which is
sort of a gold cross with a number of marks surrounding a circle.
It's quite a beautiful thing.
CC It sounds pretty.
CDR Doing a little up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Guam in about 7-1/2 minutes at 18:28,
18:28. You guys sound like you're sad to be leaving. And A1
does flying around with the dock DAP seem okay?
CDR Right now I'm using SCS mid impulse just
for practice. And the dock dapt I tried for a few seconds and
it was very smooth. I want to see how this cross coupling looked,
and played with the translational controller a little bit.
CC Roger.
CDR l'm going to the undock DAP in just a
second.
PAO Skylab Control Houston at 20 hours i minute
Greenwich mean time. The Apollo command and service module
now undocked from the space station. The crew of Apollo - or
the crew aboard the Apollo spacecraft about 5 minutes away now
from reacquisltion through Guam. The next major event coming up
will be the service propulsion system burn for reentry scheduled
now to take place at Greenwich mean time 21 hours 38 minutes
and 18 seconds. This is an 18 second burn - -

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SL-III MC2567/I
Time: 1501 CDT, 60/20:01 GMT
9/25/73

PAO re-entry scheduled now to take place

at Greenwich mean time at 21 hours, 38 minutes, and 18 seconds.
This is an 18 second burn with the Delta V of 446 feet per
second. This burn will take place over Malaysia, Just before
sunrise. We're 20 hours, 2 minutes GMT. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.
CDR You still there, Houston?
CC That's affirm. We're with you again
for about 6 minutes.
CDR What's occurred is we've come out -
sunlight is not on the Earth, but it's on the SWS and we
saw it slowly turn, and proceed in the dark with its own light
in our spotlight. Slowly it turned sort of pink, then orange,
then light and of course, that's only the sunlit side.
The other side is completely black - since it's got no Earth
reflection. Two discone antennas are like bright balls out
there. It's really a fantastic sight - of course against
the black background, the stars are not visible anymore.
CC Rog. It really sounds like it. Say,
did you have a chance to get any shots of it?
CDR We've been working on it. It (garbbe)
pretty good and undocked DAP is what I was looking on now.
CC Rog. That's what (garble) assured - assured
us they would.
CDR Yeah. If you can just remember which
way to do the translating. If you want to go - translate
right (garble). I had it figured out for needles - needles are
applied from it. The needle goes right, you do a left and
out the windows a little different.
CC Rog. I think that's about -
CDR (garble) How's our systems look?
CC We'll take a look at them. Everything looks
good here. I think everybody that tried that TAC, started
out going the wrong way.
CDR I wrote it down on a piece of paper up
here. It says, "To fly left, THC right."
CC Rog.
PLT Temperature's really coming down in the
spacecraft now, Bob. It's come down to about 8 degrees since
we got the motors going.
CC Very good. Hope it's been comfortable.
CDR We' ii go ahead and do P-S0 while you watch.
CC That sounds good to us, AI. Go ahead.
CDR It shows we've got a perigee of minus 4.2.
CC R og. We copy that. Good.
CDR And total Delta V, 450.
CC P-30 looks good to us, AI.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from

LOS. See you again at Goldstone in about 18-1/2 minutes at
18:28. Correction, 1852. 18:52. And AI, if it's okay with
you, we would appreciate seeing you flying around with the
THC over stateside.
CDR Say that one again.
CC We'd appreciate when we get you AOS at
statesidep to see you fly it around a little bit with the
THC.
CDR Okay. I've been doing it and I'll do it
some more when I get there. Didn't want to perturb our state
vector.
CC Okay. We really haven't seen much firing
on i t he re.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston at 20 hours,
13 minutes Greenwich mean time. The command service module
now out of station range with Guam. Next station to acquire
will be Goldstone in 16-1/2 minutes.

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SL-III MC-2568/I
Time: 15:20 CDT, 60/20:20 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 20 hours,

21 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We have an updated weather
status from the end-of-mlssion area of the primary recovery
ship. Weather conditions out there now read: 2000 foot broken
cloud cover, wind direction from 310 degrees a velocity of 20 knots,
waves of 6 to 8 feet with swells of 5 to 7 feet. The Commander
aboard the New Orleans considers weather conditions in the
landing area as acceptable. We're at 20 hours, 21 minutes
Greenwich mean time, 9 minutes away from reacqulrlng the crew
of Skylab-III through Goldstone, and this is Skylab Control,
Houston.

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SL-III MC-2569/I
Time: 15:29 CDT, 60/20:29 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

20 hours, 29 minutes, Greenwich mean time. The crew of Skylab-lll
now approaching acquisition through Goldstone, abomt 30 seconds
away now from reacquirlng AI Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma
now aboard the command and service module. And going through
their final phases prior to the retrofire burn. SPS ignition
scheduled for 21 hours, 38 minutes, ig seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
States for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, I'm presently in the undock DAP
and I've just been flying around a bit. Seems to work real
great.
CC Okay.
CDR Anything in particular you wanted me to
do? You mentioned flying the tran -_Iational controller.
CC We just like to see a couple of both
flarities out of the way. One item we'd also like for you to
check for us, is the SEQ LOGIC switches. Two of them
are on .
CDR We turned them on, remember per - check.
But then down here in the book it says do panel 8 circuit
breaker check. And panel 8 circuit breaker check shows us -
close - closed them again. So we closed them per the checklist.
We can put them back on again, though.
CC Okay, we do want you to put them back
on again.
CDR They're on and everything else then on
that- circuit breaker g checklist then is like it is. Like
what's showing on the page. What I'ii do right now is to
give you a little - translation, see what's going on.
CDR Seems to me it flys awfully good. I
think - the ground has done a good job psyching this thing
out.

CC That's _ood news.

CDR Is Vance around there anywhere?
CC He's right here.
CDR Thought he might be. Hello, Vance.
MCC How are yon doing, AI? Glad to hear that
it' s flying well.
CDR Flys real smooth; better than I expected,
to tell you the truth._ I was kind of anxous to see
how it does when you ullage. I appreciated the message that
you sent the other day about the duty cycle and also the
initial direction. What I plan to do is - is start the
ullage and watch that rate needle. The minute it moves,
come in with a little right translation, and try to keep it
killed that way. Is that the technique you used?
MCC That's right. If you know what to expect,
it's easy. If you didn't, it might supprise you a little bit.
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CDR Just a 30 percent duty surprised me. I

would - I would have been very much surprised. I appreciate
that - that word and your extra effort to go out and
prove it on the simulator- hardware evlaluator, too.
MCC Thank you.
PLT Okay, Houston. We can see the storm that
we've been a little concern about, but looks like the leading
edge of it is along the southern tip of Baja. And it has got a
very big, wide, circular pattern, extending way across over
White Sands and just far west, I guess, maybe a couple hundred miles
west of Baja. However, the center of it is considerably further
down along the coast of Mexico. And from the point I described
on to the south, it appears that it is completely clouded.
CC That sounds llke the information that
we've been getting here. Sounds good, and we don't anticipate
any problem with it. We were just being cautious about - about
the - cases where we did have to do some RCS burning.
PLT And between Guadelupe and San Diego is
pretty much overcast; however, west of Guadalupe appears to
be broken a few holes, but it looks like we're going to have
broken overcast to come down in.
CC Yes, you' re - you're aiming for one of the
sucker holes, we believe.
PLT Won't be the first one that we've tried.
(laugh)
PLT The storm has a very definite buildup
area; what appears to be the center. And you can see the
counterclockwise pattern of flow of clouds - upper level clouds,
and - as you look out from up here. The center has a very
definite - It looks like a mountain out in the middle of - a
relatively fllat area. The center is very well deflinend, although
it is not - does not have the eye of the hurricane that we've seen
to date. It looks just like a lot of turbulent cloud formation
in the center of it .
CC And, Jack, one other item that I might mention
to you, I don't know whether you use the DAC - to try to get
some pictures when you were backing out of the gate of the
SWS, but reminder, we need to go back to the settings that
are listed on page 12-1 for the fire ball.
PLT Yes, I've got f/f1, 507 feet and 12.
CC Sounds good.
PLT Looks like this storm, even if it' s -
even if it's clouds at the outer most periphery they're not
effecting Houston in any way. We can see the Gulf and the
Houston area very clearly from our present advantage point
over the midwest .
CC What's the weather look out there, today?
I haven't had a chance to look.
PLT (Laugh) Well, it varies from scattered to
clear.
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PLT Looks like there is a few large movers

with their (garble) extending southeasterly, perhaps
in your direction.
CC Okay, I can give you the lastest weather
that we're forecasting at your landing - -

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SL-III MC-2570/I
Time: 15:37 CDT 60/20:37 GMT
9/25/73

CC Okay, I can give you the latest weather

that we're forcasting at your landing site, which is not much
different than what I gave you before. It's 2000 broken,
visibility i0 miles, the wind is 310 at 20 knots, wave heights
are now 6 to 8 feet, and temperature is going to be a nice
cool 63 degrees. Call sign of your ship of course is New
Orleans. And the two choppers are Recovery and Swim.
CDR New Orleans, Recovery, and Swim. Okay.
PLT I know Swim and I don't know Recovery.
CC Roger.
CDR Want us to pull off an alignment any
time soon just to trim up the platform?
CC Stand by i.
CC No requirement, AI.
CDR Okay.
CC Platform looks good, you can sit back and
take life easy here.
CDR We're thinking about the scop/Dex now
that we've heard it's 6 to 8.
CC I thought you guys might be thinking of that.
CDR We don't know whether to take 3 or 4.
CC I - old sailors like you don't need that.
CDR Say again, - you got it again.
PLT We plan to grab a (garble) anyway. It
won' t take us very long, Bob.
CC l'm sure of that. Okay, three underline.
PLT Have they got the meat ball turned on?
CC I really don't know if New Orleans has got
a meat ball.
CC And CDR, Houston. I wonder if you can
verify for us that subsequent to the command module RCS acti-
vation that the only configuration change you made regarding that
was the taking the logic switches to off on panel 8?
CDR That's affirmative. That was it. I tell
you what I did, I just did the one on page 12-3. And you don't
have us doing it until 19:10, we just thought we'd get ahead
of the game. Now I assume that at 19:10, which is 8 seconds
from now you want me to still leave these on.
CC That's affirm. We do want to leave them
on and the problem was that we had an exception in the checklist,
and it was over on page 12-4 that referred you back to that.
And it was talking about accepting. Don't change the breakers,
we want to leave them closed.
CDR Okay, now let's be careful. Those had
to do with the arms as far as I know. And you and I are talking
about the logic switches at the moment.
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9/25/73

CC Rog.
CDR Okay. Because I think you want the arm circuit
breakers in and the logic on.
CC That is correct.
CDR Well, you got it.
CC S kylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS.
See you over the Vanguard in about 12 minutes at 19:17, 19:17.
And as you go over the hill, the bird is looking good.
CDR Good. How do you like the way NOUN 40,
correction VERB 48 floated?
CC All looks good down here.
CDR Okay, we like it too, but we need to know
you' re thinking.
PAO Skylab Control Houston at 20 hours 45 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The crew of Skylab 3 has completed their
last stateside pass prior to entry. During this pass we heard
Pilot Jack Lousma describe the weather conditions generally
over the states, and more specifically Hurricane Ira. The
next station contact is Vanguard in approximately i0 minutes.
Vanguard will be the last contact voice or data that we will
have with the crew prior to retrofire and entry. We're presently
looking at the SPS ignition time. Greenwich mean time of
21 hours 38 minutes 18 seconds. This will be a 446 foot per
second burn, 18 second burn time. The crew will be in the
heads down position with the spacecraft pitched down 15 degrees
retrograde at the time of the burn. Entry innerface Greenwich
mean time 22 hours 4 minutes 8 seconds, 05G begins 22 hours
6 minutes 30 seconds. Blackout begins at Greenwich mean time
of 22 hours 6 minutes 51 seconds. Exit blackout 22 hours i0 minutes
15 seconds. Time of max G, max G should read 3.21 Gs, time in
Greenwich mean time 22 hours ii minutes 29 seconds. Drogue
chute deployment time 22 hours 14 minutes 24 seconds GMT.
Main chute deployment 22 hours 15 minutes i0 seconds Greenwich
mean time. Predicted time of splashdown or landing 22 _ hours
20 minutes 2 seconds. We're 8 minutes away now from our last
acquisition with Skylab 3. This is Skylab Control Houston.

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SL-III MC2571/I
Time: 15:54 CDT, 60/20:54 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at

20 hours, 54 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute
away now from aquisition with the crew of Skylab-S through
Vanguard. This will be our last scheduled station contact
for this Skylab-3 mission. It will be the GO - NO/GO point
for the orbit deorbit burn. We'll stand y, keep the line
up, and monitor this pass through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. We haven't left. All three of
us are still here.
CC Appreciate that. And for your informa-
tion, Skylab, the wind is dropping off it appears. It's
down to 17 knots and we hope that's going to improve the
sea state a little bit.
CDR That's good news.
PLT Was that a northwest wind, Robert?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay.
CDR We were wondering if our doctors were
seasick.
CC They took their scop/Dex.
CDR We were thinking we might have to have
to run these tests on each other.
CC I 'm sure you've got more practice in
doing that, than just about anybody.
PLT Next to you, that is.
CC Well, not quite. I only tried it for
56.
CDR Seems that the thrusters are startd
firing more in roll just recently for some reason. Maybe
we just them because it's getting dark and we can see the
flashes.
CC Copy that.
CDR Boy, that roll in free, CI_C free with
the dock DAP, it really moves out with that pull.
CC Pretty hot machine, huh?
CDR Well, it seems not too much different
in pitch and yaw - (garble) in yaw, but pitch. But roll,
it's got a lot more authority. I noticed the thrusters are
on i00 milliseconds instead 17 or something llke that. But
it's real noticeable in roll.
CC The flight here gives me the word that
it's only 7 times as much, so naturally it should be coming in.
CDR It must have accidentally been sitting
on the middle of the dead band there for about i0 or 15 min-
utes. And all of a sudden, it touched the edge and so it's
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got a little limit cycle going.

CC Rog.
CC Skylab, bird looks super to us. You're
GO for a deal over at (garble).
CDR Good news. We're ready to go ourselves.
We'll see you on the ground, I guess. Is this our last comm?
CC Well, we've got an ARIA pass hopefully
after blackout, so we may be able to talk to you a little bit.
But in case we don't, we'll see you back hopefully tomorrow
night.
CDR We'll be there.
CC I'm corrected. It's going to be like
Thursday.
CDR Okay. We may have to care for the doctors
when we ARIA aboard ship, but we'll give them some aid.
CC I'm sure they will appreciate that.
CC 0 kay, Skylab. We're 1 minute from LOS.
And the ARIA pass should be at 20:29. And looking
forward to seeing you guys again. It's been great working
with you.
CDR Okay. It's been a pleasure. We'll be
right down there in a few minutes.
PLT See you fellas in Houston, Bob.
CC Roger, that.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at
21 hours, 5 minutes Greenwich mean time. The crew of Skylab-3
has now passed out of station range with Vanguard. The last
station acquisition prior to entry. On that last station
contact, the command and service module was in an orbit 242
nautical miles by 227.5 nautical miles. SPS ignition is scheduled
for 21 hours, 38 minutes, 18 seconds Greenwich mean time, or
some 30 minutes away from this time. Meanwhile, in the Mission
Control Center, both in the viewing room and the Missions Operations
Control room floor, a considerable number of persons have
gathered in the viewing room. Presently, are Dr. James C.
Fletcher, Administrator of NASA; Dr. George M. Low, Deputy
NASA Administrator; Mr. Dale Meyers, Associate Administrator
for Manned Space Flight; Dr. Rocco Petrone, Director of the
Marshall Space Flight Center; Mr. Sig Sjobemg, Deputy Director
of the Johnson Space Center; Astronauts: Rear Admiral Alan
Shepard, Brigadere General Tom Stafford, Dr. Jack Schmidt,
Dr. Joe Allen, Rusty Schwieckart, Dr. Bill Lenoir, and Dick
Truly. On the floor of the Control Center, proper, are Dr.
Christopher C. Kraft, Director of the Johnson Space Center,
Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations at the
Johnson Space Center; Mr. Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, Manager of
the Skylab Program Office at JSC; Mr. William C. Schneider,
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Director of the Skylab program, NASA headquarters, and

Mr. Lee Belew, Manager of the Skylab program office at the
Marshall Space Flight Center. We're at 21 hours, 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2572/I
Time 16:37 CDT 60/21:37 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 21 hours

37 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're approximately a minute
away now from the scheduled time for the service propulsion
system deorbit burn. Here in the Mission Control Center omr
phase elapsed time clock when that reads 20 hours will be the
time of ignition for the deorbit burn. We now show 19 hours
59 minutes 20 seconds. This will be an 18 second burn, 446 feet
per second, with the crew heads down, spacecraft pitch down
50 degrees, and the burn will be a retrograde burn. At the
time of service propulsion system ignition the space station
will be i mile, i nautical mile behind the command and service
module. At entry innerface of Skylab, will be 113 nautical
miles behind and 158 nautical miles above the command and service
module. At entry innerface the CSM will be over the north
central Pacific Ocean on a descending pass about 1,740 nautical
miles west of Portland Oregon, and 1,320 nautical miles northeast
of Hawaii. We now show our phase elapsed time clock at 20 hours
20 seconds. The burn should be taking place. Meanwhile we have
a report from the ship that the recovery helicopters from the
primary recovery ship are now on their station. The ARIA air-
craft which will acquire Skylab at 20 hours 27 minutes. Phase
elapsed time is also on station. Crew composition of the
helicopters include for the helicopter referred to as Recovery
by Cap comm Bob Crippen include the following crew members:
Pilot Commander, Ted Dayhill, of Chula Vista, California; Co-
Pilot Lieutenant, Jr. Grade, Rich Gau, that's G-a-u, of San
Diego, California. Crew Members Chief Aviations Mate, Aviation
Machinist Mate, Sellers of Monroe, Louisiana; Aviation Machinist
Mate Second Class, Cannon, of Cedar Key, Florida: and Aviation
Electrician's Mate, Diash of Port Wintworth, Georgia. Swimmers
on Recovery include Lieutenant James H. Maxwell, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania: Fireman Amos J. Hudson, Okechobee, Florida,
Senior Chief Photographer's Mate James M. Sigmorella, of Wamoth,
Masschusettes; Gunner's Mate, Third Class, Micheal L. Osbourn
of Angola, Indiana. Swim helicopter crew members include
Lieutenant Commander Bob Redman of Statesville, North Carolina;
Co-Pilot Lieutenant, Junior Grde, Jim Leedy of San Antonio,
Texas. Crewmen include Aviation Electrician Mate First Class,
Garner of Los Angeles California; Aviation Electrician'sMate
First Class, Bencal of Quaker Town, Pennsylvania, Aviation
Electrician Mate, Third Class, Blair of Livingston, Alabama.
Swimmers include Lt. Junior Grade David L. Walker of Fort Lauderdale,
Florida; Radioman Third Class, Gerald D. Turley of Sacremento,
California; Quartermaster, Second Class, William A. Toms of
Richmond, Virginia; Quartermaster Third Class, Scott R. Birge
of Phoenix, Arizona. We're now 21 hours 41 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

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SL-III MC-2573/I
Time 17:02 CDT, 60/22:02 GMT
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

22 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute
away now from predicted time of the Skylab-lll crewts entry
into the Earth's atmosphere assuming a normal service propulsion
system burn for deorblt. Meanwhile the helicopters from the
primary recovery ship, the New Orleans are on station. The
present plan calls for 4 swimmers to Jump from the helicopter
flowtation collars will be dropped, a medical kit will be
dropped, life rafts will be dropped. Swimmers drag the
collar to the command module per the plan, install it at the
base of the command module, inflat it by pulling a lanyard
then inject the llfe rafts, hook up the intercom, check on
the crew through the intercom and relay to the helicopter
back to the ship as to status. The swimmers will stay with
the command module until the New Orleans comes beside the
spaceship to make sure that the lines are hooked up correctly
and back away when the command module is hoisted aboard the
carrier. We now show 22 minutes - 22 hours 4 minutes Greenwich
mean time, Skylab-III crew should have re-entered into the
Earth's atmosphere at this time. We' ii stand by and continue
to monitor as the calls are being made.
PAO MARK, 22 hours 7 minutes, GMT. The command
module should be in it's backout period now.
PAO Goldstone now has acquisition of signal.
with the orbital workshop passing over head. The ship reports
the wind velocity of about 13 knots. The command module should
be in it's period of blackout now. We show 22 hours, 8
minutes, 40 seconds, GMT. It should break out into the clear,
the command module should breakout in the clear at about 22
hours i0 minutes 15 seconds, GMT, about a minute and a half
away now. Five helos are air borne reports the primary recovery
ship, New Orleans. Report that the ship has a radar contact
on the command module. Standing by now, for AIRA
aircraft transmission. Radar contact at 176 miles from the
ship, bearing at 305 degrees, radar contact with the command
module reported at 176 nautical miles away, 305 degree bearing.
Standing by. As prepicted now out of the reception cone for
the ships radar acquisition. Standing by now for confirmation
of S-band contact, probably coming first from one of the two
HC 130 aircraft.
CC AOS through to AIRA.
CC Skylab, Houston. Can you read?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
SC (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

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SL-III MC-2574/I
Time 17:13 CDT 60/22:13 GMT
9/25/73

CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston through the ARIA. How
do you read?
CDR (Garble)
CC Skylab, I believe I heard you modulating
there, but you were unreadable.
PAO Should be coming up shortly on main chute
dep -
PAO Report from the ship that they have a
visual on the bridge of the ship, that the descending space-
craft is visible from the bridge of the ship. Recovery
helicopter makes similar report
RECOVERY Roger. Do you still have S-band signal.
Roger. Anything on the (garble) band?
RECOVERY Roger. Copy.
RECOVERY Okay, I'ii (garble) to you.
RECOVERY Roger. Copy.
NEW ORLEANS (garble) visual. (garble) visual.
(garble) has visual. (garble)
RE COVE RY Roger.
RECOVERY This is Recovery. You look beautiful
coming down today.
RECOVERY (garble) control, do you copy the
(garble) .
RECOVERY Roger (garble). Skylah (garble)
RECOVERY (garble) send it out.
PAO Passing through 2,000 feet, now, the ship
reports.
PAO Estimated range from the ship approxi-
mately 6 miles, reports the ship.
PAO This would put the landin 8 very, very
close to the target point.
PAO Chutes have settled down in the water
downwind from the spacecraft. The helicopter expected - the
helicopters expected to move in shortly.
PAO Recovery reports you can still see the
drogued parachutes descending down from about 2,000 feet.
These chutes should land downwind from the splashpoint of
the spacecraft.
PAO Spacecraft reported in stable 2 position
from the ship.
PAO The halo above the ship - or above the
spacecraft reports confirmation of the stable 2 or apex
down on the spacecraft.

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Time: 17:22 CDT 60/22:22 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Recovery reports that the spacecraft seems

to be uprighting satisfactorily.
PAO The swimmers will attempt to recover all
three parachutes if they can today.
PAO A report from the ship that the Command
Module is now uprighted. Also a report from the ship that
one of the chutes appears to be sinking.
PAO A report from the ship that the Skylab
crew going through their post flight checklist now, opening
and shutting down switches.
PAO Skylab 3 crew checking off switch positions
one by one.
PAO Swimmers now in the water will initially
employ a sea anchor to slow the rate of the drift of
the spacecraft.
PAO Skylab crew reporting in the blind. They
apparently cannot hear the radio contact from the helicopter,
however they report in the blind that they are feeling just
fine.
PAO Swimmers now strapping a bungie cord around
the command module in which the floatation collar will be deployed
a little later.
PAO Difficulty with communications with the Skylab
crew. They - Skylab crew reports they're turning on the Beacon
light. They don't need it but they will be using it to symbolize
the fact that they are okay.
PAO One of the crew members asked how come
this book is so
heavy, expressing the fact that they have not
experienced oneg for 2 months.
PAO The swimmers continue to struggle with the
f loatation collar.
PAO One of the crew members describing their
splashdown referred to it as a good solid smack, but not too
bad.
PAO Swimmers are now inflating the flotation
collar.
PAO One of the crew members reports that he
has photos with the Hasselblad of the drouge and the chutes.
CREW (garble)
CREW New Orleans. (garble) You know we might
(garble) the Scop/Dex or the zero g for so long that I don't
feel. (garble) .
CDR (garble).
PLT (garble).
CDR (garble) wonder what happen to (garble).
PLT Boy, I sure don't know, ALo
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PLT All they can think of is the (garble),

we've got the juice off.
CDR (garble do with that AC. DC is powered up
anyway.
PLT DC (garble) on the main bus (garble).
CDR (garble. Recovery, Skylab II, how do you
hear now?
USS NO Oh reading you loud and clear. (garble).
USS NO Skylab, this is recovery, do you read
me now.
CDR Right?

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Time 17:36 CDT 60/22:36 GMT
9/25/73

CDR (garble) something (garble)

CREW Hold all the (garble) wait a minute.
USS NO Skylab, this is Recovery, do you read us now.
HELO Okay, it's not in green, right?
CDR (garble)l don't handle that. Push.
HELO Well, we get (garble)
USS NO Skylab, this is Recovery reading you loud and
clear .
USS NO a few seconds (garble) turn it back off.
SC Recovery, Skylab.
USS NO Skylab, this is Recovery, you are loud
and clear.
SC Well, I think we ought to have (garble)
on the flight (garble).
CDR Let me turn it back off, Jack.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay. Put it back like it was. Just like it was.
Okay, let me tell you what you do next.
SPT (garble) lights (garble) signal lights
if you can.
PAO The ship, some 3700 yards from the space-
craft
SC (garble)
CDR Okay, be sure to get it red light.
SC (garble) okay, I'ii have you (garble)
CDR Okay now let me tell you what you got to do is
put the thing neutral and (garble) wratchet handle. (garble)
CDR May be operating it the wrong way, I don't know.
SC Okay.
CDR Okay, now what you need to do - where is
your pressurize suit? Okay, show (garble)
PAO Raft now being installed to the floatation
collar right outside the hatch.
SWIM Wish we hadn't used that (garble)
SC Okay in (garble)
CDR Okay, then shut it in neutral. All right
then we're ready to - take blood pressure when we get on the
ship. And do the rest of these things. This relax and try to keep
our head still for a while. (garble)
SC (garble)
PLT Man, what an entry you should have seen that
swirl in the fireball, O.
CDR Everytime I looked out I had (garble) I could
read the DSKY for about 3 or 4 seconds, it was so bright. (garble)
PLT I remember seein (garble) that looked like
that. (garble) .
PAO The New Orleans about a mile and a half
away now from the command module.
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9/25/73

(Inaudible)
PLT I feel pretty good, O.
SC (garble) pressure thing that- (garble)
CDR (Inaudible)
SPT Maybe it's kind of dried off.
SC Recovery, Skyl ab.
SWIM If you see out the window (garble)
SWIM - yeah (garble) down that-
HELO The air's calmed down, we had (garble)
CDR I thought I was (garble) right there.
PLT I thought I did yeah.
CDR What'd he say?
PLT I couldn't make it out, you were talking.
SC (garble)
CDR I feel awful good lying down.
PLT I do too.
SWIM Better transfer (garble)
Skylab or- -
PAO The ship some 3,000 yards now from the
spacecraft.
SC (garble)
SC (garble)
CDR - - never forget it - (garble) great scene.
SC (garble) wonder if somebody could do
better, but I hadn't met anybody yet.
USS NO Skylab, New Orleans. Over.
CDR - a little (garble) -
PLT - how can you feel a blood pressure cuff?
SPT I don't know how the air got out of my suit.
You know I had it pumped up before we entered I verified it. When I
got on the ground it was (garble)
CDR Maybe you better (garble) pump - -
USS NO Skylab, New Orleans. You have an open
mike. Over.
CDR I bet it's cool outside.
SC Phase 2 (garble)
SC (garble)
PLT A beautiful burn.
PLT Seems llke it burned a little oyer 18
seconds.
SC (garble) I guess it had already stopped.
SC That's what I did (garble)
USS NO Skylab, New Orleans. Over.

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SL-III MC-2577/I
Time: 1746 CDT, 60/22:46 GMT
9/25/73

SC (garble)
SC (laugh) smart alec.
PAO Report from the ship that two shoots have
been recovered and they are working on the third, also a
report that the apex cover has been recovered.
USS NO Skylab, New Orleans. Over.
SC (garble)
SC (garble)
SC (garble)
PLT More like 60 I guess, Owen.
USS NO (garble)
PAO Ship reports that the command module a
little over a i000 yards out in front of the ship.
USS NO Skylab, Skylab, this is New Orleans. Over.
USS NO Perhaps (garble)they have only landed.
PLT My feet still feel kind of heavy.
CDR (garble) 88.
PLT Well, (garble) Owen says that's not right.
CDR Didn't that burn nice.
PLT Man that was a spectacular entry. I like
that when the bangs when the chutes came out (garble) drogue. Golly.
CDR (garble) hitting the water (laughtr).
PLT I liked it hitting the water, too. That felt
good. I think going over (garble) topped it off. That was the
frosting on the cake. You might as well have everything (garble),
right? Everything but the (garble) I'm lost.
SPT You only go around once in your life; you ought
to get it right.
SPT I'd like to do it again.
USS NO Skylab, this is New Orleans. Over.
SC Do what?
CDR (garble) suppose to turn the (garble) that way.
PLT (garble) probably. (garble)
CDR Everything else must of shut down.
SC (Garble) the pressure rate is off.
SC Okay.
CS (garble) to splashdown.
CDR Put (garble) to work.
SC (garble)
PLT (garble) that airconditioning. (garble)
temperature' s (garble)
PAO The ship moving now to - hoist the command
module aboard the ship. 520 yards away now the ship reports.
CDR (garble)
PLT They had a visual on us (garble) Trying to
figure out what the altitude was.
CDR They ought to have it at 40 thousand.
PLT There is - there's a pecular smell in
the cockpit after we landed. That was apparently temperature or
something. (garble) Smelled like an explosion.
CDR (garble) the ship that close.
PLT The ship wasn't far off.
o

SL-III MC-2577/2
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9/25/73

CDR Probably landed (garble)

SC What do we do with these?
SC (Garble)
SC He's going to have a hard time.
SC (garble)
CDR I'm curious. (garble)
PAO Flight dynamics reports that time of
splashdown at 22 hours 19 minutes 54 seconds Greenwich mean
time.
PLT Check pressure.
SC (Garble)
SPT Do all of that excerise that I had to do.
PLT What's the matter, O? (garble)
CDR Have fuzz on the back of their smits (garble)
PLT Hey, what was the max gs?
CDR 3.8
PLT 3.8.
PAO When the Command Module is aboard the ship,
Dr. Paul Buchanan, the NASA doctor will look inside the command
module before the - three crewmembers get out.
PLT That was really pretty. Everytime a
thruster fired, it would disturb the flow pattern.
SC (garble)
USS NO Skylab, this is New Orleans. Over.
PLT There is the ship right there.
SC (Garble)
SC (garble)
PLT Hank had a good pair of shoes (garble)
PLT Boy, they got a good dip (garble)

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SL-III MC-2578/I
Time; 1754 CDT, 60/22:54 GMT
9/25/73

RECOVERY (garble) Say again about item Juliette.

RECOVERY Skylab, contact. (garble)
SC I copy. Over.
SC Swimmers, this is DOS. The primary
recovery ship will make a separate approach to you. You
will remain in that position. (garble) Copy. Over.
SC Read you, go ahead.
SC Roger, AI 1 (garble)
USS NO Skylab, this is New Orleans. Over.
SC Garble
USS NO Skylab this is New Orleans. Over.
USS NO Skylab, New Orleans. Over.
SC (garble)
USS NO Skylab, Skylab, New Orleans. Over.
PAO Swimmers have now attached the lifting
line. The command module will be moved in, steadied, and the
floation collar will be dropped out of the way before being placed
- before the command module is placed on the dolly.
USS NO Skylab, Skylab, (garble)
RECOVERY I read you loud and clear on the Orleans.
SPT Roger, Out.
PAO Engineers on board checking the thrusters,
the RCS to make sure there are no leaks. We had an elapsed
time of 43 minutes from time of splash to time of on the
deck of the carrier. Skylab-ll, the time taken was 40
minutes. Thruster plugs now being installed into the RCS
vents and nozzles.
PAO Doctors on board, ready to move in and
open the hatch as soon as the thruster plugs are in place
and installed. And in the mission control center in Houston,
message on the plot map, reads well done Space Scientist
Lousma, Bean, Garriott. Another well placed

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SL-III MC-2579/i
Time: 18:06 CDT 60/23:06 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Here in the Mission Control Center here

in Houston a message on the plot map reads well done space
Scientists Lousma, Bean, Garriott. Another well placed step
towards tomorrow's scientific application in space.
PAO The step has been installed on the plat-
form from which Dr. Buchanan the NASA doctor can look inside
the hatch. And assuming the astronauts step out, it will
be the step in which they will place on to.
PAO And Mel Richmond, NASA team leader, and
Dr. Buchanan upon the platform now as they prepare to open
the hatch.
MCC We can see the movement and there is a thumb that is -
well which way is up to him.
MCC It looks like a thumbs up and the hand
shake for Dr. Carl Buchanan. That probably would be the hand
of Alan Bean that got shaked first. Alan Bean who is the
record holder of time in space. Dr. Buchanan passing him the
tape recorder, and wearing those masks that are really a kind
of reversed from what existed in the early stages of space
work. Instead of keeping the astronauts completely covered
up they do the same thing to to the people that are right
close around them. At this point in time after being away
from the conditions of Earth that require the body to build
up immunities these astronauts - -
PAO Doctors Buchanan, and Burchard, NASA doctors
up on the platform now.
PAO Dr. Buchanan now inside the spacecraft.
PAO Dr. Buchanan checking on vital signs,
blood pressure, and pulse rate.
PAO Mel Richmond, Dr. Edmond Bruchard, and
Dr. Carter Alexander on the platform.
PAO Now looking inside, Dr. Paul Buchanan
will first look at Science Pilot Owen Garriott, who is in the
center couch, then either Commander Alan Bean or Jack Lousma.
This exam includes blood pressure, and vital signs check.
PAO The crew will then egress the spacecraft
and move to the Skylab mobile laboartories where they will
begin a thorough physical examination.
PAO The examination inside the mobile laboaratory
will run approximately 6 hours start with microbiology studies,
followed by blood samples, stereo photos of each crewman, X-rays
followed by performance of the lower body negative pressure
device, vectorcardiogram experiment and visiual function exams.
PAO Dr. Paul Buchanon still chatting with the
ast ron auts.
PAO Jack Lousma is the first astronaut out.

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Time: 18:18 CDT 60/23:18 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Jack Lousma, the first Astronaut out.

PAO Next out is Owen Garrlott.
PAO The Skylab astronauts now being moved into
the Skylab mobile laboratory.
PAO All three of the astronauts appear in
excellent shape. Report from the ship, Owen Garrlott looks
just great.
PAO The three erewmembers now moving inside
the mobile laboratory to start their 6 hours of medical
examination.
PAO Splashdown time 22 hours 19 minutes
54 seconds.

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SL-III MC-2581/I
Time: 18:37 CDT 60/23:31 GMT
9/25/73

PAO Skylab Control, Houston. The post

recovery press conference is now scheduled to begin at
7:00 p.m. Central daylight time in the main auditorium at
the Johnson Space Center. Dr, James C. Fletcher_ NASA
Administrator will open with a short statement. The
press conference will continue with the following principals.
William C. Schneider, Skylab Program Director; Leland F.
Belew, Skylab Program Manager at the Marshall Space Flight
Center; Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, Skylab Program Manager at
the Johnson Space Center; Glynn S. Lunney, Apollo Spacecraft
Program Manager at the Johnson Space Center; Philip C. Shaffer,
Flight Director; Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew
Operations; Dr. W. Royce Hawkins, Deputy Director for Medical
Operations at Johnson Space Center; Major General Kenneth
R. Chapman, Director of Defense Manager for the Manned Space
Flight Operation.
PAO We will be bringing the line down shortly.
The three Skylab 3 crewmembers, AI Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack
Lousma, are now in the mobile laboratory - going inside the
lab at approximately 23 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time.
All three walked outside - stepped out from the command module
and walked over to a seated position. All three looked good.
Jovial spirits. And are now undergoing their- start of
their 6 hour physical exam. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
We' ii take this line down at this time.

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Time: 20:35
9/25/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:35 Greenwich

mean time. The following is an initial medical status from
the Skylab III crew aboard the prime recovery vessel, issued
by Dr. W. Royce Hawkins, JSC Deputy Director of Life Sciences
for 7iedical Operations. The statement is as follows: There
is no evidence of motion sickness in any of the Skylab III
crewmen. Blood pressures and heart rates both in the command
module and in the Skylab mobile laboratories were within
normal limits. There is some evidence of vestibular disturbance
which is yet to be clarified, but it was expected as part of
the readapting process based upon Skylab II experience. All
three crewmen are in excellent spirits. They feel well, and
have expressed a desire to complete the entire medical proto-
col aboard the prime recovery vessle . Johnson Space Center
physicians are very elated with the crew condition at this
point. That is the end of the medical statement. This is
Skylab Control. Out.

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