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HUTCHINSON Okay.
PAO Bruce.
QUERY Nell, I was a little puzzled by some of
the comments about - I guess maybe AI was just overly
concerned about their drift and not getting back to solar
inertial right away or something, and I really didn't under-
stand all that back and forth play. The ground kept telling
them everything was fine and he kept thinking things were
messed up. What was the real hassel there?
HUTCHINSON Well, I wouldn't call it a hassel,
Bruce. I think that AI has been a little concerned all along
about having an open loop attitude control situation. And
of course, we were only open loop for about 7 minutes. Total -
that's the total time that we had the plug disconnected when
we were on a nominal H-cage with no rate inputs. About
7 minutes, 7-1/2 maybe at the outside. I don't think it
was any hassel. We were Just keeping him informed of how
far his attitude was getting off of solar inertial, and
of course, as you know it didn't get off. We ended up
getting off about 7-1/2 degrees in pitch and a couple of
degrees in - couple degrees in roll, vehicle long X roll.
And that was not far enough to have to do anything but when
we got the gyros hooked up we Just threw the switch in
solar inertial and back they went.
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review for you some of the things we talked about coming down
on the plane this afternoon. I predict," President Johnson
said, "That i0 years from now, some other President will
come here and stand where I am and congratulate the
people of this center, some of you may still be around,
for your amazing achievments. This new president will see
them at work in a giant station in space. He will see
them at work assessing the exact status and the value of
wheat and rice as they are growing all over this Earth.
He will see predicting with phenominal accuracy, the amount
of water that is available to each farmer for growing the
following years crops. He will see them controlling
thousands of peaceful air and space vehicles that are at
work for mankind in all the regions of the Earth. He
will see them developing a worldwide overview of our
great city. An overview that can be used by scientists
and engineers to guide new economic and political institutions.
Political scientists and social scientists, as well as
physical scientists, engineers and administrators will
then know because of the work at this center, more than
our generation can ever know about the causes of pollution,
about the use of recreational areas, about all the knowledge
that mankind needs if we are to continue our steady advance
towards a great destiny." It seems remarkably prophetic
f doesn't it? These predictions about what a future President
might see here were made 5 years ago, and he was looking,
say i0 years into the future, to about 1978. Much of
what he predicted, as many of you know, is already being
done by ERTS-I. ERTS is Earth Resources technology satellite,
ERTS-I. And by the astronauts using the Earth Resources ex-
periment package, EREP, on Skylab. We have already demonstrated
the great value of using satellites and remote sensors
and computer print-outs to obtain a better understanding
of what is happening to our environment. Locally and on
a global scale, and what can be done about it. We may
not have the new generation of Earth observation and
environmental satellites in operation when the President
comes here in 1978, but I hope we will have such observational
systems under development as approved programs by that time,
I hope so and I expect so. President Johnson, in his
prediction, spoke of a giant spaeestation in orbit. Well,
we already have Skylab and it's big. As big as a three
bedroom house -
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SPEAKER I might add to that, relative to the bottles,
that they were able to operate for, I think, over an hour,
on just that one charge of gas. So you see, we aren't talk-
ing about large quantities of gas. And I looked at the pres-
sure within the OWS before they started and afterwards from
the console, and you Just couldn't see the pressure rise.
It wasn't over a tenth of a psi, which is within the resolu-
tion of the measuring system, so that really doesn't represent
a large quantity of gas. Excuse me, Jack, go ahead.
WAITE All right. If - you know, in the case of
509, in the suited mode, you're talking about a somewhat
more I think that's about all that I can think of on the
TO20. On the TOI3, as Bruce was saying, you know, especially
as we think of large stellar telescopes where we're talking
about pointing accuracies in order of magnetude better even
than the few arc seconds that we have on the solar experi-
ments, we are quite concerned about extreme pointing accurl-
cies and we feel that the data from TOI3, Bruce's experiment,
will be extremely helpful to us. I'ii Just mentioned Just
briefly, we will be trying every few days, as principal
investigators are available to have a brief press conference
with the principle investigators are available, and since
Bruce and Don were going back, I asked them if they could
- could plan for this press conference this afternoon. And
we will be trying to arrange a number in the future. So,
F we really appreciate you coming in. I just mentioned very
briefly, there - since, the crew's efficiency, after about
mission day 14, has just been outstanding. And, after -
between mission day 17 and 37, the EREP opportunities are
very minimal, so we've had a real opportunity to run quite
a number of the corollary experiments this mission. We -
we have operated up until this time, 25 different corollary
experiments, and we've completed the planned objectives on
eight of those. On some of those, we're going above the
planned objectives, because we have been able to gain - the
crew has been able to gain a little time. There are only
five experiments that we have not yet operated, and we do
plan to operate all of those and may possibly be able to pick
up some that were planned only for SL-IV, on SL-III. Of
these 25 that I've mentioned that we've operated to date,
ten of those were student experiments. We've been very
pleased with the results there and as the students are
available, we will be trying to have them in for a conference
with you. So, I think - ready to turn it over to the floor
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you, we've also recently been giving the crew more opportunity
to more or less freelance on the ATM operations and this crew,
this particular crew of course, was very - and so will the next
crew as far as that goes, was very interested in the ATM obser-
vations that Owen, specifically being a having a solar background.
And I think we have found out that they have done a tremendous
job as far as taking advantage of the capabilities in solar
viewing that you have from space. They've done an excellent
job of improving the types of solar viewing that we might
schedule for the crew and in also enhancing actual capability
that we expected to be able to have - to expected to be able
to have of solar viewing itself. So basically in summary on
that, I think that right now a good general statement is that
we feel that the - for the period of time that we're at, in
solar viewing as far as the solar cycle itself is concerned,
we have been extremely fortunate during this Skylab mission
to have obtained the variety and themagnitude of data that
we have. That's about it so let me open up and see if y'all
have any questions.
QUERY Don, if you had to go through Goddard,
how many people would this involve on your team and how
would you get there? You got a plane standing by?
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covering almost the same areas we've been looking at. Africa
and Europe. We're hitting Morocco, the Spanish Sahara,
Northern Sardinia, and finally into Italy.
PAO Anything else now.
PUDDY Tf not, it's been enjoyable gentlemen.
See yon in a few days. We're going to take a few off unless
we go to Goddard.
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operate that.
PAO Another one, what EREP passes are planned
for tomorrow?
SPEAKER Track 30, that's a continental pass and
I'm not familiar with the exact - I would believe that's
probably up across the northern and mld-United States but
I'm not certain I'ii have to check. One pass.
PAO Now this one may need a little interpre-
tation the question was: has anyone identifed yesterday's
bang? I understand that there was a noise heard during
communication from the spacecraft.
SPEAKER Well during the sleep period night
before last the crew was awakened by a loud thump and they
told us about it and we've gone back and analyzed all the
data and see nothing in the systems areas that would indicate
any problem somebody suggested to me today that it might
have been Jack Lousma slamming the refrigerator door, (laughter).
SPEAKER That's what Owen said.
SPEAKER (Laughter), is that what Owen said, okay
I hadn't hear that one.
SPEAKER (Garble).
SPEAKER (Laughter), you know Skylab-ll, the crew
reported several times the noises the creaks the cracks
and the crackling noises they heard the spacecraft thermal
due to thermal changes. This une I got the impression was
a bit more than that but we have not been able to relate
it to any system problem on board.
PAO Okay, why is there not going to be a fly
around after undocking?
SPEAKER The answer to that is we've only got
two service module quads since B&D we not - we don't plan
to use and it would require good attitude control for a
fly around and we don't want to do that.
PAO And no why are we not going to televise
the undocking?
SPEAKER I wasn't sure that we would not televise
the undocking but one of the problems with that is to get
the TV from the command module you have to be over a ground
station which ties your time line down and that may be the
reason there because you know the VTR the videu tape
recorders is in the workshop and not in the connnand module
they couldn't record the video and then play it back it has
to be real time.
PAO Okay, gentlemen are there any other
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earth - the sun the earth went through its orbit and we
intercepted that eventually. But these regions produced
activity continuously and therefore the field has been
disturbed anyway.
PAO Perhaps this would be a good time to
call for some questions?
SPEAKER Yeah, let's have some questioms and.
SPEAKER Let me clear up just one thing for my
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the density? How does the magnetic field hold it in? How
is it moving? How does it develop? How is the energy
stored in that particular phenomena? Understanding what
the processes are, and how they change, then the objective,
of course, is to work backwards from that and try to under-
stand how the event originated. What are the mechanisms
which allow that amount of energy to be released in that
kind of way?
PAO Any other questions? Howard.
QUERY What - you talk about this energy that's
being stored up. What type of energy is this?
SPEAKER Well, it's really, probably the nature
of the energy storage isn't well known. It is thought in
by some to be magnetic - magnetic energy stored in the
magnetic configuration, which then is for some reason is
perturbed, it triggers, and the energy is released in the - it
can cause large, large dynamic fluctuations in the conditions
of the solar atmosphere around it. The density in a flare, the
local plasma which is normally at a low density, several
million degrees in the quiet corona, the density can go up
by orders of magnitude and the temperature in a flare
can go from several million degrees to say a billion. And
again, these temperatures, there's no approach to equilibrium
so that these are - are not what you'd call a - an equilibrium
thermal equilibrium event. They are very anomalous
behaviors, particle accelerations not unlike an explosion.
PAO Any other questions? Jim.
QUERY Yes. Is the - is the simple implication
that if you understood how this energy is stored and
released -
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And following that, we have - we'll have three other ones.
There is a chance that these other regions and the one that
produced this event today, could do it again. And I have
no beer running on the next one, but it's possible WeVre
thinking now that region 09 should produce at least one
M-class flare before west llmb and region 12, which was in
the middle of the disc, is declining, but if it rejuvenates
like some indications were today, that it was going to
redevelop, we could expect a large flare out of that and
also out of 19. So for the next week we still should expect
some activity. But I don't think it'll be as intense as
this. I think maybe this is the biggest one of all of
ATM.
QUERY Is this the most flare activity in this
period of time? I'm sorry, was that question just asked?
I was out. In this period of time is it more activity than
a year ago, August?
MILLIGAN No. A year ago August was the largest
event of the solar cycle. And it's unique in that way
that it all came from one region, and it was Just one big
region in the middle of the Sun and produced activity for
the whole transient of the crossing disc which was about
14 days. In the activity itself, each flare, some of them
were bigger than this, some of them were smaller, but it
produced a lot of them. But this is perhaps the biggest
since that time. Maybe not in X-rays but in optical size.
F_ HIRMAN But this is a very active time period
for this time in the solar cycle. It's very unusual.
PAO Did you want to make any comment on - -
MILLIGAN I mentioned once that the aurora of
the northern lights and we said that we could probably see
them down into the latitude of Chicago
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SPEAKER - - usual.
SPEAKER Did you want to make any comment on - -
SPEAKER I did mention once that the - the aurora
- the northern lights, we said we could probably see them
down into the latitude of Chicago at about - maybe tomorrow
night, the night after. The - the chances are pretty good
to have aurora, but just where, and to what latitude ex-
tent, we're speculating right now.
PAO Any other questions? One more here.
QUERY I believe that we might have discussed
this before, either yesterday or some other time, but, would
all this activity on the Sun have any effect or much effect
on the weather and on climate? Anything that you could -
we can point to, and you know, we can actually see, you know,
come from the Sun llke the protons that came in this morning.
And there's a lot of - hard radiation, photon-type
radiation, light waves that come in at the shorter wavelengths,
which affect the Earth's upper atmosphere and the ionization
and chemical balance in the upper atmosphere. And somehow,
it appears as though this has some sort of a modulation effect
over a long-term period on the climate, because of this -
this ll-year cycle. But, it's a very, very difficult thing
to sort out. It's a very, very compllcated physical process,
and it's going to take many, many years before one can really
get a hand on - because the Sun's just a - you know, a catalyst,
or a modulator in the system, and it takes a while for - to
determine what's really going on in a situation llke this.
QUERY Because of all this activity and everything
that's been taking place, how close are the ATM telescopes
to being out of film?
MILLIGAN A lot closer today than they were yes-
terday. (Laughter) I mean, we had a - a small argument in
the A - I mean in the room today, I mean, among various PI groups,
because everybody wanted to get this data real bad, but they
knew if they got this data real bad they were hurting their
chances for data - you know, towards the end of the mission.
And so there were some pretty good arguments going on - you
know, do they want to operate, don't they want to operate,
and as a result, we sent some bad messages up to the crew,
because people had second thoughts about the messages they
sent up. Everybody was hoping for a real big event, but gee -
they'd like to have a little bit more film. Some of the
experiments are running tight on consumables, there's Just
no question about it, and we're going to have to very
carefully budget it from here on in. But, I don't think
anybody's very unhappy about that, because we've all got
Just fantastic data this mission. It's just ideal. I think
we're beginning to feel like the EREP people, and the ERTS
people. We're getting such a load of data back that we're
really going to have a problem analyzing it and getting the
information out to the scientific community. We're really
going to have a data management problem on our hand. We've
got a lot more data than we thought we were going to get,
when we go into the when - -
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siting. If you can filter down the Moon, and we have filters
on the sextant, I guess you could go up to about a magnitude
of 4 or down to a magnitude of 4. The very dim star. It gets
a little shaky. The dimmer it gets, the shakier it gets.
QUERY One more. Does he do this does he have
to do this in the nighttime? Or can he do it during daylight
hours?
RANDLE These are done during the night passes.
QUERY Well then how does that effect, say a
planetary mission. Do you have sufficient nighttime when
you're out on a planetary mission to do something like this?
RANDLE Yes. Right, right. Cause you can - you
can - like for instance, the Moon. You can always see that
and planets. The stadlmeter sltlngs are taken on the dayside
Those are dayside passes. That's the ranging sitlngs.
QUERY And you say that keep finish up this
week - are more of these planned on the next mission, SL-4?
RANDLE We would like to go again because we have
only a sample of one_ which has been quite good, hut that's
still only one person. Sample. A lot of data on one person.
QUERY Not firm for SL-4 yet, though?
RANDLE I don't think so, no.
PA0 Any further questions? Okay. Thank you,
gentlemen.
f MS How also are the corollaries going?
WAITE I - it told Just a little hit about this,
but I can go back over that for you but we're well ahead of
what we had planned pre-misslon.
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QUERY - and this long range forecast that
the EVA day is now day 57, anything being planned for that
EVA except the change of the film?
SBAFFER Yeah, the - you know that S052, has a
little speck of contamination on the occulting disc that
we see in the data. And we intend to remove that. It - when
they took the ramp off of the SO56 instrument the one on
the door, apparently there was some little chips of paint
that were released when those bolts were undone and it may be
a little chip of that paint on the cceulting disc. So we
intend to clean that up. And - I think there was some solar
array samples that were left out in the middle EVA, material
that will be picked up and brought back for analysis.
PAO Jim Malone?
QUERY As you close in on the final 2 weeks of
this mission and you're getting close to all EREP's and
you've gotten about - are getting close to what the ATM
people wanted, in fact more than some of them wanted.
SHAFFER Yeah. We were - -
QUERY The medical things are going smoothly
and apparently are going to get all of those. Are you
getting any requests from any of these or other areas to
do something additional or something that wasn't planned
before the mission?
SHAFFER Well I'm sure you know Jim, that they've
w done part of the SL-IV work already intentionally
because of the Kohoutek viewing which was not preplanned
for Skylah-IV, andthese have been TO20 runs and M509 runs
we're doing some of the space manufacturing experiments now
we have some of those in works and the general name of that
is M518 and I can't tell you anything more than it's material
working. So we are doing those kinds of things, okay, we're
taking - of course we'll end up doing a few more EREP passes
than were preplanned and obviously we're doing more ATM work
than was preplanned. The - we are using some not very much
of the SL-IV consumables in the way of tape and film to do
some of those things, some of the - I think it's SO63,
corollary work is some of tha_ film is beln R used. But
we're trying to satisfy the requirements that we had for
two purposes, you know we're there, and we have an opportunity
to do them plus we're going to need some time now we believe
for SL-IV to take care of the Kohoutek viewing. Am I saying
that right? Kohoutek viewing.
SPEAKER (Laughter).
SHAFFER Okay.
SPEAKER Not really, Kohoutek.
SHAFFER Okay.
SPEAKER I don't know which one is right.
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first and second and one rev between the second and third.
And I never had time to find where the ground tracks were.
(Chuckle), I thought that - I don't have any idea where those
things are at this time. Quite a bit of ATM viewing time
with medical run on the M092/93 on the SPT. One of the things
we're going to do tomorrow is - one of the things we had
scheduled for tomorrow was the modification of one of the
life support umbillcals that's used during the TO20 runs.
And what we're doing with that is removing the Beta cloth
and taking part of it off, I believe we're taking the tubing
that carries the water cooling to the crewmen. And we're
taking that off to try to make that tubing - that umbilical
more flexible. If you'll remember during the previous TO20
runs it was giving him some problems both the 509 and the TO20
runs it gave him some problems because it had a awful lot
of inertia that's on and it was stiff. So we're trying to
get that thing up a lot more flexible by removing that - -
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colder. And if the valve gets too cold, then the loop can
freeze up. And that's, at this point, not a risk that we're
willing to take as long as we have an acceptable alternate
to that procedure. So, that just about winds me up. Ques-
tions?
PAO Bruce?
QUERY A couple of things, Phil. First, with
the airflow, or gas cooling, will this mean that the crew-
men are going to have to take more rest periods, or not
stay out as long, even if they want to stay out a little
while longer, for other tasks or anything, or -
SHAFFER Yes.
QUERY You have to be, essentially, a nominal
hour and a half, or whatever the EVA - -
SHAFFER No, no, no. The nominal's about 3 hours,
and we have the ability to do a 1-hour extension on that,
depending on how the crew's responding to that environment.
One of the things that, and I really don't want to get into
this too much, but one of the things that you have to be
concerned about is that the body will perspire as it gets
too warm, and it is entirely possible to fatigue the sweat
glands, if you will, to the point that they that they
really might not provide as much cooling as is required.
So we are - we're go for the kind of EVA that we envisioned
for up to three - -
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(SHAFFER CONT'D) - - use the docked DAP when they're coasting and
undock dap when they get ready of course they will be in the
undock DAP - for undocking and then they will be in the
undock DAP for the ullage maneuver and retrofire and then
once we jettison the service module then we're back to a
completely normal configuration. But there's a whole bunch
of DAPs in there there's a Saturn DAP for launch phase to
fly, for the crew to take over control of the launch vehicle
and there's an entry DAP that's built only for just the command
module during entry. There and it's all function of
translating what the computer wants to do in to something
that there's a stable control system for the vehicle whatever
its configuration.
QUERY When you asked about the Alfa and Charlie
quads the - they asked something to be fed up to them did
- and I didn't quite understand what he was talking about
there either?
SHAFFER Something to be fed up to them. The thing
that we have not - let me st - I got to start over. We have
generated checklist changes that would he required should
he lose another thruster - another quad after undocking you
know now you got quads gone and a control problem is very
different, and we up-linked that as changes to his existing
checklist. And it's a bit awkward so what we have done is
_enerated a complete new checklist and it's complete in itself
in the end, that we're going to up-link to him to use in the
event that that should happen. Okay, and I'm sure that's what
he was asking for although I don't remember this specific
case the - I'm sure he said something like loss of Alfa or
Charlie quad y'all feed up on up and we promised it to him
later on this week, or over the weekend.
QUERY You get the impression that he's a little
concerned?
SHAFFER No, I don't get the impression he's
concerned at all. I get the distinct impression that he's
like all the rest of us he likes to have stuff in time to
smoke it over and think about it and understand it and he
wants to be prepared. And l've drawn a fine line between
being prepared and being concerned.
PAO Any more questions? Jim?
QUERY Do you expect the crew to get a go to
complete their mission through September 25, tomorrow?
SHAFFER I have absolutely no reason to think that
they won't.
QUERY And one other thing. Will they begin
this getting up at 2 a.m. Sunday, is that right?
SHAFFER Jim I don't know when that is we got so
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tape and film and that kind of thing. And some of those
will be replaced - be carried up on SE IV, but I don't
think as much will be replaced as we're using.
QUERY Are they going to try to take a look
at Kohoutek, this crew? I just -
SHAFFER No.
PAO Any further questions? Thank you.
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